Ali Albarghouthi – Life Beyond- What Awaits After Death #4
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The importance of protecting oneself from the attack of Shaytan and not letting anyone know the outcome of their actions until death is emphasized. Abuse of punishment and guidance during death is also emphasized. forgiveness and balancing fear with love are also important for protecting one's behavior and beliefs. forgiveness and love are essential for everyone to be careful with their behavior. praying for the relative's grave is essential for alleviating punishment and guidance.
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In the name of Allah and praise be
to Allah and peace and blessings be upon
the Messenger of Allah and his family and
companions.
O Allah, teach us what benefits us and
benefit us with what you have taught us.
And increase us in knowledge, O Lord of
the worlds.
O Allah, help us in remembering You, in
thanking You, and in Your good worship.
So last time, we've talked about sakratul mawt,
the stupor of death, the difficulty and the
agony of death.
And we explained what that means.
And we can't leave that point before stressing
the importance of repentance, before that moment arrives.
And Allah, Azza wa Jal, said, Innamal tawbatu
ala Allah lillatheena ya'maluna suwa bi jahalatin thumma
yatobuna min qareeb.
He says, Allah, Azza wa Jal, will accept
the repentance of those who will do bad
things ignorantly.
And then they repent short after.
Allah, Azza wa Jal, then will accept their
repentance.
Wakanallahu aleeman hakeema, all-knowing, all-wise.
Walaysatil tawbatu lillatheena ya'maluna as-sayyi'ati hattaa
idhaa hadhara ahadahumul mawt.
Qala inni tubtul an, walallatheena yamutuna wahum kuffar.
And he says, this tawba is not for
those who will commit sins, until the time
when death arrives, and then they say, I
repent now.
And not for those who die while they
are kuffar.
We have prepared great punishment for them.
So Allah, Azza wa Jal, tells you that
he will accept this repentance until what?
Before the moment of death.
If a person delays it till the moment
of death, and when he sees those angels,
says, I repent now, Allah will not accept
that repentance.
In another ayah, Allah, Azza wa Jal, said,
hal yanzuroona illa an ta'atiyahumul malaa'ika
aw ya'tiya rabbuka aw ya'tiya ba'du ayati rabbik.
He says, are they waiting for anything but
that the angels should come to them, or
that Allah should come, or that some of
the signs of Allah, Azza wa Jal, should
come and arrive.
So Allah, Azza wa Jal, when he comes,
he comes for judgment on the final day,
the day of judgment.
He comes then for judgment.
He says, are they waiting for that?
Or when the angels will come to them,
or when they will see some of the
signs of Allah, Azza wa Jal.
Then he says, yawma ya'ti ba'du ayati rabbika
la yanfa'u nafsan imanuha.
When some of those signs of Allah will
come, a person's iman will not help them
if they did not have iman before.
Just like, for instance, the sun rising from
the west.
Right?
So that is a moment when Allah, Azza
wa Jal, will cease to accept repentance.
But you may not see that.
What is the moment that everybody is going
to witness, where Allah, Azza wa Jal, will
not accept repentance?
That's the moment of death.
And to that thing, the Prophet, Sallallahu alayhi
wasallam, said, inna allaha yaqbalu tawbatal abdi ma
lam yugharghir.
Allah accepts the repentance of someone, as long
as their soul has not reached their throat.
So algharghara is something in your throat.
So if the soul has not reached the
throat, it's not leaving the body, before that,
Allah can accept what?
Repentance.
At that moment, it's too late.
Now you say, why is it too late?
Because you've seen from the signs of Allah,
Azza wa Jal, what should push you, compel
you to be a believer, and iman should
be by choice.
Not after you've seen all those signs from
Allah, Azza wa Jal.
Connected to it, and something kind of to
prepare a person for that time.
Two hadiths, and then an ayah.
The Prophet, Sallallahu alayhi wasallam, said, i'budillaha
ka'annaka taraah.
He says, worship Allah as if you can
see Him.
That's one.
And consider yourself to be among the dead.
And remember Allah, Azza wa Jal, next to
every stone, and next to every tree.
If you do something bad, do right next
to it, beside it, something good.
The one that is private, a private sin,
then a private good deed.
And the public sin, a public good deed.
Meaning that will erase it.
So this is a really nice hadith.
Because he said, Sallallahu alayhi wasallam, i'budillaha
ka'annaka taraah.
Worship Allah as if you see Him.
So if you want to enhance your worship,
what do you do?
You try to imagine that Allah, Azza wa
Jal, is watching you, or that you are
seeing Him, and that will enhance your worship.
The more that you bring this into your
mind, the better your ibadah will be.
And he says, wa'dud nafsaka fil mawtaka.
Consider yourself among the dead.
Meaning think to yourself, I'm dead right now.
What would I want?
What would I regret?
What would I change?
I'm almost dead because I am dying.
Like I'm walking, marching towards my death.
How should my life be different?
Imagine if you're in the grave.
Imagine if you're answering the questions of the
angels.
Imagine if you're receiving the good or the
bad news from them.
Consider yourself as if you are dead or
about to die.
And then see how that changes you, and
see what you want to fix about yourself,
what you want to enhance, when you want
to leave.
So, wa'dud nafsaka fil mawtaka.
He said, I'm almost among the dead.
I'm almost among those in that graveyard.
And he said, and if you do something
bad, and all of us do, he says,
couple that.
Join it immediately with something good.
If what you've done that is bad is
private, then a private good deed.
Could be public if you want.
But to make it easy, if it's private,
in secret, let there be also something in
private and in secret.
But if it is public, go public.
And then he also said, He said, Allah
has removed the excuses of someone whom he
had made reach 60 years of age.
Right?
Why is that?
Now the ayah, that we'll read inshaAllah, explains
it.
Allah azawajal says, He says, They'll be screaming
in it, saying, Ya Allah, get us out
of it, so that we will do good,
unlike what we used to do.
Allah azawajal says, Or will say, He says,
did we not extend your life sufficiently, so
if you wanted to remember, you could remember?
That is, we prolonged your life, the time
of which, if someone really wanted to remember,
he could remember.
And the warner came to you.
So what is this warner?
What is the thing that warns you about
your being finite, approaching death?
He says, Rasulullah s.a.w. is nadheer.
The Qur'an is nadheer.
Gray hair is nadheer.
Loved ones dying around you is nadheer.
All of this.
And reaching 60 years, is also nadheer.
Because what this ayah is saying, and what
the Prophet s.a.w. had said in
that hadith is what?
He says, if Allah extends your life until
60, then where is your excuse right now
to say, I didn't hear, I didn't know,
I did not have enough time.
By 60 you had.
In the eyes of Allah s.w.t,
you had enough time.
It doesn't mean on the one hand that
if you're 20, if you're 30, you say,
well, I have an excuse.
No, you may not.
You may not.
Because you know what is right and what
is wrong.
But he's saying that if Allah s.w
.t was generous enough with you that He
made you live until you are 60, then
you can't say, I did not know, I
did not understand, I didn't have the time.
So, Allah s.w.t says, ammarnakum, meaning
we gave you enough time that if you
really wanted, you could have done it, you
could have remembered.
Now, one thing to worry about, and it
doesn't mean that everybody will face this, at
the moment of death or just before it,
is the temptation of shaytan.
And the shaytan may attack, and it doesn't
mean that he will attack everyone, but he
may attack.
