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