Ahmed Suleman Khatani – Shadow Of Death
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Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. Kawali, when I was in a
woman, say, a man in a
man, who may you believe? Allah, a sharikannah,
wane
Muhammad, an Abu wala, Sulu
amabad,
fakadu Kaal, Allahu, Taala fil Quran in majeedell, Hameed, a
Hamid,
I mean a shame on your Rajim Rahmani, Rahim
and malual, banana zine, until hayati dunya,
one bank here to Sonia had A nine Amala Salafi,
oh, come
Zahav isharafid, dunya, will akhirah, amakana, sallAllahu,
alaihi wasallam,
respected Alama, Akram, 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, Phil akhira, Illa Mia, jaala ahadu
Kum ISBA Abu yam bubbay Abu sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, said
that this world, when compared to the akhirats, 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 dunya, of the life of this world and the
entire ocean is the equivalent of akhirats.
He said, Mali wad dunya, manafi, dunya, Illa karakivan ista dalla
takta shajarat intum, marachavatara kahak, 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 Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi salam gave of the life of this
world. Very, very temporary. Rivayata Many time is minimal, the
point where respected Brothers is that Mort and death
is an absolute reality which is staring each and every one of us
in the face aladalah in the Quran, for more Allah, uses the word
yakin wa Abu dhab, baka, ha Tah ya kalyakin, that worship your Allah,
worship your Rab until Yaqeen, until the absolute certainty comes
to you.
The life, this temporary life that we have this passing phase. Ariad
Allahu Taala 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 akhirans.
This life was given to us to plant the seeds that will benefit us in
the eternal life of the hereafter.
But the sad reality, my respected brothers, is, if you 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 to fall, a wall was about to fall.
All a Sahabi was repairing that wall. Rasulullah salasam walks by.
He asked him, What are you doing? He says, oh, Nabi avala, this wall
is about to fall. I am repairing it.
What does Rasulullah say to him? He says, Al Amro akrabuminzalik,
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 that
on a view of Allah, who is the most honored, listen to the
question man akaramun asks, 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 Janab Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, who is the most honored, who is the
most intelligent, he said, akum zikran, Lil moth, the one who
thinks the most about death, the one who is more aware about his
moat. Waishadu, whom isti ADAD and 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. Zahabu,
sharafiq, dunya, will Akira. They have gained the honor of this
world and the honor of the Akira also, I
respected brothers, we have to understand more. And death is in
fact a rahmat.
It is in fact Mercy of Allah. It is a means of us meeting with
Allah. It
is said that malakul moat came to Ibrahim Khalil alaihi salam,
at the time of his death, and said to him that Oli 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 ke
mulakat. Puna pasankar
does not a friend want to meet his friend
does not a friend want to meet his friend. When mother comes back and
relays this response, Ibrahim Al Islam says, Yes, definitely, I am
ready. Rasulallah, he was given the choice, Allahumma, Rafi
kalaallah, 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
Allah. And on the other hand, moth and death
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
is going for 10 days or 40 days or four months after the first few
days already, he is feeling homesick. He wants to come back
Allah rasoo SallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam Sahaba say when He would
return back to Madinah Manohara, as Madina came closer, he would
make his conveyance, his camel or his horse, move faster the shock
to come back home
when he left me. Karama, as he is leaving, Makkah, tears are falling
down his Mubarak cheeks. Matiya, bakimin, baladin, Wahhab, Baki,
ilaya, Lola, nakomi, akharajuni, minkila, Masaka, Iraqi, that O
Makkah, what a 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.
Bin Lali Allah, and who he lived as a slave in Makkah. Yet such was
the attachment to his homeland. When he made his red to Madina,
manovara in Maka he was persecuted in Makkah, he was living as a
slave. Yet Vilar also in Madina with lament. Ala alai, Tasha Ali
Hal abitan alayhi, Latin. Viwadin, Holi, viwadi waholi is Haru wa
jalilu, wahal aridan, Yuma niya, Hami Janna, wahali, Abdu Watu,
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 his with
the.
Karan Jalil grass. Once again, you will climb Shava and tafel
mountain, and once again, you will drink water from vijana stream in
Makkah.
This is human fitra, human nature that one wants to go back to where
he came from when someone passes away. We read in lahi wa ina ilahi
rajiron, verily, to Allah, we belong wahi wa Ina, Ilahi Raji
oon, 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 in the Quran, when Allah speaks of the moth of
that person who had pleased Allah,
what does Quran say? Ya to hanaf sul mutma, Inna, yay, Yana.
Allah doesn't say come. Allah doesn't say go. Allah says Eri,
come back, return back. You are going back home to who? Ila
rabbiki to your Rab, to your Allah, return back to your Allah.
Abu
Hazim Rahmatullahi was once asked sulabul hajim ke palumia Allah.
Describe to us the re the reunion with Allah. Describe to us the
reception with Allah. When a person dies, what will be the
reception by Allah? Beautiful. He gives the example. He says. Amal
mutiya fakaum, mushtaqin, a
he says, on the one hand, is that person who displeased Allah, the
One who spent his life in MA The one who changed after this dunya,
he is going back, is like a slave who ran away and was caught and is
brought back to his master, who 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 accurate 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 gone when he is reunited with his family. Scratch
will be the reception of this person with Allah
rabbdi ki rata,
oh one verse, please, Allah, Oh nafsal mutmayna, come back to your
Allah. Ravi in such a condition that you are happy with Allah
AJ
ravia, Allah mentions you first. You are happy with Allah marvia,
and Allah is happy with you.
Your happiness is mentioned first
in this dunya, there was only one person
prior to Mort whom Allah gave
this Basharat and glad tiding that Allah is happy with you. I
on the occasion of taboo Abu as Alan, who had given everything in
the way of Allah,
to the extent that he told that we have asked sallali Salam that he
had left the name of Allah and His Rasul Sala Islam behind in his
home. Otherwise everything else has been given. He took the
clothes off his body, washed and used thorns as buttons. In that
condition, he is sitting in front of Rasulullah sallali Salam Ji
comes ya rasulallah mali ABA Mali Ya Rabbi avala. On
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.
Nabi salaam says to Jibril, Abu Bakr has given everything in the
way of Allah. Jibreel 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,
siddika, the Allahu taala, and who he burst into tears, and he says,
Anan Rabi, Radin, Anan, Rabbi, Rabin, Anan Rabi, Radin, I am
happy with my Allah, I am happy with my Allah, I am happy with my
Allah.
Allah says, return back to you, Allah, you are happy with Allah.
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. Abuzair 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.
Asmaa al banana to the hayati dunya, walva, katawaba, saliha,
the lives of saave Kiram and the prior slaves of Allah repeat 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 sabiku, Sari arumatin,
Argo Asmaa, Firat.
Outdo
one
another vie with one another, compete with one another vie with
one another in earning your argument
when it comes to Allah says, compete with one another. Finish
yourself. When it comes to dunya, Allah, Allah says, have kanad,
have contentment, adopt moderation. We have taken it and
reversed it.
When it comes to ash, we are complacent if he's 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's making five salah, then he's leaving something else out.
The Salah he was making 10 years ago, and the salah today is the
same, and he's completely complacent. Why that is my
accurate when it comes to dunya, then there is no weights, then the
red wave is on. The clock is ticking. We are not even aware of
it. We are observious of it.
We have turned it around completely. If you look at salami,
Kinam is one. When he came to the ashkenath, everything was given
one day, rasulallah, Wali wasallam adustr, Sahaba, someone asked Baha
Ming Kum saeman, o my Sahaba, Who amongst you today got up in a
condition that he has kept Rosa he is fasting. Abu Bakr says, I own
Avi of Allah,
someone Asmaa minkumalam who visited a sick person today. Abu
Bakr says, ayanavi of Allah, someone who followed a Janaza
today. Abu Bakr says, I only of Allah
from an A minkumar, even who visited a sick person today, Abu
Bakr says, ayo Nabi of Allah from an Asmaa Miskin and who said a
poor person today. Abu Bakr says, I own a way of Allah.
They would vie with one another. Allah, Islam says, maj Tamari
nila, Jannah, that person in whom all these things are found. He is
a janati.
Allah says, when this verse of the Quran came down, first vie with
one another. He says, Sababa started competing. He says, how
many times I try to outdo Abu Bakar, musta bakana, Ila shayini,
Abu Bakar, Wakana sabakan. He says, how many times I tried to
outdo Abu Bakar, the Allahu taala, but every time I tried, when it
came to ash, when it came to the Aman of Deen Abu Bakr outed me,
Wakana, sabakan Bin He would hasten towards carrying out the
commands of Allah, subhanaw taala, he would go ahead of the others.
There was one blind elderly woman in Madina munawalla. Allah says, I
thought to myself, let me go and make her khidmat. 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 pick and stand. He.
Having seen this,
he says, I went away and I vowed on 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, 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 moths that when the time
of moth came, it was not something they feared. It was something they
looked forward to
when Abu Bakar, the Allahu Taala and who is on his deathbed,
the people come to him crying. They say to him, Abu Bakr Raul
muminin,
should we not send for a doctor?
He smiles weekly 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
fauld, I will do as I want to do. In other words, My Allah has
already decided about my modes. When they hear this, they burst
into tears. Aisha radi Allah, his beloved daughter, the wife of
Rasulullah, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam. She hearing this, she
says, Laam rukhma is a hash Rajat. Lamenting over the loss of Abu
Bakr, he says to Oh, my daughter, do not say that. Do not say that.
Do not be sad. What you should say waja a chakra to motiv will Haq,
that moth which is haq, which is the reality has come now. And he
says to all Aisha,
all I have left in this world before kilapat, 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 Baitul Mall.
Aisha radiallana, says, Mata Abu bakrin, wama, Taraka, di naran,
wala dirhaman wakat aka da malahu, Kula Hu father, khalaufi, beitel,
Maal, she says, Abu Bakr radi, Allahu Taala and 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
betul. Maal,
he addresses her. This is the last gasp of his life. He says to her,
Oh, My beloved daughter, if she was obeying having these clothes
which I am wearing, I want you to wash it. What cup finuni fiha and
make this my coffin final. Jadidimen Do not use a new coffin
for me, because the living and a more in need of new clothes than
those who are dead.
After he passes away and he 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,
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. Wallahiman wavi vakrin, the
Iman is 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, Sharan fi
sadiar, Omar, Oman, that personality, he says, Allah
custom, I wish I was a hair on the chest of Abu Bakr.
This is when they gave everything for accurate moth was not a source
of fear. Bilal Radi Allahu Taala and who in Sham at the time of his
death, he is sick on his death bed. Wife is crying one side. What
is Vila saying? Wa Taraba wa tarabadan, al
qal Muhammadan wahis Ba. He says, how happy I am, how happy I am.
The time has come tomorrow I am to meet Muhammad, sallAllahu, alayhi
wa sallam and his companions. Why is this crying? Vilali.
Happy amagan, Yasir RadiAllahu taalan, who 95 years of age on the
Medan of SIFI. He asked for water, milk is brought, he says to Hashi
mirkaladi Allahu talanu, a Badri sahabi, oh Hashim al mirpal, 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. Navi salaam said to me, O Ma, make
sabhar 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 as the
beloved
grandson of Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam on the plains of Karbala as
one by one, the flowers of the descendants of the Aleve the
family of Rasulullah sallallah Sallam 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, il Haq, we are by
ika salishin that go back and meet your pious forefathers. Asmaa is
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 his Abubakar and Omar.
Osman goes closer the Vishal addresses Abubakar and Omar see
what has happened to Usman. They have cut off his water and his
food. See how he is suffering the Vishal 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 Navier,
some says to him, Osman, if you want, we will send an army to
assist you. Or if you want, the Iftar of your Loza of tomorrow
will take place with us. Asmaa, nadiallahu dalam says, on the way
of Allah, do not send an army. I want to go back to you. I want to
meet you tomorrow, the next morning, asmaadi Alam says to his
Khadim, I have worn a pants today, not a lungi. He was full of haya
and shame. He says, Today, my NaVi has informed me my life is to be
given. I fear when they attack me, my SAT 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 spills on the world, fasayafika,
whom Allah, Allah, will be sufficient for you, against them.
When the topic of mouth comes in front of us, many 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, Allah, 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 the 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 dunya May Allah give us, each and every one of us
to stop we go after.