Yusha Evans – Abou Obeida ibn al Jarrah – The Promised Ones Series
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The segment discusses the importance of following the Prophet's teachings and the importance of making decisions based on them. The speaker also talks about a man named Mercedes-Benz who visits a house and asks who he means. The story is told that the Prophet Dr. Moqud Alaihi- wa-sallam was killed in a plague and that the two individuals who were considered great should not die until they finish their life. The segment also discusses the importance of preparing for death and keeping a clean slate. The segment ends with a preview of a upcoming da'wery series on Saturday.
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We have some very eminent names, some very
prominent names of people who went to Abyssinia.
You have people like Abu Ubaidah ibn Jabal,
we've already talked about.
You have three of the Ash'ub al
-Bashirin who went to Abyssinia.
You have people like Mus'ab ibn Umair,
may Allah be pleased with him, who migrated
the first time.
The second time he did not go back
because he ended up becoming the emissary of
the Prophet ﷺ in Yathrib, which would end
up becoming Medina.
But this is why when the Prophet ﷺ
was told about the death of Najashi in
Medina, he prayed janazah in absence for him.
He prayed janazah for him.
You're allowed to pray janazah in absence for
people, especially high-ranking people or people of
importance.
The Prophet ﷺ called for the event to
be called in his masjid and he prayed
janazah for him.
So Ethiopia is still to this day a
very beautiful – if you've never been to
Ethiopia, it's a very beautiful country to go
to, insha'Allah, to Ana, especially if you
like coffee.
If you like coffee, like me, I used
to be a very heavy coffee drinker.
I have reduced myself to one cup of
decaf in the morning because of my heart
and anxiety issues.
But I used to have, like when I
traveled for a living all the time, three,
four, five cups of coffee a day.
And coffee is said to have originated in
Ethiopia.
It's originated in Ethiopia.
By whom?
The Muslims.
By the Muslims.
Because they wanted a way to be able
to stay up at night and to be
able to read from Qur'an and learn
more and pray tahajjud, etc.
So coffee was – and if you've –
I've been to Ethiopia before.
And if you've ever had a traditional –
I know everybody loves their coffee, right?
Like the Turks, they say they have the
best coffee.
Bosnians say they have the best coffee.
It's almost the same, right?
I know you – the Kurds, you guys
have amazing coffee, mashallah.
But if you ever go and have Ethiopian
traditionally made coffee where they actually take the
raw coffee beans, they'll bring out this big
metal pot, and they'll actually sit there and
roast it over an open fire, grind it
right there, and then make you a cup
of coffee.
You'll never see coffee the same way ever
again.
But I'll tell you one thing.
You're not going to sleep that night either.
There's no sleeping on that night if you
drink that kind of coffee.
The same with like the Turkish coffee and
the Bosnian coffee.
It's very, very, very, very strong.
Anyway, he also witnessed the Battle of Badr
and every single battle with the Prophet ﷺ.
Abu Ubaid missed no battle with the Prophet
ﷺ.
This is also a reason why – and
he was also known to be very smart
and fierce in battle.
This is why he was made a commander
of the army.
After the Prophet ﷺ, he was made a
commander of the army by Umar ibn Qutb,
r.a., to take Palestine.
He was made commander of that army.
That was a big mission.
That was a big thing.
Even though Umar ibn Qutb had conquered Rome,
they had conquered Persia, but Masjid al-Quds
was special.
So to choose someone to go to Masjid
al-Quds, you would have to send someone
super-duper special.
And he sent Abu Ubaid ibn al-Jarrah,
and he was successful at conquering Palestine and
handing the keys over to the Muslims.
May Allah ﷻ give us that victory again,
insha'Allah.
He stood firm with the Messenger of Allah
ﷺ on the Day of Uhud.
On that day, he removed with his mouth
the two rings that pierced the Messenger's ﷺ
cheek.
Because if you don't know, during the Battle
of Uhud, the Prophet ﷺ had a very
serious injury to the side of his mouth.
He actually lost some teeth because of it.
And Abu Ubaid ibn al-Jarrah actually removed
those injuries himself from the Prophet ﷺ on
that day.
From his head, armor, and his front teeth
were broken as a result of it.
Like literally, he took his teeth and broke
his teeth to remove these things out of
the face of the Prophet ﷺ.
So he was amongst the most prestigious of
those.
He was considered the most prestigious amongst those
who had no front teeth, right?
Like, you know, people lose their front teeth
in fights and silly things.
Abu Ubaid ibn al-Jarrah wore them as
a badge of honor.
He lost his front teeth pulling shrapnel out
of the mouth of the side of the
face of the Prophet ﷺ.
He was described as being tall, thin, with
a crooked nose, protruding facial veins, and with
broken front teeth, and he had a light
-colored beard.
His children, he had Yazid, Umair from Hind
ibn Jabir.
Both of them died young.
He had no more children.
So when Abu Ubaid ibn al-Jarrah died,
his lineage ended with him.
And his lineage ended with him.
Albul Qulba narrated from Anas ibn Malik.
رضي الله عنه وارضاه We know Anas ibn
Malik is one of the great companions of
the Prophet ﷺ.
That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, For
every Ummah, there is an Ameen.
An Ameen meaning like someone who is trusted
without question.
For every Ummah, there is someone you can
trust without question.
And these are, I talk about this in
some of my videos.
And I made posts about this.
That I would rather have one dollar bill
than a hundred pennies.
Right?
Like a hundred pennies is a lot of
work.
You got to carry it around.
It's not really worth it.
Each and every individual one is not worth
a lot.
A dollar bill is worth a dollar bill.
And I refer that in terms of friends.
I would rather have one real friend than
a hundred fake friends.
Or a hundred fair weather friends they call
them when I was growing up.
Fair weather friends means that they're only there
when things are good.
When things are bad, they're nowhere to be
found.
And that's what it means to have an
Ameen.
Right?
To have an Ameen or to have a
Khalil.
Someone whom you can trust without question.
And if you want to ask yourself, who
is that in your life?
Think about if you got falsely arrested at
three o'clock in the morning.
Who you calling?
Who you calling?
Who's that brother you're calling?
That's your Ameen.
That's the person whom you can trust and
depend on and rely on.
Not only you're calling him, but you know
he's coming.
You know he's coming and he will take
care of things for you.
In shaa Allah.
Or if you were to be sick or
to pass away, who would you say to
tell, look after my family.
Make sure you look after my family.
Those are your real friends, in shaa Allah.
He said, and the Ameen of my Ummah
is Abu Ubaidah.
And the Ameen of my Ummah is Abu
Ubaidah.
He also narrated that the people of Yemen
came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and
asked him to send with them someone to
teach them Islam and the Sunnah.
Islam and the Sunnah.
This is one thing that you'll find very
often.
And in shaa Allah, one of the courses
I want to do after we do Tabligh
Sabees, in shaa Allah, maybe, is Imam Ahmad's
treaty on the authority of the Sunnah.
He did a treaty on the authority of
the Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ.
If you ever have a chance to read
it.
It was translated into English by Jamal Zarboza.
Jamal Zarboza actually did one in English.
But it's called The Greatness and the Authority
of the Sunnah.
But it is by Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal
rahim Allah ta'ala.
If you read his treaty on the authority
of the Sunnah, you would never question how
important the Sunnah was ever, ever again.
But at this time and at the time
of the Salaf, they considered the two equals.
Like there was no, okay, the Qur'an
is here and the Sunnah is here.
You know, the Qur'an must be following
the Sunnah.
You should follow it.
But for them, it was exactly the same.
There was no difference between the two.
So they said, send with us someone to
teach the Qur'an, teach Islam and teach
the Sunnah to us.
Thereupon he took the hand of Abu Ubaid
ibn al-Jarrah and he said, this is
the Ameen of my Ummah.
So he sent him to Yemen.
Now you have to understand two things here.
Number one, again for the second time, he's
telling the people of Yemen, this is the
Ameen of my Ummah.
And also sending him to the people of
Yemen, we know that the Prophet shallallahu alaihi
wasallam said that faith comes from where?
Yemen.
And Iman is Yemeni, right?
Like you see, he praised the people of
Yemen very highly.
There's a corner of the Ka'bah known
as the Book of Yemen, right?
It's a special corner of the Ka'bah
that faces Yemen and it has been falling
apart and it doesn't matter what they do,
right?
It doesn't matter how many times they've tried
to repair that corner, it always starts collapsing
again.
They had to actually take, if you go
and study, I did this one time, I
took a tour.
I told you I went and I had
a special tour of Mecca and Medina.
One of the places they took me to
was a museum that you have to actually
get permission to go to that has really
old things from the Ka'bah like way,
way back to before the Ottomans, etc.
And he was explaining to me that the
way they had to do this was they
took concrete, melted steel, and rebar and then
put it into that corner of the Ka
'bah so it would stop falling apart.
Like that's the only way they were able
to keep it from collapsing.
This is known as the Book of Yemen
and it's also, if you know one of
the sunnah of tawaf is to what?
To at least touch it or point at
it.
Every time you make tawaf, you're supposed to
at least, if you can touch it, nowadays
good luck with that, you know what I
mean?
Unless you're a very strong, very vigorous person.
But if you don't touch it, you're supposed
to at least point at it as you
do your tawaf.
So for him to send Abu Ubaidah ibn
al-Jarrah to the people of Yemen meant
that he gave him some very serious prestige
and respect.
Prestige and respect, insha'Allah.
Shurayrah ibn Ubaid, Rashid ibn Asad, and others
conveyed that when Umar ibn al-Khattab, r
.a, reached Sara'ah which is an intense
plague had spread in the Levant.
And we know the Levant is the area
above Saudi Arabia, is the area of parts
of Syria, Iraq, and other places, Jordan, all
this was considered the Levant back in the
day.
Umar r.a said, I heard of the
intense plague in the Levant and said, if
my time comes while Abu Ubaidah is alive,
I appoint him as my successor.
If my time comes, if I die while
Abu Ubaidah is alive, because he had gone
to an area where there was some plague.
He said, if I die, Abu Ubaidah ibn
al-Jarrah is to succeed me.
So that if Umar asks me why I
chose him, you have to listen to what
he's saying.
This was their thinking, right, their thought process.
He wasn't saying, I'm doing it just because
I know he's strong.
I know the Prophet shallallahu alaihi wa sallam
praised him.
No, he said the reason I am appointing
him is so that if Allah asks me
why I chose him.
Do you see their mindset?
Their mindset was so different.
Their mindset was making decisions, thinking about on
the day of judgment.
I'm making this decision based on how will
it affect me on the day I stand
in front of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Now we make decisions how it's going to
affect me tomorrow, how it's going to affect
me next week.
Is it going to make me more money?
Is it going to cause me some stress?
We think about just this world.
He was thinking that I'm appointing him because
I want to be able to say, if
Allah asks me why did I appoint him,
this will be my response.
I will answer that I heard the Messenger
of Allah shallallahu alaihi wa sallam say, for
every Ummah there is an Ameen, and the
Ameen of this Ummah is Abu Ubaidah.
So he will be free of it in
front of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
They'll be able to say, why did you
appoint Abu Ubaidah after you?
Because the Prophet shallallahu alaihi wa sallam saying
that he was the Ameen of this Ummah.
So they thought differently.
They thought in an Akhirah mindset.
They had a mindset that this world, yeah,
it's temporary.
Like you go any day, literally, all any
of us can go to sleep tonight, we
don't wake up tomorrow.
And it was actually Umar ibn Al-Khattab
said, only a fool goes to bed thinking
he's going to wake up in the morning.
And only a fool wakes up in the
morning thinking he's going to bed.
You don't know, like any day is your
last day.
So they had an Akhirah mindset.
If my time comes after Abu Ubaidah's death,
then I appoint Mu'adh ibn Jabal, radiallahu
anhu, as my successor.
So that if Allah were to ask me
why I chose him, I would answer, I
heard the Messenger of Allah shallallahu alaihi wa
sallam said, he, Mu'adh, will stand amongst
the Ulema on the Day of Judgment.
Mu'adh ibn Jabal wasn't a part of
this.
He's another great companion that I love because
he was one of the first, after Musaib
ibn Umair, Mu'adh ibn Jabal was one
of the first people sent out as a
da'ee from the Messenger of Allah shallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
And the Prophet ﷺ, the Prophet ﷺ referenced
to him as being from the Ulema of
this Ummah.
The Ulema.
This is coming from the Prophet ﷺ who
is the most knowledgeable human being to ever
walk the face of this earth.
They were great companions with immense knowledge.
But he said Mu'adh ibn Jabal on
the Day of Judgment will stand with the
Ulema.
And we know that the Ulema on the
Day of Judgment, the true Ulema, like real
ones, are going to have the highest honor,
highest ranks.
They will be the ones below the Anbiya
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala because they
carry such a great burden.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in
the Qur'an that it is the Ulema
who have real khashah of him.
It is the Ulema.
The true Ulema are the ones who have
the real khashah of Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala.
And then Allah tells us in the Qur
'an, if you don't know, you ask those
who know.
So the Ulema have a very special place
in this Ummah and they are far and
few in between nowadays.
Like we have a lot of knowledgeable people,
right?
Like there are plenty of people, mashallah, who
are knowledgeable.
But when it comes to that term, Ulema,
people who are of a different caliber, they
are becoming less and less and less.
And the Prophet ﷺ prophesized this.
He said that Islam will not die off
because of like it just being erased or
the Ummah being erased.
He said it will die with the death
of the scholars.
So every time a scholar dies, it should
be a pain to us.
Like because that's when they die, their knowledge
dies with them.
Whatever they weren't able to share dies with
them.
And that's an unfortunate fact.
And sometimes they're irreplaceable.
There are people, there are scholars of our
time, of our past, who are just irreplaceable.
You're not going to find people like them
anymore.
So may Allah ﷻ preserve our Ulema.
And hopefully, inshallah, encourage our youth to be
the next group of Ulema because it's a
hard job and if we don't replace our
Ulema with people who are more knowledgeable, we're
going to end up with a very ignorant
Ummah.
Because there's no real like...
If you were to ask our youth these
days to be a scholar, like what's the
benefit?
You know what I mean?
Like our scholars are some of the most
abused people on the planet.
Our Imams are some of the most abused
people.
Like why would anyone want to become this?
It's not a very successful way to live
your life.
But it is a burden that must be
carried on.
It's a torch that somebody has to pick
up.
Because if the knowledge dies, then we die.
We die with it, inshallah.
It is narrated that Umar ibn al-Khattab
said to his companions, What do you wish
for?
One man said, I wish for a house
to be filled with gold so that I
could spend it for the cause of Allah
ﷻ.
Umar said, What else do you wish for?
Another man said, I wish it was filled
with pearls and precious gems so that I
could spend it for the cause of Allah.
Umar said, What else do you wish for?
They said, We do not know.
He said, I wish this house, because they
were all sitting in a house together.
He was saying to one companion, What do
you wish for?
He said, I wish this house was full
of gold so I could spend it for
the sake of Allah.
The other said, I wish it was filled
with pearls and gems so I could spend
it for the sake of Allah ﷻ.
Umar responded, He said, I wish this house
was filled with the likes of Abu Ubaidah.
He said, I wish this house would be
filled with the likes of Abu Ubaidah.
Better than gold and gems and all of
that.
This is the love, the difference and the
respect that they had for one another.
This is one of the ways that we
can actually give charity, give sadaqah, is mentioning
your brother in good light in his absence.
Mentioning your brother or your sister in a
good light in their absence is actually charity
for them.
It's actually charity for them.
Hisham ibn Urwah conveyed that his father said,
When Umar came to the Levant, the public
and the elite were at his reception.
But Umar said, Where is my brother?
Where is my brother?
He wanted to know, Where is my brother?
And they said, Who do you mean?
Who is your brother?
He said, Abu Ubaidah.
They said, He will come shortly.
When he came, Umar got off his horse.
He jumped down off his horse, hugged him
and went into his house.
But he did not see, like he saw
Abu Ubaidah because Abu Ubaidah was in the
Levant at this time.
They've given him a lot of prestige and
rule in this area.
He got off his horse.
Like they have this big procession for him.
You have to kind of like imagine this
scene.
They know that Amirul Mu'mineen is coming.
The ummah at this time is very strong.
Umar shows up.
There's a big procession for him.
All the royals or whatever are out there.
And he doesn't care about any of them.
He asks, Where is Abu Ubaidah?
Abu Ubaidah comes.
He waits for him.
He doesn't even get off his horse.
They said, He's coming.
He said, Okay, I'll wait.
When he comes, he gets off his horse
and leaves everybody else behind.
Just walks off and goes into the house
of Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jabra.
He said, But when he went into the
house of Abu Ubaidah al-Jabra, he didn't
find anything but three things.
He found a sword, his armor, and a
saddle.
That's all he had.
The only possessions he had in his house
were a sword, an armor, and his saddle.
Umar said, Why don't you get what your
companions have in their houses?
Meaning like the ummah was wealthy at this
time.
Like people were like the Muslim ummah.
I told you people were getting paid at
this time simply for being Muslim.
Like, Are you Muslim?
Yes, take some money.
You know what I mean?
Like we need to get rid of some
of this because so much was coming in
from the conquest and battles.
Like the dates and all was like overflowing.
They didn't have nothing to do with this
money.
Everybody in Levant was living in luxury at
that time almost.
Abu Ubaidah has nothing, nothing.
And if it wasn't for Abu Ubaidah, they
wouldn't have this part of the world, right?
So he's asking Abu Ubaidah, Why don't you
have for everybody like you got nothing in
this house.
There's nothing but a sword, a shield, I
mean armor and a house, and a mount.
He said, Why don't you get what everybody
else has?
He said, This will suffice me to get
to my resting place.
They were different.
He said, This is enough for me to
get to my resting place, I mean to
my grave.
He said, This is enough for me till
I get into my grave.
Contentment, contentment Allah had given him peace.
When you have real contentment, things start losing
value, right?
When you have real contentment, even if you
have things, they're just things, like they don't
really matter.
You can have them and lose them.
But Abu Ubaidah, listen to the type of
person he is.
What does he need to get into his
grave?
His sword, his armor, and a saddle to
ride on.
That's all he needs.
He was ready for when...
If you wanna talk about men who are
ready to stand on business as they say
these days, Abu Ubaidah was always ready to
stand on business.
All he needed was his weapon, his armor,
and a way to get him somewhere.
That's it.
If it was time to go, it was
time to go.
Abu Qatada, rahim Allah, conveyed that Abu Ubaidah
ibn al-Jarrah radiyallahu anhu said, There is
not a single person, whether red or black,
free or slave, Arab or non-Arab, whom
I know is better than me at piety,
except that I would wish I could be
a spot on his skin.
This is their care and their concern.
He said, There is not a person, it
doesn't matter their color, it doesn't matter whether
they're free or a slave, or Arab or
non-Arab, whom I know is better than
me in piety, except I wish I could
be a spot on his skin.
Namran ibn Mithmar reported that Abu Ubaidah ibn
al-Jarrah radiyallahu anhu used to walk amongst
his soldiers.
Because when he was on the battlefield, you
know, the emir, the leaders, he has to
go and like walk up and down the
lines, get people fired up, like it's a
different time in the emir.
So, you know, there's no loud speaker, there's
no walkie-talkies, like he would have to
literally go up and down the lines.
Abu Ubaidah would go up and down the
lines, and he would say, Perhaps one who
whitens his clothes spoils his faith.
Perhaps one who whitens his clothes spoils his
faith.
Meaning that, if you're too clean in this
army, then you might not have the faith
that you think you have.
You know, like you don't come back clean
from these missions.
We're going for the sake of Allah swt.
There's victory or there's death.
That's it.
He said, Perhaps the one who honors himself
humiliates his faith.
Meaning the one who has kibr, the one
who thinks that he's the baddest and the
bravest and the most idiot, then he's a
weak in his faith.
He said, Hasten to wipe your old sins
out with good deeds.
He's telling the army this, Hasten, you have
a chance now.
Wipe out your sins with these good deeds
for the sake of Allah swt.
If you have sins that fill up what
is between yourself and the sky, then proceeds
towards the good deed.
It would rise over your sins until it
covers all of them.
This is what he's telling them on the
battlefield.
He's not telling them about glory, that your
name will be remembered in history.
He's not telling them that spoils of war
will come to you, and you'll become rich.
He's telling them that if you go, if
you have sins, we all carry sins.
He said, It doesn't matter if they fill
what's between you and the sky.
Go forward towards this good deed that stands
in front of you, and Allah will cover
what's in between.
We know this during the battle of Uhud.
The companion's name just went off my mind.
If anybody remembers, you can tell me.
If not, I'm sure somebody on YouTube will
remind me.
There was a companion during the battle of
Uhud who was sitting and eating some dates.
Everything was just going crazy.
So he sat down and said, And then
his companion was sitting next to him and
he said, What's the matter with you?
He said, I smell Jannah.
I smell the fragrance of Jannah coming from
Mount Uhud.
I smell it, I smell it, I can
smell it, I smell it.
And he threw away what he was eating,
and he went and he became a shaheed
that day.
I can't remember the companion's name.
But they thought differently, right?
They thought differently.
I smell Jannah over there.
He ran into it, rushed into it.
The rest of us were trying to avoid
death in any way possible.
We avoid death.
We have fear and hatred of death.
These men knew that death brought them closer
to their final destination.
Lastly, section 5 is death.
He died one of the ways that the
Prophet shallallahu alaihi wa sallam said that you
die as a shaheed.
He died in a plague.
He died.
Abu Ubaidah passed away in the plague of
Amwas in Jordan.
There was a very serious plague.
Back then it was known as the Black
Death, right?
That's what they used to call it, the
Black Death.
Then it was called the Spanish Flu, all
these other things.
But he died in a plague.
The Prophet shallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, anyone
who is patient when a plague appears and
they don't try to flee from it and
run because you can spread it.
We learned all this in the pandemic, right?
He said if you die in a plague
with patience, Allah shallallahu alaihi wa sallam will
grant you martyrdom.
He died in the plague of Amwas in
Jordan.
He was buried in Bisan and Mu'adh
ibn Jabal led his jihad.
You have to think about that.
The two people whom Umar said he would
choose to succeed him.
He said if I die and Abu Ubaidah
is alive, he becomes my successor.
If I die and Mu'adh ibn Jabal
is alive, he becomes my successor.
Abu Ubaidah would pass away and Mu'adh
ibn Jabal would be the one to lead
his janazah.
It happened in the 18th year of Umar's
rule.
So he passed away before Umar ibn al
-Khattab radiallahu anhu was assassinated.
And I'm sure it was very detrimental news
to Umar because he had so much love
for Abu Ubaidah.
If you study the life of Umar in
depth and detail, you'll see that Abu Ubaidah
became like his right-hand strategist.
He was 58 years old only when he
passed away.
He was only 58 years old.
Back then that was still old, but he
could have had a much longer life.
But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala had decided
his time and his place and know that
is for all of us, right?
I'll leave you with that small thing as
we finish up with these great men.
These great men who without a doubt in
question they're in Jannah.
They're the people of paradise.
They're people of paradise.
There are very few people I said in
the beginning of this that you can point
to and say, that person is a person
of paradise.
We know, we don't know.
These people we can say about them, they're
people of al-Jannah.
So looking into their lives is of great
importance because and I try to teach this
to my children.
If you want to be a person of
Jannah, emulate a person you know is of
Jannah, right?
Like to emulate the Prophet ﷺ is the
highest, the highest caliber.
How many of us can actually really do
that?
You know what I mean?
Like to be like the Prophet ﷺ is
an effort.
It's an unattainable effort.
None of us will ever be like him.
But these people or human beings just like
you and I that are known to be
people of paradise.
So if you can emulate them, you're emulating
a person whom you know is in al
-Jannah.
But for sure, their deaths all came in
different ways.
But it was written by Allah ﷻ for
each and every one of us.
This is how I will end.
The day you die, it's already been decided.
That's in a book, this with Allah.
The day you die has already been written
in ink that is dry.
The moment and time of the day you'll
die has already been written.
The manner in which you die has already
been written.
The place in which you will die has
already been written.
There is no way for you to avoid
it.
There's no way.
Your whole life is an inevitable train ride
to that moment.
That moment is going to be the deciding
factor for the rest of your eternity.
That moment.
That's why we must always try to prepare
for it.
We must always try to prepare for it.
As you see, some of these men died
after illnesses.
Many of them marched.
Like they didn't know.
They didn't know when they woke up in
the morning they were going to get stabbed
and they would die at the end of
the day or a plague would come, etc.
So these things are unexpected.
I could get in my car tonight and
not make it home tonight.
I understand that reality.
So make sure if you do nothing else,
try to always keep your slate between you
and Allah ﷻ.
Try to keep a clean slate between you
and Allah ﷻ.
Because after that death, it's you and Him.
After that death, it's you and Him.
That's all.
Your family is going to leave you.
Your friends are going to forget about you.
Your children will have you as a memory.
After death, it's you and Allah ﷻ.
So that relationship is important now because it
will be the most important relationship you have.
May Allah honor all these men, and grant
them places in the hearts of true believers
for the rest of eternity, inshallah, until the
Day of Judgment.
And I look forward to seeing you guys
on Wednesday, inshallah, for our continuing da'wah
series.
Then on Saturday, we will start Tawheed Iblis.
But it will be just an introduction to
it because I am leaving to the UK.