Barons We Begin by praising Allah by
bearing witness that none has the right
to be worshiped or unconditionally
obeyed except for him and we bear
witness that Muhammad
is his final messenger we ask Allah to
send his peace and blessings upon him
the prophets and Messengers that came
before him his family and companions
that served alongside him and those that
follow in his blessed path until the day
of judgment and we ask Allah to make us
amongst them Allah I mean dear brothers
and sisters I want to give you a scene
in Al Madina
that probably doesn't make sense at the
onset of it if you were to think about
those who are Reckless with their
tongues
the person that would probably be
furthest from it or the people that
would probably be furthest from it are
the sahaba the companions that we speak
about on such a frequent basis
but in this particular narration
he narrates
from his father that um
once entered upon
and he was grabbing his tongue I want
you to imagine the scene of seeing Abu
Bakr
of all people crying and grabbing his
tongue can you think of anything that
Abu Bakr who did wrong with this blessed
tongue that was first to testify to the
prophethood of the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam from the man that stood
up with the prophet salallahu alaihi
wasallam and spoke what was pleasing to
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
intuitively and through Divine
facilitation but um
enters upon him and he sees him in
regret holding on to his tongue and he
says to him
stop may Allah forgive you why why are
you of all people of Abu Bakr grabbing
your tongue
who responds and he says
this piece of Flesh has taken me to
dangerous places
this tongue of mine has put me in severe
trouble it has taken me to dangerous
places
subhanallah of all people
holding himself to that standard holding
himself to account in such a way
that no one else around him has a claim
against
it or gossiped or slandered or if he
said something that was foul or
displeasing to the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam this was a man whose
tongue was full of
truthfulness Whose actions were full of
but he's holding his tongue and he's
saying
this tongue of mine has taken me to
dangerous places on the other hand
the quality of the Hypocrites that is
mentioned both in the Quran and the
Sunnah well
they love the way that they sound they
talk a lot and people listen to them and
so they comment about everything
the prophet saws use different terms for
them that they love to weigh in on
everything and they weigh in in a way
that sounds intelligent but at the end
of the day the prophet saws describes
them as a hated people
the most hated of you to me and the
furthest from me on the day of judgment
you talk too much
and you love the way that you sound you
love to hear yourself weighing in on
certain things but you talk too much and
in one narration the prophet saws
that Allah hates the eloquent person
from the men now obviously
is a good thing eloquence is a good
thing if it's used for the sake of Allah
but in this situation the prophet saws
the one whose tongue moves around the
way that the tongue of a cow moves
around and the way the scholars explain
that is that when you watch the way that
a cow eats its fodder it wraps its
tongue around it it's an it's a nasty
sight and the prophet saws is saying
this is the this is the way that you
should look at people whose tongues are
so loose and long and comments on
everything and their tongues spin around
and usually a person who's eloquent a
person who's poetic a person who sounds
intelligent even when he has no idea
what he's talking about weighs in on
things that he has no business weighing
in on and speaks too much and ends up as
the scholars say in the explanation of
this Hadith in Abu dhabood ends up in a
place of Isa and a place of mocking
people making fun of people in a place
of consuming the aurat the honor the
Dignity of their brothers and sisters
and so there's a fear of The Poets at
the time of the prophet sallallahu
because the poets were the most honored
of society and now you have a religion
that tells you watch your tongue watch
how much you use this tongue and so
compare and contrast
grabbing his tongue the other person the
prophet saws mentioning having a tongue
that slaps around the way that the
tongue of a cow slaps around
now fast forward to the day of judgment
every single part of you
that was used for Allah is Nur is light
on the day of judgment
and Allah will preserve and beautify
that part of you the eyes that shed
tears for the sake of Allah will never
be touched by the fire
those eyes will be beautiful and bold on
the day of judgment on a day when
people's eyes will be to the ground and
Afraid
those eyes will be beaming with joy the
places on your body of will be shining
on the day of judgment the prophet saws
said he will know you by the signs the
marks of your will do and people don't
do will do unless they're praying so
people of Salah people of prayer all
those places of the Lord coming forth
shining on the day of judgment the
wounds of the the wounds of the martyrs
will be light Musk
on the day of judgment imagine looking
at him
with his wounds on the day of judgment
Shining imagine looking at the likes
these people who live their lives
striving for the sake of Allah and the
brightness coming from their bodies the
brightness coming from all over them may
Allah make that our situation as well
light shining from people every part of
your body that was used for Allah your
feet that you walk to the Masjid with
Allah makes it Noor on the day of
judgment it is light upon light upon
light and one of the duras of the
Prophet saws when he's coming to the
Masjid is that Allah
make my tongue light now what I'm about
to say here is not something that I'm
making up from my own
the fewest
Parts on the day of judgment that will
be full of light are the tongues
meaning we're all kind of a mixed bag
aren't we and sometimes that discrepancy
is very very dangerous
because you have people that maybe have
the light of voodoo they maybe have the
light on their eyes but their tongues
are Darkness
on the day of judgment
Darkness upon Darkness upon Darkness
now some people
will be blessed to have light on their
tongues as well may Allah make us
amongst them Allah I mean can you
imagine the light from the mouth of Abu
Bakr Allah on the day of judgment that
man that was grabbing his tongue
this took me to dangerous places imagine
seeing who the first in line from this
ummah behind the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam and he opens his mouth
and the light that comes out of that
man's mouth
because what was he using that tongue
for except for praising Allah and
defending the messenger of Allah
light upon light upon light
then you have other scenes
and dear brothers and sisters I want you
to put yourself in that scene for a
moment as you're looking around on the
day of judgment and you're seeing the
different people you'll have the likes
of Abu Bakr who had light shining from
his mouth and then you look and you see
another person that's walking and they
don't just have no light from their
