Abu Taymiyyah – 7 Reasons For Punishment In The Grave Powerful Lecture aadh
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My dear respective brothers and sisters, Assalamu Alaikum
Waikum Waikum
Waikato.
1st and foremost, I would just like to
take a moment out
to thank the administration of the Masjid,
who sorted out this program,
hoping
to seek the face of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. And I ask
Allah just
as we gathered today,
in the
house of Allah
to reunite us, if not in this dunya,
but in the hereafter.
Ameen You Rabb.
What I really want to touch on today,
my beloved brothers and sisters,
is mainly
some of the causes of punishment in the
grave.
Without a shadow of a doubt,
the abode
of the grave
is that which is inevitable.
Every single individual who's sitting here today,
sooner
or later,
he will be leaving and departing from this
world,
entering into a hole
that is 6 feet into the ground.
Whether you think you are
too young
to depart from this world,
or whether you may think that you still
have another 10 years,
because you came across the hadith of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam when he said,
The average lifespan
of my Ummah
is between
6070.
And then the messenger of Salallahu Alaihi Wasallam
said, Waqaleelun,
mayi tajawu zudalik.
And only a few
go past the age.
The Messenger salallahu alayhi wa sallam having said
that,
doesn't necessarily mean that you are guaranteed
to reach the age of 60
or the age of 70.
We have lost a lot of youngsters,
my beloved brothers and sisters.
I myself,
in the space of a year and a
half,
I lost
3
young relatives.
One of them was my younger brother,
stabbed in the neck.
Soon after that,
a cousin of mine,
died in a car crash,
on one of the busiest roads in Birmingham,
at the age of
24,
same as my younger brother.
And then a couple of months after that,
a younger cousin of mine,
at the age of 18,
stabbed in the chest on one of the
most busiest roads
in Birmingham,
known as Coventry Road, which I think most
of us have at least once upon a
time
visited.
I buried 2 of them.
The third,
I was told when I was in Mecca,
that this had just happened.
It shook me to the core brothers
and sisters.
Tender age of
24,
I believe the other was 23,
and then the age of 18.
All of them,
they were extremely extremely young.
There's a reason why the messenger sallallahu alaihi
was telling me said,
I initially
prohibited you from visiting the graves.
However, I say to you now, go and
visit it.
And if you look closely at this hadith,
it didn't mention
only the old,
or only those who have reached the age
of 30 or the age of 40.
Messenger
is speaking to his
Ummah,
Whether you're young, whether you're old, whether there's
gray hairs that are appearing on your face.
And even the woman,
there's a strong argument
that even the women should be visiting the
graves providing.
That certain conditions are met.
The majority of the scholars,
from the Shafi'iha,
the Malikiya,
the Hanafiya.
And this is one of the positions in
the madhab of Al Imam Muhammad Rahmatullahi.
They all take the view that even a
woman should go.
And this is one of the evidences, and
there's so many other evidences as well.
Messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam spoke to his
ummah, and he mentioned a reasoning behind it.
He said,
It reminds you of the hereafter.
Also in another narration,
narrated by Ibn Majah, Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
said,
It causes you to overlook the pleasures of
the dunya.
When you are standing on top of that
grave,
looking down into the ground,
knowing that this
is your abode,
And as sooner or later,
you'll be entering into this hole.
Wallahi my brothers and my sisters, we're not
going to be thinking about,
which color sofa we want to be
buying for our new house in the future.
Not that I'm saying that there's anything wrong
with
buying a house,
as long as it goes done in the
correct way.
Or which car we want to buy 5
years down the line. Which Mercedes, or which
BMW,
or which this and which that.
This is not something that is going to
be occupying our minds at the time.
You're standing over that grave,
and you know, that you are not guaranteed
tomorrow.
How many people, my brothers and my sisters,
they kept on saying, I'm going to repent,
I'm going to repent.
I shall and I will. He went to
sleep, he never woke up.
Young and
old.
Be someone
who continuously
thinks about death.
That which is going to destroy all of
your pleasures,
destroys all of your pleasures.
And without a shadow of a doubt, some
of us
have become so attached to the dunya,
we are no different, drunken man who has
become intoxicated.
And the dunya is at times compared to
intoxication.
You may not have
consumed any drugs,
however, because you've gone so deep into Redunya,
it has left you shaken,
intoxicated,
with the glitters and the clamors of this
world.
The Kufar normally, they don't wanna hear anything
about death.
Sometimes at the Dawah table on Sunday,
want to stimulate their minds, right? Begin to
talk to them about the purpose of life.
Take a look at their face.
The moment you speak about death,
it really shakes them and makes them think.
This
is a sad reality,
right?
I believe it was last year,
some of the brothers from Portsmouth,
they asked me to come down and give
a 5 minute reminder.
Line was a long trip.
3 hours for a 5 minute reminder.
Normally when I look at the distance
and the productivity of that,
cause me to hesitate for 5 minutes but
then they told me, a lot of them
are non practicing.
And there are also going to be non
muslims
partaking in the football competition, was a football
tournament.
And I was asking myself, what am I
going to speak to him about?
And it was around the time when
Euro 2,020,
I believe it was, right?
Euro 2,020.
And it was just after
Christian Eriksen nearly passed out on the pitch.
Guys remember that incident?
Christian Eriksen, right?
The slick midfielder,
he passed out,
and I try to make them understand, his
life is just a game.
I don't think I've ever seen Kufar show
shocked like that when I looked at their
faces.
It's something that they don't talk to themselves
about,
but it's the reality that you can't run
away from.
Me and your
are both going to be admitted into that
grave.
And is life just a game?
Throughout our days, which is what? Play around,
right?
It might be
football, it might be basketball,
it might be movies that we watch, it
might be football games that we continuously keep
watching.
And by the way, I'm not saying again,
that playing football is haram,
or that playing basketball is haram.
However, when it becomes,
your daily routine
to be heedless of Allah Azawajal,
for many parts of your day or for
large parts of your day should I say,
right?
What is the likelihood that you will
die
like
that?
I've been speaking a lot in the last
couple of weeks,
about the Usnur Hatima,
the good ending.
Right?
We had
2 huge reminders in Lester.
I know I'm going
a little bit off here from the topic,
but I think it's worth mentioning.
2 huge reminders in Lesson,
that shook the community.
The first,
was a Mawlana.
As long as I knew him, he was
always teaching the Quran,
and leading salawat.
At my local Masjid, that is just a
couple of steps away from where I live
in Islam.
How did he die straight after the Aisha
prayer?
When we hear these kind of incidents brothers
and sisters,
or we come across some of these videos
on WhatsApp or social media, where a guy
is holding a Quran, or the CCTV managed
to catch someone at maybe
2 PM, while everyone was at work. The
Masjid was empty.
They caught him praying, and that's how he
passed away.
That was his last moment.
And then we hear about the Maulana.
Right? Who's always been in the masjid, as
long as I knew him. Right? Always in
the masjid.
Straight after the ancient prayer, he passed away.
Wasn't surprising to me, brothers and sisters, it
really wasn't.
Knowing that of him, it really wasn't.
And then, I think a week after that,
a Syrian brother
passed away in the Fajr prayer.
You do a little bit of digging up,
My brothers and my sisters,
again,
salaam was his life. He used to lead
the salawat.
Always in the masjid.
The principle is, as Ibn Khazeem mentioned, woman
aqsaalomim shayi madta'alai.
Whoever is excessive
in doing something is very likely going to
die like that, right?
Whether that thing is halal or not.
Even if it is permissible, right? If, and
this is just common sense and logic, the
more you do something, what is the likelihood
that you will die like that?
Very likely. If I'm always on my phone,
the majority of my time I'm on my
phone. And again, I'm not saying that using
your phone is haram.
What is the likelihood that you will die
on your phone? Very likely. Right? Because that's
how you spend your time.
Ibn Al Qayyim
he gives us some examples
of a bad ending. One of the endings
that he mentions is,
how there were some people who used to
play Shatanj. You guys know chess?
And one of them was on his deathbed.
If I ask everyone here to utter the
shahada,
no one will have any difficulty. It is
kalalik, isn't it so? No one will have
any difficulty.
However, it's not as straightforward when you're on
your deathbed brothers and sisters.
Right?
The tarteen which means to get someone to
say the La ilaha illallah, and to hope
that that's the last thing that he says.
So one of them is on his death
bed,
they try to get him to say La
ileh ileh ileh ileh ileh ileh ileh ileh
ileh ileh ileh ileh ileh ileh ileh ileh
ileh ileh ileh ileh ileh ileh ileh ileh
ileh ileh, ileh ileh, ileh ileh ileh.
It's a chess move.
It's like saying, checkmate.
Another man that, you know, they mentions,
is how an individual
was always
busy with his business,
making money. And again, having a business,
there's nothing wrong with that.
However, if it reaches a point where,
this is now what you worship, you wake
up to it and you go to sleep
to it.
That's what
your mind is glued to.
What is the likelihood that you will die
like that? So on his deathbed,
they tried to get him to say, La
ilaha illallah. What do you think he said?
This is very cheap merchandise.
This
man is a good customer. And that was
his last statement.
You guys heard of Adam Shiro?
Adam Shiro?
Why you guys acting like you don't know
him?
Much of the day presenter.
Yes, he's still alive.
One time my al Sheik is saying,
that there was this
boy that he knew,
he wakes up to Alin Sheera, goes to
sleep to Alen Shearer.
His duvet has a picture of Alen Shearer,
his wallpaper has a picture of Alen Shearer.
Alen Shearer Alen Shearer.
And of course, Alon Shearer is extinct now.
Right? He's become a dinosaur.
He doesn't play anymore.
We have other footballers. Right? That we've become
crazy of.
It's almost become like a religion to some,
football.
I don't think anybody here would disagree with
me. I'm not saying everyone here, has taken
that as a religion.
I have to keep mentioning these disclaimers, I
don't know you guys.
I might find
someone pulling me up outside and
dragging me, you know.
Alakulihan,
tried to get him to say, la ilaha
illallah.
What do you think he said brothers, sisters?
I think you guys are getting sketched now.
Alan Shearer, Alan Shearer. And the examples are
many. I spoke about it extensively
in the lecture that I gave at Greenlee
Masjid,
on the one who
killed a 100. It's on my YouTube channel.
So many different examples of how
people died.
Going back to our discussion brothers and sisters,
the Qabr, the grave.
Bismal Ibn Affirmatiallahu
Wa Ta'ala Anhu,
whenever the grave was mentioned,
he would cry so much, that his beard
would be soaked with tears.
His beard would be soaked with tears brothers.
And they would say to him, the jannah
and the nah is mentioned but you don't
cry.
But whenever the grave is mentioned,
you burst into tears.
He said,
The grave is the first stages of the
hereafter.
And if that goes easy,
then everything else that
follows
will
go
easy as
And if that doesn't go to plan, doesn't
go easy for him, everything else that follows
after that, will be horrible.
And then he said, I heard the messenger
of salallahu alaihi wa sallam say,
I never saw anything that looked more horrible
than the grave.
This is the messenger salallahu alaihi was saying
that.
