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The deen is a struggle in this life.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam described days
that gets so severe that holding
on the deen
is like holding onto a burning hot coal.
And the reward for holding onto
the deen
when things get exceedingly difficult
is 50 times the reward of those who proceeded you.
And so on the Day of Judgment,
that burning hot coal is going to be replaced by what?
By light in your hand.
You sacrificed dunya
for the sake of this deen.
Now, on the other hand,
those who exploit deen,
for the sake of dunya,
are in the worst state.
So if you're doing the deeds of the Hereafter
but only for worldly benefit,
you don't show up on the Day of Judgment
and expect reward for these deeds again.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said that
on that Day the people would be summoned,
along with the idols that they used to worship,
one after the other.
So everyone is standing in front
of what they used to worship.
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says,
ya'teena rabbuna fayaqool man tandhuroon.'
Then our Lord will come to us
and we will hear Him say, "Who are you waiting for?"
Now we don't see Him, we just hear His voice.
So they would say, "We are waiting for our Lord."
And He would say,
'Anna rabbukum.'
"I am your Lord."
And they will say,
"We are going to stay here until our Lord comes to us.
And when our Lord comes to us, then we will recognize Him."
So because they can only hear Him
and they can't see Him yet,
and they see everyone standing before their false gods,
they're listening and they're staying put.
And this is actually a beautiful reflection
of sami'na wa atha'na.
We here and we obey.
So this is a praiseworthy trait of the believers
that we're going to wait until we know
that it is Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
commanding us to move
and we will stay in our place until then.
And then they say,
'Hattha nandhuru ilaik'
"Until we see you and we can confirm."
'Fayata jallalahum yad hak'
So Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
manifests Himself to them, smiling and laughing.
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
'Fayan thaliqu bihim'
and Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la takes them with Him
and they would follow Him.
Now, at that point, every person,
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
whether a hypocrite or a believer would be given a light
and they all make their way
towards the Sirat,
towards the bridge.
And then the filtration process starts.
May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
not filter us out.
Allahumma ameen. Abu Saeed radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu said,
"I heard the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam say
that our Lord will lay
bare His shin."
And of course, all of this is in a way befitting
to Him and far are away from our imagination.
But the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said that
Allah Azawajal, in a way
that's befitting to him, will lay bare His shin.
And then all the believers, men and women
will make sujood.
They'll prostrate themselves before Him.
But there will remain those who used to prostrate
in this world just out of showing off.
And when those people try to make sujood
when they try to prostrate,
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
said, "Their back will be as stiff as a rod."
'Yawma yukshafu 'an saaq, wa yud'awna ilas sujood
fala yastatee'oon.' What Allah Azawajal
tells us in the Quran, the day that they will see
what Allah Azawajal
reveals of Himself to them.
And they are called to sujood,
They are called to prostrate
and they're not going to be able to.
And they used to be called to prostrate
for the sake of Allah in this world.
But now they can't.
And then you have scholars who taught one thing
but they did the opposite.
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam describes to us
a very scary scene. That they're walking around
and their insides are out, and they're dragging them.
And people are surprised because they say,
"Didn't you used to tell us to do this and not do that?
Weren't you one of those who was teaching us?
And he says, "Yes, but I used to do the complete opposite
of what I taught you."
May Allah protect us.
And so this is the hypocrite of those who preach
or of those who teach and in private, do everything
in contradiction of what they used to teach the people.
And you have all of those like them.
And when they come to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
on the Day of Judgment, He says to them,
"And all of those who are using the religion
to seek attention or to seek the reward of others,"
'Idhabu ilal latheena kuntun turaoona fid dunya.
Anthuru hal tajiduna indahum jaza'a'
"Go to those that you used to show off to in this world
and see if they have any 'jazaa'
see if they have any reward to offer you today."
So it's not just, you were standing in front of the idol
or the false God, those people that you were acting for
and seeking reward for, Allah knows your heart,
and Allah knows why you were doing what you were doing.
Allah says, "Go to them, go to that person
see if they can help you today.
See if they have anything to give you today."
Now there's a very important turning point to understand
when it comes to the scene of the Day of Judgment.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
taught us that at this point,
the heavens and the earth, the place of assembly
all of it is rolled up, it's gone.
At this point, it's only Hellfire
and the Sirat, the bridge over,
and then Jannah,
and then Paradise.
And there's this entire scene happening before the attempted
crossing over the Sirat,
which in many ways is the final major course of this day.
And then you have this parable
in Surat al-Baqarah
where Allah Azawajal
talks about the hypocrites.
'Mathaluhum kamathali allatheeistawqada naran falamma adaat
ma hawlahuthahaba Allahu binoorihim watarakahum fee
thulumatinla yubsiroon'
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says that, "The example
of them are like those who kindled a fire.
