Tom Facchine – Hadith Series – #34 – The PROBLEM With Speaking About These People

			Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said to somebody and what don't curse, or don't
		

			excessively blame
		

			the people who have already passed away. And he explained why he said, because they've already
		

			met the results of their deeds. They're in their graves. Whether they're having a pleasurable
experience, or whether they are getting punished in the grave, it's already happening. They can see
from their graves, their spot and Paradise or they can see their spot in the hellfire. And so what
benefit does it do for us in the dunya, to go around, cursing or speaking ill of the dead.
		

			It's sort of a phenomenon where the shaytaan it's kind of like class with a whole group of similar
activities where the shaytaan gets us focused on other people at the expense of ourselves. And our
righteous anger can be diverted away from things that we can actually do here and now in this dunya,
and gets us kind of feeling in a moral superior way, to this person who's already passed away and
laying in the grave.
		

			There's really much better things to do with your time with your energy with your speech. There are,
		

			you know, hills that need to be fixed in this world right now. There are tyrants and oppressors that
need to be
		

			exposed and, and struggled against in this world that are living there are, you know, your own
demons, your own habits that need to be that need to be fixed. So it kind of takes us into a realm
of useless action, right to be
		

			concerned or overly fixated with this person who's who's already passed away and they've already got
what's coming to them. We should focus on what's in front of us what we can do, what we can change
how we can improve. And that's where the struggle of a believer lies.