Haifaa Younis – Surat Al Kahf #01
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Okay.
May Allah keep us always meet each other
for his sake, and may Allah
in this program and every program anybody does.
Just as I was thinking,
one of the beautiful things I was, it
was said to me long time ago when
when I was memorizing the Quran, one of
the teachers said to me, what luck how
lucky we are, and she was talking about
herself and the students, that Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala make us busy with His words.
Because we're all busy,
right? We're all running around. We all say
this, you know, I don't have time. I
wish the day is 36 hours. I wish
the week is 8 days.
But you need to know what are you
be what are you
literally busy with.
Right? And I never thought of it, you
know, because when you memorize the Quran or
studying especially Islamic studies, you are so focused
on it, and you don't see the bigger
picture unless somebody outside come and tell you.
So when she she felt that it's becoming
too much on us, and she says every
time you are doing this,
remember that Allah kept you busy with His
words.
He could have kept you busy with something
else. So alhamdulillah, I'm saying this because Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala opened for us that we
have every week, Insha'Allah, this is gonna be
continuous.
It's at least 6 weeks for Suratul Kahr,
and that Allah is bringing us every Tuesday
for no reason. It's beautiful we meet each
other, you know, we miss each other. The
main reason we are here is to know
about his words. And I always say this
to myself before anybody else. What is so
special about us?
Honestly.
Right? Nothing.
If anything, we are actually
immersed in his blessings.
Many people who are better than us in
his eyes,
they have
minimum of what we have, but still he
is giving it to us. So I want
everyone to be really grateful to the fact
that
this is available.
We have the ability to come. We are
coming, and don't take it for granted. And
I say this to myself all the time
because Allah can take it in a second.
For whatever the reason.
The meaning of it. Allah does not
remove knowledge by just removing knowledge.
Rather what He does is He removes the
teachers,
and you see it these days.
It's very few. If you look at 20
years ago, there were so many names. Every
country has big name. I'm talking about now,
not before. And now look how when the
a scholar die, where is the replacement?
I'm talking about real scholars, people who are
not only knowledgeable but they practice.
So the first thing we all have to
remember, and this is for everybody even online,
when Allah opens an opportunity
for learning,
don't take it to granted, And don't say,
you know, I'm not coming this week, I'll
come next week. You don't know there's gonna
be a next week.
So take it and take it seriously especially
with the Quran.
You, You, You Allah
Take the book with strength. What does strength
mean?
If you translate literally,
is a strength. Well, where's strength? Seriously.
Take it seriously. When you open the Quran,
when you read the Quran, don't just say,
okay, hamdulillah, I read. Allah knows what I
read.
You will be rewarded. I will be rewarded
anyway. But when he specifically said,
same word he said that to say
and then he's talking about now the Torah.
So anything knowledge, let alone knowledge of the
Quran.
Let alone when we come to certain surahs,
when Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for some reason
His wisdom made them special,
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
in the sight of Allah, when you know
this and you keep it in front of
you. So 2 things, number 1 is keep
yourself busy with the knowledge of Allah. And
I'm gonna do this announcement, I'll do it
later at the end of it also, Wali
Lahal Ham next month, next door we will
open Jannah Institute on-site.
And this is the dream. I don't know
why Allah put it in Arban.
It was always plan is to put, is
to open it in synchronous.
Because that's where I live, that's where we
started,
way more
affordable and feasible, but Allah didn't want it.
He he opened it here, subhanAllah. Next month
we're gonna be starting insha'Allah.
The summer courses are 3 and these are
intensive, these are not halaqa.
These are intensive, you come and be a
serious student and
taste the joy of being a serious student.
So we have we have done it one
for the woman a week, and one for
the girls a week, and one for the
boys based on a lot of requests from
the community.
Because I did it when during COVID actually,
and this is only a weekend. It's 5
days every day. We're gonna give you an
appetizer of what is this Islamic studies.
So one day will be fiqh, one day
will be a creed, one day will be
tazkiyah, one day will be
Quran and one day will be sunnah. I'm
just gonna give you examples.
It's a 3 hours. It's literally
appetizers.
And then Insha'Allah from September, we will be
start the our 1 year program open for
the on-site people. Take this opportunity for those
of you who can.
Again, because this is the only place I
again, I don't know why or why.
Literally, I was like,
There's no other place. And I can't tell
you how many people reached out to me
to do it in another state. One of
them is your competitor Dallas.
I declined. So alhamdulillah, I mean all the
information are out there, but let's go to
Suratul Kahf now.
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 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 is
Surat Al 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 Dulkarni?
Right? Or Ashabul Qari, Ashabul Jannah.
There has to be something about the kahf,
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 Ka'ab every Friday,
you better be ready. I'm gonna keep asking
you cause this is a surah, you read
it every Friday. Is it revealed in Makkah
or on Madinah?
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? Why? This
is the common word we say. Now 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 Makkan 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?
Right? 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 Makkasura,
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.
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 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 fitna 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 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 Tony 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 salatul kar.
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 Surat
Al 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 Wasallahu 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 minalijin.
The only time he said, kana minal jinn
fafasaqaanamri
rubi.
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 you're, 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 Iblis.
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.
The introduction is unique.
There is 5 chapters in the Quran, starts
by Alhamdulillah.
Five places. If you go and look, 5
chapters in the Quran start by Alhamdulillah.
Of course the first one is
Al Fatiha.
2nd,
Al Anam.
Alhamdulillahi kalaqasamawati
walarmwajahalabburumatiwanmore.
I'll translate all of them. 3rd 1, Al
kahf.
4th 1?
Saba. And 5th?
Fatar.
So 5 places
starts by Alhamdulillah.
All praise to Allah.
Okay? And
and
keep saying this
and you're again not questioning Allah, but you're
making yourself think deeper.
Look at every time Allah said Alhamdulillah,
what is followed by?
Let's state Fatiha.
So they talk about
Allah.
Alhamdulillahi
ladi khalaqasamawati
walarum, all place to the one who created
heavens and ours. Who's that?
Come to the
kahav, Alhamdulillahi
ladi Anzalalkitabaalaabdi
All praise to the 1, there's no name
of Allah, who sent down the book to
His servant. Who's that?
Lovely. Alhamdulillahi
Laddillahu Wulkussamawati
Walar? No. Alhamdulillahi
This is father, this is Saba. Alhamdulillah,
all praise to Allah,
now name He
has the
Dungmin or he has the all what is
in heavens and earth is to Allah
So father, the last one,
one of his names, hamdullahi
fatrrisamawati
walawl
What does that teach you?
SubhanAllah, you all read the Quran.
Right? And you all have Radul Fatiha,
and you all have Radul Kahf minimum.
Why is this?
Why there is alhamd all praise to Allah
connected to Allah?
Why didn't he say for example, Alhamdulillahi
laddi arsalar Rasool?
It's all related to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
Number 1,
when you praise and hear is not praise,
when you are grateful, Alhamd who are put
there is, there's a lot of, Sister Salam
Alaikum, there's a lot of chairs here, you
can just go from the other side, There
is chairs here.
When you say, let's let's think of it,
I come to you and I say Jazaaki
lahu khair,
right? That's a praise, that's alhamd.
What does that mean?
You have done something to
me, right? Yeah, it's thanking but I need
you to get deeper. Of course it's thanking,
but why did I say it?
You have done something to me, Right? Doesn't
matter. Small or big.
But when you have done something to me,
what does that tell me? I couldn't do
it.
You did it.
Right? Are you with me? So when I'm
praising,
who should I praise?
Who should I praise?
Always, when you say Alhamd,
and by the way, alhamd is bigger than
a shuk, or come to it
later. Alhamd when you praise
in the Quran, and this is the book
of Allah, who should I praise all the
time? See all the online people are answering.
Allah, of course,
because whatever you do to me,
there's someone who did for you.
If you go in the caskets of people.
Right? Your friend helped you in school. Well,
there's a teacher who taught this there is
a somebody who taught the teacher. Go go
go. There's always someone, but there is no
one above Allah.
So all praise that's why when you see
it in English, Alhamd
is translated to all praise.
Nobody else,
no one else above him, SubhanAllah.
And that's why all the praise is always
related to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
For example, Azumu Al Waqid Alhamdulillahi
rubi alam at the end.
What does that tell me? Okay. Lovely. I
love the analysis. Okay. What does it tell
me in my daily life?
No one deserve to be.
Nobody deserve to be,
praised
and grateful to but Allah. Beautiful, I love
the statement. I need a practical
answer.
When I look at you and I say,
if it was not for you,
I will not have
whatever you did to me. I did not
praise Allah.