He once said,
We used to doubt whether the
trial of the grave was something that was
going to happen.
Was it real? Was it not? We used
to doubt.
Until,
this chapter came down.
What was this chapter?
That which has distracted you, is just wanting
more and more and more.
Let's be honest with ourselves brothers and sisters.
Right?
When you think about
your life and you reflect on it,
what is it that I'm living for? Right?
What I what is it that I wake
up to?
Am I just constantly worried about
the numbers that are moving in my bank
account?
And it doesn't necessarily have to just be
money orientated. Today you have what?
Followers on social media.
That which has distracted you is one thing
more, Allah is saying
Today you have 10,000, tomorrow you have 20.
The day after day you have 30, and
then 40, and then 50, and then what?
You'll die.
What are you actually feeding the people? It's
the next question.
Right?
The
grave.
Have you visited the grave?
You will come to know, indeed you will
come to know.
Right?
And what is this speaking about that what
that which you're going to come to know
about? The grave,
and the trials of the grave, the punishment
of the grave.
One of the hadith, my brothers and my
sister at times,
really does shake me.
It's the hadith of
When the messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
Do you know
what this life of dunk is?
Because there's a verse in the Quran, my
beloved brothers and sisters.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
Whoever turns away from my remembrance,
then this person will have a life of
a dank.
The scholars, they gave different interpretations to what
dunk means.
In this hadith,
the Messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
when he asked this question,
Qa'lu they said, Allahu Arasoolu 'alaam.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is Messenger. They know
best. This is the response of the companions.
Messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
The 2cha
of the Kafir in the grave.
Then the messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam swears by
Allah, by the one whom my soul is
in His hand.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Right?
We'll send towards him
99
So then he asked,
Do you know what this tanina
is?
99
snakes will be sent
And every
single one of these snakes will have 9
heads.
And they will what? Bite him,
poison him.
They will rip into him all the way
up until Yom
And then after,
he's resurrected,
he will walk
to where the people will be resurrected and
he's blind.
And this is also what is mentioned in
the Quran.
And we will bring you
blind,
as Allah
says.
And then he will say,
Why did you bring me and I'm blind?
And I was able to see.
Our verses came to you.
You O Muhammad,
and you O Abu Bakr,
Usman,
Sultan,
Zaynab Khadija,
you knew what was right and what was
wrong.
Our verses came to you. The proofs and
the evidences were manifest.
However,
you decided to choose another path.
You left Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and His
Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam on standby.
Allah Azza wa Jal was saying to you,
all you who believe, and we should take
that personally when
we find these verses.
As Abdullah ibn Mas'ud mentioned,
when you find
Make sure you render your ya'. We take
that personally. Why? Because we are people of
faith. Right?
Aren't we people of faith, brothers and sisters?
All of these verses came to you, you
decided to what?
Turn away.
The other explanation of
the ulama they give,
when it comes to this Maisha Banq,
and this is what you hear a lot.
There were people
who went astray,
misguided.
They turned away from the truth when it
was brought to them.
They were blessed with the dunya.
They had it nice,
However, they were arrogant.
They were given a depressed life.
And that is because,
they thought that nothing
will follow after this life.
And that is because of the bad thoughts
of Allah
What was their reward? What were the consequences
of that?
They were given a depressed life.
I'm sure most of you guys have heard
of these very famous YouTubers, right? I've been
using them as examples.
Guys heard of Logan Paul?
Logan Paul? Yep. You heard of him. Right?
KSI?
Yep.
Justin Bieber? Yep.
The Beatles.
Yes. I think some of the owners. I
don't think you've ever you don't know it.
Stop talking nonsense.
Okay. Who are the Beatles?
Who are the Beatles?
For those who are old, they know this
very well known
male music band. Right?
You're almost correct.
You took a guess.
I remember I sent this video to my
little brother,
sitting in the corner.
I sent him this video,
cause there was this YouTuber who compiled these
small little clips,
of all of them saying that which is
what, almost
identical to one another.
What was it?
Depressed.
Feel sad.
Some of them are antidepressants,
also, food substitute. Right?
Across the board brothers, many of these personalities,
whether they are singers,
musicians,
stars,
They have a face in front of the
camera, but then they cry themselves to sleep.
They live a life of depression.
This is the reality brothers and sisters.
You may think to yourself,
I want to be like that guy because
he has x y and z. They have
all the money, all the fame you can
think of. Even he's probably now become born
of collecting money, because of how much he
has.
But then what? What was his Ma'aan? The
man's depressed.
He's sad.
He's not at ease.
Ma'aseh Abdul Dankar.
Also when you think about this, right? And
I'll quickly mention this.
Have you guys ever thought about why
the sports industry is a $1,000,000,000 industry?
Did anyone ever think of it? Or think
about it?
Sports industry is a $1,000,000,000 industry. Right? Hey,
what about the music industry?
The entertainment industry?
Right?
They are all $1,000,000,000 industries.
The drug industry, $1,000,000,000 industry.
Did you know that they
call cocaine Britain's open secret?
Tarifun Adar?
Even adult content, is what?
A $1,000,000,000
industry. The games industry.
$1,000,000,000
industry.
When you look at alcohol, it's a $1,000,000,000
industry.
Why is that, brothers and sisters?
They dream to forget, we do, they care
to remember.
All of these industries, right? They are there
to distract your mind, and they feed off
the sadness of the people.
They feed off the sadness of the people.
If you take all of these things out
of the equation, how do you think they're
going to feel brothers and sisters?
Look how depressed some of them felt when
England was losing in the Euros.
They say domestic violence went up.
They agitated throughout the week. They're waiting for
the Champions League game. That's why when you
think about it now, throughout the whole week.
They're trying to fill every single day with
a football game.
Agreed?
And then some of these footballers are coming
out saying, we're being what?
Violate.
They're trying to make money out of you.
It's for entertainment purposes.
Who do you think, by the way brothers
and sisters, is consuming these drugs?
You think it's the local junkie that you
see rolling around at the bus stop at
treasure time only?
Politicians, professionals,
people with a lot of money,
they need to distract their mind, they need
to relieve themselves. Even though they have all
of that money, they, my brothers and my
sisters, they are not at ease.
But then you find a salah,
right? Or someone with knowledge who has had
so much what is why?
The man's at peace.
Today brothers and sisters, how long do we
have?
Mine.
Yeah. But the attention span. Today's day and
age is what? 15 minutes.
We can't go on for too long.
If we get time, InshaAllah Ta'ala, I want
to cover
6
causes of punishment in the grief.
Six causes.
The first one is,
The first one my brothers and my sisters
is,
not cleaning yourself properly
after you relieve yourself.
And the second
is a namima,
and both of them are mentioned in the
same hadith. What is a namima?
To carry tales.
Messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he told us in
hadith.
After walking past 2 graves,
Abdulai ibn Abbas narrating it. He said,
They are being tortured in the grave, brothers
and sisters.
And that which they are being tortured for,
could have easily been avoided.
And this is something very major in the
eyes of Allah This
is why,
not cleaning yourself properly,
after relieving yourself,
is counted from amongst the major sins,
by authors who have compiled
Al Kabair.
Masayn Salahi Alaihi Wasallam then said,
As for the first of them, he never
used the water to clean himself properly.
And as for the other,
he used to
carry tails.
When we talk about not cleaning yourself properly,
my brothers and my sisters,
right? And excuse me for mentioning this, right?
It's a reality we have to speak about.
What's now happened is,
because of what we have
seen the Kufar doing, we've adopted
and embraced some of their ways. Do you
guys agree with that?
Whenever I teach Buruq Al Maram, the chapter
of Istinja and Istinjaar.
Cleaning yourself with water and cleaning yourself with
stones. There are chapters. One of the things
that I tend to emphasize on is,
how the religion of Islam is a hygienic
religion.
Do you guys agree with that?
Even when the Covid happened, I remember memes
were going around, Sahib,
of non muslims
venerating and glorifying a toilet paper.
I remember subhanAllah, someone sent me
someone recording a safe. There's
nowhere a safe is? You normally what? Put
your jewelry, right? And your money in there.
So it records it records you think, you
know, some money is gonna pop out of
this place. And then what do you see?
A toilet roll.
Only now you guys started using a toilet
roll,
and they began to say how al Islam
is a hygienic religion, and because you make
wudu 5 times a day, you're less likely
to be affected by the corona.
Don't know whether the doctor said that or
some random guy,
has absolutely no knowledge of the situation.
But a point in the matter is,
right? It's a hygienic religion.
The way you clean yourself.
Right?
A Jew one time tried to mock the
deen of Allah Azzawajal.
Trying to say, right?
You've been taught everything. Right?
Indeed your Prophet, oh Salman al Farisi,
has taught you everything.
Right?
Even that which relates to feces.
Salman and Farisih, instead of getting angry, when
they say, Ajal?
Yes.
We were told not to
defecate while facing the
the Qibla,
the Kaaba and Quds.
Right?
And to use
our left hand, and not to use the
right,
and not to use anything less than 3
stars.
Taught him.
It's one of those hadith that we take
honor out of. Why? Because our religion is
complete.
Right? You
walk into
the lavatories at work. What do you normally
find brothers and sisters?
Urinating while standing upright?
Look how filthy that is.
The man doesn't clean himself,
and he walks home, and then
with his family and whatever have you.
Is that claim my brothers and my sisters?
Right?
I don't know why we're sometimes in a
rush
after relieving ourselves.
Take it easy, clean yourself properly,
right? And then walk out.
So that's the first one.
We're also told another hadith.
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
We are told that it was instructed that
a servant from the servants of Allah azzawajal
is to be lashed a 100 times in
the grave.
And he kept on asking and asking why
am I being
Punished in this way?
All the way up until it became what?
One lash.
And this one lash would cause his grave
to be filled with fire.
And then now when he gained consciousness again,
he asked, why was I wicked? Why was
I lashed?
You prayed one prayer
without
the correct purification.
It could be that,
he was an Aslan, even cleaning himself properly.
Purposefully he was doing that. Or it could
be someone who is not what?
Cleaning himself properly.
Right?
Or one who decided not to make Wudu.
All of these different scenarios would fall under
that.
This is why, I normally tell the sisters,
because I hold courses from time to time
on the Fiqh of menstruation.
It's important that you learn.
I remember at the end of the course,
this is after 400 people joined.
Right?
Even I was shocked at how many people
joined in such a short space of time.
And yes, a 100 of them were men.
Because they have wives and daughters, and they
need
to learn as well about these very very
important issues.
Right?
So many sisters messaging saying, for how many
years
have I been praying
not knowing that I shouldn't?
And at times I would think that I
done the purification properly,
but
I realized I wasn't.
May Allah Azzawajal give us all understanding of
the religion.
The next one, my beloved brothers and sisters,
is Al Namima.
Carrying tails.
Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he said in a
hadith, Layat Khul Jannata Adat.
A Adat does not enter into a Jannah.
So you have a Namam, which comes from
the word ninema, which I'm sure many of
us are acquainted with,
which means the carry tales. Right? And then
you also have Atat.
