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How We Lose Our Iman - Khutbah by Nouman Ali Khan
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00:00وَبِالشَّحْلِ صَدْرِ وَيَسِّرْ لِي أَمْرِي وَحْلُلْ عُقْتَةً مِّنْ لِسَانِ يَفْقَهُ قَوْلِ وَاللَّهُمَا ثَبِّتْنَا عِنْدَ الْمَوْتِ بِلَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَاللَّهُمَّ اجْعَلْنَا مِنَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالْحَقِّ وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالصَّبْرِ آمِن
00:30In the middle of Surah Al-Hadeed, Allah paints a scene of Judgment Day.
00:34Judgment Day is something that Allah talks about in many places in the Qur'an,
00:37and usually when He talks about it, He talks about people that are heading towards Jannah, the believers,
00:42and people that are heading towards the Hellfire, the disbelievers.
00:45But this passage in particular is unique because Allah, instead of comparing believers to disbelievers,
00:50He compares believers to hypocrites.
00:52Allahumma la taj'alna minhum, may Allah not make us from them.
00:55But Allah, instead of comparing those who have faith,
00:58to those who have no faith, is actually comparing people who have faith,
01:01as opposed to people who thought they have faith, or pretended to have faith,
01:04or their faith was there but is of no value to Allah on the Day of Judgment.
01:08This is the munafiq, may Allah not make us from them.
01:11But this is why this passage is of particular importance,
01:14because it tells us many things about how not to end up in that scene on Judgment Day.
01:20To summarize what's going on in this passage, Allah Azzawajal says that on the Day of Judgment,
01:24the believers, when they stand, the Prophet shallallahu alaihi wa sallam will be able to see them,
01:29yawma tara, meaning, ishara ila ar-rasool sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
01:32the messenger can see the entire ummah,
01:34al-mu'mineena wal-mu'minaat, believing men and women,
01:37yas'a nooruhum bayna aydihim wa bi-aymanihim.
01:40Their light is going to be coming out from right in front of them, and from their right.
01:44What that means is, we have light coming from our hearts, from our chests,
01:48and we have lights coming out of our hands.
01:50Why is that important? Because your iman and my iman, if it's sincere,
01:54if my faith is sincere to Allah, and my belief was strong,
01:57it actually turns into light on Judgment Day.
02:00And that faith made me act in a certain way.
02:03Those actions that I took turn into light on Judgment Day, the actions of my hand.
02:07So you have two torches on Judgment Day.
02:10The Day of Judgment is dark, it's this long walk to Jannah.
02:13And you're gonna need light to get there.
02:15Some people are going to have exhaustive light.
02:17Their light is so stretched that the Prophet ﷺ would describe,
02:20that it could go from one city to another.
02:23It's that big of a light.
02:24Other people have such weak light, they still have it, but it's so weak,
02:27they can barely see the next step that they're taking.
02:30So there are people with different capacities of light,
02:33and they are now making their way, and Allah has congratulated them,
02:36because they at least have light, as opposed to people who have no light,
02:39they don't have any chance of getting to Jannah.
02:41They can't see a path.
02:43And so Allah says,
02:44بُشْرَاكُمُ الْيَوْمُ جَنَّاتٌ تَجْلِيبٍ تَحْتِهِ الْأَنْهَارِ
02:47خَالِدِينَ فِيهَا
02:48Congratulations to all of you of gardens,
02:50at the bottoms of which rivers are flowing, it's right ahead of you,
02:53keep walking, keep going, keep going.
02:55But then in the next ayah, Allah describes a group of people
02:58that also get up on Judgment Day,
03:00and they notice they have no light, and they're in the middle of the dark.
03:04And they see far ahead, and they see, you know,
03:06you can imagine the scene, there's complete pitch black darkness,
03:09and there's a group of people that seem to have some torches with them.
03:13You don't even see them, you just see some lights flickering.
03:16So you realize, I better catch up with them,
03:19because those lights are getting dimmer.
03:21So these hypocrites wake up in this dark scene on Judgment Day,
03:25and they try to run and catch up to the believers,
03:28because they have no light of their own.
03:30They wake up and they're in shock that they have nothing that can aid them.
03:33فَيَوْمَ يَقُولُ الْمُنَافِقُونَ وَالْمُنَافِقَاتَ لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا نظُرُونَ نَقْطَبَسْ مِنْ نُورِكُمْ
03:39The day on which hypocritical men and women are going to say to those who believe,
03:43wait for us, hold on, look back towards us,
03:46we could get some of your light,
03:48نَقْطَبَسْ مِنْ نُورِكُمْ
03:49اقتباس literally means, you know,
03:51in old days you have these torches with fires on top,
03:53and you can take your wood,
03:55and you can kind of light up your own torch.
03:57So they figure, we can go borrow some of your light,
03:59it won't take anything away from yours.
04:01Hold on a second, help us out here.
04:03And then a voice is heard,
04:05قِيلَ اِرْجِعُوا وَرَاءَكُمْ
04:07Go back behind yourselves, go turn back.
04:09فَلْتَمِسُوا نُورًا
04:11Find some light.
04:12We're not gonna help.
04:14A day of judgment,
04:15the day of judgment is the day on which a mother doesn't care about her child.
04:18The day on which, you know, father and son, and brother and sister,
04:23all these relationships,
04:24تَقَطَّعَتْ بِهِمُ الْأَسْبَابِ
04:26All relationships are cut.
04:28So who's gonna care about who?
04:30I just need to get to my jannah, mind your own business.
04:32I'm not even turning back.
04:34Go back and find some light yourself.
04:36And the idea of going back actually is sarcasm also.
04:39Go back to this world.
04:41Because on judgment day,
04:42if you don't come on judgment day with light,
04:44you can't get any.
04:45The only way to gain that light was in this world.
04:48فَلْتَمِسُوا نُورًا
04:50So now they still try to catch up,
04:52because they don't wanna hear it, right?
04:53So they're still trying to catch up.
04:54And as they get closer and closer to the believers,
04:57فَضُرِبَ بَيْنَهُمْ بِسُورٍ لَهُ بَابٍ
04:59A massive gigantic wall is dropped between them,
05:04which happens to have a door.
05:06And the door, inshaAllah,
05:07maybe some other time we'll talk about.
05:08But Allah says a massive giant wall
05:11is dropped between these two groups.
05:13So even if they were gonna try to catch up,
05:15now they can't.
05:16As the wall is dropped,
05:18Allah says,
05:19بَاطِنُهُ فِيهِ الرَّحْمَةِ
05:21The side they can no longer see.
05:23The hidden side of it.
05:24That's got mercy and love and care in it.
05:26وَظَاهِرُهُ مِنْ قِبَلِهِ الْعَذَابِ
05:29And right behind it,
05:31right approaching them is punishment.
05:34So not only were they in the dark,
05:36now there's a massive wall,
05:37you got nowhere to go.
05:38And when you look back,
05:39there's punishment coming at you.
05:40They're about to be crushed.
05:42So these hypocrites,
05:44may Allah not make us from them,
05:45become desperate.
05:46So they call out.
05:48And they say,
05:49أَلَمْنَكُمْ مَعَكُمْ
05:51Didn't we used to be with you?
05:53Weren't we with you?
05:54So they're asking for the people of the other side.
05:57Apparently the door can be opened from the other side.
06:00Open up guys, come on.
06:02We used to be with you.
06:03And so a desperate call is made.
06:06This is important before we go any further.
06:08This is actually the reason I chose
06:11these ayat for today's khutbah.
06:12This wording,
06:13أَلَمْنَكُمْ مَعَكُمْ
06:15Weren't we with you?
06:16The idea is that these people on judgment day
06:19that are standing on the wrong side of the wall,
06:21that are in desperate situation,
06:23that have no light of themselves,
06:25actually assumed that they belonged
06:28among the believing community.
06:29They were very confident about that.
06:31So much so that they're citing it even on judgment day.
06:33We used to be among you.
06:35We prayed with you.
06:36We did business with you.
06:37We were friends with you.
06:38We were family with you.
06:39We were cousins with you.
06:40We went to the same college, university.
06:42We're all the same guys.
06:44How are we separated today?
06:46Why is this separation happening today?
06:48And from the other side,
06:50this time now that they feel safe.
06:52You know once the wall is dropped,
06:53not only do these people get overly terrified,
06:56the people on the other side feel far more secure.
06:58So they're not in a rush anymore.
07:00Because now it's totally safe.
07:02So now they take their time
07:04and actually answer them
07:06and say,
07:07well, here's why you're not with us today.
07:10Here's why you're not with us today.
07:12You know the first thing the people of heaven told them
07:15was you have to go get some of your own light.
07:18فَلْتَمِسُوا نُورًا
07:19Find some light on your own.
07:20Go back and get it.
07:21Apparently you don't have any light.
07:23And then they're in shock.
07:25We used to be with you.
07:26We should have had light just like you have light.
07:28So now the people of jannah are going to describe
07:32how these people who used to have light,
07:35they used to have light,
07:36they used to have faith.
07:37How did they lose it?
07:39How did they end up bankrupt on judgment day?
07:41And this ayah is particularly profound
07:44because then it will give us an insight
07:46into how does someone lose their iman.
07:49How does someone end up
07:50taking the most priceless treasure
07:53that they can have in this life,
07:54our faith,
07:55and end up squandering it and losing it.
07:58It doesn't happen overnight.
08:00You don't just lose your iman.
08:02It's a process.
08:04And that process has been described
08:05in these timeless words.
08:07بَلَا
08:08Of course you used to be with us.
08:09وَلَكِنَّكُمْ فَتَنْتُمْ أَنفُسَكُمْ
08:12However you put yourselves,
08:15I'll do a rough translation first and I'll explain.
08:17Number one,
08:18you put yourselves in fitna,
08:20you put yourselves in trial.
08:22فَتَنَا
08:24in Arabic actually means
08:25to put something to the test.
08:27فَتَنَا is also used
08:28when you test the purity of gold
08:31and you melt it
08:32and impurities come out.
08:34Like gold doesn't go through an easy test,
08:36it goes through a painful burning test.
08:38The idea of فَتَنْتُمْ أَنفُسَكُمْ
08:41there are many lessons associated with it.
08:43For the purposes of this khutbah,
08:44I'll highlight one of them.
08:46You kept putting yourselves in situations
08:49where your faith gets tested.
08:51Try to understand what that means.
08:53You kept putting yourself in environments
08:55where you knew it was bad for you,
08:57but you said, no, I can handle it,
08:58I got this, I got this.
09:00You kept surrounding yourselves with friends
09:02that would do bad things,
09:03say bad things,
09:04see bad things,
09:06go to bad places,
09:07but you said, I'm not like them,
09:08I'm just trying to help them.
09:10And you kept going back
09:11into those environments.
09:13You kept getting into gatherings,
09:15and places, and situations.
09:17You kept putting yourselves in those places,
09:19assuming that it will not have any effect on you.
09:22It'll affect everyone else,
09:24but it won't affect you.
09:26You know, the first step
09:27wasn't that these people just became disbelievers,
09:29it was actually bad company.
09:31They put themselves in questionable circumstances.
09:34And they assume that it's not going to have an effect.
09:37You know, when you are...
09:39I'll give you a silly example,
09:40but it'll get the point across.
09:42If people do a lot of cooking at home,
09:44especially if you are a desi household,
09:45you do a lot of cooking at home,
09:47the home smells like a lot of masala.
09:50But if you live there, you don't smell it.
09:52When somebody else walks in,
09:54especially if an Arab walks into your house,
09:56they feel like they are in some contaminated zone,
09:58it hits them really hard.
09:59But a couple of hours later,
10:00they are like,
10:01it's just oxygen now.
10:03You understand?
10:04When you first put yourself in a bad environment,
10:07you might feel it.
10:08You might feel, this isn't good,
10:10this is going to mess me up.
10:12I don't think I should be here.
10:13Your heart will feel uncomfortable.
10:15But if you keep putting yourself in that situation
10:18over and over and over and over again,
10:20guess what?
10:21It doesn't bother you anymore.
10:23Somebody who smells,
10:25stands next to a smoker for the first time,
10:27is coughing,
10:28and their eyes are burning.
10:29But if they start smoking themselves a year later,
10:31that just becomes their oxygen,
10:32they can't even breathe normally without smoking.
10:35It changes them all together.
10:37The first problem was,
10:38you put yourselves,
10:39you surrounded yourselves in a bad environment.
10:42فَتَنْتُمْ أَنفُسَكُمْ
10:44What was the second problem?
10:46The second problem was,
10:47وَتَرَبَّصْتُمْ
10:49You kept procrastinating.
10:51Now what does that mean?
10:52That means you realized it's bad,
10:54and you also realized in your own conscience,
10:56I should change,
10:57but you told yourself,
10:59I'll change pretty soon inshaAllah.
11:01I'm gonna change, I know I have to change,
11:02I know this is bad,
11:03just one more week,
11:04and I'm gonna be a different person.
11:06Man, just this semester,
11:08I got these messed up friends right now,
11:10and I can't really make them upset,
11:11so I'm gonna keep hanging out with them.
11:13But next semester,
11:14I'm totally doing a different schedule,
11:15I'm not gonna be around these guys anymore.
11:17But just let me just write out this semester.
11:20Just this one more month I'm doing this,
11:22you know,
11:23just this one more weekend,
11:24just this one or two more party,
11:26just one or two more drinks,
11:28that you keep telling yourself,
11:29just little bit more, little bit more, little bit more,
11:31and then people tell my favorite one,
11:33Ramadan is right around the corner,
11:35it's just 10 more months, 11 more months, you know.
11:39Once Ramadan come,
11:40man, I'll be totally different.
11:42I plan to go to hajj,
11:43once I go to hajj,
11:44oh, you watch, I'm gonna be a different person.
11:46But until then, you know, just kinda,
11:48just make dua for me.
11:50Tarabbastum.
11:51You didn't wanna make a change today, right now.
11:53You figured, you assumed,
11:55not only are you putting yourselves in a bad environment,
11:58you're not ready to make a transformation right now.
12:01It's too much for you to be asked.
12:03You'd rather just stick it out.
12:04You'd rather just enjoy a little bit more.
12:06This is what tarabbastum.
12:08But you know what?
12:09And you assumed, by the way,
12:11this also has an assumption.
12:12The first assumption was, it doesn't affect you.
12:15It doesn't have an impact on you, but it does.
12:17Something really bad becomes normal to you over time,
12:19you get desensitized.
12:20What is the effect of tarabbus,
12:22of holding off, and holding off, and holding off?
12:24Actually, you assume that you can put the brakes on at any time.
12:28And you can walk away from all of it,
12:30whenever you want.
12:31I'm not addicted.
12:33I don't need this.
12:34I'm not hooked on it.
12:35I can just walk away whenever I feel like.
12:37The truth of it is, that's not the case.
12:39The longer you stay, the more addicted you become.
12:42And the more impossible you feel,
12:44it's impossible for you to get out of it.
12:46You're completely immersed.
12:48You're completely drowned.
12:49And you don't even know anymore
12:51what it is to be outside of this environment.
12:53And then you start telling yourself,
12:54it's too late for me.
12:56And when that happens, a guilt sets in.
12:59The guilt sets in that I'm pretty messed up.
13:02Man, I've been doing sins.
13:04I've been in this bad environment.
13:06I should have made tawbah a long time ago,
13:08but it's too late for me.
13:09And that bad, nobody likes to feel bad.
13:12Nobody likes to feel guilty.
13:14And then shaitan comes and says,
13:15why do you feel guilty?
13:17You don't have to feel guilty.
13:19The only thing that's making you feel guilty
13:21is this Islam thing.
13:23Islam says, this is haram, and that's haram,
13:25and that's a sin, and that's a sin,
13:27and you can't do this, and you can't say that,
13:29and you can't go there.
13:30Islam keeps making you feel bad, man.
13:32I want you to feel good.
13:34How true is Islam anyway?
13:36And now the thoughts start running
13:38in this person's mind, a man or a woman.
13:41Why am I even following Islam?
13:44It seems like it just wants me not to be happy.
13:46I just want to live my life, man.
13:48I just want to be free.
13:49I just want to be able to do what I want.
13:51I just want to be able to hang out with my friends.
13:53I'm not so sure about the Quran anyway.
13:55How do we even know there is a God?
13:57How do we even know?
13:58What's this hadith business?
13:59How do we even know it's authentic?
14:01And so you have this young man or woman,
14:03this Zainab, this Ali, this Fatima, this Abdullah,
14:06this Karim, these beautiful names,
14:08and now they're starting to ask questions about,
14:10I'm not so sure about this Islam.
14:12I don't know.
14:14I have doubts. I have serious doubts.
14:15And these are not PhDs in philosophy.
14:17Nor do they have exhaustive education in Islamic history
14:20where they studied it and they started developing doubts.
14:22No, no, no.
14:23They were in a bad environment.
14:24They didn't change themselves.
14:25That is the process.
14:26I've talked to hundreds of these people
14:28that literally live this ayah.
14:30They live this ayah.
14:31And then they get to a point where they have doubts.
14:33But their doubts have nothing to do with logic or reason.
14:36As a matter of fact,
14:37when you answer one doubt,
14:38they go to the next doubt.
14:39When you answer that one,
14:40they go to the next one.
14:41When you answer that one,
14:42you go to the next one.
14:43Then you say, hold on a second.
14:44So how long ago did you start ending up
14:46in questionable kinds of company?
14:48And then the truth starts coming out.
14:50وَارْتَقْتُمْ
14:52The very next words are,
14:53you fell into doubt.
14:54You started doubting.
14:56You know what doubt will do?
14:58It'll let you off the hook.
15:00You'll be able to say to yourself,
15:01well, it's not really absolutely the truth anyway.
15:05So I shouldn't feel bad that I don't follow it.
15:08I shouldn't feel bad.
15:10And now once those doubts settle in,
15:13and you hide behind those doubts,
15:15and continue to justify your life of procrastination
15:18and putting yourself in fitna.
15:19Once you get to that point,
15:21then two things are taken away from you.
15:25The desire for jannah is taken away.
15:27The desire for making Allah happy is taken away.
15:30The desire to have that light
15:32that will make you run and get to that destination.
15:34You don't even have that in this world.
15:36The person who desires to seek that success with Allah,
15:40Allah will give them that in this world.
15:42But that desire is gone now.
15:43You have doubts about it.
15:45And the fear of hell is gone.
15:47Those two things are gone.
15:49Your fears are gone,
15:50and your hopes and aspirations in Allah
15:53and the akhira are gone.
15:54The afterlife is nothing to you.
15:56The afterlife means nothing.
15:58If somebody even brings up heaven and hell,
15:59it's a joke to you.
16:01Well, if you take away heaven and hell,
16:03if you take away the motivation
16:05to end up in the reward of Allah,
16:07or get away from the punishment of Allah on Judgment Day,
16:10well, the only motivation you're going to have left
16:13are things that are left in this world, isn't it?
16:15You have nothing left in the next life.
16:17So the only thing to look forward to
16:19are stuff that's left in this life.
16:21And this life will be money,
16:23it'll be fame, it'll be leisure,
16:25it'll be pleasure,
16:27it'll be material things.
16:29That's all you ever think about,
16:31that's all you ever care about,
16:32that's all you ever want to know about,
16:34that's the only thing that ever interests you,
16:36that's the only thing you make efforts towards,
16:38because you think all of these things
16:40are going to bring you happiness.
16:41They'll bring you contentment.
16:43So the next words are,
16:44وَغَرَّتْكُمُ الْأَمَانِيُّ
16:46False hopes deceived you.
16:49You had false hopes,
16:51that some kind of worldly thing
16:53will bring you happiness,
16:54and you ran after it.
16:55You gave all of your life to it.
16:57And you would think that this will bring you
16:59what you're looking for,
17:00and you get to it.
17:01Like people wanting to see,
17:03people nowadays obsessed
17:05with the next movie that comes out,
17:07the next toy,
17:08the next device that comes out.
