Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Hell Revealed Part 1 Introduction
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Several years ago, we covered paradise in a lot of detail, the
lead delights of paradise and this course this series is up online on
zum zum academy.com. And over the over the course of the last few
years, there's been quite a few requests that we similarly cover
Hellfire in detail.
And so eventually Allah subhanaw taala has enabled us to do this
and we're basing this on several different sources. But our main
source is going to be a book by ignorable humbly, who's a great
humbly scholar
who died in
795, approximately, it's called a duck with mininum. But 30 If be
highly diluted power
that we've made in our water, it will be highly diluted, which
basically duckweed means to frighten somebody to threaten
somebody to create fear in someone so it's basically engendering
creating fear from hellfire, which is a very important aspect for us.
And Atari, if we highly diluted by war, which is to describe,
to describe and define the state of this abode of destruction,
about of loss, destruction, misery, etc. He is going to
describe that. So the author is His full name is the half of so
he's a master of Hadith who has memorized many, many Hadith. Abdul
Rahman ignem Ahmed Ibni, Raja Bell humbly Al Baghdadi at the Muskie.
So it's called Baghdadi and the Muskie because I'll give you his
biography. So this is one of his well known books, actually, it's
probably one of the more well known books regarding Hellfire in
its description. He was born in Baghdad, in Erbil, oh, well of the
736 Hijiri.
And He then moved from Baghdad, with his father, to they, they
moved to Damascus. He was very, it was very young, he was still very
young. So that was in 744. Which means
before he was about eight years old or something, and they're
mashallah he studied under a number of the great scholars of
Damascus, he also studied with some scholars in Egypt. And
then after that, he was a prolific writer. He's definitely a great
scholar. I mean, this is not the first book of his that I'm
covering. I've actually covered quite a bit of some of his other
books like
the Jamia loom, you will hit him he has actually one of the
greatest Commentary on the 40 Hadith of Imam No, I mean, many of
you will be aware of the 40 Hadith, the famous you know what,
it's probably the most famous collection of 40 Hadith Imam
knows. And one of the best and most extensive commentaries on
that is the Jameela alumi will become the compendium of sciences
and of wisdoms, which is written by a knowledgeable humbling day,
you can just tell the prowess of in his coverage and his scope in
Hadith, he just quotes various different Hadith and you know, the
scope that he had was amazing. So this book also is full of full of
Hadith, and he's got a great scope in that regard. So he studied
extensively in terms of Hadith. All the sciences related to
Hadith, the sub sciences of Hadith, he was a
great scholar in that regard. And he was also one of the ascetics.
So
he's, he's also one of the zoo had one of the Tsar, he didn't and
that was something very important. It's something very important for
Allah ma. And may Allah subhanho wa Taala give us a part of it as
well. So he's considered from one of them. Well, in a bad he's also
considered to be one of the great devotees and worship people who
are really not just with knowledge, but they have a lot of
focus on their worship. May Allah subhanaw taala make us of them.
Now since he was humbly in fifth and he moved from Baghdad, and he
came to Damascus. Damascus was not really a place for humbly
Right. It's mostly been Shafi and Hanafi. However,
through him numerous, famous and well known and very important
figures studied humbly from him. And in fact, you could probably
say that the majority of the humble is that came out of
Damascus. They they probably stunned it studied under him. And
I had the opportunity when I stayed in Damascus to study for
the months that I was there. Actually, I actually stayed in a
flat in an apartment just in front in the in the small alleyway in
front of the famous Masjid of these people have the Hamleys it's
called Jeremy l Hannah Bella. Right? Jeremy Allah Nebula, which
means the German or the masjid of the Hanabi law, that's where they
used to be. I'm assuming that you've knowledgeable humbly was
there as well. So I lived in a street just opposite. That was my
local masjid. And mashallah, you know, it's it's quite close to the
Sheikh mohideen area and the ravine area. So that's, that's
where he was from. And he wrote numerous titles. He wrote numerous
I'm not gonna mention all of them. Right now. I've mentioned his
compendium of sciences and
the wisdoms the commentary on the Urbane. That's a very, very well
known book. Another one is that he wrote different commentaries on
other Hadith, bigger Hadith works as well. So he's got a commentary
on telemovie. He's also got a short, it's not a short it's
actually an incomplete partial commentary and Sahil Buhari as
well, which he actually also called factual body. It's also
called fertile barley be Shudehill Buhari.
He's only gotten to gettable Jana is in the end, he wasn't able to
complete it. Then he's got a number of other books and some of
the other well known books of his is
this book on the months of the year, and the various different
virtues of each of the months of the year, right, and that is the
call a lotta if a lot of people have used that. I'm not sure if
it's been translated yet, but lots of people have actually used it,
it's considered to be quite a, you know, quite a quite a good book a
lot of people admire if it's called a thoughtful man, or if the
subtleties of the Gnosis or the knowing Allah subhana wa Tada,
female in my wife's name is Sunita mineral wala, regarding the
responsibilities in from the Sunnah, during the various
different seasons of the year.
So anyway, I think that's enough. I think the other thing was that
he held numerous gatherings in his time, in which he would give a lot
of advices and councils. And he was very effective in that regard.
You know, people really, really used to be affected by that. Now,
you know, we don't have that kind of effect. But since we're
covering his book, we asking Allah subhanaw taala that may His words,
you know, the coverage from his book, may his words also in sha
Allah benefit us and find a similar benefit to you know, the
actual author's words, his live words, when he was alive in
Damascus. And Mashallah. So he was known to, he says, what kind of
layout he will show him in moodiness. He never cared for the
affairs of people, in the sense that he never did gossip. He
wasn't aware of what was going on among people in the sense of, you
know, their daily issues and things like that. And
yeah, he, he just wasn't into that. It was very, it looks like
he was quite secluded in that regard. He was just focused on his
knowledge. He didn't really mix with people too much, it seems.
And next thing was that he actually did not really,
at that time, you know, you had the Islamic leaders and the
governors and all that. I mean, he was in a Muslim country,
obviously, he was also not want to ever go and sit in their palaces
or in their places, and so on, used to actually live in a mother
as a mother as a superior, I think it's called in the kasar. In area,
that's where he he lived.
Now, before he passed away, it's really interest. I'm just giving
you a brief biography. There's lots of biographies written about
him, and much more extensively, but just before he passed away, he
called a grave digger. Right, he called a grave digger, and he told
him that he pointed to a space and he said, I want you to dig the
trench for me here. I want you to dig the grave here, a graveyard
trench here. So the Grave Digger. He's saying for half an hour Tula.
I did it for him, and I probably wasn't he wasn't sure what he was
doing it for, like who's died and so on. So he says, If
knowledgeable, humbly Rahim Allah actually got into the grave
himself. And he really, he really admired he started saying started
complimenting it. And then after that, he laid down in it.
And he said, Hello, Jay. This is wonderful. This is excellent. And
then he came out after a few days, he passed away and thus he was
buried there Subhanallah you know, it's all you know, they this is
this is known that while nobody knows where they're supposed to
die that's mentioned the Quran.
Not only Allah subhanaw taala knows where anybody, and everybody
is going to die. But based on stories like this that we know,
right, and of people I know, right? I mean, it is not just
about great scholars of the past, but there's people I know, who got
an inkling about when they were going to die. Like within next few
days, they may have not known the exact time or whatever, but they
got an inkling that look, your time is near, there are certain
feelings and so on, I wish somebody you know, could compile
somebody or something of that. And I'm sure there are books on that
subject as well, because they really, really help us these death
is a very, very important important concept is a very
important phenomena. So anyway, he passed away in Damascus, in Rajab
of 795, Hijiri 795 Hijiri. So that's essentially halfway to our,
you know, to our time, from the time of the Prophet salallahu,
salam to, you know, our time, which is 14 140 something, so this
is just around half the halfway mark. So he lived about, you can
say, about 700 years ago, or something like that, 650 700 years
ago, May, Allah subhanho wa taala, bless him that his book has come
to us. And in sha Allah, we're going to benefit from his book.
And this is also the kajaria for him, may Allah subhanaw, taala,
700 years after we die as well allow people to benefit from
something that we have left behind. And may Allah subhanho wa
taala. Grant us the if loss to do with that. Now, one of the
purposes of why we're covering this is, as I mentioned, we did
something about paradise. And the reason we've done paradise, just
to remind everybody is because whenever we buy something, or
we're interested in something in the world, then we generally read
reviews about it. In fact, there's a lot of people that go on to
YouTube, and they watch these videos on how things work, or how
things are made, or how things function. Right? You know, and the
reason they do that is because they're interested in general
information. They're interested there are there are these Twitter
feeds and so on that tell you about all of these nice places in
the world. Now, you may not have any intention to actually go there
right now, you may not be planning, but you look at that,
and you kind of get amazed about it. Oh, that's in the dunya
they're amazing. There's some really amazing places in the world
that I've personally been to. Right. And you know, they're
amazing, amazing places. Paradise is supposed to be more amazing and
excellent, and all of these places. So the reason we covered
it is that if we, you know, generally when you read the
reviews of something, when you see pictures of a place, when you get
a describe to you by people, you're like, Okay, I need to go
there as well. Like, you know, I want to go there as well. It just
brings it closer to us. It's something that creates eagerness
for us. So I think it's the same kind of thing for Paradise. But
you see, there's not just paradise. Paradise and * are
two parallels, and we want to be in paradise. But * is also
reality. And if we don't you see, * is where we will just go to
by default, if we don't care, that's why Hal becomes even more
important than paradise. Right? Paradise is important, but if
we're not aware of hellfire, because paradise is going to
create hope in us. When you hear about Paradise, and who's entered
into paradise who has been allowed into Paradise, and, and so on,
you're going to feel like, okay, you it's going to expand the hope
in us. And I'm saying this person who's speaking is going to expand
the hope in us. So if we're doing at least some good if I'm praying
five times a day, and if I'm, you know, trying to fast in my Ramadan
and do all of that stuff. And then if I do end up doing some sins, I
feel like well, I'm doing good anyway. So what happens is that if
you don't have the fear factor, the threat factor, right, then
that means that what we're thinking is that the good deeds
that we're doing, they're enough, and they're going to give us
salvation. So, yes, if we're believers, then we can definitely
be in sha Allah guaranteed as long as we stay believers until our
death, we're going to be guaranteed paradise one day, but
do we want to have a stint in hellfire? Right, do we want to do
that? So
how important is it now become to understand Hellfire so that it
becomes a graphic ly detailed in our minds so that we want to avoid
it? Because paradise creates eagerness towards that, but that
creates hope. And they say that hope is only good towards the end
of your life when you're about to die when you're in sickness or
something. Otherwise, we need more fear. And I think this is what a
lot of people are suffering from. We don't have enough fear. We may
have more hope than we have fear, even in many people who are
practicing, because we don't have enough discussion about the fear.
Fear has to be created in the heart. And I said by default a
person is going to go to * fie if they don't try. Right. I mean,
if they're living in a time where there's Dean where there's
religion, where there's exposure to Islam, exposure to good deeds,
and exposure to goodness and all the rest of it.
And if they don't try hard
If they don't actively try to get to Paradise, then we're going to
end up in hellfire. I mean, just just keep that in mind. That is
the default trajectory. Right? We're gonna have to end up in
hellfire unless Allah subhanaw taala forget forgives us. But you
know, how can you guarantee that? How do we know that we've got some
kind of contract? You can't have a contract with Allah subhanaw taala
unless we do good. Then he said anybody who does good and fulfills
all of these things, then we go to paradise. So just remember that
that Hellfire will become
I shudder to think about it now. Right Hellfire will become our
about if we're not actively trying to get away from it. Right? We're
actively not trying to get away from it. So that's why paradise is
important. But Hellfire becomes even more important. So may Allah
subhanaw taala give us the benefit and an understanding from this,
because there's a lot of thing that's taking us away. That's not
allowing us to remember that you know, the hellfire, even Allah
subhanho wa Taala is not remaining. It's making us
distracted. Because we can spend so much time you know, when you're
tired, you can just sit and get entertained with something
whatever you want, really. So that's why it's very, very
important to understand is to create the fear what they call the
hope. Right the hush hear from Allah subhanho wa Taala and Masha
Allah that Allah ma knew this obviously, the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam obviously knew this. That's why many many verses
in the Quran about the Hellfire warning against the Hellfire
describing the hellfire, speaking about the denizens of hellfire,
and that is essentially what we're going to cover today we're going
to cover probably all the verses in the Quran not today. But in
this series, we're probably going to cover all the verses and in sha
Allah, all the Hadith, at least most of the Hadith, in sha Allah
regarding 12 is regarding Hellfire so that we can get a decent
understanding right about what it is. And but before we before we do
that, we're actually going to speak about the fear of Allah
subhanaw taala. We're going to speak about how different people
feared Allah subhanaw taala to give us an understanding about
now, if not a bit dunya the other book that we said that we would be
basing this on is a shorter book than ignorable humbleness. It's
primarily just based on Hadith. The reason I say it's smaller, I
mean, it's about two thirds of the size or maybe about half to two
thirds of the size. The difference is that ignorable humbly is the
latest scholar seven something, whereas, if not a bit Dunia was a
much earlier scholar he died, you know, before 300. So he's in the
time of the Abbasids, right, the early Abbasids, for that matter.
And he is actually I'll speak about him later, I'll speak on him
later. And his book is, has the full chain from him to the Prophet
sallallahu Sallam or to the companion, whereas if
knowledgeable humbly, doesn't always do that, because he's much
later. And the books of Hadith have already been codified and
recorded. And, you know, they've all been codified by that time
anyway. So we're going to ignore a gerbil humbly, is the one who
starts his chapters and I'll go through his chapter soon with with
the discussion of the fear of Allah subhanaw taala various
different people's approach to this, some of the verses and so
on. Whereas if not a bit dunya he just goes into the Hadith
directly. So we will be covering parts of his book later, because
we want to speak about this. So they're not the only people that
actually spoke about the subjects. There's several other books and
even some very modern writers have written about these based on these
on these early works. What ethnological humbly has done his
is very comprehensive is much more comprehensive, than a bit dunya as
work, right. So he's got the verses of the Quran in there. He's
got the Hadith in there, he's got a Thor, which basically means
different narrations from the Sahaba themselves, their approach
their
their statements about about hellfire, and a number of
different stories, right? How this fear of hellfire, this concern
about hellfire, this concern for our ending, and where we're going
to go, they've discussed that and I think that they're very, very
powerful. They they soften the heart, this is what they would
call from the raka ik in Arabic. You know, in literature, there's a
genre in literature called the record or the record, which comes
from the concept of softening, right softness and gentleness. So
here, it's actually talking about melting the heart, softening the
heart and softening the heart, from the hardness that it takes on
when it gets too distracted and to indulged in the dunya. We really
need that as an antidote today. You know, if you're wondering
about how to get a attain balance, you know, if you're wondering how
to attain balance in an unbalanced world, how to get some kind of
stability, how to get some kind of some kind of stability,
steadfastness, then we need to, we need to really focus on this,
right we really need to focus on this right
Subhanallah even the Raja will humbly after his hotbar which I
recited at the beginning. I
just translate that because it's kind of very appropriate for the
subject. He says all praises to Allah Villa Raziel Majeed right,
who is the one with great veneration, respect, dignity and
glorification. Well, but she's shady though. He's got a very
severe, a very powerful grip. Right when he comes to see
somebody and move the L more aid he's the one who initially creates
he's the one who's going to resurrect as well. And that's very
relevant here alpha Lima URI, the one who Apps has absolute volition
and power to do as He wills whatever he will wills and also
Ullman, duck him, me man, Assa who be nerdy Burdell in 30, Biha,
while worried he's the one who can.
