Kiss Mila rahmani Rahi in the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the
most merciful. Heard a low excellence presents lessens from the stories of the prophets
by Mufti Ismail. Even Mussa menk his Salam sheep, Peace be upon him.
About a cattle hand rilla hiwa Kafa or sol Laalah who is seldom abaraka
alah Ibadi Hiladin Astafa Aabad, we praise a loss of Hannahua to Allah for
all praise indeed belongs to him. We ask him to send blessings and salutations
upon the master piece Muhammad salaalahu Ali he was seldom, and we ask a
loss sub hannah Hua to Alah to bless all his companions, all the messengers
whom he has sent, and all their companions. And may Allah bless every
single one of us in our offspring. We also ask a lossub Hannahawa to
Alah to grant us every form of goodness and to give us every reason to
smile, for indeed the smile is a great act of worship. When we
smile, it breaks a lot of ice, and many people who probably may
have been slightly frightened of us, They become automatically close to us. They
feel the closeness and the warmth. So this is why it is the Sunna
of the prophets of Allah. Hu are he was seldom to smile. May
Alas of Hanahua to Allah, grant us that understanding. We have been speaking
about Prophet Adam alaihisala to a Salam, and we heard yesterday how he passed
away and how he was buried. We also heard of how two of his
sons had fought, with one of them murdering the other, and what happened
as a result. What we need to know is there was another of his
sons whom we made mention of very briefly yesterday. His name was si alaihis
sala to a Salam. In the English language, some say said, and
I would like to think in the Urdu or the Gujarati languages, they say
said, alasub hanahuat Ala knows best. However, this son of Adam was
very close to him. He obeyed his instructions he learned from his father.
He actually used to remind his brethren, his brothers and the nephews and so
on, and the grand nephews. Whilst Adam alais sala to a Salam was
alive as well. He continued to remind and to rend people of the beginning
because there was nothing nothing else to remind them about it that particular time,
besides to worship Allah alone, and how Chaipan had made a promise and so
on. So this prophet of Allah suhannahuata Alah has not been made mention of
in the Quran. However, we find made mention of him made in the
haditha of the prophets a lallaho aale he was seldom where Rasulu las alaalahu Ali
he was seldom says that there were one hundred and four chronicles that were revealed
or parchments, and from them fifty were revealed to Sheath Alai his Salah to
ars slam. Now, as time passed, it's very important that we picture
what happened. There was one of the sons known as Kabil or Cain.
He had aggressiveness in his behavior, He had greed, he had arrogance.
He was a tough character, difficult to get along with. So what he
did he decided to depart, to leave the rest and to go away on
his own somewhere very far away, so Adam alai is Salam. Prior to
his death, he used to live with Sheath alais Salam and with all these
other children of his in the mountainous regions, in the mountains. And now
this young man decided, or Kabil decided to go to the valleys and to
go to the flat land somewhere further away. Later on, Sheath alaihi sala
to a Salam, was given an instruction by a lass of hannahuat Alah.
Part of his shariah was that it was prohibited to mix with the people who
were gone onto the other side. This man Kabil took his own family with
and he went away. They had their children, they had their own characteristics,
and it was prohibited to mix with them. That was the shariah revealed
to Sheath alaihi is Salah to was Salam. And they followed it. They
did not mix, and they were saved to a great degree. After some
time a problem arose. If we recall Chaitan, when he refused to prostrate
to Adam a lead his Salah to Salam. He made a promise to Alas
of Hannah Hawatala. He says, I promise you I will show you.
I'll lead them astray, and alas of Hannah Howatala says, go and try
whoever follows you from amongst them. They are losers. They will be with
you in hell fire. But my worshippers who worship me, who have turned
to me, you will never be able to overpower them. Hana hot Ala,
grant us the ability to overpower the devil rather than him overpowering us.
So alas Suhannah howat Ala says. And this verse is made mention of in
isra wastef zis man is stout artamin home sautika, bik sharik kumfin walidum wamaid
alas is go oh devil, oh satan oh he please go and try and
befool them gradually as you wish. Go and use your sound. Now the
word south is used. Use your south. What is the south of Chaipan,
the sound of Chaipan, the voice of Chaipan. The Mufasirien. Almost
all of them have made mention of music and musical instruments. And this is
a verse in Suatu Isra and alas ud Hannahuatalyasis, go try and control them.
