Quranic Reflections – Surat Al-Fajr – Surat Al-Nas
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The importance of understanding oneself and practicing the Surahs for personal growth is emphasized. The speaker provides a toolkit for practicing these things and advises the audience to spend their time learning and engaging in a lifelong journey of education. The importance of learning and understanding the meaning of life is also emphasized. The speaker emphasizes the need for understanding and trusting Allah's power to achieve goals, avoiding wasting one's time, and pursuing refuge in Allah's language. The importance of practicing the full extent of the Bible's teachings and not just the number of people praying is emphasized.AI Generated Transcript ©
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gives us the ability gives us the opportunity
to connect to Allah
in a way that maybe
throughout the year we we failed to do
so or we found difficult to achieve.
And it brings with it his forgiveness. It
brings with it his compassion.
It brings with it
his freedom of punishment, subhanahu wa ta'ala, and
may Allah grant us all of that.
And tonight, the recitation will be quite,
short. We're gonna start from Surah. It's actually
wrong. There's not far we're gonna start from,
Surah Al Fajr.
I forgot to change it, but that's okay.
Everyone knows these Surahs hopefully at the end,
so they're not, needing the, the slides to
keep track of things.
We'll recite we'll pray 8 lakahat
and then 3 witter, and we'll have the
khatim, within
within
as we usually have almost every night. So
I won't change anything up to make it
confusing or anything. We'll keep it nice and
simple. I'll pray and the final
I'll recite the last,
3 surahs of the Quran, and then we'll
make will We'll come up and then we'll
make the dua of Ilkhatim so that people
aren't confused.
There's different ways to do khatim. You can
do it outside of duetir. You can do
it in dua before ruku, so you can
conclude the recitation of the Quran and immediately
begin to make Dua, but usually when I
tried that in the past in different places,
whenever you were finished your dua, you say
allahuat, but everyone went down to sujood. No
matter how many times they explained that it's
going to be next, they still went down
to sujood, so it was and he defeated
the purpose. So I put it in in
with it just to make it a little
bit easier for everyone inshallah.
This is the second khatim of the night,
the or the day the first khatim was
after Asar al Shikha'id and his group, and
there was a blessing to attend that one.
And then we're gonna have this khatim,
during tarawiyah. And then later on in Tahajjud,
we're going to have a third khatim,
the the the khatimah that began in the
middle of Ramadan Sheikh Mohammed and his group
began this around 2 o'clock every night. So
tonight we'll have it. I'll tell you the
the timings inshallah after isha. There's a specific,
timing for tonight. It's a little bit different
than the previous nights.
Anytime.
Alright.
Your citation tonight
is going to have a very small portion
of the Quran, but I will share with
you,
the themes
of what, we have left, and we'll talk
maybe about 1 or 2 verses
prior to, practicing salat alayhisha.
Yuzha Amma
is divided into,
into 4 groups of surahs.
Is
what most children memorize when you know, most
people memorize on their children. Most human beings
know, inshallah, if you don't, you should try
and work your way. If you wish juz'amma
well,
and then if you want to be ambitious,
make sure you get the
from to a to a to a ness.
But just the Amma has 4 groups. The
first group
consists of the first three Suras.
It's no hope.
In the first in the first group of
surahs from in Naba to, Abasa, the first
three, they just talk about the three components
of faith, which is what Allah
wants, what you need to achieve your goal
and what your standard of ethics are, and
thus naziat and abasah.
The second group of surahs, which I find
to be extremely important, and I think every
person should take some time in their lives
and not only memorize them, but recite them
with some degree of, contemplation and reflection.
It's from a taqir to a bruj, and
it talks about choice or freedom of free
choice.
And it looks at this, at this topic
that's very important for us as human beings
from the aspect that our sanctity, our our
freedom, our choices are sacred. Sacred. Like, the
freedom of your choice is something that is
granted by God himself. No one has the
right to take it away from you. It
was given to you by Allah. But it's
also recorded.
It's also going to be you're gonna be
held accountable for it. There's going to be
consequences to it. The margin of choice in
sukran shiqaq is very, very narrow, so you
have to choose wisely. And if you choose
to do nothing in your life, that's also
a choice that you'll be held accountable for.
And I find that, you know,
the heck there's there's wisdom in why, know,
the children start with the last jizrut because
if you actually if you actually learn the
last jizrut and understand it, then they walk
away with with a lot of clarity on
what their deen is about and who they
are as people. Even though they may not
have a lot of fiqh, but they have
a lot of values and a lot of
principles. The 3rd group of surahs from Utariq
to, Layl,
These are Islamic tools.
