WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:13.050 In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. The story of Maryam, daughter of Imran, peace be upon her. 00:00:13.050 --> 00:00:19.910 Mary’s submission to God’s command 00:00:19.910 --> 00:00:26.300 The truth of a woman’s Islam is evident in her extent of submission to God’s command. 00:00:26.300 --> 00:00:30.179 This is the standard of faith for all people 00:00:30.179 --> 00:00:37.380 It is one of the biggest issues around which the meanings of the verses and stories in Surat Al-Baqarah revolve 00:00:37.380 --> 00:00:47.009 Our Lord Almighty praised His Prophet and friend Abraham, peace and blessings be upon him, by surrendering to him. 00:00:47.009 --> 00:00:48.689 And he said 00:00:48.689 --> 00:00:57.369 Whoever turns away from the religion of Abraham except one who fools himself 00:00:57.369 --> 00:01:07.049 We have chosen him in this world, and in the Hereafter he will be among the righteous 00:01:07.049 --> 00:01:16.799 When his Lord said to him, “I submit,” he said, “I submit to the Lord of the Worlds.” 00:01:16.799 --> 00:01:27.519 Al-Saadi, may God have mercy on him, said when his Lord said to him, “I submit to Islam.” He said, “In compliance with the command of his Lord, I have submitted to the Lord of the Worlds.” 00:01:27.519 --> 00:01:32.430 Sincerity, unity, love and representation 00:01:32.430 --> 00:01:38.989 A woman's faith increases or decreases according to her submission to God's command and law 00:01:38.989 --> 00:01:46.349 Ibn Taymiyyah, may God have mercy on him, said that Islam includes submission to God alone 00:01:46.349 --> 00:01:50.590 Whoever surrenders to him and to others is a polytheist 00:01:50.590 --> 00:01:55.310 Whoever does not submit to Him is arrogant in worshiping Him 00:01:55.390 --> 00:02:00.409 Anyone who polytheizes Him and is arrogant in worshiping Him is an unbeliever 00:02:00.409 --> 00:02:07.129 Surrendering to Him alone includes worshiping Him alone and obeying Him alone 00:02:07.129 --> 00:02:12.169 This is the religion of Islam, other than which God does not accept 00:02:12.169 --> 00:02:16.409 This can only be done by being obeyed at all times 00:02:16.409 --> 00:02:20.400 By doing what he was ordered to do at that time 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:25.039 This is the conclusion mentioned by Ibn Taymiyyah, may God have mercy on him 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:28.240 Summarizes the issue of surrender for you 00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:32.159 It is to obey God Almighty at all times 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:36.460 Do what I told you to do at that time 00:02:36.460 --> 00:02:39.500 And when you look at the story of Mary 00:02:39.500 --> 00:02:43.740 And what God Almighty commanded her to do and wrote for her 00:02:43.740 --> 00:02:47.419 The one who became pregnant with Jesus while she was a chaste virgin 00:02:47.419 --> 00:02:49.659 Not touched by a man 00:02:49.659 --> 00:02:54.860 She did not object after she knew that this was the command of God Almighty 00:02:54.860 --> 00:02:58.300 That is why God Almighty said about it 00:02:58.300 --> 00:03:03.419 So she carried him and took him away to a far away place 00:03:03.419 --> 00:03:06.139 Ibn Kathir, may God have mercy on him, said 00:03:06.139 --> 00:03:09.180 God Almighty says about Mary 00:03:09.180 --> 00:03:14.219 It was when Gabriel told her about God Almighty what he said 00:03:14.219 --> 00:03:18.460 She surrendered to God Almighty's judgment 00:03:18.460 --> 00:03:23.259 And Mary, peace be upon him, before the good news of Jesus came to her 00:03:23.340 --> 00:03:27.819 She was eager to worship God in Jerusalem 00:03:27.819 --> 00:03:30.060 Away from people 00:03:30.060 --> 00:03:33.259 I have taken a veil from them 00:03:33.259 --> 00:03:35.659 Then the test of pregnancy came to her 00:03:35.659 --> 00:03:37.340 I succeeded in it 00:03:37.340 --> 00:03:41.099 Her status with God Almighty rose 00:03:41.099 --> 00:03:44.889 Until He made it a sign to the worlds 00:03:44.889 --> 00:03:46.810 God Almighty said 00:03:46.810 --> 00:03:49.210 And the one who protected her chastity 00:03:49.210 --> 00:03:51.530 So we breathed into it of our spirit 00:03:51.530 --> 00:03:56.009 And We made her and her son a sign to the worlds 00:03:56.009 --> 00:03:57.449 And he said 00:03:57.449 --> 00:04:01.050 And We made the son of Mary and his mother a sign 00:04:01.050 --> 00:04:06.990 We sheltered them in a hill with a clear and stable place 00:04:06.990 --> 00:04:13.389 God’s examination of His servants is a past year that does not change or change 00:04:13.389 --> 00:04:15.069 Even the prophets 00:04:15.069 --> 00:04:18.829 God will afflict them with the most severe types of affliction 00:04:18.829 --> 00:04:25.529 All of this is to show the extent of their submission to God’s command and law and their steadfastness in it 00:04:25.529 --> 00:04:27.470 God Almighty said 00:04:27.470 --> 00:04:39.389 People think that they will be left without saying, “We believe,” and they will not be tried 00:04:39.389 --> 00:04:44.990 We tried those before them 00:04:44.990 --> 00:04:54.430 May God teach us those who are truthful and teach us those who are liars 00:04:54.430 --> 00:04:57.149 Ibn Kathir, may God have mercy on him, said 00:04:57.149 --> 00:04:59.149 God Almighty said 00:04:59.149 --> 00:05:06.670 People think that they will be left without saying, “We believe,” and they will not be tried 00:05:06.670 --> 00:05:08.670 Denial interrogative 00:05:08.670 --> 00:05:14.910 It means that God Almighty must test His faithful servants 00:05:14.910 --> 00:05:17.709 According to their faith 00:05:17.709 --> 00:05:20.589 As stated in the authentic hadith 00:05:20.589 --> 00:05:23.709 The most afflicted people are the prophets 00:05:23.709 --> 00:05:25.389 Then the righteous 00:05:25.389 --> 00:05:28.029 Then the optimal, then the optimal 00:05:28.029 --> 00:05:30.910 A man will be tested according to his religion 00:05:30.910 --> 00:05:33.550 If he has solidity in his religion 00:05:33.550 --> 00:05:36.300 Increase his calamity 00:05:36.300 --> 00:05:39.579 Mary, peace be upon him, is one of the righteous deeds 00:05:39.579 --> 00:05:41.579 Because of the strength of her faith 00:05:41.579 --> 00:05:44.379 God tested her with a great matter 00:05:44.540 --> 00:05:47.339 It is pregnancy without politics 00:05:47.339 --> 00:05:54.620 How will she face her people when she is the one who is known for nothing but worship and devotion to her 00:05:54.620 --> 00:06:01.769 This is the test with which God Almighty tests His servants according to their faith 00:06:01.769 --> 00:06:07.449 To see the extent of their submission to His command and His law and the extent of their steadfastness towards Him 00:06:07.449 --> 00:06:09.709 This is a test 00:06:09.790 --> 00:06:14.910 Its aim is to clarify the truthful from the false in supplication of faith 00:06:14.910 --> 00:06:17.709 Al-Saadi, may God have mercy on him, said 00:06:17.709 --> 00:06:20.910 God Almighty tells us about the fullness of His wisdom 00:06:20.910 --> 00:06:25.870 His wisdom does not require that everyone who says he is a believer 00:06:25.870 --> 00:06:28.350 He claimed faith for himself 00:06:28.350 --> 00:06:33.310 To remain in a state in which they are safe from temptations and tribulations 00:06:33.310 --> 00:06:38.600 And do not expose them to anything that will confuse their faith and its weakness 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:41.399 If that were the case, they would 00:06:41.399 --> 00:06:44.360 He did not distinguish the truthful from the liar 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:46.839 And the right is the one who is wrong 00:06:46.839 --> 00:06:51.959 But its Sunnah and custom were among the ancients and in this nation 00:06:51.959 --> 00:06:54.480 To afflict them 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:56.959 And from God's mercy toward His servants 00:06:56.959 --> 00:07:01.120 He helps the truthful ones with what He afflicts them with 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:03.920 It also happened in the story of Mary 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:09.040 God helped her confront her people with clear signs 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:11.600 Who spoke Jesus as an infant? 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:14.000 And his words are in the cradle 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:17.819 Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali, may God have mercy on him, said 00:07:17.819 --> 00:07:22.939 But God is kind to His faithful servants in these temptations 00:07:22.939 --> 00:07:26.699 He gives them patience and rewards them 00:07:26.699 --> 00:07:32.300 And do not throw them into a destructive and misleading temptation that will destroy their religion 00:07:32.300 --> 00:07:36.779 Rather, temptations pass over them and they are in good health 00:07:37.610 --> 00:07:40.410 Praying and believing is easy 00:07:40.410 --> 00:07:42.410 Because it is words 00:07:42.410 --> 00:07:46.410 But the truth of faith is revealed in the source of commitment 00:07:46.410 --> 00:07:49.930 The practicality required of both male and female Muslims 00:07:49.930 --> 00:07:53.209 Therefore, God denied the Bedouins 00:07:53.209 --> 00:07:56.089 As in the Almighty’s saying 00:07:56.089 --> 00:08:00.879 The Bedouins said, “We are safe.” 00:08:00.879 --> 00:08:05.839 Say, “You do not believe, but speak.” 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:12.480 We converted to Islam when faith entered your hearts 00:08:12.480 --> 00:08:16.959 And if you obey God and His Messenger 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:21.600 Nothing of your deeds will devour you 00:08:21.600 --> 00:08:26.720 God is Forgiving and Merciful 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:33.840 The believers are only those who believe in God and His Messenger 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:40.029 Then they were not suspicious 00:08:40.029 --> 00:08:47.309 They strove with their money and their lives for the sake of God 00:08:47.309 --> 00:08:52.269 Those are the truthful ones 00:08:52.269 --> 00:08:56.110 Say, “Do you know God about your religion?” 00:08:56.110 --> 00:09:01.870 And God knows what is in the heavens and what is on earth 00:09:01.870 --> 00:09:06.029 And God is All-Knowing of all things 00:09:32.590 --> 00:09:36.429 He forbids you from being alone with a foreign man 00:09:36.429 --> 00:09:39.230 And mixing in the fields of work 00:09:39.230 --> 00:09:42.190 It is forbidden for you to go out wearing perfume 00:09:42.190 --> 00:09:44.990 He commanded you to obey your husband 00:09:44.990 --> 00:09:48.990 He created you as a female, different from a male 00:09:48.990 --> 00:09:52.750 All of this and other matters are part of God’s law and command 00:09:52.750 --> 00:09:57.549 It requires absolute and unquestionable surrender from you 00:09:57.549 --> 00:10:01.950 Because God does not command you to do something or forbid you to do something 00:10:02.029 --> 00:10:06.029 Except for your benefit in this world and the hereafter 00:10:06.029 --> 00:10:10.190 It is not enough to say it is true and I believe 00:10:10.190 --> 00:10:14.429 Then do not surrender to it or apply it 00:10:14.429 --> 00:10:18.909 It is not enough to say that you love God and His Messenger 00:10:18.909 --> 00:10:24.269 Then you do not comply with the command of God and His Messenger in the reality of your life 00:10:24.269 --> 00:10:30.269 Or you argue about the command of God and His Messenger when it contradicts your desires 00:10:30.350 --> 00:10:33.070 It contradicts the reality of societies 00:10:33.070 --> 00:10:36.029 For fear of societal pressure on you 00:10:36.029 --> 00:10:40.299 And their disapproval of you or their mockery of you 00:10:40.299 --> 00:10:45.399 All of this is contrary to submission to God’s command and law 00:10:45.399 --> 00:10:47.639 And look at the condition of the Jews 00:10:47.639 --> 00:10:51.240 When they opposed God's command with much controversy 00:10:51.240 --> 00:10:55.679 What happened to them due to the stress on them in this world? 00:10:55.679 --> 00:10:57.740 God Almighty said 00:10:57.740 --> 00:11:01.659 And when Moses said to his people: 00:11:01.659 --> 00:11:07.470 God commands you to slaughter a cow 00:11:07.470 --> 00:11:12.830 They said: Do you take us as a mocker? 00:11:12.830 --> 00:11:18.190 He said, “I seek refuge in God from being among the ignorant.” 00:11:18.190 --> 00:11:23.149 He said, “Pray for us, and your Lord will explain to us what it is.” 00:11:23.149 --> 00:11:34.350 He said that he says she is a cow, neither ripe nor virgin, in between 00:11:34.350 --> 00:11:37.230 So do what you are commanded 00:11:37.230 --> 00:11:42.750 He said, “Pray for us, and your Lord will show us what color it is.” 00:11:42.830 --> 00:11:49.950 He says he says it's a yellow cow 00:11:49.950 --> 00:11:54.590 Its bright color delights the beholders 00:11:54.590 --> 00:11:59.149 He said, “Pray for us, and your Lord will explain to us what it is.” 00:11:59.149 --> 00:12:07.230 The cow is too old for us 00:12:07.230 --> 00:12:14.590 And we, God willing, will be guided 00:12:14.590 --> 00:12:21.950 He said that he says she is a cow that cannot plow the ground 00:12:21.950 --> 00:12:27.149 Do not irrigate the tillage until it is clean and has no spots on it 00:12:27.149 --> 00:12:30.590 They said, "Now you have come with the truth." 00:12:30.590 --> 00:12:34.830 So they slaughtered it and they hardly did it 00:12:34.909 --> 00:12:40.509 And when you killed a soul and turned away from it 00:12:40.509 --> 00:12:46.029 By God, what you have been concealing will come out 00:12:46.029 --> 00:12:52.750 So say: Let us strike him with one another. This is how God revives the dead 00:12:52.750 --> 00:12:58.440 And He will show you His signs that you may understand 00:12:58.440 --> 00:13:01.769 God Almighty said about them as well 00:13:01.929 --> 00:13:04.730 And when Moses said to his people: 00:13:04.730 --> 00:13:08.809 O people, remember God’s blessing upon you 00:13:08.809 --> 00:13:15.129 When He made prophets among you 00:13:15.129 --> 00:13:18.009 And He made you kings 00:13:18.009 --> 00:13:21.049 And He made you kings 00:13:21.049 --> 00:13:27.129 And He has given you what He has not given to anyone else in the world 00:13:27.129 --> 00:13:30.649 O people, you have entered the Holy Land 00:13:30.649 --> 00:13:33.210 Which God has written for you 00:13:33.210 --> 00:13:39.690 And do not turn your backs 00:13:39.690 --> 00:13:43.929 They will turn away as losers 00:13:43.929 --> 00:13:51.210 They said, “O Moses, there are mighty people there.” 00:13:51.210 --> 00:13:58.809 We will not enter it 00:13:58.809 --> 00:14:01.210 Until they get out of it 00:14:01.210 --> 00:14:03.610 If they come out of it 00:14:03.610 --> 00:14:06.809 We will enter 00:14:06.809 --> 00:14:10.490 Two men who were afraid said 00:14:10.490 --> 00:14:12.809 May God bless them 00:14:12.809 --> 00:14:16.250 They entered the door 00:14:16.250 --> 00:14:21.370 If you enter it, you will be victorious 00:14:21.370 --> 00:14:25.049 And put your trust in God 00:14:25.049 --> 00:14:29.850 If you are believers 00:14:29.850 --> 00:14:36.809 They said, “O Moses, we will not enter it.” 00:14:36.809 --> 00:14:40.250 Never as long as they are there 00:14:40.250 --> 00:14:42.970 So go, you and your Lord 00:14:42.970 --> 00:14:48.809 So they fought, and they were sitting here 00:14:48.809 --> 00:14:55.289 He said, “My Lord, I have no control over anyone but myself and my brother.” 00:14:55.289 --> 00:15:00.250 So create a difference between us and the immoral people 00:15:00.250 --> 00:15:04.809 He said it is forbidden to them 00:15:04.809 --> 00:15:09.450 For forty years they wandered in the land 00:15:09.450 --> 00:15:14.320 Do not feel sorry for the immoral people 00:15:14.320 --> 00:15:18.320 And not to surrender to the command and law of God Almighty 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:20.080 And argue about it 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:23.759 It stems from arrogance that dominates the heart 00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:26.720 This is one of the most dangerous types of arrogance 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:30.320 For a Muslim woman to be arrogant before God Almighty 00:15:30.320 --> 00:15:34.080 She rejects his law with her mind and desire 00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:36.299 God Almighty said 00:15:36.299 --> 00:15:41.899 Those who dispute the verses of God 00:15:41.899 --> 00:15:45.179 He came to them without authority 00:15:45.179 --> 00:15:51.740 He is greatly hated by God and those who believe 00:15:51.740 --> 00:15:59.980 Likewise, God puts a stamp on every arrogant and tyrannical heart 00:15:59.980 --> 00:16:02.620 And God Almighty said 00:16:02.620 --> 00:16:10.110 Those who dispute the verses of God 00:16:10.110 --> 00:16:13.230 He came to them without authority 00:16:13.230 --> 00:16:16.190 He came to them without authority 00:16:16.190 --> 00:16:19.710 There is nothing but arrogance in their chests 00:16:19.710 --> 00:16:23.309 They are not exaggerating 00:16:23.309 --> 00:16:26.110 So seek refuge in God 00:16:26.110 --> 00:16:31.799 He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing 00:16:31.799 --> 00:16:35.000 O you who loved Mary, peace be upon him 00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:36.679 I imitated it 00:16:36.679 --> 00:16:39.799 Beware of lest people of desires seek refuge in you 00:16:39.799 --> 00:16:43.159 To reject God's law and argue with it 00:16:43.159 --> 00:16:46.600 By any of the flimsy arguments 00:16:46.679 --> 00:16:52.279 You must follow the path of righteous deeds from the mothers of the believers and female companions 00:16:52.279 --> 00:17:00.110 And the righteous women who followed their path throughout the great history of this nation 00:17:00.110 --> 00:17:03.870 We will continue in an upcoming meeting, God willing 00:17:03.870 --> 00:17:06.990 Praise be to God, Lord of the worlds