you know guidance is frequently likened
to water in the plant
and you know when you value water most
when you're thirstiest and so you have
people out there
in this desert of confusion and
purposelessness and when they finally
find the water of guidance then it's the
most precious thing in the world to them
because they know what it's like to be
thirsty
now that guidance is through the
fountain of the teachings of the prophet
salallahu
on the day of judgment the end of the
race is his actual held his actual
fountain and when you drink from his
hand sallallahu alaihi wasallam your
thirst is forever quenched
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remember in the narration where ana
who asked the prophet saw islam where i
should look for you the prophet saison
told him three places look for me at the
mizan look for me at the silat and look
for me at the help so the held is the
last place that the prophet saws i'm
told
to look for him
this held is essentially a huge lake and
it has water pouring into it through two
channels
both of which are flowing from al-qaeda
which is the river in paradise so the
kausar is this great tremendous river
which the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam will be granted in jannah and
the held
comes from the kautha so you're not
quite in jannah yet but you have these
two channels of water that are flowing
down into this lake of the prophet
salallahu and he described the salah he
said
that that lake is whiter than milk and
it is sweeter than honey and it has
fragrance from the musk of paradise and
the two streams having their sources in
jannah one of them is from gold and the
other one is from silver so you have
this beautiful
fountain after just crossing i mean
obviously the silat so you just cross
the most frightening part of the day of
judgment over hellfire and you saw what
you saw and experience what you
experienced
and now there's just water but it's a
different type of water and how big is
it the prophet saws he said like this
place of mine meaning like medina to
amman or ayla and sham
to salah in yemen so he's describing it
sallam as this huge huge huge fountain
and he said that it is so large that it
would take a month's journey just to be
able to cross it and the prophet saws
that whoever drinks from it is never
going to be thirsty again now what are
some of the things that we have to avoid
to
not be barred
from the held of the prophet slice in
them there's one primary thing and that
is the hadith where the prophet salazar
mentioned that some of my companions
will come to me at my help
and i will recognize them i know their
names but then suddenly a barrier will
be erected and they'll be taken away
from me and i'll be saying
my companions my companions and the
angels will say to me
you don't know what they innovated after
you and in one narration what they
changed after you and so this is
referring to innovation and obviously
you know some of the uridamat referred
to the direct
time of the prophet saws where some of
the people apostated after he passed
away sallallahu alaihi wasallam but
overall if you want to drink from the
fountain of the prophet saws then you
have to follow his teachings and so you
can't reject his sunnah here and then
not expect to be rejected from his held
on the day of judgment
now
after that you have the order of
arrivals to the help and there is a very
similar trend with all of those and
there's a story actually here where abu
salam al-habashi
he summoned me so he said that i quickly
went to him on a mule and when i got to
him i said to him
this was a difficult ride you know this
was a hard troublesome way for me to get
to you and um
apologized to him and he said yeah
it's not that i wanted to trouble you
but there's a hadith that you narrated
from tauban
from the prophet saws about the hell
and i wanted to hear it from you
directly
narrate it to me from rasulullah
that my hell is as large as from adam
its water is whiter than milk and
sweeter than honey its cups are as
numerous as the stars whoever drinks one
sip of it will never be thirsty after
that again and he said the first people
to arrive at my health are the poor of
the muhajin who had disheveled hair
dirty clothes and they were people who
would be turned away by those of high
status for marriage and people would not
open their doors for them but
subhanallah here they are now and
they're the first to the held of the
prophet saws
said but i married a woman of prestige
and the doors are open for me i married
fatima
called
and i you know i'm living a good life so
he said i shall certainly not wash my
hair until it is disheveled nor will i
wash my garments which touches my body
until it becomes dirty and of course um
allah is talking about that fear of
being excluded from that batch but this
isn't about the clothes it's not about
the appearance it's about the station
the state that a person is actually in
and so the first to be honored this way
on the day of judgment are the humble
amongst the companions of the prophet
salla islam and amongst this ummah who
are mostly the downtrodden and the poor
and of course the prophet saws used to
say
find me amongst the downtrodden and he
was referring to this world and so the
downtrodden are first class on that day
they get to take the expedited line to
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
because they were usually excluded in
this life now the opposite of that
are those who used to actually aid the
tyrants so you have those that were
turned away from the powerful and then
you have those that would aid the
powerful that were doing all sorts of
harm so capital the allah narrates this
incident where he says rasulallah came
out to us and we were 9 people
and five of us were arabs and four of us
were non-arabs meaning we were a diverse
group of people and the prophet salla
islam said listen have you heard that
after me there are going to be these
tyrants and he says
whoever enters upon them and condones
their lies and supports them in their
oppression then he is not from me
and i am not from him and the prophet
saws said and he shall not drink from my
health this is not a person who is going
to deserve to drink from my help and
whoever does not enter upon them and
does not help them in their oppression
and does not condone their lies then he
is from me and i am from him and he
shall drink with me at the help so you
can't support a tyrant for privilege and
then expect to be blessed with a drink
from the hand of the prophet
alaihi it doesn't work that way and
there's another narration which is also
along the same lines if you're noticing
the idea of the humble versus the
tyrants who used power to get ahead
he said that there was a man from the
assad who came to the prophet saws
and he asked for a position of power he
asked for a position of leadership and
the prophet saws and responded he said
listen
that after me you're going to encounter
selfishness and preferential treatment
so be patient until you meet me at the
health meaning don't try to expedite
this position of privilege it'll come
and the greatest privilege is that time
so the prophet saws is consoling people
who remain steadfast on his sunnah
that's number one and then he's
consoling those who stayed humble and
he's consoling those that longed for
that moment
more than any privilege that this world
ever had to offer and to be ahead of the
line to drink from the hand of the
prophet saws i mean what's greater than
that and so at this point
you're with your prophet
salallahu drinking from the water of
paradise you can smell it
and now you're just anticipating that
final entrance
you