When Your Words Don't Match Your Heart

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Yep. And so it actually there were two very lengthy lengthier narrations are going to be harder to follow if someone isn't paying attention and following following up with each of the and so you'll find that some of these narrations we've skipped because they would take I mean roughly about as much time as we spend on each narration about a week to conclude. if you want see those narrations then I would point you back to the source material which is not the a bridged version because there is an abridged printed by and others. Many authors have tried to summarize however the full version authored by has those narrations also there was a very very long narration. It is the longest narration about the repentance story of Malik in the chapter of repentance. These are very critical stories to understanding our religion. So I would revert you back to those chapters. Continuing in the chapter of Suduk which is truthfulness and truth. That is a very important combination of words there. It is not just truthfulness. It is truthfulness and tress. Now when we talk about in the Quran Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in what is the definition of we gave a very simple definition that the scholars have mentioned of them was in his and that is truness as understood from the diction of the Quran is that what is inside of a person's heart matches what is outside of a person's heart. This is referred to as this person is and the opposite of that is which is what is in the heart does not match what is displayed on the outside. You look for instance at the opening verse of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says Allah says to the prophet sallall.aii wasallam every time the hypocrites come to you. They say we testify that you are indeed the messenger of Allah. Now what does Allah respond to that? He says Allah knows that you are indeed his messenger. head and Allah testifies in response to their testimony that the they are lying they are deceive deceptful deceptive they are lying but that statement itself is true few statements are more are are as true.

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That's correct. The statement itself is true. But it Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala considered it a lie from them because of what is in their heart. They do not say with their tongues what they believe with their heart. They do not believe that he is the messenger of Allah. They are merely saying with their tongues that they testify that he is the messenger of Allah. So Allah judged them as being dishonest not because the statement itself is incorrect but because the statement itself does not match their belief in their hearts. And so we understand from this that throughout the Quran, in order for truth, something to be considered true, it has to have a couple of ingredients. Number one, the first factor is that it is believed by the speaker in his heart. Number two, that the statement itself is in accordance with reality. Those two things together make a statement true. They make a statement sudok. However, if any of those two factors are missing, it is considered to be falsehood. So what does that mean? That means that if a person is honest, listen closely. If a person is honest and he believes something in his heart, but the statement itself is wrong, it's considered in the language of the Quran, the language of Quraysh to be kib. And this is well known amongst the scholars of Islam. For instance, a discussion occurred between a woman and one of her Aia and she had she had a divorce that occurred or an issue with herd and her wii who was called Abu Sabil. That was his kuna. He had said that she cannot get married again until such and such. The exact issue is unimportant here for our purposes. When she came to ask the prophet sallallah.aii alaihi wasallam. Is he correct in this? He responded, the prophet responded and said Abu it doesn't mean that he intentionally lied. What means in the language of the Quran, the language of the prophet Sam is falsehood. It's something that is incorrect. So it doesn't mean that Abu Sam is a bad person and he is a liar. That's not what is intended by the narration. What is intended by the narration is Abu is wrong. He is incorrect in that statement. Being that he is incorrect in that statement, that statement is and so if we understand this, we understand that your intention is only one of the factors that make up what is referred to as a sud in the Quran. A person's intentions are only one factor. There are other factors involved. The statement itself has to be correct. And second of all, it has to match what is in the heart. It has to believe be believed by the speaker. If those factors are in place, then this is considered to be a if those factors are incorrect or any of those factors are missing, this is considered to be kib in the Quran. And if you understand this, you will understand these two words in the Quran and Sunnah much better. And you'll be able to understand when you come across the word truth and falsehood in the Quran at a deeper level. Usually in our in our words when we speak when we say someone is lying or someone has lied this means that the person has some kind of nefarious intention, right? This means that the person intentionally fabricated something. And so if we have that understanding and then we try to understand the same words in the Quran and Sunnah in that way we will misunderstand the Quran and Sunnah which is very common and that is understanding the words of the Quran and Sunnah with the definitions that we have in our modern times. Those are not the same definitions. The word may be the same but the definitions are not the same. Another example of this very common example if I say for instance in Arabic to the Arab speakers what does the word mean in the Arabic language people will say is an atom right that is not at all what it means in the Quran and Sunnah in the Quran and Sunnah is a tiny ant that's what it means is that a big deal yes of course it's a big Because if you could imagine with me the equivalent of a person who takes the word for instance for instance in certain circles they will refer to a police officer as a what? As a pig. Now if I took that definition and applied it to the Quran, what would happen? We'd have some very serious misunderstandings there, right? That is because when we understand the Quran, when we understand the sunnah is very important. This is what scholarship is. Is studying what these words meant 1500 years ago at the time when they were spoken at the time when they were revealed to the prophet sallall.aii Understanding this is a key to understanding this chapter that has given us here. It's the fourth chapter of the chapter of the chapter of truthfulness and tress both of them together. Truthfulness is that a person when he speaks he is truthful. But trness is that a person is true to what he says. That is what goes on in the heart. Both of those words are meant in the word. Both of those words are what is meant in the word the Arabic word in the Quran and for us. Bye-bye.