Omar Suleiman – A Conversation Between Noah (AS) and the Angel of Death

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work that we do at UPN and keeping it free and accessible in the nighttime. Secondly, and Charlotte
I'll actually just start this with the with the heart era bisnode Hamden Los Altos no Montessori no
and he was IBM and while some of you might have seen that earlier I posted about the the passing of
the father of half ugly Sam Sharif Mohammed Sharif Rahim Allah to Allah whose brother had passed
away so panel lunch is 36 hours less than 48 hours before him and prior to that I'd actually written
		

			about you know, just this experience the other day of being in the cemetery and going from grave to
grave and people pointing out their loved ones and making up for them. So Pamela today you know,
just wanted to share a brief reflection
		

			quickly on on you know, something that happened today that was unbelievable and at the same time
connected to the topic for tonight but in the night on which is a saying attributed to know how to
his salon so hello today as we went to bury the father of how * Rahim Allah to Allah there
were two other Genesis that were actually there and you know one of the things that ends up
happening is that literally we shift we prey on a brother who Rahim Allah passed away due to COVID
and as name is handy, Abdullah honey or him Allah to Allah whose family is really one of the one of
the legendary families in Dallas that established the Muslim community and he passed away due to
		

			COVID Rahim Allah so ask Allah to grant him Shahada alone, I mean, and you know, seeing the the way
that the body is enclosed due to COVID was really very humbling. And so you have a bunch of people
that came to pray, or that prayed the janazah on half of the sounds father Rahim Allah to Allah
Hamad Sharif came to the burial site to bury him but while waiting for the body of
		

			Muhammad Sharif Rahim Allah to arrive, prey on the body of hum diakonia Rahim Allah tada we bury him
and then right away then after that everyone turns their attention to the next graveyard, or to the
next grade, and something that if you've ever been a part of the burials in Medina, you know, going
from one grave to the other. And we're just reflecting on how many people have been buried in recent
time. So my last penalties Have mercy on all of our deceased bones and my last contact comfort, all
of the families that have been left behind a llama I mean, a lot allow us to reflect on you know,
what's happening around us and to and to live life more meaningfully, in a way that's pleasing to
		

			Him along the way. I mean,
		

			so the, you know, the quote that I wanted to cover today, it's actually not a hadith that can be
attributed to the Prophet sallallahu wasallam. It's a narration that is no Gulf that stops at NSF in
medical the law of town Einhorn or Savannah Marina, or Himalayan one. NARRATION and it's, it's found
in Kitab azote. For him, that'd be dunya two beautiful narration about a conversation between the
angel of death and the Prophet no Holly his salon. And one of the things about the conversations or
some of these narrations is that they tend to be narrations to grant us lessons to help us reflect
and so you know, as long as they're not outright fabrications, inshallah, tada, it's good for us to
		

			benefit from them. And so this is a narration that you find in the tough seers, when you have
debates about the life of know how to use it, um, how long he lived and we know that knew how to his
Salaam was the prophet who lived the longest life is that we're alone the the the call of Noah was
950 years. That doesn't include how many years he lived before he started his down and does not
include how many years he lived after the flood. And so you'll find some of the narrations, you
know, mentioning his lifespan, you know, even on bass or pathauto, over 2000 years, or around 2000
years that he lived on this earth. alehissalaam. So you can imagine a person who lived for 2000
		

			years, right? Think about what that is, you know, for us. We're in the year 2020 right? Imagine a
person who lived approximately all 2020 of those years.
		

			Higher body of history that we have for the Gregorian calendar. Imagine a person one human being who
lived that entire lifespan on earth. And this was certainly one of the miracles of Allah upon new
Haida his Salaam. And so you know, when he's passing away how many people has new Halley's slam seen
passed away? How much has unfolded before his eyes? How many generations of people have come and
gone before the eyes of nurhaliza. And if you could imagine, that's a really, really, really long
time. You know, we see people that live over 100 years and we say so Pamela, how long their lives
where, imagine a prophet who lived for 2000 years, a man who lived for 2000 years and who saw the
		

			world unfold in front of his eyes for 2000 years. And the angel of death asks new honey his salon,
yeah, outward intervener onra Keifa widget to dunya
		

			Oh, Prophet who lived the longest of all of the prophets? How did you find this world and all of its
pleasures share a reflection on how you saw the world and all of its pleasures over the course of
your 2000 something years? This is the Angel of Death who has taken the souls of everyone else. But
this is the Prophet that lived the longest How would you describe as you're about to leave this
world, you know, what your life has been like, or how you how you experienced its pleasures. And he
said that I found it can be eaten lahab Robin, I found it to be like a home that has two doors. I
entered into the the home. And I stood in the middle of it for some for a brief moment. So I entered
		

			into this house, it has two doors, a small house with two doors, I entered into this house from one
door, I stood in the middle for a brief moment, and then I simply went out from the other door, pal,
it's a very profound way to reflect on life, that for 2000 years, this is how I would summarize my
life. It's like a small home. I entered into it from one door, I stood in the middle for a brief
pause and then I walked out of the other door.
		

			If you think about that, you know like if that is no honey, his sit down, and how Allah subhanaw
taala says that the world would seem to us on the Day of Judgment, k Yeoman around Leone, like one
day or a part of a day.
		

			And you know how we how we really reflect on the shortness of life not in a way that depresses us or
not in a way that says well, you only have one life to live. So you might as well make the most of
it not in that way. But there's something where no honey is Sarah alludes to in the statement that's
attributed to him again, it's not a Hadeeth. But this powerful narration that you know, unless you
really understand that just as you entered into this house, and you cannot recount anything that
came before it, but you certainly did not originate from nothing. Your origins are not in this
world, you did not originate here, your body has originated here, but your soul did not originate
		

			here. You existed before this, and your miraculous entry into this world with, you know, from a
place that you cannot see from around that you cannot describe in any way whatsoever. Then how are
you going to fully appreciate that you are about to transition into another realm that you cannot
see or describe except by what has been described to us through divine revelation? How are you to be
able to describe that, right? How can you really appreciate that you're about to go out of this
door, if you don't really understand that you came in through a door as well. And this is why you
know, when you see when we talk about our birth, right, none of us can recount our birth, no one of
		

			us can remember being born, no one of us can remember the moments at the hospital. We know we know
that we were miraculously brought into this world. Because now as adults, we see other people take
that miraculous journey, whether it's our own children or other people that originate from
nothingness and become full human beings. So we see other people born into this world. And because
we see other babies come into this world, we have a certainty of it. Right? But you know, other than
that, we don't recount our own coming into this world. We don't remember what life was like in our
mother's wombs. But we see other babies in their mother's womb. We don't remember the moment of
		

			birth, but we see other babies born into this world. In the same way. Death is such a mower a law,
it is such a reminder that it gives you certainty that you are burying people constantly. You're
putting people in the grave. And you know for certainty that you too will one day take this journey.
You too will one day take this journey. It is a certainty. There is no doubt that you can make no
prayer that you can make nothing that you could do to escape that moment. But some kind of Allah
Allah gives us that right that we go to the graveyards and we put people into the graves and we see
		

			See before our own two eyes, constantly, bodies that used to have souls that are now cast aside that
are now put in the earth to be consumed by the earth and the soul will go on. And just like we
cannot explain the miraculous entry of the soul, we cannot explain the miraculous exit of the soul.
But we trust Allah and His Messenger, sallAllahu wasallam, with that divine revelation to explain
that to us. And so we have certainty, we have certainty in the miraculous entry from what we see.
And we have certain certainty in the exits, from what we see. But what comes before that door that
we entered into. And that door that we exit out of, that is where our soul continues, that's where
		

			our soul continues. And that's where the pleasure of Allah subhanaw taala is the only thing that
counts and the only thing that can carry us forward. So So Pamela is just reflecting on that saying
of know how to his salon, because it was just so quick, right? you bury one person move on to the
next bury the other person. And it's just like a hospital where babies are being brought in, and
then they're being put in the ward, if you ever seen where all the babies are, you know, and people
look at their babies and you point them out. And somehow just like that people are burying and
bearing and bearing and just like they came in, they go out. And if new Holly has Salaam, having
		

			seen the equivalent of 2000 years says, life was like a small house entering into one door and
exiting out of the other door and it was just a brief pause in the middle of that house. What does
that mean for us? And how much do we reflect on how we make the most of our true existence and our
true purpose that is not confined to this house and not confined to this body that carries the soul?
So May Allah subhana wa tada Have mercy on us all on our loved ones. May Allah Subhana Allah forgive
us all for our shortcomings, may Allah subhanaw taala allow that which awaits us in the hereafter to
be better than that which is in this life? May Allah subhanaw taala allow us to enter into paradise
		

			without any form of questioning without any form of punishment without any hardship. May He allow
our eternity to be a pleasing eternity, a beautiful eternity? And may He allow it to culminate in
the presence of the prophets and the righteous and the murders in the highest level of gender for
those around our beloved sallallahu alayhi wa sallam a lot, I mean, does Aquila Hayden again in
Charlottetown I'll see you all next week for the webathon at the same time that will be streaming
live here in sha Allah. And please do sign up, sit down where you can welcome to LA he will be