 In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful, the Most Merciful The Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful The Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful Welcome again to another episode of your weekly Islamic chat show Guest of the Week, coming to you from Sharjah TV I'm your host, as always, Ismail Buluk And today, inshallah, we want to talk about something that is a reality that anybody who is watching this and anybody who will watch it they are facing or they are in this situation and that is living this life So we want to talk about the reality of the life that we live Are we just here for fun? Are we just here with no real purpose? Or is there a bigger picture behind our existence? And how should we be spending our life? Should we put all our trust and all our hope and all our effort in having fun in this life? Or is there more to it? And to do this with me, inshallah, and discuss this with me is Ustaz Abdur-Rahman Hassan, salam alaikum As I mentioned, we're in this world, that's obvious But from an Islamic perspective, what can we say? What is the reality of this life that we live? Alhamdulillah, ya Rabbi ala'alameen Wa salatu wa salam ala ashraf al anbiya'i wal mursaleen Sayyidina wa nabiyina Muhammad Wa ala alihi wa sahabihi wa tabi'ina lahum bihsaleen ila yawmi al deen amma ba'd When it comes to the reality of this world Allah, the Almighty, in the Quran, when He described this world He described it as something that's hasty Dunya is something that's going by fast It's not something that's going to remain Allah says At the beginning of the ayah, Allah says Anyone who wants this hasty world Allah referred to the dunya as what? Aajila It's something that's really quick and fast That goes fast Has no real permanent value No, it doesn't In another ayah, Allah says That came after That the Akhira has greater stations The Akhira is more gracious and more beneficial And for the people And that's why Allah says in the third ayah That this world is only a time of joy And amazement That's all it really is Allah says And hereafter Hereafter It is the life that is consistent And it's continuous And it will forever remain And it goes insane And it will carry on Forever forever forever And that's why the Akhira is going to remain forever If you look at the life span of the Ummah today Or if you look at the life span of the people in general What is their life span? As the Prophet SAW said It's between what? 60 to what? 70 And it's between what? 60 to what? 70 So you have to think about a world That you're giving presidents to A world that you're valuing so much How long are you really going to live in it? The most The majority of the people live is 70 60 to 70 people It's quite funny because people often think Oh that was in the old days And now we have good medicine and good technology But at the same time On the flip side of that People eat much worse So many processed foods So much lack of exercise Many people do So you find people are still Not reaching those kind of ages Because of the bad diets And so whatever you try and say That's reality Still until now Most people go between those kind of ages And what's actually shocking is that The people who die young Are more than those who die older The reality and the statistics show That the people who die young Are more than those who die old But it's so shocking that We actually believe that we're going to live We're going to reach an old age And that we're probably going to repent later And that we're going to come to Allah How many people actually live even 70? Very little As you mentioned A lot of people are dying from You know the lack of You know fitness Or people are dying from the food That they eat You know And etc Also The Messenger of Allah said When he spoke about the dunya like When Allah spoke about the dunya like that As we mentioned in those ayat When he was reading the adjala About Jannah And about the life of the dunya And what this life of the dunya Is to have no one to play with When Allah described the dunya like that It also became the Prophet Aslam's way In other words He, peace be upon him, saw this dunya To be something that's going to go fast When he was building it Or when he was digging the trench With his companions He was saying with his companions The Hadith And I said to him I said to him I said to him Allahumma la'a'isha illa'isha al-akhira Fawfiil lil ansari wal muhajira Allahumma la'a'isha Allah There's no life Except what? Except the life of the hierafta Meaning Wa inaddara al-akhira tana hi al-hayawan That the hierafta Is the real life And the sahabas Rabi Allahu ta'ala They adopted that concept And so they lived this world Knowing something that's going to go by fast Allah says Allah mentions here The one who stands at night He's praying And he's