 السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والصلاة والسلام على سجدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلال وجهك وعظيم سلطانك الله ما يمقلب القلوب والأبسار ثبت قلوبنا على دينك بسم الله لدينا نحن نتحدث about the story of the two people of the two gardens so we saw at the end how the non-believer lost everything all his work all his money everything he had was lost and only at that time he remembered that he shouldn't have associated another god with Allah that he should have believed in Allah so today inshallah we will be going on we are on ayah 45 so Allah is saying وضرب لهم مثل الحياة الدنيا كما إن أنزلناه من السماء فخطلت بيه نبات الأرض فأصبح هشيما تذروه الرياح so mention to them يا محمد the parable of the worldly life it's like the water which we sent down from the sky and with this water the vegetation mingles and becomes fresh and green but after a while when the season is done then this greenery would become dry and then it will be broken into pieces which the wind will scatter so this is all that Allah is able to do so this dunya is like this water that's coming down from the sky so now imagine this image water coming down on the ground the ground gets watered so a lot of greenery but later on this is gone what does this remind us of it reminds us of the human himself born, raised, got big, got old and then died this is life as if someone who is travelling got tired, stopped, rested under the tree and then went on with his life but at the end that person is dying what is he taking with him before talking about what he is taking with him let's talk about life itself المال والبنون زينات الحياة الدنيا so we said that الله سبحانه وتعالى وكان الله على كل شيء مختدرا الله is able to do everything he is able to give and to prevent to raise and to humiliate to benefit and not to benefit المال والبنون زينات الحياة الدنيا ووالف and children are the attainment of life of this worldly life now think of the first two words المال والبنون and children the word wealth money anything so is said before children why? because money and wealth is more important than children in a way that each and every person has wealth even the poorest person has some clothes on him and this is his wealth but not everyone has children some people do not get married some people will have will get married but will not have children but before getting married they should have the money to pay for the dowry so to get married and then they will have children if Allah predestined for them to have children so زينا means it's it's a dormant it is not necessary so wealth and money are زينا a dormant when a husband gets married and they don't get children then he would be upset the wife would be upset everyone would be unhappy and they would try to convince the man to get another wife so what happens الله سبحانه وتعالى would give would give children to some people but he will deprive others from having children he will give girls to some people he will not give boys he will give boys and not girls the point is the man should accept everything that Allah سبحانه وتعالى gives him does he give him children does he not give him children does he give him wealth does he not give him wealth there are people who are not married but they are very happy they are close to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and there are people who have the money and who have the children but they are not happy sometimes the wealth will be used against him because he does not fulfill Allah's right in his wealth he doesn't do the sadaqa he doesn't do the zakka so his money will not have any barakah he will say okay I got my salary today a few days later you will see that salary is all gone where did it vanish there is no barakah in the money check what's the reason is it Halal money is it money legal money is it what's going on where is the barakah are you fulfilling the right of Allah سبحانه وتعالى in this money are you fulfilling the right of the poor people in this money giving sadaqa sadaqa always blesses the wealth and increases it and every day angels will tell Allah سبحانه وتعالى they will make the dua اللهم أعطي منفقا خلفا وأعطي ممسكا تلفا يا الله أعطي الممسكا أعطي الممسكا أعطي الممسكا و أعطي الممسكا و أعطي الممسكا المال والبنون زينات الحياة الدنيا لذا when people do not get children are they happy with that with what Allah سبحانه وتعالى had decreed on them they will do the best on different methods there is no way Allah did not right for them to have any children do they accept Allah's wish or not this is the adornment of the life it's not necessity of life but what is the necessity the necessity is to live according to Allah's will the necessity is to live as pure what Allah سبحانه وتعالى has written for you to accept whatever Allah has given you to say الحمد لله for everything that you have and