Lustrous Land | Ep. 18 | Striking Examples From the Quran | Nouman Ali Khan

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so everyone

after again um we're going to try to

look at ayat number 24 ofah yunus today

uh yesterday's Parable was actually 22

and 23 so it's actually right after the

parable of the Sea and the winds that

that we walked through yesterday right

after that Allah talks about this

Parable which is interesting because you

saw when he rescues them they go about

in the land rebelling without

justification that's what Allah said

yesterday in the yesterday discussion so

the the Ayah was about see but then

Allah mentioned in a very subtle way

that the person goes about when they

land and they're back on land again

Solid Ground they act like nothing ever

happened right so now Allah will

actually pick up from something he said

in the very beginning he

said he's the one who make things easy

for you in the land and in the sea but

in the previous Parable everything was

about the sea so what still missing the

land so now this Parable is about the

land right so it's kind of everything's

coming full circle and the land Parable

is actually supposed to be more obvious

so Allah starts with the less obvious

which is the sea and then brings it back

to the land now let's walk through a

rough translation of what Allah is

saying in Ayah number

24 the example of worldly life amounts

to nothing more than so if you want to

think of the entire life of this world

or this worldly life this temporary life

then you can sum it up in this following

example uh this is a genre of examples

in the Quran where Allah summarizes all

of life he does this in multiple places

and it does it each one of them

highlights something else and something

really beautiful about life you can you

can summarize all of life in one way or

the other in each of them so let's see

how it's being summarized in this aah he

says the example of worldly life uh can

be amounted could could be reduced to

nothing more

than like some water that we sent down

from the

sky two translations but I'll go with

one of them and as a result of the water

coming from the sky the water mixed with

the the the the the herbs and the plants

of the earth so the the the the herbage

of the earth it mixed with it meaning

the water went into the soil and it

mixed with the plants and all of that

started happening Agri culture started

happening from which people and cattle

eat until the point when the earth took

on its most beautiful form and it became

incredibly

decorated so was it became stunning you

could even say uh it became stunningly

beautiful and its people meaning the

people of the land were convinced that

they have they are in complete control

over it that they're going to have full

control over the

land our decision came at the land um

came at the crop in the middle of the

night or during the broad

daylight and turned it into already

harvested crop cut crop grazed crop you

know if nowadays you have tractors that

graze the crop and collect all of it

right so imagine once the tractor is

done going through it and there's

nothing left it's just stubble it's just

been cut already that's what what it's

left

to as if it wasn't fully populated just

the day

before that is how Allah explains his

aat or separates his ayat his miraculous

signs for a people that are going to try

to think deeply so Allah is demanding on

people to think deeply about what he's

about what he's saying here in this

Parable so we'll we'll try to think a

little bit deeply inshah today like

always uh about this this remarkable

Parable let's start with something it's

a this is an example about farming and

growing crop everybody's clear about

that and crop a growing crop is a really

difficult job it's backbreaking work to

plant seeds one at a time all across the

land make sure the soil is clean make

sure that it's saved make sure birds

don't come make sure insects don't come

this is an exhausting kind of Labor and

at the end of all of that labor none of

that will be worth anything if it

doesn't rain if you don't get good rain

and you get a drought all that work has

gone to waste so Allah did not mention

the part of the job that the farmer is

doing there's no mention of the all the

work that went into getting the farm

ready incidentally just in the back of

your minds I want something to remain

present throughout these particularly

inun and that is that human civilization

began with

farming the reason and the the Farming

Farming is an industrious process it

goes through phases right there's the

planting phrase phase there's the caring

for the crop or caring for the soil

phase there's the the the regular

watering Etc then there's when the when

the plant comes out and it's just small

you have to care for it in a certain way

you have to then next phase next phase

next phase until the Harvest is done and

then the storage how the how the Harvest

has to be stored and then the replanting

has to be done exactly at a strategic

time Etc there are processes to this

it's an industrious process but if you

think about it in one

way every other thing that we do as

human beings on this planet depends on

farming everything else there's you know

at the end of the day if we didn't put

farming industry in place on Earth than

all the other industries that we've

created all the other jobs that we've

created all the other processes that

we've created in every field on Earth

none of them would exist it is like it's

the it's the seed of all industry quite

literally right it's the seed of all

industry so by Allah talking about this

industry it's as if he's by talking

about the seed he's talked about

everything that it branches out to every

line of work every field of work all

boils down to this one one thing another

interesting thing about this the use of

farming and right after the use of sea

travel you saw the previous ay was about

sea travel to this day the two if you

were to argue two things that all of

humanity depends on and the human indust

human industry and and economies could

never function if there wasn't if it

wasn't for farming and it wasn't for sea

travel even now even if now we have you

know air travel and we have cargo cargo

planes and things like that it doesn't

even begin to compare to the amount of

cargo that is being delivered and

traveling throughout the Earth by sea

every single day and how much of that

travel do some you know we're living in

a fascinating age you can look anything

up now and you can you know uh look this

up for your own benefit I was looking at

this a few years not maybe two years ago

when we were

studying and Allah talks about wins

interestingly he was talking about wins

in the previous Ayah too right nice wins

and then tough wins

as we're sitting and then you know when

you open up your fridge and look at the

groceries how much of that depended on

you know Farm you're like no no I just

eat beef yeah what did what did the cow

need

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bro so we're the the the dependence on

these two sea and farming is so like all

of humanity can be brought on its knees

on just these two things right and

sometimes you find in the world there's

kind of some some kind of a war conflict

going on like with Russia Ukraine for

example in in a little bit recent

history right and they were producing a

lot of Wheat and the wheat supplies got

affected and entire economies started

shaking because the wheat supplies have

been disrupted and now with what's

happening in Philistine may Allah help

us and help the Muslims against those

monsters you know like if the Swiss

Canal you know there's some disruption

or there's some disruption in sea routes

then every nation gets alerted the

Chinese start showing up with their

warships the Russians start thinking

about maneuvering because it's it's the

lifeline for the entire world it's a

delicate balance that has to be

maintained so when a is talking about on

the one hand you could think oh Farm let

just Farm but actually it's it's almost

like he's talking about the pulse of the

entire planet when he's talking about

this this image and he starts it in the

most amazing way he says all of worldly

life amounts to this and how does he

begin

like water that we sent down from the

sky he didn't mention the part that you

and I do or the farmer does he mentions

the part that he does sending water down

from the sky notice in the previous ayat

water was your

death in the previous ayat and in this

in this Ayah the same water is your life

like your life depends on it just like

in the previous Ayah we saw the winds

can be good and they're a blessing and

those same winds can turn into a curse

the same way now the water in the

previous Ayah was your death and now

it's the source of your life in fact the

water that rained was clouds and most of

those clouds were formed over the sea as

it the vapor rose right so there's this

interconnectivity we're we're engulfed

in this beautiful system that Allah has

made and you see the effects of that Sea

and the it's the that brought the clouds

over to that land and then it it pours

down from the sky it's as if Allah is

saying you had pretty much nothing to do

with farming like I I did all of it like

all you did was put a little thing in

the ground that's all you did the the

fact that who gave who gave the soil its

nutrients who gave the cloud its ability

to rain on top of it who gave gave the

seed the engineering ability to split

open and start growing like you had

nothing to do with any of that

right Allah says

are you the ones harvesting it are you

the ones growing it or are we the ones

growing it you know and so here when he

when he took takes this kind of credit

on his own now we're going to see other

parts of this Ayah where human beings

are almost made absent or secondary in

the language so you'll notice the next

thing Allah says

is that then the water that came down it

started mixing with the the the the herb

the herbs and the nutrients of the soil

the seeds and different kinds of plants

it started interacting with it and

started mixing with it the idea of

mixing is two things you know uh

conflate together and fuse together

until they become one now let's keep up

with the imagery and also what it might

represent as we move forward so the the

the blessing comes from Allah it

couldn't have come from us we couldn't

have made it

rain are you the one sending it down

from the heavy cloud or are we the one

sending it down asked the question right

so that's from Allah but then that water

went into the soil and inside the soil

it started mixing together now those two

things it used to be two separate things

seed and water but now they've become

one they they become one and this is an

imagery of sometimes there's a blessing

from Allah used to be up in the sky

there was no way you had access to it

Allah decided to send it down and then

you came into contact with that blessing

and then you you you enjoyed and used

that blessing so much you became one

with it you became Inseparable from it

right just like the plant becomes

Inseparable from the water the water is

in it you know the water is inside the

the sap of the plant and if you squeeze

the leaf it'll have liquid in it but

that liquid didn't come from the leaf it

came from the sky and it it made its way

into the soil or into that leaf right

now the same way if you if you think

about what this could

represent you know human beings we all

of us

we identify ourselves with our

blessings in fact so if Allah has

blessed you for example to acquire an

engineering degree then you don't you're

not you're no longer uh Abdullah you're

an

engineer Abdullah the engineer uh if you

have become you know if you if you're an

accountant or if you're you know if

you're succeeded in business or if you

you were blessed to memorize the Quran

then you're no longer Kim your half is

Kim right so we the blessings Allah

gives us the blessings Allah gives us

they allow us to function in the world

they give us some kind of a credential

they become a part of our identity you

know how they say you are what you do

right you do it so much it becomes a

part of you becomes Inseparable from you

right and actually back in India and

Pakistan some regions people did some

work so much that they they used to turn

it into their name right the raheim chai

Wala and this panala and this you know

Nan Wala and this chap Wala all kinds of

Wallas right the slipper guy and the I I

knew somebody who was a German

Wala CU he was he did business with the

Germans so they call him German W became

his name so you you you get associated

with something and that just becomes

your thing

right and the the the thing is that's

totally workable and totally

understandable in this world it's

completely

understandable but we forget in the in

the middle of all of that that I am

