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I need to know where my son is.
Is he in Jannah?
Did he make it or not?
الصلاة على الاموات يرحمكم الله
There was a young man by the name
Harithah ibn Suraqah radiya Llahu 'anhu
and Harithah was a young man that was
attached to his mother.
And he accompanied the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
on the day of Badr
And he was hit by a stray arrow.
And when his mother found out that he had died
she comes to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
And she says to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
Ya Rasulullah, I want to know what happened
to Harithah
in kaana fil Jannati, sabartu
If he is in paradise,
then I will be patient.
Wa in kaana ghayra dhalik, ajtahadhtu alayhi fil bukhar
And if he's not in Jannah, then I'm going to
push myself to cry even more
and more and more and more.
I need to know where my son is.
Is he in Jannah?
Did he make it or not?
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam responds to her
and says that Jannah is not just one Jannah.
It is multiple levels in Jannah.
And your son reached
al-Firdaws al-A'la
your son reached the highest level of Jannah.
subhanAllah when someone passes away
and you wonder could they have died a Shaheed?
it's very clear that we go through
every single one of these stations
and every single time the Shaheed has
this rank of his own.
And you want to know, are they there?
And everyone wants this
level of certainty, right?
That's why I want to see a dream of them
being in Jannah.
That's why I just want something to know
that they are okay.
And of course, the person that passes away
whether they are Shaheed or
whether they are just a believer that has some
of the blessings that we've mentioned,
both of them want to come back to
just tell their family,
or at least informed the family, not come back
inform the family that "I'm okay", Alhamdulillah
but we don't get that.
And so we have these categories of Shahada.
Now, obviously,
if a person passes away in battle,
it's different, right?
There are, you know, rulings that apply only
to the Shaheed that dies in battle.
It is the clearest way that a person
would die Shaheed
and the Ahkam of the Shaheed
the rulings that pertain to how you
shroud the Shaheed,
how you pray on the Shaheed and
so on and so forth.
All of that is specific to that type of Shahada.
However, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
mentionned numerous categories of Shahadah.
The messenger of Allah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam mentionned
the one who dies in a plague or of a plague.
And you know, we're living in the time of COVID-19
And bi-idhnillah Ta'ala
All of those who pass away upon Iman
due to COVID-19,
we pray that Allah Azawajal accept them as Shuhada
bi-idhnillah Ta'ala, match that definition
you have the one who dies of drowning.
The prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam mentioned
the one who dies by a fire.
He mentioned SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam the one who dies of
pleurisy.
And he mentioned SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam the one who dies
of a stomach disease and intestinal disease.
And this is very interesting
because the designations at the time
are different, right?
You don't have the same encyclopedia
of definitions of disease.
And so it was translated as
pleurisy or inflammation around the lungs
really could just mean chest pain
or a heart attack, which translated
as a stomach disease could mean anything internal
in that sense, right?
So any type of cancer, any type of disease, in that sense
it could be anything internal
that causes an untimely death.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam mention a woman who
die in the process of childbirth.
She's pregnant or she's giving birth or nursing
and she passes away.
And that's why she is in a state
of Jihad while she is delivering
while she's pregnant and giving birth.
That is the closest that a person
will be pushed to death
is that time of pregnancy.
So if she passes away during that time
and we know that that happens sometimes
that she is a martyr, the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
mentioned the one who dies
protecting their property.
Okay? So it's not just dying for the sake
of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
in the sense of protecting the religion
but the one who dies protecting their own property
what then, subhanAllah the one who dies trying to
protect someone else
or protects someone else's property, right?
But a person who dies trying to protect their property
a person who dies defending their lives.
So someone who is murdered defending their lives
or defending their family, you know
if someone may Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la protect us all
and protect our families, you know
if someone dies protecting their family
then they are Shaheed.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam mentioned the one who
dies due to a falling structure
Sahib ul Hadm someone who is crushed.
And this is where most of it, mentioned the one
who dies in a car accident.
Obviously you didn't have cars back then, right?
And so the idea of, you know
being crushed by a structure,
being crushed in a car
being crushed by a structure
that didn't exist in that time.
But most of the ulamah consider a car accident today
to be from Sahib ul Hadam,
to be from a person who is crushed.
All of these bi-idhnillah Ta'ala
are forms of Shahada, are forms
of martyrdom and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
again, taught us to have husn al dhan in Allah,
To have a good expectation of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
So when someone dies due to
one of these conditions,
and the underlying theme of them
is an untimely death,
a sudden untimely death due to, you know
either a disease or a disaster.
Then we have that good expectation
of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
Though, we cannot express certainty
that they are Shahada in that sense.
So what about the state of their body
and how they looked, right?
And, and again, you know
we talked about the Shuhada of Uhud and what it's like
seeing people mutilated, and we see sometimes
the body out of a really bad car accident.
And you think, subhanAllah what's happened to that person.
Remember that the souls transcend the body.
And that's why the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said
yughfaru lahu fi awwaliduf atin min damihi
"first and foremost that the person is
forgiven at the first strike."
As soon as they are struck
then they are forgiven,
wa yura maAqadahu minal Jannah
and they are shown their place in al Jannah.
So when you see Asiyah Alayhi Salaam,
and the way that she was killed,
obviously, a woman of perfect Imam and
you know, a great example of Shahada
a great example of a martyr
standing up to the firawn.
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
saved her before the stone fell on top of her.
And so we should not be worried then
about the bodies and the condition
of the bodies when the souls
have been promised so much goodness
and we ask ourselves, you know,
can I also die Shaheed?
And one of the things that's extremely important
to understand here is that we should make du'a
for the reward of Shahada.
You know, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la does not need for us
to be in a certain state in order
to give us a certain station
but we have to be sincere
in asking Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la for the station.
And so you have this beautiful Hadith
from the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
Whoever asks Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la for Shahada
bi sidqin min qalbihi
with truthfulness in his heart, right?
So this is the key.
You're asking Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
with sidq, with truthfulness,
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la would deliver
that person to the station of Shuhadah
wa'in maata alafi rashi'i
even if that person dies in their bed,
it's not about the crazy outcome.
It's not about the body being shredded to pieces.
It's again about the sincerity
of asking Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
for that station.
And a person could gain that station even in their bed.
And so, yes, we hope when our relatives die
in such a way that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
grants them that rank
And we hope that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
grants us that rank
even if we die in our bed and not
in any of those categories
that have been mentioned above.
(birds chirping)