Suhaib Webb – Islamic Studies 1316
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Hey. How are you? Was it crowded?
Wasn't crowded. They didn't have anything.
Oh, wow.
Hope everybody is doing great,
and doing well.
I'm
happy to see you guys. My apologies for
the last time.
I actually had an emergency I had to
handle.
Ramadan Kareem
to everyone inshallah, may Allah accept.
I'm good. May Allah accept it, and,
put
in everyone's
fasting.
How's everybody's fasting going so far?
How's everyone,
doing
the fast?
That's awesome. That's great.
We're gonna get started. So let me
get to the, I think you said delicious.
Let me get to the text, and also
let me see if I can find
if I can find
hey, Sham.
So, Sham, I'm gonna make you a co
host again.
If you can please admit
people into the,
to the classroom.
Yeah.
I
think
there's
something going
on
here. Okay. So, Hesham, you are a co
host. If you can just
do me a favor and let people in
who
are waiting to get in, Insha Allah, that's
gonna be super
appreciated
So
Let's get started,
and
pick up where we stopped last time. You
know, we only have
a few weeks left.
Yeah. You'll get the test
on Friday.
Just finishing them up.
So let's pick up where we stopped. Can
you imagine we only have
really about a week or so left of
class?
And then we're gonna take a break around
May 8th
and continue
after that. After Ramadan, we'll pick up again,
with some new programming
on the lives of the prophets. So last
time, we were talking about
Al Ahira. Right? It was so fast.
Al Ahira.
And we said that Al Ahira
is everything that happens
from the point that someone
passes away, and you have to to to
remember that. Right? So everything that happens from
the point of death.
And then we begin to talk about some
of the phenomena that happened in the hereafter
that we believe about, and
we mentioned
the questions in the grave.
And we talked about the punishment and bliss
in the grave. We mentioned some of the
evidences for that.
And then we went on and begin to
talk about
how to protect ourselves
from the punishments of the grave. Right?
And the first we said is Sultanulq.
Sultanulq is the 67th
chapter of the Quran.
67th chapter
of
the
Quran.
And we know that the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, he he mentioned that there is
a chapter,
in the Quran that has 30 verses that
is going to protect,
someone from *.
So we we should finish around 7 inshallah
on your time.
And make du'a for us when you break
your fast inshallah.
And then we also talked about being charitable
and focusing on development and relief.
You know, of course, the month of Ramadan,
charity is amplified. The blessings of charity is
amplified. In the
You know, that charity is going to
extinguish the heat of the
grave.
And that, you know, one of the shades
in the hereafter, when I talk about this
inshallah,
and someone will find,
relief for on a day when there is
no shade except Allah's shade
is going to be,
because of the charity,
that that someone gave,
Gave to others sincerely.
We talked about a person dying on Friday
night, mentioned this hadith of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam, and this is where we stopped.
Right? We stopped,
on the section talking about the causes
of the punishments of the grave. Like, what
will cause that to happen? So
the first we said is failing to help
help the oppressed. So
when you're asked to get involved in,
you know, things like Black Lives Matter or
things like helping the Palestinians or things like
looking after
the people in Kashmir or helping poor people
or looking after those who may have,
some kind of injustice. Right?
All those are opportunities
to do things that are going to protect
you and I from being hurt in the
grave.
Right? So
helping the oppressed is is one of the
important roles
that that the prophets played. Right? Is to
look after
the people who are
Muslim. Allah says in the Quran that it
tells the limun or what I told the
Lamun.
Right? Like,
don't be don't allow yourself to be oppressed,
and don't be unjust to others.
And this issue of injustice
in Islam
not only extends to
social and human justice,
but even environmental justice. Right? So if you
look
the verses that talk about Firaun
and his his his army,
Allah says, maba kataari himosama,
or
even the heavens and the earth did not
cry for them.
And one of my teachers said to me,
the heavens and the earth did not weep
for them because
Firaun and his followers did not know how
to be equitable
and responsible in using the Earth's resources. SubhanAllah.
And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa'alehi wasallam
in a sound hadith, he said even the
fish in the sea will pray for the
person who does good.
And one of our our scholars commented and
said, because a person who's who's doing good,
right,
will know how to treat the fish in
the sea.
Will know how to be like, just.
So
we,
we talk about the oppressed and helping the
oppressed.
This doesn't only mean people,
which is is extremely important,
but it also applies
to other areas in our lives. And I
gave an example of, like, environmental justice. And
these are things as young Muslims
that you wanna plug into now. You wanna
start to think about
as you move into adulthood, Masha'Allah,
as you move into positions of responsibility,
how you can limit
hurting others
and how you can amplify helping others. That's
very important.
And I hate when people say to people
your age group, oh, they're too young. No.
They're not too young.
They're not too young. You just don't have
the vision
to see how awesome young people can be.
When the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
inal habal
kala ilallah,
the most beloved person to Allah is a
young person who uses
their youth for the right things.
Allahu Akbar.
So
here's this very, really, really interesting narration
that a person is going to be punished
in the grave.
And he will be punished
so severely
that he will actually say
to the angels,
why are you punishing me like this?
And the angels will say,
You ignored the plight of the oppressed.
And that's why insul to kaf,
and this is all the plan of Allah
and Allah's supreme knowledge.
Prophet Musa
cannot
stop reacting. Like, I know
everyone knows the story. Right? In Sultan Kahf,
Saydamus alaihis salatu salam,
you
know, is confronted with these different kind of
situations,
and each time he can't control himself.
The reason that he can't control himself is
he's a prophet, and a prophet
cannot be silent in the face of injustice.
So for example,
when he sees
the
the young boy that's killed,
like, you kill someone in out of out
of no without any justification. So he doesn't
understand. So he reacts. A prophet can't be
quiet.
When
the boat,
the people's property is damaged
by
a more powerful
person,
he can't be quiet.
When
the person, Khader, refuses to take money
for his work,
you know, not being paid for your work,
if you need the money can be a
form of oppression.
You
should have taken your
your fee for this. So in the face
of human injustice,
in the face of people's property being taken,
and in the face of what we will
call now economic injustice,
say, no, Musa, alayhi, sir, to Saddam
cannot be quiet.
It's very under important to understand now the
dynamics of Islam
and the connection that Islam has to removing
oppression
and helping
the marginalized.
And unfortunately,
in many ways, Muslims
in some communities
have really forgotten this.
And this is a very sad thing. And
I really want to encourage all of
you to read this book.
If you if you have already read it,
Masha'Allah.
I'm trying to find someone
who can read this book with you,
inshallah, as one of our courses.
Someone who lived it.
So I'm actually trying to ask his daughter,
Malcolm's daughter,
if she would do it for us.
I don't know if she will. That'd be
so cool, man. If we can get Malcolm
x's daughter to read with you guys, the
autobiography of her father. I'd be like, wow,
man. That would be mind blowing.
But
Malcolm x
is our imam.
Malcolm x is the Wale of the American
Muslim community.
And
Malcolm x is someone who
unapologetically
speaks to
the plight of the forgotten.
So one of the ways that we can
save ourselves
from
punishment of the grave,
You ignore the plight of the oppressed. And
someone's asking, of course, like charity,
charitable donations,
all of those things are
are
a means of removing oppression. Right?
We're gonna talk about Awadi, but Awadi is
anyone who believes in Allah. Alhamdulillah.
So Adina, if you say La Ilahi Allah,
Masha'Allah,
it became from the friends of Allah.
The second is failing to observe ritual purity.
My wife tells me this all the time
because I I am the sheikh of mess.
I am the imam of messiness.
So she always tells me Anilwafatuminalima.
Anyone ever heard that before? Anilwafatuminalima,
which means, right, the prophet
said that, you know,
means
that
purity is half of what?
Half of faith.
So the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
everybody's mom says it. Right?
And and the prophet mentions that a man,
you know,
that a man will be punished in the
grave, and they will ask, and he will
ask, like, why am I being punished?
And they will say, in theka so later,
so that and be ready to who
prayed without purity.
The third is spreading false information or to
cause, like, trouble and fitna.
Meaning, Elias, he didn't he didn't make wudu,
and he didn't purify his his undergarments.
So he was filthy.
Yeah.
Good question,
Masha'Allah. Nice. Thanks,
And of course, I got you, bro.
So
the third is perhaps something that we all
may have dealt with,
and that is
spreading false
information,
trolling people.
And this kid in, you know, Imam al
Maqdisi is a great scholar. He said that
spreading false information like backbiting and stuff,
not only dirty clothes like he didn't clean
himself after he used the restroom.
So he didn't take care to clean him
his private parts
after he used the restroom.
The next is spreading
false information.
That's different. That's different. Like, if you thought
it was true, that's different. But here,
obviously, there is a deliberateness
to these kind of things. Right?
No. No. It was like urine, Halima, and
and and and,
felt like feces and urine.
So
the third is to spread false information purposely,
like, with the intent.
But we should also be very careful. Allah
says in the Quran,
like, make sure
the information that you receive is true.
Do your best.
And the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he
was passing by a grave,
and he said to his Sahaba,
So here, this one explains this hadith that
this man, the prophet said he's being punished
in the grave because he purposely
did not
purify
himself from urine.
And the last one, and namima means that
I go around and I spread information
to create trouble.
Like, if I went to Bilal, and I
was like, yo Bilal,
Halima,
she was saying this about you. She was
saying this about you, and it's not true.
Or it it is true, but I'm saying
it just to create problems.
This is called Namima.
Namima.
Namima means that I go around and I
try to tell people
things that other people have said about them,
whether true or false,
to create discord
between them.
And there's a very, very frightening hadith about
this.
The prophet said, a namam
layadhululjannah.
Person does that will not enter paradise unless
they repent, of course,
unless they're open. Elias is saying something really
beautiful.
He's saying,
for the question about this purity also concern
stuff with good morals or just physical. So
if we look at this hadith, right, Elias,
it mentions being physically clean, but then slandering
people. Right? Namima
is a form
of
a form of filth related to my character.
Yes. And we're talking about,
well, Marhaban Biasim talking about how to what
are the causes that will make people punished
in the grave.
Right?
Are there other times when it's allowed
to do this? Like slander, what would be
considered slander? Yes.
For example, in a court case, you know,
walashidu
idahtabayaktu.
Right?
Like, you have to be a witness.
So if if, of course, in the court,
they're asking you did such and such do
this crime,
you're exempted from
backbiting.
If someone's in therapy,
you know, sometimes I deal with people that
have been abused, how not protect us.
And one of the things is like they're
scared to talk about
what the abuser did to them.
But that's not slander.
Right? That's not slander.
Any type of crime, any type of bad
treatment, then it's permissible
to tell
the authorities
about that situation.
So what do we talk about? We talked
about 3 things that caused the punishment of
the grave.
Number 1 is failing to help the oppressed.
Number 2 is failing to observe ritual purity.
And number 3 is slandering people,
backbiting people, or what's called nam namima.
Right? Arabic is very rich language. So it
has a word for all those things which
have a slight slightly different meaning.
But Namima is like I get on the
phone and I'm like trying to cause trouble
between people.
Between people. Of course, your parents, you know,
that's not that's not you're not you're not
slandering. Right? Because you're seeking help. You're seeking
guidance.
When you're asking a sheikha question, right? Although
I would I would be very careful, like,
if I didn't know the sheikha very well,
I wouldn't
put my business out there, if you know
what I'm saying.
Like, I will be cautious. But you wanna
be able to give enough information
that
you're asking a question so he can understand
what you're trying to say.
But you may need to snitch on your
siblings, like, if your siblings are doing something
really bad. Right?
Or something that's detrimental to their Islam in
the hereafter,
or that may harm your family. That's a
different issue. It's just a different issue.
The next thing that we want to talk
about is called a serat.
A serat.
And a serat is like a bridge.
Mamel Bukhari narrates in his authentic collection.
This hadith from Abu Sayed,
Al Khudri,
Radiallahu Anhu.
That some of the campaigners asked the messenger
of Allah, what is a Sirat?
What is Sirat?
And the prophet said, it is a it
is a slippery
bridge,
and on it,
there are clamps and hooks like a thorny
seat
that is
wide at one side and narrow on the
other, the actual hooks.
And it has thorns with bent ends.
A seed like it, he said, is found
in Najid, and he mentioned the name of
the tree.
And he says some believers will cross the
bridge, and we believe that this bridge is
above *. Right? And another narration
mentions that it's like as thin as a
hair or like a razor.
So
some of the
will cross the bridge as quickly as the
wink of an eye,
some as quickly as lightning, some as strong
wind,
some as fast horses,
and some as camels.
So some will be safe without any harm,
and some will be secure after receiving some
injuries,
and some will fall down into *.
And he said, in the last, will be
the one who's actually dragged across.
What is what is one of the things
we can do to,
protect ourselves from that? We'll talk about in
a minute. But the the Surat is actually
mentioned in
Quran.
In the 37th chapter of the Quran verse
23.
Safet,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, guide them to
the path of *. A, the path meaning
here it should be bridge.
Salat al jayim.
A
salat
folk al jayim,
the the salat above the jayim.
So the strong opinions aid is that the
angels will drag them. And they're being dragged
actually is gonna sound crazy as a mercy.
So they'll be pulled across
by the good they did in this life.
There's some other mothers that their good deeds
will drag them across.
Right? The higher that they did.
Right? They will be
whole cross.
Is
a different
means Islam. Guide us to
We have a science. I don't wanna make
things complicated for you. In Arabic, in
Tafsir
called is a very interesting science,
which provides all of the meanings
of one word
depending on its context.
So we say
has different meanings. Arabic is such a cool
language, man. So for example, like the word,
Huda. Huda means guidance, right? But actually in
the Quran, it has 18 different meanings.
So here is Surat Al Jahaim isn't Surat
Al Mustaqim.
Right? Masha'Allah. That's a great question.
There are a number of things we can
do, and I didn't put it here
to make our path easy across sarat. Number
1 is to be those who believe in
la ilaha illallah.
Number 2 is to be good to our
parents.
Right? In in a in a practical way.
And number 3 is al salah.
The prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he mentioned
that whoever,
prays the 5 prayers, Masha'Allah, regularly,
they will cross
a Surat,
like lightning, Masha'Allah.
Go across like lightning, Masha'Allah.
The next are the scales.
We're gonna talk about that in a second.
Sorry.
These are great questions, you guys. The shahid,
I think, is exempted from all these things,
man.
And the shahid, of course, is not just
a shahid in the battlefield, right?
For example, I have a lecture on YouTube.
You guys maybe wanna find it
on if people die in COVID, they're Shaheed.
SubhanAllah, Alhamdulillah.
So we should tell our family members,
should tell people that we know who may
have lost people. I'm from New York City,
have so many friends now, have lost people
in COVID.
You know, it's important that we tell them,
you know, that their family members inshallah are
shahid.
Because, like, they're going through a lot, man.
Yeah. Let me find the video for you
now.
Let me see here.
Yeah. I'm gonna put this this part. I
thought it was kinda crazy. Didn't really understand
what the benefits would be.
I wanna put this link in the chat
box.
So here's,
a lecture
on a small, like, less than 5 minutes.
That YouTube clip,
that ad though. Yeah. Stuff.
Hey, man. You gotta, you know, you gotta
pay bills. You know what I mean? So
that
so that link right there will
take you to that talk that I
I mentioned
people who died of COVID, inshallah. May Allah
bless us and protect us all. Right?
Keep us safe.
The next thing that we're gonna talk about
are the scales, Al Mawazin.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mentions the scales
in
the 21st chapter verse 47. And these aren't
the only places that these things are mentioned.
But just to give you, like, 1 or
2 verses, like, a smart student
who studied this book is gonna, like, learn
one evidence for each part.
Right? It's gonna learn one evidence for each
part
so that,
so, amen. Can you please stop unmuting yourself?
Thank you. So that that,
you know, you have it in your mind.
So in in in chapter 21 verse 47,
Allah says,
So it says that we place the scales
of justice. And these scales,
as I mentioned here,
are our scales,
which are these will be measured.
