Allah has not Left You A Deeper Look Series Surah Al Duhaa Nouman Ali Khan

and if you keep that background in mind then perhaps you'll understand these two ayat in different light the first two ayat the morning and the night that is still and lifeless the morning and the soothing light felt like when the Revelation used to come the comfort that it used to bring the Brilliance that he used to enjoy of it and now all of sudden it's like night that just won't end and it's still and it's lifeless where's the day where's the brightness where did it go and Allah is referencing both of those experiences for the prophet sallallahu alai am in these first two ayat the coming of the Revelation and then the Gap in Revelation and him being left in the dark now what is that mean for the prophet when people are saying to him that you know he left of course he doesn't believe it'san but even if he takes it to heart maybe Allah is upset with me maybe have done something wrong maybe was worthy of the Quran that Allah was giving me but now I'm not anymore and that's why Allah is not giving it to me and so he's all these thoughts are coming to him because now the gift of Revelation has been discont continued maybe it'll never continue again he doesn't know that he has no idea and so when the Surah came Allah gave him this beautiful beautiful you know consolation he said ma is used they say in Arabic for which means to correct somebody you know when you say no to something but let me translate this first so you appreciate what I'm saying your your master did not say goodbye to you easy English your master didn't say goodbye to you but the word didn't say goodbye that's negative right right there are lots of ways to do negatives in the Arabic language you could say it that way too you could say you know there many ways to say it but this way of saying it using ma to say it is actually way of saying no you're wrong Allah hasn't said farewell to you this is to correct somebody that's when you use Ma like you know we say ill when we say we're making statement as matter of fact La rhetorically means you're answering question is there anyone besides Allah no but if somebody says the wrong thing somebody says there are Gods besides Allah then you have to correct them then the answer is not then it's that's actually the other phrase in the Quran to correct the wrong notion so here the wrong notion of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam that may be brewing in his mind in his heart the sadness that may be Allah is unhappy Revelation isn't coming is corrected and alleviated first by the word ma then he says and in Arabic is used for the inside of the pit of date is called grave site is called or if they would build walls around somebody's grave and never go inside it you know like tomb tomb area and they build wall around it and they just they're never going to go to it again this is actually called also similarly the word was used for you know as an expression of saying goodbye meaning something you never come back to like that's going to be it's walled off you're never going to come back to it this inside of the pit of date nobody's ever going to know what's in there it's just going to be left alone Allah did not abandon you Allah did not leave you alone that's the idea of don't get that wrong now let's talk this is about the of Allah Al wasallam but understand that even for ourselves there are times where we feel the intensity of Iman there are times where it's easy for the tears to roll down your eyes for you to feel like you you have repented before Allah and you feel closeness to him in and you don't want to get your head up from the SJ there are times when you're standing in prayer and you have an experience that only you know nobody else except Allah knows there are those experiences there are times in which you are crying before Allah confessing before Allah admitting your faults before Allah and those are the some of the most beautiful moments of your life and when those moments go away and maybe sometimes you wander off and you you go so far from that closeness to Allah and you're done in place thank you so much young man and so when you're so far from that place now you're like man wish can never feel that again used to be good person used to be close to Allah can barely remember what that felt like but I'm I'm in the dark now there's no way that that's ever going to come back I've made too many mistakes see with the of alaihi wasallam he's assuming that he might have made mistake he doesn't know what it is and he of course he didn't make mistake but in our case we know what mistakes we've made we know the the the mishaps we've done we know what we've done done to harden our hearts and get away from Allah but even to us Allah is giving hope that just like the messenger this is why the messenger of Allah wasam had to experience this Gap one of its benefits was this umah and his followers are going to experience gap they're going to experience times where they're close to Allah and their hearts are touched by the Quran and then they're going to feel like they're just in this night that just won't end they're going to feel that way and you have to be able to relate to that experience because you're going to give them hope that even though you're so far away you'll be able to bring them back and say look know what that feels like know what that's like I've been there to wonder maybe if Allah doesn't like me anymore or Allah doesn't love me anymore or Allah is angry with me and the correction comes to every one of us and it first and foremost comes to the messenger of Allah Sall alaihi wasallam the most worthy of it and that is and then he adds which some have translated neither is he upset neither is Allah upset or neither is Allah disappointed but let's dig into the word another interesting Arabic word word or basically they used to call it kind of acid can describe it as detergent detergent old back in the day was used to you know rub and scrub the the cloth but you don't when you're done with it what do you do with the detergent you want to wash it off and be rid of it and let it disappear it's not something of value once you're done using it right it's that's the the original you know image associated with the word something you use and then when its usefulness is done you get rid of it and it's worthless to you and it it has no meaning to you anymore they say that to remove something that's kept within the folds like the your cloth you know your FS your clothes are folded up like back in the day you have people like at the edge of of little lake or river or something washing their clothes and the soap or whatever is inside the cloth and they're squeezing it out like this and beating it out right so something that was deeply penetrated inside but now you just want to get rid of it the idea that you had someone very close and now you want to get rid of them you want to throw them out this is also used by the way when you fry something when you fry something like nowadays if you're you fry say whatever you fry for you know because are so nice to eat and healthy so and then you know the leftover organic matter you just kind of toss that's also is the stuff you toss away right so Allah says Allah did not dismiss you as if you're you've outlived your usefulness that you're no longer any good to him that is not the case this is there are two sides of it Allah is upset and the or Allah said Allah said fairwell and the other Allah sees you worthless and therefore he's disappointed in you you're not worthy of him anymore these are the feelings that Believer can get towards towards Allah Allah thinks that I'm worthless Allah thinks that have no good left in me you know again tell you people around you can make you feel that way and you start taking the opinions of people and start projecting that that might be the opinion of Allah on you also that's very common mistake that we make and that's something that's that's highlighted in theah it's actually the imagery of farewell and leaving off and never seeing again is the imagery of traveler that that's gone and is not going to come back it's like this Revelation came and visited you and now it's gone and it's never going to come back that is certainly not the case some have argu that Kal neither is he upset neither did he dismiss or disregard you that word Allah did not say you right so some derive from that that perhaps that word is so harsh that Allah out of love did not mention the prophet next to it so he said your lord your master did not did not say goodbye to you nor is he upset instead of saying nor is he upset with you so he didn't add the with you as if the words with you would have been too harsh for the prophet to hear next to the word upset so he just said nor is he upset nor is he angry about anything nor is he disappointed nor is he dismissive like out of Honor for the messenger others say no this is common style of the Quran like those who remember Allah lot and those the males who remember Allah lot and the females it doesn't say and the females who remember Allah lot Allah was not mentioned the second time but it's understood it's obvious and so the same way here it may be obvious in any case now we move along and and swear to you will add swear to you because the is there it's called it's Lam used for the oath and used to respond to an oath here you can argue that it's an all new statement and swear to you what is at the very end is better for you and is better for your sake than what is at the very beginning what is at the very end is better for you swear to it than what is at the very beginning this is the essential meaning of from this some have described that perhaps things are going to get better Quran will start coming and it's not going to discontinue anymore personally don't find that very convincing argument because happened again like the gaps in Revelation took place even later on like for example in what is associated with for instance people came and asked question the prophet Salli wasallam said I'll get you an answer but it didn't come for few days that happened similarly in the case of the revelation of over month went by no Quran came down and that's maybe even parallel with the amount of time that was spent here of no Revelation so that may not be the strongest way of viewing this Ayah others have said this Ayah is talking about the about Jenna itself what is waiting for you at the very end of Jenna and whatever you're going through right now can't compare that's one way of looking at this ay of course in on the day of judgment Allah will give toam the flag of Allah will Allah's Messenger will praise Allah with kind of Praise that we've never heard before and he doesn't even have it yet he told us and he will praise Allah with that Praise on that day when Allah says nobody will be talking except the one gives permission to and that one will be Muhammad Al wasallam that's when he'll make the case for this that's when he's going to stand and make the the The Plea for for every single believer this is the this is what's better for you that's coming for you than everything that's happening right now similarly he's given that's far better than anything you'll have now and then your is going to be by you by Al may Allah grant us that gift that we get to drink from Al by the by our Messenger am so these are the things that are promised to him and so he says the afterlife what is coming in the end is better for you that's also maybe somewhat reinforced by the previous Surah same phrasing and here also but there is another way of looking at these aat and find that argument even more compelling and that argument is that things that are coming the the what how this is going to play out by the end of your career right now you think this Revelation isn't coming and this is the end this isn't the end there's lot more to go and by the time you reach the end of this Mission you'll see things are going to be so much better than what happened just now in the beginning things are going to change you're going to have followers you're going to be leaving behind and this is going to be you know what feel is one of the strongest ways of looking at this Ayah is alaihi wasallam did not leave behind buildings he didn't leave behind roadways and structures he didn't leave behind massive amounts of wealth you know like when great kings die when the Pharaoh died they left behind pyramids and statues and monuments that are still there wasam was born in desert died in desert and left the place of desert he didn't turn it into towers and massive structures and monuments and libraries and universities he didn't what did he leave behind he left behind human beings whose Hearts were filled with the word of Allah that's what he left behind and that is better than anything else you can leave behind is greater gift than anything else and those hearts change the entire map of the planet the world as we know it now is is is the way it is because of what Left Behind sallam The Prophet Compares him to farmer who when the crop grows tall is so happy with how much it grew that's the maturity of the sahaba he's happy with these are the people that will carry Islam so one day you and can say don't you ever think revelation will stop until the mission will come to an end Allah will see it through this is what Allah was going to make sure that the reason for which you were chosen and this gift that's been given to you is not just phase you were chosen for the right reason Allah will make sure you get all the way to the end of this Mission and so and if that wasn't enough Allah said even more he said and absolutely swear to it soon very soon your master is going to Grant to you your your is going to Grant to you and then you're going to be pleased in other words the that's coming the or the the the conclusion of this Mission that's coming by the time you leave this world you're going to be pleased with Allah you're going to be happy with what you've been given in this world and now you're get ready to go before Allah you see messenger of Allah any messenger of Allah is very concerned whether or not he fulfilled his mission because the biggest responsibility on messenger of Allah is to fulfill the obligation Allah has given him this is their with Allah their Covenant with God now our messenger sallallah alaihi wasallam when time came and the the if you if you study the Hadith maybe in I'll start the next session tomorrow with that Hadith of The Parting of Al wasallam the last moments of his life when the angel actually came he asked permission can come come come and take you and he gave him the option and at that time if the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam was not pleased with what has been accomplished he wouldn't want to leave until he can say before Allah did what was supposed to do but he when he says when he chose the highest companion meaning Allah can go now can go now can go now that actually means he's happy with the mission as it has been accomplished that's one of its meanings it's not just that he Longs for the company of Allah but it actually also means that Allah has given him contentment with the with with fulfilling the mission that Allah had charged him with this is Allah will give you yes Allah will give you the river in jna Allah will give you Thea Allah will give you but Allah will also give you the when he can't even get out of bed and he'll just move the curtain and he will see AB leading the prayer and the muslims praying and is going to be content that this is this is going to be okay they're going to be fine this Islam will live on that is contentment Allah will give him then you shall be pleased this is the same you find when the was changed like the pleasure making sure the prophet himself is happy and content is great priority of Allah Allah doesn't just Allah to to allaham is slave he servant he's he's on he's messenger he has mission but also he's close intimate friend and in that friendship in that love he has for his messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam he is actually Allah's compassionate to the to the notion that our messenger feels sad and Abandoned and Allah comes to him and says first of all didn't leave you and I'm not upset things are going to get better and I'm going to make you so happy just watch who says that when you you say that to someone you truly love and you want to make sure they're never sad again it's like these ayat removed the sadness from the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam these are the kinds of ayat of love and intimacy that exists between Allah and his messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam so many places in the Quran we know how your heart becomes tight your chest becomes tight because of the things they say you know it makes you sad the things they say we know we know that your you become sad and I'm giving you Quran on little occasion at time one occasion at time to strengthen your heart my teacher one of my teachers used to say actually about this idea of Quran coming down little by little by little if you were in prison and they had the lights on all the time that would be form of torture too like you actually need time to relief from the light and then more and then relief and then more if night if light or daylight never went away then plant life would burn like it needs the night to recuperate and to regenerate and then the daytime it's they both they're both necessary so even this Gap in Revelation was necessary for you you can't handle taking all the Quran at once if the Quran was given to mountain it couldn't handle it if it was given at once you know this is just for us to understand Quran had to come little at time and Allah says only give you enough so that it can make your heart firm in other words sometimes the prophet would hear terrible things being said and he didn't know who to talk to about it and then Allah would talk to him about it and Allah would say listen you're not the first one to go through this went through this let me tell you what happened with you're not the first one to go through this ibraim heard this too let me tell you what happened with ibraim so he would tell him all these different stories of the prophets you know Allah says tell you the stories of pre previous prophets to make your heart stronger that's what he told the prophet you know so this love relationship with between Allah and his messenger is is one of the central subject matters of the study of the Quran this good goodness that Allah gave to the prophet that the end is going to be better is everything related to the prophet his person his religion his this is the promise of Allah that Islam itself will spread and Allah will stabilize and spread and you know he will he will remove uncertainty from the umah and the goodness of the umah that the prophet was hoping for AB narrates in certain sources the messenger of Allah said was shown everything that has been opened for my the doors that have been opened for my followers and it made me happy and then he recited the end is better for you than what is in the beginning well the sa in this Ayah also means continuity meaning Allah won't just give you in your own lifetime even past your lifetime Allah will keep giving you and you'll be happy because so long as there are people of of Islam around when we say then his mention is elevated and he is thatat reaches him when we sayat and upon the prophet it reaches him he acknowledges it and it makes him happy that we his followers with all of our mistakes and all of our shortcomings are still there and we're still holding on and we're still carrying the banner of Islam may Allah make us worthy of that Banner