17:10Lines for the new Star Wars
17:12longer than passports for Hajj.
17:14Why? Because you need to go see it.
17:17If you don't see it,
17:18how does your life have any purpose?
17:20Your life means nothing
17:22if you didn't see it opening night.
17:24And so you have to see it.
17:26And by the way,
17:27hoping that this will bring you
17:28some kind of fulfillment
17:29that you haven't found anywhere else.
17:31And people walk out and say,
17:32that was pretty awesome,
17:33and then they're bored again.
17:34Like, what do I do now?
17:36Maybe I could go see it again.
17:38And they go see it again,
17:39and they're like, well,
17:40not as exciting the first time,
17:41but still pretty cool.
17:43You keep looking for something more
17:45to fulfill you and fulfill you.
17:47Something that will completely fulfill you,
17:48the pleasure of Allah,
17:50is no longer there.
17:51That desire is no longer there.
17:53وَغَرَّتْكُمُ الْأَمَانِيُّ حَتَّى جَاءَ أَمْرُ اللَّهِ
17:56Until the decision of Allah came.
17:58This was your life.
17:59This, according to the believers,
18:01is a summary of a person's life
18:03that lost their faith.
18:05They started just with putting themselves
18:07in a questionable environment,
18:08and from there,
18:09it's a downward spiral automatically.
18:11The next thing is,
18:12you start getting hooked on it,
18:13you put off.
18:14And then later on,
18:15you start developing doubts.
18:16And from there,
18:17the only thing you ever work towards
18:18is worldly, lustful, material gain,
18:21material desires.
18:22وَغَرَّكُمْ بِاللَّهِ الْغَرُورُ
18:25And then Allah says,
18:26the ultimate deceiver,
18:28غرور is مبالغة.
18:30The incredible deceiver
18:31was successful in deceiving you.
18:33This is what the believers say
18:34to the munafiqun on the other side of the wall.
18:37This is an incredible scene, folks.
18:39They're standing by this wall in shock,
18:41why aren't we on the other side?
18:43And now they're being reminded
18:45by their fellow believers on the other side,
18:48well, remember that you did this,
18:50this, this, and this.
18:52And this is a gift of Allah to you and to me.
18:55It's a gift of Allah that this hideous scene
18:59has been painted on judgment day.
19:02Because I would rather know now than then.
19:05I'd rather not stand there
19:07and then find out shocked,
19:09why am I on the wrong side of this wall?
19:11Why am I not on the other side?
19:12How come I don't have any light?
19:14How come I lost this thing that Allah had given me?
19:16Every one of you sitting here,
19:18every believer has light inside their heart.
19:20Allah has granted it to us.
19:22The problem is whether or not
19:24you and I wanna hold on to it or not.
19:26So you and I have to identify where we are.
19:28Maybe we're the people
19:29that just started putting ourselves
19:30in a fitna situation.
19:32Maybe we just started getting ourselves
19:35caught up in the wrong thing.
19:37Or maybe we've been caught up for a while
19:39and we've been putting off, letting it go.
19:41Maybe that's happened.
19:42Maybe we've even gone further down the road
19:44and now we've started developing doubts.
19:46Maybe that's how far we've gone.
19:48Maybe we've gone way down the road.
19:51غَرَّتْكُمُ الْأَمَانِيُ حَتَّى جَاءَ أَمْرُ اللَّهِ
19:53Now all we live for is,
19:55you know, toys and pleasures.
19:57That's all we live for now, is entertainment.
19:59That's what we've become.
20:01And so at the end of it all,
20:03nothing you earn, nothing I earn
20:05is worth anything on judgment day
20:07except that light.
20:08This is why when this passage began,
20:10Allah عز و جل described it with light.
20:13And that light is the only thing
20:15that matters on judgment day.
20:16إِلَّا مَنْ أَتَى رَبَّهُ بِقَلْبٍ سَلِيمٍ
20:20The one who comes before Allah with a sound heart,
20:22the heart that can beam light in front of them.
20:24Anything else that you and I have,
20:27that we have now, is worthless.
20:30It's completely worthless before Allah on judgment day.
20:33You can enjoy it for now,
20:35but if you get caught up in it
20:36and it takes up the space in your heart,
20:38then you have no room left for light in your heart.
20:41You just don't have room left.
20:43Which is why the last ayah of this passage is,
20:46فَالْيَوْمَ لَا يُؤْخَذُ مِنكُمْ فِدْيَةٌ
20:48وَلَا مِنَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا
20:50مَأْوَاكُمُ النَّارُ هِيَ مَوْلَكُمْ وَبِئْسَ النَّصِيرِ
20:53And today, there's not going to be any compensation,
20:57any ransom acceptable from you.
20:59Don't try to pawn it for anything else.
21:01There's no access into those doors.
21:03There's no getting through this door
21:05with any kind of penalty or payment.
21:07You can't get through.
21:08Not from you and not from those who disbelieved.
21:11The scary part of this ayah is,
21:13لا يُؤْخَذُ مِنكُمْ فِدْيَةٌ
21:15وَلَا مِنَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا
21:17You are now in the same position as those who disbelieved.
21:20You ended up being in the same position as those who disbelieved.
21:23I'm not going to take any ransom from you,
21:26and I'm not going to take any ransom from them.
21:28All of you, your place is fire.
21:30وَبِئْسَ النَّصِيرِ
21:31What a terrible place to be that is.
21:33And so at the end of it all,
21:35after painting this scene, Allah concludes.
21:37And I'll conclude with this ayah as well.
21:40How is it that we can continue to preserve our light?
21:44And continue to remind ourselves
21:46not to put ourselves in that downward spiral?
21:48And whatever little light we have,
21:50how can we make it stronger and stronger and stronger?
21:52Allah عز و جل Himself says,
21:54أَلَمْ يَأْنِ لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا
21:56أَن تَخْشَعَ قُلُوبُهُمْ لِذِكْرِ اللَّهِ
21:59Isn't it yet time
22:01that believers' hearts
22:03should become, their hearts
22:05should become filled with awe
22:07with the remembrance of Allah.
22:09Truly remembering Allah
22:11will bring awe into the hearts.
22:13And the more your hearts remember Allah,
22:15because Allah Himself is
22:17نُورُ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ
22:19Allah is the light of the skies and the earth.
22:21The more Allah is in your heart,
22:23the more light is inside your heart.
22:24You understand?
22:25So He says, remember Allah.
22:27And then He says, how do you remember Allah?
22:29This is called عَطَف بَيَان in Arabic.
22:31وَمَا نَزَلَ مِنَ الْحَقِّ
22:32And they should be filled with awe
22:34because of what came down from the truth.
22:36Because of the revelation.
22:38Because of the Qur'an.
22:39Ponder over the Qur'an.
22:40Remember Allah through the Qur'an.
22:42Weep when you recite the ayat of Qur'an.
22:44Think about what they mean to you,
22:46the gift that Allah has given you.
22:48Because not only is Allah the light of the skies and the earth,
22:50the Qur'an itself is also
22:52described as light in the Qur'an.
22:54فَآمِنُوا بِاللَّهِ وَالرَّسُولِهِ وَالنُّورِ
22:56وَالنُّورِ الَّذِي أَنزَلْنَا
22:58Believe in Allah
23:00Believe in Allah and His Messenger
23:02and the light that we sent down.
23:04Qur'an itself is called light.
23:06Qur'an itself is called light.
23:08And so the amount of time you spend with the book of Allah,
23:13for your own personal benefit.
23:15For your own personal benefit.
23:17When you sit and recite it and ponder over it,
23:20and you think about what Allah your Master is saying to you,
23:23that is going to fill your heart with light.
23:25And there is no more,
23:27you know, greater a treasure
23:29in your life than that light.
23:31And you won't realize the price of it,
23:33I won't realize the price of it,
23:34until we stand on that day when everything around us is dark,
23:37and the only light is the light coming out of my chest,
23:40and the only light coming out of my hands.
23:42That's when we'll realize.
23:43وَلَا يَكُونُ كَالَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ مِنْ قَبْلٍ
23:46فَطَالَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْأَمَدُ
23:48فَقَصَتْ قُلُوبُهُمْ وَكَثِيرٌ مِّنْهُمْ فَاسِقُونَ
23:51They shouldn't become like people
23:53who came a long time before them,
23:55who were given the book a long time before them,
23:57and a long period passed,
23:59and their hearts became hard.
24:01They had the book, but they didn't value it.
24:04It's possible Allah says that a nation will have a book,
24:07they will have the book of Allah.
24:08There were nations before us who had a book too.
24:10They had Torah, they had Injil,
24:12they had Suhuf Ibrahim and Musa, they had.
24:15But they didn't benefit from them.
24:17لَمْ يَنْتَفِعُوا مِنْهَا
24:19They didn't benefit from those books.
24:21They didn't use those books to fill their hearts with light.
24:24Maybe they used those books for the wrong reasons.
24:27Maybe they reduced those books to just ceremonial occasions.
24:30They just enjoyed reciting it sometime every once in a while.
24:33You know, that's all it became to them.
24:35Or maybe at some wedding gathering they can play some Qur'an,
24:38and that's how Qur'an became.
24:39But Qur'an was not there to soften their hearts anymore.
24:42And this is the tragedy of history.
24:44People did not benefit from the word of Allah
24:47that came to soften hearts,
24:48preparing humanity for standing before Allah on Judgment Day.
24:51That's our responsibility now.
24:53That's on you and that's on me.
24:55This is why,
24:56وَلَا يَكُونُ كَالَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ مِنْ قَبْلٍ
24:58فَطَالَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْأَمَدُ
25:00فَقَسَتْ قُلُوبُهُمْ
25:01So their hearts became hard.
25:03Their hearts became hard.
25:05When the heart becomes hard, there's no light inside left.
25:08It's not gonna give you anything on Judgment Day.
25:10وَكَثِيرٌ مِّنْهُمْ فَاسِقُونَ
25:12Most of them are corrupt.
25:13Many of them are corrupt.
25:15Allah عز و جل is now in these few ayat
25:18painting one of the most important realities,
25:21depicting one of the most important realities
25:23in the life of a believer.
25:24The iman you and I have
25:26is not something we can hold on to.
25:28This light that we have been given
25:30is not something that's guaranteed.
25:32It's not.
25:33Just because you have it now,
25:34and you feel secure.
25:36If somebody says salam to you,
25:37means they're Muslim.
25:38You say,
25:39وَعَلَيْكُمُ السَّلَامُ وَرَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَبَرَكَاتُ
25:41They're both Muslims,
25:42they're believers to each other.
25:43We assume that we all have the light of faith
25:45inside our hearts.
25:46But according to these ayat,
25:47some people will stand up on Judgment Day and be shocked.
25:50I thought I was with you.
25:51And you're not.
25:53So we better realize that it's not automatic.
25:55It's not guaranteed.
25:56It's something you personally
25:58will have to make efforts for.
26:00I personally will have to make efforts for.
26:02And your iman will not help me,
26:04and my iman will not help you on Judgment Day.
26:07We're all gonna be caring about ourselves.
26:09Our own light.
26:10اِرْجِعُوا وَرَاءَكُمْ فَلْتَمِسُوا نُورًا
26:12Go back, find your own light.
26:14Right now we can cooperate with each other.
26:17Right now we can strengthen each other's iman.
26:19But on that day, there's not gonna be any help.
26:21May Allah عز و جل make us of those
26:23who preserve the light in our hearts.
26:25May Allah عز و جل make us of those
26:26who are not on the wrong side of that wall,
26:28protect us and our families and our loved ones from nifaq.
26:31May Allah keep our hearts from becoming hard.
26:33And may Allah عز و جل make us of those
26:35who continually internalize the word of Allah,
26:38allowing our hearts to soften and to be filled with light.
26:41بَارَكَ اللَّهُ لِي وَلَكُمْ فِي الْقُرْآنِ الْحَكِيمِ
26:43وَنَفَعَنِي وَإِيَّاكُمْ بِالْآيَاتِ وَالذِّكْرِ الْحَكِيمِ
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