Mohammad Elshinawy – Lessons From Surat Al-QariAh & Al-Takathur

Mohammad Elshinawy
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The speakers discuss the meaning of "will" in various parables, including Surah Katei, which describes loss of life and desire for comfort, and the "will" in the parable of the day of judgment, which describes the loss of life and desire for comfort. They also discuss the weight of people's deeds and the importance of having deeds that are heavy and need to be focused on them. The speakers emphasize the need for people to be mindful of their wealth and not to get distracted by competition and the importance of keeping one's cake and not eating it. They also touch on distraction and distraction in life and the importance of having a clear understanding of the rules of the Moore clock and how they relate to life.
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Surah Al-Baqarah, Verse 1 ...and

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his family and his companions, and all those

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who adhere to his guidance.

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We ask Allah Azza wa Jalla at the

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onset of this gathering, as we study the

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verses of His glorious Qur'an, that He

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make His book, that He make His Qur

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'an, رَبِيعَ قُلُوبِنَا The spring that waters, irrigates

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our hearts, and causes them to blossom.

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وَنُورَ صُدُورِنَا And the light of our chests,

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that which illuminates and enlightens our chests.

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وَذَهَبَ هُمُومِنَا And the departure of our أحزانِنَا

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The departure of our sadness, and the dispeller

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of our anxieties and worries.

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اللهم أمين So we welcome everyone back to

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lessons from the short or brief surahs of

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the Qur'an.

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Inshallah, tonight we will cover Surah Al-Qari

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'ah, and then Surah Al-Takathur.

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Surah Al-Qari'ah, Al-Qari'ah means

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the striking blast, or the great blast, or

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the deafening blast, that which deafens.

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And before we proceed into the surah, the

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surah that came down in Mecca, we have

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to recall the atmosphere in Mecca.

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We have to put ourselves in a place

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as if we haven't heard the surah before.

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And you know, the people around the Prophet

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ﷺ are initially rejecting him, mocking him, refusing

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to believe that God can actually, you know,

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pull us out of our graves, recreate us

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anew, after we've disintegrated and turned to rubble,

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this is all a hoax, God doesn't know

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and God cannot.

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To the end of it, there will be

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no judgment, there will be no day of

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judgment.

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And in the middle of that whole atmosphere,

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the Prophet ﷺ steps forward, you can imagine,

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in the middle of this, and he says,

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القارع.

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القارع means the deafening blast.

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It almost comes off as an incomplete statement.

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And that's part of the point.

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What exactly does that mean?

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To call their attention to it, like the

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deafening blast.

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So, let me give you a...

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The Arab, when something is about to humiliate,

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when someone humiliates someone, they say, he says

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قارعه, like he blasted him.

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You know, you say you blast someone, like

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when you yell at them and put them

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in their place.

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It's called قارعه.

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He whacked him, blasted him, but verbally, right?

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He gave it to him, yes?

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He made him hear something, hear something that

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stopped him dead in his tracks, put him

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in his place.

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Likewise, when war is about to start, there

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is قرع طبل.

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When you smash, you cause this very loud

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sound on the drums, the war drums.

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You beat them, right?

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This means the army is approaching, yes?

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And it's interesting, because the Prophet ﷺ in

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other contexts, he used to also say to

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them, أنا النذير العريان.

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I am the naked warner.

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What does the naked warner mean?

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The Arab knew that they would...

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when they had no time to sort of

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like explain to people what's happening, it was

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known, it was just like a...

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even if it was something known in their

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literature, even if they haven't seen it in

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their own lives, the notion of a naked

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warner is basically the way that they would

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alarm, signal the alarms, when one tribe is

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about to raid another tribe.

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So when someone would be able to warn

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his people, he would strip out of all

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of his clothing, and like cut off the

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nose and ears of his animal and zip

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through town.

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So they'll realize this is not a joke,

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this is not a drill, this is, right?

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And war is upon us, we're about to

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get massacred.

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Yes?

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And so it is that notion of an

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apocalyptic warning, we're all about to be finished.

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This is what القارعة creates, that sort of

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notion like, what's happening, is this a war?

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Are we all dead?

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Is this the day of judgment?

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Because القارعة is one of the names of

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the day of judgment, or it's one of

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the references to the day of judgment.

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So he says القارعة, the deafening blast.

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So they're now hearing him say that, and

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what about it?

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Is it here?

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Is it almost here?

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Did God tell him that it's about to

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start?

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And that's what he's trying to tell us?

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It's drawing their attention.

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And he says, مَلْقَارِعَةِ What is القارعة?

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What is القارعة?

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What is it that's going to cause everyone

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to stop dead in their tracks?

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What is going to deafen them, the sound

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of this blast, the sound of this news,

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right?

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It could be the volume, or it could

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be the subject matter.

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What is it?

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You know like even, I'll give you just

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one more, like the Arab, the scholars of

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tafsir mentioned, that if someone is sort of

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like, receiving bad news after bad news, imagine

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Allah forbid, may Allah protect us all, you

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just lost your car, and then you just

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lost your house, and then you just lost

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your family, and then something happens, that eclipses

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all of this, and causes you to forget

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about all of this, and demands your undivided

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attention, right?

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What is this thing that's like, no matter

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what, it's going to paralyze us, paralyze our

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thoughts, paralyze our minds?

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That's what he's talking about.

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He's building up to this.

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وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَلْقَارِعَةِ The third verse now.

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And what can I possibly say?

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What can make you realize what القارعة is

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really about?

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So all of this build up is about

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just the sound, that's going to happen on

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or at the beginning of the resurrection and

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the judgment.

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That's what it is.

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You know what it's like?

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One of the scholars, I heard him give

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an awesome example.

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It is like, and maybe you think it's

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a horrible example, but I think it's an

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awesome example.

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You know like, when someone in like, in

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cinematic terms, in movie terms, I'm not promoting

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you to watch mainstream movie, but like in

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movie terms.

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When there is like, a huge sound, right?

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Screams, people screaming, right?

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Or a huge blast, maybe a flash in

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the dark.

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And then another huge blast, but the movie

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didn't start yet.

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It's just a black screen right now.

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And you just hear in these sounds, the

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more and more it flashes or it rings

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that sound, you're wondering like, show me, what's

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happening already?

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It builds up the suspense for the veil

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to be removed and for you to actually

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see what these sounds are about, what they're

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coming from, what they're referring to, bombs exploding,

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people screaming.

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This is the effect of القارع.

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ما القارع؟

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وما أدراك ما القارع؟

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It demanded of them to pay attention to

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it.

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What's this about?

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No matter what I tell you, وما أدراك

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ما القارع؟

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No matter what I tell you, you won't

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realize.

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Whether you're convinced or not.

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One of the beautiful things about سورة القارع

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also, is that he's not even talking to

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them.

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Which is also frightening.

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Like سورة القارع, it's not like other surahs

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where he's addressing them.

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You have been distracted.

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الهاك ومتكاثر You've been distracted by your chase.

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The next surah we will cover.

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None of that.

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From its beginning to...

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It's talking like in the third person.

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As for those whose deeds are this, as

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for those whose deeds are that.

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It's not addressing them in the second person,

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you, anymore.

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Like, you're convinced or not, I'm proceeding.

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It's happening.

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It's on route.

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So what is it?

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Once the gripping, suspenseful, frightening sound keeps being

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mentioned to them, what is it?

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يوم يكون الناس كالفراش المبثوث It is a

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single day, a يوم.

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يكون الناس, in it, the people, الناس, humanity

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will be كالفراش, like butterflies, like moths or

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butterflies, مبثوث بثة means to scatter something.

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Scattered butterflies.

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فراش مبثوث And of course, you know, like

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butterflies, moths, these are symbols of what?

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Intelligent beings?

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Strong beings?

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What is it?

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When you see a whole sort of like

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group of butterflies fluttering.

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Weakness, foolishness, right?

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And this is what people will be like

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on the day of this deafening blast.

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People will be scrambling in every direction.

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So like all of humanity, for the most

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part, the intellectuals among them, the geniuses among

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them, the billionaires among them, this will be

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the norm.

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Everyone just bouncing around aimlessly in every direction,

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and nowhere to run, and no idea what

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they're supposed to do.

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Aimlessly flying, foolishly behaving.

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And the scholars said, you know, the parallel

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here also is that, the butterfly is deceived

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by the assumption of light, deceived by any

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image, right?

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Light means good, go towards light, then they

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die in the campfire, right?

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And they didn't just get this from sort

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of their own personal reflections.

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They drew this from the fact that the

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Prophet ﷺ said in one hadith.

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It's an important hadith in Sahih Muslim, that,

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اِنَّ مَثَلِي وَمَثَلُكُمْ كَمَثَلِ رَجُلٍ أَوْقَدَ نَارًا فَجَعَلَ

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الْجَنَادِبُ وَالْفَرَاشُ يَقَعْنَ فِيهَا وَهُوَ يُذْهِبْ هُنَّ عَنْهَا

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وَأَنَا آخِذُمْ بِحُجَزِكُمْ عَنِ النَّارِ وَأَنْتُمْ تَفْلِتُونَ مِنْ

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يَدِي That the example of me and you

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is like the example of a man who

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kindled a fire.

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Someone lit a campfire.

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And then the moths and the butterflies are

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diving in.

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And he's trying to shoo them away.

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He's trying to keep them away from the

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fire.

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It's not good for you.

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Go away, right?

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It's not what you think.

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This is death.

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So he's trying to chase them away from

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the fire.

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He said, and me too ﷺ, أَنَا آخِذُمْ

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بِحُجَزِكُمْ I'm trying to grab you by your

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waistband.

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I'm grabbing you by whatever I can reach.

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وَأَنْتُمْ تَفْلِتُونَ مِنْ يَدِي And you are slipping

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from my hands.

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Meaning you're insisting on heading in a destructive

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direction.

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And so subhanAllah, he says, this is the

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relationship of me and you.

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I'm trying to keep you all away from

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the fire.

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And you're just randomly diving in headfirst.

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And then the ayah says, يَوْمَ يَكُونُ النَّاسُ

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On that day, people will be كَالفَرَاشِ المَبْثُوثُ

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Like scattered butterflies in every direction.

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And then it is as if a person

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reads that, القارع, this blast, and everyone's scrambling

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in every direction.

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And like you're almost trying to pacify yourself

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or calm yourself a little bit.

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As a listener you say, okay, maybe it's

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because people are feeble-minded.

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People are, we're weak creatures, we're fragile.

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How about the mountains?

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The mountains are not like humans.

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Then the next verse comes and says what?

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وَتَكُونُ الْجِبَالُ كَالْعِهْنِ الْمَنْفُوشِ And on that day

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the mountains will be like this fluffed up

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wool.

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You know, المنفوش, some scholars said like colored

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wool, and some scholars said like fluffed up

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wool.

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And these are not different answers.

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It's basically the wool when it is in

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its lightest state is after you take it

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off of the animal and you color it,

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right?

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And you fluff it up light, so you

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can start making textile with it, you can

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start making with it a fabric.

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So that wool that they can recognize as

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people of this sort of context, this reference

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point the Arab understand, fluffed up wool or

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the colored wool, right?

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Meaning that wool when it's in its fluffiest

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state, in its lightest, physically lightest state, the

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mountains that you think are so stable are

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so huge.

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You know, they represent, they are the symbol

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of all things massive on this earth, right?

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And now we know what's beneath the earth

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is even 10 times greater than these towering

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mountains on top of the earth.

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Their root goes so much even deeper.

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All of that will be like this, will

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be weightless, nothing will have any weight.

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Won't just be human beings bouncing around like

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nothingness, even the mountain itself will be like

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nothing.

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You know the other ayah says, وَتَرَى السَّحَابَةَ

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تَحْسَبُهَا جَامِدًۭا وَهِيَ تَمُرُّ مَرَّ السَّحَابَ الجِبَال تَرَى

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الجِبَال And you see the mountains on that

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day, تَحْسَبُهَا جَامِدًۭا you presume of them to

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be well established, to be fixed in their

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places.

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وَهِيَ تَمُرُّ مَرَّ السَّحَابَ And they pass like

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these light clouds, these fluffy clouds, they're just

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passing along, disappearing out of their place.

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So nothing has any weight on that day,

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after the striking blast comes.

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So where do I find stability?

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Where do I take cover?

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Where do I find safety?

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The next verse comes and says, فَأَمَّا مَنْ

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ثَقُلَتْ مَوَزِينُ It's profound.

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As for the one whose deeds are heavy,

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that's the only thing that's gonna hold you

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down, that's the only thing that's gonna keep

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you in that day.

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As for the one whose deeds are heavy,

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these are the ones that have security, these

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are the ones that have cover, these are

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the ones that have safety.

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The deafening blast frightens everyone, this explosion of

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the day of judgment.

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But other verses do tell us that other

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people, وَهُم مِّن فَزَعِي يَوْمَئِذٍ آمِنُونَ They will

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be from the terror of that day, fully

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secure.

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There may be a moment of fear for

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everyone, but by and large, they will feel

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secure on that day unlike everyone else.

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And everyone will recognize that we should have

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gotten in on this, on the good deeds.

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That's when people's scales get flipped in the

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right direction.

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You know in Surah Al-Waqi'ah, when

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Allah Azza wa Jalla speaks about Al-Waqi

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'ah, which is like Al-Qari'ah.

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Al-Waqi'ah is the inevitable reality.

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Allah calls this inevitable reality, this inevitable major

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event.

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He says, خَافِضَةٌ رَافِعَةٌ خافضة means to lower,

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رافعة means to raise.

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In other words, the scales get reversed.

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Everything gets reversed.

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You know the Prophet ﷺ says, for example,

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إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَيَأْتِي بِالرَّجُلِ أَثَّقِينَ أَسَّمِينَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ

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فَيُوضَعُ فِي الْمِيزَانِ فَلَا يَعْدِلُ عِندَ اللَّهِ جَنَاحَ

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بَعُودَةٍ That Allah will bring about an overweight,

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heavyset man, and place him in the scales,

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and he will not weigh the wing of

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a mosquito on that day.

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Right?

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Or the other hadith now, the opposite.

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When the Sahaba saw Abdullah al-Mas'ud

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radiyallahu anhu, who had a very frail body,

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right?

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He didn't have much weight to him.

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Some would even say that when the wind

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would blow heavy, he would struggle to like

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walk against the wind.

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He may even fall over.

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He may lose his balance.

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You know, like a sandstorm or a windy

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day.

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When the Sahaba saw him climbing up a

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date palm tree, scaling the tree, and they

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saw how thin his legs were from below,

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they began to like smirk, laugh.

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And so the Prophet ﷺ said, أَتَضْحَكُونَ مِن

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دِقَّةِ سَاقَيْ You're laughing from how slender his

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legs are?

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I swear to you they are heavier in

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the scale of Allah, in the sight of

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Allah, on the day of judgment, then Mount

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Uhud.

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Then Uhud, the great mountain of Uhud.

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That's what will have weight.

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People that were peasants in this world will

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be kings in the Akhirah, right?

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And people that were high and mighty in

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this world, يَبْعَثُهُمُ اللَّهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ أَمْثَلَ الذَّرُ

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Prophet ﷺ said, the prideful arrogant people will

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be resurrected like ants.

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يَطَأُهُمُ النَّاسُ بِأَقْدَامِهِمْ People will trample them under

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their feet.

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So this is the only place where a

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person will have anchorage, a person will have

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weight.

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The storehouses of good deeds, whoever came with

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good deeds.

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You know, similarly, some scholars connected, like where

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do you find weight on the day of

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judgment?

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They pulled in the ayah of Surah Al

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-Muzzammil, إِنَّا سَنُلْقِ عَلَيْكَ قَوْلًا ثَقِيلًا We will

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reveal upon you a heavy statement.

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That is what stabilizes you.

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That is what anchors you.

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That's what keeps you there.

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It doesn't leave you in this dunya fluttering

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like a butterfly.

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Just in every aimless direction.

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With every wind, with every fashion trend.

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With every desire.

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Not like that.

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With every weird criteria.

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The whole world sees this person as desirable

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because she's pretty, or he's muscular, or they're

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wealthy, or they're wearing this brand or that

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brand.

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The Quran keeps you stabilized.

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No, no, no, no, no.

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There's a very different scale that we ought

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to use.

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The scale of righteousness and wickedness.

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That's the true scale.

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That's what will show up on the day

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of judgment.

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So, فَأَمَّا مَنْ ثَقُلَتْ مَوَازِينُهُ فَهُوَ فِي عِيشَةٍ

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رَاضِيَةٍ Whomever's deeds are weighty, then he will

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be فِي عِيشَةٍ in a lifestyle, in a

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life that is راضية, that is most pleasing.

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He pleased Allah.

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And Allah became pleased with him.

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And so Allah will please him in ways

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he can imagine, in ways he cannot imagine.

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In things that he asks for and things

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he would not think to ask for.

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وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَازِينُهُ And whoever's deeds were

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light.

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And this is, may Allah protect us.

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This is like the irreversible catastrophe.

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You know, any like dilemma, any catastrophe we

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have, right?

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If you're in debt, maybe someone will pay

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off your debt, right?

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You'll find some good friends one day, right?

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If you're sick, maybe you can like go

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to another country and find a physician.

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Maybe a cure will get solved.

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Maybe you'll die and go to Jannah.

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Everything can be solved.

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Except the person who shows up on the

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day of judgment, finding their deeds aren't heavy

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enough.

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And the deeds are being brought, and they're

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being placed in the scale, and placed in

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the scale, and they don't weigh anything.

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Or they have some weight, but it doesn't

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compare with the weight of their evil deeds.

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This is the ultimate catastrophe.

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The unresolvable problem.

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وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَازِينُهُ And whoever's deeds were

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light.

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And whose deeds are light.

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فَأُمُّهُ هَاوِيَةٌ فَأُمُّهُ هَاوِيَةٌ فَأُمُّهُ هَاوِيَةٌ Then his

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Umm will plummet, or is Al-Hawiyah.

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So both Al-Umm and Al-Hawiyah have

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been interpreted in different ways.

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Umm here is not your mother.

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The Umm is either your head, your head,

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or it is your home.

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Like the place you go back to is

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called, like it's Umm Al-Qura.

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Mecca is called Umm Al-Qura.

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The mother of all towns.

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Because all of the towns sort of branched

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out, emerged from Mecca.

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It all comes back to Mecca, for instance.

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The preserved tablet is called Umm Al-Kitab.

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The mother of all books.

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The master record.

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Because that's the preserved tablet.

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And so Ummuhu refers to your head.

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It all goes back to here.

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Were you thinking?

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Were you not thinking?

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Were you mocking?

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Were you not mocking?

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Were you ignoring the message or not ignoring

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the message?

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Right?

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It all comes back here.

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It's not really your finger's fault.

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It's your mind told your finger to do

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it.

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Yes?

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That sort of thing.

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And so his head, Hawiyah will plummet.

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Hawa means to fall.

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يهوي به في نار جهنم He will plummet

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with it or because of it into the

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fire of *, the hadith says.

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So يهوي or Hawa means to fall down.

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And so that means, that head of his

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that committed all the crimes and thought of

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all of the conniving acts, he will fall

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headfirst.

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May Allah protect us.

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It will be headfirst heading down into the

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fire.

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والعياذ بالله The other...

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I mixed them.

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I'm so sorry.

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But the other meaning is, Ummuhu meaning his

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home, his destination, like Ummul-Qur'an, Ummul

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-Kitab, where he comes back to forever is

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Al-Hawiyah, this fire that people fall into.

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Al-Hawiyah here is referring to the fire

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because it is one of the names of

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the fire that refers to the notion of

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how it's depth.

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It has great depth.

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So it either means his head will be

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falling, meaning before anything, headfirst he will be

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falling, Ummuhu Hawiyah.

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Or it means Ummuhu, his home is Al

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-Hawiyah, this fire that people fall into.

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Does this make sense?

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Everyone clear?

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وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا هِيَ And what can make

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you realize what it is?

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Al-Hawiyah.

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Meaning nothing I say can actually get you

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to realize what it is.

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نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌ It is an intense fire, a

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fire نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌ that is most intense.

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May Allah protect us from the fire.

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Of course, this is not redundant.

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What do you mean an intense fire?

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What fire isn't intense?

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The meaning here, as the scholar said, is

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that unlike your fire, this is actually intense.

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And we said, in Surat Al-Humaza, the

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fire of this dunya can melt metal, can't

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it?

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Think of volcanoes melting rock, right?

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And the hadith that tells us your fires

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are but one part of 70 parts of

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the fire of Jahannam.

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So when Allah says, نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌ an intense

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fire, meaning compared to the fires of this

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world, this is an intense fire.

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Or compared to the hereafter, these aren't actually

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intense.

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This is more deserving of the name or

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the adjective intense.

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You know, these are very short surahs, before

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I move to Takathur.

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And because we repeat them so much, we

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are more susceptible, we are more prone to

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just like glossing over them.

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But these were actually the surahs that changed

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the sahaba altogether.

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This is what changed their lives.

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This is what transformed them into the best

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nation brought out as a model community for

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humanity.

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And so there really is so much that

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we can draw from this surah if we

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try to refresh our relationship with it.

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Surah Takathur.

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Actually, I have this on my phone.

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Didn't get to write it out in my

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notebook.

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So surah Takathur.

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Takathur means mutual increase.

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What that entails when you go through the

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surah becomes clear.

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But this surah also is very frightening.

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This surah contains three times, one after another

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after another, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,

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كَلَّ.

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And كَلَّ is like a hammer in the

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Quran.

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كَلَّ means absolutely not.

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It's there for negation, yes.

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Absolutely not.

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It negates what's happening before it.

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But it's also there to strike for attention.

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It's like the crack of the whip.

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كَلَّ.

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It's different than لا.

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No, this is not the case.

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كَلَّ, right?

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As a wake up call.

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So Al-Qari'ah and Takathur both have

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this notion.

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That we're gonna keep talking about this whether

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you're convinced or not, whether you believe it

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or not, whether most people will not wake

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up or not.

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We're still gonna talk about it.

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That is the idea of these two surahs

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and keep that in mind.

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You know, it's like, oh, you don't believe

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in this, so I'm not gonna continue and

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describe the day of judgment for you.

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No, no, no.

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That's like you don't believe in the hereafter,

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so let's not talk about it.

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You gotta keep talking, right?

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And so Takathur does that as well.

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Takathur says, no, no, no.

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And then right after that, Allah swears three

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times.

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And this is also unique.

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This is rare in the Quran to find

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this much sequencing of one after another of

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Allah swearing, Allah swearing, Allah swearing.

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So the first two verses of surah Takathur

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is speaking about what is the crime that

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has made Allah Azza wa Jal this angry.

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And then Kalla comes three times and three

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oaths come.

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But let's work on it together inshallah.

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There's a certain crime committed.

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What is that crime that's committed?

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Al-Hakum Takathur.

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First verses of the surah.

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Al-Hakum from Laha, which means to be

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distracted.

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Lahu, distraction.

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Al-Hakum, you have been distracted by what?

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Al-Takathur.

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Takathur is from Kathir.

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Kathura means something that's plenty, something abundant.

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Takathur means competing with one another, against one

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another on who has more, who has more

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abundance.

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Right?

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It's the chase for more.

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It's the rat race.

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The rat race has distracted you.

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Al-Hakum Takathur.

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You've been distracted by the back and forth

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competition, back and forth, meaning against each other.

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So you've been distracted by social comparison.

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You've been distracted by the rat race.

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You've been distracted by this endless competition between

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you.

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This is the meaning of the first verse

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of the surah.

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And a few things to point out.

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First of all, Allah says it in the

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plural.

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You have been, in the plural.

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The Arabic is Kum, not Al-Haka, you

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as an individual.

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Al-Hakum, and perhaps this is an indication

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of just how common this is.

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This is the predominant downfall of man, is

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this distractedness, this ghafla, this heedlessness.

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That people are always busy with this.

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Because you know human beings, they know deep

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down inside that they are not God.

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They know deep down inside that they have

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voids in them, they want to fill.

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They know deep down inside that they have

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this insecurity.

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And so they're trying to fill this void.

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How do I know how much I need

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to fill the void?

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They look around.

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How much does he have?

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How much does she have?

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And they try to fill the void.

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Of course the problem is what?

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This void is infinite.

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And only the eternal and the infinite, knowing

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him and having a relationship with him, will

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ever fill that void.

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Otherwise you will forever have the insecurity.

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الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَلَمْ يَلْبِسُوا إِيمَانَهُمْ بِظُلْمٍ أُولَٰئِكَ لَهُمُ

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الْأَمْنُ وَهُمْ مُهْتَدُونَ Allah says, those who believe

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and don't corrupt their belief with wrongdoing, for

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them is security.

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They are more recipients of security than anyone.

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And they are the ones that are rightly

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guided.

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But those that don't know Allah Azza wa

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Jal, they drug themselves with second best, with

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chasing against each other.

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And they tell themselves that this chase will

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fill my void, will help me.

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But it's just a distraction.

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In reality it's just a distraction.

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It's a drug.

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It's an escapism.

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You know like we did last week, two

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weeks ago, يَحْسَبُ أَنَّ مَالَهُ أَخْلَدَ He presumes,

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wrongly presumes, chooses to presume that his wealth

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will let him live forever, will get him

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past that insecurity that we all have about

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the day we die.

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He just, the wealth, let me just focus

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on the wealth.

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There's two things that were not mentioned in

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this first verse that the scholars talk about.

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The first of them is that distracted from

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what?

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The other one is competing in what?

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Neither of them were mentioned.

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They were left open-ended.

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So competing in what wasn't stated because anything

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can be competed in, right?

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Some people compete in wealth.

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Other people find it more expedient, more helpful

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for them, advances them further in the rat

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race.

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There is no further in the rat race,

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right?

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It's a circle, that ball, the hamster wheel.

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They're gonna compete in fame, in physical abilities,

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in knowledge, even in religious knowledge.

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So long as you are competing for the

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sake of worldly advancement, then it's worldly, right?

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So the problem is not seeking wealth.

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Obviously the problem is not seeking knowledge.

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But if you seek wealth or children or

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Islamic knowledge for worldly gains, then you've tokenized

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and it's still worldly.

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If you're not seeking it because you need

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it, you're seeking it because you want to

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boast of it, then it's worldly.

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Like the man in Surah Al-Kahf, what

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did he say?

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أَنَا أَكْثَرُ مِنْكَ مَالًا وَأَعَزُّ نَفَرًا I am

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more than you in wealth, and more powerful

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than you in terms of family size, right?

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In terms of my following.

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So that's the first thing.

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Competing in what was not mentioned because you

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can compete in anything.

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And we'll come back to this in the

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second ayah after we finish this.

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Also distracted by the competition from what?

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It doesn't say.

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Because it has the power to distract you

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from everything.

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Does that make sense?

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The person, once they get into the rat

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race, it spoils everything.

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It burns the entirety of their life.

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Salah and sadaqah and family and Quran and

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ummah, everything all together.

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That's why some scholars say the surah right

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after it is what?

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والعصر It squeezes you till every last minute

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is gone.

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This is also why not the next surah.

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The very next verse says what?

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You are distracted حتى زرتم المقابر You're distracted

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by the competition between you and others until

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you visit the graves.

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That's usually when it ends.

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For most people, they're distracted from everything until

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they enter their graves.

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They don't come to their senses before then.

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That's why Yahya ibn Mu'adh al-Razi,

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rahimahullah, he used to say, الدنيا خمر الشيطان

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That this dunya, worldly chases, this is the

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intoxicant of Shaytan.

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فمن سكر بها لم يفق إلا في عسكر

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الموت That whomever gets intoxicated by it, whoever

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gets drunk with it, will not come to

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their senses until they're among the dead.

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Until they are among the dead.

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And the Prophet ﷺ himself also said this,

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that the son of Adam keeps saying, مالي

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مالي, my wealth, my wealth.

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وهل لك يا ابن آدم من مالك إلا

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ما أكلت فأفنيت O son of Adam, what

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do you really own of your wealth except

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that which you already consumed?

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It's not yours if you leave it behind,

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right?

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If you didn't eat it, it wasn't yours.

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What do you really have of your wealth

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except that which you consumed and so you

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finished.

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Can't have your cake and eat it too.

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I actually never understood that phrase for a

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very long time.

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But the idea is, if you want to

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keep your cake, you're not allowed to eat

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it, or else it's gone.

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That's the idea.

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You can't keep your cake and eat it

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too.

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Once you eat it, it's gone, right?

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أكلت فأفنيت He says, أولبست فأبليت Or you

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wore it, and when you wear it, it

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wears out.

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It withers.

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It looks crisp only the first few wears.

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Then you got to throw it in the

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washing machine.

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It starts looking different.

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Yes.

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أولبست فأبليت He says, أو أنفقت فأمضيت Or

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you spent, meaning in good causes, and so

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you forwarded.

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أمضيت مضى means to proceed.

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And so you forwarded it across the bridge,

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the other side, the hereafter.

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That's the only wealth you really have.

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Meaning the wealth you didn't use, you don't

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have.

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And the one you consumed, you don't really

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have.

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The one that you spent for Allah is

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the only one you really have.

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This is in Sahih Muslim.

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And Ubayy ibn Ka'ab radiallahu anhu, a

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great Sahabi, he used to say, and others

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I believe as well, we used to consider

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the valley of gold hadith like a surah

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from the Quran.

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You guys know the valley of gold hadith?

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And the Prophet shallallahu alaihi wa sallam said

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that, if the son of Adam were given

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a valley of gold, he would wish for

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a second valley.

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And if he was given a second valley

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of gold, you know what a valley is?

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A place between two mountains, right?

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When he was given a second valley, he'd

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wish for a third.

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وَلَا يَمْلَأُ فَاهُ إِلَّا التُّرَابُ وَيَتُوبُ اللَّهُ عَلَى

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مَن تَابُ And nothing will fill his mouth

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but the dirt.

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He'll never say enough, except when the dirt

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has covered him.

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And Allah opens the door for forgiveness, for

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repentance, for those who actually repent.

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But normally people don't.

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Normally until you visit the grave.

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The hadith says, حَتَّى زُرْتُمُ الْمَقَابِرُ Until you

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visit the grave, people just continue to chase,

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people just continue to run.

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Until you visit the graveyards.

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You know actually the scholars of Tafsir also

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mention, until you visit the graveyards, they mention

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an interesting story, even though that's not what

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they usually assign as the meaning of the

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ayah.

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They say until you visit the graveyards, most

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of them will say meaning until you die,

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and spend some time in the graveyard, right?

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But they say actually, we have a story

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from like pre-Islamic Arabia, in the Jahiliyyah

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period, the period of the ignorant culture before

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Islam, that two tribes got into a boasting

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competition.

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We have this warrior, and we have this

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rich man, and we have this number of

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family members, right?

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Until they kept going back and forth, until

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they visited the graveyards, and started counting their

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ancestors.

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Like the graveyard is supposed to be a

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place of wake-up call, a place to

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remember like, yeah, this is where I'm coming,

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this is actually my house, right?

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I'm going to be here soon, I'm getting

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relocated soon.

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You know when I believe it was Abu

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Darda'a radiallahu anhu, they entered his

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house, and they saw that he had like

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very little furniture, and they said to him

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like, where's your stuff?

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He said, no, no, I'm just like renting

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the place, this place is not mine.

00:36:04 --> 00:36:07

They said, okay, but you're still going to

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need some stuff while you're here, like this

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is really minimal.

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He said, صاحب الدار لن يتركنا The owner

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of the house won't leave us here long.

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And it was reported about one of the

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scholars of Zuhd, the scholars of Islam that

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was well known for his Zuhd, his restraint

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from this world, or disdain for like worldly

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luxuries, he was visited by some people, this

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like saintly personality, the Zuhd, and they said

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to him, where is your furniture?

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He said, where is yours?

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They said, we are just guests.

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He said, so am I.

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And so that idea of like we are

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guests in this world, and what?

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And we are guests in even the grave.

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The verse says, until you visit the graves,

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meaning if you live a hundred years here,

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you may spend a hundred thousand in the

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grave, but even that would be a visit.

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Can you imagine?

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And so these people before Islam, it's sad

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because it's not just the people before Islam.

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People do that all the time.

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They boast in the graveyards, don't they?

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With the tombstones, right?

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I'm so sorry, I have to say this.

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With live streaming, it is one of the

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most bothersome things in modern life for me.

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In the graveyard, everyone wants to live stream

00:37:28 --> 00:37:30

the burial, right?

00:37:30 --> 00:37:33

I can imagine half of a percent of

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the time, there is some sort of justification,

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right?

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Like to cool the heart of a person

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who didn't get a chance to get to

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the burial for someone, like what happened in

00:37:44 --> 00:37:46

the COVID period or otherwise.

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But everyone's recording for what purpose exactly?

00:37:51 --> 00:37:52

Streaming for what purpose exactly?

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Like this is a treasure in front of

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you.

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So the people of Arabia went into the

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graveyard, and they're saying, look, look, look, look,

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look.

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They're boasting in dunya, not realizing that they're

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standing at the gate of akhira.

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The graveyard, if you don't remember then, then

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when?

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Prophet ﷺ said, I used to forbid you

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from visiting the graves, as for now, visit

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them because they remind of the hereafter.

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It's the gateway.

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So that is interesting.

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But for most scholars, when they speak about

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the meaning of this verse, they assign it

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to the actual person himself at the time

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of his death visiting the grave, and they

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stop getting distracted only then.

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They say there was more to life than

00:38:36 --> 00:38:37

just hoarding all of this wealth.

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I spent my whole life hating and bothered

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and competing and envying.

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And he will realize that it wasn't worth

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it.

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As the Prophet ﷺ said, لا حسد إلا

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في اثنتين.

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There is no envy allowed.

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There's no envy that makes sense also.

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That's another interpretation.

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There's no logical reason to envy, except two

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people, a person whom Allah gave knowledge and

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or the Qur'an to, a person whom

00:39:02 --> 00:39:04

Allah عز و جل gave wealth to.

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By the way, that's not what you're envying.

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The hadith says, so he taught it by

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night and day, he spent it entirely in

00:39:11 --> 00:39:12

good causes.

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You're envying the teaching for Allah's sake, the

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spending for Allah's sake.

00:39:16 --> 00:39:19

You're not envying what was used as an

00:39:19 --> 00:39:21

instrument of that, because that could be for

00:39:21 --> 00:39:23

dunya, could be for akhira, right?

00:39:26 --> 00:39:29

And so a person, حتى زرتم المقابر.

00:39:29 --> 00:39:30

Once you visit the graveyard, you realize I

00:39:30 --> 00:39:32

was so busy with everyone, and here I

00:39:32 --> 00:39:34

am all alone now, in the hole, in

00:39:34 --> 00:39:35

the ground.

00:39:42 --> 00:39:44

There's so many hadith in this regard, maybe

00:39:44 --> 00:39:46

this is, not to mention them now, then

00:39:46 --> 00:39:46

when.

00:39:46 --> 00:39:49

You know, there's the famous hadith of Musa

00:39:49 --> 00:39:50

عليه السلام, you know, the angel of death?

00:39:51 --> 00:39:54

Musa عليه السلام, Allah عز و جل sent

00:39:54 --> 00:39:55

him the angel of death, and the angel

00:39:55 --> 00:39:56

of death caught him off guard.

00:39:57 --> 00:39:58

And so he just reacted.

00:39:58 --> 00:40:02

He just reacted naturally, as humans do, fight

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or flight mode.

00:40:03 --> 00:40:05

He chose fight, and he knocked out the

00:40:05 --> 00:40:06

eye of the angel of death.

00:40:06 --> 00:40:08

And so Allah عز و جل restored it

00:40:08 --> 00:40:08

for him.

00:40:09 --> 00:40:10

And he said to him, Ya Allah, you

00:40:10 --> 00:40:11

sent me to someone who doesn't want to

00:40:11 --> 00:40:12

die.

00:40:13 --> 00:40:15

And so Allah عز و جل revealed to

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Musa عليه السلام, Oh Musa, here is a

00:40:17 --> 00:40:19

thawr, here is an ox, you know the

00:40:19 --> 00:40:21

animal, the bull, the ox.

00:40:21 --> 00:40:24

He said, wipe the back of this ox,

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and every hair of the ox that your

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hand touches as you caress its back, I

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will add for every hair a year to

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your life.

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So Musa عليه السلام, he's not caught off

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guard here, this is now sort of an

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exchange.

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A gift from Allah عز و جل, and

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an exchange, it's very clear what's happening now.

00:40:44 --> 00:40:45

He said to him, Ya Allah, and then

00:40:45 --> 00:40:45

what?

00:40:45 --> 00:40:46

He said, and then death.

00:40:47 --> 00:40:48

He said, فالآن يا رب, then now.

00:40:50 --> 00:40:51

Like, what is the difference?

00:40:51 --> 00:40:54

I live 100 or 150 years, like 100

00:40:54 --> 00:40:56

or 300 years, what's the difference?

00:40:57 --> 00:40:59

If this is actually death, if it's actually

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when you want me to die, I was

00:41:00 --> 00:41:01

just reacting here.

00:41:01 --> 00:41:02

I'll go now, if that's when you want

00:41:02 --> 00:41:02

me to go.

00:41:02 --> 00:41:04

The end of the day doesn't really mean

00:41:04 --> 00:41:04

much.

00:41:05 --> 00:41:07

Because whatever it's going to be, divided by

00:41:07 --> 00:41:09

infinity, is what?

00:41:11 --> 00:41:11

Zero.

00:41:15 --> 00:41:18

And so, until they visit the graveyard, they

00:41:18 --> 00:41:20

don't realize just how distracted they were.

00:41:20 --> 00:41:22

That they spent, they just kept putting things

00:41:22 --> 00:41:24

off, and procrastinating, like we were discussing today

00:41:24 --> 00:41:25

in the khutbah.

00:41:25 --> 00:41:27

Just when I graduate, just when I have

00:41:27 --> 00:41:29

kids, and just when I set things up

00:41:29 --> 00:41:30

for the kids and the family, and so

00:41:30 --> 00:41:31

on and so forth.

00:41:33 --> 00:41:35

The years that I wasted, I could have

00:41:35 --> 00:41:36

been in the company of the king, I

00:41:36 --> 00:41:38

could have seen his face, and so on

00:41:38 --> 00:41:38

and so forth.

00:41:39 --> 00:41:44

حتى زرتموا المقابر And the last thing I

00:41:44 --> 00:41:45

will say, brothers and sisters, I will accelerate

00:41:45 --> 00:41:47

now, but you know, the scholars, they mentioned

00:41:47 --> 00:41:48

a beautiful point.

00:41:48 --> 00:41:50

They say that, why is it that the

00:41:50 --> 00:41:52

competition is interrupted by death?

00:41:52 --> 00:41:53

Because it's endless.

00:41:54 --> 00:41:59

And you will always have more amal than

00:41:59 --> 00:42:00

your ajal.

00:42:00 --> 00:42:03

Ajal means your limit, your lifespan.

00:42:04 --> 00:42:05

The Prophet ﷺ drew a line on the

00:42:05 --> 00:42:08

ground, said, this is the amal of the

00:42:08 --> 00:42:10

insan, the hopes, the wishes, the dreams, right?

00:42:11 --> 00:42:13

He said, and this is his ajal, this

00:42:13 --> 00:42:14

is his limit.

00:42:15 --> 00:42:18

So you will always have more dreams, wishes,

00:42:18 --> 00:42:20

ambitions, than your life will allow.

00:42:21 --> 00:42:22

So you're gonna have to pick something.

00:42:23 --> 00:42:25

You can't be competing in it all.

00:42:25 --> 00:42:27

It will be at the expense of something.

00:42:27 --> 00:42:29

So when a person visits the grave, they

00:42:29 --> 00:42:33

get interrupted and say, I made the wrong

00:42:33 --> 00:42:33

transaction.

00:42:34 --> 00:42:36

I prioritized the wrong way.

00:42:36 --> 00:42:38

I should have known I would not have

00:42:38 --> 00:42:39

time for it all.

00:42:40 --> 00:42:44

And then Allah ﷻ says, kalla, kalla means

00:42:44 --> 00:42:44

what?

00:42:45 --> 00:42:45

Absolutely no.

00:42:46 --> 00:42:51

Kalla, it's like it tears through the noise

00:42:51 --> 00:42:51

of the distraction.

00:42:52 --> 00:42:56

Kalla, sawfa ya'lamoon, they will soon find

00:42:56 --> 00:42:57

out.

00:42:58 --> 00:43:01

Thumma kalla, then again I say it, they

00:43:01 --> 00:43:02

will soon find out.

00:43:03 --> 00:43:04

Why is the repetition here?

00:43:04 --> 00:43:05

Some scholars said for emphasis.

00:43:06 --> 00:43:09

Other scholars said, it is the repetition of

00:43:09 --> 00:43:12

the amount of times they will be reminded

00:43:12 --> 00:43:14

of what they were distracted from.

00:43:14 --> 00:43:16

So when they reach the akhira, every single

00:43:16 --> 00:43:18

prayer they were distracted from, they will be

00:43:18 --> 00:43:19

reminded about.

00:43:19 --> 00:43:22

Every single sort of dollar that they chased,

00:43:22 --> 00:43:24

or unethical business decision they made, they will

00:43:24 --> 00:43:26

find out the outcome of all of this.

00:43:26 --> 00:43:28

They're gonna find out, not just once, not

00:43:28 --> 00:43:30

wholesale, you messed up.

00:43:30 --> 00:43:31

No, no, they will find out.

00:43:31 --> 00:43:34

No, no, no, they're going to again find

00:43:34 --> 00:43:36

out over and over and over and over

00:43:36 --> 00:43:36

again.

00:43:37 --> 00:43:40

They will be finding out when their fortune

00:43:40 --> 00:43:42

deserts them and they're left alone just with

00:43:42 --> 00:43:43

their deeds, they will be finding out what

00:43:43 --> 00:43:46

was the cost of the shortage in their

00:43:46 --> 00:43:46

deeds.

00:43:47 --> 00:43:50

And then the ayah says, kalla law ta

00:43:50 --> 00:43:51

'lamoon a'ilmal yaqeen.

00:43:52 --> 00:43:53

Absolutely not.

00:43:53 --> 00:43:54

This is not the way to do things.

00:43:54 --> 00:43:58

If only they knew for certain, if only

00:43:58 --> 00:43:59

they were sure.

00:44:00 --> 00:44:01

The heedlessness eats away at your certainty.

00:44:02 --> 00:44:03

It's not just like a fact and you

00:44:03 --> 00:44:06

automatically know the fact to be true, positive

00:44:06 --> 00:44:07

about it.

00:44:07 --> 00:44:09

No, when you get distracted from it for

00:44:09 --> 00:44:12

a while, you begin to doubt it after

00:44:12 --> 00:44:12

a while.

00:44:13 --> 00:44:15

If only they knew it with a degree

00:44:15 --> 00:44:16

of certainty.

00:44:16 --> 00:44:18

kalla law ta'lamoon a'ilmal yaqeen.

00:44:19 --> 00:44:20

This is the wake up call.

00:44:20 --> 00:44:22

Wake up, be certain.

00:44:22 --> 00:44:24

You're starting to doubt or you have doubted.

00:44:25 --> 00:44:27

As the Prophet ﷺ says, law ta'lamoon

00:44:27 --> 00:44:28

ma a'lam.

00:44:28 --> 00:44:32

If you know, meaning you're certain, ma a

00:44:32 --> 00:44:34

'lam, the way I know, you would have

00:44:34 --> 00:44:36

laughed little and you would have cried much

00:44:36 --> 00:44:39

and you would have not enjoyed your women

00:44:39 --> 00:44:42

on your beds and you would have all

00:44:42 --> 00:44:45

walked out into the deserts pleading with Allah

00:44:47 --> 00:44:49

and crying and begging of Him.

00:44:50 --> 00:44:54

Then Allah says, kalla law ta'lamoon a

00:44:54 --> 00:44:55

'ilmal yaqeen.

00:44:56 --> 00:44:57

la tarawunna al-jaheem.

00:44:57 --> 00:45:00

The lamb here is the lamb of...

00:45:00 --> 00:45:01

Allah is swearing.

00:45:01 --> 00:45:03

This is the lamb of oath, they call

00:45:03 --> 00:45:04

it, of an oath.

00:45:05 --> 00:45:06

la tarawunna al-jaheem.

00:45:06 --> 00:45:09

You will see the jaheem.

00:45:09 --> 00:45:11

Jaheem is the blazing fire.

00:45:11 --> 00:45:13

Jaheem is one of the names of Jahannam,

00:45:13 --> 00:45:14

one of the names of the hellfire.

00:45:15 --> 00:45:16

la tarawunna al-jaheem.

00:45:16 --> 00:45:18

Of course, we know that you will also

00:45:18 --> 00:45:18

see Jannah.

00:45:20 --> 00:45:22

But depending on where you go, you will

00:45:22 --> 00:45:23

see things differently.

00:45:24 --> 00:45:25

So a person of the fire, may we

00:45:25 --> 00:45:27

never be of the people of the fire.

00:45:27 --> 00:45:30

The person of the fire will see paradise

00:45:30 --> 00:45:31

and that he's locked out of it.

00:45:31 --> 00:45:33

So it would increase him in remorse, increase

00:45:33 --> 00:45:34

him in anguish.

00:45:35 --> 00:45:37

And the person of paradise will see the

00:45:37 --> 00:45:39

fire but it will be a source of

00:45:39 --> 00:45:41

joy for him that I'm not going there.

00:45:41 --> 00:45:45

That was my seat and I'm not going

00:45:45 --> 00:45:45

to fill it.

00:45:47 --> 00:45:49

You will see the fire.

00:45:50 --> 00:45:52

You know, like certainty is knowledge, right?

00:45:53 --> 00:45:53

Knowledge.

00:45:54 --> 00:45:56

You believe in the words of Allah.

00:45:56 --> 00:45:57

You believe in the words of the Prophet

00:45:57 --> 00:45:57

ﷺ.

00:45:58 --> 00:46:00

This ayah is saying these are not words

00:46:00 --> 00:46:00

anymore.

00:46:01 --> 00:46:03

A day will come when it wasn't just

00:46:03 --> 00:46:03

lectures.

00:46:04 --> 00:46:04

It wasn't just the Shaykh.

00:46:04 --> 00:46:06

It wasn't just the ayah that we heard.

00:46:07 --> 00:46:09

It wasn't just, right, the meme that we

00:46:09 --> 00:46:09

read.

00:46:09 --> 00:46:10

This is real.

00:46:10 --> 00:46:11

You will see it.

00:46:11 --> 00:46:13

Not just the words, not just the talks,

00:46:13 --> 00:46:14

not just the lectures.

00:46:17 --> 00:46:26

ثُمَّ لَتَرَوُّنَّهَا ثُمَّ لَتَرَوُّنَّهَا عَيْنَ الْيَقِينِ And then

00:46:26 --> 00:46:29

you will see it.

00:46:31 --> 00:46:35

لَتَرَوُّنَّ الْجَحِيمِ ثُمَّ لَتَرَوُّنَّهَا عَيْنَ الْيَقِينِ And then

00:46:35 --> 00:46:38

you will see it by way of experience.

00:46:38 --> 00:46:40

عَيْنَ الْيَقِينِ No, I'm sorry.

00:46:40 --> 00:46:40

it.

00:46:41 --> 00:46:43

You will experience it yourself.

00:46:44 --> 00:46:45

So you will not just see it, you

00:46:45 --> 00:46:47

will not just hear it, you will begin

00:46:47 --> 00:46:48

to experience it yourself.

00:46:52 --> 00:46:56

لَتَرَوُنَّ الْجَحِيمِ ثُمَّ لَتَرَوُنَّهَا عَيْنَ الْيَقِينِ You will

00:46:56 --> 00:46:57

see it and see it in a way

00:46:57 --> 00:47:00

that makes you certain about it in a

00:47:00 --> 00:47:01

different way, because you saw it now.

00:47:01 --> 00:47:03

Not just certain in the knowledge that you

00:47:03 --> 00:47:05

were heedless of, but certain about it because

00:47:05 --> 00:47:05

you saw it.

00:47:05 --> 00:47:07

عَيْنَ الْيَقِينِ The eye of certainty.

00:47:10 --> 00:47:14

ثُمَّ لَتُسْأَلُنَّ يَوْمَئِذٍ عَنِ النَّعِيمِ And then, I

00:47:14 --> 00:47:17

swear, you will see, you will be asked

00:47:17 --> 00:47:20

on that day about every last favor.

00:47:21 --> 00:47:23

Every day, every dollar, what did you do

00:47:23 --> 00:47:24

with this, what did you do with that.

00:47:25 --> 00:47:26

It was supposed to beget thankfulness.

00:47:27 --> 00:47:29

So long as you were thankful for it,

00:47:29 --> 00:47:31

then you will not be accountable for it.

00:47:32 --> 00:47:35

You got it from halal, expended it in

00:47:35 --> 00:47:35

halal.

00:47:36 --> 00:47:38

You consume that which is halal and thank

00:47:38 --> 00:47:39

Allah for blessing you with it.

00:47:40 --> 00:47:43

And so, there is the same theme, and

00:47:43 --> 00:47:45

I'm closing out here, between those two surahs,

00:47:45 --> 00:47:47

that these are forgotten realities, they are simple

00:47:47 --> 00:47:50

realities, until you face them.

00:47:50 --> 00:47:52

And the world is distracted from them.

00:47:53 --> 00:47:55

Outwardly, these two surahs are very scary, right?

00:47:55 --> 00:47:56

They're horrific.

00:47:57 --> 00:48:00

But embedded in this fear, embedded in this

00:48:00 --> 00:48:03

scare, is a great mercy from Allah عز

00:48:03 --> 00:48:04

و جل, because it rescues you from the

00:48:04 --> 00:48:05

tragic story.

00:48:07 --> 00:48:09

Like you imagine the tragic story of the

00:48:09 --> 00:48:14

image or the metaphor of a man, as

00:48:14 --> 00:48:15

some scholars have portrayed.

00:48:16 --> 00:48:17

Imagine a man going to prayer.

00:48:18 --> 00:48:20

Yes, going to salah, going to fulfill his

00:48:20 --> 00:48:20

purpose in life.

00:48:21 --> 00:48:22

And he finds like a bag of gold,

00:48:25 --> 00:48:25

right?

00:48:25 --> 00:48:27

So he bends down and picks it up.

00:48:27 --> 00:48:29

Then he sees another bag of gold.

00:48:29 --> 00:48:31

So he goes and picks that one up.

00:48:31 --> 00:48:32

Then he sees a third bag of gold,

00:48:32 --> 00:48:33

and he picks that one up.

00:48:34 --> 00:48:36

And he misses the prayer, and the next

00:48:36 --> 00:48:40

prayer, and maghrib, and isha, and he continues

00:48:40 --> 00:48:41

to do this.

00:48:41 --> 00:48:42

Can you imagine?

00:48:42 --> 00:48:46

Just the slippery slope ensues, sort of he

00:48:46 --> 00:48:47

gets stuck in this, and he sees others

00:48:47 --> 00:48:50

collecting more, so he's collecting more, and he

00:48:50 --> 00:48:53

just does this for 5, 10, 15, 20,

00:48:53 --> 00:48:54

he's 60 years old now.

00:48:54 --> 00:48:56

You come and you try to remind him,

00:48:56 --> 00:48:57

he's already hard of hearing, he can't hear

00:48:57 --> 00:48:58

the message anymore.

00:48:58 --> 00:49:00

He can't even understand you, like are you

00:49:00 --> 00:49:00

crazy?

00:49:01 --> 00:49:03

Like what are you talking about?

00:49:05 --> 00:49:07

And then he just continues to grab the

00:49:07 --> 00:49:08

pouch of gold, until what?

00:49:09 --> 00:49:10

Until he falls in the hole.

00:49:13 --> 00:49:15

That's exactly what this story is about.

00:49:16 --> 00:49:19

This story, the story of the surah, is

00:49:19 --> 00:49:21

shaking you out of that, snap out of

00:49:21 --> 00:49:21

it.

00:49:23 --> 00:49:25

It cuts through all these distractions, and tells

00:49:25 --> 00:49:27

you that even the grave, you're just going

00:49:27 --> 00:49:28

to be visiting it.

00:49:29 --> 00:49:30

There's a bigger picture here.

00:49:32 --> 00:49:33

And you make a decision, now or never,

00:49:34 --> 00:49:36

may Allah Azzawajal grant us the ability to

00:49:36 --> 00:49:36

make the right decisions.

00:49:37 --> 00:49:40

The Prophet ﷺ said, it's my favorite du

00:49:40 --> 00:49:48

'a in the sunnah, he said, when you

00:49:48 --> 00:49:54

find people hoarding, like drunk, gathering, hoarding gold

00:49:54 --> 00:50:00

and silver, you hoard, meaning hold on tight,

00:50:00 --> 00:50:08

collect, these words, Oh Allah, I ask you

00:50:08 --> 00:50:10

to be firm in my affairs, not to

00:50:10 --> 00:50:14

be swayed, right, in wrong directions, and to

00:50:14 --> 00:50:16

be determined upon doing the right thing.

00:50:17 --> 00:50:18

There's a big difference between loving the right

00:50:18 --> 00:50:21

thing, and finding the determination to go after

00:50:21 --> 00:50:21

it.

00:50:22 --> 00:50:24

And being determined upon doing the right thing.

00:50:27 --> 00:50:34

And I ask you to make me, help

00:50:34 --> 00:50:37

me, inspire me, to be thankful for your

00:50:37 --> 00:50:41

blessings, and beautiful in my devotion to you.

00:50:43 --> 00:50:46

This surah ends with what?

00:50:47 --> 00:50:48

You'll be asked about the blessings.

00:50:49 --> 00:50:50

You'll be asked about the favors.

00:50:51 --> 00:50:55

Have me not distracted, make me thankful for

00:50:55 --> 00:50:58

your blessings, and devout, beautifully devout in your

00:50:58 --> 00:50:58

worship.

00:51:02 --> 00:51:06

And I ask you for a clean heart

00:51:06 --> 00:51:07

and an honest tongue.

00:51:14 --> 00:51:17

And I ask you for all the good

00:51:17 --> 00:51:20

that you know, and I seek your protection

00:51:20 --> 00:51:22

from all the evil that you know, and

00:51:22 --> 00:51:24

I seek your forgiveness from what you know.

00:51:27 --> 00:51:30

You are the full knower of everything unseen.

00:51:31 --> 00:51:33

Go find that du'a, and learn it

00:51:33 --> 00:51:35

one line at a time, and hold onto

00:51:35 --> 00:51:37

it tightly, and hoard it.

00:51:37 --> 00:51:39

Keep it close in a world that hoards,

00:51:39 --> 00:51:41

that which distracts, and will not avail.

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