 As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim Wa Salatu wa As-salamu ala Sayyidina wa Nabiyina Muhammadin wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa salim Ya Rabbana lakal hamdu kama yambaghi Lijj ala liwajihika wa azimi sultanik Allahumma ya maqaliba al-kulubi wa al-afsar Thabba al-kulubana al-Adeenik Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim We are today insha'Allah Continuing the last part of Surah al-Rahman We stopped last time at Ayah 62 And before we mentioned and we saw how What the blessings that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Has prepared for those who Obeyed Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala For those who were of the pioneers Were of the racers to achieve and to do To fulfill what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Wanted from them So Allah has talked to us about the Two gardens, the paradise that's waiting for them But now we're going to talk about Other two gardens So let's go Bismillah Wa-min-dooni-himajin-datan And below in ranks of the above two gardens There are two other gardens And remember here we are talking about paradise So what does this mean that we have But higher paradise and lower paradise So we know that We mentioned earlier that none of us will enter Jannah except by the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala And this is what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Confirmed when he was asked even you Ya Rasulallah You will not enter Jannah with your deeds And you are the messenger of Allah You are the beloved of Allah What was the answer of Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam He said Wa la ana illa aniyatagam madaniya Allahu bi rahmatih Not even me unless Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Gets me in his mercy So we are in Jannah By the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala But our level in Jannah Will be according to our deeds Our stage in Jannah will be according to our deeds So the first group that we talked about And the paradise that they are going to be in Those are the ones who hastened With fulfilling the orders of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala But what about these people now What about these other gardens now So the people of Jannah Are divided into two parts Those who are very quickly Who used to fulfill the orders of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Without thinking immediately When they know that this is what Allah wants They will do it So these are called asabiqeen And they have been mentioned in Surat Al Waqa InshaAllah that was the Surah that we are going to explain After Surat Al Rahman That So those are the people who worked And who did their best to be up front So those people are closer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Those people are closer to Sayyidna Muhammad So this is the first group And we saw what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Has prepared for them in the previous few Eyes that we covered last time The second group of Ahlul Jannah Of the people of Jannah Are Ashabul Yameen So who are Ashabul Yameen Would do what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala But they will not increase in the In anything extra They will not do anything extra So Once And I'm going to give you an example About both groups So for those who are Who hasten to fulfill the orders of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala One companion came to Sayyidna Muhammad Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam His name Rabiaah bin Malik al-Aslami So he came to Sayyidna Muhammad Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam And he said to him I want to be your companion in Jannah So Sayyidna Muhammad Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Looked at him and said So Do lots of Salawat Do lots of prostration So he This this companion did not want only to enter Jannah But he wanted to be the companion He wanted to to have the honor of being with Sayyidna Muhammad Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Now let's move to the other example Another Companion came to Sayyidna Muhammad Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam And he asked him What should I do Ya Rasulullah He said Five prayers during the day and the night He said Do I have to do anything extra? Should I do anything else? He said no Unless you wanted to do extra Unless you want to try to pray To pray Qiyamullah To pray So and so to do all the extras So he said Let's say the Muhammad Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam added So you have to pay the zikr To purify your money He said Do I have to do to pay anything extra? He said no Unless you want to do to pay extra And paying extra might fall under Building a mosque Digging a well Giving charities Helping people Forgiving those who cannot pay the debts that they have to you Then Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said You have to fast the month of Ramadan He said Do I have to fast anything else? He said no Unless you want to do extra Some people fast Monday and Thursday Some people fast the 13, 14, 15 of the lunar month Some people fast every other day So this is extra But if Muhammad Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said And that man said I swear that I will not do any extra And I will not do any less What did Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said He is a winner if he is truthful So he will be in Jannah But he will not be at the same level of those who did their best But he will be from Ashabu-l-Yameen In one of the Hadith Hadith Qadusi Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala says So my servant will still do the extra deeds Until I love him So this is our goal We don't want just to be at the door of Jannah We don't want to be at the lower level Ranks of Jannah We want to be up with Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam And Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam gave us a shortcut He said So the closest to you to me The closest of you to me on the day of judgment Is the one who sends the most Salawat to me Now ask yourself how many Salawat do you send to Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam every day Knowing that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala promised everyone who says One Salat Who sends one Salat to Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Allah will send him 10 folds So have a few minutes every day Just to get closer to Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Just a few minutes of your 24 hours every day So what would these people now Do the people women do me imagine that and as we said the two Heavens that the two gardens the two paradise that we are going to talk to about now are less In bounties less in what Allah has prepared than That paradise which is Prepared for those who who fulfill the orders who do extras who who are As as close to Allah and to say the Muhammad Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam as possible So we know now that each person has his own Station in jannah according to his deeds But we enter jannah by the mercy of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala Now The repetitive air Which of the blessings of your Lord Would you deny? Thank you yallah for everything that for all the blessings that you have given us The word would have metamine Literary it means dark green So these These gardens The color is Dark green What is Would have metamine Is dual so the the single the singular word of this Is El mudham So what is el mudham el mudham is the green color when it's so green That it gets closer to black And we see this in So fertilized Areas gardens that when the Plants when the trees of this garden Get the the color their green gets closer to Black because of the highest fertilization That is in the ground So when it gets so dark so dark green you feel from A way that it's black So which of the blessings of your Lord would you deny? Nanny allah Now we will be doing some comparisons between These two lower in ranks Gardens than the other Higher gardens. What do we have? Fihima ainaani Nabakhatan There are two springs in these Gardens in these Paragises that What happened that they are spouting? What about the previous? The previous gardens In the in the previous gardens. We have Two springs flowing In flowing Is much nicer much much A fancier than just spouting So which of the blessings of your Lord would you deny? There in there are fruits palm trees and pomegranates So we have less Than what we have in the other gardens There Fihima a min kulli fakihat in Zoujan in that garden in those gardens There are every fruit every fruit possible and it's two kinds But here We just have a few we have less Fabi ayi a'lai rabbikumatu kathiban So which of your of these blessings Of your Lord That you deny Nani a'la Lakal hamdu ya'la So what does what does this repetition mean? Reminding us of the blessings Here we have some type of Ah Mocking those who Are deprived of these shannas Of these gardens So a lot of boundaries a lot of things that Allah has prepared, but they missed Let's go on What do we have? What else do we have here? Fihina khairatun hisan In those gardens, there are good and beautiful women Now compared to the other To the other gardens, what do we have? Fihina khairatun tarfi lam yatmi thunna insun qablahum wa laajan We have women Who are limiting their glances They haven't been touched by any man or or jinn So these the point is The point is qasiratun tarfi So they are limiting their glances. They are looking only At their husbands They're not looking at any other husbands. They are not looking at any other men Why because this husband suffices them What about the others? Fihina khairatun hisan The other ones are also so beautiful But Well, the the following two eyes I will explain So which of the blessings of you lord would you deny? So these beautiful women Are fair ones. They are reserved in pavilions so These these women Are good. They are khairat khairat fihina khairatun hisan So They they don't get angry. They don't get sad. They everything is good about them And they are assigned to The husband You see the difference the other ones They by themselves would limit their glances. They don't want to look at others There they are qasiratu tarfi qasirat by their choice But here they are maqsura Maqsura means someone Made them so fihina qasiratu khairatun hisan Fabi ayi alaii rabbikuma tukadhiban Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala described the others in that Garden, he said They are amazingly beautiful But here he said These are beautiful The other ones are amazingly beautiful So which which of you of the blessings of you lord would you deny? This is the only description that is That is the same with the other women They are untouched before by any jinn or any any human. They are virgins. They are pure So which of the blessings of you lord Would you deny? They are reclining on green cushions And beautiful fine carpets What about What about the others the better the higher Gardens the higher paradise what what how how the people what about them over there? So they are reclining and beds and cushions What whose leanings are of silk blockade They are so so so fancy And The fruit there in those higher genus in those in those higher gardens The fruit would come down would hang down to you Just to get to get them So while you are sitting reclining enjoying your time you think oh, I want to have an apple The branch of the tree would come to you and you will pick up that apple You're longing there, huh Subhanallah Ya Allah Now in surah al-Ghashiya Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says waza rabiyu mabthuta And carpets spread around And imagine The fancy high quality Super carpets that are there so These this is the comparison between the jinnah that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Has prepared for was sabiquna sabiqun Those who race to do what Allah wants those who race to fulfill the orders of Allah on time On time They do not They do not delay their prayers They do not delay their duties They do not when when when the adhan comes in and you get yourself prepared you do And you Stand before Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala You pray the sunnah before the before the fard and then you are getting yourself prepared For the prayer For the fard that you are obliged to perform So now you are ready To talk directly to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with your mind In the prayer itself you are not distracted from anything Nothing will Will be Engaging In your mind You are 100% With Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala And this is how our prayers should be And remember that from the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala That he says They are in their prayer they are present so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Uh wants to Reward those who are obeying him so he made Several things that we can do every day Just to stay on the track just to be on the on the right path And the one thing that holds you fast and steady on the path is the salah Is the Quran and following the sunnah So try to try to get as much as you can of these things that are easy to do But we have to do them with while we are fully present with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala And this is one of the ways Of being present in the prayer while you are praying first of all just pray On time Do not delay your prayer Do not delay your prayer Then when when this One another thing Is that before you start praying just Get yourself prepared Say And this would outcast shaytan a little bit This would outcast the whisper of shaytan and you will be able to focus more in your prayer Another thing if you want to really to focus on your prayer Try to memorize new ayahs and say them in your prayer You will be focusing 100% on the Quran that you will be reading And another thing When you memorize try to understand what you are saying Try to know the tafsir of the ayahs that you will be saying That you will be reciting So now if you if you get to get engaged with anything You will be thinking of the meanings of the ayahs you are you are reciting and not by any other dunya things So These are four four things that you can do just to get more focused on your prayer Once Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam Was watching a man praying when he said salam Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam told him go repeat your prayer do it again You did not pray And if you notice in the Quran And and the reason for that he was doing it so fast no constant no focusing on the prayer and If you notice something in the Quran while you are reading the Quran when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala talks about praying He doesn't say the word praying by itself He doesn't say salla you salli you salluna sallu He says perform the prayer Aqeemu s-salah You qeemuna s-salah You see So aqeemu means perform the prayer Don't just make it just Just movements up and down Knowing nothing what you said or Did you pray two raka'z or three raka'z or four raka'z so Just get yourself prepared before standing Before Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala So now Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Has repeated This So which of the blessings of you lord Which of the blessings of you lord are you denying or would you deny? so As we mentioned earlier Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala repeated this word this ayah because of the Importance of this ayah Don't think that it's just repetitive ayah. No 31 times in this surah this ayah was repeated, but each would be Reminding us of something of a blessing that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has given us Now Take a moment and think Of the blessings of all the blessings that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has bestowed on you think Do you need anyone to walk you? Do you need anyone to help you stand up? Do you need anyone to help you standing sitting down? Do you need anyone to help you to go to bed? Do you need anyone help you to go out of bed? Do you need any pill medicine to just fall asleep? Do you need any any help of any person around you? You can do nothing unless you have help from others Imagine all the blessings of that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has given us sight hearing heart mind conscious Everything So Allah has given us a lot How can we thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for that? There is a hadith That talks about the The blessings of Salat al-Dhuha We all know Dhuha prayer and In Dhuha prayer we have The benefits or the the merits of the Dhuha prayer Is that It is considered as As a Zaka for our our well-being So what does what is the hadith? This is how the hadith starts And Sulaama is The the the the smallest bone that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has created you Has given you Look at your hand look at your fingers How many bones are there in your fingers? How many bones in the hand? How many bones in the in In your face? How many bones in your spine? How So there is a Sadaqa for that Whenever every day you wake up A healthy Then you have to perform this Sadaqa And this Sadaqa Is to pray two rakaz of Sunnah al-Dhuha So if you have money you pay Zaka for your money to purify your money To get it Increased To get it multiplied But this Salat al-Dhuha Will Will is is just a charity for for your well-being It's a charity that you don't need anyone to help you walking Standing sitting sleeping So try try not to miss Salat al-Dhuha. What is Salat al-Dhuha? It's two rakaz It's time starts About 15 minutes after sunrise Until 15 minutes before The Zuhur prayer You can make wudu in this in this time and you know, this is the longest time that we don't pray So just have Stand with Allah just We we long to be with Allah so perform Salat al-Dhuha During this time so These are the blessings that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has given us and we say ya Allah We do not deny any of your blessings. We thank you for all the blessings that you have given us Tabarakas mu rabbika Dil jala li wal ikram So blessed Is the name of your lord blessed is the name of your lord owner of majesty in honor in generosity blessed tabarak Tabarak is to be blessed to be glorified So we are glorifying you ya Allah We are worshiping you ya Allah. You are the only one who deserves to be worshiped We worship you not to get to jannah. We worship you not to to be away from hellfire We worship you because you deserve to be to be worshiped The one who created this universe the one who is in control of everything who has created is Worth of being worshiped Tabarakas mu rabbika so blessed is the name of your lord blessed is he In whose hand is dominion And he is over all things competent blessed is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who Who gave us everything blessed is the name of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who is the owner of majesty And he is also the owner of beauty Sometimes you see people You feel oh you you feel scared when you see them And sometimes you you see people you feel you feel the tranquility in your heart when you see them Allah has created everybody And has given them each each has his own character Try to be with those people who remind you of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Try to be with those people whom if you slip they will get you back on track Try to be with the people who will always Do righteous things Because they will remind you to do righteous things And try always to know who you who are the friends of your children because Friends would drag their friends They would drag each other to the to their path Whether good or bad So tabarak tabarakas murabbik We have to be Strong To face The temptations of the we have to depend on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and only on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala because That will give us strength Abdullah bin mas'ud You know, he's the companion of satan muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Once The muslims at the early time And they they know that Quraysh did not know anything about about quran. They have not heard any eyes of the quran and They said Who can Go out and Recite quran on the loud and out it so the Quraysh people will hear him And said not to love the mus'ud said i will do it But said not to love the mus'ud Physically was a weak person So they said no no we we will get scared that they will they will harm me. He said no i want to do it That's loving Allah So he went He went out and he recited quran quraish Got mad So they hit him and hit him and and hit him until he was bruised everywhere So when he came back to to the companions they said For this we didn't want you to do it. He said wallahi. I am ready to do it again tomorrow for the sake of Allah This is the love that we want Depend on Allah and fear nobody so This is Surat ar-Rahman We come to the last ayah of surat rahman if I want to Remind you of the beginning of the first very first ayah. What was the first ayah of the surah? ar-Rahman So the ayah is named for the first word of the ayah And we have this feature in several ayahs surat al-fajr because of surah. Well, fajr. We say surat Surat amma because of the first word amma yata sa'aloon Surat al-mulk which is called tabarak We are because of the first word of the surah tabarak al-ladi biyadihi al-mulk so now The the surah started with ar-Rahman And As we mentioned earlier ar-Rahman is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the the The the name of Allah that would give us hope in our hearts that he is the most merciful And he when he created mercy he divided it into 100 portions and he descended just one portion Into this dunya and he kept the 99 portions to the akhirah So he will have mercy on the umma of sayyidina muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam So ar-Rahman He is rahman. He is merciful by nature He Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says ar-Rahman and the surah goes on Talking about all the blessings that we have in the in the surah What did what does the surah end with? Tabarakas mu rabbika vil jalali wal ikram Blessed is the name of you lord the owner of majesty and honor and honor and generosity So again, it ended up with two with a name of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala vil jalali wal ikram It's the surah started with a name of Allah and ended with another name of Allah Allah is the one who gave us all the blessings So Let's always keep remembering These blessings that let's always Keep thanking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala about these blessings And we mentioned earlier that there are so many forms of Thanking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so many forms But the highest is the highest is to say Allahumma laka'l hamdu kama yambadi Li jalali wajhika wa azimi sultan Ya Allah This is what we want to thank you for this is we want to thank you for the for everything For everything you have created for us. We want to thank you for everything that you have prepared for us Ya Allah Laka'l hamdu kama yambadi li jalali wajhika wa azimi sultanak Suitable Thanks for you. Ya Allah Thanks is suitable to the grace of your face And the greatness of your supreme authority The angels did not know how to write to this How how how much good deeds should they write in the record of a person who said it and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said Write it as is and I will reward him my servant for saying this Ya Rabbi laka'l hamdu kama yambadi li jalali wajhika wa azimi sultanak And also when we want to thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, we don't know how to thank him And that's why we say I cannot praise you the way you deserve Laka'l hamdu ya Allah Laka'l hamdu ya Rahman laka'l hamdu ya Zal jalali wal ikram And with this we come to the end of the Tafsir of Surat al-Rahman And insha'Allah next week we will be starting with Surat al-Waq'ah We ask you Ya Allah to accept us we ask you Ya Allah to to teach us from your divine knowledge Ya Ar-Rahman Rahimin Allahumma salli wa sallim wa barik ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallim