Khutbahs
14 / 217
Do You Think You Will Enter Jannah? | Khutbah
Believing that Paradise is the final abode for this Ummah helps us attain patience as we endure the hardships of this life. Our goal is to reach a level of certainty that Allah will forgive us and will have mercy on us.
Transcript
This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. Dear brothers and sisters, last week we spoke about the where. Where to, oh Allah? Where is my destination? And we said that you cannot get past a trial or a test unless you submit yourself in regards to the where, and unless you submit yourself in regards to the when. Mata. Mata Nasrullah. When is the help of Allah going to come? As human beings we are driven crazy by uncertainty and the lack of closure, not knowing when it's all going to end. Yaqooluna mata hadhal wa'du in kuntum sadeqeen? When is the day of judgment? If we all knew when our lives would expire, how different would our lives be? We would know exactly when to run a little faster, just like with any other race, when to pace ourselves in a certain way, and then when to make that final sprint. But we don't know. Mata. You have absolutely no idea. And that requires a tawakkul that is very different because you have to submit the need to know when. You have to submit the idea of closure to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, and you can't do that unless you have certainty in the destination. Now I wanted to actually speak about this verse tonight or today because it has a meaningful connotation to the historical context that it's placed in that I think is often lost upon us as we are reading through it. It shows up in Surat Al-Baqarah, Am hasibatum an tadkhulu al-jannah? Do you think you will enter into Jannah? Do you think you will enter into Paradise? Walamma ya'tikum mathalu allatheena khalaw min qablikum massattum alba'sa'u wa adhdara'u wa zurziru And then you hear of those that came before you and how they were struck with alba'sa' which is suffering,
and some of the mufasirun say it refers specifically to al-fakr, to poverty here. Wadhara'u, they were struck with their health, all types of external hardship and internal hardship, both of them connected to one another, wa zurziru and the fears that shook them. They were shaking, there was such a level of fear that overtook them and uncertainty. Hatta yaqul al-rasulu wal-latheena amanu ma'a mata nasrullah Until it got to the point that the messenger of Allah and the believers with him said, when is the help of Allah going to come? Mata nasrullah ala inna nasrullahi qareeb Verily the help of Allah is nearby, it's close to you. What is the historical context of this verse? And I want us to situate ourselves in it for a moment and think about how we would feel. You know it's convenient for us to read the seerah of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam now and say, I wish I could have been there in Badr and Uhud and Khandaq. I would have certainly been on the side of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam. I would have strove, I would have never fled the battlefield, I would have never been dissuaded by the hypocrites. I would have been able to overcome all of the pressures. I would have stood firm with the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam. The reality is it's hard to know that. It's hard to know that. And Allah places us at our times and places for reasons that are not known to us. But this verse dear brothers and sisters according to the majority of the fasirun came in regards to Khandaq. The battle of Khandaq. So let me give you what that historical context is like for a moment. 25 to 30 days completely under siege. By the largest army that the Arabs have ever seen in their existence. You are under siege from all directions. By an army that has shown its willingness to mutilate you.
Because this is coming off of the heels of Uhud. Where they showed their cruelty to their own family members as they cut them into pieces and mutilated them after death. And they have surrounded you from all directions and they intend to not leave anyone alive by the end of this. Every direction is surrounded and all you have is the strategy that you've never tried before. Of a ditch that's been built. Where each person has to watch every single part of the trench to make sure that it's not penetrated by that large army. One mishap, one opening means the end of everyone in Medina. Because they can all make it through that one opening if that one opening fails. So the pressure of everyone that's having to watch the opening. You have people on the inside that you know now have betrayed you and that are coordinating with the outside. You're hungry. You have a shortage of food and supplies. The people ran out of food. Think about that. They don't have food anymore and they don't have the time to make food or to make their way. So that they can have those supplies prepared for themselves. The messenger of Allah ﷺ stomach is bloated out of starvation. And he has two stones tied to his stomach. How do you sleep at night? It's cold at night. People are malnourished. They're afraid. And on top of that you have the demoralizing hypocrites on the inside that are saying ما وعدنا الله ورسوله إلا غرورة SubhanAllah. I mean I can't imagine hearing those words in those moments. There are people on the inside that said Allah and his messenger promised us nothing but delusion. This whole thing was delusion. We should not have done this. We should not have taken him in. We knew this was going to happen. Some of us told you. But you went to Mecca and you brought him here and the only thing he promised you was what?
Jannah. That's all he promised you. He didn't promise you anything but paradise as a result of taking him in عليه الصلاة والسلام and committing yourself to this message. And collectively they're under siege. They're hearing demoralizing messages. How do you sleep at night? With all of these factors. You're shook. You don't know when it's going to end. And there's an army that intends to commit genocide. SubhanAllah. There are people in the world that live in similar situations of hardship under siege. Think about our brothers and sisters in Yemen. Will they die out of hunger? May Allah make it easy for them. Which missile, which party's bomb is going to fall on them? Which machine gun? Which disease? May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala help our brothers and sisters in Yemen and all over the world. I know I just mentioned Yemen. If I start to go down the list of Gaza and all the different places under siege with shortage of supplies, with disease, all these things. It's so hard, right? And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is giving us the situation of that desperation. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala of course lifted that siege. Of course gave the Muslims victory. The collective end of the believers is, wal aqibatu lil mutaqim. That victory belongs to the believers. Some people will die in the process. Some people will struggle. Some people will go through all sorts of oppression and will succumb to the oppression of this world. But what is the message that the ayah starts off with? Am hasibatum an tadkhul al-jannah. You made a claim that you want paradise. You centered jannah in your pursuit. This life was going to be full of all sorts of surprises and difficulties along the way of that pursuit of goodness. Jannah is surrounded by thorns and hardships. It's going to be difficult. Wa'alam anna al-nasra ma'as sathir. And know that the help of Allah is with your patience.
But you can't be patient if you don't have certainty in paradise. And Allah, it's the same message to the individual. Ahasiba an nasu an yutrakoo an yaqooloo amanna wa hum la yuftanoon. Do people simply think, they say we believe and then they're left alone, they're not going to be tested. Am hasibatum, it's a wrong calculation. Your calculation has to factor in something greater than this world. It's got to factor in jannah. Otherwise, with every janazah that hits us, with every oppression that hits us, every time the life of this world shows us it's betrayal, we will be left without answers. And Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is telling us, recalibrate. It's jannah that you signed up for. Ala inna sil'at Allahi ghaliya. Ala inna sil'at Allahi al-jannah. And this price of al-jannah, the goods that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala has promised is expensive. And it's jannah, it's paradise. You have to center that. If you don't center that, it's going to be constant hardship without purpose. Without explanation. Now, sometimes, like the case of Imam Ahmad rahimahullah ta'ala, the torture lets up. And Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala shows him victory in this life before victory in the hereafter. Sometimes, like in the case of Imam Abu Hanifa rahimahullah, you die in prison. Sometimes it is the hardship being relieved in this world before the hereafter. Sometimes the hardship holds you until the moment of your death. And then it's the ease of the hereafter. But here's the point. And Subhanallah, there's a remarkable consistency of how this is all brought together, on the community level and on the individual level. And on the community level, what was the test that these companions passed?
I mean, these were people in the ditch with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, who were losing everything at that moment. And some of them were there to take the first bay'ah with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and bring him to Medina on the basis of jannah. And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is looking at these young ansar and muhajirun, who are digging these trenches, who are guarding everything, who are suffering all sorts of unimaginable hardship. And what is the realization? The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says, Allahumma laa'isha illa'isha al-akhira. Oh Allah, there is no living except for the living of the hereafter. Faghfir lil-ansar wal-muhajirun. So forgive the ansar and the muhajirun. Oh Allah, there is no life except for the life of the hereafter. It doesn't mean that we proceed through this life without purpose and we proceed through this life without any form of happiness. No, we proceed through this life with fulfillment. We've spoken about this over the last few weeks. But that the true life is not here. And that actually gives me the comfort I need to be able to live through this life with a sense of certainty and purpose. That it's not here. Oh Allah, it's not here. When the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is looking at those people that gave up everything. And they're suffering in the way that they're suffering. Oh Allah, it's not here. It's there. It's somewhere else. It's beyond this. And Subhanallah, the word ba'sa, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, that on the day of judgment, yu'ta bi ashad din nasi bala'am fi dunya. A person who had the worst life would be dipped in paradise one time. yu'ta bi ashad din nasi bala'am fi dunya. And it would be said to that person, hal ra'ayta bu'san qat. Subhanallah, same root word. Have you ever seen any misery in your life? No, I don't even know what misery is.
