 As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh Bismillahir rahmanir raheem wa as-salatu wa as-salamu ala ashrafil mursaneen Sayyidina wa Nabiyyina Muhammadin wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa salim Ya Rabbana laka alhamdu kama yambaghil li jalali wa jihika wa a'u dheemi sultanik Allahumma alimna ma yamfa'una wa anfa'na bima alam tada ya Rahmanir Raheemin Insha'Allah today we will go on with our thoughts on the 40 Hadith of compiled by Imam al-Nawawi. So today, insha'Allah, we will be working on Hadith 4, 5, 6 and 7, insha'Allah. So to start with the fourth Hadith, insha'Allah. Sayyidina Abdullah ibn Mas'ud, may Allah be pleased with him, said, Haddathana Rasulullah, may Salat and Salam be upon him and peace be upon him, wa huwa s-sadikul masduq. So Abdullah ibn Mas'ud, may Salat and Salam be upon him, said, Sayyidina Muhammad, may Salat and Salam be upon him, talked to us and he is the truthful and the receiver of the truth. So he said, So verily, the creation of each one of you is brought together in the womb's mom in the mother's womb for 40 days in the form of a nutfa, which is a drop. And then this becomes a alaqa, clot of blood for a like period. So for another 40 days, then it takes another 40 days that this this alaqa, this clot of blood is becomes a mudra. And a mudra is a morsel of flesh. Earlier, scholars used to believe that the embryo is formed at a very early stage in pregnancy. And it was until almost mid 1800s, when Western scholars came up with a theory that the embryo is formed in stages. But Subhanallah, if you look at the Quran, the Quran stated that the same thing, the embryo is formed in stages over 1200 years ago. So the death, the death acts or Subhanallah, from the beginning until the end, there are stages that the human passes. And this hadith acts as one of the most important scientific miracles of the sunnah. It describes the aspects of the embryo, the embryo, the formation of the embryo. So Subhanallah, by the way, we all know that the first few months of pregnancy are sometimes very hard for the mother. So we have the 40 days as a drop, then 40 days as a clot, then 40 days later as a morsel of flesh. And this is very hard. These changes sometimes are very hard for the mother. So starting with lessons, actually we will be talking about the hadith and the lessons after. So the lesson here is that we have always to be good to our mothers for all they did for us, starting from the first days of pregnancy. I know a lady in her 40s and Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'ala invited her to perform umrah with her mom. There were some family relatives with them. Subhanallah, the mom is in her late 70s and she was able to perform the Tawaf walking. Walking and she didn't need a wheelchair. But the Sa'i was undoable for her without a wheelchair. So when they hired a wheelchair, the people or those who are responsible, they offered a man to push the chair. But the daughter refused. She said, I myself want to do it. And for herself and she was thinking that my mom took care of me all my life. And I want to do this. Allah has given me this opportunity now just to pay her just one thing or just a very small thing. Yeah. Just a small token that rewards her for one, maybe one thing that she has done for me all her life. So what she did, she took care of the mom and she herself pushed the chair and she did not allow anyone to do it. So she said all that what I did for my mom, which is nothing, it took about maybe half an hour, an hour. So she said that will not equal the pain of one of the pushings while she was delivering me. So as an advice, just appreciate the difficulties that your mother faced when carrying you and while giving birth to you. Be good to your moms, respect them. Sometimes someone might say, okay, but my mom passed away. Well, you can still be good to her. And you can do Sadaqah for her. You can do a lot of dua for her. So there are ways to appreciate your mom, whether she is alive or she is dead. So these stages that the hadith start with remind us of all the stages that a human passes by during his life. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in Surah An-Nahil ayah 17 said وخلقناكم اطوارا And we created you in stages. So different stages. Sometimes we are happy. Sometimes we feel sad. Sometimes we are healthy. Sometimes we are sick. These are all stages. Sometimes we are close to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We do a lot of dhikr. We do a lot of prayers. A lot of Sunnah prayers. Sometimes we feel that we are far. And barely praying the five prayers with khushuar. So the advice here is that there are stages in our lives. And when we pass through the good stages, then we have to take advantage of this time. When we are healthy. And this is what Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said اغتنم خمسا قبل خمس صحاتك قبل سقمك We take advantage of five things. Before five things happens. One of them is your health before you become sick. Take advantage of this stage. Take advantage of your time before you become busy. Do not waste your time. So we pass through different stages. Since we are embryos in the wombs of our mom until we