Biss Miler rahmani Rahi in the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the
most merciful. Heard a lot below heard Part Excellence presents lessens from the stories
of the prophets by Mufti Ismail even Mussa menk adam ah Salam on Earth.
Part two Adam Peace be upon him on Earth. Part two about a cat
Smilah Rahman Rahim a hand Alamin was Salah to Salam muhala Mabrahmed lila Alamin be
in a Muhammad ua alah ali he was haby here jamahina abad. All praise
is due to a lass Subhana hua ta Alah. Blessings and salutations upon Muhammad
salaalahu ala he was seldom We ask alas subhanahua ta Alah to bless him and
all his companions, to bless every single one of us. To bless our
offspring those to come up to the day of Kayama. May alas subanah huata
Alah, keep them all steadfast on this dean, and may alas subanah huat
Alah, keep us as well steadfast on the Dean. This evening, as
we were reading these Salah, the tarawih a thought came to my mind,
and that is a haditha of the prophets Allallahu Allah. He was seldom narrated
by aha Aha. She says that she used to watch the prophets a Lallah
Ali. He was Seldam reads Salah at night so often most of the night,
almost all of the night, to the degree that his feet became swollen.
And she asked him a question. She says, Oh, messenger of
Allah, so la lah alih, he was alone. Allah has kept you
free from sin, and Allah has forgiven you, in fact, anything to
come in anything that was there is nothing. You have such a high rank.
You are so high, you know your rank. So why is it
that you are spending so much time in Salah that your feet are actually swollen?
And he answered so beautifully. And I think we should all be thinking
of it, because none of our feet are swollen right now. Yet we
find it so difficult to stand for one hour. Sometimes make it easy for
us. And ma alasu hannah awat Alah, grant us a lesson from the
answer of this most beloved creature of alasubnah awat Alah. He says, alf
Ala Akuna abden Shakura should I not be a slave who is grateful, who
is thankful to his creator for the status that he was granted subhanah lah.
So with him he had the status, he knew it. He had this
link with a las subanah hamatalah, and he wanted to please Allah even more.
So that's what made him happy. It made him happy when he could
stand and his legs were swollen because of standing for his own creator. I
want to ask a question, and a serious question. What makes us happy.
Let's be frank, Let's be honest. If you struck a good deal
and today business was brisk, we become happy. If we're feeling healthy and
our sickness is gone, we become happy. If we've just purchased clothing that
fits us nicely and it looks good, we become excited. This is what
makes us happy. If, for example, we've purchased a new vehicle and
it's sitting there in the front, be happy, mash allah. If for
example, we've won a ticket to Hawaii or Honolulu for holiday, we're excited,
were happy. Let's be honest, this is what makes us happy.
If our salaries have increased and our hours have decreased, we become happy.
Yes, Now, let's take a look at the lesson that we have from
this blessed Hadith of the prophets or allaho addeh he was seldom. Yes,
it is natural to be happy at what I've just mentioned, but that happiness
is momentary. It is just for a moment. It is not supposed to
be prolonged happiness. The true excitement must be when your legs start painting and
you standing and you say, yea Allah, this is for you, loh
akhabar, yeah Allah. If it was not for you, I would not
even have dressed appropriately akabar. So when you are dressed appropriately, covering properly
and people are laughing at you and calling you names, you need to say
ya Allah. This is what makes me so happy, because I know you
writing next to my name rewards that will grant me entry into Jenna and alas
is in ladina a joramo can a lavina a man your bako. The criminals
used to laugh at the believers in this world. The criminals used to laugh
at the believers. If you are dressed as a Muslim woman, one of
the ways of telling that you are dressed properly is sometime in your life someone
will pass a negative comment, or someone will laugh at you, or someone
will say something discouraging. Then you know you've dressed properly subhana lah, because
that's a lot of Subhanahuatlah's plan. And I'm talking here of when you are
living in a non Muslim country, and sometimes even from amongst our own family
members, they discourage us. Know you're too young to cover your hair.
Don't cover it now, wait until you grow. How are you gonna get
married. They're not going to see what the head and shoulders look like in
your hair. La hu akbar Alla say, if Goddess, this is the
mentality that people have, yet we don't understand. When we cover it for
the sake of Allah, it must make us happy. Imagine, on one
hand, we got the example of the swollen legs. What is that example
compare to just covering properly? Love akabar, may Allah use us really in
his course, and may alasu hanah, howat Alah accept us this evening to
make her resolution that we will dress appropriately come what may, and may Allah
make us from those who can make a resolution this evening that come what may,
we will fulfill our five Salah for the sake of a loss of Hannah
howat Ala, it is not worth leaving it out. I was thinking moments
ago as I was getting up that for myself it has rekindled the link with
a lass of Hannah Howatala. To make mention of how everything began and the
creation of Adam alahis Salam and the stories of the prophets, not to say
there was no link, but we rekindle the link, and we want to
keep that fire going. We want to keep that light going. I wonder
if it is the same for all of us that we have this link.
We feel that really we are going to return to Alas subhanah Howatala this evening
in shallah, we will be completing the story of Adam Alahi sala to a
Salam with a few details in shallah, and thereafter we will continue tomorrow with
the stories of the other prophets of Alas Suphana Hawatala. To start with this
koran, we need to understand, as I had made mention of at the
end of yesterday's talk, that Alas Suhana Hawatala says we will send for you
reminders, and whosoever turns away from the reminders they will be resurrected blind.
If you recall we made mention of it, and we read the verse which
happens to be in Surataha, and thereafter there is a point that needs to
be highlighted. What did the Kufar of Korash used to say at the time
of the prophets Allaho allai he was seldam when the Koran was being revealed.
They knew that anybody who listens to this Koran, they are automatically inclined towards
it. One is to look at the face of Muhammad Salahu alaia was Alam
is already a turning point. You need a little bit of sincerity and you're
turned. And after that, to listen to the words of the Qur'an,
it melts you. Today, there were so many verses that were read,
and I was thinking to myself, I wish I could pause to translate some
of those verses. One of them, Alas of hannahuata Alah says ashah you
hebacum nasu why tb alfari oh man. If Allah wills, he can delete
you and replace you with others. If Allah ones, he can wipe you
out and bring others in. Another place in the Korannallas says the same thing
that if you are not going to worship Allah, if you want to turn
away from Allah's worship, he does not need you, Oh man, He
can actually delete you. You know how powerful is that word delete? Imagine
if someone had to tell you I'm going to delete you, can you look
at them and say what? You probably take your gun out for them.
In this country alasubanahuata Alah say gods and yeah, Allah is saying he's explaining
how independent he is and how dependent we are. He says, if you,
if you, if I so will, I can actually delete you and
I can bring others. May Allah never do that to us. So that's
a powerful verse. Another verse that we mentioned this evening. And sometimes in
order to please people and to seek status, we please people in the displeasure
of Allah. Supanahat Allah, and Allah says ayabatahuna dahom. Do they want
to seek that status with those people there in the displeasure of Allah? Let
them know? For Inlizeta Lilla jami Ah, it is Allah alone who who
owns the dignity and the status. If Allah wants he can raise you,
and if he wants, he can drop you. There is no point in
pleasing people in the displeasure of Allah subhanahu at Allah. Rather, if the
people are displeased while wife Allah is pleased, then alhamdulla, we are heading
in the right direction. So the Qur'an, I'd like to make mention of
a very interesting story. At the time of rasululas Allah, the Kufar of
Korat sent one of the most eloquent from amongst them out and Arabia to the
prophets of Allah. Was seldom in order to try and tell him that,
you know, you better stop doing what you're doing. This was in the
initial stages. And we don't want you to swear our idols. We want
you, you know, to take what you want from us, but stop
preaching all this that you are preaching about one God and one Creator and supreme
Maker. Why did they decide this? Because they were materialistic people. For
them, what made them happy when they had power, They were elected as
chairman, they were elected as someone big. They became happy. That was
the height of their life. And I normally say when someone has got to
a peak and they tell me I've got to a peak, I said,
does that mean, you can die now you've achieved what you wanted to from
life with us. No, the peak will only come when Allah decides we
for us as Musliman, we should be happy when we are obeying the commands
of Alla Subannah at Adah. So these kofar, they decided, let's go
and make him some offer except one of the offers. So they made him
a few offers. The one went to him and he says, and he
was an eloquent man, and he says, Oh, Muhammad saladah Islam,
we want you to leave what you are saying. If you want, we
can get you married to the most beautiful of women. If women is what
you're looking for, look at how they're thinking. If wealth is what you're
looking for, we make you the wealthiest. If power is what you're looking
for, you can be our king and our leader. What is it that
you want, We will dish it out to you now. But stop saying
what you are saying. And Muhammed saralaalah a Islam said the famous saying,
walah he if you are to put the sun in my right hand and the
moon in my left, and then you are to ask me to stop what
I'm saying, I'll never stop it. What that means is give me what
you want, give me that which is impossible. This is a mission I
have come with. Then he began to read verses of the Quran. Hamizilum
mean a rahman rahim ki tabu for suilat ayaht koran nabi nikomi alamun bashi rong,
that's sura. He continued reading it until he got to a place where
he made mention of the punishment of the previous nations. This was the verse
he got to. This verse he says, for in arado fakuladaruto kum sar
inkota lasar inkartidam, if they are going to turn away, then warn them
of the punishment. That got to add and the mood. At this stage,
the man puts his hand on the mouth of the prophet Salah Aslam and
blocks it and says stop, stop, stop, stop. That's enough.
Why he did not want to hear the punishment. Then he ran back to
his people and says, oh, my people. He went back to Abu
Jahal and the others, and he says, you know what, I have
heard something today recitation I have heard it is so sweet. It is so
beautiful, It is so correct, it is so apt. It is something
that you just feel like continuing listening to, and it has so much in
it and so on, and it is definitely not the speech of man.
They looked at him, they said, what we sent you to tell that
man to get out of what he's saying. And you come back telling us
you almost convinced. He says, no, no, no, no no,
I'm only letting you know what I heard. I'm not convinced. Look
at this, Look at what happened. Now, what happens to us?
We listen to the Koran, we read the Koran, we understand the message
of Allah. Are we not sometimes being cheated the same way by Chaipan where
we say, it's a beautiful Kuran. I enjoy listening to this sech and
that share and this person and that reciter and mashalla this one and that one.
But how much are we following it? What's the point of getting the
enjoyment of the ear alone that was achieved by the Kufar as well. I
can tell you a true story. I had stopped one day at the traffic
light with the Kuran a little bit loud. I don't want to call it
blasting, But Marshall, I was loud and there were people right next to
me. They looked at me and they said, you know, they're like
sort of putting their thumbs up, and I put it down to talk to
them, and they say, I love your music. What music is this?
So it shows us that if we are going to stop at the soothing
of the ears alone, then that happens to the kufar as well. What's
the difference we are supposed to be taking it further and putting practice to what
we listened to. Alas Subhanah howat Ala, open our doors and may he
grant us a deep understanding. So this is why at that time they did
not want to hear any revelation. Chaipan had a plan, and that plan
was he was going to turn people away from a revelation. And this is
why alas Subhanah howat Ala says waka leading a kafar la tasmaoni koro. The
disbelievers used to say, do not listen to this revelation, don't listen to
the Koran. Make noise whilst it is being read, because as people were
listening to it, it was piercing their ears. It was piercing their hearts
and it was going in. They were digesting it, and they were turning.
As they were turning, the Kofar did not know how to stop it.
Didn't I say yesterday that man needs spirituality in order to complete himself and
in order to be content. So as the people were turning, they did
not know what to do. So these koufar of Korage, the leaders started
saying, don't listen to the Koran. This is why one of the biggest
sins we can have is when Allah has sent down a book and we are
stopping people from trying to understand that book, and we are stopping people from
reading the book, and we are discouraging people from trying to understand the Koran.
That is one of the biggest sins we could ever have. Because Allah
promised Adam Alaisalam right at the beginning that I'm going to send you guidance,
and every time guidance comes, whoever follows it will be rightly guided, and
whoever doesn't, then it is them to blame. So Allah grant us a
deep understanding. So from the beginning there were two forces, his Bulahi and
his bushet Pani. There is the force of Alas subhanah hauwat Alah and the
force of the devil. These two forces are very clear in our lives.
We see it from the very beginning. We are lucky, we are fortunate
that we were told how it started and what the root of it was.
It is so really, so soothing to know the beginning, because now we
can do something about it. We do not have to reinvent the wheel.
It's already there. We believe, we've seen. We have these verses that
are recited for us. So Alas Subhanah houwat Ala speaks of these two forces
from the very beginning, and we need to understand not only that Alas subhanah
hawat Alah mercy to all of us. He goes a step further. What
is that step? He teaches us from the beginning, how to protect ourselves
from the devil. Yeah, Bani adama lie af tina na komus hipan come
ahraja abaa income in al jihan yes humlibas and huma lida humashima in hu yakamakabino
hum in haithuna tarahum in jasha al Ala mean powerful verses of the Koran.
Alas his old children of Adam. We are all included in this. Do
not let the Chipan lead you astray, or do not let him overpower you,
or overcome you, or cheat you or test you in the way that
he did with your forefather Adam and his wife Hawa. And he removed them
as a result from the goodness that they were in So a lies warning us,
Allah tells us be one and over and above that we are taught that
the last part of that verse alas is, Chaithan will not be able to
be a protector for those who believe He can only be a protector for those
who disbelieve He can offer them this sort of false protection. For a moment,
we ask Allah to make us the true believers and to make us from
those whom Allah has protected. Now, if you take a look at Chaithan
and what he did, and the fact that he had removed Adam and ha
allay him as Salam from Jannah, he removed them from Jannah by conning them.
This happens to us on a daily basis. Alas is, if you
ask Allah's protection, you will never ever be led astray. So every morning
and every evening, it is our duty to ask the protection of alas Supanaha
to Alah. We are taught listen to the verse alas supanahuat alas is wal
kurab be ah tho be coming Hamazati shayati waau do being arab behind oh messenger
Muhammad Sallah was Selam say invoke Allah, call Allah with the following words,
say, I seek Allah's protection from the whisperings of the devil, and I
seek Allah's protection from these devils even coming into my presence. Isn't that a
powerful dua? We will find it in sa minoon towards the end, and
this dua should be read by us on a daily basis. We are seeking
the protection of Allah from the devil and his whisperings. And we are seeking
the protection of Allah from the devil even coming into our presence, because we
don't want him to come into our presence. What a powerful duan? In
a hadith, the prophets or allaho a Selam speaks about the power of Ayatukurzi
and I'm we all know it off by heart, but we have to read
it every morning every evening, thrice in the morning, thrice in the evening.
In another narration, the power of the last two suras of the Quran
is being made mention of pulled audu bill phalaka pulled audub bin nas. They
are known as almo aw. We attain those two suras wherein we seek refuge
in a las subhanah hawatalah from so much evil. We need to read these
surahs three times in the morning, three times in the evening. Now,
what does a las supanah hawatala say? First we read this evening in a
Kaida shianika Albarif the plot of the devil is very weak, Chaithan's plot is
very weak. And if we are to seek the protection of Allah Subhana Hawatala,
it won't even affect us, it won't even bother us. So it's
important whilst we spoke about the devil that we also speak about how to be
protected from the devil. It literally creates a metal armor around you when you
read this early morning and every evening for the rest of the day and the
rest of the night, and Chaipan will not be able to harm you and
attack you. There is something known as the evil eye that is also from
the devil. There is something known as jealousy that is also from the devil.
There is something known as envy that is also from the devil. We
will be protected from all this. We will also be protected from the magic
that people want to engage in, and the black magic and what have you.
All this we will be protected from, including being protected from the jin
kind at large. May alas Sudhnahuatla grant us a deep understanding for your information.
Ginkind is very very frightened of man, very very frightened of men.
But when we show a weak link, then he gets excited. He gets
excited. You know. It reminds me of a story. Maybe on a
lighter note, we could mention this. They say, there was a man
who was very soft natured, very very soft natured, and when he was
getting married, the people were worried that you're going to control you completely.
Your wife is going to control you completely, He says, So what should
I do? They gave him an idea. They said, first night,
get a stick and we'll release a cat into the room. And as soon
as you know, you walk into the room, when the cat appears,
you must just put your head gear on one side and start beating the cat
until you kill it and then throw it out. Of the window like a
man. And that's the only thing you're going to need to do. He
says, well, that's fine. On the other hand, his wife was
hearing that. You know, you've got such a soft natured husband. You're
so lucky. So what happened first night they released the cat and the plan
worked. He beat up the cat, and she was scared looking at him.
This is not what I knew him as. And and the cat died
and he threw it out of the window, and he says, no,
I'm sorry about that. He cleansed everything, and it was all back to
Noma. Every day he would say I'd like you to do this or else
or else what so hannaha or else. As soon as he says or else,
she's worried that o elves I'll get the whack, you know, just
like the cat. Until some time later she went back to her family,
She went back to her friends. But you people told me this man was
soft. They said, no, try defying him once. See what happens.
See we're talking here of the gin and how weak the ginnis. So
what happened is he says, I want you to have the tea ready at
seven o'clock or else, she says, or else, what else? I'll
have it ready, lah akaba, we ask a lass of Hannah's adah to
grant us protection and understand it. Really so, how we feel that chaifan
and the devil is strong, well, lie he is weak. Defy him
and see what happens Defy the devil. I'm not saying the husband's are devils.
But what we are saying, so Hannah Lah, is that we need
to learn a lesson. When we have a perception that something is stronger than
us, we tend to be overcome by it. Why well, why it
is weak. It is something that is frightened of us. Let us understand
when we defy this devil, and with the Quran and with the words of
a lass of hannahwa talah, it will run away. Getting to the children
of Adam alais saarahua Salam, how did they come about? It's a question
how may peace be upon her? She gave birth twenty times. Each time
there was a boy and a girl subhan allah. They were of different colors,
different shapes and sizes in the sense that you know, the looks were
varying from one to the other, and so on, and at that time
they had to be marriage. So how were they going to marry? They
had a different law, they had a different shariah. Adam alahis Salam.
How did he become a prophet? That is also a very important question for
us to answer. Initially, he was the father. When he had his
children, he began to remind his children of what happened in Janna and what
happened with the devil, So automatically he was in a bee of Allah.
He was reminding them of the beginning and who Allah is, and how we
must worship Allah alone because he is the sole creator, and how the devil
cheated them and got them out of paradise. So they all knew directly from
Adam alahis Salam that this is what happened, and Ada malai Salam was giving
them the Auah. He was literally calling them towards goodness and keeping them on
the right track. So as the children grew, one of the oldest children
was known as Kabil in the English language Kin and the one younger than him
was known as Habil or Abel in the English language. We find some similarities
in the previous revelations with what we also have in Islam. So what was
the difference between these two. Listen very carefully. Cain was not so good
looking and Abel was very handsome. Listen to this. And the sister of
Cain was very good looking, but she was born in the same or from
the same womb. So those two were what we call womb brothers and sisters
from the same womb. And when it came to Abel, he was very
good looking, but his sister was not as good looking. Look at how
looks affected them from the very So Adam alais Salam instructed the two when the
time came, and they Allah put naturally in them the inclination towards marriage and
partnership and so on. So Adam Alaisellam says, you will marry the sister
of this one, and this one will marry the sister of your meaning your
sister. So Cain, his sister was very good looking. He looked at
this girl is supposed to marry, and he says, she's not that good
looking. And why must I give my sister to this guy? Why imagine
the question I don't want to give my sister. If we read the books
of the historians, if Nikati Rahimahla has made mention of what I'm saying,
he says. Kabil Kaine says, I don't want my sister to go to
him, and I don't want to have his sister. I'd rather have my
own sister. He's saying, stop a little law. But anyway, that
was what went through his mind, and as a result, it created a
problem. Look at how a marriage up to today creates problems between people.
The Hadith the prophets a Lallada Salam says, either ajah a kummantor bon adina
hua hulukahof as a huijuhu ilerta halo hutakun fit natunvil ord aasadun arid. If
a proposal comes to you from a person whose level of dean you are happy
with and whose character you are happy with, then get them married. If
you don't get them married, they will be great fitna and fasad and corruption
and lots of chaos on earth. Imagine from the beginning that's happened. So
Kain was worried about Luks and he says, I'm not going to marry her
now. As the turbulence continued, they went to their father. The father
heard about it. He was upset He tried to explain to them, and
he made do artu alas subhanahuatala, and Allah showed him a way out.
What was the way out? Allah says, instruct the two of them,
one was a shepherd and one was a farmer who had produced. Instruct the
two of them to give out a charity. Instruct the two of them to
give out a charity, and whoever's charity is accepted will be correct. Now
what happened? This is made mention of the Quran. In the Quran alas
is what laim Adam abin hako oh Muhammad sala was Slam recite to them.
The story of the two sons of Adam with truth is kara korbana fatu kubbil
amin ahadi him a kambal min al aha. When both of them gave their
sacrifices and it was accepted from one and it was not accepted from the other,
the question is why was it not accepted? It is very interesting.
We are going to draw a lesson from this. The one who was a
shepherd was able. He came with a good animal and he put it on
the mountain. Why did they have to put it on the mountain? There
were no poor people at the time, he's no poor to give the charity
to. So the plan at that time what used to happen is they used
to put the sacrifice on the mountain and then they would go away. When
they come back, they would see the fire has eaten one or the other.
When the fire has eaten your sacrifice, it means it was accepted by
a lasubanahata ana. And if the fire has not eaten it, it's not
accepted, it's rejected. So this man came with a very good animal and
put it there, and the other brother, Kine, the one who was
fighting and arguing. He was a farmer. He had produce. He brought,
not mediocre produce, but that produce that was now almost rotten. And
he put it there and he says, right, this is the sacrifice,
and they went away. So one was accepted, one wasn't. It's very
simple to know which one was accepted. And why remember when we give out
our zaka, zaka is not a voluntary charity. Voluntary charity you can give
what you want, but at least try to give something which is reasonable.
So for a voluntary charity, you can give second hand clothes, you can
give a little bit of leftover food and so on, no problem, because
it is going to be made use of by some and the privileged. That
is a voluntary charity. But when it comes to zaka, don't do that.
You need to give that which is good. We are not saying the
best nabis ar Lada seldom tells moide nijabal ita amalehim dyahmad. When you go
to collect the zakat from the people, don't take the best, but don't
take the worst either, take that which is mediocre the middle. So when
we are giving, let's not give the stock that is expired and say that's
my zakat. I'm going to deduct it from my zaka. How it's expired,
You rather give it as a voluntary charity. Give that which is good.
Allah will accept it. You'll see the difference of it in your life.
But when we've given the poor wealth, sometimes, you know, we
take a look at the two and a half percent, a small percentage is
zaka. Other churches they're giving ten percent of the salary. Go and find
out. Ask people who are following other churches. Happily they come and say,
no, this is twelve percent. Ten and another two from me and
with us it's only two and a half percent. And you find a man
scrounging saying, you know what, are you sure I've got to give the
cut on this? You know, do I really have to malla open our
doors? It is from Allah? And a charity has never decreased anybody's wealth,
that is, a hadith charity cannot decrease your wealth. How much are
you going to use? How much are you going to spend? So when
one charity was accepted, the other one wasn't listen to the vis prl la
la akoutulank. He looked at his brother and says, I'm going to kill
you. Now, why do you want to kill him? When he was
accepted and mine wasn't a llahu akabal? Now I want to kill him for
what? Again? This is Chaman's plan. Don't look at the root of
the cause or the root cause, but go and just blame someone and lay
the blame on him and start becoming violent. That's Shathan. So instead of
looking at why it was rejected, he decided, right, I'm envious of
this man. Firstly, he's good looking. Secondly, he's going to get
a wife who's very good looking. Thirdly, his wealth is accepted, and
he's a nice farmer. He's got all this, you know, live stock,
and he's so happily living and so on. Why is it that I
am not? He became envious of his own brother. Does this not happen
in some homes? Allasay, goddess, where because of how good looking someone
is, the others ignore them, or sometimes the other way around. Some
parents ignore and Wellahi, we need to go home. Look, I'm not
going to mince my words. We need to go home and ask ourselves are
we guilty of this? Without knowing subconsciously, I always believe people are good.
Chaipan is bad. Do you know? Sometimes Cheapan makes a parent ignore
a child and give more importance to the one who's better looking without realizing,
well, Lahi. Sometimes Cha'than makes a parent give more importance to the child
who's more intelligent. Well, Lahi, and this is Chaithan's plan. And
the other child cannot talk. They are depressed, They cannot open up to
anyone. I have had so many emails from people who have this problem and
they can't make mention of anything. And I say, should I talk to
your parent? They say no, ways, but they feel so inferior.
For what why should we do this? I would like to believe Chapan is
bad. People are good. We need to try and make sure we don't
fall into the trap of Chaipan. So let Chathan not do the same thing
that he did with the children of Adam, where because of beauty there was
big chaos and disaster. Either way, alanah alah grant us understanding. So
we are talking here both signs of the coin, so he says. The
brother gave an answer in amayatak lam al mutaki. A law is going to
accept the charity of the person who is conscious of Allah. Allah will accept
the charity of the one who's conscious of a law like basalt elai ya can
tako to lani ma anabivasily elai kali to like in ahaful law. If you
are going to stretch your hand to kill me, I am not going to
stretch my hand to fight you or to kill you back, or to do
anything to you. Because I fear Allah. I fear our creator who has
created entire creation, and he is the lord of the worlds. This was
the answer of the brother. But what happened This brother was adamant and Chapan
had taught him how to kill. Imagine, how would someone have known how
to kill? You got to stop this person from breathing. How Chapan taught
him how to murder? So he hit his brother with something very hard,
either a rock or something very hard, and he killed him akbar. He
killed his brother. As soon as he killed his brother, he sat there
looking at his brother, and he started regretting. He started regretting. Why
did he start regretting? That is chaifan. As soon as you do something
bad and you've executed it, he goes away. When a person commits adultree,
it's made so beautiful. The run up to adultree is so beautiful.
If he has I man or she has I man. As soon as it's
committed, there is a guilty in the heart straight because now Chaithan is gone,
you feel. This is why one narration says either saraatka hassanatuka was aska
sayyeatuka fanta momen. A sign that you are a mo mim is when your
good deed makes you happy and your sin makes you regret. That's a sign
you're a mote mid. But then there are people who will commit adultery after
adultery, and they will continue and go on and on. There are some
on drugs. The first two times, two three times, they regret.
After that, no regret after that, They do it openly. One brother
was telling me that when they went to the World Cup, only Allah knows.
He says, I seen so many people offering me weed. And when
I said no, I don't do this, they said, what You're probably
the only one. I said no. It can't be Malas of hannahwat Alah
safe guard us. If it's that common, then may Alas of Hannah howat
Alah protect us from chipan. And I'd like to believe that the brother was
telling a lie, because by the will of Alas of Hannah howat Ala,
we are not like that. We ask Allah to open our doors. Once
the brother was killed, he looks at his brother, and now he went
away. He went to Adam Alai is Salam, and he carried on with
the day and Adam Alai Islam asks him, where's your brother? He says,
my brother, I am not responsible for him. Why do I have
to know where he is and what's happening. Immediately, Adam Alaisalam knew that
there's something wrong. This child is hiding something from me. There is something
wrong. Now, later on in the evening he went back to the body
and he's looking at it. And the following morning he's looking at this body
again, and now it started releasing a stinge. It started releasing a stinge.
And he was remorseful because of his regret. Alas of Hannahowat Alah had
mercy on him by sending him a lesson through two crows. Alas says in
the Quran faballabahiakaari sa pla ya I just do an a kuna na yai for
os Bahamin and Nadimi. He regretted when he saw these crows come and the
one was digging in order to bury the other, and it dug and put
the other into the ground and covered it. So he says, can't I
be like this crow? Let me do this. So he dug a hole
also and he buried his brother and so on, and he was very very
remuseful. And thereafter it is reported that he could not really stay with Adam
a Salam and then with all the regret that he had, and so he
went away. He went quite far. In fact, one deration says he
carried the body on his back, and he went quite far, and then
he buried it at a bit of a distance. Now he had gone,
and thereafter what happened. Adam Alais has Salah to a Salam and his wife
Hawa Alais has Salam. They had many children, and as I said,
they had forty children. Twenty pays and the pay were not allowed to intermarry,
but those who were from a different pay were allowed to marry, the
others from another pair, and so on. And he saw some of his
grandchildren and his great grandchildren, and his progeny and his offspring. And it
is reported that he'd seen thousands of them, thousands of his children, and
they had gone various parts of the globe, and so many different places they
had gone to. And Adam alai is Salam used to constantly remind them,
and he used to tell them, and some of his children continued that reminder.
One of them was a child known as Sheath she Alai Salam. We
call him Alai is Salam. He was also a messenger of a loss of
Hannah Houa to Alah, in that he carried the message of his father.
One narration says that there were one hundred and four psalms that were revealed by
a loss of Hannah howat Alah. These parchments that were revealed by a loss
of Hannah howat Alah. From them, fifty were revealed to Shi alaihis salah
to a Salam. So he was also given guidance and he was told to
guide the people. And as time passed it became more difficult because they were
further away from Adam Alai is Salam. It's like, for example, when
your father has suffered to make his money and you were there watching him suffer
and watching him go through turbulence and turmoil, it is easier for you to
appreciate that, but when your children come and they've only seen wealth, for
them to appreciate it is very difficult. This is why wealth generally it's not
an Islamic law, but people who have Muslims who have studied have said it
does not asked for more than three generations without actually depleting totally. Three to
four generations. After that, it has to deplete because alas suhnahuata Alah has
a plan, and his plan is such that wealth does not stay in the
same hands for long. It will move and it will can it will go
on and on. Allahu akabar may alas suhnahuat Allah grant us goodness and contentment.
So adam alai is salah to a Salamashallah. He'd seen so many of
us children, and he was grooming his children also to continue the message.
He used to call them regularly and tell them that this is what you need
to do, and that is what you need to do, and so on.
And this is how Chaithan. They used to gather together, and he
used to remind them how Chaithan led him astray, and how Chaithan was very
jealous, and so on. So there is something for us to learn from
this as well. We need to gather our children and we need to constantly
remind them not only of our beginnings, but of the messenger, of the
message of alasu Hannahuatlah. How many of us have sat with our children and
told them, do you know, this is what Allah requires, This is
how we should be dressing. This is the ben of this, This is
the benefit of that. This is the downfall that one will taste if they
do this, and if they do that, and look at this example and
that example. Spend the time with your children it is the Sunna of the
prophets, all the prophets, May Alas peace be upon them. Then Alas
subhanahwata Allah makes mention of something very interesting again where Adam alais Salah to a
Salam got sick. He got ill. He got ill at a certain stage,
and look at Allah's plan. Allah made him wish for something, wish
for what certain fruits he had eaten in Genna. He ate some fruits in
Paradise. He still remembered the taste. So he was wishing for it,
making du'atu Allah saying, ya Allah, I'm wishing for these fruits. So
Alas subhanah hawat Alah instructed him that at a certain place you will find something,
not that you will find the fruits, but at a certain place you
will find something. But he was unhealthy. He was not healthy enough to
go there. So he decided to send some of his children. He says,
go to that place, and you will find something for me there.
So when they went there, they found some angels, a group of angels.
What did they have with them? They were dressed in white, and
they had some tools with them. There was a pig and a shovel and
tools to dig. Now these tools were new to the children of Adam Alai
is Salah to a Salam. They looked. These angels told the children of
Adam, we are angels and we want you to go back to your father.
He is ill and his time is up. Akhabar, he is ill
and his time is up. So they walked with Adam, with the children
of Adam Adai is Salam back to Adam Adai Islam and as they entered.
As they entered, how may peace be upon her? She recognized this angel
is the Angel of Death, the Angel of death. So she quickly started
going behind Adam Alai is sala to a Salam and he says, no,
no, no, don't worry, move away. I was created before you.
I was created before you. He's going to go. He was not
worried, and now why am I going? And so on. He was
reminded. In fact, he told the Angel of death when he saw him.
He says, but don't I have forty more years to go. We
made mention of this a few days ago. The angel says, don't you
remember you gave it to Da wood a Lai is Salam, And he says,
no, I don't remember. I don't remember. And after he was
reminded, he says, no problem. However, he first gathered his children.
Look at this. He gathered his children on his deathbed, and he
reminded them, saying, Allah will send messengers to you. He will not
leave you alone. He will send messengers to you, and messages. These
messengers will come different languages, different names, different dialects, but their message
will all be one calling you to worship one alone, the one who made
you, and to stay away from the devil and Chaipan and he bliss,
and to be careful that the biggest crime anyone can commit is to associate a
partner with the creator. And after he reminded his children, the angels took
his soul away and he passed away, and he passed away happily. He
was happy to go. Why was he happy to go? Very interesting?
I think that's a lesson. When I was reading about it, really it
brought tears to my eyes. He was happy to go because he knew he
is going back to that heaven that he came from. He knew he's going
back to Allah subhanahwat Al, And he was happy to go because he had
problems here on the earth. He had tests, he had difficulties. He
first hunted for his wife, then he had the problems with his children and
so on, and now he had to taste death. But that death was
getting him to Allas Subhanahawa Tala, And from this there is a narration alas
Subhanah Howatala tells us through the lips of Muhammad Sala lah A, you are
seldom to have to minial moto. The gift of a true believer is death.
Why you're going back to your maker, your creator. There's no more
inflation, there's no more robberies, there's no more power cuts. There's no
more you know, credit and debt and people following you and running behind you,
and sickness and cough and what have you. Everything ends, It stops.
There is only justice and goodness, and for you is what you wish
and what you want and what you whatever you desire. I always give the
example of a child who works hard at school. You work very hard at
school for what in order to get a prize? So now, how are
you going to get the prize? If you don't want to attend the prize
giving Akbar, You've got to go there, and then you will shake the
hand and get your price. If you don't go there, how are you
going to get your prize? So for us, we've been promised to read
Salah. You get this, give you usaka. You do this dress appropriately,
this will happen. For you do that, this will happen. Where
are we going to get all these prizes? You need to go to the
stage. Where is the stage? You need to die first, and then
you get to the stage. Laho akuaban, laho akaban. Simple to understand.
But still when we die or someone dies, we become depressed and we
start moaning to the degree that we question what Allah's decree was. How can
we do that? It is natural to miss someone, It is natural to
shed tears of mercy because you're going to miss them. But we never questioned
the decree of Allah. Whatever Allah does is the best. It is the
best. When Allah has taken a person away, whether it is in a
car crash or after sickness or suddenly or whatever it is, it is the
best that Allah could have done for that particular person. We need to know
this, especially as meaning as believers, so we should not depress ourselves.
If they have on we are going very very soon, so Ada malai is
Salah to a Salam went. When he went, what happened. The angels
had come with the tools. They took the children of Adamalai sala to a
Salam a little bit of a distance, and they dug a proper grave,
and they washed the body of Adam Alah his salam with water. They enshrouded
him properly, and they led the salah or the prayer the genaza of Ada
malay is sala to a Salam. One narration says that Jibril instructed Sheath to
lead the salah, and another narration says the angels themselves led that salah.
Only Allah knows. But the Salah was done and he was buried. And
once he was buried, the angels looked at the children of Adamalai sala to
a Salam and says, had he sun natu kum. This is the way
you shall do it when anyone from amongst you passes away. So that is
how we were taught to enshroud and to leave a gap. I was speaking
to someone a few moments ago, in fact, a few days before I'm
avan, and we were talking about how amazing it is that the grave of
a Muslim, you have a gap. You are enshrouded in a shroud,
and then you are placed in the grave and the wooden pieces or the bricks
are not put on you. But there is a gap, and then quite
a big gap, and then there is the wooden pieces, and on top
of that is the soil subhana lah Do you know one of the benefits of
that is it allows for the decomposure of that body in the soil because of
the presence of oxygen in that hollow. If there was no oxygen, what
happens. Let me tell you what happens. Look at the mass graves in
the globe. When the people are buried and the sand is straight onto them,
what happens? You find the bone, even after a thousand years,
you might find some of it has not yet decomposed, because it is all
there. Still, the skulls are there, everything is there. Whereas if
you very islamically the proper way by leaving that gap, who knew that there
would be oxygen trapped in there which is needed for that to decompose. Lahu
akabar, Lahu akabar. So now that it decomposes completely, you dig it
back up nine months later, there is nothing remaining there. In la Ajabad
Danab, the Hadid speaks about the last small little portion at the bottom of
your spine, the conicle, the little cone shaped bone, part of it
remains, and that is the seed of man from which you we will grow,
as I made mention of the other day. So this is how we
are to be buried. Where were we taught from? We were taught by
the angels from a las subhanahuata alah amazing story. We ask alas sub Hannah
hauata Alah to grant us a deep understanding. The question where was he buried?
It's a question. Some narrations say he was buried phil Hind, close
to where he had descended, whereas other narrations say that he was buried in
Macca by the mount known as Jabbal abi robais just outside where the Haram is
now. He was buried somewhere there, but Allah knows best. All we
know is he was definitely buried. And I had spoken about Sief Ali is
Salam being another nabee of Allah subannahwatala in sha Allah. We will get to
more of the stories of these messengers. The last question I have is how
many messengers were there? How many messengers of Allah subhana hawatala. We don't
know the exact figure in the Koran. Twenty five are mentioned in the Koran,
there are twenty five names of the messengers, but some narration of Muhammed
saladah Alai Rasalam makes mention of different figures, the largest of which is one
hundred and twenty four thousand imagine one one hundred and twenty four thousand messengers.
We don't know really whether that figure is correct, but we have a rough
idea that there are so many. The Koran says min Hum cosas nalaika or
mian hum malamakoso Salai. There are messengers O Mohammed Salam whom we have told
you about, and we've related to you their stories, and some whom we
have not even told you about, which means there are so many. Only
Alan knows the exact number. All subhannah Ala grant us a lesson until we
continue again in sha a lot tomorrow. We say, what's Allahanhammed Subhanahadi subhanah lah