Haifaa Younis – How we protect ourselves through reciting Surah al-Kahf every Friday
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And this is actually the reason I chose
Surah Al Kahf.
Why Surah Al Kahf?
Because you read it every Friday.
Why do we read it every Friday? If
I ask you, many of you will tell
me it's Sunnah. Absolutely true, but why?
You can tell me probably some of you
will know, well, there's a hadith about it,
but why?
Right? I mean the Quran is 114
chapters. All of them are the words of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Why did Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala specified,
for example, Surat Al Kahab or Surat Yaseen
as we had covered? Right? Or why Surat
Youssef is all
almost all the chapter is stories. Everything has
a reason.
And
the smart person, I call the lucky person,
the sight of Allah, when you know this
and you keep it in front of you.
So two things. Number 1 is keep yourself
busy with the knowledge of Allah. Okay. Why
it's called? As always, when we come to
a chapter, it's gonna be at least 6
weeks.
This today, it will be an introduction,
and the last class will be the summary.
In between, we're gonna go into
what does it have. We're not we're not
doing word by word. That's not the that's
not the plan of this class. It's actually
what do you understand? How you apply it
in your daily life?
Any surah in the Quran, any chapter you're
gonna look at, we have said it many
times. Number 1 is the name.
Right? And if I ask you why it's
Suratul Kahf,
all of you will answer me because
it's the story of Al Kahf. Right?
Okay. So why it's not Surat Musa?
Why it's not Surat Al Qarni?
Right?
There has to be something about the kahaf,
the cave
that Allah want me to pay attention to
it in my daily life.
So that's number 1. Number 2, is it
a Makki or a Madani? Was revealed in
Makkah or was revealed in Madinah?
You all read Surat Al Kaab every Friday.
You better be ready. I'm gonna keep asking
you because this is a surah. You read
it every Friday. Is it to revealed in
Mecca or in Medina?
How many of you say Makkah?
5. And how many of you say Madinah?
Okay. And how many of you say I
have no idea?
I love it. Right? It's definitely Mecca Surah.
There is some, but it's a weak opinion.
It says the beginning of it was revealed
in Medina, but it's a weak opinion.
So number 1, it was revealed in Mecca.
Why do I care?
Especially for the youth. Who cares? Right? This
is the common word, Luisa. Not you need
to care.
Why?
Because when it is in Makkah, that means
it's something related to my relationship with Allah,
and something has to do with my relationship
with this deen,
my creed, my belief.
If it was revealed in Medina,
it was something to do with my interaction
with the Muslim community.
In living in the west,
we
need the Makan Suras
because we are bombarded with
everything around us does not remind us of
Allah. Am I true?
I'm talking about daily life, not his creation.
Right? You go to work, who's gonna remind
you, staghfirullah?
Why? You drive here. Who's gonna remind you,
do this or do that? Everything reminds you
the opposite. And most of the time, we
feel we are strangers.
Yes? Yes or no? We feel we are
strangers.
So
whenever I am weak, and this is for
everybody,
whenever you're weak, whenever your salah is not
the best, whenever
the temptations is becoming
much more common and much less
easier to go against them, then you need
to start reading a Makk and Surah.
For example, Yusuf when Surah to Yusuf when
you are really going through lot of challenges.
Suratul Kahf,
the main
need of Suratul Kahf is when I am
tested.
And the tests is not the bad tests
because we always when we think about tests,
we think disease, we think loss of money.
No.
No.
It is the test of
luxury,
test of power,
test of the deen,
and test of knowledge.
These are the 4 things every week we
go through it.
You go to, let's say,
school or university
and you think you know, and Allah teaches
you how much you we don't know and
even the most knowledgeable person
still doesn't know.
You go to your home and your home
is beautiful, walillahalhamd.
You go to your company.
You open your closet, and you see all
these beautiful things you have, all the jewelries,
all the dunya,
and that's the of money.
It's in Surat Al Kahf.
3rd, which we are tested daily
is the fitna of our din.
We are being tested
every single minute
how to stay
steadfast, and don't tell me you don't feel
it.
