Mohammad Ali Hazratji – Tafsir Surah Al Takathur
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Salam aleikum Warahmatullah wabarakatuh
Bismillah Alhamdulillah wa Salatu was Salam ala Rasulillah. While
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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, you know 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
wasallam.
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 asked the last one Allah 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
briefly translated as The rivalry or competition for worldly games.
So this is another makin Surah
as we remind ourselves, that in the early part of Revelation,
the message was being presented to a hostile environment of the
Quraysh, who were rejecting the message. And there was persecution
of the early believers. And they were being challenged with a lot
of difficulties.
And even in that environment, where there was a handful of
Muslims,
who were going against everything that the community had, and the
tribes had
experienced, these were young people, they were poor people who
were rebelling against the society by accepting this message.
And
in doing that, they had to give up a lot of the dunya we have the
example of one of the early young companions Musa bin Ahmed, who was
imprisoned by his mother and who was beaten and who was finally
there threatened to take all of the dunya away from him because he
came from very wealthy family.
To those people, Allah subhanaw taala at that time has revealed
this surah which essentially talks about attachment and competition
for worldly gains at the expense of the main purpose that for which
we are created, so in that environment still, Allah Smaadahl
revealed the surah so we will recite the surah do a brief
translation and then we will go into the details of this
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So Allah subhanaw taala says in a brief translation, he says you,
mankind new people
are busy, distracted and preoccupied by greed and
competition,
to have more and more, until you come to your graves.
Nay, in time soon, you will come to know, indeed,
you will soon come to know the truth, indeed, where you, if you
but knew the truth, with certainty with your cane,
you would most certainly see the fire of *. Again, you will most
certainly see the fire of * with your own eyes.
Then, on that day, you will indeed certainly be questioned about all
the joys and blessings that you continuously enjoyed.
So this is the brief translation.
So let's break this down into a little bit more deeper
understanding
and how como
comes from the word
that means distraction.
Lower is the origin louer, Allah subhanaw taala uses the word
liable. We're lacking
play and entertainment level.
Lucha in Arabic means entertainment. In other words, you
are spending your time in doing something which has a lower status
than something more important.
So here, Allah subhanaw taala is using sort of the past tense in
the sense that he is saying that you have
been distracted, because one meaning of law is something that
distracts you, because entertainment is actually
distraction from the reality of life. So Allah subhanaw taala,
saying, You have been distracted, you have been deceived, you have
been duped, you have been fooled from something more important, and
we'll come to that because Allah doesn't specify what you have been
distracted from.
But what has distracted you he says in the next word, the castle
at the castle comes from the word cathedral that everybody knows,
which means to have plenty to MacArthur means to want to have
more and more and more, it also means to not only wanted desire
more of the dunya, but to compete with each other for it, that if
so, and so, has such and such thing, I want better. And this
goes across the board in all civilization that when we see
somebody has something, we want something like that or better.
Another aspect of this word like our thought is not only to
compete, but to feel pride, and to want to show this that I want to
show people what I have achieved. So I have a new car, I want
everybody to know I have this, I have
my children have succeeded in something I want to show that to
everybody. So there is the component in MacArthur of wanting
and desiring more than competing with each other to have more than
wanting to show each other showing off. And then finally, there is a
commonality to it, which means that all of you have the same
trees
that all of you want some of this.
So now let's look at this.
What is this? Everyone wanting more off? What is it we generally
call it dunya things of the world and Allah subhanaw taala wherever
he frequently when he uses the word
MacArthur and Kathy, he talks about breaking the dunya down into
two definitions and one local Allah,
your wealth
and your children.
For example,
Allah Subhan Allah says in surah Al Manasa Khun yeah you will
Latina Amanu la Tula. Heycome same la same route. La Trulia comm
don't let it distract you. And while locum Oladipo and Vickery.
Yeah you will Latina Avenue. Laterally Come on.
Why local? Wala Oladipo and decree were my EF Lika like a human
hassle or you who have attained to fail to you believers. Don't let
your wealth and your children distract you from the remembrance
of Allah subhanaw taala because the one who does this, he are they
are among the harsher on the losers.
Allah subhanaw taala tells us again Amala como la de como, he
said, Why Allah moon and Nima, m y la Khumba hola to come fitna.
We're an Allah in the journaling. Allah subhanaw taala says, and no,
be certain to know that your wealth and your children are only
a trial. This is not the goal of your life. And what is with Allah,
that is the great Angel NaVi. Allah Subhana. Allah says in
surah, Tagawa and in m y la Khumba, Allah de confit. Now,
Allah who, in the who, originally,
that your wealth and your children are a trial, they're not to be
done away with because Allah gives you that wealth. Allah gives you
the children, but how you acquire that wealth? What do you think of
that wealth that you possess? Do you possess the wealth or the
wealth possesses you? Do you own the money or the money owns you
and your time? Same thing with the children, they are granted to you
as a blessing and as a trial? Do you because of that blessing? Do
you forget the one who bestowed that blessing?
Does the wealth that Allah gives you as a trial and as a blessing,
makes you forget the one who gave it to you?
The namah makes you forget the manaan.
So Allah subhanaw taala is telling us that everything in the world is
a trial.
And none of that should make us distracted from the main purpose.
So Allah subhanaw taala tells us
open with an open question that you are mankind in your worldly
competition, to have more wealth than someone you love the world.
You love houses, you love cars, you love horses, in the old days,
because why it is that because Allah subhanaw taala has
program that in our hearts also as a trial, things of this dunya
Allah subhanaw taala has adorned them has made them look beautiful.
So we get attracted to them, but only as a test so that even though
we are attracted we deal with them in the proper perspective for what
they are.
They are to be used to come closer to Allah subhanaw taala they are
to be used in the obedience of Allah Subhan Allah, Allah Subhana
Allah says in surah Allah Imran
excuse me Xuyen Allah Nassif Bucha YT Mina Nyssa it will burn in our
canal period makanan talathi Winner the hubby will feed while
halen was so warm it will an army will have
their Lika matar inherited dunya
while long in the who
knew
that for mankind zoo you know it has been made beautiful. What hope
was showered the love and desire for what Mina Nyssa for women.
Well Benny in for children well on our Tyrol makan Sarathi and heaps
of the hub and feed off gold and silver Oh wealth will Halal
MUSAWAH Mati and horses that are branded and for today's the
branded you know the exotic cars and the expensive cars while
hearth and your your, your farms in your your fields where you
where you your lands. Delica Mata will head to dunya Allah subhanaw
taala says and this is
Mata This is a provision of this life, while lava and who Huisman
Maya and what is with Allah is what is more beautiful so Allah
subhanaw taala is telling us that yes, you have that desire, but
don't let that become a means of your destruction a means of taking
you away from Allah subhanaw taala that you become so busy in that
competition for the dunya that so and so has a big house I need a
bigger house so and so has new furniture I need to redecorate my
house, so and so as a new car I need so in
So as a millionaire, so I have to become a multimillionaire, because
this desire this health,
never ends. Because the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam taught
us about this. He says in the Hadith, that you all know that if
the son of Adam, taking it as don't take it as someone else take
it as me, if he were to be given a valley full of gold,
not not a box full of gold, not a desk full of gold, not a suitcase
full of gold, not a room full of gold, but a valley full of gold,
he would want a second.
And if he was given a second, he would want a third. In other
words, the vacuum for desire in his in for this dunya will never
be satisfied. He said, it will only be satisfied by the Torah,
the dust of the grave means when he dies, that's the only thing
that does. So there is no end to wanting more.
Because we think that's being wealthy.
But the wealthy, The Millionaire, and the billionaire is having
sleepless nights, because he's afraid he could become a popper,
he might lose it all. And the one who's trading in that who's
sleeping in the streets, is having sleepless nights, because he's
dreaming that one day he will have mansions and he will be a
millionaire.
We have to be somewhere in between that what Allah has granted me
what I have now
is enough for my needs.
I have clothes on my body, I have food for my stomach. I have a bed
to sleep in. I have people who love me.
Isn't this enough for us? So the true wealth is not in possessions,
the true wealth is in contentment, that whatever Allah has destined,
and Allah has not destined everybody equally, he says in the
Quran that I have given some of them more than others, to test one
against the other, to test the poor to see how he behaves with
his poverty when he sees the wealthy and the wealthy. What he
does with his money when he sees the poor, does it give him
arrogance and superiority? Or does it give him the humility and
generosity to help his brothers and other human beings that have
been given less. So this is all a test. Allah subhanaw taala tells
us Don't be distracted by competing, competing, working,
working working because that is the summary of capitalism.
Capitalism is to have more and more and more and it never ends.
And it never ends. Allah subhanaw taala tells us as we said in this
hadith till the stomach is filled with the dust of the grave. Allah
smart Allah tells us the same same thing in three words, in the next
day, he says, had zoo to Milan macabre, you are distracted in
your competition for this worldly gains, until had done zoo tamale
macabre. Zolotow means Zorana Zerah means to visit
till you visit the graves. Now one meaning of this is till you are
brought to your grave till you die, which is the most
appropriate meaning of this. But it's also alludes to that when we
visit the graveyards and we don't do that too often. We don't.
Many times you pass by the graveyard without thinking without
taking lessons and habra. But sometimes when you do go to the
graveyards, and you look at the gravestones, and you see the names
of the people, some that you know some that you don't know, born in
this year, he lived 80 years, died at six months died at 23. And you
see that for some people with hearts that is an era that I am
also destined to be here. And what am I preparing for? Or am I still
distracted knowing that I have only one end which is in the
grave. And still, I'm distracted because I want more and more and
more of the time. So Allah subhanaw taala says, you are
distracted, you are deceived by your desire for more and more
until you come to the graves. And even in the graveyards there are
narrations that the Quraysh the different tribes who used to
compete with each other that we have more than we have more than
wealth. We have more than weaponry we have more than power. We have
more than number.
When that would finish they would go to the graveyards and then
They would say that this is, you know, this brave man's grave is
here he was from my tribe, who do you have from your tribe, they
would brag even about their ancestors who were buried there to
see even in that there was competition, that who had more of
the noble people, the brave people of the past.
So, in the end, there is only one certainty,
which is that.
And with that death, all of this competition comes to an end. So
Allah subhanaw taala is warning us ahead of time, before we come to
that point, not to be distracted from something and he doesn't
specify what you are distracted from. So this is the eloquence of
the Quran that Allah doesn't specify, and therefore it is open,
it's comprehensive. So we can take some example It distracts you like
the ISS, and victory lap from the remembrance of Allah.
You forget what I forget because of being busy. Allah subhanaw
taala, my Creator, my provider, my Sustainer
because I'm too busy, earning more, doing more, having more
buying more
entertaining more.
So we forget who our creators we forget for another example we
forget the purpose for which we were created. Allah subhanaw taala
says, Woman her love to gene will insert in Lolly Abu do
I have not created gins or mankind except for my a Buddha, my a bad
submission to me, my worship, my obedience. So we get so busy with
chasing and competing for the dunya that we forget to worship
Allah as he deserves to remember Allah as he deserves. At every
moment we forget it's we get distracted by the blessings
from the one who restores the blessings. So they make us forget
who gave them to us. Sometimes we don't even recognize we are so
distracted that these are blessings
it makes us forget who we ourselves are. It makes us forget
distracts us from taking a Morehouse about a self assessment.
Where do I stand? If the angel of death were to come to me today?
What would be my position in front of Allah
that we are distracted from looking back at what my life has
been and making the necessary corrections in my life.
were distracted from planning for the future, which could be just
today of what I'm going to do different so that my scales are
heavy on the Day of Judgment. Interestingly, this surah is Allah
Swanton has placed it with four other sutras which talk about
this. It starts with Surah Zilla Zan that we studied, talking about
when everything is destroyed, and man is brought and we'll see
everything he did. After that, come Surah add yet, after are the
art in dunya that man is ungrateful until he comes to the
grave and the graves will be opened up next Surah Acharya going
back day of judgment,
you know, when that Day of the Day of Judgment come and it ends with
the people who will be in Jannah then comes this surah what will
cause people to be in Jannah they were too distracted with the dunya
they didn't plan. So another thing that it makes you distracted from
is planning for the
preparing for the and specifically the Day of Judgment. And then
Johanna making sure that our preparation is such that we don't
end up in January. So that is what Allah subhanaw taala then stresses
in the Surah
that you are forgetting but he says Kela nee Kola means denial
what you are involved with negating that name this is useless
color. Surely, sofa Tala mode means in the near future. Sofa
means in the near future, that Allah moon, you will come to know
what will you come to know the reality of what you are being told
now that there is a day of judgment that there is Jana, that
you have to prepare for it
From McCulloh sofa tileable that Allah subhanaw taala stresses that
by repeating the same words just adding thumb, again summarize
again and it's also for Takis for emphasis, you know, you say
something and you repeat it to tell you how important some
McCullough Neha, indeed you will soon come to the
color lota Allah Munna in Malaya pain, knee,
low talamona, the word low is represents
a hypothetical if or also with regret, means, if you only
knew,
if you want you will come to know. But if you only knew now with the
same degree of certainty that you will know, when you see the Day of
Judgment when you see the Johanna
Kalalau talamona If you were to know
and Malia clean
with the certainty of knowledge, ailment, your clean your clean
means something of which you have absolutely no doubt.
There is nothing that you need to discuss nothing that needs
clarification. It is so absolute that you it's taken for granted by
you
that nobody can dissuade you from that, that I know this for sure.
As an elderly again means to have certainty of that knowledge.
certainty of that knowledge. Allah subhanaw taala is telling us can
lo Tala Munna in money or pain?
We wish in a way
one of the sisters if you could please mute your mic that would be
helpful.
Color lota Allah Munna Malaya cane.
If you knew with the certainty of knowledge, the certainty of
knowledge comes from having heard about it. Allah Squanto will talk
about a nearly arcane certainty that comes from seeing it. Now we
cannot have certainty of knowledge from seeing because we don't see
the Day of Judgment. We don't see the Hellfire we don't see Jana. We
don't see Allah subhanaw taala.
If we have certainty and inshallah we have certainty of Allah
subhanaw taala. It's from L. Malia Kane from what we have heard what
we know we have certainty of Day of Judgment is L. Mallya came from
the knowledge that was granted to us through Rasul Allah salAllahu
alayhi. Salam through the book of Allah subhanaw taala. That yes,
there is a day of judgment, we have certainty of the the Jahannam
and the Jannah paradise and *, because it's L Valley opinion.
Now, do we have that European or we just have URL? That's the
question, because if we have Elmo ERP in the European certainty,
then our lives change and reflect that, that we have certainty in
this.
So Allah subhanaw taala is telling us that I have created you for a
certain purpose, which is for my own Ludia I have not created this
universe in vain.
It was created to serve you and you were created to serve me. And
that's one of the lessons in nema. Last month Allah says.
Alpha Hasib to anima Holika Nachum. Abba film. Well, unknown
Elena La Torre Jiang, Allah subhanaw taala says, a hospital do
you then think and NEMA halacha na Komaba that we created you? It
just is idle play
in just one unknown Elaina La Torre Joan that you would not be
brought back returned 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 are you saying, if you knew that with
El Bulli again, 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 hobo dia of Allah subhanaw taala. In the next
I Allah subhanaw taala says, Lazzara wouldn't just name the
lamb of Tackett of stressing that certainly, Tara Winner, winner,
not Corona. You will certainly that is to emphasis the beginning
and end of this by saying letter a winner and indeed you will.
Letter A will Nyjah Haynes Haim is one of the names of the blazing
Fire
something that scares you like the the light 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 Wounaan Jehane indeed you will.
And when he says this, it is everyone, even people going into
Jana 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 are 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 I finally attain
and Indeed, indeed without a doubt, you will see her which is
the Hellfire * ERP. Now Allah subhanaw taala says you will see
it with your own eyes. So it will no longer be L Malia cane.
The certainty that was based on what you had heard what you had
believed in what you had knowledge of Jana, now you will have a
Inelia P
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 ultimately
attain knowledge Heinle Yaqeen 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 Malia cane knowledge of
it. Now somebody brings your crate of mango and you see it
that's I know your cane 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 ERP
another example you see smoke somewhere
you know there is a fire that's anomoly octane, 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 finally happening. And you
come closer and suppose the flame touches you and you feel the burn
of it that is happily occurring.
So that's the ultimate level of certainty, when we are entered
into Jannah that will be the hub qualia pain 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 cane 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 and then and in name. From then surely let us alone
again that the structure is with emphasis emphasis means there
should be no doubt in your mind. Let us Aluna you will be asked not
not to not to Soluna which means you will be asked that to saloon
structure says there is a tequila there is emphasis in the beginning
of the word there is a tequila with a second noon at the end.
Without doubt.
On that day Yo my then you will be asked about what Hanin name namah
means blessing. The plural of Nama is Nan
Nam
name means one who has continuously experienced the
blessings of Allah.
Now, just remember, on the day when we think of the Day of
Judgment, when we said you will be questioned, we always think of our
deeds, our family, our do's, what you did what you didn't do.
And about that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam 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 Alaihe Salam frequently in his da
at the end of Salah you stress Allah Who mania Seneca
Allah Allah India Solokha Hey Saba Sierra Wallah I asked you for an
easy Hassan 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 asks 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. We'll 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.
How wealth, we only think it's worth of course will be asked
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 Anna is now are countless
at every moment. If you're 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 notice 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
cooler 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 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 a loss.
If I'm able to sleep
I should be grateful to a muscle. 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 for 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 and they
said we 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
the minimum of which is to earn halal and to spend. First by
giving zakat and then some in South Africa, 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'm so successful. That's
the wrong use, to use wealth, to influence people to bribe people
to use it in the disobedience of Allah subhanaw taala. All of those
are
questions that we will have to answer last month that we 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 Oba given the Bashara, the glad tidings of
Jana in their lifetime, the 10 companions of the Prophet
sallallahu sallam. Among them were two very wealthy people
say you're the man or the Mahan 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 Alaihe Salam who was given the
visions and experience of what Jana is and what would happen and
the day of judgment, He told. So you're looking at Aisha the Alana,
that I saw all my companions coming to me in Jana. And one was
missing Abdurrahman, Edna half
was missing and missing and missing. At 10 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 man and now off
by someone that our mother eyes are the Alon has narrated this. So
he came running to her. said Yeah, yeah, Amana Aisha? Is it true?
That Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam said, I will 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 gave him 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 to get
to it's not all good. It's the 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 carboard rabuka attack, kill your
cane, worship Allah till European comes to you and that yaki is
death. No matter, believer, disbeliever Hindu, Sikh, Muslim
Nasrani atheist, everyone
knows that my end is that that's a certainty Allah smart Allah calls
it the ultimate of Yaqeen. 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 Assam that one day the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
grabbed ahold of this young boy say that Abdullah Muhammad, Al
Katara, the Allah one of the lead now is to say, held him by the
shoulders, and he says to him,
confit dunya Anna Calgary or others.
Be in this world he's telling this young man this is the best advice
he's giving him
I'm holding him to catch his attention. He's saying confit
dunya uneca. 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 we are traveling in
our countries in the Far East 15 minutes stops 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 us it's a food because I have to move
my connecting flight is coming
or is right around the corner. So he said some allow this room 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 by local module calm. Yeah, Ali
Hazaragi 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 or let me give us 10 days Allama give us 10
hours
are we prepared?
And then in another narration in the same same incident?
The Prophet sallallahu nisab there's this edition, this Ziad
which says we're old enough circa mill us herbal 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. Haben Kabu like your person
who has been married.
One day
Abdullah bin Massoud Saison. Abdullah bin Masuda the Alon came
to visit the prophets of Allah Listen, who had had a nap and he
had been resting. The Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam sat up, and
he did not have an upper garment it was just the ISA, which the
Lord garment covering him as the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam sat
up the match date palm match that crisscross pattern was imprinted
all over his back on which he had been sleeping
hard surface with this mat, subdue, led numerous Audra the
alarm looked at it and he felt it this is a sort of muscle and this
is the best of Allah's creation. So yeah, Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi salam, 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 love when he was similar. And this is
the life he left Somalia. So
what are the kinds of things we will be asked about?
One day
so yeah, then I will back up.
So yeah, then 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 or
even an Katara the alarm. So he asked
Sam, 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 at the novice who
must apply this and so what are the two of you doing here?
CPR assume the hunger brought us out from our homes. Rasool Allah
salAllahu Alaihe Salam said, My condition is the same.
They 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.
So they go and knock on the door. And he says salaam no answer. He
knocks a second time, no answer. Third time he says salam and is
about to leave. Then the door opens. And this the Sahaba, the
wife of that Ansari opens the doors to Ya Rasulullah 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? Subhanallah imagine so you're gonna rasool Allah, Allah, Allah,
listen, based upon that creation. We're like and feed anything he
wants. But as an example for us. So now we welcome so you're
just then the sahabi the inside he comes. And he opens the door and
he sees these great companions. 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 date palm tree, and he gets a whole bunch in
a whole big
thing of date. Some are ripe, some are semi ripe, Sumatra, very ripe
summer raw, brings the whole thing and also in fact, puts them in
front of them. ETRs Rasulullah sallallahu sallam said you should
have just brought some for us to eat. Because you might like the
right one, you might like the not so ripe 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 Salallahu Alaihe Salam
knows where he's going. He says, Don't sacrifice any milk giving
animal because he knows that he's going to do the best for them. So
he goes, he sacrifices an animal and brings it as food and they
come they enjoy the food. Then Rasulullah Salallahu Alaihe Salam
said on the Day of Judgment, you will be asked about this.
People who are starving. So why Yasuda will be asked about this.
He said yeah, because you came hungry. And you're leaving with
your stomachs for the name of Allah speller and the cold water
that you're doing? 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 what is it? 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 is have never complained about the food.
If he didn't like something, he wouldn't eat it. You will need
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 color. The person who has little and
dissatisfied is the richest. He doesn't need any more.
told you about the story of of
alginate Al Baghdadi or Natali he came with the fuqra his his ASABE
they will call the Pokhara to Mecca for for camera, 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 folks
out of his generosity.
Then alginate amatola They ask this man, he's just like Allahu
Carmela 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 he 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 anything. 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 subhanaw taala 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 their lab is to recognize
their lab to be grateful to their lab to worship them. To know that
the to know the status of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam
to know his Sierra 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, your zeal,
teach the children that that's the right of the children.
Use the wealth property.
That is generate the wealth we are not saying don't work, what we're
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 haircut with the cow for those who don't 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 flock, 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 Iraq law. 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 Illa McFadden
race with each other compete with each other for Allah's mafia is
forgiven by Janet in order Hassan Allah to Allah.
For the Jana who's with is greater than the heavens and the earth to
compete for that compete in hierarchy in goodness, the Sahaba
competed. So you know, Amara and Satan Abu Bakr always competing,
who can do better, who can do more. And we are many stories and
examples of that compete in those things compete and who can give
more, who can give more to the masjid, who can spend more in
Ramadan for the refugees who can 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 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, my wealth. 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 alpha 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 is 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
assets don't go away. They are they're
the word Allah subhanaw taala uses and what the Prophet sallallaahu
Silla 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 Afra 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
and pleased with us and blesses us with.
So we asked last night, to make the reality of this surah be
reflected in our lives, that he hold us back from this grid and
competing in 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 his eye when you see how easy his
May Allah subhanaw taala make us see that Jahannam from a distance
from a distance that we don't even feel its heat. May Allah smart
Allah help us to pass by His mercy and by our good deeds that Serato
over the fire towards into Jana, at the spirit of lightning, any
malice Mantella gathers, whether assuta la SallAllahu Sallam 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'll 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's bored with the namah 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 day of dassia the ninth of Muharram. Tomorrow is the
day of Ashura. Shara is the 10th of Muharram which is the day if we
fast fee saline Allah Allah subhanaw taala wipes out the
previous eras since the minor sins the major sins of course require
Toba and we can also those who didn't 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 of Allah Islam taught us that the
most virtuous month of fasting after a month of Ramadan is the
month Mahatma 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 and last one I'll accept this
gathering and make it blessed and weighty on the Day of Judgment.
Zack Allah credits panic along with the National Dalai Lama.
Salama
says