Mustafa Khattab – Next Life 20
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So,
today inshallah we'll complete the series
that I started a couple of times ago,
a couple of halqas
and, we said that death can come anytime.
Young people die, old people die,
rich people die, poor people die, men, women.
So,
we know for sure that we will die
someday.
The only thing we don't know is
when this day will come. Could be tonight,
could be tomorrow, after a month.
SubhanAllah,
So I've seen so many stories. And subhanAllah
it's very
astonishing
how things, yari, work. Sometimes you look at
someone, they are very young, they are very
healthy, there is nothing, they don't have a
medical history or anything.
This brother, like the brother I was talking
about from Edmonton,
22 years old, he was married, he has
2 kids,
from a good family, very healthy, I knew
him personally,
like nothing.
And if you judge if you judge him
by his looks and his health, you say
Masha Allah, this guy is gonna live another
7 years.
The next thing is they called us and
they said he passed away last night in
his sleep. He had a heart attack or
something and he died.
So on the other hand, there is this
story of a professor
of mine from Al Azza, and he said
when he graduated many years ago, and he
said that he had some medical issues,
and his doctor told him you have a
kid,
make sure you have life insurance because I
don't expect you to live a long life
because of, you know, giving your medical history.
So he said, I'm not gonna do, you
know, life insurance, Allah will take care of,
you know, my family.
So doctor Ghali told us, we visited him
one time and he said that his doctor
died in his life.
His teachers died,
many of his students died.
Doctor Larry, by the way, passed away about
2 months ago, and he was almost a
100 years old. So 75 years of his
life he lived, had some medical issues, but
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gave him a long
and a blessed life. He left a big
legacy. He left several books on Islam.
He was active in teaching at Al Azhar.
When I was there in Egypt, he was
85,
90 years old, and he used to go
and teach. And,
you never see him sitting down while he
was teaching. 85 or 90 years old he
was always standing up and teaching. Right? And,
and SubhanAllah Allah gave him a blessed life
and he actually did the translation of the
Quran.
You never know when your time will come.
And I've seen young people die, youth die,
old people die, everyone dies.
So there are 10 points,
we need to keep in your mind to
get ready for this day. Number 1, Al
Amal Takashshu.
Do whatever you can,
as long as you can. If you are
healthy, you are young, you have money, do
whatever you can, don't wait,
because
you never know what will happen tomorrow.
If
you have the money, and you are able
to go for Hajj, you should go.
Maybe the poor, the rich will become poor,
and the healthy will become sick, and the
living will die. You never know. If you
are able to do something good, don't wait.
Do it right away.
Matathakurulmaut,
remembering this day of death and standing before
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for judgment.
Kum Kar Musa'far be like a traveler, and
a traveler will take some luggage with them,
but they don't take a truckload when they
go to,
United Airlines. You know what happens? They're gonna
drag you,
through the aisle.
When
you leave this world, or actually when you
live in this world,
you have good thoughts of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. You have good thoughts that Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala will forgive you, He will accept
your dua, and He will give you a
genuine.
If you bardil, the arabka and salalbardil
mashayf,
wukal,
la. Yaani alaumna Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala hibuni.
I think Allah loves me. Baqarahashi, why do
you think Allah loves you? He said because
every time I do something haram, I do
something wrong, I make tawba. If Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala doesn't love me, He will never
guide me to do tawba. But the fact
that He guides me to do tawba, He
loves me. And in
Allah
We need to be doing tawba everyday. We
make mistakes day and night. We're human beings,
we're not prophets like Muhammad
Okay? And Nabi
So the Prophet
who didn't commit any sins, kalamasumr,
infallible of sin,
And still he would say, people make tawba
to Allah. I pin to Allah. I make
tawba to Allah. I ask for his forgiveness
a 100 times every day. He had no
sins. So what about us? We make mistakes
day and night, knowingly
and unknowingly,
intentionally and unintentionally.
So every night before you go to bed,
make tawbah,
and before you sleep. You never know if
you're gonna make it till morning or noon.
Right? So before you go to bed,
Yaani,
think about what you have done throughout the
day. If you were doing the right thing,
the wrong thing, if you did something wrong,
make a pledge that tomorrow inshaAllah you're going
to fix it. If you violated the rights
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, ask for His
forgiveness before you sleep, you never know, this
may might be your last day.
Sometimes it's a good thing.
So I always recommend,
if you feel that your heart is hardened,
and you feel like you're being distracted
from the right way, there are 3 places
that I always advise people to visit.
Visit the sick in the hospital.
If someone is sick, go and visit them.
This will lie will help you appreciate
the nammo of health. Sometimes we take it
for granted, and you never think about, Yali,
how,
Yali, important,
how precious the nema of Sahar is this
health.
There are some people, a lot of people
are suffering in this world.
Some people go for dialysis. I've seen a
brother who goes for dialysis 3, 4 times
a week.
They take all the blood out, and they
put more blood and injections everywhere, and he
was hooked up to tubes from, you know,
head to toe. Malayat is very difficult, and
it's very painful.
And some people have kidney stones, some people
have die, you know, die you know, they
are diabetic, and some people have tumors, and
some people have cancer.
Yali always say Alhamdulillah. Make such that to
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala that He has given
you a good health. With Amrithari,
when you see a janazah,
pay a janazah also if you got the
time, go to the graveyard
to see when they buried the person in
the dirt,
and this person didn't take anything with them.
Although they lived many years,
they traveled a lot, they made 1,000 of
dollars. Eventually, they didn't take anything with them.
They left everything behind. So these 3, inshaAllah,
will serve as a constant reminder of the,
nahbah that we have in this world, and
that Zinda gay Bahar Muftasahi. This life is
very short, and one day InshaAllah, we'll be
leading.
The Prophet
says visit the graves
because
they fill your eyes with tears, and they
soften your hearts, and they remind you of
akhir. When you go there, and you see
the graves, and and everything.
And and whether you go for janazah, or
you go after the burial
to maybe make dua and so on and
so forth. When the
Prophet
visited the people of Uhud before he passed
away, and he made dua for them.
So some people think it is not permissible
for women to get to to go to
the graveyard
and for follow the funeral,
and they sign a weak hadith. It's actually
a fabricated hadith. The prophet in this hadith,
he said to, Faltib al radiAllahu anha, don't
follow the janazah because those who follow women
who follow the janazah are cursed, but the
hadith is weak, fabricated. It is not authentic.
So if someone dies, and say for example,
his mother, or his sister, or his wife,
they want to go to the graveyard. What's
wrong with that? But the most important thing,
they shouldn't men go with the men. Lein
Mohammed al Jarazah would definitely have a amal
al mijal. This is yari carrying the body
and burying the body. This is the job
of the men. So women should, mashallah, they
are gentle, they have soft hearts. Sometimes they
will not be able to carry this burden.
They should
kindly
and respectfully sit in the back, and once
the burial is done, they can come forward
and make dua, and so on and so
forth.
And, Tala, I'm visiting the grave anytime for
the sisters. It's okay as long as, mashaAllah,
they are decent, and they don't make a
sayin, and so on and so forth.
There was a Jerazah in and, I was
busy. I couldn't make it to the graveyard
for the burial.
But, this janaza came,
and, you know, 3, 4 people came with
the janaza,
and
and something was not right, Yani. They yeah.
His mother was kicking kissing him okay. No
problem. He was a young guy in his
twenties or something. No problem.
But they were taking videos
of the guy in his casket,
and
someone of them was taking a selfie with
the guy.
What's wrong with these people? So I couldn't
make it. I was busy. I couldn't get
to the graveyard.
And, the brother who went there, not so
many people showed up for the, you know,
for the burial because not so many people
in the community knew the guy.
And Khaz, they carried him, and they went.
So his mother wanted to carry the body,
and his sister wanted to carry the body,
and his friend okay.
And they were walking, and his mother fell
on the floor, and his sister jumped in
the grave, and it was like a disaster.
It was like one of those Van Damme
Hollywood movies. Right? It was a disaster. Right?
So this is not the job of the
sisters. Yeah. The sisters are are gentle, Mashallah.
They have good hearts.
We ask them gently to sit in the
back respectfully,
and once the burial is done, Khalas, they
can come forward. Another occasion
Yeah. They couldn't have hear him on tell
you.
So this young girl died. I don't know
if he died. I don't know, Allah. I
don't know the reason. He was young.
I don't know.
We went for his burial.
His family came, and his sister was standing
by the grave.
I told her, Would you please go a
little bit to the back? You know, some
people are here, and
And the most important thing now is to
meet Dua for him, you know? And please
don't raise your voice. She started to cuss
again, f you and this and everyone here,
and
What can I say? I I couldn't say
anything. Right?
Yani, I could have asked someone to remove
her, Yani, take her away, or and and
the guy who used to go to public
schools, and so many of his non Muslim
friends were there. I didn't want to make
a scene. And I left, and of course,
I was hurt, but what can I do?
The Prophet passed by the graves, and he
found this woman. There was a yani, a
new janaza. They buried someone, and his wife
was there, and she was crying, and she
was making a scene, and screaming, and So
the Prophet
passed by, and he said, have sabr,
you know, may Allah reward you.
Faqala, get away from me! She screamed at
the Prophet She didn't know him. She's get
away from me!
You have not been affected,
by what affected me. Yani
This is not the janazah of a relative
of yours. This is my janazah. This is
my pain. Get away from me.
Falaf and Avi Usasan. He left, and he
didn't say anything. Like, he didn't say how
dare you don't know you, who I am,
and all these things. So he left.
Falam Nawa left.
So after he left, someone said, is this
how you treat the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam?
So she I didn't know. She started to
run after the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
and apologized.
Fatal al Nabi
Sabr and the Sabrati'ulullah.
The real Sabr is when the calamity strikes.
This is what shows if someone is truly
patient or not. Right?
So I go in the point is, yes,
we can go to the graves to remember
the dead,
and make Duaa for the deceased,
and and remember them. And we keep in
our minds that one day, inshaAllah, we would
be in
their place,
and we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. We'll
continue next time, inshaAllah. We ask Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala to give us the best in
this life and the best in the life
to come.