 Once Sayyidina Musa was giving a khutbah and he was asked who is the most knowledgeable? So he said, I am without referring knowledge to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala. So Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala told him that there is someone who is more knowledgeable than you. And that was the answer when Musa A.S. talked to Allah. And we know that the Musa used to talk to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala anytime he wanted. So he said, I was asked this question, I said, I am but Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala said, no, you have, there is someone who is more knowledgeable than you. So when Sayyidina Musa heard that, he said to himself that I should, I should learn from that man. I should know what, what I don't know. So he asked Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala, 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 say, how can I know where that place is? And Allah told him, you take a fish in a vessel and you, you go, you walk until the place. When you, when you lose this fish, then you know that you will find this person in that area. So Sayyidina Musa did that. And what happened now? Sayyidina Musa said, So Sayyidina Musa took his boy-servant with him, Sayyidina Yusha bin Noun. So he was, Yusha, peace be upon him, was with him to serve him, but also to learn from Sayyidina Musa. He was not just a servant, he was someone who was seeking knowledge also. So he said, Sayyidina Musa said to his boy-servant, I will not give up. I will keep going, I will keep walking until I reach the junction of the two seas, which Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala has told me about. Or until I had to travel for a long time. So now what happened? Sayyidina Musa started walking with Sayyidina Yusha. 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 that would be the meeting place. So now Sayyidina Musa started with his journey. So when they reached the junction of the two seas, they forgot their fish. So Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala here made the Sayyidina Musa 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. It jumped. And what happened to it? The fish moved vigorously and jumped and took its way on the sand, on the sand until it reached the river. Now Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala 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 Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala did, we said that the fish went on the sand until it reached the sea. So what happened here? Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala made that trace that clear and kept it clear. So when Musa A.S. 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 A.S., they felt hungry. So he asked his servant to give them the fish to eat. At that time, Yusha A.S. 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 Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala says, Musa said to his boy servant, bring us our meal. Truly, we have suffered in this, in this journey. We are hungry. So Yusha A.S. said, He said, do you remember? Do you remember when we went, when we took ourselves to the, when we stopped at the place where we rested? He said, I forgot the fish. I forgot the fish. So I forgot, I indeed forgot to tell you about the fish. So I forgot, I indeed forgot to tell you about the fish. 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, And this fish took its course. So its path into the sea was a strange way. What does Ajaab 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, 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-Khadir A.S. So they went back their footsteps. Qasasa. So they were following the traces. What happened? They found. So they found one of our servants. So they found a man. And he was a blessed man. And Musa greeted him and Musa introduced himself. Sayyidna Khadir told, asked him, Are you the Musa of the children of Israel? And we know Israel is Sayyidna Yaqub. There's another name for Sayyidna 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. So now what happened after that? Now pay attention to what Sayyidna Musa said. Sayyidna Musa said, 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. Can I? May I? He said, you will not be able to have patience with me. And how can you have patience for what you do not encompass in knowledge? Sayyidna Khadir 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 do. So this is the condition that is there. Both of them are on different paths. Each has his own way. 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 says, you will find me patient and I will not disobey you. In any order, I will be submissive to whatever you want. 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. So they set out. They were walking. They wanted to cross from one bank to the other bank of the river. They wanted to have to go on a boat. So the people of the boat, there was a boat passing by and the people recognized Al-Khadir. 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 until they had embarked on the ship, on the boat, Al-Khadir made a hole in it. Where he took a piece of the wood of the ship out. So when he did that, Musa, alaihi salam, looked at him and he said, Musa said, the people gave us a free ride yet you have broken their boat. You are missing out their poor boat. The people are going to drown. Why did you do that? Indeed, you have done a horrible thing, a terrible thing. So Musa 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? Al-Khadir, alaihi salam, 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? Musa 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 he, please forgive me. I forgot. That's it. So when they went down on the ship, they kept walking. So they set out and they proceeded until they met a boy. Al-Khadir killed him. Ghulam is a young boy who did not reach puberty age. So he killed him. He killed that person. He killed that boy. See, the Musa thought that the first incident was transgressing some property, but now he's killing another person. It's a bigger problem now. So he couldn't stay silent. He said, Have you killed an innocent person with no reason for killing him? Indeed, you have committed a clearly evil thing. Now, Al-Khadir said, Al-Khadir said, Did I not tell you that you can have no patience with me? So he said, If I ask you anything after this, keep me not in your company. If I object to anything, just let's depart. You have accepted my apology twice and you have received an excuse from me to break this company now. I will not oppose you anymore, but if I do, it means let's go apart. So Sayyidina Musa, apologized and made it firm this time. So now, they both proceeded until they came to the people of the 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? So they refused to offer them hospitality. They refused to give them food. They even refused to give them a place to rest in. 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 in around the village they found a wall about to collapse. What did they find? They found a wall about to collapse and Al Khadir A.S. set this wall up straight and they wanted to move on. So Sayyidina Musa A.S. said You did something. You deserve money for it. We don't have money. We cannot eat. We cannot have a shelter. Why you didn't ask for money? So Musa A.S. said if you had wished surely you could have taken a payment for that. You could have taken some wedges for that. So that wall was about to collapse and Al Khadir A.S. said if you had wished you could have taken some money for that. Al Khadir A.S. said 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 Sayyidina Muhammad A.S. says O Allah, if you had wished so may Allah have mercy upon us and upon Musa A.S.. if he had stayed with his companion a longer time we would have seen wonders if he had stayed with his companion a longer time we would have seen wonders 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'm not going to bother you again. So what happened? Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, says So I will tell you the interpretation, the explanation of those things over which you were not able to be patient. As for the boat, it belonged to poor people working in the sea. So I wished to make a defective damage in it. Why? As there was a king who was in front of them and who seized every good ship by force. Then he moved to the second case. Now, as for the boy, his parents were believers. So this child, his parents were believers. And we feared that he would oppress them. He would overburden them by transgression and by disbelief. So out of their love to him, they will follow him. So it's a lose-lose case. And we intended that their Lord exchange them, substitute for them. So Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, when he made Al-Khadir, 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 jahannam. So he transferred him from this position to killing him when he was young, when he was still pure and he entered the Jannah. 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 outwardly, what happened to the ship and to the boy is not acceptable. But inwardly, it was all the khayr. Now the third one, as for the wall, it belonged to two orphan boys in the town. And there was under this wall a treasure with them. It was a treasure for those young two 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 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 treasure. So the orphan boys will lose their treasure. But when al-Khadr, alayhi salam, built this wall again, he built it in a way that it will be good enough for the two orphan boys to get older and then to get out of their treasure. So doing this, al-Khadr, alayhi salam, knew how to pay back those bad people of this place, of this town, because he did not allow them to steal this treasure. And their father was righteous. He was a good person. So why did I do that? That was a mercy of your Lord. And I did not do that. I did not damage the shape. I did not kill the boy. I did not fix the wall just from my own knowledge that I wanted to do that. No. So this is the reason why you 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, this whole journey happened because Sayyidina Al-Khadr was asked, who is the most knowledgeable person? And he immediately said, I am. So Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala told Sayyidina Musa, alayhi salam, that you are not the most knowledgeable. There is one person who is more knowledgeable than you. Sayyidina Musa wanted to know more and he asked Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala to show him the way to go and reach and meet this knowledgeable person and also to tell, 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 life correctly, righteously. We have to learn. We have to seek this knowledge.