Allah says (verse) And with the Ahd the covenant of Allah (swt) shall
you do Wafa. The covenant of Allah (swt) what does that mean? And what
does Wafa mean? Wafa means to bring something such that there is no
defect within it. So you if you're trying to bring a matter to
somebody he's assigned you an assignment, you want to make sure
you perfected the assignment and then you bring it to that person.
So Allah (swt) says, I've given you Ahd, Ahdullah the Ahd of Allah
(swt). So with this Ahd of Allah (swt), should you do Wafa. Should
you bring it and fulfill it completely. Now what exactly is
this Ahd of Allah (swt) and notice a couple of, you know, one line
before or two lines before, you see Allah (swt) says (وَأَوْفُوا الْكَيْلَ) fulfil
the measurement. But he talks about fulfillment there first and
foremost, because that's really important. But over here, Allah
(swt) doesn't make reference to the fulfilment Allah (swt) talks about
the Ahd first because that's what's more significant. When you
recognize that this is a covenant right away from the get go. You
hear that tough word covenant powerful. As soon as you heard the
word covenant. Right away, you start thinking something great.
It's like there's some sort of treaty or something like that,
right? The word Ahd is a powerful word. So Allah (swt) starts by
striking homerun with this really powerful word. So you remember to
listen very, very carefully. From this point onward. There's a
covenant we're talking about. It's not a joke. And this covenant is
not my covenant or your covenant. This is a covenant of Allah (swt).
So when you have a treaty with a certain country that's really
powerful. You start being very wary about how to interact with that
because you've got this treaty, you have to uphold it. When you have a
treaty with a law you have a covenant with a law you have a
relationship of such sort with the law, then you have to start being
careful. What exactly is this covenant with Allah (swt) the
covenant with Allah (swt) could be a covenant that Allah (swt) has had
made with us, and what's that? Allah (swt) He told us in the
Quran, saying (أَلَمْ أَعْهَدْ إِلَيْكُمْ) did I not make a covenant to you? (أَلَمْ أَعْهَدْ إِلَيْكُمْ) did
I not make a covenant with you? (يَابَنِي آدَمَ) O children of Adam (أَنْ لَا تَعْبُدُوا الشَّيْطَانَ)
that you shouldn't be worshipping satan. So there's a covenant from
Allah (swt) towards us. He made this oath with us that we will
never ever be worshipping Satan. Right so this is one type of
covenant with Allah. But then there's also a covenant that we
make towards Allah (swt) and that is when Allah (swt) and we've made
this covenant every single one of us whether we remember it or not,
Allah (swt) tells us about this covenant in the Quran, (‌وَإِذْ ‌أَخَذَ ‌رَبُّكَ ) when
Allah (swt) ended up taking (مِنْ بَنِي آدَمَ) from the children of Adam, from the
children of Adam (مِنْ ظُهُورِهِمْ) from their backs, (ذُرِّيَّتَهُمْ) their progeny. So
Allah (swt) took the progeny of every individual from his, from his
Zuhoor, from his back from the Zahr. And after he took everybody
out, everybody was before Him. And He said to everybody (أَلَسْتُ بِرَبِّكُمْ) Am I
not your Lord? Every single person testified. And they all said,
(قَالُوا بَلَى شَهِدْنَا) everyone said, of course of a surety you Our Lord is definitely
our only Lord. So we all accepted the divinity of Allah (swt). And
that is our covenant with Allah (swt) that will abide by the fact
that he is the only divine Lord. He is the only Lord worthy of our
devotion, our worship, our submissiveness, our servitude, that
all of that (إِنَّ صَلَاتِي وَنُسُكِي وَمَحْيَايَ ‌وَمَمَاتِي) indeed my salah indeed, my prayer indeed my
sacrifice, indeed my life indeed my death all of that is for Allah
(swt). This is a covenant we've already taken Allah (swt) says
(‌أَنْ ‌تَقُولُوا ‌يَوْمَ ‌الْقِيَامَةِ) that you may end up saying on the day of judgment ( إِنَّا كُنَّا عَنْ هَذَا غَافِلِينَ)
don't end up coming on the day of judgment and telling me that you
forgot this. You've already done it. It's occurred. It's been
written. Allah has given us a covenant not to worship Satan.
We've given Allah (swt) covenant that he's our divine Lord alone. We
have to abide by this. That's why Allah (swt) uses the word Ahdullah,
the covenant of Allah to generalize both covenants from both angles.
The Covenant we gave to Allah our transaction with him, the covenant
he took from us or he gave to us to not worship satan, all of that is
there. It's all there. And then on top of that, we have another
covenant. We have a covenant in which Allah didn't initiate it, we
did not initiate it. Now this is a covenant that we initiate with
mankind, everybody on Earth. So we have a covenant with people
somebody makes a transaction with someone he says, I promise you I'll
do such and such, but the person doesn't end up following through
Allah (swt) says, (يَاأَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا ) O you who believe (أَوْفُوا بِالْعُقُودِ) when you have a
transaction, then fulfill the transaction properly. So why would
this be called the Ahd of Allah, the covenant of Allah because Allah
is the one that's obliged you to make sure that you fulfill that
covenant with other people as well. So you have one covenant, from you
to Allah, one free from Allah (swt) to you all of that you have to
fulfill. And then you have another covenant that you'd give to people
that also needs to be fulfilled. And that's why Allah (swt) says,
with the Ahd of Allah do Wafa, all of that is included within those
three words. And that's why I said this is an extremely powerful,
powerful set of three words, you can memorize them right now
(وَبِعَهْدِ اللَّهِ ‌أَوْفُوا). That's it. So the take home message and the action item
today is that from now on, you have three prominent promises you have a
promise that you have given to Allah (swt) that he is your only
Lord, you have a Ahd from Allah (swt) towards you and you have to
live by it. And that is the fact that from this point onwards, we're
not going to worship Satan in the least and we're not going to
worship our own desires, rather our devotion and servitude in our
submissiveness with will be towards Allah (swt) and for Him alone. That
is our Ahd that is our covenant. And last but not least, whenever we
transact with people, we have to make sure we're transacting
properly such that we don't lie such that we live up to our
promises. (وصلى الله وسلم على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين)