 السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم in the name of Allah سبحانه وتعالى most gracious, most merciful الحمد لله رب العالمين all praise is indeed due to Allah سبحانه وتعالى والصلاة والسلام على المبعوث رحمة للعالمين نبينا محمد وعلى آله وأصحابه والتابعين ومن تبعهم بإحسان إلى يوم الدين وبعد we send blessings and salutations upon محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم his household, his companions may Allah bless them all may Allah bless every one of us grant us all forgiveness during this beautiful night of Ramadan and may Allah سبحانه وتعالى write our names from those who have achieved freedom from hellfire and may Allah keep us steadfast I mean my brothers and sisters you and I know that some generations back we were perhaps not Muslim someone happened to work on us or care for our forefathers or someone up the ladder in such a way that they accepted Islam or in the case of those who have reverted you have accepted Islam because of the mercy of Allah سبحانه وتعالى had it not been for the interaction of the Muslims perhaps a lot of people would not have accepted Islam so there is a misunderstanding that people are trying to peddle today that we are not allowed to interact with the non-Muslims and we are not allowed to befriend them in any way this is actually taken totally out of context from the Quran may Allah سبحانه وتعالى forgive us and may Allah سبحانه وتعالى grant us strength in Surat الممتحينة verse number 8 and 9 Allah makes clear and it's very logical it has to be logical whom you are not allowed to get very close with those are the enemies who have driven you out of your homes and who have fought you those are the ones whom you keep your distance from and I'm sure any parent would give exactly the same advice to his or her children whether they were Muslim or not if someone has harmed you they were attacking you you know that they do not have good intentions towards you you would tell your children please don't associate with these because they are your enemies as for those who may not be Muslim but they have never harmed you they have never attacked you they have never caused any damage to you there is no harm obviously in being good to them in fact you have to be good to them kind and just and you may be close to them as well in fact to the degree that the Quran has verses in it that permits under conditions the marriage to a person of the book a Jew or a Christian woman a Jewish or a Christian woman if the enmity was so severe do you really think that Allah would have allowed marriage in a way that you are intimate with the person and you have children with them and they grow up to سبحان الله so we need to put these verses into context by going back to the verses of صورة المائدة 51 and 56 and taking a look at صورة الممتحينة where Allah سبحانه وتعالى says وتقسطوا إليهم الله does not prohibit you from befriending those from among the non-Muslims who have never fought you they have never driven you out of your homes etc Allah says He does not stop you you have to be good to them kind to them you have to fulfill their rights etc but the very next verse Allah says انتا والله the term willaya is used willaya does not just translate as friendship it is a very high level of protection where you seek the protection of someone سبحان الله and perhaps it is beyond the level of mere friendship so Allah says indeed Allah has prohibited you from taking as protectors those who have fought you they have driven you out of your homes and they have assisted others to drive you out of your homes you cannot afford to become so close to them because you will not be able to save yourself from harm سبحان الله so to save ourselves from harm and that's the series that we are speaking about we need to save ourselves from befriending those who are not sincere towards us those who have fought us those whom we have had a major issue with that is not resolved if you are not careful you are going to have a problem but we should never ever interpret the verse to say that we are not allowed to associate or befriend those who are good from amongst the non-muslims سبحان الله may Allah سبحانه وتعالى grant us an understanding of who we were a few generations back and sometimes even us who have accepted Islam reverted where were we some time back a lot of the times it has to do with the interaction with the Muslims take a look at Far East Asia and how Islam spread there in a beautiful way may Allah grant us an understanding the next surah surah number 61 is surah to صف and I've chosen one verse from that surah where Allah speaks to us and Allah says يا أيها الذين آمنوا لم تقولون ما لا تفعلون كبرمقة عند الله أن تقولوا ما لا تفعلون يا أيها الذين آمنوا لماذا تقولون ما الذي لا تفعلون هذا is verse number 2 of the surah لماذا تقولون one thing and do another thing that is a very big sin in the eyes of Allah سبحانه وتعالى to say something and to be something else hypocrisy my brothers and sisters we need to save ourselves from being hypocrites what you see is what you get that's how it should be not that we are a front and inside we are something else may Allah سبحانه وتعالى protect us from hypocrisy the signs of a hypocrite those whom when they speak they lie when they promise they break their promise and when they are in a dispute they get so angry that they explode Allah says those are signs of a hypocrite may Allah سبحانه وتعالى make us truthful people those whom when we promise we fulfill the promise may Allah سبحانه وتعالى grant us ease then we move on to the next beautiful surah it is named after the Jumu'ah Jumu'ah is the most blessed day of the week it is the Eid of the Muslims Jumu'ah is actually a day of celebration سبحان الله in it there is a moment that Allah says through Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم to us if you were to make a dua at that particular hour and we don't know the precise hour there is a lot that has been made mention of some say it is when the Imam is up between the two khutbah some say it is after صلاة العصر etc at that time if you were to make dua it is accepted so chances are if you repeat the dua every moment of the day throughout the whole of a Friday you will definitely get that moment somewhere إن شاء الله may Allah سبحانه وتعالى make it easy for us but what is important for us to know is Allah says in verse number 9 of that surah which is surah 62 سورة الجمع يا أيها الذين آمنوا إذا نودي للصلاة من يوم الجمع فسعوا إلى ذكر الله وذروا البيع أو you who believe when the caller has called or when the call is called for the Jumu'a prayer abandon and leave all your business and rush make haste towards the remembrance of Allah go and listen to what the Imam has to say it is your dose of a message that will shake you move you so that you can continue for the rest of that week إن شاء الله in the remembrance of Allah سبحانه وتعالى the difficulty is we come late for Salatul Jumu'a that's the difficulty do you know there is a competition every Friday where the hadith says إذا كان يوم الجمع وقفة الملائكة على باب المسجد يكتبون الأولة فالأول فإذا خرج الإمام طوا وصحوفهم يستمعون الذكر the hadith says on a Friday the angels stand at the doors of the masajid writing down who comes first who comes next who comes after that etc in order who wins the competition سبحان الله when the Imam comes up and starts his khutbah they close their book and they come and listen to the lecture as well how many of us we arrive in Jumu'a we might have technically fulfilled the farad but our name was not in that particular book mentioned in this hadith سبحان الله because we came after the Imam already started brothers and sisters let's save ourselves from the wrath of Allah let us earn the mercy of Allah by coming on a Friday early to the masjid sit read your sunnah read a little bit of Quran do that which will earn the pleasure of Allah سبحانه وتعالى come early it's a blessing it's a gift of Allah سبحانه وتعالى may Allah make us proud of our days that have been given as a gift by Allah to us may Allah make us those who give importance to Jumu'a remember when you give importance to that which Allah has given importance to you have earned the pleasure of Allah you give importance to what Allah gave importance to it is a sign of Taqwa God consciousness ومن يعظم شائر الله فإنها من تقوى القلوب الله says that those who consider the sanctuaries of Allah as absolutely sacred it is a sign of the Taqwa of the heart it is a sign of the piety of the heart you consider the Quran sacred you consider the Ramadan sacred the Hajj the masjid are sacred the Friday is sacred and we seek for allah may Allah make us close to Allah may Allah make us close to Allah make us close to Allah we move on to another verse in the same Surah where Allah speaks about how some people give preference to their businesses