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In this life,
if you surround yourself with people of certain traits,
it's impossible for that not to translate
into some observable way in your own traits.
A good friend is going to rub off on you
in a way that your character is so obviously made better
by their companionship.
And a bad friend is going to cause you to reek in this life
in a way that everyone can smell it on you
and will feel an aversion to you,
unless they have those exact same rotten qualities.
And so on the Day of Judgment,
the people you're going to find standing around you,
are the people you surround yourself with here
or those that you loved and longed for,
even if you weren't able to physically accompany them.
So ask yourself,
are these the people I want to see around me
when I'm resurrected?
Make that part of the criteria for your friend's selection.
As the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
"No one loves the people
except that they're going to be resurrected with them."
And when paradise is brought near
and hellfire is brought near,
you want to be standing with
and resembling the people of paradise,
not the people of the fire.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
Yu'ta bi jahannama yawma'idhin
laha sab'una alfhadhima
"Hellfire is brought forth on that day
with 70,000 bridles
and 70,000 angels are on each one
of those bridles dragging it forward."
Now, if you do the math, that's 4.9 billion angels
dragging hellfire while it is roaring
and ready to consume the wicked.
"And then you look and you see Jibreel Alaihis Salam
and all of the angels lined up in rows,"
Saffan saffa, la yatakallamun
"And none of them are saying a word."
Wa tara qulla ummatin ja'fiyah
"And you see every nation is brought to its knees
and its records are brought forth."
Al-yauma tujzauna ma kuntum ta'malun
"Today, you will be compensated for what you used to do."
So while jahannam is roaring
and ready to consume the wicked,
may Allah protect us.
Allah Azza wa jal then says,
wa uzlifatil jannatu lil muttaqeena ghaira ba'eed
"Paradise is brought close to the righteous.
It's no longer distant."
hadha ma tu'aduuna likulli awwabin hafeez
"This is what you were promised,
for whoever constantly turned to Allah
and kept up his commandments,"
man khashi'a rahmaana bilghaib, wa jaa'a biqalbim muneeb
"Those who were in all of the most merciful
even when they couldn't see him.
And they've now returned to Him with pure hearts."
So if you notice, there are five traits
for those people to whom Jannah is brought in here.
Number one, they're Muttaqeen,
they're God conscious,
which means they avoided sins.
Number two, they are Awwab,
always turned back to Allah,
which means they repented often
because you will inevitably commit sins.
Number three, Hafeedh.
You kept up his commandments.
Meaning you guarded the obligations that Allah gave to you.
And then number four,
Khashiyak rahmana bil ghayb
You were in awe of Allah without seeing Him.
And so, you exerted yourself in doing voluntary deeds
when no one else could see you
and you could not see Allah.
So you prayed qiyam
and you did those secret acts of good.
And through it all,
Ja'a bi Qalbin muneeb,
you came to Allah with a pure heart.
Meaning you had sincerity in all of those things.
So you abstain from sin, knowingly,
you repented oftenly,
you guarded the obligations,
you pushed yourself to do voluntary deeds
but more importantly than all of that,
you had a pure heart.
Now notice here, the Ummahs are all standing together
but then they're broken up within the Ummahs
So who do you wanna be closest to from this Ummah?
Than the master of this Ummah
and the master of all of mankind,
Muhammed Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam?
And this man asked the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
Ya RasulAllah, ma ta sa'aa?
"Oh, messenger of Allah, when is the hour going to be?"
And he said to him, "Well, what have you prepared for it?"
And the man said, "Nothing, except that I love Allah
and I love his messenger, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam"
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
Anta ma'mal ahbabt
"You are going to be with those whom you loved."
How amazing would it be
to be standing on the Day of Judgment
and then you look to your right
and immediately next to you is Rasulullah
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
and then his family and his companions?
But that love of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
has to be sincere.
And you can't claim to love him without following him.
Innal muhibba liman yuhibbu mutee'u
You follow those who you love.
So, loving the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
who had this exalted standard of character,
means that the sweetness
of his seerah is your perfume,
it's your scent.
Every time you read about him
and every time you long for him,
you become more like him, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
Ala ukhbirkum biahabbikum ilaiha
wa aqrabikum minni majlisan yaum'al qiyaamah?
"Shall I not tell you who the most beloved of you to me are
and the closest of you to me in the assembly
on the Day of Judgment?"
And the Sahaba were silent.
So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
repeated himself two or three times
and they said, "Yes, oh messenger of Allah, who is it?"
And he said, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
ahsanukum khuluqa
"Those of you who have the best character."
And then Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
then got specific
about what the best character looks like.
So he mentioned, for example, a man who raises two daughters
and he does well with their upbringing.
Ja'a yaumul qiyaamah
"He comes on the Day of judgment,"
Ana wa hu'a
"he and I,"
"like these two fingers."
So, of his character, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
a father reads how the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was
with Fatimah radiAllahu Anha
And then that shapes his own character as a father.
So he's standing with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
who's the greatest father of all time.
And he's also implementing those multiple manifestations
of his character, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
that bring him closer to him on the Day of Judgment.
And then what happens when you read about him
and you're also trying to be like him constantly?
You're naturally going
to send salawat on him, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
Awlannasa bi yaumil qiyaamah
Aksaruhum alaihis salaat
"The closest of people to me
on the Day of Judgment are those
who sent the most blessings upon me,"
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So, it's loving him with your heart,
it's being him with your deeds
and then it's praying upon him with your tongue,
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, constantly.
And in this life,
you came to know your Lord
through your Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And you drew near to Allah
in the ways that the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam taught you to do so.
And now you're standing next to the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
as Allah approaches the gathering
while all of the people are standing in anxiety.
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