So, two hadiths here.
One that you probably know very well.
Part of the dua of the Prophet s
.a.w. is that he used to say,
اللهم إني أعوذ بك من عذاب القبر I
seek your protection from the punishment of the
grave.
And from the punishment of النار, ومن عذاب
النار.
ومن فتنة المحيا والممات And from the fitna
of life and death, ومن فتنة المسيح الدجال
And from the fitna of the imposter messiah.
You know this hadith?
You probably repeat it.
What is the fitna of life and death?
Now, the fitna of life is clear.
Anything that takes you away from Allah عز
و جل.
Right?
What is the fitna of death?
It is what you will face at the
moment of death that will take you away
from Allah عز و جل.
Which includes the attack of Shaytan.
If the Shaytan was to attack.
It also can include what?
To face what you cannot bear because your
Iman is weak.
Just like when you are alive.
Allah عز و جل will send you tests.
Right?
If your Iman is weak, you cannot bear
it.
Not that the test is great, but Iman
is what?
Weak.
Because someone may say, didn't Allah say that
he will not send upon a person what
he cannot bear?
It's not that what Allah sends one cannot
bear.
But it's just what?
The health of that person.
His Iman is weak.
That makes whatever is sent his way unbearable.
Just like an illness.
Right?
If you have immunity, you can fight it.
It's not that that illness is fatal.
Right?
It's not fatal.
So Allah said, I'm not sending you something
fatal.
What makes it fatal?
You made yourself weak.
Right?
So here that's the fitna of death.
Which includes as we said, the attack of
Shaytan.
But something that is more explicit.
Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم, part of his
dua, he would say, اللهم إني أعوذ بك
من الهدم Ya Allah, I seek your protection
from dying under the rubble.
ومن التردي From falling from a height and
dying.
ومن الغرق From dying by drowning.
والحرق Or by being burnt alive.
والحرم Old age.
And here he means, عليه الصلاة والسلام, he's
not saying, Ya Allah, take my life before
I reach old age.
But from senility.
Being senile.
And that was associated typically with being very
old.
So you could be old but without this.
But the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم is
saying, Don't let me.
If I do become old, become senile.
وعوذ بك من أن يتخبطني الشيطان عند الموت
And I seek your protection that the Shaytan
should attack me at the time of death.
And I seek your protection that I should
die fleeing the battle scene.
And I seek your protection that I die
bitten by a poisonous animal or a poisonous
insect.
So, one thing here is that, remember when
we said before that some of these things
are shahada, martyrdom.
Remember?
That was last week.
So we said like, if you're burnt alive,
you die under the rubble, and all of
this, that is shahada, martyrdom.
Yet here the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم
is saying, Protect me from it.
So you can say, How come?
He said, Because on the one hand, you're
not asking for it.
And that could be something that could be
unbearable for you or people around you.
Right?
Could be difficult for them.
So he's saying, Ya Allah, protect me from
this.
But if Allah were to choose that you
die this way, then that's the best way.
Right?
That's one.
The explicit part here is, And I seek
your protection from the attacks of Shaytan at
the moment of death.
Now, not everybody will be attacked.
And we don't know who will be attacked
and who will not be attacked.
But this is the last moment where the
Shaytan will try to sway you, will try
to misguide you.
And he either catches you or not.
So some people will be protected.
Some people will be tested.
And they are tested because they are strong.
And some people will be tested and they
are tested because they are weak.
We don't have really a principle here to
apply of who will be protected or who
not.
You just simply ask Allah Azza wa Jal
to protect you.
And there's a famous story about Imam Ahmed,
rahimahullah.
When he was dying, he would fall into
unconsciousness.
They would hear him say, لَيْسَ بَعْدُ وَلَيْسَ
بَعْدُ Not yet, not yet.
Then he'll regain consciousness.
So they asked him, when you kind of
lose consciousness, this is what you're saying.
Then when you come back, you're not saying
that.
What do you mean by this?
He says, because when I fall unconscious like
agony, difficulty of death.
When I lose consciousness, I see the shaitan
standing.
And he says, يَا أَحْمَدْ فُتَّنِي فُتَّنِي He
says, Ya Ahmed, you escaped me.
You're gonna escape me.
So the shaitan is terrified of the fact
that I couldn't get you.
And this is the last moment.
I cannot get you.
He says, you have escaped me.
And so Ahmed, rahimahullah, he says, not yet.
And I didn't escape you yet.
Not until I die.
Then I'm done.
Then I'm safe.
So that's an example.
That the shaitan could attack.
But the scholars have said, it is not
necessarily common.
But could it happen?
Yes.
And so this is something that a person
will need Allah's protection from.
Now, when a person dies, when the soul
is about to go, the angels descend.
So now we're gonna start talking about that
phase.
When the angels come down.
And there are a couple of ayat, and
definitely several ahadith about this.
So, one ayah.
Allah azawajal said, وَقَالَ الَّذِينَ لَا يَرْجُونَ لِقَاءَنَا
لَوْ لَأُنزِلَ عَلَيْنَا الْمَلَئِكَةُ أَوْ نَرَى رَبَّنَا لَقَدْ
اِسْتَكْبَرُوا فِي أَنفُسِهِمْ وَعَتَوْا عُتُوًّا كَبِيرًا It says,
those who do not think that they're gonna
see us, gonna meet us, will be resurrected.
It says, why not the angels will descend
so that we can see them or we
can just publicly see our Rabb.
It says, indeed they are arrogant in themselves
and they are truly rebellious.
It says, يَوْمَ يَرَوْنَ الْمَلَائِكَ لَا بُشْرَ يَوْمَئِذٍ
لِلْمُجْرِمِينَ On the day when they will see
the angels, that will not be good news
for them, for the criminals.
وَيَقُولُونَ حِجْرًا مَّحْجُورًا They will say, protect us.
حِجْرًا مَّحْجُورًا is a phrase in Arabic, mean
protect us, please protect us.
SubhanAllah, it's an interesting ayah.
They're saying, we wanna see the angels.
Let them come down.
You say, there are angels, they bring Allah's
revelation, this and that.
Let them come down and see them.
Allah is saying, they are truly arrogant.
When you're gonna see the angels, that's not
gonna be a good day for you.
And you will seek shelter from what you
are asking for right now.
Because those will be the angels of punishment.
Allah Azza wa Jalla says also, أَلَّذِينَ تَتَوَفَّاهُمُ
الْمَلَائِكَةُ طَيِّبِينَ Those whom the angels will take
their souls, while they are pure, while they
are righteous.
يَقُولُونَ سَلَامٌ عَلَيْكُمْ They will tell them, salam
alaykum.
And we said salam alaykum could mean a
greeting, or a greeting and you're safe.
Because throughout your life, you're running away from
things that could harm you.
And during death, you're trying to run away
also from the last temptations, from your sins,
from psychological, physical pressure.
So when the angels come to take the
soul of that believer, they will tell him,
you are safe.
That's it.
You've arrived.
You're safe now.
No harm anymore.
سَلَامٌ عَلَيْكُمْ اُدْخُلُوا الْجَنَّةَ بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ Enter
heaven because of what you used to do.
And we mentioned that third ayah.
If he is from Ashab ul-Yameen, the
people of the right, فَسَلَامٌ لَكَ They will
receive a greeting.
You are from Ashab ul-Yameen.
There's a hadith from the Prophet ﷺ that
tells us about the good news or the
bad news that the person receives and what
emotions this will bring to him at that
moment of death.
He said ﷺ, مَنْ أَحَبَّ لِقَاءَ اللَّهِ أَحَبَّ
اللَّهُ لِقَاءَهُ وَمَنْ كَرِيَهَ لِقَاءَ اللَّهِ كَرِيَهَ اللَّهُ
لِقَاءَهُ He says, the one who loves to
meet Allah, Allah will love to meet him.
And the one who hates to meet Allah,
Allah will hate to meet him.
So Aisha radiyallahu anha, or one of his
wives, she said, O Prophet of Allah, but
all of us hate death.
He said, this is not it.
وَلَكِنَّ الْمُؤْمِنُ بِالْبِيْفِرِ When he is about to
die, he will be given the good news
of the pleasure of Allah عز و جل
and His mercy.
Then nothing will be more beloved to him
that one lies ahead.
So he loves to meet Allah and then
Allah loves to meet him.
And the disbeliever, when the angels are present
and they give him the bad news of
what awaits him, then he, and what awaits
him is Allah's punishment and His anger.
Then he would hate to meet Allah and
Allah would hate to meet him.
So both will receive that news.
And this hadith in fact, I think we
mentioned this hadith in the previous series.
This is love.
You could actually extend it beyond what the
Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم has mentioned, which
is at the moment of death, which is
that, if you're alive today and you cannot
wait to see Allah عز و جل, you
would love to meet Allah عز و جل,
then guess what?
Allah also would wanna see you.
Allah would wanna meet you.
Allah would wanna be close to you and
bring you close to Him.
So if you love Allah, Allah will love
you.
If you love meeting Allah, Allah loves meeting
you.
And at the moment of death, this intensifies
because you don't understand what is waiting for
you, everything beautiful.
Then you don't wanna go back.
And you would love to meet Allah and
Allah loves to meet you.
And that makes death easier, more pleasant, more
comfortable.
The opposite of course is for the disbeliever,
who when he's given the bad news of
what he's going to meet and what awaits
him, he'll be hating the meeting of Allah
عز و جل, and Allah عز و جل
had already hated meeting him, and will hate
that even more.
There's also a hadith in the Prophet ﷺ,
and this is a lengthy hadith.
And it's probably the most comprehensive hadith that
describes that moment of death till a person
is put in the grave.
And that's the hadith of Al-Bara' ibn
Aazib رضي الله عنه.
And he describes here the burying of a
man from the Ansar.
It is one of those days, the Prophet
ﷺ came out with us, and they're burying
one person from the Ansar.
قَالَ فَانْتَهَيْنَا إِلَى الْقَبْرِ وَلَمَّ يُلْحَدْ He says,
we've arrived at that grave, and we have
not dug it yet.
And we'll talk about the digging of the
grave if Allah عز و جل allows us.
Because the grave, the lahd, you dig down
and then to the sides.
So this was not dug yet.
So the Prophet ﷺ, he sat down, and
he was facing the Qibla.
And he said, we all sat down quietly
next to him, as if the birds are
standing on our heads, meaning they really are
quiet, and they're not moving.
وَفِي يَدِهِ عُودِ He had a stick in
his hand.
And he would play with the sand, the
Prophet ﷺ, then look at the sky, and
look down, and look up, and then look
down.
He said he did that three times.
Up and down, up and down, up and
down.
And then he said, seek Allah's protection from
the punishment of the grave.
He said that twice or three times.
And then he himself, he said, O Allah,
I seek your protection from the punishment in
the grave.
He said it three times.
ثُمَّ قَالَ Then he said, and now he's
going to describe it.
خَالَ إِنَّ الْعَبْدَ الْمُؤْمِنَ إِذَا كَانَ فِي نْقِطَاعٍ
مِّنَ الدُّنْيَةِ وَإِقْبَالٍ مِّنَ الْآخِرَةِ He says, when
a person is about to leave this world,
and move into the next, the akhirah.
And this is the believer.
He says, angels from above will descend, white
faces.
Their faces resemble the sun.
I'm just simply going to translate.
مَعَهُمْ كَفَنٌ مِّنْ أَكْفَانِ الْجَنَّةِ They have shrouds,
kafan, from Jannah.
وَحَنُوتٌ And perfume from Jannah.
And they will sit close to him as
far as he can see.
That's the first thing that he's going to
see.
The angel of death has not come yet.
But he sees those angels.
They come from above, in the vehicle, let's
say, or what's going to carry his soul.
The shroud is from Jannah, the perfume is
from Jannah.
Then the angel of death, alayhi salam.
By the way, that is his formal and
only name in Islam.
Israel is not in the Quran and Sunnah.
So we know him only as what?
The angel of death, right?
So he sits next to his head.
And he says, Oh, this pure righteous soul,
or contented, secured soul, come out to a
forgiveness of Allah and pleasure.
Come out.
So that's the final exit.
قَالَ فَتَسِيلُ كَمَا تَسِيلُ الْقَطْرَةُ مِنْ فِي السِّقَاءِ
So it will come out like a drop
of water from a container of water drops.
See how easy it is?
It just flows out.
Drops out.
It says, he takes it, right?
And when he takes it, they will not
leave it a blink of an eye in
his hand.
They will take it and put it in
that shroud and in that perfume.
And this is Allah Azza wa Jalla saying,
تَوَفَّتْهُ رُسُلُنَا Our messengers will take his soul
and they are careful and observant in what
they are doing.
وَيَخْرُجُ مِنْهَا طِيبٌ كَأَطْيَبِ نَفْحَةِ مِسْكٍ وُجِدَتْ عَلَى
وَجْهِ الْأَرْضِ And he will smell like the
best of musk that had ever been found
on the face of this earth.
And they take now his soul upward, right?
He take his soul upward.
So every angel along the way will inquire,
who is this?
Or every gathering of angels, he will inquire,
what is this beautiful soul?
What is this righteous soul?
They will say, so and so, son of
so and so, with the best name that
he enjoyed while he was alive.
Until they will reach the lowest heaven.
So along the way they'll meet those angels.
Angels, gatherings of angels.
Everybody will smell that perfume that is coming
from Jannah.
And another hadith itself, everybody, all the angels,
they just wanna come and smell him.
Because of how beautiful that smell is.
So they gather just to smell.
And they inquire, and they're intrigued about who
is this unique, distinct person.
They'll say, oh, this is so and so,
son of so and so.
So he's someone being escorted up.
They will come to As-Sama'u Al
-Dunya, to the lowest heaven.
And they'll ask permission to enter.
And they will be given permission.
And then, the angels of each heaven, or
each sama'u, or each sky, they'll be
like his entourage, his gathering, escorting him, his
escort.
They will escort him up to the next
one.
They'll seek permission.
They'll give him permission.
And then he'll be escorted by the angels
of the second sky, and the third sky,
and the fourth sky.
Each one of them asking who is he.
Being impressed by that smell.
And being introduced by the best names that
he had in the dunya.
He says, until they reach the seventh sky,
then Allah Azza wa Jalla will say, أُكْتُبُ
كِتَابَ عَبْدِي فِي عِلِّيِّينَ He says, write the
book of deeds of my servant in in
the highest of highs.
Keep his book there, or write it there.
