Juz’ 10 Qur’an 30 for 30
Surah At-Tawbah, found in juz 10, is the most severe chapter in the Qur’an, discussing
hypocrites extensively and in detail. In this episode, Dr. Omar Suleiman and Sh. Abdullah
Oduro are joined by Ustadha Nuriddeen Knight as they reflect on this surah’s practical
lessons about hypocrisy, good and bad envy, blessings, intentions, and more.
Bismillah walhamdulillah wa salamu ala Rasulullah wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa man wala
Welcome back to Qur’an 30 for 30. Alhamdulillah, Rabbul Ameen. We are honored to have
with us today Ustad al-Nuruddin Knight, who alhamdulillah has written, I think, one of the
most beautiful short collections of hadith, the 40 hadith on our mother A’ishah radiAllahu
ta’ala anha. Ustad al-Nuruddin, what was it that provoked you to write that book on the 40
on A’ishah radiAllahu ta’ala anha? Alhamdulillah, I was always fascinated by Lady A’ishah
radiAllahu ta’ala anha and wanted to know more about her, learn more about her and honor
her. And so alhamdulillah, this was just a way to do that. Alhamdulillah, may Allah
Subh’anaHu Wa Ta-A’la bless you. We’re looking forward to hearing your insights today,
inshaAllah. Tayyip, we’re going to be a little bit shorter today, inshaAllah ta’ala, but
Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, we’re going to get started. Bismillah walhamdulillah wa
salamu ala Rasulullah wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa man wala So as we get into now the juz of
Surat At-Tawbah, and we start to see in Surat At-Tawbah, you know, some of the
consequences of not responding to the call of Allah Subh’anaHu Wa Ta-A’la as Allah
Subh’anaHu Wa Ta-A’la has called them to that which gives them life. Allah Subh’anaHu Wa
Ta-A’la says in Juz 9, and we had covered this, you know, this idea of walaw alimallahu
feehim khayran la asma’ahum You know, if Allah knew of any good within them, then Allah
Subh’anaHu Wa Ta-A’la would have certainly caused them to hear. Now Surat At-Tawbah,
Allah Subh’anaHu Wa Ta-A’la says ishtaraw bi-ayati Allahi thamanan qaleela fa saddu AAan
sabeelihi innahum sa’a ma kanu ya’maloon We’ll start off with this verse, verse 9. Allah
says they chose a fleeting gain over Allah’s revelation. So once again, this idea of purchase,
right?
So they purchased this fleeting gain of this world, thamanan qaleela, over that which Allah
Subh’anaHu Wa Ta-A’la has revealed. However, Allah Azawajal mentions something else
about the hypocrites. Allah Subh’anaHu Wa Ta-A’la says it’s bad enough that they
themselves had purchased the life of this world with the revelation and turned away from
the revelation of Allah Subh’anaHu Wa Ta-A’la. But on top of that, fa saddu AAan sabeelihi
They hindered others from His way as well. Sa’a ma kanu ya’maloon Evil indeed is what
they have done. You know, the scholars here mentioned that this idea of sa’a ma kanu
ya’maloon that misery loves company, right? It’s obviously the trait of the shaytan himself,
of Iblis himself that not only did he lose out on Jannah because of his own arrogance but
his arrogance has driven him to try to make as many people fall from the promised reward
of paradise as possible. So it’s bad enough that when Allah Subh’anaHu Wa Ta-A’la says
istajeebu lillahi wa la rasool itha daAAakum lima yuheekum that we spoke about in the
previous juz that respond to the call of Allah and the call of the messenger sallallahu alayhi
wasallam when they call you to that which gives you life it’s bad enough that you turned
away from that which gives you life. But now you’re making it hard for everybody else. Of
course this comes in the capacity of tabuuk where, you know, this is a very difficult time for
the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasallam and for the community. And the hypocrites did not
just give excuses for themselves to stay back but they also found ways to paralyze other
people within the community by making their excuses more acceptable and by giving them
loopholes and ways to try to get themselves out of supporting the messenger sallallahu
alayhi wasallam in tabuuk. Now subhanAllah, as severe as this surah is and it is a very
severe surah with the hypocrites..
It’s the most extensive surah about the hypocrites in the Quran more so than even surah almunafiqun, right? This surah talks in detail about the hypocrites and their condition. Allah
subhanAllah says in verse 11 fa intabu wa aqamu as-salah wa atu az-zaka fa ikhwanakum
fid-din wa nufasilu al-ayati li qawmin ya’lamun If they repent and they establish the prayer
and they pay the zakah then they are your brothers in faith. You’re not going to treat them as
any less. So Allah subhanAllah gives them a call to redemption even in the midst of a very
severe admonishing of them. And Allah subhanAllah says and this is how we make the
revelations clear for people of knowledge. Now this idea here, this is how we make the
revelations clear for people of knowledge is to say that the purpose of this revelation is to
wake people up and is to speak to a people of ilm who want to increase themselves in
knowledge by drawing closer to the revelation. But what I really want to get to subhanAllah
as the contrast to what we spoke about in the previous juz’ is verse 55 of surah Tawbah
where Allah subhanAllah says fala tu’jibka amwaluhum wala awladuhum innama yureedu
Allah li yu’adhibahum biha fil hayati al-dunya wa tazhaka anfusuhum wahum kafiroon So
let neither their wealth nor their children impress you. La tu’jibka Don’t be impressed by
what they have of this world. Innama yureedu Allah li yu’adhibahum biha fil hayati al-dunya
Rather, this is only a means of punishment for them in this worldly life and then on top of
that their souls will depart while they’re in that miserable state. So they’re going to have to
face the consequences of their deeds in the hereafter. But by the way, they’re not living as
good of a life as you think they are when you look at them now. And that’s one of the things
that’s very important for us..
Is that when we’re looking at people who act in very contrary ways to revelation and to
goodness and to righteousness but still, they seem to be living life, right? They seem to
have wealth, they seem to have fame, they seem to have everything that you possibly want
of this world. And the idea here is that Allah Subhanahu wa ta’ala is saying they’re actually
not living life that you think they’re living because they don’t have the perspective that turns
those blessings into actual blessings. This is such a deep contrast to the ayah that we
spoke about in the last juz, okay? Remember, respond to Allah and to the Messenger of
Allah when they call you to that which gives you life. If you worship the material things of
this world, then you’re going to be utterly disappointed and find yourself in a state of
despair. And so Allah Subhanahu wa ta’ala is saying that while they appear to have so
much of this world, they actually are in quite the miserable state. They’re not very happy. So
the fact that they have wealth, the fact that they get away with these things in this life
should not make you think that they’re actually living a good life and they certainly won’t get
away with it in the hereafter because their souls will depart for them while they’re in that
miserable state. And Imam bin Taymiyyah rahim Allah ta’ala mentions about this, that
everything in this life that gives you happiness also gives you a measure of sadness, okay?
So that’s true for everybody, right? If you have wealth, wealth comes with its condition. If
you have relationships, fame, whatever it is, it all comes with its condition. But here you see
these people, subhanAllah, and they worship these things, right? So they’re only really
getting sadness because their expectations of these worldly things are so much higher, are
so much higher than the expectations that other people have. So it’s not just that it’s not
giving them true life and true happiness. It’s actually giving them trial and giving them
misery.
And you see the rich and the famous and how empty they tend to be despite having
everything that people think that they want. Don’t be impressed. It’s actually a punishment
for them. And it’s actually a means of trial and torment for them because they’re not
casting those worldly blessings in the pursuit of the ultimate blessing of Allah’s pleasure in
paradise in the hereafter. Finally, we come to verse 75, ماَّه ُنْمِوَ
نَعَ ََّللاِ ئِ ْن اهَ َد
َص ل آتَا َن ِم ْن فَ ْضِل ِه َّدقَ َّن َ
نَ
لَ
نَكُونَ َن
َولَ
ِم َن ال َّصاِل ِحي َن َّما
ْم ِم ْن فَ ْضِل ِه وا َ
فَل آتَاهُ
ُ
بَ ِخل بِ ِه وا
َّ
َول
َو ْ تَ
says ala’Ta Wa Subhanahu Allahَ و ْعِر ُضو َن َوهُم
that some of them have made this vow to Allah that if He gives us from this bounty, we will
surely spend in charity and we will be from the righteous. But then once Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta’ala gives them of this bounty, they withhold it and they turn away indifferently. So the
thing about these hypocrites where they say if we were in a better condition, we would do
more for Allah. But the reality is that every time Allah bestows upon them a worldly
blessing, they turn away further from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala and turn that blessing into
a further curse for themselves. And so the only true blessing is that which is used for Allah.
And this, of course, is the response to what we spoke about last Juz.
َ
َو ُ َعِلم
ِه ََّللا ْم
Allah فِي َخْي ًرا
knows that they’re lying when they say that if you give us this and if you give us that.
Because Allah knows that the condition of the heart is bad. Therefore, how they’re going to
utilize what is given to them is not going to be praiseworthy and ultimately will be a
punishment for them in this life and the next. Of course, in contrast to the sincere believers
who Sheikh Abdullah Inshallah Ta’ala will talk about. So Sheikh Abdullah, tifadhal,
bismillah. Jazakum Allah Khayran. Bismillah wa salatu wa salam wa rasulullah wa ala alihi
wa sahbihi wa man wala amma ba’d. We understand the difference between belief and
hypocrisy. We know hypocrisy, you know, linguistically or from our culture to be something
that as a person that’s two-faced. They say one thing and then they do another.
َ
ِلم وا
َم تَقُول ا ُ
ال َل ْ
ُو َن
تَ ْفعَل
But really, when we talk about the hypocrisy in regards to these verses in Tawbah, and from
a creedal perspective, it’s a person that hides disbelief, voluntary disbelief. They know that
they disbelieve in Allah Subhanahu wa ta’ala, but they’re lying by their actions as though
they believe. So they’ll pray with the believers and they’ll say that they’re believers, but
they’re lying. It’s kathib, it’s a lie. And some of these disbelievers, there’s different types of
motivations why. Some of them want to be protected by the Muslims because they were
greater. Because it started during the time when they entered Al Medina. There was an
individual that saw the apostle coming to Medina. He was very envious of him. And that’s
where the munafiqoon movement, if you will, started. So it was hiding that level of
disbelief. In this chapter of Tawbah, you see clearly that Allah Subhanahu wa ta’ala does
not like hypocrisy. And he breaks it down to the three primary groups of the mu’mineen, the
munafiqeen, and the kafireen. Even though the munafiqeen are the hypocrites, are those
from the disbelievers, you see, Subhanallah, during this time of Ghazwat Tabuuk, and some
of the scholars call it Ghazwat al-Usra, because it was a very difficult time for them. It was
very hot. There was famine. And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam wanted to set out
to Tabuuk because he wanted to fight the Roman Empire. He wanted to fight. At that time,
the Roman Empire was the greatest power in the world. And there was a level of retaliation,
if you will, that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam wanted to fulfill because of what
was going on with the Roman Empire. So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam ordered
every man to get ready to fight in the war, or this battle of Ghazwat Tabuuk. But around this
time, there were the munafiqeen. They were the ones that were hypocritical, and they
would make certain statements, such as what Sheikh Omar mentioned. From them was an
individual named al-Jidd bin Qais, and al-Jidd bin Qais was the individual that,
Subhanallah, earlier in the seerah, the Sulh Hudaybiyah, the Hudaybiyan treaty, when they
made the pledge under the tree,
Al-Jidd bin Qais was there, but he went and hid behind a red camel. When they made this
pledge, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he said, everyone that makes this pledge
are from the people of Jannah, except the person hiding behind the red camel. And that
was al-Jidd bin Qais. Al-Jidd bin Qais, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala mentioned one of his
statements in chapter number 9, chapter 12, verse number 49, where Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta’ala says, abtu’al-bina wa shaytan al-rajim, wa minhum man yaqoola ithanni wa la
taftanni ala fil fitnati saqatu wa inna jahannam ala muheetatun bilkaafireen What’s
beautiful about this verse and another verse is Allah uses the same word or morphological
makeup that they use against them. So what it said here, Allah says, some of them said,
give me permission to stay home. Or from them, there’s those that said, give me
permission to stay home and do not trouble me. La taftanni, taftann, min fitna, the verb.
And then Allah says, is it not that they were already in trouble? Was the fact that they were
already dealing with the fitna? Ala fil fitnati saqatu The fitna of nifaq, the fitna of hypocrisy,
the fitna of lying. Because what al-Jidda bin Qayas, some scholars said that he said, Oh,
message of Allah, you know, if I go there, I’m going to be maftoon, I’m going to face a lot of
trial because, you know, the women of the Roman women, you know, it’s a fitna for me. So
please let me stay home. Let me stay here and, you know, and not go out and fight with you
all. This was his excuse. But Allah is saying here, ala fil fitnati, aren’t you already in a fitna
being that you’re lying and you’re doing this nifaq? So look at how Allah uses these words.
There’s the other statement that some of the munafiqoon made in verse number 81, where
Allah Subhanahu wa ta’ala mentions in a portion of the verse where he says that they say,
qaalu la tanfiru fil hara Because I mentioned it was very hot during this time. So they said,
do not go out in the hot weather. It’s so hot. There’s no food. How are we going to go out to
battle? They know the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam mentioned that all of them
should go out, but they’re making this statement,
Which is defiant and noncompliant to the order of the Messenger, order from Allah
Subhanahu wa ta’ala. But they said, don’t go out. It’s too hot. Then Allah Subhanahu wa
ta’ala rebukes them. Qulnaa aljahannama ashaddu harran law kanu yafqahoon Look at the
rebuttal. He tells the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam to say to them, the heat of the fire
is worse and hotter if they only understood. So this is the statement of the munafiqoon that
during this time, there were people that were trying to cause trouble. The Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam also fundraised during this time. He fundraised and tried, you know,
because there were people that didn’t have enough to take with them. So he fundraised.
And this is where we know the story of Abu Bakr giving all of his wealth. He said, I left Allah
and his Messenger with my family. Umar giving half of his wealth. And, you know,
SubhanAllah, Umar realizing that Abu Bakr had this virtue. And SubhanAllah, on that day,
you know, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, you know, that’s when he realized and
he fundraised for the people. And there were some that were able to go with the riding
animal, with food, etc. But there were a group of people that were not able to go. And they
came to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and they wanted to go. SubhanAllah. And
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala mentions the exception, the people that were excluded from
the punishment for not going. Because the munafiqoon, some went from their nifaaq and
they wanted to plot to kill the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And some made the
excuses as was mentioned earlier. But there were some that were still in Medina that
wanted to go, but they didn’t have anything to facilitate for them. A riding animal, food, etc.
The provisions of travel. So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala is mentioning those that have an
exception. So in verse number 92, he says, wa laa ala allatheena itha maa atawkali
tahmiluhum qultu laa ajidu maa ahmilukum alaihi tawallaw wa a’yiruhum tafeedu
minaddamri hazanan allaa yajidu maa yunfiqoon Some of them came to the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. He says, And there is no blame attached to those who came to
you for riding animals and to whom you said, I cannot find a mount for you.
They turned away with their eyes overflowing with tears that they had nothing that they
could contribute. Verse number 92. And some of the scholars say that this verse is
attributing to a group of seven brothers. And they call them al-baqa’een that they were the
ones that were crying. This is what I want to mention, we conclude here. Nifaq is an action
of the heart. And that’s why Allah dislikes it. Because apparently you see that they’re
obedient. And only one companion knew who the munafiqun were, and it was Hudayfah.
And that’s when the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam introduced who the munafiqun
were on the top of a mountain when they plotted to kill him, but they saw that the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam saw and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam addressed to
Hudayfah who they were. But other than that, they would not know. So this action of the
heart, the believers in verse 92, they were weak and fable. Because in the earlier verse, he
talks about not the ones that are weak and not the ones that are sick. They cannot go. But
they still came and they wanted to go. When the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, I
do not have anything for you. Tawallu wa a’ayunuhum tafeebu minad damir They were
crying because they couldn’t go and fight jihad. Just think about that. Think about the times
that we were in hajj. And the worst of you comes out in your tent. On the day of Muzdalifah,
on the day of stoning the jemarat, when you have to stone with the seven pebbles. The
worst of us come out in this hard time. This is fighting and risking your life. And matter of
fact, to go out and to die for the sake of Islam, for the sake of Allah, for the sake of us now,
that we are existing here with this message. They turned around crying because they
couldn’t go when it was hot and it was famine. So the actions of the heart are very, very
important. Looking at this, we ask Allah Subh’anaHu Wa Ta-A’la to make us of this second
group of those that when we cannot fulfill an action of khair, we feel at a state of loss. And
Allah Subh’anaHu Wa Ta-A’la is all-knowing….
And Allah Subh’anaHu Wa Ta-A’la will raise us on our intentions inshaAllah. Ameen,
ameen. JazakAllah khair, Sheikh Abdullah. Beautiful words. SubhanAllah, look at the
contrast. You had people that had everything and no excuses, but they were deluded by
their pursuit of this world. They lost the world and they lost the next life. And you had these
people that were crying and they weren’t envying the hypocrites, they were envying the
believers who were going forth. They were believers themselves and they were envying the
believers who were going forth. And so what you envy a person for and how you envy them
says a lot about the state of your heart. And that’s why the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam said there is no envy except in two situations, a person who Allah has given
wealth to and they spend it for his sake and a person who Allah has given knowledge to and
they spread it for his sake. So when you envy that person who has wealth and spends it for
the sake of Allah, you’re not envying the praise they’re getting for being rich or you’re not
envying the house they have. You’re saying, bi-idhnillah, may Allah bless them in what they
have and I want to be like that too. I want to try to be in that situation where I can do that
good. SubhanAllah, so it’s not the hasad, it’s not like the evil type of envy. And so that
person is not even concerned at all with the material things of this world. They’re just totally
focused on making sure that they try to pursue whatever it is that helps them in their
ultimate pursuit. Ar-Rak-Allahu Fi-l-Shaykh. Beautiful words. Ustadh Nureddin, bismillah,
inshallah ta’ala, take us away. Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, hamdana rizqan annimeena, inshallah, I’m grateful to be here with both of you scholars and be in your
presence, hamdana. So I wanted to reflect on surah Tawbah within Jews 10 and the verse
number 40 whose meaning is, Even if you do not help the prophet, God helped him when
the disbelievers drove him out. When the two of them were in the cave, he said to his
companion, do not worry, God is with us.
And God sent his calm down to him, aided him with forces invisible to you, and brought
down the disbelievers’ plan. God’s plan is higher. God is almighty and all-wise. So the main
reflection that I want to share with you all is for us to remain loyal to the truth and that Allah
subhana wa ta’ala will both protect and honor us. And I want to continue a bit of the point
that Sheikh Abdullah mentioned about the different intentions. So subhanAllah, I wanted to
mention three types of people. So there was the importance of loyalty to the truth and by
intention and by reality. So it’s interesting because at this point in the prophet’s life, so
there was sudden he’s being driven out of Mecca, they want to kill or imprison him. And this
would seem to be his end. But it’s also the prediction of Waraka, one of the first people that
he told about his revelation. When he came from the cave of Hira, and we all know that
story and I won’t repeat it for brevity, but one of the things that Khadijah said to him was to
go to Waraka. Waraka was an old wise man. And when the prophet salallahu alaihi
wasalam told him what he saw, what was revealed to him, then he said to him that his
people would drive him out. And he said that, if I should remain alive till that day, when you
are turned away, then I will support you strongly. But Waraka was already old and he died
way before this happened. So subhanAllah, we see someone with the intention but not the
ability. And then later on in verse 42 of Surah Tawbah, that Allah says,
The meaning of which is, they swear by God, if we could, we would certainly go out to battle
with you. But they ruin themselves for God knows that they are lying. So then there’s the
hypocrites that Sheikh Abdullah mentioned, who say they would go out if only they had the
opportunity, if only it wasn’t for a list of excuses, but then they don’t. Then the last group
that we hope to ultimately be like, if we can’t be like Waraka and have the intentions at the
very least, inshAllah, we hope to at the most, at the highest level, be like Abu Bakr, who
both had the intention and was able to fulfill it. He was ready to fulfill it, he was willing to
fulfill it, he had the intention to fulfill it and Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala gave him the
opportunity to fully showcase his faith. And so we know that Abu Bakr, he was the first to be
informed of the hijrah, that they were going to finally leave Mecca, which had become
increasingly abusive and go to Medina. And Abu Bakr also was the only one that was by his
side when they were leaving Mecca. And so we know that they were in a cave and Abu Bakr
was concerned and he said, if one of them should even look under his feet, he would see
us. And this is when the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam said, Oh Abu Bakr, what do you
think of two persons and the third of whom is Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala? So saying that
Allah is with them. And so we want to be able to take the means provided by Allah
subhanahu wa ta’ala and stay loyal to this noble path of Islam and to be inshallah to be
honored and to have the intention of someone like Abu Bakr radiyallahu anhu, who had the
intention to be with the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, to remain loyal to him, loyal to
the truth.
And also Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala gave him the opportunity for that to be fulfilled and
then honored him in the Quran through mentioning his story of him being one of the two, as
well as of course honoring him in the next life. Alhamdulillah. Jazakumullahu khayran.
BarakAllahu feekum astaghfirullah al-nur ad-deen. SubhanAllah, beautiful reflections and
it’s very interesting. I never thought of waraka radiyallahu ta’ala anhu in the context of the
surah. But waraka radiyallahu anhu, the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, not only
mentioned his intention having been accepted, he mentioned his reward in Jannah. And
one of the things that you mentioned so profoundly is that Abu Bakr radiyallahu ta’ala anhu
never failed to act on the intention. That’s why he’s siddiq. That’s why he is as-siddiq. He’s
the truthful one. What he expressed of his intention was truthful. And anytime he had the
ability to match that expressed intention with his deed, he did so radiyallahu ta’ala anhu in
the most beautiful ways. And of course, all of khulafa ar-rashideen, Abu Bakr, Umar,
Uthman, and Ali, may Allah be pleased with them all, and all the companions that we’ve
mentioned, you see this constant trend, right? They say they’re going to do it and they do it.
And I think it’s very profound to simply note that, you know, nifaq was not an issue for the
people of Mecca. It was an issue for the people in Medina, the hypocrites in Medina,
because in Mecca, you got nothing by being a Muslim except for beatings and persecution,
right? And run out. And so the muhajirun did not have the ayat revealed upon them about
hypocrisy because there was no benefit. There was no worldly benefit to even pretending to
be Muslim. And Abu Bakr radiyallahu ta’ala anhu, of course, being the leader of the
muhajireen in a sense, you know, is the ultimate expression of that. But subhanAllah,
The tears of waraqa radiyallahu ta’ala anhu in the very beginning of this revelation are
equivalent to the tears of those men that Shaykh Abdullah was talking about that wish they
could have gone out with the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam in Tabuk. And biddena
ta’ala, we hope it’s also true of us that we shed tears that we can’t be with the Prophet
salallahu alayhi wa sallam, that we could not have been with him in his difficult times, that
we missed out on these years when he was amongst us salallahu alayhi wa sallam. And
hopefully those tears and that expression and that sincerity, may Allah subhanahu wa
ta’ala make it of us, make us of those people of sincerity and siddq, hopefully that delivers
us to the haud of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam. Jazakum Allah khayran.
SubhanAllah, beautiful reflections. Do you have a take-home message for Ramadan,
Ustadh Nuruddin? Just a 30-second, you know, we’re one weekend, something to tell
people inshallah ta’ala to keep up with as Ramadan is, we’re starting to get to that
midpoint. Alhamdulillah, may Allah give us tawfiq to continue to go and have the strength
that we had in the beginning, in the middle, in the end, and to continue doing good works
and inshallah ta’ala, a part of that good work will be to support Yaqeen and all of the
amazing content that is helping us to get through Ramadan, especially when we have those
slumps and in turning to these videos, it’s such beautiful reminders. Jazakum Allah
khayran. For the sake of time, I had skipped the initial plug, but you just did it for us,
alhamdulillah, and it’s better coming from you than it is for me and for people to support. I
also skipped the dad jokes today, that’s okay, Sheikh Abdullah, I apologize for skipping
them today. You’re making dua like inshallah tomorrow or alhamdulillah? Sheikh Abdullah,
you got a take-home message? 30 seconds?
You’re good? Alhamdulillah, you’re on mute, so I guess that really means you really don’t
want to give us a take-home. All right, Jazakum Allah khayran everyone, we appreciate you
all tuning in. BarakAllahu feekum ustadina wa-l adeen. Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi
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