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But Allah wants to show us something here, his ability, what he can do. So Musa went to whose house? Fir'aun's house. Who picks him up? The wife of Fir'aun, Asiyah, she picks him up and she takes him.
And then what did she say to Musa, what did she say to Fir'aun? Asa is possible. It is possible that we can take him as a child. He might be a child, let's take him.
She convinces her husband, Fir'aun. Fir'aun says, no problem. Fir'aun is now raising the man who's gonna destroy his kingdom.
Today normally we take the seer of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. I do wanna share with you some words of advice inshallah ta'ala. That I hope bi'ithni Allahi al-kareem those words of advice will benefit me first and all of you.
Rabbi sharah li sadri wa yassir li amri wahlul uqdatan min lisani yafqahu qawli I just returned from the UK and there was some points of reflection. All of which is for myself, number one. And it's for all of you bi'ithni Allahi al-kareem number two.
And that is my brothers and sisters this religion that we have wallahi it's a blessing. It's the greatest blessing that we have. ni'matul iman, ni'matul islam It's a blessing that Allah has poured onto us and it falls under the ayah اليوم أكملت لكم دينكم وأتممت عليكم نعمتي ورضيت لكم الإسلام دينا Today I have completed your religion for you اليوم أكملت لكم دينكم وأتممت عليكم نعمتي and I have completed my blessing onto you.
Islam and iman is a blessing. Allah says in another place in the Quran وَأَسْبَغَ عَلَيْكُمْ نِعَمَهُ ظَاهِرَةً وَبَاطِنَةً Allah has poured onto you His blessings inwardly and outwardly and what is very sad is that we recognize that Islam and iman is a blessing we understand that but we don't show gratitude to it. Every blessing that is given to us what is needed from us الشكر that we show gratitude to it يَعَرِفُونَ نِعْمَةَ اللَّهِ ثُمَّ يُنكِيرُونَهَا وَأَكْثَرُهُمُ الْكَافِرُونَ They recognize the blessings of Allah SWT and they reject it.
That's what Allah said about the disbelievers and the majority of them are disbelievers Brothers شكر allows the blessing that you have to remain for you It will let that blessing that you now have It will let it be It will let it stay for you and it will even bring you the blessings that you don't have that are missing from you The scholars they say الشكر قيد للموجود وصيد للمفقود شكر is what? It's a rope that brings you when you fish and you throw the rod in and you're trying to get the fish شكر gratitude will bring you it will hunt for you the blessings that are out there that you don't have It will bring it to you and it will even allow the current blessing that you have to stay and remain for you That's why Allah said in the ayah لَإِن شَكَرْتُمْ لَأَزِيدَنَّكُمْ If you show gratitude I will increase the blessing for you I'll increase, I'll make it more This means that the current blessing is still there and more is coming Only because of what? You show gratitude Brothers Iman brings safety That's why Allah said in the Quran الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَلَمْ يَلْبِسُوا إِيمَانَهُمْ بِظُلْمٍ أُولَٰئِكَ لَهُمُ الْأَمْنُ وَهُمْ مُهْتَدُونَ The people who have iman الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَلَمْ يَلْبِسُوا إِيمَانَهُمْ بِظُلْمٍ and they do not destroy their iman with shirk Those people are gonna be guided and they're going to find safety Allah gives safety subhanahu wa ta'ala with people of iman and in their hearts and wallahi brothers if you wake up in the morning and you have safety you have food to eat that day and you have health you have everything on this earth The Prophet said مَنْ أَصْبَحَ مِنكُمْ آمِنًا فِي ثِرْبِهِ مُعَافًا فِي جَسَدِهِ عِندَهُ كُوتُ يَوْمِهِ فَكَأَنَّ مَا حِيزَتْ لَهُمُ الدُّنْيَا بِحَذَافِي رِيَا Anyone who wakes up safe they're not scared of anything آمِنَ فِي ثِرْبِهِ مُعَافًا فِي جَسَدِهِ you have health no illness alhamdulillah عِندَهُ وِيُّهِيُّ is your daily intake what you need to eat for that day you have it The Prophet he said فَكَأَنَّ مَا حِيزَتْ لَهُمُ الدُّنْيَا بِحَذَافِي رِيَا it's like the entire world has been placed under your feet what are you looking for why are you stressed why are you worried for so إيمان أَلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَلَمْ يَلْبِسُوا بِإِيمَانَهُمْ بِظُلْمٍ أُولَٰئِكَ لَهُمُ الْأَمْنُ وَهُمْ مُهْتَدُونَ safety and tranquility comes with it you know what also comes with it a good life Allah also says in the Quran مَنْ عَمِلَ صَالِحًا مِّنْ ذَكَرٍ أَوْ أُوثَى وَهُوَ مُؤْمِن فَلَنُحْيَنَّهُ حَيَاةً طَيِّبًا وَلَنَجْزِي أَنَّهُمْ أَجْرَهُمْ بِأَحْزَنِ مَا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ any man any woman who comes with what مَنْ عَمِلَ صَالِحًا مِّنْ ذَكَرٍ أَوْ أُوثَى وَهُوَ مُؤْمِن you do good deeds but you're a believer because the non-Muslim can do good deeds they can give charity they can do good deeds they can give good life the condition is وَهُوَ مُؤْمِن you do this good deed and you're a believer الله سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى وَلَا يُنَبِّعُكَ مِثْرُ خَبِيرٌ no one's gonna tell you as it is than the most knowledgeable one Allah الخبير is Allah He's saying to you وَمَنْ أَصْدَقُ مِنَ اللَّهِ قِيلَ وَمَنْ أَصْدَقُ مِنَ اللَّهِ حَدِيدٍ who's more truthful than Allah He's saying to you I'll give you a good life Is Allah a liar? No He's telling you I'll give you a good life but you come with Iman He emphasizes this on another place in the Quran أَلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَتَطْمَئِنُّ قُلُوبُهُمْ بِذِكْرِ اللَّهِ أَلَا بِذِكْرِ اللَّهِ تَطْمَئِنُّ القُلُوبُ Tranquility Ease Even though the person may not have much they may not possess a lot you find they have تُمَأْنِينَ السَّكِينَ أَنَا الْوَقَارَ Deep down relaxed Now that does not mean that you do not go through times of hardship times of sadness times of pain that comes that's the reality of this Dunya أَحَسِبَ النَّاسُ وَيُتْرَكُوا أَن يَقُولُوا آمَنَّا وَهُمْ لَا يُفْتَنُونَ وَلَقَدْ فَتَنَّا الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبَلِهِمْ فَلَيَعْلَمَنَّ وَلَيَعْلَمَ الَّذِينَ صَدَقُوا وَلَيَعْلَمَنَّ الْكَذِبِينَ Iman is a privilege, it's an honor and for Allah to allow you to have it He's gonna test it He's gonna put it to the test, it's gonna be burnt Are you gonna are you real about it or are you fake? صح؟ I used to see and I heard and I read that some groups in this world some cults if you wanna be part of it there's a ritual that you have to do sometimes very painful rituals صح؟ in order to be part of the group they might cut you, they might burn you they might stamp something on you you have to show endurance in order to be part of this cult or group what is that group? it's significant compared to Al-Iman to be a Mu'min so your Iman will be tested or else the Munafiq also claims Iman و لذلك حسن البصري he said لَيْسَ الْإِيمَانُ بِالتَّحَلِّ وَلَا بِالتَّمَنِّ وَلَكِنَّهُ مَا وَقَرَ فِي الْقَلْبِ وَصَدَّقَةُ الْعَمَلِ Iman is not a mere claim I'm a Mu'min and that's it, it's not your statement I'm a Mu'min will be tested it will be put to the test and you have to make it through I read in the Kitab Tariq Baghdad Tariq Baghdad the full name is Tariq Madinat Al-Salam it's written by Khatib Al-Baghdadi in that book he mentions the story of a great man, his name is Urwat Ibn Zubair Urwat Ibn Zubair he's from one of the highest knowledgeable Tabi'in Muhammad Ibn Shihab Al-Zuhri said about him لَا تُكَدِّرُهُ الدِّلَاءُ an ocean in knowledge and he's from the seven jurists of Medina إِذَا قِيلَ مَن فِي الْعِلْمِ سَبْعَةُ أَبْحُرٍ خِوَايَتُهُمْ لَيْسَتْ عَنِ الْعِلْمِ خَارِجًا فَقُلْهُمْ عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ عُرْوَةً he's the second and he would enter onto our mother Aisha رضي الله تعالى عنها whenever he had any questions a lot of the questions that is posed to our mother Aisha is through this man Urwat Ibn Zubair Urwa travelled from Medina one day he travelled from what? Medina and he went to Sham on his journey to Sham Urwa endured a lot of hardship he even said لَقَدْ لَقِيْنَ مِنْ سَفَرِنَا هَذَا نَصَبَ I have endured from this journey hardship and pain when he got there little did he know that he was actually diabetic and so people who are diabetic sometimes their diabetes can get into a very serious situation where their body parts has to be amputated so the doctor looked at his situation and he told him Urwa your situation is that I have to amputate your leg or else it's going to spread to your body and it can be very serious Urwa said no problem they told Urwa but you have to drink alcohol and this is ضرورة necessity there is no anesthesia where he wouldn't know he is going to feel every single cutting and slicing of the body if he doesn't drink alcohol Urwa Imam Jabal Asham Rahimahullah he said أَيَمُرُّ عَلَيَّ لَحْمَةً is there going to go by in my life a moment لَأَذْكُرُ اللَّهَ فِيهِ where I will remember Allah would somebody drink alcohol and take it in and not be able to remember Allah this is when I'm most in need of Allah and the narration mentioned he said the time that I'm most focused and I'm able to focus and everything else around me I don't hear or see is when I'm in the Salah so he said I pray and that's the moment I think it will be easiest for me عَجِيب that's the time we remember everything in the dunya صح that's the time we hear every conversation so Urwa Rahimahullah went into the Salah and his leg was amputated he finished the Salah people came to him in large numbers saying to him Urwa we heard what happened to you so he said to the people relax if you guys have come to me regarding my leg I've already shown patience to my lord and I carry I will carry on showing patience to him I'm not in need of your words they said no Urwa that's not why we have come we have come to inform you that whilst you were praying one of your sons Muhammad which was beloved child to him went into a herd of animals they stepped on him and he died and now he felt the pain he went into prayer and he said Allahumma O Allah لك الحمد حتى ترضى ولك الحمد إذا رضيت ولك الحمد بعد الرضى ولك الحمد على كل حال لك الحمد حتى ترضى ولك الحمد بعد الرضى ولك الحمد يا رب العالمين he said Allahumma إِنَّكَ عَطَيْتَنِي أَرْبَعَةَ أَعْبَاءَ وَأَخَذْتَ وَاحِدَةً O Allah you gave me four limbs and you only took one O Allah you gave me four sons and you only took one from you it came and to you it returns it was yours in the first place when I read those type of stories I ask myself this question how does a person reach that level and my brothers it comes through the statement of Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah when he said إِنَّ فِي الدُّنْيَا جَنَّةً in this Dunya there is a Jannah in this Dunya today there is a Jannah مَنْ لَمْ يَدْخُلْ جَنَّةً مَنْ لَمْ يَدْخُلْ هَا لَمْ يَدْخُلْ جَنَّةً آخِرًا anyone who doesn't enter the Jannah of this Dunya right now will not enter the Jannah of the Hereafter this Imam his heart is so filled with Allah and the Day of Judgment all of these things are very small and insignificant in his heart and mind Abu al-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzi the author of the Kitab Sayyid al-Khatir they said he had the biggest gathering in Baghdad big Imam his gathering 5000 people would come they would listen to him in his gatherings 500 people everyday will repent and leave their ways people would embrace Islam if you read his works Ibn al-Jawzi you can see that from him he is an individual Rahimahullah whose words are heart touching Ibn al-Jawzi not Ibn al-Qayyim Ibn al-Jawzi when he reached the age of 80 the ruler made a decision to not let him into Baghdad because he had numbers and followers and everything so he was banned from entering Baghdad he didn't complain the land he was born in the place where he was from so what did he do Rahimahullah at the age of 88 he went and he sought knowledge and guess what science he went for Al-Qiraat until he became from the Imams of Qiraat he turned a tough situation that he was put through what did he flip it into a positive situation I read in the biography of Ibn al-Athir Ibn al-Athir was placed inside a well and was locked in it and that's when he he carved into rocks his great book masterpiece Imam Ibn Taymiah Rahimahullah was imprisoned and he authored his book Ibn Taymiah Rahimahullah every bad situation the mu'min he always sees a light under that tunnel as the Arabs say make from a lemonade make from a lemon, lemonade someone gives you a lemon, make a lemonade out of it and this was a point that was stuck in my head the beauty of Iman that two people can go through the same situation but the way that they respond to it and the way that they react to it is different it's the same thing, one looks at it this way and the other one looks at it this way Allah has given us many examples of that but one example is the battle of Ahzab it's one of the battles Allah described subhanahu wa ta'ala immensely يَا أَيُّ الَّذِينَ عَمَنُوا اذْكُرُوا نِعْمَةَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ إِذْ جَاءَتْكُمْ جُنُودٌ فَأَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ رِيحًا وَجُنُودًا لَمْ تَرَوْهَا وَكَانَ اللَّهُ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ بَصِيرًا إِذْ جَاءُوْكُمْ مِّنْ فَوْقِكُمْ وَمِنْ أَزْفَلَ مِنْكُمْ وَإِذْ زَاغَتْ الْأَبْصَارُ وَبَلَغَتْ الْقُلُوبُ الْحَنَاجِرُ وَتَظُنُّونَ بِاللَّهِ الظُّنُونَ There is nothing from all the battles that are in the Quran which Allah described in this manner The eyes rolled up The heart reached the throats Everyone was confused There was a unique situation for the Sahabas Battle is a hard thing brothers You got a wife, you got children It's a hard thing to do The people in this battle Allah categorized them into two. The first group of people were the believers وَلَمَّا رَأَى الْمُؤْمِنُونَ الْأَحْزَابَ When the believers saw this situation What was their response? وَلَمَّا رَأَى الْمُؤْمِنُونَ الْأَحْزَابَ قَالُوا هَذَا مَا وَعَدَنَا اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ وَصَدَقَ اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ وَمَا زَادَهُمْ إِلَّا إِيمَانًا وَتَسْلِيمًا The believers they said Allah promised us this This was what we were waiting for This is The words of the Prophet are what we are seeing right now and they surrendered more and their Iman increased The second group وَإِذْ يَقُولُوا الْمُنَافِقُونَ وَالَّذِينَ فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ مَرَضُ مَا وَعَدَنَا اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ إِلَّا غُرُورًا They said the exact opposite to what the believers said Allah and His Messenger deceived us One situation But the response is different Why? What is inside these people's hearts and minds is different and what they carry is different Two cars can have the same body But if the engine is different Are the cars going to be different? And the speed and everything These people, what's inside them is something remarkable brothers I read and all of you, I know you've seen it and this story whenever I look at it, my jaw drops How shocking this is I hope and I ask all of you to pay attention to this story As you all know Prophet Musa The year he was born was the year when Pharaoh was taking the lives of what? Every boy, right? The year Musa was born was the year that Pharaoh was killing the boys There was one year he wouldn't kill and one year he would Right? Harun was born the year when he wasn't killing the boys or he wasn't killing anyone And the year Musa was born was the year he was what? Ok Please listen to this story, how remarkable it is Musa His mother She wanted to protect Musa from Pharaoh She does not want to lose Pharaoh So Allah Ta'ala He inspired her Allah says She was told what to do They would come to her house They would knock They want to see if she's got a baby or anything Because they know she was pregnant before They want to know, hey, when did you give birth to him? One year ago So as you all know She tied Musa to a basket and she put him in the ocean, in the sea and it went off Please listen to this story Where did the basket go? Huh? Who did it go to? The one person that everyone was running away from But Allah wants to show us something here His ability What he can do So Musa went to who's house? Pharaoh's house Who picks him up? The wife of Pharaoh, Asiyah She picks him up and she takes him And then what did she say to Musa? What did she say to Pharaoh? Asiyah Asiyah It's possible It is possible that we can take him as a child He might be a child Let's take him She convinces her husband, Pharaoh Pharaoh says, no problem Pharaoh is now raising the man who's going to destroy his kingdom Are we all together brothers? And he's still taking the lives of so many boys to come still But little did he know He's growing up where? Musa A.S He's growing a house of Pharaoh Now if Pharaoh refuses what? What did Pharaoh refuse? What did Musa refuse? Musa refused the breast milk of every woman He said, I don't want any breast milk from any other He's crying, he's refusing He will not take any breast milk Asiyah tried this woman and then she tried this woman and none of the women was accepted Who saw the situation? The sister of who? Musa She saw the situation She knows this is her brother She can't say The mother is Fulana She can't say that She said, I might know a woman who can breast feed Musa and he may not refuse That's what Allah meant when he said We're going to return him back to you Who did Musa come back to? His mom This is not the part that takes me by surprise This is the part that takes me by surprise Asiyah that sits with the mother of who? Musa Not knowing this is the mother of Musa She says, I will pay you to breast feed this child Billahi alaykum, think of this Not only she's seen her child She's funded by the ruler of the country A man everyone is worshipping Fasta khaffa qawmahu fa ata'u The throne was rich He even says, alaysa li mulku misra He had the kingdom of Egypt alaysa li mulku misra wa hadihin anharu tajri min tahti These oceans, these rivers were all his Very rich Everything Musa goes back to the house of his mom And guess what? His mom is told Leave your house and live in this palace and breast feed this boy and get funding and taking care of financially That's what we don't understand brothers You, right now, who was taking care of you? The nine months that you were in the womb of your mothers Who was taking care of you? Who brought you rizq in that dark place? Who brought you rizq? Huh? Allah brought it for you You've now come out You're walking on this earth You're exerting effort to bring that rizq Why would He forsake you? Subhanahu wa ta'ala Rizq is written Your rizq is what? It's written But what I don't understand, brothers is If you look at the ayah What comes after it? إِنَّ اللَّهَ هُوَ الرَّزَّقُ ذُو الْقُوَّةِ الْمَتِيرُ Allah is telling us I created you all to worship me And right after that, He mentions about the issue of rizq Meaning With ibadah فَاللَّهَ رِزْقُكَ You'll be taken care of Yes, there is effort that is needed from you But rely on Allah The bird does not have any savings A bird does not have any savings It doesn't put anything for tomorrow or the day after The bird each day wakes up empty stomach and goes and gets what it wants and comes back, feeds itself and feeds its children And the Prophet said to us لَوْ أَنَّكُمْ تَوَكَّلْتُمْ عَلَى اللَّهِ حَقَّ تَوَكُولِهِ لَرَزَقَكُمْ كَمَا يَرْزُقُ الطَيْرُ تَغْدُوْ خِبَاسٌ وَتَرُحُ بِطَانَةٌ If you relied on Allah, the way that the bird relies on Allah Look at that Allah will provide for you the way that He provides for the bird It leaves with an empty stomach and it comes with an empty stomach The bird does not have savings The brother here, he has savings, he's got money and he's worried and he's concerned Are we all together brothers? حَقَّ تَوَكُّلُ Rely on Allah Azza wa Jalla He's the one who's going to give it to you سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى So my brothers As Muslims, we need to appreciate Iman that we have Also what I wanted to say brothers is, we don't spend as much time as what is needed from us when it comes to purifying our nafs We take so much information of the Deen We come to this class and we go to another class and we listen to a lecture and this lecture How much of that is really to purify and clean our hearts تَزْكِيَةٌ نَفْسٍ Ya brothers That's why we are finding and we're seeing people who have so much information but the information and the knowledge is not equal to the heart So he thinks he's a student of knowledge He's a طالبُ عِلْم and he has no تَزْكِيَةٌ نَفْسٍ He's the furthest from that title of student of knowledge or a طالبُ عِلْم or a person who's learning about his Deen One of the things my brothers and sisters we can do to clean our hearts and fix it and it needs to be washed just like the clove needs to be washed is to go and visit the graves Who from amongst us went recently and visited a grave and looked and pondered and said this is going to be my place soon He didn't go because somebody died He went there because he wanted to see your real home The Prophet he said كُنتُ نَهَيْتُكُمْ عَنْ زِيَارَةِ الْقُبُورِ فَزُورُوهَا فَإِنَّهَا تُذَكِّرُكُمْ بِالْآخِرَةِ I used to warn you from going to visit the graves, I am now instructing you to go and visit the graves for it reminds you of the Hereafter Look at the hadith تَذَكُّرِ الْآخِرَةِ is a مَطْلَب شَرْعِ It's something within the Deen that we have to go and remember the Akhirah. The poet he said مَثِّلْ وُقُوفِكَ يَوْمَ الْعَرْضِ عُرْيَانًا مُسْتَوْحِشًا قَلِقَ الْأَحْشَاءِ حَيْرَانًا وَالنَّارُ تَلْهَبْ مِنْ غَيْظٍ وَمِنْ حَلَقٍ عَلَى الْعُصَاتِ وَرَبُّ الْعَرْشِ غَضْبَانًا اقْرَأْ كِتَابَكَ يَا عَبْدَ اللَّهِ عَلَى مَهَلٍ فَهَلْ تَرَى فِيهِ حَرْفًا غَيْرَ مَا كَانَ لَمَّا قَرَأْتَ وَلَمْ تُنْكِرْ قِرَاءَتَهُ اقْرَارَ مَنْ عَرَفَ اقْرَارَ مَنْ عَرَفَ Your scale will be put in front of you.
مَثِّلْ وُقُوفِكَ يَوْمَ الْعَرْضِ عُرْيَانًا You're not wearing any clothes. The... Ali ibn Abi Talib one day he picked up a cup. رضي الله تعالى عنه Those cups, they were made from clay.
And the clay is taken from where? Yeah? The earth. It's taken from the earth and it's mixed. He looked at it and he said عَجَبًا Fascination, wonder that this clay may contain the face of a person who centuries, a long long time ago died.
His face, the earth swallowed him. It was a face he used to moist, put cream on, take care of, oil it, the head which he would comb, make it look beautiful. It's become this cup.
صح? The body that you're now taking care of, you're making sure it looks good. The earth will eat it. The only thing that will remain is from your... your life will be your righteous deeds.
Nothing else. Everything else will go. That's why the old generation of scholars, they used to bury themselves a grave in their houses and they would lie inside it.
يُمَثُّلُ ذُو اللُّبِّ فِي لُبِّهِ مَصَائِبَ قَبْلَ أَنْ تَنْزِلَ فَإِنْ نَزَلَتْ بَغْتَةً لَمْ تَرُعْهُ لِمَا كَانَ فِي نَفْسِهِ مَثَّلَ وَذُو الْجَهْلِ يَأْمَنُ أَيَّامَهُ وَيَنْسَى مَصَارِعَ مَنْ قَدْ خَلَى فَإِنْ دَهِمَتْهُ صُرُوفُ الزَّبَانِ بِبَعْضِ مَصَائِبِهِ أَعْلَى They would prepare for that day. They would sleep in their graves. And they would say قَالَ رَبِّ رِجِعُونِ لَعَلِّ أَعْمَلُ صَالِحًا فِي مَا تَرَكْتُ Oh Allah, give me a second chance so I can go back to the dunya so I can do good deeds.
And then he would get up and he would work hard and he would say to himself you've been given a second chance. Oh Allah, brothers we are heedless. اِقَتَرَبَتِ السَّاعَةَ وَإِنْ شَقَّ الْقَمَرَ اِقَتَرَبَ لِلنَّاسِ حِسَابُهُ وَهُمْ فِي غَفْلَةٍ مُعْرِضُونَ The time is very close.
إِنَّهُمْ يَرَوْنَهُ بَعِيدًا وَنَرَاهُ قَرِيبًا Allah says. In another place it says آزِفَةِ الْآزِفَةِ لَئِسَ لَهَا مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ كَاشِفًا There is a portion of that day يَوْمُ الْقِيَامَةِ where you won't even be standing in front of Allah. A whole entire surah has been named where you won't be standing in front of Allah.
لِلَّهِ مُلْكُ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَيَوْمَ تَقُومُ السَّاعَةِ يَوْمَئِذٍ يَخْسَرُ الْمُبْطِلُونَ وَتَرَى كُلَّ أُمَّةٍ جَاثِيًا You will find every nation on their kneels. Everyone. وَتَرَى كُلَّ أُمَّةٍ جَاثِيًا كُلُّ أُمَّةٍ تُدْعَى إِلَى كِتَابِهَا Every nation will be called to their book.
كُلُّ أُمَّةٍ تُدْعَى إِلَى كِتَابِهَا يَوْمَ تُجْزَوْنَ مَا كُنْتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ هَذَا كِتَابُنَا Allah said this is our book. هَذَا كِتَابُنَا يَسْتَنْسِكُ عَلَيْكُمْ بِالْحَقِّ هَذَا كِتَابُنَا يَسْتَنْسِكُ عَلَيْكُمْ بِالْحَقِّ إِنَّا كُنَّا نَسْتَنْسِكُ مَا كُنْتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ This book, it speaks nothing but the truth. إِنَّا كُنَّا نَسْتَنْسِكُ يعني كُنَّا نَكْتُبْ Everything you said and you did was written.
That people are only two. فَأَمَّا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا Those who believed, who came with Iman. This blessing I was talking about today.
فَأَمَّا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا عَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ فَيُدْخِلُهُمْ رَبُّهُمْ فِي رَحْمَةِ ذَلِكَ هُوَ الْفَوْزُ الْمُبِينُ وَأَمَّا الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا أَفَلَمْ تَكُنْ آيَاتِ تُتْلَى عَلَيْكُمْ Was my verses not recited on you? أَمَّا الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا أَفَلَمْ تَكُنْ آيَاتِ تُتْلَى عَلَيْكُمْ فَاسْتَكْبَرْتُمْ وَكُنْتُمْ قَوْمًا مُجْرِمِينَ You were arrogant, full of yourselves. When you were told, Qiyam is going to happen, you're going to meet, you're going to die this, you're going to leave this, you were arrogant. So my brothers, one of the things that we need to do is that the knowledge and the ilm that we learn, it has to change us.
These classes that we come to, these duroos that we do, it has to change us inside. It has to bring us nearer to whom? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. It has to show at work that this rizq is a stepping stone to the akhira.
Or else, we have not shown Allah ta'ala what? Shukr, this blessing of al-iman. And wallahi, when you go to the lives of the non-Muslims, you see, يَتِيهُونَ فِي الْأَرْضِ You see how they're struggling. They have big paid jobs.
They've got so much at their disposal. They are struggling. You find a Muslim who doesn't know what's going to eat that day, حتى He's laughing and he's smiling.
He's happy. He's got I find the more I travel, people are depressed and sad. And I honestly say, a lot of it goes back to this topic of al-iman.
The relationship that you have with the people cannot really affect you as much if your relationship with Allah ta'ala is what? If he's strong. I read Shaykh Nasser rahimahullah, Shaykh al-Albani. He wrote a kitab called صفة الصلاة النبي And when he was writing the book, he mentioned that he knows that this book there's going to be a lot of people who are going to criticize me, he said.
For writing this book. What's he talking about? What's the topic? How the Prophet prayed. He said, I know it's not going to make everyone happy.
وَلَسْتُ مِنَاجٍ مِنْ مَقَالَةِ قَاعِلٍ You're not going to be ever safe from the statement of a criticizer. Even if you live in the mountain. وَلَسْتُ مِنَاجٍ مِنْ مَقَالَةِ قَاعِلٍ وَلَوْ غَابَ فِيهِ وَلَوْ كُنْتَ فِي جَبْرِ وَعْلِم Even if you're in a mountain, you're hidden from the people, they don't see you.
They've got something to say about you. They say, why? You know why he's in the mountain, huh? He's a bit majnun. وَمَنْ ذَا الَّذِي يَنْجُعُ مِنَ النَّاسِ سَالِبًا Who is the person who's going to be safe from the people? وَلَوْ غَابَ فِيهِ خَافَتَهِ نَصْرٍ I read in the Kitab التَّبِّيهُ الْغَافِلِينَ بَأَبِي لَيْتَ صَبَرْ قَدِّي that Musa one day spoke to Allah.
He said, Ya Allah, my Lord, Allah, people are criticizing me. They're saying so much things about me. It's really hurting me.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said to him, Musa, what is it that you want? He said, O Allah, I want people to stop doing this to me. Allah said to Musa, I have not done this for myself, why would I do it for you? I have not done this for myself. وَقَالُوا تَخَذَ الرَّحْمَٰنُ وَلَدًا لَقَدِ جِئْتُمْ شَيْءً إِدًّا تَكَادُ السَّبَوَاتُ يَتَفَطَّرْنَ مِنْهُ وَتَنْشَقُ الْأَرْضُ وَتَخِرُّ الْجِبَالُ هَدًّا أَدْعُوا لِلرَّحْمَٰنِ وَلَدًا وَمَا يَنْبَغِي لِلرَّحْمَٰنِ أَنْ يَتَّخِذَ وَلَدًا إِنْ كُلُّ مَنْ فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ إِلَّا أَتَى الرَّحْمَٰنِ عَبِدًا They said, Allah has a child.
Does he have a child? Can he prove it to them? Can he destroy them all for those who are saying it? He doesn't. He's given to them. He's provided for them.
The poet once said, أُعَلِّمُهُ الرِّمَايةَ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ فَلَمَّ اشْتَدَّ سَعِدُهُ رَمَانِ وَكَمْ عَلَّمْتُهُ نَظْمَ الْقَوَافِ فَلَمَّ قَالَ قَافِيَةً هَجَانِ Every day I teach this man archery. أُعَلِّمُهُ الرِّمَايةَ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ Every day I'm teaching him archery. When he learnt it and he mastered it, the first person he threw the arrow at was me, the person who was teaching him.
I taught him poetry and how to write poetry. The first poetry in which he constructed that, he directed it at me. صح؟ هذا عادة البشر That's what? The norms of the people.
There's always going to be people who hate you. لكن المؤمن has internal strength. I realize what it is.
The people, because of social media and their connection to social media, the comment section صح؟ Comment section when you read it, what people say about you. Yeah? People live for that. Because what's missing is إِنَّمَا نُطْعِمُكُمْ لِوَجْهِ اللَّهِ لَا نُرِيدُ مِنكُمْ جَزَاءً وَلَا شُكُورًا إِنَّا نَخَافُ مِنْ رَبِّنَا يَوْمًا عَبُوسًا قَمْطَرِيرًا They were not doing it in the beginning for who? For the sake of Allah.
They were doing it so the people can say good. And now that they haven't received what they wanted, it really hurts them. Again, that does not mean that what people say does not hurt you.
Of course it's going to hurt you. It hurt our Prophet. وَلَقَدْ نَعْلَمُ أَنَّكَ يَضِيقُ صَدْرُكَ بِمَا يَقُولُونَ But what do you do after that? فَسَبِّحْ بِحَمْدِ رَبِّكَ وَكُنْ مِنَ السَّاجِدِينَ وَحَمْدِ رَبَّكَ حَتَّى يَأْتِيَكَ الْيَقِيمِ The Prophet was directed on what he needs to do.
Sit down. When people's statements hurt you or what they say to you, sit down and say سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ I'm going to conclude with a very profound story. We all know brothers and sisters how the Sahabas were.
At the time of the Prophet ﷺ, a verse came down. وَاللَّهِ تَبَارَكُ تَعَالَيْهِ سَيِّدْ وَلِلَّهِ مُلْكُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ أَبْوَلِ اللَّهِ مَا فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَا فِي الْأَرْضِ So Allah is the what? What's in the heavens and also what's in the earth. All of this for whom? And this part of the verse came down which is what? فَإِنْتُمْ دُونَ مَا فِي أَنفُسِكُمْ أَوْ تُقْفُوهُ يُحَسِبْكُمْ بِهِ لَا If you bring out what's inside you and you act upon it or if you hold it inside your hearts and you don't act upon that feeling or that thought you will be punished for it regardless.
Allah will account you for it. So I thought of doing something wrong. I didn't do it.
I just thought of it. Just by thinking of it يُحَسِبُكُمْ يُحَسِبُكُمْ اللهُ Allah will account you for it. When this ayah came down the Sahabas they came crying to the Prophet.
They said Ya Rasulullah this we can't do. We're human beings. Mad thoughts comes to our minds and our hearts and we don't act upon it.
We let it go. But we're going to be held account just for thinking it. That's what the ayah says.
The Prophet said to them Are you going to say we hear and we disobey? Are you going to say what the Jews said سَمِعْنَا وَعَصَيْنَا We hear and we disobey. Say what? We hear and we obey. So what did they say? وَقَالُوا سَمِعْنَا وَعَطَعْنَا غُفْرَىٰ لَكَ رَبَّنَا وَلَيْكَ الْمَصُورِ Oh Allah forgive us For what? For our mistake.
The statement that we shouldn't have said it. We shouldn't have said Oh Allah we're not going to act upon the verse. What came down? The ayah after it لَا يُكَلِّفُ As soon as they said that We hear and we obey Oh Allah forgive us for our shortcomings.
What came down? لَا يُكَلِّفُ اللَّهُ نَفْسًا إِلَّا وُسْعَهَا لَهَا مَا كَسَبَتْ وَعَلَيْهَا مَا كْتَسَبَتْ You will only be held account for what you do not the thoughts that come to your mind. Ibn Al-Qayyim said And remember this When you come to a verse and you think to yourself you can't act upon it and you find it very hard or there's a situation where you think you cannot hold on to the deen on this particular issue Say Oh Allah I obey you and I hear what you say and ease will come for you just like it came for the sahabas when this situation was on their heart and mind سُبْحَارَكَ اللَّهُمَّ وَبِحَمْدِكَ أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا أَدْتُ أَسْتَغْفِرُكَ وَأَتُوبُ إِلَيْكِ
