Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Paradise Described
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The speakers discuss the "will" of the gods and the challenges of maintaining excitement and feeling hungry for long periods of time. They also touch on the natural environment and the "opiger world" of Easter, the "opiger world," and the importance of walking among greenery and the potential for a new cure to alleviate depression. The speakers emphasize the importance of healthy relationships and the desire for a shot of the mother of the beast, as well as shaping one's appearance with clothing changes and the natural frequency of Easter.
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I'm going to be speaking about the abode of the righteous,
the abode of the righteous
could refer to the abode of the righteous in this world. And of
course, it could also referred to the abode of the righteous in the
next world, the abode of the righteous in the next world
has to
be seen with the abode in this world. Because you can't just have
an abode of the righteous in the hereafter without having gone
through this world. The reason is, what's the name for this world in
Arabic?
Dunya and the other world
they actually very simple Arabic words dunya and akhira. These are
not proper nouns, like, like Zaid.
Dunya, means the close one.
from Ghana yet, something which is close, our hero means the thing
which comes after. So literally, that's what it is. That's why we
call it the hereafter.
Paradise is more specific, but hereafter is basically just the
next world.
So dunya is this world which is closer to us and the ark era. So
now, let's get this equation right.
For us to
to get to the archaea, right, you have to go through the dunya there
is no way to get to the Archaea without going through the new,
right everybody agree.
On the other hand, though,
if your focus is entirely this world,
then the hero will not will not be part of your plan. If your entire
focus is the next 1020 3040 50 years, whatever dunya then our
hero doesn't have to be part of that plan. It's not necessary.
In our plan, of course, in reality, our Kira has to come. But
in terms of our plan, how much are we planning for
when you make plans?
Okay, let me buy this car.
You say no, I can't buy that car because it doesn't have this one
feature. So while the car has everything else that you want, but
because of
you have, for example, let's just say that you want to have a nice
sporty car, and you find a car that has only two doors and it
ticks all the boxes, but you're gonna get married soon.
Right or you are married, just married.
And while you'd like to go with the the roof open and you know the
hair blowing and cruising
you know that you're going to have a child soon. And that car is not
appropriate for a child because you need four doors for with
children. I mean, you don't want to have to deal with two doors and
children. So just because of that one reason you're going to have to
change your plan, even though
most of what you're looking for is found in this car, but just for
one reason you can't have it because you're thinking prudently.
If somebody is focused is the hereafter then inshallah they will
live in this world they will do everything in this world but every
decision they take will have also the hero figured into it. I really
want to do this
and it seems to take all of the boxes all of your objectives. But
no it's bad for the Akira so I can't do it.
That's why the belief in the ACA is so important. Otherwise people
become selfish. People become indulgent, they will become
decadent is the alligator that keeps us that's why mankind uh you
know, Billa he will Young will ask him Whoever believes in Allah and
the Last Day, yes, angels prophets, everything is necessary,
but
mainly believe in Allah. And the last day if you believe in the
last day mashallah believe the stronger the stronger we make our
belief in the last day, the more cautious and careful we will be in
this world. Because the last day is
it not only does it make you carefully actually gives you
satisfaction, it removes depression, because imagine if
there's a person who's oppressed in this world, he sees no way to
gain justice because everything is against him.
Authorities, everybody in a corrupt society, that's what
happens sometimes, you know, some other society Alhamdulillah
generally, in the West, we have some sense of justice. You know,
there's some sense of justice, there's full justice is only in
the Akira. Right? But there are countries where even for your own
right, you have to pay
you have to pay bribery and even then you're not sure. And so a
person who is in that state who has been oppressed who has been
wronged what can you expect he's going to be very depressed but if
he believes in the hereafter at least he will know that there is a
yo McBean there is a day when everything will be set right? And
there nobody will have contacts with anybody it's only with Allah,
Allah and Allah Habib Calvin's sorry mix up the one who comes
with a sound heart.
So
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It's actually very insightful. He says that Allah made the hereafter
an abode to reward his believing servants,
only because this world couldn't contain what he wished to bestow
upon them.
And because he deemed their worth too high, to reward them in a
world without permanence. This is telling us to have the benefits
of having a separate abode as paradise and of course, then
Hellfire as well. This world is too limited. Now, has any of you
got a job or a new job recently? Or a promotion recently? Anybody?
Yeah? How long did the excitement of it last for?
Right?
That's very depressing.
Generally, when you're looking for something like for example, when
you're doing exams at university, and then you get your grades, you
get very excited. But how long do you stay excited for? Okay, if you
had all A's, how long are you going to be? How long are those? A
great is going to excite you for a few weeks? Few months, maybe a few
days? Not for years. You can't say after 50 years. I got A's, right?
That's just like, Okay, what's next? So anything in this world,
anything in this world, you get a new phone and you're very excited
about it? Right? iPhone 11 Very excited. Anybody got an iPhone? 11
You
know, you guys still on 10 You guys are still behind you guys.
What's going on? So still Erickson
I'm just joking. I don't like iPhones anyway. But the point is
that you get a new iPhone, a new phone. I mean, I don't know if
anybody still gets excited about phones. Because I think that whole
factor, probably on iPhone five or six was probably gone finished
after it's nothing great. But anyway, you get an excitement.
After a few days, few months, you're not excited anymore. To get
more excited, you need a new cover. Right so that you spend
money to get more excited. That's the world you have to keep
spending you have to keep doing to achieve new milestones, new ways
of excitement, because excitement doesn't last in this world. Let's
just say right now. I'm assuming Everybody's hungry. Right? We
should be. That's it's fine to be hungry when you're fasting.
Because when you have that hunger and you feel I'm doing this for
the sake of Allah, you're rewarded. Right? So feel hungry
and then feel that hamdulillah I'm doing this for Allah to the summer
and you get rewarded. So there's nothing wrong with feeling that it
started time you're going to be waiting for the food. And has
anybody been shopping when they are fasting?
is the worst time to go shopping. Right?
But now come if third time and you've had your food and then
somebody gives you two other dishes on top, you're gonna say
no, I don't want any more. Excitement is gone.
Excitement is gone. That's everything in this world. You do
it for a short amount of time. That's why they say that.
Allahu Akbar.
There are certain sins are such that you do them for the moment of
excitement that they only exciting for the moment that you're doing
them and then after that you feel guilty.
And then the punish
None of them could be for very long. Whereas when you do good,
it's tough, you do solid, you have to wake up for Fudger, you have to
fast these things are difficult. So there's difficulty for that
moment, but inshallah the rewards of them are forever afterwards.
It's like, if you're indulging yourself in a nice chocolate
cheese cake or something,
you get really excited when you're eating it, by the end of it,
you're tired of it. And then after that you feel guilty. And then you
have to then suffer all of the harms that the sugar has brought
you. I do this all the time. So I know. Allah Tala protects us. On
the other hand, you take a run a jog, for half an hour, 45 minutes
on the treadmill, or you do some exercise, you do some biking,
whatever, it sounds tough, it takes the wind out of you, you
sweat and everything, but you feel so much better afterwards. And the
benefits of the elastic, same as reward. And that's the same thing.
Take this whole thing and talk about the paradise. What if not,
Allah is saying here is that this world
would have been too limited, both quantitatively and qualitatively.
