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Alhamdulillah
Which means, as we discussed, Allah SWT said, Every living soul will taste death.
Every living soul will taste death.
And only on the Day of Judgment will you see, will you receive your full reward. And the one who is freed from the hellfire and entered into Jannah, only that person is successful. And the life of this world is nothing but deception.
So we looked at the first three of these things in the last few days. Today we look at the last one.
Omalhayatudunya, illa mata’ul quroor.
Again, the bayan of the Quran, Allah SWT is emphasizing through the grammar.
When we say mal, we say wa ma’al. That’s how the two are connected. Nothing but.
Allah is saying this dunya, this life of this dunya is nothing but deception. So what is the deception? What is the deception? Now, maybe some of you will say, now with AI and all the fake videos and all that. This is all superficial. This is all, this is not deception. We know it is deception. See, for a deception to be successful, you must believe it. If you are seeing something fake, you know it’s fake. Where is the deception? There is no deception. For something to be deception, you must believe that it’s true. Right? Then only it is, otherwise where is it? You can see it is false. You know, you are saying it’s false. There is no deception. To give you an example, I was many, many years ago, I was in California, in San Francisco. I was, went there to teach a course and reached there one evening. The course was next morning. The whole evening was free. And there was a, right opposite my hotel, in the Marriott, right opposite the Marriott, there was a huge theatre, which was a 3D theatre. So, I decided to go see that movie. So, it was something about sharks. So, they give you those 3D glasses, goggles, and you sit there and the, it was two or three, there was one part about sharks, there was another one about the, you know, the, you know, the sharks. There was another one about the, about the universe and so on. So, you sit in the special chairs and the chairs also kind of move to, you know, give you a, an experience of reality. And really, without, without any, this is like maybe almost 30, 35 years ago. To this day, I remember it. It was so powerful. And I can tell you that through that whole movie, it was literally, in the sharks movie, it was like the shark was going to come out of the screen and, you know, swallow me or something. That real. And if at that time, if you had, you know, attached sensors to my body, you would have seen how my blood pressure and electrical impulses in the brain and everything else, how they would have been working. Right? And at that time, if you asked me, do you remember why you are here? Why did you come to San Francisco? What is going to happen tomorrow morning? Nothing. All of that is gone. I am in the movie. I am literally in the sea with the shark. But that is deception. That is the deception. Because I’m not in the, I’m not in with the shark. I’m not, I’m not in the movie. I’m not in the movie. I’m not in the movie. I’m not in the movie. I’m not in the shark. I’m not in any danger. I’m not in the sea. But I believe I am. Right? And you don’t need to go into a 3D theatre to, to, to feel all this. Movies are a good thing to understand something which are much more important than the movie. But any movie you see, if it’s a sad scene, you are affected. You feel sad. Right? You might even cry. If it’s a happy scene, you will feel happy. But you know yourself that what is happening on the screen is all acting. If somebody is dying, he’s not dying. If somebody is, some, someone’s heart is broken, it’s not broken. If somebody is, you know, in some sort of situation or desperation, they’re not. It’s all acting. We know this. But we are completely hooked into that. So if you are crying in the movies, why are you crying? Are you stupid? I mean, why, why are you crying? Because that’s a thing happening there. It’s not happening there. It’s a, it’s a, it’s an action. You know, it’s a, it’s a script of a, of a movie. It’s play acting. Why are you crying? But we get so involved. So the deception of this world, which Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala has created, is not Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney worried. Then he said, and do not worry, do not carry the burden of the worry of sustenance, my rizq. Rasool Allah said, if you wake up in the morning healthy, your body is functioning, you don’t have dementia, you don’t have Alzheimer’s, you’re not paralyzed, you can’t get out of bed, nothing, Alhamdulillah. Maybe you have some aches and pains, this is all part of life, you get older, aches and pains, what? You can get up, you get up, you make wudu, you make salah, you do this, that, walk around, what not, make some tea. So your body is functioning. You wake up in the morning, your body is functioning, you’re healthy. You have a roof over your head. You’re not living in a tent in Gaza. You have a roof over your head. Right? A roof over your head means what? Also aman, Alhamdulillah. You don’t have to fear, if somebody is going to come, bandits are going to come, you know, loot me or kill me, no, nothing, Alhamdulillah. And you have enough food for the day. Go and open your fridge, may Allah have mercy on us. How much we need to thank Allah SWT.
In the fridge you have easily enough food for a month. Easy, without any exaggeration. If you ration that food and eat it, one meal a day, which is more than sufficient to keep us, you know, healthy and happy. There’s enough food in the, in any average refrigerator for a month. In this country, in India, in America you will have for a year, because you’ll have a fridge on top, you have a freezer at the bottom, in the, in the basement. How much food we have we keep, especially in America, we have much food we put into our refrigerator and freezers and throw. Because date expired, this expired, that expired, you didn’t even, you bought it, you put it, you even forgot about it, you never used it, and then you throw it. And what is the Rasool , he is saying for one day, for today, if you have enough food. You wake up healthy. You have a roof over your head, which means you are living in a state of Amman and peace, and you have enough food for the day, he says for such a person, it is as if the entire world has been collected for him, to believe anything other than, this is deception, Now, you might say, Well, how do I, you know, if I am believing other than that, look at yourself, look at yourself, think about yourself, think about yourself, think about yourself, at yourself, look at your own priorities, look at what you are worried about, look at what you get irritated about. I want to go somewhere, I can’t go now, I get irritated. Why? What will happen? Is that a question of the day of judgment for you? Did you go to that place on that time? What’s the irritation? If you didn’t go today, go tomorrow. Maybe you’ll be dead tomorrow, how do you know? If you’re alive, go tomorrow. What’s the irritation? Deception of this world, I have to go now. For what? One little thing. Just think about it. How much time do we spend decorating our houses? To give you an example all of us travel alhamdulillah so we are in airports how many of you are conscious actually conscious if I ask you you came through say for example you come from I came just now from America so we came through Dubai if you ask me did you go to the lounge yes please describe the lounge for me what is the what is the decor what’s the overall color the carpets this unless I knew you’re going to ask me the question and I consciously note I won’t notice anything yeah it’s nice place beautiful whatnot when I go there I’m you know what’s the food like go eat some nice food if time for Salah go to the Musalla you pray if there is some more time maybe you lie down for a little bit I you are you concerned worried early this sofa you know the sofa there doesn’t really look nice there I should move it I think the carpet of the carpet and the sofa color doesn’t match I mean dude does any of this come to us why why not because we know that in two hours in three hours and whatever I have a flight to catch what do I get this lounge on the carpet on the cut my cousin is letting me get to the boarding gate in time to catch my flight that is the cousin what about this world what about this world just yesterday I was talking to a friend of mine you came to see me and he told me He said, me, my brother, two brothers, we bought land in Mohinabad and we built farmhouses.
And he said, my brother, the whole farmhouse, everything was completed and so on and so forth. He did not even get to spend one minute in that house and he died. He said, I did not even get to spend one minute in that house and he died. Yes, yesterday.
This is the deception. The deception of this world is that shaitan convinces us that this is permanent. At the end. The Akhirah is not permanent. The Akhirah will not happen. Somebody else will die.
If you say, who will die? I say, all of these will die. See my circle? All of these will die. Where am I? Am I in the circle? I’m outside the circle. All of these will die. I should do this circle like this, no? Including me, no? All of these will die. Now, logically, if I ask you, will you die? You will never say no. I mean, everybody. But. But how is our life? Our life, the way we live it is, everyone will die except me.
Because if I know I will die, what must I be thinking? The airport is a good example. This flight is a good example. What is your focus? Your focus is, I must catch my plane. I must catch my flight. I must not miss my flight. Everything is secondary. Yeah, there is a lounge. Yes, there is shopping. Yes, there is this. Yes, there is that. But I must catch my flight. That is the only. Only.
Focus that I have. The rest of it, alhamdulillah. If it is good, that’s fine. If it is not good, who cares, man? I’ve got to catch my flight. It doesn’t matter. One hour, two hours. It will pass. What can I do?
But our life, we don’t live like this, no? The biggest deception. That this life of this world is permanent. It’s not permanent. And please understand. The issue is not in here. It’s not in the head. It’s not in the head. The issue is in the heart. The issue is visible in our actions.
So where do we spend more time? Meaning, intellectual time, emotional time.
We all are concerned about our physical health. We should be.
We should be. I’m the last person in the world to say, don’t worry about it. No, of course, you should. You should exercise. You should eat properly. You should eat properly. You should eat properly. You should eat properly. You should eat properly. You should eat properly. You should eat properly. You should eat properly. You should eat properly. Whatever, right? But how many of us are concerned about our spiritual health? If Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala decides to expose our spirit, if you can see my row, what will it look like?
Will it look nice and healthy and beautiful? Or will you say, my God, what is this?
It’s like a skeleton.
It’s like somebody with leprosy. No, it’s not. The nose is missing, hands are missing, eyes are missing, because you cannot see the haqq, So eyes are gone.
There are no ears. There are holes because you can’t hear the Aq.
What does it look like?
This is Allah SWT’s mercy. Allah has not, Allah has kept our Ruhaniyat hidden.
But it is there. Allah is not showing it to the world, but the condition of the soul. How much are we concerned about the condition of our soul? I must get my food on time. It must be this kind of food. It must be tasty. Oh, Alhamdulillah, do all that.
But do we stop and say, did I get food for my soul today?
How much Quran did I read? That’s the food for the soul. Tilawatul Zukurah, how much do I read?
How much Salat and Salam did I send on Rasulullah SAW? Because every time I send Salat and Salam on Rasulullah SAW, Allah SWT, sends Salat and Salam on me 10 times. Rasulullah SAW said, whoever sends Duruud on me once, Allah sends Salat and Salam on that person 10 times.
So we don’t want Salat and Salam from Allah?
So how many times do we recite Duruud on a daily basis? What about Istighfar?
Rasulullah SAW said, the one who is engaged in Istighfar, continuously engaged in Istighfar, continuously engaged in Istighfar, Allah SWT will solve his problems in this life.
Allah will solve his problems.
That’s why Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyah said, don’t worry about, he said, don’t worry about the worries of this life, because that’s for Allah. Don’t worry about sustenance, because sustenance is from Allah. He said, don’t worry about the future, because the future is in the hands of Allah. He said, worry only about one thing, which is pleasing Allah.
Nothing else. Worry about pleasing Allah SWT. And worry means actual worry.
Just keep you awake in the night, say, what am I doing it? Please Allah SWT. Because if Allah SWT is pleased, then He said, Allah will please you, and Allah will solve your problems, and Allah will protect you from all harm. So, I remind myself and you, there’s deception of this world, of this life. It’s not science, technology, and film, and AI, no, no. It’s all superficial stuff. The biggest deception of this world, of this life is, it makes, Satan makes us feel that this life is permanent, and the Akhirah is not there.
Whereas the actual thing is the opposite. This life has no permanence. It’s all temporary. And the Akhirah is real.
The Akhirah is what is real. And if I really believe, and if you really believe the Akhirah is real, the question to ask is, what am I doing for that reality?
Al-Walid bin Abdul Malik, who was the Khalifa, he came to, for Umrah,
and after he finished his Umrah, he asked, the people, any of the Ta’baeen, are they around in Makkah? They said yes. So they took him to one of the Ta’baeen of Rasulullah SAW.
And he said to him, he said, I am afraid of death. So please advise me.
I fear death.
Why do I fear death?
So the Ta’baeen said to him,
he said, where is your wealth? He said, He said, I have palaces, this, that, what not. He said, where are your palaces? He said, I have got one here, one there, one there.
Where is your army? He said, here.
He said, that is why you fear death. Because all your assets are here. You got your bank balances, you got this, you got that, my portfolio value.
At least those days when they said they had assets, they actually had assets. Which is gold bars and silver and what not. Today your portfolio value, all deception, complete deception. Value of shares, in one second it goes up and down. That’s how they manipulate currencies.
Right? America prints green pieces of paper, and then they print the same paper. And then they print the same paper. The shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping shopping into some place which is a, you know, virani jaga hai, viran hai, banjar hai, padawa hai, some ruin, some… You won’t like to do that, so you are afraid.
And this applies to every one of us. May Allah have mercy on us.
To build assets in this world is so difficult. It’s not easy. Say, if I want to buy a flat, how much? What does it take to earn whatever number of crores it’s… the thing costs? Where is one Subhanallah?
With sithq, with real sincerity, concentration, one Subhanallah.
The value of that? Sulaiman alayhi salam was going somewhere with all his amis and what not, flying through the air. And there was a poor man standing on the ground. He looked at him and said, Subhanallah. Subhanallah.
Sulaiman alayhi salam came down. To him. He said, what did you say? The man got frightened. You are a king and you know all this. He said, no, I just said, I said, Subhanallah. Allah has given you. He said, by the one in whose hand is my soul, that one Subhanallah has more value than everything I have.
One Subhanallah. Allah made it easy, man. To earn the Akhir, Allah made it very easy. you don’t need money you don’t need time you don’t need energy you don’t have to fight nothing just make sugar to Allah SWT Alhamdulillah try to do as much good as you can do fulfill fara’id earn halal eat halal fulfill your fara’id Alhamdulillah keep making istighfar Allah SWT will forgive we ask Allah SWT to forgive us we ask Allah SWT to cover us with His mercy and His cover we ask Allah SWT to help us to make the Akhirah real in our lives we ask Allah SWT to help us to prioritize our life and to put the real priorities in front and not get deceived by Shaitan Wasallallahu Ala Nabil Karimu Ala Alihi Wasallamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh