Omar Suleiman – Why Me #29 When Life Comes Full Circle

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The importance of learning to trust Allah's actions and witnessing his last moments is crucial to achieving forgiveness and love. The process of washing one's soul is a combination of the process of washing the body, including the washing of the soul, and the process of washing their bodies. It is crucial to not rush to the grave and not be asked which one is their Lord. Additionally, the speaker emphasizes the importance of not being asked which one is their Lord and not rushing to the grave.

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			Farewell, tired soul.
		
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			Your entire life has been a brief moment
		
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			away from Allah and the realm of the
		
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			unseen.
		
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			Now you're on your final journey home.
		
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			As the angels carry your soul up through
		
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			the heavens,
		
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			your family on earth is preparing your body
		
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			for burial.
		
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			Oh, soul that is at peace, come back
		
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			to your Lord pleased and pleasing.
		
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			We are pleased with Allah's legislation
		
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			and we are pleased with Allah's decree. Radheena
		
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			billahi robba wabilislamidina
		
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			wabi Muhammadinsallallahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam anabiyah
		
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			We are pleased with Allah as our Lord,
		
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			with Islam as our religion and Muhammad SallAllahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam as our prophet.
		
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			Have you been pleased with Allah as your
		
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			Lord?
		
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			Alimam ibn alkayim Rahimullah says that throughout your
		
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			life you have these three stages of tawakkul,
		
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			learning to trust Allah.
		
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			He says, first, you learn to trust Allah
		
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			the way that one trust his agent, where
		
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			you still seek to assume control and you
		
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			question your agent on every move. And then
		
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			you learn to trust Allah the way that
		
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			a child trusts its mother.
		
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			And then you learn to trust Allah like
		
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			a dead body trusts its washer.
		
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			It lets the washer turn it over and
		
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			over and over as he best sees fit,
		
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			never objecting to the method of purification.
		
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			You were supposed to already be living your
		
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			life like that dead body,
		
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			but now you're actually dead. And every single
		
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			thing about the way you leave this world
		
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			has a parallel with how you came into
		
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			it.
		
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			When you were first born, you were completely
		
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			dependent and needed your family to wash you,
		
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			and clothe you,
		
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			and put you in your cradle.
		
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			As you breathe your last breath, you return
		
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			to the state
		
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			completely dependent as your family arranges your ghusl,
		
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			shrouds you, and lowers you into your final
		
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			resting place.
		
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			As your soul begins to witness the wonders
		
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			of the unseen realm,
		
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			it also witnesses the last moments of its
		
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			time on earth.
		
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			The prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said that the
		
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			deceased are hurt when their families wail over
		
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			them, which is one of the reasons why
		
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			this practice was prohibited in Islam.
		
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			The dead has some sense of those around
		
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			even if not fully.
		
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			In one narration though it has some weakness
		
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			in its chain, Inalmayhita
		
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			ya'ifumanyahmiluhu
		
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			wamanyahhsiluhu
		
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			waman yudal lihi fiqabri.
		
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			Verily the dead one recognizes those who carry
		
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			him and those who wash him and those
		
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			who lower him into his grave. And some
		
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			of the scholars mentioned that an angel presides
		
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			over your funeral in some ways just like
		
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			your birth. Amrbludinar
		
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			Rahimuhullah said, mamin mayyitinyamutu
		
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			illa warruhuhufi
		
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			yadi malakin yandhru'illahjasadihi
		
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			kayfayugasaloo
		
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			wakefayukafanoo
		
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			wakefayumshabbihi
		
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			fayajlisufiqabrihi
		
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			That not a single person dies except that
		
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			his soul is in the hand of an
		
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			angel
		
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			who observes his body, how it is washed,
		
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			how it is shrouded,
		
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			how it is carried,
		
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			and then enters into the grave to make
		
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			sure that it is buried properly.
		
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			Al imamabulhasna
		
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			alqabasirahimhullah
		
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			connects the narrations of the soul ascending through
		
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			the heavens while still witnessing what is happening
		
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			on earth. He says for righteous souls, they
		
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			will be told when they reach Allah,
		
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			go and see your place in paradise.
		
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			And so they will journey through paradise for
		
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			the time that it takes for their body
		
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			to be washed.
		
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			Then if you are of the truly righteous,
		
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			perhaps you will witness paradise for as long
		
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			as you are being washed, which is one
		
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			of the wisdoms of the ghusl.
		
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			Just like the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam's heart
		
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			was washed by Jibreel
		
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			before he could take his heavenly journey of
		
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			al Isra'ul Mi'raj,
		
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			so too the body needs to be cleansed
		
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			as the soul witnesses paradise.
		
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			So the longer,
		
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			the more thorough, and the more perfect the
		
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			washing,
		
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			the more time spent by the soul in
		
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			the realm of the unseen witnessing its wonders.
		
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			And then once the ghusl and the shrouding
		
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			is complete,
		
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			the soul returns to this world. And at
		
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			that point, it desires to be buried as
		
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			fast as possible so that it can be
		
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			free once again to enjoy the wonders of
		
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			the barzakh.
		
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			The prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, When the
		
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			janazah is picked up and the men lift
		
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			it onto their shoulders,
		
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			If it was a righteous soul, it says,
		
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			qaddimuni.
		
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			Qaddimuni.
		
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			Hurry up. Hurry up. Take me quickly. Take
		
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			me quickly. I want to enjoy my new
		
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			home. And if it was not a righteous
		
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			person, it says, You waylaha.
		
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			You waylaha
		
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			ayna tathhabunabiha.
		
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			Woe to me. Woe to me. Where are
		
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			you taking me? And the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam says that everything
		
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			of the creation of Allah hears that cry
		
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			except for the human beings around. And if
		
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			they could hear that cry, they would faint.
		
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			This is why the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			encouraged the burial to be done so swiftly.
		
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			Asri'u bil Janazah
		
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			Hurry up with the burial. For if it
		
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			is a righteous soul, you would bring it
		
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			quicker to a beautiful abode.
		
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			And if it is otherwise,
		
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			it is an evil which you discard into
		
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			the earth.
		
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			So as you are being carried, you will
		
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			hear the people talking about your legacy,
		
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			comforting your loved ones based on the deeds
		
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			you used to do in this world.
		
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			You will hear them warn you.
		
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			But if they say about you what is
		
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			untrue of you, then the angels interrogate you.
		
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			The prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said that they
		
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			would poke you and they would say, ahaqada
		
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			kunt,
		
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			were you as they claimed you are?
		
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			And right before your body is buried,
		
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			as your janaza has been performed,
		
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			I want you to imagine the masjid and
		
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			then the graveyard filled with all of the
		
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			people in your life.
		
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			Some people you may have forgotten,
		
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			some of them friends,
		
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			a lot of them family,
		
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			and maybe even some of those you didn't
		
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			get along with, but they attended your funeral
		
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			out of respect.
		
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			All of them praying for your forgiveness before
		
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			you go to your final resting place.
		
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			Do you fear their witness or do you
		
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			look forward to it?
		
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			And then finally you're placed 6 feet under
		
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			the ground
		
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			and your loved ones bury you in this
		
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			earth
		
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			with the earth.
		
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			No idukum waminhanukhreejukum
		
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			taratanukhra.
		
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			From it you were created
		
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			and in it you will return and from
		
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			it you will rise again.
		
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			You're buried facing the right side towards the
		
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			Qiblah
		
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			as hopefully you did all those times that
		
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			you used to pray.
		
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			And your heart always longing for the one
		
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			who sent you here only after affirming to
		
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			you that he is your Lord. And you're
		
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			now about to be asked that question again.
		
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			Manrubbuq,
		
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			who is your Lord?
		
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			But this time you know him. You know
		
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			your prophet. You know your religion.
		
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			Hence, Bismillah
		
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			wa'ala sunnatirasulillah
		
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			The words you are placed within the grave
		
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			are in the name of Allah
		
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			and upon the way of the messenger of
		
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			Allah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, the way of Islam.
		
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			But it won't be easy when you're asked,
		
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			which is why the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			would finish burying someone. He would stand by
		
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			the grave and say, Astaghhiroli
		
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			akhikum
		
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			thummasalullahu
		
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			bitathbheet
		
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			fa inna hul aana yusal
		
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			Ask Allah to forgive your brother and to
		
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			make him steadfast
		
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			for he is now being asked.
		
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			And as everyone goes home,
		
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			they now leave you to your new home.
		
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			And the Prophet
		
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			said that you will hear the footsteps of
		
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			every single person that came to your janazah
		
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			walking away
		
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			until the very last footsteps.
		
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			And I want you to think about what
		
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			that means.
		
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			When you came into this world,
		
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			your parents were in the hospital and they
		
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			received you. The guests came and went.
		
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			But you know who stayed? Your family.
		
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			And that's why 'Amar ibn 'Aas radiAllahu ta'ala
		
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			Anhu said to his children,
		
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			when I pass away,
		
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			don't rush away from the grave. Stay next
		
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			to me for the time that it takes
		
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			to sacrifice an animal and then distribute it
		
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			to me. Being don't be so quick. Why?
		
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			He said, Hata Astat Nasaviku.
		
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			So I can feel your nearness
		
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			and I can know how to respond to
		
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			the messengers of my Lord.
		
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			Don't leave so quickly
		
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			because they have an entire eternity ahead of
		
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			them
		
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			where all of the lessons of life
		
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			and then all of those that are left
		
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			behind
		
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			will continue to enlighten that grave Biren Nahu
		
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			Ta'ala.
		
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			Do you know what else?
		
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			When you came into this world,
		
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			you came in with a squeeze
		
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			in your mother's womb
		
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			and then through a narrow passage.
		
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			And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said that
		
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			there's a squeeze in the grave that no
		
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			one will be spared from. And you enter
		
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			into that realm through a narrow passage,
		
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			just like you entered into this one.
		
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			The 2 angels come and ask you the
		
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			only three questions that now matter about your
		
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			life.
		
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			Not about your possessions.
		
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			Not about who you knew.
		
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			Not about what neighborhood you lived in.
		
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			Who was your lord?
		
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			Who was the one sent to you?
		
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			What was your way of life?
		
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			The crying stops,
		
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			the footsteps fade,
		
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			and you're left alone in your grave.
		
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			Nothing is left to distract you. You have
		
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			all the time in the world to reflect.
		
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			What legacy have you left behind?
		
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			Was your life worth living?
		
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			Did you do enough to earn your soul
		
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			a peaceful hereafter?
		
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			Did you do enough when you could
		
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			so that you can finally now
		
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			rest in peace?
		
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			Your postponement of deeds till the time when
		
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			you are free
		
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			is merely one of the delusions of the
		
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			self.