Mohammad Ali Hazratji – Reflect on the Quran #39 Surah Al Asr P2
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The loss of the dams and the loss of the dams is the main cause of Surah Al Asad's loss. The loss is caused by the loss of the dams and the loss of the dams. The speakers emphasize the importance of waking up to action and spending time in one's life to avoid losing it, and stress the need for taking time into one's life to avoid losing it. The speakers also discuss recipes for winning a racing event and emphasize the importance of living in the d union.
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We begin this session with the praise of Allah subhanaw taala
and sending Peace and blessings on his Noble Messenger, our beloved
prophet muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, we ask Allah subhanaw
taala to increase us in useful knowledge, knowledge that brings
us closer to Him. We ask Allah subhanaw taala to open the hearing
channels of our hearts to his remembrance and words that remind
us of him. We ask Allah subhana dialogue to show us truth as the
truth and falsehood as falsehood and help us to follow the truth
and stay away from falsehood.
We begin our session today with a short Tafseer of Surah Al Asad.
Allah swath Allah says elsewhere
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And, indeed, those are the losers who lose themselves and their
family, your Malkia lose means who ended up in Jannah they ended up
and their family who they spent all their time and in servicing
and doing all of this and
Allah Subhana Allah says, Allah Velyka, who will Hassan who will
movie
this is clearly a horse run a great loss that you lost and you
took your family with you in house.
So this is how the word horse run is is used. So how is inside
always in a state of horses. Now interestingly, Allah subhanaw
taala has put this surah between Surah Takato and Surah Hamza.
So some of the commentators have said that this surah is located
between two Hassan
hoarser Because Allah subhanaw taala in attack after that is
before this, says Al Hakim with Takato al Hakim of the castle had
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that your desire, your greed, your immersion, you're
being consumed for things of this dunya
you are consumed till you come to your graves. In other words,
you are so distracted by the wanting success and possessions
and materials in this dunya that it has distracted you. You're
preoccupied with it with the main purpose that you are supposed to
work on. So that's a loss.
This will lead you to loss in the dunya because now you're reaching
your grave. What comes after the sural come algumas
alumina, Allah Samantha Luz talks about the people who cheat and who
do all of those things. And he talks about the destination that
Jana, that's a loss, loss of dunya here loss in the Afra here between
those Allah Swatara has put the surah off while us
so, the central theme of the surah the Jawaban Assam is that indeed
there is state of great loss, which human beings are in general
subjected to in other words, the majority are in a state of loss.
And the loss in the dunya is what what leads to anxiety is what
leads to fear what leads to depression, what leads to
insecurities, what leads to broken families, what leads to all of the
things that give you a peaceful existence you
lose all of that that's a loss of this dunya no matter what worldly
possessions you have, you may have billions and you need to take
drugs you may have billions where you don't have a stable
relationship and so on so forth that the material toys do not make
up for the inner peace that a person is looking for.
And of course, this also, the consequence of this is loss in the
author.
Allah subhanaw taala tells us that this in life is a life of toil of,
of struggle,
and we have to keep struggling till we meet Allah Subhana Allah
subhanaw taala says, You Helen said in Naka cada hon Isla Rob
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indeed you as individuals and collectively, Kadam you are
toiling
towards your Lord, in other words, time is passing, crawling towards
your Lord, you have been given a time you are toiling and you're
toiling painfully
got the hand
for Malarkey, because at the end of this road, you are going to
meet Allah Subhana Allah.
You know, what if you set a timer on something, the common timers we
have it goes like bee bee bee bee bee bee bee when the last few
seconds or last seconds lf it goes, the BBB BBB to tell you the
time is coming to an end. That's where we are in our lives.
So Allah is one of the law tells us who is at a loss all of mankind
in general. How do we know that? Because the next is Allah subhanaw
taala starts with Allah. Except Allah has made an exception. What
does having an exception mean? means there's a general rule.
Everyone, and here's the exception, generally, who do you
have more of more exceptions are more general, more general. That
means all of mankind is in a state of loss. Il Alauddin
X except those so these are the exceptions. And if we look at the
Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi salam in one narration,
which is certainly he said that on the Day of Judgment out of every
1999 will be destined for the hellfire. General Illa that one.
So how wants to be now you can say well, now I know it. I know it's
point 1%. Now, it's not about that. The question is, how can I
be that one?
Allah subhanaw taala gives us So what is happening here?
What is happening here is
we are racing into Johanna
racing to journal and
what we are being given is a formula that is a formula of
salvation to save yourself.
Because the exceptions are few and rare.
Here Allah subhanaw taala does not use the word Catherine, he doesn't
say in Nell Catherine.
He says in NL in Santa Fe course. He doesn't say in Nell kathira.
In other words, it's not just the calf or anyone who is wasting
their life away. Although some of them have a zero and have said
well, this is more for the Catholic because believers will go
to Jana but if the believers don't use the time properly, they are
losing, they might enter
but what is about the grades of Jana? What about the detour into
Jana?
So, everyone has to take this individually this insane that
Allah is talking about in Al Insana, you start combat in early
Hazaragi. In Fatima, in harlot, whoever you are, Allah is talking
about me, I am in a state of loss, I need to become that exception.
Okay. So we need to specify this Don't say Oh, this is for all of
mankind. This is being specified, so that we are not immersed in
failure think of it not about others, that so and so this leader
is is in a state of loss or so and so you know,
person who I don't like it's about me. It's about I, I, I am in a
state of loss if I don't shave,
because it's all about me on the day of judgment, it is knifes
enough. See, as we've talked many, many times, everyone will be
worried about them selves. So the idea is to take care of yourself
now.
Then Allah subhana, Allah gives us the formula of salvation, of
safety of survival. Because if everybody is drowning,
well, everybody is good being thrown in Jana, the one who has
just stepped back from it, the one that he's pulled out, here we are
not talking about, you know, forgotten Island this surah is
telling you first step before you aspire for further dose of Allah
which we are told to do, ask Allah for, for those Allah Allah. But
before that, save yourself from January 1, you have to
have a past grade before you get an A plus. So this surah is about
survival about salvation, versus grades of success of the Raj out
of it in the anchor, salvation from the hellfire, salvation from
destruction, salvation from eternal loss, because when
survival is in question, you forget about everything else. And
the success only comes after you have secured your survival. So
this is the bare minimum, this formula that Allah has given us is
the bare minimum, to keep us from being in a state of loss in the
dunya. And in state of loss and the Accra minimum, what's required
for safety from hellfire. This is the entry level, the base level
engine, and the grades of success come after that.
Now the question is, how do we define success? Because everyone,
we are programmed in our genome to want success, there is no person
who wants to be a failure, everyone wants to be successful.
Now the question is, what is it that you consider success? How do
you define success? How do we define success? How does the
society define success? So today, we have you know, the rich and the
famous so and so is successful, so and so what has been hammered to
us over and over again, is the success of capitalism, of
possessions of wealth of rank, you know, of connections,
that has been made the standard of success. And Allah subhanaw taala
gives us counter narratives to that by telling us look, you think
power is successful? Will you ever be as powerful as Iran?
Would you call your own successful? Do you think wealth?
Is the criteria of success? Will you ever have wealth like our own?
Who was just the keys of his treasures were carried on camels?
Will you ever have that? Would you call him successful?
And so on, so forth, nations that had strength, more powerful than
anyone else? Allah subhanaw taala describes them
to tell us that these false notions of success you need to
take off
because Allah subhanaw taala define success in this in our
lives as the one who has saved himself from the hellfire and
entered, Jana is the one who is successful.
So that's what we need to define.
So
the survival kit that Allah subhanaw taala has given us in the
Surah is a four part formula. Allah smart Allah gives us four
conditions. When he says Illa Allah Deena when he gives that
exception, that be that one out of the 1000 that will be successful
on the Day of Judgment. First requirement, as we all know,
without rich which is the basic foundation from which everything
else emerges, which is Mr. Elon Medina, Amman.
Without that no matter what you do, you are a failure, failure in
dunya failure. Now,
there may be apparent success in the dunya in terms of wealth and
so on, so forth, but still failure in the inner states of lack of
lack of tranquility, of stress and anxieties and depressions and all
of those things that come with it. No peace internally,
and the eternal failure and so Iman and I
As we know, I'm not going to go over the art kind of image, all of
you know that. But part of that image also is to have imagine that
our lives are running out the oath that Allah took.
How seriously do we take that? If we hear that, that Allah is is
swearing, taking an oath and then saying in law fee all of these
tacky distresses to say that your life time is running out? The
urgency?
So do I have that Amen? That the yes, my life is running out, I
need to do something.
If I don't, then I'm weak in my state of emotion, because emotion
is not a state of knowing it's not an intellectual thing. It has to
be deep inside. So if it is inside the manifestation of this emotion
on just that portion would be that I change. I turn my life around,
right change my priorities, I spend more time doing something.
I'm not no longer the person who you know, spend three minutes and
Sarah and 30 minutes in front of the TV.
Because that tells us where our priorities are.
So, first part of this is Iman conviction certainty.
And as I said, Here, Allah subhanaw taala doesn't tell us
Iman biller or human in the melodica human in the books,
that's assumed, but also email on what the autistic and the time is
running out this is serious take it seriously wake up. So, the
first thing is a wake up call to action because we are sleeping we
are inside we are forgetful NESEA in a state of forgetfulness, we
need that reminder. So, a person who is drowning a person who is in
in his last moment first thing what he has to do he has to wake
up and be conscious that I am drowning my life is going the
sunset is on the horizon. I need to do something so that then
propels this person what do I need to do to
to save myself that is the manifestation of Eman which comes
the fruit of Eman is always action because email is an internal
harmony. What's what's inside
but it has to show it's not enough to say and then Allah smart Allah
says we're among the salah hat and does righteous deeds and righteous
deeds is all of our deen everything that Allah has
commanded. Everything that Allah has recommended everything that
Allah is pleased with. And what Rasul Allah survived Islam told us
is of good and benefit of our actions, our actions that relate
to our booty of Allah subhanaw taala worship our actions that
relate to our interactions with the creation of Allah smart Allah,
with other human beings, our parents or relatives, our
children, our spouses, with our business partners, with our
friends, with our neighbors, and so on with animals with the
environment, all of those, I'm also on it
generally means what Allah has commanded what is pleased with,
done with the intention of pleasing Allah subhanaw taala. Not
to show people not to get points from people not to be recognized
and celebrated for Allah subhanaw taala.
And what's the best way of doing it? Look at the example of
Rasulullah sallallahu. That's mo Salah in general, and that covers
everything.
However, Allah subhanaw taala here normally talks only about Iman,
Iman Salah here, as he has added two more conditions, what also
will help what our service suffered.
So he's telling us, and all of these have a word with it. It's
and this and this and this, it's not our or this sort of It's a
four parts to salvation. It's not sufficient to have one, it's not
sufficient to have two, it's not sufficient to have three.
Your obligation is for
you want that salvation, you want to be the one that exemption for
parts, not enough just to in your personal labor that not enough
that you treat people properly. You have additional duty, which is
what also will help because the people around that's our support
structure, our families, our friends or acquaintances, the
other people around the society because they either pull us up or
they pull us down.
So if we go back to the example of the man who's drowning, who wakes
up, and he then starts to swim, to save himself, but if he's got a
rope tied to another person who was sleeping, he's not going to go
anywhere, that person is going to pull him down. So he needs to wake
up, the other person said, Get up, we are drowning.
Get up
10am The truth. Call him to the truth, the ultimate truth, that we
are going to lose unless we wake up and do what Allah smart Allah
has commanded us.
And in this calling of the truth is all of that making the half of
people, family, for neighbors for mankind, giving dollar telling
them what the truth is, this is the great job of given to the best
of human beings, ultimately, Rasulullah sallallahu, Stila, the
job of counseling,
the jaw, what we call enjoying good, honorable Morrow, financial
monka, forbidding evil, all of this comes under the law so we'll
help which is translated and most as enjoying
people towards good or exhorting people or calling people towards
what is good and help is everything because Allah is Allah.
In everything the Quran is how Rasulullah sallallahu listen is
help the teachings of Islam or Huck the reality of of Jannah or
Huck, as in that famous da that the Rasul Allah Salah al Islam
taught us in the beginning of the surah
Allah is up
meeting with him is Huck, the book is Huck, the messengers have
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam, everything is this is what
we are reminding, we are enjoying, we are exhorting we are reminding
because person keeps, because if we don't, and the whole
environment is going to *, and it's going to pot as they say, it
will have an impact on us. You cannot live in isolation. You
cannot live in isolation. So we need that support structure
starting with our own households, our families, our acquaintances, a
friend, and everywhere, all of society. Because you see how our
morals have been affected by the morals, decline of society.
We may never do some of those things. But we become desensitized
by seeing it over and over and over again. So it doesn't hurt us
as much. It doesn't put us help us put our guard and therefore
slowly.
We drop our guard, and then we become lacs. And then the gates
open for shaytani wasa.
Now when we are doing this, what's going to happen?
We are still in an environment where the current is flowing a
certain way. So you have to keep doing it. You have to keep doing
it. You have to have patience, you have to have perseverance. If the
person who's pulling you down goes back to sleep, you have to keep
waking him up. Sometimes they will yell at you. Sometimes they will
call you crazy. They will call you Majnoon they will call you
extremists. They will call you fundamentalist they will call you
boring they will give you all kinds of titles.
You have patience and you persevere.
The time on my answer Salah is already over Maghrib is coming. I
can give up now. This is the end of the race. So what have also
been helped, but they'll also be summer, me and everyone else I
exhort them to continue regardless of what the obstacles are. And
sometimes the end of the race you're tired and the tendency is
to give up. In fact, the the winners that's what we want to be.
They keep that extra energy for the last lap for the last half a
mile for the last 10 yards. Now I'm going to come on strong. That
is what our saw beside
the great Imam evening Tamia Rahim, Allah said, is reported to
have said that human beings are kept from salvation by two
obstacles. What are these two obstacles?
Shewhart
we're sure what, what are Shughart doubts?
Means I'm not certain at an intellectual level. These things
that you're talking about V Manaea. At the time is running out
that there is this coming? I have doubts therefore, I can't. I can't
get motivated to act so it keeps that person away. And Shaohua
bodily desires and the temptations that pull us to that.
So those are the things that pull us back from running from racing
towards Allah subhanaw taala. You know, being putting his obedience,
putting out a booty of him in center stage giving it its right.
So these two are a recipe to fight those two obstacles by telling us
to call towards help, that help that route will remove the
Shewhart the doubts we have, if you call people to truth in the
right way, those doubts will be removed. And
a solver will remove the second obstacle, which is the Schauerte
hanging the persevere, resist the temptations, because the end is
coming and the reward is great. So they'll also will hug will help to
remove those doubts would keep us from striving and the
worldly bodily desires by perseverance, and some animosity
against temptation and disobedience that would help
complete this package of the four things that the four recipes are
four keys to success of salvation, to keep us from being the people
who are in a state of loss.
One of the
trio from the Indian subcontinent.
In his
the fear of this Shah, well you will the * we said that.
If man only remembered a Yama Allah, the days of Allah.
If we just remember those what are those days, the ones in every day
is but once the Day when the earth was created, the day when Rasul
Allah salAllahu Alaihe Salam was born, the day when the Abba bill
came the day, you know, these major days, the day of, you know,
Arafa the day of either other, if you remember the day of Joomla of
the significance of these days, it would remind us about the rest of
the time, then it would we would not forget and be distracted and
fall into
that let time, every day be like that day of Allah, how important
and how significant is because every day of our life is
important. Every moment of our life is important. Every moment of
our life that is spent without awareness of Allah, in a state of
Wafula in a state that's just being ruffler or in a state where
we are disobeying in a state of Masia of sins, that is going to
come back to haunt us that is what makes us into losers. So as we
said in the beginning, that Abdullayev now Basara, the Allah
Allah said that our son here means the ages, the times that have gone
by, look at all those nations. Look at the alpha, the monuments,
the remnants that have been left when we look at these historical
things like the pyramids and the Great Wall.
What does it remind us it should remind us that nothing is
permanent time passes, civilizations have passed, great
people have passed, not so great people have passed. There is only
one lesson everything that is created will pass, every condition
will pass.
If you are in a state of great joy that will pass if you're in a
state of great sorrow that will pass everything passes.
We will pass just two days ago, one dear friend of mine who built
the the ispcc, the big mustard in Boston, passed from COVID At the
age of 60. I'd spent five weeks with him. In Argentina. We slept
next to each other we cooked together, we traveled together we
were just thinking, reflecting of all the things we did in five
weeks together.
And he was here
60 years old. Time is gone.
So what you take
is what's important and what you take is not what is left here.
What you take is how you lead your life, the evidence, how you spend
your time
and generally there is a link
between what Allah takes in all time,
and what is being sworn. So, time itself will be called as a witness
against us, whether we waste it or not.
And wasting of time is a major, major, major cause of loss. So may
Allah Subhana Allah help us to use whatever time we have left, and to
take this seriously and urgently, that life is coming to an end. And
we all agree to that, yes, we will die, everyone will die and we sing
these reminders all the time, all the time all the time. Yet it
doesn't sink in, because if it, we had your pain in it, we would
change.
We talk intellectually, we talk you know, we can talk many
different ways. But if it doesn't translate into action, it doesn't
transform our lives to one that is pleasing to Allah subhanaw taala
then it's been just an exercise in academic
indulgence.
So we ask Allah subhanaw taala to help sync the importance of these
words and embed them into our hearts.
Yes, we have to live in the dunya Yes, we have needs of this dunya
Yes, we have obligations in the dunya all of that should come
under the umbrella of our duty to Allah subhanaw taala duty to our
deen and among those Allah Swanton has given our duty of loving and
teaching and and feeding our families and supporting people and
all of that. So let us make sure that we do what we are supposed to
do and use our time wisely.
Subhan Allah Muhammad with the hem deck Michelle do Allah Allah Allah
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