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You can't be a good Muslim, but a bad person.
It doesn't work that way.
On the day of Judgment,
Allah is going to divide the testimonies
of the people into two.
Those that were hurt by you,
and those that were helped by you.
And we're going to break out
the way that each of those impacts you uniquely.
But that's really the only value
of the people as witnesses on the day of Judgement.
As for your personal religiosity,
the Hadith suggests that
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
doesn't bring anyone else to say,
"I saw that person pray and fast
and that person was a good worshiper."
Allah knows whether or not that's true of a person.
Of course, Allah knows everything.
But the value of the testimony of people is,
who did you hurt, who did you help?
Now, for the first category,
there's something very important to note.
On the Day of Judgment,
you're either going to meet Allah's justice or His mercy.
His justice is that he scrutinizes you for your deeds,
like that person whose limbs are brought forth to testify.
His mercy is that He overlooks those things
and He forgives you.
However, when it comes to issues
between us and other people,
Allah will hold us to a standard of justice only.
Because it would be unjust
to not give the wronged person their right,
and forgive on their behalf.
And that's why Imam Sufyan Al-Thawri Rahimahullah said,
"For you to meet Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
with 70 sins just between you and Allah
would be easier on you
than to meet Allah
Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la with a single sin
between you and his servant.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said
the first thing, concerning which judgment will be passed
amongst the people on the day of Judgment,
will be bloodshed.
Now, the scholars reconcile that the first thing
between you and Allah called forward is what, is prayer.
But, between the people, it's murder.
And in one very vivid, authentic Hadith,
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said
yaji'ul maqtulu bilqatili yawmul qiyamah naasiyatuhu
wa ra'suhu biyadihi
On the day of Resurrection
I want you to think of the scene.
The murdered will bring forth the murderer
with his forelock and his head in his hand.
And his own jugular vein is dripping with blood.
And he will say
Ya Rabb qatalani hatta yudniyahum minal arsh
And he's coming to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
and saying, "My Lord, he killed me.
My Lord, he killed me."
Until he brings him
right up to the throne of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la,
subhanAllah
Imagine a scene where people are dragging their murderers
and their oppressors to the throne of Allah to get justice.
And that's why the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
"Always be the abd
that is madhloom, that is wrong.
Not the one wronging.
That is maktul,
That is murdered, not the one that is gotten
not the one that murders others".
And remember how the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said
that the du'a of the madhloom
the du'a of the oppressed has no veil to Allah.
Even if that person is a non believer.
Now, of course, that person has to deal
with their disbelief on the day of judgment.
But the one who wronged that person is still
going to be held to justice.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said
man dhalama mu'ahidan
whoever wrongs a person that is protected by a covenant
meaning one of the people
of the book by violating his rights,
or by burdening him with more work than he is able to do
or by taking something from him without his consent.
He said, ana hajijuhu yawmal qiyamah
I will be his prosecutor
on the day of judgment.
SubhanAllah, can you imagine
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam standing
against you as a prosecutor on the day
of judgment on behalf of who on behalf of a disbeliever
because you still have to face justice
for wronging that person,
even more than the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam being
a prosecutor against you,
imagine Allah and the messenger SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
being at war with you
and Allah says this about the one who refuses to give up
practices of usery, of riba.
fa/thanoo biharbinmina Allahi warasoolihi
be prepared for a war with Allah in his messenger.
Ibn Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala Anhuma
He says
yuqaalu yawmal qiyamati li ahkili riba
khudhsila hakalil hardh
It would be said to the one who consumes riba
on the day of judgment, take up your weapons for war.
Now riba is not just the crime
between you and Allah.
Interest and usury bury the poor in debt
and perpetuate all sorts
of injustices and abuses at the economic level.
So this is another form of hurt against people
but beyond violence and theft and proprietary aggression.
Most of the sins that people commit
against each other are by the tongue.
And that's why the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said
"nothing causes the people to fall face first into the fire
like the harvest of their tongue".
the harm your tongue causes to others.
We've already spoken about.
It's been made clear and your appearance on that day
your situation is known, but now it's going to
also be made obvious what havoc it reeks upon one's these.
And we start with the famous Hadith
of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam where he said
attadhruna minal muflis?
do you know who the bankrupt person is?
They said, Ya Rasulullah
the bankrupt person is the one who has no money
or no possessions.
And he said, no, it's those people amongst my ummah
the one who comes forth on the day
of resurrection with their prayer, with their fasting
with their zakat imagine a whole lifetime
of laylatul qadr and salah and sadaqah.
but he insulted this person and he slandered this person
and he consumed the wealth of this person.
He shed the blood of this person and he beat this person.
So all of these people are lined
up those who you hurt with your tongue,
with your keyboard or whatever else that you hurt them with.
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and said,
fa yaq'ud
so Allah sits him down.
fa yaq tassahadha min hasanatihi wa hadha min hasanatihi
And each one of those people comes
starts to take his good deeds away until he is left
with no good deeds whatsoever, completely bankrupt.
And he says, Ya Rabb,
oh my Lord, I've got nothing left.
Fa ukhidan min khataa ya hum faturriha alayhi
So then whatever is left of his grievances
the sins of those other people that
are still lined up are taken from them
and they are cast onto him.
And eventually the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says
he'll be cast into the fire.
Sa'id ibn Jubayr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
And he said that a servant will be brought forth
on the day of resurrection and presented with his record.
And he doesn't see any of his Salah, none of his fasting
none of his good deeds.
And he says, Ya Rabb, hadha kitaba ghayri, O my Lord,
This has to be someone else's book
because I had all these good deeds
and I don't see them here.
And Allah will say to him, rarely
your Lord does not overlook
or forget your deeds have vanished because
of your ghiba because you were back biting people.
So be careful with the honor of people
be careful with the news that you read
and spread with the funny comments and the gossip.
It won't be funny on the day of judgement.
Now there's the other side of this.
What if you're one of the people standing
in line on the day of judgment, and there will be people
on the day of judgment going from line to line
just collecting their good deeds
because of what they endured from others.
Abu 'Umema radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, he said
innal abda la yu'tal kitabahu yawmal qiyamah
fa yarafihi hasanaat, lam yakun aa milaha
that verily, the servant is given his record
on the day of judgment.
This is the other side.
And he sees all these good deeds that he has not done.
So he says Ya Rabb, min ayna lihada? Oh my Lord,
Where did all these come from?
And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la will say,
because of the back biting of people against you,
wa antala tash'ur
and you had no idea that they were back biting you.
So imagine that on the day of judgment,
you're saying,
phew, alhamdulillah
all that was said about me,
alhamdulillah, this person backbited me.
I'm glad they were talking about me.
Because it's all showing up on your book of deeds that day.
Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi, Rahimahullah
He said, you know,
if I didn't hate that Allah would be disobeyed,
I would have wished that there is not
a single person left in the whole city,
except that he backbited me.
And he said, what could possibly be sweeter
than a man finding a good deed written in his book,
on the day of judgment that he didn't do.
And he didn't even know about.
And if that's the mercy of Allah to you for deeds
of hurt that were done against you by others,
imagine the bounty of Allah for deeds
you did to help other people when they were in need.
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