And then once it lit up everything around them
Allah Azawajal took away the light
and left them in the darkness
where they could no longer see."
And Imam Ibn Qaiyim Rahimahullah says something
very powerful.
He says, "Notice that Allah says the burning stays,
but the "daw", the light is gone."
So it's like the light of the fire is gone
but now they have to suffer the consequences
of the fire that they themselves kindled.
For the believers, now they have their light
after the sincere struggle when they were holding onto
that burning hot coal in dunya.
Now, this is going to be replaced for them.
And in Surah al-Hadid, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
sets the scene.
'Yawma tara almu/mineena walmu/minatiyasAAa nooruhum
bayna aydeehim wabi-aymanihim bushrakumualyawma
jannatun tajree min tahtiha al-anharukhalideena feeha
thalika huwa alfawzu alAAatheem'
On the Day when you would see the believing men
and the believing women, their lights proceeding far
in front of them and in their right hands.
And it is said to them,
'bushrakumualyawm'
"Good news for you today!
There are Jannaat,
Gardens beneath which rivers flow
and you will live therein forever.
And this is the great success."
Now Abdullah ibn Masood radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu,
he describes it,
he says that "The light in front of you
is 'biqadri a'malika'
in accordance with the level of your deeds."
Just like your shade in the initial standing
was in accordance with your deeds.
So now that the lights are off,
it's dark, it's not the sun anymore.
It's dark, and people are seeking a light,
their charity extends the light in front of them,
the way that their charity extended the shade
above them in the beginning of this Day.
And he said, radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu,
"That some people have light as large as a mountain.
Some people have it like a tree.
And for it's just the size of themselves."
Meaning it's like a shadow,
the space that a shadow would occupy, but in light,
right in front of them.
As for their right hands,
what do you think is shining in their right hands?
It's their book of deeds that they're still holding
onto from when Allah Azawajal
gave them their book in their right hand.
May Allah make us amongst them, Allahumma ameen.
I mean, so you've got your book
in your right hand and it's shining to an extent
and then you have some light in front of you.
So as they are proceeding forward,
the hypocrites who have been benefiting
from the light of the believers next to them,
they realize that they don't have any light anymore,
and they're starting to get left behind.
And then at that point, as the believers are going forward,
and the hypocrites are being left behind.
'Yawma yaqoolu almunafiqoona walmunafiqatu
lillatheena amanoo onthuroona
naqtabis min noorikum qeela irjiAAoo waraakum
faltamisoonoora faduriba baynahum bisoorin lahu babun
batinuhufeehi arraHmatu wathahiruhumin qibalihi alAAathab'
On that Day, the hypocrites, both and women, will call out
to the believers, men and women,
and say, 'onthuroona!'
"Wait for us!"
'naqtabis min noorikum'
"Let us benefit from your light."
'qeela irjiAAoo waraakum faltamisoonoora'
The believers, who are going ahead, are saying
"Go back and see if you can find a light."
And then at that point, a barrier is erected between them.
Allah says that inside of it is mercy,
and outside of it is punishment.
And now the hypocrites are panicking.
'Yunadoonahum alam nakun maAAakum'
They call out to them and say, "Weren't we with you?"
'Alam nakun maAAakum?'
Now realize this language is very intentional.
The hypocrites in Medina that were pretending
to be believers, to take advantage of the situation,
they used to say to the believers
when they would see them,
that 'Inna maAAakum.'
"We are with you."
And then they'd go and they'd say the same
to the enemies of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
so now this time, it's not working.
So these are the worst types of hypocrites.
So the believers call back out,
'Bala walakinnakum fatantum anfusakum watarabbastum
wartabtum wagharratkumu al-amani
hattajaa amru Allahi wagharrakum billahialgharoor'
They will reply,
"Yes, but you allowed yourself to be tempted,
you were hesitant, you were doubtful,
and you were deceived by all of these false hopes,
until finally the command of Allah came and the Deceiver,
the chief diluter being the Shai'tan,
tricked you in regards to your Lord."
And it's at this point that the believers look back
and the hypocrites are extinguished as well.
So they have no lights
and they are suffering their punishments.
And the believers are moving forward with a barrier erected
behind them, and the bridge in front of them.
And Allah Azawajal
tells us in Surah at-Tahrim,
"That they call out,
'Rabbana atmim lana noorana waghfir lana
innaka AAala kulli shay-in qadeer'
Our Lord, complete our lights for us,
perfect our lights for us,
and forgive us, we all have things that we're afraid of
and you have power over all things."
So as they are going forward,
and they're holding onto their lights, and you're hoping
that it doesn't extinguish, and you are hoping
that the light in front of you stays at least at what it is.
You're now about to get to the initial crossing
of the Sirat.
Fa-amma man thaqulat mawazinuhu
Fahuwa fi 'ishatin radiya
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