Mikaeel Smith – Forged- Reflection on Surah Hadid #03
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The importance of finding one's way and not losing others' light is emphasized in various narratives and references to the Prophet's teachings. The success of the Day of Judgment is emphasized, along with the use of the word "bringing on" in the context of the Day of Judgment. The success of the Day of Judgment is also emphasized, along with the use of the word "bringing on" in the context of the Day of Judgment.
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Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen,
wa salatu wa salam ala sayyidina wa nabiyyina
wa maulana Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi
wa salam, Allahumma inna nas'aluka hubbak wa
hubba man yuhibbuk wa hubba amalin yuqarribuna ila
hubbik ya arham al rahimin.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
give us his love, we ask Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala for the love of those
actions that will gain his love, and we
ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for the
love of those people that he loves.
Before we get started, if the brothers in
the back a bit can just move forward,
our space is different now, so we have
to use all of it inshallah, so get
as close as you can, that way there's
tons of space for people to get room
in, inshallah, likewise for the sisters, inshallah ta
'ala.
Oh, but just right here for the camera,
jazakallah khair, hayakallah, barakallah feekum, alhamdulillah, sayyib,
sayyib, nabda, inshallah.
Bismillah, we're continuing our journey through suratul hadid.
Suratul hadid is a beautiful surah in which
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is reminding us
that we have to keep grinding for the
sake of the deen, like we can't stop
grinding because once we stop grinding, that's when
our zawal happens, that's when we start to
decline in our actions and our devotion and
everything, and so it's a surah that was
revealed in Medina, and Medina typically was a
time in which all the rulings came, and
Aisha radiallahu ta'ala anha, she says that
all the surahs that talked about the akhira,
all the surahs that talked about the hereafter,
heaven, *, the day of judgment, what it
would be like, those surahs that motivate us
and get us focused, all of, many of
those were revealed in Mecca, and the reason
why those were revealed in Mecca is because
that's the foundation for all action.
Everything that we have to do, everything from
prayer and abstaining from haram and doing what
Allah wants, all of those things are based
on a foundation of the belief of the
akhira, the belief in the hereafter, and that's
why Umar, Umar is amazing.
I was talking to a friend of mine
today, and he was saying how Umar is
so relatable for so many of us, because
Umar saw jahiliyya, the days of ignorance.
Umar knows what it was like to be
out, you know, be out there, put it
like that, and he made that transformation, and
Umar radiallahu anha, he says about himself, he
says, walaw la qiyama lakana ghayra ma'taron.
If it wasn't for the day of judgment,
I would look different.
If it wasn't for the day of judgment,
I would look different.
What that means is, everything you see of
my character now is all based on one
foundation.
It's based on the foundation of this day
of judgment, this day of resurrection, this day
that I'm going to stand before Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala, and the stronger the iman
is on that, the more taghiyya, the more
change you see towards that righteousness.
And so surah al-hadith is a surah
that was revealed in Medina, but it was
revealed at a time when we started to
chill.
We started to chill a bit, we started
to take things easier because the victories were
coming, and all of these things were happening,
and so the believers started to chill a
bit, and this surah comes right at the
right time, saying, no, the key to success
is that we keep grinding.
And so let's look at it inshallah ta
'ala.
I'm just going to back up so that
we can get the flow of the surah.
A'udhu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem, Bismillahir Rahmanir
Raheem.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, He says, sabbaha
lillah, everything, everything in the heavens and the
earth glorifies Allah.
The question you should ask yourself is, am
I synchronized with everything else in the heavens?
Everything else glorifies Allah.
Wahoo al-Aziz wa l-Hakeem.
He is almighty, but He's not just almighty,
He's all-wise.
Whenever we see Muslims going through anything, whenever
you're going through anything, you have to remember,
He's all-mighty.
But He's also Hakeem, and Hakeem means all
-wise, which means there's a time and place
for everything.
Lahoo mulkus samawati wal-abd.
To Him is the dominion, the dominion of
the heavens and earth.
The one verse, subhanallah, He gives power to
whoever He wills.
And we saw the victory, power taken away
this week.
We saw a victory given to the Shi
'ab, the people of Syria, after how many,
how many decades.
He gives it, He gives it, and we
should see this as just one of many
victories to come.
Say ameen.
One of many victories, one of many victories,
and that's not hard for God.
Lahoo mulkus samawati wal-abd.
Yuhyi wa yumeet.
He gives life, He gives death.
Wahoo ala kulli shay'in qadeer.
Whenever we think of the one who gives
life and death, you should always think of
the life of the heart and the death
of the heart too.
How many people are living bodies but dead
hearts?
And the Quran comes to give life to
the heart.
Because inna fil jasadi lamubgha.
In the body there is a lump of
flesh.
If it's good, everything is good.
The Prophet said it's the heart.
And so this revelation came down to give
life to hearts.
And it's not that physical life, it's that
spiritual life.
When you're aware of the akhira, you know
your purpose.
Yuhyi wa yumeet.
Wahoo ala kulli shay'in qadeer.
Huwa al-awwal, He is the first, Allah.
Wahoo al-akhir, He is the last.
Huwa zahir, He is the most apparent everywhere
you look.
Wahoo al-batin, and He is hidden in
everything.
That's Allah.
Everywhere you look, Allah.
Wahoo wa bi kulli shay'in alim.
It is He, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
that is aware, knowledgeable of everything.
Waladhi khalaqa al-samawati wal-adha fee sitati
ayyam.
He is the one that created the heavens
and the earth in six days and established
Himself on His throne.
He knows everything that enters the earth and
everything that comes out of the earth and
that which is coming down from the heavens
and that which ascends up.
Wahoo wa ma'akum, and He is with
you wherever you go.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is with you.
That is the, that's the, I said when
we did that, that's the level we want
to reach, where you realize Allah is with
me.
That's the level of the prophet in the
cave with Abu Bakr.
That's the level of Musa at the Red
Sea when he split it and they said
inna la mudrakoon, we're caught.
He goes, na, na, chill.
Inna ma'ia rabbi.
You know what's interesting?
I didn't say this before but I just
want to break this down real quick.
When Moses, when Moses was at the water
and Pharaoh was about to catch them, everybody
with him wasn't with him.
So he said, inna rabbi ma'ia.
He said, my Lord is with me, chill
out y'all.
But when the prophet was in the cave
and he was with Abu Bakr, because Abu
Bakr had that level but he just needed
to be reminded.
So he said, inna allaha ma'ana.
Moses said, me.
The prophet said, us.
Because Abu Bakr was at that level but
he just needed that reminder.
We all need that reminder.
We all need that reminder.
Wahuwa bima, wallahu bima ta'maluna basir.
Lahu mulkus samawati wal-al.
Again Allah reminds us he has the kingdom
in his hand.
So we never get deluded.
We never forget.
Lahu mulkus samawati wal-al.
Wa ila allahi turjau l-umur.
Everything will go back to God.
Turiju laylat an-nahar.
He causes the night to enter the day.
Wa turiju an-nahar an-layt.
He causes the day to enter into the
night.
Wahuwa alimun bithati al-sudur.
And he tells us, watch what you're thinking
about.
Wahuwa alimun bithati al-sudur.
He knows what's in your chest.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, inna
allaha la yanzuru ila surikum walakin yanzuru ila
qulubikum.
Allah doesn't look at your external form.
It doesn't matter what your external form looks
like.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in one
hadith, he said, a man will come on
the Day of Judgment that was in the
dunya.
Massive.
Brolic, we used to say.
Y'all know what brolic is?
No?
Anyway, whatever.
Like, what do y'all say?
Whoa, there you go.
Man, let me give it to you.
Sorry, I had to, man.
That's my guy right there.
That's my guy right there.
The Prophet said, a man will come swole
on the Day of Judgment.
But when he's placed on the scale, he
won't be the weight of a mosquito.
Because it's empty.
But hold on.
Here's the other side of it.
Ibn Mas'ud.
Ibn Mas'ud was a dark complexion, very
skinny man.
But his iman was next level.
One day he was climbing a tree.
The Prophet was there.
All the sahabah were chilling.
The Prophet was like, someone go up there
and get the dates.
Ibn Mas'ud was like, I'll go.
Ibn Mas'ud went to the tree.
He lifted up his izar to climb the
tree.
And he had skinny legs.
So the sahabah started roasting him, yo.
See, sahabah used to crack jokes, but iman
never left their heart.
That's what they say.
They used to crack jokes.
But the iman was still there.
So he lifted up his izar, and they
saw his ankles.
And they start, you know, you know what
I mean?
They start cracking on him.
But the Prophet is such, he won't let
you get roasted if he's there.
That's Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
I mean, he's okay, because he's a busher.
He's a human.
He's going to let people be people.
But when he sees someone that's being picked
on, or someone that's, he's going to stand
up for you.
So I said this before.
So he looks at everyone who's roasting Ibn
Mas'ud.
You know, he skipped leg day.
Who knows what they were saying?
Who knows what they were saying?
But they were roasting him.
And then the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says,
yeah, yeah, those legs are skinny.
But they'll be heavy as the mountain of
Uhud on the Day of Judgment.
They'll be heavy.
So what are you focused on, is the
question.
Huwa alimun bidati sudur What are you focused
on?
Are you so focused on the external that
you forgot what truly makes you who you
are?
What truly makes you who you are is
not the biological, it's the spiritual.
It's the ruh.
It's the soul.
And you have to work on the soul
and beautify the soul and focus on the
soul so that it can become perfected.
And so that when that ruh is taken
out and it ascends through the heavens the
hadith says, as it's ascending the angels, they
say, what's that fragrant smell?
What is that smell passing through the heavens?
And they say, Fulan such and such Haytham,
Abdullah, Muhammad, he passed away.
And his soul is being taken to Allah.
The angels are like, what's that beautiful smell?
It's that ruh that was worked on.
How do you work on your ruh?
Fast, yo.
It's winter time, y'all.
Fasting is like, what?
It's like 8 hours, bro.
You get off work, get off at 6
.35, it's time to mud-rib.
Instead of complaining about how short the days
are, see the beauty in the shortness of
the days.
You can stack fast in these days, yo.
Easy.
Easy.
And what else is beautiful about the winter?
The nights are long, yo.
5.30, still getting tajid.
Still getting tajid, 5.30. My neighbor's walking
their dog at 5.15. Winter is beautiful
for the believer, man.
It's beautiful for the believer.
Because it allows us to, you know how
you have balking season?
No, for real, that's when the believer balks,
man.
Summers be tight, you know.
But winter is where we balk.
See the beauty in the winter.
وَعَلِيمٌ بِذَاتِ السُّدُورِ Work on your hearts.
Allah then said, He said آمِنُوا بِاللَّهِ Believe
in Allah.
This is Quran speaking.
آمِنُوا بِاللَّهِ It's already speaking to believers externally.
But the reality is sometimes it's not there.
So the Quran is saying, Oh you who
believe, believe.
Oh you who believe, believe, bro.
Wake up for Fajr, bro.
Do your dhikr.
Obey Allah, lower your gaze.
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ عَمْنُوا آمِنُوا وَأَنْفِقُوا Now here's
the beautiful part.
The Quran teaches us over and over again
to spend in the path of God.
أنفقوا Ask GPT how many times أنفقوا comes
in the Quran.
Dozens and dozens of times Allah says spend,
spend, spend.
And the reason is that Allah will take
this love of dunya out of your heart.
And the way you do that is by
investing in the akhirah.
Wherever you put an investment, you want to
see the dividends.
And the more you invest in akhirah, you
start looking forward to akhirah.
So He says أَنفِقُوا مِمَّا جَعَلَكُمُ مُسْتَخْلَفِينَ فِيهِ
Spend of the thing that Allah has given
you temporary custodianship of.
Such a beautiful way for God to tell
us like use what I gave you to
use what is yours for now it's not
yours.
And I gave the example of my kids
arguing in the backseat about what's theirs.
Like bro, I ain't nothing yours.
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying spend
out of this stuff that you're the khalifa
of just for now.
40 years from now, you're not gonna have
that car, that house, or that wealth.
It's gonna be getting cut up.
My uncle was nice, bro.
Put me in the will.
Uncle took care of me.
You grind it, grind it, grind it.
Can't take it with you.
Allah says مُسْتَخْلَفِينَ Spend it, spend it.
And the way you motivate yourself to spend
is remember that it's temporary مُسْتَخْلَفِينَ You'll have
it for a short time.
فَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مِنْكُمْ Allah says those of us
who believe وَأَنْفَقُوا لَهُمْ أَجْرٌ كَذِيرٌ وَأَنْفَقُوا لَهُمْ
أَجْرٌ كَذِيرٌ We'll have an amazing reward.
A great reward.
I heard this and it's always stuck with
me.
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala never takes, he
only gives.
You gotta remember that.
Because doors will close but if you don't
realize that it's not a closing, it's an
opening you're setting yourself up for misery.
Allah never takes, he only gives.
Ibn Ata says his taking is giving.
His taking is giving.
Man, there's so many examples.
When you become a parent, this happens all
the time.
You're like, yo, give me that.
No, no.
Bro, I was literally about to give you
something better.
But now you wanna act funny?
Okay, cool.
His giving, his taking, is actually giving.
But what we have to learn is to
see the giving in the taking.
That's it.
That's it.
That's the key.
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, he says ...
I love when Allah talks to us.
The Qur'an is different.
Coming from Christianity, the Qur'an is different.
The Bible, it was mad third person.
It's like, in the beginning there was.
The Qur'an, I'm not roasting it.
I'm just saying it's a different style.
It's different.
It's like, oh, this guy went here, he
went there, he did this.
The Qur'an is different because Allah's speaking
to you.
Allah's speaking to you.
Like, you're the addressee of the book.
And Allah says right here, ...
What's wrong with you?
And you're kind of like, oh, me?
Like, you're talking to me?
...
Allah says ...
...
What's wrong with you?
Why don't you believe in Allah?
And it's already speaking to believers, so it's
like, why aren't you doing the actions of
the believers?
Because you're already believers.
...
...
...
While the Prophet is calling you.
Like, you have someone actually like working on
you.
Like, yo, do this.
Do that.
Do this.
...
...
The Rasul, he's so beautiful.
Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is so beautiful.
His ...
...
Gentle with the believers.
Gentle with the believers.
You have to develop a personal relationship with
Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
You gotta get to a point with Rasul
where he's not the Prophet, he's my Prophet.
That's the ...
I'm serious.
That's where you got ...
For many of us, it's like, yeah, the
Prophet went here.
Where it should be, it's like, yeah, my
Prophet, he did this.
In the fifth year of his life, he
did this.
My Prophet.
My Prophet.
Because he knows you by name.
He knows you by name.
How come you don't have that personal relationship
with him?
...
...
And you've already pledged.
You've already given your word.
You said, ...
...
Then Allah says, ...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
It is He, Allah, who sent down on
His servant.
This is the beauty of our deen, that
Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam taught us the highest
level of a servant of God is a
slave of God, that's it.
The Qur'an calls Muhammad abd, abd, what's
abd?
Slave of Allah.
Slave of Allah.
Which teaches us the lower you get, the
lower you humble yourself, the higher you are.
The lower, the more you humble yourself, the
higher you are.
Some kid, he's looking for his mama, yo.
Okay, it's all good.
Please brothers, just move forward a little bit,
just so that everyone has space on the
carpet a little bit.
Jazakum Allah Khair.
Jazakum Allah Khair.
BarakAllahu feekum.
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says,
He is the one that sent down upon
His servant clear verses, clear, beautiful Qur'an
for you to reflect on.
Why were these verses sent?
To take you out of darkness to light.
Here's an example, Umar ibn Khattab.
Umar, he's in the midst of darkness.
He's on his way to kill the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
It doesn't get darker than that.
He's literally trying to put out the light
of guidance.
And on his way he hears verses of
the Qur'an.
Faha, and it breaks him.
Liyukhrijakum minathulumat ilannur.
Connect to the Book of Allah.
That's what we're doing tonight.
Why does he send these verses?
To bring you out of darkness.
The darkness of not knowing purpose.
The darkness of not knowing.
The darkness of having all your life together,
but not knowing what you're for.
You don't know what that's like, y'all.
The darkness of having all your stuff together.
You got the house, you got the family,
you got the car.
You got everything that society says you're supposed
to be happy with.
And you don't know what's happening.
That's darkness.
The darkness of not knowing purpose.
What am I even here for?
And that's what the Qur'an gives us.
That's what la ilaha illallah gives us.
That knowledge of what we're here for.
Liyukhrijakum minathulumat ilannur.
Wa inna allaha bikum la ra'ufur rahim.
Allah says again, wa ma lakum la tunfiquna.
Why aren't you spending in the path of
God?
Again, spending is a proof that you truly
believe.
Because it's about sending it forward.
Why don't you spend in the path of
God?
When to Allah belongs the treasures of the
heavens and the earth.
La yastawee minkum man anfaqa min qabal alfati
wa qatal.
Allah says, guess what?
There's different times when the need of the
deen is going to ask you to spend.
And those of us who are able to
invest before the victory, that's the real spending.
La yastawee minkum man anfaqa min qabal alfati
wa qatal.
Those who spend before all of the victories,
they're at another level.
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala says, Olaika a'dhamu
daraja minallatheena anfaqu min ba'du.
They have a higher level.
But both of them will get good.
In today's verses, Bismillah.
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala asks a question.
Listen.
Hold on.
Before I go forward.
Y'all ever seen those Baptist preachers when
they preach?
And they ask the crowd a question.
And the crowd like, all right, let's try
this a different route.
We're going to try a different route here.
The Quran is meant to be transactional with
you.
Many of us listen to Quran as if
it's a storybook being read to us.
It's a conversation.
I'll give you an example.
The Prophet one day, he recited Surat Ar
-Rahman.
Surat Ar-Rahman, the surah of the most
merciful.
The most compassionate.
All of us know there's a verse in
that, that repeats.
What's the verse?
Fa bi'ayyi ala'i rabbikum ma'tu kathiba
What's the meaning of that verse?
Which of the favors of your Lord will
you deny?
So the Prophet was reciting this surah to
the Sahaba for the first time.
And when he recited it the first time,
the Sahaba were sitting like y'all be
sitting.
Right?
So the Prophet looked at everyone and he
said, Ma li'arakum sukootan Why are y
'all so quiet?
This hadith.
Ma li'arakum sukootan Why are you so
quiet?
He said, la'l-jan kanu a'jabal
jawaban minkum He said, the jinn were better
in how they responded.
The Sahaba were like, what do you mean?
The Prophet ﷺ said, whenever I recited, Fa
bi'ayyi ala'i rabbikum ma'tu kathibaan Which
of the favors of your Lord will you
deny?
The jinn would say, none of them y
'all.
What I'm saying is for many of us,
we just read the Quran.
No, Allah is speaking to you.
He's asking you a question.
The question behooves a response.
And that's called dialogue.
And that's what it means to read the
Quran and be in conversation with God.
So why am I saying that?
Because the next verse is a question.
And you have to, at least in your
heart, answer it.
You don't gotta be loud here.
Y'all shy, I get it.
But the Sahaba answered it.
Look at the next verse.
Man dalladhi yuqridullaha qardan hasanan Fayudhaifahu lahu walahu
ajran ajrun kareem Allah ﷻ says, who is
the one that will loan Allah a good
loan?
So that Allah can multiply it for them
and for them to have a gracious reward.
The question ain't hit.
I'm gonna try it again, y'all.
Who is the one that will give Allah
a good loan so that he can multiply
it for them and for them to have
a gracious reward?
Me.
Can I tell you something?
Abu Dahdah.
I'm about to tell y'all something that
you can't act upon.
But if I don't teach it to you,
then we don't keep striving for that level.
So what I'm about to say, can we
disclaimer?
Can someone sign the disclaimer?
I will not do this tonight.
All right, cool.
Abu Dahdah heard this verse.
Abu Dahdah heard this verse.
He's a Sahabi.
He's a companion of the Prophet.
His iman is through the roof.
He heard this verse.
He said, ana ya Rasulullah.
He said, ya Rasulullah.
He said, ya Rasulullah, does Allah want a
loan from me?
Now, first of all, the usage of the
word loan is crazy.
Because it all belongs to Allah.
It all belongs to him.
He gave it to you.
So if he said, give it to me,
he has the haq.
But he doesn't even say, give it.
He says, can you let me borrow that
for a little bit?
I'm going to give you something better.
But for many of us, akhira, hereafter, isn't
real enough for that.
And that's why akhira has to get real.
And how do you make it real?
Start sending stuff there.
That's why I told you.
I'm going to repeat it because it's powerful.
There was a brother, when Mufti Abdul Rahman's
brother passed away in a car accident.
There was a brother who had converted.
He was from the streets.
They were at the janazah.
And the brother was standing at the qabr.
And he looked at Mufti Abdul Rahman and
he said, jannah just got personal.
Yeah.
Jannah just got personal.
Like, I got something I'm waiting for there.
A mother or a father who loses a
child, man, they just in the dunya temporary.
They're like, man, I'm trying to get to
my kid, yo.
People that lose people, the dunya, they're just
like, yo, I just got to get through
here, yo.
I'm just on the clock.
I'm trying to get home.
How do you build faith?
Start sending stuff there.
Your time, your wealth, your energy, whatever you
have.
You put it towards akhira.
You put it towards akhira.
Now, Abu Dahdah, I told you, don't do
this.
He said, ya Rasulullah, does Allah want a
loan from me?
The Prophet said, yes.
Yes, ya Abu Dahdah, yes.
He said, ya Rasulullah, give me your hand.
Give me your hand.
And I always wonder why he asked him
to give him the hand.
You'll see.
He said, give me your hand, ya Rasulullah.
The Prophet gave him his hand.
He held the Prophet's hand and he said,
I have given a loan to God of
my garden.
Abu Dahdah had a garden in Medina of
600 date trees.
Do y'all have any idea how massive
that is?
I can't explain it.
I don't even know how to explain it.
Then what he does next?
He gets up.
He heard the verse one time.
And he stood up.
He said, does Allah want a loan from
me?
Everything I have is his.
Of course, I'll give it to him.
And it's about giving what you love the
most.
But let me keep going.
It wasn't he didn't like the garden.
He loved the garden.
But that's what a qard hasan is.
Imam Razi says, one of the conditions for
a qard hasan, because the word hasan means
good, is that you give what you love
the most.
That's when Jannah starts to get real.
When you start giving what you love the
most.
What you love the most.
So what does he do?
This is the part you can't do, y
'all.
Y'all might even have some objections.
But he's Abu Dada.
He says, he goes back to the garden.
This garden of 600 date palm trees.
Just for you to get an idea, the
next time you go to Medina, say soon,
inshallah.
Next to Masjid Quba, there's a date farm.
There's a palm farm.
There's a date palm.
It's probably about 200 trees.
But you walk in, you feel like you're
in a different country.
Temperature drops like 20 degrees because of the
shade.
The springs, water.
It's like Jannah in the desert.
600 trees, he gives it.
He walks back to his garden.
He stands at the door of the garden.
And he yells, ya ummi dahda.
Who's ummi dahda?
Wifey.
Oh, yeah.
He was married and had kids.
And he just sold the house.
He just gave the deed to the masjid.
They needed a sadiqa.
Crazy.
Not crazy.
Real belief in akhira.
He says, ya ummi dahda.
She's there and the kids are there.
Ya ummi dahda.
She said, labaik.
You know she's real.
She said, labaik.
What do you need?
Mind you, he didn't walk in.
You know why?
Because it ain't his no more.
Because it ain't his no more.
He didn't walk in.
And he stood at the gate.
Ya ummi dahda.
She said, labaik.
You know she was real.
Fa qala, ukhruji.
He says, you gotta come out.
I gave this as a loan to my
lord.
She yells from inside.
Rabi habaik.
Good business deal.
Good business deal.
I'm on my way out.
Man.
Yeah, say inshallah.
Inshallah.
But when you have a leader like that,
a sister will be like, bismillah.
Uh-huh.
Your brother's quiet now.
When the man is Abu Dahda, then it's
like, all right, you got things together.
Cool.
Lead me in dunya and akhira.
I ain't even ready for this conversation.
She says, labaik.
She says, rabi habaik.
Look.
Beautiful transaction.
He moves his stuff.
He moves his children out.
And the prophet then looked at the sahaba.
And he said to them, how many trees
with fruit would this man have in jannah?
Allah asked the question, man dhallathee yuqridullaha qabban
hasana.
Who is the one that will give Allah
a loan?
And I told you, it's not about money.
It's not about money.
It's about whatever you have to give.
Some of you have skills.
Some of you have influence.
Some of you have strength.
Some of you, I, I, whatever you have
that you can give to the sake of
the deen, for the sake of Allah.
Time.
Imam Razi says, in order for a loan
to be a good loan, here's some conditions.
Y'all ready?
Conditions.
Number one.
The money has to be halal.
There's 10 of them.
Number two.
It should be the best of what you
own.
Best of what you own.
You know when the masjid is doing the
raising for the, you know, like clothes and
people get the, like, worst stuff out of
the closet?
Safar Allah, y'all.
I've seen people that would go and shop
for the clothes donation.
Tag still on.
Let me give this to the masjid.
Let me buy it and give this to
the masjid.
So it should be the best.
Number three.
You should give sadaqah wa anta tuhibbuhu wa
tahtaj ilayh.
You give sadaqah of something you love and
that you need, too.
Oh, don't worry.
It's going to get harder and harder, y
'all.
It's not going to get easy.
It's going to get harder.
But, but, this is what we're doing for
Allah.
This is for Allah.
You give that which you love and that
which you need.
Imam Razi says number four.
An tasrif sadaqah ila ahwaj al-ula bi
akhliha.
You give it to someone that really deserves
it, really needs it.
Number five.
You hide it as much as you can,
y'all.
Hide your sadaqah.
Hide your sadaqah.
Why is tahajjud so powerful?
Because it's hidden.
Because it's hidden.
Any worship or anything done hidden is way
more powerful because there's no other motive, y
'all.
When you wake up in the middle of
the night so much so your parents or
your brothers, siblings don't even know.
You pray tahajjud.
You make wudu.
You get back in bed like you didn't
do anything.
Yo, you a G.
Yo, no, that's next level awliya stuff.
That's next level awliya.
Now, a little lower under that is you
get up, you do the tahajjud, you just
stay awake.
They wake up, they're like, oh, you look
fresh.
You're like, yeah, I've been up for a
minute here.
You still, yo, mashallah.
But you're a little lower, bruh.
You just gotta be real with yourself.
You gotta be real.
And when you want something truly for Allah
or for someone, you hide it.
You hide it.
And that's why tahajjud is so powerful.
And that's where we have to start being
real with ourselves.
That's it.
When you stayed up and just wanted to
let everyone know in the house you was
awake, just be real with yourself so that
you know, hmm, that's something I still need
to work on.
I still need to work on that.
Alhamdulillah, I got up.
But you know what?
I can work on that a little bit.
I feel that a little bit.
It felt good that they knew that.
All right, I'm gonna work on that.
Be real with the self.
Be real with the self.
Number, what number?
Number six, don't remind the favors that you
give.
Don't remind.
You give it, forget about it.
You give it.
The believer is the one.
Hear me out on this.
Never forget.
Make it hard to forget the evil you
do, but forget the good you do.
I don't know if y'all can handle
that, though.
What I mean by that is the good
you do should be so much and so
thin, you just like, oh, yeah, I did
that.
Oh, yeah.
Like, you want to be surprised on the
Day of Judgment from good.
But the bad, no, you shouldn't let that
slip past.
Like, no, today I messed up.
I'm not going to forget that.
I messed up today.
It's not for a lot.
Let me do it over.
But the good, oh, wow, I opened the
door for someone?
Oh, wow, I gave you $2?
I gave you $3?
Oh, I forgot it, bro.
He says, don't remind of the favors.
Number seven, and the order is just the
order.
He says, only intention is Allah.
Number eight, whatever you give, you deem it
little.
So do you think Abu Dhahda thought he
gave a lot?
Yeah, exactly.
Abu Dhahda, who just gave $600.
Here we are 1,400 years later.
The man made a decision in a moment,
and here we are 1,400 years later
talking about him.
What type of ikhlas did he have?
Do you think he felt like he gave
a lot?
He probably thought, like, I wish I had
more to give.
Man, I don't know, 600?
Because it's for Allah.
And that's what sacrifice is all about.
The one sacrificing doesn't realize it's a sacrifice.
Everyone else is like, man, how'd you do
that?
To the person that does it, they're just
like, yeah, it just made sense to me.
I was just doing what I needed to
do.
So you don't deem it as a lot.
Number nine, it's kind of repetitive.
It should be of that which you love
the most.
And number 10, that you don't see yourself
as, you don't see any honor to yourself
over the one that you're giving to.
In fact, you should see them as the
one blessing you.
It's because of you that I have the
opportunity to gain this jannah.
I thank you so much for being here
for me to help.
Because low key, I'm not, you're not helping,
I'm not helping you, you're helping me.
Can you imagine what our society would be
like if that's the mentality of sadaqah and
charity?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, he says, man
dha allathee yuqridhu allaha qardhan hasanan?
Who is the one?
Answer Allah when he asks you a question,
y'all.
man dha allathee yuqridhu allaha qardhan hasanan?
Who's the one that will give Allah a
loan, a good loan?
I will, y'all.
Whatever I can, y'all.
fa yudha'ifahoo lahoo so that Allah can
multiply it.
So Allah can multiply it.
The multiplication of that thing is based on
your sincerity.
The multiplication of the sadaqah is based on
your level of charity, of sincerity.
How much it was purely for Allah.
wa lahoo ajroon kareemoon And this person will
have a great reward.
And now the tone switches.
The Qur'an is so beautiful because before
you know it, the tone just switches.
Allah brings us to something different.
And right now, the surah gets really heavy,
y'all.
The surah gets very heavy.
Look what Allah says.
Let us bask in the beauty of the
Qur'an.
Allah says next, yawma taral mu'mineena wal mu'minati
yas'aa nooruhum bayna aydihim wabi aimanihim Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, He says, on that
day, what day?
Day of judgment.
Instantaneously, Allah says, I want you to think
about the day of judgment.
I want you to focus on the day
of judgment.
Block everything out.
It's the day of judgment.
You are standing there.
You are about to be judged.
You are there.
Your whole life is behind you.
All of the creation is there.
Allah says, I need you to be there.
So go there in your mind.
Be there.
yawma taral mu'mineena The day that you will
see, al mu'mineena wal mu'minati You will see,
Allah speaking to me and you, you will
see on that day, believing men and believing
women, yas'aa nooruhum Light running in front
of them.
Now this is powerful because the Prophet taught
us what it means.
The Prophet ﷺ, he taught us that on
the day of judgment, after we're resurrected, there
will be complete darkness.
There will be complete darkness.
And in that moment, Allah ﷻ will start
to give out people their light.
Yes, your light.
Meaning the light you earned back in the
dunya.
The hadith is so powerful that Ibn Mas
'ud, he said, yu'tuna nooruhum ala qadri a'malihim
Everybody will be given light according to their
actions.
See, the day of judgment is about making
the hidden manifest.
The iman was hidden.
That iman was a light.
That light is what I walk by my
life with.
That iman is what helps me walk through
the darkness of this dunya.
But on the day of judgment, the darkness
will become real and the light will become
real too.
Y'all with me?
So it will be complete darkness.
And Ibn Mas'ud, he says, everyone will
be given out their light.
Their light.
The narration he says, subhanAllah, he says some
people will be given a light the size
of a mountain.
Allah ﷻ make us a mountain.
Some people will be given a light the
size of a nakhla, a date palm tree.
Some people will have light the size of
a human being.
The Prophet ﷺ, he said, and someone from
this ummah will have light the size of
their thumb.
The size of their thumb.
And even that, it will flicker.
They can't see where they're going.
It's because they didn't live with that iman.
So now in the akhira, they're not given
that light.
يَسْعَى نُورُهُمْ بَيْنَ عَيْدِهِمْ وَبِأَيْمَانِهِمْ The hadith of
the Prophet, he said, There are believers, يُضِيءُ
نُورُهُ Their light will be so bright, he
said it's as if it's from Medina to
Yemen.
Medina to Yemen, that's the light.
Okay, hold on.
What we don't realize is in this room
right now, there are some friends of Allah.
We can't see the light, but they're here.
The Prophet said anytime 40, there's a narration
that anytime 40 believers gather together, one of
them is a wali Allah.
Now, I don't know the number here, but
whatever number it is, we probably got five
in here.
Five low-key hidden heads.
Low-key, they're sitting in the back like,
legs crossed like, yeah, tahajjud tonight, no doubt.
No doubt, alhamdulillah.
And it's not about action, it's about the
iman.
It's about the faith.
It doesn't matter where your actions are, y
'all.
The light is about iman, faith, how strong
that iman is.
So, the Prophet ﷺ, he says, everyone's light
will be handed out.
إِنَّكُمْ مَكْتُوبُونَ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ You are written, your
names are written.
All that you do, your features, your clothes,
your gatherings, everything is written.
And on the Day of Judgment, they'll call,
they'll say, يَا فُلَانْ هَذَا نُورُكَ يَا فُلَانْ
Here's your light.
My light?
Yeah, that's your light from the dunya, that's
what you brought.
Right there, that was your light.
That's my light right there?
Yeah, that's your light.
The question is, how bright will yours be?
How bright will your light be?
That's the question.
The Prophet ﷺ, one day he went to
the graveyard.
This was just a few days before he
passed away.
He went to the graveyard.
And he was with some of the Sahaba.
And he said salam to the people at
the graveyard.
And then he looked at the Sahaba, he
said, I wish I could meet my brothers.
I wish I could meet my brothers, my
sisters.
I wish I could meet them.
This was only a few days before he
passed away, y'all.
The Sahaba are with him, they're like, Ya
Rasulullah, we're here.
He said, no, no, no, you're my companions.
My brothers are those who I've never seen.
They've never seen me.
But they will wish they could sacrifice anything
to see me.
They'll believe in me and they never saw
me before.
Those are my brothers and sisters.
The Sahaba, they said, Ya Rasulullah, how will
you recognize people you never saw on the
Day of Judgment?
The Prophet ﷺ said, nah.
He said, can you recognize your camel amongst
a bunch of other camels?
They said, yeah, for sure.
It's a bunch of cars outside.
You know your cars?
He said, my ummah will come ghurrun muhajjalina.
Faces bright with light and all of the
places that they washed in wudu shining.
Shining.
Allahu Akbar.
This light is real.
How do you get more light?
There's seven actions or seven things that gain
light.
We all want light.
We all want nur.
Number one, walking to the masjid in the
times of darkness.
Maghrib, isha, fajr.
When you're walking to the masjid and it's
dark out, you're building light, bro.
That's light.
Subhanallah.
I mean, you surrounded yourself in darkness for
the sake of Allah, seeking out light in
the masjid.
Seeking out light.
Allah is like, I got your light for
you.
Don't worry.
Just when you need it the most though.
Number two, complete wudu.
Some of us do that sloppy wudu, yo.
You know what I mean?
Yo, wudu is part of prayer, yo.
Stop seeing wudu as like, oh, I gotta
do this real quick.
Yo, wudu is cleaning your sins before you
even start praying.
So the same way you think of salah,
like alhamdulillah, we take salah seriously.
We're like, yo, I gotta pray.
But wudu, we're like, yo, I gotta do
this.
Right?
No.
Wudu is a part of the salah, yo.
Wudu is a part of the salah.
And that's why I wanted to share this
hadith the Prophet ﷺ said, from the wudu
that they do, wherever they did the wudu,
all of that will be shining.
All of that will be shining.
Speaking about wudu, Abu Huraira.
Abu Huraira, yo.
Abu Huraira is amazing.
Because he came only in the last three
years.
But when he came, he dedicated himself to
studying.
Some people think, oh, I gotta, I wasn't
raised memorizing Quran like these dudes.
I didn't learn it when I was a
kid.
No, no excuses, man.
Abu Huraira came in the seventh year of
hijrah.
That means the Prophet would only be alive
for three more years.
He narrates the most hadith.
But later, they would say, like, yo, Abu
Huraira, how you gonna narrate the most hadith
and you were with him the shortest?
He was like, my brothers had businesses and
families.
I only had the Prophet, so I said.
They had businesses, they had farms.
Omar, think about the, there's a hadith of
Omar, where he had a farm, and him
and his neighbor used to take turns coming
to the masjid.
No?
Abu Huraira's like, nah, I didn't have nothing.
I say that the Prophet's masjid the whole
time.
Abu Huraira, one day he was doing wudu.
And when he did the wudu, he did
the wudu up to, up to, like, right
here.
He did the wudu up to here.
One of his students was like, yeah, Shaykh.
Yeah, bid'ah.
That's how y'all be, man.
Internet.
All right, y'all be tripping online, bro.
Youngins, man.
I think everything's bid'ah.
They said, Shaykh, what are you doing?
What are you doing?
How you gonna do wudu up to there?
Abu Huraira goes, you saw me?
They're like, yeah, we saw you.
He's like, all right.
Since you saw me, I'll tell you.
If you didn't see me, I wouldn't have
told you this.
The Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, said that a
believer, their bangles, you know what bangles are,
their bangles of gold and silver will be
as high as they did wudu.
I'm just trying to get more drip.
Don't tell nobody, though.
Allahu Akbar.
Wudu is real.
Wudu is a way of getting light.
But just take it serious, though.
Bismillah.
Take your time.
You know what I mean?
And make sure you know how to do
wudu.
Maybe someone never really learned.
You just like watch people.
You know what I mean?
Learn how to do wudu properly and do
it.
The Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he said, you
finish a complete wudu, you walk away with
no sins.
See, that's what I'm saying.
We treat the salah, like, the wudu is
just, ah, I just gotta do it real
quick.
No, that's part of the prayer.
They say, if you want khushu in salah,
do a good wudu.
It's like, if you want a good workout,
you gotta stretch, all right?
You gotta, like, warm up.
I think.
That's what they say.
No?
No stretching?
Just go straight in?
All right, whatever.
It's different methods, yo.
The Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, number three, he
said, the people that come early for Jummah
will have light on the Day of Judgment.
They come early.
You know, some of us pull up last
minute.
Imams, atayatulillah, you sitting down.
Astaghfirullah.
Come early, sit, wait.
MashaAllah, here at Qalam, they got the Surah
al-Kahf going on.
Y'all be thinking it's bid'ah.
It ain't bid'ah, chill out.
Number four, Surah al-Kahf.
Now, I know some of y'all, you
look at Surah al-Kahf.
Surah al-Kahf, the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
said, it'll give you light, it'll give you
nur.
Now, some of y'all hype, you gonna
go open Surah al-Kahf.
You go, oh, that's a long one.
But let me tell you something.
Start reading it.
Start.
Before you know it, it will be so
easy for you.
But you gotta start.
What did they say?
They said, you don't gotta be great to
start, but you gotta start to be great.
You gotta just start the Quran.
You gotta start reading Surah al-Kahf.
And before you know it, it may take
a year, it may take two, but before
you know it, you're gonna have Surah al
-Kahf down.
Yes, it's a long Surah, I know.
And there's other narrations that say the ten
verses of Surah al-Kahf.
Number five, oh, my favorite.
The Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he said, من
شاب شيب في الإسلام Whoever grows gray hair
in Islam.
Meaning, you put in work.
And you grow old in deen.
حتى white hair starts to come.
Whoever grows old in the deen, all of
the gray will be nur on the Day
of Judgment.
And that's just about being consistent, being on
the deen, being on the deen, staying consistent,
and putting in time.
May Allah give us that light.
May Allah give us that light.
The Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, whenever he would
leave the house and go to the masjid,
he would read this du'a.
You guys ready?
This is a beautiful du'a.
Read it in English.
I think a lot of us are so
caught on du'as.
It's like, you're like, اللهم اعجعل نعمة Like,
chill out.
Just read it in English, habibi.
Just read it in English.
We're like, oh, I gotta read perfect tajweed,
makharish.
لا المعنى The meaning is in English.
If you read it with English, I even
think the meaning hits you more.
That's why back in the day, I used
to tell people, don't say inshallah, say God
willing.
Yeah, it sounds different.
Are you coming around?
God willing.
God willing.
You all right, bro?
You okay?
I remember when I first converted and I
said God willing to my mom, she was
tripping.
She's like, are you okay?
Michael, we love you.
We love you, Michael.
Don't do anything dumb.
We love you.
No, a lot of these du'as, we
should say in English.
This du'a is beautiful.
This is a du'a I took from
Imam Nuh.
He's Kitab al-Azkar.
And it says whenever the prophet would leave,
you're gonna have to write it down because
if you don't write it, not right now,
anytime, but if you don't write it down,
you won't have the habit.
And so I'll read it to you and
then maybe if someone after wants to get
it or like just work together, whenever the
prophet would set out to go to the
masjid, he would read this du'a.
I'll read the Arabic and then I'll translate
it.
Allahumma ja'al fee qalbi noora.
Oh Allah, put noor in my heart.
Wa ja'al fee lisani noora.
Oh Allah, put noor in my tongue.
Allahumma ja'al fee sam'i noora.
Put noor in my listening.
Allahu Akbar.
Wa ja'al fee basri noora.
Oh Allah, put light in my sight.
Allahumma ja'al min khalfi noora.
Wa min amami noora.
Oh Allah, put light behind me and in
front of me.
Wa ja'al min fawqi noora.
Put light above me.
Wa min tahni tahti noora.
Allahumma a'tini noora.
Oh Allah, give me light.
Whenever the prophet was leaving the house to
go to the masjid, he would read this
du'a.
Let's review it.
What's the beginning?
Oh Allah, Allahumma ja'al fee qalbi noora.
Number two, Oh Allah, put light on my
tongue.
Number three, My hearing, it's easy, we got
it.
We don't leave her knowing the du'a.
Allahumma ja'al fee sam'i noora.
What's next?
Basri noora.
Alright, now what's next?
Khalfi, behind me light.
In front of me light.
Above me light.
Below me light.
Oh Allah, just give me my noor.
Just give me my noor, ya Allah.
I want my light.
Allahu Akbar.
What time is salah?
8.15, Allahu Akbar.
Yawma taral mu'mineena wal mu'minati, yas'a nooruhum
bayna aydihim.
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, we'll
stop here inshaAllah.
We'll finish this verse.
Because the next verse is heavy.
But hold on.
Their light will be shining in front of
them.
This is the darkest moment of Qiyamah.
They need this light to get to Jannah.
But the only light you have is the
light you brought from dunya.
That's it.
Yas'a bayna aydihim.
Their light will be going in front of
them and on their right side.
The scholars say, why right side?
Because that's where they got their book from.
Fa'amma man ootia kitabuhu bi amini.
They got the book from the right hand
so their light is there.
But they can see everything.
And because they can see everything, they're flying
over the Sirat.
They're moving fast because I can see everything.
To me this is beautiful because this life
without Islam is dark.
Islam gave me light.
It taught me how to eat properly, how
to care for my children, how to care
for my wife, how to pray.
I didn't even get to ibadah.
It taught me how to live.
It taught me how to clean myself.
And at a time where everyone is searching
for light on YouTube, how I live my
day, Huberman, he's good but I'm saying he
ain't got nothing on Islam.
Something like that.
Whatever, you know what I mean?
I don't even know.
Okay, cool.
No, what I'm saying is people are searching
for light.
And the Quran says, We gave you light.
يَمْشِي بِهِ فِي النَّاسِ We gave you a
light by which you walk amongst people.
Hold this Islam proud, man.
Hold it proud and realize the light that
you have.
اللهم صلي على محمد And that's why when
the Prophet came to Medina, what was the
name of Medina?
مُنَوَّرَة مَدِينَةٌ مُنَوَّرَة And that's why when you
come back from it, you get sick.
That post Medina sickness is real, bro.
Because your heart, honestly, I realize it's your
heart's broken, man.
You were just in that light.
You were giving Salat to the Prophet, Salam
to the Prophet.
You were there and you get off that
plane land in JFK or DFW, like, man,
I'm sick of this.
Like Ibrahim, إِنِّي سَقِيم And that spiritual separation,
I feel creates a real sickness, man.
And that's why people تَابِعُوا بَيْنَ الْحَجْبُ الْأُمْرَةِ
I tell the Shabab, الحمد لله, some of
the Shabab went recently, keep, make recent, like,
you gotta do reps of Umrah, man.
Umrah, it rejuvenates you.
Everyone here who hasn't been for Umrah make
an intention, I'm going for Umrah in the
next few months.
Say Inshallah.
Do it.
SubhanAllah.
That's why Medina became so bright.
It's because the Prophet ﷺ, he was there.
And they say the moment we buried him,
the moment we buried him, immediately they said,
listen, it got dark, visibly dark in Medina.
They said, حَتَّى أَنْكَرْنَا قُلُوبَنَا We buried him
and immediately we couldn't even recognize our own
hearts anymore.
That light was gone.
I was like, who am I?
What's going on?
Hold on, we're not done.
Light will be shining.
These people, these believers on the Day of
Judgment, the angels came.
They said, there's your light, Abdullah.
There's your light, Haytham.
There's your light, Ayman.
There you go.
Take your light and run.
Now they're running into Jannah because their light
is bright.
The angels look at us coming into Jannah.
What do the angels say?
بُشْرَاكُمُ الْيَوْمُ Glad tidings.
In another verse of the Quran, the angels
are watching us come in and they're saying,
سَلَامٌ عَلَيْكُمْ تِبَتُمْ They're saying, سَلَامٌ عَلَيْكُمْ Y
'all did good, man.
Y'all did good.
You know how appreciation, do you know how
much we value appreciation?
Our lives are based on so much of
us, we want to be appreciated for what
we did.
And the Quran says that as you're walking
into the gates of Jannah, the angels are
all watching.
They're like, yo, we watched the whole thing.
No, for real.
They were there from day one, said, are
you going to create that thing?
And Allah said, watch what this thing does.
It'll be amazing what he does.
This thing will show love, this thing will
sacrifice, this thing will, watch what this thing,
human, does.
And here we are walking into Jannah and
what are the angels saying?
سَلَامٌ عَلَيْكُمْ تِبَتُمْ سَلَامٌ عَلَيْكُمْ Y'all did
good.
Y'all did good, man.
Wow.
40, 50, 60 years of mujahidah, taking care
of kids, a family, earning a living, praying
on time, holding on to your deen, holding
on to your religion, in the face of
all the difficulties, angels say, تِبَتُمْ You did
good.
You did good.
You did amazing.
You held on to this deen in that
horrible place.
تِبْتُمْ You did amazing.
بُشْرَاكُمُ الْيَوْمُ Glad tidings today.
جَنَّاتٌ تَجْرِي مِن تَحْتِهَا الْأَنْهَارُ You get a
garden with rivers flowing underneath.
Till today, waterfront is the best property.
That's why Dallas is horrible.
They ain't got nothing.
Somebody's like, what do you like about Dallas?
I was like, Muslims.
That's it.
No one roll like the Muslims in Dallas,
mashallah.
But if it came to property and a
view, oh yeah.
جَنَّاتٌ تَجْرِي مِن تَحْتِهَا الْأَنْهَارُ Allah knows what
the nafs loves.
We love to see moving water.
Moving water it just refreshes you.
Allah says, جَنَّاتٌ تَجْرِي مِن تَحْتِهَا الْأَنْهَارُ Lakefront,
water flowing right in front of you.
خَالِدِينَ فِيهَا And you know how this verse
ends, y'all?
وَذَلِكَ هُوَ الْفَوْزُ الْعَظِيمُ That's the real success
in life.
Bruh, I don't care how much money you
make.
You're gonna reach a point where you're like,
what do I do with this?
You're gonna feel empty at the end.
Allah's telling you in this book right now,
that success on the Day of Judgment when
the angels say, yo, good job, bro.
Allah says, ذَلِكَ هُوَ الْفَوْزُ الْعَظِيمُ That's success.
That's success.
So don't let the losses of this dunya
really trouble you.
And don't let the successes of the dunya
really hype you up.
كَذَلِكَ هُوَ الْفَوْزُ الْعَظِيمُ That is true success.
When do you need that verse, that phrase?
Like, I would write that down.
ذَلِكَ هُوَ الْفَوْزُ الْعَظِيمُ That's the true success.
When do I need to see that?
When I fail in life.
I'm like, yo, that ain't the real failure.
The real failure is on the Day of
Judgment, not to get my life.
That's the real failure.
That's the real failure.
And then when life is successful, things going
good, I'm like, I love this dunya.
I need to see that verse to remind
myself.
ذَلِكَ هُوَ الْفَوْزُ الْعَظِيمُ The real success, real
success is over there, not this one.
May Allah accept from us, inshallah.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala continue to
open victories for our ummah.
May Allah continue to open victories for the
people of Syria and the people of Palestine.
May Allah make us a means of contributing
to their khair and their goodness in any
way possible.
May Allah give us a love for the
Quran.
May Allah give us a love for the
Rasul, salallahu alayhi wasalam.
May Allah make us of those that get
their light on the day of judgment by
which we walk into the gates of Jannah.
سُبْحَانَكَ اللَّهُمَّ وَبِحَمْدِكَ نَشْهَدُ وَلَا إِلَىٰ إِلَىٰ أَنْتَ
نَسْتَقْفِرُ وَأَتُوبُ إِلَيْكَ All right, a little bit
of logistics here.
So, obviously, y'all know we're doing construction
on the other side.
I believe the women's prayer hall is that
back room right there.
Obviously, this is temporary.
Y'all know how our setup typically is.
But the room, y'all gonna have to
go back that way and pray.
There's an exit out of this door too
when it is time to leave.
The brothers will pray here.
This is the prayer hall, inshallah ta'ala.
So, once the sisters clear out to the
prayer hall there, then we can slide over
for Salah.
JazakumAllahu khair.
As-salamu alaykum.