1. Surah al Baqarah
Ayahs 83 – 91

2. AYAH 83
And [recall] when We took the covenant from the Children of Israel, [enjoining upon them], "Do not worship except Allah ; and to parents do good and to relatives, orphans, and the needy. And speak to people good [words] and establish prayer and give zakah." Then you turned away, except a few of you, and you were refusing. 83

3. Then you turned away, except a few of you
Rights of people
Rights of Allah
and to parents
do good
Do not worship except Allah
and to
relatives
We took the
covenant
and establish
prayer
and the
orphans
and give zakah
and the
needy
All these things have to do with your responsibilities with your Creator as well as your immediate community; these are the micro things so before you want to help the world or save the world, first focus on these
And speak to
people good
and you were refusing
Then you turned away, except a few of you

4. Your charity, sacrifice, living, dying should be for Allah alone.
Definition of Ibadah
Humility
Servitude
do not worship any angel, messenger, tree, rock, anything except Allah.
Worship only Him.
Your charity, sacrifice, living, dying should be for Allah alone.
WHY? Because the greatest right of Allah upon man is that man worships Him. The
greatest right is Allah’s right. ز

5. More than Other Deserves
IHSAN
إِحْسَان
Doing Good Generally
More than Other Deserves
Good in return of Evil

6. How to do Ihsan? Bani israel:23 – 24
Ways to do Ihsan
Through Speech
Tone
Words
Express
Through Actions
Help
Time
Du’a
Through Wealth
Needs
Gifts
Bani israel:23 – 24
Asking them for advice – works every time because they feel that you’re still their baby and you need them

7. وَقُل رَّبِّ ارْحَمْهُمَا كَمَا رَبَّيَانِي صَغِيرًا
Du’a for Parents
وَقُل رَّبِّ ارْحَمْهُمَا كَمَا رَبَّيَانِي صَغِيرًا
and say, "My Lord, have mercy upon them as they brought me up [when I was] small."
[Bani Israel: 23-24]

8. Those who are closest have the most right
وَذِي الْقُرْبَى
Relatives
By Blood
By Marriage
By Nursing
Those who are closest have the most right

9. Not Reached Age of Puberty
وَالْيَتَامَى
Orphan
Not Reached Age of Puberty
Father Passed Away
Children of Hope.com
Human Concern International – even at school or university you can organize an orphan sponsorship program and everyone can pitch in and sponsor a few kids; they send you their pictures and you can write letters to them etc.

10. Needy MASAKEEN Can’t Fulfill their needs Can’t Support themselves
They perhaps on EI, so they do not have work but enough to get by
They don’t tell others so be aware and recognize them; sometimes there’s a woman whose supporting her husband because her husband is involved with drugs or is disabled but she wont say

11. وَقُولُواْ لِلنَّاسِ حُسْنًا
Beautiful Speech
Style
Content
Beauty - In Style (Gentle, soft, not rude, pitch, sarcasm, joking, whine, whisper) - In Content ( kind words, true, just, in a lang other person doesnt understand, clear, relevant speech,

12. If we analyze ourselves in light of this ayah: How many of us take care of all these commands?
Remember the Bani Israel were the Muslims of their time

13. AYAH 84
And [recall] when We took your covenant, [saying], "Do not shed each other's blood or evict one another from your homes." Then you acknowledged [this] while you were witnessing.
84 – Now these are the macro commands; responsibilities of the entire ummah
It says your blood, your people because killing another believer is like spilling your own blood; also deportation is so common nowadays among Muslims, so we’re basically repeating the history of the Bani Israel

14. Requirements of a Covenant
Acknowledgement
Testimony

15. AYAH 85
Then, you are those [same ones who are] killing one another and evicting a party of your people from their homes, cooperating against them in sin and aggression. And if they come to you as captives, you ransom them, although their eviction was forbidden to you. So do you believe in part of the Scripture and disbelieve in part? Then what is the recompense for those who do that among you except disgrace in worldly life; and on the Day of Resurrection they will be sent back to the severest of punishment. And Allah is not unaware of what you do.
85 –

