 Al-Rahim, Al-Hamdullillah, Rabb Al-Alamin, Thumma Salatu, As-Salamu Alaa Ashraf Al-Anbiyaa Wa Al-Mursaleen, Habib Al-Alamin, Al-Qasim Al-Mustafa, Muhammadin, Al-Alayhi Al-Tayyibin Al-Tahireen. Allahumma, Salli Al-Alam, Muhammad, Al-Alam, Muhammad. The viewers, As-Salamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh. Al-Hamdullillah, thanks all to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala that I have this blessing to be amongst you. Discussing the holy verses of Quran and the narrations of Ahl al-Bait, Al-Alihum Al-Salam. And asking Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala by the blessing of the shrines of Imam Al-Husayn, Al-Salam, Al-Fadr Al-Abbas, Al-Alihum Al-Salam, and the holy land of Karbala, to hasten the opinions of our beloved Imam Mahdi, Al-Alihum Al-Salam, Faraj Al-Sharif, and for us, inshallah, to understand these holy verses and to be able to apply them to our daily lives. If you have followed us, we have started Surat Al-Baqarah. Al-Hamdullillah, we were blessed to finish Surat Al-Hamd. We started Surat Al-Baqarah. We discussed the first ayah, which was Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim already, when we started Surat Al-Hamd. And then we talked about Alif, Lam, Meem. That is the book of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala, its guidance for those who are pious. And the verses after come and they explain the meaning and they elaborate who are those pious people. What are their characteristics? Because we want to be amongst the pious people in order for the Holy Qur'an to, inshallah, guide us. We started with the first characteristic, which was, pious people who are being guided by the Holy Qur'an are those people who believe in unseen, who believe in the unseen, number one. They maintain the prayer and they spend out of what we have provided for them. Believing in unseen, it's one of the most important elements that divides and differentiates between the believer and the non-believer. A believer doesn't have a myopic vision and view to this life. And they don't see this world to be complete without believing in something else. They're not limited to this world, to this globe, to this universe that we are living in. They see beyond and they believe in beyond this globe. Which makes them different than those who don't believe in unseen. And the only thing that they believe are those that they can feel, taste, hear, or see, basically, where their five senses are involved. So the believers, they are connected to infinite. They're not limited, as we said, to this world, rather. There are different worlds. This is the world of the martyrs. We can see and witness. And then we have the world of Barzakh. After we die, we enter into another world. Before this world, we were in our mother's womb. Before that, we were in the world of the Dhar. There are different worlds that we are traveling to. One after one from and to. One after one after one after one. But the believer believes that after death, there is A'lam, which is called Barzakh. After that A'lam, it's another A'lam which comes the day of Qiyamah, the day of judgment, A'lam al Qiyamah, where all the creations of Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, will be there. And they will go through judgment. And inshallah, all of us will be from those people who will receive our book of, our deeds in our right hand, and we will be happy. And inshallah, we'll enter heaven. And not amongst those people who will receive their book of deeds by their left hands from their back, and they will be thrown into the hellfire. So there is no believer, doesn't believe that came to this world, just to live this world and have fun and to be entertained, reproduce, eat, work, gain, and by the time of death, everything finishes. No, believer has much higher goal and much higher purpose in this life. They see beyond this world, and they are not limited to this world and to this world, the affairs. That's why their price, we can't put a price on a believer. People who are really dedicated, they are dedicating their lives to the world, the affairs, well, that's how much they worth, no matter how much money they have. Well, that's how much they worth, billions of dollars, 100 billions of dollars, 200 billions, well, that's how much they worth. But a believer who believes in the unseen and who believes in the heaven and the infinite rewards and the blessings that Allah will give to a believer in heaven, well, that connection will inspire the believer to do right and to avoid falsehood and bad doing. Within Muttaqeen, there's a beautiful ceremony by the commander of the faithful, Ali ibn Abi Talib, with the Nehj Al-Balaghah, which I really recommend. That would be, insha'Allah, our action plan for this episode, that if you get a chance amongst narrations of Ahl al-Bayt, that you are reading, if you remember, let us remind ourselves that our action plans from the previous early episodes was that, insha'Allah, on a daily basis, we have the Quran next to us and a book of Hadith, either Nehj Al-Balaghah or Tuhaf al-Ukul that we have introduced. We read a 50 verses of the Holy Quran and then we read a translation of those 50 verses and then we take one verse and we think and ponder about it, insha'Allah, by the end of the year, 365 verses of the Holy Quran we have read, we have understood, and we have comprehended, and we have brought into our lives and we'll see how much it changes our lives. And the second was, after that we read one narration from the lives of Ahl al-Bayt, and we think and ponder of how to bring that narration into our lives. Amongst those narrations that we read is a good sermon to read, Sermon of Muttaqeen, Khutbatul Muttaqeen, by the commander of the faithful Amir al-Mu'minia, Ali Ibn Abi Talab, where his companion comes to him, Hamam, and tells him, O Imam, describe for me a pious individual. So I describe it in a way that I can see it basically, that I can completely imagine that this is a pious person, where Allah wants us to be that. That by itself, that sermon needs at least 30 to 45 episodes, elaborating it, discussing it, and basically, of that takes a long time, but I have took a segment from it that it's very beautiful. Imam mentions that a pious individual, the way he clothes himself, the way he talks, the way he walks, and so on and so forth, he gives a very, very specific characteristics and the demeanor of the pious individual. Amongst them are two that I have brought it, which relates to al-Ladheena yu-Uminuna bil-Ghay, because we want to understand what would really mean we have to be a believer in unseen, in order for us to be pious, in order for the Qur'an, to guide us. Imam says, Imam says, pious individual, a pious believer, as a person, everything good that he does, within the interpretation of it, basically we're elaborating it, everything that he does, good, he sees the heaven in front of him, and that's what pushes him forward in doing good deeds, because good deeds sometimes becomes very difficult to apply into our lives. When a person, it's making us angry for us to be able to control our anger, that is a good deed. Well, a pious individual sees heaven in front of him, not the physical, but he believes that much in heaven, that by me controlling my anger and my temper, this is where I'm going to end up, heaven. They don't lie, they don't cheat, they don't use bad language, they don't listen to music, they control their ears, and their eyes, and their body parts, everything wajibad that they have to do, they do act upon those wajibad, and all the muharramat and forbidden acts, they distance themselves from those acts, because they can see the reward of abstaining themselves from sin. So that's how they are motivated, like with their eyes, that's how what they see. And as soon as it comes to a sin, and they're about to commit a sin, they see the hellfire, and they see the flame of hellfire, and that's how much they fear the flame of hellfire, and they abstain themselves from committing the sin. This is a characteristic of a pious individual, which is very, very important, it needs practice. Everything that we talk, it needs practice, and without practice, it won't happen basically. So that needs for us to keep on a daily basis, to remind ourselves of where we are within this life. Are we proceeding forward? Are we on the path that we truly believe in unseen? Or no, we do say that we believe in unseen, but when it comes into our action, we have some difficulties. For example, believing in unseen. We all understand, this is not a disfigurative talk. It's not haqiqiz, not the true meaning that, okay, pray because we cannot see Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. That is obvious. Pray to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, abudullah, as you see him. Of course, we don't see Allah again, but if we were able to see Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, let's make it tangible. If the representative of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is here, and we can see him, the Imam of our time, Imam Mehdi, Ma'Allah, Hastin, his reappearance, if we can see this Imam of ours, and he's here, basically, how do I will pray? Will my pray will be different or not? Of course. I will make sure that my pronunciation of every word is right. I make sure that my wudhu is right. I make sure that everything that I do is right because the Imam is seeing me. Bring it a little bit lower, the representative of the Imam, our Maraja, Maraja At-Taqlid. If Grant Ayatullah X was standing here, and it was my room, and I was praying, or I'm about to commit a sin, will I commit it or not? How I will pray? How I will control my anger? And so on and so forth. Every all the obligatory acts we're discussing, we're just bringing some examples, and all the Muharramat and forbidden acts. So, If you are unable to see him, he is seeing you. So, that leads a reminder, how I worship Allah SWT, my prayer, my respect to others, my respect to parents, my respect to brothers and sisters, to community members, to co-workers, classmates, and so on and so forth. If I see myself in the presence of Allah SWT, that he is seeing, and not only what I do, he knows of my intention. If my intention was sincerely for him or other, it would be a completely different scenario. That believing unseen will really change our perspective to this world. For example, believing in unseen, we go unseen Allah SWT, and his attributes. For example, we need the nine and nine names and attributes of Allah SWT. Al-Azeez, the mighty one, the strong that the feeder, the feeder who is not defeated. Well, Al-Azeez, the one who gives honor and mighty, it's Allah SWT. He has all mighty belongs to Allah SWT. So, I am within my community. If I believe truly unseen, I shouldn't think that money, wealth, position will give me honor and mighty. Rather, it is Allah SWT that gives me mighty and honor. How will that change my perspective in life? How that will change my characteristic in life? If I believe that Allah SWT makes me Aziz, makes me mighty and honorable and dignifies me and that dignity comes from Allah SWT I will respect people because with respecting people, I will gain dignity, not with showing arrogance that I have these belongings. That is very, that's what believing in unseen changes in our perspective. Al-Razaq, the total provider. If I believe again, remember our previous episode, that belief is in heart and then it comes into our action, in our verbally tongue and then our action. That if I truly and genuinely and sincerely believe that Allah SWT is the provider, I won't steal. I won't have usury within my day-to-day transaction at work. I won't be trying to mix halal, haram, money together for me to have more risk. I won't look at the other people's sustenance that they have received. I won't be envying them because I truly believe in the unseen, which is Allah SWT and attributes of Allah SWT as Al-Razaq. He's the provider. The same Allah that he provided for the other person, he will provide for me. Why should I need to be envying that person? I won't. When I see somebody has something that I don't have, I say Alhamdulillah, O Allah, the same way that you gave him, also give me. Allah is the provider. He is the provider. When I do something for other people, I will do it for the sake of Allah SWT and Allah will provide. And the rest of the 99 names and attributes of Allah SWT that would be another action plan. Go through them, the 99 attributes. Read them, ponder and think about them. How should I bring those 99 names into my life? My life that I should not envy other people, that I should truly believe that Allah has all the provider and he will provide for me. That will definitely change my life, insha'Allah. We conclude our episode, this episode by reciting the du'a, du'a al-Faraj, asking Allah SWT to hasten the opinions of our beloved Imam Mahdi Aajal Allah, ta'ala Faraj Al-Shari, which is the most important du'a. Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim. In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.