tongue their tongues are made of Fire
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that people of two faces in this Dunya
will walk around on the day of judgment
with two tongues of Fire
what a scene
may Allah not make us amongst them Allah
with the light shining from his mouth
all of these people the lights shining
from their mouths
you have people of zikr that were
unknown amongst the crowd the light is
shining from their mouth and then you
have people walking around with fire
coming out of their mouth
may Allah protect us maybe they have
light on other parts of their body but
that's the most common
of the places of Darkness on the day of
judgment and there is proof for that
and then you arrive at the book
to meet Allah and to meet Allah with
your Deeds
that a person will be brought forth
before Allah
and he's expecting to see all of these
hasanats in his book
all of these good deeds in his book and
when his book is given to him he sees
none of his Good Deeds
foreign
my Lord this is somebody else's book
this isn't my book I can swear I used to
go to the Masjid for jummah I can swear
I used to observe later I remember 10
days of I remember this I remember doing
this where's my Salah where is it all at
Ya Allah
where's the charity at Ya Allah this
must be a mistake
but it's not
and it's said to him your lord does not
forget
all the backbiting all the nastiness
it destroyed everything that was in your
book it wiped it out
it's not there anymore
on the other hand
says that a person shows up afraid I
don't know what I'm gonna see in my book
I don't know if those good deeds made it
through
that he shows up on the day of judgment
with sins the size of mountains and he
finds that the thicker of Allah that
used to come from his mouth wiped it all
out it destroyed those mountains of sins
from his book
the goodness from his mouth he had
personal sins
he had things that he was struggling
with he was afraid but he never used to
use this tongue in a way that was
displeasing to Allah he didn't used to
talk about other people
he used to worry about himself
and he used to do the wicked of Allah he
used to remember Allah so he shows up on
the day of judgment he says what book is
this pleasantly surprised
o my servant all of the goodness that
you used your tongue for wiped out all
of those sins that you were worried
about and what is
seeking forgiveness where the Prophet
saws will ask a person about their sins
did you seek forgiveness for those sins
after they feel like they're doomed and
those sins start to turn into Good Deeds
to the point that the person says the
angel forgot to write down some of those
sins
because he rerouted with his tongue he
recalibrated with his tongue and when
they go to the Mizan when they go to the
scale may Allah protect us when we go to
the scale
the person who held back his tongue
collecting Good Deeds from other people
and never giving up any of his own
let people back by let people say let
people do never gave up any of his own
and I said
he would wish that he never
ever responded to anything and that no
one ever or that everybody in the world
backbited him why because I didn't give
up any of mine you gave up all of yours
on the other hand
you know who the bankrupt person is
that person who has their Salah their
Salam there's a cat all of those things
and all of it is gone because of mostly
the actions of the tongues
other than the hidden part all of that
is with your tongue the backbiting the
the slander the uh violent speech or
abusive speech that you use towards
others the mockery that's all with the
tongue the only thing that's missing is
a physical hit
but all of that is a tongue meaning the
reason why most people end up bankrupt
on that day is because of their tongue
and when a person now crosses a sirat
crosses over the bridge and ends up in
one of the two destinations may Allah
make us from the people of al-jannah and
not from the people of a not Allah I
mean
there is nothing
nothing that causes more people to fall
face first into Hell Fire more so than
the things that they stored in their
tongues
he said another Hadith a person
says a word they don't think too much
about it and it lands them into Hellfire
think about the distance between the
heavens and the Earth
think thirty thousand feet even
lands them into Hellfire a deeper
distance you literally drop because of a
word that you say recklessly not
thinking about it
and at the same time you might say
something that's pleasing to Allah and
you don't think too much about it but
you had the inspiration to say the right
thing at the right time and it lands you
in the highest ranks of paradise may
Allah make us amongst them Allah
and when most people come out of Hell
Fire and enter into may Allah enter us
all into Jannah without any without any
punishment any questioning when most
people are brought out of the Hellfire
and put into paradise and they have to
be purified of something more people
will have to go into the purification of
their tongues than any other part of
their body or anything else that they
have
dear brothers and sisters I want to end
with one thing here and it's the most
important Point as we come into the
Blessed 10 days of the especially where
vikr is the most beloved of deeds in
these 10 days of the
I want you to leave with one message
let your tongue take you to Jannah don't
let it take you to jahannam
the prophet salallahu mentioned that
more people will go to Hellfire face
first because of what they have stored
in their tongues think about your tongue
as a plane and you're planting the seeds
of Hellfire in your tongue but you know
what else he says
and he said tell them that Jannah is
planes it's a bunch of planes and at the
Harvest of those planes the seeds of
those Plains are subhanallah
alhamdulillah
you have the plains of Arjuna where you
plant the seeds of zikr
where palaces and trees await
and you have the planes of your tongue
the Harvest of your tongue where the
seeds of Hellfire are planted and
there's nothing but regret on the day of
judgment and the connection between the
sanctity of the honor of people and the
glorifying of Allah the two main themes
of these ten days the sanctity of your
brother or sister being greater than the
sanctity of the Kaaba itself as it's in
full focal View and the glory of Allah's
name and how you use your tongue
um
keep yourself busy with the remembrance
of Allah because that is a cure avoid
the remembrance of people because that
is disease
and talk about people talk about Allah
the more you're using your tongue for
the wicked of Allah the less you will
use it for the thicket of other people
and that which is negative and that
which could cause you destruction and
doom may Allah make us amongst those
whose tongues are light on the day of
judgment and whose tongues become a
means by which they enter into the
highest ranks of paradise alongside and
the prophet sallallahu above him and his
family and Companions and the greatest
ones that came before us would protect
us from using these tongues in ways that
would cause us to fall in the pits of
the fire Allah
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