Omar Suleiman -#4 The Best Deeds on Their Behalf-For Those Left Behind

			man comes to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and he says to him that my mother died
suddenly. And he said, I think lo tequila Mutt Posada got, if she were able to speak, then she would
want to give charity.
		

			So he asked the Prophet sallallahu sallam, so can I give charity on her behalf and the Prophet
slicin um, says, to give charity on her behalf. Now, the reason why I start with this narration is
because look at the point that he started from, if she could speak, what would she want me to do? If
she was able to tell me? What would she tell me to do? What she tell me to make my grave more
beautiful when she tells me you know the tombstones not the right marble? It's not the right
granite? Can you make it a little higher? Can you engrave it with this? Can you put sort of Fatiha
on it? Can you burn some incense on top of it? You know, make sure that you watch my favorite TV
		

			show for me. What would she asked you to do? What would your loved one asked you to do? They would
ask you to give charity, they would ask you to do good deeds on their behalf because that's what
they need right now. And in fact, they would be angry with you and admonish you over the money
that's wasted on things that are of no benefit to them whatsoever. Right? And how do I you see that
sometimes that there's so much that's spent on the funeral on the celebrations of life that come
after on the tombstone on the grave things that of course, do end up in the realm of the sinful
even, but at the end of the day, like come back to it, what would that person say to me if they
		

			could speak what would they want me to do? And then consider the other side of the realm. The
Prophet slicin mentions the righteous person who is in their grave, and then suddenly a visitor
comes. And this visitor is exceedingly beautiful, has a beautiful smell, has beautiful clothes. And
as this visitor comes to the grave, the visitor says up sure glad tidings Bolivia Sook with that,
which makes you pleased, and that which you were promised, and the person responds and says, that
face this face this watch what a beautiful face. And this type of face what who can wedge? Yeah, G
open height. This is a person that is definitely coming with good news. I know that if I was
		

			expecting a punishment, this is not the person that would come to me to give me bad news. This is a
person that would come to me to give me good news, and to argue because you have to be bringing good
news. Are you one of the righteous souls? Are you an angel? Who are you? And imagine how stunned the
person is May Allah make us that person. When the one responds and says that I am your I'm an Assad.
I am your good deeds. Pamela, I mean, this is a consistent trend, we're talking about the Hereafter,
that our good deeds will be personified just as our sins and just as our limbs will become people
that testify against us on the Day of Judgment, may Allah protect us from using our tongue using our
		

			limbs, our hands in ways that are displeasing to him. And the same way a person meets their psyllium
meets their fasting on the Day of Judgment meets their recitation of the quarter out on the day of
judgment as people that come to give good news. Now, anything in this life that you could have given
to that person, right, you think about the most beautiful piece of jewelry that you would have
bought the most precious gift, you would have bought the best day of your lives together, anything
that you had ever done in this life, to benefit them or to make them happier, make both of you happy
in the process that has died along with that person in the sense that they can't benefit from
		

			anymore, right. But when you do good deeds on their behalf, and those good deeds accompany them in
their grave, and those visitors come to them or that visitor comes to them, and that is the good
deed that you continued on their behalf. how pleased is that person going to be with your action? So
I want to actually break this down into five things to do for the dead when they pass away inshallah
Tada. So you can actually remember these five things, and I'll start with this Hadeeth once again,
in similar vein to the first one that we started off with a woman comes to the Messenger of Allah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and also says yes with Allah. My mother has died and she had some
		

			fasting that she had to make up some obligatory fasting that she had to make up. And the prophets
lie Selim says, Do you see that if your mother would have died in debt that you would have been
expected or you would have taken care of her debt? And the woman said, Yes, the prophet sly, some
said, then go ahead and fast on behalf of your mother. So thinking about the fasting the CM as a
part of a debt that is owed on her behalf. So you really want to think about it in terms of debts.
		

			deeds. But let's expand first the concept of debts. So we're going to go through five things. The
first one, you know, the scholars used to say glad tidings to the one who dies and their sins, die
with them, their sins die with them. You don't want to be dependent on someone else, to pay off your
debts or to go seek forgiveness on your behalf, to someone who you hurt, and you never got a chance
to apologize to. So first and foremost, you know, think about yourself that you don't want to be in
a situation where you need someone to go do that for you. But when someone passes away, think about
debts and harm in regards to other people immediately see if they have debts that they owe to people
		

			immediately. See if there are people that have been harmed by them or that feel that they were
wronged by them and go seek forgiveness on their behalf, ask them to forgive your loved one and say,
Listen, you know, death has come this was a reminder, please do forgive them, they will be a need of
that. So let it go, let's let the grudges die as well and some had a lot you know and times where
you see the increase of Riba the increase of usury and interest you see the increase of debts. And
you see the increase of spiritual diseases you see the increase of grudges and tensions and hatred
between people. So this becomes that much more urgent for us to go into seek forgiveness and pay off
		

			the debts on behalf of our loved ones in case they were there. So search for those number two our
debts to Allah subhana wa Tada. Not that debts to alarm are less important, but I'm talking about
the priority at the at the immediate Time of death is to make sure that that person is only meeting
Allah subhana wa tie with the deeds between them and Allah, not the deeds that are between them and
other people. So that's between them and a loss of habitat. This refers to obligations that they did
not get to fulfill. And so this first and foremost starts off with the obvious hedge. There are many
times people make hedge on behalf of their loved ones because their loved ones were not able to make
		

			hedge themselves because they never got the chance to Okay, so hedge after you make your own
formula, you make your own obligatory hedge, if you have the opportunity to do hedge on behalf of
that person sallyann fasting, which is in the example that was mentioned by the prophet sallallahu
it was something to that woman. This is referring to obligatory fasts that were to be made up and
the person passed away before they were able to make up their fasts. And that's why By the way, it's
important for you to let people know yourself if you have fasts, that you need to make up your close
ones, your loved one, someone. So if you pass away, they could make up those fasts on your behalf.
		

			Why not Salah why not prayer, because prayer is an obligation at all times, no matter what your
situation is, right? Hajj, could be an obligation only when you have the capability. And you just
might not meet that financial physical capability. Fasting, there are reasons for which a person
will need to make up fast. But prayer, there is no excuse to delay the prayer to miss the prayer.
Even if a person can only pray with their hands with their eyes. And if a person was unconscious,
then they're forgiven for that anyway. But so long as a person was conscious, then prayer was their
obligation. And if they did not fulfill that obligation, then you are not able to fulfill that
		

			obligation on their behalf. So that takes care of the first two things, so debts to people and debts
to Allah subhanaw taala, then come the deeds. And I'm going to categorize the deeds into three and
Charlottetown. To make it easy. The first of those categories, meaning the third of this list of
five are deeds that are an extension of the good that they inspired or taught themselves, meaning
what every time we do a good deed, guess who gets a share of that reward, Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, because without the Prophet slicin, we would not know how to pray, we would not
know how to connect to our Lord. So the prophets lie Selim gets a share of the reward every single
		

			time. You know, if someone narrated the Hadith that established that good deed, and everyone acts
upon that Hadith, then the narrator somewhere in there, you know, and we usually only mention what's
the hobby, but everyone in the chain of narrators gets the reward and the lantana for the deed that
was inspired a parent who taught their kids some sort of good, or a friend who taught their circle
of friends or taught their community, some sort of lesson or some sort of good, and the people act
upon it, even if they're not intending every single time. This is on behalf of my parents who are
taught by my grandparents who are taught by their grandparents and my friend who was taught But no,
		

			every time you act upon those deeds, and Charlottetown of that person is getting a reward of it. And
that is the mercy of Allah subhanaw taala that is far greater than the mercy that we could assign.
So be great, right, you know, especially with parents, especially with people that taught you to do
well continue to make progress to a lot and that will be considered progress for that person as well
by the lightoller. The fourth one, which is by far the largest category, are good deeds that are
specified in the Sunnah. What I mean by that is that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
that these particular deeds benefit a person after
		

			Their death. First and foremost, we already mentioned your app. Right. So starting off with his
default with seeking forgiveness, then you see sabetha. And the best type of saga is sadhaka jatiya,
a continuous charity one that continues to flow. So for example, the profit slice of them
specifically told side about all the Allahu taala and who to construct a well for his mother. And so
I didn't know about that even donated a garden for his mother. So the types of projects that are
ongoing subaqua are the best type of sadhaka but any type of charity on behalf of the deceased, but
the night out, is accepted and of course, when it comes to a righteous child is better than the do
		

			out of anyone else. Right. So there are sada sadaqa jariya being the first of them, can I do hedge
anomala even if a person has fulfilled their obligatory Hajj? Yes, you can do hedge on behalf of a
person you can do at home or on behalf of a person's palate. I once met a person in one of my own
groups who was doing Hajj on behalf of Imam and Noah we are human lazada said Subhana Allah why Imam
and no way he said because lialda slotta ain't changed my life. So he done multiple hedges and Masha
Allah, he decided to do Hajj on behalf of the amount of no so if you want to do hedge on behalf of
your loved one or on behalf of your loved ones, and even people that has benefited you, this is
		

			something that will last panda has given us to where we can keep connected knowledge that is of
benefits. Okay, knowledge that continues to benefit. So again, that's inspired knowledge and that is
purchasing something or extending a school or funding dowa funding beneficial knowledge right on
behalf of that person. The profit slice on I mentioned visiting and honoring the family and friends
of the person that has passed away. This is beautiful he did it so ally Sonoma Khadija will the
allow on her with her family and her friends, he would always send the share on her behalf. And we
also find the love Norma will the allowance Allah and Houma honoring the children of his father's
		

			friends Subhana Allah as a means of honoring his father. So these are deeds that are specified in
the Sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu wasallam, right. And they broadly fall within the category of
		

			charity and beneficial knowledge. Right? So doing one of those things or funding something within
that category. Don't pay someone to make your right that's different but funding a beneficial
project funding something and Charlottes on all of that will be an extension. The fifth category are
all good deeds that are done on their behalf. What is the ruling on a slotted slab on good deeds in
general reaching them? Meaning, can I do any good deed?
		

			like reading Koran, for example, or
		

			anything else right in terms of offering a nephila a prayer on their behalf, all of them, I would
say that you could read a Hutson Koran for example. And then the day that you make at the end of
hotmail or an for example, you could dedicate that darat to making your art for the person. But then
the difference of opinion comes to the deeds that the Prophet slicin did not specifically mentioned
whether or not there is a limit on those deeds, you'll find that a large number of scholars have
said that all good deeds based on an analogy of what the prophet slicin has mentioned all good deeds
that are of course specified legislative good deeds themselves, count as on their behalf with a
		

			proper intention. And inshallah tada that would count, but what I would say, and Allah knows best
is, for the most part, right? Stick to as much of what the prophets lie Selim has specified, and
inshallah there is no harm in doing other good deeds on their behalf May Allah spawn to accept them
all. And the second thing that I would say is avoid ritualizing those deeds, this is where it starts
to fall out of difference of opinion to dis blameworthy where a person starts to say, after three
days, we'll do this after 10 days, this 40 days, one year, we'll gather here, bringing in the food,
the parties, when we overly ritualize these things, then you you come out of difference of opinion,
		

			you go into the blameworthy, so I'm going to repeat the five things and shout out at once again,
debts to people, that's to Allah subhanho wa Taala and then deeds that are inspired by that person
or an extension of that person, and then deeds that are specified in the Sunnah. And then lastly,
all good deeds in the nighttime Allah subhanaw taala accept them all on behalf of that person that
has passed away.