Who can take revenge who can avenge somebody, those who have
disobeyed Him, He can actually avenge them by punishing them with
the Hellfire after he's given them warning, so he doesn't punish with
fire, you know, for no reason. He's actually warned us against
it, and he's given us great warnings against it. But then at
the same time, this is the balance that that Islam has with regards
to the understanding of Allah subhanaw They've really understood
Allah subhanaw taala. Well, right. It's not a lopsided understanding.
It's not a biased understanding, right? It's not a reductionist
understanding. Allah subhanaw taala is also a Muslim. He's also
the honor the bestow the one who bestows the one who, the one who
has benevolence and generosity, right for those who have feared
him and who have been conscious of him, he is going to gift them, he
is going to honor them and gift them with an abode by him in which
there is abundant goodness and high riches paradise SubhanAllah.
So he starts off with that he praises Allah subhanho wa Taala
and praises and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and
describes the Prophet sallallahu sallam. And then he says, A man
bad for in Hola, hola, Kochalka, Lea de feu, who were Buddhu, who
actually who were half Allah subhanho wa Taala created the
human being. So Allah subhanaw taala has created us for the
purpose that we recognize him. Now recognition of Allah means that we
better be fear of him. We've seen people write that if there is
somebody to be feared, like genuinely feared and they don't
fear them, you generally think that this person is a bit foolish,
that this person is supposed to be feared because he can really harm
the people. Right? He can really harm someone, right? Whether it's
for the right reason or the other reason, right? You're either going
to call that person who doesn't fear him either very, very, very
foolish, or very, very, very brave. Now with Allah subhanaw
taala, right, they can be any brave person that's going to
basically stand up to him, anybody who does not fear him who doesn't
understand that Allah subhanaw taala has these things And
subhanAllah then they are really, really foolish. So Allah subhanaw
taala has made it easy for us, by establishing evidences proves
signs, indications, the whole world, towards his greatness, his
power, so that we can fear Him, recognize Him, love Him,
understand him, and we can fear him in a reverent way. See, that's
the fear of Allah subhanaw taala you can't be cowering under the
fear of Allah subhanho wa taala, as though Allah subhanaw taala is
some kind of cold hearted murder or killer or punish or something
of that nature, that you just got this dread, the dread of Allah
subhanaw taala needs to be one of love and affection, one of love
and reverence. It's a reverential fear that we feel Allah subhanaw
taala because we love him that we don't want him to see us in a
place where we should not be like, we will be embarrassed. The reason
we don't do something is out of fear that he'll find out. And we
don't want him to find out anything bad about us.
Right? It's the idea that we love him so much that we want him to
love us so much that we don't don't want anything to encroach,
and violate that and spoil that adulterate that pollute that. So
we don't want him. We just don't want him to see us in a place
where he's told us not to be or away from a place where He wants
us to be. You can you can actually get an understanding of this
sometimes with our parents, or somebody else that we love, that
we don't want them to even assume we've done something wrong. That's
how serious and sensitive it becomes. That's how it should be
with Allah subhanaw taala more than anybody else
in this world.
Allah subhanaw taala helps us tremendously, you know, because
he's described he's, he's got graphic descriptions. So that's
why we call this * revealed, right, you know, because we, you
know, we want to reveal it to us and believe me, the reason I'm
doing this is to benefit myself first. I feel that I've got
shortage of fear. I want I need more fear, to be honest, I think
I've got too much hope. So I really want to understand this so
that I can create that fear. And I can have more balance in my Eman,
right I can have more balance in my approach or balance in you
know, my divorce
tion so Allah subhanaw taala help us with this. That's why Allah
subhanho wa Taala to tell us about this over and over again, he's not
just mentioned in one place in, in the Quran, he has mentioned over
and over and over again. Right. In fact, there's a whole concept of
the Hebrew which is warning and deterrence in the Quran that's
done through the hellfire, Allah subhanaw taala talks about the
description, what he's prepared for his enemies, right in terms of
the punishment, persecutions, the various different aspects that
comprises of the comb is talking about, you know, the really thorny
plant that people are going to be made to drink, to eat, to consume.
There's the body, the homies, the Salah, sell the Avila, the chains,
that are being described in the really, really boiling hot water,
that people in hellfire will will will call for a drink because
they're really, really thirsty. I mean, it's a very, very hot,
intensely hot place. So recording for something to drink. And they
will be given this really really sculling boiling hot water, hot
water, which essentially is going to under how many degrees I mean,
imagine degrees, drinking 100 or 140 degrees, hot water sells, you
know, Celsius, that's it says it's it's going to be probably more
than that. And it's going to basically cut up all of that
inside. Then there's the chains that people will be bound by that
will be punished by struck by beaten by flogged by and so on.
And all of these situations Allah subhanaw taala has mentioned. So
Allah subhanaw taala the purpose of that is to warn us of that
Allah doesn't want us to go there, he's prepared it because that's
the nature of the human being that they may do wrong. So Allah has
prepared that as a deterrence.
Allah has prepared it as a deterrence. Right? And that's why
somebody asked the question the other day, to us is paradise
bigger or Hellfire bigger? I would say paradise is bigger, because
Hellfire is like at the bottom of the seventh Earth, and that's a
limited space. And that's something which Allah subhanaw
taala will fill up. So when when parrot went hellfire, the amount
of people will be in hellfire and it will still have a bit more
space, it will say help me mozzie help me mozzie and Allah subhanho
wa Taala will do something by which it will become free as
filled. And then that that is it, you know, whereas with the
paradise the last person even to get out of hellfire, that biggest
sinner ever living in the world ever to have lived in the world
will have a paradise the size of 10 times this dunya that's a huge
amount of real estate. And in hellfire, it's all about being
tight and constricted. And being really really, you know,
constrained. Whereas paradise is about openness and vastness and
extensiveness and expansiveness. Right? So paradise is going to be
Big Al Hamdulillah May Allah subhanaw taala grant us paradise,
whereas Hellfire is a punishment, even in this world, you know,
people will go to prison for jail, they are in confined spaces. And
people who mashallah have luxury, then open spaces. Right? They're
in open spaces. And that's just a reflection of what the *, what
the * find paradise is going to be in the hereafter. So Allah
subhanaw taala wants us both by describing paradise to us,
describing Hellfire to us is that look, you know, any any person who
is intelligent, right is gonna want to go to paradise. That's the
purpose, the purpose of all of this, that the person really tries
hard then to avoid Hellfire as much as possible.
That's why to be honest, anybody who reflects in the Quran who
reflects when reading the Quran, they they and just thinks about
this whole thing just thinks about life and where we're going to go.
Allah Allah Allah, the reality of Hellfire is going to become very,
very clear. Likewise, when you look at the Sunnah
of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, there's sufficient
Hadith. And likewise, if you look at our truly righteous, practicing
a slough, the predecessors and good people that we see among us,
one of the thing that they had was that they were worried about
hellfire. They had absolute hope in paradise, but they were
definitely worried about Hellfire because that's what helped them to
create the taqwa and the consciousness, the scrupulousness
The particularity that I should avoid this, I should, you know,
subhanAllah there's a lot of people who when they see other
people who are being careful about things, who are being careful
about doing the wrong, they think they're just being uptight, right
now, while it's wrong to go overboard and over the limits,
especially, you know, to try to force people to you know, force
people to practice the most difficult opinions, you know, that
that is you know, difficult of an array of valid opinions. I can you
know, that that may not be a good idea. But, at the same time we
mustn't be so loose just because the world in general today because
of liberalism, right because of the liberal world we live in.
Right? Doesn't mean that we should all become liberal like that is
always going to be that struggle of the balance is always going to
be struggle of that balance.
But if we look at the lives of the Sahaba and the tabby in their
Yaqeen paradise and hellfire in Allah subhanho wa Taala was was
was just solid. Now, the sign of all of this is that a person you
know, when they get fear of Allah, that they actually fear Allah
subhanaw taala when's the last time that we actually feared
Allah? subhanaw taala Oh no, what's Allah gonna do to me?
What is Allah gonna do to me? Where am I gonna go?
That's why one of the son of one of the predecessors he said, hope
Allah heeta Allah.
Hijab, a hijab, a colluvial ha a fina and Zara dunya
what our the Shabbat it's only the fear of Allah subhanaw taala will
veil somebody will veil the hearts of the fearful ones from the
glistening world. That
embellished dunya
and from the various different desires that come up within the
human being, it's only the fear of Allah that will create that veil
when we get that desire. If we don't have the fear of Allah, we
will fulfill that desire
dunya will blink to us, Hey, there's this opportunity of making
a lot of money in a short amount of time.
It's you're doubtful about it. Right? But there's not when that
when there's no fear of Allah subhanaw taala it's very easy to
jump into that. If you have fear, you're going to start wondering
about it, like is this right? It just sounds a bit off. The heart
will tell us that I mean, hamdulillah Allah subhanho wa
Taala if you've got Iman, and a bit of hope and decoy in the
heart, Allah will give us that distinction. Right? Even if you
don't have the knowledge about that particular thing and you will
want to learn about it when you don't have that then you just like
okay, let me do this. Allah subhanaw taala then promises as he
Allah never leaves us with nothing, he promises huge reward
for those who fear him. So we have to fear him because he's
beneficiary keeps us straight in this world. It keeps us focused in
this world. It helps us to prepare ourselves for a good era that
investment you know, it prepares for that good investment in the
hereafter. But Allah subhanho wa Taala then promises few things to
make it easy says, well, even half Amilcar, Murghab be Janita and
Surah Rahman, you know, you should know this first. For the one who
fears the place of his Lord, the standing of his Lord, the position
of his Lord, for that person mean the one who has the fear of Allah,
right that Allah subhanaw taala is in charge of everything he's
watching, he knows he's the one who knows everything he sees
everything for that person will be to gardens, and Allah then
describes him as his huge places with full of beauty. Right.
