Haifaa Younis – Surah Al Kahf #09 – The Day of Judgement – Last Part
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The Surah Al-Kahf and its various challenges require students to learn to do what they want to do and improve their understanding of the Bible. The Day of Judgment and the need for continuous practice are highlighted. The challenges of living in busy cities and finding a job and school are also discussed. The importance of understanding and control over deeds is emphasized, along with the need for praise in deeds and working on one's spiritual goals. The importance of working on one's intentions for Islam is emphasized, along with the need for regular prays and online participation in the program.
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Wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa man wala
Allahumma a'allimna ma yanfa'una wa anfa
'na bima a'allamtana innaka sami'un wa
mujeebu al-du'aa Allahumma inni a'udhu
bika min al-'ilmin la yanfa' wa qalbin la
yakhsha' wa nafsin la tashba' wa du'aa
inna yusma' rabbana la tuziq qulubana ba'da idh
hadaytana wa hab lana min ladunka rahma innaka
anta al-wahhab rabbi shahli sadri wa yassalli
amri wahlul aqidatan min al-lisan min yafqahu
qawli Welcome everyone.
Subhanallah it's the last week of Suratul Kahf.
It's been nine weeks, subhanallah, and you wonder
how time goes by quickly.
Just a reminder for everyone in case you
didn't hear me last week, next week we
will not have a class because next week
there's a big, it's sold out so I'm
sorry.
Yeah there is an event in Garden Grove
where it's Mu'taz Aziza and a physician who
came from Gaza they have a program but
I was just told that they have another
program the other one is ticketed but the
money will go donation so you may, I
don't know exactly the details so if in
case you may want to look it up.
So next week there is no class and
then the week after inshallah we will start.
I have not decided on the surah yet.
If you have any recommendations let me know.
Any recommendation?
Yes?
Luqman.
Luqman, okay.
Al-Ahzab, oh why Al-Ahzab?
Mashallah.
There is a lot of history in there,
true.
Yes, anything else?
Yusuf we did it, where were you?
Good morning.
We started with Yusuf actually.
We started this exactly a year ago.
You know how I know?
Because we started Yusuf during Gaza.
Yeah so Yusuf we finished with Yusuf, we
did Fatir, we did Al-Ankabut and then
we did Yasin and now Alhamdulillah we did
Al-Kahf.
So we have a request for Rahman.
I'm sorry?
Surah Al-Mulk, okay.
Al-Mulk, Al-Mulk, okay.
Yes?
I can't hear you, everybody is talking.
Surah Al-Nur, ah that's a good one.
I don't know how many people will show
up though.
I will see.
I'll pray Istikhara but Al-Nur is a
good one, Al-Mulk is a good one
actually.
Al-Rahman is also a good one.
But let's see what Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala will open.
So we are going to be, bi-idhnillah,
ending Surah Al-Kahf.
So let's just again quickly wrap it up
and then you see how the language of
the Qur'an or the theme of the
Qur'an in every surah and then the
more you go through this, it was very
clear, I hope it was very clear for
you in Surah Yusuf, how Allah build up,
build up, build up and then at the
end.
And the same thing here in Surah Al
-Kahf.
So there is always a theme of the
surah and then there is either stories or
there is description in Jannah.
Now there's something in the surah, it depends
what surah, but usually the end of the
surah, summarize everything.
And the take-home message as we say.
So what is the take-home message of
Surah Al-Kahf before I start anything today?
What is the take-home message?
We said why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
said read it every Friday, we all went
through this.
What is the take-home message?
Raise your hand and then bismillah.
So there is many take-home, bismillah, one.
You don't know it.
That's too much details.
Take-home message is one, two, three, four,
five and bill point.
Yes, yes, whoever raised their hand.
Yes.
So we are going to be challenged and
we need to learn how to do.
Is that the last thing Allah said?
No, that's not what he said in the
last page.
The last page of the surah is a
take-home message or sometimes the last two
verses, sometimes one verse, but in Surah Al
-Kahf is the last page because that's the
story is done.
So if you go back again, just have
an overall, Allah started by talking about the
Quran, talking to Rasulullah, then the stories.
You will be tested and challenged by your
deen.
Very familiar.
You will be challenged by your wealth or
lack of wealth.
Because the two men of the garden, right?
And then in between why you will be
tested, why I will fail, we will fail,
because there's something called Shaytan and he disobeyed
Allah.
So this is you and me is his
goal.
Then the next one will be the challenge
of what's Sayyidina Musa's challenge?
Knowledge.
So you learned whatever, you memorized the Quran,
you learned a little bit learning in mundane
or secular, as they call it, secular knowledge
or an Islamic knowledge or both.
You know a little bit more than the
other and what will happen?
You will become unless Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala save us, you'll become arrogant.
I know, I know.
The moment I know, I know, you know
that you don't know.
And then the last one, but not the
least, is power.
And we said last week we went in
details, any power.
You have your younger brother or sister in
the house, you have power over them.
Parents, you have power over your kids, right?
You have one employee under you, you have
a power over them.
You're a CEO of a company, of the
biggest huge company, you have power.
And Allah brought the one who has the
power of the powers, right?
And then when Allah showed to the whole
world his power, what was his response?
I didn't do it, it's from the mercy
of Allah.
And look at us.
So these are the four challenges and in
between the reason we fail the challenge.
What is the take-home message now?
It's in the last page, every Friday you
read it.
Nothing?
Nothing at all?
No idea?
Okay, I'll take you through it.
I'm not going to give it to you
today, until at least I get out whatever
I can get out from you.
What is the last page of Surat Al
-Kahf talks about?
What is it?
Just give me an idea, anybody.
So it talks about the Day of Judgment.
Simple, don't go deep, right?
Talks about the Day of Judgment.
Okay, perfect.
What is talking about the Day of Judgment?
Is there a description of Jahannam?
No, no.
This other place is plenty and names of
the Nara.
No, no, no.
What is the thing that Allah related to
Jahannam in Surat Al-Kahf, in the last
page?
Had the most scary ayah that all of
us, we have to be so worried.
You want me to tell you what the
big loser?
Big loser in dunya is what?
Big loser in this life is what?
I didn't pass the exam, I didn't go
to this college, I didn't get married, or
my husband or my married life is not
the best.
This is all lost, right?
Or I lost my business, or I don't
have money, whatever it is.
No, this is why it's scary.
It's in the middle of the page.
You want me to tell you who is
the biggest loser?
Loser of their deeds.
Everything they are doing in dunya, they think
they are doing good deeds, but it was
for vain, nothing.
That's the reference to Jahannam.
And then there is the next half page,
less than a half page.
What is it?
Wallah, I'm going to be very sad, I'm
going to cry.
Last four ayat of Surat Al-Kahf is
what?
Online help me if you know.
What is it?
The last thing he talked about in Surat
Al-Kahf is what?
Aha, the contrast.
So the last page, again, I'm taking you
through it.
The last page, finished, no more surah, no
more challenge, I'm done.
At the end, there is Jahannam, and there
is Jannah.
And Jahannam is because I didn't believe, or
I did things I think I was doing
good, but it is not good.
And then, Jannah.
What is the take home message?
Where do you want to go?
Yeah, of course.
Yeah, I want to live on a house
on the beach.
What did you do for it?
I want to go and have this bag,
or this house, or this jewelry.
Okay, how are you going to do it?
Right?
Aha, I love it, someone said it here.
Work hard, work hard.
Did you work hard for Jannah?
The take home message, there's so many take
home message, but for us practically, you will
be tested.
This is this life.
You will be challenged.
I wouldn't say tested, I will be challenged.
All of us know this challenge, especially us
women, right?
I'm challenged every single minute, every single day
in my deen.
And the challenge comes from outside, or the
challenge comes from me.
When I'm looking at myself in the mirror,
I was like, do I really have to
do this today?
That's my challenge in deen.
My challenge in, they have more money than
I do, or they have a bigger house,
or they have more children, or they have
this or that.
That's true.
All of us go through this.
Sometimes the four in one day, the four
in one day.
Then the challenge of knowledge.
Either I see other people more knowledgeable than
me, and I'm jealous, or I think I
know, and then I become arrogant.
Last but not least, Allah gives me a
little bit of a power.
How do I stay focused with all these
daily challenges?
Remember the end.
This is why the take home message is,
this is all your dunya, but at the
end, that's how it is.
Hi, the last page starts with this.
We left them.
Your mood is from mode, is from waves.
What is that?
They're going to be getting all together.
Now he started describing the Day of Judgment.
The people will be literally so confused as
if they are waves.
When the waves comes in, one hit the
other.
You all have seen, Alhamdulillah, we live close
to an ocean.
This is how we are.
This is how we are.
Confused on the Day of Judgment, before we
go to Allah, this is after the first
one.
Confused, we don't know where we are, right?
And sometimes I'm saying it is about the
people of Yajuj and Majood, I'm not going
to go to this.
But then, after all this confusion, the second
one, the second blow.
Listen to this one.
Allah is saying on the Day of Judgment,
there will be the second blow, which you
all know, right?
The second blow, what will happen?
Everybody on this earth.
SubhanAllah, last weekend, I was in one of
the busiest airports.
And I was sitting there waiting for my
connection.
And I was looking at everybody going back
and forth and this gate and that gate.
And I just looked here, Allah, you know
every one of these human beings, what they
are doing, what did they do, what they
didn't do, did they obey you, did they
not?
And then you bring them all in front
of you.
Can you imagine this?
And that's what He is saying, you are
so worried about the money, you are so
worried about the power, you are so jealous
from whatever.
In one minute, this is all gone and
you're going to come, I will come, and
we will be in line.
And we're not going to be in line
to go for vacation.
We're going to be in line waiting for
Him to ask me.
And then He says, وَعَرَضُنَا جَهَنَّمَ لِلْكَافِرِينَ عَرْضُوا۟
Hadi, one of the few times in the
Quran where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said,
we brought Jahannam to them.
See it, they're not there yet.
May Allah protect us.
But Allah brought it so you see.
You know when they want you to buy
something, what do they do?
You all know this.
They give you a sample.
If you walk in the mall, what do
they do?
There's people who are standing there, whatever the
thing is, could be a perfume, could be
a gift, could be a piece of makeup,
just try it.
What is this trying?
So you will be lured.
So you will be tempted.
Not to this one.
This one is not my choice.
I don't want to see Jahannam.
Who wants to see Jahannam?
It's going to be brought.
But not, inshallah, not to us.
لِلْكَافِرِينَ وَعَرَضُنَا جَهَنَّمَ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِلْكَافِرِينَ عَرْضُوا۟ We
brought it to them so they can see
it.
Look at the next one.
Who are these people?
This is the beauty.
They call it the At-Tibaq or Jinnas.
This is the beauty of the language of
the Qur'an.
He said, we brought it for them so
they can see it.
الَّذِينَ كَانْتَ عَيُنُهُمْ فِي غِطَاءٍ عَن ذِكْرِ They
were not seeing here the remembrance of Allah,
dhikri here in the Qur'an.
They didn't see the Qur'an.
They didn't have time to read the Qur
'an.
They didn't understand the Qur'an.
They were blind.
There was like a barrier.
And they didn't hear.
You go walk around, all this beauty around
you, you think nothing about Allah.
You're so busy and focused on your phone
or focused on your life or focused on
whatever it is and you don't see anything
from around that reminds you of Allah.
One of the main reasons we disobey Allah
is why?
Don't tell me shaitan, don't tell me my
nafs.
Because we are in a state of heedlessness.
غَفْلَة, مُعْرِضُون, مُعْرِضُون I don't have time to
think about akhira.
I barely have time to sleep.
That's all we say.
I don't have time to sit down and
understand a word or two of Qur'an.
But I have a lot of time, three,
four hours on my social media and scrolling
and scrolling and scrolling and scrolling.
I was blind.
That's what he's telling us.
الَّذِينَ كَانْتَ عَيُّنُّهُمْ فِي غِطَاءٍ عَن ذِكْرِ They
were literally, there was, ghita is a cover.
They were covered, covered in dunya.
Because all Surah Al-Kahf talks about dunya,
challenges in dunya.
And because of all these challenges, I am,
I don't have time, I'm not interested, whatever
the reason is, and I am not focused
on my akhira.
In the 24 hours a day, all of
us, young and old, we have different ages
today.
How many minutes, again may Allah forgive me,
how many minutes we spend a day thinking
about the akhira?
Minutes, minutes.
That's one day I'm leaving, one day I'm
going to be under the ground.
This is the only true fact, the only
100% guarantee in this life is death.
Everything else is a possibility.
Somebody look at you and says, you will
never get to college.
What?
Wait.
And then you will work hard, Allah will
put barakah in your effort, and you end
up in college, and you will send them
a text, ah, and you put the college
behind you.
Because nothing is impossible for Allah, right?
And the opposite is also true.
But the only thing that is 100%
going to touch each one of us is
death.
Everything else is possibility, but death is certainty.
Yet, in my 24 hours a day, I
don't have a minute to think of it,
or two minutes.
They were covered.
They were blinded.
And were we blind?
I see you, you see me.
Right?
You know, where are we?
But I was not seeing.
As I have said many times, if anybody
will come in this room and says, what
do you see in this room?
Everybody will tell me, oh, I see chairs,
I see a room, I see walls, I
see, I see, I see everything that you
see.
Very few people, those who there is no
ghita, no cover, they will say, I see
the creation of Allah.
I see the majesty of Allah.
I see the beauty of Allah.
Then you are connected.
So Allah says, you're too busy.
You were covered.
You're, you're, you're, so many things you have
to do.
My to-do list is too long.
Okay, fine.
Go, keep going.
And the day of judgment, I lifted up.
I hear everything.
I listen to everything.
But I don't have time to listen to
Quran.
And don't look at Quran as Quran is
a book.
Quran is the words of Allah because that's
how he said dhikri, my remembrance.
He didn't say Quran.
He said my remembrance.
We're not deaf, are we?
We're not.
One of the concepts in the Quran repeatedly
is what?
Sometimes Allah described it or sometimes Allah put
it in a question mark.
They have hearts.
And he put it in a question mark.
Don't they have hearts?
Of course we do.
But they do not comprehend anything.
Don't they have eyes?
But they don't see.
And they don't, they have ears?
But they don't hear.
And Allah then described, these are like cattle.
And he said, they are even more worse
than cattle.
Why?
Why?
What is the difference between us and animals?
Act.
Comprehend.
We understand.
The animals don't understand.
My cat doesn't understand other than feed me
or take me or she goes to the
bathroom or I need to drink and then
I want to be pampered, right?
Honestly, that's what animals does.
But for us, we have eyes.
And when Allah said, I don't see, it
doesn't mean I don't see.
Don't you say sometimes to your children, right?
Or even to your friend, don't you see
she's bad for you?
Don't you say that?
And she said, yeah, I see.
They said, no, you're not seeing it.
Don't we say that?
That's what Allah is saying.
You're not seeing reality.
And this is another concept.
Do you think?
And when you say, do you think, you
should take a breath?
Do you think we created you?
Abatha?
Fun?
Waste time?
This is with Abatha in the Arabic language.
You know, let's have fun.
I don't have anything to do.
Let's kill time.
All this goes under Abatha.
Vain.
Useless.
Do you think we created you for useless?
And you are not going to come back
to us?
How do you when you start connecting all
the concepts from the Quran?
Does the people, the kuffar, here the kuffar,
the main kafir, you take other than Allah
as a very close friend.
Wali is a very close friend.
Do we do that?
We don't worship anything than Allah.
But do we take people or things more
than Allah?
No.
Really.
And he says, from among people, this is
always an ayah, a verse that comes to
you about friendship.
And he said, from among people, not everybody,
from among people, there is certain people, not
you and me, and need equal, someone
who is very equal.
So Allah says, some people, not all of
us, takes from people, here is people, equal
to Allah.
Then Allah is described in which way?
They love them as they love Allah.
Equal.
The true believer.
And the real believers, Allah is more beloved
to them than anybody else, let alone anything
else.
Now bring the four challenges.
Why do I fail in my deen?
Why the young men did not fail?
Why?
We all are challenged.
We all are challenged.
Doesn't matter how strong you are, you are
still challenged.
But why they didn't fail?
Because they put Allah above.
Why the two men?
Same, two men, seeing the same, seeing the
same, but they are seeing it differently.
One of them says, I did it, and
it's going to stay for me, and when
I go to Allah, he's going to give
me even more arrogance.
The other one says, it's all from Allah.
Why didn't you say when you entered?
It's from Allah, I have nothing to do
with it.
The second challenge.
We all are challenged.
And then the same thing with knowledge, and
the same thing with power.
But who do I put equal to Allah?
Are you all with me now?
See how you bring the Quran all together?
Do you put your deen above dunya?
Do you put the religion above this life?
Honestly, don't answer me.
Ask yourself, these are questions for everyone when
you go home.
Ask yourself.
And the usual answer, of course not.
I said, Alhamdulillah.
Did you wake up for Fajr today?
And the answer, no.
And why is that?
Like somebody last week told me, oh, I
forgot.
I said, Wallahi, do you forget to go
to school?
He said, no.
Done.
Done.
You put school, nid, equal to Allah.
Money, equal.
Equal, he didn't say above, he said equal.
And nid is the one who is the
competitor.
Literally, it's used in, very commonly used in
sports.
It's the competitor.
I put dunya to compete with Allah.
I put money to compete with Allah.
I put knowledge to compete with Allah.
And I put power to compete with Allah.
Many of the times, who wins?
You are too quiet.
Because you don't want to say the truth.
It's okay.
You know what?
Allah knows.
Allah knows.
Let me just talk to myself and see,
Rabbi, how I'm going to pass.
