Hazrat Moulana Dawood Seedat Saheb Madrasah Isha'atul Haq · Albert Falls Albert Falls, KwaZulu-Natal
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Madrasah Isha'atul Haq · Albert Falls Albert Falls, KwaZulu-Natal · 2026
Surah As Sajdah - Part 2 | Hazrat Moulana Dawood Seedat Saheb
29 Jamaadil Ula 1448
Tafseer
Tafseer Surah As Sajdah - Part 2 Hazrat Moulana Dawood Seedat Saheb
Hijri date 29 Jamaadil Ula 1448
Date 9 November 2026
Duration 30:33
Venue Musjid Isha'atul Haq, Albert Falls Summary Main Topic
A comprehensive tafseer of verses 10 to 22 of Surah As-Sajdah, addressing the disbelievers' skepticism regarding resurrection, the ultimate regret of transgressors on the Day of Judgment, the distinguished traits of sincere believers, and the spiritual significance of worldly hardships.
Key Lessons
Necessity of Iman bil Ghayb: True faith requires believing in Allah Ta'ala, the unseen, and the Hereafter based on divine revelation rather than demanding physical evidence, after which faith holds no value.The Finality of the Dunya: Pleading for a second chance after witnessing the reality of the afterlife will be rejected; salvation requires proactive belief and good deeds before death.Attributes of True Believers: Sincere believers submit completely to divine commands without pride, glorify Allah Ta'ala, sacrifice sleep for nighttime worship (Tahajjud), and maintain a balance of fear and hope.Hardship as a Divine Warning: Minor afflictions and illness in this world serve as a 'nearer punishment' to awaken heedless souls, encouraging repentance before encountering the ultimate punishment.Mercy vs. Punishment in Trials: A trial that draws a servant closer to Allah Ta'ala is a blessing and mercy, while a hardship that drives one deeper into transgression or despair is a punishment.Dangers of Justifying Sin: Attempting to rationalize or defend unlawful actions (such as interest) when reminded of Allah's clear verses is an extreme form of spiritual arrogance.
Quranic/Hadith References
Surah As-Sajdah (32:10-12): Skepticism of resurrection, the soul-taking by the Angel of Death, and the regretful posture of sinners pleading to be sent back.Surah As-Sajdah (32:13-14): Divine judgment and the eternal consequences for those who forgot their meeting with their Lord.Surah As-Sajdah (32:15-17): Virtues of those who prostrate humbly, separate their sides from their beds in devotion, give in charity, and the hidden delights prepared for them.Surah As-Sajdah (32:18-22): The stark contrast between the obedient and the corrupt, the decree of the 'nearer punishment' (al-'adhab al-adna), and the severe warning against turning away from reminders.
Practical Advice
Establish regular Tahajjud prayer, even in brief intervals, making the necessary sacrifice against physical comfort to converse with Allah Ta'ala.
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0:03 Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. 0:08 A'udhu billahi minash shaitanir rajim. 0:10 Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. 0:15 Wa qaloo a'idha dhalalna fi al-ardi a'inna lafi khalqin jadeed. 0:23 Bal hum bi liqai rabbihim kafiroon. 0:28 Surah Al-Baqarah. 0:29 Surah Al-Baqarah. 0:43 Rabbana. 0:44 Absarna. 0:45 Wasamina. 0:46 Fawji'na. 0:47 Na'mal. 0:47 Saliham. 0:48 Inna. 0:49 Moukinun. 0:51 Walaw shi'na. 0:52 La atayna. 0:53 Kullanafsin hudaha. 0:55 Walakin haqqa al-qawlu minni. 0:59 Walakin haqqal qawlu minni la amla anna jahannama minal jinnati wal nasi ajna'in. 1:07 Sadaqallahu alayhim. 1:09 Alhamdulillah. 1:10 With the fazal karam and ihsan of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 1:14 We now come to verse number 10 of Surah Alif Lamim. 1:18 Sajda. 1:21 Allah Rabbul Izzat mentions and they said is it 1:27 That when we disappear in the earth, shall we really come into a new creation? 1:34 Rather, they are the ones who deny the meeting with their Rabb. 1:39 So this is an age-old argument of the Mushrikeen. 