From a dip in jannah. I don't know what misery is. Imam Ahmed rahimahullah ta'ala, that same person who went through torture after torture after torture. Imam Ahmed faced, subhanallah, all of the types of hardship. Betrayal, beatings, slander, oppression, prisons, lashings, the torture of the succession of oppressors, because one khalifa dies and another one comes and torture is even worse than the first one, than the one before him. And when his son asks him, wa'ala al-raaha, when do we rest, oh my father? When do we rest? Imam Ahmed had no doubt in the power of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Had no doubt in the ability of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to lift these circumstances from him in this life. But he didn't answer his son and tell his son, look, just give it a few more days, a few more weeks, a few more months, it's going to come to an end inshaAllah. What does he tell his son? Because he wants to instill something in his son. The awwali khutwa, with the first footstep, we take in paradise, bi'ithn Allahi ta'ala. It's al-khutwa fil-jannah, it's the footstep we take into paradise. What does that mean, dear brothers and sisters? That doesn't mean lose hope in Allah's support in this life. That means keep your hope in Allah's promise in the hereafter. That means that you keep yourself patient even when things are unimaginable and there seems to be no closure in sight in something that is greater than this world because otherwise every time the dunya betrays you, it's going to leave you speechless. And we are a people who find the paradise of certainty in the paradise in the hereafter.
Ala inna salatallahi ghali, it's expensive, it's not easy, it's not cheap. But that's where our comfort is, that's where our certainty is. Our hopes lie in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And at the same time we know whether it is as a community level or as an individual level that the relief, the true relief, Allahumma laa'isha illa'isha al-akhirah, it's not meant to be here, it's not meant to be here. And so I submit myself to the when, I submit myself to the when because I understand the where. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us to understand the who, which is him. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us to connect deeply with him and submit ourselves to him and have full certainty in him and have full certainty in his power and have full certainty in his paradise, and have full certainty in his mercy, and have full certainty in his forgiveness and have full certainty in his divine aim. The end of this Ummah is victory in this life life and the end of this ummah is paradise in the hereafter. May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la grant us the best of this life and the best of the hereafter and relieve our brothers and sisters that are suffering around the world and write for them and us the promised Jannah. Allahumma Ameen. Aqooloo qawli hadha wa astaghfirullah wa liya'a Allah wa alaikum wa alisa'il muslimeen fa astaghfiru anna huwa alghafoor wa alrraheem. Alhamdulillah, wa salatu wa salamu ala Rasulullah wa ala anhi wa sahbihi wa man wala. Dear brothers and sisters, the message is to not lose hope but to center paradise in your hope. Center Jannah, the promise of Jannah in our hopes. Keep reminding ourselves of al-Jannah. Every time we taste the bitterness of this life, let's remember the sweetness of the hereafter biidhnillahi ta'ala and commit ourselves to that because that was what the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam gave to his companions and that was what allowed them to be resilient through all of the different trials that came their way, through all of the uncertainty that came their way. It was a certainty in Allah and what was promised
to them by Allah through the messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. We ask from a'adhaab al-qabr and a'adhaab al-naar. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to protect us from the torment of this life, the torment of the hereafter, the torment of the grave. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to grant us victory in this life and in the next, to grant us his aid in this life and the next, to grant us his mercy in this life and the next, and we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to grant us a place in al-jannah near the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam in the highest level. Allahumma ameen. Allahumma akfirul mu'mineena wal mu'minat wal muslimeena wal muslimat al-ahya'i minhum wal amwat. Innaka samee'un qareebun mujeebu al-da'wat. Allahumma akfirulana wa arhamna wa a'afu ana wa la tu'adhibna. Rabbana zalamna anfusana wa in lam takfirulana wa jarhamna. Lanakoon nana minal khasireen. Allahumma innaka afuwan kareemun jahibul afwa fa'afu anna. Allahumma akfirulwalideena. Rabbirhamhuma kamarabbawna sighara. Rabbala hamlana min azwajina wa dhuriyatina qurrat a'ayun. Waj'alna lilmuttaqina imama. La ilaha illa anta subhanaka inna kunna minal zalimeen. Allahumma aslih ahwale ikhwanina almankoobina fi kulli makan. Allahumma ansur ikhwanina almustab'afina fi masharik al-ardi wa magharibiha. Allahumma ahliki alzalimeena bilzalimeen. Wa akhrijna wa ikhwanina minlaynihim salimeen. Ibadullah anna Allah ya'muru bil'adli wa il'ihsan wa ita'idhi alqorba. Wayanha anil fahsha'i wa almunkari wa albaghi. Ya'idukum la'alakum tazakaroon. Fathkuru Allah yadhkurukum wa shkuruhu ala alni'ma yazid lakum. Waladhikru
Allahi akbar. Wallahu ya'numu ma tasna'oon. Wa akhim as-salatu.
Welcome back!
Bookmark content
Download resources easily
Manage your donations
Track your spiritual growth
1 items
1 items
1 items
25 items
50 items
9 items
