Sajid Ahmed Umar – Ramadan 2024 #27 Summary of Surah Qaf & Thariyaat

Sajid Ahmed Umar
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The Quran is a message of depth and depth, with the title emphasizing the beginning of creation and the existence of the world, and the importance of not being victimized by Islam's mercy. The importance of finding the right person to live in the situation and protecting the environment is emphasized, as well as the need for individuals to take responsibility and protect the environment. The importance of washing hands and covering one's faces during the pandemic is also emphasized, and the need for everyone to take responsibility and avoid touching nonessential items is emphasized.
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It's those who are heedless about the reality

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of the day of Diyamah, they don't read

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suraqaf,

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they don't read the Quran.

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The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam developed some white

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hairs. They said, Tim, You Rasulullah, Shayabta.

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We see some white hairs on you. He

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said, Shayabatni hudunwakawatua

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Surahud,

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and the surah similar to Surahood have made

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me white.

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Because of the

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description of the day of reckoning in these

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surahs.

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And as the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam

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said,

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If all of mankind and all of jinnkind,

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from the 1st jinn and the 1st mankind

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gathered together with the last jinn and the

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last of mankind, you all came together and

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you asked from Allah, and you asked again,

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and you begged, and you asked, and Allah

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gave you, and gave you, and gave you,

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and then multiplied what he gave you. After

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giving you, you will not reduce from the

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bounties of Allah except the reduction that is

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experienced when you dip a needle in an

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ocean and lift it. What hangs on to

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the needle?

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Don't even say a drop because we know

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the drop falls back into the ocean.

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It decreases nothing from Allah's bounties. The Quran

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is miraculous in nature.

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And one of the ideas regarding this ajaz,

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this miraculous nature of the Quran,

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is its level of eloquence

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and its ability to share different messages across

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the spectrum of Arabic language activity

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at a level far greater

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than the greatest poets

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the Arabic language has ever known. We begin

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in the name of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

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and we request praises and blessings upon Rasulullah

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Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.

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May Allah accept from us.

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Say, Amin. Amin. Amin.

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Could be

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and even if it's

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if later on another night, Alhamdulillah, the mercy

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of Allah is such that Allah will take

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our best night and make the rewards of

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that night across all the nights of Ramadan.

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So

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the way the Sharia is designed to keep

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us moving forward, That

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even if it was the 23rd night, for

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example,

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and we did what we did, masha'Allah, in

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terms of worship, in terms of the pledges,

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Allahu Akbar, amazing.

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Amazing response from the community for the sake

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of Allah.

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If this was a better night in terms

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of execution, Allah will take the rewards of

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this night and praise it on the night

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that was the Eid ul Qadr. So alhamdulillah,

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we're only in a win win circumstance.

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This is from the mercy of Allah subhanahu

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wa ta'ala. So let's take what we can

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inshallah.

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Today, obviously, we heard the 28th Jews of

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the Quran,

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and

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that's because we are 1 Jews ahead of

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the nights

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that we are experiencing so that we finish

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on the 29th night. But as of our

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tafsir, we sort of broke away from the

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nightly program, so we're still behind.

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And for those who missed it, we said

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whatever we don't complete this Ramadan, we'll package

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it and keep it as dedicated sessions across

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the year, Insha'Allah.

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Today we want to start at

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Surat

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Kaaf,

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And this is because we stopped at the

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surah before Surat Kaaf yesterday.

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And what will make you understand

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Surat Kaaf?

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Surakaf is a Maqki Surah,

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and you understand now what Maqki Surahs are

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about.

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They are potent dosages in iman building,

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but this is a unique Maqki Sura

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because

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the rhyming arc

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in the Surah

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is just phenomenal, and off the charts.

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We said that the Quran is miraculous in

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nature,

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and one of the ideas

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regarding this ajaz,

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this miraculous nature of the Quran,

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is its level of eloquence

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and its ability to share different messages across

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the spectrum of Arabic language activity

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at a level far greater

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than the greatest poets

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the Arabic language has ever known.

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And remember we said earlier,

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the verses of the Quran

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are not fiction.

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They haqq

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and true and the truth.

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Poets would bring about fiction

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to bring about a matching rhyme

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to fill a gap between a segment

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of verses of poetry,

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but this is not the case with the

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Quran. And how can it be the case

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when it's the word of Allah Subhanahu Wa

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Ta'ala?

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It's from the Lord of the Arabic language.

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The Lord of the human being.

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Suraqaf

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is dealing with the genre of knowledge

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that we find in Makkan revelation

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but at a level of Arabic language ability

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that no doubt is going to pull the

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attention of the Arabs. That for those who

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said Muhammad is a poet

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let's say how can an unlettered man come

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with verses like this? That now he's teaching

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us what he's taught us,

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but in a poetic arc

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that is unknown in the Arabic language to

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date.

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It doesn't even exist in the hanging odes,

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meaning the lines of poetry that the Arabs

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were so proud of that they would hang

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on the Kaaba.

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There were certain

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pieces of poetry that that were considered to

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be at the highest level of Arabic language

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existence that they were so proud of it

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they placed it on the Kaaba. Here is

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Suraqaaf

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and it just annihilates

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everything that they knew to be great in

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terms of the Arabic language and poetic

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eloquence.

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And, subhanallah, we didn't recite it today, but

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it was recited, and we are in the

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best nights of the year, the nights of

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the Quran, so make a point of reciting

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it.

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Now

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45 verses of the Quran, Abdulai bin Abba

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says this is the 34th

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Surah

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revealed. If we go by

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revelation or order of revelation, then the order

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of revelation makes the surah at number 34.

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Even though it's not number 34, it's now

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the final

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collection of the surahs of the Quran as

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we have the Quran from cover to cover.

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But in terms of revelation,

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we see surat

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was the first verses revealed, and we have

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it in the 30th Jews.

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So in terms of revelation, it was number

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34 according to Abdullah ibn Abbas, and it

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was revealed

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through estimation

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around the 5th year of the prophetic mission.

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So after he called people to Islam or

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after he was sent Afwan? Afwan. I apologize.

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After he was sent as a Messenger, the

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5th year after Allah sent him,

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this is the year that the surah was

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revealed. So we can appreciate what's happening because

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for us to appreciate the Quran further, we

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go back to the Sirah. And we see

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what was happening in the 5th year.

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Did persecution start against the Muslims?

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Before we know there were persecution upon slaves

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who belong to a people, the family of

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Ammar, we saw what happened to Bilal.

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These were slaves, they were owned. The persecution

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was there from the beginning of Islam,

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but persecution of the Muslims

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for being Muslims,

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even though they are from reputable tribes, when

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did this start and so on and so

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forth, this gives us an idea, subhanAllah,

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of the impact

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of the Quranic discourse.

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Now this Quran, subhanAllah, not only is it

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a message, it is a guide,

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it is a weapon,

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subhanallah, because those who are going about the

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way the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam is

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reciting to them the Quran, And those who

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are undergoing the persecution, the prophet salallahu alayhi

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wasalam is reciting to them the Quran.

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So the verses have a dual function.

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To disturb the momentum of those who think

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they have momentum against Islam,

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and to upgrade the momentum of those who

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truly have momentum, the people of Islam.

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So one verse is serving a dual function,

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It's an obstacle to the people of disbelief

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and an opportunity

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for the people of belief.

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You cannot have this in Arabic poetry,

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in the messaging that comes from the brain

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of a human being.

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This is something subhanAllah, unmatched and unheard of.

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That by mere virtue of these verses,

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the statement that he's a poet

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is a misnomer and something that

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is

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nonsensical.

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To anybody who had an objective mind from

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amongst the Quraysh,

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nonsensical,

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cannot be. This cannot be. What he's coming

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with is unheard of, and he is unleaded.

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I spoke to you briefly about the treaty

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of Hudaybiyyah, the prophet salallahu alayhi wasallamidid aali

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radiAllahu an to show him where it said

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Rasulullah

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on the page.

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It's an unlettered man.

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So where could he have learned this poetry

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from? What was he reading? Who was teaching

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him?

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This is something beyond human capacity.

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From the virtues of the surah, is that

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the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam used to recite

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it generally in the

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prayer on the days of Eid. This is

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one of the surahs that he would recite.

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I know we know some and

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we know

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Suraqaf is also one of the surahs that

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the Prophet

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would

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recite.

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And a woman named Hisham Bin Haritha,

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who was a neighbor of the Prophet

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She says that she memorized Surakaf

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to memory

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only because she often heard the Prophet salallahu

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alayhi wa sallam reciting

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Surakaf, and she heard him recite it even

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in the Jumu a Khutbah, subhanAllah.

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That he stood on the member, and the

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Jumu a Khutbah was Suraqaf, from Khaf Wal

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Quranil Majeed, SubhanAllah. Imagine, the Khatib stands up

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and he speaks,

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and he speaks words

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of the divine of the Lord Allah Subhanahu

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Wa Ta'ala.

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How impactful is that? Far greater speech than

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the speech of man. So she says she

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learned this from the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa

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sallam's recitation of the surah during the days

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of Eid, and also from the mimbar. And

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other sources say he would recite it in

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the Fajr prayer as well. So it was

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something frequented by the prophet salallahu alayhi wasallam.

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What is the subject matter of Surah Taaf?

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If I can just distill it into one

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subject,

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the hereafter.

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Surah Qaaf is about the hereafter.

