Shadee Elmasry – Events of Afterlife
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The right question to ask the purpose again. And I think we've
stated this quite a number of times. But it's so important to
realize this is why difficulty and bad things do exist. They exist
because Allah has given us freewill, he wants people to love
him, and obey Him and choose his way, by their own choice. And that
cannot be his own choice, if there are not a plethora of options of
evil. And so, the wrath is in accordance to the actual times
that people chose evil. Okay. And for the vast majority of people,
Allah's wrath on the Omo cam is a benefit to them, because his wrath
wipes away the evil that they've done in this world. And so the
vast majority, and we hope that the majority of people, the
Muslims,
the wrath that they experience on the Day of Judgment, is sufficient
punishment for what they did. Okay? That they're in a state of
fear, that they're in a state of anxiety, that they're in a state
of hunger, that they're in a state of heat. All that is punishment.
And we know that in order to take evil out of the soul of a person,
you must pull it out, yank it out, it's going to come through your
body, it's going to come through the any form of pain. That's why
the Prophet peace be upon him said
the one who was sick, all right at for every prick that he feels, or
even emotional, he said as well, any him or him any emotional pain,
or physical pain, even a prick. He's being purified. Right. And so
at this point, we should we should, people should realize that
you actually benefit from that wrath because you won't go to the
Hellfire for then the second half of it is Rama, okay, Rama, and
that is to celebrate now, and to reward all those who are good, who
to chose good. Okay. And then there's, of course, like a trickle
effect in the sense that Allah starts to allow people to
intercede, and people now go and intercede for others.
The other way we think about pm is we think about stopping points or
milestones. The first milestone is your book, you're given your book,
or sorry, the scales, okay. And they're sometimes they put them in
different orders. But I think that the what makes sense most makes
sense is this the scales, I believe, the scales, you look,
every person's deeds are given an image. And that image is put on a
scale, it's like given a weight or something, and that's put on a
scale. And all of your deeds throughout your whole life are put
on scales. And then with tips one way or the other, and then you're
literally printed like a receipt of this weighing, right a record
of this way in the form of a book. So the scales is the first part,
the book is the second part. And you're either handed with your
right or your left and it's also a source of sadness or of happiness.
And then lastly is the Traverse.
The traverse is has to do with it's literally a traverse over the
hellfire, okay, which is one of the reasons some of the Imams said
that the Hellfire is actually under the earth. It's like the,
like the core of the Earth. That's where the Hellfire is where the
core of the landmass that is where the experiment takes place.
Because the Quran says, Yo my bed to bed.
which means The Day the Earth is replaced with another Earth, so
maybe one Earth mash to other planets to it, and it becomes it's
this earth, but it's completely different. Okay, so the point
being, that's one of the reasons some people said it's the core of
the Earth. The argument against it is that there's a hadith that says
that * is dragged forth. So the Hellfire is drag. So it doesn't
make a difference where geographically you are, because
when you're in *, it's not going to make a difference where
you are in the coordinates.
I don't think anyone's going to care. But anyway, the traverse or
the syrup goes over the hellfire. And the Prophet peace be upon him
said clearly you we pass over it at the rate with which we fled
from sins.
All right, so if people dabbled in, in wrongs, then the Prophet
peace be upon him said the sparks will will hit their ankles, the
sparks of * will hit their ankles and they'll be in great
pain, or some thorns will come and claps clasp onto their ankles and
trip them up. Other people had done worse and so they will be in
such a fear that they will perceive this the bridge to be so
thin, that they will crawl on it. Other people for them it will be
so thin that they will hang on it and the only movement they could
do is move over with their hands, and some of them ultimately will
fall off the bridge. The Prophet peace be upon him though said that
someone like Abu Bakr Siddiq, he passes over it at the speed of
lightning. It's literally nothing more than a stroll. So to him it's
wide and big and it's not something that's finer than
here. Now this is the third, the fourth. Now the fourth position in
the piano is what's called the hold, how the co author, you might
hear people, their name is co author. And of course there's
suited to co author, the co author is the
co author comes from the root, meaning a lot are plenty. And it's
a fountain that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam has
given it's a, it's the most beautiful fountain in the pm in
the afterlife. And it is right before the the stairs going up to
the gates of paradise. And so this is a fountain in which the Prophet
welcomes the people in the courtyard of paradise. So he
actually describes it. Literally that paradise is like there. It's
a physical place, it has steps and it has gates. And the gates are he
describes them as being made of gold, but you could see through
it, and you could hear or you could see through part of parts of
the gate, and you could hear people walking
behind it. And then he said, Lo it was seldom that people will come
to him, and he will know the Muslims and he'll call them over.
And they said, how do they how do you know them? If they weren't
Sahaba? So if they lived way after How do you know who's a Muslim?
The Prophet said, what if you had a Clydesdale horse which is all
black, but from the knee down to the hoof, it has thick white fur,
okay. And so he's they said we'd know him immediately. He said,
likewise, the believer resembles this type of horse. And it is his
his limbs glowing with white light from the effects of will do. So
the person makes a will do
and their limbs on the Day of Judgment shine. So they will do of
the Muslims, this is a proof that it's slightly different from the
widow of previous owners, because if all the almost made will do the
same way, then how would he know? So they will do have the Muslims
difference. And so, this is why I will Hodeidah said, so increase
your widow, and some Sahaba under the Prophet said, so increase your
widow Sahaba understood in different ways, they understood it
number one, make will do even if you have already. And this they
said they call it Light upon light.
The other said do a lot more. And it permits you even permitted do
more than three times times, if you want to wipe your face more
than three times. Abu Hurayrah had a third interpretation in the
Sahih Muslim, that to go beyond the required limb, such that the
face for example, this is the minimum, but then he would do
more, or the arm elbow that I said would do up to his shoulder and
his feet would do it up to his knee. Okay, so it will shine more.
But Abu Huraira also said he only does this in his house so as not
to confuse the Muslims. And Muslim may think that he doesn't know
what he's doing. Or they might think he doesn't know what we'll
do is or they might think that's Sahabi. Herrera. So that's what
real will do is and they burden themselves with what the messenger
hasn't commanded. So, for this reason, this is how the problem
now what is what makes a person rejected at the home, this is very
important. What makes a person rejected from the hold. The
Prophet calls a Muslim, so that Muslim he knows right, he has will
do so the Prophet knows him he sees the signs of will do. But an
angel comes and says no. Away, takes him away and the Prophet
looks. And the angel says he made changes to the religion after your
death.
Which means these are people have they innovated something that has
no proof in religion, no basis in religion. Okay, innovation at this
point, you end up with two approaches towards innovation.
There's one which is the safe way. But there's another one which is
also acceptable. It's a Scott it's also a scholarly way. And the
first understanding of innovation is simply not to do anything the
Prophet never did. right not to do anything the Prophet never did.
And then and to do everything that he did. And the other school of
thought is to look and to see that the Prophet peace be upon him.
Not that nothing that contradicts the general teachings of the
Prophet peace be upon him. With that, which does not contradict
the general teaching would not count as an evil innovation and
that every innovation must be placed as either prohibited
frowned upon permissible, recommended and obligatory. Right.
So what's an obligatory innovation for example, using a microphone to
amplify the event, having a second Joma right, believe it or not
having a second Joma is an innovation, having multiple genres
in one town used to be considered innovation. So I'll have Gemma in
the jam msgid. But as as the population increase, as we have
now cars and parking, we have to actually if you're obligated to do
an innovation, which is to have multiple domains, and multiple in
the same mosque, these to consider
So bad innovation. Right now. It's like obligatory. So in this, this
is two ways to approach these this matter of innovation. But the
point is that whoever innovates okay?
And obviously the one who is very conservative, he will consider the
this camp, the camp that
considers innovation to be in the five categories. Don't consider
them innovation innovators, right? But they're not the judges, Allah
is the judge, right? So Allah judges, those who innovated they
will be taken away. And this is why it's very important to be
people who adhere to our forefathers and tradition. This is
something lost, it's lost in today's world. Why is tradition,
tradition is a more democratic way. And it's a more fair and
egalitarian path to follow. All right, then, let's say
contemporary ethics in which everyone is free to have his own
opinion and whatnot. The reason is that
birth and death these are just accidents, that people alive what
gives right to the someone the people on the planet today, who
are here by accident of birth, right?
To think they know better and more than the hundreds of 1000s of
people who are not on this planet by accident of death. The people
before us 1000s of years before us who are believers. Death came to
the monex but as an up from their choice, I as well was born and I'm
in this planet now. Not by my choice. There are more dead people
than living people. Right. So what is the what would make us think
modern people in terms of the rejection of religion, overall
rejection of sunnah overall rejection of tradition in general,
that we know better than those people.
What what arrogance to think that this small minority that live in
the West, okay, that are alive today. Okay? Think they know
better than the 1000 Hundreds and 1000s of years of Muslims,
scholars and common folk who lived before us? This is nothing but
pure folly and arrogance. All right. Never take Deen from people
living today, except if they're quoting from the people of
yesterday. Never take an interpretation of Quran and
Sunnah. Except if that interpretation exists from the
people of yesterday, other than you're taking up you're basically
betting on someone who's brand new. You have no you only been
alive a couple years. couple decades Max, put your eggs in the
basket. That's safe. Right? If you want to say okay, the majority,
we're all about the majority, right? We're all about what the
majority says, well, the majority of people are the dead, right? The
living on minority. So with that change this type of mentality of
if something is part of our religion, get a precedent from the
people of the past in their interpretation of Khurana so
nobody's gonna go back to Quran and Sunnah. Get their
interpretations, importance of tradition, and maintaining and not
being innovators.
So these are the things it's the scales, the book, the syrup, or
the traverse, and then the fountain. And then people enter
into Jen. So they're gonna call that then I will stop here and
we'll come back and show and learn a little bit
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