 أعضب الله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين الحمد لله الذي هدانا لهذا وما كنا لنحتدي لو لا نهدان الله الحمد لله الذي أنزل الفرقان على عبده ليكون للعالمين نذيره والصلاة والسلام على خير خلق ونور عرش أفضل الأنبياء والمرسلين حبيبنا وسيدنا وسندنا وشفيعنا ومولانا أب القاسم محمد وعلى آله الطيبين الطاهرين المأسمين المظرمين أما بعد فقد قال الله سبحانه وتعالى في كتاب المجيد وقوله الحق وهو أستقص صادقين بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم يا إيه الذين آمنوا اتقوا الله والتنظر نفس ما قدمت لغد واتقوا الله إن الله خبير بما تعملون صدق الله العلي العديم صلاة الله محمد وعيل محمد كل بلوات تبقى الله ونبدأ في بلسة نام for granting us this life and giving us the opportunity to exist and for granting us the intellectual power by which to dictate our own future through sight and hearing and to be able to logically analyze and rationalize the purpose of life but there are those who say God doesn't exist they argue that life has no real purpose except temporal purpose, transient purpose and all of these are important because if you and I do not have the longevity of purpose then the goodness of our actions gets minimized so for example if I believe that good is only for 100 years then technically it's not really good if you say to somebody I will be honest with you for 10 years but after that I'll stop being honest or I'll love you for 50 years but then I'll stop imagine a father says to his son I will only love you till you reach 50 and then after that I'll stop loving you the meaning of love dies away it has no meaning but you say but for 50 years I will love you isn't that important? I'm a utilitarian father who is going to love you temporarily since this is a temporary world but then after that my love will vanish your value system immediately begins to cancel that value because it says under that condition that since you've put a time factor by which to end this positive character then this character is really not positive because it will end and it has no value therefore it's like saying get your degree but after so many years it will fade away and it will have no value go to school and get your education but then after so many years it will have no value you will notice that anything under the good factor if it lacks the eternal value then it seizes to be as good as it's supposed to be so goodness has a direct correlation to an infinite argument meaning anything good has to have an infinite power of growth meaning not only should it exist infinitely but it should grow infinitely so good should multiply infinitely otherwise good is marginalized it doesn't have meaning just like you cannot say to your loved one I will love you for a short time you have to say I will love you forever fairy tales also they lived happily ever after you cannot end a fairy tale by limiting time to the goodness in the end so the eternal factor is the driving force of our moral argument this is where atheism seriously falls apart it lacks any value because it doesn't have the eternal power of moral goodness and eternal power of moral goodness is impossible without a being that is eternal and good if you remove God from the equation then nothing makes sense in the eternal sense and nothing therefore actually has any value of good it's an interesting fact what I've just said in summary form is very very powerful I want you to focus on this I know I've said it very quickly and sometimes you sort of have to refresh what did you just say hold on I've got to think about this again I would advise us all to seriously consider what was just said because anyone of us that has any issues or questions with regards to the hereafter day of judgment God you will notice that without this argument nothing makes sense please bear in mind when we teach our children something we always have it in the back of our minds but what I'm going to teach my child will have an eternal good to it you would never teach a child for temporal good it's an exercise we call it an exercise in futility it's actually stupidity so having said that the eternal factor is very important then I want to bring into focus our thoughts and our imagination and therefore our actions if they're not predicated on an eternal thought if they're not predicated on an eternal growth of goodness then it's really an exercise in futility it's worthless so Allah سبحانه وتعالى سوت الحشر the 59th chapter verse 13 verse 18 I'm sorry يَا يُلَّذِينَ آمَنَ اتَّقُوا اللَّهُ وَلْتَنْذُرْ نَفْسُنْ مَا قَدَّمَتْ لِغَادْ all you who believe guard yourselves with God consciousness okay وَلْتَنْذُرْ نَفْسُنْ take account meaning that know that every soul should consider what it is sending for tomorrow مَا قَدَّمَتْ لِغَادْ for tomorrow what are you doing for tomorrow very important and be careful of your duty towards Allah surely Allah is aware now why does Allah keep saying be careful of your duty to Allah because Allah is the ultimate eternal tomorrow all good as I mentioned has no value if it lacks eternity don't forget that please understand and I'll repeat it good lacks value if it's not eternal please understand that there is no eternal but Allah so all good is from Allah and it returns to Allah and therefore when God says be God conscious what he means is the only way to keep your good eternal because eternity is with Allah good is with Allah and all good is eternal therefore when you do good don't forget Allah very very simple but it is extremely profound if you break any of these sentences it will shatter the very notion of good I promise you okay please follow this carefully so when Allah says be God conscious Allah is saying the good that I'm inviting you to which you want to be which you want to have must have me in it otherwise it's not good for anything that lacks my presence in it is temporal therefore it's not good Allah says if you give up the false gods who are not eternal if you give up the temporal gods if you give up the distractions of that which is not true meaning if you stop going towards false ideal فمن يكفر بالتاغود if you give up the false gods who are not eternal if you give up the temporal gods if you give up the distractions بالتاغود تاغود is anything other than Allah in goodness ويؤمن بالله and you believe in Allah and you hold on to Allah then you will be holding on to a rope firm and Allah says لنفصى ملها here لنفصى ملها meaning it shall not break it doesn't mean it shall not break today or tomorrow لنفصى ملها it shall never break never means forever it's eternal meaning the good that you have just done by rejecting the demigods and holding on to God you are holding on to a rope that will never break meaning it is firm and look at the word rope here ويؤمن بالله فقد استمسك بالعروة الوثقة it's very deep it's very deep when you look at safety as I mentioned yesterday تقوى the root word means protection guardianship protect yourself from the dangers the evils of society people aspire to have money they aspire to be retired early why? because they want protection people go to the gym to work out because they want protection from illness they want to be healthy for as long as they can be healthy they want to prolong their lives these are all under the parameters of protection protection guardianship when you and I protect ourselves then we become safe and secure which is what makes us believers so imagine this is the reality who's nomenclature meaning the naming convention in the use of words is more practically applied as in Islam even as I mentioned the name Islam which means peace and submission is the only name on earth named to a religion in a religion by a divine being appropriately all other religions are named after objects and people just the naming convention just the name factoring has been foolishly done by other religions Islam is the only religion named appropriately that why you split it and slice the word it's so alive that it's guiding you even by its own name and when Allah is using the verses in the Quran when you split the words you will find that the reality of these words are so multi-dimensional and how you cut them it's telling you the truth this is the beauty of Islam you read the bible you read the Torah you read the Bhagavad Gita you read the Sanskrit nothing with all due respect comes even close even close forget about comparison it's like earth and sky Quran is a unique book in the world when Allah is telling us تنظر نفس ما قدمت لغاد check yourself every word has been split beautifully when Allah says it's so synergistic it's so tuned with reality I always wonder Islam is the most vilified attacked religion since the prophet's time the enemies have consistently and persistently attacked Islam incessantly as we say in English they have not seized they have not stopped and they have found every reason to attack Islam from every angle and yet Islam as a religion continues to grow among the people and people are taking religion Islam more than any time in history and here's the other logic which is very very profound and very interesting you would think that Islam outwardly appears to be a very male oriented very patriarchal religion it's very male centered the man seems to get the bigger chunk of God's mercy it appears and the woman tends to get the short end of the stick it appears it's not true it's a lie these are accusations in fact Allah has elevated both genders you know when Allah says يا إهو الناس إنا خلقناكم من ذكر وأنثا وجعلناكم شعوبا وقبائلة لتعارفوا oh mankind we have made you into male and female nations and tribes so you know each other meaning these differentiations are a blessing of God but the most honorable to God إنا أكرمك من الله أتقاكم the most honorable to Allah is God conscious meaning neither male nor female is superior both are meaning individually they are not they both are nations and tribes are all beautiful لتعارفوا these are blessings of God so you would think because of the hijab for example the enemies of Islam have tried to present the argument that look the woman is considered a second class citizen by being told to cover herself when the man doesn't do that or when they pray the woman is behind these are all accusations or when she inherits she inherits half of the brother look at this it's such a patriarchal religion so male oriented sadly and I must make a quote here very quickly footnote sadly many Muslims have been very very unfair with the female gender sadly historically the men the male gender has been very stupid in its own race to marginalize the other wing of the bird as I say Islam has got two wings the left wing and the right wing and you don't cut the wings off and flip it and you don't make the left wing look identical to the right wing so the bird cannot fly it needs to be a mirror image and you don't clip one wing because you'll go into a tailspin you have to allow both wings to flap equally with equal weight and sometimes one wing flaps harder than the other if it's going to do something but there's no rule in Islam that God says one side is superior to the other it's a dumb argument but why am I bringing this argument forward you will find statisticians have noticed among the two genders it's the female the women the girls who are becoming more Muslims from non Islam to Islam than men interesting statistics the evangelical societies have noted that women are becoming are converting to Islam more than men now you would think hold on intuition tells me that it appears to be marginalizing the female race it appears to make them second class citizens why would these women who are not Muslims become Muslims under these conditions given the fact that media is also exaggerating this reality because Islam is a natural synergistic religion it aligns with fitrah and unless you have say a bone to pick or an axe to grind meaning unless you have animosity and hatred towards something if you and I are sincerely seeking the truth with a sincere heart then you will definitely have to come to the dean of God which is Islam so the reason I'm speaking like this is because you will see that the nature of Islam is so natural in its resonance but many a times we have ignored the beauty of its natural state like Salah, fasting Hajj, Hijab Modesty we have attacked it we've rejected it not rationally but impulsively by comparing ourselves with the ignorant we've looked around and the gloss and the glitter of the other side appears more attractive and rather than think carefully about the consequences of rejecting the gifts of God we have become impulsive by attacking it without any thought just like those who reject God without any thought it's like atheists who tell me I don't believe in God I say what's your evidence I say I don't have an evidence I said you are being impulsive in your statement you are being rational arguments submit to the nature of the reality and then give it to me from that angle don't have hatred for something and therefore your justice is skewed do not let the hatred prevent you from being just be just closer to God consciousness to piety how do we get there the foundation I just laid is the eternal factor when Allah says indeed we are from Allah and we return to Allah Allah is the eternal one who brings everything into existence even atheists who don't believe in God like Stephen Hawking stated that at the big bang moment prior to that no scientist can discuss that matter because there are no tools of science that exist prior to the big bang moment which is known as Planck's moment he said we scientists cannot talk about it and it is false for us to speculate about it because the tools of science don't work but he does allude to the fact in his book Brief History of Time that the philosophers can do that because they empowered with the ability to go back and forth in time philosophically so the philosophical argument dictates that from nothing comes nothing we are something but no thing can dictate its own existence when it is nothing therefore whatever dictated this existence must have always been there otherwise it's illogical and whatever has always been there must always remain there infinitely for it's impossible in the other way this is Allah these arguments are irrefutable as I say impenetrable in its strength with all due respect and why am I speaking this way I want our yakeen our certainty to increase for when it does increase it allows us to touch reality better and we become more pliant and more submissive we become more touched with reality we become more sincere with the truth that's very important please understand it's the eternal factor of the divine that's very much in the conversation now so it's the achara that you and I must always be thinking about and I'm going to talk about it briefly that Islam is a future thinking religion and I'm saying this again Islam promotes future thinking it acutely makes me aware of the present it describes with detail the past but it prepares me elegantly, beautifully efficiently for the future don't forget that Islam is a religion that promotes the future for you and I to achieve the future you and I must exercise thinking with imagination for the future and plan out our future if we don't we would say we are happy go lucky and people who live happy go lucky it sounds nice carefree but it's dangerous because as you say live by the day with no plan for tomorrow is a dangerous way of living because if you and I don't know the consequences of today that will cause my tomorrow then we're living a dangerous life so let me summarize that you and I are who we are today because of the thoughts we had in the past about our future we are who we are today and I want us to remember this when you look in the mirror and say who am I today why am I this way I'm married I have children or I'm not married or I'm doing this I'm a professional I'm here I'm there I want you to understand one thing ask ourselves why am I here doing what I'm doing today and why is my character this way you will see carefully and if you go back in your life that those are the thoughts you had and that is why you're here today the way you are where the product of our past thoughts don't forget that our predictable future is the present we present ourselves for the future so Allah says take account of this future be kind be generous be patient be careful of your duties and obligations for if you are reckless in what you do today it will dictate your future and you may end up in a hole that you can't get out so the imagination of the future is very important people like Mahmoud Abdel-Rahouf for example simple example you find that he achieved the NBA as a superstar in his era when the probability of a person like him achieving is very very low they say it's a higher probability of a meteor hitting you when you become an NBA superstar and bear in mind Mahmoud Abdel-Rahouf is only what 5'11 not a tall guy he's not like a 6'6'6'7 typically basketball requires that kind of height because all the pros are like super giants tall their hands are like massive they hold the basketball like it's a little doughnut here's Mahmoud who's got Tourette syndrome but at a young age at age of 6 he had a vision and his future thinking was so clear he wanted it so badly coming from a poor family the probability of succeeding to go into a basketball camp etc etc are all weighing against you being a colored person racism in the south in Mississippi is heavy I mean you and I as Muslims today when Islam is being marginalized we feel heavy some of us want to change our names we want to run away we want to assimilate the western ways just to escape any sort of attack imagine being born with a darker skin where the world has set a standard that you are second class third class no matter what you do this is what Iblis promised I'm gonna get this Adam dark skin creature I'm gonna get him so a person like Mahmoud growing up everybody would whisper into your ears you can't make it sorry you can't make it don't even try how many students I know who go to school and people whisper into their ears what are you studying for you're going to that school give it up don't even try you're not gonna make it your intelligence is not there your brother is smarter than you your friends are smarter et cetera et cetera et cetera so true isn't it I remember when we were building this school people say are you out of your mind you got to build a school millions of where is your money you have like a bank account that you have flooded with money I said it's not money that builds buildings money is plentiful trillions of dollars what are you talking about yeah but you don't have it I said I don't need it don't you need money to build something I said you need a vision and a heart and you need persistence and money will chase you what do you think money is waiting for it's sitting in bank accounts to chase people that's why money is there ever see people with a lot of money what do you think they are looking for they are looking for somebody to chase when they start seeing wisdom they start seeing prodigy when they start seeing genius when they start seeing drive then they want that person I said hey can I invest with you early because I believe in you money chases you when you have passion when you have vision please understand that many times people come to me brother I want to do this project but we don't have any money so you know what we're not going to do it I said how shaytan has fooled you you think it's money that brings good things but Omeyad had all the money under the sky what did they do all they did was build massages to promote their selves and they died in time they built grand mosques and Allah condemns such places when it's only done to promote the self Allah doesn't like that it's not money it's passion it's a drive vision and all odds are against you and you say I don't care I have a vision my lord is infinite and my vision has to be infinite and I must set my goals so high that nothing can stop me for all material things aim in that direction I promise you and the minute the ball starts to roll in your direction now everybody wants to be part of the bandwagon like how'd you get here where Mahmood achieved his now everybody wants his autograph but when he was a kid everybody's telling me no you can't go there no you can't make it so how does he make it and when he makes it now everybody wants his autograph everybody wants to stand next to him like oh that's the superstar but that superstar was being pushed under the water when he was young what saved him what made him that powerful a person to reach what he did and in my opinion when he reached that status he went another step higher which most NBA superstars never go to he accepted Islam and he even challenged his own wealth for a law and he put his justice up front and the NBA was going to punish him severely and take all his you know notoriety away from him and block him he says I don't care I have a future and my sacrifice today with the millions that I'm making and if I'm going to lose it because I believe in God and because I want to reach that higher stage and if that's the cost to get it then let me get it what kind of people do we have in the world like them very few الله says men who don't bargain for any price why because they know the Akhira is with God the value is with Allah my vision is eternal my good is forever not for these temporal things that I'm chasing no this is if it becomes my goal if it's a means to a goal let me get it if a billion dollars is a means to my goal then I will get my billion dollars if being the president of the world is the means to my goal then I will be the president of the world but the goal is Allah وما يكفر بالتاغوت ويؤمن بالله فقد استمسك بالعروة الودقاء vision so when Mahmoud reaches that stage when you ask him he said he would be thunderstorms outside lightning nobody's outside he said I've made my vision clear my discipline is that I'm going to go out there and I'm going to practice my skill and I'm going to imagine the opposite team I'm going to imagine the guards I'm going to imagine all those that are going to challenge me for me to get to that basket and get my ball in there that imagination was so vivid in his mind where he was so focused that when he started playing in fact when he was young you know in a camp Michael Jordan was the superstar of the time was the teacher at that time and he called on Mahmoud as a young boy says come he brought him forward just to teach the other kids and he said to Mahmoud says okay at that time he was Chris Jackson he says come on dribble this ball and see if you can pass me and each time he would beat Michael Jordan twice he did that and then Jordan told him go sit down this kid is too good and Mahmoud said if I could do that now what can I do tomorrow when this guy is the superstar his vision was coming true and Allah showed him the signs of it when you and I have a vision you will see the signs show up it's like hope God