Muhammad West – The Last Man to Enter Jannah
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The importance of Jannah and pursuing deeds is discussed, including finding a way to become a Jannah and remaining humble during nights when tired. The speaker also highlights the sadness of people returning to Jteen mate and the need for people to leave. The Maharajan is emphasized as a holy capital for Islam, where rewarding oneself for actions and finding a way to become a Jannah is rewarded. The importance of healthy eating and bringing a sense of satisfaction is also emphasized.
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Always forever we begin by praising Allah.
We testify. Be is not worthy of worship
besides Allah
and we send our greetings and our salutations
to beloved Nabi Muhammad
to his pious and his pure family, to
his companions, and all those who follow his
until the end of time. May
Allah bless us to be amongst them. Ameen.
The last jumuah of Ramadan.
Whether Eid is on Wednesday or Thursday, we're
not sure. But definitely, this time next week,
if Allah grants us to be here, it
would be
the new month.
And
the last it as we get towards the
end of Ramadan, some of us I'm sure
everyone, we have the feeling of, yes, we
are tired. I can see on the faces.
Everyone is exhausted.
We can see on our faces. We're trying
to finish whatever khatams. And there's also the
feeling of, did I do enough?
If this was my last Ramadan and we
know Ramadan, you just need to get one
accepted Ramadan. One Ramadan, you do
properly, and it can be your ticket to
Jannah.
And then Rabi al Salam al Hadith mentions
the reward of Ramadan is greater than the
reward of a shayid like the heavens and
the earth. The difference between the reward of
dying a shayid
and dying normally, but you're having one accepted
Ramadan. Ramadan is greater. It's a famous hadith.
And
if you attain, for example,
all your sins are forgiven. You attain, Qadr,
you have 80 years of Ibadah, a lifetime
of Ibadah.
So so much
up for grabs. And when we compare our
deeds, what we've done thus far,
do we deserve it? Many of us might
feel I don't deserve it. And there is
this paralysis that kind of sets in with
this guilt. I haven't done enough
and it's okay.
Alhamdulillah,
we know from Allah's mercy that Nabiism tells
us
Many times,
Allah looks at
points in your life and he rewards you
according to the best that you've done.
And especially if you end on a high.
We used to I have many, many stories
of people who lived very, very bad lives
but then they die in sajida
or they die making salah or on Hajj,
and we say that's a good sign. It
almost covers up
50 years of naughtiness.
And so the way you
end the way you end can can cover
up
for
the the way we end the Ramadan can
make up for maybe the first half or
the first twenty, 25 days of missing out.
So end on a high.
End on your high. End on the best
that you can do. It's a weekend.
And while every night in the last 10
nights can be like little Qadr,
even the even nights,
if you have to prioritize, you prioritize the
odd nights. And if you can't even prioritize
all the odd nights, I mean, there's only
2 odd nights left, but if you had
to put all your your bets, if you
had to hedge your bets, if you had
to say, look, it's all or nothing, then
the 27th night tomorrow night, if you had
to.
But, ideally, tonight could be late Qadr. The
27th could be late Qadr 28th, 29th, and
if Allah grants us, may grant us this.
We have a 30th night of Ramadan.
Don't lose focus after 27th night. Don't be,
don't get into the Eid mode too early.
Let us give it our all.
And so today, Insha'Allah, I'll talk a little
bit
about something that
what do what do you need? What do
I need to push me a little harder
at night when I'm exhausted, when you're exhausted,
you're working. How is what do I need
to know that will get me out of
bed to make that extra 2 rakahs of
tajjud, that extra 2, that half an hour
or 10 minutes of tahajjud, what do I
need to do to motivate myself? Well, there's
nothing that motivates us more than jannah and
jannah
because that is what's on the line here.
We're not talking about a promotion. We're not
talking about a raise. We're not talking about
we're talking life and death, jannah and jannah,
eternity.
That's what's up for grabs in these last
few nights.
And
I wanna mention
a beautiful hadith
about Allah's mercy
because the other thing that motivates us is
when we stand in salah
and we stand in and and we recite
our Quran, there's not a competition.
We're not trying to convince Allah,
forgive me and enter me to Jannah. Allah
wants to enter us into Jannah. Allah wants
to give us all these rewards. Allah loves
to give the rewards.
Allah enjoys it when he overrewards
us.
And so another thing that motivates you is
when you stand in salah and you know
who it is that you're making, who are
we worshiping, this gives us the feeling of
of goodness. So I'm gonna talk today, inshallah,
begin
by mentioning the last person that enters Jannah
or the last
may Allah grant us to meet Allah in
a good state on the day of Qiyamah.
They will be very, very special people.
The best of the best, They will enter
Jannah.
I'm a make dua for that. Where even
before the questioning begins,
Allah says you people go to Jannah.
I'm not even gonna question you. You've passed
the exam before the questioning without without awakening.
That is the best and the highest quality
of believer. Very, very few, we make dua
that Allah grants us to be amongst them.
Amen. Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will for
those who have an easy hisab, an easy
reckoning,
their life will be reviewed very quickly and
they'll go straight to Jannah, and their time
in Qiyamah will not be that long. That's
the 2nd batch. Then, of course, as things
get worse and worse, some will struggle on
Qiyamah. Some might be condemned to jahannam, and
then there'll be some who will be
long sentences in jahannam.
Some would be condemned to jahannam for
almost an eternity.
And when that sentence is given,
people will come out
we mentioned this hadith before where believers will
say, yeah, Allah, You have given me the
reward of Jannah, but there in Jahannam, I
see a friend of mine. I testify he
was a Muslim. We made salah together. I
remember in the dunya,
we were fasting together. I said, I remember
this Buddha. He used to we all fasted.
So then these believers will argue with Allah
and Allah will say, now go to jahannam
and fetch them.
And so people will be taken out of
jahannam by the believers. We know the Nabi
would make intercession for his ummah, and people
Allah will take out a batch of people.
The angels will make intercession.
Then what remains in Jahannam
is a group of people
who have done no good deeds in their
life.
They have nothing outwardly to show. And I
hope
all of us can say I can beat
that.
They will have absolutely nobody of the angels,
nobody of the believers, nobody of the Anbia
that will vouch for them. So these people
here, yeah, Allah, I'd have nothing to say
about them.
Then Allah will say,
I, the angels have been have shown their
mercy, and the anbiya have shown their mercy,
and the believers have been merciful. Now it's
time for Arham Al Rahimin, the most merciful,
to be merciful. And you will know what's
in the hearts of these people. There's a
spot on their heart of goodness, an atom's
weight of good, some mitigating excuse. Allah will
remove this batch from Jahnem. Now imagine yourself,
Malla Pratek, in Jahnem.
Every now and then,
in the midst of your torture,
you will see the doors of Jahannam opening
and the angels bringing someone out. And there's
still this hope
that I could also get out at some
point in time.
And years would go on,
and then the door would open again and
another group will be taken out until
the last man deserving of exiting
Jahannam.
What is left now is people of the
utter the worst worst kinds of people who
did the worst kinds of sin.
And Allah
will say to this man, after being in
jahannam for an eternity, he wouldn't have been
able to even remember the dunya. The angel
will say, come.
You have been paroled. You are allowed to
leave Jannam. You are allowed to leave Jannam.
And
this is the hadith of the last man
who exit Jannam.
And then when he is given his call,
come out of the fire, he will not
even be able to walk. He's stumbling. He
will walk and he will stumble. He'll fall
back into the fire and burn once again,
and then he will be picked up. He's
not even able to to walk properly. He
will be taken out of Jannam. And when
he's finally outside the doors of Jannam, he's
outside of it, he's still standing next to
it, he can still feel its heat, he
will say, Alhamdulillah,
Allah, you have saved me. And what you
have given me
is the greatest reward you've given anybody.
This what I'm feeling here, being outside of
jahannam, even though he still feels the heat
of jahannam, he's still recovering from the jahannam.
He says, yeah, Allah, what I feel now,
I'm sure nobody, even the people in Jannah,
are not experiencing the goodness that you've given
me, and he will just stand there. Allah
will say, for you, you are allowed to
leave Jannah.
No Jannah for you, but you can exit.
So he says, That's it. I just want
to get out. And so he's standing outside
jannah.
And after a while, he stands there and
all the islands, where is this place he's
standing in some area?
A tree starts to grow. It starts to
plant in it. So we can imagine this
is a long period of time until this
tree becomes big, and it's far away in
the distance. He can see the tree.
And so
he begins to think, you know, there's shade
there. There's coolness under that tree. And this
man who did nothing of good in the
dunya,
who had, Allah a laam, one little thing
in his heart that Allah forgave him and
entered him took him out of Jannam, he
hasn't worshiped Allah properly. He didn't he did
all the sins. He now has the audacity.
He says so he sees this tree and
he says,
oh, Allah.
He calls out to Allah. Oh, Allah, can
you please
shift me closer to that tree so I
may shelter in a shade and I may
drink of its water. Please, you Allah, I'm
asking you.
And Allah
hears this man's dua. And Allah says, oh,
son of Adam,
if I were to give you this, you
don't deserve this. You were supposed to be
jannam eternally.
You don't deserve this. But if I give
you this, you promise me you're not gonna
ask me for anything else? And he said,
oh, Allah, yes. If you give me that,
I won't ask for anything else. And so
Allah says, Allah will say, you are excused
because you are insan. You see something you
can't resist. You see something you like, you
can't fight that resistance. So Allah says, I'll
bring you close to the tree. And so
he stands under this tree and he's happy.
And, again, he feels, you, Allah, this that
I'm feeling, this shade, this sip of water
that I haven't drunk in eternity,
nobody in the universe has received what I've
received now. He feels like the luckiest man
created.
And over time,
he sees another tree grows further away from
even further from Jahannam, more beautiful, more lush.
And he says, yeah, Allah, now again he's
asking Allah,
Allah,
it's me.
Yeah. That guy.
I have another request.
That tree, the
please,
can I
can I go there, please? Now I want
us when we stand in Tajik and we
stand in Salah with all our sins, all
our mistakes, and all our shortcomings.
This man,
you are better than this man. I hope
none of us is this person, you know,
that we are better than this man. And
after all the sins he's done, he still
has the audacity to speak to Allah and
ask. And then he says, yeah, Allah, please.
That tree. That tree is bigger. It's nicer.
Please. So Allah says, oh, son of Adam,
did you not promise me? You won't address
me? Did you not promise that you're not
gonna ask for anything else after this?
You promised. And
Allah says, perhaps. And if I give you
this one, then you won't ask me again.
Then that will be in. That will you'll
be done. And the man said, I promise
you, Allah
I promise I will never ask you for
that is all I ever want. And, subhanallah,
we can think about this in life. Right?
How many things do we think? If I
can just get that promotion, that qualification, that
And he stands under this much bigger tree,
magnificent tree, and he enjoys its shade and
its comfort. And he again feels like, you,
Allah, you have given me what you've not
given anyone in the. Even those people living
in Jannah al Firdos, they are not as
happy as I am. And that's the beauty
of Allah's reward. The one who gets it,
he feels he is the best.
And so this happens a few times, another
tree and another tree until he gets to
a point where he sees Jannah.
He's now standing under a tree, and now
he gets to see the doors of Jannah.
And so he says, Allah, please,
please,
can I just I don't wanna go in?
I just wanna stand outside
of Jannah. I just want to hear what's
in me.
And Allah says, how many are you gonna
ask here, oh son of father? How how
much are you gonna ask of me? But,
okay, you can't be patient. You've seen something
you you can't resist.
Go, and he stands outside of Jannah. And
the minute he gets to Jannah, the gates
of Jannah, and he hears the laughter,
and he hears the singing, and he hears
the talking in Jannah, he doesn't even awake
now. He says, Allah, please, I need to
get inside here. I I can't be outside.
I want to get in. Please allow me
to enter Jannah.
And so then Allah says, oh, son of
Adah,
what will make you stop asking?
So then Allah says to him, perhaps if
I gave you a Jannah
that is 10 times bigger than the universe,
you will then stop asking me.
So the
man and and it's sunnah to smile here.
It's sunnah to actually laugh. Because the Sahaba,
they would smile and laugh, and they would
say, ask me why I'm laughing. It's because
the Nabi sun laughed laughed and smiled when
he when he said this. So when Allah
says to him, oh, son of Adam, so
do you do you want a universe? Do
you want a Jannah? 10 times I must
let you in Jannah and then give you
a Jannah, a garden, a paradise, 10 times
bigger than the whole universe. Are then you
are you gonna be happy then? So the
man says, yeah, Allah,
you are the lord of the Al Amin.
Don't make don't don't be don't be sarcastic
with me now. Are you, like, making a
joke of me now? You could have just
said no. You could have, like, just said
no. You are the lord of the Alamein.
It's not like befitting of you to promise
me, like, make a make a joke out
of me. So
when he he says this,
the sunnah is that the prophet smiles because
when the man says this, Allah himself smiles.
Allah laughs at this man. And Allah says,
I'm not making a joke of you. I'm
not teasing you. I'm not telling you this,
for genuinely,
you are going to go into Jannah, and
the Jannah you are going to be given
is 10 times everything that was in the
heavens and the earth. This is the lowest,
the worst, the final Jannah. The last plot
of Jannah is what this man
gets. So now we ask,
what is the top part of jannah?
What's it like
to be of those who enter early
and those who get Jannah al Firdos
and those who are in the closest proximity
to Jannah. This man, genuinely, when he enters
his Jannah, which is 10 times the universe
that we know,
will believe that he is the most blessed.
He won't look at anything else in Jannah
and feel I'm I'm left out. It took
him very long to get there. But for
us, we hope we we we beat this
man. We hope we get to Jannah before
this man. And so when you when you
ask, as Al Nabi says, when you ask
and you stand in Salah,
ask as if though believing you'll get janitor
firdos,
that Allah
is looking for an excuse
for you to get the highest level of
Jannah. He's not looking for you to fail.
He's not looking for you to you didn't
do enough salah, so you're not gonna get
to Jannah. No. Any mitigating reason to give
a person
Jannah, to give a person the reward
is what Allah wants. As the Nabi Muslim
says, Allah
is more reluctant
than your own mother
to send you into a fire. None of
us would ever believe my mom can ever
put me in a oven. Impossible.
Allah is more reluctant for that.
And so this gives you great hope when
you stand to know who you are standing
and worshiping. And I always end Ramadan. It's
almost like a sacred quote, but I always
end Ramadan because this is what motivates me
and perhaps motivates you.
It is when we finally
pass through this life and the Kaaba and
the resurrection
and the questioning and the crossing over the
Sirat and all this long journey and that
moment
when you made it,
you will see the doors of Jannah opening.
You will see it in the distance.
And the believers will feel that breeze, and
the smell of Jannah is the first thing
that you feel, the breeze. And as they
enter Jannah,
that's when their angels tell you,
you worked very hard. You took a long
difficult life to get here, the angels are
saying to to us. But now there is
no more sadness anymore, and there's no more
sorrow. There's no more sickness.
There's no more anxiety anymore.
Everything that you're worried about is over. You
only have happiness,
and then you enter Jannah. And what is
Jannah? If for everyone else, different things inspire
you, motivates you, the thing that of the
things, for example,
in Surah al Assin, Allah
says they will be so occupied and busy.
Is your job. Is something that you don't
like. Is my
what keeps me
like, you know,
all the time occupies me. Allah says, their
is fun.
They will be consist busy with enjoyment,
so busy
that there's no sleep,
there's no time for
closing your eyes. You will have places to
explore, things to eat,
things to go. Every day is a new
activity in Jannah. And the beauty of Jannah,
when you see something and enjoy it, tomorrow
it gets upgraded.
The food you eat becomes better the second
time you taste it. The wife that you
look at, she's beautiful. When you look at
her again, she had an upgrade. She had
a makeover. Eternally, it's getting better and better
and better. And as we said, Jannah Qiyama
happens on a Friday,
and so we enter Jannah on that Saturday,
and that will be the biggest party of
all. That Saturday would be the biggest party
and festival that you would experience, that first
Saturday in Jannah, and we will explore and
experience Jannah for that week. There are days
and nights in Jannah until, of course, that
first Friday, and we've heard this hadith so
many times,
where everybody in Jannah, even this man who
gets there to be lost, will be called
by an Adhan.
And everybody in Jannah, whether the lowest or
the highest, will assemble
at the highest place in Jannah.
And if anyone is sitting there and waiting,
what's gonna happen now? I didn't think there's
Jummah anymore. In Jannah, there's no salah, by
the way. Whenever you ask
kids, ask is Jannah, girls ask, is there
hijab in Jannah? There's no hijab in Jannah.
You can weigh what you want. There's no
salah in Jannah. There's no tahajjud. There's no
reciting of Quran in Jannah. The only only
act of worship you do in Jannah is
saying
People just instinctively will say
Then there will be a jumuah, though, and
we said this before. There will be a
jumwa. And that's the jumwa when
all of the people of Jannah assembles
at the highest place in Jannah,
beneath the throne of Allah, and Allah
himself will address the people of Jannah.
And he will ask them
every week, how have you found Jannah? What
was your week like?
And every single person and
then he will say, after all these blessings
and pleasures and joys that you all the
fun that you had in Jannah, the best
I'm going to give you, the extra which
no angel has seen, no anbiya has experienced
is for you, oh, people, to see me,
experience me without a veil, and Allah
will remove that veil and everybody will get
to experience Allah directly.
That is why we make Tajir tonight.
That is why we push for that extra
half an hour of Quran. That is why
when you add 5050, can I make another
donation of a $100 to this charity?
Think about that.
Let this be that motivator, and may Allah
grant us to push through these last few
nights of Ramadan to give it our absolute
best. If this is our last Ramadan, let
us go out with a bang. Let it
let us in on the absolute high, and
may Allah grant for us in our books
of decree and little Qadr to decree only
what is beautiful for us, only what is
good, to decree goodness for the Ummah, and
to grant us all.
Just a few announcements.
The
program that we have 10, the last 10
nights, 8 rakaz, it's 10:20,
which is after.
Then, of course,
eat, as we said, could either be Wednesday
or Thursday,
but,
we will be having our annual Maharajan,
cooking of food, and what a best what
a wonderful way of of showing our appreciation
to Allah
and Eid is to feed someone that's hungry.
Every person should try and feed at least
one person that's hungry, and so that's why
your Zakatul Fitr at the very least, but
also, additionally,
you can join in.
We are having our mass Eid Idgah
or, Labarang in the Bucca, which will be,
in in Wales Street, and it will obviously
be in solidarity with the people of Palestine
as well. And so I know none of
you wanna come to town when it's, Eid,
you know, you wanna steer that side, but
if you are,
then please join us for, Eid here in
in Bukkah. And then fitra. Fitra, as we
mentioned, is every single person must pay fitra,
zakatul fitr.
You and your dependents, R77,
it's a head per person. So everyone in
your house, even if your wife is hamil,
inshallah as well, that's the and fiddah is
for the person who cannot fast at all.
That's 28 28 rand per day. Please make
sure your fiddah and your fiddah is given
in in the next coming days because we
need to get this together to give food
to the people. Inshallah.
So much.