Adnan Rajeh – Stages of the Hereafter Series- Good and Bad Endings -2- Day 4- Fajr and Dars
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The importance of letting go of deeds and avoiding negative experiences is emphasized in the book of God, which is used to judge actions. The transcript emphasizes the need to avoid negative experiences and avoid future negative experiences. The importance of choosing one's ending and avoiding consequence of one's life is emphasized, as well as the need to find one's true life through values and intentions. The transcript provides examples of people living their lives in similar ways, emphasizing the importance of finding one's true life through values and intentions.
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious,
the Most Merciful.
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious,
the Most Merciful.
I bear witness that there is none worthy
of worship except Allah.
I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger
of Allah.
Come to prayer.
Come to success.
Come
to
prayer.
Come to success.
This is probably the single most important topic
that a Muslim will contemplate during his life
or think about.
And there's nothing that comes nearly close to
how important it is because really no matter
what occurs throughout your life, if you're able
to secure a good ending, then everything else
will become very trivial and almost insignificant.
And the most important aspect of doing that
is being able to let go.
Is being able to let go of the
dunya.
Not feeling that this is something that you
hold on to.
And that's not an easy thing, especially if
you invest a lot into it.
The hayat al-dunya that we live is
something that we invest heavily in.
And we put a lot of time and
effort and we plan out for it.
Then it's hard to let go.
That's what the Prophet ﷺ meant in the
hadith of Bukhari Muslim.
He said, كُنْ فِي الدُّنْيَا كَأَنَّكَ غَرِيبٌ أَوْ
عَابِرُ السَّبِيبِ Be within this dunya as if
you're someone who is foreign to it.
Or someone who is just passing through.
Just for a specific period of time and
then moving on to whatever is coming next.
And probably one of the most important hadith
that are related to the concept of حُسن
و سُوء الخاتم, good and bad endings.
Is the hadith narrated in numerous collections.
Quite authentic hadith.
وَيَسْبِقُ عَلَيْهِ الْكِتَابُ فَيَعْمَلُ بِعَمَلِ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ حَتَّى
لَا يَكُونَ بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَهُ إِلَّا ذِرَاعٌ وَيَسْبِقُ عَلَيْهِ
الْكِتَابُ فَيَعْمَلُ بِعَمَلِ أَهْلِ الْنَّارِ حَتَّى لَا يَكُونَ
بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَهُ إِلَّا ذِرَاعٌ This hadith
has commonly and historically caused people a lot
of grief and difficulty in understanding what it's
trying to explain.
And it's been misinterpreted and dealt with in
mistaken ways.
He said ﷺ, indeed the person will behave
and perform the deeds of those who are
going to Jannah.
He will continue to do that until something
happens.
And the wording that he uses ﷺ in
both examples, فَيَسْبِقُ عَلَيْهِ الْكِتَابُ And I'll explain
that in a moment.
And then after that occurs, that person will
stop performing the deeds of those who go
to Jannah and perform the deeds of those
going to Nahr and then that person will
go to the Nahr.
And then he flips ﷺ and says someone
will live their full life performing the deeds
that will take that person to the Hellfire
until فَيَسْبِقُ عَلَيْهِ الْكِتَابُ And then that person
will perform the deeds of those who enter
Jannah and that person will die and go
to Jannah.
Meaning at the end.
And فَيَسْبِقُ عَلَيْهِ الْكِتَابُ is what people struggle
to understand.
And it's a very generalized term that he's
using سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى To refer to some
law that applied to that person that denied
them the ability to continue doing what they
did throughout their lives due to a detail
that you are not aware of.
Something that existed within them.
Some aspect of their personality or aspect of
their experience.
فَيَسْبِقُ عَلَيْهِ الْكِتَابُ Meaning the book of God.
Which is the book of the laws that
Allah ﷻ uses to judge His servants.
One of those laws will beat him.
Will not allow this person to continue doing
what they're doing in either direction.
The example being someone who's performing the عَمَلَ
أَهْلِ الجَنَّةِ But there was always a problem
with the deeds that this person was doing.
Yes the deeds were the deeds of أَهْلِ
الجَنَّةِ But there was never any sincerity in
what this person was doing.
It was all based on رِيَاءُ وَالْعِيَادُ بِاللَّهِ
It was all based on سُمْعَةُ وَالْعِيَادُ بِاللَّهِ
So all his life he was performing these
deeds.
But really none of these deeds were meaningful
to this individual.
And the diseases of the heart continued to
grow and manifest within this person's نفس and
soul.
And they never took care of it.
This person will not have the ending that
they're looking for.
Before it ends something will happen that will
flip the scales for them.
Just like the opposite exists.
A person who grows up in a horrible
environment that basically is pushing this individual to
be the worst person that this person can
be.
However deep inside this person is filled with
goodness.
It's just it never got a chance.
And all this person's life he or she
has been trying to stop doing the bad
deeds that they're doing.
Struggling, trying to get out of this downward
spiral cycle that they're stuck in.
But they couldn't do it.
And Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى before the end
will allow them.
Because whatever is حق, whatever is truthfully and
honestly a part of who you are on
the inside will manifest itself at the end.
It will show itself just close to the
end.
And the example that our scholars used to
give us when we were learning this.
And they would talk about وِعَاء اللَّبَن a
container or a glass of milk.
But within it there's a lot of residue.
Maybe تُرَاب or anything that looks different, has
a different color.
As long as things are stable all that
residue will just go to the lower part
of the glass.
And all you'll see is the purity of
the milk on the upper side of it.
And it looks really clean.
It looks very pure.
Until something comes and causes severe tribulence to
this glass.
And it shakes it really hard.
And suddenly everything mixes and now it doesn't
look pure anymore.
And towards the end that's what happens.
The last few minutes of our lives you're
tested.
We're all put to the test.
Tribulence is what we go through.
And it brings out the worst.
It brings out the worst.
It exposes all that stayed covered and hidden
for many, many years.
And that's why it's so important that we
prepare for this moment.
And we rid ourselves from that residue.
Rid ourselves of what could cause that imbalance
in all the good deeds that we've been
doing all our lives.
And then suddenly it amounts to nothing.
He says, He
says, I know a group of my ummah
will come Yawm al-Qiyamah.
And they have hasanat as big as the
chain of mountains of Tihamah.
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la will
turn it into nothing for them.
He'll turn it into fluff.
It will have no weight in the scales
of Yawm al-Qiyamah at all.
O Prophet of Allah, tell us who they
are.
Describe them to us.
Maybe we are doing this and we don't
know.
Indeed they are amongst you.
And there are people who are similar to
you.
And they pray at night just like you
do.
But there are people every time they are
left alone with the boundaries of Allah Subh
'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, they cross those
lines.
There are individuals who do not fear the
eye of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A
'la watching over them.
It's only if the eyes of people are
added to it.
If people are watching, they'll continue to observe
the boundaries of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta
-A'la.
But if they're alone and no one can
catch them, and they can basically do and
say and behave in any way that they
want, it's only Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta
-A'la that's staring at them and looking
at them.
Then they don't care.
They will do whatever they want every single
time, time and time again.
This is one of the reasons why this
person will live their lives.
يعمل بعمل أهل الجنة Then the last minute
يسبق عليه الكتاب يسبق عليه الكتاب The Book
of Laws will hold them back and flip
those last few minutes of their lives because
of something like that.
That's Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
السلامة But this is what he's explaining.
صلى الله عليه وسلم When you look into
the Qur'an, you find that Allah Subh
'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la when Ya'qub
is talking to his children, he says something
to them.
In Surah Al-Baqarah you know the verses
he says to them ولا تموتن إلا وأنتم
مسلمون Do not die but in a state
of Islam.
Because Ya'qub عليه السلام as other Prophets
of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
recognize that you choose your ending.
You and I, we choose our ending.
However you live, you die.
Nothing is going to happen at the end
that is out of keeping of how you
lived.
And you say, well you just said the
hadith now where you live...
No, no, see the person who's living doing
the deeds of Ahlul Jannah but deep inside
there's something broken.
That broken piece is going to present itself
on the last moment when the khatima comes.
So really the way you live is the
way that you die.
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la doesn't
break the cycle last moment for you.
You're not going to be someone who is
sincere doing good deeds for the sake of
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la all
of your life in the last moment.
No, that's not how this works.
You choose your ending.
You choose your ending by choosing your life.
Whatever values you base your life on, however
you decide to live your life, whatever intentions
you had on the way is what's going
to be there at that last moment before
you leave.
And that's how everything is going to come
down to that one moment, to those few
seconds before you actually move on.
And what's going to be presented is what
you lived by.
And that's why Ya'qub would tell his
children, وَلَا تَمُوتُنَّ إِلَّا وَأَنذُن مُسْلِمُ Do not
die, but in a state of Islam.
Because he knows that they control it.
Just like he knows we control how we
die.
It's up to us.
It's up to us.
It's not in the way that you think.
It's not the way we think where I
can make...
You're not making a conscious decision towards the
end.
Towards the end is the accumulation.
It's the sum of everything that you lived
by.
And it just kind of presents itself at
that last...
at that last ten meter dash.
I gave an example yesterday of a way
to make sure that you hold on to
this properly.
Keep between you and Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala an act of worship that is secret.
Keep a secret with God.
Have something that only you and Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala know about.
It'll take time.
Examples of that.
One of them is qiyam al-layl.
A good example of it.
A simple one.
One that doesn't really take too much time
or effort or energy.
Is qiyam al-layl.
Just do something.
Don't let anyone know.
No one.
Just no one.
Just keep it as secret as possible.
And we find that in the sunnah of
the Prophet ﷺ.
He told us to do stuff like this.
The hadith of the seven under the...
within the shade of Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala.
وَرَجُلٌ أَنفَقَةً فَأَخْفَاهَا Someone who paid charity but
hid it.
حَتَّ لَا تَعْلَمَ شِمَالُهُمَا أَنفَقَتْ يَمِيمُهُ So secret
that his left hand didn't know what his
right hand gave.
And he's keeping it so secret that even
parts of his body aren't figuring out that
the other part is engaging in an act
of worship.
Because once you do that, that's how you
make sure that you...
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala doesn't take that
lightly.
Qiyam is one.
Another one is sadaqah as I gave the
example.
Doing good, giving, taking care of others financially.
Do that and do it secretly and make
sure no one knows about it.
And take it with you to your grave.
And that's the biggest win you'll have.
It's hard.
You're gonna find your nafs doesn't like it,
by the way.
Because the nafs hates to do something that
doesn't have self-interest in it.
The nafs has to find some form of
self-interest in what you do.
Some form.
Anything, give it anything.
Just maybe...
Just maybe somebody recognizing that you did it.
And they'll be happy with that.
But for you to tell the nafs, no
one's gonna know about this.
Not even the person receiving it.
Not even the person getting this sadaqah will
know that it came from us.
It will stay completely under radar.
You'll find the biggest fight that you've ever...
The biggest struggle you've ever had in your
life.
It doesn't like it at all.
It hates it.
It doesn't understand it because it goes against
every instinct of what the nafs wants.
The nafs is rigged, is programmed to want
to improve your status.
That's how it sees the world.
It doesn't see it any other way.
So for you to do something that doesn't
improve your status in any form in dunya,
doesn't make any sense to it.
It is not willing to engage in any
form of activity like that.
No matter how much you explain that this
is for our akhira, this is for the
sake...
It takes a long time for the nafs
to understand this is for a different...
This is for later.
This is long-term planning.
It's not for dunya.
It doesn't like it.
It just doesn't like it.
Examples of people as they passed away amongst...
Yesterday I gave some examples of Su'ul
Khatimah.
The examples of Husnul Khatimah are many.
And I can go on for the rest
of the month just telling the stories of
people, how they moved on to what comes
next.
In a way, that represented the purity and
the sincerity and the beauty of the lifestyles
that they chose.
And I'll start with Khadijah رضي الله عنها.
As she passes away, as she dies, Jibreel
will come.
And this was the first time that Jibreel
عليه السلام ever came to the Prophet عليه
الصلاة والسلام without Quran.
He always brought a verse or two of
the Book of Allah سبحانه وتعالى.
But this time he didn't.
And he came to the Prophet عليه الصلاة
والسلام and he said, يَا مُحَمَّدْ أَقْرِئْ خَدِيجَةَ
مِنْ رَبِّهَ السَّلَامِ O Muhammad, tell Khadijah that
Allah سبحانه وتعالى sends his salams to her.
As she embarks on this journey, tell her
that and he sends his salams.
So the Prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام was turned
to Khadijah and said, يَا خَدِيجَةَ إِنَّ رَبَّكِ
يُقْرِئُكِ السَّلَامِ The Lord sends his salams.
فَقَالَتْ خَدِيجَةَ رضي الله عنها كُوَ السَّلَامِ وَعَلَى
جِبْرِيلِ السَّلَامِ He is the peace.
He is the ultimate manifestation of what peace
is.
And I send my salams to Jibril.
يَقُولْ جِبْرِيلُ وَأَخْبِرْهَا أَنَّ اللَّهَ قَدْ أَعَدَّلَهَا فِي
الْجَنَّةِ قَصْرًا مِّنْ قَصَبٍ لَا صَخَبَ فِيهِ وَلَا
نَصَبُ And tell her that Allah سبحانه وتعالى
has prepared for her in Jannah a castle
that is made from قصب قصب is a
type of jewel that is empty on the
inside and looks like basically a cave similar
to what she spent her life walking up
to رضي الله عنها for the Prophet ﷺ
لَا صَخَبَ فِيهِ وَلَا نَصَبُ There's no There
are no loud noises there and there's no
tired and there's no fatigue there.
She spent her life رضي الله عنها taking
care of children that weren't hers.
She spent her life in a very loud
household where she was doing more than what
she needed to do.
She could barely mothers can barely take care
of their own children to take care of
children of other people.
And this is what Allah سبحانه وتعالى sent
to her in her last moments as she
left giving her the good news of what's
coming next.
Sayyidina Bilal رضي الله عنه in his last
few moments his wife would cry قَدْ وَاحْزْنَهُ
How sad I am today.
فَكَشَفَ عَنْ رَأْسِهِ He was lying with a
blanket on top of his head so he
took it off وَقَالَ لَا تَقُولِ وَاحْزْنَهُ Don't
say that.
وَلَكِنْ قُولِ وَافَرَحَاهْبَةِ Say how happy this day
is.
فَقَالَتْ وَيْحَكْ مَا تَقُولِ What is this that
you're saying?
You're dying.
فَقَالَ غَدًا أَلْقَى الْأَحِبَّةِ مُحَمَّدًا وَصَحْبَةِ Tomorrow I
meet the beloved ones.
Tomorrow I go and see Muhammad صلى الله
عليه وسلم and the group that I was
left behind for years.
They went ahead of me.
رضي الله عنه وارضاه Abu Bakr رضي الله
عنه as he was passing Aisha would get
very emotional and she would say لَعَمْرُكَ مَا
يُغْنِي فَرَاءُ عَنِ الْفَتَىِ إِذَا حَشَرَجَتْ يَوْمًا وَضَاقَ
بِهَا الصَّدْرُ He said, what does wealth and
strength and status give you at the moment
as a person passes away?
فَقَالَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ لَا تَقُولِ ذَلِكِ Don't
say that.
وَلَكِنْ يَقْرَأِي قَوْلَ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى وَجَاءَتْ سَكْرَةُ الْمَوْتِ
بِالْحَقِّ ذَلِكَ مَا كُنْتَ مِنْهُ تَحِيدِ Don't say
that but recite the word of Allah سبحانه
وتعالى and the moment in that السكرة We'll
talk about it inshallah in coming lessons or
coming majalis inshallah is that moment of lack
of consciousness that comes with death ذَلِكَ مَا
كُنْتَ مِنْهُ تَحِيدِ That's what you've been running
away from all your life but there's nowhere
to go from it.
Then he continued رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ to recite
Surah Al-Qasim till the end and he
passed away at the end of it.
رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ وَاللَّهُ And the more you
read in the stories of the salihin and
the people who came before us you find
that they all towards the end had a
view of a moment moments that were meaningful
for those around them because they lived their
lives in preparation for that moment in complete
acceptance that it's going to come that there's
nowhere to go from it and really it's
what we're building towards it's what we're preparing
for everything that you're doing in this life
is merely just an act of preparation to
make sure that when that moment comes you're
ready for it and not only are you
ready for it you're welcoming of it because
you know what's coming next was going to
be much better than what you have been
spending your life apart of from day one
and if we're not ready for it then
I'm not really sure what we spent our
lives doing if the moment of death comes
your way and you're not ready and you're
not prepared and this is not something that
you've been building for all of your life
then it's really unclear to me as a
Muslim at least it's unclear what exactly what
exactly were you doing because this is the
only there's no end I remember seeing a
patient one day he wasn't Muslim he was
like 93 or something, 92 something like that
very ill and you're having that kind of
end of life discussion and I asked him
like what are you hoping for?
what is he's very ill he had cancer
he's tired and he's like another few years
like alright let's say you get those few
years and then what?
then what do you want?
he's like then I'll hope for another few
years and I'm like okay and then he's
like I don't know another few years and
that's how the human being is it just
doesn't it doesn't want to admit that this
is going to end it doesn't like that
fact it's an ugly fact but it's the
only fact there's really no other fact that
you can swear by besides that it's going
to end and the human being just doesn't
want to it just doesn't want it to
end I mean that's okay we're not supposed
to want it to end we're not supposed
to be looking into life hoping that it
actually ends but we are supposed to be
in a mindset that allows us to be
in full acceptance of what that means and
if you take the ends of all of
the great names all of them take the
Prophet and the Anbiya before him and all
of the Sahaba that came after him and
study just read those stories as they passed
away you find you find a trend you
find a pattern that is repeating itself they
were all very much in sync they were
all very much in touch with that moment
completely accepting of it when it came they
were welcoming it because they knew this is
what this is what they've been preparing for
all of their lives and we should be
in a similar state so that that moment
comes we're ready for it tomorrow Inshallah we
will talk about that moment and everything that
comes with it Subhanaka Allahumma wa bihamdika ash
-sharafa la ilaha illa anta astaghfiru wa atubu
ilayhi wa sallallahu wa sallam wa baraka ala
nabiyyina muhammadin wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma
'in ala alihi wa sahbihi wa baraka ala
nabiyyina ala alihi wa sahbihi wa baraka ala
nabiyyina