Ahmad Saleem – In-depth Tafseer of Surah Kahf – Understanding Quranic Lessons – Part 10
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The transcript discusses various topics related to Islam, including parables, wealth, and property ownership. Thum advisor is a former colleague of Thum's and discusses his health and family. The conversation also touches on shayima and the need for people to submit to someone for testimony, while the importance of shayima and protecting people from mistakes is emphasized. The conversation also touches on issues related to Islam, including the importance of protecting people and avoiding false statements, and the challenges of pursuing MBA classes during the pandemic. The sh spellings of Islam and their potential consequences are also discussed.
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Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem A'udhu billahi
minash shaitanir rajeem Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem
Rabbi sharaf li sadri wa yassir li amri
wa ahlul uqtatan min lisani wa yafqahu qawli
Rabbana zidana ilman ya kareem JazakAllah khair for
coming inshaAllah.
We are going to start our session.
Last time we stopped at ayah number 36
of Surah Al-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, just
we'll do a running translation, we've done the
detail last time.
A'udhu billahi minash shaitanir rajeem Bismillah ar
-Rahman ar-Raheem Wa adh-dhrib lahum mathalar
wajulayna wa a'udhu billahi minash shaitanir rajeem
wa a'udhu billahi minash shaitanir rajeem Bismillah
ar-Rahman ar-Raheem Akafarta
billadhi khalaqaka min turabin thumma min
nutfatin thumma sawaka rajula Bismillah
ar-Rahman ar-Raheem Bismillah wa alhamdulillah wa
as-salatu wa as-salamu ala Rasulillahi wa
baak So this is one of the many
parables that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A
'la 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 Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A
'la says wa adh-dhrib lahum And strike
for them an example Mathala rajulayni, the example
of two rajulayni, two men Ja'alna li
ahadihima jannatayni One of them we had created
for them jannatayni, two gardens Min a'nabin
These gardens were of grapes Wa hafafnahuma binakhlin
And they were surrounded by palm trees Nakhl
is specifically palm trees that bear fake palms
Wa ja'alna baynahuma zar'a And we
had created in between them i.e. between
the two gardens Crops for them, his private
garden Whatever he wanted Kiltal jannatayni aatat ukulaha
Walam tadhlim minhu shay'a Both of these
gardens, they Based on the effort that he
had put in Aatat ukulaha They provided the
produce and the yield As per the effort
that was given Walam tadhlim minhu shay'a
There was no shortfall i.e. whatever effort
was given, that's what was received Wafajjarna khilalahuma
nahra Allah had caused a river to flow
between the two gardens The source, Allah says
Wafajjarna, which means The ra'asun naba The
source of the river started from his garden
Wakana lahu thamarun And he had thamar He
had resources We said thamar can be recited
how many ways?
Thumrun Thumurun Thumrun, thumurun and thamarun When it
is thamarun, it refers to Produce, i.e.
yield from a crop But if you recite
thumrun or thumurun Which is the majority recitation,
we read the minority opinion Most of the
Qur'an have recited it Wakana lahu thumurun
Or Wakana lahu thumrun And when you say
the word thumrun Bi dhammi thaa With dhamma
or paish on the thaa And on mean,
then it means Malun kathia Lots of wealth
And it says Al mukhtalif al naqdayn 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 Any form of asset Thumrun Faqala
li sahibihi So he said to his sahib
Wahuwa yuhawiruhu 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 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 And
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 Right?
And similarly it also means To return back
to something Right?
Wadanna allay Yahoor They thought they're not gonna
come back There was gonna be no return
to Allah So yahoor also means To be
able to go back to your origin Okay?
Wahuwa yuhawiruhu He was trying to convince him
To go back to his original understanding Or
Wahuwa yuhawiruhu He was in a conversation In
an alternation state Of back and forth Ana
aksaru min kamalan I have a lot more
money than you Wa aazzuna faran 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 Wadakhala jannatahu Wahuwa zalimun linafsihi So he
entered in his jannah His garden Wahuwa zalimun
linafsihi 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 Wadakhala jannatahu He entered his
garden But the state was Wahuwa zalimun linafsihi
He was a transgressor Upon himself The second
is That a person may be given Everything
by Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala And he
believes in Allah But he says Who cares?
