Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – The 100 Degrees of Paradise Described
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Allah subhanho wa Taala says, In the Quran, that Allah invites to
the abode of peace.
It's the abode of peace because
there will never be
any
insecurity there once a person enters, because nobody enters by
mistake, nobody will be entered into paradise into Jannah by
mistake by Allah subhanho wa Taala anybody who enters Jannah, who
will be there
by the will of Allah subhanho wa Taala and they will be there
forever
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was not allowed to go into
his Jannah
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when he when he was shown it from a distance, and it was said that
you have to die a mortal death in this world first before you can
enter into your Jannah. Once you're in Jana, you're in Jana,
because the abode of Jana is a abode of permanence. This is a
world of transience. This is a world of temporary nature.
And there's nothing permanent in this world, we can't even relate
to permanence. Because if you're trying to understand how it will
be, when we'll be in jannah inshallah,
and will never die. We can't quite understand how that will be.
Because one thing that will or may come to mind is, aren't we gonna
get bored?
If you have to stay somewhere forever? Don't you kind of get
bored because we believe in variety, we believe in traveling
around moving around here, there, another and other and things come
up and but in general, it's supposed to be forever.
So aren't you gonna get tired of the place that you're living in,
that you will be in there for so many? For eternity, it's mind
boggling. It's impossible to even understand because we're so
hardwired in this world, because of everything that we see.
To look at things in a temporary way.
We can't even keep our phone for more than two years, even though
it's working fine. Many people like to change their car every two
years, even though it's working completely fine, because they get
bored of it.
So this is a world of temporary, temporary nature.
Allah subhanho wa Taala wants to give
a reward that's befitting his majesty, His permanence, his
greatness, his generosity.
And the problem is that this world is too limited for that.
Because he can give us whatever there is in this world, but
eventually, it gets old.
The only thing that he can give us in this world that doesn't get
old, and that only increases and gets better, is closest to him.
That's the only one pleasure, love for Allah subhanaw taala is the
only one pleasure in this world that will only improve and
increase and get better as you go along. With everything else,
eventually, you lose it. Allah as the only permanent being and the
only permanent essence and entity. You could love something else that
you love dealing with your heart. You can love your spouse, your
children, your parents, but eventually, either you'll go
they'll go. So there is no love that is going to be retained. Yes,
of course. Inshallah, if the one you love and yourself are both
pious and righteous, then you're going to Jannah with Allah
subhanaw taala he's there throughout and he'll be looking
after us.
That's why if not, I thought Allah he says in the merger Adderall
Hirota Mahalalel Jessa a buddy, meaning Allah subhanahu wa Tada
has made the hereafter an abode to revolt reward his believing
servants
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Let us start oh my god do and you're at home. Because this world
the one who
are in currently cannot contain what he wishes to bestow upon
them.
Just can't what Allah wants to give us. This world can't
accommodate it.
And worthy under who agenda aka Dara home on a New Jersey, a home
feeder in Lubbock. Ha ha. So one is the first thing he is saying is
think two things here. The first thing he is saying is that this
world is too limited, to give the quality of reward that he would
like to give this world can't take that quality, it can't, it doesn't
have the capacity.
Number one, number two, if he did give us a reward here, and then
it's going to end what's the point of that? That's not a reward from
Allah subhanaw taala Allah's rewards are perpetual.
So he doesn't want to give us a reward in this world and then it
come to an end. That's not the right type of reward. That's a
worldly reward. That's not the right type of reward for Allah
subhanaw taala. So, he wants to give us a really qualitatively
intensive, majestic reward that is permanent, and for that he has
created a special about so this world is too limited for that. At
the same time that we speak about that, of course, for those who
wants to punish this also the abode of Jahannam, which is
diametrically opposed in the same similar kind of way, the
punishment that Allah subhanho wa Taala could give this world is too
limited for that and then again, it's limited in terms of its
timescale so it will come to an end. Whereas the hereafter Jana
and Jahannam paradise and hellfire will never come to an end.
Another thing that we have to keep in mind is that in this world we
act and we are the servants of Allah subhana wa Tada and Allah
subhanho wa Taala very much plays the role of a sovereign, a King
and Master and he wants us to be totally his slaves were Mahalo,
actually, Jinnah will insert it earlier, we don't. We've only
created the humans and jinn in this world to worship as Ovadia as
worship. That's all we're created here for.
If that's what we do, and if we're true to that, then we fulfilled
our servitude. And if we're not, then we haven't fulfilled our
servitude we haven't taken Allah subhanaw taala to be our master.
This is a very important thing to understand clearly. If we do
things that goes against Allah subhanaw taala one is we make a
mistake, we're prone to mistakes. And Allah subhanho wa Taala
completely understands that. In fact, it's been confirmed by
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam. An individual asked
Allah subhanaw taala his two hours of Allah make me never sin.
Make me of those who never sin at all. Allah subhanaw taala said,
Well, if I did that, then how could I express my forgiveness?
How could I express my characteristic of being the food
of afar, and all of these other great names that he has that
relates to that?
So we will make mistakes. And another thing that Ignatov Allah
says, is that
a mistake here and there out of forgetfulness by accident just by
being overcome once in a while, is not against estate karma
ermine to be learning from a stuck him say I believe in Allah and
then stay steadfast is stuck emu, steadfast, Be steadfast. That's
part of this life. What is the problem is when we make a mistake,
and we continue to then make the mistakes, so we fall down and we
stay down, and we don't get back up. We don't have the bounceback
power. That's that's essentially what this is about. So
Allah subhanaw, taala, wants to give us so in this world, he is
the sovereign. He's the master, and we're the slave. And that's
the way we have to act in this world. The challenge is that we
don't feel like slaves, because we have free will to do what we want.
And that's all part of the, the trial of this world. Because if we
knew we were slaves, and we felt like slaves, and we were, you can
say compelled that we had to do what was told and there was no way
out of it. Otherwise, you'd be punished straightaway. Then what
wrong would we have done? Because if the punishment is going to come
straight to you, Mr. Salatin, there you go.
Right, you get a whip. What's gonna happen, but in this world,
it doesn't come just like that. It comes under a veil. It comes from
behind the veil. Sometimes we feel the punishment sometimes Allah
subhanaw taala doesn't punish anybody.
He just allows them to enjoy and enjoy and enjoy and it carries on.
That's what you call. Instead Raj, that's what you call giving rope,
just so that they can get further and further in fact, with their
Allah mentioned that if you're not getting close to Allah, if you're
not getting closer to Allah and more pious, yet the worldly
enjoyment are increasing, then understand that you are deluded,
then understand that this is a fitna from Allah subhanaw taala,
that this is a trial. Because if you're enjoying the world, and the
riches are coming to you, and the enjoyment are coming to you, and
you're not getting any closer to Allah, but you're actually getting
further, and this is pure dunya, then you must definitely be
worried. Difficulties. That's why, in a sense, a great blessing in
this case, because they keep you on your feet, they give you an
understanding that Allah still loves me because he wants to try
me and test me, because the prophets were always tested.
They just knew how to read the difference between a prophet and
the pious. And the non pious is that when a difficulty comes on a
prophet or a pious people, they know how to deal with it, they
understand it's coming from Allah subhanho wa taala. They know
exactly how to deal with it. They know that they have to make supper
and patience. And then that's the way of success in this world. I
was speaking to
a brother who just converted some years ago, and we as Muslims that
were born Muslims generally take a lot of these things for granted.
That we know from a young age, we're told that if a difficulty
comes to you comes, it doesn't mean Allah hates you. It's a test.
It could be a punishment, but it's also a test. Allah wants to see
how you do. It doesn't mean he hates you necessarily. But a lot
of non Muslims. That's what they feel that if difficult time comes,
then it this is if they're believing, if they believe in a
God, sometimes they believe that. And he said, That's what I used to
believe. I used to believe that anytime anything went wrong,
that's God hating me. So when you think somebody hates you,
that is actually very negative, it has a very negative reaction,
then you sometimes want to give up because this is shaytans way of
causing us to become despondent and hopeless. So then only after
he became a Muslim, and after a while, he realized when he read
the Hadith, and so on, he realized that no, it's not always a
punishment,
a lot of the time it's a trial. So even artha, Allah is saying that
this world is too limited both quantitatively and qualitatively.
It doesn't have the scope and neither does it have the
permanence for Allah subhanaw taala as rewards.
Now, in this world, he is the master in the hereafter. It's a
totally different story. Though he is still the master, though he is
still the sovereign, he possesses everything. And he could have
everything and if he wants to, but he has promised to host
people in Jannah. So he will be the host. And we will be the
guests, the roles will be totally different. Now you know that in
this world, that if you are going to host people, then if you're a
dignified individual and a respectable person, you will go
out of your way to do things. For this invitation that you've given
to someone and the guests that you're receiving, you'll go out of
your way to do that. If you're a dig, the more dignified an
individual is, and you know, the stories of these dignified
individuals among the Arabs as well that they would just come in
and they would, they would cut a sheep if they have to straightaway
cut the goat cut any anyone in the house just to feed their guests,
they would literally just lay everything out, because that was a
sense of honor for them. Now Allah subhanho wa Taala is Karim. Allah
is Haleem. Allah subhanho wa Taala is the most generous Javed Allah
subhanahu wa taala is more open than anybody else. And he has the
Havana. He has Kazaa in he has the the treasure troves that are
endless. So you can expect what he's going to give in Jannah.
So, the roles are going to be totally different, but we have to
become worthy of that Jana to to inshallah be to enjoy that. One of
the worst things that you can have in this world is to know that your
guests are coming three months in advance to know that your wedding
the worst, the worst preparations and the most difficult and the
most burdensome. Weddings are those that are fixed a year in
advance, because then every weekend becomes a shopping week.
Because every weekend is a shopping week. Every weekend is a
planning planning week. The best invitation is that your guests are
coming tonight and the women quickly make up something and
mashallah, it turns out well, and if you know they're coming next
week, you'll be fretting and shopping and so on and preparing
for the whole week and it just takes all your mind away from it.
