Mustafa Khattab – Next Life 14 Good Ending Bad Ending
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And, we have been talking about different things
related to death and the next life and
what we should do and,
Husnu Al Khattim, a
good ending of someone's life and a bad
ending of someone's life. So,
today's
episode, inshallah, will be very short and, brave,
but it will be very beneficial, inshallah, hopefully.
There was a student,
his name was Hatem Al Asam. You probably
heard the name before. He was very, very
knowledgeable.
And his teacher was Sharif ul Belkhi.
So this is his teacher, El Belkhi.
So
the teacher said one day to his student,
Hadim,
You Hadim,
you have been following me for 30 years
now. What did you learn from me?
Like,
Hadim would sit with Shafiq and learn different
things from him in fiqh and tafsir and
Quran and Adami and different things. And Hattim
will go to other shuh as well and
learn from him.
So,
You have been sitting with me, learning from
me for 30 years now. What did you
learn from me in the last, 3 decades?
30 years.
I learned only 8 things.
So I said,
I wasted my life with you 30 years
teaching you different things, and now you said
you learned only 8 things from me? What
is this? I'm
telling you the truth, the most important things
that I learned from you are 8 things.
And I think,
if someone,
Yani,
understood these 8 things
and tries to apply them to his life
or her life, inshaAllah their life will be
successful and
these 8 tips will be very beneficial to
them.
So I said, what are these 8 things
that you learned from me and you think
are very beneficial? I said, number 1, when
I looked around and I see everyone
loving something something different. So some people they
love money.
Some people they love their,
possessions or their, thrones.
Some people love food. Some people love their
children. Some people love their partner or their
wife or husband.
So, but he said, I noticed something, when
someone dies and they go to the grave,
they don't take any of these things with
them to the grave.
And no one takes their food with them,
no one takes their wife with them, no
one takes their kids with them to the
grave,
none of that goes to the grave.
Except one thing, I realized that the only
good thing that I love that I can
actually take with me to the grave is
my good deeds. This is the only thing
that will take, that I will take with
me to the grave, and this is the
only thing that would benefit me in Acha,
so I focused on this.
I know in the ancient Egyptian times and
and some other cultures they take their food
and their money and everything with them because
they believed in the next life and they
think that this is will, this will benefit
them in the next life. But this is
a totally different concept.
Tara, I think I told you the story
before of the man,
who made a deal with his wife.
They worked together, they had a business,
and, the husband and wife, they were working
all the time, hard working people, and, they
made close to a $1,000,000.
So the husband said: Okay, we'll make a
deal. Whoever dies first,
the second one, the remaining one, will take
half of the money, 500,000,
and he will put 500,000
in the grave for the other one. So
the wife said, Okay, no problem,
I swear, Khalas. Kwibasalani,
just die, no problem.
So sure enough the husband died first because
technically
women live more than men.
The life expectancy
for women
is higher than men. You know all we
do like
heart attacks, blood pressure, we die. Alhamdulillah, the
sisters live longer. This is the fact.
So the sisters said, Okay, I want to
give him the money, and I want to
keep my promise, but the thing is what
he's gonna do with the money anyway, in
Ahra? There's there's no ATM machine in Ahra,
you're not gonna use the money to buy
anything.
Right? If he goes to to Jannah, everything
is free. If he goes to Jahannah, he
can't do anything with the money. Right? So
I wanna keep all the money for myself,
but in the meantime I want to keep
my word to my husband. So what she
did basically, she wrote him a check for
500,000
and she put the check-in the grave, and
she kept all the money for herself.
She kept her word, she gave him half,
Alhamdulillah.
Everyone is happy, right?
That's good. Sisters are very smart, mashallah.
So this is the first one, he said
that the only thing that will come with
me to the grave is my good deeds,
so I loved my good deeds,
and inshaAllah I'm going to take with them
to the grave. And he said the second
thing,
He said I noticed that people always follow
their desires,
and they worship their desires. And this is
mentioned in the Qur'an.
Have you seen those who take their desires
as gods? Whatever their desires tell them, khalas
they follow their desires.
If their desires tell them, well,
drugs are halal, halas, this is this is
what I'll do. Riba is halal, halas, I'll
do that. Zabiya Khanzir is okay, no problem,
I'll do that. There's no such thing as
zabiya Khanzir, but if someone follows their desire,
challahs, they will they will do everything to
satisfy the desire.
And I mentioned before that,
when you were in Edmonton and there was
a brother, he had a store,
and he was selling, you know, pork and
he was selling beer and stuff and we
spoke with him one time and he said,
okay, I'm selling it to non Muslims, it
should be halal. And I told him in
Islam if something is haram, it doesn't matter
if you're selling it to a Muslim or
a non Muslim, it doesn't really matter. If
it's haram, it's haram.
Like say for example Zina,
with a Muslim woman is haram, but you
are telling me Zina with a non Muslim
woman is haram. It doesn't make sense. What
is haram? It's always haram, regardless if it
is done with a Muslim or a non
Muslim.
So he said, well, because I'm selling it
to a non Muslim then the money is
halal. And I said, the prophet said, in
Allah
The prophet
says, if Allah made something haram,
then the income, the money coming out of
that money is also haram.
Right? So if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala made
pork haram, then if you sell it, the
money coming out of it is also haram.
Same thing.
I'm not sure if there's any Somali here
tonight.
But the Somalis have
a very wonderful expression they use in this
regard. They say basically,
which
basically means
I don't eat dead meat,
I just drink the soup of dead meat.
It's the same thing. So pork is haram,
then the money coming out of pork or
alcohol is also haram. It's the same thing.
So people follow their desires and they love
their desires.
So when I came across this ayah in
the Quran,
And those who are afraid of standing before
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for judgment,
and they stop themselves from following their desires,
then the final end, the ultimate
reward is Jannah.
So now I know that I should not
follow my desires, I should follow Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala in this short life, and eventually
I'll go to Jannah which is the eternal
life.
Life is very short. Even if you live
200 years, this is a short period of
time compared to the life in Afar.
Number 3, he said,
I see people fighting all the time over
money,
over,
jobs, over this, over that. Then when I
looked in the Qur'an and I see this
statement from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala is reassuring us,
He said, I see people fighting over money,
houses, cars, this that. Even subhanAllah brothers and
sisters they fight and they kill each other
over inheritance, a peace of mind.
I heard stories about
guys killing their mother or their father to
buy
something,
and the parents were not willing to give
them the money, so they killed their parents.
And in some cases a person will kill
another person to inherit from them. And you
know the story of,
whatever you have will come to an end.
It will not stay forever. But whatever Allah
has for you, this is eternal, like the
reward in jannah and anzalah, this is the
best for you. We fight over a small
thing, but Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has the
real thing, He has the real reward. And
subhanAllah, when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala speaks about
duniya and Afra, and He makes a comparison.
He says,
The life of Afra is the true life.
What does that mean?
It means that this life is basically like
a cartoon movie. It's fake.
And you read in Surah
The person will bite their, fingers in regret,
in remorse, and they say, I wish I
have done something for my true life.
If this is a true life, what about
this one?
Again, it's a cartoon movie. It's not a
real life. This is just
like a test,
but the life in Akhla is a true
life.
So he said, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said
that whatever you have will come to an
end, but whatever Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has
for you is everlasting.
So he said, I focus on an agha,
and I dedicated my life to the service
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, hoping to get
the reward.
He said, number
4,
people
take pride
So he said, people always fight with each
other to find rizah, dignity, in wealth, in
positions, in,
status, in society, in families, and so on
and so forth, and they fight and they
compete with one another. And Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala is telling us the secret, the key
to a isal in the Quran. He said
in the Qur'anakumu andAllahi ad Qaq, The Most
Honorable,
dignified,
noble in the sight of Allah is the
one who has taqwa among you. So it
is taqwa that counts, not gold, not anything
else. So he said, I focused on taqwa,
and I hope that Allah will make me
honorable on the day
of judgment.
He saw when I looked at people,
and I see them envious and jealous of
one another,
they always look at each other, he has
this big car, he has this big house,
this And they are jealous of one another,
and I realized that the reason is one
thing, and Allah mentioned it in the Quran,
he said: nahnu vasamna
baynahu ma'ishatamu fil hayatid dunya Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala says I'm the one who distributed the
azaq between the people, so now there's no
jealousy in my heart because I know that
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is the one who
gave some more than others.
So it is, the distribution is from Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, not from the people.
So they are the recipients of the rizq
from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So I know
that rizq is from him, and he is
the one who did the distribution,
so I I'm not envious or jealous of
anyone.
Everyone in this world,
has friends who are enemies,
and they have a lot of enemies. Right?
So people fight with each other because, for
example, they have businesses,
and you don't want someone to steal your
business or make more money than you or
take your customers. People are always fighting.
Why?
I read in the Quran that Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala is telling us, Inna shaytan alakum
a'agoon fatahidoo a'duwah.
Aagoo aagoo a. Shaitaan is your real enemy,
so take him as your enemy. So Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala is telling us that shaitaan
is your enemy, not the people. So focus
your enmity with shaitaan. So he said, Fasamatu
ahadawati aalash shaitaan
He said,
Now I don't have enemies
from among people. I focus all my enmity
toward shaitaan, so I put my heart at
ease. I don't hate any human being. Maybe
I disagree with their actions, but I hate
shaitan, I don't hate people. Maybe I disagree,
or I hate their actions, but I don't
hate the people themselves.
I direct my adawah, my humility towards, shaitan.
He said when I look around
and I see people trying to make a
living
by halal and haram. As we mentioned in
the khutbah today, people, you know, obtain their
rizq,
from halal and from haram, and and I
I looked at the Quran and I see
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is telling us,
wamamindadati
illa Allaha Allahu wa'ah. There's not a single
living being in this world, whether we're talking
about humans or birds or fish, anything,
except that the risk is guaranteed by Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. You don't have to do
anything haram. Your risk is coming your way
regardless.
All you have to do is do your
job, then Allah
will give you the risk.
So this is why you, you need to
do. So he said, once I know that
my risk is coming from Allah, and no
one will take my risk, I put my
heart at ease.
Maybe you are familiar with the story of
'Alim Nabitari
I think I mentioned the story in one
of the Khutbas And
I used the hadith as an explanation for
the, another hadith from the Prophet SAW Alaihi
Wasallam, for the Talib ul Tawfeeb ibn Mudri
It's a beautiful hadith.
If you can,
frame it and keep it to your house.
So the Prophet
says in this,
authentic hadith, tariq wa tariq ilimundariq
He said: There is nothing that brings you
closer to Jannah except that I told you
to do. And there is nothing that brings
you closer to jahannum except I told you
to avoid.
And Jibreel alaihis salam inspired me
that no one will die without their taking
their full risk before they leave this world.
They will live the span of life that
Allah has written for them, and they will
also take their whole risk before they leave
this world. No one is taking your risk.
So the Prophet SAWH said: Be mindful of
Allah SWT
and take your risk from halal, not from
haram, because your risk is coming to your
way anyway.
But sometimes we become impatient, and we take
it in a haram way. So now the
story of Alib Nabata'li alahu.
The story says that he was traveling one
day with his servant,
and they had a horse, and on the
back of the horse,
Alisaj, and Isankar Alisaj.
So the horse had a very elaborate, a
very beautiful,
saddle on the back of the horse. Very
beautiful.
So
it seems like they missed Salatul Durr Salatul
Has, and they wanted to go inside a
masjid or something on the way to pray.
So,
there was a man
lingering outside the masjid, sitting outside the masjid,
doing nothing. I called him zombies. People who
sit outside doing
nothing. Right?
So, Ali Radhaalhan said Okay, will you keep
an please keep an eye on the horse
until we pray namaz and come back and
He said No problem. We will salaneh. Just
go and pray. No problem.
So Ali Radalan went inside with his servant.
They prayed their namaz, their salah, and on
the way out,
Ali Radalan was saying Well, I think we
should give this man $10
for his time, for keeping an eye on
our horse for 10 minutes.
The, the servant said, Well, it sounds like
a good idea.
They went outside,
the horse was there, but the saddle on
the back of the horse was gone.
It seems that the man who was sitting
outside was a shor, a thief. So what
happened? He took the saddle from the back
of the horse and ran away.
Mushkilakabira.
So Ali rata Allahumullahahu Wa Ta'ala billah, and
he sent his servant to the market. He
gave him the $10 and he said Buy
a saddle for us. Ishtaril and Asarjan.
So sure enough,
the servant went to the market and he
found the chor, the thief, you call him
Tugh in Somalia, he found the thief
standing in the market
and selling the saddle for $10.
$10
So Allah sent in the $10 in halal
way, but he was impatient and he took
the money in haram way.
Samina, the last one,
He said I see people putting their trust.
Masha'Allah. They,
are proud of something they have, and they
put their trust either in their money,
their family, their social status, their chain, BashaAllah.
So they are proud of these things, and
they put their trusts in this because they
think they will live a good life because
of this. But I realize that all of
these things will go away.
The money, the good health, the family status,
everything will go away, so I put my
trust
in someone
that never dies. So I put my trust
in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. He's the eternal.
He never dies. Fataalashafriqunwullayilakha
jamataalal makullah. His teacher said by Allah,
you,
contain what you said, all the cases that
you mentioned,
they contain or encompass all the big knowledge
of this world. If someone has this knowledge,
and they keep this mind, and they act
upon these 8 things, they will be happy
in this dunya, and they will be honorable
in the akhla. We ask Allah
to give us the best in this life,
and give us the best in the love
to come, and give us sincerity in everything
we say and do.