Ramadan 2024 #23 Allah tells us the Future
Date:
Channel: Sajid Ahmed Umar
Series: Sajid Ahmed Umar - Ramadan 2024
File Size: 75.76MB
Related
- Rania Awaad – Therapy a Millennia Before Modern Psychology
- Ahmed Hamed – The Power of Dua | Remarakable Ramadan 2020
- Mohamad Baajour – 333 Sunnahs -The Duas After Wudu
- Muhammad Salah – Gardens Of The Pious #474
- Mufti Menk – Look At The Stars
- Jamal Badawi – Economic System of Islam 16 – Charity Distributive Justice
- Haifaa Younis – Meeting Allah with Qalbun Saleem – Part 2
AI Generated Summary ©
The speakers discuss the upcoming night's Surah uniting book and emphasize the importance of being guided and not wasting time. They also stress the universal aspect of thewill and the "will of the soul", with forgiveness and showing proper faith crucial for achieving success. The speakers emphasize the need for a positive mindset and acknowledge that life is full of pleasantries, with positive thinking helping us achieve our goals.AI Generated Transcript ©
Allah lets things be based on a wisdom,
and he restricts events based on a wisdom.
He releases events based on a wisdom.
Same like kazza today. 1 of the sisters
was asking me on the weekend, our faith
is being
impacted
because Allah is letting this happen.
Allah my dear sister.
Allah is the one who restricts and he
releases.
We have to go back to our tuhid,
not disassociate
ourselves with our tuhid. This shouldn't be a
matter that makes our iman become weakened, but
rather it should be a matter that strengthens
our iman,
that these prophecies
were taught to us by the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, and these matters of the
end of time were revealed to us in
the Quran, and now we're seeing it with
the naked eye.
May Allah accept from us our deeds thus
far.
Tonight is the 23rd night.
What do you guys think?
How's it feeling so far?
Like it's the night?
What do you guys think?
It most likely can be subhanAllah.
The 23rd
has
had attributes to it in the past
And it is from the odd nights.
And it most definitely could be a little
Qadr.
So alhamdulillah, Allah has taken us through a
lot, alhamdulillah. We've prayed in Jama'ah together.
We've raised for a house from his houses
together,
alhamdulillah.
And now we will study from the Quran
together. May Allah take us from strength to
strength as the night progresses. Ameen.
Subhanallah, the Maqan verses
and the Maqan
chapters,
they're a potent dosage, Wallah,
when it comes to building ima.
For those who followed the recitation today,
those who understand the Arabic language,
or those who might have read a translation
of
tonight's Tarawih, the verses of tonight's Tarawih,
honestly, you can only deduce that the Makkan
verses are
indeed a potent
dosage
when it comes to iman building.
And these were the
verses that were revealed before hijra. Before hijra,
this is a period of building iman,
of building the hearts and the minds and
the souls
to a level whereby legislation could be accepted
wholly as well.
No questions asked.
When you believe
then you accept.
When you believe wholeheartedly
you accept wholeheartedly.
And
even as a believer, when you go over
the Makkan verses,
it builds your iman further.
Today, we completed Surah Zumr,
and I introduced it to you last night.
And then we went into Surah Al Ghafir
or Al Mu'min.
These are two names connected to the Surah.
And then
we began Surah Al Fusilat as we heard
in the recitation of Hafidaka.
And tomorrow you we will continue with Fussilat
again. In terms of Surah Zumr,
like we said last night, everything we said
about the Surah last night continued
into tonight's recitation.
Allah
establishing
his oneness
and especially in his worship,
but also in his lordship. SubhanAllah.
And
this whole idea
of this surah being a shar, an explanation,
a middle
explanation, meaning in terms of size
of the verse,
you alone do we worship,
and you alone do we seek assistance from.
If you understand
the implications,
the indications,
the references,
the lessons,
the reminders,
the pointers,
the narratives.
In surah Zumr, you can only conclude
You can only leave the surah
wanting to worship 1 Allah,
because you will only leave it with the
belief
that the only one who can help you
is him.
And if he is the only one who
can help you, then who else should be
worshiped?
And we exactly
say this in Suratul Fatiha,
That, dear Allah, you alone do we worship,
for you alone do we seek assistance from.
Nobody can assist us but you. Allah establishes
this, subhanallah,
with absolute
divine eloquence
in Surat Zumr.
And
I guess we should just go into the
standout verses, and I I I have to
say this just out of respect for the
book of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, all the
ayaatah stand out.
When we say stand out, we mean in
terms of what we can humanly take because
of the time that we have together.
Otherwise, every verse
is a standout verse.
And I'd like to go to verse 42.
Or before that, for for the sake of
consolidation purposes, why not verse 41?
May
Allah reveals
We discussed in Surah Yasi.
And over the nights of Ramadan, we've been
establishing this that the truth stands by itself,
and the messenger's job is to convey, not
to convert.
And the people's attitude towards the messenger has
no bearing on the reality
and the fundamental
idea
of the truth that is being posited and
presented.
And Allah
consolidates this for us in ayah number 41.
Indeed, we send down to you the book
for the people in truth.
Bilhaq.
It's in truth.
Testimony from Allah. This Quran has been sent
down by him in truth. For who? For
the people.
Whoever is guided,
you will benefit yourself. Your guidance does not
benefit Allah in any way.
Your guidance does not increase his majesty.
Your misguidance
does not decrease his majesty.
He, subhanahu, is perfect from ever,
and he's perfect forever.
Your attitude towards him has no defining reality
in terms of who he is, subhanah.
If
you want to be guided, far enough seeds
for yourself.
It's not for Allah.
Allah is not benefiting from you.
He is independent of samad. You are the
dependent one.
You depend on as samad. Allah is not
sending you the book, sending you the messenger
as if he's begging you for him.
He's helping you for you,
because he only sets up his creation to
succeed and not to fail.
He only sets up his creation to succeed
and not to fail, and in surreyasil we
saw how Allah said the night will never
overtake the day, and the day will never
overtake the night, and the sun, and the
moon, and the settings has been set.
To the extent that today we can have
this discussion, Eid will be on Wednesday.
Out of respect for Allah, we say, insha
Allah.
But also recognizing Allah's law that these, the
sun and the moon, will not be set
up for failure.
And they remain on the path true to
the guidance given to them by their lord.
Thus we can say it will be on
a Wednesday.
Allah sets everything up to succeed,
including the creation that has a choice,
including the creation that has a choice, because
you have a choice you got extra
care, messenger
upon messenger,
book after book
and another book when mankind themselves changed and
tweaked and edited
the revelation that Allah sent them.
And then he benefited you and set you
up to succeed
when Allah decreed
that no prophet would come by revealing a
book that will not come in written form
but a recited form so that it can
never be changed.
Recited
and preserved in the hearts of human beings
by the will of Allah,
true to the promise of Allah.
We have revealed this book and we will
preserve it.
Its preservation is upon Allah till the day
of qiyamah it will never be changed.
This is a mercy from Allah,
and this is further evidence that Allah sets
up
his creation to succeed.
For many
if you believe,
if you learn,
if you adopt,
if you change,
if you become guided for an nafsi, it
is for you.
Then Allah says
This is again a universal principle.
And whoever goes astray only goes astray to
their own detriment.
That's it.
