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Oham
alaykum bar
Allah says inah Al Bak verse
208 oh Believers oh people of Faith
enter into Islam completely and
wholeheartedly and do not follow the
footsteps of Satan for he
is he is a clear enemy for mankind this
is a very important verse for all of us
to understand and if we look at it we
will see that this verse is not
addressed to non-muslims this verse
starts
with oh you people who believe all you
people who have faith all you people who
are
Muslims enter into the state of Islam
completely and
wholeheartedly this can be understood in
two different
ways
one all Muslims
enter into Islam completely because some
Muslims have not entered into Islam
completely there are some people among
the Muslims who even though they pray
and fast and do the actions of Muslims
who have Muslim names and Muslim
behaviors who are raised in Muslim F
families and yet they're they are not
truly Muslims they have not yet entered
into Islam so Allah is telling them
enter into Islam completely you cannot
enter into Islam half-heartedly or
partially but you must enter into Islam
completely that is because these
people even though they are doing the
actions of Muslims do not have true Iman
in their hearts their actions are not
devoted to the sake of Allah sincerely
and wholeheartedly perhaps they are
doing actions for the sake of appearance
so that people will see them and believe
that they are good people or good
Muslims when in fact in their hearts
they are not and so Allah is saying oh
you who are among the Believers who have
not truly entered into Islam enter into
Islam
now do not follow in the footsteps of
Satan and there is another meaning of
this verse which is oh you who believe
all you who do have Iman perhaps your
Iman is not complete to the level that
it should be so enter into Islam
completely and
wholeheartedly there are many people who
are true and sincere Muslims but they're
lacking some aspect of Iman maybe they
are not willing to make some of the
sacrifices and effort to be true to
Islam even though they know in their
hearts that it's necessary for them so
this verse is addressing some people who
are among the Muslims who seem to be
Muslims who are not yet truly Muslims in
their hearts and is also
addressing those of us who may be
sincere Muslims and maybe trying to
follow Islam but we still have some
aspects of non-islamic beliefs and
practices which we have not yet given up
and Allah is asking us to make the
sacrifice to give up those things which
we may believe and not follow into the
footsteps of Shan now once again this
verse is being addressed to Muslims it's
saying to Muslims do not follow into the
footsteps of Shan now Shan
Satan as we know was among the angels He
was a jinny but he was among the angels
of Allah tala and he disobeyed Allah
Allah commanded him to bow down to Adam
whom he created with his own hands and
he refused and he said uh you've created
him from clay and you've created me from
Fire and Fire is better than than clay
and so I'm not going to bow down to that
person this illustrates the importance
of understanding the meaning of Iman and
Faith there are a lot of Muslims
unfortunately who think because they
believe in Allah they say
muham that after that they do not have
to enter into Islam completely and
wholeheartedly but they can give up some
of the practice of Islam and not and
neglect them and not practice them but
if Iman if Faith only meant that you
know there's only one God and you know
that he's your Creator and you
acknowledge that or you acknowledge for
example the prophet is your Prophet
Muhammad is your messenger that that's
complete and total Iman then you are
misguided because who could have known
Allah better Among Us than Shan knew
shitan who spoke directly to Allah and
to Allah spoke directly to him he knew
fully Allah's attributes and Perfections
he knew the greatness of Allah and saw
it in ways that none of us can even
imagine and yet despite that he
arrogantly chose for himself that he
would decide which of Allah's
Commandments he would follow and which
ones he uh would not follow and so Allah
gave him a certain commandment and he
doubted the
wisdom of that commandment and said oh
I'm better than to obey that commandment
of Allah so
Shan refused refused to do one
commandment of Allah to bow down because
of that he was rejected by allaha
forever and ever and Shan is striving to
lead us all astray to prove to
allaha uh
our our inability to be true
Muslims so it is necessary for all of us
as Muslims to not follow into his
footsteps to not let our own mind and
our own reason uh be the judge but to
let Allah's Revelation in the Quran and
in the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad s
wasallam judge our actions and to follow
those actions to the best of our
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