fearful of Allah Hoping from Allah And then Allah says And he's cautious about the hierafta Why is he cautious of the hierafta? Because that individual knows And he's fully aware That the hierafta is the life It's the real life The Prophet told us in another Hadith Anas ibn Maliki narrated In al-Sahihain as well That the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam He said Yattabi'u al-mayyit al-Thalata The dead Yattabi'u al-mayyit al-Thalata The dead individual Three things go with him Ahluhu Wa maluhu Wa amaluhu Fa yarji'u atnaan Wa yabqaa wahid The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam He said Three things go with the dead Two come back And one remains What is it that goes with him to his grave? Three things What are the three things? The first one is Ahluhu is family The second one is Maluhu is wealth And the third one is His actions and his deeds The Prophet then said Fa yarji'u atnaan Two will come back And one will remain In other words It will remain with him in his grave What is the one that's going to remain with him? The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam He said Fa yabqaa amaluhu His actions is what's going to remain So what's the action that's going to remain? An action that was built upon two pillars One of the two pillars Doing what you were told to do And staying away from that Which you were told to stay away from An action that was built upon sincerity Doing it only for Allah's sake And doing it as the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Did and what he said That is the individual who Who would face in this world Or the hereafter To live the life of the hereafter If you look at the Quran And you turn over the Quran It always mentions also death Which is the opposite of this life And how Every single one of us Is going to die Allah says in the Quran kullu nafsin da'iqatul-mout wa inna mat wa fauna ujoorakum yawm al-qiyamah fa manzuhzih ha'anin nari wa utkhilal janata faqatifaz wa man hayatiduniya illa mata'u l-ghurur Allah also says kullu man ariha faan wa yabqaa wa tfu rabbika thul-janali wa l-ikram Allah says in the ayah wa ma kanali nafsin Allah says wa ma ja'anna li-bashali min qablika l-khuld affa'im mittafahum ul-kharidun You know, those ayat All of them are mentioning That every single person Is going to die And pass away That they're going to leave this world To the extent Allah tells us That there's going to come a day When everybody dies And the only one that remains Allah Allah says يومهم بارزون لا يخفع على الله منهم شيء لمن الملك اليوم لله الوحيد القهار There's going to come a day When Allah asks Who is the king? Who is the supreme? Who is the most powerful? And there is not a person Who is able to respond Except Allah He's the only one who can respond And so he responds by saying لله الوحيد القهار So Death is حت ملازم So it's something that's going to come And this world as I mentioned Unfortunately we see people They act differently many times They act like There is no afterlife And that this world is You have that ridiculous saying يولو You only live once So a lot of people have that mentality And that's something we often hear people saying Do this You only live once I might as well do all of this Because you only live once When the reality is You only live twice Meaning and the second one is the It's the hereafter And this is the more permanent And this is the more important one So this is a big problem That people have taken on this mentality Of now of like You only live once So just do man Make the most of it Whatever you want to do صحيح There is a famous hadith And Imam al-Bukhari narrated From the hadith عبادة بنصامة رضي الله تعالى عنه Where the prophet Said this shows that When the person doesn't He just lives this world He just lives for this world And he doesn't really Understand this another life The prophet said to us In this hadith عبادة بنصامة And Imam al-Bukhari من أحب لقاء الله أحب الله لقاء ومن كريها لقاء الله كريها الله لقاء This hadith mentions Anyone who loves to meet Allah Loves to meet them And anyone who dislikes Meeting Allah Then Allah dislikes to meet them قالت عائشة Or بعض أزواجي The narrator He was doubtful Is it عائشة who said this Or is it some of his wives What did she say إنّا لنكره الموت She thought that When the prophet said Anyone who loves to meet Allah Allah loves to meet him And anyone who dislikes Meeting Allah Allah dislikes meeting him She understood عائشة رضي الله عنها Or whichever wife it was They understood it as It's that we hate death She said يا رسول الله إنّا لنكره الموت We won't dislike like death We don't like it And the prophet He said to عائشة Or whichever wife it was He said to her The issue isn't that But it is The believer إذا حضر الموت When death comes to him وَبُشْهِرَ بِرِضْغَانِ اللَّهِ And he's told about Allah's You know the gratinies That are awaiting for him And the good that's going to be On the other side for him What does he do You know And he's told Allah's mercy is going to come on him And the honour that's going to await him What does he do You know أحبَّ لقاء الله He's very happy to meet Allah now And Allah is happy to meet him And the opposite is the disbeliever And the wrongdoer And the criminal Who believed on this concept You just mentioned You only live once Who didn't live for the hereafter Who only lived for this dunya He only This was all of it for him He only knows this dunya And he's ignorant about the hereafter This individual When he The angel of death comes to him And he's told about the عداب and the رقوب that awaits him The punishment And the destruction that awaits him You know He doesn't want to meet Allah And Allah doesn't want to meet him Subhanahu wa ta'ala We don't know when we're going to die We don't know when our time is going to come When we're going to pass away We're unaware of it Allah mentions to us That there is no soul that dies Except that it dies at a point in time Allah says Everyone of us Like we're dying at a At a written time We don't know where it's going to be What land we're going to die What time we're going to die In whose presence we're going to die In what way we're going to die We don't know This is from the الملغيب It's from the knowledge that we don't know of And Allah is the only one who knows it We don't know when we're going to be resurrected as well We just know that there's an angel of death Who has been You know Assigned to take our souls Allah says I'll just hold you on that point And insha'Allah We're going to go for a break Join us after this break As-salamu alaykum And welcome back Now I stood up just before the break You know we're emphasizing That no one No one knows when their time is No one knows when that will happen And no one has a guarantee that they will live For another minute Or another year Or another 10 years Now I guess you could say then People in this life The way they act towards This life You could say they're different categories So maybe we can go through some of those categories Or the types of people who How they view this worldly life Now So The way that a person lived in this world Is what their last moments The effects of their last moment in this world And the way they're going to be You see as I mentioned before We don't know when we're going to die One of the hikmah Ibn Ulqayn mentions Rahimahullahu ta'ala Ibn Ulrajah mentions it So Rajuddin Ibn Ulqayni Ibn Ulqayni However you want to say it They all mention that The person He doesn't know when he's going to die Because of the wisdom of coming with righteous deeds Like you're always on your This could be your last moment The people who don't understand that concept Who manage to just Enjoy themselves Go against Allah's commands Do as they want This reflects of their last moments in this life Meaning they don't die a good death Allah ta'ala told us To jazowna a daba al-hooni bima kuntum taqooloona A lallahi ghayran al-haq Wa kuntum anayati ta-stakbirun Allah ta'ala ta'ala Ibn Ulqayni Ibn Ulrajah And he's telling the prophet But Ibn Ulqayni Ibn Ulqayni Ibn Ulrajah Is not talking about the reason Even though it's the prophet It's been spoken to here But it doesn't specifically mean him alone It means everybody Wa lau ta'ala ibn Ulrajah Muhammad if you see the criminals The wrongdoers Where in the world Wa lau ta'ala ibn Ulrajah In the grave of death When they're in the agony of death Wa lmalaika tubasit wa adihim And the angels have spread their wings in them And the angels then say to them Akhiriju anfusakum Bring out your nafs now In other words they can't do that It's to belittle them Akhiriju anfusakum liyoma To jazowna a daba al-hooni Today you're going to be Punished With a severe punishment Why? What's the reason? A liyoma to jazowna a daba al-hooni Bima kuntum taqooloona A lallahi ghayran al-haq You lied about Allah That which wasn't true Your tribute to Allah Things that he wasn't You lied about his religion You lied about his righteous slaves Taqooloona a lallahi ghayran al-haq Wa kuntum an ayaatitas taqooloona And when the verses of Allah were told And read onto you You were arrogant Stubborn, hard-headed You didn't want to take it So those people At that moment Allah Ta'ala tells us That they're going to what? That they're going to suffer The consequences for them is serious They're going to die Agony of death Pain The opposite are the slaves Who are righteous Upright Allah says about them Allah tells us Allah tells us Those who said Allah is our Lord And when they said that It wasn't just a mere claim They didn't just say That Allah is our Lord They didn't just say that Allah says They were steadfast upon that statement They lived by that