 As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim, As-salatu wa As-salamu ala sayyidi al-mursaleen Sayyidina wa Nabiyina, Muhammadin wa ala alihi wa safihi wa salim Ya Rabbana lakal hamdoukana yinbahi lijlali wajjika wa a'zimi Sultanic, Bismillah Last time we started with the Tafsir of Surat al-Waq'ah and we saw how Allah Subh'anaHu wa Ta'ala has divided people in the day after into three groups As-Habul Maymana wa As-Habul Mash'ama wa As-Sabiqun These are the three groups So we talked at the beginning last time we talked about As-Sabiqun, As-Sabiqun and those people who are the foreigners and they hasten to do anything that pleases Allah Subh'anaHu wa Ta'ala So from their early life they did nothing but good and they were so righteous So this was our first group that we talked about and we started talking about As-Habul Maymana who are the people of the right and those people from the beginning they were not as good as the As-Sabiqun, As-Sabiqun So they did something bad then they made istaghfir and so on but now they ended up as very righteous people So these are the people who get their record in their right hand and they are called As-Habul Yameen Last time we stopped at Aya 34 when we talked a little bit, I'm going to go a little bit back and we talked about As-Habul Yameen Allah Subh'anaHu wa Ta'ala said So this is what Allah Subh'anaHu wa Ta'ala has prepared for the people of the right the companions of the right They will be enjoying these bounties that Allah Subh'anaHu wa Ta'ala has prepared for them Then Allah Subh'anaHu wa Ta'ala says Now they are enjoying beds raised high and here we will be talking about their wives Indeed, we have produced the women of paradise in a new creation and we saw in Surah Yaseen when Allah Subh'anaHu wa Ta'ala said They and their spouses in shade reclining on adorned couches So if you say to someone that your wife will be the Hurul Ain in Jannah then he will say, oh my God, she's going to follow me over there and the same thing for the women if they tell her that your husband will be your husband in the Jannah she will say, oh my God, I'm going to see him again there but just remember that when Allah Subh'anaHu wa Ta'ala does that person into Jannah then he is a good person then all the bad characters that the other spouse has seen in his spouse they will be eliminated they won't be there anymore so there will be just enjoyment فجعلنا هنأدكارا And Allah Subh'anaHu wa Ta'ala has made these wives we made them versions and they will stay versions عوربان اترابا devoted to their husbands and of equal age عوربان the woman who is called عروب is the one who is so close to her husband she talks to him nicely she takes care of him she does whatever pleases him and this is the characteristic of the woman in the day after اترابا means they are all at the same age so no one would look at the wife of the other they are all amazingly beautiful and they are at the same age and this Allah Subh'anaHu wa Ta'ala has prepared لصحاب اليمين for the companions of the right سلت من الأولين وصلت من الآخرين there will be a company of the former people and a company of the later people so a big group of the former people and a big group of the later people وصحاب الشيماليما وصحاب الشيمال now Allah Subh'anaHu wa Ta'ala is going to talk to move on to talk about the third group so he says and the companions of the left what are the companions of the left and we mentioned earlier that when Allah Subh'anaHu wa Ta'ala repeats something then it means that he is saying something important that he wants us to pay attention to so this is what Allah Subh'anaHu wa Ta'ala is saying وصحاب الشيماليما وصحاب الشيمال those are the people who would get their record in their left hand this is their description so they say I wish I didn't get my record I wish I died I wish I didn't know what my punishment is my wealth did not avail me my authority failed me so it will be said to him seize him and shackle him and into the fire drive him so these are ush'abu-shim'al and here Allah Subh'anaHu wa Ta'ala is giving more description he says they will be in scorty fire and scorning water so the heat would get into their bodies from the smallest pores in their skin so yahmul means smoke and when they would see smoke they would think that this is shade but when they get to it they will know that this is nothing except the smoke of the fire of the blazing fire neither cold nor beneficial so normally in dunya they know that when there is shade then there is some coolness under it but this shade has nothing at all nothing called coolness in there and the shade is not even shading so why would Allah Subh'anaHu wa Ta'ala did that to them إنهم كانوا قبل ذلك مترفين indeed they were before that indulging in affluence they were living in extravagant luxury but this luxury was just for them only Allah Subh'anaHu wa Ta'ala has given them has given them a lot but they did not give people they did not give they did not give any money to people they did not give any affection to people they were stingy in everything money, feelings, health, care they didn't care about anyone normally when you have money you give sadaqah, you give zikr and Allah Subh'anaHu wa Ta'ala purifies your money and increases it but they were extravagant in luxury but on themselves only now imagine one thing we want to understand something if someone is so rich this is good and we all ask Allah Subh'anaHu wa Ta'ala to give us money but this money to be only in our pockets and never in our hearts when money is in the heart then you will see different types of stinginess but we want the money to be in our pockets so to spend, so to give so to take care of the needy so to do Allah's right in this money now imagine there is someone who is very rich and as I said this is something good Said Nausman was very rich and he prepared a whole army with his own money so for this person who is giving Allah's money someone who is rich and he is giving Allah's right in the money he's paying zakan, he's doing everything he wants so he has, when he spends his money he is giving some benefit to others for example someone is rich he sends his clothes always to the cleaner and he pays the cleaner for that so his money is paid to someone who is in need for that job who is taking care of a family and so the money is spent correctly in a good way this type is not considered to be extravagant because he's helping others also if someone looks at his paint of the paint of his house and he says oh we need to do it again then he is helping the painter he is helping other people who are helping their families so their spending the money is in halal way and has some benefit to others but those people, Ashab al-Shimal they were indulging in affluence and they used to persist in the great relation and hence is just to do something that's against the rules the rules of Allah and they were persisting they were insisting on what they were doing and they were saying also and they used to say when we die and become dust and bones our bones decay are we indeed going to be resurrected? they would not believe in life after death and our forefathers as well are they going to be resurrected? so why would they deny resurrection? because they know that if there is resurrection then they will be in trouble and if they were sure of their resurrection they wouldn't have done all those bad deeds that they used to do so what's how Allah answers them? say O Muhammad, indeed the former and the later people are to be gathered together for an appointment for the appointment of a known day so Allah is promising that there will be a day of judgment that there will be a day where all deeds will be scaled that there will be a day when everyone will be rewarded or will be punished Allah says كَلَّ سَمَكْتُبُ مَا يَقُولِ No one will record what he says so be careful watch your words watch your movements watch your intentions there is a book لا يغادر صغيرة ولا كبيرة إلا أحصاها what is this book? the man will ask in the day after when he receives his record he will say what is this book that leaves nothing small or great except that it has enumerated it Allah promised ليس لوقعتيها كاذبة as at the end there is no denial everyone will know that there is a day after but those people deny it in Dunya they don't want to believe in it سُمَّ إنَّكُمْ اَيُهَا بَالُونَ المُكَذِبُونَ then indeed those astray who are deniers what will happen to them so Allah SWT is telling these people اصحاب الشمال what their food will be لأكلون من شجر من زقوم you'll be eating from trees of زقوم what is زقوم? Allah SWT talked about this type of tree in several suras for example in Surat al-Dukhan that is 42 to 46 he says إنَّ شجارة زقوم طعام الأثيم كالمهلي يغلي في البطون كغلي الحميم indeed the tree of the qum is food for the sinful like murky oil it boils within bellies like the boiling of scalding water in Surat al-Safat Allah SWT gives another explanation he says Surat al-Safat between 62 and 65 ام شجرة زقوم or the tree of زقوم إنَّ جعلناها فتنة للظالمين indeed we made it a torment for the wrongdoers إنَّها شجرة تخرج في أصلي الجحيم indeed it's a tree issuing from the bottom of hellfire طلعها كأنه رؤوس الشياطين it's emerging fruit as if it was the head of the devils now imagine when you say the head of the devil we would imagine something very ugly if we say devils, each and every one of us would think of something so ugly so Allah SWT is saying this tree is as ugly as شياطين so what will happen to them إنَّكم أيها الضالون المكذبون لأكلون من شجرة من زقوم and they will be eating from these trees فما لئون منها البطون and filling with this type of tree with شجرة زقوم they will be filling their bellies فشاريبون عليه من الحميم and drinking on top of it from scalding water إنَّ سرك محمد آي 15 الله سبحانه وتعالى says وصُقُوا مَا أن حميمًا تقطع معاءهم and they are given to drink scalding water that will sever their intestines وَإِيَ استَغِيْسُوا يُغَاسُوا بِمَا أنْكَ المُهْلِ يَشْوِ الْوُجُوْهِ بِيْسَ الشَّرَابُ وَسَاءَتْ مُرتَفَقَا so what Allah says inshAllah to get and if they call for relief if they call for water they feel so thirsty because of the fire that they are thrown in if they call for water what will they have they will be relieved with water like mercury which scalds their faces rich if that is the drink and evil is the resting place so they will be given from this water فَشَارِبُونَ شُرْبَ الْهِينَ and will drink as the drinking of thirsty camels imagine the camels we know that camels are the ship of the desert because they endure not drinking for a long for several days but when they drink they drink a lot they save the water in their bodies so to use it when they need it so those people the people of Hellfire they will be drinking like camels when they are thirsty هَذَنُوزُلُهُمْ يَنْمَدِينَ this is their accommodation on the day of judgment this is what Allah has prepared for them on the day of judgment in Arabic the word نُوزُل is you can say someone got into the نُوزُل means into a hotel into a motel just to rest and it also means what was prepared for the guests from something like food or drink so this is what Allah has prepared for the people of the left for those who got their book in their left hand he prepared زَقُونَ and he prepared скalding water نَحْنُو خَلَقْنَاكُمْ فَلَوْ لَا تُصَدِّقُونَ we have created you so why do you not believe Allah says that He has created people if someone owns a house and he says this house is mine if he is lying someone else would come and say no this is my house and this is the deed of the house I am the owner of the house and here is what proves that I am correct when Allah SWT says I created people I created the universe I created everything no one no one dared to say I did that and this is why Allah is the Creator نَحْنُو خَلَقْنَاكُمْ now Allah SWT is going to give us a few examples that shows His power that shows His greatness, His majesty He says أَفَرَ أَيْتُمَّا تُمْنُونَ have you seen that which you emit? so the fluid has in it the sperm and the nut form okay the semen so had He not been a sperm from semen emitted Allah is talking to me imagine where you come from أَأَنْتُمْ تَخْلُقُونَهُ أَمْنَحْنُو الخَلِقُونَ is it you who created or are we the Creator? so out of this impeccable fluid the human the baby is born now whatever has a beginning will have an end when there is life when there is birth there is death نحن قدرنا بينكم الموت وما نحن بمسبقين we have decreed death among you and we are not to be outdone so Allah SWT created us of nothing He created us and He perfected He perfected His creation and He is also able to take away this life by death so Allah is giving an example to man Allah wants man to remember hey don't get so impressed with these bounties that I have given you you have a mind you are free you have power you have sight you are able to walk you can why? because with a small accident Allah SWT can take the sight can take a person's ability to walk He can paralyze people with just a blink of an eye so when Allah SWT gives us these blessings we have to take care of these blessings He gave us the sight we have to use it in halal way we should not look at any haram we should be looking into the Quran we should be encouraging our kids to hold the Quran and to read from the Quran not to read from the from the iPad or anything just be physically attached to the Quran use the the ni'am that Allah SWT has given you in good in halal ways so in that we will we will change you we will replace you we are able we will change your likeness and produce you we can produce you in that form which you do not know Allah SWT says in surat al-Safat إِنَّا لَقَدِرُونَ عَلَا أنْ نُبَدِلَ خَيْرَمْ مِنْهُمْ وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَسْبُوْقِينَ we are able to replace them with better than them and we are not to be outdone وَلَقَدْ عَلِمْ تُمُنَّشْأَتَ الْأُولَةَ فَلَوْ لَا تَذَكَّرُونَ and you have already known the first creation so will you not remember Allah SWT has created so many so many nations before you and he replaced the bad ones with good ones you have to remember this issue you have to be to get it always in mind we have to be good so Allah will be pleased with us أَثَرَأَيْتُمَّا تَحْرُثُونَ and have you seen that seed which you grow, which you sow Allah SWT has created man from nothing from let's say from dirt from the same thing of earth the same component of earth so getting life to go on is to get what this ground what this ground can produce so man is created he needs food so after we put the seed after we put the seed after we water the seed after we flip the ground the earth so this all of this will help will help the seed to grow أَثَرَأَا أَنْتُمْ تَزْلَعُولَهُ أَمْنَحْنُ زَادِعُونَ but think is it you who make it to grow or are we the grower لو نشاء لجعلناه حطاماً فَظَلْتُمْ تَفَكَّهُمْ if we willed we could make it dried debris and you would remain in wonder so earlier we talked about life when Allah gives life the opposite of that is that we can take this life away by death now now Allah SWT is talking about farming is talking about growing seeds and what is opposite to that is that he has the ability to make this this growing seed go just into nothing they would go bad you will not be able to get to the fruits of that when they are when they grow then some storm can come and destroy everything now look at the way how things are growing let's take one seed so when we get to the dirt prepared for the seed so we throw this seed into the dirt and we don't know what happens after that we have a seed, remember Allah SWT has made every seed into two splits so when we throw this seed into the dirt it gets inside and we water it then this water will make this seed sprouting the root would get down, down, down until it becomes strong enough after that these two splits of the seed would grow up up the dirt and they would be the first two leaves of the sprouting seed now imagine Allah SWT has given this seed the ability to grow but he can do against that we throw the seed what would Allah SWT say whatever we do we say in you throw not when you throw but Allah through that wa lakinna allah rama wama rama ita izramaita wa lakinna allah rama in battles when they used to throw the arrows then wama rama ita izramaita it's don't think that you are the one who got victory Allah SWT gave you the ability gave you the braveness to be able to throw this arrow against the enemy so the enemy would die the same thing don't think that you are the one who is growing things Allah SWT will give will give the order to this two splits one seed so that it grows so if Allah wills then there might be some wind some worm to eat that seed and those the plant and you will find nothing to eat fazaltum tefakkarun inna lamugramun so when this happens what would they see what would they say they would be saying indeed we are now in debt we planted we watered we took care but nothing happened balnachno maherumun rather we have been deprived they were deprived of the fruits nothing it didn't it didn't give any fruit whatever they planted so always remember whenever you want to do anything it's not you who will be doing it Allah SWT will give the order for that thing to be performed for to be done and that's why when we want to do anything we say Bismillahirrahmanirrahim by the name of Allah by the power of Allah we want this thing to happen Ya Allah we don't depend on our power we depend on your power Bismillahirrahmanirrahim أَثَرَأَيْتُ مُلْمَا أَلَّذِ تَشْرَبُونَ then Allah SWT is saying here and have you seen the water that you drink so the three important things of life the three necessities of life that we cannot live without food water and air someone can stay without food for days and he can survive without food for a maximum period and that's depending on his body a maximum period of 30 days because the body would be taking the the fuel from the fat that was saved in the body so that fat will be will be used for fuel of the body until there will be food again so the maximum time will be 30 days what about water the maximum time that someone can stay without water is 10 days after that no no no way you will die and for the air it will be just maybe minutes if if there is if someone is forced to stop the the breathing inhaling and exhaling if that happens with let's say earlier if they wanted to kill someone they would take a pillow and put it on his nose and mouth and within maybe a few minutes it will be dead so Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala prepared these things these necessities for man and in the previous ayahs he talked about food who is growing this food for you who is taking care of the food the power of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala what about water now Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is saying أنتم أنزلتموه من المزني أمنحن المنزلون is it you who brought it down from the clouds or is it we who bring it down so how does this cycle happen the water of the seas and the oceans evaporate it goes up forms the clouds and the clouds would get the rain poured down to us so who is creating this who is bringing this water down to us is it us or Allah Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala he is the most powerful he is the best of the creator he is the best creator no other creator he is the best creator لَوْنَ شَاءُ جَعَلْنَاهُ أُجَاجَنْ فَلَوْ لَا تَشْقُرُونَ if we willed we would make it bitter salty so why are you not grateful so why you don't think I want you to compare this ayah لَوْنَ شَاءُ جَعَلْنَاهُ أُجَاجَنْ with the ayah 65 لَوْنَ شَاءُ لَجَعَلْنَاهُ حُطَامًا why did Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mention the lamb in the in the in the previous ayah لَجَعَلْنَاهُ and here he says جَعَلْنَاهُ so in the previous section Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says اَأَنْ تُمْ تَزْرَعُونَهُ so yes you are planting the seed you are watering the seed you are doing something for that seed you are taking care of that seed so you have some type of work that you have done even though Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is able to destroy that that plant that whatever grows so you did something there but here Allah is the only one who gives the order for the clouds to bring down the rain okay so there is no need to emphasize this and that's why it is said جَعَلْنَاهُ it's the action of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala alone you did nothing to it and that's the difference why we have the lamb there and we don't have the lamb in this ayah لَجَعَلْنَاهُ and here we have جَعَلْنَاهُ فَلَوْ لَا تَشْكُرُونَ if we are to talk about gratefulness to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala thankfulness to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala we would need days and days and days if we would look at all the blessings that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has given us we won't be able to know exactly how to thank Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and that's why when we want to thank Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala we say اللهم لا نحصي ثناء عليك أنت كما أثنية على نفسك we cannot praise you enough we cannot thank you the way you deserve to be praised and the way you deserve to be thanked we cannot so we say the highest form of thanking Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is يا ربي لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلال وجهك وعظيم سلطانك thanks is for you Allah thanks is suitable to the grace of your face and the greatness of your supreme authority I mentioned this earlier once there was a person who said this the angels went to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and said يا الله you gave us a catalogue to write this much for someone if he does this type of deed and this good deeds for someone who does who says this but we didn't this slave of yours said something we don't know how to what to write for him in his record what do we say what do we do he says write it as is and I will reward him this dua again is يا ربي لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلال وجهك وعظيم سلطانك so we have always to remember these bounties that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has given us the blessings the countless blessings that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has given us if we start to count we will not be able to we will not be able to count them we are walking we are eating we are drinking we're using the restroom we are we are using whatever Allah has created to serve us we are getting benefit of everything around us we are looking at things and we are watching with our eyes we are hearing we have skin we have hair we have countless things countless blessings we should thank Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for everything افلا تشكرون why you don't remember to thank Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala thank Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala that he created he created your your your children he they don't need anyone to walk them they don't need anything they are he he created us and perfection us افلا تشكرون why are you not grateful if someone has a car he would want another car thank Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for for the blessings you have لو كان لبني آدم واد من دهب لتمنى أن يكون له واديان وليّ سدفاه إلا تراب if if the son of Adam has a valley of gold he would wish another valley and nothing will suffice him except except dirt he doesn't remember that he is going to leave everything behind and he is going to be in the grave alone he is not taking anything with him افلا تشكرون افرأيتم النّار التي تورون and have you seen the fire that you ignite اأنتم انشأتم شجرتها ام نحن المنشئون is it you who produced its tree or are we the producer who created that tree who used its trunk just to to get this fire نحن جعل ماها تذكيرة ومتاع للمقوين we have made it a reminder and provision for the travelers what does this mean when someone is traveling and if he wants to rest then he would ignite some fire and this fire would collect some wood and he will ignite it and he will use the fire there will cook on this fire he will get warm because of this fire so الله سبحانه وتعالى has mentioned several things now so far he mentioned that he created man and he gave him life and the opposite of that is there and he mentioned that he created the plants and the fruits and the veggies and everything and the opposite of that is that he is able to make everything destroyed but look at this part الله سبحانه وتعالى said mentioned fire but he did not mention anything against it anything that would that would take this fire down why won't you remember that jahannam is there for the non-believers jahannam is there for those who be lied jahannam is there for those who deny remember so الله سبحانه وتعالى has given everything everything to us so we have to take to look deeper and to understand the meanings why was this created why was man created how his life will end why was the fruits and veggies and everything created and how they work they can be destroyed and how الله سبحانه وتعالى has created heaven and fire and this would be the resting place for people whom he has created and we will end with the last ayah here so the word of subhanallah when Allah said so it's out the name of your lord the most great whenever you go to see whenever you go in nature and you see that's so beautiful the first word you say subhanallah masha Allah subhanallah in zint alayu Allah when you see anyone there you say subhanallah and the scholars say if you if you say for each blessing you see Allah then you won't see any harm in this blessing that Allah has given you because you assigned this blessing to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who gave it to you so you are thanking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for the blessings and also remember Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says whenever you are you thank me then I will increase you so Ya Allah we thank you for all the blessings that you have given us Ya Rabbana laka l-hamdu kama yambagi l-jalal wa jihika wa a'zimi sultanik subhanah rabbika rabbil a'izzati amma yasgifun wa salamun a'la al-mursaleen wa l-hamdu lillahi rabbil a'lamin wa salamu a'laykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh