Mustafa Khattab – What if You Die Now
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So today, inshallah,
in the next 15 minutes or so, we'll
try to,
answer this very encouraging question. Very crucial question
and is the most
important question in this life that nobody is
going actually to answer.
And the question is
what if you die now?
What if you die now? I'm not talking
about dying after 5 years or 3 years
or tomorrow or next month, I'm talking about
now. Why you just die now? You drop
dead now in the hookah. Okay? What will
happen?
And I'll try to be honest with you,
I'll give you clear answers,
so don't be mad at me because I'll
try to open your lies to the truth.
So what will happen to you now? Some
of us will think because sometimes we think
we're the center of the universe,
If we die everything will collapse.
Your family would be devastated.
Your husband or your wife will be miserable.
Your children will be miserable.
Your job, your work,
your organization that you work for will be
devastated and will fall apart because you are
not there anymore.
You would think stars and the moon in
the sun are gonna start falling from the
sky. This is what we think. Everything will
be missed after you leave.
But I got some bad news for you.
Nothing of this sort would happen after you
left. This is what we think. Okay?
So after you die, of course, your family
would be sad,
but life will go on. Life goes on
all the time. We said that prophets
died. When the prophet
passed away, the Sahaba were devastated. Some of
them put in tar, some of them they
didn't know what to do. You know the
stories. There's no other reason to get into
details,
but life goes on.
All the prophets died, the Sahaba died, and
they know that they are here not to
stay, they are just for a short visit,
then they will leave.
So always think of this dunya
as in you're in a bus, all of
us are in a bus coming from Toronto
and the last stop is Niagara Falls.
Some of us will get off in Mississauga,
some will get off in Oakville, some in
Beamsville, Grimsby,
So, we all know that we're in a
life
ready to get to die. The only thing
we don't know is who is next. This
is the only thing we don't know. But
sometimes people just ignore this fact, they live
just like they're not gonna die. So, if
you die, yes, of course, your family will
be devastated, they will be sad, but maybe
when they start to get your inheritance,
your money,
they will say we we wish you died
10 years ago. Who knows? A lot. Who
knows?
And the Sahaba, companions of the girl's house
and then when somebody died, his wife or
her husband get another wife or another husband.
It's not a big deal because so you
can't call them a traitor.
This is the reality of life. Okay? Life
goes on.
And you censor it in the back don't
worry too much about your husband if you
die today maybe or perhaps you will get
another wife maybe in a couple of months.
So it's not a big deal for him.
Okay? I know he will be sad, he
will be devastated, but life goes on.
Your work it's even much better for them
because when you die
a lot of them will be happy. Why?
Because they will get a better guy to
to do a better job, a better quality
job, double the job, double the work, and
you will get after the pain. So it
will be good news to them. So believe
me, don't worry. It's not gonna collapse after
you leave.
And don't worry about the stars and the
moon and the sun falling from the sky.
Nothing of that sort would happen. Okay?
Pray for Allah to make it easy for
you. That's all it is to do. So
you shouldn't worry too much about your job,
your employer, you shouldn't worry too much about
your family, your children, your wife, your husband,
about the sky, about the moon, and the
stars. Nothing of that sort would happen.
If you look
at the pictures taken from the
from outside the Earth, from the NASA scholars
and scientists, they take pictures of the Earth,
the Milky Way galaxy,
the Milky Way galaxy. The Earth looks very
tiny.
This world is worth nothing. It's not even
worth
the
the the weight of a mosquito as the
prophet says in Matthew. So we're talking about
the Earth. The earth looks like a tiny
dot
on the in the universe or in the
Milky Way. So what about you as an
individual?
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. So your life and your
death will not change anything at all in
the universe of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So
this has to be clear in your mind.
So you shouldn't worry too much about these
things. The only thing that you should worry
about is
you. Worry about yourself.
So why are we not worried?
Number 1, some of us think that before
you die, you will get a sign,
and then you will get ready. So you're
not getting ready now because the sign is
not there. So what kind of sign are
you looking for? Well, we look for a
sign like you get old,
you walk with a cane,
your teeth start falling. So these are the
signs that people usually look for. So this
happens usually when you are 80, 90, something
in that neighborhood. So this is what we
think.
There's a story mentioned in, and in Fortubin,
where the God and the Kahfir. So the
story is mentioned in a book called the
Tatkir, a reminder
by Altubin, and it's also mentioned in,
the. I'm not too sure if the story
is authentic or not because it is not
in Hadith. They just mentioned it in their
books, so we don't know. So the story
says that,
So he said, well, we have sent so
many signs already. So he said, what are
they? He said, well, when is your father?
He said he died. He said, what about
your uncle? He said he died. What about
your neighbor? Died. Your cousin? Died. So he
said isn't this enough science
that you are next?
So we should ask ourselves this question. If
everybody starts sliding around you, maybe it's your
next your it's your turn next. This is
what we should ask ourselves.
So some of the scholars say So, some
scholars say, if death skips you today to
get somebody else, maybe tomorrow he's gonna skip
somebody else to get you. So you have
to be smart, and think about it this
way. So don't look for a sign because
the signs are all there. You have enough
signs already.
And we said all people die, young people
die, men, women, it doesn't matter. The age
doesn't really matter.
Number 2, tulul alan.
People have high expectations
because they have plans for 15 20 years
in the future.
So they think
that Allah subhanahu wa'ala will not take their
soul before they finish or fulfill their expectations.
This is what they think. And the other
side comes in Hadith al Zayin Thayin. The
prophet drew
a square one in on the sand, and
he says, this is your life.
Then he drew a light in the middle
that goes outside the box. It goes like
one mile away. The prophet
says, these are your expectations,
your hopes.
Then the Lord said, these
are the causes of death. If this doesn't
take you, this one will take you. So
don't worry too much about this. The problem
is, as I said, when we have a
lot of expectations,
we think we're here to stay, and because
people around you are dying, we think, well,
I'm not gonna die. It seems like everybody
else is dying except for me.
And I gave a story a long time,
but I think they advised so much for
this situation.
They say that in 1,
in this particular story that a family, they
live in a city, in a big building,
they have a villa, a palace or something.
So they bought a haruf, a sheep, to
offer it as for money for a
So they treated the haruf, the sheep, or
the goat nicely. They allowed the sheep or
the goat to sit with them on the
table.
They give the haruf a shower all the
time. They use soap and all that stuff,
they put, you know, nice things and and
all these things.
So then they put a shirt on a
haruf, they made it feel welcome, feel at
home. So on the day of 8,
this happened like 2 3 months before Abraham
Hathah.
So much so that the harum himself started
to feel like he's a member of the
family.
So much so that on the day of
8, the harum,
this goat or sheep, saw the neighbors taking
the harum, the goats or sheep, to sacrifice
them for iluqaha.
The haruq started to tell the family, subhanAllah,
every god everyone got a haruq for a
goat, for nayeen, except us.
So he started to think that he's actually
one of the family, and he's not going
to follow the rest of the sheeps or
the goats. Okay? This is what we think.
We live in this dulia. We start to
think that we belong here. We don't belong
somewhere else, and this is the problem.
What do you need to do? We'll answer
this inshallah in
somebody tomorrow, somebody next week, who knows who
is next. We don't know. So in order
to get out of this hassle and you
have to be ready for this, number 1,
as you said a long time ago, you
have to get your will see
If you owe someone some money, then put
it in the
will
be divided among your heirs and so on
and so forth. If you put like up
to be
given Pizaree Ibad, like salah, jay and so
on and so forth. This has to be
clear and it doesn't take actually more than
10 15 minutes to put together. So when
you lie, people don't have to worry about
what you owe or what other people owe
you, what we would do in the nazar,
what are we gonna give out for stuff?
No. It's written, it is there, it is
certified Alhamdulillah.
Number 2 is the fafal. You ask Allah
to forgive
you. We make sense all the time.
Some people go and ask Allah to forgive
them because they think they don't have any
sins. Because they praise Allah for me, like
once a year. Now they think they don't
have any sins.
