Omar Suleiman – Is The End Near
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The speaker discusses the confusion surrounding the signs of the day of judgment in the Quran and the immunity of individuals from the fitan. They emphasize the importance of being prepared for the end of times, the spread of hipster-obsessed Islam, and the need to be cautious of the potential disaster. The importance of faith and belief in the spiritual world is emphasized, and the importance of trusting our bodies and not letting fear control our actions. The speaker also emphasizes the need to be mindful of our emotions and actions, and to focus on nurturing our faith and not allowing fear to control our actions.
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There's this Ayah of the Quran where Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says
Allah
mentions to us in Surat Taha
that verily the hour is coming and it
is as if I have hidden it.
And
the scholars say there's, subhanAllah, no more powerful
way that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala could speak
about
how hidden the day of judgment is. He
has hidden it from,
from the closest angels to him and from
Khayrul Mursaneem, from the best of the messengers
of Allah. None of them
know
any idea
when the day of judgment actually is or
when the end of this world actually is.
All of them
are just as in the dark about when
the day of judgment is as we are.
The entire creation of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
It is hidden from everyone but Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
And everyone will be repaid
exactly as Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has decreed
once that time comes. But it is so
hidden
yet so imminent
at the same time.
And one of the questions
that comes up as you read the Quran
from cover to cover, and I want you
to pay attention to it, you'll notice that
the signs of the day of judgment are
not spoken about much in the Quran, even
though there tends to be an obsession over
the signs of the day of judgment amongst
the Muslims.
The signs of the day of judgment as
you go from cover to cover,
The minor ones and the major
ones are not spoken about directly much at
all.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala utilizes a tanbih. Has
a scholar say he indicates
many of the major signs of day of
judgment without a without
explicitly speaking about them.
Now, you could look to that and you
could say, why does Allah not speak about
it this way? Why does Allah speak about
it that way? And that is poor adab
with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. We don't have
that type of mannerism with Allah because Allah
is not asked. Allah asks.
But we can say from the wisdoms
of that
is that if a person
was to pay attention
to the lessons of the past,
and if a person
was to heed the lessons
from the present around them, and if a
person was to embody
the acts of worship that Allah, Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala, tells us to embody.
That everything that is to come would not
catch us by surprise, because we would have
already prepared ourselves for both the seen and
the unseen to come.
That if a person was to understand
Allah's power
and if a person was to be amongst
those,
those who believe in the unseen. They don't
need the hows.
They don't need the ones.
They just know that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
has created.
Then whatever is to come would not catch
them by surprise because they would have already
embodied
and developed the immunity
that is necessary
to deal with those things as they unfold,
and that is just one of the wisdoms.
The scholars mentioned many of them. They say,
subhanAllah, Ad Dajal.
The prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said that there
is no fitna
from the time that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala
created Adam ae s salam until the end
of the world greater than al Masih Ad
Dajjal. And some of the scholars said it
is takir. It is a form of belittling
him that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala does not
even make mention of him in the Quran.
And even though every single prophet has warned
about him,
every single prophet as the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam said.
If a person has iman, if a person
has belief and nurtures that sense of belief,
then that is the immunity
from the fitan.
The greater ones and the smaller ones, no
matter what they are. And to us, what
Allah has said and what the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam say, all of it comes from
a divine place and we accept it as
human beings,
and we merely prepare ourselves.
Some of the scholars say that of the
wisdoms, as we have just read cover to
cover,
and you don't find so much elaboration
on the signs of the day of judgment
within that, of the wisdoms,
is that when the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
was sent to this earth,
that that urgency
of the day of judgment being around the
corner should have already been there without any
of the commentary, without any of the other
things that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam indeed
warned us about, of the natural disasters and
of the corruption to come, because the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam said,
that I and the hour were sent like
these 2 fingers.
Meaning, the scholars say the closeness
of them to come, the Prophet
sending, and then the final hour, meaning this
is the final call to mankind through the
Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam. And also
that if you took the history of the
world,
the history of Allah's creation on this earth,
and you compare the time that has passed
before the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam to the time that is
left of humanity,
it is like the time between
the tip of the middle finger and the
tip of the index finger.
So there is already an urgency with the
sending of the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam
towards the end of time without any of
the other things that are happening, without the
wars, without the qatil, without the the killing,
and the murder, and the haraj, and the
lying and the deceit and the treachery and
the slander and the this and the that,
without all of those things, and before the
beast is to come out, and before the
Mahdi is to come, and before Adjal, and
before Isa alaihi salaam.
That when Allah sent the best of his
prophets with the final revelation,
that is enough
to wake up a human being and to
think there isn't that much time left, and
so I will already approach the world with
a great sense of urgency,
and say to myself,
there isn't that much time left.
Now, the next part of that, dear brothers
and sisters, and and this is something I
really want to allude to, because I want
us to understand this for a moment. You
know, subhanAllah, in this last week, suddenly,
the discussions about World War 3 are out
there. And I'm not gonna give you a
political analysis on what's going on.
I'm just going to point out one simple
factor.
If you lived in Gaza right now,
the end of times is already here. World
War 3 has already happened to you.
If you live in Khartoum right now, in
Sudan, World War 3 is already happening to
you. If you live in Congo, World War
3 is already happening to you. If you
live in Idlib, World War 3 is already
happening to you.
If you live in a significant portion of
the Ummah today,
where the Muslim world spans,
and where disaster is becoming abound,
and what you see when you walk out
of your tent or what resembles your home,
and what you feel when you go back
is nothing but chaos and instability,
then the discussions about what might transpire in
the rest of the world are completely irrelevant
to you. And that's why it needs to
be that much more relevant to us.
If as believers the ummah is like 1
body,
and we are supposed to be feeling the
pain of the ummah,
then it is already a state of emergency
even before World War 3 arrives at our
doorstep.
Before we start to feel the possibility of
us being expelled from our homes or something
difficult coming upon us like what's coming upon
our brothers and sisters. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is actually putting our sincerity to test.
If you don't already feel it, then that's
actually a bigger problem than whether or not
it materializes to the worst of your expectations.
And so when they start talking about the
wider region,
and they start talking about the rest of
the world, and you start to see Gaza,
though the genocide has not slowed down at
all, start to disappear from the headlines,
know that this is part of the game
that's being played all around.
That for them,
it looks just as bad
today as it did yesterday.
And you have to ask yourself why it
didn't feel as bad for you today as
it did yesterday,
until there's a sense of fear
of imminence, of destruction and disaster that comes
into our own lives.
It's a way that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
puts our sincerity
to test. And one of the reasons why
fitan,
why tribulation
spread
is because they go unchecked, and that is
true for the fitan of corruption
and for the fitan
of spiritual
decadence, and and people that go astray from
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and introduce all sorts
of other forms of munka. When they go
unchecked, they spread.
And this is just one form of that,
that when a person starts to think about
is the end of times near? And you
know, I'm starting to read these ahadith. Keep
in mind dear brothers and sisters, there's not
a generation of Muslims that has ever been
on the face of the earth, except that
they thought that Yomul Qiyamah would appear in
their lifetime.
From the time of the prophet until now,
every single generation of Muslims looked at the
ahadith of the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wasallam, and
said, this looks like it's here. This looks
like it's here. This looks like it's here.
It's only a matter of time, and that's
actually the point.
That a person
should not obsess
over the signs
as much as they seek to prepare themselves
for that moment.
And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says,
speaking to this natural mindset,
that when fit and are abound, when the
different types of tribulations are abound, whether it's
the killing or whether it is the corruption,
whether it is facade or fasha,
whether it is the corruption of suffering or
whether it is the corruption
of challenging Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
and challenging the laws and the rules of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. The prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam
He said, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam that verily
the happy person is the one who avoids
these fitan. The happy person is the one
who avoids these fitan. The happy person is
the one who avoids these fitan. What does
this mean? The scholars say that there are
categories here.
There are the fitan of Elisan and the
fitan of a syuf. There are the tribulations
of the tongue and the tribulations of the
swords.
A happy person is the one who spares
themself
from entering into
these states of tribulation
and entering into these zones where their iman
is going to be tested on purpose.
A happy person is the one
who spares themselves
from the drama, who spares themselves from the
headaches, who spares themselves from the heartaches, who
spares themselves
from a dangerous situation, either to their dunya
w self, to their worldly self, or to
their dhini self, or to their religious self.
A happy person is the one who spares
themselves as much as possible and who Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala spares. Indeed, there is happiness
that is not
and the curse of Allah is upon the
one who causes fitna
even if they think that they're doing good.
The curse of Allah is on the one
who brings fitna upon people even if they
think that they're doing good, and goodness is
for the person who avoids fitna as much
as they possibly can.
This is a rule from the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
But listen to what he says at the
end of this, alayhi salatu wa sallam.
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said after saying, the
happy person is the one who avoids a
fitan.
As for the one who is tested
and is patient,
then what an excellent person that is.
Meaning what?
You know, subhanAllah, you think about these people
in the world
that have these fitan that are brought upon
them,
and we look at it and we say,
what did they do to deserve this?
What did they do to bring this on
to themselves?
And the answer is that that entire question
is wrong.
The Prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam flips it,
and he says
that goodness for the one who avoids it,
but for the one who has it visited
upon them
and who is patient.
What an excellent person that is. Fawahan
is,
in the Arabic language, it's the prophet
expressing amazement about the person or amazement about
the award that will come to them, the
reward that will come to them as a
result of their patience with Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
No one asks
to be put in these difficult situations.
We all seek places of safety. We all
seek places of spiritual safety, hopefully. How many
of you moved here so that you could
come to a place where you'd have an
Islamic environment? How many people look around the
world today and say, how do I get
to this place and how do I get
to that place? How do I protect myself
from this? How do I protect myself from
that? The different type of fitan, the physical
ones and the spiritual ones that get visited
upon us, and we feel this looming sense
of the day of judgment coming near.
But the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is
saying despite all of that, for the one
who ends up having it visited upon them
and that is patient, what an amazing and
excellent person that is, and what a fine
reward Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has prepared for
that person. The last thing I'll mention here,
dear brothers and sisters,
because the prophet gave us a mindset. And
again, if you're reading the Quran, especially coming
out of Ramadan, I hope that everyone has
started their next recitation of the Quran. If
you're reading through the Quran, you don't have
this type of mindset that we find prevalent
amongst the Muslims. The messenger of Allah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam
flipped
the paranoia about the day of judgment with
the urgency of death
in two ways.
One of them is the hadith of Anas
ibn Malik radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. He says that,
once upon a time, there was a man
who came to the prophet SallAllahu Anhu and
kept saying, When is the hour? When is
the hour? When is the
hour?
And the prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam looked around,
and Anas salallahu anhu said he saw a
young boy from Banu Shanua,
from, the land of Shanua,
And he pointed to that boy, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. And he said, alayhi salatu as
salam,
if this young boy lives long enough,
that that young boy would not find old
age until you have found your day of
judgment regardless.
Meaning what?
Whether or not you see death and destruction
in the world around you, you will find
death regardless.
And that is as unpredictable
to you as anything else. You can't predict
death.
You can have all the analysts in your
life that you want, but you're not going
to be able to anticipate when Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala tests you with that. And the
Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam is saying, instead
of sitting there and reading the world and
reading when the end of times is to
the point that you start to make your
calculations in your head.
Make your calculations about death
and about what you have prepared for that
meeting with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
because your day of judgment is in that
grave regardless,
And what you will face there
is no less severe than what you will
face here, and that's why he said, sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam,
That you will be tested in your grave
with something similar to the test of Ad
Dja.
That the test in your grave, the questioning
in your grave, the difficulty of being able
to answer those questions.
The faith that's required,
and this is what I want you to
think about deeply. The faith that's required
for you to be able to pass through
the elements of your grave when you're entered
into that grave, and it squeezes you, and
the and and the hardship of the angels
coming to you, and the difficulty of that
moment, and still being able to process
Allah, Muhammad salallahu alaihi wasallam, Al Islam, when
all of that is happening around you, it's
just like the faith that is necessary for
you if you encounter Al Masih Ad Dajjal
in your life and still being able to
see through his tricks and say, Allah Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam dhinil Islam.
It's the same type of mindset. It's the
same type of faith. So whether you're facing
a Dajjal here and the elements of a
Dajjal here, or you're facing death and the
elements in the grave there,
focus on nurturing that faith in your heart,
and focus on sparing yourself from the fitna,
and beware of being a person who causes
fitna.
And that's why the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam mentioned to us that when that time
comes, even if Al Haraj, even if the
killing goes about,
and even if all of the laws of
nature and morality are gone,
and the people start to wrong one another,
and everyone is wronging the other person, be
the one who is Mavlum, do not be
the one who is Dala. Be the one
who is wronged, don't be the one who
is wronging. Be the one who is Maktul,
be the one who is killed, don't be
the one that's killing.
If everyone else in the world is killing
innocent people, then I want to be from
the innocent people being killed. I don't wanna
be a murderer.
If everyone else in the world has normalized
dulm, normalized depression and aggression, then I want
to be amongst those who is wronged and
then has my reward in the hereafter, then
be the one who risks potentially throwing himself
into hellfire for wronging someone else.
Dear brothers and sisters, we need to escape
the mindset.
Stop thinking so much about what's gonna happen
then.
Think about what could happen to us today,
what could happen to us tomorrow.
SubhanAllah,
every single morning,
every single morning the phone calls come. Every
single morning, we get the messages about someone
that died unexpectedly.
A car accident this morning, a young man,
may Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala make it easy
for him and his family,
elderly people, but the diagnosis was spurred. It
got quicker. They were first given a year,
and now they're given 3 months. May Allah
give them all Shifa. May Allah make it
easy for their families. Let's prepare ourselves for
that.
And let's think about the people that are
already living the doomsday of this world that
we fear would spread around the world, around
us. Activate ourselves towards that. Our brothers and
sisters in Gaza,
and in Sudan,
and our Oyghur brothers and sisters, wherever they
are, they're living that nightmare that everyone fears
that will spread to the world around them.
May Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, allow us to
be that ummah of 1 body and nurture
in our hearts that faith that is necessary
to face the trials of Ad Dajjal and
to face the trials of the grave. May
Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, protect us from being
deluded by ourselves or be being deluded by
the Shaifaan or being deluded by our circumstances
or being deluded by our power or being
deluded by our sense of security. May
Allah forgive us for our shortcomings.