1:43 They keep on arguing that how is it that after we die and we are turned to dust, how are we going to come back to life? 1:51 So they don't believe in the doctrine of Ba'ath, Ba'ath al-Mawth, resurrection after death. 1:58 So again, they put this argument forward. 2:02 So Allah Ta'ala says that these are the ones who deny the meeting with their Rabb. 2:08 So Allah Ta'ala tells Nabiya Karim sallallahu alayhi wasallam to say to them, Qul. 2:13 Say. 2:14 The angel of death who has been assigned to you will take you in full. 2:22 Then you will be brought back to your Rabb. 2:25 And you will wonder. 2:28 If you see the sinners hanging their heads before their Rabb, saying, Our Rabb, we have now seen and we have heard, so send us back and we will do righteous deeds. 2:42 Surely we are believers. 2:45 So Allah Ta'ala is describing the moment on the day of Tiyamah. 2:50 First, the angel of death will take our souls. 2:54 Then we will be in our qabar, etc. 2:57 Thereafter, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will order the second blowing of the trumpet. 3:02 And everybody will rise. 3:04 Everybody will go in front of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 3:08 So that same meeting which the kuffar are denying, now that meeting will take place. 3:14 So Allah Ta'ala describes how the disbelievers and the sinners will be on that day. 3:22 That they will be hanging their heads in shame. 3:24 Because the same thing that they denied, now they are witnessing it. 3:29 They will be hanging their heads in shame now in front of Allah Ta'ala. 3:33 And they will be saying to Allah, the Ruhullah, we have now seen. 3:38 We have seen everything. 3:39 We have heard everything. 3:41 So now we are believers. 3:42 So send us back to the world. 3:44 In other words, give us a second chance. 3:45 We'll go to the world. 3:46 Now we'll live a life of piety. 3:50 So Allah Ta'ala says, وَلَوْ شِئْنَا لَآتِنَا كُلَّ نَفْسٍ هُدَاهَا وَلَكِنْ حَقَّ الْقَوْلُ مِنِّي لَأَمْنَ أَنَّ جَهَنَّمَ مِنَ الْجِنَّةِ وَالنَّاسِ أَجْمَعِينَ 4:07 If we had so willed, Allah Almighty is saying, if we wanted, we would have given everybody his right way by force. 4:17 In other words, by force, every person would have had to have been on hidayat. 4:25 But that was not the purpose. 4:28 The purpose was to give us a choice. 4:30 Send us into the world as a test. 4:33 Al-Fatihah. 4:58 You know, Allah Ta'ala protect us but he ends up in a situation where he has to go to Jahannam. 5:03 And now he's hanging his head down in shame and he's saying that, Ya Allah, now I have seen and I have heard, now send me back, I will be pious. 5:12 It's too late. 5:15 If it was going to be like that, that everybody was going to be given hidayat, then Allah would have forced everybody. 5:24 Now Allah wants us to bring Iman in the unseen. 5:28 Not after you see. 5:30 You must bring Iman in Allah's word. 5:33 Bring Iman in Allah's word. 5:36 Not now. 5:37 After you saw with your eyes, now you're saying, no, I bring Iman. 5:40 Then that means you never trusted Allah. 5:43 You had no faith. 5:44 Understand? 5:45 It's like if somebody has to come here now and he says, there's a lion outside. 5:55 Somebody walks in here and he says, there's a lion outside. 5:58 So you say, no, you're lying. 5:59 Where are you going to get a lion here? 6:02 I'm telling you there's a lion outside. 6:05 So no, you're lying. 6:06 Can never be. 6:08 So he tells you, look from the window. 6:11 You'll see there's a lion outside. 6:14 Now you open the window and you look from there and you see a lion and you hear it roaring. 6:23 And now you say, yeah, man, you were right. 6:26 So who you believe it? 6:28 Did you believe him? 6:29 You didn't believe him. 6:32 You believed your eyes. 6:35 So like that, Allah Ta'ala is telling us, this is my Nabi. 6:39 There is a Jannat. 6:40 There is a Jahannam. 6:41 There is a life after death. 6:43 There is a day of Tiyamah. 6:45 Right? 6:46 And Allah wants us to bring Iman on His word. 6:50 Now a person doesn't bring Iman. 6:52 He denies everything. 6:53 And then when he passes away, he sees now that, hey, all this is true. 6:57 Whatever was being said to us in the world is true. 6:59 And now he says, no, send me back. 7:01 Now I'll be pious. 7:02 No, it's too late. 7:03 Now you won't be bringing Iman bil Ghayb. 7:08 You have to bring Iman in the unseen. 7:11 Understand? 7:12 Jail. 7:15 So Allah Ta'ala says, وَلَكِنْ حَقَّ الْقَوْلُ مِنِّي But the word from me has come to pass. 7:20 لَأَمْلَأَنَّ جَهَنَّمَ مِنَ الْجِنَّةِ وَالنَّاسِ أَجْمَعِينَ I will certainly fill Jahannam with jinn and human beings together. 7:32 In other words, all those who don't bring Iman, they are going to go to Jahannam forever and ever. 7:36 So my word has to come, has to be true. 7:40 This is what I said. 7:41 This is what's going to happen. 7:42 Now if I'm going to give everybody a second chance and send them in the world, then my word won't come true. 7:48 That Jahannam is also going to be full. 7:51 You had your chance. 7:52 You threw the chance away. 7:54 Allah protect us. 7:55 Allah protect us. 7:56 Jee. 7:57 So another discussion is brought here by the Mufassireen is with regards to Malakul Maut. 8:04 Allah Ta'ala says, The angel of death will take you in full. 8:10 In other words, he will take your life. 8:12 So the question that arises, does the angel of death... 8:18 Only take the souls of humans or does the angel of death take everything so? 8:25 Whether it's a bird, whether it's a fish, whether it's an animal. 8:29 So there are different views on both sides. 8:31 Those of you that want to read the whole discussion, you can go through it. 8:35 It's interesting. 8:37 But what we do know is he will take our life. 8:40 Whether he is taking the animals' lives also. 8:42 There are proofs on both sides. 8:44 And views on both sides. 8:46 Jeeb. 8:47 So Allah Ta'ala says, So now have a taste. 8:50 In other words, a taste of azab. 8:52 A taste of punishment. 8:54 Allah save us. 9:09 So now have a taste. 9:11 Because you had forgotten the meeting of this day of yours. 9:16 In other words, you denied this day of meeting. 9:19 That there is going to be a day of Qiyamah and each one of us we are going to be presented in front of Allah Ta'ala. 9:25 You denied this. 9:26 You forgot about this. 9:27 Now taste. 9:29 We have now forgotten you. 9:32 In other words, we will put you into Jahannam and we will forget about you there. 9:35 Not that Allah will forget, but it will be like you are now lost and gone and forgotten. 9:43 And taste the eternal punishment for what you used to do. 9:48 So everything is based on our deeds. 9:52 We can't have wishful thinking. 9:55 Everything is based on our Iman and then our deeds. 9:59 If a person, his iman is corrupt, then he will go to Jahannam. 10:03 If a person has got iman, but his deeds are corrupt, then there is a possibility he will go to Jahannam first to pay for his sins, then go to Jannat. 10:13 So our aamal is very, very important. 10:15 Many people, they say, no, my iman is in my heart. 10:18 No, it's not sufficient. 10:19 If you got iman, if we got iman in our heart, then the iman must show in our actions. 10:25 Our Hazrat Muhammad S.A.W. 10:26 used to say, 10:30 It is possible that a person's outward is very good. 10:36 He's wearing kurta, amama, you know, or the ladies in hijab, niqab, everything. 10:42 But the heart is corrupt. 10:44 That's possible. 10:46 But it is impossible that the heart is good and the outside is corrupt. 10:52 Kanbi. 10:53 If the heart is good, then automatically the outside will also be good. 10:57 You understand? 10:58 Ji. 11:00 So now Allah Ta'ala describes the believers. 11:04 Only those people believe in our verses. 11:20 Who, when they are reminded of them, when they are reminded of the verses of Allah Ta'ala, they fall into sajda and they pronounce the purity with praise of their Rabb and they do not wax proud. 