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