Sajid Ahmed Umar – Ramadan 2024 #27 Summary of Surah Qaf & Thariyaat
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It's those who are heedless about the reality
of the day of Diyamah, they don't read
suraqaf,
they don't read the Quran.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam developed some white
hairs. They said, Tim, You Rasulullah, Shayabta.
We see some white hairs on you. He
said, Shayabatni hudunwakawatua
Surahud,
and the surah similar to Surahood have made
me white.
Because of the
description of the day of reckoning in these
surahs.
And as the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
said,
If all of mankind and all of jinnkind,
from the 1st jinn and the 1st mankind
gathered together with the last jinn and the
last of mankind, you all came together and
you asked from Allah, and you asked again,
and you begged, and you asked, and Allah
gave you, and gave you, and gave you,
and then multiplied what he gave you. After
giving you, you will not reduce from the
bounties of Allah except the reduction that is
experienced when you dip a needle in an
ocean and lift it. What hangs on to
the needle?
Don't even say a drop because we know
the drop falls back into the ocean.
It decreases nothing from Allah's bounties. The Quran
is miraculous in nature.
And one of the ideas regarding this ajaz,
this miraculous nature of the Quran,
is its level of eloquence
and its ability to share different messages across
the spectrum of Arabic language activity
at a level far greater
than the greatest poets
the Arabic language has ever known. We begin
in the name of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
and we request praises and blessings upon Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
May Allah accept from us.
Say, Amin. Amin. Amin.
Could be
and even if it's
if later on another night, Alhamdulillah, the mercy
of Allah is such that Allah will take
our best night and make the rewards of
that night across all the nights of Ramadan.
So
the way the Sharia is designed to keep
us moving forward, That
even if it was the 23rd night, for
example,
and we did what we did, masha'Allah, in
terms of worship, in terms of the pledges,
Allahu Akbar, amazing.
Amazing response from the community for the sake
of Allah.
If this was a better night in terms
of execution, Allah will take the rewards of
this night and praise it on the night
that was the Eid ul Qadr. So alhamdulillah,
we're only in a win win circumstance.
This is from the mercy of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. So let's take what we can
inshallah.
Today, obviously, we heard the 28th Jews of
the Quran,
and
that's because we are 1 Jews ahead of
the nights
that we are experiencing so that we finish
on the 29th night. But as of our
tafsir, we sort of broke away from the
nightly program, so we're still behind.
And for those who missed it, we said
whatever we don't complete this Ramadan, we'll package
it and keep it as dedicated sessions across
the year, Insha'Allah.
Today we want to start at
Surat
Kaaf,
And this is because we stopped at the
surah before Surat Kaaf yesterday.
And what will make you understand
Surat Kaaf?
Surakaf is a Maqki Surah,
and you understand now what Maqki Surahs are
about.
They are potent dosages in iman building,
but this is a unique Maqki Sura
because
the rhyming arc
in the Surah
is just phenomenal, and off the charts.
We said that the Quran is miraculous in
nature,
and one of the ideas
regarding this ajaz,
this miraculous nature of the Quran,
is its level of eloquence
and its ability to share different messages across
the spectrum of Arabic language activity
at a level far greater
than the greatest poets
the Arabic language has ever known.
And remember we said earlier,
the verses of the Quran
are not fiction.
They haqq
and true and the truth.
Poets would bring about fiction
to bring about a matching rhyme
to fill a gap between a segment
of verses of poetry,
but this is not the case with the
Quran. And how can it be the case
when it's the word of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala?
It's from the Lord of the Arabic language.
The Lord of the human being.
Suraqaf
is dealing with the genre of knowledge
that we find in Makkan revelation
but at a level of Arabic language ability
that no doubt is going to pull the
attention of the Arabs. That for those who
said Muhammad is a poet
let's say how can an unlettered man come
with verses like this? That now he's teaching
us what he's taught us,
but in a poetic arc
that is unknown in the Arabic language to
date.
It doesn't even exist in the hanging odes,
meaning the lines of poetry that the Arabs
were so proud of that they would hang
on the Kaaba.
There were certain
pieces of poetry that that were considered to
be at the highest level of Arabic language
existence that they were so proud of it
they placed it on the Kaaba. Here is
Suraqaaf
and it just annihilates
everything that they knew to be great in
terms of the Arabic language and poetic
eloquence.
And, subhanallah, we didn't recite it today, but
it was recited, and we are in the
best nights of the year, the nights of
the Quran, so make a point of reciting
it.
Now
45 verses of the Quran, Abdulai bin Abba
says this is the 34th
Surah
revealed. If we go by
revelation or order of revelation, then the order
of revelation makes the surah at number 34.
Even though it's not number 34, it's now
the final
collection of the surahs of the Quran as
we have the Quran from cover to cover.
But in terms of revelation,
we see surat
was the first verses revealed, and we have
it in the 30th Jews.
So in terms of revelation, it was number
34 according to Abdullah ibn Abbas, and it
was revealed
through estimation
around the 5th year of the prophetic mission.
So after he called people to Islam or
after he was sent Afwan? Afwan. I apologize.
After he was sent as a Messenger, the
5th year after Allah sent him,
this is the year that the surah was
revealed. So we can appreciate what's happening because
for us to appreciate the Quran further, we
go back to the Sirah. And we see
what was happening in the 5th year.
Did persecution start against the Muslims?
Before we know there were persecution upon slaves
who belong to a people, the family of
Ammar, we saw what happened to Bilal.
These were slaves, they were owned. The persecution
was there from the beginning of Islam,
but persecution of the Muslims
for being Muslims,
even though they are from reputable tribes, when
did this start and so on and so
forth, this gives us an idea, subhanAllah,
of the impact
of the Quranic discourse.
Now this Quran, subhanAllah, not only is it
a message, it is a guide,
it is a weapon,
subhanallah, because those who are going about the
way the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam is
reciting to them the Quran, And those who
are undergoing the persecution, the prophet salallahu alayhi
wasalam is reciting to them the Quran.
So the verses have a dual function.
To disturb the momentum of those who think
they have momentum against Islam,
and to upgrade the momentum of those who
truly have momentum, the people of Islam.
