 وعلى أله التيبين الطاهرين ماسمين المظلومين، أما بعد فقد قال الله سبحانه وتعالى في كتاب المجيد وقول له الحق وهو أستغصادقين اسم الله رحمان الرحيم ذلك الكتاب ألف لا أميم ذلك الكتاب لا ريبة فيهداً للمتقين الذين يؤمنون بالغيب ويقيمون الصلاة ومن ما رزقناهم ينفقون والذين يؤمنون بما أنزل إليك وما أنزل من قبلك وبالآخرة هم يؤمنون صدق الله العلي العظيم صلاة وعالى محمد وآل محمد all praise belongs to Allah سبحانه وتعالى the almighty God as you know Allah is the Arabic expression of the God the universal God whom Christians Jews all people who believe in God they will say when Christians in church do mass in Arabic you will see that they will use the word Allah also because that's the universal name of God and in Arabic it means the God he is the almighty the absolute the infinite and without his existence none of us can exist and our sustenance and maintenance in existence is only possible due to his existence and our eternity is only possible due to his eternity and therefore everything about us that has come into existence is only purely due to his presence and what's so beautiful about the almighty God is that he's absolutely good and infinitely merciful and therefore whatever he creates even if it appears to be negative in our eyes due to our myopic perspectives we conclude that actually it's all for the greater good because our trials and tribulations which have been created by God in other words the potentials for such trials and tribulations actually do strengthen us as you know as we as human beings know that we know friends after difficulties we know values of people after they struggle we admire heroes due to terrible tragedies and you find that the negatives actually are the springboard of all that is really pushing everything in the positive direction and God has allowed negatives to exist precisely so that we understand the difference between right and wrong and that we through our limited free will make sure that we avoid the negatives just like a student taking an exam the teacher will give them five multiple possible answers four are negative one is positive but we don't say the teacher is negative we don't say the teacher is evil in fact we understand the gravity of the exam that when the negatives are there and the objective of the student is to avoid the negatives and therefore they get rewarded should they take the positives that is where the real springboard of progress comes forth for if negatives did not exist then we would not understand the values of positives and the relative being this we are it's only possible for us to understand the nature of things through such what we call dichotomies or opposites so we should never be disappointed that negatives exist in the world we should not be disappointed that why does a merciful God allow such negatives to exist we should never question such integrities because God has endowed us with sufficient abilities to prevent those negatives that take place if you examine human tragedy on earth it doesn't occur primarily due to natural disasters if you really look at the number of people that die on natural disasters it's a very small percentage human beings die daily not due to natural disasters but due to human misdeeds Allah says indeed God does not do injustice to His creation in Allah He doesn't do injustice to mankind and of course Allah doesn't do injustice to any of His creation but here specifically God is talking about mankind rather it is mankind who does injustice to themselves if we look even at natural disasters you will find that usually it's the people who are in the lower economic strata who are the ones who die the most in natural disasters the wealthy usually don't die in natural disasters not because nature has a way to sift out the poor from the rich when it attacks but rather it's the rich that have already known the dangers of nature and have taken the higher positions to ensure that their lives are safe and therefore we have ignored the poor ones and put them in peril and in states of difficulty and then we complain why did these people die when God is questioning us why did you not elevate their status when you went up the mountains why did you not take them higher from the flood zones why did you not help them build homes that can sustain earthquakes and if you look at wars just in world war 2 60 million people were killed where in the annals of history do you find nature eliminating 60 million people it's not the case we find that we are the cause and in the judgment days we will question us and said you had the ability to stock most of the negatives on earth why did you not do it الله says indeed Allah does not change the affairs of a community until the community changes themselves first meaning God is saying you are divinely endowed with the ability to prevent danger and mishaps and problems in society what have you done to change your affairs God helps those who help themselves as they say it's so true because if we do not utilize the gifts that God has given us then we will be liable we are liable الله says on that day we will question you what did you do with my gifts and mercy so these conversations is for us to understand first of all the grand picture of things is that God is merciful and the negatives exist due to his mercy ومن شر ما خلق الله says and by the evil which he created meaning the potential for negation of good exists and let me define briefly what is good good is everything that God creates فتبارك الله أحسن الخالق everything in the universe that exists from the subatomic particle to the grand structures you will find they are all good there is no such thing as evil in the tangible five sense of the word try it fire explosions implosions physics chemistry biology everything is good show me what's not good tell me the sky the earth the seas the waves the tsunamis the earthquakes the volcanoes they are all good they are needed just don't be there when the tsunami is happening and just don't jump into a volcano you go it's the law of physics right God fixes it so we know that everything God creates is good then what is evil you will find evil by definition is the willful rejection of good when you and I willfully reject good it becomes evil if something does not have a free will choice partial of any type you will find such an act is exempt from evilness for example if two objects collide due to the physics of things there were two hills and there were rocks on the hill and the law of physics states that if it has enough momentum and it starts to move downward that they will move in the direction they've been designed to do الحمد لله they do that if those did not do what they did then you and I would not be able to utilize the principles of physics to do what we normally do imagine our cars are built around physics and if physics was to change we would be in peril in danger we as human beings grow and our bones grow based on the gravitational force of earth at 9.8 meters per second squared it's designed that way if we go to the moon our bones will atrophy they will brittle why? because the forces of gravity there are much less than here and our bones are designed to grow based on the physics so if God were to stop this physics then we would suffer so the physics of two rocks rolling down a hill is nature and let us say there's a car passing by and the rocks collide onto the car and kill the passengers in the car we say what an evil act there is no evil in it for that was purely an accident even in the courts of law if you establish something to be accidental even intelligent beings who know how to decide their own destinies will tell you that if something did not have a willful intent to commit the evil act then it comes under the jurisdiction of an accident and accidents are exempt from any accusations so we don't say it's evil when tsunamis take place and people die you don't see how the tsunami was evil it's a physical law and the law states that if you are in it there's a chance you will be damaged there's nothing evil about it when you smash something there's nothing evil about it but if the intent is to smash someone if the intent is to kill someone if the intent is to harm someone and if the intent is to take somebody away from the good that they were destined for then that act would be deemed evil because there was a willful intent to stop progress to stop tranquility to stop harmony to stop growth we call that evil so we agree if you use basic rational logic evil only exists when free will exists if you remove free will everything becomes the act of God and then there's no one to judge and hence the day of judgment doesn't exist but the day of judgment doesn't exist الله clearly stated إن الذين آمنوا والذين هادوا والنصارة والصابئين من آمن بالله واليوم الآخر وعمل صالح فالهم عجروا من ربهم لا خوف عليهم ولا يحزنوا indeed Allah says with the believers إن الذين آمنوا والذين هادوا والنصارة والسابئين والصابئين وضعوا أن تصدروا من ربهم واليوم الآخر وفعلوا جيدا لكي لا يوجد خوف ولا يحزنوا ولا يحزنوا وانتظروا من ربهم القرآن يصدروا من ربهم انه جميل كرآن يصدر ماذا are the criteria why the day of judgment why can't I just believe in God God says you are under trial and your free will is under observation and if you did not have free will there would be no need for a day of judgment so prove positive the only reason you and I must believe in the day of judgment is so that you and I hold ourselves liable in the sense of our responsibilities as a creation of God and out with the responsibility to be promoters of good and demoters of evil صلى الله عليه وسلم it's very important what I'm speaking about right now is very essential for us to understand because when we really bring this to focus a lot of our anxieties dissatisfactions confusions what we call temporal agnosticism that we all tend to go towards sometimes wondering if God is really there or if he's there we wonder if he's really good or if he's really good we wonder if he's really hearing us etc. all these feed into our what we call mistrust distrust into our attitude of uncertainty so Allah in سلطة البقرة says ذلك الكتاب لا ريب فيه ودل المتقيم الذين يؤمنون بالغيب ويقيمون الصلاة ومن ما رزقناهم ينفقون الله ستبدأ the second chapter of the Quran by saying in this book there is no doubt who are they? for those who are God conscious who protect themselves from the evils of the world متقيم are people who are aware of the dangers and the evils of society and they take every measure in life to avoid themselves from going towards evil because they know their free will is being tested and they know that the Almighty God is observing them and they know that they have the ability to dictate their own future they have the ability to dictate their own successes and failures and therefore they take every possible measure with vigilance to ensure that they do not go towards the wrong side like a student who is very good ensures that they don't put the wrong answers in a test why? because they are vigilant they will look over did I put this right answer? hold on maybe I did it wrong Shaytan the evil forces comes and puts doubt in us and Allah says ملك الناس من شر الوصواص الخناص say I seek refuge in the Lord the Lord of mankind ملك الناس the master of mankind اله الناس the God of mankind من شر الوصواص الخناص from the evil whisperings of the devil الذي يوصوص في صدور الناس this being and his cohorts meaning humans too are ever so ready to whisper negatives into our ears in order to take us from the path of God isn't it true? you and I are all subject to that the whisperings of people to try to dissuade us from doing good things it's an irony of life when we should all get together to promote each other towards good how often the human race whisper negatives into their peers ears in order to prevent them from progressing because that individual who is whispering the negatives has decided to be regressive and they don't want to be alone in their regression so they whisper into the ears of others to join them into a larger audience so that they don't feel as guilty sad Allah says من شر الوصواص الخناص how do we remove the شر this conversation as an example that we look at certainty and we look at the principles of good vs evil and we go into these observations and say that is true is there really holistic evilness now by the way some people argue that we don't have free will God has predestined everything just a quick update on this there is no such thing as totality of predestination predestination is in its limited form meaning God has decreed our existence the earth the physics of the universe our shape is human beings all of the things you and I cannot change our birth dates you know our humanity our inability to breathe underwater without an apparatus these are all predestined and those are not subject to questioning on judgment day is the power of the free will that you and I can exercise which is the moral judgments we make of good vs evil choices that will be questioned on judgment day and Allah is warning us that be careful of that do not negate each other for your skin colors do not negate each other for your economic differences do not negate each other due to your gender differences male vs female do not God says يا يهن ناس إن خلقناكم من ذكر و أنثة و جعلناكم شعوبا و قبائلة لتعارفوا أكرمكم إن الله يتقاكم oh mankind we have made you male in female nations and tribes so you know each other لتعارفوا meaning these are beautiful creations أردت أنك يجب أن تقوم بشكل موضوع لن أساعد with a liar لن أساعد with a thief لن أساعد with a criminal لن أساعد with a troublemaker لن أساعد لن أحب أحب أعادة لن أحب أعادة أعادة أعادة أحب أعادة أعادة أعادة أعادة أحبهم هذه المساعدة أنت و أنت لجب أن أفعل لأنها مردية لا يوجد أجناء يوجد أجناء و الله يقول من أعمن بالله و اليوم الأخر إعادة أنك تعتقدون في الله و يجب أن تفعل جيدات ما are the good deeds the principles of God promote justice and equity on earth يا إيه الذين أعمنوا كون قوامين لله شهداء بالقسط ولا يجري منكم شناءان قوم على أن لا تعدلوا إعدلوا هو أقرب للتقوى أحب هذه المساعدة لذلك للمائية المساعدة number 8 when God says all mankind all believers here and when Allah addresses believers He's addressing mankind but He's addressing the leaders of mankind the believers يا إيه الذين أعمنوا كون قوامين لله maintain the justice among the people قوم in maintain justice in your community and do not let a hatred of one against the other skew your necessity for justice this is on the trial on judgment day ولا يجري منكم شناءان قوم على أن لا تعدلوا that you should not be just because you have a vengeance and a hatred stop whispering negatives into people's ears block them when people whisper negatives stop it question it excuse me where did you get this from what's your proof where's your evidence huh when I heard it go find it don't share and spread this Chinese whisper for it's going to become something else tomorrow and many a people will be harmed Allah says لا يختب بعضكم بعضا do not back bite each other احب أحدكم أن يأكل لحم أخيه maintain do you like to eat the flesh of your dead brother فكرهتموا it's disgusting واتقوا الله be conscious and be aware of the negatives and avoid them واتقوا الله in سوت البقرة Allah says there is no doubt ذلك الكتاب لا ريب فيه ودل المتقين those who are God conscious who are they الذين يؤمنون بالغيب they believe in the unseen because they are rational they know the future is powerful and God's knowledge of the future does not mean that he dictated our destinies no God knows everything he has no future please understand that God has no future and I stress it God has no time God created time he created space he created matter let's not put him in it he is beyond it so how does God know my future that's different from saying how does God know the future even that implies that he is also experiencing time for how does he know tomorrow I don't know tomorrow how does he know don't be fooled by that simplest there are many many arguments to prove the point that free will exist one simple one God is all good we've established this in this conversation 100% there is no doubt in it so whatever God does is good therefore whatever God does has no evil we all agree it's logical follow the logic but evil exists and evil practices are pervasive on this earth and if God had predestined everything for us to do what we were supposed to do then technically there should be no evil and our naming these things as evil is absurd but we know that evil exists and people do perform evil so therefore it's only logical to say that God has commissioned that existence only due to the willful rejection of good in the limited free will he has given us proof positive that free will exists صلى الله عليه وسلم the argument is yakeem how do I get certainty you will notice that in society socially we love people who are confident we love confidence even if their choices are wrong in times of tragedies and difficulties we love leaders who appear confident they may make wrong choices but there is a sense of calmness when we know there is somebody in the room that is confident now the self projected confidence shows itself very easily we are talking about confidence where people make choices as directors of corporations who have a very clear vision of what they want to execute for tomorrow we love it I know people when you study them they love to be around confident people even in marriage relations you will find women love confident men and men love confident women because confidence is a sign of tranquility it's a sign of hope it's a sign of strength you may be wrong in your vision but at least you are driven by it at least you are committed towards it at least you are adamant towards it isn't that good who is the best human being the one who has confidence in the divine in the divine system the one who not only knows what to do for tomorrow's business or the children that they will bear or the homes that they will build but for eternity they have confidence for eternity as I mentioned last week actually I mentioned on Thursday I mentioned that Islam is a religion that has the roadmap for eternity nobody in the world I promise us Christians, Jews they are very close to among the Abrahamic faiths very close to Islam but when you look at the core principles of religion nothing with all due respect to all the other religions comes even close for the purity of the oneness of God to maintain it and to really understand how it works because nobody has got it with all due respect except Islam when I debate atheists they sweat because they don't know how to capture توحيد but if you believe God in the sun who died on a cross it's easy if you believe God chooses you as a special group of people in the resta that's supposed to be the scum of the earth it's easy if you believe there are millions of God it's easy if you believe God can be born and dies it's easy as an atheist to defeat them but when you have pure monotheism and that monotheism is the driving force of all temporal events and the absolute is so conspicuously ubiquitously present in everything you and I look at Subhanallah God says يقين have certainty and then chart your ways for tomorrow and you will see how amazing your life will be so I'm going to conclude within the time that I have in the 10-15 minutes from Surat Al-Waqa as I was mentioning as I touched Surat Al-Baqarah today who are these people who have yaqeen they believe in the unseen unseen my brothers and sisters requires these kinds of conversation why does evil exist why do I exist why do people die why do babies die we all have such questions every one of us even atheists will argue if God were to be there why did he allow all these children to die why did he allow Hitler to expand his powers why do we allow tyrants of the world today to succeed why does God not stop them what are you doing to stop it don't sit around and ask God to do things when the greatest gift God has given us is our free will if you and I do not practice it God says on judgment day I will raise you blind deaf and dumb and we will ask God but I had eyes when I was on earth I could hear when I was on earth Allah says you didn't use it when I gave it to you so now I've raised you deaf dumb and blind because you abused my gifts that means you and I must carefully administer within ourselves certainty projections towards the positive now I may sound a bit too idealistic here but not at all on a day to day basis every move you and I make do it with certainty but how do you gain real certainty when you have the roadmap to eternity and you must take into account the divine message for without the divine message you and I will not know what to do with life you and I will be good in temporal ways but you and I will fall you know I was just reading an article today Anthony Robbins is a famous motivational speaker guy is a billionaire very motivating extremely motivating if you listen to him he basically says anybody can do anything they want and I agree with him and many of the things he says are brilliant but do you notice how he talks is crass and vulgar filled with filthy words it's an indicator that this man is angry I thought you're supposed to be with tranquility when you speak this way but people are longing for motivation they don't care if you use vulgarity as long as you can inspire me and recently he's been accused of sexual harassment 20 people have come forth similar to what the other giants people like Charlie Rose Bernstein and all these Hollywood moguls giants in society making hundreds of millions people like Bill O'Reilly making hundreds of millions of dollars but they lack the eternal vision their vision is stamped with time and they think they are so powerful like Pharaoh do you see how powerful I am look at them bowing to me and I tell them I'm God and they bow to me and Musa comes with his staff he says didn't God dress you better than this look at me how nicely dressed I am with gold and silver and Musa taps his staff on the floor he says my staff is enough confident why? because he's got the eternal roadmap Pharaoh doesn't now he's being accused and accusers have come forth in so many ways that he is somebody who has many many bad characteristics in terms of his behavior with women you can't talk about it on this pulpit it's a shameful thing so you would think well you're so motivated what happened to your morals now I'm not pointing a finger at him or poking in his eyes all of us including myself are saying that we have the means by which to reach tranquility and harmony with certainty then it better show in our modesty and it better show in our behavior and if it doesn't then there's something intrinsically wrong with what we're saying اللهمة قولونة ما لا تفعلون كبرت مقتن اندى الله ان تقولونة ما لا تفعلون يتكلمون لله أنت تقول انها ما لا تفعلون تقولونة ما لا تفعلون يتكلمون بشخص أسر our prophets have told us our Ima have told us act on it and the world will follow you so we need to be a confident society we need to have a vision and understand the divine mercy of God and we need to come to terms with the fact that God has blessed us with free will and it is upon us to decide our own destiny and let not the whisperings of the negatives sway us from the path of God and let us be vigilant and persistent on a constant basis to be upright as Allah says لا تلقيهم تجارة ولا بيع عن ذكر الله ويقام الصلاة ويتاء الزكاة يخافون يوما تتقلب and notice again who are these people they have an eternal roadmap يخافون يوما تتقلب فيه القلوب والبصار they are afraid of that day they know there is a day of judgment they know they will be liable do you and I have it let's read the Quran and you will see briefly within the time that I have that in surah number 56 and I've recited some of it but I'll continue with it because I was reading it the other night I couldn't stop reading this surah over and over and I've recited it to the point where I memorized it but it's like I just read it first time and I kept looking at it this is the surah that I know like oh my God how little I know and it's exposing things to me that I never imagined was there and God says come I will teach you something and this knowledge will seep into your heart and it will strengthen you الله says إيمانا مع إيمانهم we will increase your faith upon your faith but study it understand it this is my roadmap hold on to it the whispering of society will try to take you away from this path watch out and you know what's beautiful and I'll just generalize it and then I'll talk about it is that the majority of the human race how many times we've been told no oh no brother the majority will enter hell even barker told me in the debate he said how's the name all the people according to your religions they're going to hell there's going to be a lot more parties over there a lot more social activities there look barker is telling me that and there'll be very few in paradise you know to make it in there oh my God so when you and I think that way yeah you see where it loses anyway and shaitan says exactly so it matters what fun here I mean you're going to get doomed there anyway so why bother you're not going to make it anyway so go for the materials go for the palaces be Machiavelli rob and cheat get it now enjoy it better now الله says in Quran he fools you so you might say brother what do you mean by that well let's understand that there is there are stations in paradise low stations and high stations don't forget that God is merciful now please I'm saying this with sincerity if you want to be and myself foolish go for the lesser everything you and I do in life we want the best if I can get something better why shouldn't I get it so don't go for the lesser so if you know there are low stations of paradise but there are also high stations of paradise don't say well as long as I get into the low stations I'm happy as long as I avoid hell don't do that please that mentality is self negating the mercy of God الله says now you strive to get to the finest it's your choice and if you decide to go to hell and Allah says it those who go to hell want to go to hell they don't go to hell because they don't want it when a human being does not want to go to hell common sense do you think they will ever enter hell logically of course not when you want to survive who have seen their children stuck under a car because they don't want their children to die have lifted an entire car and got the child out how does a mother lift a car men and women put together cannot lift a car but when you want something you get it as they say necessity is the mother of all inventions so in conclusion to this Allah says when you enter hell it's because you wanted it and in fact Allah asks that when they are about to be thrown in hell the angels are looking at them like what are you doing here how did you get here after all the mercies of God after 124,000 prophets after all the scriptures given unto you after all the representatives of God who guided you, protected you did everything good for you how did you get here they're asking didn't want to come to you قالوا بلا قد جعنا نظير فقد دبنا وقلنا ما نزل الله من شيء we belied these prophets when they came we told them no there was no revelation وقلنا ما نزل الله من شيء إن انتم إلا فيه ضلال كبير وقالوا لو كنا نسمعوا أو نعقلوا ما كنا فيه أسهاب الساعة if only we paid attention and followed and taken heed to the warnings we would not be in this state ما كنا فيه أسهاب الساعة فعترفوا بذنبهم they will recognize their evils فعترفوا بذنبهم and God says I am furthest away from them so you and I have to make that decision the beauty of سوت الواقية الله describes three groups وكنت مزواجا ثلاثة أسهابل ميمنا أسهابل وصابقون three groups you and I should zone on the third group but Allah says ثلاثة من الأولين وقليل من الأخيرين let me describe this very briefly God now is talking about those who are the foremost of the foremost and they will enter paradise without being questioned as you know by the way as I mentioned the other day you and I were created for paradise we were not created for hell but because God is merciful and He has given us free will Allah allows us to go there if we wanted meaning hell otherwise we were not created for it it's the truth if you read the Quran you will see it even Haj Ahmad when you recited the ayah today Allah says they will enter hell even hell Allah says they will remain in it for a time they will purify themselves if needed the ones who want to stay in it will stay in it forever he says the one who even if he is removed from hell after a long time continues to reject God will be the one who will remain in hell forever God is too merciful so Allah says the third group special who are they they say the third group صابقون are the foremost when Allah says there will be plenty ثلت من الأولين وقليل من الأخرين then when God talks about the people of Ashab el yameen the ones who will enter paradise Allah says ثلت من الأولين وقليل من الأولين وقليل من الأخرين will describe that another time in my next presentation what does it mean that there's many in the in the earlier stages and less the words صابقون are people who are proactive agents who run towards good and they don't waste time they don't wait for the dust to settle they don't wait for things to get into hype movement bandwagons and then they join the good God said صابقون here are always pushing and moving خديجة عليه السلام as soon as the prophet god revelation she said I am your follower the first woman to accept Islam she didn't wait like let me think about it although she was already a muslim by the way all the bannuha she never worshiped idols they were all believers in god but the prophet declaring himself as the final prophet is a choice of shahada choice we make and you find that خديجة immediately accepted it interestingly Imam عليه السلام was a young boy immediately accepted it why? no hesitation so Allah says there are plenty of those who are in the beginning stages the ones who move fast who don't waste time they will be so foremost they will enter paradise and you will be in such beautiful places that Allah is talking about the couches that he talks about for example أولاك المقربون في جنات عين ثلت من الأولين وقليل من الأخيرين على صور موضونا decorated thrones متكين عليها متقابلين reclining on them facing one another socially it's not a sad place it's full of being around the worshipers of god we'll talk about that too يتوفوا عليهم ولدانهم وخلدون you will see youth never aging meaning angels around you as mates بيكوابن وبارق وكأسن من معين you'll be drinking magnificent drinks لا يصدعون عنها ولا ينزفون no headaches no tiredness وفاكث منما يتخيرون you will eat all kinds of fruits ولا بطيرين ما يشتهون the flesh of fowl it will be all delicious وحور عين you will have mates who are so beautiful كأمثال المكنون the like of hidden pearls جزاء بما كانوا يعملون a reward for using your free will to avoid evil and to promote good I'm paraphrasing لا يسمعون فيها لغوة ولا تأثيمة you will not hear vain talk not even sinful discourse إلا قيلاً سلاماً except peace for how long? eternity وصحاب اليمين ما أصحاب اليمين and the people of the right hand who are they في استدر مخدود amid thornless loat trees this is a big discussion thornness loat trees so magnificent there are no thorns in it very smooth you will love being around them وطلحين مندود trees with large leaves some call it banana trees as an example one above the other وضل مندود extended shades وما إن مسكوب water flowing constantly وفاكيتين كثيرة لا مقتوات ولا ممنوع وفاكيتين لا يفعل ولا يفعل يعني كل شيء هو حلال وفرشين مرفوى اكسلت ثرون إن أنشعنا هنننشاءة سبباً لقد قمنا بشكل جديد يعني when we die لقد قمنا بشكل جديد في العالم الثاني هذا هو القرآن فجعلنا هنن أبكارة ثم قمنا بشكل جديد صحيح أغرقناها بر Charlotte أغرقنا اغرقنا وطعاننا how many of you they are they are you were you were you were I was me me me me me all you were I was I was I was I was نحن نتحدث عن الناس لن يتحدث عن هذه الصورة about the numbers و أصحاب الشمال now God takes me and shows me what hell is ما أصحاب الشمال what will make you know the people of the wretchedness the ones who think في سروم و حميم in hot winds and boiling water و ذل من يحمود and shades of black smoke they will be in shades but it will be black smoke لا باردن ولا كريم it's neither cool nor honorable إنهم كانوا قبل ذلك مترفين surely they were before that made to live in ease and plenty they were having fun on this earth cheating lying stealing destroying people Allah says now they're going to get what they deserve و كانوا يصرون على الحنث العظيم they persisted in great violation و كانوا يقولون عذامتنا و كنا طرابا و عذامنا إنا لما بعثون and they used to say listen to this and I end with this what when we die and they've become dust and bones we will be raised again now there's no life after death we all turn to dust و ذرب الله مثلا و الناس يأخلق قال من يحيي العظام وهي رميم قل يحيي الذي انشاءها أول مرة they asked how will we be raised again God says you were nothing before and I created you isn't that a bigger question you should be asking for when you are dust you come back it's a secondary question you did not exist هل أتا على الإنسان حين من الدهري لم يكن شيئا مذكورا لماذا تكلمين؟ now you are asking how will you come back this the person who says this has no eternal roadmap they say when we die everything dies the moral system dies the whole system dies God says your morality has to depend on eternity has to be dependent on the day of judgment has to depend on rewards and punishment otherwise the moral argument falls apart God says who are the ones who will enter paradise the ones who believe in the day of judgment the ones who do good deeds the ones who have a mental image because what happens after that you become certain and when you have certainty you will make wise choices and when you make wise choices you become a blessing for humanity and yourself may Allah give us the tawfiq insha'Allah but in this month of Ramadan while you and I are fasting these are the thoughts we should have and every handshake every salam every business dealing every human being we touch don't forget it's being recorded and that there is a written document that will come to us on judgment day it's what isra'Allah says كتابك كفا بنفسك read that book that has been put on yourself read it it is your act amazing and I tell you in all the years of my life studying and traveling and debating and going to even some of the most prestigious academic institution to speak to scholars nothing equals these conversations nothing وآخر الدعون الحمد لله رب العالمين والسلام عليكم جميعا ورحمة الله وبركاته اسم الله رحمان الرحيم اللهم إنا نرغب إليك في دولة كريمة here we are asking God to give us a good government دولة كريمة تعز بها الإسلام وأهلا meaning it becomes the standard for mankind with justice وتضل بها النفاق وأهلا and to debase the troublemakers the ones who create trouble in society وتجعلنا فيها من الدعات لا تعتك give us from what we seek from you that is good for us والقادة لا سبيلك وترزقنا بها وتدنيا والآخر give us from your mercy from your grace in this world and in the next وآخر الدعون الحمد لله رب العالمين سلام عليكم جميعا ورحمة الله وبركاته we have iftar of course we will have salah you are more than welcome to join us we will be honored with your presence thank you so much السلام عليكم