For Allah to reward us here, with the proper reward he wants to give
us He rewards us he has Well, you do good deeds, you get rewarded in
the world as well, right. But the real reward, he made a special
abode for it called Paradise. Where, because this will, number
one, it's temporary. So everything ends, everything gets old,
everything departs. Everything gets destroyed.
Number two, that's from a
quantity perspective, from a quality perspective. Nothing in
this world.
After, as I just explained, everything becomes diminished.
Afterwards, you get an award, you need another one.
Right? You win something you need to do a winning again, doesn't
matter how much you always want more, you always have more, that's
just the nature of our, our human beings. If we can understand that
it makes life easy, then we stop running after things, when we
start understanding that this is just a chemical, endorphins in the
brain that is making us do this. Right.
So Allah created the hereafter, in which he created paradise. And
when you start listening to the descriptions of paradise, you'll
understand what I mean, quantitatively from qualitatively
from a quality perspective, this world is nothing compared to the
hereafter.
It's absolutely nothing compared to I just give you one example.
Allah says in the Quran, what will to be her Moutere Shabbiha.
Fruits, somebody's gonna see a fruit that he was given yesterday
that he had yesterday, maybe an apple, maybe a mango, right?
And he's gonna say,
this was given to us before.
But when he starts tasting it, I say every single bite you take of
that is going to be a different flavor, a different taste and a
different experience.
When you eat different fruits, there's a different flavor,
there's a different color, there's a different description, it's
amazing, every fruit is so well constructed.
But the experience you get from eating certain fruits.
Right? When you have the same fruit, you eventually you got
watermelon, for example, you have so much of it, you don't want any
more. But in paradise, you can have the same fruit, because every
single bite, every single taste will be different. I mean, this
world is too limited to be able to produce those flavors. You know,
people who study color, they'll tell you that, you know, most
color is made up of, you know, on your normal screen. It's made up
of RGB, red, green and black. Okay, printing CMYK, right cyan,
magenta, and so on. Right? But in paradise, there's no limit to
colors, flavors, tastes, combinations. That's the amazing
thing that I'm finding. Because one of the most comprehensive
books written on Paradise is by a scholar called AbdulKareem Josie
Rahim Allah can handle Urwa illa biLlah data flow,
which is basically to drive the souls to this abode. It's actually
called Hodel Urwa to drive the souls to the abode of pleasures
and joys. So how many lectures have you on that? So we covered
that most of that book, because it's some repetition that we
covered most of that book, the substance of it in about 30
lectures. So we can't condense that here. In one lecture. I'm
going to mention some main points about part of that paradise. Then
I want you to ask me questions about
Maybe things that you've already wondered about Paradise because I
had a lot of questions about paradise before I read that book.
So alhamdulillah, most of my questions have been answered, I've
still got some, because there's some things that you can never
understand. But I'm going to leave that to you. So if you've got any
questions about paradise, our brothers and sisters, then feel
free to ask them afterwards, I'm just going to give a general
highlight here in this talk first. So firstly, it's a special about
that Allah has created, which has the scope and the ability and the
bandwidth to be able to hold what Allah wants to give us because it
has its, it has no restriction there. And number two, anybody who
goes to Paradise will be in there forever.
Because there's no way you can get into paradise you can break into
paradise, or getting there by mistake.
If you're in paradise hulless you will be in there forever. We ask
Allah, that we're sitting here, this topic was chosen for whatever
reason, Allah put it into somebody's heart who chose this
topic.
Okay, may Allah bless her with Rama, right? So
there's a reason we choose this topic. It shows our belief about
it shows our longing. So today, what I want to do is I want to
give you a bit of a brochure about paradise.
Because Have you noticed that if you want to move into a new area,
or you want to buy a new car, then you do a lot of reviews, you check
reviews, you check the specs, you ask people and everything like
that. Every Muslim knows they're gonna go to paradise. But when was
the last time that you went to check for reviews about paradise
or not reviews, you're not going to get any reviews? I mean, you
will get a review because the professor Lawson was taken on a
tour of paradise. So that's the only review I think you'll get and
the other review is by Gibreel Islam he's done a review as well.
Right he's given it 10 out of 10 but his review was that yeah Allah
who's gonna go in here because you veiled the all the difficulties
and hellfire he did a review of hellfire he said that Hellfire is
veiled and the cover of it is all all the attractions and lusts and
desires. So who's gonna go to Paradise every was going to go
into hellfire. So that's the review you got. That's a very
depressing review, to be honest. Right.
But when it comes to the prophets, Allah Lawson's review that's
amazing. Right? Amazing. He's given several reviews at different
times. And that's what the book fully covers all the reviews.
Whenever you want to go somewhere you want to have a review, right?
Don't be like that person from a third world country who wants to
just get to Sweden. Right so sighs want to go to Sweden? We're in
Sweden. I don't care. Anyway in Sweden, I just want to get out of
this place right now for him just Sweden that's it. He doesn't
understand this different areas in Sweden some areas are better than
others I'm assuming right?
So
with Paradise most Muslims we say okay, Paradise paradise, Allah
will forgive us paradise. There's no focused attention on finding
out what paradise is about. And we want to get
that that's that's what I'm trying to bring here. So anyway, ignore
toilets conclusion is that this world would be too limited. It'd
be too limited.
That's why Allah subhanho wa taala. She has uses the word
called a flam and does
that success. Full one is the one who's purified himself. Now the
word of Allah is not normal success, because in Arabic you
have the word foes Pharisee or fools, which means to win
something. Then you have Naja Naja Hyun Ji, who means to win
something to succeed but further is a very deep word. It means more
than winning. It means a winning after which there's no failure.
It means a a closeness after which there is no distance that's the
true winning that's the winning of paradise.
Got a fella help me known Alladhina Hoon V Salah to him
harsh Iran.
Well Lavina whom and in love with him are they doing? They're very
focused on their prayers, and they're totally ignorant and
abstinent. Of anything that detracts them today,
unfortunately, our state is the opposite, right? I mean, I'm
talking about myself, because we're, we could stay on our phones
or iPads for hours on end and then know that we've wasted our time so
we're distracted on wasting time on YouTube. When it comes to Salah
we just do a quick salad. It's the opposite.
Allah help us because if it doesn't help us, I don't know
where we're gonna go. Right.
Okay, now another thing in this world. We are what's our
relationship to Allah in this world?
Who are we to Allah? Slaves called us? We are a birth doula in this
world. And when you're a slave to someone, what are you supposed to
do you have no rights slaves have no right
Technically,
I mean, you do have rights in the sense in the justice system, you
will have rights and with Allah, you got rights because Allah is
just, and he doesn't oppress anybody, but in the sense that we
have to worship him. He tells us what to do. And he wants us to
worship Him and He wants us, obedience from us. That's because
we are slaves here.
In the Ark era, what's going to happen in Jannah? In fact, what's
going to be our relationship to Allah?
Are we always going to be slaves, but there's a something we get in
paradise?
Guests.
in Jannah, we're no longer slaves of Allah in the way we are in this
world. We are guests of Allah. You don't have this no obligations in
paradise. Gone. Do Salah gone do this do you enjoy. That's it, you
are guests. And you know,
the more generous and high level person you're a guest have, the
more indulgence they give you. Because they have more scope.
Guest of a poor person is going to give you a few things. May Allah
bless him, right? Somebody more they're going to have much more
catering for you. With Allah subhanaw taala you're going to be
his guest. And you know what?
If you are going to have a honorable guests,
how long do you prepare for it? You know, one of the worst things
you can do is have a long engagement.
If you get engaged and your marriage is after two weeks, or if
your marriage is after six months, every single week, until then
becomes a shopping week,
a planning week, so that you have to do shopping every week, you
have to prepare for it. It's on your head.
Now, if I told you that Allah subhanaw taala has been preparing
paradise,
from the time that he created it, every single day, he embellish it.
Allah says, and this is our belief that paradise and hellfire have
already been created. They're not something that's going to be
created later they've already been created.
And what's mentioned is that Allah uses a you know, janitor, who it's
in some Hadith, that He adorns paradise every day
for the people to come now, where's that going to get to I
mean, Allah adorning something, and then doing it every day. I
mean, that's mind boggling that's inconceivable for human beings.
Because we have a limit of how far you can go in design. Right Volvo
whatever you want to say this. So they can only go so far in design.
If they knew what the design of 20 years is going to be, they would
have done it now. They do design for the next 510 years and then
that colleagues also didn't have to do another design.
Right? But Allah subhanaw taala is designing everyday is preparing
paradise for His servants for his guests when they come there. Can
you imagine what that's going to be like? That's why he mentioned
that when a person first enters paradise, he's going to spend so
many years just mesmerized by what he sees. Now, I could never
understand that before.
But the way I understood that what made it easier for me to
understand is that in the village from where my parents my father is
from, it's a very small village poor people generally now
Alhamdulillah they're better but generally poor people.
Some of my cousins from the UK went to the village and took one
of our extended second third cousins from there to a resort in
India to a five star hotel and on a flight this is probably one of
the first time that he'd been out of the local area he'd never seen
a big city it's in a local town never seen a big city never sat in
a plane never seen never seen a five star hotel nevermind I mean
a village compared to a five star hotel Believe me it's like very
different
they took him there
after that for about two to three days the guy wasn't even really
speaking much he was just be dazzled by what's available out
there he just couldn't take it in it was such a big deal for him for
us I mean you know we see these things every day so for us it's
not a big deal yes some when you when you go into some five star
hotels it still makes you feel a hey what what is this but
generally we're used to it right? There was no TV then you couldn't
even do a review you couldn't see you there there's nothing in those
days. He wasn't he couldn't speak for a few years just desert
this is real real real life scenario I'm talking about in this
world.
So that's what's going to happen if Allah has been preparing and
way after that we are not His servants there directly. We are
now his guests and he is there going to give us whatever he
wants. Whatever we want. How big is paradise?
How big is paradise?
Right that's the entire you know the
That is again when you say out of Doha Samoa to wile out that its
extension, its width is like the heavens and the earth. Right? When
you say that, that is just to give us an understanding by the biggest
thing that we know by the mightiest thing that we know it's
just an example Otherwise Allah knows it's true. The reason is
that there's a famous Hadith which many of you have probably heard,
that the last person out of paradise, this is the person who's
been the biggest sinner ever, from all of the generations from this
ummah previous OMA, the person who had La ilaha illAllah. In his
heart, he had belief in his heart, but he never did it did a good
deed, all misdeeds, so he's going to be sent to hellfire to be
punished. Everybody else. As soon as they've been purified, they've
been taken out, taken out, taken out. This guy is the one who's
left. He is like charcoal. He is just, you know, sick and tired. I
mean, you'd be sick and tired in a day, but he's like, Finally, he
pleads and he's allowed out and there's a story he's allowed out,
and it's okay, Allah just turned me
outside. I won't ask for anything more. It says you promise? Yes, I
promise. And so Allah said, Okay, fine. And then after that, it
carries on like that. And then he says, Yeah, Allah, can you just
get me closer to paradise? said about you had made promises that
yes, I know. But you know, so Allah subhanaw taala laughs at
this, and then he says, Okay, fine, no more. And then again,
after a while, he stays there. And then he says, Okay, can you just
let me go inside? Right? So it's a long story. I'm not going to go
into that. But mainly, what happens when he goes inside? Then
Allah says, that, okay, I'm going to give you he says, Start
desiring What do you want? So
he started desiring.
And he runs out of ideas as desired someone, then Allah
reminds him of some more things. And then he says, I give you 10
times the size of this world.
I give you 10 times the size of this world, that is for the last
person out of hellfire last person
in the whole world, absolutely. In the entire human creation, the
last person outside Paradise after which Paradise will be, you know,
lit will be for whatever it is.
This is he gets 10 times the size. So can you imagine the other
people?
You might think how do you have that much space?
I mean, have you thought about the stars and the planets? You know,
the sun is 93 million miles away. But it is, I don't know the number
how big, much larger it is than this world? Then you've got the
other planets, the other stars? I mean, what what's going on? What
is Allah for? I don't know Allah Who? Adam. Right? Where is
paradise? That's another question. The strongest opinion about where
paradise is, is that paradise is above the seventh heaven. Heaven
means a layer of what we can maybe see, I don't know, where heaven
actually starts. Allah knows best. I mean, heaven not as Paradise
because some people use the word heaven for Paradise. I'm using it
for the word summer. Right? Jana is paradise, right? Summer is
heaven. Some people use heaven for Paradise as well, because it's up
there. Right? So basically, if you look around the heaven that
surrounds the earth, how big is that? I mean, how much bigger is
the space from Earth to the first heaven. I mean, if anybody who's
done astronomy or physics will know that the stars, right, the
celestial spheres that we have there in between, where the first
heaven starts, Allah knows best, then there's supposed to be a
second heaven, then the third heaven. Now, if you understand the
heaven to be maybe even a circle, a ball or something, the first
seven, the second one is going to be a bigger layer. The third one
is going to be a big an outer layer, and they get just bigger
and bigger and bigger. Now if you think about paradise being on the
seventh heaven,
right? And then it mentions
that listen to this hadith of dealing with the Oba ellipsometer
The Alon relates to the prophets Allah Some said that in paradise
there are 100 degrees 100 levels layers,
right 100 floors, you can say, but they're not like small floors
where you can touch the ceiling where they have to make them
efficient because you know, it's insulated and everything if you
don't get that problem, right
MoBay pina colada Raja Taneycomo banal already was summer, between
every two floors every two stages, just like between the Earth and
the Heavens.
That's 100 of them.
Right. And then he said, Well fear those who are Allah, Dora jetten
fear those is the highest level
warming Hatter for JIRA and halogen nettle. orbera. From there
the Four Rivers of paradise erupt. Well, I mean foci Hi.
Kunal arch, and above that is the arch.
So then the prophets a lot of them said, forever subtle to moolah.
First, Alou who will fit DOS, when you ask Allah if you're asking
anything of Allah asked him for the fifth dose ask him for the
highest, not just paradise, but gender fulfill those.
Now the other thing that you have to remember, there's another
heading which is clear that this that genital fear doses, genital
fear dose has the arsh of Allah as its roof or however you want to
call it.
Now how big is the arch of Allah we get an understanding of this.
There's another Hadith that's related by Imam Immanuel God
robbery. And even no matter the way I think, where it says that
the comparison to the kursi of Allah.
And the world is the world is just like a ring thrown into a vast
desert.
A vast desert is bigger than
the city. One Ring, what's the equation? You know, one ring in
that it's insignificant. So I'm just trying to give a size, an
idea of size, if genital genital, if the Arusha of Allah is that?
What vos, the kursi is that verse, and that forms the roof of genital
fear dos, and genital fear those is just the top one. Can you
imagine all the others?
When the Prophet salallahu Salam went on his ascension,
and he was shown paradise and hellfire, but then he will, he
said, he looked up and right at the top, or very far away like
stars, he could see something like stars twinkling he said, what is
that? He says, that's your abode. He was told that that is your
paradise? Can I see it? He says no, you're not allowed to see that
one until you depart from this world.
So there's a lot of space out there. Let's put it that way.
There's a lot of space out there. There's a lot of realistic
basically, right, you don't have to worry about small, small
places, there's a lot of real estate. So judging from the fact
of the size of the arch of Allah and the top Paradise, and then the
last person out of * getting done. Now, I know some of you may
be thinking, but this is
how do you even know this stuff?
Well, that's the question.
Right? I don't want to go into that too much, because that will
go into the whole concept of belief in God and atheism. And
that's not our topic here. We don't want to spoil this topic.
But basically,
being believers, one of the most important features of belief is a
Lavina. You know, in a belief,
it's in the beginning of the Quran, those people who believe in
the unseen without belief in the unseen. This deen is nothing
unseen, believe in the unseen because Allah angels and Paradise
hellfire, all of these things are unseen, hereafter is all unseen.
If we don't believe in that we don't get anywhere. That's a very
important topic. Allah subhanaw taala explains paradise. I'll give
you a bit of a sneak preview then if you have any specific questions
about
whether Paradise has bathrooms, right? Where the paradise? Where
do you get close in paradise? What kind of food is available in
paradise? How do you warm your food up in paradise? These are
relevant questions, by the way.
Will you be able to meet people in paradise? Is there a market in
paradise? These are all all questions, by the way. Remember,
it's gonna be
there's a lot of studies going on right now. Where the owners, the
founders of PayPal, and all these wealthy people have made billions,
they got a lot of money, right? What are you going to do with that
money? A lot of them actually putting their money in longevity,
longevity studies, huge amounts to try to find out if you can prolong
life, or if you can recreate it or refresh life or bring it back.
That's why there's some people who are being put into these cryogenic
coolers that may be after two years, 200 years, if somebody
comes up with
a cure, then you can make them and these guys are paying for it. And
but then they're going to be long gone. So it's a good business, to
be honest, right? To set up these silos. Right? Because people will
tell you and then after that they can go, they can go to *,
wherever it doesn't make a difference, right? You're just
going to be paid.
So for anybody to even conceive, you see, they the question that
the ethicist asks you is that
if you did have life forever
how would that even feel
in this world where there's misery, where you constantly have
to achieve things, imagine if you had to live forever.
They say that actually death is a is a relief. That
People don't realize for us for believers dot for too many remotes
that if you really understand Allah and you really believe in
the hereafter then this world becomes pales in significance.
Then Death is a gift. You're not supposed to look for an early
death because that's haram. So no suicide, right? Let me get that
right. But
we shouldn't be frightened of death either. We should embrace
that because it's supposed to be, we've been good people hamdulillah
that's why the prophets Allah, some said, dead bodies, people
who've just died, hurry them up to their grave. If they're good
people, then why you prevent them from going to the next abode of
blessing. And if they're bad people and why do you want to keep
them around you?
Right, so quickly go and bury them.
Our entire deen is focused on the hereafter and we better get their
rights. Otherwise, if the asker does not feature in our worldview,
in our lifestyle, the way in for a rude shock.
We better have accurate in our worldview, and believe me, once
you have accurate in your worldview, life becomes easier to
live because your greed subsides. Your desire is controlled.
Right? You have a lot more reliance and the work could you
become a lot more generous. Because your greed and everything
goes out of the window. It's an antidote to any problems. So Allah
subhanaw taala says in the abre Yashraj bounnam in cats in Canada
Miss Urgell her care for
the abroad the righteous wants, they're going to be drinking from
goblets, cups vessels which will have a mixture of camphor.
Now if anybody smelled camphor, it's not very pleasant as a drink,
you would think, but this is something special that we can't
even quote, right.
I in a year, shrub will be Ebola you for JIRA, Anahata of JIRA,
they will have lakes. So one of the things about paradise let's
understand what does what's the Arabic word for paradox. Jana,
what does Jana mean?
It means a god and that's it generally just means a garden. It
actually comes from the word
from G noon. G noon. The reason why a garden is called a garden or
other Jana is called a Jana is because it's covered with
greenery.
So Jana means to cover something. That's why Juna means somebody
who's just had
who has just become insane. His mind is covered up gym comes from
the same root term gym, because they unseen to us. They're veiled
from us. So Jana, is that which is veiled by greenery? So are we
talking about buildings? Are we talking about nature here?
Talking about money, sure, there's going to be buildings, but they're
gonna be made a very special things. They will be buildings,
but most of your lifestyle is going to be outside, you're not
going to be holed up in a building, you won't want to be
easy. I read some time ago that Bill Gates, he bought an estate.
And he had some neighbors. Now the estate he bought must have been
massive anyway. But because he wanted complete privacy, He also
bought the estates around him.
Just so that he's completely secluded. In paradise, Allah gives
you that much because you're wondering what is one man going to
do with 1010 times the size of this world? Well, you're going to
need you're going to need place because you're going to have so
many wilderness Omaha lagoon, you're going to have so many male
servants. You're going to have so many other I mean, men are going
to have I mean, I'll come to that right now. I don't want to get to
that yet. I know you guys are probably waiting for that. Right?
I'll get to that soon. Right? Well, maybe I'll wait for a
question about that. I won't cover it.
You're going to need space because you're there forever. And there's
a lot of space that you can go and enjoy yourself. The trees and
basically paradises agenda, because that's what the word
means. It's green it's just mashallah and you can get it
greener because Ibrahim Ali Salam Tala prophets, Allah is going to
give us his Salam and say that tell your ummah, that paradise,
what the land you inherit because you know the fact that you become
a Muslim, that your La ilaha illAllah Muhammad Rasool Allah,
you get a lot to the place their
automatic say Allah Allah Allah Allah you get to place in
paradise,
but in the hierarchy and it is desolate right now. You have to
you have to inhabit it says every test be every Subhan Allah
Alhamdulillah Allahu Akbar grows you things in there. So you know,
our 33 this means after the prayer, right and times you make
them all of this is contributing, we're building it, but we just
want to build it with purpose. We don't want it to be just
automatically mean we don't know what's going on. We're gonna build
it with purpose. We'll do a better job.
So everybody has one
so it says tragedy
entitle unharmed. Now this is very strange.
This is going to be a garden under which rivers will flow. Now, how
do you have rivers flowing under a garden? Can you see them? Can you
not see them? That's the strange thing here.
Right? That's the amazing thing here. Has anybody been to Spain?
To under Lucia? to Granada, right? Anybody you've been those gardens
there the agenda to Latif The gardens are amazing, they still
maintain them. And that's what the rule is there. I mean,
unfortunately, they suffered badly afterwards. But that's what they
tried to create agenda on this world in this world. They've got
the castles, the palaces, the forts, but then they've got,
believe me, it's miles and miles of God, and it's amazing. The
fountains, the greenery, the trees, you could, you could just
spend time in there. These are Gardens through which rivers will
flow.