gives you hope and he says ah you had that thought you want it let me show you how it looks and then you taste it oh wow that's easy and he became one of the highest scores in his era his three points were untouched in this time he would lead games with double digit numbers nobody could touch him why vision and when you ask him he said my vision was so clear that I wanted that Allah says be careful and see what yourself sends tomorrow be aware of it as I mentioned yesterday the reading is an exercise that helps us envision tomorrow it strengthens our knowledge it strengthens us to be able to do what we need to do for tomorrow so in conclusion I want to as I mentioned yesterday I'm going to touch on the vision and you will notice by the way whenever Allah praises his servants in the Quran of the highest character he always exposes their vision for example Allah says ويتعمون الطعام على حبه مسكينا ويتيما وأسيرة here in سوت الدهر Allah is talking about أهل البيت فاتمت الزهرة صلام الله عليها صلاة الله محمد وهي المحمد you find that as you know she vowed too fast for three days and every time she's about to break as a poor man comes an orphan comes a stranger comes and she gives away her food she said this person deserves it and she gives it away and Allah exposes this fantastic behavior filled with vision of the future filled with patience with forbearance with love with compassion because you know when you and I think of the future carefully and we monitor it carefully our character will naturally mold in that direction we will become patient we will be aware that hold on what I'm going to say now may have an impact for tomorrow because I'm always thinking of tomorrow as Imam عليها سلام says a wise person thinks before they speak thinks meaning they project what's going to happen a fool speaks and then thinks and you know Imam عليها سلام says once you speak it's no longer your property it's public and you can never reclaim it when you say something silly and somebody heard you you can't take you can say I'm sorry I didn't mean it you can try to mitigate it but it's no longer your property and it can and will be used against you so wise people think before they speak you know standing up here on the pulpit speaking is a very very I would say it's a responsibility with a tremendous amount of care given the fact that it's recorded and it remains in the archives forever so what you say you better have careful modulation what kind of words you're using but that is the blessings of Allah in that he protects us and we seek refuge with Allah from our own ignorance and stupidity for anything good that is said on this pulpit I bear witness it is Allah's the prophets and the people of the house and I bear witness that any silly thing that is said on this pulpit belongs to me صلى الله عليه وسلم long term so what does Allah say in the Quran they gave charity or you then of course he said إنما نتعيمكم لوجه الله we are feeding you only because of God Allah is the ultimate good don't forget all good starts from him all good ends with him which is never ending it's Allah so when you say إنما نتعيمكم لوجه الله we give food for God for he is the good and everything goes with him then they say further listen to this لا نريد منكم جزاء ولا شكورة we want no reward from you not even thanks what you did a great deed many of us when we do something good we want our names to be recognized we want people to give us some recognition that this was done by ما شاء الله فولان بن فولان oh thank you thank you thank you we thank people when they remember us but should we do it for being thanked that's the question well typically the one who doesn't have such thoughts will want to be thanked but who doesn't want thanks this group the Quran is talking about سورة الدهار لا نريد منكم جزاء ولا شكورة إنما نخاف من ربنا يوما نعبو سنقم طريرة we are afraid of that day from our Lord when we will be held liable it's a long term thinking day of judgment very important إنما نخاف من ربنا يوما نعبو سنقم طريرة God said look why are they like this they have long term thinking they are futuristic their actions today have all plans for tomorrow everything is built for tomorrow so Allah says be careful Allah says وما تدري نفس ماذا تقصبوا غدا وما تدري نفس بأي أرضين تموت no self knows what they will deliver tomorrow and no self knows on which land they will die إن الله عنده علم الساعة وينزلوا الغيث ويعلموا ما في لرحام it is Allah who knows the time factor the future the day of judgment إن الله عنده علم الساعة وينزلوا الغيث He is the one who brings the rain and knows what lies in the wombs of the mothers so Allah says only I know here Allah is saying they think of the future so Allah rewards them so tonight's lecture is please see with clarity the future let us see ourselves on the day of judgment let us see ourselves at the moment Malakul Moth meets us let us see ourselves with the prophet if you and I don't have those clear visions our projections of today will be skewed guaranteed and I say it with sincerity but let's go to سوط الواقع as I promised you yesterday and I am going to end with that سوط الواقع is number 56 and I am going to end it very briefly Allah says بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم إذا وقعت الواقع when the great event comes to pass ليس لي وقعتها كاذبة this you cannot be lie it's a true event it's coming meaning God is saying have this in your vision have it so real the way Mahmood had it real that he is in the NBA as a superstar you are touching it it's so real they say even when Michael Jordan hit one shot everybody was shocked how did you do it he said he wasn't anything great I had already thought about it a thousand times before you know there's an interesting story when you talk about this where thoughts and be careful of those thoughts how you predict your future simple example and then I'll end with this سوط الواقع sorry few more minutes you find that you know it's an interesting story and I thought about sharing this when you have future thinking even temporal you will be able to control even your temper so there's a story of a man sitting at the airport and there was a bag of cookies and the man sitting next to him and the man thought that these are his cookies because he bought the same cookies and he starts taking a cookie he eats one but the man sitting next to him takes the cookie from his bag so the man looks at him says hey he's eating from my bag it's my cookies and I think there were 5 cookies so you can imagine if you have a bag of cookies you're sitting at the airport and somebody comes and puts his hand and pulls the cookie out and will say what are you doing you know get off punch him right so the guy patiently looks at him and says he's eating from my cookies so he takes one the guy takes one he takes another one the guy takes another one it's like this guy is audacious you know he has this temerity from my bag but it's okay but now you're controlling yourself there was one cookie left he's not going to take my last cookie I mean he should be shameless if he touches my last cookie lo and behold the stranger takes the last cookie and he splits it in half and gives this to the man and eats it half so after the guy is eaten he gets called to the gate and he's like fuming but he's controlling fuming is controlling so he packs up his bags and as he's lifting his bag he realizes he bought the same bag of cookies but it was under his bag and he forgot them so actually those bags those cookies in the bag was not his they were dangerous so he thought the guy is stealing his cookies but actually he was stealing his cookies you get it subhanallah but look if you and I control our temer then maybe good things will come because you would make yourself into a royal fool if you said excuse me you're touching my cookies and the guy says no sir these are mine oh I'm so sorry but rather to mitigate it when you and I have patience and we bite our tongues we'll call them والعافينان الناس والله يهب المحسينين they hold back their temper and they forgive mankind and God loves the good doers the net outcome is something different Steven Covey says I was on a bus and there were a couple of kids running around in the bus and there was a man sitting there dozing off and these kids were very rambunctious and making a lot of noise and he was annoying me typical what you looking at what's going on with you you know we're angry all the time some of us are like taking time bombs he looks at these kids he says what kind of a father is this man you know doesn't even know how to control his kids so finally has the courage and goes to the man excuse me can you do something with your kids they're out of control what's going on he says oh I'm sorry their mother just died we just buried her and these are my kids I don't know what to do with them now I'm a bit dazed and he said from my anger I flipped to empathy to sympathy and I felt embarrassed for the situation was miscalculated by me so imagine a wise person who thinks the future sees these kids are this I wonder if they have a problem instead of saying can you please correct them he says can I help you is there any way I can help your children it's a different approach how did you say can I help you versus saying fix your children you had long been thinking and he said maybe this person has this so تواقع is exemplifying that he says when the earth shall be shaken إذا رجت الأرض رجم وبستة الجبال بس فكانت حباء من بث وكنت مزواج ثلاثة when this earth will crumble and be crushed and the mountains will be brought down scientists all agree that the earth will be crushed and destroyed with the sun 100% الله is saying that day and now you are there on the day of judgment and you will be broken into three groups وكنت مزواج ثلاثة الله says he says فأصحاب الميمنة ما أصحاب الميمنة وأصحاب المشأمة ما أصحاب المشأمة والصابقون والائك المقربون في جنات النعيم I end here tonight a vision three groups will be broken on the day of judgment three groups people of the right hand not right hand people who are good people of the left hand people who committed sins and evil and then the foremost of the foremost God honors the foremost and says that group will not be questioned on judgment day they will enter a paradise tomorrow I mean next week I'll continue discussing on Thursday this Surah سوت الواقع the vision of the day of judgment and how the good doers will be met on judgment day a vision you and I should have clearly in our heads and among the three you and I all should target the third group سادقون foremost don't say I just want to put my foot into paradise say I want to be the foremost of the foremost I want to enter the highest stations of paradise how do I get there I want to be the one where God welcomes me with such honor and dignity but there's a price to pay there's a lifestyle to lead and there's a lot that you and I must give up in order to achieve it but you and I also will achieve greatness if we focus on it بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اللهم إنا نرغب إليك في دولة كريمة تعز بها الإسلام وأهلة وتذل بها النفاقة وأهلة وتجعلنا فيها من الدعات لا تعطك والقادة لا سبيلك وترزقنا بها كرامة الدنيا والآخر وآخر الدعون الحمد لله رب العالمين والسلام عليكم جميعا ورحمة الله وبركاته my respected brothers and sisters tonight we also have iftar those of you wish to join and sit and join with us we'll be honored to have you with us after Salah إن شاء الله we'll be doing Salatul Jama'a and then we will have iftar thank you السلام عليكم