so i want you to think of yourself
as a parent to your deeds
you produce them
you raise them and you have all sorts of
hopes for them
the only thing is you don't see them yet
now just like a parent hopes that if
they live long enough their worldly
children will comfort them and benefit
them when they get older we all hope
that our hereafter children will comfort
us and benefit us once we make that
transition
the question is how many deeds have you
produced how many d's have you raised
and what's it going to be like to meet
them for the very first time
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he said that i looked at mankind and i
noticed that everyone has something or
someone that they love but then once
they die that beloved person or thing
leaves them so i decided to learn to
love my good deeds so that when i enter
into my grave they get to come with me
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
the deceased is followed to his or her
grave by three things
his family his wealth and his deeds
so his family and his wealth turn back
from the grave and they go home
and his only companion that remains with
him in his new home from now on is his
collection of deeds and we know that
allah subhanahu ta'ala says about the
day of judgment what yo mela
malun
the day that wealth and children are no
longer of any benefit from this point
onwards
deeds are going to be your comfort and
they're going to be your currency and
the prophet saw islam once asked the
companions do you know what allah meant
when he said woman
that those who turn away from my
remembrance will have a constricted life
and will be raised up on the day of
judgment blind
now that constricted life
is certainly across all realms but here
the prophet saws said
when they go to their grave
to saturn
allah places 99 dragons over that person
and the prophet saws went on to describe
that every one of those dragons is like
70 serpents with seven heads
stinging him and maiming him until the
day of judgment may allah protect us
it's at this point
that your hereafter children are going
to come to your aid for the very first
time and this is before
the angels even come the prophet
salallahu alaihi salam said that when
the believer is placed into their grave
and they hear the final footsteps of
their family leaving
the punishment comes and as the
punishment comes from above
your prayer stands up
and
it puts its hand up and says
you will not pass through me so the
prayer guards your head
and then the punishment comes to you
from your right side and the prophet
sawsome said you're sliam your fasting
rises and stands guard and says
you will not pass through me. and then
to his left his zakastans and says
you will not pass through me and then at
his feet his sadaqa and sila his
goodness towards his family and then his
community his voluntary charity his
truthfulness his honesty all of those
things stand guard at the bottom and say
you will not pass through me.
and then it said to him sit up and he
sits up the prophet saws said that the
sun is made to appear to him as if it's
about to set yet it's almost maghrib
it's about to be mahrib so the believer
is accustomed to what you're accustomed
to salah you're accustomed to prayer and
if you wake up at an odd time sort of
disoriented the first thing you worry
about is did i miss my prayer so this
person says let me pray and the angels
say you'll get to that but first you
have to answer our questions
who is your lord
what is your religion
who is your prophet
now the only way you're going to be able
to answer who your lord is is if you
used to worship him
and the only way you're going to be able
to answer what your religion is is if
you actually used to practice it and the
only way you're going to be able to
answer who your prophet is
as if you used to actually follow him
and if you answer right
a voice cries out from the heavens and
says
my slave has spoken the truth and
subhanallah and one hadith the prophet
salla islam said that those two angels
that were first frightening
they say to you after you answer the
questions correctly
you know we knew you were going to say
that we knew you were going to answer
these questions right and allah then
calls out
supply him with the furnishings from
jannah
clothe him from the clothes of paradise
open for him a gate to paradise
so that some of its fragrance comes to
him in his grave and then his grave is
expanded for him as far as his eye can
see
and at that point you are laying in the
clothes of jannah with the window to
jannah and everything starts to feel
like janna starts to feel like paradise
this visitor comes to you and this
visitor has this beautiful face has
these fine clothes
and has this pleasant scent
and he says to you absolutely
glad tidings of that which will bring
you happiness
this is your day which you were promised
and so the deceased says
who
that face of yours is only going to be a
face that brings good news
and that person responds to you and says
i am your good deeds now imagine what
your good deeds look like
all in one person
the beauty of that
if you actually used to act upon that
guidance from allah what does your quran
your prayer your fasting your charity
all look like in the form of one person
saying to you i am your good deeds and
i'm here to give you good news
first your good deeds guarded you from
your punishment right first they stood
guard all around you and now here they
are bringing you good news and from here
on out they're personified and they're
going to be your greatest source of
benefit and they're going to be your
greatest source of good company now
there are many narrations about people
that are categorically protected from
the punishment of the grave you have the
shahid the martyr you have the one who
dies of a stomach disease or you have
the one who dies on the day or night of
friday
and then you have all of these
narrations about those who are
specifically punished in the grave due
to their sins and so you want to avoid
those sins obviously such as the
slanderer or the one who is neglectful
with their tahata with their
purification or the adulterer or the one
who deals with riba with usery and
interest
in any case everything you experience
now is part of the lead up to the last
day and the prophet saws said when a
person dies he's shown his eventual
place morning and evening and so if he's
amongst the inhabitants of paradise he
has this window to his place in paradise
and he's constantly told
this is where you're headed to this is
where you're going
and if he's amongst the people of the
fire may allah protect us he's shown his
place in the fire and is told this is
where you're going and no matter what
his situation is he's shown one more
place
and he looks at this place and is told
this is the place that you're going to
be sent to on the day of judgment
so for the believer who has his deeds
with him as provision he's got his
clothes from paradise you've got your
window to paradise
when he sees his place on the day of
judgment he's not running away from it
in fact he's saying
my lord established the hour my lord
established the hour my lord established
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