to ask allah for a good ending
is to live a good life and it's to seek
a good beginning of the afterlife
the believer doesn't necessarily focus
on the realm that they're currently in
they worry about the relationship they
have with the creator of all realms so
he seeks away in it and out of it that
is pleasing to allah but that request
for a good ending has to be sincere and
truthful and it has to speak to the way
that you actually live your life the
prophet
salallahu told a man who was very
specific about how he wanted to die
shaheed
be truthful with allah and he will be
truthful with you and we know how um
who was so specific when he asked allah
not just to die shaheed but to die
shaheed in madinah which didn't seem
likely at the time but allah made it so
that he would be stabbed while leading
salah in the masjid of the prophet salla
islam in medina and these are not just
distant stories of the past sheikh
who was a famous preacher in egypt he
used to always make this dura from the
minba from the pulpit
allow me to live as an imam allow me to
die as an imam and resurrect me while
i'm making sujud prostrating to you and
allah subhanahu ta'ala granted him death
in his sujud on a friday imagine being
resurrected in sajdah or imagine being
raised up on the day of judgement saying
words of wikid words of remembrance
there was this man who was doing hajj
with the prophet salla sallam and he
fell off of his riding animal and died
while he was doing the talbia while he
was saying the bake allahumma labek here
i come oh allah here i come and the
prophet saws said leave him in his
he will be raised on the day of judgment
saying
here i come o allah here i come so the
deed you die upon is the deed you're
going to be raised with and that deed
should be a prominent feature of your
life
live the way you want to die accompany
here who you want to accompany there
build the home you want to live in there
while you're still here and your very
last moments here are your first moments
there
the trumpet will be blown and all those
in the heavens and all those on the
earth will fall dead
except those allah chooses to spare
and then it will be blown again and they
will rise up again staring in
anticipation the horn blows on the day
of judgment
and we're doing and saying exactly what
we were when we died and allah says
is not going to frighten the believers
and the angels will greet them saying to
them this is your day which you have
been promised the same words that were
said to you in the grave your day that
you have been promised now how soon do
you meet your deeds in this realm the
prophet saws said when your grave is
open
as soon as you look up
you see this bright man and he's
reaching out to you and he says
do you know who i am you say i don't
know who you are i don't recognize you
and he says
i am your companion the quran the one
who used to keep you thirsty during the
day and awake at night
everyone is out there seeking the profit
of their trade and you are beyond every
trade meaning you've already got
everything that everyone could want
and so the dominion is placed in your
right hand and eternal life is placed in
your left
and he has a crown of nobility placed on
his head subhanallah this is as soon as
you're getting out the grave now we'll
come back to the rest of this because
this is only the beginning for the
companion of the quran
allah then says
and then everyone comes forth and there
is an angel that is taking you to your
place
and another angel with your records that
is walking alongside you and everyone is
going to proceed differently to allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala to the gathering you
shall be gathered walking the prophet
saws
and the prophet salallahu said ruqban
writing and he says
some of you will be dragged upon your
faces as for those that are writing the
prophet salallahu said some of them are
multiple people on one animal so you
have two three four up to ten on an
animal and then you have some people
that are noble enough that they have
their own animal to ride and they're not
all moving at the same speed or pace
they're not all the same animal and the
prophet saw isaac is telling us that
it's in accordance with your
righteousness the speed is in accordance
with how fast you were to the obedience
of allah and your good deeds in this
life as for those that are walking on
their faces the companions asked the
prophet saws how is that even possible
you know you think about the scene of
people
walking on their faces and the prophet
saw some said isn't the one who made him
walk on his feet in this world
able to make him walk on his face in the
next it's allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who
decides what you walk on or how you walk
then the prophet saws says the people
are gathered on the day of resurrection
on this reddish white land like a pure
loaf of bread meaning that this land has
no landmarks to guide them and it has no
trees or anything to shade them
then everyone is gathered
naked barefoot and uncircumcised the way
that they were born and everyone only
has their place in that gathering
that everyone is too concerned with
their affair to be thinking about
what other people are wearing or not
wearing everyone's focused on the matter
at hand the day of judgment it's that
severe
for people that they can't even notice
their nakedness
and then the prophet saw some said the
sun is brought so near that you could
reach out and touch the sun
and so everyone will be in their sweat
in accordance with their deeds amongst
them the prophet saws
are those that will be covered up to
their ankles and then amongst them are
those who will be covered up to their
knees
and amongst them are those who will be
covered up to their waist
and amongst them are those the prophet
saws said who will be drowning in their
swat subhanallah now at this point there
are people who are also being consumed
by the land and that's tied to a very
specific sin the sin of wrongfully
taking the land of someone else in this
world the prophet saw islam said those
people will literally sink down the
seven layers of land on the day of
judgment and then there is this one who
is burdened by the property that they
didn't pay zakat on and the prophet saws
said that that property is heated and
placed on their body and then there is
the unlawfully consumed wealth and that
also is a burden on the person on the
day of judgment so you're being weighed
down
by your sins of confiscation and you are
drowning in your sins of disobedience to
allah
the opposite of that is the person who
voluntarily gave of their wealth and
property extra for the sake of allah
subhanahu ta'ala and for that person not
only are they not sinking or boiling
allah subhanahu put shade over them from
the sun the prophet saws
that everyone is under the shade of
their charity until allah judges between
the people now this is not referencing
the shade of the throne of allah but
it's the shade of your spending for his
sake only a select few have the shade of
his throne subhanahu ta'ala but every
believer has the shade of their charity
and hopefully not the sinking of their
theft that we see in the previous
situation so as you're standing there on
that day you have the quran as your
companion you have your charity as your
shade and now you await the arrival of
your lord and the next stage of that day
that is equivalent to 50 000 years
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