Tom Facchine – 4 Pathways To The Hellfire
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In Surah chapter 11, the speaker discusses the importance of belief in the afterlife and the belief that fearing the afterlife is not sufficient to achieve morality. The speaker emphasizes that belief in the afterlife is crucial to living a righteous life and that there is no way to avoid the consequences of actions. The speaker also mentions that belief in the afterlife is fundamental to morality and that there is no way to avoid the consequences of actions.
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Surah Al Mudethir is a really, really amazing
Surah, and there's a lot of, interesting points
to highlight. One of them is that Allah
shows us 4 pathways that lead us to
the hellfire
and punishment and paint.
And so, there's this kind of, you know,
hypothetical but future conversation that's going to happen.
What's what is it that landed you in
hellfire?
And then the people of the hellfire are
gonna respond, lam nekum minam musalin, that we
weren't praying. We didn't used to pray.
And we didn't used to feed the poor.
Right? And
we used to
play around or be idle with those who
were doing the same thing,
And we used to deny,
the
reckoning, you know, the last day.
And so every
believing person has to check themselves against these
four things. Right?
If you're safe from every single one of
them, then congratulations. You're doing a great job.
But usually
usually,
we have some sort of shortcoming or deficiency.
Right? Can we really oh, okay. Many of
us, we take care of our prayers, alhamdulillah.
But are we feeding the poor? Okay. Most
of us, probably not.
Are we
basically having a sort of allegiance to truth
that we're not even going to spend time
with the people of falsehood or we're going
to sort of take it and make it
into that public sort of unapologetic
way.
And are we living our lives?
Right? Think about don't think about belief in
the sense of, like, propositions that you agree
with, but think about it.
If somebody looked at me,
would they
say that, oh, this person, they fear the
afterlife.
They fear the day of judgment.
Or do your actions reflect actually that you
are belaying the day of judgment? Your actions
show that you
your belief, it might be an idea that
you think is true,
but hasn't become internalized in part of your
your actions. That's an entire an entirely other
thing. This belief in the afterlife is something
that's so central and so foundational
to faith
that you can't have morality
without it. And that actually
almost all kufr, you know, and and denial
is rooted
in specifically the denial of the afterlife.
Right? And so that's why just shortly after
in the in the Surah, Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala calls out people
that claim
that they would like their own personal revelation,
right? It's kind of they want to play
they want to be the boss. They want
to control. They want to have their own
criteria.
Well, Allah should send me my own personal
revelation. That's what Allah says.
Is that every one of them, they they
they wish that they could have their own
revelation.
But then when does Allah say,
No. What's really at the bottom of this
is that they don't feel fear the afterlife.
Because if you fear the afterlife, you feel,
excuse me, you fear recompense, you're afraid of
the consequences of your actions in the afterlife.
If anything
that's like guidance comes to you, you're gonna
take it seriously. You're gonna look at it
as like, oh, no. Is this something that
I need to be following? Is this something
that I need to,
use to improve myself or to get close
to my Creator?
Right?
But the opposite is true. If you don't
fear the afterlife, if you have no sense
that your time is limited and the consequences
are eternal,
then even if the perfect proof and the
perfect guidance comes to you, you're gonna be
like, you know, whatever. What's this? Why should
I need to follow it? I can get
away with it. It's not gonna affect me.
Why would I
make things more difficult for myself by restricting
myself, disciplining myself in this life when I
could just be having a good time? I
could just be enjoying myself.
So belief in the afterlife is absolutely fundamental
to to morality,
to doing the right thing,
to living a righteous life. And without belief
in the afterlife,
there's none of that. It's not possible. And
so Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says that this
is something that
even people's excuses for not believing at the
base of it, underneath of it all is
that they're not afraid of what's to come.