 السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته اسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والصلاة والسلام علي سيدنا ونبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجنال وجهك وعبينا سلطانك اللهم افتح علينا بتوحل عارفين يا أرحم الرحيم يا رب العالمين اسمينا رحمة الله ورحمة الله وبركاته لرحمة الله وبركاته للسان ونصر كيف سيدنا ونبينا محمد صلاة والسلام ونريد عليهم أن يتساعدهم في الادماء المسلمين لأنهم لا تشعر أنه يكون جيدجا لهم to be equal to this low class in their eyes. So what, and we know how Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and of course will never get rid of those blessed people. So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is now giving us an example. And this is the example of the rich idolater and the poor Muslims. It's a similar example to those rich group to the rich group and to the poor Muslims who were with Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. This is the story about a paradise on this earth. Which many people are deceived by it. So the story deals with the fitna of money and the fitna of wealth which are the pleasures of this world. So we have to be careful. We will go on with the story. We will read the story. Inshallah. So we are on ayah 32. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says وضرب لهم مثلاً رجولين. So O Muhammad, present to them the example of two men. The Quran Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gives examples. So to attract our attention. So He gives us stories after stories and these are not just stories about old nations. No, we have to take the lessons, the morals out of these stories. So if there is something that we do not understand. Then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will give us an example to clarify it. So here Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is telling Prophet Muhammad ﷺ to give the example of the two men. Telling them the story of what they did. So tell the people what the story of these two men is. So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is saying وضرب لهم مثلاً رجولين جعلنا لأحديماً جنتين. So we granted to one of these two men to one of them two gardens جنتيني من أحناب. So these gardens of grapevines. And we know grapevines are most delicate and important fruit. So this is the story of the two men. One is a believer and the other one was a non-believer an arrogant person. So the non-believers Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gave him two gardens two beautiful gardens. So he was he forgot Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and he just enjoyed the gardens. He even forgot the day after. And the other man is an example of a poor person who was not paying attention to this dunya. Dunya did not deceive him. He understood that dunya is just for this life and it will be gone. So the real life will be the day after. So there was a conversation between these two persons these two men. So the arrogant man bought a land with his money his share of money that he inherited. So both of them inherited some money but the arrogant man bought a land with his share with his money while the good man decided to do something else he bought food and fed the poor he bought clothes and gave it to the poor so he gave all his money as a charity for the sake of Allah. The arrogant man got married and had children in many servants but the good man had in mind that he would have الحور العين was in Paradise. The arrogant man started to lose all he gathered in this worldly life and this is the reason and this is the result of the punishment that Allah gave him. So how did that happen? So we said الله سبحانه وتعالى سأجعلنا الحديث من عناب. So he had two gardens of the grape vines وحففناهما بنخلن and we have surrounded both gardens with palm trees so we made a border around the grape trees with palm trees as if to protect the delicate grape trees so we know dates and grapes are important types of food for man so Allah سبحانه وتعالى gave this man these two great gardens وجعلنا بينهما زرع and we placed between them fields of crops so it was not only dates and grapes but other crops too كلت الجنة تيني آتت أكلها so each of the two gardens produced its fruits so the output was in maximum there was no shortage no less of fruit and other crops آتت أكلها ولم تظلم منه شيئة and did not fall short there of anything the gardens gave best quality and quantity so it wasn't only quality but the quantity was amazing and it wasn't only quantity it was the quality that was the best so للم تظلم the land was just the land always appreciates your hard work it gives you you right if you plant a seed it will give you a tree so it will give you a lot the land is generous you do your job and it will reward you now let's stop for a minute and think what does this remind us think of your kids imagine them as a land the more you take care of them when they are young the best they become when they get older we want our kids to be like the young Sahaba who were raised under the care of Sayyidina Muhammad Sayyidina Usama was only 17 years old when he led the army 17 years old now imagine at our time a 17 years old young man once a mom came to me saying my son is 20 years old now and he does not pray he does not fast he is not practicing and then she started crying and crying and she said it's all my fault I did not take care of him spiritually when he was young I never urged him to pray I myself was a bad example but a few years ago Allah SWT guided me and he showed me the way again so now I feel bad for my son so the point of this story here is we need to pay attention to our kids since their early childhood this is similar to plowing the ground preparing it planting the seeds watering these seeds taking care of the land taking care of the seeds taking care of everything that we are preparing taking of the weeds that will grow only then we can enjoy the fruits that come out of it so the harder you work in your early life the better you take care of your responsibilities the the greater the reward will be later you have your children as an Amana you have to take care of this Amana so Allah SWT is saying here so the ground is generous the harder you work in it the greater the outcome will be so do your job make dua and Allah will take care of things but you need to do your job you need to be initiative without your work your children will not grow up righteously guide them always be on top of them just notice what they are doing just be in control of everything and you can of course you have to give them space but once you prepare them to be ready to take their space then you can't relax because at that time they will be able to know what is right from what is what is wrong they will be able to see what is right and what is dark so things will be clear for them no gray areas so prepare them work hard when they are young this is when you get to enjoy them when they get older and when you get older and we goes to gash forth within them a river so Allah did not leave it just for the rain to water the ground but he gashed the river through these two gardens so he made it even easier for the farmer for the man for that man who was given these two gardens وكان الهو ثمر and he had fruit and other than fruit the word ثمر does not only mean fruit the fruit we eat but everything that is an outcome is called ثمر he had money beyond this he was not only a farmer he had gold he had silver in the Arabic language when we say the children is the child is the fruit of his father so the word fruit as I mentioned includes it all it includes everything it's not just the physical ثمر it is also everything that is included in this summer so now the man had everything but what did that make him how did that affect him was this wealth a reason or a source for him to get closer to Allah and this is how we should we should look at our wealth this is how we should be thinking is wealth getting us closer to Allah or is it pushing us back and away from him are we paying its dues are we paying are we paying we all know that when we do that then our money will increase it will be purified and it will increase are we paying its dues to Allah are we thanking Allah for this blessing that he gave us Allah says أزيدناكم if you thank me then I will give you more are we thanking Allah for all the blessings he has given us for the blessing of sight for the blessing of hearing for the blessing of being perfectly created are we thanking Allah for that are we thanking Allah in the center of our heart or on the marishing where is Allah in our life is the world deceiving us and getting us attracted is it getting us away from Allah or are we taking these blessings to get closer to Allah we have to think we have to think of the poor who don't have the blessings we have to think of the sick people who don't have the blessings we have we have to think of everyone around us and the more we get to contemplate about these blessings the more we thank Allah so we should always have in mind that wealth it's branches whether money, health knowledge everything is a test and we should know how to use this wealth for the sake of Allah it's good to be wealthy it's good to know to have money but this money should be in our pockets should be in our accounts but never in our heart our heart should be the the place the clean place the pure place for for for the Quran for the light that Allah has prepared for his righteous people but not for dunya it's good to have dunya but not in our hearts some of the Sahaba of the companions of Sayyidina Muhammad was in them used to be very rich and they never stacked their money they used to spend it for the sake of Allah some people not only spend for the sake of Allah but they urged other people there are so and so people who are poor just give who can give who can donate so they would have their reward and also their word of everyone who gave for the sake of Allah some of the Sahaba some of the companions of Sayyidina Muhammad was in them used to prepare whole army for the sake of Allah so it's good to be wealthy if we know how to use this wealth so what happened to those two men so one of them was so wealthy the other one was not they were once together and the owner of the two gardens said to his companion to the poor one in the course of discussion أنا أكثر من كمالاً وأعزن فرق أنا أكثر than you in wealth and have my children entourage I have more children I have more servants I have everything I want I have everything I need so he was arrogant was not a good wealthy a wealthy person so what happened Allah سبحانه و تعالى gave this wealth to that person but what did he do with it he abused it so ودخل الجنة هو وهو الظالم اللي نفسه he entered he went into his garden having been unjust to himself so he was unjust in his disbelief he was rebellion he was arrogant he even denied the day after so what did he say قال ما أظن أنت بيده هذه أبدا he said I don't think this will ever perish he was looking at his gardens and he was admiring it he was allowing himself to be deceived with the wealth that he has he is watching in front of him وما أظنوا الساعة قائمة and I don't think the hour will ever come so he denied the day after he denied that the resurrection after death then he said ولا إن رودت إلى ربي لأجدنا خير منها من قلبة and if only if indeed I am brought back to my lord so he had just thinking that there was no day after no resurrection but let's assume there is I surely shall find better than than this than these blessings that I'm