“Fa A’uzu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem.
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.”
“Atiullah atiur Rasul wa Ulil amre minkum.”
“A’uzu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.”
Ana abdukal 'ajeezu, dayeefu, miskinu, zhalim, wa jahl, and but for the grace of Allah (AJ)
that we are still in existence.
And alhamdulillah we've said before that the last chapter in life…
It’s echoing on my…
Hello?
[Shaykh checks the sound quality] Yeah I can hear my sound coming to me.
InshaAllah … turn the sound on this one down.
[Shaykh asks the audience to adjust the sound system] InshaAllah, the last chapter in our
life is the most important and how we'll be judged through this last chapter and what
Allah (AJ) gives to us of an ease.
That of all the difficulties that can come to us and all the hardships that visit us
and all the testing that’s been given, the most important chapter of our lives is the
last chapter but the majority of people don't live their life thinking about the last chapter.
The good author, good writer actually writes the last chapter and makes the book to reach
to it, they don't take life day by day and hoping that the end of the book will be good
and end of our life will be good.
But we take the last chapter and write that, that we want, ‘Ya Rabbi I want to be in
Your Divinely kingdom, Ya Rabbi I want to be under the intercession and the love of
Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, Ya Rabbi I want a goodness, I want all Your rahmah (mercy),
I want all these blessings.’
When we write that chapter in our life, I said, ‘No that's the book that I want, that's
all that I want.
I want to be in that association with Ahlul Bayt (Holy Family of Prophet ﷺ), I want
to be in the association of the Holy Companions, I want to be in the association of awliyaullah
(saints), Ya Rabbi this is my final chapter in life to reach to that reality.’
Then Allah (AJ) inspire your heart and our hearts, ‘Then make it happen!
Write a book that's going to reach to that reality.’
And that's the difference between jahil (ignorant) people and rijal (people of maturity), rijal
- those whom are in a path of manhood or maturity in Allah’s (AJ) way.
Because it's not men or women, they're both reaching towards maturity, that when they
reach towards maturity their life is serious for them and they have to reach to that final
chapter.
Every chapter in their life is to reach to that final, so that every day they wake and
say that, ‘How am I going to draw closer to Allah’s (AJ) Presence?’
Well, very easy.
By drawing close to the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
That’s why all the teaching, “Qul in kuntum tuhibbon Allah” ‘Tell them that if they
want My love, then to come to you Sayyidi ya Rasulul Kareem (The Most Generous Messenger).’
So when we want the love of Allah (AJ), Allah (AJ) then teaching for us -
draw close in your character - your khulq and your akhlaaq and all your manners, draw
close to the reality of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
And so alhamdulillah our lives is written, every day we write a chapter of our book that
- did I do that, did I accomplish that, did I live a life spreading that, working towards
that reality?
And that's all that we pray, we pray that Allah (AJ) grant us every day to write a chapter
of the book of our life that draws us to our finale.
So that we live that life, we eat and breathe that life and that Allah (AJ) make everything
to be blessed and dressed, to be granting.
Allah (AJ) grants the du’a (supplication) of His servants, so that they ask for it but
they live a life to reach towards that reality.
So every time we are involved and see life and death and death situations it always brings
back into our heart why we're doing what we're doing, why we struggle for the last chapter,
why we didn't do the things that all the other people with freedom did, we didn't achieve
what those people achieved of dunya (material world).
And how dunya by its nature is deceiving; its purpose is to deceive people to think
that it lives forever.
Dunya comes into the eyes of people and makes it think that - all your fun will be forever.
And mawt and death has a great awakening, that when people go to a funeral, participate
in the washing, participate in all these things, that they look as if like a poison against
their dunya, attack and destruction of their dunya.
And that’s why is recommended to go to the grave on Fridays, go to the people whom passed
away and you need to wash for them, go to all of these things to remind us that death
is right there waiting for us.
And as a result it puts a poison on your dunya and takes away the deceit and the deception
of dunya.
That for all they struggle and all the licenses they fought to get and all the things they
fought to buy and all the things they struggled to have, in the end it's of absolute no value.
And everything that left going to be fought over by the family - who's gonna get what
and what shoes they're gonna grab and run out of the room and all this disgusting stuff
of dunya, but in the end that one lying there all the dunya they had is not going to help
them.
And that's when is the learning and that's when the reality of why we do what we do.
