Mohammad Ali Hazratji – Reflect On The QurAn – Surah Al Kahaf – Ayah 52 To 59

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The speakers discuss the importance of guidance in the Bible and avoiding mistakes, as well as the use of "rowling" and negative emotions. They stress the need for guidance and resetting behavior, as well as the importance of regular deeds and avoiding jeopardizing one's deeds. The conversation also touches on deeds and the importance of taking things seriously and finding time to sit by oneself.
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Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala continuing on
the theme of the Day of Judgment, He
says وَيَوْمَ يَقُولُوا نَادُوا شُرَكَئِيَ الَّذِينَ زَعَمْتُمْ فَدْعَوَهُمْ
فَلَمْ يَسْتَجِيبُوا لَهُمْ وَجَعَلْنَا بَيْنَهُمْ مَوْ بِقَامٍ Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala says, and on that
day Allah will say to the people who
worshipped other than Allah, bring your partners that
you thought were partners to me, call them,
call them.
نَادُوا شُرَكَئِي Call those who you took as
partners to me.
الَّذِينَ زَعَمْتُمْ whom you thought, that same, you
know, mistaken notions.
فَدْعَوَهُمْ and they will call.
They will call on those that they worship.
فَلَمْ يَسْتَجِيبُوا لَهُمْ and they will not respond.
There will be no response.
وَجَعَلْنَا بَيْنَهُمْ مَوْ بِقَامٍ Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala says, and we will put between them
a terrible barrier which is Jahannam.
And this barrier, some have said, is between
the one who is calling and who is
being called, which is the idols and everything
that is worshipped.
And some have said that this is the
barrier Allah puts between the disbelievers and the
believers.
That Jahannam is here.
This is the separation of the people.
وَرَأَ الْمُجْرِمُونَ النَّارَ and the criminals will see
the fire.
فَذَنُّوا أَنَّهُمْ مُوَاقِعُوهَا and they will now know
that they are certainly going to fall in
it.
وَلَمْ يَجِدُوا عَنْهَا مَصْرِفًا and they will find
no escape from it.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala protect us
all from that.
Protect our progeny till the Day of Judgment.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala never allow
any of our offsprings till the Day of
Judgment to go in a state of kufr
or shirk or major disobedience of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
وَلَمْ يَجِدُوا عَنْهَا مَصْرِفًا and they will not
find it.
It's in past tense.
It means certainly there will be nothing.
مَصْرِفًا means escape.
Something that helps you avoid the Jahannam.
So this is the scene.
Now interestingly Allah ends with this مَصْرِفًا in
the next ayah he starts with the same
root وَلَقَدْ صَرَّفْنَا مَصْرِفًا صَرَّفْنَا فِي هَٰذَا الْقُرْآنِ
لِلنَّاسِ مِن كُلِّ مَثَلٍ Same root صَرَفَ but
صَرَّفْنَا means something that is repeated in many
different ways.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says and
indeed صَرَّفْنَا فِي هَذَا الْقُرْآنِ In this Quran
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has presented things
in many different ways.
Why?
So that our thick skulls might be able
to allow it to penetrate so that we
can understand the reality.
وَلَقَدْ صَرَّفْنَا فِي هَذَا الْقُرْآنِ لِلنَّاسِ مِن كُلِّ
مَثَلٍ Everything, every kind of parable, every answer
to every problem of all of humanity, not
just to believers, in this Quran لِلنَّاسِ for
all of humanity.
Okay?
Everything.
So what Allah is saying in the Quran
is a solution for everything you face in
your life, guidance for everything.
It is there.
This is what Allah said.
Now we don't find it because our hearts,
the receptor, the waves are there.
The receptor isn't ready to receive it.
Well, first of all, if I don't read
the Quran, where am I going to find
it?
Second of all, when I face a problem,
do I turn to the Quran?
Or do I turn elsewhere?
Do I turn to Google?
Right?
Allah is saying answer to everything in the
Quran for every human being is in the
Quran for those who want to seek it,
who purify themselves to be able to extract
that.
That the Quran speaks to them.
This is not stories, you know, the two
men of the, you know, the people of
the cave.
These are not stories.
This is everything should speak to my heart.
When I face something like that, when I
have two gardens, when I have wealth, this
Quran should be speaking to me.
This is your responsibility.
This is what you need to do.
So if it is not, if we are
not extracting those lessons, if we are not
interacting with the Quran, it is because our
hearts are diseased and we are not ready.
وكان الإنسان أكثر شيء جدلا There is the
problem.
That indeed, mankind in general is the most
argumentative.
جدال If, but this, that, does it, arguing
about everything.
And this argument leads to a lot of
problems.
All the conflicts, the anger issues come from
arguments, the divorces come from, starting from the
union.
Then the countries are arguing with each other
and civilizations are arguing and the wars come
as a result and so on and so
forth.
So Allah SWT just says, telling us a
characteristic of mankind is وكان الإنسان أكثر شيء
More than anything else, man is argumentative, Allah
says.
Angels don't argue.
Okay.
Nothing, man is always argumentative.
And to what degree?
There is narration.
One day Rasulullah ﷺ, it was night time,
he went to visit, and if you've been
to Medina, the house of Sayyidah Fatima and
Ali was very close to the Prophet ﷺ.
It's like from here to that room.
So in the night he goes to them
and he finds them sleeping.
Is there anything wrong with that?
No.
So he says to them, You're sleeping?
You're not praying?
You're a different standard for his daughter and
son-in-law.
It means it's night time, you should be
up in Qiyamul Layl, you should be in
tahajjud.
Right?
He said, you're sleeping?
So Sayyidah Ali says, Ya Rasulullah, our souls
are, you know that, our souls are with
Allah SWT.
If he wants, he'll send the souls back
to us.
Did he say the right thing?
Yes, that's a fact.
So Rasulullah ﷺ turned around and he started
walking away and Sayyidina Ali says he hit
his thigh, his own thigh, and said, Man
is always argumentative.
So he took that as an argument that
Ali should have said, I'm sorry I fell
asleep, I should be praying.
But he said, Allah has taken our souls.
So, you know, this is telling us one
level, but we have got bigger problems than
that of not getting up for tahajjud.
We have much greater problems.
And we argue about different things.
Does this mean things?
And we argue about meaningless things which will
not affect our way of doing things because
what we need to do to please Allah
SWT is very clear.
There's no mutashabih, there's no doubts about it.
So, we need to just make things, take
things seriously.
Then Allah SWT says in ayah number 55,
I think we are running on schedule.
وَمَا مَنَ عَنَّاسَ أَن يُؤْمِنُوا إِذْ جَاءَهُمُ الْهُدَىٰ
وَيَسْتَغْفِرُوا رَبَّهُمْ إِلَّا أَن تَأْتِيَهُمْ سُنَّةُ الْأَوَّلِينَ أَوْ
يَأْتِيَهُمُ الْحَذَابُ قُبْلًا وَمَا مَنَ عَنَّاسَ And what
prevents mankind أَن يُؤْمِنُوا إِذْ جَاءَهُمُ الْهُدَىٰ When
guidance comes, what prevents man from accepting it?
Believing.
We all make mistakes.
What keeps them?
إِلَّا What keeps them?
إِلَّا except أَن تَأْتِيَهُمْ سُنَّةُ الْأَوَّلِينَ أَوْ يَأْتِيَهُمُ
الْحَذَابُ قُبْلًا It's their arrogance.
They say, well, what happened to the old,
to our ancestors?
Let's see if that happens to us.
Or, they're waiting, like they used to challenge
Rasulullah ﷺ in this Makkan Surah.
You know, okay, if you say Allah will
punish us, bring it on.
Bring it on.
And all nations before have done this.
Allah ﷻ says, guidance has come to you.
It's an opportunity.
It's a blessing from Allah.
It's Allah's gift.
Whatever you've done, ask for forgiveness.
يَسْتَغْفِرُوا رَبُّهُمْ Istighfar is so important.
We should always be in istighfar.
Rasulullah ﷺ, who is sinless, who is ma'soom,
you said that I do istighfar to Allah
70 times, 100 times a day.
He is doing istighfar.
How much do we need to do?
And istighfar removes every kind of difficulty.
Every kind.
If you read in the Qur'an, there
are ayahs in Surah An-Nu, about the
benefits of what istighfar does.
If you have famine, istighfar.
If you are barren, can't have a child,
istighfar.
If you are poor with nothing, istighfar.
Everything istighfar has, asking because you're removing those
sins which are holding back Allah's blessings from
you.
Istighfar, Allah ﷻ says, and Allah ﷻ says
in the Qur'an that we will not
punish them, Rasulullah ﷺ, till you are with
them.
Or if they are in istighfar, Allah's punishment
will not come.
So we can prevent Allah's punishment by being
with Rasulullah ﷺ.
He is not going to be with us.
What does it mean?
That if Allah looks on the earth, and
He does, and He sees the sunnah of
Rasulullah ﷺ alive, in your house, why would
Allah send a punishment to that house?
And He sees the residents of that house
in istighfar.
But if He sees households where there is
not one single sunnah of Rasulullah ﷺ, in
other words, we have thrown him out of
our house, ﷺ, then we are asking for
Allah's Allah.
So Allah ﷻ saying nothing prevents them other
than that obstinate arrogance that okay, we'll see.
Do what, you know, bring what you promise.
Or Allah says, or the punishment of Allah
is brought face to face before their own
eyes.
And some of the scholars have said that
this, it was a reference to the Battle
of Badr because this was the Makkan Surah,
that they will see Allah's punishment and most
of these leaders, the real criminals among the
Quraish, were killed in that Battle of Badr
like Abu Jahl, Utbah, Shaybah, and Walid ibn
Mughirah.
And all of them, most of the major
leaders were killed in this.
Allah ﷻ says, وَمَا نُرْسَلُ الْمُرْسَلِينَ إِلَّا مُبَشِّرِينَ
وَمُنذِرِينَ And we have not sent messengers except
as warners and givers of glad tidings, warning
them of what might happen by disobeying and
disbelieving and giving glad tidings for the believers
who do good deeds of what Allah has
promised.
So if you are saying, bring on to
the messenger, bring on punishment, Allah ﷻ said,
we didn't send him to punish you.
We sent him as a warner and as
a giver of glad tidings.
وَيُجَادِلُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا بِالْبَاطِلِ لَيُضْحِدُوا بِهِ الْحَقِّ And
the disbelievers, they argue with false arguments to
poke holes into the truth, al-haqq, which
Allah has sent.
They are trying to confuse people, argue against
the truth using false arguments.
وَاتَّخَذُوا آيَاتِي وَمَا أُمْذِرُوا هُزُوًّا And they have
taken my ayaat, here Allah ﷻ uses ayaati,
personal, my ayaat.
Ayaat is the verses of the Qur'an
and the signs that Allah has created.
There are two books, the book in the
universe, the ayaat signs, and the book which
is the written book.
The written and the apparent revealed, open book
of the universe.
They have taken them and وَمَا أُمْذِرُوا what
I have, the warnings I have sent as
huzuwa, as joke, as a mockery.
Oh, you promise fire?
Fire in the heavens?
We don't see any fire.
You talk about Day of Judgment?
It's not going to happen.
So they make a joke out of it,
out of everything.
I always get this thing, oh, so you're
working for the 72 virgins?
Quite, no problem.
We are doing this.
Oh, you think we are going, we are
all going to, those polytheists, may Allah guide
them.
Oh, you think you are the only chosen
ones?
We are all going to be.
We are, you know, everybody is going to
be in good shape, whatever their concept of
it is.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying, you
take my warnings and my ayaat as a
joke and you make mockery of it.
And sometimes, unfortunately, Muslims make mockery of Allah's
descriptions of Jahannam and of Jannah, especially of
Jannah.
Okay, we don't take these things seriously.
If we are making mockery of it, then,
you know, we have to be prepared for
the consequences.
Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, وَمَنْ
أَذْلَمُ مِمَّنْ ذُكِّرَ بِآيَاتِ رَبِّهِ فَأَعْرَضَ عَنْهَا And
who, this is a rhetorical question, and who
does greater wrong or greater injustice than one
who is reminded of the ayaat of his
Lord, reminded of this, فَأَعْرَضَ عَنْهَا and he
turns his back.
In other words, he ignores it.
I don't believe in it.
That's the ultimate, or doesn't say, I don't
believe, just turns their back to it.
In other words, does not follow through on
what that ayah is telling us to do.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, And who
does a greater wrong than one who is
reminded, ذُكِّرَ There is another reminder that one
of the reminders to believe in Allah is
because our souls had made a covenant with
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when they were
first created.
