i just wanted us to to think about reflect a little bit on this ayah where a lost parent says
today every person shall have what they have earned there will be no injustice today and verily
allah is swift in his accounting now this verse has multiple layers but i want us to think about
the scene of the courtroom on the day of judgment and the scene of the courtroom in this life
in this life the best that you can get is some sort of punishment and retribution
against the person that committed that murder but you're not going to get your loved one back
and that's something that you'll never forget when jordan edwards was murdered here by an officer and
his father said at the end of it as they gave the officer roy oliver 15 years who murdered
his 15 year old son i said yeah but i don't get my son back i don't get my son back right so
what are you celebrating here you're celebrating some some semblance of justice but you don't get
your son back you don't get your loved one back and often you see the families of these victims
who have been victimized themselves and in the case of christ church survivors also
and they're trying to impress upon the murderer the gravity of the crime that they have committed
and upon the judge and upon the public they're trying to advocate faithfully for
their loved ones and tell their stories because their stories have been cut short
by these uh ruthless acts and that is a heavy burden to have and subhanallah allah tells us
but the first thing allah says is that everyone will be repaid for what they have done of
reward and punishment now this has a broader meaning in tafsir this refers to any good deed
that is done and any sin that is committed but specifically in the capacity or in the context of
a wrongdoing the judge in this world can only work fairness but the judge and the hereafter
who is allah can actually restore and give back what was lost right and so you think about the
oppressed standing with the oppressor the murderer and the murdered the slanderer and the slandered
all of these different types of uh oppressors and oppressed standing on the day of judgment and the
compensation for the one who is patient with the loss of their loved one is not just getting their
loved one back but being in the presence of the beloved sallallahu alaihi wasallam in paradise
right i mean it doesn't get better than that so allah gives what was taken and there is
no doubt no distrust at any point or uh or or lack of confidence that allah will give
you back what you have lost what has been taken away from you and so the power of you
everyone will get back what or everyone will get what they deserve of reward and punishment
and the the motto of the day of judgment there will be no wrong doing today there are no lawyers
to stand in the trial there is no access to power or privilege in the trial in front of allah
there's no better argument there's just truth and the judge knows all things there's no suppressed
evidence because you can't hide evidence from allah and no one no one no wrong doing will be
tolerated no wrong doing will go without being uh without without right being done by allah on the
day of judgement and then lastly in allah verily allah is swift in his accounting and this is
such a powerful uh ending to this verse now there are two meanings to it number one
the day of judgment is is on its way so don't be hasty towards it verily resurrection is on its way
and when we stand before allah this entire life would have felt like less than a day so on that
day a day of which the standing is 50 000 years this entire life of however many years you lived
on this earth would feel like less than a day in its entirety but there is another
meaning of it uh in allah that verily on the day of judgment allah will be swift allah will be
swift in allahing reward and punishment and what that means you know or one of the the meanings
that we can take from that one of the one of the blessings of that is if you think about how
in this life you know people have to wait for the trials and then the trials take a long time and
then you have the pain of the arguments the trauma being revisited the evidence being presented
and you don't even know if you're going to get justice and all of these things taking place
you have all the strings being pulled you have all the uncertainty on the day of judgment in allah