Suhaib Webb – SWISS Islamic Studies 1618 The Hereafter
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The speakers discuss the importance of physical fitness and the hiraf and rulings in Islam, including belief in the Hereafter and avoiding extreme punishment. They emphasize the importance of creating a du opinion and avoiding negative impact on the world, as well as avoiding extreme punishment and not allowing certain messages. The speakers also provide resources for individuals to navigate their behavior and discuss the importance of learning to live a good life and avoiding confusion between the Bible and reality. They also mention a podcast and a YouTube page for further information.
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Ramadan
Mubarak
to everybody.
Ramadan blessings
to each and every one of you taqaba
R Allahu
wa ta'atakum insha'Allah.
May Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala accept your worship
inshallah and your efforts inshallah.
Before we get started, I know that this
is a super important time of the year.
Prophet Sallalahu Wa Salam as mentioned in sound
narrations,
you know, he mentions that
every night an angel
pronounces from the heavens.
Oh, you who are seeking good, like, go
for it.
And oh, you who are seeking evil, like,
refrain,
stop.
And we know that the Prophet Muhammad
Whoever fast Ramadan sincerely and with faith in
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
you know, they will be forgiven, MashaAllah, of
their sins and their shortcomings. So like, hamdulillah,
hamdulillah
for the blessing of Ramadan. May Allah accept
it and bless it and make it
for each and every one of you InshaAllah.
Before we get started, just a quick question.
Would anyone like to share with us your
Ramadan resolution? So mine is I need to
finish
a type of recite recitation of the Quran
with one of my teachers,
which is called.
So like, that's one of my goals. And
the other goal is to get back into
some some physical fitness going on in the
month of Ramadan. So
view the Quran,
and then to
get my physical fitness, eat clean, get back
to eating clean again. Anyone want to share
with us
their Ramadan
resolutions?
Working out and memorizing. Just
Anyone else? Masha'Allah. That's good.
Alina,
anyone else would like to share with us
their Ramadan,
creating
a connection to the Quran. Masha'Allah. That's beautiful.
Masha'Allah beautiful.
Hisham is praying.
Hisham, what time is Maghrib in,
in Germany?
Wow, wow. So
So may Allah bless each and every one
of us to have a great Ramadan.
Let's quickly look at what we're gonna talk
about today.
We're going to spend a brief time talking
about
the unseen.
This is where we stopped last time.
And sheikh Abdul Dier, he says in his
book,
So this is what we've already discussed. Right?
From here
to
here.
This is kinda where we
stopped, and then we spent some time talking
about some other things.
And now we're going to pick up from
the rest of
the book, which is right here, and then
we'll be finished Insha'Allah by
by May 8th.
InshaAllah, then we'll take a break and we'll
start again in mid summer
with the class on the lives of the
prophets InshaAllah.
Today we're going to talk about the hiraf,
we're going to talk about rulings.
Have you ever heard like sometimes people may
say,
like, you can't judge in Islam or
there are no rulings
in Islam. How do you feel about that?
And people say like, oh, like there's no
judgments.
Or there's like, there's no,
you know, correcting somebody if they need to
be corrected or
encouraging someone if they're doing something good? Have
you ever heard people say like, you know,
there's no judgments in Islam, you can't judge
anybody.
How do you how do you feel about
that? You can either,
you can either unmute yourself or you can
share it in the chat box Insha Allah.
Right? Like, so judgments this one.
So we're not talking about people, right? We're
talking about Islam itself, right? So people that's,
that's a different, that's a different area of
discussion, right? We're saying people
tend to tend to say like, there's no
judgments in Islam.
So
what about pork?
Is there a judgment in Islam on pork?
What about
abusing somebody?
About
not fasting?
What about not praying?
What about immorality?
So
we need to be cautious
of some of the framing of
contemporary philosophies
who who seek to really put pressure on
religious communities
by telling them, like, you know, who are
you to judge? But
those other philosophies will certainly
judge people.
So to say that Islam has no judgments
would be to really render it anything but
a religion.
And what's interesting is that this when people
say this, like, there's no judgments in Islam,
like, it it's never applied to say, like,
a good thing.
It's always applied to when someone's doing something
wrong. Like, if I'm doing, like, good, like,
no one will be, like, wow.
Like, you know, so hey memorize the Quran.
Oh, there's no judgments in Islam.
It's always
as kind of a reaction
to bad behavior, which in itself shows you
there's maybe more nuance there. So there are
judgments in Islam.
Muslims are allowed to judge,
but there is a way to do that.
And there's, there's a wisdom and there's a
love that comes with that. And there is
a compassion that comes with that. And oftentimes,
what happens is we run into people
who
do not know how to
do it with wisdom.
Like you can look at it like a
swimming pool. What if there were no rules
at a swimming pool?
How many people would die every year?
So there are rules at the swimming pool.
Right? There are
there are
a set of parameters that keep people in
check.
But like nobody is like, go on off
on somebody at the swim.
Reason I say that
is here, Sheikh Ahmed Darbir, he says,
that
the prophets taught us judgments and rulings.
As a Muslim,
you must believe and here's the explanation that
the prophets taught the issues of the unseen
that Allah ordered them
to. We talked about this before the unseen
is central
to part of your faith as a as
a Muslim.
Allah says in the Quran,
Those who believe
with the unseen.
We also talked about previously the different terminology
used for faith. Some ayat, wal ghaybiat, things
that are heard and things that are unseen.
And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala describes the Sahaba,
the students and companions of Sayyidina Muhammad salallahu
alaihi wa sallam as being those who believe
in what the Prophet taught him.
Our Lord, we have heard a caller calling
us to faith, saying, believe in your Lord,
so we have believed.
This gets us to the the issue of
rulings, Sheikh says, above min al ake. It's
obligatory upon us to affirm
that the prophets taught rulings halaluhaamfardsunnah
that deal with worship in our daily life
and that affect
our outcomes in the hereafter.
The rulings that the prophet taught are too,
and this is what I want you to
remember. This is pretty important.
If,
if this is a
Sharia
or Islam,
it sits on 2 things.
Actions
And
Absence. Right?
What we mean by absence is to refrain
from something.
So in Arabic,
and tuck.
So everything in the Sharia,
everything in Islamic
law and belief is either gonna be something
that I need to do
or something I need to refrain from. Okay?
The entire Dean rests on this. So to
to to to to peel judgments away from
religion, I'm going to talk about,
you know, how to be compassionate in judgments,
right? How to be caring in judgments
when we go through the lives of the
prophets insha Allah,
this summer with you guys insha Allah, because
that's an art, right? And oftentimes what happens
is people it's like a sword. The sword
can be used
in a good way can be used in
a bad way. Someone doesn't know how to
use it though often, they're gonna hurt somebody.
So
anything's like
religion. Also, there's an art and a wisdom
and a hikmah
to talking with people and trying to help
people and try to guide people. Right?
So I I don't know if I told
you guys the story. I told you the
story about the guy that had Haramko,
the grocery store by my house and by
the masher that I used to go to.
I think I told you the story about
Haramko,
and how like
so there was this brother who
who had a
supermarket by
where I used to pray when after I
converted.
The group of us, mashallah, we're all very
good friends,
And we used to dress like in turbans
and thobes and everything. We used to give
the Friday Khobba there because it was a
university masjid. So it was just students and
that guy, he used to come and we
called this store Haramko because he had everything
haram in the store.
So he was a Muslim brother and we
decided like, man,
we need to try to reach his brother.
So one of my friends, we were DJs
together in high school. He became Muslim brother
Mujahid,
married a Moroccan
girl. He's very happy,
HeShan.
He he,
he told me, like, we should go to
the store, like, on it was a Jummah,
like, with a turbines and everything on, and
we should act like we're gonna buy beer
and stuff.
So we went into the store,
and
the dude was, like, freaking out, like, man,
that day I had given the hookah. So
he was like, yo, who are these guys,
man?
So I got, like, this 24 pack of
beer.
The other guys got some other stuff, you
know, and we put it on
the cash register.
And his eyes were like they look like
Elmo. Like he was freaking out, man.
And then
he was like
he started to ring it up and then
brother Abu Bakr,
he said to him, hey,
can I ask you a question?
He said, yeah. He said, do you feel
shocked
to see us
buying this?
He's like, you know, Wallahi, the Imam is
here, and he's buying beer. Like,
it's really, like, such a shock.
And then Mujahide said,
and this is how we feel when we
see you selling it.
Like when we sell the Muslims selling this
kind of stuff
to the people, the same shock that you
see and you feel when we bought it
is how we feel when you sell it.
And SubhanAllah, man, he started crying.
And then he said, like, you know, I
want to thank my nephews
for taking the time to correct me with
mercy.
And then alhamdulillah, he slowly got his life
together. So like, there's a way
that we have to correct people.
And there's
a way of dealing with people that
they feel we care about them.
You can't you can't exactly. You can't it
was like a gas station. So like, you
can't
correct somebody if they feel that you don't
care about them.
Doesn't work, man.
So how do we learn that? So oftentimes,
our problems aren't with the judgment.
Our problems is how
will
the people who deliver it like, if someone
came to your house, right,
and they brought pizza and they shoved it
in your face, are you gonna want to
have the pizza? Of course not. What about
something as beautiful as Al Islam?
You know, how how bad is it that
someone could take something as beautiful as a
light of Islam
and make someone not like it?
Like SubhanAllah.
Sayyidina
Ali
he said,
nobody
met the messenger of Allah
alayhi salatu salam,
except they would love him.
SubhanAllah.
So judgments are something that we believe the
prophets bought, brought.
And here I explain, actions are those things
you must do like prayer,
those things that you are encouraged to do
like fasting on Mondays Thursdays and those things
you are allowed to do like going out
with your friends to eat.
Avoidances
are those things you are ordered to avoid
like cursing your parents, God help us.
Those actions you are encouraged to avoid like
not wearing deodorant if you go to the
masjid or have a nice stanky breath.
And those actions you are allowed to avoid
like going out with your friends to eat.
Now inshaAllah we're going to talk about belief
in the hereafter. But before we do, do
you guys have any questions about anything that's
been covered so far?
So belief in the hereafter is one of
the key components of our faith,
right, the prophet and you should memorize this
hadith in English or and if you can
do it in Arabic, it's great. MashaAllah.
The Prophet when he defined the Iman, this
is the definition of faith in Islam.
To believe with Allah, His angels, His books,
His messengers, the hereafter and to believe
that all things good or bad are from
Allah's decree.
Belief in the Hereafter means to believe in
everything that the Quran and Sunnah taught us
or teaches us
about
that's Arabic.
Like death,
what happens in the grave,
the resurrection, and all that happened after it.
I want you to remember this.
The hereafter
in Islam,
starts
at death
and includes everything
thereafter.
It's usually, like, when I sometimes talk to
other religions,
they think they hear after me is like,
Yomukiyama.
Right?
Only the day of judgment. But in Islam,
Al Ahira
means everything that starts from the moment a
person dies.
Believe in the Hereafter means to believe in
everything that the Quran and Sunnah teaches us
about, like death, what happens in the grave,
the resurrection, all that happens after the day
of judgment in heaven and *.
This is so important, by the way.
The hereafter is so important that it is
mentioned on almost
every page of the Quran.
SubhanAllah
like most every page of the Quran. So
tafatiha,
master of the day of judgment. They have
certainly in the hereafter.
The next page, they have a severe punishment.
Next page WaquduHannah
SullaHijarah talks about hellfire. The 4th page talks
about Jannah. So like almost every page of
the Quran,
the hereafter is mentioned SubhanAllah
as a reminder, so we don't forget.
For the rest of the text, hamdulillah as
we come to the last few weeks of
our classes together.
Sheikh Ahmed dear addresses some of the important
beliefs you must know about the hereafter.
Some of not all of them, and he
doesn't go into a lot of detail. InshaAllah
at SWISS we have a class
just on the Hereafter.
Everything you need to know about the hereafter.
The first is the reckoning.
And the word for reckoning in Arabic is
Hissap.
Maybe you know some people named Hasib,
A,
an accountant.
It's called Hassib.
Because just as an accountant
reckons
and takes inventory of our wealth,
is
a day in which
inventory will be taken of our lives.
How do we live our lives?
And it's important,
you think about this, that the hadith of
Saydai Sharadhiallahu
Anha from the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
who says that, you know,
to be reckoned is a form of punishment.
Like to experience
that, hisab
in itself is like a form of adab.
So the the thing that we want to
think about,
and there are numerous
narrations to support our belief in the hisaab
found in the Quran
and sunnah
is what is the first thing we're gonna
be asking about? Like, think about it, like,
if you had an open exam
and say the next exam, and I told
you, like, here's the first question. It's an
open note, and here's the first question.
You'd study for it, man. Like you prepare.
So in many ways, that's what the sunnah
is. Prophet is giving us the answers to
the test we'll face in the hereafter.
The first thing that we'll be asked about
is salah.
The first thing that a person will be
asked about on the day of judgment
is salah. So Yohasib,
here's this word,
reckoned inventory.
First thing that's going to be taken at
the inventory is our salah.
Fa'in
salahat.
So if it is
sound faqad Afla Hawa Anja,
then the person will be safe and sound.
But if there's mistakes in salah,
then the person is going to be lost
and bankrupt.
Question. Now many of you are of the
age where you've started praying, like, regularly, or
you should be.
So you wanna start to create that habit
now.
One of the things I do, I have
trouble waking up in the morning, just because
it's just how I am.
It's like, I'll even put like some crazy,
like,
hard rock music on my alarm, man.
Just to make sure I wake up.
Like, you know, make the effort, make the
intention. That's the first thing you wanna do.
Make intention.
The second thing is you wanna think about
the virtues of salah. We're gonna have a
course for you guys just on salah. We'll
talk about it there.
But the point here is, your hasa will
be he. The first thing the first thing
we're gonna be asked about
is salah.
There are 4 things that you want to
pay attention to, man,
when it comes to being reckoned by Allah
Subhana Wa Ta'la in the hereafter.
The Prophet
SAW
said,
Another narration
that Zudu Qadamah Ab Din Yawmulqiamati
Hat Yous Allah and Arba.
People are not going to move in the
Hereafter till they ask about 4 things.
Andjesidi hi fi ma'a bla.
How someone harmed and treated their body.
And
on his about his or her lifespan and
how they
wasted it. There's another narration, and I want
you to think about this,
that doesn't say, umrihi, it says, shabebi,
about your youth.
You know
why? Why would someone why is someone's youth
going to be reckoned?
And and you find something really interesting in
this hadith.
And a person's wealth,
how he or she earned it or spent
it.
You know, oftentimes we find narrations that people
that are older,
right, are going to be questioned about their
wealth.
And yet and people that
are younger are gonna be questioned about their
youth because
when you're young, your wealth is your youth.
That's your capital, man. The energy that you
have now.
And when you're older, you may no longer
have the physical vitality that you had when
you were younger, but now you have the
material vitality, so that's
what you're gonna be asked about.
So we see that wealth and youth are
like blessings from Allah.
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. It's a very, very interesting
point.
Yeah, like somebody who, like, got their body
tattooed or someone who went and put like
holes in their faces or
somebody who,
you know,
somebody who, like, did things in Bron that
harmed their physical health
when they're told not to. Like these people
that are going out
and demanding to be out during this virus.
Like they're abusing not only their bodies potentially,
but other people.
Iman. Sorry. I read Imran off on Iman.
But can you imagine, like,
when we're young, we tend not to have
a lot of material
wealth, but we have energy.
When we're older, we don't necessarily have the
energy that we had when we were young,
but we have
financial energy,
financial power.
So that's what both are asked about.
SubhanAllah. So your wealth, young folks,
take advantage of this wealth now. And just
like you invest wealth to make you better
off in the future,
the habits that you develop now as young
people,
right, are going to be your investment for
the future.
So someone's asking, Masha'Allah, what a great question
she's asking, is it normal to fear death?
Absolutely.
But that fear should lead us to inspiration.
Right? Our scholars said that
fear of death should lead to inspiration,
not despair, right?
To have that hope in Allah.
So to be asked about our youth and
how we, how we used it.
And how did I acquire my wealth?
And how did I spend my wealth?
If you think about,
you know, I know this may not be
on your radar right now, but like
how wealth is acquired in the world today
can sometimes be very unethical.
Sweatshops,
exploiting people, prison industrial complex,
harming the environment.
All those things come into like, Iqtysaebu
mein.
How have I
made this money?
What if someone got tattoos when they were
younger because they didn't know what's wrong?
Yeah, of course. Like when someone does that's
such a great question. Look how, like, beautiful
these people are, man, in this chair room.
Allahu Akbar, man.
So absolutely, like,
if you did something in the past that
you didn't know about Allah's Kareem, Allah's Rahim,
repent inshallah,
you know, we make mistakes. A lot of
the convert brothers and sisters who become Muslim.
Those piercings are allowed because it falls under
culture, right? It falls under like a cultural
thing.
But harming body
is something where you're like harming yourself.
Right? You're doing oh, nice.
Nice.
That's beautiful, Musa. Everyone see what Musa wrote
in the chat? It's like really, really nice,
man. Thank you for sharing that. He said
he was in a lecture where a speaker
said that when we're young, we have time
and health and we get older, we have
wealth and health. And then we're really old.
We have time and wealth.
It's like so true. So true. Masha'Allah. Masha'Allah.
I'm glad to see you guys interacting. Alhamdulillah.
So these are the 4 things you want
to pay attention to. Right? Want to pay
attention to your youth,
your body,
your time,
your wealth, and how you spend your wealth.
We're gonna talk about today, inshallah, as we
finish up is the punishment
of the grave.
And the bliss in the grave is something
that we believe in as Muslims.
It is mentioned in the Quran and in
authentic hadith. However, I want you to understand
and this is where sometimes people,
irresponsibly
talk about these things.
The the the severe punishments of the grave
are for
people who are not Muslim. Right? Like people
like Firon,
the Hypocrites,
Abu Jahal.
So as we read some of these don't
think like, oh, that applies to me. Masha'Allah
man,
You're young. You're trying your best. You say
La ilaha illallah. You try to stay away
from the Haram as best you can. You
try to do good things.
Allah is merciful, man. And the struggle is
real. So don't don't allow sometimes, like, these
certain texts that are talking about
Kufar.
Don't think it's talking about you. You say
Laila HIllallah, Hamdulillah.
There is evidence for the punishment in the
grave of the grave in the Quran.
In the 9th chapter of the Quran verse
110,
Allah says,
We will punish them twice,
then they will return to a fiercer punishment.
Abdullah ibn Said that
punish them twice means once in dunya, once
in the grave, and then the severe punishment
for those people is when they have to
face the day of judgment.
Sometimes Uthman
would
pass by a grave and he would cry.
And someone asked him, like, why are you
crying? And he said, Innaqabra
awwaloo manazililahhira.
That
the grave is the first stop
in the journey through the hereafter.
Fa'in najaaminhu
fama badahu aisaramin.
So if somebody succeeds there, everything after is
gonna be easy.
And if someone doesn't succeed there,
then everything thereafter will be more difficult for
them.
The prophet said,
The Prophet said, I have never seen anything
more terrifying than the punishment of the grave.
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
There are some questions that people are going
to be asked in the grave and many
of you know them, Masha'Allah,
and you've heard them before.
Imam Abu Dawood, this is the famous hadith
from Al Bara'ib Ma'azib, who said one day
that they were out with a messenger of
Allah to marry 1 of the Ansar.
And when they got there, the grave wasn't
ready yet. So they set and waited.
And the prophet
he took a stick
and he
pushed it into the ground,
scraped the ground with it. Then he raised
his head and he said 33 times,
Seek refuge in Allah from the punishment of
the grief.
In the narration of Haneda, the prophet
said, then after a person is left in
their grave because you know the famous hadith,
that 3 things follow a dead person.
2 of them go and one of them
stays.
The 2 that go are his wealth and
his his family.
And what stays in the grave with him
is his actions or her actions.
So after someone is buried,
the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says that
2 angels we talked about those angels will
come to him and set him up and
ask him. And here's the questions I put
here for you.
Manrabook,
who's your Lord?
What is your religion?
And who taught you this religion?
And he will respond, my Lord is Allah.
My religion is Islam.
And the one who taught me this was
Muhammad Rasoolah
sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
Then they will ask him, how do you
know that? He will respond. I read it
in the book of Allah, the Quran.
I believed in it and I affirmed it.
Then a caller from the heavens will say,
my servant has spoken the truth.
So spread a bed for him on paradise.
Clothe him from paradise and open a door
from him for him from paradise that will
blow
like a beautiful scent and comforting
wind into his grave.
And then that person will also be able
to see his place in paradise and it
will be as far as the eye can
see.
Like it will be limitless.
SubhanAllah.
Al Bara added then the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam
mentioned the death of a disbeliever.
And he said,
Alaihi Salatu was Salam.
No, no, Saeed, there's also other narrations that
say you're going to experience the personal experience
different kind of
delights and blisses in their grave, InshaAllah. And
remember
that for a person in the grave, it's
gonna seem like the blinking of an eye.
Right? Think about when you sleep and you
wake up.
It feels like no time has passed. So
that's kind of the experience that some of
our scholars talked about. That's a great question,
Saeed. Masha'Allah. Masha'Allah.
Yeah,
Ahmed, like, of course, it's your Iman. So
when I first converted,
I had this teacher, he had this in
Arabic,
what we just read. So I was like,
oh, man, I'm just gonna memorize this. I'm
good.
It's like, no, no, you have to like
live it man. Right? So your iman is
going to speak for you. Insha'Allah.
And also, Sayeed, this is not like a
normal
bed or a normal experience. This is something
that's going to be like
Because the pleasure and the pain in the
hereafter
is
unique, and not like the pleasure and the
pain that we experience here.
May Allah make it easy for us.
Al Bara, he added
that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
said that the 2 angels will come to
the disbeliever, they will set him up, they
will ask him the same questions.
And he will be like, I don't know.
I don't know. I don't know. I don't
know.
And then a voice will cry from the
heavens. This is a liar. Get that
spread a bed for him from *, clothe
him from *, and open the door to
him into *.
And then some of its heat and harsh
wind will come into the grave, and he
will be compressed in his grave
such that like his ribs will be crushed.
Remember this is a disbeliever.
So you guys are saying,
you're trying to live a good life. Don't
apply this to yourself.
The punishment in their grave is a very
serious issue. However,
such that at the end of every prayer,
and I will post this,
for you guys in the,
and let me do it now, actually.
I'm gonna post this for you guys in
the
classroom chat.
So I I just took a picture of
this for you, and I'll put this
in your Google classroom, Insha'Allah.
This du'a
is a du'a that you definitely want to
learn.
It's very, very important.
It's a good question, Ali. We'll talk about
that in a second. We have to do
our best, right? We have to do our
best. So Ali is saying, how can we
make ethical that's such a great question.
Make ethical and Islamic purchase decisions when we
live under a system
that is characterized by exploitation of workers and
environment. Yeah, we live in a post colonial
economy, right? This is the colonizers economy. And,
and it's based on exploitation,
and
making as much capital as possible.
How do you navigate that? So there's some
great websites, and I always encourage people to
think about going, You guys should research something.
I'll type it in here.
0 ways to movement
is is a movement that's very important. I
think it aligns with Islamic values,
that helps us make sure, like, that we're
what we're
using
is not harming the world around us.
And then also there's there's other resources out
there.
I'll try to get to you, inshallah, and
I did a podcast with a girl named
a woman scholar named Doctor. Mona Banani.
On the 0 waste movement, you can hear
it. And then 3 nights ago, we did
a Quran session on
the idea of being 0 waste. So how
do you purchase
and how do you spend in a way
that minimizes
its negative impact?
That's a great question Ali. Masha Allah. Allah
bless you, man.
Allahu Akbar. Here's the du'a that the prophet
taught us to say
at the end of every prayer. Allahumma'ini
Oh, Allah.
I seek your protection from the punishment of
*,
from the punishment of the grave and from
the trial of the Antichrist and from the
trials of life and death.
How do you protect yourself from the punishments
of the grave?
There's a number of things that you can
do.
And
they're not that difficult, right?
So the first is to read the 67
chapter at least once a day.
To read the 67th
chapter at least once a day.
Masha Allah, it is it is
a chapter which is only 30 verses
and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam he said,
you know, it is a chapter
that Allahu Akbar
if you read it, it will protect you
from the punishments of the grave.
And here we see the narration of Sayna
Abu Hurayrah radhiallahu anhu
who says that the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
has said in Suratah
in Suratah minu Qurani
So he said there is a chapter in
the Quran which consists of 30 verses it
will intercede for a person who recites it
until Allah forgives him. It is the 67th
chapter of the Quran. It's only 30 verses
like super short.
This is like a really beautiful narration from
Imam Atir Midi from ibn Abbas who said
some of the sahaba were digging
in the area of Medina by Al Baqir
by the graveyard.
And they accidentally dug up a person's
grave.
And
as they did, so they heard Surat Al
Mulk coming from the person's grave.
So they came to the prophet
and he said,
It is a prohibitor from punishment, meaning Shotmukh.
It is a savior
to save from the punishment of the grave.
And in this case, it has saved that
person
from the punishment of the grave. So the
first
to read Sultanulq, you know, you can read
it. You don't have to read it all
at once.
Read like a page in the morning, a
page in the afternoon, and then finish it
at night. Makes it much easier.
What I do sometimes is like, I like
to read in my sunnus, like 5 verses
each from Sholomuk.
So for for for dhor, 5 verses, 5
verses, 5 verses, 5 verses, 20 verses.
And then the 2 sunnah after Maghrib,
55,
and then basically you're done.
It's almost done. You have 1 verse left.
The second thing is to be charitable and
focused on development and relief in authentic Hadith.
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said inna Sadaqatahatukfi'u
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam he said that
charity
extinguishes
the heat of the grave
from a person, like the punishment of the
grave.
And indeed, the only thing which is going
to protect a person
and provide them shade on the hereafter.
Here means like a sense of ease is
their charity.
Number 3, and people ask me why. I
don't know why. I just trust what the
prophet said, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And last class was some of our younger
students, you know, it was really hard because
some of them have lost
family members on Friday
evenings
and and and and Friday Thursday nights.
The prophet said,
No Muslim dies on Jum'ah or the night
of Jum'ah except Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
secures him from the trials of the grave
protects him from the punishments of the grave.
We're gonna stop here Insha'Allah Ta'ala and we'll
take any any questions that you may have,
about anything you would like to ask. I
saw a few questions in in
the chat box.
We can also,
yeah, yeah, we'll pick that up InshaAllah Monday.
If you have any questions, we can take
them now. I saw,
Hammad was saying, you know,
some people are saying the world is going
to end.
You know, this not it's not it's not
true, man. There are numerous ahadith
that we're going to get to. We'll talk
about the signs of the hour coming soon
insha'Allah.
And there are wussul for understanding those things.
So we want to be able to like,
I have a
podcast I can share with you.
Let me find it here.
Well, I went through kind of what's called
eschatology.
Right?
Eschatology
is the,
science of the hereafter,
and, addressing some of those those those concerns.
So here's the link
to that that podcast
on Spotify that you can listen to.
I talk about some of the rules for
that.
Day of Judgment.
What is the best way to to fear
death? As we mentioned earlier,
Imam al Ghazari has a beautiful statement about
this,
where he says that, you know,
the proper
fear of death or the proper fear of
God
is one that should inspire us to live
responsible lives.
So, like, if if my fear of death
is causing me to become despondent and depressed
to the point that I'm no longer able
to function, then that's not a healthy thing.
Yeah. I mean, you wanna gain knowledge, especially
when you're young. Right? Because you you may
use that knowledge later on in life.
So have the intention as you're learning, like,
whatever I learn now, I may not be
able to
use it now, but I hope that one
day
I can use it in the future. Like,
that's a really good thing.
Yeah, it means Thursday. So Leila Tuzuma Shayan
means Friday, Thursday evening, Because
the
the day the night of Jummah
starts
on Thurs like, Thursday
night at Maghrib.
At Maghrib Bizdaf is the layl of the
new day.
So our days start with night SubhanAllah.
Yeah, these lessons are recorded. Oh, welcome to
the class. Masha Allah. Yeah, everything's in the
Google Classroom as well as on my YouTube
page.
So you can follow-up there, but we're super
excited to have you. Welcome.
Masha'Allah. Yeah, so you could actually read Surat
Al Kahf after Maghrib on Thursday,
because that's Laila Tuzumu'ah.
So Leila at Supt,
right, the night of 7th day is gonna
start
in like 2 hours. This is not gonna
be the night of Jumuah.
People get this confused. So the Islamic days
start after Maghrib
and end at Maghrib.
That's kind of cool.
Any other questions, InshaAllah, before we
Yeah, that's a good question. I wanted, how
should we reconcile our Islamic police progressive views
on topics such as LGBTQ
issues or drug decriminalization?
Should we even try? That's a private question,
but we should answer it. You know, the
prophet he worked with everybody in what was
good.
So we can work with any community in
any group of people on things where we
align morally and religiously and where we differ,
we should talk about it. That's when I
was involved in community organizing some years ago.
That's the essence. That's what makes community organizing
powerful is that communities that don't agree on
some things,
see other things as so important that it
compels them to agree.
And on drug decriminalization,
you know,
I honestly believe that
Muslims have to look at the bigger picture
and see how
the criminalization
of drugs has specifically targeted black people and
people of color.
There's no justice
in the way that this is being carried
out now.
So
are we Islamically obliged also not to support
an unjust system
when it's acting unjustly?
Or are we just happy to say, wow,
the system made this haram, so it's all
good?
I I don't believe in the latter. I
believe in the former, like, there has to
be justice. There has to be a just
process
before we can start punishing people
for crime.
Right?
Yeah. Yeah. So, Imad, I just put it
in your exam. So that's my my fault.
When we are in tar we can use
the Quran app to follow absolutely say to
Aisha.
She used to follow people as they led
prayer in front of her.
It should be in Arabic,
not in English unless you don't speak Arabic
or can't read Arabic then it's okay. Or
your Arabic is not very strong. So okay,
it can be in English, but say to
Aisha, you still hold
the most often pray behind people.
Yeah. Absolutely. Like, in the North American field
council, I heard doctor Musa Musaddiki say that,
you know,
you can
use the phone
to read. Absolutely.
It's best if you keep the prayer in
Arabic. One of the things I do, Alina,
is like before what I understand Arabic, what
when I didn't understand Arabic is I would
read the translation before or after.
Right? So
that way, like, I was able to bring
some of the meaning into.
Either is fine, Selma. Either is acceptable. In
fact,
in in large mosque is better. And now
we have to worry about that people use
a phone because when everyone has the most
half, it takes up a lot of space,
and then they put the most half on
the ground.
So whereas the phone, I can just put
it in my pocket.
But sometimes what's nice is, like, if I'm
in the masjid,
ask people next to you, is my phone
bothering you? Maybe the phone is bothering them.
So so that that's a discussion to have
with people. But that's a great question. Masha'Allah.
Any other questions? Insha'Allah.
May Allah bless you guys. Have a great
weekend.
Ramadan
Mubarak.
May Allah
bless all of you and bless this Ramadan.
I'll post this
soon up on YouTube as well as the
dua
immediately.
And I'll have your test back to you
by Tuesday,
or Wednesday, Insha'Allah.
Ramadan
Mubarak.