Haifaa Younis – Understanding Surah An Naas

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The importance of fasting and avoiding giving up on one's own success is emphasized in the transcript. The speakers discuss the meaning of Surah An-Nas and the "has been revealeded" in the Qur Qim, as well as the "has been revealed" in the Bible and the importance of finding one's way to achieve success and protecting others. They also touch on the shaytan and the importance of protecting oneself and finding one's way to achieve success. The speakers provide guidance on customs, privacy, and reliance on Islam to avoid getting upset.
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Bismillah.
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Assalamu alaykum.
Sorry for the delay, but we had some
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Bismillah wa alhamdulillah.
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women, and also youth is about fasting, and
we do this in two ways.
We do the morning and the evening.
It's a whole day workshop.
Morning is the fiqh of fasting, and in
the afternoon is the inner dimension of fasting.
What does it mean to fast?
Why is fasting?
Why is Ramadan?
And inshallah, bi-idhnillah, this is very beneficial
for everybody, so please go ahead and also
register, because that's also a limited number.
We cannot, like if we get more than
what we get in Jannah, the biggest place
we have is this, and this place cannot
take more than 120.
So if you're planning to come, please go
ahead and register.
We don't want people at the last minute
here standing, and I don't know if I
can do it here because we have slides,
so we'll see how Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala, maybe on the other side, will work.
So mark your calendar.
February 16 is the Ramadan workshop, and the
weekend, 1st and 2nd of February, is the
fiqh of *.
Alhamdulillah, I'm going to go ahead and cover
Surah An-Nas, which is a very common,
well-known surah, subhanAllah, and for some reason
Allah put it at the end, although it
was not the last chapter in the Qur
'an.
It was not the last chapter that was
revealed.
In fact, there is a debate whether this
surah was revealed in Makkah or was revealed
in Madinah.
When there is a debate, that means not
the last one.
What is the last verse that was revealed
in the Qur'an?
Don't say it, raise your hand.
So there is two opinions.
One says, اليوم أكملت لكم دينكم وأتممت عليكم
نعمتي ورضيت لكم استامة دينا This is in
Surah Al-Ma'idah.
Today, I have completed your deen.
اليوم أكملت لكم دينكم Allah is saying, I
completed the deen, وأتممت عليكم نعمتي, and I
have finalized all the blessings, ورضيت لكم استامة
دينا, and I am pleased Allah saying this
to us.
This is a weaker opinion.
The stronger opinion says, the last verse that
was revealed in the Qur'an.
وَاتَّقُوا يَوْمًا تُرْجَعُونَ فِيهِ إِلَى اللَّهِ ثُمَّ تُوَفَّى
كُلُّ نَفْسٍ مَا كَسَبَتْ وَهُمْ لَا يُظْلَمُونَ It's
in Surah Al-Baqarah.
It is the last verse, it's in the
page.
You know the longest ayah in the Qur
'an?
They call it ayat al-deen, is the
verse that Allah talks about when, what is
the ruling when you want to take a
loan?
There is rules.
So in that, they say, before it exactly,
there is this verse.
وَاتَّقُوا يَوْمًا تُرْجَعُونَ فِيهِ إِلَى اللَّهِ And this
is, probably this is the most correct because
the meaning of it, as if it is
the finale.
And Allah is saying, beware of a day.
You will go back to Allah.
ثُمَّ تُوَفَّى كُلُّ نَفْسٍ Then every soul will
be, تُوَفَّى meaning, you will be given what
you deserve.
تُوَفَّى كُلُّ نَفْسٍ مَا كَسَبَتْ Whatever she or
he did, they will be rewarded or taken
accountable.
ثُمَّ تُوَفَّى كُلُّ نَفْسٍ مَا كَسَبَتْ وَهُمْ لَا
يُظْلَمُونَ And there will be no injustice.
So these are the two, there is no
different opinion.
One of them is the last.
It's not Surah An-Nas.
And even it is not the last chapter
that was revealed.
But why did Allah put it at the
end?
Remember, the sequence in the Quran is not
people put it.
Why it was the end?
It's very nice.
It's something you, you know when you want
to learn?
Just ask these questions.
The best way to learn is to ask.
Why the Surah An-Nas was the end?
Number one is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
wanted it.
But the connection, because if you finish the
Quran, what is the next thing you're going
to read?
Al-Fatiha.
What does Al-Fatiha talks about?
Talks about Allah and talks about إِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ
وَإِيَّاكَ نَسْتَعِينُ You, only you we worship and
only you we seek help.
Right?
What is قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ النَّاسِ What is
Surah An-Nas talks about?
Taking refuge in Allah.
The whole Surah take refuge in Allah.
This means anything I want, I need to
ask Allah.
Whether I am in big trouble, I'm afraid,
I'm scared, someone is going to hurt me,
said this may happen to me, I need
Allah to help me or I literally want
to get the best, this phone, this is
not, but let's say the newest version of
the phone.
