The Day of Judgement #13 Al-Kawthar

One of the greatest virtues Allah Subhanahu Wa

Ta'ala bestowed on our blessed Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi

Wasallam

is Al Qautham.

As Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mentioned in the

Quran in our train at Al Kothar, we

have given you Al Qathar. What is Al

Qathar?

Qathar

is the hole which the Messenger of

Allah will give the believers water on the

day of judgment.

The water is whiter

than milk, sweeter than honey,

smells like musk,

very cold.

A person who drinks it will never ever

be thirsty again. Now imagine

day of judgment.

The sun is at a distance of a

mile. People have been standing in this sweat

for years after years

and then they hear that water is being

distributed

and they will all

rush. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam speaks about

the rush which will take place

by the whole. People will be so

thirsty

and then the Messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi

wa sallam with his blessed hands will start

giving water to the individual.

The first people

who will be given water on the day

of judgement. The Messenger of Allah said the

Muhajirun

who were poor,

those Muhajirun

who had nothing,

who had been driven from their homes, who

spent their life working for the deen of

Allah Subha Ta'ala, who spent their life in

jihad, they will be disheveled

and kempt.

The narration mentions

that if they were to propose for a

woman, that woman would not accept. If they

were to knock on a door, the individuals

will not open the door. But these are

the individuals

who are heavy in the scales of Allah

and the prophet said

that they will be the people that I

will give the water

first to.

Those who are nobodies in this duniya will

be heavy on the day of judgment, and

this is why the Messenger of Allah sallallahu

alaihi wa sallam said that those who are

light in this duniya

will be heavy in the scales of Allah

Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

Why will these people be heavy? Because in

this duniya they have nothing. Look around you

in the world.

Look at the poverty that people live in.

They barely have food.

They barely have shelter.

If they need £5

to buy medicine to save their child, many

people cannot afford this. They are light

materialistically,

but on the day of judgement they will

be heavy in the scales of Allah Subhanahu

Wa Ta'ala. This is why the Messenger of

Allah says in such a beautiful narration, he

said

Say, oh Allah,

as long as you keep me alive

then keep me alive in poverty.

The Messenger of Allah chose poverty.

There are 2 types of poverty. There's one

of which you are inflicted with, which the

Messenger of Allah took refuge from. And the

second one is where he chose. He decided

to give everything

in the path of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

and this is why Aisha radiAllahu anha says

when the Messenger of Allah was passing away,

he asked me, O Aisha, how much wealth

do I have in my possession? I said

7 dirhams.

The Messenger of Allah said give me the

pathway.

Aisha said, the Messenger of Allah became unconscious.

I became busy attending to him. When he

regained consciousness,

the first thing he said, Oh, Aisha, have

you given those 7 dirhams in the path

of Allah? Because I don't want to stand

in front of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala that

I have wealth in my position. And then

the Messenger of Allah said, O Allah, when

you resurrect me on the day of judgement,

resurrect me with the poor people. The ulama

say, look at the virtue

of the poor people. The Messenger of Allah

did not say, oh Allah, resurrect the poor

people with me. The Messenger of Allah said

on the day of judgment Allah, when you

make everybody

stand up, I want to be in the

line of the poor people.

The question may come to our mind, how

will the Messenger of Allah suballahu alaihi wa

sama recognize us on the day of judgment

The Messenger of Allah hasn't seen us. One

day the Messenger of Allah was speaking to

the Sahaba,

and he was speaking about his brothers, And

they said, Omasheebullah, are we not your brothers?

I said, no, you are my companion. My

brothers are those who will come after.

And they loved me so much that they

would if they had the chance they would

spend whatever they had to meet me.

And the Messenger of Allah said I will

meet them at the whole.

And they said, oh, Messenger Allah, how will

you recognize them? The Messenger Allah Sallallahu Alaihi

Wasallam said,

that they will have

their limbs

illuminated by the places where they did Wudu.

Is

that horse which has the white

stripe. And Muhajali

is the white which is around the feet.

The Masjid of Allah said, I will recognize

my Ummah. I will recognize my brothers on

the whole

and I will give them water because I

will recognize them through the signs of wudu.

How important is Wudu and Salah for a

believer? We understand from this that the Messenger

of Allah will see you at a distance

and we will say, this is my Ummah.

On that day,

there will be those group of people who

will be brought to the Messenger of Allah

sallallahu alaihi wa sallam hoping for his intercession

and the angels will turn them away and

the message of Allah will say, no, these

are my companions. These are from my Ummah.

Why are you turning them away? They will

say,

oh, Messenger of Allah, you don't know what

these people did after you passed away. You

do not know what they did to the

religion, how they changed it. The ulama mentioned

that these are the murtadi, the apostates, and

those

hypocrites

who in the time of the prophet sallallahu

manifested imam, but really they harbor disbelief.

manifested imam, but really they harbor disbelief.