 من الحمد لله نحمده ونستعينه ونستغفه وهو نعروب الله كمين شروبه اهنفسنا ومن سيقاته اعمالنا من يحده لا فلا وضل له ومن يوضل الفلا هادئه وأشدو أن محمد عبده ورسله ورسله بالحق بشيوه ونديه من بين يديه ساعة وما بعد فيا عباد الله ووصيكم ووصي نفسه اتقوا الله اتقوا الله في السرق والعلادية اتقوا الله ويعلمكم الله matured and we sent peace a pleasant upon his last and final message are we come to them companions and wives and all those who follow him until the day of judgment and I advise you and I enjoy you and I join myself and I buy advice myself to have more of Allah having tough law fulfilling his commands outwardly and inwardly and avoiding his ورغبية ورغبية ورغبية أولي who believe have Ta'wa of Allah and Allah will teach you. And we bear witness that Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم is the last and the final and the most precious of messengers of Allah سبحانه وتعالى sit to the creation with the book of Allah the Qur'an, the last and the final message to mankind the only book that has been remained unchanged from the books of Revelation. And we ask Allah to give us belief and steadfastness and action upon the book of Allah one of the things that we see in the surahs that were mentioned during the time of Mecca is a lot of focus on the concept of the akhirah of the next life and to stress that point Allah سبحانه وتعالى not only mentions the Sa'a mentions the final hour but describes it in detail why? one of the reasons is that the people that the Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم was said to were people that had become so engrossed in the dunya they had become drunk with the dunya they have held on to the dunya so much that they thought this dunya in front of them is the only thing there is to the point that one of the disbelievers of Quraysh the disbelieving pagans of Quraysh he asked the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said if you talk about resurrection will Allah take these dry bones and he took some bones of an animal that were old and he crumbled them up and he made them into dust he said will these the dust particles of this bone will this come back to life this thing that you're telling us about the resurrection and Allah سبحانه وتعالى responds to that saying yes we don't bring those bones back to life but this is the mentality that the people have they're people of the dunya in the sense that this is they think that this is the final state that we are just some combination of carbon in some various ways and we're going to dissolve and then who knows what's going to happen to the universe no we know exactly what's going to happen to the universe not that we just think the universe will come to an end it's part of our deen one of the pillars of faith is the belief in the Sa'a but what does this mean what does it mean that as a Muslim we believe in Allah in his angels in his messengers in his books in the Qadr in his divine ordainment that things don't happen by chance they happen because Allah wanted them to happen and they happen because Allah made them happen and we also believe in the final hour the Sa'a but what does this mean is it or is it something to also help our action is this belief something that can influence our action why do we pray do we pray because it's a good habit do we pray because it's a meditation do we pray because it helps us get time management do we pray because it helps us order our day do we pray just like some people do meditation or yoga or other types of spiritual meditations or is it because we believe in Allah and he told us to do that why do we fast health reasons meditation reasons to feel with the poor it's because Allah said to do it and we do it so the belief precede the action but the action is what shows the belief is there now this doesn't mean that if a person doesn't have action they don't have belief we're not saying that a person can believe in all of the pillars of Islam be a strong believer but they don't have actions they're not the strongest of the believers but they do have belief but we have to follow our belief up with action so what action will belief in the Sa'a in the final hour what action will that influence one of the Sahaba a Bedouin man came to the Prophet and there are many many wisdoms from this interaction so listen closely let's avoid them together and show the wisdom the insight and the educational method of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and his compassion with the people a man asked the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم when is the Sa'a when is the final hour that's all the action when is the final hour now we have to remember why they're asking this because they know this is the man this is the point of wahi this is the point of revelation this is the man who when Allah سبحانه وتعالى wants to speak to his creation he speaks on the tongue of the messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم he is من مع الواحي the source of wahi to the point that all previous traditions have to be in in accordance with his tradition or they're abbreviated if somebody comes and says from a previous tradition we want to follow that we say no Allah has canceled out all other previous laws and traditions and methods of worship with the sumna of the messenger of Allah سبحانه وتعالى the example they give is like the stars and the sun every star out there is a sun our sun here is a star and all of the prophets and all of the messengers who came the best of humankind عليه وسلام may Allah send peace on every single one of them and they each came who had a tradition and they each some who had messages or affirm previous messages but when the شريع of the messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم came it was like when the sun rises and you can no longer see any other stars in the night sky before that sun rises you can use the other stars to guide I'm going to follow the north star I'll follow the shريع I'll follow the rise belt I'll follow this star to help me navigate through life spiritually I'll follow that prophet in his way I'll follow that prophet in his way but when the sun comes the stars are no longer there we can't explain that we're following another star we're following the sun for our direction and that is the likeness of the messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم so he is this source of revelation that when a person has a question if they want to know what does Allah what does the lord of the universe the creator of the universe what does he say about that they go to Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and they ask him they said Allah is telling us about the final hour you would know about this when is it going to happen look at the response of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم now one thing to remember is that the time of the final hour is from the five matters but only Allah knows this man Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم the messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم he knew so much about the world the scene and the unseen the Mulkana Malakut the Zahir and the day but he didn't know five matters that's why when jibid عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم asked him when is the final hour he said only Allah knows tell me the science so here's a Sahaba trying to understand okay this very important point in creation the final hour the end of time the end of creation when is it going to happen the messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم he didn't say that's something that only Allah knows when jibid عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم but in this man he said what have you prepared what have you prepared what have you prepared for it what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what what و يمكننا أن نسأل بي كيف يتجلب هذه الأمر و يمكننا أن نسأل بي أعلم إذا أحدثه في عيشتتي أعلم إذا أحدثه في عيشتتي أعلم إذا أحدثه اليوم الساعة لا نعلم إذا إحدث ولكن According to some narrations It will happen on a Friday A Friday و According to another narration Every creature in the world, on this day on Friday They are waiting إنهم جائعين إنهم جائعين لأنهم يتسألون هل هذا اليوم؟ إتبعى فورة ثفادي نحن في مجموعة نحن يتسألون كما لا نحن في العالم ليست even thinking أنه يمكن أن يكون اليوم لذا يجب أن نكون لدينا هذه المجموعة لذلك يجب أن نفكر about when it's going to happen ولكن more so than even thinking about when it's going to happen and whether or not it's going to occur in our lifetime يجب أن نفكر about this wisdom that the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم the source of revelation the source of revelation told this man and by extension told all of us what have you prepared for it in other words we know it's going to happen are we going to sit around and become very anxious about the Sa'a happening or are we prepared to meet it are we prepared to meet it and the smaller Sa'a in our life the lesser final hour in our life is our death and may Allah give us all long healthy lives full of obedience to Allah and full of following the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم we will all meet our hour even if that final hour might be a thousand years away or ten thousand years away no one knows how long it will be any person that puts a time limit on when the Sa'a think to yourself this is a Dajab an imposter this is a cult and move away from that person the scholars have said all of the Akhadi that mention a specific age to the earth those are all fabricated or weak anything that says the earth is this long and then it will end and if somebody comes with a numerical figuring out with this ayah and these numbers and so forth the Sa'a will be this time if the Rasool عليه وسلم didn't know when the Sa'a would be than how would somebody who knows mathematical equations know when the Sa'a is going to be but more important than that is how to reflect on our actions are we acting like there will be a Sa'a are we acting like there's going to be a final hour for all of creation are we acting like there's going to be a final hour for us because there will be a final hour for us it's already written that hour that we will spend right before our death that's there it's going to happen are we acting as if it's going to happen and again not to where we're so afraid to do anything because we know it's going to happen and we become anxious but we start preparing for it and this was the correct question of the Messenger of Allah what have you prepared for it so now we think of on a daily basis what have I done to prepare for the Sa'a what things have I put in store what good actions have I accumulated have I really taken every opportunity to do something for my action because remember the state of mind of Quraysh crumbling those bones these people now all over the world right now crumbling what we say this is all we are we're warm food right? that's what they say what's the big deal about us we're warm food we're going to decompose become carbon become go back to our organic material and then later on we're going to plant or something else but I'm God no we hope for a fact yes we have a body here this is not an illusion but this is temporary our final abode is a daughter of Akhira our final abode is a daughter of Akhira the next life and so we have to be preparing for it if we knew that a disaster was going to happen today I was shopping and I saw all these disaster kits they have which we should be prepared the Messenger of Allah SAW had rations for one to be able to support him for one year and his family one year he already had that long before FEMA emergency preparedness advices and so forth but the Messenger of Allah SAW taught us in his sunnah be prepared have rations on hand but people are prepared for a disaster now what if a disaster if we knew it was about to come think of the mindset that we would be what would we buy and what type of rations would we buy what would become important at that point in our life in a similar fashion but not the same exact way when we're preparing for this Ha'a we have to be in a state of mind where we know it's going to happen and we're going to take every opportunity to benefit ourselves for the next life and that's the difference between the person who believes in the next life this is a stopping point this life that we live in it's a way station it's a bus station it's an airport anybody who's ever been through a bus station or a train station or an airport you know that feeling especially at night time when there's not many flights and there's not many people there nobody lives at the airport nobody starts preparing I'm going to set up camp here and this is where I'm going to live they know when they go into the airport this is just a point of travel this is the station and I'm going to another station this is the dunya for us and I remind us especially to here in the Bay Area where we are living in the top 3% of the world economically as we see so many disasters going on all over the world wars natural disasters if any of you don't know about the water crisis in Cape Town South Africa look enough think about what's going on over there when you see people scrambling to get water on a daily basis everybody including Muslims because there's a large population of Muslims there and they're scrambling to get water there those are our Muslim brothers and sisters that are over there in that situation those are our human sisters and brothers over there in that situation what's to prevent it from happening anywhere else where are they free right now if we have water at least now because of the rains that came last year but it could get worse here and a lot of people who predict predict problems with water in the future but whether or not we reach that we should think about the safety and the security that we have here in our locale and we should think about the security of housing and the security of food and the availability of those things that we have that we are in a position where we don't have to think about our daily water and we don't have to think about making sure not to have one of the the bond with the coalition fall upon us in Syria or Afghanistan or hit by a drone in Yemen we don't have to think about those things so what are we going to do with that freedom what are we going to do with that safety and security that Allah bless us with it's not something that we should feel guilty about this is the blessing of Allah one of the صحابة was walking one time and the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he was wearing raggedy clothes old clothes corner clothes and he asked about them he said who is this person they told him is he wealthy or is he poor why is he dressed like that they said no he has money he's just doing that he called them over and he asked them why are you doing this and he said out of humility he wants to show his humility by wearing old old clothes and the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم recited to him the surah of many of us reciting our prayers on a day and break basis وَاَمَّا بِنِعْمَاتِ لَهْبِكَ فَحَدِّتْ as for the blessings of your Lord then proclaim them speak about them tell the world about the blessings not out of arrogance but because we know that Allah is the one who gave us this blessing and he said in the hadith he said that Allah loves to see the traces of his blessings on his surface so it's a type of ibadah when we show those blessings we don't become arrogant when we show them but we also shouldn't abase ourselves and become lonely we're in the middle the best of the ways is the middle ways so now we ask ourselves here with the wealth that our community has and with the safety and the security that we have are we preparing for the salah and this is a question that anybody even in the disaster should be asking themselves are we preparing for the salah are we doing things to get our life in order are we taking advantage of every opportunity are we praying five times a day because that's the first thing that we will be asked about on the salah are we praying five times a day if we're struggling with that then we work on that okay we're praying five times a day am I praying properly at the beginning of time with proper presence in the prayer and constantly working on that and all of the other ibadah we ought to continue on a continuous basis and we see are we improving and the same thing in our mo'amilat in our interactions with people are we treating people fairly are we treating ourselves fairly are we treating our children fairly in our friends in our employees and our employers and our fellow community members are we treating them fairly are we thinking about them are we thinking that this interaction that I'm having with this person even if I'm not getting sunatha even if I'm not making a prayer this interaction could be something for me on Yom Al-Qiyamah and I'm preparing that for the salah so take every opportunity to smile as a person and to bring Bashashah the Prophet ﷺ told us that even having a good face with your friend with your fellow Muslim is a Sadafah is a charity are we acting like that are we taking every opportunity are we taking opportunity to give ourselves a mission in life a mission in life so yes we have our Ibadah our worship and we have our Iman that perceives it and we have our good interactions with people but have we each individual one of us have we picked something in life that we say that's what I'm going to work on that's what I'm going to do I was just telling a young girl in the Masjid here earlier I showed her a plastic bottle and I said I hope in your generation this is no longer existing because we do have the ability to make biodegradable plastic this is just an example there's a Muslim in Indonesia right now that has made biodegradable plastic that you can stir up after you use it and drink it it's made out of a root but we know the multinational corporations with their multi-billion dollar lobbying will not let plastic die but that might be something that a person a Muslim says I'm going to change this little portion of the world or somebody says I'm going to help the orphans in this place or I'm going to build a school somewhere or I'm going to do something because we have to remember not only as Muslims but as Muslims in the Bay Area living in the top 3% of the world economically we have a duty to spread that blessing to the rest of the world and to our community here but if each one of us took on something and said I'm going to do that and I'm going to do it right orphans wells educations urban houses whatever it might be are we really just going to go before the Sa'a and just say I have my prayer and I have a few good deeds and that's it or are we saying we want to have more prepared and that's what the Rasool عليه الصلاة والسلام was asking this man and he asked him about the Sa'a and he said what have you prepared for it to remind him don't think about when it's going to happen because it is going to happen think about how you're going to prepare for it and we ask Allah to give us the توفيق and the تقوة to be able to fulfill that procuration for the final hour الحمد لله والصلاة والسلام وعلى والسلم وعلى آلية والصحابي ومن وعلى آلية أما أبعث لي أعجاب الله وصيقوا مبوسي يتقو الله يتقو الله وصيبي والعلانية يتقو الله وعليكم الله we praise Allah سبحانه وتعالى we send peace and blessings upon his last and final and that's the messengers صلى الله عليه وسلم and upon his companions and wives and all those who follow them until the day of judgment and I join you and I join myself to have تقوة الله سبحانه وتعالى تقوة being fulfilling the obligations of Allah outwardly inwardly and avoiding his prohibitions outwardly and inwardly we'll end on another interaction between the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and this man just to remind us to put things in perspective many of us are familiar with the story of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم where a man came into the masjid and because he was a Bedouin man and they're not used to symbolize matters and they're used to if they need to relieve themselves it's all sand in the desert so that's where he would go he comes into the masjid it's a sandy floor and then he relieves himself on the sand in the floor after he has some questions and the Sahabah were amazed that he could do this and wanted to stop him from doing it and the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم told him let him fish and then afterwards after pushing them away he explained to him in a very compassionate way this place is built for worship and we keep away from it foul things foul language and filth filth from our bodies and he explained it in a very compassionate way this man was the man that just asked about when is the Sahabah so he asked about the Sahabah and there was that whole process to the point that when the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said what have you prepared for it he actually had an answer too he said I haven't done a lot of prayers and I haven't done a lot of fasts but I love Allah and his messenger and the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said you will be with the ones you love you will be with the ones you love and the Sahabah said this was the most joyous day for them when they heard these words from the source of one Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم you will be with the ones you love because they said we love Allah and we love his messenger and this is a glad tidings for us that we will be with him so yes we have to have actions but then at the end of the day we have to have make sure that we have love for the messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم and how does that translate if we don't have love for the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم how was our interactions going to be with people if we were really following him in this situation he was compassionate with the person that made a huge blunder in the message now think about how you might have been corrected in the message or think about how we might have corrected somebody else in the message or think about somebody a child or somebody new to Islam or somebody who's not put some visits to the message how are they corrected in the message this is the status quo for how we should be corrected in the message and this is the status quo for how we should be corrected in the message the way that anybody in the message the way the messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم dealt with somebody compassionately and was it jumping to conclusions about their state and asked them what do you have and so we asked الله صلى الله عليه وسلم to give us the love of him the love of Allah and the love of the messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم we asked Allah سبحانه وتعالى to allow us to have full and complete وقلوا قضيحانا وأسقل في الله لي ولكم رسائل المسلمين والمسلمات والمؤمنين والمؤمنات وعكن السبالات