Ahmad Saleem – Tafseer Surah Kahf – Deep Dive into Quranic Lessons #18

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In the next ayah, Allah ﷻ says that,
فَمَصْطَعُوا أَن يَظْهَرُوهُ وَمَا اسْتَطَعُوا لَهُ نَقْبًا That
they were not able to overcome this or
scale the wall, and neither were they able
to tunnel through it.
And we talked about the hadith that Prophet
ﷺ, he says, one of them is going
to be digging and digging and digging until
they see the Shu'a, until they see
the sun of our earth.
And they're going to be like, alhamdulillah.
Now we have reached, let's come back tomorrow
and we'll finish the job.
And Allah ﷻ will make it, أَشَدْ مَا
كَانَ مِن قَبْلِ Allah will make it stronger
than what it was the day before yesterday.
So every single day that they are digging,
the wall is stronger than the day before.
From the time of what?
From the time they've been put behind.
So the day that they are going to
be able to break through, the only thing
that will help them is not their physical
strength.
But the fact that they will say what?
Insha'Allah.
Right?
They will say, insha'Allah, غَدًا tomorrow we
will be able to overcome it.
And then they will enter.
And then we also talked about...
By the way, there's a very nice article
in Arabic by Yusuf ibn Wabil.
Yusuf ibn Abdullah al-Wabil.
Or Yusuf al-Wabil.
He has this article called Ashrat al-Sa
'ah in Arabic.
But the beauty is that he actually has
chronologically described all of the events.
It's an article, but he made it very
simple about how this happened.
So he talks about this Ya'juj Ma
'juj.
And he talks about that, that they are
going to be...
As soon as we see Ya'juj Ma
'juj happening, we know that the last ten
major signs are like what?
Like beads that have been placed into a
tasbih.
If one of them comes, the rest of
them are going to fall like beads.
Like one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight, nine, ten.
And we'll get to all the ten Ashrat,
the major signs.
Then he says, Dhul-Qarnayn, Qala hadha rahmatun
min rabbi.
The fact that I was able to build
and I was able to block all of
this.
I was able to prevent them from coming
into this earth.
This ability of mine is nothing but rahmat
from Allah SWT.
And likewise as a believer, any ability of
ours we attribute it not to ourselves, but
to the mercy of Allah SWT.
Fa-itha ja'a wa'du rabbi And when
the promise or the hour is going to
come, when this wall will be broken, Ja
'alahu dakka Allah will allow it.
Allah will allow it and it will become
leveled.
Wa kaana wa'du rabbi haqqa And the promise
of my Rabb is ever true.
Then Allah talks about Ya'juj Ma'juj.
And He says, Wa tarakna ba'dahum yawma idheen
yamujoo fee ba'd On that day, we would
let them surge in waves one upon another.
The imagery that Allah is trying to tell
us is if you've ever seen scenes of
people fleeing from somewhere.
If there was a mass crowd and they're
fleeing, what happens?
People running on top.
If you've ever seen those hajj, where there
was a rampage in hajj.
Any of that.
I actually witnessed one.
I was not doing hajj but I was
with my father.
We were in Mecca.
We went to visit somebody in Mina.
And we were literally saved by like few
seconds.
And then the next day we heard the
news that that big rampage that happened in
2014 where so many people died due to
a rampage.
We were there that time.
And literally we squeezed through that gate and
they were closing because people lost it.
And when people lose that, then it's almost
impossible.
And sometimes that's why a lot of people,
they have a lot of criticism of the
Saudi government.
And they'll be like, Oh, you know what?
Look, they're making you go into one way
and stuff.
But you have to understand that the amount
of Muslims and the amount of people that
come there, recorded is three million.
The ones who have entered illegally, we don't
know how many.
But despite that, the flow never stops.
Nobody suffocates.
And if you've ever been to Mecca in
Ramadan, you will know.
A friend of mine, we were in the
25th.
And I remember we were there.
We're like, okay, let's go to the bathroom
and come back.
We never got to, we never could come
back.
Because they have done in such a way
that you're going to exit.
And for you to be able to get
back in line, it's almost impossible.
So similarly, that scene, when a rampage happens
and one people, they shove each other and
they're on top of another, that's what Allah
is saying, that when Ya'juj and Ya
'juj are going to come, Allah will allow
them to literally pillage and rampage this earth.
That's one meaning of it.
That's one meaning.
The second meaning is Allah is going to
allow the kuffar.
Allah will allow the kuffar to surge like
waves in this earth and believers will be
left and they will be dwindled.
