 طم الصلاة والسلام وعلى أهل بيتها طيبين الطاهرين المأثومين المبلومين قال الله العديم في محكم كتابه الكريم والقول كالحق والأستقل قائنين عوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم وقد عبلوا كثيرا ولا تزد الظالمين إلا ظلالا مما ختيعتهم أغرقوا فأدخلوا نارا فلم يجدوا لهم من دون الله عنصارا وقال نوه ربي لا تظر على الارض من الكافرين ديارا إنك إن تظرهم يضلوا إبادك ولا يلدوا إلا فاجرا كفارا رب أغفر لي ولي والدي ولي من دخل بيت يا مؤمنا ولا المؤمنين والمؤمنات ولا تزد الظالمين إلا طبارا عمالنا بالله صدق الله العلي العظيم صدق الله عمس الله فلوسفرين في العام لديهم ديارا على نفس الناس أحد من المؤمنين يأتي ويخلوا بأن الهم بيش لقد تفقروا مفيدا ولا يجد مجرد من مجرد ونجمع الأفضل من ديارا على نفس الله المؤمن الذي فكرة جدا في هذا المجرد المؤمنين هو إن الله وطاله قرار للمؤمن بيش مالهم يعملون فيه المؤمن؟ إذا كان يجب أن يأخذ حياته من جميع القرآن. أعطاء الثلاثة من الفلسفات التي يأتي فيها وقلت أن الله سبحانه وتعالى لقد قلت أن الناس يكونوا مجموعة ومجموعة. المؤسسة التي تبقى هذه هي أن إذا كان الله سبحانه وتعالى أو لماذا كان الله سبحانه وتعالى أن يكون هناك مجموعة التي هي مفتوحة. في سنة هذه المؤسسة لقد قلت لها أن الله سبحانه وتعالى لقد قلت أن الناس يكونوا مجموعة ومجموعة أخرى ومجموعة. وما يجب أن يكون هناك مجموعة في الفلسفات في حالة حسورية. لكن عندما نذهب إلى القرآن نرى أن الله سبحانه وتعالى يقوم بأنه مجموعة لما يفعل. الله سبحانه وتعالى يقوم بأنه يكون هناك مجموعة في فلسفة جيدة من المؤسسة. لكننا لقد قلت لنا المؤسسة في أحسنة القوية. لقد قلت لنا المؤسسة في أحسنة القوية. لذا على one side the human being is perfect. لقد قلت لنا المؤسسة في أحسنة القوية. ثم رددناه أسفلة صافلين. بعد أننا قمنا بكتبه في أفضل الأفضل لقد قمنا بكتبه إلى أفضل الأفضل الأسفل. إلا الذين آمنوا وأميلوا الصالحات فلهم أجرن غير ممنون. خلال الذين قموا بكتبه وخلال الذين يؤمنون وخلال الذين يفللون أفضل الأسفل إلى الله. يعني ماذا؟ أن الله سبحانه وتعالى has created the human being with all sorts of aspects or dimensions of perfection but then God lowered him. God put him through trials, put him through tribulations. He removed Adam from paradise, allowed him to descend down to the earth and now it becomes the responsibility of the human being to live up to that potential, to live up to his actual true nature and to make sure that he is not caught up in all of the vices of society that surround him. The human being often goes through different stages in their life where they have to make choices. They have certain examinations where they may overcome. We see for instance when a child, when a student, they're sitting in a classroom, if they fail that examination that they need to take to get into the next grade or to get into the next class or to complete that particular course, there's always an opportunity to take the exam again. You fail it one time, you fail your SAT one time, you go ahead and you're able to take it again the next month or the next year. You could take it a hundred times because the door of opportunity is open for you forever. But when it comes to the examinations of Allah SWT, we also see that the door of opportunity is open. But Allah SWT, if we take that exam that he has offered toward us and we treat it as something insignificant, we treat it as something that is not vital, that is not important for my success in this life and in the next life. Then perhaps that God will close down, will close that door and will lock us out and we won't have any more opportunities. We mentioned yesterday in the verse of chapter 71 of the whole of the Quran Allah SWT he states He states about that community of Prophet Noah that we gave them 950 years worth of opportunity. 950 years the door was open for them to be those who are receptive to the mercy and the blessing and the bounty of Allah SWT. وقد أذل كفير but every time we kept that door wide open for them they said we want to walk from all of the other doors. We don't want to follow this particular legislation that the Prophet has brought toward us. We come forth and we see this is the nature of the human being as he mentioned time and time again. They didn't want to listen to the prophets of Allah SWT because they were too arrogant to follow in that instruction. We see for instance that when Musa A.S. he saved the people from Pharaoh and they began to enter into Palestine we come and we see that Allah SWT mentions this several times within the whole of the Quran that as they were about to enter into the city he looks back toward his community and he says look before we enter into the city we need to make sure that you listen to my instruction. They said oh Musa you're the one who saved us whatever you tell us we're going to submit to what you have to say. It is said that at this moment Musa A.S. says that when you're going to enter into the city back then traditionally every single major city had a massive fort around it. There were several different doors by which the people could enter into that particular town into that city. Like for instance when we're driving to Canada there are several different outlets of the border to get to Toronto for instance. You can enter through Niagara Falls you can enter through this border you can enter through that border there are different types of entrances that one can take. Similarly was all of the old classical cities during that day and age. So Musa A.S. says I want you to enter through this door what is known as enter through this door and when you're entering through this door before you enter enter in the state of prostration meaning as you're about to enter into the door go into the state of Sujud ask Allah SWT to forgive your sins and then enter through the door as you're humbling yourself in front of God. They looked at Musa A.S. and they said oh Musa seriously we have to perform prostration and then crawl into the door now we're not going to do that. One began to walk from X door one began to walk from Y door so maybe some people they began to run through the door some people they began to walk backwards some people they began to do the moonwalk I have no idea right they began to do everything else except for follow the instruction of Musa A.S. what happened these individuals eventually they would see that they fall into this misguidance just because of this small instruction that the Prophet gave them and they were up for destruction in a narration from the Holy Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم he states إنه مثل اهنبيتي كمثل باب حطة that surely the similarity or the similitude of my family is like that of باب الحطة that door of Musa I told them the Holy Prophet he says I told them to follow Ali ibn Abi Talib after me but they said we'll follow anyone except for Ali ibn Abi Talib عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم Musa A.S. told them to enter to the door the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم قال follow Ali he said he told them he said just board the ark for God's sake what's it gonna hurt you if we don't board the ark what's it gonna hurt you at the very least you know we're gonna go on a trip we're gonna go on a boat ride they're all gonna come home if this flood is really not gonna take place right they said oh Musa we're not gonna do that and because of that building up of arrogance and building and creating that veil between their heart and the message of الله سبحانه وتعالى الله سبحانه وتعالى استيت وقد أبلوا كثيرة ولا تزد الظالمين إلا ضلالا so the more that they went astray God increased their misguidance so that there's no more outlook for them to turn back they failed the exam and there's no more opportunities after this for this group of individuals الله سبحانه وتعالى continues in verse number 25 of chapter 71 of the Holy Quran مما ختيئاتهم أغرقوا فأدخلوا نارا فلم يجدوا لهم من دون الله أنصار let's go out and take a look at this one by one مما ختيئاتهم أغرقوا due to their sins as a direct cause of their elapses الله سبحانه وتعالى drown them we went and we stated that we knew the prophets of God it was their custom it was their responsibility to make sure that they offer opportunities several times toward the prophets toward their community they would always give them guidance they would always give them consultation they would always present toward them wisdom and when they felt that they would not be receptive toward the wisdom of the prophets of Allah سبحانه وتعالى then the prophets would come and warn them they would not bring forth the punishment just like that they came with a warning as Allah سبحانه وتعالى stays in the very first verse of chapter 71 of Surat Noh بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم إنه أرسلنا نوحا إلى قومه أن أنظر قومكا من قبل أن يأتيهم عبابا أليم أن نوح عريسان was sent at this particular time when he realized that the community was no longer going to be able to be receptive toward them and told them look be careful if you don't follow my instruction the entire community is going to drown but constantly they said نوح we're not going to listen to anything that you have to say going back toward the verse مما ختيئاتهم أغرقوا as a direct consequence of their transgressions قد شنط we go and we see that in the theory of أهل البيت عالي مصرات وصرام we have a concept of what is known as التجسيد الأعمال التجسيد الأعمال means that your actions our acts of worship our good deeds our bad deeds they take a physical form we don't necessarily see that physical form but it is present around us and what is known as أولب الملكوت and what is known as this spiritual dimension of this world let me give you an example the one who prays or the one who does this أعمال on the first Thursday of the month of رجل we all performed the أعمال known as أعمال ليلة الرغاية many of us we came and performed it in this message together when you perform that أعمال the narration states that on the day on the first day that you pass away in your grave there's going to be a man who enters into your grave and who presents toward you fruits and presents toward you all of these gifts and tells you don't worry that you're okay don't fear for today is the day in which you attain reward and blessing there's nothing for you to fear today as a direct result of that particular prayer that we did God gives us a physical blessing that we can understand that we can relate to and that we will be able to attain those fruits of the act of our worship similarly for instance if we fast during the holy month of رمضان if you recite اكت دع or ويد دع or زيد دع we will be able to attain the blessings in the برزة or in the afterlife and we can go ahead and read the narrations that they had conveyed that tell us about what enjoyment that we are going to benefit from by performing such and such اطمال and acts of worship similarly on the flip side if an individual he commits an act of sin he commits an act of transgression God will punish him by means sometimes of direct consequences on the basis of the اطمال that he performed they're real they're physical things that follow us or forgiveness for instance that punishment that is running behind us it just dies and it falls away similarly if we are you know performing a good deed we are you know we are we are thanking Allah سبحانه وتعالى for receiving blessings or seeking forgiveness or performing سلاتر نير or reciting دول افتتاء all of these type of things they allow for certain اطمال or certain benefits or blessings to become physical and follow us behind us walk next to us and so on and so forth and we will be able to attain the physicality of that blessing after we pass away which is why نوح عريصراته وصرام Allah سبحانه وتعالى tells نوح in this particular chapter مما ختيعتهم اغرقوا that as a direct consequence of their sins they drowned it wasn't necessarily that physical drowning only that we're talking about but every single time that they sin and every single time that they're transgressing in the boundaries slowly their hearts are drowning their hearts and their souls are drowning in darkness and in the lack of light and in the lack of understanding and in ignorance until the physical punishment from Allah سبحانه وتعالى comes which is the direct rainfall and the direct flooding which takes place to that community which drowns everyone within that society a question that many of us pose when it comes to the story of نوح عريصراته وصرام and that is did Allah سبحانه وتعالى send down a flood that drowned the entire community that drowned the entire world or was it only limited toward that region where نوح عريصراته وصرام was preaching one group of scholars they come forth and they state that Allah سبحانه وتعالى sends down this rainfall and it wipes out the entire world except for those few followers of نوح عريصراته وصرام who boarded the ark we come forth and we state that this is probably illogical and perhaps out of the injustice of Allah سبحانه وتعالى because why would God punish people on the other side of the world who never heard the lesson of نوح عريصرام who never heard the wisdom who never heard the revelation of نوح عريصراته وصرام another group will state no that this did take place where Allah سبحانه وتعالى did drown the entire world but there were no people on the other side of the world back then it was the earlier generation maybe نوح عريصرام according to narrations is in the first you know dozen prophets of God and they're only limited to one geographical region the second question that people might pose is okay if we submit to the fact that Allah سبحانه وتعالى sent down the punishment and drown only the people only the community of نوح عريصراته وصرام how about children how about people who were you know unable to intellectually grasp the message of نوح عريصراته وصرام when a child is not بادق when he has not attained adulthood God cannot punish him for his sins Allah سبحانه وتعالى is just and he's the all merciful and he's the all wise how could God punish a child who doesn't know the difference between right and wrong in this case well if you recall a couple of nights ago we mentioned that Allah سبحانه وتعالى amongst the punishments that he brought forth toward the people of نوح عريصراته وصرام was the fact that he caused all of the women within the community to become sterile they were unable to give birth to the children for 40 years this punishment took place within that community that's when Allah سبحانه وتعالى tells نوح أو نوح your dua is going to be accepted and we're going to bring down this punishment God postponed that punishment for 40 years because he wanted those children to grow into adulthood where they're able to determine whether they're going to board the ark with نوح or they're not going to board that ark out of the wisdom and out of the justice of Allah سبحانه وتعالى so we go back toward the verse of the Holy Quran and we come forth and we see that Allah سبحانه وتعالى states مما ختيئاتهم أغرقوا فأدخلوا