Even if a deed is small and insignificant, it matters to Allah. As Allah knows all that is seen and unseen.
Allah will test you and will put you through turmoil. And he will show you many unenjoyable things.
When you are seeking knowledge, do not take shortcuts. If you are really interested in seeking knowledge, then you take your notes, you look at them. Revise the notes.
Luqman said to his son to pray and establish prayer. And encouraged his son to enjoy what is good and forbid evil.
And he tells his son to be present when doing both. Enjoying what is good and forbidding evil.
Do not turn your nose up to people and be arrogant and boastful. As Allah does not like that.
Be humble and not full of pride.
Be moderate with pace, and lower your voice, as the ugliest voices are the baying of donkeys.
Also walk and speak without pride, as you can tell if someone is prideful in the way of walking, or speaking.
Luqman was either a wise man.
Some say his occupation was a shepherd, carpenter and tailor.
One opinion was that He was an Abysian slave, or from Israel.
Wisdom and knowledge are different.
For example let's say there is an employee that doesn't arrive on time, to work.
The using knowledge is simple as the answer is to fire that employee.
But now let's say he's the best employee in the company, now it gets tougher as you need to consider that he is the best in his field. So instead you could say "You can arrive late, but, you must finish your work on time.
If someone has only bad deeds and no good deeds. It is still possible to be forgiven. But Shirk (associating partners other than Allah).
Disbelief only harms the disbeliever.
Ismail's father was Ibrahim. And when Allah asked Ibrahim to sacrifice his son Ismail. And He said, "Go ahead and sacrifice me, father". And before Ibrahim was going to sacrifice his own son.
Luqman started by prohibiting his son from committing shirk.
You might be a place where people are openly sinning.
You might say "Why should I warn them of Allah's wrath, and the torment of hellfire?".
Well, one reason is that they might stop sinning for fear of Allah.
And our dakwah worked.
Those who forbid evil and cherish good do not deserve punishment.
Those who do not speak out of sinners are not considered sinners themselves as long as you personally condone it is fine.
But if you speak out about it, you will be passed by Allah.
If you say “I am going to do this tomorrow” you should say “Inshallah”.
Also, make an oath you can keep.
If you have a chance to good, then do it.
Continuing the story of the garden:
The brothers came up with the idea that they would keep the contents of the garden to themselves and not share it with anyone.
The sons cut the date trees at night to deprive the poor of dates in the morning.
Then their garden got robbed who were sent by Allah to punish them.
Indeed, We have tried them as We tried the companions of the garden when they swore to cut its fruit in the [early] morning.
Without making exception
So there came upon it [i.e., the garden] an affliction from your Lord while they were asleep.
And it became as though reaped
And they called one another in the morning,
[Saying], "Go early to your crop if you would cut the fruit."
So they set out, while lowering their voices,
[Saying], "There will surely not enter it today upon you [any] poor person."
And they went early in determination, [assuming themselves] able.
But when they saw it, they said, "Indeed, we are lost;
They said, "O woe to us; indeed we were transgressors.
Such is the punishment [of this world]. And the punishment of the Hereafter is greater, if they only knew.
Now once the father died, he would often feed the poor for free and they would come to his houses for food. and he passed he left behind three sons, and those sons did not follow in their father's footsteps of giving to the poor.
And the sons would take all the fruit from the plentiful garden, and not give it to the poor.
All things have consequences in this life or the next.
They made a conscious effort to not share the fruits with the poor.
Then Allah sent destruction on their garden, and when the sons saw their garden in ruins, they said
Whoever says that Allah has a child or son, then he has slandered Allah.
Whoever abandons something for the sake of Allah, Allah will not desert them.
During the people of the cave, the people in the cave were sleeping, but they were moving, and Allah gave them enough sunlight to survive. And Allah made them move, and one reason might be that if you lie down too long, you get bedsores, and those bedsores hurt, so Allah moved them around.
Also, the dog that he youngsters (the people of the cave) were outside stretching and sleeping outside.
They also were moving so that the earth would not swallow them. And the Quran says: "And you would have thought they were awake, though they were asleep."
As an addon, since they were moving, if an animal were to come across them, they would not want to bother them, since they looked like they were awake.
When they woke up, they felt like they believed they only slept for a day, or a couple hours.
The people of the cave:
The people of the cave are people who accepted Islam, but in doing so they had to leave the village that they hold dear.
