 As-salatu wa s-salamu ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala aliyah wa sahbihi wa sallim Yaqulullah Ta'ala, in Kitab-i Hilkareem, Allah SWT says, Inna qur'ana al-Fajri kana mashhooda This is in Surat al-Isra verse 78 Verily indeed the recitation of qur'an at dawn is ever witnessed So this is an urge for us to start our connection with qur'an Sayyidina Muhammad SAW says, It will be an arbitrator on the day of judgment. It will be a negotiator for you. It will be a mediator One day A boy came to his father and he asked him Why do you read the qur'an day after day after day and you do not You do not memorize anything. You haven't memorized it. What's the use of reciting the qur'an? So the father said to him, I will answer you later but now I want you to go to the river and to fill up this basket which is made of straw and I want you to bring the water in this basket here The basket was used to put some coal to As to be used for the fire for fire So it was black dirt dirty The son said, oh Baba, how can I do that? It's impossible The water won't hold in this basket So what happened the father the father looked at him and he said Go ahead. Just try it The son went to the river and he filled up the basket but When he tried to come back He found out that the water is leaking And when he got to his father there was no water And he taught him Baba, how can I do that? It's not holding he said the father said be patient. Just go ahead and do it again Okay, the boy went back to the river filled the basket and then get back Same thing no water The father urged him to do it a third time fourth time and then he said Baba It's impossible to do it so The father looked at him and and said Look at the basket Do you notice anything different? The boy looked at the basket and he said oh Baba The basket is clean. It's not dirty anymore So the father said Now I can answer your question This is what the Quran does in the heart It cleans it. It cleanses it The Quran The Quran would get your heart to be clean So even if you don't memorize the Quran keep reading it Even if you don't understand it keep reading it Even if there is no way that you can Memorize it keep reading it Looking at the Quran itself is a better so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave us this book his holy book as a way of As a means to connect to him And normally when you love something when you love someone you like to get connected to him with the best thing that he loves So this is I'm answering one of the questions. This is just an introduction and inshallah just Will will go on so our Topic today is to talk about the fseer of juz amma the 30th chapter of the Quran And the reason I chose this chapter in particular Because it has the short surahs that we keep repeating repeating repeating in our Prayers Now imagine our prayer how how connected it will be if How if we are having Khushua in our prayer So what will happen? There will be presence now with the With the prayer it's not just going up and down and ruku on sujood when we Imagine the the actions of the prayers who are standing before Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Then we are bowing to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We are doing sujood to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Imagine that there is a king who wants everybody to bow to him Even if they if they don't like it that they feel that there is there is some kind of humiliation in in bowing and in prostrating to anybody but The more the more you The more you do now the more The closer you you are to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Then you will understand the power of Making sujood to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala So We chose as I told you I chose this chapter in particular to get connected to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala And to have more presence in our prayer when we read the ayahs We remember the meaning instead of getting involved with this and that and this and that in the prayer So before we start then I also wanted to stop by surah al-Fatiha To give some explanation of surah al-Fatiha since we all start with since we all repeat surah al-Fatiha in our prayers So Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem When we when we start reciting the Quran we start with Audhu billahi minash shaitan rajeem I seek refuge with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala from the cursed devil Why do we say this istiada? Why do we say this form? It takes away the whisper of shaitan to keep A person away from receiving the light of the Quran Or to keep a person away from reciting the Quran The devil prevent is The when we say Audhu billahi minash shaitan rajeem the devil is prevented from hindering us from adhering to what we were commanded Or from luring us into what we were prohibited from Audhu billahi minash shaitan rajeem It's a command from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to start our reciting of the Quran with this tawwud with this form And it's mentioned in the holy Quran in surah al-Nahid when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says If you want to start reciting the Quran then start with Audhu billahi minash shaitan rajeem Then go on to Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem in the name of Allah most gracious most merciful Why do we say Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem? Each and every action that does not start with Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem With this form with this with these blessed words then It's missing some of its reward So say Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem so that your actions will be facilitated Because nothing whatever you are doing Is done by your power or by you because you know how to do it or by you because you learn about it Or by you because and so and so and so and so nothing is done except With the power of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala So Start your actions with what pleases Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala by saying by the name of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Sometimes a person would say okay, but I I sinned how can I say Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem and start any action And the answer is in the form itself. We say Bismillah ar-Rahman Bismillah because he is ar-Rahman ar-Raheem Because he is the one who who has mercy For us. He is the one who is going to take care of us. He is the one who will accept our tawba if we make the tawba sincerely So what does ar-Rahman mean? Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says So be merciful to those to Allah's creatures so that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will have will be merciful to you Now you might ask, okay, what is the difference between the two words ar-Rahman and ar-Raheem ar-Rahman Is A name of Allah that shows mercy to all to everything that he has created To Muslims to believers and non-believers to animals to to everything Whereas ar-Raheem Allah shows Extra mercy to those who believe And this is what explains wa ka'ana bil-mu'minina ar-Raheemah He didn't say wa ka'ana bil-mu'minina ar-Rahmanan He says wa ka'ana bil-mu'minina ar-Raheemah. It was merciful with the believers Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has created mercy and divided it into 100 portions He descended down one And he kept 99 portions up in the in the sky for him to Have mercy on the Ummah of Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam on the nation of Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam on the day of judgments But what about the one portion that was descended on earth? This is The mercy of the mom to her to her child the mercy of the animal mom to her child The mercy of the animal to another animal the mercy of a human being to another human being This is the mercy that we are practicing in this dunya This is the mercy that Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam has ordered us to do And to practice so We started with awd billahi min shaytan regime bismillahi ar-Rahman ar-Raheem and now We will be reciting al-Fatiha Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the hadith al-Qudusi In the divine hadith I divided And i will explain what does this word mean now between myself and my servant To two halves Means here al-Fatiha When we recite the Fatiha Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has divided the Fatiha In two portions And we know that it's al-Fatiha because what is going to be mentioned after this So misfun li one is fun la one portion for me one portion for my servant as far for as for the The portion that's for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala So it has three So this is the portion that is for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala So we started with bismillahi ar-Rahman ar-Raheem at the beginning of the action to be done Then we followed it by We are thanking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for the results of the actions We are thanking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for all the bounties. If we are thanking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for everything Now We move to the next ayah, which is In this ayah, we have someone who is worshiping and someone who is worshiped Someone who is asking for help and someone who is helping And this is this ayah is between Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and his servant So this is the second part of the surah The third part of the surah Is So when a person says When when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says Allah says three parts is this surah three eyes are for me three eyes are for my servant and one eye is Shared between me and him So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says So when the servant says All praise and thanks to be to Allah Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will say My servant has praised me What if the call And when the servant says Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will say So when we say My servant has glorified me When we say most gracious most merciful What if the call and when the servant says The owner of the day of judgment or the king of the day of judgment depends on the reading Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will say My servant has exalted my status So this is the first part Allah goes on and says You alone we worship And you alone we seek help Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says This is between me and my servant So my servant will worship me and I will give him Help My servant will ask me and I will give him So this is the relation between the servant and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala When is the Closest point between the servant and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala It's when he is when he is doing sujud because Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says This is the closest way that the A servant can be close to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is when he is making sujud So when you are doing nafila when you are praying extra extra Other than the fard just make dua when you are doing the sujud And imagine yourself that you are Doing sujud to the lord of all creatures So when he says Call My servant asked me and he will be given what he asked for So what is it that we are going to ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? Now look at the pronoun We were talking about Maliki and we are talking about him now the The pronoun shifts What's the reason When you talk to someone Then we are you are telling him that we are doing this especially for you Now we are telling Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that we are worshiping you only And we are asking help from you only We guide us to the straight path In one of the explanations The uh one of the people of Allah one of the friends of Allah al awrya He said Is The correct path, but what is the correct path for us? Is So we ask you Allah to guide us to connect us with Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam who is going to lead us to on the sirat That will Lead us To go to you too So you will Keep us with him So you will keep us connected to him in the day after and we will be resurrected with him. We will be Uh, we will be with him in the day after in al firdous al a'la So Guide us to the right path Which sirat Which path Sirat al lazeena an'amta aleyhim the sirat of the path of those whom you have bestowed Your grace upon The sirat of those whom you have guided Kairil Magdoubi aleyhim not that the sirat of those who who uh earned your anger Not those walla balleen. Not those who went astray No Those two types knew the reality knew the truth, but they didn't follow it. We don't want them We want the sirat al mustaqeem That would lead us That will grant us that will Guarantee for us that you will be pleased for us We want to do our best in this dunya so that we will be from those whom Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has said Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is pleased with them And they are pleased with him. How can how can someone be pleased with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? They will be pleased with the bounties that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has Provided for them Has prepared for them With the grace that they are going to enjoy in there In the day after So in summary We started the surah with alhamdulillah So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has created everything to serve us We thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for all his bounties But The more we thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the more we find that we are unable to do it properly And that's why in one of the du'a said the Muhammad says We cannot praise you The way that you deserve to be praised And if we want to Learn one form of the best forms of thanking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala We will say Alhamdulillah Ya Allah We thank you In a way that is suitable to the grace of your face face and The The greatness of your supreme authority And why do we say that this is one of the highest forms of thanking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala So It's narrated that One someone was praising Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala And he said this form So the angels did not know how much of Good deeds to write for him So they checked with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. They said ya Allah if someone You told us you told us that if someone does this we were right So and so has not if someone does this we were right so and so good deeds So this this slave of yours said this form and we don't know how what it's not in the catalogue What what's right for him? So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says Write it as is and I will reward him for that So this is This is the mother This is the the surah that we start the quran with It is the seven repeated ayas And this is the seven repeated aides that we repeat In all our prayers in each and every raka'a we pray to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala And one of the things that is Mentioned by Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ is that it has been given only to his umma It's exclusive for the people of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ for the nation of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ There is nothing like it in the Torah in the Zabur This sounds or in the bible We have always to remember That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is This is the one who we always thank The one who is in charge the lord of humans Jin Angels animals everything Everything that has a soul and some some intellect even animals know when they are in danger they will turn away so We have to Remember Allah the lord of everything he has created And we have to know that he is the one who takes care of everything that he has created In surat hood is six. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says And there is no creature on earth, but that upon Allah is its provision We are Allah knows everything Kullum fi kitabi nubin And everything all is In a clear register So always remember That we have to depend on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala on all our affairs Subhanallah So everything happens We have to know that We have to depend on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala So now whenever we read surat al-fatiha we have in mind these these reflections Think of what you are reading now. So think of what you are reciting in your prayer Now we move to Surat al-nabab Does anyone have any question? The dua okay, I have Please repeat the dua So Moving now to surat al-nabab Surat al-nabab is the first surah of the juzat 30 And if we if we want to connect it to the surah before the surah before is surat al-mursalat Surat al-mursalat Talks about Inna matua aduna lawaqia. It talks about the day of judgment What Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has Promised is going to happen. So Surat al-nabab Is the surah that comes after surat al surat al-mursalat So what is that that thing that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has promised? It's the thing the day of judgment that that the non-believers Deny Those who don't want to believe in Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam deny those who don't want to believe in a resurrection after death They deny So this surah talks about the the Explanation of what's the day of judgment the day of judgment which is super Important and that's why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is talking about We that's why we all have to Get prepared For it. We have to get prepared to meet Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We have to get prepared to To bring our deeds in front of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala We want to be happy on that day. We want to be of the of those who of the winners on that day So in rejection Of the non-believers questioning the reality of the day of judgment And due to the to their denial of its occurrence Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala revealed this surah to Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam So the first ayah says What are they asking about This is an indication that the question is about something very important So they are asking about the day of judgment They're not asking to learn about the day of judgment They are asking because they deny the day of judgment because they they mark the day of judgment They are asking about the great news What's that great news? It is the harvest that Each and every person will bring with him to meet Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala It's the fruits of the actions in their dunya So If they did good, they will be afforded if they did bad they will be punished This is something very important This is what each and every person is Getting in this dunya is working on in this dunya just to to do What Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala want us to do or some people would deny that So what is this that they are asking about some people So some people This is what they are in this agreement. The first group Is the the first group believe in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala The first group believe in the day of judgment. The first group are preparing themselves for that day But second group are not They don't believe in the day of judgment. They don't believe in resurrection after death. They don't want to believe in that So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says Allah severely threatens and warns those who deny the day of judgment The word kalla in itself in the arabic word is Rada wa zezir wa nahi Is a word of command is a word of ordering To be away from Ordering to not to do this thing So it means they should stop What they are doing denying they should stop what they are asking about in a mocking way No They will come to know kalla say alamun Thumma kalla say alamun Me again they will come to know In the Quran in the holy Quran if an ayah is repeated it be it it's Done This repetition is for affirmation It's for assurance So what's Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is affirming Is affirming that there will be a day of judgment. It will be Now if we want to to learn about knowledge About what we Learn about So it will be three levels So the first one is And the second is The third level is If someone for example comes and tells you that he went to so and so city and He found the most beautiful spot on earth So he gave you He gave you the information You know that this person does not lie. So you take it Now you have the information you have Now you asked the next level you asked about it About this spot and you knew that he was correct So you traveled to it Now you have This is the truth But When you go there And when you wonder and when you visit this place and you really find it that When you see what he saw when you find that this is really the best the most beautiful The most beautiful Place on earth Then you you will have Then you are Your status now is Allah. So there is nothing that will Make me uncertain of this. This is certainty And this is what will happen in The day after but it will happen even before someone dies When someone dies This uh, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala it's talking about those who don't believe So During death while he is dying Then we He called Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala at that state You were hideous That this will happen So we unveiled your Uh, the veil that was on on your eyes and now you are seeing what where your Destination will be Fadah sarukah liyum hadi now you can't see what you you couldn't see before And this is why when people are on their deathbed sometimes you feel that they are talking to things that we don't understand It's not that they are hallucinating. It's They are seeing some some things that we don't see They started to shift to move to that space to that place So now know everyone knows that at this point everything is true So They will know they will realize what is their position? Where are they where what will happen? And Where they will be When there is a comparison between what's good the winners and the the losers The losers will feel so bad. They will feel so the punishment when they See themselves in hellfire, but when they know that the The winners are Enjoying the bounties that of itself is another level of punishment We will stop here inshallah And inshallah next week same time where we'll go on Uh, I would like to see do you have any questions? Is there anything that was not clear? So please Mention it Thank you You can unmute yourself and uh, ask your question if you have any I All right, so at this time now inshallah You're with us. You have Oh Oh May Allah show our his Love and mercy upon you and your families new loved ones Whether they are living with with you whether they are still alive or whether they passed and uh proceeded us may Allah The most affectionate and loving Cleanse our soul cleanse our hearts in this in this blessed month and fill it with The divine light was all Allah And inshallah We will be meeting next week inshallah