 أشرف الأنبياء والمرسلين حبيبي إله العالمين بالقاسم المصطفى محمد وعلى أهل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين الذين أذهب الله عنهم الرجسة وطهرهم تطهيرا رسبكت براثرين والأخي السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته as we conclude and as we continue in the Tafseer of Surat Luqman we concluded the talk on the amusement speech and now we move on to another segment in the verse another verse where الله سبحانه وتعالى talks about the Mu'mineen the believers الله says in the Quran so after talking about the group of people that go after the amusement speech now the Quran shifts back to the Mu'mineen to the believers those who have believed and those who accept what Allah سبحانه وتعالى has ordered them they are the ones who have faith and do good deeds إن الذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحات they are the ones who have faith in Allah and they do good deeds لهم جنات النعيم they have the heavens of bliss they have paradise now this brings us to a very important discussion and that is that إيمان faith in God and عمل صالح and action putting faith into action they are always together they are joined at the hip meaning that faith is inseparable from action and action should not be separated from faith real action so we see that throughout the Quran in many chapters in the Quran الله سبحانه وتعالى constantly talks about إيمان and good deeds إن الذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحات you always find this in the Quran when you are reciting the Quran you find Allah سبحانه وتعالى says those who believe and do good deeds because faith on its own is not enough and good deeds without faith good deeds that are not backed by faith that are not done for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى that is also not enough so Allah سبحانه وتعالى in several times in the Quran reminds us that these two are always together إيمان and عمل صالح good deeds والعصر بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والعصر إن الإنسان لفي خصر إلا الذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحات وتواصعوا بالحق وتواصعوا بالصبر indeed by time man the human is in loss except those who have faith those who believe and do good deeds and تواصعوا بالحق تواصعوا بالصبر stand for what is right and be our patient those are the ones who are victorious in another verse الله سبحانه وتعالى says in the Quran فمن كان يرجو لقاء ربه فليعمل عمل صالحا ولا يشرك بعبادة ربه أحدا the one who has true faith in Allah فمن كان يرجو لقاء ربه the one who is waiting to meet their Lord when Allah سبحانه وتعالى is happy with him when Allah سبحانه وتعالى is going to be pleased with this person and merciful with this person what does this person have to do فمن كان يرجو لقاء ربه فليعمل عمل صالحا let this person do good deeds ولا يشرك بعبادة ربه أحدا and that good deed the عمل صالح it should be only for Allah سبحانه وتعالى it should not be for anyone or anything else it shouldn't be for idols and it shouldn't be for other people as well because actions that are for the sake of other people that has a type of ria' in it that has a type of shirk شرك الخفي hidden associating partner with Allah سبحانه وتعالى and that is something that is hidden in the hearts of even the believers so we have to be very careful that our actions and our deeds and everything that we do is purely for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى in another verse Allah says إن القرآن الذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحات طوبا لهم وحسنة ما آب those who have iman and they do good deeds they do righteous deeds طوبا لهم طوبا is the name of a tree in paradise طوبا لهم وحسنة ما آب in another verse Allah says إن القرآن من عمل صالحا من ذكرا أو أنثا وهو مؤمن فلنحينه حياتا طيبة whoever does good deeds whether male or female then ذكرا أو أنثا and they are believers they believe they are good deeds they are as a result of their faith and their good deeds reflect on their faith their faith translates into good deeds what will Allah سبحانه وتعالى do with these people فلنحينه حياتا طيبة we will resurrect this person in a good life this person will have a good life in this life and in the afterlife Allah سبحانه وتعالى will be pleased with this person now someone might ask is there an insistence in the Quran on action why does Allah سبحانه وتعالى want me to put my faith into action I could just believe in God I believe I have faith my faith is in my heart what do my actions have to do with my faith I don't want to have to pray I don't want to give charity I don't want to go to Hajj I don't want to fast but I believe in God this is what a lot of people say there are a lot of people they say I believe in God I don't want that faith to restrict my lifestyle I don't want that faith to control me and put perimeters around my life but my dear brothers and sisters having faith is not enough our faith must be reflected by our actions our faith must be translated into good deeds believing without showing that you believe or you're going to show that you believe it doesn't make sense in order to prove your faith to Allah سبحانه وتعالى you need to show that faith you need to show that faith by following the orders of Allah سبحانه وتعالى by connecting with Allah by obeying the commands of Allah by obeying the commands of Rasulullah صلى الله عليه واله إن كنتم تحبون الله فتبعوني يحببكم إذا كنتم تحبون الله فتبعوا رسول الله صلى الله عليه واله ثم الله سبحانه وتعالى لأن الله سبحانه وتعالى نعم أي one could reach God anyone could love God God will be in the heart of anyone but just like everything in life if you want to apply for a school you want to apply for a job anything that you want to do there are some conditions there are some prerequisites that you have to meet الله سبحانه وتعالى tells us the same الله tells us worship me in the way that I want to be worshipped not the way that you want to worship because when you say I have faith and I don't need to show that I don't need to pray I don't need to fast I don't need to do this and God knows what's in my heart then that means you're telling Allah I will worship you in the way I want to be worshipped and in essence that is a person worshipping their own desires that is someone following their own desires what they want they're not doing what Allah سبحانه وتعالى is ordering them to do we do this in our lives when we love someone when we care for someone don't we show that love don't we speak that love don't we tell that person that we love them or we show that we love them imagine a husband loves his wife or a wife loves her husband but they don't show their love they don't express it in any way whatsoever that's not going to be proof of the love how are you going to prove that you love a person you prove that through showing through acts of love through gestures of love through the language of love we do the same with Allah سبحانه وتعالى so your faith your iman and the عمل الصالح and the good deeds which show and prove your love to Allah سبحانه وتعالى when you pray you're talking to God don't you love to talk to the don't you want to talk to the one that you love when you go to Hajj you're visiting the house of Allah سبحانه وتعالى don't you love to visit the home and the house of the one who you love when you do أمر بالمعروف أنهي عن المنكر and joining the good and forbidding the evil you're calling people for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى you're inviting people to the mercy of Allah سبحانه وتعالى so this is what عمل صالح is عمل صالح is when you pray when you fast when you go to Hajj when you follow the orders of Allah سبحانه وتعالى now my dear brothers and sisters عمل صالح good deeds are not confined and they are not restricted only to acts of worship they're not limited to acts of worship you need to do more than acts of worship in order to be doing righteous deeds in order to have عمل صالح what do you need to do one of the greatest things that we are ordered to do as Muslims and our religion instructs us to do is to care for people to care for humanity to show love to individuals to care for your family to have صلاة رحم with your parents to show love and care for your neighbors to people around you to respect people to give people their rights this is also عمل صالح this is also showing care for other people a believer a mu'min is not someone who says I need to just pray and that's enough I fast and that's enough I go to Hajj and that's enough no Allah سبحانه وتعالى is going to ask you how you dealt with people around you what did you offer to people around you this is what we have to do why do we need to do that why do I need to show love to people around me why do I need to express show gratitude and show service to people why? because these are the qualities that Allah سبحانه وتعالى loves isn't Allah سبحانه وتعالى رحيم isn't God the merciful so when I am merciful with others then I am doing I am following in a quality that is a great quality of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and رسول الله صلى الله عليه وعاله he says in a hadith he says if you want to reach the highest potential if you want to maximize your faith then you need to have the qualities of God be in you what are those qualities of Allah الله سبحانه وتعالى is رحيم الله is merciful so you need to be merciful with others الله سبحانه وتعالى is forgiving so you be forgiving الله سبحانه وتعالى is compassionate الله سبحانه وتعالى is truthful he is honest let us be honest الله سبحانه وتعالى gives the needy do I give the needy he is the generous one am I generous these are the أخلاق that we need to incorporate in our lives and we need to make them be a part of our lives in a hadith رسول الله صلى الله عليه وعاله he says the creation it is all the عيال of Allah it is the family of God الله سبحانه وتعالى cares for all of the creation Allah nurtures everyone Allah protects everyone Allah has guided everyone everyone الخلق كلهم عيال الله فأحبهم إلى الله عز وجل أنفعهم لعياله so the one who God loves the most is the one who cares for the family of God who is the family the creation meaning that the one who shows service to people is the one who Allah سبحانه وتعالى loves the most and this is one of the greatest ways of showing your faith and showing that you believe in Allah سبحانه وتعالى when you care for others when you do not oppress others when you help those who are in need community service helping out imagine if you have a son or a daughter you have a child and the neighbor or someone that you know comes and shows love and cares for your child aren't you going to have greater respect for that person that loved and showed care