 As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh Bismillahir rahmanir raheem wa as-salatu wa as-salamu ala sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa salim Ya Rabbana laka al-hamdu kama yambaghid l-jalali wa wajhika wa adhini sultanik Allahumma ftahalina ftuhal a'rifin Ya Allah we ask you from the divine knowledge Ya Rahmanir Raheem Ya Rabbal Alameen So last time we started Surah Tiyaseen and we stopped at Ayat 28 and I'm gonna briefly repeat the story of the people of the village so what happened Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sent two messengers to people of a village and they called people to religion but the people of the village denied and belied them so what happened Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sent a third one so we have three messengers three people who called for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so now the people completed and went on denying and belying these messengers and they threatened them that we have got bad omen with you just because you came and if you don't stop then we are going to stone you and we're going to going to punish you severely so the people said your bad luck is what you are thinking of it's of your imagination we are messengers of Allah and we brought you we are warning you against what's going to happen if you don't believe so we knew the story of Habib al-Najjar he came he was a believer in this messengers and he said he came running from his house we know that his house was at the very far end of the village because he was sick and when he heard of them he came to them and he asked them what's your sign and they told him we can heal the sick people so he said okay i'm sick and i want you to heal me and he said they said you have to believe in us first and and they show him the signs and he believed they made dua and Allah cured him so he was sure that these are truthful messengers so he came running to his people he said oh people obey these messengers they are truthful and remember those are calling you to believe and they are not asking you for any wages so they are doing it for free they are really guided and they want to guide you and then he said to them he told them that he has believed in them and why not he doesn't believe in them he would be a fool if he doesn't follow them and that's what happened so when they heard that he was a believer they just kicked him and kicked him and hit him until he passed away even after he passed away he wanted good for his people so he said I wish my people knew that what has been said to me so he was it was said to him enter paradise and enjoy all the bounties over there so he was good to his people after they did all what they did to him so what happened now here where we stopped last time when we went down to his people after him from the sky when we went down Allah SWT is going to punish these people people of this village but Allah took revenge on them but he did not send an army from the sky to destroy them the matter was so simpler than that it was not but only one shot and they were immediately silent dead still just one shot just one cry and it did what it did Ya hasratan ala ala ibad maya tihim mih rasoolin illa kaanubihi yas tahzi'um so alas for mankind why don't they think why don't they get the message from the messengers but in fact whenever there is a messenger whenever there came a messenger to them but they used to mock and reject him why would they do that why they don't think that this is not acceptable so if we if we go back a little bit to there to the way that this person who believed in Allah try to convince those people what can we say so noting that the the method that he used he said A'at takhidun min dooni hi alihah inni aamun tubirabbi confes mahoon so when he said look you have to know that I followed these messengers why would I not am I a fulma to believe in Allah so the method that he used he didn't tell them directly that if you don't believe in Allah then you are foolish no he took it over himself he said if I don't follow Allah if I don't follow these messengers if I don't believe in Allah then I would be full this is one way of calling people to Allah don't accuse them just use them use the use the first person to convince people and when you want to when you want them to think just use the the second person talk to them talk to them inni aamun tubirabbi confes mahoon listen understand think so when you want them to think just talk to them directly if you want them if you want to tell them you are so and so without telling them that just use it from yourself that if I don't do that then I will be so and so so this is a method to use when you call people for Allah and you can use this this method if you want to even to use it in your daily life even if you wanted to say something to other people around you you can use this method is useful the other thing the other lesson that we can get from this story is that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying to Quraysh listen be careful when when Allah sent the the stories when Allah asked Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam to tell his people about the stories of previous nations there is a wisdom in that just what you need to do oh people just think of the results just think of what happened and take the lesson out of it so benefit from those stories and save yourselves you have to believe in Allah you have to believe that worshipping idols will not will not save you from the punishment of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and you rid me so if the most merciful intends for me any harm these whatever they are worshipping will not save will not save me so just think so these are the two points that I wanted to comment on to to mention out of the this story now the other the following the following ayah says ألم يروا كم أهلكنا قبلهم من القرون so don't don't they see how many of the previous generations we have destroyed before them أنهم إليهم لا يرجיעون they will not return to them so وإن كل لما جميع لدينا محضرون and surely all each and every one of people of the human people are going back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala they are going to be brought back before Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so that their actions will be