 Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Bismillahi r-Rahman r-Rahim. Wa-s-salatu wa-s-salamu ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa salim. Ya Rabbana lakal hamdu kama yin baghi li-jalali wajhika wa adhimi sultanik. Bismillahi r-Rahman r-Rahim. Today inshallah we will be starting with ayah 27. Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says, What luma'uhiya ilayka min kitabi rabbika laa mubaddila li-kalimati walan tadjida min dunihi mul-tahda. So Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la is saying and recite, O Muhammad, what has been revealed to you of the book of your Lord. There is no changer of His word. And never will you find in other than Him a refuge. So Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la is asking Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to recite the Quran. And this is an order for us to recite the Quran. So when you are with Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la you are reading His book. You feel something special connection. You feel a special connection between you and Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la when you read His words. So what is this book? This book, this Quran is the source of life. It governs everything justly. And it's full of wisdom. And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la put His ayahs, put His Quran in several ways for us so that we have, for example, when we read the story of Musa alaihi sallam, this story comes over and over and over in the Quran. But every time you read it, you feel that you are reading a new story. Every time you read this story, you feel that there is something new. You never get bored of reading the same story over and over and over. Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la in this book, He gave us the law. He gave us the program. He gave us the system that we have to follow in our lives so we can live happily. So we can reach the end happily and safely. Just follow the orders. Just follow what's in this holy book. And try always to get a good bond with the Quran. Try always to get a good connection with the Quran. And you can do that by reciting it every day. Just have a few minutes, five minutes, ten minutes every day just to read Quran. If you can read one ayah, read two ayahs. If you can read one page, do it two pages. Get a stronger connection to the holy book of Allah. And try to understand its meanings. And this will help you focusing in your prayers. So Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la saying, What Loomah Uhia Ilayka Min Kitabi Rabbik. When you are in a difficult situation just recite the book of Allah. Quran will be your protection. The Quran will shelter you like the day sheltered those young men who run away with their religion. So this is what Prophet Muhammad ﷺ did whenever he had a problem. Whenever he was seeking the protection of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la he would spend some time with the Quran. So nothing, no one will change the words of the Quran. No one will be able to change the words of the Quran. No one will be able to add a letter, not a word, a letter to the book of Allah. No one can delete a word from the book of Allah. Allah revealed it. He is going to preserve it and to keep it as is until the day of judgment. No changes. So no one will change the words of Allah. Allah has promised that. The Quran will be the same from the time it was revealed until the day of judgment. You will never find other than him. If you need shelter, you just seek the help of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. You will never find other than him, other than Allah for refuge. If you need something, ask Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. He's the most generous. He's the one who listens to you without any comments, without any looks, without anything. He's listening to you. If you have something that you need help, wake up a little bit before Fajr prayer. And everyone is asleep. You are alone with Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. Then, at that time, just sit, talk to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. Make your wudu, pray to Rakhaz and talk to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. And you will never find other than him, other than Allah. Be patient with those who call upon their Lord in the morning and evening, who want their face. And do not look at them. You want the beauty of life. And keep yourself patient by being with those who call upon their Lord in the morning and evening, seeking His countenance. Seeking His pleasure. And let not your eyes pass beyond them, desiring the adornment of the worldly life. And do not obey those whose heart we have made blind, heedless of our remembrance, and who fold his desire and whose affair is ever met again. When Quraysh wanted Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ to stop his call to Islam, they tried their best with several methods, several ways. If you want money, we will give you money. If you want women, we will get you married to the best and to the most beautiful women. If you want this, we will give it to you. If you want that, we will give it to you. I was not sent to you for any of these things. I was sent to you with Haqq, with the truth, and this is what's going on. Nothing will change what I was sent to you. Everything is nothing in comparison to what I was sent to you. So when they knew that they cannot convince him, they said, okay, let's go to his uncle. He might be closer to him. He might convince him. But we all know what he said to his uncle. By Allah, they put the sun in my right hand and the moon in my left hand. I will never leave what I have been sent with. So at the end, they accepted that to tell him that, okay, those people who are so poor, we cannot sit with them. So if you will get rid of these people, then we will accept. This is the order that Allah has given them. So those poor people are called Ahlus-Suffa. Who are Ahlus-Suffa? They are the poor people of the immigrants who came to Medina. They had no shelter. They left everything. They left their food, their clothes, their wealth, their money, their lands. They left everything just for the sake of Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala. So they stayed in the mosque in Masjid-ul Rasul, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And the only thing they would do is seeking knowledge, worshipping Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, reading Quran, working on hadith. And they were the blessed people. In our days, there are in the Masjid of Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, in Al-Haram al-Madani, there is a group of people who are called Al-Mujawirun. So those people, they stay in the road of Sharifa, they read the Quran, they make sallallahu alayhi wa sallam all day long. They don't have job, they don't have anything. They are at the Masjid of Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, as long as they are allowed to stay in. And they are called Al-Mujawirun. So since the time of Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, this group of people is there in the Masjid. So when we see these people nowadays, we should be good to them. We should know that those are the true worshippers of Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala. We should not look them down because of their poverty. No, those are blessed people. Their dua is accepted. And normally rich people go to them for dua when they have any hardship in their lives. So be patient, ya Muhammad. Be patient with those poor, law-class people who make dua all the time, in the morning and in the evening. So Umayyah Ben-Khalaf and others of the elite of Quraish came to Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and said to him, if you get rid of Bilal, Abu Dhar, Ibn Masrood, who were all of the people of Al-Suffa, whom were looked down by those elite people of Quraish. So then if you kick these people out, then we will join you. And they found themselves above those poor people. They couldn't accept that they are equal to them. So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala revealed this verse and other verses to assure to Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that if people make fun of you, but you need to be patient with these poor people. Even if those rich people did not want to them, so you don't listen to them. Those are the people who always make dua to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who constantly pray to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So not only that, you, Muhammad, but don't even move your gaze beyond those poor people. Look at their iman and taqwa. Look at the iman and taqwa they have in their heart. And not to the wealth and faith of the people of Quraish. Wala ta'ad wa ainaaka anhum. Madad. This is the gaze of Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Ya Rasulullah, we want a gaze from you. The gaze is something that would help the believer. So this gaze from Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is going to ease the hard life that those poor people are living. And this is a lesson to us. Treat those poor, treat the poor people well so that you will make them feel good. You will make them forget what they are living in. So if you don't practice patience by being with this group, then Ya Muhammad, to read Zinaqat al Hayat al Dunya, you will be someone who would desire, would want the adornment of this worldly life. But do you think Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would listen to those people of Quraish? Of course not. He will never think of getting rid of Sayyidina Bilal or Sayyidina Abu Huraira or those true believers. So he will never get rid of them, neither of others who for the sake of those rich people, he will not get rid of those poor people. But the wisdom here is that we have to be careful. As I just mentioned, we have to treat them, the poor people well. And everywhere and all the time we find poor people. So we have to treat them with love, care, respect. We are, and we are really the ones who are addressed here in this area. In fact, some sick people actually, what happened, they noticed how those poor people are taking care, well taken care of. So people would give them charity, people would give them food, cloth and other things. And they noticed that these poor people have left everything of this dunya for the sake of Allah, but even though they are getting a lot from people. So they said, okay, why we do not pretend that we are poor and get similar help? For these sick people we say be careful, Allah is overwatching. Allah knows intentions and Allah knows realities. And it happens that sometimes you give charity, then you get some doubts. Are these people really in need? So if you are, if you have the doubt and you cannot be sure, just remember that Allah knows the intentions. Don't say I'm not giving because I'm not sure, no, give. Allah will reward you for your sincere intentions to help and for your obeying Allah SWT that He orders you to give and you are giving. But at the same time, He also knows whether they deserve it or not and whether He bestows His blessings on what they get or not. So just be with Allah SWT, depend on Allah SWT, don't think of anything else. So, Do not follow that group whose heart we have made blind of our remembrance. The poor group is making to her all the time, morning and evening. And we see that Allah sends people to take care of those poor people. So their sustenance will be given to them, even they are sitting doing nothing in this dunya. And this is what the explanation of Ya'adunya, manchadamani fahdumi wa manchadamaki festakhdimi Ya'adunya. Life, this worldly life, whoever served me, this is Allah saying it, whoever serves me, then serve him, give him, but whoever serves you, whoever