Of course with Allah subhanho wa Taala it's a different story. He
is He multitasks all the time,
in a billion in countless ways. He's constantly doing things
because what are you
who had leukemia who had it you love him? So this world though
it's never been upgraded since the day that it was created. And we
still see so much beauty in this world and we enjoy this world and
it's never been upgraded from the time Allah subhanaw taala created
it. When it comes to the hereafter and Jana, Allah subhanho wa Taala
is upgrading it over and over and over again. Can you imagine what
kind of a place Jelena is going to be if it's been upgraded so many
times, even if it started off, even if it started off as this
dunya meaning, even if it started off, equivalent to this dunya and
then it was upgraded and upgraded and upgraded. Can you imagine what
it would be like, and it didn't start off as this? Well, it was it
was the place that Allah subhanaw taala of permanence, where he
wanted to really show his generosity, and his subtlety, his
ability, his sophistication, his elaborate nature of designing
things, has been the muscle where the the the former of things, the
designer, the absolute mastery, who is going to express that. And
then that has been improved over and over and over again and
upgraded. Until I don't know what version it's on. So you can
imagine what kind of a place that Jana is, compared to this space,
there is no comparison, you can't even think about it. And that's
why one of the best descriptions though Allah subhanaw taala in the
Quran, has given us glimpses of Jana in different ways.
The best example given of Jana, the best description rather, is
it's something that no eye has ever seen the likes of so imagine
the most beautiful thing that you've ever come across or seen a
picture of generally, these pictures tend to be better than
real life. You go into Costco, sometimes in a few years a new
TVs, and they have more color than reality. And you wonder what is
this? It's more red than reality, it's more bright than reality.
That's not how reality is. Maybe give me some wine, why don't you
just give everybody some special glasses to augment the color that
you see outside you and just augment their sights.
Because you know, we see in a certain wavelength. So people are
moving into these virtual worlds. In fact, we know that what goes on
on TV in these movies and so on, is fake. It's a story. It's made
up, it's fictional. But we're able to go people are able to go into a
cinema and watch The Lego Movie. And they are able to give their
heart to that Lego character
and empathize with them and suspend their reality their real
world and move into a virtual reality.
A reality a virtual worlds not a virtual reality a virtual world.
And they're able to empathize with this for entertainment purposes.
We'd rather be thinking of Jannah which is real
and which is so much greater than anything that can be seen on any
of these displays. So that's what Allah subhanaw taala wants to give
us. There's a hadith related by Imam telling me the from herba
even assignment of the Allahu Anhu just to give a description on what
this gentleman is the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam already
said it's something No, I have seen no ear has heard the likes of
in fact, it's never even occurred to your heart. You can't even
conceive or what it's going to be like. So herba to know xometry
Allahu Anhu. He relates to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said,
Phil Jannetty me to the raja paradise is comprised of 100
degrees 100 layers, levels 100 floors, you can say.
Marbella colada Ragini come by in a lot of us summer, between every
two of these 100 flaws
between every two of them is like between the heavens and the earth.
So when you look at the heavens, the stars are within the heavens,
and the first heaven is beyond that. So it's this phenomenal
distance that the moon is 93 million miles away, the sun is 93
million miles away. And that's the closest start to us. So you can
imagine what goes beyond that how many million miles away we're
talking about the first heaven.
So that's the distance between just two levels of Jannah and
there's 100 of these levels.
There's a few narrations that if you put them put them together,
you will understand the sheer size of this place. So one is you could
have 100 levels of this narrow building. What they do in Indian
places like that is that they have a small amount of land. So they
build like this narrow building all the way up, you know, 10
floors or something like that just to maximize them space.
Then they try to pull out the second floor onto the road
encroach on public space. And they just try to you know, and then and
then the council will come in and have it all broken down because
then it's against you know, it's it was done without permission.
But no, is this just some kind of narrow building that goes up to
the
Top now, what he mentions is that welfare those who are $1 jetan,
genital for those is the highest one. It's the topmost layer. And
then he says, I mean whether the federal and hydrogenated herba the
Four Rivers of Jannah they flow from from there. And then he says,
well mean fo B ha yaku louche womenfolk yah yah Kunal arch, this
genital for DOS, its roof is none other than the arch of Allah
subhanho wa taala.
Right, now that we've got this idea that the roof is the outer
shell of Allah subhanahu wa Tada. Now let us understand its width.
We understand that in two ways, we try to understand it in two ways.
This is all speculation based on the Hadith, the conclusions I'm
drawing, but I wouldn't doubt it too much. So we know that it's 100
degrees this way.
And in terms of its with with genital fear, those having the
roof having its roof as the Arash there's a hadith related by Imam
Tilbury, and I believe it no matter the way in which it says
that the comparison of this dunya to the courtesy of Allah subhanho
wa Taala is like a ring thrown into a vast desert.
So let's just imagine a ring, literally a ring thrown into the
middle of this room.
There's no comparison, even for this room, a desert is many
million times as big as this room. So what kind of comparison are we
speaking about? We think this world is big that we can't even
travel around it within our lifetime and see everything that's
there.
If
the courtesy of Allah subhanaw taala and Arash is even bigger
than the courtesy, if the kursi is that much bigger, like the desert
compared to that ring, then can you imagine how wide this genital
fair dose is, and thus all of the other levels? And it's all a
possibility? The reason is that if we look at the heavens, we know
there are seven heavens sub arsema, what heavens, Heaven is
not paradise, have another layers that have another layers that are
the super luminary worlds, we're in the sublunary. World, the seven
heavens, beyond that is the load tree. On the seventh heaven is the
low tree and beyond that is the end of this world, the Siddhartha
mandala.