Sanuki Right?
The seven successful keys Of Punjabi You guys
heard that?
So Manuki Who cares?
Whatever Doesn't matter to me Whatever happens Doesn't
matter So Zalimun linafsihi That when you transgress
And you said Who cares?
I really don't care about The boundaries of
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala May Allah protect
this man Qala maa adhunnu anta biida Hathihi
abada 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 taught 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 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 To take him to ER
And the doctors tell him That you've got
24 hours to live And on Sunday We
prayed janazah on him But what was really
shocking For me to remember Is that we
can have Two types of ends 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 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 And if I ended up
Going back to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala
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 sabah 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 Right
It could be your spouse But better yet
Sometimes it is better To have a friend
Who can put you in check Say Listen
man You're crossing the line 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 like How you need
to have mentors Who can actually Wake you
up sometimes Out of your Weird Weirdness Qala
lahu sahibuhu 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 Okay
Haywan means human beings Or genre Insan or
animal Doesn't matter Insan Any living thing Makan
You can have sahib You know Any place
that Sahibul makan Sahib And then zaman Right
So Rasulullah salallahu alayhi wasalam And sahaba They
were sahib of zaman And they were also
sahib of makan Right They were there So
And this sohbah The word sahib Doesn't actually
have to be Materialistic sohbah 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 sohbah is Ma
'nawiya It's not They're not physically with you
Right But they have this inaya and care
for you So it's a very deep concept
Sahiba But you know 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 khalaqa
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
We said the word kafir Right Kafara is
to cover Right And that's where you get
the word cover from In English too Cover
To cover something So he covered Akafarta billathi
khalaqa 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 insan Right Who created
that first insan?
Right And then you can have the argument
Akafarta billathi khalaqa ka min turabin You were
created with turab Thumma min nutfatin Then from
a drop of * Then thumma sawaka rajula
And then Allah fashioned you Sawaka He fashioned
you Rajulan An absolutely perfect man Full man
Sawaka basically means Takhliqus shay bil ihsan To
manufacture or create something With absolute perfection To
create something with absolute perfection And specifically sawaka
Is to create something To create something with
absolute perfection For the required task Takhliqus shay
bil ihsanin li ada'il wajib That's the
part of sawaka 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 Right Thumma
sawaka rajula Ya Allah Then
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala says Lakinna huwal
laahu rabbi 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 rabbi
So he's reminding him That Allah is my
creator Okay What is the difference between Allah
And Rab Rab 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 Rab
We have to submit to him Because he
has given us aqal And that aqal necessitates
And Allah demands from us Our submission Your
aqal was given to you So you submit
La'allakum No Surah At-Tabarak Allahumma salli
ala Muhammad No no no Surah At-Tabarak
The first three ayahs Allahumma salli ala Muhammad
Allathee khalaqal mawta wal hayata 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 aqal If a person
does not have aqal Ghair aqal Does not
have a test So aqal is the Manatul
takleef They say this is the Essence of
what makes you responsible In the eyes of
Allah Subhanallah So Allah is the one that
demands After giving you aqal The submission So
he's trying to remind him Allah has given
you aqal And he demands for you a
submission Rabbi 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 aqeedah Right He is 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 subhanahu wa ta'ala At
what point Does it become wajib On me
to tell somebody that they're wrong Okay 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 subhanahu wa ta'ala 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 Okay As Imam Ghazali also
mentions this It becomes wajib So if I
say to someone Listen Your socks are torn
You can't 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 Right 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 Okay 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 Right 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 don't
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
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 Okay
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 Because they're drinking Right 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
evil It is better for them to be
engaged In that lesser of the two evil
Than to cause more harm In our society
Right So it's not very simple Some people
just say Amr bil ma'ruf And then
take the hadith Now they become like The
Sudanese police Right 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 They're like I'm about to
lead the salah And I'm like You know
what brother You should come and lead the
salah Right 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 is your
topi?
Like they have no And if you go
to the other rung It's just 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 of the
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 And
somebody 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 Oh
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 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 There are numerous hadiths that
are mentioned about 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 Prophet 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 Rasulallah 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 Right You
know how Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim We say basmala
Right Similarly La hawla wa la quwwata illa
billah Is hawqalah Right That's the short form
of that So not 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 Ya
Rasulallah said it Bi had yaqeen And he
said Nothing will bring your son sooner And
then there's various narrations about it You know
It is from the One of the khaza
'in It has been given from the The
treasures From the throne of Allah Subhanahu wa
ta'ala 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 Rasulallah He said Ya Rasulallah Not only
did our son came back We all became
millionaires 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 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?
I have lots of hope In my Allah
He can give me He'll give me a
Jannah Better than your Jannah And Allah can
send On your Jannah Which is in Allah's
control A thunderbolt Saeedan 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 RadhiAllahu Anhu He says And Ja'far
al-Sadiq RadhiAllahu Anhu He was He was
known as Alimun Bikunuzil Quran Right So he
had knowledge Of all the treasures Of the
Quran Right So they used to call him
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 A'jibtu A'jibtu liman khaafa Walam
yafza' Ila qawli Allahi ta'ala HasbunaAllahu wa
ni'ma alwakeel I'm really I'm really shocked And
I find it very strange That if somebody
Finds Themselves In a fearful situation Walam yafza'
And they don't Hastenly go back To this
ayah Of the Quran HasbunaAllahu Allah is enough
For us Wa ni'ma alwakeel And what a
great Disposer of affairs He is Right So
I heard Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala Say
after that What's the ayah After that If
you say HasbunaAllahu wa ni'ma alwakeel Okay If
somebody says HasbunaAllahu wa ni'ma alwakeel Ni'ma almawla
Wa ni'ma alnasir Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala
Says Fankalabu So they returned back I.e.
whichever fear Wherever you were You would come
back Bini'matin minAllah You would come back With
the bounty From Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala
Right Wafadhul And more than bounty Abundance From
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala Lam yamsas humsoo
No harm Would have touched them Then he
says And this is the part of This
is why they mention this hadith So I
find it very strange That somebody wants All
the dunya Right You want zinataha Dunya And
all the trinkets in it And he said
I.e. this person has Really high resolve
Tamah Is basically to succeed At all costs
Dunya How does that person Not go back
to the Qaul of Allah Subhanahu wa ta
'ala This ayah 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 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 qursi
books About that Allah can also do this
This water of yours We created Right The
source of the river 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
You're not going to be Able to find
it Right There's an interesting story Mentioned about
An orientalist And many of the Tafsir books
In the Of the 40s and 50s Actually
sorry Tafsir books of the 30s, 40s and
50s They mention this Even Shaykh Shaarawi 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 And as he was Having a
conversation With some of the group Of ulama
He said I can bring the water If
Allah Takes the water away Like what kind
of This is a Geology Very simple We'll
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 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 Eye drops He had to put Saline
eye drops Every 15 minutes To keep his
Eyes wet Right So You know And this
is how It also tells us That any
people Who have this Arrogant attitude Towards the
Quran 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 Quran We
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 Has decreed Completely
Encompassed Him Notice the Imagery here His Jannah
Allah had given Him A garden That was
Completely Surrounded Right And Allah Then surrounded His
garden With His Will The subtle Imagery here
Right And we call This Right 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 Ability
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 With
my Rabb Now he Comes back Now he
Affirms That this Was my Rabb He is
my Rabb Now he Affirms That he Affirmed
This Part Because He was A Muslim Right
This was Shirk of not Shirk Akbar 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 you know for the
class that we're doing last night and and
then they were like you know they were
they're like you know 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's like you
know we should only do being on the
weekend and I'm like I have to talk
about this and I said I said listen
brother I'm gonna tell you something everything else
that you're doing with your kids don't matter
anything in front of a loss of having
you take them to a soccer game don't
matter anything in front of a loss of
having fun and if we cannot take out
one day a week during the weekday for
a loss of Hanawa Taala then who are
we fooling right people who want to do
their MBA to take out what you know
part-time MBAs you've 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 there 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 a shirk.
That's shirk asghar.
Shirk khafi.
It comes in it's 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 Mas'ud 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've entered that element of taqwa
right Abdullah ibn Mas'ud.
Abdullah ibn Umar he was sitting with Hudaifa
ibn Yaman so Abdullah ibn Umar got up
to pray so Hudaifa grabbed him and said
don't don't read the janazah well who why
did he say that when I think he
grabbed Umar and he said so he looked
at him and he said who are and
he is like is he from the list
and he said naam and then he started
crying and he said Anshuduka billahi ya Hudaifa.
Am I on that list?
Am I on that list?
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 salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
So this is something so scary for us
that this small shirk you have to be
very very careful about.
walam takun lahu fiatun yansuroonahu min doon Allah.
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.
walam takun lahu fiatun yansuroonahu min doon Allah.
You will not have anyone that can support
you other than Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And Allah is like wama kana muntasir.
The reality was he was never going to
be helped anyways.
Hunalikal walayatu lillahi alhaq.
This is the crux of the entire story
where Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala 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 Hunalikal walayatu lillahi alhaq.
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 wama kana muntasir or
we're not gonna get any help that's when
the true help comes.
Yunus Alayhi Salaam in the belly of the
whale right in the depths of the ocean.
Dhulmatin fawqa dhulmat.
Darkness upon darkness upon darkness.
That level when he recognized there is no
one.
What did he say?
La ilaha illa anta subhana.
La ilaha illa anta.
There's nobody that can get me out of
here.
La ilaha illa anta subhana.
You're sanctified.
Inni kuntu minAllah.
I was at fault.
And similarly when Rasulullah Sallallahu alayhi wasallam was
in Ta'if and Ayesha radhiyallahu anhu asked
what was the most difficult day for you
he said when your qawm akhrajuni when they
kicked me out and then when they kicked
me out what happened I went to Ta
'if and they rejected me and when the
angel came and he said la atbaqtu alayhim
alakhshabayn I'm going to take the two mountains
and crush the city o 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 subhanahu
wa ta'ala right after that took him
where?
Isra wal mi'raj.
When he like there was nobody who was
gonna help him he lost his uncle he
lost Khadijah radhiyallahu he lost all support he
can't go back into Makkah he has no
refuge you know where how is he going
to be 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 to grab
some gems from the seafloor because when you
will come back up you will come with
a lot of gems and and a lot
of pearls of wisdom that will you will
be able to part for the rest of
your life now after this Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala he starts the next part which
is the second method should we get into
the second method times how many minutes are
we done okay
I
don't want to rush through this the next
method because the next muscle has a lot
for us to unpack the next method has
a lot to unpack yeah I think I'm
gonna pause here because I don't want to
skip a lot of this that is over
here about yeah I'm not gonna skip all
of this so I think we'll stop over
here inshallah just because I think the next
method is again another example and another parable
was a bit of a home but I
don't have to do Nia and and there's
a lot of parallels and I had a
presentation ready but I think we can get
to that today I will get to that
about why our life is like water and
some of the recent research not recent it's
pretty old actually but maybe some people have
forgotten I think is in 2006 or 7
so we'll do that inshallah last time if
anybody has any questions about this or any
comments feel free to ask yes because
the focus is on dunya so I 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 sallallahu alayhi wa sallam where the surah
says what's good enough so come out of
you know you don't know that's where promises
them was commanded to go and sit with
the poor people right why because the rich
people didn't want and then Allah Allah told
him what I do I don't know 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 Allah I never forgot a
lot in the process and then the next
example will go to the home method of
Hayati dunya 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 allies 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 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 Mina sama
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 in trouble here and then
next next week the class would be at
7 time is changing so we'll all pray
Maghreb at home we'll come here we'll start
the class at 7 and it will go
straight from 7 all the way to Aisha
and then then we don't have to end
by 9 so we can do even longer
classes yeah so we can finish the sewer
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 trauma 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 right 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 can leave
a cafe he a llama and for 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 well you can leave
a cafe a llama and for 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 well you can leave a cafe 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 one right 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 it's sad