The Day of Judgement #20 Favours of Allah

The day of judgment will be a day

of blame,

where everybody will try to blame somebody else

and endeavor to excuse themselves to the degree

that the body

will blame the soul.

The body will say to the soul that

you were the one who incited me to

do this action. The soul will say to

the body, but you were the one who

undertook the action. They will argue so much

that angel will come and that angel will

pass a verdict between them. Let me give

you an example of a person who is

blind and another person who has no legs.

They want to steal some fruit, but the

blind person can't see the fruit

and the one who has no legs can't

reach the fruit. So, the blind person says

to the one who has no legs, you

climb on my neck and I will stand

up and you take the fruit. Who is

to blame? They will say both of them

are to blame. Similarly,

the angel will say both of you are

to blame, the body and the soul.

One thing that we need to remember is

that the day of judgment is a day

where each believer will be reminded of the

favors of Allah

upon him. Allah says,

On that

day, each individual

will be asked about all the favors that

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala granted them. Those

who are the most favors in this dunya,

as the hadith of the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi

wa Salam mentions that those who satiated

themselves the most, who fill themselves up the

most will be their most hungry on the

day of judgement.

Abu Zar radiAllahu anhu says those who Allah

granted the most wealth in this dunya.

For those who were heavy, those who had

many many favors will have the least favors

on the day of judgement. Those who are

heavy in this dunya will be lightest on

the day of judgment.

Besides,

those who gave in the path of Subhanahu

Wa Ta'ala. They will be the exception

if you hoarded whatever you earned, if you

spent it on yourself and you didn't care

about others, although you knew that what Allah

Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gave you was from Allah's

risk but you didn't share it with other

individuals

Then Abu Zar radiAllahu is saying that person

will have the least favors of Allah Subhanahu

Wa Ta'ala.

Wa sallam saw Abu Bakr and Umar radiAllahu

anhu come out of their homes in an

hour where generally people don't come out of

their homes. So the prophet said, why have

you come out at this hour? They said,

oh, mashi of Allah, we were so hungry

that we couldn't sit at home. The prophet

said, I swear by Allah, the same thing

which took you out of your home took

me out of my home. The Prophet Sallallahu

Alaihi Wasallam took them and went to the

house of Ansari. The Ansari was at home

at that time. The wife said that he's

at the farm. Whilst they were speaking to

her, he returned.

He was so elated and he said, what

great individuals I have visiting me. So, he

bought some dates. Then he sacrificed a goat.

The prophet

said, when you sacrifice that goat, make sure

it's not a goat that you can milk.

He sacrifices the goat and then he feeds

the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Abu Bakr and

Umar radiAllahu anhu. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam

is eating this food and he turns to

Abu Bakr and Umar and he says, Abu

Bakr and Umar

Allah

will ask you about this food that you

have eaten.

You left your homes hungry and Allah Subhanahu

Wa Ta'ala returns your home satiated. Imagine this

That you are starving. You can't sit at

home. The prophet Sallallahu Wa Salam is telling

you and I

that

even those favors

which we might just generally think are not

important

are waiting in the eyes of Allah Subhanahu

Wa Ta'ala.

A great indication to this

is certain favors that we just take as

norm. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said on

the day of judgement one of the first

things, one of the first favors that man

will be asked about is his health and

water. Who does shukr of Allah Subhanahu Wa

Ta'ala upon their health? Who does shukr of

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala upon water?

We drink water multiple times in the day.

Do we really think what a favor Allah

Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has granted us? A health,

a free time. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam

said, Mehmatani,

Magboonunfeehimakatheeruminalanas,

a sahaawalfarag.

That they are 2 favors

that people just take for granted,

that they never do the shikr of Allah

Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

I say good health and leisure time.

You want time on our hand

and then we just take it for granted

and we waste our time.

And this is such a great favor from

our Allah

because when our time is up, when the

clock stops ticking,

then we will wish that we had more

time. Then we will wish that we could

return to the duniya and worship Allah Subhanahu

Wa Ta'ala and appreciate

all those individuals,

all those that we loved, that we took

for granted.

Abu Darda

was once

asked, we see others who indulge themselves in

the dunya.

Why is it that you never indulge yourself

in the dunya? Abu Darda radiAllahu anhu said

on the day of judgment

there is a particular valley.

The valley to get over that valley you

have to be light. The ulama say, what

does it mean light? They give 2 interpretations.

1, that you have to be light of

sins

to pass that valley.

The second is that you have to be

light

in the attachment to the duniya. If you

do not have much duniya, then you will

quickly

pass this valley. There are many people who

live their entire existence

missing those favors that they don't have and

not appreciating what they have. One day a

man came to Abdullah ibn Amr ibn Aasur

radiAllahu anhu and he said,

Abdullah,

we were from the poor Fookera Muhajirun.

The poor Muhajirun.

Abdulhami Amr ibn Asar radiAllahu anhu said, let

me ask you a question. He said, do

you have a wife? He said, yes. He

said, do you have a house that you

live in? He said, yes. He said, then

you are rich.

He said, oh, Abdullah, I also have a

servant. Abdullah said, then you are a king.

Appreciate the favor of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

Don't miss what you don't have

more than you have.

more than you have.