ald
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dear brothers and
sisters
abak he
once saw the hair of the Prophet
sallallah alaih wasallam long and
beautiful hair of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam and amongst that that
hair he saw some hair that was shining
silver and white little patch a few
hairs
and so he said to the prophet sallallah
alaihi
wasam he said I see you that you've
gotten a little old shba is that white
hair that comes out on the
head and so the prophet sallallah alai
wasam
responded he said sallallah alaihi
wasallam that Surah
Hood and its sisters her sisters have
caused my hair to turn white sallallahu
alaihi
wasallam there was once a time when in
Mecca he took some
bones he took some bones in front of
everybody and he publicly displayed
these bones and the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam was there and he took
these bones and he crushed it and he let
the dust fall and then he said y mmad he
said oh
Muhammad are you claiming that your lord
is going to resurrect these bones after
they have become
dust and Allah subhah wa taala revealed
Quran about this incident Allah subhah
wa ta'a
says he coins an analogy to us and yet
he forgets his own creation
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he says who will resurrect the bones
after they have become
dust say the one who created it in the
first place is the one who will
resurrect it the one who created it in
the first place is the one who will
resurrect it dear brothers and sisters
in our da we have been giving dawa for
the most part for the most of us
individually meaning that occasionally
we will pass someone at our work or pass
someone on the bus and we'll give da to
them inshallah I hope this is the
case but yet The Messengers that Allah
subhana wa ta'ala sent were not sent
sent only to
individuals they were sent to
Nations they were sent to entire
Gatherings and cities of people and so
their dawa was a type of dawa that few
of us have
experienced what
happens when multiple people die it is
something indeed very sad and I remember
once at a janaza that there was a car
accident and the man who was driving his
two daughters and his wife will were
killed in this car accident and I
remember sitting there in the Masjid as
one janaza came in one coffin came in
the father was driving they were all
killed in the accident yet he was the
only one who remained alive and he was
there at the janaza of his wife of his
oldest daughter who had just graduated
from grade
8 and his youngest daughter janaz after
janaza after janaza in one second he had
lost all his family indeed it is
something
enormous and on an opposite side you may
have never experienced this but
experiencing an entire nation coming
into Islam all together as one and so
there's an example YF
Estes he was once giving a lecture and
at the end of his lecture he said to the
group of people listening who believes
in what I'm speaking about who is
willing to give the shahada now and over
a 100 people stood up at the same time
in order to become Muslim and so few of
us have recognized this yet this is a
message that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
teaches in the Quran this is the message
of Nations some of which entered into
Islam and some of which turned their
backs if you look at the SE of the
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam when
he was told to call his people
what did he do sallallahu alaihi
wasallam he stood on Mount Safa and he
called them Nation the whole na all of
qur come tribe after tribe after tribe
they all came and he called them to
Islam and they turned their backs on the
prophet sallallah wasam and so in the
Quran when Allah wants us to pay
attention to
something Allah subhah waala in some of
the verses you will see
you will see the statement of Allah
subhana wa tala oh you who believe if
you're claiming that you're a Believer
then pay attention to what is about to
be said and as one of the companions who
said that whenever you hear Allah
subhana is
saying pay attention pay close attention
to what is going to come next because
after will always come a commandment of
Allah subhana wa tala that Allah wants
you to pay special attention
to or it's going to be a forbiddance
that Allah subhana wa tala is commanding
you to desist from and so when Allah
Asel wants us to pay attention to
something he will repeat something again
and again and again and again throughout
the
Quran and so whenever you see these
these um topics being repeated ask your
yourself how often do we repeat them in
our Gatherings how often do we repeat
them on the
Mima and you will find that the topics
that Allah subhana T chooses to discuss
and repeat again and again are not
always not frequently the topics that we
like to discuss and so to give you an
example of this you just look
at final J of the Quran and look at the
topics that Allah subhana wa tala
repeats again and again and again one
one of them is the topic of money it's
the topic of money Allah subhana T
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says Allah subh and I'm mentioning these
suras because I know you've memorized
but you may have not pointed your eyes
and focused on these
verses was one of the first suras
revealed and Allah subhana
says his wealth availed him
nothing and as the said is his children
the lives of anything he had gathered it
availed him nothing in another verse
Allah subhana T
says in Allah subhana tala is condemning
this person
who who gathered wealth together
and counts it another of these
statements another of these topics that
Allah subhana T repeats again and again
and again is
testification Allah subhah wa tala is
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swearing and you keep going on and on
Allah subhana wa ta'ala
testifying the
testification the and when something is
being testified to it is pointing your
attention to the miracle of Allah
subhana tal and his power subhanahu wa
ta'ala in these creation if anybody
tells you that they don't believe in
what's the proof of God and so
on and you just say to the person have
you anything to do with the creation of
the heavens and the Earth no then it's
best you kept quiet it's best you kept
quiet and so in these suras and in the
aat there is another topic and I'm just
giving you a little Glimpse there are
many other topics that Allah subhana T
repeats again and again and again yet we
don't focus on one of these
topics is the topic of perished Nations
is the topic of Nations that were given
the message and yet they turn their
backs and so one of these suras Allah
subh says
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just a point
here and by the soul and the one who
created it and fashioned it Allah
subhana tala is testifying by himself
all of these testification often I'll
tell people how many times did Allah
testify in the suras how many
testification and if you count them you
probably miss how many times Allah
subhana wa T testified what is all this
testification for Allah subhah wa tala
is
saying and by the soul and your body is
nothing without your soul and Allah
subhana T all these scientists they
don't know anything about the soul it's
an affair of Allah
subhana Allah subhana gave to this soul
to
do Disobedience to Allah subhah wa
ta'ala
or to worship Allah subhana tal and be a
righteous servant of
Allah and then Allah subhah wa taala
all of this testification is leading
to Allah subhana T
said that indeed successful is the one
who purifies their soul there is no
doubt that the person who purifies his
soul will be successful now just
understand this imagine that you have no
money and you have no job and
everything's going bad for you in the
world and problems at all of this thing
but Allah subhah wa tala chooses to
enter you into Jenna is there any
sadness absolutely not and now imagine
the
opposite you have all the money in the
world and you have all the wealth and
you have all of everything seems to be
going fine with you but Allah is angry
and ultimately you will be going to
Hellfire just these few years in the
Dunya and the journey is to the
Hellfire one night and the person's
journey is to Hellfire for all eternity
is there any
happiness and then Allah subhah wa tal
gives us an
example one of the Nations that perished
and so in these suras Allah subhana wa
tala is giving us examples the question
is not will we perish your day of
judgment begins when you die your day of
judgment begins when you die how quickly
can you die how
quickly in one heartbeat you can be dead
just one heartbeat how many beats per
minute do you beat 80 beats per minut in
one heartbeat and you're finished and
then your day of judgment
begins and so when people say when does
the day of judgment begin it begins when
that heartbeat skips and you're on to
the day of judgment when a person falls
down on their face normally what happens
is that they put their hands out before
they fall no one ever falls on their
nose on their nose nobody ever falls on
their nose no matter what just like a
they say a cat never falls on its back a
human being never falls on its on their
nose the person will always fall with
their hands out something happens
unless there's no soul to block it
and that's why the Arabs used to
say they would say this to person
whether you die or like even if you died
who cares this is going to happen and
they would say means NOS meaning that
when the person falls down if they fall
and imagine that you've fallen in a
desert it's just suppose you're in a
desert it's a hot desert you've been
wandering for a little bit and then the
angel of death comes and extracts your
soul your body then Falls just like a
hollow log it just Falls the hands don't
come out to block because the person has
gone to the Hereafter you hit your nose
into the sand and now you're dead what
happens you know on on uh in these
movies National Geographic and all of
that they have these fast forward type
of films right if you take a body that
has died and you fast forward it through
the seasons as the wind clouds and all
of these things come what happens to the
body soon the skin will leave the body
and then the person will be left with
bones it will just be a skeleton correct
we agree on this what happens to the
skeleton as the elements get get in
contact with the with the bone what
happens to
it it decomposes as they say decomposes
it's
organic alhamdulillah it's organic this
the bones become
dust correct and soon you can pass that
area and there will be nothing there
maybe just a few weeds hopefully in a
little flowers or something like that
but the person will have decomposed into
dust Allah subhana T says
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Allah subhana tala said from dust from
it from this dust you were created
didn't Allah subana create
Adam he created Adam and T and created
all of you from T and me included
alhamdulillah we were all created from
dust and our return is to
dust and there's no doubt about
that and from that dust Allah subhana wa
ta'ala is going to resurrect direct
every one of us and so now understanding
this perish nations inshallah in this
series because I saw this topic repeated
so much in the Quran if you read the
Quran and you have a Quran that there
and there's a type of mus that I have
that highlights the topics and you will
see page after page the topic is the
Nations that came before the nation that
came before the Nations that came before
all of nation it comes again and again
and again throughout the Quran so much
so that the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam is focusing on these verses
that his hair turns white from this
sallallahu alaihi wasallam from the fear
and the contemplation of these verses
and so it's my hope inshallah tal that
in these next few um uh lectures that we
have together inshallah tal that I'm
going to focus primarily on four nations
four nations that Allah subhana wa tala
gives us their example in the Quran
these are nations that Allah subhah wa
ta'ala sent Messengers to Nations whom
Allah subhah wa ta'ala they turned their
backs on Allah and they were destroyed
these four nations that I'm going to be
speaking about are and tonight inshallah
is the first we'll be speaking about the
people of the people
of the second one that we'll be speaking
about inshallah tal is the people of
thud the people of thud the Third third
nation that we're going to be speaking
about inshallah is the people of
luum and the fourth nation that we'll be
speaking about inshallah tal is the
nation
of the nation of and the people
with to begin with tonight inshallah
tala the people of hood and their name
was the
was actually the name of the you could
say the nation was called and the
specific kab the specific like family
tribe that ham was sent to they were
called Iram they were called Iram their
location was a location called
Al it was a location called between the
Sandy Hills windy and Sandy
Hills and it was between Yemen and
between Oman in this
area this people these people they were
the first people to worship
idols after the destruction of the
people of
n After the flood the people were oned
they worshiped Allah subhah wa taala the
first people to introduce the idols back
into the worship were the people of AD
were the people of AD dear brothers and
sister sisters Allah subhana T subhana
wa tala tells us about the people of
that they were extremely extremely
powerful Allah subhana tala tells us
in Allah subh tells us is really
beautiful that Allah
is testifying by the Daybreak again
testification Allah is
swearing and by the 10
nights and then Allah subhana wa tala
interesting whenever there's aam when
there's a testification Allah subhana T
will say or a person will say in the
Arabic
language and then they continue on in
their
speech XYZ XYZ XYZ you would
say why are you testifying W what
correct wouldn't you say that what
that's that is what are you testifying
to every time you see Allah subhana wa
tala testifying you should look for what
is
the why is Allah subhana tala testifying
why so much testification and
interesting in
as they say is Allah subhana didn't say
for what reason he testified Allah subh
someone who may
say it's a question isn't there an
enormous testification in these things
the sun and the 10 nights all of these
things isn't this an enormous
testification for the person with
intellect the person with a brain If you
have intelligence this is a huge
testification and then Allah
says so
what's because the next verse says
haven't you seen what Allah did to the
people
of haven't you seen it didn't you see
what Allah did to them what is
Ja is this that if someone turns their
back on Allah subhah wa ta'ala Allah
will destroy them
that's what Allah subhana T anybody in
their tyranny and their aggression and
the and the that they do to Allah subhah
wa tala when people think they're only
thinking well what Injustice did they do
number one Injustice is to worship other
than Allah subhah wa taala this is the
number one Injustice there is no
Injustice greater than for a person to
worship other than
Allah Allah subhana says
Allah will never forgive someone who
Associates partners with him Allah will
never forgive them in the Hereafter in
the Hereafter they will never be
forgiven if someone does Toba to Allah
Allah will forgive them in the D but if
they die on that sin they will never be
forgiven in fact The Messengers were
commanded to not pray on those who died
in you can't even make Dua for them
because they died
as you can't make Dua that is the
greatest and when someone does and turns
their back on Allah Allah will destroy
them either in this duny or they will be
held to the Hereafter and the Hereafter
is much more intense in the punishment
than anything that they
would anything that would happen to them
in this duny Allah subhana T says
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Allah subh tells us about the people
of the people of in another verse Allah
subhana T
says the first there was other nations
named Allah subhana T
destroyed and in this verse Allah
subhana wa tala says
haven't you seen what Allah subh did to
the people
of the specific family
of the people who build lofty Towers
lofty columns and then Allah subhana
says they had no one in comparison to
their power there was nobody in
comparison to their power now when we
talk about power what does it mean to
have power what does it mean to have
power when you see people when they want
Power they'll do one of three things
they will either go to the gym right
they'll either go to the gym because
they want Power they think it's like
power is like right here in this bicep
muscle all power is harnessed right here
right this is one type of Power number
two power a second type of person will
try to make a billion dollars because
they want Financial power they want to
buy byy byy byy byy all of this stuff
right and the third type of person when
he thinks power he says let me run for
political position and let me become
king of the world and get political
power dear brothers and sisters what
type of power did
have they had all the above they had all
of it not only that but Allah subhana
says nothing like them was created in
the land they had bodies that were huge
and Powerful they had wealth that was so
enormous they had so much luxury Allah
subhana wa tala says that uh that they
had Allah subhana says what ham said to
them that Allah wa taala gave you full
measure and continuous abundance of um
gave you full abundance of children and
wealth so not only did they have the
money they had The Offspring and the
families and uh to build that wealth and
they had the livestock and they had the
Agriculture and they had the gardens and
they had the rivers that flowed through
those
Gardens they had luxury to the highest
level so so that they used to build
buildings and they would never live in
them they would find a huge
mountain and they would just build
something up there a huge castle someone
would pass by and they would say who
built this Castle who lives there nobody
lives there but it belongs
to there's another Castle there up on
the mountains huge and mighty who lives
there nobody lives there who built it
built it
and so they would just build this just
playing games their excess wealth they
would just build this and political
power nobody could stop them they would
go anywhere and any law that they said
was the law because of their power
because of their physical power because
of their political power so much so that
said and Allah subhana wa tala records
their statement they said and it's
interesting how how many things and how
many people have been destroyed by
similar statements they
said they said who is more stronger than
we are who is stronger than us the most
powerful Nation the most political the
strong and wealth who is more powerful
than us
Allah subhana wa tala says don't they
see that Allah the one who created them
has more power than
them dear brothers and sisters a lot of
these lectures are found in the stories
of the prophets there are many um
beautiful lectures many beautiful
books and
specifically has a book called
and so it's the stories of the Prophet I
believe it's translated in English and
you find stories of the prophets there
and many other books that you can find
and one of the most amazing uh beautiful
sets in English that you can listen to
inshah is by
IM and he has uh stories of the
prophet's um 16 CD set and so primarily
those topics they do include the Nations
but it's primarily speaking about the
prophets inshallah T in our series here
we going to be focusing more on the
Nations themselves on the Nations
specifically and extracting the lessons
that Allah subhana tells us to
contemplate and look over Allah subhana
wa tala
says tell them say oh Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam say go and
travel in the land go and travel When
someone tells me my son is not you know
he's getting a little misguided and I
don't know what to do with him you know
what you do with him
go and travel in the land take your son
take your children and go live somewhere
else and as soon as they start getting
bad in that new area that you're in go
and live somewhere else again and keep
traveling with them it has been my
experience but I found many youth who
were able and Allah subh saved them from
all these FNA many of them will say that
they lived a portion of their life
overseas somewhere or they lived and
they traveled because when you travel
you will see that the the FNA of one
people is not the FNA of another people
just give you this example if you go to
the UK If you go to the UK the fitna is
let's say for example playing Cricket
for example right some of you are
thinking what is
cricket as you can see over there and I
remember being at one lecture and these
two boys I was they didn't know I was in
the UK they didn't know that I was one
of the speakers so I heard the back you
know the behind the scenes what people
are talking about the speeches and so on
so one child said to the other child
let's go to the lecture I can't do any
accents what he said let's go to the
lecture and then and then the other boy
said to him no let's play some
football and I said football who's going
to skip a lecture to go play as we'd say
soccer who's going to go out and leave
the lecture go is there anybody outside
in this snow playing soccer right now
does anybody have any desire to go
outside right now and go play soccer no
obviously not it's it's a fit I'm saying
it's it's so playing soccer in is not
that big a fitna until you take it to
the National level and then you guys
know how big a fitna it is as one of the
sh said you take a soccer game in the
Muslim world how many people are
watching the soccer game how the whole
country is watching the soccer game
there is not a soul in that country that
is not watching the soccer game if Egypt
is is playing in the African Cup how
many Egyptians do you think are watching
that game how many of you watch the game
just raise your hand I just want to see
okay so you know what I'm talking
about how many Muslims watch the let's
say for example 10 million Muslim that's
just being on the low side let's just
say 10 million Muslims watch the game
how many hours productive hours of the
umah has been lost on that one
game if it was a three-hour game not
including the Afterparty and so on and
so forth you're talking about like 30
million hours of the Muslims on that one
game just giving you an example just an
example and I'm not saying playing
soccer is Haram I'm not saying
that I'm just saying we need to open our
eyes to what's happening all right the
FNA when a person travels from one land
to another the fit of one place if this
boy was to come to the to um to Canada
for example and he say he tried to cause
a f know some of the kids playing in the
back he said let's go play football
they're like football let's play hockey
and then he'll say in response field
hockey because they don't even
understand what kind of hockey you're
talking about right that field hockey
thing the one they play in like Pakistan
India and stuff like that right field
hockey and so the fitna changes the
boy's mind has been messed up now the
culture is different he will start to
adopt a different FNA and when he starts
adopting the other F then you travel
with them again go to somewhere else
where they play
crochet and then you travel somewhere
else where they there's something
completely different and as the person
travels and
travels Something Beautiful
happens they stop trying to follow the
people and instead try to become their
own person and insh T hopefully they'll
be guided to
Allah the response to those people those
kuf who bring their arguments this and
that and why not the idols and what's
your proof and this and so on say go and
travel in the land someone tells you you
know this is the case let's say for
example homosexuality well get me on
record here homosexuality someone say oh
it's okay it's this and that go and
travel in the land go to any country and
go and see if this is something
acceptable in all these
countries and then go travel in through
history has any Nation ever allowed
something like this Muslim or non-muslim
it's never happened and we'll talk more
about that we'll talk about them later
inshallah tal the third uh third chapter
inshallah Tal
Allah subhana says travel in the
land so
look look and see how
was the final end the the the end result
of those who came before
them and there's there's many verses
like this now notice in this verse Allah
subh didn't
say Allah didn't say look at the end
result of those who disbelieved it
doesn't say that instead the verse
says look at how was and what led to the
destruction of these
people because you're not just looking
at the story what happened to was
destroyed everyone knows this here what
is the lesson you take you step back
from the destruction and you see what
led them to this destruction that's what
we're focusing on what led them to this
destruction and it's not something it's
not something that is Mystical or
something that is symbolic or something
that we have to sit hours and hours
trying to figure out what led them to
this destruction it is very simple
alhamdulillah Allah subh repeats it
again and again and again and the answer
is very simple and what you will
actually find as we repeat through
Nation after nation in the in this and
these four nations that we're going to
be talking about you will find something
interesting you will find
repetition that means that something is
going to repeat again and again and
again and so you will clearly understand
what is it that leads a nation to
destruction so let me give you number
one what leads a indiv individual and a
nation to
success it is very simple and it is
repeated everywhere in the Quran
everywhere and it's this simple Allah
subhana T and if you've memorized the
Quran a lot of times people who memorize
Quran get confused on these verses
because it's everywhere in the Quran
Allah subhana T
says that's
it this is success
those who believed and did righteous
Deeds what is Islam Islam is
and and you believe in Allah subhana T
and his messenger and you move forward
to righteous actions what is righteous
actions Salah
Zak as Allah subh T dictated to us how
what is the righteous action that is
pleasing to Allah subh
all these
verses Allah subhah wa tala tells us
about the people
of Allah
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says Allah
says was from their tribe he's from
their tribe so when you think of a
messenger sent to a people you might be
thinking that all of a sudden some
Foreigner comes who has like different
skin color different language and says
hey can someone translate for me and
gives them a message this is not the
case he is from them and so the prophets
they were all none of them had any
physical IAL um any physical problems
they were all strong bodied handsome
people whoam was from this tribe of who
was already none of them had been
created like this ham we can then
understand that H had a strong enormous
body and was very
handsome he was from them speaking in
their tongue these people as we said
they worshiped idols and they
specifically
worshiped three Idols they specifically
worshiped three Idols the names of the
idols
were
s
suud and
Har
s and
Har the
prophets Allah subhana subhanahu wa
taala tells us what statement he
mentioned what statement they mention to
their people the statement is and I
everybody should know it if you've read
the Quran you know exactly what the
statement they said
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was their statement their mission the
thing that they this was the topic of
choice worship your lord you have no God
except Him worship your lord and so when
a person now we've been talking about we
do individual da inshallah that some of
us amongst and listening to this will
start to think about Nation dawa where a
person gets on a satellite channel and
there's like 100 million people watching
right not the Super Bowl or anything
like that they're listening this is a
person calling to Allah what is the
person going to say he's going to say
insh or she's going to say
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worship your lord you have no other God
except Him worship
Allah and then the prophets after that
you will see that they quickly they're
wor they're commanding the people to
worship Allah and they're moving the
people
towards ills and vices that are
specifically happening in their people
and something that you know
is it's current they're not complaining
about issues he mentions this in his in
his CD set says very often when we give
speeches Allah protect us but we don't
like to as we say rock the boat so what
do we do we talk about issues that
doesn't bother the people that we're
talking to so if we're giving a lecture
we'll say let us talk about what Muslims
and Christians have in
common oh that's
nice and so the lecture goes and you
know this in the common that's great and
as one person said this is not now a
little bit of this is fine but you're
differentiating you're saying and I
remember I was giving this lecture at um
at uh University of Ottawa to the
non-muslims they had like a world
religions class and I was speaking to
them and I and I'm the kind if someone
ask me I'll just tell them straight out
yes they're going to Hellfire I'll just
tell them straight out and so the
teacher asked me she said can you tell
us what Islam says about Christianity
and Judaism I said I'd love to I'd love
to say like I wasn't going to comment on
those other really but I said if you
want me to tell I'll tell you what it is
and you just straight out tell and then
the people Subhan Allah Allah gives you
power when you speak like that because
they know when someone is faking in
front of them if you're speaking and
you're just trying to find ways to make
the person in front of you happy and not
stir any boats what will happen they
will say oh these people they have no
courage I know I saw what I saw on TV
and I know what's happening in the news
you're just faking it this is not what
really Islam is about so when a person
just starts and speaks openly what is
this this is the truth nothing hidden
this is the opportunity there was um a
sister she wasn't Muslim but she became
Muslim she was in
aak class that we had with Al
Institute and during one of the breaks I
went out and you know the sisters are
asking some questions and she said you
know um hello hello my name is so and so
and I just want to let you know that I'm
not Muslim but I'm attending aak class
we took this class in otwa here and you
ask yourself if non-muslims are
attending it what about you so if you
haven't attended it inshallah t.org look
it up there's a class coming up soon
insh tal so the non-muslim his
non-muslim
sister she um she said I'm not Muslim
and I'm attending this and I'm said I'm
so happy I'm like you know how hard we
try to get Muslims to study Bak and now
you're non-muslim and I didn't even
invite you just can't I'm so happy so I
got up on on the stage and I was in the
next after the break then I I welcome
the sister I said everybody this sister
so and so she's not Muslim but she's
attending the class that's awesome
that's excellent and so next verse
what's the next verse that we talked
about says
[Applause]
if you know what these verses mean you
will understand what just happened there
the verses
say those who are those who
disbelieve whether you warn them or you
don't warn them they will never believe
Allah has sealed their
hearts and on their ears
sealed and on their sight is a covering
a
veil and to them will be a Grievious
punishment enormous
punishment I didn't change the words who
am I to I can't change any words because
this is the Quran and so one of the
brothers came up to me afterwards and he
said Muhammad
you know I've been to a lot of lectures
and normally once there's non-muslims
involved the lecture
changes and it gets watered down and we
all know it you guys know what I'm
talking about we all know it it gets
watered down it's like this is Islam
this is the message of Islam add two
cups of dilution to the mixture and you
know and then present it and then see
what happens you know what happens just
mockery and the person there's no
courage they're not giving a great
speech and so on and so forth vers
versus the person who says this is the
truth from Allah subhana wa
tala
who was then giving this message to the
people of of giving this message to them
they responded and as we said we're not
going to spend too much time
on we're not going to spend too much
time on H in in this series in but you
can go and learn further about H what
I'm speaking about here is their
response to HUD what did they say number
one they disbelieved
in they disbelieved in him and when you
see the word in Arabic right and when
something has a shed when something has
a shed you know that little like w right
when something has a sh that means that
it intensifies so if you say for example
he
left right if you say he left that means
like you can just imagine someone um
like leaving just normally but if you
say like you're talking about like he
like there might have been a crowd at
the door like maybe after Jima or
something this person like pushed and
and you know shoved and grabbed his
shoes and kicked a few people on the way
out and he left this is what the shed
means right this is the like the um the
the value that it brings into the word
what you know the meaning that it brings
into the word when you see the
verse it doesn't mean that ham spoke to
them once he gave them a lecture there
was some public gathering he spoke to
them once and they disbelieved that
means that the messenger spoke to them
again and again and again and again and
again and again and
again 950 years
he said my Lord I called my
people at night and in the
mornings and so he always gave da to
them and he tried every means he went to
them publicly and went to them privately
he went to them openly and every way
that he could do
it and they still disbelieved
and so these people they
disbelieved Allah subhana waala
says Allah subhana T says that
disbelieved in the
messengers now notice how many prophets
did they disbelieve in how many
prophets all of
them why all of them Allah they
disbelieved in
HUD but because they disbelieved in one
of the messengers all the messengers
have come with the same
message and so they disbelieved in all
of them and so a disbelief in one of the
messengers is a disbelief in all of the
messengers and so we understand from
that what and there's this this new
thing happening where people are saying
as long as you believe in Moses it's
okay as long as you believe in Jesus as
a prophet which they don't but it's okay
that's not true if someone disbelieves
in any messenger they've disbelieved in
all of the
messengers that's number
one you will see that the people of were
extremely skillful and they were
extremely
intelligent except when it came to
matters of Allah subhana wa tala they
were and and I thought to myself if they
had a Nobel Prize at their time they'd
probably win it right these people are
extremely intelligent extremely skillful
except when it comes to the matter of
Allah subhana wa tala and so when you
see Nations if you go and travel you go
to these you know traveling from Nation
to Nation tourism where do you visit
most of these locations that you are
visiting are nations that Allah subhana
T destroyed if you went to the pyramids
for example and I know Egyptians they're
all excited about the pyramids and so on
you're looking at their tombstones
this is where they were
destroyed and you go to another place
and you're looking I remember I went to
uh Al how many people have been to albra
Petra in Jordan anybody been there
Jordan Petra nobody okay Petra and we'll
be talking about uh the people of thud
the these are not the people of thud but
very similar in Petra there is a castle
carved into the mountain there's a
castle carved into the mountain just
type Petra on Google Images you will see
the castle carved into the mountain when
we were there as you're traveling
through all this mountainous range there
was a tour guide and he was we didn't
you know hire this tour guide but he was
just walking with us and he wanted to
just explain some of what we were seeing
and I remember him clearly almost as if
these words kept like there was a
highlighted marker on it he said look at
these people over they were destroyed by
and look at these people over they were
destroyed by and over here on this
mountain and you'll notice this crack
here they were destroyed by and I just
kept hearing that that yes they were a
huge and Powerful nation and yes Allah
subhana T blessed them with things that
no one was blessed with even till today
you're still visiting these places but
Allah destroyed them and so even though
a person is skillful or intelligent Shan
can still deceive that person Shan can
still deceive the person he verse Allah
subhana wa tal says and you'll find this
2938 Allah subhana said and as for
and and clearly will appear to you from
the traces of their buildings their fate
what happened to
them thatan beautified for them their
sins Allah subhana says thatan made
their sins beautiful to them and so they
were blocked from the straight path and
Allah
says that they indeed were still even
though they were gifted with
intelligence and skill even though this
happened Shan still Mis guided them that
that intelligence and skill is not
enough the person has to go deeper to
their heart to worship Allah subhanahu
waala Allah subhana wa tala tells us
that claimed to be the greatest nation
on Earth the strongest Allah subhah wa
tala
says Allah subhana T says and as for
they behaved arrogantly and you want to
underline that
arrogantly what does being arrogant mean
it's when a person thinks that there is
no strength above their strength when
they claim that any type of knowledge
that they have is from themselves or
they claim that any type of organization
or civilization is something that they
gave birth to I remember in Hajj time
whenever people come for Hajj sometimes
they get a little some of them may
protect us a little arrogant may Allah
protect us it's normally like North
American people for some reason and
there I'm sure there's other nations as
well and so they will say a statement I
will tell the people don't you ever
compare Hajj to Disneyland don't you
ever do that they're like no no but if
you look at this I tell them look at
whatever you have in America or in
Canada whatever you have what do you
have organization what do you have there
who gave you that
organization who gave it to you did the
kufar come and give birth to
organization Allah subhana T gave it to
them if you have some sort of special
technology GPS that knows the roads and
stuff like that who gave you that you
would say Best Buy in Future Shop Right
who gave the techn Allah subhana it's
from Allah and so anytime a person
attributes that intelligence and skill
to other than Allah subhana tala they've
become
arrogant they have to turn turn it back
to Allah and thank Allah for the ability
to have this knowledge come to them all
of this you open up the internet you're
like alhamdulillah that Allah subhana
tala gives us this technology that can
be used for good or can be used for
bad they
said who is stronger than us in power
Allah subhana wa tala says don't they
see and you'll notice that Allah subhana
is telling us again and again and again
open your eyes and pay
attention don't they
see the one who created them Allah who
created
them that he is more powerful than them
and more Superior than
them you will see in their arrogance to
H that they said you know what their
sign was they wanted a sign they wanted
a sign that if you're telling the the
truth then bring us a sign this is what
the Nations did and even to the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam that even
though they're claiming that they want a
sign they're not asking as a they're
trying to see like a student of not
someone seeking the truth they're asking
in arrogance and what will happen when
the sign comes to them they will
disbelieve in it and after the disbelief
what will happen they will be destroyed
the people of do you know what their
sign was that they
wanted they said
[Applause]
they said bring us what you're promising
us I.E the punishment of Allah subana if
you're telling the
truth we want to see a sign yes what is
the sign we want Allah to destroy us and
then we'll
believe why did they say that it's in
mockery
and this is just understanding the
beginning when you see these people
asking for a sign one is asking out of
arrogance and that they even if the sign
came they wouldn't believe at least hear
their truth they say bring us the
punishment straight out you understand
that they're not looking for the sign as
a means to believe they're looking for
the sign of
punishment and that's exactly what they
got but it wasn't at that
time Allah subhah wa ta'ala tells us
about the issue of mocking and
ridiculing and comedy making
fun in a
verse you've memorized these vers in
Allah
says Allah subhana
says the criminals those who are
criminals their disbelief LED them to be
criminals like this can
they used to in the past they used to
laugh at those who have
believed they used to laugh at those who
believed and so before I forget this I
just want to mention this laughing and
making fun of the dean is a sign of and
it could lead a person to
kuur mocking and making fun of the dean
is a sign of N and can lead a person to
kufur and there's going to be this is a
recurring theme you will see it amongst
the other Messengers as well this is not
the the last time that we're going to be
talking about
this they used to laugh at the Believers
the people
of every time the people of new pass the
Mel the aristocrats which is another
thing that we're going to be talking
about but every time the aristocrats
would pass by the peam building the ark
they would make fun of him they would
make a mockery they would say to
him they would say that have you become
you just yesterday you were a prophet
you became a carpenter
today and they'd laugh as if it was like
the funniest joke on
earth and the joke was on
them Allah subhana wa tala says about
thef in Bak
they said that the when they go and
they're amongst the they said will we
believe like the stupid foolish people
have believed again mockery it's a
characteristic of n in the person's
heart that they attribute foolishness
and you know like a feeble mindness to
the people of believed and I just have
to mention this when you let's say a son
daughter tells her parents yeah Mama
yeah
Baba they say yes they say what would
you what what is your career what would
you like to do as a career they and this
student this young child says I would
like to study
Islam oh my God what did you
say study
Islam you mean after you become a doctor
engineer accountant is that what you
mean I hope that's what you mean that
better be what you
mean you can do whatever you want h
after you finish these other degrees
which make you
smart but I can't let my child be
amongst the feeble of the
community isn't that what and and in
different cultures when someone starts
studying Islam what do they call them I
know in Pakistan they call him
mvis and it's a mockery it's not that
the person is trying to like sometimes a
person will say it out of you know out
of respect but they will say it out of
they're trying to disgrace the person by
calling them like a
she and this is a sign of this is a sign
of and it's fun okay I'm not going to
mention that
one I was going to continue on that but
I Allah subhah wa taala says in one of
the verses speaking
about and with the atat of Allah subhana
wa tala they used to make mockery they
used to make
mockery Allah subhana tala they were so
powerful and sometimes when you see the
powerful if you think about it the
oldest person to live how old how long
do they live Guinness Book of World
Records how old does the longest person
live let's just say it's like something
like 115 years maybe right let's just
say
117 years ago 117 years ago there is
nobody that lived and walked this Earth
117 years ago or even just add a few
years just so you're like we're not sure
137 years ago that is now walking this
Earth there is no soul that is walked
137 years from now behind now fast
forward to the future 137 years into the
future none of you will be walking this
Earth You will be
dust and you will
be there is no soul that is walking this
Earth that will be here 137 years from
now and so your remnants if you look I
and I oh this is very interesting to me
when I pass a graveyard and you see
tombstones Muslims anous whatever but
you're just passing a graveyard I think
is there anybody on Earth that remembers
these
people is there any and even if they
remembered even that would the person
even know
there's no under compreh nothing this
person is dust this person is nothing
and similarly you will be dust you will
be
nothing Allah subhana tala some people
die natural death some people Allah
subhana grabs them but now we're talking
about Nations destroyed Nations an
entire nation not just two people three
an entire nation where Allah subhana T
wipes them all out wipes them all
out do you see any remnants of do you
see any remnants of
them in fact there's like some archa
archaeological discoveries and so on if
you read um Parish Nations by har it's a
very nice book and there's this picture
in his book where he shows the lofty
towers of from satellite it's under the
ground it's under the ground ground and
the only reason all these scientists are
so excited about this discovery is
because Allah mentioned
them because Allah mentioned them in the
Quran that's why everybody's excited and
they said is this
the that Allah subhana T destroyed just
the remnants of
them the people of the first after their
Disobedience to Allah and they're
turning their back and not beling in h
all these gifts that they have someone
may say if you try to give da to a
person and you say you know you become
Muslim and when you become Muslim you
can't eat any bacon anymore they're like
okay bacon okay and you can't drink
alcohol it's no going to the pubs and
clubs and all that alcohol yeah and you
know your
girlfriend you got to stop that too no
Zena in Islam as well and the person is
like starting to freak out at this point
and then you know what you got to pray
five times a
day five times a day you've got to pray
and so once the person starts seeing
this then they start saying to
themselves why do I need this why do I
need this I have everything I already
have why do I need to worship Allah
subhana wa tala the Lord I have no other
Lord except him because every n that you
have Allah gave it to you do you want it
to
continue then you better start doing
these things because because all of
these Commandments are for your benefit
are to protect you and bring you closer
to Allah subhana wa tala but it's to
protect you to protect you and so the
key that will bring a person to Islam
this is the key this is deep you have to
understand this one just pay attention
here is thankfulness to
Allah that's what can guide a person to
Islam not that you're telling them that
pork and alcohol and all these things
are forbidden why would the person stop
something that's Hal for them now not
that is Hal for them that that they're
just partaking in these things what
would stop them is thankfulness to Allah
subhana tal that made who made subhanahu
wa tala all of these beverages Hal but
made alcohol Haram made all these Foods
Halal but made pork Haram all
made marriage Halal but made Z Allah
subhah wa tala who gives the opportunity
for the to worship ship him subhanahu wa
ta'ala five times a day this is your
blessing your gift from Allah subhana wa
tala that you have the honor it's your
honor to be able to prostrate your head
to Allah this is your honor there was
one person in the same
class he said to me how can God expect
us to worship Him He said I feel that
this means you know God uh this is like
a humiliation of
God he shouldn't need anybody to worship
Him and then I said to this person
firstly just to show everybody that
kufur is not one there's all these
different types of kuf so I said how
many people agree with this kafer guy
and in the audience and they're all
non-muslim maybe two people agreed with
him so I said number one if you're going
to use your brain as God because you got
to be worshiping something so you're
worshiping your brain you're prostrating
to it and stuff like that if you're
going to be worshiping your brain
realize that there's some other brains
here that don't agree with your brain so
your God's a little messed up up and
then I said number two I said do you
understand what Abdullah
means I said you're saying that
worshiping God is Not befitting of God
I'm like do you know what Abdullah means
Abdullah means it doesn't mean servant
of Allah it means slave of Allah it
means the slave you're the slave of
Allah ABD the most beloved names to
Allah are Abdullah the slave of Allah
and ABD rman the slave of the merciful I
said it is the muslim's honor it is our
honor that we prostrate to no one and
nothing except Allah subhana wa tala
this is our honor and so next time you
put your head to the ground remember
that you are the slave of Allah subhana
wa tala it's not an optional thing that
you got happening going and like I
should I wake up for fer should I not
wake up for fer you're Allah's slave
Allah tells tells you get up and you get
up that's it you're the slave of Allah
subhana T and of course the gifts will
be coming to
you Allah subhana wa tala tells
us
that they asked for the punishment to be
brought to them the first of the
punishment was that a drought was sent
to them this drought was took 3 years it
lasted for 3
years when someone says are all Mighty
all powerful Allah subhana wa tala will
send them if you notice how people were
destroyed they were destroyed With the
Wind someone will see beautiful wind and
they'll like oh mashallah there's a
beautiful Breeze turn up the wind and it
becomes destructive someone will say
we're in Canada here and like oh we want
some sunlight with like a little bit of
sunshine and once that Sunshine Has
Turned
Up it becomes
destructive some people like to go
swimming but just dip your nose into the
water and you could drown and it becomes
destructive all of these elements of
Allah subhana wa
taala they are the armies of Allah T
Allah created them they're at the hands
of Allah subhana wa tala all Allah has
to do is tell the rainwater to stop
coming all Allah has to do is command
the Earth to pull the water further down
and the people will have no no ability
to touch it and when there is no water
bring me the biggest nation and if there
is no water what will happen to them
there is no water to drink the livestock
you won't be getting your Burgers
anymore and your chicken they're not
coming because there was no water for
the
livestock and the land will dry up and
the people will
die and so this is what happened to the
people of for 3 years there was a
drought that beell the
and so they said who's stronger than us
in power Allah subhana T took the water
away from
them the people
of whenever something like this would
happen they would go out and they would
pray
to the idols they took out 70 men they
took out 70 men and they went to pray to
the idols and they had like their Amir
and they're calling to the idols calling
for rain and it is said and this is in
the history books it is said that three
clouds were appeared to them the clouds
as they were praying to the idols it was
said to them a Red Cloud yellow cloud
and a black cloud and it said which of
these clouds do you want and the mirror
of them said we want the black cloud
because the black clouds carry the most
rain before we speak about um the rain
clouds I just one thing
happened and that was they challenged um
they were challenging and disbelieving
in h ham also responded back to them and
he
said he said I bring Allah L to
testify and I and and I testify that I
have
nothing right I have nothing to do from
that which you associate with Allah subh
so the lessons there you learn that a
person is clearly distinguishing thems
from from what is worshiped other than
Allah subhana wa tala and the believer
following the footsteps of these
Messengers is stepping back and
testifying everybody knows that we do
not believe in
this and
then
said ham said that after you know having
having nothing to do with what they
worship other than Allah subhana tala he
said he said all of you how powerful
was there nobody was created like them
and he said all of you fight me
now fight me
now all of you fight destroy me if you
can and they couldn't destroy him they
couldn't do anything to him and he said
I've placed my trust in
Allah my Lord and your lord and if you
see the story of
IIM isn't this what they wanted to do
whenever these so-called intelligent
people and skillful people and civilized
people once whenever they get to the
point with Allah subhana T they can't
argue anymore then they resort to they
resort to violence they resort to
violence they wanted to throw ibraim
into the fire these Messengers they
wanted to kill them they wanted to
imprison them they wanted to detain them
they wanted to expel them you can you
mention all of these things they wanted
to do this to The Messengers and ham is
saying do whatever fight
me but I've placed my trust in Allah
subhana wa tala and they were able to do
none of that and so we returning back to
the
three the three clouds and so they chose
the black cloud
they chose the black cloud they returned
to their people and it was a sign of you
know that um Allah you know their idols
and Allah and they would worship idols
and they would say that this is a sign
that God was you know had been very
generous to them and they were very
Noble in the sight of God look we've
brought the
rainclouds and they came back to their
people Allah subhana T says
it was a wind once the people came back
initially when they saw the rain clouds
they
said they said this is this is like the
the rain clouds they're going to bring
rain to us they saw the
weather and they said they rejoiced that
now the rain is finally they were in a
drought for all these years and then
Allah subhana says
rather it is that which you were trying
to hasten what were they trying to
hasten the punishment of Allah subhana
tala but nobody can hasten the punish of
Allah punishment of Allah nobody can
hasten it it has its time Allah yes you
will be destroyed but you still got some
time so they're saying bring the
punishment now and even Allah no even
the punishment can come until Allah subh
commands the punishment to come Allah
subhana T says in the Quran
[Applause]
[Music]
m for
Allah subhana wa taala sent this
wind and now initially they thought that
it was going to bring rain and they say
that there was a woman amongst the
people of
AD who felt something
different and she said this isn't a
raincloud the wind started picking up
and started to
scream and it became violent
and even though the people of AD were
enormous and large and built very well
fortified places if anybody just stood
up the wind would snatch
them now when you see a tornado a
tornado and we're not saying that this
is a tornado but when you see a tornado
how long does a tornado last and I was
and I experienced this when I was in
Maryland there was a tornado that
happened there very close to our home
may Allah protect us and it lasted you
could say for only a few
minutes and there was a you know like a
Home Depot you know those Linens and
things type of thing you you know it
destroyed it cut through the the whole
building it was like a home de you see
like a home de and they're the supposed
to be like they know how to build things
right it cut through the brick
wall and if you saw the trees there was
a forest near to our homes it was like a
bomb had exploded inside the forest it
was all
open and that only lasted a few minutes
only a few minutes Allah subhana T says
about this wind that was sent to the
people
of Allah subhana wa tala sent the wind
for seven
nights and 8 days
how quickly would they be killed
probably just in a few minutes they'd be
destroyed seven nights and 8
Days Allah destroyed
everything he wiped them from the
earth they were like a tree that had
been chopped down there was said that
they would be lifted up and they would
be smashed down on their heads and all
all their limbs would be out like Roots
like that they were all destroyed and
then Allah subhana wa tala
says is there any remnants of
them the people of Allah subhana wa tala
destroyed them when the prophet
sallallahu alaihi
wasallam when he would see a dark cloud
coming to
Medina many of you are familiar with the
Hadith of the prophet sallallah alaihi
wasallam that when he she said that when
he would
smile that his MERS the back teeth would
show sallallahu alaihi wasallam and this
was the majority of the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi when he would smile
when he's laughing he would smile and it
would be an enormous smile and she said
and there was another time where she
would see the change in the face of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and
that was when the dark clouds would come
to med he would see the dark clouds
sallallahu alaihi wasallam the dark
clouds bring with it rain and and so for
people who live in the desert this is a
time of
happiness and so the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam would be extremely
afraid and he would go back and forth
and she would see the fear on the face
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam and when it would start to rain
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
would calm down and so she asked the
prophet sallallahu alai wasam and he
said sallallah alaihi wasallam
he said sallallah
wasallam he saidu alaih wasallam that
perhaps oh that these rain clouds are
similar he said oh it may be as the
people of that when they saw the dark
clouds coming to them they said
these are clouds that are going to bring
us rainfall but rather it was the
punishment of Allah subhana wa tala so
now these days everybody's going green
right and that's a blessed thing if
you're not recycling you should start
recycling for the sake of Allah subhana
wa tala because as the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam said that if
a person even if they're making wo out
of the ocean they still don't waste
water that is the believer may Allah
protect us and all these showers that we
take and all the turning the Taps on and
leaky faucets and we act as if you know
it's an infinite source that will never
come to an end this is not the
believer picking up something from the
um from the earth it's from IM and it's
s that if you see some trash that you
pick it up and the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam a woman she used to
clean the Masid and the prophet and she
died and the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam said where is she and they said
she died last night and the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam said not to
do this if someone dies amongst you you
should come out the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam went to her grave and
prayed janaza for her she was already
buried he prayed janaza for her
sallallahu alaihi wasallam and he knew
her because she was the one who used to
clean the Masjid and so this is
understood this is the believer they're
going green but now there's another side
to the story and the story is what's
causing the weather to act like
this what's causing the weather
and so what will the immediate response
of those who don't believe in Allah
subhana T they will say global
warming okay great global warming okay
beyond
that do the sins of Benny Adam have
anything to do with this and what will
happen when you say the sins of Benny
Adam have something to do with this they
will mock you yes they will mock you
just the same way that n's people were
mocked and ham was mocked the mockery
will come if you dare claim that a
tsunami or an earthquake or anything had
to come from Allah subhana tala you will
be crucified on the news they will take
you and they'll say look at the Muslims
they are saying that this is a
punishment from God we all know it's
Mother
Nature they said to H they said bring us
you haven't brought us any proof he said
that all these Idols you made them
yourselves you're the
like is there any doubt in Allah subhana
T everything that you're bringing you
just made it up and you know it if you
tell any person and you just say do you
truly believe in Mother Nature just
honestly you've been talking about a lot
do you really believe in Mother Nature
you believe in nature what is nature
they're just trying to name Allah
subhana tala by other than his name
subhanahu waala this is all that they're
trying to do to make it acceptable to
speak about
such terrible weather and actually it's
interesting I don't know if I've kept
you for a very long time this is a this
is not just your general lecture so
stick with it
inshallah killer storms this is straight
out of the meteorologist all these type
of people this is the scientific
definition of it how does a killer storm
start how does a killer storm
start this is the words of this is
non-muslim and I'm quoting him directly
he said when there is an imbalance on
the earth this will cause the killer
storm to
begin and when balance is
restored the killer storm will
stop and I said do you know what the
Arabic words are R for imbalance and
balance the Arabic word for imbalance
is
it's and do you know what the Arabic
word for balance
is this person knows nothing and he's
not speaking about the Quran or
something like that the storms come when
there is imbalance on the earth and they
stop
when the justice is
restored in conclusion insh a Dua of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam in
which he said sallallahu alaihi wasallam
whenever the rainclouds whenever you see
these rain clouds coming you should say
as the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam said
the Prophet sallu wasallam this is in
Muslim narrated
by she said that the prophet sallai
wasallam whenever the rain clouds would
come these black clouds the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam would say oh
Allah I ask you the the goodness of
these CL clouds and the goodness that is
in in it and the goodness that it was
sent
for and I seek your protection oh Allah
from it's the evil of these clouds
and the evil that's in it and the evil
that it may have been sent for this is
the Dua of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasall it's in sah Muslim you can look
it up inshallah
tal Allah subhana wa tala this is the
last Point Allah says
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Allah subhana T
says this was a
nation where is right now they have gone
to what they have
attained and you will go and you will
Journey on to what you are accumulating
now you are planting seeds here today
you have planted a seed coming to this
lecture and spending the time may Allah
T bless you for that you're planting
seeds tomorrow you will be planting more
seeds and you will Journey to the fruits
of these seeds and what comes from them
and Allah will never ask you on the day
of Resurrection about the people of
Allah subhana T will ask you about
yourself and so you turn to Allah Asel
in thankfulness and humility the people
of were not thankful to Allah subh
and so let you be thankful to Allah the
people of were arrogant to Allah so
Allah disgraced them let you and myself
all of us be humble for the sake of
Allah subhah wa ta'ala they had so many
luxuries yet they didn't spend from that
they didn't act the time the we all of
that they didn't use it for the sake of
Allah subhana wa ta'ala and so if it's
not going to be them then let it be you
Allah subhana wa T I just want to say
one more thing is that
okay Allah subhah wa tala is speaking
about
himself and he
said and then the verses
continue and then Allah subhana tala
says
and it is Allah subhah wa ta'ala who
destroyed the first that is Allah
subhana wa tala so that you understand
how big and enormous and Powerful they
are and you will get a little glimpse of
how powerful Allah subhah wa tala is