you don't have والبقيات الصالحات خير عند ربكة وابن و خير أملة so what are the بقيات الصالحات البقيات الصالحات are the good righteous deeds that will last for you till the day after so these are the reward that you have given for yourself that you have saved for yourself and the hope that you will have in the day after so everything that was mentioned before البقيات الصالحات is from دنيا المال البنون ويلف everything you have this is for دنيا when someone dies he will not take anything from that with him except البقيات الصالحات once سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم slaughtered a sheep and سيد عائشة knew that سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم loves the shoulder reeds so she distributed everything to the poor and she gave the poor everything except for the shoulder and when سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم asked her what have you done what have you what have you kept for yourself what have you kept she said ذهب كلها سوى الكتف so I distributed everything except for the shoulder but سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said كتب كلها سوى الكتف and all of it was was left for us except for the shoulder and he is looking for the day after so the reward we got the reward that we of the me that we distributed so the hope is to have in the Akhira what what will get you closer to Allah سبحانه وتعالى to work in this dunya for the Akhira and remember that this dunya is going to vanish no matter what how Allah سبحانه وتعالى says remember the day we shall cause the mountains to pass away the mountains that are holding the earth steady will vanish will become like like wool fluffed up this is what Allah says in another Surah Allah says the mountains will be blown away so they will not be in place and they will be leveled plain وتبقى الأرض وقعا صفصفا so what are the earth Bariza there will be the earth will be all plain nothing on it no mountains no valleys no river nothing there will not be any sign on earth and on that day no one will be hidden no one will be absent وحشرناهم فلم نغادر منهم أحدا and we shall gather them all so that we will leave none behind قل إن الأولين والآخرين لمجمعون إلى مقات يوم المعلوم tell them the previous people the last people will be gathered will be resurrected for a certain day no one will be missing on that day وعريضوا على ربك صفة and they will be set before Allah سبحانه وتعالى in rows so all creation will be standing before Allah سبحانه وتعالى and Allah says وَلَقَدْ جِئْتُمُونَا كَمَا خَلَقْنَاكُمْ أَوْوَلَ مَرَّا now indeed you have come to us as we created you for the first time so سيدا شاودا سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم أن ينظروا بعضنا إلى بعضنا يا رسول الله should be each of us we will be bear naked are we going to look at each other but he said to Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم he says لكل مريء ان شأنه يغني no one will be caring about anyone everyone will be concerned about himself only يوم يفير المرء من أخيه وأمه وأبيه وصاحبته وبنيه لكل مريء منهم يوم ان شأنه يغني man will free from everyone from everyone he knows it's a heavy day يوم ترونها تذهل كل مرضعة عما أرضعة وتبعوا كل ذات حمل حملها وترمناس سكارا وما هم بسكارا it's a fearful day everyone will flee from each other you will see people as if they are drunk but they are not drunk they are so scared on that day وعورضوا على ربك صفة in surat al-fajr الله سبحانه وتعالى says وجاء ربك والملائكة صفة and the word had come and the angels rank up on rank rose after rose their people will be set before Allah سبحانه وتعالى in order بل زعمتم ألا نجع لكم موعدة tell them you thought that we had we had no appointment with you we had appointed no meeting for you زعمتم they thought that there is no resurrection they thought there is no reckoning and that's why they exceeded in transgressing ووضع الكتاب the book will be produced everyone will get their book so the book of deeds which contains all the records everything is recorded in that book major and minor significant or insignificant great or small something you said something you talked something you looked at something you went to every single thing will be listed will be recorded فتر المجرنينة مشفقينة مما في and you will see the criminals the wrongdoers fearful of that which is therein fearful of the evil deeds they have done on that day they will say ويقولونة يا ويلنة يا ويلتانة يا ويلنة they will be so scared they will be so scared what happened so وقولونة يا ويلتانة ما لها هذا الكتاب they are expressing words of regret for having wasted their lives what happened they will say ما لها هذا الكتاب لا يغادر صغيرة ولا كبيرة إلا أحصاها what sort of a book is this it leaves neither a small thing nor a big thing but has recorded it no matter how small the action is it is recorded تيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم says لا تحقرن