Without standing in solidarity for the sake of Allah, subhanahu wa'ta'ala Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala commences, the Quran with silicon Fatiha. This moron has been revealed to us. O Allah. Salallahu alaihe was at them in a different order, but it was in the W McCool and the preserved tablet in a specific order and that is the order that we have today. Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala starts off with the most. Beautiful verses one can ever do.
And handling, all praise is due to Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala, we praise him on every condition. He is the creator. He is the one who made us. He's the one who made everything around us. We praise him. We thank him. When goodness comes to us. We thank Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala. When something we regard as even before us, we seek the protection of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala. That is the phrase. Complete and total protection at all times then Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala speaks about his
Mercy, all laughing man. Your most beneficent most forgiving, most merciful because myself and yourselves. We need to understand the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala that is what will bring us even closer and closer to Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala, we all know that this Iman and Iman obey Lov. What Raja Iman is a balance between the fear of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala and we hope in the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala wallahi, I guarantee you that this is the month of Mercy.
Let us all turn to Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala and seek his forgiveness for indeed. He is forgiving Wholesale in the month of Ramadan. A loser is the one who has passed the month of Ramadan and has not been forgiven. Why he Lululemon at the Rock era? Madonna. Follow me over Le. Whoa. Be upon. On the one who has witnessed the month of Ramadan and he has not
been forgiven. It is as though Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala is saying look, I am ready to forgive everybody, but it is us who sometimes don't want that may Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala grant us in this month of Ramadan a turning point. Every one of us needs to make an intention tonight that this Ramadan will be a Ramadan with a difference. A Ramadan whereby we will make sure that we struggle to earn the pleasure of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala.
He says regarding the book. In the next Surah in Surat al-baqarah, and obviously, I'm not going through every single verse because we don't have the time to do that. I have just selected certain verses, obviously. It is very difficult to select versus because every single verse is of great importance, but here we have Surat al-fatiha, the opening Surah, I've mentioned, the fact of the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala.
In fact, one very interesting point before I go to Surat al-baqarah Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala speaks to us in a Hadith known as Hadith qudsi. Rasulallah salallahu alaihe wasalam says Allah Allahu. Allah Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala tells us because some to Solitaire, by any wobble. In Aberdeen is saying, I have split Surat al-fatiha between myself and my worshipper into two halves.
So when the worshiper says Al hamdu lillahi rabbil, aalameen, all, praise is due to Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala lord of the worlds. I say meaning I respond to him. My worshipper has Raised me. So every time we say Al hamdu lillahi rabbil aalameen. We should know that that rock pool Alamein is responding that he loves it. When we say that, we should increase that particular statement and all these statements of the other car and the remembrance of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala.
Then, if I worship assays r-rahmani, r-rahim Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala says, My Worship has glorified me and when he says, Molly. Kiyomi Dean he says Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala response. My worshipper has exalted me. And then when he says a colonel Budu Orion can understand you alone. We worship you alone. We seek help from then Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala says that is between me and my worshipper and for my worshiper is whatever he asks there after the first do our, we make in the Quran.
It Then I'll sell out the lose 30 guide us to the straight path. May Allah soften our hearts and may Allah make us all on the straight path and may He keep us on that straight path. Then let me move on to Surat. Al-baqarah. Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala in the opening verses of Surat, al-baqarah speaks of the authenticity of the score on y. Because as soon as you open that Quran, the first thing, one needs to be convinced about his
the authenticity of that book. When you open the previous scriptures that we find it today. Day automatically, we find differences and discrepancies in the scriptures. So the authenticity is questioned and that automatically drops the value of the book when it comes to the Quran. Allah says that any kalki tabula, there is no doubt in that book. No doubt. There is guidance in it for those who believe let us be from
amongst those who believe. And let us not just pay lip service to that because Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala describes several categories of People. The first of those who believe as he says, if you believe in Allah, then the Quran will be a form of guidance for you. But if you do not believe in Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala, that Quran will not even touch your hearts, Allah speaks in the same Surah.