So now, when we
think of the heavens, where is the heavens to us, it's all around us,
it surrounds us, whether you're at the north, whether you're in the
South Pole, whether you're in Australia, or at the equator, the
heavens surrounds you. So let's just assume then, that it's some
kind of, it surrounds us, it's some kind of either a cone shape,
or it's a circle, whatever it may be, just for argument purposes,
let's assume it's a circle.
The second level, the second heaven, then will be the outer
circle to that an outer circle to that its circumference will be
much larger. And then the third and then the fourth, the fifth,
the sixth, the seventh,
the seventh one, in terms of concentric circles, is going to be
much greater than it's mind boggling even to think about it to
try to work out its circumference. If that's the amount there, then
can you imagine that the superior opinion is that gender tool for
those is on the seventh heaven.
Jana is on the seventh these 100 degrees there on the on the
seventh heaven.
So there's a lot of a lot of real estate up there. There's a lot of
place.
Then another Hadith that tells us
that the absolute last person out of Jahannam, who will
be the biggest sinner that has ever lived, somebody who literally
was just found to have a small amount, an infinitesimally small
amount of Eman left in his heart. He never did a good deed he did
every bad deed there was to do. You racked up as many bad deeds as
they want. This is the worst of the people from all of the
nations, not just from this OMA, but from all of the nations. He'll
be the last person that will be allowed to finally come out of
Jensen Jahannam because of the Kadima that he had, that he had
read because of that Iman that he had just that small amount,
finally, after being persecuted, or punished, and just totally
taken care of in that sense, he's finally allowed to just come out
of Jahannam and he's allowed to then face John and there's a long
story. Finally, he gets to see the inside of Jannah and then Allah
subhanaw taala tells him to desire and that he can have Jana and he
thinks Allah is mocking him because he thinks is too
As totally beyond, he has been for years in sin in hellfire. Finally,
he is told by Allah subhanho wa Taala that you desire, desire what
you want. So he comes up with number of desires, Allah subhanaw
taala tells him adds a few other things that he would like as well,
that he couldn't think of. And then Allah subhanho wa Taala tells
him, according to the most conservative of these generations,
is that you get 10 times the size of this world. That's for the last
person out of out of Jahannam they get 10 times the size of this
world. So can you imagine the people who are on higher levels,
what they're going to get?
So then herba took no salary. The main thing here is ABA took no
salary. Now many of us are probably thinking, I don't mind
any gym.
I just want to get in there. I don't mind any gender. There is a
difference in gender that you have to realize there is difference if
you look, if you read the Quran carefully, you will notice, in
fact, in Surah Rahman is probably one of the most distinguishing
sutras in terms of showing the two two genders very clearly. Allah
subhanho wa taala.
In one place is what even half Nakamura behaved and
this is speaking about the people who are the close ones, the
Serbian goon, the new ones, the intimate ones, who really tried
their best, and were very close to Allah subhanaw taala, their level
of debacle was on another level.
You know what I mean by level of Tawakkol, the people, you know,
there's a hadith which mentions that they will be 70,000 or so
that will go into Jannah without questioning without questioning,
they are the people who had Tawakkol and ALLAH SubhanA wa
Tada. They did not do Rokia, they did not do any of these other
things. Now, you think about that. And you think, what level are we
talking about here? What is the what is the perspective of these
people? What is their approach to the deen? Now, if you look at it,
even those who consider themselves to be righteous, practicing even
knowledgeable, even orlimar. Right, knowledgeable people as
well. When we eat food, right now, it's going to be Iftar time
stomach is rumbling. If tar is there, the smells are coming. What
is your thoughts in your mind? What is that food going to do for
you? What is going to quench your thirst? What is going to fulfill
satiate your hunger? What comes to mind?
What's going to quench you what's going to quench your thirst?
The water, that drink the milkshake, whatever is whatever is
available. There's a law even come into our mind at that time
that Allah is going to do this for us. Does that even come into mind?
Or is it the food? Yes, if we're to ask you that, who makes you
feel filled? Yes, you will say Allah believers will say Allah we
are occasionally. So in that sense, we are believers in Allah
that He is behind everything. But even the more discerning of us, we
will not think beyond the vahidi sub. We will not think beyond the
apparent means that we see in front of us.
For example, you have a headache, you want to take a paracetamol
when you're taking that paracetamol, your entire immediate
focus is that this medicine will benefit me. Even though if you
were to ask, is it this medicine that it has its own efficacy? Or
is it Allah subhanaw taala? That is the real provider of Shiva, you
will say Allah, but does that come to our mind when we're taking that
medicine? Subhanallah when you're opening, I mean, it gets it gets
more complicated than that. When you're opening the door of your
house.
When you're opening the door of your car.
You rely on your ability we rely on our power, our energy that I'm
it's gonna open you have full confidence in yourself. Who thinks
of Allah at that time? Have you ever been around the roundabout
fast? And you have to really keep hold of the steering wheel to make
sure the car because the car is always trying to straighten up and
you're trying to go around?
Can you imagine if you just lost your energy in your hands just at
that critical moment and the car went straight and veered off? But
we have to hold it with some power to make sure it's going around.
That stays around because it's going at speed it wants to go
straight. Can you imagine if you lose your power? So who thinks of
Allah subhanaw taala who has that level of Tawakkol where everything
is fully reliant on Allah subhanaw taala
there must be very few people like that. People who've developed that
full consciousness of the heart. People who have developed
The full consciousness of the HUD because that this hadith it came
about in Sahih Muslim I was just thinking about it why are they so
few people that are promised this position?
And they don't do this, that and the other. And then this idea came
to mind that we don't have to work on low condom that our Kelowna
Allah Allah He got our cooler, La Raza takom como Yasuko toy that
will do him Olson what the Ruby Thonon that's what a hadith
mentioned. That's what Rasulullah sallallahu sallam said, had you
the same Tawakkol had you that Tawakkol
had you the reliance in Allah subhanho wa Taala as much as is
the right of Allah subhanho wa Taala to be relied on.
Then Allah subhanaw taala would feed you like he feeds the birds
that go out in the morning, empty stomach and they come back with
filled stomachs. So things aren't going to happen with Magic by
magic for us. Because we don't have that level of Torkel
not that we have a level of debacle to produce magic in this
world.
It's because of association with Allah that we're trying to we're
trying to have.
Now to get back to our point.
Allah subhanho wa Taala says one even half a macaw Mara Bihar Jana
turn.
For the others. He says Amin Dooney Hema Jana tan then Allah
subhanho wa Taala says so he's juxtaposing the two different
types of paradise to general ideas. He says the vata Fernand
there he says mood harmattan he says here fi Hema iron etrurian
There he says fi Hema iron in a bar hotter here he says fi him in
Khalifa ki hatin XO John, there is fi Hema fuck you had to one Hello
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Let me admit Hoonah insaan Cobla Humala, John, and there it's the
hidden hierarchy on Hasaan Hold on luxol Rotten filthy yum. So you've
got a juxtaposition there. Then if you look at sorbitol in sun, Allah
subhanaw taala he speaks about giving, serving drink serving
drink to the people of Jana. So Allah subhanahu wa taala in the
first place, it's all in the same Surah it's just one mentioned
after the other after a few sore after Motoki in Al. Motoki
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the first one Allah subhanho wa Taala says in Aurora Yashraj Boon
Amin sin can Amis urge you her girl for the Abrar those who are
pious those who are righteous, they will drink the way Allah
subhanaw taala explains it and details it says they will drink
yes shabu they will drink themselves, though they will also
be served. But he makes it out that they will drink because once
you're served, you still drink it yourself. They will be they will
be drinking from a drink whose temperament whose taste will be as
enjoyable sorry, we'll be careful. Now don't think of the comfort of
this world careful translates as comfort because that will put you
off
when you have a description of paradise, that's the reason why I
say it's mind boggling. It says that the river of Paradise is such
that
the water is sweeter than honey.
I mean, for a lot of people that's going to be sickening.
Like why would you want sweeter than honey? That's so sweet. I
mean, you can just like take a bit of honey. I mean, why would you
want so sweet, sweeter than honey SubhanAllah. Right. But of course
we're talking about a different realm here. We're talking about
wine that doesn't intoxicate pure wine that doesn't intoxicated, not
the one that you get in Saudi Arabia etc, that they've pulled
out the alcohol from you know, it still has point something
percentage.
It's pure wine
that will not have the problems that are related to this world
because there's no weakness in gender.
You're fully conscious all the time.
So the first group they will be given care for. Then there's a
higher group of people. And Allah subhanaw taala says, Will you
scold now instead of saying yesterday when he says when you
scone a fee her focusing on the fact that they're going to be
served? godson Garnham is that your husband Jamila they get a
drink mixed with xinja bills and Gibreel is like ginger. Some of
you may not like ginger in this world. Some of you may not like
fish in this world. I feel sorry for you. Because that's the food
in Jana.
The Sahaba were Ijebu they sought a soul allah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam liking a particular food or just praising a particular food
and they would begin to lie
Get
ignore Amara, the Allahu Anhu used to look for the God
can do, as they say in order, right it's a such a simple you
know that the long green one Allah knows best exactly which one is
meant by this, but many of the other mother mentioned is the long
green one. What kind of taste doesn't have he doesn't have much
of a taste but once the prophets Allah Islam was seen eating it and
enjoying it. And that's it, he would the Sahaba began to like it.
So if something is mentioned in the Quran or of Jana, I'd rather
get used to it.
Like I'm eating this because it's going to be in Jannah. And I
prefer this. So I get used to it shows you desire, doesn't it?
It shows you this. I'm not saying that if you don't like fish in
this world you won't get into hereafter I'm not saying that not
giving any fatwa to that effect. But it's just a good sign. I think
if you like things of Jana
Susan JB is
now again, what that means what this special drink, it's Allah
subhanaw taala knows best what it's going to be like, but I tell
you something, it's in Jana, it's going to be nice. It's not going
to be sickening. People who are very sensitive, I can't eat this,
I can't eat that they're very particular about stuff. They won't
have problems in Jannah.
Number because everything will be tailored to you to suit us. And
number three.
For the third group, which is the highest group, Allah subhanaw
taala changes the way he describes it was Sokka, whom Rob boom Shara
been the hoorah
Allah Who will feed them. The others are also obviously fed by
Allah subhanaw taala, in a sense, but here, it's really
personalized, and Allah will feed them the pure drink. That's the
pure string pure.
So these are the different stages. Now, it's difficult to reconcile,
yes, you will look at the people in the higher agenda to you and
think, Well, I wish I'd done that much more worshipped what I've
gotten there, though, you will still how you reconcile is again,
it's mind boggling. It's difficult to understand that you'll have
what you want in Jannah. But clearly there is going to be a
hierarchy.
There is going to be a hierarchy but you still feel sufficient to
what you have and you will have what you want. But then there will
still be something that is beyond which is not your stage because
it's of the stages of the people above you. Every aspect of Jannah
has been considered carefully every aspect of Jana. So for
example, if we take this rug here
it looks really nice on this side. But if you look on this side, it's
I mean, why should they, you know, like why should they embellish
that side for
but
in Jannah, Allah subhanaw taala says,
mata ki ina Allah foto Shem Bata in her Amin ista Barak they will
be reclining on rugs or seatings whose inner part
under underparts lining however you want to translate this
basically the part that you're not going to see that will be made of
silicone brocade special silicone brocade
so if that's Allah subhanaw taala in his efficient way, speaking
about the beauty of the things in general by saying if that's the
underside of it, if that's what the inside will look like, then
imagine what the outside is going to be looking like. Everything has
been paid full attention to and as detailed detailed mastery over
everything in the way he's been created created this
every in fact it says that every leaf you put you because that leaf
is from Jana, it's only a leaf but because it's from Jana, just by
looking at it every separate leaf will give you a different sense of
pleasure
it's going to be virtual is going to be reality. So leaves oh they
just leaves no, you look at leaves and you will look at them for
years because they will just be so beautiful. When the holes will
sing
then it won't be just voice apparently. But everything will
join in the relieves will Russell they will make their own music. So
it will be an immersion into an amazing experience that will be
more than 14.
So it won't just be like witnessing something through your
ears or through your eyes but it will be a total immersion in that.
But the people who will be able to listen to this will be the people
who did not listen to the Haram in this world.
Because then eventually Allah subhanaw taala will say
that those who did not listen to haram in this world who did not
commit those kinds of sins in this world. He will read himself he
will read the Quran and imagine how beautiful that's going to be.
But again, you're not going to listen to that with your ears.
Allah's speech is eternal, it's transcendent. You need much more
than your ears to be able to hear that
you will be able you will be absorbing it through every pore of
your body, it will be an experience unlike any other that
you've had.
You're going to these places sometimes in these theme parks,
and they have the 4d experience where they throw some water at you
and you know, then the 3d makes it look like it's coming to you and
then your seat kind of goes up and down. And you know, and they tried
to create that experience for you this gender is a it's a totally
different story.
It's just totally different. You can't even understand what it is.
But we can go on and on about Jana. There's a beautiful poem
that I like to read. It's just speaking about the women of Jana.
Just speaking about the women of Jana Fijian nothing digital or you
know Hilah will who talk to roofie Russia fatty abidi Dr. Luffy
Herlin Hara Eros windows in Istanbul rockin what Asahi Rahman
us JD. These are just beautiful descriptions of the garments and
their clothes and so on. What did you hear aloo fo me Turkey ROTC
her mean look, look in what Java Hera was. Oh my god. That's just
speaking about the crown they'll be wearing fucka Anna Hoon, Java
here Rama Karuna 10. C. Let's be Carly B Lu Lu in was OMO Rudy
Hatta in the Torah but la Khattab a summit, Bill Hoon G collectif.
Lil Willie, they will miss Hindi for Hoonah Kahala Tito Waratah
that land on Hulu, they be currently hosting in a melody, it
will be eternity it will be for eternity these things. That's the
women of Jannah that he's describing here.
The women of this world will be superior.
Whenever we speak about the holes of Jannah, the women do get a bit
sensitive about that they get a bit agitated, and the men get a
bit to get started getting excited. Generally that's the
case. But the thing is that Allah subhanho wa Taala has made the
women of this world more beautiful than the holes not in their
current state.
Not necessarily in the current state we're talking about in the
state of the hereafter. It for those men who
don't think they have beauty or for those women who don't think
they have beauty, don't worry about
it beauty is in the eye of the beholder in this world anyway.
You ask Allah subhanho wa Taala Allah subhanho wa Taala will
create attraction for you in the right way. But the main thing is
that in the hereafter there will be a true sense of beauty. And
again, just like with everything else, if that beauty was to have
remained stagnant, it would become boring.
So again, that will be updated over and over and over again,
every Friday Juma instead of Juma prayers as such, although you can
pray you go to see Allah subhanaw taala. And that will be the
highest level of honor and reward that you could get in general,
which is to say Allah subhanaw taala, the beatific vision, the
transcendent vision.
But when you come back, your spouse will say to you, Hey, you
look more beautiful than you were before. And this will continue to
happen. Now, if you think about that, from the world, this
perspective, you bring in 1000 designers, and you make them you
know, I think like if you look on Google each time, they've got a
different design for their search, you know, what, what's that
called? They've got that, you know, just above the box. Now,
obviously, there's people who are making this eventually, over and
over again, different designs and so on. But some are good, some are
not good. Sometimes you look at anything. You know, who who made
this thing. And sometimes you think this is nice, no, but when
it comes to gender, Allah subhanaw taala if If gender is endless, and
this world is that that world is endless, you will continue to
beautify a person. If every taste that you take of a fruit will be
different in its experience, and its pleasure and its taste, then
what it's not beyond Allah subhanaw taala to make a person
more beautiful every time that he looks at Allah subhanaw taala
for as as frequently as Allah subhanaw taala wants, so there'll
be no boredom in paradise. Whatever you do, it will just you
will never get bored of it. It's just variety that you just keep
going looking wherever you want. I want to do this and I want to do
this now.
But we need to work hard. Just going back just to clarify, the
women get a bit agitated but what they have to realize is that they
are superior to any any made an agenda. And the reason that was
given for that is very clear. Because they are pure. They have
prayed, fasted and worshipped Allah. What that gives them beyond
the maidens of Jana is a superior status
but for that
We need to have a pure heart as the DUA is of the prophet in the
Quran, in at Allah has been called been Salim because at the end of
the day as if not Otto Allah says K for usually to Colburn sewer
will acquire Nieman Toby attune female, how is a heart going to be
illumined in which the reflections of this world
are found?
How can Allah illuminate a hut in which the worldly reflections are
being reflected of it?
And then he says, How can this MK for your Hello illAllah? Wa who
are mocha Bella Misha hottie? How can it travel to Allah subhana wa
Tada when it is shackled by its desires? How can we even get
close? And then the one thing he says which is really important.
K for yet Hello. How can it enter into a pure court when basically
this room the way we have it right now is a place we have designated
as the masjid and the sanctuary we have designated as such, the only
difference between this place and another hole is the furniture.
It's the decoration, it's the carpet, and the way it looks.
There's no difference that we can perceive. Other than that, it's
something placed we have sanctified like that.
But we know that if a person is extremely dirty, we're gonna He's
not going to want to come in there and we're not gonna allow him to
come in. Likewise, if there's a person who needs goosal, they're
not allowed to come into the Masjid. This is a worldly house
that we have designated for Allah. And we have these rules that a
dirty person and an impure person cannot come in. Now imagine the
states of our hearts
and their impurity, their darkness and their blackness.
How will they find a place in the real court of Allah subhanaw taala
whereas Allah subhanaw taala is certainly pure, and he only
accepts the pure. How is it going to find the place? So where is
this Jana from where we are?
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said in this hadith that I
related right in the beginning, when you ask Allah, for Allah will
fit those ask for third dose and nothing else. Meaning don't ask
Him for anything less than genital for those, that's what you must be
asking for.
And Ramadan is that time when we feel closer to Allah subhanaw
taala we need to ask for genital for those because if we don't get
genitive for those will at least get somewhere on the 50th or 70th
level. But if we just want to scrape it in, then we may not even
be able to scrape it. And the reason is that we are humans are
very
psychologically motivated people, by the way they think, by the way,
the goals are we are very oriented, goal oriented
individuals if we have a perspective that this is what I
want then we will try to do things will actually have a desire we'll
try to take a chance to get that but if we don't have that desire
so the premise the last one is saying don't ask for anything less
than that ask for high him ask for have a high aspiration ask for the
highest position in Jannah. So all of these things are there. There
are some there are some a hadith that give some good tidings. For
example, there is a Hadith in Muslim which seems to indicate
that those people who are sinners who will be sent to hellfire for
punishment. And again when we're not to rely on this to think okay,
that's fine, I'll do that. But it mentions that they will be put
into a form of sleep or a slumber so they won't feel the punishment
though they in hellfire. That's a very hopeful Hadith, but it's not
clear cut. We hope it's the case but it's not clear cut so you
can't just rely on it that it's okay, I'll take my chance. We want
to get into Jana and not just Jana we want genital for those and it's
not beyond Allah subhanaw taala to put everybody in general for those
who want to be there. But for that you're going to have to try
harder. Ramadan is that time a few things that we need to do during
the month of Ramadan, don't let a single night pass without doing
Tahajjud prayer at least to the gods of tahajjud which will take
you about three minutes, a basic Tahajjud prayer if all that you
can do and about three minutes of dua so just stop eating five to
seven minutes before Saturday time outside the month of Ramadan it is
extremely difficult. In Ramadan we're getting up for our stomachs
and it's a sin as well to do surgery. But we are getting up for
some biologically motivated
we're getting up. So at that time, let us also spend just six seven
minutes the whole family should do this due to records of damage and
minimum aid is listen to records and some dua Don't let a single
night of Ramadan pass without doing that. And ask Allah subhanaw
taala fulfill those and inshallah in that happens Allah will make
Make our acts conducive to that because if you've got a real
desire for genetic videos, then slowly slowly inshallah our x our
deeds, our behavior and conduct will change to that of geneticists
and may Allah subhanaw taala Grantchester because this world is
definitely temporary May Allah allow us to look beyond this
world. Allahu manda salaam Inca Salaam Baalak the idol God will
Quran.
Allah who may hate you yatta yatta Ramadan is steady Allahumma your
hand noni and then Allah Allah Allah subhana que no condemning
authority mean does Allah who I know him in the mirror? Allahu wa
Salatu was Salam ala Sayidina Muhammad wider early so you know
Mohammed or Burdick or synonym? Allahu Medina where had he been
our Jana who the eliminator the Allahumma in earnest. Look at the
mermell If you were there were malaria if you were Shukra Allah
if you Oh Allah except our deeds during this month of Ramadan. Oh
Allah accept them in the fullest of manners even though we have
weakness in our deeds and defects. Oh Allah, we're weak human beings,
but we are servants of Allah. We're professing to be your
servants. Though many times we don't act like your servants of
Allah. We know that you're the one who has given us everything that
we use to even disobey you with all the resources that we have
that we spend to disobey you Oh ALLAH you've given us that. Our
Allah we ask that you. We ask you forgiveness from all of those sins
that have prevented your goodness from coming to us from the baraka
being in our lives of Allah we ask you forgiveness from all of those
sins that brings the misery into our lives and the difficulties
despite all of the great things that we have around us. Oh Allah,
we ask that you shower us with Your Mercy of Allah when you come
into the masjid we ask for your dose of Your mercy to be opened
up. Our Allah the mercy we receive in the masjid, we ask you to
preserve it so that when we go home, we take some of that mercy
and we benefit our household with it as well. Oh Allah, sometimes we
go outside onto the streets and we we waste this mercy that we just
acquired in the masjid by looking at the Haram by listening to the
Haram Our Allah we ask that you make your obedience, beloved in
our hearts so that we want to do it and we enjoy doing it. Oh Allah
we ask that you make your disobedience hated in our heart
and ugly in our hearts. So we stay away from it and we want to stay
away from it. Oh Allah, it's a lifelong struggle for us. But for
you it's just the decree. Oh Allah What wrong have we done that
you're not making us of your earlier? Oh Allah make us of those
who will be fortunate in the hereafter don't make us the
deprived ones. Oh Allah your messenger SallAllahu Sallam has
mentioned that every night of this Ramadan. There will be people who
you will record as being freed from hellfire. Oh Allah, we ask
that you also put our names among them. Oh Allah, we ask that You
grant us from the rivers of Your mercy that are constantly flowing.
Even a drop is enough for us. Oh Allah, even a drop is enough for
us. Oh Allah we've seen in this world manifestations of your
mercy. Your Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam has mentioned
that you've only caused 1% of your message, your mercy to be
distributed among all the inhabitants of the world. And
we've seen by it how mothers are so merciful, how the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was so merciful. And so the Allahu Anhu
served him for 10 years and he says that never once did the
prophets of Allah, tell him off. If that was the Mercy expressed by
your messenger who you gave your mercy to. Then imagine the 99% of
mercy that you've kept back for yourself, Oh Allah use of at least
and and forgave his brothers after all of the aggression that they
did against him. Likewise, Mohamed Salah lorrison forgave everybody
during the conquest of Makkah, despite all the problems that they
had given him before that, if that's the Mercy manifested by a
creation of yours,
then what is your mercy going to be like? Oh Allah, we're so much
in need of your mercy. We're worse than that child who is so soiled
and so dirty and smelly, that nobody wants to pick that child
up. But then the mother with all of her mercy comes and picks that
child up and washes that child and makes him smell nice again, and
draws him close to her chest. Oh Allah, we're in a similar state
were so dirty with our sins. Our hearts are corrupt. And they
filled with many, many years of bad deeds and evil deeds. But
yeah, Allah was sitting in your Masjid today. We're sitting in
this masjid. And we're reading the Quran and we're discussing your
deen of Allah, pick us up and purify us and make us close to you
because there's nobody else if anybody was to know about our
interstate, and it was to become manifest and clear and evident.
Nobody would want to look at us. But Allah we know that you still
talk about the sinners as being your servants. You say you're a
bad deal Latina serve to Allah and foresee him. You say oh my
servants who have transgressed against themselves, even mothers,
when they get tired of their children. They say to the Father,
your child did this. They stopped saying that this is my
My child. But yeah Allah, even though we are transgressors, you
still call us Your servants. We still call call you, our Lord,
even the worst of us, even the worst of us that day he does pray,
whether that be on a day or otherwise will still bow down in
front of you and no one else. We have no other load to ask. This is
this blessed month of Ramadan when you've opened the doors of your
agenda. Oh Allah, put us into the right direction so that we can go
into gender to have your dose of Allah save us from hellfire, save
us from hellfire. Grant us your pleasure, Grant us your pleasure,
safeguard us and our children now probably need to come until the
day of judgment from all forms of evil that are out there. Our law
remove any problems that we have, safeguard us from submerging debt
and allow us to fulfill whatever debts that we have, Oh Allah, Oh
Allah, grant us well being an ease in this world and grant us well
being in the hereafter. Now we ask you one final thing that you send
your abundant blessings on Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, and you grant us this company on in the hereafter. Oh
Allah, make the best of our days of our existence the day that we
stand in front of you Subhan Allah be carbonized that your mIRC food
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