Focus on the questions
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The "hasn't" in Islam is a way to prepare for it, and the "hasn't" is a test to demonstrate how to practice. The "hasn't" is a way to prepare for it, and practicing it is crucial to achieving it. It is important to avoid worrying too much about the results of tests and focus on the core of one's life, not just trying everything.AI Generated Transcript ©
My dear and sisters,
alhamdulillah. Allah reminds
us that in the ayat which were recited
this morning
in the salah
and
Suratul Naba.
It begins with a
rhetorical question which Allah
is asking.
Where Allah
is saying asking what is all this argument?
What is all this noise?
What is all this
debating
and people are asking these questions.
And they're asking about this
Nabi Lazim. This this great announcement. This day.
This,
something
which is of great importance.
And Allah
is asking this question because
He wants us to think about this question
and saying,
what is it that you are asking and
arguing about and saying this and that.
What is so
mysterious
about this?
Do you think this is something which is
hidden?
Because this has been the
root cause of all the philosophies and
so on and religions of the world.
Where at the end of the day,
the bottom line question which is argued by
everybody is what will happen after I die?
And in Islam, the beauty is that you
don't have to ask this question.
Because we have the answers.
We have we know what will happen after
we die. And what we know is not
philosophy.
What we know is not somebody's conjecture.
It's not someone's,
you know,
sort of guesswork.
It is the word of Allah
himself
who knows what will happen after we die.
Because he does not die.
And therefore,
once we know what will happen after we
die,
then what do you do for that? You
prepare for it. You prepare for it so
that you have
a time which is good.
And this surah ends with
what I consider to be the
the
ayah of great despair
where the people who denied Allah
who denied this day of judgement,
who denied all these things.
Imagine their despair that they will not even
say
we wish our Rab will forgive us.
They will say that we wish we were
dust. We wish we were sand, mud,
earth, ground.
We wish we never existed. We wish we
were never born. Imagine what is the
state of
sadness and despair
of somebody who has to say something like
this. I wish I had never born. He's
not even saying I wish Allah will forgive
me. No. No. Even that hope of forgiveness
itself is not there. Because despair is harab
and Islam. That's why I say we are
full.
The people who,
denied Allah
Now there is no need for that. The
whole point of the Surah, the whole point
of the Quran, the whole point of the
is
that there is no need for anyone
to be in a position to say
May
Allah save us from that. There's no need
because Allah has,
as I said the other day, Jawad, Allah
showed us the whole meaning of education. And
the whole meaning of education is this entire
business of Islam.
This whole life is a test. We are
living an exam.
From the
time we
ah became Balik from the time we became
we attained puberty, we became mature
till the time we die
or may Allah save us from such things.
If you are incapacitated
mentally or something, that's a different issue. We
ask Allah to save us from all of
that. So till the day we die, we
are accountable to Allah's. So this whole time
is a test. But this is a test
which is
not a test of guesswork. There is no
Allah in this test, Allah
is not trying to catch us
and put us in a trouble.
This is the beauty of the test. The
test is not designed to make you fail.
The test is designed to make you pass.
This is the most beautiful part of this
whole test and that is how education also
should be,
structured.
Not have
exams which are designed to make you feel.
Have exams which are designed to make you
pass. Now this whole test is a And
how do I say that? I say that
because it is an open book exam. It's
an open book test.
Allah has sent his kitab. Allah
has sent
Rasoolullah
to not only teach what is in the
kitab
but to demonstrate
how to practice what is in the kitab.
One is to
like most of our education, which is they
give you a book and then the teacher
dictates notes. I've never seen
I can't imagine anything more stupid than that.
You already gave a book. Why do you
want to dictate notes for what? What notes?
So you don't even want the
student to
exercise their mind a little bit by reading
the book and trying to understand the book.
Even the notes are dictated
and then the student
mugs it up and regurgitates it and you
call that passing exams. It's completely insane and
stupid system. But
the Islam is not like this. Islam, Allah
gave us the book and Allah
told us to reflect on this book.
Allah said people who reflect on the Quran.
Who are the intelligent people? Those who reflect.
So Allah said, read the book, reflect on
the book, understand the book, and then Allah
didn't leave that to us. He sent us
a teacher to teach this whole thing. And
he also sent this teacher with the job
of demonstrating it, not only teaching it. The
mister Islam simply did not read out the
Quran or he didn't simply recite the Quran.
He
demonstrated the meaning and the value of the
Quran. That's the reason why the famous hadith
all of us know this. We have heard
this many times. That's why the Aisha said
to somebody who asked her
that that he she said
he asked her, please tell us something about
the life of Rasulullah.
She asked him, don't you read the Quran?
He said, yes. I read the Quran. So
she said, that is the life of Rasulullah.
So Nabi shalasalam demonstrated
what Allah
wanted
us to do. Allah wants us to do.
He demonstrated how our life is to be
lived according
to the precepts of the Quran.
So, therefore, we have this
open book exam.
The exam is going on as we speak.
The kitab of Allah
is open before us.
We are
free to refer to that
as many times as we want.
We are free to refer to the notes
of the teacher of the kitab which we
which we know as the sunnah and the
hadith
of Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Salam. These are the
like, in in in many technical books, you
have a,
you have
a kitab. You have a book of the
tech technology, the theory, then you have what
is called a field book.
And the field book is
the practice of that technology,
which people have done and then they have
taken notes to say how does it actually
work.
So the field book of the Quran is
the Hadith
That is the field book of the Quran.
So the word is in the Kalam of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Explained that
in his teachings.
And in the Hadis, you have two kinds
of things. You have things which Surah Sallam
said, and you have things which he did.
So that that was also reported
that Nabi Shah did such and such a
thing in such and such a way. So,
therefore, we have this field book which is
telling us how to practice the whara.
And then one day, this test, like all
tests, this test also
will close. One day it will end and
after that we will get the results from
the test. So it's like this. It's a
very simple
matter to understand. So, therefore, Allah is reminding
us and saying, stop all this argument and
discussion and so on so on so on.
Will this be there? Will that be there?
Forget all that. Look at what you have
to do.
Look at what we have to do.
The other day, I sent out one,
one of the hadis of where
he talked about who is a Muslim and,
I clarified by saying that,
you know, the issues of raising your hand
in Salah or Rafa then or,
moving the finger in the shahood or not
moving the finger. All of these these are
different ways in which did things, but these
are not the critical issues. The critical issues
is issue is do you have in your
salah or not?
Yeah.
Mentioned about the
that there are people who have
in their salah. And that's why it's very
important always to go back to the basics.
Refer to the fundamentals.
Don't worry about all these.
There are lot
of theories floating around in the world. Leave
them. We don't have time for all that.
Let us look at the fundamental. What will
you and I be questioned about?
That is the only thing which we need
to bother about. Otherwise, you will spend a
lot of time
talking about all lot of stuff. At the
end of that you say, what was the
result of this? What
changes have been,
implemented? What changes are being done?
Which are measurable and the answer is 0.
So we have our life is full of
this.
This we have this
kind of meeting, that meeting, formal meeting, informal
meeting, we sit and discuss And we talk
till the cows come home. And at the
end of that, you say, okay. What did
we get out of this? And the answer
is nothing.
We got nothing. We just talked
then we go home.
So
that doesn't produce any results. I think we
have become experts in that. So instead of
that, we need to stop talking
and start acting and acting on things which
are actually
important for us. And what are important for
us? Those things about which we will be
questioned. Very simple.
Nothing else is important.
What Allah is not going to question you
about,
don't bother about it. It's a waste of
time because you are time you spend on
it is time taken out from things which
you will be questioned about.
So what will Allah question us about? Allah
will question us question us. 1st question is
how did we spend the time that he
gave us?
So what is the answer to that? We
should have an answer. How did you spend
your life means what? Time. How did you
spend your time? Doing what? So that's one
thing. Second thing is Allah
will ask us about how we spent our
youth.
Out of the time, the specific time, which
is when you
Allah give you strength and power and so
on and so. What did you do?
So especially those who are young and, of
course, this applies to all of us.
It doesn't mean that just because you are
not in your youth anymore that that question,
oh, question is there. We if you did
not spend your youth the way you should
have spent it, then spend the rest of
your life being.
But those who are young, this is a
good opportunity. So think about that. What is
what am I doing in my youth? And
the third question is,
what
am I doing with the knowledge that was
given to me?
So what I know,
what am I doing with that?
I know that I must pray
salah in the masjid. Am I doing it?
That's why I always tell people forget all
these philosophical discussions. I have no time whatsoever
for that.
Look at what you know.
You know that you must pray
the salah in the masjid. Are you doing
it?
You know that you must pray a salah
5 times a day. Are you doing it?
Yeah. You have what more do you I'm
I'm not even going beyond this because if
you are not even doing the fundamental,
what is the sense in talking about anything
more?
And then so this is knowledge. And knowledge
in terms of 2 things in knowledge. What?
Did you practice it? And did you communicate
it?
Did you tell it to somebody else both
are important. And the last question is
in terms of earnings
Where did you earn from
and what did you spend on?
The incoming and the outgoing.
So where did you earn the money from?
Was it halal, haram? What?
What are the source?
And
please understand it. There is no little bit
of halal, little bit of halal together. No.
There's no fusion.
Yeah. You have to be correct. Everything
has to be halal. There's no mixture of
this and that. 10%, 15%, none of that.
And then where did you spend it?
You may earn halal, but you're spending might
not be halal. And vice versa, if you
are if you are earning if you're earning
halal, there is no halal spending. I mean,
what is
earned. Haram is haram. But I'm saying it
is possible. You can earning can be halal.
But then spending
in israf, in doing all kinds of things,
in harabs. So the now the point is
these are 4 questions.
If we can inshallah, may Allah make it
easy for us. If we can answer these
four things,
then
we are safe.
And we are not only safe just today,
tomorrow. We are safe forever. After that, there
are no other questions.
These 4 questions are the last questions that
will ever be asked
to the human being and Allah knows best
after which there is no test, afterwards there
are no questions, then go into Jannah.
Inshallah, we ask Allah
for his Jannah.
So let us focus on that. This is
what Allah sent us for. Let us focus
on these 4 things,
forget about everything else.
And the beauty is that if you focus
on these 4 things, everything else gets taken
care of automatically. That is the whole beauty
of this lab that if you focus on
the basic fundamentals,
everything else gets taken care of automatically.
Now you might say, if I pray in
the masjid, how does everything else Praying in
the masjid means what? Means your life has
become disciplined. It means when you come into
the masjid, you are learning, understanding what is
the meaning of salah and the masjid.
You are building relationships.
It's not just a matter of, you know,
mechanically going there Allahu Akbar
go home.
No. There is a whole,
issue of, you know, all the benefits of
coming and praying in the margins, all of
which you get just by our actions.
So I'm not going to spend more time
on all of them. This is important. Just
think about this inshallah,
Allah will make it clear for clear for
us. So let us try to focus on
this inshallah.
And then we ask Allah
his Jannah.
his Jannah.