Nothing will happen.
And the third is jamee'ul khala'iq.
The third meaning of this, ...
Some are going to surge like waves on
others.
A'ee jamee'ul khala'iq.
It's going to be animals and stuff.
And that if you take the third opinion
that it's everything, then it is talking about
the day of judgment.
When qiyama is going to happen, it's going
to be utter chaos.
Everything is going to be on top of
everything.
...
And then Allah SWT says on that day,
...
On that day the trumpet is going to
be blown.
How many times is the trumpet going to
be blown?
Two times.
Which one is this one?
...
Second one.
And we all know that since Allah SWT
from the day Allah SWT has created Israfil
AS, he has been sitting with his trumpet
in his mouth from the day Allah has
created him.
He is waiting for Allah's command.
He has the trumpet in his mouth and
he's just waiting.
Allah is going to give me command any
minute now.
That's the only task he has.
When he is going to blow the trumpet,
everything is going to be destroyed except eight
things.
...
No.
Eight things will be left.
So they call it everlasting things.
Eight things, once they are created, they will
never be destroyed.
What are they?
And they are in pairs.
It's easy to remember.
Qalam.
Ruh.
Arsh.
Kursi.
Where's seven?
Last one.
The backbone.
The zanaba.
The sacrum of our body.
Those eight things, once they come into existence,
they never get destroyed.
So everything is going to be destroyed and
there will be four angels left after the
trumpet is blown.
The four main angels.
And then Allah SWT, one by one, each
one is going to die.
Who's going to be the last one to
die?
Malakunna.
Good one.
And then Allah is going to take his
life.
Who's going to be the first one to
come back?
No.
Israfil AS.
That's where this happens.
He will be brought back the first time
and then Allah is going to command him
and then everything else is going to come.
Who will be the first one to be
resurrected from human beings?
Prophet Muhammad SAW.
And when he is going to be awakened,
what is he going to see?
Musa AS.
He's going to see Musa AS holding on
to the leg of the Arsh of Allah
SWT.
And he says, I don't know.
Prophet SAW said, I don't know.
I'm not sure if he ever died or
not.
Was he resurrected?
Because I'm the first one that's going to
be resurrected.
And when I will be resurrected, the first
thing I'm going to see is Musa AS
is already there.
And he's holding on to the leg of
the Arsh of Allah.
Why do you think that happened?
The ulema have given the answer that he
already had the sa'iqa when he asked
Allah SWT, show me yourself.
He said, look at the mountain.
If that mountain sustains itself, then you will
be able to see me.
And what happened?
Everyone died.
Then Allah resurrected him back.
So some ulema say that because of that,
because of that thing, it was that the
qiyamah would not affect him.
Because he has experienced something much higher than
qiyamah in this world.
Allah knows best.
These are all things.
And these are ghaybiyat.
We must believe in it.
Then Allah SWT says after that, وَعَرَضْنَا جَهَنَّمَ
يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْكَافِرِينَ عَرْضًا Now, this is something really
powerful.
Allah SWT says that on the day, on
that day, we will display the *.
Imagine something being displayed, put on display for
all the kafirs.
This is where you're headed.
And that's where Ibn Al-Qayyim says that
on that day, they will be taken.
وَسِيقَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا إِلَىٰ جَهَنَّمَ زُمَرًا They will
be taken in groups.
These are all the munafiqs.
These are all the backbiters.
These are all the things.
زُمَر In groups.
And SubhanAllah, he says, and there will be
people in those groups.
All the atham, all the major sins, there
will be a group for those people.
They will all be taken towards Jahannam.
They will be able to hear, they will
be able to hear the screams of Jahannam.
When they are a distance of how many
years?
40 years far.
So they're able to see Jahannam in front
of them.
And that's what Allah is saying that we
will present Jahannam to them.
يَوْمَئِذٍ On that day.
لِلْكَافِرِينَ For the kafir, عَرْضًا It is going
to be a clear display.
This is where the hadith of Prophet ﷺ
allows us to visualize this better.
Prophet ﷺ said that إِنَّ لِجَهَنَّمَ سَبْعُونَ أَلْفَذْ
إِمَامًا Jahannam has 70,000 rains.
70,000 rains.
And in each rain, how many angels are
there?
70,000.
And if Allah SWT lets it go, i
.e. if it's not controlled by all of
these angels, then it will eat alive everything
that Allah SWT has created.
لَا يَتُرُكُ بَرًّا وَلَا فَاجِرًا Good or bad.
Evil doesn't matter.
It does not have the ability to distinguish.
