Ammar Alshukry – 7 Things That Protect from The Punishment of the Grave
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How do you protect yourself from the punishment
of the grave?
I'm going to mention seven things inshallah ta
'ala protecting from the punishment of the grave.
The first is a daily habit.
Ibn al-Qayyim, he says in Kitab al
-Ruh, when he mentions he has an entire
section on the, he has a book called
the Book of the Soul on things that
protect from the punishment of the grave.
And he says, this thing is of the
most beneficial things that protect from the punishment
of the grave.
That every night before you go to sleep,
that you reflect on your day and hold
yourself accountable for the mistakes and sins that
you committed.
And then you commit to a sincere repentance
between you and Allah.
And so if that sleep turns into eternal
slumber, then you've died upon repentance.
And if they live to the next morning,
they awaken with happiness and a chance at
a new beginning.
He says, this is the most beneficial sleep
that a person can have.
Every night before you go to sleep, you
think about your sins, you repent from those
sins, you commit to a new day.
If you do that, then it's the most
beneficial sleep.
Number two.
Tawheed, belief in Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta
-A'la.
When the angels come and question you in
the grave, that you say, my Lord is
Allah, Islam is my religion, Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam is my prophet.
The more a person believes in that, lives
in accordance to that in this dunya, the
more they will be able to be able,
they will be granted the tawfeeq to say
that in the grave.
يثبت الله الذين آمنوا بالقول الثابت في الحياة
الدنيا وفي الآخرة Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta
-A'la says, Allah will give those who
believe steadfastness with the statement of truth in
this life and in the next.
So tawheed.
Number three, good deeds.
Good deeds protect.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, when the
deceased is placed in their grave, and they
hear the movement of the sandals when the
people depart from them, if they were a
believer, then the prayer is at their head
and fasting is at their right and zakah
is at their left and good deeds like
charity, the tithes of kinship and goodness to
people is at their feet.
And so when the azaab, when the punishment
starts to approach that person from their head,
the salah says there's no passage this way.
And when it comes from the right, fasting
says you can't pass.
And then from their left, charity says you
can't pass.
And then from their feet, good deeds, charity,
maintaining the tithes of kinship and goodness to
people says you can't pass.
That's number two or three?
That's three.
Number four is shahada, martyrdom.
Martyrdom.
And the Prophet ﷺ, he mentioned six qualities
that the shaheed has and one of them
is that they're protected from the punishment of
the grave.
And so the sahaba asked, why is the
shaheed protected from the punishment of the grave?
And he says, كفى ببارقة السيوف فوق رأسه
فتنة He said it is enough.
The dazzling of swords over their head is
enough of a fitna for them.
They don't need to be tested in the
grave.
Their test is on the battlefield.
Then number four, that is number four, right?
OK, so I want to just expand that
notion of shaheed because the Prophet ﷺ, so
this is number five.
We're going to expand the notion of shaheed.
The Prophet ﷺ said, who do you consider
martyrs amongst you?
The sahaba said, يا رسول الله, the one
who's killed in the path of Allah is
a martyr.
The Prophet ﷺ said, then the martyrs of
my ummah will be few.
They said, then who are they, يا رسول
الله?
He said, whoever is killed in the path
of Allah is a martyr.
And whoever dies in the path of Allah
is a martyr.
And whoever dies in a plague is a
martyr.
And whoever dies due to a stomach ailment
is a martyr.
And whoever drowns is a martyr.
And we also have a number of other
narrations that indicate that whoever dies because of
burning is a martyr.
And whoever dies صاحب الهدم, a person who
a building collapses on them is a martyr.
So all of these scenes that we're seeing
play out in Gaza, they're all martyred according
to the Prophet ﷺ.
May Allah count them as the martyrs.
Allahumma ameen.
The only difference is that janazah is still
prayed over them.
The only one who janazah is not prayed
for is the martyr of the battlefield.
Everyone else, they may have the status of
martyrs and there's others like the Prophet ﷺ
says, من قتل دون ماله فهو شهيد ومن
قتل دون أهله فهو شهيد That whoever dies
defending their property is a shaheed.
And whoever dies defending their family is a
shaheed.
And whoever dies defending themselves is a shaheed.
Whoever is killed defending themselves is a shaheed.
Number six is dying on Friday, on the
eve of Friday.
Basically Thursday night.
The Prophet ﷺ says there's no Muslim who
dies on Friday or the eve of Friday
except that Allah ﷻ protects them from the
trials of the grave.
The hadith is reported by al-Tirmidhi.
And then we started with a daily habit
and I'm going to end with a daily
habit, which is the seventh, which is reciting
surah al-Mulk.
The Prophet ﷺ said surah Tabarak is the
surah that protects from the punishment of the
grave.
And he ﷺ also said a chapter that
is 30 verses interceded on behalf of its
reciter until they were forgiven.
And it is Tabarak which is in the
hand of al-Mulk from the Sahih al
-Tirmidhi.
I am Allah ﷻ, that's all.