having I'm sure I will find better than this if I return to Allah if I return to him so this was what he said that the companion was shocked he doesn't want his friend to be that bad and he cared he cared about about his his friend so what did he do he he tried to tell him that what you are saying is wrong so he said so his companion said to him when they were discussing together how can you disbelieve in him who created you from dust then from a sperm drop and then proportioned you as a man he well prepared you and these are all milestones he's reminding his his friend about how Allah سبحانه وتعالى what Allah سبحانه وتعالى did to him لكنه هو الله ربي لكنه but as for me as for my part I believe that he is Allah my lord the word انا انا so the Hamza was deleted and the na was merged into the noon was merged into the previous noon so we have the noon with شد لكنه هو الله ربي الله is my lord I will never associate and none shall I associate as a partner with my lord I will never say what you are saying but I acknowledge the oneness of Allah هو الله وحده he is Allah he is the one to be worshiped without any associate so what is this man doing he is giving an advice to his friend and again we linked this to the advice of the mom that she gives to her children each and every mom would love to see her children better than her the only person who loves something for her for others more than for herself is the mom to our kids if a mom does not read Quran she wants her kids to be able to read Quran she would take them to teachers of Quran she would do her best so she would give them what she could not get for herself so when they do something wrong she will advise them she will tell them because she doesn't only care about their dunya she cares about their akhirة too this is very important we have to take care of the akhirة we have to take care of our kids we have always to give them advice and this is the advice that this person has given to his friend he was worrying about his akhirة he didn't want him to get to get punished but that person that arrogant person insisted so he insisted on being bad he insisted on associating other gods with Allah he insisted on doing that so انترمي أنا أقل من كمالا وولدا so he is trying to tell him what he should be saying it was better for you to say when you enter a garden ما شاء الله لا قوة إلا بالله this is only what Allah wills there is no power but only the power of Allah ما شاء الله لا قوة إلا بالله as I mentioned we are reading stories but we have to take the morals that we have to take the lessons of this story this is a lesson for us whenever we have a favor whenever we see something nice we say ما شاء الله لا قوة إلا بالله it's not you that your power made you do this no it's Allah سبحانه و تعالى who wanted you to have this you have a garden who created this garden who worked on the garden yes it's you who took care of the land yes it's you but who created the land الله سبحانه و تعالى so we have to return the blessings we have to think that we can do nothing if Allah does not want it we have to be to know how to talk to Allah we have to know how to be polite with Allah and we saw this so many examples in سورة الواقع when Allah سبحانه و تعالى said have you seen that seed which you grow is it you who made it grow are we the grower لو نشاء لجعلناه حوط عمل if we will we could make it to dry and you will not be able to do anything again he mentioned something about the water Allah said have you seen the water that you drink is it you who brought it down from the clouds or is it we who are bringing it down لو نشاء لجعلناه حوط عمل لو لا تشكرون if we will we could make it bitter so you cannot use it you cannot drink it don't you think can't you be grateful and more examples are there in سورة الواقع as we saw earlier so when you get a blessing from Allah سبحانه و تعالى when you have something that others don't have just say ما شاء الله لا قوة إلا بالله never be like قارون what happened to قارون قارون was so wealthy so when they said to him why you don't thank Allah for this he said I was only given it because of knowledge I have because of the hard work because of the knowledge so what was the punishment فخسفنا به وبداله الأرض فما كان له من فئة ينصهونه من دون الله وما كان من المنتصرين and we caused the earth to swallow him and swallow his wealth there was for him no company to aid him no one to help him against the wish of Allah سبحانه و تعالى so this is the point just say ما شاء الله لا قوة إلا بالله يا ربي تياني خير من جننتك so maybe it may be that my lord will give me something better than your garden you never know never say that I am rich this one is poor Allah can take your wealth and give it to the poor and make you poor ويرسل عليها حسبان and من السماء and will send on it a punishment from heaven a calamity then it will be then it will become slippery earth so slippery so it's not good even for walking so these two gardens will perish if you do not thank Allah سبحانه و تعالى just an advice just an advice so what happened again nothing that man was so distracted that he could not even understand the advice that his friend was giving him and sometimes this happens in this dunya when someone has a calamity when someone has something bad he is so sad to the degree that he as if he locked his brain his intellect that he will not be able to process any word of advice any word of help that would be given to him because he is thinking only of the calamity oh my father died okay so much sadness so much grief so much to the point that that person will not understand or will not even hear what other people are saying to him and this is what say Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم said to the woman who was weeping at the grave of her son when he died she didn't know that he was before behind her so when he was talking to her he said he was calming her down but she said leave me alone she didn't have the same problem that I have you don't have the same calamity that I just had she didn't know that he was and later when they told her she went to him apologizing يا رسول الله I didn't know that you were the one who was talking and he said very wise words he said you have to practice patience at the time of the calamity not later and when you practice patience you have to practice it fully your heart should be patient your mind should be patient you should be patient accepting what الله سبحانه وتعالى has given us has put us through is the first step of practicing patience so we accept we thank الله سبحانه وتعالى الحمد لله we had an accident he had an accident his leg was broken his back was not he lost his his finger but he did not close his eye الحمد لله الحمد لله thank Allah سبحانه وتعالى even at the hard times this will be when you are with Allah سبحانه وتعالى then Allah will help you during the hard time أوليو سبحانه وتعالى فلم تستطيع له الطلبة so these things might happen to your land or even to your garden or even the water disappears into the earth it will not be flowing anymore it will not be gushing anymore so that you will never be able to seek it by any means you cannot dig down to get water you cannot there is no means to get the water out this might happen again that non believer was so arrogant was so my heedless that he did not understand anything that was said to him so what happened his gardens were ruined his fruits were encircled everything was ruined when he saw that he was clasping his hands together in a gesture of regret in grief for the wealth he had lost for the time he had invested in his land for everything that he he has and he lost everything was destroyed و يقول يالي تن لم أشرك بربي أحد so he said he wished only that time when he saw that as if he was sleeping and he woke up only at that time he said would I had ascribe no partners to my lord I wish I had not associated anyone with my lord only at that time so we should be careful we should not be waiting and waiting until we are at that time no و لم تكن له يأتون ينصرونه من دون الله he had no group no clan no children no one to aid him to help him against or against what Allah wished again no one to prevent what Allah wanted to happen وما كان من تصر and he could not defend himself nothing he was a loser no one would be able to help him so he is the one who would just experience the result of what he did no one to help when Allah wants something then it will be and Allah does not care if all people are helping one person if Allah does not want that thing to happen it will not happen that's it وعلم أن الأمة لو اجتمعت على أن ينفعوك بشيء لام يكتبوا الله لك لام ينفعوك بذلك just remember that if all creatures were together to help you get something that Allah did not for you they will not be able to do it that's it it's Allah's order, Allah's wish of whatever Allah wants that will happen انت تريد وانا أريد والله يفعل ما يريد you want something but Allah will do what he wants هنالك الولاية لله الحق what does this mean when the authority is completely for Allah the truth we can read the word ويلاية وولاية what does this how can we do that الولاية is الولي the person who would give you victory who would help you that's الولي الولاية in the day after لمن الملك اليوم this is الولاية who is is the control today لمن الملك اليوم لله الواحد القهار it's only for Allah so what happens هنالك at that time when everything happens when people go back to Allah when they are there the losers will know that they wronged themselves badly they will understand what they have done in their life they will know how bad their deeds were and they will feel sorry for themselves they will feel sorry for the punishment that they will have and they will feel sorry for for losing the chance to enjoy the blessings that Allah SWT has prepared for the winners so they are loser-loser but what would feeling sorry be a help nothing they would beg Allah SWT for another chance to go back to Dunya to do good and then to come back but Allah will say no no that was a word إنها كلمة هو قائلها it was a word that he said Allah sent prophets gave intellect so a human being can choose what is good and what is wrong وخير ثواب وخير نطب he is the best to reward and the best for the final end Allah SWT highly rewards the good deeds and justly punish so this is the story of the two people of the two companions of the believer and the non-believer there are so many points that we can get from this story and a good one is to remember who to take as a friend عاشر من ينهضك إلى الله حاله ويدلك على الله مقاله be friend with a person who whose state الحال will get you closer to Allah SWT and whose words will always remind you of Allah SWT this is the type of a friend you should have do not be deceived with the blessing but always remember the one who gave you the blessing always thank Allah SWT for all the blessings that he has given you do not look up at those people who are richer than you do not wish that you have the wealth they have pray for them that Allah SWT bless them bless their blessings and wish for yourself something that is similar and always ask Allah SWT to give you guidance to perform his right in your wealth to do zikaa to do salakaa to be good to others never to get proud never to get arrogant so these are some of the lessons of this story and insha'Allah we will go on with the next week insha'Allah with 6 part of the تفسير of Surat Al-Kahf وصلى الله عليه وسيدينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد سبحان ربك رب العزة يا عما يصفون وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته