 Welcome everybody, Masha'Allah, today is our second session talking about tips here of Surat An-Nabba. Last time we started with the first few ayahs and we mentioned that the non-believers are asking and they are inquiring. But the way they are inquiring, they are inquiring about something great. This something is something that they don't want to understand. They don't want to believe in. They don't want to get more information about. The only thing they are asking is that because they are mocking and they are making fun and even if they get enough information to believe in, they are opposing it. They are belaying it. So they are asking about the great news which is the day after which they are in disagreement. But Allah SWT severely threatens and severely warns those people, those who deny the day after because they will come to know and they will know what is this day after. So Allah SWT will go on and he will talk about the day after. But before he starts talking about the day after, Allah SWT for a little bit is going to talk about something else. So he is not going to talk about the day of judgment. He is going to bring proofs of his abilities and his power. And we will know later why he is going to do that. So from ayah 6 till ayah 16, Allah SWT is going to give us visual proofs. So he will start by saying, Have we not made the earth as a bed as an established firm resting place for people? So Allah SWT has created earth and prepared it for his slaves. So Allah started now here in this ayah, Allah SWT started with the earth that will live on. Allah made this earth as mihada. In Arabic the word mihada means a bed, a comfortable bed. So this is the first sign that Allah SWT has created. Then he moved to talk about al-jibal, the mountains. So he says, And the mountains as pegs. So what is the relation now here? We have earth, we have mountains. The word autada in Arabic is a word that is used to make things firm. So the word pegs makes you feel that something is firm. So the mountains here, the one that Allah SWT has a role to make the earth firm. How? The earth moves and shakes. So the mountains are like the pegs of a tent that makes the tent firm. So the mountains make the earth firm in place. But why did Allah SWT give the picture of the pegs here? He did so to make it closer to the mind of the people who lived in tents at that time when the Quran was revealed. So they know how useful the pegs are to their tents. They live in tents and they have to make the tents, their tents were huge. They have to have huge pegs to hold the tents firm. So this is an example of something that they use. They know something they know and something they make themselves and something they can see by their eyes. So this is an example of their own environment. There are different types of pegs. The big, the strong. And also we have different types of mountains. We have huge mountains. We have big mountains. We have high mountains. And also we have just low, tidy, small mountains. I'm sorry to interrupt you, but one of the questions from the audience is which surah are we on right now? Surah al-Nabba. We are in Surah al-Nabba and we are on Aya 7. This is the first surah of Juzat 30. And if you are having the Quran with you, it's on page 582. If you are having the same Quran, page numbering. You're welcome. So now, Allah SWT says, these are, now we have the mountain, we have the earth and we have the mountains. So Allah SWT, it's not a coincidence that he found these miracles. That he created these miracles. But that's not enough. These are just two signs. Allah SWT is going to go on. So he says, وَحَلَطْنَاكُمْ اَزْوَاجَا And we have created you in pairs. Male and female. So reproduction is achieved. And for people, Allah SWT has subjected the earth. Now see the connection between the ayahs. So everything is related to everything. So he has created people in pairs. Then we made sleep for you. وَجَعَلْنَا نَوْمَكُمْ سُبَاتَا So what does this mean? Allah SWT, we said, we have made your sleep as a thing for rest. We all perform a function and go and come and do this and that and this and that during the day. But we need some time to rest. So sleep and rest are important for us. Sleep was created by Allah SWT. It's one of the greatest bounty Allah SWT has made for people. So when we are super tired, when we are sleepy, we take a nap. We go to bed. If we have an intention before going to bed, then we can move this thing from being something that we are going to enjoy into Al-Bada. How can we do that? If we have an intention before we go to bed that, ya Allah, we are going to rest. Yes, we are going to go to do this just for your sake so that when we get up, we will be fresh again. We will have energy back again so we will be ready to worship you. So we gained the pleasure of Dunya and the reward of Al-Fira. Now, it is said that sleep is like death. How? So when someone sleeps, then he can do nothing. He is sleeping. Death is a longer sleep. For both, both ears have a stop of movement. But the difference is with sleep, we can go back to life. We can function again. We can have another day. We can have another time that we are going to do things again. But for death, halas, that's it. So Allah SWT has created sleep, has made sleep for us just to rest. We made the night as a covering. A covering of what? The night is dark. So its shade and darkness cover everything. In older days, when thieves wanted to go to rob something, they would go at night. Now they would have their guns and they would go during the day. They don't care. But darkness covers everything. Anything can be done in darkness. So a known sleep is from the bounties that Allah SWT has given us. So a night is an indication for darkness. It's an indication for sleeping. And whether it is actually done during the day or during the night, sleeping is something very important. Take for example, a sick person who is in pain. They give him sedation so that he sleeps. When he sleeps, the minute he falls, the minute he sleeps, then his pain stops. He won't feel the pain. Until he wakes up again, the pain will come back. So during the sleep time, he didn't feel the pain. And this is a blessing. So what is suffering actually is the soul itself, but not the hurt organ. So this is the mercy of sleeping. This is the mercy of falling to sleep. So the night is a cover. People are sleeping. And we have made the day as means of sustenance. We made it luminous. We made it shining so that people would move around, that would be able to go to work, to earn for their living. So the day is nothing but means of trying to get provision. Everyone is responsible. Some people are responsible for themselves. Some people are responsible for their mothers, for their fathers, for their siblings, for their families, for the husband is responsible for the wife, for the children. So everyone needs to work. And they can do that during the day. It will be so refreshing. It will be so helpful to have the day to work and to get the sustenance. And we have built above you seven strong. What are these seven? They are the seven heavens in their vastness, in their perfection. Imagine that if you want to build a house, you will have poles to hold the walls, the ceiling, the roof and everything. Look at the skies. There is not a single pole that would hold the skies. This is perfection. This is what Allah has created and he perfects when he creates. He created the seven heavens in layers. And this is what he says in Surah Al-Mulk, which is created seven times, one above the other. So he created the seven heavens with all moving stars. And each star goes around and moves in its own orbit, in its own path. If one star moves away from its path, then disasters will happen. So Allah has created and has perfected what he created. Wa-ja'alna siraja muhaja. And we have made a shining lamp. So the radiant sun that gives light to earth Allah created this earth. So imagine the uncountable benefits of the sun to the earth. Imagine if the sun was a little closer to us, what will happen? Or imagine if it was a little further for us, what will happen? This is creation and perfection. Wa-ja'alna siraja muhaja. We have made a shining lamp in the sky that will benefit the earth and everyone who lives on the earth. Wa-anzalna min al-mawsirati ma anthajaja. And we have sent down from the clouds water in abundance. Al-mawsirat, the clouds. The clouds that are filled with rain that pour out continuously. So thajaja is continuous flowing. Sometimes it rains here. Sometimes it rains in another country. Sometimes it rains in both countries. Sometimes so it's continuous flowing. But why did Allah SWT send down this abundance, this khayr, this water? Why did He send it down? This rain. So that we may produce there with grain and vegetables. So great benefits will come out of this rain, which we will get so much fruit, so much plants, so much. The earth will give us its khayr, its bounties. And this is all for you people. So not only just grains and vegetables, wa-janatin al-fafa. Also gardens that are vast, that are of luxurious growth. Gardens of countless varieties of taste and fragrances. Imagine the countless number of fruits we have. Whatever is produced so that people would feed on. So with these ten ayahs, what happens? Allah SWT has given us examples of true, powerful, majestic things that He has created. So these powerful visual proofs are true. No one can deny them. And no one can even claim that He has created these remarkable things. No one. So Allah SWT is the Creator. He is the only Creator. He is the Almighty. He is the Eternal. He has created everything and everybody in this dunya. He sent us prophets and He sent us messengers. Why? If a man in that, your son did something that you didn't like, so you don't punish him. He will look at you and he will say, Mama, you never told me that I am not supposed to do this. And he is right. In order not to have the same picture in the day after, when Allah SWT will punish those who disobeyed, but how would they know that they disobeyed? Allah SWT sent prophets and sent messengers. He gave them a message to people. He told them. He threatened. He gave glad tidings. So people have the choice now. They have the choice to know that if they follow, then they will be rewarded. If they disobey, they will be punished. So with all this that Allah SWT has done, some people are still denying the day of judgment. They are still denying resurrection. They cannot understand how would a body be resurrected, be recreated again after it became clay, became dust, it became nothing. Well, just we have to think about a fact. It's much easier to have resurrection than to create everything from nothing. Because the things that are resurrected were already there. They are originally there. But creating them from the beginning is something that's amazing, something that's a miracle. Resurrection is not something as hard to be done. Resurrection is easy. It was easy that Allah SWT created everything. It was so easy to create everything by Allah SWT. And it is easy to resurrect people, to get them into accounting. Now, so with these proofs, it's better for you not to keep denying the day of judgment. Better for you, for this group to believe in the day of judgment. Now, Allah SWT, Allah Almighty will shift now from talking about these amazing things that He has created. So He will shift to talk about the day of judgment, the day of sorting. And what will happen during that day? So Allah SWT will start talking about the day of judgment by saying, So verily, the day of decision is a fixed time. What is fassal? Fassal is to separate things. So there will be a separation. There will be a sorting in the day of judgment. For the winners and the losers. For those who follow the rules and for those who did not follow the rules. For those who worshipped and for those who denied. So, This day of judgment is a set appointment. When the time comes, then they won't shift a minute, a second forward or backward. The day of judgment, nobody knows when it will be. But everybody is sure that those believers, I mean, those believers will know that the day of judgment will start for all people at the second of their death. How? Because when they die, when people die, they will know where their final destination will be. Is it paradise or hellfire? This is why people, believers, they try their best to do whatever they can. It's not for a second here. We will remember the Hadith, the narration of Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. No one will enter paradise by their deeds except for the mercy of Allah, except for the mercy of Allah. So, the mercy of Allah will get everybody, everybody, whoever is going to be in paradise. So, they will get in paradise because of the mercy of Allah. They asked Him, He asked Him, He said, Allah will have mercy only. So now, okay, we have to stop for a second. So, why are we doing good deeds then? We can depend on the mercy of Allah. We are in paradise. Okay, now, let's talk a little bit about why. In jannah, there are levels in jannah. In each level, there is Allah s.w. prepared things for the people who are entering jannah. For each level, the bounties and the khayr is different from that in the other heaven, in the higher heaven. So, we are getting into jannah by the mercy of Allah s.w. But we are placed, our rank in jannah, our level in jannah, the step we will be in jannah, the maqam we will be in jannah is according to our deeds, is according to our good deeds. We need to have good heart, sound heart. So, this is what we are working on in this dunya. So, Yawmul Fasli is a set appointment that we are going, all of us, we are going to go and to have this appointment. Who will have a meeting with Allah s.w. Yawm yunfakhu fissoori fata'tuna afwaja So, the day when the trumpet will be blown, and you shall come forth in crowds. So, Allah s.w. will order the angel to blow the trumpet to start the day of jannah, so that people will come again. So, how would people come? Afwaja in groups, one group after the other. So, what are these groups? Each nation will come with its messenger. Allah s.w. says in Surah Al-Israa, يوم ندعوا كل إناسم بإمامهم On the day we call people by their messengers to receive their records. Each and every person in the day of judgment will wish that they belong to the nation of Sayyidina Muhammad s.w. even the prophets. What an honor for us. What a great blessing for us that we are chosen to be of the nation of Sayyidina Muhammad s.w. Sayyidina Muhammad s.w. will practice mercy on that day for his nation. Each and every prophet will be on his pulpit of light in the day of judgment except for Sayyidina Muhammad s.w. His pulpit is empty. He will be running from hellfire to paradise. He will keep arguing with Allah s.w. until he gets his ummah into Jannah. So, كل إناسم يدعون بإمامهم. يا حبيبي يا رسول الله A blessing that suffices us. We are of the nation of Sayyidina Muhammad s.w. Also, as we said, there will be groups. There will be groups of liars. There will be groups of those who got unlawful sustenance. Groups of people who admire their accounts, their actions. Groups of people who are bad to each other. Groups of people who are bad to their neighbors. Group of people who are proud of themselves. Every single, there are groups of everything that you can imagine. Groups of people who backbite. Groups of people who do bad things. Group of people who spread bad news. Group of people who would make people desperate. Groups. So, people will come. تأتون فواجه. وفوتحة السماء وفكانت بوابة. And the heavens shall be opened. And it will become gates. So, what does the heaven shall be opened? In Surah Ibrahim ayah 48, الله سبحانه وتعالى says يوم تبدأ الأرض غير الأرض والسناوات. On the day, the earth will be replaced by another earth. And the heavens as well. So, everything will change. Skies will change. The earth will change. Everything. So, if the earth will change, so what will happen to the mountains? وصورة الجبال وفكانت سرابة. And the mountains shall be moved away, shall be removed from their places. And they will be as a mirage. No more mountains. The function that they were using, that they were doing in this dunya, they are needed for it. In Surah Al-Qarih ayah 5, الله سبحانه وتعالى says وَتَكُونُوا الْجِبَالُوا كَلْعِهْنِ الْمَنْفُوْشِ So the mountains, the huge mountains that we see now, it will be like who fluffed up. In Surah At-Taha, he says وَيْسَأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الْجِبَالِ فَقُلْ يَنْسِفُهَا رَبِّيْنَسْفَا So, and when they ask you about the mountains, some say, my Lord will blow them away with a blast. No more mountains. So what's going on now? Everybody will be facing Allah سبحانه وتعالى. Everyone is going to get their deeds with them to be scaled in front of Allah سبحانه وتعالى. So for those who are losers, something is waiting for them. اِنَّ جَهَنَّ مَكَانَتْ مِرْصَادًا So hellfire is waiting in preparation. Waiting for those who will be thrown in it. So in Surah At-Tanmul, Allah سبحانه وتعالى سَسْتَ كَادُ تَمَيْزُوا بِنَ الْغَيْضِ It's waiting. It's almost bursting with rage. When people are thrown in it and it will be asked, هَلِمْ تَلَأْتِ Are you full? And then the fire will say, هَلْمِنْ مَزِيدْ Will there be more? I'm ready for more. I'm prepared for more. So waiting for those who will be thrown in it. And what a loss it will be. What a loss this is. The final destination for those who are not preparing themselves for the Day of Judgment. Who are those? It's for those for the transgressors, for the disobedience, for those who rejected. It's a place of return for those people. لَا بِثِينَ فِيهَا أَحْقَادًا They will dwell therein for ages. They will be in it for ages. So what is أحقابة? What's the age? For ages there is no specific period of time. Meaning eternity. Eternity in Hellfire. So the word حقب, sometimes they say the word حقبة in Arabic means 70 years. And remember that each day in Hellfire, in the Day of Judgment, equals to 1000 years in this dunya. So whenever one period, one حقبة, one period ends, come to an end, then what will happen? A new period will start. So the people of Hellfire, they will stay for one period in Hellfire. Then what will happen? They will be taken out. They will be taken to see the people of Paradise. So they will have some hope. And then they will go back to Hellfire to start another حقبة, another new period. So whenever a period ends, a new period will start. And they will be there in continuous punishment. So لا يزوقون فيها برضا ولا شرابا What will happen to them? Nothing cool shall they taste and they will be there in فيها, in Hellfire. ولا شرابا nor any drink. They will not find any coolness in Hell. They will not find any drinks in Hell, except. So as soon as someone hears the word except, then they will start to think, oh, okay, then there might be something good. There might be some mercy, but except حميما وغساقا except a boiling fluid. What is that boiling fluid? It's حميم and غساقا. So the حميما is the heat that has reached its maximum temperature. This is the type of fluid they will be offered. Was boiling and boiling and boiling and boiling. There is not anything extra, any more heat that can be added to that fluid. غساقا غساقا is the sweat, the tears, the wounds of the people of Hellfire. So this is their drink. This is what they are going to be offered in Hellfire. Nothing cool, not a sip of water, except boiling fluids. Okay, so this is the punishment. But why? Why is all that punishment? Allah SWT says, we have not treated them unfairly. No. So all of this punishment is an exact fitting recompense. It's just a punishment. A punishment that's in accordance with their wicked deeds, which they did during their lives. They did not believe in anything. They did not want to believe in anything. They did not want to do anything that will benefit them in their day after. Why? Because for verily, they used not to look for a reckoning. They did not believe in the fact that they will be resurrected and they will be held accountable for their deeds. So if someone does not believe in punishment, then he can do anything. So if there is no system, then there will be chaos. They did not want to believe that there is a day after. And that's why they did everything. Whatever they wanted, they were hideous. They did not believe. They did bad things to themselves, not knowing that they will be punished for everything they will be doing. If we want to ask the question, what would prevent someone from doing anything bad? The first question will be be conscious. When someone has in himself the idea that whatever I'm doing, Allah is looking at me. Whatever I'm saying, Allah is looking at me. Whatever I'm dealing with, Allah is looking. We have to have ihsan in our deeds. Because we know that Allah has assigned two angels on our shoulders. They are writing the good deeds and the bad deeds. For them, they did not believe in that. They did not want to believe that they will be held accountable for their deeds. There is not a voice inside them to tell them that Allah is overwatching us and Allah is going to get us on the day of judgment to get us punished or rewarded. So they They treated our signs as false. They used to deny all the evidences of Allah SWT. They denied all his proofs. But We have preserved everything in records. All the deeds are recorded. So all of us are going to meet Allah SWT. All of us are going to be in front of him. All our deeds will be presented to him. And it will be scaled for us. And Sayyidina Omar says If someone finds good, then he has to thank Allah SWT. And if he finds something else, then he should blame only himself because he did that for himself. فَذُوْقُ فَلَنْ لَزِيدَكُمْ إِلَّا عَلَابَى Taste the fruits of your deeds. They will continue increasing in torment forever. So we will stop here, insha'Allah. But next time we will be talking about the winners, the righteous people, insha'Allah. وَصَلْمُ اللَّهُ عَلَى سَيْدِدِنَا مُحَمَّةُ وَعَلَى أَهْرِهِ وَصَحْبِهِ وَسَلْمِ يا ربَّنا لَكَ الْحَمْدُكَ مَا يِنْ بَغِيلِ جَلَالِ وَجْهِكَ وَعْضِيمِ سُلْطَانِكِ اللهم إِنَّا نَسْأَلُكَ مِنْ خَيْرِ مَا سَأْلَكَ وَسَأَلَكَ مِنْهُ عَبْتُكَ وَنَبِيُكَ مُحَمَّةٌ صَلْمُ اللَّهُ عَلِيْهِ وَسَلْمِ وَنَعَوْضُ بِكَ مِنْ شَرْرِ مَسْتَعَادَكَ مِنْهُ عَبْتُكَ وَنَبِيُكَ مُحَمَّةٌ صَلْمَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلْمِ يا الله, please pass our salam and regards to Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and we finish by and we pray to Sayyidina Muhammad and his family and his companions and peace and blessings of Allah be upon you