So one verse is serving a dual function,
It's an obstacle to the people of disbelief
and an opportunity
for the people of belief.
You cannot have this in Arabic poetry,
in the messaging that comes from the brain
of a human being.
This is something subhanAllah, unmatched and unheard of.
That by mere virtue of these verses,
the statement that he's a poet
is a misnomer and something that
is
nonsensical.
To anybody who had an objective mind from
amongst the Quraysh,
nonsensical,
cannot be. This cannot be. What he's coming
with is unheard of, and he is unleaded.
I spoke to you briefly about the treaty
of Hudaybiyyah, the prophet salallahu alayhi wasallamidid aali
radiAllahu an to show him where it said
Rasulullah
on the page.
It's an unlettered man.
So where could he have learned this poetry
from? What was he reading? Who was teaching
him?
This is something beyond human capacity.
From the virtues of the surah, is that
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam used to recite
it generally in the
prayer on the days of Eid. This is
one of the surahs that he would recite.
I know we know some and
we know
Suraqaf is also one of the surahs that
the Prophet
would
recite.
And a woman named Hisham Bin Haritha,
who was a neighbor of the Prophet
She says that she memorized Surakaf
to memory
only because she often heard the Prophet salallahu
alayhi wa sallam reciting
Surakaf, and she heard him recite it even
in the Jumu a Khutbah, subhanAllah.
That he stood on the member, and the
Jumu a Khutbah was Suraqaf, from Khaf Wal
Quranil Majeed, SubhanAllah. Imagine, the Khatib stands up
and he speaks,
and he speaks words
of the divine of the Lord Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
How impactful is that? Far greater speech than
the speech of man. So she says she
learned this from the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam's recitation of the surah during the days
of Eid, and also from the mimbar. And
other sources say he would recite it in
the Fajr prayer as well. So it was
something frequented by the prophet salallahu alayhi wasallam.
What is the subject matter of Surah Taaf?
If I can just distill it into one
subject,
the hereafter.
Surah Qaaf is about the hereafter.
Immediately, with phenomenal eloquence,
it teaches us or reminds us of the
beginning of creation
and how the beginning of creation was.
Allah created mankind.
It teaches us about the reality of life.
It teaches us about the punishment of the
life of this world.
It teaches us about death and resurrection.
It teaches us about paradise and *.
It teaches us about reward and punishment.
But again, remember,
with a style far different to the other
Maqan Suras,
because the poetic arc from beginning till the
end is just mesmerizing.
Also, the end of the Sura is connected
to its beginning,
and
the madar
or the hub
that connects the end to the beginning is
one reality, and that is the Quran.
And perhaps that's why this surah begins with
just one letter from the letters of the
Arabic, Qaf.
And the word Quran
begins with the
letter Qaf,
and Quran referring to something that is read,
Quran referring to something that is recited, and
also something that is gathered because there's a
gathering of verses from cover to cover. This
is from the meanings of Quran.
Quran and immediately after Allah mentions the Quran
and
I said this to you before that these
disjointed letters it's a form of challenge to
the Arabs that here are letters from your
language and here's a Quran
in the Arabic language try and produce a
verse using your own letters that can match
what has come
from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So Allah says, Kaf wal Quranil Majeed, the
very first verse of the Surah.
The last verse of the Surah, Allah says,
nahnuAAanamu
biyaqulun
wamaantaarihimbijabar
fathakirbilururan
fathakirbilururan.
May yakafuwaait,
At the beginning, Allah says, cough
by the honored Quran.
Allah takes an oath by the Quran.
At the end, Allah says we are most
knowing of what they say, oh Muhammad,
and you are not over them a tyrant
even though they try and portray you to
be this disuniter.
Allah says, carry on on your mission and
remind them by the Quran
whoever fears my threat and my punishment.
So the Quran is a reminder.
And the best dua is the dua done
via the Quran,
through the Quran.
I said today when there was this discussion
should be shortened, the tarawee, I should carry
on with the tarawee.
I know the fundraiser went a little bit
longer,
so there was this idea to make it
easy for the ummah, maybe let's shorten the
tarawee and and and recite tomorrow. I said,
let's complete the tarawee, it's the Quran.
The Quran, we carry on with it. It's
never enough. With madam Nafan radiallahu an, he
would recite in his home, and he would
cry, and he would be moved, and he
would be shaken by what he would recite,
and he would go on and on and
on and never stop, and people would start
fearing for his life. The homes were different
to our homes today. In fact, in the
UK, maybe those homes are the same homes.
I know this
attached
homes. We hear everything, isn't
it? Someone plugs their mobile phone, you know
that someone plugged their mobile phone.
Sometimes the TV is loud, they start knocking
the wall from the other side.
So they would hear from the outside and
they would shout out from outside to Uthman,
and say, Enough, you Uthman, enough. You're going
to harm yourself. And he would shout back
out to them
and say if you knew the reality of
the Quran, you would delete the word enough
from your vocabulary.
It's never enough.
It's never enough.
So on a night that could be
we never shorten the tarawee, complete the surah.
As we've been doing since the beginning of
Ramadan, complete the juz, alhamdulillah, we did. So
this is the Quran my brothers and sisters
in Islam, wahadari, hadari. I warn you,
from
the position of sharing with you a signpost,
in case Allah asks me on the day
of PM.
Do not
park the Quran on a shelf after a
mother.
Do not be those people.
And the pious before us were asked about
a people who do this, and they would
say, they're the worst of people.
They don't know Allah and the Quran except
in Ramadan. May Allah not make us from
amongst those.
Be with the Quran. Yes, your intensity might
decrease. Ramadan is a special month, but it
shouldn't decrease to 0.
If you are doing much more now, and
you have to do less later on,
at least do it.
Have a sitting with the Quran
as you have a sitting with your mobile
phone. Sorry to use this example.
You how you sit with your wife, your
husband, your children, your parents, make sure your
day doesn't end before you have your sitting
with the book of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Make sure
that your day cannot end. This is something
that I have to do before I sleep.
This should be our mandate.
Because this Quran was revealed over 23 years
to establish the religion for which you and
I are believers today.
We cannot be established
or aid the establishment of the religion to
the future generations
if we are away from the Quran, that
we are with the Quran, and when we
are not with the Quran, our days are
the same. We read the Quran, hamdulillah. We
didn't read the Quran, alhamdulillah. This cannot be
the way of the believers.
We have to have a daily setting. Make
this
part and parcel of the promise between you
and Allah this evening that, you Allah, from
now until I pass away,
I will sit with your book, you Allah.
And if I can't read, I will listen,
but I will dedicate time and listen, a
dedicated listening.
Not the Quran is praying and I'm cooking
and I'm cleaning or I'm
a dedicated listening. This adab,
this manners
with the book of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Alright. Let's take some chosen verses.
Allah
says,
Allah says, indeed, it is We who created
mankind.
We created humankind.
These are verses that dispel these theories, the
theories of the ape, and mankind came via
an ape, and so on and so forth,
evolution, and so on and so forth. There
are many verses in the Quran. This is
just one. Allah says, We created mankind,
and We fully know what their souls whisper
to them, the nafs. Remember we said there's
nafs?
Allah says nafsu here, the translation says souls.
Remember that last discussion,
Is the soul the nafs? Is the ruh
the nafs?
We said
that nafs is the soul connected to the
body and the life of this world. Allah
says,
When you live the life of this world,
Allah already knows what your soul
connected to your body, this nafs is whispering
to you in terms of following your desires.
Allah knows it.
Before you know it, Allah knows it. Allah
says we created you and we know you
better than you know yourself.
So there's 2 ways you're going to go
about life,
the right way or the hard way. The
right way by following the blueprint that we
revealed to you in the Quran or the
hard way where you don't listen and you
learn through error. Just like we say to
our kids, that I'm your father,
I'm living life,
I am 40 years ahead of you in
the journey, 30 years ahead of you in
the journey.
The road you are yet to see, I
have seen it.
The neighborhoods you are yet to cross, I've
crossed it.
The towns you are yet to pass, I've
passed
it. I know what works and what doesn't
work. I made mistakes, and I learned from
the mistakes.
Now I'm calling you my son from 30
years ahead, and I'm telling you, son,
the journey you're beginning I've already done. Beware.
After so many kilometers, there's this. After so
many miles, there's that.
Now you can go about this journey in
1 of 2 ways,
by the listening to me
and you avert
the dangers that I hit head on,
or you don't listen to me and you
hit the dangers that I hit head on
and you learn the hard way. And to
be honest, what I'm sharing with you is
is an example my dad shared with me
when I was younger.
He would say this to me, that I'm
calling you from so many years ahead,
and you have the option to learn the
easy way or the hard way.
And once the question was asked,
if you don't listen to me, where will
you be
in 40 years time?
And actually you say where you are.
Where you are?
And the answer was no no no no
no. You will not be where I am
because I'm a generation and you're a generation.
My generation's ability to deal
with adversity
is superior than your generation.
The problems that I hit head on, how
I dealt with them, you will not be
able to deal with them in the same
way. If you hit them head on, it
will take you far longer to overcome.
In fact, you will call me and say,
come and help me.
So the children do, isn't it? They don't
listen, but then they when they're humbled,
say, dad,
you are right.
Which means
if you don't listen to me, in 40
years you won't be where I am, you'll
probably be 10 years still behind. So you
haven't
helped yourself. And this is the reality of
the Quran. It's common sense. Right?
So here, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is revealing
the reality. We created you. We know you
better than you know yourself. We've sent you
the messenger. We've sent you the book. He's
distributed the book. He's taught you the book.
We helped you in every way. We didn't
send this amazing revelation
without someone to distribute it. We send the
distributor with it. So that you don't say
it came but it was far away from
me or I didn't know about it. Like
today we see about certain products. We say
we didn't know they're not advertising it well.
The program is not being marketed well. Right,
brother Ishfaq? Did we advertise the Eid well
or not? The program well or not? It's
a good program, but are we marketing it?
Allah
sent the Quran,
and if we may use
this,
term, the marketer, the one who came and
distributed it.
So now you are upon guidance.
You know where you came from, you know
where you're going,
you know how to get there successfully, you
know what works, you know what doesn't work,
it's up to you now. As the imam
read in the tarawih today,
Whoever will believe.
Whoever will believe for disbelief.
It's your choice now, which route you wanna
take. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reveals this in
suraqah. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
That no one
understand. Whatever you decide to do, you have
2 angels recording your actions. 1 sitting to
the right and one to the left,
and they note everything that you do.
Everything is being recorded.
Real time data is being captured.
Real time data is being captured, and it
is data that you cannot evade.
As I mentioned to the sisters on the
Sunday program about the hadith of Al Bi
Ta'ka. There's a hadith in Sunanat Tirmidi and
the other books of hadith
about the hadith of the small card. I
imagine a business card
as a small card. On the day of
Qiyamah when Allah asks for the books to
be weighed,
and a small card will fall out of
one of the books.
Allah will say to his slave on the
day of Qiyamah, when he asks the angels
to produce the files,
the angels will produce 99 files of sin,
each file as long as the eye can
see.
Allah will ask His slave, did my angels
oppress you? Why would Allah ask that? Because
Allah told you in the Quran, there's angels
recording
real time data
live.
What we're doing here right now, the angels
are recording it. Every split second, he was
in the masjid, he was in the masjid,
he was learning, he was in the masjid,
he was donating, he was praying. La illaha
illallah. What a way to die. If Allah
writes for us to die, Allahu Akbar.
For the night that we had and the
day that we had, what a day to
meet Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. May Allah preserve
us in his obedience,
Ameen, and use us for his deen.
So the angels will record and Allah will
say, did my angels oppress you? And the
slave will obviously say, no, You Allah. How
can he say anything else? This is a
day, as we heard in surah Yassin a
few nights ago.
Allah
says, Aliyoma naktimu aalaafwahihim,
this is the day where we will seal
their mouths.
The mouths that used to lie,
and the hands will speak.
And the feet will bear witness.
In another verse, Allah says,
They will shout at their skin,
Why did you tell Allah about us? Why
did you act as a witness against us?
The skin will say,
Allah made us speak, who made everything
speak.
He created you in the first place. He
made us speak
that when you were hiding under your sheets,
the skin was with you.
It was over you had a witness, you
thought there was no witness,
your skin was your witness.
When you walked to a place and you
thought nobody could see you, your feet walked
you there, they're a witness.
So Allah is saying we have the angels
recording, there's no oppression, it's gonna be recorded
for you to see. And Allah's knowledge is
from ever and forever, he doesn't need the
angels, but look how Allah is merciful to
us.
That nobody lay claim and say Allah isn't
just.
That Allah knows, but Allah will put procedures
that are sensical to you, so that you
know as well. That here are records, here
are books, read your books, subhanAllah.
And we read every Friday Suratul Kahf, when
these books will be presented to the slave,
the slave will say,
What is it about these books? La yugadi
rusahheeratan,
walakabiratan,
illaasaha.
It doesn't leave not even a minute action,
let alone the large actions, except it's recorded
it. Allah says, wa wadjid do wa wadjid
do ma'amilwuhadera.
They will see all the actions present, actions
they didn't even remember.
And Allah does not oppress
anybody.
As Quala says, subhanallah, from this verse we
learn
that the small deeds will be presented before
the big deeds. The small sins before the
big sins.
And what a destruction
a slave will feel by just going through
the list of small minor sins.
And then it wouldn't be,
okay, what's next? Next is the bigger sins,
Allahu al Mustaan. The major sins, Allahu al
Mustaan.
But Allah is merciful, this is a merciful
night.
Talking about
dreams,
one of
the universities that I lecture at,
in a meeting with the director,
and they are all senior mashaikh in Saudi
Arabia.
One of the staff was saying
that his brother's best friend passed away. So
the director who is a senior Sheikh in
Saudi Arabia was asking,
I won't mention his name for the sake
of
confidence, but he is a very senior scholar
of Saudi Arabia. He was asking him about
his brother.
So this teacher, one of the staff,
was saying that Subhanallah, yeah my brother was
affected when his friend passed away, but he
saw his friend in the dream.
So the Sheikh said, SubhanAllah, what did he
see? He says, Wallahi, he saw his friend
with the scarf, you know the scarf we're
wearing? But it was tied as a turban
round his head,
and it was dripping as if it was
a cloud, raining rainfall. You know what we
saw this afternoon? It pours thunder, a thunderstorm,
a downpour they called it. He goes he
had the scarf wrapped around his head like
a turban, like our brother here, masha Allah,
look he just walked in to show us.
Allahu
Akbar.
Inshallah, this dream is not about you. You
won't see that,
Allah save you from seeing any evil, and
all of us.
He says he was sweating.
So the brother of the Sheikh, the brother
of the teacher who is narrating
to the Sheikh, he is saying, my brother
saw him tied with a scarf like this
and it was a downpour, it was a
downpour, it was the sweat was dripping from
him like a downpour. So I asked him,
what did Allah do with you? He goes,
nothing was left out.
Nothing was left out.
Things that I totally forgot, I did They
had no presence in my recollection, I saw
it in my book of deeds. I was
taken to task for every little thing.
And then his friend said, and then what?
He said, and then subhanallah, Allah forgave me
for 2 units of salah, I used to
wake up and read before the Fajr prayer.
SubhanAllah.
So the sheikh, director of the university,
when he heard this, he broke down
into tears.
And he says, You Allah,
I hope this university will be the means
for my forgiveness on the day of Qiyamah.
Because he establishes university to teach the Quran
and the sunnah and fiqh and usul and
and and and.
And to brother Asfaq and your team, that's
my dua for you all that made this
masjid be the means that Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala forgives you all on the day of
qiyamah.
And to community as well, well done for
standing with them.
If we don't stand with them, where should
we stand? You all stood up today.
Allah says
not a word does a person utter
without having a vigilant observer ready to write
it down. SubhanAllah.
Honestly,
yesterday we spoke about Ghiba.
We say sometimes, Udi, this is a troublemaker,
or this person, it's written down. Khalas, it's
logged in.
Allah says the shahada, the test that what
you say and do will be written, and
you will be asked about it on the
day of Kama. May Allah save us
That's why we need Ramadan, we need laylatul
qadr, we need these nights, wallahi, you do
not understand
the mercy of Allah upon us in these
nights, because the day of qiyamah is a
day of reckoning.
The one who understands the day of Qiyamah,
understands the value proposition of these nights,
understands Ramadan,
understands the first 10 days of Dhul Hijjah,
understands this concept of keep your money in
your hands not in your heart, those who
understand the day of Tiyamah
they understand these nights,
and these days, and this Ibadah,
It's those who are heedless about the reality
of the day of Diyam, but they don't
read suraqaf,
they don't read the Quran.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam developed some white
hairs. They said to me, You Rasulullah, Shayabta.
We see some white hairs on you. He
said, Shayabatni
hudunwaqawatua
Surahud,
and the surah similar to Surahood have made
me white.
Because of the
description of the day of reckoning in these
Surahs,
and the instruction of what Allah did to
nations who didn't listen in these Surahs.
It should make you fear, but not a
fear that turns you away from Allah, a
fear that makes you run to Allah, because
you know your Lord is merciful.
And you match their fear to the love
that you have for him for everything that
is done for you. So we don't share
these verses to break us again to calibrate
us.
You'll hear me say it over and over
again,
as the Arabs say.
I will say it,
is to calibrate you.
Allah says,
Ultimately,
with the throes of death will come the
truth.
Allah says death will come to you. Bilhaqq.
And Allah says, this death is what you
are trying to escape.
Allah says, wanwufiqa
fisur
raani kaya umuluwaeed.
And you'll be in the grave, and you
think that's going to be long and the
trumpet will be blown and Allah says this
is the day you are warned about.
You were taught about this day.
Each soul will come forth with an angel
to drive it and another to testify.
An angel will drive you to Allah, and
an angel will come as the witness.
Subhanallah, think about a court. You're driven to
the stand, and the witnesses are brought to
the court.
It will be said to the denier, you
are totally heedless of this.
Now we have lifted the veil of yours.
So today, your eyesight is very sharp. You
can see everything
you read about,
everything you were taught about, everything
you were spoken to about. You can see
it with the sharpness of your eye. Mubasharatan,
it's a live feed.
All this is in Surat Kaaf.
So the reality is in Surat Kaaf.
Then objectivity
as well. And I spoke to you about
objectivity and this is from the 2nd chosen
verse. For Allah says
This Quran
is the guide.
But for who?
For the one who has a kalb, who
has a heart that is objective to the
message that is being recited to it.
But subhanallah,
look at the mercy of the Quran,
it is also a guide. Allah says,
a guide for the one who
does not want to give the Quran
his heart,
or her heart,
but he lends the Quran in a tent
of iya. Even then the Quran will guide
you.
Even then the Quran will guide you, subhanallah.
So Allah is teaching us in this verse
that if you are objective
at a higher level, you will be guided
at a higher level. And at a lower
level, even by mistake, the Quran is so
powerful it will guide you.
And Ibn Qayyim, he discuss this Ibnul Qayyum
Rahimahullah in his al Fawwa'id, this verse in
pages,
spans of pages, and he says look what
Allah is telling us. Allah is saying the
message is being fed, but with every message
that's being fed, you need a receiver.
I have a microphone, I'm speaking to the
microphone. There has to be some receiving device
that receives it and sends it through the
speakers for you to hear it. Correct? If
I speak and nothing receives it, will there
be output?
Ibn Al Qayyim says this is the reality.
The Quran is being broadcast, it needs a
receiver. That receiver is a heart that's objective.
But a heart that doesn't want to be
objective to the level that it should be,
if it just lends an attentive ear, even
then the Quran will help you. This is
the nature of the Quran. So my dear
brother and sister in Islam, when we are
not guided by the Quran, then really what
is our circumstance and situation?
This Jumu'a Khutba I said to you, that
the prophet said Amin when Jibril said cursed
be upon the one who witnesses Ramadan, and
they leave Ramadan without being forgiven. Why?
Why would the Prophet say Amin?
Because Ramazan is such a month that even
if you didn't try enough, even if it
was just by mistake, it will benefit you.
You will be forgiven therein.
And I said this to you before, that
we have a Lord that's so merciful. He
gave us the greatest gift, the greatest gift
which is Islam, when you didn't even ask
Allah for it.
Imagine my brother and sister what Allah will
give you if you ask him for it.
Subhanallah.
He gave you Islam and you didn't ask.
What will he give you if you ask?
This is our Lord. So objectivity is in
the Quran. Let's move on to Surah Tathariyat.
Surah Tathariyat,
another Makkan Surah
consisting of 60 verses.
And this Surah gives the good news of
the emergence of a new community at a
time when, subhanAllah, the community was being suppressed.
And it also warns the opponents of the
truth that their time is about to attend,
that everybody has their day.
As
Abu,
not Abu, it's Haqalbiri.
This was said by who?
This is Abu Bakr Arandi, the Andalusian
poet. He
said,
beautiful couple of support,
Mesmerizing as well, but not to the level
of the Quran, of course.
Everything comes, it rains supreme, it reaches a
peak, and then it will
dip everything.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in Suratul Dariyat
is empowering the believers that listen,
remain patient,
the
emergence of a new community is about to
begin. And that happened maybe 5 or 6
years later, subhanAllah.
Because hijrah happened during the 13 years after
the prophetic mission began.
And also it's a warning to the people
of Makkah that carry on being arrogant right
now, but no one understands that you will
have your day as well.
We find sections in the surah, number 1,
falsehood is about to end, The righteous shall
be rewarded, and Allah teaches us about the
character of the righteous people. If you want
to
emerge, a new community wants to emerge, you
have to have certain characteristics. Allah tells us
about this. Allah tells us about Ibrahim alayhis
salam and the angels that visited him, and
the discussion between him and the angels. Allah
teaches us the fate of the people of
Luth,
those who left the females for the males.
And Allah mentions Musa, and his and the
fate of Firaun, and the people of Ad,
and Thamud. And he mentions prophet Nuh alayhi
salam, peace, alayhi salaam, meaning peace and blessings
be upon them all. And Allah pushes us
to hasten towards Allah, and then Allah
highlights for us in very clear words the
objective of your existence and my existence. I'm
going to try and cover that very quickly.
In terms of delivery like Surakaf is very
important.
And remember, earlier he said Allah reveals the
short burst verses
as if
it's a chisel with a small hammer
knocking a block of ice trying to get
rid of the external parts that are not
needed whilst maintaining
the main block that is needed. We're seeing
this in these verses. Have you not heard
this the last few nights? Short bursts
Short bursts. Surah to Dariyat as well. SubhanAllah.
Surah to Dariyat is like this.
Knock knock knock knock knock. Do you see
this? Short bursts, absolute eloquence, subhanAllah.
That even if you didn't want to listen,
you will listen, subhanAllah.
Really penetrative verses.
Allah begins it, not only with penetration,
but taking an oath by much of his
creation. And only Allah can take an oath
by his creation. No one from the creation
of Allah can take an oath by the
creation of Allah. We can only take an
oath by Allah. So we say Wallahi,
we say
billahi, we say tallahi using the 3 letters
of an oath in the Arabic language, waw
and ba and ta. But we only swear
by Allah. Only Allah can take an oath
by other than Allah. Why? Because he is
the creator of everything that exists.
So when he says,
an oath by the winds that blow and
scatter dust in the desert, dispersing dust, who
created that wind and that dust and the
act of dispersing is all Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. It's it's as if Allah in a
few words with the short burst is blowing
up the minds of the Quraysh to the
Rububi of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, his lordship,
subhan'Allah.
He takes an oath by the clouds carrying
loads of water.
Takes an oath by the ships sailing the
seas with ease despite its weight and its
load. And
he takes an oath by the angels apportioning
each matter. Allah says Innamatu
adu nala sadiqah. So he takes an oath
and an oath and an oath and an
oath and an oath.
