Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
Peace and blessings of Allah to all of you.
Ladies and gentleman, welcome.
I seek refuge with Allah from Satan, the stone.
With the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most merciful
The topic is what the Quran has to say
about qatal, the psychological killing.
Now before I directly discuss the
ayaats I would like to explain to
you who are we as a human being.
You see we as human being contain
a physical body and a soul.
In Arabic badan and soul means nafs.
We are a combination of body and soul.
Now this body requires physical needs
and that is health, food, rest, shelter, sex,
physical needs and what the soul requires,
that is our topic. So you must know we
are a combination of both body and soul.
When we are talking about the soul or
the self that is a separate requirement
and the physical needs or physical body
is a separate thing but they are
connected when we are alive.
So what the soul contains.
The soul contains the emotions and
feelings and intellect.
This is what the soul contains.
If you know in the English word,
the self and soul there is a difference.
Whenever you are thinking or
planning something, that is your
soul is doing it in other word.
The soul is thinking what to do
and what not to do and the intellect
is also involved, emotions and intellect together.
Intellect and emotions are two separate
things within the soul and finally
when you arrive to a conclusion then
you act upon and the resultant
that you do is your self, that is
you can say “I” that is anaa.
Anaa is of any person or when you
say I am like that, that means your
soul has been convinced of feelings
and emotions and intellect are
jointly put a resultant by your works.
You are convinced of a feeling,
the feeling says this and intellectually
you are convinced then you act upon
and that act is a resultant and that is yourself,
that is how you become self in English.
Same is described in the Arabic
and when we will see the ayaats
you can see this. Now if the Quran,
in the Quran there are both types
of killings mentioned. Killing, when
a person kills someone physically,
I am using the word physically but
actually you kill the nafs because
the Quran says
Arabic
“It is always the psyche or the nafs is killed”
through the physical aspect or
through psychological aspect.
When you kill somebody or somebody kills you,
it is the nafs that is killed.
The nafs is psyche or psychological. The physical
body it is just like something which is
being drive, it is being drive by the soul,
like a car, you drive the car, it is
a body, you are the driver. The soul,
the self is the driver of the body which
require physical needs. Actually the Quran
all over the Quran is addressing to your
soul, the self, it is not addressing to
your badan or the body. The soul,
the self as we carry, which we carry
our body, that is actually the Quran
is addressing to that. Now before I
read the booklet, I would like to give you.
Because the Quran says in surah zumur.
No it is not in the booklet, I am just
trying to give you a point here. Because Allah
says in surah
so it is always the nafs is dead.
Arabic
It is the nafs is dead, whether you kill
physically actually the nafs dies, the psyche
dies or you kill psychologically, then again
the nafs dies. So it is always the nafs that
dies and when you are asleep, the nafs
is taken out by Allah, the psyche which
is supposed to be in other words in
English, they say conscience, you become
unconscious. You don’t know when you
are sleepy or when you are unconscious
the psyche is being taken out by Allah
and to whomever he wills he sends it back.
Then you get up in the morning and
if he holds that you are dead. So death
is very related to your sleep or your
unconsciousness or even if you go into coma.
Coma is the last degree then this
unconsciousness and sleep they are all
interlinked and death is final that means
the nafs is being stopped or God got hold of it.
It is completed by Allah so then you die.
Now coming to some of the do’s and
the dont’s that are mentioned in the Quran,
I will discuss and I will tell you why
I am discussing these do’s and the dont’s
in the initial page of the booklet.
There are many many orders or do’s
and dont’s means there are certain
aspects which the psyche has to do.
Psychologically we have to understand
and we have to implement those aspects
which are mentioned in the Quran.
Those things are known as do’s and
there are certain things which we are
not supposed to do psychologically.
Like for example in
First is the psychology in our psychology
we understand thing that we have to
establish the salah, the prayer, we understand.
Then we order the body to act upon
so body also do the standing position
and bowing position and prostrating
that means the psychology have understood,
the nafs have understood. So it is obeying the
order Allah, our psyche is obeying the order of
Allah and we are standing, bowing and
prostrating that is the physical aspect as well.
When you fast it is the
requirement of the body. When you
are fasting the requirement is of body,
the food. So we are actually striking the
body not to eat. It is a lawful things,
food is lawful, the lawful food is allowed
to eat, but in ramadan or in otherwise
there are times when you do some
mistakes, then Allah says you have
to fast. So in other words on your
body you are restricting certain principles.
Your psyche or the nafs is restricting
the body to fast and psychological also,
but who is driver psychology, psychologically
nafs is asking the soul understood the
ayaats and said you are not going
to eat, you are not going to drink
before sunrise and sunset. So this
is again an act upon the body.
But who is doing it the nafs, the psychology.
Now it is a physical hassle when you
go to pilgrimage. All over the world it is
a big hassle when you go to hajj.
So your psychology is ordering when
you have understood the ayat and
it is convinced and the do’s you will
go there and you will have the effect
on your physical and as well as psychological.
Now in charity there is
nothing to do with physical though
you must be earning physically, do
some work physical action is involved
and once you get the profit and
from the profit you give charity
but giving the charity is not physical
it is just giving it.
In striving both the
physical and psychology aspects
are involved that is a detailed aspect
but I am telling you both the psychology
and the physical aspect is involved
in struggling your life.
Like for example
what you inherit from your parents
then you have to distribute to the
categories to your brother and sisters
that you have to follow, that is again
psychological.
Parents and children relationship are also psychological
and sometimes become physical. Physical
action between the parents and children,
but basically it is again the psychological relationship.
For the physical need there is a lawful food
mentioned in the Quran what to eat
and what not to eat. That is a separate
issue but it is a requirement of physical need.
I am now reading the dont’s.
Eat wealth with falsehood, that is a don’t.
Do not eat wealth with falsehood.
So this is also a psychological aspect
you understand psychologically
you do not have to eat by
falsehood.
Is also psychological, it has
nothing to do physical, if you are
backbiting, you are speaking ill
about some body and your suspicion
is also related to psychology.
bad names giving to people is also
related to psychology.
It is related to psychology but the physical body
does it. You plan it, your psychology
plan it how to rob and once you have
made the plan properly then the
body functions by the order of
your psyche, so both are involved.
This can be both physical and psychological,
we will discuss.
suicide, or psychology to kill,
to kill psychologically also, we will
discuss this topic.
Now drugs and drinking,
drinking is again related to physical aspect.
Psychologically you are forbidden to not to
drink the drugs or intoxicants which makes
you deform your mind. Those are the
intoxicants you are forbidden not to take.
Then eating of the pork is also physical
aspect that is a physical need, physical
bodies requires, but Allah says not
to eat the pork.
But also related to emotion because the psychology
is also involved. So what I am going
to discuss, you see normally people
have this concept of one life that
we are alive and we will die. This
is a general concept in the world
that we are alive and we will die.
But in the Quran there are two lives
and two deaths. So if you open
Now if you look in the start, it
starts from death, then life, then
death and then life, four. Two lives
and two deaths. So two lives and
two deaths you have to understand.
One is a physical life as we are
all alive, and one is a psychological
life in the Quran is described. So
killing is also based on two aspects
because one dies if you kill physically
when I say physically the nafs dies
but we refer to physical kill that
this man killed somebody actually
he kills the nafs of that person
and he died. But the reason was
the physical. So physically I will
explain I explain the psychological aspect.
First physical aspect would be that
before we come into this world
from the mother’s womb we are
dead, though heart is functioning
in the mother’s womb after 3
or 4 months I suppose but once we
come out from the mother’s womb,
you see we come out from water,
we are in the water bag, and
once we come out, we are
basically dead because the lungs
are not functioning. The child is
born dead and the moment you
slap the child on the back then the
child takes that first breath and that
is how the life begins and till he is
dead the lungs are functioning.
So sometimes you must have heard
the child was born dead, actually
he is born dead, but he is alive.
So you start with physical he is
dead and then he becomes alive
physically and then he will die
and the other side he will be
resurrected or alive again. So dead, alive,
dead and the third is again alive on
the other side. But the question is
Allah says
Arabic
how can you reject Allah
because the last life we don’t know
normally, we have to believe that
after death there is life. So normally
people do not have this clear
concept we say we normally think
that we will die, we will become dust.
We think like that. So Allah is
reminding us the three stages which
you already know. Meaning we
come out from nothing before my
mother was not pregnant, where
was I. I was no where. So basically
we come out from nothing, then death
and then alive and then die. The
three things we know. So in order
to believing the fourth is easy,
Allah reasons with you to tell you
that you know these things the fourth
you must believe. That is why
people do not believe in the hereafter
because they do not believe that
we will give an account on the day
of judgment because they think that
this is our life and we will die and
we will be dust. They don’t have
the concept that we will be alive again.
So in what capacity they will be alive
that is a separate thing but the question
is that they know for sure that they
came out of nothing, then they were
dead, then they are alive and they
will die. They are seeing it all the time.
So to believe the fourth aspect is
easy to believe. Now on the day of
judgment the other side these people
confirm and that is in surah.
So on that day every human being is confessing
we were given two deaths and two lives.
So in this world also Allah is explaining
that you are dead, you are alive, you are
dead, you are alive. Two lives two deaths.
And similarly on the other side you will
confess that there are two lives
and two deaths. One life you all know,
the other life we are going to discuss today.
Now
the question is Allah says we
created mankind we know what
his soul, self, psyche whisper with it.
So in our soul, in our psyche, some
soul is whispering to us. Who are we?
The resultant. When soul whispers to
who, to the resultant, your being,
your I. When I say I am like that
there is a soul that is whispering to you
in your mind, in your thought process.
So Allah says we are nearer or
closer towards him, the resultant
from his jugular vein. So we know
the soul. I told you there is a
difference between the soul and
the self. Self is a resultant of your soul.
When intelligence and motions put
together and the resultant is drawn
that is you. So in our mind the soul
is giving us, whispering to us, to me,
the soul is whispering me to do
what to do and what not to do.
And the soul normally in surah
Now this is the wife of Aziz who
is saying, I do not acquit or free
from my soul, and surely definitely it
orders with evil, badness.
Arabic
Except has mercy for me. So soul is always
something which is giving you orders
of badness to do bad. That is not
shaitan, shaitaan is separate. Shaitaan
inspires the soul and the soul
starts doing things by herself by
inspiring the self to do so. His
job is done. Then you yourself blame
yourself on the day of judgment
or when the shaitan when you
say it was the shur of shaitaan
just invites you to do wrong
and he backs up. Then you
do it. That is why then you blame.
You start blaming. And that is the
next ayah that explains in surah
You know malamat, blaming. So
first the soul whispers, the second
is whispered bad evil things and
once you committed that bad, then
the third is means then you blame.
You want to put the blame on
yourself or to blame to shaitaan
or blame to someone else. Then
you are in the condition of blaming.
This is the three process of the
soul and this is no shaitaan and
shaitaan has already inspired the
soul and the soul is doing it.
Soul is the combination of intelligence
and emotions. They both together
do it and once they have done
it, it becomes your self. That has
become your self. So then you
come in the condition of malamat or
means blaming it either to somebody
else, blaming to yourself or blaming
to some thing that is the condition
of that soul. Now I will read those
ayaats which Allah says what to
kill and what not to kill. How
to kill and what not to kill. Surah.
You see in this ayah our lecture
is to kill. Now if you read that I
am going to read that small portion
Arabic
meaning and they do not kill the nafs,
the psyche or the soul which Allah
has made forbidden
Arabic
except by the truth. So now if I, Allah says
do not kill the nafs, the psyche,
the soul,
Arabic
except by the truth.
Now if, Allah says, if I kill somebody,
if I kill someone by a gun, is it haq?
Because Allah allows you, you
cannot kill any soul, your soul or
any other soul except by the truth.
So what is haq. Of course
So except by the truth you can kill
somebody and that killing would
be nafs, psychological killing. So he
is telling you what weapon you
have to use to kill someone or you
kill yourself. He is not asking you
to kill by gun or by knife or by
any sort of means except by the truth.
Arabic
It is forbidden to kill the soul, nafs, they psyche,
Arabic
except the truth. And what is
the truth Quranic ayaats, the essence.
Arabic
Haq is from your lord, do not doubt.
Arabic
and do not fornicate
Arabic
and who ever does that he will meet sins. So
that is a separate topic of zina
and fahisha. Then further I will read again
you will see this
What was allowed,
first Allah says do not kill any one
except by the truth al-Haq, but
further he says and who so ever is being
killed oppressively so without doubt
we made his protector and authority
so let him not exceed in killing.
The further ayah says what type of
killing is mentioned. Physical. You
were allowed to kill by the truth
but you killed physically, you
killed the nafs, remember, again
you are killing the nafs, when you
kill somebody we say physically
but you have killed the nafs through
physical nafs will die, because I told you
Arabic
it is always the nafs dies.
It says whosoever is being killed
oppressively that means you have
killed the person, allowed was to
kill the psyche by haq with the truth,
but you, I am using the word, physically
you killed him, you killed his nafs
physically that he died oppressively,
that is not allowed.
So then there is what to do and
there are certain things that you have
give the blood money and details are
mentioned in the Quran I will not go into
that I am just reading how the
psychological killing is mentioned in the Quran.