What is it that you need? You need
in order for you to deal with life,
you need a couple of things.
It's a toolkit that you can, you know,
pull something out of and and use when
you're going through the difficulties or the ups
and downs of of of life. So the
product talks about tawakkul.
Ara talks about tasbih.
Rashiya talks about perseverance or mujahhad, striving.
Surat al Fajr talks about a proper understanding
of things. In fact, we'll start with this
today.
Proper understanding. You have you have to be
able to under you have to have the
right lens through which you can see what's
going on and understand what what it is
that you're seeing. If you see every good
thing that happens to you as a sign
that god is happy with you or satisfying,
you see everything that goes wrong with your
life as a sign of god's wrath and
you didn't understand. It's all just it's all
just a test
and you choose how you want to respond.
And then when you respond, whatever happened to
you will turn into a blessing or a
or or or punishment. So actually have the
proper understanding or else you will live a
life where you're delusional. You you think you
think things are happening in a certain way,
but they're not.
So Tibetan talks about consistency,
consistency of ethics, consistency of values. You have
to have that consistency. You can't have an
ethic or a value that is selective. You
use it when you want and then you
hold it back when you want, or you
treat certain people in in certain ways and
others in a different way. No. You have
to be consistent, especially when things are hard,
especially when you're not at in your best
moment.
It's at your darkest moment that you're granted
the opportunity to show who you are and
to allow your true colors to actually shine.
So be
be careful
when you're at that you know, at at
the pit. When when when your graph has
plummeted and you're at the lowest point you've
been at, be careful of how you behave
and what you say and how you think
because that's where Allah that's where you're being
washed with a magnifying glass.
Because that's how you prove your consistency.
Same thing when you're on the top of
the hill. You know, on top of the
hill, the same thing. Magnifying glass gets a
little bit more
fine tuned to see, are you consistent? Because
we're we're all
somewhere around the new neutrality. It's easy to
kinda be who we are and maybe hold
on to some of our values. It's when
the graph goes goes up or go down
goes down, then then we have to kind
of Abu al Suribena talks about. Surat al
Shamm talks about tazgia, the concept of purifying
oneself
and being self aware
and being self accountable,
And Surat Alaihi talks about Taqwa.
And these are the toolkit this is the
toolkit that you have as a Muslim. These
are the tools that you're going to use
to deal with life.
And and
and
and
and and consistency and and taqwa. This is
what you have.
This toolkit is the most valuable thing that
you you you you'll ever acquire.
You'll never buy anything that's more that's more
valuable than having these
these concepts.
Unfortunately, you know, for the for the most
part, we don't fully understand what these words
mean.
Like, we'll say the word
we use
the word. You know, we'll point out the
word, but we don't understand what it what
it's referring to. And we don't in order
for you to actually practice these things, you
have to engage in a lifelong journey of
of of education.
You have to spend your
notify.
It's
very it's very kind of you.
May Allah may Allah bless you inshallah. May
Allah bless you inshallah. May Allah bless you
inshallah.
I am not I am not, even remotely
close to what you are saying, but
thank you.
The final cluster of Surah is from a
to Anas.
They're like they're like they're like,
pills.
They're like medicine. Each surah is really small.
It's very short. It's a couple of words.
But it's it's it's
so concentrated in terms of what it's teaching
you. It's like you're taking a pill. It's
like you're taking just this very concentrated dose
of of knowledge and of connection to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, which is why which is
why there are surah. I mean, you can
argue that how do you compare Al Baqarah
to Al Asr, for example?
Baqara is what? How many If you think
about it, it's a 50 times like a
150
suer al asr. Like, it's a 150 times
bigger than it, yet they're both considered a
unit.
They're both considered a Surah on their own.
Right? And the reason that that's the case
is because Surah Al Baqarah has a lot
of knowledge in it, but it's it's why
it's spread Surah Al Asr is really concentrated.
Like, the the the profoundness of its teaching
is
is similar to what Surat Al Baqarah has
within it. It's similar even though the difference
in terms of the number of words and
the ongoing explanation, but they're similar. That's why
we always get kids to memorize these small
ones, these short ones. Because in case you
don't end up having the whole Quran, if
you have these ones that have all the
constant pieces of information, you have access to
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's divine wisdom.
And that's what and and that's what's from
Duha to Anas'i. It's called the
the short and comprehensive. That's what it's called.
And everything in these surahs are just all
the Islamic values just one after the other.
Each surah is just a very concentrated dose
of a value that you should be carrying
as a Muslim. And I I always tell
people that take time in your life to
go through what these surahs teach so that
you can pass it down to your children
as they age. So you can explain it
to them when they memorize Surah Al Kawthar,
what it means, how to deal with when
you're being mistreated or bullied or mocked or
ridiculed, what do you do?
You learn what to do. When you're going
through a difficult time, it takes.
Yeah.
When you want to know what it means
to be a good person, you study Surat
Al Ma'un. When you want to know what
your role is, you study Surat Al Fil,
on and on. You take these surahs and
and and I've done them a couple of
times. Sheikh Mustafa has run like a course,
an IDA course. This is the 3rd time
around that he's run just in tafsir, just
the Amma. The goal was to maybe the
the students who take it on, they can
learn the actual meaning of this surah so
they they can enjoy it. So that when
you recite,
you
get because
you know what they mean. You know what
what what they're teaching you, and you're reflecting
a little bit on those on those teachings,
on those learning points. That's very valuable.
And there's nothing wrong with reading the same
surahs. If you do it just because you're
lazy, then that's one thing. If you do
it, you understand what it said and you
enjoy the meanings that are being shared. Then
there's that even if you only recite the
same surah. There's a man by the this
is Sahabi by the name of Muawiyah bin
Muawiyah.
And he was caught once recite praying a
and in both the rakahat, he recited,
and they did it again and did it
again, so they took him to the prophet
and said this guy, all he does is.
It says both. It's not it's not like
every salah. It's like in both the first
and the second. So he asked him, do
you not know
But I love it because it has a
description of the Rahman.
Enjoy. If that's why, then go ahead and
enjoy.
I hope that that that's why we do
what we do, but but that's why he
did it anyways.
So what you're doing is I'm going we're
gonna choose a few of the of the
ayatun.
Thank you very much. You're very kind, didn't
you? I didn't write the card. You didn't
write the card? Okay. Alright.
So that's a very awkward disclaimer, but okay.
Thank you.
Alright. So let let's do I n 24
of Sutufayajal. Let's start with that if you
if you if you have the yeah.
At the end at the end at the
end when it's all over, this is the
word that comes out of the of the
mouth of the human being.
It's a very it's a very peculiar phrase.
Only
you can only understand it if you if
you're able to comprehend what's happening or what
this person is facing.
What happens is that you realize how short
this existence was and how vast the one
that's coming is.
You realize how short this life was, how
almost insignificant it was in comparison to what's
coming ahead, the time that's ahead of you.
So when you see that and you see
that that was life and this is life,
you start to see that the life that's
ahead of you is actually the life you
should have been focused on. It's the life
that you should have been trying to make
sure you're going to get out of it
what you wanted because you stop seeing the
life that we're living right now. So we
talk about death. Right? Death is just the
beginning of the actual life.
Death is just a transition point from which
you're going to go from this life to
what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala describes as Al
Hayawan, meaning actual life like the epitome or
the pinnacle of life. True living is going
to happen after.
Right now, we're in a what it's a
beautiful life. It's a beautiful existence, but it
has a lot
of pain and sorrow and agony and and
and suffering and
and failure, and there's limitations to everything within
it. True life comes later with Allah
in the day of judgment. So the person
who finally realizes that, a person who did
not realize that in in dunya and comes
and realizes that the first thing that comes
out of their mouth is
I wish
I put something forward towards my actual life.
Is when you you offer something. You put
something you may you you you put forward
an offering of some sort. You offer something.
I wish I made offerings for this life.
Yeah. I wish I I wish I had
sent something from that first one over to
this one so I had something to I
found something here, but he didn't
didn't find anything because the whole focus was
just
building in dunya. I was wanting to have
the perfect life here,
and
the investment was all now, and the investment
was for this time. This time is short,
It's very short. Like, it's not it's not
worth it. By the time you have enough
status and wealth and to enjoy, you're old
you're old and all your bones hurt. Yeah.
All of your your your joints don't function
well anymore, And you have a higher risk
of getting all these diseases and all these
different, sicknesses. Your health is not what it
what once was. Like, the way it's designed
is not actually for you to to focus
on it. Like, even if you didn't know
about, you would still feel this is it's
not designed for us to because when you're
young and healthy and full of life, you're
broke. You have no money. You have no
money. No one no one really respects your
opinion. Like, no one's listening to you because
you're, yeah, you're you're naive still. So you
so you work and you learn and you
build yourself up. And by the time you
have wisdom and knowledge and status and connections
and networking, you're old. You you don't have
the energy to do stuff anymore. So it's
just not designed for you to to sit
back and recline on it, like dunya outside
of understanding anything that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
explained, which is not which is not what
I'm trying to tell you to do, obviously.
But even if you didn't, if you just
analyze
life from afar, you say, this is not
designed for for reclining.
This is not designed for you to just
say this is it, and it's just not
designed that way.
It's all this this you know this how
many times is this ayah in the Quran?
Yeah. Time and time again, Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala talks about.
Time and time again, all life is is
just water from the sky. Something comes out.
It's green for a while, then it turns
yellow, and then it dies, and then it's
gone. It's gone, never to be found again.
It's lost forever. That's all it is. That's
what we are. We come out. We're greening
for a bit, and then we slowly
shrivel down, and then we're not here.
Life is then.
I wish I put something forward to this
life.
On that day, no one punishes like Allah
does, and no one will shackle you like
Allah
will.
May Allah grant us the freedom of punishment
on the day of judgment and the ability
to work towards our real life,
Alright. Let's do,
6 of Surat Shems.
No. Sorry. 6 of.
Yeah.
Tells you don't worry.
That's its theme. Don't don't worry. Don't don't
worry to the point where you're dysfunctional.
There's there's a healthy amount of, of worry,
which is fine. Everyone's gonna have a little
bit. That you're thinking about your future. But
there's a there's an there's a pathological unhealthy
amount of worry where where where it cripples
you and and you make you can't function
anymore and you're not living well. You're not
healthy and you're not happy and you can't
you can't do anything. And this is what
Surat al Shirkham tells the prophet, alayhis salam.
Stop worrying. Just don't worry. See, alum, did
I did we not? No one starts a
conversation like that. This is mid conversation type
of wording. This this this this wording is
mid conversation. Something else was going on. The
prophet alaihi salsam either was saying something or
thinking
something. And what what was going on is
that he was constantly worried about whether this
was going to work out, whether he deserved
to be the prophet, whether he was doing
a good job. So Allah
did we not
put your heart at ease towards this message?
Did we also not forgive your sin?
The sin that you carried upon your shoulders
that you felt was weighing you down. And
we elevated your status
Like, you never say
except you say
That's the status that is that that has
been elevated for the
That was for him.
So indeed with all ease, difficulty, there'll be
enough ease for you to get through it.
That's for him, alayhis. That fa connects it
to us before. That's for him
And then
that's for you. That is the law.
That is the rule that will exist. Indeed,
with every difficulty, there will be ease. Not
after.
Not after. No.
No. No. That's not Allah.
Sometimes
you'll run into a usr
and that will be the end. That's how
your life will end. You'll end with that.
Right? If you if you want to understand
the being
good fine. But in dunya,
sometimes also
stays. It sticks around until the end. But
with it with it, there will always be
enough ease for you to get through it.
There'll always be enough ease within it to
allow you to function, allow you to persevere,
allow you to strive.
You have to look for that ease within
your difficulty and you'll find it. If you're
looking for it, if you know that with
this difficulty, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has put
for me ease and you'll find that ease,
you'll get through it. You'll get through the
most difficult days of your life. The darkest
moments, you'll get through them. It won't stop
being dark. That's not what this surah is
saying.
Something difficult will not turn into ease. No.
No. No. It will continue to be difficult.
The would stay,
but you'll find enough Yusul in it to
get through. And that's the that's the trust
you have in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. This
is what he is promising you. This is
the law,
and he's telling you don't worry about stuff
in the because people can do that. You
can do that. You can sit around and
think, well,
what if this happens to me later? What
if I these horrible scenarios that can come
to mind,
Especially when you start having children. You have
children, you start thinking there's there's so many
bad scenarios I can go on for myself
or for them. So worrying worrying about things
you have no control over, worrying about things
you can't change, you can't you can't imp
you can't impact. Now you can't affect. So
what do I do?
What do I do? There's so many things
that can go wrong. So many things go
wrong to for me and for my my
loved ones. What do I do? I just
it's so difficult.
Whatever difficulty is dished out for you, you'll
find enough ease in it to get through.
Stop worrying. Wallahi puts your heart at wallahi,
this this gives you enough that puts the
heart in in a state of calmness that
is there's nothing like it. Well, like this
a is designed to give you that calmness,
that serenity. You can just relax.
Plus, don't worry about something you can't change.
You can't affect. You can't do anything. Just
leave it. If if it comes your way,
if that ulcer comes your way, you'll find
enough for yourself to get through it. Don't
worry. Focus on this task at hand.
Do your thing. What's your thing? What's your
job?
Then once you're finished, you're finished your, your
dua,
try again. Keep on going.
And draw yourself closer to Allah. That's what
you can do. That's what you can't control.
Do that.
That's what that's what you can control. Do
that. Forget about everything else.
I hope that's helpful. That's a it's a
beautiful teaching.
Let's do Ayat,
8 of karya.
Anyone?
That,
6? Oh, 6. Sorry. Do do 6 now.
The one before it just so I can
explain it.
Its substance.
You change its makeup. It's not the same
thing anymore. That's what means.
You shake it, it makes sound.
You hit it and it's no longer the
same thing after you hit it. Like, it
changes in in in in nature.
And that's what Allah subhanahu calls you. It's
the event that comes and changes everything. Nothing
is the same. Nothing. The laws are different.
The universe doesn't function the same way. The
the laws that govern
humanity is no longer the same anymore.
In Duniya,
status and it was it was wealth.
It was connections.
It was networking skills. The people you knew,
how much power you had. That's how it's
it's
the certificates and,
PhDs that you had on the wall. That's
kind of what, you you all got put
together is what made you or gave you
who you were. That's that's who you ended
up being. All the the letters before your
name and after it and how big your
your signature was and all that.
It comes and it and it breaks everything.
Everything is very very
this hurts the human soul. The human being
is not ready for this will will struggle
because
it's just you lose everything really quickly. Like,
really quickly every you lose absolutely
everything. Possessions are all gone.
Possessions are the universe doesn't function the same
way. You don't have the sky and the
cosmos aren't aren't there and the sun looks
different and the moon's gone. Your house doesn't
exist. It's not there
anymore.
It's gone, like, because everything is gone. Right?
And who you were, you know, doctor Fulan,
Ustad Fulan, Muhendez Fulan,
All this Umu Fulan, Abu Fulan, no one
cares anymore. It's all it's all it ceases
to be happening.
People who cared about you, who said the
nice things about you, who thought, you know,
highly of you, doesn't matter,
Doesn't matter. All of the accomplishments and the
achievements, all of this have it's all worthless.
All that's left that has any degree of
importance
It's how heavy are those skills. That's it.
That's the only thing that matters. How heavy
are those skills? Heavy?
Good job.
You're going to be
That person will be in a satisfied
living condition.
They weren't
heavy.
They were they were light.
Well,
nothing will make up for that.
There's absolutely nothing that will make up for
that.
So you can't take your,
the money in your bank and throw it
into the scales, you know, Malkiyama, to to
weigh them down. You can't throw your certificates
and your degrees there. You can't throw, you
know, the status and the power and how
much people liked you.
So so what? Does everyone let's say every
person here thinks I'm a good person. What
does that mean? What does that does that
make me a good person to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala?
Every person here gave the testimony. You're a
good person. How does that change? It has
nothing to do. If Allah I know myself
and Allah knows me. It doesn't matter what
people testify for. Doesn't doesn't matter what people
think of you or or or say about
you. It's what Allah
knows about you. It's what you know about
yourself that's going to matter.
Nothing else matters. The prophet alaihi sallam tells
us about a man.
Big man, big guy.
Door of a man standing on,
and he's watching his scales and, yeah, the
scales are very light.
The scales would not there's nothing and they're
putting stuff in the scales and it's not
weighing. It's not weighing down and the other
scale is is heavier and there's it's not
and he panics.
So the guy jumps right into the scale
himself. He's a big guy hoping he can
weigh it down.
And he has no weights.
He has no weight. Yeah.
Right?
You have no weight,
Not just physical weight, but figurative weight. Because
the word weight, we use it even figuratively.
Someone has weight.
Not that they're fat like me, but, no,
they have weight. They have status. People care.
People listen. And he can they say something.
It'll make a difference. You have
no you have no
except
That's all that matters.
Everything else is forgotten. I'm not telling you
not to, you know,
accrue wealth and and and study and have
no. No. I'm just saying that if that's
what you think is going to make a
difference for you okay. I mean, if you're
if you're doing this stuff, if you're accruing
wealth and you're studying
and you're building networks and you're becoming powerful,
and that is not being used to make
your skills heavy,
they're a waste of breath.
They're a waste of time. If you're not
using all of that to make sure that
your skills, you're are heavier than you're wasting
your time. So make sure that whatever is
that you do in this world, achieve, become
very successful, but make sure that success is
going to reflect on the weight of that
scale.
Make sure it's going to reflect on how
deep that scale plummets and sinks on the
day of judgment. Because if it doesn't, then
what was the point of it?
There'll be nothing left. I need to
Alright. Let's do
9 7
7
Can you go? Okay.
Go ahead.
Good job.
So at the end of,
of this surah this surah is called the
and the word is right at the end
of it. I always tell people, when you
want to read it, read it, take the
last verse out. Right? And read it without
the last verse and then put the last
verse in and then see what I mean.
It's called from my own for a reason,
but take out the last verse. Let's read
the let's read it without the last verse.
And
you see the one who refuses the faith
even though they think it's correct, they know
it's correct, but they're refusing it. Those who
refused Allah's,
teachings even though they know it's correct.
That is the one who mistreats the orphan
and does not encourage the feeding of the
needy. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying that
this is the this is the prototype that
he doesn't want. He doesn't want someone who
refuses to connect with him and someone who
mistreats human beings.
But then you have a problem.
And when you hear the word, you're like,
check that again.
Are never talked about that way
but here they are.
It's always something
is a beautiful thing.
Those who who pray
may be be warned of a severe punishment.
Why?
Those
who ignore the timing of it, meaning they
don't do it well. They don't make sure
that they're doing it appropriately. And you know,
I mean, physically, time wise, you're not doing
well.
Spiritually, you don't do it well either. Like,
they don't they have a lot they're not
they're not sincere. If you end right there,
this makes life so much easier.
Right?
The ones who don't do their salah well.
So we perfect it. You perfect your salah.
You you perfect your salah. Get it done
well. You you don't do you you don't
have sukhu upon his time, meaning you make
sure you do it on time and you
and physically, you have all the fiqh piece,
you know, bolted down. You do it well,
and you'll remove the, the ostentatious piece of
it. You make sure that you're sincere and
you're you're doing spirituality.
But that's not when the Surah ends.
The Surah ends
and those who withhold aid.
Is to is support.
Is is aid
is the help. And those who withhold aid.
Never ever has Islam talked about
piety or mindfulness of God or closest to
Allah
in in a unidimensional matter ever. Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala has never said that that all
all all it takes is for you to
have the proper theology and the proper rituals
ever.
No matter where you look in the Quran,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will always point out
that if you do not have acts of
worship that are beneficial to the people around
you, then you will not make it to
to your final destination safely.
All throughout the Quran, this is this theme
is has no exception to it. There's no
exception in the Quran anywhere. You would think
maybe after if this
ended
makes it easier how to just fix our
prayer. But he's saying
warn those who pray from punishment. The ones
who
the ones who withhold aid. You're praying.
You withhold aid.
It's not gonna work. You could help and
you didn't.
You could help and you didn't. Is that
what you're saying?
Is that what Yam Naun and Naun means?
That would pass so withholding aid, does that
pass the?
Yep. Oh, for sure.
Oh, it's
withholding aid aid is way past zakah.
Sadaqa is sunnah. Those who attend my, I
explained to them the same ruling can have
4 or 5 different rule rulings really. Sadaqa
is haram if you're you're in debt and
someone's waiting to be paid and you go
give sadaqa. No. You have to pay the
person who it's haram. So salakah can be
haram if you're if you're in debt and
the person who you're in debt to is
waiting to receive their loan and you go
and take some of that wealth then you
give salakah, it's not yours to give. It's
haram. And salakat can also be wajib if
someone's starving beside you. You give your zakah
and if someone loves starving, you are obligated
to give them. It's an obligation. It's a
communal obligation. It's not sunnah anymore. Sunnah is
the default one.
Sunnah is the default ruling. Everything has a
default ruling, but then the ruling changes as
the context around it changes. That goes for
everything. That goes that goes for almost everything
that's not a specific specifically a ritual.
That goes for
everything
that's
not
everything that's not that will will its its
ruling will change based on context.
Aid. Aid as in people are in need
of it. That's what means.
Means someone is asking for help. You don't
use the word ma'un unless someone's asking.