Or some of them think, well, I'm better
than others. Everybody else is a thief. I'm
a good man. I I don't pray, but
I have a good heart. Well, if someone
didn't have to pray or make Tawba to
Allah because they had a clean and a
pure heart, then the prophet didn't have to
pray at all. Right? But he used to
pray at night until his feet were swollen.
And the prophet would
say,
the prophet would say, oh people,
repent to Allah ask him to forgive you
because I myself. And the prophet didn't have
any sins. Rasool,
salallahu alayhi wasalam. He was infallible, has no
sins. But still the prophet says, oh people,
make Allah ask Allah to forgive you. I
personally this is what the pro says,
I make tawba, I ask Allah Subhanahu Wa'ala
to forgive me a 100 times every day.
So what about me and you? Of course,
we need to do more than this.
Number
3.
Your youth years when you are young and
healthy, before you become very old and you
cannot do things.
And take advantage of your health when you
are healthy, before you fall sick.
And take advantage when you are rich, before
you become poor.
Take advantage of your free time become before
you become busy, and take advantage of your
life before you die.
I remember one time one of the sisters
came to me, and she is like 70
years old, and she started to cry. What
happened?
Yeah, I'm trying to memorize Suva Yaseen, but
I forget all the time. By the time
I finish a verse, I move to the
next one, I forget the first one. I
memorize a pain, I move to the next
one, I forget the first one.
Well, Allahu Akbar, maybe you should have tried
to do this,
say, a year ago. Maybe,
Allahu Akbar. Plus, you don't have to memorize
Quran in that age anymore, in any,
in any way. What you need to do
is learn tasir,
try to practice. If you cannot memorize, Allah,
you don't have to do it. Play it
on the full law, and have said in
our time.
Number 4
is you do a lot of good deeds.
The prophet says,
whoever says
before they die, and they see you with
a life with it, they will go to
them. Wherever ask that they see Sabeelina, and
they die, and they go to Jannah. If
you give a charity, and you die, you
see your life with this, you'll go to
Jannah. It's very astonishing when
He said, well, I don't
pray, but, I want to die in seshuud.
I said, how, you know, how how is
this possible if you don't even pray and
you want to die prospering yourself to Allah?
It doesn't work. You're making a fool of
yourself.
You're not trying to deceive Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala. Okay?
So if you wanna finish your life in
a good way, you have a good ending
of somebody with your life, then keep doing
good things throughout and inshallah, you will see
your life as doing something good.
The last thing I wanna say,
if you wanna leave this dunya and get
ready for the next, there are 2 types
of kamu, rights, responsibilities
that you owe
somebody else. The rights of the people,
like, if you owe someone some money, you
did someone some wrong, something wrong, then their
right on you is to ask them for
forgiveness and give them back whatever you took
from them. If your parents are there, if
your family is there, you haven't talked to
them
Then you have the life of Allah Subhanahu
wa'ala. If you didn't give your zakat, think
about giving your zakat. This is the life
of Allah. If you don't pray on time,
think about praying on time. If you have
enough money, you didn't do ajji, that maybe
you stop thinking about Fulfilling the rights of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So the rights of
the people and the rights of Allah, and
we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
to forgive us all that's given us a
best interest in the best in bad on
you. And the last thing I wanna say
inshaAllah, you know, I'm gonna have
a painful illness,
then this person is a shahid. He's treated
as a shahid in Adar. In Duniya, they
are not treated as a shahid. We give
them jalazah, they pray for them, and they'll
shout them. But in the hereafter, they will
give them a word of shahid inshallah.
So much so that the prossalonians say, if
someone dies by drowning
or someone building molasses on them, or they
because they die because of a painful illness
like,
cancer, brain tumor, diabetes,
all these things. Even if a woman dies
giving birth to a child,
they are called
shayid in the Adi of the Prom Sazan.
So we ask the most kind of the
good brother, Habib, the reward of the shayid.
Amin, Amin, Meshalah, his friends
will meet on Sunday, this Sunday, at 2
o'clock in the rush to make qa'a for
him, and they're gonna start a fund for
him to do a saldah ajali on his
behalf to build a will for pure war
in a poor Muslim country. So if you
want to contribute, inshallah,
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