Haifaa Younis – Understanding Surah Al Mulk – Part 1 I
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As-salamu alaykum.
In the name of Allah, and praise be
to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon
the Messenger of Allah, and upon his family,
his companions, and those who follow him.
Allahumma a'lamna ma yanfa'una wa manfa
'na bima a'allamtana.
Innaka samia'un mujeebu al-du'aa.
Allahumma inni a'udhu bika min a'min la
yanfa' wa qalbin la yakhsha' wa nafsin la
tashba' wa du'a'in la yusma' rabbana
la tuzi qulubana.
Ba'da idh hadaytana wa hublana min ladunka rahma.
Innaka anta al-wahhab wa bashrahli sadri wa
yassalli amri.
Wahlul aqtata min lisan yafqahu qawli.
Sorry, I came a little bit late, but
I had to pray at home and come.
Because if I left before I prayed, it
would be late to be here.
So alhamdulillah, just this week, and then insha
'Allah next week when the time goes a
little bit earlier, we'll be basically on time.
So I know you had many requests for
surahs.
And just subhanAllah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
made me choose al-Mulk.
And alhamdulillah, there's a lot of surahs, a
lot of requests came from different surahs, but
this one I don't know, just Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala made it happen.
So how many of you have memorized surah
al-Mulk?
Not too bad.
Al-Mulk.
Right, how many have memorized?
Okay, and the rest?
And the process?
Okay, insha'Allah, the real one, the Islamic
one, right, not the Muslim one.
This is how I call it.
The Islamic one, meaning I mean it, insha
'Allah Allah will do it, will help me
do it.
And the Muslim one, meaning you'll figure it
out.
What's so special about surah al-Mulk?
That there were so many requests about it.
Okay, what do you know?
Bismillah.
Al-Munjiya.
The one, the Saber.
I'm sorry?
The virtue of it, if you read it
every night, it's a way to paradise.
It's the way to paradise.
Any other one?
Why did you request it then?
Bismillah.
So it's your companion in the grave.
Any other thing?
That's the first question.
Yes, please.
Oh, are you reading something?
We're not going to Google in this class.
I'm sorry?
So it includes the majesty of Allah and
His creation.
So that's number one.
Why it's called Tabarak?
Or why it's called al-Mulk?
And the other name is Tabarak.
Why it's called al-Mulk?
Bismillah.
So it talks about Allah's sovereignty.
But there's so many other surahs in the
Quran that talks about Allah's sovereignty.
See, the moment I ask you another question,
you all don't know.
Fine.
And why it is after surah al-Tahrim?
The sequence?
Anytime.
Again, I'm not asking you to, I mean,
I would be very surprised if all of
you know the answer.
Alhamdulillah, it would be great.
But I would be surprised, to be honest
with you.
But these are the questions that any time
you read a surah in the Quran, you
need to ask yourself.
This is how you learn.
Unless I think of the question, it doesn't
mean necessarily I know the answer.
Otherwise, alhamdulillah, Rabbana.
But that means there is something I need
to learn.
I need to look up.
I need to read.
I need to ask.
Because al-Mulk is one of the chapters
that people know.
It's not something that people don't know much
about.
Right?
It is not like, for example, surah al
-Zukhruf.
Many people, very much unfamiliar with it.
But al-Mulk, everybody knows about it.
There has to be a reason.
That's number one.
And number two, why it's called al-Mulk?
And then you said, well, because of the
sovereignty of Allah, and it is in it.
Yeah, but there's other surahs in the Quran.
There is also sovereignty.
Al-An'am, half of it is a
sovereignty.
And number three is, why in this place
of the Quran?
Why it is here?
So just leave these questions with you.
So as we go through, these answers, inshallah,
of course, we're not going to cover it
in one class.
We are actually going to be covering it,
inshallah, maybe two or three.
It's whatever Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allows
us to do.
So the first thing is, what I want
you all to know is the following.
The names of the surah.
Right?
So number one, there's four names for it,
plus al-Mulk.
So to sum up, Tabarak, al-Mani'a,
al-Waqi'a, al-Munji'a.
So four names.
Tabarak, Tabarak.
We're going to come and talk about Tabarak
in detail, inshallah.
So number one is Tabarak.
Second is al-Mani'a, the one that
prevents, or the one that protect, or immune,
or give me immunity.
Al-Waqi'a is same meaning, but it
is protection more.
Al-Munji'a, the saver.
So pay attention to these four, because that's
going to give you something, inshallah, you will
learn.
So number one is Tabarak, because the first
word in it is Tabarak, but also it's
related to the meaning inside it.
So that's one.
Second, al-Mani'a, it's going to prevent
me from having something.
Third, al-Waqi'a, the protector.
Al-Munji'a, the saver.
Are you all with me?
Yes?
So saver of what?
You don't be scared.
You said it, all of you.
From the punishment of the grave.
Prevent from the punishment of the grave.
Right?
And protect from the punishment of the grave.
Right?
So protect me, save me.
If it is there, I'm going to be
saved because of it.
I'm going to be protected because of it
from the punishment of the grave.
And it's going to be completely prevented.
So I'm going to be protected, prevented, and
saved.
Now the question is why?
Why is this specially related to the punishment
of the grave?
You all knew the answer.
Why?
Yes, he said so.
Exactly.
Don't go too far.
The first time, this is how I want
you all, inshallah, as we do more of
this.
Anytime you hear something about the Quran, right?
First thing you say, is it in the
Quran?
Or is it in the hadith?
Right?
If none of those, then it has to
be someone said something about it.
But not someone you and me.
Somebody, meaning scholars, companions.
And I'm going to take you through it
because there's a lot of it.
Okay?
So number one, it is the beginning of
which chapter of the Quran?
The 29th.
So what is before it?
The 28th.
Which surah is the last one in the
28th?
Al-Tahrir.
What is the last four verses, or three
verses of Surah Al-Tahrir?
You have to know it because it's related
to women.
I mean, there is verses in the Quran
you have to know.
Because this is about me, specifically.
I mean, all the Quran is about me,
but it also can be about my children,
or my husband, and the men, and everything.
But this is specifically about women.
And here, the last three verses of Surah
Al-Tahrir, Allah talked about what?
The example of two women who were kafir,
in spite of being in the most virtuous
house.
And then the second verse is about that
woman.
So virtuous, she, in spite of being in
a house full of disobedience, with a tyrant.
And the third is a woman.
It's very interesting, this.
And the third is a woman, no house,
no husband, but she was the most virtuous
woman.
Are you all with me?
We always use this when the woman says,
I cannot obey Allah because of my house
circumstances.
The answer is, not necessarily.
And the other one, you can say, why
you are not, and your husband is very
virtuous.
So first, Allah said, the two wives of
Sayyidina Nuh and Sayyidina Lut, two prophets, both
were kafir.
Completely.
One helped him, one helped in the disobedience
of Allah, and one did not believe in
him.
Period.
Then comes completely the opposite.
Now the husband is not Nuh, Sayyidina Nuh
or Sayyidina Lut.
The husband is Fir'aun.
And I mean, who is worse than Fir
'aun in everything?
But she was a believer, a strong believer.
Absolute certainty, it doesn't matter what he's going
to do to me.
Right?
And she made a dua to Allah.
Build a house for me with you in
Jannah.
The last one, doesn't matter who's around you
or not around you.
You don't need anybody.
And that's Maryam.
Subhanallah.
And here he called her by her name.
If you remove the Bismillah, if you just
keep reading, this is the last thing you
can read in the Tahrim.
She believed in the words of her Lord
and in his books.
Why?
Keep it in your mind.
Now come and tell me, what does Tabarak
mean?
It's many meanings, but in general, Tabarak is
only for Allah.
If I'm going to say the word Tabarak,
I have to follow it by Allah.
Tabarak Allah, Masha'Allah.
I don't say Tabaraka.
I don't say Tabaraka, let's say Sara.
I don't say Tabaraka Muhammad.
I say Allahumma ja'aluhu mubarak.
Tabarak is a description of Allah only.
And usually it is without his name or
with his name and his description.
So why Tabarak?
And he talked about Maryam.
What is Tabarak?
You're praising him.
You're glorifying him.
Because he's Allah, okay?
And perfection, absolutely.
I'm not trying to make it a Aqeedah,
but I need you to think of this.
Because the word Tabarak is repeated in the
Quran.
What is Tabarak special to Allah?
What is in Allah?
Only him.
Bigger, including creation of course is bigger.
Ability that he can do things nobody can
do.
Period.
Doesn't matter who you are.
And he was the only one who gave
Maryam a child, without a husband, without having
a relationship.
Tabarakalladhi biyadihil mulk.
Did you get the relationship?
It's beautiful.
There's a book only about the relationship.
I don't think it's translated yet.
It's Tanasubus suri wal ayat.
The relationship between the verses in the Quran
and definitely between the chapters.
And one of the easiest ones you can
think, and very clear to you, is the
end of Al-Qamar and Al-Rahman.
The end of Surah Al-Qamar followed by
Al-Rahman.
Right?
It's an amazing relationship.
Right away you can see.
I'm not going to tell you the relationship.
It's very clear.
Just go and read it.
But always when you read the beginning of
the surah, any chapter, look before.
Sometimes immediately, the last verse.
Sometimes two or three before.
But it is related.
Are you all with me?
Now let's come, what is the virtues of
it?
Who said so?
As we said.
Number one, it's a weak hadith.
But the meaning of it is very beautiful.
And he said, Kana an-nabiyyu sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam yuhibbu hadhihi al-surah.
Rasul alayhi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam loved it.
Because it has so many description of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So many knowledge for us in a very
short.
And he said, it's a weak hadith.
But he said, I wish, I love to
see it in the chest of every Muslim.
That's why I asked you how many of
you memorized it.
I love to see it.
Do you really love Rasul alayhi sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam?
How many of you love Rasul alayhi sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam?
Is that why you are asking?
Then when you love someone, don't you do
what they love?
Don't you do what they love?
That's the love.
He said, I wish I love to see
it in the heart of every human being.
By the way, it's not a difficult one
to memorize.
It's two pages and a half.
And it's not very difficult.
It doesn't have these words.
The only thing, it doesn't have any story.
It's not very difficult.
If you literally listen to it every night,
before you go to bed, now you are
reading it.
Imagine after 40 days you have been reading
it every night.
Every, every night.
Allah will put it in your heart.
Subhanallah.
So that's number one.
The other one I'm going to tell you
a lot.
This is a hadith of Sayyidina Abu Huraira.
And it's actually in al-Tirmidhi and Imam
Ahmed.
He said, There
is a chapter in the Qur'an.
The whole chapter.
It's not a verse.
The whole chapter.
30 verses.
Three zero.
Meaning, intercede for the one Meaning, the person
who knows it.
The person who carries it.
When you say, my friend, it's a close
relationship.
As-sahib in the Arabic language means, a
friend, a close friend, or the owner.
Like I said, this is my Qur'an.
Or you ask, if you see a Qur
'an, Who owns this Qur'an?
So, are you sahib al-mulk?
Is al-mulk tashabuk?
Is the mulk walk with you?
That's what I asked you again.
Make it bi-idhnillah.
Honestly, everybody in this room.
All of you can do it bi-idhnillah.
By Ramadan.
And this is three months now.
Four.
Four and a half.
You should have plenty of time to memorize
it.
Plenty of time.
If you do, every day, listen to me.
Every day, one verse.
One month, you're done.
It's 30 verses.
It's not like 100 or 200.
30.
Every day.
Start from today.
Done.
Keep listening.
Keep reading.
And read it in your salah.
And if you don't have it yet very
strong, read it in your sunnah.
Put the Qur'an in front of you.
And register it in your brain.
That's how we always memorize the Qur'an.
The picture of where the verse is, has
to have, literally, to register in your brain.
Because when you come and read it from
memory, the only thing you see is, where
is it in the Qur'an?
And when you forget, you always say, is
it on the right, or is it on
the left?
Is it on top, or in the lower?
So, 30 verses.
If you memorize it, start from today, before
Thanksgiving, before the mid, actually, mid of November,
you're done.
So make this as, inshallah, I don't want
to say homework, but inshallah, it's a plan.
I don't want to say a promise, because
I don't want to not keep the promise,
but I'm going to beg Allah to make
me do it.
The people who memorize it, not better than
you.
This is how I say it.
If you can read, they can read.
If you can remember, they can remember.
So the first one he says, first is,
I wish it is in the hearts of
every Muslim.
Ya Rabbi, make us among them.
Second is, it's a chapter in the Qur
'an will intercede for you and me.
That's the second.
Third, and this is Fattabarani, Anas said, the
Messenger of Allah said, Surah in the Qur
'an, a chapter in the Qur'an.
Listen to this.
حَتَّى أَدْخَلَتْهُ الْجَنَّةُ There is a chapter in
the Qur'an, argued for its sahib, same
word, argued for the person who has it
as a friend carrying it.
Argued with whom?
نعم It argued for you till you enter
Jannah.
Till you enter Jannah.
Why you don't have it yet?
Why don't you have it in your heart
yet?
One verse, daily, 30 days, you're done.
How many songs you have memorized?
Don't show me hands, I don't want to
know.
But ask yourself.
Honestly.
Ask yourself.
If you are able to memorize a song,
then you can memorize Surah Al-Mulk.
It needs what?
Repetition.
Read, repetition, and hear, and enjoy.
That's why I always say, find a reciter
that you really enjoy his recitation.
It hits you.
Perfect, because then you will keep listening and
moves you.
And beauty, but everybody has a different taste.
So the second thing, you want someone on
the Day of Judgment, believe me, we all
want someone on the Day of Judgment to
argue for us.
To defend us.
And it will.
Right?
So that's the second one.
Now, look, listen to this one.
This is Abdullah Ibn Abbas.
He said, some of the companions of Rasul
A.S. put a tent on the ground.
And as they were in the tent, they
heard someone reading Al-Mulk.
And they went to Rasul A.S. and
said, Ya Rasul Allah, we went and put
a tent on this ground.
We didn't know there was a grave under
us.
And we heard from the grave.
We heard someone reading Al-Mulk.
Tabaraka hatta khatamaha.
We heard someone read it.
Till he end.
Till the end.
Qala Rasul A.S. He al-mani'a.
He al-munjiya tunjihi min adhab al-qabr.
He said, the names, you said it.
He al-mani'a is the one who
will prevent.
He al-munjiya the one which will save.
I think this is way more enough for
you and me too.
Yes.
And you know what?
Bring your family.
Bring your daughters.
Get you all together.
If you have somebody in your family who
reads Quran better than you, Alhamdulillah, let him
or her read.
Doesn't matter.
But get together.
If you do it after Isha every night.
Every night.
How long it takes you to memorize one
verse, you think?
One verse.
For those who don't know Arabic.
Let's not talk about the people who know
Arabic.
Because if you know Arabic, it's much easier.
May Allah forgive us.
But if you don't know Arabic and you
read it by transliteration, so you can read
it.
Do you know what I'm talking about?
Tabarakalladhi biyajihi al-mulk So you literally, T
-A-B-B-A-R Right?
How long it takes you?
Have anybody tried?
One verse.
How long it takes you?
Maximum 30 minutes.
Maximum 30 minutes.
