Haifaa Younis – Understanding Surah Al Mulk – Part 3
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The transcript discusses the importance of living life, staying true to the Bible, and not giving up. The speakers emphasize the need for everyone to act with fear and remember the presence of Allah. They also discuss the importance of learning about Islam and sharing experiences. The conversation is difficult to follow and appears to be a distraction from a group of women. The speakers encourage everyone to take a promise and not talk about it.
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Rasool Allah, wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa
man wala.
Allahumma alamna ma yanfa'una wa anfa'ana
bima a'allamtana.
Innaka sami'a wa mujeeb wa du'a.
Allahumma inni ya'udhu bika min almin la
yanfa'u wa qalbin la yakhsha'u.
Wa nafsin la tashba'u wa du'a
'in la yusma.
Rabbana la tuziq qulubana ba'da idh hadaytana wa
hab lana min ladunka rahma.
Innaka anta alwahab.
Rabbish rahli sadri wa yassalli amri.
Wa ahlul uqdatan min lisani yabqahu qawli.
Welcome everyone, alhamdulilah rabbil alameen.
Another Tuesday, continuing with Surat al-Mulk.
If you see, I'm going much slower than
the usual because it's Surat al-Mulk.
So the idea I'm trying, inshallah Allah will
make it happen, is not only tadabbur where
I wanted to really go in depth in
it.
It's not only how to live it, but
what does it really mean?
Why Allah chose this and not that?
Because this is again Surat al-Mulk, which
is, what is the names we said if
anybody remember?
Al-Mani'a, the one that will, that
one, al-Mani'a is the one that
prevent.
So it prevent the punishment of the grave.
And then al-Munji'a, the one that
will save me again from the punishment of
the grave.
So it's related to the grave.
And that's why you see in it, as
I said last time, if you all remember,
there is no description, there is no stories,
there is no names of prophets.
There is only about Allah Subh'anaHu Wa
Ta-A'la, His creation, and then the
hereafter.
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, His
creation, the hereafter, back and forth, because the
goal of the Surah is what?
It's a Surah Makki, it was revealed in
Makkah.
The goal of it.
If you read it, not like we sometimes,
most of the time we read things like
birds.
You know, we just read.
And this happens as we're reading the Quran,
as we are reviewing, or even in Salah.
You read it, alhamdulillah, of course I'll get
the reward.
Of course, inshallah, it will get the effect
on me, but it will not move me
unless I pay attention and I read it
with feelings.
And I will not have the feelings unless
I know what I am reading.
And I don't know what I am reading
unless I read it slower.
And especially for those who know Arabic, it's
much easier.
But those who don't know Arabic, at least
you know the concept of it, right?
It starts by absolutely praising Allah.
Tabarak is the biggest description of Allah that
you are absolutely elevating Allah to a status.
There is no deficiency.
That's when you say tabarak.
End up with a question, only Allah can
do what we are asking.
Qul arayitum min asbaha ma'ukum ghawra faman
ya'tikum bima'in ma'in It's a question,
there is no answer.
See around you, if Allah made this all
water around us, it's so bitter that you
cannot drink or you cannot reach it.
Who else will bring you that water?
No answer.
That's how it ends.
So it comes in with an introduction, like
to me, wake up, move on or move
out of your regular rat race day in,
day out.
And I don't know what I'm doing, what
I am here to reality around you.
And that's why he's now gonna take his
last week.
He took us to look around you, look
to or look around you and look at
the sky.
Remember we said the levels and look around
you, see any deficiency, right?
Then suddenly, and now we are moving to
the next, which is verse six and Allah
Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la now takes
us to the hereafter.
And this is an amazing concept in the
Quran.
Again, when you read, I want each one
of you put a goal for this Ramadan.
I don't want you to put the goal
of how many times I'm gonna finish the
Quran.
Please don't do that.
The numbers is useless.
Useless in changing me.
Because if every time I'm gonna read it
the same way, nothing is gonna change.
So finish, of course, Alhamdulillah.
Although one of my teachers used to say,
we don't have to finish the Quran in
Ramadan.
It's not an obligation, right?
But if, for example, the half of the
Quran, yes, you need to, this is your
time to review and review and review.
But for those people who don't know what
the Quran mean, pick one surah, short, medium,
long, whatever you are familiar with and say
to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la,
this Ramadan, I am gonna dig in in
the surah.
For example, then mulk, inshallah, if Allah give
us life, we'll finish it before Ramadan.
Right, go back to everything you learned.
And it's very sad that I see majority
of you don't have even a pen and
a paper.
Or you're writing on your phone.
Yeah, I said majority.
How you will learn?
And I always ask people, I asked myself
before, how many, like this group especially, how
many lectures you have attended?
How many YouTubes you have listened to?
And reels, and halaqa.
And did I move an inch?
I'm not saying you, but I ask myself,
did you move an inch?
An inch, closer to Allah, inch?
Maybe you're gonna say yes, well, show me.
It's not a claim.
Never ever praise yourself.
This is absolutely an advice to everybody.