actually this blessing that allows me to

further my identity and I project myself

a certain way to the world that didn't

come from

me that was a risk Allah opened for me

and had he not opened that for me it

would never have been a part of me but

it becomes I get so mixed with it that

it just becomes one thing and I don't

even think of it as something separate

from myself and the height of that is

like the attitude I I got all of this

cuz I'm really smart I figured this out

cuz I'm really good right and this is my

doing so Allah is now talking about the

plant that starts mixing together with

the water

uh the next piece of this which didn't

even have to be stated but Allah is

dropping these nuggets in this Ayah he

says from what people eat and what

cattle eat by by saying he did a few

things here one of the things he did

here is he could have said from what

people eat he could have just left it at

that but he said no people eat from it

and animals cows and eat eat from it too

so he kind of put us on the same level

as cattle like you know we human beings

think of ourselves as obviously Superior

to cattle the cattle serves us we grow

oranges we grow apples we grow fruits we

grow all kinds of vegetables and the

leftovers go to the animals the grass

goes to the animals right but at the end

of it all all of it started from inside

the earth sprouting open and because of

that the origin is actually essentially

still the same and as a result of that

you're not that different the way you

think you're feeding the cattle it's

actually Allah feeding you and your

cattle like he says

elsewhere there's another spiritual kind

of tendency here that I that I don't I

can't help but not ignore and that's in

Muhammad Allah

says leave them alone let them enjoy let

let them eat and enjoy the way cattle

eats the way cattle eats and fire is

their place now if you work backwards

one of The Parables we did

was they're like cattle they're even

worse Allah is even describing all of

this miraculous stuff happens and the

the the Earth produces its food and the

cattle eats it but when the cattle is

eating it it's not profoundly moved by

what is on its in in what's going in its

mouth that came from a Heavenly process

it's just eating it

mindlessly human beings would it would

be a tragedy if the human beings were

eating their food not that different

from the way cattle is eating its food

like not aware of how it got there you

know just you know sometimes you just go

to the grocery store you buy an orange

or you know whatever apples forar or

something right you ever think about

where did this apple come from it came

from the grocery store but how do I get

to from the grocery store it was on a

truck before the truck it was in some

some Farm before the farm it was on the

on some tree before the tree it was it

was slowly growing and it was only

growing cuz rain was coming and like if

you keep going further how long did it

have to Journey before it could get to

your plate and then for that to become

your it's a profound thing that Allah is

doing it's a profound thing that's

happening you know and that every morsel

of it was written for me that every

piece of it like this this was the Apple

that had to be chosen from all those

billions of apples that traveled maybe

halfway across the continent to get to

my plate you know and how much of this

will become nutrition for me Subhan

Allah Subhan Allah you know so Allah

says yes it feeds you it feeds people

and it feeds cattle too and it's it's

kind of a humbling statement to make

right putting us in the same place as

cattle putting us in our place a little

bit this is the part that I was telling

Jad when he we discussed this today I

was like I don't know I'm going to get

in trouble today but that's okay there's

only a couple of weeks left

okay until the Earth took up its beauty

the phrasing Z is used when people dress

their most beautiful clothes and the

language is actually borrowing it's an

to describe a woman on her wedding day a

woman getting dressed for her husband on

her wedding day so she's looking the

most beautiful she can possibly look and

she's got um you know several layers of

chemicals on

to and she looks like an entirely

different you know different Societies

in the world do different things on

wedding days I get it right I know that

in South Asia Pakistan India Bangladesh

Etc it doesn't matter who you if your

sister's getting married or your

cousin's getting married or the

neighbor's daughters getting married if

you look at the way they turned them

into after being a Dulan they all look

exactly the same you can't even tell is

that my sister like cuz the the layers

that are placed up like you have to you

could it's like a layered cake you could

just you know but anyway so they they

turned them into this other creature

right but they they did this in ancient

times too they dressed up the girl and

they put the most beautiful clothes on

her and all of that

and when when she's completely decorated

looking incredible looking just

absolutely incredible for who for her

husband

now Allah is borrowing the imagery of a

young man who's obsessed with this girl

who looks so beautiful that he just got

married to and she's just beautifully

decorated and dressed up for him he's

comparing that to the the the crop that

blossomed and the farmer's looking at

this farmland and he's

going it's it's the it's the Bor and

then there's

there's something

called meaning you could use the next

language to take you out of the image or

you could use the next language to

deepen your appreciation of the image

and this is this is actually this is

taking you deeper in actually is taking

you deeper inside and so Allah

says and she became stunning he's

talking about the Earth like he's

