Zia Sheikh – Reward for Good Deeds 02252016

			Male or female?
		

			Wahwa mu'min.
		

			The second condition is that for the acceptance
		

			of those deeds, a person has to be
		

			in the state of iman.
		

			Without iman, no deeds are acceptable to Allah
		

			SWT.
		

			The question then occurs that what about those
		

			people that do so much good in this
		

			world, helping the poor and needy, building hospitals,
		

			and assisting people that are going through difficult
		

			times, and yet they are doing these things
		

			without iman.
		

			So what about them?
		

			So Allah SWT, He rewards them for those
		

			deeds in this world.
		

			Allah SWT is not zalim.
		

			Allah SWT, He will repay and recompense those
		

			people who do good deeds without iman in
		

			this world.
		

			And that is what Allah SWT says that
		

			man kaana yuridu harthal aakhirati, nazid lahu fee
		

			harthi.
		

			Whoever wants the pasture of the hereafter, he
		

			wants the growth of the hereafter, Allah says
		

			we will increase his pasture, we will increase
		

			his crops of the hereafter, we will increase
		

			his investment.
		

			wa man kaana yuridu harthal dunya nu'tihi
		

			minha, wa ma lahu fee al aakhirati min
		

			nasib.
		

			But whoever wants the pasture and the fruits
		

			and the crops of this world, we will
		

			give it to him, but there is no
		

			share for him in the hereafter.
		

			So the general idea behind people doing good
		

			is so that they become acceptable in society,
		

			so that they are recognized for their good
		

			deeds, people give them awards for the charity
		

			work that they do and the philanthropy that
		

			they engage in, and they get that recognition
		

			in this world.
		

			People give them awards and statues are built
		

			for them, buildings are named after them and
		

			so on.
		

			So they get that in this world, but
		

			in the hereafter, wa ma lahu fee al
		

			aakhirati min nasib.
		

			There is no share for them in the
		

			hereafter.
		

			And Allah SWT also says, fa man ya'mal
		

			mithqala dharratin khayran yara, wa man ya'mal mithqala
		

			dharratin sharran yara.
		

			Whoever does any good deed of khayr, he
		

			will see it.
		

			Whether he sees it in this world or
		

			in the hereafter, he will see it.
		

			And whoever does any bad deed, he will
		

			see the effect of that also, whether in
		

			this world or the hereafter.
		

			So the deed that a person does, there
		

			will be a consequence, but the consequence will
		

			be either in this world or the hereafter,
		

			both things do apply.
		

			As for those people that do good deeds
		

			without Iman, Allah SWT has described them as
		

			a person who witnesses a mirage.
		

			What is a mirage?
		

			You look at it from far away, you're
		

			going through a desert and you see that
		

			there is water shining on the horizon.
		

			And you go up to that water and
		

			you think that the means of your survival
		

			are at that water that you are seeing.
		

			But when you get there, there's nothing.
		

			Allah says in the Quran, in Surah An
		

			-Nur, وَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا أَعْمَالُهُمْ كَسَرَابٍ بِقِيْعَةٍ Those people
		

			that do Kufr, their deeds are like a
		

			mirage, بِقِيْعَةٍ in a desert land.
		

			يَحْسَبُهُ الظَّمْآنُ مَاءً A thirsty person, he thinks
		

			that this is water right there.
		

			حَتَّىٰ إِذَا جَاءَهُ لَمْ يَجِدْهُ شَيْئًا Once he
		

			gets there, he finds that there's nothing there.
		

			وَوَجَدَ اللَّهَ عِنْدَهُ