Don't you say, yeah, yeah, me, I wanna
raise my hand in front of everybody.
The real people of taqwa never do that.
The people of taqwa hide everything, and it's
gonna come here.
So what I'm trying to say is we
need, alhamdulillah, it's been two years now I
am with you.
I just can't believe it.
It's two and almost three, four months.
We really need to move to the next
step.
Not everybody, but at least majority, those of
you, every Tuesday I see you.
Alhamdulillah, I'm extremely happy.
But I need you all, and don't say
to anybody, and don't claim it or don't
write it.
You say to yourself, am I moving?
The first thing, am I moving?
One, two, am I moving in the right
direction?
Ya Rabbi, ameen, yes.
Say to yourself, show me.
One thing, has your salah improved?
Has your salah became more regular?
Has your tongue became less open?
That's how I change.
Am I less worried about this life, and
I am more worried about the akhira?
Look, I didn't say don't worry.
I said, let's pay attention to the words
I'm using.
This is how I know I changed.
Am I now, my reactions when something happens
to me that happened two years ago, my
reaction's completely different.
In the way that pleases Allah, then I
changed.
I don't care what people think of me.
They don't know me.
But me, I know myself.
So this is what I want all of
you.
Can't be this Ramadan comes in, and we
are the same story.
We come to this masjid in the back,
all the women are talking.
Just ask Sister Kareem.
Every year when I come back, I'm glad
you were not here, Dr. Rahifa.
I was like, why is that?
And a long list of what women does.
And that doesn't mean only the women, by
the way.
But again, because we are all here.
Ask Allah, make a promise to Allah as
much as you can that you're gonna spend
or understand more the Quran in this Ramadan.
Again, choose one chapter.
Whatever you are comfortable with, but dig deep.
Every day, spend 30 minutes, 30 minutes, reviewing
what you know, what you learn.
See what will happen to you at the
end of it.
We will not change unless we take it
serious, and we monitor it, and we improve.
Just like you wanna lose weight, and that
exercise we're gonna talk about later on.
It doesn't happen just by I want that,
or I do it once a month.
Nothing happens.
So here, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A
'la, after he talked about the creation of
the earth, and if you go to the
verse number six and seven, he takes us
to the description of Jahannam.
And you know what I did before I
came to you?
SubhanAllah, and I wish I had a screen.
I would have brought it with me.
I looked at, because it was Allah Subh
'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la describing Jahannam, right?
Waladhina kafaru bi rabbihim, lahum a'zabu jahannam,
wa bi'sal masir.
For those who have, kafaru bi rabbihim, they
are disbeliever, right?
And then what happened?
Lahum, for them, a'zabu jahannam, the punishment
of Jahannam, wa bi'sal masir.
And what, the worst, the worst end.
Okay, we know that, and many of us
read this, and it's like, it's not me.
I am not a kafir, walalhamd, next.
And then he comes and describes Jahannam.
And SubhanAllah, if I had one, again, one
day, when we will maybe change between the
Quran, is we will talk only about Jahannam.
And also we'll talk only about Jahannam.
Because we have to have both.
I have to be afraid, but I also
have to be hopeful.
So he said the following.
What is Jahannam?
He didn't say anything other than.
Iza ulqoo feeha, when they were thrown in
it.
Who are those?
The kafir, only?
Is it only the disbelievers are in Jahannam?
Is only the disbelievers in Jahannam?
Yes or no?
May Allah protect us.
Is there a possibility I and you will
be there for a short period of time?
Yes or no?
I can't deny it.
Ya Rabbi, I mean not, right?
For sure we will not be there forever.
Hadha guaranteed.
Not because of me or you.
It's because he said so.
Allah said so, right?
Ma fee khalideena feeha abada.
They're gonna be there eternal, not us.
Ma fee allatheena aamanu.
Those who believe, that's why la ilaha illallah
is an amazing gift Allah gave us.
Or Allah guided you if you are a
revert to Allah.
So it's not abada, eternal.
But is there a possibility we'll be there?
Ya Rabbi, protect us.
Look what he said.
Idha ulqoo feeha, when they are thrown in
it, what is it?
Samee'oo laha shaheeqan wahee tafoor.
You all are familiar.
I can see this is not something like
you haven't heard.
What is it?
Samee'oo laha, you hear it.
What?
Shaheeq.
You know what's shaheeq?
Is when you take a deep breath.
Have you heard somebody who has asthma and
they take a breath?
How do you know they have asthma?
Because they wheeze, right?
And the worst when they, not the worst
worst, because the worst it will be completely
silent.
But as it gets worse, you start, when
they take a breath, they have a sound.
And one day the breath comes out, there
is a sound.
So here Allah said, idha ulqoo feeha, samee
'oo laha shaheeq.
Shaheeq is, okay.
So I wanted to feel it.
So when I speak to you, I speak
with feelings.
So this is what I did.
I highly recommend all of you do it.
Go on Google, not now.
Because you will need to listen to it.
And I just put a voice of a
volcano.
I put a sound of a volcano.
Because that's the closest you can, right?
And then subhanAllah, of course, YouTube has everything
these days.
And there was a volcano that erupted.
It says August 2021.
I think it was August 18.
It was about 20 minutes.
And it looks like a drone was coming
to it.
Because it was far, then it starts going
closer and closer and closer.
And as it's far, you hear the sound.
I can't tell you what it is.
SubhanAllah, exactly how Allah described it.
And it is absolutely boiling.
Tafoor.
Tafoor is boiling, literally.
When you put a water on the stove,
it starts boiling.
In the Arabic language, we say tafoor.
And I was like, jahannam, tafoor, how is
that?
So I looked at the level of volcano.
Because it's a minor, a small example.
Like a, I wanna say appetizers.
But it's like something very small.
This is what I saw.
If I can please ask somebody to close
the door, because they are working on from
this side.
You see mountains around, completely the usual mountains.
I mean, Allah protect us, Ya Rabbi.
We don't have it here.
But look at, if you look east, you
will see no the mountains behind us.
It's all the same look, right?
In the middle of it, one.
And as they were far away from it,
as the drone was, so obviously it's a
drone, was far away from it.
You see nothing other than suddenly, orange, yellow
flames comes out and stops.
But you see little bit of two streaks
of yellow and orange coming from top to
the bottom.
But then you start hearing some noises, some
voices.
And as he comes closer, la ilaha illallah.
And they come way, they reach the point
they are on top of it.
And exactly how Allah described it.
You see, it is boiling and boiling, especially
if you've ever had, it's not fluid, but
it's a thick fluid.
If you've ever seen thick fluid boil, you
know how it is?
It comes like, I don't even have a
real way of describing it other than it
is very scary.
But the most scary part is the sound.
And at the minute, may Allah protect us
all, but I just wanted to feel it.
I said, imagine I'm there for a second,
where Allah said, I'm gonna completely melt.
So Allah said that, subhanAllah.
Sami'ulaha shaheeqan wahi tafoor.
Why it is boiling?
Why it is boiling?
The next verse.
Tagadu tamayyazu minal ghayyam.
It's a very common figure of speech.
We say it in the Arabic language, my
blood is boiling, right?
I don't know if you use this in
other languages, but this is usually when you're
extremely upset, but you are trying to be
composed and you're not saying anything.
And He said, your face looks different.
Says, my blood is boiling.
It's a sign of anger.
Why Jahannam is angry?
And why did Allah say this?
Tagadu tamayyazu minal ghayyam.
Even the word Allah used, tamayyazu is like
explode out of anger.
Why?
Why?
What makes you upset in this dunya?
This, I didn't get this.
I didn't get that.
She didn't listen to me.
They didn't, whatever, right?
It's all dunya matters.
I'm not saying it's not important, but if
you keep looking at that volcano, anything in
this dunya becomes not even trivial.
Literally, I was looking at that volcano and
I was like, okay, so?
And then whatever in your mind of the
dunya daily thing comes in and it feels
zero.
That's why the famous hadith of the Rasul
alaihi salatu wassalam, right?
When he came back from the Isra al
-Mi'rad, when he came back from the
night journey, he said, He said to the
Sahaba, if you have seen what I saw,
what did he see, alaihi salatu wassalam?
He saw Jannah and he saw Jahannam.
He said, if you saw what I saw,
if you have seen what I saw, if
you have seen what I saw, can I
ask everybody not to come and drink water?
It feels not appropriate because you know what
will happen in Jahannam, right?
There's so many things in Jahannam and throughout
the whole Quran.
One of them is the people of Jahannam
will talk to the people of Jannah.
This is a beautiful page in Surah al
-A'raf, the heights, where the talk between
people of Jannah and people of Jahannam and
then the people of the height in between.
But at the end of this, at the
end of the page, the people of Jahannam
will talk to the people of the hellfire
and they say to them, just give us
a drop of water.
And what Allah has given you.
The people of the hellfire talking to the
people of Jannah and the people of Jannah,
they say, basically, it's not our choice.
Allah made it haram, forbidden, a sip of
water and whatever the people of Jannah.
Those people who make fun of you here,
those people who belittle you and me, it's
gonna be the opposite there, but the people
of Jannah will not belittle them because they
are people of Jannah.
The only discussion there will be between the
people of Jannah and the people of Jahannam
is the following, right?
The people of Jannah, that's why I said
this, subhanAllah, yesterday the same thing, this morning
in the Jannah class, and I'll say it
again.
People of deen, people of real Muslims should
not be identified only by cross woman the
way we dress.
That's external.
The main thing is our conduct.
The main thing is our conduct because the
people of Jannah, when they looked at the
people of Jahannam, they did not make fun
of them.
And they did not tell them, see what
you did and you made fun, none, go
to the Quran and find.
If you find one, come back and tell
me.
What they said to them, we have found
what Allah promised us true.
Did you find what Allah promised you true?
They said no, yes.
So for us as Muslim, especially Muslim women,
we really need to have the conduct of
the Muslim woman in every step, whether we
are between each other, we're in a class,
we're in the masjid, we are at home
and we are with each other, let alone
when we are outside there with the non
-Muslims in our daily life.
People need to look at you and says,
as there was a very famous clip, I
don't know if you have watched it for
CNN.
And I think it was Vance who said
it, is one of the commentator.
And he said, if you have a Muslim
neighbor, you need to be extremely happy.
This was very well known.
He said, because then your kids will play
with kids who are well-behaved, you will
be safe, they will treat you very well.
That's how we should be.
That's exactly how we should be.
Are we?
Don't answer me.
Or am I?
La uzaki nafsi.
My conduct, the way I am, the way
I dress for sure, but also the way
I speak.
My voice, my tone, my interaction has to
be ready to go to Jannah.
I don't want to be, the health fire
will be so upset with me.
Wahiya tafoor.
Why is that?
Every group, and there are groups, you know
this.
It's always groups.
That's why there's this whole chapter in the
Quran called Surat al-Zumar.
kullama ulqiyafiha fawjun sa'alahum khazanatuha.
The next verse.
Every time group of people are thrown into
the hellfire, sa'alahum khazanatuha.
The guards of Jahannam ask them simple questions.
And each one of us will be asked,
and again, as I was reading this, I
was like, ya Allah, what I'm gonna do?
They ask them, alam yateekum nadheer?
Didn't Allah send for you a warner?
And the warner is what?
Is al-Rasul alayhi salatu wassalam.
And the other warner, al-Quran, right?
What will I say to Allah?
I'm sorry, I didn't know?
qaloo ma'adheeratan ila rabbikum No, there is
no excuses there.
A lot of excuses here, walillah al-hamd,
from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
He give us chances, He give us opportunities.
But once we are there, in the day
of judgment, there is no more excuses done,
because the book is closed.
alam yateekum nadheer?
Didn't you have a warner sent to you?
You know the best part?
No one will lie that day.
No one will say, well, I don't have
time.
There's no excuses and no lying.
qaloo bala The people of Jahannam will say,
bala, qad ja'ana nadheer.
A warner was sent to us, and they
will say the truth.
fa kathabna We denied.
And I'm literally translating the verses for you.
kathabna wa qulna And we said, ma nazarallahu
min shay'in.
Allah did not send anything.
Now for us, alhamdulillah, we're not that level.
We're not that level.
But unless we have these thoughts in me,
at least daily, I'm not gonna say every
minute, because if every minute I'm an angel,
because I will not be able to disobey
Allah.
But at least daily, these thoughts has to
come to me.
Now you're gonna look at me and say,
why you are scaring us?
And my answer is, I'm not.
Because I am, I'm talking about myself, I
am surrounded by so many temptations around me.
And I'm surrounded by everything around me, young
and old, that does not remind me of
Allah, who looks at you and says, you
know what?
And I'm talking about in general, or you
drive in a street and you see the
billboard say, you know what, this dunya is
not forever.
Who does that?
So unless I take care of myself, very
few people will take care of me regarding
my akhira.
Even parents, they so much worried about their
dunya, the children dunya, but how many of
the parents really worried about the akhira?
True or false?
Am I exaggerating?
Yes or no?
If the child doesn't wake up for fajr,
Allah ghafoorun raheem, but if the child comes
back, right, with the report card, less than
what you expect, what will happen to that
child?
Which one is more important?
It's okay he doesn't or she doesn't wake
up during the weekend for fajr, or they
need to rest.
But if they didn't wake up for school
during the week, wow, what does that say?
Are you all with me?
And this is what we're gonna ask.
Alam yateekum nadheer?
Didn't we send you the Quran?
And the Quran has it all?
Has the Rasul missed anything, alayhi salatu wasalam?
Has the Rasul did not say anything?
Did he leave anything?
And they will say, bala, no, no, he
did.
We had a warner, walakin kathabna.
Wa qulna ma nazra allahu min shay, in
antum illa fee dhalalin kabir.
You were in a huge, great mischief or
misguided.
And here the discussion is whether the people
of Jahannam will say it, or the malaika,
the guard of Jahannam will say it to
the people.
What is the name of the angel who
is the guard of Jahannam?
Malik, his name is Malik.
And one of the discussions, which is in
surat az-Zukhruh, imagine this.
And again, if you have seen the volcano,
you will feel what I'm gonna say.
One of the requests inside Jahannam, for the
people, you know what?
Let us die.
Wa qalu ya malikul yaqdi alayna rabbuk, qala
innakum makithum.
They will call Malik the guard.
And I said to you just a verse
from the Quran.
They said, Malik, yaqdi alayna rabbuk, let us
die.
Qala innakum makithum.
Nope, you're staying.
Any one of us in this dunya will
say, you know what, let me die?
Very unlikely.
I wouldn't say no, but I would say
very unlikely.
Right, why?
Because we are enjoying it, walillah alhamdulillah.
But when the people of Jahannam, the first
thing they say, let us die so we
don't feel it.
Alam yateekum nadeer.
I want you to all keep reminding yourself.
Alam yateekum nadeer.
Didn't Allah, through Rasul alayhi salatu wasalam, and
again, I'm talking about Salah, because that's the
commonest question I get.
I'm still struggling with my Salah.
And I'm not talking about the teenagers born
and raised in this country, which I can
feel.
I'm talking about people who were born back
home.
And I don't know what happened when we
came in here.
Why?
Alam yateekum nadeer.
Didn't the Rasul alayhi salatu wasalam said, bashshir
mashshaina fadhulam?
Give a good glad tiding to those who
walk in the night, meaning people who go
in the morning and the night to the
masjid, Fajr and Isha.
Didn't he say the hardest Salah on the
hypocrites are the Fajr and Isha?
He said it, alam yateekum nadeer.
Then the people of Jahannam will say, wa
qalu law kunna nasma'u aw naqil.
Now they acknowledge, but also they said, if
we only were truly listening and we were
comprehending, meaning in our daily language, if we
were only smart, we will not end up
this way.
Ma kumna fee ashaab al-sa'ir.
And this is another name of Jahannam is
al-sa'ir.
And the punishment of Jahannam is very commonly
in the Quran, adab al-sa'ir.
So here I am in the second part
of this surah, which is two pages and
a half.
In the second part of the first page,
Allah take me to a very four or
five verses reminding me of Jahannam.
Why?
Because when I looked around me, I got
so much used to it and it doesn't
affect me anymore, right?
Even when we live here, if anybody come
and visit here and you go and they
say, well, take me to the ocean.
And I was like, okay, right?
And then, okay, fine, ocean, sure.
But for them, because let's say they live
in a city or a state where there's
no ocean for them as well, meaning we
get used to things around us.
And that's why we need reminders.
So Allah says, fine, you're looking at the
sky, you're seeing all these beautiful, the levels
of the sky, you're seeing the beautiful stars,
nothing is happening.
I'm too busy, I'm looking at my phone,
I'm focusing on the traffic, my usual rat
race.
Fine, let me scare you.
That's how it is.
Are you with me?
So now it moves to the scary part.
Alam yateekum nadeer.
Yes, Allah did.
And one of the beautiful ayat also, just
beautiful, one of the most, to me at
least, beautiful chapters in the Quran is Surah
Az-Zumar.
Which is the groups.
At the end, in the Day of Judgment,
we are two groups, there is no third.
At the end, in the beginning, there is
third, Ashab al-Arab.
But at the end, when everything is done,
there will be people of Jannah and people
of Jahannam.
So in that, at the end of it,
the same thing is talking about Jahannam and
then talking about Jannah.
Exactly same thing in Surah al-Mu'min.
Why?
Al-siqa al-ladhina kafaru ila jahannama zumara.
The people, the disbeliever, they will be guided,
siqa.
Nobody wants to go.
So al-siqa al-ladhina kafaru ila jahannama
zumara.
They will be taken to Jahannam in groups.
Hatta idha ja'uha.
Futihat abuwabuha.
They came very close to it and the
doors opened suddenly.
There is no wow here, suddenly.
Futihat abuwabuha wa qala lahum khazanatuha.
Same, the same wording.
And the guards said to them, alam ya'tikum
rusul.
This time is rusul.
You didn't get to the Prophet's sunnah, just
sunnah?
Why do I have to do it?
Alam ya'tikum rusulun.
Minkum, from you.
Yatloona alaykum ayati rabbikum.
They remind you, they recite for you the
verses of your Lord.
Wayunzirunakum liqaa yawmikum hadha.
They warn you that this is coming.
Qaloo bala.
Same answer.
There is no lying on Day of Judgment.
There's no denial.
You know, in this life, we live in
a lot of denials.
The list is long according to who we
are, where are we in our life.
And they said, walakin haqqat kalimatul a'dhabi ala
al-kafari.
That's it.
They earned the punishment.
Now we get so scared, we get depressed.
That's usually how the language of the Quran.
Warn you, feel bad, get ready, and then
he gives you the smile.
But the smile is not free.
One of the few times Allah said this.
Inna allatheena yakhshawna rabbahum bilghaybi.
Lahum maghfiratun wa ajrun kabir.
Opposite.
My choice.
One of the most beautiful things to me
in this deen, you know what?
Is a choice.
Is a choice.
You wanna obey Allah?
You don't wanna obey Allah?
Al-yawm, as Sayyidina Ali used to say,
al-yawm amalun wala hisabun.
Today is do actions, and there is no,
nothing is gonna be, no recompense, no accountability.
Waghadan hisabun wala amal.
And tomorrow, meaning there, accountability, and we cannot
change it.
We cannot do anymore.
So Allah now says, inna allatheena yakhshawna rabbahum
bilghaybi.
Let's stop here a little bit.
Inna verily, allatheena those, yakhshawn khashya, I'll come
to it in a second.
It's mostly translated as fear, because there isn't
another word.
But it is not fear only.
Part of it is fear.
Bilghaybi.
This is the key to it here.
Yakhshawna rabbahum bilghaybi.
Those who are, quote unquote, fear, it's okay
for now, but bilghaybi.
They haven't seen her.
They haven't seen Jahannam.
They haven't seen al-Rasul, alayhi salatu wassalam.
They haven't seen anything.
Lahum for them, forgiveness.
Wa'adru kabih.
It's a choice, which one you want.
Which one you want.
I need to make a decision here.
Because when I die, it's too late.
I can't change the decision.
I cannot make decision.
Let alone change the decision, right?
If I ask everybody here, and I do
it wherever I go, you wanna go to
Jannah?
Everybody will raise their hand.
I normally raise two hands.
The next question, what have you done for
it?
Oh, Allah ghafoor rahim for sure.
If Allah is not ghafoor rahim, ya wayli,
where would I go?
But alhamdulillah.
Well, what did I do extra?
So here he says, well, this is what
I want from you.
What is khashiyah?
Khashiyah is a feeling in the heart of
fear.
So that's why they translate as fear, but
it is not fear only.
What is the body language when I am
in fear versus I am in khashiyah?
It's a body language.
They say khashiyah when the fear inside you
is overwhelming that your body is almost standstill.
Fear on the other way around, the body
can do anything, and it's mainly a feeling
in the heart.
Now, afraid of who?
Rabbah, bilghayb.
And they have not seen him.
There's a beautiful hadith.
I learned it, I was 13 years of
age, and that was the first step in
changing.
Seven, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, sab'atun
yadhulihumun Allah fee dhilli yawma la dhilla illa
dhilluhun.
The seven categories of people.
The seven could be all of us, actually,
and you could be the seven.
The seven criteria could be in one person,
or it could be seven people.
Yadhulihumun Allah fee dhilli.
Allah will shade them.
Yawma la dhilla illa dhilluhun.
The day there is no shade, but the
shade of Allah.
How close the sun will be to us.
How far is the sun right now?
Millions of years, right?
That day is gonna be so close that
you think it is gonna be at your
head.
So imagine the heat.
The seven categories, seven categories.
The reason why I said this, related to
those who have this fear and stand still
body, because of their remembering Allah.
These seven categories.
Number one, imamun adil, a just ruler.
But that doesn't mean I cannot be.
Everyone here can be a just ruler.
If you have anyone under your authority, then
you are a ruler.
It doesn't have to be a president or
a king.
It can be, you have, you're a mother,
you have three, four children.
Are you a just ruler?
Or my mom loved my sister more.
A very common scenario.
Or you have one child.
Okay, so there is no other to compare.
And then the neighbor's son or daughter did
something to your child and you take them
accountable and get so upset and everything.
Then your child does the same.
And you say, it's okay, he didn't mean
it.
That's not a just ruler.
Are you with me?
So the just ruler, which is one of
the hardest one, by the way, because it's
very hard to be extremely just and to
go against you.
And going against me is one of the
hardest thing ever.
Imamun adil, first.
Second, shabun nasha fi ta'atillah.
A young man or a woman grew up,
and this is young, hadha shab.
Yani, people are teens and young adults.
Nasha fi ta'atillah, grew up with the
obedience of Allah.
That's why when I see these young girls
in the masjid, or I see the young
girls here, it should make you so happy.
Don't worry what they are wearing, I don't
care.
Honestly, I don't care because that's, some people
this is the last thing for them or
some people this is the beginning.
But they are here, they are listening.
They wanna change.
And the other day when we have this,
I don't know if we have the hijabista
on Saturday, more than 100 girls there, between
11 and 14.
You look at these girls and it's like,
I wish all the Muslim girls here.
And I'm not saying they are the perfect,
no.
But they are there to learn something about
Allah on a Saturday.
Nasha fi ta'atillah.
He is growing 15, 16, 17, goes to
college, doesn't matter.
Fi ta'atillah.
But to have a child to grow in
this way, the next question is, who are
you as a mother or parents?
And what kind of a house you have?
There is always exceptions to the rule.
I've seen people, I told them, I think
you were adopted.
I joke with them.
But the usual is a child is the
product of the house before he or she
is the product of the school.
Is number one, is the house.
So shabun nasha fi ta'atillah.
Third, anyone knows?
You have to know this hadith.
Rajulani tahabbani fillah.
Ishtama'a alallah wa tafarraqa alallah.
Two people.
And by the way, when I say rajulani,
or for those of you who know Arabic,
or translate as men, that doesn't mean many.
A rajul, the men or the man in
the Arabic language mean both, being human being
in general.
And if Allah wants to separate, he will
separate.
But in general mean both.
So two women, right?
They are in a strong relationship for no
reason other than the love of Allah.
Not because she takes care of me.
Not because she's there when I need her.
Not because this or that.
Or, you know, if she's my friend, all
people will look up to me.
Tahabbafillah.
They love each other for the sake of
Allah.
Meaning, the sign that that friend is, or
you and her, in this category, there is
no disobedience of Allah.
You're not gonna go together in a place
where it is disobedient to Allah.
It doesn't work.
Because you cannot be, you love her for
the sake of Allah and then you disobey
Allah.
How can that work?
Rajulani tahabbafillah.
Take four, which is Sayyidina Yusuf.
Rajulun da'at hum ra'a, da'at
malin wa jaman.
Fa qala ma'adha Allah wa ra'udhu
billahi.
A young man, and this is why, if
you have your son, let me translate and
then I'll clear this.
Young man, here is a man, he's not
a woman.
Because a woman, beauty with beauty, beautiful woman,
and has power, or has wealth.
And there is authority.
Called him, and you know what that mean?
And he said no.
In privacy, said no.
I am afraid of Allah.
Allah will shade him, right?
Now the fifth one, which is related to
the verse.
And the rajulun, what?
Qala billah tafabat aynayhi min khashyati Allah.
A man or a woman, and I want
you all to ask yourself this question.
That person was alone with Allah, alone.
And then he start or she starts crying.
From, not because something happened today, or I'm
in pain, or whatever.
No, life is going beautifully, alhamdulillah.
But there's reason he or she is shedding
tears from the awe of Allah.
And Allah will shade you.
And a man or a woman, give charity.
In secrecy, that the right hand doesn't know,
the left hand doesn't know what the right
hand did.
I'd love for you to look at this
categories, and see which one I am.
Ask yourself, you never know, you're probably one
of them.
But he just didn't know.
Or you know what?
I didn't know, now I learned.
Let me put one.
From now till Ramadan, I'm gonna pick one,
and all of us can be at least
one.
One.
And I'm gonna work on it.
Put a goal, without goals, we don't change.
So inna allatheena yakhshawna rabbahum bilghayb And how
do I get there?
This is, I mean, books were written about
this.
There's only simple answer.
Think about who's Allah.
Learn who is he.
I'm not talking about the 99 names of
Allah that we all know.
Walinda alhamdulillah.
But I'm talking about the reality, that he's
looking at me.
That when I say this, this is not
pleasing to him.
Not because I'm polite.
Not because it doesn't fit.
No, he's looking at me.
He's listening to me.
He gave me everything.
I need to be grateful.
Do you see the relationship?
Missing.
In majority of our homes.
The presence of Allah, reality of the presence,
is missing.
How many of us, simple, at dinner table,
Muslim homes, remind everybody, this was given to
us by Allah.
Verses I cooked today.
Do you like it?
Nothing wrong with that.
But I'm trying to remind you, how do
we live with this remembrance of Allah?
Constant remembrance of Allah.
Simple things.
Simple things.
You get into your car.
Who gave you the car?
Allah.
Yeah, I went and bought it and have
the money and worked and everything.
But Allah facilitated this.
So, is it me?
Because the next is guaranteed.
Allah is saying, lahum maghfiratun wa ajranun kabir.
That's it.
You will be forgiven.
I just have to qualify.
Am I?
This is how it makes you also have
the khashia.
Don't say anything.
Say it secretly.
Or say it loudly.
It doesn't matter.
Innahu alimun bidhati al-sudur.
Hadi is repeated in the Quran.
Look what he said.
Innahu, verily, him, alim, all-knowing, bidhati al
-sudur.
What is inside the chests.
And al-sudur is a chest.
Everyone in this room, we're close to a
hundred women here.
Everyone is saying something inside her, as we
speak.
He knows it.
Not only us.
Everyone.
Can you believe this?
Can you not believe?
Of course I believe.
May Allah forgive me.
Can you imagine?
Everyone whispering internally.
Not saying it.
Not saying it softly.
It's not a word yet.
He knows it.
Who's he?
When I think this way, the khashia is
gonna come.
When I think this way, the fear, the
love, I don't wanna disobey him, comes easily.
But when I am completely distracted, day and
night, and it is extremely easy to get
distracted, ya Allah protect us.
And it's becoming harder and harder and harder.
You all agree with me.
Then I need to bring myself back because
nobody will bring me back.
Lahum maghfiratun wa ajrun kabir.
Wa asirru qawlakum aw ijharu bih.
And scholar says, why this, say it secretly
or loudly?
Why secretly first?
Well, I don't hear it.
Why shouldn't it be loud first?
Because everything loud, start inside.
Everything out, start internally.
Every thought, when I say the word, I'm
thinking of it.
The concept or the word itself, it's all
start internally.
Inna hu ya'lamu sirra wa akhfa.
He knows secrets and he knows what is
not secrets if they will become secrets.
Who is he?
Tabarak.
Are you with me now?
You see when you connect everything, you look
around you, you think of the creation of
Allah.
You see this picture of Jahannam, at least
what we can imagine what happens to me.
And then I don't wanna be scared.
I wanna be motivated.
We all should be motivated.
It's not only to love Allah, but I
need to be motivated to do things because
who is he?
And the only way I will be motivated
when I know about, Jannah.
Inna hu alimun bidhat al-sidur.
Ala ya'lamu man khalaq.
Doesn't he know what he created?
Wahwa al-latifu al-khabir.
And he is the subtle all-knowing.
This is the first page, done.
What did you learn so far?
One page.
What did you learn?
No.
We know nothing.
I have not spent enough time to know
my creator.
I haven't spent time to know what is
gonna happen on Day of Judgment.
What is this Jahannam everybody is scared of?
What is this Jannah everybody's smiling when the
name comes in?
Are you all with me?
That's how we change.
Think.
Take notes.
This is why you really need to take
notes.
And just take one, two, three, four.
Don't write journals.
One, two, three, four.
Go home and think.
Because these are clear ones.
These are not sophisticated or complicated.
Think.
What is it?
Where am I going?
Right?
And where will I end?
Where we will end?
Sooner or later, we're done.
You know, if I wanna bring myself back,
you know what I think?
I'm in the grave.
And you all know what happens when in
the moment you think of this.
Scary?
No.
Scary is not the right word.
That's when I can say, no, Allah is
Ghafoorun Raheem.
So I don't despair.
But the idea is this Surah Al-Mulk,
the first page, literally take you through the
majority of the concept of the Quran.
Know who's Allah.
Know what is this life.
Look around.
Look where it's gonna be the end.
The end is your choice.
This one or this one.
I'm just reading some of the Hadiths.
I really want to talk a lot about
Jahannam today, but for some reason, because we
don't talk about it.
We don't have to talk about it every
day.
Don't talk about it to five and four
and six years old.
Never.
Never.
But me as an adult, I made a
reminder every now and then.
So I'm just looking at this Hadith I
put here.
Says, Sumar al-Radhiallahu Anhu says, Inna minhum
from the people of Jahannam, man ta'khuduhu
al-nar ila kabir.
The hellfire will cover him or her to
the ankle.
And some will be covered to the abdomen.
And some will be covered to here.
Go and look to the volcano I told
you about.
And you will see if this only touched
me.
Sayyidina Umar had, this is how they keep
themselves checked.
He turn on the stove.
And then he put his finger, get it
close and close and close.
You know what happens.
At one point, you're gonna pull out.
I don't wanna get burned.
You know what he said to himself?
Alaka sabro ala hadha yabna al-khattab.
Will you be patient on this?
Absolutely no.
He brings him and that's Sayyidina Umar.
So he said, and the other one, and
this is very nice, Abu Huraira.
Ishtakat al-nar ila rabbiha.
The hellfire complained to Allah.
Hellfire, yup.
Rabbi akla ba'di ba'da.
Ya Allah, part of me is eating part
of me.
Right?
Meaning it's getting very hot and I'm getting
choked.
Fa adhina laha.
He allowed some of it, meaning some of
the fire, some of the flames to go
out.
Because this is related to us.
Fa adhina laha.
Nafasayn, two breaths.
Nafasum fassayf wa nafasum fishshita.
One breath in the summer, one breath in
the winter.
You know what we feel?
When it's extremely hot, that's one breath.
And when it is extremely cold, you probably,
those of you born, raised here, or been
here for a long time, you don't know
what it is when it is extremely cold.
When it is minus 30 and minus 40.
If you live in different other states, you
will see this.
I can't tell you the feeling.
You open the door of your house, and
the, it's not the breeze, it's the feeling
that comes to you, you have to close
the door.
It's extremely cold.
Your hand, if it's too, or less than
a minute, if you're not wearing gloves, the
fingers will become blue.
That's one breath.
That's one breath.
And when it gets here, we feel the
heat, but still not as hot as other
places, right?
And it's one breath.
Subhanallah, one breath.
The other thing I wanna, I think I
shared everything, because I got you some, yeah,
I put the hadith, alhamdulillah.
I just wanted to share some, alhamdulillah.
I covered almost everything I covered.
Please forgive me if I was a little
bit, I don't know what the right word,
but again, I'm talking to myself before everybody.
We really need sometimes the reminders, right?
And the more reminders is not the numbers,
is what did I get from the reminder.
So each one of us, literally again, and
I will end up here, take a promise
with Allah.
Don't say to anybody.
Don't talk to anybody.
We are all the same boat.
Take one thing and say, this year for
the next three months till Ramadan, one thing
I'll change in me, and no reason I'm
changing other than it is for Allah.
I have one person who every few months
comes to me and says, give me something
I'll do.
Then I do.
And then three months later, they come to
me and says, okay, it's done.
It became a habit.
Give me more.
That's what we need.
Get to this ladder step by step, but
go up, go up.
We want everything excellent in this life, and
we should.
Why not?
But not only in dunya.
May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
give us Jannatul Firdaus.
Ya Rabbi Amin.
May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
make us enter Jannah Bil-Hisab.
Without any accountability, Ya Rabbi Amin, He's able.
He's capable, Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la.
May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
help us to understand His words and help
us to live it.
Ya Rabbi Amin.
Subhanakallahumma wa bihamdik.
Ash'hadu an la ilaha ila anna astaghfiruka
wa atubu ilaih wa sallallahu ala Sayyidina Muhammad
wa ala alihi wa sahbihi tasliman katheera.
We're gonna be ending here, but then we're
gonna have a small talk about the gym.
I wanna say something.
I don't think I need to be online.