 As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim, As-salatu wa As-salamu ala Sayyidina, wa Nabihina Muhammadin, wa ala Ali, wa Safi, wa Sanim. Ya Rabbana lakal hamdu kama yambaghili jalali wa jika wa a'zimi sultanik. Allahumma ya muqaliba al-kulubi wa al-absar. Fabbat kuluban al-Adeena. Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim. Insha'Allah, today we have the second part of the Tafsir Surat Ar-Rahman. Last time we stopped at 26, so we will go on, insha'Allah. Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim. Kullum an-na alayhi hafan. So everyone up on the earth will perish. So we are all going to die. We are all going to return to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. So Allah says in several Suras about, he talked about death and he told us that everyone is dying. Kullu nafsin da'iqatu al-mout wa innama tuwa fauna ujurakum yawm al-qiyamah. Fa manzuh ziha ani nnari wa udhikhilal jannata faqad i'faz wa mal-hayatu al-dunya illa mata'u al-ghurur. So every soul will taste death and you will only be given your full compensation on the day of resurrection. So he who is drawn away from the fire and admitted to paradise has attained his desire. And what is the life of this world except the enjoyment of delusion? So get prepared. We are all going to return to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. When we want to go on a journey, we pack food, we pack clothes, we pack whatever necessities we need, we pack a lot of things. Even though we know that we are going to come back, but for the journey we have to get prepared. Now the journey that we are going to go to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala it's a one-way journey. We're not going to come back. The second death comes to us, that's it. Our day of judgment will start. وَيَدْقَا وَجْهُ رَبِّكَ زُلْجَلَالِ وَالْإِكْرَامَ And your Lord, full of majesty and honor, will abide forever. So the word face, وَجْهُ, means the being. So Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala is going to be there forever. But people will die, people will perish. Whatever Allah has created will perish. But he is Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala who is staying and he never dies. His life never began, never ends. وَيَدْقَا وَجْهُ رَبِّكَ زُلْجَلَالِ وَالْإِكْرَامَ فَا بِأَيْ آلَى إِرَبِّكُ مَا تُكَذِبَانَ So which of the blessings of your Lord would you deny? وَلَا بِواحِدَ لَكَ الشُكْرُ يَأْلَّى Not with any. Thank you Allah. So these are, what Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala is saying here, these are blessings also to be mentioned. يَسْأَلُهُ مَنْ فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْبِ قُلَّ يَوْمِنْ هُوَ فِي شَانِ Whoever is within the heavens and the earth asks Him. Every day He is bringing about a matter, such as giving honor to some people, disgracing some people, giving life to some people, taking the life of others. فَا بِأَيْ يِعْلَى إِرَبِّكُ مَا تُكَذِبَانَ So which of these blessings of your Lord would you deny? None. Ya Allah. We thank you. Ya Allah. So. سَلُفْرِغُ لَكُمْ اَيْوهَثْتَقَلَانَ We shall attend to you. Oh you two classes which are the jinn and men. And Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ was revealed too for all humans, even for jinn and men. بُعِثْتُ لِأهلِ الثقَلَينَ So this is a threatening from Allah ﷻ. There will be a day of reckoning. Get prepared. فَا بِأَيْ يِعْلَى إِرَبِّكُ مَا تُكَذِّبَانَ So which of the blessings of your Lord would you deny? نَمْ يَا اللهَ أَلْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ يَا مَعْشَرَ الجِنِّ وَالْإِنْسِ إِنْ إِسْتَطَعْتُمْ أنْ تَنْفُذُمْ مِنْ أَقْطَارِ السَّمَا وَاتِ وَالْأَرضِ فَمْفُذُمْ لَا تَنْفُذُونَ إِلَّا بِسُلْطَانَ Oh jinn and mankind. If you are able to pass beyond the zones, beyond the regions of the heaven and the earth, then pass. But you will not pass except by authority from Allah. Now I want you just to think of how the ayah starts. يَا مَعْشَرَ الجِنِّ وَالْإِنْسِ جِنِّ and mankind. Now, why do you think the word jinn was mentioned before mankind? The answer is jinn are lighter than humans. Do you remember the story of Sayyidina Sulaiman, alaihi s-salam, when the hood-hood, when the bird was absent for some time? And Sayyidina Sulaiman said, I will punish him severely or slaughter him unless he brings me clear authorization. Why? Where is he? What was he doing? So when the hood-hood came to Sayyidina, the bird of Sayyidina Sulaiman came back to him. He told him, and we are reading now from Surah An-Naml, I found a woman ruling them, ruling a group of people. And she has been given all the things, all the power, and she has a great throne. Not only this, this is okay, but this is okay. And she has a great throne. Not only this, this is okay, but the main point is that I found her and her people prostrating to the sun instead of Allah. Here Sayyidina Sulaiman, what did he say? He said, Sayyidina Sulaiman said, Oh assembly of Jinn, which of you will bring me her throne before they come to me in submission? So what happened? This is my point. This is my example. This is why I wrote this story. He said, A powerful one amongst the Jinn said, I will bring it to you before you rise from your place. But another one, I will bring it to you before you rise from your place. And one Jinn who had the knowledge from this scripture said, I will bring it to you before your glance returns to you. If you blink your eye and open it, this is the time, the time that this action needs is more than what this Jinn can do. What about the humans that were there? So this was my point. Why was the Jinn first? The humans did not speak. La tanfuzuna illa bi sultan. You will not pass except by authority from Allah SWT. And this authority, this power is the one that Allah SWT with it permitted Sayyidina Muhammad SAW to go up into the skies during his marriage journey. There should be authority from Allah. There should be an order. There should be a permission from Allah if we want to do anything in our life. If you want to move your hand up and down, there should be a permission to do that. So which of the signs, which of the blessings of your Lord would you deny? Naniya Allah. Alhamdulillah. Yursal wa alaykumash wazum min narim wa nuhasum falatan tasiran. There will be sent upon you smokeless flames of fire. And you will not be able to defend yourselves. Fa bi ayyi ala i rabbi kumatu kadhiban. Fa idhan shaqqatis sama'u fa kana twardatan kaddihan. Now we are going to talk about what will happen. The unbelievable things that will happen on the day of judgment. One point is that the sky, what will happen it? Fa idhan shaqqatis sama'u. If the heaven is split open. Fa kana twardatan kaddihan. And became rose colored like oil. We know that in suratul in shiqaq Allah swt starts with idhas sama'un shaqqat. When the sky split open. In suratul in fitar Allah says idhas sama'un fatarat. When the sky breaks apart. This will happen. Fa bi ayyi ala i rabbi kumatu kadhiban. So which of the blessings of your lord would you deny? Nann ya Allah alhamdulillah. Fa yawma idhin la yusalu an dhanbihi inson walajan. Then on that day, none will be asked about his sin among men or jinn. Allah swt will give us the explanation in the next ayah. But let's stop here for a second. So here Allah swt is saying that none will be asked about his sins. But in suratul sanfaat Allah would say wa qifoum inna hum masooloon. Stop them. They will be questioned. Here none will be asked about their sins. So how can we understand both ayahs? To know, to understand this, we have to understand a little bit about the Arabic language. About the eloquency of the Arabic language. In Arabic, when you ask a question, questions in general have two positions. The student will ask the teacher to learn from him, to know the answer. But when the teacher asks the student, he doesn't want to learn from the student, but he wants to know if he has understood the answer that he gave him earlier. Allah swt will not ask people to take information from them. But he will ask them to make sure that they understood what's going to be waiting for them. This is by itself a big blessing from Allah swt that he's explaining to people what they will face in the day of judgment. What will be waiting for them in the day of judgment. This is why Allah will not ask them because the sinners will be known by their marks, by their signs, by their black faces. So they will be taken by their heads, by their forelocks, and by their feet. They will be hauled and they will be thrown in the hellfire. Allah swt explains this. They will be known by their marks in Surat Ali Imran, when he says, On the day of judgment, some faces will turn white, will have light, and some faces will turn black. To those whose faces turn black will be said, Did you disbelieve after you believe? Then taste the punishment for what you used to reject. So their marks, their black faces show, indicate that they are the people of hellfire. They will be taken from their heads, they will be raised from their heads and their feet, and they will be thrown in hellfire. Normally the forehead indicates dignity, indicates how powerful, how honored a person is, but they will not be honored. They will be dishonored in the day of judgment, those criminals. So which of the blessings of you, Lord, would you deny? And again, I'm reminding you of this. When Sayyidina Muhammad SAW asked this question to the jinn, this was their answer. We will not deny any Alhamdulillah. And this is when Sayyidina Muhammad SAW told the companions when he said, I read Surah al-Rahman to the jinn and they had a better reaction to it. Whenever I used to say, I used to read, they would say, Alhamdulillah. So try now, from now on, whenever you read this ayah, to say, we do not. We believe in all your blessings. We believe in all your, your, we do not deny any of them. Alhamdulillah. So Allah SWT now is saying, this is Hellfire which the criminals deny. So what would their denial benefit them? Will there be any benefit for that? Will there be any, any use that they denied? What will happen to them? This is what they are going to face. This is what they are going to see, to experiment. They did not believe in dunya. They belied the messengers. They did not believe in the message. So this is their punishment. They will go around it, they will go around between it, between it, between this fire blazing fire and sculling water, and eat it to the utmost degree. Boiling, cut water. They want to drink? Okay. Here's the drink. Boiling, cut water. Sharaabun haamiun qattah ama'a'a'ahum. Boiling water that will cut their intestines. Fabi ayi aayi rabbi kumatu kathiban. Which of the blessings of you Lord will you deny? Lanya Allah alhamdulillah. Now, our heart is trembling. But Allah SWT will not keep us like this. He's the most merciful. So whenever he talks about our punishment and what will happen to the criminals, to the bad doers, to the non-believers, then he will talk about those who feared Allah SWT and those who were good. He's the most merciful. Wali man khaafa maqana rabbi jinnatan. And for him, that person who feared the standing before Allah, there will be two gardens. Who are the people who fear Allah? These are the righteous people who have taqwa in their heart. What is taqwa? Taqwa is that Allah SWT will find you in the places where He ordered you to be and will miss you in the places He ordered you not to go to. So where are we ordered to be? The gatherings of remembering Allah SWT, the gatherings that will give us beneficial knowledge that will benefit us in our akhirah, for our akhirah. We need to be with the people who would remind us of Allah. We need to be with the people who would, when we sleep, they will correct us. They will advise us. We need to know how to choose our friends, our companions. And not only ours, but our children's. When we want to raise up good generation, we have to know who these kids are going with. Friends are so dangerous. If they are good, they will encourage your kids to do good, but if they are bad, and imagine what's going on in society these days. Imagine what type of problems we have between friends these days. We want to teach our kids to have fear of Allah SWT. So those who performed all the duties, ordained by Allah SWT, his messenger Muhammad SAW, and kept away and abstained from the different types of evil deeds, those will be highly rewarded. Ya Allah, we want to be with these people. We want to be with Sayyidna Muhammad SAW in the day of judgment. We want his love to be in our heart, that this love would prevent us from doing what unpleases Allah SWT. In Surah Al-Nazi'at, ayah 40-41, Allah SWT says, وَلِمَنْ خَافَ مَقَامَ رَبِّهِ وَلَهَا النَّفْسَ عَنِي الْهَوَةَ فَإِنَّ الْجَلَّةَ هِيَ الْمَقْوَةَ But as for who feared the position of his Lord and prevented the soul from unlawful inclination, then indeed Paradise will be his refugee. وَلِمَنْ خَافَ مَقَامَ رَبِّهِ وَنَّتَانَ So why two gardens? What is this two gardens? One of the explanations is that Allah SWT when he created all people, he prepared a place in Paradise for him, for each one and a place in Hellfire. So at the end when he is a winner, then he will have his place and he will have also the place of another person who is placed in Hellfire. It might be jinnatan two gardens, one in his grave and one in the day after. Allah is the All-Knowing. But when someone wants to do sin, especially if he is alone, no one is watching. And he remembers Allah SWT and he fears Allah SWT, he abstains from doing this sin for the sake of Allah SWT, only for the sake of Allah SWT, only because of fear to Allah SWT. This will give him the position in Jannah. Allah will highly reward this person who feared him. وَلِمَنْ خَافَ مَقَامَ رَبِّهِ For those who fear Allah SWT. So fearing Allah SWT is what we want to have always. Allah is with us. At the studio, Allah is with me. Allah is watching over me. Allah is looking at me. I feel ashamed. I cannot do a sin when I know that someone is watching me, that Allah is watching me. This is what we want to have in our hearts always. And it's so important to know that لا تنظر إلى صغر المعصية. ولكن انظر إلى من عصيت. So don't say that this is okay. This is a small sin. No. Just think, who did you disobey? So some people will not be doing just big sins and those deadly sins that will cause immediately to hellfire. No. Some people will have just small sins, small sins, small sins. They will be repenting, no asking Allah for forgiveness. So that will make them in hellfire. But those who will remember that Allah is always with us. Allah is always over watching. So those will be saved. فَا بِأَيِّ آلَا إِرَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِبَانْ So which of the blessings of your Lord would you deny? So what about these gardens? So these gardens are always spreading branches. فَا بِأَيِّ آلَا إِرَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِبَانْ So which of the blessings of your Lord would you deny? نَنْيَا اللهَ الحَمْدُرِ اللَّهَ فِيهِمَا عِلَانِ تَجْرِيَّانْ So what's in the gardens? Springs of flowing water. So the water will be flowing beneath you. Imagine this amazing thing. This amazing scene. Now if you go to nature and you see some trees with a river next to it and some mountains, flowers, you will say, سُبْحَانَ اللَّهَ. Now imagine the description of paradise. فيها مَا لَعِينُ الرَّأَت وَلَا أُذُنٌ سَمِعَت وَلَا خَطَرَ عَلَى قَلْبِ بَشَرْ There in paradise, you cannot imagine. You cannot see nothing you have seen, nothing you have heard of, nothing you can imagine. فَبِ اَيْهِ آلَاءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانْ So which of the favors, which of the blessings of your Lord would you deny? نَنْيَا وَضَّاهَ الْحَمْدُرِ اللَّهِ فيهِ مَا من كل فاكِهَةٍ زوجان In the gardens, there are two types of each fruit. Of every fruit, there are two kinds. فَبِ اَيْهِ آلَاءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانْ So which of the favors of your Lord would you deny? نَنْيَا الله مُتَّكِئِنَا عَلَى فُرُشٍ بَطَائِنُها مِنْ إِسْتَبْرَقُّ وَجَنَ الجِنَّتَينِ دَانْ There in paradise, those winners, those people who are in paradise, they are reclining on beds whose linings are of silk brocade and the fruits of the gardens are hanging low. So imagine, now you are in paradise and you have the trees, the branches are coming down and you are reclining on your bed, on your couches and suddenly you wish to have an apple and remember Allah says وَأُتُوبِهِ مُتَشَابِهَا So they will have similar things but the taste is not the same. So you are on your couch reclining, enjoying your time and you wish to have an apple. So what will happen? The branches would come down to you and you will pick up the apple and you will enjoy it. فَبِئَيْئَا نَا إِرَبِّكُمَاتُكَذِبَانِ So which of the blessings of your Lord would you deny? None, ya Allah. الحمد لله فِيهِنَّ قَاصِرَاتُ بَرْفِ لَمْ يَطْمِثْهُنَّ إِنْسٌ قَبْلَهُمْ وَلَا جَانِ And these gardens in these places where they will be enjoying there will be women and limiting glances, their glances they have not been touched before by men or jinn more favors, more bountains, more blessings فَبِئِيْئَا لَا إِرَبِّكُمَاتُكَذِبَانِ So which of these favors of your Lord would you deny? نَنْيَا اللهَ الحمد لله كَأَنَّ هُنَّ الْيَا قُوْتُ وَالْمَرْجَانِ So as if these women were rubies and corals فَبِئِيْئِيْئَا لَا إِرَبِّكُمَاتُكَذِبَانِ سُبْحَانَ اللَّهَ So this is how in beauty they are هَلْجَزَاءُ وَالْإِحْسَانِ إِلَّا الْإِحْسَانِ So Allah SWT is asking is the reward of good anything but good if someone does something good to you if you really want to recompensate you will you want to return it back So Allah is asking is the reward of good anything but good So this is what Allah SWT wants us to think of So imagine now all these blessings and imagine the heart now is understanding what will be going on Now we are very highly uplifted spiritually We want to be there Ya Allah So the journey now is what? To prepare ourselves to be there and remember no matter what good things what good deeds you do in this dunya Allah SWT with His mercy each and every one of us will enter paradise not with our deeds So why are we working hard? Sayyidina Muhammad SAW told this to his companions they asked him Ya Rasool Allah even you you will not enter paradise with your good deeds you have no sins he said wala ana not even me إلا أن يتغم مدني الله برحمته unless Allah SWT encompasses me with His mercy So everyone will get into paradise by the mercy of Allah SWT and our deeds will be where what stage what step what level we will be in paradise some people would be in the lowest rank of jannah some people will be in the middle some people will be higher some people will be with Sayyidina Muhammad SAW one of the righteous people was asked talk to us about paradise and he said they asked him talk to us make us more willing to go to jannah to be in jannah and he said فيها رسول الله Sayyidina Muhammad SAW is there so we are not worshiping Allah SWT because of fear of Hellfire or because we want to be in paradise because both are created by Allah SWT we want to be in paradise because Sayyidina Muhammad SAW is in paradise so what is paradise imagine that there is a huge big castle which is decorated with the most fanciest most expensive things in the world it is ready but to activate it Sayyidina Muhammad SAW need to be there it will not be activated if the plug is not plugged in so the jannah with everything beautiful the amazing jannah is not a jannah Sayyidina Muhammad SAW is not there so the doors of the jannah will not be open to anyone except for Sayyidina Muhammad SAW at the door of the jannah Sayyidina Muhammad SAW would knock on it and would want the doorkeeper of jannah would ask who is there and Sayyidina Muhammad SAW will say and he will happily open it and he will say I was ordered not to open the gates of jannah except for you so Sayyidina Muhammad SAW will activate the jannah for us and then his ummah will follow him so is the reward for good anything but good and then Allah SAW says so which of your blessings of your lord would you deny we believe in everything that you have sent us we believe in whatever Sayyidina Muhammad SAW has told us and has conveyed to us and we know that when we do good we will be highly rewarded we ask you to guide us to do the good things we ask you to guide us to follow Sayyidina Muhammad SAW we ask you to guide us to have his love in our hearts we ask you to guide us so our reward will be his companionship in the day of judgment and Allah SAW will grant us your praise oh lord your praise and your great Sultan may we ask you for your blessings and may we seek your blessings may we ask your blessings and we know from him and we don't know him. And we seek refuge with You from all evil, and we know from him and we don't know him. We pray to Allah with our master Muhammad, and to his family, his companions, peace, and peace be upon you. And may the mercy of Allah be upon you and his blessings.