Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – The Best State for a Believer before Death
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For several weeks, we've been saying that we're going to be
discussing the end of life, how a person his state, his or her state
at the end of life should be when they feel that it may be their
last few hours or last few days, the general state and dominant
state and also what others can do to assist them and help them
because generally, this is a time when people lose their senses.
Sometimes they don't know what to do, because it's not something
that we encounter every day. First and foremost, whenever a person is
in sickness in general, and especially if they feel that their
sickness is going to eventually lead lead to death, then the
entire focus needs to be on abundance, seeking abundantly
seeking forgiveness. Because the lighter we leave this world with
the less with decreased burden or no burden of sin, the better we
will be in the hereafter. Essentially, it's all about
traveling light. You don't We don't want to be bogged down and
burdened by the sin and thus have to answer for too many things. So
the main thing is that a person must as much as possible to
abundant ask for abundant forgiveness because Allah subhanaw
taala is forgiving. And this is a state that reminds us of this, a
person should be engaged in a lot of remembrance of Allah subhanho
wa Taala by reciting La ilaha illa, Allah and other dwellers
also repentance for seeking forgiveness and repentance,
realizing that now I am physically going back to Allah anyway. And
thus, I want to really, really, really feel remorse and make my
self genuinely feel remorse over the sins that may have committed
the life, the non optimal life that I may have led in this world
and so on and so forth. The reason for this is that any sickness
could lead to death and especially those sicknesses that appear to be
leading to death. And if the life ends on such good deeds of
remembrance of Allah subhanaw taala then for India, Mala Mala
will have a theme as the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
the Prophet sallallahu sallam said that actions are according to the
end states, if your end state is good, then in sha Allah that gives
a very good science and symbolically it is very, very
favorable. Of course, a person should make a will. And in this
country, especially in London, people should definitely make
wills. Firstly, just to fulfill the Command of Allah subhanho wa
Taala and encouragement in the Sharia to do so number two,
because especially in London, another intention should be to
avoid the possibility of great problems leaving leaving problems
for your inheritors. There's massive tax implications. If a
person doesn't leave a will, huge amounts of your estate will be
taken away. And this obviously, it's it's gonna leave a very bad
taste in the inheritors and also to try to mitigate any problems
that may that could be foreseen with regards to the inheritance.
There's unfortunately, so many situations where people die with
lots of money. And all they leave behind really after they've gone
is massive dispute where brothers and sisters stopped talking to
each other. In fact, they stopped talking to their mother, if the
mother is left or the father if the father is left. So these are
things that a person should try to get in place beforehand. He should
give final instructions about his debts if he has some tell his
children and other people that look if I am today, then please
even if I don't have any money, please do try to pay off on my
behalf. Of course, if you have the money, you should actively try to
pay off straightaway because you don't want to die with debt on
your head especially if you have the ability to pay it off. Because
that is clear oppression of the person you owe. And if you don't
have the money, you don't have the means then you try to you try to
encourage somebody your children especially for somebody else to be
able to pay for this.
Let the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said the that Leia
Mouton Camilla who you've seen one Billahi to Allah, the dominant
state of a person at that time should be that he should feel he
should feel exceedingly he should think exceedingly well of Allah
subhanaw taala
Allah, he should just feel very good about Allah subhanaw taala in
the sense of His mercy and His compassion, the focus should be on
that shaytaan will try to bring various other ideas and sentiments
in the mind but a person just think well of ALLAH SubhanA wa
Tada. That's why the Prophet sallallahu sallam said that none
of you should die, except that he thinks exceedingly well about
Allah subhanho wa taala. If you do, and you look forward and you
look forward to this, then Allah subhanho wa Taala will be greatly
merciful because Allah loves to meet those that want to meet him.
Allah subhanaw taala is extremely independent. And that's why the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam also said, relating from
Allah Anna in the one near appdb, I am with my servant as he thinks
of me, I am with my servant as he thinks of me, this is what Allah
subhanaw taala is saying. So let that be the dominant state of the
heart, hope, hope hope should be predominant in the hearts not
fear, at this time, as long as we're doing our Toba and so far
and so on so forth, not that we're still indulging in the dunya. And
then we have hope that's the wrong kind of hope. However, the hope
here is hope for the forgiveness of sins for receiving mercy and
compassion from Allah subhanaw taala that should be the
predominant state. So a person should die thinking well of
Allah's generosity, His mercy and
yearning to meet him.
That's why the Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu sallam said,
man I have Lika Allah He habila Holika who anybody who loves who
has this love to meet Allah subhanaw taala Anna longing, Allah
will also love to meet him. And anybody who tell you Holika Allah,
whoever
does not want whoever has this dislike Oh, what am I going to do?
I don't want to meet Allah subhanaw taala because we've never
known ally in our life, then carry Hala Khalifa who then Allah
subhanho wa Taala dislikes to meet him. A believer at his death a
believer at his death receives glad tidings. A decent believer a
good believer will receive some kind of glad tidings accident at
their death so that it helps them to look forward unlike them on
African the hypocrites.
That's why for the believer
because Allah subhanaw taala gives him some glad tidings. The Spirit
just wants to leave their soul just wants to leap out of their
body. Because Allah gives them that gluttony makes it easy. There
may be physical pangs of death, but the spiritual state, the
person is just well in tune. That's why Allah says in the
Quran, la homophone Allah himolla homea has no these people have no
fear, and they will not be sad and they will not grieve. Allah says,
in Surah Nahal Alladhina totowa Humann Mala Iike those who the
angels take their life by year Bina in an excellent state law
occur in an excellent state Allah takes that the angels take their
life yaku Luna, they will be saying Salam Alikum meaning the
inhabitants of the heavens will be saying to them the angels will be
saying to them, Salam Alikum Peace be upon you, peace be upon you.
Peace be upon you, or the whole Jannetty Mima quantum terminal.
Now you enter Jana, because of what used to do in this world,
because of what you used to do in the world. Now you enter Jana,
what a wonderful message. What a wonderful welcome. When you go to
a hotel and other places or you go to you are a guest at somebody's
house, from the initial the initial
image that you get the you know, the initial welcome, it matters so
much. When you go to somebody's house and they welcome you and you
feel good, then the entire you know the entire state they would
become better. And that's why good hotels invest hugely in the in the
people they put up the front to welcome the people, the door
people and so on to just give make it such a
wonderful experience right from the beginning. All of that
matters. Humans are very, very social, and they are impacted by
everything around them and Allah subhanaw taala has thus prepared
the best form of hospitality and the best form of welcome what can
be better than this. That's why Allah subhanaw taala also says in
the Quran in the Lilina call Rob guna Allah, they're very those
people who say that our Lord is Allah.
So Mr. Como and then they remain steadfast as much as they can.
That's another reason why they human Mala Iike the angels will
descend upon them and say to them, Allah Taha for wala Tassie know,
that you don't need to fear and you don't need to grieve what up
Shirou and accept the glad tidings listen to the glad tidings of Gen.
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kind of message and welcome that they will get. This is this is
just a wonderful state for the believer, the people who are ill,
they should try to protect themselves physically at this time
from as many impurities as possible. Because you know, in
that state, sometimes you may have a stronger bag you may have you
may not be able to use the relieve yourself properly, just try to
stay as pure as possible and not in a state and others.
should try to help them and to keep them clean and so on. Be
careful at this time of missing prayers. You don't want to go from
this world and your last prayers have been missed when you could
have performed them. And subhanAllah in our, in our Sharia
in Islam, we can pray as long as you can move your head. So if you
can't stand up and pray then you sit and pray if you can't sit and
pray then you lie down and pray. Literally we're just movements of
the head like this movement slight movement for Rocco and a greater
movement for Sajida right until you can do that you need to pray
get somebody to help you do will do if you can't do will do from
somebody else than just make them and there are you don't want to
die otherwise Subhanallah in because in the masala to Aima the
deen the salah is the main pillar of faith we want to go from this
world showing that we have the greatest qualification.
We've got the card we've got the fulfillment of the condition. And
of course we remarked which we should try to remind our disease
like this. Unfortunately, some of some of our, our ill people, some
of our ill people they have, they've lost any kind of capacity
to think for themselves. So one mustn't persist and push them too
much that you must pray if they don't even understand what prayer
is anymore. We do have some people who completely lost their mind.
They don't think just sometimes they're in consciousness.
Sometimes they can recognize you, while other times they can't. So a
person should take it easy with with such people. But otherwise we
should try to encourage and facilitate for our disease like
this a person at this time he should try to read as much of
certainly class as possible cool who Allahu Allahu Samad. Let me
read one amulet William Nicola who Khufu went ahead, which is a
declaration of Oneness of Allah Tauheed exoneration from shake.
It's a class, it's about really refining our understanding of our
faith. Other doors like La Ilaha, Illa and Subhanak in the consuming
of body mean, La ilaha illallah wa Allahu Akbar La ilaha illallah wa
who la sharika lah holy milk hula hula hunt
when Hola Hola. Hola, hola, hola, hola, Quwata illa biLlah
everything to do with the Oneness of Allah subhanho wa taala. All of
these gods they need to be tend to mount in our mind. The family
should watch the one who is approaching death, they should
reassure him. You see the people who are surrounding it, the best
person is the one who has righteous people around him when
they are going to die.
That man or woman who has good people around them that know how
to deal in this state and that know what to preempt and that know
what to say and encourage. That is from Allah subhanaw taala May
Allah grant us such people around us, not people who will be
Subhanallah just just waiting for us today. When is he going to do
when is it going to finish? He has been sick for three months. This
is upset my entire schedule Allahu Akbar, can you imagine? Right? We
don't want children like that. Subhanallah who wants children
like that? Who we've worked hard to give everything to and then
they become so selfish, because we didn't teach them anything else.
And then on the last moments, they don't even want to come to see us.
That's punishment in this world. That's seriously I see that as
punishment in this world that your own children cannot help you. In
your illness. May Allah subhanho wa Taala protect us from that. The
family should be really supportive. They should be
watching the person approaching death, reassure them of the Mercy
of Allah forgiveness. Pardon. That should be the dominant theme.
Don't hola hola. Don't worry, ALLAH is forgiving, ALLAH is
forgiving. That's what you have to remind people of our predecessors
used to encourage this. And they used to seek it for themselves.
keep encouraging them to say La Ilaha illa Allah so that that be
their last word. Once they've said it once, then stop, then you just
read your own. Because that should be the last word they say. Once
they've said he wants don't make them keep saying it again. Yes, if
they then speak about something else, then make them try to
encourage them to say it again afterwards. If the who the person
whose last words Allah ilaha illallah they go to Jana.
A person people who are sitting around, they should read their own
Quran. They should just calmly and softly read Quran to invoke the
baraka every time the Quran is recited the law of Allah subhanaw
taala descends, the angels come and surround that gathering. This
is mentioned in the Hadith, that when people discuss the Quran,
this is what happens. The Quran Subhan Allah is, is one of the
most powerful tools that we have, unfortunately, which we don't use
as much as we should do. So recite Yacine you are seen as a very
powerful surah. So those people who are sitting around getting
your scene and start reading your scene,
and remember that the molecule mode the Angel of Death is
compassionate with believers. This is a time when shaitan will come
and try to create all sorts of issues. I can personally
personally experience with a certain old
personally in our area, when we went to see him, he started, he
was a person who had probably read all of his five daily prayers, as
far as I can remember.
Probably for the for the age that I am, he's probably been praying
every single Salaat in the masjid. This is as far back as I can
remember. And the amount of donation that he has given.
Right? He was not an ironing or anything like this recent teach
kids in the mother says, Well, I remember. But as far as back as I
can remember, he used he's been praying five times a lot in the
masjid. And he died at a good old age over 70 something. But I
remember he is getting these weird thoughts. He's getting these
strange thoughts. So then we have to remind them that no, remember,
you've done all of this other code, don't worry about it.
Because shaytaan wants you to think bad about Allah. He wants
you to become depressed at this stage. So we must always remind
them of their good deeds, we should have done good deeds,
people can remind us of those good deeds, because this is the time
when the hope should be dominant. So may Allah subhanaw taala give
us a Tofik there's a lot more to this, but inshallah we'll cover
that some other week. For this time. This much in sha Allah is
enough to for us to build upon and to think about and to reflect on
May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us and our loved ones, a good
ceiling state at death, a good ceiling state, a state in which
they think about Allah subhanho wa Taala and want to meet him and
Allah wants to meet us and may Allah subhanaw taala accept from
us through that one on hamdulillah European enemy