 As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh Bismillahir rahmanir raheem Wa as-salatu wa as-salamu ala Sayyidi al-Muqadineen Sayyidina wa nabiyina Muhammadin wa ala Ali wa sahbihi wa salim Ya Rabbana lakal hamdu kama'im bagheeli jalali wa jihika wa adhimi sultanik Bismillahir rahmanir raheem Today, inshallah, we will be finishing the last part of Surat al-Mulk, Surat Tabarak So, we stopped last time on ayah 24 Sayyidina is the one who has spread you throughout the earth and to him you will be gathered So, the word the ra'akum means to spread you out in earth Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala created people on this earth to worship him and then everyone is going to go back to him So, each one who walks on the surface of this earth since Adam alayhi salam until today and until the day after there is no doubt that there will be a day of judgment and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is going to get everybody back to him and it's of the basics of Iman is to believe in the day after So, those people who disobey Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who belied the messengers who would get unlawful money who would oppress people who would do those things those people have been veiled from the idea that they are going back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala So, Allah is reminding people Everyone is going to stand before Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala So, when Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said this to the non-believers they said and they say when is the promise if you should be truthful and this is actually a satiric question that they are mocking Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and they are saying if you are truthful and if you know that there will be a day of judgment as you say as you claim then when will that day be? Now, let's stop for a minute here and ask ourselves Are we ready to meet Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? We all know that no one who is going to meet Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala except that Allah will talk to him without any messenger without any angel without just one to one So, just get ready for this standing for this meeting with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala What are we going to say to him? Are we going to say oh ya Allah we we we miss we are longing to meeting you We lived our life fearing you just we want to to meet you and you you are pleased with us Sayyidina Ali says Some people would meet Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and while they are there the the flesh of their faces would drop because of the type because of the many sins that they have done in their lives they would be there frightened they would be there scared in dunya if someone noticed and that so-and-so person is doing something that he should not be doing it and that so-and-so person realized that someone saw him he would feel so ashamed he would be so so it would be so bad for him to just to look him into the eye it would be he will feel so humiliated now what about standing before Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who knows everything nothing conceals from him nothing whatever it is whether it's a pick of khair or a pick of evil everything he knows everything is registered in the record that leaves nothing small or big except that this record has it so when we are going to meet Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala we're not going to take our money with it our wealth our children our positions our jobs nothing we're going to take with us our deeds we're going to take with us our fear from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala we're going to take with us the what we used to to just think that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is over watching us that he is with us we're not taking the songs we love to hear the the movies we love to watch or we don't waste time time is precious we have to to take advantage of every single second in our life to use it in the worship of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so use the time now use the time why you are still having why you are still having a chance while you are still living because once once death comes then khadas no delay you still you you still have time now to turn away from your sins to repent and to turn to God do it do it before it's too late so all of us are going to be standing before Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who knows everything that we have done everything that we have thought of everything that we have looked at everything that we have heard everything that all places that we have gone to Ya Allah we want you to be pleased with us so Ya Muhammad when they ask you when is this meeting when is the hour when are you when is this promise going to be fulfilled just say just say knowledge about this about the hour about the day of judgment is only with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala no one knows when is the hour and i'm only a clear whether my words are clear so no one knows when the hour will be no one knows when the day of judgment will be and that's why in surah al-arraf when they when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says they ask you oh Muhammad when is the hour when they ask you this question just say its knowledge is only with my lord none will reveal its time except him so why did Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala conceal the time of the hour Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala did not give this knowledge to people so that people would do more khayr and more good deeds they would do more worship just preparing to for that great day because if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told people that okay their judgment will be on this time on this day on this year then they would they would not they would they would not be energetic enough or they would not will to do good deeds until before its time they will postpone everything until the it is the time that's close to the day of judgment then they will do it but Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala concealed that time did not reveal when is the day of judgment so that a person would not feel would not feel proud would not do the bad deeds would not would not do evil deeds so he always remembers death and he always fears that he while committing a sin then death will come and he will meet Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that disobeying him so man would be always aware that I don't want Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to be enough pleased with me I want Allah to always be pleased with me he may the good righteous people would always be on tawba status always looking and seeking the forgiveness of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala we have always to remember that the command of the hour is not but a glance of an eye or even nearer it's so close to us we all know that death is the starting point of the day of judgment death does not differentiate between young and old healthy and sick man or woman boy or girl when the hour of death comes then there is no delay of a single second the the non-believers will say Allah now we realize that it is right now can can we have can we can you delay it just a little bit so that we can we can do some good deeds no it's it's just a word that will be said and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when he specifies what time what date a person will die that that date is fixed this is something that will not be changed so get ready and as I just mentioned remember that death is the starting point of the day of judgment when someone dies plus there's nothing that he can do nothing that he can make up that's it I am only a warner who is talking to you clearly the creed I I call you to is clear the path is straight they I I I show you the the way that you have to follow use your intellect you know that this is good and this is bad just follow follow your instinct the when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala guides someone and he is a good person that's not because he is a good person but because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave him this blessing so if you find yourself worshiping Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala if you find yourself fulfilling the orders of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala then thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala if you find yourself following the right path then thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he is the most merciful who has guided you to do these good things see it approaching, the faces of those who believe will be distressed. And it will be said, this is that for which you used to belay. Zulfa means to get closer. So when Allah says, وَإِذَ الْجَنَّةُ وَإِذَ الْجَنَّةُ وَأُزْلِفَتَ means when the paradise is brought nearer. So when Allah, when they knew that this is what they, when they realized that this is what they could do, that this is that the day of judgment is here, then they could not do anything. The only thing that they remembered that they were alive, they died, they are resurrected and now their faces, they are distressed. And they are, and that was because of the evil deeds of the bad deeds that they did. This is what you used to deny. On that day, crying will not save them. On that day, their walls will not save them. Their offsprings will not save them. Today on this life, you can do whatever you want. There is no, no breakening. But then on the day of judgment, you cannot do anything. Your, your deeds will be scaled for you. Now you have a chance, but on the day of judgment, you have no chance. Now you can change the way that you are living. Now you can change the way that of your worship. Now you can do a lot of things. You still have time, but later you cannot. The non-believer will, will be certain that what they used to be lie is truth. So when, when those people, when those people used to see the, when the non-believers, when the non-believers see the, the hellfire in with their own eyes, it will be said to them, had them, couldn't turn down. This is what you use to be lie. This is what you use to ask the prophets to get it, to get it fulfilled. So you use to be lie the day, the day of judgment in Dunya, but it is truthful. So you will see it in front of you. This is the eye of certainty. You cannot say that this is not real anymore. So all your claims, all what you said, everything that you thought of were just nothing and the only thing that is left for you is torture, is punishment. And that's why, that's why their faces got distressed. That's why their faces turned black. That day faces will be reddient and shining and other faces will be black. Black because of being ashamed, of being humiliated. No one is going to save them from the torture, from what Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la has prepared for them. Say, O Muhammad, have you considered whether Allah should cause my death and those with me, or have mercy upon us? Who can protect the disbeliever, the non-believers from the painful punishment? So Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam is saying to them, you have nothing to do with me. If Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la wants me to live, or if Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la wants me to die, if Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la wants to have mercy on me and on my companions and everyone, then ask yourselves, who is going to protect the non-believers from the painful punishment that Allah has prepared for them? Who's going to save them from that torture? Save yourselves. Don't care about me. Don't care about my companions. We've always to remember that. And every soul earns not to blame except against itself. And no bearer of burdens will bear the burden of another. They used to say, okay, you do this, do this bad deed and just say to Allah that someone, so person is going to take the punishment for that deed. How come? How can they believe in that this is truthful? Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la is telling Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is telling them these words just to warn them. If Allah wants to save me or save my companions, who is going to save you non-believers? So just prepare yourself for that day. He is the most merciful. And we have believed in him. We depend on Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la completely upon him. We have relied. And you will come to know who it is that is in a clear error. So again, Allah is emphasizing on one important thing that he is telling people that there will be punishment for non-believers, that he has prepared painful punishment for the non-believers. But then again, he says, who are Rahman? He gives hope. So no matter how much a person has sinned in his life, when he remembers who are Rahman, then that will give him so much hope that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la is going to have mercy. And we said earlier that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la has created mercy and divided it into 100 portions. He descended just one portion to earth and he kept the 99 portions up in the sky. So with this 1% that is on earth, we see how people have mercy among each other, how people care for each other, how the animals care for their baby animals. So with this mercy that we have among us, all of it is just 1% of the 100 that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la has created. So just remember that Allah is merciful and Allah chose mercy to both the believer and non-believer in both the Dunya and the Akhira. He is the Rahman by nature, but he shows extra mercy to those who believe. So with the non-believers, he shows extra mercy. So this mercy that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la has saved till the day after, then he is going to use it to save the Ummah of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. When Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ did the longest Sajdah that he did ever and he used to thank Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la with all the new ways and forms of thanking Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. Allah told him, raise up. Ask your question and it will be fulfilled, it will be answered. He didn't ask anything for himself ﷺ. He said, Ummati, Ummati, Ya Allah, my nation, my nation. Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ will not sit in his pulpit of noor, of light, on the day of judgment because he is worried about his Ummah. He would be going here and there from Hellfire to the Surat, to this place, to that place, just to save his Ummah. Even those who are thrown in Hellfire, then he will argue with Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la until he saves his Ummah. So no one of the Ummah of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, who says la ilaha illallah, truthfully in his art will stay in Hellfire forever like those non-believers. They will be forgiven for the sake of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. This is our beloved Prophet. He loves us. The least we can do for him is to send Salawat to him. Keep your word of Salawat every day. Love Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, know him, read about him. Know that he will be your saver in the day of judgment with the mercy of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. And this is the best of the blessings that we have. We are of the Ummah of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. Ya Rabbana ala kalhamdu kama yambali l-jalali wa jihika wa a'zimi sultanik. Thanks is for you, Allah. Thanks is suitable to the grace of your face and the greatness of your supreme authority. And with all the types of thanking you, ya Allah, that we follow, that we say with all the forms, We cannot praise you the way you deserve to be praised. Ya Allah, get us closer to you. The believer in this dunya is always happy. When he reads the Qur'an, he is happy. When he stands before the hand of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, when he prays he is happy. When he realizes that he has raised righteous children, then he is happy. There are people who would pay millions and millions just to feel happiness. But they don't because happiness is something in the heart. You cannot buy. It's connected to the content of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. So a person can make himself happy. A person would feel the real happiness when Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la gives him the blessings of being able to read the Qur'an. So when you have this feeling, just do more. Just get more. Do more of that because you will have happiness in this dunya for whatever Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la will give you. When you feel happy, getting closer to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, then get more at that time. When you are doing your word and you feel connected to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, you feel your heart is doing the word. It's not you. Then try to do more. Take this opportunity to get closer to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. And no matter how much we talk about this, if someone did not taste the meaning, the real meaning of what I'm saying, they will still don't know what I'm talking about. If you talk to someone who hasn't ever tasted honey and you tell him how sweet honey is, he won't imagine it, but he won't know exactly what you are talking about. It's the same thing for the pleasure of worshiping Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. When you wake up at night and everyone is sleeping, you are with Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la alone. You feel the closeness of yourself to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. Take advantage of this time. There's no distractions. It's only you and Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. Do more. Feel it in your heart. When you feel it, it's a different taste. And always remember that worshipping Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la would not benefit him. Disobeying him would not harm him. But worshipping is the mercy of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la to his servants. And disobeying is just the oppression of people amongst themselves. Worshiping Allah is helping each other. So, Ya Allah, we ask you, we seek your aid through your mercy. The most merciful. Ya Allah, Ya Allah, I seek aid through your mercy. Do not entrust me to my own self, even for a blink of an eye. And rectify all my affairs, ya Allah, the most merciful. And that's why when we want to do anything, we start with the name of our Rahman. We say Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim. In the name of Allah, most gracious, most merciful. And always remember that Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says, Every action that does not start with the name of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, then it is missing some reward. So say Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim so that your deed, everything will be easy for you. You will be doing whatever you are doing with the power of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. Say Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim so that what you are doing, you will get it by the force, by the power of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, not by your power. If Allah doesn't want something to happen, it will not happen, no matter how the ins and the jinn and everyone who is alive get together, it will not happen. Stop. And if Allah wants something to happen, it will happen in a blink of an eye. It will be He is the most merciful. So as I said, out of his mercy, out of his being the most merciful, he has opened the door of Tawbah for everyone. He has opened the door of Tawbah for those who want to repent and to go back to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. He gave a chance for people as long as they are living, as long as it's before the death time. So we are the believers of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. We depend on you, Allah, in all our affairs. We depend on Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la so that he would, during the happy times, we depend on him during sad times, we depend on him in ease, we depend on him in hardship. We don't ask help and support from people. No, we ask it from Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. We depend on Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. We depend on the most merciful, the Lord of the people. We believed in you, Ya Allah. We worship you, Ya Allah. We fulfill the orders, Ya Allah, all of this with your mercy. So when we are with Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la during the ease time, then he will be with us during hardship. So the companionship of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la during hard times would do so much for us. It will lessen the pain that we pass through this hardship, no matter what this hardship might be. And we are all going to be tested in this life. This is a life of tests. So Allah will make our pain less. Allah will make us stronger to bear the burdens of the calamities, to overcome the calamities. And Allah will give us the hope that after each night, a day will come. And so we have to have full tawakkol on Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. We have to depend on Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la fully. And depending on Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la is the fruit of iman. When we have good iman in our heart, then Allah will help us when we need that help. But for those who don't believe in Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, then they haven't tasted the beauty of iman. They haven't tasted what imans mean. They will not feel the companionship of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. They would not know that they have to ask help from Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. They don't believe in Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. And this is what it means. Later on on the day of judgment, you will know. You will realize who is in a clear error. That would be on the day of judgment. That would be the day when the winners will be known and the losers will be known. If you considered, if your water was to become sunken into the earth, who would bring you flowing water? This is how we answer when we read this ayah. Who is going to get you flowing water? No one but Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. So if your water that you are using on this dunya gets sunk in the earth, you cannot get it out of the earth. And this is one of the weaknesses of you people. What can you do? You live on earth and you need water in addition to other things. But here this ayah specifically is talking about water. So if this water that you are using is being held and you cannot use water anymore, you cannot get water out from the deepest of the earth. Who can get you water? Who can get you water that you can see in new eyes? Who can get you water that you would drink from, that you would water your trees, your plants, you would give to your cattle to everyone? One of the non-believers answered this when Sayyidin Muhammad SAW said this ayah. One of the non-believers said, okay, we would get our axes and our machines and we would dig and we would get the water. When he woke up the next day, the water in his eyes dried and he became blind. He was making fun of Sayyidin Muhammad SAW and he was making fun of the Quran. So Allah SWT took the water of his eyes away. So even this water that's in our eyes, even these tears, who gave it to us? Who gave it to us and who kept it there? Allah SWT, the most merciful, Sayyidin Muhammad SAW, we thank you. We thank you for all the blessings that you have given us. We thank you for the blessings that we know and we don't know. We thank you for the blessings that we have taken for granted. We are walking, we are driving, we are swimming, we are doing everything that we do normally but we forgot that these are all blessings from Allah SWT. The minute anyone just fell down, break his foot and is in a cast, then he would realize, oh my God, there's so many things I cannot do the same way I used to do when I was healthy. Then he would realize the importance of each and every single blessing that Allah has given us. So no one, no one would get us fresh flowing water except Allah SWT. Isn't it shameful that Allah has given us all these blessings and then people would worship someone other than Allah? People would fear someone other than Allah? You feel people fearing each other but they don't fear Allah. People are worshiping this Dunya and not worshiping Allah. They are doing their best to collect them as much wealth as they can in this Dunya but they forget to stand two minutes with Allah SWT in a prayer that they don't talk about anything else inside themselves except that they remember they are with Allah SWT. So my dear friends, just get prepared to meet Allah SWT. Get prepared to hear that Allah SWT is pleased with us. Ya Allah, make us happy that we are going to meet you. Make us longing that this meeting, get us prepared for this meeting, Ya Allah. It's your mercy, Ya Allah, that helped us to worship you. It's your mercy that helps us that we want you to be pleased with us. It's your mercy, Ya Allah, that helps us to do good deeds. Ya Allah, we ask you the best of endings, Ya Allah. With your mercy, Ya Allah, we want you to make us strong enough to overcome all the blessings, all the things that we face in this Dunya that they are errone at us just to keep us just a little bit away from the path. With your mercy, we will be on the path of Asiratul Mustaqeen. With your mercy, Ya Allah, we will love Sayyidina Muhammad SAW. With your mercy, Ya Allah, we will follow Sayyidina Muhammad SAW on the Day of Judgment to the place that we will be with him, Ya Rasulullah. We will be with Rasulullah in the Day of Judgment because we love him. And he said, A person will be resurrected with whom he loves. We witness, Ya Allah, that we love you. We love Sayyidina Muhammad SAW. We want to be with him and we want to have the blessings of meeting and seeing you on the Day of Judgment, Ya Rahman Rahimin. With this, we come to the end of our session. Talking about the Tafseer of Surat al-Tabarak, Surat al-Mulk. Alhamdulillah, we ask Allah SWT for forgiveness. We ask Him to accept us. We ask Him to make us of His righteous servants for whom He says, رضي الله عنهم ورضوعا وصل اللهم على Sayyidina Muhammad وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلال وجهك وعظيم سلطانك اللهم إنا نسألك من خير ما سألك منه عبدك ونبيك محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم ونعود بك من شرم استعادك منه Sayyiduna ونبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم اللهم إنا نسألك من الخير كله عاجله واجله ما علمنا منه ومالم نعلم ونعوذ بك من الشر كله عاجله واجله ما علمنا منه ومالم سبحان ربك رب العزة عما يصفون وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين إن شاء الله we will start a new series of Tafseer of Surat al-Kahf and it will be announced inshallah through MCC بإذن الله والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته