{أَمَّا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ فَلَهُمْ جَنَّاتُ الْمَأْوَىٰ} [32:19]
Those who believed and did good deeds, then they're going to have جنات where they have permanent refuge, permanent protection.
{نُزُلًا} permanent refuge, permanent stay {نُزُلًا بِمَا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ} Let me translate what نزل means.
It won't be a word, it will be a description. When you go to somebody's house and they are a good host,
because you go to somebody's house, they're a bad host. You go to somebody's house, "Hey, yeah, have a seat."
Three hours later, they haven't even given you a glass of water. And they're eating, "So, how was work?"
And you're looking at their food like, "It was a long day, didn't even have lunch today. Oh yeah? That's terrible."
But if you go to a good host. They sit you down, they get you some water, they get you some... I don't know walnuts, some chips,
or some snack appetizer while the dinner is being prepared. You can smell the dinner, but to get you going
they give you a little bit in the beginning. That beginning appetizer is called نزل.
So نزل by the way comes like نزول revelation is also called إنزال and تنزيل What does it have to do with that?
Back in the day, the person used to ride on a horse or a camel when they came to their house.
The moment they come down from their ride, you give them water or you give them a date.
So as soon as they come down. So even nowadays, by the way a house in Arabic is called a منزل in modern Arabic منزل.
منزل literally means the place to go down into. But it's because you're coming off of a mountain or a horse, that it was called a منزل
like that. A place of descent, because you could be living on the third floor. Why is that a منزل?
That's a ‏مرفع that's not a منزل but it's from the old usage of coming off the horse.
So anyway, the point is Jannah and getting to be inside Jannah, Allah says, "They will have Jannah as نزل"
Jannah is the appetizer. That's not the main course. That's not the main course. The main course is something else.
Wait, hold on. What's the highest level of Jannah, folks? Okay, Surat Al-Kahf.
{إِنَّ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ كَانَتْ لَهُمْ جَنَّاتُ الْفِرْدَوْسِ نُزُلًا} [18:107]
He says, "Believers will have فردوس as نزل" What? فردوس is the appetizer? What is the main course?
This is Allah's way of saying, even the things that He has described are just the beginning.
You cannot have a description of Jannah in language that is used in earth. The only descriptions of Jannah we can have are words
that we can understand while living on the earth. So He'll say, "Trees and waterfalls and meat and beautiful spouses
and beautiful homes." We are like, "Oh yeah I know homes yeah, pillows I get pillows, yeah, pillows."
Because you know that. But there's stuff in Jannah that is not meat, and it's not vegetable, and it's not fruit.
It is something else, and if He gave you the word for it, you'll be like.
Because we've never experienced it. We don't have a word for it. So all Allah will say is,
"By the way everything you can imagine نزل. That's نزل" But then in this life what experience of نزل do we have?
نزل is mostly food or drinks. Opening the appetite is mostly food or drink? Drink.
The restaurant offers you نزل first. They give you glass of water. Okay? The the waiter will come give you some water.
The host will give you something to drink. نزل is usually more about what? Drinks. We're going to get to Surat Al-Insan
and Jannah's description will be filled with drinks, drinks, drinks. Which corresponds beautifully with what?