Ahmad Saleem – In-depth Tafseer of Surah Kahf – Understanding Quranic Lessons #10
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JazakAllah khair for coming inshaAllah.
We're going to start our session.
Last time we stopped at ayah number 36
of Surah Kahf.
We'll start with a couple of ayahs before
so that we can get a sequence inshaAllah.
I can start with ayah number 32.
So this is one of the many parables
that Allah SWT mentions in the Qur'an.
As we mentioned that there are 43 parables
in the Qur'an, amthal.
There are 43 parables or amthal in the
Qur'an.
And this is one.
And in this surah we have three.
So in this surah we have three of
those parables.
Allah SWT says, "...and strike for them an
example."
The example of two, two men.
One of them we had created for them
two gardens.
These gardens were of grapes.
And they were surrounded by palm trees.
Nakhl is specifically palm trees that bear date
palms.
And we had created in between them, i
.e. between the two gardens, crops for them.
His private garden.
Whatever he wanted.
Both of these gardens, they, based on the
effort that he had put in, they provided
the produce and the yield as per the
effort that was given.
There was no shortfall, i.e. whatever effort
was given, that's what was received.
And Allah had caused a river to flow
between the two gardens.
The source, Allah says, which means, The source
of the river started from his garden.
And he had thamr.
He had resources.
We said thamr can be recited how many
ways?
Thumrun.
Thumrun.
Thumrun, thumrun, and thamrun.
When it is thamrun, it refers to produce,
i.e. yield from a crop.
But if you recite thumrun, or thumrun, which
is the majority recitation, we read the minority
opinion.
Most of the Qur'an have recited it.
And when you say the word thumr, with
the dhamma or paish on the tha, and
on meem, then it means maalun katheer, lots
of wealth.
And it says, Various different types of asset
development.
Be it, for today's day and age, stocks,
yields, bonds, whatever.
Various different ways of people acquiring assets, real
estate, whatever it is.
Investments in properties, investments in this, all of
any form of asset.
Thumrun.
So he said to his sahib, And he
was in a conversation with them.
What did we say about hiwar?
Did we mention hiwar last time, explanation of
hiwar?
The wood, yes.
So we said hiwar is the wood on
which the pulley for fetching the water in
a well is attached.
And the movement of that wood, that wood
is called hawr.
And what does hawr do?
It rotates one way and then the other
way.
Similarly, a conversation is I speak, then you
speak.
And you, I listen.
And then you talk, and I listen.
And I talk, and you listen.
And that alteration, alternation, left and right, or
back and forth, that is referred to as
hiwar.
And similarly, it also means to return back
to something.
They thought they're not going to come back.
There was going to be no return to
Allah.
So yahoor also means to be able to
go back to your origin.
Okay?
He was trying to convince him to go
back to his original understanding.
Or, he was in a conversation in an
alternation state of back and forth.
I have a lot more money than you.
I have a lot more manpower.
Today's day and age, the statement would be,
I've got a lot of employees.
I have a bigger company.
Look at me.
You're a sole proprietor.
I have a corporation with 100 staff.
I'm better than you.
So he entered in his Jannah, his garden.
And he was already a transgressor upon himself.
Why was he a transgressor upon himself?
How can you transgress when you're entering your
own property?
Arrogance in the heart.
i.e. the state that he entered the
garden.
The state that we enter our cars.
The state that we enter our houses determines.
Yes, your house could be perfectly Halal for
you.
But having a Halal house does not mean
that you cannot have transgression.
So, وَدَخَلَ جَنَّتَهُ He entered his garden.
But the state was, وَهُوَ ظَالِمٌ He was
a transgressor upon himself.
The second is, that a person may be
given everything by Allah SWT.
And he believes in Allah.
But he says, who cares?
Sanuki.
The seven successful keys of Punjabi.
You guys heard that?
So, Manuki.
Who cares?
Whatever.
Doesn't matter to me.
Whatever.
Doesn't matter.
So, ظَالِمٌ لِنَفْسِي That when you transgress, and
you said, who cares?
I really don't care about the boundaries of
Allah SWT.
Allah protects us.
قَالَ مَا أَظُنُّ أَن تَبِيدَ هَذِهِ أَبَدَ And
one of the, the effects of this transgression
internally, is that you say statements of this
nature.
I don't think my prosperity is ever going
to go away.
Ever.
This weekend, I was in Houston.
And ironically, I was teaching the entire, we
spent the entire two days back to back,
from the morning all the way to 9pm
at night, finishing the entire surah.
And when we taught that, there was a
brother who came to the Friday night halaqah.
He was an old brother, 58.
Yeah, 58 or 57.
And he was very vibrant.
His kids were there.
Everybody was there.
And he said, Shaykh, I'm excited to come
back tomorrow.
Friday night, he, he becomes really sick.
They take him to ER.
And the doctors tell him that you've got
24 hours to live.
And on Sunday, we pray janazah on him.
But what was really shocking for me to
remember is that we can have two types
of ends.
Wahua dhalimu linafsi, that type of an end,
that we're arrogant.
Or we can have an end where the
person says, InshaAllah, I'm old, my kids are
going to be here, but I'm going to
bring my entire family to go and study
the surah and make the intention and go
back home with the right intention, and then
Allah can take your soul.
Right?
And then when they talked about him, they
said that this brother, he's been managing the
parking of the masjid, managing the volunteer management,
managing all the volunteers of the masjid for
the past 15 years.
Right?
Hasn't skipped a beat.
So again, has Allah given us many of
this?
Yes, we have so much, so much that
Allah has given us, but how do we
treat those bounties of Allah?
That's what matters.
وَمَا أَظُنُّ سَعَةَ قَائِمَةً And I don't believe
that Qiyamah is going to come.
He said that either verbally, or his actions
were indicative of that.
He was living a life like that.
وَلَأِرُّدِتُ إِلَىٰ رَبِّي And if I ended up
going back to Allah SWT, لَأَجِدَنَّ خَيْرًا مِنْهَا
مُنْقَلَبًا I will find way better reward than
this.
Look at what Allah has given me in
this dunya.
You think he's, like, look at how he's
treating me now.
You think he's not going to treat me
well when I meet him?
You must be very delusional.
Right?
And here's where we're going to begin our
new Sadaqah.
قَالَ لَهُ صَاحِبُهُ So his friend said, his
sahib said, first lesson for us is we
should always have a friend who can always
put us in check.
That's the first lesson here.
You should always have a friend that can
hold you accountable.
And you have given him that liberty that
hold me into check.
It could be your spouse, but better yet,
sometimes it is better to have a friend
who can put you in check and say,
listen man, you're crossing the lines here.
Sometimes you need that.
Right?
I remember reading a book as a teenager
it's called The Smack on the Side of
Your Head.
Right?
It's actually, I think, yeah, A Smack on
the Side of Your Head.
It's about how you need to have mentors
who can actually wake you up sometimes out
of your weirdness.
قَالَ لَهُ صَاحِبُهُ So he was his sahib,
he was his friend, he was his companion.
By the way, sahib is an interesting word.
Let me get into that just quickly.
So sahib can be anybody that accompanies an
insan.
Anybody that accompanies you.
Right?
So anything that accompanies you, whether it is
haywan, or whether it is place, or whether
it is time.
Haywan means human beings or animal, insan or
animal, doesn't matter, any living thing.
Makan, you can have sahib, any place that,
sahibul makan, sahib, and then zaman.
Right?
So Rasulullah ﷺ and sahaba, they were sahib
of zaman.
And they were also sahib of makan.
Right?
They were there.
And this suhba, the word sahib, doesn't actually
have to be materialistic suhba.
So it could also be inaya, it could
also be protection, care.
So he was his sahib, i.e. he
cared about him.
i.e. he was either his physical sahib,
or he was a friend who cared about
you.
Sometimes you have friends that are really far
away, but they're still your sahib.
And that suhba is ma'nawiyah, they're not
physically with you.
But they have this inaya and care for
you.
So it's a very deep concept, sahiba, but
that's all we need to know for now.
Qala lahu sahibuhu wa huwa yuhawiruhu.
He said to his sahib, and they were
having a conversation, Akafarta billathi khalaqak?
Have you done kufr with the one who
has created you?
Remember the word kafarta over here, is that
he recognized Allah, but then he covered him.
He said the word kafir, kafara, is to
cover.
And that's where you get the word cover
from, in English too, cover, to cover something.
So he covered, Akafarta billathi khalaqak?
So first he is trying to remind him
about his creation.
And that's one of the best ways to
wake up an atheist.
How were you created?
Oh, my parents.
Oh, who created them?
Who created them?
Who created them?
And it was a very quick, simple argument.
Somebody created the first in time, right?
Who created that first in time?
And then you can have the argument.
Akafarta billathi khalaqaka min turabin You were created
with?
Turab.
Thumma min nutfatin Then from a drop of
*.
Then, Thumma sawaaka rajula And then Allah fashioned
you, sawaaka, He fashioned you, rajulan, An absolutely
perfect man.
Full man.
Sawaaka basically means, Takhliq ash-shay bil-ihsan
To manufacture or create something with absolute perfection.
To create something with absolute perfection.
Okay?
And specifically sawaaka is to create something, To
create something with absolute perfection For the required
task.
That's the part of sawaaka.
That Allah created us in the absolute perfect
manner So that we can obey Him.
Submitting to Allah, We were created naturally to
submit.
And if we don't submit to Allah naturally,
Then you will submit to some ism.
Doesn't matter what it is.
You are going to submit to some ism.
Deep down inside, Every person is going to
submit to some form of an ism.
Okay?
Thumma sawaaka rajula Ya Allah Then
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala says, Lakinna huwal
laahu rabbii Lakinna over here is what?
Lakin, Ana But that Hamza, For grammatical magic,
Has disappeared.
That's all you need to know.
Lakin, Ana Like as for me, Huwal laahu
rabbii So he's reminding him, That Allah is
my creator.
Okay?
What is the difference between Allah and Rabb?
Rabb is the one who creates.
And Allah is the one, Allah is the
one who gives you intellect, But then demands
your worship.
So when we take Allah as our ilah,
After he has been our Rabb, We have
to submit to him because he has given
us aql.
And that aql necessitates and Allah demands from
us, Our submission.
Your aql was given to you, So you
submit.
La'allakum No, surah tabarak Allahumma salli ala
Muhammad No, no, no, surah tabarak.
The first three ayahs Wama khalaq No Allahumma
salli ala Muhammad Allathee khalaqal mawta walhayata liyabluwakum
ayyukum ahsanu amala Right?
Allah created the life and death.
And the purpose is what?
So that he tests us.
And remember, The test is lifted if there
is no aql.
If a person does not have aql, Ghayr
aql, does not have a test.
So aql is the They say this is
the essence of what makes you responsible in
the eyes of Allah.
So Allah is the one that demands after
giving you aql the submission.
So he's trying to remind him who Allah.
Allah has given you aql and he demands
for your submission.
But he is my Rabb.
And I don't do any shirk.
I don't make other ilahs with my Rabb
creator.
Anyone else other than him.
Now, This is where he is rectifying his
aqidah.
Right?
He's saying somebody you were wrong.
You need to rectify.
Over here, Many of the tafseer books have
written a very beautiful They digress a little
bit, But it's a very beautiful discussion to
be had.
And the discussion is on the angle that
Allah SWT At what point does it become
wajib on me to tell somebody that they're
wrong?
So what they say, the ulama, they say,
and I'll summarize it in a very quick
format.
Number one, it is wajib, i.e. you
will be held responsible in the eyes of
Allah SWT.
If you know that if you tell someone
or somebody, This is the right way to
do something and they will respond with a
positive response.
If you know 100% in your heart,
they will respond positively.
It is wajib on you to tell them.
As Imam Ghazali also mentions this, it becomes
wajib.
So if I say to someone, listen, your
socks are torn.
You can, I'm not pointing at you, but
like, He's like, he's like, my socks, your
socks are torn.
Your wudu was not complete.
You know, your salah was invalid.
So if I have the certitude, you could
be wrong, but you're certain at the point
that if I correct them, they will go
and fix it.
Then it becomes wajib on you to correct
something.
But again, make sure that you also have
100% certitude that what you're telling them
is right and wrong.
You have to first have that yaqeen.
Number two, if you're between 51 to 99,
even if there's like an ounce of doubt
that maybe this person will react negatively or
they may not take it very positively, then
it becomes a sunnah on you.
If you do it, you did a recommended
act, positive, negative consequences.
But if you keep quiet and you don't,
it's fine.
It becomes a mubah act.
i.e. sharia is indifferent.
It doesn't recommend you, it does not stop
you.
If you're at a 50-50, you really
not know the person, you're in a new
space, there's something really wrong, something you notice
that has to be corrected, and it's a
major issue of Islam.
You want to correct that, but you're 50
-50, you don't know the environment, you don't
know if they're going to respond positively, but
you also don't know if they're going to
respond negatively.
You don't have enough information to make a
decision, then it's mubah.
Whether you do it or you don't, it's
all equal.
Sharia is equal on that.
When you know anything below this, if you
know that you're going to say to someone,
stop this, and they will react negatively to
it.
Maybe they're giving signals.
Maybe they're, I don't know, they're agitated.
Maybe they're not in the right state of
mind.
Whatever the case is.
If you know that that is happening, then
it becomes, in certain circumstances, makrooh tahreemi.
It's you're not allowed to tell them to
stop this.
And in certain circumstances, it becomes haram for
you.
It's amr bil ma'ruf, but it becomes
you're not allowed to tell them to do
something because you know that it's going to
have a negative impact.
And it will only propel them in disobedience
further.
The example of that is, for example, Ibn
Taymiyyah.
He was walking.
And as he was walking with his students,
they saw Mongol soldiers with Muslim soldiers drunk.
So the students, they got zealous.
We need to stop our Muslim brothers, they're
drinking.
So Ibn Taymiyyah said, it is better for
them to drink because if they become sober,
then they will go and * a woman.
So in that case, it became haram for
them to stop because the two evils, lesser
of the two evils, it is better for
them to be engaged in that lesser of
the two evils than to cause more harm
in our society.
So it's not very simple.
Some people just say amr bil ma'ruf
and then take the hadith.
Now they become like the Surna police.
They're like, this is haram, that's wrong.
It's just crazy.
And I found that a lot, honestly.
Alhamdulillah, America doesn't have that so much, even
in Canada, but in the UK.
Oh my God.
UK is like next level.
You go to the wrong masjid, they will
check you up, down, top, bottom, every single
way you can go.
I still remember, I gave a lecture and
I came back to pray.
And then I was doing the salah and
the brother was like, roll up your pants.
I'm about to lead the salah.
And I'm like, you know what brother, you
should come and lead the salah.
And he's like, no, no, you lead, you're
the imam, but roll up your pants.
I was like, you know, let's not make
a scene about this.
You come and lead the salah.
So I moved back.
After the salah, some guy's like, where's your
topi?
And if you go to the other rung,
it's very harsh there.
It's very harsh.
They need to have this lesson.
No, because they're turning away people.
Same thing goes for some other times.
And a lot of the sisters have messaged,
they message on Instagram and stuff, like they'll
go to the masjid for the first time.
Right?
And the person who's there, in all honesty,
he's trying to respect the masjid.
But you don't know where the sister is
coming from.
Maybe this is the first time she entered
the masjid.
Right?
In Atlanta, I had a mother.
After Jummah, she grabbed me and she started
crying.
I told you this before.
She started crying.
And she said to me, Sheikh, you think
Allah is going to accept my son?
I said, what happened?
And then she just started crying and crying
and crying.
And I'm like, I don't know what happened.
And he's like, you know, he was 16
when he entered the masjid in Atlanta.
And somebody scolded him.
And he died at age 32.
And this is the second time he's entered
the masjid as a dead body.
Right?
So when we don't know this, we cause
so much harm in our society.
May Allah protect us.
And may, you know, my Sheikh used to
say, O Allah, do not dispel others from
the deen because of me.
Like, let not me be the source of
pushing others away from me.
Then Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala says, So
the sahib, he says to him, why is
it not that, you know, when you entered,
when you entered your jannah, you should have
said, There is no power without Allah Subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
i.e. all power belongs to Allah.
This statement of la hawla wa la quwwata
illa billah, there are numerous hadiths that are
mentioned about it.
One of them, one of the most profound
ones, is the story of the sahabi and
the mother and the father.
They came to Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And they said to Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
Our son has been captured captive.
You know, he went as a battalion and
he was captured.
What do we do, Ya Rasulullah?
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, You know
what hawqalah is, right?
That's a short form of la hawla wa
la quwwata illa billah.
You know how we say Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim,
we say basmala, right?
Similarly, la hawla wa la quwwata illa billah
is hawqalah.
That's the short form of that.
So now it is on you to say
la hawla wa la quwwata illa billah.
So imagine the yaqeen of these mother and
father.
So they went back.
They sat in their house.
And for the next three days, all they
did, pray, come back, la hawla wa la
quwwata illa billah.
Rasulullah said it.
Bi had yaqeen.
And he said, nothing will bring your son
sooner.
And then there's various narrations about it.
It is from one of the khaza'in.
It has been given from the treasures from
the throne of Allah.
So many hadiths about that.
What happened?
On the third night, the door knocks.
They open the door and it's their son.
And they get so happy.
And they said, come in.
And it's the middle of the night.
And it's like, what happened?
How did you escape?
And he said, last night, as they usually
do, they gave me food.
And the person who gave me food, he
forgot to lock the prison.
And then obviously the father is like, what
are these sounds that I hear?
He said, oh, don't worry about it.
They're not chasing me.
I actually brought all of their camels and
all of their sheeps along with me.
So they went back to Rasulullah ﷺ.
Said, ya Rasulullah, not only did our son
came back, we all became millionaires from their
times.
Then he said to them, tell them what
happened.
It's like, you know, you become, I'm not
telling the story.
You tell your story.
And that's how we got to know the
story.
Right, from the Sahaba.
So la hawla wa la quwwata illa billah
is such a powerful thing, right, in our
society.
I think as people, when we go through
difficulties, la hawla wa la quwwata illa billah
is one of the fastest ways to get
out of trouble.
In tarani ana aqalla minka maalan wa walada
And if you see me, that I have
less offspring, i.e. children, and I don't
have a lot of wealth, don't worry about
this part.
Right, don't worry about this part.
Why?
fa'asa rabbiyan yu'ti'ani khairan min jannatik
I have lots of hope in my Allah.
He can give me khairan min jannatik.
He'll give me a jannah better than your
jannah.
wa yursila AAalayha husbaana minassama And Allah can
send on your jannah, which is in Allah's
control, a thunderbolt.
fatusbiha sa'eedan zalqa So it will turn
into barren wasteland.
Okay.
Zalqa is a land in which if you
pour water, the water just flows over.
It doesn't get absorbed.
Okay.
It doesn't seep in.
There's a very beautiful hadith that is mentioned
in reference to these two surahs.
Ja'far al-Sadiq radiyallahu anhu says, and
Ja'far al-Sadiq radiyallahu anhu, he was
known as alimun bi kunuz al-Quran.
Right, so he had knowledge of all the
treasures of the Quran.
Right, so they used to call him kan
alimun bi kunuz al-Quran.
He was an alim with all the little
secrets and treasures of the Quran.
He knew all of that.
So he said something really interesting.
ajibtu liman khaafa walam yafzaa ila qawli Allahi
ta'ala hasbuna Allahu wa ni'ma al-wakeel
I'm really, I'm really shocked and I find
it very strange that if somebody finds themselves
in a fearful situation, walam yafzaa and they
don't hastenly go back to this ayah of
the Quran, hasbuna Allah, Allah is enough for
us, wa ni'ma al-wakeel and what a
great disposer of affairs he is.
fa inni sami'atu Allah bi aqiba ha
yaqool So I heard Allah Subhanahu wa ta
'ala say after that, what's the ayah after
that?
If you say hasbuna Allah wa ni'ma al
-wakeel Okay fa inqalabu bi ni'ma min Allah
wa fadl walam yamsas hum su If somebody
says hasbuna Allah wa ni'ma al-wakeel ni'ma
al-mawla wa ni'ma al-nasir Allah Subhanahu
wa ta'ala says fa inqalabu So they
returned back i.e. whichever fear, wherever you
were, you would come back bi ni'ma min
Allah You would come back with the bounty
from Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala Right wa
fadl and more than bounty abundance from Allah
Subhanahu wa ta'ala lam yamsas hum su
No harm would have touched them Then he
says and this is the part of this
is why they mentioned this hadith wa ajibtu
liman talabat dunya wa zinataha So I find
it very strange that somebody wants all the
dunya Right?
They want zinataha dunya and all the trinkets
in it and he said sahibu tamuh i
.e. this person has really high resolve tamah
is basically to succeed at all costs sahibu
tamuh fi dunya kayfa la yafza ila qawli
Allah ta'ala How does that person not
go back to the qawla of Allah Subhanahu
wa ta'ala ma sha' Allah la quwata
illa billah This ayah ma sha' Allah la
quwata illa billah Whatever Allah wills and there
is no power other than the power of
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala Why?
Because I heard after that the ayah that
came fa isa rabbi an yu'tiani khayran min
jannah Allah is going to give you something
better than the jannah of your whoever you're
trying to chase whoever you're after whoever you're
trying to get better than you will get
something better than that Right?
So this is a story that's usually mentioned
in different Tafsir books about that aw yusbiha
ma'uha ghawran falanta astati'u lahu talaba
Allah can also do this this water of
yours you know wafajjarna khila lahu ma nahara
We created Right?
The source of the river wafajjarna i.e.
the source of the river was from his
garden So it is very possible that Allah
Subhanahu wa ta'ala can take that water
of yours and it becomes ghawran it completely
goes into the earth falanta astati'u lahu
talaba You're not going to be able to
find it Right?
There's an interesting story mentioned about an Orientalist
in many of the Tafsir books of the
40s and 50s Actually, sorry Tafsir books of
the 30s, 40s and 50s they mention this
Even Sheikh Sha'rawi mentioned this and mentions
this in his recorded Tafsirs and stuff and
the story is that there was an Orientalist
when he came across this ayah he said
this ayah does not make sense and as
he was having a conversation with some of
the group of ulama he said wa'ana
astati lahu talaba I can bring the water
if Allah takes the water away like what
kind of this is a geology very simple
we'll dig a borehole and we'll just bring
water out what kind of miraculous what are
you talking about if Allah Subhanahu wa ta
'ala takes away the water that's not possible
so the ulama they say the minute he
said that is not possible fa gharat miyahu
ayni his water of his eyes disappeared at
that moment and there were 17 or 18
scholars who all witnessed that in the 60s
or 70s and for the rest of his
life he was dependent on eyedrops he had
to put saline eyedrops every 15 minutes to
keep his eyes wet right so you know
and this is how it also tells us
that you know any people who have this
arrogant attitude towards the Qur'an sometimes what
is this old people stuff what are you
guys reading about 1500 years what is this
like when we have these type of lashing
out against the Qur'an should be very
careful about that it can come back and
haunt us it can come back and a
lot because this is the kalam of Allah
can't joke about this so what happened Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala took away his prosperity
and uhita basically means that Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala's decree completely encompassed him notice the
imagery here his Jannah Allah had given him
Allah gave him a garden that was completely
surrounded and Allah then surrounded his garden with
his will the subtle imagery here and this
is called balawa that you know the first
you were given a garden and then the
decree of Allah then encompassed you and that
garden was of no avail to you all
of that prosperity disappeared and all he was
doing is taking his hand moving his hands
like this because he had spent all of
his wealth in building that prosperity and it
had collapsed on its trellises on the roofs
and what was he saying?
I wish I had not associated anybody else
with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala anyone else
now he comes back now he affirms that
this was my Rabb he is my Rabb
now he affirms that he is my Rabb
over here the ulema they say that this
part because he was a Muslim right?
this was shirk of not shirk akbar this
was not he didn't say there is no
Allah this was that he took his money
his wealth his career his life all of
those things that distract us from Allah he
almost equated them as gods in his life
he may not have verbally said these are
my gods but he lived his life like
that an example of that is for example
one of the parents came to me for
the class that we were doing last night
and they were like our kids have exams
our kids have this and that and you
know doing these classes on the weekdays is
you know it's not practical I said so
tell me what is practical he said you
know we should only do deen on the
weekend and I'm like I have to talk
about this and I said listen brother I'm
going to tell you something everything else that
you are doing with your kids don't matter
anything in front of Allah you take them
to a soccer game don't matter anything in
front of Allah and if we cannot take
out one day a week during the weekday
for Allah then who are we fooling right
people who want to do their MBA they
take out what you know part time MBAs
you got to do two days during the
weekdays and you got to go on the
weekend executive MBAs right people give that much
and then you have to do assignments on
top of that and then you pay $50
,000 to go and do that or $100
,000 I don't know how much our MBA
is now $100,000 Georgia Tech you don't
know okay I think they are at least
$100,000 but again people pay money to
go and do that MBA does that MBA
guarantee money no it's a false promise that
was sold Allah is not selling us a
false promise right so this shirk is very
scary because it is the shirk which is
called shirk asghar right it's the the subtle
associations that we do sometimes even in worshipping
circles when we start praying because we want
to make sure that everybody else knows that
I'm a guy who comes to that's shirk
asghar shirk khafi it comes in it enters
in our ibadah it enters in every single
aspect of our worship and may Allah protect
us from that right this is so scary
because you don't know if my amal your
amal our class our coming my teaching all
of that is even accepted Abdullah Ibn Masud
he used to say if I know that
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has accepted from
me one sajda I will be happy so
he said why he said because Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala says because Allah only accepts
from the Muttaqi if I know that one
of my sajda is accepted at least I
will have a surety that I have entered
that element of taqwa right Abdullah Ibn Masud
Abdullah Ibn Umar he was sitting with Hudaifa
Ibn Yaman so Umar got up to pray
so Hudaifa grabbed him and he said don't
read the janazah what did he say that
munafiq he grabbed Umar and he said so
he looked at him and he said is
he from the list and he said and
then he started crying and he said am
I on that list am I on that
list am I on that and Hudaifa said
you're not on the list and from this
day onwards I will not ever tell anyone
not to get up because he felt like
he broke the promise of the Rasulullah so
this is something so scary for us that
this small shirk you have to be very
very careful about and this is the reality
when we trust and when we give all
of our reins to human beings when we
entrust all of our worship and ibadah to
other things or when we do it for
other reasons other causes then you will have
nobody left to support you you will not
have anyone that can support you other than
Allah and Allah is like the reality was
he was never going to be helped this
is the crux of the entire story
where Allah says that moment when you and
I we realize there is going to be
nobody who is going to help us you
have lost hope from every single person every
single person in your life every single individual
that you trusted everyone has let you down
at that very moment we come to this
realization or we should come to this realization
that's where the true support of Allah only
comes when we recognize that we have no
support other than Allah when we recognize that
we're not going to get any help that's
when the true help comes right Yunus A
.S. in the belly of the whale right
in the depths of the ocean darkness upon
darkness upon darkness that level when he recognized
there is no one what did he say
there's nobody that can get me out of
here you're sanctified I was at fault okay
and similarly when Rasulullah S.A.W. was
in Taif right and Aisha A.S. asked
what was the most difficult day for you
he said when your qawm when they kicked
me out and then when they kicked me
out what happened I went to Taif and
they rejected me and when the angel came
and he said I'm going to take the
two mountains and crush the city of Prophet
of Allah if you give me the command
right he said inshallah there will be people
that will come from their progeny that will
say la ilaha illallah and leave them that's
when he gave up all the hope right
and when he gave up all the hope
at that moment that's where Allah S.W
.T. right after that took him where Israa
when he like there was nobody who was
going to help him he lost his uncle
he lost Khadijah he lost all support he
can't go back into Mecca he has no
refuge you know where how is he going
to use that moment when all support ended
for him that's where Allah's initial support began
right and this is what Allah does when
we are at the lowest moments you know
as one of my teachers used to say
when you are at the lowest part when
Allah sends you to the deepest parts of
the ocean of your life and keeps you
there then he wants you to grab some
gems from
the
ocean and wants you to go deepest part
of the ocean and sends you to the
deepest part ocean and he sends you
to part of the ocean till
the part of the and sends of the
about yeah I'm not going to skip all
of this so I think we'll stop over
here inshallah just because I think the next
method is again another example another parable and
there's a lot of parallels and I had
a presentation ready but I think we can
get to that today we'll get to that
about why our life is like water and
then some of the recent research not recent
it's pretty old actually but maybe some people
have forgotten I think it was in 2006
or 7 so we'll do that inshallah next
time if anybody has any questions about this
or any comments feel free to ask yes
because the focus is on dunya so it
focused on the one who had dunya and
towards the end it focused on the one
who was trying to rectify him right but
then the next example is also about dunya
right and remember the connection was that you
know the two classes before we talked about
that the connection was that the Quraysh came
to Prophet ﷺ where the surah Surah Kahf
says that's where Prophet ﷺ was commanded to
go and sit with the poor people right
why because the rich people didn't want and
then Allah told them then the entire conversation
about dunya happens and then Allah is like
here's an example of somebody who lived his
life for dunya and an example of somebody
both had similar starts one invested his entire
life and focus in dunya so much so
that he forgot Allah and the other kept
the dunya at bay worked whichever whatever you
know he had to work with but then
didn't focus on that but focus on his
akhirah and never forgot Allah in the process
right and then the next example is really
interesting but I don't want to skip that
because I've collected a lot of information on
how our life is like water because the
whole point of the method Allah is like
the light the primary example and then I
want to do that as a collective discussion
so you know the example of our life
is like water but let's just pause here
how is my life like water do you
ever think about that and it's water come
out and until now home in a summer
but let's just pause and think how is
life like water in the first place right
and then we'll do a lot of that
you know I have around eight or nine
major points and then you know we'll learn
from everybody else inshallah here and then inshallah
we'll stop next let next week the class
would be at seven time is changing so
we'll all pray maghrib at home we'll come
here we'll start the class at seven and
it will go straight from seven all the
way to isha and then then we don't
have to end by nine so we can
do even longer classes yeah so we can
finish the surah faster because at this pace
then if you guys have time we can
push push to like an hour hour and
15 okay so then since you guys come
you may as well benefit a little bit
more inshallah excellent yes please they
are two brothers but they're also talking about
his sohbah that you know the brother sometimes
you have brothers that you may not have
sohbah right so he was also his friend
no it's an actual brother so in the
tafsir books it says that there are two
brothers from the same father and they were
left inheritance and they both started at the
same spot no it's the same brother the
same conversation it's the same brother but the
brother is being denoted as a sahib that
you're you're sometimes you have a brother that's
a really friendly but you have friendship with
your brother right yeah so it's still the
same two people okay anybody else yes because
he placed that mile in a position where
Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala should only be there
actually by the way what you call the
book of a he and coffee right that
the second tafsir of that is he had
everything ruined and the money that he had
if you read the second tafsir of that
it says what you call the book of
a and coffee that he was taking his
money and he was like what happened that's
the second tafsir of that the minute you
ask this question that came where you call
the book of a is referring to that
like he was like so engulfed in this
worship that even when that happened he went
back to his money and he's like what
happened to my money and he was still
tossing that money and we see this all
the time right may Allah protect us from
that level of dunya and that entrenchment of
dunya sometimes that you know we you know
yeah it's a it's sad I'm sorry
you have to end the battery's gonna die
the less only concerned about that all right
inshallah so we'll praise salatul isha together and
inshallah for next week seven o'clock we'll
start over here and we will have arrangements
for dinner just for next week that continues
but we'll be arranging dinners inshallah allahumma salli
wa sallim ala nabina muhammad wa ala alihi
wa sahbihi wa sallim tasliman kathira wa barik
allahumma ala muhammadi wa ala ali muhammad kama
barakta ala ibrahim wa ala ala ibrahim wa
ala ala ibrahim wa ala ala ala ibrahim
wa ala ala ala ala ala ala ala
ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala
ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala
ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala
ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala
ala ala ala ala ala ala ala ala
ala ala ala ala
ala oh allah allow us to be able
to connect with the quran and its understanding
on every day oh allah we give you
we ask you for tawfiq to be able
to recite the quran every single day in
the way that you are pleased with us
oh allah if any one of us are
struggling with understanding the quran then open our
hearts towards this understanding for verily abu jahl
understood arabic better than us but his heart
was closed oh allah open our hearts so
we're able to understand the quran and the
nur and the light of this quran can
illuminate us and guide us we ask you
oh allah that we are weak servants of
yours our hearts are all locked up with
our sins oh allah free our hearts and
unshackle them from the shackles of the sin
and allow us to be illuminated with the
light of the quran