Arabic Quran Biography
Source (google.com.pk)It was very difficult for me to choose an ayah(verse) for today’s Khutbah(sermon) and I have been thinking about it for some time. But I realized at the end of all that thinking that, our religion - by definition - is simple, and its teachings are straight forward. And so I don’t have to make something complicated when by definition it‘s supposed to be straight forward and simple. And so, today’s Khutbah (sermon) is about a reminder that I need, that I think everyone in this room needs, and is something that we have to live with. Andit’s so easy to remind ourselves of [it], but at the same time, it’s very, very easy to forget. And I want to start with just a rough translation of theayah(verse) that I recited before you.
Allah Azzawajal in surat Ash-Shura(this is the forty-second surah), Allah Azzawajal says, “Fama ooteetum min shay-in famataAAu alhayati alddunya:“Then whatever you have been given,”Fama ooteetumand the word “ma” already suggests that there’s an openness, anything that you have been given, and in addition to all of that, it’s min shay-in. You could say, Ma ooteetumoho da’a, it could have been apronoun. But instead of adding a pronoun, it’s min shay-in and not even shay-an; it is MIN shay- which is very unusual language. To suggest any at all things that you can imagine, that you have been given. Now in using those two words together in the ayah (verse), Allah is talking in this ayah (verse) now about every single object, physical object that you own, whether it’s clothing and car and house or whatever you own, whatever - down to a pen that is in to your name. Butin addition, Allah is also talking about whatever I have been given in my life experiences, what kind of parents have I been given, what kind of youth was I given, what kind of…you know, what kind of opportunities were I given, what kind of friends was I given. Everything that I have been given, everything that I have experienced in my life thus far is inside, “Fama ooteetum min shay,” it’s captured within it. So this ayah (verse) is going to make a commentary about my entire existence on this Earth. And before I go any further, a reflection just on the fact that the passiveform was used,“ooteetum”that you have been given.” In other words,none of the experiences I have enjoyed, not just the things that I own (or that I think I own),rather; none of the experiences that I have had in life are actually mine. Theywere a door that was opened to me by Allah Subhaana Wa Ta'aala. He was the one that opened every chapter of my life, one adventure to the next, to the next, to the next. You know for those of you that are married, who you married, and ifthere was a process before you got married, every piece of that process was actually from Allah; every single conversation was from Allah.This entire story of ours…and we don’t remember so much of it. When you look back, you don’t remember so many things that happened in your own life. Actually, for the last ten years it’s becoming more and more of a blur for me. I don’t know what I was up to in 2007, I can’t tell you. I don’t know - you know. It’s just becoming blurred together. I can’t tell you what happened in 2011 or 2012. I can remember some milestones here and there. I might even have to look at those in a calendar, because I can’t tell. I look at my children; they are growing. And my ten-year-old, my nowalmost twelve-year-old also. I look at her but it’s hard for me to remember what she looked like when she was four; I have to look at a picture to try and remember. I can’t remember that anymore. But Allah Azzawajalgave me each and every one of those experiences - whether I remember them or I am conscious of them, or not. All of them together, Allah sums it up in one phrase:“famataa'ul hayaatid dunyaa.” Basically, the combination of all of yours and my life experience, whatever good, whatever bad, or whatever we think was good or bad, happened to us [and] boils down to one thing: “mataa'ul hayaatid dunyaa,” which is roughly translated [as]“the enjoyment of worldly life.” All the things that you have been given,[and] then all they are is enjoyment of worldly life.
But I wanted to explore in this Khutbah (sermon) the meanings of the word “mataa” a little bit deeper; more than what we have heard before. I mean, those of you that have been listening to my khutoobs (sermons) and duroos(lectures) before, I have talked about “mataa” before as “mataa” is something to utilize but not necessarily to enjoy - which is the part of the base meaning. Like the little girl [Arabic] that was scrubbing dishes at the bank of a river and her goat came and grabbed the scrubber and it ran away. So, she started crying and saying [Arabic],“He took my mataa away, the brush away, that I was scrubbing with!” Right! So from it we derived that “mataa” must amount to a thing like a spoon or a fork, or a shovel, or something that you use but you don’t necessarily enjoy. Nobody grabs a spoon and says, “Check this out! Check what I got!” You know; nobody does that. You know! Nobody shows off their spoons and forks and shovels, unless they are in the industry or something.
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