So I said, Colo become, like when he speaks of some of the hearts and he says some of the hearts become so solid that they become hot, Hard. They don't tremble and Tremor with the fear of Allah. Subhanahu wa'ta'ala. No matter what, you utter to certain Hearts. It doesn't tickle the hearts because those hearts have become hard. Allah says, they are harder than rock, some rocks. They will explode and some
rocks. You will find that water will gush out of them, but some of the hearts are even harder than that. May Allah soften our hearts every single one of us needs to ask himself or herself. The question. Am I from amongst those whose Hearts have been hardened? Because if our hearts have been Adam then we are wasting our time reading the Quran. We are wasting our time. When Allah tells us something and we deny it or we don't want it or we don't like it.
Then obviously we need to First deal with our own Iman, Allah subhanahu, wa'ta'ala speaks of the morning and he says those are the ones who will achieve goodness and guidance from the quran' then Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala speaks of the kuffar in Levy in a comfo. So and Lem to Those whom whether you want them or you don't want them.
It's all the same for them. May Allah not make us that who are the cough are two types of kava one, a disbelievers from amongst those who do not even claim to be momineen and Muslim in and submitters and Believers and the other those who might be Believers, but they are so ungrateful. Grateful, a person who has no form of gratitude in him for his own Creator is also known as a kaffir because Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala speaks about it in the Quran.
He uses the term cover for the one who does not acknowledge the gift of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala. It's not enough to just say, I thank you all a lot by tongue. Yes, that is part and parcel of it. But what is much more important is that we utter the words and over and above that we practice upon what Allah wants us to practice upon and obviously not all of us can become Pope's overnight. So to speak, not all of us can become so Pious and holy overnight, but each one of us
needs to Ask ourselves. Am I heading in the right direction at least? Am I moving on the right path? I might be five steps up the ladder which has a hundred steps on it. If I've moved to six by the end of Ramadan I've achieved a lot. If I moved to 7 and 10 and 40 and 50. I've achieved a large amount. May Allah grant that to us. But if I have gone down the ladder and back to the ground, then we have lost may Allah not make us from amongst those. Then Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
speaks of the hypocrites. And he speaks of Those whom with their tongues. They utter the words that, you know, we believe we are, there we are minion, but inside they are not Believers and sometimes people utter by the tongue, but they do not practice. So there are two types of let me, fuck me, fuck your body and my family that me fat way. A person is not a Muslim, but he pretends though. She pretends that he or she is a Muslim that in sha Allah, we ask
Allah to protect us from that. That is very dangerous. But the time Where we all tend to fall is we say we are not minion, but when the law and the command of Allah comes to us, we then think we have a choice in that regard. No Salah. I'll see about it. I'm not yet. Ready to read it. Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala protect us from those types of statements. We should acknowledge. What's right and wrong. If we are weak, we can tell
Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala. I acknowledge that what I'm doing is not right, but at the same time you Allah make me strong so that I can continue. May Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala granted to us. So Allah says 1 Min and SI Mi culo a man be lying you Hardy. There are some people who utter the words. We believe in Allah, we believe in the last day but yet they do not believe they. You that they are cheating Allah and they are cheating the
Believers but they are cheating. None other than themselves. May Allah protect us. So we must realize we need to choose how we Believers. Are we confer, or are we in between the Hypocrites? And in fact Allah says in another place in the Quran regarding the Hypocrites in Filipina fit Duncan as finally mean and the Hypocrites are in the lowest of the fire and we all know the fire. Fire. The hottest is at the lowest point. May Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
protect us from the fire. Then Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala speaks about such people and he says, do you know what they have done? They have bought misguidance and paid for it guidance. They have bought. And Allah says it again in another place in the same Surah and we read the verses tonight. Hola Inc, a levee. Nice chair. All Hyatt and Dunya. They are people who have purchased the pleasures of this Dunya and paid for it as a payment. The whole of the Accra may Allah not do that to us.
Let me give you one example to bring it closer to our brains and Minds. If a person has a house in Cape Town here and he happens to be walking from say strand or somewhere and he is walking on a hot hot day. No one's giving him a lift. How long is it if you walk one or two hours, possibly three or four hours, but if you were to move by motor vehicle, it would be half. Half an hour. So you are asking for a lift and no one is there to give you a lift. One man stops. It's very, very hot.
You don't have food. You don't have anything. And one man says, I will give you a lift, but sign me. Your title Deeds for your house. In Cape Town, one would be foolish to sign his house. You'd say I'd rather walk. Why? Because you know, that I am making a payment far, more expensive, far more valuable than what I'm getting in return. What we do every day. We signing the title Deeds of our houses in Cape Town. We don't realize we doing it. How do we do it?
Because Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala has kept the era which is large and massive and we cannot describe it. We don't we cannot speak about its value. But every day we come at Haram, we do that which is displeases. Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala by doing that. We signing away the rooms that Allah is preparing for us in the era. Just like the other example, I've given, think about it tonight.
May we not be from amongst those when it comes to walking and signing a house of the Dunya. It's very simple to comprehend. But when it comes to the Acura, we need to think and think a lot then Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala says, you know, people who have hard hats, people who are munafiqeen, people who are hypocrites. Allah says so much book. Come on Romeo. They are deaf. Deaf to what death to anything. That is good. Anything that is bad. They are all ears.
You tell them something bad. They will listen to you. They are deaf. A dum-dum forward, they will not utter anything good. They can speak, but only bad and they are blinded Allah subhanahu. Wa'ta'ala says, they do not see a thing. That is good. They can only see bad. May Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala. Grant us understanding when we see Harem, when we see the nightclubs, when we see places, where they are women who are dressed in a Harem way, our eyes
turn very fast. But when we see the Masjid, how many of us are guilty of not allowing our eyes to turn there and reading the do Ha may Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala grant us the acceptance to enter the houses of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala. And to achieve the coolness of our eyes, the minute. We see a Manara and Amina. One of these long towers that we all know the Menara. The minute. We see it. Our eyes should be cooled.
Then inshallah. We will be from among those who will be successful in the Dunya and akhira. Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala says, if you are in doubt now whom we chose them, we chose the Oakwood one Surah. Let's see the I've tried it and we all know that they failed. Dismally may Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala protect us. So there again Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala speaking of the authenticity of that particular book or the Quran and Allah
subhanahu. Wa'ta'ala says if you are unable to do that, then be careful and be warned of a grievous punishment for a Lambda value, 10 to follow for tacos. If you are not going to do that, if you are incapable of coming with a verse or with a Surah of the Quran similar to it and you will never be able to do that. Then Allah says be conscious of the fire. Why be conscious of the fire? The fuel of that fire shall be rocks and Mankind. Imagine The Rock. If you try to burn a rock, you
won't be able to do that. Unless there is a furnace which is burning at a very, very high. Temperature may Allah protect us, but now when everyone hears about the fire, one of the secrets of the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala, is that immediately after that he speaks about his Mercy. He says Wabash cheering lady. No, I mean, oh sorry, Hattie and give Glad Tidings to those who believe and do good deeds. They will. Not be from amongst those who
who will be burning in the fire. They will be from amongst those who will be in cool Gardens. Those Gardens will have whatever their eyes would like, whatever. They, our hearts would like their minds would like may Allah make us all from amongst them and Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala thereafter speaks of our enemy. The enemy who makes us go astray shaitan and the Bliss Allah speaks of the history of it and I'm sure we are all aware of that history. We all know how.
Adam alayhi salatu was-salam was tricked into eating from a certain fruit. May Allah protect us all and Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala has mentions this in the opening sora's. Why? Because he wants us to know from the very beginning that look, there is an enemy don't ever please that enemy of yours. Don't worship the enemy, isn't it Bliss?
Allah and that Allah promised Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala that Ya Allah. I am definitely going to lead all these people astray and I'm going to show you I'm going to show you that they will worship me and not you and Allah subhanahu. Wa'ta'ala said anyone who follows you from amongst them will also have the same fate as you. They will all be cast in Hellfire. Allah says except those who turn to me. So we need to turn to Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala. One of the secrets, Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala says oh my worshippers don't ever lose. Hope in my mercy, no matter what you have done. That means anyone who loses. Hope in the mercy of Allah. Subhana, Allah ta'ala has automatically worship shaytan, because shaytan is the one who makes us lose. Hope in the mercy of Allah. Subhanahu wa'ta'ala. This is the month of the turning to Allah. May Allah granted to me and you may, Allah soften our hearts.
Remember the month is still long ahead. But before we know it, we will be in our closing session. If Allah gives us the life to see that Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala make that easy for us. So Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala after that speaks about Banu Israel in Banu. Israel. In the children of Yakima. Salatu wassalam Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala makes mention of them.
Why? Because they were given so many gifts from Allah, but they were a lot of them were ungrateful and Allah speaks about what the outcome was after their ungratefulness and Allah mentions that because he doesn't want us to be like that. You know, Allah speaks about when Musa alayhi salatu. Wassalam told them to slaughter a cow. They should have just listened and they know the in Abby was there. And then Abby told them Slaughter, the cow, what would
happen? If Muhammad salallahu alaihe? Wasalam stood in front of us today and said, everyone stopped eating interest. What would we do? Would we be like Banu Israel arguing with that? NE be Musa alayhi salatu, wassalam. No, it can't be Haram. There must be something wrong with it. Meant it can't today. It's something else. It's unavoidable. We can't do that. That is what Banu Israel did. And they were Cursed as a result. They told Musa alaihi Salam. What type of account?
Come on. There's lots and lots of cows and so on and they went on and on and the story is there in Surat al-baqarah. And Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala says, for that reason, their hearts became hard because they argued with those who came with the correct information to them with the commands of their created to them. Let us all ask ourselves. Do we debate and argue with those who come to us with the truth with the hack? If we debate and argue with those?
Those who come to us with hack, then surely. Wouldn't we then fall into the bracket of those who debated with the MB Allah. He was salatu wassalam. So let's not do that. If we are weak, we can say, look, I'm weak. I'm not yet capable or I don't yet have the strength, but I know I'm wrong.
Admit it but don't argue. And don't justify evil that I am engaged in or you are engaged in may Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala Safeguard all of us, then Allah, subhanahu wa'ta'ala, Speaks about the Dua of Ibrahim alayhi salatu was Salam and it's very important that we realize that Ibrahim alayhi salatu.
Wassalam. He worshipped Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala and Allah tested him subhanahu wa'ta'ala so much and after he completed building the Kaaba, he raised his hands and the do. As I mentioned, we read them tonight. He says, RAB bana takabal Minah Allah accept from us. So every time we engage in an act of worship, ask Allah is acceptance because sometimes shaytan. Creeps in and he makes us want
to do something to show off. Allah, protect us all sometimes shaytan Creeps in and he makes us feel that we are better than everybody else. We better watch that. So because of that, we need to do things for the sake of Allah, subhanahu wa'ta'ala and over and above that ask Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala to accept it. Then he says hola not only me but what about my Offspring? Robin oig Alan. A Muslim Allah make myself and ismaeel alehissalaam.
My son make us sad. Smooches unto you, but not just us. What means the real Tina or Muslim metallic from my Offspring? My progeny. Keep a complete Nation submitters, unto you at all times. Allah answered that do analysis. Yeah. Ibrahim, every Nabi that will come after you shall definitely be from your progeny. And that's what happened. May. Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala make us long-sighted. Don't only make Dua for you.
Self and your own children. Yalla, Seven Generations, 10 Generations, 20 Generations down. Yalla. Keep our progeny on Daniela to the degree that when erisa alayhi salatu wassalam comes, let members of our families be from amongst those who will fight together with him against the dajjal. Have our minds ever gone as far as that. If not here is the Dua of Ibrahim alayhi salatu was-salam, which is really, really re very deep. May. Allah grant us.
Also, So foresight. Then Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala speaks about magic and Allah speaks about Sulaiman and his salatu. Wassalam one verse one, calf Azul a man because he didn't teach people magic and he didn't be rich people. But the shape on this believed by teaching people see here. Magic, this is the verse which takes a person who is engaging in Witchcraft and the person who teaches it and learns it. It takes them out of the fold of Islam.
Allah says goddess, but worse than that is to accuse innocent women of being witches. That is worse and innocent men of being of engaging in that particular act, which we have absolutely nothing to substantiate. That is even worse. Xena is a crime. But worse than Xena is to accuse innocent, people of that act, may Allah grant us the ability to zip our mouths and rather make duaa than to accuse innocent people because we suddenly and automatically become even worse than them.
And finally Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala. In fact, two issues, Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala speaks about the fact that he is going to test every single one of us. I need to die. All those closest to me. Need to die before me, one of us somewhere. Somehow needs to die. It was going to test us with the desk with the death of those who are closest to us. And Allah will test us with Hunger. Allah will test us with lack of the sense of security.
Allah will test us with drought and so on, he promises and he guarantees not because he wants to punish us. But because he wants to see do these people pass the tests or not. Do they realize that I am the one in control Muhammad? Sallallahu? Alehiwassallaam was the best of creation. He was the highest of all. All he knew that and they were all other creation is supposed to know that as well, but he
suffered so much. That he sucked the roots of trees in order to quench his thirst at times. Allah tested him with that first solely because Allah wanted his level to be even higher and higher. And that we as his own man who followed him later on, could learn lessons from that. We will never ever get to that stage. May Allah grant us. The understanding. He was the most Beloved. So he was tested more than I can ever be tested and more than you
can ever be tested. So we need to know how will we pass these tests? Allah says, yeah. I love in a monastery. Know Bill Sauder. He was following two things. O you who believe seek assistance through patience forbearance and through Salah. So Allah is the founding partner of DNA in sha Allah in the next
few days. When the versus when more verses are repeated about Salah. We will enter some of the issues regarding salla Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala caps by telling us about Halal and Haram be careful. Watch out what you eat. Watch? What goes into your mouth, watch your earnings. Make sure they are halal. Do you know that if I put in a morsel of Haram in my mouth, whether it is Haram because it has not been slaughtered properly or whether it is Haram
because it was earned through. Haram means the first thing that curses me my teeth, then my time, then my throat. Then the esophagus going down, all: the big: right to the back until it comes out. Everything is cursing me. Why did you put this harming me? It's filthy. It's bad. I don't want it, but every single one of us. Cannot feel that we don't realize it, but it contaminates all our organs and they all curse us to the degree that they will bear witness against us on
the day of the JAMA. We don't want that to happen. Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala speaks through rasulallah. Salallahu, alaihe, wasalam, telling us that that portion of Flesh, which has been built, or which has been made through, Haram will never ever enter Jannah and now hula be because Is it needs to go into the fire to be burnt out? Only pure things can enter Jannah for that. Reason. It is of utmost importance.
We will rather lose money and Ran's and property, and what have you then to even have a little bit of her Army now? Income, may Allah, forgive us. All and may Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala grant us the full benefit of the month of Ramadan. Allah. Subhanahu wa'ta'ala, accept us all sallallahu wasallam. All barik, ala, nabina, Muhammad.