Use whatever you have at your disposal. Those who know me and those
who worship me, they will never follow you. So he says alas is,
go and try. You can use your sounds, you can use your
cavalry, you can use your infantry, and go and be a partner in
their wealth, which means go and teach them whatever you want. What was
that meant to be? Look at the books of the f Siir. They
all make mention of illegal income, ilicit prohibited relationships. The income number one
when a person wants to derive income from that which is prohibited. And the
next part of the verse says, go and be a part of their relationships
as well in their children. You can have a portion. And what them
of a Syrian say is this means go and encourage them to do what you
want in terms of illicit sexual behavior. And let's see what happens. Let's
see who wins. Laho akaba so chipan. From that time, from that
time he bother us in mind, and he was given this authority as a
test for all of us. Remember why are we here? We are here
because Adam Adaihi Salah to a Salam had promised allahs subhanahuata Alah that I seek
forgiveness for what I've done, and I will not do it again. And
Alas subhanahuat Alah sent man on to earth in order to test them one word
test. So if anyone thinks we are here for another reason, they're wrong.
We know we are here for a test. Everything we see is actually
a test from Alas subanahwat Alah. In fact, this evening also we had
verses that we had read. We are a lot Subhanah howat alas is,
yeah, are you helada a man la mina soidud garima hokkum lay beautiful verses
of the Quran. You see in the condition of a haram, it is
prohibited to hunt, so alas is, oh, you who believe we will
test you by making something happen for you. When you are in the condition
of a haram, those hunting animals will come very close to you, as
though they are saying, hunt me, hunt me. But remember it's prohibited
that we will do for you, just to test you. Who is going
to fear Allah subhana Alah seemed to them. But they know that a loss
of hannahuwat Alah is all watchful. So this means in our lives. In
fact, it reminds me of what Alas of Hannah Howat Alah speaks about in
the Quran. The Jewish people, very interestingly a loss subhanah houwat Alah says,
they had a sabbath, the Sabbath. They declared that on this day
you cannot work at all. So what happened? Allah tested them the same
way you know the Koran says, eat team him heat any sabbath team suah
alasm ton alah, team kadallic be my canon, have sompoo on that Saturday.
The fishermen who were not allowed to work according to their own laws,
they saw the fish as though the fish are saying, come fish, We
know that it's a day when you're not allowed to fish. Amazing, amazing.
So in order to come around that, they used to cast their nets
Friday evening, pick them up on Sunday morning. Akaba lahu akaba. So
Allah says, you cannot do that. This is a test. This is
why Allah Subhannah Hawatalah will test all of us. Certain things are at hand,
they are reachable. They are if I can use the word committable.
A sin is committable. But whether we commit it or not depends on how
much we fear Allah and what consciousness we have of Alla Supannah hawat Alah.
So this Chaipan he remembered this, and he then came. He decided,
let me go and tackle man. And I want to show man how to
sin, because man had to learn how to sin. Remember, if you
haven't seen something, you probably wouldn't know how to do it. I was
speaking to one of the youngsters from amongst us here two days back, very
interesting, and he made mention of something regarding materialism that you see, if
you are driving the latest masides and next year, if Mercedes does not advertise
the newer one day have you will be so happy with yours because you haven't
yet seen the new one. And two three years later, you will still
be happy with yours for as long as you believe it's the latest one.
The same applies to your phone. When you have the iPhone, for example,
they call it the iPhone four, you'll be so happy with it subrana
lah because you have not yet seen the six that has come out. Laho
akbar. See everyone's looking at me, when did that come out? Laho
akaba, loho akkaba. Don't worry I don't know of it. But this
is how man is that when you don't know something, you happy. This
is why you have your wife. You be happy with her. The minute
you do not lower your gaze and so on, you start getting upset with
what you have based on something you don't even know. La hu akaba,
laho akaba. The same applies to our condition as man. We happy with
what we have, and we are so happy with it for as long as
we don't know that there is something that might make us happier, laho akaba.
Why take the risk? Be happy? Be content? So Chaipan decided
the same thing. And what he did is he said, you see these
people who are with Adam alais Salam, and now that he's passed away Sheath
Alai is Adam, he may recognize me because he knows Sheilan. He decided
to let me come in the form of a man, and I will go
to those who are with Sheath, and I will pretend as though I'm a
defector from this side. Sorry, I will go to those who are with
Kabil, those who are with Kine. I will go to that side and
pretend like I've defected from Sheath. Now there was a distinct, distinct sign.
You could see very clearly. The men from Kabin's side were not very
good looking. We heard about that, and the women were very good looking.
And they had gone one side. When it comes to where Sheath alais
Alam and the rest of them were, the men were very good looking and
the women were not that good looking. According to narrations, I'm not speaking
obviously from my own pocket here. So Alas subhanah Allah kept it such that
Chaifan went to that side in the form of a handsome man. And when
he went there, he asked for a job. Look, I need employment.
I need to be employed here. So what happened? They looked at
him, they decided, yes, good man, come, let's employ you.
At least we got one defector, someone has defected. Let's give him
a job. So he got a job, and as a man, he
worked amongst them, and he worked very hard. And then he slowly started
What did he start doing. It's important we listen to this. He slowly
started making sounds sound that people had never heard before, because there were no
sounds that people had heard. That was the beginning of time. And now
he took he created a little drum and he beat it, and everybody would
come, what's that sound? And they would come around him and watch.
Then he got a bit of metal and he started hitting it, and then
it created a sound, and they came. And then he made a bugle
and he started blowing into it and it created a sound, and they came
and they were excited. Wow, these people are intelligent. They have advanced
much more than us. And so they were so happy, and they got
so engrossed in it that they slowly started forgetting the commands of a loss of
Hannah to Anah. They slowly started forgetting the commands of a loss of Hannah
to Ala. Yet on the other hand, sheath Alai Salam kept on reminding
his people. He kept on speaking with his people, and he kept on
telling his people what was right and what was wrong and so on. And
on this hand, we find that Chaipan is teaching them how to do evil,
how to create evil. And after some time they began to follow him.
And when they began to follow him, it created a disaster for them.
This is how they introduced the musical instruments into existence. This is how
they introduced the musical instruments into existence. And through that he would control them.
They literally set aside a day, an evening, a Saturday evening,
and amazingly, to this day it lasts. To this day it lasts.
They set aside that evening where he would create these sounds. Everybody would come
around and everybody would listen to him, and everybody would literally party, party.
They would party until there came a time when some of the youth from
shith adihi sala to a Salam were visited by Chaipan. And what did he
do to them? Something interesting? He went to them, and he created
a doubt in their minds. He made them ask a question. He made
them question the law of a loss of hannah hoatalah. Why is it that
we are not allowed to mix with these cousins of ours, with these relatives
of ours? What is the law all about? What is the reasoning?
What is so bad about them? Look at this question. Let's put it
into our lives sometimes when we are taught not to have certain company, not
to have certain friends, not to move in a certain direction. What is
it that is so bad about these people that we should not be mixing with
them? So when they started asking this question, it was answered for them
that look, Carbile had engaged in a crime right at the beginning. He
engaged in a sin at the very beginning, and this is what he did.
He engaged in murder, and his characteristics were different and so on.
And for this reason, they were all on one side, and we are
ordered not to mix with them. These youth were dissatisfied with the answer,
Nah, doesn't sound too good to us. We're not happy with it.