Water for the human being is amazing.
Right? People get so excited about water. They say that
one of the most efficient cures for depression is to just take a
walk among the greenery.
Can you believe it? It's simple cure, no tablets, nothing just
gone take walks regularly. My theory is that because we're human
beings, and we're natural beings, and we grow, we are basically
created to be part of the nature.
We've imposed all of this brick and mortar, and we've shut out
everything. And the best place, especially when you're in cold
place is the most insulated place where no air comes in. So we
basically insulated completely, right. So we get we don't get that
exposure. This is not natural stuff that we are
we are interacting with. So we're out of our normal habitat. That's
just my theory. So I believe that based on the study, which says
that walking among greenery, whatever, you know, removes your
depression, I believe it's just because you're going back to your
nature. And we're missing that. So we're sticking in homes, and we
have no time for these things.
Marcia, you got a lot of greenery around here.
Right. So it's something you should take benefit from, we just
went to that hill, that park that you have. But there's there's a
lot of greenery here.
And you got water as well.
Where you have water, you generally have a lot of good ions
in there. Right. So I don't know if you guys are healthier than
England. But you know, I guess with the diets and everything like
that McDonald's and everything like that, I don't know, if it
becomes all the same, right?
But paradise is completely natural.
The other thing in Paradise is that
there is no sickness, of course, no illness, you can eat as much as
you want. That's when you can actually have your cake and eat
it. As they say, You can have whatever you want to eat, you can
desire, whatever you want, the tree branch will come down to you.
And you can take that fruit, it will taste different in every
taste that you take. And you can keep eating. It says that if you
want to eat meat, you will see a bird Oh, that's a nice one, it
will come down. It will roast it, it will be prepared for you and
you will eat it and then it will just reassemble itself and go
back.
If no am here raises a question. We're in paradise to roast food
for it to be cooked because humans eat cooked food generally right?
How is it going to be cooked?
There's no fire in paradise. Right? This is a very interesting
question, which I don't think should arise today. But this is
about seven, eight centuries ago. And he's asking this question and
then he mentioned about two or three different opinions of what
Allah ma proposed as possible solutions to this problem. So some
people say, Oh, this is going to be
this will be taken outside of paradise to be cooked and be
brought back. Sounds far fetched? It'll be taken to hellfire.
Typical, I don't want food like that.
Now what if no claim says, Now look at this. For us. It's so easy
to understand this. Right? Because we have do you guys even have gas
in this country? Would you guys cook on electric or gas? Electric
you don't even have gas. You don't even have fire anymore? Right? So
you see that's so easy for us to understand. Now. You have
induction ovens where you touch it. It's not even hot induction
cookers. When you put the pot on it gets hot. You have microwaves
you have halogen cooking, you have these active fryers. I mean you
have so many ways Allah shown us but even though pay him says
something very interesting then he says and let me tell you something
else first before I mentioned that because he says that you see in
paradise you eat as much as you want, then and you're gonna get
sick. No our
stomach. Now remember everybody in paradise regardless of when you
died, what age you were when you died, you will be resurrected.
When you enter Paradise, you will be about 33 years of age, which is
kind of like your prime youth age. Both men and women will be 33
years of age and that's what you're gonna stay by 33 years of
age. If you eat right, you're gonna get fat, you know, is what's
going to happen. The whole stomach, remember, this is a new
body, you're going to get there.
Right, made from your original DNA, whatever, but it's going to
be a new body
and the stomach will no longer have your intestines and all the
rest of it. It'll be a whole new it'll be kitted out with a whole
new system. That system will take your food inside process it and
throw it out as
as perfume musk. It's a new system, nobody's discovered yet to
refit the human being so that the food that's processed doesn't come
out a stool and defecation but comes out as perspiration of musk
amazing.
So there is none there is none of that in paradise there is no going
to the toilet in paradise I used to always wonder so it's just
kitting out the system differently. Allah created us this
way you can create a different that's what it is. So then even
okay him uses that he says that, that God that is going to
reformulate the human being to process is food in that way. In
fact, there's going to be maybe some burps that are musk right now
not bad books that you hear in taraweeh that people do. Right.
But you know,
he says that God who's done that, then he's going to be able to have
the food produced for you without fire. Why does he need fire for
and today the world we Allah has shown shown it to us in this world
that a whole of Sweden cooks without gas, I'm assuming because
I don't know why he does that. It's all electric.
He didn't know we have both. I have gas we have electric
to actually see the flame.
I don't know some people believe that food tastes better. I don't
know how they feel. If you're cooking on the flame of barbecue,
that's understandable. But if it's just warming up the pot, then your
food is being cooked inside the pot. So I don't know what
difference we'll make. To be honest, how that pot is being
heated. Do you see what I'm saying? People have these ideas,
the food, whatever you want to have
the drink
they will once a week now.
Once a week you know you will have your spouse's
once a week, everybody will go to see Allah subhanho wa Taala there
is a market that takes place a souk A, you can say a fair a
gathering.
Before you get to that gathering, there will be a dust storm, which
we can call a dust storm here but it will be a musk storm. So you
will become fragrance. When you get to this gathering, you can see
because what it says is that, you know after you've got all of these
things in paradise,
it's going to be mentioned that Allah will Allah will address the
people of paradise and say, Are you all happy? So they will all
say of course, why not? You've given us all of these things where
of course we're happy, why shouldn't we be happy? So when
Allah says, Well, I'm going to give you something else, I am now
going to tell you that I am now satisfied with you. And I will
never be upset with you again.
Basically, you're my guests now. That's it, because nobody goes
into Paradise by mistake. So when he says you're satisfied, they are
going to get even more excited. Because Have you guys ever gone to
like a really nice hotel, or holiday resort? Right? Who's been
to a holiday resort that they can remember? Honeymoon, whatever. How
many days did you go for?
Okay, one week, say two weeks. But you know that that two weeks are
going to end right? One day left two days or one day left, and then
you're gone. And then it's back to the same old thing, right? But
when you're told in paradise that I'm now satisfied with you, this
is yours forever. And you got so many things to still check out.
That's gonna give them even more satisfaction.
We can't even understand these things in this world to be honest,
because even a nice place you get tired of it eventually.
I went to the Maldives. Right? Not to a resort. I was just going to
Sri Lanka. So I stopped over it's a beautiful place. But I'm sure
after a few days, you know,
okay, you know, that's the world it just doesn't it can't give you
the same same stimulus runs out. So, then after that Allah subhanaw
taala
when He manifests Himself and people will see Allah they will
not have been given anything more pleasurable than their sighting of
Allah subhanaw taala. That's going to be the ultimate
the beatific vision, we ask Allah
200 Ouattara to give us this,
that's going to be the ultimate for them.
So every week you go to see Allah subhanaw taala, that's your treat,
when you come back from it, your spouse is the wife is going to say
to the husband, the husband, hey, you've just come back more
beautiful.
So now, you're not going to get tired of the same person. Your
spouse is going to increase in beauty all the time.
Because you're probably wondering if somebody thought about that,
okay, that's gonna get old. No, you're gonna improve in that as
well. And Allah has limitless ability.
It's not even something you can keep thinking about. I mean, you
know, every week have a new mashallah, how much more better?
Can it be when you're already going to be so beautiful?
I mean, you've heard the descriptions of the holes of
paradise, right? I mean, men generally like to listen to that
description, right? But it says that the women of the world who
will be the primary wives of the men will be more beautiful than
any of the holy.
What kind of beauty are we talking about? unfathomable, you just
can't even think about this
such beauty that you just keep staring forever.
There's a number of versions, he says that your paradise will have
one window for entrances. One of them is to
one of them is where your gifts are brought your awards about to.
Another one is where I think your family etc, can visit. There's
another one that is open to your place in hellfire. So by looking
at headphones, I can hamdulillah I'm not there, that just adds to
the whole psychological experience. Remember, a lot of
this is not just material objects, a lot of it is psychological. You
have to remember that. Because the way humans work, depending on how
you approach something, when you got a longing for something,
people are lots of people go for Hajj. But every single person will
have a different experience depending on their love, their
longing, everybody's gonna have a different story. Allah can
increase that for you. They say that wealthy people will go into
paradise later than poor people, poor people will get in quickly.
Do you know why?
Well, it's quite simple, because they don't have too much too many
tax returns to, to, to, to fill in and to
do exactly. Even in this world, I mean, the more you own and the
more ventures you have, the more texts you have to fit in. And if
you're poor, just like care about, so they'll get into paradise
quicker. But don't think that rich people are going to be left
behind. If they've done good with their wealth. While you may take
it to it may take you longer to get into paradise.
When you get into paradise, you'll have a higher level because based
on the sadaqa you've done. So paradise is levels, remember, and
you know these 100 levels that I spoke about those 100 levels just
for the Mujahideen
there's a hadith that says that the 100 levels are only for the
Mujahideen. For everybody else, there's even other layers. So we
haven't even started describing the paradise yet.
Will you have children in paradise?
They will be children, but you won't have any children. People
won't have children, because that that's that there won't be any
children? That was a fair question. Because somebody asked
the farmer came to the polls alongside him and he said, will
there be farming in paradise? Because for him that's like
amazing, like you can do a good farm right? and produce a lot of
good crops that's like for him. So none of that, right? So he says
yes, but you're just going to desire it and all of it will just
happen in an instance, why do you want to work in the landfill?
Right? This is all going to happen in instance. So there are
questions about children but they say the strongest opinions that
there will be no you won't. You won't. There's no system of having
children in paradise. Women will not bear children
we don't want to speak about Hellfire but as good as this is
that as bad as it is as bad as this is good. Then that's what
Hellfire is. We are going to start a series after Ramadan covering
the DIS the whole details of hellfire, just like we've covered
paradise, because I think it's only fair because that
understanding Hellfire gets us to paradise. Otherwise, as Gabriella
his review tells us that we're probably going to end up in
hellfire toys, right?
So
the people who are given paradise
are the people who are the righteous ones who made sacrifices
in this world who have had a focus on the hero whose every decision
was based on how it's going to impact them in the hereafter.
Those people who were willing to
give sacrifices of this world because the Prophet sallallahu
sallam said that the world is a prison for a believer and a
paradise for an unbeliever. What does that mean? Prison for a
believer because a prison, it doesn't mean you're locked up, it
means that you're restricted. So don't Muslims have restrictions in
this world that you can't go and have a burger from McDonald's,
even though everybody else wants to have one? Like your people are
going to go out for drinking. You're not allowed to go. People
are going to be dating. They're going to go to their proms or
whatever it is, we're not allowed to do that. We have to go and pray
we have to fast restrictions. That's what it is. World is a
replace of restrictions for believers. And for people who
don't have any restrictions who believe there's no God who believe
that it doesn't matter. There's no rules. There's no Lord you just
live once.
Right You only live once, then it's a paradise for them from
their in their perspective.
Real paradises from in the hereafter. In the Quran, mata ki
ina Allah Furoshiki Bhutan, in Wuhan Minister Barak,
the people in paradise, they will be reclining on beds, or platforms
of Thrones, whose lining is made up of silk brocade.
The lining, so we've got this pillow here.
Right? Well, actually, that's a nicer pillow that one right? And
you've got these carpets. Allah is so eloquent. He uses the
description of the lining, do you see the lining
the lining of my it's something inside the lining is inside, you
don't see it. But on good products, even the lining is been
paid attention to.
But you know, on design, the price even the lining has been paid
attention to.
So if he's describing the lining is like that, can you imagine the
surface.
So he's saying here, that there will be reclining on beds whose
linings are made up of silk brocade, then imagine what they'll
actually be sitting on. This just goes to show you the detail.
It says that
some friends will get together and they'll start thinking about
stuff.
He says you know that there was that beautiful voice. So suddenly,
the trees, the branches, the huge trees and the branches, they will
start making movements.
They will start rustling but they will start producing a music
and it will be better than they say it will be better than any
music that they've ever heard in the world.
Because this is especially since synthesized by Allah subhanaw
taala
then the angels will start to sink
to read and that will be even better than this. And when they
hear Allah subhanaw taala read that would be amazing.
These things I don't know. There's no way to explain them in their
full glory. You just have to think about them because we're using
human words to explain something that is beyond this world. I'll
give you an example when the Prophet salallahu Salam went on
his ascension in Sahih Muslim so he Buhari etc. in Sahih Muslim
there's a hadith which says that when the rose awesome ascended,
remember he went on his ascension to the seventh heaven. So he says
they got to the Sidra Tolman data, which is the LOTE tree, which is
there on the seventh heaven. He said suddenly,
I suddenly saw all of these winged creation
it was almost like I mean, the way he was explained, it was like a
display like you know, a show is put on for you, you know, outside
like a firework display. He says that no human words can describe
this. He says that, He says no human words can describe the
beauty of this. Whether those were angels or what Allah subhanaw
taala knows best. Right? That's amazing, right? He says, No,
humans can describe that. That tells you that all of this that
we're hearing, because the Broncos are awesome, summed it up is a
paradise is a place that you've never Your eyes have never seen
the light of
forget your eyes, your ear has never heard a description like it.
And Okay, forget description, your heart can never conceive of such a
thing. Because just to conceive of permanence, conceive of something
that can change its flavor each time conceive of infinitely
becoming more beautiful. How can you even understand that in this
in our constrained world that we relate to in a different way?
The final point before I open it up, I want to make as this which I
think is the most important point
who you're going to be with in Paradise from all of your family.
Yeah, let's say the spouse because men will have their wife, husbands
will have a waste. Right? With your spouse. You're not going to
be with your
Father, or your brother, or your sister or your mother or your
children, they're going to have their own life. Of course you can
visit and so on. But at the end of the day, once you go there, if
everybody is going to be with their father, then you're going to
be with other money. Salamis is going to be like on one big happy
family. Right? Which when I mean eventually is a big happy family,
right? But the main thing is that you're going to be with your
spouse,
you're going to be with your spouse.
Even though your spouse is not even related to you, sometimes
it's somebody who's maybe from another family, not even cousins.
Right? Most men cases,
right? But you're going to be together.
Can you imagine the dilemma of somebody I got a call, just just
before Ramadan, there's a guy is about maybe 5758, maybe nearly 60
years old. He's got children who are married, who some of them live
with him, and he's quite sick as well. And him and his wife can't
get along to such a degree that they can't even see each other.
Can't even make salaam they hate each other.
So I said, Okay, then.
He says, but I can't divorce her either. Why? Because there's no
point because she's got nowhere else to go. I'm not going to be
able to get married again with my health conditions. And we both
need our children to look after us.
What a miserable state. Right. So the reason why I was asking the
question, because it was basically, there was no way out of
it. Because I mean, everything I said is like no, but I can't do
that. I can't do that. It was like Checkmate. Checkmate. Checkmate,
right. So his main question is a religious person, his main
question is Ramadan is coming, I want to be forgiven. But I've got
a broken relationship with somebody who's so close. And
that's haram. That's wrong. So how do I rectify this is my arm I was
going to be accepted.
So I told him, Look, the minimum you have to do it because it says
although we live in different rooms and everything, but
sometimes, you know, the in the passage reseacher.
I said, you have to make Salam. She doesn't like yeah, so Well,
that's her problem.
Your responsibility is to make Salam. If she doesn't give you an
answer. That's her problem. She will be sinful for that. Right?
But you at the minimum you have to do with people, you can't break
tanks ties with, you don't have to go and sit with and have long
meals with them. You don't have to go and sit and chat with them.
Just have to say Salaam. Just that's it, you know that much at
least.
So I'm wondering that what do you think is going to become of their
state in paradise? If you're going to be with your spouse in
paradise, what's gonna happen with them? What do you think that's a
test case? You think they're going to both be together and hate each
other? Do you think they're going to be both together and love each
other? Do you think they're not even go paradise. I mean, at least
initially, they eventually have to do believers. There's another
thing I forgot to tell you before you go into paradise.
There's extractors there. Right? You have to go through them. And
they pull and suck out from you all your jealousy and all your
hatred and everything else. You can't go into paradise and be
jealous.
So it's like almost like
would you call those guys those?
You know, those Captain America and those guys were they
whatever they call it, right? They are
superheroes with actually.
But that's what a lot of people relate to today, superheroes.
Everybody's on about superheroes. So basically, you're going to be
detoxified from all of these things. So my assumption is that
as long as they stay husband and wife that bond is so important.
That in paradise, they will probably be laughing about what
how foolish they were in the world. How silly they were, Allahu
Allah. But I can't see any other any other reason if they both get
to Paradise, they're gonna have to be together.
Okay, so that I ended there. We ask Allah subhanaw taala to take
us with our spouses into paradise working with our own and
hamdulillah Romulan but as I mentioned, you don't you can't
just get into paradise. There's an effort right there's an effort
that has to be made and you
there's a person as a hobby he did something a favor for the province
otherwise he did some work for him. So the province of Assam said
to him
wish you know ask for something I'll give it to you. So you know
what he asked for? As Luca Mora Africa takaful Jana, I want your
companionship in paradise. And the price of awesome said, our heater
30 something else, like something else I can give you but you know
that that's, that's not easy. Is it? No, that's what I want. He
says okay, then help me by doing a lot of sujood by doing an oral
prayer.
So paradise is an effort.
Now look, eventually, as long as we believe as we all get into
paradise. This is what my wife told me a few years ago. Right?
It was some time and she started doing some new worship, not new
new worship, but she started doing some Ibaadat. And I said, what's
going on? How come? She says, Well, I've been thinking that
as believers inshallah we'll get into paradise if Allah maintains
our faith, we asked him for that we'll get into paradise, but it's
just like, we'll get into Norway, we'll get into Sweden like, you
know, but
we're in paradise. For that you have to do work.
Because then, I mean, there's so many things haven't been able to
say there's the 70,000 people that are going to go into paradise
without even questioning.
Now, when you are competing with people like Abu Bakr, Siddiq, or
the Allah one, right, Amara, the Allah Juan, and then go a bit down
to the zali Gilani and those people. I mean, what, what what
scope do we have among the 70,000 If that were competing with those
people,
and those 70 peoples when they go into paradise, that first group,
they will all go together, and they're not going to go in a line.
The door of Paradise is massive, Allah makes seven doors for
hellfire. But he makes eight doors for Paradise. Why eight that's
going against the normal tradition of 777.
Summer seven sub estimate that the natural the nature of the world is
seven, seven days of the week and everything seven sevens, right? So
anyway, here, he makes a dosa paradise, just to give an
indication that I want to express my mercy to you, I've, I've even
given an extra door to paradise. And each of those, those are so
wide that those 70,000 people will be able to go in at once, and
there won't be any jostling.
That's how Allah has prepared he is when he makes it as the host
for us as guest. He's going to give us the full service. But we
ask Allah to allow us to be in that service. Insha Allah. Okay,
I'll open it up to questions, inshallah. You can ask any
question you want about paradise. Okay. And if I don't know, I'll
tell you because I'm exploring myself still Yes.
But this is not just about being perfect and polished, right? I
have thought about that. It's different every time your
experience with it. It's the same if it's the same old? No, no,
no, no, no, yeah, I'm talking about anything, you will get sick.
Because you're seeing the same old you have to upgrade because that's
the way our psyche works in this world. But in the Hereafter,
everything is going to just improve, it's in its
embellishment, it's only going to become better. So it's new, it's
gonna seem new. So it's not the same old, your experience with it
will always be different. And beyond that, I can't even explain
because it's something that we've never experienced. So I can't even
explain beyond that. But I believe in it, right, there's only a
certain level, you can explain it. Because if it's something out of
our realm of experience, it's very difficult to even understand that.
I mean, don't some people love their job, because of the new
challenges that it provides every day. I love my job because of the
new challenges that it provides every day, though. It's the same
old, same old people. But there's a new challenge every day, when
you enjoy something you enjoy. And
I would just give that as an example, to say that you can still
enjoy something, for example, I've been married 20 years, but I enjoy
my wife, as you know, as it was 20 years ago. And I think if you've
had a successful marriage, that just tells you that that's one way
to understand how you could be forever with somebody. Right?
Again, beyond that, I think it's going to be difficult, because I
don't know how else to explain it after that. If anybody else has
got another example, I would be happy to hear that because it's
difficult. It's an experience that we've nobody's ever had. Right?
And experience of permanence, you know? I mean, I guess your
question maybe is assuming also, that it's the same old stuff
you're going to see every day just polished. But that's not the case.
When you got 10 times that amount of this world.
How long is that going to take you? Right? And then we're
changing all the time as well. So Allah Allah
so what I mean is if you're not into materialism, oh, then you're
going to be into materialism. Okay? You're not supposed to.
That's the reward for not being in materialism here. That's why the
example I will welcome to the Allahu Anhu was given. He called
for some water. He was given water that was sweetened with something
and you refuse to drink it, he started crying. He said that,
because they really understood that after and they knew that
every sacrifice they make that is going to magnify for them the
reward in the hereafter. It says, I don't want the reward of this
and I don't want to indulge in this world. Amara, the Alon had
forget, I mean, oh, my God alone had patches on his clothing. When
he entered Jerusalem as a victor. He could have had the best
clothing. In fact, the Sahaba used the tabby in the people often they
would insist that you're a leader. People come to visit you
delegations come, why are you eating this raw food? We can
produce some of the finest foods. And then one day he says to them,
he says you
You think I don't know what good food is? And he mentioned to them
a number of good foods. He says, but this is not how the profits
are lost. In fact, they had to send, like, how can we tell him to
change his clothes? To you know, these dignified clothes? They
said, Let's talk to his daughter and I Isha, are they alone because
their wives are also lost. And they might listen to that he might
listen to them, they both went to him to give him a special
petition, that, you know, this is our request. And he started
crying.
And he said, I can't believe that you've come to tell me this. He
said that, you know, he says you are why is that the profits or
loss of Look how he was, he had millions coming through him.
But he still refused to eat cooked food every day, and he would
survive on dates and water for days on end, so that even the
poorest person in Madina Munawwara could relate to him and say, My
Prophet has as much as I have,
if not less, these people did it out of choice, because they knew
paradise was greater. And this world is not worth indulging in.
That's so difficult. I wish I could make this a reality. Even
for myself, because I'm indulgent. You know, you'd like to have your
nice clothes. And there's nothing wrong with that. As well as Hello.
That's the thing. As long as it's for a reason. But when you go over
when you have to get that next one, because it's a status symbol.
That's definitely a problem that is sort of,
and then it goes beyond that. And you become brothers of the
shaytaan. As MOBA Delena can be one of shayateen people who
squander money.
Do we all get to meet the Prophet salallahu Salam? And since we'll
be in a low agenda to him, can we go and visit him? I'm sure that
should be the case. You can visit people, right? You can visit
people. And
this is very interesting. Something that's related is the
person in paradise. Now this is talking in retrospect, he's not in
paradise yet. But the problem also is explained that this person in
paradise, suddenly the angels come to him and saying, Hey, you're
getting an upgrade. You're in coach class. And the person comes
in, says, Mr. So and so can you please come this way? It's like,
oh, no, it's taking me we're gonna put you in business class. Like,
how do you feel? Right, you're gonna feel really good. So he
says, why he says, oh, because one of your relatives descendants just
did some prayer for you.
Now, as I told you, this isn't going to be after the fact this is
all just being mentioned that this is all happening, based on who we
leave behind because of the effect of who we've left behind. The best
sadaqa you can leave behind you is perpetual charity in the form of
children who pray for you, or some knowledge or madrasa or some other
knowledge that you leave behind for people to benefit from in the
form of books or lectures, or whatever it is, or teaching,
right? Or maybe some other lake or river or some water source that
you so as long as that will remain, you get the reward for it.
So there's ways to get upgrades as well. But yes, you can visit
people nobody is going to be out about that's why there was one
scholar, he said that I am so amazed by it, shatter the Allahu
anha that if there's somebody in paradise that I'd love to meet and
speak to will be a shot of the Allah one.
And, I mean, I'm sure there's going to be people who are going
to wonder, I want to I want to watch the battle of butter.
And I want to watch the battle of art. I want to see what happened.
I want to see how the prize Wallah one or maybe you can choose movies
down there to watch in real life. Hola, Juana. I mean, if you can
get whatever you want. I'm assuming that's the reality.
Yes, brother.
Well, I guess if the province of Lhasa is in the highest place in
Jannah, then maybe you'll get closer to janitor for those above.
They say that yeah, they say that the higher you get, I mean, in any
buildings, or the penthouse is at the top right. So if genital
Firdaus has its roof as the Throne of Allah, then you can imagine
that the higher you get, the better gender you get to in fact,
some have described paradise. Have you seen those?
Have you seen those pictures of those Chinese or Thai? Thailand
paddy fields going down? You know those step by step going up a hill
or down a hill. Right? Basically tapered going down it some people
have described it like that, that the higher you get, the higher the
Paradisus the more exclusive it is
I think you will. I am not sure where you're going to meet him.
But I think you know, that weekly meeting. That's where you get to
visit other other people and other prophets. That Allah will
facilitate.
I mean, if you say I want to be with the Prophet Saracen forever,
I mean, you know, when you say you're gonna get everything you
want in paradise. What about this because I just want to be with the
Prophet salallahu Salam now, I guess there's going to be some
kind of restrictions but you will be satisfied with them because the
other question that arises is that the person in the higher higher
paradise than you and you're going to feel, they say that there is
going to be
just leveled up, if I had done this much more, I could have been
there. But you're still going to be very satisfied with what you
have.
I can't even explain the relationship between what's your
second question
you see,
in Sahih Muslim,
it says 70,000 There's another version of the Hadith, which is
not insane Muslim, it's maybe not as strong a narration as the same
as the one says that with every 70,000, there's going to be
70,000. So 70,000 times 70,000, we did the sum, it's 14 9 billion or
something like that. Right? That just suddenly gives you greater
hope, if that hadith is correct, right. So
I think, you know, I don't think we can compete with the prophets
or with the Sahaba and there were about 120,000 Sahaba. So if the
Saba in there already, forget it. Right? We lost all I can say is
that Allah will give you according to your needs and your effort. So
just focus on that don't get put off that Oh, profits, because
profits were 124,000 Approximately according to a hadith of Imam
Muhammad anyway. So
they've got a special routes anyway. Right.
Any desire that you have in Paradise is going to be fulfilled,
even if you want to farm? Whatever you have desire? Of course, all
your desires are going to be righteous desires.
Right? They're going to be right, you're not going to ask for
anything that is none. Not fitrah. Right, because there's some people
ask that question. I want to do some, that kind of person isn't
going to enter paradise who's got none Fitri non natural kind of
tendencies anyway, so yes, you can get anything you want in paradise.
This is a Kulu Mushtaq and Phu Kham. everything your heart
desires. Just let me answer this question if you had a miscarriage,
will that baby drag you to John to Jana? That is the Hadith. The
progress Alison said if you had three miscarriages then they'll
drag you to Jana. Somebody else to somebody else one so that is a
sense of but you can't guarantee that that you okay, I've had a
miscarriage. So now I've got my guarantee. I've got my ticket to
Jenna she's going to this miscarriage is going to take me
now so I'm going to go on really indulge in the world. Remember,
there's always variables, there's always going to be variables.
There's conditions under which this happens. As with all of these
other things, even being with righteous people wanting to be
with them, obviously you must have tried your best because there's
nothing that guarantees you except the Karima that eventually you
will get to Paradise because it's all up to the Mercy of Allah
whether even accepts our deeds or not sha Allah he will. So yes,
miscarriages are mashallah a wonderful way to get you to
paradise. It's like a fast track service
everybody will go to paradise. The only thing now is that the
children are believers and the children of disbelievers because
they they're not responsible yet. So there's several opinions about
them. But the strongest opinion is that the children are believers
will also enter paradise children and children of disbelievers
there's also an opinion which is a strong one that they will also
enter paradise. Other opinions say that they will be the servants.
Some say they will remain on the hour off between paradise and
hellfire. Some say that they'll just be turned to dust so it is
various opinions. We can't be 100% Sure, but what the strongest have
been seems like is that inshallah they will all go to Paradise
because they were not accountable to start with anyway.
In this world, we have Solon body, but the body is primary the soul
is secondary. So we still have it, soul feels things but the body is
primary in the Barossa between between this world and the
hereafter when we die, the soul becomes primary and the body
becomes secondary. That's why even if you've been cut, somebody's
been consumed by an animal. You still feel the grave. Even if
you're not in the grave, you still feel the bursa he's not the
gravest the Barossa generally people are in a grave. So the soul
is primary in Paradise and *, both body and soul will be
primary. That's why you're going to be able to experience the full
pleasure or the full punishment.