Even if you don't work, even if you
don't leave the house,
enough if you turn on your
any
gadget you have
and see how much dust. So you go
through your TikTok. Is anybody is reminding you
of Allah?
Is anyone tells you, stay steadfast, there is
akhira?
So test of deen,
my religion, my faith,
literally
last week,
2 women reached out to me. It was
I've never had this that frequent.
The children left Islam
completely, and if when I was talking to
the woman, this was face to face. I
mean, there's nothing I can say because the
woman tells you I've done everything I can
do, and I I have no reason not
to believe her because even the way she
presented it. SubhanAllah.
2 of her children and the other lady,
2 of her children.
So the fitna, the test, the trials, the
temptations,
why do I wanna be a Muslim? It's
very difficult. It's hard. Every all this.
Now Alhamdulillah, I don't have a problem with
my deen. Alhamdulillah, I believe in Allah, I'm
fine. Then you come to the test of
money, which is the biggest one especially here.
Many of you have not lived outside California.
But if you live outside California, those of
you who have moved from outside California, you
know how much temptations are here. It's beyond
you. The weather is a biggest temptation.
You may laugh but it is.
It is.
It's the comfort,
the beauty around you, everything. Even the city
is beautiful. It's one of the most beautiful
cities I lived in. That's temptation
because many of us are not grateful. We
don't even think of it.
3rd is knowledge
and talk about the young people
or anybody gets a PhD
or
publish a paper
or do a presentation,
and how much arrogance gets into us.
And then the last but not the least
power,
and to me this is the most dangerous
one. When Allah puts you as a leader,
a leader in any form or shape, even
as young as an MSA president or MENA
president or whatever and but you have few
people under
your
authority.
And tell me you're gonna stay
focused on Allah. You're gonna stay
absolutely humble,
and you're gonna stay in saying I didn't
do anything. It's all from Allah. Basically that's
what.
Every week it keep reminds me, and if
you really pay attention,
every week you're gonna see which one I'm
being tested,
and if you analyze yourself, many of us
at least one of them.
So insulatul Kahf is not about my belief
in Allah, rather how I stay
focused and connected in Allah with all these
tests around me.
All these tests around me, and I'm gonna
stay going, focused.
He keep reminding me, very unique about Suratul
Kahf. There is 4 stories in it. You
all know that. Yes? Bismillah.
We have forces, the people of the Ka'a.
Youth,
but they were focused on their deen and
strong in their deen.
2nd, people of money.
1 has money,
brag about it and the other one doesn't
have money.
3rd,
there's a there's a pause in between. I'll
come to it. 3rd is Sayyidina Musa,
the prophet
Musa Kareemullah,
the one who talked to Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala and how Allah tested him and showed
him he doesn't know.
SubhanAllah. Then the last but not the least
power,
Dhul Qurnay, the positive view of a person
with power.
Every story pay attention to that.
Every story
at the end of the story the story
is done There is a message from the
story.
And this is what I want you from
next week.
Please come. You already have read it because
you know it. But tell me where is
the message at the end of the story?
Every story
has a message at the end. Allah talks
to either Rasool Alaihi Wasallam or he tells
us.
Summary,
what do you need to learn from that?
So next week, we're gonna be covering the
first one, which is the youth of the
cave.
What did he say at the end?
Go to
the 2 men of the gardens. See what
he said at the end.
Interestingly,
in the middle there's a pause,
which is
suddenly Allah start talking about Iblis.
And he's the only place in the Quran
where he said, Iblis
is minal jinn.
The only time he said,
I'm giving you all these things. I want
you to think of it, write it down,
if you can look it perfectly. So when
I say your, it's not something new. But
you need to ask why did Allah and
again you're not questioning the Quran.
You really wants to know why did Allah
put this in the middle? He put one
story, second, then came and talk about Ubeez.
It's not a story. We have heard this
story many places, but it's different here. And
then he goes back and talks about knowledge
and talks about power.
Beginning at the end is different.
There is an introduction
and there is a finale.