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It was never about the size of your deeds.
(soft tense music begins) It was always
about the sincerity of them.
And that's why
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says
'liyabluwakum ayyukum ahsanu amala' (11:7)
That Allah may test you to see
how good you will do with your deeds.
Not 'aktharu amala', not how many deeds you will do.
It was never about quantity.
It was always about quality.
And on The Day of Judgment,
it's not your deeds that ultimately save you.
It's Allah's mercy as He looks to your sincerity,
when you did those deeds.
And you sought His acceptance with them.
With that being said,
one of the ways in which we show our sincerity in this life,
is to take advantage of those simple deeds
that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gives us,
that propel us to salvation.
And can you really claim that you're being sincere,
if you don't do the most basic things
that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala sends you
as gifts to ultimately elevate you
on the day when everyone is asking for Paradise?
(soft tensed music continues)
WanadaAAu almawazeena alqistaliyawmi alqiyamati
fala tuthlamunafsun shay-a
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, "And then suddenly,
we set up the scales on The Day of Judgment.
And no one is going to be wrong,
as they hold their records to be weighed."
Salman RadiAllahu ta'ala Anhu narrates...
Yu'ta bil mawazini yawmil qiyamah
falaw wudi'at fee kiffatihis samawaatu wal arD
Wa man feehin lawasi'atu
"The balance will be set up on The Day of Judgment.
And even if the Heavens and the Earth
and everything in between were going to be placed
inside the Mizan, inside that scale, they would fit."
And in one narration, lawazinatum
It would weigh them accurately.
So the angels, they say as they see this awesome sight
of the scales being set up, they say,
rabana, man tazinu bihatha
"O, our Lord, who are you going to weigh with this?"
And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will say
maa shi'tu min khalqi
"Who I see fit from my creation."
Now the angels have nothing to worry about, right?
They don't have sins.
They don't have to worry about being held accountable
because they were unable to disobey
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
But even them, when they see that,
they say rabana ma 'abadnaka haqqa 'ibaadatik.
"Glory be to you, Subhanak, glory be to you.
Our Lord, we did not worship you
as you deserve to be worshiped."
And what does Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala say
is the crime of a person who doesn't understand their Lord?
Maa qadarullaha haqqa qadrihi They never understood.
They did not give their Lord his due estimation.
But the angels are glorifying Allah,
because they know Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
They know Allah deserves so much more
than any amount of worship
that can be placed in that Mizan, in that scale.
Imam Hasan Al-Basri Rahimahullah
He describes to us what the Mizan looks like,
in what's been given to us.
And he says the Mizan has a tongue and two pans.
So just like other things,
the Mizan actually speaks on The Day of Judgment.
And we're going to spend some time with this Mizan,
because everyone ultimately,
is going to have to put their records in that Mizan.
And every deed is going to be weighed with precision,
and SubhanAllah some people, even with that,
will have exact sets of good and bad deeds.
And these are the people of Al-A'raf,
who Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala puts to the side,
as they wait for his mercy,
because they needed just one more deed.
So what are some of these weighty words and simple deeds,
that we can put in this Mizan?
And we'll start with dhikr.
Well, Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
in a famous hadith, aTahooru shaTrul imaan
walhamdulillahi tamla'ul mizan
Wa subhanallahi walhamdulillahi tamla'aan au
tamla'u baynasSama'i wal Ard
He said, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
that purity is half of faith,
and saying "Alhamdulillah", "All praises be to Allah",
it fills the Mizan.
And saying, "SubhanAllah Walhamdulillah",
"Glory be to Allah and all praises be to Allah",
it fills what is between the heavens and the earth.
So Tasbih, which is glorifying Allah's perfection,
and Tahmid, which is praising Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
The Tasbih is you're affirming Allah's perfection,
especially for a day when you fear most, your imperfections.
And the Tahmid, the praising of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
especially for his blessings,
that you know that you haven't sufficiently thanked him for.
And so they're coming to your aid
at this particular juncture.
Now, these aren't the only implications
of 'SubhanAllah' and 'Alhamdulillah',
but they're certainly tied to this station
in a unique way throughout the aHadith
of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So what happens
when you combine "SubhanAllah" and "Alhamdulillah"?
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
Kalimataan. Habibataani ilarrahman.
Khafeefataani 'alal lisaan. Thaqeelataani fil mizaan
Subhanallahi wa bihamdihi, subhanallahi'laDheem
He said, SalAllahu Alaihi wasalaam,
"There are these two phrases.
They are so dear to Ar-Rahman,The Most Merciful.
They're so light on the tongue,
meaning they're so easy to say,
and they are so heavy on the scales."
And he said, "They are
'Subhan Allah Wa Bihamdihi, Subhanallahil Azeem.'
How perfect is Allah, The Most Praiseworthy,
how perfect is Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, The Almighty."
And this dhikr, as the scholars say,
it combines Tasbih, which is to glorify Allah's perfection,
with Tahmid, which is to praise Him and to thank Him,
with Tadheem, which is to affirm
His Greatness Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So these are so heavy on the balance, and so impactful.
In another narration, the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
"That if anyone says a hundred times
in the morning and in the evening,
"Subhanallahi Wa BiHamdihi",
"Glory be to Allah, how perfect is Allah,
and how praiseworthy is Allah",
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said
Lam ya'ti ahadun yawmal qiyamati biaFdali mima jaa'a bihi
illa ahadun qaala mithlama qaal au zaada alaihi
"No one is going to show up on The Day of Judgment,
with anything more beneficial
than what that person has brought,
except for someone who said it
even more than a hundred times."
And then beyond that, the Prophet Sallahi wa salaam said,
"Whoever says a hundred times,
Subhanallahil Azeem Wa Bihamdihi
ghulisat lahu nakhlatun fil jannah
then a tree is planted for him in paradise.
So, SubhanAllah, how many trees in Paradise
have you failed to plant?
How many oceans of sin could you have obliterated
by just saying these statements?
And how heavy could your Mizan be, your scale be,
if you just repeated these throughout the day?
And there's a narration that
Abu Hurayrah RadiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
said, "I used to do Tasbih 12,000 times a day."
That was actually part of his wird.
That was his daily regimen.
Imagine how heavy the scale of
Abu Hurayrah RadiAllahu ta'ala anhu is.
Now, for us, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi wasalam said,
"There are two qualities that no Muslim has,
except they're definitely going to enter Jannah."
And he said, "They are so easy,
but those who do them are so few."
He said, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
saying "SubhanAllah" after every prayer 10 times,
and saying "Alhamdulillah" after every prayer 10 times,
and saying "Allahu Akbar" after every prayer 10 times.
Abdullah ibn Amr radiAllahu Anhuma
who was narrating the hadith,
he said, "I saw the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi wasalam
counting on his fingers."
And he said, "If you do that,
that's 150 phrases on the tongue,
and 1,500 deeds on the scale, on the Mizan."
And then he said, "When you go to bed,
you say "SubhanAllah" 33 times, "Alhamdulillah" 33 times,
and "Allahu Akbar" 34 times," and he said,
"That will be a hundred on the tongue,
and 1,000 on the Mizan."
And he said, "Who amongst you
commits 2,500 sins in one day?
If you had those 2,500 good deeds
that could wipe out those 2,500 sins, how easy is that?"
So the Sahaba said, "Ya RasulAllah,
how come so few of us do it?
How do we miss that?"
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi wasalam said,
"That Shaitan comes to you while you are praying,
and he reminds you about things that you've forgotten,
and he reminds you about things that are coming up.
And so what happens is when you finish your prayer,
you rush back to whatever you were doing,
and you skip the dhikr.
And then Shaitan comes to you when you're about to sleep,
and then he lulls you to sleep
before you can finish saying these simple phrases of dhikr."
That's 2,500 good deeds daily, that are missed on the Mizan,
that could literally be the difference maker for you
on The Day of Judgment.
And the Shaitan really doesn't want you
to say these simple phrases,
because he knows the major impact
this has on your scales on that day.
But greater than anything that you say, is what you do.
And what you do regularly, is who you actually are,
which is why the next part of the Mizan is so significant.
"Faamma man thaqulat mawazeenuh
Fahuwa fee AAeeshatin radiya"
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