over the Jumu'a now remember the call is called for the Jumu'a those whom the Jumu'a is farad upon they are the ones who have to go for the Jumu'a if you have someone working ويجب أن تفتح جمعه ، الكثير من المسلمين يجب أن يجب أن تقرأه ، ولكن if you had to leave it for as long as there is no one operating it who is supposed to be at the Jumu'a بإذن الله you've done nothing wrong. You've done nothing wrong. However الله says قلما عند الله خير من الله ومن التجارة. Oh Muhammad ﷺ tell them what Allah has is far better than the past time and the business that they are pursuing. So quit the business, cut it, chop it, drop it, go to Allah. What Allah has is far better than what that business can offer you. May Allah SWT help us and grant us goodness. I also call on myself and yourselves. إيد is around the corner Insha'Allah. May Allah give us the opportunity to see the Eid. Amen. Please arrive very early for the Eid. It happens only twice a year and we come late. We don't even listen to what's going on. Please arrive very early, dress properly and come with lots of happiness. It's a day of happiness. Come and read some Quran prior to the Eid. Sit in your soffs. Insha'Allah that's just a word of encouragement because I notice everyone sometimes on the day of Eid rushing last minute. Why is that the case? May Allah SWT make it easy for us. Then we have the next سورة المنافقون which is سورة number 63. I want to pick up one or two verses from the سورة. The first one is a sign of hypocrisy. We were speaking about hypocrisy just now is that whenever someone is saying something they feel that this person is attacking me سبحان الله. The Imam gets up and he says don't commit adultery because you just committed adultery you say he's talking about me. Well if that's the case you are guilty that's why you think he's talking about you because you are guilty. If you were not guilty you wouldn't think of it that way. If the Imam gets up and says you mustn't yell, you mustn't scream, you mustn't swear and you know 5 minutes ago you were swearing. Automatically you are going to feel that hey he's talking about me. Why? There's hypocrisy. That's the reason. That's the reason. So Allah says in the Quran verse number 4 of سورة المنافقون يحسابون كل صحة عليهم. The hypocrites any scream that they hear they think it's all about them. They think that this person is referring to them. And you know what's the reason? Because they are guilty that's why. May Allah SWT protect us from this. And remember when people say things a lot of the times it's from Allah. They don't even know you sometimes and they are saying that which you think is directed only at you yes yet it is a common message for everyone. May Allah SWT grant us a deep understanding. Another verse of that سورة is verse number 9 where Allah asks us to save ourselves from what? From becoming so engrossed in our wealth and our children that we forget Allah. So Allah says او you who believe never let your wealth or your children divert you from remembering Allah. While you're busy in your businesses or on the social with your family you don't forget your salah. You don't forget the fact that you're a Muslim. You don't forget حلال and حرام because you should know that that comes first. So you can enjoy. You can do your business. You can spend time with your family. But the condition being made mention of here is don't forget Allah. Don't compromise Allah just because you're on a holiday it's fine. I can do it. It's okay. We're on holiday. You are not on holiday for being a worshiper of Allah. There's no holiday in that regard. What if you were to die in that condition? May Allah SWT grant us ease. Then we move on to another سورة. سورة الطلاق. سورة 65 of the Quran. I want to draw your attention to the reward of the consciousness of Allah. In this سورة, Allah talks about divorce. Brothers and sisters, save yourselves from divorcing wrongly by learning the rules and regulations governing divorce. Many times when there is a نكاح, we are invited Mashallah to officiate or to attend. People ask us to talk. I always feel in my heart let me talk about divorce because the people don't know much about the rules and regulations about divorce. And then I think to myself imagine getting up at someone's wedding and talking about divorce. They're going to think this guy is crazy man. سبحان الله. So therefore we don't talk about it. I think it's important that we actually address this issue and we deal with it. Before you marry, please learn about what divorce is. Because people divorce without realizing what they've done. Anyway, getting to the point verse number two. الله سبحانه وتعالى says تقوى means to bear Allah in mind, to be conscious of Allah, to be having the piety that is needed of a mu'min. If you have that Allah says we will grant you a way out. When you think that there was no way out الله will give you a way out سبحان الله. Allah says we will crack open that closed place in a way that you will have a مخرج. مخرج means a place to come out سبحان الله. And Allah says we will sustain you from a place that you didn't imagine we would have sustained you from. يرزقه من حيثه لا يحتسب. Allah will grant him sustenance in a way that he didn't dream of it. He didn't imagine it. So be steadfast. When you are steadfast you worship Allah. It's only a matter of time before your problems are solved. We become impatient. Take a look at the prophets of Allah. All of them. يوسف عليه السلام. He was very patient. At the end he was victorious. موسى عليه السلام. Very patient. At the end he was victorious. يوب عليه السلام. Very patient. At the end he was victorious. يونس عليه السلام. Very patient. At the end he was victorious. With us we want victory without the patients. That's the problem. Ask yourself. Who did Allah love more? Myself or the prophet يوسف عليه السلام. The answer is Yusuf. عليه السلام. How many years did he have to wait? Approximately 40 years according to some narrations. Well I haven't even waited 4 months and I'm giving up on Allah. أستغفر الله. Look at how weak we've become. Let's save ourselves by being patient, my brothers and sisters. الحمد لله. And the verses continue. Allah says whoever is conscious of Allah. He will make matters easy for him over a matter of time. يجع الله من أمر يوسرا. Verse number 4. Whoever is conscious of Allah. Allah will make his affairs easy. And in the next verse Allah says. ومن يتقلها يكفر عنه سيئاته ويعظم له أجراء. Whoever is conscious of Allah. Allah will grant him increase in reward. Allah will recompense or expiate his sins. So Allah will delete your sins as a result of your sabr. When you are patient. What happens? Allah wipes out other sins that have happened in your life. Because you are patient for the sake of Allah. So be patient. Your status is being elevated. We hear this but in fact it is in the Qur'an. Substantiated by verses of Surat Al-Talaq. So therefore be patient. Allah knows your struggle. Allah knows your difficulty. Allah knows what you are in. And Allah has the solution. But his delay in giving you that is for your benefit. So that you can earn greater reward. If he were to just give it to you as soon as you raised your hands. Perhaps you may not get closer to him. May Allah SWT grant us closeness to him. Move on to the next Surah. Surat Al-Tahreem. Where Allah SWT addresses us. And these verses are very important. Regarding saving ourselves. Listen to verse number 6. Straight into our theme. يا أيها الذين آمنوا قو أنفسكم وأهليكم نارا. Oh you who believe. Save yourselves and your family members from the fire. Then Allah describes the fire. How burning it is. How hot it is. How its fuel is made up of man and rock. Subhan Allah. May Allah SWT forgive us. So Allah says it straight to us. Save yourselves from the fire. How? By doing what? By obeying his instruction. Abstaining from his prohibition. And seeking his forgiveness. So therefore verse number 8. After that Allah says. يا أيها الذين آمنوا قو إلى الله توبة نصوحا. Oh you who believe. Return to Allah. Return to Allah. In repentance. In a sincere and genuine way. In that way Allah will forgive your sins. And He will grant you paradise. Because when Allah says. Oh you who believe. Save yourselves from the fire. Many people might think. I've already done things that are so bad. They are deserving of the fire. So immediately Allah says. No. If you seek forgiveness. You will save yourself. So therefore my brothers and sisters. No matter what you've done. Where you've been. How much you've done. Remember Allah's mercy is far broader. Than your sin. Or whatever you have done in the past. Subhan Allah. Allah's mercy encompasses whatever you've done. It needs you to realize. That the date of change is today. Not tomorrow. It needs you to realize. That I need to turn to Allah. You need to cut your bad ways and habits. And say. Oh Allah. Here I come. Subhan Allah. Here I come. To try my best. Ya Allah. I've quit my bad ways and habits. I regret them. Forgive me. Grant me a new beginning. Ya Allah. And Allah will grant you that beginning. It's the mercy of Allah. My brothers and sisters. Don't ever lose hope. In this beautiful mercy. Of Allah. Subhan Allah. Thereafter Allah. Subhan Allah. In verse number 11. Makes mention of something. Very very interesting. And that is. Sometimes you have a person. Who is religious. And their children. Sometimes. You find one or two. Or more or less. May not be so religious. So people say. Look at that guy. Isn't he so and so son? Subhan Allah. I tell you. It has happened. Even to the messengers of Allah. Subhanahu و تعالى. Allah. Subhanahu و تعالى. Speaks about it. In. This Surah. Surah to التحريم. Surah number 66. Of the Quran. Verse number. 10 and 11. Allah says. Allah. Allah. Gives you the example. Of the wife. Of the Prophet. Noah. Who was a disbeliever. And the wife. Of the Prophet. Lot. She was also a disbeliever. Allah. Says. They were the wives. Of two. Of our slaves. But. It did not help them. In the eyes of Allah. Subhanahu و تعالى. The point being. Raised here. Is. We need. To work. And our connection with Allah. To the degree. That when we meet him. We have acts of worship. That. In Sha Allah. Will come to our rescue. Through the mercy. Of the same Allah. So do deeds. At least. Do good deeds. And have hope. In the mercy of Allah. منصامة رمضانا. إيمانا. وحتسابا. غفر الله. ما تقدم من ذلك. Whoever fast in the month. Of رمضان. With full conviction. Expecting a reward. From Allah. Allah. Says. All their sins. Will be forgiven by us. We know. Allah. Promise you something. You can hold Allah. سبحانه وتعالى. To question. To say. Oh Allah. You promised me. Where is it? But we know. That we depend on the mercy. Of Allah. If it was not for the mercy. Of Allah. We wouldn't. We wouldn't even be here tonight. May Allah. سبحانه وتعالى. Grant us from his mercy. So. We move on. To the next. Surah. Surah. Powerful Surah. Many of us read it. Quite often. In it. Again. There is a mention of the fact that he is more concerned about the quality of your deed. Than the quantity of it. Remember that. So if you are to fulfill. Say you are reciting the Quran. If you did not finish the entire. In the month of Ramadan. But you read beautifully. Slowly. You took your time. You couldn't rush because you are slow. And you only covered 10 chapters. You will have a greater reward. يقومون بعمل أكثر than the one who was through the entire Qur'an. No concentration, no proper pronunciation, no nothing. They just wanted to get done with it. Allah says, hang on. You don't realize, we don't need your active worship. You need it. So deal with the quality, not with the quantity. Yes, the farad, we have no option. We have to deal with both the quality and the quantity. But anything beyond that farad, it's always to do with the quality more than the quantity. And the evidence of it is verse number 2 of Surah Al-Mulk, which is Surah number 67 of the Qur'an. Allah says, It is He who created death and life in order to test you. Who from amongst you has better deeds. Did you hear that? Who has better deeds? He didn't say who has more deeds. He says, who has better deeds. Therefore, let's save ourselves from misunderstanding this by doing good deeds that are accepted in the eyes of Allah. Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala make it easy for us. Speaking about the Qur'an, there is a hadith that says A person who can flow and recite the Qur'an beautifully. Yes, Masha'Allah, they have a very high rank. مع السفرة الكرام البررة. You know, they will have a very high rank with those who are pious, etc. But the one who reads the Qur'an with the Ta'ata'a. You know what's a Ta'ata'a? That means you are like stuttering, you are slow, and you're not as flowing as Masha'Allah, the Imam of the Haram, etc. Allah says, through the blessed lips of Muhammad SAW, Such a person will have a double reward. What is the reward? The reward for trying. It's not so easy. The reward for the recitation and the reward for the struggle. الله أكبر. Look at the mercy of Allah. So, if you're taking time and you're struggling, you actually have a double reward. May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala grant us from His mercy. Then we move on to Surat Noon. Surah number 68 of the Qur'an, where Allah describes the Prophet SAW's character. Allah Himself is speaking about Muhammad SAW to Muhammad SAW. Verse number 4. And Allah says Indeed. Oh Muhammad SAW, You are upon the highest level of character and conduct. The highest level. From that verse, we learn that we have to go back, study this character and conduct of the greatest of prophets, the most noble of all and the greatest of creation. And we need to emulate. We need to learn. We need to follow. We need to put into practice. We need to actually study every aspect of his character, his conduct, his life, his statements. And we need to learn from it. Because Allah Himself declares that this Subhan Allah messenger, his character is on a very, very high level. May Allah make us from those who can take from the character of Rasulullah SAW. Indeed, we have been blessed my beloved brothers and sisters. I move on to Surat Al-Haqqa, which is Surah number 69 of the Qur'an. In this Surah, Allah makes mention of a day that every one of us will have to witness. It is a day when we will be standing in front of Allah SWT and we will be answering whatever we've done. And after that, we will be given our book of deeds. We will be given our book of deeds. Just like children who are waiting for their results from a school exam. We will be waiting for our results. Each one worried about himself. You know when the results are out at a school or a university or a college and they are up perhaps on the notice board or somewhere, each one goes there to look at whose results. The first thing you've got to do is worry about yourself. As soon as you see your name that you are from amongst those who passed, there is something that happens to you, especially when the examination was so difficult or you know it was crucial. It meant you going further in life or stopping and perhaps something else happens. And you looked and said Hey, Subhanallah! It's so excited and you know the jumping and masha'a people react differently. Some become hysterical. Some they would drop into sujood for the sake of Allah. Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. At least the minimum for us say Subhanallah Alhamdulillah. Related to Allah. You know with all your yes and everything else Subhanallah. Everyone is worried about his own result first. Imagine on the day of judgment standing waiting for the results and the book comes out. And as the book is coming out it's going to be given to you and to me May Allah grant us the best. I mean that book as soon as it's being given to you it will either be given to you right hand or the left hand. Immediately you would know what has happened. It's like a sign Allah tells you here in the Quran and this is amazing Verse number 19 of Al Haqqa and it is repeated a few times in the Quran in different wording. And He will say Hey! Subhanallah! Hey! He's going to be so excited that's the term used in the Quran. Read my book check my results like a little child looking at the parents and saying Subhanallah check my results Look what I did dad I did well. On that day it's not about mom and dad it's about your own excitement you're worried about yourself and Allah says the one who will be given is the one who will be given سوف يكون لديه محفوظ اوها محفوظ في نفس المحفوظ او في نفس المحفوظ تقول اوه انظروا على تجاهيك اوه سبحان الله ردهم اقرأوا كتابية رد my book تشكي ما اخذت بشيء ماشى الله يكون محقق اوه ان الله يجعل من اوه محفوظ كيف يكون محفوظ اوه محفوظ بشيء محفوظ يكون محفوظ عندما يعتقد أنه الله هو اوه حر my brothers and sisters as we are listening حتى وصفنا كفرنا سيارة الله اوه فرقنا لأننا نعرف انه إنه مرسي من الله. الله يمكنك أن يطلق جميعنا في فلاش. يمكن الله أن يقوم بشكل ذلك لنا. لكن ثم يوجد أخر أجهزة. برنامج 15-25. أقوم برنامج أجهزة. الله يقول يقول أتمنى أنني لم أكن لدي هذا البحث هنا اليوم. أتمنى أنني لم أكن أعرف ما كانت my results. ولم أدري ما حسابية. أتمنى أنني أخذت اليوم. أتمنى أن الله لا يجعلنا من ذلك. هذا هو جميل جداً من المتابع. ما سيحدث في ذلك اليوم. ومجميع أخي وصفاتي يجب أن يساعدك. ويجب أن يساعدنا من المتابع. أو من تحصل على المتابع في المساعد. يجب أن نأخذ المساعدة من الله. سأسأل الله المساعدة. تبعا سأسأل الله المساعدة. أتمنى أن أساعدك. لا أعتقد أنني لا أستمع أن أذر. لا. تبعا سأسأل الله المساعدة كل يوم. عندما تذكر. أو الله أسأل. أو الله أسأل. وكذلك ستكلم أنك ستتكلم بالمساعدة من الله سبحانه وتعالى. من الله سبحانه وتعالى. أسأل أقول قولي هذا.