 السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والصلاة والسلام على سيد المرسلين سيدنا ونبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلال وجيك وعظيم سلطانك اللهم افتح لنا فتوحة الارفين يا الرحمن الرحيم بسم الله لننشأنا سنمر with our 7th سشن of the series of the series of Suratul-kaf ان شاء الله ونحن نشأت at the point that الله سبحانه وتعالى out of his mercy he is not going to punish those who transgressed in this world immediately just out of his mercy he is giving them a chance that if they want to repent there is still time because once death comes repentance stops so there is a chance for those who want to change for those who want to take advantage of this of this time that Allah has given them and this is out of the mercy of Allah سبحانه وتعالى so we start at ayah 59 last time وكل قرى اهلكناهم لما ظلموا وجعلنا لمهلكهم موعدة in those towns we destroyed them and then we destroyed them when they did drugs this is the punishment of the people previously to the nation who came previously to the nation of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم because as I mentioned last time if Allah سبحانه وتعالى is going to punish the people of a messenger while he is alive then he is going to destroy the whole tribe we saw what happened to the people of the لوت عليه السلام to the people of نوح عليه السلام Allah saved the righteous ones and destroyed the whole the whole group of people all the people but out of his mercy Allah is not going to do that for the people of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم for the nation of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم just to give them time to give them a chance to repent if they want to do so before that وجعلنا لمهلكهم موعدة there has been a fixed time for the destruction of those of those nations who belied their messengers now Allah سبحانه وتعالى is going to tell us the story of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and what happened to him how he thought that he himself is the person who knows everything and there is no one who has more knowledge than him what happened so let's go inshallah with this story once سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and he was asked who is the most knowledgeable so he said I am without referring knowledge to Allah سبحانه وتعالى so Allah سبحانه وتعالى told him that there is someone who is more knowledgeable than you and that was the answer when Musa عليه السلام talked to Allah and we know that سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم used to talk to Allah سبحانه وتعالى anytime he wanted so he said I was asked this question I said I am but Allah سبحانه وتعالى I said no you have there is someone who is more knowledgeable than you so when سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم heard that he said to himself that I should learn from that man I should know what I don't know so he asked Allah سبحانه وتعالى how can I meet that person Allah told him that you will find him at the junction of the two rivers when the two rivers meet you will find him there and he said how can I know where that place is and Allah told him you take a fish in a vessel and you go you walk until the place when you lose this fish then you know that you will find this person in that area سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and what happened now سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم وإذ قال موسى لفته لا أبرحوا حتى أبلغوا المجمع البحريني أو أمضي حقوبة سيدنا موسى لأخذه سيدنا يوشع بالنون سيدنا يوشع بالنون سيدنا يوشع عليه سلام كان معه لأخذه ولكن أيضا لتعلم من سيدنا موسى엔 هناك أجهزة كان هم أسهل修� كان سيدنا يوشع بالنون لذا工作 جهاز سيدنا موسى لا أحاول باستطاع سيدنا موسى ليس من سيدنا سيدنا أنا ساعدت سيدنا سيدنا موسى حقوبة حقوبة في العرب is plural for the single and the single word is حقبة and the حقبة means a long period of time and it was thought that this period is about 70 or 80 years old or 80 years the span of the حقبة is 70 or 80 years so when سيطنا موسى said أمضية حقوبة he made that word plural so the least of the plural is 3 so that means let's consider the حقبة is 70 years 70 multiplied by 3 is 210 so this was what he said when سيطنا موسى said to his servant boy I will keep walking even if I have to walk 210 years to meet the person Allah SWT told me about and we knew earlier that when قريش wanted to check on سيطنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم then they asked him several questions and one of them was about the people of the cave the man who wandered around the world and about the spirit so the point is سيطنا موسى said did not give an answer because he does not speak from his own inclination وما يمتقعني الهوة if he doesn't know the answer he wouldn't answer it and that's why he said I will answer you tomorrow so it lasted 15 days until the last day he said إن شاء الله now my point is سيطنا محمد did not have the knowledge all the knowledge the same thing سيطنا موسى did not have the knowledge and that's why he wanted to learn more and that's why he wanted to go to see that to meet that righteous person Allah SWT has told him about so he promised himself to go walking even if it took him a long time this means this gives us a lot of lessons the most important thing is that we have to seek knowledge we have to remember that the more we learn the more we realize that we are ignorant we know nothing Allah's knowledge is vast we know nothing some people say okay I'm going to be a lawyer another would say I want to be a doctor another would say I want to be a space person so each one of this is a science by itself but no one knows everything Allah will give special knowledge to special people so that you might see wonders on those people so if you do not have something do not deny what others might have sometimes you would say Mashallah this is a مبارك person this is a blessed person he knows a lot and the way he speaks is not the way that we speak remember there is something called العلم اللدني العلم اللدني the divine knowledge and Allah will give this some of this knowledge to certain people so here سيدنا موسى wanted to go to meet that righteous person to learn from him العلم اللدني how did we know that it was العلم اللدني we knew that because الله سبحانه وتعالى said in later فوجد عبدا من عبادنا آتيناه رحمة من عانتنا وعلمناهم اللدني عيبة we're going to get there in a moment so now what happened سيدنا موسى started walking with سيدنا يوشا and of course when you want to go on a trip you prepare yourself for that trip so they took their food and Allah told him that you take a fish with you and when you lose this fish then you will see the place where that will be the meeting place and there is a lesson here when we are going on a trip we take something to help us along the way we take something to eat we take something to rest we might have a tent we might have water we might have food we might have several things to help us during this journey during this trip okay now look at the journey that we are taking towards الله سبحانه وتعالى this is a long journey and to be able to go we have to have some provision our provision is the provision for the soul we have to take care of our soul during this journey it's not only our body it's not only food it's not only drink it's not just to wear some clothes no we need to take care of our heart we need to understand we need to remember that if our heart is sound then our journey is going to be sound if our heart is good then our journey is going to be successful it's a long journey we are taking we have to have something to help us along this journey we have to have our reading of the book of Allah سبحانه وتعالى we have to have a good connection to the book of Allah سبحانه وتعالى we have to have a good connection to Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم to send salawat to Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم we have to pray special prayers before to be closer to Allah سبحانه وتعالى because we know this is the closest time that Allah is to us we have to get nearer also to him we need special care we need special provision along our journey and we are depending on Allah سبحانه وتعالى to give us that help and that care so now Sayyidna موسى started with his journey فلما بلغى مجمع بينهما نسياحه دهما فتخذ سبيله في البحر سربه so when they when they reach the junctions the junction of the two seas they forgot their fish and if we have to look into the Arabic word here نسياحه the elephant at the end of the verb means both of them so how come that both of them forgot who is responsible for the food to prepare the food and to serve the food is the boy servant but what happened is that both of them forgot about the fish this gives us a clue that even their leader should not leave everything for the servants for those who take care of the caravan why because he should be responsible about everything when they are ready to leave he should check the area after they leave did they forget anything that's this this small thing is not the servant's work it's the leader's work so both of them forgot about this fish and what happened to this fish so الله سبحانه وتعالى here made the سيدنا موسى when they reached the place of the junction of the two seas they reached this area and they felt sleepy so both of them slept and there was a special rod that they slept at so the fish sensed the that this is something special this is something that would give it life so it jumped it jumped and what happened to it the fish moved vigorously and jumped and took its way on the sand on the sand until it reached the river now الله سبحانه وتعالى has given life to this fish and it is said that there was a spring of life at that area and that's why the the fish sensed felt that spring of life so a drop of water of that spring came to the fish and that's what made the fish get life again and it moved now what الله سبحانه وتعالى did we said that the fish went on the sand until it reached the sea so what happened here الله سبحانه وتعالى made that trace that clear and kept it clear so when Musa عليه السلام and his his servant just woke up they started walking again so and Yusha knew that the fish was not there but he forgot to tell Sayyidina Musa that they went a little further and Sayyidina Musa عليه السلام they felt hungry so he asked his servant to give them the fish to eat at that time Yusha عليه السلام remembered that he forgot to tell Musa about the what happened to the fish so when he told him he said this is what we wanted so what did what did happen now so when they went further Musa said to his boy servant bring us our meal we have suffered in this journey we are hungry so Yusha عليه السلام said he said do you remember do you remember when we took ourselves to the when we stopped when we stopped at the place where where we rested قال ارأيت اويني الى الصخرتي فاني نسيت الحوت فاني نسيت الحوت فاني نسيت الحوت so I forgot I indeed forgot to tell you about the fish وما انسانيه إلا الشيطان أن أذكره not but shaitan made me forget to remember it or made me for shaitan made me forget to tell you that we lost it so shaitan now وتخذ سبيله في البحر عجب and this fish took its course so its path into the sea was a strange way what does it mean something strange so the story by itself is strange the fish that we prepared to eat got life again and it went until it reached the sea and jumped into the water so سيدنا موسى here said كما كنا نبغي فرتدا على آثاره ما قصصه وموسى عليه السلام said that's what we have been seeking this is what we have been looking for they wanted to know exactly where they missed or they lost the fish because that was the place where Allah told him that he will be meeting الخضر عليه السلام so they went back their footsteps قصصه so they were following the traces what happened they found فوجد عبد من عبادنا فوجد عبد من عبادنا آتيناه رحمة من عندنا وعلمناه من لدنا عيلم so they found one of our servants عبد من عبادنا remember the word servant and this is a servant to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and when someone is a servant to Allah سبحانه وتعالى then he is at the highest tracks remember when Allah سبحانه وتعالى God say محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم into the إسراء he said سبحان الله he was the one who God sayed محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم to go up into the heavens عبده so being the servant to Allah سبحانه وتعالى is the highest of honor but being the servant to people is humility so they found one of our servants عبد من عبادنا what about this person this servant آتيناه رحمة من عندنا on whom we have bestowed mercy from us and whom we had told knowledge from us and this is what I just mentioned the divine knowledge the divine knowledge is the highest of all the knowledge and it's something that Allah سبحانه وتعالى it's ever a secret that Allah gives into the heart so they found a man and he was a blessed man and Musa greeted him and Musa introduced himself سيدناه خطر asked him are you the Musa of the children of Israel and we know Israel is another name for and Musa said yes or are you the Musa of the children of Israel the prophet who was sent to the people of Israel of Israel so now what happened after that قال له Musa now pay attention to what say the Musa said هل اتبعك على أنت علمني مما علمت رشدة can I or may I follow you and you will teach me from what you have been told of sound judgment you have the knowledge I don't have you have the knowledge that I don't know هل اتبعك may I this is something this is the politeness how you have to be with your teacher the teacher should have a special respect and this is called ادب تعلم so you ask politely you just humiliate yourself to the to the teacher because he has the knowledge you want to learn from from him and what about if someone has the divine knowledge you should show so much respect for your teacher قال إنك لن تستطيع معي صبره you will not be able to have patience with me وكيف تصبير على ما لم تحت به خبره and how can you have patience for what you do not encompass in knowledge سيدنا الخدر knows that Musa is a prophet he is a messenger and that he is a person of Allah he is a friend of Allah so he said you have your way I have my way you cannot be patient with what I I do so this is the condition that is there both of them are on different paths each has his own way لن تستطيع معي صبره you will not have patience because you as a messenger would give your judgment according to the outer things I as a person of Allah would give my judgment according to the heart according to the inner things that I know and you don't know how can you be patient so Musa عليه السلام says so Musa عليه السلام said if Allah wills you will find me patient and I will not disobey you in any order I will be submissive to whatever you want قال فأين اتبعتني فلا تسألني عن شيء حتى أحدث لك منه ذكره so he said then if you follow me do not ask me about anything you see until I make a mention of it until I mention it to you until I myself let's talk about it so this was the condition if you want to follow me you do not ask me any questions they have that agreement so they set out they were walking they wanted to cross from one bank to the other bank of the river so they they wanted to to go on a ride on a boat so the people of the boat there was a boat passing by and the people recognized so they took them on the boat and they refused to take a charge for that they did not take money from them they did not take anything in return so حتى إذا ركبها في السفينة خرقها until they had embarked on the ship on the boat الخضر made a hole in it where he took a piece of the wood of the ship out so when he did that موسى عليه السلام looked at him and he said قال أخرقتها لتغرق أهلها لقد جئت شيئا أمرا موسى قال الناس قمت لقد قمت yet you have broken their boat you are missing out their poor boat the people are going to drown why did you do that? indeed you have done a horrible thing a terrible thing so موسى at this point thought of destroying and other people's property he couldn't he couldn't stay silent so he said he talked but what was the answer قال ألم أقول إنك لن تستطيع معي صبره so الخضر عليه السلام said to him did I not tell you that you would not be able to have patience with me you would not be able to stay silent say موسى remembered that agreement and he said قال لا تأخذني بما نسيته لا ترغبني من أمر يوسرا so he said to him call me not to account for what I forgot and be not hard on me for my affair with you and please forgive me I forgot فانطلقه so when they went down on the ship they kept walking حتى إذا لقيا غلاما فقت له حتى إذا لقيا غلاما فقت له حتى إذا لقيا غلاما فقت له so they set out and they proceeded until they met a boy وان الخضر killed him غلام is a young boy who did not reach puberty age so he killed him he killed that person he killed that boy and thought that the first incident was transgressing some property but now he is killing a person it's a bigger it's a bigger problem now so he couldn't stay silent قال أقتلت نفسا قال أقتلت نفسا بغير نفسا لقد جئت تشيئا نكره so Mousa said have you killed an innocent person with no reason for killing him indeed you have committed a clearly evil thing now Mousa الخضر عليه السلام قال ألم أقل لك إنك لن تستطيع معي صدرا الخضر said did I not tell you that you can have no patience with me if we go back to ayah 72 we have a similar قال ألم أقل إنك لن تستطيع معي صدرا but here قال ألم أقل لك إنك لن تستطيع معي صدرا so the word لك here is just to emphasize you I said to you the previous ayah I said you cannot be patient I said to you you cannot have patience قال سيد موسى remembered again so he said قال إن سألتك عن شيء بعدها فلا تصاحبني زي موسى عليه السلام said if I if I ask you anything after this keep me not in your company if I object to anything just let's depart you have accepted my apology twice and you have received an excuse from me to break this company now I I want I will not oppose you anymore but if I do it means let's depart let's go apart سيد موسى عليه السلام سيد موسى عليه السلام apologized and made it firm this time فانطلق حتى إذا أتايا أهل قرية نستقع ما أهلها so now they both proceeded until they came to the people of the town and they asked them for food they were hungry and they wanted food so they reached a village and they saw people of the village they saw some of the people and they asked them for food now they wondered in the village and they asked for food for different people from almost all people but what happened فَأَبَلْ أَيْ يُضَيِّفُهُمَا so they refused to offer them hospitality they refused to give them food they even refused to give them a place to rest in and remember that there is something here to notice when someone asks for food then this is the most truthful question to ask he is in real need he needs something to eat but if someone asks for money you don't know if that person is going to stack that money with other previous money that he asks other people but asking for food is something is a a question but there is nothing to think about he is in need he is in need for something to eat so what happened the people of the village refused to give them money they refused to give them a place to rest and while they are going in around the village فوجد فيها جدارة يريد قضافة أقامة what did they found they they found a wall about to collapse and الخدر عليه السلام set this wall up straight and they wanted to move on سيد مموسى عليه السلام said you did something you deserve money for it we don't have money we cannot eat we cannot have a shelter why you didn't ask for money if you had wished surely you could have taken a payment for that you could have taken some wedges let's go a little bit into digging into this word you read you read you read the wall itself was about to collapse it was about if we want to put it in the human words we say to die how can we say that about things do you remember when سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم used to lean on a trunk of a tree and to give the خطب to the people