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- Nouman Ali Khan discusses Surah Al-Ma'idah and explains why Allah selected the story of the two sons of Adam.
- The speaker compares the jealousy and desire for recognition shown by Iblis to the mindset of Adam's son before the murder.
- The surviving brother refuses to retaliate with violence and states that he fears Allah, the master of all people.
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الحمد لله الحمد لله خالق الوجود من العدم وجعل النور من الغلم ومخرج الصبر من الألم فملق التوبة على الندم فنشكره على المصائب كما نشكره على النعم ونصلي على رسوله الأكرم ذي الشرف الأشمي والنور الأتم والكتاب المحكم وكمال النبيين والخاتم سيدي ولدي آدم الذي بشر به عيس بن مريم ودعى لبعتته إبراهيم عليه السلام
حين كان يرفع قواعد بيت الله المحرم فصل الله عليه وسلم وعلى أتباعه خير الأمم الذين بارك الله بهم كافة الناس العرب منهم والعجم فالحمد لله الذي لم يتخذ بلدا ولم يكن له شريك في الملك ولم يكن له ولي من الضلي وكبره تكبيرا والحمد لله الذي أنزل على عبده الكتابا ولم يجعل له عيوجا والحمد لله الذي نحمده ونستعيله ونستغفره
ونؤمن به ونتوكل عليه ونعوذ بالله من شرور أنفسنا ومن سيئات أعمالنا من يهده الله فلا مضللا ومن يضرل فلا هادي له ونشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له ونشهد أن محمد عبد الله ورسوله أرسله الله تعالى بالهدى ودين الحق ليظهراه على الدين كله وكفى بالله شهيدا فصل الله عليه وسلم تسليم كثيرا كثيرا أما بعد
فإن أصدق الحديث كتاب الله وخير الحدي هدي محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم وإن شر الأمور محتثاتها وإن كل محتثة بدعة وكل بدعة ظلالة وكل ظلالة في النار قال الله عز وجل في كتابه الكريم بعد أن أقول أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم واتلو عليهم نبأ ابني آدم بالحق قربانا فتقبل من أحدهما ولم يتقبل من الآخر
قال لأقتلنك قال إنما يتقبل الله من المتقين رب الشحل الصدري ويسر لي أمر وحل العقطة من لساني يفقه قولي والله مثبتنا عند الموت بلا إله إلا الله والله مجعلنا من الذين آمنوا وعملوا صالحات وتواصلوا بالحق وتواصلوا بالصبر أمين يا رب العالمين those of you who listen to my hodbas on a regular basis just take note of something today insha'Allah that I will be on occasion speaking about Surah Al-Ma'idah
and Surah Al-Ma'idah in the order of the Quran is the fifth Surah to be revealed it's one of the longer Surahs of the Quran it was revealed what's special about this Surah is it was revealed at the very very end of the career of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم so it's basically chronologically one of the last messages from Allah it's one of the last messages from Allah and it's important to know some of the background of when this Surah was being revealed and why it means something significant for Muslims
before we take any lessons from this Surah so I'll mention a couple of things about that quickly that I won't be repeating in other hodbas I expect you to remember some of that insha'Allah so that it'll be easier for you to take benefit from some of these reminders رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم was sent not just as a messenger to the Arabs he was sent as a messenger to all of humanity and by the time Makkah was conquered now it was time to acknowledge that Muslims are going to be interacting
with people from around the world so some Sahaba made it as far as India and China many were in Africa Europe already and so Muslims were already starting to spread far and wide Quran already called that this is going to happen وآخرين منهم لما يلحقوا بهم there are others than them meaning other than the Arabs that haven't yet joined them الله's way of saying that they're going to be joining them and eventually pretty quickly within a century actually the non Arabs were the majority of Muslims
so Allah knew that pretty much very quickly we are going to be exposed to other cultures other traditions, other nations, other languages and those other nations are actually going to make up the majority of those who believe in الله and that was Allah's grand plan part of that plan is to prepare Muslims on how they're going to deal with these other nations what is going to be the way that they interact with them because you know
human beings at the end of the day have to deal with each other they have to be neighbors with each other they have to do business with each other and so the mindset with which we are going to engage the world was given to us in المائدة now you're ready to see the world now you're ready to engage with the world and the first exposure we were going to have and the primary exposure the Muslims were going to have was going to be with the Christian people and the Jewish people which is why there's a special emphasis on our relationship with Jews and Christians in the Surah
and what kinds of relationships we're going to have with them how we're going to be cooperating with them in good things how we're going to be eating with them and inviting them to eat with us that these kinds of things were talked about in this Surah for a reason because this is how Islam was going to expand so part of that was Allah mentioning a few you know that Quran is full of many stories many historical accounts and Allah knows all of human history Allah knows every single person and everything that happened in their life from Adam عليه السلام until now
so even though history books record history no one knows history like Allah Himself because He knows your and my personal history and He knows the history of all of humanity but He decided that He's going to take very small selections from history and put them in His book very very small selections if you think of history as an ocean He only took a few drops and He put them in His book because there's way more that happened in the past than what is in the Quran so Allah decided to take very very
special moments in history and put them in His book so that you and I will understand the few moments are some of the most important lessons we're going to need of course we can learn from history throughout but these are to Allah some of the most important pivotal moments in history that we should never forget that we're always going to need lessons from and so what's remarkable in this Surah as we were going to deal with outside people Allah عز وجل gave many stories inside of this Surah
and one of the most peculiar difficult to understand stories in the Quran and that's the story of the two sons of Adam the narrations tell us that their names are the Bible calls them and this is actually if you think about it the first record of human history in the Quran like this is the first incident after Adam was sent from the earth the first thing we know about is these two sons of
and what happened with them and that's talked about in this Surah why was that important as you will see through this khutbah you'll understand why that might be very important okay now let's take a little bit of background before Iblis the devil one of his biggest there are many reasons for which he disobeyed Allah but one of those reasons was that he wanted recognition he wanted Allah to acknowledge him and his service and when he felt that Adam
was chosen and Adam has been given this soul and the angels are supposed to be so mesmerized by the creation and the ability of Adam that they're going to fall into sajda that offended him because it made him feel like I've been doing this service all these years thousands of years and I obeyed Allah willingly when am I going to get acknowledged why did he get acknowledged more than me I feel like I'm invisible like I don't matter but Allah didn't acknowledge him
what offended him was Allah acknowledged somebody else first or Allah recognized somebody and this is important to know because to you and me we know Allah sees everything that we do this is an important subtle thing to understand Allah sees everything that we do Allah acknowledges everything that we do Allah hears everything that we do Allah knows the state of our hearts and the one who we need to impress is only and only Allah this was about Allah this was about what all the other angels are impressed
supposed to be impressed with him how come they're not supposed to be impressed with me this actually wasn't about recognition before Allah this was about recognition before all the other creation of Allah it was about everybody else if somebody just wants to be recognized by Allah then they don't have to be there doesn't have to be a demonstration there doesn't have to be a display whether Adam the angels do sajda or not changes nothing and Allah sees Allah hears and Allah acknowledges and Allah appreciates whatever I do Allah describes one of his names in the Quran
that Allah Allah is appreciative Allah appreciates what you do and he knows that it's not Allah's appreciation he's looking for he's actually looking for it to be demonstrated before other creation so other people can see other angels can see how awesome he is and that recognition that acknowledgement he didn't get it and this upset him this is one of the things that really upset him so guess what his plan is one of his many plans
is that he wants human beings to be obsessed with that kind of recognition he wants them to be acknowledged by other human beings and he wants to make them drown in negative thinking if they don't feel acknowledged and if they don't feel recognized if they don't feel praised by others yeah Allah sees Allah doesn't see how come people don't appreciate how come people don't see I'll give you a simple example of that before we go into the story let's say somebody decides to volunteer at the masjid
they come every day they vacuum the place they give the adhan in the morning and all of it right and then at the end the masjid has a fundraiser and at the fundraiser the guy doing the fundraiser we'd like to acknowledge our volunteers we'd like to thank our volunteers from the masjid especially brother Muhammad who moved here last week and this guy who's been volunteering for 10 years is sitting there like hey wait a second I come clean up every morning I give the adhan in the morning
I'm the one who opens up and locks up and who gets this special great acknowledgement the guy who moved here last week what is this I'm never coming to this masjid again I'm never donating again forget this I want to refund he's upset everything you did in Allah's house you did for Allah's recognition for Allah's recognition but what offended you was people didn't recognize it and if you were looking for people's recognition then you should just let it be known
that it's for people you see and sometimes these thoughts are a good way to test who are we actually doing something for the devil wanted the recognition of everyone else not himself not Allah's Allah's recognition is already there Allah is the all-seeing all knowing that's already there but that wasn't enough now let's come to this story read on to them narrate to them the news the account the historical events of the two sons of Adam okay Allah didn't even mention their names
and when Allah doesn't mention I told you let's not mention in Quran that comes from narrations there's a reason Allah does not mention names he wants your focus on something else you want to pay attention to what he's saying the lessons are more important than the dates and the regions and the locations and their ages and other geographical data and biographical data that's less important the lesson is more important so focus on the lesson read on to them the news of the two sons of Adam okay
and what does Allah say then tell them this account with purpose meaning I'm telling you this story and the story is true but the story also has a purpose the purpose of the story is not information the purpose of the story is not that you know this happened the purpose of the story is you will find some purposeful lessons for you, for me that are going to affect our life that's why he's telling us this story yes this happened many tens of thousands of years ago God knows
how many years ago and one if you don't know the story here's the brief summary one brother killed the other a murder happened it's a murder story why is he telling us this that's just the information but there seems to be some other purpose that Allah wants our attention on so he says tell them this story with purpose when both of them offered a sacrifice meaning both of them made a sacrifice you know how we do we just came out of and we sacrificed and so Allah had commanded that one of the acts of worship back then was that you sacrifice something
for the sake of Allah and when you sacrifice in the historical the bible talks about this the Quran alludes to this in the ancient times Allah عز وجل used to show a lot more miracles so one of the miracles of Allah that used to be seen is that when you sacrifice an animal for the sake of Allah and Allah accepts your sacrifice then a fire used to come from the sky and consume the animal that was sacrificed and that's actually Allah's way of showing you that he has accepted your sacrifice this was so common
in Jewish tradition in Biblical tradition before Islam that when the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم claimed to be a messenger they asked how come you don't get that special fire and Quran talked about that but that's a separate subject for now this is how sacrifice used to be accepted anyhow Allah عز وجل says one of their sacrifices was accepted the other one was not accepted it wasn't taken from him
meaning the fire came and consumed one and consumed the other now who was the sacrifice made for it was made for Allah today it's done for the sake of Allah just like when prayer is done prayer is done for the sake of Allah so the sacrifice was done purely for the sake of Allah now if for example somebody does something for the sake of Allah and they find out Allah has not accepted it Allah has not accepted it then who should they be concerned with themselves what did I do wrong
maybe maybe my intentions weren't pure enough maybe my income wasn't pure enough maybe the words I said wasn't right maybe the ritual wasn't performed correctly I don't know what I did wrong the focus would be on what you did wrong but when the sacrifice was done and one was accepted and the other wasn't accepted his immediate the brother who did kill his first reaction was he tells his brother I'm going to kill you now this creates a confusion