16. Clauses of the Covenant
ONE
Do not shed each other’s blood
TWO
Do not evict each other from your homes
THREE
Do not cooperate in sin & transgression
FOUR
Give Ransom & Free the Captives
you would separate a group from among you, you would recognize them and separate them from you
They did selective application; when they ayahs applied, then they would use it, so for us the more knowledgeable become it easier it becomes for us to justify our wrong deeds because we have knowledge of Qu’ranic ayahs and fiqh and hadith so when we do this, we make the deen look ugly because the knowledge is making us a worse person; you might think how did the ummah get here? Well it might because of selective application of the ayahs

17. Lets Analyze!
Do I only implement those commands that are a means of some personal benefit?
OR Do I obey all of Allah’s commands?
Does my heart accept the commands of Allah?

18. Lessons
Shedding blood is a great crime near Allah. To expel someone from their home is also forbidden To oppress, to exult above another is also disliked.

19. Lessons To free the captives is a virtuous deed
Denying one part of Deen = Denying Entire Deen
All Our Deeds are Watched & Monitored all the Time
There is an organization called in which you can write letters to prisoners, send them Eid cards or sponsor a prisoner

20. AYAH 86
Those are the ones who have bought the life of this world [in exchange] for the Hereafter, so the punishment will not be lightened for them, nor will they be aided.
86 – na sa ra – to help someone out of the prob –
Are you using the deen for self-serving purposes?

21. Lessons
Don’t exchange Akhira for the glory, fame and praise Love of this world doesn’t let us submit Disobeying Allah doesn’t get you what you want
One of the purposes of our deen is to make our life easy (to ease our burdens); when you’re

22. Nasheed 
We’re talking about reading the Book and implementing some parts of it but not others; are you afraid to the read the Qu’ran and is it just better not to have knowledge at all?

23. AYAH 87
And We did certainly give Moses the Torah and followed up after him with messengers. And We gave Jesus, the son of Mary, clear proofs and supported him with the Pure Spirit. But is it [not] that every time a messenger came to you, [O Children of Israel], with what your souls did not desire, you were arrogant? And a party [of messengers] you denied and another party you killed.
- قَفَّيْنَا – Qaaf faa wow

24. الْبَيِّنَاتِ Life in Sculpted Birds Inform What You Stored Cure Blind
Cure Leper
Life to Dead
Inform What You Ate
Inform What You Stored
With the help of Allah

25. وَأَيَّدْنَاهُ بِرُوحِ الْقُدُسِ
Ruhil Qudusِ
Soul of Essa
Injeel
Jibrael
Nahl 102
Jibrael was appointed to help Essa
Jibreal assissted him whereever he went, by giving him proofs and also by raising him

26. AYAH 88
And they said, "Our hearts are wrapped." But, [in fact], Allah has cursed them for their disbelief, so little is it that they believe. 88

27. Hearts Wrapped Have Enough Knowledge Don’t Understand
If you reject the first time, you will always reject because then it becomes an ego issue
When a person keeps rejecting, he decides that he doesn’t want to accept the truth, then he goes away from the Mercy of Allah.

28. What do we say when someone tells us a command of Allah and we don’t want to listen to it or act upon it?
Do we say if Allah wants to guide me He will? OR mind your own business

29. Curse of Allah
Far from Mercy of Allah
La’aana

30. And they said, "Our hearts are wrapped." you were arrogant
And We gave Jesus, the son of Mary with clear proofs
and We did certainly give Moses the Book
and followed up after him with messengers
But is it [not] that every time a messenger came to you with what your souls did not desire
Reactions of the Bani Israel when any prophet came to them
And they said, "Our hearts are wrapped."
you were arrogant
and another party you killed
And a party you denied

31. AYAH 89
And when there came to them a Book from Allah confirming that which was with them - although before they used to pray for victory against those who disbelieved - but [then] when there came to them that which they recognized, they disbelieved in it; so the curse of Allah will be upon the disbelievers. 89

32. The reality of Bani Israel is being opened
The reality of Bani Israel is being opened. They waited for the Messenger, they made du’a for his coming - but when he came, they denied him
Why?