And they're not like physical scales like we
see now. Right? We shouldn't think that these
things are
like the the scales, you
know, like you go to the the jewelry
store or something and they have scales. Of
course not. Like,
that's that's not what these scales are. Allahu'ala,
like the reality of these scales.
But they will be a means of measuring
our good and evil.
And if our good outweighs are bad, we
will experience bliss,
And if not, then,
you know, our case is left to Allah.
Allah can punish or Allah can forgive.
And here I put, you know, scholars state
that the scales are 2 scales, because this
is Muazim,
ethneen
2, whose reality is known to Allah alone.
Like, you know, sometimes when you when you
want to, like, be more responsible in life,
one of the things that can be very
helpful
is just to think about, like,
man, what are my scales gonna look like?
Like, if I were to die today. Right?
What what will my scales look like?
And, of course, without faith,
you know, that's the Baraka.
Faith is going to,
you know, perhaps save some of us who
are scales are are are evil is greater
than
our good.
There's also a very long hadith from Imam
Ahmed.
Imam Ahmed was a great scholar of justice.
Where the prophet said
that Allah, the almighty, will choose a man
from the Ummah, from the prophet's community to
be judged on the day of judgment,
and 99 books will be opened before that
man. Each one spanning a distance as far
as the eyes can see.
Allah will say to him as the books
are opened. Did you remember that sin?
Have my scribes, the angels who recorded your
deeds been unjust?
And he will say,
no, my lord, they have not.
Allah will say to him, do you have
any excuse for yourself? He will say, no.
Allah will say to him, do you have
any good deeds that I'm, you know, that
that I'm not aware of? Have you been
wronged?
They'll say, no. Then Allah will command that
a small card will be presented and written
on it is
SubhanAllah.
Then Allah will say, present the scales.
And the man, he'll be scared to say,
oh, my lord. What is on that card?
And what are all these books? Because
at that moment,
when his deeds are weighed, his evil deeds
will be greater. And then that card, that
small card
will be put on the side of his
good deeds, and suddenly his good deeds will
be heavier than his his bad deeds, and
he'll be saved.
And he will ask Allah.
What what was on that card?
And it will be opened. It will say
La ilaha illallah
Muhammadun Rasoolallah. SubhanAllah.
How can you add
weight to the good side of your scales?
This is like such a beautiful hadith of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
The prophet said there are 2 things, 2
phrases that are beloved to the most merciful,
light on the tongue
and heavy in your scale of good deeds.
Subhanallah, he will be Hamdihee.
Subhanallah,
man.
Just try to say that on the regular.
Right?
Just try to say that on the regular
because the prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, said, it's
light on the tongue,
beloved to Allah,
and heavy in your scales.
And, also,
if you wanna lighten your evil, you can
make Tawba,
can repent, a self fit Allah.
You can return to Allah. And the good
that you do salah,
charity, the things that we talked about earlier.
All those things are what's called kafara to
liznu,
are things that are going to remove
sin.
The next thing that we want to talk
about is belief in paradise
is obligatory.
It is an obligation for you to believe
in paradise.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam,
he said in sound hadith.
That Jannah is truth
and * is truth. What is paradise? So
paradise is a reward
granted by Allah to those who believed in
him and struggle to live faithful lives.
It is from his favors,
a blessing to those who believe.
You say, fadlum in Allah.
There are different levels of paradise.
There are actually 7, mashallah.
The highest is fear dose.
The highest level
of Jannah
is firdos.
You you know what's interesting is?
The prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
when he would talk to people, and he
would encourage them to ask for Jannah,
which level of Jannah do you think he
would ask them to achieve?
He said,
Nice.
Why why do you think the prophet, say,
sort of like, for example, someone like me,
like, I I don't think I'm for I'm
for those quality. You know what I mean?
I'm not like 1st round draft pick.
But why would the prophet
tell people like us
to aim for the highest level of Jannah?
I always found this very beautiful.
Like, he he didn't say to them, like,
you guys suck, you know? You're not prophets.
You're not good.
You're not religious.
You're bad. You should ask for Donald Jelal.
Why would he say to even people in
his community who were sinning? Right?
People that were struggling with iman. And then
you had great people too. Right? Why would
he say to even those people
who may have had challenges. Right? Because we
know in in Medina, not everybody was perfect.
Yeah, man. See see how the process encourages
people, man. It's, like, so beautiful.
Have you ever ran into a religious teacher
that's, like, really mean?
Or ran into someone who, like, acts like
they're religious? They're, like, really mean?
Why are they like that?
So it feels so bad. Right? I hate
that. Like, I I know when I converted
one time, there was this one there was
this one,
this Arabic,
and I was learning the artery. So he
used to, like, pick on me, man.
And he used to say to me, you
know, I don't I never think a white
American guy will be able to speak Arabic.
He used to say this to me. Right?
So then I realized, man, this dude is
trolling me, man.
So what I did, I just, like, used
his,
you know
I wanna say something I can't say because
it's Ramadan.
I want you to use his bad behavior
to fuel me, man. Yeah, man. I just
went and started.
Kill even till now. If I'm like, last
night, I was trying to memorize this poem
by this guy named,
Barudi.
Now I remember that uncle telling me that
26 years ago.
So that I'm like, you know what? Okay.
I'm not gonna learn Arabic. So
then, man, you know me.
I came to the masher one day.
I saw him.
I could speak a little Arabic, so I
was like,
You know, I was talking to him like
this.
That dude was mad.
But you know what? I was so happy.
Point is,
if whenever you find
people around you
that try to use religion
to manipulate you
or to, like, make you feel down,
run.
And always remember this moment that we spent
together,
that the prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
even asked the bad people to ask for
Firdausmen.
Like,
man, can you imagine if you're like, you're
not good,
and Mohammed sallallahu alaihi wa sallam tells you,
ask for freddoze.
Like
So you wanna remember
to be careful of those kind of people.
So the highest level
is for.
Then
all these are mentioned in the Quran.
Then
then.
Inshallah, the next book, I go into all
those details, man.
If if we were to go into all
the differences between the 7, it will be
like another class, like another 2 month class.
It's so amazing. SubhanAllah. It's like incredible.
Aladdin,
Dar al Salam,
Dar al Jalal.
So those are the 7. Firdaus,
al Mahwah,
al Khulud,
and in Sur Taqaf.
So to Matt was mentioned in Sur Ta
Sajjad,
and Nain, Janatul Nain,
and Adan,
Darasalam,
and Darasjala.
Ask Allah
May
Allah make us from Jannah.
Here's a question a lot of people ask
me.
Were Adam and his wife in paradise?
So the 8 gates of Jannah are different
than the 7 levels of Jannah. The 8
gates of Jannah
are 8 different gates that represent important acts
that people should do in their life. Like
the the door of prayer, the door of
charity,
the door of fasting.
Right?
So we'll get to that in a minute.
Yes, sir. Yeah. Yeah. You can ask your
question.
Is it
what are the,
I'm just, like, asking a question about the
gate, the door the levels of Jenna.
Is it would would is every higher level
of Jenna, like, better?
Has better stuff?
Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. So good question. So
is like the place of the prophets.
Right? So each one has, like,
greater blessings and greater bliss Insha'Allah.
Yeah. So there is this opinion, Zachy. That's
a good question. Like,
once you get to, like, the 6th level,
you could hang out in the 7th. Once
you get in the 5th, you can hang
out in the 6th and 7th. Once you're
in the 4th, you can hang out in
the 5th, 6th, or 7th.
Got to the 3rd, you can hang out
to the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th. 2nd, 3rd,
4th, 5th, 6th, 7th. 1st, you can go
wherever you want.
So now?
So let's say,
since, like, after this life, we're gonna be,
like, looking general or.
So let's say I'm looking in general. Will
I will I be to climb up with
those?
You go to what? I can hear you.
Sorry. If I'm if I was, like if
I started in the 1st, then I gave
the client to those students to see it.
Sorry.
So as I just said, like, you could
go you could go from top down, but
not down up.
Yeah.
Next question. We're gonna take questions in just
a few minutes. Actually, after this.
Were Adam and his wife in paradise?
According to most mainstream scholars,
Adam and his wife were actually in El
Jannah,
the same paradise that we'll be rewarded with
in the hereafter.
Okay. We're gonna stop here, and then we're
gonna talk about hellfire next time. I can
take you guys questions in sha Allah. If
you have any questions, you can raise your
hand, and we will call on you. In
sha Allah and take your questions.
Haneen, please.
Is it alright if I ask 2 questions?
Yeah. But you have to pay for this
thing. Oh, come on. Alright. Fine. We'll give
you a break this time. Thank you. Okay.
So,
the first one is if you're let's say
you're in one of the higher gen the
higher levels of Jenna,
and maybe, like, some, like, your parents or
fam people you loved are in a lower
level of Jannah.
Are you able to ask Allah to bring
them back up to where you are to
be with you?
Absolutely. This is mentioned in Surat Al Tur,
the 50th chapter of the Quran.
Allah
says
Those who believed and their children's believed their
children, excuse me, believed,
we will unite them together in Jannah.
That's your first question, which is Yes. My
second question is, I asked it earlier. So,
about repentance,
if,
let's say you do something wrong and you
make you go and ask go come back
to Allah and ask for forgiveness,
would you you of course, you'd Allah will
forgive you,
but while you're being for losing your sayyat,
would you gain some hasanat as well because
you're remembering Allah and you're coming back to
him?
Absolutely.
And in fact, at the end of the
25th chapter of the Quran,
Allah says about people who repent you,
that their evil will be turned to good.
So repentance is such a cool thing because
you you're if it's sincere,
it actually changes the evil that was done.
Unless it was done to someone else, then
I have to make sure that I also
fulfill their rights. Right?
But Yeah. In individual sin,
their evil will be turned to good.
Good question, honey.
Halima.
So what determines how you get across the
bridge?
So I I didn't put it actually in
the text, but, like, being good to parents,
being good to others,
there's numerous hadith about it,
praying,
charity,
honesty,
things like that
are mentioned as things that will help someone.
And, of course, the most important is faith.
Prosper said whoever prays 5 times a day
will cross the bridge cycle like speed of
light.
Okay. Thank you. No problem.
Shaham.
Assalamu alaikum.
So you know how you're saying, like,
about that person, like, with when he was,
like, saying, like, you can't speak Arabic?
Right. So, like, what if you have, like,
someone in your life like that that's, like,
close, but, like, you can't really, like, run
away from them? Because, like, they're, like, a
close
person.
Yeah, man. That's tough, bro.
You know, my brother my brother when I
converted, he was like this. My older brother
actually tried to physically assault me because I
became Muslim.
So what I did is I just tried
as as good as so I did 2
things. I tried to keep my distance from
him as much as possible,
And then everything
he said, I tried to use it as
fuel, man.
You know, it's hard sometimes because when people
are close to us,
we love them. Right? We care about them.
So what they say
impacts us.
So I had to, like, kind of train
myself
to be like, yo, bump this dude, man.
Like, whatever he's gonna say, I'm just gonna
use it to just
out out
shine whatever he says about me.
And k. 3rd, if you're in a situation
where you can communicate with that person
and have honest communication, if they're willing, and
you can say to them, listen, like, you're
hurting me.
This is wrong.
Try. If you can't
and it would just make it worse than
then, you know, you have to it's hard,
man.
Make dua
and try to keep it Every time, do
you have to be told you are
And then use it
as a as a as a means
to,
like, motivate yourself.
Magazine.
Do you have a question?
I have 2 questions.
Sure.
The first one, I heard that when we're
in Ramadan,
like, everyone
in in the *, they get like, they,
like, they get put out of * and
then they go to paradise. Is that true?
No.
Oh, okay.
The second question is, like, when you're at
paradise,
what do you do? Do you eat and
sleep and do nothing? So when you what's
your pain in paradise? What do you do?
Man. Whatever you wanna do. It's incredible.
Anything you can imagine.
Like, anything you wanna do there, you can
do.
Okay. Thank you. No. No problem, Habibi.
Yaqob.
Assalamu
my question is would you get rewarded differently
if you're in different levels of Jannah? So
say, would you get if you did charity,
would you you get a greater reward in
than you would in?
Exactly. Yeah.
Each level each level of Jannah is gonna
be like
better and better and better. Very good question,
Marcelo.
Good question. Thank you.
Ziyad
Hussain.
Yes. Yes.
Okay. So I had 2 questions. Is that
okay?
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So my my first question
was,
is it possible for someone, like he does
a, a lot of bad stuff, but he
also does good stuff, and then the bad
stuff is more than the good stuff, and
he goes to, Jahannam. Is there, like, any
possible way that he comes out of it?
Like, do people go and then come out
of Jahannam and go back to Jannah? Do,
like, do they do that? Like, did they
go into Jannah?
Sorry. What is
it? So if you go to Jenna, can
you come out of it?
Yeah. Of course. We'll talk about that next
time.
Okay. My second question is,
also, it's like,
if you if you're in Jena, can you,
like, see all the prophets? Or, like, if
you're on the lowest part, can you see,
like, all the profits? Or do you have
to be with the same place they're in?
I have no idea. It's a good question.
I don't know.
Okay.
Mohammed.
Oh, sorry. I forgot my question. No problem.
Jibril.
So for the last two levels, the 7th
and 6th, what's it mean by the place
of honor and the place of peace?
Yeah.
Means like like when you say.
So Okay. You'll have, like, it'll be a
place where you experience,
like, a 100% bliss.
Nothing will bother you again.
And Jalal means, like
Okay. You you will receive the honor of
being in this place, like, you'll feel it.
Have you ever been to an important place?
Makes you feel like, wow. So, like, that
will be that place where you feel like,
oh, man, I made it.
You know? And they said something really nice.
Some some scholars said that
Jannah is so amazing that even people in
the lowest level of Jannah, they'll think they're
in the highest level of Jannah.
Like, that's how that's how good it is.
Because they won't be aware of the other
levels. Right? So if you ask the person,
Darul Salaam, like, that person, like, oh, I
must be in for dose. Like, I must
be in the highest level
because of how amazing it is. We'll take
a few more questions, and I have to
run to another class. Leila,
you have your hand up.
I know that there are jinn, but are
there devils in Jahannam?
And are devils in jinn the same thing?
Yes. So we if you if you look
at previous lectures, we talked about this last
week.
Devils are a type of jinn.
Because some jinn can be good also,
and there will be devils and jinn in
*.
Yes. That's a great question, Leila. But if
you go back, if you're on our Google
classroom,
you can find all those lectures there that
you can listen to
that we went
through.
Ali has his hand up.
I have a question.
Yes, sir.
What's the difference between the different levels? Like,
I know in general you can get everything.
So what's the difference between the two levels?
The level of, like,
happiness and pleasure.
The level of the beauties that are there
from, you know, the incredible things in Jannah.
Being with the prophets,
seeing Satan, Jibreel,
things like that.
We talk about that a lot in the
second the second or third, text.
Brother.
I'm not sure if you already answered this,
but
when Abdulah asked this question, what do we
do in Jannah?
You said anything we want. Do we,
like, do we still have to, like, pray
5 times a day and and do,
like, all that stuff? Question.
Question of the day right there. Question of
the day.
You and Haneen, question of the day. So
we talked about in the very beginning of
this class, the idea of taqleaf responsibility.
The
strong opinion is that there is no
in Jannah.
There is no responsibility in Jannah. So, like,
having to pray, having to fast,
have to make hug.
None of that will be in Jannah. If
you wanna pray, you can pray.
But there's not gonna be like 5 prayers.
Masha'Allah,
man. These are awesome questions. Forgive me. I
see still see there's more questions, but after
run off to another class, I'm going to
see you guys,
InshaAllah, on Friday.
I hope you're well.
Take care of yourself. Friday, 2:15.
If you're not in the Google classroom, make
sure you are because
that's where all the announcements are. Take care
of yourselves. Stay
safe.