And my tongue who says Alhamdulillahi rabbilalami
is not saying the truth.
Cause I should say alhamdulillahirat
Allah brought you to me
and made my life easy.
Did you get the point?
Never put people equal to Allah.
Never.
We shouldn't,
but reality
reality,
when you need something, someone comes to you
and says, go and talk to her or
go and talk to him. He's the only
one who can do it.
Yes or no?
You all are quiet. Yes. Yes.
And that is
I put a human being equal to Allah
and that's not Islam.
I should always say
Alhamdulillah
Allah guided me to talk to somebody
that He made him. There's always after me,
He made him. I think this is not
working. Can you give me the other one?
He made him or her
able to help me.
So remember this,
don't you ever
to somebody. If it wasn't for you,
I will never have done this. Sometimes patients
say this to me, and if they are
Muslims, I said don't say it.
Don't say it. Say, Alhamdulillah,
Allah put on your hand
cure.
Alhamdulillah, Allah gave you this knowledge to teach
me.
So remember this, so alhamd is only
to Allah.
Alhamdulillah
praise, all praise is only to Allah. Literally,
this something has to be engraved in our
hearts,
and the opposite is also true. No one
can help me
except Allah.
But I can reach out to you, but
if Allah did not want this to happen,
you will not be able to. That's why
we say, Qadrallaumansha
Affar Allah decreed and whatever Allah decreed will
happen.
What is, what's the
chapter
before
Al Kahf?
Al Isra.
What is an Isra?
Why are you looking at me as if
you have never read the Quran?
I wish I have a camera, a mirror.
All of them I was like why is
she asking?
Again, one of the things you really have
to start paying attention
is the sequences.
Why did Allah put an Israa, then he
put al kaf?
Why didn't he put al kaf number 1?
Why does al Baqarah and then alia imran?
There has to be a reason. This is
one of the things you put when you
study, you put questions for you so you
can look for the answers.
There is always connections between every surah, every
chapter and the one after. We have said
this many times. This is the 4th time
I think we are talking about the chapter
in the Quran. So what does Surah 2
Islam starts by?
Subhanallavi
Asrabi Abdihi Rayda. All glory to the one
who, what,
send his servant in a night journey.
How does Al Ilfa Al Kahf start?
What is the relationship between
Shubhan and Alhamdul?
What is the the relationship between
glorifying Allah and praising
Allah
There's always
praising Allah,
always glorifying Allah and praising Allah are linked
together.
You know why?
Because if you don't glorify Allah, you will
not be grateful to Him.
If you don't look at him as the
only one who can help you, you're not
gonna be grateful to him. Him. If I
think you can help me, I'll be grateful
to you.
So that combination of al Isra starts by
suphan followed by alhamd,
The beginning and the beginning, but the beauty
of it is the end. For those of
you who know the Quran, the end of
Surah Al Isra ends by what?
Again, it's okay. I don't expect you to
know because unless you are have memorized it.
It's the end of Surah, I didn't bring
my Quran, I should.
The last verse in Surah Al Isra, last
verse after talking about all the journey, night
journey, talking about the Quran, talking about our
Aqid, it's another Makki Surah, and was revealed
at one of
the toughest time on Rasool alaihi salatu wa
salam.
He ends by saying Alhamdulillah,
all praise, right? Lamiatakidwalad
now praising Allah by the characters that no
one else has. He never had a child
and he has no partner,
glorify him. Then you respond to this order
because that's an order. He's saying
this is to you and me, and you
say Alhamdulillah.
Now why you're praising Allah? Because he send
you the book.
If I don't have the Quran, imagine this,
when I was in Hajj SubhanAllah a couple
of thoughts came to me every time I
go to Makkah but especially in Hajj. If
there was no Quran and no Rasul alaihis
salaam,
how we're gonna practice?
How we are gonna become Muslim?
And that's why you need to be very
grateful to something called Quran
and very grateful
to to our Rasool alayhis salatu was salam.
So the connection
is there.
Connection
is there. Al isra al kahaf. You end
al kahaf,
which is so interesting.
If the words
the words
of Allah
if the if the the sea
was so vast
to contain the words of Allah it will
not be big enough to contain
the words of Allah. That's how it ends,
right?
What does Maryam starts with?
Letters that we don't know the meaning of
it.
Go and figure it out.
You know? Go and figure it out. It's
the longest kafha,
you, einsad.
The longest combination
of letters, we don't know the meaning of
it.
So when you're reading the end of Al
Kahf and you get, and especially if you
go to the ocean and you see and
you reflect on the Quran and see how
big is the ocean, the words of Allah
is bigger, then Allah brings letters
and say, okay, come on in.
You know?
Come and do something.
Combo.
So always when you read and Mariam is
also. So always when you read,
ask these questions.
Write it down,
search, and these things you can search because
these are not something different opinion.
Surah Tulkaha,
one of the few surahs that there is
hadith about its virtues,
and the hadith is not different opinion.
The hadith are following, there's 1 in Muslim,
and there is 1 in Al Hakim, and
there is 1 in the Tirmidhi.
All of them
share one message.
Does anyone know?
Why do you read it every Friday?
Why do you read it every Friday? Somebody
raise your hand if you know. Yes? To
protect us from the Quran between the last
What is the hadith?
Yes.
Right, so there is something about tests.
The daily test I talked about, but there
is a biggest test we're gonna get and
may Allah Subhanu wa'ala protect us, and that's
called the test of the dajjal.
Do you know who's he?
He's a
human being that's gonna come at the end
of the day end of the time, but
he is gonna claim he is
prophet
And very few,
very few
will know that he is not.
And he's gonna bring miracles
that no way he is not.
But only those people of Furel, Iman and
Taqwa will read it on his forehead that
he's a liar.
Otherwise, many will believe him and follow him.
And that's one of the biggest tests we
will get at the end because after all
what you did in your life and you
obeyed Allah Alhamdulillah
but then we fail on this
test.
And that's why one of the duas we
are supposed to do
before we say salaam
in our salah on daily basis minimum 5
times is we seek refuge
from the test of the, dajjal and from
the punishment
of the grave.
So Suratul Kahf, this is what he said
alayhi salatu wa salaam. There is memorizing
and there is reading,
and it's all about either the first ten
or the last ten
of Suratul Ka'a. The first ten
and the last ten is not the stories,
it's just the introduction,
and the last ten,
and he said the following, I just want
to make sure so I don't read the
the hadith wrong. This one is in Muslim,
and he said, alayhi salaam,
this is related by Abu Darda.
Manhafiabaashraayat
min Suratul Kahf o singa minad dajjat.
Right? Now, whomsoever
memorized
10 verses of Surat al Kahr, general.
10. How many of you,
show me hands. It's okay. I wanna see
this. Memorized also
Also
All of it.
1 only.
234
5, 6,
7.
Don't be shy.
We have close to 60 here. We don't
even have 10.
Can I ask why not?
Don't answer me, but I want you to
go home and ask yourself this. Why not?
Why not?
If I ask you again the same question
you have heard from me many times, give
me a recipe right now from your memory
about the most
well known,
right,
recipe in your
country you came from or in the United
States,
all of you will give me the recipe.
But why not Surah Al Kah?
It's 110 verses.
You read it every Friday. It's not difficult
to memorize.
It's not challenging. It's not like some other.
It's not
because it's stories
and doesn't have a lot of tough words
or difficult words for us. So the first
question everybody is gonna ask yourself,
why not? We keep asking Allah why not?
Why me?
Then I'm gonna ask to everybody why you
have not memorized Surat Al Kahr.
And don't answer me, may Allah forgive me.
Well, Allah is gonna ask you
10 verses at least start by 10 verses
10 verses if you memorize 1 verse a
day,
one verse a day, may Allah forgive me,
right? You need 110 days. And how much
is 110 days?
It's 4 months.
Yeah. And from now till the end of
the year.
For
one verse a day,
how long it takes
Okay. Review. What is the big deal?
You listen to a song thousands time.
You play the same,
game many times and you enjoy it. You
watch the same thing many times.
I'm not saying haram. Insha'Allah, it's all halal.
So put a goal
that I am,
this is my goal till the end of
the year,
right? We have absolutely 4 months
and maybe half.
I'm gonna memorize
one
one verse.
Janas, one verse a day,
and you have it translated, and you have
audio, and you name it, and you have
it. Manhafi ba Ashur
who memorized 10, and this is the one
in Muslim,
you memorized 10 protected from a dajjal. So
when he comes and those millions
don't read
what's written on his forehead, if you have
memorized those 10,
you will read it and you will be
saved.
