Ramadan 2015 - Day 3

Yasir Qadhi

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🗓️ 20 June 2015

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Shaykh Yasir Qadhi delves on the verse 177 of Surat al-Baqarah in this mesmerising Khatirah. Righteousness is not that you turn your faces toward the east or the west, but [true] righteousness is [in] one who believes in Allah, the Last Day, the angels, the Book, and the prophets and gives wealth, in spite of love for it, to relatives, orphans, the needy, the traveler, those who ask [for help], and for freeing slaves; [and who] establishes prayer and gives zakah; [those who] fulfill their promise when they promise; and [those who] are patient in poverty and hardship and during battle. Those are the ones who have been true, and it is those who are the righteous. This verse was revealed when the Qiblah was changed from Baitul-Maqdis to the Ka'bah and all hell broke loose when this matter became aware to the public of the time.ensued a long drawn out controversy and conflict in the public. It was then that this verse was revealed.the key aspects of this verse are: Righteousness in belief. Righteousness in rituals like Sadaqah, Prayer , Zakah. Good manners. Ihsan or internal spirituality -Sabr or patience. The ones who tread on the path that is laced with the above essential traits are the true believers and those who have the best form of Iman. Listen intently to comprehend the importance and lesson for us to imbibe and inculcate through this verse.

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0:05.0	Bismlal, al-Hamder-I was Sala to
0:07.2	Sala al-Rassu rassu rassu rah alah al-A.
0:09.2	Ahhah a la al-ah a la al-ah a la al-ah a la al-a a la al-a aah a la al-a a sah bah a second jus. So we started obviously the second Jews in shall be finishing up the second Jews today and the beginning of the
0:17.0	second Jews it deals with the change of kibula it deals with the change of kib. For the first two and a half pages,
0:23.2	Allah Subhana with ala mentions that he has changed in the Kibilah from Jerusalem to Mecca.
0:28.8	And at that time when this verse was revealed, there was a bit of a crisis amongst the Muslims
0:34.7	and amongst the non-Muslims of the community. So the non-Muslims, many of them said what type of
0:40.2	religion is this, that you change? One day you're facing this way, the one day you're facing this way the next
0:43.5	day you're facing that way because the Kibilah in Medina was a hundred and
0:47.5	80 degree change Jerusalem was due north and Makkah was due. So there was a type of, if you like calamity, was a type of
0:56.6	smear that the non-Muslims that in particular one group of the yahoode, they said what type
1:00.9	of religion is this? One day they're facing this way, this one day they're facing this way the next day they're facing that way can they make up their minds and then of course in their religion they had to face east when they pray and so this added another point that this is not the correct religion.
1:14.0	So Allah Subhana-Wit-A-L reveal two and a half pages
1:17.0	and then the last verse about this whole topic is going to be our
1:20.0	chattura today, which is verse 177 and in verse 177
1:25.0	Allah says lay cell birra and to wall
1:28.5	who would you have kum kibil al-mashikhi and magri
1:31.0	righteousness birness is not defined as praying towards the east or to the west.
1:38.0	It doesn't matter what direction you pray. That's not how you judge religiosity because for the other
1:45.1	group religiosity was all about following the letter of the law and they
1:49.7	forgot about the spirit of the law, they forgot about the ch-shur they forgot about the tachwa and it all came down to following exactly what the letter was without thinking about the goal the maksoe the spirituality so Allah says it doesn't matter which direction you face. That's not
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