 السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلته السلام علي سيدنا ونبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلال وجه كواضي مسلطانك اللهم يمقل بالقلوب والأبصار ثبت قلوبنا على دينك اللهم افتح لنا افتح العارفين يا رحم الرحيمين بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اليوم ان شاء الله سنبدأ جديد جديد جديد جديد جديد جديد ان شاء الله يجب ان تتفسير سورة الكهف لذا سنعرف سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم سيد من قرأ سورة الكهف في يوم الجمعة اضاء له من النور ما بين الجمعتين من يجب على سورة الكهف في فريد فلن يجب ان يجب ان يجب ان يجب ان يجب على فريد سورة الكهف is one of the so much repeated and read سورة in the in the in the Qur'an people like to read it always on يوم الجمعة on Friday so now when we go through the we will realize how amazing this this is سورة الكهف is a and we know that when we say we mean that it was revealed before migrating to Medina it is a sura of 110 and it's in the middle of the Qur'an سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم also says من حفظ عشر آيات من اول سورة الكهف عصمة من الدجال and some narrations say من حفظ العشر الأواخر من سورة الكهف which means that whoever memorizes the first ten verses or the first ten ayahs or the last ten ayahs in other narrations of سورة الكهف then he will be protected from at the end of time he will be sent and he will try to make people go astray and only the believers will read the three letters كافة and را which form the word كافة را which means he is not a believer so these three letters will be written on his forehead but only the believers will know will be able to read it و سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم wants to memorize the first ten ayahs or the last ten ayahs of the surah and they are easy to memorize so we can memorize them and it will be easier now after we know the meaning of these ayahs if we want to talk about the reason why the surah was revealed we know that قرائش used to belize the Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم when he told them about Islam and he told them about the new religion they would not believe him they did not want to believe him so they tried their best to keep him away from this religion but they failed they tried their best to give him anything that he might desire anything that he might want but again they failed so they wanted to know exactly if he is a true messenger or not a true prophet or not so قرائش sent two of their people and they sent these two people to Medina to the scholars so they wanted to ask so let's now it's a hadith I would read the hadith and translate it for you بعض قرائش أن نظر ابن الحارث وعقبة ابن أبي معيت إلى أحبار يهود أي إلى علماء يهود بالمدينة so قرائش sent these people these two people to these scholars in Medina the Jewish scholars فقالوا لهم they said to them سلوهم عن محمد asked them about Muhammad وصفوا لهم أخبرهم who he is وأخبروهم بقوله and tell them what he claims what he says فإنهم أهل الكتاب الأول so those scholars are the people of book who got the revelation وعندهم ما ليس عندنا من علمي الانبياء and they know about prophets what we do not know فخرجا حتى قدما المدينة so those another عقبة until they reached فسألوا أحبار يهود عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم so they asked those scholars about Muhammad ووصفوا لهم أمره وبعض قوله and some of what he says قال إنكم أهل التورات so another and عقبة told them إنكم أهل التورات you are the people who received the revelation of التورات وقد جئناكم لتخبرون عن صاحبنا هذا and we came to you عن who this person is they are talking about قال فقالت لهم so the scholars said سلوه عن ثلاث نأمركم بهم ask him about three things we are going to tell you فإن أخبركم بهم فهو نبي if he answers your three questions which we are going to tell you then he is a prophet وإن لم يفعل فالرجل متقول but if he didn't answer then his word he will be a liar فارو فيه فرأيكم so do whatever you want and he is a liar you do فهو عن فتية ذهبوا في الدهر الأول ask him about the young men who left their homes and run away so now they are asking about the young men of the cave so ask him ما كان من أمرهم why did they do that what's their story فإنهم قد كان لهم حديث عجيب because they had a strange story وسلوه عن رجل طوافن بلغ مشارق الأرض ومغاربها and ask him about a man who reached the east and the west of the earth and they are asking about ذو قرنين ما كان نبأه ask him about his story وسلوه عن الروح and ask him about the spirit وسلوه عن الروح so now if he فإن أخبركم بذلك فإن أخبركم بذلك نعم فهو نبي فاتبيعو so if he answers your questions then he is a prophet and you follow him so if he وإن لم يخبركم فإنه رجل متقول but if he didn't answer you then he is a liar فاصنعوا في أمره ما بدالكم so do whatever you want with him this is what we what questions you have to ask him so النظر عن عقبة came back to قرش فقالا يا معشر قرش قد جئناكم بفصل ما بينكم وبين محمد and they told قرش okay we came to you with what will be the turning point to be the point that will tell you who Muhammad is قد أخبرنا أحبار ويهود أن نسأله عن أمور these scholars the Jews scholars asked us to ask him about certain things فأخبرواهم بها so they told them about about these things فجاءوا رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم صيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم فقالوا they said to say Muhammad يا محمد أخبرنا we are here to ask you some questions and we want answers فسألوه عما أمروهم بهم so they asked the Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم about what they were asked فقال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم أخبركم غدا ولم يستثني فنصرفوا عنه so he told them I will tell you tomorrow ولم يستثني means he did not say إن شاء الله so they left ومكث رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم خمسة عشر خمسة عشرة لا يحدث الله إليه في ذلك so صيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم صيد 15 days 15 nights and he is not being said a word from Allah سبحانه وتعالى ولا يأتي he is Gabriel and Gabriel did not come to him he was not sent to him حتى أرجف أهل مكة and the people of Makkah started to talk now وقالوا حدنا محمد غدا واليوم خمسة عشرة قد أصبحنا فيها لا يخبرنا بشيد لا يخبرنا بشيء انسألناه عنه so they said محمد promised us to give us the answers the next day and now it is 15 nights and we haven't been told he didn't tell us anything وحتى أحزن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم كثل وحي عنه and say the Muhammad felt sorry that he was so sad that the Gabriel is not coming to him 15 nights وشق عليهم ما يتكلموا به أهل مكة and what people of Makkah are talking hurt him then Gabriel ثم جاءه Gabriel الله عز وجل بصورة أصحاب الكف so Gabriel came with صورة الكف to tell him فيها معاتبته إياه على حزنه عليهم implementing سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم that he felt sorry for them that he felt sad for them انه تأخر عليهم because he was late for them telling them ما سألوه عن من أمر الفتياتي والرجل الطواف and the surah of course told him about the story of the أصحاب الكف and the ذو القرنين and also it came down with the ayah the ayah 85 of صورة الإسراء بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ويسألونك عن يروح ويأتيكم من أمر ربي وما أوتيتم من العلم إلا قليلا sorry and they ask you محمد about the soul say the soul is of the affair of my lord and mankind have not been given of knowledge except a little so Allah سبحانه وتعالى represented say the Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم because he didn't say when he said I will tell you tomorrow and this is why Allah سبحانه وتعالى revealed in صورة الكف ولا تقول لن لشي إني فاعل ذلك غدا إلا أن يشاء الله وذكر ربك إذا نسيت وقل عسى أن يهدي أن يعبي لأقرب من هذا رشد لذا لا تقول إذن will do tomorrow إلا إلا يجب أن تضع إذا الله سبحانه وتعالى وذكرك يا ربك عندما تنسى عندما تنسى ربما ربك will guide me to what is nearer than this to the right contact هذا هو سورة الكف was revealed now if we want to talk about the topics in the sura we have we can divide the sura into several topics several groups from ayah 1 to ayah 8 it's about thanking الله سبحانه وتعالى giving glad tidings and warming people ayah 9 to 27 is the story of the people of the cave ayah 28 to 31 urging سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم urging people to practice patients ayah 32 to 44 the story of the two gardens the people of the two gardens from 45 to 46 it's the telling the the secret of what is really staying what is really a company a person to the life after and from 47 to 49 signs of the day of judgment just some points of some pictures of the day of judgment 50 to 59 it's the way Allah سبحانه وتعالى certain ways of giving destroying the non-believers and transgressing from 60 to 82 the story of سيدنا موسى عليه السلام with al-khadr عليه السلام 83 to 99 the story of the 110 the glad tidings the warning and the affirming of the سيدنا جبري عليه السلام so بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم we start insha Allah with the first I know الحمد لله الذي انزل على عبده الكتابة ولم يجعل له عيواجة so all praise is due to Allah who has sent down up on his servant the book and has not made therein any deviance if you go back to the last I of the previous سورة الله سبحانه وتعالى with وقول الحمد لله until the end of the the I and say praise to Allah وقول الحمد لله الله has started the next so the previous now وقول الحمد لله سورة الكهف started with الحمد لله الله also started with الحمد praise to Allah سبحانه وتعالى so الحمد لله is the way that سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said when he talked about the best of the words he said سبحان الله و الحمد لله سبحان الله is just to to say that الله سبحانه وتعالى is the one no one like him he didn't have a child there is no one to help him no one likes him nothing so this is سبحان الله we say الله سبحانه وتعالى for all his blessings whatever he gave us in fact in the Quran there are five that start with الحمد لله the first one is سورة الفاتحة رب العالمين all praise is due to Allah the Lord of all that exists the second one is سورة الأنعام الله سبحانه وتعالى starts with الحمد لله الذي خلق السماوات والأرض وجعل الظلمات والنور all praise is due to Allah who created the heavens and the earth and made the darkness and the light the third surah and الله سبحانه وتعالى starts with الحمد لله الذي انزل على عبته الكتابة ولم يجعل له عي وجاء all praise is due to Allah who has sent down up on his servant the book without any deviance in it the fourth surah is سورة سبق الحمد لله الذي له ما في السماوات وما في الأرض واله الحمد في الأخرة all praise is due to Allah to whom belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth and to him belongs all the praise in the hereafter and the last surah that starts with الحمد لله is الحمد لله السماوات والأرض يجعل الملائكة رسولا أولي أجنحة مثنى وثلاثة وروبا all praise is due to Allah creator of the heavens and the earth who made the angels the angel messengers having wings two or three or four so five surahs الله سبحانه وتعالى started with الحمد لله however each one of these surahs each one of this الحمد لله has a different meaning than the other or a different thanking الله سبحانه وتعالى for something different than what is in the other surah so in surah الله سبحانه وتعالى we say الحمد لله رب العالمين he created everything he is the lord of all that exists he is the one who who gave them the blessings in surah الحمد لله الذي خلق السماوات والأرض الله has created we thank Allah who created the heavens who created the earth darkness and light so all these are signs of the signs of الله سبحانه وتعالى the blessings of Allah because these skies and the earth has everything that people need for their life and the darkness and light are the blessings because when as the darkness has has something has a role the same thing the light has a role also both darkness and light are complete each other because light there is movement in light there is going there is trying to get sustenance there is there is a lot of action going in light and darkness has tranquility resting and no one can do anything if he is not trusted so a whole universe with darkness by itself a whole universe with light by itself is not enough there should be both light and darkness so we have to thank Allah for creating both light and darkness and now we come to Surat Al-Kahf when Allah started with أنزل على عبده الكتاب الحمد لله الذي أنزل على عبده الكتاب ولم يجعل له عيوجة so Allah سبحانه و تعالى sent down the book the Quran to his servant سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and look at the word على عبده على عبده so this is why we thank Allah for sending them the Quran الكتاب so what is the Quran the Quran is the book that has all the instructions all the rules that has a complete program for a successful life الحمد لله الحمد لله for sending this program for then sending these instructions and Allah said in Surat Al-Rahman العلم القرآن خلق الإنسان so so Allah سبحانه و تعالى set the way set the rules and after that he created man so the one who invents a machine before he invents the machine he knows what function this machine will do what tasks, what duties he will know exactly when to do the maintenance to keep this machine running in good condition so Allah سبحانه و تعالى descended down this Quran which is the law that the humans have to follow in order to live happily الحمد لله الحمد لله that he gave us this program that he gave us these these instructions now what does the word الحمد لله mean the word الحمد لله in Arabic has it three meanings ثناء شكر مدح praise, thanking and talking good so the meanings are so close together but there is a difference ثناء because when you thank Allah سبحانه و تعالى so there is شكر شكر if someone does something special for you something he made something special for you not for any other person then you thank him you yourself thank him the other creations will not think about it they might not know about it even so this is شكر شكر is to thank someone for doing something special for you but الحمد is for is thanking for a blessing that is for you and for others it's not specially for you this is the difference the difference between ثناء and الحمد so المدح might be you might praise something you might talk good about something but that thing will not give you anything in return when you say oh this is a nice cup you are praising this cup you're talking good about this cup but the cup you might use it for drink water but it's not something specially for you it's not something that you are the only one who will benefit from now if we go back if we go back to the word الحمد لله الحمد لله will mean that this thing we are thanking الله سبحانه وتعالى for for for anything for everything that he has created so if someone does something for you you thank him but if you think about it الله سبحانه وتعالى made that thing do this thing that he did for you that you thanked him for so if you have a chain you thanked this man but Allah سبحانه وتعالى made him do what he did for you then you are thanking الله سبحانه وتعالى so Allah started the Surah with الحمد لله this is a form that we all say the literate and the illiterate to say الحمد لله the poet, the engineer the doctor, the healthy the sick everyone says الحمد لله the young, the old, everyone and even though we say we say the same thing that Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم اللهم إنا لانحصي ثناء عليك أنت كما يتعالى نفسك يا الله لا matter how hard we thank you we still cannot thank you we still cannot praise you the way you deserve to be praised so we have to keep thanking الله سبحانه وتعالى الله give us all the blessings that we have he created us he perfected us, he proportioned us we take our health for granted if someone has a headache then he will know what it means to live without a headache when someone has an accident and something happens to him broke his hand he said الحمد لله it was only the hand it wasn't my back so even in bad situations we say الحمد لله الحمد لله الحمد لله الحمد لله for whatever good we have الحمد لله for whatever bad we are tested with we say الحمد لله that our test was not in our faith يا رب keep our faith keep us on the right path keep us following sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم we say الحمد لله he gave us children we have to thank الله سبحانه وتعالى for this blessing by raising our children the right way by preparing the right environment for our children by helping our children stay on the right path by choosing their good companions this is a man that we have it's a blessing but we have to to know how to deal with it there are so many things nowadays so many arrows that are against our children whether in belief whether in Naqida whether in ideas everything around us is a test with these children we should be careful how to raise our children we should as parents keep asking Allah and keep praying for the safety of the heart of our our children يا الله we ask you to give us and to give our children sound hearts يا الله and we thank you that you are allowing us to make prayers يا الله الحمد لله الحمد لله الذي أنزل على خبته الكتاب so he sent down up on his servant the book and look at the word servant in سورة الإسراء الله سبحانه وتعالى سبحان الذي أسرى بعبده إلى المسجد الحرام إلى المسجد الأقصى so when sayid Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم was a true servant to Allah سبحانه وتعالى الله elevated him into the skies to meet him he was sincere in worshipping Allah سبحانه وتعالى he was so patient in the tests that Allah سبحانه وتعالى was so patient in the tests that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has tested him with to Allah Allah recorded him that he took him up to the skies and when sayid Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم was up in with Allah سبحانه وتعالى Allah gave him gifts for us the last three eyes of Surah Al-Baqara and the prayers the five prayers and remember that prayers were 50 and when he went down he met sayid Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and he said what happened he said Allah gave me prayers 50 prayers from my ummah he said no no no no your ummah will not be able to do it just go back up to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and ask him to listen that number so he kept sending him back and forth back and forth until we have five prayers now five prayers imagine if they were 50 with everything around us during the day with all our work with all our responsibilities imagine the 50 prayers we have five prayers and are we performing the prayers or are we just praying what's the difference praying is just to do the prayer to to do the and that's it just the form of the prayer but our head is thinking of what to eat today where to go are the kids still sleeping did they come back this is praying but in the Quran we are performing the prayer this is the gift that Allah سبحانه وتعالى gave to sayidina Muhammad in the night journey so when we pray we have to be present in our prayer we have to have we have to remember always that we are standing before Allah سبحانه وتعالى we have to prepare ourselves to stand before Allah سبحانه وتعالى renew your wudu even if you have wudu renew it it's light up the light say say before you start your prayer you will outcast a shaitan say بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم by the power of Allah I'm going to be with Allah so get yourself prepared to stand before Allah سبحانه وتعالى this is what you do before the prayer what about in the prayer and try to focus on the meaning of what you are of the verses you are reciting so this is what you have to do during the prayer recite new as soon as that you memorize this will keep you aware of your prayer this will keep you connected to Allah سبحانه وتعالى in your prayer so Allah gave sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم this gift we are thanking Allah سبحانه وتعالى for this gift Allah gave the Qur'an to sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم we say صلى الله عليه وسلم we thank Allah for sending down the book ولم يجعل له عي وجب so there is no deviance in the Qur'an it leads to the straight path and we know that the straight line is the shortest line if we are going if we are walking a long distance walk we take the straight line we don't go right and left we want to be there as short as time possible الحمد لله الذي أنزل على عبده الكتابة ولم يجعل له عي وجب قيما لينظرة بأسة شديدة من لدن so this Qur'an Allah made it straight to learn severe punishment لينظرة بأسة شديدة من لدن severe punishment from him وبيبشر المؤمنين الذين يعملون الصالحات أنهم أجر حسنة and to give the good tidings to give good tidings to the believers who do righteous deeds that they will have a good reward so this is the promise و سبحانه وتعالى is going to reward those who who are going to do righteous things righteous deeds it's a glad tidings so the word قيما means straight or it means the one who has the rule that if someone follows these rules then he will be he will be a winner if someone did not follow the rules then he will be a loser so the Qur'an is a warner and something the signs the ayahs would give glad tidings to those who follow and who do righteous deeds ما كثين فيه أبدا in which they will remain forever و ينظر الذين قالوا التخز الله و لدا so it's a warning for those who would say that الله has taken a son ما لهم بي من علم ولا لآبائهم كبرت كلمة تخرج من أفواههم إي يقولون إلا تذيب so الله سبحانه وتعالى they have no knowledge of it they don't know anything nor had their fathers when they were asked to become Muslims that they would say no this is a religion that is not the religion we were raised up to and that's not what our fathers used to know كبرت كلمة تخرج من أفواههم so nothing they will say except إي يقولون إلا كذبة except it's a lie فلعلك باخع نفسك على آثارهم إل لم يؤمن بهذا الحديث أسفا so maybe maybe perhaps you will kill yourself through grief over them if they don't believe in this message so don't don't get yourself so grieved إنك لا تهدي من تشاء ولكن إنك لا تهدي من أحببت ولكن الله يهدي من يشاء you do not guide those who you love but Allah guides those whom he wills إنا جعلنا ما على الأرضي زينة لها لنبلوهم أيهم أحسن وعملا indeed we have made that which is on the earth just a dormant so so that we may test them of which is best indeed who is who good deeds we are going to give them everything money, wealth, health knowledge everything but that will be a test so if you have everything just remember that nothing is staying forever just remember that you are not going to take anything with you it's only it's only your deeds that are going everything will go after the to the to the graveyards everything will go back people will go back the cars will go back the wealth will go back no one will ask anybody just to get their money and to put it in the grave with them no one so this life is only a test and it is it is only what some people are imprisoned in this life so we ask to give us to give us life we are not against something we are not against wealth no it's good to be wealthy it's good not to be a poor person but we have to know that whatever whatever happens we want this wealth to be only in our pockets only in our pockets not in our heart and we can have that by by having صدقة by having so الله سبحانه وتعالى is giving people this just to test them who is sincere to الله سبحانه وتعالى every blessing that الله سبحانه وتعالى is giving us is a test he gave us good health are we using it for for helping us just to be closer to الله سبحانه وتعالى we have eyes we want to use our eyes just to to read Quran to be good not to watch anything that is haram or unlawful we want to do everything we have hands we have everything all the blessings that الله سبحانه وتعالى has given us is just a test we have a chance now to get advantage of these things of these blessings so we have to know that nothing is staying with us except our righteous deeds وصل الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلال وجهك وعظيم سلطانك سبحانه ربك رب العزة عما يصفون وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته اسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وسلم على سيدنا ونبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلال وجهك سلطانك سبحانه ربنا لا إله إلا أنت نستغفر قولة توب إليك بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم today إن شاء الله we will be going on last time we saw in ayah 7 how Allah سبحانه و تعالى said indeed we have made that which is on the earth a dormant for it that we may test them so there will be a test everyone in this dunya will be tested and the highest of those who are tested are the prophets so الله سبحانه و تعالى will test us all to see who is the one who can who will succeed in their test who is the one succeeding in the test who are the winners who are those who will get the bounties of Allah سبحانه و تعالى will get the reward at the end and who are the ones who will get the punishment indeed in the end we will turn all that is in this earth into a bare plane so there will be nothing on it all that الله سبحانه و تعالى has created in this universe is going to vanish we saw earlier when Allah سبحانه و تعالى said when the heavens break apart another verse when the sky is split the center and when the stars plants are scattered when the sun is folded as a ball and when the light of the stars go away and when the sea is become a blazing fire everything is going to vanish and everything is going to vanish from this earth from this universe وإننا لجاعلون ما عليها صعيدا جرزا there will be nothing أم حسبت أن أصحاب الكهف والرقم كانوا من آياتنا عجبا so now الله سبحانه و تعالى is going to tell us the story of the companions of the cave the sleepers of the cave so we mentioned last time that Quraysh wanted to know this story as the jews scholars told them to ask Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم so Allah سبحانه و تعالى is saying here do you think that the companions of the cave or the sleepers of the cave and the inscription or the bearers of the inscription were among our signs a wonder so as we mentioned last session we have several stories in Surat al-Qaeda so this is the first story that talks about the test of religion we said that everyone is going to be tested so there will be lots of testing in this dunya so one of the tests might be the test of religion which is the story of the people of the cave another test might be the fitna of money the test of having wealth another fitna is the fitna the test of the knowledge if someone does not lead to humility the fitna of power so there are so many fitna and Allah سبحانه و تعالى gives a story about each of these fitna and he starts here by the story of أصحاب الكهف so Allah tells the stories in the Quran and we all love their stories but Allah سبحانه و تعالى the stories of Allah سبحانه و تعالى are أحسن القصص the best of all stories they are truthful so in these stories there are wisdoms and lessons so do not pass by these stories when you read them without knowing what is the wisdom behind each and every story benefit from all the stories do not say that these are the stories of old nations they are just stories no there is a wisdom there is a lesson with each and every story that Allah سبحانه و تعالى tells us in the Quran so here we have the story of the young men so some young men were seeking refuge in a cave we don't know their names it's irrelevant we don't know the name of the cave we don't know so many things so many things that each story would tell is not mentioned here Allah wants us to know the story exactly just the main things in the story so those young men believed in Allah they did not want to worship false gods same as what their people what everyone in their village used to do and there was a king who was a pagan a non-believer who wanted to persecute them so they flee they run away from him so Allah سبحانه و تعالى is saying ريش is asking about the story of the sleepers of the cave thinking that it is a wonder then tell them it's not a big wonder it's one of our miracles that are countless there are so many miracles that are much greater than this miracle is so when the young men when the youth retreated to the cave and said our lord went as a special mercy from yourself and prepare for us right guidance and make our affairs proper so as soon as they entered the cave they made it so the word our in Arabic means to seek a shelter to hide in and the fitia are the young men at the beginning of their of age until the beginning of their 20s so these are the fitia so these fitia these young men run away flee from a problem that they were facing so they left the people they left to their families they left to their houses they left their sustenance they left everything behind and run away where to the cave a place where there is nothing in so they left everything to nothing and they said ربنا آتنا من لدنك رحمة so they asked الله سبحانه وتعالى for mercy because they realized they knew there is no mercy from people so they said oh lord give us mercy directly from you وَهَيْ لَنَا مِنْ أَمْرِنَا رَشَدًا guide us to the true and straight path to the path of of حق to the path that you choose for us that is the right path make our first firm and straight so they were fleeing because they faced a problem and the first thing they did when they entered the cave was to make dua الله سبحانه وتعالى رحمتك يا رب so this is what we say when we have a problem mercy mercy and Allah سبحانه وتعالى answers the call even to those who are not Muslims once this is a story that was told to us there was a woman who was not a believer and she was even atheist she wouldn't believe in God and she was in a park when they were in the park she had her two years old baby with her and she was talking with others and this child just walked and walked and wondered until he was literally on the street when his mom just looked and saw him she said out of a sudden oh my god so he was there was a fast car coming and it was about to hit him but Allah answered the call of the one who was in so much need for Allah سبحانه وتعالى she said oh my god and Allah immediately answered the call the car stuck just inches from that child when a sick person goes to the doctor he knows that he has something what to say a very bad illness a serious sickness and he goes to the doctor but even when he goes to the doctor he makes dua and with this he would ask the help of Allah سبحانه وتعالى that he Allah would heal him he knows that the doctor himself is just a means but if Allah does not order the medicine to heal him then the medicine will not be effective and he knows that nothing can help him except Allah but the doctor is a mean that through that doctor he would get but deep in heart he knows that only Allah is the one who is going to heal him and that's why he would make dua and sincere dua to Allah سبحانه وتعالى so dua is the weapon of the believer it shows complete dependent on Allah سبحانه وتعالى and so many people if they want something from Allah سبحانه وتعالى they would wake up at night before pleasure because they know that this is the time that Allah is closest to his servants they know that Allah said دعوني أستجب لكم ask me and I will answer your prayers and they will make dua and they will talk to Allah and they would make سجود and they will along their سجود and they will talk to Allah and they will tell him what they want and they will cry because they know only Allah is able to save them only Allah is going to help them so those young men when they get into the cave the first thing they did they made dua ربنا آتنا من لدونك رحمة oh lord grant us special mercy وهي لنا من أمرنا رشد and give us guidance make our affairs proper so what did Allah سبحانه وتعالى say فضاربنا على سنين عدد so we cast a cover of sleep over their ears within the cave for a number of years now we want to look at the words Allah casted a cover of sleep over their ears what does this mean so they fell into a deep sleep that no matter how loud the sounds are there they would not walk up they would not walk up the word بربنا means to hit something with something else in a stronger way so the one who is hitting should be smart enough that he does not hit with his hand something that is better than him because he would be hitting himself when someone is when someone is angry he would hit the table or the wall but who will feel the pain now بربنا this word means that Allah put a cover it's not the physical برب it's not the physical hitting it's the cover that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has put on their ears let's take an example now when a farmer works hard digging in the land then he feels tired so what does he do to rest he stops for a minute so he stops even the tools are still in his hands if he gets tired of standing then he sits down but if he gets tired of sitting he gets enough when he falls asleep he will not feel anything but if there is he will not see anything but if there is a sound next to him if something hits next to him then he will wake up so this is what happened to the sick person who is in pain so when he falls asleep then he stops uttering the pain words and everyone around him will say stop all the noise just whisper don't let him sleep let him rest but as soon as he wakes up he will start feeling the pain once again so it's this sound that will make him wake up Allah سبحانه وتعالى wanted those young men to fully rest so he made them sleep deep sleep when a person sleeps he will not be able to see anything around him his eyes will not work anymore so he is not seeing anything but if there is a loud sound near him he will hear it and he will wake up so what Allah سبحانه وتعالى said he Allah covered up their ears he stopped their ears from hearing anything around them so to have full rest so they slept for years and years ثم بعثناهم لنعلم أي الحزبين أحصى لما لبسوء مدى then we awakened them that we might show which of the two functions which of the two groups was most precise in calculating what extent they had remained in time so the word بعثناهم is to resurrect them and it is said to those who died so Allah resurrected the death so as if that their long long sleep was like death we know that sleeping is like dying except that the one who sleeps wakes up again wakes up again in this dunya in this life while the one who dies will not wake up again until the day of judgment when we go to sleep our soul but it is still connected however when we die our soul leaves our body and the connection is cut off and Allah سبحانه وتعالى explains this in Surah Al-Zumar 42 when he says Allah takes the souls at the time of their death and when people sleep so Allah سبحانه وتعالى withholds the souls for whom he decreed death their soul will not come back and restores and releases the other souls for a specified time it's not death time for them so they will wake again and we hear so many stories that so and so went to bed but never got up again so Allah سبحانه وتعالى has brought those young men back to see who has the most accurate information about them and of how many years they slept so Allah says نحن نقص عليك نذاهم بالحق إنهم فتية آمنوا بربهم وزدناهم مهدا so we are the one who will relate to you or Muhammad their true real story indeed they were young men who believed in their lord and we increased them in guidance so this is a summary of the whole story so Allah summarized the story in a few verses but now he in this verse and on he is going to tell us the story their story in detail so وزدناهم مهدا Allah says in Surah Muhammad and those who are guided he increased them in the guidance and gave them their righteousness so Allah سبحانه وتعالى would enlighten the inner sight of those who are guided of those who follow the right path of those who obey the orders of those who get closer to Allah سبحانه وتعالى so Allah will give them something extra so let's take for example an example of a teacher when he when he notices that he has a very smart student in his class that he exceeds all his all his classmates then he gives him more attention and he explains more for him he gives him extra one he gives him extra work and consequently extra credit so Allah سبحانه وتعالى when he sees someone who is coming to him walking he comes to him running and he gets him closer to him so these young men broke away from their culture they broke away from their society they broke away from their king everyone who was worshipping the idols they stood up against the culture they stood up against everything against everyone they were open-minded they wanted to make a change they wanted to say the truth say the Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم says seven of the people will be sheltered under the shade of Allah سبحانه وتعالى when there is no shade other than his shade a young man a young person who is raising himself up in the worship of Allah سبحانه وتعالى a young man a young woman who are doing their best to get closer to Allah سبحانه وتعالى a young people who are living righteously we ask you to protect our children we ask you to protect our kids we ask you to raise them under your care we ask you to enlighten their hearts we ask you to enlighten their path we ask you to enlighten we ask you to enlighten their inner sight we ask you Allah to provide them with good companions good friends who will correct them if they do any mistakes we want good friends for our kids Allah so these are young men together they were together they were friends they were companions they helped each other for the sake of Allah they helped each other to stand up against the culture سيدنا موسى asked Allah سبحانه وتعالى to to send with him his brother so that they both would go to فرعون so Allah said سنشد عدودك بأخيط we will strengthen you so being together having good companions is very important in this we want to search for the good companions for our children we want to know who are the friends of our children their their friends at school are called classmates they are not friends the friends are the ones who will advise them if they get wrong they will help them on the right path they will show them the right path they will correct them if they go astray this is the type of friends that we need for our kids a good friend a true friend is very important in this dunya one of the good people said من تصاحب أقول لك من and tell me who your friend is and I will tell you who you are المرء على ديين خليله this is what Sayyidina Muhammad said المرء على ديين خليله فلينظر أحدكم من يخالل so a person would be on the same path as his friend so know how to find your companion search for a good companion who will get you closer to Allah be a friend with those who will if you look at them they will make you say they will force you to say they will remind you of Allah عاشر من يمهضك إلى الله و يدلك على الله ما قالوا be a friend take a friend who would if you see you will remember Allah and who if he talks he will remind you of Allah don't just take a friend just to make you happy to make you feel good to make you know everything is vanishing in this dunya but the true friend is the one who will who will want because the aim that he will be in paradise with you and in the day after there will be a intercession for those who are who used to be good friends in dunya someone would say Allah I haven't seen my friend we were together in dunya we were making the good together we were we were in dunya I haven't seen him he says I cannot leave him there go to him take his hand and go take him and he will be with you in general true friends for the sake of Allah sincere relationship for the sake of Allah nothing else so these are young men who believed in their lord and they were faithful they were true believers so Allah increased their guidance every single step we take to Allah Allah will make the next step easier if you decide to memorize the Quran it will be it might be difficult at the beginning but be patient Allah will make it easier and easier if you start memorizing one line every day then later you will find yourself memorizing two or three lines why this is a blessing from Allah thank him he made things easier for you then you will feel that you will not be able to live without Quran without the words of Allah you want to memorize it you want to understand it you want to know everything about the Quran you want it to be your guidance in this dunya so this is what Sayyidina Muhammad says in the Hadith whoever comes walking to Allah سبحانه و تعالى then Allah will come to him running so remember with every good deed you do your iman goes up so the more iman you have the extra more iman you will get the closer you will get to Allah سبحانه و تعالى how can we get closer to Allah سبحانه و تعالى we have to have a few minutes every day to be with Allah سبحانه و تعالى just sit alone talk to Allah سبحانه و تعالى make a prayer pray to rakaz and talk to Allah get closer to Allah read his book know about the life of Sayyidina Muhammad know his seerah know about his companions this is how we get closer to Allah سبحانه و تعالى so what happens to those young men Allah سبحانه و تعالى when they say ربنا ربوا السماوات والأرض لن ندعوة من دونه إلها آخر لقد قلنا إذا مشططا so we we made Allah سبحانه و تعالى saying we strengthen and we made firm their hearts and this is very important so they said لن ندعوة من دونه إلها لقد قلنا إذا مشططا Allah strengthened there and made firm their hearts and when they stood up and said our lord is the lord of the heavens and the earth we will never invoke any other deity than him what should we do so we would have certainly spoken then an excessive transgression so Allah showed that their hearts was terrified they were terrified they were scared they were scared of their communities threat that they're going to be killed the king wanted to kill them so Allah comforted them و ربطنا على قلوبهم و ربطنا على قلوبهم and this word ربطنا we strengthened their hearts this is what happened to the mother of سيدنا موسى عليه السلام when Allah when Allah سبحانه و تعالى said to her فإن خفتي عليه فألقيه في اليوم فإن خفتي عليه فألقيه في اليوم فإن خفتي عليه فألقيه في اليوم so if you are scared then about your son that you throw him in the river so why if that did not happen so she was scared that فرعون is going to kill her her son so Allah سبحانه و تعالى inspired to her that suckle him but when you fear for him cast him into the river and do not fear do not grieve indeed we will return him to you and we will make him of the messengers so what happens her heart her heart became empty she was so so worried about her son she was about to disclose the matters to say it to them and Allah made her heart fast firm that she would be of the believers و ربطنا على قلوبهم و ربطنا على قلوبهم so Allah strengthened their hearts so when they stood up to flee they they initiated the work of fleeing so they started the work and then Allah helped him if you want something from Allah do not say okay I believe in Allah and He will give it to me no you have to do something they fled away and then they asked Allah they did not stay still they did not just waited and ask Allah to save them no Allah helped them and saved their hearts after they fled away after they made dua so they initiated the work and Allah helped after so so these our people have taken besides him dieties they worshiped other gods than Allah سبحانه وتعالى why did our people not prove their statements with their true authority they did not prove what they are saying they did not prove why they are worshipping other than Allah who does more wrong than the one who fabricates lies about Allah سبحانه وتعالى فمن أضل ممن من افتران الله كذب so when you speak about Allah سبحانه وتعالى you have to be careful with what you are saying do not say I think Allah means this and that there is no I think if you are not sure do not say it if you are asked a question and you don't know the answer say I don't know the answer don't be ashamed Allah سبحانه وتعالى has assigned angels to write everything for you there will be records for you waiting in the day of judgment and everything everything will be recorded in their records so be careful what you are saying do not say a word that is Allah فمن أضل ممن من افتران الله كذب وإذ يعتزلتموهم وما يعبدون إلا الله ثقوا إلى الكهف ينشور لكم ربكم من رحمته ويهيئ لكم من أمركم مرفقا so when you broke away from your people go to the cave الله will show you protection الله will show you mercy ثقوا إلى الكهف ينشور لكم ربكم من رحمته ويهيئ لكم من أمرهم لكم مرفقا وتر الشمس إذا طلعت تزاور عن كهف يمدات وإذا غربت تقردهم ذات الشمال وهم في فجوة منه ذلك من آيات الله من يهدي الله فهو المهتد ومن يضل فلن تجد له وليا مرشدة and you would see when the sun rises so it will incline away from the cave on the right and when it sets it will pass away from them on the left while they are lying they are lying in that cave so this is what الله سبحانه و تعالى is saying so the sun is not going so while they are in that spacious place lying inside the cave so this was one of the signs of الله سبحانه و تعالى so if they if Allah سبحانه و تعالى wants to guide someone then he will be guided but if Allah سبحانه و تعالى wanted to get someone to go astray then you will never find any guardian to direct him you will never find anyone to guide him so it's all by Allah's will so Allah guides whoever he wants to guide we ask Allah سبحانه و تعالى for guidance we ask Allah سبحانه و تعالى to put us on the right on the right path we ask Allah سبحانه و تعالى to give us to give our children the wisdom to choose what is right and to be away from what is wrong صلى الله عليه وسهدنا محمد و على آله و صحبه وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلال وجيك وعويم سلطانك سبحان ربك رب العزة عما يصيفون و سلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين we will go on insha Allah السلام عليكم و رحمة الله و بركاته بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم و الصلاة و السلام على سيدنا و نبينا محمد و على آله و صحبه وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلال وجيك وعويم سلطانك بسم الله we will start today insha Allah by continuing Surah al-Kahf we are on and we saw that last time that those young men this fleed with their religion they didn't want to be affected by the the emperor the king or the people so they ran away in order to save themselves and to keep their faith and iman as strong as it was so Allah سبحانه و تعالى made them directed them to a cave and he prepared that cave for them so when the when the sun would go from the when it will rise up it will incline away from their cave on the right and when it sets it will again pass away from them to the left so this was preparations Allah سبحانه و تعالى that cave for them Allah goes on and says و تحسبهم اي قاذا وهم رقود و نقلبهم ذات اليمين و ذات الشمال و كلبهم باصطن ذراعيه بالوصيد so Allah is saying and you will think them wide awake because their eyes were open while they were deep asleep and we turned them to the right and to the left while the dog stretched his four legs at the entrance و لو اطلعت عليهم لو الليت منهم فرارا ولا مليئة منهم رعبا if you have a look if you have looked at them then you should have turned from them in flight and have been filled up by terror so we said the sun will miss them when it rises up and when it sets down they were sleeping but their eyes were wide open so this is something that if the eyes are closed for a long time which in their case would be over 300 years then they will not be able to see when they open them if they can open them so Allah SWT is turning these people these young men right and left why? imagine there is a sick person who is bedridden who cannot move after 2-3 weeks then he would have skin sores he would have muscle problems so those people those young men are turned so they don't have these skin problems they don't have these muscle problems during their 300 over years of sleeping and what happens to their dog their dog was at the doorstep at the entrance of the cave so no one can get into them only if you had a look on them they fell asleep they trusted God and he miraculously saved them he protected them they fell asleep for centuries and they were saved from that tyrant emperor from that tyrant's king وكذلك بعثناهم ليتسألوا بينهم قال قائل منهم كم لبستهم ما يوما أو بعض يوم قالوا ربكم أعلم بما لبستهم فبعثوا أحدكم بوريقكم هذه إلى المدينة فلينظر أيها أزقا طعاما فليأتيكم برزق منه وليطلطف ولا يشعرن بكم أحدا so and similarly we awaken them that they might question one another they would look at themselves and they will answer what's going on what is going on how how how many years so said as people of them among them how long have you have we remained here and they look at themselves and they said have you remained a day or a part of a day and they said okay your lord is most knowing of how long you remain so send one of you with this silver coin of yours to the city and let him look to which is the best food the pure food and bring you provision from that food and let him be cautious and no one be aware of you now let's start with the deep understanding of the ayah the word وكذلك the word means or refers to resurrection after death and الله سبحانه وتعالى used this word here the long period they slept okay so when they when they asked each other how many years how long did you sleep they said a day or part of a day why did they say so because they looked at themselves they did not find anything different they were young and they stayed young their hair was not gray and it stayed the same way so they said it's not important how long we slept because nothing changed for them so look at this at this thing it's not important to argue about the things that are not important stop arguing سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم says أنا زعيم ببيتن في ربض الجنة لمن ترك المراءة وإن كان محقن so سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم is guaranteeing a house in paradise in a special part of paradise for that person who does not argue even if he is right and we all know that سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم the way he used to talk his words would be counted he used to use جوامع الكلم a few words that would give a lot of meanings so the point is stop arguing do not argue so here they said it's not important how long we slept let's not talk about this الله knows exactly how long we slept but what was important as a mention for them now is that they are hungry they want to eat so when they suggested that someone goes to buy to use the silver coins they have to buy some food he said فبعثوا أحدكم بورقكم هذه إلى المدينة في اليانظر أيها أزقا طعامل the word أزقا means good, delicious but at the same time pure pure and this is a real sign of تقوى when we want to practice تقوى we have to have it in all our actions in everything in actions in food in our money our money should be pure our actions should be pure for the sake of الله سبحانه وتعالى only everything should be for the sake of الله سبحانه وتعالى so get some pure food some good food but make sure that nobody sees you make sure nobody sees you they are not sure that the things have changed because the people are looking for them so they slept only for a few a few seconds a few minutes part of a day so they slept only for a short period of time that's what they think so they are sure that people are looking for them and they have to be careful they have not they don't have to draw attention to themselves so just be just be aware be cautious if we look at this we we understand something very important that we have when we have when we really depend on الله سبحانه وتعالى then what is going on then we have to take necessary precautions and depend on الله سبحانه وتعالى so we cannot just say okay I am depending on Allah and he will save me you cannot say that you have to take precaution you have to start so you cannot say I am depending on him الله and he will save me no you have to take measures so why did they why were they so cautious because they said if they come to know of you you will they will stone you they will force you to return to their religion and what will happen after that and never would you succeed than ever so you will you will than ever so they faced death because they refused to worship the false gods they refused to worship anyone other than الله سبحانه وتعالى they were true believers and they wanted to save their hearts because they are seeking for the day after they are seeking for their reward with الله سبحانه وتعالى on the day of judgment so this is what was their concern they did not care about dunya they did not care about anything no distractions just Allah سبحانه وتعالى so they faced death because they refused to worship these false gods so they ran away and when they woke up again they said we have to be careful not to get caught by that tyrant king that tyrant emperor and his men so the lesson here is do not throw yourself into harm stay away from it keep safe your soul is in a manner save it it's not only your body to take care of you have to take care of your soul also and how do we take care of our souls just know that الله سبحانه وتعالى has given you this a manner so you have to take care of it you have to keep getting closer to Allah سبحانه وتعالى you have to nourish your soul send salawat to Sayyidina Muhammad read Quran be with righteous people learn about your religion learn about the life of Sayyidina Muhammad learn about the companions how they lived how they acted how they stood firm with Sayyidina Muhammad we are at an age now that we have to be very strong with our faith to face all those errors that are being hit directly against us against Muslims so take care of your because when you cannot take care of others if you yourself is not strong enough you have your family as an Amana but you have to be strong to take care of your Amana ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى for help always and just be sure that you cannot fulfill anything without the help of Allah سبحانه وتعالى you cannot do anything without the help of Allah سبحانه وتعالى so get yourself prepared get yourself ready to to do what Allah سبحانه وتعالى wants you to do in this life to fulfill the purpose of your life there will be tests all your life but you have to be strong Allah will test His servants His people just to know who is going to be a winner who is going to be a loser so be careful get yourself prepared and Allah سبحانه وتعالى you have to be you have to start the first step and then you depend on Allah سبحانه وتعالى and when you depend on Allah سبحانه وتعالى then Allah will help you so what happened now those young men were saved and Allah wants the truth to be revealed now so He says and similarly we caused them to be found so that they who found them would know that the promise of Allah سبحانه وتعالى is truth so that everyone up till our our day up till the day of of judgment everyone will know that the promise of Allah سبحانه وتعالى is truth وأن الساعة لا ريب فيها إذ يتنازعون بينهم أمرهم فقال بنو عليهم بنيانا ربهم أعلم بهم قال الذين غلبوا على أمرهم لنتخذن عليهم مسجيدة so Allah سبحانه وتعالى cause them to be found so that everyone would know that the promise of Allah سبحانه وتعالى is truth and that the hour is there is no doubt about the day of judgment about the hour when they ask say the Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم about the hour he says the one who is being asked does not have more information about the one who is asking no one knows when is the hour except Allah سبحانه وتعالى so that was when they disputed amongst themselves about their affairs and then they said construct over them a structure their lord is most knowing about them said those who prevail in the matter we will surely take for ourselves over them a message so this is how they were discovered that was because of the coin no one accepted to take the coin in return of the food that that young man went to buy for his friends so the salesman sent him from one to another and everyone said oh what is this money so they couldn't recognize they couldn't recognize this money people also something strange happened the young man himself could not recognize anything around him centuries have gone by everything is different people are different shops are different the structures are different so the sellers refused to take the coin and they sent him from one to another until they thought that he has found a treasure and he was forced to go before the bishop we know earlier we said that 300 years ago when they ran away people were pagans but later they became Christians so the bishop asked him what is this what is his story but before the man answered he said where is that emperor and it is said that the name of that emperor was disease and this person died about 250 CE so nobody knows that this person except someone who lived with him so they told him they said he has died centuries back and he told them the stories the bishop could not believe the stories so he said take me to the cave you are talking about so the young men took them took the bishop and the few people to the cave and they saw his friends they saw their cloth and they realized they found out that they are really of that era the bishop and the men left and after that all the young men died naturally after they were discovered by people so Allah SWT calls them to be found so that everyone is sure that Allah's promise is true and that there is no doubt about resurrection so Allah SWT will give victory to those who truly believe in him to those who sacrifice for his sake those who do not get distracted by dunya by nefs, by shaitan by anything they are real true believers of Allah SWT and they wanted to to keep their heart pure and nothing in their heart except Allah SWT and Allah SWT says in سورة محمد in 7 إن تنصر الله ينصركم ويثبت أقدامكم oh you who believe who believe if you support Allah SWT Allah will support you Allah will give you victory and how do you support Allah by being obedient servants by following the orders by accepting anything that Allah has ordered you to do and being away from anything that Allah SWT wants you to be away from so this story is a sign that the promise of Allah is truth so let them know that there is no doubt about Allah's victory there will be a day that Allah will give you victory just stay firm إذ يتنازعون بينهم أمرهم so they began debating about what should be done with them so several ideas were given some of them said فقالوا بنو عليهم بنيانة so one group said let's build a monument to honor them Allah knows all that happened but we need to honor them others gave other opinion until until a group said قال الذين غلبوا عليهم لنتخذن عليهم مسجدة those who want the debate said we will build a place of worship here actually this is a truth it is a story that الله سبحانه وتعالى kept their remembrance till today and until the day of judgment it will stay there their remembrance will be their story will be told from generation to generation to generation سيقولون ثلاثة رابعهم كلبهم ويقولون خمسة ويقولون سبعة وثان منهم كلبهم قل ربي أعلم بعدتهم ما يعلمهم إلا قليل فلا تمار فيهم إلا مراء ظاهرة ولا تستفت فيهم منهم أحدا so some said they were three and the fourth of them being their dog they will say they were five they were five and the sixth of them is their dog it's only an estimation some say they were seven and the eighth of them was their dog so say oh Muhammad my lord is the most knowing of their number so it's not important الله knows the number none knows none knows the exact none knows exactly how many were they except for a few so do not argue with them except that you have a solid knowledge there is a lesson here and we mentioned that last time speak with knowledge or keep silence if you are asked a question and you don't know the answer I don't know the answer I will check the answer I will ask someone who knows the answer if you are not qualified to speak then keep silent do not argue about something that you are not sure about so do not discuss something if you are not sure about but do not argue about something that knowing it would not benefit and not knowing it would not harm the most important thing is the story فيت يطن أمنوا بربهم young men believed in Allah and they ran away so Allah saved them this is the most important thing it's not important the names of those people it's not important how many are exactly how many were they it's not important it's not important the place it's a cave any cave a cave but what is important is the truth so if Allah SWT had specified time or so people had specified time so people would say this story is only for that time it's only a story if he specified the names then people would say this story is about so and so if he specified the number then they will say this is the number that's only about those people but Allah kept these things unknown for a reason that this story might happen to everyone it might happen to everyone it might happen to everyone anyone can be in their position so the lesson is be with Allah SWT Allah will be with you كن مع الله يكوني الله معك كن مع الله يكوني الله معك be with Allah كن مع الله في الرخاء يكون معك في الشدة be with Allah SWT remember Allah SWT at the time of ease Allah SWT will be with you at the time of hardship فلا تماري فيهم أحدا فلا تماري فيهم إلا مراقن ظاهرة ولا تستفت فيهم منهم أحدا and do not ask them do not ask them as they do not have the knowledge do not ask your people who came and they they are judging you they are asking you about the story of these people because they do not know they do not know they do not have the knowledge and we mentioned also that Allah SWT says in the Quran فسألوا أهل الذكر this is Surat Al-Nahl ayah 43 and also the same ayah is repeated in Surat Al-Anbiya ayah 7 ask the people of knowledge if you do not know but do not ask these people they do not know so when you want to have knowledge when you want to ask someone do not ask anyone except that you are sure that this person has the knowledge or he can get you the exact knowledge the exact answer the correct answer you have to know who to ask and it is said that at the end of time so many people would give fatwas so many people would give fatwas which is very wrong even if they do not know they will give fatwa someone would ask them they will immediately answer without thinking about the question and this is the end of time so لا تستفد فيه محدة do not ask except the people of knowledge they do not know do not ask them and never say I will do anything tomorrow I will do this thing tomorrow never say that except you add إن شاء الله if Allah wills so إن شاء الله when you want to do something say إن شاء الله and when you say so then you are as if you are saying يا الله برئت من حولي وقوتي ولزت بحولك وقوتيك I have no power you have the power if you will that thing will happen then it will happen if you will that thing that not to happen then it will not happen I don't know I am depending on you يا الله this is one of the ways that we depend on Allah just keep mentioning keep saying إن شاء الله I want to come visit you إن شاء الله you never know you never know if you will wake up or not you never know if your car will act funny on that day or not you will never know if you can make it on the road or not you never know if this will happen or not you always have the company of Allah with you إن شاء الله بسم الله الحمد لله thank Allah for everything good that happens to you الحمد لله وذكر ربك إذا نسينك وقول عسى أن يهديني ربي لأقرب من هذا رشد and remember you lord when you forget يقول حسناً سأفعل this tomorrow or today after an hour and you forgot to say إن شاء الله just say it whenever you remember it إن شاء الله so remember remember your lord when you forget say perhaps my lord will guide me وقول عسى أن يهديني ربي لأقرب من هذا رشد so say perhaps my lord will guide me to what is nearer than this to the right conduct so guide me يا الله to something better to what I had in mind we don't know we ask Allah and that's why whenever we want to do something we will do Salatul Istikhara whenever we want to have a decision then we will do Salatul Istikhara so ask Allah ask Allah now always say اللهم إني لا أحسنوا الاختيارة فاختر لي ولا أحسنوا التدبير فدبر لي يا الله I don't know how to choose you choose for me not to manage my affairs you manage them for me because I trust that whatever you want for me is the best I don't know what's best for me sometimes we beg Allah for something to happen we ask him for something to happen but when it happens we say oh we wish it did not that's why from now on stop what you want but add at the end ask Allah for whatever you want but add at the end if there is a choice in that thing and you know best I don't know اللهم إني لا أحسنوا الاختيارة فاختر لي ولا أحسنوا التدبير فدبر لي so remember اللهم سبحانه وتعالى sometimes we want to save something we don't want it to get lost so we hide it we want to hide this thing it's so precious we don't want to lose it and what happens we forget where we hide it so you keep searching and searching and searching and searching you don't find it and there is a way to help you find things if you lose them سبحان الله it helps but in order not to forget where you put your things which is something that happens to all of us be aware the second you want to put it to leave it from your hand to put it then say بسم الله when you say بسم الله then you are aware your mind is aware of the place that you put it in so just say بسم الله before putting your stuff here and there before hiding your stuff or before losing your stuff that you hide okay سبحان الله so so now they remained in their cave for 300 years and also 9 so 309 years they stayed sleeping in that cave قول الله أعلم بما لبثو له غيب السماوات والأرضي أبصر به وأسمع يندونيه ميولي ولا يشرك في حكمه أحد say الله is most knowing of how long they remained no one knows but Allah He has the knowledge of the unseen the knowledge of the unseen of the heavens the knowledge of the unseen of the earth He has the knowledge of the unseen of everything how sleeping is He and how hearing how seeing how seeing is He Allah never sleeps but He always sees everything He always hears everything so He this is something that we have always to keep with us Allah is over watching us Allah knows everything and at the day at the day of judgment He is going to present everything for us in the record مالهم من دونه ميولي ولا يشرك في حكمه أحد you have no one to depend on except Allah سبحانه وتعالى you have no one to to take care of you except Allah سبحانه وتعالى and what's good what is unique what is amazing what is miraculous is that Allah gives the orders Allah gives the rulings and no one shares anything with Allah سبحانه وتعالى He by Himself bless everything وصل الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي الجلال وجهك وعظيم سلطانك سبحان ربك رب العزة عما يصفون وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين والميت ان شاء الله next week السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والصلاة والسلام وعلى سيدنا محمد بسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي الجلال وجهك وعظيم سلطانك بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم today insha Allah we will be starting with ayah 27 الله سبحانه وتعالى says واتلوما أحيى إليك من كتاب ربك لا مبدل لكلماته ولن تجد من نهي ملتحدة الله سبحانه وتعالى he is saying and recite او محمد what has been revealed to you of the book of your lord there is no changer of his word and never will you find in other than him a refugee so الله سبحانه وتعالى is asking سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم to recite the Quran and this is an order for us to recite the Quran so when you are with الله سبحانه وتعالى you are reading his book you feel something something special connection you feel a special connection between you and الله سبحانه وتعالى when you read his words so what is this book this book this Quran is the source of life it governs everything justly and it's full of wisdom and الله سبحانه وتعالى put his eyes on the Quran in several ways for us so that we have for example when we read the story of Musa عليه السلام this story comes over and over and over in the Quran but every time you read it you feel that you are reading a new story every time you read you feel that there is something new you never get bored of reading the same story over and over and over so الله سبحانه وتعالى in this book he gave us the law he gave us the program he gave us the system that we have to follow in our lives so we can't live happily so we can't reach the end happily and safely just follow the orders just follow what's in this holy book and try always to get a good bond with the Quran try always to get a good connection with the Quran and you can't do that by reciting it every day just have have a few minutes five minutes ten minutes every day just to read Quran if you can read one ayah read two ayahs if you can read one page do it two pages get a stronger connection to the holy book of Allah and try to understand its meanings and this will help you focusing on your prayers so Allah سبحانه وتعالى saying when you are in a difficult situation just recite the book of Allah Quran will be your protection the Quran will shelter you like the cave shelter those young men who run away with their religion so this is what prophet Muhammad سلام did whenever he had a problem whenever he was seeking the protection of Allah سبحانه وتعالى he would spend some time with the Quran so nothing no one will change the words of the Quran لا مبتل لكلماته no one will be able to change the words of the Quran no one will be able to add a letter not a word a letter to the book of Allah no one can delete a word from the book of Allah Allah revealed it he is going to preserve it and to keep it as is until the day of judgment no changes no one will change the words of Allah Allah has promised that the Quran will be the same from the time it was revealed until the day of judgment you will never find other than him ولا نتجد من دونه ملتحدا if you need shelter you just seek the help of Allah سبحانه وتعالى you will never find other than him other than Allah for refuge if you need something ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى he is the most generous he is the one who listens to you without any comments without any looks without anything he is listening to you if you have something that you need help wake up a little bit before pleasure prayer and everyone is asleep you are alone with Allah سبحانه وتعالى then at that time just sit talk to Allah سبحانه وتعالى make your wudu pray to rakhaz and talk to Allah سبحانه وتعالى ولا نتجد من دونه ملتحدا وصبر نفسك مع الذين يدعون ربهم بالغدات فالعشي يريدون وجه ولا تعد عيناك عنهم تريد زينة الحياة الدنيا ولا تطع من أغفلنا قلبه عن ذكرنا والتبع هواه وكان أمره فروطه and keep yourself patient by being with those who call upon their lord in the morning and the evening seeking his countlessness seeking his pleasure and let not your eyes pass beyond them desiring the adornment of the worldly life and do not obey those whose heart we have made blind heedless of our remembrance and who falls his desire and whose affair is ever making it when Quraysh wanted to to stop his call to Islam they tried their best with several methods several ways if you want money we will give you money if you want woman we will get you married to the best and to the most beautiful woman if you want this we will give it to you if you want that we will give it to you and Sayyidina Muhammad SAW said I was not sent to you for any of these things I was sent to you with Haq with the truth and this is what's going on nothing will change what I was sent to you everything is nothing in comparison with what I was sent to you so when they knew that they cannot convince him they said okay let's go to his uncle he might be closer to him he might convince him but we all know what he said to his uncle والقمر في أساري على أن أترك هذا الأمر ما تركته by Allah they put the sun in my right hand and the moon in my left hand I will never leave what I have been sent with so at the end they accepted that to tell him that okay those people who are so poor we cannot sit with them so if you get rid of these people then we will accept وصبر نفسك this is the order that Allah SWT has given him so those poor people are called أهل الصفة who are أهل الصفة they are the poor people of مهاجرين of the immigrants who came to Medina they had no shelter they left everything they left their food their clothes their wealth their money, their lands they left everything just for the sake of Allah SWT so they stayed in the mosque in مسجد رسول صلى الله عليه وسلم and the only thing they would do is seeking knowledge worshipping Allah SWT reading Quran working on حديث and they were the blessed people in our days there are in the the مسجد of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم in الحرم المدني there is a group of people who are called المجاويرون so those people they stay in a رودة شريفة they read the Quran they make someone to say محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم all day long they don't have job they don't have anything they are at the مسجد of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم as long as they are allowed to stay in المجاويرون so since the time of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم this group of people is there in the مسجد so when we see these people nowadays we should be good to them we should know that those are the true worshipers of Allah SWT we should not look look them down because of their poverty no those are blessed people their du'a is accepted and normally rich people go to them for du'a when they have any hardship in their lives so be patient yeah محمد be patient with those poor law plus people who make du'a all the time in the morning and in the evening so أمية بن خلف and others of the elite of came to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and said to him if you get rid of بلال ابو ذر ابن مسعود who were all of the people of who were looked down by those elite people of Quraish so then if you kick these people out then we will join you and they found themselves above those poor people they couldn't accept that they are equal to them so Allah سبحانه وتعالى revealed this verse and other verses to assure to Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم that if people make fun of you but you need to be patient with these poor people even if people if those rich people did not want to them so you don't listen to them those are the people who always make dua to Allah سبحانه وتعالى who constantly pray to Allah سبحانه وتعالى so not only that you Muhammad but don't even move your gaze beyond those poor people look at their iman and taqwa look at the iman and taqwa they have in their heart and not to the wealth and faith of the people of Quraish ولا تعدوا عيناك عنهم مدد this is the the gaze of Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم yes we want a gaze from you the gaze is is something that would help the believer so this gaze from Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم is going to ease the hard life that those poor people are living and this is a listen to us treat to those poor treat to the poor people well so that you will make them feel good you will make them forget what they are living in so if you don't practice patience by being with this group then Muhammad to read you will be someone who would desire who would want the abdomen of this worldly life but do you think Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم would listen to those people of Quraish? of course not he will never think of getting rid of Sayyidina Bilal or Sayyidina Abu Huraira or those those true believers so he will never get rid of of them neither of others who for the sake of those rich people he will not get rid of those poor people but the wisdom here is that we have to be careful as I just mentioned we have to treat them the poor people well and everywhere and all the time we find poor people so we have to treat them with love care respect we are really the ones who are addressed here in this ayah in fact some sick people actually what happened they noticed how those poor people are taking care well taken care of so people would give them charity people would give them food cloth and other things and they noticed that these poor people have left everything for the sake of Allah but even though they are getting a lot from people so they said okay why we do not pretend that we are poor and get similar help for these sick people we say be careful Allah is over watching Allah knows intentions and Allah knows realities and it happens that sometimes you give charity then you get some doubts are these people really in need so if you are if you have a doubt and you cannot be sure just remember that Allah knows the intentions do not say I am not giving because I am not sure no give Allah will reward you for your sincere intentions to help and for for your obeying Allah that He orders you to give and you are giving but at the same time He also knows whether they deserve it or not and whether He bestows His blessings on what they get or not so just be with Allah depend on Allah do not think of anything else so ولا تعد عيناك عنهم تريد زينة الحياة الدنيا ولا تطيع من أغفلنا قلبه عن ذكره do not follow that group whose heart we have made blind of our remembrance the poor group is making to her all the time morning and evening and we see that Allah sends people to take care of those poor people so their sustenance will be given to them even they are sitting doing nothing in this دنيا and this is what the explanation of يا دنيا من خدمني و من خدمك يستخدمي يا دنيا this worldly life whoever serve me this is Allah is saying it whoever serves me then serve him give him but whoever serves you whoever is cling to you whoever wants دنيا and wants the pleasure of دنيا thinking nothing except دنيا then you use that person you make him not happy you make him just want to run and get more so و اتبع هوا the other group do not remember Allah and they follow their desires so their goal is not to accept what Allah want and to fulfill what he wants to obey him but they they are lost those people are lost و كان أمره فروطة they are losers they are lost they don't know what they want they are following desires only they are following هوا they are following their nefs they are following their ego but they are not doing what Allah want them to do فمن شاء فاليؤمن و من شاء فاليقفر so now that Allah has has said these eyes has mentioned these eyes say ya Muhammad the truth is from your lord so he is talking to those people your lord and just the word your attracts our attention and reminds us that those non-believers when they were asked who created the skies they said Allah who created the earth they said Allah who created this they said Allah so they believe in Allah but they don't want to believe in the message وَقُرِ الْحَقُمِ الرَّبِّكُمْ this is the truth from your lord whom you accepted فمن شاء فاليؤمن ومن شاء فاليقفر so whoever wills let him believe and whoever wills let him disbelieve this is the truth from your lord الله سبحانه وتعالى says in one of the حديث قدسي يا عبادي لو أن أولكم وأخركم وإنسكم وجنكم كانوا على قلب أتقى رجل واحد منكم ما زاد ذلك في ملكي شيئة الله سبحانه وتعالى يتحدث عن all his servants to all the people he created and he said if all of you the first until the last and all the ints all the jinn everyone are helping the best person who does not increase my kingdom ولو أن أولكم وأخركم وإنسكم وجنكم كانوا على أفجري قلب رجل واحد منكم ما نقص ذلك في ملكي شيئة and if all of you were supporting that bad person the one who does not do anything good that will also not decrease anything of my kingdom ولو أن أولكم وأخركم وإنسكم وجنكم قاموا في صعيد واحد if everybody everyone of you were in line and each one of you asked me something فسألوني فأعطيتوا فأعطيتوا كل واحد ما نقص ذلك إلا كما ينقص المخيط وإذا أدخل البحر so if each and every one of you asked me for something and I gave everyone their request whatever they asked for that will not decrease my kingdom the only thing that might be if you get a needle and you immerse it in the ocean and you take it out this just a little bit of water that sticks to it this is how it is for me to give everybody but my kingdom is my kingdom nothing will affect my kingdom يا عبادي إنما هي أعمالكم أحصيها لكم it's only your deeds that I am counting for you now that I am recording for you now ثم أوافيكم إياها and then I will show it to you you will get your records فاليحمد الله ومن وجد غير ذلك فلا يلومنا إلا نفسه whoever finds good whoever finds that he is a winner then he has to thank الله سبحانه وتعالى and whoever finds other than that he should only blame himself إنه الحق من ربكم وقل الحق من ربكم فمن شاء فاليؤمن ومن شاء فاليقفر it's your deeds and then there will be an easy reward or a punishment so you wanted a proof and I gave it to you you came asking Prophet Muhammad about the the story of the people of the cave and I gave it to you and I told you the story he told you the story so you wanted the answers to your questions and Prophet Muhammad answered your questions now what you do what do you want to do now the truth is from your Lord and you can either believe or just keep denying so الله سبحانه وتعالى threatens now the losers and promises those who obey and when so it will be either an evil place to live in or a marvelous place to enjoy فمن شاء فاليؤمن ومن شاء فاليقفر then whoever whosoever wills let him believe and whosoever wills let him disbelieve so what will happen why is that because الله سبحانه وتعالى said there should be no compulsion and acceptance of the religion everyone has their intellect so they are free to do whatever they want they can live for this dunya they can live happily here and be rich there or they can be happy happy there and even though they are enjoying this dunya because they know they follow the book they follow the Quran they follow the orders of the Quran they follow the catalogue that الله سبحانه وتعالى has written for a happy life and a happy life after إنا أعتدنا للظالمين نارا أحاط بهم سراجقها so verily we have prepared for the wrong doers a fire but what type of fire is it whose walls shall be surrounding them so the fire will be surrounding those who transgressed those who did wrong deeds those who were not obeyers those who denied those who belied وإن يستغيثوا يغاسوا بما انكل مهليش ويجول and if they ask for a drink in hellfire while they are there they will be granted their wish but they will be given boiling water it was boiling to the degree that will scald their faces وإن يستغيثوا يغاسوا normally when you say if someone if someone is asking for something and you are giving it to him then it means you are doing something good to that person but those people of hellfire when they ask for a drink they are given but they are giving a torment with that يشويل وجوه قطع معاهم it will cut it will cut their intestines it will destroy them بيس الشراب ووساءة مرتفقة terrible is this drink and terrible and evil is the place to live in so imagine the type of torture they will be living in and the thing is that this life that they will be living perpetual forever this punishment is not going to end it will not even going to decrease on the contrary it will increase whenever they are burnt whenever their their skin is burnt whenever their organs are burnt then Allah سبحانه وتعالى will create a new skin and they will be burnt again and again and again and again Allah سبحانه وتعالى does not want our heart to feel that heavy and after mentioning the state of these doomed ones he mentioned he mentions the blessed believers and he mentions what he has prepared for those who obeyed him in dunya for those who followed his orders for those who followed سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم for those who connected with Allah for those who connected with the Quran for those who connected with سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so he says انا الذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحاتي إنا لانوا ضيعوا أجر من أحسنة عملة so indeed as for those who believed and did righteous deeds so let's stop for a second آمنوا وعملوا صالحاتي they these two things belief and doing good deeds righteous deeds they go together إيمان without doing good deeds is not enough doing good deeds without being a Muslim is not enough إيمان and faith together faith and righteous deeds together so indeed as for those who believed and did righteous deeds certainly we shall not make the reward of anyone to be lost إنا لانوا ضيعوا أجر من أحسنة عملة الله سبحانه و تعالى is just he's the most just and he says in Surah الزلسله فمن يعمل مثقال ذرط خيراً يرا whoever does a spec weight of good will get its reward and on the contrary of course whoever does any spec of bad he will get his punishment and we have always to remember do not لا تنظر إلى صغر المعصية ولكن لا تنظر إلى how small the sim you are going to make is but look at one important thing look at who you have disobeyed even if the mistake is so so small that's not the issue the issue is disobedience to Allah سبحانه و تعالى اامنوا و عميلوا الصالحات and we know that there's so many حديث that سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم talks about the best of manners the best of characters and he says the closest of you to me in the day of judgment those who are the best who have the who do the best good deeds who have the best manners and once he was talking to Sayyidina Abu Huraira and the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said to him عليك بحصني الخلق يا أبا هوريرا سيد محمد of course understands what he what say محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم says but he asked him and this question he asked just for us to learn so he said وما حصنو الخلق يا رسول الله what is حصنو الخلق what is the good manners or prophet so sayyidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم says توعطي من حرمك وتصل من قطعك وتعفو عمان ظلمك or the order he says so you connect to those who cut you off and you give those who deprive you and you forgive those who do bad things to you do you think this is easy guys do you think that this is not called حصنو الخلق the best of manners can you imagine someone who gives who does something very wrong to you and you say okay I forgive you this needs a very pure heart when someone does something bad to you you say I forgive you and you make for that person this is a sound heart it's not easy it's not easy to give those who deprive you and giving is not only to give money no feelings they were bad to you but you are good to them this is feeling they needed some help when nobody could help except you but they were doing so many bad things to you are you going to turn around and say okay I don't know you or are you going to to give your hand to them to take them out of the situation they are living in so this is حصنو الخلق so whoever does anything good he will be rewarded and سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم says here fear fire do something good to get yourself away from it even by giving half of a date not a date half of a date fear Allah so what will happen to those people الذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحات to the people who are good believers and who do righteous things now open your heart and get into these words imagine yourself in enjoying these rewards and insha'Allah we will all be enjoying these things those will have gardens of perpetual residence so this will be their reward for them will be جنة عدن so this is a special a special place in جنة called جنة عدن what are the things in there تجري من تحتهم الأنهار so beneath them rivers will flow so when when people here in dunya they will see a nice river they would go have a picnic there they will enjoy their time there it's so it's so beautiful يُحلّون فيها من أساوير أمن ذهب so they will be adorned therein in these jinnas with bracelets of gold ويلبسونة يابن خدرا من صندوس واستبرق and they will wear green garments garments of fine silk and brocade so imagine the type of material the fabric that the clothes will be and beautiful nice green colors so this is what they will be wearing they will be wearing thick and shiny velvet green garments so صندوس and استبرق متكئين فيها على الأرائق so they will be reclining therein on adorned cushes so they will be lying down they will be resting they will be enjoying their time نعم الثواب وحسنت مرتفقة so how good is the reward and what an excellent place to be in what an excellent is how excellent is this reward and how good is this resting place so imagine imagine the blessings that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has prepared for his for his people and we all know that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has prepared in this in this the something ولا عين رأت ولا اذن سمعت قلبي بشر so this is something that the people would never be able to imagine this is the type of reward that Allah سبحانه وتعالى prepared for this for these winners so this is how we our heart now is seeking this is what our heart is seeking now this highly amazing place of perpetuality nothing is going to be decreased on the contrary everything will be increased so now if you have just a moment to compare the reward and the punishment so Allah has shown what will happen in the day after Allah has given us the true image of what will be there فمن شاء فاليؤمن ومن شاء فاليقفر whoever can decide for himself do you do you want to be a believer or a non-believer so to go back to the first we say Allah سبحانه وتعالى is ordering us to get connected to the Quran and we know that when we are reading the Quran we feel that we are in a different world this is the divine one so the only thing we say we thank Allah سبحانه وتعالى to be able to read the Quran we thank Allah سبحانه وتعالى that He is giving us the permission to get connected to the Quran so we say يا ربي لك الحمد كما يمضغي الجلال وجيك وعظيم سلطانك thanks is for you الله thanks is suitable to the grace of your face and the greatness of your supreme authority يا الله we don't know how to thank you we don't know how to praise you we cannot praise you the way you deserve to be praised you have chosen us amongst all your creations to be able to connect to you and to connect to the Quran to connect to say the Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم we can't thank you enough يا الله so we stop here and next time we will be having another story and other lessons and other explanations وصلى الله عليه وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما يمضغي الجلال وجيك وعظيم سلطانك سبحان ربك رب العزة عما يصفون وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته اسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والصناة والسلام على سيدنا ونبينا محمد وعلى آله وصح به وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما يمضغي الجلال وجيك وعظيم سلطانك الله مضفت حلينا بطوح العارفين يا أرحم الرحمن يا رب العالمين اسمنا الرحمن الرحيم لستان ويصاها ب الوالفي كانت تأتي لسيدنا محمد سلاموحن ورحمة الله وبركاته لتصميم العربية لأنهم يشعرون لكي يتكنين لكل هذه المسلطة فيهم ونعرف كيف سيدنا سلاموحن وننستان سبعان لأجل الجميع. إذا كان الله سبحانه وتعالى now giving us an example. And this is the example of the rich idolater and the poor Muslims. It's a similar example to those which group to the rich group and to the poor Muslims who were with saitha Mohamed صلى الله عليه وسلم. And this is the story about a paradise on this earth. Which many people are deceived by it. So the story deals with the fitna of money and the fitna of wealth which are the pleasures of this world. So we have to be careful. We will go on with the story. We will read the story, Insha'Allah. So we are on ayah 32. Allah سبحانه وتعالى says وضبريب لهم مثلاً رجولين. So Mohamed presents to them the example of two men. In the Quran, Allah سبحانه وتعالى gives examples so to attract our attention. So he gives us stories after stories and these are not just stories about old nations. No, we have to take the lessons, the morals out of these stories. So if there is something that we do not understand then Allah سبحانه وتعالى will give us an example to clarify it. So here Allah سبحانه وتعالى is telling Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم to give the example of the two men telling them the story of what they did. So tell the people what the story of these two men is. So Allah سبحانه وتعالى is saying وضبريب لهم مثلاً رجولين جعلنا لأحدهما جنتين. So we granted to one of these two men to one of them two gardens جنتين من أعناب. So these gardens of grapevines and we know grapevines are most delicate and important fruit. So this is the story of the two men. One is a believer and the other one was a non-believer an arrogant person. So the non-believers Allah سبحانه وتعالى gave him two gardens, two beautiful gardens. So he was he forgot Allah سبحانه وتعالى and he just enjoyed the gardens. He even forgot the day after. And the other man is an example of a poor person who was not paying attention to this dunya dunya did not deceive him. He understood that dunya is just for this life and it will be gone. So the real life will be the day after. So there was there was a conversation between these two persons these two men. So the arrogant man bought a land with the with his money his share of money that he inherited. So both of them inherited some money the the arrogant man bought a land with his share with his money while the good man decided to do something else. He bought food and fed the poor. He bought clothes and gave it to the poor. So he gave all his money as a charity for the sake of Allah. The arrogant man got married and had children in many servants but the good man had in mind that he will have الحور العين was in the in paradise The arrogant man started to lose all he gathered in this worldly life. And this is the reason And this is the result of the punishment that Allah gave him. So how how did that happen? So we said الله سبحانه وتعالى ساتجعلنا الحديث يمجن لتيني من عناب So there he had two gardens of the grapevines وحففناهما بنخلن And we have surrounded both gardens with palm trees. So we made a border around the grape trees with palm trees as if to protect the delicate grape trees. So we know dates and grapes are important types of food for man. So Allah سبحانه وتعالى gave this man these two great gardens. وجعلنا بينهما زرع And we placed between them fields of crops. So it was not only the dates and grapes but other crops too. كلت الجمتيني آتت أكلها So each of the two gardens produced its fruits. So the output was in maximum. There was no shortage no less of fruit and other crops. آتت أكلها ولم تظلم منه شيء And did not fall short there of anything. The gardens gave best quality and quantity. So it wasn't only quality but the quantity was amazing. And it wasn't only quantity it was the quality that was the best. So الأرض لم تظلم the land was just The land always appreciates your hard work. So it gives you you right. If you plant a seed it will give you a tree. So it will give you a lot. The land is generous. You do your job and it will reward you. Now let's stop for a minute and think. What does this remind us? Think of your kids imagine them as a land. The more you take care of them when they are young the best that they become when they get older. We want our kids to be like the young Sahaba who were raised under the care of Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم Sayyidina Usama was only 17 years old when he led the army. 17 years old. Now imagine at our time a 17 years old young man. What does he do? Once a mom came to me saying my son is 20 years old now and he does not pray he does not fast he is not practicing. And then she started crying and crying and she said it's all my fault. I did not take care of him spiritually when he was young. I never urged him to pray. I myself was a bad example but a few years ago الله سبحانه وتعالى guided me and he showed me the way again. So now I feel bad for my son. So the point of this story here is we need to pay attention to our kids since their early childhood. This is similar to plowing the ground preparing it planting the seeds watering these seeds taking care of the land taking care of the seeds taking care of everything that we are preparing taking off the weeds that will grow. Only then we can enjoy the fruits that come out of it. So the harder you work in your early life the better you take care of your responsibilities the greater the word will be later. You have your children as an amana you have to take care of these this amana. So الله سبحانه وتعالى saying here ولم تظلم منه شيء So the ground is generous. The harder you work in it the greater the outcome will be. Just do your job make dua and الله will take care of things. But you need to do your job. You need to be initiative. Without your work your children will not grow up righteously guide them always be on top of them just just notice what they are doing just be in control of everything and you can of course you have to give them space but once you prepare them to be ready to take their space then you can't relax because at that time they will be able to know what is right from what is what is wrong. They will be able to see what is white and what is dark. So things will be clear for them no gray areas so prepare them work hard when they are young. This is when you get to enjoy them when they get older and when you get older وفجرنا خلالهما نهارا and we goes to gash forth within them a river. So Allah did not leave it just for the for the rain to water the ground but He gushed the river through these two gardens so He made it even easier for the farmer for the man for that man who was given these two gardens وَكَانَا لَهُ ثَمَرْ and He had fruit and other than fruit the word ثمر does not only mean fruit the fruit we eat but everything that is an outcome is called ثمر He had money money beyond the beyond this He was not only a farmer he had gold he had silver in the Arabic language when we say الولدو ثمرتو أبي we mean the children is the child is the fruit of his father so the word as I mentioned includes it all it includes everything it's not just the physical ثمر it is also everything that included that is included in this ثمر so now the man the man had everything but what did that make him how did that affect him was this wealth a reason or a source for him to get closer to Allah and this is how we should we should look at our wealth this is how we should be thinking is wealth getting us closer to Allah or is it pushing us back and away from Him are we paying its dues are we paying زكاب are we paying صدقه we all know that when we do that then the our mommy will increase it will be purified and it will increase are we paying its dues to Allah سبحانه وتعالى are we thanking Allah سبحانه وتعالى for this blessing that He gave us Allah سبحانه وتعالى says ولا إن شكرتم لأزيداكم if you thank me then I will give give you more are we thanking Allah سبحانه وتعالى for all the blessings He has given us for the blessing of sight for the blessing of hearing for the blessing of being perfectly created are we thanking Allah سبحانه وتعالى for that do we have Allah سبحانه وتعالى in the center of our hearts or is He on the immersion where is Allah سبحانه وتعالى in our life is dunya deceiving us and getting us attracted is it getting us away from Allah سبحانه وتعالى or are we taking these blessings to get closer to Allah سبحانه وتعالى we have to think we have to think of the poor who don't have the blessings we have to think of the sick people who don't have the blessings we have we have to think of everyone around us and the more we get to contemplate about these blessings the more we thank Allah سبحانه وتعالى for them so we should always have in mind that wealth with all its branches whether money, health knowledge everything is a test and we should know how to use this wealth for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى it's good to be wealthy it's good to know to have money but this money should be in our pockets should be in our accounts but never in our heart our heart should be the the place the clean place the clean the pure place for Allah سبحانه وتعالى for سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم for the Quran for the light that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has prepared for His righteous people but not for dunya it's good to have dunya but not in our hearts some of the Sahaba of the companions of Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم used to be very rich and they never stacked their money they used to spend it for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى some people not only spend for the sake of Allah but they urge other people there are so and so people who are poor just give who can give who can donate so they would have their reward and their word and also their word of everyone who gave for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى some of the Sahaba some of the companions of Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم used to prepare a whole army for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى so it's good to be wealthy if we know how to use this wealth so what happened to those two men so one of them was so wealthy the other one was not they were once together and the owner of the two gardens said to his companion to the poor one in the course of discussion فقال لصاحبه وهو يحاولوا أنا أكثر من كمالا وأعزن فرع I am greater than you in wealth and have a my chair in entourage I have more children I have more servants I have everything I want I have everything I need so he was arrogant he was not a good wealthy a wealthy person so what happened Allah سبحانه وتعالى gave this wealth to that person but what did he do with it he abused it so ودخل الجنة وهو ظاليم للنفسه he entered he went into his garden having been unjust to himself so he was unjust in his disbelief he was rebellion he was arrogant he even denied the day after so what did he say قال ما أظن أن تبيب هذه أبدا he said I don't think this will ever perish he was looking at his gardens and he was admiring it he was allowing himself to be deceived with the wealth that he has he is watching in front of him وما أظن الساعة قائمة and I don't think the hour will ever come so he denied the day after he denied that the resurrection after death then he said ولا إن رودت إلى ربي لأجدنا خيرا منها من قلبة وإذا إذا فقط إذا indeed I am brought back to my Lord so he he had just a thinking that there was no day after no resurrection but let's assume there is I surely shall find better than the than this than this these blessings that I'm having I'm sure I will find better than this if I return to Allah if I return to him so this was what he said that the companion was shocked he doesn't want his friend to be that bad and he cared he cared about about his his friend so what did he do he he tried to tell him that what you are saying is wrong so he said قال له صاحبه وهو يحاوله so his companion said to him during their discussion while they were conversing together اكفرت بالذي خلقك من ترابين ثم من نطفطين ثم سبواك رجولة how can you disbelieve in him who created you from dust then from a sperm drop and then proportioned you as a man he well prepared you and these are all milestones he's reminding his his friend about how Allah سبحانه وتعالى what Allah سبحانه وتعالى did to him لكنه هو الله ربي لكن but as for me as for my part I believe that he is Allah my lord the word لكنه is لكن انا so the Hamza was deleted and the Na was merged into the the noon was merged into the previous noon so we have the noon with شده لكنه هو الله ربي الله is my lord I will never associate ولا أشرك بربه احد and none shall I associate as a partner with my lord I will never say what you are saying but I acknowledge the oneness of Allah هو الله وحده he's the Allah he is the one to be worshiped without any associate so what is this man doing He's giving an advice to his friend and again we link this to the advice of the mom that she gives to her children each and every mom would love to see her children better than her فهو only person who loves something for her, for others more than for herself is the mother of our kids إذا كانت أمام لا ترغب القرآن she wants her kids to be able to read the Qur'an She would take them to teachers of Qur'an She would do her best so she would give them what she could not get for herself إذا كانت تفعل شيء مخطوطاً ستخبرهم ستخبرهم لأنه لا يتكلم فقط عن حدودهم يتكلم فقط عن حدودهم هذا مهم جدا نحن لدينا أخذ الحدود من أخذ الحدود نحن لدينا أخذ حدودنا لدينا أحبارهم هذا هو المساعدة لأن هذا المخطوط لدينا أخذ حدوده لم أرده أن يكونوا معه لكن هذا المخطوط أنه كان مخطوطاً فهي مخطوطاً على أن يكون خطوطاً ومخطوطاً على أن يكون في حالة أخرى لذا ولولا إذا دخلت جنلةك قلت ما شاء الله لا قوة إلا بالله انترني أنا أقل من كمالاً وولدا فهي يحاول أن أخبره ما يجب أن يكون يقول كانت أفضل لك أن تقول عندما تدخل في حدودك ما شاء الله لا قوة إلا بالله هذا فقط ما شاء الله لا يوجد قوة ولكن فقط قوة إلا الله ما شاء الله لا قوة إلا بالله كما أخبرنا نحن نقوم بكتبه ولكن نحاول أن نقوم بكتبه أن نحاول أن نقوم بكتبه هذا هو لنا عندما نرى عندما نرى شيء جيد نحن نقول ما شاء الله لا قوة إلا بالله إنه ليس أنك أنت أنت تقوم بكتبه لا إنه الله سبحانه وتعالى الذي أردت أنك لديك هذا هل أنت لديك لديك لديك لديك لديك لديك لديك الذي يعمل على لديك لديك نعم لديك من يأخذ لديك لديك لديك نعم لديك ولكن لديك لديك لديك لديك الله سبحانه وتعالى لذا علينا إعجاب الأصوات علينا أن نفكر أننا نستطيع أن نفكر شيء إذا كان الله ليس لديه علينا أن نتعلم كيف أن نتحدث عن الله علينا أن نعرف كيف أن نتعلم عن الله ونرى هذا كثير من المثال في صورة الواقع عند الله سبحانه وتعالى قلت، أفرأيتم ما تحرثون فأنتم تزرعونه أم نحل الزارعون؟ هل أنت ترى ذلك المدينة التي تكتب؟ هل أنت؟ هل أنت؟ هل أنت تكتب؟ أو هل نحن تكتب؟ لو نشاء، ولا جعلناه حوطاما فلو لا تشكرون؟ نستطيع أن نجعله تكتب ونستطيع أن تفعل أي شيء again he mentioned something about the water الله سبحانه وتعالى أفرأيتم الماء الذي تشربون هل أنت ترى الماء التي تكتب؟ أنتم أنزلتمه من المزن أم نحن المنزلون؟ هل أنت من المدينة التي تكتب؟ أو هل أنت نحن تكتب؟ لو نشاء، ولا جعلناه حوطاما فلو لا تشكرون؟ إذا كنتم مدينة، نستطيع أن نجعله أكثر لذا لا تستطيع أن تستطيع أن تستطيع أن تتكتب هل أنت تعتقد؟ هل أنت تستطيع أن تكون مدينة؟ وكثيراً، هل أنت هناك في سورة مواقع؟ كما نرى أولاً لذا عندما تجد من الله سبحانه وتعالى عندما تكون هناك شيء الذي لا يوجد أخرين فقط تقول ما شاء الله لا قوة إلا بالله لا تكون مثل قارون ما حدث مع قارون؟ قارون كانت كثيراً لذا عندما تقول to him لماذا لا تشكر الله لذلك؟ يقول إلا ما أُوتِجته على علمين عندي أولاً أخبرته لأنه لأعلم لقد أخبرته لأنه محبوبة لأنه المعلم لذا ما كانت المدينة؟ فخسفنا به وبداية الأرض فما كان له من فئة ينصهونه من دون الله وما كان من المنتصرين ونجد الأرض أن نسوأه ونسوأه في المدينة أن نسوأه لم يكن لديه لا يجب أن يأتيه لا يجب أن يساعده على مدينة الله سبحانه وتعالى لذا هذا هو المدينة فقط تقول ما شاء الله لا قوة إلا بالله فعسا ربي أن يؤتيني خيراً من جننتك لذا maybe maybe that my Lord will give me something better than your garden you never know never say that this I am rich this one is poor Allah can take your wealth and give it to the poor and make you poor ويرسيل عليها حسباناً من السناء and will send on it a punishment from heaven a calamity تصبح صعباً then it will be then it will become slippery earth so slippery so it's not good even for walking so these two gardens will perish if you do not thank Allah سبحانه وتعالى just an advice just an advice so what happened again nothing that man was so distracted that he could not even understand the advice that his friend was giving him and sometimes this happened in this dunya when someone has a calamity when someone has something bad he is so sad to the degree that he as if he locked his brain his intellect that he will not be able to process any word of advice any word of help that would be given to him because he is thinking only of the calamity oh my father died okay so much sadness so much grief so much to the point that that person will not understand or will not even hear what other people are saying to him and this is what say the Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم said to the woman who was weeping at the grave of her son when he died she didn't know that he was behind her so when he was talking to her he said he was calming her down she said إليك عني فإنك لم تصب بمصيبتي leave me alone you didn't have the same problem that I have you don't have the same calamity that I just had she didn't know that he was رسول الله and later when they told her she went to him apologizing يا رسول الله I didn't know that you were the one who was talking and he said very wise words he said إنما الصبر عند الصدمة الأولى you have to practice patience at the time of the calamity not later and when you practice patience you have to practice it fully your heart should be patient your mind should be patient you should be patient accepting what Allah سبحانه وتعالى has given us has put us through is the first step of practicing patience so we accept we thank Allah سبحانه وتعالى الحمد لله we had an accident he had an accident his leg was broken his back was not he lost his finger but he did not lose his eye الحمد لله الحمد لله thank Allah سبحانه وتعالى even at the hard times this will be when you are with Allah سبحانه وتعالى all the time then Allah will help you during the hard time أو يصبح ماءوها غورا فلن تستطيع عليه طلبه so these things might happen to your land or even to your garden or even the water disappears into the earth it will not be flowing anymore it will not be gushing anymore so that you will never be able to see kids by any means you cannot dig down to get water you cannot there is no means to get the water out this might happen again that non-believer was so arrogant was so my heedless that he did not understand anything that was said to him وَأُحِطَ بِثَمَرِهِ فَأَصْبَحَ يُقَلِّبُ كَفَّيهِ عَلَمَا أنْفَقَ فيهَا وَهِيَّ خاويةٌ عَلَا عُرُوشِهَا so what happened his gardens were ruined his fruits were encircled everything was ruined when he saw that he was clasping his hands together in a gesture of regret in grief for the wealth he had lost for the time he had invested in his land for everything that he has and he lost everything was destroyed وَيَقُولُ يَا لَيْتَنْ لَمْ أُشْرِكْ بِرَبِّيْ أَحْدَمَ so he said he wished only that time when he saw that as if he was sleeping and he woke up only at that time he said would I had ascribed no partners to my lord I wish I had not associated anyone with my lord only at that time so we should be careful we should not be waiting and waiting and waiting until we are at that time no وَلَمْ تَقُولُ لَهُ فِيْئَتُنْ يَنْصُرُونَهُ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ he had no group no clan no children no one to aid him to help him against Allah or against what Allah wished again no one to prevent what Allah wanted to happen وما كان من تصيره and he could not defend himself nothing he was a loser no one would be able to help him so he is the one who would just experience the results of what he did no one to help when Allah wants something then it will be and Allah does not care if all people are helping one person if Allah does not want that thing to happen it will not happen that's it وَعْلَمْ أنَّ الْأُمَّةَ لَوِجْتَمَعَتْ عَلَى أنْ يَمْفَعُوكَ بِشَيْئِنْ لَامْ يَكْتُبُوا اللَّهُ لَكْ لَا يَمْفَعُوكَ بِذَارِكْ just remember that if all creatures were together to help you get something that Allah did not predestined to you they will not be able to do it that's it it's Allah's order Allah's wish whatever Allah wants that will happen أنت تريد و أنا أريد والله يفعل ما يريد you want something I want something but Allah will do what he wants هنالك الولاية لله الحق what does this mean then the authority is completely for Allah the truth we can read the word الولاية what does this how can we do that الولاية is الولي الذي ينصرك the person who would give you victory who would help you that's الولي الولاية in the day after لمن الملك اليوم this is الولاية who is the control today لمن الملك اليوم لله الواحد القهار it's only for Allah so what happens هنالك at that time when everything happens when people go back to Allah سبحانه و تعالى when they are there the losers will know that they wrong to themselves badly they will understand what they have done in their life they will know how bad their deeds were and they will feel sorry for themselves they will feel sorry for the punishment that they will have and they will feel sorry for for losing the chance to enjoy the blessings that Allah سبحانه و تعالى has prepared for the winners so they are loser-loser but what would feeling sorry help nothing they would beg Allah سبحانه و تعالى for another chance to go back to Daniel to do good and then to come back but Allah will say no that was a word إنها كلمة هو قائلها it was a word that he said Allah sent prophets gave intellect so a human being can choose what is good and what's wrong وخير ثواب وخير نطب he is the best to reward and the best for the final end Allah سبحانه و تعالى highly rewards the good deeds and justly punish so this is the story of the two people of the two companions of the believer and the non-believer there are so many points that we can get from this story and a good one is to remember who to take as a friend عاشر من ينهضك إلى الله حاله ويدولك على الله مقاله be friend with a person who whose state الحال will get you closer to Allah سبحانه و تعالى and whose words will always remind you of Allah سبحانه و تعالى this is the type of a friend you should have do not be deceived with the blessing but always remember the one who gave you the blessing always thank Allah سبحانه و تعالى for all the blessings that He has given you do not look up at those people who are richer than you do not wish that you have the wealth they have pray for them that Allah سبحانه و تعالى bless them, bless their blessings but and wish for yourself something that is similar and always ask Allah سبحانه و تعالى to give you guidance to perform His right in your wealth to do zikaa to give people to be good to others never to get proud never to get arrogant so these are some of the lessons of this story and insha'Allah we will go on with the next week insha'Allah with the six parts of the Tafseer of Surat Al-Kahf وصلى الله عليه وسيدينا محمد وعلى آله و صحبه و سلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبه لجلال وجهكم عظيم سلطانك سبحان ربك رب العزة يا عما يصيفون وثلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين السلام عليكم ورحمة الله و بركاته السلام عليكم و رحمة الله و بركاته بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم و السلام عليكم و محمد و على آله و صحبه و سلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبه لجلال وجهكم عظيم سلطانك الله ما يمقلب القلوب والأبسار سبت قلوبنا على دينك بسم الله last time we talked about the story of the two people of the two gardens so we saw at the end how the non-believer lost everything all his work all his money everything he had was lost and only at that time he remembered that he shouldn't have associated another god with Allah سبحانه وتعالى that he should have believed in Allah سبحانه وتعالى so today inshallah we will be going on we are on ayah 45 so Allah سبحانه وتعالى is saying وضرب لهم مثل الحياة الدنيا كما انزلناه من السماء فخطلت به نبات للأرض فأصبح هاشيما تدروه الرياح so mention to them يا محمد the parable of the worldly life it's like the water which we sent down from the sky and with this water the vegetation mingles and becomes fresh and green but after a while when the season is done then this greenery would become dry and then it will be broken into pieces which the wind will scatter so this is all that Allah is able to do so this dunya is like this water that's coming down from the sky so now imagine this image water coming down on the ground the ground gets watered so a lot of greenery but later on this is gone what does this remind us of it reminds us of the human himself born raised got big got old and then died this is life as if someone who is traveling got tired stopped rested under the tree and then went on with his but at the end that person is dying what is he taking with him before talking about what he is taking with him let's talk about life itself so we said that Allah is able to do everything to live and to prevent to raise and to humiliate to benefit and not to benefit المال والبنون زينة الحياتة دنيا والف and children are the atonement of life of this worldly life now think of the first two words and children the word wealth money anything so is said before children because money and wealth is more important than children in a way that each and every person has wealth even the poorest person has some clothes on him and this is his wealth but not everyone has children some people do not get married some people will have will get married but will not have children but before getting married they should have the money to pay for the dowry so to get married and then they will have children and Allah predestined for them to have children so زينة means it's a dormant it is not necessary so wealth and money are زينة a dormant when a husband gets married and they don't get children then he would be upset the wife would be upset everyone would be unhappy and they would try to convince the man to get another wife and they were so what happens Allah سبحانه وتعالى would give would give children to some people and would drive others from having children he will give girls to some people he will not give boys he will give boys and not girls the point is the man should accept everything that Allah سبحانه وتعالى gives him does he give him children does he not give him children does he give him wealth does he not give him wealth who are not married but they are very happy they are close to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and there are people who have the money and who have the children but they are not happy sometimes the wealth will be used against him because he does not fulfill Allah's right in his wealth he doesn't do the sadaqa so his money will not have any barakah you will say I got my salary today a few days later you will see that the salary is all gone where did it vanish there is no barakah in the money check what's the reason is it Halal money is it money is it legal money what's going on where is the barakah are you fulfilling the right of Allah سبحانه وتعالى in this money are you fulfilling the right of the poor people in this money giving sadaqa always blesses the wealth and increases it and every day angels will tell Allah سبحانه وتعالى they will make the tuha اللهم أعطي منفقا خلفا وأعطي ممسكا تلفا يا الله give the one who is giving for your sake abundantly and deprive that one who keeps his money for himself المال والبنون زينات الحياة الدنيا so when people do not get children are they happy with that with what Allah سبحانه وتعالى had decreed on them they will do the best on different methods trying to get children there is no way Allah did not right for them to have any children do they accept Allah's wish or not this is the adornment of the life it's not necessity of life but what is the necessity the necessity is to live according to Allah's will the necessity is to live as pure what Allah سبحانه وتعالى has written for you to accept whatever Allah سبحانه وتعالى has given you to say الحمد لله for everything that you have and you don't have والباقيات الصالحات خير عند ربك خوابن وخير أملة so what are the الباقيات الصالحات الباقيات الصالحات are the good righteous deeds that will last for you till the day after so these are the reward that you have given for yourself that you have say it for yourself and the hope that you will have in the day after so everything that was mentioned before الباقيات الصالحات is from المال البنون everything you have this is for dunya when someone dies he will not take anything from that with him except الباقيات الصالحات once سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم slaughtered a sheep and سيد عائشا knew that loves the shoulder so she distributed everything to the poor and she gave the poor everything except for the shoulder and when سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم asked her what have you done what have you kept she said ذهب كلها سوى الكتف so I distributed everything except for the shoulder سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said باقيات كلها سوى الكتف all of it was was left for us except for the shoulder and he is looking for the day after so the reward we got the reward of the me that we distributed so the hope is to have in the آخرة what will get you closer to Allah سبحانه وتعالى to work in this dunya for the آخرة and remember that this dunya is going to vanish no matter what how الله سبحانه وتعالى says remember the day we shall cause the mountains to pass away the mountains that are holding the earth steady will will vanish will become like like wool fluffed up this is what Allah says in another surah Allah says there will be the mountains will be blown away so they will not be in place and they will be leveled plain what so what are there will be there will be the earth will be all plain nothing on it no mountains no valleys nothing there will not be any sign on earth and on that day no one will be hidden no one will be absent وحشرناهم فلم نغادر منهم أحدة and we shall gather them all so that we will leave none behind قل إن الأولين والآخرين لمجمعون إلى مقات يوم المعلوم قل لهم all the previous people the last people everyone will be gathered will be resurrected for a certain day no one will be missing on that day وعريضوا على ربك صفة and they will be set before Allah سبحانه وتعالى in rows so all creation will be standing before Allah سبحانه وتعالى and Allah will Allah says in Surat Al-Anhaam ayah 94 now indeed you have come to us as we created you for the first time so سيدة عشاود سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم أيضروا بعضنا إلى بعض سيدنا رسول الله يجب أن يكون لدينا سوف نحضرنا سوف نتظهر مع بعضنا سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول لكل مريء ان شأنه يغني لا عائشة لا يحدث عن أي شخص كل شخص will be concerned about himself only يوم يفير المرء من أخيه وأمه وأبيه وصاحبته وبنيه سيدنا شهن الله يغني شخص will free from everyone من everyone he knows It's a heavy day يوم ترونها تذهلوا كل مرضعة عما أرضعة وطبعوا كل ذات حمل حملها وترمنا سكر وماهم بسكارة It's a fearful day Everyone will flee from each other You will see people as if they are drunk but they are not drunk They are so scared on that day وعُرِضُو على ربك صفة في سورة الفجر الله سبحانه و تعالى س ouvت أربك والملائكة صفة تعالى والأنجل يأتون يأتون اذا يأتون يؤتون قبذا سبحانه و تعالى دوء بل زعمتُم اللّن نجع لك مواعدة أخبرهم أنت تعتبر أننا لقد لدينا لا تقلق معك لقد لدينا لا تقلق معك ذعمتم يعتقدوا أنه لا يوجد رزيقشن يعتقدوا أنه لا يوجد ركانون وانت why they exceeded in transgressing ووضع الكتاب الكتاب سيكون مستقبل كل شخص سيكون مستقبل مهنة من العمل وكتاب كل شخص كل شيء يتحدث في هذا المهنة مهنة ومهنة مهنة أو مهنة أمام أو مغلق شيء ما قلت شيء ما قلت شيء ما قلت شيء ما قلت كل شيء سيكون مستقبل سيكون مهنة فتر المجرنين مشفقين من ما في أجل you will see the criminals the wrong doers شفاء of that which is therein شفاء of the evil deeds that they have done on that day they will say ويقولون يا ويلان يا ويلتان يا ويلان they will be so scared انهم سيكونون جداً جداً ماذا حدث؟ لذا يقولون يا ويلتنا ما لها هذا الكتاب؟ يقولون لنا انهم يتكلمون للمنصف للمنصف حياتهم ماذا حدث؟ يقولون ما لها هذا الكتاب؟ لا يغادر صغيرة ولا كبيرة إلا أحصاها ماذا حدث للمنصف حياتهم؟ لا يتكلمون للمنصف حياتهم لا يتكلمون للمنصف حياتهم ولكن يتكلمون للمنصف لا matter how small the action is it is recorded تيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول لا تحقرون لمن المعروف شيئا ولو أنت لقى أخاك بوجهن طليق لا تتكلمون للمنصف حياتهم للمنصف حياتهم even if you just smile to your brother even if you smile to the people you know or you don't know this is صدقة keep it for yourself إتقوا النار أولا و بشيء قيتمرا give anything to be shielded from fire even if it is half of a date not a date, half of a date and we know the story of the woman who who was thrown into hellfire because of a kitten that she kept that she was present that she would not let her eat and she tortured that kitten so never ever say oh this is a small sin never never say this is a small sin and I will ask Allah for forgiveness لا تنظر إلى صغر المعصية ولكن انظر إلى من عصيت do not look at how trivial this sin is but look who did you commit this sin against Allah said don't do it and you are doing it it will be recorded and it will be recorded with honesty and justice and in the day after Allah is going to scale all the deeds ووجدوا ما عملوا حاضرة and they will find all that they did present good and evil the scale will be set to scale all the deeds يُنبأوا الإنسان ويوما إذن بما قدما وأخر this is سورة القيامة and everywhere in the Quran there are so many examples about يوم القيامة and how people are going to be to be presented with their deeds so man will be informed of what he sent forward and what he had left behind ولا يظلم ربك أحدة and your Lord treats everyone with justice الله never treats anyone with injustice He will judge between his creatures for all their deeds even animals الله will get them on the day of judgment why did you did bad to this animal and he will be so just between them and then they will be dust ويقولوا الكافر وياليطن يكونوا ترابا at that time when the non-believer would see that the animals would become dust then he would say oh I wish I am dust ولا يظلم ربك أحدة الله will treat everyone with justice and not only justice guess what mercy الله سبحانه وتعالى has created mercy and divided it into 100 portions he got down only one portion to the earth and this is what we see between a mom taking care of her children between the animal mom taking care of her babies between people taking care of each other this one needs help someone will help this one even if they are not Muslims they will help each other this is the mercy of Allah سبحانه وتعالى فمن يعمل مثقالا درة خجرا يرغ ومن يعمل مثقالا درة يرغ if you do something good then you will see good if you do something bad you will see exactly the same portion as you have done justice but remember no one is going to enter jannah with his deeds and this is what say محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and they ask him ولا أنت يا رسول الله not even me يا رسول الله he said إلا أن يتغمدني الله برحمة أن this Allah has his mercy upon me so we all are getting into jannah by the mercy of Allah سبحانه وتعالى but our deeds will be the reason where we will be placed in heaven lower heaven or highest heaven or الفردوس العالم is it the first palace on the on the entrance or is it الفردوس العالم so when you when you make dua do not say Allah I want to enter jannah you are asking the most merciful the most generous so ask for the highest always ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى يا الله I want to be in the I want to be with say محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم I want to be with the messengers I want to enjoy the highest you can give me ask you are asking the most generous know how to ask know what to ask do not ask for trivial things Allah is listening Allah is saying I am listening to you I will fulfill your prayers but you have to ask you have to pray for Allah سبحانه وتعالى for valuable things ونضعوا الموازين القصة في يوم القيامة so this is how the Allah سبحانه وتعالى is going to have the just balances we shall set up balances of justice on the day of judgment so this is the image of the day of judgment now Allah سبحانه وتعالى is reminding people who did not believe him he is reminding them of the first time he created Adam عليه السلام so what did he say and remember when we said to the angels prostrate yourselves unto Adam so they did except for Iblis was of the Jinn and he disobeyed the command of Allah سبحانه وتعالى so will you take will you take him and his offsprings as protectors and helpers rather than me while they are enemies so Allah is reminding people that when he created man he asked the angels to prostrate and they did the angels are created so they would worship Allah سبحانه وتعالى they would not disobey him in any action in any order they do not have the choice of disobeying Allah سبحانه وتعالى while the Jinn they have that option so Iblis chose to disobey Allah سبحانه وتعالى and he said you created me of fire and you created man of clay I am much better than him and this was his problem he was proud and pride leads to health fire لا يدخل أحد وفي قلبه none will enter heaven and there is a speck of pride in his heart so why you man preferred to obey shaitan and to listen to shaitan who gave an oath to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and to his best just to get man astray there is still a chance to repent so do it do not lose this chance now every night before you go to bed just say يا الله I am repenting to you يا الله I am repenting to give all my sins so Allah accepts the person who asks for repentance ما لم يغرق يقبل الله توبة العبد ما لم يغير يغرق الله سبحانه وتعالى accepts the repentance of his slave before saying it on his death on his death so do not delay you have a long time don't waste it use it for pleasing Allah سبحانه وتعالى do whatever this will please Allah سبحانه وتعالى do it if you know that this action will not please Allah سبحانه وتعالى it will please shaitan don't do it so what an evil is the exchange that people the wrongdoers would do when they replace the orders of Allah سبحانه وتعالى by what shaitan wants ما أشهدتهم خلق السماوات والأرض they did not witness the creation of the heavens and the earth as they did not exist at that time ولا خلق أنفسهم not even their own creation وما كنتم التخذ المضلينة عدودة nor did I take those who misled as a helper العدود is someone who you can depend on so Allah did not depend on anyone when he created the skies and the earth he did not take any helper when he created people so there are no partners for Allah سبحانه وتعالى so why are you taking these people these you are listening to shaitan you are listening to the shaitan of ins the devil amongst the humans why are you listening to them why are you obeying them so Allah will say مجموش ركائي الذين زعمتم يا محمد remember the day on that day Allah سبحانه وتعالى is going to say call those partners of mine remind them that they will be asked to call those who associated with Allah سبحانه وتعالى those whom they worshiped instead of Allah سبحانه وتعالى so they will Allah سبحانه وتعالى call those partners of mine whom you claimed you took them as partners call them now some people worshiped the sun some people worshiped other people some people obeyed shaitan some people so call them so this is an order and remember look at this irony here فداعوهم so they called them so this was the only order that they obeyed Allah سبحانه وتعالى with they did not obey all the orders that Allah has given them but they obeyed only this order so they called those people those partners فلم يستجيبوا لهم but they will not answer them they did not answer them فاعلنا بينهم موبيقا and we shall put destruction between them between the believers and the non-believers so the people of guidance and the people of non-guidance those who were misguided they will be separated and what will happen to those who did not believe ورأى المجرمون النار فظنوا أنهم واقعوها so the criminals shall see the fire and what will happen to them only then they will realize that they cannot escape being thrown into it they thought that they will be it will not be for them but they realized that they were mistaken that will so when and that by itself intensify will intensify their anxiety and their distress actually looking into the hellfire is by itself a punishment a big punishment why الله سبحانه وتعالى says in surah إذا رأتهم من مكان سمعوا لها تغيولا وزافيرا when the hellfire sees them from a distance place they will hear its fearful roaring sound so both parties the hellfire and the non-believers both looked and see they looked at each other and they see each other so the anticipation and fear of punishment is in itself real punishment ولم يجدوا عنها مصرفة and they will find no way of escaping it no way of fleeing it will be inevitable it will be their place forever there is no end that's it و لقد صرفنا في هذا القرآن هذا القرآن من كل مثل مكان الإنسان و أكثر شيء جدلة and indeed we have given every kind of example in this Quran now الله سبحانه وتعالى is talking about the Quran that he has revealed for mankind but man is ever more qualsim more arguer than anything الله سبحانه وتعالى يجب أن يتحدث في القرآن many times for example يجب أن يتحدث سورة موسى so many سورة في القرآن يجب أن يتحدث سورة موسى but each of these each of the places that was mentioned have a certain angle and that's why the Quran is a miracle that the more you read it the more you understand it nothing like the Quran the more you read it the more you feel I want to read it more the more you understand you say I want to understand deeper so it's not like any other book if you read it one time you can read it twice three times if you like it you will read it ten times but that's it but the Muslims are so attached to the book of الله سبحانه وتعالى so they know that this is the words of Allah سبحانه وتعالى they know that when they want to be closer to Allah سبحانه وتعالى they will be reading his words they will be reading his book and you know so many people do their best to memorize the Quran so there is a connection between man and the Quran and this is what we always ask الله سبحانه وتعالى to keep this connection strong between us and the Quran و لقد صرفنا في هذا القرآن للناس من كل مثل و كان الإنسان و أكثر شيء إن جدلا so Allah سبحانه وتعالى explained everything in this Quran it's a complete system it's a complete program that will explain the right path and the wrong path so people have the intellect to choose to choose what to do but there are some people some people who argue they argue just to explain themselves just to convince others with themselves just to convince others with their ideas but Allah سبحانه وتعالى و جاديلهم بلتي هي أحسن if there is a higher in arguing then say it if you know it's a dead end do not argue do not get into arguments و ممنع الناس يؤمنوا إثجائهم الهودة another prevents men from believing while the guidance has come to them however there are millions of disbelievers in ancient times and in more recent times rejected the truth even when they witnessed clear signs even when they witnessed proofs they asked Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ to provide them with what shows his truthfulness but even though they did not believe because they refused faith after after witnessing the signs so they asked sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and previous nations also asked their prophets just to show them punishment if they are truthful فأستطع علينا كي سفن من السماء في قطة من الصادقين فأستطع علينا if you are truthful this was one of the requests اتنا بعذاب الله إن كنت من الصادقين bring Allah's torment upon us if you are one of the truthful another request و يستغفروا ربهم و ممنعا سأؤمنوا إتجاءهم الهودة و يستغفروا ربهم so what prevented people from being believers when they got the the guidance and to ask Allah for forgiveness إلا أن تأتيهم سنة الأولين أو يأتيهم العذاب و قبولة except that the ways of the ancient be repeated with them what happened to the ancient nations they were destroyed their overwhelming punishment destroying every last one of them so this was what Allah did for them He removed them all He destroyed them all and this is the difference between the punishment of the people of the previous nations of the previous messengers and that of the people of Sayyidina Muhammad previous messengers their nations were destroyed while they were alive but Sayyidina Muhammad was making dua for his ummah that Allah will not destroy them that Allah might get righteous people out of those non-believers so this is by itself a comforting Allah is comforting Sayyidina Muhammad not to overburden himself with grief over those who did not believe him because there were others who did not believe their messengers وما نرسل المرسلين إلا مباشرين و مندرين و الله سبحانه وتعالى saying here we send not the messengers except that they are fears of good news and they are warners before the punishment messengers give good news to those who follow them and they warn those who oppose them if you do good you will find good if you do bad you will find bad you will be punished there will be winners and there will be losers وَيُجَادِلُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا بِالْبَاطِلِ لِيُدْ حِضُوا بِهِ الْحَبْ لِيُدْ حِضُوا بِهِ الْحَبْ so non-believers would argue with falsehood in order to refute their truth they tried to weaken the truth that the messengers brought but they cannot وَتَّخَذُوا أَيَاتِي وَنَا أُنْدِرُوا هُزُوَى and they took my proofs my evidence my miracles sent with the messengers they took all that for jest we were mocking everything we were making fun of all my signs and they were warned that they will be punished but they did not listen to that وَمَنْ أَظْلَمُ مِنْ مَنْ ذُكْرَ بِأَيَاتِ يُرَبِّهِ فَأَعْرَضُ عَنْهَا وَنَسْيَةِ مَا قَدْمَتْ يَدَاهِ and who does more wrong than he who is reminded of the signs of his Lord but turns away from them forgetting what his hands have sent forth إِنَّا جَعَلْنَا عَلَا قُلُوبِهِمْ أَكِنَّةً أَيَّفْقَضُوا truly we have set covers over their hearts list they should understand and this Quran but Allah سبحانه وتعالى ختم الله على قلوبهم وعلى سمعهم وعلى أبصارهم غشالة Allah has set a seal upon their hearts and upon their hearing and over their vision there is a veil وَإِنْ تَدْعُوْهُمْ إِلَا الْهُدَى فَنَا يَهْتَدُوا إِذَا إِذَنْ أَبَدَى if you call them to guidance even then they will never be guided وربك الغفور ذُرَّحْمَة لو يُعاخِضُهم بما كسبو لعجل لهم العلاب بل لهم موعدٌ لن يجدوا من جونه وعيدٌ لن يجدوا من جونه مو إلى and your lord is most forgiving he is the owner of mercy where he to call them to account for what they have earned then they surely would have hastened their punishment but they have their appointment with Allah SWT and this time for this time there is no escape وصل الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم والله ملك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلال وجهك وعظيم سلطانك سبحانك الله مو بحمدك سبحان ربك رب العزة عما يصفون وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والصلاة والسلام وعلى سيد المرسلين سيدنا ونبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلال وجهك وعظيم سلطانك اللهم افتح علينا افتح العرفين يا أرحم الراحمين بسم الله today insha Allah we are going to continue with our 7th series of the series of Tafsir سورة الكهف last time we stopped at the point that الله سبحانه وتعالى out of his mercy he is now going to punish those who transgressed in this dunya immediately just out of his mercy he is giving them a chance that if they want to repent there is still time because once death comes repentance stops so there is a chance for those who want to change for those who want to take advantage of this time that Allah has given them and this is out of the mercy of Allah سبحانه وتعالى so we we stopped at ayah 59 last time and those those towns we destroyed them and then we destroyed them when they did drugs this is the punishment of the people previously to the nation who came previously to the nation of سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم because as I mentioned last time if Allah سبحانه وتعالى is going to punish the people of a messenger while he is alive then he is going to destroy the whole tribe we saw what happened to the people of the people of نوح عليه السلام Allah saved the righteous ones and destroyed the whole the whole group of people all the people but out of his mercy Allah is not going to do that for the people of سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم for the nation of سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم just to give them time to give them a chance to repent if they want to do so before that و جعلنا لمهلكهم معيدة there has been a fixed time for the destruction of those of those nations who belied their messengers now Allah سبحانه وتعالى is going to tell us the story of سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and what happened to him how he thought that he himself is the the person who knows everything and there is no one who has more knowledge than him what happened so let's go with this story once سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم was giving and he asked who is the most knowledgeable so he said I am without referring knowledge to Allah سبحانه وتعالى so Allah سبحانه وتعالى told him that there is someone who is more knowledgeable than you and that was the answer when سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم we know that he used to talk to Allah سبحانه وتعالى anytime he wanted so he said I was asked this question I said I am but Allah سبحانه وتعالى said no you have there is someone who is more knowledgeable than you so when سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم he said to himself that I should I should learn from that man what I don't know so he asked Allah سبحانه وتعالى how can I meet that person Allah told him that you will find him at the junction of the two rivers when the two rivers meet you will find him there and he said how can I how can I know where that place is and Allah told him you take a fish in a vessel and you go until the place when you lose this fish then you know that you will find this person in that area سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and what happened now سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said في أساس المجمع البحريني أو أمضي حقوبة سيدنا موسى he took his boy servant with him سيدنا يوشع بالنون so he was يوشع عليه السلام was with him to serve him but also to learn from سيدنا موسى he was not just a servant كان شخص يحاول المعرفة أيضاً. فهي يقول, سيدنا موسى يقول to his vice-servant, I will not give up, I will keep going, I will keep walking until I reach the junction of the two seas, which الله سبحانه وتعالى has told me about. Or until I had to travel for a long time. The word حقوبة in عربي is plural for the singular word is حقبة. And the حقبة means a long period of time and it was thought that this period is about 70 or 80 years old. Or 80 years, the span of the حقبة is 70 or 80 years. So when سيدنا موسى said أمضية حقوبة he made that word plural. So the list of the plural is three. Okay, so that means let's consider the حقبة is 70 years, 70 multiplied by 3 is 210. So this was what he said when سيدنا موسى said to his servant boy. I will keep walking even if I have to walk 210 years to meet the person الله سبحانه وتعالى told me about. And we knew earlier that when قريش wanted to check on سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم then they asked him several questions and one of them was about the people of the cave, the man who wandered around the world and about the spirit. So the point is سيدنا موسى said did not give an answer because he does not speak from his own inclination. وما يمتقعني الهواء. If he doesn't know the answer, he wouldn't answer it. And that's why he said I will answer you tomorrow. So it lasted 15 days until the last day he said إن شاء الله. Now my point is سيدنا محمد did not have the knowledge, all the knowledge. The same thing سيدنا موسى did not have the knowledge and that's why he wanted to learn more and that's why he wanted to go to see that, to meet that righteous person الله سبحانه وتعالى has told him about. So he promised himself to go walking even if it took him a long time. Now this means this gives us a lot of lessons. The most important thing is that we have to seek knowledge. We have to remember that the more we learn, the more we realize that we are ignorant, we know nothing. Allah's knowledge is vast. We know nothing. Some people say okay I'm going to be a lawyer. Another would say I want to be a doctor. Another would say I want to be a space person. So each one of this is a science by itself but no one knows everything. Allah will give special knowledge to special people so that you might see wonders on those people. So if you do not have something, do not deny what others might have. Sometimes you would say ما شاء الله this is a مبارك person. This is a blessed person. He knows a lot. And the way he speaks is not the way that we speak. Remember there is something called العلم اللذني. العلم اللذني, the divine knowledge. And Allah will give this, some of this knowledge to certain people. So here سيدنا موسى wanted to go to meet that righteous person to learn from him العلم اللذني. How did we know that it was العلم اللذني? We knew that because Allah سبحانه وتعالى said in later فوجد عبدا من عبادنا آتناه رحمة من عبادنا وعلمناه من لذن عبادنا. We're going to get there in a moment. So now what happened? سيدنا موسى started walking with سيدنا يوشا and of course, when you want to go on a trip, you prepare yourself for that trip. So they took their food. And Allah told him that you take a fish with you. And when you lose this fish, then you will see the place where you take a fish. That will be their meeting place. And there's a lesson here. When we are going on a trip, we take something to help us along the way. We take something to eat. We take something to rest. We might have a tent. We might have water. We might have food. We might have several things to help us during this journey, during this trip. Now look at the journey that we are taking towards Allah سبحانه و تعالى. This is a long journey. And to be able to go, we have to have some provision. Our provision is the provision for the soul. We have to take care of our soul during this journey. It's not only our body. It's not only food. It's not only drink. It's not just to wear some clothes. No, we need to take care of our heart. We need to understand. We need to remember that if our heart is sound, then our journey is going to be sound. If our heart is good, then our journey is going to be successful. It's a long journey we are taking. We have to have something to help us along this journey. We have to have our reading of the Book of Allah سبحانه و تعالى. We have to have a good connection to the Book of Allah سبحانه و تعالى. We have to have a good connection to Sayyidina محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم. We have to send Salah و I want to Sayyidina محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم. We have to pray special prayers before pleasure to be closer to Allah سبحانه و تعالى. Because we know this is the closest time that Allah is to us. We have to get near also to Him. We need special care. We need special provision along our journey. And we are depending on Allah سبحانه و تعالى to give us that help and that care. So now Sayyidina موسى started with his journey. فلما بلغى مجمع بينهما نسياح وتهما فتخذ سديله في البحر سربه. So when they reached the junction of the two seas, they forgot their fish. And if we have to look into the Arabic word here نسياح. The eleph at the end of the verb means both of them, dual. So how come that both of them forgot? Who is responsible for the food? To prepare the food and to serve the food is the boy servant. But what happened is that both of them forgot about the fish. It gives us a clue that even the leader should not leave everything for the servants. For those who take care of the caravan. Why? Because he should be responsible about everything. When they are ready to leave, he should check the area after they leave. Did they forget anything? That's this thing. This small thing is not the servant's work. It's the leader's work. So both of them forgot about this fish and what happened to this fish. So Allah سبحانه وتعالى here. Made the سيدنا موسى when they reached the place of the junction of the two seas. They reached this area and they felt sleepy so both of them slept. And there was a special rod that they slept at. So the fish sensed that this is something special. This is something that would give it life. So it jumped and what happened to it. The fish moved vigorously and jumped and took its way on the sand until it reached the river. Now Allah سبحانه وتعالى has given life to this fish. And it is said that there was a spring of life at that area. And that's why the fish sensed felt that spring of life. So a drop of water of that spring came to the fish. And that's what made the fish get life again and it moved. Now what Allah سبحانه وتعالى did, we said that the fish went on the sand until it reached the sea. So what happened here? Allah سبحانه وتعالى made that trace clear and kept it clear. So when Musa عليه السلام and his servant just woke up, they started walking again. So they forgot. And Yusha knew that the fish was not there but he forgot to tell Sayyidina Musa about that. They went a little further. And Sayyidina Musa عليه السلام, they felt hungry so he asked his servant to give them the fish to eat. At that time Yusha عليه السلام remembered that he forgot to tell Musa about what happened to the fish. So when he told him, he said, this is what we wanted. So what did what did happen? Now Allah سبحانه وتعالى says فلما جاوزا. So when they went further قال لفتا هو آتنا غدا أنا لقد لقينا من سفرنا هذا نصد. Musa said to his boy servant bring us our meal. So usually we have suffered in this journey. We are hungry. So Yusha عليه السلام said قال رأيت إذ أوين إلى الصخرة فإني نسيت الحوة أن أذكره. He said, do you remember? Do you remember when we went when we when we stopped at the when we stopped at the place where we rested قال رأيت إذ أوين إلى الصخرة فإني نسيت الحوة. فإني نسيت الحوة. So I forgot I indeed forgot to tell you about the fish. وما أنسانيه إلا الشيطان أن أذكره. None but shaitan made me forget to remember it. Or made me for shaitan made me forget to tell you that we lost it. So shaitan now. وتخذ سبيله في البحر عجبه. And this fish took its course. So its path into the sea was a strange way. What does it mean? Strange, something strange. So the story by itself is strange. The fish that we prepared to eat got life again and it went until it reached the sea and jumped into the water. So Sayyidna Musa here said قال ذلكما كنا نبغي فرتدا على آثارهما قصصا. Musa A.S. said That's what we have been seeking. This is what we have been looking for. They wanted to know exactly where they missed or they lost the fish because that was the place where Allah told him that he will be meeting Al-Khadr عليه السلام. So they went back their footsteps. قصصا. So they were following the traces. What happened? They found. فوجد عبد من عبادنا. فوجد عبد من عبادنا. Potato عبد من عبادHe is one of the servants of al-Qaeda who gave to al-Tawjihina آتيناهرحمتم من عندينا وعلمناهم Yun務ah أيطان شهاد فهم يشارد one of our servants عبد من عبدنا remember the word S Ourabd and this is a servant to Allah SWT and when someone is a servant أتذكر أن الله سبحانه وتعالى قد سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم into the إسراء يقول سبحان الذي أسرى بعبديه سبحان الله هو أحد الذي قد سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم to go up into the heavens عبديه بعبديه so being the servant to Allah سبحانه وتعالى is the highest of honor but being the servant to people is humility so they found one of our servants عبد من عبادين what about this person, this servant آتيناه رحمة من عين دينة on whom we have bestowed mercy from us وعلمناه من لدنة علمة and whom we had told knowledge from us and this is what I just mentioned العلم لدني the divine knowledge the divine knowledge is the highest of all the knowledge and it's something that Allah سبحانه وتعالى it's ever a secret that Allah gives into the heart so they found a man and he was a blessed man and Musa greeted him and Musa introduced himself سيدنا خدر طول asked him are you the Musa of the children of Israel and we know Israel is another name for Sadna Yaqub and Musa said yes or are you the Musa of the children of Israel the prophet who was sent to the people of Israel of Israel so now what happened after that قال له Musa now pay attention to what Sadna Musa said هل اتبعك على انت علمني مما علمت رشدة can I can I or may I follow you and you will teach me from what you have been taught of sound judgment you have the knowledge I don't have you have the knowledge that I don't know هل اتبعك can I can I may I this is something this is the politeness how you have to be with your teacher the teacher should have a special respect and this is called so you ask politely you just humiliate yourself to the teacher because he has the knowledge you want to learn from him and what about if someone has the divine knowledge you should show so much respect for your teacher قال انك لن تستطيع معي صبرة Musa you will not be able to have patience with me وكيف تصبير على ما لم تحت به خبرة and how can you have patience for what you do not encompass in knowledge سيدنا الخدر knows that Musa is a prophet he's a messenger and that he is a person of Allah he is a friend of Allah so he said you have your way I have my way you cannot be patient with what I I do so this is the condition that that is there both of them are on different paths each has his own way لن تستطيع معي صبرة you will not have patience because you as a messenger would give your judgment according to the outer things I as a person of Allah would give my judgment according to the heart according to the inner things that I know and you don't know how can you be patient so Musa قال ستجدني إن شاء الله صابرا ولا أعصي لك أمر so Musa said if Allah wills you will find me patient I will not disobey you in any order I will be submissive to whatever you want قال فأين اتبعتني فلا تسألني عن شيء حتى أحدث لك منه ذكره so he said then if you follow me do not ask me about anything you see until I make a mention of it until I mention it to you until I myself talk about it so this was the condition if you want to follow me you do not ask me any questions they have that agreement فنطلق so they set out حتى إذا ركب في السفينة خرقها they were walking they wanted to cross from one bank to the other bank of the river so they wanted to they wanted to have to go on a ride on a boat so they the people of the boat there was a boat passing by and the people recognized so they took them on the boat and they refused to take a charge for that they did not take money from them they did not take anything in return so حتى إذا ركبها في السفينة حتى إذا ركبها في السفينة خرقها until they had embarked on the ship on the boat الخضر made a hole in it where he took a piece a piece of the wood of the ship out so when he did that موسى عليه السلام looked at him and he said قال أخرقتها لتغرق أهلها لقد جئت شيئاً إمرى موسى أخبرتنا حتى أنت لقد قلت أنت لقد قلت أنت لقد قلت أنت لقد قلت أنت لقد قلت لماذا تفعل ذلك حقاً أنت لقد قلت so موسى at this point thought of destroying other people's property he couldn't stay silent so he said he talked but what was the answer قال ألم أقول إنك لن تستطيع معي صبره so الخضر عليه السلام said to him did I not tell you that you would not be able to have patience with me you would not be able to stay silent say موسى I remembered that agreement and he said so he said to him call me not to account for what I forgot and be not hard on me for my affair with you and please forgive me I forgot so when they went down on the ship they kept walking حتى إذا لقيا غلام فقط له so they set out and they proceeded until they met a boy and الخضر killed him غلام is a young boy who did not reach property age so he killed him he killed that boy see the mousa thought that the first incident was transgressing some property but now he's killing a person it's a bigger it's a bigger problem now so he couldn't stay silent قال أقتلت نفسا قال أقتلت نفسا بغير نفسا تشيئ النكر so mousa said have you killed an innocent person with no reason for killing him indeed you have committed a clearly evil thing now mousa الخضر عليه السلام قال ألم أقل لك إنك لن تستطيع معي صبر الخضر said did I not tell you that you can have no patience with me if we go back till ayah 72 we have a similar قال ألم أقل إنك لن تستطيع معي صبر but here قال ألم أقل لك إنك لن تستطيع معي صبر so the word لك here is just to emphasize you I said to you I said you cannot be patient but here I said to you you cannot have patience قال سيدنا mousa remembered again so he said قال إن سألتك عن شيء بعدها فلا تصاحبني زي موسى عليه السلام if I ask you anything after this keep me not in your company if I object to anything just let's depart قد بلغت من لدني عزرا you have accepted my apology twice and you have received an excuse from me to break this company now I want I will not oppose you anymore but if I do خلص it means let's go apart سيدنا موسى عليه السلام سيدنا موسى عليه السلام apologized and made it firm this time فانطلق حتى إذا أتي أهل قرية يستطع ما أهلها so now they both proceeded until they came to the people of a town and they asked them for food they were hungry and they wanted food so they reached a village and they saw people of the village they saw some of the people and they asked them for food now they wondered in the village and they asked for food for different people from almost all people but what happened فَأَبَلْ أَيْ يُولَيْفُهُمَا so they refused to offer them hospitality they refused to give them food they even refused to give them a place to rest in and remember that there is something here to notice when someone asks for food then this is the most truthful question to ask he is in real need he needs something to eat but if someone asks for money you don't know if that person is going to stack that money with other previous money that he asks other people but asking for food is a question but there is nothing to think about he is in need he is in need for something to eat so what happened the people of the village refused to give them money they refused to give them a place to rest and while they are going around the village they found a wall about to collapse and they found a wall about to collapse and they set this wall up straight and they wanted to move on and they said you did something you deserve money we don't have money we cannot eat we cannot have a shelter if you had wished surely you could have taken a payment for that you could have taken some wedges let's go a little bit into this word into this ayah يريد أن ينقض فأقام يريد أن ينقض the wall itself was about to collapse it was about if we want to put it in the human words we say to die how can we say that about things do you remember when sayed محمد يستخدم بطرق ويخطب الناس ويقوم بطرق بطرق بطرق ويخطب ويخطب ويخطب بطرق ويخطب ويخطب نخطب لينا ويوفيد ويخطب النشاء بطرق الخلفي يرغب ورغب نحن نحظر يتفح Лع伊ش يفتذ縫ب موängen يتفن وكي هقدي توجد by how is it يجب أن يجعل تصبيحه في حاله، في حاله لذا، سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم even in one of the narration he said لا تحزنوا على كسر إيناكم، فإن لها أعمار، مثل أعماركم لا تشعر أن لا تحبسوا إذا كان شيء أسرع، إذا كان كبير أسرع، إذا كان شيء أسرع لأن هذه أسرع لديها حياة مثل أنك أسرع لديك حياة إذا كان شيء أسرع لديك حياة تشعر أن هنا will be an earthquake before a human being feels it without the machines or without this technology now لذا، حتى الأشياء لديهم أشياء even things know that something is going to happen if the wall was about to collapse was about to die قال لو شئت لك تخلصت عليه أجراء you could have taken some money for that قال هذا في راق بيني وبينك الخدر said okay that's it this is the parting between me and you we said if I ask you anything else you will part and leave me so we are leaving each others right now you are a messenger you are a prophet and your words are orders you wanted that and I have to fulfill this now سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم says قد بلغت من لدني عذرا so may Allah have mercy upon us and upon Musa عليه السلام if he had stayed with his companion a longer time we would have seen wonders if he had more patience we would have seen wonders we would have learned more wonderful stories more stories but he said if I ask you anything after this keep me not in your company you have received an excuse from me so we leave each other you are excused to leave me I am not going to be with you I am not going to bother you again so what happened الله سبحانه وتعالى says now that we are going to leave each other I'm going to tell you I will tell you the interpretation the explanation of those things over which you were not able to be patient so this is what will happen this is what we are going to see next time I would like to end with a point that when someone dies two places will weep for him and that was mentioned in the Quran الله سبحانه وتعالى says how would the sky and the earth cry when someone dies the explanation for this is that the place where you do your on earth will cry because you are not going to to use it anymore for سجود and the place where your deeds are going up to the sky will also cry because your deeds will be will be done خلص no more deeds but سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم says told us that whoever has قطع وعمل وقلوا قطع وعمل وقلوا آدمة إلا من سلاس when someone dies his deeds are except of three things صدقة جارية I'm going charity او علم ينتفع به or some knowledge that he has passed and people are still using اول دون صالح يدعو له or if he has a righteous son or righteous offspring that would just make dua for him but what else let's say that someone does not have children and he has not passed, he is not a teacher he did not pass any knowledge he still have something صدقة جارية something good that he has done to people we might have helped even with a few pennies in building a message or a hospital or in digging a well of water for some people to use or he planted something that he will be that people will be using or animals will be using so this is the explanation for what it did when it was alive وما أخرت and what what the deeds it collected after death so do not get upset if you don't have children to do not get sad if you don't have children to do not get sad if you don't have children just to make دعاء for you after your death just keep keep doing something that would benefit you from now after you die knowledge knowledge is important seek knowledge and give knowledge see in the Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم says وَلَوْ أَيَا just spread anything that you heard from me even if it's one ايَا and you can have this ongoing charity even after your death you might say okay I'm not a teacher I would say having good manners is spreading the good manners of say صلى الله عليه وسلم so we have to learn we have to learn to be able to know what to do see in the Musa knew that there is someone who is more knowledgeable than him he decided to keep walking even if he is going to walk for hundreds of years we have to seek knowledge وصلى الله عليه وسلم سيدنا محمد وعلى وصحبه وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلال وجيك وعظيم سلطانك سبحان ربك رب العزة عما يصفون وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا محمد وعلى وصحبه وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلال وجيك وعظيم سلطانك اللهم افتح علينا فتوح العرفين اللهم صلى الله عليه وسلم سلام عليكم last time we started with the story of سيدنا موسى عليه السلام and his journey to meet the one who is more knowledgeable than him سيدنا الخدر عليه السلام and when he asked سيدنا الخدر to accompany him سيدنا الخدر told him you cannot you cannot be patient you you don't know what I'm going to do you are you have your own way and I have my own way you understand what I'm going to do so how can you have patience and and then سيدنا موسى said to him I am not going to ask you any question so I want to just to learn from you I'm gonna see what's going to happen and I'm not asking you any questions so سيدنا الخدر accepted that سيدنا موسى will accompany him and we saw that when they went on the ship سيدنا الخدر made a hole in it he damaged the ship that they used and that their owners were so generous they even did not take any money from them in return to helping them use their ship and then we saw how they proceeded with their journey and they met a boy and الخدر killed him and again that was so not acceptable to سيدنا موسى عليه السلام and when he when he told him about it he said I told you I told you that you can have no patience with me then the last thing that he promised if I ask you anything after this keep me not in your company so if I object you anymore that's will be it you have the permission just you have excuse that to break this company and this is when سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said سيدنا وعلى موسى لو اللي بيسمع صاحبه لأبصر العجب may Allah may the mercy of Allah be upon us and upon موسى if he had stayed with his companion we would have seen wonders so then they went on with their journey and they reached it down they were so hungry they needed food and they asked all the people for food they asked they refused they asked them for shelter they refused and then they were walking when they found a wall about to collapse and سيدنا الخدر عليه السلام set it up straight so سيدنا موسى immediately said if you have wish surely you could have taken a payment for what you did and here سيدنا الخدر said this is the parting between me and you so that was it but before we depart I am going to tell you the reasons the interpretations of what happened and this is ayah 78 so I will tell you the interpretation the explanation of those things over which you were not able to be patient أما السفينة فكانت لمساكين يعملون في البحري أما السفينة فكانت لمساكين في البحري as for the boat it belonged to poor people working in the sea فأردت أن أعيبها so I wish to make a defect a defective damage in it why وكان وراءه ملك يأخذ كل سفينة غصبة as there was a king who was in front of them and who seized every good ship by force now let's let's talk deeply about the ayah so السفينة the ship was for مساكين مساكين are what's the difference between المسكين and الفقير الفقير are both poor but الفقير is the one who does not own anything and he is in need while المسكين is the one who owns a little bit but what he owns is not sufficient for him okay they were the owners they were the owners of this boat but they did not have enough money to they did not have sufficient money so what happened they were working يعملون في البحر working in the sea so for someone who works in the sea it means they lift up some good people they fish they try to catch some pearls so this is the type of work they used to do في البحر يعملون في البحر when he said فأردتوا أن أعيبها if we look at the verb فأردتوا أردتوا means I wanted to cause a defect on it but later when he says وما فعلته عن أمري we will come to that later but I want to mention it here he says وما فعلته عن أمري so he made the action the bad action refer back to him I read to I wanted but later he said فعلتوا عن أمري I did not do it by will so Allah ordered me to do it but that's of أدب that he he caused the made the bad action the defect damage that he did he made it just for himself that he did that وكان وراءهم now what does the word وراء means in the Quran the word وراء in the Quran has four different meanings and this is the miracle of the Arabic language one word will mean several different things that are not even related how so in one of the places here at one of the ayahs let's take this ayah this ayah وراءهم means in front of them so the king was at the shore waiting for them and this is similar to another ayah when الله سبحانه وتعالى says there is in front of him so the first meaning for وراء which is in this and in other ayahs here mean in front of them now the other meaning the other meaning for the word وراء in Arabic is which is after and we see this in the ayah when الله سبحانه وتعالى says ومرأته قائمة فضحكت فبشرناها بإسحاق ومن وراء إسحاق يقوب his wife was standing and she smiled then we gave her good tidings of إسحاق that she's going to have إسحاق ومن وراء and after she'll have another child so there will be another after ومن وراء إسحاق يقوب so after إسحاق يقوب will be there now the third meaning is for the word وراء is behind they threw the scripture behind their backs so they did not care so the word وراء here means behind and the last meaning for the word وراء in the Quran means other than which means وراء ذلك فأولائك هم العادون if someone wanted something other than this then those are the bad people, the transgressors so here if we look into this ayah وكان وراءهم ملكون يأخذوا يأخذوا كل سفينة ينغصبها so which one is better when I wanted to prevent that king from taking their boat by making it look faulty so he made a hole or he broke a piece of wood now what would the result be those poor owners could benefit from their boat so which one is better to have a defective boat or to lose the boat by itself so if سيد الموسى عاليه السلام knew this explanation he would have done the same thing to the ship he wouldn't think that this is something strange why did you do that why did you harm the people who benefited you why did you harm the people who helped you so this is what the meaning the explanation of why سيدنا الخدر made that hole or made that defect in the ship then he moved to the second case و أما الغولام فكان أبواه مؤمنيني فخشين أن يريقهم تغيان وكفر now as for the boy his parents were believers now look at the word الغولام الغولام is who did not reach the age yet so he is not ordered of doing the and everything and the so he is not punished for any anything so when he dies at this age then he dies as pure as he would be now is it good for the boy to die at this age or is it bad the mom and the dad were believers فكان أبواه مؤمنيني and most of the time most of the time children are trials for their parents and this is what Allah SWT mentioned in the Quran إن من أزواجكم وأولادكم عدوب لكم فحذروهم indeed among your wives and children are enemies to you so be aware how can a child be an enemy a child can be an enemy when when he is so demanding and the parents are not rich then the father would steal some money just to give the his child what he wants so in this case this child was a trial and because of this child the parent is going the father is going to be punished this is how the wives and children can be enemies the same thing as for the wives she would keep nagging and nagging and nagging for her husband get me this get me that my friend got this ring my friend got this car look at this one look at that one and he is not able to do it so what he will do he will steal to fulfill the needs of his wife so he is punished because of his wife who became his enemy so this child his parents were believers and we feared that he would oppress he would oppress them he would overburden them by transgression and disbelief so out of their love to him they will follow him so it's a loose-lose case فأردنا أن يبدي لهم ربهم and we intended that their lord exchange them substitute for them أن يبدي لهم ربهم خيرا منه better than him وأقرب رحمة better خيرا منه زكاتا better than him impurity and it's near to mercy for them so الله سبحانه وتعالى when he made al-khadr kill this boy he transformed him from the kufr from the non-believing state that he will be when he will get older which will lead to جهنم so he transferred him from this position to to killing him when he was young when he was still pure and he entered الجنة his parents rejoiced when he was born and they grieved for him when he was killed if he had stayed alive he would have been the cause of their doom so we have to look at things not from there not outwardly but look deeply within each and every calamity there is some خير what is the خير in what's happening we might not understand it now but later on we will understand the reason most of the times someone would beg الله سبحانه وتعالى for something and he would beg and beg and الله if it's destined he will give it to him but if not then he will not give it to him and later on he would say oh Allah did not give me this he would have been a disaster if I got it so we never know where is the خير and that's why when we want something we do not ask for it we ask for the خير we ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى we say يا الله if you know there is خير in this thing that I would deeply want just give it to me if you know that there will be شر in this there will be some evil in this thing that I would deeply desire then keep it away from me and give me something that I would be content with and it will have all the خير for me so outwardly what happened to the ship and to the boy is not acceptable but inwardly it was all the خير now the third one و أما الجدار فكان لغولا مينيتي ميني في المدينة as for the wall it belonged to two orphan boys in the town و كان تحته كنزل لهماء and under there was under this wall a treasure with them was a treasure for those for those young to orphans so you remember that the people of the city were all so stingy were all so bad that they refused to give them anything to eat and under this this wall there was a treasure so if this wall falls down and the treasure is shown then those bad people of the city would steal this this treasure so the orphan boys will lose their treasure but when خدر عليه السلام built this wall again he built it in a way that it will be good enough for the the two orphan boys to get older and then to get out their treasure so doing this الخدر عليه السلام knew how to pay back those bad people of this place of this town because he did not want them to steal this treasure وكان أبوهما صالحا and their father was righteous he was a good person now look at this message وكان أبوهما صالحا this indicates that righteous persons offspring will be taking care because of the good deeds of their fathers and you always hear it the father was a good person الله saved his children the grandfather was a good person he saved his offspring and the word أبوهما in the تفسير might be up to the seventh grand-grand-grandfather or grand-grandmother so أبوهما وكان أبوهما صالحا the father was righteous and this is a message for us we have to be righteous so that Allah will take care of our kids we have to plant the seeds of goodness in our kids so that they will be brought up with goodness in their heart with goodness in their mind with goodness in their life so they will be able Allah will show them the right way to differentiate between what's right and what's wrong so they can choose the best of course this is with the help of Allah سبحانه وتعالى فأراد ربك أن يبلغا أشودهما so you Lord intended that they should attain their age of full strength and take out their treasure now let's think of the father the good father the righteous father he built the wall in a way that it will be good enough for a period of time that there his children his children will grow up until they reach the age and then get their treasure now who taught him how much of clay he should add how much of water he should how much strength the wall should have Allah سبحانه وتعالى يبلغا أشودهما when does someone reach the age when he is able to produce to give the same thing as himself when he is able to get married and to give a child at that time at that age we will say that he يبلغ الأشود he got the age now if you take a watermelon and you break it so it might be either red delicious and very sweet or it might be yellowish or any other color that's not so so ripe and it will not taste good when will it be good and tasty red it will be like this when it is fully grown that the seeds inside are able to give more than what you are eating so you broke once you are eating one watermelon but imagine how many seeds are inside and each can produce watermelons so this is when we say وكان يبلغ الأشود so why did I do that رحمة من ربك that was a mercy of your lord وما فعلته عن أمري and I did not do that I did not do I did not damage this the ship I did not kill the boy I did not fix the wall just from my own from my own knowledge that I wanted to do that no وما فعلته عن أمري ذلك تقويل ما لم تستطع عليه صدره so this is the reason why I could not this is the interpretation that I just gave you of those things you could not be patient with and this is what Allah wanted me to do now if you look at the words أرادة أرادة أرادة he talked about the bad things and he said I did that but he talked about the good that it belonged to Allah and as I just mentioned this is out of politeness this was the story of سيدنا الخضر with سيدنا موسى عليه السلام and we all know that this is this last time that this whole journey happened because سيدنا الخضر was asked who is the most knowledgeable person and he immediately said I am so Allah سبحانه و تعالى told سيدنا موسى عليه السلام that you are not the most knowledgeable there is one person who is more knowledgeable than you سيدنا موسى wanted to know more and he asked Allah سبحانه و تعالى to show him the way to go and reach and meet this knowledgeable person and also to learn from him so the whole story here indicates that the importance of seeking knowledge when we know that there is some knowledge that we don't know and there is a lot that we don't know then we have to seek for it especially when it is sacred knowledge, when it is knowledge about our religion we have to learn about the Fiqh of our religion we have to learn about everything that is important for us to do our daily to live our daily life correctly righteously we have to learn we have to seek this knowledge and the more we learn the more we find ourselves how ignorant we are the more we learn the more we see that there is a lot that we don't know that we have to learn and there is a special pleasure in seeking knowledge when when Allah سبحانه وتعالى wants his servants to be closer to him then he makes them علماء and it's mentioned in the Quran إنما يخشى الله من عباده العلماء those who fear Allah سبحانه وتعالى are the knowledgeable people so if you want to get closer to Allah سبحانه وتعالى get more knowledge learn about the Quran learn how to read the Quran correctly if you know how to read the Quran correctly memorize it don't say it's difficult just have the intention and Allah will help if you come to Allah سبحانه وتعالى walking he comes to you running remember this just have the intention and start the first step and you will get what you want so learn about the Quran get connected to the Quran try to understand the meanings of the ayat of the Quran you will find it way more enjoyable to read the Quran when you understand it than when you do not and always remember whatever you do to learn the Quran even if it is hard on you then Allah will double the reward for you and this is what Sayyidina Muhammad says وَهُوَ مَاهِرٌ فِيهِ فَلَهُ أَجْرٌ وَالَّذِي يَقْرَأُوا كُرْآنَ وَهُوَ يُتَعْتِعُوا فِيهِ فَلَهُ أَجْرًا a person who reads the Quran fluently will have a reward but the person who reads the Quran and he struggles he pays more attention he pays more effort and it's not easy for him to do that and he still does that he will have doubled the reward gets connected to the Quran this is the secret for a happy life it is a complete system for our life it organizes our life it gives our life special taste when we follow the rules of the Quran so the point is here we have to seek knowledge we have to learn when we know that there is a episode of zikr it's our benefit to attend this episode the angels the angels will be surrounding this episode the group of zikr will be surrounded by angels and they will mention your name up with Allah and those who sat in a group of zikr whether they are remembering Allah learning about Quran learning about the Prophet learning about the companions those people are called friends for the sake of Allah and they will be on pulpits of happiness in the day after and they will ask Allah we used to to meet with this person we don't see him with us and Allah would say go get him wherever he is and let him be with you those are those are the brothers and sisters on beds that are next to each other they are facing each other so they were talking about they were talking about knowledge and then there was a bird who came to the sea and he drank a little bit a small drop of water and سيدنا الخضر said to سيدنا موسى عليه السلام ما علمي وعلمك في جنب علم الله إلا كما نطر هذا العصفور من البحر my knowledge all I know وعلمك and all you know in comparison to what Allah's knowledge is is the amount of the small drop of water that this birdie just drank of this ocean of this sea we have to seek knowledge to be of the righteous people who fear Allah سبحانه و تعالى the most insha'Allah now excuse me we move on and to another story which is the story of the القرنين what is this story ويسألونك this the next story with و يسألونك and they ask you and Allah here is talking to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم now let's stop at this word and look at the questions that سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم was asked in the Quran the word سؤلة or يسأل or سألة so from questioning the question was asked to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم 16 times in the Quran 16 times one of them was in the past tense وإذا سألك عبادي عني فإني قريب if they ask you about me I am close and the others are present tense يسألونك عني الاهرة يسألونك ماذا ينفقون يسألونك عني الشهر الحرام قضال فيه يسألونك عني الخمر والميسر يسألونك عني الية؟ يسألونك كماذا أحل لهم يسألونك عني السعا so many times to they ask سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم about the hour يسألونك عني الأنفال يسألونك عني الروح يسألونك عني الجبال صيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم سلسل سلسل سلسل سلسل سلسل سلسل سلسل بعضهم about what they would spend about the sacred months, do they fight in it about wine, about gambling, about the orphans, about the hour which was asked so many times about the الأنثال, what they gain about the booties is they asked about the Ruh, the soul, the mountains each one of these questions was answered differently 15 of these questions were answered by the word قل they started, the answer started with the word but one of these questions was answered without the word the word قل means say so one of these questions if they ask you about me, I am close so there is no but let's have another example for the questions that are answered with قل ويسألونك عن الجبال فقل ينسفها ربي نسبة so فقل say when they ask you about the mountains, say this when they ask you about the orphans, say this what's the difference when they ask you about me, about Allah, don't say anything I am going to answer them فأني قريب, I am close to them they just need to understand this they just need to make their dua'a and I will answer their dua'a but for all other things قل and some of these as say also does not only start with قل, it starts with فقل so if you are asked then say so this is the questions in the Quran now they asked him, we know that قرش wanted to know if سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم is a prophet or not so they asked the Jews, the scholars of the Jews in Medina how can we know that and they told him ask him about the young men of the cave ask him about the man who traveled extensively throughout the earth and ask him about the rue if he answers these three questions then he is a prophet so when they asked him about ذل قرنين Allah gave him the answer and we know that he did not answer قرش when they asked him because he didn't have the knowledge so he waited until Allah سبحانه وتعالى revealed the knowledge to him ويسألونك عن ذل قرنين so they are asking you عن ذل قرنين ما هو ذل قرنين الله سبحانه وتعالى لم يكن لدينا نام من هذا الشخص الذي يسأل جميعاً من الأرض so this means that it is لا تستطيع أن تكون لدينا نام it might be any person because he is not لدينا نام whereas when Allah سبحانه وتعالى يجب أن يطبق رقم مريم عليه السلام يجب أن يتبقى رقمها ميري مريم يجب أن يتبقى رقمها يجب أن يتبقى عمراها يجب أن يتبقى قصةها وماذا أنه يجب أن يتبقى رقمها وقصةها وكان ذلك جداً إذا كان لها لا يحدث بأحد أخرى هذا بالفعل for her عندما الله سبحانه وتعالى وقالب المرعب تقول برب الله مثل الذين كفروا مرأة نوح ومرأة لوطن كانتا تحت عبدين من عبادنا صالحيني فخانتا هم الله يطلق بشكل من الناس who disbelieve البيتِ البيتِ لوطن عليه السلام وبيتِ لوطن عليه السلام نعلم نوحن وبيتِ لوطن و المرحبين they were under two of our righteous servants but they betrayed them them at all from Allah It can be any wife who objects her husband الله سبحانه وتعالى مجتمع سيدنا زايد في القرآن يجب أن يجب أن يسمعه، وأنه هو الوصول الذي كان يسمعه في القرآن لذا يجب أن يسمعه و هذا الإنسان هو about زايد himself only ولكن هنا الله سبحانه وتعالى لم يسمعه لذا يسألوا سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم عن هذه السؤال، عن الوقت، ما حدث؟ فakir was he named Dhul-Qarnain because he had a crown and his crown had two horns or because he traveled to the east until he got into the sun rise area or to the west and he got to the sun set area some people say he is Alexander the Great but that's not possible because the ayahs talk about a righteous person a believer and Alexander the Great was not a believer he was the student of Aristotle the philosopher so Allah subhanahu و تعالى made it general why because this is what the any ruler who is who has the power of overcoming of ruling people he has certain descriptions that he should fall fall into so don't ask about the name if Allah wants us to know the name he would have mentioned it so what happens when they ask you about the القرنين say I shall say recite to you something that is mentioned in the Quran and we know that's mentioned in the Quran from the word ذكرة ذكرة means a story that was mentioned in the Quran and that it will be preserved until the day after so here is this story that's mentioned in the Quran this story indicates and tells us that every good thing is going to last till the day of judgment so إن شاء الله we will be stopping here and next time we will go in we will look in at the story of the القرنين وصلى الله عليه وسيدينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم سبحان رب العرش عما يصفون وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلاته والسلام على سيد المرسلين سيدنا ونبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلال وجيك وعضي بسلطانك اللهم صندي وسن مبارك على النور الموصوف بالتقدم والأولية سيدنا ونبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته نحن now going to talk about the story of the القرنين and we know that الله سبحانه و تعالى has mentioned this story and he did not give us a name of the القرنين and the reason as we mentioned last time that الله سبحانه و تعالى wanted to make this story general because if he gives a name then it would be just for that person when he talked about the story of سيدة مريم عليه السلام and سيدنا عيسة he mentioned a say the mariam and he mentioned مريم وبنة عمران he mentioned her he mentioned her father because this story is just about say the mariam عليه السلام and no one else in this dunya will have the same thing that happened to a say the mariam whereas when he mentioned let's say for example the story of the people of the cave so he did not give the names for those for those young men who resorted to the cave just to seek shelter and to be away from to be away from the tyrant king so they fled away with their religion with their faith they didn't want to be under the oppression of that king because they knew that he will either kill them or he will force them to go back away from their religion so we don't have a name for this group and this group can be any person in this dunya who runs away with just to land just to practice his religion without any fear here الله سبحانه وتعالى does the same thing and we are on ayah 83 now when the people of quraish ask say the Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم about the story what is tell us about the story of the القرنين who is this person so they wanted to know if say the Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم is a real messenger or if he is just claiming to be a messenger so say the Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم asked الله سبحانه وتعالى for for the story because he doesn't know it and when and when someone does not know anything he should not just try to say any any words just to give an answer no ask فسألوا أهل الذكر إن كنتم لا تعلمون ask the people who know if you do not know the answer for a question that you were asked do not say anything just because you want to say something let people have the idea that you do not know instead of saying something that is a lie or that is not right so what was the answer of الله سبحانه وتعالى قل سأتسلوا عليكم منه ذكره I I shall recite to you something that is mentioned in the Quran ذكره is a story that is mentioned in the Quran so what is this story who is ذكرنين الله سبحانه وتعالى saying إن مكاننا له في الارض وآتيناه من كل شيء سببه there only we established him in the earth and we gave him the means of everything the word مكاننا means that الله سبحانه وتعالى has given him the ability to do everything and he has given him the means that will help him do everything so this was what مكاننا means so what happened is that الله سبحانه وتعالى has given سيدنا has given ذكرنين everything that he needs سببه so الله gave him the knowledge of things around him الله سبحانه وتعالى mentioned the word مكاننا in another another sura when he talked about سيدنا يوسف when he said and thus we established joseph in the land to settle therein wherever he willed so he gave him the power he gave him the ability he gave him the knowledge that he will be using when he is anywhere he want to go anywhere he wanted to settle in so سببه is what would lead you to get to your goal this is the سبب and here when we when we hear this so he had dominion over the east and the west in the earth all over wherever anytime anywhere so he had dominion over the east and the west and on everything and الله سبحانه وتعالى everything gave him everything everything was submitted to him so what happened he followed the way he traveled around the earth so he did not just leave the the reasons and go to to his goal no he used all the reasons that الله سبحانه وتعالى has given him حتى إذا بلغ مغرب الشمسي وجدها تغربه في عين الحمية so what happened here الله سبحانه وتعالى is saying until he he walked until he reached the setting place of the sun so when you reach the setting place then it means that you are coming from the east so when we let's say for example we are here in in in a city in any city and again I name cities but when we are in a city and we look at the horizon we see that the sun is setting but the does this mean that the sun خلص went away no it's rotating to another place where it is shining where it is sunlight for other people so how how how can we understand this if if the sun is setting on people at different times then there are people now are praying sunsets it's a lot المغرب and the sun is setting is rising to the other people who it went to then those people are praying فجر and in between these two places there are people playing ظهر عصر عشاء and so on so what happens is that at the same time there are people doing all types of prayers at the same minute some people are praying فجر some people are praying عشاء some people are praying ظهر some people are praying ظهر عشاء so at the same time and this happens every single minute so what does this mean يا زمن وفيك كل زمن so we are talking about time when all people are doing different prayers and that's why the people are always remembering الله سبحانه وتعالى people are always performing صلاة people are always doing اذان and their the the remembrance of الله سبحانه وتعالى is there all the time حتى إذا بلغا مغرب الشمسي now he reached the place where the sun sets so he can see the sun the the sun the sun sets yes so he took a route and followed it until he reached the furthest point that could be reached in the direction of the sun setting in which is the west of the earth so what happened what did he find there وجدها تغرب في عينين حبيئة so he found there's no more land so he saw that the sun as if as if is setting in the sea into the sea it's diving into the sea so he found it he saw that as if the sun was setting into the ocean but we know that the sun never sets into the ocean the sun never leaves its path so what happened over there at that place وجدها عندها قوما so there he found at near there he found a group of people he found a nation so what did Allah سبحانه وتعالى tell the القرنين قلنا ياذ القرنين إما أنت عزيبة وإما أنت تخذ فيهم حسنة ياذ القرنين either you punish them or you treat them with kindness so Allah سبحانه وتعالى gave the القرنين the power over those people and he gave him the choice إما أنت عزيبة you can punish them you can kill them you can do whatever you want أو تتخذ فيهم حسنة or you can do something good for them this is something that we need to keep in mind when you have the power over some some people you can either be a oppressor or you can be a kind a kind person even if they are bad and even if you have the ability to punish them just wait just look at what what درقرنين said he said so he divided those people into two groups as for for him who does wrong we shall punish him and in the arabic language the word means that i will do the work i want to do but in the future not immediately so what does this what does this mean that درقرنين درقرنين was very just person so his faith and justice became apparent when he replied this to الله سبحانه وتعالى we will punish him but later why because sulfur means he is going to give him a chance because that person when he listens to what he is going to say to what درقرنين is going to say and what درقرنين is going to say is that he wants to just tell them he want to advise them he want to tell them the truth he want to tell them about the day after he want he want just for them to be guided he wants them to to know what is what are they required to do in this dunya so he gives them a chance to understand and to go back away from their transaggression to repent so we have to be like that give people chances give people chances they might regret they might come back to you they might say oh we we did something bad and and we are sorry that we have done this bad thing so they will ask for your forgiveness and the more good manners you have towards people the better that the better way they will treat you because they will realize how you did not treat them the same way that they they did to you and this is not easy when سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم told سيدنا أبا هريرة he told him يا أبا هريرة عليك بحصن الخلق you have to have good manners and one of the ways that one of the good manners that he explained to him was to forgive those who oppressed you give a chance to others because people are born on fitra on what is good so if you show them good they cannot show you bad ما من ظلم فسوفن وعذبه ثم يرد إلى ربه في وعذبه عذاب النكر so we shall we shall give a chance to people but those who who uh insisted on their position those who insisted on their transaggression then we shall punish punish that person and then he will be brought back into his lord who will punish him with a terrible torment the word ظلم is so vast has so many ways of being uh of volume there are so many ways to be of volume and oppressor so the worst ظلم the worst oppressing is to oppress your own self and someone oppresses his own self when he associates another god to الله سبحانه وتعالى so for and then another way is to oppress people another way is to oppress the uh those who are weak and you normally do not oppress those who are more powerful than you you cannot it's the same as the animal kingdom the the the stronger will eat the will eat the weaker but what does what does he go on and say اما من امن but as for him who believes and follow us in worshiping الله سبحانه وتعالى he shall have the best reward he will have the reward in dunya and then الله سبحانه وتعالى will highly reward him in the in the day after so why do we have uh this type of justice imagine that there are people who do not believe in the day after and who do not believe in punishment after death so no matter how you how much you talk to them about it they will not believe and there is nothing to prevent them to do any bad thing any harm to others because they don't believe in punishment after this they don't believe in life after death so so they would do all the bad things they think of in this dunya but if we do not have a justice system then what will happen to our society it will be filled up with chaos because those who do not believe in the after there is nothing to prevent them from doing any bad thing if they do not believe in punishment at least in this dunya he knows that if he kills someone he will go to jail he will be killed then that will prevent him at least from killing so there will be restrictions there will be uh highest prevention here so this is why there is punishment in dunya and then the biggest punishment in the akhirah the same way reward in dunya then the highest the amazing the highest most amazing reward in the akhirah and those non-believers will not understand this until they die because when they die they will know where their final destination will be they will realize that how bad thing they did to themselves when they transgressed the rules of الله سبحانه وتعالى at that time they would realize that they are losers but those who were good فله جزاءني الحسنة وسنقول له من أمرنا يسرع so for those good people we shall speak to them words of kindness if your child does something good you just encourage him to do more you just say bravo that's good my good boy look at you this is something good you did so you say good words the more good words you say to your child the better actions he will do the better good deeds he will do it will encourage him to do to do more when students graduate from school they do they have a party for them they have them wear the gown and they have them wear and and then they will throw their hat up and that's that's a kind of encouragement everyone everyone will congratulate them وسنقول له من أمرنا يسرع words of kindness with open hearts and it is said that one of the things that you will not feel sorry if you do not say is the bad word and what you can what you can say the words of kindness they will be they will be directed directly to the heart words of goodness words of kindness and sayidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said الكلمة الطيبة صدقة the good word is a charity so now this was the first group that ذو القرنين مات ثم اتبع سببا then he followed another way حتى إذا بلغ مطلع الشمسي now until he when he came to the rising place of the sun so what happened وجدها تطلع على قومن لم نجعل لهم من دونها سترا he found the sun rising on people on a nation for whom الله سبحانه وتعالى had provided no shelter against the sun so سترا means a barrier a shelter so what can we understand here سو ماني اوشنس that those people do not wear any clothes so there is nothing that would prevent the sun rays from getting directly into them or there are people who do not have any houses to prevent them or any buildings or trees to shelter them from the heat of the sun and the Arabic word for this type of people is ضاحون so they don't have anything to prevent them from heat the heat of the sun or even from the cold he might have found he might have met people whom the sun would rise for a long time so the day is so long we don't know what ذرقناين did here الله did not mention anything he's Allah said that this is what he found so someone can imagine that being a good person ذرقناين he might have helped those people so it was and we know all about him this means that الله سبحانه وتعالى knew everything about him he knew everything about his army about ذرقناين about everything that he does so nothing was hidden from الله سبحانه وتعالى truly nothing is hidden from Allah in the earth or in the skies and this is an important messenger nothing is hidden from Allah ريز your children to always have the company of Allah with them even when they are alone Allah is with them and that will make them know the right way that will make them differentiate between what can I do what can I not do even if there is no one watching them they will have the sense their inner inner sight will be awakened because they know that Allah is over watching them they know that whatever they say Allah knows they know that whatever they do Allah knows they know that whatever they look at Allah knows they they know that wherever they go Allah knows كذلك وقد حطما بما لديه خبره so الله knows everything about everybody and on the day of judgment he's gonna pass the records onto people and people will be so surprised how the records have every single thing they have done they have thought of they have imagined they have everything everything how come that this book does not leave anything small or big unless it is recorded ثم اتبع سببه then ذو القرنين followed another way so he traveled from the east of the earth until he reached a place where بين the two mountains and so this was these two mountains were next to each other and there is a valley in between so there is a hole in between the the two mountains فالقرن is a barrier you put a said between two things this said this barrier might be natural like a mountain or it might be a human made like a dam for example so بين سببه بين these two mountains there was a big hole there was a valley that this this uh place something bad was there what happened what did them in دونهما قوما so there the القرنين found people found nation found a nation there and لا يكادون يفقهون قولة those people they could not understand a word they could not understand a word there was there was no hope to teach them to speak a word but there was a conversation between دو القرنين and these people so how how can you how can someone understand a person who cannot speak so they could not understand a word they could not understand a word they could not speak a word there was there was no hope to teach them to speak a word هذا هو المنطقة التي يستخدمون الناس يمكن أن يتحدث عنها ويجب أن يتحدث عنها من المشاكل ويجب أن يتحدث عنها من المشاكل يجب أن يتفهمهم بسائن، now we call it sign language but there at that time they would understand them by the signs they would make and by just you look at a person, if he is angry he will put his hands on his tummy and he will he will he will mention he will point to his mouth that he wants to eat he is you will understand so ذو القرنين understood the conversation of those people just by sign the sign that refers to something said so what did they say to him and in the same way he answered them and he talked to them in the same way that they were talking by signs قالوا ياد القرنين now they they were seeking his help they were presenting their problem and they want him to help إنه يأجوج ومأجوج مفسدون في الارض they said oh ذو القرنين Verily Gog and Magog are doing great mischief in the land the very bad people they harm us they kill us they they do so many things not so many bad things to us فهل نجعل لك خرجا على أن تجعل بيننا وبينهم سدة هل نقوم بقاعدك بمعاقات المقاعدة هل نقوم بقاعدك بك so that you create a barrier بيننا وهم بين جاغ وماغاغ و بيننا so why هل هؤلاء هؤلاء هؤلاء هؤلاء هؤلاء هؤلاء مفسدون في الارض حتى قد ينجبونهم they were hitting them they were giving them hard times they were they were doing bad things for them. قالها ما مكنني فيه ربي خير he said that اللهم يوجدني كثيرا I'm so powerful I'm so rich فهذا الذي ربما أصبحت لي أصبحت أصبحت أحمك المقاومة و الأصبحتة التي اللهم إدعاها أصبحت أحمك، أنا لا أرد أن أخذ أي مني ولكن فأعيينني بقوة أنت تستخدمني في قوة أنت كثير من الناس أريدك أن أساعدني فيزايا أتجعل بينكم وبينهم ردمة I will make a fill between you and them They wanted a barrier but he is going to do something better He is going to fill out this space between both of them فأعينوني أعينوني assist me help whenever you can help someone who needs your help and the best help you can provide is to do it before someone asks you so if you know that someone is in need of something do it before he asks you it's not easy for someone to ask for help so if you do the help before he asks you it will be soothing to the heart that he was not put in that humiliating asking position so help people and you can help people in so many different ways you can help by donating money you can help emotionally you can help by just listening to someone sometimes people need to talk and they want someone who is truthful to listen to them and to advise them there are people who would seek the advice for the sake of Allah SWT and this is the biggest help you can give them you can help people by teaching them something if someone comes to you and he said I need you to help me you can do two things you can give him money or you can teach him something that will generate money for him always you can teach him how to fish and he can go fishing so instead of giving him one time you gave him always so different ways of helping people and here it indicates that the strong person the powerful person the person of authority is helping those weak people and the way he did it he did it free of charge for the sake of Allah completely for the sake of Allah when you help people if you are not in need do not take anything in return remember that your reward will be saved for you till the day of judgment and you will get it so much so many times multiplied so he told them I am not going to make a dam I am going to fill up this hole that is causing you this problem so the redam is to put something and then to put something over it and over it and over it until it becomes on the level of the ground but what he did is that he made it higher to the point that no one can climb so what in help me with strength and good work so what did he say أتوني زبر الحديد get me pieces of big iron big pieces of iron what he will do is that he is going to get this iron so much until it reaches the melting point when it reaches the melting point he will add to it melted copper so the melted copper is going to fill all the holes in between أتوني زبر الحديد حتى إذا سوا بين الصدفين so when the two sides when the two mountains now are equal equally filled قالن فخو blow so he lit the fire until the whole thing was burning hot now the iron is melting قال أتوني أفرغ عليه قطره get me the melted copper so I can put it over it so we have the melted iron the melted copper on top and it was high enough that no one can climb over it and there was two reasons that no one can climb over it the first one it was high enough the second one is it was so smooth and slippery no one can climb it فما استطاعوا أن يظهروه وما استطاعوا لهم نقبا فما استطاعوا أن يظهروه وما استطاعوا لهم نقبا so God and the God were unable to pass over it they were not able to climb it nor they were able to penetrate it to dig a hole through it they could not climb it as I said it was so slippery so what happened that was how ذو القرنين helped this group of people now there are so many so many narrations that سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم talked about this barrier that ذو القرنين has made so سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم says يأجوجا ومأجوجا مثل هذا وضعوا الارب from the evil that has approached them today a hole has been opened in the barrier of يأجوجا ومأجوج God and the God like this and he made a circle with his index finger and thumb so imagine the circle how small this circle would be so say the Zaynab asked سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم oh yaratول الله will we be destroyed up on though there will be righteous people among us he said yes if evil increases and the warنعم إذا كثور الخبث so the word evil is the bad deeds of people في حديث أخرى، يأجوج ومأجوج يستخدمون أن يقوموا بفتحة هذه المجموعة ما حدث هو أنهم يقومون بفتحة لذلك يعملون من morning till sunset عندما يقومون بفتحة هذه المجموعة، يقومون بفتحة هذه المجموعة ثم الله سبحانه وتعالى سيقومون بفتحة ومجموعة أخرى عندما يقومون بفتحة هذه المجموعة عندما يقومون بفتحة هذه المجموعة، يقومون بفتحة هذه المجموعة عندما يقومون بفتحة هذه المجموعة، يقومون بفتحة هذه المجموعة ثم الله سبحانه وتعالى يقومون بفتحة هذه المجموعة الله سبحانه وتعالى لم يقومون بفتحة هذه المجموعة ثم الله سبحانه وتعالى يقومون بفتحة هذه المجموعة ثم الله سبحانه وتعالى يقومون بفتحة هذه المجموعة فمصطعوا أن يظهروا وما استطاعوا له نقبة يمكن أن يسأل ماذا is the difference between استطاعوا and استطاعوا فمصطعوا أن يظهروا وما استطاعوا له نقبة اذا ترى افضل استطاع you find that there is an extra letter to the word which is the تع يعني أنهم لا يستطيعون أن يقوم بعملها ولم يستطيعون أن يقوم بعملها لكن الثاني يستطيعون أنهم يمكنون أن يقوم بعملها لكنهم قاموا بعملها أفضل لكنهم لم يكنوا بعملها فهذا يعني أنهم قاموا بعملها ولم يستطيعون أن يقوم بعملها ولم يستطيعون أن يقوم بعملها لأنهم تعلمون أنهم لن يستطيعون وهذا يقوم بعملها مع سيدنا الخضر وموسى عليه السلام عندما يقوم بعملها وكيف تصبر ذلك تقويل ما لم تستطيع عليه صدر same thing when you tried and could not succeed and the second one is you did not even try so this is what Allah سبحانه و تعالى here saying فما استعروا أن يظهرونه وما استعروا له نقبى وما استطاعوا له نقبى ما فعلت ذر قرنين سي؟ وقال هذا رحمة من ربي ما فعلت هناه هو أنه رحلت رحلت قال هذا هو مرسي من my lord فهل قلت الهاتف بين الناس ومقاق لتوقفهم من تفكيرهم فهل قلت شيء جيد لكن قال هذا رحمة من ربي فهل قلت هذا جيد أنه قلت أن الله قلت هذا هذا ليس هو أنه قلت الله سبحانه وتعالى قلته وقلته وقلته مستمتعا في تفكيره لذا لا تقول لقد قلت هذا لا عندما تكون شيء جيد فقط قلت to الله سبحانه وتعالى قلت الله سبحانه وتعالى لقد قلت لي لتفكير هذا قلت لقد قلت لأنني أعرف كيف تفكيره لا تفكيره شكرا الله سبحانه وتعالى for all the blessings you have and all the blessings you he gave you because you are able to do it because Allah made you able to do it thank him so they I think we we have to stop here now إن شاء الله will go on next time it will be the 10th session of the Seer of Surat Al-Kahf and it will be the last one إن شاء الله إن شاء الله إن شاء الله will be having our 10 and last session of giving or shedding some light on Surat Al-Kahf we will be starting with إن شاء الله إن شاء الله وتركنا بعضهم يومئذي يموج في بعضهم ونوفيخ في الصور فجمعناهم جمعة الله سبحانه وتعالى يقول here in this آية and we shall leave some of them to surge like waves on one another what does this mean another آية إن سورة عبسة really explains this آية very clearly الله سبحانه وتعالى يوما يفير المرء من أخيه وأمه وأبيه وصاحبته وبنيه لكل مرئ منهم يومئل إن شاء الله يغني on the day a man will flee from his brother mother father his wife and his children because everyone on that day has a matter adequate for him he will not be caring about anybody the only thing that he will say نفسي نفسي myself even the prophets would say نفسي نفسي الله سبحانه وتعالى is is so angry today no one is ready to help anyone they just want to make sure that they are saved so one say محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم was seen and he was worried and they asked him cheer up your he said so he said how can I relax when the one with the horn has put the horn in his mouth knelt down and listened out for the command of Allah to be given to him he is ready just to blow the hour is so close the day of judgment is so close and that was at the time of sayidina muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم 1400 years ago so they asked him يا رسول الله ما نقول what do we say قال قولوا حسبنا الله ونيعمل بكيل على الله توكلنا say حسبنا الله ونيعمل بكيل we really depend on Allah سبحانه وتعالى he is our only shelter and we shall collect them together فجمعناهم جمعة الله سبحانه وتعالى he is going to bring all people back for reckoning وحشرناهم فلم نغادر منهم أحدة and we shall gather them all no one will be missing we will not leave anyone behind وعرضنا جهنما يوم إذن من كافرين عربة and on that day we shall present help to the believers and nonbelievers here we shall present help to the disbelievers playing to view in this ayah in another ayah الله سبحانه وتعالى says وإن منكم إلا واردها and واردها there is none of you except that he will come to see the hellfire believers and nonbelievers winners and losers those who obeyed and those who disobeyed everyone is going to see the hellfire the believer will know how he was lucky to obey الله سبحانه وتعالى and to do righteous deeds so to avoid what he is seeing while the nonbelievers will realize that they were unjust to themselves by disobeying الله سبحانه وتعالى so Allah سبحانه وتعالى has prepared this hellfire to those who disbelieved in him and in his messengers in this fire there are two types of torture the physical torture when Allah سبحانه وتعالى says كلما نضجت جلودهم بدلناهم جلوداً غيرها ليزوق العذاب so in this fire there will be a physical torture that whenever their flesh and skin gets destroyed then they will be replaced by another skin so just to taste the torture whereas the physical torture is the humiliation الله سبحانه وتعالى said اخسأوا فيها ولا تكلمون stay there and you will never talk to me سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم talked about this hellfire and he said أُقِدَ عليها ألف سنة حتى حمرت و ألف عام حتى بيدت و ألف عام حتى سودت فهي سوداء مظلمة لا يطفأ لها بها one thousand years the fire was burning until it became red another thousand until it became white and another thousand years until it became black so now it is black bitch black and it will not be put down so the hellfire complained to الله سبحانه وتعالى and said يا ربي أكل بعضوا يبعضوا then so يا الله I have been tortured by this fire the fire is saying I am being tortured by this fire فأدنا لها بنفسين so الله سبحانه وتعالى gave permission to hellfire to have two breaths one in winter نفسهم في الشتاء و نفسهم في الصيف and another one in summer و أشدوا ما تجدون من الحر و أشدوا ما تجدون من الزمهرير so the day that is super super hot in summer is a breath of the hellfire and the day that is super super cold in winter is the breath of this hellfire in winter and we know زمهرير is the highest point of coldness this is called زمهرير we know that there are seven seven doors for hellfire what about the other and from up till to down the order is the names of these doors جهنم سقر لغا الحوطم الجحيم السعير الهاوية so the lowest is الهاوية and one سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم this was a stone that was thrown in hellfire and it took 70 years until it reached its button now what is the food what is the drink of the people of hellfire وإن يستغيثوا يغاسوا بما انكل مهلي يشويل وجود if they were frightened they were scared المهلي يشويل وجود if they want to have a drink they would be given boiling water and if they want to eat they will have طعامهم الشوق والضريع والغسلين so many plants their bed مهادهم من النار لهم من جهنم مهاد ومن فوقهم غواش they have a bed from hell and over them a cover of fire why would they have this وَاكَدَهَا رِكَنَا جِزِيطُ وَالِيْنِينَ and thus we recompense the wrongdoers so the people of hellfire will not die and rest and get relieved and they will not live happily ثم لا يموت فيها ولا يحيا they would wish to die but death is already was on the form of a lamb and it was slaughtered no more death so the highest torture of the people of hellfire is that they missed getting into jannah and they missed the meeting with Allah so Allah سبحانه وتعالى will show the hellfire to the believers to the non-believers on the day of judgment and He will bring it forth for them to see its punishment before they enter it and this is by itself a torture يؤتى بجهنم تقادوا يوم القيامة بسبعين ألف زمان مع كل زمان الملق سيكون قد برات في يوم القيامة بسبعين 70.000 زمان كلهم سيكون قد بسبعين 70.000 زمان and this is for room for the people الذين كانوا أعيونهم في غطا I would not look they would not they would not hear so they were refusing they were refusing to accept guidance and they refused to follow the truth وكانوا لا يستطيعون سمع and they could not bear to hear it they would hate to hear about the message they would hate to hear سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم they would talk about it they have eyes they have ears but because of their super hatred to what they will be hearing as if they are not hearing it sometimes you would you would talk to your child and you would see he is not listening to you you say why you don't hear me he is listening but he does not want to hear you and they were they were recommending and they were talking to each other and they were recommending each other not to listen لا تسمعوا لهذا القرآن والغور فيه so why they were they were talking to each other and they were asking each other not to listen to the Quran because they know that this Quran was in the Arabic Arabic language and they know that whoever is going to listen to the Quran he will believe in the Quran he will be touched by the Quran and Allah سبحانه وتعالى said in Surah Al-Jafia ويل لكل أفاكن أثيم يسمعوا آيات الله تتلع عليه ثم يصره مستكبيرا كأن لم يسمعها فلشيره بعضها بان أذن ووتوا لأي من هؤلاء هؤلاء هؤلاء they hear the verses of the Quran but they persist arrogantly on their position as if they were deaf so Allah is giving them tidings of painful promises of painful punishment فحسب الذين كفروا أن يتخذوا عبادي من دوني أولياء so then do those who disbelieve think that they can take my servants instead of me as allies so there were some people who worshipped other people and those where the people those who were worshipped are people who love Allah سبحانه وتعالى قالت ليهود عزير بن الله the Jews said عزير is the son of Allah قالت النصار المسيح بن الله the Christians said Jesus is the son of Allah other group who went astray said الملائكة بنات الله angels are the daughters of Allah so those are those are the servants of Allah سبحانه وتعالى who they love who they love Allah سبحانه وتعالى but people have taken them as as allies who worshipped that instead of Allah سبحانه وتعالى so tell them shall we tell you about the greatest losers in respect of their deeds قل هل نبيكم بالأخسرين أعمالني الذين ظلس عليهم في الحياة الدنيا those whose efforts those whose actions have been wasted in this life they did deeds but their deeds would not count their deeds are not in accordance with the prescribed way that Allah سبحانه وتعالى would accept and we all know that whatever action we do that is not pure for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى will not be accepted so فمن كانت سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم says فهجرته لله ورسوله ومن كانت هجرته لدنيا يصيبها فهجرته لما هجر إلي whoever wants to do something for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى then he would be rewarded but if someone wants to do something good just so that people would would recommend him so that people would talk good about him so he got his reward in this دنيا and later on in the آخرة he would say where is my reward for this action and Allah سبحانه وتعالى you went to fight but you wanted to fight so that people would say you are brave and you got that in the دنيا so you won't have the reward in the آخرة and that's why whenever we do anything, any word and in any deed we say يا الله consider this as pure for you and if you have any slight idea in your mind is this pure for the sake of Allah am I doing it just for the sake of Allah then you are really thinking of Allah سبحانه وتعالى but some people do some actions that oh I want to give charity so they would say that I'm generous okay they would say you are generous but where is your reward in the آخرة nothing so Allah سبحانه وتعالى he is saying those people بلا سعيهم الذين بلا سعيهم what does the word بلا mean بلا means we'll have no reward how? the word بلا let's dig into the word بلا in the Quran and we will find that it has about 5 meanings and it occurred in the Quran in different positions with different meanings so here in Surat Al-Kaaf Allah سبحانه وتعالى is saying بلا سعيهم so their deeds will not be rewarded because they got their reward in dunya in other surahs so for example in Surat Al-Baqarah Allah سبحانه وتعالى says أن تضل احداهما فتذكرة احداهما الأخرى so one of the two women would forget and the other one would remind her so the word بلا here in Surat Al-Baqarah means to forget in Surat Al-Ahzab Allah سبحانه وتعالى says وما كان لمؤمن ولا مؤمنة إذا قد الله ورسوله أمر أن يكون لهم الخيرة من أمرهم وما يعص الله ورسوله فقد ضل ضلالا بعيدة الله سبحانه وتعالى will decree something whoever opposes whoever will not listen to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and to his messenger then he is he is a way of the right path another surah in Surat Al-Shuhrah الله سبحانه وتعالى says فعلتها إذن وإن من الضالين this is about Sayyidina Musa when he killed that person so he said فعلتها إذن وإن من الضالين I was heedless I didn't know that if I cook this man he will die this is another meaning for the world of Allah and in Surat Al-Duha فهدا الله so you looking for the truth and so he guided you to the truth so there are several meanings for the world of Allah here in Surat Al-Kaf الله سبحانه وتعالى is saying their actions their deeds will not be rewarded because they got their reward in dunya they thought they were doing good but they lost their reward in the akhir أولئك الذين كفروا بآيات ربهم وليقائه they are those who deny the signs of Allah سبحانه وتعالى who denies the signs and the ayahs of their Lord and they deny the meeting with Allah سبحانه وتعالى they don't believe in the day after and that's why when they do bad deeds they will not fear the punishment because they do not believe in the day of judgment they do not believe that they will be resurrected after that and their deeds will be scaled they do not believe in that and that's why when they did the wrong deeds they did not fear any punishment they denied the proofs that Allah سبحانه وتعالى had established of His oneness and those the truth of His messengers they denied everything they also denied the day after itself and they thought that even if there was a day after they would be highly rewarded لأجدنا خيرا منها من قلبة they were good enjoying their life well so they thought that Allah سبحانه وتعالى will make them enjoy the Akhra if there is a day after so what will happen to those people فلا نقيم لهم يوم القيامة وزنة on that day on the day of resurrection Allah سبحانه وتعالى shall assign no weight for those people they will have no deeds and even even if they have some good deeds and they hurt people so سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم فيأخذوا هذا من حسناته وهذا من حسناته so there those who were harmed by those people they will come to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and they will Allah would say okay go take from their good deeds so they will take from their deeds and when their good deeds are done فإذا فنيت حسناته أخذ من سيئاتهم so they would take they would leave there is no more good deeds so what will happen people will throw their bad deeds to them and they will be left only with bad deeds and they will be thrown in hellfire so why will why will they be ending in hellfire so that is their recompense in hellfire and this will happen to them because they disbelieved in Allah سبحانه وتعالى واتخذوا آياتي وزوة and they took my eyes they took my signs and my messengers they took everything for a joke we will punish them they mocked the messengers and they did not believe in them they even said محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم في صورة الحجر يا أيها الذين نزل عليه ذكر إنك لما جنون يا أيها الذين نزل عليه ذكر you who have been revealed to this zikr was the Quran was revealed to you so they believe that there is something that was relieved they would say إنك لما جنون you are a mad person so they will be placed in hellfire they will be thrown in hellfire they will be tasting the torture of hellfire that torture which will be forever إن الذين أمنوا عميروا صالحة now that the heart is trembling because of everything that was mentioned about hellfire now Allah سبحانه وتعالى will go on to change the course of their eyes and he will talk about jannah Allah is merciful whenever he talks about hellfire he also talks about jannah whenever he talks about punishment he wants people to know that there is a reward إن الذين أمنوا و عميروا الصالحة كانت لهم جنات والفردوس نزولة so verily those who believe and do righteous deeds shall have the gardens of unfeared boughs as alleging Allah سبحانه وتعالى in one of his حديث قدسي says I prepared for my righteous servants a reward that an eye has never seen an ear has never heard of and nothing would have been even imagined so everything will be amazing and say I come to the door of the jannah and I will say I will knock on the door so it will be open فيقولوا الخازين و من أنت so the the door keeper of the jannah will say who are you فأقولوا محمد فيقولوا بك أميرت لا أفتحوا لأحد قبلك I was ordered not to open the door of the heaven except for you when we talk about the jannah about paradise we know that there are 8 doors for jannah and when we talked about a health fire a few minutes ago we said that how many doors are there there are 7 doors but the jannah has 8 doors كل منها and every door is assigned for a righteous action for example باب الريان يدخلوا منه سا عمون those who are who keep fasting they like to spend their time fasting there is a special door for the jannah called باب الريان those who fasted in the world who did extra fasting who did sunnah fasting will go enter jannah from this door there is باب الصدق those who give charity those who help people in need those who help the poor they will be entering from باب الصدق in so many doors and there are so many steps in the jannah the highest is we have we have we have we have there are so many steps in jannah and the differences there are so many differences between each and every step سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم says there are hundreds there is 100 steps in jannah ما بين كل درجتين ما بين الأرض والسماء ما بين الأرض والسماء ما بين الأرض والسماء so the the distance between the distance between each two steps is the same as the distance between earth and sky والفردوس أعلى درجة and الفردوس is the highest the highest position in jannah the highest step ومن فوقها يكون العرش and above this is the throne of الله سبحانه وتعالى فإذا سألتم الله فسألوه الفردوس so when you ask الله سبحانه وتعالى do not say ya Allah I want to enter jannah no just say ya Allah I want to be in the Allah is the most generous whatever you ask him he will give you ask the highest for yourself ask the highest for your parents ask the highest for your children always make this ya Allah we want الفردوس الأعلى we don't want any level of jannah we want the highest and we all know that no matter where a person be even in الفردوس الأعلى the highest reward that the servant would get in the akhirah is meeting الله سبحانه وتعالى is listening to الله سبحانه وتعالى is looking at الله سبحانه وتعالى وجوه يومئذن ناضرة إلا ربها ناضرة there will be on the day of judgment people with radiant faces they are looking at الله سبحانه وتعالى so الفردوس is a hill in paradise at its center and it's the best of them of the jannah so again when you ask الله سبحانه وتعالى ask for the highest خالدين فيها لا يبغون عنها حملة so in this الفردوس what will there be they shall be there forever خالدين فيها so this blessing is going to be there forever the blessing and the reward in this in this paradise in this ferdos in all the steps of jannah will be will not decrease and it will not end it will always increase we have more and more and more in dunya someone would work hard to buy a house when he gets more money he will add a car and when he gets more money he will get a car for his wife and when he gets more money he would get a bigger house and he would get a mansion and then so whenever you have something you want something that a higher thing higher level but in jannah you will not need to to work to gain in dunya you need to work but in akhirah whatever you wish you will get say if the sea were ink for the words of Allah and we know that whenever Allah want anything to happen he will just say with this word all the orders will be fulfilled so if we want to record all the orders then the ink of even if the sea was the ink to record all the orders of Allah then this ink will be empty and it will not count the words of Allah it will not count the orders of Allah in surah says and if whatever seas were pens and the sea was ink replenished thereafter by 7 more seas then the words of Allah would not be exhausted more orders of Allah more words of Allah nothing can count the words of Allah will be not why would Allah say what if the sea was ink because the water of the sea is always in a cycle the sea water will evaporate the sea water will come down the rain will come down and then the same thing so count all the water it will not count the words of Allah doesn't matter even if we brought the like the like of it as supplements say say say I am just like you I am not an angel I do not know the unseen so when you ask me a question and I don't know it Allah reveals the answer to me so all the stories you asked me about I did not know the answer except that Allah told me the answer Allah revealed the answer to me so whoever claims that I am lying let him bring something like this Quran that I have been brought that I have given you that I have passed to you that was revealed to me and I do not order you to do something that I do not do there is an order for prayers I pray there is an order for giving there is an order for doing this I do it so this is a lesson for us if you want your children to do something you should be a model before them they should look up high at you and see that you yourself is doing what you want them to do you it is revealed to me that your God is one God I worship him with no partner one God one God so this is the right the right path this is the straight path do not go right and left one God and thank Allah for this blessing imagine that there are so many gods and you want to worship each one of them you cannot and it has been mentioned in one of the sewers there are partners who have someone the employee needs to please each and everyone but they the partners themselves disagree among each other who the employee are going to please one God فمن كان يرجو لقاء ربي فمن كان يرجو لقاء ربي so whoever hopes for meeting Allah whoever is waiting for this meeting with Allah فليعمل عملن صارح and and look at this فمن كان يرجو لقاء ربي الله تبحانه وتعالى does that say whoever hopes for Jannah hopes to avoid Hellfire لقاء ربي whoever hopes to meet Allah سبحانه وتعالى so we do not worship Allah سبحانه وتعالى to get into Jannah we do not worship Allah سبحانه وتعالى because we are afraid of Hellfire we worship Allah سبحانه وتعالى because he deserves to be worshipped because he deserves to be pleased this is why we worship Allah سبحانه وتعالى الجنة is created a Nahr is created and we do not worship anything that is created we worship the creator فليعمل عملن صارح let him do righteous that person who wants to meet Allah سبحانه وتعالى so doing righteous deeds is the way is the boat that you can ride to meet Allah سبحانه وتعالى so when we are traveling we take some food we take drink we take something to to warm us we prepare ourselves for the journey and now we are on a journey to meet Allah سبحانه وتعالى we have to get ready for that we have to prepare ourselves for that فليعمل عملن صالح ولا يشرك بعبادة ربه أحدة and let that person who wants to meet Allah سبحانه وتعالى let him not associate any partner in his worship to Allah سبحانه وتعالى will you do something do it for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى do not do it and expect that people would say thank you even thank you do not wait for people to say it do it for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى only for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى don't have expectations of people if you do you will get miserable if they don't fulfill your expectations keep your words keep your deeds pure keep your heart pure nothing in our heart except the love of Allah سبحانه وتعالى nothing in our heart except the love of Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم nothing in our heart except the love for the Quran this is our sustenance this what will help us when we have troubles this what will help us when we are tested life is full of tests if we have Allah in our heart if we have his messenger in his heart in our heart if we have the Quran in our heart then this is what will make us strong when we need the strength at the time of turbulences we have power in our heart that will make us power that will make us powerful that will make us powerful ولا يشرك بعبادة ربه أحدة there is no associate to Allah سبحانه وتعالى so Allah سبحانه وتعالى says in one of the حديث القدس أولم أخلق جنة ولا نار أولس to أهلالي أعباد if I did not create paradise if I did not create hellfire do I not do I not deserve to be worshiped look at all the blessings that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has given us eyes we can see everything hands ears feet we can walk everywhere just imagine those people who are deprived of some of these blessings they would give all their wealth just to get it back if they can so Allah سبحانه وتعالى gave us these blessings shouldn't we thank him for that and this look at the way that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has connected the beginning of the surah with the end of the surah Allah has created everything good for us so what do we have to do we have to say الحمد لله and if you go back to the first words of the surah it's الحمد لله powerful surah amazing surah a surah that's full of light and this is why Sayyidina Muhammad says whoever reads Surah Al-Kaaf on Friday on the day of Friday there will be where he will illuminate light will be in front of him between the two Jum'as the two Fridays try not to miss reading Surah Al-Kaaf and now that we have gone over just some signs of Surah Al-Kaaf just when you read it just think of the meanings think of the stories that we talked about and thank Allah سبحانه وتعالى that now there is a higher level when you read this surah you are at a higher level understanding you are at a higher level connecting with Allah سبحانه وتعالى and with this we come to the end of going over some of the meanings that are in this Surah and of course we need more way than 10 sessions to talk about this Surah but this was a very quick overview of Surah Al-Kaaf صلى الله عليه وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي الجلال وجيك وعظيم سلطانك اللهم إنا نسألك من خير ما سألك من هو عبدك ونبيك محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم سبحان ربك رب العزة عما يصفون وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته