 فَشْرْفْ بِلْ اِشْتِغَالِيْ بِالْعِنْمِ وَلَا تَبْغِيْ بِهِ مَا عِشْتَ يَدَا بَدَا لَا وَيَالَهُ مِنْ شَرَافٍ عَظِيمِ الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن والثناء الجميل واشد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له يقول الحق وهو يهد السبيل واشد أن السيدنا ونبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بإحسان إلى يوم الدين أما بعد إن شاء الله تعالى today's benefit is going to revolve around the verses the verses that are in Surah Al-Qasas from verse 48 to 50 قال الله عز وجل الله سبحانه وتعالى He says فلما جاءهم الحق من عندنا قالوا لو لا أوت يمثل ما أوت يموسى أولم يكفروا بما أوت يموسى من قبل قالوا سحر علي تظاهر وقالوا إن بكل كافرون قل فأتوا بكتاب من عند الله هو أهدا منهما التبع قل فأتوا بكتاب من عند الله هو أهدا منهما أتبعوا إن كنتم صادقين فإن لم يستجيبوا لك فعلم أنما يتبعون أهواءهم ومن أضل من اتبع هواه بغيره دن من الله إن الله لا يهدل قوم الظالنين these verses that I've just recited the verse which I intend to go through and extract benefit from is where Allah سبحانه وتعالى He says فإن لم يستجيبوا لك فعلم فعلم أنما يتبعون أهواءهم if they do not obey you they know that they are following their whims and desires and the reason why I read the verse before it was because the verses before it and the context shows that it is the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم speaking to and addressing the pagans and the fact that the verse is in that context allows us to have a stronger understanding of what is being said here and the fact that they accuse the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم ورميه صلى الله عليه وسلم بالعظائن they accused him of great things الله سبحانه وتعالى in those context he says فإن لم يستجيبوا لك فإن لم يستجيبوا لك if they do not obey you they know that they are following their whims and desires that verse فإن لم يستجيبوا لك فعلم أنما يتبعون أهواءهم has been explained and it has been mentioned in clear what is meant by it and it has been explained in the ayah و الله تعالى says فذلكم الله ربكم and that is your Lord فذلكم الله ربكم الحق that is your true Lord فماذا بعد الحق إلا الضلال what is after حق except misguidance what is it that comes after حق except that is misguidance the reason why I chose this is because that which ابن القيم mentions رحمه الله in his great book الصواعق المرسلة and that is what made me think that this verse many people they need they need to understand it and that is the statement of ابن القيم commenting on this verse in that book of his الصواعق المرسلة he says فما هو إلا الهواء أو الوحي there is nothing except that it's either revelation from Allah or it's a whims and desires كما قالت عالى as Allah said in the Quran وما ينطق عن الهواء إن هو إلا وحيوها that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he does not speak from his own whims and desires but everything that he says صلى الله عليه وسلم it is what it is verily a revelation sent from high above ابن القيم then goes on to say فجاء عالى نطق نوعين الله تبارك ويتعالى he made the speech that come out of people's mouths he divided it and he categorized into two نطق عن الوحي an utterance that is from the revelation ونطق عن الهواء and an utterance that comes from whims and desires even فإن لم يستجيب لك if they don't obey you and if they don't take what you tell them to do محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and they do not take you as their own model then you need to keep in mind or messenger of Allah that they are following their whims and desires because there's either one of two paths it's either the revelation or it's either whims and desires and that is why these two verses are helping each other فما دبعا بعد الحق إلا الضلان what is it that comes after the truth except that it's misguidance and also this the ayah which is وما ينطق عن الهواء إن هو إلا وحي نوحا it shows again that it's either revelation or it's whims and desires ابل القيم again he mentions this in his كتاب إعلام in his إعلام الموقعين he mentions he says فما لم يقوله سبحانه anything in which الله has not said ولا هدى إليه and that which الله has not guided to فليس من الحق it is not true and it's not the right anything which الله سبحانه وتعالى hasn't said nor has Allah guided his creation to it فليس من الحق it is not from the truth and then he breathed the ayah to support him the ayah that I read فإن لم يستجيبوا لك فعلم أنما يتبعون أهواءهم that if they don't obey you محمد then know that they are following their whims and desires فقسم الأمور إلا قسمين إلا ثالثة لهم ابن القيم says that Allah divided the matters into two and not three what is it اتباع following لما دل عليه الرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم following that which the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم has indicated had shown to us one and the second one is اتباع الهواء following whims and desires so my brothers and sisters who are watching this whenever you see yourself take a position in life it is either you're following something that a revelation backs you on or you're following a matter which is fully based on your own whims and desires the same ابن القيم says in his he says anyone who leaves off obeying the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم إذا ظهرت له السنة if the sunnah becomes clear to somebody and then they leave off obeying the messenger عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم وعد لعنها إلى خلافها and he diverts from it to something other than the sunnah فقد اتباع هواءه then that person has followed he or she has followed her whims and desires so my brothers and sisters these that I've mentioned and the statements of these great noble scholars or these great noble scholars it's really something that makes us think what is it that I have chosen in my life and what is it that I am doing right now am I following something that I'm backed up from the kitab and the sunnah or am I following something that I'm being backed up with my own whims and desires and you tend to find a lot of youngsters and youth who are studying maybe even elders and you'll find this والله not even the youngsters alone but you find it in people you think to yourself that they are deeply rooted in knowledge that they will take opinions of the fukaha opinions of the jurists in matters that there is what there is no proof in it for them for example that statement of that imam either goes against a dailil which is it goes against a statement and a a proof that is strong or it even goes against an ijmaa or even it goes against something that is شبه ijmaa it looks like an ijmaa it's close to be ijmaa but that person will not want to go with the ayat and the Qur'an and the sunnah of the messenger which is that is clear as the daylight as the sun is out there he doesn't want to take the evidence but rather he wants to stick with the opinion of that scholar or those scholars what they have said over the textual evidence and my brothers and sisters I don't want you to misunderstand me and I'm not saying that matters that have difference of opinions and those difference of opinions are in the Rome مما يسوغ في الخلاف that there can occur difference of opinion and it's permitted for it to occur and it is difference of opinion that a person can take which of those opinions are seem strongest to him that's not what we're talking about here we're talking about taking a قول which is شاد a strange strange opinion that goes against either the ijmaa of the ummah or it goes against a text either from the Kitab and the sunnah and this قاعدة or these principles that we can take from this because if they don't obey the messenger then you'll follow your own whims and desires how can one know that what they are following is whims and desires and it's not the haq there is a hadith of the messenger that strengthens this opinion this meaning there's a hadith of the prophet that strengthens this and what it means and that is the hadith of the prophet where he said البر مطمئنة إليه النفس ريچسنس and good is what the heart and the person finds tranquility in وطمئنة إليه القلب and the person's heart finds tranquility in it the person's soul and the person's heart they find tranquility in this وَالإِثْمُ مَا حَاكَ في النفس and disobedience is an evil is that which it reverberates in the heart it reverberates in the heart meaning it's not something you can what you can digest it's something that you keep thinking of وَتَلَدَّدْ فِنْسْفِ الصَدَّرَ you're regurgitating it and you're reverberating in your in your heart it basically means that you're taking your shahua is pushing you to this or a shubha is pushing you to this your whims and desires is pushing you to this so the soul will not find tranquility in it and also doubts are revolving around it for you I'm going to take the textual evidence that I've put to you and in that account my brothers والله go to كتاب سيد القاتل by ابن الجوزي رحمه الله he talks about himself والله ما أجمل ما حكاه ابن الجوزي رحمه الله عن نفسي والله he was more greater these words والله will touch you what is he doing what he is describing to us his own situation something that happened to him there is something he says I became lenient I became I became lenient and soft in a matter that there was leniency in some of the lovers of the mayabs they had they permitted it and they allowed it but he said I just took of you and I took the softest of the opinions I took that on board فواجدت في قلبي قصوة العظيمة، my heart started to become tainted and I found hardness in my heart so leaving of the textual evidence for a matter within the madahib is there but because he goes against the نصوص الوحيين الكتابة نصونا ابن جوزي he said I found in my heart I found in my heart قصوة الله تبارك والتعالى he commands his prophet he is talking to a نبي من أنبيائه he says يا داود إنّا جعلناك قليفة في الأرض داود we have made you a governor on this earth فحكم بين الناس بالحق judge the people with the Haq ولا تتبع الهواء do not follow whims and desires فيضلك عن سبيل الله then misguides you from the path of Allah إنّا الذين اضلون عن سبيل الله مع ذا مُشديده بما نصو يوم الحساب so this ayah tells us فحكم بين الناس بالحق judge the people between them with the truth and do not follow whims and desires and then it's either Haq or it is what it is misguidance there is no middle path it is either the truth and it's the Haq and it is either misguidance فإلا يستجيبوا لك if they don't obey you فعلا بأنّا ما يتبعون أهواءهم if they don't obey you Muhammad that they follow their whims and desires وما ينطقوا عن الهواء وما ينطقوا عن الهواء إنه وإلا وحيون يوحى either revelation or whims and desires and that is how clear and crystal clear it is so as a summary I want brothers and sisters who are listening to see how we extract the benefit from this verse to realize don't apply the verse here right now فإلا يستجيبوا لك فعلا بأنّا ما يتبعون أهواءهم don't apply it on المسائل الشرعية التي الخلاف فيها معتبر and it's معروف there's difference of opinions in it the difference of opinion here is considered don't apply it on the verse that we're talking about on that okay I want you not to apply it on there also the other point that I want people to keep in mind is that they're rebuking and scolding that this verse holds it is the person who follows his whims and desires in the fetwa that is given to him he goes between scholars and he says I don't like it I'm gonna go to another one and he goes fishing for fetwas that are in accordance to his whims and desires then he applies it on himself and he likes it and he rejoices it and he tells everybody about it but if a person is an army a lame man from the general folk and he does not know the religion and a fetwa is given to him but that fetwa is a weak fetwa and he just takes it then this does not apply on him but it is needed in my brothers to know that you have one of two to follow the hack and the truth or to follow your own whims and desires so you strive to follow in the hack and the truth and stay away from following your whims and desires that is the benefit I wanted to share with you all سبحانك اللهم وبحمدك أشدوا الله إله إلا الله أستغفرك وأتوب إله