Ali Albarghouthi – Every Soul Shall Taste Death
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He said
increased
the remembrance
of the destroyer
of pleasures.
And he meant by that
death, meaning remember
death often.
And another hadith,
someone asked the prophet alaihis salatu wassalam,
Someone once asked the messenger alayhis salatu wa
salam, O Prophet of Allah,
who are the best of people? That is
a question that all of us should be
interested in. Who are the best of people?
Because if you know who they are, you
could be
one of them.
Who are the best of people? He said,
those with the best character.
The Sahabi continued
he says, who are the wisest? Who are
the smartest?
He said,
those who remember
death the most
and prepare best for it and what comes
after it, those are the wise. Those are
the smart ones.
And that tells you that the opposite is
true that those who do not remember death
should be counted among the foolish,
the dumb,
the idiots of this world.
And you may say to yourself
the first and the second hadith,
why is it that we need to continue
to remember death and why is it that
its remembrance
makes us wise and smart and the lack
of that remembrance makes us stupid.
It is because of our nature and the
nature of this world itself.
We are people who are very forgetful,
and we are people who are securely attached
to the pleasures of this life to the
extent
that we forget about everything else.
And we live in a state
that is hard to escape and that is
the state of
inattentiveness,
lack of attention to what benefits us but
attention to what harms us. And Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala
describe this.
He said,
people's judgment the day of reckoning is coming
close to everyone, to people
but they are
inattentive
turning away from that news.
Whatever news comes to them from Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala when they listen to it, they
listen to it with playing bodies and distracted
hearts.
Meaning it does not affect them, it does
not penetrate them, it does not change them.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala also said,
these are the ayahs of the book a
Quran that clarifies
all.
There's gonna come a time
when the disbelievers
will wish that they were Muslims.
But for now,
let them eat and let them have fun
and let them be distracted by false hope,
they shall come to know.
Notice what he said here subhanahu wa ta'ala.
What are they interested in?
And what do they turn away from?
He said,
there's gonna come a time
where the disbelievers
would wish that they were Muslims
and that is either the time of death
or on the day of judgment.
But for now do they listen?
For now for now do they heed? No.
They don't. So for now let them. What
do they wanna do? They just wanna eat
and they just simply wanna have fun
and they think that they're gonna be living
for a very long time
but they shall come to know that this
is not true.
And there's nothing wrong with eating and there
is nothing wrong with having fun but when
it dominates your life until you forget about
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
then that is the ghafla that we are
talking about and that is very hard to
escape.
So he said,
alaihis salatu wa salam remember death so that
you could escape it.
And when you remember death, Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala
gives you plenty of benefits.
First of all,
if you are encountering
difficulty,
it will diminish because you know it has
an end.
He said,
If anyone remembers death while while experiencing
difficulty,
it will bring
ease to that person.
If you're having pain,
difficulty right now and you remember death, your
pain will diminish
and your tragedy will decline
because you know it's going to end and
it is cannot be compared to the tragedy
and difficulty
of death.
So it will diminish,
it will go
away. What death also does when you we
remember it is that it decreases our attachment
to the to the duniya.
You're not gonna cling on to something that
you know is gonna leave you and you're
gonna leave.
So greed and envy will diminish
and the dunya will not devour you because
you know that no matter how much money
I collect,
no matter my reputation,
no matter the power and the prestige and
the honors that I collect, none of these
things will follow me into the grave.
He said,
It says three things will follow the deceased
to the grave.
His family will follow, his money will follow,
and his deeds will follow, but his family
will go back and his money will go
back and the only thing that will stay
with him
are his deeds.
That's the only thing that enters the grave
with you. That the only thing that gives
you may keep you company in the grave.
And nothing else will be with you
except what you have done.
So consider what you have done for that
time.
Subhanallah,
they say that
It says,
people are fast asleep
but when they die they wake up.
Look at
us. We're fast asleep. It doesn't matter how
many reminders we hear.
It's like we are so
asleep, people shake us to wake up and
we refuse. They keep shaking us to wake
up and we refuse
until the moment of death arrives.
Until the moment of death arrives.
He says, you are not paying attention to
this.
You were not paying attention to this.
But today we lift the veil
and now you can see with clarity.
We blinded ourselves with this dunya and blinded
ourselves with the fact that hey, I'm gonna
live for a long time. Don't let me
hear about death.
Even though you're trying to run away from
it, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, the agony,
the difficulty of death
had brought the truth to you. This is
the thing that you're trying to escape.
You're trying to run away from it all
your life,
but there's no running away from it.
And so the wisest and the best
will not run away from remembering death
but the right to remember it more often
because it will fix their life. In fact,
you are not really living until you remember
death.
You're not really living a life that Allah
is happy with until you incorporate that death
into your plan
and then you could live a life that
Allah is pleased with.
You rely on him not on yourself.
You'll prepare for that time when you die,
not a dunya that you're gonna leave.
You're not gonna sin because you know that
you're gonna see the consequence of that sin.
Allah will open your heart because of it.
And the dunya will have less power over
you.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said,
It says consider
if we let them enjoy for years,
and then what we promised them
came to them,
which is Allah's punishment or their end.
What did all these years benefit them?
All these years of fun and enjoyment,
what benefit did it bring to them?
Ask yourself and you don't have to be
an older
man or woman
to understand this.
If you're in your twenties, ask yourself,
how fast did your teen years pass?
What did they look like?
What memory do you have of them?
Does it seem that you've lived for an
entire decade?
Does it seem that you've lived
20
years, 30 years, 40 years, 50 years, 60
years?
What would what does that seem like to
you?
Does it seem like decades?
Or does it seem like a week
or a day
or an hour?
On the day of judgment, we'll confess,
we've lived what?
A day or part of a day
or we lived an hour in a day.
This is this whole life.
So let us remember
the inevitable end to it
and that will reform how we are living
today.
Once,
Rasulullah
alaihis salatu wa sallam passed by a grave,
and he
said, who's buried here? They said so and
so You Rasool Allah.
He said,
He turned to them and he said,
voluntary of the kind that is light that
you consider
insignificant.
He could add to his deeds is more
beloved to him than the rest of this
world.
Consider those 2 rakas
that you pray quickly
and they are legitimate
but quickly,
fast,
light. You consider them to be what?
Insignificant
in your eyes. He said that
is more beloved to this deceased
than the rest of your dunya. Meaning all
of it till the day of judgment. He
does not want any of that because he
knows the real value of it. But 2
rakas that you quickly pray right after jum'ah,
before, after, at night quickly.
He says that is more precious
than the duniya. And you think about it,
what is precious really to us now? The
dollar is precious,
Food is freshest. Travel is freshest. Shopping is
freshest. Fame is freshest.
Living an extra day is freshest
but not obeying Allah, not 2 rak'ahs, not
a ayah from the Quran.
So the death
and remembering it
will reorganize
your priorities so that what you consider to
be precious is what Allah considers to be
precious, not the people of the dunya and
do not let them deceive you because the
heart is susceptible to deception.
You may ask, how do I remember
death?
As the prophet alaihis salatu wa salam recommended?
He said,
to
the
he said,
visit the graves
because they remind you of the hereafter.
So this is something that you wanna keep
in mind to keep remembering
our end. Visit the graves.
Pray the janazah.
Make dua for the deceased
from a sincere heart and attentive heart that
knows that today it is him or
her. Tomorrow it's gonna be me.
So imagine yourself in that coffin, in that
casket, in that shroud and say to yourself,
what would I wanna do before I am
there? So
praying Janazah,
following
it and visiting
the graveyard,
also
reading the book of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
as often as possible because it keeps reminding
you of value of this life and in
your end and the day of judgment.
So if you read the book of Allah,
you're not gonna forget but you need to
heed what Allah is saying.
Add to it also
to actively
read about death, to read about the hereafter
or attend classes, attend courses
or study circles that talk about this issue
so that we never forget
because we will forget and we are living
in a time that it is easy to
be engrossed in the duniya and forget about
Allah. So if you are actively
trying this and if you strive,
Allah will remind you. But if you forget,
you will be forgotten.
And if you forget the
you're gonna forget about this dunya as well.
So ask Allah
to make us of those who remember death
often and heed the warnings that we read
in the Quran and the sunnah and heed
the warnings that we see around us and
make us among the pious not among the
rebellious
You Allah open our hearts for iman
and soften them so that they would accept
your reminders.
Soften them so that they would flock to
your book and to the sunnah of your
messenger
You Allah fix our affairs for us. You
Allah reform our life for us. You Allah
fill our life with your love and love
of your
and love for the believers. We ask you
to make us living among those who live
as Muslims, who die as Muslims, and who
are resurrected as Muslims. We ask you
to elevate us in rank in the hereafter.
We ask you for
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