die. So we have to take advantage of the good stages. We have to do extra deeds as extra deeds as we can when we are in these stages. Then Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says ثم يرسلوا إليه الملك فينفخوا فيه الروح ويؤنروا بأربع كلمات بكتب رزقه وأجله وعمله وشقي أو سعيد Then the angel is sent to him. So now after the third 40 days. So the angel blows the soul into him. And the angel is commanded to record four things. To write down the human's risk, the sustenance, the provision. And the word risk does not always is not always related to money. There is the risk of knowledge, the risk of health, the risk of wisdom. And there are so many other types of risk. And Subhanallah sometimes Allah gives the risk of wealth and he takes away the risk of health. So the risk is not divided equally amongst all the people. This one has a very good amount of risk of let's say money. The other one has the risk of wisdom. Someone might have the risk of money, but he cannot eat. He doesn't have the risk of health. He would wish that he is healthy enough to be able to eat anything he wants. So the first one is the things that this angel records is to write down the human's risk. And also the angel is also commanded to record the lifespan of this human. How long is he going to live? So is he going to reach the old age? Is he going to die a baby? Is he going to die as a young man? So this is recorded. Then his actions and whether he will be happy or miserable. And this might be expanded also that whether he will be happy in the life after. So whether he will enter paradise or miserable or whether he will be in hellfire. So whether he will be in hellfire or miserable or whether he will be in hellfire. By the one other than whom there is no deity. Literally one of you performs the actions of the people of paradise until there is but an arms length between him and paradise. And that which has been written overtakes him. And so he acts with the actions of the people of the hellfire and thus enters hellfire. Now ask what are the causes of a bad ending? There's so many answers. The first one corrupt belief. Doubts. This or that. Being persistent in sins. No toba no repentance. Choosing to stay away from steadfastness. Someone likes to sin. Loving this mortal dunya over the immortal Akhira. So that the heart is attached to other than Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And verily one of you performs the actions of the people of the hellfire until there is but an arms length between him and hellfire. And that which has been written overtakes him. And so he acts with the actions of the people of paradise. And thus he enters paradise. And again, someone might ask what are the causes for a good ending? Keeping steadfast. Having good thoughts and expectations of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allah says, I have good thoughts and expectations of Allah. So let us know what he wants. I am the same way to my servant, the same way he thinks of me. So if someone thinks that Allah is the most forgiving, Allah is going to help. Allah is going to show His mercy. Very strong faith. Also, hastiness and repentance after sinning. If someone sins, then they feel that this whole dunya is getting narrower and narrower. And it's so tight for him. And he won't feel good until he repents and asks Allah for forgiveness. And another, of course, another good way of having another good reason to have a good ending is to keep away from the causes of a bad ending. Avoid what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has ordered us to avoid. So if we link this hadith to the first hadith we started with, do you remember the first hadith we started with? It was about intentions. So in this hadith, we add that all deeds are based upon the final actions. So this should make us fear and never feel safe from entering Hellfire. As we never, we never know how our life will end. Nobody guarantees where he will die, how he is going to die, and what he would be doing when he dies. Nobody knows. And that's why we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to guide us, to show us the right way always and not to be deceived by this dunya. Shaytan swears that he is going to beautify bad deeds to the good humans. And I wanted to emphasize on the word the good humans because he knows that the bad humans do not need to be whispered to. So they don't give him hard times. But the good humans are those who challenge Shaytan. So he swears that he will beautify the bad deeds to those people until they die. And he will keep doing this until the day of judgment. He promised Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So Shaytan won't stop until the last breath is taken. And at the death time he would have a cup of water in his hand and he will try to convince the person who is suffering the agonies of death. He's trying to convince him to become a non-believer and he promises to give him a sip of water. And that's why when there is someone who is dying, they put drops of water on his lips so that to protect him from the fitna of death. The fitna of Shaytan. So it's not safe until we take our last breath. And that's why we always say our dua. Allahumma inna nasalukahusna al-khati iman. O Allah, give us the best ending. Allahumma inna na'ozu bika bin fitnatil mamat, bin fitnatil mahya wa bin fitnatil mamat. Ya Allah, save us. We seek refuge in you from the fitna of Shaytan at death time. We make another dua when we say Allahumma jaal khaira a'malina khawatimaha. Ya Allah, let the last of our actions be the best so that when we die, we die and you are pleased with us. We move on. Allah is hadith. And An-Aisha, radiallahu anha, qalat. Qala Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Man ahdatha fi amrina haadha ma laisa minhu fahuwa radd. And in another narration, fi rwaya akhra, man amila a'malan laisa alaihi amruna thahuwa radd. So Aisha, radiallahu anha reported that the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, the messenger of Allah said, he who innovates something in this matter, so he who innovates something in this matter of ours, which is in Islam, that which is not of it, which does not belong to Islam, will have it rejected by Allah. And in another narration, the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says, he who does an act which we have not commanded, will have it rejected by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So the first hadith from the 40 hadith dealt with internal aspects of acceptance of deeds, which is the Amir. Now this hadith deals with the external aspects of the acceptance. So both the internal and the external aspects of acceptance of deeds should be fulfilled. So it's not enough, it's not sufficient to just have a good intention for the action to be accepted. No, a thief might have a good intention, so he wants to steal some money to feed the poor. Will he be rewarded? Will that action be accepted? Is that action lawful? So no innovations. Sayyidina Anas radiallahu anha narrated that. I'm going to read the hadith now in Arabic. So three men came to the houses of the wives of Sayyidina Muhammad, to inquire about the worship of Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So when they were informed, they thought of it as not sufficient. So one of them said, as for me, I pray all night long. So the first one prays all night and he does not sleep. The second one said, I fast continuously and do not break it. So I'm fasting every day. And the third one said, And I abstain from women and I will never get married. So Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam heard about them and he came to them. So Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam came to them and he said, Are you the people who said so and so? By Allah, I fear Allah more than you do and I am the most obedient. I am the most dutiful among you to him. But I observe fast and I break it. I perform Salah and sleep at night. And I marry women. So whoever turns away from my sunnah does not belong to me. Allah says in Surah Al-Ma'ida, Today I completed. I have perfected your religion. So by the religion being complete, We know that Allah has not left any good or bad thing except that he mentioned. So our lesson from this hadith is that we have to appreciate Allah's blessings over us. So Allah has perfected his religion. He completed his religion for us. So we have to appreciate this blessing. That we do not need to look elsewhere to get closer to him. The Quran is there. The sunnah is there. The hadith is there. تركت فيكم امرين. Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, I left two things for you. If you just get hold to them, then you will be saved. It's a Quran wa sunnah. So at the end of this hadith, Imam An-Nawawi put another narration of the hadith. And we find similar warnings. And the reason for that is that he wants us to know that it's not just the person who starts the innovation is wrong. But also the person who follows him in doing so is also wrong. Allah has given us countless blessings. And one of these blessings is the intellect. He gave us the intellect so that we have to think, is this lawful to do? Or is it unlawful so we have to avoid it? But sometimes we fall into a gray area. Things become little shady. And this is what the next hadith discusses. So the next hadith is about avoiding doubtful matters. So, So, So, I heard the prophet of Allah, the messenger of Allah saying, that which is lawful is clear. And that which is unlawful is also clear. Because there are evidence. This is clear. This is lawful. There is evidence that this thing is lawful. There are evidence that specify some things unlawful. And between the two of them are doubtful or there are ambiguous matters. So when you do a lawful thing, you don't think about it. But when you do an unlawful thing, you need someone, you feel that you need someone to give you a fatwa. That it's okay to do it. Your heart makes you feel anxious. It makes you feel uneasy that you did that deed. And that's of course, if a person has a sound heart, a good heart, it is hard to sin the first time. But then, if someone continues, then it becomes okay. It becomes a habit to think, to sin. There should be istaghfar for each sin, so it is erased. So between the two, the lawful and the unlawful, there are ambiguous matters. It is better always to leave the doubtful matters, even though when they may be halal, just to ensure that the doors of haram are completely closed. And there are people of Allah, the people of Allah leave a boundary of halal. They leave a boundary of halal, not of ambiguous matters, a boundary of halal. So not to fall into the doubtful matters. So what is the end of this sentence? So between the two areas, the halal and the haram, there are ambiguous matters about which not many people are knowledgeable. And here comes the importance of seeking knowledge. The importance of learning about our religion. Knowledge. And knowledge is something that we have to keep going and going and going and seeking until we die. The more we learn, the more we find that we are ignorant. There are so many things in this world. So if we learn something, there are a lot more that we have to learn about. So we have, so he who avoids these doubtful matters. So certainly that person would clear himself in regards to his religion and his honor. But he who falls into the doubtful matters falls into that which is unlawful. We just mentioned it. We have to have a clear margin between halal and haram so we do not fall into the haram. It's like the shepherd who pastors around a sanctuary. All but grazing, grazing therein. So verily, every king has a sanctuary and Allah's sanctuary is his prohibition. So we have to be careful. The gray area, the doubtful areas we have to avoid to be on the safe side. And this dunya is full of fitan. So many bad things are circling us that we have to avoid. In the body there is a morsel of flesh which if it be sound then all the body is sound and which if it be diseased then all the body is diseased. This part of the body is the heart. So the whole thing goes around, revolves around the heart. When we have a good heart, a sound heart, then things will become easier. Allah SWT says in Surat Al-Shara, يوم لا ينفع مال ولا بنون إلا من أت الله بالقلب إنستليم. The day when there will not benefit, nothing will benefit anyone, not wealth, not his children. Nothing will benefit anyone but only one who comes to Allah SWT with a sound heart. Now how can we have a sound heart? First of all we have to make dua. And then one of the people of Allah mentioned that to get a sound heart, you do this. When you pray Fajr, of course you pray the turakas of sunnah before it. So after you pray your sunnah, just stay for a few minutes and say 41 times يا حيو يا قيوم لا إله إلا أنت. So this is the secret. This is a secret to have a sound heart. يا حيو يا قيوم لا إله إلا أنت. 41 times. After you finish praying your sunnah, turakas, you say 41 times. يا حيو يا قيوم لا إله إلا أنت. And then you pray your Fajr. So now you might ask what are the signs of a pure heart? So you always think of the akhir. You always think of death. You always think that we are not living forever in this dunya. We want to go to meet Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with a clear heart that doesn't have anything about any bad feelings, any bad thoughts, anything about any other person. We want to have our heart pure for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Our heart should have Allah and the messenger in it. No dunya. Dunya should be in our pockets, not in our hearts. It's good to be rich. It's good to spend for the sake of Allah. But it's not good to love money, to love wealth. Money, wealth, everything should be in your pocket, not in your heart. Only Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and his messenger are in our hearts. So continuously feeling upset if someone does something bad, does a sin, and the heart would immediately urge that person to repent and to do istighfar. So there is nothing in this heart except the love of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. The pleasure of worshiping Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. The concern to please Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So we have to get a sound heart. Now if we ask ourselves, what is this way that the friends of Allah has shown us? It's just a nasiha. It's just giving advice. And this is what the next hadith is about that Ibn Uwey Siddari said, Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, The nasiha religion. We said to whom? He said to Allah, to his book, to his messenger, to the people of Muslims and their nation. So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, The religion is nasiha. It's to give good advice. And those people of Allah has given us advice of how to get a sound heart. So people asked who to give advice to who we are? And Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, To Allah, to his book, to his messenger and to the leaders of the Muslims and to the common thoughts of the Muslims. So giving nasiha, giving an advice has two ways. You give advice for a good person to be better. Or you give advice to someone who is sinning just to avoid sinning and of course to be better. So the first part is to give advice for people to get better, to get closer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And you mention what you want to say publicly to everyone with the intention that you are doing this just for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. But the second part, if you see someone sinning, you give him advice. But there are conditions for these advices. So the first one is to do it in private between you and that person. And you show him that you don't have any benefit out of saying the words that you're saying. Except that you want to help him to be away from Allah's punishment. So and then of course the intention is that you are doing this for the sake of Allah. And you make dua for that person. So the nasiha is wanting good for someone else. This is the nasiha. The first person to practice nasiha is the mom. Of course the parents. So if the mom gives nasiha to, gives an advice for her child about his studies, about his career, about something, then she is doing this advice for Dunya wise. But the wise mom cares about the Akhira of her children. So she keeps giving nasiha, she keeps giving advice since they are young. So that when they grow up, they would be similar to those people whom, to those young men, whom are... You remember the story of Sayyidna Usama Bin Zaid, we talked about it in previous series when I talked about the Sahaba, the companions of Sayyidna Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. He was 17 years old when he led the Muslim army to go to fight the Romans. 17 years old to lead the army. So when you as a mom take care of your children since they are young, when you always give them nasiha, when you always give them advice, then they will be those people whom Sayyidna Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam will be proud of on the day of judgment. They will be coolness of a night to Sayyidna Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And this is what as mothers we have to raise our children to be, but we have to start with ourselves. We have to work hard on our heart. We have to have a pure heart so that we can, we taste the meaning of the word good heart, pure heart, so we can convey this meaning. We can make others taste the same thing that we are tasting. So giving nasiha is that you want good for someone with a sincere heart. It's just for the sake of Allah. And this was one of the great and noble qualities of Sayyidna Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. He gave nasiha to his ummah continuously. He showed us the way that if we follow, then we will be safe on the day of judgment. We will be all united under the banner of Sayyidna Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. So we have to purify our hearts. And how can we give nasiha to Allah? We have to believe in Allah. We have to purify our hearts. We have to have Allah in our hearts and only Allah with his messenger. So we have to strive hard in worshiping Allah and in following the Sunnah of Sayyidna Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. We have to be sincere in our worship. We have to glorify Allah. This is how we give nasiha to Allah. This is what it means. What does it mean to give nasiha to his book? It means that we have to believe in the Quran and we have to follow the orders of the Quran. We have to have a strong bond between us and the Quran. Every day we should have a special time of the 24 hours just to connect with the Quran. It's not just a book that's on the bookshelf. No, the Quran should be in our heart. We should implement it. We should glorify it. We should learn it. We should teach it. This is how we have nasiha to Allah's book. We have nasiha to his messenger. How can we have nasiha to Sayyidna Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam? It's by believing in him and putting his statement above any other statements. To be eager that we want to learn about Sayyidna Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. We want to know about his Seerah. We want to know about his companions. We want to follow his Sunnah. We want to learn about his manners. We want to emulate them. We want to know how to love Sayyidna Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And nasiha to the leaders of the Muslims. We want to be good to them for the sake of Allah SWT. We want to make dua for our leaders. We want to make dua for the ummah. So we want to show love. We want to show respect for the scholars. For the people in charge. The leaders of the Muslims. And we do nasiha for the common thoughts of the Muslims. By loving them. By loving them. By respecting the elders. By showing mercy to the youngsters. By being happy when people are happy. By sharing the feelings. And of course, by having a sound heart towards everyone. And this is what we ask Allah SWT for. We ask Allah SWT for granting us a sound heart. For giving us a sound heart. And we ask him to accept us. We ask him to give us the best of all the stages that we are going to pass by in our lives. We ask him to show us the lawful. We ask him to show us the unlawful. And we ask him to clarify the ambiguity. So that we will meet him. So that we will meet him. And he will be pleased with us. And we will be pleased with the rewards that he will be preparing for us. And until we meet again next week, insha'Allah, I would leave you now by sending your salam and my salam to our beloved Prophet, Sayyidina Muhammad. As-salamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh