Khalil Adam – O Prophet, What Admits Me to Paradise
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Indeed, all praise and thanks belong to Allah,
Lord of the worlds.
We seek his assistance
and his forgiveness.
We also seek protection in Allah from the
evil within ourselves
and from the evil consequences of our actions.
Whomsoever Allah guides, no one can misguide them.
And whomsoever Allah allows to be misguided, they
cannot find guidance.
I bear witness that there is no one
worthy of worship except Allah alone and that
the prophet Muhammad is his last and final
messenger.
May the peace and blessings be upon him,
his family, and his companions altogether.
Allah reminds us in the Quran when he
says, oh, you who believe.
Fear Allah the way he deserves to be
feared and do not leave this world
except that you're in the state of submission
to Allah, state of Islam.
And he also reminds us when he says,
oh, you who believe,
fear Allah and speak the truth.
Stand up for justice. Do what's right. Perhaps
if you do so, Allah will direct you
to do good deeds,
and he will forgive you your sins. And
whomsoever obeys Allah and his messenger, then indeed
they have gained the greatest of all achievements.
My dear brothers and sisters,
I would like to direct your attention here
to the hadith
found in Imam al Nawawi's book, the 48
hadith. It's hadith number 29,
and it is recorded in a 10th media
as well.
This hadith,
first and foremost, shows us the power of
the prophet's
comprehensiveness.
He used to have the ability
given to him by a lost power of
Allah to say a little,
and the meaning
is for those who understand.
The meaning is deep.
Such value in the statements
that when the lady described the prophet,
one of the ladies used to say there's
a hadith in which she described the prophet,
and one of the description is that she
says, when he spoke it was like an
echo, meaning you could hear clearly,
loud, vibrant.
And when he mentioned something it was coherent,
logical,
everything flowing like a pearl. You know, the
beads of a pearl when they come out
one after the other.
Every sentence like a thesis.
Every word of advice has a deep meaning
and understanding
of who he's giving it to.
And, likewise,
the Sahaba themselves,
if you look at the characteristics of the
Sahaba,
they used to be inquisitive.
They would ask the right questions at the
right time.
They were afraid not to ask unnecessary
questions.
So sometimes they would be shy, but when
they asked, it was something that they wanted
to apply right away. So in this hadith,
hadith 29, we see this beautiful
interaction
between Mu'adh and the Jabal,
the Sahabi in which the prophet prophesied on
the day of judgement, he will be the
leader of the scholars,
asking a simple question.
And we see the answer given to him
by the one who had the ability to
have comprehensive speech.
The hadith starts by Mu'adu al Jabi. He
says to the prophet
Oh, messenger of Allah, tell me of an
action.
Tell me of some deeds I can do.
Who will enter me into Jannah
and prevent me or distance me from the
hellfire.
So the prophet said to him, he says,
Sahata,
you have asked about a great thing, Omar
'adith.
Simple question,
but yet it is a great thing because
it's the basics that we like so many
times in our lives.
The first thing you must know, Muhammad, the
prophet
starts to speak.
He says,
That it is easy
for those that Allah
makes it easy for.
So the first thing you must know is
if you take a little step towards Allah,
Allah will take many steps towards you. That
you need the tawfiq of Allah before anything
else.
Because if Allah wants good for a slave,
he gives them the understanding of the religion,
and he makes the path to Jannah easy
for him.
Is it just is it just out of
favoritism?
No. It's because the slave
has something of desire that he wants to
come near his lord.
So first, you must understand
and know that it is the tawfiq of
Allah that you need for you to enter
Jannah and for you to be distanced from
the fire.
Then the prophet he give you basics.
He says,
You worship Allah. You don't necessarily see any
partners with him.
He says that you establish the prayer, you
fast in Ramadan,
and you make pilgrimage to the house of
Allah.
So just understand that this is basics, but
it has deep meaning.
The tohid of Allah, the first and foremost,
many people think I'm worshiping Allah alone. But
if you look deep into the topic, you
will see many of us are lacking.
Perhaps some of them are our own brothers
and sisters.
Perhaps some of them are our own family
members
who, back home, go to messaged full of
graves. Not 1, not 2, but some even
have 3.
Some worship saints or ask saints to help
them prevent the calamity from reaching them or
ask them for some sort of benefit that
they need.
And then we have people who liken the
prophet with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala asking him,
the prophet Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, for things that
only Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is able to
do.
And then it could be so subtle even
in your workplaces.
Someone says jinx and everyone wants to knock
on wood. But if you trace back this
practice,
it is real it is trans it is
going back to the European,
way of life in which they had a
tree called the the God tree, and out
of fortune to get some fortunes on this
tree, they would go and touch on this
tree. From that evolved what we have today,
the knocking on wood phenomenon.
And many scholars, when they wrote books of
tawhid,
they mentioned these little things, the number 13
being bad luck. And all of these things
that people
suddenly don't understand
could be a deviation from the 2 true
tawhid
of Allah
So we must evaluate
our is our tawhid sound? Because that's the
first thing the prophet says, tawudullah.
You worship Allah, and you don't associate any
partners with him.
Ask yourselves if you know someone who travels
with a symbol in a scar, and you
ask, what is that symbol? He tells you
it's to protect him from certain things. You
go back into the country that we live
in, you see people put these kinds of
symbols outside their homes, some in their carpets,
some cultures are just fully embedded in this
kind of phenomenon.
And we ask the Allah
for protection
to always be conscious that at any time
you could fall into this trap.
Shaitan is working hard to deviate you from
the path. And even if he doesn't get
you to do the major shirk,
don't forget about the minor shirk, in which
the prophet says, I fear for you
mostly the minor shirk, which is what? Riyyah,
doing things for other than Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala. That when you perfect your prayer, that
when the brother perfects his prayer, it is
because someone else is praying with him. It
is that when he does something, it is
out of trying to be seen by the
people.
This is the minutiae.
So we evaluate all this. We check ourselves.
If we are sound in this, we go
to the next piece of advice. Ibrahm is
salah, that to establish the prayer. This is
not just someone who prays.
This is someone who establishes the prayer. When
something is established,
it doesn't go anywhere.
It's there always. Not only does he do
it with himself, but he does it with
his family. Then he goes on to say
the fasting
and the Hajj and the Zakah. The minor
thing the basic things that Allah legislated in
his religion.
Now
the prophet
he answers the question, but he gives more.
So we know,
1st and foremost, we pause at this here
because every interaction,
every action of the prophet is worth
just pausing and learning.
So the prophet
knows who he's talking to. In all of
the other hadith,
And some scholars today, they have this method
when they're teaching their students.
Some students, they put right next to them.
And then when asked why is that so,
you will see the scholar explain because what
I'm going to say, some things are difficult
to comprehend. And I need people who will
understand so they can preach it after I'm
gone. Many of you may not understand what
I'm going to say. This is how the
scholar would explain why certain people would be
next to him and so forth.
And that is a lesson that you know
your audience and you speak to them at
their level.
If someone is hungry for knowledge, you give
them more.
If someone's in need of something, you've had
to give them dua. It is only benefiting
them at the end of the day.
And we see, like the prophet, Yusuf
alaihis salam, did the same thing. When the
2 companions
of the of the jail came to him
asking him to interpret the dream for them,
he said, I will tell you before your
food gets here.
But first, let me ask you a question.
Are being slaves to many gods better or
the one irresistible,
Awakut Baha?
He asked him that question.
The point is that he used his upper
hand to deliver dawah to them. And the
prophet
he understands who he's talking to. He knows
the benefits that can come if Moya listens,
and he will be one day, again, prophesied
by the prophet, the leader of the scholars
on the day of judgment.
And so he says,
shall I not tell you, oh, my heart,
about the gates of goodness?
So he's moving on now. You've mastered the
basics. Let's go let's go more into the
ways that you can get into Jannah and
be far away from the fire.
He says the first thing, Assohu Jannah.
He says that fasting is a shield. The
scholars have said that it's a shield from
2 things.
One is the anger of Allah
and to bless you by fasting. You are
earning, distancing
yourself from the hellfire.
And the second thing is that blocks you
from the desires, the human desires,
like anger,
like jealousy, greed, all of these things that
consume you,
fasting suppresses them. And we know from the
hadith that if you are fasting and you
get into an argument, what shall you say?
Indeed,
Indeed, I am fasting. Indeed, I am fasting.
Another proof that it suppresses the anger.
Then he says,
that the
the charity
distinguishes the fire
the same way as water extinguishes the fire.
Charity extinguishes the sins
the same way as water distinguishes the fire.
From a hadith of another hadith of,
we understand what is referred to here as
sadaqa. It is not only monetary financial sadaqa,
but it is any good action that you
do right away after you do a bad
one. And we know from the other hadith
of Mahayd al Mujibur in which he says,
fear Allah wherever you are
and follow-up a bad deed with a good
one. What will it do?
It will erase it.
And treat the people with good gestures. Be
good to the people. The point of this
the middle part here, this proves that Sadala
is not only money. It is anything good
you can do immediately
after you've done a bad thing. Why is
this important? Why is this the second gate
of goodness, my dear brothers and sisters? Let
us reflect.
It is because you don't understand
that you sin more than you do good
deeds.
And at the end of the day, the
scales will be brought on the day of
judgment.
If you are negative in your balance,
you will be in doom, in destruction.
And so you think you're doing a lot
of good. People think they're doing a lot
of good, but they don't understand
how much bad they're doing.
There's an author who wrote a book called
The Compound Effect.
And in this book, he highlights
how the little things
make a great impact on people's lives that
they don't even realize it. And he asked
as an activity in this book, he says,
take a journal and write down, for example,
if money is your problem, write down how
much you spend every day on little things.
You don't even know. And you will see
at the end of this journal when you
tally the total, you will see you have
spent a large amount of money if that's
the problem you're focusing on. And you do
this with all aspects of your life.
Just write down and monitor your habits.
You will see that you are the negative
balance when it comes to
good deeds
and bad deeds.
And you will see that the prophet said
that he likened the bad deeds to the
fire
so the bad deeds eat up away your
good deeds.
So even if you did a lot of
good deeds, there will be another void if
the bad deeds are always there to eat
them up.
And so he says to help you, he
gives you a mechanism that you can use
to reverse this.
What is the mechanism? It's that you always
follow-up
the bad deed with sadaqa, with some sort
of good. Feed someone.
Go visit the sick. Do something of good
to reverse.
And just to take it a point further,
I want you to understand
that the water distinguishes the fire.
But if the fire is large,
you need a huge amounts of water. You
need huge amounts of water.
And so keep that in mind when you
are trying to reverse the city,
that don't do something small
when you did something big. Try to equalize
so Allah subhanahu wa'ala may have mercy on
you.
The third thing the prophet
and the third gate, the final gate of
goodness in this hadith
is the prayer of a man, salaahuwajidfijofillayl.
The prayer of a man in the depths
of the night. And then the prophet
he recited the verses from Surat al Sadr,
The prophet recited the verses that mentioned
that their sides are turning,
trying to get up in the middle of
the night to pray. What are they doing?
They're asking their lord,
praying to him
out of fear and out of hope, and
from whatever they were provided with, they give.
So Allah
says in the next verse,
the soul will not know
what he had made hidden for it from
the joyness of the eyes.
This is a reward for what they used
to do.
And the scholar says how beautiful is Allah
and his reward.
Is that the prayer of the night? Something
that nobody sees. It's a secret between you
and Allah. It's in the depth of the
night.
But Allah,
in the same way, he will give you
a reward that no one knows. It's hidden.
So it's exclusive, a special reward
just to reward you for the hard work.
So this is the third gate of goodness.
Then the prophet,
he says,
He says the final advice the prophet gives
in this sequence before the conclusion
is that he says, shall I not tell
you, oh, to give more
about the head of the matter,
the pillars of the matter, and the peak
of the
matter. And so Mu'ai said,
yes. Please,
give me more.
So he says the head of the matter
is Islam.
And he says the pillars of that Islam
is a salah,
and that the peak of all this is
jihad.
So the scholars have said that the prophet
that the prophet in describing
Islam as the head is letting you know
that that's your foundation. A body with no
head is no good, no use.
So if you think you can do a
lot of good, but you haven't submitted to
Allah
then you're like a body with no head.
And then how do you know if you
submitted to Allah
By checking the pillars. If the pillars are
gone, everything goes. Right? So So how do
you know if you submitted to Allah,
check your prayers.
How's your prayers?
Have you established them in your lives and
your lives and your families?
That is a sign that you have submitted
to Allah,
And many scholars have debated
about the person who leaves salah, whether he
will be abandoning Islam altogether or not.
So don't be a matter of debate.
Strengthen your salah because that is what's holding
your Islam up. Then he says that jihad
is the peak of all of this.
The jihad is not only fighting in the
state of Allah, my dear brothers and sisters,
but that the prophet
has elaborated to us in his many forms
of struggle and sacrifice.
As he said to Aisha with regards to
our hador or umrah, he said, that is
what jihad. As he said to the man
who came, he said, I left my mother
and father crying so I could fight and
be safe. He says, go back and make
them laugh. Take care of them. That is
what jihad. So the prophet said to them,
he referenced jihad to many things. If we
were to summarize
those things, you could just say
sacrificing everything for the sake of Allah. That
is at the peak.
The prophet
he said this is his final and concluding
piece of advice.
This
is. Shall I not tell you, Umayyad, about
the owner of all this?
He told him a lot of good things
to do, how to enter Jannah, how to
distance from fire. But now he's telling him
the owner of all of this. Well, we'll
keep this on check.
So that, of course, he says, yes, You
Rasool Allah, please tell me.
He held on to his tongue and he
says enough for you is this.
He says Mu'al says to him, oh, Rasulullah,
oh, the prophet of Allah, are we gonna
be held accountable for what we say?
And so the prophet gave him the expression
at the time, how could you say this?
It's as if he was saying that. How
could you say this, Mahdi? You know better
than this. Is there anything
more that dragged people by their faces or
their noses into the hellfire
except the harvest of their tongues.
Some sports, I don't know about all sports,
but some sports the way you win games
is you play defense.
Defense wins games.
Here the same
example the prophet is using to explain to
you that no matter how much good you
can do, there will be people on the
day of judgment
who will come Hazanat katibal.
Their good deeds like the mountains,
but it will be at the end
like dust.
There will be some people who think they
have Allah in their bank account in their
bank account of good deeds,
but they will really be bankrupt.
And when the prophet
described the muftis,
he said it is someone who backed by
this,
slander this. But before that, he said they
came with a lot of good deeds. They
came with ziyam. They came with salah. They
came with zakah.
They took care of their mother. Think of
every good deed you can do. People are
coming with these things,
but because they couldn't play defense, they couldn't
hold their tongue,
they lost it all. Think about who's on
that line, my dear brothers and sisters,
waiting to get some good deeds from you
and waiting for you to take their bad
deeds, for them to take your bad deeds.
Is it your boss at work?
Is it your neighbor?
Is it your friend, your wife, your husband?
Who have we talked about on a daily
basis?
My dear brothers and sisters,
we need to understand that a couple are
the most important component of our lives.
If we can withhold our tongue, we will
be successful.
And that's the words of the prophet, if
you can guarantee what's between your mouth and
what is between your legs, I can guarantee
for you, Jannah.
We see this all the time. People talking
about somebody else, people slandering, people people just
going on and on.
We need to stop right away and advise
those who you know, whom are engaged in
these activities,
that all of their good deeds, all of
the things that they have hoped for to
get a reward for will be null and
void in the day of judgment.
Just to give you the magnitude of the
matter, and we'll close with this. On the
day of judgment,
the prophet in an authentic hadith.
He says that every breath that the son
of Adam takes
not remembering Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, you will
regret it.
Think about that.
How is that possible? Every breath that you
don't remember Allah, Allah will put your counsel
to it. You will regret it.
And so what do we turn to for
salvation? How do we save ourselves from this?
Keep your tongue moistened with the remembrance of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
In 2 hadith,
prophet Rasal, he says, whomever
glorifies Allah more than a 100 times a
day, he will have a 1,000 bad deeds
removed from him and a 1,000 good deeds
given to him. This is how you can
tip the balance in your favor.
Whomever says
A 100 times a day, it's as if
he freed 10 slaves. Oh, boy. And he
gets a 100 good deeds,
and he gets removed a 100 bad deeds,
and you will have sovereignty, power over this
shayta on that day
until the evening. This is the solution that
Allah provided
us. We ask to forgive those people who
hear what we hear, the good of it,
and follow it.