Jahannam.
Who are these kafir?
Who are these disbelievers?
Allah SWT says, الَّذِينَ كَانَتْ أَعْيُنُهُمْ فِي غِطَاءٍ
عَنْ ذِكْرِ First quality Allah says, الَّذِينَ, these
are the people, كَانَتْ أَعْيُنُهُمْ Their eyes were
فِي غِطَاءٍ عَنْ ذِكْرِ Their eyes were veiled
from My remembrance.
وَكَانُوا لَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ سَمْعًا And they were not
able to withstand سَمْعًا Hearing of what?
Any Qur'an or anything of this nature.
When it was recited, they were not able
to hear those messages.
I remember this ayah became so, like at
that time when, I don't know if you
guys saw that podcast when Muhammad Hijab did
a podcast with Jordan Peterson.
And then he asked, he said, let me
recite some Qur'an to you.
He heard the Qur'an, he translated the
Qur'an, and then the first thing Jordan,
you see his face change, and he's like,
why did you recite?
Like he questions him, why did you recite?
Why are you doing that?
There are people who have this adverse reaction.
Similarly, I was once with a group of
our friends and we had rented like a
Coptic church hall for some marriage or some
Walima or something like that.
They had a banquet hall and they were
doing it as a service.
And I remember, I remember we were there
and we met the main head priest of
the Coptic, Baba Shenouda.
He passed away now.
So do you remember, anybody remembers Baba Shenouda?
He was like a very well-known, reputable
figure.
So he passed away.
And we were with him.
And when we were with him at that
time, my friend, he said, okay, he started
complaining, he started talking to us about like,
you know, Isa Ibn Maryam.
And then my friend is like, okay, let
me recite some Surah Maryam.
So back in the day, we didn't have
phones.
We had those small blue Qur'ans that
you can take out of your things and
you can actually recite.
So he always carried, my friend always carried
that Qur'an with him.
So he said, he started reciting Surah Maryam.
He's like, qif, qif, stop, stop, don't do
this.
Like the reaction this person had.
Because he's Arab.
He understands Qur'an.
He knows that it will affect him.
He was like, stop, stop, stop.
And literally the other day, when we went
to Canada, me and him, we were talking
about this.
He's like, you remember that reaction?
And this is what Allah has encapsulated.
That these are people, they can hear, but
they are not able to bear the message
of the Qur'an.
They can't have, they don't have the ability
to listen to the truth that the Qur
'an tells them.
It's very harsh for them.
Very hard for them.
And the other quality Allah says, that the
remembrance of Allah, the signs of Allah SWT
spread out all throughout.
You don't need to go far to be
able to discover where Allah SWT's power and
His Majesty.
But their eyes were veiled.
غِطَعًا أَنذِكْرِ Allah has placed His signs everywhere,
but they were not able to pick up
on the signs.
They were blinded.
الَّذِينَ كَانَتَ عَيُنُهُمْ فِي غِطَعٍ أَنذِكْرِ The second
meaning of this is, if you take the
meaning of kafir over here, as an ungrateful
or an ingrate.
Somebody who was a Muslim, but he was
not kafir in the sense of kafir disbelief,
but kafir in the sense of somebody who
was ingrate.
Then that person, الَّذِينَ كَانَتَ عَيُنُهُمْ فِي غِطَعٍ
أَنذِكْرِ A Muslim whose heart has been veiled
from the remembrance of Allah SWT.
He doesn't remember Allah.
Allah SWT talks about these people too, they
don't remember Allah SWT.
إِلَّا قَلِيلًا They're in a state completely heedless
of Allah SWT.
وَكَانُوا لَا يَسْتَطِعُونَ سَمْعًا These are the people,
they can't stand if you try to tell
them anything about religion.
They can't stand that.
Imam Junaid he said, فِي غِطَعٍ أَنذِكْرِ The
actual meaning of this he says, بِعَدَمِ النَّظَرِ
فِي مَا جَعَلَنَا عَلَى الْأَرْضِ مِنْ زِينَةٍ دَلِيلًا
عَلَى سَعَةٍ بِإِفْنَاءِ أَثَرِ إِحْيَائِهِ That they're unable
to see every sign that Allah has displayed
for them in this dunya.
Completely hidden from them.
They're in front but they're not able to
see.
And this is the reality of this dunya.
We talked about it yesterday in the class
that we did at Georgia Tech that we
are literally living in a matrix.
If you've seen a Matrix movie, we are
literally living in a matrix.