Here the messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam is
saying that the Atat does not enter into
Aljannah.
And we've already taken the hadith of the
ninema. What is the difference? They both sound
similar to one another.
Does anybody know?
Does not enter into the religion.
Into
they didn't intentionally
like to fear of him, but
He's still a Muslim.
A Katat does not enter into
Al Jannah.
What's the kataat?
The difference between the Nimam and also the
kataat, my beloved brothers and sisters is,
the katat,
he hears
a conversation taking place,
even though he's not from amongst them.
He's eavesdropping.
You guys know what that means?
Eavesdropping.
It may well be that he's cleaning the
Masjid and there are people sitting in the
corner.
They don't want to be sharing their conversation
with him.
So what happens? Eaves drops. Oh, they're speaking
about so and so. Of course. Yes. They
shouldn't be speaking about anybody
in a negative light. What does he do?
He takes his information and goes to the
person they're speaking about, and says, guess what?
As I was hoovering the Masjid,
right?
I overheard them saying x y z about
you.
As for the namam,
the one who carries tales, namima. It
may well be that we are all sitting
together,
we are having a conversation,
and then someone's mentioned that we shouldn't be
speaking about.
What do I do? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Take
the information and you go to the person
who's being spoken about and you tell him,
Look, I'm informing you.
An imam is of that kind.
Al Qata'at is that which we mentioned.
Ibn 'Abdulbar,
he mentions that, Yaheer Nabi Kathir,
Rahmatullahi'alahe
said,
What is one of the
jobs of a Sahir?
What did Allah Azzawajal tell us in the
Quran that the Sahir that the magician does?
When the 2 angels Harut and Marut came
to the people of Babylon,
as a trial,
right?
They came to teach them magic.
However,
they would come with a what? A huge
disclaimer.
We are a trial to you guys.
Don't commit kufar.
What would they teach them? Does anybody know?
They would teach them
how to separate between husband and wife.
So what does the Sahil do? It separates
between people.
What is Yahim ibn Kaseer saying here?
The Nammam,
the guy who carries tails.
Right? And the kadab, the compulsive liar.
They corrupt and destroy in 1 hour,
that which
maybe the Sahid needs
to carry out in a whole year.
A whole year is trying to separate me
between husband and wife, and he's trying to
separate between father and son, mother and daughter.
But then a mum,
what hour?
That's maybe even an understatement in today's day
and age.
How long do you think a Namam needs
with the era of social media to cause
corruption? Not just between 2 people.
Right? But actually between 2 nations.
A war can take place because of what
a tweet. Would you guys agree with that?
How many times is Donald Trump about to
start war with?
What's the guy's name?
Hong King Kong?
North Korea?
What's his name?
King. I was close.
Right?
How many times a war needed to place?
Relations are cut
because of a tweet.
Remember there was a time
Saudi Arabia cut ties with
Canada.
Because of what one of them said on
Twitter.
Are these Kedaliq? Isn't that so?
With the era of social media,
WhatsApp, you send one message, Wallahi brothers and
sisters, it could destroy
the relationship between what families, in a heartbeat,
so quickly.
We're not living in an era of having
Husnu Nun.
Giving people the benefit of the doubt.
Or living in a time and era of
cancelling people.
You cancel Lunak.
Straight away.
Very unforgiving,
we have become, especially on social media.
Or verify the information,
double check it straight away.
A very powerful statement of Imam al Sannai
Ahmedullah
He says,
Look at the wisdom of
And how Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala loves for
the hearts to come together.
How Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala made an Namim
Haram.
Even though
it is sikh,
even though it's the truth.
When that person left that gathering
and went to the one who is being
spoken about or being back bitten.
Was he telling the truth or was he
lying? He's telling the truth.
And even then is
mimil
Haram. Because
it causes
the hearts to have animosity towards one another.
And also what?
It causes disharmony amongst the people.
However,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala allowed
one to lie.
But in which scenario?
Hi brothers and sisters.
Who may have fallen out with one another.
It's one of the 3 scenarios where lying
is allowed.
Why? In order to bring the hearts close.
When it was
that which is going to separate between the
hearts and cause animosity,
it was made Haram. But something that is
Haram like kedib
was made what?
Allowed.
In order to bring the hearts close.
Close. The principle that I have my beloved
brothers and sisters,
principle in life.
The one who brings you tales about others,
it's only a matter of time
that he spreads
tales about you. Do you guys agree with
that?
Manumma ilaik Nam Malik as Hassan Abbasi mentioned.
Today he's saying, so and so said x
y and z and whatever have you, and
he's saying this and he's saying that. It's
only a matter of time before he stabs
you in the back.
So how do we deal
with this kind of individual?
You may want to take out your pens
and your papers. Wallahi believe if this was
applied,
there would be so much good in society.
And it would prevent so many problems,
so many situations where people fall out with
one another.
Every individual
who brings you tales about others.
Right? He says so and so done that,
and so and so done this.
Right? So and so said this about you,
right?
Upon you is to do 6 things.
Upon you is to do 6 things.
Number
1,
That you don't believe what this individual is
saying. Straight away. Why?
Because this person who's carrying tails is a
Farsik.
He's a transgressor.
He is partaking
in some of the Or should I say,
one of the most
major sins possible
because of the corruption that it causes. There
are some major sins that is what?
Limited to maybe just yourself
or 2 people.
This is now what's
causing problems and corruption upon amongst many.
Shouldn't believe him. Because he's a Farsiq,
Mardudu Shahada. This person's testimony in court will
be rejected.
And in Islamic court, they won't believe him,
or they won't accept anything that he says.
Because of him, committing fisq.
Athani. Number 2:
You should forbid him from doing this,
and you should advise him.
Number 3.
You should hate him for the sake of
Allah Azzawajal.
Because he's despised by Allah Azza wa Jal.
Due to him partaking in this filthy evil
sin.
Number 4.
That he shouldn't think
bad of his brother.
This person now that he's talking to you
about, he shouldn't start having bad assumptions of
him.
And that is because what? Can't accept what
this individual says. Even though it will burn.
Right?
It will make you feel at
or should I say, unease.
It will cause you discomfort.
You'll be thinking about it all night. How
can that individual say XY and Z?
Number 5, Allah yahmila hoo.
Just to see,
walbaah.
This should not cause you now to start
spying.
This should not lead you now to start
spying on that individual.
Now that this has been said, you send
people, oh, go and double check. Does he
really say that? Go and ask him. Try
to act like you're on his side,
and that you're his friend. See whether he
says that.
And that is because Allah said, Do
not
spy on one another. And number 6,
You should not
fall into that which
you advise this tale teller of.
You may say to him now, Aqid listen,
what you've done is wrong, you shouldn't do
this. But then,
you go to your wife or you go
to your brothers and sisters, and you start
saying, Oh, I can't believe what that guy
said about me.
He just prohibited that individual from not doing
this,
And you shouldn't be believing him. You should
not relate that which is being said.
May Allah give us a tawfir to act
upon that. It's not easy.
Right?
These 6 points are really what? Pushing bonds.
It's really putting us to the test,
and on the ropes if you wanna call
it.
Number 3,
and we may have to conclude this.
It was reported by Imam Ahmed Rahmatullahi Alaihi
and also Tabrani
on the authority of You Allah
That the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam one time
walked past the grave.
And the one in the grave was being
punished.
The messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
This individual,
he used to eat the flesh of the
people.
And because of that, he's now being punished
in the grave.
The third point, my brothers and my sisters,
that which we are covering is backbiting.
For those who don't know what backbiting means,
Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam he said one time
to his companions, Atadunam Al Ghiba.
Do you know what Ghiba is?
They said, Allahu Rasool, who knows best?
To say about your brother that which he
dislikes.
So the companions they said,
Why if that which I'm saying about him
is actually the truth?
Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said:
If that which you are saying about him
is the truth, then you've backbited him.
If it's not the truth, Faqalbahahta.
You've swaddled him.
And Nawi Rahmatullahi
a'layhi said,
Whenever
you express
your brother
in a negative light,
to another individual, this is a reba.
Sometimes you take slide shots. Right?
At
a Muslim,
I'm speaking about kafir. I'm speaking about a
Muslim. This is why he said,
expressing negativity
about
a Muslim brother.
Sometimes he may be
with a wink.
The expression.
Straightaway the person who's sitting in front of
you takes away from that what?
That he's like x, y, and z
to portray them in a negative light.
Right?
Anas ibn Malik
said that the prophet
said,
When I was taken on the night journey,
I went past a group of people
who
had nails made out of metal.
What were they doing? They were scratching their
faces,
with these metal,
nails,
and their chests as well.
They're the ones who eat the flesh of
people.
And
they rip the honor of the people into
shreds.
And again, when somebody comes and backbites you
Sorry.
When someone comes to you and says that
so and so is backbiting you. How should
you respond? Hasan al Basir Rahmatullahi
Welcome to this good deed.
That I didn't do.
And I didn't strive and get tired in
carrying it out.
And also, this good deed that Insha'Allah Ta'ala
that I will now
receive on the day of resurrection,
hasn't been affected with self amazement
and showing off.
A battle that every single one of us
has when we do acts of worship,
especially in public. Am I doing it for
the sake of Allah? Am I not?
However,
you're going to be getting that good deed.
Right?
You didn't have to strive for it.
You didn't have to show off. It just
came to you like that.
Hassan al Basir would say, Marhaban, welcome.
Sheikh Ullissenting,
was asked about a woman who prays at
night and fast in the day.
And she also would what? Complete the Quran
all the time.
There's no other person except that she would
speak about and backbite.
And she's been advised.
She's not receptive to it.
She doesn't change.
He said
Perhaps Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
sent her to do all of these good
deeds so she can work for others.
What our response?
She's doing all of these good deeds which
many people struggle. Let's be honest here. Is
it easy to stand up in the night?
Is it easy to fast?
In the day, on the hot summer's day
brothers and sisters, it's not.
And to complete the Quran, and then to
complete it again and again, it's not.
All of these good deeds that we do,
it could be that,
it's going to be on someone else's
scale of good deeds.
Mutayim Rahmatullahi
alaihi, he called this,
aswa'u
anwa'al karam. The
worst
type of generosity.
The worst type of generosity.
It is you gifting your good deeds.
So what type of what? Generosity.
And it's even worse
when you backbite a righteous person.
The more righteous that individual is, the worse
that sin becomes.
The worse
that sin
becomes.
Depending on how righteous he is.
The more righteous, the more wise. And this
is why it shocks me at times.
How some have taken this as a religion
to speak about scholars. Right?
Just because he doesn't agree with your Sheikh.
They rip into
him. Or a person who has never gone
out to study, He's sitting in a cafe
making takfir of this guy, making tibia of
that guy. He calls him innovator. These guys
are kafir. He's never ever studied his religion.
Takes all of them and just what?
The scholars of today, they're all set out.
Look at this mass,
accusation.
It's mass accusation.
It's a very big statement. The scholars of
today, they're salals.
Or
the scholars of today, they're all harsh, rough,
and tough.
