 سنبقى ق Nun تلogether حسنا تحدي س Hold محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم AC سحض polish اذ線 she ask Allah to bless them all و we also ask Allah to bless everyone of us and to forgive us during this beautiful month of Ramadan we are taught the Dua of the saga that he bah umblack to Aisha رضي الله عنها اللهم إنك عفون أنت أحب العف وفعف وعني يا الله أنت أسفة أنت أحب أن تسفق فأسفقني هذا هو أمام جميلة إذا كانت تفكر في المعنى هناك الكثير من المعنى والأمام السلامي أسفقنا أن تقول أن يا الله أنت أحب أن تسفق فأسفقني وذلك هو واحد من الأمام من الله سبحانه وتعالى ليس فقط من who forgives لكن من who loves to forgive فأخي وصفتنا نبدأ مع الكثير من المعنى الله سبحانه وتعالى لأسفقنا هذا المعنى لكي يمكننا أن نستمر مع هذا المعنى أخي وصفتنا سورة الأحزاب سورة number 33 من القرآن أعلم أن في المعنى لا يمكننا أن نفعل ما نريد في المعنى نحن نحن نحن في طريقة مختلفة نحن يجب علينا أن نتابع المعنى حتى المعنى هي جميلة وعندما المعنى ومعنى يجب عليهم أنهم ممتعون وممتعون لكن يوجد إطلاق لا يمكننا أن نفعل كما نريد لأننا نحن نحسن المسلمين وإذا نفعل كما نريد فالله سبحانه وتعالى يخبرنا أنك ستكون عليك تقوم بسيطة من المستخدم يقولون أخي أنني بخير مما أريد تقوم بسيطة أنك بخير لكن المستخدم ستأكد من المعنى ستبع إلا في الدنيا أو أخيرا أو أيضا لذا عندما تفعل يمكنك أن تفعل ذلك as a human being أنت تفتح كيف تريد كيف تريد ما تريد ما تريد أنت تفتح ما تريد أنت تفتح أنت تفتح أنت تفتح ومن المساعدة أنت تريد أنت تبقى بخير كانت تفتح لكن أنت تفتح أنت تفتح أنت تفتح لك how you have chosen or choose wisely لذا one of the issues made mention of in this beautiful sura is a piece of advice that Allah سبحانه وتعالى tells Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم to issue to his family members to the women to his wives his daughters and the believing females so it is not just a piece of advice but in fact an instruction so Allah says يا أيها النبي أو messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم قل say say to whom لأزواجك وبناتك ونساء المؤمنين say to your wives to your daughters and to the believing women يدنين عليهم من جلابي بهم that they should cover themselves with an outer garment they should cover themselves with an outer garment this is referring to when you are emerging from the home you throw over yourself an outer garment it's an instruction verse number 59 of sura 33 سورة الأحزاب where Allah is saying to Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم tell your wives tell your daughters and tell the believing women that they have to throw on themselves this outer جلباب جلباب meaning you have your dress you are wearing your clothing as you emerge from the home or you are in the presence of those who are strange etc you throw over a cloak or you throw over an outer garment in order to conceal your beauty now this is the rule of Islam سبحان الله so Allah سبحانه وتعالى says the reason behind this is so that you can save yourselves from harm so that you can be recognized as Muslim women as chased women as women who are not out there free for all so to speak and women who are serious about their modesty and chastity now this is an Islamic ruling like I said before we are governed by Islam there may be people around us who are not governed by the same rules and regulations let them do as they wish but we do as we are taught like I said before may Allah سبحانه وتعالى strengthen us it's not so easy it's not so easy at a time when Islamophobia is across the globe at a time when people are looking at Muslims with the eye of suspicion it's not so easy to dress as a Muslim woman but for those who do remember they will save themselves from calamity disaster in this world and the next it might seem like it's tough and difficult but wallahi the more we are in number the better the message we deliver to say we are peace loving we are beautiful people we will reach out we will help we will assist we have good character we have conduct we are a nation that is filled with goodness and morality and conduct we are not bad or evil but when we hide our identity who would then know that we are Muslim when we do a good deed may Allah سبحانه وتعالى grant us acceptance so this is called the verse of Hijab and it is reported that the women from amongst the Ansar سبحان الله when this verse came out they used to cover themselves with a cloak or with an outer garment that would actually be non attractive in its color in order for them to fulfill this particular verse now one might say what exactly is the ruling the ruling is quite broad to be honest with you it's quite broad there is no specific color there is no specific material but it is something that would cover you it is something that would ensure that you have come across very modestly etc may Allah سبحانه وتعالى grant our women and men the ability to cover themselves in a respectable way that would be insha'Allah pleasing to our own maker سبحانه وتعالى so Allah سبحانه وتعالى thereafter speaks about the tongue now before I move on to the tongue you notice we're talking about saving ourselves so the previous verse that I just spoke about it is to dress appropriately to save ourselves from difficulty in this world as well as the next if we are to follow what Allah says if you are a Muslim nobody should be hurt by the recitation of a verse of the Quran