 Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, in his blessed and glorious book, he says in verse 158 of Surah An-An'am, do they wait for anything more than for the angels to come to them, or for your Lord to come to them, or for some of the signs of your Lord to come to them? Yom Ayati Baadu Ayati Rabbik La Yanfa Natsan Imanuha Dantikun Aamanas Min Qabi The day that some of the signs of your Lord come to them will be a day when it shall not avail a soul its faith if it has not already believed or has not earned any good with respect to his faith say wait for we are waiting do they wait for anything else other than for the angels to come? illa an taqtiyahumul mulaika and we all know that the angels come when we die they come to take our souls are we waiting for the angels to come take our souls? are we waiting for our Lord to come? and we're not Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala speaks of coming on Yom Al Qiyamah for the judgment or are we waiting for some of the signs of our Lord to come? what are some of those signs? the signs of the hour are we waiting for the signs of the hour to appear as many of them have appeared as we know and then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala He says that when some of the signs of your Lord come the faith of those who believe at that moment shall be of no avail la yantraw nafs an imanuha lam taqun aaminas min khabi if you didn't already believe if you were not already a believer when those signs come it is too late there'll be of no avail o kassabati imaniha khaira and if you were a believer and you got lucky and you achieved faith before the appearance of those signs any additional good that you do after that moment won't count either in other words, toba if you are a believer in Allah nas messenger and you have not made toba from certain sins when those particular signs happen it will be too late you have not earned any good in addition to your iman there is a hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam in many narrations of this hadith among the signs of the end of times it says that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said la taqumu sa'a hatta tatlua shamsu min maghribiha that the hour shall not occur the final moment shall not happen until the sun it rises from its place of setting when the sun rises from the west not from the east then it goes on and it says and when the people see that happen when the sun sets and when the sun rises from the west and the people see that happening they will all believe every single one of them will become a believer at that moment but it goes on and it says but at that moment that will be the time when the iman of the person who is not already a believer should not be of any benefit nor shall the good done by the one who had delayed goodness up to that moment the rising of the sun from its place of setting and then we know that there are many great signs of the hour and of course everyone's qiyama begins with his death everyone's qiyama begins with his death and what this verse and this hadith together a fundamentally promoting or endorsing is that when the time or that final moment on this earth or the final moment of humanity is here that all shall have the obligation to believe in Islam that no one will have any other excuse and no one will be allowed to believe anything else other than Islam because Allah s.w.t. created us here for Islam the yabudun who worshiped Allah s.w.t. and to put things in context let's reflect upon this to think of three different worlds that of course is the world of the past the world of today then there's a world of the future now the world of the past if we can think of the world of the past before the time of the European Enlightenment the pre-modern world a world where religion was not just something that you did in private where God was just not something that you keep in your pocket but God had meaning to people to everybody even on the planet and God and your religion was very much part of your identity, of your culture even God cannot be blasphemed people did not tolerate prophets being disparaged and berated publicly no people don't put up with that people could not tolerate indecency they were displeased with sin sexual indiscretion or accusations of sexual indiscretion could not be, would not be tolerated without consequences or baseless accusations you accuse someone of adultery or fornication or sodomy whatever it may be and no no no, where's your evidence of these things? today we live in a world where these things are common and no one's punished people are defamed, slanders and it's all tolerated sexual activity was a private affair not a public affair criminal behavior was punished resolutely to the extent that the victim felt that there was some sense of justice done unlike what has become commonplace and many places in the world today where it seems that the criminal or the concerns of the criminal are more important than those of the victim unfortunately that was an old world and it's not to say that it was all good but it was a very violent world it was a world that lived under the presumption of war a world where women were raped on the battlefield it was, there was a lot of things happening in that world but then this new world appeared and God in the minds and the hearts of people was dethroned and we created something called secularism and where your religion is your private affair that's it to public we only believe in the material realm and what we can prove scientifically, et cetera morality is determined by the public order whatever the most people say is good is good whatever becomes law is the good thing in which it's to be embraced and if it is not the law yet then we can continue to speak of it as evil rationality, science and of course many great things happen because of the change even talks of freedom, democracy, liberty but it's reached a point now where many people come to realize that all for all the talks of freedom and of democracy that for those who praise and call to it and have called to it for so long and it's been nothing but empty cause no one believes in absolute freedom of anything we don't believe in absolute freedom of speech the absolute freedom to do what you want and it's really heartening to see even though many people on the right nowadays saying things that if they were to say and the early 2000s at the beginning of the 21st century they would be accused of bringing of introducing what we call creeping sharia they had conservatives talk about that pornography is a bad thing and that certain people need to be counseled it's really heartening but there's a new world that we learn from the Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam what this ayah itself is calling us and this is a world in the future when Allah s.w.t. He sends al-Masih al-Dajjal and he sends the true Masih he said bin Mariam with al-Ma'm al-Mahdi and after some time Allah s.w.t. he fulfills the role of the Messiah and realizes in such a way that the entire planet shall be filled with justice after it had been filled with tyranny and the entire world will be ruled by the sharia of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam this is what we learn in the Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam but even this verse is telling us that a time is coming that if you are not a believer before those signs appear especially if we think of the sign when the sun shall rise from the west that it will be too late for you because Allah s.w.t. has decided no more tolerance no more forbearance Allah is as saboor and halim and he has been saboor and halim for a very long time as we know with humanity but he will come he will reveal himself to all of us in that day and we ask Allah s.w.t. that he places in his grace and his mercy that he is still within our hearts true and firm faith and the belief and the supremacy of his sharia of his revealed law we ask him that he allow for us to live as believers and to die as believers and to be resurrected as believers in the company of the Ambiya and the Oliya I will say this and I thank Allah for the blessing of the Muslims and Muslims that's all All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon the best of the Prophets and the best of the Muslims our Lord and our beloved Muhammad and his family and his companions Allah s.w.t. has chosen the Qur'an O my beloved ones, believe in your own lives and the power of Allah and the blessings of Allah and the blessings of Allah O you who believe protect yourselves and your family from a fire whose fuel is made in stone protect yourselves and your family from a fire whose fuel is made in stone as we move closer towards the end of our lives and all of our lives are going to end no one's going to remain here you are not being created for here the very fact that you shall die is proof that you are not created for this place but as we move closer towards the end of our lives it is important and it is our responsibility for those of us who have families and those of us who have children to ensure that we instill within them as best as we possibly can the knowledge and love for Allah s.w.t and knowledge and love for the messenger s.w.t and love of righteousness and the righteous a love and knowledge of justice a love and knowledge of wisdom we need to ask have we done enough to prepare them to meet their lords how useful have we made them to humanity as the prophet tells us khairu nasi anfan nafs lin nafs in one narration that the most or the best people are those who are the most useful and beneficial to other people what value do they give to God's law thumma jaan na ka'ara shari'a tin min an amri fi tabi'a we place you upon the shari'a so follow it wa la ti tabi'a ahwa il ladin la ya'lamoon and do not follow the shari'a follow the lust, the fancies of those who don't know as Allah s.w.t says to the prophet s.w.t the shari'a the revealed law the moral code of Muhammad s.w.t shall one day be supreme on this earth according to our teachings despite the fact that many of us have forgotten this of course this isn't a lost time when Allah decides it to occur it is not our duty to compel anyone to do anything but Allah s.w.t promises in his book and through the words of as much as Allah s.w.t that shall happen but we have to have value and place value on it and I wanted to end with a very famous quote from Ibn Qaym Al-Jawziya regarding the shari'a of Muhammad s.w.t in his i'lamum wa qa'in where he says that this shari'a, the foundation of this shari'a it is wisdom and benefit to all humanity in this life and the next it is justice in its entirety it is mercy in its entirety it is benefit in its entirety it is wisdom in its entirety for kullu masalah tinu kharajad an adadli ilajroori wa min al-rahmati ila ddidhiha wa an al-maslahati ila al-masada wa an al-hikmati ila al-abathi fa l-asit min as-shari'a tiba in'udkhilat fihab t-tawee that so any issue that departs from justice into injustice and from mercy into his opposite and from benefit into detriment and from wisdom into justice then that thing is not part of the shari'a even if it is claimed to be through interpretation for shari'atu for shari'atu for shari'atu ad-bullahi bin ibadihi wa rahmatu bina khalki so the shari'a it is Allah's it is Allah's justice between his servants and his mercy between his creation wa dilluhu fi arlihi wa hikmatu dalaatu al-Alihi wa raa s'itqi rasulihi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam at-tamma dalaatin wa as-taqaha it's that and it is it is his shade in his earth and his wisdom which is indicative of his existence and indicative of the truthfulness of his messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam in the most superb way and the most voracious of manners this is the nature of the shari'a the point being that we as Muslims, we as believers cannot allow anything to be valued greater than our deen nothing to be valued greater than that nothing that any man can give to us, any civilization can give to us is greater than the Quran and the sunnah and the life path of the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam nothing is greater than that and these are things that we need to instill in our children we have an obligation our children are an obligate or responsibility given to us by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the youth are a responsibility to the adults and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala hold us accountable but again to end Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us in Surat al-An'am are they waiting for anything other than for the angels to come to them? or for your Lord to come to them? or for some of the signs of your Lord to come to them? يوم يأتي بعض آياتي ربكة لا ينفع نفسا إيمانه هل لم تكون آمنة من قبل أو كتبت في إيمانها خيراء on the day the angels come to them they are waiting for anything other than for the angels to come to them or for your Lord to come to them or for some of the signs of your Lord on the day when some of the signs of your Lord come it is when no soul shall be benefited no soul who chooses to believe at that moment shall be benefited by their faith nor should anyone who has not earned any goodness along with their faith we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that He make us not among those people they make us among those who truly believe and have deep faith and conviction about the sharia of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that we have heard from Muhammad peace be upon him may Allah be pleased with us