IOK Ramadan: Are They Equal? | Keys To The Divine Compass [Ep12]

This Ramadan, MuslimMatters is happy to host the Institute Of Information‘s day by day Ramadan sequence: Keys to the Divine Compass. By means of this sequence, every day we’ll spend time connecting with the Qur’an on a deeper, extra religious, uplifting stage.

Earlier within the sequence: Juz 1 Juz 2 Juz 3 Juz 4 Juz 5 Juz 6 Juz 7 Juz 8 Juz 9 Juz 10 Juz 11

Juzʾ 12: Are They Equal?

Bismillah-ir Raḥmān-ir Raḥīm. All reward to Allah and peace and salutations upon his servant and remaining messenger Muḥammad (pbuh), Assalāmu ‘Alaykum wa Raḥmatullāhi wa Barakātuh! Welcome to a different episode of our Ramaḍān Reflection sequence, Keys to the Divine Compass, the place we go over verses of the Qur’an from each Juz all through the month of Ramaḍān in order that we will derive classes and apply them to our lives.

InshaAllah at present I can be going over verse 24 from Sūrah Hūd (Sūrah 11) through which Allah (swt) says, “The instance of the 2 teams is like that of the blind and deaf in comparison with those that are listening to and seeing; are they equal? Do they not assume? If we expect over this verse it comes on the finish of a sequence of verses the place Allah (swt) highlights the variations between the disbelievers and the believers. Allah (swt) begins by speaking concerning the disbelievers and says they’re those that craft lies towards Allah, both by saying that there is no such thing as a Creator, or that the Creator isn’t worthy of worship, or that the Creator has equals who’re additionally worthy of worship, or that the Creator relies on others. They lead themselves astray and turn into obstacles within the paths of others to believing in Allah (swt). Allah (swt) says the believers alternatively are those that consider, do good, and humble themselves in entrance of Allah, so you’ve got two contrasted approaches in relation to serious about existence and residing a cosmopolitan life.

You’ve gotten those that consider in Allah (swt) and you’ve got those that don’t, and Allah (swt) says these two teams may be in comparison with a blind and deaf particular person and a seeing and listening to particular person. Have in mind: this verse isn’t speaking concerning the pure blindness or deafness that an individual may be born with, that’s from Allah (swt). The concept behind this comparability is to alert us to the concept of religious blindness and deafness, which is attribute of the disbelievers. The important thing distinction between the ṣaḥābah that allowed them to turn into the companions of the Prophet (pbuh) and the disbelievers of their time was this attribute: the believers have been spiritually seeing and listening to, they have been alert of the Revelation and have been humble to just accept it. The disbelievers, alternatively, have been spiritually blind and deaf and their insistence upon their lies induced them to turn into extra blind and deaf till Allah (swt) sealed their hearts. The disbelievers knew who the Prophet (pbuh) was, they heard him recite the phrases of the Qur’an and heard the Revelation straight from him. But, it was as if somebody was chatting with a deaf particular person, who clearly couldn’t hear. It was as in the event that they have been blind, as a result of regardless of the miracles that the Prophet (pbuh) did, regardless of his character that knew about, they acted as in the event that they have been blind and couldn’t see the reality for what it was though it was in entrance of them. Distinction this to the believers who have been seeing and listening to within the religious sense. We had companions like ‘Abd-Allah bin Um Maktūm (R) who was bodily blind however spiritually capable of see, whose coronary heart was open to the Revelation so though he couldn’t see the Prophet (pbuh) and didn’t see the miracles he acknowledged what was the reality.

Allah (swt) asks you probably have these two completely different teams in entrance of you, are you able to, by all logic and motive, say that they’re equal? In fact not. Allah (swt) says that in case you can not take into account a bodily blind and deaf particular person equal to a bodily seeing and listening to particular person, then how are you going to take into account those that are spiritually blind and deaf equal to those that are capable of see spiritually and listen to spiritually? How can you evaluate the 2? The believers and the disbelievers should not one and the identical. It’s a rhetorical query. Are they alike? In fact not. Allah (swt) needs us to ponder and assume that if they aren’t alike, then whose path are we on? Are we on the trail of those that disbelieve, or on the trail of those that consider however may not be robust believers, or may be actively hindering others from reaching Allah (swt), or on the trail of those that consider, do good, and humble themselves in entrance of their Lord?

Allah (swt) says that the rationale for the traits of the disbelievers and the believers (on this regard) being defined to you is so that you’re conscious of their final penalties. On the day of judgment, when the disbelievers are being pushed into the hearth, they’ll have nobody in charge however themselves, they are going to be from among the many largest of losers. Nevertheless, if an individual believes, does good, humbles themselves in entrance of Allah (swt), accepts the truth that their existence is due to Allah (swt) and because of this He has the proper to inform them the best way to reside their existence, that Allah (swt)’s orders and obligations are extra treasured, worthwhile, and essential than their very own, then they are going to be from the inhabitants of Jannah whereby they’ll reside without end.

Could Allah (swt) make us from amongst them, make us all honest, robust, and dedicated believers, and information, bless, and shield us all. Assalāmu ‘Alaykum wa Raḥmatullāhi wa Barakātuh.