No Better than Firaun ｜ Judging people like Firaun

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00:00Surah Al-Qasas

00:07This is mentioned very clearly in Surah Al-Qasas.

00:10Musa Alayhi Salaam is a child of Banu Israel.

00:14So he is from Banu Israel,

00:16but however he's raised in the house of Fir'aun.

00:20So he's raised in the house of Fir'aun

00:22amongst the people of Fir'aun.

00:23Now we know the story that he goes in the marketplace,

00:27there's a man from the people of Fir'aun,

00:30who is in an argument with a man from Banu Israel,

00:33Musa's people.

00:34Now Musa Alayhi Salaam is constantly struggling

00:37with this whole dilemma,

00:38of a man of Banu Israel

00:40living amongst the king and his people.

00:42So when he sees this,

00:43and the man from Banu Israel sees Musa,

00:45and he knows Musa's got a soft spot

00:47for his people, Banu Israel.

00:49Musa, Musa, look what this guy is doing to me.

00:52So Musa Alayhi Salaam intercedes,

00:54he steps in,

00:55says, what's going on here?

00:56Hey, what's going on here?

00:58The man says, hey, move along,

00:59mind your own business.

01:01Gets very rude and abrupt,

01:02and starts getting aggressive,

01:03starts getting in Musa Alayhi Salaam's face.

01:05And I would say, somebody gets up in your grill,

01:07somebody gets up in your face,

01:09so you have no choice but to kind of defend yourself,

01:12push somebody off.

01:14So Musa Alayhi Salaam does that,

01:15he says, back up buddy.

01:17فَوَكَزَهُ مُوسَى فَقَضَعَ عَلَيْهِ

01:19But what ends up happening is the dude dies.

01:22And the man dies.

01:23Musa Alayhi Salaam doesn't realize his own strength.

01:25فَقَضَعَ عَلَيْهِ

01:26The man is dead.

01:28That's an incident from his life,

01:30that's a detail.

01:31This is before he became a prophet,

01:33this is long before that.

01:34But it's mentioned in the Quran.

01:36There's actually a lesson here.

01:37This is relevant, this is pertinent.

01:39And the relevance of this incident

01:42to the message here

01:44is that Musa Alayhi Salaam committed

01:47unintentional, accidental,

01:50but nevertheless what was judged amongst the people

01:52where he lived in at that time to be a crime.

01:56He was a convicted criminal amongst the people.

02:00Unintentional, accidental,

02:02but nevertheless the people saw it as a crime.

02:04In his earlier age he committed that crime.

02:07Later on in life,

02:10he's made a messenger of Allah.

02:13And then he sent back to those same people

02:17to go and bring them the message from Allah.

02:21Go and deliver the divine message to them.

02:24In the dialogue between Allah and Musa Alayhi Salaam,

02:26one of the first things he says is,

02:28وَلَهُمْ عَلَيْهِ ذَنبٌ

02:30He even says,

02:31Allah, you're gonna send me back to Fir'aun and the people?

02:34I'm a criminal there.

02:37I owe them some form of retribution.

02:40I'm a criminal there.

02:41I'm wanted over there.

02:43You're sending me to them?

02:44Okay, so he's already hesitant

02:46because of that previous past crime.

02:48Allah says, no, you still gotta go.

02:50And when Musa Alayhi Salaam walks into the court of Fir'aun

02:53and says, I'm here with the message of Allah.

02:55You need to believe in one Allah.

02:57You need to let Banu Israel go.

03:00What's the very first thing Fir'aun says?

03:04Hey, aren't you that guy?

03:08وَفَعَلْتَ فَعْلَتَكَ الَّتِي فَعَلْتَ وَأَنتَ مِنَ الْكَافِرِينَ

03:13Very sarcastically.

03:15Aren't you the guy that did what you did

03:18back when you did it

03:20and you were really bad person?

03:23That's what he points out, right?

03:25So that worst fear is realized.

03:28It contributes to the message

03:31in a deeper fashion and manner

03:33where there's a powerful lesson to be extracted.

03:35And that is, that's going to happen a lot.

03:39That's going to be a very common occurrence.

03:41That somebody previously,

03:43some point in time in their previous life,

03:46they will have done something bad.

03:48They will have done something not so admirable.

03:51They committed a crime, they did something bad.

03:53And not only did they do something bad,

03:55but the people will know that this person was the dude who did that.

03:58He's the guy who did that.

04:00They'll know that he was the one.

04:02And so he'll have that bad rep amongst his people.

04:05But somewhere down the line,

04:07there will be a major turning point in his life.

04:09Like in the life of Musa A.S.

04:11He was never a bad person,

04:12but he had that one little incident in his past.

04:15And the major turning point, what I mean is,

04:17he went from being a normal ordinary individual

04:19to being a messenger of Allah.

04:21So same way in our society, in our communities,

04:24there will be people sometime in the past in their life,

04:27they will have done something bad.

04:29Then they'll have a turning point in their life

04:31where they'll turn things around.

04:33And then they will come back wanting to do something good,

04:36wanting to contribute something,

04:38wanting to be a part of something good.

04:41And at that point in time,

04:43that's where this incident becomes very relevant.

04:47What are we going to do?

04:49Are we going to be like Firaun?

04:52So when that young man comes up to call the adhan,

04:55he did something bad,

04:57and he comes up to call the adhan, he's like,

04:59-"Hey, you, you, move back, move back.

05:02I don't want you calling adhan.

05:04You're a bad person."

05:06Are we going to do that?

05:08Because if we do that,

05:10that is our behavior.

05:11If we're judging people,

05:12the second they walk through the door,

05:14we're no better than Firaun.

05:17We have just exhibited an equality of Firaun.

05:22We're acting like Firaun,

05:24because that's what Firaun did.

05:25He didn't care what Musa a.s. had to say.

05:27He didn't care why he was coming.

05:29He didn't care who he had become

05:31and who he had matured into.

05:33All he was still stuck on was,

05:34-"Yeah, but you're the guy who did that."

05:37He was still stuck on that.

05:39So what are we going to do?

05:40How are we going to react to people?

05:42Versus that, compare that to

05:44the example of Muhammad Rasulullah s.a.w.

05:48Did he ever, ever, ever

05:51hold anyone's past against him?

05:53Never did.

05:54Never did.

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