And I just don't have the means or
I need it.
I wanted it.
Ask Allah.
Because Surah Al-Fatiha gives you the whole
thing.
إِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ وَإِيَّاكَ نَسْتَعِينُ You, only we worship
and you, only we seek help.
And then Surah An-Nas is when you
go through the challenges of the day, which
I'm going to come to it, who do
you turn to?
But do we?
Do we turn to Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala?
No.
No.
We turn to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
when?
When nothing happens.
When nothing works.
Right?
I tried, I called, I googled, I read,
but nothing is working.
Okay, let me try du'a.
Let me try?
But you know what?
Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is generous.
He still gives us.
Although we put him as, may Allah forgive
me for this word, but I just want
to make it clear to everybody.
We put him as a last resort.
And it should be the first or second
or third or fourth.
And as I'm asking him, if I put
him number one, he will make the things
that didn't work, he will make it work.
If I turn to Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala, I said this yesterday to the young
professionals, it was a beautiful reel, came, I'm
sure it came on your Instagram, maybe three,
four days before the ceasefire.
It was about a young boy.
And the young boy was carrying water.
Did you see it?
Maybe it didn't come to you.
So he was maybe nine or ten.
I don't think even ten.
You know, very thin.
And it was two big, huge jugs.
And he was trying.
He couldn't even move it.
I mean, water is very heavy.
Right?
Someone was filming him.
You know what he said?
Alone, in the middle of the rubbles.
And I'm sure there was the zanana on
top of his head, which is the drones.
And yet he didn't look.
And there were people around him.
I mean, it was a very short reel.
But it was a whole lesson.
Literally, the title of the reel, he says,
this boy knows Allah.
Whoever wrote it.
And he didn't look at anyone and says,
come and help me.
He said, yeah, and guess what?
He was able to carry it.
Two big jugs.
SubhanAllah, I didn't save it, but really look
for it.
Because that's what al-isti'ana.
This is by itself is an act of
worship.
When you ask Allah to help you, it
is an act of worship.
I am asking Allah for something I want,
yet he will reward me for asking, let
alone he will give it to me.
But we as human beings, subhanAllah, for some
reason, I don't know what's the word we
say.
Ghafilin for sure.
We're heedless.
We forget.
We're too busy.
But also we're miser for ourselves.
We don't know what we are missing, as
we say.
So al-naas, which is connected with al
-falak that we talked about before the break.
Qul a'udu bi rabbil falak.
I seek refuge.
Same as Allah.
But he didn't say Allah.
He said rabbil falak.
Remember, we talked about it in detail.
The Lord of the what?
What's al-falak?
Yes, it's the separation between two things.
And there, I was seeking refuge from what?
From evil people, from magic, from harm external.
Right?
What does al-naas talk about?
Qul a'udu bi rabbil naas, malik al
-naas, ilahi al-naas, right?
Min sharri waswasi al-khalnaas, alladhi yuwaswisu fi
suduri al-naas, min al-jinnati wal-naas.
Say, I seek, qul a'udu, I seek
refuge.
Tayyib, refuge from whom?
Refuge with whom and from whom or from
what?
We all say it, but I don't think
we go deeper.
Right?
So say, a'udu, I am seeking refuge
from whom?
To understand this easily, when you have rain,
what is the refuge you take?
Either umbrella or you go under, either inside
or you go under a shade, something that
you don't get wet.
This is your seeking refuge.
When it's too hot, you go under a
tree.
You are literally seeking refuge in a tree.
So a'udu, I'm seeking refuge.
This is general word, right?
Bi rabbil naas, the lord of the mankind.
I'll come to it in a second.
But look at the rhyme here and the
rhythm.
A'udu, I seek refuge.
From whom?
No, I'm seeking refuge with whom?
Who I am looking to help me or
to save me or protect me.
He called himself three things.
Rabbil naas, the lord of the mankind.
Malikil naas, the king of the mankind.
Ilahil naas, the god of mankind.
Why?
Ya Allah.
How many times you have read qul a
'udu bi rabbil naas?
Huh?
To show his power.
He could have said qul a'udu bil
qadir.
It's interesting.
That's why you need to read because it's
beautiful.
The surah has different meaning.
Even when I was reading, I was like
there's so many beautiful I put in my
notes, right?
So a'udu bi rabbil naas.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has so many
meanings, right?
And there is characters or attributes.
Rabb is what?
Is an attribute or is a name?
Arrab, arrab.
Is it a name of Allah or is
it an attribute?
Mainly an attribute.
What does arrab mean?
We use it in the Arabic language in
the dunya.
We said rabbul bayt, right?
So we said rabbul bayt.
We said rabbul amal also.
We said the lord of the house, the
lord of or the head, let's say, the
head of the house or the head of
the company.
What does that mean?
For a human being, the person who has
control over everything in the company or the
control over the house, but not only the
control, the person who provide everything and the
person again could be she or he or
the person who protect people run to to
solve their problems.
So here he said the rabbul naas.
He is the lord of the mankind, meaning
that's who Allah should be for me.
But let's see, where are we?
I'm going to read some of it because
it's beautiful.
Arrab basically is number one al mudabbar.
I'm sorry, number one is al khaliq.
The first thing, arrab is the one, the
creator.
So the rabb has more than one name
and attribute of Allah all under that one.
So al khaliq, he create, but he's not
yet rabb.
What else he has to do to become
rabb?
Take care of all the affairs.
Everything he created, he takes care of its
affair.
The bird, the fish, let alone the human
beings.
And al mudabbar meaning so many meanings.
It's one of the names of Allah.
Basically, he fashioned you and me, created you
and me in a way that I can
live on this earth.
And the earth he created it in a
way that I can live on this earth.
Right?
Are you seeing the extreme weather now?
Why?
When did Texas see that temperature and that
snowstorm?
Because we're ruining it.
Because when he creates things, he creates it
perfection.
He knows what human being need.
He knows what the fish need.
He knows what the bird need.
Al mudabbar takes care of all the affairs.
Literally think of a head of a work
or company and a head of the house.
So that's number one.
But then that should be enough.
Rabb al nas, malik al nas.
What is the malik?
The king.
What is the king?
No.
Malik is number one.
The owner.
Right?
The owner.
He owns us all.
He has full control over us.
If he wants something, he can do it
right away.
If you want to change something, he can
do it right away.
And then ilah al nas.
Why is that?
What is the emphasis here?
Why ilah?
God.
What does God mean?
The only one deserve to be worshipped.
The only one deserve to be worshipped.
Because he is Rabb.
Because he is the head of everything.
And because he owns everything.
That's why I keep reminding myself and I
keep telling people, don't say I have it.
It's mine.
It's not mine.
It's not yours.
It's not your home.
He gave me and happened to be in
my name.
Or the car or the children or the
clothes or whatever we have.
So Allah gave it to us.
Because in a minute he can take it
away.
And I've seen it.
What did we learn from the fires?
One hour from us.
What did we learn?
Nothing.
What did we learn?
When you were seeing these fires?
I'm sure everybody was thinking of the hellfire.
But what else?
What else?
Yes.
When a second, in a second, all these
million dollar homes or even not necessarily the
big huge homes, but some of it were
really big huge homes.
But everything people had, not necessarily gone, they
left it.
Left it.
Many of them left it because of fear.
So Malik al-Nas, Ilah al-Nas.
He owns everything and he's the only one
I should worship.
So this is for me.
I need, when I read this, I need
to change my relationship with Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
The relationship with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
he owns me, he owns everything.
He's the only one I should worship.
I should worship and he is the one
who's taking care of my affairs.
When I need something, go to the source.
And when I need to go to the
source, then he's the only one who deserves
my prayers and my reliance and my asking
for needs.
But then these three and where I'm seeking
refuge from.
So I went to the one who has
the power, who can protect me.
He's the right person.
But I am seeking refuge from what?
Why?
Evil, like devil.
Why?
Because look how did Allah says devil?
No.
Qul a'udhu bi rabbil nas.
Seek refuge.
Everybody now is reading it.
Qul a'udhu bi rabbil nas.
I seek refuge in the Lord of the
mankind.
Malik al-Nas, the king of the mankind.
Ilah al-Nas, the God of the mankind.
From what?
He didn't say devil.
That's something practically we need to live it.
Min sharri, from the evil of the one
who whispers and the one who disappeared.
What does that mean?
I am always exposed to that.
I'm always exposed to evil.
Because first he said evil.
Second, the whispers inside me and you.
And third is, he didn't say devil.
There's no devil.
He is nothing.
Khannas.
Disappear.
And we kept saying shaytan.
Anytime you ask anybody, you say shaytan.
I was like, why?
He can disappear in a second.
Right?
Min sharri waswasi khannas.
Why did Allah says khannas?
Disappear.
Why?
Huh?
No.
This is not about Allah doing it.
This is something I have to do.
This is something I have to do.
And here, and he will disappear.
So all of you know, so what is
the issue then?
I seek refuge in Allah from the cursed
devil.
So surat al-Nas teaches me the following.
Right?
Min sharri waswasi khannas.
Now, before I get to the end.
Alladhi yuwaswisu fi sudur al-nas.
The one who whispers in the chest of
mankind.
Min al-jinnati wal-nas.
What is jinnah here?
Not jannah, jinnah.
What is jinnah?
Jinn.
And wal-nas, mankind.
Tayyip, what is that?
Number one.
Number one.
And then I'll share with you some hadiths
about this.
Number one, no one will protect me from
my weaknesses, which I throw it in the
basket.
I call, this is me.
I call the basket the shaitan.
Anything happens to me is the shaitan.
I, okay.
It's true to a certain extent.
But what am I doing?
What I'm doing to that basket?
I'm keeping it there.
If you have a basket in your trash
can, don't you do what?
Don't you empty it?
Don't you empty it?
Right?
Okay.
So how do I empty that trash can?
How do I empty that trash can?
Yes, that's what you say.
So Allah is saying, Allah is saying, shaitan
is there for us.
Because he said it repeatedly in the Quran.
I mean, you read the Quran, right?
By your majesty, I'm going to lure all
of them.
I'm going to make them disobey you.
Except the special servants of yours.
And the special servants of Allah Subh'anaHu
Wa Ta-A'la, in this context, it
doesn't have to be the most righteous person.
It's the person who remembers to say, who
remembers to turn to Allah right away and
say, I seek refuge in Allah from the
cursed devil.
But when he whispers inside you and me,
we don't do it.
When you are backbiting somebody and someone reminds
you and says, this is not what we
should say.
You say, oh, it's my shaitan.
Tayyib, it's your shaitan.
It's probably true.
Say, I seek refuge in Allah from the
cursed devil.
And the shaitan with us in our blood.
And this, look at this story.
And this story has so many lessons we
need to learn.
Rasul alayhi salatu was salam was walking in
Medina.
It was in Ramadan actually.
Right?
And it's actually in Bukhari and Muslim.
And this story is after the hijab, after
the surah al-nur.
So the face was completely covered.
So Sayyida Safiyyah, his wife, came to visit
him.
He was in Atikam.
Came to visit him.
And he was walking her back to the
house.
Of course, the distance is very small.
I'm very short.
So as he was walking, she was completely
covered.
Two sahabis walked.
And when they saw Rasul alayhi salatu was
salam with the woman, they walked quickly.
And he looked at them and says, Innaha
Safiyyah.
Right away.
They said, Ya Rasulallah, this is Safiyyah.
And they said, Ya Rasulallah, will we ever
even think?
He responded.
He didn't say anything to them about them.
Rather he said, Inna ash-shaytana.
Verily, thee, shaytan, yajri ma'a bani adam
majraddam.
Min ibni adam majraddam.
Shaytan run with the human being like the
blood inside you and me.
And in another addition, and that's actually related
to fasting, and it says, make his path
very narrow by fasting.
But the idea is even Rasul alayhi salatu
was salam, they didn't say we think anything.
They just walked quickly.
Out of respect, he's walking with a woman.
But Rasul alayhi salatu was salam, just in
case shaytan, Innaha Safiyyah.
This is my wife.
And that's actually another, there's many lessons we
learned from this.
But one of the lessons is don't put
yourself in a position of suspicion at all.
And don't blame people when they suspect.
They shouldn't, but if it happened, I put
myself in that position.
Right?
Don't be alone with a man somewhere.
And if somebody will see you, or don't
be, or don't dress in a way, and
this is not you, because that's what the
impression people will take.
Right?
But what we learned from this hadith is,
and he actually continued and he said, Wa
inni khashitu ayyakdhi fa fee qulubik yuma shay
'an aw qala sharra.
He said, shaytan traveled with the human being
like the blood traveled in the vessels, and
I was worried.
That's what Rasul alayhi salatu was salam.
I was worried that he will throw something
in your hearts.
So shaytan is always with us.
Al falaq, protect me and you from the
external harm.
An-naas, protect me from the internal harm.
Because it is, yuswisu fee sudur an-naas.
He whispered inside me, in the chest.
And the chest is what?
It's the spiritual heart.
Like when you are in the morning waking
up, again I call it the fajr dilemma,
or the fajr struggle.
Who's telling you there's another 30 minutes?
Who's telling you you're tired?
Who's telling you Allah is ghafoorun raheem?
But he's not telling you Allah is shadidun
ayqab.
Who's that?
Shaytan.
Because he does not want you, or me,
or us, to what?
Obey him.
He does not want to obey him.
In Allah, in more than one place he
said, Inna ash-shaytana lakum adoo.
Fattakhiduhu adoo'a.
Shaytan is your enemy.
Take him as an enemy.
It's very interesting here.
Because if Allah says it's enemy, and I
know it's enemy, why did he emphasize fattakhiduhu
adoo'a?
Because we don't do it.
Take him as your enemy.
If you have someone and you know they
are your enemy, what do you normally do?
What do you normally do?
Stay away from them.
Protect yourself from them.
You say this to the youth, right?
This is not a good company.
Stay away from them.
That's what shaytan is.
However, he is, and because of my ghafla,
because I'm not always in a state of
remembrance, he's there for me.
He's there.
But Allah gave me the recipe right away.
You're thirsty, drink water.
You're tired, sit down.
He's whispering, say, A'udhu billahi min ash
-shaytani r-rajim.
But we don't.
But we don't.
Look at the other hadith, right?
Rasool alayhi salatu was-salam, that's where al
-waswas al-khanas.
Inna ash-shaytana wadi'un khatmuhu ala qalb
ibn adam.
Fa-in dukkir Allah, fa-in dakar Allah,
khanas.
Wa-in nasi altaqama qalbah.
Fadhalika al-waswas al-khanas.
So he said the following.
That shaytan is putting his face inside the
heart, and it's a figure of speech, inside
the heart of the human being.
He's there, he's like standing.
You know when someone's stalking you?
I hope nobody has ever got into this
experience.
But when someone stalks someone, you walk and
you are very worried, right?
And sometimes you put the phone and like,
okay, anybody behind me, right?
That's shaytan with us.
Because he said it in another verse, he
said, thumma la'atiyannahum min bayni aydihim wa
min khalfihim wa'an aimanihim wa'an shama
'ilihim wala tajidu aktharuhum shakireen.
He said to Allah, I am going to
lure all your servants.
And then I'm going to come to them
from the front, from the back, from the
right, and from the left.
And you will see the majority of them
are not grateful.
Meaning, they will listen to me.
So here Rasulallah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is
saying, shaytan is putting his khatam, putting his
face or his body on the, or sitting,
sitting on the heart of the human being.
When the human being remembers Allah, khanas.
Khanas meaning, he will disappear.
Or he will be very small.
And the human being forgot.
He will control the heart.
That's the one who whispers and then at
the same time gets, disappears.
What do I take home from this?
Number one, stay in dhikr of Allah.
Because he is not going to come.
Number one.
Like remember, I always remember.
I hope you didn't forget.
Did you forget COVID?
I hope you didn't.
Right, who can?
What did we do in COVID?
We protected ourselves.
What did we do?
We had masks, right?
Social distance, and we stayed home.
Why?
To protect us.
And it did.
And then we took, Alhamdulillah, majority of people
took vaccines.
And that's how we are back.
Now we are, two years ago we couldn't
do that.
Right?
For a year and a half.
Almost two years.
Where is shaytan?
It's the COVID around me 24x7.
The virus is around me 24x7.
I need to take precautions.
What is the precautions?
One thing only.
Be in dhikr of Allah.
I seek refuge with Allah from the accursed
Satan.
And if we are continuously in this, he's
going to go and find somewhere else.
Because every human being, has a shaytan.
Including Rasulullah, peace be upon him.
Do you know that?
But his shaytan, became Muslim.
That's what Rasulullah, peace be upon him, said.
Everyone.
Everyone.
And Allah said it.
وَكِذَلِكَ جَعَلْنَا لِكُلِّ نَبِيِّنَ عَدُومٌ وَشَيَاطِينَ الْإِنسِ وَالْجِنِّ
يُوحِي بَعْضُمْ إِلَى بَعْضٍ زُخْرِفَ الْقَوْلِ غَرُورًا Allah
said this in Surah Al-An'am.
We have made to every prophet, every messenger,
an enemy of shaytan.
From the ins and from the jinn.
The jinn, we don't see them.
The one that whisper.
The ins, you know who's that person?
The person who comes to you and says,
don't put your hijab.
It's not an obligation.
The person who comes to you and says,
it's okay, you didn't wake up for fajr.
The person who comes to you and makes
you speak, you and him or her, and
you keep disobeying Allah and what you are
saying.
Those are shayatin al-ins.
Those are the bad company.
That we talked about.
The bad company that takes you away and
takes me away from Allah.
So, قُلْ أَعُوذُ Say, meaning say it.
Meaning, I need to seek refuge.
Meaning, I'm not strong enough, and Allah is
telling you and me.
Meaning, that no one is going to protect
me except Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
In his three characters, in his three attributes
subhana, he's the one who created me to
take care of my affair, everything, small and
big.
He is the one who owns everything.
And he is the one who is only
worthy of worship.
And when I say, أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنْ شَيْطَانِ
الرَّجِيمِ By the way, it's an act of
worship.
Because I remembered Allah.
So, I'm asking Allah to protect me, and
he will reward me because I asked, and
he will reward me by protecting me.
What else we want?
Subhanallah.
That's why I told you we are very
miser.
Allah is very generous.
He is waiting for you and me to
do something, yet, too busy.
Tomorrow, when I become 40, when I go
to Hajj, all these list of excuses.
الحمد لله رب العين And the other thing
I want to say is, saying beautifully to
Abdullah ibn Abbas, and he said, no, actually
I will read something very nice for you
at the end.
الحمد لله, Allah made me remember.
And Sayyidina Abdullah ibn Abbas, he said, الشيطان
جاثم على قلب ابن آدم He said, the
shaytan is sitting this time on the heart
of the human being.
فإذا سهى وغفل وسوس When he or she
is not in dhikr, they will whisper.
وإذا ذكر خنس And when you remember Allah,
he will disappear.
As I was finishing, because this is the
last, right?
This is a book, by the way, very
good.
It's not translated, unfortunately.
For those of you who know Arabic, I'm
sure you know it.
التفسير الميسر وهب زحيلي May Allah bless his
soul.
So he wrote this.
The man died, طبعا.
Okay?
So I'm going to read it to you
because it's really moving.
Right?
He said, I'm going to translate it.
فقال سجدت لله شكرا تبارك وتعالى I am
frustrated to Allah سبحانه وتعالى out of thankfulness
when I finish this book.
Because this is the last thing.
Right?
Because of all the blessings he gave me
and he made me continue and finish the
blessing, this book.
And he put the date and the time.
It's what?
8 a.m. on the morning, on a
Monday morning.
And it was June 27, 1988.
And I was 56 years of age.
Then he said, I have completely emptied myself
to finish this book throughout years.
And I left my home and I left
my family to go to another country.
So I have more time to do this.
And then he said, the first thing I,
then he was talking about, he has a
lot of amazing books.
But look at the end.
And he died.
And I was reading this and I was
like, سبحان الله, he made dua for himself.
And look how many of us makes dua
for ourselves.
And he said, فاللهم لك الحمد والشكر يا
الله, all the praise and thankfulness to you.
Make every letter from this book, make every
letter of your book and every letter in
this commentary and everything I wrote purely for
your face, purely for you only.
And make it benefit and make goodness comes
out of it.
Now he's making dua for himself.
And make me free of the hellfire, every
bit of my body and my soul, and
my hair, and my skin, and my bone,
and my hearing, and my seeing, and my
brain, and my blood.
I get goosebumps.
سبحان الله.
I was not planning, I was just finishing
and I was like, oh, let me see,
what is this?
And I was like, this is beautiful.
And then he made a great, amazing thankfulness
to Allah.
سُبْحَانَكَ اللَّهُمَّ لَا أَخْصِيثَنَا أَنْ عَلَيْكَ This is
the dua for Rasul ﷺ.
Glorify you, ya Allah.
There is nothing enough, no words is enough
to thank you, but I will thank you
the way you thanked yourself.
كَمَا أَثْنِيْتَ عَلَى نَبْسَكَ اللَّهُمَّ يَا لَطِيفَ فَوْقَ
كُلِّ لَطِيفِ Ya Allah, you are the settle
above every settle.
He's making dua for himself.
That's how miser we are.
You know, he didn't say, ya Allah, give
me or give me.
سُبْحَانَ اللَّهُ أَلْطِفْ بِي فِي أُمُولِي كُلِّهَا Make
every part of my affairs easy.
كُلِّهَا كَمَا أُحِبْ And make it like I
like.
And make وَرَضِّنِي فِي دُنْيَا And make me
pleased with my dunya.
And my akhira.
وَخْفِلِّي And forgive me.
And my parents and all the Muslims and
the Muslimat.
The men and the women Muslims.
Ya Rabbi, ameen.
May Allah give him Jannatul Firdaws.
He died very young, actually.
Yeah, he died in 60s he was.
Maybe early 70s.
And he has amazing books.
SubhanAllah.
He has Al-Fiqh Al-Islami Wa Adilata.
He has one of the best books of
fiqh.
It's about 11 chapters.
He has a beautiful book.
This is one of very well-known book
of Tafsir.
And he has also beautiful book about the
Balagha of the Quran.
Amazing.
SubhanAllah.
And he's a Syrian, by the way.
I'm sure you all know.
Yeah.
And may Allah make us one day someone
read this and say this was amazing.
Ya Rabbi, ameen.
You never know.
The reason I was sharing this with all
everybody that make sure you leave something behind
you that other than the children because 50
years from now the children will be gone.
Right?
Here, this will be here forever.
Till Allah subhanAllah takes this world.
And I'm sure very soon this is going
to be translated.
This is a very nice book.
It's contemporary, very easy language.
And he brought every Tafsir that you can
think of.
He put it all.
So may Allah subhanAllah give him Jannatul Firdaus.
May Allah subhanAllah make us again worthy of
even reading his book.
May Allah subhanAllah make us leave something behind
us that people will remember us and that
will be for us, not against us.
Ya Rabbi, ameen.
Subhanakallahumma wa bihamdihi.
Ashhadu an la ilaha ila amma astaghfiruka wa
atubu ilaih.
Sallallahu ala sayyidina Muhammad wa ala alihi wa
ashabihi tasliman kathira.
Any question?
Fayrouz, you had a question?
Yes.
Yes?
Didn't you have a question?
Yeah, please do.
I know each one of us have a
shaytan.
Yes.
We don't know Islam.
Just the Rasool alayhi salatu wa salam to
us.
Oh.
Oh yeah.
If our shaytan was Muslim, what is the
problem?
No, it's only Rasool alayhi salatu wa salam.
That's okay.
You're optimistic, ya Fayrouz, but it doesn't work
this way.
Yes.
How do we protect our homes from the
jinn?
I love how many muftis are in this
room.
Okay.
Are you ready?
You're asked.
Move out all this disobedience of Allah.
If you have a TV and you're watching
something on TV, it's haram.
You're inviting every shaytan.
Free.
So number one, remove the haram.
Remove the haram from the home, subhanAllah.
We're living in a time where haram is
normal.
And haram is beautiful.
And haram is free.
Haram, everybody does it.
Or haram, there is thousands of people who
will justify it for you.
Right?
So it's a huge struggle.
But number one, remove the haram.
Make sure the house, there is dhikr in
this house.
There is salah.
That's why from the sunnah, you don't pray
sunnah in the masjid.
You pray sunnah in the house.
Don't make your homes like graveyards where there's
no dhikr of Allah.
So the house is protected when there's no
haram.
No pictures all over, all the pictures are
haram.
And make dhikr.
Salah is dhikr.
Reading Qur'an is dhikr.
Putting Qur'an in the TV is dhikr.
Always there is dhikr.
There is goodness in that house.
Baytun mubarak.
Why did Sayyidina Nuh, when he came out
of the ship, what did he say?
Wa man zinni munzalan mubarakan wa anta khairul
munzileen.
Ya Allah, make this where I am going
to be a blessed place.
What is a blessed place?
What is barakah?
Meaning?
Everything in it?
Exactly.
Increase the potential.
Pleasing to Allah.
So that's what you do.
To protect the jinn.
And I'm talking about the jinn that will
push us to disobey Allah.
It's the same thing.
A'udhu bi rabbin nas.
Same thing.
You seek rafijin Allah by words and by
actions.
Yes.
Now I talked about jinn.
Everybody's going to ask about the jinn.
Yes.
Yes.
So what if I'm just like doing like
my normal stuff, I'm doing something, but people
are always just constantly, people just talk to
me about that.
Then you need to change the way you
do things.
Yani al-urf.
What is accepted?
Right?
You're not going to please everybody.
You're not going to live to please people.
You live to please Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala, but also you have to know that
there is, there is customs.
The customs, as long as it does not,
for example, words, right?
You say here cool in the United States,
meaning nice, right?
You go to England, you say cool, everybody
will look at you.
Of course, now they know it because of
the internet, but in general, in their language,
there isn't cool.
There's splendid.
There's beautiful.
There's excellent.
So that's urf.
So when I am, let's say, if I
am a young woman or a woman, and
you're very loud, very loud voice wise, loud,
speak loud, or you use, you use not
very pleasant language, what impression you're giving about
people, right?
I'm saying I am, or that person is
vulgar.
Why do I blame them when they say
this?
Why do I blame them in the only
one of the few exceptions that backbiting is
allowed?
You know, when, when the person is publicly
disobey Allah, so when I put and post
on social media, my pictures, that is absolutely
not pleasing to Allah, what do I expect
people will say about me and my account
is public.
Everybody can see what I'm, why do I
blame people, right?
But if I am pleasing Allah, I'm going
the way pleases him, but people don't like
it because whatever they think, you know what,
I'm sorry, I'm not going to please everybody.
So I need to see what is the
accepted, the way I look, the way I
dress, the way I carry myself and Allah
will protect us.
Yes.
Oh yeah, absolutely.
Wahba Zuhaili.
Wahba Zuhaili.
He's very well-known.
Yes.
Yes, please.
Let's take it.
No problem.
We're going to give you a bonus because
I have five weeks, no class.
Okay.
Just give me, don't give me numbers.
I wish I memorized the numbers.
I should, but I didn't.
Just give me the idea.
Oh, ayah 34.
Yes.
Uh-huh.
That's what we have to do a class
about.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's a whole class about it.
I spend one hour in the year of
knowledge, the morning class about this ayah because
it's one of the most misunderstood and especially
when it is translated as beat them, it
is not beat them.
You have to translate it in the right
way, right?
So it's not hitting and it's not beating,
right?
Because there is a Hadith of Rasul to
explain this verse.
Email me if you have any questions, I'll
be more than happy to help you with
that.
This is very important.
It's one of the ones that Islam is
being attacked.
So absolutely, just email me, we'll work together
inshallah.
It's ayah 34 in Surah An-Nisa, when
the wife is, does not, I wouldn't say
obey, when she does not give the husband
his right and repeatedly, not only once.
Yes.
And I'm sorry, and there's a sequence.
So there's three stages, right?
One and two, and if not, then the
third.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Like, how do I pray?"
Like, you know, I want to like, prove
them wrong.
Don't prove them.
Don't prove anybody wrong.
That's not your job.
Just show them the beauty because once you
want to prove, it's gonna be your nafs.
And if you don't, you're gonna get upset,
and the moment you get upset, you lost.
You come in as said in Umar's, I
always remember his, wasn't me on the right
path?
Yes?
Done.
Don't you come from that stuff.
If you see the truth, alhamdulillah, if you
didn't see the truth, I'll make dua for
you.
That's how I go.
Pray the Islamic prayer.
That's a tough one.
How about you put a video, exactly?
Yeah, just put a video to be on
the safe side, yeah, okay, yes.
There's an online question.
I don't see it.
No, using tasbih or bid'ah.
Using tasbih is not a bid'ah.
People everything throw it in the, again, another
basket called bid'ah.
It is not, right?
The question is, can I use the subha
for tasbih, we call it, or subha in
the Arabic language, to remember Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala?
Why you're using it?
Right?
So many people, it helps them to remember.
What is the bid'ah?
Right?
So, absolutely not.
Better, though, which I know what the teacher
is saying, better is to use your fingers.
Why?
Because they will witness for me on the
day of judgment.
So yes, for sure.
But if I use my fingers and I
lose it, I can't focus, yes, then definitely
use the subha.
I personally prefer to use my fingers.
I want every bit of me, lahmi wa
adhmi, and everything to witness for me, but
it's definitely not a bid'ah.
What if the husband doesn't want it?
Okay, that's a different story I have to
answer privately.
Yes?
Can you stand up?
I can't hear.
Do I hear?
How I can differentiate between?
Oh, the shaytan operates on the nafs, my
friend.
This is how it is.
Shaytan operates on the nafs, always, and that's
why when you purify your nafs, shaytan task
becomes much harder.
But if I give my nafs everything at
once, shaytan comes in.
I'm not sleepy, but I'm bored, I'm going
to go to bed, so shaytan comes in
you and says don't wake up.
So he operates on the nafs.
That's in the tazkiyah.
I have to do one day a workshop
for you in tazkiyah, I have to, inshallah,
yes?
I'm sorry, what is the word?
Shadr.
It's different between heart or mind, because for
I take every word differently.
No, huwa al-aql wa al-qalb.
Right?
So al-qalb huwa mahal al-tafakkur.
Wa al-aql mahal al...
Okay.
Basmala.
Okay.
Basmala.
Basmala.
I'm trying to translate and everybody throw up.
It's okay.
Today I'm forgiving you, I just came from
Umrah, so alhamdulillah.
Ramadan is coming.
Yeah, so huwa in the Quran, Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala use nafs, use qalb, and
use aql.
And always al-aql, always al-qalb is
the place to comprehend that is not seen.
Al-aql is where the place where you
make decisions.
So usually the king, the one who control
everything in me is al-qalb, yes, right?
And then the qalb, the aql, again, we
do this, we do this, but reality we
don't know where is it.
Bas Allah said, inna la ta'mal abasar, lakin
ta'mal qlubu allatifus sudur.
So we know the heart is in the
chest.
But where?
I have no idea.
So here you go.
And then the aql, according to.
So if the heart, the king, is pure,
all my decisions are pure.
If the heart is corrupted, my decisions are
corrupted.
Tayyib, last one.
Bismillah.
I was about to say jazakum Allah khair,
but then you raised, alhamdulillah.
Okay.
So what is the, that's a whole lecture
about tawakkul, but that's okay.
So what is the best way to really
rely on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala?
Okay.
So basically, I have the mic, right?
The mic is a mean, right?
And I am supposed to take the mean,
because it's a sunnah, right?
But I'm not depending that the mic will
make my voice heard.
I know Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, if
He wants, He will make you hear my
voice.
And if Allah wants, although I'm using it,
He will not make it.
So I take the means, but I don't
get upset.
That's the sign.
When the means didn't work, then I'm not
relying on Allah.
Did you do your part?
When did you do your part?
Let's say exam.
Let's say exam.
Simple.
Exam.
Did you study?
Did you study the average that you pass?
Did you study heavy so you will get
the A plus?
Yes, I did.
But then, when I go to the exam,
I don't say, I don't, I'm not worried.
I studied very well.
Then you have no tawakkul on Allah.
Because the result is not in my hand.
The result does not depend on the means,
meaning.
Maybe this will make it easy for you.
1 plus 1 equals 2.
Not in Islam.
Why?
No.
Yes.
1 plus 1 equals 2 if Allah wants
it.
In sha Allah.
Because 1 plus 1 can be 10.
That's the barakah.
We all talk about it.
And 1 plus 1 could be minus 2.
Because Allah stopped the barakah from it.
So reliance on Allah, when you say, Ya
Rabbi.
You told me to take the means.
I took it.
Please don't disappoint me.
Now you are a mutawakkilah.
Now you are a mutawakkilah.
You took all the means.
But I don't know if this is going
to happen.
I don't know if you will understand me.
I come, always, I come and it's like,
Ya Allah, make me speak things that pleases
you.
Right?
Why?
I studied.
I have the book, everything in front of
me.
Why?
Because I'm relying on Allah.
Because I know nothing will happen without His
permission.
Already, it's an hour.
Who is now?
Who is the last one?
What?
The name of the book is Al-Tafseer
Al-Muneer.
Here you are.
Al-Tafseer Al-Muneer.
But you have to know Arabic.
It's not translated yet.
And Wahb al-Zuhayri is the author.
Jazakumullahu khayran.
Subhanakallahumma wa bihamdika.
Ashhadu an la ilaha ila amin.
Astaghfiruka wa atubu ilaih.
Sallallahu ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala alihi wa
sahbihi tasliman kathir.