And Allah in the ayah, وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا
عِلِّيُّونَ What should make you understand what is
It's a book written down, being witnessed by
those who are close to Allah Azza wa
Jalla.
Then his book will be written in Aliyyin,
then it will be said, or Allah will
say, bring him back to earth, because I
have promised him.
I created them from it, and will return
them to it, and I will resurrect them
from it.
So, he'll be returned to this earth.
And his soul shall re-enter his body.
And then two angels will come to him.
And he can hear his family's footsteps as
they leave his grave.
He's aware.
He could feel the footsteps.
And the angels come.
And they are described here, شَدِيدَا لِنْتِهَار They
are harsh and stern.
And we will see, insha'Allah, further descriptions
of them in following hadith.
Meaning they are not playing around.
They are really rough.
قَالَ فَيُجْلِسَانِهِ They'll sit him up.
And they will say, مَنْ رَبُّكَ He says,
who is your Rabb?
He says, Allah is my Rabb.
He says, what is your religion?
He says, my religion is Islam.
They will say, who is this man who
is sancte among you?
Right?
And notice here that they don't name him.
And you'll understand in other hadith why.
Because that's part of the difficulty in it.
Because they are basically asking, who is this
man?
So he said, هو رسول الله عليه الصلاة
والسلام He is the messenger of Allah عليه
الصلاة والسلام Then they'll ask him, how did
you know?
Because we famously understand that the questions in
the grave are what?
Three.
One, two, three, right?
But there is one that is part of
them.
Or if you wish, you could make it
the fourth.
Which is, yes, you've answered one, two, three.
How did you know?
How did you know?
قَالَ قَرَأْتُ كِتَابَ اللَّهِ فَأَمَنْتُ بِهِ وَصَدَّقْتُ He
says, I read the book of Allah عز
و جل and I believed in it.
That it contains the truth.
This is how I know.
This is my proof.
Right?
قَالَ فَيَنْتَهِرُهُ فَيَقُولُ مَنْ رَبُّكَ مَا دِينُكَ مَنْ
نَبِيُّ So he repeats this question, all three
again harshly.
And he says, who is your Rabb?
What is your religion?
And who is your prophet?
And he says, this is the last fitna
that he will face.
So this is a fitna.
Why is it fitna?
You know when you wanna test someone if
they know the answer or not?
So what do you do?
You tell them, what's 1 plus 1?
It says 2.
And you wanna know that if they're sure
or not.
It says, I asked you, 1 plus 1
is what?
To make him doubt the answer, right?
And if you're sure, you'll bring the same
answer.
If not, you'll question yourself.
So that repetition, that's a fitna.
Right?
قَالَ فَذَلِكَ حِينَ يَقُولُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَ It
is then that Allah عز و جل says,
يُثَبِّتُ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا بِالْقَوْلِ الثَّابِكِ فِي الْحَيَاةِ
الدُّنْيَا Allah will hold steadfast those who believe
with that firm saying, with the firm belief
in the dunya.
Meaning, it is then, it's only based on
Allah's confirmation of iman in you that you'll
be able to answer back and speak the
truth and not be frightened.
Because of what they're saying and how intimidating
they are.
So, فَيُنَادَ When he answers, Allah is my
Rabb, Islam is my religion and Muhammad صلى
الله عليه وسلم is my messenger and prophet.
Then there will be a call from the
sky coming and saying, indeed he had spoken
the truth.
He's honest.
Meaning he had passed.
فَفْرِشُوهُ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ So his furnish his grave.
It will continue saying, furnish his grave from
Jannah and clothe him from Jannah and open
a door for him to Jannah.
So he will smell it and he will
get its perfumes.
And his grave will be expanded as far
as his eye can see.
As far as he can see in all
directions.
قَالَ وَيَأْتِيهِ أَوْ يُمَثَّلُ لَهُ رَجُلٍ حَسَنُ الْوَجْهِ
حَسَنُ الْثِيَابِ طَيِّبُ الْرِيحِ He said, and after
this a man will come to him or
a person will come to him.
Handsome, beautiful clothes, beautiful smell.
And then he will tell him, أَبْشِرْ بِالَّذِي
يَسُرُّكَ أَبْشِرْ بِرِضْوَانٍ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَجَنَّاتٍ فِيهَا نَعِيمٌ
مِقِيمٌ He says, receive the good news of
what is ever gonna please you.
Receive the good news of what is going
to please you.
A forgiveness from Allah عز و جل.
And jannas from Allah عز و جل that
you will be everlasting in.
This is the day that you were promised.
He will say, and may Allah also grant
you good news.
Who are you?
Because your face is the face of someone
who relays good news.
He says, I am your good deeds.
I am your good deeds.
But I swear by Allah, I knew you
to be obedient and quick in obeying Allah
عز و جل.
And very slow in the disobedience of Allah
عز و جل.
May Allah reward you well.
جزاك الله خيرا ثُمَّ يُفْتَحُ لَهُ بَابٌ مِنَ
الْجَنَّةِ وَبَابٌ مِنَ النَّارِ And then he will
see two doors.
One to heaven and one to *.
And he will tell him, this would have
been your house in * fire had you
disobeyed.
But Allah had replaced you instead of this,
that mansion in heaven.
Because you have obeyed him.
And he will be able to see that.
When he sees Jannah, he will say, رَبِّي
عَجِّلْ قِيَامَ السَّاعَةِ كَيْمَا أَرْجِعَ إِلَىٰ أَهْلِ وَمَالِي
So when he sees heaven, and what Allah
has for him in heaven, he says, Ya
Allah, bring the Day of Judgment very quickly,
so that I can go back to my
family, and I can go back to my
things.
Bring it back very quickly.
But he will say to him, Quiet.
Be still.
So he is overexcited.
He says, No, be still.
This is not the time yet.
In another hadith, that we may encounter, he
said, Let me go and tell my family.
Let me go and tell them.
Let me leave to tell my family.
He says, No.
You can't.
Be still.
So that's the example of the believer.
وَإِنَّ الْعَبْدَ الْكَافِرُ Now the opposite.
وَإِنَّ الْعَبْدَ الْكَافِرُ The disbeliever, or the sinful,
الفاجر, in another narration.
He says, when leaving this life, and heading
into the Hereafter, Angels from above, they will
enter.
غِلَاضٌ شِدَاتٌ They are rough and cruel and
harsh.
سُودُ الْوُجُوحُ Black faces.
مَعَهُمُ الْمُسُوحُ مِنَ النَّارِ They have clothes from
Hellfire, made from fire, and it is مسوح.
Sackcloth.
Meaning rough, meaning these types of clothes are
made from hair, in this world.
And they are uncomfortable to wear.
So, extremely uncomfortable clothes, that have come from
Hellfire, that are made with fire.
So they will come to Him.
And they will sit next to Him, as
far as He can see.
Then the Angel of Death will come, sit
next to His head.
And He says, Oh you, wicked soul, come
out to an anger, that you will receive
from Allah, Azza wa Jal.
قَالَ فَتَثَرَّقُ فِي جَسَدِهِ When the soul hears
this, it flees into the body.
It tries to flee into the whole body,
running from that bad news.
And what could come to it?
قَالَ فَيَنْتَزِعُهَا كَمَا يُنْتَزَعُ السَّفُودُ الْكَثِيرُ الشُّعَبِ مِنَ
الصُّوفِ الْمُبَلَّلِ So He says, He rips it
out, like you rip out.
An iron rod, that has hooks, stuck into
damp, wet wool.
Alright?
So imagine, right?
Something like that.
It has hooks, and it's wet, and it's
a metal rod.
And that wool will stick to it.
It's not easy to come out.
So He rips it out, like that.
That's the difficulty.
Because it doesn't want to leave.
The soul of the believer, wants to.
The soul of the disbeliever, wants to stay
here.
And it's terrified of what is awaiting it.
So, so He says, that is agonizing.
He says, the limbs feel that agony.
And parts of His body feel that agony
as He's being ripped out.
So He takes it out.
And if He takes it, He will not
leave it in His hand in the blink
of an eye, until they put it in
those clothes from hellfire, the sackcloth from hellfire.
And then He will smell like the foulest
smell you could ever face on the face
of this earth.
And then they will climb with it.
And whatever angel smells it, he will say,
what is this wicked soul?
What is this wicked smell?
They say, so and so, son of so
and so, with the most terrible of names
that He hated in this world.
Until they reach the lowest heaven, they'll ask
for permission to entry, for entry.
But they will not be granted.
And the Prophet ﷺ recited the ayah, لَا
تُفَتَّحُ لَهُمْ أَبْوَابُ السَّمَاءُ The gates of the
heavens or the doors of heaven will not
be opened for them.
Then Allah Azzawajal said, أُكْتُبُ كِتَابَهُ فِي سَجِّينٍ
فِي الْأَرْضِ السُّفْلَةِ He says, write His book
in Sijjin, in the lowest of the lows
of this earth.
And then He said, take My servant to
this earth because I promised them, I created
them from it.
They shall return to it and they'll be
resurrected from it.
فَتُطْرْحُ رُوحُ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ Then His soul will
be thrown, hurled down, not escorted, will be
hurled down to His body and will enter
His body.
And the Prophet ﷺ said, وَمَن يُشْرِك بِاللَّهِ
فَكَأَنَّ مَا خَرَّ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ The one who
associates partners with Allah as if he had
fallen from the sky.
So he literally will be falling from the
sky.
قَالَ Then his soul will enter his body
and he will hear the footsteps of people
leaving the graveyard as they are leaving.
And two angels, شَدِيدَا لِنْتِهَار Again the same
angels, harsh, cruel, stern angels will come to
him.
And so they'll set him up and they
will say, مَنْ رَبُّكِ؟
Who is your Rabb?
قَالَ فَيَقُولُ هَا هَا لَا أَدْرِي He says,
what, what, I don't know.
And they say that phrase is a phrase
of confusion.
You don't know what to answer.
You're terrified by what you're seeing.
You're absolutely lost.
You don't know what the answer is.
So you're trying to, but you can't.
He says, what, what, I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know what the answer is.
What are you trying to ask me?
He can't figure it out.
They say, مَا دِينُك؟
What's your religion?
He says, I don't know.
I don't know what to answer.
He says, فَمَا تَقُولُ فِي هَذَا الرَّجُلِ الَّذِي
بُعِيثَ فِيكُم He says, what do you say
about this man who was sent among you?
قَالَ فَلَا يَهْتَدِي لِسْمِهِ He doesn't know who
they're talking about.
He can't figure out who he is.
And they didn't give him any hint.
So either you know or you don't.
He says, I don't know who you're talking
about.
فَيُقَالُ مُحَمَّدٍ He says, Muhammad.
فَيُقَالُ, I don't know, I don't know.
I heard people say something and I said
it.
I don't know, I heard people say something
and I said it.
فَيُقَالُ لَا دَرَيْتَ وَلَا تَلَوْتُ He says, may
you not know.
May you never know.
And here, when he said, I heard people
say something and I said it.
That could be a reference to a kafir.
Or to a person who said that they
were Muslim.
So if it's a kafir, who is this
Muhammad?
He says, I don't know.
I just heard something and I just took
it for granted.
Meaning he had received enough knowledge for him
to be accountable.
But he didn't believe.
I heard people disbelieve, so I disbelieved as
well.
Or a person who is a hypocrite.
He says that he's Muslim, but he doesn't
really believe.
So he said, I heard people say that
he's a prophet.
I said it, meaning I didn't really believe
it.
I just said it.
He said, So a caller from the heavens
will say, indeed he has rejected the truth.
Confirmation that yeah, he has failed.
Furnish him from the fire.
And open a door to him to help
fire.
So he will receive its heat.
He will receive that foul smell and foul
wind that comes from it.
And then his grave will shrink until his
ribs will start crushing each other.
Opposite of the believer who will have an
expanded face.
This is for this person.
It will shrink until his rib cage will
be crushing.
And then an ugly man with ugly clothing.
The foulest of smell will come to him.
And he said, receive the worst news.
This is the day that you were promised.
So he will tell him, and you have
the face of someone who will bring terrible
news.
May Allah not give you good news.
Alright?
Who are you?
He says, I'm your evil deeds.
By Allah Azawajal, I knew you to be
very slow in obeying Allah Azawajal.
Very quick in his disobedience.
May Allah reward you evil.
May Allah reward you evil.
Then he will receive, and we'll imagine here
that that's an angel or one of Allah's
creatures that we are not told what it
is.
But he is what?
Blind.
Deaf.
And mute.
And he has in his hand, a sledgehammer.
A big hammer.
He said, if he were to hit a
mountain with it, it will turn into sand.
So he hits him with it, and he
does turn into sand.
Then Allah Azawajal returns him as he was.
And then he hits him with it again.
And he screams and wails because of it.
A scream that everyone can hear except the
jinn and the ins.
They are shielded from that.
But everything else, meaning animals will hear it.
They'll recognize it.
It doesn't necessarily mean that it frightens them
because it doesn't tell us that.
But they could hear that scream from him.
ثُمَّ يُفْتَحُ لَهُ بَابٌ مِنَ النَّارِ And then
a door will open to him to hellfire.
And he will be told.
And also a door to heaven.
And he will be told, this would have
been your place in heaven had you obeyed
Allah Azawajal.
But this is your place in hellfire.
That is waiting for you.
So he sees his place.
And he sees the agony over there.
And he receives some of the furnishing, some
of the punishment of Allah in his grave.
Then he says, Ya Allah, don't let the
day of judgment come.
Don't let it happen.
Because he knows what is waiting for him.
Now, just a couple of short hadiths I'll
share with you about the punishment in the
grave.
And then we'll, Inshallah, pause for your questions.
One is, and of course, Inshallah, when we
come next week, with Allah Azawajal, there will
be other hadiths that will expand on what
we just said.
So we'll add a little bit here, more
detail here, more detail there, Inshallah, to give
you a fuller picture, with Allah Azawajal.
So, he said, It is not the fact
that I fear that you will stop burying
yourselves and each other.
I would have prayed to Allah Azawajal to
make you hear the punishment in the grave.
So, the reason why he did not ask
that, is that if you were to hear
it, you'll be so terrified you will not
bury your dead anymore.
So, he said, that's why you do not
hear it.
