'Pondering upon the hereafter' a Lecture in Urdu:Aakhirat ki Fikar
Speaker: Shaikh Zafarul Madani
Venue:al Manar Quran center,near Dubai Bowling center.
Date:27th Jan 2012
Allah has made the worrying about the DOJ( Day of Judgement) or having faith and belief in the hereafter as one of the pillar of faith ,out of the six pillars of faith.Also we read daily Surah Fatiha we say maalik al youm ad Deen, also in Surah al Baqarah we read that we believe in DOJ.most of the human beings even from different communities religion in the world also believe in the last day ,that after death the people will be accounted by their book of records in duniya, their good and bad deeds will be examined.
Prophet pbuh spent thirteen long years of his mission of his first part informing the people about the DOJ, all the Makki Surah talk about DOJ,before starting the talk let's know the benefits of this topic..
Benefits of pondering upon the last day ,hereafter:
1)first benefit:
If a person believes in DOJ then the person does good deed, the person repents of his wrong doings as he knows that he will be asked on DOJ,Eman bil aakhiraah takes a person to repent to do istighfaar.this is one reason that will keep him away from wrong.
2))second benefit:
the more the person believes in DOJ the more he will be obedient the more he will be patient and the more sunnah he will practice,he will not be heedless,will bear the difficulty will not leave the Deen,it also protects him from haraam for egs yusuf ale salaam refused when he was approached to do wrong doing / haraam by wife of minister, he responsed to the wife of the minister that I have to return to the lord,so the result was that he was prisoner for refusing for doing something haraam, he agreed to this saying to lord invoking that I prefer to be in the prison rather than be near such women who were calling him to doing wrong...
3)) third benefit:
if one person,develops emaan bil aakhiraah then he is forced to do only good deeds,like in Surah Al Baqarah ,read salaat,have patience and ask help from Allah.establish prayer,then in the path of Deen have patience then Allah will help you.
For a person away from deen, prayer,salaat is a difficult thing,for egs a person slogs in his work for eight hours thru the day even does overtime for four hours more but to spend ten minutes in prayer he finds it a burden.. but Allah says that prayer becomes easy for the person who believes in DOJ and this person is always remembering that I have to meet my lord...
The people of today have weak faith about their aakhiraah,the knowledge of Eman of aakhirah is missing, so they r not doing salaat ,such aperson forsakes it, then gets into haraam kaari,doing haraam job,as the emaan bil aakhiraah is weak..( in urdu aakhiratt par Eman kamzor ho Gaya hai.)So sadly today ppl have lost the fear of lord, then they become heedless,then leave salaat,then shaytan will take them into other distractions and haraam things.
Surah al mudathir in para 29: read this where Allah talks about the signs and characteristics of good human beings who feed poor ppl,these ppl fear the DOJ,
If a person has faith in DOJ, then his jihad becomes easier,in order to be rewarded,on DOJ,the person never abandons the battlefield as he knows to give his life for Allah is an honour is also has reward on DOJ...
Story of abdullah bin Hathafah sahaami... A warrior captured by roman ruler...who saif if u change ur religion to christianity then u will not be punished also given position of power in governmen t...abdullah refused so his partner was thrown into Boiling oil....so abdullah saw that nothing was left of his partner except skeleton..white bones..so he started to cry...the ruler of.roman empire said I gave you the offer but now do u still want to consider ....SO Abdullah bin hathafah replied that it is an honour to die in Allah's cause,When I saw the scene I felt sorry that I had only one life. I wished that I had a thousand lives to sacrifice in your boiling cauldron for Allah (swt).”
What is the meaning of Aakhiraaah?
Our knowledge about Eman bil aakhiraah is very limited..we think it's only Hell or paradise...
First aakhiraah after death the first destination is the grave : so first thing we need to worry about is grave,recorded by tirmidhi that uthman bin afaan,we have seen that whenever he saw a grave , then he would cry so much just by seeing, to the extent that his beard would get wet and tears would drip from beard...so one day ppl asked uthman ,that we have not seen you cry so much when you hear about hell n paradise but when you just see the grave you so much... ...so uthman replied to the ppl That I have heard the prophet pbuh say that the first destination of aakhiraah is the grave before hell or paradise, first ask for the protection of trials of graves,then after grave the destination are on DOJ and then hell, paradise, if someone escapes the trials of grave then his onward journey will be easier...remember if a person suffers in the grave then his onward journey will get tougher...this is the reason prophet always said that ask Allah to protect from trials of grave,I have heard from my nabi that he has seen very scary scenes on his night journey on mairaj but the most scary scene has been the scene of the grave,so Allah save us from trials of grave.
One day nabi said o my ppl remember that before the recompense day ,before DOJ, then they will be accountable in the grave ,when they buried a person in the grave and family left the dead,everyone's is missing, but their in the grave there is not anyone with you,no relatives, no friends, everyone has left, that person is left alone.nabi says that one angel comes when there is solitude then the angel tears the soil and in a frightening tone with a very big hammer,then asks ,who is the person who had come as a last messenger..may. Allah protect us from such questioning...the dead reads the kalmah,,,announces the shahadah ,,the angel says you have said the truth then from grave they show the window of hellfire,and says that this would have been ur destination had you not been on tawheed,may we have tawheed e khaalis.so then open the window and show the paradise saying I am happy I want to go...so the angel says not yet only when the day of qayaamat at arrives,Allah commands that make his grave the one which has the bed from jannah,,,from here the onward journey Allah makes it easier...
How is the person if he is not from the tawheed,he has been a hypocrite, or a non believer,or a namesake muslim,the angel comes and asks in frightening tone, who was the person born in madina, he says that I do not know but I did hear his name but have no knowledge about him..I am not aware but ppl called him Rasul ah apart from this no knowledge...the angels say that you never studied quran so you never asked and found out about rasul, you were never on siraat al mustaqeem,then he opens the window and show the jannah, paradise ,so since u w ere away in shirk u missed this and now ur destination will be of hell.and this angel gets ready to hammer his head,that his head shatters ,then except for human and Jinn all the creations can hear this frightening screams.
Shk tabarani has recorded that angel at this time will not have the ability to see,hear or speak so the angel here will be blind,dumb and deaf so that they cannot see the pain of the dead, so that he can do his job of hammering the head of dead person easily,so that the angel does not have mercy ,,,Allah has given so much strength to this angel that if he was to hammer the mountains they would have become dust...remember that this strong angel, hammers and this dead person screams from the east to the west of the horizon,prophet said that if I made dua for ppl to hear the screams then there relatives would never bury the dead in graves...
Allah creates this barrier of barzakh between duniya n dead person,,,when the Sahabah heard this ,they said ya Rasulalla we are so frightened after hearing the description of this angel, so pls tell us that although we are on tawheed and sunnah but if such an angel stands in front of us then how are we going to answer...
Prophet replied that the ppl who do good deeds in duniya,are on the right path Allah will give them strength to reply and proclaim the kalmaah...
The aakhiratt here is the grave the first destination.
Once there was a big crowd of ppl, the. Prophet asked that why are they so many crowded, so Sahabah said the ppl are digging the grave of a person who just died,then nabi went fast towards this crowd, he reached the kabar first then he sat near the kabar and the sahaabah saw nabi looking at the kabar and he was crying looking at the ditch of the grave.....nabi saw the scene of the grave and cried so much that the soil got wet, then he looked up and said to the ppl, o my brothers,this grave is not just for this person, many were buried before and will be buried in the future ,pls prepare for this destination,,,what does this mean don't read prayers only in Ramadan,and only jumaa but read thru the twelve months and also stay away from shirk get Aqeedah correct...
Once a person who has prepared and he is buried in the grave then his prayers will protect him from the head ,his Zakaat on left, quraan and all good deeds near his leg are protecting him from all sides...when ppl leave ,if any harm comes to him then his salaat protect him ,says I will not let you come from the top the side of head,when it comes near right side then the fast says that I will not let u harm ,the Zakaat sadaqqaat and khairaaat will protect from left side, then nabi says that now it comes towards the feet then all his good deeds stand in front to sheild him...we will not let u harm him....
HazratAisha says that when any harm comes from head then the recitation of Quran starts protecting,,,,so if you have not prepared for ur grave but prepared about settling in your home country,made retirement plans...then such a person will be in extreme danger related to matters of his grave..
May Allah protect us from the grave,it's trials...
What are things that make us heedless about the death..or about aakhiraah...
1)) why are we not worried about the aakhiraah, Imaam Hanbal says that if you remember about Aakhiraah then you will always do good deeds.After the messengers the best Muslim is abubakr sidq .once abubakr Siddiq RA was traveling with Omar RA and he saw a little bird flew from a tree, so he saw and started crying,why because this Bird flies freely ,eats wherever it wants but it will die and there is no accountability, but when abubakr dies he will be asked about his accounts so He says i wish I was like this bird ...
2)) once in a summer day ,there was no breeze in the house, Uthman RA had a double story house ,so he stood in his balcony, then saw the rocky mountains where ppl can't walk,nor can animals walk,but he saw that one person was walking in the heat and walking on this mountainous path on which animals also couldn't walk, so he ,uthman,waits to watch who is this person, that person was Hazrat Omar RA, the khalifaah ,amir al momeneen,was walking when everyone is resting at home, he wondered why he is walking so uthman asked from the balcony why are you walking when everyone is at home, Omar replied that of the baitul maal two camels have run away so I am looking for them...so he ,uthman,said pls come drink water and I will send two slaves to look for the camels on your behalf...Omar RA said that let the water be with you..i will look for it myself..if your slaves will not be good enough to search for them then on DOJ Allah will ask me not ask them ...so when you know you will be accountable you will worry about DOJ.
3)) once uthman RA pulled the ears of his slave ,then he apologized that I will be questioned..pls pull my ear so that I don't have to give the account on doj...Ibn Shabbah narrated with his isnad that Uthman ibn Affan entered upon a slave of his who was feeding his she-camel, and he saw something in the feed that he disliked, so he took hold of the slave's ear and tweaked it. Then he regretted it and said to his slave: settle the score. The slave refused, but he did not leave him alone until he had taken hold of his ear and begun to tweak it. Uthman said to him: Pull hard, until he thought that (the slave) had pulled as hard as he had done. Then Uthman said: How easy it is to settle a score before it is settled in the Hereafter. (Akhbar al-Madinah by Ibn Shabbah, 3/236)
4) our prophet pbuh read salaat thru the night ,he would be crying, asking for Allahs forgiveness,then umm salaam a was there in the night,then she left then nabi called out many times so she went saw that the slave girl was playing with a little white goat,so he had pbuh a miswak but he did not...
1))there are people who assume that even if they do wrong deeds they will not be questioned as Allah is oft forgiving,this is wrong ( In Urdu ghalat gumaan karein) anyone who does a good deed Allah will reward him,but what the ppl say that Allah is ghafur Raheem ao we can do wrong deeds, take bribe, then gossip,ppl, start saying that Allah loves us more than our mothers, can a mother see her child getting burnt,no she x
Cannot ao how will Allah burn anyone in hellfire so he will not put in hell fire...this is ghalat gumaani, today majority of ppl are under a false impression as they have been doing wrong not doing good deeds..
This is similar to not going to school or college or university but to expect that you will be rewarded with a degree !
Fussilat Aya 23
وَذَٰلِكُمْ ظَنُّكُمُ الَّذِي ظَنَنتُم بِرَبِّكُمْ أَرْدَاكُمْ فَأَصْبَحْتُم مِّنَ الْخَاسِرِينَ
And that was your (evil) thought which you entertained about your Lord that has tumbled you down into perdition, so are you become of the lost ones.
We should do taubaa istighfaar,do good things ,and then expect that Allah will give us jannah.if we don't do good things and then expect that you will get jannah this is being foolish.
2)) Amall امل
Para 14 th Allah says that you eat drink and be happy but what has made you heedless from the aakhiraah is from doing deeds, Amal,what is Amal,this is not doing any deed ,just the love of duniya,just get busy in duniya that u forget about Aakhirah,the person becomes heedless about aakhiraah but gets busy making plans of big massive projects of duniya for the future.this is another thing that makes a person heedless.
( Maut ki kisi ko Khabar Nahin....no one has any clue about death).
3)) imam Hassan al basri says that if a person has any wrong impression about Allah then he will do wrong deeds but if he has good feelings then he will do good.
4)) if a person forgets the purpose of life then he gets deviated and distracted,therefore every individual should ponder as to why he has been created .(human and jinn are created to worship Allah,Surah Rahman).
5) in Quran Allah tells us that man most of the times gets distracted by his children,his wife And family. Protect yourself from such family and children who are your enemies, no one will believe but why does Allah say this ,what is the definition of an enemy the one who makes u a loser or harms your well being, this is an enemy,aduwww,so Allah says that after you ,your family and children are ur enemies, the ones who spoil ur aakhirah then who is the biggest enemy,how will u protect ur enemy who is with u at home, the ones who distract you,just like nabi said that o ppl be aware of the child ,no doubt he is the Noor of your eye, love of your life but what takes you away from aakhiratt .
5)Friendship with wrong ppl, bad company is another
Read sura tahaa Allah says to musaa when he is being given prophet hood ,remember that ways at will come and why will it come so that ppl will be accounted and rewarded and if you make friendship with some one from out of Deen then such a person will drown and will drown you as well.O musaaa protect urself from such ppl..In Surah kahf: o Nabee stay close with ppl who are in Deen else it is dangerous.
6)) the last point is very dangerous,depending upon righteous ppl,depending upon pirs,shaikhs ,wrong ppl who mislead them .ppl going on urooss ( like a procession),put Sheets( Chaadar) on graves..
