Bilal Assad – Stairways to Serenity
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The speakers emphasize the importance of helping others, being recognized, and not denying anything. They also touch on the implementation of As-Sun and hellfire in the Middle East and advise on staying in hellfire and avoiding going to hellfire. The conversation emphasizes the need for individuals to pray for their health and success, avoid denying anything, and not denying anything.
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Our topic is called stairways, like the stairs
that you climb, to serenity.
Serenity means peace and tranquility inside your heart
and your soul and inside your mind.
We are talking about living in the challenges
of this world, this world that you and
I are living this short time full of
tests, full of trials.
We have trials and tests from the outside
world.
Some of us, we have trials from inside
our own family.
Some of us, we have tests in our
health.
Some of us, we have tests in our
mental health.
Some of us go through a lot of
mental health problems, depression, anxiety, trauma.
These are all real in Islam.
Some of us, we have trials in our
religion, in our deen, our practices.
Some of us, we want to be better.
It's very hard.
Some of us get more practicing and even
our own family make it hard for us.
Our friends, we may lose them.
The society around us, some of us, we
get abused.
We hear words that we don't want to
hear.
And my brothers and sisters, all of this
is just a short time trial and test.
Persevere and be patient.
Islam doesn't say don't speak out.
Islam doesn't say don't enjoy life.
Islam does not say don't learn things other
than Islam.
Islam tells you to be productive, to also
develop yourself, learn from different things, learn new
languages, learn new subjects, learn about, for example,
finance, learn about communication, learn about science, learn
about engineering.
Muslims are not meant to be weak.
Muslims are not meant to be ignorant.
Some become sheikhs and imams.
Some become engineers.
Men and women, both of them help each
other.
Allah says in the Quran, men and women,
you are supporters of one another.
We do not have anything in Islam which
says men don't need women and women don't
need men.
Throughout history, you will see in the Islamic
world, men and women, they brought new things
to this world and contributed.
And although we are now not as strong
as we were before, we owe much of
what we have today of technology and advancement
to the Muslim world.
My brothers and sisters, one of the, for
example, I hear some Muslims, they read about
Islam, but they're not looking at Islam in
a, I'm going to use a word, maybe
if you understand it, holistic way.
W-H-O-L-I-S, you know.
Sorry, am I being too, you know holistic,
right?
All right.
Okay.
I'm going to talk big words now.
So holistic way.
Islam is applied in every place of your
life, not just in the mosque, not just
in some areas.
And sometimes we need to look at what
is more important.
So sometimes we want to practice Islam perfectly.
But at times we can't, brothers and sisters,
we have to look at the benefit versus
the harm.
So I've been, alhamdulillah, in dawah, in teaching
the community, and I have many friends who
have been doing this for many years.
And when I first started in Deen, you
probably watched me on YouTube 26 years ago,
28 years ago, I had, I was younger
and giving talks, I was more fiery.
You know, do you know Muhammad Hublos from
Sydney?
Akhi Ayman from the UK, I was like
that, maybe a little bit half, halfway there.
But over time, you start learning more about
other areas in the Deen and you say,
okay, I'm focusing too much here, you have
to get easier.
You're judging too much there, less judgment.
And sometimes we say things, not perfect, but
it's more benefit.
So we focus now on the bigger things,
the more wholesome, holistic things.
So for example, I studied a bit of
psychology.
And I heard some Muslims, they say, what's
this psychologist from a shaitan?
I say to you, subhanAllah, you know, I
used to think like that.
My father used to say, only crazy people
go to a psychologist.
I said, Dad, wallahi, now we've learned something
different.
And even my father has changed.
We talk and we learn more.
Not all psychology is bad.
Some of it is pretty bad.
It makes you, it does make you go
crazy.
Others of it really helps.
And the best is I see Muslims who
know their Deen, their Sharia, alhamdulillah, their Deen
very well, their Tawheed, they know what oneness
of Allah means, and they study psychology and
they know how to maneuver through it.
So obviously, you don't learn something new without
learning your Deen first.
Otherwise, yes, it can take you in the
wrong direction.
I've seen people who, for example, say science
is another devil.
SubhanAllah, you know, let me explain something.
Once I was on a chat group, a
science chat group, where people are talking medical
science and they were talking about biomedical technology.
And everyone is acting like they know everything.
So someone brought a hadith about Islam, trying
to make Islam look bad and Muslims look
ignorant.
And they quoted one hadith of the Prophet
ﷺ which says, the hadith is authentic, if
a fly lands in your food, or in
your drink, don't throw the drink or the
food out.
Dip the fly.
Dip it.
Then take that little section out and throw
it out.
Eat and drink the rest.
So in that chat group, obviously everyone started
to attack Muslims and Islam, attacking our Prophet
ﷺ.
Now I'm watching and being very careful, and
I had my friend as well, he was
studying economics, but alhamdulillah, intelligent.
And I said, wait, don't reply.
Let's see what they say.
And we had something ready.
I'll share it with you, you'll love this.
There's Islam, it's dirty, we told you they
are backwards, they said.
They have to dip a fly and they
eat it.
The bacteria, these flies have landed in dirty
places.
If you eat it, you can get hepatitis,
because hepatitis comes from not washing your hands
in the toilet, right?
If you know a chef or a cook
who goes to the toilet and doesn't wash
his hands, it's a problem, it's dangerous.
You get hepatitis.
Hepatitis A, B or C.
And these people said the fly lands here
and they eat it.
They're following this ancient book, this primitive prophet,
astaghfirullah, when Rasulullah ﷺ taught us to be
ahead of time.
The Qur'an is ahead of its time.
Anyway, they kept talking.
And then we brought them an article, a
new study from the Monash University in Melbourne,
in Australia.
And there are other universities in America as
well.
And now I saw it appearing in the
ABC Science and also I think it was
Science Direct.
So there's studies being done on it.
This is only recently, only maybe about 17,
18 years ago.
In science, they ask questions.
I wonder how a fly can survive in
dirty places.
You give a question and you make a
hypothesis.
You think, okay, I think it's 1, 2,
3.
Then you put it to a test.
You test it.
And what they asked was, how does a
fly survive in the toilet without dying?
It must have an anti-bacteria, antibody that
fights the bacteria that it digests.
And then it must have an immune system,
an antibody that is already in it, which
maybe humans don't have.
I wonder, they said, if we can extract
that antibody from the fly and make a
vaccine out of it, just like we made
venom, anti-venom.
We took the poison out of the snake,
added some things to it and make it
into an anti-venom.
When someone gets bitten by a snake, they
go to the hospital, put the anti-venom
and it fights the venom.
So I wonder if we can fight the
bacteria that stops hepatitis from people dying.
Then they asked, but it's too expensive to
take it out of the blood.
So they said, what's the best way?
They said, it must exist all over its
body.
They said, the best way is to dip
it in fluid.
Many flies, Wallahi, you can read about it.
Monash University or ABC Science about the fly
and anti-bacteria.
They said, dip it in ethanol solution, like
alcohol, ethanol solution.
And automatically the bacteria and the anti-bacteria
comes out.
And then we can extract the anti-bacteria
and make a vaccine.
Rasulullah ﷺ said this more than 1,400
years ago.
And he said, dip the fly.
Why?
Because he said, one wing carries the bacteria,
the other wing drops the anti-bacteria.
So you have it in your food, you
already killed off the bacteria.
So when you eat, there's no problem.
The antibody killed the bacteria.
Subhanallah.
But he didn't say it in a scientific
way.
This is just modern words, just the language
changed.
Suddenly on that chat group, Wallahi, no one
commented anymore.
Everyone shut up.
So they either have something bad to say
or they stay quiet.
Or as Islam tells us, say if you
have something good to say, say it or
be quiet the other way around.
But my brothers and sisters, the reason I
started off this way, I wanted you to
know and feel proud that Muslims, Alhamdulillah, should
get more educated while learning their deen and
not to let anybody from that angle, let
them feel or think that their deen is
primitive and backwards.
Alhamdulillah, we are so much ahead.
But at the same time, I also want
to talk to my brothers and sisters to
please not get too deep into making these
assumptions about religion that science and I don't
know what is not good.
No, Wallahi, it's good.
The Quran talks about astronomy and our cells
and our atoms and it talks about the
brain and it talks about and Allah says,
Allah says, We will continue to show them
our signs in the heavens and inside their
bodies and things they never knew.
Allah says, He taught man that which he
did not know.
Allah talks about the celestial planets.
The glory be to the one who created
in the skies, celestial planets and solar systems
and so on.
So my brothers and sisters, once I was
at the mosque, impressed the mosque, I went
to the toilet and on the wall in
the toilet, someone had carved with a knife
or something in the wall, PhD, you know,
PhD doctorate.
And he said, permanent head damage.
I thought, SubhanAllah, is this how we think?
Permanent head damage?
This tells us to stay backwards.
SubhanAllah.
Brothers and sisters, having said this, also, we
face challenges like this about our intellectuality.
Let's inshallah be stronger than that.
Number two, brothers and sisters, sometimes we can
be reactionary emotionally.
And in Islam, emotional reaction is our vulnerability.
We've just come back from Sweden over there,
we heard about people who were burning the
Quran.
And I was happy and proud that no
Muslim reacted.
Instead, we continued our dawah, we continued our
work, we continued teaching people our deen, we
continued our Jumu'ah.
And SubhanAllah, Allah sent non-Muslims to protest
against the burning of the Quran on our
behalf.
Don't worry.
Allah says in the Quran, no one knows
Allah's soldiers who they are.
And this is nothing but a reminder to
man.
Let Allah deal with it, because they want
your reaction.
So brothers and sisters, Rasulullah told us that
every prophet and messenger received harm from outside.
And all of this is a test for
our belief, and to continue inshallah.
But think and plan and be together and
love one another.
Wallahi, we don't have anyone but Allah, then
our community is number one.
If we as brothers and sisters cannot look
out for each other, if we attack one
another, we put each other down, we judge
each other all the time, and we ridicule
each other, then wallahi, we will lose everything.
Allah says in the Quran, do not dispute
among one another.
Otherwise, your aura and your respect will be
lost, and you will lose.
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, I asked
Allah for three things for my ummah.
He gave me two, and he denied me
one.
I said, Oh Allah, do not destroy my
ummah or annihilate them because of a natural
disaster.
He gave that to me.
The ummah will never be destroyed or annihilated
as a result of a natural disaster.
He said, Oh Allah, do not annihilate my
ummah as a result of an enemy outside
of them who attacks them and destroys them.
Allah gave me that.
And we saw in the time of the
Mongols in the 12th century, when they almost
wiped out the entire Muslim world, but because
of the dua of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam, we rise again.
Now we have more than two billion Muslims.
And the third one, he said, Oh Allah,
do not allow my ummah to be destroyed
and annihilated because of enmity within them, between
them.
And he denied me that.
This is our responsibility.
So brothers and sisters, a little reminder inshallah,
before I go on to the next topic
about this, that our community and our brotherhood
and sisterhood, nothing can match it.
Allah says, In
Surah Al-Hujurat, Allah says, As a matter
of fact, the believers are brothers and sisters.
So fear Allah in the way you treat
one another in your brotherhood and sisterhood, in
the hope that you receive mercy.
You'll have mercy among each other and mercy
from Allah.
And Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, Allah's
support is with the community.
Having said this, brothers and sisters, we have
family challenges, children challenges, inside and outside health
challenges.
And today inshallah, I will talk to you
in the first part, only now for 20
minutes, I've got left in the first one.
And then inshallah, we'll have a break.
And afterwards, I'll continue this topic.
We started from this book, The Stairways, and
I've covered Alhamdulillah, Islam and mental health.
And we gave strategies of how to deal
with all sorts of mental illnesses and OCDs
and things from the Islamic perspective.
I spoke about how to rely on Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala and how to fight
and deal with whispers in the mind.
We spoke about something called religious delusion.
Some people, they go into religion, and they
create a false belief idea of their deen.
So it takes them very far.
One example of that we talked about du
'a and istikhara, how to call upon Allah
and how to expect Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala's response, not to make up a fantasy
in your head.
And one example of that, I'll just share
it with you because you're very nice people.
The example is when someone wants to marry
someone and they're interested in finding someone who
they want to marry, so they make an
istikhara.
You know the istikhara, right?
Istikhara.
So istikhara is a du'a that you
pray two rak'ahs, and after the two
rak'ahs, you say the du'a.
It's in that book I recommended you, Fortress
of the Muslim.
Dhikr words, you say words of dhikr.
And in that book, istikhara, you ask Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala to support you and
to guide you.
Some people, what happens is that they think
of istikhara in a delusional way.
They think that they have to see a
dream.
They think that they have to see some
sign in the sky, clouds or something.
They think that they have to feel something
specific, something specific.
I'm sitting here and then I'm waiting for
that feeling.
Like it has to be something different.
Maybe a sign, an image of something.
Someone says, I have to break it to
you.
Unfortunately, it's not like that.
How do I know?
Nowhere in the Qur'an or in the
hadiths or even in the du'a that
you say.
None of it tells you that you're guaranteed
a dream or a sign or anything.
In fact, you might not see anything or
feel anything.
Sometimes you might not feel that good.
What is the du'a of istikhara then?
We take it as it is.
That's why we need to ask the scholars
and really research before we believe in something
that someone told us.
Istikhara is a du'a when you're about
to make a decision.
So you think of something and you do
all your research.
You make a research about that person that
was recommended to you, that hunk of a
man that you now, you don't know what
the word hunk of a man is.
I'll just go on.
Like that guy that you have a crush
on or that girl that you think she's
amazing.
And once you ask about them and you
do your research and you talk to your
family and all that, and you know what
you want, just before you start going ahead,
you make istikhara.
You say, Oh Allah, if it's good for
me, let it happen.
If it's bad for me, keep it away
from me and grant me the better place
after that.
Then you keep going.
You go and you ask and you talk
and you start to get to know them.
And then Allah will make it happen or
he won't.
That's all.
So that's just an example.
Another example we said of delusion is when
somebody goes to a shaykh and says, Oh
shaykh, can you make du'a for me
and tell me if you see a dream.
This is also delusion.
Wallahi, I know people when they get, some
people, they're very religious, but unfortunately their aqeedah,
their belief system, it takes them into mental
distress.
You know, if you don't have the right
belief system in Allah, that's what happens.
You get mental illnesses.
Wallahi, you get OCDs and you start thinking
Allah's not looking after me.
He's not really there.
What's this religion?
Some people give up and say all these
stories I heard, Allah is not there for
me.
That's because we didn't understand it well.
So be patient, brothers and sisters.
Anyway, we talked about knowing Allah and who
he is to us and our relationship to
him.
And one of the things we said was
a believer never thinks bad about Allah.
Allah says always assume of me well.
And we know that Allah only brings best
for us.
Then we talked about Muhammad ﷺ and our
relationship with our Prophet ﷺ.
We talked about salat and how it helps
us with our well-being.
We talked about halal and haram.
We talked about du'a.
We talked about dhikr, your daily dhikr words
and so on.
And we talked about community, family, all of
that alhamdulillah.
And now in this short time, I will
talk to you about how does the hereafter
play a role in our well-being and
our journey.
Brothers and sisters, I'll do an introduction.
First one, give you a break and then
I'll talk more inshallah about the hereafter next.
So the first thing I want to say
to you brothers and sisters, our tour was
based on a statement.
A statement by the great scholar who was
called Ibn Taymiyyah.
Ibn Taymiyyah used to get imprisoned a lot
for speaking the truth.
And what happened with the government is that
they gave him a hard time and he
made this statement which says, in this world,
there is a paradise.
Whoever does not enter it will not enter
the paradise of the hereafter.
And then he said, he was able to
still smile and find peace.
And he said, what do my enemies believe
they are doing?
My paradise and garden are in my heart
wherever I go.
If they kill me, it is martyrdom and
reuniting me with my lord.
If they exile me, it is my tourism
with my lord.
If they imprison me, it is my isolation
with my lord.
Brothers and sisters, for me personally, I took
this advice.
I don't know if you know, may Allah
have mercy on your loved ones.
And I also lost my brother and son,
and all the loved ones of our brothers
and sisters here and around the world in
Palestine and everywhere.
And I took this and said, no matter
what happens to you, there is a paradise
in this world.
Keep going.
And inshallah, our loved ones are waiting for
us in the paradise of the hereafter.
There is no time to waste.
No time to sit there and just feel
sad every day, every night.
I can still feel sad.
I can still feel grief while still continuing
to do my efforts and continuing my work.
So brothers and sisters, you have two choices.
Sit and be miserable and let it eat
you away.
Or stay sad, but keep on going.
That's how you build around that grief.
You build around that pain.
You cannot stay thinking about it over and
over.
In fact, Islam does not tell you to
do that.
Move on, and you will find doors opening
for you inshallah.
Asya, who was the wife of Pharaoh, you
know her story?
Asya bint Muzahim, she converted to Islam, or
reverted to Islam, whichever word you want to
use.
She became a Muslim in secret because of
Musa alayhi salam.
And when her husband Pharaoh found out, he
tortured her with his soldiers.
They used to tie her up and whip
her, and they used to put a boulder,
a big rock, on her arms and on
her chest and whip her.
And while she was under the pain, Allah
mentions her in the Qur'an, in Surah
At-Tahrim, where Allah says, where Allah says,
Allah says this beautiful story of Asya alayhi
salam, and Allah gives the example to the
believers about the wife of Pharaoh.
When she said, My Lord, build for me
a house with you near you in Jannah,
and save me from Pharaoh and his actions,
and save me from the oppressive people.
The authentic hadith says that while she was
under the torture, she smiled.
And in the narration, which is in Tafsir
ibn Kathir, she smiled because Allah showed her
her place, her palace in Jannah.
And this aggravated Pharaoh and his soldiers.
They're saying, why is she smiling while being
tortured?
Allah comforted her.
And truly, Rasulullah does say, hadith is in
Sahih Muslim, if Allah loves a servant of
his, a male or female servant of his,
he beautifies and sweetens them.
They said, Ya Rasulullah, what does it mean?
Sweetens them.
And he said, before their death comes or
close to their death, Allah guides them, gives
them an intuition, guides them to a good
act, which Allah loves, and He takes their
soul upon that act.
May Allah make us among them.
So don't fear death, brothers and sisters.
We fear death, we look after ourselves, but
don't fear death in the name of Allah.
We're afraid of Allah.
Allah says in the Qur'an, Allah
gives strength and stronghold and firmness of those
who believe in Him.
In this world, number one, and in the
hereafter.
One day, the Prophet ﷺ went with his
companions.
The hadith is narrated by Al-Bara' ibn
Aazib, r.a, authentic hadith.
And he said, we were burying a companion.
We laid his body on the edge of
the grave before burying him.
Then we saw the Prophet ﷺ, he crouched
down, you know, crouched down near the head
of the grave, we're about to bury him.
And he had a stick in his hand.
And he was poking the stick in the
ground, and looking at the ground, sad, thinking.
And then he would poke the ground and
then look back up, look back down, look
back up three times.
He was into a lot of thinking.
And then his eyes were teary.
And he said to us, seek refuge in
Allah from the punishment of the grave.
Now Allah gives reference to the punishment of
the grave in the Qur'an as well.
He talks about Pharaoh and his army.
And he says, Pharaoh and his army, when
they're in their grave, they will be subjected
to the fire.
Now while they're dead, in the morning and
the evening, which morning and evening, we don't
know.
It's another world before the hereafter.
And then when the day of judgment comes,
we will say to them enter the fire.
The Rasul said, seek refuge in Allah from
the punishment of the grave.
Then he said, the believer has no fear.
When the time of his death or her
death comes, Allah sends the angel of death
to give the order.
And many angels as far as his eye
could see, descend from the heavens.
This is when the soul has reached the
gargling point.
This particular incident is mentioned in Surah Al
-Waqi'ah.
Allah says, Behold,
when the soul reaches the gargling point here,
and we are closer to him than you
are, your family, Allah is addressing them, we
are closer, the angels are closer, but you
cannot see them.
You cannot see them.
And then Allah says, if he is among
the believers, this will happen to him.
The soul is taken out very smoothly, Rasulullah
said, like water spilling from the mouth of
a jug.
So it spills very nicely.
And the angels who come down from Jannah,
as far as he could see, two of
them will have shrouds from Jannah filled with
perfume.
And they don't leave the soul in the
hands of the angel of death.
They said, give it to us quickly.
And they wrap the soul up with the
shroud and put perfume from paradise.
And they fly up to the heavens.
Rasulullah said, the eyes follow the soul.
That's why the eyes stay awake.
Brothers and sisters, before I go on, let
me tell you why I'm telling you this
story.
A Muslim is encouraged to think of the
hereafter.
Why?
Not to make you afraid, but to keep
you what?
Prepared.
Prepared.
He used to say, before I forbid you
from visiting the graveyards.
Now, I encourage you to visit the graveyards,
for it reminds you of the hereafter.
Why did he forbid them in the beginning?
Because they had a ritual, the Quraysh, the
kuffar used to have a ritual.
They used to commit shirk.
They used to worship the saints and graves
and used to have these false beliefs about
them.
So he stopped them.
But then when they learned their deen well,
he said, now I encourage you for it
reminds you of the hereafter.
It's like a student who's got an exam
coming up.
Your teacher who cares about you will get
you prepared.
And among preparing you for your exam, that
teacher will tell you what you will get
if you do this, how you can be
successful.
But they'll also tell you, if you don't
do this, the consequence will be bad.
You're not going to sit there and say,
oh, this teacher is scary.
You might say, I'm afraid, but the teacher
guides you, tells you, look, so that you
don't fail, so that you don't fall into
this or that.
Study like this.
Make sure that you have a plan.
Come to me if you need help.
I will teach you.
Take study notes.
Is that correct?
Why does the teacher do that?
Nobody says, oh, school is bad.
University is bad.
The teacher is bad.
The lecturer is just fear.
They teach us how to learn through fear.
No, no, no.
There is good fear and there is bad
fear.
Fear of anxiety for no reason is no
good.
Allah says, don't ever despair from the mercy
of Allah.
Allah is merciful.
Every time you pray in Salat, you repeat
his name.
Remember that there is no other name of
Allah.
We repeat more than that.
A believer has nothing to fear.
If you have shortcomings, try to get better.
Allah is Ghafoorur Raheem.
Don't worry.
Keep going as much as you can.
There are different levels of people.
Each will get what they deserve.
But a believer has nothing to fear.
Anyway, the soul goes up into the heavens
and every time it passes, groups of angels,
you can't see them now, but the universe
is filled with angels, more than the sand
of the earth.
And there are more stars in the skies
than the sand of the earth.
And there are more angels than the stars
of the universe.
And the angels, they say, what is this
beautiful smelling fragrance?
What is this beautiful soul?
And the angels say, so-and-so, son
of so-and-so, or daughter of so
-and-so.
They call you with the best of names
you used to be called in this dunya.
Oh, just like that.
All your worries are gone from this dunya,
all the pain.
And then when it reaches the doors of
heaven, of the sky, Allah knows what that
means.
It is open for that person.
Now, in the meantime, they're preparing your body
and they're getting it ready to be buried.
Rasulullah ﷺ held that body before burying it
to tell them this story.
And then Allah says to the angels, take
this soul to register him or her in
the beautiful register and return him or her
back to the grave.
I have created them from it and to
it I will return them and from it
I will resurrect them.
The soul is returned.
But guess what?
On its way, on its way, this hadith
is in An-Nasa'i and also in
other authentic books among the six authentic books
that the soul meets with the past souls
that have died.
The souls of the believers of the past
are brought to this person.
They are more celebrating and more joyous and
excited in meeting this new person who has
just died.
You're not by yourself, you have a whole
fiasco, you have a whole celebration, a party
out there.
And these people, they run to you, they
are so excited.
Rasulullah ﷺ said, more than what you would
get excited when you have missed someone you
love, they've gone overseas and they come back
and you rush to them in the airport.
I don't know about you, in my Lebanese,
I'm Lebanese culture.
Any Lebanese here?
Lebanese?
You're Lebanese and you know what I'm talking
about.
Actually, this is a whole Muslim thing.
When we go to the airport waiting for
our father, our mother, our loved ones, we
take over the airport.
We send our children, everything.
They run in, we make a whole fiasco.
That's how we are.
On that day, they come screaming like this
and they say, tell me, these souls, they
say, tell me about my brother, tell me
about my sister, tell me about my husband,
tell me about my brother, my father, my
mother, my children.
They ask you about the people who are
left behind.
And someone says, give him some space, give
him some space.
He has just come out of the claustrophobia
of the world.
Means depression, anxiety, claustrophobia, when you feel everything's
tightened on you.
These people don't even want to come back
here.
Just to show you the world is very
short.
And then he answers some things and they
are returned to the grave.
And then the angels, two angels descend, Munkar
and Nakir.
And they ask you a few questions.
The questions they ask you is, who is
your Lord?
What is your religion?
What do you say about the man who
was sent to you as a messenger?
And what is your book?
A believer says, my Lord is Allah.
My religion is Islam.
My book is the Quran.
And the man that was sent is my
prophet and messenger.
I believed in him and followed him.
You don't have to be a scholar.
You don't have to know Arabic.
Over there Allah, you understand everything.
And Allah, this is the ayah in the
Quran.
Allah makes you firm with good words, proper
words in this life and in the hereafter.
All believers are able to answer it.
The closest example, I'm almost done.
The closest example I can give you of
the worldly life so that you can bring
it closer to your mind is this.
When you go to sleep, when you go
to sleep, don't you become unconscious?
Become unconscious.
Do you know what the scholars have called
sleep?
There's another word for it.
Anyone know?
Al-mawt al-asr.
The minor death.
So the word mawt means unconsciousness.
And mawt cannot happen without the soul detaching
from the body.
How do I know?
From the ayah in the Quran.
Allah says, It
is Allah who takes the soul of the
person when they are dead or unconscious, and
then he withholds the soul that are supposed
to die, and he returns the soul back
for the ones who are asleep.
So he takes the soul of those who
died, those who are asleep, returns it to
a point of time.
And this are many signs for people who
ponder.
Every day you wake up, my dear brothers
and sisters, you are living a new life.
You have another chance.
So you know the word yolo.
You only live once.
I call it yolm.
You only live many times.
The fact that you are breathing today, Allah
has a need for you.
You are still important.
Maybe, maybe in conclusion, maybe, maybe there are
sins of your past which Allah knows if
you were to die right now, it's going
to be terrible.
Maybe Allah is keeping you alive so you
can make up for it, so you can
get better.
Maybe Allah sees in you amazing, amazing deeds
that you're doing.
Maybe a new project that you're part of,
maybe.
And Allah is happy with you and wants
to increase your life so that you can
do more good deeds, so you can go
even higher.
Or maybe someone else needs you still.
Maybe you have children, siblings, parents, friends.
Someone out there needs you.
Maybe someone's about to take their life and
Allah is going to send you as their
beacon of light.
Maybe.
So whatever reason, brothers and sisters, you are
living for a beautiful purpose and you are
important.
So keep it and rely on Allah.
Brothers and sisters, let me begin by asking
a question before we move on.
Why, why does Allah put us through trials
and hardships?
Why?
Brothers and sisters, here are some answers.
Number one, to examine, to examine you closely
and to screen you.
How else do you think fairness and judgment
of what each person deserves is established if
there is no screening and examination?
It is not enough to say I believe
without proving your word.
So one of the trials that we go
through, prove who you are.
Can you stand or will you fail?
And Allah forgives you for trying.
Number two, Allah puts you through trials to
wash away your sins.
Meaning some people Allah knows their sins are
too many and they're not going to do
anything to get rid of those sins.
They're just going to continue.
And maybe Allah sees good in you.
So he gives you a trial and hardship
and knows you'll be patient.
And then because of that, he'll just forgive
those sins.
Do you understand that part?
Number three, Allah gives us trials as a
wake up call.
You know what a wake up call is?
Most people, most people, they get too comfortable
in their sin.
And when they get too comfortable in sins
and sins, what happens to them is they
start to become neglectful.
And Allah knows if they were to die
like that, they may not go to paradise
straight away.
So out of mercy to them, he gives
them trials to wake them up.
You understand?
Number four, Allah gives us trials to raise
your rank.
Some of us, Mashallah, we're amazing.
And we still have more to give.
But we just stop somewhere.
And maybe Allah knows this person deserves to
be higher.
But they're just not realizing.
So sometimes Allah gives you a trial.
He knows you will pass it and boost
up your mark, raise your rank.
It's like, let's say you are in school
in year 10.
You have year 10 here?
Year 10.
Let's say you've got the brain of year
12.
You have year 12?
Okay.
Or you have the brain of university student
and you're in year 10.
And your teacher says, Mashallah, he's passing all
the exams.
Let's give him the year 11 one.
Give him the year 12 one.
You pass it all.
And he says, Allah, let's try and give
him university exam.
And suddenly you're in the paper.
The year 10 student who's got Einstein's IQ,
Mashallah, for example.
So a good teacher will want you to
be known.
Allah sometimes gives you trials because you can
do more.
Do you understand now?
And sometimes Allah gives you trials to teach
you a new skill because he wants to
use you for something.
Do you understand?
Once you know this, brothers and sisters, you
know that trials are no longer a punishment.
They're no longer, I mean, they can be.
But if it is, it's just so that
you can wake up.
And sometimes he gives you it so that
in the hereafter, you don't get punished.
So trials are always positive for a believer.
The only way a trial can become bad
is in one way.
How does a trial become bad?
We said tests and trials in your life
are always good from Allah.
There's only one way they become bad.
How do you know if it drives you
away from Allah?
Correct.
So an easy word is it depends on
how you react.
Depends how you react.
Do you understand what you do with it?
That's what determines it.
My brothers and sisters, let's move on.
When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, if you
realize, if you've read the Quran and you
understand sometimes what it's being said, you realize
that whenever Allah talks about the hereafter, Allah
talks in three ways.
He uses the language of the past tense
as if everyone is already in Jannah and
everyone is already in hellfire.
It's a long time ago and we're still
here.
And sometimes the language is in the present
tense as if right now the day of
judgment is happening, but we're still here.
And sometimes, and that's the least, Allah talks
about the hereafter in the future tense in
a normal way.
When the day comes, when this happens, people
will do this.
Why does Allah use all three past, present
and future tense?
Because brothers and time is irrelevant.
To Allah, everything's already gone.
Second reason, this entire world compared to the
hereafter is not even an aspect compared when
you look at the hereafter, the hereafter is
eternal.
There is no end.
And this life is only a very short
time.
Listen to what Allah says in the Quran.
When the people on the day of judgment,
the criminals, the bad people, they see what
happened.
They look and they regret.
And Allah describes their state.
Allah says, look at them on the day
of judgment.
They will look at that day and they
say, it's as if we only spent a
day or a night in the past world.
That's all it was, a day or a
night.
In another verse, Allah says, On a day
of judgment, the criminals will say, we swear
by Allah.
We weren't in that former life in this
world for more than one hour.
SubhanAllah.
In another verse, they bring each other and
Allah says, They whisper to each other because
they're scared on that day.
They whisper.
And this is what they say.
Allah says, They will say to each
other, or the angels will say to them
both, How long?
How long were we on earth?
And Allah says that they reply, the angels
reply, Oh, you were only on earth for
a short time.
In another verse, they say, They will say,
we only stayed on earth a day or
part of a day.
Why, brothers and sisters, why did they say
that?
That is how this entire world is going
to feel like.
And that's when people say, I failed for
a day or part of a day.
I couldn't be patient for a day or
part of a day.
I lost hope and I blamed Allah and
I blamed myself and I just gave up.
It was just a little bit, a little
bit.
And the hereafter is eternal, never, ever, ever,
ever, ever ends.
Can you comprehend that?
Never, ever ends, forever.
One student of mine at school, I told
you I was a teacher, yeah?
I was a teacher for 20 years still.
And a student said to me, I said,
yes.
He said, don't you get bored?
I said, no, you don't get bored.
He goes, but how?
I said, like that.
The one who made you bored here can
make you not bored there.
He said, oh, okay.
He said, what if I do get bored?
He said, I'll tell you what, when you
get bored, you give me everything.
I'll take it and you go, you go
away, you get nothing.
I'll be bored.
There is no boredom in Jannah, nothing.
My brothers and sisters, Jannah is for the
believing men and the believing women.
We move on.
After the person stays in their grave, now
the grave, the body decays.
The body does not feel time.
The body does not feel space.
I'll give you an example.
When you go to sleep, you dream.
Yes or no?
Have you ever gone to sleep and you
wake up and you've slept for eight or
nine hours and it feels like five minutes?
Yes?
More or less.
Sometimes a person goes and does an operation
at hospital.
They stay one day.
They wake up, it's like 10 seconds.
And in your dream, sometimes you see a
big dream.
It's a whole story, never ending story, on
and on and on.
You wake up and you say, oh, I
felt like it was my whole life.
I had children.
I got married in the dream and then
I woke up and you realize you've been
sleeping maybe one hour.
Isn't that true?
So just like when you go to sleep
and your soul does not have the senses
of time and space, this is a little
example Allah gives us to bring the reality
of the hereafter closer to our mind.
If this can happen here, reasonably thinking with
your mind, it is true what Allah is
saying.
Of course it can happen again.
It can happen in reality.
Another question Allah asks, Has
there ever come a time upon man when
there were nothing worth mentioning?
Were you not something before you were born
that you cannot give a name to?
You and I.
Now you're a human.
What were you before you were born?
Nothing.
Maybe an atom or something else.
And now you're something.
Then you die.
Allah says, Why is it hard for you
to believe that the one who brought you
from nothing into existence can bring you back
to life a second time from death?
What's harder, the first time or the second
time?
The second time is easier.
The first time is harder.
Allah says, I showed you.
Just look backwards.
You were nothing.
Now here you're something.
On the day of judgment, they'll get up
out of their graves and they will say
to each other, This is your day that
you were promised.
And those who believed will be safe.
Those who didn't believe will be worried.
That's what Allah says in the Quran.
I'm not making up.
This is all in the Quran.
Of course, you've all read the Quran.
This is my source.
Allah gives us some logical ways of thinking
about and he tells us, use your reasoning.
Do you think you were created in this
world for no reason?
You have a purpose.
The first one who will be resurrected from
the earth will be Muhammad.
He says, I will come out of the
earth.
The hadith is Sahih Muslim and Bukhari, similar.
And I will wipe off a little bit
of dirt off my head.
And I will look and I will find
Moses, Musa, he is already up.
But of course, Rasulullah has gotten up and
he notices the next prophet, the next prophet,
the next prophet, and then everybody else comes
up.
There is an angel named Israfil.
And Allah will tell Israfil to blow into
the trumpet a second time.
Allah says, the trumpet is blown the first
time and everyone on the face of the
earth and in the heavens will die, except
him.
Allah wills not to die.
Then the angel will blow a second time
and everyone who is dead, behold, Allah says,
behold, like the blink of an eye, they
are up awake looking at each other.
Rasulullah ﷺ said to his wife Aisha one
night, she narrates this hadith, on the day
of judgment, we will be gathered, all the
people gathered in one single place.
The entire people from time of Adam until
the end of time.
All the humans, all the jinns, all the
animals, the animals will be taken up as
well.
And all of them gathered in one place
on this earth and this earth won't look
the same.
Allah says, this earth will be changed from
the way it looks and the skies.
And all of them are in one place.
They look up into the sky.
Everybody will look up into the sky awaiting.
Everyone will know.
Allah says in the Quran, on that day,
the veil will be lifted from your eyes
and you will see everything.
No more hidden secrets.
But in this life, we are tested and
we can do.
In the hereafter, we are no longer tested.
It's no more time to do anymore.
It's time to be accountable.
Come, you have a trial.
What have you done?
What have you not done in secret, in
open?
What are your obligations?
Why come here?
Every single person will be held accountable.
Every person individual have a trial by themselves.
Allah says in the Quran, no person will
carry the sin of another person and nobody
will carry the good deed of another person
except in one way.
If you taught someone a good deed and
they do it, you will also get a
share of it.
And if you taught someone something bad and
you do not repent to Allah, so long
as they do it, you will also get
that sin.
On the Day of Judgment, Allah will not
be unjust to anybody.
Allah will not be unjust to anyone.
One Tabi'i, I think his name is,
I forgot, maybe Hassan al-Basri, but don't
hold me to it.
He said, if I was told that my
father and mother will be judging me on
the Day of Judgment, I will refuse.
The fact that Allah is judging me, I
am happy and relaxed.
Because nobody can judge you properly except Allah.
No one is more merciful than your parents
or anybody except Allah.
In fact, Allah says, يوم يفر المرء من
أخيه وأمه وأبيه وصحبته وبنيه.
On that day, people will run away from
their brother and sister, from their father and
mother, from their wife and their husband.
Every person will be worried about their own
self.
The father will say, son, wasn't I good
to you?
Daughter, give me one of your hasana.
You'll say, well, father, you were a good
father, but I can't.
Today, I'm afraid.
The child will say to their mum, mum,
please, mum, I was a good mum to
you.
Now, today, a different story.
Everybody will be by themselves.
Allah will gather the people.
Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said they will be
gathered with no clothes on, completely naked, the
way they were born.
Aisha, the wife of Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
said, يا رسول الله يحشر الناس عراء ينظر
بعضنا إلى بعض.
Like that, everybody looking at each other.
Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, يا عائشة الأمر
أشد من أن ينظر بعضهم إلى بعض.
On that day, the situation will be so
distracting that not a single person will even
want to think about that.
Nobody is interested.
I'll give you a little logical example so
we can try and understand it in life.
Let's say, for example, someone, let's say you
are crossing the road to see your friend
on the other side.
You're all happy and then your friend says
to you, watch out, truck.
You look and there's a truck coming maybe
10 meters away.
Now imagine, don't imagine this, let's say everybody
in the street is not dressed like that,
you know, and then someone says, truck, what
will you be thinking about?
The truck or the temptations around you?
You look at the truck because your life
is going to end.
The truck has got to get out, nothing,
you actually don't see anyone anymore.
Same on the Day of Judgment, it'll be
like that, everybody, there's no concern in any
of that, everybody's dead like that, nothing.
On that day, brothers and sisters, nothing will
be hidden.
However, Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam tells us the
following order.
He says, first, the people will get tired
and they want the judgment to begin, so
they go asking the prophets.
They go to Adam Alaihi Salam and he
says, go away from me, I have to
answer for myself.
We go to Nuh Alaihi Salam, he says,
go away from me, I made a dua
to destroy my people, I have to answer
for myself.
We go to Ibrahim Alaihi Salam, we find
Ibrahim Alaihi Salam, he's on his knees and
he's holding onto something, the Arsh or something,
Al Arsh Ar-Rahman, and he says, Allahumma
Sallim, Allahumma Sallim, oh Allah, make it easy,
make it easy.
We go to another prophet, forth, until we
reach Musa and Isa Alaihi Salam, Jesus, every
one of them says, go away, I have
to answer for my own.
Isa Alaihi Salam, Jesus, he says, people took
me as a god, I've got a lot
to talk about here.
Finally, we reach Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and
he stands up and he says, I am
the one who can do this, I am
the one who can do this.
Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Salam said, every prophet had
a dua special, something just for the prophets,
other than the rest of the duas.
He said, what did you do with yours,
Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam?
He said, I left it to use it
in the hereafter.
They said, for who, Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam?
He said, for Ummati, my nation.
And truly, when he was visiting the graves
three months before he died, or two months,
he visited with him was Abu Huraira, and
then he said, Salam Alaikum, oh home of
the believing people, you have beaten us and
we will follow to goodness, Inshallah, we give
you good tidings in Jannah.
And then he said, I will miss not
being able to live on to see my
brethrens.
Abu Huraira said, are we not your brethren,
Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam?
He said, you are my companions.
The brethren I'm talking about have not, are
not born yet.
May Allah make us them.
He says, I will notice them on the
day of judgment.
The fountain of Kawthar will be brought to
me.
We have given you Kawthar.
As soon as Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says,
the Kawthar will come to him.
And Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, I will
recognize my followers after me, and I will
call them.
May Allah make us among those who will
call.
They are the people who followed his Sunnah,
his way.
And Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he'll notice us,
Inshallah.
And the companion says, how will you notice
them when you've never seen them, Rasul Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam?
He said, like a person who has many
horses, some of them are dark black, some
of them are dark black with some white
stripes on their tails and stuff, you know,
horses with colors.
And he said, doesn't he know how to
tell them apart?
He said, yes.
He says, on the day of judgment, my
Ummah will come to me with Noor coming
out of their arms and their legs and
their faces.
Because they used to make Wudu and pray.
So make Wudu and pray, my dear brothers
and sisters.
Don't abandon your Salah.
I will call them to drink from the
fountain.
Then everybody looks up and they see light
upon light descending from the heavens.
People want to run away.
Who are they?
They are the angels.
Uncountable angels descend from the heavens.
And what do they do?
They surround everybody.
No one can escape.
And some of these angels, they are already
watching the believers.
Allah had promised some believers that the angels
will go to them and tell them, be
safe.
No harm upon you.
They're waiting.
Rasulullah ﷺ then would make a Sajdah and
he will make long dua until Allah ﷻ
says to him, Ya Muhammad, lift your head
up, intercede and I will give you intercession
and ask for anything and I will give
you.
And Rasulullah ﷺ will say, Allahumma Ummati, Allahumma
Ummati, my Lord, my nation, my nation, save
them.
And Allah ﷻ will say to his angels,
begin the judgment.
So then suddenly we look up and we
see books flying in the air, records.
They are our records.
Allah knows what they look like.
And the records are hovering.
Then suddenly they drop.
Some people receive it in their right hand,
some people receive it in their left.
I don't know how.
Maybe it becomes their right or their left.
Some people hide their left hand behind their
back.
When they see people receiving their book in
their left, they see the angels surrounding them,
ready to take them to a bad place.
So they hide their left hand behind their
backs.
And this is where Allah says, those who
receive their records behind their backs, so they
hide their arms.
As for the believers, they receive it in
their right.
Then the accountability begins.
Your actions are shown in front of you.
Not a single person can see the other
person's record.
Everybody is busy with their own.
I want you to imagine a movie and
you are the hero and the star of
this movie.
You are watching yourself from the moment you
were born to the moment you die.
When you went to sleep, when you woke
up with your parents, with your siblings, with
your neighbors, with yourself, on the internet, in
the masjid, everywhere, everywhere.
I want you to imagine yourself, my brothers
and sisters, watching yourself.
No judgment has been done.
You're just watching.
Allah is just showing you and the angels
are telling you and the records, you're reading
it.
You're just seeing what you did.
Imagine yourself right now that you are standing
and watching.
Which things do you see that you wish
you can go back and change?
Now you have the chance.
This is why we prepare.
Imagine it like that.
What's your Iman boost?
Brothers and sisters, after you've seen yourself and
the records are told, this is believers and
non-believers, then Allah says begin the accountability.
Did you do this?
Did you do that?
Do you deny anything that is in here?
Back and forth, back and forth, arguments, cries,
everything.
The believers will not deny a single thing.
So there's three types of people in the
record.
The believers, the disbelievers, and the hypocrites.
And the believers are two parts.
Those who are strong believers, those who are
weak believers.
The strong believers will not deny anything.
They will be judged an easy judgment.
The weak believers, they will maybe hesitate.
Perhaps they will be punished for some things
and Allah may forgive them.
The hypocrites will be hiding.
I'll tell you about them in a minute.
The disbelievers will deny and Allah says about
the disbelievers.
On this day, we will seal their mouths
and their hands and feet will bear witness
against them.
They'll speak.
The judgment finishes and those who are destined
to the fire will be driven to the
fire and those who are destined to Jannah
will be driven to Jannah.
How?
First of all, a scale is brought.
The scale, my dear brothers and sisters, we
don't know what it looks like, but what
it does is that it weighs the good
deeds and the bad deeds that you did.
How does it weigh them?
You may pray, for example, Maghrib now, but
the way you pray it is far more
better than someone next to you.
Both prayers are placed on the scale, but
one is heavy, one is lighter.
Then you go and pray Sunnah and the
Sunnah fills up that Fard prayer.
The other one doesn't pray the Sunnah, so
theirs is heavy.
You pray the Sunnah, suddenly yours is heavy.
Because the Sunnahs, what do they do?
They complete your Fard which you were weak
in.
So we all have ups and downs.
Ali, once he heard the Prophet ﷺ say,
whoever can pray two rakahs like me will
enter paradise with just these two rakahs.
He said, I can do it, Ya Rasulullah.
He said, if you can do it like
that, I will give you one of my
cloaks, either the red one or the, I
think it was the black one.
So he prayed two rakahs.
He said, how did you go?
He said, well, Ya Rasulullah, you're right.
He said, what were you thinking about?
He said, I was thinking which color you
were going to give me.
So take it easy on yourselves, brothers and
sisters.
Iman goes up and down.
Make up your Salah.
Pray Sunnah.
There's a little bit of Nafl here.
Give us Sadaqah.
It will make up, Inshallah.
So it weighed.
Some bad deeds are light, some bad deeds
are heavy.
Because of time, I'll get through it, Inshallah.
Then from there, whoever's scale is heavy in
sins will have to probably be punished.
And those who's heavy with good deeds will
go to paradise.
And those whom Allah wants to forgive, He
may forgive.
In the Hadith in Tirmidhi and others, Rasulullah
ﷺ says that Allah will say to some
of the believers, come closer to me.
And Allah will speak to them without an
interpreter.
And He will say to you, do you
remember when you did such and such a
sin in secret?
And you say, yes, Ya Rabb.
Until finally, you think you're going to go
into hellfire.
Then Allah says, I kept it a secret
and hid it in the former dunya.
And today, I will hide it as well.
So brothers and sisters, don't expose your sins
to people.
Because either you'll normalize it, or people will
get an idea and they'll copy you.
Or you would have released the veil that
Allah placed on you.
Allah wants you to keep between you and
Allah.
It's easier to resolve that way than to
spread it and publicize it.
Unless you need help.
And you can ask a sheikh or a
counselor or a therapist or a friend to
help you.
Let's say you have an addiction of some
sort, and you need to slowly get out
of it.
The point is Allah looks at whether you
did anything or not.
Brothers and sisters, after that, the people are
driven to As-Sirat.
As-Sirat is the bridge that is bestowed
above hellfire.
And hellfire will be brought with 70,000
ropes on every rope.
There are 70,000 angels dragging it.
That's 1,400,000,000 angels just for
hellfire.
It is terrible.
As the people cross the Sirat, the believers,
they are split.
Hypocrites on one side, true believers on the
other.
The hypocrites are people who said we're Muslim,
but they were lying, they were actually kuffar.
The hypocrites will be separated and a wall
is lifted between the believers and the hypocrites.
This is in Surah Al-Hadid, by the
way.
One has punishment in it, the other one
has blessings.
And the hypocrites will say, oh, believers, throw
some water over, throw some water over.
And Allah will not allow it.
The hypocrites will be thrown flat on their
faces to the pits of the fire.
As for the believers, there are three types,
the excellent ones, the middle ones, and the
lower ones, the ones who used to have
a lot of sins, major sins.
Sometimes they miss their up and down like
that.
And Allah deals with them as he wills.
As they're crossing the Sirat, you have noor,
light, depending on your deeds.
Some have light as far as you can
see.
Some have a little bit.
Rasulallah said some of them even have light
just on their pinky finger.
Sometimes it goes off, sometimes it comes on.
It's very dark.
And some people fly like a bird, like
the speed of the eye.
Some of them like a bird, some of
them run, some of them crawl, some of
them fall.
As they're crossing, Rasulallah sees his ummah.
So he runs to the Sirat and he
says, Allahumma sallim, Allahumma sallim.
Oh Allah, take it easy on them, take
it easy on them.
And Allah says, this is the day that
I split between you and I.
Today I will give you what you asked.
So some of the believers who have fallen
into hellfire, their sentence will be cut short.
So let's say they're supposed to stay for
a hundred years.
Allah cuts it maybe to a few moments.
Others will stay longer.
That's why I say some people, they say
to me, Sheikh or Sir, my students do
it a lot, the younger ones, say, Sir,
now I know if I do that, I
may go to hellfire.
But like, will I get out?
I say, I think so.
Eventually you're a believer.
And he says, that means I'll get out.
You're going to keep doing it?
Yeah, I'll get out anyway.
I go Habibi, go and place your hand
on a candle, lit up candle, see how
long you can keep your finger on the
candle.
You want to stay in hellfire?
One day in hellfire is equal to 1000
years, my dear brothers and sisters.
Rasulullah then goes across the Sirat, waits on
the Sirat.
And what happens?
The believers, the believers who crossed the Sirat,
you'll love this one, subhanallah.
The believers who crossed the Sirat, the hadith
in Sahih Muslim, they crossed the Sirat.
And then when you cross the Sirat and
you're safe, khalas, you've won.
You are free, alhamdulillah.
You're waiting at the doors of Jannah.
Who do you remember?
See, when all the fear goes away, who
do you remember?
You remember your loved ones.
You remember your friends.
You remember your brothers and sisters, your neighbors,
the people you worked with.
And you say, where is Muhammad?
Where is Fatima?
Where is that?
And someone will say, wallah, they fell, they
fell.
Say, ya Allah.
They go back and they stand at the
edge of the Sirat.
And Rasulullah is there, continuing to make dua
because of Rasulullah and because of some of
you who are true believers, who had friends
who were with you.
They will be saved because of you.
Do you see how important to have believers
as friends in this life, brothers and sisters?
Yes, you may have non-believers, but always
have also believers.
They will vouch for you on the day
of judgment, inshallah.
There is a beautiful hadith and also in
the Qur'an, they're called shafa'atul mu'mineen.
Very known principle among the scholars where the
believers intercede for other believers.
They got your back.
And Rasulullah ﷺ describes how they do it.
They stand at the edge and they cry
out to Allah more than anyone has ever
cried in this world in any court system
or anything.
And to save your life, how do you
cry?
They will cry more than and this is
what they will say.
Ya Rabb, my friend so and so, my
father, my mother, my sister, my husband, my
this, my child.
I saw them go to the masjid.
I saw them at Eid Salat.
I saw them fast one day.
I saw them in Lailatul Qadr.
I saw them giving a charity.
I saw anything they can remember.
Even a tiny one say, Ya Rabb, I
saw them.
Now Allah knows, but He wants to honour
everybody and show how much we love one
another and how His mercy is shown.
These people deserve to be in health care
for a long time.
Allah is just and He knows.
Because of them, Allah says to His angels,
go and take out every person they know
from the believers and say, there, there, there.
And the angels take them out, take them
out, take them out.
Some of them have gone deep, some of
them up to here, some of them up
to their knees, and some of them, their
entire body has become charcoal.
Except one spot does not burn according to
the hadith.
It's the spot on the forehead.
If they used to pray even on and
off, inshallah, it will be noticed.
And some go deep.
They keep saving them until finally only the
ones who have gone and nobody knows them.
No believer knows them.
They lived a life terrible, but they were
believers.
They never made shirk.
They never made partners with Allah.
Then Allah says, the prophets have made shafa
'ah intercession.
The believers have made intercession.
The angels have made intercession.
And now the intercession that is left is
mine.
Baqiyat shafa'ati.
They are for the people no one knows.
Then Allah says, Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says,
Allah takes out numbers of believers from the
fire, nobody could count.
And they are placed in paradise.
And they are washed in the river of
life.
And they grow, like plants grow on the
edge of a river that is flowing.
And they are called the poor people of
Jannah.
They're the last ones.
As for the rest finishing, they wait at
the door of Jannah, waiting for Rasool Allah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
As they are waiting, the Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam knocks on the door, massive door of
Jannah.
And the first ones to enter are the
prophets followed by the best.
There are about 70,000 of them.
So one by one.
And the way these 70,000 get ready
to enter paradise, Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam describes
them.
They hold on to each other's elbows, their
anxiety.
Are you ready?
And they go like this.
And they hold each other.
Everyone's holding each other.
And then the angel said, who is knocking?
He says, I am Muhammad Rasool Allah.
He says, it is only you that we
were ordered to open.
The doors are open.
And you have to go to Frankfurt to
learn the rest of it.
Hadha wa sallallahu ala nabiyyina Muhammad wa ala
alihi wa sahbihi ajmain.
Thank you for listening.
May Allah make us among the people of
Jannah.
I hope inshallah this lessened our stress in
this life, helps us to re-energize inshallah
and be brothers and sisters.