أَلَسْتُ بِرَبِّكُمْ قَالُوا بَلَا شَهِدْنَا Allah says, We
are reminded of that, that you made a
covenant to worship Allah alone and now you
have turned around.
And our covenant, when we say, لا إله
إلا الله محمد رسول الله that we will
worship you alone and lead our lives according
to Muhammadur Rasulullah.
And when we turn our backs on that,
it's the same thing.
Allah is saying, Who is doing a greater
wrong?
And who is this zulm being done on?
On Allah?
On ourselves.
Because the consequences are for us.
Okay?
Then, another important thing.
وَنَسِيَ مَا قَدَّمَتْ يَدَا And this person forgot
what he has sent forward with his hands.
In other words, the deeds.
So, not only does he turn back, but
he has forgotten all the sins that he
has done.
نَسِيَ Forgot.
نَسِيَ Insaan come from the same root.
Insaan is forgetful.
That how many sins we have committed in
our lives that we have forgotten about.
And that we will see in that book
that we have just heard about.
Allah SWT says, He forgot what he has
sent, what he is going to see.
And he is just arrogantly going about life.
So, one of the blessings when Allah SWT
loves someone and wants khair for him, Allah
reminds that person of his sinful or her
sinful deeds that they have done.
Why?
So that you can do tawbah and ask
Allah's forgiveness.
And be reminded never to do that again.
So, this is a favor from Allah SWT.
And sometimes, when you are standing in Arafah,
وَاللَّهِ الْعَذِينِ إِنَّهُ الْحَقِّ Something will come to
you which you hadn't thought in 40 years,
and suddenly it came.
That's Allah reminding you, standing in Arafah, you
forgot that sin that you have not asked
Allah for.
Do it now.
Sometimes these things come.
Sometimes you are thinking, you know, some bad
thought comes because of something that you have
done before.
It's not just, oh, I'm entertaining.
No, I'm not entertaining bad thoughts.
Inshallah.
Allah is reshuffling those memory so that, files
so that we can ask and do istighfar.
So, Abdullah ibn Mubarak, one of our saintly
scholars from the earliest generations, he stressed the
most important thing for a person to make
any progress.
He says, مَعَارَفَةٌ نَفْسٌ To know your own
self.
Know your own self is not like that,
oh, how are you?
Oh, I'm good.
I'm, you know, six feet tall and 175
pound only muscle, 1% fat and I
can bench press 300.
That's not knowing yourself.
Or I have an IQ of 168.
Knowing yourself means, what sins have I committed?
Prophet ﷺ said, if you look and you
find something good that you have done, say,
alhamdulillah.
And for everything bad you have done, ask
for acknowledge and ask for istighfar.
And blame yourself.
He says, and if you find, وَجَدُوا غَيْرَ
ذَلِك means, he didn't even say if you've
done bad.
In his nice way, Rasulullah ﷺ said, and
if you find other than good, then blame
yourself.
And blame yourself that I did it and
ask Allah for forgiveness.
Now, what is a normally thing happens to
us in our society?
When something good happens, who do we give
the credit to?
Us.
When something bad happens, who do we blame?
Complete opposite.
And this is how we need to, I
mean, it's not good enough to, you know,
we need to reset these things, you know.
We need to reset these things.
There's another saintly scholar by the name of
Sari As-Saqati, who was the mom of
the maternal uncle of Al-Junaid Baghdadi, the
great saint of Islam.
So, Sari As-Saqati was his mamu, his
maternal uncle, as well as his teacher of
Junaid Al-Baghdadi.
And in one of his saying related to
this, he said, there is nothing more destructive
to good deeds, nothing that causes more corruption
of the hearts and is quicker in destroying
a servant and perpetuating harms to others and
closer to being hated by Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala and causes a person to be
stuck with, you know, hajj, this arrogance and
ostentation and showing off and thinking highly of
yourself, narcissism, all of that, and the love
for leadership.
Then he said, قِلَّةِ مَا مَعْرِفُ الشَّخْسِ بِذُنُوبِهِ
That a person is not acquainted with his
own sins.
قِلَّةِ Very little acquaintance with that rather than
being fully acquainted with the sins that you
have done.
He said, this is the single thing that
leads to all of those things.
Because when you don't think you are, then
you think you are great.
You become arrogant and I am this and
I am that.
And that leads to many of those things
and it destroys good deeds and it corrupts
the hearts and therefore the heart never gets
fixed because I think who I am.
So, we should do the opposite instead of
Allah saying, وَنَسِيَ مَا قَدَّمَتْ We should never
forget we should do the opposite.
Ask Allah, Ya Allah, remind me of the
sins I have committed so that I may
seek your forgiveness.
Then Allah says that when people do this,
وَمَنْ أَظْلَمُ مِنْ ذُكْرِ They are reminded, they
turn their back.
إِنَّا جَعَلْنَا This is the consequence.
إِنَّا جَعَلْنَا عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِهِمْ أَكِنَّةً أَنْ يَفْقَهُوهُ وَفِي
آذَانِهِمْ وَقْرَىٰ That Allah says, we have made
a veil over their hearts and we've made
their ears deaf.
What does it mean?
They hear good things?
No, it makes no impact.
Their hearts are presented with all the evidence.
They do not accept because there is a
veil.
It does not allow that.
وَإِن تَدْعُوهُمْ إِلَىٰ الْهُدَىٰ فَلَيْن يَهْتَدُوا إِذَا نَبَدَىٰ
And if you, Rasulullah ﷺ, call them to
guidance, Allah says, they will never be guided.
Now somebody might say, well, if Allah has
sealed the heart, then what's my choice?
Well, this seal is a consequence of the
choices you made of rejecting the truth.
عَرَضًا When you were reminded, you turned away
from the truth.
So, Allah's law of cause and effect takes
effect.
That was what you did.
This is the effect.
So some of the people, this is where
some of the people in the Aqidah went
astray.
They said, well, there's a group called the
Qadiriyya who said that we have, we can
do whatever we want.
And there's a group called the Jabiriyya that
we have no control.
Allah has sealed our hearts.
We can do nothing.
But the truth lies somewhere in between that
you don't have complete.
It's all what Allah allows you to do.
So Allah has made laws.
He has given us guidance.
He says, if you do this, this is
going to be the consequence.
Okay.
So the choices we make match up with
the Qadr that Allah has destined for us.
Okay.
But ultimately, we have limited choices.
That's why we are going to be judged.
So Allah has now said, they will never
be guided.
Now look at the next ayah.
And your Lord is the ever forgiving, full
of mercy.
He said, they will never be guided.
And yet Allah leaves the door open.
Just in case.
Well, Allah says, He's telling the Prophet, and
your Lord is Al-Ghafoor.
He forgives.
He is merciful.
If Allah were to take them to task
for what they do, He would have hurried
for them their adab.
He would immediately punish them.
You know, the first time the fly sits,
you swat it right there.
Allah could have done that.
So the fact that He didn't do that
is part of His rahmah.
He is giving even those people who are
rejecting continuously chance to believe, to turn back.
No, but for them, there is an appointed
time.
Allah says, for them, there is an appointed
time that Allah has given.
That time.
And they will never find any refuge at
that time.
So this is the wisdom that Allah SWT,
in spite of people persisting, the atheists, the
rejectionists, the enemies of Islam, the wisdom of
Allah, the forgiveness of Allah, the rahmah of
Allah, is He gives time till that appointed
time.
Even if a person turns around on the
last day he is saved.
Now look what happened.
We have the story from the Seerah.
Abu Sufyan, the leader of the Quraysh.
He wasn't killed in the Battle of Badr
because he was taking the caravan.
He fought against the Prophet ﷺ in Uhud
and Khandaq.
He came as the leader and he continued
to all of that and Allah still gave
him time.
Remember his wife Hind.
What did she do?
She had the beloved uncle Hamza r.a
assassinated.
She had so much hatred that he had
a mutilated and chewed his liver.
The Ikramah, the son of Abu Jahl.
There was Khalid bin Walid, the son of
Walid bin Mughirah.
These were enemies of Islam fought Rasulullah ﷺ
over and over again.
If Allah wanted, He could have destroyed them
but He gave them time and guess what
happened in that time?
All of them accepted Islam.
So Abu Sufyan r.a, Khalid bin Walid
r.a, Hind r.a, Hind accepted Islam
and the Prophet ﷺ showing the Rahmah of
Allah at a human level.
When he entered Mecca, what did he say?
When Abu Sufyan came to say, what would
happen?
What did Rasulullah ﷺ say?
No punishment on you.
No retaliation against you.
Anyone who is in the Ka'bah, in
the Haram is safe.
Anyone who is in their homes is safe
and that would be enough and anyone who
is in the house of Abu Sufyan will
be safe.
He honored him.
Forgave everything.
This is how Allah is.
Ghafoor.
Hind.
She came to Rasulullah ﷺ asking for a
fatwa that my husband Abu Sufyan does not
give me my rights, my financial rights.
Can I take it from him?
Rasulullah ﷺ sat with this woman who had
done this and gave her a fatwa.
Ikrimah ibn Abu Jahl ran away.
Many years later, he came into Islam and
when he came, Rasulullah ﷺ welcomed him and
he said, I knew some good would come
from Abu al-Hakam, which is Abu Jahl's
name because he used to be called Abu
Hakam, the father of wisdom.
He said, I knew some good would come
from him, which is your son, which is
Ikrimah and Khalid bin Waleed.
So this is Allah's maghfira and his rahmah
manifested in the seerah of Rasulullah ﷺ.
That's how we have to be when people
wrong us to forgive them, to show mercy
to them and move on.
Allah ﷻ wants us to do that.
So Allah ﷻ has left the door of
forgiveness open till the end.
Now, in the end doesn't mean wait till
Firaun did.
When he was drowning, that's when he said,
I believe in the Rabb of Bani Israel,
of Musa.
That's too late.
It has to come before that.
Till then, every door, this is Allah's mercy.
وَتِلْكَ الْقُرَىٰ أَهْلَكْنَاهُمْ لَمَّا ظَلَمُوا وَجَعَلْنَا لِمَهْلِكِهِمْ
مَوْيْدًا Allah ﷻ says, and those were the
cities, the nations, أَهْلَكْنَاهُمْ whom we destroyed in
the past, like the people of Ad and
Thamud and people of Lut ﷺ and Midian
and all of those that we destroyed.
لَمَّا ظَلَمُوا When they did injustice and they
reached the end of that.
Nuh ﷺ for 950 years.
Allah ﷻ could have destroyed them with the
flood in the beginning.
No, He gave them 950 years to come
to Him.
وَجَعَلْنَا لِمَهْلِكِهِمْ مَوْيْدًا Allah says, and we have
set a time for their destruction if they
don't come.
So, that's the ayah number 59 and next
is the ayah that starts the story of
Musa ﷺ.
So, we are going to stop there and
let us take some lessons from what we
have learned.
First, we need to reset our values about
the importance of this dunya compared to the
akhirah, number two.
Number two, we need to look at our
own.
I need to look at what I have
done.
If I see some good that I'm doing,
I make sure that it is with ikhlas,
with sincerity for Allah and ask for His
acceptance and thank Him for being able to
do that.
When I finish the salah, I should say,
Ya Allah, thank you for the opportunity and
the ability to do it because I could
be prevented.
If I'm being given an opportunity to do
a charitable action, I thank Allah for the
opportunity that you have given this to me
to increase my wealth and my ability to
earn good deeds.
So, we have to look at it in
that way and when we see anything, we
should be prompt in asking any sin that
is committed.
In the past, we do tawbah.
We do generic tawbah.
Ya, every sin, every major minor, everything that
is done, open and closed and secret and
forgive everything but then as we remember each
one, we should ask, Ya Allah, I did
this on such and such time.
Forgive me for this.
I did this.
Forgive me for this and be sincere about
it and we learn that we need to
have a repertoire of good deeds that we
do regularly.
It's not enough to know, okay, you know,
if you do Subhanallah, Alhamdulillah, first thing to
do, make sure that we anchor ourselves with
the five salawat of the day, okay, that
we make sure that we pay our zakat,
that we fast, we do extra and we
are coming closer to Allah.
So, all of those, morning and evening, dhikr
some of these when you are traveling, Subhanallah,
la ilaha illallah, istighfar, many, many times istighfar,
very, very important.
So, that's another thing we learn and that
we should keep that day of judgment in
front of us that there is a book
whose author is me and I will read
it.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says elsewhere in
the Quran, iqra kitabak, read your book.
He will say to us, each one, he
will say, read your book, what you wrote
and that I only want, inshallah, to find
good in it, okay, that we have erased
everything and Allah is ghafoor, He erases everything.
So, that's another thing that we should keep
in mind to cleanse ourselves of any delusions
about ourselves that I am so good and
I am this and I am good and
there are people worse than me.
Yes, there are people worse than me but
there are many people better than me.
So, we need to look up to the
people who are righteous, who are doing good
deeds and compete with them rather than rest
on our laurels looking at people who are
doing nothing.
So, I pray at least three deeds, prays
nothing.
No.
Okay.
So, those are things and we need to
look internally and we need to be serious
about these matters.
It's not a matter of a Quran halaqa
or a lesson and you know, it was
good and it wasn't good or I got
bored, it was too long.
No, it's not about that.
This is a serious matter.
We need to take it seriously.
How long did we go to become, to
medical school to become doctors?
I mean, there are a dime a dozen
doctors here including myself.
How many years?
Many times patients ask, Doc, how long did
it took you?
You say, well, if you take college, if
you take this, if you take this, take
that.
How much effort have I spent for my
akhira?
And if I haven't done it now when
90% of my hair is white, when
am I going to do it?
When am I going to do it?
Maybe 10% of my life is left
but that 10% can change the other
mess 90%.
So, we need to sit, you know, we
need to have time to think.
If you're constantly in front of a screen,
if you're constantly on the phones, if you're
constantly busy in halal things, forget about the
haram things, then we still don't have time.
We need to find time to sit by
ourselves, look at what is my situation, what
is my status with Allah if he were
to take me today?
And it can happen just like that.
Young and old, young and old.
What would I be facing?
What have my hands sent forward?
What do I, you know, my greatest pride
and possession is my phone.
What is that phone going to do?
Other than be evidence against me 99%
of the time.
99% of the time.
We need to take things seriously.
And we need to have moderation.
Nobody says don't earn a living, halal living,
yes.
Earn it properly, but balance in life.
It shouldn't take our salah away.
It shouldn't take our Jummah away.
Our children shouldn't push us to do things
that are haram.
No, I want to please, you know, my
child will do.
Teach the children the right things, the right
value.
Don't wait till they grow up and then
say, oh, my child is doing this.
The tree needs to be fixed when the
plant is just growing.
Then you put a little stick, put it
straight, then it grows straight.
Now when it becomes rigid and bent this
way, now you try and straighten it, you're
going to snap.
Now, if I say something, my child barks
back at me.
Too late.
These are all responsibilities, amanah that has been
given to us.
Our life is an amanah.
Our wealth is an amanah.
Our health is an amanah.
Our time is an amanah.
Our children are an amanah.
Our eyes are an amanah.
Everything.
And Allah says in the Quran, and you
will be asked about every one of your
amanah.
What did you do with your eyes, with
your ears, with your tongue, most important?
What did you do with your children?
You wanted children?
I gave you children.
What did you do with them?
You wanted guidance?
I gave you.
I gave you guidance.
What did you do with the guidance?
So may Allah make us among those who
turn our faces, tawajjuh, wajj, towards Allah.
If we turn our faces towards Allah, then
Allah will show us the right things to
do and will protect us if we are
sincere.
May Allah make us those who make Allah
as the priority in our lives.
His pleasure, His obedience, and the following of
the sunnah of Rasulullah ﷺ, which is what
Allah loves and is pleased with as our
lifestyle.
What is your lifestyle?
I have an alternative lifestyle too.
My alternative lifestyle is the sunnah of Rasulullah
ﷺ.
And that's the best alternative.
So may Allah make us sincere in seeking
His pleasure.
May Allah forgive all of us, our parents,
our grandparents, all of our relatives that have
preceded us to Him in the journey of
Bani Adam back to Allah.
May Allah take us in a state of
Iman in doing the best of our deeds
at that time.
May Allah be generous and merciful to all
of us.
May Allah protect our children and our grandchildren
and the progeny that's going to come from
them and make us among those who fulfilled
the amanah that was given to us, to
our arwah, to our souls, and the amanah
of this deen.
May we fulfill it in the way that's
pleasing to Him so that when we meet
Rasulullah ﷺ on that day where there is
no shade on that level ground, that he
will be pleased to see us and we
will see a smile on his face when
he sees us as opposed to those from
whom he will turn his face away as
the hadith says.
Subhanakallahumma wa bihamdik wa nashadu wa la ilaha
illallah wa astaghfirullah wa atubu ilaih.