Ahmed Suleman Khatani – Love4Death
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Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah kawali,
when I was in our main senior level, when I shall Allah,
ILAHA,
illallahu,
ham,
Allah, Hamid,
how do we know him in a shaykh, Ani, rajim, bismillahir, rahmanir,
Rahim
and malual, Banana tulha, dunya, one bankiato, saalia, Hatu,
Nandana, because awaba.
Zahavush,
hola ika humul, akias zahabo, visharafi, dunya will akhirah,
amakala, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam
respected Allah akhram, elders and beloved brothers in Islam.
The life which Allah subhanho wa Taala
has given us in this world is extremely temporary.
In fact, dunya when compared to the eternal life of the hereafter,
the parable was given by Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, where he said, mad dunya, fill akhira, Illa, Miss lumaya,
jaal ahadu Kum ISBA Abu yam mi fa Yan dur bhimaya. That
this world, when compared to the accurate, is like putting your
finger in the ocean and lifting it up. The droplet of water that
remains on your finger is the equivalent of this Vinya of the
life of this world and the entire ocean is the equivalent of
accurate,
he said, Mali wad dunya, maanathid, dunya in La karakiva,
tarakaha. He said, What is there for me in this dunya? My example
is like a traveler who took some shade underneath a tree and then
he continued his journey back home
that pausing underneath the tree for a short while is the example
that rasulallah Sallam gave of the life of this world, very, very
temporary. Rivayata Many time, is minimal. The point, my respected
brothers, is that moth and death
is an absolute reality, which is staring each and every one of us
in the face Allah Dalai
in the Quran. For more, Allah Dalai uses the word yakin wa Abu
Dara, baka, khattaya, te Akal, Yaqeen, that worship your law,
worship your Rab, until Yaqeen, until the absolute certainty comes
to you,
the life, this temporary life that we have, this passing phase. Ali
Radi Allahu Tala used to say, Anna su niyam
used to say, people in this world are sleeping in amatu in tahabu.
When they die, then they will wake up as if this life of this world
is just a vision,
a very, very short period. This life was given to us at dunya
mazra, Atul akhira,
this life was given to us to prepare for the akhirats. This
life was given to us to plant the seeds that will benefit us in the
eternal life of the year after.
But the sad reality of my respected brothers, is if we
analyze and we look at the manner in which we are spending our 24
hour life in this world,
what our goals, what our objectives, what our ideals, what
our fears are, if we have to analyze and Look at it, then to a
very large extent, with regards to moth and death, majority of us are
in denial.
We keep on shifting the goal post.
We keep on having this attitude that death, that is for someone
else. Other people are dying. I still have a long time. I've got
this investment to do that property, to build up that wealth
to a mess. I have to worry about tomorrow. I have to see to my
children. I have to see to this. I have to see to that
a wall, a wall was about.
Fall. A wall was about to fall.
A Sahabi was repairing that wall. Rasulullah salasam walks by. He
asked him, What are you doing? He says, On Nabhi of Allah, this wall
is about to fall. I am repairing it.
What does Rasulullah say to him? He says, Al Amro Akram in zalik,
oh my sahabi, your moth and your death is closer and more imminent
than the falling of this wall.
Someone asked Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, they
don Avi of Allah, who is the most honored. Listen to the question
man akaramunas, who is the most honored of the entire humanity,
and with this, who is the most intelligent of the entire
humanity? If this question were to be put to us
in the light or in view of the psychology by which we are living
our lives, who do we consider honorable? Who do we consider
intelligent? Yet look at the response from Janabi Rasulullah,
sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam, who is the most honored, who is the
most intelligent, he said, aksaru, whom zikran Lil modes, the one who
thinks the most about death, the one who is more aware about his
moth, waish, to whom isti ADA Lahu, and the one who is
constantly preparing for moth.
He is the most honored and the most intelligent of the entire
humanity.
He said, These are the intelligence ones. Zahabubi,
sharafid, they have gained the honor of this world and the honor
of the Akira also, I respected, brothers, we have to understand
Mort and death is in fact a rahmat. It
is in fact Mercy of Allah, subhanho wa taala. It is a means
of us meeting with Allah. It
is said that malakul Mort came to Ibrahim Khalil Ali Salam
at the time of his death, and said to him that, oh, Khalil, Allah,
Allah, send me to take your rule. The time has come for you to die,
leave this world.
Ibrahim alaihi salam says to mother, kulmoh,
Khalil, Khalil, tell me, does a friend take the life of his
friend?
He goes back to Allah and he says, Your Khalil is saying this. Allah
says to him, go back to him and ask him, kya Khalil. Khalil
does not a friend want to meet his friend. Does not a friend want to
meet his friend. When mother comes back and release this response,
Ibrahim Al Islam says, Yes, definitely, I am ready Salam. And
he was given the choice, Allahumma, Rafi Kal Allah. He
says, I choose to go back and to meet my Allah.
So this moth and death is, in fact, a means by which we will
meet our law. And on the other hand, moth and Dead
is a means by which we will return back to our law, return back to
where we came from.
It is human nature when you leave your hometown, when you go away
somewhere, automatically, the heart aspires to return home.
Those of us who go in Jamaat will understand this better, even if
he's going for 10 days or 40 days or four months after the first few
days already, he's feeling homesick. He wants to come back
Allahu alaihi wasallam saabha, say when He would return back to
Madina, manovara, as Madina came closer, he would make his
conveyance, his camel, his horse, move faster the shock to come back
home
when he left me. Karama, as he is leaving, ma tears are falling down
his Mubarak cheeks. Mati Yaba came in. Valadin was Lola and nakomi.
Akharajuni, minkila, Masaka to hai raki. He pure, what a sacred, what
a beautiful, what a beloved place you are to me, If my people had
not expelled or banished me from you, I would never have lived
anywhere else. Bilal, the Allahu taala, and hope he lived as a
slave in Makkah. Yet, such was the attachment to his homeland when he
made his Ratna manawara in Makkah, he was persecuted in Makkah, he
was living as a slave. Yet Bilaal also in Madina with lament. Ala
adilatan biwad in Holi. Biwad you waholi is Haru wa jalilo wahal Adi
Dan yo mam niya, Hamid, Janna, wahali, abduwan Lee, Sharma to
watafilu, Bilal would cry, and he would say, How I wish someone
would falsely give me hope and tell me that, oh, Bilal, you are
going to go back to Makkah once again.
You will play in with iskaran Jalil grass. Once again, you will
climb Shava and tafil Mountain, and once again, you will drink
water from nijann stream in Makkah.
This is human fitrat, human nature that one wants to go back to where
he came from. When someone passes away, we read in lahi wa inna
ilahi rajiroon, verily, to Allah, we belong wahi wa ina ilahi
rajiroon And to Allah, we are going back where we came from. We
are going back Mort is a mercy to take us back to where we came
from. That is why Allah dala in the Quran, when Allah dala speaks
of the moth of that person who had pleased Allah,
what does Quran say? Yay to hanaf sul mutma Inna yay, yatuhan,
nafsul mutma
era Ji. E Allah doesn't say come. Allah doesn't say go. Allah says
er JEE, come back, return back. You are going back home to who?
Ira rabbiki to your Rab to your Allah, return back to your Allah.
Abu asmaali was once asked suhila Abu Hazim, kefal khudumi Allah,
describe to us the re the reunion with Allah. Describe to us the
reception with Allah, when a person dies, what will be his
reception by Allah? Beautiful. He gives the example. He says, Amal
mutiya, fakaum, ala Ali, Hil mushtaak, kudumil, Abu Asmaa Bond.
He says, on the one hand, is that person who displeased Allah, the
One who spent his life in masyat, the one who chased after this
dunya he is going back, is like a slave who ran away and was caught
and is brought back to his master. He is angry with him. On the other
hand, the one who pleased Allah, the One who was obedient to Allah,
the One who prepared for he is going back his moth, his murakat,
his reunion with Allah is like a person who for many, many years
was separated from his family, and after many years of separation,
the day finally dawns when he is reunited with his family, such
will be the reception of this person with Allah in our Viki Ravi
ATAM murziya, a
Oh, one verse, please, Allah, come back to your Allah. Ravi, in such
a condition that you are happy with Allah.
Ravi, Allah mentions you first you are happy with Allah Maria and
Allah is happy with you.
Your happiness is mentioned first in this dunya, there was only one
person
prior to mort, whom Allah dala gave this Basharat and glad tiding
that Allah is happy with you
on the occasion of taboo Abu as given everything in the way of
Allah,
to the extent that he told nabia salali salam that he had left the
name of Allah and His Rasul salaam behind in his home. Otherwise,
everything else has been given. He took the clothes off his body,
washed, sat and used thorns as buttons.
In that condition, he is sitting in front of Rasulullah sallallah
Sallam jibi comes ya rasulallah mali ABA Mali ya Rakhal laha, the
way of Allah.
Why is it that we see that I see Abu Bakr in this condition that he
has used thorns as his buttons.
NaVi Sala Islam says to Jibril, Abu Bakr has given everything in
the way of Allah. Jibril says, on the way of Allah, Allah has sent
me with a message that Allah conveys his Salaams to Abu Bakr,
and Allah wants you to ask him that is Abu Bakr happy with his
ALLAH in this poverty and hardship, when this question is
posed to Abu Bakr, Siddiqui, Allahu taala, and who he burst
into tears, and he says, Anan, Rabi Ravin, Anan Rabi Rabin, Anan,
Rabi, Ravin, I am heavy with my Allah. I am heavy with my Allah. I
am heavy with my Allah. For
the Allah says, return back to you all.
Allah, you are happy with Allah. Allah is happy with you further
fully fear. Ibadi, wonderfully. Jamnati, enter the Jamaat of my
slaves and enter into my sentence.
Mortis mukatgar,
death is appointed. There is no escaping. It is an absolute
reality. The question my respected brothers, the criteria is, what
preparation have we made for months
the life of this world was given for that.
Sahaba, I cannot mind. They understood this reality. Allah
Dara says in the Quran, in the verse I decided in the beginning.
Al malual, Banu nazid Dunya,
one verse Allah sums up the reality,
puts the entire effort of this dunya into true perspective,
whatever investments, whatever effort, whatever respect, whatever
dignity, whatever honor, whatever wealth, whatever worldly amenities
you have amassed when more comes, when death comes, the example is
like multiplying with 0, million multiplied by zero is still zero,
1 billion multiplied by zero is zero. Whatever plans you have
made, the foundation may have been put the investment has been
planned for the future. The arrangement has been made for a
rainy day, for tomorrow, you are slogging and slaving after this.
Dunya Allah says, When Mark comes zero,
everything ends, everything stops, everything will be left behind.
While back here to Swaha, to salihat, what will go with you?
Iman Amal, taqwa, what you gave in the way of Allah that is going to
benefit you, that is the world for you, that is hope for you, that is
the currency for you. How many incidents they are in the lives of
Sahabi Kam, they understood this reality Abu mukha Siddiq as the
Allahu jaalan hu it was his habit.
He would buy, purchase weak Slaves and free them for the sake of
Allah
a slave, that his purchase can be a source of help to you. One
occasion, his father says to him
that,
oh, my son, why don't you buy strong slaves? At least they will
be a support to you. At least they will be a help to you. What is the
response of Abubakar, the Allahu taala? He says, ya Abati man Azari
uried, oh, my beloved father. Oh, my beloved father. It is the
protection and the support of myself. That is my object. That is
why I am buying weak slaves,
because the support and preparation I am making is not for
this dunya.
In this dunya, if I get back, the return of my sadhaka, if they help
me, then what will be left for accurate
abuzari Radi Allahu taranu, on
one occasion, he used to live in the jungle, one person came to him
and said, Oh, abuzad, I want to become your cardim. I
want to become your servant so that I can benefit from you.
Abuzam says, I have one condition only. What is the condition? He
says, When I ask you to spend anything in the way of Allah, when
I ask you to spend from my wealth, I want you to spend the best
without reservation. This person says, that is a simple conditions
your wealth. Why should I have a problem with it?
A little while later, some people come, guests. Abuzzar says to the
servant, go and slaughter a camel to feed them. There were two
camels. One was strong. One used to give milk. One was good for
hiding. The other one was weak.
He takes the strong one first, then he thinks
the object is to feed the guest. The meat is the same. This one
will help him for riding. This one will help my master by giving him
milk. Let me take the other one. He takes the weaker one, and he is
walking with it, abuzzar. He sees him and calls him,
I will he says to him, go back now and take the better one. He
carries out the instructions. And abuzzar calls him again and says
to him, Tell me now,
did you make Kiana?
Did you misappropriate my trust, intentionally or unintentionally?
What was meant? You left the better one and went for the weaker
one. Was it intentional or you forgot?
He says, I did it intentionally. Why? He says the object was, need
to feed the guests, the stronger one would have been a support to
you. Could have written on it, it would have given you milk
at the time of your need. It would have benefited you. Abuzz, says to
him, do you know when is the time of my need.
Do you know when is the time of my need?
This dunya is not the time of my need. When I go in the cover in
Akira, that is the time of my need. That is why I told you,
whatever you spend of my wealth you must spend the best.
Al Malu, Al Banu Nazi, natul hayati, dunya Well, bakiya to
swalli, Heart of the CASA,
the lives of saave Kiram and the pious slaves of Allah retreat with
incidents like this,
accurate was put in front.
Mark was put in front. Whatever they had was expended for accurate
when Allah in the Quran speaks about more than accurate. What
word does Allah use?
Allah uses words like sari Aru, sabi samawa, one another.
Why would
one
another compete with one another? Why with one another in earning
your accurate
when it comes to accurate, Allah says, compete with one another.
Finish yourself when it comes to dunya, Allah dala says, have
kanad, have contentment, adopt moderation. We have taken it and
reversed it
when it comes to ask you that we are complacent. If he is making
four salah, missing his Fajr Salah, he says, At least I need
four salah. Fajr is too difficult. Can't wake up.
If he is making five salah, then he is leaving something else out.
The Salah he was making 10 years ago and the salah today is the
same, and he's completely completion. Why that is my ashrath
when it comes to dunya, then there's no breaks. Then the rat
race is on. The clock is ticking. We are not even aware of it. We
are oblivious of it.
We have turned it around completely. If you look at Sahaba
kiram, Irwin Allah Ali majma in when he came to the ashrad,
everything was given
one day, Rasulullah sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam. And this is
Sahaba, someone as waha mean Kum Simon, oh my Sahaba, Who amongst
you today got up in a condition that he has kept Rosa he's
fasting. Abu Bakr says, ayanavi of Allah,
someone Asmaa omariman who visited a sick person today. Abu Bakr
says, ayanavi of Allah, someone who followed a Janaza today, Abu
Bakr says ayo Nabi of Allah,
someone Ada minkum mariban who visited a sick person today. Abu
Bakr says, ayo Nabi of Allah, someone atma atta, ama Min kumuli,
OMA miskinan Who fed a poor person today. Abu Bakr says, I own a
behalf Allah,
they would buy with one another. Allah rasulallah says, maj tama,
annafi, Imran, Jannah, that person in whom all these things are
found, he is a janati.
Umwal says, when this verse of the Quran came down, why with one
another? He says, competing. He says, how many times I try to
outdo Abu Bakr mustabakana, Ira shanella, Abu Bakr Wakana.
He says, how many times I tried to outdo Abu Balan who but every time
I tried, when he came to ash, when he came to the Amal of Deen, Abu
Bakar, outdid me waka nakan Bin He would hasten towards carrying out
the commands of Allah. He would go ahead of the others. There was one
blind, elderly woman in Madina, manovara Owen says, I thought to
myself, let me go and make her kids.
Let me go and clean her toilet, prepare the food for her, clean
her house.
He says, after Fajr Salah, I went to a home, and I found that
somebody had preceded me. The home was.
Can span
having seen this.
He says, I went away and I vowed with myself that the next day
before Fajr Salah, I will go.
He says, When the next day came, I went before Fajr Salah. As I was
approaching the home of this elderly woman. I saw Abu Bakr
coming out of her home.
When I saw this, I said to him, oh, Abu Bakr, many, many times I
tried to outdo you, but I resigned now, and I realize I will never,
ever be able to outdo you.
They vied with one another. They outdid one another in earning
accurate such preparation, they made for more that when the time
of Mort came, it was not something they feared. It was something they
looked forward to.
When Abu Bakr, as Alan, who is on his deathbed,
the people come to him crying. They say to him,
should we not send for a doctor?
He smiles weakly at them, and he says, the doctor has already
visited and he is gone.
So they asked, What did the doctor say? He says, the doctor said, ini
faulli, Mauri, Uri, I will do as I want to do. In other words, My
Allah has already decided about my moods.
When they hear this, they burst into tears. Aisha radi Allah anha,
his beloved daughter, the wife of Rasulullah sallallahu, alayhi wa
sallam. She hearing this, she says, Lam rug ma yugni sarawan in
fata is a hasharaja woman was sadru lamenting over the loss of
Abu Bakar. He says to O, my daughter, do not say that. Do not
say that. Do not be sad what you should say. Waja at sakratul Moti
will Hak, that moth which is Ha, which is the reality, has come
now. And
he says to o Aisha,
all I have left in this world before Khilafat, I was a
businessman. I used to earn my livelihood when I became Khalifa,
there was no chance. I spent out of my capital. All I have left in
this world now is one goat, one cloak and one slave. Omar is to
become the Khalifa, after me, after I die, I want you to take
all this and give it to Omar, to put it into the bay Ulm.
Aisha, radiallana, says, Mata Abu Bakr in wama, Taraka, dinaran,
wala dirhaman, wakat, akada, malahu, Kula Huda kalau fil Maal,
she says, Abu Bakr Ravi Allahu taala, who passed away from this
world. He did not leave behind one dinar or one Dirham, even one
coin, also everything he had. He took it and put into the beetle
Mall.
He addresses her, this is the last gasp of his life. He says to her,
Oh, my beloved daughter. If she lose so many having these clothes
which I am wearing, I want you to wash it what and make this my
coffin final.
Millions. Not use a new coffin for me, because the living are in more
in need of new clothes than those who are dead.
After he passes away and is buried next to Rasulullah, sallAllahu
sallam, she takes his belongings to hand it over to Omar. When Omar
sees this, he burst into tears, and he says,
Yaman bazaar. Abu Bakr, no one will be able to catch up with you.
You have tired all those who try to keep up with you, and you have
not left a chance for anyone to utter one word against you.
Wallahi Lauder, Jaga, Raja, la Raja habihim. If the Iman of Abu
Bakr had to be put on one side, and the Iman of the entire Earth
had to be put on the other side, the Iman of Abu Bakr would be
greater Wallahi in nilawadu and Akuna, sharanfi Sadi, abi Bakar,
Oman. Oman, that personality, he says, Allah's custom, I wish I was
a hair on the chest of Abu Bakr.
This is when they gave everything for accurate mark. Was not a
source of fear. Bilal Radi Allahu Taala in Sham at the time of his
death, he is sick on his deathbed. Why is he crying one side? What is
Bilal saying? Wa, tarabah, wa,
Taraba, Muhammadan wahis Ba. He says, how happy I am, how happy I
am. The time has come tomorrow I am to meet Muhammad Sallallahu.
And his companions, wife is crying. Virali is happy. Amma
vinyasid of the allow, 95 years of age, on the Medan of steel. He
asked for water, milk is brought. He says to Hashi mirkala, the
allow Badri Sahabi Oh Hashim al mirthal, let us go and meet our
law.
Let us go and meet our Allah. Let us go and meet Rasulullah,
sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam. The time has come to rejoice. The time
of Mort has come. Hashim says to him, how do you know? He says,
When I was young in Makkah, my family was persecuted. We were
tortured with fire. I came to Rasulullah, sallAllahu, sallam,
and I said to him, Oh my beloved. Nabi, your form, your nation, the
Quraysh are going to kill me. Nabi salaam said to me, Omar, make
slave Allah promises you. Jannat and my nation will not kill you.
Your moth will come at the hands of a revolting sect, and the last
drink of your worldly life will be milk. Oh, Hashem, I asked for
water. Milk was brought. This is the last drink of my life. My
navies prophecy prophesied that now my life is to be given in the
way of
Allah. They were not afraid of death.
Why? Because they made the preparation for it, Hussain,
RadiAllahu Taala and who the beloved grandson of rasulallah on
the plains of Karbala as one by one, the flowers of the
descendants of the alibait, the family of rasulallah give their
lives, each one, he picks them up his own offspring, takes them to
the back of the battlefield. On his lips are the words, Ill hut,
the Abba. I feel that go back and meet your pious forefathers.
Asmaa. House is surrounded water and food has been cut off. Last
night of his life. He looks up at the window, he sees Rasulullah
sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam. Within is Abu Bakr and Omar.
Asmaaan goes closer NaVi isla. Islam addresses Abu Bakr and Umar.
See what has happened to Usman. They have cut up his water and his
food. See how he is suffering. NaVi is loud. Islam presents a
bucket of water to Osman. Osman drinks it. He says, the coolness
and sweetness of this I have never experienced before. Then NaVi
salsa says to him, Osman, if you want, we will send an army to
assist you. Or if you want, the Iftar of your Rosa of tomorrow
will take place with us Asmaa, NaVi Allah says, On Nabi of ALLAH,
do not send an army. I want to go back to you. I want to meet you
tomorrow. The next morning, Asmaa nadiallamu says to his Khadim, I
have worn a pants today, not a lungi. He was full of haya and
shame. He says, Today, my Nabi has informed me my life is to be
given. I fear when they attack me, my sutur may be exposed. That is
why I wore pants. Puts the Quran in front of him. When the sword
strikes him on the head, the blood spit spills on the world,
fasayafika, whom Allah, Allah, will be sufficient for you against
them. When the topic of moth comes in front of us, my respected
brothers, we say, Why are you talking something depressing? Talk
about something else. Enjoy life.
We are here for many months,
my respected brothers, on the one hand, if you put the lives of
those who please the Lazada in front of us, and we look at this
meaningless cycle, on the other hand, which we are involved in,
too long has passed. We have to put breaks now. We have to realize
that like a block of ice, like a block of ice, this life of ours is
melting away relentlessly in the heat of the sun, the doors of
Allah's mercy are open. Allah has given us this short life to earn
our accurate so let us come into the environment. Of the Masjid.
Let us get involved in the effort of Deen. Let us keep in the
company of those people who are constantly speaking about more
than accurate so that we come out of the deception and the so called
attraction of this Vinya May Allah give us, each and every one of us,
topical.