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Immediately, with phenomenal eloquence,

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it teaches us or reminds us of the

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beginning of creation

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and how the beginning of creation was.

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Allah created mankind.

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It teaches us about the reality of life.

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It teaches us about the punishment of the

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life of this world.

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It teaches us about death and resurrection.

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It teaches us about paradise and *.

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It teaches us about reward and punishment.

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But again, remember,

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with a style far different to the other

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Maqan Suras,

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because the poetic arc from beginning till the

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end is just mesmerizing.

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Also, the end of the Sura is connected

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to its beginning,

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and

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the madar

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or the hub

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that connects the end to the beginning is

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one reality, and that is the Quran.

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And perhaps that's why this surah begins with

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just one letter from the letters of the

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Arabic, Qaf.

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And the word Quran

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begins with the

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letter Qaf,

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and Quran referring to something that is read,

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Quran referring to something that is recited, and

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also something that is gathered because there's a

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gathering of verses from cover to cover. This

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is from the meanings of Quran.

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Quran and immediately after Allah mentions the Quran

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and

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I said this to you before that these

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disjointed letters it's a form of challenge to

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the Arabs that here are letters from your

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language and here's a Quran

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in the Arabic language try and produce a

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verse using your own letters that can match

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what has come

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from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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So Allah says, Kaf wal Quranil Majeed, the

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very first verse of the Surah.

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The last verse of the Surah, Allah says,

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nahnuAAanamu

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biyaqulun

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wamaantaarihimbijabar

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fathakirbilururan

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fathakirbilururan.

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May yakafuwaait,

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At the beginning, Allah says, cough

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by the honored Quran.

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Allah takes an oath by the Quran.

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At the end, Allah says we are most

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knowing of what they say, oh Muhammad,

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and you are not over them a tyrant

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even though they try and portray you to

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be this disuniter.

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Allah says, carry on on your mission and

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remind them by the Quran

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whoever fears my threat and my punishment.

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So the Quran is a reminder.

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And the best dua is the dua done

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via the Quran,

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through the Quran.

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I said today when there was this discussion

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should be shortened, the tarawee, I should carry

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on with the tarawee.

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I know the fundraiser went a little bit

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longer,

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so there was this idea to make it

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easy for the ummah, maybe let's shorten the

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tarawee and and and recite tomorrow. I said,

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let's complete the tarawee, it's the Quran.

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The Quran, we carry on with it. It's

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never enough. With madam Nafan radiallahu an, he

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would recite in his home, and he would

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cry, and he would be moved, and he

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would be shaken by what he would recite,

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and he would go on and on and

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on and never stop, and people would start

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fearing for his life. The homes were different

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to our homes today. In fact, in the

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UK, maybe those homes are the same homes.

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I know this

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attached

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homes. We hear everything, isn't

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it? Someone plugs their mobile phone, you know

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that someone plugged their mobile phone.

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Sometimes the TV is loud, they start knocking

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the wall from the other side.

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So they would hear from the outside and

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they would shout out from outside to Uthman,

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and say, Enough, you Uthman, enough. You're going

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to harm yourself. And he would shout back

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out to them

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and say if you knew the reality of

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the Quran, you would delete the word enough

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from your vocabulary.

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It's never enough.

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It's never enough.

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So on a night that could be

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we never shorten the tarawee, complete the surah.

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As we've been doing since the beginning of

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Ramadan, complete the juz, alhamdulillah, we did. So

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this is the Quran my brothers and sisters

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in Islam, wahadari, hadari. I warn you,

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from

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the position of sharing with you a signpost,

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in case Allah asks me on the day

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of PM.

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Do not

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park the Quran on a shelf after a

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mother.

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Do not be those people.

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And the pious before us were asked about

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a people who do this, and they would

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say, they're the worst of people.

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They don't know Allah and the Quran except

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in Ramadan. May Allah not make us from

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amongst those.

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Be with the Quran. Yes, your intensity might

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decrease. Ramadan is a special month, but it

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shouldn't decrease to 0.

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If you are doing much more now, and

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you have to do less later on,

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at least do it.

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Have a sitting with the Quran

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as you have a sitting with your mobile

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phone. Sorry to use this example.

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You how you sit with your wife, your

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husband, your children, your parents, make sure your

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day doesn't end before you have your sitting

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with the book of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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Make sure

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that your day cannot end. This is something

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that I have to do before I sleep.

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This should be our mandate.

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Because this Quran was revealed over 23 years

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to establish the religion for which you and

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I are believers today.

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We cannot be established

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or aid the establishment of the religion to

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the future generations

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if we are away from the Quran, that

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we are with the Quran, and when we

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are not with the Quran, our days are

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the same. We read the Quran, hamdulillah. We

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didn't read the Quran, alhamdulillah. This cannot be

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the way of the believers.

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We have to have a daily setting. Make

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this

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part and parcel of the promise between you

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and Allah this evening that, you Allah, from

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now until I pass away,

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I will sit with your book, you Allah.

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And if I can't read, I will listen,

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but I will dedicate time and listen, a

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dedicated listening.

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Not the Quran is praying and I'm cooking

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and I'm cleaning or I'm

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a dedicated listening. This adab,

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this manners

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with the book of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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Alright. Let's take some chosen verses.

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Allah

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says,

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Allah says, indeed, it is We who created

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mankind.

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We created humankind.

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These are verses that dispel these theories, the

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theories of the ape, and mankind came via

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an ape, and so on and so forth,

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evolution, and so on and so forth. There

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are many verses in the Quran. This is

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just one. Allah says, We created mankind,

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and We fully know what their souls whisper

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to them, the nafs. Remember we said there's

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nafs?

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Allah says nafsu here, the translation says souls.

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Remember that last discussion,

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Is the soul the nafs? Is the ruh

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the nafs?

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We said

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that nafs is the soul connected to the

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body and the life of this world. Allah

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says,

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When you live the life of this world,

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Allah already knows what your soul

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connected to your body, this nafs is whispering

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to you in terms of following your desires.

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Allah knows it.

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Before you know it, Allah knows it. Allah

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says we created you and we know you

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better than you know yourself.

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So there's 2 ways you're going to go

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about life,

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the right way or the hard way. The

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right way by following the blueprint that we

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revealed to you in the Quran or the

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hard way where you don't listen and you

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learn through error. Just like we say to

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our kids, that I'm your father,

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I'm living life,

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I am 40 years ahead of you in

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the journey, 30 years ahead of you in

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the journey.

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The road you are yet to see, I

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have seen it.

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The neighborhoods you are yet to cross, I've

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crossed it.

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The towns you are yet to pass, I've

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passed

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it. I know what works and what doesn't

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work. I made mistakes, and I learned from

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the mistakes.

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Now I'm calling you my son from 30

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years ahead, and I'm telling you, son,

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the journey you're beginning I've already done. Beware.

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After so many kilometers, there's this. After so

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many miles, there's that.

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Now you can go about this journey in

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1 of 2 ways,

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by the listening to me

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and you avert

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the dangers that I hit head on,

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or you don't listen to me and you

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hit the dangers that I hit head on

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and you learn the hard way. And to

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be honest, what I'm sharing with you is

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is an example my dad shared with me

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when I was younger.

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He would say this to me, that I'm

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calling you from so many years ahead,

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and you have the option to learn the

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easy way or the hard way.

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And once the question was asked,

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if you don't listen to me, where will

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you be

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in 40 years time?

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And actually you say where you are.

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Where you are?

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And the answer was no no no no

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no. You will not be where I am

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because I'm a generation and you're a generation.

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My generation's ability to deal

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with adversity

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is superior than your generation.

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The problems that I hit head on, how

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I dealt with them, you will not be

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able to deal with them in the same

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way. If you hit them head on, it

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will take you far longer to overcome.

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In fact, you will call me and say,

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come and help me.

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So the children do, isn't it? They don't

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listen, but then they when they're humbled,

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say, dad,

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you are right.

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Which means

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if you don't listen to me, in 40

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years you won't be where I am, you'll

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probably be 10 years still behind. So you

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haven't

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helped yourself. And this is the reality of

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the Quran. It's common sense. Right?

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So here, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is revealing

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the reality. We created you. We know you

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better than you know yourself. We've sent you

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the messenger. We've sent you the book. He's

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distributed the book. He's taught you the book.

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We helped you in every way. We didn't

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send this amazing revelation

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without someone to distribute it. We send the

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distributor with it. So that you don't say

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it came but it was far away from

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me or I didn't know about it. Like

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today we see about certain products. We say

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we didn't know they're not advertising it well.

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The program is not being marketed well. Right,

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brother Ishfaq? Did we advertise the Eid well

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or not? The program well or not? It's

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a good program, but are we marketing it?

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Allah

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sent the Quran,

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and if we may use

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this,

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term, the marketer, the one who came and

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distributed it.

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So now you are upon guidance.

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You know where you came from, you know

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where you're going,

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you know how to get there successfully, you

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know what works, you know what doesn't work,

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it's up to you now. As the imam

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read in the tarawih today,

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Whoever will believe.

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Whoever will believe for disbelief.

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It's your choice now, which route you wanna

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take. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reveals this in

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suraqah. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,

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That no one

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understand. Whatever you decide to do, you have

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2 angels recording your actions. 1 sitting to

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the right and one to the left,

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and they note everything that you do.

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Everything is being recorded.

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Real time data is being captured.

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Real time data is being captured, and it

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is data that you cannot evade.

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As I mentioned to the sisters on the

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Sunday program about the hadith of Al Bi

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Ta'ka. There's a hadith in Sunanat Tirmidi and

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the other books of hadith

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about the hadith of the small card. I

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imagine a business card

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as a small card. On the day of

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Qiyamah when Allah asks for the books to

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be weighed,

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and a small card will fall out of

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one of the books.

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Allah will say to his slave on the

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day of Qiyamah, when he asks the angels

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to produce the files,

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the angels will produce 99 files of sin,

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each file as long as the eye can

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see.

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Allah will ask His slave, did my angels

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oppress you? Why would Allah ask that? Because

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Allah told you in the Quran, there's angels

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recording

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real time data

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live.

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What we're doing here right now, the angels

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are recording it. Every split second, he was

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in the masjid, he was in the masjid,

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he was learning, he was in the masjid,

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he was donating, he was praying. La illaha

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illallah. What a way to die. If Allah

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writes for us to die, Allahu Akbar.

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For the night that we had and the

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day that we had, what a day to

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meet Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. May Allah preserve

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us in his obedience,

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Ameen, and use us for his deen.

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So the angels will record and Allah will

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say, did my angels oppress you? And the

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slave will obviously say, no, You Allah. How

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can he say anything else? This is a

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day, as we heard in surah Yassin a

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few nights ago.

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Allah

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says, Aliyoma naktimu aalaafwahihim,

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this is the day where we will seal

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their mouths.

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The mouths that used to lie,

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and the hands will speak.

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And the feet will bear witness.

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In another verse, Allah says,

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They will shout at their skin,

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Why did you tell Allah about us? Why

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did you act as a witness against us?

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The skin will say,

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Allah made us speak, who made everything

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speak.

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He created you in the first place. He

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made us speak

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that when you were hiding under your sheets,

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the skin was with you.

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It was over you had a witness, you

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thought there was no witness,

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your skin was your witness.

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When you walked to a place and you

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thought nobody could see you, your feet walked

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you there, they're a witness.

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So Allah is saying we have the angels

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recording, there's no oppression, it's gonna be recorded

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for you to see. And Allah's knowledge is

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from ever and forever, he doesn't need the

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angels, but look how Allah is merciful to

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us.

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That nobody lay claim and say Allah isn't

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just.

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That Allah knows, but Allah will put procedures

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that are sensical to you, so that you

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know as well. That here are records, here

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are books, read your books, subhanAllah.

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And we read every Friday Suratul Kahf, when

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these books will be presented to the slave,

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the slave will say,

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What is it about these books? La yugadi

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rusahheeratan,

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walakabiratan,

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illaasaha.

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It doesn't leave not even a minute action,

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let alone the large actions, except it's recorded

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it. Allah says, wa wadjid do wa wadjid

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do ma'amilwuhadera.

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They will see all the actions present, actions

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they didn't even remember.

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And Allah does not oppress

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anybody.

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As Quala says, subhanallah, from this verse we

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learn

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that the small deeds will be presented before

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the big deeds. The small sins before the

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big sins.

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And what a destruction

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a slave will feel by just going through

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the list of small minor sins.

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And then it wouldn't be,

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okay, what's next? Next is the bigger sins,

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Allahu al Mustaan. The major sins, Allahu al

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Mustaan.

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But Allah is merciful, this is a merciful

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night.

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Talking about

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dreams,

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one of

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the universities that I lecture at,

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in a meeting with the director,

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and they are all senior mashaikh in Saudi

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Arabia.

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One of the staff was saying

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that his brother's best friend passed away. So

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the director who is a senior Sheikh in

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Saudi Arabia was asking,

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I won't mention his name for the sake

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of

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confidence, but he is a very senior scholar

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of Saudi Arabia. He was asking him about

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his brother.

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So this teacher, one of the staff,

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was saying that Subhanallah, yeah my brother was

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affected when his friend passed away, but he

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saw his friend in the dream.

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So the Sheikh said, SubhanAllah, what did he

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see? He says, Wallahi, he saw his friend

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with the scarf, you know the scarf we're

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wearing? But it was tied as a turban

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round his head,

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and it was dripping as if it was

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a cloud, raining rainfall. You know what we

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saw this afternoon? It pours thunder, a thunderstorm,

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a downpour they called it. He goes he

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had the scarf wrapped around his head like

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a turban, like our brother here, masha Allah,

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look he just walked in to show us.

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Allahu

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Akbar.

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Inshallah, this dream is not about you. You

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won't see that,

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Allah save you from seeing any evil, and

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all of us.

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He says he was sweating.

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So the brother of the Sheikh, the brother

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of the teacher who is narrating

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to the Sheikh, he is saying, my brother

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saw him tied with a scarf like this

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and it was a downpour, it was a

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downpour, it was the sweat was dripping from

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him like a downpour. So I asked him,

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what did Allah do with you? He goes,

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nothing was left out.

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Nothing was left out.

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Things that I totally forgot, I did They

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had no presence in my recollection, I saw

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it in my book of deeds. I was

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taken to task for every little thing.

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And then his friend said, and then what?

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He said, and then subhanallah, Allah forgave me

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for 2 units of salah, I used to

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wake up and read before the Fajr prayer.

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SubhanAllah.

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So the sheikh, director of the university,

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when he heard this, he broke down

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into tears.

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And he says, You Allah,

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I hope this university will be the means

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for my forgiveness on the day of Qiyamah.

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Because he establishes university to teach the Quran

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and the sunnah and fiqh and usul and

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and and and.

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And to brother Asfaq and your team, that's

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my dua for you all that made this

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masjid be the means that Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala forgives you all on the day of

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qiyamah.

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And to community as well, well done for

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standing with them.

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If we don't stand with them, where should

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we stand? You all stood up today.

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Allah says

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not a word does a person utter

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without having a vigilant observer ready to write

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it down. SubhanAllah.

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Honestly,

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yesterday we spoke about Ghiba.

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We say sometimes, Udi, this is a troublemaker,

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or this person, it's written down. Khalas, it's

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logged in.

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Allah says the shahada, the test that what

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you say and do will be written, and

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you will be asked about it on the

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day of Kama. May Allah save us

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That's why we need Ramadan, we need laylatul

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qadr, we need these nights, wallahi, you do

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not understand

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the mercy of Allah upon us in these

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nights, because the day of qiyamah is a

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day of reckoning.

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The one who understands the day of Qiyamah,

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understands the value proposition of these nights,

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understands Ramadan,

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understands the first 10 days of Dhul Hijjah,

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understands this concept of keep your money in

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your hands not in your heart, those who

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understand the day of Tiyamah

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they understand these nights,

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and these days, and this Ibadah,

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It's those who are heedless about the reality

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of the day of Diyam, but they don't

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read suraqaf,

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they don't read the Quran.

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The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam developed some white

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hairs. They said to me, You Rasulullah, Shayabta.

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We see some white hairs on you. He

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said, Shayabatni

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hudunwaqawatua

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Surahud,

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and the surah similar to Surahood have made

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me white.

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Because of the

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description of the day of reckoning in these

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Surahs,

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and the instruction of what Allah did to

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nations who didn't listen in these Surahs.

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It should make you fear, but not a

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fear that turns you away from Allah, a

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fear that makes you run to Allah, because

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you know your Lord is merciful.

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And you match their fear to the love

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that you have for him for everything that

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is done for you. So we don't share

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these verses to break us again to calibrate

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us.

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You'll hear me say it over and over

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again,

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as the Arabs say.

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I will say it,

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is to calibrate you.

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Allah says,

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Ultimately,

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with the throes of death will come the

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truth.

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Allah says death will come to you. Bilhaqq.

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And Allah says, this death is what you

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are trying to escape.

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Allah says, wanwufiqa

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fisur

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raani kaya umuluwaeed.

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And you'll be in the grave, and you

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think that's going to be long and the

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trumpet will be blown and Allah says this

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is the day you are warned about.

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You were taught about this day.

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Each soul will come forth with an angel

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to drive it and another to testify.

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An angel will drive you to Allah, and

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an angel will come as the witness.

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Subhanallah, think about a court. You're driven to

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the stand, and the witnesses are brought to

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the court.

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It will be said to the denier, you

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are totally heedless of this.

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Now we have lifted the veil of yours.

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So today, your eyesight is very sharp. You

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can see everything

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you read about,

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everything you were taught about, everything

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you were spoken to about. You can see

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it with the sharpness of your eye. Mubasharatan,

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it's a live feed.

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All this is in Surat Kaaf.

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So the reality is in Surat Kaaf.

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Then objectivity

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as well. And I spoke to you about

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objectivity and this is from the 2nd chosen

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verse. For Allah says

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This Quran

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is the guide.

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But for who?

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For the one who has a kalb, who

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has a heart that is objective to the

00:32:02 --> 00:32:04

message that is being recited to it.

00:32:05 --> 00:32:06

But subhanallah,

00:32:06 --> 00:32:08

look at the mercy of the Quran,

00:32:08 --> 00:32:11

it is also a guide. Allah says,

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a guide for the one who

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does not want to give the Quran

00:32:18 --> 00:32:18

his heart,

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or her heart,

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but he lends the Quran in a tent

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of iya. Even then the Quran will guide

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you.

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Even then the Quran will guide you, subhanallah.

00:32:28 --> 00:32:29

So Allah is teaching us in this verse

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that if you are objective

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at a higher level, you will be guided

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at a higher level. And at a lower

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level, even by mistake, the Quran is so

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powerful it will guide you.

