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Reflections (S2) Imam Junaid al-Baghdaadi (r.h): “If you grieve over the loss fortune, why do you not weep over the passing of your life?”. We lose sleep over money - but when is the last time you was distressed over the passing of your time? We are a number of days before we will die. Death comes for us all. The question is who will you be when the Angel of Death (a.s) comes to take your soul? Ali رضي الله عنه: “Is there no true free man who will this bit of scrap for those who deserve it?”. The Duniya is called the Abode of Deception. Our hopes and desires are distracting us. Safeguard whatever time you have left.

Reflections (S1) Ali رضي الله عنه: “Everything to which one limits himself, suffices”. The Messenger ﷺ: “Good deeds are numerous, but few are those who do them”. Abu Bakr رضي الله عنه said we are taking the comfort of this world, all the while this world is preparing to get rid of us! Do not let the few objects of this world distract you from the many things of the Hereafter.

Character (S6) Humour in our beautiful Deen: Huzhayfah Ibn al-Yaman رضي الله عنهم eloquently jokes with Umar رضي الله عنه to lighten the workload on Umar’s رضي الله عنه shoulders as he was the Ameer. A Bedouin got married at and old age. When asked why, he said: “I prefer my son to become an orphan before he could be able to disobey me!”. A Bedouin said: “I wasn’t good looking but I was intelligent. I married a beautiful woman who wasn’t intelligent, hoping my children would inherit my intelligence and her looks. They inherited my looks and her foolishness!”.

Character (S5) The Messenger ﷺ: “Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وتَعَالَى will conceal the faults of the one who restrains his tongue”. The Messenger ﷺ: “The most beloved deed to Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وتَعَالَى is simply guarding one’s tongue”. Akhlaaq is a shop. The tongue is the lock. When the lock opens, you know whether the shop sells gold or coal. Silence beautifies the scholar and it protects the ignorant.

Character (S4) Ali رضي الله عنه: “Whoever exaggerates small hardships then Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وتَعَالَى will test him with great hardships”. Ali رضي الله عنه: “Deprivation is better than complacency”. Ali رضي الله عنه: “Backbiting is the jihad of the feeble”. The Messenger ﷺ: “Backbiting is worse than zina”.

Character (S3) Whoever is proud of his knowledge has been seduced. Whoever is impressed with his deeds is deluded. The Messenger ﷺ: “That I walk with a brother in need is more beloved to me than doing itikaaf in Masjid Nabi for one month”. When you fulfill the need of your bother, Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وتَعَالَى will make your feet firm on the Day where feet will not be firm. Ali رضي الله عنه said to fulfill a need of a brother is more beloved to him that this entire Earth full of gold.

Character (S2) The importance of humility: The Messenger ﷺ: “Shall I not inform you of the one who is forbidden from the fire? It is the one who is accessible, polite and easy going”. The Messenger ﷺ: “Despite everything Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وتَعَالَى gave to Sulaimaan (a.s) he (a.s) never raised his head to look at the sky due to the fear and reverence of Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وتَعَالَى”. Prophet Sulaimaan (a.s) was given the wind as he sacrificed his horses. When you give up something for the sake of Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وتَعَالَى, Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وتَعَالَى gives you something better.

Surah 27 An Naml The Female Ant v87-88 Session 22 The 3 stages of the blowing of The Horn The first blowing of the horn will cause everyone to be suddenly struck with terror. At that time they wll witness the general confusion and the upsetting of the order of the universe. On the second blowing everyone will fall down dead, and when it is blown for the third time, all the dead will rise back to life and present themselves before the Lord of The Alamin.

Surah 27 An Naml The Female Ant v83-86 Session 21 Marshalled Troops in The World & The Hereafter You will joined with those whom you resembled in deeds. 'O Allah SWT bless my Ummah in their mornings.' 'O Lord reckon me with a light reckoning.'

Surah 27 The Female Ant v80-81 Session 20 You cannot make the dead hear, it is Allah SWT who makes them hear. "....the dead can hear the speech of the living in general, but it does not mean that they can hear them all the time," Ibn Taymiah (rah).

Surah 27 The Female Ant v82- Session 19 The benefit of Knowledge is that it produces certainty (Ibn Qayum). The Mysterious Beast 1. The Beast is from the progeny of Iblees. 2. The Beast will kill the Accursed Shaytaan. 3. The Beast would emerge from a small place in the desert near Makkah. 4. The Beast would emerge during the Forenoon. 5. The Beast would emerge twice on the 3rd time he would emerge in Masjidul Haram. 6. The Beast would be unlike any other creature known to man. The Beast would have the Staff of Moosaa (as) and the Ring of Sulaymaan (as)...

Surah 27 The Female Ant v74-79 Session 18 The Pen is the first creation. On the Last Day the unbeliever will ransom the entire world to save himself if he could, yet far less was asked of him, namely the Kalima. Alif Laam Meem & Ha Meem are amongst the greatest names (Ibn Masood ra, Ibn Jarir). The virutes of the Last verse of Surah Tawbah, whether recited with sincerity or not.

Surah 27 The Female Ant v67-73 Session 17 Same questions over the centuries, When will this promise come to pass (re The Last Day?). The contemporary unbelievers are addressed in The Quran.

Surah 27 The Female Ant v63-66 Session 16 The coccyx is not consumed by the earth. The Horn is Blown. Rain will revive the dead just like rain revives barren land.

Surah 27 The Female Ant v59-62 Session 15 'We plant the seeds yet we do not make them grow.' The earth is described as a bed and cradle despite the speed of rotation and other amazing physics. Ja'far al-Şadiq (rah) was asked: Why are our supplications not answered?" He replied: Because you do not know the One you are supplicating (Risāla).

Surah 27 The Female Ant v54-58 Session 14 The Origins of The City of Sodom The Nation of Lut (A.S.) were punished with 5 types of punishment.

Surah 27 The Female Ant v50-53 Session 13 Prophet Salih (A.S.) & The She-Camel Thamūd denied their 'Taghwa,' meaning the raging punishment (Surah 69 v5). One opinion is that the people of Thamud denied their disobedience of Allah SWT. The entire tribe of Thamud agreed to the killing of The She-Camel.

Surah 27 The Female Ant v45-49 Session 12 The entire Quran is Ahsan (Qortobi). 'The best good omen is a good word.' 9 people chip coins to make an illegal profit. Sadooq & Unayzah entice 2 men to slaughter The She-Camel.

Surah 27 The Female Ant v42-44 Session 11 Sulayman (A.S) is seated in a glass pavilion when Bilqis arrives. Bilqis identifies a change in her Throne. The Nation who worshipped the Sun. Sulayman means to submit, Bilqis submits with Sulayman (A.S) to the Lord of The Alamin.

Surah 27 The Female Ant v38-41 Session 10 Details of the Magnificent Throne of Queen Bilqis. The Throne was secured in an impenetrable way. Use the Great Names of Allah SWT in supplications (Mujahid rah). The Great Jinn Asif ibn Barkiya (rah) Asif (rah) the Scribe of Prophet Sulayman (A.S.) His lineage reaches Prophet Yacoub (A.S.) The Siddique of his Ummah. Asif (rah) used the great name to bring the Throne 'O Ever living O the one who sustains' (Qortobi). When Asif ibn Barkiya (rah) brings the Throne in an instant the Jinn were in awe and realised that man had more knowledge!