scaled so that their actions will be scaled so وإن كل لما جميع لدينا محضرون what will happen when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala would get everybody before him the records will be passed to everybody so lucky is that person who gets his record in his right hand because he knows that he will be a winner because he knows that he has fulfilled his whatever Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wanted him to do in this dunya so he saved himself in the Akhira he knows that whatever he did to please Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the dunya is going now to be rewarded and when they open the records they will find every single word every single action every single movement every single thing that they have done in their life recorded and we know that in Suraj Al-Kahf Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says what about this record what about this book it doesn't leave anything small or big light or heavy anything except that it's recorded so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is has sent messengers to warn people Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala out of his mercy does not punish until he warns the same thing with the mother the mother if any mom just came to her child and punish him for something that he doesn't understand what's going on she punishes him he says mama what's going on why are you doing this to me she says she would give a reason but he will say I haven't done anything I didn't know that you want me not to do this out of the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he sent the messengers so that no one can say I didn't know no one would say that they shouldn't have done this and shouldn't have done that everyone is going to be brought before Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and they are going to be punished or rewarded now Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala would give signs and the signs that he is going to give them are proofs of his majesty proofs of his power so here he starts with the first one with the first with the first ayah with the first sign and he says so this is the first sign that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is giving so what is this sign so it's the dead land that Allah brings life to it and when it has life then it would bring it would give it would produce grains for us to eat so what is this sign when the believer said there's no life after death there's no resurrection we would we cannot believe in that well Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said to saint Muhammad just argue with them just talk to their intellect and tell them look at this land this is a dead land and we see that in in winter no the trees will have no no leaves no no produce no nothing the land is dead and when someone would pass by he would say oh a dead tree time will pass spring will come you will see the the tree would have leaves again and it will reproduce again so what happens this is a sign from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that the dead land he is going to to give it life again so people just be alert get prepared you are going to be resurrected so what will happen so Allah brought life again to this land to this dead land so it's producing grains and vegetables and everything who is going to eat from it people animals so they will get the benefit out of these grains and we placed the rim gardens of palm trees and grapes so they may eat so they may eat and so what happens now there are gardens of trees and I know of dates and grapes if you if you look at the palm trees you'll find that they have a little bit like spikes so it will prevent animals from eating the dates from climbing it and eating the dates now the grapes the grapes you you will have so many benefits out of the grapes so what's the difference between the dates and the grapes why are they mentioned here together if you look at the dates at the palm tree it's all benefits even after the dates is all cultivated is all taken from the tree then the trunk is useful the leaves are useful everything is useful but the grapes the vines when when you pick up the veins the grapes then it doesn't have the same benefits as you can get from the from the dates from the palm tree so there are things that are thrown away now what happens Allah SWT is saying there are some some things that are so beneficial and that's something that are partially beneficial same thing you know in in this life we have people who are friends of Allah if you just look at them you would get the nur you would get the barakah you would get you will feel that there is something that has been touched in your heart there are people who if you look at them they will remind you of Allah SWT there are people whom if you and if you are with them they will sometimes say good sometimes they will not be they might say some a little bit of aqiba or an emema even if it's not intended so this is the example that we have here وفجرنا فيها من العيون so what happens in this land and we Allah SWT cause to burst forth there from these lands some springs even the land that is known to be without water on the surface that when you when you hear the word that this there is drought in this area if you dig deep down you will get water وفجرنا فيها من العيون we have caused springs of water to gush forth therein so that's all for the benefit of people so why did Allah SWT do that ليأكلوا من ثمريه so that people would eat from whatever is going to be produced in the land because of the water and their hands has not produced it yes they prepared the land they put the seeds but who provided the water who watered it who blessed the seeds to give fruits Allah Allah SWT Allah gave the order for this land to produce something that's beneficial so what will happen will they not be grateful look at everything around you everything around you everything Allah SWT has created around us for our benefit Allah subjugated everything in this dunya so that we benefit from it to be able to worship Allah SWT ليأكلوا من ثمريه there are some products that we can eat immediately from the tree we can pick up a cucumber an orange an apple we can eat it there immediately and some some of the items that are some of the things that are produced are not eatable unless we do something to it for example if you will take an olive from the tree you cannot eat it it's so bitter you have to to do something to it so to be able to eat it so Allah SWT says ليأكلوا من ثمريه وما عملته أهديهم أفلا يشكرون سبحان الذي خلق الأزواج كلها مما تنبط الأرض ومن أنفسهم ومن ما لا يعلموا so glory be to him who has created all in pairs Allah is exalted exalted is he who created everything for us in pairs male female of which the earth produces male tree female tree then we have the outcome and Allah SWT says سبحان الذي خلق الأزواج سبحان so whenever we see something beautiful in this in this dunya we say سبحان الله this is the first word that comes to you when you say something amazing around you in nature a beautiful scene clouds trees mountain river running here and there flowers everything you'll say سبحان الله what an amazing view so glory be to Allah SWT who has created everything he has created perfected and made everything beautiful for us to enjoy so why why would those non-believers still deny why would they be so stubborn haven't they seen all these signs they created everything they created everything from male and female he gave good he gave the male male kids he gave boys to some he gave girls to some these are all things that Allah has created and he has a wisdom in whatever he has created so even themselves women infusing him people are created from a male and a female وَمِمَّا لَا يَعْلَمُونَ and Allah SWT there are things that he created that we don't know we don't understand so we just need to say سبحان الله glory is to be to glory be to Allah سبحانه وتعالى now Allah SWT is going to give us another example so this is another another sign another wonder so and a sign for them is the night we withdraw they're from the day so they are in darkness what does this mean so the word by itself means to peel off the skin of the animal from the animal after slaughtering it so when you peel things off you take it bit by bit and Allah SWT says we peel the daylight out one layer after another until it's completely dark until it's completely night so the light goes away and the night comes so when there is no light when the light departs there is darkness now what can we understand how can we benefit from this air this is an amazing idea just dig deep into the meaning of this air so imagine the heart the heart is full of light by when when it's created when a person is born he is born on the fitrah on the correct path the abawahu yuhawwidani awyumashisani awyumasirani but his fathers or the environment where he lives make him either take him away from being a Muslim to whatever religion now what happens to the heart the heart is all full of light but when someone does a mistake then there is a dot of darkness on that heart another dot of darkness another mistake means another dot of darkness if that person is not careful about his heart he won't matter it won't matter for him but if he is careful about the heart whenever he does something he would repent oh Allah Ya Allah forgive me he would do istaghfar he would promise Allah swt that sin anymore he would he would try his best to follow the orders of Allah so that that heart is not covered with darkness when each istaghfar is done then it takes off one of the layers of darkness that has been covered covering the heart same thing here Allah swt is saying so we peel the daylight out one layer by another until it is complete night and the sun runs on it's a pointed course it's fixed course how long for a term was shamsu tadri limustaqaril lahak as long as Allah swt once the sun is running in its orbit that is the decree of the Almighty the All-Knowing Allah swt He is the one who controls the sun so Al-Bukhari radiallahu an said he narrated that Abu Dharr said to Sayyidina Muhammad was sitting with Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam once and Sayyidina Muhammad asked him Ya Abu Dharr I don't know where the sun sets so Abu Dharr said Allah wa Rasuluhu Alam and that was interesting he said the sun prostrates beneath the throne everything in this dunya of Allah's creation the angels prostrate tasjudu lillah as shamsu tasjudu everything makes tujudu Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so how long will the sun keep going in its orbit we we heard we read in jizah amma when we got the Tafseer of that jizah i das shamsu kuwirat there's there will be a day that to come that the sun is folded like a ball and rolled up and thrown away so it's dark dark and it slides go away so the light of the sun goes away and all of this is predestined by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so the sun goes in its orbit same thing as everything all all the solar system everything in the sky everything in this dunya until one day that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will order it to stop same thing for a Qamar well Qamar qaddernahu manazi la hatta aadakal urjuni al qadeem this is another another sign another wonder that in the moon we deter we have determined for its phase we have decreed its stages and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala just had posed the moon to run in a different orbit than the sun from a different orbit than another another star so everything has its own orbit until until it returns like the old dried date stock well Qamar qaddernahu manazi la hatta aadakal urjuni al qadeem so what's what does the word urjun mean if if you take the part of the palm tree that when you look at it you see the dates are stuck on it this part is called urjun so this is the date stock and Allah has decreed that the moon that the moon pass through different phases until it becomes it is like the dried the old yellowish date stock so at the beginning of the month the moon appears small when it rises okay so when it rises it gives little light and the second night it gets bigger and rises to a higher position giving more light and so on until it becomes full on the 14th night of the month and we are talking about the lunar month here so after that it starts to wane until the end of the month until it appears as an old dried curved date stock so this is the cycle of the moon I'm going to give you the names of the stages of the of the moon according to days so each set of three nights of the moon has a name the first three nights are called al-ghurarr the second three nights are called nufal the third three nights are called tusaa the fourth three nights are called awshar the fifth three nights are called al-biyud the sixth three nights are called ad-duraa the seventh three nights are called al-zulam the eighth three nights are called al-hanadis the ninth three nights are called ad-daadi or ad-daadi the tenth three nights are called al-mihaq and this is when a new moon is born so which word which word just got your attention you need to know one of these I'm going to repeat just the names al-ghurarr, nufal, tusaa, awshar, al-biyud, ad-duraa, awzulam, al-hanadis, ad-daadi, al-mihaq yes you're right al-biyud so what are the nights that are called al-biyud these are the 13th 14th and 15th and these are the ones that are recommended to so you fast them okay so these are the the stages of the moon the cycle of the moon now we move to the next la shamsu yambaghilaha and tudirikalqamar it's not allowable for the sun to catch up or to reach the moon nor does the night overtake the day but each the sun and the moon each in an orbit is swimming is moving okay now imagine the sun is moving in its orbit in its own orbit the earth is moving around the sun and the moon is moving around the earth think about this majestic image who's controlling this how come that none nothing goes wrong how come that none crashes into one another how come that each star is in its orbit how come that each planet is is going around something who is controlling this it's Allah al-Azeez al-Aleem al-Azeez he is the one who knows what's going on Allah is the Almighty who controls everything he has created and he is the All-Knowing he is al-Aleem he created and he has a reason why he created he proportioned and he knows how he is proportioning it he he did and he knows what is what is done who is sharing that with Allah swt no one he is the only one who controls everything he is the only one who has the authority who has the word to control everything on the day of judgment when everything dies when everything when everyone dies no one is there Allah will ask who is the owner of everything today he will say it's for Allah the one Allah who who decides and there is no one who can question him there is no one who can ask him why you did this why you didn't do that so the lesson is we have to accept whatever Allah swt gives us we have to accept everything that was proportioned in our life and accepting means the heart is content sometimes people will say okay i didn't have this i have boys i don't have girls okay i will be patient sometimes people will say oh i'm i got married i i i i didn't have any children okay i will be patient this is okay but there is something that is higher than being patient it's acceptance it's a ridah when you have ridah in your heart then this means that you have accepted truly what Allah has given you okay this is what Allah wants okay that's the best for me Allah knows what's the best for me and he has given it to me if i'm making dua and Allah is not accepting well it doesn't mean he is not accepting it means he is either saving you from something harmful that might have been happened to you or he's saving these dua to the akhirah or what's more important Allah says to the angel if someone makes a dua and he doesn't like that person give him whatever he wants i don't want to listen to him i don't want to listen to his voice but if someone is loved by Allah Allah would say to the angel delay giving him what he wants he let him keep asking me i love to hear his voice so we accept whatever Allah wants we make dua of course this is what Allah says call me for prayer ask me and i will give you but when he gives us that's a different issue he might give us in this dunya or he might save it to the akhirah and by saving it to the akhirah the benefit would be much higher than getting it in the dunya so we have to understand we have when we read the Qur'an when we understand the ayahs we have to think we have to apply it on our life on ourselves it's not just a story of previous nations there is a message in this story we have to understand this message Allah controls everything and Allah is the only one who is able to bring us back and who is going to bring us back to him so we have to prepare ourselves for that we have to get ready to meet Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala we have to know that as much good as we do in this dunya then it's for our benefit in the akhirah but we also have to remember that no one gets into into into jannah by his actions okay how come so what what's the use now doing good but we are not going to be to get to get into jannah with our deeds no there is something very important we have to understand when when Sayyidun Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says no one is going to enter paradise by his action they asked him he said even me and this Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has mercy on me so we get into jannah by the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala but our deeds will be the place for us on the levels of jannah so how close we want to be to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala we do our best in this dunya we wake up at night to pray two rakaz to be just with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to talk to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala we read the Quran just to to be closer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that we are reading his book we sent salawat to Sayyidun Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam so to be closer to him in the Akhirah and I'm going to give you a shortcut that you hasharu al-mir'u ma'a man ahab that's a narration by Sayyidun Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam a person will be resurrected with the one whom he loves so ya Allah we we want you to to we we want you to know that we love you we love Sayyidun Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam who says that a person will be resurrected resurrected with the one whom he loves we love him so to be resurrected with him send him lots of salawat so you will be with him inshallah in al-firdawt al-A'la we're going to stop here today inshallah and next week we will go on with the tefsir of surat al-Yasin inshallah