if they are Muslim if you are a Muslim and you are weak and you have not fulfilled it you should rather say insha'Allah one day I'm going to do this this is my goal it's my aim rather than getting angry and upset and say look at these people they are promoting and preaching that we should cover ourselves it's not these people it is Allah and it is his instruction I've read the verse for you 59 of Suratul Ahzab which is Surah number 33 and it's beautiful it's filled with absolute beauty this particular verse now going to the tongue you and I know that a lot of the problems on earth are connected to this little organ that we have the tongue it's small in size but very very great in damage the damage is such that it is sharper than a razor do you know that if you were to utter a word you could actually exit the fold of Islam if you were to utter a word you could actually terminate your marriage so make sure that you are responsible this is why verse number 70 of the same Surah الله سبحانه وتعالى asks us to save ourselves in a very beautiful way what does he say or you who believe be conscious of Allah be conscious of your maker and only utter that which is upright utter that which is straight sadeed means straight no lies no falsehood no abuse no vulgar words nothing that is hurtful etc you make sure you say words that are straight they are truthful they are beautiful they depict the fact that you are a Muslim you are responsible for what you utter these utterances they can take you into Jannah or into Jahannam there is a hadith of Mu'ad ibn Jabal رضي الله عنه where the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم told him control your tongue so he says oh messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم are we answerable so we haven't done it so he says you know what a big statement you've uttered oh Mu'ad what do you think oh Mu'ad it's an Arabic saying when they say it is depicting the seriousness of the statement oh Mu'ad what is it what do you think and on the day will the people be dragged on the fire for any other reason besides use their tongues which means those people who will enter Jahannam a lot of them would be because of their tongues because of how they abused we talk about people we backbite we slander we deceive we lie what else do we do we say the worst words to our children our parents our spouses our family members our brothers our sisters across the globe Muslim non-Muslim the type of words we say we are responsible my brothers and sisters when you realize something when there is an officiation of a nikah a lot of the times the Imam reads what is known as خطبة الحاجة it is a khutba and in that khutba small recitation of some verses this is one of the verses oh you who believe be conscious of Allah subhanahu wata'ala and utter that which is upright I would like to think that in all circumstances especially in marriage your marriage can be made or broken depending on how you use your tongue subhanallah may Allah subhanahu wata'ala grant us the good use of our tongues now what is some of the benefits or what are some of the benefits of the good use of the tongue Allah says as a result of good words and the remembrance of Allah and so many other beautiful usages of the tongue He says يُسلِح لكم أعمى لكم ويغفِر لكم ذنوباكم two gifts that He will give you He will make pure for you your deeds so you did your deeds now Allah will accept them from you because you have used your tongue correctly you did not give your deeds away to someone else because you abused because you wronged someone and like we spoke about it a few days ago your deeds end up going to someone else but because you said good things يُسلِح لكم أعمى لكم He makes your deeds good for you ويغفِر لكم ذنوباكم and He forgives your sins because you've become conscious of your statements if you are conscious of your statements because I forgive your sins سبحان الله how beautiful is this may Allah سبحانه وتعالى guide us through and may Allah سبحانه وتعالى make us from those who are grateful for the beautiful gift of the tongue may we be from among those who say the best words may we be from among those who are conscious who remember Allah and who make people happy when we open our mouths sometimes people are just waiting for others is spat from the mouths of some but not us as believers that's not what should be the case may Allah سبحانه وتعالى protect us we move on to another Surah named after Shiba Saba a place or a town in Yemen and the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم has spoken about it in his statements and the entire Surah is named after it do you know why the reason is they were a people who are blessed by Allah in so many ways they were given gardens they were given fruit they were given greenery they were given rivers they were given everything and they were told a simple instruction أشكروله بلدة طيبة ورب غافور be grateful to Allah regarding this beautiful town that he has given you he is indeed a forgiving Lord so they were told we have granted you all these gardens plush gardens to your left and to your right beautiful and you have been blessed in so many ways be thankful and show gratitude to Allah but Allah سبحانه وتعالى says and this is in verse