Not only are you saying bad stuff about
them, behind their back, but you also are
generalizing,
making these sweeping statements.
I've been told to stop by 11.
I'll mention this as the last one inshallah
ta'ala.
And I think it's very very convenient.
Al kalbatulati
tablo al athakk. Number 5 brothers and sisters
is Again number 5?
The line that reaches
the other side of the world, or should
I say the 4 corners of the world.
There is a very famous hadith. It is
the hadith of Samura Taiblujundu Right?
When the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
was taken on an experience
where he saw so many people being punished,
and this was the punishment of the grave.
As the scholars mentioned when commenting on his
hadith,
One of those that the Messenger Salaam came
across was Arrajul Ladi.
There was a man, my brothers and my
sisters,
who had a hook stuck in his mouth.
And he would be ripped all the way
to the back of his head.
Right? And it will also be inserted in
his eyes, and the same would happen.
And likewise on his neck,
same would happen.
And when this now
or should I
say, the next thing that will happen after
that is the other side of the face.
And by that time, this one has already
healed and gone up come back to normal.
And this will go on and on go
on and and on.
So the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam asked, who
is he? He's the
one. Walks out of his house. He spreads
a lie that reaches the other side of
the world.
Sometimes I look at this hadith, and I
think,
when the Sahaba heard it,
what went through their mind?
Right?
They're in the middle of the Arabian desert,
and they're being told us
that one liner reaches the other side of
the world.
But
when we look at today's day and age,
what do you think brothers and sisters?
Slander,
lies,
all sorts, you name it.
Right?
Those,
what do you call them?
Twitter warriors.
Who are trigger happy
with the Twitter fingers.
They'll never ever come out in real life
speak like that.
But behind the keyboard, he's a warrior.
Spreads this lie, says this about that, and
he reaches the other side of the world
in a heartbeat.
And people believe it.
Like I mentioned earlier, there isn't something called
what is not done in today's day and
age. It has diminished.
Having good thoughts of the people and double
checking,
giving the people the benefit of the doubt.
That's the whole topic in within this stuff.
One time I gave a whole lecture on
what? Just personal run.
Having good thoughts of the people.
And how does what
allows you to be at peace at night
when you go to sleep?
And how this also what treats your heart?
And the scholars they mentioned, if the only
benefit that we could take away from
having good thoughts of the people is
the fact that you're able to go to
sleep at night with peace, then that would
be enough.
And then the only
bad thing that we could say about having
evil thoughts is the fact that you can't
go to sleep
at peace,
and it would be enough
to say that having bad thoughts is an
evil trait.
I think we'll have to stop there. The
other one was a Zina that I wanted
to mention. Also, there was Aklur Riba
taking usury interest.
And the other one was,
to take
from the war boot to dispose of war.
Right, before it has been attributed,
distributed accordingly.
Right? And how this applies today?
Right? For those who collect money.
And what
Abu Masrood
mentioned when the messenger
sent
him to go and collect
the zakawat, the charities, how scared he became.
But
I've gone well over the time,
and I hope I haven't bored you all,
tired you guys out.
From a couple of years ago, I was
doing some research
on the average times,
average attention span
was 15 minutes at a time,
and then it became 12. Allahu Alam, how
many
minister is today, especially with the millennials?
We are living in the era of reels.
Right?
The social media
companies, they've realized
that if you wanna grab someone's attention
and grab it with 30 seconds, that's why
you have the rules.
Maybe an hour's lecture, you won't pay attention.
May Allah honor every single one of you
guys for taking a time out
to attend today's gathering.
For the beautiful, beautiful reminder.
We're now open up to questions.
First 2 or 3 questions, maybe we can
take the first
2 or 3 related to the topic, either
death, grave,
or the day of judgement. And then after
that, we can open up to,
other questions if Sad doesn't mind inshallah.
Al. If you know something and answer it,
you don't say Allah Al, and that's how
I acknowledge.
I'll take care of that. And then you
You don't get to answer ask a question.
So the brother is asking
I think everybody had the question.
Yeah?
I hope it might go here.
Right? About when somebody is more closer to
Allah azza wa jal,
right? Insulting him, or saying bad things about
him, or backbiting him.
Say,
hey, what we have been instructed with is
to judge to that which is apparent.
That's the only thing that we can judge.
So if it's apparent that an individual
righteous person comes to the Masjid,
house of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, you can
see
that the righteousness is pretty apparent on him.
You harming him,
as the messenger salallahu alayhi was and said
in a hadith al Kussi.
Whoever shows enmity
to my Wali, to my close servant, and
the Wali can also be translated as a
saint.
There are
people who are walking on the face of
this earth
that are the closed beloved servants of Allah
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will start a war
with these individuals.
Allah will start a war with these individuals.
Right?
So we judge from that which is apparent,
and based off of that,
right? We are extra careful. And the reason
why I say extra careful is because we
shouldn't be doing that to anyone anyway from
the Muslims.
Whether he may appear that he's righteous or
not.
Answer your question?
Yeah? Or did I miss something out? I
feel like I may have missed something out
from your question.
Basically,
I I try to warn someone that spoke
about somebody because they
they are I'm not gonna say
Yeah. This is what you just mentioned. The
more an individual is righteous or higher in
the eyes of Allah Azza wa Jal. Right?
Backbiting him, pondering him as far west and
this is what Imam Nawa Rahmatullah a. L.
A mentioned the quote and I don't even
mention his name. Maybe I may have forgotten
When he said, Right? The Rib is worse
depending on the situation of the believer.
The more steadfast he is, the more wise
the reba is. Imam Nabi Rabi Talahi mentioned
that in his explanation of Say Muslim.
The prophet here. Just a quick question. We've
got to finish the points that we're downstairs.
I have to give another lecture?
Okay.
You're the best ayatfuddha.
Next time I see you, you have to
memorize half of the Quran.
Right?
Say, 'Din invite me over next week.' You
have to have
it. Subhana, inshaAllah.
So, you did mention
a few reasons
why,
people would be punched in the grave. But
what what happens if somebody because there are
things that grant you protection on the punishment
of the grave, for example, the dua after
the adhan or the nafood prayer or the
song. So if you do these things,
Very good question. So the brother is asking,
you may do certain things that protect you
from the punishment of the grave. And at
the same time you may do the things
that like with the things that we mentioned
today, which brings about the punishment of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
We know
that whatever sin you commit,
as long
as it doesn't take you out of the
fold of Islam.
Right? Which sin takes you out the fold
of Islam? Sheikh and Kufar, right? Just believe
and also shirk.
If an individual had a tawhid,
Right?
He testified that no one had the right
to be worshiped in truth except Allah.
And he lived by that, not just somebody
who claims it with his tongue and then
goes to the graves and invokes
the righteous.
There are righteous people who are buried.
Having said that, that doesn't give you a
right to invoke them. Even the Messenger Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
He himself told us when you ask Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
you go directly to Allah Azzawajal.
Otherwise, there's no difference between us
and a group
who may attribute themselves to Christianity.
When you die and you have a Tawhid,
and some scholars also mention, in fact many
of them, that the bare minimum that keeps
you in Islam is what the salah.
If you died upon that,
even though you committed so many sins, so
many sins,
and from amongst the sins that you committed
were these.
What is the akhidah of Hari Sunnatu Ajamaha
in this scenario?
If you die like that, what is the
akhidah?
That you are under the
you are under the will of Allah.
You are under the will of Allah Azawajal.
Allah Azawajal may choose to punish you for
that,
And He may choose to
forgive you.
It is Allah azzawajal who forgives.
However
yeah, thank you
for asking for that then.
So in a nutshell, summarize,
when individual dies upon major sins, as long
as he had this to aheed intact,
right, is under the will of Allah azza
wa jal. Allah azza wa jal may choose
to punish him
in the grave,
and then
he's also punished in the hereafter,
but then eventually ends up coming out of
the hellfire.
Because someone with the tawhid, if Allah decides
to punish him, sooner or later he will
come out.
Having said that, that doesn't mean we start
taking it lightly.
Right?
The fire of the hereafter my beloved brothers
and sisters,
and now
is 1 70th
that we have in today's dunya.
When you go into your kitchen and you
touch the fire, it's 1 70th of the
hereafter.
So you don't want there to be even
a possibility,
a percentage
that
you'll be touched with the fire.
Right? So you're anruwil of Allah
Right?
You may have a punishment lightly in the
grave.
And then again, on your Multiyama,
you have a light punishment.
And that is because you came with all
of these other good deeds.
And Allah azza wa jal muslims. Does that
answer your question?
Completing the hadith of the one who's being
lashed in the grave.
Right?
You prayed a prayer without Tahara.
Also, it was mentioned in the hadith was,
You saw somebody being oppressed
and you did not rush to his aid.
You did not defend his honor.
Right? It takes guts brothers and sisters, someone's
being backbiting in front of you, and he
may be the one who's doing this filthy
evil act, someone who's close to you. For
you to stand up for your Muslim brother
and say, no this is wrong.
He's being oppressed. You do something about it.
And as the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam mentioned,
whoever defends the honor of his brother in
his absence, Allah will protect his face from
the hereof from the fire.
Today,
in Houndslaw,
West London,
the lecture was about
your prophet is being insulted,
and defending his honor, and so on, and
how an individual goes about defending his honor.
I was thinking about, and this occurred,
my mind, as I was walking into the
message, should I just change the topic?
And just speak about what I spoke about
there?
And then,
inshallah, it should be up on my YouTube
channel, hopefully within the next 48 hours. I
put pressure on them for them to put
this up. What are the practical steps that
we need to take in order to defend
the honor of our Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam?
Right?
Without a shadow of a doubt,
it's you learning about his sunnah.
Learning the deen of Allah so you're able
to protect it accordingly. And Allah will always
want to protect his religion.
Guys heard of Lars Wilkes?
Lars Wilkes,
Swedish cartoonist,
who sketched the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in
the form of a dog.
Swedish cartoonist.
From that point on he had what? 24
hours security.
And then SubhanAllah, guess how he died?
On an empty
motorway,
he just what? Slipped.
And until this very day, they don't know
how he died, and then a car exploded.
They don't know until now how he died.
Allah will deal with them. Just like also
he dealt with Khosro,
Kisar.
Right?
Messenger salallahu alayhi wa sallam send him a
letter.
And the first thing that was mentioned on
the letter was, min Muhammad
Abdulla. And he became furious, Kisra,
Khosro the second, who was known as the
King of Kings
in Iran
and outside of Iran.
He got so angry. He goes, how can
the servant of mine, he's talking about the
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam try mock him
and ridicule him. Right? How can he start
with his name before mine? He took it
ripped it out
and
then
expelled a messenger, a noble companion.
It was only a couple of days before
his own son turned on him.
He killed his own father. And then the
son was killed. And then the one who
killed him was killed as well. And then
the whole kingdom
was destroyed.
This was after the Messenger has made dua
against him and said, mazakallahu
mulkar.
Just as he cut up this paper, this
letter, may Allah Azawajal
do that to His Kingdom, and that's exactly
what happened. Allah Azawajal will
preserve His Prophet's honor.
Right? I think that's time, right?