Test of wealth

Auto-generated transcript: As-salatu wa-salaamu ala ash-shalafi al-anbiya wal-mursaleen, Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi salam, tasliman kathirun kathirun. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, we are looking at the four tests that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala described in Surah Al-Kahf. The test of faith, the test of wealth, the test of knowledge, and the test of power and authority. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to save us from all these tests and other tests. These tests are particularly important because they are the test of power and authority. These are the ways in which the Dajjal will deceive the people. He will put before them these tests. He will say, "Worship me instead of Allah," meaning obey me instead of Allah. And he will show them wealth. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will cause everything is from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. The power comes only from Allah. Allah will cause the Dajjal to have such power that he will create wealth from nothing. The earth will open for him and gold and what not will come out of the earth for him. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will cause him to have knowledge more than anybody else. Like Iblis had knowledge. But the knowledge of Iblis sent him to Jahannam, did not save him from Jahannam. And so also power and authority with the Dajjal. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will give him power and he will use it in disobedience of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, not in obedience. So we ask Allah to save us from this. The second test which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentioned, which we will talk about today inshaAllah, is the test of wealth. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentioned these two friends, one of whom was very wealthy. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala described in detail in the surah, the nature of the wealth he had. Allah said, "We gave him two gardens of grapes, two vineyards." And Allah did not say how, what is the extent of that, what is the acreage. He said two vineyards, two gardens of grapes and we surrounded them with dead palms. So these were two gardens within gardens, orchards within orchards. And then Allah said, "We gave a river between all of this." So all of this was irrigated, all of this was done. And remember Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying, "we gave." Allah is not saying that man worked hard and he built it from his effort. No, Allah said, "we gave him." So the first thing we understand is that all blessings, all blessings come from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala only. There is no blessing that comes from anywhere else. Number one. Number two, blessings come because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants to give. There is no other reason. Allah gives and therefore we get the blessings. The third thing is in the case of this man, obviously all that he had was halal. Because Allah said he gave it. So where is the question of harab? There is no harab involved in it. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave him all of this harab. Despite that, now see what the man did. The man took pride in that. He became arrogant because of that. He said, "All of this I have." And therefore he said to his friend, he said, "I am better than you. And I have more Izzah than you. I have more prestige than you. I have more children than you have." And so on and so on. So this wealth which he had, which he got from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as a gift, which was halal wealth, he became arrogant with this wealth. Instead of becoming humble and saying, "SubhanAllah I am nothing," Allah has given me all this. Instead of that he became arrogant because of this wealth. And when he became arrogant because of this wealth, his friend said to him, "What kind of man are you? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala created you from dust. And then he described the process of creation. He said from dust and then from nutfah and mudghah and so on. This is your reality. As I have said many times before, who am I? Who are you? You are that person who after Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala caused you to be set in the womb of your mother, after the sperm was ejected, both your mother and father went and made ghusl. This is who you are. You are the name of a dangerous danger. I am. After the birth of this child, both mother and father made ghusl. It didn't work out with the husband, they had to make him go through it. This is our reality. This is our status. Now, apart from this, whatever Allah has given you, whatever you have, women, country, crown on your head, and what all is there, all this is Allah's gift. You have no quality in this. We have no quality. From this Allah has created whatever Allah has given us. He gave you palaces, and He gave you gold and silver, and He gave you WhatsApp, and He put a crown on your head, and all this. All of this is from Allah. So the position of the slave must be the position of sajdah. A position of shukr, and a position of complete obedience to Allah. Whatever Allah commanded, I do. We heard and gave. Whatever Allah says, we have heard and we obey. We obey because Allah said this. We don't obey because we always understand it, or it always makes sense, or it is scientific, or it is this or that. No. It may be, it may not be. When something, when we say it may not be, we are not saying it is illogical, it is mindless. No. We don't understand the logic of that. There is a huge difference. Just because I don't understand something, does not mean it does not exist. Does not mean it is not valid. Doesn't mean it won't work. Right. If I ask you, exactly how these phones work, do you understand? Nobody understands. You don't understand. How do you say, now whatever I say, this is sound waves. This is being recorded into this device. And then this device transmits this across the world. So the point is that, for all this, you have to make sugar to Allah. So this man, instead of having, making sugar, so his friend reminded him, he said, "Be thankful to Allah. Don't be ungrateful to Allah. Allah has given you all this." But the man didn't listen. So Allah destroyed all of it. What Allah gives, Allah can take away. The man was arrogant. The man said, "I Allah, I have all of this and you know, I am blessed. And when I go to, first of all, he denied the meeting with Allah. Then he said, even if I meet Allah, nothing will happen. I will have this and more there. To have hope, to have hope in the mercy and forgiveness and the ni'mah, tawallah and Jannah, without working for it, without doing anything, is lies, it's falsehood. Allah can give whatever He wants to whoever He wants. But Allah is the one who made the rules. Allah said, "You do this, you get that." There is no promise of Allah in the Quran, which is not connected with some action. Allah did not say, don't do anything, I will give you Jannah. No. Do this, you get that. Do this, you do that. Man ja'a bil hasanati, falahu ashru amthaliha. The one who comes with one hasana, I will give him ten likewise. Allah did not say, the one who comes with nothing, I will give him. No. You have to bring that one. In the hadith, Nabi said, "Allah says, my slave comes to me walking, my slave comes to me, my slave comes to me, one, this, you know, hand span, balis is what it is called. And Allah said, I will come to him with one arm length. He comes to me walking, I will come to him running. But Allah did not say, my slave can sit wherever he is, I will come to him. No. Make the effort. Try to be obedient. Change something in life. You cannot live the same life of ignorance, and then you expect everything will be good. No. If we are on the contrary, if we are living a life of disobedience, and you find that wealth is coming to you, and name is coming to you, and fame is coming to you, and power is coming to you, this is the sign that the door of hidayah has been shut down. And Jahannam has been written for you. Because Allah said in Surah Al-Anaam, very clearly, Allah said, when they transgress, after being reminded, and after being warned, they don't listen, they do that, what happens to them? Allah said, "We open on all things, and we open on all things." And Allah said, "we open on them, we open the doors of everything." On whom? On those who are disobeying, and who are insisting on disobeying. You can say whatever, I will continue. Alright, do it. Then Allah said, okay, do it. And then Allah said, then we catch them. Baghatatan. Faidahum mubilisdoon. And they will be broken in spirit. They will not even get chance to make tawbah. Not even get chance to make safar. So when you find, these people ask, Imam Shafi'i Ravindra Ali, this question, they said, yeah Imam, you say that, you know, if you do good, you will get good, if you do evil, Allah will punish you, but we don't see this happening in the world. We see people doing so much of evil, nothing happens to them. They have power and authority and what not. You are seeing it, right now you are seeing it. So how is it true? Imam Shafi'i Ravindra Ali recited this ayat, Surah Al-Tala'ah. And he said, see what Allah says. Allah says, when they transgress and they exceed, and they exceed all boundaries, we open on them the doors of everything. Allah does not catch immediately. Allah says, "Okay, do it." And then when they are completely immersed in doing all the evil that they can do, now because they have authority, they have power, nobody can question them, all the wealth in the world, Allah says, "we catch them in a way where they will not have a chance to say sorry. They will not have a chance to apologize to Allah SWT. And then they are only soon broken in spirit. We ask Allah to save us from this. Always, always, always be conscious. The cure for this is, remember death. The cure for all of these things is to remember our death. Is to remember that one day I will die. I went to Bakhi yesterday, I think. Today is our seerah program there. So I went to check out the place. And I was standing there and looking at that Qabaristan.