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And Ibn Qayyim, he discuss this Ibnul Qayyum

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Rahimahullah in his al Fawwa'id, this verse in

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pages,

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spans of pages, and he says look what

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Allah is telling us. Allah is saying the

00:32:50 --> 00:32:52

message is being fed, but with every message

00:32:52 --> 00:32:54

that's being fed, you need a receiver.

00:32:54 --> 00:32:56

I have a microphone, I'm speaking to the

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microphone. There has to be some receiving device

00:32:58 --> 00:33:00

that receives it and sends it through the

00:33:00 --> 00:33:02

speakers for you to hear it. Correct? If

00:33:02 --> 00:33:04

I speak and nothing receives it, will there

00:33:04 --> 00:33:05

be output?

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Ibn Al Qayyim says this is the reality.

00:33:07 --> 00:33:09

The Quran is being broadcast, it needs a

00:33:09 --> 00:33:12

receiver. That receiver is a heart that's objective.

00:33:13 --> 00:33:14

But a heart that doesn't want to be

00:33:14 --> 00:33:17

objective to the level that it should be,

00:33:17 --> 00:33:20

if it just lends an attentive ear, even

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then the Quran will help you. This is

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the nature of the Quran. So my dear

00:33:24 --> 00:33:26

brother and sister in Islam, when we are

00:33:26 --> 00:33:28

not guided by the Quran, then really what

00:33:28 --> 00:33:29

is our circumstance and situation?

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

This Jumu'a Khutba I said to you, that

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the prophet said Amin when Jibril said cursed

00:33:36 --> 00:33:38

be upon the one who witnesses Ramadan, and

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they leave Ramadan without being forgiven. Why?

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Why would the Prophet say Amin?

00:33:43 --> 00:33:45

Because Ramazan is such a month that even

00:33:45 --> 00:33:47

if you didn't try enough, even if it

00:33:47 --> 00:33:48

was just by mistake, it will benefit you.

00:33:48 --> 00:33:50

You will be forgiven therein.

00:33:50 --> 00:33:52

And I said this to you before, that

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we have a Lord that's so merciful. He

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gave us the greatest gift, the greatest gift

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which is Islam, when you didn't even ask

00:34:00 --> 00:34:01

Allah for it.

00:34:02 --> 00:34:04

Imagine my brother and sister what Allah will

00:34:04 --> 00:34:06

give you if you ask him for it.

00:34:08 --> 00:34:08

Subhanallah.

00:34:09 --> 00:34:11

He gave you Islam and you didn't ask.

00:34:11 --> 00:34:13

What will he give you if you ask?

00:34:15 --> 00:34:17

This is our Lord. So objectivity is in

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the Quran. Let's move on to Surah Tathariyat.

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Surah Tathariyat,

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another Makkan Surah

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consisting of 60 verses.

00:34:27 --> 00:34:28

And this Surah gives the good news of

00:34:28 --> 00:34:30

the emergence of a new community at a

00:34:30 --> 00:34:33

time when, subhanAllah, the community was being suppressed.

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

And it also warns the opponents of the

00:34:36 --> 00:34:37

truth that their time is about to attend,

00:34:37 --> 00:34:39

that everybody has their day.

00:34:42 --> 00:34:43

As

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Abu,

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not Abu, it's Haqalbiri.

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This was said by who?

00:34:48 --> 00:34:51

This is Abu Bakr Arandi, the Andalusian

00:34:51 --> 00:34:52

poet. He

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said,

00:35:05 --> 00:35:06

beautiful couple of support,

00:35:06 --> 00:35:08

Mesmerizing as well, but not to the level

00:35:08 --> 00:35:10

of the Quran, of course.

00:35:12 --> 00:35:15

Everything comes, it rains supreme, it reaches a

00:35:15 --> 00:35:17

peak, and then it will

00:35:18 --> 00:35:19

dip everything.

00:35:20 --> 00:35:22

So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in Suratul Dariyat

00:35:23 --> 00:35:25

is empowering the believers that listen,

00:35:25 --> 00:35:26

remain patient,

00:35:27 --> 00:35:27

the

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emergence of a new community is about to

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begin. And that happened maybe 5 or 6

00:35:32 --> 00:35:33

years later, subhanAllah.

00:35:33 --> 00:35:36

Because hijrah happened during the 13 years after

00:35:36 --> 00:35:38

the prophetic mission began.

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And also it's a warning to the people

00:35:41 --> 00:35:43

of Makkah that carry on being arrogant right

00:35:43 --> 00:35:45

now, but no one understands that you will

00:35:45 --> 00:35:46

have your day as well.

00:35:47 --> 00:35:49

We find sections in the surah, number 1,

00:35:49 --> 00:35:52

falsehood is about to end, The righteous shall

00:35:52 --> 00:35:54

be rewarded, and Allah teaches us about the

00:35:54 --> 00:35:56

character of the righteous people. If you want

00:35:56 --> 00:35:56

to

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emerge, a new community wants to emerge, you

00:35:59 --> 00:36:01

have to have certain characteristics. Allah tells us

00:36:01 --> 00:36:04

about this. Allah tells us about Ibrahim alayhis

00:36:04 --> 00:36:06

salam and the angels that visited him, and

00:36:06 --> 00:36:08

the discussion between him and the angels. Allah

00:36:08 --> 00:36:09

teaches us the fate of the people of

00:36:09 --> 00:36:10

Luth,

00:36:10 --> 00:36:12

those who left the females for the males.

00:36:13 --> 00:36:15

And Allah mentions Musa, and his and the

00:36:15 --> 00:36:17

fate of Firaun, and the people of Ad,

00:36:17 --> 00:36:20

and Thamud. And he mentions prophet Nuh alayhi

00:36:20 --> 00:36:23

salam, peace, alayhi salaam, meaning peace and blessings

00:36:23 --> 00:36:25

be upon them all. And Allah pushes us

00:36:25 --> 00:36:27

to hasten towards Allah, and then Allah

00:36:28 --> 00:36:31

highlights for us in very clear words the

00:36:31 --> 00:36:33

objective of your existence and my existence. I'm

00:36:33 --> 00:36:35

going to try and cover that very quickly.

00:36:35 --> 00:36:37

In terms of delivery like Surakaf is very

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

important.

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And remember, earlier he said Allah reveals the

00:36:40 --> 00:36:42

short burst verses

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as if

00:36:45 --> 00:36:47

it's a chisel with a small hammer

00:36:47 --> 00:36:49

knocking a block of ice trying to get

00:36:49 --> 00:36:52

rid of the external parts that are not

00:36:52 --> 00:36:53

needed whilst maintaining

00:36:53 --> 00:36:55

the main block that is needed. We're seeing

00:36:55 --> 00:36:57

this in these verses. Have you not heard

00:36:57 --> 00:36:59

this the last few nights? Short bursts

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Short bursts. Surah to Dariyat as well. SubhanAllah.

00:37:02 --> 00:37:04

Surah to Dariyat is like this.

00:37:49 --> 00:37:51

Knock knock knock knock knock. Do you see

00:37:51 --> 00:37:54

this? Short bursts, absolute eloquence, subhanAllah.

00:37:55 --> 00:37:56

That even if you didn't want to listen,

00:37:56 --> 00:37:58

you will listen, subhanAllah.

00:37:59 --> 00:38:00

Really penetrative verses.

00:38:01 --> 00:38:03

Allah begins it, not only with penetration,

00:38:04 --> 00:38:06

but taking an oath by much of his

00:38:06 --> 00:38:08

creation. And only Allah can take an oath

00:38:08 --> 00:38:10

by his creation. No one from the creation

00:38:10 --> 00:38:12

of Allah can take an oath by the

00:38:12 --> 00:38:14

creation of Allah. We can only take an

00:38:14 --> 00:38:16

oath by Allah. So we say Wallahi,

00:38:16 --> 00:38:17

we say

00:38:17 --> 00:38:20

billahi, we say tallahi using the 3 letters

00:38:20 --> 00:38:22

of an oath in the Arabic language, waw

00:38:22 --> 00:38:24

and ba and ta. But we only swear

00:38:24 --> 00:38:27

by Allah. Only Allah can take an oath

00:38:27 --> 00:38:29

by other than Allah. Why? Because he is

00:38:29 --> 00:38:31

the creator of everything that exists.

00:38:31 --> 00:38:32

So when he says,

00:38:35 --> 00:38:37

an oath by the winds that blow and

00:38:37 --> 00:38:40

scatter dust in the desert, dispersing dust, who

00:38:40 --> 00:38:42

created that wind and that dust and the

00:38:42 --> 00:38:44

act of dispersing is all Allah Subhanahu Wa

00:38:44 --> 00:38:47

Ta'ala. It's it's as if Allah in a

00:38:47 --> 00:38:50

few words with the short burst is blowing

00:38:50 --> 00:38:52

up the minds of the Quraysh to the

00:38:52 --> 00:38:55

Rububi of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, his lordship,

00:38:55 --> 00:38:56

subhan'Allah.

00:38:58 --> 00:39:01

He takes an oath by the clouds carrying

00:39:01 --> 00:39:02

loads of water.

00:39:04 --> 00:39:07

Takes an oath by the ships sailing the

00:39:07 --> 00:39:09

seas with ease despite its weight and its

00:39:09 --> 00:39:10

load. And

00:39:12 --> 00:39:15

he takes an oath by the angels apportioning

00:39:15 --> 00:39:17

each matter. Allah says Innamatu

00:39:18 --> 00:39:20

adu nala sadiqah. So he takes an oath

00:39:21 --> 00:39:22

and an oath and an oath and an

00:39:22 --> 00:39:23

oath and an oath.

00:39:24 --> 00:39:27

This is grabbing your attention, grabbing your attention,

00:39:27 --> 00:39:30

grabbing your attention, picking up your understanding of

00:39:30 --> 00:39:31

who Allah is. All those rububiyah,

00:39:32 --> 00:39:35

everything around me is him. He says, indeed,

00:39:35 --> 00:39:37

what you are promised is true. What the

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messenger has come to you is true.

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That's the impact.

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SubhanAllah.

00:39:43 --> 00:39:44

He says,

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and indeed the day of judgment will happen.

00:39:51 --> 00:39:53

And by the heaven containing pathways. Now it

00:39:53 --> 00:39:55

shifts back to taking an oath. Allah is

00:39:55 --> 00:39:58

taking an oath by his creation, his again.

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Indeed, you are differing in speech. You fakuan

00:40:04 --> 00:40:08

woman ufiqh, deluded away from the Quran is

00:40:08 --> 00:40:10

he who is deluded. The truth stands by

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itself. If you are deluded with the Quran,

00:40:12 --> 00:40:14

you are deluded. The Quran is upon the

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Haqq and the truth. It's the word of

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Allah. Kutilal kharasoonla

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ilaha illallah. If you are a disbeliever and

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you are hit with this verse,

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subhanAllah.

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If you don't say,

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I believe, I don't know what will. For

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Allah says, this is even in Arabic eloquence

00:40:29 --> 00:40:30

within the Arabs.

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This term is very powerful when you say,

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describing something as having been killed.

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Allah says destroyed are the falsifiers.

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Destroyed are the falsifiers, those who worship false

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gods,

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and they falsify the worship of those gods.

00:40:46 --> 00:40:47

They are destroyed.

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Allah

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says, who are within a flood of confusion

00:40:53 --> 00:40:54

and heedlessness.

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

They ask, when is the day of judgment

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going to come? All the different narratives and

00:41:01 --> 00:41:04

discussions of the prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam

00:41:04 --> 00:41:06

with his people is coming down as a

00:41:06 --> 00:41:09

downpour of verses from the heavens with such

00:41:09 --> 00:41:12

eloquence upon a poetic ark that was never

00:41:12 --> 00:41:13

known to the Arabs.

00:41:15 --> 00:41:17

Some are questioning him about this. Some are

00:41:17 --> 00:41:17

calling him,

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

you know, a a poet. Some are saying

00:41:20 --> 00:41:21

this day of payama, there's no life after

00:41:21 --> 00:41:23

death. The Quran is dealing with it. Allah

00:41:23 --> 00:41:24

says, yoma hoomaalana

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

ri uftanoon,

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it is the day

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they will be tormented over the fire.

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And it will be said to them, taste

00:41:33 --> 00:41:34

your torment.

00:41:38 --> 00:41:40

This is the day that you were impatient

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

over.

00:41:42 --> 00:41:43

Wallahi, I don't know what will make us

00:41:43 --> 00:41:44

understand the Quran,

00:41:45 --> 00:41:46

if these

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few words don't.

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From

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the ayat that we see, so Allah takes

00:41:53 --> 00:41:55

us here, and then he shifts us. There's

00:41:55 --> 00:41:57

this shift in narrative.

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Not shift in the eloquence and the poetic

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

arc in the narrative. Allah has dealt with

00:42:03 --> 00:42:05

the beginning in a strong way. Everyone's listening.

00:42:06 --> 00:42:08

Allah starts revealing the qualities of the believers.

00:42:08 --> 00:42:09

What does he say?

00:42:10 --> 00:42:11

Inal muttaqinafi

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janatiwaraoyoon,

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indeed the righteous will be amongst gardens and

00:42:16 --> 00:42:17

springs.

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Accepting of what their lord has given them.

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

Innaqalilahthanika

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muhsinin.

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Indeed, before, there were people who did good

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deeds.

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They used to sleep a little of the

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night and stand in prayer during the night.

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And in the hours before dawn, during sukhoor

00:42:45 --> 00:42:47

time, they would ask Allah to forgive them.

00:42:52 --> 00:42:53

And from their properties

00:42:54 --> 00:42:55

was they gave

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in charity from their wealth, from their property,

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the poor and the needy. So Allah subhanahu

00:43:01 --> 00:43:04

wa ta'ala here describes the qualities of the

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believers.

00:43:05 --> 00:43:06

Then Allah shifts again

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and he brings to us a flood of

00:43:09 --> 00:43:10

verses pertaining to

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his rububiyah,

00:43:12 --> 00:43:13

his lordship.

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Again,

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without the poetic arc changing,

00:43:17 --> 00:43:17

Allah says,

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and on earth are signs for you. Just

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look around you, you will find Allah.

00:43:27 --> 00:43:28

And look in yourself.

00:43:30 --> 00:43:32

Do you not see? Do you not see?

00:43:32 --> 00:43:35

You have a heart with 4 chambers

00:43:35 --> 00:43:38

that beats without you needing to remember it

00:43:38 --> 00:43:38

beating.

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Allah makes it beat without you needing to

00:43:42 --> 00:43:44

worry about it beating. If you were given

00:43:44 --> 00:43:46

the task of managing your life, you would

00:43:46 --> 00:43:47

be dead because you forget.

00:43:48 --> 00:43:50

You would forget to remember that your heart

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

has to beat. How many things do we

00:43:51 --> 00:43:53

forget brothers and sisters in Islam?

00:43:54 --> 00:43:55

Four chambers.

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You got ventricles,

00:43:57 --> 00:44:00

atriums between them bicuspid valves where did this

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

come from each has a purpose you have

00:44:02 --> 00:44:05

arteries that take oxygenated blood and veins that

00:44:05 --> 00:44:06

carry deoxygenated

00:44:06 --> 00:44:09

blood except one artery, the pulmonary artery. It

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

carries deoxygenated blood because it sends blood to

00:44:12 --> 00:44:14

the lungs And one vein, the pulmonary vein,

00:44:14 --> 00:44:17

it carries oxygenated blood different to its purpose

00:44:17 --> 00:44:20

because it's sending blood back to the heart

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

because veins take blood back to the heart,

00:44:22 --> 00:44:25

and arteries take blood away from the heart.

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

Such a perfect system. Where did you get

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

this from?

00:44:29 --> 00:44:30

Look in yourself. Afalaatubfiroon.

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Do you not find Allah in all your

00:44:32 --> 00:44:33

creation,

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in your existence?

00:44:39 --> 00:44:40

Allah.

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And in the heavens are your provision set,

00:44:45 --> 00:44:47

and whatever Allah has promised you. Our brother

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

said he was going through difficulty, Allah bless

00:44:49 --> 00:44:51

him, and Allah has empowered him, may Allah

00:44:51 --> 00:44:52

bless him with his wealth.

00:44:52 --> 00:44:54

I said to you the other day, this

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

particular verse,

00:44:55 --> 00:44:58

that the pound crashing doesn't affect your risk.

00:44:58 --> 00:45:01

Inflation rising doesn't affect your risk.

00:45:01 --> 00:45:04

Inflation rising, the pound crashing, these are matters

00:45:04 --> 00:45:05

on earth. Allah says,

00:45:06 --> 00:45:08

Your sustenance is controlled in the heavens.

00:45:09 --> 00:45:12

Nothing that happens on Earth, affects what happens

00:45:12 --> 00:45:13

in the heavens.

00:45:13 --> 00:45:15

Earth is the work of man, heavens is

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

the work of God.

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

Subhanallah, I feel exhausted to Allah just from

00:45:22 --> 00:45:24

these verses. That's how potent these verses are.

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

That's how potent these verses are.

00:45:27 --> 00:45:28

Allah says,

00:45:32 --> 00:45:33

Allah says, Then by the Lord of the

00:45:33 --> 00:45:35

heavens and the earth, indeed it is the

00:45:35 --> 00:45:36

truth just as

00:45:36 --> 00:45:38

sure as it is that you are speaking.

00:45:39 --> 00:45:40

Now

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I'll end now inshallah, but there's one point

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

I have to share with you. It's impossible

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

for me to leave Surah Dari at

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

without sharing this with you. Because inshallah, what

00:45:49 --> 00:45:50

I share with you will be the game

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

changer as well. I need you to take

00:45:52 --> 00:45:54

this lesson through with you to the rest

00:45:54 --> 00:45:55

of your life.

00:45:57 --> 00:46:00

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala reveals in Surah Dariyat,

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

Some translations say,

00:46:06 --> 00:46:09

mankind and jinnkind were created to worship Allah.

00:46:10 --> 00:46:12

And this is not a precise translation.

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

This is not a precise translation.

00:46:15 --> 00:46:16

Allah said

00:46:19 --> 00:46:22

that mankind and jinnkind were not created except

00:46:22 --> 00:46:24

to worship Allah. There's a difference in these

00:46:24 --> 00:46:25

two statements.

00:46:26 --> 00:46:27

Well, to make it clearer,

00:46:28 --> 00:46:30

let's share a simplified example.

00:46:31 --> 00:46:32

Come here my brother.

00:46:32 --> 00:46:33

Mashallah.

00:46:34 --> 00:46:35

Come stand in front of the audience.

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

What's our brother's name? Abdullah. Abdullah. This is

00:46:38 --> 00:46:39

Abdullah.

00:46:40 --> 00:46:42

If I said to you, Abdullah is standing.

00:46:43 --> 00:46:44

And I said to you thereafter,

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

there's nothing about Abdullah except that he is

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

standing.

00:46:48 --> 00:46:50

Do you understand the same thing or 2

00:46:50 --> 00:46:51

different things?

00:46:52 --> 00:46:53

Abdullah is standing,

00:46:54 --> 00:46:56

and there's nothing about him except that he

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

is standing.

00:46:58 --> 00:46:59

Same thing or 2 different things?

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

What's the difference?

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

His

00:47:04 --> 00:47:05

only purpose is to speak.

00:47:06 --> 00:47:06

Masha'Allah.

00:47:15 --> 00:47:17

If we say Abdullah is standing, this is

00:47:17 --> 00:47:19

known as an open ended sentence.

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

Meaning, the meaning is open ended. We can

00:47:23 --> 00:47:25

say Abdullah standing and he has,

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

a turban

00:47:28 --> 00:47:29

that is red and white,

00:47:30 --> 00:47:32

and he is has an mashallah,

00:47:33 --> 00:47:36

and he bench presses about a £150.

00:47:37 --> 00:47:38

We can add to it. Yeah.

00:47:40 --> 00:47:42

But if I say there's nothing about him

00:47:42 --> 00:47:43

except that he is standing,

00:47:44 --> 00:47:46

this is a closed ended sentence.

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

Meaning nothing else matters about him not what

00:47:50 --> 00:47:51

he's wearing,

00:47:52 --> 00:47:53

not how he's dressed,

00:47:53 --> 00:47:56

not the tone of his skin, nothing matters

00:47:56 --> 00:47:57

except the fact that he is

00:47:57 --> 00:47:59

standing. Are we clear?

00:48:00 --> 00:48:01

Arabic Allah says

00:48:04 --> 00:48:07

there is nothing about you existing except that

00:48:07 --> 00:48:08

you exist to worship Allah.

00:48:10 --> 00:48:12

Allah didn't say we created mankind and jinnkind

00:48:12 --> 00:48:15

to worship Allah, He said, we didn't create

00:48:15 --> 00:48:17

mankind and jinnkind except to worship Allah.

00:48:20 --> 00:48:22

Now people raise question marks with this. They

00:48:22 --> 00:48:23

say, SubhanAllah, how does this make sense now,

00:48:23 --> 00:48:24

Ishaq?

00:48:24 --> 00:48:26

How does this make sense? Because

00:48:26 --> 00:48:28

we Allah says go search for your rizq.

00:48:28 --> 00:48:30

You have to go get a job. We

00:48:30 --> 00:48:31

have bills to pay. Allah says go for

00:48:31 --> 00:48:33

jumu'ah, then go into the land and search.

00:48:33 --> 00:48:35

If we were only created to worship Allah,

00:48:35 --> 00:48:36

we should be in the masjid, we should

00:48:36 --> 00:48:38

be fasting everyday, we should be going for

00:48:38 --> 00:48:40

Hajj regularly, shouldn't be once a lifetime, and

00:48:40 --> 00:48:42

and and. People raise this question,

00:48:43 --> 00:48:45

how do we marry between

00:48:45 --> 00:48:46

what you just said

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

and the fact that we have to attend

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

to life?

00:48:50 --> 00:48:52

And there is no contradiction.

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

Many people feel this

00:48:55 --> 00:48:57

there's no contradiction. The issue is we have

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

not understood worship.

00:48:59 --> 00:49:01

The meaning I am here to tell you,

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

So

00:49:06 --> 00:49:07

is his intention correct or not?

00:49:08 --> 00:49:10

It's incorrect. The intention has to be for

00:49:10 --> 00:49:11

Allah.

00:49:11 --> 00:49:12

Otherwise this is not Ibadah, this is a

00:49:12 --> 00:49:15

shirk, this is associating partners with Allah. So

00:49:15 --> 00:49:16

this is one function of the niyyah, to

00:49:16 --> 00:49:18

confirm an act of worship that was revealed

00:49:18 --> 00:49:20

as an act of worship to be an

00:49:20 --> 00:49:20

act of worship.

00:49:21 --> 00:49:23

The other function of the niyyah is to

00:49:23 --> 00:49:24

differentiate

00:49:24 --> 00:49:25

between

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

2 acts of worship. For example,

00:49:28 --> 00:49:29

the 2 faradafajr

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

and the 2 sunnahafajr.

00:49:31 --> 00:49:32

How do we differentiate between the 2?

00:49:35 --> 00:49:38

Through the niyyah. Correct? Let's say you stand,

00:49:38 --> 00:49:39

you pray

00:49:39 --> 00:49:41

sunnah of Fajar,

00:49:46 --> 00:49:48

Then you stand up to pray Fajr, the

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

obligatory units,

00:49:57 --> 00:49:57

Same Suras,

00:49:58 --> 00:49:59

same length salah,

00:49:59 --> 00:50:02

same direction you faced, same clothes you are

00:50:02 --> 00:50:03

wearing, same wudu,

00:50:03 --> 00:50:06

everything was the same. What differentiates between this

00:50:06 --> 00:50:08

act and that act? What differentiates between the

00:50:08 --> 00:50:11

2? The intention, very good. The intention.

00:50:11 --> 00:50:12

Excellent.

00:50:13 --> 00:50:15

There's another function of the knee many of

00:50:15 --> 00:50:16

us don't know.

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

And I've I've I tried to teach this

00:50:18 --> 00:50:20

once across many universities

00:50:20 --> 00:50:23

across the country because it's important. Those who

00:50:23 --> 00:50:25

go to university and those who have a

00:50:25 --> 00:50:26

job as well, how many hours do you

00:50:26 --> 00:50:28

spend going to university? How many hours do

00:50:28 --> 00:50:30

you spend studying? All these hours, it has

00:50:30 --> 00:50:31

to mean something.

00:50:33 --> 00:50:34

The intention

00:50:35 --> 00:50:36

is a function

00:50:37 --> 00:50:39

or gives us the function, the ability to

00:50:39 --> 00:50:42

convert a mundane activity of life into an

00:50:42 --> 00:50:42

act of worship.

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

How?

00:50:45 --> 00:50:48

By making the purpose for what you do,

00:50:48 --> 00:50:49

your Lord.

00:50:53 --> 00:50:55

Now bear with me. I can see people

00:50:55 --> 00:50:56

are straining the eyes. What's he saying? What's

00:50:56 --> 00:50:58

he saying? Bear with me.

00:50:59 --> 00:51:01

We'll take this slowly but surely.

00:51:03 --> 00:51:05

I have seen unfortunately

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

that many people

00:51:08 --> 00:51:08

conflate

00:51:09 --> 00:51:10

result for purpose.

00:51:12 --> 00:51:14

You ask a student at university why are

00:51:14 --> 00:51:16

you studying for the degree?

00:51:17 --> 00:51:18

You ask

00:51:19 --> 00:51:20

a brother

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

who owns a company, why do you have

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

this company? He says for money.

00:51:26 --> 00:51:27

That's what

00:51:27 --> 00:51:29

they say. Isn't the degree a result of

00:51:29 --> 00:51:30

what you do?

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

Isn't money a result of your job?

00:51:34 --> 00:51:36

You ask a brother going to the gym

00:51:36 --> 00:51:38

like Abdullah goes to the gym or not.

00:51:38 --> 00:51:41

Abdullah, we need to now upgrade your membership.

00:51:43 --> 00:51:44

Why are you going to the gym? Because

00:51:44 --> 00:51:46

to be strong. Isn't that a result

00:51:47 --> 00:51:49

of going to the gym? Meaning, let me

00:51:49 --> 00:51:51

rephrase it for you. If you went to

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

university

00:51:52 --> 00:51:55

you did all your assignments, you attended all

00:51:55 --> 00:51:57

your classes, you passed all your exams

00:51:57 --> 00:51:58

at the end

00:51:59 --> 00:52:01

can the university say we are not giving

00:52:01 --> 00:52:04

you your degree because your intention was not

00:52:04 --> 00:52:06

to study for the degree your intention was

00:52:06 --> 00:52:08

for something else Can the university say that?

00:52:09 --> 00:52:10

Yes or no?

00:52:10 --> 00:52:11

You run on a treadmill.

00:52:12 --> 00:52:13

How many calories you're going to buy in

00:52:13 --> 00:52:15

up to Allah? 20 minutes on the treadmill.

00:52:16 --> 00:52:16

150

00:52:16 --> 00:52:17

maybe. 150

00:52:18 --> 00:52:19

on the treadmill.

00:52:19 --> 00:52:21

And then you eat 3 Oreo biscuits, halas.

00:52:23 --> 00:52:25

All that 20 minutes, or 3 Oreos, few

00:52:25 --> 00:52:27

seconds, and you lost your time.

00:52:28 --> 00:52:31

Can the treadmill say to you, brother, Ma'aleesh?

00:52:31 --> 00:52:34

This is Arabic, statement. Meaning, brother, I'm sorry.

00:52:34 --> 00:52:36

You ran on me for 20 minutes, but

00:52:36 --> 00:52:38

you didn't run to lose weight. So you

00:52:38 --> 00:52:40

didn't lose any calories. I'm sorry. That running

00:52:40 --> 00:52:42

was in vain. Can the treadmill say that?

00:52:43 --> 00:52:45

Yes or no? It's a result of doing

00:52:45 --> 00:52:47

it, not so? It's physics, it's going to

00:52:47 --> 00:52:49

happen, that's how it works. Many of us

00:52:49 --> 00:52:51

live our life like this,

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

void

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

of purpose.

00:52:54 --> 00:52:56

Allah says we didn't create you except to

00:52:56 --> 00:52:58

worship Allah, meaning except to be in the

00:52:58 --> 00:52:59

remembrance of Allah.

00:52:59 --> 00:53:01

For this to happen you have to engage

00:53:01 --> 00:53:04

the niyyah, which is a tool Allah gives

00:53:04 --> 00:53:04

a believer.

00:53:05 --> 00:53:07

Unfortunately, we are going about our daily life

00:53:07 --> 00:53:09

void of this verse in our life from

00:53:09 --> 00:53:11

surah ad Dariyat, and we are living it

00:53:11 --> 00:53:13

like the non Muslims live it. The non

00:53:13 --> 00:53:15

Muslims, they work for money, they gym to

00:53:15 --> 00:53:18

be fit, they sleep for whatever reason, they

00:53:18 --> 00:53:20

holiday for whatever reason, it's all worldly related.

00:53:20 --> 00:53:22

It's a result, it's going to happen.

00:53:24 --> 00:53:24

The

00:53:25 --> 00:53:27

Muslim makes Allah their purpose for that which

00:53:27 --> 00:53:29

they do. So that action becomes an action

00:53:29 --> 00:53:31

in the remembrance of Allah. And as such

00:53:31 --> 00:53:33

it becomes a form of the worship of

00:53:33 --> 00:53:36

Allah. Because the niyyah has an ability to

00:53:36 --> 00:53:38

convert a mundane action of life into an

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act of worship.

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Yes, it won't have the same rewards as

00:53:41 --> 00:53:43

a salah and so on and so forth,

00:53:43 --> 00:53:45

but it will be nonetheless an act of

00:53:45 --> 00:53:47

worship. Now think about it brothers and sisters

00:53:47 --> 00:53:48

in Islam.

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

Jannah is for us. It is a vast

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

land that needs building on it. It needs

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

trees to be planted. It needs streams to

00:53:55 --> 00:53:56

be dug.

00:53:56 --> 00:53:58

If you live for 60 years to 60

00:53:58 --> 00:54:01

to 70 years and you only build Jannah

00:54:01 --> 00:54:02

when you came for salah or when you

00:54:02 --> 00:54:03

fasted Ramadan

00:54:04 --> 00:54:06

or or when you read the Quran or

00:54:06 --> 00:54:07

when you went for Hajj?

00:54:08 --> 00:54:09

What percentage of your Jannah would you build?

00:54:09 --> 00:54:11

Let's say you have a Jannah that spans

00:54:11 --> 00:54:13

60 years of your life, what percentage would

00:54:13 --> 00:54:15

you build? How many minutes in your day

00:54:15 --> 00:54:17

do you spend praying salah?

00:54:17 --> 00:54:19

How many minutes in your year do you

00:54:19 --> 00:54:21

spend fasting as opposed to eating?

00:54:22 --> 00:54:23

Do you get me?

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But Jannah is telling you all of me

00:54:27 --> 00:54:29

is ready for you to build on me.

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The only difference will be the intensity of

00:54:33 --> 00:54:35

your building. When you pray salah, the building

00:54:35 --> 00:54:37

is more intense. When you're at your work,

00:54:37 --> 00:54:39

it might be less intense, but building will

00:54:39 --> 00:54:40

still happen.

00:54:40 --> 00:54:42

But how can I go to my work

00:54:42 --> 00:54:44

everyday in Buljan?

00:54:44 --> 00:54:46

How can I go to university everyday in

00:54:46 --> 00:54:46

Buljan?

00:54:47 --> 00:54:48

How can I go to the gym in

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

Buljan?

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

How?

00:54:51 --> 00:54:53

By making Allah the purpose for why you're

00:54:53 --> 00:54:55

studying your degree, the purpose for why you

00:54:55 --> 00:54:57

are going to your job, the purpose for

00:54:57 --> 00:54:58

why you're going to the gym. You see

00:54:58 --> 00:54:59

there's a difference.

00:55:00 --> 00:55:01

If your purpose is to lose weight that's

00:55:01 --> 00:55:03

why you go to the gym. It's different

00:55:03 --> 00:55:04

to the one who goes to the gym

00:55:04 --> 00:55:05

because

00:55:06 --> 00:55:09

the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam praised

00:55:09 --> 00:55:11

the stronger believer.

00:55:11 --> 00:55:13

And he taught us that this body is

00:55:13 --> 00:55:15

an amanah. And I intend to be healthier

00:55:15 --> 00:55:16

so I can worship Allah better.

00:55:17 --> 00:55:19

Now there's a whole shift in

00:55:19 --> 00:55:19

purpose.

00:55:20 --> 00:55:22

You're not there for yourself in the dunya.

00:55:22 --> 00:55:23

You're there for the pleasure of Allah.

00:55:24 --> 00:55:25

As for getting fit, it's a result, it's

00:55:25 --> 00:55:26

going to happen.

00:55:26 --> 00:55:28

There's a difference between someone who goes to

00:55:28 --> 00:55:31

university to study for the degree and becoming

00:55:31 --> 00:55:33

an engineer for the degree. I only get

00:55:33 --> 00:55:34

a degree, the money is good, people respect

00:55:34 --> 00:55:37

us. Right? I only become an accountant, a

00:55:37 --> 00:55:39

lawyer, an engineer, a doctor, for whatever reason,

00:55:39 --> 00:55:41

whatever good will that might be attached to

00:55:41 --> 00:55:43

it. It and the one who says I

00:55:43 --> 00:55:43

am becoming

00:55:44 --> 00:55:46

an IT specialist, I am becoming an engineer,

00:55:46 --> 00:55:49

a software programmer, a data analyst, I'm a

00:55:49 --> 00:55:51

mechanic, I'm this, I'm that. I am doing

00:55:51 --> 00:55:52

it.

00:55:52 --> 00:55:56

Why? To represent Islam in this field here.

00:55:57 --> 00:55:59

To bring the character of Islam in a

00:55:59 --> 00:56:01

field whereby the character of Islam is lacking

00:56:01 --> 00:56:02

or missing.

00:56:02 --> 00:56:04

I'm going to be the mechanic upon the

00:56:04 --> 00:56:07

sunnah who looks like a Muslim and deals

00:56:07 --> 00:56:08

with people like a Muslim different to the

00:56:08 --> 00:56:11

others this is my da'wah I will be

00:56:11 --> 00:56:13

a golfer, I will be a sports person,

00:56:13 --> 00:56:15

I will be an engineer, a doctor

00:56:16 --> 00:56:18

to represent Islam in this field.

00:56:18 --> 00:56:20

There's a whole different ballgame. You now you

00:56:20 --> 00:56:23

are trading with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala here.

00:56:24 --> 00:56:25

And if we shift, look, it's not going

00:56:25 --> 00:56:27

to take anything away from you. What

00:56:27 --> 00:56:29

is there anything different? Is your degree going

00:56:29 --> 00:56:31

to get harder? Is your job going to

00:56:31 --> 00:56:33

get harder? It's all the same work. It's

00:56:33 --> 00:56:35

just you engaging Allah with your heart.

00:56:36 --> 00:56:37

And all of a sudden

00:56:38 --> 00:56:39

your time leaving home

00:56:40 --> 00:56:42

is Ibadah. In the car, it's Ibadah. Going

00:56:42 --> 00:56:44

to work, it's Ibadah. Your time at work

00:56:44 --> 00:56:46

is Ibadah. When you come home, it's Ibadah.

00:56:47 --> 00:56:48

Many people say, Sheikh, you know, I want

00:56:48 --> 00:56:49

to work in the dawah, why you want

00:56:49 --> 00:56:51

to work in the dawah? Because wallahi, you

00:56:51 --> 00:56:52

want to worship us. Brother, this is a

00:56:52 --> 00:56:55

wrong understanding. Islam needs doctors, lawyers, we need

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

all these entities.

00:56:57 --> 00:56:58

You build Jannah by being in your field,

00:56:59 --> 00:57:01

but by looking like a Muslim, speaking like

00:57:01 --> 00:57:03

a Muslim, dealing like a Muslim, showing the

00:57:03 --> 00:57:06

mercy of Islam, and the wisdom of Islam,

00:57:06 --> 00:57:08

and the transformative benefit of Islam,

00:57:09 --> 00:57:11

and the justice of Islam in this field.

00:57:12 --> 00:57:13

And this is why I say to my

00:57:13 --> 00:57:15

youth that I don't want you to become

00:57:15 --> 00:57:17

doctors and lawyers and engineers and so on

00:57:17 --> 00:57:19

and so forth. Oh, Sheikh, how can you

00:57:19 --> 00:57:20

say this? Say, no. I don't want you

00:57:20 --> 00:57:22

to be a doctor. I want you to

00:57:22 --> 00:57:24

be the best doctor, the reference doctor,

00:57:25 --> 00:57:26

the reference lawyer,

00:57:26 --> 00:57:28

the reference engineer,

00:57:28 --> 00:57:29

the reference pharmacist,

00:57:30 --> 00:57:32

the reference mechanic, the reference sportsman,

00:57:33 --> 00:57:34

that you should be the standard setter in

00:57:34 --> 00:57:36

terms of ethical values

00:57:37 --> 00:57:38

in this field.

00:57:38 --> 00:57:40

And as such, you will be trading with

00:57:40 --> 00:57:42

Allah every time you're in this field.

00:57:42 --> 00:57:43

Imagine

00:57:44 --> 00:57:46

your son's going through some difficult exam and

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

you say, son,

00:57:47 --> 00:57:49

you're going to your exam and he goes,

00:57:49 --> 00:57:50

no, dad. I'm going to Bujannah.

00:57:51 --> 00:57:53

Look at the difference now.

00:57:55 --> 00:57:57

Wife says to the husband, Assalamu Alaikum you're

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

going to work. He goes no no no

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

no no I'm going to build Jannah.

00:58:01 --> 00:58:03

You see what happens, the whole shift this

00:58:03 --> 00:58:05

is where the Ummah should be.

00:58:09 --> 00:58:12

Says Allah has angels created just to build

00:58:12 --> 00:58:13

our jannah. When the slave is in the

00:58:13 --> 00:58:16

remembrance of Allah, the angels are busy planting

00:58:16 --> 00:58:18

the trees, digging the streams, building the palaces,

00:58:18 --> 00:58:20

bearing the treasures. And when the slave comes

00:58:20 --> 00:58:23

out of the remembrance of Allah, the angels

00:58:23 --> 00:58:24

take a break, and they don't need to

00:58:24 --> 00:58:25

take a break.

00:58:27 --> 00:58:29

Imagine you could sleep in the remembrance of

00:58:29 --> 00:58:32

Allah, work in the remembrance of Allah. Worship,

00:58:32 --> 00:58:33

of course, that's going to be in the

00:58:33 --> 00:58:35

remembrance of Allah because that is Ibadah in

00:58:35 --> 00:58:37

and of itself. 24 cycle of being in

00:58:37 --> 00:58:39

the remembrance of Allah. You'll be true to

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

the verse,

00:58:43 --> 00:58:44

Stop conflating

00:58:44 --> 00:58:45

result for purpose.

00:58:46 --> 00:58:49

The result is a matter of physics. Make

00:58:49 --> 00:58:51

Allah the purpose for your waking, for your

00:58:51 --> 00:58:53

sleeping, for your doing. Find Allah in that

00:58:53 --> 00:58:55

which you do, and that act will become

00:58:55 --> 00:58:57

a Jannah building exercise, that is the tafsir

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

of wamakhalaktur

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

jinnawal ins illaliabudu.

00:59:01 --> 00:59:03

Now my brothers and sisters, I don't want

00:59:03 --> 00:59:04

you to go back sad because I know

00:59:04 --> 00:59:05

some of the elders will be thinking,

00:59:06 --> 00:59:08

where was this lesson when I was younger?

00:59:19 --> 00:59:20

And my message to the elders is don't

00:59:20 --> 00:59:23

be sad, rather be empowered and thank Allah

00:59:23 --> 00:59:25

that You Allah, you brought to me this

00:59:25 --> 00:59:26

message wallahi,

00:59:27 --> 00:59:29

1000 years before You created the heavens and

00:59:29 --> 00:59:30

the earth, it was in your qadr that

00:59:30 --> 00:59:32

I will be in the masjid on a

00:59:32 --> 00:59:33

day when this message will be shared.

00:59:34 --> 00:59:35

All you have to do now

00:59:36 --> 00:59:37

is deal with Allah,

00:59:37 --> 00:59:39

go home, ask your next salah

00:59:40 --> 00:59:42

and raise your hands and talk to him.

00:59:42 --> 00:59:43

What did the pious before us used to

00:59:43 --> 00:59:46

say? They used to say whoever wants Allah

00:59:46 --> 00:59:47

to talk to them read the Quran

00:59:48 --> 00:59:50

and whoever wants to talk to Allah make

00:59:50 --> 00:59:51

dua.

01:00:07 --> 01:00:08

You Allah, You are the Most Forgiving, the

01:00:08 --> 01:00:10

Most Merciful. Your bounties have no limits.

01:00:11 --> 01:00:13

You Allah, reward me

01:00:13 --> 01:00:15

for having lived the life

01:00:16 --> 01:00:19

in your remembrance as if I had knowledge

01:00:19 --> 01:00:20

of this verse

01:00:20 --> 01:00:21

when I was

01:00:22 --> 01:00:22

living

01:00:23 --> 01:00:25

through the best moments of my life.

01:00:25 --> 01:00:27

And get up from your spot believing that

01:00:27 --> 01:00:30

your Jannah has just expanded exponentially, that Allah

01:00:30 --> 01:00:31

has given you what you've asked for.

01:00:33 --> 01:00:35

This is how the believers trade with Allah,

01:00:35 --> 01:00:36

and how Allah wants the believers to trade

01:00:36 --> 01:00:39

with Allah. Allah loves this when his slave

01:00:39 --> 01:00:39

asks Allah

01:00:40 --> 01:00:41

and asks with no

01:00:42 --> 01:00:42

hesitation.

01:00:43 --> 01:00:45

That, you Allah, I'm asking you to give

01:00:45 --> 01:00:46

me the jannah as if I lived my

01:00:46 --> 01:00:48

whole life in your remembrance. When I see

01:00:48 --> 01:00:49

you on the day of qiyama, you Allah,

01:00:49 --> 01:00:51

I'm confident that I will see it, and

01:00:51 --> 01:00:52

help me from today, you Allah, to do

01:00:52 --> 01:00:54

that. Every activity that I'm doing help me

01:00:54 --> 01:00:56

find you in that which I do.

01:00:57 --> 01:00:57

Inshallah.

01:00:59 --> 01:01:00

Insha'Allah.

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

Insha'Allah.

01:01:01 --> 01:01:03

Allah bless you all. I will stop here.

01:01:03 --> 01:01:04

And

01:01:06 --> 01:01:08

Allah knows best. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

01:01:08 --> 01:01:10

says, what's the kiribul Quran? How are you

01:01:10 --> 01:01:11

reminding people using the Quran? This verse is

01:01:11 --> 01:01:13

from the Quran. Allah hear nothing from me,

01:01:13 --> 01:01:15

brothers and sisters in Islam.

01:01:15 --> 01:01:17

The verse is from your lord.

01:01:18 --> 01:01:20

I'm not sharing with you fairy tales. I'm

01:01:20 --> 01:01:23

here to teach you what the Quran teaches

01:01:23 --> 01:01:23

us.

01:01:24 --> 01:01:26

When it comes to us having a desire

01:01:26 --> 01:01:28

to die, the death of the people of

01:01:28 --> 01:01:29

Istikam,

01:01:29 --> 01:01:32

connecting the dots insha'a'am. Ya'avun shakur, he's the

01:01:34 --> 01:01:36

one who acknowledges the actions of his slaves.

01:01:36 --> 01:01:38

Allah sees us, and he sees our hearts

01:01:38 --> 01:01:40

as we read in Surakaf. He knows what's

01:01:40 --> 01:01:43

deep within us, Subhanah. Allah will give us

01:01:43 --> 01:01:43

insha'Allah.

01:01:43 --> 01:01:45

Why not? He is

01:01:45 --> 01:01:46

ghani

01:01:46 --> 01:01:47

wa antumulfukara,

01:01:47 --> 01:01:49

as Allah says in Surafatir.

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

That all mankind,

01:02:01 --> 01:02:02

you are impoverished

01:02:03 --> 01:02:04

poor

01:02:04 --> 01:02:05

creation

01:02:06 --> 01:02:08

in comparison to Allah.

01:02:09 --> 01:02:11

And you Allah.

01:02:14 --> 01:02:15

He's the absolutely

01:02:15 --> 01:02:16

perpetual

01:02:24 --> 01:02:25

Absolutely,

01:02:25 --> 01:02:26

perpetually rich.

01:02:26 --> 01:02:29

And as the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said,

01:02:31 --> 01:02:33

If all of mankind and all of jinnkind,

01:02:34 --> 01:02:36

from the first jinn and the first mankind,

01:02:36 --> 01:02:38

gathered together with the last jinn and the

01:02:38 --> 01:02:41

last of mankind, you all came together, and

01:02:41 --> 01:02:43

you asked from Allah, and you asked again,

01:02:43 --> 01:02:45

and you begged, and you asked, and Allah

01:02:45 --> 01:02:47

gave you, and gave you, and gave you,

01:02:47 --> 01:02:49

and then multiplied what he gave you. After

01:02:49 --> 01:02:51

giving you, After giving you, you will not

01:02:51 --> 01:02:54

reduce from the bounties of Allah, except the

01:02:54 --> 01:02:56

reduction that is experienced when you dip a

01:02:56 --> 01:02:58

needle in an ocean and lift it. What

01:02:58 --> 01:02:59

hangs on to the needle?

01:03:01 --> 01:03:02

Don't even say a drop because we know

01:03:02 --> 01:03:04

the drop falls back into the ocean.

01:03:05 --> 01:03:07

It decrease nothing from Allah's bounties.

01:03:08 --> 01:03:10

Go pursue this night seeking from that bounty.

01:03:10 --> 01:03:11

I love you all for the sake of

01:03:11 --> 01:03:13

Allah until next time, Assalamu Alaikum Warahmatuhu

01:03:13 --> 01:03:14

wa Barakatuh.

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