Yusha Evans – The End of Everything
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The speaker discusses the temporary nature of life and the impossible nature of existence until everyone refuses to accept their existence until they realize that everything is impossible until they realize it. They also discuss the value of the world and the importance of settling for the right way to avoid war and make peace among people. The Qantarah is a promise from Allah and the speaker emphasizes the importance of not letting go of things for the sake of Islam.
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فَإِنَّ أَسْدَقَ الْحَدِيثِ كِتَابُ اللَّهِ وَخَيْرُ الْحَدِّي حَجُّ
مُحَمَّدٍ صَبَّ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمْ وَشَرَّى الْأُمُورِ مُحْدَثَاتُهَا
وَكُلَ مُحْدَثَةٍ بِدْعَةٍ وَكُلَ بِدْعَةٍ دَلَالَ وَكُلَ دَلَالَةً
فِي الْنَّارِ The end of everything, the end
of absolute everything will happen one day.
Allah ﷻ says in the Qur'an, Everything
will be destroyed.
Everything will be perished.
Everything will come to an end except for
His face.
There is coming a day.
There is coming a day where Allah ﷻ
will command Israfil who was created with a
single purpose.
He will command him who has been waiting
for a very long time to blow his
trumpet.
And when he blows his horn, everything that
has ever been alive will be dead.
Everything that has ever existed will stop existing.
Everything that has always been temporary will come
to its final end.
And it will be the beginning of everlast.
This is the breaking point.
Because everything that has ever existed, everything that
is created now is temporary.
It's temporary.
It was never meant for permanence.
It was never meant.
Life shows us this.
Allah ﷻ gives us many signs about the
impermanence of life.
One of them is simply death.
You see many people coming and going.
But Allah ﷻ shows us through the changing
of the seasons.
Allah ﷻ shows us through the growing of
plants and the dying of plants, the growing
of stars and the dying of stars, the
growing of galaxies and the death of them,
etc., so on and so forth, that nothing
ever created was meant to be permanent.
Nothing that was created is meant to be
permanent except for two creations of Allah ﷻ.
Those two creations that are meant to be
permanent were Al-Jannah and Jahannam.
Those two are permanents.
And when that day comes, when Allah says
everything will be destroyed, it will be the
end of everything temporary.
After that day, the only thing that will
be left will be permanence.
And that permanence will only be in one
of two positions.
Now we look at ourselves in life, we
find ourselves in many positions.
You can find yourself in a good status
in life and that can change in bad
status.
You can find people in horrible status.
There's so many different stations in life we
can find ourselves in.
And we find that as we grow as
well, we enter into different phases and stations
in life.
We start out as a baby and if
you live long enough, you'll end up in
the same type of position when you get
old.
But the station after that day when Allah
ﷻ says, قُلُوا شَيْءٍ حَالِكُمْ إِنَّا وَجْهُمْ After
that day, the only two stations will be
the people of Al-Jannah and the people
of Al-Jahannam.
And the people of Al-Jannah will only
be those who believe in La ilaha illa
Allah.
That's it.
There is no doubt in the mind of
a Muslim whose amfeedah is sound.
That there will be no people who will
enter into Al-Jannah except for the people
of La ilaha illa Allah.
And I have been asked many times.
It's a question that pops up a lot.
What about the people who never heard about
La ilaha illa Allah?
What about the people whom Islam never even
was presented to them?
You think Allah ﷻ doesn't have knowledge of
everything?
You think when Allah ﷻ says He is
Al-'aleem, He does not know?
He does not know if He brings that
person in front of Him on the day
of judgment and He knows exactly what they
would have done if Islam was presented to
them?
Allah knows every, I've told you this, Allah
knows every third thread of every possible reality.
He will show that person and know that
if I had presented Islam to you, if
someone had presented this tawheed to you, you
would have accepted it?
So you're a person of Jannah, or you
would have refused it?
So you're a person of Jahannam.
And how could anyone argue with the Almighty
Allah ﷻ and His wisdom?
That is the only permanence that will be
after that day.
The reason why I want to remind us
of this temporary station of everything else that
exists is that we have concepted in our
minds and we live our lives as if
the opposite is true.
We live our lives as if this world
is permanent.
As if this life is permanent, it's everlasting,
it's never going to end.
We build our lives here like we will
never leave them.
And we treat the akhirah as if it
is something that is temporary, something that is
a maybe, something that is a possibility, something
that might even be a fairytale.
I've had these conversations with people, with Muslims.
When you treat this life as if it's
permanent, as if it's everything, the end all
and have all, it causes the problems we
see in the world today.
It causes the greed that we see in
the world today.
Fighting and killing each other over something that
does not even belong to us.
Something that we will never even truly possess,
never even truly possess.
And we will find ourselves dealing with one
another in the manner that we deal with
one another.
That is if this is the end all
have all.
This is temporary.
How are we going to feel?
How are we going to think?
How is our position in our hearts and
minds going to be on the day when
the true realization comes to us that this
was temporary?
And we look back at everything we've done.
How much?
There is a reason Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala calls the day of judgment, the day
of regret.
How much will we regret?
Because there is going to come a point
in every single one of our lives.
When that will happen, no one knows.
But there is going to become a point
when the angel of death will present himself
to you.
You will take your last final look at
this world.
And as that last final look is being
made, when the veil between this and the
akhira, between this and the barzakh begins to
be lifted.
Because when a person, when the angel of
death presents himself, that veil becomes lifted.
The things that we can't see now, you
start seeing them.
You start seeing the angels.
You start seeing all of these things.
When you take that last look at your
life, when you take your last look at
your family, when you take a last look
at the world that you built around you,
you will realize that none of it was
worth it.
Not a single bit of it was worth
anything if it doesn't end in the pleasure
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
If it does not end with Allah saying
that He is pleased with you, you'll realize
it was worthless.
You'll realize none of it mattered.
You'll realize that the argument that I had
with my brother was so stupid, so meaningless.
The arguments I had with my children, the
way I treated them, the way I treated
my parents, the way I treated my siblings,
the way I treated my brother or my
sister in faith, the way I took this
one's rights, the way I spoke ill against
this one, the way I backbite this one.
All of it, you'll be like, it was
worth nothing.
It is such a shame and a waste.
But it'll be too late.
It'll be too late.
Wise is the man who takes heed before
it's too late.
Wise is the man who takes lesson before
the lesson is taken on him.
The Prophet ﷺ, when talking about the value
of this world that we fight so hard
over, and kill each other over, and are
willing to wreck relationships over, and wreck people's
lives over.
The Prophet ﷺ was once walking with his
companions, and he picked up a dead carcass,
picked up a dead carcass of an animal,
held it by his ear.
And he said, which one of you would
buy this from me?
For a dinar or a dirham, I can't
remember which one was, but very cheap, like
a penny.
Which one of you would buy this from
me for a dollar?
They said, Ya Rasulullah, we wouldn't even take
it from you if it was free.
Even if you're offering it to us for
free, none of us wanna take this stinking
thing home.
He said, No.
That this world and everything that is contained
in it, is more repulsive, more meaningless, in
the sight of Allah ﷻ, than this is
in your eyes.
That is the value of this world, it's
nothing.
Once the Prophet ﷺ was sitting with his
companions, and he asked them a question.
If you were here for Wednesday, during our
da'wah training session, you'll realize that questions
were a sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ, in
teaching, and they are a psychologically proven way
to teach people things.
He asked his companions, Who is the faqeer?
Who's the bankrupt person?
Who's the poor person?
Who's the real poor person?
They said, Ya Rasulullah, it's the person who
has no money.
Right, that's the way we look at it.
He's poor, he has no money.
He said, No, that's not a poor person.
He said, The bankrupt one, the real poor
person, is the person who has a vast
amount, a great amount of good deeds in
this life.
They come before Allah on the Day of
Judgment with a good deeds size of a
mountain.
But because they took the right of another,
because they back bit another, because they slandered
this one, because they oppressed that one, they
took that one's right, they did not honor
the word of this one or that one,
then Allah will begin to take away from
their good deeds and give it to those
whom they wronged until they run out of
good deeds.
And then the evil deeds of those whom
they have wronged will be put on their
backs and they'll be dragged into the fires
of *.
That is bankruptcy.
To live your whole life doing good, only
to see it turn into dust on the
Day of Judgment or be given to others
because you treated this world like it was
permanent.
You treated this like it was everything.
There is a station on the Day of
Judgment.
We know about, and I've talked about the
Day of Judgment is past, but we know
about when we're resurrected and Allah is destroying
everything.
He's starting all over, only Jannah and Nahr
after that.
We know that our books will be given
to us.
We will get our deeds.
After that our deeds will be weighed because
it just doesn't matter about the amount sometimes,
it's about the weight.
Some people will have very little that will
weigh very heavy.
And you'll have some people who have a
whole lot that will have very little weight
to it.
After the deeds are weighed, the people of
Al-Jannah, the people who are supposed to
go to Paradise, the people whom Allah has
weighed them and found them that they are
good, they will cross the Sirat, a bridge
that is so thin, it's like a hair,
and it's sharper than a sword.
Some of us won't make it.
There will be people will be falling off,
people will be getting dragged down to *.
Some of us will fly across like lightning.
Some of us will crawl.
I don't care how I get across, but
some of us will make it across.
Then when we make it across, and we
think everything, you know, we're good.
No, it's not over.
Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala calls for
the Qantarah.
After that, Allah will call all of us
together and say, now it's time to settle
the affairs amongst yourselves.
Those who wronged each other, those who harmed
another, those who backed another, those who owed
another, those who did wrong to another, those
who oppressed another.
Now is when the deeds are really taken.
And the Qantarah happens.
How many of us will be sitting there
thinking, I wish I would've never even said
that.
I wish I would've never even done that.
I wish I would've never even taken that.
It wasn't worth it.
It wasn't worth it, we've made it this
far.
And now because of our problems, because of
our silly egos, and our silly thought processes,
and our silly worries of this world, and
things that don't matter, now we have to
solve our affairs on this day.
How silly will we all look.
That's why I say, if you have a
problem with your brother or sister, solve it.
Fix it.
Make it right.
End it.
Let it go for the sake of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
If you have a problem with your family,
fix it.
Make it right.
Make it right now.
Don't want to stand in front of Allah
on the Day of Judgment when you've gone
through all that hardship and then try to
find a way to make it right.
Make it right now.
If you've broken relationships and family, fix them.
It's one of the best things to do
is to fix and put back kinship and
ties and bond relations.
And to make peace amongst people.
The Prophet ﷺ said, it's one of the
greatest deeds you can do is to make
peace amongst brothers, or peace amongst sisters.
We all want peace, we want to live
in peace.
The only way we're going to do that
is to understand that this world is not
permanent.
That there's nothing here that's really meant for
us.
It's here for a reason, and that reason
will come to an end.
Take as much as you need, help as
many people as you can, try to do
harm to none, and when you do, forgive.
And when they ask for forgiveness, forgive.
Let it be.
For the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala.
أقول قولي هذا واستغفر الله أولاكم فاستغفروا الآخر
الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة
والسلام على رسول الله وعلى آله وسحبه أجمعين
نعم بعدهم Yes, please, everyone move up.
We're running out of space, inshaAllah.
I want you to think about it for
the rest of the day.
The end of everything.
Because it is coming.
It is coming.
It is a promise from Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
And that day is coming for us faster
than we know it.
The end of our everything will be the
day we meet the angel of death.
And after that, it's too late to fix
anything.
It's too late to fix anything.
The biggest regrets will be the people of
the day of judgments.
They will have regret like no other regrets.
Let us be a people who try to
inshaAllah ta'ala fix our problems and our
matters before they're fixed for us.
Let us take account of our own lives
and the lives of the people we interact
with before Allah takes the account.
Because that day is going to be a
grievous day.
And nothing will be permanent.
Everything is temporary.
Everything you see around you now is temporary
except for Jannah and Jahannam.
And all of us want to go to
Al-Jannah.
That is what you should want for every
single believer.
I said this in a fuqbah before, I
don't care if they're your worst enemy.
If they're a Muslim, you should still want
Paradise for them.
You should still want Al-Jannah for them.
That is the way the believers are.
I don't care how much wrong you've done
to me.
I don't care how much you've harmed me.
Yes, I may want my justice, I may
want it back, but I still would like
you to go to Paradise.
If Allah gave me the option of forgiving
or getting my justice, and it was up
to that for you to go to Jannah
or not, Wallahi, I would want you to
go to Paradise.
I would want you to go to Jannah.
Nothing should ever harm us in that manner
that we should not wish Paradise even one
another.
I even tell couples, and I'm gonna end
with this.
One of the hardest thing that you find
in the Muslim community is divorce.
It happens.
It's a permissibility.
It is something that is not liked, but
it is sometimes a necessity.
There's a reason why it's halal.
But I always, even in my couples counseling,
when I've counseled couples through divorce, I tell
them that no matter what's happened in your
marriage, no matter what's going on, you have
to remember at the end of the day,
you both are Muslims.
You both are Muslims.
You married each other for the sake of
Allah, you should divorce each other for the
sake of Allah, that's okay.
But remember, you are both Muslims, you should
treat each other like a Muslim should treat
one another and have love for one another
for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala.
Be willing to let go of things for
the sake of Allah.
I know there are certain things that we
can't let go of.
But as Muslims, we should always want the
best for each other.
The best for each other.
Because that is the true meaning of Iman.
BarakAllahu feekum.
Jazakumullahu khair.