number 16 of the Surah which is Surah number 34 Surah Saba فأعرضوا they turned away one word just one word is used by Allah سبحانه وتعالى what is the word فأعرضوا أعرضوا meaning when Allah told them to be grateful they were not grateful they turned away so Allah سبحانه وتعالى says فأرسلنا عليهم سيل العرم وبدلناهم بجنتهم جنتين ذواتي أكل خمط وأثل وشيء من سدر قليل how Allah replaced the good that they had into bad and evil you have a garden everything is plush beautiful the fruit is there everything is there a single tornado a hurricane can destroy absolutely everything you and I know that may Allah protect us from it Allah says be thankful show gratitude obey Allah's instruction stay away from prohibition seek his forgiveness they just turned away they enjoyed the gifts of Allah without showing gratitude Allah says as a result we replaced those two gardens with that which was a punishment for them and we replaced whatever goodness they had with that which was really bad and evil and Allah سبحانه وتعالى says ذالك جزيناهم بما كفروا وهل نجازي إلا الكفور that is how we have recompensed them because of their ingratitude كفر actually means ingratitude as well when it is spoken about in combination with شكر so شكر on one hand means gratitude and كفر on the other hand means ingratitude لإن شكرتم لأزيد النكم if you are going to show gratitude we will grant you increase ولإن كفرتم إن عذابي لشديد if you are going to show ingratitude then our punishment is severe so here Allah says that is how we have recompensed those who are ungrateful and is it not only those who are ungrateful whom we recompense in a similar way may Allah سبحانه وتعالى grant us forgiveness and may Allah make us from those who save ourselves from the gifts He has bestowed upon us being taken away by showing gratitude if you show gratitude He won't take it away سبحان الله may Allah سبحانه وتعالى grant us goodness and ease I move on to the next Surah Surat Fatir if you notice I'm just picking up one or two points from the Surah because we want to see how best we can save ourselves إن شاء الله from the calamities and disasters in this world as well as the next we can improve as human beings we can earn the pleasure of Allah we can lead a happy beautiful comfortable life in this world the few years that we are here may Allah grant us goodness good health baraka in all our affairs and may Allah protect us from shaitan and his handiwork and his traps I'm in in Surat Fatir which is Surah number 35 of the Quran Allah سبحانه وتعالى tells us you know my promise to you is true what is the promise of Allah the promise of Allah is those who do good and worship Him alone they will get goodness those who transgress they have only themselves to blame when they get their punishment the life after death is the truth don't let this worldly life deceive you so Allah says in verse number 5 oh people this is the address not just to the believers oh people indeed the promise of Allah is the truth وَالَا يَغُرُّنَّكُمْ بِلَّا يِلْغَرُرْ so don't let this worldly life deceive you and don't let the big deceiver the devil deceive you life is short think a lot about those who have left this world it will remind you that you too need to live if people say I don't want to think of death because it makes me depressed it means they are leading a life that is not the way it should be because if you are leading the life the way it should be you know that you are going to die and you are definitely going to go to a better place you know that but when you are leading a life that is filled with the desires and lusts and whims and fancies that are in transgression of the command of Allah سبحانه وتعالى then you ought to worry Allah says you are deceived you are deceived there were people more energetic than you they stayed away from haram there were people who had more wealth than you they stayed away from haram there were people who were in authority in a greater way than you they stayed away from haram they have earned the goodness of this world and the next they have died in a good condition the people remember them for their goodness so don't be deceived the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says increase the remembrance of that which destroys your haram desires what is it death think of it I am going to die I could die today I could die tomorrow when I die may Allah have mercy on me I tell you my brothers and sisters true success is when you have died and Allah is pleased with you no matter what age you have died you could die at 10 at 20 at 50 at 100 that is besides the point the point is was Allah pleased with you when you died if so don't worry about what you have left behind everybody leaves things behind someone will take care of them I always tell the people who say no I don't want to die right now you know my wife and my children and I say brother maybe if you die they might be leading a happier life who knows may Allah make us such that if we were to die at least they would remember us for goodness at least they would remember us for something decent so no matter what age you die at life will carry on your children look at those who were orphaned your wife look at those who were widowed subhan Allah things will happen your