That's one. 2nd one, here also Abu Dada,
he said manqara'a
who read
the last ten verses of Suratul Kahah,
also we will be protected
from the test of ad Djar. So there
is two
opinions of it. The first one is stronger.
So you read
or you memorize.
Question for everybody, I really wanna see hands
because we really need to know where are
we. How many of you every Friday,
they read solar taka?
Every Friday.
Less than 50% in this class, and this
class supposed to be the best of the
best.
My question to everybody, why not?
And Friday starts from after Maghrib on Thursday,
so don't tell me I work on day
of tomorrow.
Fine, leave it Thursday night and in fact
there is a hadith of virtue of reading
it that night.
Why not Thursday night after Ma'rub
before you go to bed on Thursday,
right? Instead of
scrolling
or talking
or texting
or reading something that is not beneficial,
make it a habit.
Make it a habit. At least start by
reading.
Every Thursday or every Friday depends on your
schedule.
The more you read, memorization is much easier
because your eyes will memorize where is it.
Again, memorize it in, read it in transliteration.
If you don't know the Arabic, that's fine.
Read in transliteration,
listen
and work on it and put it as
a goal till the end of the year.
Manqara
a'asur, just 10. At the end which is
the last page, you will be protected from
the test of al dajjal.
If I tell you now,
right, if once you leave oh I just
came in and there was a huge
accident
right, on Jeffrey. Try to avoid Jeffrey. Will
anybody go to Jeffrey?
Right? You organize it. Take left and go
the other way.
Why did you believe me when I said
this?
And then you didn't believe Rasool alaihi sat
wasalam when he told you this. I didn't
take any action.
Why?
Who can answer me?
It's not a priority,
So let's make this a priority.
I want to be protected. You want to
be protected? Take measures
We all, may Allah forgive us and don't
you ever forget,
we all wore those masks,
remember?
And those
shields
and we stayed home, and we took the
vaccine, and
he lift it,
but we did it.
And I know there is gonna be a
fitna of a dajjal. Why don't I prepare
to protect myself?
The other one, he said
there is a virtue when you read it
from 1 Friday to the other. Now it
is not about just reading it but it's
consistently between Friday Friday. Now combine
everything I said. He said, manqaal kahf
fiyomil Jumuah
on the day of Jumuah, Ava'alahu
mina'nu
You're gonna have a light,
and I'm gonna come to it, but just
just translating.
Whosoever
Rad,
Kahf
one Friday and Radul Kahf on the other
Friday, in between
there is a light
for him or for her.
What is that light?
And why between Friday and the other Friday
combined with the tests we have?
I read it
and I said, hey, be careful.
You just learned some deen. Don't be arrogant.
Hey, you are in a place. You just
got a new job and there is a
lot of tests in the new job about
your Din.
Right? You just got money.
You were just,
appointed
with a power. These are the four things.
When you read it in in that Jumuah,
you're gonna read it with understanding,
that's what we are doing,
then whatever happens
in that Friday,
in that week,
you start your week
and you already have
what you need
to stay strong.
The light, what he says the light, is
not the light, is not a flashlight.
I see
reality.
I see that when I don't pray at
work,
I see it and I can and there
is no way you can tell me you
cannot pray at work. I will not take
this whatsoever.
You know
why? Because I went through it way before
when now everything is way easier
during September 11th, after September 11th, when you
are the only one who wears hijab in
this 5
it's a 2,000
huge hospital. You can do it.
So when you are have read Surah Al
Khaf, you're gonna go Saturday
weekend, you went out, you know, you wanna
have fun, alhamdulillah,
but you will stay
focused on your deen because Al Kahf told
you that you will be tested in your
deen.
So every Friday to the other Friday you
have a torch.
It's not a
physical torch, it's a spiritual torch that's gonna
make you see reality as reality.
In the other hadith is even, and
I want you to pay attention to the
beautiful
Gaj here. He said, manqara a laylatil Jumaa
who read it at the night of Jumaa.
Now we are night.
There will be the light between where he
or she is
meaning Mecca.
Why?
Night is dark.
Makkah is very far.
Basot Al Jumwa
will put a light in front of you
that you folk what is Al Bayt Al
Atiqa? What is what is Makkah? What is
the house of Allah?
It's Allah.
Suratul Kahf will make you
attached,
connected,
protected,
and see this life as its reality.
Our issue all of us, may Allah forgive
me before anybody else, we don't see the
world
as we should.
We don't see none of us in this
room, myself number 1 and nobody on online,
see this dunya
as it's temporary.
We don't whether you are 15, whether you
are 70,
we're here forever.
Yes?
Yes or no?
Yes. You know why?
Because I don't plan otherwise.
Right? There's a beautiful saying I learned it
years ago.
The wise person is the person who leave
duniya
before duniya leaves him.
And build and flourished
and furnish his or her grave
before they enter
and please his or her Lord before they
meet him.
Is that true?
Are we gonna leave the dunya
or the duniya will leave us? Doesn't matter
how you look at it but we're leaving,
true?
Yes?
Perfect. Are we going to a grave?
Yes or no?
And are we meeting Allah?
Lovely. What have we prepared?
Did you leave Dunia? What is leaving Dunia?
Doesn't mean I'm not gonna do anything.
Leave Dunia. Don't get attached to it,
and don't make it your focus.
And I ask this myself and everybody else,
when was the last time you cried
just because you were reading the words of
Allah or you listened to a word of
Allah and all life is going exactly very
well. And when was the last time you
cried because Allah did not give you this
or that?
Or somebody said something about you?
True or false?
Then I am not leaving dunya before it
leaves me,
Right?
When was the last time you bought something
to your grave?
And when was the last time you bought
something for your house?
Most of us this last weekend, we bought
something for the house. I'm not talking about
food and drink. Right? I need it. It's
beautiful. It's on sale. Buy 1, get 1
free. All these things they do to make
us buy things we don't need. What did
you buy for your grave?
What furniture I need in the grave?
Do you know?
What is the best furniture for the grave?
Al
Quran. Absolutely.
It's the friend in the grave.
It's gonna give me the light in the
grave.
Did you buy
any?
Did you even scroll through it as we
scroll through all these websites to buy things?
What did you do today to please Allah?
Not to please yourself, not to please people.
Something you don't tell me I prayed.
I'm talking about
pleasing. You know when you please somebody,
meaning
you love someone and you want to please
him. You don't just cook something.
What do you do? You're gonna go and
figure out
what they really love,
right? And if it's a gift, you're gonna
wrap it beautifully. You're gonna write this beautiful
note.
Yes, nothing wrong, it's beautiful
and that person, he or she will be
very happy. What did you do for Allah
this day?
Today,
from the morning, especially the youth and you,
it's off, it's summer, what did we do?
Arba Mawlaqablaniarka,
that I pleased Him before I met, I
will meet Him.
That's what Surah Al Kahf reminds me all
the time.
And especially pay attention to the end of
the stories
Because the end of the stories,
for example,
when Allah talked about
the people of Al Qayb, right?
The end of it He told Rasul 'alaihi
salatu wa salam
Stay away from those who are heedless.
Why?
Turasu alaihis salatu wasalam
because they will take you away from your
day. When he talked about the people, the
2 men of the garden, money.
What did he say? The end of it.
See how much you know Sur Taqaf, and
you all read it every Friday.
And he gave the parable of this dunya.
It's like a rain, and then get the
water mixed with the whatever is on this
and then it becomes ashes, nothing.
You
spend all your time collecting
and then disobey Allah to collect and then
you hurt people to collect and it's going
to be like ashes at the end.
Look what he said at the end of
story of Sayyidina Musa
and the end of the story of Sayyidina,
of Dhir Qarnayn.
Because that's the messages.
Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in a beautiful
part of the beauty of the Quran, he
doesn't only
give you the problem,
he give you the solution. Because if you
only identify the problem you will not solve
it.
He gives you this is the problem, be
careful,
you will be tested with your deen. Be
careful, money is gonna come to you and
it's gonna lure you from Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. Be careful you, I will give you
knowledge,
right? And you're gonna be arrogant but see
what's gonna happen and then I'm gonna give
you power and basically power mother in the
house is power.
You have people under you.
Father in the house is a power.
You are promoted to become a head of
something. You have people under you. That's power.
I'm not talking about only presidents or right?
And then he said at the end,
what should power do to you? What should
knowledge do to you? What should money do
to you? And what should the fitna of
the deen do to you?
So I hope all of you now start
looking at Surat Al Kahf differently.
And when you read it again
on Thursday night, number 1, you promise Allah
don't promise me who am I,
But you all promise Allah Subhanu wa Ta'ala,
especially the youth,
that each one remind the other.
Either, and the best is you fix your
time.
Fix a time that you always read Suratul
Kahf, because once you don't fix I'm gonna
do it tomorrow,
right? Fix any time, like for
some of my teachers they always read it
after fajr,
always.
I normally do it when I'm driving coming
to the masjid or wherever I am going,
driving on a Friday.
But definitely try to do it before Jumu'ah
because once comes after Jumu'ah, time will pass
and once Maghrib comes in you're done. It's
not Jumu'ah anymore.
Or do it Thursday, a lot of people
I know they do it Thursday night.
Number 1, the hadith that you will have
light and also you're safe.
You're not postponing.
Again, people are different, but make a promise
to Allah and make dua to Allah
to help you.
You Allah make me remember because many of
us forget. That's one of the ways of
shaitaan.
Make me remember.
Put a reminder on your phone.
Friends
or people in the same house,
get people together and read it.
Read it together.
Not necessarily loud, but all of you get
it, get the Quran, sit and read Surat
Al Kah, so you will remember.
But I'm not saying read it loud because
you don't want to go into the different
opinion.
But the most important thing, make a promise
to Allah. No Friday is gonna go
without you reading Surat Al Jumaa and Surat
Al Kahf. You know why? Because when the
Friday goes, it's not gonna come back
and that's gone.
So may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us
of those people who listen to the words
of admonition and
listen to it, understand it and practice it.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala make us of
those who are attached to His words. May
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala make the Quran and
Suratul Kahf especially a light for our hearts.
Next week we will cover the story
of the kaf, the cave, and I want
all the youth to attend
because they were literally bring all your youth.
Even if you have boys, bring them next
week. It's okay
because it's talking about youth.
They're fitia,
young people,
and the younger you are
and the younger you know the deen,
the right way,
not the no right way. Just do it.
You understand it. You will love it. The
more impact it will have on you. The
younger you start the better. So alhamdulillah, I
mean next week I want you please read
it,
and do yourself at least a favor, and
read it, and just see what catches your
eyes. I'm even gonna leave 10 minutes for
questions and answers
because I want you to
read, think, understand, and then if you don't
understand, Alhamdulillah, that's why we are here. So
that's number 1. Second thing I'm gonna do
the same announcement I did in the beginning
since now, alhamdulillah, we have way more. Next
month, inshaAllah,
August 12, we will start our Jannah Institute
on-site, and it's gonna be in the next
building, 5540
upstairs.
And I'm saying this, and honestly I don't
know why because I kept asking Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala, you have a hakim but you
didn't show me. I don't know why it
ended up in Irvine.
It was never in my mind I'm gonna
do it in Irvine for many reasons, but
Allah wanted it. And when Allah wants it
happens, it happens so smooth, subhanAllah.
And alhamdulillahi rabbilani we are offering summer intensive
as a start,
3 courses, one for the women, one for
the girls. Girls is 12 and we actually
opened it even to college students, And one
for the boys. Boys is only a weekend.
We are starting with the girls because of
school.
It's 5 days. Every day is 3 hours.
And what we're gonna learn, and I'm gonna
start introducing the appetizers to the Irvine people,
and not only to Irvine, to Southern California,
is what does it mean and what are
you learning when you study this deen? So
we're gonna have every day one topic. Five
topics when you study Islamic studies,
you have to learn about and then everything
then gets way more deeper and different. Number
1 is what do we believe in? And
number 2, what is this Quran? And number
3, who's a Raswa
and what did he say? And 5, how
do we practice?
And 4, how do we practice? And 5,
how do we stay connected?
Which is taskeah,
fiqh,
hadith,
Quran,
and Taqidah, kreed. So this is how we
will do 3 hours
a day, registration is open alhamdulillah and it's
only for the local.
We're not opening it online. That's gonna be
special for you.
Like unless really there is a reason and
if Allah wills, but in general, so please,
when after Maghrib, there is all the registrations
are opened outside. Anybody has any question, let
me know and may Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
make it a blessed place. May Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala make me and you worthy of
this knowledge.
This is extremely important
because if we are not Allah will take
it away. You're Abi Amin. Jazakumullah khairan Subhanakallahu
mawabihamdik,
AshaDunnla ilaha illa ant
Any questions? We still have
what is what time
is? 59?
I can't remember
because I have now done in my house,
and I just follow the other 2 more
minutes. Right?