Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Hell Revealed Part 3 Should We Fear Allah or the Hellfire
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Brothers and sisters, dear listeners, today, in our third
part of the * revealed series in sha Allah, we're going to be
discussing today to two different things. The first thing we're
going to try to understand is that how much fear should a person
have, you know, I've had people come in, they've, they have so
much fear that it's actually debilitating them. They're having
bad dreams, they actually I there was one person who was unable to
even get out of bed. And it was just this intense amount of fear.
Now, fear is important because that is one of the wings have the
two birds of the one of the wings of the bird of iman, you know, to
be able to carry on with our faith and to be able to do something
with it, we need fear and hope and I as we said in previous parts
that generally hope dominates. And that becomes actually detrimental
for a person. So fear needs to be there as well, a healthy amount of
fear. But what is that healthy amount of fear and
excessive fear is a massive problem, because that really,
really is an issue. So we're going to discuss today Inshallah, the
first thing we're going to discuss is what is the healthy amount of
fear that's necessary healthy amount of fear, a healthy amount
of hope. And then there are other ingredients as well that are
important for us to be able to maintain our faith and be able to
be working
faithful individuals in
in this world and not be debilitated with an extreme amount
of something or the other.
Inshallah, that's going to be then followed by how other people have
experienced fear. And there'll be various different anecdotal
stories in there about people with excessive amount of fear, moderate
amount of fear, unnecessary amount of fear, and inshallah we can
learn from them, right because it shows you how other human beings
can be so fearful and essentially when we you know, we can
understand from what would their achievements that this fear was
definitely useful for them. So let us start off with a quote from
Abdullah hymnal Mobarak Rahima hula who is one of the great
debater in
or one of the great scholars of the past. Amazing scholar, amazing
scholar. So he relates he says Omar Omar Abdullah, Omar Abdullah,
Rama ignominy related or told him that he heard what happened I'm
gonna be saying that there was a statement of a waste person he
doesn't mention the waste person. But he basically says the
following now this is the really interesting part he says, In
Neela, stuck him in Allah Allah azza wa jal and whoo hoo Raja
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extremely embarrassed,
in front of Allah subhanho wa Taala that I worship Him with the
hope of the rewards of paradise.
Right? So in such an extreme way, that I become like that really bad
employee, that really spoiled, bad mean employee who if he is given
something, if he's given a payment, if he's given perks, or
whatever he works, and if he's not given anything, then he does not
work.
So he said, I'm really really embarrassed in front of Allah
subhana wa Tada, I worship him just for the sake of the reward of
Paradise, and be like that employee who only works because he
earned something from it, otherwise he's not willing to
work. And then he says, I'm also embarrassed in front of Allah
subhanaw taala that I worship Him out of fear for hellfire.
Now you will, many of us may be thinking, but that's exactly why
we worship him. That's exactly why we pray because we're fearful of
the Hellfire. So what's going on here? So this is just a case study
that I'm providing. I'm putting forward then we're going to
discuss this. So he says, I'm embarrassed in front of Allah
subhanaw taala that I worship Him out of fear for the hellfire. So
then I become again like that really bad employee. Right? That
really bad slave rather in this case like a slave who has to do
the work right? That if you
He's scared of the master watching him, then he does work. And if
he's not scared, and because the master is not watching whatever,
he does not work. So he only works because of the stick, they only
work because they're going to be beaten up, because they're going
to be taller because they're going to be persecuted because they're
going to be punished in some way is as I'm embarrassed in front of
Allah subhanho wa Taala to worship Him for the sake just because of
hellfire out of fear for the hellfire. So what is going on
here? I am embarrassed to worship Allah, out of hope for Paradise,
the reward of paradise and out of fear for punishment of the
Hellfire. So what's going on here?
And then he said, that, really, it's the love of Allah subhanaw
taala it's the love of Allah subhanaw taala that has been able
to extract from me, that has been able to extract from me that
nothing else has been able to extract anything like that from
me, meaning the power of the love of Allah subhanho wa Taala from me
is really what matters. Right? That is able to make me do those
things which nothing else can make me do. So essentially, what he's
saying is I'm embarrassed to do it just out of fear. I'm embarrassed
to do it just out of hope. But it's really the love of Allah
subhanho wa Taala that makes me do what I what I do, and there's
nothing else that can make me do what the love of Allah subhanho wa
Taala can do. So Abdullah in Nevada, as quoted this Rahima
hula, and basically in here,
what he's basically doing is that he is really criticizing worship,
purely just for hope, just just out of hope for Paradise, or just
out of fear for hellfire. Now, as long as that's the case, that is
completely fine. That gives us an understanding that we're on our
road, understand this issue. Now, I'll give you a few other quotes
and then we'll put into perspective as if knowledgeable,
humbly Rahim Allah has done for us. There is another one of the
pious predecessors, he says that whoever worships Allah subhanho wa
taala, just out of hope, then he is actually a masjid. Right? I'll
explain that. And the one who worships Allah subhanaw taala just
because he's fearful, then that person is a Harare. Now, merger is
an anti nomon. Basically, there was a group before and they still
exist these people in a generic sense. Those people who really
don't give action and deeds and good deeds and avoiding haram much
value. They think as long as you're not mean brother, as long
as you're a faith, faithful person, as long as you believe. As
long as you've got in the heart, and you're a nice person, you will
go to Paradise, that kind of an attitude. So anybody who does it
just out of hope that kind of an attitude is dominant, and it's
lopsided. Likewise, he said, anybody who wishing for the fear
of Allah, he's a heroic heroic, essentially
an indication towards the
an indication towards the Hawaii bridge, the extreme coverage,
basically people who used to consider that any major sin
committed by anybody took them to hellfire. Right, so they came from
a place called hoorah. Some of them came from a place called
Aurora. So they call Harold in the early days, that's what they were
referred to extreme pilots. Just extreme in that sense. You know,
and likewise, you know, we've had ISIS and that, you know, have that
kind of a mentality. Right? They just, it's all about fear. Then he
says, then, the same, the same place where you say, he says,
Woman, whoever worships Allah subhanho wa taala, purely out of
love now. Now, you see, we introduced the concept of love.
This is the third component, but he's saying that anybody who
worships Allah subhanaw taala, purely out of love, and nothing
else, and there's no fear and there's no hope as well to balance
that for who was in the con, then that person is going to become a
heretic. That person is going to become heterodox he's going to
lose his faith is going to have some deviant ideas. Then he said,
to conclude, he said so whoever worships Allah subhanaw taala with
fear with hope, and with love, then he is a more hidden movement.
He is the monotheistic and the true believer and the reason for
this he says is that it is actually necessary in our deen it
is necessary right and this is inshallah refined understanding of
this. Right from knowledgeable humbly, he says, The reason why
this statement rings very true is because it's necessary for the
believer, right, that they worship Allah subhanaw taala for all three
reasons, not exclusively one of them because that becomes lopsided
and extreme. Right. So why is that? Love, fear and hope is
necessary to have all of them that is the reason is necessary. And if
anybody has a shortcoming in any one of those things, right? That
means he's actually going to be violating, or he's going to have a
shortcoming in one of the YG but one of the obligations of faith.
So it's an obligation of our faith. Maybe nobody told us it
this way. But it's an obligation of our faith of the reason why we
worship you see you constantly from our young age, you've been
told
To worship that's instilled in us praise a lot, give, you know, do
fasting, avoid this and avoid that, we've been told that thing.
But in terms of the, the thought process behind it, the motivation
behind it, I don't think that's discussed as frequently I don't
think I don't even remember that being discussed with me as much
that look, you need to be between fear, hope, and love, the driving
force should be the love, some have said that it's like a like a
bird for it to be able to fly in a balanced way. Both Wings of it
need to be have stability, and need to be balanced, right shape,
and equal, you know, with a with an equilibrium between them. And
then you have the head and the placement, everything. So it's
like the, the two wings are the hope. And the fear, they both need
to be balanced. If you have more, it's going to be lopsided, the
head is what's guiding it, which is the love of Allah subhanaw
taala. So I've never had that described to me when I was much,
much younger. And I think if we could explain this to even our
children, I think we'll you know, to bring up into the minds of our
children the concept of love of Allah, the concept of fear because
they're going to hear about Hellfire hellfire, you know, every
Muslim knows about it. So it's like, it's something to avoid,
it's something to be fearful of. And then there's a hope of
paradise. So that's instilled, but I think the love of Allah subhanaw
taala idea that component is missing. Now, what he says is,
what are these three are necessary, and they're part of the
obligations of the dean of our iman, actually, it's what makes us
truly believers, for us to have this.
Now, what this indicates what this entire statement, and this
analysis indicates, is that out of all of the three, which one do you
think, right has to be the most dominant? Which one do you think
must be dominant? Is it the fear? Is it the hope? Or is it the love
is the love, the love has to be dominant, you know, there could be
more of the love, they can't be more of the fear or the especially
in a normal case, you can have more of the more of the fear or
more of the hope in certain segments and that's okay. But on a
general level, on a in a normal circumstance on a default state,
you need more love, because that will constantly guide you. Now,
let's bring in another opinion of for the luminary of Rahim Allah,
another amazing individual. And what's interesting is both
Abdullah hidden and Mubarak and for the diviner, er, they came
from really bad beginnings, meaning in their youth, they
really had messed up one of the high mailman the other one was
like an indulgent youth, you know, just enjoying life, drinking and
so on. They both repented sincerely, right. They both
parents, and they became some of the greatest scholars that today
after 1200 years, you know, more than 1200 or 250 years or so, we
actually benefiting from the experience and their statements.
So the Door of Allah subhanaw taala is always open for
repentance Subhanallah so for later, no al says, Al muhabba, to
after luminal health, right? If we could look at these three ideas,
love is actually more virtuous to have and it's more meritorious to
have than the fear. And he mentioned the opinion of that same
Hakeem, that same wise individual who had clarified the above, and
then you have no more of another great individual of the past, he
says, has, how much fear Do you need now? So you see, I'm trying
to put in statements from these different people to kind of give
us a rounded understanding. So how much fear Do you need? And how
much love do you need? So he's saying has spoken Meenal? How
FEMA, yeah, yam nap minute Hulu. You just need that much fear
that's gonna stop you from doing since that's all of you that you
need. If you've got enough fear that you stop seeing and you like
stand and you say, No, I can't do this. That's enough. If it goes
beyond that, it's a problem. Okay? What do you mean by going beyond
that I'll explain. Right but if you have enough fear that stops
you from sinning, every time you feel like sinning and the fear of
Allah overcomes you. That's enough, when a husband Meenal
he'll be a burden. However, he said, there can be no end there
can be no sad you know, there can be no amount which is sufficient
of love, meaning you can have lots of love, love of Allah subhanaw
taala can be abundant, right, there's no limit to the love of
Allah subhanaw taala as long as you've got the others with if it's
just purely Love of Allah without any idea of fear, and then that's
a problem as we said earlier as well, when it comes to so when it
comes to love, you can have an abundant amount in there that can
dominate the other two but when it comes to fear, and hope, then the
majority of select the majority of our placements as in our automa
they say that they should be balanced they should be equal.
None of them should be more than the others except in certain cases
except in certain cases like towards the end of the day. That's
why more terrific no Abdullah and Hassan Al biocity Ahmed ignore
humble or hey Muhammad Allah these other
big names in the subject. We've discussed this in depth. They all
say the same thing. Right? But then there are there is a minority
who actually say that no, it's always best to have a bit more bit
more fear than the hope. Right. And this comes from Salim for the
liminal era. And also a man at Dharani Rahmatullah. Here they
write their opinion is that you have to have that much more, that
much more fear, because that will be useful. Well, Hey, babe, no one
says, Don't be like that laborer. Right? The employee that labor who
somebody's you know, who the employer says to him, do this and
that, so he says, Okay, I'll do it. As long as you give me a good
pay. Right. Now, there's no problem with being a laborer like
that, to be honest. Because people do it for pay. You know, why would
you I mean, it's obviously be altruistic, you know, to be, do
something from from your own heart for someone, that's probably
better. But I don't think there's a problem with saying, Look, give
me the pen, I'll do the work for you. Because that's generally what
people you know, pay for as long as you're not mean about it.
Right? Essentially, what he's saying is that even if the work is
beneficial, like you're working for a masjid, and you still say,
like, just give me the money, then I'll do it. Right. He's saying
that the idea is to criticize the idea that you're not looking at
the beauty of the work itself or whom you're doing the work for,
right, that with Allah subhanaw taala you can't work just for
money, you have to do it for the sake of Allah subhanho wa taala.
This is a description of why we need to do things for the sake of
Allah subhanaw And this is detailing why we need to do
something for Allah subhanho wa Taala and not just purely for the
sake of the fear, or for the sake of paradise to avoid *, and to
do paradise. Why? Because number one, if you look at Allah subhanho
wa Taala if anybody fears and only does good deeds because of
paradise, it means they've not really recognized the status of
ALLAH, ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada.
Has, they've not really recognized Allah subhanaw taala reason is
that Allah subhanho wa Taala is entitled to worship intrinsically
speaking. He is intrinsically entitled, he has intrinsic
entitlement to worship, he is worthy of worship, just because of
who he is. That's why he should be obeyed. And he should be loved
purely because of who he is and what he's done for us. Not because
he's gonna give us paradise or his oneness of hellfire. That is what
Allah subhanho wa taala. His status demands, his work, his work
for us demands and his kindness demands. It is necessary for us to
try to get close to him to find means to get to him. And
we should do this without thinking about the fact that he's going to
reward us or that he's going to punish us. Right. So there is a
poem which says, hobble back to lambda Tina Rusu. Wha Hema too
nerdy LEM to dreamy Elisa mineral water GB and Mr. Hickey, higher
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Basically, if we've never been told about resurrection, that
we're going to have to stand up in the hereafter or about the
hellfire and this Blaze and everything else. Wouldn't it still
be obligatory just by, you know, human gratitude aspect that we
thank the one who has gifted us so much. Right? That's the idea here,
Allah so having just think about Allah, He deserves this for
himself, because of what he's done for us all the kindness that he's
shown us.
So the indication from here you get is that Allah subhanho wa
Taala has benevolence, his gifts upon us and all that he's done for
us upon his servants, that is what necessitates that we thank you.
And that we are, you know, we exercise chastity and modesty in
front of him. Right? And this is exactly what the Prophet salAllahu
alayhi wasallam, indicated towards right, with his own action, that
he would stand that night until his feet which went up for hours
and hours, even though he'd been forgotten, forgive, forgiven by
Allah subhanaw taala his previous sins and if he ever even, you
know, hypothetically, will, you know, could have committed sins in
the hereafter. You know, in later life, even after he makes that
dua, it would have been forgiven for him because of the special
status that he enjoyed, but he still would stand it because he
knows that this I'm doing because Allah deserves this from me. Not
doing it for any other reason, but it's because Allah subhanho wa
Taala deserves this from me. That's why he said a fella Hakuna.
Abdon Sakura should not just be a grateful servant because of
everything that he's given from me. So you see, when you look at
it from that perspective, this makes starts making sense. Another
consideration that they have, even if we say fear is a good thing.
But then if we look at fear, the one that we should the thing we
should be fearful of the most
Complete fear, most intense fear, right?
And hope can only be that which is associated with Allah subhanaw
taala that fear of Allah and hope from Allah, not from any other
creative being of * and Paradise or creative beings, our
fear of Allah must be greater than our fear for any creative being,
which is which is Hellfire for example. So, why is that? Let me
open that up and let me unpack that of it says the highest form
of fear is what in a human being for a believer for a Muslim for a
moment, the highest form of fear should be this, right? That the
the slave of Allah fears, the anger of Allah, being veiled from
Allah being prevented from Allah subhanho wa taala. Right.
That is what they should fear more than anything else. You know,
forget paradise forget hellfire, they should be fearful that Allah
subhanaw taala is going to turn away from them on the Day of
Judgment, he is going to there's going to be a veil between them
they won't be able to see Allah subhanaw taala and he's going to
be angry with them. They should be more fearful of that. And when we
understand this, if you look at the verse in the Quran in surah
Tawfik in verse 1516, Allah subhanaw taala says, God Allah, in
Houma Rob be him your woman is a llama Jubu some in homeless oil
dream,
may they on that day will be
veiled from the Lord.
Some then they will enter into the hellfire. So the first part of
this is actually that they will be veiled from Allah subhanaw taala
after that is when they're sent to hellfire. So if you if we're
veiled from Allah subhanaw taala that's already you know, that is
the worst thing that's already happened. Hellfire comes
afterwards. So this gives us an indication that that is actually
what's more important. Now, the unknown, the Egyptian mystery, it
says, hopeful nerdy in the whole film erotica. Katara in the barren
logy, subhanAllah for him, he said,
Allahu Akbar, Allah subhanaw taala give us this kind of fear. He said
the fear of hellfire, right, which we consider to be what we should
have, right? The fear of hellfire, right, comparatively, to the fear
of being separated from Allah subhanho wa Taala is just like a
drop in a tumultuous ocean. There's no comparison, the fear
from Allah subhanaw taala that we're going to be veiled from him,
our Creator, our beloved right? believer should be most ardent in
the fear of Allah subhanaw taala that should be much more of a
concern. Then he explains, he said, likewise, the highest hope
that you should have, should be attached to Allah subhanaw taala
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satisfied, hope for his satisfaction, hope to experience
the beatific vision in the Hereafter, to be able to see him
and to be close to him.
That is what he says should be the highest hope, and more more than
just paradise. Now, this is where we're going to try to put into
perspective many of you, right? I've heard this so many times, and
Subhanallah I really pray for him knowledgeable humbly Rahim Allah
has clarified this for us.
We've heard so many statements about people who are dominated by
fear. And then they've made statements like
don't worry about paradise. Don't worry about hellfire, meaning
don't be fearful of hellfire at all. And some have even made
statements like i As long as Allah is happy with me. I don't I don't
even mind being in hellfire, as though saying that Hellfire is not
a problem at all. Now, these are all exaggerations. So you may have
heard these statements. They work to encourage us sometimes, but
they're actually exaggerations. And I'll show you how ignorable
humbly has explained. It's amazing, right? How he's put those
in perspective, those are temporary statements that are made
by people in a certain state, they've been overcome by this
hope or fear at that at those moments, right? A love of Allah
subhanaw taala those moments and they've just become blinded to
everything else. So let me explain that. So if knowledge about
Hungary says he says that there's some people who've made a mistake
in this regard, right? They think that all of this right is got
nothing to do with the
meaning looking at Allah subhanaw taala being close to him, visiting
him and all of these things. They somehow have divorced that from
Paradise, but actually all of these things are part of paradise,
because it's in paradise that one of these days.
Is that going to happen? So how are you going to? How do you
divorce Paradise from these things and say only that is necessary,
right? Only that is important. Whereas it's in paradise that
these things are going to happen, right? These things cannot be ever
separated. They're all part of it. And likewise, being veiled from
ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. Right, that is essentially what's going to
happen to the people of hellfire. So it's part of being in hellfire
that is going to veil you from Allah subhanho wa taala. So they
both go hand hanging hand in hand. Now there's another aspect here,
which is that
if it is stated, that whatever Allah subhanho wa Taala now you
have to have a lot of concentrate, these are not stories and this is
really trying to unravel this really complex idea of how much
fear and inshallah it all come together. Right. So what we're
doing right now is we're basically just trying to understand where
these statements come from these so called extreme statements
sometimes. So the second thing we have to understand if it is said,
that whatever Allah subhanaw taala is prepared in hellfire, right of
the various different types of punishments, right? They are
things that some of these pious predecessors did not fear, right,
because we heard that statement.
Likewise, all of those bounties of paradise, you know, the gold and
silver bricks and the mortar of musk and the whole ain and the
gardens, and the lushness and the greenery and the rivers and all of
that, that what we've heard from some of these people is that they
do not consider this to be, you know, very important they consider
just the love of Allah to be important, right?
So, the idea is that it's not actually correct or even accurate
to say that these people who, who may have made these statements
actually don't love paradise, or that they actually not fearful of
hellfire. No, they are fearful of hellfire. And they actually do
love Paradise. Allah subhana wa, there's so much in the Quran and
Sunnah that tells us about these things, that you must fear
hellfire, what the corner that you must hope for Paradise, and you
must hope for them. So how can these people not have that what
the Quran is telling them to do? So that's why we have to really
understand what they're saying. Number two, all of this is
actually also against the fact that Allah subhanaw taala the
nature, the disposition that Allah subhanaw taala has created human
beings on right, which is that humans normally they are going to
have hope for those things which
they, which excites them, which are good, which seem familiar,
which are aspects of joy, and they're going to obviously have a
dislike for things that you know, are scary and frightened.
So then why have these? Why have these statements been made them
that kind of diminished the idea of * completely? Or the
importance of it or whatever? And it's just all about Allah subhanaw
taala? What is going on here? How do we put that in perspective. So
this is if knowledgeable, humble is thesis he says that all of
this, whenever you heard that statement from anyone, it is a
statement that they've actually done during an elated state,
overcome state, a state of spiritual intoxication, you can
call it right that they've just completely immersed in this idea
of love or whatever it is, and it's just overcome their normal
intellectual capacity. So they've made these statements. That's
essentially what where this is coming from. However, he says that
all of these people, when they actually come out of that state,
then they you will find out that they have the same hope like
everybody else does.
More, maybe an intense amount, but they have the same hope as
everybody else does. So let's give you an example of this is when the
people of paradise enter Paradise, right? This is a very, very, very
graphic, very intense, interesting example. He says that when the
people of Paradise will enter Paradise, and as you know, every
Friday ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada is going to invite people to, to see
him to get to receive the vision, the Beatific Vision, right. And
they're going that's called the Yeoman moseyed, right, the day of
addition, the day of extra the day of, of gaining something above
what you already have. Now remember, in paradise, they will
be enjoying themselves, they have everything they can imagine that
they will look forward to this Friday, right? And that is going
to be superior for them than everything that they've that they
are enjoying throughout the week. Right? So they're going to look
forward to this. Now what happens is that when they actually go
there, and they have this special vision of Allah subhanaw taala
that will make them forget every single bounty and pleasure and joy
of paradise
They have experienced before this, they've experienced it. Right?
They've been extreme that whole week. But now when they go to
Allah subhanaw, taala, that's going to be so amazing. love
Allah, it's going to be so amazing. It's going to make them
forget about paradise, all the other aspects of paradise.
Then, if somebody even said here, do you want some of this? Or do
you want some of this in paradise, they would not even turn towards
it. Right? Because why they don't want to be veiled from Allah, they
don't want to get distracted from Allah subhanho wa Taala by these
things, that's why none of that matters anymore.
They will actually consider at this point, they will actually
actually consider every single joy of paradise to be insignificant
while they're looking at Allah subhanaw taala because everything
else pales in significance to that. Right. And you'll see this
mentioned in the Hadith about that experience in paradise, about
that. Now, if at that time as well, when they enjoying the
meeting with Allah subhanho wa taala. They're, they're
frightened. They are threatened by a punishment of the Hellfire, that
it wouldn't matter for them. Right? Even if they were probably
put into the fight, it wouldn't matter with them. Because the
experience is like no other, it's totally beyond anything that they
would, they could experience. So they wouldn't even experience
pain. That's how
engrossed they will be. That's how involved they will be in this,
that not even, they wouldn't even be pained. Even if they were
punished at that moment. All they're worried about is that this
vision should not stop this experience of mine should not end
I want to continue this. Now, obviously, the day ends and they
have to go back to the abodes in paradise, their palaces, their
mansions, their estates in paradise, when they go back. Now,
that experience is finished. So now they start acclimating to
paradise again.
And they see the joys and beauties, and they start using it.
It's I mean, I don't know how we can explain this, but maybe you
saying like, you go to a five star resort, right at that moment, you
know, you don't care about somebody's telling you about, you
know,
somebody bought a new bed for you or something like that home,
you're gonna think, Man, this bed in this five star resort is much
better. Now what I'm going to buy a home maybe right, so you won't
even care about it. It's like, oh, no big deal. Whatever I'll talk
about later. However, when you finished your time on your
holiday, and you've come back, right, now, you're going to start
in, you're going to have to start enjoying what you have around you.
Because that's a special state you didn't you don't have that
anymore. That was temporary state, you're going to start enjoying
this again, you're you're going to start indulging again in what you
have with you. So they will start indulging in paradise again. But
because they know of that experience, they're always going
to be looking out for it. So the next week when they go back again,
right. And remember, that's the time when they actually when they
come back, they actually come back more handsome or beautiful than
they were the week before. So they're actually increasing in
beauty all of this time. But their main Luxor is that just that
vision of Allah subhanaw taala that they get to enjoy. So that's
essentially what happens for them. So now that's an example right?
That's an example of paradise. But this is a very similar example for
us to understand what happens to some people who have the gnosis of
Allah subhanaw taala, who are immersed in, in in the awareness
of Allah subhanho wa Taala and the love for him. What happens is that
when they start feeling the lights and the rays from Allah subhanahu
wa Tada when Allah subhanho wa Taala starts to give them the
special, the special attention, and they start to feel Allah
subhanaw taala in their heart, you know, the his special attention,
right? This is so amazing for them. Right? This is so amazing
for them.
This gives them an understanding of what they're going to get in
paradise on those Fridays. It's like that kind of a parable.
Right? They're getting a special mashallah special experience with
Allah subhanaw taala. So at that time, they don't care about
anything which is around them. Everything pales in significance.
In fact, Paradise pales in significance. They've not been to
paradise here, but they're like, this is what I want. I want Allah
subhanaw taala I don't want paradise, I don't care about
paradise. So it makes them forget the beauties of paradise in the
bounties of paradise. And that all becomes insignificant for them.
Right? The love of Allah subhanho wa Taala makes all of this pale in
significance. Now at that time again, the only fear is that
they're not prevented from this vision that they're having of this
experience that they're having with Allah subhanaw taala this
special attention that they are enjoying at that point. They don't
want that to end. So they're like forget * if I don't care about
that. This is what I'm worried about. However,
These states generally doesn't last forever, right? Some people
actually do become dominated right for a longer time. For most
people, it won't last forever. So now when they come back, and
they've got their rational faculties back, right, and the
dominance of the state has kind of left them, and now they're left
with everything around them and the dean and everything. Now,
obviously, the next best thing is, hey, we need Paradise, and we need
to stay away from hellfire. So they will go back to fearing
hellfire and hoping for Paradise. The same people who may have
uttered in that state, a statement that made paradise totally
insignificant and hellfire insignificant it was because of
the state of the experience. But now when they're back to normal,
then they will also have the hope for Paradise. And they should have
because it's part of the deen to hope for Paradise and to fear
hellfire. Another aspect of this is kind of deep, is the last point
to clarify all of this is that
these people, the nose of Allah subhanaw taala, they can observe
and they can see behind, right they can see beyond the facade. So
what they're seeing is that Hellfire actually right. Hellfire
comes from nothing but the revenge of Allah subhanaw taala so it's an
attribute of a line that sends meaning is one of the it's
something from Allah subhanaw taala so if it's hellfire, then
it's from Allah subhanaw taala anyway, right, because it's an
effect of Allah's work. And when you see the effect of anyone you
see the signature of the manufacturer or the maker and
that's ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. So, the Jahannam and hellfire for them
is essentially just evidence and an indication towards the
greatness of Allah subhanho wa Taala and his ability to seize and
punish
and the strength that he has to be able to avenge wherever he wants
and his enemies. That's what they see in hellfire. There's no way
that if you look at Delphi Khan remind you of Allah because it's
him. That's his craftsmanship. That's his tool that he's going to
use. So, the fear what they've seen is that they've not stopped
there. You see for us, we may just stop at *. They're like, Oh,
I'm fearful of hellfire.
Now these people because they have awareness of Allah and they see
Allah in everything. They see Allah's
effect in everything. When they see fire when they think of
hellfire they see Allah, they think about Allah. So they're not
fearful of the Hellfire for the sake of the Hellfire, but because
they're fearful of Allah, because that Hellfire just signifies the
anger of Allah subhanaw taala so amazing.
So don't fear just Hellfire for the sake of the Hellfire but fear
Hellfire for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala we should be
fearing Allah. Big. And Hellfire is just just a symbol of that
idea. It's a real thing. It's not that it's made up or it's just a
symbolic idea, but it's just a symbol of that in terms of the way
we look at it today.
Subhanallah
so their fear of it, then of hellfire in reality is actually a
fear of Allah subhana wa Tada. And it's just them considering Allah
subhanho wa Taala to be behind everything, right? It's them,
essentially glorifying the various different attributes of Allah
subhanho wa Taala by which he's created this really frightful
jahannam. And obviously, that's why Allah subhanaw taala created
Hellfire to cause fear, right to give something that people can
fear, right among his servants, so that they can feel him as well.
The one who fears Hellfire should actually be the one who fears
Allah subhanaw taala. That's the way the fear of them work. So just
to conclude, now, when you hear these statements,
then the idea of these statements is that they've generally set it
in a state of being overwhelmed and overcome, have a special
witnessing that they're going through. So then everything I'll
paste in, so who cares about Hellfire at that moment, and who
cares about paradise at the moment because they experiencing
something even greater? I guess if we experienced the same thing,
we'd have the same experience as well, right? We'd say the same
thing. But then the need that doesn't stay for long. Some people
you know, subhanAllah they may never come out of it, or whatever.
But generally they come out of it. And then they it's back to normal,
right? Just like every believer, there is a fear of hellfire. There
is a hope for Paradise. But at the end of the day, when you hope for
Paradise is actually hope for the Mercy of Allah for the vision of
Allah, which is going to be the ultimate. See when people are
going to when people go to Paradise, and they get everything
and they get everything they asked for and they're going to be told
to give a list and they're going to be given that and much much
more than you know just they're just going to be fought for for so
many months or years. They're just going to be just looking around
and just mesmerized by what they have. And it's just abundance.
It's never ending alright, that's paradise and you can listen to the
lectures on that called the delights of prayer.
A dice if you want, then after that Allah subhanaw taala is going
to approach them and say, Are you all happy? Have you been given
everything you are promised? It's an absolute, do you need anything
more? No, right? But then Allah subhanaw taala is going to say to
them that okay, from now on, I'm actually happy with you and
satisfied duty and I will never be angry with you again, that they
say is going to be so much more joy than everything that they've
experienced, or they think they can experience. Then after that
even more when they actually go for these visits to Allah subhanaw
taala. Every week when we see him, that's going to be the ultimate
thing. So remember, at the end of the day, Paradise is just a place
where this ultimate pleasure is going to take place. So paradise
is not our goal. It's actually the goal is that we witness Allah
subhanaw taala.
You know, when you understand that you start seeing how important
Allah is. If that's the ultimate goal, you know, a lot of people
think ultimate goal paradise, but paradise, the ultimate goal, the
penthouse in paradise, the main event in paradise, are those
weekly events with Allah subhanaw taala. Can you see now how
important Allah is and how in significantly we treat him in the
world. Allah forgive us, Allah forgive us. We're willing to do
sin, avoid sins in front of others we can see, but we're unwilling to
avoid sins in front of Allah because we can't see him. But we
know he's there.
We want to praise people who we can see and glorify them, but we
don't glorify Allah.
Our lovers of this world, they, they plague our minds, right
becomes debilitating sometimes. But Allah subhanho wa Taala
doesn't whereas that's who we should be. Because that's what he
says alliinase Quran Allah, the walk route and Fiamma walk through
the wall. And as you know, we now can you see why it's so important
to connect yourself to Allah. Because even paradise, right? The
main event of it is about Allah subhanaw taala.
Okay, hopefully you've all understood. Hopefully that makes
it very clear for us. Now, I'm just going to just mention a few
things about how much fear we should have. And then we'll end
this just to introduce for next week in sha Allah, how much fear
should have should a person have now said the amount of fear that a
person should have is that much which encourages us and moves us
and forces us, right? To fulfill the obligations and to stay away
from the haram. Now, if I look at myself, if everybody looks at
themselves and judges themselves?
Do I have that kind of fear that I do all the design supposed to do?
Okay, maybe I do do all the deeds that I'm supposed to do, but to
also avoid all the prohibitions is Do I have that fear? No, I don't.
That means I need to inculcate more fear. That means we don't
have sufficient fear. It's a simple test. If we're doing sins,
and the fear is not preventing us, right?
Then we need to get more fear.
It's really that simple. I think, however,
if somebody mashallah does have that kind of fear, and then
increases beyond that.
Now, if it increases beyond that, there's another level which is
fine, right? Even beyond just avoiding the harms and doing the
obligations, there's another level, which is, hey, I need to do
more Nawab feel so I can stand a better chance of staying away from
hellfire. I need to do more obedience is like optional
obedience. And I need to also avoid even undesirable things, not
just haram things, but undesirable things because Subhanallah I don't
I don't want to risk it. I don't want to take that gamble. That
fear is there, I don't want to take that gamble. It's not worth
it. I'm not bold enough to take that gamble, then that additional
element is very praiseworthy, that much more fear is good, actually,
that's actually very meritorious. Now, if it goes beyond that now,
and it creates a new a sickness that you actually become sick, you
become depressed, or it kills somebody, or it creates intense
amount of anxiety, immense amount of grief and worry, right and so
much concern. Right, that actually stops you from even doing good
deeds. So hello, I've seen this, this is what I'm saying. Like, how
can fear stop you from doing good deeds.
That's what happens to some people, they get so fearful that
actually become despondent. The fear overtakes them. So they
become kind of hopeless, right? And the shakedown really plays a
massive part in this that's when shaytaan takes over the fear.
Right and creates so much fear. He kind of org augments that you can
say he kind of just auxilary puts it in a way that you actually stop
doing deeds because you just think like, I can't it's a really weird
a lot to protect us from this. It's really
Words that is not going to be praiseworthy, that's going to be
debilitating.
That's why, for example, there was a person shift after a tsunami.
Many of the self of his time were very, very worried about him.
Because he had such intense fear of Allah subhana wa Tada that he
actually forgot the Quran. It memorized the Quran, he actually
forgot how to read the Quran. And he actually become bedridden
because of his amount of immense amount of fear. Can you believe
it? And the reason for this is that fear is not something that is
intrinsically sought for itself. Fear is not okay, I need to have
some fear I need to get more fear, right? For the sake of Fear
Itself. Fear is just the tool.
Fear we need it for extrinsic reasons, not for its reason
itself. It's just a whip. It's just the stick. Basically, by
which the one who's a bit lazy, and who's who's not very active in
doing good deeds. It's just, it's just a stick to basically get them
going. See Hellfire law, this tells us something else now.
If the fear of the Hellfire is just
a stick, a deterrence
now that deterrence is a good thing, right? Because if it's
deterring us from going to our destruction, and from becoming
losers in the Hereafter, that means that fire the Hellfire is
actually from one of the bounties and gifts of Allah subhanaw taala.
The Hellfire is actually a gift of Allah. Because it's a deterrence.
I'm so glad that there's a deterrence otherwise I would be
committing these acts. That's what people will say, I'm so glad that
there's this is illegal. Otherwise, I'd be doing this. This
is what stops me. This vise is not illegal in this country. But this
vise is illegal in this country. So I do this because I'm scared of
them. I'm you know, and I don't do this because I'm scared of the law
but I'm not scared of Allah. So in that sense, actually, Hellfire is
actually one of the bounties and Netmums of Allah subhanaw taala
so that people can that's what helps to create the obligatory
fear in a person.
That's why Allah subhanaw taala has counted it as a bounty. Allah
has called it a bounty and you know, where, in Surah Terrafirma
right, in Fabiola erotica to Caliban, Allah subhanho wa Taala
is actually counted as a bounty upon the jinn and the human being.
That's why Soufiane Ignalina Rahima hula said, Allah subhanho
wa Taala created Hellfire as a mercy
by which he threatens his servants so that they stop so that they can
abstain. He called it a mercy because the original you know the
main obligation what is not fear? The main obligation is the
obedience to Allah subhanaw taala this Hellfire just helps us to
from being distracted. That's all it is. So it's just one of the
bounties of Allah subhanaw taala is just a tool. So we've learned
several things today Mashallah. And Mallory already knowledgeable
humbly for this, that Hellfire
is
there as a tool as a bounty of Allah subhanaw taala to keep us
away, and it is something we need to fear because Allah subhanho wa
Taala is the creator of it. So the reason we feel Allah subhanaw
taala is so that the reason we fear Hellfire is because we
actually fear Allah. And the reason we hope for Paradise is
because of what we're going to get in paradise. So may Allah
subhanahu wa taala allow this to settle in our hearts and to
understand this in the correct way and for it to be fruitful and
beneficial. And for it to benefit us in sha Allah. We ask Allah
subhana wa Tada for Tofik and may Allah subhanho wa Taala bless you
for the coming part of your life and may Allah assistance and help
us and give us the required amount of fear and how fear of hellfire
and hopeful paradise, but ultimately May Allah subhanho wa
Taala give us an increased amount of his love to really balance
these things out while here with Darwin annual hamdu Lillahi Rabbil
Alameen