for your child yes because you have a duty to take care of your child and when someone is supporting you in that when someone is helping you in that you're going to love that person this is the same with Allah سبحانه وتعالى الخلق عيال الله so the one who helps the creation and supports the creation is the one who is the closest to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and a hadith from the 10th Imam of أهل البيت Imam Al-Hadi عليه السلام he says ليس فوقهما شيء الإيمان بالله ونفع الإخوان two qualities that nothing comes above them meaning they are the greatest of qualities what are they? الإيمان بالله believing in God this is faith that is in your heart this is the faith that only Allah سبحانه وتعالى knows how much faith you have in your heart towards Allah سبحانه وتعالى خصلتان ليس فوقهما شيء الإيمان بالله ونفع الإخوان and helping out your brothers helping out your sisters helping out your brothers in faith helping out people being a person who is productive there are some people they are blessed wherever they go they are مبارك wherever they go بركة what is بركة when we say رمضان مبارك to you when you tell your friend when you tell another Muslim رمضان مبارك what does that mean that means I ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى so that you maximize so that you have as much benefit during this month of Ramadan sometimes someone could be مبارك during the month of Ramadan and there are other people they are مبارك wherever they go whoever they touch wherever they go they bring blessings this is one of the qualities of Prophet Isa عليه السلام Jesus Allah سبحانه وتعالى describes in the Quran قال I am the slave of God he gave me the book and he made me a prophet وجعلني مباركا وعينما كنت وأوصاني بالصلاة والزكاة ما دمتحية and he made me مبارك blessed wherever I go and then he ordered me to pray and give zakat as long as I'm alive we have a duty my dear brothers and sisters if we want to follow the prophets if we want to follow the Ahl al Bayt if we want to follow the righteous then we have to be blessed beings wherever we go let your khair reach everywhere you go go and give help out do as much good as you can Allah سبحانه وتعالى will reward you for that maybe sometimes people won't appreciate what you do but Allah سبحانه وتعالى will always appreciate everything that you do and the service to others this is the best act of righteousness عمل صالح in a hadith from صلى الله عليه و آله he says من مشا في حاجة أخيه ساعة من ليل أو نهار قضاها أو لم يقضها كان خيرا له من اعتكاف شهرين the one who strives one hour from the day or the night to help the hajah the need of another person to fulfill the need of another person now whether you were able to help this person or not you were successful or not Allah سبحانه وتعالى Allah سبحانه وتعالى will give you the reward of someone who is doing اعتكاف for two months what is اعتكاف? اعتكاف means fasting and spending the whole time in the masjid اعتكاف is three days imagine someone who is doing that for two months this is if you take one hour one hour you strive you have a friend you have someone who is in need you try to help this person sometimes you are able to and sometimes you are not able to sometimes you can't help yourself but you guide this person to someone who can help you guide someone you say I can't help you but I know that this person is able to help you I am going to direct you to this person I am going to ask this person to help you in another حديث امير المؤمنين علي ابنى ابطالب عليه السلام he says تنافسوا في المعروف لإخوانكم compete towards helping your إخوان towards helping your brothers and sisters in faith وكونوا من أهله فإن للجنة بابا يقال له المعروف be from the people of معروف be from the people of the good those who help out others because in paradise there is a door that is for the معروف in paradise there is a door that only the ones who help out others they enter from that door لا يدخله إلا من استنع المعروفة في الحياة الدنيا فإن العبد لا يمشي في حاجة أخيه المؤمن فيوكل الله به ملكين أحدا عن يمينه وأخرا عن شماله يستغفران له ربه ويدعوان بقضاء حاجة if you do that الله سبحانه وتعالى will allow you to enter from that door that is called المعروف and the one who helps out الله سبحانه وتعالى will give you two angels that will help you out in your life in your matters of life and they will ask الله سبحانه وتعالى to forgive you they will ask الله سبحانه وتعالى to have mercy on you now my dear brothers and sisters we have narrations which say that faith and of course the Quran faith and good deeds they are attached to one another they are joined to one another you cannot do good deeds without faith and you cannot have faith without good deeds الإيمان إن حديث from رسول الله صلى الله عليه و عليه says الإيمان والعمل أخوان شريكان لا يقبل الله أحدهما إلا بصاحبه رسول الله says عمل and إيمان righteous deeds and faith they are brothers that are joined conjoined brothers meaning that they are attached to one another now الله سبحانه وتعالى will not accept one without the other meaning if you have faith الله is going to ask you where is your actions and if you have actions الله سبحانه وتعالى will ask you where is the faith what was the drive that you were doing it for if you were doing it for people the people will reward you if you were doing it for power for prestige in this dunya you will have the prestige in this dunya but if you were doing it for Allah maybe no one saw but الله سبحانه وتعالى witnessed الله سبحانه وتعالى will reward you for that and another hadith رسول الله says لا يقبل إيمان بلا عمل ولا عمل بلا إيمان actions are not accepted without faith and faith is not accepted without action now someone might come and say what about all those good people those good people out there they don't necessarily believe in God but they give charity they help out they do so much good they help out nonprofits and organizations what do we say about those people first of all my dear brothers and sisters this is something that we need to make it be a part of our lives we are in no position to judge other people who can measure the iman that's in the heart of a person can I measure can you measure we don't know how much iman is in the heart of a person so we are not in a position to come and say this person does not have iman this person is going to heaven this person is going to hell الله سبحانه وتعالى he knows how much iman you have in your heart and Allah سبحانه وتعالى will decide whether you go to heaven or hell it's none of our business and we don't decide that so we should even talk about that there are some people when someone dies when someone anything happens they sit and they talk for hours this person is going to heaven this person is going to hell who are you to come and judge on behalf of Allah سبحانه وتعالى yes we have some criteria that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has given us but let me start implementing those criteria on myself before I implement it on other people how do I know what's in the heart of other people maybe someone does have iman maybe someone is doing good maybe someone does believe in Allah سبحانه وتعالى so we are not in a position to judge other people and whether someone goes to heaven or goes to hell and then scholars also said that anyone who helps out humanity anyone who is sincere in helping out other people your help for other people this is in a way going towards Allah سبحانه وتعالى you're doing it for Allah if you're not doing it for yourself if you're not doing it for prestige if you're not doing it for frame you're doing it for the sake and the purpose of humanity that means you believe in a higher purpose that means you believe in higher principles and this is what Allah سبحانه وتعالى wants from us Allah سبحانه وتعالى gives every single one of us so would he not give the one who helps out other people Allah says in the Quran in a dua in the dua that we recite in the month of Rajab يا من يعطي من سأله يا من يعطي من لم يسأله ومن لم يعرف تحنّن منه ورحمة الله is the one who gives those who ask him and he gives those who do not ask him Allah سبحانه وتعالى gives every single one of us so Allah knows what's in the heart and Allah will give it is said that Prophet Ibrahim عليه السلام he used to one of the qualities of Prophet Ibrahim is that he used to stand out and whenever he cooks food he used to stand out in the streets and he used to wait for people passing by once they passed by then he would invite them to come and eat with him and the hadith says one of the reasons he became خليل الله the friend of God is because of the because feeding people that made him the friend of God so Prophet Ibrahim he found a man he brought him home he invited him he's about to eat so Ibrahim he says in the name of Allah that man doesn't say anything so Ibrahim he asked him you don't want to say the name of your lord you don't want to say the name of God that man says I don't believe in God so Prophet Ibrahim because of his strong faith and attachment to Allah سبحانه وتعالى he tells that man then you're not invited to eat with me God gave you all of these blessings and you're ungrateful for them so Prophet Ibrahim he said to eat with me the man says you invited me and now you're uninviting me he got up and he left as soon as that man left جبرايل comes to Ibrahim and he delivers the words of Allah Allah tells Ibrahim يا Ibrahim I've been feeding this man his whole life his whole life I've been giving him not once did I tell him you have to say this and you have to say that Ibrahim now one time you were coming to feed this person and you kicked this person out go and bring this person back go and bring this person back and feed him so Ibrahim he runs after that man he brings that man the man is surprised he says what brought you back Ibrahim says my lord that you refuse to accept is the lord of love is the one who shows you love even when you don't show him love he ordered me to come and invite you back then that man says then that lord is a lord that is worthy of being worshiped and he turned to Iman and he began to believe in Allah now yes there are some people who they do good deeds but they reject Allah they are adamant in their lack of faith and they refuse to believe in Allah what does Allah do with these people here because we believe Allah is عادل Allah is just Allah does not oppress anyone if you've done an act of good you will see the reward for it but you will see the reward in this dunya if someone does not believe in the afterlife they don't believe in heaven does it make sense for them to be receiving the reward of heaven yes Allah will give them the reward in this dunya فرعون فرو he became a ruler one of the reasons there's a hadith that says that one of the reasons why Pharaoh he lived for quite some time is because of the good that he used to do because he believed he was God so he used to slaughter sheep every day and used to feed people so in a day every day he used to he used to sacrifice sheep and he used to he used to feed people so he started cutting down his ministers they come and they tell him they tell him cut down you don't need to sacrifice 365 sheep a day so he started cutting down every day one until the last day of his life he sacrificed one and he fed people then the day he did not have anything to sacrifice then Allah subhanahu و تعالى ended his life so the good that you do you might see the reward for it in this life if you're not a believer in the Akhra but the one who believes in the Akhra they will see the reward in this life and in the afterlife in the Quran so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so و الله سبحانه وتعالى has to offer in heaven because in heaven there's one thing that it's not here that is that it's for eternity الله says in the Quran وما هذه الحياة الدنيا إلا لهون ولعب وإن الدار الأخرة لها الحيوان لو كانوا يعلمون The real life, the real life حياة is in the Akhara This life is لهون ولعب This life is distraction This life is games It comes to an end And the reason why that life is eternal because that life is خالدينة فيها وعد الله حقا وهو العزيز الحكيم In paradise you are eternalized For eternity you will be in paradise Now of course everyone who enters into paradise the moment they step foot into paradise they will be eternalized in it once you go in you can't come out but those who enter into the hellfire they are in two groups one group Allah describes as خالدينة فيها مخلدين they will be eternalized in it and another group they will be cleansed for some time and then they will be taken out Who are the ones who are eternalized in the hellfire إمام عليه says in دعاء كميل وأقسمت أن تملأها من الكافرين من الجنة والناس أجمعين وأن تخلد فيها المعاندين and you will eternalize in the hellfire those who are معاندين those who are adamant those who are arrogant and those who continue in the wrong knowing that they are wrong جحدو بها those who continue in the wrong path knowing that this is the wrong path those are the people that Allah سبحانه وتعالى will eternalize now someone might ask where is the justice of Allah when God eternalizes people in heaven or eternalizes people in the hellfire someone did good for example someone was living a life of sin and vices the last 10 years of their life the last year of their life they repented they changed their life around now this person deserves paradise and they are going to be eternalized in paradise for one year for whatever time that they did good out of their whole life or on the other side someone who did bad someone who died in the evil died in the haram in the lack of faith maybe they didn't believe for 40, 50, 60, 80 years 80 years 80 years they were disobeying Allah why does Allah سبحانه وتعالى eternalize them into the hellfire the answer is that Allah سبحانه وتعالى knows the intentions of every single person Allah knows what's in my heart and what's in your heart and Allah knows that the intention of the mu'min is that the mu'min will continue believing even if they lived for eternity and Allah سبحانه وتعالى knows the intention of the kafir that they will continue in the disbelief and in the oppression even if they last for eternity Allah says Allah describes in the Quran that the kuffar they tell Allah let us go back to the life so that we could start all over again Allah says وإنهم لكاذبون if they were to be taken back they would go back to the things that we forbade them from doing things that we ordered them not to do so with this we understand your actions are based on your intentions so Allah سبحانه وتعالى knows what's in the heart Allah knows your faith and the عمل صالح the good deeds Allah سبحانه وتعالى will reward you for the deed and for the intention now someone says I want to do good deeds I want to feed people I want to feed orphans I want to do this and I want to do that but I can't I could only do so much Allah سبحانه وتعالى says do whatever you can and the rest I will reward you based on your intentions Allah doesn't look at the quantity of action Allah سبحانه وتعالى looks at the quality of our actions so we ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى by the blessings of this holy month to purify our actions and purify our intentions and make us be from the ones who have good deeds have faith and they have عمل صالح righteous deeds نسألك الله هما وندعوك بسمك العظيم الأعظم الأعزل أجل الأكرم يا الله يا الله يا رحمان يا رحيم يا مقلب القلوب ثبت قلوبنا على دينك اللهم اغفر للمؤمنين والمؤمنات الأحياء منهم والأموات تابع اللهم بيننا وبينهم بالخيرات إنك مجيب الدعوات إنك غافر الخطيئات إنك على كل شيء قدير اللهم ادخل على أهل القبور السرور اللهم أغني كل فقير اللهم أشبع كل جائع اللهم اكسو كل عريان اللهم اقذي دينا كل مدين اللهم فرج عن كل مكروب اللهم ردى كل غريب اللهم فكى كل أسير اللهم أصلح كل فاسد من أمور المسلمين اللهم اشفي كل مريض اللهم سد فقرنا بغناك اللهم غير سوء حالنا بحسني حالك اللهم اقذ عن الدين وأغننا من الفقر إنك على كل شيء قدير وإلى أرواح المؤمنين والمؤمنات نهدي ثواب الفات حمع الصلوات