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In this life, the straight path is difficult to stay on
and that's why we ask Allah to keep us on it,
every single time you read through Suratul-Fatiha, at least.
And when you're walking it here,
you have doors with Shayateen
calling you to them on each side of you,
all the way until you die.
And you also have these sins that are like thorny bushes,
and you have to hold yourself tight
seeking to avoid those sins.
And the only thing that gets you through,
is that you are hearing the call of Allah
ahead of you consistently, and you're moving towards it.
The sirat in this life has the paradise of certainty ahead,
Jannatul yaqeen, the paradise of certainty.
And the hooks of sin and doubt are on its sides.
The sirat in the next life has the Paradise ahead,
and hooks of punishment are on all sides.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said
that the sirat is thinner than a hair
and sharper than a sword.
And Abu Hurairah radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu narrated that
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said that
"I will be the first to cross the sirat,"
this bridge over the fire.
And he said, "The supplication,"
the du'a of the rusul, "of the Messengers of that day,
and no one is going to be speaking on that day
except for the Messengers of Allah,
is that all of them will be saying
"Allahumma salim, Allahumma salim, Allahumma salim"
"O Allah, keep us safe,
O Allah, keep us safe,
O Allah, keep us safe."
And so, as the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
and the Prophets cross
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said
that there hooks on the sides.
And they have these huge thorns,
like the thorns of as-Sa'dan,
which is known to the Arabs for its size.
But the enormity of those hooks are only known
to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And so as you're standing there
and you are hoping to cross this very quickly,
your Prophet has already crossed.
and Ibrahim alayhi assalaam, and Isa alayhi assalaam,
and Musa alayhi assalaam.
These Prophets have crossed,
and they are all saying
"Allahumma salim, Allahumma salim, Allahumma salim"
O Allah, keep us safe.
Then the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam went on to say,
"Khudhu Junnatakum."
"Take up your shields."
They said, "ya Rasul Allah,
is there an enemy that's present?"
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said, "No."
He said, "Rather your shields from the fire on that day are:
SubhanAllah, Alhamdulillah
La ilaha illa Allah, Allahu Akbar.
All glory be to Allah, all praise be to Allah.
There is no God, but Allah.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is great."
And he said, "Verily, they will come
on the Day of Judgment as saviors
and mu'aqqibat, guardian angels."
And he said, "And they are al-bāqīyātu al-ṣāliḥāt.
They are the everlasting righteous deeds."
And so you have your tasbih.
All of the times that you make dhikr,
they are shields for you
as you're about to take that trip across the sirat.
The Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam also said
that "your sadaqah," you'll see the similarities here,
"it's also a shield on that Day."
And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said
to Aisha radiyallahu anha
a very famous hadith.
"Set up a barrier between yourself and the fire.
Walau bishakki tamira
even if it's with half of a date."
Now there are other things
that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
mentions to us that are going to guard us.
So, essentially, you want to be guarded
from the punishment of the fire.
And you want to be able to cross with great speed.
So one of the ways that you guard yourself
from the fire touching you,
as you're about to cross over the sirat,
is guarding the honor of your brother or sister,
the Prophet Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam said
"If anyone guards a believer from a hypocrite
Allah will send an angel,
and that angel will stretch out and extend
and will guard your flesh
on the day of judgment from the fire.
But look at what he said on the other hand,
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said,
"But if anyone attacks his brother or sister,
saying something hoping to humiliate him.
Then Allah will restrain him
over the sirat over Jahannam,
until he is acquitted of everything that he said."
So Subhanallah, we see once again
how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is defending the honor of the believers.
Now, remember we said that the opposite of the punishment
of harming is the reward of helping.
So in this station as well
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
says something very beautiful.
He says,
Wa-man masha' ma'a akhihi fee hajatan
hatta athbataHa laHu,
"Whoever walks with his brother or sister
regarding a need until he secures it for them
athbatallahu qadmahu a'las sirati
yauma tadhillu fehil akdaam,
Allah will make his feet firm on the sirat
on the day when the feet will be slipping."
So as you approach now to make this move,
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam mentions
another group of similar deeds.
He says that, "Trustworthiness
and siratur-Rahm, the ties of kinship,
they will be sent.
And they will stand at either side of the sirat
to the right and to the left.
And they're going to protect you,"
as you start to make your way across.
And he said, "The first of you
is going to cross like lightning.
And one of the Sahabah, he said
May my mother and father be sacrifice for you, ya RasulAllah
What does it mean to cross like lightning?
and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said,
"Have you not seen lightning,
how it comes and was back in the blink of an eye?"
So some people will cross the sirat, like a blink of an eye.
May Allah make us amongst them, Allahumma Aameen.
then he said, sallallahu alayhi wasallam,
that, "Some people will cross like the wind."
And he said, "Some people will fly like birds,"
they'll cross it like birds.
"Some people like fast horses,
and there will be some people
that will be crawling on that day."
And so the speed at which people cross is according
to what?
Once again, biqadri a'malihim.
In accordance with their deeds.
And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam tells us
that all along he's standing on the sirat saying,
"Allahumma salim, Allahumma salim"
"O Allah save us, O Allah save us"
and he said, sallallahu alayhi wasallam,
that, "People's deeds will be failing in strength."
And so you'll have a person that's holding on
to whatever he has.
But as he's running out of deeds, he's crawling
and at the edges of the sirat, you have those hooks.
And they catch those who Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
has commanded to be caught.
And he said, sallallahu alayhi wasallam,
"Some of them will be scratched,
but they'll still be saved.
And some of them will be piled up
and they will spend some time in Jahannam
until Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
frees them from that punishment."
Now, as for those who Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
called his jeeran, his neighbors, on the Day of Judgment.
In one narration, the Messenger
of Allah, sallallahu alayhi wasallam, said
that, "the masjid is the home of every righteous person."
And that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has guaranteed
that those who take up residence,
that find home in the masajid will have
ar-Rauh war-RaHa wal-Jawaz alas-sirati.
ila ridhwanil-Allahi azza wa Jal.
They will have blessings, they will have mercy.
And they will have safe passage over the sirat
until they reach the pleasure
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And so you have those people of the masjid
and Allah takes care of them.
And the masjid of course is there for what?
The primary component of salah in the masjid
is sujood, is prostration.
It's called a place of prostration.
And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said
that Allah ʿazza wa jall will call out to the angels
and tell them to pull out from the fire
all of those who had a trace of iman in their hearts.
And how are they going to be known?
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said,
"By the trace of sujood on their foreheads."
Listen to what the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said.
He said, "The fire of Jahannam cannot
consume the place of sujood."
Subhanallah.
You imagine that there are some people whose bodies
are entirely burned, but the forehead is not
because of the sajdah that the one place of their bodies
that is not burned is the place of their sajdah.
And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said
"Allah will cast them into the water of life
from which they will be completely restored."
Now, what are some other things you take with you
to this momentous trial, to this occasion?
You never lose husn Al-Dhan in Allah.
You never lose
a good assumption of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
Expect well from your Lord.
Prepare for the moments and then put your trust in His mercy
but expect well from Him, so long as you are trying.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said,
"I saw this man that was falling.
And just as he was about to fall,
his husn Al-Dhan in Allah
his good assumption of Allah,
came and it settled him on the sirat.
And he was able to cross in safety."
And the reminder, once again, all along,
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
is on the other side of the sirat saying,
"Allahumma salim, Allahumma salim"
"O Allah, save them, O Allah, save them"
And then the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam says finally
that "I saw this man from my Ummah
crawling across the sirat,
at times he was kneeling
at times, he's just clinging onto it.
And then suddenly his salah over me,
his salawat on the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
come to him and they grab him by the hand
and they stand him up.
And then suddenly his salawat
on the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
They came to him and they took him by the hand
and they stood him up upon the sirat
until he passed over it."
And so as you've passed the final station
of trial on that day,
and you've arrived saying, "Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam"
and as the salawat grabbed you by the hand
to keep you on that sirat.
What, then, when you make it across
to your Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
and he's waiting with your cup from his fountain?
Fa-amma man thaqulat mawa zeenuh
Fahuwa fee 'ishatir raadiyah