 Dear viewers, As-salamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Once again, it's an honor to be amongst you discussing the verses of the Holy Quran and the narrations of Ahlul Bayt, alaykum as-salam, asking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to bless us more to be able to bring these teachings into our lives. And inshallah, by the grace of him, I am almighty in the blessing of Quran and the words of Ahlul Bayt, getting closer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We are discussing Surat al-Hamd. We discussed Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem, and the action plan was that inshallah everything that we do, we start with Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem, everything if we want that endeavor of us to be blessed by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to start good and to continue to be good and beneficial and to have a good conclusion. Inshallah, we start, keep saying Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem, before everything that we start. And then we continue to second verse, which was Al-Hamd al-Lah Rabb al-Alamin. And as we said, the action plan was every day at least minimum, 100 times we should remember, that's minimum, more we do, it's better saying Al-Hamd al-Lah Rabb al-Alamin and believing in Al-Hamd al-Lah Rabb al-Alamin and being grateful to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and to the people who do good to us. Al-Rahman ar-Raheem, we also discussed about it, that the action plan was that we bring mercy into our process of upbringing and educating our kids. We should have mercy. Not only that, we should be al-Rahman, we should be having mercy within our action, within our talk, within our behavior. It should be all based on mercy. And today, insha'Allah, we will continue with the verse, Malika yawmid-deen, master of the day of retribution, or master of the day of judgment. A question might rise in your mind that, is Allah only the master and the owner of the day of judgment? How about this world? How about this day that we are living? Or is it only then? The answer to this question will be that, in this world that we are living currently, we are in position of some materials, that we claim to be the owners, and that we have the ability to do whatever we want with them. For example, I have a house. I have a car. I own my body parts and I can do whatever I want. So, based on this, we think in our minds, we've been a little bit confused and we've been a little bit distanced from the truth that everything that we have belongs to Allah, Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala. He is the owner. He is the master, Alhamdulillah, Rabbil Alameen, the master. And all praise belongs to Allah, Lord of all the worlds. So, everything that we have, even though on paper we might possess a property or a product or an object, we own it. But ultimately, it all belongs to Allah, Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala. And he is the owner. So, why in here we discuss, and the verse says, Malik-e-Yawm-ud-Din, master of the day of retribution and the day of judgment? Because again, in this world, we think and within our lives we go and we base our actions that our body parts is ours and we are in control of it and we can do whatever we want. But this verse should remind us every day that we read Surat Al-Hamd in the morning, two times, Zohr, two times, Surat Al-Asr, two times, Maghrib, two times, Aisha, two times. All of these, I mean these many times that we read Surat Al-Hamd and we reach to Malik-e-Yawm-ud-Din, we should remember that on the day of judgment there is no one and nothing can help us and none of the ownership that we had in this world can benefit us, none of the relationships that we had with people. On the day of judgment, it's completely different than this world. In this world when we face a difficulty, we go and ask someone's help, someone that has connection somewhere and can benefit us and can resolve our issues. That person either can physically help us or can talk to someone else and help us or he can come with a group of people and help us or we can have a plan to get help because of things that we own or other people own which is not real ownership. Rather all, we call it in Arabic word, اعتباري. We just have it on paper, it's written that I Mustafa Akhund own this place, own this property, own this laptop, own this device. It's only on papers and we see it but the truly everything belongs to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. But if we believe this, that everything, it's owned by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. All of our body parts that we are using it, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave us to use them and whatever it's in our position to use them to get closer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala we will be more careful of how do we use them. For example, our tongue and our hands and our legs. When we say, when we read the Qur'an, inshaAllah I read the verse, we shouldn't think that we are the true owner and nobody will ask us about these. How did we use them? Did we use them for the right reason? Did we use them for the sake of Allah and Ahl al Bayt a.s? Did you use them to get near Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala or we use it to get away from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? Did we use it toward Haq and truth or we use it in aiding, battle and falsehood? On the day of judgment, even these body parts that we thought it belongs to us and we can do whatever we want with it. Allah in chapter 36 verse 65 says On this day, today means the day of judgment. Today we shall seal their mouths and their hands shall speak to us and their feet shall bear witness concerning what they use to earn. So on that day, even these body parts that we did whatever that we did with them, our mouth, our tongue, what we said with it, was it a truth? On that day of judgment, we can say, oh Allah, I didn't say this or I said this, it will be sealed, hands will be talking. Our legs will bear witness what we did. If it was halal aiding the truth or aiding battle and falsehood and committing a sin, sinna audha billah. So when we read every day, malik yawm ad-din, we should remember that everything that is in our position, are we using them in the best of manners? In the aid and the path of Allah and Ahl al Bayt, if it's not, we have to be careful. In this day, in this world that we are living, we can maybe hide and seal what we have done and make sure we don't let other people to know about it. But on the day of judgment, malik yawm ad-din. On that day, nothing can benefit us. Even none of our positions and nothing that we had in our hands, where we read also in chapter 82, verse 19, where Allah says, yawm la tamliku nafsun le nafsin shay'a wal amru yawm ad-din lillah. It is a day, meaning the day of judgment. When no soul be of any avail to another soul and all command that day will belong to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Oh, I know this person, I can take help from this person. This person has connections somewhere, he can't. No, no, on that day, it's all in the hand of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Even though, let us open a good bold parenthesis, even though on that day, we believe as a shia, we believe in an intercession of Ahl al Bayt, a.s. that they will do shafa'a for us. But even that intercession is by the will of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. They will not intercede for a person that Allah doesn't want that person to be interceded for. But Allah has given them these vouchers to intercede for people that they see and their will is the will of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Their satisfaction is the satisfaction of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Their anger is anger of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So if they will to do something, that is what Allah wanted them to do. So Malik yawm ad-din, on that day, no one will be able to help us. On that day, truly Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, Le manil mulk al-yawm, chapter 40, verse 16, to whom does the sovereignty belong today? It means a day of judgment. To Allah, the one, the all paramount belongs Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, belongs the sovereignty of that day and the sovereignty of these, of everything that he has created. And no one can use whatever they had in their position in this world to benefit them except their amal that they have gained. So we have to be very, very careful in this world that we are living. We have to be very careful and we have to be always asking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to not leave us by ourselves because if he leaves us by ourselves, we think that we are in position. We think that we can do whatever we want with our body parts, with our family, with our kids, with our wealth, with what we say and what we do and where we go and what we have in affair. This is not true because if he let us go, shaitan comes and he deviated us, they deviate us. Even he does try his best to deviate us. We need Allah's help to be on the right path. We see a story, a narration by one of the wives of the Holy Prophet, Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa ala, where she said it was in the middle of the night, he woke up and he left. I went and I searched for him. I saw him. He is in sujood and prostration to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and he is shedding tears and with humbleness and genuinely he is asking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, Allahumma walata kilni ila nafsi tarfa ta'inin abada O Allah, don't leave me to myself even an amount of glance of an eye. How long that takes? Glance, glance. Even that amount, O Allah, who is saying this? The best creation of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying this, but he says, O Allah, don't leave me to myself even for an glance of an eye, because that moment I might make decisions. I might do something O Allah that is not what satisfies you and is not according to your teachings, even though he is infallible. He is ma'soom. He has great infallibility. He doesn't commit sin. He doesn't think of a sin, not at all. And he's teaching you and I also. So the point that we have to try to achieve is not to see these worldly ownership as genuine and thinking that we can do whatever we want with them. That will become a good action plan. Everything I've got to say, well, I'm using my body part. I'm using my tongue to say something. I have to see on the day of judgment, will I be able to answer for what I said? Every word that we utter, we are going to be responsible for it. Everything that you do with my hands, everything that I do with my legs, everything that I do with my body parts, it's not what it's not mine that I can do whatever I want without being accountable for it. No, on that day, Malik yawm eddin, on that day, Allah will say, well, I gave you this and I trusted you with these body parts. Couldn't you use it in aiding the truth? Couldn't you use it in helping a needy person? Couldn't you use it to defend the truth and also fighting against falsehood? Couldn't you use that? So we are responsible for all of our body parts. And our master, the master, our commander of the faithful, Amir al-Mummina Ali ibn Abi Talab, alaihi salam, he has reached a point that he says, Allah prays, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, if he removes the bells and the curtains from my eyes and I see the day of judgment and I see what I see from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that he is the true owner of everything that I have, my certainty won't increase. This is the role model that we have to follow his footsteps to be on his path. Now, kushifal ghata, if the curtains are removed, mazdat to yakinah, my certainty that Allah owns everything from me, that I am accountable for everything that I do and my belief won't increase and my certainty won't increase because I have faith. It's completely mastered commander of the faithful. He is all iman, completely. His action is iman, his thinking is iman, everything that he says is iman. So, this is the person that we follow. This is the person that we are praying every day asking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to be on his path. So, Alhamdulillah, Rab al-Alamin. Bismillah, Al-Rahman, Al-Raheem. Alhamdulillah, Rab al-Alamin. Al-Rahman, Al-Raheem. Malik, Yawm, Medin. All praise belong to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Why? Because he's Al-Rahman, Al-Raheem. He's merciful and he's Malik, Yawm, Medin on the Day of Judgment. Also, believing in this, it will keep us straight. We make sure we don't deviate. Believing on the Day of Judgment and reminding ourselves of the Day of Judgment will keep us firm on the right path, making sure that we don't deviate, making sure that we don't commit sin. If we keep reminding ourselves, and that's a reminder, Malik, Yawm, Medin when we recite Surat Al-Hamd on a daily basis, it's not for us to say, to just start Salam. Allah, Bismillah, Al-Rahman, Al-Raheem, Al-Raheem, Al-Raheem. No, no, no. With everything that we say, we have to live every verse that we are reading. Malik, Yawm, Medin. In those verses that I'm reading, I keep reminding myself morning two times, Duhran, As, four times, Maghriban, Aisha, four times, and more and more if we read. Hopefully, we are reading Salat Al-Lil and we are reading the Nawafil, the extra Mustahab Salah. We are reading it. We are reminding ourselves the day of judgment. Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, will hold us accountable. So an action plan will be, let us do something, whatever that can remind us, a picture, a drawing, an image, an object, whatever it is that reminds us on the day of judgment. Let us place it somewhere in the house, in our room. That's by us seeing this, again, it can be this verse, Malik, Yawm, Medin. It can be an illustration or image or depiction of the day of Qiyam. It's something that reminds us on the day of judgment for us to keep seeing it. And by us seeing it, it keeps reminding us that the day of judgment, we are accountable for everything that we see, for everything that we hear, for everything that we say, for everything that our body parts does, we are responsible for that. That by itself, that reminder of Malik, Yawm, Medin on a daily basis, insha'Allah, it will prevent us. That becomes Salah, that Inna Salat atanha an al-Fahshai wal-Munkar that indeed, Salah, prayers will prevent us, will abstain us and will forbid us from committing sin and Fahshai and corruption. Why? Because we keep reminding ourselves Malik, Yawm, Medin. If I'm about to commit this sin, well, on the day of judgment, I'm going to be accountable for it. So, we need reminders that the day of judgment, we are responsible for everything that we say, for everything again that we see and hear and so on and so forth. Everything that we do, basically, we are responsible for it, insha'Allah. Yaka na'budu wa iyaka nasta'im, insha'Allah, will be in the next episode. We conclude, we will conclude this session by praying to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala begging him to hasten the appearance of our beloved Imam Mahdi, which is the most important du'a. Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem. Allahumma kulli waliyyika al-Hujjat ibn al-Hasan salawatuka alayhi wa ala aba'ih fi hazeh sa'ata wa fi kulli sa'a'ah waliyyan wa hafida wa qa'idan wa nasra wa dalilan wa'ina hatta tuskinahu ardaka tawa'a wa tumatta'u fiha tawila barahmatika ya arhamar rahmeen