Ammar Alshukry – Death The Destroyer of Delights

Ammar Alshukry
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The speakers discuss the benefits of protecting from punishment and maintaining kinship and goodness, as well as maintaining good deeds. They stress the importance of sh shots and proper decorum for walking away from grave, as well as avoiding confusion and allowing individuals to visit grave. The speakers emphasize the need for proper decorum and the importance of avoiding allowing anyone to visit a grave.
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Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, He

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says, أينما تكونوا يدرككم الموت Allah Subh'anaHu

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Wa Ta-A'la says, wherever you are,

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death will come to you ولو كنتم في

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بروج مشيدة even if you are in towers

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that are protected.

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Abu Huraira, رضي الله عنه, he reports that

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Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says that Dawud Alayhis

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Salaam was a very protective man.

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He was a very protective king.

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When he would leave his castle, he would

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set it up so that nobody was able

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to enter upon his family without his presence,

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without him knowing.

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And so while his family was sitting in

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one of their chambers, there appeared a man,

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seemingly out of nowhere.

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And so she said, where have you come

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from?

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And the man, she said to him, I

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will expose you with Dawud when he arrives.

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This man who is in the presence of

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the castle.

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Dawud shortly arrives.

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And when Dawud enters upon him, he says

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to him, من أنت؟

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Who are you?

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And the man says to him, أنا الذي

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لا أحاب الملوك I am the one who

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does not fear kings.

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ولا يمتنع مني الحجاب And I am the

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one who the guards cannot protect me from,

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cannot protect you from.

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And Dawud then says to the man, أنت

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إذن والله ملك الموت Then you are, by

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Allah, the angel of death.

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مرحبا بأمر الله Welcome to the command of

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Allah.

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Dawud Alayhis Salaam meets the angel of death

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and he says, welcome to the command of

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Allah.

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This hadith is reported by Ahmed.

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The idea of death is one that the

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Prophet ﷺ commanded us to frequently remember.

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He said أكثر ذكر هذه من لذات He

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said constantly or frequently remember the destroyer of

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delights, meaning death.

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Now, from the beginning, I do not propose

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that tonight I'm going to share with you

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many a hadith or many verses that you

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have never heard before.

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But I always tell people that when we

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are going over these fundamental topics and this

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series that we're going over are the pillars

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of Iman.

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And so the idea I would imagine that

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if you went to Sunday school as a

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elementary school, if you went to Islamic school

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that you would have studied these topics early.

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But the reality is that the question shouldn't

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be do I know this information already?

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That's not the question.

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If you change and alter the question you'll

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be able to benefit from every ders no

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matter how basic.

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If you change the question you'll be able

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to benefit from every khutbah that you hear

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no matter how boring.

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You'll be able to benefit from every reminder

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that anybody sends your way.

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And that question is not do I do

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this?

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Do I know this already?

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It isn't do I know this already?

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But the question you should ask is what?

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Do I do this now?

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Do I do this now?

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And so if it becomes a reminder about

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charity you're not sitting there thinking about have

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I heard this hadith already?

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The question you're asking yourself is did I

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give charity today?

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Did I give sadaqa this week?

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The question is not about do I know

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this hadith about reciting the Quran and the

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virtue of reciting the Quran and the virtue

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of tahajjud and the virtue of qiyam al

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-layl.

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The question is not do I know this

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information?

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The question becomes am I actually practicing tahajjud?

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Am I actually practicing?

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And then if that's the way that you

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interact with knowledge then every piece of knowledge

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becomes beneficial to you.

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And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says وَذَكِّرْ

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فَإِنَّ الذِّكْرَى تَنْفَعُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ Remind because reminding benefits

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the believer.

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You know how to interact with reminders now

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so it benefits you as a believer every

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single time.

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And so when the Prophet ﷺ says frequently

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remember the destroyer of delights you've heard this

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hadith before.

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The question then is do I frequently remember

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death?

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Is that something that's on my mind?

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When I sit with my friends and we're

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talking about careers and we're talking about kids

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and we're talking about cooking and we're talking

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about this and we're talking about current shows

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on Netflix that represent Arabs and do we

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talk about death?

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Is that something that we reflect upon?

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Is it something that we discuss?

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You know a man came to al-Hasan

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al-Basri and al-Hasan al-Basri is

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a very incredible figure in our Islamic history.

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I'll do a quick tangent here.

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Al-Hasan al-Basri is his name is

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al-Hasan and he's from Basra Iraq.

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Basra at the time was the city of

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opulence in the Muslim world.

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It was Dubai.

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It was Los Angeles.

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It was those places where everything is so

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superficial.

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And so imagine this man is a preacher

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in Basra so what is he going to

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focus on all the time?

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He's going to focus on trying to disconnect

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you from the dunya because the dunya or

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that city of Basra is where everybody was

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dancing with the dunya.

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And so al-Hasan has so many incredible

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quotes and it was said and he grew

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up in the house of the wives of

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the Prophet ﷺ.

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He wasn't a companion but he grew up

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in the house of Umm Salama.

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And al-Hasan it was said that his

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speech used to resemble the speech of prophets

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the most.

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His quotes are just unbelievable.

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And so al-Hasan he says two things,

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two quotes I'll share with you.

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Number one he says مَا رَأَيْتُ يَقِينًا لَا

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شَكَّ فِيهِ I never saw anything that is

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yaqeen.

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It is certain.

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There is no doubt about it.

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أَشْبَهُ بِشَكٍّ لَا يَقِينَ فِيهِ مِنَ الْمُوتِ That

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resembles more.

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Something that is certain there's no doubt about

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it that people take for granted as if

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it is completely doubtful there is no certainty

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about it like death.

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It's the one thing that we're all guaranteed

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to experience.

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And yet somehow we push it away like

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it's not for me, not for me, not

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for me, not for me.

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Even as we see it coming and snatching

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friends.

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Even as we see the angel of death

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coming and snatching family members around us.

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Even as we're hearing about the loss of

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this person and that person.

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And so he says death is something that

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people take for granted.

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But then our second quote for al-Hasan

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people came to him on the point of

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do you remember death with your friends?

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Do you remember death with your family members?

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They came to him and they said we

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sit with a group of people sometimes that

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talk about the akhira, the hereafter so much

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they make our hearts almost jump out of

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our chest.

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These guys terrify us.

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Every time we sit down it's like a

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horror show but it's not.

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It's the day of judgment.

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It's the grave.

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It's death.

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They're talking about these things.

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And so al-Hasan said to them it

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is better for you to sit with people

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who make you feel afraid until you reach

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security than to sit with people who make

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you feel safe until you experience fear.

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It's better for you to sit with people

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I wasn't expecting a whistle to be honest.

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I was expecting bars or something like that.

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So anyway it is better for you to

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sit with people who make you feel scared

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so that you act right until you reach

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security on the day of judgment than for

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people to sit there and gas you up

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and tell you it's okay and don't worry

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you're young and no no I get it

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and all of that type of stuff until

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you reach fear.

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Sit with a truthful person.

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And so the idea of remembering death a

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lot.

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أكثر ذكرى هذه باللذات And the Prophet ﷺ

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How did the Prophet ﷺ teach us to

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remember death?

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What are some of the ways?

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Tell me.

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What are some of the ways?

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Yes.

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100%.

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Go to janazahs.

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So now I have another question for you.

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When was the last time you attended a

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janazah?

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Right?

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You might go for a month.

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You might go for two months.

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You might go for three months.

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You might go for four months.

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You might go for six months without attending

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a janazah.

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Some people when they go to a janazah

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it's their first time.

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And it's only when someone super close to

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them passed away.

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How did you manage to reach adulthood mashallah

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without ever praying a janazah?

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Janazah is a wake up call that you

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go and you see how this person is

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being carried.

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That you go to the graveyard and see

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how this person is being buried and how

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quickly people are going to pour dust over

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him and walk back and talk about man

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I'm hungry where you want to go eat?

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This person spent their entire life building relationships

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with these people around them.

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But then the dunya moves on and it

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moves on for everybody.

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وَلَوْ كَانَتَ الدُّنْيَا تَبْقَيْلْ أَحَدًا لَكَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ

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صلى الله عليه وسلم حَيًّا وَبَاقِيًا If the

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dunya were to remain for anybody the Prophet

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ﷺ would have been alive still.

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But the dunya throws everybody into its bosom,

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into the grave.

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So yes, praying janazah is 100%.

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What else?

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What else did the Prophet?

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Yes.

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Okay, so going to the cemetery.

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Going to the cemetery.

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The Prophet ﷺ said, I have forbidden you,

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I had previously forbidden you from going to

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the graves.

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أَلَا فَزُورُهَا Go and visit them.

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Because it reminds of the hereafter.

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It reminds of the hereafter.

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Academic integrity, there is a difference of opinion

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amongst the fuqaha about women going to the

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graveyards.

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With the hanabilah famously forbidding it because the

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Prophet ﷺ لَعَنَ زَوَّارَاتِ الْقُبُورِ He cursed the

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women who go to the graves a lot.

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But Allah ﷻ knows best, it is permissible

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for women to go to the graves as

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long as they are, that they, what's the

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word?

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Carry proper decorum when they go to the

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graveyard.

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Both emotionally and physically.

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Yes.

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Reciting surah al-mulk, what about it?

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Just reminds of death?

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You know, if you pay attention, very good.

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So if you pay attention to the pages

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of the Qur'an, Shaykh al-Islābī ibn

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Tayyibī, he mentions, he says you can see

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the importance of the hereafter in that almost

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every page of the Qur'an there is

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a reference to the hereafter.

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Every page of the Qur'an.

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Number four, yes, did you have something?

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Yes.

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Being a hospital chaplain.

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MashaAllah, absolutely, excellent.

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So being a volunteer, going and visiting the

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sick.

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Going and visiting the sick.

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Going and being in the presence of those

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whose life has dimmed, even if they're still

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alive.

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But their liveliness has dimmed.

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Again, you see the reality of this dunya.

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You see this person who was so healthy

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a month ago, how quickly their circumstances changed.

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Absolutely.

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Any last one before we move on?

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Yes.

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You're saying ana, ana?

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Yes.

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Yeah, 100%.

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So being in the service of dead people.

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Being in the service of dead people.

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Yes, yes, being in the service of the

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burial.

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And so going and washing.

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There's this one brother who volunteered to wash

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the, he would do it as a volunteer.

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He would wash the, he would wash the

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bodies in his community.

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And he would say, if I didn't wash

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a body, if I went like a week

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without washing a body, I would feel like

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my heart became hard.

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I would feel like I got distracted by

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the dunya.

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And so again, you know what's interesting is

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that in the Muslim world, the cemeteries are

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outside of the villages.

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Every time you're walking outside of the town,

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you see the cemetery.

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But we live, I don't know what it

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is about these cities, but you don't even

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see the cemetery half the time.

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Like you, even as you're driving around everywhere

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in the city, it's almost like it's designed

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for it to not be seen.

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Again, that distraction from the dunya.

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And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la

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says, أَلْهَاكُمُ التَّكَاثُرُ حَتَّى زُرْتُمُ الْمَقَابِرُ Allah Subh

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'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says, the desire

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for more has deluded you.

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Until you reach the graves, until you visit

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the graves, even though it has multiple meanings,

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but one of those meanings is until you

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die, all of a sudden you realize that

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that house that you built and all of

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that type of stuff, it doesn't really matter.

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It doesn't really matter.

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Your real house is the one that you

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were building while you were alive for that

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grave.

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And so Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A

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'la, He made it so that the moment

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of our death is unknown to us.

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Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, at

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the end of Surah Al-Luqman, He says,

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إِنَّ اللَّهَ عِنْدَهُ عِلْمُ السَّاعَةِ These are five

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things that only Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta

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-A'la knows.

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Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la knows

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the knowledge of the hour.

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And He brings down the rain.

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وَيَعْلَمُ مَا فِي الْأَرْحَامِ Allah Subh'anaHu Wa

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Ta-A'la knows what is in the

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wombs.

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وَمَا تَدْرِي نَفْسٌ مَاذَا تَكْسِبُ غَدَى And no

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soul knows what it will earn tomorrow.

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وَمَا تَدْرِي نَفْسٌ بِإِيَّ أَرْضٍ تَمُوتُ And no

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soul knows in what land it will die.

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No soul knows where it will die.

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And the Prophet ﷺ says in a hadith

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that's authentic by Ibn Hibban that إِذَا أَرَاضَ

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اللَّهُ قَبْدَ عَبْدٍ بِأَرْضٍ جَعَلَ لَهُ فِيهَا حَاجَةً

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That if Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A

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'la desires to secure the soul of someone

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in a land, He makes that person have

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a need there.

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Oh, I don't know what just happened.

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I got invited to this conference in Zaire.

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SubhanAllah, I've never been there.

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And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la

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sends you there for the purpose of securing

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your soul there.

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Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la may

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make it so that a person dies where

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people do not expect.

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Umar Ibn Khattab, رضي الله عنه He used

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to make du'a to Allah Subh'anaHu

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Wa Ta-A'la.

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And he used to say, Oh Allah, I

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ask you for a shahada in the city

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of your Prophet ﷺ.

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Umar had heard many times by the Prophet

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ﷺ that he was going to be a

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martyr.

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Umar had that prophecy.

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He knew it.

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A number of times the Prophet ﷺ mentioned

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to Umar that he's going to be a

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martyr.

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But Umar wasn't told where he was going

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to be a martyr.

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And normally where does martyrdom happen?

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And where is the battlefield in the Muslim

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world?

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It's the frontiers.

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During the time of Umar, it's Iraq, it's

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Al-Sham, it's North Africa, it's all of

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these places of expansion.

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There's no fighting in Medina.

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But Umar wants to be a martyr in

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Medina.

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That's where he wants.

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He doesn't want to go anywhere.

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And so his daughter Hafsa is like, she's

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asking him this question.

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How is it that you're asking to be

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a martyr in Medina?

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Medina is the safest city in the world.

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But Allah ﷻ facilitated for him that he

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die in Medina.

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And the Prophet ﷺ specifically he says about

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Medina, he says whoever of you is able

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to die in Medina, then die in Medina.

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Why?

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Because I will intercede on behalf of those

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people who die in Medina.

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If you go to Medina, you will find

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a lot of people just lounging in Medina.

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Just lounging.

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There's this one sheikh, he's a wonderful sheikh.

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He's American.

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He's been there for years.

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And you ask him, you're like, sheikh, how

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are you doing?

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As-salamu alaykum.

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And he goes, I'm just trying to make

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it to Baqiyah, brother.

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I'm just trying to make it to Baqiyah.

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I'm just trying to make it to the

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cemetery.

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You know the story, I've told you this

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before for sure.

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Ridwan Saleh?

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Sheikh Ridwan Saleh.

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Sheikh Ridwan is a legend.

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I met him here at this masjid once.

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The first time I came to River Oaks,

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the first time I was walking by, I

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just met him and he pulled me into

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the office over here.

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It's kind of weird, I'm not used to

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telling the story in the exact masjid here.

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But he pulled me into that office because

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he's Sudanese, and so I'm Sudanese.

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So he grabbed me and he pulled me

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in and he started telling me his life

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story.

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Like right away.

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And he mentions in passing that his mom

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lives in Medina.

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And I'm thinking to myself, everybody here, does

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anybody's mom live in Medina?

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It's very strange.

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And so I said to him, can you

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just tell me a second, how does your

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mom live in Medina?

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How did that work?

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And he says to me, he starts shaking

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his head, and he's like, man let me

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tell you this.

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He says, when I was a kid, my

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mom used to make dua for her to

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live in Medina.

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We grew up thinking that it's one of

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the adhkar of salah.

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Oh Allah, allow me to live in Medina.

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That's what we thought.

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Oh Allah, allow me to live in Medina.

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So then when we got older, we started

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challenging her, like teenagers do, and we're like,

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mom what are you talking about?

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You're not going to live in Medina.

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That's not going to happen.

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And so he said, every time that we

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would push back on her, she would tell

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us, leave me alone.

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Is it too big for Allah?

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Kabir al Allah?

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Is it too big for Allah?

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And so he said, my mom had a

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fourth grade education, but she knew more about

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Allah than all of us.

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So then you fast forward a couple of

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decades, and they've got their own children now.

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All of his siblings have grown up.

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They've gotten married, all that type of stuff.

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And then one of his siblings, he says,

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I'm going to move to Sudan with my

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kids.

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And his mom says, I'm going.

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I'm going too.

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And they're like, what are you talking about?

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There's no healthcare there.

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Like you need your doctors and all that

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type of stuff.

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She's more advanced in age now.

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And she says, no, no, don't worry.

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I'm not going to Sudan.

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I'm going to Medina.

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I just need to get a little bit

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closer.

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So they travel from Houston.

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Not from wherever they were.

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From the U.S. They go to Sudan.

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And as soon as they arrive, his mom

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is like, okay, it's time to go to

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Umrah.

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It's time to go to Umrah.

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It's time to go to Umrah.

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And so finally, after decades of her saying,

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is it too big for Allah?

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She would get to land in Jeddah airport

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only to find out that their visas were

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counterfeit.

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They were expired.

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There was something wrong.

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And so the guy was so aggressive at

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passport control, he said to him, he said,

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if it wasn't for the fact that your

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mother is so old, I would have put

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her on the first flight back.

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And so he said, his mom just went

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off to the side and started making very,

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very passionate Doha.

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And within an hour, the same guy came

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back, but it's like his face completely changed.

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And he said, I'm sorry, I was speaking

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to some of the other officers and they

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all said, you know what, that you guys

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have already here and we should just, you

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know, so he stamped their passports and said,

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enjoy your Umrah.

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So he's telling me this story and he's

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shaking his head in unbelief and he said,

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my mom got to Medina and she's been

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there ever since.

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She, she got to Medina and she stayed.

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And he said, one of my brothers is

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staying there with her and the rest of

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our jobs is just to finance her fantasy

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of living in the city of the Prophet

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ﷺ.

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But then, I want you to imagine this

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and then, within a year, I remember him

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telling me that story, and the next year

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we heard the news that Sheikh Ridwan's mother

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passed away.

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May Allah have mercy on her.

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And she passed away in Medina.

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And what I love about this story is

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that this woman had an idea of where

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she wanted to live.

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Every year, her dream is getting further away.

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It's not getting closer.

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You're, you've got kids here, now you've got

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grandkids here, you're becoming more cemented in the

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U.S., now you're, you're getting older, now

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you need your doctors, you need medication, you

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need all these types of things.

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And she takes all of these causes and

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she throws them to the side and she

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says, a kabir ala Allah is too big

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for Allah ﷻ.

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Right?

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And so that idea of no soul knows

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where it will pass away.

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The Prophet ﷺ told Abdullah ibn Umar, and,

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and by the way, this is very important,

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we don't remember death a lot out of

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some sort of sense of more, it's not

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morbid.

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But it is to give you urgency in

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your life, that you remember a death, you

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know that tonight is not promised.

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It also makes you more grateful.

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You know the Prophet ﷺ, when he would

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go to sleep, he would say, بِسْمِكَ اللَّهُمَّ

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أَمُوتُ وَأَحْيَا Oh Allah, in your name, I

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go to sleep, I die and I wake

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up.

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And Rasulullah ﷺ, when he would wake up,

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he'd wake up with such incredible gratitude.

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الحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي أَحْيَانَ بَعْدَ مَا أَمَاتَنَا وَإِلَيْهِ

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النِّشُورِ All praise is due to Allah who

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gave me life, after he caused me to

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die.

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And to him is the resurrection.

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Because sleep is a minor death, and many

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people pass away in their sleep.

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And so when I go to sleep, and

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I wake up, I'm giving another chance at

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life, another new day, he's immediately waking up

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with incredible gratitude.

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And so the Prophet ﷺ tells Abdullah ibn

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Umar, and he says to him, كُنْ فِي

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الدُّنْيَا كَأَنَّكَ غَرِيبٌ Be in this world as

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if you are a traveler, or you are

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a wafer, you're someone who's just stopping by.

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That's the attitude of us being in the

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dunya.

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You are always remembering departure, you're always ready

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to go.

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Now when you're a traveler, tell me, when

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you check into a hotel, do you, if

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you don't like the furniture, do you go

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to IKEA, purchase new furniture and bring it

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back?

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You've never done that?

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Just me?

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You don't do that, huh?

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The most that you'll do is what?

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I might change the room, I might go

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downstairs and complain at reception, I might, maybe,

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worst case scenario, I might go in and

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change the hotel, even, right, if it's horrible.

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But I've never heard of anybody saying, you

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know what, I'm going to completely invest in

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this room that I'm in.

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I'm going to alter the furniture, I'm going

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to do all of these types of things.

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Why?

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Because I'm staying here, it's so temporary.

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And so the Prophet ﷺ is giving this

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analogy for a person who is in the

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dunya.

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Your entire stay here is very temporary.

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Your entire stay here is very temporary, so

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be in this world like you're a traveler.

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Invest in this world for the purpose of

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you getting to Jannah.

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Allah ﷻ says, كُلُّ نَفْسٍ ذَائِقَةٌ مَوْتٌ Allah

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ﷻ says, every soul shall taste death.

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Every soul.

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وَإِنَّمَا تُوَفَّوْنَا أُجُورَكُمْ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ And you will

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only be given retribution on the Day of

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Judgment.

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You will only be repaid on the Day

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of Judgment.

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You will never get repayment in full in

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the dunya.

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Everybody here, if you ask them, have you

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been repaid for all of the efforts that

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you've done with your family, they'll tell you

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no.

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With your friends, no.

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For the community, no.

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The only one who's able to repay you

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in full is Allah ﷻ.

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And the only one who'll be able to

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secure your rights in full is Allah ﷻ.

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Your ujoor, your reward will be secured for

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you on the Day of Judgment.

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فَمَنْ زُحْزِحَ عَنِ النَّارِ وَأُدْخِلَ الْجَنَّةَ فَقَدْ فَاسِ

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And so whoever is زُحْزِحَ literally means to

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be shifted from the Hellfire.

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Whoever is shifted away from the Hellfire, وَأُدْخِلَ

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الْجَنَّةَ and enters into Paradise, فَقَدْ فَاسِ they've

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won.

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وَمَنْ حَيَاتُ الدُّنْيَا إِلَى مَتَاعُ الْغُرُورِ And this

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world is simply enjoyment of delusion.

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Like it's the enjoyment of someone who's deluded.

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I'll give you an example.

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Because Allah ﷻ says, if you enter into

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Jannah, then you've succeeded your purpose of the

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dunya.

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You've succeeded.

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Sometimes we get very, very grieved when we

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lose a loved one.

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It's very difficult.

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It's one of the hardest things, if not

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the hardest thing that we go across, that

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we go through in life.

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But that grief should not be because they

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departed from the dunya.

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That grief should be because they've separated from

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me.

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That's natural.

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That's natural.

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I miss them.

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I would love their company.

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But as for their transition, number one, we

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spoke about this last week, right?

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When we talked about the consolation of Ibn

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Abbas by the Bedouin.

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They've transitioned to Allah ﷻ who's more merciful

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to them than you are.

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They've transitioned to a world that is just

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from a world that is unjust.

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And that's why the Prophet ﷺ says in

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Sahih Muslim, he says, there is nobody, zero

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people, who leave this dunya, who experience good

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from Allah, who would want to go back

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to the dunya.

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There's nobody.

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Except for who?

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One person, the shaheed, the martyr.

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And the only reason the martyr comes back

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to the dunya is not because, oh, I

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want to watch my children grow up.

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I miss my spouse.

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None of that.

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I want to finish this project.

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I want to see the victory of my

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people over our enemies.

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No, the martyr doesn't come back for any

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of these things.

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They could care less about the dunya after

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they've left it.

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After they've seen what is with Allah ﷻ,

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they've upgraded.

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And so, the only reason they'd like to

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come back is because of the honor that

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they see from Allah ﷻ for their martyrdom.

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So they'd like to come back and be

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martyred ten times.

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That's the only reason.

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But we grieve people and we say, subhanAllah,

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like they didn't live a full life.

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They died so young.

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And we become saddened because they didn't live

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a full life in the dunya.

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But are we saddened that our sister here

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didn't have a full experience at Rice University

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and she graduated early?

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No, but how is that different?

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She didn't get eight semesters at Rice University.

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She graduated in seven.

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I'm so sad.

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Yes, I'm sad that she might not be

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there.

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Her friends might miss her presence.

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But she's not sad.

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She's out.

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She's moved on to something better.

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And that's the way the people of this

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dunya, when they leave this dunya, you can

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be sad about missing them, but don't be

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sad about where they went.

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Don't be sad about where they went.

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They have gone to ghafoorur raheem.

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They've gone to someone who is merciful and

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forgiving.

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There is no fear upon somebody who dies

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on Islam.

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There is no fear on that person.

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And so, the question then becomes, why is

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it that we hate death?

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Why is it that we hate death?

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Aisha radiAllahu anha, she comments when the Prophet

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salAllahu alayhi wa sallam says, man ahabba liqaa

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Allah, ahabba Allahu liqaa.

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That whoever loves to meet Allah, Allah loves

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to meet them.

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Whoever loves to meet Allah, Allah loves to

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meet them.

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Aisha says, Ya Rasulallah, but we all hate

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death.

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Like, does that mean that we hate to

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meet Allah?

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We all hate death.

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And so the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam,

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he says, no, that's not it.

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He says, but when the person is dying,

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and the barrier between this world and the

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next becomes open, and they see what is

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with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, of their

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reward or their punishment.

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In their last moments before they pass away,

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they see the hereafter.

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They see the unseen rather, not the hereafter,

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but they see the unseen.

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They see the presence of the angels and

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all that type of stuff.

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And so in that moment, before they die,

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they either long to meet Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala because they're seeing good news.

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And if that's the case, then Allah subhanahu

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wa ta'ala loves to meet them.

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Or in that moment, they're seeing the angels

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of punishment.

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They're seeing that which is terrifying to them.

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And so they don't want to meet Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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And so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala does

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not want to meet them.

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That desire or that lack of desire rather

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to die, however, is something that's fitri.

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But then the question, it's something that's in

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our fitra.

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People want to live.

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But then you come across statements from the

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companions, for example, Mu'adh ibn Jabir radiAllahu

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anhu is 30 something years old when he

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dies.

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And he passes away in the in the

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plague of Amwas in Palestine.

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Mu'adh radiAllahu anhu, 30 something years old,

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very young companion.

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But yet in the few years that he

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was alive, after his conversion to Islam, the

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amount of knowledge that he gained and his

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righteousness and his status with Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala was so incredibly high that the

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Prophet ﷺ said that the one who knows

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the most about the halal and the haram

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of my ummah is Mu'adh ibn Jabir.

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He's a great companion.

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The Prophet ﷺ said that on the Day

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of Judgment when the scholars of this ummah

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are resurrected, Mu'adh will be in front

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of them by a footstep.

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Mu'adh is legendary.

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And when Mu'adh was dying in that

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plague, when the plague touched down, Mu'adh

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made a dua and he said, I heard

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your Prophet ﷺ say that a plague is

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a mercy from your Lord.

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Oh Allah, grant the family of Mu'adh

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the greatest share of this plague, of this

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mercy, not the plague, of this mercy.

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And Mu'adh would be touched by the

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plague.

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And a number of his children died before

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him from the plague.

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And so Mu'adh, in his last night,

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as he was surrounded by whoever he was

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surrounded by, caretaking, he would say to them,

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انظروا اصبحنا See, is it time for the

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morning?

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And they would say, No, it's still not

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morning.

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And then he would say, انظروا اصبحنا Has

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morning come?

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And they'd say, No, it's still not.

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Until finally, throughout the night he's asking, did

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morning arrive?

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And then finally they said to him, Yes,

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it's morning.

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And then he says, I seek refuge in

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Allah.

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I seek refuge in Allah.

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أعوذ بالله من ليلة صباحها إلى النار I

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seek refuge in Allah from a night that's

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morning, leads to the hellfire.

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And then he said, مرحبا بالموت Welcome to

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death.

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That statement is always so incredible to me.

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Welcome to death.

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And then he says, I do not want

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to stay in this dunya for the planting

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of trees or the building of castles.

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That's not why I wanted to stay in

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the dunya.

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But the reason why I wanted to stay

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in the dunya is for the fasting of

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long days, praying of long nights, and racing

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with my knees to the knees of scholars

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sitting in gatherings of knowledge.

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I say this to say, how do we

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understand how we have quotes from the companions

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where it seems like they're ready for death?

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A scholar was asked, Abu Hasim was asked

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by one of the Umara, one of the

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Khulafa.

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He said to him, لما نكره الموت?

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Why do we hate death?

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And he gave a very profound answer.

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He said, لأنكم عمرتم الدنيا وخربتم الآخرة فتكرهون

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الذهاب من العمران إلى الخراب He said, because

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you have invested so much in this world

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and you've destroyed your hereafter.

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He's talking to a Khalifa or an Amir

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at the very least, a governor.

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He says, because you've invested so much in

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this life and you've destroyed your hereafter.

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So you hate to go from that which

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is destroyed, from that which is built up

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to that which is destroyed.

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It's very simple.

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If I've invested all my life in the

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dunya, that's all my concern has been, that's

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what I've focused on so much.

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You know, many of us, even our duas

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are all about the dunya.

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So even when we're being spiritual, we're spiritual

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about the dunya.

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And you might not find, I had one

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brother one time, I was in a, he

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was giving me a ride in a city

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somewhere and he was telling me, he said,

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you know, I really, I don't have anything

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to make dua for anymore.

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I was like, what do you mean?

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He said, I'm 20 something years old, I

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got a great job, I got married, I

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had a kid, check, check, check, I'm kind

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of out.

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I've crossed all the milestones.

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And we're talking in a beautiful city somewhere.

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And then he said, I said to him,

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did you enter Jannah yet?

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And he said to me, well, I guess

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I do have a lot to make dua

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for.

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But that's also another interesting point, which is

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the idea of all of my focus, even

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when I'm trying to be, or I'm seeking

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Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, I'm

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seeking Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la

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for the purpose of the dunya, not for

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the purpose of the akhira.

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And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la

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gives us a formula which is a 2

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to 1 ratio.

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رَبَّنَا آتِنَا فِي الدُّنْيَا حَسَنًا وَفِي الْآخِرَةِ حَسَنًا

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وَقِنَا عَذَابَ النَّارِ You're asking Allah Subh'anaHu

00:32:07 --> 00:32:08

Wa Ta-A'la for three things.

00:32:09 --> 00:32:10

Two of them are the hereafter, to be

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protected from the hellfire, and goodness in the

00:32:13 --> 00:32:15

hereafter, and to be protected, and for goodness

00:32:15 --> 00:32:15

in the dunya.

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That's for the dunya obviously, but it's 2

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to 1.

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That focus on the hereafter.

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Now when a person dies, Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi

00:32:27 --> 00:32:28

Wasallam in the hadith of Al-Burra' Ibn

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Azim, he says that we went to the

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Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam to a janaza.

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And when Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam sat at

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the grave, he had a oud in his

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hand.

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He had like a straw in his hand.

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And he was scratching on the ground, and

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he was silent.

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And we were sitting around him.

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It was like birds were perched on us.

00:32:50 --> 00:32:52

That's how quiet everybody was.

00:32:53 --> 00:32:55

And so the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says,

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أَسْتَعِيذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنْ عَذَابِ الْقَبْرِ Seek refuge in

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Allah from the punishment of the grave.

00:33:01 --> 00:33:02

So they said we seek refuge in Allah

00:33:02 --> 00:33:03

from the punishment of the grave.

00:33:04 --> 00:33:06

And then the Prophet said again, after silence,

00:33:06 --> 00:33:08

he says seek refuge in Allah from the

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punishment of the grave.

00:33:09 --> 00:33:10

So they sought refuge.

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And then he said again, seek refuge in

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Allah from the punishment of the grave.

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And then the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam describes

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in a long hadith.

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And I'll read for you.

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I'll try to summarize it.

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But he said that when a soul has

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departed from a body and it's moving to

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the hereafter, when a believer is about to

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leave the world and go forward to the

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next world, angels with faces that are luminous

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as the sun come down to him with

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one of the shrouds of paradise and some

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of the perfume of paradise and sit away

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from him as far as the eye can

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see.

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Then the angel of death comes and sits

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at his head and says, good soul, come

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out to forgiveness and acceptance from Allah.

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And that comes out as a drop flows

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from a water skin and he seizes it.

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And when he does so, they do not

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leave it in his hand for an instant.

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The soul immediately gets lifted with the angels.

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And they place it in a shroud and

00:34:05 --> 00:34:08

that perfume and it comes a fragrance like

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the sweetest musk found on the face of

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the earth.

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Then they take it up and it doesn't

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go past any company of angels except they

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say, so and so the son of so

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and so using the best of his names

00:34:19 --> 00:34:21

which people call him by on earth.

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The angels are ascending with your soul to

00:34:26 --> 00:34:26

the heavens.

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And everybody is saying, who's that?

00:34:30 --> 00:34:31

What's that smell?

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And then they call you by the best

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name that you had in this world.

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I want you to put out your phone

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for a second.

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Just go ahead and pull it out.

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And I want you to write down what

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is your best name?

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What is your best name?

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What would the angels call you?

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And I hope it's not what your friends

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call you.

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No, no, this is not a group activity.

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This is not a group activity.

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This is just you writing down what the

00:35:16 --> 00:35:17

angels would call you.

00:35:17 --> 00:35:18

If you guys are done, then we'll move

00:35:18 --> 00:35:18

on.

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So then they bring him down to the

00:35:22 --> 00:35:24

lowest heaven and ask what gate should be

00:35:24 --> 00:35:25

opened for him.

00:35:26 --> 00:35:29

And from every heaven, the angels escort that

00:35:29 --> 00:35:31

person to the next heaven till he's brought

00:35:31 --> 00:35:32

to the seventh heaven.

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And Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala says, record

00:35:34 --> 00:35:38

the book of my servant in Ilyin and

00:35:38 --> 00:35:40

take him back to earth for I created

00:35:40 --> 00:35:41

mankind from it.

00:35:41 --> 00:35:42

I shall return them into it and from

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it I shall bring them forth another time.

00:35:45 --> 00:35:47

His soul is then restored to his body

00:35:47 --> 00:35:48

in the grave.

00:35:48 --> 00:35:51

And then he's questioned by the angels.

00:35:51 --> 00:35:52

The two angels that come and question you

00:35:52 --> 00:35:53

in the grave.

00:35:53 --> 00:35:55

So he ascends all the way or she

00:35:55 --> 00:35:57

ascends to the seventh heaven.

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Their book is recorded or it's commanded to

00:35:59 --> 00:36:00

be recorded.

00:36:00 --> 00:36:01

And then they descend all the way down

00:36:01 --> 00:36:02

to the grave.

00:36:03 --> 00:36:06

And then the angels come who question in

00:36:06 --> 00:36:07

the grave and they say to that person,

00:36:08 --> 00:36:08

Who is your Lord?

00:36:09 --> 00:36:10

And he says, My Lord is Allah.

00:36:10 --> 00:36:11

What is your religion?

00:36:11 --> 00:36:12

My religion is Islam.

00:36:12 --> 00:36:13

Who's the man who was sent amongst you?

00:36:13 --> 00:36:16

These are the three questions that everyone is

00:36:16 --> 00:36:16

asked in the grave.

00:36:17 --> 00:36:18

Who is your Lord?

00:36:18 --> 00:36:19

What is your religion?

00:36:19 --> 00:36:20

And what do you say about this man?

00:36:20 --> 00:36:21

Who is that man?

00:36:21 --> 00:36:22

Rasulullah ﷺ.

00:36:22 --> 00:36:24

You say he's the messenger of Allah.

00:36:25 --> 00:36:27

And so they will then say, My servant

00:36:27 --> 00:36:28

has spoken the truth.

00:36:28 --> 00:36:30

So spread out carpets from paradise for him.

00:36:30 --> 00:36:32

Clothe him from paradise and open a gate

00:36:32 --> 00:36:33

for him into paradise.

00:36:35 --> 00:36:37

Then some of its joy and fragrance comes

00:36:37 --> 00:36:37

to him.

00:36:37 --> 00:36:39

His grave is made spacious for him as

00:36:39 --> 00:36:40

far as the eye can see.

00:36:40 --> 00:36:43

And a person with a beautiful face, beautiful

00:36:43 --> 00:36:44

garments, a man with a beautiful face, beautiful

00:36:44 --> 00:36:46

garments, and a sweet odor comes to him

00:36:46 --> 00:36:48

and says, Rejoice in what pleases you for

00:36:48 --> 00:36:49

that is your day which you have been

00:36:49 --> 00:36:50

promised.

00:36:50 --> 00:36:50

Alhamdulillah.

00:36:50 --> 00:36:52

He asks, Who are you?

00:36:52 --> 00:36:54

For your face is perfectly beautiful and brings

00:36:54 --> 00:36:54

good.

00:36:54 --> 00:36:56

He replies, I am your good deeds.

00:36:56 --> 00:36:58

Then that person, when he sees that his

00:36:58 --> 00:37:00

grave has been made spacious, he sees his

00:37:00 --> 00:37:02

beautiful good deeds manifested in a person in

00:37:02 --> 00:37:02

front of him.

00:37:03 --> 00:37:05

He says, My Lord, bring the day of

00:37:05 --> 00:37:05

judgment.

00:37:05 --> 00:37:06

My Lord, bring the day of judgment.

00:37:07 --> 00:37:11

Bring the hour so that I may return

00:37:11 --> 00:37:12

to my people and my property.

00:37:13 --> 00:37:17

Now, the disbelieving soul gets the complete opposite

00:37:17 --> 00:37:17

experience.

00:37:19 --> 00:37:22

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, وَالنَّازِعَاتِ نَزْعَةٌ

00:37:22 --> 00:37:25

وَالنَّاشِطَاتِ نَشْطَةٌ Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala swears

00:37:25 --> 00:37:28

by النَّازِعَاتِ These are the angels that come

00:37:28 --> 00:37:30

and seize the soul violently.

00:37:32 --> 00:37:34

And النَّاشِطَاتِ are the angels that come and

00:37:34 --> 00:37:35

seize the soul.

00:37:35 --> 00:37:36

They don't even seize the soul.

00:37:36 --> 00:37:38

It comes out gently like the Prophet ﷺ

00:37:38 --> 00:37:38

described.

00:37:39 --> 00:37:41

So when the disbeliever is about to leave

00:37:41 --> 00:37:42

the world and proceed to the next world,

00:37:42 --> 00:37:44

angels with dark faces come down to him

00:37:44 --> 00:37:46

from heaven and sit away with him as

00:37:46 --> 00:37:47

far as the eyes can see.

00:37:48 --> 00:37:49

Then the angel of death comes and sits

00:37:49 --> 00:37:51

at his head and says, Wicked soul, come

00:37:51 --> 00:37:52

out to the displeasure of Allah.

00:37:52 --> 00:37:55

Then it becomes dissipated in his body and

00:37:55 --> 00:37:57

he draws it out as a spit is

00:37:57 --> 00:37:58

drawn out from moistened wool.

00:37:58 --> 00:38:00

If you ever try to pull some metal

00:38:00 --> 00:38:03

out of wet wool, like how it rips,

00:38:03 --> 00:38:05

that's how the soul is ripped from this

00:38:05 --> 00:38:05

person's body.

00:38:05 --> 00:38:08

وَالْعِيَادُ بِاللَّهِ He then seizes it and when

00:38:08 --> 00:38:09

he does so, they do not leave it

00:38:09 --> 00:38:11

in his hand for an instant and it

00:38:11 --> 00:38:11

ascends.

00:38:12 --> 00:38:14

And the angels ask the same question, but

00:38:14 --> 00:38:16

this time the odor is one of the...

00:38:16 --> 00:38:17

If that one was one of the most

00:38:17 --> 00:38:19

beautiful scents that have ever been heard, or

00:38:19 --> 00:38:22

smelt rather, this one becomes one of the

00:38:22 --> 00:38:25

worst odors that has ever been smelt.

00:38:26 --> 00:38:28

And they then take it up and they

00:38:28 --> 00:38:29

do not bring it past a company of

00:38:29 --> 00:38:31

angels without their asking, Who is this wicked

00:38:31 --> 00:38:31

soul?

00:38:31 --> 00:38:32

They say, So-and-so, the son of

00:38:32 --> 00:38:34

so-and-so, using the worst names he

00:38:34 --> 00:38:35

was called in this world.

00:38:36 --> 00:38:37

And when he's brought to the lowest...

00:38:37 --> 00:38:39

Until he ascends to Allah subhanahu wa ta

00:38:39 --> 00:38:42

'ala, who says, Write his name in Sijjin.

00:38:43 --> 00:38:44

And then that person is brought into the

00:38:44 --> 00:38:45

grave.

00:38:45 --> 00:38:47

And then when he is asked by the

00:38:47 --> 00:38:48

two angels, Who is your lord?

00:38:49 --> 00:38:49

He says, I don't know.

00:38:50 --> 00:38:50

What's your religion?

00:38:50 --> 00:38:51

I don't know.

00:38:51 --> 00:38:52

What do you say about this man?

00:38:52 --> 00:38:53

He says, I don't know.

00:38:53 --> 00:38:56

And then he says, My servant has lied.

00:38:57 --> 00:38:58

So spread out carpets from * from him

00:38:58 --> 00:38:59

and open a gate for him into *.

00:39:00 --> 00:39:01

Then some of its heat and hot air

00:39:01 --> 00:39:02

comes to him.

00:39:02 --> 00:39:03

His grave is made narrow for him so

00:39:03 --> 00:39:05

that his ribs are pressed together in it.

00:39:05 --> 00:39:07

And the man with a ugly face, ugly

00:39:07 --> 00:39:09

garments and offensive odor comes to him and

00:39:09 --> 00:39:11

says, Be grieved with what displeases you for

00:39:11 --> 00:39:12

this is your day which you have been

00:39:12 --> 00:39:13

promised.

00:39:13 --> 00:39:14

He says, Who are you?

00:39:14 --> 00:39:16

For your face is mostly ugly and brings

00:39:16 --> 00:39:16

evil.

00:39:16 --> 00:39:18

He replies, I am your wicked deeds.

00:39:18 --> 00:39:19

He then says, My lord, do not bring

00:39:19 --> 00:39:20

the last hour.

00:39:21 --> 00:39:21

Do not bring that.

00:39:23 --> 00:39:23

And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la

00:39:23 --> 00:39:24

protect us.

00:39:25 --> 00:39:28

So he says, Oh Allah, لا تقم الساعة

00:39:29 --> 00:39:32

The people who are in the graves, kind

00:39:32 --> 00:39:33

of like a terrifying ordeal.

00:39:33 --> 00:39:35

Being in the grave, you're in that darkness

00:39:36 --> 00:39:38

and you spend more time in a grave

00:39:38 --> 00:39:39

than you ever spent on earth.

00:39:39 --> 00:39:42

You're talking about, you know, we don't know

00:39:42 --> 00:39:43

when the day of judgment is, but people

00:39:43 --> 00:39:45

have spent thousands of years in their graves.

00:39:48 --> 00:39:49

But Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la

00:39:49 --> 00:39:51

knows best for the righteous, it's like a

00:39:51 --> 00:39:51

nap.

00:39:53 --> 00:39:55

Just like time passes differently when you're asleep,

00:39:56 --> 00:39:57

time passes differently in the grave.

00:39:59 --> 00:40:03

And there is some evidence that souls meet

00:40:03 --> 00:40:05

each other in the graves.

00:40:05 --> 00:40:06

They visit each other.

00:40:07 --> 00:40:08

There are narrations that indicate that they visit

00:40:08 --> 00:40:09

each other on Fridays.

00:40:10 --> 00:40:12

The Prophet ﷺ says in a hadith, if

00:40:12 --> 00:40:14

I remember correctly, it's in Ibn Majah, that

00:40:14 --> 00:40:18

when a soul departs from this world and

00:40:18 --> 00:40:23

arrives, the other souls say, welcome, and they

00:40:23 --> 00:40:25

say, let him rest, let him rest, he

00:40:25 --> 00:40:27

just came out of the dunya, like everyone

00:40:27 --> 00:40:28

is making space for him.

00:40:29 --> 00:40:31

And then they start asking about so-and

00:40:31 --> 00:40:33

-so, and so-and-so, they're asking about

00:40:33 --> 00:40:34

their people.

00:40:34 --> 00:40:36

And they say, oh so-and-so, so

00:40:36 --> 00:40:37

-and-so is good, so-and-so is

00:40:37 --> 00:40:37

this.

00:40:38 --> 00:40:40

It's very comforting, especially if you've lost someone

00:40:40 --> 00:40:42

already, that they're saying, you know what, so

00:40:42 --> 00:40:44

-and-so is, yeah, they got married, they

00:40:44 --> 00:40:46

did this, they've got kids, they graduated, yeah,

00:40:47 --> 00:40:48

Rice University, seven semesters, mashallah.

00:40:49 --> 00:40:49

Right?

00:40:51 --> 00:40:54

They're informing each other of the people that

00:40:54 --> 00:40:55

they left behind.

00:40:56 --> 00:40:57

And then they say, what about so-and

00:40:57 --> 00:40:58

-so?

00:40:58 --> 00:41:00

And then the soul says, so-and-so,

00:41:01 --> 00:41:05

they didn't reach you, they went before me.

00:41:06 --> 00:41:09

And so that's when they realize, أَخَذَتْهُ الْهَاوِيَةَ

00:41:09 --> 00:41:13

that person went, left, that person went to

00:41:13 --> 00:41:13

the hellfire.

00:41:15 --> 00:41:17

But souls interact with each other.

00:41:19 --> 00:41:20

The last thing that I want to mention

00:41:21 --> 00:41:23

is what are the things that protect from

00:41:23 --> 00:41:24

the punishment of the grave.

00:41:24 --> 00:41:27

When Rasulullah ﷺ says, استعيذ بالله من عذاب

00:41:27 --> 00:41:30

القبر Seek refuge in Allah from the punishment

00:41:30 --> 00:41:31

of the grave.

00:41:31 --> 00:41:34

Actually, before that, I want to mention what

00:41:34 --> 00:41:38

are the things that protect from all of

00:41:38 --> 00:41:39

this that we're describing.

00:41:40 --> 00:41:42

Ali ibn Abi Talib radiAllahu anhu, he gave

00:41:42 --> 00:41:44

a khutbah in Al-Kufa in Iraq.

00:41:44 --> 00:41:46

And he says, أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ O people!

00:41:47 --> 00:41:50

إِنَّ أَخْوَ فَمَا أَخَافُ عَلَيْكُمْ The thing that

00:41:50 --> 00:41:53

I fear the most for you are two

00:41:53 --> 00:41:53

things.

00:41:54 --> 00:41:58

طُولَ الْأَمَل وَإِتِّبَاعَ الْهَوَى Protracted hope and following

00:41:58 --> 00:41:59

your desires.

00:42:00 --> 00:42:04

أَمَّا طُولَ الْأَمَل فَيُنسِي الْآخِرَة Protracted hope makes

00:42:04 --> 00:42:05

you forget the hereafter.

00:42:06 --> 00:42:10

وَإِتِّبَاعَ الْهَوَى فَيَسُدُّ عَنِ الْحَقِّ And following your

00:42:10 --> 00:42:11

desires diverts you from the truth.

00:42:13 --> 00:42:15

Protracted hope is what Ali ibn Abi Talib

00:42:15 --> 00:42:18

feared the most for this ummah as well

00:42:18 --> 00:42:19

as following your desires.

00:42:19 --> 00:42:20

These two things.

00:42:20 --> 00:42:21

What's protracted hope?

00:42:21 --> 00:42:23

Protracted hope is when a person just assumes

00:42:23 --> 00:42:25

that they're going to live a natural lifetime.

00:42:27 --> 00:42:29

I'm assuming that I'm going to live to

00:42:29 --> 00:42:30

reach such and such age.

00:42:31 --> 00:42:33

I'm going to live to even as you

00:42:33 --> 00:42:35

know and we all know that in reality

00:42:35 --> 00:42:36

life isn't promised.

00:42:37 --> 00:42:40

Rasulullah ﷺ says in Bukhari, he says that

00:42:40 --> 00:42:43

the heart of an old man stays young

00:42:43 --> 00:42:44

when it comes to two things.

00:42:44 --> 00:42:46

The love of the dunya and the hope

00:42:46 --> 00:42:47

for a long life.

00:42:48 --> 00:42:49

The heart of an old man is still

00:42:49 --> 00:42:50

young.

00:42:50 --> 00:42:51

It's as young as anybody else when it

00:42:51 --> 00:42:53

comes to the desire for a long life.

00:42:54 --> 00:42:59

And Rasulullah ﷺ he gave a visual representation

00:42:59 --> 00:42:59

of this.

00:43:00 --> 00:43:02

It's an incredibly powerful hadith and it's a

00:43:02 --> 00:43:04

beautiful hadith and it's one that I want

00:43:04 --> 00:43:05

you to share with other people as well.

00:43:06 --> 00:43:08

And that is that Rasulullah ﷺ drew a

00:43:08 --> 00:43:09

line in the sand.

00:43:11 --> 00:43:12

And then he drew a square.

00:43:12 --> 00:43:13

Okay, so he drew a square.

00:43:13 --> 00:43:16

I'm going to send the image into the

00:43:16 --> 00:43:19

telegram group inshallah ta'ala after this.

00:43:19 --> 00:43:21

But he drew a square and then he

00:43:21 --> 00:43:23

drew a long line going through the square

00:43:23 --> 00:43:27

and then he drew a number of lines

00:43:27 --> 00:43:28

that are perpendicular to the side.

00:43:30 --> 00:43:33

Then he said, this long line is the

00:43:33 --> 00:43:36

amal of the son of Adam.

00:43:36 --> 00:43:37

It's the hope of the son of Adam.

00:43:39 --> 00:43:40

It's your dreams.

00:43:40 --> 00:43:42

I'm going to live till this age.

00:43:42 --> 00:43:44

I'm going to be able to do this

00:43:44 --> 00:43:45

and I have this product.

00:43:45 --> 00:43:47

There's nobody who dies except that they have

00:43:47 --> 00:43:47

unfinished projects.

00:43:48 --> 00:43:49

There's nobody who dies except that they have

00:43:49 --> 00:43:50

unfinished dreams.

00:43:52 --> 00:43:54

That's the hope of the son of Adam.

00:43:54 --> 00:43:57

And then the square he says and this

00:43:57 --> 00:43:58

is their ajan, this is their lifespan.

00:43:59 --> 00:44:01

Their hope extends beyond their lifespan.

00:44:02 --> 00:44:05

And then in between those lines he says

00:44:05 --> 00:44:08

that is the problems that come their way.

00:44:09 --> 00:44:11

So while you're hoping to live a long,

00:44:12 --> 00:44:15

peaceful, successful life, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

00:44:15 --> 00:44:17

sending problems your way because Allah says لَقَدْ

00:44:17 --> 00:44:19

خَلَقْنَا الْإِنسَانَ فِي كَبَطٍ We've created man to

00:44:19 --> 00:44:20

be in a state of turmoil.

00:44:20 --> 00:44:23

You weren't created to live a problem-free

00:44:23 --> 00:44:24

existence.

00:44:24 --> 00:44:26

This world is a test and you've never

00:44:26 --> 00:44:28

taken a test without problems.

00:44:28 --> 00:44:32

It's the way that tests go and the

00:44:32 --> 00:44:33

hope goes beyond it.

00:44:34 --> 00:44:37

And so everybody dies having hopes and dreams

00:44:37 --> 00:44:39

that go beyond their lifetime.

00:44:40 --> 00:44:43

So Ali ibn Abi Talib says the love

00:44:43 --> 00:44:47

of protracted hope and the fear or the

00:44:47 --> 00:44:48

love of following your desires.

00:44:51 --> 00:44:53

And all of this, this love of the

00:44:53 --> 00:44:57

dunya is tied to what we're experiencing globally.

00:44:58 --> 00:45:01

The Prophet ﷺ says that there will come

00:45:01 --> 00:45:04

a time when the nations of the world

00:45:04 --> 00:45:08

will come to feast on you like people

00:45:08 --> 00:45:09

invite each other to a meal.

00:45:11 --> 00:45:13

People are going to come and they're going

00:45:13 --> 00:45:14

to invite, here, come and let's eat this

00:45:14 --> 00:45:15

Muslim country.

00:45:15 --> 00:45:16

Come and let's eat this Muslim country.

00:45:16 --> 00:45:17

Let's invade this.

00:45:17 --> 00:45:17

Let's do that.

00:45:17 --> 00:45:18

They'll feast on you.

00:45:18 --> 00:45:19

No problem.

00:45:20 --> 00:45:22

Now the Sahaba, they could not comprehend that

00:45:22 --> 00:45:25

that could happen unless there's one circumstance and

00:45:25 --> 00:45:27

that is they're just very few.

00:45:29 --> 00:45:30

That's the only way that people can come

00:45:30 --> 00:45:32

and feast on us is if we're literally

00:45:32 --> 00:45:34

just outnumbered all the time.

00:45:34 --> 00:45:36

So they said, Ya Rasulullah, are we going

00:45:36 --> 00:45:36

to be few?

00:45:37 --> 00:45:37

And he said no.

00:45:38 --> 00:45:41

He said you are going to be plentiful

00:45:41 --> 00:45:42

like the foam of the sea.

00:45:43 --> 00:45:44

You're going to be so many.

00:45:44 --> 00:45:46

You're going to be like 2 billion people.

00:45:47 --> 00:45:49

But you're still not going to be able

00:45:49 --> 00:45:52

to do anything as people ravage you and

00:45:52 --> 00:45:53

feast on you.

00:45:55 --> 00:45:57

He says you're going to be like the

00:45:57 --> 00:45:58

foam of the sea, but you're going to

00:45:58 --> 00:45:59

have two diseases.

00:46:00 --> 00:46:02

Or he says rather, you're going to have

00:46:02 --> 00:46:03

al-wahan.

00:46:03 --> 00:46:04

You're going to have al-wahan.

00:46:04 --> 00:46:05

That's the word, wahan.

00:46:06 --> 00:46:08

And they said, well, what's al-wahan?

00:46:08 --> 00:46:15

He said, the love of the dunya and

00:46:15 --> 00:46:16

fearing death.

00:46:16 --> 00:46:17

Fearing death.

00:46:18 --> 00:46:19

Those are the two things.

00:46:20 --> 00:46:21

Now, how do we resolve this idea of

00:46:21 --> 00:46:22

wahan?

00:46:22 --> 00:46:23

How do you resolve it?

00:46:23 --> 00:46:25

Like I don't want to be feasted on

00:46:25 --> 00:46:25

anymore.

00:46:25 --> 00:46:28

I don't want something like Gaza to be

00:46:28 --> 00:46:34

so it is a stain on all of

00:46:34 --> 00:46:34

our existence.

00:46:34 --> 00:46:35

What is happening there?

00:46:36 --> 00:46:37

How do we resolve it?

00:46:38 --> 00:46:40

You resolve it by removing the dunya from

00:46:40 --> 00:46:40

yourself.

00:46:42 --> 00:46:44

How do you resolve the dunya from yourself?

00:46:44 --> 00:46:46

By becoming much more aware of the effect

00:46:46 --> 00:46:47

of the dunya on you.

00:46:47 --> 00:46:49

By sitting and talking about death.

00:46:50 --> 00:46:51

That removes the dunya a little bit from

00:46:51 --> 00:46:53

you every single time.

00:46:53 --> 00:46:54

That you reflect upon the hereafter.

00:46:54 --> 00:46:57

That removes the dunya from you every single

00:46:57 --> 00:46:57

time.

00:46:58 --> 00:47:00

That you be in the presence of those

00:47:00 --> 00:47:02

who don't have much of the dunya and

00:47:02 --> 00:47:04

you see their lack of attachment to the

00:47:04 --> 00:47:06

dunya and you learn from those types of

00:47:06 --> 00:47:06

mentors.

00:47:07 --> 00:47:09

That removes the dunya from you every single

00:47:09 --> 00:47:09

time.

00:47:09 --> 00:47:11

That you don't immerse yourself in the presence

00:47:11 --> 00:47:15

of people who are they in and of

00:47:15 --> 00:47:18

themselves are super attached to the dunya.

00:47:18 --> 00:47:20

That you absorb that disease in your heart.

00:47:20 --> 00:47:22

Because that makes you weak.

00:47:23 --> 00:47:25

That makes you edible.

00:47:25 --> 00:47:27

People can come and feast on you.

00:47:28 --> 00:47:30

The love of the dunya and the fear

00:47:30 --> 00:47:30

of death.

00:47:30 --> 00:47:32

That being said to conclude how do you

00:47:32 --> 00:47:34

protect yourself from the punishment of the grave?

00:47:34 --> 00:47:36

I'm going to mention seven things inshallah ta

00:47:36 --> 00:47:36

'ala.

00:47:37 --> 00:47:38

Protecting from the punishment of the grave.

00:47:38 --> 00:47:42

The first is a daily habit.

00:47:43 --> 00:47:44

Ibn al-Qayyim he says in Kitab al

00:47:44 --> 00:47:46

-Ruh when he mentions he has an entire

00:47:46 --> 00:47:49

section on the he has a book called

00:47:49 --> 00:47:51

The Book of the Soul on things that

00:47:51 --> 00:47:52

protect from the punishment of the grave.

00:47:52 --> 00:47:55

And he says this thing is of the

00:47:55 --> 00:47:56

most beneficial things that protect from the punishment

00:47:56 --> 00:47:57

of the grave.

00:47:57 --> 00:48:00

That every night before you go to sleep

00:48:00 --> 00:48:01

that you reflect on your day and hold

00:48:01 --> 00:48:04

yourself accountable for the mistakes and sins that

00:48:04 --> 00:48:04

you committed.

00:48:05 --> 00:48:07

And then you commit to a sincere repentance

00:48:07 --> 00:48:08

between you and Allah.

00:48:09 --> 00:48:11

And so if that sleep turns into eternal

00:48:11 --> 00:48:13

slumber then you've died upon repentance.

00:48:14 --> 00:48:16

And if they live to the next morning

00:48:16 --> 00:48:17

they awaken with happiness and a chance at

00:48:17 --> 00:48:18

a new beginning.

00:48:19 --> 00:48:20

He says this is the most beneficial sleep

00:48:20 --> 00:48:21

that a person can have.

00:48:24 --> 00:48:26

Every night before you go to sleep you

00:48:26 --> 00:48:28

think about your sins you repent from those

00:48:28 --> 00:48:29

sins you commit to a new day.

00:48:30 --> 00:48:31

If you do that then it's the most

00:48:31 --> 00:48:32

beneficial sleep.

00:48:32 --> 00:48:37

Number two Tawheed Belief in Allah Subhanahu Wa

00:48:37 --> 00:48:38

Ta'ala When the angels come and question

00:48:38 --> 00:48:40

you in the grave that you say my

00:48:40 --> 00:48:43

lord is Allah Islam is my religion Muhammad

00:48:43 --> 00:48:46

Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is my prophet the more

00:48:46 --> 00:48:49

a person believes in that lives in accordance

00:48:49 --> 00:48:52

to that in this dunya the more they

00:48:52 --> 00:48:54

will be able to be able they will

00:48:54 --> 00:48:56

be granted the tawfeek to say that in

00:48:56 --> 00:48:56

the grave.

00:48:57 --> 00:48:59

يثبت الله الذين آمنوا بالقول الثابت في الحياة

00:48:59 --> 00:49:01

الدنيا وفي الآخرة Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

00:49:01 --> 00:49:05

says Allah will give those who believe steadfastness

00:49:05 --> 00:49:07

with the statement of truth in this life

00:49:07 --> 00:49:08

and in the next.

00:49:09 --> 00:49:13

So tawheed Number three Good deeds Good deeds

00:49:13 --> 00:49:18

protect The prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said When

00:49:18 --> 00:49:21

the deceased is placed in their grave and

00:49:21 --> 00:49:23

they hear the movement of the sandals when

00:49:23 --> 00:49:25

the people depart from them if they were

00:49:25 --> 00:49:27

a believer then the prayer is at their

00:49:27 --> 00:49:28

head and fasting is at their right and

00:49:28 --> 00:49:30

zakat is at their left and good deeds

00:49:30 --> 00:49:32

like charity the ties of kinship and goodness

00:49:32 --> 00:49:34

to people is at their feet and so

00:49:34 --> 00:49:36

when the azaab when the punishment starts to

00:49:36 --> 00:49:38

approach that person from their head the salah

00:49:38 --> 00:49:40

says there's no passage this way and when

00:49:40 --> 00:49:42

it comes from the right fasting says you

00:49:42 --> 00:49:45

can't pass and then from their left charity

00:49:45 --> 00:49:46

says you can't pass and then from their

00:49:46 --> 00:49:49

feet good deeds charity maintaining the ties of

00:49:49 --> 00:49:50

kinship and goodness to people says you can't

00:49:50 --> 00:49:54

pass That's number two or three that's three

00:49:54 --> 00:49:58

Number four is shahada martyrdom martyrdom and the

00:49:58 --> 00:50:02

prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam he mentioned six qualities

00:50:02 --> 00:50:04

that the shaheed has and one of them

00:50:04 --> 00:50:05

is that they're protected from the punishment of

00:50:05 --> 00:50:07

the grave and so the sahaba asked why

00:50:07 --> 00:50:10

is the shaheed protected from the punishment of

00:50:10 --> 00:50:12

the grave and he says كفى ببارقة السيوف

00:50:12 --> 00:50:15

فوق رأسه فتنة he said it is enough

00:50:16 --> 00:50:19

the dazzling of swords over their head is

00:50:19 --> 00:50:20

enough of a fitna for them they don't

00:50:20 --> 00:50:21

need to be tested in the grave their

00:50:21 --> 00:50:24

test is on the battlefield then number four

00:50:26 --> 00:50:29

that is number four right okay so I

00:50:29 --> 00:50:31

want to just expand that notion of shaheed

00:50:34 --> 00:50:36

because the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam so this

00:50:36 --> 00:50:38

is number five we're gonna expand the notion

00:50:38 --> 00:50:40

of shaheed the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said

00:50:40 --> 00:50:42

who do you consider martyrs amongst you the

00:50:42 --> 00:50:44

sahaba said Ya Rasulullah the one who's killed

00:50:44 --> 00:50:45

in the path of Allah is a martyr

00:50:45 --> 00:50:47

the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said then the

00:50:47 --> 00:50:49

martyrs of my ummah will be few they

00:50:49 --> 00:50:51

said then who are they Ya Rasulullah he

00:50:51 --> 00:50:52

said whoever is killed in the path of

00:50:52 --> 00:50:54

Allah is a martyr and whoever dies in

00:50:54 --> 00:50:56

the path of Allah is a martyr and

00:50:56 --> 00:50:57

whoever dies in a plague is a martyr

00:50:57 --> 00:50:59

and whoever dies due to a stomach ailment

00:50:59 --> 00:51:01

is a martyr and whoever drowns is a

00:51:01 --> 00:51:03

martyr and we also have a number of

00:51:03 --> 00:51:06

other narrations that indicate that whoever dies because

00:51:06 --> 00:51:09

of burning is a martyr and whoever dies

00:51:09 --> 00:51:13

a person who a building collapses on them

00:51:13 --> 00:51:15

is a martyr so all of these scenes

00:51:15 --> 00:51:17

that we're seeing play out in Gaza they're

00:51:17 --> 00:51:19

all martyred according to the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi

00:51:19 --> 00:51:20

Wasallam may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala count

00:51:20 --> 00:51:21

them as the martyrs Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Ameen

00:51:21 --> 00:51:24

the only difference is that janazah is still

00:51:24 --> 00:51:26

prayed over them the only one who janazah

00:51:26 --> 00:51:27

is not prayed for is the martyr of

00:51:27 --> 00:51:30

the battlefield everyone else they may have the

00:51:30 --> 00:51:31

status of martyrs and there's others like the

00:51:31 --> 00:51:33

prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says من قتل دون

00:51:33 --> 00:51:35

ماله فهو شهيد ومن قتل دون أهله فهو

00:51:35 --> 00:51:38

شهيد that whoever dies defending their property is

00:51:38 --> 00:51:40

a shaheed and whoever dies defending their family

00:51:40 --> 00:51:42

is a shaheed and whoever dies defending themselves

00:51:42 --> 00:51:44

is a shaheed whoever is killed defending themselves

00:51:44 --> 00:51:48

is a shaheed number six is dying on

00:51:48 --> 00:51:52

Friday on the eve of Friday basically Thursday

00:51:52 --> 00:51:54

night the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says there's

00:51:54 --> 00:51:55

no Muslim who dies on Friday or the

00:51:55 --> 00:51:57

eve of Friday except that Allah Subh'anaHu

00:51:57 --> 00:51:58

Wa Ta-A'la protects them from the

00:51:58 --> 00:51:59

trials of the grave the hadith is reported

00:51:59 --> 00:52:01

by Tirmidhi and then we started with a

00:52:01 --> 00:52:03

daily habit and I'm going to end with

00:52:03 --> 00:52:04

a daily habit which is the seventh which

00:52:04 --> 00:52:07

is reciting surat al mulk the prophet Sallallahu

00:52:07 --> 00:52:10

Alaihi Wasallam said surat tabarak is the surah

00:52:10 --> 00:52:11

that protects from the punishment of the grave

00:52:11 --> 00:52:14

and he Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam also said a

00:52:14 --> 00:52:17

chapter that is thirty verses interceded on behalf

00:52:17 --> 00:52:19

of its reciter until they were forgiven and

00:52:19 --> 00:52:23

it is tabarakalladhi biyadihil mulk in sahihat Tirmidhi

00:52:23 --> 00:52:24

and Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la

00:52:24 --> 00:52:26

knows best so that is what protects from

00:52:26 --> 00:52:28

the punishment of the grave now we have

00:52:28 --> 00:52:30

five minutes left and then we're going to

00:52:30 --> 00:52:32

pray Isha Insha'Allah Ta-A'la and

00:52:32 --> 00:52:34

then Sami Hamdi Insha'Allah Ta-A'la

00:52:34 --> 00:52:39

is going to be here he is here

00:52:39 --> 00:52:41

excellent the Lion of London has arrived excellent

00:52:43 --> 00:52:45

any questions Insha'Allah Ta-A'la any

00:52:45 --> 00:53:00

last questions Insha'Allah yes so

00:53:00 --> 00:53:05

his question is his question is a believer

00:53:05 --> 00:53:08

enters into the grave and they've seen their

00:53:08 --> 00:53:12

palace in paradise how do you balance that

00:53:12 --> 00:53:13

with the idea that people are going to

00:53:13 --> 00:53:15

be terrified on the day of judgment even

00:53:15 --> 00:53:16

the prophets are going to be on the

00:53:16 --> 00:53:18

day of judgment saying nafsi nafsi like myself

00:53:18 --> 00:53:20

myself how do you balance that what answer

00:53:20 --> 00:53:24

do you have for that who's able to

00:53:24 --> 00:53:39

combine between the evidences yes yeah

00:53:39 --> 00:53:41

I mean it's just the day of judgment

00:53:41 --> 00:53:44

it's terrible and so even if a person

00:53:44 --> 00:53:48

knows that they are secure they're still going

00:53:48 --> 00:53:50

to be afraid and the prophet says that

00:53:50 --> 00:53:54

the prophets will say my lord give me

00:53:54 --> 00:53:56

security give me security on the day of

00:53:56 --> 00:54:00

judgment and also keep in mind this is

00:54:00 --> 00:54:01

very important we're going to talk about this

00:54:01 --> 00:54:02

when we talk about the day of judgment

00:54:02 --> 00:54:04

next week the day of judgment is different

00:54:04 --> 00:54:06

stages it's a day that's 50,000 years

00:54:07 --> 00:54:09

and so there might be a moment where

00:54:09 --> 00:54:11

the universe is changing and all of this

00:54:11 --> 00:54:13

type of stuff where people are terrified and

00:54:13 --> 00:54:15

then there becomes a moment where people are

00:54:15 --> 00:54:17

thirsty and then there becomes a moment when

00:54:17 --> 00:54:18

you drink from al-kawthar and you're never

00:54:18 --> 00:54:20

going to be thirsty again and there becomes

00:54:20 --> 00:54:21

a moment where you're given general amnesty and

00:54:21 --> 00:54:23

you're never afraid again right so there are

00:54:23 --> 00:54:26

different stages where different experiences happen on the

00:54:26 --> 00:54:28

day of judgment and Allah knows best great

00:54:28 --> 00:54:38

question yes excellent

00:54:38 --> 00:54:41

so another great question is the Quran frequently

00:54:41 --> 00:54:43

mentions or Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala frequently

00:54:43 --> 00:54:45

mentions in the Quran you know just something

00:54:45 --> 00:54:47

a quick point this is just a very

00:54:47 --> 00:54:55

subtle thing it's very subtle being English and

00:54:55 --> 00:54:59

being American we absorb language that's actually secular

00:54:59 --> 00:55:02

even when we're talking about religious stuff so

00:55:02 --> 00:55:03

for example many times we'll say the Quran

00:55:03 --> 00:55:09

says who says in the Quran Allah says

00:55:10 --> 00:55:12

and that's why having a second language is

00:55:12 --> 00:55:14

always very good because you can like for

00:55:14 --> 00:55:16

example in Arab have you ever heard somebody

00:55:16 --> 00:55:19

say al-Quran yaqul no nobody says that

00:55:19 --> 00:55:23

they all say Allah yaqul Allah says right

00:55:23 --> 00:55:26

but you know it's kind of audacious in

00:55:26 --> 00:55:27

a non-Muslim society for us to say

00:55:27 --> 00:55:29

God says right so we say the Quran

00:55:29 --> 00:55:32

says but just so you know that's just

00:55:32 --> 00:55:35

a little thing that had to be pointed

00:55:35 --> 00:55:36

out to me because I absorbed it just

00:55:36 --> 00:55:40

like everybody else what were we saying Allah

00:55:40 --> 00:55:41

Subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the Quran

00:55:42 --> 00:55:46

that there is no intercession how do we

00:55:46 --> 00:55:48

understand that with the hadith that say there

00:55:48 --> 00:55:50

is intercession so we're jumping to the day

00:55:50 --> 00:55:54

of judgment Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala negates

00:55:54 --> 00:56:00

intercession without his permission Allah negates intercession without

00:56:00 --> 00:56:03

his permission Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala says

00:56:03 --> 00:56:06

يَوْمَ يَقُومُ الْرُّوحُ وَالْمَلَائِكَةُ صَفًّا لَا يَتَكَلَّمُونَ إِلَّا

00:56:06 --> 00:56:09

مَنْ أَذِنَ لَهُ الرَّحْمَنُ everyone will get up

00:56:09 --> 00:56:13

and stand no one will speak except whom

00:56:13 --> 00:56:15

Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala gives permission to

00:56:15 --> 00:56:17

and so Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala negates

00:56:17 --> 00:56:19

intercession in the sense that nobody has the

00:56:19 --> 00:56:22

right to intercession nobody can get up as

00:56:22 --> 00:56:24

a right and intercede on behalf of Allah

00:56:24 --> 00:56:27

Subhanahu wa ta'ala but in Ayatul Kursi

00:56:27 --> 00:56:30

Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala says إِلَّا بِإِذْنِهِ

00:56:30 --> 00:56:32

Allah says who can intercede in front of

00:56:32 --> 00:56:36

him except by his permission and so Allah

00:56:36 --> 00:56:38

Subhanahu wa ta'ala is going to allow

00:56:38 --> 00:56:41

intercession from the prophets and the martyrs and

00:56:41 --> 00:56:43

the hufadh of the Quran and the righteous

00:56:43 --> 00:56:45

and the believers and like that Allah will

00:56:45 --> 00:56:49

grant them intercession for his as a means

00:56:49 --> 00:56:54

of honoring them yes sisters any questions I'm

00:56:54 --> 00:57:18

sorry yes visiting

00:57:18 --> 00:57:20

the graves the Prophet ﷺ mother was non

00:57:20 --> 00:57:22

-Muslim and the Prophet ﷺ asked Allah permission

00:57:22 --> 00:57:25

for him to go and make du'a

00:57:25 --> 00:57:27

for her he wasn't granted permission he asked

00:57:27 --> 00:57:29

Allah permission to go and visit her grave

00:57:29 --> 00:57:32

and he was granted permission to visit her

00:57:32 --> 00:57:34

grave so the Prophet ﷺ visited the grave

00:57:34 --> 00:57:36

and so Allah knows best I believe it

00:57:36 --> 00:57:39

is permissible for you to go and visit

00:57:39 --> 00:57:41

your non-Muslim family members graves but you're

00:57:41 --> 00:57:43

not allowed to make du'a for them

00:57:43 --> 00:57:49

individually and Allah ﷻ knows best if they

00:57:49 --> 00:57:56

passed away on disbelief no that wasn't her

00:57:56 --> 00:57:57

question her question was about non-Muslim family

00:57:57 --> 00:58:00

members but can women visit the graves we

00:58:00 --> 00:58:02

talked about that we said that it's a

00:58:02 --> 00:58:04

difference of opinion amongst the scholars the Hanabilah

00:58:04 --> 00:58:06

do not allow it but the majority do

00:58:06 --> 00:58:09

allow it so it's just because the Prophet

00:58:09 --> 00:58:12

ﷺ left it general he says go and

00:58:12 --> 00:58:14

visit and he made it general for the

00:58:14 --> 00:58:15

men and women but you just have to

00:58:15 --> 00:58:18

be careful with particular decorum at a grave

00:58:18 --> 00:58:31

site yes sir disbelief what they

00:58:31 --> 00:58:33

weren't given the chance if they were about

00:58:33 --> 00:58:37

disbelief so that on the day of judgment

00:58:37 --> 00:58:39

so every question is about the day of

00:58:39 --> 00:58:40

judgment except for the grave thank you Judy

00:58:41 --> 00:58:42

but we're going to talk about the day

00:58:42 --> 00:58:44

of judgment next week but the question about

00:58:44 --> 00:58:47

what happens if you have non-Muslims who

00:58:48 --> 00:58:49

they simply were not given the chance that's

00:58:49 --> 00:58:52

what your question is right the Prophet ﷺ

00:58:52 --> 00:58:54

says that on the day of judgment an

00:58:54 --> 00:58:56

old man will come and say Ya Rasul

00:58:56 --> 00:58:58

Allah Oh Allah rather the message came to

00:58:58 --> 00:59:01

me and I was seen out I couldn't

00:59:01 --> 00:59:03

understand another person will come and say Oh

00:59:03 --> 00:59:05

Allah the message came to me and I

00:59:05 --> 00:59:09

was deaf I couldn't hear another person will

00:59:09 --> 00:59:10

come and say the message came to me

00:59:10 --> 00:59:14

so people who basically had legitimate excuses for

00:59:14 --> 00:59:17

the message not reaching them on the day

00:59:17 --> 00:59:19

of judgment they'll say Oh Allah like I

00:59:19 --> 00:59:24

couldn't it didn't reach me and so they

00:59:24 --> 00:59:25

will then be tested on the day of

00:59:25 --> 00:59:29

judgment and those who pass the test will

00:59:29 --> 00:59:31

enter into paradise they'll be commanded to jump

00:59:31 --> 00:59:33

into a fire and those who enter into

00:59:33 --> 00:59:36

the fire fulfilling the command of Allah ﷻ

00:59:36 --> 00:59:39

will find it to be paradise and those

00:59:39 --> 00:59:41

who reject will have rejected so their test

00:59:41 --> 00:59:44

will be a final exam and Allah knows

00:59:44 --> 00:59:54

best yes the hadith of

00:59:54 --> 00:59:57

those who visit the sick that they have

00:59:57 --> 00:59:59

the angels praying for them does that apply

00:59:59 --> 01:00:01

for those who work in a hospital yes

01:00:01 --> 01:00:03

that applies for those who work in a

01:00:03 --> 01:00:05

hospital with the intention if they make the

01:00:05 --> 01:00:08

intention if you make the intention do you

01:00:08 --> 01:00:10

work in a hospital yeah if you make

01:00:10 --> 01:00:12

the intention that while I'm making my rounds

01:00:12 --> 01:00:17

that I'm visiting the sick or Quaibat who's

01:00:17 --> 01:00:19

a chaplain if she's going with the intention

01:00:19 --> 01:00:22

that I'm visiting the sick these are the

01:00:22 --> 01:00:24

people whom Allah ﷻ loves for me to

01:00:24 --> 01:00:29

visit then there will be incredible reward for

01:00:29 --> 01:00:33

you Allah ﷻ says on the day of

01:00:33 --> 01:00:35

judgment He will say to His servant عَبْدِي

01:00:35 --> 01:00:38

مَرِضْتُ فَلَمْ تَزُرْنِي oh my servant I was

01:00:38 --> 01:00:39

sick and you did not visit me that

01:00:39 --> 01:00:40

person will say my lord how can I

01:00:40 --> 01:00:41

visit you when you're the lord of the

01:00:41 --> 01:00:43

world he will say wasn't so and so

01:00:43 --> 01:00:45

sick if you had visited me you would

01:00:45 --> 01:00:47

have found me with them so when I'm

01:00:47 --> 01:01:22

walking into this person's room yeah

01:01:22 --> 01:01:24

but all of these hadith about specific virtue

01:01:24 --> 01:01:27

that's with regards to non-Muslims Allah ﷻ

01:01:27 --> 01:01:28

will address

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