That's a sign of your closeness to Allah.
It cannot happen by someone who's not close to Allah.
Every one of us wants JANNATUL FIRDAU. We want to enter paradise,
and we wanted to be easy.
So Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala has told us of several categories of people
who will enter Jannah without Reckoning. No Reckoning,
VIP, you arrive on the day of judgment before the accounts.
There are certain categories will be told come over,
you can go through, subhanallah. Wouldn't be interesting for us to know
who these people are so that we we can try to be from among them?
So if we look at the Hadith, they are actually many categories.
Some of them are after the Hisab and some of them are before the Hisab.
So there is a Hadith wherein the prophet (Pbuh) said
that on the day of judgment before the Reckoning,
a caller will call and he will say, the people today are going to know
who is of Honor, who is generous, who is truly generous,
and here it's referring to the generosity of Allah (swt) in forgiving people.
Then when he will call,
The same caller will call, and he will say
where are those who used to praise Allah upon all conditions: be it difficult or easy.
The Hadith says they will stand up and they will
be few in number, not so many, and they will be told to enter
Jannah without Reckoning, no Reckoning for you.
Before We start taking Reckoning you used to thank Us upon all conditions.
As a result, We are giving you entry into Jannah, no Reckoning, subhanallah.
Now before I get to the next category, and I'm only going
to talk of Those two. Let me dwell on this particular category
because we can be from among those, we need to try to be from
among those, in the mercy of Allah when they say, they are a few,
you know, they have been trillions of people on Earth,
perhaps if they are a few million, it might be considered
They are a few but we may be from among them.
May Allah make us from among them.
Thank Allah upon all conditions.
So if goodness comes to you, thank Allah.
If something bad happens to you, thank Allah.
People Find that difficult...
Sometimes you have a good deal,
And you are thanking Allah.
It's a little bit easier, but when you have a tough day, and
when you've suffered a loss, and when you've been through divorce
and when you've lost a child, and when you've had
an accident, and when you just simply cannot get married or
you having marital problems or for example, you don't have
children or you have struggled and suffered because of the
loss of your parents and your siblings and your loved ones
and whoever else it may be on earth, then to say alhamdulillah
is not so easy.
Allah says if you say alhamdulillah and you look at
those who are in a worse condition than you you deserve jannah.
Allah says, We sent you on Earth to test you.
When We test you and you say alhamdulillah, this test
I will manage it by the will of Allah.
For the sake of Allah, we Ace things as well.
We make sure that we thank Allah upon all conditions and
we will know that if you have made some money a day will
come when you have to suffer a loss, take it in your stride,
pick up the pieces, work hard again,
Alhamdulillah,
'Alhamdulillah Ala Kulli Haal' I praise Allah upon all conditions.
There is another Hadith, the prophet (Pbuh), It is reported that he used to say,
"Wa zid-nee ‘ilman al hamdulillah ‘ala kulli haal
wa a’oothu billahi min haal ahlin naar."
praise be to Allah upon all conditions and I seek the protection of
Allah from the condition of the people who will be cast into Hell Fire.
That's the only thing I'm worried about casting into Hell Fire.
In this world, Look at what happened to Rasulullah (pbuh), they boycotted,
he said, alhamdulillah, they didn't believe in him.
He was concerned.
He made dua but he was thanking Allah. In taif if whatever happened,
He still thanked Allah, he lost his wife.
He thanked Allah, he lost his children one by one,
He thanked Allah, it's not easy.
You lose your child, beloved to you, your father, your mother,
Whoever else, beloved to your heart to say, alhamdulillah.
indeed to Allah belongs, whatever he gave me in the first place.
It was always His, for Him belongs, whatever He took away.
It was always His. He just gave me a time to be with whatever
gift He gave and alhamdulillah.
I'm thankful that He gave me. You have a father who's been
with you for 10 years, 15 years.
Thank Allah, other people had no father from the very beginning.
Look at Rasulullah (Pbuh)
He was born, his father had already predeceased that date.
It mustn't be a sense of our distress.
We need to thank Allah, we need to go forth and praise Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala.
This is why the prophet (Pbuh) tells us that on that day
part of the generosity of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala will
be that He will call out those who used to thank Him.
Now we ask again,
Why will He call them out? What is the secret?
The reason is they understood that everything comes from Allah,
and it's in Allah's control, the minute you understand that and live by it,
You worshipped Allah upon the highest degree,
The minute I realize a robber came, a thief came,
I broke a bone, that happened, lost something, Tire burst,
car accident and lost, whatever losses it maybe;
when you understand and realize Allah is in full control,
You have no option but to say alhamdulillah,
it depicts your top level of Iman, highest level of faith, those who praised
Allah upon days of ease and days of Hardship, war, hunger, famine, fear,
whatever it may be, just say Alhamdulillah / Thank Allah.
The Hadith of the Prophet (Pbuh) teaches us also that
you must always look at those who have less than you,
that will be so greater gift of Allah and it will make it easy
for you to actually thank Allah. That's what it is.
The problem today in this materialistic world,
Everyone looks at those above them and says, I'm going to get there.
Don't worry.
This guy made a million.
I'll show him. I'll make two millions.
It's okay to make it, no problem, but don't have that aim
Such that I'm in competition with someone.
I'll do my best.
I'll do my best and I definitely will try to earn
with the intention of spending in the cause of Allah.
That's very important.
How much are you going to spend in your life?
Ask yourself, a million, a billion?
How much are you going to spend, SubhanAllah,
Did it really earn you jannah?
Was it really a matter, how much I going to spend of that?
You won't even spend one full billion.
How much do you want? a hundred million, 50 millions..
What are you going to do with it? Build your Jannah.
spend it, spend it in a good cause.
have people where you are helping, a good cause where you are helping,
assist here, assist there, give here, give there,
look after your relatives and your family to begin with.
That's what Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala says charity begins at home.
You start off with your relatives and then the next then
the next, check who's poor, who needs, who's this? Who's that?
Give them, give them. Prophet (Pbuh) tells us that
Allah Subhanahu wa'ta'ala says spend, o son of Adam! I'll spend on you.
Allahu Akbar. If you want increase, you go to give. It will increase.
But if you want to increase and you keep it, and you're counting;
it's not going to increase, inflation will eat it,
something else would eat it, lost will eat it, whatever elses...
you can't just Counting. You have to take a few risks in life,
That are Halal. You have to, sometimes, do something to the
best of your ability.
This is going to bring me a profit, you might enter it and
it may not. you still say alhamdulillah,
I did it, I tried and look, I'm still living.
I'm surviving.
I'm eating, we're all okay, we've got food. If need be to downgrade
your life do not be ashamed to downgrade, downgrade.
No problem.
You don't have to eat, you know, top expensive food every day.
Some of the healthiest people are those who eat the
cheapest food in terms of money, but it's the healthiest food in terms of nutrition.
People love food. Some People live to eat.
Have you noticed unhealthiest of food is the tastiest of it.
Have you ever thought of it? Think of it, why? perhaps Allah has a wisdom
behind it, to say, Oh man! do not indulge more than a certain amount,
I'm going to make sure that this is going to be unhealthy
for you beyond a certain threshold, subhanallah, so that you
realize that you know, what goodness is for Jannah.
this Dunya have a little bit of it, taste it..
Thank Allah and carry on you. You were created for the Hereafter.
You're going to go to the Hereafter.
There's a second category;
where are those who used to at night forsake their beddings
worshipping Allah, calling out to Him when everyone else was asleep,
and they used to call out to Allah with a sense of hope and the sense of fear?
Where are they? if you end that verse we read it in surah As-Sajdah
The verse says they are the ones who used to spend from what We gave them.
Notice, What I was speaking about just now; they are the ones who
used to spend from what We gave them. Allah gave you,
He gave you to eat, He gave you for your family, He gave you for your children
He gave you for your brothers and sisters, for whoever Of your relatives maybe,
He gave you and after that He's just gonna watch;
I'm gonna throw at you 1 million times more than what you need
and I just want to watch what are you going to do with it?
Are you building your Hereafter or you just going to stash it
away until you die? The winners are those who build the Hereafter.
When someone dies we are quick to say I want to
build a masjid on the name of this person.
Why don't we build a masjid for our own name while we are alive?
That is a guaranteed act of worship.
You did it, You're alive, your name.
You did the Masjid, you Did the borehole, you did the sadaqa Jariya.
That is the true Sadaqa Jariya.
When someone else does it for you after you die,
Did you ever know there is a possibility that Allah will accept it on your behalf?
And there is a chance that it may not be accepted.
It wasn't done by you, it was done by someone else.
We hope that Allah will accept it on your behalf.
But if you did it yourself, that's mine.
So let's learn to change the trend to say
the Quran should not be read for me after I died.
I must read it while I'm alive. The good deeds and the wells
and the trees and the boreholes and the goodness should not happen
by people after my death.
I should do it while I'm alive.
I must pack it away, we sit and we watch wealthy people pass away.
You can see the difference. Here's a man.
He didn't do anything Fi sabilillah because he just gather his money and counted it.
A lot of the people who don't believe like that and sometimes
even believers who believe in Allah they forget because they
needed a reminder and then you have another man,
wealthy man passes away.
You can tell this man in his life. He built 30 Masjid.
He drilled so many Boreholes.
He did so much of this, he did some... mashallah, good news to him.
He packed away so much for jannatul firdaus.
May Allah accept it from them and from all of us,
may Allah motivate us and grant us the wealth
in order that we can spend it Fi sabilillah.
Imagine, Allah is telling you how are you ready to sacrifice your sleep?
if you are, Jannah is yours. How pleasurable is sleep!
you tired, they call it you hit the sack /go to bed.
They literally say I'm gonna hit the sack.
I'm looking forward to a good sleep.
Allah says if you can cut that sleep for my sake halfway
and you force yourself up And you start crying on the prostration.
What are you doing?
That's a sign of your closeness to Allah.
It cannot happen by someone who's not close to Allah,
and sometimes Allah creates a need in your life.
So that he forces you to get to that level where you start
navigating through different acts of worship and it makes
you end up getting up at night.
You taste the sweetness of it and you don't give you that.
So let's try and get up at least once a week in sha Allah.
Is it difficult once a week?
We get up at night, everyone sleeping, to cry on the prayer mat for a while,
some units of prayer; Tahajjud and go back once a week,
see how, the sweetness of it will come,
if not once a week, even start of once a month, once a month.
It's not too much to ask, is nothing hard and fast to say how many days.
This is just a suggestion from me.
But this is when we will earn Jannatul Firdaus
and these are some of the people who can enter Jannah without Reckoning
and not that they were forgiven after Reckoning,
But before the Reckoning commenced.They were already picked out.
Where are those, they stand up, they were little.
So the last part of the Hadith says those who used to forsake their beddings
they will stand up as well.
And they will also be few in number and they will be told
enter Jannah before we start Reckoning with everyone else.
Once they go into Jannah, the Reckoning will be with the rest of the people there.
Allah Akbar kabira,
may Allah (swt) grant us forgiveness and Jannatul Firdaus .