من المعروف شيئا ولو أنتلق أخاك بوجهين طليق do not belittle anything any good thing even if you just smile to your brother even if you smile to the people you know or you don't know this is صدقة keep it for yourself إتقونا رولا ويشيق قيتمرة give anything to be shielded from fire even if it's half of a date not a date half of a date and we know the story of the woman who was thrown into hellfire because of a kitten that she kept that she is present that she would not let her eat and she tortured that kitten so never ever say oh this is a small sin never never say this is a small sin and I will ask Allah for forgiveness لا تنظر إلى صغر المعصية ولكن أنظر إلى من عصيت do not look at how to review this sin is but look who did you commit this sin against Allah said don't do it and you are doing it it will be recorded and it will be recorded with honesty and justice and in the day after Allah is going to scale all the dates ووجدوا ما عملوا حاضرة and they will find all that they did present good and evil the scale was will be set to scale all the dates ينبأوا الإنسان ويوم إذن بما قدمه وأخر this is صورة القيامة and everywhere in the Quran there are so many examples about يوم القيامة and how people are going to be to be presented with their deeds so man will be informed of what he sent forward and what he had left behind وَلَا يَظْلِمُ رَبُّكَ أَحَدَى and your Lord treats everyone with justice Allah never treats anyone with injustice He will judge between his creatures for all their deeds even animals Allah will will get them on the day of judgment why you did bad to this animal and he will he will be so just between them and then they will be dust ويقولوا الكافر ويالايتن كنتوا رابا at that time when the non-believer would see that the animals would become dust then he would say I wish I am dust وَلَا يَظْلِمُ رَبُّكَ أَحَدَى Allah will treat everyone with justice and not only justice guess what mercy الله سبحانه وتعالى has created mercy and divided it into 100 portions he got down only one portion to the earth and this is what we see between a mom taking care of her children between the animal mom taking care of her babies between people taking care of each other this one needs help someone will help this one even if they are not Muslims they will help each other this is the mercy of الله سبحانه وتعالى so فَمَا يَعمَا المِثْقَالَ ذِرَّةٍ خَجْرًا يِرَا وَمَا يَعمَا المِثْقَالَ ذِرَّةٍ شَرًا يِرَا if you do something good then you will see good you will do something bad you will see exactly the same portion as you have done justice but remember no one is going to enter Jannah with his deeds and this is what Sayidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم said and they asked him وَلَا أنتِ يا رسول الله not even you يا رسول الله وَلَا أَنَا إِلَّا أنْ يَتَغَمْ مَدَانِيَ اللَّهُ بِرحمةِ unless Allah has His mercy upon me so we all are getting into Jannah by the mercy of Allah سبحانه وتعالى but our deeds will be the reason where we will be placed in heaven lower heaven or highest heaven or the highest heaven or the highest heaven is it the first palace on the on the entrance or is it the highest heaven so when you when you make dua you're not saying Allah I want to enter Jannah you are asking the most merciful the most generous so ask for the highest always ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى يا الله I want to be in the I want to be with I want to be with with the messengers I want to I want to enjoy the highest you can give me ask you are asking the most generous know how to ask know what to ask don't ask for trivial things Allah is listening Allah is saying I am listening to you I will fulfill your prayers but you have to ask you have to pray for Allah سبحانه وتعالى for valuable things ونضع الموazين القصة في يوم القيامة so this is how the Allah سبحانه وتعالى is going to have the just balances we shall set up balances of justice on the day of judgment so this is the image of the day of judgment now Allah سبحانه وتعالى is reminding people who did not believe him he is reminding them of the first time he created Adam عليه السلام so what did he say وإذ قلنا للملائكة تسجدوا لادم فسجدوا إلا إبليسة كان من الجن ففسق عن أمر ربه and remember when we said to the angels prostrate yourselves unto Adam so they did except for iblis iblis was of the jinn and he disobeyed the command of Allah سبحانه وتعالى so will you take أفة التخذونهم وذريةهم أولياء من دوني وهم لكم عدو will you take him and his offsprings as protectors and helpers rather than me while they are enemies so Allah is reminding people that when he created man he asked the angels to prostrate and they did the angels are created so they would worship Allah سبحانه وتعالى they would not disobey him in any action in any order they do not have the choice of disobeying Allah سبحانه وتعالى while الجن they have that option so say he chose to disobey Allah سبحانه وتعالى and he said خلقتني من نار وخلقته من طين you created me of fire and you created man of clay I am much better than him and this was his problem he was proud and pride leads to health fire لا يدخل أحدني الجن وفي قلبه مثقالوا ذرتي من كبر لن يدخل لن يدخل and there is a speck of pride in his heart so why why you man preferred to obey shaitan and to listen to shaitan who gave an oath to Allah سبحانه وتعالى that he will do his best just to get man astray there is still a chance to repent so do it do not lose this chance now every night before you go to bed just say يا الله I am repenting to you يا الله I am repenting forgive all my sins and Allah accepts the person who asks for repentance ما لم يغرضش يا قبل الله who taught the servant ما لم يغرضش الله سبحانه وتعالى accepts the repentance of his slave before before saying it on his death on his death bed so do not delay you have a long time do not waste it use it for pleasing Allah سبحانه وتعالى do whatever you know this will please Allah سبحانه وتعالى do it if you know that this action will not please Allah سبحانه وتعالى it will please shaitan don't do it بيئسلي الغاليمينة بدلا so what an evil is the exchange that people would the wrongdoers would do when they replace the orders of Allah سبحانه وتعالى by what shaitan wants ما أشهدتهم خلق السماوات والأرض they did not witness the creation of the heavens and the earth as they did not exist at that time ولا خلق أنفسهم not even their own creation وما كنتم اتخذ المضلين عدد nor did I take those who misled as a helper العدد is someone who you can depend on so Allah did not depend on anyone when he created the skies and the earth he did not take any helper when he created people so there are no partners for Allah سبحانه وتعالى and why are you taking taking these people you are listening to shaitan you are listening to the shaitan of ins the devil amongst the humans why are you listening to them why are you obeying them so Allah will say يا محمد remember the day on that day Allah سبحانه وتعالى is going to say call those partners of mine remind them that they will be asked to call those who are associated with Allah سبحانه وتعالى those whom they worshipped instead of Allah سبحانه وتعالى so they will Allah would say call those partners of mine whom you claimed you took them as partners call them now some people worshipped the sun some people worshipped other people some people obeyed shaitan so call them so this is an order and remember look at this irony here فدعوهم so they called them so this was the only order they obeyed Allah سبحانه وتعالى with they did not obey all the orders that Allah has given them but they obeyed only this order so they called those people those partners but they will not answer them they did not answer them and we shall put destruction between them and the non-believers so the people of guidance and the people of non-guidance those who were misguided they will be separated and what will happen to those who did not believe so the criminals shall see the fire and what will happen to them only then they will realize that they cannot escape being thrown into it they thought that they will be it will not be for them but they realized that they were mistaken that will so when and that by itself intensify will intensify their anxiety and their distress actually looking into the hellfire is by itself a punishment a big punishment why when the hellfire sees them from a distance place they will heal they will heal they will heal from a distance place they will hear its fearful roaring sound so both parties the hellfire and the non-believers both looked and see they looked at each other and they see each other so the anticipation and fear of punishment is in itself a real punishment and they will find no way of escaping it no way of fleeing it will be inevitable it will be their place forever there is no end that's it و لقد صرفنا في هذا القرآن من كل مثل و كان الإنسان أكثر شيء in جدلة and indeed we have given every kind of example in this Quran now Allah سبحانه وتعالى is talking about the Quran that he has revealed for mankind but man is ever more qualsim more arguer than anything Allah سبحانه وتعالى mentioned the same story in the Quran many times so for example he mentioned surah at Musa so many surahs in the Quran mentions the story of Saeed Na Musa but each of the of these ayahs each of the places that was mentioned talks about it from a certain angle and that's why the Quran is a miracle that the more you read it the more you understand it nothing like the Quran the more you read it the more you feel oh I want to read it more the more you understand you say oh I want to understand deeper so it's not like any other book if you read it one time you can read it twice three times if you like it you will read it ten times but that's it but the Muslims are so attached to the book of Allah سبحانه وتعالى so they know that these are the words of Allah سبحانه وتعالى they know that when they want to be closer to Allah سبحانه وتعالى they will be reading his words they will be reading his book and you know so many people do their best to memorize the Quran so there is a connection between man and the Quran and this is what we always ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to keep this connection strong between us and the Quran وقد صرفنا في هذا القرآن للناس من كل مثل وكان الإنسان وأكثر شيء إن جدلا so Allah سبحانه وتعالى explained everything in this Quran it's a complete system it's a complete program that will explain the right path and the wrong path so people have the intellect to choose to choose what to do but there are some people some people who argue they argue just to explain themselves just to convince others with themselves just to convince others with their ideas but Allah سبحانه وتعالى أحسن if there is a higher in arguing then say it if you know it's a dead end do not argue do not get into arguments وما أمنع الناس أؤمنوا إتجاءهم الهودة and nothing prevents men from believing while the guidance has come to them however Rebellion of disbelievers in ancient times and in more recent times rejected the truth even when they witnessed clear signs even when they witnessed proofs they asked Sayyidina Muhammad to provide them with what shows his truthfulness but even though they did not they did not believe because they refused faith after after after witnessing the signs so they asked sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم they asked previous nations also asked their prophets just to show them punishment if they are truthful فأستطع علينا كسفن من السماء إن كتب من الصادقين so cause a piece of the heaven to fall on us if you are truthful this was one of the requests اتنا بعذاب الله إن كنت من الصادقين bring Allah's termint upon us if you are one of the truthful another request ويستغفروا ربهم وما من عنا سأؤمن اتجاءهم الهدى ويستغفروا ربهم so what prevented people from being believers when they got the guidance and to ask Allah for forgiveness إلا أن تأتيهم سنة الأولين أو يأتيهم العذاب القبولة except that the ways of the ancients be repeated with them what happened to the ancient nations they were destroyed their overwhelming punishment destroying every last one of them so this was what Allah SWT did for them He removed them He destroyed them all and this is the difference between the punishment of the people of the previous nations of the previous messengers and that of the people of Sayyidina Muhammad their nations were destroyed while they were alive but Sayyidina Muhammad was making dua for his ummah that Allah will not destroy them that Allah might get righteous people out of those non-believers so this is by itself a comforting Allah is comforting Sayyidina Muhammad not to overburden himself with grief over those people who did not believe him because there were others who did not believe their messengers وما نرسل المرسلين إلا مبشرين ومنذيرين and Allah SWT here we send not the messengers except that they are pairs of good news and they are wonders before the punishment messengers give good news to those who follow them and they warn those who oppose them if you do good you will find good if you do bad you will be punished there will be winners and losers وَيُجَادِلُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا بِالْبَعْتُلِ بِالْبَعْتُلِ لِيُدْحِضُوا بِهِ الْحَبْ لِيُدْحِضُوا بِهِ الْحَبْ so non-believers would argue with falsehood in order to refute the truth they try to weaken the truth that the messengers could not but they cannot وَتَّخَذُوا أَيَاتِ وَنَأُنْدِرُوا هُزُوَى and they took my proofs and my evidence my miracles sent with the messengers they took all that for jest they were mocking everything they were making fun of all my signs and they were warned that they will be punished but they did not listen to that وَمَنْ أَضْلَمُ مِنْ مَنْ ذُكْرَ بِأَيَاتِ رَبِّهِ فَأَعْرَضَ عَنْهَا وَنَسْيَ مَا قَدَّمَتْ يَدَاهِ and who does more wrong than he who is reminded of the signs of his lord but turns away from them forgetting what his hands have sent forth إِنَّا جَعَلْنَا عَلَا قُلُوبِهِم أَكِنَّةً أَيَّفْقَدُ and truly we have set covers over their hearts list they should understand and this Quran but Allah SWT ختم الله على قلوبهم وعلى سمعهم وعلى أبصارهم غشالة Allah has set a seal upon their hearts and upon their hearing and their vision there is a veil and if you call them to guidance even then they will never be guided and your lord is most forgiving he is the owner of mercy where he to call them to account for what they have earned then they surely would have hastened their punishment but they have their appointment with Allah SWT and this time for this time there is no escape شكرا