Allah says in Surah Anaam, just like you came alone from mothers womb similar u will come alone in grave and on DOJ,such ppl will be asked where are those righteous people on whom depended in duniya where are they, the ones who promised to intercede on ur behalf,we dont see anyone with you...May Allah protect us..
Last six imp points:
1)Always remember death,as this reminds you of DOJ..( keep reminding yourself constantly about death ,in Urdu kasrat se yaad kareim).
2)) go to graves to remember death don't go on dargaah ,go to any regular graves,so that it will make you realize of the death and you will get serious.
3) sit with ulemas and scholars ,read from Quran where it is mentioned about death..
4) recite quraan with zeal then ponder upon the verses.
5) be accountable of your deeds, thru the day what have you done ,also thru the day prepare for your qayaaamat,be mindful what you have done for your children...
Remember when two thirds of night would pass then nabi would stand and nabi would say o ppl leave beds, do istighfaar,don't sleep , prepare for their nights, udhkurrullah, o ppl get up now and start prepare foe the aaakhiraah, nabi saws does not wait for night to end does his TAHAJUD,death is on ur head getting ready would prepare the ppl for their aakhiraah.
Q& A session:
A sister asked how will we I be sure that Allah has accepted my repentance.
answer:
Remember that there are Three conditions about tauba (this is huquq Allah).
First point is that person should profusely repent ,be ashamed of it .
Second point leave the sin that you regretted,for egs you lied today and repented but the next morning you again lied,doing the the same sin,this is wrong,
Third point that in future also never do the sin.
If it is huquq of person then ask forgiveness from ppl.
we need to understand what some learned scholars have said about repentance and deeds.Abu Ayub said that on the doj there will be some ppl who will go to jannah ,paradise on account of commiting SIN!! While there will be some people who will go to Jahannam,hellfire on account of doing GOOD DEEDS! People were puzzled and said what are you saying Abu Ayub!!
So then he explained that the people who will go to jannah on account of their sins are those people who had committed A sin once in duniya but they remembered it more than thousand times ,regretted and cried due to this sin, he repented so much that due to tauba istighfaar went to jannah...
While some ppl are such that although they have done good deeds in duniya but shaytan created kibar and pride in them that they became arrogant which took them to hellfire...
What are the signs that Allah has forgiven...
Sura Taahaa,,,Allah says that after repenting of his sin and starts doing good deeds,stay away from sin then this is an indication that Allah has forgiven him..
Question: please tell us how will Quran intercede on DOJ for a beleiver?
Answer:Two types of intercession has been explained in Quran
One is shirkiyaa and the other is shariaa a
Shirkiya is to get attached to a person and expect he will intercede for u..
While Shifaa at shariaa has to have three conditions ,
1-Allah will give the permission to intercede ,on DOJ no one will dare to speak except only those to whom Allah will give permission..only with whom Allah is pleased..
2-- Shifaaat means that it will be possible only from those who have not done shirk,so the intercession will be only as per Allah s will .Allah did not accept Ibrahim ale Salam s request to intercede for his father who was a mushrik.
3--also Allah will fix the number of ppl that you will be allowed to intercede.
These are the theree conditions, Allah will give permission to righteous ppl, Allah will grant this permission to honor you as you have done good deeds,
Shifaa at kubraa which only nabi Rasullah pbuh will do to start DOJ..
What about intercession of quraan..
There will be some ppl that who will be waiting but these ppl are from ummah but they read it only for the dead,for such ppl Quran will come in a frightening appearance and say that this person never did the deeds, whatever was forbidden he did it,so nabi pbuh says that this Quran will thrash him on ground and take him to hellfire.
But there are other believers who have read the Quran with understanding and have applied the rules of Quran and lived by it, for them Quran will intercede and be witness in the most handsome form and plead to Allah to send such a person to jannah as this person was sincere in reading and practicing the Quran in dunya...
Question: when we attend such gatherings then our Eman gets stronger but by the time we get back to duniya we forget and busy ourselves with pur routine,so what should we do...
Answer :
Then you must constantly participate in such gatherings to strengthen your Eman, a man is a forgetful being he requires reminders.once the Sahabah said that our emaan increases when we sit in your mehfil but when we go to duniya then we get busy in duniya,the Eman diminishes...
Nabi Muhammad pbuh said that this is the sign of a good beleiver, then if u r away u realize that it goes down...then if you have the realization( in Urdu ahsaas) then it is a sign so increase your participation in religious gathering ( in urdu :in deeni mehfil).So we should sit with our children discuss with family take a Hadith discuss with kids,Allah says that he is a believer when his emaan increase when religion is discussed...
Speaker: Shaikh Zafarul Madani
Venue:al Manar Quran center,near Dubai Bowling center.
Date:27th Jan 2012
Allah has made the worrying about the DOJ( Day of Judgement) or having faith and belief in the hereafter as one of the pillar of faith ,out of the six pillars of faith.Also we read daily Surah Fatiha we say maalik al youm ad Deen, also in Surah al Baqarah we read that we believe in DOJ.most of the human beings even from different communities religion in the world also believe in the last day ,that after death the people will be accounted by their book of records in duniya, their good and bad deeds will be examined.
Prophet pbuh spent thirteen long years of his mission of his first part informing the people about the DOJ, all the Makki Surah talk about DOJ,before starting the talk let's know the benefits of this topic..
Benefits of pondering upon the last day ,hereafter:
1)first benefit:
If a person believes in DOJ then the person does good deed, the person repents of his wrong doings as he knows that he will be asked on DOJ,Eman bil aakhiraah takes a person to repent to do istighfaar.this is one reason that will keep him away from wrong.
2))second benefit:
the more the person believes in DOJ the more he will be obedient the more he will be patient and the more sunnah he will practice,he will not be heedless,will bear the difficulty will not leave the Deen,it also protects him from haraam for egs yusuf ale salaam refused when he was approached to do wrong doing / haraam by wife of minister, he responsed to the wife of the minister that I have to return to the lord,so the result was that he was prisoner for refusing for doing something haraam, he agreed to this saying to lord invoking that I prefer to be in the prison rather than be near such women who were calling him to doing wrong...
3)) third benefit:
if one person,develops emaan bil aakhiraah then he is forced to do only good deeds,like in Surah Al Baqarah ,read salaat,have patience and ask help from Allah.establish prayer,then in the path of Deen have patience then Allah will help you.
For a person away from deen, prayer,salaat is a difficult thing,for egs a person slogs in his work for eight hours thru the day even does overtime for four hours more but to spend ten minutes in prayer he finds it a burden.. but Allah says that prayer becomes easy for the person who believes in DOJ and this person is always remembering that I have to meet my lord...
The people of today have weak faith about their aakhiraah,the knowledge of Eman of aakhirah is missing, so they r not doing salaat ,such aperson forsakes it, then gets into haraam kaari,doing haraam job,as the emaan bil aakhiraah is weak..( in urdu aakhiratt par Eman kamzor ho Gaya hai.)So sadly today ppl have lost the fear of lord, then they become heedless,then leave salaat,then shaytan will take them into other distractions and haraam things.
Surah al mudathir in para 29: read this where Allah talks about the signs and characteristics of good human beings who feed poor ppl,these ppl fear the DOJ,
If a person has faith in DOJ, then his jihad becomes easier,in order to be rewarded,on DOJ,the person never abandons the battlefield as he knows to give his life for Allah is an honour is also has reward on DOJ...
Story of abdullah bin Hathafah sahaami... A warrior captured by roman ruler...who saif if u change ur religion to christianity then u will not be punished also given position of power in governmen t...abdullah refused so his partner was thrown into Boiling oil....so abdullah saw that nothing was left of his partner except skeleton..white bones..so he started to cry...the ruler of.roman empire said I gave you the offer but now do u still want to consider ....SO Abdullah bin hathafah replied that it is an honour to die in Allah's cause,When I saw the scene I felt sorry that I had only one life. I wished that I had a thousand lives to sacrifice in your boiling cauldron for Allah (swt).”
What is the meaning of Aakhiraaah?
Our knowledge about Eman bil aakhiraah is very limited..we think it's only Hell or paradise...
First aakhiraah after death the first destination is the grave : so first thing we need to worry about is grave,recorded by tirmidhi that uthman bin afaan,we have seen that whenever he saw a grave , then he would cry so much just by seeing, to the extent that his beard would get wet and tears would drip from beard...so one day ppl asked uthman ,that we have not seen you cry so much when you hear about hell n paradise but when you just see the grave you so much... ...so uthman replied to the ppl That I have heard the prophet pbuh say that the first destination of aakhiraah is the grave before hell or paradise, first ask for the protection of trials of graves,then after grave the destination are on DOJ and then hell, paradise, if someone escapes the trials of grave then his onward journey will be easier...remember if a person suffers in the grave then his onward journey will get tougher...this is the reason prophet always said that ask Allah to protect from trials of grave,I have heard from my nabi that he has seen very scary scenes on his night journey on mairaj but the most scary scene has been the scene of the grave,so Allah save us from trials of grave.
One day nabi said o my ppl remember that before the recompense day ,before DOJ, then they will be accountable in the grave ,when they buried a person in the grave and family left the dead,everyone's is missing, but their in the grave there is not anyone with you,no relatives, no friends, everyone has left, that person is left alone.nabi says that one angel comes when there is solitude then the angel tears the soil and in a frightening tone with a very big hammer,then asks ,who is the person who had come as a last messenger..may. Allah protect us from such questioning...the dead reads the kalmah,,,announces the shahadah ,,the angel says you have said the truth then from grave they show the window of hellfire,and says that this would have been ur destination had you not been on tawheed,may we have tawheed e khaalis.so then open the window and show the paradise saying I am happy I want to go...so the angel says not yet only when the day of qayaamat at arrives,Allah commands that make his grave the one which has the bed from jannah,,,from here the onward journey Allah makes it easier...
How is the person if he is not from the tawheed,he has been a hypocrite, or a non believer,or a namesake muslim,the angel comes and asks in frightening tone, who was the person born in madina, he says that I do not know but I did hear his name but have no knowledge about him..I am not aware but ppl called him Rasul ah apart from this no knowledge...the angels say that you never studied quran so you never asked and found out about rasul, you were never on siraat al mustaqeem,then he opens the window and show the jannah, paradise ,so since u w ere away in shirk u missed this and now ur destination will be of hell.and this angel gets ready to hammer his head,that his head shatters ,then except for human and Jinn all the creations can hear this frightening screams.
Shk tabarani has recorded that angel at this time will not have the ability to see,hear or speak so the angel here will be blind,dumb and deaf so that they cannot see the pain of the dead, so that he can do his job of hammering the head of dead person easily,so that the angel does not have mercy ,,,Allah has given so much strength to this angel that if he was to hammer the mountains they would have become dust...remember that this strong angel, hammers and this dead person screams from the east to the west of the horizon,prophet said that if I made dua for ppl to hear the screams then there relatives would never bury the dead in graves...
Allah creates this barrier of barzakh between duniya n dead person,,,when the Sahabah heard this ,they said ya Rasulalla we are so frightened after hearing the description of this angel, so pls tell us that although we are on tawheed and sunnah but if such an angel stands in front of us then how are we going to answer...
Prophet replied that the ppl who do good deeds in duniya,are on the right path Allah will give them strength to reply and proclaim the kalmaah...
The aakhiratt here is the grave the first destination.
Once there was a big crowd of ppl, the. Prophet asked that why are they so many crowded, so Sahabah said the ppl are digging the grave of a person who just died,then nabi went fast towards this crowd, he reached the kabar first then he sat near the kabar and the sahaabah saw nabi looking at the kabar and he was crying looking at the ditch of the grave.....nabi saw the scene of the grave and cried so much that the soil got wet, then he looked up and said to the ppl, o my brothers,this grave is not just for this person, many were buried before and will be buried in the future ,pls prepare for this destination,,,what does this mean don't read prayers only in Ramadan,and only jumaa but read thru the twelve months and also stay away from shirk get Aqeedah correct...
Once a person who has prepared and he is buried in the grave then his prayers will protect him from the head ,his Zakaat on left, quraan and all good deeds near his leg are protecting him from all sides...when ppl leave ,if any harm comes to him then his salaat protect him ,says I will not let you come from the top the side of head,when it comes near right side then the fast says that I will not let u harm ,the Zakaat sadaqqaat and khairaaat will protect from left side, then nabi says that now it comes towards the feet then all his good deeds stand in front to sheild him...we will not let u harm him....
HazratAisha says that when any harm comes from head then the recitation of Quran starts protecting,,,,so if you have not prepared for ur grave but prepared about settling in your home country,made retirement plans...then such a person will be in extreme danger related to matters of his grave..
May Allah protect us from the grave,it's trials...
What are things that make us heedless about the death..or about aakhiraah...
1)) why are we not worried about the aakhiraah, Imaam Hanbal says that if you remember about Aakhiraah then you will always do good deeds.After the messengers the best Muslim is abubakr sidq .once abubakr Siddiq RA was traveling with Omar RA and he saw a little bird flew from a tree, so he saw and started crying,why because this Bird flies freely ,eats wherever it wants but it will die and there is no accountability, but when abubakr dies he will be asked about his accounts so He says i wish I was like this bird ...
2)) once in a summer day ,there was no breeze in the house, Uthman RA had a double story house ,so he stood in his balcony, then saw the rocky mountains where ppl can't walk,nor can animals walk,but he saw that one person was walking in the heat and walking on this mountainous path on which animals also couldn't walk, so he ,uthman,waits to watch who is this person, that person was Hazrat Omar RA, the khalifaah ,amir al momeneen,was walking when everyone is resting at home, he wondered why he is walking so uthman asked from the balcony why are you walking when everyone is at home, Omar replied that of the baitul maal two camels have run away so I am looking for them...so he ,uthman,said pls come drink water and I will send two slaves to look for the camels on your behalf...Omar RA said that let the water be with you..i will look for it myself..if your slaves will not be good enough to search for them then on DOJ Allah will ask me not ask them ...so when you know you will be accountable you will worry about DOJ.
3)) once uthman RA pulled the ears of his slave ,then he apologized that I will be questioned..pls pull my ear so that I don't have to give the account on doj...Ibn Shabbah narrated with his isnad that Uthman ibn Affan entered upon a slave of his who was feeding his she-camel, and he saw something in the feed that he disliked, so he took hold of the slave's ear and tweaked it. Then he regretted it and said to his slave: settle the score. The slave refused, but he did not leave him alone until he had taken hold of his ear and begun to tweak it. Uthman said to him: Pull hard, until he thought that (the slave) had pulled as hard as he had done. Then Uthman said: How easy it is to settle a score before it is settled in the Hereafter. (Akhbar al-Madinah by Ibn Shabbah, 3/236)
4) our prophet pbuh read salaat thru the night ,he would be crying, asking for Allahs forgiveness,then umm salaam a was there in the night,then she left then nabi called out many times so she went saw that the slave girl was playing with a little white goat,so he had pbuh a miswak but he did not...
1))there are people who assume that even if they do wrong deeds they will not be questioned as Allah is oft forgiving,this is wrong ( In Urdu ghalat gumaan karein) anyone who does a good deed Allah will reward him,but what the ppl say that Allah is ghafur Raheem ao we can do wrong deeds, take bribe, then gossip,ppl, start saying that Allah loves us more than our mothers, can a mother see her child getting burnt,no she x
Cannot ao how will Allah burn anyone in hellfire so he will not put in hell fire...this is ghalat gumaani, today majority of ppl are under a false impression as they have been doing wrong not doing good deeds..
This is similar to not going to school or college or university but to expect that you will be rewarded with a degree !
Fussilat Aya 23
وَذَٰلِكُمْ ظَنُّكُمُ الَّذِي ظَنَنتُم بِرَبِّكُمْ أَرْدَاكُمْ فَأَصْبَحْتُم مِّنَ الْخَاسِرِينَ
And that was your (evil) thought which you entertained about your Lord that has tumbled you down into perdition, so are you become of the lost ones.
We should do taubaa istighfaar,do good things ,and then expect that Allah will give us jannah.if we don't do good things and then expect that you will get jannah this is being foolish.
2)) Amall امل
Para 14 th Allah says that you eat drink and be happy but what has made you heedless from the aakhiraah is from doing deeds, Amal,what is Amal,this is not doing any deed ,just the love of duniya,just get busy in duniya that u forget about Aakhirah,the person becomes heedless about aakhiraah but gets busy making plans of big massive projects of duniya for the future.this is another thing that makes a person heedless.
( Maut ki kisi ko Khabar Nahin....no one has any clue about death).
3)) imam Hassan al basri says that if a person has any wrong impression about Allah then he will do wrong deeds but if he has good feelings then he will do good.
4)) if a person forgets the purpose of life then he gets deviated and distracted,therefore every individual should ponder as to why he has been created .(human and jinn are created to worship Allah,Surah Rahman).
5) in Quran Allah tells us that man most of the times gets distracted by his children,his wife And family. Protect yourself from such family and children who are your enemies, no one will believe but why does Allah say this ,what is the definition of an enemy the one who makes u a loser or harms your well being, this is an enemy,aduwww,so Allah says that after you ,your family and children are ur enemies, the ones who spoil ur aakhirah then who is the biggest enemy,how will u protect ur enemy who is with u at home, the ones who distract you,just like nabi said that o ppl be aware of the child ,no doubt he is the Noor of your eye, love of your life but what takes you away from aakhiratt .
5)Friendship with wrong ppl, bad company is another
Read sura tahaa Allah says to musaa when he is being given prophet hood ,remember that ways at will come and why will it come so that ppl will be accounted and rewarded and if you make friendship with some one from out of Deen then such a person will drown and will drown you as well.O musaaa protect urself from such ppl..In Surah kahf: o Nabee stay close with ppl who are in Deen else it is dangerous.
6)) the last point is very dangerous,depending upon righteous ppl,depending upon pirs,shaikhs ,wrong ppl who mislead them .ppl going on urooss ( like a procession),put Sheets( Chaadar) on graves..
Allah says in Surah Anaam, just like you came alone from mothers womb similar u will come alone in grave and on DOJ,such ppl will be asked where are those righteous people on whom depended in duniya where are they, the ones who promised to intercede on ur behalf,we dont see anyone with you...May Allah protect us..
Last six imp points:
1)Always remember death,as this reminds you of DOJ..( keep reminding yourself constantly about death ,in Urdu kasrat se yaad kareim).
2)) go to graves to remember death don't go on dargaah ,go to any regular graves,so that it will make you realize of the death and you will get serious.
3) sit with ulemas and scholars ,read from Quran where it is mentioned about death..
4) recite quraan with zeal then ponder upon the verses.
5) be accountable of your deeds, thru the day what have you done ,also thru the day prepare for your qayaaamat,be mindful what you have done for your children...
Remember when two thirds of night would pass then nabi would stand and nabi would say o ppl leave beds, do istighfaar,don't sleep , prepare for their nights, udhkurrullah, o ppl get up now and start prepare foe the aaakhiraah, nabi saws does not wait for night to end does his TAHAJUD,death is on ur head getting ready would prepare the ppl for their aakhiraah.
Q& A session:
A sister asked how will we I be sure that Allah has accepted my repentance.
answer:
Remember that there are Three conditions about tauba (this is huquq Allah).
First point is that person should profusely repent ,be ashamed of it .
Second point leave the sin that you regretted,for egs you lied today and repented but the next morning you again lied,doing the the same sin,this is wrong,
Third point that in future also never do the sin.
If it is huquq of person then ask forgiveness from ppl.
we need to understand what some learned scholars have said about repentance and deeds.Abu Ayub said that on the doj there will be some ppl who will go to jannah ,paradise on account of commiting SIN!! While there will be some people who will go to Jahannam,hellfire on account of doing GOOD DEEDS! People were puzzled and said what are you saying Abu Ayub!!
So then he explained that the people who will go to jannah on account of their sins are those people who had committed A sin once in duniya but they remembered it more than thousand times ,regretted and cried due to this sin, he repented so much that due to tauba istighfaar went to jannah...
While some ppl are such that although they have done good deeds in duniya but shaytan created kibar and pride in them that they became arrogant which took them to hellfire...
What are the signs that Allah has forgiven...
Sura Taahaa,,,Allah says that after repenting of his sin and starts doing good deeds,stay away from sin then this is an indication that Allah has forgiven him..
Question: please tell us how will Quran intercede on DOJ for a beleiver?
Answer:Two types of intercession has been explained in Quran
One is shirkiyaa and the other is shariaa a
Shirkiya is to get attached to a person and expect he will intercede for u..
While Shifaa at shariaa has to have three conditions ,
1-Allah will give the permission to intercede ,on DOJ no one will dare to speak except only those to whom Allah will give permission..only with whom Allah is pleased..
2-- Shifaaat means that it will be possible only from those who have not done shirk,so the intercession will be only as per Allah s will .Allah did not accept Ibrahim ale Salam s request to intercede for his father who was a mushrik.
3--also Allah will fix the number of ppl that you will be allowed to intercede.
These are the theree conditions, Allah will give permission to righteous ppl, Allah will grant this permission to honor you as you have done good deeds,
Shifaa at kubraa which only nabi Rasullah pbuh will do to start DOJ..
What about intercession of quraan..
There will be some ppl that who will be waiting but these ppl are from ummah but they read it only for the dead,for such ppl Quran will come in a frightening appearance and say that this person never did the deeds, whatever was forbidden he did it,so nabi pbuh says that this Quran will thrash him on ground and take him to hellfire.
But there are other believers who have read the Quran with understanding and have applied the rules of Quran and lived by it, for them Quran will intercede and be witness in the most handsome form and plead to Allah to send such a person to jannah as this person was sincere in reading and practicing the Quran in dunya...
Question: when we attend such gatherings then our Eman gets stronger but by the time we get back to duniya we forget and busy ourselves with pur routine,so what should we do...
Answer :
Then you must constantly participate in such gatherings to strengthen your Eman, a man is a forgetful being he requires reminders.once the Sahabah said that our emaan increases when we sit in your mehfil but when we go to duniya then we get busy in duniya,the Eman diminishes...
Nabi Muhammad pbuh said that this is the sign of a good beleiver, then if u r away u realize that it goes down...then if you have the realization( in Urdu ahsaas) then it is a sign so increase your participation in religious gathering ( in urdu :in deeni mehfil).So we should sit with our children discuss with family take a Hadith discuss with kids,Allah says that he is a believer when his emaan increase when religion is discussed...
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