It's reality.
We all know it.
Saying quiet is not going to change it.
Allah is the one who is able to
change it.
Right?
And then, and then I'll share with you
some hadiths and some incidents, but I just
wanted you to feel it.
Always the concept in the Quran is they
call it al-abdad, meaning the opposites.
It's a very common concept in the Quran.
You see day and night.
You see sun and moon.
Right?
And you see jannah and nar.
They always come together.
Kafir and a believer.
Opposite.
As if Allah says, this is how it
is.
You choose what you want.
You want jannah?
Sure.
You want, you don't want jannah?
I wouldn't say nobody wants jannah.
But you don't want jannah?
Okay, sure.
That's the other option.
So the kuffar, those who will end in
jahannam, temporary or permanently?
There's two options.
Yes?
Yes or no?
Which one we are?
Temporary.
It's not my words.
The key to jannah is you say that.
So everybody in this room, everybody online, we
will end up in jannah.
Ya rabbi dakal hamd.
That's mir rahmati rabbi.
But how long is the detour?
Because no one entered jannah unless they are
pure.
100%.
Nothing.
No sin.
Pure, pure, pure.
Like a baby was born.
So I have two options in my life.
As I am living before I die.
Either I purify it here or Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala has no choice but to
purify me.
And that's why when someone gets sick, what
do we say?
Tahoor.
May Allah purify you.
Meaning it's one of the things Allah sent
to clean me.
To cleanse me.
Okay.
So if I didn't, meaning I get sick
and it's supposed to be a mean for
you and me to be cleansed and I
start complaining and I start disobeying Allah even
more, Allah is like okay fine.
Keep going.
Then I come on the day of judgment
and He promised me jannah.
He promised me.
I said la ilaha illallah.
Done.
However, I'm not pure.
Can't.
That's what Allah said in the Quran.
They're purified, enter forever.
Entered eternity.
Okay fine.
Then I have to take you, not you,
take that person, take him to the purifying
technique machine.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Subhanallah.
How long?
It depends how long I need to be
cleansed.
When you want to take a shower, think
of it this way.
We do this every single day, right?
Sometimes you take a shower and the shower
is two minutes.
Why?
Because I'm, you know, just a quick one.
I'm fine.
I don't smell bad.
I didn't do exercise outside.
I wasn't sweating.
I wasn't cleaning something.
Honestly.
And sometimes you say what happened?
You slept in the shower?
I was like no.
Needs a lot of cleaning.
That's how it is.
That's how it is.
And then here Allah comes fine.
This is how you are.
Those who believe, all of us.
Believe meaning?
You believe in what?
Allah?
Not enough.
What do you believe in?
When Allah says in the Quran, those who
believe.
Didn't you ask yourself, believe in what?
Believe in what?
Bismillah.
Tell me.
I can't hear you.
Number one is Allah.
Second, only Prophet Muhammad, so if I don't
believe in it, all the messengers.
Lovely.
The books, Day of Judgment, angels, and destiny.
You fill this six, you are amanu.
But he never said it alone.
Always, almost always, so I don't say things
that are not accurate.
Almost always, it is combined with what?
Amil us salihat.
What is amil us salihat?
Do good deeds.
Righteous.
Good deeds by the standard of Allah, not
good deeds by my standard and yours.
She's a very good human being.
What does it mean?
She disobeys Allah all the time, but she's
nice to me.
That's not in the sight of Allah.
Amil us salihat.
What is it, ya rabbi?
Very short to the point, very opposite to
the one before.
In verily, those who believe, amil us salihat,
did a good deed, kanat.
What is kanat?
Done.
It's in the past sentence.
Kanat, it's done.
Kanat lahum jannatul firdawsi nuzula.
Pay attention here.
Kanat, it's already done.
You know when you say, the house is
ready.
You text your friend, he says, where are
you?
The house is ready.
Mom texts you, dinner is ready.
Right?
Ready, meaning you're just waiting to eat.
Jannah is waiting for you and me.
But which one?
Ah, now you have to ask yourself, why
firdawsi?
Kanat lahum jannatul firdawsi.
What is firdawsi?
Highest level.
Incomplete answer.
Don't cheat.
Don't Google.
So it is the highest level?
I don't hear anything, just talk.
I don't know.
Raise your hand and tell me.
It's the highest level, that's true, but that's
not it only.
Billah?
Nobody knows?
Wallah.
I'm glad next week we're taking off to
review.
Okay.
Yes, please.
Center most.
Three things for jannatul firdawsi.
Highest, center most, and there's something above or
something below.
What is above it?
Arsh, the throne of Allah.
And what is under?
All the rivers of jannah comes from it.
You know, when I was reading this, I
just took a minute and I thought, you
know, when you go for vacation and you
get to a hotel, what do you say?
The highest level and the best view.
Right?
They say it's the most expensive.
Well, it depends on your budget.
But for me and you, there's no budget.
There's work.
And later on, he's going to tell you
which one will go to the firdaws.
Very subtle, but it's in it.
What is nuzula?
Residence.
What does residence mean?
Permanent.
The landlord will come and tell you, leave.
Or the HOA will say, whatever, we'll leave.
Or the county will say, we're going to
move all these houses and we're going to
do whatever highway.
Nuzula meaning permanently you're there.
And then although he said nuzula, he reemphasized
it.
Eternal.
Because there's nothing eternal in this life.
Everything is changing.
Weather changes.
Right?
Your look changes.
I don't care what you do, but you
change.
Your health changed.
Your education changed.
Your desires changed.
I used to love this, not anymore.
Dunya is all changing, not al-akhirah.
Eternal.
Nothing changed, nothing is going to go away.
Only here.
What does that mean?
They do not want to move anywhere.
I'm not going to even turn right or
left.
Why?
This is the best I am.
I don't want any.
Right?
So here you go.
Jahannam, he didn't talk about the punishments and
the fear.
What have you done?
So be careful.
Do not do good things.
And they are good things, but they are
not good.
But they are not good things.
The worst of among you.
You want me to tell you who are
the losers?
What do we say loser?
She didn't do this or she did not
succeed in this or that.
Hadi dunya.
The losers, they worked very hard in this
life.
Allah used the word sa'i, which is
usually used for hard work.
They worked very hard in this dunya.
And they think they are doing good.
They don't.
Let's take a break because Hadi is related
to the last one.
Are these people who are working very hard,
they're doing good deeds or they're not doing
good deeds?
Yes or no?
They are doing good deeds.
So they are practicing Muslims.
They are doing what, but why it is
not going to bring any fruits in the
akhirah.
The last verse.
The last verse gives you the principle of
this deen.
First he said, say to them, you are
a human being like all of them.
Right?
The last one.
The last literally, the finale, take home message.
Are you ready to meet Allah?
You're looking forward to meet Allah.
You have certainty you will see Allah.
Meet Allah.
I'm not saying meet Allah in Jannah.
See him.
I am going to be in front of
him.
He will ask me.
Period.
It's scary.
Don't talk about it.
I don't want to hear about it.
That's your choice, but it's going to happen.
It's going to happen.
If you take it in the other meaning,
that you are getting ready to meet Allah.
You are putting it as a priority.
I'm planning.
I'm planning to get married.
I am planning whatever the plans we do
in dunya.
Fine, plan, beautiful, but are you planning for
the akhirah?
Do two things.
This is the summary.
These are the two main requirements for any
good deed to be accepted.
Any good deed has to be, number one,
a good deed.
Not by my definition, the society definition, my
family definition, the culture definition.
By Allah's definition.
And number two, the biggest problem we are
having now.
Not the intention.
Yeah, yeah, it is.
And do not associate anyone with him.
Period.
They teach you this in fiqh, they teach
you in aqidah.
One of the main two requirements for any
deed to be accepted.
And inshallah rewarded.
Number one has to be a good deed.
And number two has to be for Allah
and Allah only.
Allah and Allah only.
And I'm going to share some hadiths here
because it's beautiful here.
The one I was thinking of, at the
end of his life and in Madinah, when
dunya starts to become abundant, he said, what
I am really worried about you for the
future.
Ya Allah, when you read this and you
see us these days, the minor shirk, not
the major.
What is this minor small shirk?
Now think of this.
Allah on the day of judgment will say,
when it is time to reward people of
what they did, he will say to those
people, go to those people who you did
the deeds for them, let them reward you.
You pray so people will say she or
he prays.
You fast.
Why would people say about me I don't
fast Ramadan?
Right?
You act like you are nice.
So people will praise you.
You see people in your work, in your
deeds.
It's a good deed.
That's why he said earlier, those are the
losers.
They think they are doing good deed.
They are not.
Whenever you do a good deed, and this
is to myself before anybody else.
If you are waiting for that praise, then
this ayah applies to us.
And how do you know you're waiting for
that praise?
Exactly what happens when they don't say it?
What happens when you post this post?
And no one say like, nobody shared.
You cooked this for your guests and you
said, you know what, taking care of my
guests is a good deed.
Allah will reward you.
True.
Absolutely true.
And then the guest did not say anything
about your hospitality.
They didn't text you and say, whatever, whatever,
whatever.
Was the best food I had, the best
dessert, all what we are looking for.
And you get upset.
And please forgive me.
Sometimes we self inflicted this.
We over praise people.
Over praise people.
Don't praise people.
So a man praising another man.
He looked at him and says, you broke
his back.
What is a broke his back?
What does this has to do with this?
Because it will get into me.
It doesn't matter how righteous you are.
It doesn't matter who you are.
Don't tell me I don't care.
Yes, we care.
It hits hard.
And how many times I say this all
the time, some of you may laugh when
you cook, even to your family.
What are you waiting?
And when your children say, how was the
food?
They tell you good.
What do you say?
Good.
And then you keep saying it in a
different way.
Right.
How was the rice today?
And they still say good.
You're looking for the praise.
Because praise satisfying, help me, makes me feel
good.
And Allah says, this is another hadith.
He said, I am the best partner.
You do a deed and you associate Allah
with someone else.
And he said, I have nothing to do
with that deed.
You didn't do it for me.
We do it actually as human beings, right?
When someone tells you, and every age in
this room, when somebody texts you and says,
I love you and I love whatever the
other friend, you'll get upset.
Right?
And I'm not the only one.
Don't we say that?
Let alone if it's a spouse or a
child.
What about Allah?
When I put my duty, my beauty above
Allah, I put my friends above Allah, I
put my career above Allah, I put my
wealth above Allah, I put my children above
Allah, I put my spouse above Allah, then
Allah says, go.
Go to all of the above.
The take home message in Surah Al-Kahf,
we will be challenged.
And we will be challenged with things we
love.
And not only things we love, we actually
things we want to do and we act
and we work hard for it.
That's fine.
As long as it is not equal to
Allah, let alone above Allah.
And there is two ways we do it
above Allah or equal to him when my
intention is not pure for Allah, or I
do it my way.
Not the way he said it.
I had a long discussion last week, as
always, about hijab.
And it's not in the Quran and the
usual story I have memorized.
And they argue and argue and argue.
And I was like, SubhanAllah, Ya Allah lifted
the cover from their eyes.
Honestly, at the end, I start praying for
them.
That's a person who has a lot of
knowledge, but blind, not seeing it, not seeing
it.
And then, knowledge.
If the knowledge, if the words of Allah,
if the Quran here, or all the speeches
of Allah.
Every time I go on a beach, I
remember this verse.
Because you stand up in the beach, at
the beach, and then you see, especially here,
ocean.
What do we see?
What do we see?
No end.
No end.
And if you are on a boat or
you are on a ship, no end.
Right?
If the whole ocean, all this vast ocean,
right?
And you want to bring the words of
Allah, the words of Allah, the ocean will
not be enough.
Even if we brought another ocean, we bring
another one, another one, still, the words of
Allah, the Quran, the knowledge of Allah will
never be enough.
Yet, I sit and I say, I know.
Yes, I sit and I say, but I'm
not convinced.
And I don't want you to think of
anybody.
Don't you think of anyone in your mind?
Think of you, me.
Am I that person?
The answer is, please forgive me.
All of us, yes.
Maybe not all the time.
Alhamdulillah.
But at least one or twice.
Let's say in our lifetime.
What I think I know more.
What I think I've done better.
May Allah forgive us.
So take home message with you.
Work on these two things.
Work on your intention.
Everything you do in this life has to
be for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Has to be for Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala and Him only.
And Him only and teach your youth this.
Teach them this I word does not fit
in with a Muslim.
I did not do it.
Allah made it happen.
I did not memorize whatever.
I did not work hard and I went
to college.
Allah put fruit in my, in my efforts.
SubhanAllah.
And there's so many things I had.
Maybe you have a little bit more time.
I put so many things I said beautiful.
Right?
Look at this one.
I've said this.
This is very nice.
This is going to tell you why Allah
said.
Right?
The Jews asked, and you remember this.
We asked, we said this last time.
So the Jews say if he is really
a prophet, ask him about the three questions.
Do you remember that?
What were the three questions?
Tell us about the young man and tell
us about, about the soul and tell us
about the powerful man.
They didn't say the Qarni.
Say go and ask him if he knows
these three, he's a prophet.
So Allah revealed Surah Al-Kahf, the two
stories.
What about the soul?
Allah revealed it in Al-Isra.
They ask you about the soul.