When they were not happy with it, some of them decided, let's just
have a peep at what's happening, because we've heard that here things are going
on. These people are progressing. Let's go and see. So they came
down from the mountains and they went and from a distance they were watching,
and they had seen and it pulled them. Imagine, they did not intend
to engage in evil, but when they saw everybody is partying, and what
did they see? They saw very good looking females. They saw very good
looking females, and so they went closer. And when they went closer,
they were seen. Sobhananda, they were seen, and they were good looking
men. So the women began to engage in what is known as tabar ruje
tabar rouj meaning to start displaying their beauty and to start dressing up in order
to attract This was the first time Chapan taught them this. Now, if
you take a look at the tefsi of the Koran, you will find in
Suratu Ahzab there is a verse where Alas Subhannah Hawatala is addressing the wives of
the prophets. Salalahu Alahi was seldom as well as the believing women who would
take a lesson from them. Alas is walk on a febuti kunawala tabarajen at
aabaru jeljaiila, remain indoors as far as possible, and do not adorn yourself
in a wrong manner, in a wrong manner meaning for those who are not
meant to be seeing you in the way that those of the first ignorance engaged
in. So Abdullah heevna Abbas rody Allah, who is a great mofasit He
says this is referring to the women of Kabil's side who used to beautify themselves
in order to be made attracted to these males, And this is where the
story comes up. Al jahili a tunula mentioned in this stef Sir mentioned by
ibn abbas rodya Allahu Anhu. His view is that this is what it was,
and we are just using that today in order to put forward what happened.
So when that happened, these young men they came in and they enjoyed
themselves. They had music, they had women, they had so much.
They were partying, they were enjoying, and they went away. See it's
typical what happens nowadays. You have the weekend, people go and after that
they come back home at three in the morning. You know, we use
the word babbalas I don't know what is used by the by the people here,
which means they're half drunk. You know, they don't even know whether
they're coming or going. Laho akaba. So as the men came back,
they told the other youngsters, hey, you don't know what you're missing out
on. You see there they've got different sounds and these sounds are amazing.
Now, look, Chaithan uses sound to control man. Well, Lottie,
if you take a look at what a beat is, what is a bait?
You start tapping your fingers. What happened? Who's controlling this finger of
yours? Chaithan? What happens to your your toe starts flicking, what happens
to your head starts moving, what happens to your waist starts shaking? Laho
akaba, Who's controlling it? Let's be honest. It started at that time.
It started at that time, and it is controlled. The one who
can make you tap your finger on your steering wheel can easily make you murder.
The one who can make you tap your finger on a steering wheel can
easily lead you to adultery. He will create it in your heart and beautify
it. He can do one thing and you continue, he will do another
malasu hanahowat ala safeguardess. So thereafter these people came back with a bigger group,
and they came back with a larger group, and the group was growing.
And every time that party happened, there were people from this side who
used to quietly go to that side and they used to engage in sin.
The first sins music was invented, and what else was invented created was adultree
maelasu hannahowat ala safegardness. This is the history of it made mentioned by some
of the historians, and it is very very important, very very interesting for
us to note this because Alas of hannahuata Alah has also told us in the
Qoran about al Jahiliyah Tunula. Although they're on details, the details we get
from some of them of a Syrian and some of the historians. So this
is how it started, and this is why it's important for us today to
understand that not everything that glitters is gold. Not everything that glitters is good
for us, Not everything that appears to be so attractive is actually good for
us, because if we go in that direction, we could be falling straight
into the trap of chaipan. So Alas subhanahuata Alah. After making mention of
this, he obviously tells us that those who have engaged in immorality and those
who have engaged in sin, those who have engaged in what will displease Alla
Subranaha to Allah if they immediately remember Allah subhanahua to Allah. They remember that
they have to go back to Alla Subhanaha to Allah, and they have that
consciousness of Allah, and that remembrance makes them ask Alas forgiveness. Alas is
not only do we forgive them, but if they remain stepfast thereafter, we
will grant them Jana. Listen to the verse well, ladina shumakai wam in
a lah, what a musim Adam paul ullah Inka Jasah whom bea him qua
janjall and dinaju Lamii alas is. Those who have engaged in immorality, or
they have oppressed against themselves. They have oppressed themselves in one way or another,
when they remember a lot subhannahwat Alah and turn to him in repentance,
because there is none who can forgive besides a loassub hanahuata Alah. And they
do not continue in their bad ways, but rather they turn their ways for
the sake of a loss of Hannah. Howat Alah, a loss is for
those there is forgiveness from us, and we have prepared for them heaven paradise
gardens, wherein they will dwell forever and ever. And what a great place
for those who would like to do good deeds. And this verse has hope
for every single human being anyone. Never ever feel that you have gone beyond
the limits. Never feel that you are now beyond repair. There is always
room to turn to alass of Hannah. Howat Alah. He gives us a
chance, he gives us another chance, He gives us ten chances and many
more chances, but we don't know the exact number of chances. Whilst these
chances come through to us, grab hold of one of them and turn to
a loss of hanahatada. I normally tell people the month of Ramadan is ideal?
Ideal? What is harming us? What is so difficult for us to
come to the meschiet to stand for an hour? If we had it our
way, we could probably stand out at the door for another hour if we
had the right people to sit and chit chat allah project us. Sometimes as
people are coming in, they're sinning, and as they go out, they're
sinning, whether it is with their phones or with their mouths, bad mouths
meaning bad words that come out of the mouth. Sometimes we walk out of
the house of a loss of hanahat alah. First thing we do, with
all due respect to those who do do this, but what is wrong is
wrong, even if the whole world engages in it. First thing we do,
we still not even out of the door. The cigarettes are out and
the light is out. Next thing we flicking it and it's at our mouths.
But where were we just now? Moments before that we were speaking,
communicating with a loss of hanahata alah, can't we at least for the month
of Ramadan show some respect and move a little bit further away from the mastiff.
Not to say we are encouraging it, but at least if we show
that amount of respect, there is a chance that a loss subhanah howat alah
will indeed create a day when we will give it up. You know when
a doctor tells you, lahu akaba, And I've given this example before,
when a man's heart suddenly fails and he gets a pain and he drops.
Then they pick him up and take him to the hospital and the doctor says,
you know what, you got to give up smoking? What? Llah?
He nine times out of ten, if not ten, he gives it
up? Why one doctor told him that? One doctor? But for a
lass sup Hannah howat alah. How many of us are ready today to say
this habit is out there? We are? How many laho akaba? Are
we waiting for a little heart attack before we can give up a bad habit?
Are we waiting for an angina attack before we can throw something out of
the window when alas subhanah howat alice is no, don't wait for that.
I give you good health. But whilst you're in good health, leave that
lahu akaba. This is why we say some people turn away from Allah.
They don't want to worship Allah, neither in Ramadan nor outside the month of
Ramadan. So what Allah does for them, He gives them a favor.
What is that favor? He makes them sick and ill to the degree that
the doctors cannot help them. So what do they have to do? They
are forced forced literally to say yeah Allah for the first time in their lives,
raising their hands and coming Salah early marcia Allah. That is cheap,
a lie, cheap meaning we are still fortunate that we haven't died before we
raised our hands to Allah. But the question I have should we wait for
something to happen to us before we're going to raise our hands? This is
why Allah says, be thankful, be grateful, recognize the devil and know
about him before he even comes in your direction, so that you will know
how he tries and distract you. Ask those who've committed adultery all their lives,
what have they achieved by it? Ask those who have sinned all their
lives gambling? What have they achieved by it? Ask those who have sinned
all their lives by stealing, cheating, conning, deceiving, by engaging in
all sorts of other sins, whether it is drugs and alcohol. What did
they achieve by it? They achieved what momentary joy? Is that what they
got? And now, if Allah has mercy on you, he will grant
you a chance to say ya Allah, forgive me. Never again will I
do this? But if not, Allah protect us all we fall into the
clutches of the devil. What happens on our deathbeds when it's too late.
We will then be thinking that, yeah, Allah, I should have given
up this habit and that habit. You know what the kurances those type of
people whom they only want to think about it on their deathbeds Allah says,
that's too late. Had In, I had a call on bulging l Ali
Ansari have female talk too. Kala Alas is. When death comes to such
a person, he will say, oh, Allah send me back. I
want to do good. Now I know, I'd like to do all the
good. Now we know. Alas says, no, you will not do
good. It's just a statement coming out of your mouth. You were given
the chances, you were given the reminders, the messengers came one after the
other. Do you know the mercy of Allah is such that he did not
only let us know the history of Mohammad Salah alaihi was Alam, but for
us there is a reason why he has told us the stories of so many
prophets in the Qur'an and in the Sunna of Mohammed Salah alai he was Hem.
Take a look at the people of Shai for example, they used to
have wrong business dealings in this uma. There are people who do that.
Take a look at the people of Luke alai Salam, they used to have
homosexuality in them this uma, there are people who do do that. So
at that time the nations used to engage in one or two major items.
But with us there are pockets of people who have engaged in almost all those
things that are made mention of in the past. And this is one of
the reasons why all those stories have come and they have come to us.
Remember, and this is an example again that some of the scholars have given.
They say, if fuel with a match created a huge inferno a thousand
years ago, what makes you think that fuel with a match today is not
going to create the same inferno. That is foolishness, since we know people
have been giving you warnings. There's a warning, petrol warning, inflammable warning,
no lights, no matches here And if you look at it and you
say no, this was a thousand years ago. Let me try it again
and see what happens. That's what we're doing. We hear what happened to
the people of Luke, we still want to engage. We hear what happened
to the people of Shai. We still want to engage. We hear what
happened to the people of whod. We still want to engage. Why because
we do not want to take heed of that sign that we see highly inflammable.
Make sure you don't have this here. Laho akabars of banahata Alah open
our doors. The reason why I have paused, if you notice, to
give a few examples, is because these type of examples have an effect and
an impact on mankind. Alas subhanahwat Alah says in the Kurana Wala kadabal in
nasifikoranim kunli metal. In this Quran, we have given men so many different
types of examples so that they think. But alas is for Abba akar nazi
i la Kufuran. So many people have just refused. They have rejected,
they don't want to believe. My beloved brothers and sisters, We have a
beautiful month of Ramaban. As we say, an effort is required to come
closer to Allah lah he wllah Hei. If we come closer to Allah sub
Hannah howatalah, we will see miracles in our life. We dedicate our days
for Salah without missing one Salah. Come what may see what happens in a
month two months, start seeing your doors opening. Miracles will happen wal Lahi
those around us have already seen them, and I'm sure we are tasting them.
Allah grants you contentment of the heart. But when there is a person
who wants to follow the sins of the time, Walahi, they will continue
becoming more and more sophisticated. We will waste our days and our times behind
this technology if we are using it wrongly, and we will waste our time
behind sin and drugs. Wahi. If we would like to leave it,
we can leave it now by the will of Allas sub hannahwat Alah. And
if this reminder in the month of Ramadan, when our hearts are meant to
be softened is not enough for us? Then what are we waiting for?
What is there there is going to come to us? In the past I
have made mention of a point, and the point is how many reminders would
I like before I will turn? Write it down? I need another two
hundred reminders. Then I will turn and then start jotting down how many reminders
you've had. They will come a day when you'll strike the two hundred to
one. Then will you turn? Laho Akaba? If you're going to turn
at two hundred, you'd rather turn now so that you can gain all that
time, because who knows? We might die at one fifty, and then
what will happen? We can't go to a loss of Hannah howatala and say
no. In my mind, I made a promise that I'm going to wait
for another fifty, and you didn't give me the life to see the other
fifty too late? Alases, we gave you enough, enough times, enough
warnings. Like alasses in the Koran, some people, no matter who tells
them, no matter who reminds them, they don't want to be reminded.
They don't want to take heed. So alas is, you can bring whoever
you want to talk to them, they won't listen, so much so that
Alasses, even if the angels were to be brought in front of them to
talk to them live, they wouldn't turn. And over and above that,
Alas says, are they waiting for Allah to come down now to talk to
them, to say, hey, you better turn love welcome. These are
the verses of the Koran. Malelasu hanah houa Alah open our doors malasu hanah,
how to Alah grant us all goodness in Charlotte. Tomorrow we will meet
again, going into the next prophet of Allas Subannah howat Alah. Until then
Oslaa who is seldom Abarakala and Mohammad subannahla behamd the Subpana Alahama behamdi Urukana to fu