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Imagine if you had a pen pal
that you wrote to every day,
or someone that you spoke to on the phone
for years and years.
And then you meet them in person
for the very first time.
If you took five years of prayer
and you just calculated five prayers a day
for five years.
No Sunnahs, nothing else.
Not even taking into account
the various circumstances of people.
That means you would have prayed about 10,000 times.
That's 10,000 times you've been in dialogue with your Lord,
and that's not including dua
or anything else.
Now if you've had all those conversations,
and you still don't feel like you've ever spoken to Allah,
or have a relationship with Him,
that's significant.
If you have a relationship with Him in this dunya,
he's not going to let you down in the akhira.
As the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
"Wala yata wallalaha azwajal abdun fid-dunya,
Fa yuwallihi gaira hu, yaumal qiyama "
Allah does not take someone as a friend in this life
and then entrust him to someone else on the day of judgment.
And so, that's the difference between
the two arriving on the Day of Judgment.
Abu Hazim Rahimahullah was asked,
"How will returning to Allah be like?"
He said, "As for the obedient one,
his return is that of a loved one
who was absent, whose family is eager for his return.
And as for the sinner,
it's like the return of a runaway captive,
and his captor is angry."
All of this is to say,
that the Day of Judgment
is not just when you meet your deeds,
but more importantly,
it's when you meet your Lord with your deeds.
And you want that meeting to be a reunion,
not an introduction,
and you definitely don't want it to be an apprehension.
(Silence)
'Inna nakhafu min rabbina yawman Aaaboosan qamtareeran'
Verily, we fear from our Lord a distressful day.
'Fawaqahumu Allahu sharra thalika alyawmi
walaqqahum nadratan wasurooran.'
So, Allah spared them of the horror of that day
and gave them radiance and inner joy.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam said,
"That Allah has said,
'By my might, I will never combine in my servant,
khawfein wa amnain,
two feelings of fear
or two feelings of security.
If he feared me in this world,
I will make him feel safe from me on the Day of Judgment.
And if he felt secure from me in this world,
then I will make him fear me on the Day of Judgment'."
So, those that ignored Allah in this life,
and were blind to his guidance
are ignored by Allah in the afterlife
and they're unable to see him.
They just feel his anger.
'Kalla innahum AAan rabbihim yawmaithin lamahjooboona'
The disbelievers are veiled from Him.
And this causes them even greater apprehension
because they will know his presence,
and they will sense his anger,
but they see nothing of Him, Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la,
that comforts them.
As for the believers,
they get to see him in that assembly,
but not in the full sense of blessing
that is present in Jannah.
So, how does Allah arrive to this gathering
and introduce Himself to the righteous?
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
"Ya ta jalla lana rabbuna azwajalla
yawm-al qiyamati thahika."
Our Lord will present Himself to us
laughing on the Day of Judgment.
SubhanAllah.
Like Abu Razeen, radiAllahu Anhu, said
when he heard the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
describe the laughter of Allah.
He said,"Lan-na dama min rabbi yadHaku qaira."
We will never be deprived of good by a Lord who laughs.
And this is a gift to the believers
that puts them at ease in that gathering.
So who are those we find ease for
in this first sight of Allah.
Now, you have the continued theme
of humility in the aHadith.
So there's one Hadith,
whoever controls his anger
at the time when he has the means to act upon it,
then Allah will fill his heart with contentment
on the Day of Judgment.
Allah will restrain his anger from him.
But then you have this constant theme
with these opening announcements
from Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
about the people who are going to be granted contentment.
There's one narration with a slight weakness
in its chain, that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
said, 'That Allah will announce on the Day of Judgment,
saya' lamu ahlul jam'il yawm man ahlul karam
That the people
of this gathering are going to know today,
who the people of nobility are.
And they say, "And who are they, Ya Rasullulah?'
Who are they, O Messenger of Allah?
And he said, "Ahlu dhikri fil majalis."
Those people who are distinguished
by their remembrance of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la.
Now almost every narration
about those who are granted contentment,
as they stand there,
when hell fire and paradise have been brought forward,
and Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la addresses
the gathering, has to do
with being a person of dhikr,
has to do with being a person of remembrance.
Imran Ibn Hussein,
radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu,
he reported that the Messenger
of Allah, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, said,
'Verily the best servants of Allah
on the Day of Judgment
are alHammadoon.'
Those who used to constantly praise him.
And one time, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
was with the companions
and he said,"Sabaqal Mufarridoon! Sabaqal Mufarridoon!"
Those who practice solitude have raced ahead.
And he said,'Ya Rasullulah,
Who are those people?'
And he said, 'Al mustah taroona fee dhikr-illah'
Those who are completely immersed
in the remembrance of Allah.
And then he said, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
"Yadau dhikru anhum athkalahum fayattoona
yawamal qiyamati qifafa.'
Their dhikr, their remembrance,
has lifted all of their burdens,
and so they come on the Day
of Judgment weightless, with no burden whatsoever.
And SubhanAllah, you see
that Allah starts to call out to them.
Now people of dhikr,
they loved the most beloved place on earth to Allah.
And those are the masajid,
which are the most beloved places to Allah.
Why? Because of the amount of dhikr in there,
the remembrance of Allah in there.
So Rasullulah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
"Allah announces 'Aina jeerani! Aina jeerani!'
'Where are my neighbors?'
(repeats) 'Where are my neighbors?'
And the angels they respond.
And they say,"rabbana waman yambaghi an yujaweeraka."
'O our Lord,
who is befitting to be called your neighbor?'
And Allah will say, "Aina ummarul masajid"
'Where are those who used to frequent the masajid?
Those who were regular in my houses in this world.'
Then the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
"Summa yumaizul ulema."
Allah, then, distinguishes the scholars.
And remember the right to scholars
are called what in the Qur'an?
They're called 'Ahlul dhikr',
the people of remembrance.
And these are the opposite, of course,
of the hypocrites amongst them,
may Allah protect us, who have their own humiliation
on the Day of Judgment.
These are the sincere scholars who lived what they talked,
and they used their knowledge to get close to Allah.
"Innama yaghshallaha min ibadihil ulema."
Those who truly fear Allah,
are the true scholars.
So this day they have no fear.
Allah says to them, "Ya, masharril ulema!"
O company of scholars!
Lam aDha' feekum ilmi, wa ana ureedu ann u'athibakum
I wasn't going
to waste my knowledge on you
just to punish you today.
"Qad gafartulakum."
I've forgiven you all.
You see the theme here, those people of knowledge,
and in the circles of remembrance
that had shade of the angels in this life,
going up to Allah
and Allah announcing
to the angels that he was pleased with us,
even though we couldn't hear it
or see it, we felt it.
Now Allah is making those announcements
in front of the angels
and in front of everyone else
that he's pleased with us.
The difference is we're actually there
to witness the announcement this time.
May Allah make us amongst them, Allah humma Ameen
Finally, there is this specific dhikr
of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
mentioned for this moment.
He said, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
'Whoever says three times in the morning
and in the evening 'radhitu billahi rabba wabil islami
deena wabi Muhammadin SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam anabiya."
I am pleased with Allah as my lord,
I am pleased with Islam as my religion,
and I am pleased with Muhammad SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
as my Prophet,
"kaana haqqan allalahi anyurdiyahu yawmal qiyama "
Allah has taken it as a guarantee upon himself,
to please that person on the Day of Judgment.
So the three questions in the grave,
you're already pleased with the three answers.
And so when you think back
to what we said early on,
"waman a'rada an dhikri fa inna lahum ma'ishata dhanka "
The one who turns away from the remembrance of Allah
has a constricting life.
And we said that's in this dunya,
that's in the grave,
and on the Day of Judgment.
The opposite is true.
When Allah says "AlaA bi dhikrillahi tatma'in min qulu"
'Verily in the remembrance of Allah,
don't the hearts find tranquility.'
That is also in this dunya,
that is in the grave,
and that is now in this gathering
on the Day of Judgment.
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