Haifaa Younis – Virtues of Memorising Surah al-Kahf I
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One of the duas we are supposed to
do
before we say salaam
in our salah on daily basis, minimum 5
times, is we seek refuge
from the test of the,
the dajjal and from the punishment
of the grave.
So Suratul Kahf, this is what he said
alayhi salatu wa salaam. There is memorizing,
and there is reading,
and it's all about either the first ten
or the last ten
of Suratul Kahr.
The first ten
and the last ten is not the stories.
It's just the introduction,
and he said the following. I just wanna
make sure so I don't read the the
hadith wrong. This one is in Muslim, and
he said, alayhi salaam,
this is related by Abu
Right? Now,
whomsoever
memorized 10 verses of Surat al Kahr, general.
10. How many of you? Show me hands.
It's okay. I wanna see this. Memorized
also
Also
All of it.
1 only.
234
5, 6,
7.
Don't be shy.
We have close to 60 here. We don't
even have 10.
Can I ask why not?
Don't answer me, but I want you to
go home and ask yourself this. Why not?
Why
not?
If I ask you again the same question
you have heard from me many times,
give me a recipe right now from your
memory
about the most
well known,
right,
recipe in your
country you came from or in the United
States.
All of you will give me the recipe.
Oh, why not Surat Al Kah?
It's 110 verses.
You read it every Friday. It's not difficult
to memorize.
It's not challenging. It's not like some other.
It's not
because it's stories
and doesn't have a lot of tough words
or difficult words for us. So the first
question everybody is gonna ask yourself,
why not? We keep asking Allah why not?
Why me?
Then I'm gonna ask to everybody why you
have not memorized Surat Al Kah.
And don't answer me. May Allah forgive me.
Well, Allah is gonna ask
you. Ten verses, at least start by 10
verses.
Ten verses. If you memorize 1 verse a
day,
1 verse a day, may Allah forgive me.
Right? You need 110 days. And how much
is 110 days?
It's 4 months.
And from now till the end of the
year.
4. One verse a day.
How long it takes
Okay. Review. What is the big deal?
You listen to a song a 1000 time.
You play the same,
game many times, and you enjoy it. You
watch the same thing many times.
I'm not saying haram. Shamat's all halal.
So put a goal
that I am
this is my goal till the end of
the year.
Right? We have absolutely 4 months and maybe
half.
I'm gonna memorize one
one verse.
1 verse a day,
and you have it translated, and you have
audio, and you name it, and you have
it.
Manhafi ba' Ashur
who memorized 10, and this is the one
in Muslim.
You memorized 10 protected from a dajjal. So
when he comes and those millions
don't read
what's written on his forehead. If you have
memorized those 10,
you will read it and you will be
saved.
That's one. 2nd one, hear also about Dada,
he said manqara'a
who read
the last ten verses of Suratul Kahah.
Also we will be protected from the test
of ad dajjal. So there is 2
opinions of it. The first one is stronger.
So you read
or you memorize.
Question for everybody, I really wanna see hands
because we really need to nowhere are we?
How many of you every Friday, they read
solar panel?
Every Friday.
Less than 50% in this class, and this
class supposed to be the best of the
best.
My question to everybody, why not?
And Friday starts from after Maghrib on Thursday,
so don't tell me I work on day
of Jummah.
Fine. Leave it Thursday night and in fact
there is a hadith of virtue of reading
it that night.
Why not Thursday night after Maghrib
before you go to bed on Thursday?
Right? Instead of scrolling
or talking
or texting
or reading something that is not beneficial.
Make it a habit.
Make it a habit. At least start by
reading.
Every Thursday or every Friday depends on your
schedule.
The more you read, memorization is much easier
because your eyes will memorize where is
it. Again, memorize it in read it in
transliteration. If you don't know the Arabic, that's
fine.
Read in transliteration,
listen
and work on it, and put it as
a goal till the end of the year.
Just 10. At the end, which is the
last page, you will be protected from the
test of al dajjal.