33. Lets Analyze!
We make excuses by blaming circumstances, but when we get a chance, we still persist in wrong...
What does it show?

34. بِئْسَمَا اشْتَرَوْا بِهِ أَنفُسَهُمْ أَن يَكْفُرُواْ بِمَا أَنزَلَ اللَّهُ بَغْيًا أَن يُنَزِّلَ اللَّهُ مِن فَضْلِهِ عَلَى مَن يَشَاء مِنْ عِبَادِهِ فَبَاؤُواْ بِغَضَبٍ عَلَى غَضَبٍ وَلِلْكَافِرِينَ عَذَابٌ مُّهِينٌ
How wretched is that for which they sold themselves - that they would disbelieve in what Allah has revealed through [their] outrage that Allah would send down His favor upon whom He wills from among His servants. So they returned having [earned] wrath upon wrath. And for the disbelievers is a humiliating punishment. 90

35. فَلَمَّا جَاءَهُم مَّا عَرَفُواْ
وَلَمَّا جَاءَهُمْ كِتَابٌ مِّنْ عِندِ اللَّهِ
when there came to them that which they recognized
And when there came to them a Book from Allah
كَفَرُواْ بِهِ
they disbelieved in it
بَغْيًا أَن يُنَزِّلَ اللَّهُ مِن فَضْلِهِ عَلَى مَن يَشَاء مِنْ عِبَادِهِ
outrage that Allah would send down His favor upon whom He wills from among His servants
وَلِلْكَافِرِينَ عَذَابٌ مُّهِينٌ
فَلَعْنَةُ اللَّه عَلَى الْكَافِرِينَ
فَبَاؤُواْ بِغَضَبٍ عَلَى غَضَبٍ
so the curse of Allah will be upon the disbelievers
And for the disbelievers is a humiliating punishment
So they returned having [earned] wrath upon wrath

36. Lessons A persons arrogance hinders a person from accepting the truth.
Jealousy is also a means of preventing a person from the truth.
We should see what is being said not who is saying it.
Qur’an is Fadl of Allah

37. وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمْ آمِنُواْ بِمَا أَنزَلَ اللَّهُ قَالُواْ نُؤْمِنُ بِمَا أُنزِلَ عَلَيْنَا وَيَكْفُرُونَ بِمَا وَرَاءهُ وَهُوَ الْحَقُّ مُصَدِّقًا لِّمَا مَعَهُمْ قُلْ فَلِمَ تَقْتُلُونَ أَنبِيَاء اللَّهِ مِن قَبْلُ إِن كُنتُم مُّؤْمِنِينَ
And when it is said to them, "Believe in what Allah has revealed," they say, "We believe [only] in what was revealed to us." And they disbelieve in what came after it, while it is the truth confirming that which is with them. Say, "Then why did you kill the prophets of Allah before, if you are [indeed] believers?" 91

38. قَالُواْ وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمْ نُؤْمِنُ بِمَا أُنزِلَ عَلَيْنَا
They say
And when it is said to them
نُؤْمِنُ بِمَا أُنزِلَ عَلَيْنَا
"We believe [only] in what was revealed to us."
آمِنُواْ بِمَا أَنزَلَ اللَّهُ
"Believe in what Allah has revealed"
قُلْ فَلِمَ تَقْتُلُونَ أَنبِيَاء اللَّهِ مِن قَبْلُ إِن كُنتُم مُّؤْمِنِينَ
Say, "Then why did you kill the prophets of Allah before, if you are [indeed] believers?"

39. Allah refutes them with proof
Lessons
Allah is refuting them in such a beautiful manner; with daleel:
You say that you will only believe in your book, and your messengers: but what do
you do with them - why did you kill them then?
The reality is that you just don’t want to accept the truth, you don’t like it.
So the real crime is to go against the truth.
And to accept the truth is a great quality of man, and thus he becomes Allah’s
beloved.
Surah al Baqarah:
Lesson 14 34
Allah refutes them with proof
The Real Crime is to go against the truth.
To accept the truth is a great quality of man.