Future – 4 stages – #5

Auto-generated transcript: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?