Speaker 1: A person who goes down into their grave after the
Speaker 1: soul has gone and they are in their grave, imagine
Speaker 1: what will be the condition of an individual there. We
Speaker 1: believe that there is something known as dog thought will
Speaker 1: cover you know, the grave being made narrow. How is
Speaker 1: it going to be made narrow? Allah knows, but we
Speaker 1: believe it. It's going to happen because it's there. The
Speaker 1: prophet Haslam explained it to us that, you know, tightening
Speaker 1: or the narrowing of that grave. What will happen and
Speaker 1: how the person will be tested so much? And how
Speaker 1: they will be questioned in that grave. It's the truth.
Speaker 1: The angels will come and they will see the individual.
Speaker 1: How it will happen Allah knows best. But the questions
Speaker 1: are going to be asked by the angels. Who is
Speaker 1: your rub, who is your nabie, what is your dean?
Speaker 2: And so on? And it's no good for us to say, well,
Speaker 2: I know the answers. Every day in the morning, I
Speaker 2: used to say twenty times, that's not good enough.
Speaker 1: If you were following, you will be able to answer,
Speaker 1: and if you are not following, you won't be able
Speaker 1: to answer.
Speaker 2: So here is the mean.
Speaker 1: The one who was believing he will answer just like that,
Speaker 1: and he will be given a good resting place. You know,
Speaker 1: a little perhaps breeze of heaven will be released for
Speaker 1: that person because of the goodness that the person engaged
Speaker 1: in his life, and the other person, the evil person
Speaker 1: who engaged in bad and did not turn back to
Speaker 1: a loss of Hannah at Alah. He will say or
Speaker 1: she will say, you know what, who is your up?
Speaker 1: Who is your nab? What is your dean?
Speaker 2: And so on?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I heard people saying something, and I used
Speaker 1: to say something as well. That's what sometimes we are
Speaker 1: guilty of. You know how we heard people reading the Koran?
Speaker 1: We just read it, that's all. We just said the
Speaker 1: same thing without even thinking what's the meaning of it?
Speaker 2: What is it? What is this work?
Speaker 1: What is How can I live my entire life without
Speaker 1: knowing what my maker said?
Speaker 2: What a fool?
Speaker 1: I need to know it, because when I die, that
Speaker 1: share who told me is harm to look at the
Speaker 1: meaning of the Koran.
Speaker 2: He's not going to be there with me to.
Speaker 1: Say, Ahlah, I was the one who told us this
Speaker 1: chap here not to read the meaning.
Speaker 2: What do you think it was?
Speaker 1: You?
Speaker 2: Your brain, your mind?
Speaker 1: Allah gave you you are responsible, You are answerable. Start
Speaker 1: understanding Allah's plan by reading his book. That's the only
Speaker 1: book that is valid in existence of hanahalah. It will
Speaker 1: lead you to the Sunnah Muhammad salalada seldom.
Speaker 2: But if you don't have that book, you don't know
Speaker 2: what it's all about. What do you expect? How are
Speaker 2: you going to prepare for the aharra?
Speaker 1: My brothers and sisters, It's an important message.
Speaker 2: The preparation for the life after.
Speaker 1: Death is the most important thing that I need to
Speaker 1: prepare for. You know, we will all invest our wealth
Speaker 1: because we want mashallah high rise building and a little apartment.
Speaker 2: We will go out and get loans in sha lahak
Speaker 2: there are halali shallah. But from wherever we get some.
Speaker 1: Loans and we want to, you know, pay back over
Speaker 1: time because I need to own the house.
Speaker 2: Do you know what's happening?
Speaker 1: And I have seen this in a lot of cases
Speaker 1: of people who passed away.
Speaker 2: They took out loans.
Speaker 1: They wanted big apartments or homes for their families and
Speaker 1: themselves before or they could pay back the loan. They
Speaker 1: were already in need of a palace in the hereafter
Speaker 1: because they died.
Speaker 2: So what happens to that loan a loss of hanah howatalyasis, the.
Speaker 1: Lady, your pony, the lah cal don hassanah fada Infanhua lah.
Speaker 2: Akbar, who is there?
Speaker 1: Who is going to give to a los sub Hannah
Speaker 1: howat Allah, so that that loan would be multiplied so manyfold.
Speaker 2: Subhanahlah, are you ready to do for Allah?
Speaker 1: Spend your time for Allah, spend your energy for a
Speaker 1: loh abstain from sin for the sake of Allah.
Speaker 2: You will find its reward multiplied.
Speaker 1: When you need your palace in the Afara, it will
Speaker 1: be there.
Speaker 2: You will already be given glad tidings of it.
Speaker 1: From the moment the angels come to take your soul away,
Speaker 1: you've been given glad tiding because you now know Subhanahlah,
Speaker 1: you have an idea. And so the angels that have
Speaker 1: come are angels that I've seen. The one narration makes mention,
Speaker 1: and it's mua that the angels. The person who's dying
Speaker 1: will see the angels and just the angels, and subhanah Lah,
Speaker 1: up to the horizon wherever the person can see, they
Speaker 1: will just see this angel, Subpanahlah. And the angel will
Speaker 1: come in whites whites a lot, Supannah, howat Ala make
Speaker 1: that day easy for us?
Speaker 2: I mean, ask Allah to grant us goodness.
Speaker 1: People have died, and people who did not believe that
Speaker 1: there was a year after are already in the hereafter.
Speaker 2: What fools, subhanahlah.
Speaker 1: People who did not believe in the here after are
Speaker 1: already in the hereafter.
Speaker 2: They've gone. Where are we going? Prepare for the grave?
Speaker 1: People will come, they'll bury you, they'll carry you, like
Speaker 1: I always say, they will come a day when the
Speaker 1: phones will be ringing, the messages will be flying, people
Speaker 1: will be tweeting, and what's happing? And people who will
Speaker 1: be putting posters and statuses.
Speaker 2: And so on regarding your death. The day is coming.
Speaker 2: The day is definitely coming. People will phone.
Speaker 1: How many times have you received a phone call and
Speaker 1: a message someone you.
Speaker 2: Knew close to you? They say in a person's gone.
Speaker 1: Ah in alilla own, how what happened? Sometimes we are shocked, shocked. Well,
Speaker 1: you know what a bigger shock will be if you
Speaker 1: were just taken without preparation, that's a bigger shock. WELLA
Speaker 1: help us, because when I.
Speaker 2: Go, I am all alone.
Speaker 1: If you look at your children carefully, and your parents
Speaker 1: and your brothers carefully. They belong to Allah before they
Speaker 1: were even connected to you. But Allah used you to
Speaker 1: bring them into existence in order to fulfill the bigger plan.
Speaker 2: That he has. That's what it is.
Speaker 1: But otherwise, Allah owns your child and you do not.
Speaker 1: Do you know that because you have to look after
Speaker 1: that gift of Allah as a test from Allah in
Speaker 1: order to earn paradise through the gift of a love.
Speaker 1: I have a temporary I have a child temporarily known
Speaker 1: as my child here.
Speaker 2: In this world in Chadlah.
Speaker 1: If I use that temporary opportunity to prepare for heaven,
Speaker 1: I will be getting generous only because of my sacrifice.
Speaker 2: Same applies with marriage. You're married to someone.
Speaker 1: It's temporary, but you can eternalize it in certain ways
Speaker 1: if Allah wills.
Speaker 2: Subhanahlah.
Speaker 1: For now, Subhanalah, I need to use this gift of
Speaker 1: Allah that I have by treating her or him in
Speaker 1: such a way that I earn general I prepare for
Speaker 1: my afterlife.
Speaker 2: It's a sacrifice. It's not easy.
Speaker 1: And we tell people and now we need to tell
Speaker 1: them more and more because materialism is taking over, and
Speaker 1: we tell people, you know what, marriage is a big sacrifice,
Speaker 1: a huge sacrifice. Without sacrifice, you won't achieve anything. Subhanahlah Malla,
Speaker 1: subhanah hawatala. Help us to sacrifice in a way that
Speaker 1: he is pleased with us. So let's prepare for the
Speaker 1: day we are put down, when our families will return
Speaker 1: and what is left. The Hadid speaks of how when
Speaker 1: a person is you know, in the form of a janaza,
Speaker 1: in the form of a dead person being carried, who
Speaker 1: follows this person, family, wealth following this person they buried,
Speaker 1: and some things go back, and something stay. What goes back,
Speaker 1: the family goes back. Before you know it, your wife
Speaker 1: is married again. Subhanahlah.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: It reminds me, and I must pause for a moment
Speaker 1: on the lighter note. It reminds me of a person
Speaker 1: who was really upset in his marriage and so on,
Speaker 1: and you know, they were not happy, and so something
Speaker 1: happened and you know, the relationship began to improve and they.
Speaker 2: Were working on it and what have you.
Speaker 1: So the man asks his wife, if I die, will.
Speaker 2: You marry again? That's a question. Imagine.
Speaker 1: You know, people make their promises as much as they want,
Speaker 1: but you do not know the circumstances of your spouse say,
Speaker 1: for example, you died and your spouse is struggling so
Speaker 1: much and they need some form of help. No one's
Speaker 1: coming to help them. They wouldn't be wrong to marry again.
Speaker 1: In fact, it's encouraged to marry again, subhanahlah. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, listen to what the spouse is. A
Speaker 1: woman says when the husband says, will you marry again?
Speaker 1: So she says no, no, so what will you do?
Speaker 1: I'll just stay with my sister. Okay, Wow, good answers.
Speaker 1: And a little while later she asked, what about you,
Speaker 1: will you marry again? He says no, so what will
Speaker 1: you do? I'll also just stay with your sister. May
Speaker 1: a loss of Hannah Hotela Granta's is we a loss
Speaker 1: of Hannah hot Allah? Bless us we a loss of
Speaker 1: Hannah hot Allah?
Speaker 2: Forgive us.
Speaker 1: We ready to make a plan for when our spouse
Speaker 1: is dying, But we haven't made a plan for when
Speaker 1: we die.
Speaker 2: Have you thought of what I'm saying? We make a plan.
Speaker 1: We already know if she dies, Hey, I've got another
Speaker 1: two three lined up mashallah. And we don't know, brother,
Speaker 1: you're dying before her. So Hannah lah may allah sub Hannah,
Speaker 1: ho Allah, help us to prepare. May Allah help us
Speaker 1: to prepare. Really, this is something that we need to
Speaker 1: think about. So I was saying, your deeds are the
Speaker 1: only things that.
Speaker 2: Remain with you.
Speaker 1: Otherwise your wealth goes back. Your children are fighting over it.
Speaker 1: They've stopped talking to each other over it. They have
Speaker 1: broken the family into twenty pieces of over your wealth.
Speaker 1: Ask those whom this has happened to. They will confirm, yes,
Speaker 1: it's correct. And what has happened that wealth? Had you
Speaker 1: not left it, perhaps your family might have been closer
Speaker 1: bonded than now that you had a lot of wealth.
Speaker 1: I know of people who had nothing and after the
Speaker 1: death the family is so close, mashallah.
Speaker 2: And I know of.
Speaker 1: People who've had so much that when the person passes away,
Speaker 1: someone is trying to rob this one, and the other
Speaker 1: one is denying that one, and this one is claiming
Speaker 1: his share of inheritance, and the other one comes and
Speaker 1: say that was mine, and I worked with dad and
Speaker 1: I did this and it was me, And debates go on.
Speaker 2: Yes, there are exceptions to that.
Speaker 1: There are people who've died marshall are wealthy, and even
Speaker 1: their children mashallah, have been happy thereafter. But the message
Speaker 1: here is what you've amassed in terms of wealth, and
Speaker 1: what you have had in terms of relatives.
Speaker 2: You've had twenty thirty fifty children.
Speaker 1: Trust me, they will go back. Before you know it,
Speaker 1: they will forget you. Look, we are seated here. How
Speaker 1: many of you know your seventh forefather? I don't know
Speaker 1: why they called him four fathers. One day when I
Speaker 1: was young, I used to think, the reason why they
Speaker 1: called him four fathers is you can only remember up
Speaker 1: to four of them. After that, you can't remember that's
Speaker 1: a forefather. You remember your forefathers? Say yes, all four
Speaker 1: of them.
Speaker 2: Hanahwat alah help us.
Speaker 1: But one wonders, it's a fact you will not remember
Speaker 1: your forefather. How many of us know seven generations back?
Speaker 1: But they were important people. You are from their lineage
Speaker 1: and you don't even know about them. They why you
Speaker 1: are their family. But they went, They left you behind,
Speaker 1: gode the wealth.
Speaker 2: That they had well too late. So hanahla.
Speaker 1: You might have a piece of land somewhere in one
Speaker 1: of the rural areas of some place you come from
Speaker 1: that was your ancestral land.
Speaker 2: Big deal.
Speaker 1: No one wants you there today. Hanahwa to alah grant
Speaker 1: us goodness. Really, so what happens is the thing that
Speaker 1: comes with you your deeds. Your deeds come in the
Speaker 1: form of people. Sometimes the ADID has different descriptions. The
Speaker 1: deeds come in the form of a protection for you.
Speaker 2: That's your deed, that's your deed. What did you do
Speaker 2: this man?
Speaker 1: This is his zaka, this is his salah, beautiful salah.
Speaker 2: We don't want a quality that is useless. Subanah love.
Speaker 1: You know, there was a time when we used to
Speaker 1: think that the quality of items made in China is
Speaker 1: not good.
Speaker 2: But that's wrong.
Speaker 1: It depends how much you are ready to pay for
Speaker 1: an item. Ask those who've done business. There was a
Speaker 1: time when I didn't know any better. I was corrected
Speaker 1: by someone who is Chinese here in this crowd. Subanah
Speaker 1: Lah corrected me. They sent me an email to say, hey,
Speaker 1: what you said was insulting.
Speaker 2: It was wrong. You cannot say Chinese products are bad
Speaker 2: and they're not.
Speaker 1: And I guarantee you that it depends on how much
Speaker 1: you pay and also on alla's exceptance. You know, sometimes
Speaker 1: you buy a vehicle, very expensive one, but it happens
Speaker 1: to be slightly faulty.
Speaker 2: Well that you paid for a lovely car. The faults.
Speaker 1: That was just a test for you, between you and
Speaker 1: Allah suhanah, how much alah. No one planned it for
Speaker 1: you to have that particular item. It was alas planned.
Speaker 1: The same applies. You see how much you're ready to pay.
Speaker 1: That's the type of goods you get. So if you
Speaker 1: want to buy a light and the light is one
Speaker 1: did hum, then perhaps it will last for a day,
Speaker 1: two days.
Speaker 2: And then it will go.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know if you recall the story
Speaker 1: I told you about a man who only paid one
Speaker 1: cent for the fans that he had.
Speaker 2: So he bought a whole box of these fans, and
Speaker 2: he tested one.
Speaker 1: His wife tested one and as she held you know
Speaker 1: that the fan.
Speaker 2: That opens up.
Speaker 1: As he held the first fan, it broke, or his
Speaker 1: wife held it and it broke. The wife held the
Speaker 1: second one, it broke, third one it broke. So the
Speaker 1: wife calls him and says, hey, hey, relax, you bought
Speaker 1: this thing here and these are breaking. They are defects, rejects.
Speaker 1: We have a wedding coming up. We wanted to distribute
Speaker 1: these things.
Speaker 2: To all the guests. How did you do this?
Speaker 1: So he took the boxes and he went back, and
Speaker 1: he went back to the man on the side of
Speaker 1: the road selling these boxes, and he says, hey, these
Speaker 1: things are not working. He says, what do you mean
Speaker 1: they're not working?
Speaker 2: They're breaking.
Speaker 1: The man says, how much did you pay? He says,
Speaker 1: I paid a cent each. I bought the whole box.
Speaker 1: You know, so many boxes, four boxes. I paid a
Speaker 1: cent each. So the man says, oh, there are other
Speaker 1: ones that come for a diar hum and another one
Speaker 1: that comes for ten dear hums. It depends how what
Speaker 1: you pay. Did you read the instructions the ones you
Speaker 1: paid the cent ones? Did you look at the what
Speaker 1: it says inside there? He said, no, Well there's a
Speaker 1: way of using them. You want to pay it the
Speaker 1: one cent, you must know how to use it. So
Speaker 1: the man says, well, how this is a fan. It's normal.
Speaker 1: The whole world knows. You open the thing and Marchiallat
Speaker 1: gives you a nice design and then you use it,
Speaker 1: you know, with your hand.
Speaker 2: He says, no, no, no, no, those are the ones
Speaker 2: for dinham. The one for one cent is a different way.
Speaker 2: So what's the way?
Speaker 1: He says, Come, I show you, Okay, hold it in
Speaker 1: your hand.
Speaker 2: He holds it in his hand.
Speaker 1: He opens the thing and it's you know, the fan
Speaker 1: comes out, beautiful picture.
Speaker 2: He says, Now put it in front of your face.
Speaker 2: He says, okay, put it in front now say the
Speaker 2: man says, what do you mean? He says, but that's
Speaker 2: if you want to pay nothing, you got to know
Speaker 2: how to use it. You want the ones that you move,
Speaker 2: you must pay. But more do you know what with
Speaker 2: our deeds?
Speaker 1: Sometimes sometimes our deeds are not the sincerity, the quality
Speaker 1: is not good enough.
Speaker 2: My love forgive us. So take a look at Suratu.
Speaker 1: Mulk Alas subhanah analysis Tabarak gordy Alali, Come, come ala
Speaker 1: well as he is.
Speaker 2: We know we read Mulk so often people know it
Speaker 2: off by heart. Listen to that second verse.
Speaker 1: Alas says, it is he who has created death in
Speaker 1: life for a certain reason.
Speaker 2: What's the reason.
Speaker 1: In order to test who has better deeds from amongst you?
Speaker 1: He didn't say who has more deeds? Because what's the
Speaker 1: point of doing.
Speaker 2: More deeds when the quality is like that one cent fan?
Speaker 2: What's the point?
Speaker 1: I'd rather do less deeds with the quality that when
Speaker 1: I need the fan and the cooling, I will be cool.
Speaker 1: Subhana lah. So this is why I remember your faath
Speaker 1: is your fara. You cannot compromise that, your obligation. You
Speaker 1: cannot compromise, but that which is excess and more than that,
Speaker 1: the quality is more important than the quantity. If you
Speaker 1: have read the Qur'an properly and thoroughly and covered it
Speaker 1: within a span of a month, and you did it correctly, beautifully,
Speaker 1: trying to understand its meaning and so on, it is
Speaker 1: far more valuable than whipping through it and telling people
Speaker 1: I complete one pur on every third day or every
Speaker 1: day and so on. If you want to read raka'at
Speaker 1: of salah and offer voluntary salah, it is far better
Speaker 1: for your preparation for the afterlife if you were to
Speaker 1: offer less with quality than offering more with quantity and
Speaker 1: no quality. If you can do both alhamdulillah, quality and quantity,
Speaker 1: that is a success. But if you cannot do the
Speaker 1: quantity of it, remember it's the quality that counts.
Speaker 2: These are the deeds.
Speaker 1: This is preparation for the afterlife, because when we get
Speaker 1: to our grades, that's salah that we did last minute.
Speaker 2: You know it happens every day, Hey, it's us. So
Speaker 2: what time is sunset?
Speaker 1: Okay, sunset is at five point thirty one, so we say, okay,
Speaker 1: it's still five five o'clock. I still got a bit
Speaker 1: of time and were still finishing a game, watching a movie,
Speaker 1: doing some brother.
Speaker 2: Stop everything the.
Speaker 1: The time started at three something, three thirty five, whatever
Speaker 1: the time was. You need to put aside everything and
Speaker 1: read your Salah. We always say tell your work, don't
Speaker 1: say don't say oh Salah, I have work, say oh work,
Speaker 1: I have salah.
Speaker 2: Quit it. The women folks, sometimes they're cooking for you,
Speaker 2: because sometimes we come roaring home like a lion. I'm hungry.
Speaker 2: Have you heard that? I'm hungry? What is that to eat?
Speaker 1: Hey? Poor woman is reading Salah to laso, and we
Speaker 1: shouting relax, take it easy, Go and make yourself an
Speaker 1: egg in shall Lah. That egg is more blessed than
Speaker 1: you screaming in this way while she's trying to earn
Speaker 1: her genda. My sister, don't compromise your sala for cooking.
Speaker 1: Don't compromise your Salah for something else. No, stop everything.
Speaker 1: Your allah is your grave. You know why your life
Speaker 1: might stop at that moment That Salah will come and
Speaker 1: save you. You will get into the afterlife before you know.
Speaker 1: People say, but you know, my children, they are others.
Speaker 1: They are that read the Sunna, ask the olama. Find
Speaker 1: out how to fulfill your salah. If your children are
Speaker 1: troubling you a little bit here and there, you fulfill
Speaker 1: your salah. So hanahlah, make sure that you've done it.
Speaker 1: There is no excuse me Allah grantases. Now I'm just
Speaker 1: thinking there might be some people thinking, Okay, I'm intentionally
Speaker 1: going to make a nice long salah, you know, without
Speaker 1: having cooked. And then I will say, didn't you hear
Speaker 1: the talk last night? Didn't you hear I was busy
Speaker 1: with my salah? Didn't you hear the talk last night?
Speaker 1: So remember to strike the balance. You know, we are
Speaker 1: not saying don't abuse things in order to do something
Speaker 1: that you want to out, not to do something that
Speaker 1: you have to.
Speaker 2: Don't abuse things.
Speaker 1: Mala subhanah hot ala help us. So the preparation is
Speaker 1: such that every one of us common logic will tell
Speaker 1: us I need to prepare sense. But sometimes alas is
Speaker 1: kala bell to him, Bonny, you love that which is
Speaker 1: in front of you, now, that which is current you,
Speaker 1: you love it, and you are forgetting that which is coming,
Speaker 1: and this happens to all of us.
Speaker 2: What's in front of us we wanted, and what is
Speaker 2: coming we forget.
Speaker 1: Alasses, strike the balance, use the current in order to
Speaker 1: prepare for that which is coming.
Speaker 2: Well, make it easy for us