Nadim Bashir – Focus On The Hereafter

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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