One of the great Morphosis exigence of the Quran Mujahid his
name was, he says that this ayah it tells you a few things number
one, that Allah subhanaw taala is in charge of everything. Right?
Because he's saying fear Allah in everything that he's standing. And
his he stands for in the sense that everything that he is in
charge of anybody then who wants to do anything, undertakes any
activity makes any decision. And he is fearful of what Allah wants
him to do in that regard the way Allah wants him to do it, and
tries to follow that way. Then he gets to gardens. And Mujahid also
said another thing he said that there's a there's a man who either
is doing a sin or is thinking about a sin.
And then suddenly, he thinks of Allah subhanaw taala
and Allah's standing
behind everything that Allah is behind everything. And then he
avoids it. So then he stops it. It's like no, no, I can't do this,
right. So, this is that person in the West, they will get these two
paradises. Another person is, he says, also another person is the
one who wants to do a sin.
Right. And then he remembers Allah so then he abandons it. So that's
that's where it is. Then from Hassan Al bacillary Rahim Allah is
He He narrates he says Jana said.
Jana asked like Jana is wondering, right.
Yara Binyamin Haluk 20 For whom have you created me? Now you see
about 20 years ago if people when people heard this hadith and
people have been hearing this hadith of 1400 years right, but I
guess in the modern scientific world, they would have probably
question how can I help I speak paradise paradise paradise spoke
like how can a paradise speak paradise is a place how does it
play speak? See today that's not very difficult to understand
anymore is
it because you've got smart objects now you've got smart
smart objects, smart technology, smart
instruments, you've got smart appliances. So Allah subhanaw
taala created from eternity, you know, created,
you know, from a long time ago rather, right because paradise is
not, not from infinity it will remain for eternity but it's not
pre eternal. It was actually created by Allah, because there
was only Allah and there was nothing else you know, at that
time, so, Paradise was created right? And paradise was created
smart. So paradise preparing itself. Paradise speaks a paradise
asked Allah subhanho wa Taala Yara Binyamin Haluk 20 Oh my Lord, who
did you create me for? So
Allah subhanaw taala says lemon Yeah, Bodoni well, who are you
half only for the one who worships Me while he fears me.
So you see, a lot of us worship Allah, I believe there's a lot of
people who worship Allah, but they just don't have enough fear.
That's why they end up doing sins while they're worshiping. So they
pray five times a day, may even pray in the masjid. But they still
end up doing because they don't have the fear of Allah. They may
be using their tongue, they may be doing some other sins, because the
fear of Allah is not dominant is not in front of their heart. So
they don't mind doing these things. So there are two strains
that we need to worry about. That's why for actually, for some
orlimar, what they've actually said is that it's actually
superior to avoid sins, if there's if there's a choice superior to
avoid sins, then actually to do a good deed. Now, obviously, that's
not what we were going to do that just fear, you know, just stop
sins and don't do any good deeds, we're going to do both, but it's
just the comparison to give you the significance of it.
Why we've known will not be we generally get a lot of quotes from
him about some really important profound ideas regarding the
hereafter, he says, ma OB de la who will be mithril hoef, is
basically saying that Allah cannot be worshipped, right? With
anything similar, you know, as well as with with with the fear of
Allah, the, the, you know, the,
the intensity of your worship, right? He's saying that there's
and again, this is his experience, this is just he was experienced,
that he's mentioning to us that there's nothing better than fear.
For, for through which you can worship Allah, Allah can't be
worshipped with anything better than fear. So fear is important.
If you've not had fear all of this time. It is really time to
inculcate fear fear, another great person, Abu Sulayman, Dharani,
right. You must have heard his name but also a man at Dharani. He
says us know, us locally hire us locally Hidin for dunya, Allah
Hera L whole formula here as the origin, the root Foundation, the
the root Foundation, the cause, for every goodness in this dunya
and the ark, and that there has to be some fear. It has to be the
fear of Allah, most majestic, and most Hi, we're Kulu Calvin Lai,
Sufi hopeful Allah for who called Boone hollyburn. Right, you know,
this is what strikes fear in my heart Subhanallah that I wish my
heart could be like this, may Allah give us these kinds of
hearts. He's saying that make Allah may Allah give us hearts
full of fear, full of fear. Because he's saying that for every
heart in which there is no fear of Allah, that heart is desolate,
it's useless, it's useless.
And I think there's a really good example for this that I mentioned
to you.
That, you know, they say that in the business world, that if you
have a business, right, and you look after it, your business is
generally going to do better, right? But if you get a business,
and you give it to somebody else to look after, then generally yes,
you're very, very lucky that this person treats it as their own,
you're generally going to get some harm, you're going to probably
suffer some loss. And if you don't do that, then you're going to lose
a lot of opportunity. Because the owner of a business generally
always has the greatest concern for you, because it's their
investment. It's their sweat, right? It's their blood, you know,
likewise, in a person's home, it's the same kind of thing. As long as
the The Lord of the house, the man of the house, the woman of the
house, whoever it is, is there, right? It goes, well, there's a
system, and things go well, and if they go away for a while, then and
there's nobody to look after it, then it becomes a basically the
whole system. There's a chaos in that system. So it's a similar
kind of idea that if you say that you consider your heart heart,
like the house and the fear, like the governor of the house, the
Lord of the house, the head of the house, the the businessman, if
that fear is there, it will keep everything moving. Right? With the
right focus, right in ivam the right system, the fear leave
So the fear is diminished, like somebody just visits in a business
where somebody just visited like two hours in the morning. So
everybody's very behaved in in that time. After that they start
slacking off. This is the experience a lot of people with
business and with work, right? So that's why there needs to be a
supervisor. So, fear is that supervisor for our, our purposes
in the our activities in this world, take fear out, diminish the
fear, and things start messing up.
Subhanallah what? I really agree with this, right? The this
anecdote
This is,
yeah, this is rated from ya beadnell world, right, son of the
rose, what a beautiful word basically says that, when a person
develops a fear of Allah, and they've got the fear in their
heart, and everything is being organized in the proper way, then
he's saying that such a person may go past a gathering of people,
like go past people. And today, you don't have to go past people,
you just have to be the update on Facebook or Twitter or whatever
people just need to know about you. So let's talk about the
person who doesn't have fear in the heart first person who doesn't
have fear, he may even, you know, be making himself out to be a
religious person, maybe even a knowledgeable person, but it
doesn't have fear in the heart, people are going to just be
inclined, it's just that fear has such an inductive effect. Right?
You can't see fear in the heart, you can't see it. But it seems
like by induction, you can assess it, you can feel it, you get the
vibe of it. That's what this statement means. Right? He's
saying that if a person who's devoid of fear in the heart is
just dunya, dunya, dunya. Right? He goes past people, people are
just going to say bit Scilab, the other bit slubbed, Falon, you
know, bits, the lab do full learn, that person is such a bad person.
So then one of them is going to ask him, Why did you say that?
What did you see about him? Like, what's wrong with him that you're
saying that? So they would say, we don't know, we've not seen him?
We've actually not seen anything like that. But we just have this
hatred for him in the hearts. Now, you know, be careful with this.
Just because you feel bad about somebody doesn't mean it's right.
Right? Because obviously in here, this is a very specific experience
that they're talking about. Just because you and your friends feel
bad about somebody because they don't go according to your view,
that doesn't necessarily mean that a person is devoid of the fear of
Allah subhanaw taala. Right. Just want to clarify that before you
start using that as, like some kind of benchmark.
On the other hand, though, I would say that this is probably even
more true and more universally applied, that if somebody does
have a does have fear Marshal, the heart is full of fear in the
hearts, right? They would generally feel inclined to this
person, they would feel they'll say, Nirma Wallah, he had a Roger,
this person is really good. Right? It just this feeling you have
about such people. So then somebody might ask you that, what
did you see about this person? I don't know. I just feel like he's
a nice guy, man. I just feel like he's got something nice about him.
Right? He's got the fear of Allah subhanaw taala. Now, there could
be so many other nice things that might get me maybe very, they may
be a person that you like, because he's very generous. They may be a
person who's got all these a smile on their face, right? Because
they're very sweet. You know, these can be other reasons. This
is talking about a very specific kind of situation. Then after that
for DailyBurn or yards. I mean, I've we've actually got a
biography of his online on zamzam Academy, right. Well, they'd have
an AR Rahim Allah, He says, I'll hold for after Lumina. Raja, this
is fear is always going to be superior to have and more virtuous
to have than just me a hope. Mark and Roger looser here. And as long
as a person is healthy, we need more fear. If we're healthy, we
got money, and we got security. We need more fear. Right. And for
either unnecessary mode for Raja Oftedal. But once death is looming
in front of you, then in that case, you need more hope because
shaytaan tries to then overdo the fear to basically make a person
despondent and that's not good either. Now, if not, I will humbly
after mentioning these few anecdotes, he says that I made
this the hara, right, I sought
assistance from Allah subhanaw taala to compile together a book
in which I'm going to describe hellfire, like, Should I do it or
not? Should I do or not? Obviously, he's coming later after
which, you know, before whom several other people have done so
already, but he's asking should I do another one because, you know,
there's there's still a need for the other one. So I want to write
a book about hellfire and everything that Allah subhanaw
taala has prepared for his enemies, the humiliation, the
punishments, the destruction, the loss and all of that.
Why do I want to do this it says, so that it be something which will
help to uproot
the
deviance among people the wrong that they're doing, the rights
that they're taking of other people and so on.