11:36 A person who doesn't submit to Allah Ta'ala, that person is waxing proud. 11:40 Allah Ta'ala protect us from this pride. 11:43 The pride is what causes us not to submit to the laws of Allah Ta'ala. 11:48 So a true mu'min, when he is reminded of the laws of Allah Ta'ala, he submits himself. 11:55 He submits himself and he glorifies the praises of his Rabb and he doesn't wax proud. 12:03 So this ayat, this ayat is an ayat of sajda. 12:08 So we must remember to make the sajda tirawat, right? 12:13 So, one is physically making a sajda. 12:16 And the other is submission. 12:18 That any law of Allah Ta'ala, any hukam of Allah Ta'ala, any decree of Allah Ta'ala, we must submit to it. 12:26 Unquestionably. 12:28 With no questions, we submit. 12:31 That this is the law, as long as it is proven authentically, that this is the law of Allah Ta'ala, we submit to it wholeheartedly. 12:39 Understand? 12:39 Yes. 12:41 Another quality of the true believers. 12:51 They separate their sides from their resting places. 13:01 Calling unto their Rabb with fear and with hope. 13:06 You got to have both these qualities. 13:09 One side be fear. 13:11 The punishment of Allah. 13:13 And on the other hand, we have hope in the mercy of Allah. 13:18 When we are younger, we must have more fear. 13:23 As we get older, we must have more hope. 13:27 Have more hope. 13:34 A young person, nafs is running wild. 13:41 So rather have more fear. 13:43 Keep the nafs in check. 13:45 Older person is more matured. 13:48 More calm. 13:49 He's made islah to a certain degree, certain extent. 13:53 So with him now he's going towards his qabar. 13:56 He must have more hope in the mercy and the forgiveness of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 14:01 Ji. 14:03 Wa mimma razaqanahum yunfiqoon. 14:07 And from that which we have provided for them, they spend 14:11 So these are the qualities of believers. 14:15 One is their Iman is correct. 14:18 They believe in Allah Ta'ala. 14:20 They submit wholeheartedly. 14:21 Whenever they are reminded of a command of Allah, a decree of Allah Ta'ala, they happily submit to it. 14:27 Number two, they are humble people. 14:29 They don't wax. 14:30 You know, they don't have pride in them. 14:32 They don't wax proud. 14:34 Then, according to most Mufassireen, it refers to the time of Tahajjud Salah. 14:44 That when the sleep is so sweet, especially in summer. 14:47 You know, in summer, the night is very short. 14:52 Now I think Tahajjud is ending around 25 past 3. 14:57 So if you want to wake up for Tahajjud namaz, you have to wake up now by like 3 o'clock. 15:02 If you want to make even more, you have to wake up even earlier. 15:05 So you have to wake up very early. 15:08 The night is short. 15:09 Isha is late. 15:11 Tahajjud is early. 15:13 In the winter months, it's easy. 15:15 It's easier. 15:16 But in the winter, you have to battle the cold. 15:19 The bed is warm and to come out is cold. 15:22 So in both there is a qurbani. 15:25 There is a mujahada. 15:26 There is a sacrifice. 15:28 But if Allah Ta'ala blesses somebody with the sweetness. 15:32 Allah Ta'ala blesses somebody with the sweetness of calling unto Allah in the hour in the morning. 15:40 Then, the short night won't keep him away. 15:44 The cold night won't keep him away. 15:46 Nothing will keep him away. 15:48 He will make sure he wakes up at that time. 15:52 My beloved is calling me. 15:53 I'm going to separate myself from this bed. 15:56 And I'm going to go and talk to my beloved. 15:59 Allah Ta'ala. 16:01 So, other unama say it refers to Fajr namaz. 16:04 Other unama say it refers to any time. 16:07 You're lying down and it's namaz time comes. 16:10 You must be able to tear yourself away from that bed. 16:14 And the other thing is have fear and hope in Allah Ta'ala and 16:19 Be generous. 16:21 Be generous. 16:21 Whatever Allah has given us, share it with others. 16:24 So one is the obligatory spending like our zakat, our fitrah, our qurban, hajj, faraz, etc. 16:31 Those are all the obligatory spendings. 16:34 But then, even optional spending. 16:38 And Allah Ta'ala doesn't look at the quantity. 16:43 Allah looks at the quality. 16:45 Right? 16:46 If you don't have millions, how are you going to spend millions? 16:50 So Allah don't expect you. 16:51 Allah gave you rosy. 16:53 And Allah Ta'ala knows how much rosy He gave us. 16:56 So if Allah never give us in the millions and the billions, Allah doesn't expect us to spend in the millions and the billions. 17:02 Right? 17:03 If Allah Ta'ala gave us one rand and we spend 10 cents from the one rand. 17:09 We spent one-tenth of our wealth. 17:12 If Allah Ta'ala gave somebody 100 rand and he spends 10 rand, he spent also one-tenth. 17:17 Somebody Allah gave him 1000 rand, he spent 100 rand. 17:21 He also only spent one-tenth. 17:24 So Allah looks at the quality. 17:26 With what sincerity you want to give it. 17:30 So we must be generous. 17:33 Whatever we have, trying. 17:35 And sometimes we don't have wealth. 17:38 But we have expertise in something. 17:41 We may not have wealth. 17:43 But we got a know-how about something. 17:45 And somebody needs advice on that. 17:48 You offer the person advice. 17:50 Sometime maybe I don't have wealth but I got physical strength. 17:54 Right? 17:55 Now you are doing some work. 17:57 I can come and assist you to do the work. 18:01 All those are forms of being generous. 18:04 So when a person adopts this kind of life, then Allah Ta'ala says, So no one knows. 18:23 What delight of the eyes has been reserved for them in secret as a reward of what they used to do. 18:33 Again, actions. 18:34 Qanu ya'maloon. 18:36 Actions. 18:37 So we have to carry out good deeds. 18:39 Right? 18:40 The deed that makes us the closest to Allah Ta'ala is to make sure we complete all our farais. 18:46 And then a person continues carrying out nawafil, optional deeds, until he becomes the beloved of Allah. 18:53 Understand? 18:55 So don't confine ourselves only on the faraz. 18:59 Do the faraz, the sunnah mu'akkada, the wajib, and over and above that. 19:04 Nawafi. 19:05 Whether it is in namaz, whether it is in roza, whether it is in charities, whatever it may be, do optional deeds. 19:13 Over and above our obligatory deeds, carry out optional deeds as well. 19:19 Allah Ta'ala then asks, So can one who is a believer become like one who is a sinner? 19:34 La yastawoon. 19:35 They cannot become equal. 19:37 In other words, one person lived his life as a pious mu'min. 19:41 He stayed away from the sins. 19:43 So much of difficulty. 19:45 He made sure, you know, he was sacrificing for deen. 19:48 And on the other hand, you had a person, he never brought Iman. 19:52 He just carried on, you know, following his nafs, his desires, whether it came to zina, whether it came to gambling, whether it came to drugging. 20:03 Whatever it was, he just did whatever he wanted to do. 20:06 How can the both of them be the same? 20:09 Layas tawn. 20:12 The outcome of the two types of life cannot be the same. 20:16 As for those who brought Iman, they practiced good deeds. 20:19 They practiced good deeds. 20:39 For them, they are gardens. 20:42 Jannat. 20:43 Jannatul ma'wa. 20:45 Nuzulam bima kanu ya'malun. 20:47 They have gardens to live in. 20:50 And honorable hospitality. 20:53 Honorable hospitality for what they used to do. 20:57 Right? 20:58 Wa amma alladhina fasakoo. 21:01 And as for those who disobeyed, 21:06 Fasik. 21:07 Can also be disbelief. 21:09 Sometimes it comes for disbelief. 21:11 Sometimes it comes for disobeyed. 21:13 Both meanings. 21:14 So as for the one who disobeyed. 21:21 So their abode is the fire. 21:28 Every time they wish to come out from it, they will be returned into it. 21:35 In other words, there's no escape. 21:36 You can't come out. 21:42 And it will be said to them, Taste now. 21:46 Taste. 21:49 This punishment of the fire. 21:52 Alladhi kuntum bihi tukadhimun. 21:55 Which you used to belie. 21:58 In other words, when my Anbiya alayhimussalam, the messengers of Allah Ta'ala, when they warned us about the fire, when they warned us about punishments, then people used to deny. 22:11 Why it's not happening? 22:12 As we did in Surah Mulk. 22:15 We did Surah Mulk. 22:19 They used to mock the messengers, isn't it? 22:22 Say, why the punishment is not coming? 22:24 Why you don't drop the sky on us? 22:28 So now, they will get that fire. 22:30 Protect us. 22:36 And Allah Ta'ala says, وَلَنُذِيقَنَّهُمْ مِنَ الْعَذَابِ الْأَدْنَىٰ دُونَ الْعَذَابِ الْأَكْبَرِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْجِعُونَ Allah Ta'ala says, We will certainly make them taste the nearer punishment. 22:53 We will make them taste the nearer punishment before the greater punishment so that they may return. 23:00 In other words, in this world, in this very world, 23:04 When we go through difficulties, we go through difficulties, then it is a near punishment for us to reflect, to think, where am I going off? 23:20 I need to put myself right. 23:22 When I say, for example, a person suffers a heart attack. 23:25 Allah protect us. 23:26 A person suffers a heart attack. 23:29 Now he recovers from the heart attack. 23:31 Now it's time for him to think that, you know, I could have passed away. 23:37 I still got so many kazas. 23:40 My akhlaq is not right. 23:42 I'm owing somebody money. 23:45 I'm troubling my neighbor. 23:47 Right? 23:49 Now, what if I passed away? 23:50 I wouldn't have had no chance to make tawbah and istighfar. 23:53 So now let me take advantage. 23:56 Allah has given me a chance. 23:57 Let me make tawbah. 23:58 Let me make istighfar. 23:59 Whoever I'm owing, let me pay them. 24:01 Whoever I'm being nasty to, let me ask them for forgiveness. 24:04 Let me put my akhlaq right. 24:06 Let me change my life for the better. 24:08 Understand? 24:09 So Allah gives us sometimes a near punishment. 24:14 Before the greater punishment. 24:15 The greater punishment is in the hereafter. 24:18 So when things go off in our life, it is time for us to think. 24:23 But sometime it can also be a mercy. 24:25 Allah Ta'ala puts us through difficulties and Allah wants us to remain patient in that difficulty. 24:35 And by exercising patience, Allah Ta'ala is elevating our stages. 24:41 Allah Ta'ala is giving us lot of sawab. 24:44 The sawab that a person gets on the sabar he makes on his difficulties, he sometimes cannot attain that through his ibadat. 24:54 Understand? 24:56 So now, how will you know whether this is a mercy or whether this is a punishment? 25:03 So our late Sheikh has told us, when a person is going through a difficulty and that difficulty makes him closer to Allah Ta'ala, then that difficulty is actually a mercy. 25:19 A person is not well. 25:21 He gets some sickness or something, right? 25:25 Say now, for example, a person is diagnosed with cancer. 25:28 Allah protect us all. 25:30 The doctors tell the person, you know what, you've got a few months to live. 25:33 Obviously, they can't predict anything, but from a medical perspective, they say, no, you've got a few months to live. 25:38 So this person he says, hey, I only got few months to live. 25:42 Let me make the best of it. 25:44 He starts waking up for tahajjud. 25:46 He is reading Israq. 25:47 He is reading Dua. 25:48 He is reading Owa Bean. 25:49 He is increasing his tilawat of Quran Sharif. 25:52 He is making sure his akhlaq is 100%. 25:54 He is studying deen. 25:56 He is, you know, being charitable. 25:59 Everything he is doing. 26:01 So for him, this sickness was actually a mercy. 26:04 Because now it made him rise even higher and higher in the akhirah. 