Zia Sheikh – When will the day of judgement occur Ramadan Khatira Day 8
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I'm going to be talking about a few
verses towards the end of Surah Al-A
'raf in which Allah describes how the disbelievers
came to the Prophet and asked him when
the Day of Judgment is going to take
place.
So we find that in many places in
the Quran people have come to the Prophet
and in a taunting fashion, in a ridiculing
fashion, they used to ask him when will
the Day of Judgment take place.
For example, وَيَقُولُونَ مَتَى هَذَا الْوَعْدُ إِن كُنْتُمْ
صَادِقِينَ They say that when will this promise
take place if you are truthful?
This is found in multiple places in the
Quran.
يَسْتَعَجِلُ بِهَا الَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِهَا وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا
مُشْرِحُونَ مِنْهَا وَيَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّهَا الْحَقِّ The people that
don't have Iman in it, they are telling
you to make it come quickly.
يَسْتَعَجِلُ بِهَا الَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِهَا As for
the people that have Iman, وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مُشْرِحُونَ
مِنْهَا They are afraid of it.
So, this was the attitude that the disbelievers
had and they used to come and in
a ridiculing fashion ask the Prophet ﷺ when
the Day of Judgment is going to take
place.
So, this is a selection of verses which
talk about the same idea.
So, they say, يَسْعَلُونَكَ عَنِ السَّاعَةِ إِيَّا نَمُرْسَهَا
They are asking you, O Prophet of Allah,
about the Sa'ah.
Sa'ah literally translated means hour, but in
the context in which we are talking, it
means the hour of the Day of Judgment.
That when will it take place?
إِيَّا نَمُرْسَهَا When will the event take place?
Allah SWT tells the Prophet ﷺ, قُلْ إِنَّمَا
عِلْمُهَا عِنْدَ رَبِّهِ Tell them, O Prophet of
Allah, that indeed its knowledge is with my
Lord, meaning only Allah SWT knows about when
that day will take place.
لَا يُجَلِّيهَا لِوَقْطِهَا إِلَّا هُوَ Allah SWT did
not expose the time of it except to
Himself.
Only He knows when it will take place.
ثَقُلَتْ فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ It is heavy in
the heavens and the earth.
So this has different meanings.
ثَقُلَتْ فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ means that people will
not be able to bear the knowledge of
it.
If they were told, they will not be
able to bear the knowledge of it.
And another meaning is that when it takes
place, it is going to be heavy on
the dwellers of the people of the earth
and the skies.
So when it happens, it's not going to
be something easy.
It's going to be very, very difficult and
it's going to be hard, not something that
will be easy for people.
So ثَقُلَتْ فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ heavy upon the
people.
And there are also other meanings described by
the scholars for this particular verse.
لَا تَأْتِيكُمْ إِلَّا بَغْتَةً It will only come
to you suddenly.
When it comes, it will come suddenly.
So according to a Hadith, the Prophet ﷺ
mentioned that people will be going about their
day-to-day activities.
Somebody will have milked his cow or camel
and he's just about to drink the milk
of it and the Qiyamah will come.
And a person will be fixing his house
or well.
He's going to be repairing it and the
Qiyamah will come.
And a person will have put out the
meal to eat and before he puts it
in his mouth, the Day of Judgment will
come.
This actually reminds me, this Hadith, reminds me
of an event that took place thousands of
years ago in ancient Rome in a place
called Vesuvius in Pompeii on the foot of
Mount Vesuvius.
And what happened there, this is a volcano
that erupted and it erupted in such a
way that it came suddenly upon the people
and the lava, it covered them in such
a way that their mummified bodies were found
many thousands of years later.
And, you know, it looks like somebody is
sleeping and it looks like somebody is sitting
about to start eating.
And you can find these pictures online.
The spelling is Pompeii, P-O-M-P
-E-I-I.
Or you just put Mount Vesuvius and you'll
see these pictures of people basically going about
their day-to-day activities and doing their
things on a daily basis and suddenly this
punishment comes and they are as if they
are trapped in a time capsule and they
can be seen doing their day-to-day
activities so that hadith, when I read that,
reminded me of that event that took place
in history.
So, la ta'ti'kum illa baghta, it will
only come to you suddenly.
Yas'alunaka ka'annaka hathiwan anha.
They are asking you, O Prophet of Allah,
as if you are knowledgeable about it, as
if you have the knowledge about it, whereas
you don't.
Qul innama ilmuha inda Allah, walakinna aktharan nasi
la ya'lamun.
Tell them, O Prophet of Allah, that indeed
its knowledge is with Allah SWT, but most
people are not aware.
They do not know.
Most people, they do not know.
Only Allah SWT knows about its knowledge.
Insha'Allah, I'll come back to the amarat
or the signs of the Day of Judgment
in a minute.
But it goes on to talk about something
very important and that is the issue of
the Prophet A.S. whether he was a
'alimul ghayb or not.
This is a discussion that takes place, especially
in the Indian subcontinent amongst various sects.
Some say that he knew the knowledge of
the unseen, he was a'alimul ghayb, and
others say that he didn't, whereas the proof
is very, very clear that the Prophet A
.S. only knew the knowledge that he was
given by Allah SWT.
He was not a'alimul ghayb.
And these verses, they indicate that.
So, the next thing, قُلْ لَا أَمْلِكُ لِنَفْسِهِ
نَفْعٌ وَلَا ضَرًّا إِلَّا مَا شَاءَ اللَّهِ Tell
them, O Prophet of Allah, that I have
no control over myself in terms of benefit
or harm except what Allah SWT wishes.
Meaning, I cannot even control anything.
Allah SWT, when He wants to harm, He
sends that harm.
If He wants to benefit, He sends the
benefit.
Nothing is in my hands.
So, again, this is the foolishness of those
people that make du'a at the grave
of the Prophet A.S. Many people think
that if I go there and I make
du'a and ask the Prophet A.S.,
then he's going to help me in some
way.
But this is very clear that even I
don't have the power to benefit myself or
harm myself.
It is all in the hands of Allah
SWT.
And then the next ayah is the point.
وَلَوْ كُنتُ أَعْلَمُ الْغَيْبَ لَسْتَكْفَرْتُ مِنَ الْخَيْرِ If
I knew the knowledge of the unseen, then
I would be able to attain a lot
of khayr, a lot of good, meaning I
would know where to dig for gold.
I would know where to avoid going to
a certain place to avoid being harmed.
But the Prophet A.S., he did not
have ilm al-ghayb and he went into
situations where he got into trouble, he got
stoned, and he went through so many difficulties.
So he says, if I was a alim
al-ghayb, then lastakthartum min al-khayr I
would be able to attain a lot of
khayr.
وَمَا مَسَّنِي يَسُوّ And no harm would ever
come to me.
إِنْ أَنَا إِلَّا نَذِيرٌ وَبَشِيرٌ لِقَوْمِ يُؤْمِنُونَ Indeed,
I am only a warner and a giver
of glad tidings for people of iman.
That's my responsibility.
I'm a human being who has been given
this responsibility of warning people and warning people
about going against Allah SWT and giving glad
tidings to those people that obey Allah SWT
and follow my sunnah.
That's my responsibility only.
Other than that, I'm simply a human being.
لِقَوْمِ يُؤْمِنُونَ And this is, I'm a warner
and giver of glad tidings for people that
have iman.
Now going back to the issue of the
Day of Judgment, there are many hadith that
talk about the amarat and the signs of
the Day of Judgment.
And one of the most famous ones is
the hadith of Jibreel AS when the Prophet
SAW had a discussion with Jibreel AS who
had come in the shape of a human
and they had questions and answers that took
place in front of the Sahaba just to
educate the Sahaba.
And then at the end of the hadith,
the Prophet SAW informed the people that this
was Jibreel.
أَتَاكُمْ لِيُعَلِّمَكُمْ دِينَكُمْ He came to teach you
your religion.
So amongst the questions and answers that took
place was Jibreel AS asked the Prophet SAW
متى الساعة So the Prophet SAW responded by
saying مَا الْمَسْئُولُ بِأَعْلَمَ مِنَ السَّائِلِ The person
who's being questioned, meaning myself, doesn't have more
knowledge than even the one who's questioning.
So then Jibreel AS asked فَأَخْبِرْنِي عَنْ أَمَارَاتِهَا
Then tell me about its signs.
So the Prophet SAW went through some of
the signs that Allah SWT had told him
about.
He said أَنْ تَلِذَا الْأَمَةُ رَبَّتَهَا You will
find that a slave girl will give birth
to her own master.
And there are many interpretations of this and
one of the most popular interpretations is that
people will become disrespectful to their parents.
So much so that the child, the children,
will start to treat their parents as if
they are slaves.
So the slave girl will give birth to
her own master.
And then the hadith goes on to say
وَأَنْ تَرَى الْحُفَاةَ الْعُرَاةَ الْعَالَةَ رِعَاءَ الشَٓاءِ يَتَطَوَنُونَ
فِي الْبُنِيَانِ You will find that shepherds who
are naked of head, naked feet, and they
are shepherds, they are basically tending to sheep,
they start to compete with each other in
building tall buildings.
يَتَطَوَنُونَ فِي الْبُنِيَانِ Now in the time of
the Prophet ﷺ there was no concept of
tall buildings.
There was a concept of big buildings maybe,
make a big building.
But the Prophet ﷺ specifically used the word
طول From the word طول يَتَطَوَنُونَ means competing
with each other in طول, in the length
of the buildings.
And this is what's going on now.
In the Middle East you have a competition
to build the tallest buildings.
In Dubai you have the Burj Khalifa, then
you have the Zamzam Tower right next to
the Kaaba, huge tall building, tall structure.
And now in Jeddah to compete with the
Burj Khalifa in Dubai, Prince Talal has decided
that he is going to build a building
in Jeddah which is going to be one
mile tall, the tallest building in the world.
So if you go back to the history
of these people in the Middle East before
oil came, they were just Bedouins tending to
sheep and so on.
And now the oil wealth came and even
that is going through difficulty these days.
But using that oil wealth to build these
tall buildings it is basically fulfilling the thing
that the Prophet ﷺ mentioned to us 1400
years ago.
So this is one hadith and there are
other hadith which talk about things that if
you reflect upon them you will find that
those things are going on.
The Prophet ﷺ he mentioned that the day
of judgment will not come until people will
talk into their shoulders or in their thighs.
What does that mean?
Maybe it means that the person will have
a cell phone on his shoulder and he
is basically talking or a phone on his
shoulder and he is talking, walking around.
Thigh, I don't know, maybe some form of
communication device that a person will put in
his pocket and the headphone is close to
him.
That is possibly what is meant.
Another hadith says that the day of judgment
will not come until people will have a
piece of cloth that is hanging on their
walls and it will be displaying forms of
fitna.
What is that?
Projector maybe, projector which has, which projects the
image onto the wall.
Projector is made out of cloth and it
gives images of fitna, trials, tribulations, news that
we see and fitna in the form of
movies that people watch nowadays.
So there are many hadith which talk about
various things that will take place which we
are seeing some signs of which we can
interpret as Allah knows really if that is
what is meant but it is quite possible
from the signs that this is what the
Prophet ﷺ was referring to.
And there are other hadith too which I
won't go into.
But in any case, I would just like
to finish off by referring to a hadith
of the Prophet ﷺ in which an Arabi,
a villager came to the Prophet ﷺ and
asked him the same question.
And the hadith says that this Arabi came
and he says, Ya Muhammad, you know in
a very rough way, Oh Muhammad.
So the Prophet ﷺ was, he was such
an expert in discussing and dialogue and he
responded back the same way saying, Ha, what
do you want?
There is another hadith in which the Prophet
ﷺ was approached by a person whose dialect
was, it used to have meme in it.
And he asked him, Hal min birrim siyamim
fim safar?
That means, Hal minal birri al siyamuh fis
safar?
The Prophet ﷺ responded back by saying, in
exactly his same dialogue, in the same dialect,
he responded by saying, Laysa min birrim siyamim
fim safar?
In his dialogue, in his dialect, exactly the
same accent.
So this Arabi, he came to the Prophet
ﷺ and said, Ya Muhammad.
The Prophet ﷺ responded by saying, Ha.
And then, he said, Mata sa'a?
When is the Day of Judgment going to
take place?
The Prophet ﷺ kind of swept everything aside.
He said, Inna sa'a atiyah?
The Day of Judgment is coming.
Whether you like it or not, it's coming.
Fama a'adattalaha?
What did you prepare for it?
And that's the question we need to ask
ourselves.
People get fascinated with lectures about the Day
of Judgment and the Dajjal and Imam Mahdi
and all of these things.
The real question is, what are we doing
to prepare for it?
The Prophet ﷺ basically sidelined all of the
discussion and asked him straight up, What did
you prepare for it?
And the Bedouin, he replied in a very
simple way too.
He said, I didn't prepare something big.
The only thing I know is, Muhibbullah wa
Rasoolah.
And, I have not done much preparation, but
I do know that I love Allah and
the Prophet.
So the Prophet ﷺ responded by saying, Al
mar'u ma'a man ahab.
The person will be with those that he
loves.
Meaning on the Day of Judgment.
So, the question to ourselves should be, not
what signs of the Day of Judgment have
come or will come.
The question is, what are we doing to
prepare ourselves for it?
And, in our day-to-day lives, we
should be thinking.
The obedience of Allah ﷻ, staying away from
the Nawahi, the things that He has forbidden,
preparing our children also to become good, practicing
Muslims, preparing the next generation, preparing institutions to
make sure that the next generation is protected.
These are the things that we can do.
And these are the things that are in
our hands.
Other than that, when the Day of Judgment
comes, it will come.
The question is, that, what are we doing
to prepare ourselves with these things that I've
just mentioned?
I pray that Allah ﷻ gives us Tawfiq,
understanding and practice for as we've said in
here.