Someone is as say I need help. I
am in a dire need. So what you
give them is called ma'un then. It's not
a'un anymore because they're asking for it.
They withhold aid. They withhold aid. They could
help, but they didn't. They could help, but
they didn't. You Understand how how hard this
ayah makes it all? The surah is called
Ma'un. You would think it's about salah, but
it's not. It's not. Yeah. You can pray,
but if you withhold aid,
you can perfect your prayer. Good. You should
because Allah does not like ladinahum am salatiem
sahoon or ladinahum yura'un. But if you don't
We didn't pray and we never we didn't
feed the needy.
We didn't feed the needy. The second the
second answer. This is someone in Jahannam who
is realizing why they're being punished.
Right now I'm I'm speculating for you, but
this person is answering from the this answer,
the words you just heard came from the
depth of jahannam.
The words we just heard came from someone
from the in the depths of Nar. They're
in Sakar. They're in the in a deep
part a deep pit within Jahannam, and these
words are coming from his mouth as he
calls back.
We didn't pray.
We ended there.
We just ended
there. We did not feed the hungry.
We did not feed the needy.
This is the someone speaking from from Jannah,
mister Allah Subhaahu Wa Ta'ala.
Alright. Let's
do,
let's do,
Al Falak.
Recite the first, two verses, please.
Very good. Thank you.
At the end of the Quran, you have
these 2 these 2 gems of Surahs, al
Falak.
1 is,
1 is horizontal and one's vertical.
Su'uth al Falak is a vertical surah. It
talks about
protecting yourself from harm that comes from without,
so the nast talks about protecting yourself from
harm that comes with from within.
So it'll fallak, it starts from the
it starts from the most general aspect of
harm.
I seek refuge in the in the Lord
of of creation. Al Falak is creation. Everything
that in Falakah something that was where you
understand that
something that was not and suddenly it exploded
into existence. Alfalak, that is creation. So saying,
I seek refuge in the lord of creation,
from the evil of all that he created,
the most general term.
And from the and from the evil of
darkness when it covers the light, when darkness
starts to cover,
when darkness and oppression and and
when that darkness starts to cover whatever is
left of truth, when that starts to happen
from the from the harm that comes from
people
who put obstacles in your way.
Is not necessarily, the any
a phrase regarding
Sahil. Is a way is putting obstacles in
your way.
Is an obstacle. Someone who might make puts
difficulties in your way, tries to get you
to fall, tries to get you to fail.
Those who don't want you to do well.
And from a spot of envy in the
heart of another human being.
You seek refuge in
Allah from the evil of everything
and the evil of darkness as it covers
the light and the evil of those who
make your life a little bit more difficult
than for the evil of a spot
of envy in the heart of another person.
All those evils exist around you. They're from
they're external, so you seek refuge in Allah.
That's how the Quran ends. Quran ends in
us seeking refuge in him subhanahu wa ta'ala
from these evils that come from without, but
then does it differently.
Speaks of god 3 times, not once.
It only speaks only praises god once.
And then all of these evils, they start
from the beginning of the
It praises god a little bit more because
what you're gonna seek refuge from is much
more difficult.
The first
these these
these evils are easy. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
brush them away easily for you. No problem.
Even in is
fine.
You you need to praise him once
because they're all easy. But the second one
is much more difficult. You have to praise
him subhanahu wa ta'ala 3 times. You have
to talk about Allah regarding all of the
relationships that you have with him as he
is the king, he is the owner, as
he is the rub, he is the one
who takes care of you and looks over
you, and as the ilah, as the one
who is worthy of your worship. All three
relationships in 1 Surah.
From what?
From the from that small but then that
voice
from that voice that comes from the
one that does not he doesn't
show himself.
He just gives you small ideas, small little
thoughts here and
there, puts it in your in your in
your heart, in your chest.
You're stuck with it.
From people.
You see, the biggest harm is not the
harm that comes to you from the world.
It's the harm that can come from you
towards the world. That is the real harm.
Shaipan doesn't really harm you. He just gives
you a he just. He just gives you
some bad ideas.
Then if you if you accept those ideas,
if you take these thoughts and now you're
gonna act upon them, that's where evil happens.
So you had to seek refuge from Allah
in 3 separate ways.