If you want to read, the usual way
to memorize is you read it at least
7 times.
You read it 7 times and it's the
same Mus'haf, the same Quran.
You read, read, read.
While you still have an issue with saying
fine, listen.
One verse.
Listen and say after him.
There is a Mus'haf al-mu'allim
You know?
There is, you find it online.
It's where the Qari, the reciter reads and
there's a young boy read after him.
You all have heard?
Definitely al-mulk has it.
Let's do it every night.
After Isha, after Maghrib, after Fajr, it depends
who you are.
I'm not going to say after Dhuhr, after
Asr unless you don't work and this is
the best time for you during the day.
But most of us, this is a busy
time.
Either after Fajr or after Isha if you
are a night person.
Let's look at more of it.
Enough of this for me.
It is going to save me.
Ibn Mas'ud, Abdullah Ibn Mas'ud is
a companion.
He said look at this one.
It's a little bit scary but it gives
you even more push to memorize it.
He said, The man, human being, in the
grave, he will be pulled.
First, I'm sorry, someone is going to come
to him in the grave.
First will come to the legs and the
legs will say, you do not have, you
cannot touch him.
You cannot get to him from the legs.
He used to read by me meaning how
many of you those of you who memorized
or memorizing or reviewing, sometimes we walk because
it's easier.
I don't know about you but definitely this
is easier for me.
Right?
So you're using your legs for what?
Not going to the movie.
Not going to shopping.
You're using your legs to read.
And read what?
Quran.
Those legs will protect you.
Did you get that?
Now are you collecting everything?
Why it's Al-Mani'a?
So the legs will speak.
Then, he will be brought from the front,
from here.
He said, from that part or that part.
And that part will speak.
By the way, every part of our body
will speak except exactly.
Everything is going to be talking.
The belly or the chest will say, you
cannot get to him.
Now if you have memorized it.
Or even if you have memorized, you're taking
breath to read it.
You're using part of your body.
Then they come to the head.
And the head will speak.
And he says, you cannot get it through
me.
The same thing.
It is the one that prevent, that protect,
that saves.
I think this is way more than enough
for us to memorize it.
Two and a half pages, 30 verses only.
Okay?
And this is another hadith of Rasul A
.S. ...
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So they said, this is a surah.
And he didn't say, They say, So sometimes
you introduce the surah by the name, or
sometimes by the first verse.
For example, Surah Al-Sajdah.
Many of you don't know her name is
Al-Sajdah.
Rather, Alif Lam Meem Tanzeel.
Right?
Some surah.
Subhan Al-Isra' So here also, ...
Rasul A.S. said, Surah.
Who read it?
Every night.
Now coming to every night.
Allah will protect him, save him from Adab
Al-Qabr.
From the punishment of the grave.
It is something in our deen.
Again, I'm not trying to scare you.
It's a fact.
It's a fact.
That we, I wouldn't say we.
There is something called punishment of the grave.
Right?
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He will have more, and he will live
good.
Now an extra virtue.
You'll feel good when you read Al-Mulk,
and your life will be full of Barakah.
Right?
So here we go.
Now Al-Munjiyah.
Also the argue one.
The one to argue for you.
It's a 30 pages.
30 verses.
What I want you to do is when
you bring the Quran, especially the shorter surahs,
because it's much easier for you to practice
this.
Tell Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make you
more comfortable, and then you can apply it
on the longer one.
You bring the surah, Ma'pit they call
it.
It's a very common term.
What does Ma'pit mean?
What does it talk about?
What is these 30 verses?
And normally what I did when I started
this long time ago is, I go by
the numbers, and I see are these numbers
the same?
Meaning 1 and 2 and 3 talking about
the same?
5, 6, 7?
And if you come to Surah Al-Mulk,
you will see the following.
Okay?
Number one, praising Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So what subjects Surah Al-Mulk talks about?
From 1 to 3, 1 and 2 and
3, praise Allah.
Tabarakalladhi biyadihi mulk wahuwa ala kulli shay'in
qadeer.
Glorify him, the one who has the sovereign,
owns everything, and he's capable of everything.
Then, he doesn't talk about himself.
He talks about his creation.
Look up at the sky.
Look at the sky.
I'm not going to give you all the
details because we're going to go on it
but I'm just giving you an idea.
Then, look at the sky.
Do you see any deficiency?
Look again, do you see any deficiency?
You don't.
Then let me talk to you about Jahannam.
6 to 11, talking about Jahannam.
Hellfire and the people in the Hellfire.
Goes back to creation, 15.
Goes back to his power, 16 and 17.
Back again to his creation.
I hope now you know why it's called
the mulk.
Because the percentage of the verses that talks
about his ability and his sovereign is almost
80-90%.
So almost all the surah, almost all, talks
about what he owns, what he created, and
what he is capable of doing, especially the
end of it.
There is no name of a prophet in
this surah.
There is no story of a prophet in
this surah.
So interesting.
Are you all with me?
What is the word Tabarak mean?
First, how many times Tabarak came in the
Quran?
Is it only here?
Alhamdulillah.
Bismillah.
How many?
Somebody is googling.
Don't google.
Don't google, guys.
Right?
Just think of it.
I'll give it to you.
Don't worry.
Bismillah.
Number one.
I'll take you through it by the sequences.
Number one is in surah Al-A'raf.
It's in the middle of the surah.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, Tabarakallahu
rabbul alameen.
He said, Inna rabbakumallahu lazee khalaqa as-samawati
wal-ardha fee sitati ayyami thumma astawa al
-arj yuqshi layla al-nahara wa yutlubu hafeetha
washams wa shams walqamar walnujumu musakharati bi amri
ala lahul khalqi walamri tabarakallahu rabbul alameen.
In general, pay attention to this.
Whenever he talks about his creation, not whatever,
but when you see the word Tabarak, look
for his creation.
Look for his creation.
It's usually before.
So like when I say, you cook very
well.
The best thing you cook is what ever.
the best drawing you draw, the best whatever,
masha'Allah.
Are you with me?
He say this about the creator, tabarak.
So the first one is fil-araaf.
And it is the verse is in 54.
Second one is fil-mu'minoon.
When he talks about his creation, our creation,
how he created us from dust, then from
sperm and egg, and then we become a
small blood clot, then we become a leash,
then we become fetus, then we have bones,
then the bones are covered by muscles, and
then we become adult, then we become old,
we become demented, or we die.
So the second is fil-mu'minoon.
And this is actually in verse 14.
Four times came in Surat al-Furqan, which
is interesting.
Four times fil-Furqan.
First verse in Surat al-Furqan is tabarakah.
Alladhi nazzala al-Furqana ala abdih.
First.
Then, they made fun of him, alayhi as
-salatu was-salam.
What is wrong?
He walks in the streets and he eats
like you eat?
Why didn't he have a treasure?
Why there is no treasure was sent to
him?
Why there is no angel we can see?
And Allah respond.
Ya Allah, how Allah defended Rasul alayhi as
-salatu was-salam.
I wish Allah defend me this way, but
I'm not.
Tabarakalladhi insha'a.
Ja'ala laka khayran min dhalika.
Jannatin wa yaj'al laka qusura.
Tabarak, glorify him, meaning he's capable.
If he wills, he's gonna make to you,
he will create for you way better than
the food and the markets, they are making
fun of it.
Ija'al laka jannatin, he will make a
gardens for you.
Wa yaj'al laka qusura, and all the
palaces, right?
Then he said, all the way at the
end, talks about his creation.
Tabarakalladhi ja'ala fissamai buruja.
Wa ja'ala fiha sirajan wa qamaran munira.
Pay attention to what I told you.
When he talks about his creation, he said,
tabarak.
You look at the sky, what do you
say?
Yeah, because now we're talking about surat tabarak.
But normally, what do we say?
Oh, it's a good night.
Oh, look at the stars, right?
Look at the moon.
I don't see the moon.
Yeah, of course, again, because I'm talking about.
Tayeeb, alhamdulillah, but make it as a habit.
Make it as a habit.
He said, tabarakalladhi ja'ala fissamai buruja.
It's beautiful, Hadi.
Tabarak, meaning glorify him.
Glorify him and glorify him.
Glorify him because that's what he create, and
glorify him, you, I, me, and you.
Ja'ala fissamai buruja.
He filled the sky with stars.
Buruj huna is the stars.
Wa ja'ala fiha sirajan.
And he made in it a siraj, naam,
sun.
Wa ja'ala fiha qamarun munira.
And he made, created in it a shining
moon.
Tabarak, right?
Then it comes into tabarak.
Then it comes at the end fizzukhroof.
You can look it up.
It's about nine of them.
Nine of them is tabarak.
Tayeeb, so where's tabarak?
Let's see if anybody online can give you,
save you.
Nobody.
Nobody.
Ta'ala sha'nahu.
It's a word of praise.
And it's a word of glorifying.
The origin of it is from?
Naam, from al-baraka, from blessings.
Al-baraka, blessings, is the origin of tabarak.
What is baraka?
Not baraka kafir?
But why did they call it baraka kafir?
You will know why it's baraka kafir after
I tell you what's baraka.
What is baraka?
Sayyidina Isa, and you need to make this
dua for yourself.
He asked Allah subhanu wa ta'ala to
make him blessed.
Mubarak, waj'alani mubarakan innama kunt.
He made me blessed.
What does that mean?
I look at you and says, mashallah, you're
mubaraka.
This baby is full of baraka.
What does that?
So one of them is big accomplishment in
a short time.
You have one hour, normally you can do
one task.
But if there is baraka in that hour,
you can do five tasks, very good.
Not quick baraka, so that's one.
Second, baraka.
Same thing, it's either in a short time
or a little effort.
For example, you have a test tomorrow.
And for whatever the reason, you didn't study
very well.
And you go and you do very well.
You know why?
Every question there is what you studied.
You studied only two pages and all the
questions from these two pages.
Allah put baraka in that test for you.
But don't depend on that.
But why you, why he will make me
mubaraka?
Why, right?
I have to do something.
I have to own it or deserve it
or work for it.
How many of you make a dua for
herself?
I didn't say work, dua.
Make me mubaraka, baraka fil waqt.
Ya Allah put baraka in the time.
Ya Allah put baraka in my effort.
Ya Allah put baraka in my memorization so
I can memorize.
And normally I'm very poor in memorization.
One, honestly, some people, subhanAllah, some people like
that.
One verse will take me three hours.
Ya Allah put baraka in it and then
Allah responded and I memorized it in 30
minutes.
That's baraka.
So baraka cafe, why they call it baraka?
Yes, so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, suddenly
you have all the masjids, they want a
coffee.
That's a baraka, exactly.
So don't you see this?
Sometimes you enter a store and the store
there was nobody, nobody.
You enter that store and the store becomes
full of people.
They look at you and says, you brought
the baraka.
Did you get it?
So it's a beautiful thing.
It's amazing thing if Allah make you mubaraka.
Meaning wherever you are, wherever you will be,
goodness is gonna come out.
Imagine this, don't think, this is what I
want.
Don't always think about money and material, right?
Wherever you are, you make somebody or people
feel good genuinely.
Wherever you speak, something good comes out.
Somebody you don't know was waiting for that
word.
You said something helped someone feel good.
You're a mubaraka.
And I remember one of the first dua,
the first teacher I saw in Jeddah, she
looked at me and says, may Allah make
you mubaraka.
I was like, what is she saying?
I really didn't know.
I just, I didn't know the meaning.
And then subhanAllah, as we studied, we learned
it.
It's an amazing dua that you make it
for yourself.
You make it for your children.
You make it for your house.
Even you make it for your car.
You make it for anything you use.
Meaning you are not gonna use it to
disobey Allah.
Because that's not baraka.
But don't ask for something haram, ya Allah,
make it mubarak.
It doesn't work this way.
But it's something halal, something ordinary.
But because Allah put baraka in it, what
normally people get out of it, you will
get five or 10 times.
Baraka.
Wa ja'alani mubarakan aynama kunt.
So this is number one and baraka.
Tabarak so, from baraka.
Second is when you talk about Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
Tabaraka mean, ta'ala, exalted, ta'azam, honored.
No one like Allah.
SubhanAllah, I wish you all were this morning
with us in the aqeedah class.
This is something you really all have to
study.
When you start studying about Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
And who is he?
That we think we know, but we don't.
When you say Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is exalted from every analogy, nothing like him,
means what?
That's what he said about him, tabarakalladhi biyadihi
mulk.
He has the sovereignty and he owns all
this world, but no one like him.
What does that mean?
When you say, when you say this person
is so generous, for example, human being, I'm
not talking about money.
Generous, she is generous.
There is no comparison between her generosity and
when you say Allah is generous.
Can't compare it.
When you say, she is so knowledgeable or
he is so knowledgeable, aleem, but they are
not al-aleem.
wa'indahu mafatihul ghayb la ya'lamuha illa
hu.
And he owns the keys of the unseen,
not the unseen, the keys of the unseen.
la ya'lamuha illa hu.
No one knows it but him.
wa ma tasqutu min waraqa.
Not a single leaf falls.
wa la habbatin fi dhulumati al-ard.
Not a single seed, seed, in the darknesses
of the earth.
wa la ratbin illa ya'lamuha.
But he knows it.
Every time, I love gardening.
So every time I clip, whether it is
flowers, whether it is the trees, because they
fall.
Everyone he knows.
And if you live in a state or
you're traveling to a state where now we're
getting to the fall and the state is
full of tall trees, like if you go
to the Midwest or you go to the
East, and you're gonna start seeing the floor,
the ground full of leaves.
We have something, we have to clean it.
It's part of the maintenance of homes.
If you live in the Midwest, is in
November, you have to get someone to remove
all the leaves.
I always look at it from the window.
You're not talking about one or two or
three or four.
You're talking about thousands.
Each one, each one fell, he knows it.
Each one fell, he knows it.
And you tell me I know.
And I say to myself, I know.
Or you say he or she is very
knowledgeable.
Did you get the point?
That's why we say tabarak.
Never ever compare any human character or attributes
to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la.
Ma qadaru Allah haqqa qadri.
You don't know the real value of Allah.
You don't know who is he.
And he said it in the Quran three
times.
They don't know who I am.
Can you imagine this?
How painful is this when you as a
woman, especially a woman, and someone is close
to you, but they don't know your value.
How painful.
How painful.
You're so good.
You help, you give, you do.
But they don't know your value.
But they praise everybody, but they don't praise
you.
How do you feel?
Sad, hurt, right?
What else I do?
And sometimes we complain, may Allah forgive us.
What else I do so they know who
I am, right?
Imagine this is Allah.
Imagine this is Allah.
And that's why he praised himself, Tabarak.
He himself, then I put people above him.
Yes or no?
I put my beauty above him.
I put my career above him.
I'm not saying don't be beautiful.
I'm not saying don't have a career.
I'm not saying don't love people.
No, absolutely we should, but not before Allah
because he's Tabarak.
No one like him.
Laysa kamiklihi shayt, wa huwa al-samee'u
al-baseer.
Nothing like the like of Allah.
SubhanAllah, today we were talking about it because
we were talking about Ihsan.
And I said, and I want to say
this to everybody, including those who are online
with me.
I want you to try this exercise.
It's not exercise meaning, it's not a sport.
When you are in Salah, and I don't
know why this one brings it.
Maybe you have another movement in the Salah.
But to me, when I'm in Ruku, and
for a second, second, I think I bring
my brain and I say Allah is looking
at you.
What happens to you?
What happens to you?
You freeze.
Literally you freeze.
Try it.
I've tried it.
I'm not saying this, it's not something I
read.
It's something I tried.
Because at one moment, not moment, one second,
you felt Tabarak.
You felt who's he.
And your Ruku will be very different.
You will not be thinking of anything.
And this is why the highest level of
closeness to Allah, when you know he's seeing
you.
And when you act in a way, and
you know he's seeing you, Allahu Akbar.
So Tabarak is a word that you should,
when you read, stop for a second and
think.
Because now you're talking about him.
He's telling you who I am.
Surat al-Mulk is he is introducing me
and you to him.
His words.
He didn't say Tabarak, the one who can
punish.
Can he?
Of course he can.
He didn't say Tabarak, that the one if
he wished, he will perish everybody on this
earth.
He said it somewhere else in the Quran,
but not with Tabarak.
Tabarak usually he's showing you what he has,
what he can do.
And that's why the first verse, Tabarak al
-Ladhi bi-yadihi al-mulk wa huwa ala
kulli shay'in qadeer.
Spend time with this one.
Spend time with it.
Tabarak, glorify him.
Praise him.
The one who needs, the one who deserve
and only to be praised.
Why, ya Allah, bi-yadihi al-mulk.
Bi-yadihi, I wanna say this because my
hand and yours is not Allah's hand.
But he definitely has a hand, because he
said it.
Yadu Allahi fawqa idihim.
What is the sovereign that Allah has in
his hand?
What is it?
Think with me.
Don't go far.
This computer, this mic, me, all of you,
chair you're sitting on, the light, the camera,
the light behind the camera.
Go outside, the cars, the parking lot, the
trees, the buildings.
Look up, the sky and whatever it has.
Bi-yadihi.
Bi-yadihi.
Why did he say bi-yadihi in his
hand?
You have full control.
When you say, where is the key?
It's in my hand, in my hand.
Meaning, now you have to go deeper now.
And now you're gonna see as we go
through it, you will see why it saves
from the punishment of the grave.
It's very interesting, subhanAllah.
If he will, wa huwa ala kulli shay
'in qadeer.
And he's capable of anything and everything.
If he want, at this moment, I'm not
trying to scare you, but we need really
to go back and put Allah where he
deserve.
In a second, this will collapse on our
head.
Yes or no?
In a second, the impossible, whatever impossible you've
heard today, whatever someone look and says, no
way you're gonna do this.
In a second, he'll show you it's possible.
Ala kulli shay'in qadeer, wa huwa.
He didn't say his name, by the way,
here.
He didn't say, tabarakAllah.
He said, tabarakalladhi bi-yadihi al-mulk.
Sovereignty.
Know who we are.
Let's be humble.
Let's humble ourselves, not to human beings first.
Let's humble ourselves to?
To?
Him.
To him.
To him.
Get up and put yourself for two ruqaat
in the morning.
What is it for the bi-yadihi al
-mulk?
Owns everything.
That bed that you love so much, that
pillow that you're so attached to, or that
work that you are so focused on, he
can take it away in a second because
he owns it.
Do you see how we are?
Do you see how distracted we are?
How much we don't know and we should?
Because I asked you, you all know the
mulk.
Maybe you don't memorize it, but you know
there is surah in the Quran called the
mulk, right?
Most of you know that it is savored
from the punishment of the grave.
Majority of you know that we need, or
it is highly recommended to read it before
you go to bed.
But did you spend the two seconds on
the first and you said, who is he
that he owns everything?
And I say this all the time.
Whenever I travel, and I really recommend everybody,
especially if you have a window seat.
You know when we start descending, right?
With let's say 30,000 to 40,000.
And if you're from, and if it's a
clear day, or even if it's in the
night and you see all the lights, if
you're on a 40,000, what do you
see?
Just a speck of light, right?
Or a very small, tiny thing.
And as you go lower, and the plane
goes lower, it takes about 30 minutes usually.
So as you go lower and you go
lower, things becomes bigger and becomes more clearer.
He owns it all, owns it all in
his hand.
And he can take it and he can
give it.
Now I wanna end up with this verse
today because I want you to go home
with this verse.
Why did he create us?
Now you're gonna say to worship him, meaning
I'm gonna stop everything.
I'm not going to school.
I'm not going to work.
I'm not gonna do anything.
I'm gonna be praying morning to evening.
You said worship, yes?
But he said, you said to worship.
Are you changing the Quran?
So what is it?
Now just a second, did you raise your
hand?
Bismillah.
I hope I didn't hear that.
That's the only thing everybody knows.
Al-amalu ibadah.
If you don't live in the Arab country,
maybe you don't know what I just said,
but it is the commonest word.
You know, now in deen, please forgive me.
In deen, we are pick and choose.
You know what's pick and choose?
We know all the verses in the Quran.
That will work for me.
But anything, I don't know.
So what is al-amalu ibadah?
Work is an act of worship.
True or false?
True or false?
Just a second, Bismillah.
I didn't finish.
100%?
50%?
Going to school is ibadah?
Going to school is ibadah?
Yes or no?
Since we have youth today.
Yes?
Yes?
100%?
Just a second, Bismillah.
Bismillah?
No?
Okay, great.
All the youth tomorrow don't go to school.
I could have become Muslim when I go
to school.
Alladhi khalaqa al-mawta wal-hayata.
This is the second verse.
The one who created death, he put death
first, tab'an huna.
Alladhi khalaqa al-mawta wal-hayata.
He created death and created life.
Why, ya Rabbi?
Don't say test.
If you said test, you did not understand
the verse.
He didn't say liyabluwakum.
Aha, he said to test you.
Yes, test for sure.
But not test me, ya'ani?
Ayyukum ahsan wa'amala.
Which one among you?
Which one among us today?
Which one?
We have more than 300 online.
Who are those online?
Better than me.
Which one of you better than me?
Not the way you look.
Not what's your last name.
Not what you do.
Not what's your parents, where your parents live.
Or where is your home, what's the address.
Not how much bank account or what do
you have.
Not what position.
The best act.
He said amal.
He didn't say ibadah huna.
Ayyukum ahsan wa'amala.
Which one among you does the best?
He created you and me.
To test me.
He used the word liyabluwakum.
Albala is a test.
Which one of us?
Everybody, by the way.
Not only us, everyone on this planet.
Subhanallah, on Sunday I was stuck in the
airport.
The longest I've ever stuck in an airport.
It's more than three hours.
So you're sitting, and it was very busy
airport.
So you're sitting in this, and I'm looking
at people.
You know, people going, people coming, plane, plane,
people come off, people come on.
And I looked, and I said, ya Allah,
everyone.
Every one of those.
Doesn't matter Muslim, non-Muslim.
It's not the issue I'm on.
You know what they did.
What they are gonna be doing.
When they were born.
When they will die.
Or did they have lunch or breakfast this
morning.
Where they will end.
Tabarak.
Ahsan wa'amala.
Hadi word, ahsan wa'amala, is one of
the, should be my life motto.
You know the motto?
Every one of us has a motto.
Something, vision, dream.
It's all good.
Ahsan wa'amala.
You're washing the dishes, washing dishes.
It's an act or not.
Ahsan wa'amala.
And ahsan wa'amala, the best way, not
the way people tell me.
Not the way I like.
Not necessarily the best.
Who, he said.
He said.
So I am washing dishes.
What is ahsan wa'amala?
I'm not wasting water.
I'm not wasting energy.
I'm not wasting my time.
And I'm doing it to the best of
my ability.
Now we are all different, but the best
I can do.
That's wallahi the best I, ahsan wa'amala.
In, this is like detail, but the best
thing is, and I said this this morning.
We're gonna all stand up here for salah
afterward.
Inshallah.
Those who can pray.
Are we all gonna pray the same?
We all prayed isha.
We all did four rakaat.
We all went for ruku.
We all went for sujood.
We all listened.
We all did.
We all made dua.
We all did.
Is it the same?
Which one is better?
Is it you?
You?
You?
You?
Of course, allahu alam.
But do I put it in my plan
that I am gonna do every act of
worship?
Al-amal ibadah.
Every act I am doing.
That's why you live and you are a
worshiper.
Every act I am doing.
I'm studying because tomorrow I have an exam.
I'm gonna study the way that pleases Allah.
I'm gonna dress the way that pleases Allah
in the best way.
I'm gonna eat in the best that pleases
Allah.
Ahsan wa amalah.
How many of us?
I come to the masjid.
It's so painful for me, Ana, when I
come to the masjid sometimes.
Because I'm in the masjid.
The women are in the masjid.
I don't know about the men because we
are, I can't see him or him.
But the women, we're in the masjid.
The house of Allah.
The best place that's easy for me to
do good deeds.
Right?
Temptation is almost none.
But why I'm not doing it?
Ahsan wa amalah.
Two things I want you to go take
home with you today.
Number one, ask Allah.
I don't want you to do a promise
because I don't want you to do a
promise that you will not do it.
Beg him.
And I mean it, and I always say
this, beg him.
That I want to memorize Al-Mulk.
And you're gonna help me.
You're gonna make it easy.
No one will make it easy but you.
Innaka ala kulli shay'in qadeer.
You're capable of everything and anything and don't
let anyone tell you, you're old.
You're gonna memorize now?
Doesn't matter.
That's number one.
And number two, that's how we learn from
the Quran.
We practice the Quran.
Everything you do to your best ability, you
do it the way with Ihsan, with excellence,
the way that pleases Him.
The way that pleases Him, not please people.
And don't be two human beings and two
personalities.
When you are in your room alone, you're
someone.
And when you are with people, you're another
one.
What about Allah?
He's there with you all the time.
Subhanakallahumma wa bihamdik.
Ashhadu an la ilaha ila anth.
Astaghfiruka wa atubu ilayh.
Sallallahu ala sayyidina Muhammad wa ala alihi wa
ashabihi tasliman kathiran.
Insha'Allah we'll continue next week biidhnillah.
If I can ask everybody, please.
If you can.