Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 20150506 Fiqh Class.mp4
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That is part of our belief that the
people when they die, they enter their graves,
and the people of happiness are
they stay in their graves and there'll be
in a state of and a state of
blessing from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala until the
day of judgment
and
the souls of the wretched
will be tortured and tormented until the day
of judgment.
It's important to know what the
the Muslims is regarding a person when he
enters his grave.
And we mentioned this before that the grave
is not necessarily
the plot that's dug in the ground. I
mean, if we get to the Kitab al
Janais, we can talk about this also. Traditionally,
the Muslim graves are deeper than
than the graves they dig over here. Here,
they dig graves at 6 feet.
The the the the books of say that
the grave of a Muslim should be a
person of average height.
If he raises his hands, it should be
the the length of the person with their
fingertips reaching the surface of the grave. So
it's a couple of feet deeper than than
than just 6 feet.
But the grave that we're talking about is
not that.
Rather, the grave we're talking about is
wherever the final resting place of the body
is,
that that place is the place where the
questioning happens.
The questioning happens in the physically in that
same place, but the Alem is different. The
Alem is Alem of Barzakh. The realm is
the realm of the Barzakh, the barrier between
this world and the hereafter. It's a place
that's physically,
in the same space as this world is,
but it's
a bigger
and b, the natural laws of this world
don't apply to the rather the natural laws
of the hereafter apply to it.
And in that a person in their grave
is not ashes to ashes, dust to dust,
rather they're very much alive.
In one way or the other, they're very
much experiencing what they're doing. And so a
good person may experience it in the bare
minimum
like a person enjoys rest
or it could be more than that. There's
a book that Mulan Asrafale Tanui wrote,
have mercy on him.
It's called, it's called the, love for one's
homeland.
Right? There's a hadith of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam, it's often quoted and
it's not a very accurate
attribution of the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, but
it's quoted as a hadith at any rate
that, the love of one's homeland is from
iman, from faith.
And the
say that first of all,
the of this hadith is not very strong.
And second, the understanding of this hadith is
wrong.
People misuse it in order to justify nationalism.
And they say,
it doesn't mean like that you should go
out and buy a flag on, you know,
the 14th August or whatever equivalent you have
in whatever country you come. 14th August is
Pakistan day.
Right? So So whatever other day everybody else
has the 4th July or whatever,
that's not what the meaning of this hadith
is. The meaning of this hadith is that
the is what? The is Jannah. It's where
everybody came from. It's their homeland. It's where
everybody's
from from at least from the people of
iman will go back to. So the
being from iman is the hub of Jannah.
The the the longing that a person has
to
return to it and that's the that Imam
Nabi makes
that this dunya isn't
isn't the of any any living person.
That all people, their is where? The original
the place of origination, their homeland is where,
it's in Jannah.
And so
coming back to coming back to this issue.
So, Ma Tanui,
he named his book, the
the the Ishkor, the love of the the
the the consuming love of the watan
as a book to,
make people,
have shirk and longing for,
for for that homeland of the Aqira.
And it's a beautiful book. I can email
you PDF if you want. Just like send
me email or whatever.
I usually share it with people when they
say suffer suffer like a loss or something
like that. And so the person who dies
on iman, he mentions in it
a great number of authentic narrations
regarding what the benefits and what the
pleasures and what the
gifts from Allah that person receives. It's really
beautiful book, it's really beautiful book. And it
talks about like when a person when they
enter into their grave,
you know, and they they die on iman
in a good state.
Their relatives will come and meet them,
and they'll ask how is so and so,
how is so and so, how is so
and so. And if you mentioned to them
that so and so that they asked about
that they thought was living is dead,
then it will make their face, you know,
turn change, you know, change expression because they'll
know that that's a sign that they didn't
die on iman.
Because if they had died in a good
state, they would have met they would have
met them. And this is the text of
the Quran, you know, that
the pious people,
we
we will reunite them with their progeny
on the other side. And so there's so
many things about, like, all of the different
honors and all of the different enjoyments and
all of the different benefits a person receives
in their grave from dying imam, not
Jannah, but just in the grave itself. Right?
The occasion of writing that book was he
said there's a plague that
that,
hit
some part of
some part of the countryside
outside of Delhi.
And,
and, the preachers and, the preachers annoyed him
because all the preachers were going and telling
everybody that you guys are sinners and you're
horrible people and this is why God brought
down this punishment on you. And he said,
this is irresponsible
on behalf of a preacher to say that
to another, you know, to
the
people of Iman.
Because when comes
down,
it's for some people and it's a mercy
for others. Right?
Allah says fear such a punishment that doesn't
hit only the people who may amongst you.
So maybe somebody's bad deeds occasions
a disaster to happen, but it doesn't mean
that everybody who dies in the disaster is
a bad person.
And this is something we should be very
careful with. People sound like chain emails and
all these different things, earthquake happen in such
and such place for the tsunami. It's because
everybody
everybody's a sinner. They even did that do
that in America. Right? There's the the there's
the earthquake that happened in Haiti.
Right?
And,
you know, all these kind of preachers were
like, oh, look. They're all voodoo, devil worshipers,
and this and that. Even though that's
even even according to the Bible, a biblical
standard, John Stewart,
right? He's a shot there, you know, he's
not a very person.
He's not a very God fearing person. I've
seen him eat pork on his show several
times despite being a person who's relatively learned
in the in the Torah.
But,
he ran a clip of one of these,
protestant ministers,
talking about the Haitians deserved,
the, you know, deserve the earthquake because of
their whatever evil ways. And so then he,
quotes like he quote like a a a
strip from the bible.
And he goes like, you know, whatever happens
to you, I'm there to comfort you. I'm
there to console you. If you ever have
a loss, I'm there to help you. I
if you ever this and there's the words
of consolation from Allah
and, you know,
that's narrated in the bible and it says
and one line of it says, even if
the earth should shake underneath your feet, you
know, I'm there for you, you know. And
so he stops. He goes, I'm pretty sure
this refers to an earthquake.
So that's that's, you know, Obviously, that's why
I call him
because the guy doesn't, you know, seem to,
like, promulgate Dean very much, but he does
know what's in the books. He's an intelligent
guy. He knows what's he understands the Torah
inside and out, and he'd every now and
then, he'll say things like that on his
show that make make you understand that. But
that's basically what it is is you can't,
you know, you can't can't just say, like,
oh, look, all these Muslims died because someone
committed a sin, and therefore, they all must
deserve it or whatever. There's some people, you
know, punishments happen in this world collectively,
but hasaab in the next world happens individually.
So that's a,
an incentive for all of us to encourage
the sinners amongst us to repent and to
stop them from committing
because we don't wanna get caught up in
the punishments that happened because of those people's
bad deeds. But if their bad deeds should
happen to bring down a collective punishment on
us in this world, and the hereafter, the
good people will be given their reward. And
in fact, they'll be given more reward because
they had to suffer through the the the
the punishment because of the being surrounded with
evil people. And it works the other way
around
that that good people also because of their
presence, there are people who the punishment should
come down on and the punishment is saved
from them. Allah make us amongst
those latter people and not amongst those former
people occasion for the mercy of others rather
than for for the punishment of others.
But,
at any rate, so he
he he said I was I'm sick of
these preachers,
abusing,
you know, abusing their as,
their posts as preachers and scaring the snot
out of people to the point where they
think everybody who dies is just a evil
person. So he wrote this book about
about what the benefits and what the beauty
of dying on iman is. You know?
So one
of the brothers from the Saudi Jamaat that
just left. He told me, he said, Sheikh,
I have a son. He he died at
the age of 20.
For him.
I said,
what happened?
He said he got hit by a car
and his body was completely mangled.
But he said the one thing I can
say that that gives me happiness is that
that he died in the best of ways.
I said, what do you mean? He said
that when his body was mangled and he
was just
in the pangs of death,
someone came up to him and said,
and he said it and he kept on
saying before until the life left him, you
know? So I said, Sheikh man, it sounds
like he should be making dua for us,
not the other way around. He says, no,
no, make dua for him, make dua for
It's hard for my my my my family,
you know, even though I have I I
feel calm in my heart that he left
in a good way, but it's hard, you
know, it's hard for us still. So I
said, Allah, I'll make, you know, your lots
easy and then give him a high rank
and things. So somebody that that happens, you
know, that happens. It's one of the one
of the best and not one of the
this is the best thing Allah could give
a person if they die on iman. No
one should feel sorry for you if you
die on iman. You made it. You made
it. You know, you should the person who
dies on iman should feel sorry for other
people that they have to stay for longer
and in this doubt, you know, and this
fear that that that they may blow it
at any time.
Rather, the ones who die on iman, those
are the lucky ones. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
give give you know, from his generosity, give
us what he gave them as well. We
every time we go to the graveyard to
bury somebody else, you know,
you know,
The person who's standing at my grave, don't
don't don't think it's strange what my what
our affair is because yesterday I'd be like
I used to be like you, and tomorrow
you'll be like me.
So he wrote this book about that, right?
So that's part of
our don't think you're gonna go ashes to
ashes, dust to dust, and it's gonna all
go away. It doesn't work that way.
It doesn't work that way.
The barzakh is like, you know, we're right
now in the antechamber,
right, like in a waiting room. Right? The
whole doctor's office is all behind it.
We're just waiting for a number to you
open thing, and then back there, there's all
the tools and instruments and thermometers, blood pressure.
All the procedures happen over there. All of
the all of the, you know, actual treatment
happens over there. You know? So don't don't
think that it's, you know, right now we're
just we're just sitting in the waiting area
waiting for our turns.
That's, I guess, the functional point about this.
And the person who Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
punishes in his grave,
that person,
they get punished in the grave and and
their their resurrection is even more horrible
and their judgment is even more horrible than
that and their
eternal life after that is even worse and
our protection from such an end.
And as part of our belief
that the,
that
the
the,
the believers are tried or tested in their
graves.
The believers are tried or tested in their
graves,
and they're asked, you know, they're questioned.
Allah says that in his book he says
in his book what he says that Allah
will make firm those who believe with a
firm word
in this life and in the hereafter.
And the tafsir of this is what? That
the firm word
in this life is that a person should
say
and enter into Islam,
and stay on that until they die.
And the firm word in the hereafter is
what? Is that a person should?
A person should be able to ask answer
the questions of the,
of the and Nakir, the 2 angels that
come and ask a person after they die.
Who is your God? Who is your Lord?
Question number 1, and what is your deen?
And who is your Nabi? Or what do
you say about the Nabi Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam? And at that point, a person will
answer honestly because they don't have the faculty
of lying about it.
So some people will answer the questions properly
because that's what they truly believed. And some
people will say, I don't know.
I don't know. I don't know. You know?
They'll ask about the prophet and
they'll say, I don't know. I just said
what other people said. I haven't I don't
know. You know? They'll they'll they'll answer like
that. So it's important that a person have
this and this gnosis of Allah and his
Rasool Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam
settle into their heart in reality.
And if they still feel doubt about it,
it's the job of every believer to
to to to keep drinking from the knowledge
and understanding of who Allah is and what
Islam is and who the messenger of Allah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is, until that doubt is
changed for a certainty.
And this is different for different people. Some
people are very simple people. It's easy for
them to understand. Even when making dawah to
somebody, there's certain people you make dawah to
them, they'll take the shahada on the 1st
day.
You know, some people 30 years, they'll think
about it and they'll become they'll accept Islam
right right before they pass from this world.
But, whatever your station is, it's your it's
your job to make sure that this
this, certainty enters into your heart. And,
the 2 angels will ask their questions and
then after the questions are answered, whether they're
answered
properly or whether they're answered
improperly. That's how you'll know if
you be a person you'll be one of
the people of blessing or one of the
people of eternal punishment.
Now one of the things also is that
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will send the angels
to
you in a way that befits the way
you lived.
Because this is also considered a it's a
torment or not a torment but a a
a a tribulation,
a test from Allah Ta'ala. Because when a
person comes and sees,
many people will see them in the most
frightening and in the most
terrifying of of of of modes.
But to the people of
Allah, the people who
live their life in a way that they
were always conscientious about Allah to keep him
happy. He'll send
to them in a
peaceful way, in a kind way. This is
one of the things that one of my
told me. He says that oftentimes people when
they're dying,
they'll see they'll see the angel of
death. It'll be like, they'll say, oh, they'll
say, oh, the Sheikh Abdul Qadr Jelani. Oh,
the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Salam. Oh, the,
the my grandma or my grandpa or my
father or, you know, you know, my husband
or somebody that they love, you know.
And, it's not that those people necessarily
actually come to them at the time of
their death, but Allah will send,
the even the angel of death to take
a person's soul, the people who are righteous,
he commands them to have with those people.
And so he the angel of death will
come out of in a form that is
comforting to that person.
Whereas the people of Kufr, the angel of
death will come in a hideous and a
scary form and they'll be screaming, you know.
And people there are Muslims who die and
they die with style. They know how to
die well. You know? They die with grace.
They have their act together. They know what
to do. They know what to say. It's
all
happens, like, with with precision. It's amazing. Right?
Who is my good friend
and,
he's a scholar, lives on the West Coast
and he helps me out.
We help each other out in a number
of projects that we work on mutually on
a national level.
He said that, like, for the of his,
who taught the,
he taught a class
and they were supposed to finish the the
next day,
but he called the students over to his
house and said, let's take the last today.
And so he just the last he took
it and, they learned
and then they all had made and went
home and he was gone, like, within, like,
the hour.
You know? That happens to people. You see
people like that, like, you know, one of
the we met also in South Africa. I
guess we're not the point is not South
Africa story time, but it's just what's coming
to me right now. The stories like this
are a dime a dozen. One of the,
he
was one of the old school graduates of
Darulun Deoban.
He was making dua in front of the,
he read
and he was making dua in front of
the Kaaba and he clocked out right there.
And you see that the salihim, this is
something that happens that, like, you know, depending
on a person's,
you know, whatever, you know, these are people
we you know, Allah knows best
but from the outward standards, it seems like
these are people of righteousness.
They go in a in a really good
way. And the angel death has adab with
people to the point where even it's
substandard by the Hadith of the prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam. The the the even the the
angel of death asked them permission.
It's substantiated by Sahih Hadith. It's not something
that's,
you know, not something that made made up.
And so all of these things are only
as scary as you make your own life
into.
Yeah.
All the all the so many. Yeah. The
the style that I read Sahih Muslim from,
his father was a imam and a masjid.
They were all there. He
said he took put someone else forward, said,
you know, I don't feel good. Why don't
you lead the prayer? And he died in
that they showed me the spot, you know.
It happens, it happens.
You know? Some people die doing weird stuff.
Some people and we're not gonna talk about
the other ones, you know?
Right?
Although
knowing,
we both know some very illustrious
pathologists.
So they tell weird stories about how how
people die. But Allah make it easy for
us the the the,
yeah, good people die in a good way
and how you live, you know, how creepy
and scary the next world will be for
you and the grave will be for you.
It's directly tied with how you live in
this life. All of these different things. Everything
that's a common thing, right, between what happens
in the grave, how the is, how the
* it is, how your judgment is, how
your
are handed to you, all of the how
your is in Jannah, how
you know, all of these things, they're all
directly tied with how you live your life.
You know? So if you if you don't
wanna be creeped out and freaked out about,
about dying,
The good news is what? Is that you
have a choice to be a good person
in this world. Say your prayers on time.
Make your will do even if, you know,
it's cold outside. You know, do do all
these things. These are like minor,
minor setbacks, minor difficulties
when compared to the hereafter. And a person
who, you know, obviously, you shouldn't be, like,
cocky about and arrogant about, like, oh, I
did this and that. I'm I got it
made, man. You know? But at the same
time, you know, one of the parts of
iman is to have when you do a
good deed. Right? One of the one of
the parts of iman is that you don't
just do your deed as if as if
they're going in a black hole, but you
have a good expectation from Allah that this
will benefit. You'll see, I'll see the benefit
of this one day. You know?
So that's that's not a that's not a
bad thing. That's a good thing.
So all of these things are all all
these things, it's like a common thread to
them. Right? So even the questioning of
will be in such a way that that,
is commensurate with the way a person lived
their life.
There is a hadith, the hadith of
narrated by Amr bin Asr and I
think
the different have different,
regarding it.
Says that it's,
a hadith. Some of the other more harsh
kind of Hadith critics have said that it's
weak. Allah knows best, but there's a
that
that when a person is buried in his
grave
and everybody
leaves,
that if someone stops and says in front
of the grave to the deceased
that these 2 angels will come and they'll
ask you, who is your lord and and
and,
what is your deen and who is the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam?
Then answer answer
him, my Lord is Allah and my deen
is Islam and Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is
my messenger.
And when Munkar and Nakir say this, they'll
take each other, put one hand in each
other's hand and say, what need do we
have to question somebody that
he already was told what the answers are.
This
is a practice, is
a practice in some places.
Malik actually considered it not to be from
the sunnah.
But,
it's one of those things. There are certain
things that it's very, like, down the middle
as to whether it's a sunnah or not.
It's not clearly you can discount it nor
is it clearly that you can say it
is. So those types of things, the the
the the the rule and the Sharia
is Those things are not commanded to nor
are they forbidden. If someone does it, you
don't say you're doing something wrong and if
someone doesn't do it, you don't say, oh,
you're missing something that you have to do.
But I just thought that would be, you
know, something interesting to mention.
You know, if if if somebody
came across that that is that is a
practice of people in in certain places.
And it does have some
it does have some proof behind it, although
it's,
not agreed upon.
And part of our, Akida is that Allah
kept guardian angels over everybody who are constantly
writing their deeds.
So that's fine, you know, the NSA and
all of this other stuff that's
listening your your phone calls and reading your
emails and whatnot.
NSA. National Security Agency. Yeah.
NSA, man. The c I FBI have nothing
on them.
Just the sheer amount of data it's mind
boggling. The metadata and things like that it's
just amazing. Like how do they process any
of that? And I bet you, you know
like people like people like us that like
in the same 5 minutes will use Arabic
and English and Urdu and Punjabi and
Ebonics and Padenica. It probably makes a computer
trip up,
you know, like what the * kind of
phone call is this.
If you had to, like, devote human reuse
resources to, like, translate our conversations, I just
don't think they they could do anything with
it. So they have to have run these
things through machines.
So, yeah, so the NSA shouldn't freak you
out too much. Right? I got a little
comic. Someone's like, hey. Do you think if
I emailed myself a copy of the constitution,
the the government would finally read it?
Yeah.
So yeah. I was that's
that's that's, you know, that
the
the guardian angels are there with you,
and they're writing everything.
And so these hadith about, like, if you
enter a house in which there's a dog
or whatever that the angels leave, those are
not the angels that write your deeds. Those
angels are there,
yeah, all the time. Those are those are
the angels of mercy that that that that
drive shayateen and drive negative influences away from
a person's heart.
But the ones that write are there to
write. Although again, you know, the hadith of
the prophet
when a person does a sin,
you know, Allah commands the angels, don't just
write it right away.
Maybe the person will repent and there's no
need to write it.
This is part of the reason it's a
sunnah to sit in the masjid and make
dhikr after until
the sun sets. And after
until
the sun rises.
Why?
Because those are the changing of the shifts
of the angels that watch over a person.
And so Allah Ta'ala says to the angels
that like leave them until the shift ends.
If he doesn't make toba by then, then
you can write it.
And, you know, that's one of the things.
You know, a person who's quick to make
Tawba from his sins, this is a
a a this is a beautiful act, you
know, that you don't have to mull it
over too much. It should be sufficient that
this may be something Allah doesn't like. So
I should just seek
forgiveness from it and, you know, figure out
what I'm gonna figure out, but seek forgiveness
from Allah for that. But they're there and
they're writing things down. They say that
these things are iman. Right? Allah says something
to you, like, you're, like, you're a kid.
You're, like, okay. There's angels, like, writing stuff.
You're, like, okay. That's cool. I guess I
can't see them. So but, like, yeah. Sure.
But then to some people, these things that
they they become
they become people of
of of realization that these things become very
real to them. So they say, say, he
never
he he always showered while clothed.
He'd have his
on and wash himself from underneath his.
Right? Why?
Because of his
or actually
one of the things that the Nabi Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam,
you know he he bore witness to about
the prophet
that the the the the one who is
the most
and I should say, the one who's most
truthful in his shyness is that
he wasn't only shy not to behave,
brazenly in front of other people. He was
also shy in front of the angels because
of which the angels were shy in front
of him. So if the angel of death
is shy in front of him by the
witness of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, you
know, and obviously they're gonna come to him
in a good way. They're not gonna come
to him in a in a in a
bad way.
And so, you know, like we said before,
death only needs to be as scary as
you make it out to be in your
life.
But that's the the the the iman that
had that. It was a happening that he
he saw. He witnessed the reality of these
things in front of his eyes and it
became, you know, just part of his daily
routine. It became something that he
just he bore witness to by his
state,
you know, through the rest of his life.
So they're they're they're they're they're looking and
they're watching
and,
they're writing things down.
And so we should be cognizant of that
and have some shame.
That stuff for a lot of people. That's
all of us for our sins.
And the fact that they're there writing, watching
over in writing doesn't mean that any of
this is, you know, is absent or drops
away from the knowledge
of
the Lord
or of their Lord.
Allah knows everything before it even happens,
and he's watching while it happens.
He's a shahid.
He's the one who is he's watching everything.
He he's he's the one who
bears witness over all things that happen and
he knew that they were gonna happen before
they happen, etcetera, etcetera. We went over all
that before.
But,
you know, a person cannot
and is forbidden from
trying to imagine
what is Allah.
Allah's transcendency and the fact that he is
beyond our understanding is how we understand
him. So
sometimes it's helpful for us. He doesn't need
the angels to tell him anything that he
doesn't already know, But it's helpful for us
because we can't imagine
what it means for Allah to be watching
us.
But we can imagine,
you know, something that's
intelligible,
something that you can grasp that there's this
being, sentient being made out of light
and and they have they take something like
a similar to a human form.
And, you know, they're the ones who are
writing things down and they have a scroll
and all of these other things. You know,
we can we can understand that, that's for
our own benefit. It makes these things a
little bit more tangible for us to understand.
And again you know, Allah doesn't need any
of these things. They're more for our benefit
than they are for his. They're not for
his benefit, he doesn't need anything.
And that there is an angel called the
angel of death
who takes the souls
of the people by the permission of his
lord.
And so it comes in some of the
weaker hadith
that the name of the angel of death
is Azrael,
but,
that's a weak hadith.
And,
if a person uses that name for the
angel of death, that's
fine. There's no objection to that.
But,
the the
name of the angel of death that comes
in this, Sahih Hadith says what? Is the
angel of death, Malakul Moth.
The angel of death.
I remember I was in a cab one
time
with
a very interesting cab driver
And,
you know how people they put, like, a
or a chain at the at the end
of their streets in Karachi, you know, they
put these chains, they chain off the ends
of their streets so that, you know, and
they usually have like a
they have like a night watchman who will
open the
the the gates or the chains for the
cars that live on the street. Even though
it's a public street, you know, because
of some some places have like issues with
lawlessness and whatnot.
So, the driver he turned into a
street where the street was chained off, it
should have been open, they just put a
chain up over there, he got so upset.
And he goes,
He started screaming, pulled out his window and
screamed at the night watchman. He said, what's
the point of this chain? You think this
is gonna stop the Malakul
Mote? So, you know, the cab drivers have
their own theology as well.
I was with I was in Abu Dhabi
and on Al Ain,
and someone cut off the cut off, our
baton cab driver,
you know, in, like, a in a Land
Cruiser.
And so he put down his window and
he screams. He goes,
because he didn't have a hard time sitting
in the house, so he called him a
you know? So Isa Isa Isa, I told
him about that.
He goes, no. He goes he goes, is
too good for these drivers. Woman uses
it to cover herself and practice.
Is too good. He should have said.
Yeah. So
anyhow,
that the angel of death takes
the souls that is an angel that comes
and takes the souls of the people, right?
That death isn't just what?
Like a a cessation of
certain
systems or vital functions in the body.
There are some people so this is like
some medical bioethics for
the doctors and those who are gonna become
doctors and those who are like teeth doctors
and then those of us who
disappointed our parents by not becoming doctors.
Alright.
So,
the there are people who the heart is
beating and they're breathing
but they're
dead.
The soul left a long time ago.
You can do that. You can hook a
body up to stuff and like make the
heartbeat and.
The definition of death is is when the
the the the the leaves the body.
Yeah. So the leaves the body when we're
sleeping too?
Permanently for the last time. How do we
know that it's left permanently? So we don't
we may not know always.
But it's it is possible.
And the signs of it is that that
will never come back. And there are certain
conditions because okay. So this is like a
whole theory. Right? This is why I want
all of you guys to listen carefully. Okay?
Quit your
jobs, take Arabic for like 3, 4 years,
read like the books of and
then like read
insha Allah. He has a whole process, like
a brilliant like discussion on what the what
the the the actual definition, the spiritual definition
of what death is and what the clinical
definition of death is and how those 2
match up at certain points. So he essentially
he essentially says that the body is like,
like a like a glass jar.
Okay?
And the is like the air inside of
the jar.
Okay?
Imagine if a jar is made out of
a glass that's delicate enough, if you pull
all the air outs out if you vacuum
pump out all the air from the glass,
what will happen? Break. It'll break. Right?
Because what the pressure outside is is well,
I I'm not, like, making this up, like,
trying to jazz it up scientifically in order
to make the He actually talks about this.
Right? So he talks about how the the
the person, the human being in fact, if
anything, I'm dumbing it down. Right? The the
the human being is like that that that
jar with the air in it. Right? And
the air is the the jar is like
the body and the air is like the
right?
That,
if something should happen to break the jar,
it will let the air out
or if the air leaves, the jar will
break also. It happens either way, but the
point is is that once that equilibrium is
is damaged, it will it will that separation
occurs.
It's basically an act of god is the
only thing that can make it
whole again, which is what the bath what
the what the bath is, the resurrection is.
Right?
So as medical practitioners and professionals,
right,
you get
to try to find out
is the jar broken and the air went
out or did the air leave and the
jar is about to break now because the
air is gone.
Right? So it could happen one of either
ways, but the whole point is just to
discern when does the separation happen. So for
example, someone who's on a ventilator,
right, the question that you have to ask
is, is this person ever going to have
there's
a
that happens and that that's they're latent inside
of everybody
that that some of the the referred
to as.
The ability
to understand what's happening around you and render
decisions about it.
So
if the mudrik is still there, the purse
or if the mudrik has the ability to
come back, the person is not dead.
So a person may be physically physically completely
paralyzed.
They even may be,
completely paralyzed in terms of their vision,
hearing their senses.
But if some side, somewhere inside their head,
they can think about something and say, oh,
masjid good, you know, namaz good, Oh,
eating pork bad. Right? As long as the
is there or has a possibility of returning,
the body can sustain the still
somehow can host it.
Right? The person is still legally turned to
be alive. If
the is gone, even if the heart is
beating and all the other, everything else,
is the is gone in such a way
that it'll never come back,
then that's a that's a sign that the
spirit has already left. The angel of death
has already done his job.
At that point, the spirit is not spirit,
not soul?
The the is a the is a of
the soul. It's something that that that comes
with the soul. Once the is gone, the
angel of death
that person is tagged for the angel of
death to just get done with them. So
it's expression of soul, basically, in the way
It's it's the ability no. It's the ability
for a person to make decisions, basically.
For somebody in a deep coma. Mhmm.
And nobody knows the brain activity is the
for neurologist is brain dead. Dead. Yeah. And
in the dead If they're brain dead and
the there's no way the brain will come
back. Right? One thing is I think there's
no way but, you know, miraculously
comes back. Okay. Guess maybe he wasn't brain
dead. Right? But if he's actually brain dead
then it's that's it. It's done.
Because a couple of cases like one had,
like, pentobarbital
coma or somebody. That's the that's the drug
that used to kill people,
in, in the in the gas chamber. Right?
No. Not the gas chamber. The That's a
illegal That's a Thiopental. That's Thiopental, not Barbaton.
I'm sorry. Yeah. My bad. They had, like,
a long time ago, like, 20 years ago.
Somebody was completely paralyzed. Mhmm. He took high
dose of pentobarbital. So almost dead. Mhmm. Like,
nothing activity. But, you know, when they test
the blood Mhmm. The pentobarbital, so they waited.
They put in a ventilator and all the
stuff, and then the teeth died.
No.
Came
back. Yeah. And then the like,
now they changed the CPR.
If somebody found in, like, below 0 degree
and there's no sign of any activity, they
have to rewarm. And if there's any brain
activity, then they pronounce the dead. Mhmm. K.
Because if If there isn't brain activity.
Yeah. After the body Yeah. Body is there.
So he he actually It's possible there are
clinical cases where a person brain dead. There
there are there are clinical cases where a
person can be, like, frozen, and then then
they,
really,
like a fish.
Yeah. Yeah. Frozen for, like,
a month and then And then, like,
oh, I feel cold.
That is it's gone. He doesn't remember anything
what happened.
Ajim. Not for months. Like, days. Certain time,
like, in in this But even days, that's
amazing. I would think even, like, a minute
would, like, destroy everything. And that's never changed
the CPR, like, you know, you can physically
frozen. Okay. I mean, we should have we
can have, you know. Yeah. Right. But, like,
0 is still within the triple point. You
can still be liquid in 0. Right? No.
The if you're talking Fahrenheit 0, it will
Not for nontranite 0. Celsius 0. Anyway
did
Sorry for the we're we're not talking about
you. Don't worry. He actually mentioned that one
of the
destruction,
the
organization.
Yeah. So anyway,
that that may not be wrong
but we wanna get closer to what the
point is.
And the point is a person theoretically, you
know, if you could
if you could have their head and hook
it up to a robot and they're still
able to
function and make decisions and this and that,
you know, like, so you take
it you you yeah. You know, you take
a you take a a a an example.
Right? Okay. If a person cut their finger
off, are they still
them? Yeah.
To cut their whole arm off. Are they
still them? Sure. Don't do it to me,
but yeah. You know? Cut all their limbs
off. Are they still them? Yeah.
If you can cut off everything of theirs,
if they're still able to
independently
make decisions
that
they're for, that Allah will reward them for
what good they do and punish them for
what bad they do, then the mudrik is
still there. There's still some point to life.
If once that that mudrik is gone, now
I don't have a clinical definition for it,
but you know, so you may think it's
gone, but it's really not. Or you may
think it's there, but it's never coming back.
I don't have a clinical definition, but whatever
that clinical definition is for it, right, once
that's once you pass that mark, that person,
the angel of death has come and done
their job, but that person's gone. It only
apply in a a doubt of somebody who
already have some kind of mothering. Yeah. Like
a baby, like a newborn baby or month
old baby. Right. How we define the death
because, you know, we don't call them a
brain dead because they are not brain dead.
They never been brain dead. They never
been brain alive. But you're thinking about the
what?
Yeah. But this is Doesn't the brain start
showing activity? Doesn't the brain start showing activity,
like, from the from, like, you know, from
the time it's an embryo?
Yeah. At a certain point. Yeah. At a
certain point. No. I'm I don't have any
You have to have neurons to develop and
they Yeah. I have the neurons developed.
If you do the EEG, it's almost
kind of flat. Okay.
So there is some brain activity in the
fetus, isn't there?
Very little and is But you hear that
fine. So
one yeah. We don't consider the brain activity
or the death in the babies.
Okay.
What do you consider in babies?
If they had to stop basically. Yeah. And
they couldn't able to get
Mhmm. Circulatory.
Separative labs. The whole discussion is circulatory
death versus
Yeah.
So this is why you guys should call
Sheikh Amin and have the medical bioethics seminar.
Because I haven't gone through all of these
different cases, but there are there is
material in the and the Kitab and Sunnah
to answer all of these things and there
are that you can apply to go through
different cases and there are ulama who have
gone through all of those things.
And since you guys are
keeping people alive and pronouncing people dead,
You should learn about it,
You'll become doctor one day, you'll learn too
inshallah. I don't know inshallah.
So, yeah.
Which book shall we have discuss on this
thing?
The.
Which is a Balika? Yeah. Yeah. So it's
a very not a easy book to read
though.
I think it's all Shokal Watan. If you
if you if you or
Ishku Ushk Watan or something like that. If
you send me an email, I'll send you
the
PDF. It's been translated to English too. Yeah.
It's in Urdu originally, but it's translated to
English. I'll send it if if any of
you send it to. There was a book
that published in parts on many years ago,
maybe 40 years ago.
Did
you ever come across that one? I have.
I've heard about it. I've come across. I
didn't read it though. Okay. I didn't read
it, unfortunately. Basically, based on
is chapter 2. Yeah. Who wrote it? Who
wrote it?
It may have been translated as well into
English under the the the titles, the spectacle
of death. I remember having seen it before.
I don't know if it's a translation
of death. I remember having seen it before.
I don't know if it's a translation or
if it's just somebody else wrote something in
the same name. But so, yes, whatever it
is, angel of death knows what the definitions
are. And,
Angel of Death knows what the definitions are.
And,
when the air leaves the the the bottle
bottle breaks, and that's game over.
That's it,
you know.
And it's important it's important to understand that
that to remember that, you know. That's why
it's good if people have an opportunity, you
should go, you know, call up,
doctor Khaled Siddiqui and, like, you know, wash
a body, you know,
that that needs to be buried and whatnot.
You'll see that because
you'll see at that point the physical body
that we spend all our time and money
worrying about,
you'll see at that point it's not
it's not all it's cracked up to be.
People spend so much money
on the physical body,
getting a haircut,
getting their plastic
surgery, getting, you know, you know, their
whatever teeth done and the going on diets
and all that other stuff which some of
which
is you should do it, you know. Some
of it some of it is like ridiculous.
Right? Spending like whatever
$40,000
to get your nose done. Your nose looks
fine. You know what I mean? Like, it's
not
it's dumb and it'll it'll, like, look even
crazier once it's done. You know, it'll people
like, what happened to you? You know,
you didn't look that handsome before, but you
at least look normal. Now you look like
a freak, you know?
Uh-uh. You know, that type of stuff people
will give so much some of which is
some of which is permissible in the Sharia
and good and some of which is like
way overboard. But the point is we spend
so much in it. Even if it's permissible,
we spend so much in the physical body.
You realize at that time, woah, that's not
like even
who you are
because nobody even wants to people their own
loved ones. Loved ones don't wanna watch them.
Their their own loved ones don't even wanna
watch their body. Why? Because obviously whatever they
loved about that person is gone at that
point,
you know. And so a person should wonder,
okay,
you know, you you know, you can, like,
solve equations by deduction.
Right? So there's a person.
I love that person.
Obviously,
this thing on the table right now is
not the one I loved or the thing
I loved. Although some people are like that.
I I'm surprised actually.
A lot of people are very cold. You
know? A lot of people, they see their
loved one, their body, and they're like, oh,
and they hug and kiss and this and
that and, you know, whatever. They still feel
some attachment to it, you know. But there
are a lot of people I think
the majority of what I've seen at least
in this country is that people don't have
that attachment.
Once a person is gone, they're like, I
just don't wanna, you know, whatever. Right? And
so, like, obviously, by deduction, you can tell
whatever was valuable about that person that that
you loved.
It's not what it's not what's at the
table
at whatever conquest
place where you're washing them, you know, whoever
it is.
Allah Ta'am Mercy on all of us when
we leave. Obviously,
the in Islam, we honor we honor the
body. Why? Because it's the form of a
human being and Allah has given takrim to
a human being. Right?
He's given us honor to human beings. So
part of that is that the body also,
we treat it with dignity and it's the
that you treat the body in death what
how you would have treat treated the body
in life.
So we don't do all this weird stuff
like, you know, amping up people with formaldehyde
and you know, like, I've been in the
back the back closet one time. I needed
something or I needed, like, a garbage bag
for something, you know? And so what's the
gentleman's name
over there?
Jim?
Jim. Jim, nice guy. Right? So I was
like, yeah. Oh, you need a garbage bag?
It's just in the back closet. Go help
yourself. So I opened the back closet. I'm
like, oh my god. Like, there's all these
different kinds of weird embalming liquids and different,
like,
tubes and stuff that you, like, drain the
blood out of a person and all this
mat cosmetic y and makeup y type stuff
and, you know, they work them real hard.
What what is it, you know, Vladimir Lenin
and Mao Zedong and Ho Chi Minh and
all these guys are that's what they do.
You know, like, they literally every, like, every
3 days or so, they have a team
of, embalmers go in there and they, like,
apply
acetone to the they splotches and they there's
like a mixture they found by by experiment
that, like, if you mix,
acetic acid vinegar and vodka, It will, like,
recolor certain types of tissues that go bad.
And yo, man, like, the people are, like,
going by and, like, looking at that same
dead body after years years. And when the
doors close, the angels, like,
take a baseball bat and beat the snot
out of them.
You have to understand what the is the
reality. It may not be respectful
if there are any, like, people very patriotic,
like non Muslim Russians listening to this podcast.
My point is saying it is not to
disrespect your country or your national pride,
but the fact is the fact. You know?
Let's worry about that more worry about that.
How can I not be the guy getting,
you know, my legs broken by the angels,
you know, wherever I end up? It's it's
a joke. People
dress it
up and puff it up and perfume and
this and that. The fact of the matter
is that when you're when you're there,
the reality is different. The thing that made
you you is is is gone, and the
thing that made you you is in a
place, and it's also it's like coming face
to face with its
reality at that time.
And and so that's what that's what happens,
you know, that that part leaves you. And
it's something it's something to think about. So
the point is
give some time and attention to that part
of you that's important. Not the part of
you that your relatives will, you know, they'll
look at me on the table and they'll
be like,
this guy's gonna be happy. We're gonna have
to wedge him up on the thing, you
know. We can't pick him up because he's,
you know, don't that's k. Cool. You know,
like, if you're sick, go get medicine and
treat yourself and things like that. But work
on the part of you that's like
the the the the part that's more important
than that part, the part that that that
that, you know,
will
be judged.
Your body will thank you as well
because your body is like an innocent, like,
bystander in the drive by of, like, your
your your misdeeds and your improprieties.
If you
do bad things in this world, your body
will be dragged dragged along with with a
person to punishment. Allah Ta' will be our
protection. And if you do good, then the
body gets to go along for the ride
to
Jannah as well and it will enjoy. Allah
give everybody,
you know, so much
and forgive us for all our sins and
shortcomings. Allah,
The most generous of the generous. Allah
forgive us
not because who we are but because of
who you are.
And
to Allah is you're worthy you're worthy of
of of being feared and you're worthy of
forgiving.
So forgive all of us.