And prayed to Allah for protection, also something of note, is that they worked to find hide, instead of praying "Please give us a place to hide". And stayed unhidden.
Once the people of their village found out that they converted to Islam, they got chased out of the city, and then they ran into a cave and tried to hide from the townspeople, the dog was left at the entrance to the cave. Allah told a spider to put a web at the entrance of the cave to hide from the villages.
The townspeople saw the spider web at the cave entrance and the dog and thought "They are not in this cave, as they would have had to break the web, and there is a dog there. We should not venture any further". And Allah made them sleep for hundreds of years.
Allah put them to sleep and "resurrected" them after they fell asleep. As when you have
This verse is important, as it underlines the leaving for the sake of religion, and leaving their life behind.
The Story of Uzayr:
Or [consider such an example] as the one who passed by a township which had fallen into ruin. He said, "How will Allah bring this to life after its death?" So Allah caused him to die for a hundred years; then He revived him. He said, "How long have you remained?" He [the man] said, "I have remained a day or part of a day." He said, "Rather, you have remained one hundred years. Look at your food and your drink; it has not changed with time. And look at your donkey, and We will make you a sign for the people. And look at the bones [of this donkey] - how We raise them and then We cover them with flesh." And when it became clear to him, he said, "I know that Allah is over all things competent."
A man did not believe that Allah could bring people back from the dead, so Allah killed him, and 100 years later he was resurrected and Allah asked him “How long do you think you slept”, The Man said “Maybe an Hour”, Allah responded with “You have been dead for 100 years, look at your donkey which is now a pile of bones. And your food has not spoiled”.
There are two options, Jerusalem when Bbukhtanssar was destroyed. And as stated by Walb, Qtadah, and Rabee’ah ibn Anas. The second option is that it is the village of which thousands went out fearing death. This was mentioned by Ibn Zaid, who mentions there of objects passed by it:
It is permissible to example the slave of this knowledge, for Allah, may He be glorified, says. “How long did you stay”.
It is permissible to inform a person of what is beyond his estimation, as Allah says “ The man said, ‘I have remained a day or part of a day, ‘ although he had stated for a hundred years.”
It is appropriate to contemplate what Allah has created and innovated in the universe because that increases faith as this is a sign among the signs of Allah as in His saying, “So observe”
The Quran must be said and written as it was written by Allah.
One should not concern themselves with the specific individuals in the story, if it was significant then Allah would have said so.
The term village can refer to dwellings or could be a community which has fallen into ruins upon its roofs. The abandonment of the village indicates their destruction.
When a person excused but does not doubt Allah’s ability of it, but do you disbelieve it? THis is exemplified by the man who passed by the village and questioned, “How will Allah bring this back after its death?
Allah may favor his servant by showing theme signs that increase their certainly, as Allah says. “So obbseve your food”.
The power of Allah exceeds the natural course of events as evidence by the fact that this food and drink remained unchanged for 100 years.
If you are reading the Quran and you are understanding the meaning behind the words.
Allah provides experiences for His servants to server as lessons for others, As Allah says, “And We will make you sign for the people”.
Allah made flesh cling closely to bones, this arrangement protects them bones from breaking and harm, as bone damage is more severe than flesh.
But the one who had knowledge of the Scrptute said” I can bring it to you in the blink of an eye, “So when Solaiman saw it place before him, he exclaimed, “This is by the grace of my Lord to test me whether I am grateful or ungrateful. And whoever is grateful. It is only for the good. But whoever is ungrated surely my Lord is Self-Sufficent, Most generous.
Then Sulaiman said’, “Disguise her throne for he so we may see whether she will recognise ‘it’ or she will be able to.
When she arrived, it was said to ‘her’, “Is your throne like this?” She replied, “It looks to be the same. We have ‘already’ received knowledge of Sulaiman’s Prophethood’ before this miracle and have summited to Allah.
But she had been hindered by what she used to worship instead of Allah, for he was indeed from a disbelieving people.
Then she was told, “Enter the palace. “ But when she saw the hall, she thought it was a body of water so she bared her legs. Sulaiman aid. “It is just a place paved with crystal. “At last she declared. “My lord I haven certain wrong my soul. Now I ‘fully’ submit myself along with Sulaiman to Allah, the lord of all worlds.
This is why the Queen believed that Sulaiman was a Prophet, becausee material wealth can be a form of Dakwah.
Another story is that.
The people of Sheba had
Allah has previously blessed the people of Sheba by placing apparent, interconnected villages between them and the Belssees sites of Sham. He made travelling between these villages easy and free trave. He told them to travel between their land and Sham for days and nights without fear. However, they asked Allah to make their journeys far away. They wrong themselves by being ungrateful for Allah’s blessings. As a result, Allah has made them subject of thanks and source
But they turned away [refusing], so We sent upon them the flood of the dam, and We replaced their two [fields of] gardens with gardens of bitter fruit, tamarisks and something of sparse lote trees.
We also had a place between them the cities. We showed with blessings ‘many small towns without a sigh of one another. And we set moderate travel distances in between, ‘using’ “Travel between them by day and night safely.
They were blessed with safe travel between cities and many villages to restock resupply and rest.
Then they prayed that they have fewer stops, and longer travel times between them. So Allah put fewer houses and villages
The shaitan made their deeds seem attractive to them and barred them from the right way.
Shaitans embellishment of those deeds in one of Shaitan’s weapons.
In my last blog post about this, I said that the Prophet Sulaiman was asking the hoopoe bird about the information, confirming that it is correct and a true statement.
Prophet Sulaiman also said to send a letter to see how they respond.
The Queen ‘later’ announced, “O chiefs Indeed a noble letter has been delivered to me”.
It is from Sulaiman and it reads. “In the Nama of Allah- the Most Compassionate, Most merciful.
It is speculated that he started with بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ ا“لرَّحِيْمِ”
Do not be arrogant with me, but come to me,l fully summiting ‘to Allah’.
She said, “O chiefs! Advise me in these matters of mine, for I would never make any decisions without you”.
They responded, “We are a people of strength and great ‘military’ might, but the decision yours do decide.
She reasoned, “Indeed, when kings invade a land, they ruin and debase its nobbles, they really do so!
But I will certainly send him a gift and see what ‘response’ my envoys will return with”.
When the chief envoy came to him, he said, “Do you offer me wealth? What Allah has granted me is far greater than what He has granted you. No, it is you who rejoice in ‘receiving’ gifts.
Go back to them, for we will certainly mobilize against them forces which they can never resist, and we will drive them out from there in disgrace, fully humbled.
Even when she is the Queen, with the utmost power and authority, she still asks others for their opinion on her matter, for another point of view.
Sulaiman asked, “Oh chiefs Which of you can bring me her throne before they come to me in full submission?”
One mighty jinn responds, “I can bring it to you before you rise from this council of yours. And I am quite strong and trustworthy for his task.
The Prophet was inspecting birds and one of the birds that were not there was the Hoopoe bird.
The first issue: the Hoopoe bird has knowledge knowledge that Prophet Sulaiam does not possess.
The Hoopoe knows Sheba and the certainty of the news from there
The third issue is his awareness of the women's leadership over them while denying it to them.
The fourth issue is His understanding of the worldly possessions given by Sheba from various sources.
The fifth issue was the recognition of the Great Throne
The sixth issue was: His realisation of their prostration to the sun beside Allah.
The seventh issue was: His understanding that they are assisoating partners other than Allah.
The eighth issue: This was Satan's adornment for their deeds
The ninth issue: His understanding that is this straying from the straight path
The tenth issue: His knowledge that they are not rightly guided
The Prophet was conversing with this bird,
‘One day’ He inspected the birds, and wondered, “Why could I not see the hoopoe? Or could he be absent?
I will surely subject him to severe punishments, ‘even’ slaughter him, unless he brings me a compelling excuse.
The prophet was inspecting the birds, and one of the birds was a Hoopoe.
Indeed, I found a woman ruling over the., who has been given everything ‘she needs’, and who has a magnificent throne.
Solomon said, “We will see whether you are telling the truth or lying”.
In this case, he is referring to the Hoopoe.
Go with this letter of mine, and deliver it to them, then stand aside and see how they will respond.
1- Allah almighty says, “And [once] he [sulaiman]
Inspected the birds and said, “How is it that I do not see the hoopoe? Or is he absent?”,. This inspection is a lesson for kings and leaders inspecting their troops, understanding their affairs, and confronting those who violate either condition even if it means denying what they desire. This verse is evidence for the Leader to inspect the condition of this stucjeectaan to preserve them. Look at how Sulaiman did not overlook the hoopoe despite its insignificance and small size. It is the right of the subjects upon their leader to inspect and know their conditions. He is responsible for both major and minor matters, involving himself as much as possible, and employing men to be informed of what he cannot directly oversee. Expect and trustworthy individuals are delegated to inspect the inspection until the conditions of conditions are known directly to those entrusted with them. Thus, Sulaiman despite his great kingdom, vast army numerous followers, personnel undertook to inspect and did not neglect the hope despite its smallness and insignificance in location, Umar Ibin-Alkattab used to say, “If a goat were to die on the banks of the Euphrates, I would feat being asked about it.” This instant and awareness are incumbent upon every leader in nations, groups families companionships, and all who have a responsibility over others.
In His statement: “I have encompassed [in knowladg]
Something that you have not encompassed, and I have come to you from Saba’ with accurate news”, using the plural pronoun of the respect address is not obligatory nor is it a feature of the each of prophets and predecessors when someone is respected, is it necessary for prophets and presses or says, “ I have to you all
But those gifted with knowledge said: "Shame on you! Allah's reward is far better for those who believe and do good. But none will attain this except the steadfast
Indeed, Korah was from the people of Moses, but he behaved arrogantly t towards them. We had granted him such treasures that even their keys would burden a group of strong men. 'Some of his people advised him, "Do not be prideful! surely Allah does not like the prideful.
And We caused the earth to swallow him and his home. And there was no company to aid him other than Allah, nor was he of those who [could] defend themselves.
And those who had wished for his position the previous day began to say, "Oh, how Allah extends provision to whom He wills of His servants and restricts it! If Allah had not conferred favour on us, He would have caused it to swallow us. Oh, how the disbelievers do not succeed!".
The wise person envies those who spend their wealth in the way of good deeds and attain high ranks, while the ignorant person envies those who spend all their wealth on desires and attain forbidden pleasures.
Allah once said (I am paraphrasing this): “None receives it except the patient ones”, which means that Religion cannot be done with one person alone, as you need a whole group or community.
It is more harmful to seek leadership and status is more dangerous than seeking wealth.
Alla criticises those who desire worldly life and wealth. Praising those ee who oppose such desires.
This illustrates the shortsightedness of those who crave wworldy pleasures, exemplified by the envy of Qarun’s fortune.
Expressing the desire of Qarun without waiting for it to be taken away from him avoids the sin of Envy.
knowledge of both worlds to prioritise the reward of the Heereafteere over worldly gains.
Treeu scholars prioritize the Hereafteer, contrasting with those who prioritize worldly rewards.
Only the patient will attain righteous dds and their eventual reward.
Qaruns punishment of being swallowed by the earth was fitting for his tyranny, pride and arrogance.
The sinking of Qarun and his house was a specific miracle for Musa, affecting only those who supported Qarun.
When Allah sends punishments, no one can helpht epunished vne if they are powerful.
Disbelievers may enjoy worldy confort, but why woun’t succeed inthe Hereafter.
Those desiring worldly power,a nd corruption woun’t find happiness in the Hereeafter.
The verse emphasizes not desiring corruption to purify the heart and deter sinful actions.
Intention influences action and reflects the desire for power, or corruption.
The promise of reward hinges on rejecting the desire for corruption and power.
The righteous will ultimately prevail, as stated in the promise of inheriting the earth.
Good deeds bring rewards exceeding their equality and quality, contrasting with worldly gains.
Allah’s reward balances justice and favour ensuring fairness of good and evil deeds.
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And [recall] when Moses said to his people, "Indeed, Allāh commands you to slaughter a cow." They said, "Do you take us in ridicule?" He said, "I seek refuge in Allāh from being among the ignorant."
Now why do you think that they think that Musa is making a joke, or doing a prank?
Musa never jokes about matters concerning Allah.
They said, "Call upon your Lord to make clear to us what it is." [Moses] said, "[Allāh] says, 'It is a cow which is neither old nor virgin, but median between that,' so do what you are commanded."
Musa then explained what type of cow the Banu Israel must sacrifice, now they ask what age, and they said not old nor virgin.
Then they asked what colour, and Musa said that Allah said that it was a yellow cow.
And then they said Allah will guide us to the right cow.
Then a cow that has not done any work in its life, or has not tilled no fields or
Now, strangely enough, any cow would suffice, so Allah kept getting more specific on what kind of cow.
This was then to remind them one time that one man was killed, and no one knew who the killer was, then Allah revealed the killer, by the slaughtered cow.
Take the hide of the cow and hits the dead body of the murderer to bring the murderer back to life, and he tells who murdered him.
The moral of this story is that you should not mocking people for our ignorance, foolishness and lack of intelligence, as Mosees aid: "I seek refuge in Allah from being among the ignorant".
Allah described a man, who was hurrying to get to the city, to stop the people from Stoneing the Prophet and told them to stop, saying that they should stop and warn the people who they are stoning.
And said, "Oh my people, follow the messengers".
Now for preaching about faith, you must be gentle in speech as if you rudely say something like: "You must join this faith, you must do it", which is terrible, as if you're trying to convince someone, it is easier if you speak kindly, and not harshly.
6 - Worship the one who created you, and who you will return to.
7 - Do not take other gods other than Allah, some who worship Idols say that th Idols will interfere with Allah.
8 - After the prophet was killed, he was worried for his people for not following him in Islam.
9 - You would not be a believer except for the sincere, and not deceitful.
10- Allah made him one of the Honoured ones.
The terms city and village are used intertangle in the Quran.
From the phase: "From the furthest ends of the city", which means the reach and distance of the Prophet's call.
The companions of the Prophets promoted Islam, without wanting anything in return, or did have any personal gain.
Allah said many times that he alone is worth worshipping and others are not, and all worship is solely directed to the creator.
The Dwellers of the town, if not all Muslim scholars say that Antioch, is the city where Prophet Isa was sent by Allah.
Allah sent two messengers but the city denied both, so Allah saw a third, some say that Jesus is the reason why Antioch was the first city to believe in Jesus.
It is said that they denied Jesus, or Prophet Isa and Allah struck the city down.
The story of Antioch happened after the Torah was revealed Abu Sa'id al-Khudi said that "Allah did not destroy an entire nation with a punishment, but instead put the believers against the disbelievers".
Although we don't really know what city Allah was referring to in this story, as it may be another city other than Antioch, most believe it is Antioch as it is a well-known ancient city.
We also don't know if it was destroyed, but we can guess.
If we believe anything that anyone said about Islam blindly, we would get nowhere, as arguments were used to argue that this is false, or this is true.
For example, for Ramadhan, do we rely on Saudi, or in the local sighting of the moon, Makis vs the Moonies, and the 20s and the 8ths. Where during Taraweh you pray either 20 or 8 rakaat.
Last, during the Prophet's time, he would pray 8 rakaat, but recite for a long time, or pray 20, but recite less.
Now we do roughly the same, as the shorter rakaat you pray the more you recite.
Do you take offence because you're reminded of Allah?.
Murder is not allowed in Islam, as it is the worst crime a person can commit in Islam, as the blood of a human is sacred to Allah, there are very few cases where it is, for example in self-defence, as if you're being attacked and you accidentally killed your assailant, that is perfectly fine as you're not killing on purpose.
If you wish to speak with Jinns, most will ask you for-go certain practices, for example stopping daily prayer, praying but not taking wuhuk, make you eat haram foods.
Allah once sent down angels to teach people magic, but the angels said that if you follow our teaching of magic, you are leaving the fold of Islam, as Allah sent them down as a test.
If you kill a person without just cause, and not in retribution, the person who killed must also be killed.
The story of Habil and Qabil The sons of Prophet Adam:
There were two brothers Habil was a shepherd who gave his best ram in sacrifice to Allah, and Qabil a farmer gave his subpar crops to Allah, since he gave not good crops to Allah, Qabil's offering was rejected, while Habil's was accepted.
So Qabil murdered his brother out of jealousy.
Then Qabil was saddened by the fact that the jealousy got to his head and he did not know what to do.
So Allah showed him a dead crow and another crow came along and dug a grave for its friend and buried the crow inside it.
So Qabil buried Habil in a grave he dug for his brother.
The moral of this story is not allow jealousy into your heart.
The harm of hasad, can cause sadness, lead to sin, and cause resentment of Allah's degree, is it a trait of nifaq, distracts from the Thinkr of Allah, and harms the Mahsud.
It is envy, and if you don't know what envy is, it is really wanting what someone else have and wishing the person the worst in life because of it, or wishing that the person who has something that you don't have ask Allah to take it away from him.
An envious person is evil, to deal with Hasad, you must believe in Allah, as he is given a withholds, Ikhlas seek only what is with Allah, Dua for the Mahsud.
