Mohammad Ali Hazratji – Reflect on the Quran #62 Surah Al Takathur P2
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Salam alaykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh
Bismillah Alhamdulillah wa Salatu was Salam ala Rasulillah. While he
was happy he woman whether
we praise and glorify Allah subhanaw taala as he deserves and
resend the choices of peace and blessings on the Noble Messenger,
our beloved prophet muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and
his noble family and his companions. We ask Allah subhanaw
taala to make this gathering one of prayer, one that will carry
weight on our scales, on the Day of Judgment,
gathering that she accepts and blesses
and grants us if last in our gathering, in our learning and
teaching together,
and that Allah subhanaw taala help us to internalize what we hear of
his words,
his message that he has sent to us through Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam.
We ask Allah subhanaw taala to open our hearts to the
understanding of the Quran
and help us to act on it in the best possible way.
We ask the last $1 to show us truth as the truth and falsehood
as falsehood and help us to stay away from falsehood and to embrace
the truth and act upon it.
So the surah that we have chosen for today's class is the 100 and
second surah towards the end of the Quran,
Surah MacArthur.
Allah subhanaw taala says Alpha Herceptin and Nima Holika, nakoma.
aberto are unknown. Elena LaTorre Jiang, Allah subhanaw taala says,
a hospital do you then think, and Nima halacha na ko Mahabharatha
that we created you? It just is idle play
ingest Well, under coma Elena La Torre Joan that you would not be
brought back return to us for a day of judgment. So Allah subhanaw
taala is reminding us that we are going back to him, and that we
have to lead our lives in a way that reflects that and that's the
preparation for it. So here he is saying, if you knew that with Elmo
Liukin you would not allow the worldly gain and competition to
become a distraction for you from things that are more meaningful,
such as the purpose of your creation, and the oboe dia of
Allah subhanaw taala. In the next AI Allah subhanaw taala says,
Lazzara wouldn't just name the lamb of Tackett of stressing that
certainly, Tara wouldn't guna not Corona. You will certainly that is
to emphasis the beginning and end of this by saying Lazzara winner
and indeed you will.
Letter A winner Jehangir, Haim is one of the names of the blazing
Fire
something that scares you like the the law and the eyes of a hungry
lion staring at you. The Janome is going to look at us like that.
Allah subhanaw taala says Lazzara wouldn't know Jehane indeed you
will. And when he says this, it is everyone even people going into
Janna have to see Janome and go over it and cross it. That Surat
that bridge over Jana. So that the purpose for them having to see it
so that they may know how fortunate they are, how blessed
they're not to end up there. And of course for those who end up in
Jannah it is there for them. Then Allah subhanaw taala again,
stresses thumb, again, Lazzara wouldn't know how * yachting
and Indeed, indeed without a doubt, you will see her which is
the hellfire, * yaki. Now Allah subhanaw taala says you will see
it with your own eyes, so it will no longer be L Molly again.
The certainty that was based on what you had heard what you had
believed in what you had knowledge of Johanna now you will have a
nearly RP
You will have certainty by having seen it.
And there is one other level that Allah subhanaw taala talks about
in the Quran elsewhere, which is happily again so three anomoly
attain knowledge at nearly akin certainty that comes from seeing
and happily attain, which is the reality of it. Okay, let's take an
example.
We all have knowledge that there is a fruit called a mango. We are
certain there is a fruit called mango. l Molly again knowledge of
it. Now somebody brings you a crate of mango and you see it
that's I know the again you have seen it with certainty This is a
mango. Now you cut and you taste it, then you know, the Haqiqa the
the reality of this Yachty
another example, you see smoke somewhere
you know there is a fire, that's emolia 10 you can see the fire,
but you know there is smoke, what generates it is a fire so there
must be a fire. Then you come close, you drive close to that
smoke and you see the flames that's Angel yapping. And you come
closer and suppose the flame touches you and you feel the burn
of it. That is happily ugly.
So that's the ultimate level of certainty. When we are entered
into Jannah that will be the happily attain because we will
experience it people who are entered into Jahannam and may
Allah subhanaw taala protect us all from that once they feel that
fire and the burn that will be helpful your team but everyone
else will see I know your pain and we as believers have
L Malia pain that yes, it is real. So Allah subhanaw taala is telling
us that that day is coming, the Hellfire will be there you will
all experience it, either by seeing it by crossing it or by
being entered into it.
Then in the last ayah Allah subhanaw taala says from Allah to
Aluna Yo Ma in any name from then surely let us alone again the
structure is with emphasis emphasis means there should be no
doubt in your mind. Let us alone now you will be asked not not to,
not to Soluna which means you will be asked that to Soluna they will
structure says there is a tequila there is emphasis in the beginning
of the word there is a tequila with a second known at the end.
Without doubt.
On that day Yo my then you will be asked about what an in name namah
means blessing, the plural of Nama is Nan
Nam
name means one who has continuously experienced
experience the blessings of Allah Subhana. Now just remember, on the
day when we think of the Day of Judgment, when we say you will be
questioned. We always think of our deeds, our family, our dues what
you did what you didn't do.
And about that the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam told us
that on the Day of Judgment, if somebody is asked about his deeds,
if he is questioned, then he is HELOC is destroyed.
Because it's Allah's mercy that he will not even ask people who he
wants to enter into agenda. He will enter them
that's why the Prophet salallahu alayhi salam frequently in his da
at the end of Salah used to ask Allah Who mania Seroka
along India so Luca Hasani, a Syrah or Allah I asked you for an
easy hisab accounting and our mother Omona Aisha Radi Allahu
anha said Ya rasool Allah, what is that this as this easy reckoning?
He said, easy reckoning is when Allah subhanaw taala does not ask
you anything. Because if he asked you then you are in trouble
already. That's about the deeds. And we all know that. Here Allah
subhanaw taala saying you will be asked about the blessings.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi salam said one of the first things
you will be asked about Allah subhanaw taala will say Did we not
give you good health and cold water to drink?
So we will be asked about good health.
We will be asked about cold water will be asked about the sleep that
we have.
The beds we sleep in
the food that we eat, and we enjoy the cold water on the hot day.
All of those things
Power wealth. We only think it's wealth of course will be asked you
will be asked about the children I gave you them as a blessing not to
take you away. What did you do with them? How did you do? What
did you teach them?
Where you earned your money where you spent it.
What did you do with the strength
that I gave you? of your body and your mind in your youth? What did
you do with your youth? What did you do with the 80 years of long
life I gave you?
What did you do with the spouse I gave you?
Allah subhanaw taala has bounties is now Hannah is now are countless
at every moment. If we are going to be asked about cold water,
will we not be asked about the cold breeze that we enjoyed?
The fresh air that we breathe,
that we only noticed when we go to a highly polluted city somewhere
and we have trouble breathing?
Will we not be asked about fresh air will be not be asked about the
cool that we feel?
will be not will we not be asked about the rain that comes down as
a blessing. Now man is so ungrateful that we complain about
everything if it gets a little cold. We will complain if it's too
cold. If it gets a little hot, we complain it's too hot.
If there's little rain, we complain that there's not enough
rain. If Allah sends a lot of rain, we complain there's too much
rain.
Everything is a blessing. So whatever comes we should take it
as a blessing. We should show gratitude to Allah subhanaw taala
if I'm able to sleep,
I should be grateful to ask if I am allowed to wake up tomorrow
morning, I should do Hamlin sugar one last one and tell her that you
did not take my soul give me another day.
Everything that I eat and enjoy every single moment. Every My
heart is beating. I'm not aware who's running this the show here
and inside.
One command, it stops, nobody can restart.
Everything that's going on within me is a blessing of Allah subhanaw
taala I will be asked and you can put it all together within me as
good health. Just one word, good health. So is the Hadith paddison
You will be asked about
good health. What did you do with your good health, the least we can
do is recognize it, try and maintain it, thank Allah subhanaw
taala for and then to use that in ways that Allah is pleased.
Similarly with wealth,
how we earn it, and how we spend it, the minimum of which is to
earn Hala and to spend first by giving the cat and then some
inside the car, then for the family, then for anything else,
but not use it, to compete with other and show and brag that I
have arrived. Look, I am so successful. That's the wrong use,
to use wealth, to influence people to bribe people
to use it in the disobedience of Allah Subhana Allah all of those
are
questions that we will have to answer a lot smarter will ask us
for everything. And just remember the more he has given us, the more
wealth we have. The longer the question
Is the story from among the Asharam of Bashara, the 10 who are
given the story of the OVA given the Bashara, the glad tidings of
Jannah in their lifetime, the 10 companions of the Prophet
sallallahu sallam. Among them were two very wealthy people.
So you're the North Mount or the Allah Han. And
it will come to me in a moment I'm
just gonna say you're gonna do Rockman in now.
So
one day, the Prophet salallahu alayhi salam who was given the
visions and experience of what Jana is and what would happen and
the day of judgment, He told. Say you're looking at Aisha the Alana,
that I saw all my companions coming to me in Jana, and one was
missing
outdoor furniture in our house
was missing and missing and missing. And then I became
concerned, is he not going to come?
Then he arrived he came late. And when I asked him What took you so
long? He said, You had a soda I had to give accounting for all my
wealth.
So this story
was told to other month now off
by someone that our mother eyeshadow the Alana narrated this,
so he came running to her said Yeah, yeah, Amana Aisha. Is it
true? That Rasul Allah salAllahu Alaihe Salam said, I'll be the
last of his companions to join him. And I will come crawling.
She said yes. Because you would have to give accounting for all
your wealth.
So he left and everything he had you given charity,
everything. But then Allah gave him more so this was his thing. So
the more we have, the moral of the story is more we have the more
accounting we have,
which is not all good. It's just test.
But it's the more we have and the more we spend it in good
Hamdulillah that elevates our
agenda
so the theme of the surah is that there is one year Cain. Elsewhere
Allah subhanaw taala tells us for our booth rabuka Hashtag, kill
your cane, worship Allah till your pain comes to you and that yaki is
dead. No matter, believer, disbeliever Hindu, Sikh, Muslim
Nasrani atheist, everyone
knows that my end is dead. That's a certainty Allah smart Allah
calls it the ultimate again. So Allah smart Allah says, You will
come to that you will come to your graves before that prepare,
fulfill the purpose for which I have created you, which is to live
in this world, humbly like a slave of Allah. subhanaw taala that's
why the Prophet salallahu alayhi salam told, as we mentioned in the
last halacha we had also answer that one day the Prophet
sallallahu wasallam
grabbed ahold of this young boy, Satan, Abdullah Muhammad Katara,
the Allah Han, Abdullah now is to say, held him by the shoulders,
and he says to him,
confit dunya Amna, Calgary or others.
Be in this world. He's telling this young man this is the best
advice he's giving in holding him to catch his attention. He's
saying confit dunya Anika, very be in this world, like you are a
stranger. Oh are very savvy, or a traveler.
And let's understand that, that if you come to a strange land, you're
a stranger. You don't feel too comfortable. You don't get very
comfortable.
Because this is not my place. I am in a strange land. And literally,
we are strangers here on earth. Because our land, our destination,
our where we came from our homes were in Jannah. We are here as
strangers trying to get back to our agenda.
Or be like a traveler. The prophets of Allah, Allah Salam
said, be like a traveler. And as we travel, for example, by train,
when it comes to a stop at a station when you're traveling in
our countries in the Far East, 15 minutes tops here. You don't go to
the waiting room and you start building things and decorating the
waiting rooms they have waiting rooms, or you are in the airports
you have a connecting flight because you are a traveler. You
don't start unpacking and decorating and putting curtains
and this and that and arranging because we are travelers it's up
to you it's a fool because I have to move
my connecting flight is coming
or is right around the corner. So he said Salas from live like that,
in other words,
always be ready for that announcement. All passengers on
Flight such and such please go to get such and such that's what we
are. The announcement will come medical module calm. Yeah, Allah
has Reggie. Your announcement is calm. Let's go to the gate exit
from this dunya
that's how it is.
