Nadim Bashir – Focus On The Hereafter
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The speakers discuss the importance of study in understanding past events and the need for people to stay in the dams for longer periods of time. The duniya and d aidons in the dams are discussed, with the duniya being how long people will live in the d ring and the dams being a deathbed with thousands of years of work. The speakers emphasize the need for everyone to do what they want to do according to the Prophet sallahu and the importance of staying in the dams and not letting the fire run out.
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Recently I was actually giving a youth halacha and I came across a
very interesting story that I would like to share with all of
you. This is a story regarding Imam Chabi Muhammad Allah Allah
Imam Shibli Muhammad Allah Allah in fact, any Imam simply up until
it was a great scholar of the past. Imam Shibley Rahmatullah
Allah he says that, throughout my journey of knowledge, I had nearly
300 teachers. Now when a person says I have 300 teachers, that
means that they traveled a great length, and a great deal to me all
these teachers, because if you study the history of the past, you
did not have scholars living together, you have scholars who
are living in scattered areas. So you would have to travel sometimes
for days or weeks, just to meet one teacher, and that every you
might find two or three, but then you have to travel more, to meet
300 teachers and to study from 300 teachers, first of all, shows us
their great deal of dedication. Then he on top of that, he says
that while I studied with 300 teachers, I learned 4000, a hadith
of Rasulullah, sallallahu alayhi wa Salaam. Now 4000. A hadith of
course, is a very significant amount of number. And then on top
of that, he says that after reflecting on all the 4000, a
hadith of Rasulullah, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, there was one
Hadith in particular, only one Hadith in particular, that
resonated with me the most. And he says that when I reflect on this,
one Hadith of the Prophet SAW Selim, I realize that this one
Hadith is the means for my salvation, my safety and security
in this dunya. And in the Koran. Additionally, he said that he
believes and this is what his comment was regarding this hadith
is that this is the URL of a welline. Well, hidden, meaning
that this is the knowledge of those pious predecessors and the
sahaba. And the problem salam from from the past, all the way to the
future. He says this one Hadith sort of encompasses everything
that we know and what we need to abide by and what we need to live
by. Now you may be asking, what is that one Hadith of the prophets of
Salaam? If he this great scholar out of 4000, a hadith he chose one
Hadith. What is that one Hadith? That hadith is a Hadith the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam were in he says, I didn't
use Salam. He first I didn't use salaam he compared to dunya to the
akhira. He tries to provide us some perspective. He says, I used
Salam. It Amelie. duniya cabbie, tada de mocambique, Rafi ha. And
he says, While Amelie Hiratsuka Bacardi Bacall ecoffee Ha. Look at
his words very carefully. When he talks about duniya. He said MACOM.
Why MACOM? Because we're not going to be in this dunya for long. But
when he talks about the akhira he says Bacall you see, the Bekaa
means how long we're going to last over there. So he's saying that
when you live in this dunya, live in this dunya and work for this
dunya as long as you plan to live in this dunya. But when you are
going to the market or prepare for the akhira as long as you're
planning to stay there in the alcohol. Let me give you an
example. Imagine if I'm going from here to overseas with my family,
we're going for you know, probably like a month. If you ask anyone,
if I'm making preparations, if I'm going for one month, I should make
preparations for a week or for a month you told me for a month, of
course, because I know I'm going to be there for a month and you
make preparations accordingly. What we're doing nowadays is we
might be living in this dunya. First of all, we don't know how
long we're going to live in this dunya as a province, as some says
it might be 6070 years as a primarily some, he says I'm an
almighty being a citizen with submarine. This is a lifespan of
my OMA and it could be shorter than that, too. We have seen
people in our own community 20 years old, 26 years old, and so
forth to there is no guarantee of life. So what he's saying is that
worked for this dunya as long as we intend to live in this dunya we
might be living in this dunya for probably 40 5060 years. But if you
look at our attitude, if we reflect on our attitude, when it
comes to money when it comes to real estate and so forth, and how
much we're trying to just, you know, Hoard and we're trying to
just, you know, gather and collected so much is as if we
probably might we we might be having this plan to live in this
dunya for 200 300 years. That's the way our attitude is regarding
this dunya but rather, it should be the complete opposite. We need
to work for this dunya as long as we're planning to stay in this
dunya but we need to work for the akhira as long as we're trying to
stay there, that life is the eternal life.
We need to work according to that. So what we are doing is in one
way, we are working for this dunya overly more than we are planning
to stay here in this dunya. And what we are sending forward to the
to the akhira, which is the eternal life, we're sending very,
very little. Now another way also to reflect on dunya and akhira.
This is something we will find in the entire Quran. Whenever you
want to know the value of anything, you have to compare it
if I hold in my hand $1 And on the other hand, if I have $100, I have
two different amount of money, it shows you the value of something
right one is raised less than of course, the 100 Even if I had 100
in one hand, but I have 10,000 in my other hand, then you know that
the 100 is insignificant, because in order to understand anything
once again, you have to compare, okay you have to compare in order
to understand the value for anything, when we compare brothers
and sisters duniya to akhira. Allah makes it very clear in the
Quran to help us understand our focus needs to be the Quran. We
work in this dunya you think about the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, how he lived, he was the Nabhi of all the newbies. He was
Nabil Ambia. Look at how look at how he lived his entire house. His
entire house think about his entire house was probably the size
of our walk in closets. In fact, it is fair to say that in some of
our new constructed homes, our our walk in closets were probably
bigger than the entire house of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
wasallam for Think about that for a moment. This is how he lived.
Now I'm not saying that if it's haram to have money. Yes, it's
okay to have money. It's okay to be a millionaire. It's okay to be
a billionaire, but not at the expense of our hero. This is the
key thing, not the expense of our hero. And we have to always keep
in mind that our hero is the one that's everlasting. So when we
talk about this dunya dunya is temporary, the akhira is eternal
in this dunya there is no justice in the akhira there is only
justice. When we talk about this dunya Maher in the commune foot
whatever we have, it will come to an end. But whatever Allah
subhanho wa Taala has met in the commune foot warmer in the law he
bow up wherever Allah has its there in this dunya people they
take advantage of others on the app in the ACULA no one could take
advantage of anyone else in this dunya and you want to say whatever
they want to say and the Akela la Yetta color Munna, Illman Edina
Allahu Rahman. No one can speak. No one can do anything without the
permission of Allah subhanho wa taala. In this dunya people will
back each other up, we see what this country is doing and backing
up countries like Israel and countries you know, these
apartheid countries and let them commit atrocities against our
Muslim Brothers Sisters. There are people who do this kind of stuff
and the akhirah there is no Shiva. There is no one who can back up
anyone Malik Amin, Allah He minhwa Legion wala Anna said there is no
one who can back up anyone else. This is the difference between
dunya and akhira. There is a vast difference. So that is why when we
look at this dunya, this dunya is zero compared to the Akela. Even
if this entire dunya lasted for 2 million years, for example, 2
million years is a significant amount of time. But if you compare
2 million years of this dunya to the akhirah, which is eternal,
this dunya is still equal to what? Zero and that is why Subhan Allah
just to help us understand, new Allah Who Salam he lived for over
1000 years. 950 years was only his time he gave Dawa. But someone
asked him at the end of his life when he was on his deathbed. You
live for over 1000 years. How did you find your life? He says that
is almost as if I found it as a house with jet to had the rain jet
to her Darrin the who by bein there it has two doors that I
entered through one door and I exited through the second door
Simple as that this is how his entire life of over 1000 years
was. Now you think about our life for a moment here. So this is why
the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam is telling us when you need to
live in this dunya no problem, but work as long as you're planning to
live here. And when we need to go to Accra we work enough that we
have to go to the Sahara. Then the third thing the Prophet SAW Allah
while he was on he says what a man Lilla he because that he hired
Attica la Subhan Allah that do enough for Allah subhanho wa Taala
as much as you need him. Now we need Allah subhanho wa Taala at
all times in our life. That's why there's a dua
Other provinces Salem yeah hi ru Yatta yo, Bureau Hermetica istalif
Yeah hi ru aka Yom Yom Allah I seek your help as seeker
assistance. And then what do you say? A slightly SHINee cola? Yeah
Allah take care of all my affairs. Well I had to kidney Ilana FSI
total Fatah ain yeah Allah do not take your your mercy your
supervision away from me or your your care for me for now even for
a second. I want you to manage my I want you to look after me 24/7
year Allah. This is how much we need ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. So the
prerelease I was telling us this is something for us to think about
that do enough for Allah as much as you need him. What do we need
Allah 24/7 that I need to be serving Allah 24/7 Now how do we
serve Allah 24/7 It doesn't mean that we cannot sleep it doesn't
mean that we cannot eat, but everything that we do, we do it
according to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam if I'm
sleeping according to the Sunnah of the Prophet salaam, it becomes
really bad if I'm going to the restroom and I'm doing it the
Sunnah way, it becomes very bad. So that is why every single moment
in our life could be very bad to Allah subhanho wa taala. And then
the last thing the province has some he said is and look at this
statement properly. So he says what am I Linetti be further is
Saba rica Allah
that do enough? Now the literal translation is that do enough for
the fire of jahannam. As much as you have the patience to be in the
fire, John now, think about that for a moment. What the property is
telling us is whenever we commit a sin,
ask ourselves do we have the patience to endure the fire?
Johanna? I'm gonna photography Allah one. It is mentioned about
him that whenever he would go home at night, and he would take some
time out for Maha Sabha, he would always lit a candle. And he would
always put his finger near the candle. And he was all he would
always ask himself, you have a club, he referred to himself and
he would ask himself, do you have the patience to endure this, he
will just touch the fire a little. And this fire of this dunya is
nothing compared to the fire that akhira and this is why Allah
subhanaw taala reminds us over and over again. When it's a habit of
the Allah Allah on whom we're on the way to taboo. And they were
saying it's too hot, it's too hot. And they had to let go of
everything and just go into taboo, what Allah subhanho wa Taala say
that will now do Johanna a Shahara, you think this is hot,
the heat of Jahannam is far intense, as far as severe than
this heat that you are enduring. When we go outside. And this Texas
heat, we think this is a lot. This is nothing compared to the fire of
the era. So the problem is or someone's telling us that in one
way, whenever we're about to commit a sin, we're about to do
something that is wrong. Ask ourselves put yourself if you were
to just even be close to your fire your gas lighter, I mean your your
your gas stove, and you just sit there and you turn on and you put
your hand right over it. Right before we commit a sin if you were
to simply do that any one of us and ask ourselves, do I have the
patience to endure this than hellos? Go ahead and do it. But if
we don't have the patience to do it, then we stay completely away
from it. So this is the Hadith of the Prophet a set of four things
he mentioned. He talked about dunya he talked about the Ophira
he talked about Allah subhanho wa Taala he talked about the fire
Jahannam even I'm surely laughing with Allah Allah he says out of
4000 Hadith that I've memorized and I learned this hadith is the
most important Hadith to me. And so this is a Hadith that I will
always all all of us to always think about inshallah always
reflect upon what is doing, what is the Africa where do we need to
go? What our focus should be, and what are we seeking protection
from I ask Allah subhana wa Tada to give all of us itovi To think
about this hadith to reflect upon this hadith and to live by this
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