husband etc may Allah grant us goodness and ease like I said the idea you got to please Allah that's what it is whether you die today or tomorrow I promise you is besides the point you just need to have Allah with you once you have Allah with you you have saved yourself trust me you have saved yourself from the big disaster and calamity of the hereafter today we are here our parents our family our friends we can take care of one another wallahi trust me the minute your eyes are closed and you go into that grave of yours you are all alone you and the mercy of Allah what else is there your deeds we ask Allah to accept our deeds we do little deeds and we want the mercy of Allah ya Allah this month of Ramadan have mercy on us ya Allah forgive our sins and grant us a good death ya Allah ya Allah grant us goodness in the grave as well and grant us the best of the hereafter so Allah سبحانه وتعالى verse number six warns us openly إن الشيطان لكم عدو فتخذوا عدو إنما يدعو حزبه ليكونوا من أصحاب السعيد indeed the devil is your enemy Iblis is your enemy so consider him an enemy look out for him watch out he is an enemy he has promised he is going to deviate you so look out imagine if someone said look there is a thief on the prowl around here what will you do you lock your gates you make sure you tell your children you tell the whole family watch out for this car this is the number plate I saw it on the group and you know what there are people who are prowling they are kidnapping they are doing this they are doing that you will be very very careful and alert because you know you don't want any harm Allah is telling you the same about Shaytan watch out he is on the loose سبحان الله we are lucky in Ramadan he is actually tied up but the problem and the difficulty is he works so hard pre-Ramadan that the effect of what he wants lasts sometimes through the month you see it people swear and shout in the month of Ramadan impatient and then they ask sheikh but aren't the devils tied up so I always say the devils are tied up but now you the devil may Allah سبحانه وتعالى protect us Allah سبحانه وتعالى grant us ease sometimes it's ourselves we become Shaytan on our own because we've become accustomed to that type of a life where we become arrogant so the Shaytan are gone who is left well me and you are left someone around here is the devil may that not be the case with a believer we should soften the heart soften as soon as you want to you know say something and you know it's wrong and hurtful calm yourself down that extinguishing of your anger and temper will actually earn you جنة الفردوس I promise you so remember it's a great act of worship to extinguish your anger very big act of worship so Allah says Shaytan is your enemy consider him your enemy be on the lookout for him so that you can save yourself from his trap look out how did Shaytan come to me today he's encouraging me to do this but it's Ramadan and even out of Ramadan I'm not supposed to be doing it he's trying to trap me to think bad of my brother my sister he's trying to trap me to justify the evil that I've perpetrated etc let me never be entrapped by the devil so that we can save ourselves my beloved brothers and sisters and this is why Allah says Shaytan calls his people to the punishment of Hellfire and he knows that he's doing that but it's a trap you know when you have an enemy he wants to see your downfall he will give you advice whereby he will destroy relations with your own brothers and he will be happy I look what I did I broke the family he will give you advice so that your business can go down imagine you go to your rival and you say look I got a crisis my business you know I'm not making a profit on this he'll say come come I'll give you advice you are asking the devil for advice he is your competition he'll tell you to do things such that within one month you suffer a bigger loss may Allah سبحانه وتعالى never let that happen to us and this is why we are so in need of Allah and Allah is so independent of us that he makes it clear to us in verse number 15 يا أيها الناس أنتم الفقراء إلى الله والله هو الغني والحميد إن يشأ يذهبكم ويأتي بخلق جديد وما ذلك على الله بعزيز these verses show the power of Allah الله says verse number 15 of surah 35 oh people indeed you are the ones who are فقراء إلى الله you are in desperate need of Allah and Allah is totally independent from you he does not need you at all the next verse says إن يشأ if he wants he can delete you and replace you with someone else and that is not difficult at all for Allah if Allah wants to delete us now we would need to press a delete button to delete something on our phones or systems without pressing a button before the button can be pressed Allah can delete everything gone he can replace you and me with someone else he says it يأتي بخلق جديد for Allah it's simple to replace you with someone else and he has done it in the past and he continues to do it it's the way of Allah all he is showing us in this verse is we are desperately in need of Allah we need to turn to Allah wallahi I tell you my brothers and sisters we will never lose anything by developing a relationship with Allah praise him say words that are declaring his praise سبحان الله الحمد لله while you are walking while you are driving right now while you are sitting say سبحان الله الحمد لله الله أكبر why not develop your relation with Allah praise him oh Allah I love you you have given me so much oh Allah make me strong oh Allah I am weak talk to him make a relationship with Allah it can never be wrong and it will never ever result in anything bad it can only be good for you the loser is he who distances himself from his own maker the one who made you you have no option but to return to him you have no option but to return to him so you have to make friends with him سبحان الله worship him and him alone talk to him praise him say words to him and you will find a beautiful relationship with Allah where you are going wrong you will find that because Allah سبحانه وتعالى his connection with you is quite strong you will be distanced from Haram it will take you a very very long while to even think of committing Haram may Allah forgive us all may Allah strengthen our bond with him my brothers and sisters it's an important point read the Quran recite the Quran every day few verses you will open your doors with Allah that's his word that is the best word in existence the word of Allah the Quran read a few words a day why can't we do that we are Muslims I'm sure we can do that no matter who you are don't say no I'm weak read one verse a day one just one pick up a Quran keep it going get a new one today keep it and read one verse a day I promise you your life will change I swear to you your life will change we are looking for positive change in our lives Wallahi the change is in front of us Allah showed us how to change why then don't we start start somewhere start with one centimeter I promise you you will get somewhere may Allah open our doors I move on to Surat Yasin a beautiful Surah a lot of us know it off by heart we heard it being recited tonight and many of us actually have known a lot of these verses I want to make mention of only one point although the Surah has so much in it it is a point whereby we need to save ourselves look at your hand everyone just look at your hand look at your hand for a moment what do you see you see your fingers and you know the marks this hand has been with you for so many years Subhan Allah if you had the opportunity to look at your feet look at them Subhan Allah you know what Allah says about these organs Subhan Allah verse number 65 of Surat Yasin which is Surah number 36 of the Quran on the day of judgment we will seal their mouths we don't need their mouths to speak but their hands will bear witness against them and their feet will bear witness against them regarding what they used to earn my brothers and sisters we have to save ourselves from this by ensuring that we seek the forgiveness of Allah that hand that you love so much if it were to have a little injury in it perhaps you would not sleep your entire body your entire body would be restless that same hand will speak against you O Allah this person forced me to catch this to steal this to touch this to do this the feet will bear witness this person forced me to walk in this direction to do that to go here to go there brothers and sisters wouldn't you like your hand to bear witness to say O Allah this man put me down on the ground in prostration with his head for you so many times a day O Allah wouldn't we like that why don't we can do it seek the forgiveness of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala look at our legs instead of the legs saying O Allah this man forced me to walk towards Haram the legs can say O Allah this man has walked with me to your house five times a day Subhan Allah this man has stood in prayer until I was swollen O Allah what witness would that be imagine so when I say look at your hand the reason I say it is the same hand will be talking it will be speaking it will bear witness and the people will say according to another verse of the Quran وقالوا لجلودهم لمشاهدتم علينا when the skin bears witness against those who perpetrated evil then they will say O our skin why are you bearing witness against me myself and the skin will say أنطقنا الله الذي أنطق كل شيء Allah has given us the ability to speak today He gave the ability to everyone and everything to speak so we have to bear witness imagine your skin bearing witness against you today if you have a little rash you will rush to the dermatologist Subhan Allah because you want that skin to become normal and to look beautiful again you have a pimple an acne you will go on to medication for a while but you don't realize the same skin will bear witness against you one day if you were perpetrating evil and committing sin so we need to save ourselves my brothers and sisters that is a beautiful verse of Surat Yaseen when you think of Surat Yaseen think of how Allah says your hands will bear witness against you your legs will bear witness against you and when you read that verse you need to seek Allah's forgiveness O Allah forgive us we know that you have said when we seek forgiveness you will forgive all our sins no matter what we've done therefore O Allah forgive us and have mercy upon us أقول قولي هذا وصل الله وسلم وبارك على نبينا محمد سبحان الله بحمده سبحانك اللهم وبحمدك نشهد أن لا إله إلا أنت