is clinging to you, whoever wants dunya and wants the pleasure of dunya, thinking nothing except dunya, then you use that person. You make him not happy. You make him just want to run and get more, run and get more. So, the other group do not remember Allah SWT and they follow their desires. So their goal is not to accept what Allah SWT want and to fulfill what he wants to obey him, but they are lost. Those people are lost. Wa kana amruhu furuta. They are losers. They are lost. They don't know what they want. They are following desires only. They are following hawa, they are following their nefs, they are following their ego, but they are not doing what Allah SWT want them to do. Wa qulil haqqumir rabbikum. So now that Allah SWT has said these ayes, has mentioned these ayes, say, Muhammad, the truth is from your Lord. So he is talking to those people. Your Lord. And just the word your attract, attracts our attention and reminds us that those non-believers when they were asked who created the skies, they said Allah. Who created the earth, they said Allah. Who created this, they said Allah. So they believe in Allah, but they don't want to believe in the message. Wa qulil haqqumir rabbikum. This is the truth from your Lord whom you accepted. So whoever wills, let him believe. And whoever wills, let him disbelieve. This is the truth from your Lord. Allah SWT says in one of the Hadith Qudsi, Allah SWT is talking to all his servants, to all the people he created. And he said, if all of you, the first until the last and all the ints, all the jinn, everyone are helping the best person that will not increase my kingdom. And if all of you were supporting that bad person, the one who does not do anything good, that will also not decrease anything of my kingdom. If everybody, everyone of you were in line and each one of you asked me something. So if each and every one of you asked me for something and I gave everyone their request, whatever they asked for, that will not decrease my kingdom. The only thing that might be if you get a needle and you immerse it in the ocean and you take it out, this just little bit of water that sticks to it, this is how it is for me to give everybody. My kingdom is my kingdom, nothing will affect my kingdom. It's only your deeds that I am counting for you now, that I am recording for you now. And then I will show it to you, you will get your records. Whoever finds good, whoever finds good, whoever finds that he is a winner, then he has to thank Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and whoever finds other than that, he should only blame himself. It's your deeds and then there will be either a reward or a punishment. So you wanted the proof and I gave it to you. You came asking Prophet Muhammad about the story of the people of the cave and I gave it to you and I told you the story. He told you the story. So you wanted the answers to your questions and Muhammad answered your questions. Now what do you do? What do you want to do now? The truth is from your Lord and you can either believe or just keep denying. So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala threatens now the losers and promises those who obey and when. So it will be either an evil place to live in or it will be a marvelous place to enjoy. Then whoever who so ever wills let him believe and who so ever wills let him disbelieve. So what will happen? Why is that? Because Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said There should be no compulsion in acceptance of the religion. Everyone has their intellect so they are free to do whatever they want. They can live for this dunya. They can live happily here and be rich there or they can be happy there and even though they are enjoying this dunya because they know they follow the book they follow the Quran they follow the orders of the Quran they follow the catalogue that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has written for a happy life and a happy life after. So verily we have prepared for the wrongdoers a fire but what type of fire is it? Whose walls shall be surrounding them? So the fire will be surrounding those who transgressed those who did wrong deeds those who were not obeyers those who denied those who belied and if they ask for a drink in Hellfire while they are there they will be granted their wish but they will be given boiling water it was boiling to the degree that wolves called their faces normally when you say if someone is asking for something and you are giving it to him then it means you are doing something good to that person but those people of Hellfire when they ask for a drink they are given but they are giving a torment to it يشو الوجو قطع معهم it will cut their intestines it will destroy them terrible is this drink and terrible and evil is the place to live in so imagine the type of torture they will be living in and the thing is that this life that they will be living is perpetual forever this punishment is not going to end it will not even going to decrease on the country it will increase whenever they are burnt whenever their skin is burnt whenever their organs are burnt then Allah SWT will create a new skin and they will be burnt again and again and again and again this will happen Allah SWT does not want our heart to feel that heavy and after mentioning the state of these doomed ones he mentions the blessed believers and he mentions what he has prepared for those who obeyed him in dunya for those who followed his orders for those who followed Sayyidina Muhammad SAW for those who connected with Allah for those who connected with the Quran for those who connected with Sayyidina Muhammad SAW so he says so indeed as for those who believed and did righteous deeds so let's stop for a second these two things believe and doing good deeds righteous deeds they go together Iman without doing good deeds is not enough doing good deeds without being a Muslim is not enough Iman and faith together faith and righteous deeds together so indeed as for those who believed and did righteous deeds together those who believed and did righteous deeds certainly we shall not make the reward of anyone to be lost Allah SWT is just he's the most just and he says Allah SWT says whoever does a speck weight of good will get its reward and on the contrary of course whoever does any speck of bad he will get his punishment and we have always to remember do not do not look at how small the sin you are going to make is but look at one important thing look at who you have disobeyed even if the mistake is so so small that's not the issue the issue is disobedience to Allah SWT so and we know that there's so many hadith that Sayyidina Muhammad SAW talks about the best of manners the best of characters and he says the closest of you to me in the day of judgment those who are the best who do the best good deeds who have the best manners and once he was talking to Sayyidina Abu Huraira and the Prophet SAW said to him Ali Ka Bi Hustni Al Khuluqi Ya Aba Huraira the Sayyidina Abu Huraira of course understands what he what Sayyidina Muhammad SAW says but he asked him and this question he asked he asked just for us to learn so he said Wama Hustni Al Khuluqi Ya Rasulallah what is Hustni Al Khuluqi what is the good manners ya or a prophet so Sayyidina Muhammad SAW says and the order he says so you connect to those who cut you off and you give those who deprive you and you forgive those who do bad things to you do you think this is easy guys do you think that this is not called Hustni Al Khuluqi the best of manners can you imagine someone who gives who does something very wrong to you and you say okay I forgive you this needs a very pure heart when someone does something bad to you you say I forgive you and you make dua for that person this is a sound heart it's not easy it's not easy to give those who deprive you and giving is not only to give money no feelings they were bad to you they are not good to them this is feeling they needed some help when nobody could help except you but they were doing so many bad things to you are you going to turn around and say okay I don't know you or are you going to give your hand to them to take them out of the situation they are living in so this is Hustni Al Khuluqi so whoever does anything good he will be rewarded and Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says اتقو النار ولو بشيطة امره fear fire do something good to get yourself away from it even by giving half of a date not a date half of a date اتقوا الله fear Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so what will happen to those people الذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحات so what will happen to those people who are good believers and who do righteous things now open your heart and get into these words imagine yourself in enjoying these rewards and insha'Allah we will all be enjoying these things اولائك لهم جنات وعدن دجري من تحتهم الأنهار those will have gardens of perpetual residence so this will be their reward for them will be جنات وعدن so this is a special place in Jannah called جنات وعدن what are the things in there تجري من تحتهم الأنهار so beneath them rivers will flow so when people here in dunya they will see a nice river they would go have a picnic there they will enjoy their time there it's so beautiful يُحَلَّوْنَ فِيهَا مِن أَسَاوِرَ مِن ذَهَب so they will be adorned therein with these jannahs with bracelets of gold وَيَلْبَسُونَ تِيَابَنْ خُدْرًا مِن سُنْدُسٍ وَإِسْتَبْرَقْ and they will wear green garments garments of fine silk and brocade so imagine the type of material the fabric that the clothes will be and beautiful nice green colors so this is what they will be wearing they will be wearing thick and shiny velvet green garments سُنْدُسٍ وَإِسْتَبْرَقْ مُتَّكِئِنَ فِيهَا عَلَى الْأَرَائِكْ so they will be reclining therein on adorned cushes so they will be lying down they will be resting they will be enjoying their time نعم الثواب وحسنت مرتفقة so how good is the reward and what an excellent place to be in what an excellent is how excellent is this reward and how good is this resting place so imagine the blessings that Allah SWT has prepared for His people and we all know that Allah SWT has prepared in this something so this is something that the people would never be able to imagine this is the type of reward that Allah SWT prepared for this for these winners so this is how we our heart now is seeking this is what our heart is seeking now this highly amazing place of perpetuality nothing is going to be decreased on the contrary everything will be increased so now if you have just a moment to compare the reward and the punishment so Allah has shown what will happen in the day after Allah has given us the true image of what will be there فَمَنْ شَاءَ فَالْيُؤْمِنْ وَمَنْ شَاءَ فَالْيَقْفُرْ whoever can decide for himself does he want to be a believer or a non-believer so to go back to the first ayah we say Allah SWT is ordering us to get connected to the Quran and we know that when we are reading the Quran we feel that we are in a different world this is the divine work so the only thing we say we thank Allah SWT to be able to read the Quran we thank Allah SWT to be able to understand the Quran we thank Allah SWT that he is giving us the permission to get connected to the Quran so we say thanks is for you Allah thanks is suitable to the grace of your face and the greatness of your supreme authority Ya Allah we don't know how to thank you we don't know how to praise you we cannot praise you the way you deserve to be praised you have chosen us amongst all your creations to be able to connect you and to connect to the Quran to connect to say the Muhammad SAW we can't thank you enough ya Allah so we stop here inshallah and next time inshallah we will be having another story other lessons and other explanations inshallah assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh