Salah Mahmoud – Stories Of The Quran- 9.10.24
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If the answer is yes, If the answer
is no, then how can we prepare ourselves?
So there are number of things that we
should
we should do inshallah.
The first thing the first thing is
to
remember
death.
Called
the destructor
destructor
of all, you know,
basically enjoyments and pleasures.
That's almout.
He
says,
if you remember
death, if you you all constantly remember death,
you will be rewarded with 3 things.
And if you forget death, you will be
punished with 3 things.
Right?
The first thing that you'll be rewarded you're
rewarded with when you remember death,
If you know that you're dying,
as we said before,
then it's time to say a stuff of
Allah. It's time to repent to Allah.
It's time to catch up with your prayers,
with your fasting, with your zakah.
It's time because what we waiting for.
Right? That's the first thing.
If someone were to tell you we mentioned
that last time. If someone were to tell
you that tonight is your last night in
dunya, what are you gonna do?
What are you gonna do? Right?
You will say, I will be in the
masjid. I will make a stafar. I will
I will make to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Okay. Then
what is stopping you? Because technically speaking, it
might be my last night. It could could
might be your last night. You never know.
There's many people who sleep and they they
never wake up.
Right?
And age is nothing here. Death does not
discriminate
against age, gender. It does not.
Anyone can go anytime.
Alright? And this is that's the only reality
in this dunya SubhanAllah. So that
basically you are not going to procrastinate.
This is if you constantly remember death. What
else?
Your heart is
content.
You know, you don't care whether you have
too much or too little.
Because you know that eventually you're leaving this
dunya.
Alright?
So you're not gonna worry about your business
too much. You're not gonna worry about your
work too much. You're not gonna worry about
your car too much. You're not gonna worry
about all of these things. Why? Because you
always tell yourself that, you know what? I
will do my my best to be successful
and to have everything, but this is not
everything for me. Alright? The 12th
is in my hand, not in my heart.
So when you remember death, Khalas. Where are
we leaving? We're leaving this dunya.
So live in this dunya as though you
are a stranger or a wayfarer. I'm just
passing by.
When my stop comes, Khalas, I will exit.
I will get out of the tree.
Okay?
That's the second thing. What else he said?
Muhammadullah,
wa nashotil Ibadah. Then you will start becoming
active. In Ibadah and worship Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala because again you know that the end
is coming. Then,
the salawat,
the sunan, all of kind of all kind
of act all active worship, you're going to
even be more,
you know, more,
like keen to doing them.
And this is very important and this is
not going to happen unless you have your
mom your mind your soul about death. You
know when you have an exam, when you
have an exam, if you have an exam,
you know, for students, if you have exams
what they do? They study and they study
and they study harder because they know they're
gonna be questioned.
Alright? They're gonna be questioned. So these are
the three things that you will be rewarded
when you constantly remember death. Okay. What are
the what are the punishment?
The punishment, the penalty for not remembering death.
He says,
He says,
I still have a lot of time.
I'm still young.
I'm healthy.
Alright?
I'm strong. I don't think I will die
yet.
Therefore,
Insha'Allah,
one day I'll pray.
Insha'Allah,
one day
I will stop the haram job. Insha'Allah, one
day I will do this.
Right? Because you don't remember.
You you say that you will die but
you don't really believe that you're going to
die.
Not gonna be content.
If you own the whole world,
it's not gonna be it will never be
enough for you. Never be enough for you.
You're still looking for more. Don't take this
as as I'm telling you, be lazy and
don't work. You know, actually, some of the
brothers here, I was given a quote about,
you know, talking about dunya and how
worthless dunya is. It's like you're not helping
people. You're telling people don't don't work,
you know. Just wait for death and halal.
That's it. We're not saying that. Obviously,
says, when it comes
to for dunya.
Work for dunya as though you're gonna live
forever.
But when it comes to
to your Jannah, work as though you're going
to die tomorrow.
There is a there is a per there
is perfect balancing here. Alright?
So when we say that
one of the consequences of not
mentioning death and remember that that you're not
gonna be content because your dunya is going
to
control you. You're not controlling dunya.
Wealth is going to control you.
Alright? You're gonna lose your health and your
wealth and your kids and everything because too
much love for dunya. And that is the,
subhanallah, that's the punishment of the Ummah nowadays.
The Ummah, they're dying for dunya. They don't
want to leave this dunya. They don't even
want to think about death. Alright?
So that's another consequence for not talking about
death, for not mentioning death. Right? And he
says,
Why do I need to pray now? I'm
still young.
Let me, you know, do whatever and then
I'll be older.
I'll be old one day and I'm gonna
go for Hajj and halos.
You know,
the they say that your sins are gonna
be forgiven. That's it.
Procrastination.
That's what's going to happen. Because you do
not believe that you're going to leave this
dunya.
It's a it's it's a punishment.
Not just a consequence, a punishment.
Alright? So let's
be from those
who constantly remind themselves that they're going to
leave this dunya.
Alright? Be as successful as possible.
There's no problem. There's no contradiction here. But
constantly remind yourself
of.
Then any problem that you might think it's
big, it will be very small in front
of you. Very small. Because what is the
worst what is the worst that can happen
to you?
Alright?
What is the worst that can happen to
you?
If you're going through some, you know, financial
issues, or
some health issues, or some marital issues, what
is the worst that can happen?
What's the worst that can happen? What's the
worst that can happen?
At the end of the day, we're going
to live this dunya.
That's that's the worst that can happen to
you.
That's the worst. So any pain that you
are struggling with, you're suffering now, or you're
feeling now, it's temporary. Because the whole entire
dunya is just temporary.
So just let it go. And they remind
that's one of the benefits of remind yourself
of death and the hereafter.
So in our journey to the hereafter,
we learned that the first phase of the
hereafter
is al kabra.
When Nabi
tells us that we should increase and should
constantly mention
the
which is the destruction or the destructive
of all pleasures which is.
We ask Allah
to make us from those who always remember
and
prepare themselves to meet Allah
because
the one who wants to meet Allah
Allah would love his meeting. But if you
don't wanna meet Allah, Allah wouldn't wanna meet
you with you. Insha'Allah,
next,
next session Thursday,
we will talk about.
The rest Insha'Allah. So we said the first
thing is
which is
to always remember
This is the first
the first way
to gain and to get
So when you meet Allah
you are ready. When the angel of death
comes, you are ready. You prepared yourself
for the exam. Ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
to accept your
And don't forget, the Siva conference is on
Friday, Insha'Allah, not tomorrow,
the following Friday, Insha'Allah.