And then Allah reveals to the messenger,
For one moment, don't think that we have
sent you as a manager over them. You're
not a manager over
them. You cannot control your team. This team
cannot be controlled. You don't have absolute control.
You have the ability to guide. You have
the ability to convey. You do not have
the ability to convert.
Something has to come from them.
They have to show Allah that in their
heart is a desire,
and if there is the desire in their
heart then Allah will
water that desire.
Allah will fertilize that desire.
Allah gives you the choice from
for us. We read every Friday in Suratul
Kahf. Whoever wishes belief
and whoever wishes disbelief,
but whoever wants to believe, Allah will flower
it for you. He will help you. You
come to Allah walking, he'll come to you
faster.
You come to him at arms length, he'll
come to you 2 arms length.
This is
Allah
and that is why it is of absolute
arrogance when people
lay blame upon Allah.
They lay blame upon Allah when Allah only
sets you up to succeed.
That's verse 41. This consolidates everything, subhanallah, we've
been discussing.
Verse 42,
Allah
tells us about the nafs.
Now the scholars of Islam have discussed
across a long discourse
regarding the nafs. Is it the same as
the ruh?
Is the nafs the soul?
Or is the soul separate and the nafs
separate?
What is the relationship between the 2?
And to further introduce this topic, I take
you back to suratul Isra, I think I
had traveled then.
But in Suratul Isra, Allah reveals,
they ask you concerning the soul.
They ask you, O Muhammad, concerning the soul.
Tell them
Tell them the soul is from the command
and creation of Allah.
And I have not been taught much about
it except a little.
Okay.
So what's the little that Allah has taught
us? Fast forward to Surat al Zumr.
Allah has taught us in Surat al Zumr
something about the soul, But before we discuss
that, let's talk about the the soul and
the nafs.
And the discourse is beyond the scope of
this discussion, but to summarize it for you,
the nafs
refers to
the soul connected to the body outside the
womb of the mother.
This is a nafs
That you are a soul in the world
of the souls.
Then you are a body growing in the
womb of your mother.
And then a time came, we Allah sent
the soul to your body.
But even then you are not enoughs. When
you are born, and you breathe
independently,
living the life of this world,
you are nafs.
So we have a body and we have
a soul.
Is the body.
Is the soul. When the and
are together, you are nafs.
And
in Surat Ashams, Allah says,
and the nafs
referring to Allah
creating it, shaping it, bringing it into existence
That Allah inspired this nafs
to know
what is sinful for it,
and what is from taqwa for it. Allah
says,
The ultimately
completely successful one is the one who purifies
these nafs. This purification
process can only happen in the life of
this world,
and this is further evidence that a nafs
refers to the soul and the body together.
In Surah Zumr, Allah teaches us something about
the soul. He says, Allah
but he uses the term
And by the way, further evidence to what
I just shared with you
is in the death of a companion of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, for he
passed away and his eyes remained open.
So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam went
to his companion and shut his eyes.
And he said to the sahaba,
he didn't say nafs.
He said
when the soul departs.
He didn't say when the nafs departs because
now you have a body without a soul.
He said when the soul departs,
the eyesight follows it.
But why do the eyes remain open?
Because the electricity has switched off.
The soul is the electricity of the body.
And how do we know this? From Surah
Zumr. Allah
says
Allahu
Allah,
this is from the little Allah has told
us about the soul. Allah lifts the soul.
Refers to the soul.
Based on context and the discussion that I've
just shared. Allah raises the soul
completely
at the time of death.
At the time of death or whoever has
visited a person who's passed away,
you would have noticed that their bodies in
front of you,
their eyes are there, their ears are there,
their mouth is there, their tongue is there,
their hearts in place, their lungs are in
the blood's in the body.
But when you speak to this person who's
deceased can they hear you?
If you open their eyes can they see
you? The pupils are there but can they
see you?
They can't. Why is the electricity switched off?
Like any device you have, if it's if
if the battery runs out, the button is
there, the screen everything is there, but it's
not responsive.
So the electricity is the soul of the
body,
sorry, the soul is the electricity of the
body,
The jet lag is still lagging.
The soul is the electricity of the body.
Allah says Allah lifts the soul completely at
the time of death. Then he says,
And as for the being that Allah has
decreed won't die, Allah lifts the soul partially
at the time of sleep.
Allah refers to this lifting as death.
Have you ever thought why the sunnah of
the
prophet before sleeping is
Oh Allah, in your name,
I die and I live. Have you ever
thought about this? Why do you say I
die and I live?
O Allah, in your name I die and
I live.
Meaning, I die the death of sleep,
and I live if you send the soul
back to me.
And when you wake up in the morning,
you say,
All praises belongs to Allah who gave me
life
after giving me death. Which life and which
death?
The life of today
after experiencing the death of last night.
And then you say, and unto him is
our ultimate return. The day will come when
the soul will be lifted and not be
sent back.
You teach yourself this, but our duas are
merely rituals, isn't it?
We don't live the moment, that the dua
is a tarbiyah moment for us. This dua
we make when,
if we slept knowing subhanAllah that we are
going to die a partial death, honestly, who
will sleep?
But your body tires it needs to rest
and when Allah lifts that soul it's a
mercy from Allah on you. Ask those who
specialize in power naps.
They have a power nap, subhanAllah, the soul
being lifted just a moment it gives such
rest to the body.
You wake up feeling refreshed
like you've slept for a long time and
you're ready to get on with it
and that is why the scholars say the
easiest death is the death of a person
when they are asleep. Why?
Because half of the soul was lifted by
Allah
and the other half by the angel of
death, and Allah's lifting is far more merciful
than the angel of death.
The lifting of the angel of death is
the lifting of the creation,
and the lifting of Allah is the lifting
of the creator.
So we see this in Surah Zumr. May
Allah
grant us the understanding.
Also,
sublime forgiveness, subhanAllah, in Surah Zumr, there's the
ayah known as a the ayah of hope.
If you ever ask this question,
which is the eye of hope in the
Quran?
It is eye number 53 in Surah Zumr.
This is known as the eye of hope
by the scholars of tafsir.
Allah
reveals, and this is a Maqkhan Surah as
well.
Allah says to Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, Say
to my Ibad,
my servants,
those who have transgressed themselves excessively,
asrafu,
they were excessive in their transgression.
They were excessive
to the extent, subhanallah,
that shaitan has every tool to push them
to the realm
of loss of hope.
Say to them, O Muhammad,
Say to them, do never ever and do
not lose hope in the mercy of Allah.
Subhan Allah.
And for those who understand the Arabic language,
this this idea of
is not
is loss of hope.
Lataknato
is
a extreme level of loss of hope.
Allah is using the extreme here that you
could have been so excessive that you are
beyond having lost hope. You are at the
point of no return.
Allah says tell them, O Muhammad,
don't lose hope in the mercy of Allah.
Indeed Allah.
Allah. The present tense in the Arabic language.
The present tense in the Arabic language carries
the meaning of something which is now and
continuous.
Allah will continuously
forgive
all your sins wholesale,
all together.
Indeed, he's the most forgiving, the most merciful.
SubhanAllah.
Now these are Maqan verses,
and the Quraysh are listening
in the arrogant denial,
denial of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and his
messenger in his book.
What about the Muslims who hear these verses?
What hope should we have
in a month of hope
when the doors of Jahannam are shut and
the doors of Jannah are open?
In a month of hope,
in the nights of hope,
on an odd night,
Surely my dear brother and sister in Islam,
it's as if Allah has,
subhanallah,
what a Qadr, on this night we listen
to this verse.
That we engage him with good thoughts about
him.
Tonight, we ask Allah to forgive us, and
we wake up tomorrow believing
as if our slates
are how
they were
the day we were born.
This is how we will trade with Allah
tonight.
We will read to Allah this verse 53
from Surah Zumr,
and we will pray for her tomorrow
having a new start.
A new not a new chapter,
a new book.
This is how the believers stayed with Allah.
Allah. Surat Zumr. And do it, for it
is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who said in
a hadith, qudsiyaabina
Adam.
That, oh son of Adam,
you sin throughout the day and throughout the
night, but it is Allah who forgives all
sins.
Seek forgiveness from Allah. What does Allah say?
He doesn't say I will forgive you.
He says,
for those scholars of Usul Al Fiqh, jurisprudence
methodology.
What does this mean? This means Allah is
saying seek forgiveness from me and consider yourself
forgiven.
Do not doubt maybe
I'm forgiven,
maybe
I'm not forgiven,
maybe
I'm partially forgiven. This
is your Lord. SubhanAllah.
I introduce you to Allah through verse
53.
Then Allah takes us to the end.
Subhanallah.
And the end, my dear brothers and sisters
in Islam,
is really the crux of Surat, Zumr. And
that is why it's called a Zumr, because
Allah tells us of these groups inshallah,
that we will listen to. I rather let
the words of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
reach you
in the form of recitation.
And those who believed
and those who disbelieved
will be driven to hell
in groups.
They will be driven to hell in groups
until when they reach it,
its gates are opened
and its keepers will say,
did there not come to you messengers from
yourselves?
One second. One second.
Remember brothers and sisters in Islam
the discourse over the last few nights is
what
they were actually telling the messengers
that if your message is true, then why
is this message coming to us
from people who are from us, who are
like us, who eat like us,
sleep like us, drink like us. Allah is
telling us what will happen on the day
of Piyamah.
That
it will be said to them. The keepers
will say,
did they not come to you messengers from
yourselves
reciting to you the verses of your Lord
and warning you of the meeting of this
day of yours.
You were told the message came to you,
the reminders came to you, they persisted with
you.
No. Allah says they will say yes.
They will say yes.
In Sura Mukha as well, we have a
similar discourse.
They will say yes, but it's too late
now. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, but the
word of punishment has come into effect upon
the disbelievers.
Now
It will be said to them, enter the
gates of hell to abide eternally therein.
And wretched is the residence of the arrogant,
arrogant.
Remember we spoke from the time of Suratul
A'raf.
One of the obstacles
that blocks us from Allah is arrogance,
and he brings us down full with arrogance.
I am better than him.
What does Allah say here?
That they will be destined to the Hal
Fayou because of the arrogance. Not because they
didn't know,
they knew
but they arrogantly
overcame the truth.
It was from their own doing.
It wasn't that the messengers failed in their
duty towards them.
It wasn't that Allah didn't send miracles with
the messengers
to show them that we are like you,
but look we have these miracles.
As we will see in Surah Gafir, in
the story of Firaun.
As scholars have deduced from pondering over those
verses that Firaun deep down knew.
We'll come to that inshallah.
Now,
Subhanallah, imagine you're a disbeliever, the time of
the Quraysh, the Quran is coming down. You
hear these verses about jahannam.
Allah finishes and immediately
says,
that these believers who you are mocking and
laughing at and jeering and sanctioning
and beating and ridiculing and punishing
and sanctioning.
Allah says,
but those who fear their Lord, meaning the
believers,
they will be driven to paradise
in groups.
Allah says until when they reach it whilst
its gates have been opened.
Now there's a difference here, SubhanAllah.
When Allah spoke about Jahannam,
he said,
When he spoke about Jannah, he said, This
wow, SubhanAllah, is not misplaced.
Just one letter, one letter not a word
one letter it has an impact on our
understanding of the verse that
subhanAllah when it comes to the people of
the hellfire they will be
driven to the doors and the gates of
Jahannam,
the 7 Gates of Jahannam.
Jannah has 8 gates, jahannam has 7 gates,
as the scholars of tafsir teach us.
They will be driven to the 7 gates,
the gates will be shut. But when they
are driven there do you think they will
be driven there in a parade or they
will be driven there with force,
with fear,
with ferociousness.
Now imagine you are driven with ferociousness and
you know what's coming and you just said
you are standing in front of Allah and
you get to the gates and the gates
are shut, how do you stand in front
of the gates?
Relieved or with greater trepidation?
SubhanAllah.
But as for the people of Jannah,
Allah says they will get there
and the gates will be opened.
SubhanAllah.
SubhanAllah.
I don't know what that is, but maybe
the verses are,
or perhaps somebody's playing with, with the wires
in the control room.
When it comes to Jannah,
Allah says
and the scholars have discussed this.
And then they tapped into the Hadith of
Shafa'a.
On the day of Qiyamah, the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam will intercede
for his nation,
for the believers.
And
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam will intercede for
the opening of paradise
that he will enter, and when the people
come,
they will be driven there with excitement,
and an excitement that will be continuous. There's
no roadblock.
It's not that I'm getting there, but the
gates are shut.
SubhanAllah, that even the process of it being
driven there is a paradise centric
process by itself
that it's understand it like this, it's as
if Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is saying that
for the people who believed
their paradise will begin before they get into
paradise.
That just the process of getting to paradise
will be a form of paradise in and
of itself.
That they won't get there and feel, oh,
it's
shut. I have to wait a minute to
see it. I've been excited. I've been waiting
for this. No. It will be welcoming for
them just by one letter,
being in the
It's
the power of the Quran.
A conversation happening in Jahannam
with the keepers of the hellfire
and a conversation happening in Jahannam
with the keepers of paradise.
What will the people what will the keepers
of paradise say? They will say peace be
upon you.
The salaam we would share amongst each other.
That salaam will be said to us by
the keepers of Jannah. Salaam Una'arikum.
Peace be upon you. Safety upon you. You
have become pure, so enter into Jannah and
abide therein internally.
And they will say praise to Allah who
has fulfilled for us his promise
and made us inherit the earth so we
may settle in paradise wherever we were.
Wherever we were. No borders,
no passports,
no visas,
no immigration,
no customs,
no shaitan.
No worry about will I wake up tomorrow
and Allah will be upset with me. That
is absolute paradise SubhanAllah,
to know that my Lord will never ever
be upset with me, just that in and
of itself
is a paradise.
They will say praise be to Allah, who
fulfilled for us his promise and made us
inherit the earth so we may settle in
paradise wherever we will. An excellent is the
reward
of the righteous worker.
The righteous slave who acts.
SubhanAllah.
So this is Surah Uzumr in a nutshell,
and then Allah takes us to another Maqan
Surah, Surah Agathir or Surah Al Mumin,
which is a surah consisting of 85 verses
and carries the same genre of knowledge as
all the other Maqan
Surahs we discussed.
But Surah Ghafir
is unique because as you heard the imam
recite today,
when he start when the imam started surat
Zumr, there was no disjointed letters before it,
it was Tanzil
al Kitab.
When Surah Ghafir kicks in, we see hamim.
And hamim
is one hamim
of the group of surahs known as al
Hawamim.
And al Hawamim
refer to
the Meccan Surahs,
and in a report that goes back to
Abdullah ibn Abbas radiAllahu anhu a,
it states that the Hawamiem,
these Hawamiem,
they were revealed after Surah Zumr in order,
and they are 7 in number.
Surah Al Gavir,
Surah Fusilat, which we started tonight,
Surah Ashura, which we will do tomorrow. A
zukruf,
number 4. A dukhan, number 5. Al jathiyah,
number 6. And alaqaaf number 7.
7 surahs, one after the other all begin
with hamim.
All Maqkan surahs
and revealed after Surat Zumr,
SubhanAllah.
So
as we travel SubhanAllah
through the nights of the Quran,
we can actually live
the periods of the Sirach
that these were intense moments
and the verses are coming down to deal
with the moments that the Muslims are going
through. That here you have surah Zumr and
then 7 consecutive Suras
dealing with matters of the hereafter,
establishing the Messenger as the Messenger, affirming Allah
as 1 in his lordship, and 1 in
his worship, and 1 in his lords and
attributes,
highlighting the reality that contrary to common opinion,
there is life after death.
And then the messenger is going through what
he's going through, so keeping him stable and
steadfast.
He's a human being
revealing to him so he doesn't break, remain
strong. The journey is long. So all in
Allah's plan, Allah lets things be based on
a wisdom,
and he restricts events based on a wisdom.
He releases events based on a wisdom.
Same like kazza today. 1 of the sisters
was asking me on the weekend,
our faith is being
impacted
because Allah is letting this happen. Allah
my dear sister.
Allah is the one who restricts and he
releases.
We have to go back to our tuhid,
not disassociate
ourselves with our tuhid. This shouldn't be a
matter that makes our iman become weakened, but
rather it should be a matter that strengthens
our iman, that these prophecies
were revealed to us in the
by the prophet salallahu alaihi
wa sallam, and these matters of the end
of time were revealed to us in the
Quran, and now we're seeing it with the
naked
eye. It is a matter that should strengthen
our faith,
and we go back to our tawhid,
and we recognize who our Lord is.
It's Allah who constricts
circumstances,
and he releases circumstances.
And through it, everyone will build the hereafter
and they will return to Allah. And Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala
will enter them
into their zum'r, into their groups and they
will be driven
an appropriate driving.
So this is
the start of Al Ghafar.
Now what's its connection to Zumr? Remember we
said
earlier this idea of love,
fear, hope,
the story of the dove as Ibn Uqayim
described
and the 2 wings, one wing is of
fear and one wing is of hope.
Zumr
delivers fear to the disbelievers,
but ghafir
delivers hope to them.
Imagine you are a disbeliever,
you reading surat al Zumr, waseeqallatheena
kafarwilla
jahannamazumr,
you have fear in you.
Whether you like it or not, peer pressure,
public pressure, public opinion, for whatever reason you
are not
making the jump, but deep down you know
that if this prophet is true
my end is
going to be doom and gloom. Allah starts
Ghafir
with hope for the disbeliever.
He says,
SubhanAllah. The forgiver of the sins,
the acceptor of repentances, this is you Allah.
The Allah who will drive the disbelievers in
groups to the hellfire,
the same Allah will accept your Islam if
you make the step.
He will wipe out your previous deeds, and
your previous sins, and the matters of your
previous life.
And Tawb here, subhanAllah, is not Tawbah.
Tawbah is the plural of Tawbah,
and tawbah is for major sins.
And Allah is not saying tawbah, meaning a
major sin, and you repent for it, and
Allah forgives you Allah saying tawbah. He will
accept all your repentances
that there's no limit to this irrespective of
what you've done the door is still open
as long as you're breathing So look at
the banners that Allah also brings in terms
of fear and hope not just to the
believers but to the disbelievers.
This is a Quran. SubhanAllah. How deep can
we go?
There is no one worthy of worship besides
1 Allah and you will return to him.
This is the reality.
Bayib.
The contents of the surah, it contains the
knowledge that, like we said, fits the knowledge
revealed pre hijra.
And in particular, it highlights the end of
those who
who listen to the messenger
and the end of those who do not
listen to the messenger, similar to surah Zumr.
It also inspires the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam to exercise a beautiful patience. Like I
said, when you read these surahs, it's like
you're living the seerah now. You can really
see that, subhanAllah,
when these surahs were coming down, the matter
was severe on the believers.
That these are really verses coming down at
the earlier part of the prophetic mission. Things
are difficult. Things are tough. Things are happening.
The persecution is at an all time high.
Maybe not right at the beginning, but towards
the beginning, meaning not at the end, before
hijra,
but at that point where really the Quraysh,
they felt they had a hand on things.
Allah is
revealing to the Messenger
his need to bring himself together
and exhibit a beautiful patience. And we will
see this in the story of Musa that
Allah reveals in the surah.
It also lists universal evidences to prove the
existence of Allah as the Lord who is
alone in his worship. Meaning, if you're a
objective human being, you will rationally conclude that
these verses are from our Lord and it
makes sense to believe in him. It's rational
for me to believe in Ranul Allah. Put
aside that whether he's from
a human being, whether he's a human being
and not an angel or whether he, you
know, he's from you and not from somewhere
else, put all that aside, listen to the
message.
The message is very rational
but you have to be objective, you cannot
be subjective,
you got to be objective, you've got to
be in a situation whereby
you are able
to listen to the revelation
and allow it to guide you.
And to do that, you have to get
rid of the bias.
No biases here.
But if you want to engage revelation
in a manner that you will funnel it
and channel it
and bend it to fit a particular narrative,
then the revelation won't guide you. It's there
to guide, but for those who want to
be guided.
Now again, like previous surahs, Allah establishes this
in the narrative format and he also establishes
it in the story format.
And the story that I want to quickly
talk about is not a fiction not a
story of fiction, of course, a real story.
When we say story, we don't mean fiction.
It's not story time, Yani.
You know, the story time where we're just
telling fiction, fictional stories. Real stories, right? The
story of Musa, Firaun, and Banu Israel. Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala says, walakatarasallam
Musa biayatina wsuwtanimubin.
Let's listen inshallah.
And we did certainly send Musa with our
signs and clear authority, With our
signs.
To Firaun,
So up to now, we can see it's
the same story,
just different actors.
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is receiving these
verses,
and immediately he can see that, subhanallah,
Allah is revealing to me
my circumstance,
but in the story of Musa.
That Musa went through the same thing I'm
going through. It's the same story being repeated.
It's just different actors, Musa and now Muhammad.
Firaun,
Qaroon,
Haman. Here we have Abu Lahab, Abu Jahal,
and the other seniors of the Quraysh.
Same story, different actors. But Allah is teaching
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Musa is 1,
but the Firaun's
version
has a nuanced hecticness to it.
Allah says, and when he brought them the
truth
from
us, they said,
what we will do is kill the sons
of those who have believed with him, and
let's keep their women alive.
Qurayshwar at the stage of beating,
that whoever from our tribe accepts Islam, we
will beat them publicly,
so that anyone else thinking of following Muhammad
will become afraid.
But Firaoun and Qaroun and Haman, they went
a step further. That's it. Let's just kill
everyone who believes.
And as for the women, keep them alive,
we'll enslave them. Keep them alive.
Allah says,
But the plan of the disbelievers is not
accepting error in error.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, and Firaun said,
let me kill Musa and let him call
upon his lord.
Look at this level of arrogance.
Firon is saying, they are saying, kalas let's
kill all the people who believed with him
and let's keep the women alive. Firon says
one step further
let me kill Musa
and let him call upon his lord
indeed I fear that he will change your
religion or that he will cause corruption in
the land.
Now what do the scholars
of tafsir say here? This is the evidence
that they say, Firaun deep down knew that
this Musa is upon the truth.
That he had knowledge of what happened to
the previous nations.
And that they all received someone who came
with a call like what Musa is calling
to
but arrogance subhanAllah has no boundaries, Let me
kill him and let him call his Lord.
You want to manifest
a
pompous
character in front of the people show them
I'm in charge
what he's talking about is fairy tales I
will kill him in front of you and
let him call his lord nothing's going to
happen
Don't fall for this message.
But Musa said, indeed I have sought refuge
in my lord and your lord from every
arrogant one who does not believe in the
day of account, meaning the day of judgment.
Subhanallah, in a subtle way Allah is revealing
to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam that
with every difficulty there's 2 eases. There's eases
even amidst the difficulty.
Because of Musa alaihis salam, when Firaun was
manifesting this
arrogance,
Allah says,
and a believing man from the family of
Iran. SubhanAllah.
He who believed but he hid his iman.
And some of the scholars of tafsir say
he was the one who at the beginning,
when Musa after Musa
grew up in the palace of Iran, and
then he punched a person in defending another
person and that person died. He was a
kibbuti.
And the Firaun and his army then
wanted to go after Musa. A person came
to Musa and told Musa that they are
grouping to come to to come for you,
so you better leave. They say it's the
same person.
There was a person who believed that no
one from the palace of Firaun believed except
his wife
and this man.
Subhanallah, the wife of Firaun and this man.
So this man speaks up now.
All this time, he's hiding his faith,
but right now a grave oppression is going
to take place. What the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam said that the best jihad
is speaking
justice to in front of a tyrant ruler.
Why?
Because the tyrant ruler will kill you. You're
putting your life on the line, but it's
the best jihad.
And this yesterday I was saying that the
the word jihad has been confiscated
and has been made to to made to
be something taboo.
But we see this word in the Quran
before Allah allowed the Muslims to defend themselves
against the attacks of tukraj using the term
jihad.
And here, the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam says
the best jihad, not taking out your sword,
taking out your arrows, taking out your shield,
wearing your armor,
no, speaking truth to power
is the best jihad. So this person here,
he was hiding his Iman
for a greater benefit, but now keeping your
Iman hidden
was not for the greater benefit. Now you
had to speak up.
Even though he didn't advertise his iman, he
came with a message of common sense. Allah
says, and a believing man from the family
of Firaun who concealed his faith said, are
you going to kill a man merely because
he says my lord is Allah?
And this is the same words Abu Bakr
used
when the Quraysh were attacking the prophet salallahu
alayhi wasalam at the Kaaba.
When he came and saved the prophet salallahu
alayhi wasalam, he said, attaktuluona
rajulanayaku
rabi'allalla. Are you going to
Allah.
SubhanAllah.
That's how close the Quran was to the
Sahaba. These are earlier,
revelations brothers and sisters.
So
Allah says that this is what he said.
And then this person said,
are you going to kill him merely because
he says my Lord is Allah, whilst he
has brought to you clear proofs from Allah,
did Musa come with nothing? Musa came with
a staff
that turned into
what they saw as a moving
snake,
a moving live being
If you put his arm under his armpit
it would shine. He came with science.
So this person is saying he has come
to you with clear proofs from your Lord
and what do you have to lose? If
he is lying
If he is lying then upon him is
the consequence of his lie but if he
is telling the truth
they will strike you some of what he
promises you. He's telling you, consequences are gonna
come. If he's telling the truth, some of
it's going to come. And indeed Allah does
not guide one who is a transgressor and
a liar,
subhanAllah.
Now,
He said, oh my people's sovereignty is yours
today,
you being dominant in the land, but who
would protect us on the punishment of Allah
if it came to us? What did Firan
say?
Nam.
He said Firaun said, I do not show
you except what I see, and I do
not guide you except to the way of
right conduct. This is what people who spread
corruption in the land to do. They spread
corruption on the land and they say, no.
No. No. No. We Muslimhood.
We only
we are liberators.
Yeah. We are here to take mankind forward.
We are progressive.
I say I shared these lines with you
previously
from Surat Al Baqarah.
This is what they do. This is
cognitive dissonance, this could be a lot of
things.
There's psychology to this.
Now,
And the one who believes said, oh my
people indeed I fear for you a fate
like the day of the companies, the Hazab,
the people of who?
Like the people of Nuh,
And Ad and Thamud and those who came
after them.
And Allah wants no injustice for his servants.
No. And all my people indeed I fear
for you the day of calling. At Tanad
here refers to Yomul Qiyamah, the day of
Qiyamah. Now,
The day you will turn your backs fleeing,
there is not for you from Allah any
protect and whoever Allah leaves astray, there is
not for him any guide. May Allah protect
us from
the difficulties
of the day of qiyama.
What does he say?
Firon said, oh, Haman,
construct for me a tall tower
that I might climb it
and reach
the ways of the heavens to go and
see?
So I can go into the heavens so
that I may look at this deity of
Musa. This deity is talking about build me
the tower, let me go and have a
look for myself.
Why my brothers and sisters in Islam,
when he is being drowned
and Jibril
is dealing with him
and the angel of death
is dealing with him and the water is
being poured down his throat.
It's for a reason.
And at that time he says, Alaaan,
now I believe.
Now I believe. He says, I believed.
He says I believe in the Lord of
Musa
Allah Now you believe but before this is
what you were doing
When we gave you the chance, this is
what you were doing.
Message after message, reminder after reminder, miracle after
miracle. We gave you time. It wasn't the
case that Musa came and the next day
the punishment came down.
You continued in your arrogance to the extent
build me a tower. You you you're ridiculing
Musa in front of the people.
Build me a tower so I can go
see this madman what he's talking about. I'll
I'll go see it myself.
In ruin.
And the one who believes said, oh my
people follow me. I will guide you to
the way of righteous conduct.
Oh, my people, the worldly life is only
temporary enjoyment, and indeed the hereafter,
that is the home of permanent settlement.
I will leave you to read the remaining,
ayat from this.
But this message is coming to the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And Allah is teaching him that not only
did Musa share the message, but even a
person from within Firon's own family is sharing
the same message.
Telling the people, put your trust in the
hereafter, not the dunya. Look at the permanent,
not the temporary.
And the way of the arrogant
is known.
Oh, messenger of Allah, remain upon your way.
Oh, believer, remain upon your way. Oh, Muslim,
remain upon your way. Everybody will make you
feel backward.
They will a time will come where you
holding on to your religion will be like
holding on to burning coal as the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said. It'll be so
difficult,
but the verses are training you that whatever
happens, die a Muslim. May Allah make us
die as believers
and our children and progeny.
Whatever happens, just die a Muslim.
Whatever happens, make sure you don't break, leave
the rope of Allah.
This is the message throughout the Quran. And
then Allah takes us to Surah Fussilat.
Maq and verse again. Like I said, dosages
of verses, they're very potent
in dealing with doubts.
You need they say sometimes you need steroids.
Doctors,
Taib, there's so many noticeable verses first
but because of time I'm gonna just go
through them quickly. I know we have work
tomorrow as well
But we won't get these verses for another
year, Subhan Allah. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says
in Surah Fussilat,
And that was your assumption which you assumed
about your lord, It has brought you to
ruin and you have become amongst the losers.
Imam Hassan al Basri was asked about this
verse
and he said some people of worship,
some
people
of worship,
they don't worship Allah, they worship wishful thinking.
To the extent that they leave this world
without one good deed.
What do they say? They say, have good
thoughts about Allah. Everything is in my heart.
You can't see what's in my heart.
You call them to some guidance, brother don't
judge me.
I have good thoughts about Allah. I have
good thoughts about Allah. Remember we said if
you flap the wing of hope without the
wing of fear, what's going to happen to
the dove?
It's going to crash.
Imam Hassan al Basri
explaining this verse in the Quran,
he said
if these people really had good thoughts about
Allah, they would have worshiped Allah with actions
not with their heart.
That having good thoughts about Allah
is putting into practice what the messenger came
to you with, putting into practice what Allah
commanded you to do. This is about what
what having good thoughts about Allah
means. Number 2,
Allah says, walatastawil
hasanatawalasayyah,
idfarabilatiya
ahsan faydalladi
baynaqaw baynaqawaqannahuwaliyunhamim,
and this is good for the day of
Eid that's coming.
Because sometimes we have families, subhanAllah,
that are at war with each other, and
the reeds come and go, and they still
don't even talk to each other, they don't
even greet each other,
they don't even respond to the salaam of
each other, or they choose to be with
each other in a very petty way. If
you scratch my back, I will scratch your
back. If you did this for my family,
I will do this for your family.
It's transactionary,
and this is not the way with the
believers.
And Allah
says with regards to an enemy
that you need to
respond
to the harm,
you need to repel the evil with a
deed which is better.
Continue
repelling the evil with goodness.
For idalladhibaynaqawbaynaqu
a dawah.
Allah says,
thereupon the one womb between you and him
is enmity,
that enmity will turn into friendship and you'll
become devoted friends again.
But Allah tells us this is not easy.
He says,
No one can do this except the one
who is patient.
That you can be patient with your nafs.
You know what happens when you want
to respond nicely? The nafs tells you, no
no no no no no no. People will
say you're weak.
People will say you see you are wrong,
they were right.
That's what the people will say. The people
will say you're weak. Look, this person kicks
you and you run where you get kicks.
Have you heard that one? Every time you
get kicks, that's where you run.
That's what the people will say. You need
patience to fight that ego.
There's ego. You need patience to fight the
whispers of the people.
You need patience to fight the whispers of
shaitan,
to do the right thing because it's right
with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And Allah says
that only the fortunate blessed one can achieve
this converting enemies into friends. And this was
the mandate of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
How many hated him subhanallah but they became
his best
and closest.
He was became the most beloved to them.
What they did against Islam, they did for
Islam. Whilst he was alive and after he
passed away, Khalid ibn Walid who orchestrated the
turnaround of events at Uhud, he was instrumental
towards the end of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam's life and throughout the life of Abu
Bakr. And even in the life of Umar,
even after Umar took him out of leading
the army and replaced him with Abu Ubaydha
ibn Jarrah, the Amin of this Umar radiAllahu
anhu Majjibani.
This is the reality of the deen. So
I want to share with you this message.
Last but not least, and I know it's
late, but we are going to go into
the last third of the night, and you
need to go with this verse. Subhanallah.
The verse of Istiqaamah, in Surat Al Fussilat.
Istiqaamah, my dear brother and sister in Islam
is very, very hard.
Steadfastness
is very very hard.
Why?
Because it's an everyday matter,
and it's an every night matter. It needs
from you juhud and effort.
It needs from you
you to spend a bit of yourself,
to give up parts of yourself.
But because it's so hard, Allah makes the
reward with it worth it.
Because Allah created us and there's this universal
principle that governs this world. Reward is proportionate
to effort.
If the effort is hard, we need a
reward that is worth the effort.
I mean, if I told you all here,
who from here can walk all the way
to London in the middle of winter for
a £1,000?
Just walk £1,000.
I'll give you £1,000. You get to London
but you have to walk there.
Anybody?
£1,000.
One guy.
2. This is Masjid donations by the way.
Hands are going up.
£1,000.
They say money has relative value.
Only time has absolute value.
£1,000
is can be little for the majority, but
it's a lot for a few. Yeah. He's
willing to go to walking to London in
the middle of winter,
Okay. 1,000 is not, masha'Allah,
tickling you guys.
£10,000. Put up your hands. £10,000.
More hands are going up. A few more
hands.
A £100,000,
Say Allah.
Even some of the adults
are raising their hands. A 100,000,
Life is harder.
Alright. £10,000,000,
the last offer.
Masha, double. 2 hands.
You see what happens, guys?
I love this. Now I'm putting myself in
a difficult spot.
It's your day. You see, look how the
hands are going up.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants us to be
people of istaqamah, but he knows
the task might set us back.
So he reveals in surah Fussilab that which
will pick us up and remember Maq converts,
Muslims are going through the grind,
they're going through the grind, they're being sanctioned
for 3 years in a valley no food,
no water, no drink,
no trade, no medicine,
The milk in the chest of mothers is
drying up,
babies are crying, they're going through the grind
only for la ilaha illallah, Allah reveals.
Allah says, indeed those who say,
Our Lord is Allah.
Those who say our Lord is Allah,
and then they walk the talk. I'm going
to try and use language that's good for
the Shabab.
They walk the talk.
They said the lord is is Allah,
and they started acting like the lord is
Allah. They started speaking like their Lord is
Allah. None of the swearing that we see
going around here. What's up, guys?
Schools, and buses, and parks, and kids swearing
like it's fashion. This is not from iman
and Islam.
So you said your lord is Allah, you
started speaking like your lord is Allah, You
started acting like your lord is Allah. You
started eating like your lord is Allah.
SubhanAllah.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us that the
on the most scariest day of your life,
the most scariest part of your existence,
when no one can help you and you
need all the help you can get,
for the people of istaqam, my help will
come. When is the scariest day?
When you are sat in a gathering
and suddenly you see
from the creation of Allah
that which you used to hear about from
the mimbar
or in a lecture.
And you will look around you and see
everyone is carrying on normally. He's eating his
sandwich, he's drinking his mint tea,
He's carrying on with his work.
Everyone's carrying on, but you suddenly are filled
with fear. Why? Because Allah has lifted the
veil,
Because your time to die has arrived.
So you can see something that no one
else can see.
That's a scary moment.
And then you will start experiencing
the reality that you are owned
when you feel life being sucked out from
you and you have no ability to put
it back up.
Subhanallah.
How scary will that be?
Because Allah will
give the angel of death the permission and
he will call the soul out and that
soul that we spoke about will start leaving.
And you will see yourself
slowly but surely becoming lifeless.
Now my dear brother and sister in Islam,
is this a happy moment or a scary
moment?
What would you pay to receive happiness at
this time? You pay everything, I imagine.
You'd give your family, your home, your wealth,
you'll give everything.
What would you pay?
Allah
tells us about the rewards of the people
of Istiqaamah. Listen to this.
Allah says,
walakumfihama
taddarunnuzulam
min ghafurirrahim.
Wallahi, if you are in a sanctioned
valley
for 3 years,
going through the hell of existence,
and these verses come to you,
you receive motivation to last.
Allah says, at the time that I described
to you when all this is happening, for
the people of istiqama,
tatanazalu
alahihimul manaika,
Allah will send angels in droves from heaven
to surround the body, your body.
They will come and surround your body in
wait for the soul to be removed out.
Oh, servants of Allah,
what would you pay to see angels from
Jannah around you at that moment?
That Alhamdulillah
SubhanAllah,
scary but
And Allah says tatanazal,
present tense, meaning these angels will come in
droves, and The scholars of hadith and tafsir,
those who explain the hadith in the muslimat
of Imam Ahmad, because we have a long
hadith in the muslimat of Imam Ahmad that
describes the death of a believer and a
disbeliever.
They fill the atmosphere
with the fragrance of Jannah,
in their presence with the permission of Allah
to receive the soul of this person. In
the Muslim of Imam Ahmed, when the soul
comes out,
the angels from Jannah immediately take it from
the angel of death. They do not leave
it in his hand for a mere split
second.
That's how excited they are from for to
to receive the soul. And then the soul
is transferred
between the rows of angels,
just like I imagine, you know, a football
match when you win the premier league or
something. You see they carry the manager and
they transferring the manager one. You you know,
when you see that,
The soul is being transferred. Every angel is
trying to touch it.
Every angel wants to be part of the
celebration,
And like this, the soul goes higher and
higher and higher until it gets to the
first heaven and awaits permission
to enter, until the body is buried before
Allah sends it back to the body. But
that's a discussion for another day. Tatanazloo
alayhimul malaika, gift number 1 for the people
of Istikamah.
Allah takafu
walatakazano
SubhanAllah.
When I was reading these verses, I was
thinking,
what life moment can I connect to this
that brought me great fear
and I would have loved to receive
something to breathe with at that moment?
And I could only think about GCSEs,
forgive me.
GCSEs, I mean, not now, now it's easier,
but back in the days, subhanallah, the stress
of GCSEs
was hectic.
We were always told
that this is the yardstick between being a
sweeper and a doctor.
This is how we were brought up. Mental
health wasn't a thing when we were growing
up young boys and girls. Our parents just
told us as it is.
So as we were getting towards g c
s, we were thinking, subhanallah, this is make
or break.
This is me whether I'm going to be
that dream car I have when we're teenagers,
we have a lot of dream cars,
or whether I'm going to be driving somebody
else's dream car.
Lots of stress.
And then you go through the grind of
exam after exam after exam to which should
last across 3 months sometimes
or 2 months.
Depends when the schedule is, how many subjects
you're taking and when the timetable
caters for your subjects. And then it finishes,
subhanallah, and you feel elation, but not complete
elation because you know one day you're gonna
be told that the results are out and
it would happen. One day you're nicely resting
and your parents come to you with the
newspaper. Where I was growing up, when the
results came out, it should be the front
page of the newspaper.
GCSE results are out. We used to do
o levels. I didn't grow up in the
UK. O level is similar to GCSEs but
it's the Cambridge,
curriculum.
Similar.
Subhanallah, you see this newspaper. All of a
sudden you feel stress overcome you. Your bright
face from all the playing becomes dark
because now you have to go into and
before you you didn't go to a computer
screen putting the code. I don't know how
it is now. Back then we had to
go to an exam center, stand in a
queue, and honestly you're standing in that queue
and it feels like, is this the day
of qiyama on earth?
Really? You're sweating, literally everyone is sweating, nobody
cares about anybody, nobody cares whose clothes is
iron, not iron, who's wearing clothes from last
year, nobody cares.
Everybody's in their own worry. This is I
remember this. This is how it was.
You're standing and all you are, you're a
number
amongst many numbers.
Now the person in front of you goes
in, he comes out crying, you say, you
Allah, save me from being that person, you
Allah.
The other one comes out smiling, you say,
insha Allah, but it makes you more nervous
that he won. What about my parents will
say how did he get those results? You
didn't get this is life, Yaqi, when you're
growing up.
Now I'm thinking to myself, at that moment
when I was in that line,
it would have meant everything to me if
someone came out of that exam room, walked
up to me, saw me sweating,
and said to me in my ear, don't
worry, you've passed.
Don't worry. It's all good. I've seen your
results. You're okay.
Allah, if somebody did that to me at
that moment, I'll be like,
let's see who we have here now. Look
at the people,
All the stress is gone. You have time
to live life a little bit. You are
existing, now you start living.
Allah is giving you this
opportunity,
the opportunity of angels coming to you and
saying,
the angels will tell the dying person, do
not fear.
Do not be sad.
Do not be sad.
This is what's happening effectively.
And I was thinking about this
this is also in
the present tense. What did we say about
the present tense? It's always continuous.
Then I was thinking to myself, subhanAllah,
even happiness
has levels
and in between the levels of happiness you
have sadness, not so? I mean if I
told you guys now guys
I give you 2 options,
you can win 1 of 2 holidays,
1 in the Maldives
and 1
in the Lake District.
Why
why are you laughing? Lake District's nice.
Lake District's good, man. Come on.
Tayeb,
would you be happy going to Lake District?
Yes.
No. Yes. Who wouldn't be? Free holiday. Come
on.
Would you be happy going to Maldives?
No.
No. Okay, you're out of the equation.
You're out of the equation Habibi.
You haven't tasted life, when you taste it
you
you change your answer. It might be too
late then but we give you time.
Now going to Lake District makes you happy,
right?
But Maldives
makes you happier, correct?
Between happy and happier isn't there a portion
of sadness?
Imagine I called you up after 1 month
and you were excited
and I called you up say Masha Allah
congratulations brother you won a trip to Lake
District
Would you be happy or sad?
Sad. So between happy and happy this happier,
there's a piece of sadness. Not so?
Are you with me? Allah says,
in the present tense,
meaning you will never ever ever ever be
sad. And I can only deduce from this
that the place that you'll be going to
is a place where
the happy moment you feel now is very
happy, but the next moment will be happier
than the last happy, and the moment after
that will be happier than the last happy,
and the moment after that will be happier
than the last happy. It can only be
because if it was any less happy, then
you'd be sad.
And Allah is saying, la taz and there's
no sadness where you're going.
Subhanallah,
I'm digressing but I want you to really
appreciate these verses of Allah.
Okay.
So Allah sends you angels from Jannah. If
you're the people of Istikamah, wouldn't this be
enough for you? Of course, you would say
yes. Okay. The angels tell you don't be
afraid.
Subhanallah, bonus. Walatahasanoo,
you'll never ever be sad, bonus. Now I
imagine you in the queue, you got your
results. What's the next thing you're gonna think
about? The person didn't tell you whether you
got a's or b's, he just said you
passed.
So what's the next thing you think about
now?
How well did I pass?
Did I get a stars?
Or is it numbers now? Nines, eights?
That's what you start thinking. Allah tells the
angels to tell the dying person.
Allah has promised you the Jannah.
Allah has given you the Jannah that he
promised you. You're worrying about results which school
you're gonna go to, that school needed so
many nines, that school needed so many eights.
Don't even think about that. Allah
told us to tell you the Jannah that
he promised you that's the Jannah he's given
you. The Jannah you are working for that's
the Jannah he has given you.
Subhanallah.
Okay. What's the next thing you think about?
Maybe you feel a bit
sad. I'm leaving my family.
In the dunya whenever we travel to a
new place sometimes you feel butterflies in your
stomach, it's natural. You go to a place,
maybe people scare you about this place,
You're on a charity mission, for example. You're
going to a place that doesn't have the
facilities and the amenities.
You have literally, you have butterflies in your
stomach. What do you do to deal with
those butterflies?
You call a friend,
a buddy,
call him up, right? Someone who doesn't have
a vision, who's just there, always available.
No, no, no. And you call someone up
you say brother
what are you doing? I say I'm doing
nothing
do you want a free holiday I'll pay
for you I'm going to this place come
with me he goes so if you're paying
why
not? So
what happens when he says yes? The butterflies
go away because now you're traveling together, isn't
it? And the prophet
told us, don't travel by yourself, travel in
pairs, travel in threes, and appoint an amir.
So from the guidance of the sharia,
the aim Allah doesn't want this person of
istiqama to feel any sadness. Allah tells the
angels to tell the dying person,
hayatidunyaawfilahirah.
We were your buddies, and helpers, and protectors
in the life of this world, and we
are traveling with you to the hereafter.
You just didn't know. You're going with your
buddies, you're not going alone.
And also,
in the world that we're taking you from,
you used to ask people for things and
I never used to give you. Where are
you going to? You just desire and Allah
will give you, you don't even have to
speak.
Just desire it in your heart and Allah
will give it to you.
But to how merciful Allah is, the human
being might be at that moment thinking wow
a perpetual life of just desiring, what if
my desires dry up?
What if my desires dry up? Allah
calms that fear for you as well. Walakumfiha
matat down. If your desires dry up, don't
worry, just speak and Allah will give you
a game.
Talk and Allah will give you again.
My brother and sister in Islam, this is
the prizes
for the people of istaqamah.
But guess
what? There's
more, and I only learned about there being
more
from the word after
this.
Allah went into detail angels coming down from
Jannah giving you the glad tidings. Don't be
afraid. Don't be sad. Allah has given you
the Jannah he promised you. We are your
buddies when we are traveling with you and
you're going to a place where you'll have
everything you desire and everything you ask for.
Then Allah says nuzula,
na ilaha illallah.
Honestly, you know, these are verses you need
to be sitting on a recliner with Moroccan
mint tea,
and you read them.
Honestly, it's just therapeutic
because
when I learned the word nuzula, it just
knocked me out.
You know what nuzul
is? Nuzul
is what we give someone who's traveled to
us from a long long long long
origin. They had traveled hours to get to
us.
They landed in Heathrow not Manchester after that
and then had to drive all the way
through the m six and all the traffic
that we see,
and they got to us tired, and they
finally got to our door, maybe just over
24 hours since they started their journey. We
opened the door to welcome them. Do we
take them and put them on the dining
table
straight away,
or do we take them and sit them
in our lounge first, and we give them
some tea,
some water,
some coffee,
some dates,
some biscuits,
some sweets, depending on your culture? What do
you do?
You consider bad manners who just take them
and put them on the on the banquet
table, let them catch their breath, freshen up,
right?
This is nuzul.
Nuzul refers to the welcoming,
the starter.
Allah is saying all these gifts we prepared
for the people of Istikamah when they die,
this is just the starter.
This is the nuzur.
What is the actual prize? Yeah. Allah, Allah
doesn't tell us. Allah says, I've told you
how good the starter is. You can go
imagine how great
the main prize is for the people of
Istikam.
Now as we sit here and go into
this 23rd night, and inshallah,
after this ayam, may it be laylatulqatr.
After we sat and learned this ayah together,
how what an honor it is that in
the month of our Quran, and in one
of the nights that the Quran was revealed,
we can celebrate the Quran with this verse
in Surah Fussilat.
If it's if it's labeled to Qadr, may
Allah make us some those who witness it,
Ameen.
As we sit and study this verse, and
you have, I'm sure this thought in your
mind, I had this thought as well.
Who can die this death, You Allah? Subhanallah.
Hey Allah, can I die this death? This
death has to be the death of the
Ambia alaihi musalat wa salam.
That this death
has to be the death of the Ambiya
alihmus salatwala. I don't think I could die
this death, You Allah.
You Allah, give me a sign. Teach me,
You Allah.
Can I die this death?
And the wrong and short, my dear brother
and sister in Islam, in the very same
verse, Allah teaches us that we can die
this death.
You know where I found it in?
In the same verse.
In the words after Nuzul, what does Allah
say? Nuzulahamin
A welcoming, Allah could have said, a welcoming
from the Lord of the worlds. A welcoming
from the all wise.
A welcoming
from the one who is upon all able.
But Allah doesn't say this. He says a
welcoming from the most forgiving, the most merciful.
Subhanallah.
Why are you Allah the most forgiving, the
most merciful? To teach you and me, the
read of the Quran, that the people who
died this death were people like us.
We had good days, and when we had
good days, we thanked Allah for them. And
then we had bad days, and when we
had bad days we turned to Allah and
we said, you Allah forgive us for the
bad day that we've had and help us
tomorrow, you Allah.
This is Istikuma
that you try your best, but when you
sleep, you don't sleep like you had a
good day.
You make sure before you sleep, you turn
to Allah and you engage him sincerely
and you show Allah that you know you
had a bad day with him
with regards to his laws, with regards to
his mission, with regards to his instruction, and
you seek forgiveness, but you don't go to
sleep in a state of loss and depression.
You seek forgiveness and sleep with hope that
tomorrow, insha Allah, I will chase the ideals
that Allah has revealed in a better way,
insha Allah. This is the way of Istikamah,
my dear brothers and sisters in Islam, and
this is the rewards for the people of
Istikamah.
Every day, a lifelong worth of effort, but
the reward
is not proportionate to the effort.
It's greater than the effort. May Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala make us from the people of
Istikamah and the people of Surah Fussilat and
Surah Ghafir and Surah Zumar. The Zumar, the
groups that will be driven to Jannah.
Jannah driven with the letter wow, aameen, You
Rabbilahalameen.
My dear brothers and sisters in Islam, may
Allah forgive our past, inspire our futures, reward
you all for your patience sitting. Abullahi, I
knew I know we went longer because the
tafsir,
happened after a fundraiser as well, but it's
all good. These are moments of Allah on
earth and moments with Allah on earth.
May Allah bring these moments to us in
a recurring matter, that perhaps one day we
will meet in Jannah, and we will say,
masha Allah, brother, Allahu Akbar, you made it,
we made it, Masha'allah.
What brought you here? And he might say,
You know what, subhanAllah, it was that one
sitting in the dunya, 23rd night of Ramadan.
14:45 after the hijrah of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam. We learned from the Quran, and
the barakah of that session changed my life,
changed our lives, and Allah brought us together
maybe, and it will absolutely be worth it.
May Allah
grant us latest al Qadr, accept our Ramadan.
Make us from the family of Al Quran.
Allah.
Allah.