Mustafa Khattab – Next Life 1
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So starting tomorrow, Inshallah, Frank McKigney will have
our Anatolia youth program throughout the winter from
October to April, InshaAllah. Good boys. So Boys
only? Only boys for now.
So boys 13 years and up, InshaAllah, every
week,
registration is $5.
We play basketball, soccer, we'll pray together, and
we'll do short talks. And once a month
we'll do a day here for PM and
pizza,
and, invite a guest speaker, so it will
be a special event every month.
What's the address?
Frank McKinney, it's on, Bristol.
Check the poster outside when you are leaving.
There's a big poster in the hallway,
As you can tell, I'm not feeling well,
but,
I decided to come because I know some
of you are coming from far.
So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala speaks about death
a lot in the Quran, in many places
in the Quran.
To make it easy for us to comprehend
this concept of death, we're talking
about. So death in Arabic basically means that,
your soul
no longer
resides or lives within your body, but it
moves to a different place,
and your body will change,
in situation.
So this is the meaning of death.
So
if I ask anyone, would you like to
go to Jannah?
And the answer here is yes, of course.
Even those who don't pray, they don't fast,
they don't practice, everyone wants to go to
Jannah.
Even the kuffar in the Quran, Allah says
that even the kuffar they want to go
to Jannah.
So if we ask anyone, would you like
to go to Jannah? They will say, Of
course, I'd like to go. Of course, I'll
pay anything to go to Jannah. Now you
tell them,
your
gate
to Jannah
is to die.
Are you willing or ready to die now
to go to Jannah? They say, no, I
don't want to die. Sorry.
I wanna go to Jannah, but quite frankly
I'm not ready to go now. Right? So
what is the problem? If everyone wants to
go to Jannah,
what is the problem that people don't want
to die?
And the answer is,
Because everyone is afraid of death, they don't
want they don't know what to expect in
the grave,
on the day of judgment, and so on
and so forth.
No one wants to take this, experience.
So even shaitan in the Quran when he
debates with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
when he promised that he will mislead humanity,
he said to Allah, you Allah delay me
until the day of resurrection.
And the scholars say the reason is because
he didn't want to die with everyone else
before the day of judgment. He wanted to
stay there
until everyone else is resurrected, and he will
be there, so he doesn't want to die.
So he's he's scared of death.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is giving us a
lot of imagery,
metaphors in the Quran that raising people from
the dead for judgment
is as easy for Allah,
just like raising,
giving life to the earth after its death.
If you saw it in Hajj, you saw
it for Surat.
Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala
Allah
Sub
Even when Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala describes
death and reviving the earth, there are so
many fantastic linguistic issues. They're hard to translate
in English, but
study the way Allah
reviving
the earth in Surah Hajj and Surah Fasr,
there are incredible
linguistic things that we can learn from there.
So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala always in the
Quran talks about
the fact that we were dead before, He
gave us life, then we're gonna die, then
He's gonna bring us back to life.
And this is mentioned in many places.
So this is why Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
talks about 2 types of death and 2
types of life in the Quran.
So when you are born at the hospital,
and the doctors gives you a couple of
slabs,
you look around,
see a big guy carrying you around, kissing
you, this must be your dad,
And you see him doing Adhan and a
comma in the right ear, in the left
ear, and as I said this is based
on a weak hadith,
most likely the prophet
didn't do it, but if you do it
as a there is nothing wrong. You can
always do Adan in a comma, you can
read Quran, you can say Adan, Alhamdulillah, it's
acceptable, no problem.
But you look around after Adan and a
comma, no one is making salah.
But when we die,
they pray janaza, no adhan, no ukama before.
So the Alama is saying the reason is
because your life is very short in this
dunya,
right?
Life is very short, just like the time
between adhan and ukama.
So when you are born, there is
when you die,
there
is So it is it is very short.
So they say, the Arabah say that,
the most difficult three times in your life,
number 1, when you are born, because when
you open your eyes, you see a lot
of people around you, but you don't recognize
any one of them.
And the second situation when the person dies,
and they put them in the grave, and
they leave,
and no one stays with them, and they
feel very lonely
when they are put in the grave.
So
when we die, we look around, people just
throw us in the grave and they leave,
right?
And and we feel like, masha Allah, our
kids are devastated, our wives are devastated, our
husband are devastated,
but it's only a matter of days
before they start fighting over your inheritance and
they forget about you, right?
This
is
the
So people forget after some time. And this
is the nature,
the kind of life we live in this
world.
So on the Day of Judgment when we
are raised from the dead, you will be
lonely. Yes your father is there, your mother
is there, your kids, your wife, your brothers,
sisters,
but everyone will say,
I want to save my neck, you know,
I want to be safe. People will come
to you asking for a hazanat, you say,
no, I don't care.
You go ask your mom for hazanat, no,
I don't care. Your wife, no, I don't
care. So you
So this is why they say in the
Quran when Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala speaks about
Yahya alaihis salam, and when he speaks about
Isa,
he says because as we said, these are
the
most difficult times we have in our lives
when we're born, when we die, go to
the grave, and on the Day of Judgment
because everyone would be running from
everyone.
So they say that when Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala speaks about Yahya and Isa alaihis salam
in Surah Mariam, he says, Peace be upon
them the day they were born,
the day they would die, and the day
they would be raised from the dead. The
3 situations.
So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gives them safety
when they were born, and Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala will give them safety on the day
they were raised, and before that when they
died.