Name: The Principles of Luqman | Qur'anic Reflections Episode 3
Uploaded: 2020-06-18T00:00:00.000Z
Channel: Dr. Omar Suleiman
Description: Tune in with Dr. Omar Suleiman, Sh. Abdullah Oduro, and Mufti Abdul Rahman Waheed for the third episode of Qur’anic Reflections “The Principles of Luqman”.

<p>Tune in with Dr. Omar Suleiman, Sh. Abdullah Oduro, and Mufti Abdul Rahman Waheed for the third episode of Qur&apos;anic Reflections &quot;The Principles of Luqman&quot;. </p>

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 Alright. Assalamualaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh everyone.  Bismillah walhamdulillah wa salatu wassalamu ala rasulullah wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa man walah.  I want to welcome you back to Qur'anic Reflections.  I have of course with me Sheikh Abdullah Aduro, alhamdulillah,  and none other than the master of turbans,  Mufti Abdurrahman Waheed, alhamdulillah, who was a fan favorite of Qur'an 30 for 30, I guess.  So alhamdulillah, we're blessed to have Mufti Sahib back, alhamdulillah, with us.  And he's joining us actually, and he didn't ask me to say this,  but he's joining us from the incredible new site of Miftah in Michigan.  We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to make it Miftah ul-khayr,  an opening of good for the entire ummah, the entire community here in North America in particular.  A wonderful facility, alhamdulillah, that's being built out.  And we're blessed to have him with us, alhamdulillah.  So tonight insha'Allah ta'ala we're going to be reflecting on really a phenomenal section of the Qur'an  that gives us practical advice to ourselves, and also gives us advice on how to give advice.  And it is the story of Luqman al-Hakim alayhi salam, Luqman speaking to his son.  And before I hand it off to Mufti Abdurrahman insha'Allah,  I just think the story of Luqman in very brief makes so much sense for us to understand today insha'Allah ta'ala.  And that is that Luqman al-Hakim, contrary to what people might think, is actually not a nabi,  not a prophet according to the majority of the ulama.  But he was a man who rose to become a legend amongst the Arabs that was quoted frequently even in the time of jahliyya.  And the Prophet ﷺ reminded people that Luqman al-Hakim was a monotheist.  And in fact, they used to pass around the amthal of Luqman al-Hakim.  So people used to write down, they used to pass around the principles of Luqman al-Hakim as principles of wisdom.  And so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala calls him to our attention and to the attention of the Arabs  that this man that you admire for his wisdom was not a fool like you all in his aqeedah.  He was a man who believed in one God and who had that as central to his wisdom.  Luqman al-Hakim, according to most of the mufassireen, starting with Ibn Abbas ﷺ,  he was an Abyssinian man who was enslaved, brought to the Arabs in the land of Palestine.  So if you read actually Tanwir al-Ghabash by Imam Ibn al-Jawzi, rahim Allah, which talks about black history in Islam,  he has even a narration while it doesn't meet the standards of hadith of Luqman al-Hakim meeting Dawud alayhi salam.  So living in the area of Palestine about a thousand years before the Prophet ﷺ,  and his name is Luqman al-Hakim for a reason, the wise.  So he's basically a legend. He was a man that was enslaved, but because of his wisdom he was freed  and taken as a sage of sorts to the Arabs, even to be quoted a thousand years later in the time of the Prophet ﷺ.  And Anas ﷺ has a narration from the Prophet ﷺ, in short,  there's a weakness in the narration, but it's a beautiful narration,  that Luqman al-Hakim was quoted to have said,  that silence is wisdom and very few people practice this wisdom.  So it's kind of a theme of Luqman that he wouldn't speak unless he had to speak.  And when he spoke, he spoke in parables and he spoke great wisdom,  and that was something that he was admired for.  Malik has a narration that someone said to Luqman al-Hakim,  recognizing his position in society, his peculiar position in society,  so he said to Luqman, you know,  how did you, ma balagha bik ma nara? What caused you to reach what you reached?  And what he meant by that is al-fadl, he meant his virtue and his status in society.  So Luqman al-Hakim said, sidq al-hadith wa ada al-amana wa tarku ma la ya'nini.  He said, truthful speech, fulfilling my amanat, fulfilling my trust,  and abandoning that which doesn't concern me.  There's so many beautiful lessons and wisdoms that we have from him,  but what greater wisdom than the wisdom that we take from his advice to his son  that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala called to our attention in the Quran.  So inshallah ta'ala I'm going to hand it off to Mufti Abdurrahman  to give us an overview of those verses, and then of course to Sheikh Abdullah inshallah ta'ala,  and let's reflect together on the advice of Luqman al-Hakim alayhi salam to his son.  Jazakallah khair Sheikh Omar, Dr. Saab, Allah reward you for the introduction,  and jazakallah khair for inviting me back on this Yaqeen platform,  this blessed and sacred platform of Yaqeen.  I'm honored to be here.  Next time, just be honest with your audience,  because many of your audience, they already start,  they believe that I am the character from the Yusuf series,  so the one who played Yusuf alayhi salam.  Just tell them I am that person, because right now we're just introducing me as Mufti Saab,  but just let them know it's me, it's the same guy,  even though I don't know his name.  But nonetheless, …

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