the Quran of course has history it has laws it has uh events of the future Judgment Day it has the origin of the universe it has many subject matter right there's all kinds of subjects in the Quran but the goal of the Quran the agenda of the Quran uh is actually transformation Alum before you begin this video just quickly wanted to let you know that so much of the work on the Quran has been completed on B TV I want you to enjoy systematically studying the Quran from the beginning all the way to the end in brief and then in great detail and to do that I'd like for you to sign up on bv.com and once you appreciate what's going on in bayet TV I want you to become an ambassador for it and share that subscription with friends and family and give it as a gift also thank you if you want to one of the ways you can think of the agenda the goal of the Quran is transformation so I'm going to give this to you by way of an analogy and we'll come back to that analogy over and over again of course people say well you know Muslim count so for example like a country like Pakistan where I come from right there's arguments about we should have Islamic laws implemented because we are a Muslim country therefore if we don't have Sharia laws then we're not we're disobeying Allah subhana waa we have to implement the H etc etc this is a very common conversation right so I'm going to give you an analogy today imagine there's a family they weren't very practicing they're it's Muslim but not very super religious right and the dad I don't know he watched one of them videos online and he just he just he probably watched one of those like British dawa videos come on bro you got make BR like one of those BR videos and he's just like oh I'm almost I'm a brother now right so he so he comes home his daughters are 18 19 20 years old you know he's been married to his wife for you know 25 30 40 years whatever right and he comes on from today on all of you are wearing hijab and today on everyone here is praying five times a day I don't want to hear it he comes on and he implements you're going to pray five times I don't want to if you live this house this is how it's going to be you better you better do and he just lays down the of Allah now you tell me logically speaking those girls that are 18 19 have never been told to do this don't understand why that all of a sudden dad's going crazy uh wife doesn't understand she's been married to him all this time he's never said anything like this um and they they start listening to him because they get scared because he's really authoritative so they get scared and they start observing hijab they start praying five times say my question to you is do these young girls develop a love for Islam or a hatred for it anybody here can tell you if you're if you're a sane human being you know that this this is a Surface transformation but on the inside it's actually building resentment in fact there's a good chance that some of these girls might even run away from home there's also a good chance that they might Rebel and become they were okay before but they really don't want anything to do with Islam every again in fact later on they might even become better Muslims on their own after rebelling and now they're thinking about wearing hijab on their own but what stops them is the reminder of what it triggers the memory that it triggers and it gets in the way of them actually being able to do that why because somebody said the goal of Islam is the the the goal of Islam is obedience I started by saying a statement that I want to unpack for you through this Ayah the goal of Islam what did I say is it trans the goal of Islam is transformation I gave you the analogy that was given inat how the companions of the Prophet wasam were transformed like a seed is transformed into a full crop now the transformation of a seed is a is a farming process and it takes cultivation and care and time now what does that have to do with this Ayah first thing Allah mentions is that Allah sent his Messengers with Al he sent his Messengers with we're going to keep things simple so will be two things for this discussion is Miracles that prove that what these Messengers are saying is in fact from Allah like it is in fact Divine it's not just somebody's opinion it's not just somebody's philosophy it is the truth coming from the highest heavens and there's proof for that and when it's proof that is absolutely clear that is called Bat number one the second thing bayat will mean is teachings or world the a worldview in which nothing is is confusing everything is Crystal Clear not only do I know my why is crystal clear and my what is crystal clear so why should I pray why should I believe why should I dress like this why should I eat like this the why behind all of that is why should I believe this is God's book why should I believe in a God to believe with begin with why should I believe in a prophet the why is absolutely clear and then on top of that what do I have to do and exactly what is expected of me is also absolutely clear the why and the what are within the bayat the why of Islam and the what of Islam Messengers came with this now imagine a human being that is absolutely clear after this this exposure they know exactly why they're Muslim if you if you take a survey of the Muslim world if you go to a Muslim country right where there are the majority of the the population is Muslims and you interview the average 16-year-old 18year old 20-year old even in fact 30-year-old why are you Muslim can you tell me why you're Muslim what convinces you of Islam you frame it another way what convinces you of Islam what will be understandably the vast majority response of the people in that country my parents are Muslim what do you mean we're all Muslim that's what what you're supposed to be what do you mean what convinces you it's obvious no how is it obvious it it just is stop messing with me in other words it's been passed down and that's good enough is it B to the next gener is the why B is the why clear no because if that's the answer then a Christian in a Christian country in an African Christian Nation in a in an Asian Christian Nation you go to the Philippines you go to you know parts of Nigeria go to other places ask a Christian young man why are you Christian what are they going to tell you same answer my parents everybody's Christian what do you mean that's just what it is that's just my religion if if you ask a Hindu he going to say the same thing if you ask a Buddhist he's going to say the same thing so then our answer is no different meaning it's not b in fact that answer is recorded in the Quran we just follow what our parents did that's in the Quran but that's not a description of the Muslims that's a description of everybody else so it's not B now the I said the why should be clear and what else should be clear the what should be the what is the Revelation itself what what does your religion say what is the Quran what's in the Quran do you know about Bak do you know about uh you know you know can we can we can I ask you some questions about Toba ask a 30-year-old educated got a Bachelor's degree even got a master's degree well educated Muslim born and raised in a Muslim country ask them hey do you know anything about I don't know Bak can you tell me about he'll be like I'm not a shh what do you mean you know do you know what Allah says about I don't know inheritance law it's complicated do you know anything do you know what Allah says about I don't know the prophet do do you know anything about which suras he talks I This is complicated bro I'm a PhD in Quran studies I'm just a programmer I'm just a taxi driver in other words for the vast population of people the the what of Revelation the what of Revelation is actually not what B the first thing that Allah mentioned in this Ayah is Messengers came with that's the first thing and the people that listen to The Messengers The these truths the why and the what became absolutely clear to them then came the Second Step then Allah says then he sent with them the book the book is a reference to law so the law came second after Clarity Clarity was first that's what the messengers came with and once Clarity was there then came the law so if you notice for example in the S of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam it's easy to say the sahaba were the most obedient the were these were the people of these were the people but actually when the Quran was being revealed the vast majority of the Quran was revealed in Makkah and in mekah there wasn't much to be done as far as the laws of of Islam Allah didn't reveal women covering their heads until couple of years into Medina we don't often talk about that but the some of the greatest sahabat in Islam that were living in Makkah probably didn't cover their hair because the ayat hadn't been revealed yet a huge chunk of the seed of the Prophet Salli wasam there were no five prayers so there was nobody getting up for fud that came a little bit a few years in few years in z hadn't been revealed halal meat hadn't been revealed inheritance law hadn't been revealed hijab hadn't been revealed all the things that you look at the visible signs of Islam observance of Islamic law weren't there what is being revealed then what's being revealed is stuff that transforms the inside what's being revealed is what creates Bayan within it makes everything B within the you're not in a construction of a building I want you to think of Islamic laws the laws as the building but you cannot build a building until you have a what Foundation or another analogy you can think of is the laws of Islam are like the tip of an iceberg in the ocean you can see the part that's above the water but the vast majority of it is underneath the water the laws in the Quran don't even amount to 10% of the text they don't even amount to 10% of the text so what is 90% of the text doing it's creating a transformation with within a transformation of how I see the world how I see reality how I think about history how do I think about myself how do I think about others what do I think about the future my thoughts about right and wrong my feelings about writing wrong spiritually intellectually and emotionally it is transforming these three ways spiritually emotionally and intellectually it is making things clear to me then Allah reveal laws then Allah said but even that and once he sent the law let me tell you something about the law now and it's getting a little ahead of myself this is important the difference between the law and the balance cuz Allah said he sent the law and the scale the balance scale right which is obviously a term for justice because scales are a symbol for justice so what's the difference between Law And Justice right we call it the legal system in America we call it the legal system we also call it the justice system right that is a misnomer and I'll explain to you why the law can be misused the law can easily be misused and even Islamic law can be misused and I'll show you how for example in Islamic law for certain allegations you have to produce at least four Witnesses four reliable Witnesses okay is it possible that somebody says I really want to ruin this person's life and the society thinks of these four guys as reliable decent people but they decided together these four people people that they're going to ruin that person's life and they said we are the four witnesses that accuse this person of doing XYZ did they produce the four Witnesses yes did the legal requirement get met yes was Justice served no so you could actually fulfill the law and still not get Justice the law and Justice are two separate things the ideal situation is the law is supposed to be used so you can get justice but is separate and is separate Allah said and the reason he said that is once your worldview changes from within then you understand the law isn't just there so you follow the law the law is there so you get the result of Justice the purpose of the law is to actually get you to Justice the purpose of the law isn't the law ISM means to a greater end and that greater end is Justice okay now you come to a country that says you know or a society that says we have to implement Islamic laws we have to for example cut the hand of the thief okay we have to cut the because Quran says you know so we have to implement the we have to cut the hand of a thief and in that Society the judge the Shar Court Judge accepts bribes the person who appointed him appointed him because of personal connections so he's not even qualified to be that judge the person who stole can can't can't find honest living because of the corruption of the politicians and the system that they've created in other words the entire Society is out of balance but the one poor guy that got caught stealing what are we saying about him we should do what with him cut his head and we're saying this is the implementation of Islamic law and you might even get away with saying we implemented the law but we certainly did not Implement what Justice the goal of message the message was first to make things clear and when things become clear the goal and the objective of the law becomes clear and the laws of Islam are not isolated they are like a a like you know how there's a neural network everything is connected to everything one law cannot be taken in isolation from the entire system of laws and the system of justice that Allah created because in isolation it can create Injustice it create it ravages justice and that's why when Allah talks about his laws in the Quran one of my favorite examples is divorce law when he talks about it he keeps talking about ta the aat should be legal the the conversation should be do this don't do this do this and every time at the end of the you better know Allah is Allah knows what you're up to you better know why is Allah saying that you have to have tawa of Allah because those laws that Allah has revealed can easily be turned into Injustice in the absence of ta easily you can take Islamic laws and do loads of Injustice and guess what the Israelites had done the Israelites said we are committed to the law of God without actually having the the spirit of the law there's something called the letter of the law and the spirit of the law the spirit of the law is what produces Justice the spirit of the law was gone Allah revealed in his Revelation not just laws but also the scale so this is the this is an important distinction that that then on after all of that he mentioned iron and iron was a reference to Warfare and we talked about that yesterday a little bit but we need to understand the connection the first time I mentioned to you Warfare or prophetic wars were revealed as a commandment Believers commanded to fight was which messenger do you remember good m we have to understand why why wasn't told to fight why wasn't IIM told to fight why wasn't told you read all their stories nobody's doing Jihad and all of a sudden m m Alam wasn't even told to fight with he wasn't told to fight he was told to do da and then they're freed they go in the desert they're in um they're they're freed and all of a sudden Allah reveals tell them the Commandment to do what to fight to fight why what what just what happened and why couldn't you tell people to fight before why now it has to do with law if you guys are law students you already know this if you're sociology students you already know this if you're political science students you already know this laws are different from morals so I'll give you two terms now laws and morals humility is that a law or a moral that's a moral teaching okay modesty is that a law or a moral teaching that's a moral teaching stopping at a red light is that a law or a moral teaching that's a law now if you break a moral teaching kindness modesty humility if you break a moral teaching there are no legal ramifications you don't get a fine for being a jerk okay Allah says the ugliest voices is the brain of a donkey meaning don't raise your voice the Quran condemns raising the voice but is it like right now I'm raising my voice in some context and the The Da guy like that guy but is he doing something that that is illegal no it goes against the wisdom or the morality in the Quran it goes against that but it's not illegal so it may something may be immoral and still not be what illegal so morality and law are two separate things one way you can understand that in the Quran is the terminology one way to think about that the laws fit under and the moral system fixed under Alik okay the best you can be to your parents that a law or wisdom what do you think the best you can be to your parents that's wisdom that's not a law that's not a law because it's it's there's a range there's a range in it some people's best is different from other people's best different scenarios the best ibraim Alam can do is leave the house that hisan to his W that's hisan and somebody else has to stay with their parents no matter what that's their different situations so when laws come we're talking about laws because alab was used right so we're talking about laws not wisdoms prophets many prophets they were given morality and the first time Allah gave laws was who M and the thing about laws like stopping at a red light is it cannot be considered a law until there is law enforcement that will punish you for breaking the law law cannot be considered law until there is law enforcement and you cannot have law enforcement until there are there's force and the phrase for force in this Surah on this Ayah is iron is iron you have to have power to execute laws any laws in any society any any governance the moment laws come into the picture you must have enforcement the power to enforce those laws criminal laws for example imagine a judge who passes a verdict and says this one's guilty this one stole the land the land shall be signed over to this person the judge himself doesn't have the power to go there and then hand the deed over to this one or that one the state has power right and if you don't if you break this the police will show up or the authorities will show up and they will enforce the law they will because they have the power to do that the police officer has the power to stop your car and he's armed he is the power of the state behind him he's got Hadid on him in order to be able to implement the law so I want you to understand why Hadid was mentioned why iron was mentioned in context of the law that's one but I want I want you to also understand the relationship between Clarity and even before the and also have a relationship prophets came to give Clarity but some prophets Allah wanted them not just to be saved but for them to leave to create a society couldn't save everybody in a society he had to escape had to Escape right had to escape m is being commanded to create a society to to create create an actual living society that lives under the law of Allah based on these Bay and when prophets are commanded to create a society they must replace a power system that already exists so so there will be those prophets will have enemies that will try to crush and destroy their message as much as possible Allah does one of two things either Allah will say to that Prophet leave town I will destroy them I won't let you be killed loot leave town I will take care of them leave I'll take care of them leave I'll take care of them build an ark I'll take care of them but then some prophets Allah decided no you won't leave you'll take care of them the bat have come the bayat have been rejected and when the bayat have been rejected those people need to be punished and Allah will punish them he could punish them by his own he could send a flood he could send an earthquake but with the the the m and the sub subsequent prophets and finally the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam now those who reject the B of the messenger while the messenger is there they will be punished by Allah by that messenger himself and by the Believers himself which is why Allah says Allah will punish them by your hands Allah will punish them by your hand that's what I call prophetic War now Allah can Allah can have his own buts right is the phrase that's used in who's going to save us from the B of Allah Allah can wge War himself and when Allah wages War Allah can destroy their buildings from their foundations from the foundation but but with Prophet M and culminating in wasallam the Commandment is you will become God's punishment on those who rejected the Bay by which I'm referring to the qur they rejected the bay because they were the recipients of it right in front of the the living Prophet right in front of them this is about the then even with Justice the thing is nowadays there's lots of rhetoric and conversations about social justice and the fight for justice and there are societies which you will find that because there's enough injustice people pick up arms or there's a civil war or they're talking about war they're talking about fighting for it you know in the name of justice so we all know throughout history uh the call for justice passively non-violently goes so far and in some cases it's successful but after so much nonviolent calls for justice eventually what happens I hope you guys enjoyed that video clip my team and I have been working tirelessly to try to create as many resources for Muslims to give them First Steps in understanding the Quran all the way to the point where they can have a deep profound understanding of the Quran we are students of the Quran ourselves and we want you to be students of the Quran alongside us join us for this journey on bv.com where thousands of hours of work have already been put in and don't be intimidated it's step by step by step so you can make learning the Quran a part of your lifestyle there's lots of stuff available on YouTube but it's all over the place if you want an organized approach to studying the Quran beginning to end for yourself your kids your family and even among peers that would be the way to go sign up for bv.com