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On the night of Al-Isra' wal-Mi'raj,
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says that,
one of the scenes that he saw,
was that we came to this garden
and he said that it had the most beautiful colors,
all of the colors of spring in that garden.
And he said, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
"And there was this tall man.
He was so tall, that his head was above the clouds
in that garden."
And he said, Alayhi Salatu Wasallam,
there were children playing around him
and he said, "That was the largest number of children
I had ever seen."
As-salaatu alal amwaati yarHamukumullah
So, imagine this garden, this man who's so tall,
his head is in the sky.
The most beautiful garden
he had seen, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
and these beautiful children,
the largest gathering of children that he had ever seen,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And so, he says that I asked the angels, who was that man?
And they said that that was Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam.
And then the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
"And who were the children around him?"
And they said, that those were the children who died
in a state of fitra.
They died pure.
And one of the Muslims who was listening
to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
narrate the incident of Al-Isra' wal Miraj.
He said," Oh, Messenger of Allah,
what about the children of the disbelievers?
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
"And the children of the disbelievers."
So, when we're talking about a child that dies,
it's less about the uncertainty of where that child is
and more about the pain that we feel.
And it is not an easy trial.
It is probably the most difficult trial
that a person can face, in this life.
A person is willing to suffer with their wealth
and with their health, before their child.
And it is the nightmare of every parent,
to lose their child.
And there are so many Hadith about that,
that you know, you can go down the list.
One of them, that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
mentioned that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
asks the angels, after the death of a child,
"Did you take the coolness of the eyes,
the fruit of the eyes, of my servant?"
And they say, "Yes, oh Allah."
And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, talking about the grief
of the servant says, "And what did my servant say?
What did my servant say, as a result of all of that?"
And they say, "Yeah Allah, hamidah ke wastarjah"
They said, "Amazingly, he praised you.
He said, Alhumdullilah.
And he said, inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajiun,
"To Allah we belong and to Allah we return."
So, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says to the angels,
Ibnu leeabdee baytun fil Jannah
that, "Build for my servant,
a house in Jannah wasamohoo baytul hamd.
And name that house: The House of Praise."
Subhanallah, it's a special home in Jannah,
because it's a unique tragedy in this life.
And no one knows that
more than the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
who buried six of his seven children.
Six of his seven children, Alayhi Salatu Wasallam.
And we know a lot about the last one,
because at that point...
This is after Islam and this is in Medina and the Sahaba
are surrounding the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
as he's going through the pain of his son Ibrahim, dying.
And when Ibrahim was dying,
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
entered into the room.
Fakab ballahu washamahu
I mean, this is very real.
He kissed him and he started to smell him, right?
He kissed him and he started to smell him.
This is the love of a parent to the child.
And when Ibrahim breathed his last,
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam started to cry.
'Abd al-Rahman ibn 'Awf radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
He says to the Prophet Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam,
Wa ante ya Rasulillah
"You too, oh Messenger of Allah?"
Look at the question here, right?
Because the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
has seen Jannah.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam,
saw that scene that we started off with,
of Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam,
with the children in Jannah already.
And he knows that Ibrahim is in a better place.
Wa ante ya Rasulillah
But you're still crying, oh Messenger of Allah?
As if to suggest, "Is there a lack of rida,
a lack of being pleased
with a decree of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la?"
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he responds and he says, inalaiyn inna latadhma
He says, "Listen, the eyes shed tears."
And he said that the heart grieves.
The heart feels sadness.
Wal qal bayahsaan
And he says, wa inna lefeeraakeekha ya Ibrahim,
La mahsoun, la mahsounoon
"And we are, due to your departure, oh Ibrahim, sad.
We're grieving over your departure, but.
Wa la nakulu illa mayuridilah
But on top of all of that we do not say,
except that which is pleasing Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la."
What is that? Hamd, wasturjah.
Alhumdullilah, inna lilahi wa inna ilayji rajiun
That's how you get "The House of Praise".
You don't get "The House of Praise" by crying less.
You don't get "The House of Praise" by feeling less sadness.
You get "The House of Praise"
by praising Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la,
despite your intense pain.
And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la,
says in the Hadith qudsi.
Ma leeabdil mouminy indhy ja za idha kabatu safiyahu
Min dunya thumin basada in al-Jannah
That, "My servant does not have a reward with me.
If I take their safii, their chosen one..."
You know, innallah stafaaki right?
Innallah stafaadam
Allah chose.
Allah chose and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
said to Ibrahim in one narration
Referring to him as his safii,
his chosen one, his loved one.
My servant does not have a reward with me.
If I take his safii.
If I take their chosen one from this world
and they are patient except for Jannah.
SubhanAllah you know, another Hadith by the way,
that doesn't speak about children,
but has almost identical wording,
is when a person loses their eyesight.
And we ask Allah for our children
to be the coolness of our eyes, the apple of my eye.
And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la is saying that,
"No one has patience, when I take away
the apple of their eye and they continue
to seek reward from me.
Except that I will give them Jannah."
The same Hadith, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
narrates that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says that,
"My servant is not patient,
when I take away their eyesight.
Seeking the reward for me, except that I give them Jannah.
And so again, it's not about worrying
about where the child is.
It's, "What about me? Will I be reunited with my child?
Will they remember me? Will they even know who I am?"
And this is what I want to end off with, InshaAllah Ta'ala,
a few Hadith in that regard.
One of them, any woman who loses three of her children,
they will be a shield for her, from the fire.
And they said to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
"Ya Rasulillah, what about two?"
He said, "Even two."
So, the children that are lost
are a shield from any punishment.
They are a shield from the fire.
And noticed by the way, that this also matches
what the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said.
Rabaa tuflateen
Whoever raises two children and was dedicated...
Ahsanata tarbiyatuma
Was dedicated to raising them properly,
two daughters, then Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
will cause them to be a shield from the fire.
And so, even though those children have gone on,
those children are a shield from the fire.
There's another narration that Abu Hassani said,
that I asked Abd Huraira ta'ala Anhu
I said, "Two of my sons have died,
can you narrate to me, a Hadith from the Messenger of
Allah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, that would give me
some sort of peace?"
And he said, "Yes, these little ones
are the little ones of Jannah"
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
When one of them meets his father or his parents,
on the Day of Judgment, he takes hold of his garments
or by his hands.
The way that I am taking hold,
by your garment as Abd Huraira ta'ala Anhu was doing.
And he does not let go of his parent,
until Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
enters his parent into Jannah."
And another narration, the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam mentioned with the miscarried
fetus that it would pull the patient parents into Jannah,
even by the umbilical cord.
And so, here you have the combination
of protection from the fire and entrance into paradise.
And the fact that a child would be waiting for you,
waiting for you at the gates of al-Jannah,
to enter you into Jannah and you wait your entire life.
You hope to raise your child to see their wedding,
to see their graduation, to see all of these
different forms of success.
And SubhanAllah, here you have a child
that is waiting for you at the gate of Jannah.
And not only do they remember you,
even if they died very young.
You know, when children grow up in this life,
they forget their early childhood.
Your child will not forget you.
They will be waiting for you at the gate of Jannah.
And they will not be pleased.
They will not be pleased until you enter Jannah,
alongside them.
And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la has guaranteed them Jannah,
because they did not even live to commit a sin
on this earth.