This is grabbing your attention, grabbing your attention,
grabbing your attention, picking up your understanding of
who Allah is. All those rububiyah,
everything around me is him. He says, indeed,
what you are promised is true. What the
messenger has come to you is true.
That's the impact.
SubhanAllah.
He says,
and indeed the day of judgment will happen.
And by the heaven containing pathways. Now it
shifts back to taking an oath. Allah is
taking an oath by his creation, his again.
Indeed, you are differing in speech. You fakuan
woman ufiqh, deluded away from the Quran is
he who is deluded. The truth stands by
itself. If you are deluded with the Quran,
you are deluded. The Quran is upon the
Haqq and the truth. It's the word of
Allah. Kutilal kharasoonla
ilaha illallah. If you are a disbeliever and
you are hit with this verse,
subhanAllah.
If you don't say,
I believe, I don't know what will. For
Allah says, this is even in Arabic eloquence
within the Arabs.
This term is very powerful when you say,
describing something as having been killed.
Allah says destroyed are the falsifiers.
Destroyed are the falsifiers, those who worship false
gods,
and they falsify the worship of those gods.
They are destroyed.
Allah
says, who are within a flood of confusion
and heedlessness.
They ask, when is the day of judgment
going to come? All the different narratives and
discussions of the prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam
with his people is coming down as a
downpour of verses from the heavens with such
eloquence upon a poetic ark that was never
known to the Arabs.
Some are questioning him about this. Some are
calling him,
you know, a a poet. Some are saying
this day of payama, there's no life after
death. The Quran is dealing with it. Allah
says, yoma hoomaalana
ri uftanoon,
it is the day
they will be tormented over the fire.
And it will be said to them, taste
your torment.
This is the day that you were impatient
over.
Wallahi, I don't know what will make us
understand the Quran,
if these
few words don't.
From
the ayat that we see, so Allah takes
us here, and then he shifts us. There's
this shift in narrative.
Not shift in the eloquence and the poetic
arc in the narrative. Allah has dealt with
the beginning in a strong way. Everyone's listening.
Allah starts revealing the qualities of the believers.
What does he say?
Inal muttaqinafi
janatiwaraoyoon,
indeed the righteous will be amongst gardens and
springs.
Accepting of what their lord has given them.
Innaqalilahthanika
muhsinin.
Indeed, before, there were people who did good
deeds.
They used to sleep a little of the
night and stand in prayer during the night.
And in the hours before dawn, during sukhoor
time, they would ask Allah to forgive them.
And from their properties
was they gave
in charity from their wealth, from their property,
the poor and the needy. So Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala here describes the qualities of the
believers.
Then Allah shifts again
and he brings to us a flood of
verses pertaining to
his rububiyah,
his lordship.
Again,
without the poetic arc changing,
Allah says,
and on earth are signs for you. Just
look around you, you will find Allah.
And look in yourself.
Do you not see? Do you not see?
You have a heart with 4 chambers
that beats without you needing to remember it
beating.
Allah makes it beat without you needing to
worry about it beating. If you were given
the task of managing your life, you would
be dead because you forget.
You would forget to remember that your heart
has to beat. How many things do we
forget brothers and sisters in Islam?
Four chambers.
You got ventricles,
atriums between them bicuspid valves where did this
come from each has a purpose you have
arteries that take oxygenated blood and veins that
carry deoxygenated
blood except one artery, the pulmonary artery. It
carries deoxygenated blood because it sends blood to
the lungs And one vein, the pulmonary vein,
it carries oxygenated blood different to its purpose
because it's sending blood back to the heart
because veins take blood back to the heart,
and arteries take blood away from the heart.
Such a perfect system. Where did you get
this from?
Look in yourself. Afalaatubfiroon.
Do you not find Allah in all your
creation,
in your existence?
Allah.
And in the heavens are your provision set,
and whatever Allah has promised you. Our brother
said he was going through difficulty, Allah bless
him, and Allah has empowered him, may Allah
bless him with his wealth.
I said to you the other day, this
particular verse,
that the pound crashing doesn't affect your risk.
Inflation rising doesn't affect your risk.
Inflation rising, the pound crashing, these are matters
on earth. Allah says,
Your sustenance is controlled in the heavens.
Nothing that happens on Earth, affects what happens
in the heavens.
Earth is the work of man, heavens is
the work of God.
Subhanallah, I feel exhausted to Allah just from
these verses. That's how potent these verses are.
That's how potent these verses are.
Allah says,
Allah says, Then by the Lord of the
heavens and the earth, indeed it is the
truth just as
sure as it is that you are speaking.
Now
I'll end now inshallah, but there's one point
I have to share with you. It's impossible
for me to leave Surah Dari at
without sharing this with you. Because inshallah, what
I share with you will be the game
changer as well. I need you to take
this lesson through with you to the rest
of your life.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala reveals in Surah Dariyat,
Some translations say,
mankind and jinnkind were created to worship Allah.
And this is not a precise translation.
This is not a precise translation.
Allah said
that mankind and jinnkind were not created except
to worship Allah. There's a difference in these
two statements.
Well, to make it clearer,
let's share a simplified example.
Come here my brother.
Mashallah.
Come stand in front of the audience.
What's our brother's name? Abdullah. Abdullah. This is
Abdullah.
If I said to you, Abdullah is standing.
And I said to you thereafter,
there's nothing about Abdullah except that he is
standing.
Do you understand the same thing or 2
different things?
Abdullah is standing,
and there's nothing about him except that he
is standing.
Same thing or 2 different things?
What's the difference?
His
only purpose is to speak.
Masha'Allah.
If we say Abdullah is standing, this is
known as an open ended sentence.
Meaning, the meaning is open ended. We can
say Abdullah standing and he has,
a turban
that is red and white,
and he is has an mashallah,
and he bench presses about a £150.
We can add to it. Yeah.
But if I say there's nothing about him
except that he is standing,
this is a closed ended sentence.
Meaning nothing else matters about him not what
he's wearing,
not how he's dressed,
not the tone of his skin, nothing matters
except the fact that he is
standing. Are we clear?
Arabic Allah says
there is nothing about you existing except that
you exist to worship Allah.
Allah didn't say we created mankind and jinnkind
to worship Allah, He said, we didn't create
mankind and jinnkind except to worship Allah.
Now people raise question marks with this. They
say, SubhanAllah, how does this make sense now,
Ishaq?
How does this make sense? Because
we Allah says go search for your rizq.
You have to go get a job. We
have bills to pay. Allah says go for
jumu'ah, then go into the land and search.
If we were only created to worship Allah,
we should be in the masjid, we should
be fasting everyday, we should be going for
Hajj regularly, shouldn't be once a lifetime, and
and and. People raise this question,
how do we marry between
what you just said
and the fact that we have to attend
to life?
And there is no contradiction.
Many people feel this
there's no contradiction. The issue is we have
not understood worship.
The meaning I am here to tell you,
So
is his intention correct or not?
It's incorrect. The intention has to be for
Allah.
Otherwise this is not Ibadah, this is a
shirk, this is associating partners with Allah. So
this is one function of the niyyah, to
confirm an act of worship that was revealed
as an act of worship to be an
act of worship.
The other function of the niyyah is to
differentiate
between
2 acts of worship. For example,
the 2 faradafajr
and the 2 sunnahafajr.
How do we differentiate between the 2?
Through the niyyah. Correct? Let's say you stand,
you pray
sunnah of Fajar,
Then you stand up to pray Fajr, the
obligatory units,
Same Suras,
same length salah,
same direction you faced, same clothes you are
wearing, same wudu,
everything was the same. What differentiates between this
act and that act? What differentiates between the
2? The intention, very good. The intention.
Excellent.
There's another function of the knee many of
us don't know.
And I've I've I tried to teach this
once across many universities
across the country because it's important. Those who
go to university and those who have a
job as well, how many hours do you
spend going to university? How many hours do
you spend studying? All these hours, it has
to mean something.
The intention
is a function
or gives us the function, the ability to
convert a mundane activity of life into an
act of worship.
How?
By making the purpose for what you do,
your Lord.
Now bear with me. I can see people
are straining the eyes. What's he saying? What's
he saying? Bear with me.
We'll take this slowly but surely.
I have seen unfortunately
that many people
conflate
result for purpose.
You ask a student at university why are
you studying for the degree?
You ask
a brother
who owns a company, why do you have
this company? He says for money.
That's what
they say. Isn't the degree a result of
what you do?
Isn't money a result of your job?
You ask a brother going to the gym
like Abdullah goes to the gym or not.
Abdullah, we need to now upgrade your membership.
Why are you going to the gym? Because
to be strong. Isn't that a result
of going to the gym? Meaning, let me
rephrase it for you. If you went to
university
you did all your assignments, you attended all
your classes, you passed all your exams
at the end
can the university say we are not giving
you your degree because your intention was not
to study for the degree your intention was
for something else Can the university say that?
Yes or no?
You run on a treadmill.
How many calories you're going to buy in
up to Allah? 20 minutes on the treadmill.
150
maybe. 150
on the treadmill.
And then you eat 3 Oreo biscuits, halas.
All that 20 minutes, or 3 Oreos, few
seconds, and you lost your time.
Can the treadmill say to you, brother, Ma'aleesh?
This is Arabic, statement. Meaning, brother, I'm sorry.
You ran on me for 20 minutes, but
you didn't run to lose weight. So you
didn't lose any calories. I'm sorry. That running
was in vain. Can the treadmill say that?
Yes or no? It's a result of doing
it, not so? It's physics, it's going to
happen, that's how it works. Many of us
live our life like this,
void
of purpose.
Allah says we didn't create you except to
worship Allah, meaning except to be in the
remembrance of Allah.
For this to happen you have to engage
the niyyah, which is a tool Allah gives
a believer.
Unfortunately, we are going about our daily life
void of this verse in our life from
surah ad Dariyat, and we are living it
like the non Muslims live it. The non
Muslims, they work for money, they gym to
be fit, they sleep for whatever reason, they
holiday for whatever reason, it's all worldly related.
It's a result, it's going to happen.
The
Muslim makes Allah their purpose for that which
they do. So that action becomes an action
in the remembrance of Allah. And as such
it becomes a form of the worship of
Allah. Because the niyyah has an ability to
convert a mundane action of life into an
act of worship.
Yes, it won't have the same rewards as
a salah and so on and so forth,
but it will be nonetheless an act of
worship. Now think about it brothers and sisters
in Islam.
Jannah is for us. It is a vast
land that needs building on it. It needs
trees to be planted. It needs streams to
be dug.
If you live for 60 years to 60
to 70 years and you only build Jannah
when you came for salah or when you
fasted Ramadan
or or when you read the Quran or
when you went for Hajj?
What percentage of your Jannah would you build?
Let's say you have a Jannah that spans
60 years of your life, what percentage would
you build? How many minutes in your day
do you spend praying salah?
How many minutes in your year do you
spend fasting as opposed to eating?
Do you get me?
But Jannah is telling you all of me
is ready for you to build on me.
The only difference will be the intensity of
your building. When you pray salah, the building
is more intense. When you're at your work,
it might be less intense, but building will
still happen.
But how can I go to my work
everyday in Buljan?
How can I go to university everyday in
Buljan?
How can I go to the gym in
Buljan?
How?
By making Allah the purpose for why you're
studying your degree, the purpose for why you
are going to your job, the purpose for
why you're going to the gym. You see
there's a difference.
If your purpose is to lose weight that's
why you go to the gym. It's different
to the one who goes to the gym
because
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam praised
the stronger believer.
And he taught us that this body is
an amanah. And I intend to be healthier
so I can worship Allah better.
Now there's a whole shift in
purpose.
You're not there for yourself in the dunya.
You're there for the pleasure of Allah.
As for getting fit, it's a result, it's
going to happen.
There's a difference between someone who goes to
university to study for the degree and becoming
an engineer for the degree. I only get
a degree, the money is good, people respect
us. Right? I only become an accountant, a
lawyer, an engineer, a doctor, for whatever reason,
whatever good will that might be attached to
it. It and the one who says I
am becoming
an IT specialist, I am becoming an engineer,
a software programmer, a data analyst, I'm a
mechanic, I'm this, I'm that. I am doing
it.
Why? To represent Islam in this field here.
To bring the character of Islam in a
field whereby the character of Islam is lacking
or missing.
I'm going to be the mechanic upon the
sunnah who looks like a Muslim and deals
with people like a Muslim different to the
others this is my da'wah I will be
a golfer, I will be a sports person,
I will be an engineer, a doctor
to represent Islam in this field.
There's a whole different ballgame. You now you
are trading with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala here.
And if we shift, look, it's not going
to take anything away from you. What
is there anything different? Is your degree going
to get harder? Is your job going to
get harder? It's all the same work. It's
just you engaging Allah with your heart.
And all of a sudden
your time leaving home
is Ibadah. In the car, it's Ibadah. Going
to work, it's Ibadah. Your time at work
is Ibadah. When you come home, it's Ibadah.
Many people say, Sheikh, you know, I want
to work in the dawah, why you want
to work in the dawah? Because wallahi, you
want to worship us. Brother, this is a
wrong understanding. Islam needs doctors, lawyers, we need
all these entities.
You build Jannah by being in your field,
but by looking like a Muslim, speaking like
a Muslim, dealing like a Muslim, showing the
mercy of Islam, and the wisdom of Islam,
and the transformative benefit of Islam,
and the justice of Islam in this field.
And this is why I say to my
youth that I don't want you to become
doctors and lawyers and engineers and so on
and so forth. Oh, Sheikh, how can you
say this? Say, no. I don't want you
to be a doctor. I want you to
be the best doctor, the reference doctor,
the reference lawyer,
the reference engineer,
the reference pharmacist,
the reference mechanic, the reference sportsman,
that you should be the standard setter in
terms of ethical values
in this field.
And as such, you will be trading with
Allah every time you're in this field.
Imagine
your son's going through some difficult exam and
you say, son,
you're going to your exam and he goes,
no, dad. I'm going to Bujannah.
Look at the difference now.
Wife says to the husband, Assalamu Alaikum you're
going to work. He goes no no no
no no I'm going to build Jannah.
You see what happens, the whole shift this
is where the Ummah should be.
Says Allah has angels created just to build
our jannah. When the slave is in the
remembrance of Allah, the angels are busy planting
the trees, digging the streams, building the palaces,
bearing the treasures. And when the slave comes
out of the remembrance of Allah, the angels
take a break, and they don't need to
take a break.
Imagine you could sleep in the remembrance of
Allah, work in the remembrance of Allah. Worship,
of course, that's going to be in the
remembrance of Allah because that is Ibadah in
and of itself. 24 cycle of being in
the remembrance of Allah. You'll be true to
the verse,
Stop conflating
result for purpose.
The result is a matter of physics. Make
Allah the purpose for your waking, for your
sleeping, for your doing. Find Allah in that
which you do, and that act will become
a Jannah building exercise, that is the tafsir
of wamakhalaktur
jinnawal ins illaliabudu.
Now my brothers and sisters, I don't want
you to go back sad because I know
some of the elders will be thinking,
where was this lesson when I was younger?
And my message to the elders is don't
be sad, rather be empowered and thank Allah
that You Allah, you brought to me this
message wallahi,
1000 years before You created the heavens and
the earth, it was in your qadr that
I will be in the masjid on a
day when this message will be shared.
All you have to do now
is deal with Allah,
go home, ask your next salah
and raise your hands and talk to him.
What did the pious before us used to
say? They used to say whoever wants Allah
to talk to them read the Quran
and whoever wants to talk to Allah make
dua.
You Allah, You are the Most Forgiving, the
Most Merciful. Your bounties have no limits.
You Allah, reward me
for having lived the life
in your remembrance as if I had knowledge
of this verse
when I was
living
through the best moments of my life.
And get up from your spot believing that
your Jannah has just expanded exponentially, that Allah
has given you what you've asked for.
This is how the believers trade with Allah,
and how Allah wants the believers to trade
with Allah. Allah loves this when his slave
asks Allah
and asks with no
hesitation.
That, you Allah, I'm asking you to give
me the jannah as if I lived my
whole life in your remembrance. When I see
you on the day of qiyama, you Allah,
I'm confident that I will see it, and
help me from today, you Allah, to do
that. Every activity that I'm doing help me
find you in that which I do.
Inshallah.
Insha'Allah.
Insha'Allah.
Allah bless you all. I will stop here.
And
Allah knows best. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
says, what's the kiribul Quran? How are you
reminding people using the Quran? This verse is
from the Quran. Allah hear nothing from me,
brothers and sisters in Islam.
The verse is from your lord.
I'm not sharing with you fairy tales. I'm
here to teach you what the Quran teaches
us.
When it comes to us having a desire
to die, the death of the people of
Istikam,
connecting the dots insha'a'am. Ya'avun shakur, he's the
one who acknowledges the actions of his slaves.
Allah sees us, and he sees our hearts
as we read in Surakaf. He knows what's
deep within us, Subhanah. Allah will give us
insha'Allah.
Why not? He is
ghani
wa antumulfukara,
as Allah says in Surafatir.
That all mankind,
you are impoverished
poor
creation
in comparison to Allah.
And you Allah.
He's the absolutely
perpetual
Absolutely,
perpetually rich.
And as the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said,
If all of mankind and all of jinnkind,
from the first jinn and the first mankind,
gathered together with the last jinn and the
last of mankind, you all came together, and
you asked from Allah, and you asked again,
and you begged, and you asked, and Allah
gave you, and gave you, and gave you,
and then multiplied what he gave you. After
giving you, After giving you, you will not
reduce from the bounties of Allah, except the
reduction that is experienced when you dip a
needle in an ocean and lift it. What
hangs on to the needle?
Don't even say a drop because we know
the drop falls back into the ocean.
It decrease nothing from Allah's bounties.
Go pursue this night seeking from that bounty.
I love you all for the sake of
Allah until next time, Assalamu Alaikum Warahmatuhu
wa Barakatuh.