 As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh Bismillahir rahmanir raheem Wa as-salatu wa as-salamu ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa salim Ya Rabbana lakal hamdu kama yam bagheeli jalali wajhika wa adheemi sultanik Allah may Allah make the hearts and the eyes of the most beautiful hearts on your religion As-salamu alaykum everyone InshaAllah today we will be finishing the last part of Surat al-Waq'a Last time we stopped at Fala Wa Qusimu Bima Waq'i Ain Nujum Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying in this ayah that I swear by the setting of the stars If we look at the word la, la means no, I don't So what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying here in this ayah La hajatali an uqsim Wa lakin in aratu al-uqsim fa uqsimu bima Waq'i Ain Nujum There is no need for me to swear to anything But if I am to swear, I will swear by the setting of the stars And normally during all the explanations of the swearing that we pass through in Juz-30 and later on We know that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when he wants to swear he swears with something great And he swears to something great also So both sides are great the things that he is swearing to and the things that he is talking about So what is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala talking about here? Allah is saying And indeed it is an oath If you could know most great So it's a great oath Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is swearing with the stars with the positions of the stars And in Surat An-Nahl, he says Wa ala matim wa bin najmihum yahdadun And landmarks and by the stars they are guided You know, earlier they didn't have the technology we have here They would look at the stars at night and they would know where east, west, north, south They would look at the sky, they would have a lot of information just from looking at the stars and what they mean, where they are located and so on So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is swearing and he is giving a great oath about what Inna hula qur'ana wa kareena It is indeed a noble quran So quran is the word of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that was revealed by Allah to Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam through Angel Jibril alaihi salam And the way it was revealed There is an expression in Arabic, it says nazal al quranu nujuman or munajjaman Which means the quran was revealed to Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Five ayas, five ayas And these five ayas are called njim So njim means a star So we have a quranic star and we have a star that's in the heaven Inna hula qur'ana wa kareena And this is the link between the quran and the previous ayah the qasam, the oath, where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is giving, is swearing Inna hula qur'ana wa kareena What is kareem? Kareem is generous And the generous one is the one who gives whatever he has without being stingy and without keeping anything to himself Because he knows that when he gives Allah will reward him back Now the quran is described by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as being kareem as being generous, how and why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying the more you read the quran the more you will explore in the quran If you have any book that you read once, you can read it twice If you are in love with the book you would read it three times But then you would get bored if you read it more and more But the quran is not like that The quran is so generous When you read it, the more you read it, the more you will find that you are in love with this book You will never ever get bored of reading the quran You will never ever get bored of repeating, reading, khatim after khatim after khatim Because the light you would give from the quran The blessings that you would get from the quran The understanding that you would get from the quran is way so vast And when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives us the ability to understand something A special meaning in the ayah, a special secret in the quran That this is a blessing from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Imagine the opening that he has assigned to you in particular To be able to understand something special in the quran So the quran is so generous with all it gives, with all it has in itself So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying إنه لقرآن كريم It's a noble quran, it's a generous quran في كتاب المكنون In a register well protected It was all in the لوح المحفوظ in the preserved tablet لا يمسهو إلا المطهرون None touches the quran except the purified This is one meaning This is the general meaning But the inner meaning of this ayah is لا يمسهو إلا المطهرون We said that the quran is in the preserved tablet So the only creatures that would touch the quran in the preserved tablet Are the angels And they are purified from any wrongdoing They are purified of doing anything that would not satisfy Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala They are purified from everything So the quran is well preserved It is preserved from any additions Any amendments, any crossing, anything It is preserved And do you know how the quran is preserved? It's not through the writing of the quran No, so many books are written But none of them are preserved as the quran Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala made people memorize the quran Since the time of Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Until this day, until the day after So having the quran in the heart And transmitting it to generations after generations after generations Is the way of protecting the quran And preserving the quran So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the about the quran When we say We explained that this word, al-Mutaharon, are the angels And the reason, we have another reason for that When Allah wants to talk about man That man is purified And he will say Man, he will say Mutaharon And he mentioned in Surah Al-Baqarah Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says Allah loves those who are purified And loves those who are purified The purified He didn't say The purified The purified The purified You love those who are purified And you love those who are purified So al-Mutaharon is a reference to Malaika And al-Mutaharon is a reference to humans It is a revelation from the Lord of the worlds As we mentioned now that the quran is preserved in the tablet And it was revealed in one shot from the tablet to the lower sky On Laylatul Qadr And then it came five ayes to Sayyidina Muhammad So Allah created man And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala revealed the quran So in the quran There is a complete program A complete catalogue for the man Who was created by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala And Allah explains this in Surah Taha In ayah 123 He said There should come to you guidance from me And this guidance is quran Then whoever follows my guidance Will neither go astray in the world Nor suffer in the hereafter So there is a program There are steps for man to follow If he follows these steps Then he will be highly rewarded in the day after He will not go astray in this dunya So then is it to this statement To this quran That you are indifferent? What does this mean? The word muddhirun is plural The singular form of this word is al-muddhim And al-muddhim is the one who says nice words But deep inside his heart He would have something completely different So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says In Surah Al-Baqarah And when they meet those who believe They say we believe But when they are alone with their evil ones They would say indeed we are with you We were only mockers So they show something But they had completely different things And the word al-hadith As I mentioned is the quran And Allah mentions this word In reference to the quran That it means the quran In another Surah when he says Allah has sent down the best statement Al-hadith The same word, statement in our case A consistent book Kitaban The quran So the quran is always new In what it has In a way that whenever you read it You understand something in you So what is the meaning here? What do you do? Al-hadith and al-muddhim Are you indifferent to this quran? But in Surah Al-Qalam, Allah says What do you do? The same word They wish that you would soften in your position So they would soften towards you They wished that Sayyidina Muhammad Would accept to worship their idols one year And they will worship his lord one year They would accept anything that he would do Just to be away from this new religion That he has come with But of course This is Sayyidina Muhammad The most trustful The most caring about the words Of Allah has given him And make the thanks of your provision That you deny the provider Is this how you thank the provider? So let's go a little bit deeper into this ayah And make the thanks of your provision It means anything you would have That would benefit you So it's sustenance But what type of sustenance? It might be money It might be health It might be wisdom It might be muscles It might be power It might be anything that benefits you It's called rizq So when you have any benefit Then you should thank the one who gave you this benefit You should thank the provider of this benefit So Allah SWT created everybody from nothing And he provided for them But what is the reward? Did they thank Allah SWT? No, they denied They belied Instead of thanking They did the opposite Now if we link this ayah to the previous ayah About the Qur'an We find that the Qur'an is a complete provision for us Complete and continuous We will always get benefit from the Qur'an The blessings are continuous However, they will never decrease Or they will never stop So how should we thank Allah SWT For the blessings of having the Qur'an We should learn how to read it We should understand it We should try to find the secrets in it We should keep reading it Over and over and over Until the light of the Qur'an is deep inside our heart And we should always say Alhamdulillah We should always thank Allah SWT That we are able to read the Qur'an So if someone can read one page a day Try to make it two pages If you can read ten pages Try to make it fifteen If you can read one jiz Make it two jiz Thank Allah SWT For this blessing There are so many people So many Muslims who don't know how to read the Qur'an And I don't mean non-Arab speakers I mean even Arab speakers This is a blessing Allah will not give it to anyone Allah will not give it to those who don't deserve it If you know how to read it Thank Allah SWT Thank Allah SWT Allah has chosen you out of millions and billions and billions of people To be able to read His words To be able to read His book And make your risk of lying Do not deny the Qur'an Do not deny the ayahs of the Qur'an When you read it Sayyidina Umar when he used to read the Qur'an Whenever he would pass on ayah That has a request for forgiveness He would say Allah forgive me Whenever there is an ayah that would ask for any dua He would say that dua Do not just read just words Without understanding what you are reading Try to understand And when you have the intention Of trying to understand Allah will facilitate you Will facilitate the way for you to understand it Allah will help Allah has promised If you want something I will give it to you Make dua and I will make that happen And the closest we are to Allah SWT Is before Fajr prayer When Allah descends down to the lower sky And he would say Is there anyone who is asking for forgiveness Is there someone who is asking for any dua I will answer his dua And also So this is the first position Before the Fajr prayer And while we are making sujood The closest from a servant to Allah SWT Is when he is making sujood So be generous to yourself Be generous and ask Allah SWT For the highest that you can ask for Don't ask for Jannah Ask for Al-Firdaus Al-A'la Ask for the He is the most generous You are asking from the most generous So you have to know what to ask And keep asking Allah SWT Loves to hear the voice Of his obedient servant Of his loved servant Now the ayahs shift a little bit And this shift is amazing Allah is challenging those who deny And those who belie Then why when the soul at death Reaches the throat And you are at that time Looking on And our angels are nearer to him To the one who is dying than you are But you do not see Now the picture is that We have people who deny And blight all their life Allah is challenging them now Death is there They are dying And people around are looking At that person who is dying No one can save him from death And no one can even save himself From death Allah says So when their time When the time of death has come That will not remain Behind an hour Nor they will precede it So what's the picture here As I said Allah is challenging Those who denied at their deathbed So a man can either Fulfill the orders of Allah Or he can deny them He can do bad things But everyone is In the control of Allah No one can push death away Even those who Even those who Promised Even those who opposed earlier They cannot push death When it comes As I said this is a challenge From Allah To those who are dying You blight all your life You did not believe in death So try to delay it Nobody can do that Even the people around The one who is dying They are looking at him And they are watching the agonies of death And They are They are not able to do anything So Allah is saying We are closer to him than you But you do not see So this is the companionship of Allah Allah is available everywhere Now let's think of something The soul is the one that controls the human Is what controls the movement of man So without it Without the soul The man dies And there will be no movement in man Can you say Where is the soul inside yourself? Where is it? In your head? In your eye? In your nose? In your hand? In your feet? Where is it? You cannot see it And You cannot say that There is a special place for it You don't know where it is Now what about Allah is managing the whole universe You cannot say that he has a place And the soul manages your life And you cannot identify its place How can you say Where is Allah? How can you specify where is Allah? So something that Allah has created Which is the soul Cannot be recognized Cannot be seen Cannot be The place cannot be known where it is So how can we realize Allah SWT We cannot How can we identify the place of Allah SWT Who has no place But when we say When Allah SWT says When we are closer to this dying person Or our angels are closer to him The companionship of Allah SWT Is not by knowing But by his By himself Nothing like him So if you were not a city Then why do not if you are not Be controlled If you know that we cannot We do not control you We do not control your affairs Why you couldn't just Push death away ترجعونها إن كنتم صادقين Bringing the soul back Bringing it back If you should be truthful Can you do that? Since you cannot Bring back the soul Means that you are Under the control of Allah SWT Even if you have that choice In some issues What to do, what not to do But there are other issues That you have no control on And death is one of them Now people died We mentioned at the beginning Of the Surah There will be three groups And this is one of the miracles Of the Quran that it is connected The Surah is connected from beginning to end So Allah talked about these groups And he is going to end with these groups He will talk about the reward Or the punishment of these groups If the deceased person Now is of the foreigners And we described at the beginning Who are the foreigners Since they started the life They were obeying Allah SWT They were worshipping Allah SWT They lived their life obeying Allah SWT They did not disobey Allah SWT And when they died They died on the same thing So those are Those who are close to Allah SWT Then they will go So what is their reward They will go And they will be blessed And for him For this person There will be mercy from Allah SWT And bounties and gardens of pleasure What is Al-Rawah Al-Rawah Is the relief from Allah SWT It's the mercy from Allah SWT Allah SWT says in Surah Yusuf وَلَا تَيْئَسُمِ الرَّوْحِ اللَّهِ Despair not of the relief from Allah Despair not from the mercy of Allah And the mercy of Allah SWT Is vast And it is related To the one who is giving the mercy And the mercy of Allah SWT Has no ending Now what is Al-Rayhan فَرَوْحٌ وَرَيْحَان Al-Rayhan He is all that is good And good Everything that's good Everything that's tasty Everything that has good smell Now what is نعيم Is anything that is good That is beloved That is liked And there will be no harm of it In dunya, in this dunya Someone loves food And that's something good So he will eat whatever he wants But after that There will be some problems in the stomach In the intestines So this blessing This food was a blessing But there is Some sickness out of it But Allah SWT said طعام الجنة The food of the Jannah فَكُلُهُ هَنِيَا مَرِيَا It's in Surah An-Nisa Eat it in satisfaction and ease There is no harm after you eat it No matter as much as you eat You will feel You will feel the blessings So this is the first group Now what's the second group اما إن كان من أصحاب اليمين فَسَلَامٌ لَكَ من أصحاب اليمين And if he was of the companions Of the right Then the angels will say Peace for you You are from the companions Of the right And again the difference Between أصحاب اليمين Are the people who Did some bad things In their lives But they repented And they became So good That their life ended In a good way That Allah SWT Accepted that Allah is pleased with them So this is the difference Between أصحاب اليمين So these people Would be led into Into Jannah In groups Each group Will say Salam to the other Or The word Salam Here means also The angels Will send Salam to them Even it might be What Allah SWT Mentioned in Surah Yaseen سلام القول من رب الرحيم Peace The greeting said to them Directly By Allah SWT So this is the second group Now the third group وَأَمَّا إن كان من المكذبين فَنُزُولٌ مِنْحَلِين So those belayers Those deniers Who went astray There For them Is the accommodation The accommodation of Scalding water So the word نُزُول As we mentioned last time Is If someone is travelling He would Choose a نُزُول A small hotel To be in To rest in And It also means What was prepared Of food and drink For the people Who are visiting So Their Place Their final destination Will be From Of Scalding water So this is the food That was prepared for them This is the drink That was prepared for them And And pain Is What they will get there Because They are burning in Hellfire Allah Says So So So So So So So So So So So So So So So So So So So So So So So So Try to know Where a person Feels pain ? A person Feeling a little better With spine. And until some German scientists did a lot of experiments, and they discovered that the most or the center of the pain feeling is in the skin. So we say to them, this is what was revealed in the Quran more than 1400 years ago. When Allah said, whenever their skins are roasted through, we will replace them with other skins. He didn't say whenever their heart was burnt, we will give them another heart. He didn't say whenever their eyes were burnt, we will give them the other eyes. But this is to emphasize that the skin is the center is the place to feel pain. Indeed, this is the true certainty. This is the true certainty. So the true certainty is that the people, the believers will be in Jannah. The true certainty is that the deniers will be the opposers will be in hellfire. If we will talk a little bit about certainty, there are three stages of certainty. The knowledge of certainty, the reality of certainty, and the true certainty. What does this mean? When Allah told us in the Quran that there will be punishment and there will be reward in the day after, then He gave us the knowledge of certainty. So this is the first stage. When it's the day of judgment, people will see hellfire and they will see paradise. So this is the reality of certainty. But when people would be dropped in hellfire or when people are taken to paradise, then this is the true certainty. So nothing is denied. This is reality. The real reality, the real of reality. So when you see this, when you know this, and when you read this in the Quran, just say, Alhamdulillah, that you know that you understand what Allah SWT is promising. For this, exalt the name of your Lord, the most great. Worshipping Allah SWT will not benefit him and disobeying him will not harm him. Actually, worshipping Allah is nothing but people are benefiting each other and having mercy in between each other. And disobeying Allah SWT is manifested in just people being unjust to each other, harming each other. So the only thing you have to do is to glorify your Lord who doesn't need our worship or who doesn't care about people's disobedience. Glorify your Lord, exalt your Lord. The name of your Lord. The word Allah is said especially for Allah. We never ever heard anyone calling his son or Allah. Never. And Allah said it in the Quran. So worship him and have patience for his worship. Do you know of any similarity to him? Do you know of anyone who is called Allah? No. And we say subhan Rabbiyal-Azim while we are doing the ruku' and we say subhan Rabbiyal-A'la while we are doing our sujud. So we glorify the name of Allah SWT in our prayer as always. So with this we come to the end of Surah Al-Waqaa. And when I started I said we will mention a few things about Surah Al-Waqaa at the end. And insha'Allah we have a few minutes here to say a few words about Surah Al-Waqaa. We mentioned at the beginning that the word Al-Waqaa is one of the names of the day of judgment. And it has many names. Al-Waqaa, Al-Tamma, Al-Haqaa, Al-Qari'a. And we mentioned that each name is looked at from a specific angle. And one of the great scholars who explains and who gives Tafseer of the Qur'an says, whoever wants to learn about the previous and the latest and to know about the reward and the punishment then let him read Surah Al-Waqaa. Some people say we work so hard so we want to guarantee a good future for our children. But one of the righteous people said Allah SWT said in the Qur'an, And let those guardians fear injustice as if they themselves had left week of spring behind and feared for them. So let them fear Allah and speak words of appropriate injustice. Let them say some right, correct words. When this friend of Allah read this Surah, someone asked him, So you are dying and you have seven daughters and he says, I would never fear poverty that will happen to them because I told them Surah Al-Waqaa. If they were righteous, my daughters are righteous, then he is ever, Allah is ever to the after returning people, to the often returning people, he is the forgiving. But if they were not righteous, I would never leave them money, I would never leave them anything that will help them to disobey Allah. Now consider this, reflect on this in our life. We provide our kids with everything. How are they spending it? How are they spending it? Is it in the pleasure of Allah SWT or is it in disobeying Allah SWT? We are responsible as parents. Sayyidina Uthman, once was visiting Sayyidina Abdullah bin Mas'ud who was on his deathbed and earlier he used to give him some money. Sayyidina Uthman used to give Sayyidina Abdullah but he stopped it. So when he visited him, Sayyidina Uthman asked him, What are you complaining with? What's your problem? What are you feeling? What are you complaining of? He said, Zunubi, my sins. I didn't say I am hurt in my stomach or I have a headache, no. He knows what to say. He knows that he's going to meet Allah SWT soon and he is afraid that his sins will not be forgiven. This is what was worrying him. So Sayyidina Uthman asked him, What do you wish? He says, I wish the mercy. I am looking forward to the mercy of Allah SWT, my lord. So he asked him, Should I give you back the money that I used to give? He said, You deprived me when I was not sick and now when I am dying you want to give me money? I don't want your money. He says it will be for your daughters and for your sons. He says, No, my daughters would not need it because I told them Surah Al-Waqa and I heard from Rasulullah SAW, whoever teaches his children Surah Al-Waqa will never fear poverty. And as I said at the beginning also, remember that risk provision does not only mean money. It means health. It means knowledge. It means everything good that would benefit man, that would benefit the human being. So we ask Allah SWT to provide for us. We ask Allah SWT to make us of the people who thank him for everything he provides for us. We thank Allah SWT for the blessing of the Qur'an. We ask Allah SWT to make us of the people of the Qur'an because he said, Ahlul-Lahi, Sayyidina Muhammad, Ahlul-Qur'anihum Ahlul-Lahi wa khasatuh, the people of the Qur'an are the people of Allah, and they are the special people of Allah. This is our class for today. We will be doing, we will be trying to understand Surah Tabarak, Surah Al-Mulk. Peace be upon you.