And he also said, alayhis salatu was salam,
وَلَقَدْ أُوحِيَ إِلَيَّ أَنَّكُمْ تُفْتَنُونَ فِي قُبُورِكُمْ مِثْلًا
أَوْ قَرِيبًا مِنْ فِتْنَةِ الْمَسِيحِ الدَّجَّالِ He says,
It has been revealed to me that you
will be tested in your graves, a fitna,
or a test, like the fitna and the
test of the imposter Messiah, al-Masih al
-Dajjal.
And why is this relevant?
If someone were to ask you, what is
the biggest fitna on earth that has either
happened or is yet to come?
That would be what?
The imposter Messiah.
The biggest fitna, by far.
Now, you may not see it, but in
terms of what is on a scale, that's
that greatest fitna.
Everything else is beneath it, lesser than it.
So, when he is saying, alayhis salatu was
salam, that you are be testing in the
grave, something similar to that, doesn't mean at
the same level, but at least it is
similar to it.
It tells you about the intensity of that
fitna.
It's not the easiest of things.
So, only if Allah Azza wa Jal protects
you, will you be protected.
And only if you have the ammunition to
be protected, will you be protected.
And he also said, alayhis salatu was salam,
مَا رَأَيْتُ مَنْظَرًا قَطْ I have not seen
a scene at all.
إِلَّا وَالْخَبُرُ أَضْضَعَ مِنْهِ Except that the grave
is more terrifying.
Of course, the hereafter is more terrifying than
the grave.
So, it doesn't mean that the grave is
more terrifying than hellfire.
But it means, beside that, in this world,
there is nothing more terrifying than the grave.
مَا رَأَيْتُ مَنْظَرًا قَطْ إِلَّا وَالْخَبُرُ أَضْضَعَ مِنْهُ
And the last hadith, inshaAllah, that I'll share
with you tonight, by the will of Allah,
He said, قَالَ إِنَّ الْقَبْرَ أَوَّلُ مَنَازِلِ الْآخِرَةِ
He says, the grave is the first station
of the hereafter.
فَإِنَّ جَا مِنْهُ فَمَا بَعْدَهُ أَيْسَرُ مِنْهُ He
says, if you survive it, if you're okay
then, then what comes after is easier.
وَإِلَّا مِنْجُ مِنْهُ If you do not survive
it, if that's not okay for you, فَمَا
بَعْدَهُ أَشَدُّ مِنْهُ Then what comes after is
more difficult.
If someone were to tell you, what is
the first station of the hereafter?
What is it?
The grave.
That's why, مَنْ مَاتَ فِقَدْ قَامَتْ قِيَامَتُهُ If
someone dies, his day of judgment has started.
If someone dies, his day of judgment has
started.
And in fact, that's the Prophet ﷺ once
referred to it.
A few people, and it's important to understand
this hadith properly.
Some people would come, and that moment they
were in a group, and they had a
young boy with them.
They say, O Prophet of Allah عز و
جل, when will the day of judgment come?
He looked at that young boy and he
said, if he reaches old age, your day
of judgment will come.
And what did he mean by that?
He didn't mean the actual last day.
But he meant what?
When he reaches old age, most of you
then will be what?
Dead.
That's your day of judgment.
So, if you die, that's the first station
of the hereafter.
So what he said ﷺ, keep that in
mind when we're talking about all the punishment
in the grave, and why there is punishment
in the grave.
He said, if you pass this unscathed, unhurt,
safe, then this bodes well for what comes
next.
Then it will be easier later.
If you don't, then what comes next generally
is more difficult.
So the day of judgment is more difficult
than the grave.
So inshaAllah we'll stop here.
And we will, I'll share with you inshaAllah
next week more details about that time in
the grave and what happens.
Because there are several other things inshaAllah that
take place that we do not have time
inshaAllah for them today.
Let me know inshaAllah if you have questions.
Yeah.
Alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah.
They are what?
I'm sorry.
They are in the Sakarat, yes.
Right.
And we will come inshaAllah to that.
So he's asking, can I convey greetings to
so and so if someone is dying?
Can I tell them, if you see so
and so, if you see and so, can
you say salam to them?
We will inshaAllah share with you hadith that
is possible because they do meet.
InshaAllah.
Yes.
Alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah.
Louder.
Okay, so if a Muslim dies and his
bad deeds are not purified, does he have,
or will he be purified or punished in
the grave?
Or in the actual Yawm al-Qiyamah?
So it depends on the sin.
It depends on the sin.
So if some sins are still left, right,
he may experience, and we will talk about
that inshaAllah, he may experience a period of
punishment, extended period of punishment, continuous punishment until
he's resurrected.
All these are possibilities depending on the sin.
So, and then this is in addition or
in place of what's going to happen in
the next life.
Again, it depends on the quantity and the
gravity of the sin, inshaAllah.
And notice here why, and maybe I'll come
to this next week inshaAllah, that in this
hadith, and this is something people ask, it
says, the hadith that we've just mentioned, it
talks about the believer, so that's one end,
talks about the disbeliever and the sinful, that's
the other, and what about the people in
the middle?
Right?
And the people in the middle, wallahu a
'lam, are not mentioned.
They tell you that it's a mix.
It's a mix.
To what extent?
Allah knows best.
So maybe they receive a little bit of
this and a little bit of that.
We're not going to guess.
So he just told us about, this is
the best, which is you're supposed to aim
for this.
And this is the worst, and that should
terrify you.
The middle, he left it ambiguous, right?
Or unmentioned.
And there's a reason for it.
One hand, yes.
Yes.
So the punishment in the grave are for
sins that a person did not repent from.
We assume that if that repentance is complete
and sincere, the sins are forgiven.
Allah azza wa jalla is not going to
punish you for them.
So it's obviously in the next life and
in the grave, it is sins that have
gone unpaid for, right?
You haven't sought Allah's forgiveness.
You haven't sought people's forgiveness.
So there is something still there that needs
purification.
Yeah.
Sure.
Different.
Now, so, yeah, the confusion arises from the
fact that they call the sky heaven.
So when we say السماء, the first sky,
second sky, third sky, they also refer to
it sometimes as heaven.
Heaven one, heaven two, heaven three.
But this is not Jannah.
This is not Jannah.
So, Jannah, and again, inshallah, we're going to
come to that.
You will find out that the soul of
some people, I will leave it just at
that, will be in Jannah.
Even before the day of judgment.
We'll come to that, inshallah.
Okay.
So I have a few questions here.
Let me see how many we can answer,
inshallah.
So based on the hadith you mentioned about
someone not having an excuse after living to
60, is it okay to ask Allah not
to live until old age?
The request from the Prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام
is أعوذ بك من الهرم and haram here
means what?
Senility, right?
Losing your mind.
When you reach old age.
But, if Allah عز و جل were to
give you extended life with your mind sharp
and you're able to praise Allah عز و
جل and then worship Him, then your extended
life is good for you or bad?
What is it?
I'm waiting for your reaction.
Good or bad?
Good, right?
So the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he
said that, who is the best believer?
من طال عمره وحسن عمله The one who
lives long and his deeds are good.
So don't ask Allah عز و جل to
terminate your life early.
How do you know that that's good for
you?
So, just ask Allah for the best.
You can even ask Allah, Ya Allah, if
it's good for me.
Extend my life and my good deeds.
And Allah may give it to you or
not.
And if it's good, may Allah grant it.
Right?
But don't ask Allah عز و جل If
you just want to ask Allah, ask Him,
أعوذ بك من الهرم I seek protection from
Al-Haram.