نارا that we drown them and then we force them to enter into the fire meaning that for these individuals there's no sense of or potential of recourse they're going to be amongst those who receive the punishment of Allah سبحانه وتعالى فلم يجدوا لهم من دون الله and صار and they will not find any of their idols to help them on that day when they are receiving the punishment of Allah سبحانه وتعالى verse number 26 وقال نوهن ربي لا تظر على الأرض من الكافرينة ديار then نوح after God promised him that punishment is going to take place and that community is going to drown he raises his hands toward God and makes a dua the dua of the prophet is the accepted dua وقال نوهن ربي لا تظر على الأرض من الكافرينة ديار Oh Allah and bring forth that punishment from the skies and make sure that no disbeliever lives on the earth the question that comes over here is that is this really the nature of the prophets of God that they would ask for a punishment to come down and wipe out when we hear about the stories of the prophets of God when we hear the story of the Holy Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم he is known as رحمة للعالمين صلى الله عليه وسلم he is the mercy to the worlds he is the embodiment or the reflection of أرحم الراحمين how could it be that they make da'as for the destruction of the community we come and we see that these prophets of Allah they are the embodiment or the reflection of the mercy of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم and they demonstrate that for the course of their life but when they realize that individuals and only the prophets of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم have the ability to pass this type of judgment on people not you or I we have to assume that every single person is a good individual when they commit a sin we have to reflect on our own sins before we pass the judgment on anyone else but when the prophet of Allah who is a divine representative of God he makes a supplication like this the mercy of God or the mercy of that prophet it is no longer existent right that he's offered he's offered all sorts of support and he's offered all different sorts of avenue for these individuals to fall into belief but they fail to do so at every single length because the prophets of Allah they believe that there's no sort of potential for these people to believe anymore إمام الحسين أهر البيت عليه وسلم when they come forth to battle they go and they fight that enemy because they realize that that enemy is no longer going to believe or no longer going to submit it is said that in the battle of سفين أمير المؤمنين علي سرات و سرام had chosen had chosen Malik and his companion to be the flag bearer of the army the commander of the army on the day of سفين it is said that every single time أمير المؤمنين would go into battle every single individual who he would fight who he would kill after he would strike he would call out الله و أكبر God is great it is said that Malik and أشسر was also fighting the opponent it is said in the midst of the battle he would turn his back toward أمير المؤمنين and says أمير المؤمنين I've heard you call out الله و أكبر only 35 40 times I've also killed 35 40 people we're equal what's the deal at this moment أمير المؤمنين علي سرام says oh Malik he says because before I strike someone I know if there's going to be any believer in his progeny from this day until the day of judgment while you just strike the opponent because they're the opponent I know that there's going to be no other believer to come from this individual's progeny otherwise I'll let him go right we come and we see that the prophets of Allah سبحانه وتعالى they would offer opportunity after opportunity toward people until they realize that set these individuals they're never going to believe their children are never going to believe there's no sort of avail for this group of individual this is out of the mercy of the prophet out of the mercy of Allah سبحانه وتعالى قال نوهن ربي لا تظر على العرض من الكافرين ديال continues in verse number 27 إنك انتظرهم يذلوا إبادك ولا يلدوا إلا فاجرا كفار oh Allah make sure that you destroy them make sure that you defeat them because if you allow them to remain then the only thing that they will do is allow their ideologies to cause corruption with those people who believes what lesson can we take from this that we come forth and we see that there are people who have doubts in regards to their ideology who have doubts in regards to their belief system we need to make sure that this aspect of doubt it does not permeate into our minds into our hearts there's nothing wrong with asking questions we have to ask questions we have to seek the truth right but if an individual is only going to bring questions when you have certainty in something what do we see that doubt begins to compound and ignorance begins to compound until you begin to lose belief yourself which are why narrations of أهل البيت عريم صلاة و سلام have told us to be careful where you attain knowledge from be careful who you listen to be careful what books you read be careful what type of people you discuss especially matters of religion matters of belief with because it's your belief that is going to be the cause for you to attain salvation or not if you follow individual or you sit and you eat and you talk to people who are shaky in terms of their ideology or shaky in terms of their belief what's going to happen to you eventually it's going to rub off on your heart on to your soul everyone has to look out for this salvation on their own question then how do individuals they begin to remove this sort of doubt from their heart once it's present narrations of أهل البيت عريم صلاة و سلام they tell us that in order to remove doubt from your heart in order to make sure that we are submissive toward الله سبحانه وتعالى we need to follow certain steps amongst these steps is to recite the whole of Qur'an read the whole of Qur'an and reflect upon the verses and these verses they lead us toward finding sources of certainty as you mentioned a couple of nights ago الله سبحانه وتعالى says go out look at the sun look at the moon look at the stars these are all avenues for our hearts to be receptive to certainty when you see the beautiful sky when you see the sun rising and the sun setting and when you see the full moon present outside of your window looking at the horizon immediately you need to pose the question is there really doubt in God? can we really doubt in a creator after we've seen such beauty? you can't it's impossible to do that because if you truly allow for your heart to be receptive if you truly allow for your mind to contemplate on all of these signs of God you will force yourself to submit you will naturally submit toward the creator of the heavens and the earth it is said that the Holy Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه و عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم he would pray outside outdoors in the middle of the night he would look up at the stars and he would raise his hands in the Qanout of Salat al-Witr perhaps and say ربنا ربنا ما خلقتها بباطلة سبحانك فقنا أضابنا oh Allah all glory be to you surely you did not create all of this as a falsehood surely you did not create all of this in vain there must be a purpose for all of this if you spend one hour one moment five minutes in the middle of the night and going outside and looking at the stars and the beauty of this weather that we are having these days in the summertime look up at the stars and say oh Allah what did you create all of this train your mind to think train your mind to reflect and you will realize that Allah didn't create all of this in vain but there's a purpose behind all of this and that purpose will lead you in the creator إنكا انتظر إنكا انتظر هم يذلوا إبادك ولا يلدوا إلا فاجرا كفار oh Allah if you allow these disbelievers to remain in community and if you allow these disbelievers to remain in the society what are you going to find except for them confusing others so get rid of that الله سبحانه وتعالى كورس نوح عليه السلام in the last verse of chapter 71 verse number 28 oh my lord forgive me at the end of all of this narrations of Ahl al-Bait commentators of the Quran they state that Prophet Nooh عليه السلام begins to make this du'a after the whole incident of the drowning in the arc in the whole situation when he is finally has found solace with those small group of supporters and companions that he has and it's said that Nooh عليه السلام after the everything has been settled down he leaves the arc and he raises his hands to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and he begins by stating oh Allah forgive me when an individual has attained success when he makes a lot of du'a when finally God gives him that thing that he has you know been requesting for years for months for days the first thing that he should do was ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى for forgiveness why because when God gives us a blessing it could be for several different reasons that we mentioned yesterday one of those reasons why God might constantly be giving us blessing is because he doesn't want us to remember him he wants to move us away like he does to Pharaoh like he does to other oppressors right when you see a king he's dominating over a region over a community he's wealthy he has money he has power he has everything that he could ask for right God keeps on giving him more you wonder why does God keep on giving this individual all of these bounties and all of these blessings right why doesn't God just destroy this tired because Allah سبحانه وتعالى wants to allow for him to never remember and he wants him to forget God completely that's what God wants from that for these type of hard hearted people right we need to make sure that whenever we receive a blessing we need to thank God for it and at the same time ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to make sure that that blessing is not because of any sort of sin that I'm committing that God is trying to push me further away but also perhaps the second reason why I knew that Allah سبحانه وتعالى is saying oh Allah forgive me is because one individual he has built a link with Allah سبحانه وتعالى he always sees that every thing that he's done is not enough in terms of pleasing God the holy prophet would recite 360 times أستغفر الله رب العطو every single day who compares with the holy prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم in obedience to God in worship of God right the holy prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم is the cream of the crop in terms of creation but he repents toward Allah because he sees his own acts of worship is not sufficient in terms of receiving the pleasure of Allah سبحانه وتعالى so though نوح عليه السلام has preached for 950 years though نوح عليه السلام has finally attained solace after all of those efforts he همبلس himself in front of God by asking God for forgiveness رب الخفال لي ولي واري ديه and Allah and forgive my parents نوح عليه السلام perhaps is asking Allah سبحانه وتعالى for forgiveness of all of his forefathers meaning from amongst the prophets but naturally we can also take lessons that whenever we're seeking forgiveness for ourselves also seek forgiveness from our parents because perhaps the cause of this guidance that we are now attaining a blessing of that comes from the da'a of our parents for us as children رب الخفال لي ولي واري ديه ولي من دخل بيتي مؤمنا ولي المؤمنين والمؤمنات and Allah and have mercy and forgive those who have entered into my home نوح عليه السلام says المفصلين of the Holy Quran state that this could be a number of reasons or meanings behind what does it mean when نوح عليه السلام says and forgive those who enter into my home one of those commentaries is that when نوح عليه السلام says forgive those who have entered into my home he's speaking about those who entered into his ark because according to narration they were in the ark for many many months for many many days for many many years perhaps even right so that when نوح عليه السلام is stating Allah and have mercy upon those who have entered onto the ark who have entered into my home he's speaking speaking about those who have entered onto the ark A second interpretation is that when نوح عليه السلام state or Allah and have mercy and forgive those who entered into my home he's speaking about the home of the willy of the prophets of Allah سبحانه وتعالى meaning those who have joined the ranks those who are the followers of the prophets of God those who are the followers of the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم those who are the followers of Ahl al-Bayt عليه السلام or Allah have mercy upon all of those who follow within this legacy of ours from that day of Noah until the very last day which includes Noah for all of us as believers in the prophets of God ربخ اللي ولي والدي ولي من دخل بيتيا مؤمنا ولي المؤمنين ولي المؤمنات and our Allah and have mercy upon all of the believing men and all of the believing women right it is the nature of those who believe the believers to always pray for other believers فاعتمت الزهراء سلام الله عليها عليه سراته وسرام سر العالم it is said that on that day she was making da'a for the entirety of the night she is praying for everyone امام حسن عليه سراته وسرام is three or four years old on that day he enters into the room of his mother عليها سراته وسرام and at this moment he sees his mother making da'a for everyone for the neighbors for people on the other side of the world for every individual but she doesn't say Oh Allah plus my son حسن for instance so in the midst of عليها سراته وسرام making this da'a امام حسن says Oh my mother you forgot about me you didn't pray for me فاعتمت الزهراء عليها سراته وسرام the response by her famous line ايابنية اجار ثم الدار pray for your neighbors first and then you pray for those in your house so we need to make sure that when we're making da'a like new عليها سراته وسرام does that we pray for one another that we pray for everyone within humanity and that will be the cause or the facilitation for our da'as to also be accepted رب غفلي ولي والدية ولي من دخل بيتيا مؤمنا ولي المؤمنين ولي المؤمنات ولا تزد الظالمين إلا طبار and oh Allah make sure to remove all of those disbelievers from hindering and from permeating our message and our ideology this is the last verse of chapter 71 of the whole of the Quran سراته and insha'Allah tomorrow night we'll begin by reflecting on chapter 72 of the whole of the Quran سورة الجن we pray to Allah سبحانه وتعالى for توفق that he gives us the ability to consistently remember him by means of his ayat and specifically the verses of the whole of the Quran الحمد لله رب العالمين وصل اللهم على سيدنا ونبينا محمد وعالها طيبين الطاحرين