Shadee Elmasry – Why Muslims Are Not Afraid of Death

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the fear of death. And again, there's something especially that

affects secular people because they can't escape the fact that as

they grow older, they become weaker. They're not able to do all

the things they used to do when they were young, they can chase

their pleasures and desires when they used to. And this This

bothers them and they think, Oh, I don't have the ability, I can't

travel like I used to, I can't mess around like I used to. But

for us,

it's a different story altogether, because

we know that death, as the law says, and then the I will admit

when when they moved to Monaco to La he showroom, right and so it'll

Emraan 158 Allah says, if you die or you're killed is to a law that

you return.

So the way the way Manuel Bucha explains this is he says, You have

to think of this way that you've spent your entire life you spent

your entire life

worshiping Allah praying five times a day, but you never saw

him. Fasting Ramadan, but you never saw him. Hajj Ramadan.

KitKat. reading the Koran, although they could be you never

saw Allah

and now that veil is being lifted.

That's what death is that that veil between you and Allah has

been lifted. Right? There's a story that Imam Al Ghazali relates

in the ALA Medina, it's also in shadow Sedona by mama CLT, which

is a book about about the states of the dead, where the Angel of

Death comes to Ibrahim alayhi salam, right. And we know we all

we all know that Ibrahim alayhi salam, his name is allele, right?

He's, he's the intimate close friend of Allah.

And when the angel of death comes to him, Ibrahim Alayhi. Salam, he

responds, and he says,

he says, Alright, I can even read on your meter kalila. Right. He

says, he says, Have you seen a allele who wants to cause this

allele to die?

Right?

And then Allah reveals to Ibrahim in a slum, he says, all right

Halina, you're reading your raw, meaning. Have you seen a colleague

who doesn't want to meet his Hadith?

Right, and then Ibrahim gives up his phone.

Right goes into sujood, Allah, Texas, all right. So when it comes

when it comes to again to death, we should we should see it as the

fact that we is this reunion with Allah. And whatever good we've

done in this life, the reward for has been stored up for us, that's

where it comes back. And we and we and when we die, and one of the

things the other man always stress when they do them, I always stress

is that

like for the believer on his deathbed, when you get to the end

of your life, you should have nothing but a good opinion of

Allah. Nothing but a good opinion of Allah when you're on your

deathbed. Right? And this is part of the reason why I like him

almost see what he mentions that in shorter story. He's he says

that the believer on his deathbed, the believer will have a hard

death, he will have a difficult death will be some illness or some

agony. And the unbeliever will have an easy life have an easy

death. And what he means by this or why this is he says, The

unbeliever will have the easy life will have easy death because he's

been rewarded for whatever good he did.

And then the punishment starts after death. Whereas the believers

being forgiven. He's been cleansed and purified. It goes back to

Allah. Right. This is it's all about mercy. And a mama Bulte puts

in the story here from the sahabi bla bla Habashi, frontal Anhu. And

then when he was lying on his deathbed, and right and he can,

He's in agony, right. He's in pains on deathbed and his

relatives are all around him. And one of them said, oh, what agony

what pain you're in.

And then Bilbao, he sort of woke up he opened his eyes. He said,

know what joy.

Tomorrow I will be with Muhammad and his companions. Allah Who this

right? He's, he's, he saw the bigger picture. Right? I'm gonna

read I'm gonna be reunited with with with the best of law. So I so

you see, right. And we all we all know how Billa was after Mr.

Lawson passed away. Right? Thank you couldn't give the event

because he was so heartbroken.

Right? So people aren't.

We look at the like regular campaigns. They're not. They're

not desperate to stay here. And this is again, when we tie that

when we tie this all in and again, we go back to

go back to the point of like, where we come from the fact that

we're originally from Jen. I try to think of an analogy, but

probably the best analogy I can think of and Allah knows best. Is

that this this world is just like a giant Hotel. That's what it is,

right? Everyone's room is booked and paid for. And Allah knows when

you're gonna check out. Allah knows you're gonna check out one

day you'll get that phone call and the angel of death will come and

take you away. So

when you're, we think about death. That's you're just going back

home. Do you know anyone who clings to a hotel?

When they're right? I don't care if it's a seven star hotel,

whatever it is, right? Home sweet home, there's no there's nothing

like home. Right? So you accept the fact that hey, this is not

where I belong. This is not where I'm from. This is not my permanent

abode.

Allah is calling me back except it right? why would why would why

would we cling to this list this cling to this dunya? That is

temporary. It's full of trials. It's full of tribulations. Allah

was just testing us it just a testing ground. Right? It's like

an examination room.

Right? Like, I don't know anyone who enjoys exams. Right? They're

happy when the exam is over.

Right Jesus He's all levels or whatever it is not all those

anymore. Sorry, I'm dating myself. But of course, right? You get the

idea.