Asalaamu alaikum Quran Weekly.
I wanted to share with you ayah number 164 of Surah al- A’raf. Now we’re in the 9th Juz of the Quran. And it has to do with the story of the people who violated the law of the Sabbath. That they used to go on Saturday Allah tempted or tested them by allowing the fish to actually jump out of the water and they could come out and make noise, so the fishermen who were not allowed to fish on Saturday were tempted by it and they violated the law of the Saturday.
And there were some among the Muslims who tried to warn them, tried to give them advice. So there were two camps — people who didn’t care about what was halal or haram and they were just outright violating the Saturday, these are Muslims of that time, keep that in mind, and there was the people on the religious side who didn’t violate the law but even they were broken up into two further groups.
One group of people said they are still our brothers so what if they are not that religious? We should still go talk to them and say, “look you shouldn’t be doing this, it’s not right.” And the other group said, no those people are liberal, those people are progressive, whatever they are,forget them Allah is going to destroy them anyway, they are just a bunch of hypocrites, why do you even bother talking to them? Don’t even bother with them.
Source: Nouman Ali Khan, Quran Weekly
