 As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh Bismillahi r-Rahmanir r-Rahim Wa as-salatu wa as-salamu ala sayyidina wa nabiyina Muhammadin wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallim Ya Rabbana lakal hamdu kama yambagi lujalali wajhika wa adhimi sultanik Today, insha'Allah, we will be having our 10 and last session of giving or shedding some light on Surat al-Kahith We will be starting with insha'Allah Bismillahi r-Rahmanir r-Rahim wa tarakna ba'zuhum yawma idin yamujuhi ba'zuhum wa nufi khafi al-suhri fa jam'ahna hum jam'ah Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying here in this ayah and we shall leave some of them to surge like waves on one another. What does this mean? Another ayah another in Surat al-Abasah really explains this ayah very clearly. Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala says On the day a man will flee from his brother, mother, father, his wife and his children because everyone on that day has a matter adequate for him. He will not be caring about anybody. The only thing that he will say, nafsi nafsi myself. Even the prophets would say nafsi nafsi. Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is so angry today. No one is ready to help anyone. They just want to make sure that they are saved. So one Sayyidna Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam was seen and he was worried and they asked him to cheer up, he said So he said, how can I relax when the one with the horn has put the horn in his mouth, knelt down and listened out for the command of Allah to be given to him. He is ready just to blow, the hour is so close, the day of judgment is so close and that was at the time of Sayyidna Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam, 1400 years ago. So they asked him, Ya Rasulallah, manakul, what do we say? Qalakulu hasbuna allahu wani amal wakil, a'allahu allahi tawakkalna. Say, hasbuna allahu wani amal wakil. We really depend on Allah SWT. He is our only shelter and we shall collect them together. Allah SWT is going to bring all people back for reckoning. We will not leave anyone behind. And on that day, we shall present help to the believers and non-believers. Here, we shall present help to the disbelievers playing to view in this ayah. In another ayah, Allah SWT says, وَاِمْ مِنْكُمْ إِلَّا وَارِدُهَا And وَارِدُهَا, there is none of you except that he will come to see Hellfire. Believers and non-believers, winners and losers, those who obeyed and those who disobeyed, everyone is going to see the Hellfire. The believer will know how he was lucky to obey Allah SWT and to do righteous deeds so to avoid what he is seeing. While the non-believers will realize that they were unjust to themselves by disobeying Allah SWT. So Allah SWT has prepared this Hellfire to those who disbelieved in him and in his messengers. In this fire, there are two types of torture. The physical torture, when Allah SWT says So in this fire, there will be a physical torture that whenever their flesh and skin gets destroyed then they will be replaced by another skin. So just to taste the torture, whereas the physical torture is the humiliation. Allah SWT said Stay there and you will never talk to me. Sayyidina Muhammad SAW talked about this Hellfire and he said One thousand years the fire was burning until it became red another thousand until it became white and another thousand years until it became black. So now it is black, bitchy black and it will not be put down. So the fire, the Hellfire complained to Allah SWT and said So Allah SWT I have been tortured by this fire the fire is saying I've been tortured by this fire So Allah SWT gave permission to Hellfire to have two breaths one in winter and another one in summer So the day that is super, super hot in summer is a breath of the Hellfire and the day that is super, super cold in winter is the breath of this Hellfire in winter and we know as Zamharir is the highest point of coldness this is called Zamharir We know that there are seven, seven doors for Hellfire What about the other? And from up till to down the order is the names of these doors So the lowest is Al-Hawiyah and one Sayyidina Muhammad SWT was sitting with his companions and they heard a loud noise and they were frightened they were scared and Sayyidina Muhammad SWT told them this was a stone that was thrown in Hellfire and it took 70, 70 years until it reached its bottom Now what is the food? What is the drink of the people of Hellfire? If they want to have a drink they would be given boiling water and if they want to eat they will have the food of the people of Hellfire so many plants their beds are from Hellfire they have a bed from Hell and over them a cover of fire Why would they have this? What can they do? And thus we recompense the wrongdoers So the people of Hellfire will not die and rest and get relieved and they will not live happily They would wish to die but death was already on the form of Al-Lam and it was slaughtered no more death So the highest torture of the people of Hellfire is that they missed getting into Jannah and they missed the meeting with Allah SWT So Allah SWT will show the Hellfire to the believers, to the non-believers on the Day of Judgment and he will bring it forth for them to see its punishment before they enter it and this is by itself a torture He will be brought forth on the Day of Judgment pulled by means of 70,000 trains each of which will be held by 70,000 angels and this is for whom? For the peoples الذين كانت عيونهم في غطا I would not look They would not They would not hear So they were refusing They were refusing to accept guidance and they refused to follow the truth وكانوا لا يستطيعون سمع and they could not bear to hear it They would hate to hear about the message They would hate to hear Sayyidina Muhammad SWT talk about it They have eyes They have ears but because of their super-hatred to what they will be hearing as if they are not hearing it Sometimes you would talk to your child and you would see he is not listening to you You say why you don't hear me He is listening but he does not want to hear you and they were recommending and they were talking to each other and they were recommending each other not to listen لا تسمعوا لهذا القرآن والغور فيه So why? They were talking to each other and they were asking each other not to listen to the Quran because they know that this Quran was in the Arabic eloquent language and they know that whoever is going to listen to the Quran he would believe in the Quran and he would be touched by the Quran and Allah SWT said in Surah Al-Jafya ويل لكل أفاكن أثيم يسمعوا آيات الله تتلع عليه ثم يصروا مستكبيرا كأن لم يسمعها فلشيره بعضها من أذنين ووتوا to each of those sinful liars They hear the verses of the Quran but they persist arrogantly on their position as if they were deaf so Allah is giving them tidings of painful promises of painful punishment So then do those who disbelieve think that they can take my servants instead of me as allies so there were some people who worshipped other people and those were the people those who were worshipped are people who love Allah SWT قالت اليهود عزيرون ابن الله The Jews said عزير is the son of Allah قالت النصار المسيح ابن الله The Christian said Jesus is the son of Allah Other group who went astray said الملائكة بنات الله Angels are the daughters of Allah So those are the servants of Allah SWT who they love Allah SWT but people have taken them as allies and worshipped them instead of Allah SWT So tell them shall we tell you about the greatest losers in respect of their deeds those whose efforts those whose actions have been wasted in this life they did deeds but their deeds would not count their deeds are not in accordance with the prescribed way that Allah SWT would accept and we all know that whatever action we do that is not pure for the sake of Allah SWT will not be accepted So for those who were Sayyidina Muhammad SAW says من كانت هجرته لله و رسوله فهجرته لله و رسوله و من كانت هجرته لله و رسوله فهجرته لما هجر إليه whoever wants to do something for the sake of Allah SWT then he would be rewarded but if someone wants to do something good just so that people would recommend him so that people would talk good about him So he got his reward in this dunya and later on in the Akhira he would say where is my reward for this action and Allah SWT told him you went to fight but you wanted to fight so that people would say you are brave and you got that in the dunya so you won't have that reward in the Akhira and that's why whenever we do anything any word, any action, any deeds Ya Allah, consider this as pure for you and if you have any slight idea in your mind is this pure for the sake of Allah am I doing it just for the sake of Allah then you are really thinking of Allah SWT but some people do some actions that oh I want to give charity so they would say that I'm generous okay they would say you are generous but where is your reward in the Akhira nothing so Allah SWT is saying those people what does the word means will have no reward how? the word let's dig into the word and we will find that it has about five meanings and it occurred in the Quran in different positions with different meanings so here in Surat Al-Qaaf Allah SWT is saying so their deeds will not be rewarded because they got their reward in dunya in other surahs so for example in Surat Al-Baqarah Allah SWT says أن تضل احداهما فتذكرة احداهما الأخرى so one of the two women would forget and the other one would remind her so the word بلا here in Surat Al-Baqarah means to forget in Surat Al-Ahzab Allah SWT says وما كان لمؤمن ولا مؤمنة إذا قد الله ورسوله أمر أن يكون لهم الخيرة من أمرهم وما يعص الله ورسوله فقد ضل ضلالا بعيدة Allah SWT will decree something whoever opposes whoever will not listen to Allah SWT and to his messenger then he is a way of the right path another surah in Surat Al-Shuara Allah SWT says فعلتها إذن وإن من الضالين this is about Sayyidina Musa when he killed that person so he said فعلتها إذن وإن من الضالين I was heedless I didn't know that if I cook this man he will die this is another meaning for the world of Allah and in Surat Al-Duha Allah SWT says ووجدك بلم فهده Allah so you Oh Muhammad looking for the truth and so he guided you to the truth so there are several meanings for the world of Allah here in Surat Al-kaaf Allah SWT is saying their actions their deeds will not be rewarded because they got their reward in dunya they thought they were doing good but they lost their reward in the Akhir أولئك الذين كفروا بآيات ربهم وليقائه they are those who deny the signs of Allah SWT who denies the signs and the ayahs of their Lord and they deny the meeting with Allah SWT they don't believe in the day after and that's why when they did something when they do bad deeds they will not fear the punishment because they do not believe in the day of judgment they do not believe that they will be resurrected after death and their deeds will be scaled they do not believe in that and that's why when they did the wrong deeds they did not fear any punishment they denied the proofs that Allah SWT had established of his oneness and the truth of his messengers he denied everything they also denied the day after itself and they thought that even if there was a day after they would be highly rewarded لأجدنا خير منها من قلبة they were good enjoying their life so they thought that Allah SWT will make them enjoy the Akhira if there is a day after so what will happen to those people فَلَا نُقِيمُ لَهُمْ يَوْمَ الْقِيَانَةِ وَزْنَا On that day, on the day of resurrection Allah SWT shall not shall assign no weight for those people they will have no deeds and even if they have some good deeds and they hurt people so Sayyidina Muhammad SAW would say فَيَأْخُذُوا هَذَا مِنْ حَسَنَاتِ وَهَذَا مِنْ حَسَنَاتِ so there, those who were harmed by those people they will come to Allah SWT and they will, Allah would say okay, go take from their good deeds so they will take from their deeds and when their good deeds are done فَإِذَا فَنْ يَدْ حَسَنَاتُوا أَخْلِدَ من سَيْئِ آتِهِمْ so they would take they would leave there there is no more good deeds so what will happen? people will throw their bad deeds to them and they will be left only with bad deeds and they will be thrown in Hellfire so why will they be ending in Hellfire? so that is their recompense Hellfire and this will happen to them because they disbelieved in Allah SWT وَتَّخَذُوا آيَاتِهُمْ وُذُوَا and they took my ayahs they took my signs and my messengers they took everything for a joke we will punish them they mocked the messengers and they did not believe in them they even said to Sayyidina Muhammad SAW in Surat Al-Hijr يا أيها الذين زِلَ عليه ذِكروا إنَّ كَلَ مَجْنُونَ يا أيها الذين زِلَ عليه ذِكروا you who have been revealed to this zikr was the Qur'an was revealed to you so they believed that there was something that was relieved إنَّ كَلَ مَجْنُونَ you are a mad person you are crazy so they will be placed in Hellfire they will be thrown in Hellfire they will be tasting the torture of Hellfire that torture which will be forever إنَّ اللَّذِينَ آمَنُوا عَمِرُوا صَالِحَاتِ now that the heart is trembling because of everything that was mentioned about Hellfire now Allah SWT will go to change the course of their ayahs and He will talk about Jannah Allah is merciful whenever He talks about Hellfire He also talks about Jannah whenever He talks about punishment He wants people to know that there is every word إنَّ اللَّذِينَ آمَنُوا عَمِرُوا صَالِحَاتِ so verily those who believe and do righteous deeds shall have the gardens of unfeared boughs as a lodging Allah SWT in one of His hadith says أعدَدتُ لِعِبَاديَ الصَّالِحِينَ مَا لَا عِنُوا الْرَأَتْ وَلَا أُذُنٌ سَمِعَتْ وَلَا خَطَرَ عَلَى قَلْبِ بَشَرْ I prepared for my righteous servants reward that an eye has never seen an ear has never heard of and nothing would have been even imagined so everything will be amazing and Sayyidina Muhammad SAW says أَا تِبَابَ الْجِنَّةِ يَوْمَ الْطِيَانَةِ فَأَسْتَفْتِحْ I prepared for my righteous servants I prepared for my righteous servants let's say I come to the door of the Jinnah and I would say I will knock on the door so it will be opened فَيَقُولُوا الْخَنَزِينُ وَمَنْأَنتْ so the the doorkeeper of the Jinnah would say who are you فَأَقُولُ مُحَمَّدْ and he would say فَيَقُولُ بِتَ أُمِرتْ لاَ أَفْتَحْو لِأَحْدِ انْ قَبْلَكْ I was ordered not to open the door door of the heaven except for you. If we want to talk about the Jannah, about paradise, we see, we know that there are eight doors for Jannah. And when we talked about health fire a few minutes ago, we said that how many doors are there? There are seven doors. But the Jannah has eight doors. Each and every door is assigned for a righteous action. For example, those who keep fasting, they like to spend their time fasting. There is a special door for Jannah called Babur Rayyan. Those who fasted in Dunya were who did extra fasting, who did Nafl fasting, who did Sunnah fasting, will go enter Jannah from this door. There is Babu Sadaqah. Those who give charity, those who help people in need, those who help the poor, they will be entering from Babu Sadaqah in so many doors. And there are so many steps in the Jannah. The highest is Al-Firdaus. We have Al-Firdaus, we have Adan, we have Al-Khul, we have Al-Ma'wa. There are so many steps in Jannah. And the differences, there are so many differences between each and every step. And Sayyidina Muhammad, sallallahu alayhi wasallam, says, Inna fil jannah timi'atu daraja. There are hundreds, there is 100 steps in Jannah. So the distance between each two steps is the same as the distance between earth and sky. And Al-Firdaus is the highest, the highest position in Jannah, the highest step. And above this Al-Firdaus is the throne of Allah, sallallahu alayhi wasallam. So when you ask Allah SWT to not say, Ya Allah, I want to enter Jannah. No. Just say, Ya Allah, I want to be in Al-Firdaus Al-A'la. Allah is the most generous, whatever you ask Him, He will give you. So ask the highest for yourself. Ask the highest for your parents. Ask the highest for your children. Always make this Dhuha. Ya Allah, we want Al-Firdaus Al-A'la. We don't want any level of Jannah. We want the highest. And we all know that no matter where a person be, even in Al-Firdaus Al-A'la, the highest reward that the servant would get in the Akhirah is meeting Allah SWT, listening to Allah SWT, is looking at Allah SWT. There will be on the Day of Judgement, people with radiant faces, they are looking at the Lord. They are looking at Allah SWT. So Al-Firdaus is a hill in paradise at its center, and it's the best of the Jannah, of the Jannah. So again, when you ask Allah SWT, ask for Al-Firdaus Al-A'la. So in this Al-Firdaus, what will there be? They shall be there forever. So this blessing is going to be there forever. The blessing and the reward in this paradise, in this Al-Firdaus, in all the steps of Jannah will not decrease and it will not end. It will always increase. We have more and more and more. In Dunya, someone would work hard to buy a house. When he gets more money, he will add a car. And when he gets more money, he will get a car for his wife. And when he gets more money, he would get a bigger house and he would get a mansion. And then, so whenever you have something, you want something that higher-fake, higher-level. Higher-level. But in Jannah, you will not need to work to gain. In Dunya, you need to work. But in Akhira, whatever you wish you will get. Say, if the sea were ink for the words of Allah SWT, and we know that whenever Allah wants anything to happen, he will just say, con. With this word, all the orders will be fulfilled. So if we want to record all the orders, then the ink of, even if the sea was the ink to record all the orders of Allah SWT, then this ink will be empty. It will not count the words of Allah SWT. It will not count the orders of Allah SWT. In Surah Luqman, Allah SWT says, And if whatever trees upon the earth were pens and the sea was ink, replenished, there after by seven more seas, then the words of Allah would not be exhausted. More orders of Allah, more words of Allah, nothing can count the words of Allah SWT. Why would Allah SWT says, because the water of the sea is always in a cycle. The sea water will evaporate, clouds will be formed, sea water will come down, rain will come down, and then the same thing. So count all the water. It will not count the words of Allah SWT. Even if we brought the like, the like of it as supplements. Say, oh Muhammad, I am only a man like you. It has been revealed to me. So say the Muhammad SAW is saying, I'm just like you. I am not an angel. I do not know the unseen. So when you ask me a question and I don't know it, Allah SWT reveals the answer to me. So all the stories you asked me about, I did not know the answer, except that Allah told me the answer. Allah revealed the answer to me. So whoever claims that I am lying, let him bring something like this Quran that I have been brought to, that I have given you, that I have passed to you, that was revealed to me. And I do not order you to do something that I do not do. There is an order for prayers. I pray there is an order for giving Sadaqa. I give Sadaqa. There is an order for doing this. I do it. So this is a lesson for us. If you want your children to do something, you should be a model before them. They should look up high at you and see that you yourself is doing what you want them to do. It is revealed to me that your God is one God. I worship him with no partner. So this is the right path. This is the straight path. Don't go right and left. And thank Allah for this blessing. Imagine that there are so many gods and you want to worship each one of them. You cannot. And it has been mentioned in one of the sewers. There are partners who have someone, the employee needs to please each and everyone, but they, the partners themselves, disagree among each other. Who the employee are going to please? So whoever hopes for meeting Allah SWT, whoever is waiting for this meeting with Allah SWT, and look at this. Allah SWT says whoever hopes for Jannah or whoever hopes to avoid Hellfire, no. So we do not worship Allah SWT to get into Jannah. We do not worship Allah SWT because we are afraid of Hellfire. We worship Allah SWT because he deserves to be worshipped. Because he deserves to be pleased. This is why we worship Allah SWT. Jannah is created. Anar is created and we do not worship anything that is created. We worship the Creator. Let him do righteous. That person who wants to meet Allah SWT. So doing righteous deeds is the way, is the boat that you can ride to meet Allah SWT. So when we are traveling, we take some food, we take drink, we take something to warm us. We prepare ourselves for the journey. And now we are on a journey to meet Allah SWT. We have to get ready for that. We have to prepare ourselves for that. And let that person who wants to meet Allah SWT let him not associate any partner in his worship to Allah SWT. Will you do something? Do it for the sake of Allah SWT. Do not do it and expect that people would say thank you. Even thank you. Do not wait for people to say it. Do it for the sake of Allah SWT. Only for the sake of Allah SWT. Don't have expectations of people. If you do, you will get miserable if they don't fulfill your expectations. Keep your words, keep your deeds pure. Keep your heart pure. Nothing in our heart except the love of Allah SWT. Nothing in our heart except the love of Sayyidina Muhammad SAW. Nothing in our heart except the love for the Qur'an. This is our sustenance. This what will help us when we have troubles. This what will help us when we are tested. Life is full of tests. If we have Allah in our heart, if we have his messenger in our heart, if we have the Qur'an in our heart, then this is what will make us strong when we need the strength. At the time of turbulences, we have power in our heart that will make us powerful. That will make us powerful. There is no associate to Allah SWT. So Allah SWT says in one of the Hadith Al-Qudusi, أول أخلق جنة ولا نار أول است أهلالي أعبت. If I did not create paradise, if I did not create hellfire, am I not, do I not deserve to be worshiped? Do I not deserve to be worshipped? Look at all the blessings that Allah SWT has given us. Eyes, we can see everything. Hands, ears, feet, we can walk everywhere. Just imagine those people who are deprived of some of these blessings. They would give all their wealth just to get it back if they can. So Allah SWT gave us these blessings. Shouldn't we thank him for that? And this, look at the way that Allah SWT has connected the beginning of the Surah with the end of the Surah. Allah has created everything good for us. So what do we have to do? We have to say Alhamdulillah. And if you go back to the first words of the Surah, it's Alhamdulillah. Powerful Surah. Amazing Surah. A Surah that's full of light. And this is why Sayyidina Muhammad SAW says, Whoever reads Surah Al-Kaf in the day of the Friday, will shine from the light between him and the two Friday. Whoever reads Surah Al-Kaf on Friday, on the day of Friday, there will be, there will, he will eliminate. Light will be in front of him between the two Jum'ahs, the two Fridays. Try not to miss reading Surah Al-Kaf, insha'Allah. And now that we have gone over just, just so some signs of Surah Al-Kaf, just when you read it, just think of the meanings that you learned. Think of the ayahs, think of the stories that we talked about. And thank Allah SWT that now there is a higher level. When you read this Surah, you are at a higher level, understanding you are at a higher level, level connecting with Allah SWT. And with this, we come to the end of going over of some of the meanings that are in this Surah. And of course, we need more, way more than 10 sessions to talk about this Surah. But this was a very quick overview of Surah Al-Kaf. Thank you.