From the moment Allah
created us, we began our journey back to Him. The goal of this journey is
Allah. We don't just want Paradise - we want to reach Allah.
While we're here on
earth, the journeying isn't
through physical movement, but by our hearts. Everything revolves around the
heart. The Prophet ﷺ said:
أَلاَ وَإِنَّ فِي الْجَسَدِ مُضْغَةً إِذَا صَلَحَتْ صَلَحَ الْجَسَدُ كُلُّهُ، وَإِذَا فَسَدَتْ فَسَدَ الْجَسَدُ كُلُّهُ. أَلاَ وَهِيَ الْقَلْبُ
"Truly in the body there is a morsel of flesh
which, if it is sound, all the body is sound and if it be diseased, all of it
(the body) is diseased. Truly it is the heart." [Agreed upon]
The rest of your
journey is dependent on the state of your heart.
Most people don't like to
hear about death and the Day of Judgement because we talk about it
independently from Allah. It just evokes fear in their hearts. They don't want
to die. But when you know who you're going to meet, you'll look forward to
meeting Him. -
And its the love factor that's missing from our journey. We have hope and fear
when we hear about Paradise and Hell, but we lack love of Allah.
The Prophet said,
"Whoever loves to meet Allah, Allah loves to meet Him"
[Bukhari]
من هو الله? - Who is Allah?
In (2:255):
This is the greatest verse in the Qur'an. If you read it after every obligatory prayer, nothing will prevent you from entering Paradise, except death.
This is the greatest
verse in the Qur'an. If you read it after every obligatory prayer, nothing will
prevent you from entering Paradise, except death.
"الله لا اله الا هو"
Delete all the
attachments from your life. Everyone else is worthless. They cannot harm you or
benefit you. Don't be busy with anyone except Allah.
He is the
Ever-Living, the One who never dies. He never leaves us for even a blink of an
eye, but it is us that separate ourselves from Him through heedlessness.
To Him belongs the
whole dominion. Everyone else is poor; they don't own anything. He knows about
our past, present, future. He knows what you're doing, what you're thinking,
what you will think in the future.
I attach my heart to someone who knows about me without me having to
speak. Who knows what I'm going through. I attach my heart to the One whose
footstool is bigger than the heavens and earth. This gives us so much comfort.
The One whom I attach my heart to is powerful.
من هو الله? - Who is Allah?
In (57:1-6):
Allah is the One who gave us life
and He is the One who causes death. No one can tell you when, where, and why
you'll die. Everything is decreed by Allah, from the beginning until the
end.
He is the First - No one precedes
Him. So you should make Him first in your life.
He knows about anything that goes
inside the earth. He knows about everyone going under the ground. He knows
about the souls going up and down. And He is with us wherever we are. He is
with us during our entire journey – and this is something we need to believe.
He is not with us physically but by His knowledge, hearing,
seeing, because He rose over the throne.
من هو الله? - Who is Allah?
In (59:22-24):
He is the King. But the
disbelievers will only realize He is the King on the Day of Judgement; that's
why Allah said in (1:4):
In this life, the Kingship of
Allah is only apparent to the one who believes in Him. The one who doesn't
believe fails to see the ownership and kingship of Allah. In reality we don't
own anything. We don't own our clothes, our eyes, our house, our children.
People don't want to die because they think they own things in this world. We
will leave as we were created - with nothing.
We don't even own feelings - to
make people love or hate us. We are nothing but slaves of Allah.
Allah is the Owner of peace. We want peace in our lives, when we leave
this life, in our graves. We want to go to Dar As-Salaam. Only
Allah, As-Salaam, can give it to us.
We need the name of Allah Al-Mu’min in our journey, because
there's so much fear.
In (10:62):
We need security in our lives. We
are restless. We don't know how we will face death, how we'll be alone in our
grave, deal with the horrors of the Day of Judgement. We need Al-Mu’min during all
this.
A lot of people become religious
only when they have a need. When there's no problem in their lives they don't
feel the need to read Quran or pray. Allah will respond to them, but Islam is far
more than this. We don't enjoy the sweetness of loving Allah.
The disbeliever will regret on the Day of Judgement because
they'll be able to witness the greatness of Allah but that can't do anything
about it. Enjoy knowing Allah in this life so that you can enjoy seeing Him in
the next. The worst punishment on the Day of Judgement is:
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In (84:6):
After I know this - What should I do?
In (45:15):
If you want to meet
Allah you need to do righteous good deeds. You need to be suitable to meet
Allah. When you do good deeds the only person you are benefiting is yourself.
And when you do evil, it's against yourself.
Don't think that Allah will be harmed if you don't
pray. Don't think that when you oppress people, you're only harming them. Don't
think that when you violate the rules of Allah you are harming anyone. No one
will be harmed except yourself.
Our life on earth is made up of three things:
1) Things which happen to us.
We are not accountable for this.
E.g. Someone oppressed you. You will not be
accountable for this, but you will be accountable for what you did in response.
2) Things which Allah created in us
E.g. Where we were born, what we look like, etc.
Allah won't ask us about this, but we are responsible
if they were a means of making us proud, mock others, etc.
3) Things which come out from from us
These are our deeds and
we're responsible for them.
E.g. Someone made fun of your child and called her
short. Instead of telling off the other child, or telling her to defend herself
- You need to say, "Who made you like this?" Allah said in (95:4):
Abu Hurairah
narrated that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “Indeed among the excellence of a person’s Islam is that he leaves alone that which does not
concern him.” [Tirmithi]
What people do to you and how Allah created you
doesn't concern you. What concerns you is your reaction and your deeds. Leave
the people - Allah will judge them. We play so many roles in our life - we play
the role of judging people, retribution, etc. No wonder we can't
concentrate in life.
Sometimes we give excuses to ourselves for the bad we
do and accuse others. Whoever does good it's for himself. Whoever does evil
it's against himself.
In (53:39-42):
We aren't dead yet.
While we're alive, we still have the opportunity to strive. And then we'll see
all what we did of striving on the Day of Judgement.
So while you're one earth focus on striving. Don't get
distracted worrying about others, criticizing this one, hating another,
etc.
The inhabitants of the graves didn't accomplish all
the jobs they set out to do nor did they collect all of their rights. Don't
waste your life trying to do that, because you'll never be able to. Make life
easy for yourself - Detach yourself from everything and attach yourself to
Allah. Your good deeds will be your friends. Nothing else is important.
You do the striving in this world. Allah will ask you
what you did.
And you will see all what you did in your life on the
Day of Judgement. Now be busy striving. Don't be busy criticizing people, etc.
Everyone will be recompensed in full. No one will
enter their destinations without having their scores settled. Allah will even judge between the animals.
The return and the end is to Allah.
But know - You can't strive without Allah's help.
The Prophet said: "No one of you
will enter Paradise by his deeds alone." They asked, "Not even you, O
Messenger of Allah?" He said, "Not even me, unless Allah covers me
with His Grace and Mercy" (Bukhari)
Don't depend on yourself. We can't do good deeds
without Allah's help.
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