With the understanding that the Prophet صلى الله
عليه وسلم had, don't ask Allah to terminate
your life.
It may not be good for you.
The fitna of death in this case would
how we lived our life determine whether we
pass the fitna of death?
It's our own control in a moment.
What do we mean by the fitna of
death?
It is the attack of Shaytan and also
the inability to process all the difficulty.
If that's what we mean by it and
that's what I meant by it, then obviously
how you live determines whether you'll be able
to pass this or not.
So if you lived a life of Iman,
when you're about to die, and you still
possess that Iman, if the Shaytan wants to
attack you, you'll repel that attack with the
help of Allah عز و جل.
If death is difficult, you'll be able to
tolerate, withstand the difficulty of death, just like
you tolerate any hardship in this life while
you're still alive.
You lost a loved one, you lost money,
you were able to be patient with it
and overcome it.
You'll be able to do that at that
moment of death.
So how you live predicts how you die
and how you die predicts how you'll be
resurrected.
So if you want to be able to
survive the fitna of death, you have to
survive the fitna of life as you're alive
right now.
And that's a good point by the way.
There's a fitna that's going to come at
the time of death and there's a fitna
at this moment.
If you succeed against the fitna now, you'll
succeed against the fitna then, by the will
of Allah عز و جل.
But if you fail with this fitna now,
the fitna at the time of death is
more difficult.
Right?
Is the feeling of death similar to trials?
For example, I do not believe myself to
fear death, but when death comes, will it
possible for my mind to change?
Similar to being tested, we might believe our
iman to be strong, but when the test
comes we might feel different.
Yes.
Yes.
So they had a couple of scholars, even
some of them, right, who were just eagerly
waiting for death and when death approached they
panicked.
So you cannot predict how you're going to
feel then.
You can't say I'm brave, I don't care,
it's going to happen, I know Allah will
be next to me, but when the moment
of truth arrives and you know that there's
nothing left of this world, you're actually leaving.
Because you're brave when you say this because
you don't think you're going to die yet.
I'm fine.
Because you're still healthy.
I'm fine.
You still have money.
You still have your house.
So it really hasn't sunk in that you're
going to die.
But when you know that you're actually going
to die, this soul is leaving this body.
I have nothing left here.
Everything I know and everything that I love
I will leave behind and I don't know
what's going to be there once I leave.
That's terrifying.
So the state of mind changes and add
to it, you know, just sickness, if a
person is simply sick.
Definitely changes.
What period can the dead hear their family
around them or is it just when people
are walking away from the grave?
We will discuss this insha'Allah.
For now I will say it is limited
to that moment or to that period when
they leave the grave and they start receiving
questions from the angels.
Others will have also different opinions.
So insha'Allah wait till I explain what
those different opinions are and what that leads
to and what's the evidence even if we
have time we can even discuss the evidence
for that.
But the answer for now, it's limited.
They're not just going to hear you whenever.
If a person is not buried, what trials
do they go through?
Exactly the same thing.
I was going to mention this next week
and I will mention this insha'Allah next
week if we're still alive.
When we say punishment in the grave, it
doesn't mean that they need to be in
the grave to be punished.
Does it?
Or otherwise what?
Hey, don't bury me.
I'll escape the punishment.
It's easy.
No, punishment in the grave because typically people
after they die, they go where?
In the grave.
But if a person is burned alive, didn't
we just talk about people being burned alive?
What's the grave there?
Maybe nothing remains.
Maybe nothing.
Lost at sea.
Right?
Eaten by animals.
It doesn't matter.
Whatever is considered part of their body, whatever
that may exist, it doesn't matter.
In the belly of a lion.
In the belly of a whale.
In the sea.
Whatever it may be.
That's their grave.
Right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So they spent the night in their fridge
before burial and then?
No.
The punishment is when you are buried.
The punishment is when you're buried.
So whatever is defined as burial, that's what
happens.
That's what takes place.
Right?
You heard in the Hadith, right?
It goes back to his body in the
grave.
Yeah.
That's the sea is their burial.
So at the bottom of the sea, that's
his grave.
And that's when all this happens.
Right.
If one is not excited to know about
the news of his death, is it a
sign of weak Iman?
And how do we approach such a person?
News of his death here means learning the
lessons of death.
I mean, if a person is terrified to
hear about death, you could attribute this to
natural fear and aversion about death in general.
I just want to hear about it.
It's going to spoil my life.
Spoil my joy.
Spoil this.
So it's ignorance.
It could be weakness of Iman.
But I would attribute before even concluding that,
to simple ignorance.
That you're thinking, if I learn about this,
somehow it's going to spoil my fun.
But you cannot be ready for it unless
you learn about it.
How can you be ready for anything?
Marriage, let's say.
A new job.
Anything monumental in your life.
Having a son, a daughter.
How could you be ready for it if
you just don't study a little bit about
it, right?
To be ready for it.
So this is the most important next step
that you're going to take.
The very...
So how can you be ready for it
and get ready for it if you don't
learn about it?
So this is what you tell them.
You say, you cannot be ready.
You cannot survive it.
You cannot succeed unless you learn.
And learning does not mean that you're dying
tomorrow.
But learning means that you will learn how
to live better, to be able to die
better.
And we mentioned this the first lecture.
We're learning this, not just simply to wait
for that thing when it happens so that
we are ready.
No, learning about death helps you live better
right now.
So that's what we want.
And when that happens, you will learn that
it was actually valuable and beneficial.
If someone is in their 20s, was practicing
but stopped practicing as they aged and passed
away, did not fulfill the five pillars of
Islam, that is bad death.
But they believed or that was not true
belief.
As long as they did not renounce that
faith, we still believe that they are still
believers.
They still have Islam.
And if they die, we wash the body.
We pray janazah for them.
We bury them in Muslim cemetery.
And the rest is up to Allah.
But if they've fallen out of practice, they
stop praying, they stop doing this, they stop
doing that, as long as and this is
our hope, as long as they still believed,
then we hope that eventually they will receive
the mercy of Allah.
But to your point, it is a bad
death.
A person dies without praying, without practice, that
is a bad death.
And we shouldn't sugarcoat it because we're too
sensitive.
That is a terrible death.
And it's just also suffice to know, by
the way, that some scholars will consider a
person who had stopped praying not to be
Muslim.
According to them, whether you agree or disagree
with that conclusion, but according to that legal
opinion, and it is a legitimate legal opinion,
that they will say we will not pray
janazah for that person, he's not a Muslim
and he's not to be buried in the
Muslim cemetery.
I'm saying this so it would terrify you
that you have scholars, legal scholars, debating your
Islam.
This is terrifying.
So don't let go of your salah.
I don't care what terrible things you're doing,
but your salah, don't let go of your
salah.
Salah.
One of the times that you do it
in salah.
Before the taslim.
So he's asking about du'a.
Allahumma uudbika min azab al-qabr wa min
azab al-nar, min fitnati al-mahya wa
min al-mamat, min fitnati al-masihi al
-dajjal.
They said that the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, would not conclude his salah until he
would say this.
Other what?
The talk about death.
This one, for instance, that I seek Allah's
protection from um the attacks of shaytan.
And also we've mentioned one du'a.
It was either the second lecture, maybe.
The second lecture.
Allahumma inni as'aluka ishatan taqiyya wa meetatan
sawiyya wa maraddan ghayra mukhzin.
So I, Allah azzajal, I ask you a
life of taqwa and a good death and
then a return that is not disgraceful.
Meaning a resurrection that is not disgraceful.
So this kind of covers all phases of
life.
You live with taqwa, you die a good
death and then you come back not disgraced.
So that one, inshallah.
I see that there's a hand I just
want to see, inshallah.
What's the right way to ask for forgiveness?
Reciting istighfar is okay?
Yes.
So you say astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah Allahumma akhfirli,
Allahumma akhfirli.
There are other forms.
Allahumma anta khalaqtani wa ana abduk So there
are other forms.
But the quickest and the easiest, astaghfirullah or
astaghfirullah al-adheem al-ladhi la ilaha illa
huwa al-hayyu al-qayyum wa atubu ilayh
Any of these forms, whatever is easy, inshallah.
There was a hand here.
I'll repeat it again, louder please.
Okay, so if a person is buried few
days after their death, is there any disadvantage
to the soul?
The soul does not experience disadvantage, but we
will inshallah encounter this, that it is recommended,
because that's what the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa
sallam said, that you would rush the burial.
The burial should be rushed.
The soul itself is not in control for
it to experience negativity because of it.
But the people who are responsible, you should
rush and bury them as soon as possible.
Let me take this inshallah, just a couple
here.
Okay.
What happens when you die on a different
planet or outside earth?
It's the same thing.
Right?
It doesn't have to be I could say,
wait until it happens, right?
And then we'll answer your question.
But it's basically the same thing, inshallah.
Nothing happens.
Yeah.
You have to be loud.
What happens if passed away without doing Hajj?
So Hajj is a pillar.
He had an excuse, forgiven.
He had no excuse, not forgiven for it.
And then the family should try to do
Hajj on his behalf.
Right?
If they can afford it.
So they can collect money, give it to
someone and they can do Hajj on their
behalf.
Before a person is buried, do they spend
their time in Jannah or Jahannam based on
their deeds?
So we've answered this question partially.
Before a person dies, do they spend time
in Jannah or Jahannam?
So we've answered this question partially, right?
So they're in the grave and there's a
door or a passageway between them and Heaven
or between them and *.
And they are being either blessed or punished.
When you're gonna join us next week or
the week after, you'll understand that there's a
connection.
Probably the week after.
Connection between the person's soul and Heaven.
And that they will actually be in Heaven.
And we'll tell you how and in what
form, Inshallah.
So they do experience that punishment.
Okay.
And I think I have one more here.
Is there any way to alleviate a portion
of the punishment of the grave on behalf
of a relative who already died?
Absolutely.
And that is what?
This is why you pray Janazah for them.
Right?
This is why you pray Janazah for them.
And basically making Dua.
So when we gonna come to what benefits
the dead after their death, everything that we're
gonna mention, Inshallah, will help with the punishment
in the grave.
So Dua, Sadaqah.
These are main and most important ones.
So yes, as it can help you in
the next life.
Right?
Because we know.
It can help you in the next life.
Because this is a gift that you're giving
to them.
It can help you in the grave.
Right?
With punishment or with elevation.
Right?
Okay, Inshallah.
All the way back.
When you make Istighfar, is there any sign
that shows you that you have been forgiven?
If you're talking about absolute certain definitive signs,
then there is none.
You will never know that for sure.
But are there some hints, let's say.
So if you find that Allah Azawajal is
moving you to do a lot of Istighfar.
And you're feeling comforted after you do it.
And you're not returning to that sin.
Right?
And you're increasing in obedience to Allah Azawajal,
then expect the best.
Because that is a sign that Allah Azawajal
is listening to you.
Now, nothing can be definitive because Allah Azawajal
wants from you to continue to do what
you can.
And to regret that sin as much as
you can because it helps you grow as
a person.
But as far as forgiveness guaranteed, that's very
difficult.
Now, for some people, they can see a
dream.
And that dream, right, if it's a ru
'ya, could tell them that Allah Azawajal had
forgiven you.
That's a possibility.
Right?
But something in the dunya, nothing substantial, nothing
concrete tells you.
But if you find that I've changed because
of it, this is a good sign.
Ah, yes.
No.
He's asking, is the concept of time the
same for the dead?
We say no.
It's not.
It's not gonna pass the same way.
They're not gonna feel it the same way
as you do.
And um when Allah Azawajal said in the
Quran, when they'll be asked on the Day
of Judgment, how long did you stay?
They will say, We said we stayed for
a day or a portion of a day.
Even though a person lived, let's say, only
60 years, been buried thousands of years ago,
and spent thousands of years in the grave,
when he will meet Allah Azawajal, they will
say, part of a day.
So that time, how they experience it, how
it shrinks, how it expands, how it that's
very different.
That's very different.
And that's by the way something that a
person had asked me, which is he said,
when we bury our dead, typically, let's say,
it takes 24 hours.
So we bury them the next day.
But sometimes some people will keep the dead
in the fridge for a week.
What happens to their soul while this is
taking place?
Right?
Like where does the soul go?
And say, okay, think about it differently.
Let's suppose that we have the habit of
burying our dead 2 hours after their death.
That's our habit.
Then you hear of other people who bury
the dead after 24 hours.
You'll say, where does the soul go in
the 24 hours?
Why are you asking about the 24?
Because you're used to the 2.
That's what is normal to you.
And when 24 is normal to you, you
think 7 is abnormal.
Time doesn't actually pass the same way for
you as it passes for them.
Imagine the soul is going all the way
up to the heavens, right?
And coming right down.
So how long does this take?
It could be an instance.
It could take a long time.
And when it comes down.
So it doesn't matter how long you take
until you bury the dead.
Although you should bury them as quickly as
possible.
But it doesn't really matter how long you
take.
Right?
How time passes here is very unlike how
time passes there.
So it's always like this adjustment that takes
place beyond your comprehension.
Right?
Okay.
So I'm assuming inshallah all of you are
exhausted.
And you simply want to go home.
Okay.
Last question inshallah.
What if you're all genuinely scared to meet
Allah?
And what if you think you're going to
die while you're young?
Nothing wrong with that.
Just wondering.
I mean kind of like redirect that to
your benefit.
Right?
If you're truly scared to meet Allah azza
wa jal, fearing Allah is good.
But don't make that be the only or
the dominant thing that you have without any
hope and without any love.
Then you'll only be running away from Him.
So Allah should not just simply terrify you.
Okay.
What about hope?
What about loving subhanahu wa ta'ala?
So if Allah terrifies you and that leads
you to abandoning sin, great.
It terrifies you and you lose hope, then
that's wrong.
So you need to balance it.
So see where you are.
Do you have a balanced relationship with Allah
azza wa jal?
Even if you say, I have a lot
of fear but can you still balance it
with hope and love?
Then alhamdulillah you're fine.
And if you think that you're going to
die young or it's a possibility that you're
going to die young, if that motivates you
to do good things, then that's a good
thought.
If it immobilizes you, then it's a bad
thought.
You just really become obsessed with death, that's
a bad thought.
But if it pushes you to do good
things, then alhamdulillah, that's good.
Okay.
We'll see you bi-idhnillah azza wa jal
next week.
Same time, bi-idhnillah azza wa jal.
Subhanakallah wa bihamdik.
Astaghfirullah.