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In today's Kumba, I'd like to share with you some brief lessons from really at the end of the day one single Aya that belongs to Suritulhashar. This is the 59th Surah of the Quran. It's not a long Surah, so inshall

after the hoodba, when you get time this weekend, you can go and read through the entire

Surah yourself. The larger context of this Sura is actually some

incidents in the life of the Prophet, Salah Allah al-A-Salle. I'll give you a brief

account because that is not the subject today, but at least some background is

important.

When Medina was almost completely surrounded by forces that were gathered by their enemies,

the Makans, the Khorayish, who were tired of Islam and they said we've had the Battle of Badr we've had the Battle of Ujhud but we need to finish this problem once and for all.

So they tried to agree, get all the different tribes that weren't even at war with the Muslims to agree that look if this Islam spreads in the region

you're all going to have trouble later so might as well get together and end this problem now

let's go into Medina all at once altogether a united force and

destroy the Muslims kill every man you know woman and child it doesn't matter

and we'll just have this problem solved and that wasn't enough to convince all these different tribes,

so they gave them added incentive.

And the added incentive was, well, if we kill this entire city,

all the spoils, all the property,

all the homes, all the property all the homes all the money

We'll just distribute it among ourselves. This is going to be a big money-making venture

Right so the the on the outside it made it look like we're doing this for you can call it national

security but on the inside it was just economic interests that's all it was which is

not new it's it's not old it still happens today it's the same reasons why people

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