Jamal Abdinasir – Good Deeds Dont Give You Jannah

There

There was a man from Bani Israel, he

worshipped Allah

for 500 years. He lived on a jazeera,

an island. He never used to do anything

but worship.

It was said that on this island

that he lived on, the water that surrounded

it, the sea, it was salty water. Allah

subhanahu wa ta'ala blessed the slave of his

by giving

him sweet water. He used to consume sweet

water from a place in the ocean and

he used to drink from there. And every

single day he would eat 1 ruman, 1

pomegranate.

He would eat 1 pomegranate and he would

drink that water and he wouldn't eat anything

else or do anything else apart from worship

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And he did this

for 500 years.

When his time of departure came,

he died in sujood.

This is a good death. This is the

closest a slave is to his Lord in

this world.

The closest a slave is to his lord

in this world is in the prostration. He

died like this. So this is also indicating

the kind of person he is. When he

was resurrected, Yawmul Qiyamah, he was told by

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, the hadith mentions,

O slave of mine enter into Jannah

via my mercy.

And he was taken aback by this.

Meaning that he worshipped Allah for 500 years

and he dedicated his life. He committed his

life. He didn't do anything else whatsoever.

He's thinking

I entered into Jannah through the mercy of

Allah and perhaps somebody who never worshiped Allah

at all. Allah is merciful towards them and

he also enters them into Jannah.

So was there even like a true point

of anything I did if I didn't enter

through my hard work and my efforts?

So he said, you Allah, I want to

enter through my good deeds. I want you

to deal with me with Adala, with justice.

Justice means you did something, you are rewarded

via what you did. You did something wrong,

you are punished because of what you did.

This is what he's asking for.

So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, he accepted his

request

and he said if you want us to

deal with you through justice and fairness, then

there are a lot of things that we

have bestowed upon you, a lot of blessings

that we have given you. And we have

given it to you

through our mercy.

Let us weigh these blessings that we have

given you with the actions you did and

let's see after that

how you enter into Aljannah.

The slave he said, okay.

So Allah

he began with the blessing of sight. The

blessing of sight was placed on a scale

and his good actions that he did that

were accepted by Allah. That Allah was pleased

with it. It's not just actions. Actions that

are accepted that Allah is pleased with. That

he was deserving of jannah for were placed

on the other side of the scale.

The blessing of sight alone outweighed the entire

500 years.

The other blessings have not began yet. The

blessing of hearing, the blessing of seeing, all

these other things haven't started.

Now because all of this was destroyed, he

has no good deeds. And if you have

no good deeds, you can't enter into jannah.

Look at where he was and where he

is. He had good deeds and he had

opportunity to enter into jannah. Just not through

the good deeds, through Allah

approval.

Now,

even if you wanted to enter through your

good deeds, you can't because you have none.

He can't enter. And if you can't enter

jannah, then you've got to enter into jahannam.

He was taken by the angels and he

was taken to

the gates of jahannam until he was just

about to be thrown in and then he

made tawba and he turned back to Allah

Subhanahu wa ta'ala and he said I wish

to enter into jannah through the mercy of

Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala,

he commanded the angels to bring him back

and he was admitted into jannah through the

mercy of Allah. So just like you are

not deserving to enter into jannah through your

good deeds, then a person,

jahannam,

a person cannot necessarily say he's deserving to

enter into Jahannam because of bad deeds. And

we are not allowed to do this as

we know. We can't say this person is

a righteous person, he will enter into Jannah.

And this person is a person who is

sinful, he will enter into Jahannam. You cannot

do this.