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Peace and blessings and
mercy of Allah to all of you.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome.
The topic is What Al-Quraían says
about Aulia, plural of Wali,. Walis is
singular and aulia is the plural of
Wali. What the Quraían says about
it. This word Aulia in Indo-Pak
sub-continent is not transalted
and we take it as religious or
sanctity of the word. Aulia or
Wlia means protector or protectors
or in Urdu saraparast. People would
like to have somebody, a protector
to them so that they can have
security and peace under their
guardianship. That is the concept.
That is the emotional attachment
between the protector and the
person who want to be protected.
That is the relation, that is why
we are having this relationship.
Ut at the same time, what the
Quraían has to say about this word
, protector, can we have people
protect each other, can we be
protected to each other or Allah
allows or He refrains to whom
we should have, to be in protection
. That is the topic. The word itself,
Wali or Aulia, Protectors, it does
not emphasize or say anything
about itself but when we read the
ayahs of the Quraían we will come
to know protection, who can we
have this protection. Is Allah our
protector? The messenger is a
protector or not, or how can we go
about having protection from
these people? Can we be protection
, protected each other? That is
the topic. And where it is forbidden
and why it is forbidden and when
it is allowed and why it is allowed.
This is the topic. Coiming to the
references of the ayats, if you
open the page 1, the first verse
that we discuss in this booklet is
Now in this ayah we come to know
that Allah is the Wali or the
Protector to mankind, that we
mankind, all of us, requires comfort
and security. That is, Allah is the
Walo/the Protector to mankind.
And when we come in His protection,
what He does is
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that he takes out
mankind from darkness into light.
Now this darkness and light is
not a physical light or physical
darkness. But we can understand
the sense of it in when physically
when we are in dark room. You
cannot look around until and unless
the light is there, thereís a physical
light you can see so we can see
each other, we can see in the
surroundings in whatís going on,
whatís going around. Similarly,
in psychology, what are the
governing ayahs or the rules,
what are the governing ayahs
in the Quraían. What are the
dos and the donts in the ayahs,
what we have to do and what we
have not to do. If we do not
know, we are in darkness.. We
are in darkness. And once we
read the Quraíanic ayahs and
understand them, so Allah clarifies
these and then we come out from
the darkness because we are doing
so many things wrong in ignorance.
We do not know we are doing
wrong things. That is because
we are not seeing clearly We are
in a dark room. In psychology, we
canít see properly. So when we
read the ayahs, we come to know
this is what Allah is explaining to us.
So in the concept we are coming
out from darkness into light, the
purpose of Allah in making Himself
as a protector to us, we can come
in security, in comfort when we
read the ayahs and when we come
to know the dos and the donts.
And we understand them We
understand in their essence and
when we follow we come out from
darkness into light. We can see
the things around us, all the things,
anything you can think and imagine,
is not known to you, until and unless
you know the ayahs, what Quraían
says about that particular thing.,
like what the Quraían today says
about the Wali. We have been
knowing Wali, the Wali, the Aulai,
the sarparast what people are
projecting in the world Today you
are hearing what the Quraían has to
say about this word Wali, so now we
come to know, so similarly in this
ayah Allah is taking out the people
from the darkness into light, that
is the purpose. That is how Allah
becomes the Wali or the Protector.
Further it says
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And then those
who reject, those people who reject,
their protector/aulia is the taghoot.
Now taghoot is unjustly harsh or
cruel. This is an emotion within a
human being. When a person
becomes unjust and harsh and cruel
, that heís under the phase of Arabic
word taghoot. So you must Those
who reject. What, what they reject?
When they came into the light by
Allah, from the darkness into light
they saw the things properly and
by, after knowing the things, how
to walk or how to see in this light,
they reject Those who reject.
Their protection is, their protector
is unjustly cruel. They become
unjustly cruel or harsh. So what
they do, this feeling of their
emotion put them back into darkness.
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This unjust behavior, this unjustly
cruel or harsh behavior is a taghoot
which puts a person after coming
into light and after seeing things
properly and clearly, This emotion
put the people back into darkness.
We must be very careful, by the
first of all we understand the ayahs
and essence of the ayahs and once
we come to know, the more our emotion
of being unjustly harsh and cruel
will become, is a taghoot in Arabic,
will put you back into darkness where
you came out. They are the compansions
of fire. And they will remain in it
forever. So in this total ayat,
we analyze, there are two types
of protectors, Aula is the verr,
the protectors two types of. One
is, Allah is the Wali. Heís protecting
mankind by showing them or taking
out from darkness into light and
how we see that come out from
darkness to light is through the
ayahs., the governing ayahs and the
essence of the ayaat, when they
are clear to us we come into the light.
But at the same time those people
who reject those ayahs after they
are shown to them, after they are
clear to them, the harshness or the
cruel behavior, that behavior throws
back into darkness. And they are
the companions of Fire. These are
the people who are rejecting the
ayahs after they were clear to them.
So two types of Wali you come to
know, Aulia from this
verse. The next verse
The explanation for the darkness
and the light is further explained
in this verse. We people are
physically alive, when we come into
this world, we are physically alive
. But when we do not know the
essence of the ayahs, we are in
darkness, we cannot see properly.
We cannot really see. So in the
Quraíanic understanding, Allah
called these people as dead. They
are dead, sometime deaf and dumb
and blind. And some time Allah
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call them dead
, Is he who was dead
then we gave him life So in this
ayah Allah is calling this living man
alive but calling him dead. Then it
says We gave him life. And He
made for him light from which he
walks with it among mankind.
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What is that light? That light is the
essence or the spirit of the
nderstanding of the ayah. That is
the light. The light is the essence
of the spirit., of what you hear
in the essence, the essence of
the matter of the words of the
Quraíanic ayaat so that light Allah
made that light, in that light he
walks. He takes decision when he
knows the governing ayahs, the
dostand the donts and you know
the essence then you walk in that
light, meaning you consider yourself
before taking the judgment or a
decision, you take any decision or
judgment under the influence of
those ayahs. So you are governing
yourself. That is the light, in that
light you are walking so that walk
is under the governing ayahs, the
dos and the donts you take a decision
by taking guidance from those ayahs
so this is how you walk in that light.
So Allah compares that person
with the person who is a dead
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Can he be equal who is in that, in this
from which he can never come out.
The man who do not know the ayaat
essence or the Quraíanic ayaat or
the essence, heís in darkness from
where he can never come out. If
he will take guidance from the ayahs,
how can a man - a man who has got
eyes and who can see in the light
and a man who cannot see, whoís
blind. Cane he be equal? No. In the
darkness he cannot see. Similarly,
Allah say the person whoís in
darkness can never come out from that darkness.
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And likewise the
works or the deeds become adornment
to the rejecters. So people who
reject their own works, their deeds,
they themselves design certain
works. In their own concoctions,
their own conjectures they think ,
if I do this Allah will be happy.
They are not doing what Allah is
commanding them in the ayahs, in
the governing ayahs. They just
conjecting their own conjectures
and start practicing those philosophies,
thinking that Allah will be happy
about it. So this is what Allah said.
Allah has made the rejecters their
works adornment and they are very
happy that they are doing good. It
becomes an adornment to them
because they are actually rejecting
the ayahs or the light that where
they can see what we have to do.
They do not follow the essence or
the message of the ayahs. They
just conject themselves.. They
reject the ayahs., reject the light.
And then follow their own conjected
works. So Allah says, they are the
rejecters so their works become
adornment to them. And they are
very, they are thinking they are
very happy about it. So likewise
the works become adornment to
the rejecters, So this ayat in
relation to the previous ayat,
remember, people are dead. And
when Allah gave them life, itís
through the light or through the
essence of the ayaat where you
can see and a person who doesnít
want to come out of that darkness,
heís aÖwill be dead. Allah is calling
him a living man dead. Sometimes
He calls him deaf and dumb and blind.
That means they canít see. So we
have to be very careful. So you must
understand that in the previous
ayahs Allahís a Wali and taghoot
is also a Wali. Both of them are Wali
. One is a right and one is a wrong.
We have to compare and see them
as well. Similarly, in The further ayat.
Now that Wali/the Protector,
here before we read a verse, Allah
was a Protector. In this ayah Allah
is a Protector and His messenger is
also a protector. The second addition
is the messenger of Allah. The
messenger of Allah is also a protector.
And we know for sure, there are not
only one messenger, Mohammed Rasoolallah
(pbuh), a messenger, and at the same
time there are other messengers,
so all these messengers are Wali
to us. They are the Aulia, they are
the protectors to all of us. Allah is
the Protector and messenger is a
protector. So we can - because the
name is not mentioned here - we
can understand all the messengers
are the Aulia or the protectors to
the believers - to the believers -
and the behavior of those believers
is that they establish the salah/
prayer, the give zakah/justification
and tyheya re bowing down, they
are in the position of bowing down.
They keep themselves bowed. They
are bowing down. So in this verse
we have, Allah has added the quality,
said that Allah is a Protector, the
messenger is a protector and the
believers, to those believers who
are establishing the salah/the
prayer, who are giving zakah/the
justification and who are bowing
down. This is the behavior to whom
Allah is a Protector, the messenger
is a protector. If you do not practice
the salah, the zakah, then Allah is
not protecting you. Maybe taghoot is
being youíre protected, by taghoot
because youíre became unjustly harsh
, previously Iíve read, remember the
word Aulia is not wrong by itself,
you have to understand how, to
whom we have to be in protection,
so in this ayat you have come to know
the behavior of those people to
whom Allah is the Protector or the
Aulia. And that is that they establish
the salah, give justification and
they are bowing down.
And further it says
So now Allah has described that
they are those people who are
establishing the salah and the zakah
and they are the believers and they
are bowing down. And these
believers, to them Allah says they
are the Hezbollah. They are the
party of Allah. There are many
parties in the world. You see, you
must understand that people make,
make labels. You see in the world
there is a group by the name of
Hezbollah calling themselves as
party of Allah. The behavior of
those Hezbollah or the behavior of
that party of Allah should be
according to the references of the
ayatsís behavior as behavior mentioned
in the ayahs. If I do not behave
according to the ayahs or the
behavior that established for the
party of Allah, then I can label myself
as a party of Allah - easily. Everybody
, who would not like to be a party
of Allah? If a label is given to
me, I just keep it in my pocket.
Iím a party of Allah but if my
character is not such, then I am
not in one of those. So you must
remember, the Allah is protecting
those, Allah is the Wali of those,
the messenger is the protector of
those whose behavior is mentioned,
that they are establishing the salah
and giving zakah, in these two verses.
Further there may be other things,
but at the moment these two verses.
So now if you go further in
Now in this ayah, previously we
were reading Allah is the Protector,
messenger was a protector and now
who is introduced? Believers are
protector of each other - believers.
Believers are introduced. They
are the believer men and the
believing women are the protector
of each other.
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The believers men
and the believing women are the
aulia, the protectors of one another.
Now in this ayah, you see, you must
understand, how we can be protector
of each other, the further described
, they order with recognized, or the
known or acknowledge, they order
to each other what the acknowledged
thing, which is recognized, which is
known Suppose I, how Allah is a
protector on me or how the messenger
is a protector on me by the ayahs,
and I know that ayat, and I know
the essence of the ayat, and I
practice that ayat and I follow that
ayat, IÖAllah is the Protector on me
and messenger is a protector on me
and I convey this ayat to you, you
understand that ayat, you follow
that ayat, so Allah and the messenger
is a Protector on you. Now suppose
I, in the future, astrayed by the
shaitan, suppose, by astrayed the
shaitan astrays me, and I forget,
you people donít have to run away.
You have to make sure Brother
Mohammed Sheikh, come here. You
told me an ayah which says this. This
is how you told me and this is how
Iím practicing. So you are again
being a protector to me now by
remind me of that ayah where I was
misled. So this is how we become
protectyor to each other. It is not
one way. I may be at the moment
standing in front of you and rehearsing
these ayahs to clarify the ayahs to
you. And tomorrow if I forget and
you have remembered and you are
practicing, so you can be a protector
to me by remind the same ayat to
me. So it is both ways, remember,
that the it can be a women also
The believers men and women are
the aula, the protectors of each
other. It is not one-way traffic,
meaning one-sided. Meaning I am
the protector, suppose, and I be
the protector, Allah is the Protector,
messenger is the protector and now
we are a protectors or aulia of each
other by the same verse, the same
ayats. Because Allahís ayahs, as
messenger saying and we, if we are
following closely to the ayahs, we
can share these ayahs to each other
and follow each other - I mean follow,
we can follow the ayahs. If one
of us forget or erríors, the other
should remind each other. But do
not run away, that Mohammed Sheikh
preaches but he doesnít practice.
You have to catch hold of me. You
have to educate me. This is how we
can become each otherís protector.
They order with the recognize.
Recognize are the ayahs. They arte
the factual. Anything which is marroof
- Arabic maroof means which is
acknowledged, recognized and which
is definitely truth. Maroof. So ayahs
are always recognized. This is behavior
how the we have to be protector to
each other. Maroof means acknowledged
or recognized or known. So any ayat
essence which is known, is recognized,
so we will share these ayahs. And
further it says And they forbid
about the disguised. You know what
is a disguised is? Disguise is something
Iím appears or by psychology we show
the effect that this is how this is
the truth or this is it but basically
it is nice person, I may be a disguise
man. So in this context Allah says,
they forbid about being disguised.
Do not disguise. I am wearing a
dress. Iím giving you an example -
Iím wearing a dress. Right? And
apparently, it appears to be a Muslim
dress in the whole world. Apparently,
Iím using the word apparently. It is
not so, it is not the truth but
apparently a dress code of a Muslim
men is a big beard with a turban with
a long dress No Am I not right?
And suppose this man do not know any
ayat. So people will think by his
appearance that heís a practicing man
Or youíll go and ask question any
answer to him - keh tell me something
about and tell meÖif he doesnít
know, so heís what? Is he disguising?
Or not? Hello. Most certainly. So this,
Allah is telling us that they forbid
the disguised. They order with
marroof which is recognized or known
and they forbid with disguised. - by
physically or by psychology. Any book
which is a disguised book, showing
something which is not truth, is
disguised. So they forbid about the
disguised but they order the known
which is maroof. This is the behavior
of those people who are a protector
to each other.