26:08 On the other hand, another person, he is told that you got cancer, now you got six months to live. 26:15 So he says, well, that's the end of things now. 26:19 So I always wanted to take that other drug. 26:22 Why must worry about my health now? 26:24 Let me just take those drugs also. 26:27 I always wanted to commit zina, but I was frightened for AIDS. 26:30 But now I already got cancer, I am dying. 26:32 So let me commit zina also. 26:35 So for him, that sickness is an azab because it's distancing him from Allah Ta'ala. 26:42 He say, what's the use now? 26:44 No, just sleep it out. 26:45 I'm not going to read Fajr and all that. 26:47 Just leave it now. 26:49 So for him, that sickness is an azab. 26:52 It's making him go further and further away from Allah Ta'ala. 26:55 You understand? 26:56 Jeeb. 26:58 Wa man adhlamu. 27:00 Mimman dhukkira bi ayati rabbihi. 27:03 Thumma a'rada anha. 27:05 Inna minal yudhimina muntakimuna. 27:08 Allah Ta'ala asks. 27:11 So this... 27:37 To be like this, that we are reminded, right? 27:42 We are reminded of the laws of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 27:48 And then we turn away. 27:50 Somebody tells us, by you listening to music, music is haram. 27:54 You say, go... 27:56 Worry about your own backyard men. 27:57 Don't come tell me. 27:58 And you carry on listening to music. 28:01 Or worse, like a modernist mindset. 28:05 You know the modernist, the modernist, what they want to do, they misinterpret verses and they prove the wrong that they want to do. 28:15 So one is they are involved in a guna and then over and above that, they want to justify the sin and say that no, it's not a sin. 28:25 So one side, a person, like for example, one person in the time of Hazrat Muhammad S.A.W. 28:32 He was lending people money and charging them interest. 28:36 Now that's such a big sin. 28:38 Riba. 28:39 You are at war with Allah Ta'ala. 28:42 Allah Ta'ala declares riba haram. 28:45 Now this person is charging people interest. 28:49 So somebody had come to Hazrat Maulana Ismail S. He had borrowed some money from this person. 28:54 And now this person is charging him interest. 28:57 So he came to Maulana. 28:58 He said, please intercede on my behalf to this person. 29:01 So Maulana told him, see, go to that man. 29:03 Tell him, look, I made a mistake. 29:05 I borrowed money from you. 29:06 But you are a Muslim. 29:07 I am a Muslim. 29:08 This interest is haram. 29:11 Give me a settlement figure. 29:12 I got one, two people that assist me. 29:14 Whatever the capital amount was, I'll pay you and the story will be over. 29:20 So when he went and told that man that, that man told him, what you're talking? 29:26 I'll get sawab for charging you interest. 29:29 Now what the thing is saying? 29:30 Allah has declared something haram and he is saying that, no, I'm going to get sawab for charging you interest. 29:37 And what logic he uses? 29:39 He says, see, if you went to the bank, their rate is 13%, for example. 29:47 They charging you 13% interest. 29:49 My rate is 10%. 29:52 So I actually saved you from 3% interest. 29:55 So I'm gonna get sawaf. 29:58 This is the arrogance that we have. 30:02 So Allah Ta'ala says that who can be more of a zanim? 30:05 Who can be more unjust than a person who is reminded 30:09 Of the ayat of his Rabb. 30:11 And then he turns a verse to it. 30:14 So Allah Ta'ala says. 30:16 We will take vengeance on the sinful people. 30:19 We'll stop there. 30:23 SubhanAllahi wa bihamdihi. 30:26 Subhanakallahumma wa bihamdik. 30:28 Nashhadu an la ilaha illa anta nastawfiruka wa natubu ilayh. 30:33 Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
Practice generosity according to personal capacity, recognizing that sincerity and effort outweigh mere monetary quantity.
Use health scares, economic setbacks, or personal difficulties as wake-up calls to make prompt tawbah, fulfill missed obligations (qadha), and rectify interpersonal wrongs (huquq al-ibad).
Cultivate inner humility by submitting unreservedly to authentic Islamic rulings rather than seeking loopholes or following modern rationalizations. 
Hazrat Moulana Dawood Seedat Saheb