If I tell you now,
right, if once you leave, oh, I just
came in and there was a huge
accident,
right, on Jeffrey, Try to avoid Jeffrey. Will
anybody go to Jeffrey?
Right? You organize it. Take left and go
the other way.
Why did you believe me when I said
this?
And then you didn't believe Rasool Ali sat
to us salam when he told you this.
I didn't take any action.
Why?
Who can answer me?
It's not a priority.
So let's make this a priority. I want
to be protected.
You want to be protected? Take measures.
We all, may Allah forgive us and don't
you ever forget,
we all wore those masks,
remember?
And those
shields
and we stayed home and we took the
vaccine,
and he
lift it,
but we did it.
And I know there is gonna be
a fitna of a dajjal. Why don't I
prepare to protect myself?
The other one, he said,
there is a virtue when you read it
from 1 Friday to the other. Now it
is not about just reading it, but it's
consistently between Friday Friday. Now combine
everything I said. He said manqaaal kahf fiyomil
Jumu'ah
on the day of
Jumuah
You're gonna have a light,
and I'm gonna come to it, but just
not just translating.
Whosoever,
one Friday and Rad Al Kahf on the
other Friday. In between,
there is a light
for him or for her.
What is that light?
And why between Friday and the other Friday
combined with the tests we have?
I read it
and I said, hey. Be careful.
You just learned some dean. Don't be arrogant.
Hey. You are in a place. You just
got a new job, and there is a
lot of tests in the new job about
your dean.
Right? You just got money. You were just,
appointed
with a power. These are the 4 things.
When you read it in in that Jummah,
you're gonna read it with understanding, that's what
we are doing,
Then whatever happens in that Friday,
in that week,
you start your week
and you already have
what you need
to stay strong.
The light, what he says the light, is
not the light, is not a flashlight.
I see reality.
I see
that when I don't pray at work,
I see it and I can, and there
is no way you can tell me you
cannot pray at work. I will not take
this whatsoever.
You know why?
Because I went through it way before
when now everything is way easier
during September 11,
after September 11. When you are the only
one who wears hijab in this 5 it's
a 2000,
huge hospital,
You can do
it. So when you are have read Suratul
Kahf, you're gonna go Saturday
weekend, you went out, you know, you wanna
have fun,
but you will stay
focused on your deen because Alka have told
you that you will be tested in your
deen.
So every Friday to the other Friday, you
have a torch.
It's not a physical
torch. It's a spiritual torch that's gonna make
you see reality as reality.
In
the other hadith is even
and I want you to pay attention to
the beautiful
gatch here. He said manqaraahlaylatil
Jum'ah who read it at the night of
Jum'ah. Now we are night.
There will be the light between where he
or she is, and
meaning Mecca. Why?
Night is dark.
Mecca is very far.
Will put a light in front of you
that you folk, what is Al Bayt Alatiq?
What is what is Makkah? What is the
house of Allah? It's Allah.
Suratul Kahf will make you
attached,
connected,
protected,
and see this life as its reality.
Our issue all of us, may Allah forgive
me before anybody else. We don't see the
world as we should.
We don't see none of us in this
room, myself number 1 and nobody on online
see this dunya
as it's temporary.
We don't. Whether you are 15, whether you
are 70,
we're here forever.
Yes?
Yes or no? Yes. Yes. You know why?
Because I don't plan otherwise.
Right? There's a beautiful saying I learned it
years ago.
The wise person is the person who leave
Duniya
before Duniya leaves him.
And build and flourished
and furnish his or her grave
before they enter.
And please his or her lord before they
meet him.
Is that true?
Are we gonna leave the dunya
or the dunya will leave us?
Doesn't matter how you look at it but
we're leaving, true? Yes?
Perfect. Are we going to a grave?
Yes or no?
And are we meeting Allah?
Lovely. What have we prepared?
Did you leave Dunia? What is leaving Dunia?
Doesn't mean I'm not gonna do anything.
Leave Dunia. Don't get attached to it, and
don't make it your focus.