And which would encourage them to gain
success
and guidance. Because he's saying that in his time, you know, 700
years ago, he's talking, he's saying, because a lot of hearts, a
lot of people, especially during these times, laziness has overcome
them. laziness and sloth has overcome them. And they've just
allowed themselves to be overcome and taken over and bowled over by
their desires and Subhanallah if he was to come here, he would see
all of these dessert parlors now like, what have you got against
his that I have nothing against? I enjoyed is that once in a while, I
love desserts, to be honest. Right. But it just shows the
indulgence. I mean, 10 years ago, they weren't. There was probably
one or two dessert parlors, right, that you could think about. Now
there's one on every street Subhanallah it's the next big, big
thing. People spend as much as they spend on food, if not more on
desserts. What does that tell you about? You know, shower desire?
Again, intrinsically, there's nothing wrong with it. It's
because of the abundance. Right? Why is it 1015 20 100,000 years
ago, people did not have such indulgence of desires. Few sorry,
of just desserts, and I'm not talking to anything else. If you
look at everything else is the same thing. If you just assess and
estimate the amount of desserts, which people are indulging in
today, and which are being sold, right today and that are
available, you've never probably had that much desert available and
being sold and being consumed the world probably ever.
Because we have more people in the earth than before. Right? Deserts
having a desert pilot everywhere, like and so many different ones.
And everybody's competing with desserts for big ones and big,
more decadent desserts and so on. Right? I said not dessert here and
there is no problem. But just the whole aspect that you have to go
there. And that the demand is what you know, it's the demand which is
creating such a supply, we've probably never had this much
before. And that's not just it's just an example. If you look at
sweets, right, or anything which is drinks,
clothing, it's everything haram aspects. You know before to commit
a haram you had to go out of your house, looking for somebody to
commit the harm with seeing if they're available at that
particular time of day or night or whatever, you know, and all the
rest of it today you you can just do whatever you want from the from
the corner of your house from the you know from the middle of your
bed or whatever you want to say the amount that is available today
that so if ignorable humbly Rahim Allah is complaining about his
time, right? In Damascus, which has always been a wonderful place.
Mashallah. Right?
Then imagine what he would say today when he seen what he seen.
So that's why he's saying that that's why I wrote this book. And
he's saying that such indulgence in desires can only be taken out
from the heart by two things. One is Ima homophone. Mazuri, John
Muharraq, or Mahalik, right? Either to have a really inflamed
fear, that is really going to bother you. That No, you can't do
this. Or be careful about this. That's one like this intense
amount of effects effect of of fear, or show con mortgage, more
click, or basically this just ultimate intense
desire for Paradise for the for the happiness of Allah subhanaw
taala, you have to have one of those two things, right, you have
to have one of those two things. And then he says that, so I call
this Kitab kita with the equipment and now a tidy behind the dial
bar, which I mentioned to you early, that I call this book, the
book of
threatening people creating fear of hellfire and providing a
description and describing the state of the abode of destruction.
And he says that I've got I've, I've come I've put it into 30
separate parts. I've divided it into 30 chapters, and wallah Hu l
masu and ug Aruna min and now we it's only Allah who we can ask
it's only him we can petition to help us and keep us away from the
hellfire and that he put a veil a hijab been in a while been uh huh.
Right. Beeman, he will carry me through his through His grace and
so on his generosity, Allah subhanaw taala prevail. So just to
give you an idea of how we're going to do the next so many weeks
in sha Allah, right. The first chapter of his is regarding the
verses and so on that discuss the like, provide the warning from
hellfire, right that provide the warning about health
Fire. And then the second one is about the various different
states. And I'm really looking forward to that chapter to be
honest, right? Because it talks about the states of different
people with regards to their fear of the Hellfire. And I think Insha
Allah, we can learn from other human beings like that. And then
after that, he talks about
a few other things. And then from the fifth chapter, he starts to
describe the different elements of hellfire. So he'll talk about
hellfire. He'll talk about the different layers of hellfire, its
depth, he'll talk about its intense darkness he talks about
the the intense heat he talks about how it blazes and how it
does how it does its work. Its shrieking it's smoke, it's valleys
its mountains apartment is Subhanallah there's
Hellfire has valleys, it has mountains, it has wells. It has
springs, it has lakes, but not like the ones in paradise,
obviously.
The chains the various different types of punishment, the stones
and the rocks of hellfire. Right, because the stones in paradise are
gonna be made of like golden silver. I mean Subhanallah you
know, anyway, the snakes and the scorpions of hellfire and the food
and the drink of hellfire, the clothing of the people of
hellfire,
the size of the people of hellfire, the ugliness of the
people of hellfire,
the various different punishments, how they will cry, their how their
reactions will be. And I think I think that's enough. Insha Allah,
we ask Allah to protect us We ask Allah to make this a means of
protection for us, a means of developing the love of Allah
subhanaw taala and fear of hellfire and love for Paradise,
zeal for Paradise. And
Allah subhanho wa Taala protect everybody. And may Allah subhanho
wa Taala bless us and may Allah subhanho wa Taala bless the author
of this book, and everybody that's worked hard to get it to where it
is today so that we can actually be covering it like this from
London, and may Allah subhanaw taala bless humanity as Salaam
Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh