Omar Suleiman – Why Me #28 What Will The Day Of My Death Be Like
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The speaker discusses various signs of a father's death, including signs of a good ending, a premonition of death, a dream of death, and a belief that life is about to end. They also mention a god's use of his son to create a light and encourage others to give charity. The speaker emphasizes the importance of giving charity and leaving the state of peace. Later, a woman describes the feeling of death and desire to return to the present world, as well as the sister's experience of feeling death and desire to return to the future. The speaker concludes that death is a sign of a father's exit from his realm and provides comfort in grieving past experiences.
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The day of your death was written by
an angel before you were born,
And when that day arrives
the angel of death will appear before you.
While the hands of your family that received
you into this world were completely out of
your control,
The hands that receive you at death
are entirely based on your deeds.
The day of your death is a day
in which you'll feel like you're caught between
2 realms.
Do you have some sort of a feeling
as a believer that life is about to
come to an end? Some people do get
a premonition of their death. In fact, if
you look through our tradition, you find multiple
dreams of righteous people right before they passed
away. None so more beautiful than the dream
of Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
who goes to sleep with the intention to
fast
and sees the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and
Abu Bakr and Umar, may Allah be pleased
with them in his dream.
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam comforts Uthman
radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu and tells him, you will
break your fast with us tomorrow, O Uthman.
You also have the dream of Abdullah ibn
Haram, the father of Jabir, may Allah be
pleased with them both. And Abdullah ibn Haram
wakes up on the day of Uhud
and he says to Jabir,
Oh Jabir,
I have a feeling like I'm going to
die today.
And in fact, I feel like I'm going
to be the first one that's going to
be killed in Uhud.
And indeed SubhanAllah,
Abdullah ibn Haram was the 1st shahid of
the battle of Uhud.
Something very recently,
the people of Gaza.
Many people don't know that thousands of people
in Gaza had a dream before the genocide
started
in which they saw themselves passing away. And
this has become widely narrated now. And in
fact, some of the people of Ghazza comfort
each other by reminding themselves of that dream
that they had because the end of it
is Jannah.
Do we have a feeling? Do we see
a dream?
Sometimes it is just a feeling
like a believer's intuition.
Ittaqoo firasatul mumminfa innahu yandrubinurillah
With the believer's intuition, he sees with the
light of Allah.
And regardless if there's a premonition or not,
everyone goes through the stages of death,
but some easier than others.
And there are good signs of a good
ending.
If Allah led you in your last days
to give charity,
to pray, to read Quran,
to be of a tearful spirit,
aradallahu
biabdih khayra
ista'amalahu
When Allah wills good for his slave, he
uses him.
So the companion said,
kifa yastaamiruhu
How does Allah use him?
And the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, You
wafikuhuliyaamalinsalihin
qablamautihi.
He gives him the ability to do a
good deed right before he dies.
In another narration, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
said, idha aradallahu
bi abdihee khayr
aasalahu
When Allah wills good for his slave,
he sweetens him. And they said, You Rasulullah,
how does Allah sweeten his slave?
And he said, Yaftahullahu
azzawajalalahu
aamalansarihanqablamautihi
thummayakbihu
a lay.
Allah guides him to do a righteous deed
right before he dies. And then he takes
his soul while he's in that state.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, Whoever says
La ilaha illallah seeking Allah's pleasure and this
is the last of his deeds will enter
paradise.
And whoever gives charity and this is the
last of his deeds will enter paradise.
There are so many stories of the righteous
leaving in the state. When Umar ibn Abd
Aziz Rahimuhullah was dying, he brings his wife
Fatima close to him.
And she embraces him and he says to
her, Inna mayuwathasabiroonaajrahum
bi ghayrihisab.
Verily Allah rewards the patient without measure.
And then he asks to be left alone.
And so Fatima and the children leave the
room of Umar and they start to peek
through the crack of the door.
And they said that a light entered into
the room
and the face of Umar lit up. And
he said, marhaban bihadihilwujuh
laysatbiwujuh
insinwalaja.
Welcome to these beautiful faces that don't belong
to human beings or jinn.
And then he kept on reciting.
This is the home of the hereafter.
We granted to those who sought not tyranny
nor corruption on this earth.
And a good ending belongs to the pious.
Then his wife walks in and she finds
him dead with his hand on his face,
reclining and staring with a smile as if
he's looking at his place in Jannah.
He placed you in the middle realm between
his physical world and his metaphysical world to
inform you of the loftiness of your rank
among his creatures.
You are a gem merely enclosed by the
shells of created forms.
When you entered into this world,
you saw people laughing while you cried.
Now it's your turn to leave this world
laughing while everyone else cries.
It was adhan without salah when you came
in and it's salah without adhan as you
leave to indicate that your entire life was
as short as the time between adhan and
salah.
And now Allah is calling you home. Out
of the mercy of Allah, he made almost
every cause of death a sign of a
good death
for the believer even the ones that seem
so difficult for us to witness.
Uttering the shahada,
dying while doing a righteous deed, dying in
a fire or dying by drowning.
Dying in a plague, or dying by stomach
disease. Dying from a lung disease, or being
crushed or perhaps dying in a car accident.
Dying on a Friday,
dying defending your life, dying defending your wealth,
dying defending your religion,
dying during pregnancy,
dying during childbirth,
all of these are signs of a righteous
ending for the believer as ugly as they
can look on the outside.
And as ugly as death can be and
how it manifests to those of us still
stuck in this realm, the beauty is found
in where the soul sees itself going.
And it's all in the blink of an
eye. When you reach the height of life,
he told you, walata mudannna'ainaika
ilaamamatana
bihi aswajaminho.
He told you not to strain your eyes
towards what pleasures he's allowed some of them
to enjoy.
And he told you that it would be
said to them one day laqadkuntafi
ghaflatimminhadhafaqashafna
anqariqaq
fablesarukalyo
Mahadeed That you are totally heedless of this
reality,
but we removed the veil from you. And
today your vision is sharp.
With your eyes, you now see angels descending
as light approaches.
And they sit all the way at the
end of your horizon as the angel of
death comes near.
With your eyes, you see the people you
love bidding you farewell.
With your eyes, you see the hospital bedsheets
turning into a kef your shroud of death.
With your eyes you see yourself trapped in
a body being carried and now the soul
is to be carried.
With your eyes you see that instead of
medicine being injected into your body,
the medicine is the ejection of your soul
from your body.
With your eyes you see your soul leaving
your body never to return to it again.
The moment of death comes and the soul
is removed.
Your vision is blurred.
The voices from the world become quieter
and a new perception comes that is straight
from your soul.
Before you even have time to experience the
extreme trepidation of leaving this world,
the angels descend upon you saying don't be
afraid.
And before you can grieve your past and
the people that are about to become your
past the angels say don't grieve.
And before you can even think of where
you may be going, wa abashiro bil jannatillati
kuntum tu a'adun, glad tidings of paradise just
as you were promised.
Your body becomes still.
You've lost the ability to move your limbs.
Your soul rises through your throat,
and just like that you've moved into another
world.
What you are returning to is better than
what you are leaving behind,
and the reward for those who grieve you
is even better than when they had you.
Inna lillahi wa inna ilahi rajiroon
To Allah we belong,
and to Him we all return.