talking about a beautiful woman was and

she just became absolutely breathtaking

to him while Z is about the beauti

ification by way of you know decoration

you could call it makeup jewelry

clothing all that stuff right that's Z

but the way it appears to someone is

Zena it's the purpose the purpose of it

was Zena so she accomplished the Earth

accomplished looking

breathtaking to the one who worked on it

so Allah is comparing the Romantic you

know fascination of the man who's about

to be with his wife he's he's comparing

that to the fascination the farmer has

with his farm F that has

blossomed but we're not all Farmers so

what is this Fascination talking about

why with the the pupils dilating and the

excitement and the where what is he

referring to he is referring to when you

work on any business

venture any any any project maybe even

an educational journey and you are just

about to

graduate or you're just about to receive

the big contract

or it just it came through

right or the the successful deal you

were hoping for is just about to get

signed or it just got signed and you the

signature has been made you're just

waiting for the the wire transfer now

and all of a sudden there's this yeah

life is good

alhamdulillah you know and so that that

that imagery is captured in you know

uh

this is another important consideration

in this Ayah that the first thing Allah

mentioned was crop grows so we can eat

and animals can eat function but now

he's going Beyond just function he's

talking about beauty now he's talking

about beauty and you know beauty is

itself a very powerful commodity the

most powerful nations in the world

demonstrate how powerful they are by

having the most beautiful

monuments and the most powerful

companies by the most beautiful

headquarters right the most the most

powerful people have by having the most

beautiful homes the most beautiful

clothes the most beautiful beautiful

beautiful you name it right so Beauty

and power they're kind of married to

each other they go hand inand with each

other and the idea of when you know

places in the world that are

strategically beautiful meaning for

example they have lots of crop and they

have you know a mountainous region and

all of that beautiful places tend to

actually be very powerful places too in

the world so if you know one of the

great advantages of the United States if

you've ever been to the United States

you might if you've traveled across you

might know I've traveled most of the

country it's massive um a lot of people

say Americans don't travel yeah they

don't because they don't have to and

they have practically every landscape

possible in the country you know you

want snow mountains you want desert you

want you know the the ocean you want the

cold sea you want the warm you want warm

ocean you want the East Coast you want

the West Coast you want to see the sun

rising from the ocean you want to see

the sun setting into the

ocean you want to see Lakes forests what

what do you what do you want to see you

know

waterfalls it's wild the the natural

resources of the land are incred it's

just mindblowing right and it's one of

the great powers of the country actually

also so the idea of beauty and Beauty

has always

been power is attracted to Beauty and

beauty is attracted to power these two

things are always kind of together so

now Allah has mentioned in the first

part function okay the crop that's

produced you eat from it but now he's

going to change the subject and say it

became beautiful and notice what notice

the language of what he says next he

says and they

were and its inhabitants the people of

the farm the people of the crop they

were now convinced that they will have

power over it they'll have power over

the beautiful land the imagery is that

of someone who someone who has a really

really beautiful wife and the more

beautiful she is the more he needs to

control her the more he nobody should

see her nobody you know where are you

going hey who are you talking to and he

becomes more and more possessive and it

becomes more and more controlling

because when you have something

beautiful you have to protect it even

more you have to control it even more

right you have to cover it even more and

so it's using the same language to

describe how they they were convinced

that they will have complete control

over it it also offers an insight into

the the human psyche that human beings

don't just want to see beauty they want

to own it and control it they see

something beautiful they want to own it

and they want to control it right so

they see this beautiful crop this people

and they they are convinced they're

going to have control over

it and

says now we go back to we the first

thing was we sent water from the sky

that Allah stopped mentioning we now

then Allah talked about how the Earth

itself became beautiful and attractive

and they thought that they'll have

control but then now he

says then our decision came something

just like the water came from the sky

this time a decision came from Allah and

it came in the middle of the night or it

came the next day it's almost like still

borrowing the imagery of the marriage

you got married at night maybe that

maybe the uh the disaster started that

night or it started next

day it's pretty heavy stuff some people

are crying don't cry people find out

what happened

okay so then

this gets worse he

says we turned it into Barren cut

already grazed Farm meaning somebody

came and just ripped it all up it's as

if that image of that beautiful woman

who was adorned and decor and all of it

by mourning like

who who who are you who are

you what have I

done that same crop that was a piece of

heaven the day before I can't believe I

have this I'll never let it go I want to

protect it in any way and the next

morning Allah protect me from

[Laughter]

this the night before but now when

Allah's command came it's completely

been

as if it wasn't populated the night

before as if the crop wasn't Lush just

the night

before in Arabic means a few things so

means to be to be populated so thean for

example as if they weren't populating

the place but also means to be wealthy

and to be independent right and when

someone this is an interesting side note

but like one of the names of Allah is Al

right which means he depends on no one

he needs no one that's one of the

meanings of the the the

name similarly the who thinks they don't

need anything from God they're fine on

their

own it's the same language that's used

he sees himself as someone who has no

need he thinks he has no

need right um there's a there's an axiom

in

Arabic that the Dignity of of a man is

in him not being needy of other people

like Allah protect all of us from being

in a situation where we need other

people right or we become needy and we

have to beg other people so that's part

of our dignity but interestingly beauty

comes with its own independence when

someone's very beautiful it's like they

don't need anything else they already

have everything because beauty is every

everyone everybody wants them they don't

everybody needs them they don't need

anybody everybody comes to them they

don't want anybody so it's as if is

saying just the day before this land

anybody who looked at it would want it

just like that beautiful woman that was

you know decorated she was the prize but

all of a sudden when it's cut it's as if

that beauty never existed that

Independence never existed that we I'm

not the one in need all of you are the

ones that are Desiring right that like

it never even

happened and suggest just the night

before I'm still kind of borrowing the

wedding imagery but also suggesting this

happened very quickly which is similar

to the previous Parable where the wind

came the bad wind came very quickly

right you

know so the same

way now what are we learning from all of

this what we're learning from all of

this is Allah created our lives in

episodes like farming has episodes

there's a part where you have have to

put the seed in the ground there's a

part where it starts growing a little

bit there's a there's other parts other

parts other parts other parts some parts

of it are very beautiful some parts of

it are excitement hoping that beauty

will eventually emerge some parts of it

are just you're just doing a job so you

can eat just like the animal and the

cattle eats and the human being eats

right there are these things that we do

all the time and we get so immersed in

our day-to-day test there are some

things we do that we just do just like

the water mixed with the the soil we get

mixed in with our task and we're just

doing them and living our lives in that

way and then there are some things that

become a real um aspiration for us to

acquire something really beautiful that

we really want to have and Allah shows

us every time you will run after

Something Beautiful it might be that

Allah's command comes and the same thing

that was beautiful you'll be like was

this beautiful I can't

remember this is that that sense of

beauty is completely gone it's taken

away right and this is is Allah's way of

teaching us that life has temporary

motivations it has temporary motivations

and there can be so uh uh

intoxicating the the desires of this

world as temporary as they are you know

a young man not here CU these are all

religious guys um you know

leads he just wants to marry this one

girl he saw her on campus one day and

that's it that's that's the girl he

wants to marry that's it nothing nothing

else matters they

when you fall in love there's no point

giving any advice that's it now he's

giving he's looking up Islamic lectures

to give to his parents about how he has

the right to marry that girl and he's

trying to talk to her father about how

he shouldn't be turning down a good

Muslim and he's try all this all this

Jihad he's doing because he wants to

marry that girl and then he marries her

and then he says you're not what I

thought you

were you know I just you're a completely

different

person you know what happened to him

well he decided something is the most

beautiful thing ever this is what he

wants in his life once I have that oh my

God my my de

my my my oh everything's

H right and then he finds out I don't I

don't actually like her that much and

she doesn't like me that much what's

going on here and this is not just about

marriage it could be other things other

aspirations in life I just want this

more than anything else people tell

themselves set these goals up for

themselves and Allah is teaching us a

it's such a different way of looking at

religion than any other religion on

earth in every other religion you go to

God and you tell him what you

want right you tell them what you yeah

just

I if I could just get this this loan or

I could just pay off this or I could

just get this or get this and you make a

request to God and if he answers that

request

God is

good and here you're contemplating a

parable Allah says I will show you

beauty like you've never seen and you're

going to be so amazed by that beauty and

then I will take it

away immediately it'll just be gone just

to teach you something beauty is

deceptive and it's temporary appreciate

it for what it is appreciate it but

don't be deluded by it it'll go and all

of us you me everyone we're just here

for a

season just if life is just a season

right then it started with a command of

Allah and it ended with he ended with it

being cut down so don't worry about you

know oh my God if I have this I you know

everything will be okay no no every

there's no such thing as everything will

be okay that's

Jenna this life is just about going from

one phase of a season to the next to the

next until the end of the season that's

it it's a temporary place so we have to

make the most of the moments that are

happening in life instead of waiting for

this ultimate thing that will happen and

eventually it'll feel like we're living

in Jenna you

know it's this perfect balance between

not being hopeless about this

world but also not being drowned in this

world Allah has given you things to

enjoy in this world but he didn't give

you those things so you become you know

uh Intoxicated by them and you get lost

in them you get completely lost in them

and he

says that is how we explain the ayat for

people that are going to think deeply

you know one of my favorite things about

the the Quran is how aat are stitch

together if you notice the next

Ayah Allah is the one calling you to the

home of

safety what a what a place to put that

ay Allah is calling you to the home of

safety

why because the crop is not

safe because the seed wasn't safe you're

not even safe the beauty wasn't safe

nothing in this world is safe but Allah

is calling you to a place where

everything will remain

safe and he guides whoever he wants to a

straight path may Allah guide all of us

to to his straight path Subhan Allah so

with that inshallah I'll conclude

today's uh uh D on this Parable and and

uh we're getting we're getting into the

some heavier stuff I don't know how far

we're going to get inshallah in our

journey but now you've seen a few

different kinds of Parables kind of

start tying together one last comment

about this that I I I should have made

before is that you know how Allah

mentions it's going to get cut down in

the end it's going to get cut down in

the end there's an alternative view

that's mentioned

in when we get there I'll I'll explain

that but I'll drop the hint to you now

somebody wanted to build an Empire

like they're going to have the biggest

tire business in the

world and when they die what happens

what do the kids do run it into the

ground the legacy is gone destroyed it

gets sooner or later whatever Empire you

build will crumble and people some

people just build businesses other

people build entire nations founding

entire nations Empires and those Empires

last until eventually what happens to

those Empires they collapse you know the

Sun never sets on the British Empire the

Sun never rises in the British

Empire

right built a pretty amazing

wall and Ma who could cut through

anything couldn't cut through

it but he

says yeah but when my the promise of my

R comes this wall will get crushed

there'll be nothing left it's pretty

depressing he just finish building a

wall and he says yeah one day Allah will

destroy it why'd you build

it why put so much work in if Allah's

going to destroy

I what's the point of doing it you

know why because you have your task to

do this

season your job is not to create

something forever for every season

that's with

Allah you just worry about your season

that's it don't worry about ahead the

only thing that you should worry about

about that goes beyond you is

Deeds the things that

remain so none of this will remain all

of this will get cut down but the one

thing that will last longer is Good

Deeds they they'll last longer Subhan

Allah Subhan Allah is is what an

incredible incredible teaching that our

our religion has given us and what a

liberating mindset it's actually quite

liberating that we're not chained by

these things whose Beauty fades we can

enjoy them and move on and enjoy them

and move on and just make the most of

what we have by way of doing good may

Allah make us people that do good across

all of our

circumstances usually I give the guys

opportunity to ask questions sisters had

a few questions yesterday I'm going to

give them first chance today so you can

turn the lights on or something I'll be

there in the middle for a few minutes

and then then I'll head back inshah