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We are in the second passage of Surat Al-Naba, and the first thing I try to describe to you is one of the themes that comes out of that

passage is that Allah is describing his creative power and by comparison showing how incapable we are. So what that does for the argument is how dare you speak to someone whose capability and power dwarfs yours, right? So it's a lesson in humility, you could argue, one way of looking at these lessons. But there are other ways to analyze these ayat, these very same ayat that I've shared with you just now. One of them is that Allah, as I would just created everything in pairs,

look at everything that Allah mentioned. He started with Allah, he paired the flat earth with the mountain, which is not flat earth, right? Then he said he made you into pairs. He mentions the day and he mentions the night. He mentions the sky and he paired the sky with the brilliant lamp. He built the roof and a lamp inside the roof, just like you have a ceiling and a lamp inside the chandelier inside it. So he mentions the skies and he mentions the lamp inside it.

So things that he mentions are all in pairs, except for one and I'll get to that because that's strategic. Yet, so the point of that is when everything is made in pairs, why do you think this life doesn't have a pair, right? Allah made everything in pairs. And so this existence of yours has also been paired. As a matter of fact, even beyond the pairs that we've been created.

And I would argue even as wajj, not just spouses and men and women, but a kind of zoge is your body and the ruh put inside it. We were paired together. There was a ruh, it's a separate entity. And there was this physical body and Allah paired them together and that's how he made you. He made you by two things. You are yourself a creation in pairs. And then look at your body itself. How much of your body was made your hands, your eyes, your limbs. He made you in the style of pairs. That's how he balanced you.

And so Allah is showing us that in this creative style, I like to talk about it when, because a lot of people now understand brands. If you're into cars and you see a certain brand car even from a distance, you can tell what brand name it is. If you're into it, you can tell.

Or if you're into watches, you can see it like 20 feet away, somebody's wearing a watch. That's a tag. Or that's a Rolex. If you're into that stuff, you have an eye for it. Same thing with design, fashion design, clothing. Ladies can tell a Chanel bag from 20 miles away apparently.

So, you know, and the similar thing happens if you're into architecture, if you see a certain building in a city, you're like, I know the architect. But you have to be in that field and you'll just know.

But Allah himself is a maker. He manufactures things. He builds things. He creates things. And he has a certain signature. Like every designer has a signature. Allah himself also has a signature. And one part of his signature is pairs. He likes to make things in twos. He couples things together. And so he made you and he made you a part of two and two parts. And the same way your life is also made of two parts. Your life exists here and there's another life coming thereafter. So that's a beautiful way.

Of, you know, making that argument. What are you talking about? And it's interesting that the way Allah made us subhanahu wa ta'ala, our physical body. And he made this ruh. Right? And the ruh is from the unseen.

So part of my existence is actually, my existence itself contains something of the unseen. For those of you that are younger, this will be an easier example to appreciate.

My teacher one time asked me, we were studying Quran. They asked you about the ruh, which is translated. They asked you about the soul.

Not the best translation, but good enough. They asked you about the soul. And my teacher asked me, where are you, Noman?

And I thought he's thinking, I'm not paying attention. Because you know, my teacher says, where are you? I was in Jersey right now.

No, like, means I wasn't paying attention, but I literally said here. And he said, no, that's your chest. Where are you?

And I said, here, you know, so he said, that's your body. Where are you? And then I was like, oh, now I get it. This is just a machine.

This is, it's, it's got motors. It's got function. It's got fuel, doesn't it?

But there's an operator of this machine. That operator was put inside by Allah, that ruh. This machine one day will expire.

It's not going to work anymore. The driver, however, is going to survive. And he's going to be taken out of this machine.

And he's going to be taken for questioning. And it's going to, and it's going to be given a new body.

We're going to be resurrected, resurrected, a new body, and then it's going to be put back in. Subhanallah. That is the nature of Allah's creation. He did create us in pairs.

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