and then they they built him a pulpit with a few steps so that he can stand on and everyone would see him what happened to the trunk of the tree weaved the trunk of the tree felt that سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم is not leaning on him anymore and he is a little bit far away from him so he cried so even things have feelings سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم went down and hung to that trunk of a tree and he said if I didn't do that he would keep weeping he would keep crying until the day of judgment another example سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم used to hear the the pebbles making تسبيح while they are in his hand in his blessed hand so for سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم even in one of the narration he said لا تحزنوا على كسر إينائكم فإن لها أعمار مثل أعماركم don't feel sorry don't get upset if something is broken if a big vase is broken because these two have lifespan the same way as you people have lifespan something else even animals feel that there will be an earthquake before a human being feels it of course without the machines and without this technology now so even things have feelings even things know that something is going to happen so that wall was about to collapse was about to die قال لو شئت لك تخذت عليه أجراء you could have taken some money for that قال هذا في راقه بيني وبيينيك خدر قال that's it this is the parting between me and you you said if I ask you anything else you will part and leave me so we are leaving each others right now you are a messenger you are a prophet and your words are orders you wanted that and I have to fulfill this now سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم says رحمة الله علينا وعلى موسى لو لبثمع صاحبه لأبصار العجب ولكنه قال إن سألتك عن شيء بعدها ثلاث صاحبني قد بلغت من لدني عذرا so may Allah have mercy upon us وعلى موسى علينا وعلى موسى علينا إذا كانت معه مقابل لدينا حاليا سأرى أفكار إذا كانت أعطاء أفكار سأرى أفكار سأعلم أفكار أفكار ولكنه قال إذا أسألتك بعد هذا لا تتكلمني في مجموعة so we leave each other you are excused to leave me I am not going to be with you I'm not going to bother you again so what happened الله سبحانه و تعالى says سأنبئك بتأويلي ما لم تستطيع عليه صبر now that we are going to leave each other I'm going to tell you I will tell you the interpretation the explanation of those things over which you were not able to be patient so this is what will happen and this is what we are going to see next time Insha'Allah I would like to end with a point that when someone dies two places will weep for him and that was mentioned in the Quran الله سبحانه و تعالى فما بكت عليهم السماء والأرض how would the sky and the earth cry when someone dies the explanation for this is that the place where you do your Sujood on earth will cry because you are not going to to use it anymore for Sujood and the place where your deeds are going up to the sky will also cry because your deeds will be done but سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم says told us that whoever has ينقطع عمل جلو آدمة إلا من ثلاث so when someone dies his deeds are stopping except of three things صدقة جارية or going charity or some knowledge that he has passed and people are still using أولدون صالحهم يدعو لها or if he has a righteous son or a righteous offspring that would just make dua for him but what else let's say that someone does not have children and he has not passed, he is not a teacher he did not pass any knowledge he still has something صدقة جارية something good that he has done to people we might have helped even with a few pennies in building a message or a hospital or in digging a well of water for some people to use or he planted something that he will be that people will be using or animals will will be using so this is the explanation for علمت نفس وما قدمت واخرت so this soul would know would realize what it did when it was alive ما قدمت وما أخرت and what were the deeds it collected after death so do not get upset if you don't have children to do not get sad if you don't have children just to make dua for you after your death just keep keep doing something that would benefit you from now after you die نالج نالج is important seek knowledge and give knowledge سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم says just spread anything that you heard from me even if it's one and you can have this ongoing charity even after your death you might say okay I'm not a teacher I would say having good manners is spreading the good manners of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so we have to learn we have to learn to be able to know what to do سيدنا موسى knew that there is someone who is more he decided to keep walking even if he is going to walk for hundreds of years we have to seek knowledge وصل الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلال وجيك وعظيم سلطانك سبحان ربك رب العزة عما يصيفون وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين السلام ورحمة الله وبركاته