What Nuh (as) Promised His People | Dr. Omar Suleiman

so in today's quote we covered this concept of not making your love of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala conditional upon the blessings that he gives to you even though the prophet salallahu wasallam to use the recognition of the blessings that he gives to you as a means of getting close to him and as a means of developing and growing your love of him and subhanallah when you look at the story of no hare you have a very interesting surah and plea an actual story that is recorded very uniquely is the first messenger of allah we know that from the prophet saws hadith when the messenger islam mentions the people on the day of judgement going to salaam asking him for intercession and they say you are the first rasool the first messenger of allah meaning was the first one to come with a legislation and as ibn abbas narrates people were the first people on earth to commit suraq they were the first people to attribute gods beside allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so unique in the sense that he has to deal with the first manifestation of shirk and what was it that they took these righteous men these people that were known that allah names in the quran as righteous people and they turned them into gods they made idols out of them after their death and they started to worship them besides allah subhanahu ta'ala so these were actual monotheists that were turned into symbols of polytheism after their death which happens right it happens to scholars at times it happens to people that even we're prophets right isa islam classic example in that regard so allah records the story of islam and i'm going to connect it to the khutaba in a minute but just some backgrounds gives dawah to his people for 950 years 950 years you imagine 950 years of dawah how many converts only a little more than 80. that means if you took 950 years and divided them by 80 converts you imagine entire decades would pass where nu hadith would not have a single person except his message on top of that he wasn't just rejected in regards to his message he was humiliated he was mocked by his people they called him disgusting they would dust their phobes around him you know like get away from us you smell bad we're sick of you we don't want to hear you they mocked him and mocked him and mocked him and surah nur is very interesting and that it's a plea it's a very emotional plea subhanallah it starts with salaam saying ya allah i've tried everything with these people and nu hadith is making his case to allah as to why his dura is going to end the way that it's going to end ya allah for 950 years i've been calling on you to guide these people i've been calling on you to forgive these people i've been calling on you to spare these people and the end of this surah is really really really alarming noor the prophet prays against his people he says destroy each and every single one of them because if you leave them on this earth then their offspring will be just as corrupt as them will be tainted by what they have introduced and innovated into this earth don't leave us don't spare a single one of these people right only spare the believers but take away this batch of people that have introduced into the earth what was never introduced to it before but before he gets there what does he do he builds his case says yeah allah here is how this doubt was started here is how i started with them i called upon them i said to them listen i'm coming to you for you i'm here for your sake i've been sent to you by allah and i'm just telling you that if you believe in he will forgive you so he first promises his people what goodness in the dunya or goodness in the hereafter goodness in this life or goodness in the hereafter and the next the next this is what i want you to pay attention to he starts off with what the call of a prophet should be the call of a prophet is not that believe in me and the richness of this world will come to you when the prophet saws started on safa the prophet saws did not stand on safa and promised the people of mecca listen if you believe in me i'm going to turn mecca into a world-class city for the rest of the history of this world mecca will be the center of the world people will come from all over pilgrims will come to it they'll make the loft around this ka'ba your names will be immortalized in this world because people will say rally god be pleased with you every time they mention your name i'm going to promise you everything you imagine if abu jahl knew what abu bakr radhi would be spoken about like in 2021 and if if abu jahl in 5 or in 610 could see what the legacy of abu bakr allah has become in 2021 abu jahl would say sign me up i'll take that i'll be mentioned in you know by billions of people for the rest of the existence of the world i'll be honored and people will pray for me and people will write books about me i like that the prophet saws didn't call it call with that he started off with what belief in allah and i am promising you something of the hereafter why because again that is the core of the message the core of the message is that this is a message that orients you towards orients you towards the hereafter right it's the opposite of the prosperity doctrine when a preacher with his private jets stands up and says believe and one day you'll have what i have right and of course you'll have what i have by putting money into this uh into this bucket and one day right and if and if you're not getting it that means that god doesn't like you like he likes me right that's the prosperity doctrine right it's the opposite the prophet started off with believe in god god and when you meet him in the hereafter what he has prepared for you will be good now here's the interesting thing you then watch how this do this draft plays out of new hadith says all that earned me was ridicule all that earned me was mockery and salam says that when he in the course of pleading with his people why did they reject him because they wanted the power of this world right now subhanallah when the prophet saws was speaking to the different tribes there was one tribe very interesting tribe that said to the prophet salallahu when he was trying to find someone to host him they said okay the chief of that tribe said look i see in this man some characteristics of a leader something great is going to happen with him he just has that the prophet saws had an aura to him that some greatness is going to come about i don't necessarily believe in his message but something is going to come about so he said listen we'll believe in you as a tribe we'll risk our alliances but when god gives you victory you have to sign off that entire victory to us we inherit whatever kingdom comes to you we inherit all of your military success we inherit everything of this world that comes to you as a result of it prophet saws i can't make you that promise it belongs to allah he gives it to whom he wills and victory belongs to the god conscious when the ansah came from madinah they said to the prophet saw i said wait what are we going to get in return we're going to be attacked from all sides battles i mean the most powerful empires in the world are going to try to wipe us off the face of the earth because we've taken you in what do we get in return the prophet saws did not say medina is going to be something else i promise you medina will be this city of lights city of of baraka city of blessing no he said jannah you'll get jannah and they said okay we'll take that that's a good deal we'll get janna now as he's pleading with his people and his people are rejecting him in the name of what we don't want to lose everything that we have in this world he says in the course of reasoning with his people he says to them if you believe and if you seek forgiveness of your lord collectively then the goodness of this world will come to you too the rain will fall from the skies your gardens will be irrigated your crops will grow your lineage will be plentiful your wealth will grow collectively and individually as a people blessing is going to come to you and that is the us that is the default that when people believe and work righteousness god blesses that nation with barakah with blessing look at this where they couldn't find anyone to take zakat because of the justice and the belief and the righteousness that was established amongst that nation so individually people will have their their tests but collectively as a nation you will be uplifted by your righteousness there's a period of test and then there's upliftment and barakah mecca and medina being two great case studies right compare that to the mood and you know and the list goes on and on despite all of their genius okay so hari sanam says i came to them with that and i said to them look he'll send you that too that comes as well and they still did what they still turned away from him and they mocked him and had islam comes back to allah once again and they followed these things that are just going to re earn them the destruction of this life and the next they're going down a path of destruction in this dunya for this life and for the hereafter and subhanallah it ends with basically giving up on them and saying 950 years is too much now at this point ya allah take them away at this point take them away and subhanallah to show you his sincerity and by the way i mean let's be real here we give up after a day or two right we give up after a few months when things get very tight we go crazy with time we are the generation of everything being hasty and instant right i mean subhanallah look at the sabbath like we would have probably given up after a few months with that type of humiliation i have the power to make do out to allah and allah will answer it yeah allah 200 days has passed get rid of them islam 950 years had saber with them patience with them even then he's saying look i'm not this isn't like a draft because i had a really bad day you know was not throwing a tantrum like a like like a normal human being would islam was saying at this point there's no good that's going to come out of these people this group of people will produce no good whatsoever so get rid of them and there needs to be you know and save those who will produce offspring that will continue what was continuous before this group of people came and introduced shirk and all of the ailments and injustices that come with that so dear brothers and sisters how does this connect to the how does this connect to this idea if you focus on the akhirah what did the prophet saw some say if your hem is dunya if your concern is this life is this world this material world you'll lose the hereafter and you'll lose this world if your hem if your concern is the hereafter you'll gain the hereafter and the world will also work itself out there will be blessing in what has been given to you and the world will also come to you but that can't be your focus that can't be your priority that's also the nature the priority the language the the the equation that the prophets presented to their people that allah establishes uh allah establishes blessing amongst the people in this life by justice an oppressive nation even if it's a muslim nation so there are things that bring about goodness in this life but the believer focuses on the hereafter and then shapes their life in accordance with what they want to see in the hereafter and in the process allah blesses the believers with the best of this life and the best of the hereafter we ask for foreign you

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Published: Sun Sep 12 2021