Say the soul from the matter of Allah.
And you have not given knowledge, but little.
The Jews responded and they said, no, we
have given a lot of knowledge.
Look at our Torah.
Right?
And Allah responded by, if this ocean is
vast and to bring the knowledge of Allah,
the ocean will not be enough.
That you will need another ocean and another
ocean.
I need to remind myself of this because
no one reminds me.
Nobody in school reminds you of this.
Nobody at work, unless you work in a
Muslim environment.
And even in the Muslim environment, we're drained
in the daily detail.
Unless I make it a point, like I
make a point to eat, like I make
a point to drink or sleep or exercise
or do something fun and all halal, I
have to make a point.
Every day, one or two minutes, may Allah
forgive me, two minutes from 24 hours, that
I will think about two things.
Where am I going?
Where will I end?
Sooner or later.
You're 20, you're 30, you're 50, you're 70,
it doesn't matter.
One day we're leaving.
And I want to be from those people.
I want to be going to Allah and
Jannah is waiting for me.
Not because I am, because I followed what
he told me.
I struggled to follow.
I struggled.
Wallahi, to be a good Muslim these days
is not easy.
And whoever says it is easy, I'm going
to have a private discussion with them.
It's very challenging.
You want to be different than everything else.
Everything else around you are different.
Dress code, what you do, what you don't
do.
You pray, nobody prays.
You fast, no one fast.
You cover, no one cover.
They make fun of you.
This and that.
But it doesn't matter because I'm thinking of
Jannah.
I'm looking at it, it's waiting for me.
It's just a matter of time.
You need to be that.
And now inshallah you know, inshallah you learned,
why Allah keep reminding us every week.
Every week of Surat Al-Kahf.
Every Friday.
Why all these three words?
Because it summarized my life.
It summarized my daily, weekly, monthly, yearly challenge.
Challenges.
Unless I stay focused.
I stay focused in the beginning.
I stay focused in the middle.
Shaytan is in the middle, standing up there
for me.
And I stay focused at the end.
We will go astray.
And not astray meaning with kuffar, but we
will be distracted.
Somebody put distraction.
It's so true.
Huge distractions.
And the more Allah give us, the more
distracted we are.
Those of you who are not very young,
you still remember the days when we didn't
have phone.
20 years ago, there was no phone on
this earth.
No cell phone.
There was the flip phone and it was
a huge deal.
Whoa, I can call you without going anywhere.
I just pick it up from mine.
Right?
But we had way more barakah in our
time.
There was way more barakah in our time.
And we were, may Allah forgive me if
I'm wrong, we were a better human beings.
We cared more about each other.
There was no family sit and everybody is
looking at a device.
They sat together and eat and talk.
Now everybody is on their device.
Young and old.
Young and old.
I'm not talking about the youth only.
The elder is the same.
Unless there is rules in the home, which
inshallah, I hope you all do, but there's
no phone on there.
Like in our after school program, there's no
phones in the classes.
They come into and we take the phones.
They leave, we give them the phones.
I look at them and say, wallahi, you're
not going to die.
These two hours, believe me, nothing is going
to happen.
But it's something that was like, wow, and
then why do I have to give it?
Because it's not the usual.
So we are distracted.
We are challenged.
But at the same time, I say to
myself, we're strangers.
Place in Jannah for the strangers.
So of course my challenge is way more
than 20 years ago, but my reward also
is more.
So may Allah make it easier for all
of us.
May Allah accept from all of us.
May Allah make us of those who listen
to the word of admonition and follow it.
May Allah give us the real understanding of
the Qur'an.
Two things before you leave.
The women conference, very few tickets are left.
So if you are planning to come, please
get it.
Many of you reached out, especially people online,
that is there going to be an online?
Yes, alhamdulillah.
We just opened it today.
So there is an online option.
If you want to join online, you're more
than welcome.
The whole program will be live streamed.
Third, but last but not the least, on
Sunday, there is a post conference only, only
for high schools and college.
Only, I love you, but I will not
see you on Sunday.
Okay.
I'll see only those group.
And actually it's girls talk.
It's going to be me and Sheikh Aisha
prime, and we're going to open it for
questions.
And it's not going to be lectures.
It's going to be question answers two to
five.
Please go ahead and register because it's very
limited.
It's going to be in the Jannah center.
So we cannot accommodate a lot of people.
So please do that if you're planning.
And the last but not the least, next
weekend, next Tuesday, we will not have a
class because of the program in the garden
grove.
Jazakumullah khair.
Let's get ready for the salah inshallah.