Because if you think about every single thing,
if you think about every single thing, Allah
SWT says, if you do backbiting, the action,
Zahir, we're backbiting.
Batin, you're eating the flesh of your brother.
It's a matrix.
So the obvious is something else.
The Batin, the metaphysical realities, Allah SWT tells
us, these are Ghaibiyat, the effect of that,
the heart.
You do a sin.
The metaphysical reality, there's a dot, dot, dot,
dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, until it's fully
sealed.
Is your physical heart sealed?
No.
Is your MRI showing everything?
Your echocardiogram?
Everything is perfect.
But Allah is like that person's heart is
sealed.
Similarly, so the scholars say that this dunya,
the Ghalib, the thing that is obvious is
the Zahir and the metaphysical, the Batin, is
hidden.
But in Akhira, it reverses.
Completely reverses.
In Akhira, the Zahir becomes the Ghalib.
Sorry, the Batin, the metaphysical becomes the Ghalib.
It becomes the predominant.
And the Zahir takes the secondary stage.
And that is why when the trumpet is
going to be blown, you're going to have
people, يُحْشَرُ النَّاسُ عَلَى شَكْلِ ذِئَابٍ There will
be people who will be resurrected in the
shape of a wolf.
Those who would steal other people's money, they
will be resurrected in the shape of a
Nimr, a tiger.
Those who used to have Kibr, they will,
every single state, there's going to be a
complete different reflection of that.
Which Prophet ﷺ has told us here, you
will have the effect of that reality.
You will actually see the reality of your
actions there.
So this is literally a matrix that you're
going through.
So over here, Allah is like, فِي غِطَاءٍ
أَنذِكْرِي That my signs for them to wake
up, to see the matrix, to see the
reality of what they're going through, they were
heedless of it.
They probably didn't take the right pill.
Did you get it?
You know, you got the pill joke?
Sometimes my jokes are too deep.
You two got it.
Okay, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah.
Alhamdulillah, we have some.
Remember, in matrixes, given the two pills, you
only take the red pill or the blue
pill.
If you take the right pill, you actually
see the matrix, the reality.
That's the pill of Iman, basically, in the
movie.
For you to be able to see the
reality of the world.
Literally, that's what it is.
That if you have Iman, you see things
the way they're not.
You see the Batin.
You see things behind.
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, now
He starts and He says, why were they
so lost?
Allah is asking them this question.
That do the disbelievers, they think, they're going
to take people as what?
As awliya, as lords?
Instead of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A
'la, you're going to take people, you're going
to place people in the place of lordship
of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la?
What's wrong with you?
And, remember, If they choose that path, no
problem, but remember, this is like a mockery
over here, Allah is saying, and we have
prepared a beautiful accommodation.
Inna a'tadna, we have prepared jahannam, we have
adorned jahannam lilkaafireena, for the kafir, nuzulan, a
place of beautiful accommodation.
Back in the old days, fanadiq, funduq in
the Arab world, they were called what?
Nuzul.
If you go back in the 80s and
look at the pictures in the 80s and
the 70s, around Makkah, if you say, it
doesn't say funduq.
It says nuzul.
Nuzul were hospitality centers.
So Allah is like, we have prepared for
these kafir, jahannam lilkaafireena, nuzulan.
And over here, it's like a subtle mockery
here, that don't worry, we've got you covered.
You'll have a very good accommodation in jahannam
for you.
Go ahead and carry on doing this in
life.
Then Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
tries to talk to us.
Allah is like, O Prophet of Allah, tell
them.
Say, O Prophet, hal nunabbi'ukum bilakhsireena a'mala?
Shall we inform you of the one who
will lose most of his deeds?
See, there is something khasir, who's a loser.
Akhsar, who lost everything.
Shall I tell you of somebody?
Akhsareena a'mala.
Bilakhsareena a'mala.
The one who has lost everything, all of
his actions.
Majority of it is lost.
Majority of it.
Who are these?
There are five different tafsirs of who are
these people.
Who are these akhsareena a'mala?
Number one, ahaduha annahum qassiseen walruhban.
These are the priests and the rabbis.
Because their belief systems, they think they're doing
something really sacred and great.
They're serving the deen.
And see, this is the soul.
If you think about it, so many times,
people will do things and justify it using
ayat, using hadith.
And in their minds, they're doing something great.
Do you remember the guy who killed, who
murdered Ali radiyallahu anhu?
I forgot his name.
He was in the mihrab, in his house.
He enters, right?
And he's killing Ali radiyallahu anhu.
And at the time he's killing Ali radiyallahu
anhu, he's using ayat of the Qur'an
to justify his killing of Ali radiyallahu anhu.
