Hisham Jafar Ali – Names Of Allah And His Attributes #16 The Real AlHaqq
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Today, we are gonna take 2 names of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that have only appeared
together
once in the Quran.
But the overwhelming focus of today's session will
be on one name of Allah which has
come in the Quran roughly 10 times.
It is the name of Allah, Al Haqq,
which I will spend about 3 minutes trying
to translate for the title of this for
the title of the YouTube stream.
Very difficult to translate.
But we will start and we will begin
to understand
what is the meaning of this word alhaqq
in the Arabic language.
I always remember
that one of the tafsir scholars who,
I was fond of listening to growing up,
al Imam al Sha'arawi, may Allah have mercy
on him, from Egypt. He used to always
refer to Allah by saying Al Haqq. I
always wondered what really does it mean?
And SubhanAllah,
by the grace of Allah, I got time
to spend with this name this week. Alhamdulillah.
Maybe we can start with all of you.
What is what do you think is the
meaning of haqq
in English? Yes.
Truthful. Alright? Or the truth. Yes.
Yeah. Truth. Anything else? Any other day to
day language, why do we use the word
haqq?
Just. Just. A fact. A right. A right.
For example,
right? Women's rights, men's rights, husband's rights, you
know, etcetera, children's rights. We use the word
or
in plural, which is plural of
Anything else? What is the opposite of haqq?
Al ba'til. Anybody knows what does ba'til mean
in Arabic? Yes?
Okay. Wrong. Yes. Injustice.
Injustice. Okay. Masha'Allah, you all
I'm seeing what's inside the system. Yes. False.
False. Yes.
Masha'Allah, you're all very, very close.
In Arabic, the word haqq
has multiple meanings.
The first meaning
is the truth.
Right? So someone speaks something that is the
truth,
you would call it
This is haqq. This is truth.
In Arabic, you would say
it conforms to reality. It
what I'm saying,
if you check it against what's really out
there,
they both conform. They both are equal. They
are both the same. So I've spoken the
Haqq.
Similarly,
Haqq is also used in Arabic
for
doing something in the right time in the
right way.
Usually there's another word in Arabic that has
that meaning.
Al Hikma, wisdom.
Similarly, Al Haqq, if you give something it's
Haqq,
if I say, for example,
I prepared for this lecture and I gave
it its due haqq. That means
I did I gave it its right, what
it deserves.
Right? So haqq also has the meaning of
doing something
in a way that it, you know, in
in, in the way it deserves
or giving it the the time and the
effort, etcetera, that it deserves.
Doing the right thing in the right Now
the other word the other meaning for haqq,
the third connotation of haqq
is rights.
Right? Now when I say let's say for
example, I say it's my right as a
husband
for my wife to do x y z.
That means one, I deserve it, but that
means it's obligatory on my wife to, she's
obliged to fulfill this for me.
Similarly,
the word haqq in Arabic is used when
there is some obligation involved.
You know, you have to do this
because it's haqq. Not that it's true, which
is the opposite of falsehood,
but it's it must be done. Something that
must be done, and it must be done
properly.
Not just something that needs to be done,
but something that must be done properly. This
is what Haqq is. So three meanings of
Haqq, truth as opposed to falsehood,
Haqq as a right, as a duty, something
you deserve.
Right? Like, rights,
human rights, women's rights, children's rights, etcetera. And
the third one is Haqq, when you do
something properly in the right way in the
right time, which is very similar to wisdom.
But you give something its haqq, its due.
Now
in the Quran,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala uses the name Al
Haqq for himself.
And there's one particular surah when I was
studying this name of Allah. I found it
very interesting.
Allah mentions his name Al Haqq in the
start of the surah and he mentions his
name Al Haqq in the end of the
surah. And I want you all to spend
a few minutes to journey with me with
this surah because it will give us the
meaning of this name of Allah. Anybody know
which surah it is? There's no
Surah Al Haqq.
Not Al Haqq, but Al Haqq does use
the word Al Haqq.
For example, Al Haqqah, the word Al Haqqah.
Right? You say isimfa'il.
Right? What does Al Haqqah have to do
with the word haqq?
Someone other than the genius children, please.
Yes. The day of judgement.
Okay. What why is the day of judgment
described with this word? There's so many words.
The truth came out on
the
day of judgment. There's one more meaning for
the day of judgment why it's called alhaqqah.
Yes.
Yes. Anybody else?
Yes. Correction.
Okay. There's a correction. Everybody will be given
their dues and their rights on that day.
What else?
The inevitable.
Yeah. It's definitely coming. It's a certain truth.
Yeah. These are the reasons why the day
of judgment was called Al Haqqah. This is
a good segue.
There's one surah of the Quran in which
Allah's name Al Haqq was mentioned in the
beginning of the surah and the end of
the surah. We have a sandwich.
And I want you to we have to
reflect why.
This surah really gives us the meaning of
Allah's name Al Haqq.
Surah Al Hajj.
In the beginning of Suratul Hajj, Allah says
That is because he's Allah,
the ultimate truth, the ultimate reality.
He is the ultimate truth and he revives
the dead and he is able to do
all things. This is the start of Surat
Al Hajj.
Towards the end of Surat Al Hajj, Allah
says,
the likabi an Allahahu
alhaqqah.
Same same beginning of the ayah. That is
because it is Allah.
The great matter is Allah. He is the
ultimate truth.
And everything that's called upon other than him
is false.
And Allah is the highest and the greatest.
Now
why does Surat Al Hajj begin with this
name? The same phrase
That is because it is he.
Allah,
he is the ultimate truth. And it ends
with the same phrase
What is in the middle is going to
explain to us.
Who can tell me what is Suratul Hajj
about? What's the core theme of Suratul Hajj?
The hint is it's not Hajj.
Sorry to disappoint. Suratul Hajj, the the most
of the Surah, it doesn't talk about Hajj.
Who can tell me the first eye of
Suratul Hajj? Yeah.
The first Yes, uncle. You got it right,
Masha'Allah.
Al Baath.
The resurrection.
The day of judgement. Who can tell me
the first eye of Suratul Hajj?
Beautiful.
People be conscious of your Lord because the
earthquake of the hour is something magnificent, is
something awe striking.
So Surat Al Hajj,
a lot of it talks about the day
of judgment.
What does the day of judgment have to
do with Allah's name, Al Haqq?
What's the relationship between these two things?
Yes.
All the older people.
If no none of the older ones can
answer, then we'll go to the geniuses in
the front, child.
The genie. Yes. It's because the disbelievers
harsh. Okay. It's a challenge. Okay. He's saying
because it's a challenge to the disbelievers that
they may disbelieve in Allah, in this world,
but on the day of judgement they'll be
shown the truth. They will they will have
to see everything as it is. Yes.
Mhmm. The day of judgment is true.
Okay.
Yes.
Okay. Allah's truthful? So he's telling the truth?
Yes?
So it's basically telling
Mhmm.
That that is God.
Mhmm.
Is is,
on
Mhmm. That Allah is the true,
God. Mhmm. And that,
that this will
Okay. On the day of judgement, this is
really what I was looking for, On the
day
of judgement, the truth will come out. Yes?
Yeah. Remind them
about
it. Okay. It's a reminder that yomul kiyama
is close. Correct.
So what does yomul kiyama have to do
with Allah's name, Al Haqq? Al Haqq,
when we describe Allah with this name Al
Haqq, He is the ultimate truth. He is
the ultimate reality.
In this world, there are so many things
we think are true. There are people who
think Jesus is the Son of God. There
are people who think idol should be worshiped.
There There are people who think that wealth
is going to help them. There are people
who think their children will take them to
paradise.
When will they find out the truth about
all of these things? Only on the day
of judgement. Only on the day of judgement.
The day of judgement,
it strips back
all of the fake stuff
and it comes down to the core reality.
We are
we wake up on the day of judgment
to the reality of what actually was going
on this whole time.
People live in this world. Today, we have
virtual reality.
You put you put some goggles on, and
you can play a game. You can go
shopping. You can have a whole simulation of
another life online
when you wear your virtual reality glasses.
People have augmented reality.
They wear glasses or on their phone, and
they're walking around
looking for something that's in their game or
in the application on their phone.
Today, people try to escape from the reality
of this life.
They try to escape. They try to create
another reality,
another truth.
All of us, to some extent, we live
like this.
But on the day of judgment, that is
the day that Allah will show us the
core, the truth that was hidden to us
all along.
When Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala talks to us
about the day of judgment
and he talks about our how we will
react to the day of judgment,
Allah will say Allah says in the Quran,
You used to be unaware,
heedless, running away from the idea of this
day.
Now we have removed the covering, and now
you can see clearly.
On the day of judgment, we will see
clearly.
In this world,
we didn't see clearly.
We didn't see things as they were for
their true reality. I'll give you an example.
1 of us is married. You have a
spouse, a husband or a wife.
And in this world you see them as
this is my the person who loves me
the most, the person who will do anything
I ask them, the person who I will
give my life to, and all this stuff.
You think you can rely on them, they
think they can rely on you. On the
day of judgment what will your spouse be
doing?
Run away. Running away from you.
And your brother will be running away from
you.
And your parents will be running away from
you. And his wife, spouse, his husband, his
child.
On that day,
everyone will be busy with their own thing.
That is the truth.
All these relationships we have in this world,
ultimately in the day of judgment,
they won't matter.
It was an imaginary thing. It was a
temporary thing. It was not the real thing.
It was not the genuine thing.
It was just a taste. But on the
day of judgment, which relationship will we be
accountable most for?
Yes?
The relationship the relationship to Allah. The relationship
with Allah.
So the day of judgment, it shows what
is genuine, what is real, what is true.
It all comes out on that day. I'll
give you an example.
In this life, you see somebody who's wealthy,
they have political power, they have status, they
have lots of children, etcetera,
And you think, wow, this person has a
very high status in this world.
But on the day of judgment, if that
person was a disbeliever, where will they be
found? In Jahannam. In Jahannam.
In this world, their place
was a palace and a special throne that
they had, but in the afterlife, that is
the true reality of who they were. They
are somebody burning in the fire of *.
In this world, the way we judge people,
we judge them based on these things, money,
family, status,
tribe, lineage,
skin complexion, etcetera, postcode, price of the house,
how much they earn, job title. This is
how we judge people.
On the day of judgment, how people's reality,
the true nature of this person will be
shown because they won't be judged by these
things. What will they be judged by?
Their
taqwa.
Their
taqwa.
Imagine if people in this world walked around
and there was a taqwa score on their
head, above their head.
Let's say somebody very righteous in this audience,
they are like 85 out of a 100.
And let's say somebody else is 50.
And let's say everybody in this world got
a position according to the level of taqwa.
So the muttaqeen who had the highest position,
the best houses, the nicest cars, the most
influence,
and the people who have no taqwa are
the lowest people, don't even look at them.
Imagine if that was the way But it's
not like that.
Because this world
is is a mirage. Know what is a
mirage? Allah describes a mirage in Surat An
Nur.
Someone knows what's a mirage?
Yes? It's an illusion. It's an illusion.
Yeah. It's something you think it's there, but
it's not there. Like if I'm hungry right
now, I might be seeing burgers in all
of your faces right now. I'm so hungry
that everywhere I look I just see chicken
wings. That's my imagination.
That's a mirage. But when I get there,
I'm not gonna find any chicken wings. I'm
just gonna find my brother's face. Allah describes
this in the Quran.
Allah describes it in the Quran. You like
that joke. Yeah? InshaAllah, a few more coming.
Allah describes it in the Quran.
He says,
The disbelievers,
their deeds
are like a mirage.
In the desert, in the heat of the
desert,
you're so thirsty, you think there's some water
over there.
But when he gets there, there's no water.
It was all his imagination.
He doesn't find his deeds. There's nothing there.
He finds Allah there and Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala gives him his due.
Many things in this world we experience
is not genuine. It's not the real thing.
It's fake. It's counterfeit.
All of us at some point in time
in our lives, we have bought something from
the market that's not genuine.
There's some countries, some bazaars, some souks, some
markets, some shopping centers. You go there to
get fake branded items.
Okay. Let's say you did that. You went
let's say you wanted a particular brand of
shoe,
and I've done this before myself. You go
somewhere,
it looks like it, it's got the logo
on it, it's got the colors, you buy
it. How long does it last?
Yeah? 2 months? 3 months? Then you realize
why? I know it was cheaper, but why
did I do it?
Those fake items, they look like the real
thing. They smell like the real thing. People
think you got the real thing, you got
Louis Vuitton shoes or some Gucci bag, but
in reality it's some second rate item from
the from the bazaar.
What's the problem with the fake thing though?
It wears out. It wears out quickly? It
wears out quickly. Yeah. It's not the real
thing. It's not comfortable. It's not comfortable. Yeah.
Right? And it's just fake. It's fake. Yes.
When we say Allah is al Haqq,
we mean that Allah is
the real one.
Everything else other than Allah
has a little bit of fakeness in it.
I'll give you an example.
The love you have for your spouse or
for your parent, do you think that's genuine
love,
unconditional love, until the day you disobey them
or you upset them?
Then,
I never loved you.
Get out of the house.
Yeah. What happened to the love? It's gone.
It's like the fake shoe that you bought.
It showed its true colors.
Sometimes, for example,
in this life, we have an expectation.
You go to buy a car, you go
to buy a shoe,
And you are sold this idea when you
buy this expensive car, you're going to be
driving,
you're going to have electric heating in your
seats, you're gonna be so your life will
be so happy once you buy the car.
When people sell you a car, they don't
just sell you the car, they sell you
everything around the car.
The status, the prestige, how you feel,
your mental health, your emotional well-being, your press
they sell you all of that stuff as
well. Once you buy the car, 2 weeks
in, it's just a car. Takes you from
a to b.
Right?
Expectations
versus reality.
When we say Allah is Al Haqq,
we mean
anything in this world, it will disappoint you.
Your wife will disappoint you. Your husband will
disappoint you. Your car will disappoint you. Your
holiday will disappoint you, your house will just
everything in this world will disappoint you. It
sells you an idea when you get it,
it's not what you thought it was, except
Allah.
Allah never disappoints you because he is the
real.
There's no fakeness.
There is no
counter fight. There's nothing unreal. Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala is the real deal. When we say
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala loves his slave.
Did he ever for a day in your
life stop your heart beating?
He didn't.
Your heart is still beating. We sin, we
disobey, we insult, we ignore his salawat. Everything
we turn away from him, he still gives
you the heart to beat. This is the
real love.
This is genuine love because it has no
conditions.
It's unconditional
love from Allah.
This is the real love.
Peace.
When you look at an advertisement,
oh, go to this holiday destination for 2
weeks, £499
a person. When you look at it, you're
not buying the holiday, you're buying peace of
mind.
You go there, you reach there, suddenly you
get your email. You have a parking fine.
Then you get another call. Your energy bills
are high. You haven't paid them this month.
Then your sister you find out your sister's
broken her tire on the motorway, are you
having peace of mind in your island? No.
There's no peace of mind. Wherever you run
away, the stress follows you.
But
when Allah
promises you
peace,
He tells you in the afterlife there's going
to be salaam, lahumdaaru
salaam, yayin
darabbihim,
that is the abode of peace. No stress
will follow you there.
That is the truth. That is the real
peace. That is the genuine Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala tells you that you can look for
peace in many things in this life, but
you will only find it where? In this
world. Where will you find peace?
Yes. If you remember Allah. In the remembrance
of Allah.
This is the real, genuine, 100% no fake.
This is the real peace of mind.
Anything else you look for,
career,
family,
everything else will have little bit of disappointment
in it, little bit of fakeness in it.
The reality will never match your expectations except
one thing, the remembrance of Allah.
That is the real therapy, my friends. That
is the real coolness of the eyes. This
is the meaning of alhaqq.
Everything that we experience in this world,
there's a little bit of a lie in
it, a little bit of a
false expectation,
a little bit of fakeness.
But what is with Allah is real.
The love of Allah is the only real
love, unconditional.
The mercy of Allah is the only unconditional
mercy in this earth.
The promise of Allah is the only promise
that is going to come true.
All other promises,
someone tells you today come to my house
tomorrow, you turn up, he's not at home.
Every other promise in this world,
you will be disappointed.
And we set ourselves up for disappointment because
we invest so much
emotional investment in people, in companies, in policies,
in processes, in governments, in food, in items,
in cars. We invest
emotionally. We expect so much of these things.
So when they don't deliver, we're disappointed.
Today,
1 in 3 marriages end in divorce.
1 in 3 marriages end in divorce. That
means if we have 60 people here, 20
of us,
our marriages may end in divorce. May Allah
protect all of
us. What is it?
We live in a world today,
everything is about marketing advertisement.
You are sold an idea, a dream, an
image,
an illusion. And when you come to have
it, it's not what you thought.
Marriage is not paradise on earth.
It's like anything else. It has its good
days and it has its tough days.
Being a child of a parent
is not paradise on earth. It has its
good days, it has its tough days. Being
a parent of children is not paradise on
earth. It has its good days. It has
driving a car is not paradise on earth.
Sometimes you get stuck on the hard shoulder.
Sometimes your tire gets punctured. Sometimes you have
a maintenance problem.
Everything in this world
will disappoint you if you put your heart
inside it.
The only one who will never disappoint you
is Al Haqq,
because he is Al Haqq. He is the
ultimately real and genuine truth.
His promise is true.
And paradise is true.
And the hellfire is true, it's real.
Is true, genuine, real.
And everything other than that is always going
to disappoint us.
Yes, Habibi?
Yep.
So didn't Allah make you run away?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will not force you
to run away.
You will have find yourself no choice but
to run
because you will be so occupied with your
own sins
and your own problems, you won't even remember
who is Baba.
You will not even remember who is Baba.
Sometimes do you play any games on the
computer?
Or
On consoles? What game do you play? Tell
me.
It's okay.
Computer.
Computer? Sorry? Phone games. Phone games. That's not
true. Yeah. Let's say you play a game
on the phone. Some when you play a
game on your phone,
sometimes you get so absorbed in it you
forget about Baba. Right?
No? Never? Masha'Allah. Very righteous child.
We all have moments when we are so
involved in something we forget about everybody else.
On the day of judgement, we will be
too busy.
Too busy with the fear of where are
we going to end up.
That we won't even have time to think
or worry or have concern for anybody else.
We will say myself, myself.
You will run away because of the situation.
Yes.
Nam. You said basically,
some scholars saying basically from the hadith of
that we're gonna run away because
the amount of
As they say, it's every man for himself.
Yeah. Everybody's fighting for their own deeds. You
can't give it out. They run away. It's
not a teamwork that day. That day is
every man for himself. Everybody's just trying to
survive. Nobody's being charitable with their deeds. Everybody's
trying to save themselves on that day. Yes,
Habib.
You said that that, the
Quran the real truth or The Quran is
also described in the Quran. The Quran also
describes itself as Al Haqq. So Right? So
the truth is the Quran? The Quran is
the truth as well. Yes. And Allah is
the source of truth. Sorry? Are there more
revelations for you? Not after the Quran. The
Quran is the final seal. Yes.
The Quran and the sunnah.
Quran and the sunnah and the previous revelation.
There is truth in the previous revelations.
Whatever is left today that is accurate, because
many of it has been edited. Let me
take you now from Surah Al Hajj.
In Surah Al Hajj, we said Surah Al
Hajj, it shows
it shows the name of Allah Al Haqq.
It explains to you Al Haqq. We said
number 1, the day of judgment. That is
the day
anything fake will disappear.
Anything unreal will disappear, and the only thing
will remain
is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And the things
that were really truly valuable for you and
me, our deeds.
There's another topic of discussion in Surat Al
Hajj, other than your Murkiyama.
It is?
Shaa'i.
Shaa'i of Allah, the symbols of Allah. Like,
centrally, the name of the surah?
Al Hajj.
Hajj
Hajj is a rehearsal. It's a practice for
the day of judgment.
When you go on Hajj, you are forced
to see what is really and true,
what is real and true.
Can you wear anything branded when you're doing
ihram?
I have seen some branded ihram. Please don't
get those.
Can you wear your Gucci and your Louis
Vuitton and this and that when you're wearing
ihram? No.
Because your true reality
is you will go into this earth with
2 white clothes.
When you go there, when you go for
Amra or Hajj, when you go to Hajj,
does it can you tell the difference between
a king and a farmer?
Because on the day of judgment, the true
reality is it won't matter.
It's all the same.
When you go on Hajj
and you go around the Kaaba,
when you go around the Kaaba,
this tawaf that we do, this is really
the description, it's a summary of our life
in this world.
We are always trying to go our life
revolves around Allah
Sometimes we go far and sometimes we get
close,
but Allah
is the center of our lives. This is
the when you go on Hajj, the reason
it's a overwhelming experience, the reason you are
in tears, you are crying, you are shocked
because you have no phone, you have no
status, you have no money, your tribal lineage
does not matter, where you're from does not
matter. Nothing matters except one thing,
your taqwa.
It's a practice for the day in which
al Haqq will show us taqwa.
Allah mentions in Surah Al Hajj, one ayah,
one of the most beautiful ais in the
Quran.
On the day of judgment,
when you slaughter an animal on Eid
or for the sake of Allah? The
meat and the bones and the blood, does
it reach Allah? Is it physically levitating?
No, it's not.
What goes to Allah?
The taqwa of your heart. Allah is telling
you,
this whole thing you think is an act
of worship.
But all of these things, the meat, the
blood, the bone, the brand, the type of
animal, 2 ears, 3 ears, it's from Somali
goat or Indian goat, none of it matters.
What matters is just one thing. That is
the haqq, is the taqwa,
the God fearing, the God conscious in your
heart. This is the this is the truth,
this is the reality, everything else around it
is fake. It doesn't matter. It's not consequential.
It's invalid. It doesn't mean anything. What matters
is just one thing.
Allah
says in the Quran
Allah says on the day of judgment, we
will return
to
our true and real maulah. What does maulah
mean? Anybody tell me?
Maulah. What does maulah mean? Maulah
Yes. What does maulah mean? The owner, the
master. Okay. The owner, the master.
Yeah.
Maula,
similar root letters to Wali.
We talked about Allahu Wa Allahu Wa ladeenaamanu.
Not just a master, someone who looks after
your interests.
In this world, when Allah says you will
return to the real in this world,
there are so many people we think they
are looking after our interests.
My boss at work,
he or she gives me my paycheck at
the end of the month. This is one
type of
My spouse, my wife or husband, they are
looking after my
affairs at home, they're earning the bills, they
are one type of mawlah. My parents, my
uncles, my aunts, my my this, my respected
neighbor, my.
In this world, there are many Mawali,
many people we trust our affairs to.
But who is looking really after our affairs?
It's Allah
through them.
On the day of judgment, all of this
will be stripped away, and we will see
Allah is the true
and everything else will disappear.
Everything else will not matter.
Sorry?
The truly responsible. Yes. The one who truly
looks after and is responsible for your affairs.
Now who can tell me where Al Haqq
comes in Suratul Kahf?
Similarly, about the day of judgement.
Who can tell me where does the word
alhaqq come in Suratul Kahf? I'm saying this
because I think most of you will be
reading Suratul Kahf on a Friday, inshallah.
You have 5 seconds, inshallah.
Sorry.
On that day,
the true walaya, the true protection for you,
your agent, the one the security that you
hire, the insurance that you buy, the real
insurance protection on that day will be from
Allah. And everything else is gonna disappear.
Your car insurance, your health insurance, your security
alarm system at home, it's all gonna be
gone. The true protection is from Allah.
One of the meanings of al Haqq, we
said, is the one who puts everything in
the right place.
He gives everything its due right.
He gives everything what it deserves.
When we reflect on this, the opposite of
al Haqq, we said,
the falsehood,
the invalid.
It's not true. It's fake. It's not genuine.
But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the truth.
If you imagine, in this world, many of
us and especially today, these days, everybody is
always demanding their rights.
Women's rights.
Then the other side comes, men's rights. Masha'Allah.
Relax. Then the children come, children's right? Yeah.
You are still 5 years old. Relax. Then
the parents come, parents' rights. Everybody wants their
haqq today.
Everybody wants their haqq.
And the thing the problem is the reason
that everybody is so agitated
is that they want all of their haqq
from a person and a person is always
going to disappoint you. A person is never
going to fulfill your Haqq.
Except Allah Al Haqq. One of the meanings
of the name Al Haqq is that whatever
Allah promises you, whatever Allah promises to give
you, He always does it.
He always fulfills His promise.
Allah's promise is always true.
This comes to show when Allah tests us.
Let's say for example today you lost your
job and you can't pay rent tomorrow.
It's very tempting it's very tempting to go
and take a usury and interest based loan
from the bank. It's very tempting to try
and steal some money from your neighbor to
go and hold up a corner shop, corner
store, take a water gun, hold up the
corner store, and steal some money from the
cash machine. It's very tempting when you don't
have money. When you are in a struggling
situation,
it's very tempting to go and seek these
things elsewhere.
But what is the haqq about rizq?
Where does it come from?
Yes. It comes from Allah.
When you lose your job, if you are
turning to Allah and taking the means that
Allah has allowed you to take, you are
trusting Allah promised me.
He promised me
Allah is the provider. He promised me, he's
going to provide me.
But we trust other things more than the
promise of Allah.
That's why,
you know, we recently there was an earthquake,
right, in Turkiye in Syria.
When there was one time in the history
of the believers when Allah sent them an
earthquake, not a physical earthquake, he shook the
iman
Everybody, in our life, we are going to
see an earthquake. Something's gonna shake our iman
in our lives.
You might lose your father or your mother.
You might lose your job. You might lose
your family member. Your child might die in
a car accident. May Allah protect everybody. You
are going to experience something like this in
this life, and thus, this is where the
test is going to come. How do the
believers react when they see the test coming?
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mentions Suratul Azab. When
the believers saw that they were surrounded from
all directions,
and there was no way to run, they
didn't lose hope in Allah.
They said,
Allah and his messenger promised us we would
be surrounded
at
some
point.
And they were true. They were honest.
When they see when they see something scary,
something they didn't expect, something that shakes their
Iman, they say no look Allah promised us
this was going to happen and it increases
their iman because they know this is the
promise of Allah and Allah's promise is haqq.
It is true.
Yes.
Correct as
well. Beautiful.
He added a good point. One of the
haqq one of the truths and the realities
Allah tells us in the Quran
is that death is a reality.
In this life, like I said to you
all, so many
love, happiness, food, etcetera, status.
We think we're going to get it, but
it's all fake And the only true and
real experience of love and happiness, etcetera, etcetera,
is the life that is lived with al
Haqq.
Everything else just imagine it's going to disappear.
Everything is about to disappear.
All of you have a time on your
foreheads. You have a timer. You are all
slowly disappearing.
But Allah's face will remain.
We spend so much money and time and
effort in this world chasing things,
they are a mirage, they are an illusion,
they are not real.
We chase promotions at work.
We connect we hang our respect and our
dignity on our job title.
We chase men and women. We chase love.
We want attention, validation from them, but they're
never going to give us validation.
One day they will get upset and say
something to us. One day they will get
angry with us. We chase the appreciation of
people.
I invite all of you to my house
for dinner. Please don't turn up. Yeah. Nothing
has been cooked today. I invite all of
you to my house for dinner. In my
heart, I want you to say, mashallah,
nice house and you
I I want your appreciation. I'm chasing your
opinion of me.
But your opinion of me, it's it's bukhoor,
it's smoke.
It's gonna disappear.
Whose opinion of me is most important? Opinion
of Allah.
We live in a world, everybody is chasing
something imaginary.
You and me should be the one who
chase the real,
al Haqq.
I'm going to end today's session
with the dua of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
Dua of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
that's mentioned in Sahih al Bukhari
and Muslim and other sources. Yes, Habib. Go
ahead.
Yeah. I was supposed to mention this. Just
mentioned very good point.
Suratul Aharaf.
Allah mentions on the day of judgment when
we said Haqq, Allah is linked to the
day of judgment because that day the reality
of everything will come out.
On the day of judgment, the people of
paradise will call out to the people of
the hellfire.
They will call out to
them. Hey, guys.
What Allah promised us, we found it to
be true.
Did you find Allah's promise to be true?
The people who will get this promise of
Allah
are the people who chased Al Haqq in
this life. They chased something real.
They didn't chase something imaginary,
something disappearing.
Have you all seen you know, they call
it
the the rabbit and the carrot.
Yes?
If you want a rabbit to run, you
just hold a carrot in front of it.
It will keep running. You and me are
like this. We are on the hamster wheel
running. It's a carrot.
Whether that carrot is a promotion or love
or romance or something, we are running after.
Finally, we will die and fall off the
hamster wheel.
And the carrot will disappear.
Chase something real.
Don't chase likes, don't chase followers, all of
this will disappear
and the only thing remain is al haqqqo
subhanahu wa ta'ala. Yes, Habib.
Allah.
Allah. Subhan'Allah. We know as a brother mentions
in the Quran, Allah subhan'Allah, that he have
judgment,
that Allah subhan'Allah
will roll up
the heavens in his right,
and he will ask the question. Nobody will
be around. Everything will be finished, perished. And
Allah will ask.
Who really owns everything today?
Who really, really owns everything today?
Today,
nobody is a owner. Nobody is a homeowner.
Nobody owns anything.
The ownership is all to Allah. The one
and the dominant.
We have to always remind ourselves that Allah
is Al Haqq
and everything
below him, other than him, is baqil.
It's disappearing.
It's imaginary
and he's real. One of the ways to
do this,
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam used to
say in tahajjud in the night prayer,
this dua.
Say it in Ramadan, say it in the
night, say it in the day, it doesn't
matter but memorize this dua. Go home and
search it.
Hayitha ibn Abbas, radiAllahu anhu.
That when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam would
stand up to pray at night, he would
say,
Allahumma lakalhamduantanurussamaawati
walardhiwamanfehin,
O Allah,
I praise you. You are the light of
the heavens and the earth and whoever is
inside it.
And, O Allah, I praise you. You are
the maintainer of the heavens and the earth
and whoever is inside it.
I
praise you. You are the only real.
And your promise is true.
And your statements are true.
And the meeting with you is true.
And paradise is true.
And the hellfire is true.
And the day of judgment is true.
And the prophets are true.
And Muhammad was true.
I submit myself to you.
And I trust, rely just on you.
And I believe only in you.
And I turn back only to you.
And only all my disagreements, I come to
you.
And I leave all my affairs for you
to judge.
Condemned.
Forgive me what I have done in the
past.
And what I'm going to do in the
future.
What I have hidden.
And what I have done publicly.
You are the one who puts things forwards
and you are the one who makes them
go behind.
There's none worthy of worship, of devotion, of
my love that I turn to except you.
This dua the prophet would say at night,
in Tahajjud.
O Allah antal haqq, you are the truth.
Wqalukal haqq, wadukal haqq, wajannatuhak,
wasaad. And when you say these words, inshallah,
all of you have to say it this
week before next lesson. In the night,
when you say these words, imagine it is
real in front of you.
When Abu Bakr as Siddiq used to to
pray salah,
he used to say he used to cry
a lot in salah. This is the reason
that prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, when he
wanted Abu Bakr to lead the Muslims when
he was ill in his last days, his
daughter Aisha said, my father cries too much.
He won't be able to get through the
first rakah.
She don't he can't be the imam. He's
just gonna all be in tears.
When Abu Bakr was asked, why do you
cry so much in salah?
He said, I try to extinguish the fire
of jahannam with my tears.
He prayed as though it was there in
front of him. It was real. It was
true. It was genuine.
Today we have virtual reality. We have augmented
reality.
You can put your goggles on, glasses on,
and you can go another world. You can
have your own family, your own wealth, your
own mansion in this world.
You can chase so many things in this
world.
But all I'm saying to you, remember the
statement of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala when he
says,
That is the case that only Allah is
the true ultimate reality.
And everything below him is lesser than him
is all false.
And
Allah is the highest and the greatest.