I seek refuge in you in in becoming
the source of harm when I allow the
one
that
whether it's shaytan or it's a person around
me or giving me these ideas, who's pushing
me, who's encouraged me to do something wrong
and then end up doing it. You see,
doesn't harm you. Does it harm you? Doesn't
harm you. That's what it says. It's just
a thought. It doesn't do anything. You come
to me, tell me to do something bad.
It doesn't harm me. Just a thought. You
just shared something that wasn't very positive with
me. The harm will come when I listen
to you.
The harm comes when I incorporate that into
my actions. That's the harm.
So these are the last 2 surahs of
the Quran. That's how the Quran ends. Seek
refuge in Allah from the harm that can
come to you from others. It's a vertical
surah from the biggest harm to the smallest
harm. You need to just praise Allah once
and he'll brush it all away for you,
Subhanahu wa ta'ala. But then praise Allah 3
times and ask him refuge from the harm
that will come from you when you succumb
to the pressure and the wasp wasa of
those around you whether they are jinn, whether
they are ness.
And that is how this this Quran ends.
You want to be able to practice the
the totality of this book. You want to
actually take the guidance and walk with it?
Seek refuge in him. This dua these these
3, these 2 surahs, the dua,
they're they're just in supplication.
You're saying,
We
We we make this du'a for the
we we seek refuge. He tells you before
you do all that, seek refuge in me
for 2 these 2 things,
from external harm and from
internal harm.
And that is that concludes, yeah, insha'Allah, these
pre isha,
yani lessons. I hope you found them beneficial.
Similar to what I did last year, we'll
try and get feedback from all of you
and see if this is something that I
should continue to do in the coming years
versus you know,
do a series that's a little bit different.
I'm open to to suggestions inshaAllah ta'ala to
make this
experience for you something that is beneficial and
that you find, you know, meaningful.
At the end of Ramadan,
I'll make some announcements, inshallah, after the last
election. I'll talk about utr. But there are
there are 2 things I want to point
out, for you inshallah.
First of all,
the value is not the number of people
that are praying in a masjid.
There is no real value in that. It's
not what actually changes the world. What changes
the world are the intentions of the people
in the masjid in terms of what they're
going to do outside of it. When we
talked about Musaleen,
there was a part of saw they had
to fix. You came, you fixed that, and
now there's the yamna'un al ma'un part they
have to go and fix. Without these 2,
the equation will not
be complete and the balance will not be
achieved.
So remind yourself of this that when you
come to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, he opens
his doors to you and he fills your
heart with a certain degree of his reverence
and his love Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. You find
a truth that you did not have before.
So now you have clarity. Then I'll make
sure that what you have now This new
discovered
clarity that you didn't have before, make sure
that's going to translate into something
meaningful and practical within your life. Make sure
that's going to change the way you live
on a daily basis. What you do with
your life, where you go with it. Because
if it doesn't, I'm sorry to say that
it there was no real benefit from that.
Like, if
inshallah,
but Azure
without a long
term plan of of a life changing way
of going by things, is not going to
be that meaningful. And that's something that I
want you all to take some time and
reflect upon because that's why we do all
of this. The point that we and we
run the, you know, Ramadan the way that
we run it. So we try to fill
it with duroos and we make sure that
we is that To give you the space
so you can contemplate these things. So then
after Ramadan, our Ummah finds its way back
to where it once was. I don't seems
very far back, but it's not that far
ago. A 100 years ago, things were were
significantly better than they are today.
I don't think there was as much awareness
amongst the ummah as there is today, which
makes me optimistic,
but it was better, I mean, in a
general sense.
A second piece, and I'll just say this
impassivity
possibly before we before we go for salah,
consider tonight before you leave to help us
with keeping this place running. A
small monthly
donation helps us just cover our operational,
costs. It's very they're very low. Most people
here, myself,
and everyone else who you see working, they
they do this for free. They don't take
anything at all. There's no money that goes
into anyone's pocket. The operational costs are actually
not very high in this place, but they
do exist and they do require, like, a
a little bit of a of communal
support. So consider that as something to do
for us before the end of Ramadan to
allow us to plan because usually post Ramadan,
we come up with the years and the
year round planning of the different yani
bah durooz
series, lectures, programs that you want to run,
especially with the new with the new yani
facility outside with the tent. There's a lot
that we're hoping to do inshallah.
We can only spread our wings as as
far as people allow us to spread our
wings. We can only we can only plan
out for as much as we have the
ability to plan out in terms of resources.
So something that I ask everyone to consider
doing
before the end of, of this blessed and
holy month. I'll make a few announcements
after
after