He's reciting ayat of the Qur'an that
I am doing ihya of deen by killing
Ali radiyallahu anhu.
So it's not a new thing when we
see people who justify their wrong behaviors or
they justify an evil action with some hadith,
oh, we're trying to protect.
Well, you're not the first one.
Usman radiyallahu anhu was killed.
Ali radiyallahu anhu was killed.
Hussain radiyallahu anhu.
All of these people were killed, what?
By Muslims who were trying to protect.
This is not something new for us.
So utilizing deen for your own nafs and
agenda is not something new.
We're well-known about this.
We've seen it from the time of Rasulullah
salallahu alaihi wa sallam till today.
The qawarij, at the time of Rasulullah salallahu
alaihi wa sallam, right?
Qawarij.
So number one is qassiseen.
The first qawl is that these are qassiseen.
This is what Ali radiyallahu anhu used to
say.
That this ayah is talking about the religious
leaders of the Jews and the Christians.
Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, he used to say,
these are al-katiboon, al-yahood, wal-nasara.
Al-kitabiyoon, people who write the books.
Who know this is wrong.
Who do tahreef.
Who delete and omit.
Those writers of the Bible and the Torah,
these are the ones.
Number three, and this is Ali radiyallahu anhu's
qawl, no wonder.
He says these are the qawarij.
At his time.
They left, they said we're not going to
follow Ali.
Ali radiyallahu anhu did not take revenge of
Uthman radiyallahu anhu's blood money.
And he did not take revenge.
Hence we are not with him.
And the general meaning of it, number four
is hum ahlul hawa.
These are the people of desires.
They will justify anything or any of their
desires by using the Qur'an.
Anything.
Example of that, I met a person who
identified himself as a Muslim.
And he said, I can prove to you.
I can prove to you that having same
gender relationship is in the Qur'an.
I was just intrigued.
I was like, yalla, bismillah, let's do this.
So he said, He raised both of his
fathers.
It's in the Qur'an.
And I was just like, oh my, this
guy is such ahmak.
Like he does not know basic Arabic.
In Arabic context, they will drop the feminine
noun and the masculine noun will prevail and
it will go over even both.
For example, qawm.
Qawm does not mean there is no female
in there.
Qawm is a masculine noun, but they will
do that.
It's how the Arabic language is structured.
I'm like, subhanAllah, that's the only dalil you
have.
No, no, he said, I have another one.
I said, what is your dalil?
He says that when Lut, alayhi salam, he
forbade them from doing that, that ayah that
Lut, alayhi salam, talks about it, it's more
about consensual.
Can you look that ayah up?
SubhanAllah, I knew it before.
When I was talking, the ayah came to
me and then another thought came to me.
Ha ula'i banati hunna.
SubhanAllah, this is going to really annoy me.
And I don't have my phone.
I don't think this is the ayah.
There's another part where basically he tells them
that don't do this action.
Right?
SubhanAllah.
Anyway, it will come to me.
Where they were doing evil actions and then
they use that saying, oh, this is what
Lut, alayhi salam, is saying about consensual.
But if you read the ayah, you continue
that ayah, you will actually get to know
that if that is the case and if
you go with that meaning, that then it
is allowed if they were following.
It's about the woman.
Did you find it?
One before that.
No, okay.
Anyway, it will come to me.
So again, using different ayat for your own
hawa, your own desire.
Like my father-in-law gave me this
story in Urdu.
Makes a lot.
Some maulvis came to them and they said,
okay, you know what?
Look, the mother wants to take all the
inheritance.
The mother wants to take all the inheritance.
So do something from the Qur'an where
the inheritance of the entire mother ends up
becoming like for the mother.
So he gathers, the Imam Sahib gathers everyone
and he says what?
He says, he's like, look, in the Qur
'an Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
says, ma kasab.
Everything belongs to the mother.
If you say this in Urdu, ma kasab
in Arabic means something else.
But in Urdu, ma kasab.
Everything belongs to the mother.
He said, it's in the Qur'an, ma
kasab, so you have to give everything to
the mother.
So this is people who use their desires
to justify, use Qur'an to justify whatever
they want to do.
The fourth opinion, the fifth opinion, is these
are the people who do good and they
come after you and say, remember, I got
you the job.
Remember?
When you were seeking the job, now it's
your turn to pay back the favor.
Ya munnu ala sh-shaqs.
I did this to you, remember?
Now it's your turn to pay back.
And then there's a sixth possible meaning that
these are the munafiqoon.
These are people who are munafiqoon amali, not
itiqadi.
They're true believers, but their a'mal, in their
actions, there is nifaq.
So they're Muslims.
They're not itiqadi.
They're not faking their Islam.
They are Muslims, but in their actions, they
have constant nifaq.
May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
protect from all of this, protect us from
this.
Then, Allatheena dhalla sa'yuhum.
These are losers.
Why?
Because Allah says, Allatheena dhalla sa'yuhum.
These are the ones, all of their efforts
have gone to it.
Fil hayati al-dunya.
Anything they did in this world, sabzaya.
Everything has gone to it.
kullu shay.
Wahum yahsabuna annahum yuhsinoona sunnaha.
In their minds, they believe like, oh, I'm
doing something really pious and great.
I'm doing something so pious and great.
And in their minds, they're building a palace
of piety.
But in reality, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta
-A'la is like, again, remember, these images
keep coming.
Reality is something else.
The metaphysical reality is something else.
Allah is like, Allatheena dhalla sa'yuhum fil
hayati al-dunya.
They were thinking they're collecting good, but in
reality, everything was a net zero for them.
Or net negative.
Jabir ibn Abdullah radiAllahu anhu says, balaghani hadeesan
rajulin samia'u min rasoolillahi salallahu alayhi wa
sallam.
What's the hadees?
Ahbabtu allaa amuta aw yamut huwa hatta asma
'uhu min.
So I heard that there's a hadees.
This person has heard a hadees, and I,
he's saying Jabir ibn Abdullah, I heard that
somebody knows of a hadees, and I have
not heard this hadees.
So I made a determined plan that I'm
not going to die until I go and
get this hadees from this person.
So this is something really interesting.
For one hadees, fasirtu ilayhi shahran.
I took a camel.
I took a camel.
Ba'eeran.
A'eeh?
Ishtaraytu ba'eeran thumma shadattu alayhi rahli I
bought a camel.
I prepared my one month long journey.
And then I went, head off.
Somebody told me he's in that city.
Imagine, this is not like, hey, if we're
going to like, you know, taking a flight.
He is traveling for a month on a
report that has come to me that this
person seems to have had a hadees that
he says nobody else knows this hadees other
than him.
So Jabir ibn Abdullah travels all the way
to get to him.
Fasirtu shahran hatta qadeemtu alayhi sham Until I
came to Levant area, Sham, Syria.
Fa'idh Abdullah ibn Unais This person is
nothing, no one, but Abdullah ibn Unais, we
know him.
He's like, oh, it's Abdullah.
Fa kharaja ibn Unais yata'u thawbahu He
comes out and his thawb was still hanging.
You know, he was wearing a loose cloth.
So I saw him, he saw me.
Fa a'tanaqna, we hugged each other.
We're like, oh, where have you been?
Like, because that tells you they knew each
other so well.
Wa a'tanaqtuhu, and I also hugged him hard.
Like, you know, where have you been?
Fa qultu Jabir ibn Abdullah Balaghani annak I
heard about you.
Annaka sama'atahu min Rasool Allah sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam hadeesan Qala naam, inni sama'at
I heard.
Inna Allaha yunadi yawmal qiyama Ya mala'ikati
On the day of judgment, Allah Subhanahu wa
ta'ala is going to talk to the
angels.
Ya mala'ikati, oh my angels.
Anna al-malik, I am the king.
Anna al-dayyan, I am the settler of
deaths.
Wala yanbaghi li ahad min ahl al-naar
yadkhula al-naara Wala huu inda ahad min
ahl al-jannah haqqun A person cannot enter
ahl al-naar.
A person is destined to hellfire.
And that person who is destined to hellfire
has some haqq on the person who is
destined to jannah.
Yadkhula al-naara wala huu indahu ahad min
ahl al-jannah haqqun hattaa aqussuha minhu Until
I will settle their debts.
Wala yanbaghi li ahad min ahl al-jannah
yadkhula al-jannah And it is not possible
for anyone to enter jannah.
And the person entering naar, he has some
debts.
So debts of both sides are going to
be settled.
Hattal laqmata Even if that person kind of
like ahl al-jannah, he is destined to
jannah but he had slapped an ahl al
-naar.
That slap will also be recovered.
Like you hit him and now on the
day he is like he hit me.
This person entering, he is destined to hellfire.
But even that person is going to be
taken account of.
And this is where the hadith comes in.
The person who hit, he is now destined
to jannah.
Alhamdulillah his actions turned out to be well.
But in the process he hurt somebody who
was destined to hellfire.
Even that amal of the person of ahl
al-jannah will be taken account for.
I mean he will still enter jannah but
you will have to pay for that debt.
From ahl al-naar, I mean think about
it.
Why would you want to settle the debt
with ahl al-naar?
They are already going destined.
He is going to go into hellfire.
But even the person going into hellfire, he
will get all the rights to be able
to settle his debts from the person of
jannah.
Even the non-Muslims.
This is even more like ahl al-naar.
They are going to, may Allah help us.
Why did this all happen?
Why did they have no weight on their
amal?
They rejected the ayat.
Two meanings.
i.e. the physical verses that we read.
Or they see the signs of Allah and
they say, how is that?
I don't want to believe in a creator.
I don't want to believe in a creator.
There was a person, we were having a
conversation and we said, do you believe that
this cake or these cookies were made on
their own?
No, no, no.
The cookies have to have a baker.
Where did you see the baker?
Did you see the baker cooking?
No.
But you believe in it.
And you're not going to believe the opposite
of it.
You're not going to say the cookies just
miraculously appeared here.
You must believe logically that there was a
baker.
Then how can you believe that the entire
universe was created without a creator?
You can't even believe about that for the
cookie that you're having in front of you.
And he was like, oh yeah, you're right.
That's a very good point.
So sometimes such simplest things.
But why?
Ula'ika allatheena kafaru bi-ayati rabbihim.
These are people who believe that they're doing
really good, but kafaru bi-ayat.
They see signs.
All the signs.
Right?
I realize this personally, and many of the
shuyukh have actually spoken about this, is that
when you go snorkeling, have you ever been
snorkeling or scuba diving by the coral reefs?
That's where you actually realize Allah SWT exists.
It's like it screams that Allah is there.
There's no way this ecosystem can exist.
It's just such beautiful color, coordination, order, fish
going in, out.
And you know one of the best places
to snorkel is when you go for umrah.
If your tour guides let you go do
that.
You take a bus up all the way
to Haqqal.
And because Haqqal does not have tourism until
now, those corals were pristine, untouched.
Nobody snorkels there.
So you actually get to see the ecosystem.
It's just something you cannot describe by words.
And when you see that, and you realize
how can somebody who's snorkeling and seeing all
of this can deny that there's no creator.
How come all these scientists who study the
ocean for years and years cannot come to
this conclusion?
How much delusion do you have to be
in?
الذين كفروا بآيات ربهم Remember the meaning of
kafaroo, we talked about it.
That you got to know it and then
you hid it.
Kafir is something that covers.
A farmer is called a kafir.
He covers.
He covers something.
Similarly, the sea, the ocean is also called
a kafir.
It conceals that which is inside of it.
So kafir is a person, this person got
to know that this is the truth.
He's like, it's too inconvenient for me to
change my life.
So I will just put that aside.
And I will carry on perpetuating the belief
that this was created miraculously by Mother Nature.
فحبطت كفروا بآيات ربهم ولقائه The second thing
they did is they got to this realization,
we're going to meet Allah.
We are going to meet Allah.
But they're like, yeah, no, no, we don't
want to talk about that.
There's no proof for life after death.
So we're not going to talk about that.
It's much easier.
فحبطت أعمالهم فلا نقيم لهم يوم القيامة وزنًا
These are the people, all of their actions.
And this is where a lot of times
Muslims, especially if they've not studied aqidah, they
find this very, very hard to believe.
Oh, are you telling me Mother Teresa is
going to hellfire?
Are you telling me so and so, all
the good people that have done good in
this dunya?
Remember, in our belief systems, Allah does not
let those people die in this world, except
Allah has paid their debt in this world.
خلاص, what they owe to Allah, they got
in this world.
You will get this world.
Before you leave this world, you have nothing
you owe to Allah on the Day of
Judgment.
They cannot come and say, no, no, ya
Allah, we owe you this thing, and you
didn't pay our debt back.
Because all the ni'mahs and bounties they were
given in this world, even though they were
disbelievers, they were given all these bounties so
that they have no haqq on Allah on
the Day of Judgment.
And the fact that they died other than
la ilaha illallah, they will have no haqq.
But this is hard for people to believe,
how is that?
Oh, this person, he did so much khair,
you're telling me he's going to go into
hellfire?
Yes.
Exclusivity of salvation belongs to those who believe
in la ilaha illallah, Muhammadur Rasulullah.
This is not just my belief, not just
Islam's belief.
Christians say the same.
The Jewish people say the same.
Gentiles, why do you have the whole concept
of Gentiles?
You're not making it the Jannah.
Anybody other than Jews are Gentiles.
You're not making it.
We can do whatever we want with you.
You're so not even worthy.
And that's why they're killing all of that,
what's happening right now.
That belief system is permeating.
Oh, these are Gentiles, we can do whatever
we want with them.
...
Whoever chooses other than Islam as a deen,
that person on the day of judgment is
going to be from the losers.
...
It will not be accepted from him, that
other deen, and then they will be from
losers in the Akhirah.
...
This ayah, ...
The Mufassiroon, they've explained this four different ways.
Number one, why their Amal is going to
have no weight?
That no matter whatever good they did, they
committed one of the greatest Maasiyah, sin, Shirk.
And because of the Shirk, everything, the weight
of that Shirk was so high, they will
have no weight.
Number two, ...
Second, they were ignorant about this.
And lack of ignorance led them to have
their Amal they did, have no weight.
Number four, their sins took away the weight
of the good deeds.
They did good deeds, they did sins, right
after that, all of the weight of the
good deeds was gone.
And the fourth one, that all of the
good deeds of a Kafir person, ...
No matter what good deeds you do, all
of your good deeds, they become zero if
you become a Kafir.
We know that in our belief systems.
So this will be, as Ibn Al-Qayyim
says, ...
This is going to be against them.
All their good deeds will actually not work
in their favor, it will work against their
favor.
That I gave you all these opportunities to
do good, yet you could not find me?
Ajeeb.
Then Allah says, how many ayahs do we
have?
Six more ayahs.
You know, I don't want to skip this,
because over there we also have the whole
description of Jannatul Firdaus.
I have two and a half pages of
notes on what Jannatul Firdaus and stuff.
So if we do that, we'll probably end
up going further, as you said.
So I think I'll stop over here.
We will start back next week.
Next week is definitely going to be the
last.
Yeah, next week we'll finish, InshaAllah.
We'll start from ...
Where is it?
...
Jahannam.
So we'll start from that, InshaAllah, ayah number
106.
And we'll go all the way from ayah
number 106 to ayah number 110, InshaAllah ta
'ala.
Do you guys have any questions about this?
...
Okay, what do you ...
Heaven, *?
...
Qursi and Arsh, Qalam and Ruh.
...
...
Jannah, Jahannam.
You got the Ruh?
...
What are six?
...
You tell me.
...
And the Qalam.
...
Okay, so Qalam.
Ruh.
Jannah, Jahannam.
Arsh.
Qursi.
And Sikram.
Oh, what's number eight?
No, Sikram.
No, no, no, I'll tell you.
Meezan.
Meezan.
Meezan, yeah, you're right.
Like, what's number eight?
Yeah, it's the Meezan.
The Meezan, the scale.
That once they were created, they will not
be.
Tayyib, InshaAllah.
May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
give us the tawfiq to reach Ramadan, InshaAllah.
...
Oh Allah, grant us the ability to truly
understand the Qur'an.
Allow us to truly connect with the message
of the Qur'an.
Give us the tawfiq to recite the Qur
'an day and night.
Give us the ability to stay connected with
it.
Oh Allah, Ramadan is around the corner.
Allow us to witness this year's Ramadan.
Oh Allah, make us from those who get
to benefit from this Ramadan.
And allow us the ramp up energy so
we can benefit the most from this month.
Oh Allah, make Sha'ban the best Sha
'ban for us so this will allow us
to have the best Ramadan.
Oh Allah, give us the ability to forgive
all that we hold grudges in our hearts
as the 15th of Sha'ban is around
the corner and our sins are going to,
our a'mal are going to be resurrected in
an annual ascension.
Oh Allah, allow us to forgive those people
so that our a'mal are ascended to You
and You accept from us.
Oh Allah, make this month of Sha'ban
a month of fasting, a month of dhikr,
a month of remembrance, a month of extra
devotion so we are able to emotionally, spiritually,
and physically prepare for Ramadan.
And let this Ramadan be the best Ramadan
for us.
Allow us to read the most Qur'an
that we have ever read in any of
the Ramadans of our past.
And allow this Ramadan to be the best
Ramadan in our ibadah and devotions and allow
us to truly worship You with the haq
that You deserve although we are incapable of
that.
And accept from us our feeble ibadat, our
weak ibadat, and allow us to truly, truly
become one with the message of Qur'an
and allow us to truly fill our hearts
with the love of Nabi Muhammad ﷺ.
A love of such nature that permeates and
allows us to be able to put his
life as a practical example for us and
then for others.