 Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, wa sallatu wa sallam wa ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa salim Ya Rabbana ala kaal hamdu kama yin baghi l-jalali wajib wa wadim, Sultanik Allahumma Ya Rahman ar-Rahimin Ya Allah we ask you, we ask you to give us Tawfiq Ya Rahman ar-Rahimin and to make all our efforts just sincere for your sake Ya Rahman ar-Rahimin whatever we do is just for you Ya Allah so you are pleased with us Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim wa sallatu wa sallam wa alaika Ya Sayyidi Ya Rasulullah Last time we stopped at Ayah 11 in Surah Ta'abasa and we talked about the beginning of this Surah where Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was engaged with some of the leaders of Quraish trying to get them to get into Islam and the most, the main one was Obayb al-Khalaf so he tried, he was trying to convince them of getting into Islam but they were neglecting and they were unresponsive, they didn't want to do it and Ibn Um Maktoum, a blind man, a sincere Muslim came to Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and he asked him for some advice about Islam and he asked him for some questions just to increase his e-mail so Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam turned his face and he frowned so Allah SWT told us about those people, the non-believers don't worry, O Muhammad, don't worry, do not get yourself into too much trouble perhaps you would kill yourself through grief over people because they don't believe in this message so don't get overwhelmed if they don't believe but out of his mercy to all people, he wants everyone to believe and to be a good Muslim then Allah SWT moves on after the first part and he talked about indeed it's a reminder so Allah SWT is telling us that remembering him is something that comes by instinct so, O Muhammad, your way is to remind people of their good instinct this is the way that you have to guide people to the instinct so Allah reminds his servants through his books, through the Quran so it's a tazkira, it's a reminder from two things the first one is ghafla, headlessness and the second one is the taqlid-ul-aba, which means imitating the forefathers and imitating the society if people are good, then they will be good, if people are bad, then they will be bad but no, the reminder should be to the origin that everything is to please Allah SWT we have to remember this, when we read the Quran, when we read Allah's ayahs, then we will be reminded of this so whoever wishes, whoever wants, can remember him can remember Allah SWT if you wish, you can remember Allah in all your affairs when you are doing anything, you just say, you just keep remembering Allah SWT keep mentioning Allah SWT also if you wish, you can read the Quran and remember Allah's order and work accordingly so there are orders and we have to follow these orders so we have to remember that Allah SWT is over watching us whoever wishes, can remember him how? where? in honored scriptures in records held in honor these records are exalted, they are purified the Quran is preserved since it was revealed, no changes happened to it nothing, not a single word added, not a single word deleted not a single word edited it's honored, it's elevated in status it is purified from any deficiency the Quran ayahs are all connected and related to each other you hold the Quran and you hold the Quran also if you want to hold it, you have to be in a purity status so whoever wants to remember Allah SWT can remember him through his Quran by reading the ayahs of Allah SWT so what about this Quran? this Quran is in the hands of ambassadors honorable and obedient when the angels descended down bringing the revelation of Allah SWT to his messenger, to the messengers then the messengers these angels are ambassadors of Allah SWT these carriers are the ambassadors of Allah's word to the messenger they are noble creatures their deeds are righteous they are pure, they are perfect and the same thing, the one who holds the Quran should be righteous the one who memorizes the Quran should have righteousness in his heart so that he follows the orders of the Quran he remembers the ayahs that he has memorized he remembers that do this and don't do that he follows the orders so the holders of the Quran, the ones who memorize the Quran are the best people to apply the words of Allah and to follow the orders of Allah so the Quran is the words of Allah that would get us back to the pure instinct it's the words of Allah and it has been preserved by the power of Allah SWT so when we memorize the Quran then we have it in our hearts and when we get our children to memorize the Quran then they have it in their hearts so what preserves the Quran is not only just the book itself how the words are written but it is where it lies in in the heart of those who memorized it the Quran was sent down from one generation to another generation to another generation and this is how it's preserved in the hearts of the believers قطل الإنسان وما أكثر perish mankind, how ungrateful Allah SWT has given us so much bounties so much but what have we done? have we fulfilled our duties towards these bounties? have we used them soundly? have we followed the orders of Allah SWT? he gave us the eyes do we look at things that Allah SWT has prevented us from looking at? what are we doing with these bounties that Allah has given us? we have to fear Allah SWT with all the bounties that he has given us with everything good that he has provided for us yes they're given for us to enjoy them but still this is a test so we have to be careful so rejecting the truth after all that Allah has given is something so great is something that's unbelievable قطل الإنسان وما أكثر how ungrateful man is then Allah SWT explains how he created man from something despised and that he is able to bring man back to life after death just as he created him initially so if we look at the cycle من أي شيء من خلقه من نطفة من خلقه فقدرة so from what substance did he create man? from what thing did Allah SWT create man? from من نطفة من خلقه فقدرة from external drop from despicable fluid he created him فقدرة then he proportioned him so the baby would look like his father his mother his uncle his aunt so then everything is proportioned for man Allah created man and well formed him well formed him giving him the best that would suit him each and every person he decreed his life span he decreed his sustenance and whether he would be miserable or happy ثم سبيلة يسرح then he made the path easy for him he guided him to the path and tested him with commands and prohibitions with the result he will be either grateful or ungrateful so this is this will happen through all his life he will be either obedient or disobedient after his lifespan ends ثم أماته في أقبره then took his life he caused his death Allah ﷻ caused his death فأقبره and had someone else to bury him had him placed in a grave so Allah ﷻ told people how to bury each other and this happened in the first death that happened on earth that Allah ﷻ did for Sayyidina Habib and Qabil so what happened Sayyidina Qabil Qabil actually Qabil killed Habib but when he killed his brother he didn't know he didn't know how to or what to do with the body so Allah ﷻ sent a bird and he digged in the ground and put to the other bird that he had killed and then put the dirt back so Allah ﷻ told people how to bury each other honoring the dead with burial and not leaving him to rotten on the surface of the air or to be eaten by animals then when it is Allah ﷻ's will he will resurrect him but when will that be? Nobody knows they are asking you when is the hour but you don't know you have no information about it so the one being questioned does not have more information than the one who asked the question so we have to get prepared death might come any second then when will that be? we said nobody will know No indeed man has not yet fulfilled what Allah ﷻ commanded him the obligations that were imposed upon him the righteous person or the person who uses his intellect how can he disobey Allah ﷻ? but even as we do mistakes which is fine but when we do mistakes we have to follow it with repentance immediately we have to ask Allah ﷻ for forgiveness we have to promise ourselves because we have to feel sorry that we did that sin and we have to promise ourselves not to do it again so now Allah ﷻ is going to give example to man just to make him aware of things so Allah ﷻ is talking about the cycle that proves life after death this is the main issue that non-believers could not understand how can there be life after death after our bones decay how can we live again how can be resurrected after we die they could not believe so let's see what eyes do we have here so the growth of a seed and other things is a proof of life after death then let man look at his food just check the food you are eating this is a call to reflect upon Allah ﷻ's favor what has Allah ﷻ done what is this cycle what has Allah ﷻ done how we pour down water in abundance where does water come from where does this stream come from it comes from the water that evaporates from the sea from the lakes, from the oceans and they form into clouds in the skies these clouds would rain would pour down abundantly so we sent water from the sky down to the earth then we left the earth apart we left the earth asunder we caused the water to settle in the earth and mingles with the seeds that are left in the earth so if you look at how the grains sprout you feel the power, the majesty of Allah ﷻ if you take just the grain that has just sprouted you feel that the earth around it the dirt around it is put apart so that the sprout will come up so this grain grew and made the earth has a hole so it can sprout and get bigger and bigger if you take this grain this small thingy that's coming out if you take it then you feel how weak this new sprout is Subḥāna Llāh but even though it was able by the power of Allah ﷻ to get the earth to be a bit apart from it so it can grow and get up on the surface of the earth now, what happens فأمبتنا فيها حبّة وعينباً وقدبة from these seeds grow grains and grape vines and also just the moist herbal plants the tender ones that animals graze on so we have food for people and food for animals فأمبتنا فيها حبّة وعينباً وقدبة وزيتوناً ونخلّة and also we had all different types of olives all different types of olive oil and we have نخلّة date palms date palms range from unripe to ripe to dry so all different types of dates وحدائقة غلبة also dense, huge gardens forests containing huge trees these trees we use them we get fruits from them or we use their wood to build houses so everything has been created to help us living on this earth وفاقهة وعبّة fruits and pasture meadows, animal food so while we have all of this مَتَعَلَّكُمْ وَلِ اَنْعَامِكُمْ it's provision and benefit for you and your cattle Allah ﷻ gave us everything to facilitate our life either man will be thankful after this or he will be ungrateful but there will be a day when reckoning will happen فَإِذَا جَا أَتِي الصَّخَةَ then when these, when there comes الصَّخَةَ, what's الصَّخَةَ there are different interpretations for the word صَّخَةَ the first one is it's another name of the day of judgement which Allah ﷻ has warned his servants of so this is الصَّخَةَ the day of judgement it's the name also of the blowing in the trumpet it's called الصَّخَة and also it can be interpreted as the thunderous shout of the day of judgement that would defends the ears فَإِذَا جَا أَتِي الصَّخَةَ so when there comes the صَّخَةَ what happens يَوْمَ يَفِيرُ مَرْءُ مِنْ أَخِيهِ وَأُمْمِهِ وَأَبِيهِ وَصَاحِبَتِهِ وَبَنِهِ that day a man shall flee from his brother from his mother and from his father he wants to free himself he shall flee from his wife and his children he will see them and flee away from them because of her at that day so what will happen what is the reason that he will flee from them there are several reasons the first one is that on the day of judgement everyone will be concerned about himself and himself only even prophets they will be asked to mediate to arbitrate for Allah SWT on behalf of the creatures everyone will say myself, myself I will not ask Allah SWT for anything, anything except for myself except of course of Sayyidina Muhammad SAW so this is the the first reason that everyone is concerned about himself the second reason is that a person might flee from his brother, sister, mother or father wife and children because he could not during life he did not fulfill their rights over him he wants to flee away trying to get away so he doesn't remember them he doesn't remember that he did not fulfill his duty towards them so this is another interpretation Allah SWT says in the next ayah لكل مريء منهم يومئزم شأن يغني لكل مريء منهم يومئزم شأن يغني for every man on that day will be a matter adequate for him everyone cares about how he can ransom himself for his own punishment so much so that he has no care for anyone everyone will be preoccupied in his business that distracts him distracted from the affairs of others nobody would care about anybody else Sayyidina was talking to Sayyidina Muhammad SAW about the day of jidmin she said you will be resurrected naked and barefoot so she asked him will we see each other nakedness Sayyidina Muhammad SAW answered no everyone will be too busy to look at others everyone will have enough worries to make him careless of others so it's the day of jidmin everyone is resurrected reckoning started what's the result the result now we have two groups winners and losers Allah SWT will talk about the two groups will talk about the faces of the people of paradise and the faces of the people of fire will talk about the faces of the people of paradise they will be reflecting light they will be bright laughing, rejoicing at the good news they will be celebrating showing extreme joy that they are the people of paradise they are the people who obeyed Allah SWT in dunya so they are the people of paradise they are the people who obeyed Allah SWT So they are the people who are highly rewarded. They are rewarded immensely. So this is the first group. This is the faces of the first group. What about the others? Others faces that they will be dust stained. They will be darkened. Darkness will cover them. Sadness will cover their faces. Who are those people? Who is this group? Such will be the disbelief, the disbelieving, the wicked evildoers. Misery. They realize how severely they will be punished. Their eyes are miserable. Their faces are miserable. They had disbelievers. They had disbelief in their hearts. They were evildoers in their actions. They were ungrateful to Allah's subounties. They were the ones who denied and rejected Allah's signs. They committed what Allah swt had prohibited them. They did not adhere to Allah's commands. May Allah save us. May Allah save us. May Allah make us with the winners group. May Allah give us radiant faces on the Day of Judgment. May Allah make us of the people who will be rejoicing the reward of Allah on the Day of Judgment. So this is the end of Surah Abasa. And now, insha'Allah, we will be moving to Surat Al-Takweer, which will show us what will happen on the Day of Judgment. Sayyidna Muhammad, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, said, من سره أن ينظر إلى يوم القيامة كأنه رأي عين فاليقرأ إذا الشمس كورت وإذا السماء انفطرت وإذا السماء انشقت. Whoever wishes to look at the Day of Judgment as if he is seeing it with his own eyes, then let him read when the sun is darkened, which is Surah Al-Takweer, Surah 81, and when the heaven is cleft asunder, this is Surah Al-Infitar, Surah 82, and when the heaven is split asunder, which is Surah Al-Inchiqaq, verse 84. So Allah SWT is going to give us a visual example of what's going to happen on the Day of Judgment. إذا الشمس كورت, when the sun is folded up. كورت means to fold something like a ball, so the sun will be rolled up and thrown away as a ball. So the sun is darkened and its light goes away. It's not shining anymore. إذا الشمس كورت, وإذا النجوم كدرت, when the stars have fallen and scattered. So the force which keeps the stars in their orbit is loosened. They're not anymore in their orbits. So they disappear and their light will go away. وإذا النجوم كترت, وإذا الجبال سورت, and when the mountains are made to pass away. So what will happen? The mountains will not remain in their places. They will be blown and blasted. They will be completely removed. In Surah Taha, verse 105, Allah SWT says, When they ask you about the mountains, say, My Lord will blow them away with a blast. No sun, no stars, no mountains. وَإِذَ الْعَيْشَارُ وَأَطْطِلَتْ And when the ten month pregnant she camels are neglected. What is this image here? What's الْعَيْشَارِ? So before buses, before trucks, before airplanes, before cars, there was nothing more precious or more important to the Arabs than the she camels. So, especially if the she camel is just about to give birth to her young. So the she camels, the pregnant she camels is called الْعَيْشَارِ. And normally, الْعَيْشَارِ are very well taken care of, very well cared for. So, she was, the الْعَيْشَارِ always would be so cared for and looked after, so that it's not lost, it's not stolen, or it's not harmed. So time will come and people will not care for their precious things. So as we said, the الْعَيْشَارِ are the best type of camels, particularly the pregnant female ones. So what will happen to them? They will be neglected. When they reach, when these الْعَيْشَارِ, they are called الْعَيْشَارِ when they reach the tenth month of their pregnancy. This is the most precious time for the Arab to have الْعَيْشَارِ. So the people will be too busy to tender them, or to benefit from them. It's a huge day. On the day, you see every nursing mother will be distracted from that child she was nursing. And every pregnant woman will abort her pregnancy because of fear. This all happens because of the terrifying and the horrible situation, and what will happen just before that day, the day of judgment. What's the other picture that we have here? وَأِذَ الْوَهُوشُ وَحُوشِ رَتْ And when the wild beasts are gathered together, in another verse, when they are gathered, when these beasts unto their Lord shall be gathered, وَأِذَ الْبِحَارُ وَسُجِرَتْ And when the seas become as blazing fire set, the seas into fire. So what happens? The oxygen and the hydrogen which are combined, they will be separated and they will begin to burn, so they will cause the seas to blaze, to be on fire. وَأِذَ الْنُفُونْ سُوْزُ وِجَتْ And when the souls are joined with their mates, so the body and the soul get back together. Every type of soul will be rejoined with its peer, with its mate. Those who are alike are joined together. وَأِذَ الْمَؤُودَ تُسُؤِلَتْ بِأِذَمْ بِنْ قُتِلَتْ And we can say, وَأِذَ الْمَؤُودَ تُسَأَلَتْ بِأِذَمْ بِنْ قُتِلَتْ So we have two explanations for this ayah here. And when the female infant buried alive is questioned, for what sin was she killed? The word المؤودة is the female infant that the people of the pre-Islamic time of ignorance would bury in the dirt when that infant is born due to their hatred of girls, due to their being shamed of having a girl. So on the day of judgment the female infant will be asked what sin she committed that caused her to be murdered? Or as I said, there is the other explanation that this female infant asks why she was buried alive. So for economic hardship, because boys are better than girls, boys help the fathers, boys are the helpers, girls are not supposed to be with the men and in wars there will be a very important issue that the parents would be very so afraid that their daughters get captured and they will be sold as slaves. So all these reasons are enough for them to bury the infant girl when she is born. So Allah says in another ayah So when they get the news that they have a baby girl, he will be away from people, he will be humiliated, he will be disgraced, or he can free himself and bury that girl. Tais bin Asim came to Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and he told him, oh, Miss Injera of Allah, I buried some daughters of mine alive in the period of pre-Islamic ignorance. So Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said to him I think of each one of them, free slaves for each one of the buried daughters. And Qais said, I am an owner of camels. And Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said to him then sacrifice a camel for each one of your daughters. We move on. When the records are unfolded. So the records are passed out to people. Each person on the day of judgment will be given his record in his right hand or left hand. Qatada of Allah says, oh son of Adam, your record is written in one rolled up and distributed to you on the day of judgment. So let each man look at what he himself dedicated to be written in his record. Be aware. Be aware of what you want your record to include. Good, bad. You want to be winner, you want to be a loser. So you are the one who dictate what is to be written. Wa ida sama'u kushitat. And when the heaven is stripped off, is removed from its place. Wa ida l-jahimu su'irat. And when hell is superheated, Wa quduh an-nasu wa l-hijarah. So the fuel of hell is men and stones. Hell gets overheated because of their breath, because of the anger of Allah SWT and because of the sins of people. Wa ida l-jinnatu uslifat. So this is the other picture. Hellfire? Now we are talking about paradise. And when paradise is brought near, near those who will inhabit it, near the righteous people whom Allah SWT is pleased with, رضي الله عنهم ورضوا عنهم. عليمة نفسما أحضرت. At that time, each and every one will know exactly what he has brought on the day of judgment. يوم تجد كل نفس ما عملت من خير محضر وما عملت من سوء. داود لو أن بينها وبينه أمدم بعيدة. This is Al-Iran, Ayat 30. So on that, on the day, every soul, every person will be confronted with all the good he has done and all the evil he has done. He will wish that there were great distance between him and his evil deeds. يونَب بأول إنسان يوم إذن بما قدم وآخر. This is another verse in Surah Al-Qiyamah. So on the day, man will be informed of what he sent forward and what he left behind. The blazing fire of hell will be full in full view. Paradise with all its blessing will also be in full view and everyone will know what he has done. At that time, everybody will realize the result of their actions. فلا أقسموا بالخنّس. الجوار الكنّس. I swear by the stars. That will withdraw during the day and sweep across and appear. So Allah SWT is swearing now with stars, with وَالْلَيْلِ إِذَا عَسَسْ. And by the night, when it goes away or when it approaches, Allah is swearing by the night when it's darkness, when it approaches. And by the morning and its light when it shines. وَالْلَيْلِ إِذَا يَغْشَعْ وَالْنَهَارِ إِذَا تَجَلَّى When the night envelops and when the day, when the light appears in brightness. وَالْضُحَى وَالْلَيْلِ إِذَا سَجَعْ By the forenoon and by the night when it darkens. So Allah is swearing. وَالْصُبَحِ إِذَا تَنَفْثَسْ By the dawn when it breathes up. When it brightens and advances. When it comes. So what is Allah SWT swearing by? Why is he swearing? Verily, this is the word of an honorable, noble messenger of someone who who passed the message from Allah SWT who passed the words of Allah SWT to Sayyidna Muhammad SAW swearing that Sayyidna Jibril SAW is honorable. The قوة عند العرش مكين He has great power and high ranks with the owner of the throne. مطاع ثم أمين And there he is obeyed and held as trustworthy. He is trustworthy. He passed the message exactly as is to Sayyidna Muhammad SAW. In the heavens he has prestige and his words is listened to. He is obeyed among the high gathering of angels and he is respected and he has been chosen for the delivery of this magnificent message. He is أل أمين He is trustworthy. Truthful, honest, honorable. He conveyed the Qur'an exactly as is. So this is Jibril SAW. وما صاحبكم بمجنون قرش used to say that Muhammad SAW is insane or he is a magician but Allah SAW is confirming and your companion, your holy messenger the holy messenger of Allah is not insane. وَلَقَدْ رَأَهُ بِالْأُفُقِ الْمُبِينَ And indeed, Sayyidna Muhammad SAW has seen Jibril SAW in the clear horizon. Sayyidna Muhammad saw him saw Jibril SAW in the true form that Allah SAW has created him in. So he saw him twice. The first time when he asked Allah SAW to see him and the second one during the night of the journey and it said Sayyidna Muhammad SAW له 600 جناح كل جناح مبين السماء والأرض He has 600 wings. Each wing is the size of the distance between sky and earth. Heaven and earth. وَمَا هُوَ عَلَى الْغَيْبِ بِضَمِينَ Prophet Muhammad SAW is not stingy. He is not a liar. He did not keep anything of the knowledge that he received from people. Prophet Muhammad SAW does not conceal anything about Allah SAW about the angels about the stories of the prophets about life about death about resurrection about reckoning everything. وَمَا هُوَ بِقَوْرِ شَيْطَانِينَ رَجِينَ And it's not the word of the outcast Satan. It's not he is not able to produce it. A shaitan does not whisper to Sayyidina Muhammad SAW or the words of Allah. No. وَمَا تَنَزَّلَتْ بِهِ شَيْاطِينُ وَمَا يَمْبَغِلَهُمْ وَمَا يَسْتَطْعِعُونَ This is in Surah al-Shu'ara. And it's not the shaitan who brought it down. Neither would it suit them nor they can. They would not be able. They are not able to do it. فَأَيْنَ تَذْهَبُونَ Then where are you going? How can you deny Quran after all these signs? اِنْهُ وَإِلَّا دِكْرٌ لِلْعَالَمِينِ Verily, this is only a reminder to all the human beings. To all creatures. To all mankind. لِمَنْ شَاءَ مِنْكُمْ اَنْ يَسْتَقِينِ To each one of you who wishes to follow the right path. Although this is a reminder to all mankind, the one who will benefit from it is the one who seeks the truth, who's righteous, who fears Allah SWT and who adheres to the Quran. But Allah ends up the Surah is saying وَمَا تَشَاءُونَ إِلَّا اَنْ يَشَاءَ اللَّهُ رَبُّ الْعَالَمِينِ And you cannot will unless Allah SWT wills until Allah SWT guides. And this is what we all ask Allah SWT يا أرحم الراحمين You make us a few guided people وصلى الله عليه وسلم وعلى سيدنا محمد وعلى آره وصحبه وسلم