That you know people are so busy building their dunya and buying the stocks of dunya
and buying the investment…
These people when they sit together they talk about, ‘Oh this investment in 10 years going
to give me this, this investment in 20 years going to give me this,’ and then you look
at the dead and say that, ‘All that investment is for nothing, it's not going to help you
where you're going.
Allah (AJ) is not looking to that.’
And the only investment that if they had listened and bought and had an eternal share was the
investment in your akhirah (hereafter) - you know the sadaqah jariyah (ongoing rewards
charity), the donations you give, the charity you give, the masjid you build.
The teaching you give to your children that, ‘Read Qur’an, that pray, do all these
things, a day will come I will die and your actions will be saving me in the grave, your
prayers will be dressing and blessing me, this is my greatest investment.’
If they thought like that they would have invested everything on those children to be
pious and so that all that they could achieve of their piety would be paying them for eternity.
But because of material eyes - they look at which stock was better, which bonds were better,
which property was better, and has absolutely no value now.
And that's the stark reality that Prophet ﷺ described for us, imagine the investments
of eternity, that the feeding of people, that the water that people drink will be paying
you and dressing you, that's when the dead are sitting in the grave and they're astonished
at what lights and blessings are coming to them and say, ‘What is this from?’
‘Well, this is from these masjids that you did, these are from the people that you fed,
this is from the water that you gave, this is from the books and the knowledges that
you spread, this is from the da’wah (Religious propagation) and the video and all the teachings
that you've spread, these are what are flowing into your grave and dressing you for all of
eternity.’
But their eyes are blinded by dunya and that's why Allah (AJ) is… the great equalizer is
death.
Mawt (death), it immediately wipes everything off the table.
You don't have to do da’wah anymore, you don't have to keep pushing and trying to pitch,
it shows itself right there, ‘Look all of this just ended’ and all the servant has
is their good deeds and you pray that those good deeds dress you and bless you and pray
that you had eternal investments, these blessings and dressings that would be flourishing and
nourishing your grave and filling it with lights.
We pray that Allah (AJ) inspire us all to do good, to achieve, to do the things that
have an eternal reality upon ourselves upon our families, our children and our communities
and not to be too deceived by the dunya and its image of looking and running for all of
eternity.
Dunya looks like it never ends, the sadness of dunya is that it really doesn't care who
lived today and who died today, it always is shining and has the illusion of everything
great and that deception is what is fooling insan (mankind) and people.
… ‘It's not going to happen to me don't worry,’ and then when it happens to people
whom you love and to our loved ones it becomes a very sharp reminder that this is why we're
struggling to reach towards our akhirah.
This is why what we do for the way of Allah (AJ), that's why these people sacrifice on
Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Throughout the week giving food, building wells, putting out videos, putting out all
these things so that our last chapter we can reach and have a beatific chapter in which
Allah (AJ) take every difficulty away.
And the miracles that we see upon this path, how somebody could have had a very difficult
ending and Allah (AJ) made it to be sped up, speed up so that no harm no difficulty and
the servant returned back with a gracious and beatific reality back into the Presence
of Allah (AJ).
We pray Allah (AJ) make everything to be beatific and filled with light, inspire our hearts
towards goodness InshaAllah.
With this blessed month of Surat al-YaSeen ﷺ and the lights of Surat al-YaSeen ﷺ
to dress this reality, dress this month, we pray that Allah (AJ) grant us from the dressings
of Surat al-YaSeen ﷺ and its immense blessings.
That the fourth of the Sahabi (Holy Companions of Prophet ﷺ) for this month is Imam Ali
(as).
From Sayyidina Abu Bakr as Siddiq (as), Sayyidina Umar (as), Uthman (s) wa Imam Ali (as), and
that Imam Ali (as) to dress this month and the face of the month from the companion side
and Imam Zayn al-Abidin (as) is dressing the secret of the family side.
With the immensity of these two Ahlul Bayt dressing this holy month and the immensity
of lights and blessings that coming, we pray that Allah (AJ) dress us and grant us a life
in which to see this month and all of its dressings and blessings and Urs Mubarak of
Sultanul Awliya (King of Saints) Mawlana Abdul Qadir Jilani (as), Mawlana Muhammad…
Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi (as).
Sayyidina Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi (as) and Imam Ghazali (as) – Muhammad Imam Ghazali (as)
– Imam Muhammad Ghazali (as).
And many others, InshaAllah Allah (AJ) dress us from these Urs Mubarak, these blessings
and the dressings of this holy month InshaAllah.
Bi hurmati Muhammad al-Mustafa wa bi siri Surat al-Fatiha.