statement We believe in Allah They lived by it Istiqama is not what you and I interpreted Allah tells us in the Quran Fa staqim kama umirta Be steadfast as you were commanded A lot of people you see them today say You know I fear Allah in my own way Or I do it in my own way And who are you to judge me This is the way I do it This means that Allah knows my heart is good That's just Istiqama on how you've personally perceived it That's not Istiqama Allah wants you to come with And also it's interesting Because you mentioned about the heart Everyone says you know I'm doing these bad things These haram things But I have a good heart But we know that Allah says That in your body There is a morsel of flesh Meaning the heart If it is correct and sound Like you say it is Don't look at my Don't look at all these sins I'm doing bro Honestly I have a really good heart If that's the case What was the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said That the whole body Meaning the actions you're doing with your body Will be good halal actions So the reality is Even if you feel That you have a really good pious heart You cannot have a really good pious heart And at the same time Be doing really bad evil sins There's definitely going to be some problem there You know You don't have that heart That you think you have It's so true When we look at Ibn-Uqaym Rahim Allah said something I had a discussion with one person I said to him Instaqama Even if we say Hypothetically that your heart has steadfast Then why have you left Instaqama of the tongue Instaqama of your limbs Instaqama of the other parts of your body Each part requires istaqama So even if you did come Instaqama from the heart We do say You have istaqama in your heart Then you're missing The istaqama of your limbs And you're missing istaqama of your tongue Ibn-Uqaym says Those are the three types of istaqama And he said The most important one of them is the heart And then he mentions the statement Which is وَاَكُلُ الْإِلَاِمْ بِالْلَّذِ فِيْهِ عَمْضَحُوا Every vessel or you sweat was inside it If you want to know If the water is cold You don't put your finger inside it You can just find that If the water is cold from outside You just grab it And you say It's cold water But you don't need to Put your finger into it That is an indication to show that What's inside you will show on your limbs It will be seen on your limbs So Allah says اِنَّ الَّذِينَ قَالُوا رَبُّنَ اللَّهُ ثُمَّ اِسْتَقَامُوا And they are steadfast The qawwal that is brought Ibn-Ujarid of Tabari brings about اِنَّ الَّذِينَ قَالُوا رَبُّنَ اللَّهُ ثُمَّ اِسْتَقَامُوا They are steadfast It's good to go back to it The word istaqama What he brings That أُمَرَضِ الْعَعَنُوا His statement أَبُبَكَرُ وَالِسْتَقَامَ أَبُبَكَرُ سَالِسْتَقَامَ It means that you come with Allah And it should become It should be أُمَرَضِ الْعَعَنُوا He said The person doesn't look around Like the fox In other words He's just straight on the path He's not getting distracted And he's not falling In shubuha'at and shahu'at But then it's fascinating What does Allah say after that اِنَّ الَّذِينَ قَالُوا رَبُّنَ اللَّهُ ثُمَّ اِسْتَقَامُوا تَتَنَزَّلُوا عَرِهِمُ الْمَلَائِكِنَ When they're on their moments of death The last moment تَتَنَزَّلُوا عَرِهِمُ الْمَلَائِكِنَ Angels would be descending on them What would they say to them? Two things اَلَّا تَخَافُوا وَلَا تَحْزَنُوا Two great mufassireen Two great scholars Explain what it means اَلَّا تَخَافُوا وَلَا تَحْزَنُوا What is Abdullah ibn Abbas And what is Mujahid ibn Jabrin Do you know what they said? اَلَّا تَخَافُوا وَلَا تَحْزَنُوا They said They said اَلَّا تَخَافُوا وَلَا تَحْزَنُوا means خوف means Don't be scared of these angels that you're looking at Don't be scared of them And because it's true This person hasn't ever seen these angels before It's the first time he's actually seen them It's the first time he's encountered a creation like this They say to him اَلَّا تَخَافُوا وَلَا تَحْزَنُوا Don't be scared of us We're not here to harm you We're here to serve you We're here to take care of you As we used to take care of you in the dunya As Allah says to them اَلَّا تَخَافُوا وَلَا تَحْزَنُوا You're protected when you're in the dunya Now you've been protected Don't worry, we're here to protect you Why are they going to protect you? Over there Because of the hadith اِحْفَضِ اللَّهَ يَحْفَضْكِ اِحْفَضِ اللَّهَ تَجِتُوا تُجَاكِ إِلَا سَأَلْتَ فَسَأَلْهَ اِبْلَا عَبَّاسِ which is the surah of Tirmidhi Ibn Rajab, may Allah be pleased He wrote a whole explanation on this hadith اِحْفَضِ اللَّهَ يَحْفَضْكَ إِلَا قِتَابُ which He called it نُورُ الِقْتِبَاسِ في مِشكاتِ وَصِيَّةِ وَصِيَّةِ وَصِيَّةِ النَّبِ صَلْعَ عَبَّاسِ something like that So the angels say to you don't be scared of us وَلَا تَحْزَلُوا What does it mean? وَلَا تَحْزَلُوا means don't be sad and worried and concerned for the children that you've left behind You've left your children behind You've left your wife behind You've left your wealth behind Don't be scared Why? We're going to take care of all that for you With the command of Allah We're going to take care of all that for you This is an indication of the two parties Allah says وَلَوْتَرَائِذِ الظَّالِمُونَ فِي غَبَرَاتِ الْمَوْتِ وَالْمَلَائِكَ تُبَاصِطْ وَأَيْدِهِمْ أَخْرِجُ أَنْفُسَكُمْ لِيَوْمَ تُجِزَوْنَ عَذَابَ الْهُونِ بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَقُولُونَ وَكُنتُمْ عَنَا يَتِ تَسْتَكْبِرُونَ So we see on one side the ones who were the wrongdoers or the ones who did not believe as they should they will be receiving from the angels you could say tidings of punishment or bad tidings whereas the ones who have this istiqama this remaining steadfast they will be given good tidings from the angels I mean there's a long, long hadith in Musnadi Ma'a Mahmadan hadith Ibrahim Al-Azb Rabiya Allahu Ta'ala, there's a long hadith Ahmad Narees in his Musnadi and Ibrahim Al-Kathir brings it in his tafsir in the ayah يثبت الله الذين آمنوا بالقول اثبت في الحياة الجنيا وفي الأخرى ويضلوا الله ظالمين ويفعلوا الله ما يشعصوا الابراهيم He brings it there Ibrahim Al-Kathir It's a long hadith when the person is like the story of the two people were departing the two types of people were departing from this world the believer, the mu'min and the fasq how their situation both are and the way that they are so the truth of the matter is we have to all understand is this world that we're giving all our heart to we're giving our mind we're investing everything it's a place that's going to go it's going to leave this world you want brought here for you to put everything into it you were brought into this world to be as the prophet, peace be upon him said to the campaigner be in this world as a stranger or a person who's crossing a road I was fascinated the other day because I was reading the Qalam of Salah al-Dina I was reading his works and he said something very powerful he said that the companions were so spiritually invested and they were so connected to the hereafter they were so connected to the hereafter that they walked away from the dunya they gave nothing to it they walked away from it and then Allah had to remind them and say to them don't forget your portion of this dunya because Islam is for the idea of combining between materialistic and spirituals together whereas modern western civilization is based all on what is all based on materialism and we always make that we always say give me good in this life and in the hereafter and save me or protect me from the punishment of the fire so there's this balance and that's why Allah says in the Nada ayah this is the hereafter this is the hereafter what does Allah say Allah says that is the hereafter that is Jannah that is you know who have we made it for who owns the hereafter who has got it well in the hereafter the one who has it is the one who didn't want in this world to be high and to be pushed up or to transgress on others he's just that simple easy humble person that's the one who's going to receive the hereafter and what did Alika remember no way in this Kitab at the beginning of this Kitab he mentions a very strong line of poetry he says Allah has righteous slaves they divorced this dunya they divorced this dunya they looked at the dunya and they observed it they rise wise people and they realized the reality of this dunya they divorced this dunya and they feared fitna but they realized one thing when they realized that this world hasn't got a place for a righteous person has no room for them what did they do they used the whole dunya as a place to start just to come with righteous deeds and that's the truth today the way I woke up and where I woke up from and what I ate maybe better than what you ate or maybe lower than what you had no one knows but it won't tell on our faces it won't tell on our lives so however simple you live in this world a dry bread can quench your hunger as much as a 10,000 pound restaurant can quench your hunger both can so it's important we understand this dunya the creator who owns it he said I'll just hold you on that point and we'll just go for this break join us after the break and we'll come back just before the break you mentioned that this world in the sight of Allah doesn't even equal to the wing of a mosquito you see if you know iPhone the owners of iPhone, Apple they was to come out and say look Apple has a problem and they went to put it down and they said it's faulty they said it and we don't like Apple and Apple is bad if they were to say that would the people take it from them they're the owners, they're the ones who made it they're the ones who created it yeah Apple will go down if the owner of Apple and the guys who made it the manufacturers send out a message saying our phones are faulty everybody will take it back to the store and what they will wait for is a refund for example Allah has a what has a great example for example Allah has a great example the creator of this world saying to you it doesn't weigh in my eyes Allah is saying this the wing of a mosquito this world because it has no weight even this believer can enjoy it the one that means Allah to Allah has a place in the eyes of Allah is the hereafter and that is why the believer what and therefore the scholars they say Ibn Al Qaib and others they say the fact Allah gives you something in this world it has no relationship with Allah loving you or hating you the dunya doesn't mean anything to Allah it has no weight in the eyes of Allah that's why a believer has this dunya and even nonbeliever can have the dunya so if we understood that concept and we really digested that point then we would come to live our life where we wouldn't give much weight to this dunya I don't want people to think when I say all of this that we should just sit at home and you know not do anything and have no aspiration to achieve anything now what I mean by that is that when you work in this dunya you're not working for it alone that's what's important achieve in this dunya whatever you want to achieve whatever you want to become in this world but you do it on the expense of the hereafter that's my message you don't give your heart and mind to this dunya on the expense of the hereafter and if you do achieve something in this world doesn't show nor does it indicate that you have gained the love of Allah nor does it indicate that Allah hates you nor does it indicate that Allah hates you it can give you all of this wealth it can be and it can't be it can be either of the two but what really matters is what's your intention how do you observe this dunya Allah says about the disbelievers they eat and they are enjoying themselves that's all the world is for them eat, drink, sleep and go to work again eat, sleep and drink that's all it is for them the believer is not like that the believer knows this world meaning is that you live this world because you know Allah created you to come to this world and to worship Him alone Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and not to associate partners with Him that's why when they said when they died the people of Istiqama Allah said to them that's where they were then told don't be scared don't be nervous don't be anxious and you know it's amazing when you don't connect yourself to this dunya too much and you don't give the dunya everything okay it doesn't hurt you when the hard times come because you're not connected to it the heart is not too attached to it it's when you attach your heart to it and your life becomes about this dunya it hurts you when you things don't go the way that you want it to go and it pleases you when things go according to how you want it when he's like Allah he says that they are the ones when they're given what they want they're happy when they don't get what they want they are angry a person who's like that is because he's connected himself to the dunya too much so much that there's nothing else for him other than this so if he loses it he gets depressed anxieties now that the world has reached the pinnacle of scientific discoveries the world's reached the pinnacle of development the increase in mental illnesses has grown the increase on of anxieties the increase of depression the increase of all of these illnesses why? because people have connected themselves to what? materialism materialistic things and they've detached themselves from that which was important which was their spirit their spiritual side and now their heart is dehydrated and they're having suicidal thoughts and etc the other day I was watching a show and then one of the famous guy in the famous scene and he he's talking about and he's been spoken about right now he's famous like that everyone's talking about he's got a fight coming up he's talking about how he had suicidal thoughts he was the heavyweight champion undisputed heavyweight champion never been knocked out knocked out I think 19 or 18 you know he has what? suicidal thoughts he's like every single day when I wake up I have suicidal thoughts I don't want to live anymore you have to ask yourself what is it that made this person feel like this it's all based upon the perception of this world and it's reality it's different from how a believer looks at it Ibrahim Ibn Adham and Abu Yusuf when they both went together and they went to the they went to the edge of the ocean and they started to both dip in their bread they had dry bread so they started dipping it in until it gets moist and then they eat it and then they say to each other both of them say to each other Ibrahim Ibn Adham says to Abu Yusuf he says if the kings if the kings and the children of the kings were to know the happiness and the joy that we're going through they would have taken their souls out and they would try to take away the happiness from us but you see dipping that bread into the ocean and the heart and its feeling it shows you that it's not necessarily to have wealth which makes you happy you know the story of a man happened in Somalia he owned a shop he owned a shop and he employed a couple of people you know his employees I mean of course he wasn't giving them much a lot because of the price over there Somalia is not that much but he worked for him loyalty was high one day he locked his shop as he always does and he started to count the money how much he made today he couldn't count the money because there was outside the shop there was one of the employees who was sleeping there snoring so he didn't know who it was he could hear the snoring he's counting the money so he opens the shop comes out and he looks at who's sleeping he wakes him up he says what are you doing here so he tells him that you know he doesn't have a place to go to he doesn't have so much money to come so he just sleeps here and he goes to work from here and he hit him because he's the one who owns the shop he's the one who's counting the money that's made and he's the one who's stressed so much Somalia is not he's sleeping on the on the porch of the shop just simple life he's not stressed no hardship no money he's stressed so this is indication that it's Allah's how Allah treats your heart we know that you mentioned a while earlier that it's not based upon what Allah gives you whether or not you're loved by him and that's why you see sometimes the worst of people have maybe sometimes the most money but we know that Allah obviously is the lord of everybody he's the rub of everybody he cultivates and nurtures everybody but we know that this special this special cultivation is of giving us hidayahs only for those who he loves so you may not have been given wealth but if you've been given this hidayah this guidance, this is a sign that Allah loves you and have the latest sports cars but if you've been giving this guidance and you've been chosen by Allah this is ultimately a sign of Allah's love not the wealth necessarily yes Muhammad you can't guide whoever you wish but Allah guides whoever he will and Allah knows who deserves to be guided if a person realizes the value of the value of guidance and what he's been given I remember I went back to Somalia and my sheikh he requested for me to buy to get him a manuscript when I went back to Somalia he asked me to get him a manuscript and the manuscript was a kitab by sheikh Abdelman Nasser al-Saudi it was a reseller on the issue of itilaf unity and not to dispute one another and to differ so I think the reseller is called the reseller is called the re-reseller so he asked me for a manuscript I researched I looked for it because I was in Qasiba at that time so I found it in a market in Riyadh I found it in a market in Riyadh when I found it and I called the sons of Abdelman Nasser al-Saudi and they helped me and whatever we got the manuscript and I went to the sheikh the amount of money that I also had and I also had the manuscript so I went to the sheikh I gave him the money first that I planned for him and others the reason I'm telling this is because of something that really touched me from it and I also gave him the manuscript before I gave him the money I gave him the money it was in an envelope he put it inside when I gave him the manuscript the joy and the happiness I saw in his face I did not see when I gave him the money and he said something to me he said to me if today could be a celebration it would have been a celebration for me they could be considered a celebration today he would have celebrated this day the hunger and the need that he had for that manuscript and that's it so like no worth was it to him the money no value did it hold for him another funny story with that sheikh he orders manuscripts to be sent from him from Turkey from the Makati of Islam from Turkey they sent him manuscripts they sent it to him so it was brought to his attention that they are overcharging him they are taking too much money from him and this money shouldn't be spent towards the manuscript it could be reduced and the love he has for the manuscripts that have been sent to him and he was like no I don't want it whatever they ask we will find a way to collect money he doesn't even have money we'll find a way to collect money and send it to them it shows you that what means more to the righteous people is Akhirah as Allah said in the beginning of the verse that we mentioned the end of the world and Akhirah is the best