 May Allah's peace, mercy and blessings be upon our beloved and beloved Prophet Muhammad and his family and his companions. May Allah's peace, mercy and blessings be upon you all. May Allah's peace, mercy and blessings be upon you too, beloved Messenger of Allah. Today, insha'Allah, we are trying, insha'Allah, to finish the last part of this year for Juz' A'ma. So, insha'Allah, we will be starting with Surah al-Takathur. I seek refuge with Allah from the accursed Satan, in the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. May Allah's peace, mercy and blessings be upon you too, beloved Messenger of Allah. Allah, Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala, is saying, all are preoccupied by the love of the world, by the love of its delight and its adornments. So, this love has made people away from the correct love to Allah, Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala. This distracts people from seeking the hereafter and from designing it. And Sayyidna Muhammad ﷺ talked a lot about the love of dunya, and he said in one of the narrations, If the son of Adam, owns a value of gold, he would desire to have two. And nothing will stop him until he reaches his grave. In another hadith, Sayyidna Muhammad ﷺ said, He says, And he only has three. So, the servant says, my wealth, my wealth. Yet, he only gets three benefits from his wealth. That which he eats and finishes. Or that which he wears till it's for now. Or that which he gives in charity and is gone. But everything else of his wealth, other than what we mentioned, will go away. And he will leave everything behind and he will be buried. He will not take anything with him. No one takes his wealth with him to the grave. So, until you die and you get buried. In another narration, Sayyidna Muhammad ﷺ says, So, three things would follow the janaza of a person. Two of these will go back and just one will stay with him. So, he will be followed, the janaza will be followed by the relatives and friends. And by his wealth, how rich he is, how fancy the janaza is, how everything has been prepared. And the last thing is his deeds. So, two of them will go back which are the money and the people, the relatives. And his deeds will stay with him. You shall come to know. Which explains the Hadith of Sayyidna Muhammad ﷺ and Nassuniyam. People are just sleeping, they are headless. But when they die, they would know, they would realize the reality. And they will know what they missed, they will know what they should have done. So, when a person die, at that time, they will understand. Then again, you shall come to know. This is an emphasis. You non-believers one day, you will know that you were wrong. You believers who did not follow the right path and who went astray and come back and went astray and you were doing bad things here and there, then you will know. Everybody will know exactly what happened and what they did and how they will be rewarded or how they will be punished. If you knew with certainty of knowledge. If you knew the reality, you wouldn't have been distracted. Nothing would have taken you away from the right path. If you knew with certainty of knowledge, you will see the Hellfire. Everybody will see the Hellfire. Those who are winners, they will know that they are saved and they will be super happy. They will rejoice for being saved. But those who lose the end, they will know that their destiny will be the blazing fire. Then again, you will see it with certainty of sight. You will see it with your own sight. Then again, you will be asked about the delights. Allah gave you in your life, He gave you health, safety, sustenance, wealth. He gave you everything, eyes, hearing, tongue. But you will be asked about these delights. Your eyes, you were not supposed to look at this, you did. You were not supposed to hear this with your ears and you did. You were not supposed to say these things with your tongue, but you did. You will be asked. In Sayyidina Muhammad SAW, he says, So two favors are treated unjustly by most people. Health and free time. These are two blessings. These are the delights that Allah has given us. You will see a lot of people just wasting time. They say, the only word they will hear from them, oh, I'm bored. I don't know what to do. Be creative. Get closer to Allah. Get closer to Sayyidina Muhammad SAW. Try to spread the knowledge, you know. If you know Sayyidina Muhammad SAW says, If you know one ayah, just spread it. Don't waste time. If you are healthy, then use your health. Use this time when you are healthy. Do something beneficial to you, to your family, to your parents, to your friends, to your relatives, to your neighbors. Be good. In Surah Al-Asr, we say that Whenever two companions of the Messenger of Allah SAW, Whenever two companions used to meet, They would not part until one of them had recited Surah Al-Asr. And one of them had given greetings of peace to the other. They would say, Salam alaykum. So then when there is a gathering, Try to end this gathering with Surah Al-Asr, with reciting Surah Al-Asr, And give salam before you leave. And say, If people were to ponder on this Surah, it would be sufficient for them. Again, this Surah starts with a wow, and this one is the oath wow. So we have an oath here. Allah SWT is swearing by time. Time. Asr is time. Between Zuhra and Asr. Asr is time. So man is in loss. This is what Allah is swearing. While Asr, Is everyone in loss? No. Except. Except for those who believe and do righteous things. Righteous good deeds. So almost always the word, Amenu is followed by Wa Amir al-Salihaat. You cannot have just belief without righteous deeds. And you cannot have just righteous deeds without being a Muslim And have good faith. So man is in loss. Except for those who believe and do righteous good deeds. What Allah will help. They encourage, they advise each other to the truth. And to the good deeds, to perform, to do a lot of good deeds. What Allah will be sabr. And also they advise each other. They encourage each other to practice patience. So they perform acts of obedience. And they avoid the things that Allah has forbidden for them. So those people, Tabas al-Bil Haqq, Tabas al-Bisabar, people of Allah, those people who meet for the sake of Allah, those people who love each other for the sake of Allah, they worry about and they care about the ending of their friends, of their companions. They want them to be safe, to be safe. So Tabas al-Bil Haqq, but Tabas al-Bisabar. We can say a few words here about Tabas al-Bisabar. When we say the sabr, practicing patience, can be on several things. I will mention three of them. Worshiping Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, we practice patience for that. What does this mean? We mean that when you want to worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, you need to practice the prayer or the tahajjud prayer. So if you wake up at night, you want to pray tahajjud, then sheiktan will immediately whisper who it's called. Oh, just you see how warm you are. You don't need to wash your hands in cold water or something. Then we need to practice patience. We need to get away to not to listen to this sheiktan, to the whisper of the sheiktan. We need to practice patience to worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We also practice worship to avoid disobeying Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. This is don't backbite. Are we really practicing patience here? Are we really not backbiting each other? This is practicing patience. Also we practice patience when we have calamities. The good believer when he has any calamity, he would say, إِمْنَ لِلَّهُ إِنَّ إِنَّ إِلَّهِ رَاجِعُونَ During the last of dear loved relatives, father and mother and son, husband, children. So we say, إِمْنَ لِلَّهُ إِنَّ إِلَّهِ رَاجِعُونَ We say, إِدْنَ محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said, when his son died, he was crying, some tears fell off, and he said, have to practice patience at the moment. So this is Surah Al-Asr and in Surah Al-Humazah, Al-Humazah is a slenderer. Allah is saying, وَيْلُلْ لِكُلِّ هُمَزَةٍ لُمَزَةٌ Whoa! To every slenderer who, who disgraces others. So what's the difference between وَيْلُلْلُلْ لِكُلِّ هُمَزَةٍ لُمَزَةٍ And al-Humazah are those who disgraces others with the eye and with the hand. They give just swings, they wink with their eyes or they give just gestures with their hand. Oh, they just some signs. Al-Humazah is to disgrace others with thump. So about biting, saying bad words about others. So this is Al-Humazah. And Allah SWT is saying, Whoa! to those people. There will be big punishments for them. اللَّهِ وَيْلُلْ لِكُلِّ هُمَزَةٍ لِمَزَةٍ اللَّهِ يَجَمَ عَمَا لَمُ عَدَّدَةً Who gathered wealth and counted this wealth. He is so complying, counting how much wealth he has, how much money he has. He counts up his wealth and he keeps counting it. His heart is connected to it. It's good to be wealthy, but always make the Tua. Ya Allah, make this wealth in our pockets and not in our hearts. It's good to be wealthy, but it should not distract us from worshiping Allah SWT or obeying Him. يَحْسَبُ أنَّ مَالَهُ أَخْلَدَهُ He thinks that his wealth will make him last forever. He can buy whatever he wants. He thinks that he's not going to die or kella. لَيُمْ بَذَنَّ فِي الْحُطَمَا No, verily, he will be thrown into the hutama. So the next ayah says, وَنَ أَدْرَاتَ مَا الْحُطَمَا And what do you know of al-Hutama? What is al-Hutama? This is one of the descriptive forms of Hellfire. It crushes whoever is in it. نَارُ اللَّهِ المُقَدَةَ اللَّتي تَطَّلِعُ عَلَى الْأَفْئِدَةَ It's the fire of Allah, whose heat reaches the heart. Imagine yourself burning your finger how painful it will be. So just a finger. The Hellfire was flame 50,000 years until it was red and 50,000 years until it was white and 50,000 years until it was dark. And it will burn them all the way until the heart, until it reaches the heart. And imagine how painful that will be and they will still be alive. Severe pain and torture. إِنَّهَا عَلَيْهِ المُقْصَبَةَ Verily, it shall hang them in, to cover them, engulf them, and lock them in forever. So this punishment, whatever they are facing, whatever they are in, will never decrease. It's forever. إِنَّهَا عَلَيْهِ مُقْصَبَةَ So it's verily, it shall hang them in pillars stretched forward. So the pillars of fire, there will be columns of fire over them. They will be chained with fire. The gates will be shut upon them and there is no way out to them. Nothing to help them escape this torture. In Surah Al-Feeel, Allah SWT, we all know the story of Abrahah when he wanted to destroy Al-Kama. We know the reason, the reason for this, for his being so upset. We know that Abrahah was the king of Yemen and he built a church and he named this church Al-Kulays. So Abrahah forced Arabs to make pilgrims to this Kulays, to his Kulays, instead of going to Kama. But they refused. And so to punish him for this, one of them, one person went in this church and he relieved himself in the church. So Abrahah was so upset. Another person decided, okay, you are doing this, then this structure should not be there. So he got it into fire and that made Abrahah lose his mind. So he swore that he will destroy Al-Kama. So he took a big army with 12 elephants and he was very... He went from Yemen up to Mecca and he was very close to the Kama, but he was away a little bit. The distance was not far. So he settled there and he went, he sent his guards to Mecca. And the leader of Mecca at that time was Abdul-Muttalib, Jaddu Rasulillah, inshallah, alaihi wa sallam, the grandfather of Sayyidina Muhammad, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So his guards captured 200 camels for Abdul-Muttalib and he, Abrahah, sent a message to Abdul-Muttalib that, look, we didn't come here to fight you, but we came here to destroy the Kaba, to destroy this house of yours. So if you would let us do that, we will not fight you, otherwise we will fight you. So Abdul-Muttalib said, we don't want to fight you. Allah, this house, this second house has a Lord and the Lord will protect his house. And he went to see Abrahah. Abdul-Muttalib was big handsome. He was respected. And when Abrahah saw him coming in, he went down and he left the cushions he was sitting on and he sat with him on the ground. So Abdul-Muttalib said, I want you to give me back my camels. And he said, I am the Lord of the camels and I want you to give it back to me. As for the house, it has a Lord and this Lord will defend his house. So Abrahah gave the camels back and Abdul-Muttalib left him and went to the Ka'bah and he took the metal ring of the door of the Ka'bah and he started to make dua. He made dua and dua and he said, oh my Lord, this is your property, defend your house. This is your house, defend your house. So the next day, Abrahah got prepared and he wanted to attack the Ka'bah, but something happened. The elephant knelt down and he would not move. They pushed him, they poked him, the elephant would not move. If they made the elephant away from the Ka'bah, then he will stand up and start to run. If they make him toward the direction of the Ka'bah, then he will kneel down again. And we know that what Allah SWT how he sent birds in groups and they found the camels and they destroyed the army of Abrahah. So let's see what happened. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Alam ta-rafeen fa ta'ala rabbuqa bi ashabil fiil. Have you not seen how the Lord dealt with the owners of the elephant? Alam yajal feyda hum fi fadlil. Did he not make their plot go astray? He destroyed their plot. They did not get what they planned for. Wa arsala alayhim ta'iran abalil. So their punishment, he sent against them birds in groups, each drop following the other, and each bird carrying three stones in their feet and in their feet. So these stones, these birds termihim bi hijaratin min sigil, striking them with stones from clay. So when they would throw these on them, these small stones will get into their bodies and it will destroy them. Fa ja'ala hum kaas fil maqqul. Al-asaf is the leaves of the crops that are not gathered. So we call these leaves al-hasaf. Or al-asaf al-maqqul is the straw when the cattle eat it. They defecate it and it becomes dark. So this is how their bodies became. So what happened to Abraham? Abraham was split open, even his heart was exposed and he was just a listen to all those who disobey Allah SWT. Subhanallah. So once we know that in the day of Hudabiyah, the sheikah of Sayyidina Muhammad, peace be upon him, knelt down. The sheikah doesn't want to move. And people tried their best but they couldn't make her move. So they said, some people said, al-qaswa wa anida. Al-qaswa is stubborn. That's Rasulullah, peace be upon him, peace be upon him, said, maqal la'ti al-qaswa wana daka la'ha bi-khulq. Wa la'kin habasaha habisul fil. Al-qaswa has not become stubborn. Don't say that about al-qaswa. And that is not part of her character. But rather she has been stopped by he who restrained the elephant, Abraham. So now the Arabs got more honor for this house. And they used to honor the people of Quraish more. Everyone around the Arabian Peninsula now cares for not harming this group of people. We see in Surah Quraish, the next Surah. So Surah Quraish is directly related to the previous Surah, the Surah Tulfi. And the meaning of both Surahs, Allah has prevented the animal from entering Mecca and has made this place Mecca-s-Hakrem. So Allah is saying here, li'ilat al-Quraish. And we have, so Allah has destroyed the people of the elephant to gather Quraish. Ilaaf means to gather. So to gather and to unite Quraish and to bring them together safely in their city. So Ilaaf, they would gather. How would the people of Quraish gather? One of the ways they would gather during their journey in the winter to Yemen, they used to take their trade to Yemen. And in summer, they used to go up to Sham because in summer, it will be cooler to go up. And in winter, it will be warmer to go down. So they would go back after getting their trade. They would go back safely on their journey. So people now know these people, know the Quraish. They know that these are people who are protected by Allah. These are the people who are protected by the Lord. So they would honor them and they would not try to harm them. So li'ilat al-Quraish, i'ilat ihim ri'ilat al-Shifa'i wassaif. So we shouldn't be amazed by the favors of Quraish. So the Arabs now gathered into their journeys, the winter journey and the summer journey, they would go for trading. And they would go safely. Fali'ab would warab bahadal bayt. So let's then worship the Lord of this house. Just as He has given them a safe sanctuary and a separate house. Fali'ab would warab bahadal bayt. Allavi at'amahum min juwa wa amanahum min khawf. Allah, their Lord, has predicted them against hunger and made them safe from fear. So their trading is always safe. No one can raid on them because they know that these people are protected. So Allah has kind of favored them with safety and gentleness. So for this, they should single Him out for worship and worship alone, Him alone without any partner. They should not worship any idols beside Him. So this is what Quraish should be doing. Allah has honored them, but they have to return this favor. But what happened when they heard of Sayyidina Muhammad, Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, some of them accepted, some of them belied severely and badly? Now we'll move to Surat al-Ma'un, Aw'a'ita al-Ladhi, yukaddi, bubuddin. Ya Muhammad, have you seen the one who denies the hereafter, who denies the recompense and the final reward? Fadaalik al-Ladhi yadu al-Yatim. That is the one who oppresses the orphan and does not give him just you. He's not correct to that. Fadaalik al-Ladhi yadu al-Yatim. He gets their money. He doesn't have any emotions to them. Wa la yahubu ala aqami l-biskeen. And he does not encourage others to feed the needy, to be good to the poor, to feed the poor. So these are two commands from Allah SWT to feed the needy, to feed the poor, and not to harm. And we talked earlier about how a high reward that is the person who takes care of the orphans and who treats them with mercy and with love and kindness. So the one who denies the hereafter would not do that. Fadaalik al-Ladhi yadu al-Yatim. Wa la yahubu ala aqami l-biskeen. So these two ayats in Surah al-Fajr, they have the same meaning of Fadaalik al-Ladhi yadu al-Yatim wa la yahubu ala aqami l-biskeen. In Surah al-Fajr, in the ayah 1380, Fadaalik al-Ladhi yadu al-Yatim. Wa la yahubu ala aqami l-biskeen. You don't honor the orphan and you don't care for feeding the poor. Fawaila li musallin al-Ladhi yadum an-salati him-sahoon. Normally when we read these two ayats, we don't stop after a musallin, but we connect the two ayats. Fawaila li musalli means woe to those who perform prayers. So why would Allah order us to pray and then He would say, Fawaila, woe to those who perform prayers. No, not for prayers. Al-Ladhi yadum an-salati him-sahoon. The people performing their salah is completely outside of its time. So they keep delaying the prayer, they keep delaying the prayer until it's not the time for that prayer anymore. So if they pray, they pray out of time. So they are not fulfilling the pillars of this prayer. And Sayyidin Muhammad ﷺ explained that when he said, this is the prayer of the hypocrite. He stays and just watches the sun because they used to get to know the time of the prayer for the sun and the al-Hau and the shadow. Until when it's the end of the time or when time just passes, he picks his prayer. He doesn't fulfill the pillars of the prayer. Wa la yankoo waw hafiha illa qaleel. He doesn't remember Allah's plan over to Allah except for just a little bit. But in fact, he doesn't think of Allah's plan when he's praying. But when Allah says, he doesn't think of Allah's plan when he's praying. So, if they are doing good with a prayer or a charity, anything, what is their intention? Those who do good deeds only to be seen, only to be praised, only to be well spoken of, but not to gain the love and the love of Allah. And if they are doing good not, but not to gain the reward that Allah has promised. وَيَبْنَعُونَ الْمَعُونَ And they will withhold the simplest assistance. They would not help anybody. They would not let anyone use anything of their stuff, even if they are not using it. If someone asked them for help, they would not offer it. They would reject anything. They would not accept to help anybody. So they do not worship their Lord. No. Nor do they treat His creation well also. Surah Al-Punta, one of the most amazing surahs in the Quran. So when Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam, when this surah was revealed, Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam smiled. And for us, whenever we read this surah, we smile. Just because Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam smiled, then we smile for eating surah to talk to. So, unfortunately, Allah was narrated. While we were with the Messenger of Allah, Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam in the Masjid, then he dosed off into slumber. And then he lifted his head, smiling. He said, oh, Messenger of Allah, what has caused you to smile? He said, And he wrote the surah, Verily, a surah was just revealed to me, and he decided that surah. Then he said, do you know what is Al-Fawthar? And everyone said, Allah and his Messenger of Allah, no. And he said, It's a river that Allah has promised me. Now imagine yourself now drinking from this, from this river, from this pond. It's a pond. My nation will be brought to this pond on the day of judgment. And yet, its containers are as numerous as the stars. So once servants will be prevented from drinking, for I will say, Oh my Allah, he is one of my nation. He is one of my ummah. They will say, You don't know what he introduced, or what he invaded, what bad things he has done after you. You don't know what he introduced, or what he invaded, what bad things he has done after you. What bad things he has done after you. Ya Allah, who asked you for the best drink from this pond, from this pond, from the pond, to take Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam himself. I will talk more about this, Qawthar, Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says, It's a river in paradise, which my Lord has given me. It is whiter than milk, and sweeter than honey. There, there are birds whose legs are long, like the mechs of kaira. And I will leave, Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says, The kawthar is a river in paradise, whose banks are of gold, and it runs over pearls. It's water is whiter than milk, and sweeter than honey. So this is what we are looking for, insha'Allah. Therefore, turn in your prayer to your Lord, and sacrifice. So perform your obligatory, and obligatory prayer to your Lord, and sacrifice. So perform your obligatory, and obligatory prayer to your Lord, and give your prayers. And sacrifice solely, and sincerely for your Lord. Worship him, Allah's premium alone, and not associate any partner with him. Let anything in the dunya distract you from your worship to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala and sacrifice pronouncing his name alone. So when you sacrifice for his sake, you say Bismillah Allahu Akbar and then you slaughter your animal. Inna shani aqa huwa al-Abtar. For he who cuts you, he will be cut off. He who hates you, oh Muhammad, he and hates what you have come with of guidance of course, here and truth. Then he is the most cut off of who will not be remembered. This area was revealed about al-Aas bin Wa'il who was an unbeliever at the time, Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. So whenever the name of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ would be mentioned while this person al-Aas would be present, he would say, leave him for indeed, he is a man who is cut off, having no descendants. They know that his sons died when he was young. So they thought that when he dies, we will not be remembered. Because normally they would say son, this person is the son of so-and-so and this son is the son of so-and-so. So he has no sons. When he dies, no one will mention him. So this is what they said. But to the contrary, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala preserved his remembrance for all the world to see. So he associated, Allah associated the name of Muhammad with his name, especially in the Azzan. Whenever we hear the Azzan, we hear Ashhadu an-la ilaha illallah and Ashhadu an-na Muhammadan Rasulullah. So his name will be always mentioned. Why is the name in Nashani aqaw al-Aqta while the name of that person who said this about you, this is the one who will not be remembered. In Surat al-Taqiru, Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, besides the Surah and the Surah al-Sumad al-Wa'aha, in the two rak'as of Sunnah al-Tawaf when he goes around the Ka'bah. After he finishes his ta'af, there is a Sunnah of two rak'as. Then he would read Surah al-Ka'irun in the first surah and Surah al-Tawaf al-Sumad in the second rak'ah. And he will also read these two Surahs in the two rak'as before al-Fijr. So Surah al-Las-Tanawta al-Sasud yaduha al-Ka'irun. The number leaders wanted Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ to leave this message, to stop going for this message. So they tried to give him whatever he wants, just if he wants anything, they will give it to him. If he wants women, they will get him to marry the best, the most beautiful woman in their tribe. If he wants money, they will make him the richest. If, if, if and everything failed. Until one day one of them said, okay, how about if we worship his, if we worship his God one year and he worship our God one year. So Allah revealed to the Ya'ibi al-Ka'irun, say, oh, disbelievers. La'abuduma ta'abudun. I worship not that which you worship. I will never worship the statues and the, and your Bible parts. Wala'intum a'abuduna ma'abudun. And now you will worship whom I worship. I worship Allah who has no partners. And I will wala'ana a'abuduna ma'abudun. There is an emphasis to this. And I shall not worship that which you are worshiping. Wala'intum a'abuduna ma'abudun. Nor you will worship whom I worship. This is an emphasis. I don't follow what you worship. I only worship Allah SWT in the manner in which he loves and is pleased with. And you don't follow the commands of Allah in his legislation, in his worship. You will don't worship Allah SWT. La'abuduna ma'abuduna ma'abudun. To you, be your religion and to me, my religion. In Surat Yunus, Allah SWT says, وَإِنْكَدَّبُكَ فَقُلْ لِي عَمَلِي وَلَكُمْ عَمَلْكُمْ أنتُمْ بَرِيُؤُونَ مِنْ مَا اَعْمَلُوا وَأَنَ بَرِيُؤُمْ مِنْ مَا تَعْمَلُونَ And if they deny you, just say, I'm to me my work and I'm to you as your work. You are innocent of what I do and I'm innocent of what you do. So, to you be your religion, your disbelief. And to me, my religion, which is Islam has given victory to Sayyidina Muhammad SWT, which we will see in the Surah after, إِلَا عَجَلَا أَمَسْلُوا وَالْفَتْهَاَ When there comes the help and the victory from Allah SWT and the conquests, the conquests of Mecca. وَرَأَكِتَ النَّاسَ يَدْخُلُونَ فِي دِيْنِ اللَّهِ الْأَفْوَاجَةَ And you saw people entering the religion of Allah in crowds. You all know the story when Sayyidina Muhammad SWT went back to Mecca, contrary to Mecca, how the Quraysh became very worried what will happen to them. Ibn Abbas said, Allah SWT, this Surah was an indication to the death of Sayyidina Muhammad SWT. Why? Because now, Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, his role has been completed. His message is complete now. This is a heavy Surah, if we go deep into the meaning. So Allah SWT, if this happens, if Mecca is conquered, فَسَبِّحْ بِحَمْدِ رَبِّكَ وَسْتَنْفُرْ Then praise your Lord and seek forgiveness of him. إنَّهُ كانَ تَوَّابَةَ He is ever ready to show. He's ever ready to accept one's repentance. So when someone makes anything wrong, when someone does anything wrong, just have a moment with Allah SWT, sit alone with Allah SWT, praise him and ask him for forgiveness. إنَّهُ كانَ تَوَّابَةَ He's for sure accepting the repentance of a person until he is on his deathbed. So in Surah Tabbat, when Sayyidina Muhammad SWT was ordered to call people for Gava, for the message, he said, Oh people come at once. He went on a mountain on a hill and he called, Oh people come at once, Oh people come at once. So Quraysh gathered around him and he said, if I told you that the enemy was going to attack you in the morning or in the evening, would you all believe me? And they said, yes, of course, you are always a trustworthy world, always honest and you never said a lot. Then he said, إنَّهِ نَدِيرٌ لَكُمْ بَيْنَ عَذَا بَيْنَ يَدَيْ عَذَا بِتْشَنِيدِ Verily, I'm a Werner, sent to you, sent to you all before the coming of a severe tyrant. So Abu Lahab said, have you gathered this to say these words? Have you gathered us to say these words? May you perish. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala revealed, تَبَّتْ يَدَ أَبِيلَ هَبِيلَ هَبِيلٌ وَتَبْ Parish the two hands of Abu Lahab, and perish he, we know Abu Lahab was his Sayyid Muhammad's uncle, who hated him and who opposed him, who hurt him, who did all his best to try to get him away from Islam and to finish this message that he wrote. But of course he couldn't. مَا أَبْنَا عَنْهُ مَا لِهُ وَمَا فَسَنْ His wealth and his children will not benefit him. سَيَبْسْلَا نَا رَمْذَا تَلَهَبْ He will enter a fire full of flames. وَمْرَأَتُهُ حَمَّالَةً حَطَبًا And his wife too, who carries wood. She would carry wood, she would be helping to administer his punishment in fire of hell. She will carry the fire wood and throw it up on her husband to increase what that which he is in torment. Of course she was as bad as him. فِي جِدِهَ حَبْلٌ مِنْ مَسَدْ In her neck, a twisted drop of message from the palm fiber of the fire. She used to place thrones into the bathroom, Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And for that Allah will place a color of iron, of fire on her neck of the day of judgment. So we come now just a little bit of loss, the purity, the sincerity. A'a'sha'u'llah will do Allah want her. Says in one of the narrations, Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam sent a leader on a small army to somewhere. So he, this leader used to lead the people for prayer. And he would mention, he would always read to Allah qu'aha. So they mentioned that Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam I can ask him why he does, why does he do that? So that the parents said, اَنَّهَا رُصْفٌ لِرُحْمَانَ وَأَنَا أُحِبُ أَنْ أَقْرَعَهَا And he said it contains the attributes of Allah and I love to read it. So Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says, اخبروه أن الله تعالى يحبه inform him that Allah in the most high loves him. Sayyidina Bilal also used to love this surah and he used to read it a lot. Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says about the virtue of surat al-Ikhlas والذي نفسي بيده إنها لتعدينه فيبثة القرآن By he whose hand is my soul verily it's equivalent to a third of the Qur'an. And one time Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was with his companions and he said, اَيَعْجَزُ كلُّ أَحَدُكُمْ أَيَّقْرَأُثُرُسَ الْقُرْآنِ فِي لَيَّقْرَأَهَا Can anyone of you read the one third of the Qur'an in one night? And they said, او يا رسول الله is that possible? اَيَعْجَزُ أَحَدُكُمْ أَيَّقْرَأَثُرُسَ الْقُرْآنِ فِي لَمُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدْ Is it difficult for any one of you to read surat al-Ikhlas in one night? So try to read this surat at least once before you go to bed. Allah who has created, Allah the eternally behold of all. Allah the eternal refugee. لَمْ يَلِدْ وَلَمْ يُولَدْ He begot not nor was begotten. He neither begot nor he is born. I think that's born, he's going to die. Allah is not going to die. Allah was not born. وَلَمْ يَقُلَّهُ كُفُمْ وَالْأَحَدْ And there is none comparable unto him. Nor is there to him any equivalent. So actually surat al-Samad is one of the surahs of Aqidah that if we want to talk about, books can be read about. Books have been written about. Hours and hours and hours have been spent just explaining surat al-Samad. And now we move to the last two surahs, surat al-Falaq and surat al-Nas. We all know that Sayyidin Muhammad ﷺ someone did magic on Sayyidin Muhammad ﷺ and we will see what happened. But just one word about sorcery, whenever there is sorcery done on people and when they feel that this thing happened to them, let them just read these two surahs. There is something not right from within. They would feel that there is something not right from within themselves. They would feel that there is so much burden inside them. They would feel that they are not themselves actually. So they have to read surat al-Falaq and surat al-Nas. So Allah ﷻ says part of the manifestation of what He has created actually causes harm. So, seek refuge from the Lord, from the Lord of what? The Lord of Daybreak. من شهدりنا خلق, from the evil that which He created. So we know that there is, there are some animals that would cause you harm, not because they are bad, but because it's their nature. Lion, snake, everyone runs away from them because of their nature, not because they are bad creatures. But people want to run away from a cow or from a sheep, from a cat, unless they are afraid of the cat of course. But Allah ﷻ did that for animals. Why? Because some of them are just for you to, they are just gentle and in nature and some of them are harsh in nature. So that's why some of the creatures of Allah ﷻ have evil in their nature, but not because they are evil. They do bad things, but not because they are evil. So, ومن شهر الغاسط إذا وقب, and from the evil of darkness, when it settles. So, غاسط is a light, the night. وقب means when its darkness covers everything. So, there will be a veil. No light. Animals, fearful animals will wander here and there at night. Robbers will be practicing their hobbies at night. ومن شهر الغاسط إذا وقب. ومن شهر الغاسط إذا وقب. So, what is this? The, from the evil of the glowers in the night, the time. And this is referring to sorcerers. So, ومن شهر الغاسط إذا وقب. And from the evil of an ember, when he envies. So, when Muhammad SAW says, العين تضحل الجملة في القدر وتضحل رجل القبر, envying the eye that envies would lead a camel to be slaughtered and to be in a pot to be cooked, and will get someone to buy. So, envying is sickness. The one who practice envies, he feels that, he feels so sad, so unhappy, if someone has any blessing, he wants everything, he will bless himself for himself only. But when we see blessings over people, we say بسم الله ماشاء الله تبارك الله. And we do ربطة. ربطة is the good envy. To ask Allah to keep the نعمة, to keep the blessing on that person, and to ask for similar things for yourself. We know that say the Muhammad SAW was a spell, or a magic spell has been cast on Prophet Muhammad SAW by Labid Al-Assam. And he, say the Muhammad SAW, he felt okay for a few days. Until one day he made dua for Allah, what is that? So, he slept and had a dream of two angels. One of them was at his head and the other one at his feet. One of them asked the other, what is him? And the other one said, be witched, be witched. And the first angel asked, who be witched him? And the second angel Labid Al-Assam, which was the name of the one who be witched, said the Muhammad SAW. He said, with what? He said, with a comp and with what traces of her that were felt when someone used the comps. He said, where is that stone? So, where did he hide it? He said, Allah be be witched, be witched. In the well of the one under a rock, in the well of the well. So, I feel that Allah SWT has told me what happened. And he went with his companions to the well and they took the spell. And there was a cord with some knots. And whenever Allah SWT revealed this surah with surah to al-naas, the one after. And whenever he would read these two surahs, one of the knots would untie until everything was untied and see the Muhammad SAW felt relieved immediately. So, what's the difference between this surah and surah to al-naas? So, this surah is about, surah to al-falaq is about protecting yourself from the physical harm that afflict you while surah to al-naas is about protecting yourself from the spiritual harm that may afflict you. So, surah to al-falaq talks about the body physically is being protected and surah to al-naas is the protection from the shaitan and his whisper. So, what did Allah SWT say in surah to al-naas? He said, Say, I seek refuge in the Lord of mankind. Malik al-naas, the supreme, the dominant of mankind. Ilah al-naas, the God of mankind. Min jamil al-waswas al-khanas, from the evil of the whisperer, retreating whisperer. So, the whisperer, the one who whispers is the shaitan. Al-Lelihi wa Sufi Sufis al-Lawina. So, this shaitan is the origin of all evil. So, who would whisper to people? So, they would consider the bad good. You will make the evil good. Al-Lelihi wa Sufi Sufis al-Lawina. He will whisper evil into the breasts of mankind. Min al-Jinnati wa-naas. So, it's not from the jinn and mankind. So, it's not only shaitan. It's always the shaitan of the human beings. The bad companions whisper to a good person to go with them to so-and-so bad place. They would whisper them to do this and this bad thing. So, these are the shaitan of al-naas and the shaitan of the jinn. With this, we come to the end of our journey. We come to the end of our series. SubhanAllah. Ya Rabbi, laka'al hamdoukuma yin bazeel l-jalali wa jika wa azaimi sultanik. Ya Allah, we ask you. We thank you for all your bounties. Ya Rahm Al-Rahimin, Ya Rabb Al-Alamin, wa sallallahu ala seyyidina Muhammad, wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa salim. Wa as-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Thank you all for attending and thank you all for those who are listening after this session. Wa as-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Thank you.