Don’t Be Pulled Into An Abyss | Quranic Guidance | Mufti Abu Layth

I wanted to take a look at this verse 52 of suratul Hajj and this is very relevant to the verses we're going to take a look at or the the discussion sorry of the Satanic Verses we'll be taking a look at um in a while and Salman rushti and this whole incident because it's anchored in this verse but this verse I wanted to explain in light of this theme foreign

now this verse there's so much that could be unparked here but let's just take a look at it from this perspective that we did not send before you any Prophet or messenger now one interesting point here is that prophets and Messengers are not simply synonyms that they are different entities so that's a discussion that people have had the water rasool and what's a nubby so and there's several definitions but

the most a popular one is that a rasool that every rasul is a Nabi but not every Nabi is a result another rasool is a Nabi who has been sent out to his people and anubi is not necessarily Center to his people or her people because many people have argued that they were also female Ambia Okay so

and several people are of that opinion that Mary was a prophetess she was a prophet um and IBN hazam has a great discussion on that in his book and I find myself in line with those who are all the mother do uh film was a prophet so okay that discussion is aside foreign

desired now here this tamannaah [Music] um except that when they have these wishes the shaytan tries to plague their wishes and desires their thoughts foreign

renders inactive this negative action of the shaytan thumma thereafter Allah shows or solidifies his signs his symbols his ayat his verses

indeed Allah is all-knowing most wise now this verse here one way of looking at this verse is that we as in CERN and here Ambia and Russell are human beings then they are from human beings to human beings we at times may think what if such and such was what if if you know what if it was to be have been like this

and this is a very normal process to think like this but there are dangers that if we think if we dwell on these things here is described that the shaytan could grip you he could plunge you submerge you into into attempt to submerge you into an abyss

with these thoughts of the past or if such and such had happened in such and such way these things can derail your mission and if let's and here in this verse if a prophet was to think and it's normal if a prophet was to think was to think I wish all my people didn't resist in this way I wish

such and such people would Embrace Islam if only these people would be were to be more kind and show this would it be that if such and such tribe had had come to guidance and such and such had materialized if only these Collective settlements were to come round to this faith and

and not reject the Quran in this world if all now these thoughts are coming from a place of compassion and the prophets and the umbia and by extension all of us human beings this is a lesson for us all we all have these thoughts we may not be having them in light of compassion for the ummah we ought to but we may not we may just be having them for ourselves for our family oh if only my child had done such and such oh if only these people weren't

in such you know weren't such such bad people or if only this hadn't happened to me in the past if only these are very natural psychological occurrences to think like this now the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam also thought that if only my people would Embrace this message of God

here when we think like this we can sure it it's it's very normal but we can find Allah says that the using the using the word here the shaytan can take a person deeper into this dwelling in such a way that it could depress you

it could it could thereby derail you from your mission and this is to the prophets and the and the Russell and the Ambia The Messengers but it's To Us by extension as well if I keep thinking yeah if only I did that degree if only I got into that relationship at that time with such and such puts if only I started at that oh if only I bought Bitcoin when it first started if we keep if we allow the shaytan to pull us deeper

into this Abyss of negative ruminations of missed opportunities it can us Allah mentions now this is primarily to the Ambia that but by extension to all people who read the Quran that Allah why you see NASA is to wipe clear almost

cancel to we could say today to render null and void inactive Allah renders these negative actions this negative um these thoughts ruminations Allah renders them for it

but we how how does he but by us remembering bringing into mindfulness Allah and his strata his his decree his his wisdom you see okay I didn't do such and such okay I didn't take that job at that time okay I didn't pursue that girl that relationship I didn't start that business at that time I didn't buy Bitcoin when it first happened this is

for at our level you zoom in in the first two to the rasool to the Ambia at their level that okay these people are not embracing the message okay those people are not being compassionate towards you okay these people are not refraining from making life hell for the Believers take it now what

see Allah is bringing you back to the now you focus you strategize you plan for the future by moving forward from the present it didn't happen then but what are we doing about making a difference for the future

Allah teaches us in his ayat and not just his ayat in his signs in his symbols around us in the world that fortune favors the Bold sure but by sitting around and just saying if only if only nothing comes to you

later and but I need to get up and do something you know that a person that um as the poet says that um foreign

just speaking about the past or a legacy that wasn't it's not his even if it was his father's or it was something but when you ask what about you what about now they just hang their head in despondency there's no goodness in that moving forward we see in the signs that it's only by Planning by facing adversity that Allah writes success and you can change you can see history what will be history being made

Allah solidifies his signs in reality and his ayat in the Quran by teaching you that that it's your act you do there will be adversity it doesn't matter you keep marching forward Allah is all knowing you know sometimes check this out wait we're with sometimes maybe we're in a difficult situation we're quite freaked out about something

but there's a person with us that's just calm and their calmness reassures us it's like maybe this guy knows something I don't as I'm sure that's happened to everyone you see it's that sense of knowing you think well I don't know what this guy knows I just know that there's a calmness and therefore surely he must know something or she must know something and therefore that's

at us at a human level Ali [Laughter] be calm Allah knows it's all-knowing the supply Hakeem allies all wise stop reap what's happened has happened whatever's been has gone

it's about moving forward this understanding of the verse I feel is not only empowering for us but it also explains what this verse is about that it's normal it's natural that prophets Messengers they would have thought that if only my people embrace the message if only such and such happened if only this had happened it's natural but it's not to dwell on that see because dwelling on that

the shaytan could try to make people feel depressed he could try to derail the mission and Allah for The Messengers certainly and for us too if we remember Allah's message that Allah renders this negativity this Whispering wasps of the shaytan

Brenda is the nullam void for us too if we remember Allah has a plan it's okay this didn't happen but look at God's signs in creation around you look at the message in the Quran it is a certain a certain can be that those who keep their eyes on the goal keep marching forward they achieve Allah is all-knowing relax Allah is all-knowing allies all

wise even the things that have befallen you in the past may have aided to shape your character and make you the person that you are today that is a beautiful way to read this verse Surah verse 52.