That's how prepared we have to be and it can happen anytime. Allah
may give us 10 years and let me give us 10 days Allama give us 10
hours.
Are we prepared?
And then another narration in the same same incident?
The Prophet sallallahu nisab there's this edition, this zeod
which says we're old enough secca mean us Habel COBOL and count
yourself from the people of the grave. He's telling this young boy
Abdullah in Amara, the hola Noma and count it be like a stranger or
traveler and count yourself from us humble Kabu like you are a
person who has been buried.
One day
Abdullah bin Massoud Sian Abdulla bin Matsudaira, the Allah Han came
to visit the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam, who had had a nap
and he had been resting the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam
setup, and he did not have an upper garment it was just the ease
on which the Lord garment covering him as the Prophet salallahu
Alaihe Salam set up the match date bomb match that crisscross pattern
was imprinted all over his back on which he had been sleeping
hard surface with this mat. So Abdullah Masuda the Alon looked at
it and he felt it this is Rasul Russell and this is the best of
Alaska so yeah rasool Allah, Allah Allah, Allah salah, if you would
just give us permission, we can put something on this mat, a few,
you know, a sheet or a little mattress to make it more
comfortable so that your normal body doesn't have to suffer from
this discomfort and this pattern on your back. So he's just asking
permission and Rasul allah sallallahu sallam said, Molly,
what between me? And what do I have to do with this? Dunya
mean? In other words, he said, then you said, I'm just a
traveler. He said, My example is like that of a traveler who comes
to rest under a tree, the shade of a tree, and he rest for a while,
and then he continues on his journey. So why should we worry
about so much comfort, so much luxury? That everything has to be
perfect. This is the example he gave some longer than he was. And
this is the life he left Somalia so
what are the kinds of things we will be asked about
one day so you're gonna have a backup.
So you're gonna Abu Bakr said, they
came out of his house, in the middle of the afternoon? Why in
the heat, because he had been starving, he got so hungry with
hunger pains, he couldn't stay in his house. So let me just go
outside and walk. And guess who he meets there in the heat. So he had
an eye over,
even on Katara the alarm? So he asks him, what brings you out in
this heat? To say it now I said, hunger, I was so hungry, I came
out to get distracted that maybe so they are talking to each other
and sharing their words of how hungry they were. And these are
the best of the sahaba.
then lo and behold, guests who comes along, say other novices
must apply this and so what are the two of you doing here?
CPR assume the hunger brought us out from our homes.
Rasulullah sallallahu sallam said, My condition is the same.
Then he said, looking not for himself, but looking at his
companions. He said let's go. So he takes them to the house of an
unsightly family who was a little bit better off.
Today go and knock on the door. And he says salaam no answer. He
knocks a second time no answer. Third time he says Salaam and is
about to leave. And then the door opens. And this the Sahaba the
wife of that Ansari opens the doors to Yara so allah sallallahu
we heard you the first time but we didn't answer because we wanted
you to say salaam to us again for the blessings of that. Please come
in. This is the most most gracious guests that we've had. So she they
go into the house and he asks her Do you have anything for us to
eat?
Imagine, say another sort of masala. Listen, based upon that
creation. We're like and feed anything he wants. But as example
for us. So you're now working. So you're
just then the sahabi the inside he comes and he opens the door and he
sees these great companion. He says there has never been more
blessings in this house than to have these guests. So he looks at
their state and he knows immediately it goes out
immediately. He has a dead palm trees and you've got a whole bunch
in a whole big
thing of D
ate, some are ripe, some are semi ripe, some are very ripe, some are
raw, brings the whole thing in and puts them in front of them. ETRs
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam said you should have just brought
some for us to eat. Because you might like the right one you might
like the not so right one, so I brought them. So they eat that and
he brings cold water for them to drink, and they drink.
Then he pulls out his knife and Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam
knows where he's going. He says, Don't sacrifice any milk or giving
animal because he knows that he's going to do the best for them. So
he goes, he sacrifices an animal and brings us food and they come
they enjoy the food. Then Rasul Allah salAllahu Alaihe Salam said,
on the Day of Judgment, you will be asked about this.
People who were starving. So why Yasuda will be asked about this is
a gap because you came hungry, and you're leaving with your stomachs
for the NEMA philosophy and the cold water that you drink, you
will be asked about it.
When we say you will be asked about it is to stress for us that
we have to be grateful at all times for all these blessings that
we take for granted.
That we just assume that this is my right? That I have to have cold
water if I have a little warm water it's no bring me throw this
and bring me cold water, put ice in it. Whatever is given to you
drink, don't complain whatever food is, don't complain the
prophets Allah Allah Allah, so I've never complained about the
food. If he didn't like something, he wouldn't eat it. You would eat
something else, but he didn't say what is this. So, gratitude for
what Allah subhanaw taala has granted us, let us be people who
are always
grateful to Allah subhanaw taala whatever situation we are in, to
be happy to be content that is wealth. richness is richness of
greener running of the cult, the person who has little and
dissatisfied is the richest he doesn't need anymore.
told you about the story of of
alginate Al Baghdadi or not Allah Allah, He came with the fuqra his
ASABE they will call the for Cara, to Makkah for for umrah and they
were sitting in a halacha. And the news got around that alginate is
here. And one generous good Muslim who had not a wealth brought a bag
of gold. And he put it there as heavier. He said, Your chef This
is for you and your focus
or to his generosity.
Then alginate amatola Ask this man is Jazak Allahu Karim Allah
increase what you have, then he asked him, Do you have more of it?
He said yes, we have more. I have a lot more is would you like more?
He said yes, I would like more. So then you picked up that bag, and
he gave it back to him. He said you are more in need of this than
me and my focus.
Because we are so rich, we have no need for any. Anyone who needs is
not rich. So having is not the thing, it's the contentment. So
let us be content with what Allah subhanaw taala has given us of
everything, wealth and children, let us make sure that we deal with
them in the way that Allah Subhana Allah is pleased that we fulfill
the rights of our children, the rights of children is not to be
fed, and overfed and made obese and more food and more clothes and
more toys and more iPhones. The right for the children is to be
taught to know who the rub is to recognize their lab to be grateful
to the lab to worship them. To know that the to know the status
of Rasulullah sallallahu. Listen, to know his Syrah, to know his
companions to have heroes from the Sahaba not what we have of trash
around today in the showbiz in the sports world and all of that.
So, that is what our duty to our children is when we say education
today we take pride my child graduated from Harvard, or Yale or
so and so and so and so on. He got this job and he has an MBA and he
has a PhD. Does he know Allah?
If he doesn't know, Allah doesn't know His Rasul doesn't know the
Quran doesn't know that then you can be a PhD from every institute
in the world from Sorbonne, to heart to Harvard to Yale, to to,
you know, anywhere else, you will zero.
Teach the children that that's the right of the children.
Use the wealth property
that is generate the wealth we are not saying that
Don't work what we are saying don't be in a state of imbalance,
where you are running after abandoning prayers abandoning Juma
running after things and forgetting the main thing. So
don't be among the people I'll heckle with the health of those
who won this competition for plenty and more and more
distracted from the main purpose, which was the purpose for which
they were created. The ability of Allah subhanaw taala, to be good
stewards on this earth for Allah subhanaw taala his Khalifa, to
live by His laws to reflect in our a flap, you know, the safe out of
Allah subhanaw taala of Russia, of truthfulness, of generosity, of
magnanimity of justice, all of those should be reflected in our
flag. That's what we are here for. Not a competition for wealth, and
more possessions and children that I have more than much my child is
better than yours. Competition. Allah is good, Allah has put
competition but he tells us to compete for what he said was sorry
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race with each other compete with each other for Allah's mafia is
forgiven, but Jannati or the Hassan Allah to Allah or
for the Jannah, whose width is greater than the heavens in the
earth compete for that competing hierarchy in goodness, the Sahaba
competed. So you know Omer and Satan Abu Bakr always competing,
who can do better, who can do more. And we have many stories and
examples of that. Compete in those things. Competing who can give
more, who can give more to the masjid, who can spend more in
Ramadan for the refugees who can support who can sponsor more
orphans who can feed more people feeding feeding the poor, people
are hungry, we have food that we are throwing away.
We
fast because it's far too fast because it is Mr. Hub we fast
because it's a sunnah.
There are people who are fasting not out of choice because they
have no food to
feed people.
The Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam gave great emphasis on feeding
people.
Not to feed people, the poor,
give support people so spend wealth in a way where it becomes
an asset for us. I'll finish with this one Hadith,
which we also know the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam says, the
son of Adam says Miley Miley my wealth miles. He says, what is his
wealth is only three categories. One, what he has eaten, consumed,
and excreted what is finished. Number two, the clothes that he
has worn and worn out.
And number three, what he has spent for the Archaea in good
deeds.
The first two, we call consumables, clothes and food
they're consumed and finished.
What we sent for the Accra is a true asset, except we don't see
those assets.
We will see them in the Day of Judgment. So the wise person is
not just a consumer. He's an investor.
He wants to have his assets. But his assets are not held in any
Swiss accounts, they're held with a loss of habitat.
assets don't go away. They're they're
the word the last one Tala uses and what the Prophet sallallaahu
Lucilla uses in this hadith is the wealth that has been sent forward
is your asset. And the other two are consumables. So let us be
those who use things of this dunya to what we need. But we prepare
for the Africa and we put all of our assets and majority of our
assets of our possessions for the Africa by spending in ways that
Allah is pleased,
pleased with us and blesses us with.
So we ask Allah smart Allah to make the reality of this surah be
reflected in our lives, that he hold us back from this grid and
competing and distraction for more and more of the dunya and whatever
he blesses us because whatever is written is going to come to us
is
acquired and spent in a way that He is pleased that on the Day of
Judgment, we are not held back with big accounting and big
accounting. But Allah makes gives us hisab in your car, easy his
May Allah subhanaw taala make us see that Jahannam from a distance
from a distance that we don't even feel it
Heat. May Allah smart Allah help us to pass by His mercy and by our
good deeds that Suraj over the fire towards into Jana, at the
speed of lightning me. And may Allah subhanaw taala gather us
with Rasulullah Salallahu Salam and his noble companions, the
ashram of Russia and the others. Even though our current lives, my
current life does not reflect the lives that they lived. May Allah
subhanaw taala give us humility, and he give us simplicity in our
lives. And we should reflect that in our children get out of the
habit of buying more and more and more for them, because then they
become the same when they grow up, they will want more and more It's
never satisfied, how long they're thrilled when a child that has one
toy will play with it forever. The one who gets one every day, after
five minutes is thrown, that one's the next one. Because he's bored.
So let us not be one who is born with the NAM of Allah subhanaw
taala but one who appreciates everything that He gives us, every
sip of water.
We're going to end with that and I hope at least some of us are
fasting today's the day of dassia. The ninth of the heartland,
tomorrow is the day of Ashura. Shara is the 10th of Muharram
which is the day if we fast fie Salini Allah, Allah subhanaw taala
wipes out the previous eras sins, the minor sins, the major sins, of
course require Toba and we can also those who get faster they can
do 10 and 11 can do the day after those who want can do 910 11 And
it doesn't end with that because the prophets and Allah Islam
taught us that the most virtuous month of fasting after a month of
Ramadan is the month of Muharram. So extra fast in this, this is the
best month of fasting, and that's a good way to start the new year.
So may Allah subhanaw taala accept the fasting Allah's want to like
accept this gathering, and make it blessed and weighty on the Day of
Judgment because Allah Subhana Allah mode the hyung lick now
shall not lie learners prefer one or two
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