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brothers and sisters I'm here at
Cemetery Road here in Bradford
and I remember coming here many many
years ago maybe about 20 years ago my
first janaza here in Bradford and it was
a small plot of land which is just was
there in the corner and now when I look
today I see hundreds and hundreds of
graves that are just filled of people
who have gone before us and it reminds
me of the words of the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam when he
says increase your remembrance of that
which consumes
desires and gives you focus and makes
you recognize what your purpose
is I the death so the prophet sallallahu
alai told us to be always reflecting
Upon Our
mortality our mortality probably is
probably the greatest reminder that we
will die that we will leave this world
that we will be Dust In The Grave that
we will be buried by those people who we
leave behind and all we are left with is
our hassat our Good Deeds as the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam he said that
only three things will follow the person
into the
grave the knowledge the that they have
taught someone
secondly the charity that continues to
benefit and thirdly the Dua of their
righteous children now all of us we are
familiar with the words because you hear
it mentioned at the graveyard frequently
at the time of death
from Allah we have come to Allah we will
return these words require deep
contemplation these words require great
thinking because so many people Subhan
Allah they are heedless they don't
actually recognize that you are every
second of your life coming closer to
your death that every second of your
life you are coming closer to the
Reckoning with Allah tala from Allah we
have come to Allah we will return We
Came From nothing and we will become
dust in our
Graves this meaning the meaning of this
term to Allah we will return is between
this point now that you are listening to
me and I'm here at this graveyard to the
point that we leave this world that's
all that remains of our
life and the purpose of that time is
nothing other to Eng glain the pleasure
of Allah subhana waala in another verse
Allah subhana
mentions Muslim and die only in the
state of Islam y Allah subhana wa ta'ala
will only give us the reward of if we
have died in submission to to our
creator now look none of us knows when
we will die how we will die
who we will be with what we will be
doing what our final actions will be the
state of our IM our faith and tawa at
the time of our death none of us knows
the conditions what land we will be in
what the state of our religion will be
but Allah
says die only as a Muslim
so he explained it in order to die as a
Muslim it requires us to always be
practicing
Islam so that when we leave this world
inshallah we leave with our IM at its
highest at its
peak and when alhamdulillah when this is
something which is best for us just like
the Dua of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam give us life for as long as it
is good for us and give us death when it
is good for
us viewers everyone recognizes that no
one will escape from the reality of
death
it is a sure reality that you will die
it is something that no human soul or
created soul will ever escape that's why
Allah says in the Quran the verse all of
us are familiar
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with every Soul shall taste death no one
will escape from it as a poet wrote once
the righteous will die and the Wicked
Will Die the rich will die and the poor
will die the young will die and the old
will die the warrior will die and the
one who is at home will
die no one will escape the reality of
death and death it has a taste that's
what Allah
says the taste of death this refers to
the trial of death when Mal the angel of
death comes to remove the soul from the
body and then Allah T he
says every TR shall taste death and you
shall be paid your wages in full on the
day of
judgment so what does it mean that
you'll be paid your wages in full on the
day of judgment it means that Allah
subhana wa ta'ala all these Graves all
these Souls who have gone before
us and our soul will join them it will
be here that's why attending and coming
to the graveyard reflecting deeply upon
your moment of leaving this world and
what the your state will be and the day
of judgment being raised up and
contemplating
deeply that what are your wages on that
day a day when there is no money no
pounds no Euros no dollars no dinar no
dirham
on that day it is
only and then Allah says whoever is
removed from from the
Hellfire and granted
Paradise this is a person who that will
receive as the receive the greatest
Victory and
success and know this world however
beautiful it looks is nothing other than
a deception than an illusion that the
real Bliss and the real eternity
is so this verse my brothers Subhan
Allah it is a verse which gives us
Clarity and focus it's a verse which
brings the reality of what death is
reflect deeply upon all of the graves
here some of them were rich people did
their wealth keep Malik far away some of
them were young men and women did their
youth keep malikul M away some of them
were intellectuals and great
intelligence did their intelligence keep
malikul M away some of them were leaders
and kings and queens that have now
become dust did their position keep the
death malikul M away no
because every soul shall taste the
reality
of
death Subhan Allah the prophet as I
mentioned he
said increase your remembrance of death
and the moment that you are going to die
and the actual time because none of us
knows which land we will be in and what
our actions will be in but know this
brothers and sisters we are raised up on
the action that we die
upon and we are raised up with those we
love and of the signs of a good death
for a person is that they leave this
word with the Shah on their
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tongu this is how they leave the world
but you're only going to leave the world
with a shahada on your lips and on your
tongue if this was your condition that
you were someone always remembering
Allah subhana wa ta'ala and preparing
for the reality of your Le leaving this
world there is a frightening Hadith
where the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam has told us there are two Moes
there are two deaths the first is the
physical death in this world as I've
mentioned when the angel of death comes
and takes the soul away from the
body that's the death of this world and
then on Allah subhana tala raises all
these in the all of us will be raised
from our Graves can you imagine a sight
that bodies emerging from the
ground coming to the the Reckoning
before Allah subhanahu wa
taala it's frightening and that's why
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
said that if you knew what I
knew if you know what I know you would
laugh little and you would cry
much if you know the reality of theab
the Reckoning before Allah and the
Reckoning in the grave and Sak the trial
of death you would laugh little and you
would cry much and you would not take
Delight from this world but you would
cry over every sin that you
perform Allah T he says in the Quran
that he has only created life and death
to test which one was his best in
actions so our whole existence as Allah
says Allah T created death then he gave
us life to test which one of us is best
in
action so our whole life from beginning
to end is nothing other than to
serve but you will only really have that
Focus if you internalize those words if
you put it deep and contemplate deeply
on the
words from Allah we have come to Allah I
will return and when you are thinking
about this brothers and sisters there
will be three qualities that you will
see in the one who is often remembering
this matter first they are quick in
seeking the Forgiveness of Allah subhana
wa ta'ala
in of asking Allah Ya Allah forgive
me forgive me and have mercy upon me Ya
Allah you are truly the one who is the
mercy Giver because the one who is
thinking of death he does not want to
die upon sinning he does not want to be
humiliated at the time of their death by
dying upon that which is displeasing to
Allah the prophet sallallah alall he
made this Dua similarly
oh Allah let me live amongst the Muslims
and let me die amongst the Muslim so I'm
giving a Muslim burial with people who
will make Dua for me at my
janaza and make me amongst those people
who are when I pass away and do not make
me of those people who are
humiliated humiliated because we die in
a Despicable way we die without any
actions without any Salah without any
zakah without fulfilling the hook of
Allah subhanahu
waala Allah
says to go show you that our whole life
is about devoting ourselves to and
thinking about deeply brothers and
sisters think deeply about your death
how you will die what you will be doing
what will be the state of your Iman
standing before Allah and justifying
your actions and holding being held to
account held to account about the money
you had and how you spent it the life
you had and how you spent it the health
that you had and how you spent it the
youth that you had and how you spent it
did you serve Allah or did you serve
yourself your prayer your sacrifice your
living you're dying is for Allah Lord of
all of the world the frightening
narration the death is there are two
deaths as I've mentioned the first is
the death of this world where we will
then go into the grave as Malik the
angel of death takes our soul from us
this is Sak the trial of death as the
soul as the physical body dies but the
soul it lives and the Soul enters into
Barak where it will be questioned it
will be questioned Subhan Allah and
these questions will reflect all of our
life when you come to the Grave it is
about thinking about the and the
questioning of and
two angels that the prophet sallallahu
Al wasam with strict
reprimand will come and they will set
you up in your grave and they will ask
you three questions Subhan
Allah what is your Dean who is your lord
who is this man referring to the prophet
s.
wasam now the prophet s said if the
person lived upon yakin he was certain
firm upon his religion and her religion
all his life and you die upon that then
inshallah in the grave you are given
isbad you are firm and you are raised up
inshallah in the same way Ya Allah make
us of those but if you lived upon doubt
and you died upon
doubt you will be raised up upon doubt
and confusion how will you answer those
angels when you are alone in darkness in
fear with
nothing it is only because if this is
your way and that's why Allah subh look
at the words of Allah subhana that he
tells us regarding the questioning in
the
grave the punishment of the Grave the
prophet mentions in the
Quran Allah subhana will strengthen you
with a call with a statement which will
be firm in this world and in
the what is the cold which will be firm
in in the
the Cal in this world is the
sh and that which will be the cold which
is firm in the grave because you lived
upon worshiping Allah subhana tala you
were preparing for the reality of your
death you did not have you were not
disregarding it or ignoring it that
because of that reality then in the
grave in Allah you will say my Lord is
Allah subhana tala why because I
worshiped him alone I did not make any
Partners to him I devoted my whole life
to
serving I performed this h of Salah and
z and and Haj I obeyed him and I kept
away from the Disobedience of Allah
subhana wa taala and I worshiped Allah
subh making no Partners to Allah subhana
wa tala and I call people only to the
worship of my Lord is Allah my Dean is
Islam why because I practice IED my
religion I devoted myself to it I did
not follow any other way except the way
of
Islam I obeyed the commands of Islam I
stayed away from the prohibitions of
Allah subhana tala I Stu to the
Limit I stuck to the Limit that Allah T
set upon me my Dean was Islam and I
lived it and I spent my whole life from
beginning to end doing nothing other
than
the third question who is this man and
it is described that you will be shown
an image of the Prophet sallallah alaihi
wasallam but only those people will
recognize the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam who loved him who obeyed him
and followed him and they are the ones
who love the prophet sallallahu alai
more than themselves the world and
everything else in it because of their
love
sallam they followed his example as
Allah says in the
Quran say if you love Allah then follow
the Messenger
s and Allah will love you and Allah will
forgive you Allah
is this is of the Prophet Sall wasallam
that you imitated his behavior as much
as you can that you obeyed the prophet
Sall
that you put his Sunnah into practice in
your life that you did not follow the B
those practices which are against what
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
has taught that you loved him you
devoted yourself to following his
example you called people to the example
of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam you tried to make your and your
in accordance with that of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam and then you
will say this is the prophet sallallah
alaihi wasallam and then in the grave
for this m Ya Allah make us of them a
window will be opened
and that window will be a window of
paradise Subhan Allah and they will
smell the fragrances of paradise and
they will be told this is your
home this will be your final
destination that's what it
means from Allah we will come to Allah
we will return we will return inshallah
if we are obedient back to our home in
paradise and then a window will be shown
of the fire and the person will feel
some of the heat of that fire a fire 70
times hotter than the fire of this world
and then the person will say as a result
of that you know they will be told this
is what you have saved yourself from
Subhan
Allah that's the reality of the grave
and then the grave will expand an
expansion of the Grave will be based on
the the the goodness of that person and
then it will constrict and it will
squeeze the body even of the one who is
and the prophet described the squeezing
in the
grave for the one who is a m maybe the
squeezing will just squeeze the body but
for the one who is a MIM who disobeyed
Allah that squeezing will crush the body
and the prophet how he described the
ribs will crush and be interlaced with
one
another this will be the punishment in
the grave then a man will be appointed
for the one who is disobedient to Allah
who will strike the head of that person
with a rod of
iron and that person will scream the
screams will be
heard by everything from the east to
west except human being Subhan Allah
this is the state and the situation of
the inhabitants of the Grave that the
prophet sallallah Ali described but the
safety will only be for the one who was
preparing for the reality of almot and
the coming of Malik the angel of
death one scholar he said once that
people dispute all the time about what
land they own they say I own this land
and I own that land I own this house and
I own that house well one of the pieces
of land that people never dispute about
and never argue about is the
6x4 the 6ot Deep land that we will all
occupy one day all of us will have our
own piece of land
where we will be
inhabitants waiting for the day of
judgment and then the day of judgment
our bodies will be recreated and we will
come out of the
ground a terrifying sight in itself
heading to the Judgment of Allah when
all of the souls are then reunited with
the physical bodies that Allah T creates
on that
day then there will be the second
death it's called the death of
death a ram will be bought on that
day and it will be said this Ram is M
death and that Ram will be
slaughtered and then it will be said to
all of the inhabitants that have been
created this is death and this is the
death of death No More Death after this
the people of Hellfire will be there
Aban for eternity
and the people of paradise will be there
in Bliss alhamdulillah Ya Allah make us
of those for
eternity that in itself is a frightening
reality brothers and
sisters Every Soul shall taste death
you'll be paid your wages in full none
of no no one will escape the reality of
the coming of Mo it is a sure reality
and that's why the the prophet said
regarding this which is a
deception live in this world as if you
are a traveler as if a person who is
just on a journey this is the
meaning from Allah we' have come to
Allah we return we are journeying back
to Allah subhana wa taala so therefore
in this world take only what you need to
help you get safely to the destination
of don't fall in love with this
D but they prefer the life of this world
but know that the existence of the ha
aftera is
unimaginable in terms of its goodness
Subhan Allah don't become involved and
infatuated with our short time on this
Earth we are merely Travelers as the
prophet s said who have just taken rest
for a short period of time the three
qualities I mention in the one
reflecting upon mod quick in the
repentance of Allah
subh number two they have in their their
their worship is done with attention and
this is the quality of
the they pray their prayers with with an
attention why they pray they worship
they live as if it is their last moment
on Earth and they want this to be a
moment which is that they die upon Islam
and that they are raised up by Allah
subhana tala in a righteous righteous
way so they have attention in their
worship and thirdly the one thinking of
death death he's contented with what
Allah subhana wa taala has given him of
this dun his heart is happy with
everything that Allah has given him
because he realizes the real
success the greatest Victory is in the
next World the opposite of the one who
is totally
disregards who is ignoring the reality
of their going into the ground and being
buried and the angel of death taking
their soul slowing in the repentance of
Allah they have no attention in their
worship if they worship you know at that
and thirdly they are never content with
what they have in the duny just as the
prophet said if you give the son of Adam
a value of gold he's not happy until has
another value of gold nothing will
satisfy that person until they are Dust
In The
Grave this reminder of death is the most
important reminder it's the simplest
reminder because no soul will ever
escape this reality of Mo I finish with
the verse
in where Allah subhana tala he describes
the reality of the leaving of this world
when Allah says in the
Quran okay
verily those people who say my Lord is
Allah and remain firm upon that upon
them the angel of death will
descend the angel of death will come
upon them and they will say and the
angel of death Subhan Allah will say
do not fear do not grieve imagine this
brothers and sisters at a time of Terror
when your soul is being taken away from
this world we are leaving where you're
leaving this worldly Abode to the next
World Subhan Allah you are alone
now and you are vulnerable and you are
weak at the time of death and your soul
is being taken but the angel of death
says do not fear do not
grieve but receive the Glad Tidings of
paradise which you have been
promised Subhan
Allah so brothers and sisters we ask
Allah T truly to bestow this situation
upon it because the opposite subh
brothers and sisters is truly
frightening that the soul is taken away
in a way in which it is disgraced is
humiliated and the pain of death is
something which will as the prophet said
will be so severe for this person look
upon the graves that we have here 400
people every year Come Souls are buried
at this graveyard it will be our
grave you know so many of the of the
scholar our Scholars and teachers they
teach us take lesson you know this is
not just about coming and visiting okay
those who have passed away before us
this is about you imagining your reality
in the grave this is the most important
of all of the lessons that we will be
one day in the ground dust
ourselves how many people have we buried
ourselves yet the heart is not soft and
the Heart ourselves have not prepared
for this reality that we will ourselves
face do we think that we will be on this
world
forever none of us knows even if we are
going to be alive tomorrow or the day
after the prophet said people are making
plans all the time what will interrupt
the plan is Mo you you look at your
weekly planner and you have said I have
prepared for this this and this
how many of you have prepared for the
reality of
Al said when I arrive in the evening I
do not expect to be alive in the morning
and when I'm in the morning I do not
expect to be alive in the evening
prepare for your life for your death
while you are healthy prepare for when
you become
ill so Brothers take benefit
from from your life before you enter
into the ground and your soul leaves you
in this world and your Reckoning and
your judgment before Allah subana
begins increase your remembrance of that
which suppresses your desires and love
of this world think of the reality of
your MO
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