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Ep. 10: Are They Considered Shaheed? | For Those Left Behind
How do I know if my loved one died as a Shaheed (martyr)? Is there any way for me to know? What are the categories and rulings pertaining to them in the case they apparently die Shaheed?
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:14 The Story of Haritha Ibn Suraqa
01:58 Who is considered a Shaheed (martyr)?
Those considered Shaheed (martyr) are:
1. The one who dies of plague
2. The one who drowns
3. The one who dies of pleurisy
4. The one who dies of a stomach disease
5. The one who dies by fire
6. The one who dies under a falling building or structure
7. The woman who dies in childbirth
8. The one who dies while protecting his property
9. The one who dies while defending his family or religion
05:29 Seeing the body of a martyr
06:33 Praying to die as a martyr
We should make du'a for the reward of Shahada. But know that Allah SWT does not need us to be in a certain state in order to give us a certain station (such as martyrdom). If we ask for the station with sincerity and truthfulness in the heart, Allah can grant us the reward even if we die in our bed.
Transcript
This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. I need to know where my son is. Is he in Jannah? Did he make it or not? There was a young man by the name of Haritha ibn Suraqa radiAllahu ta'ala anhu. And Haritha was a young man that was attached to his mother. And he accompanied the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam on the day of Badr and he was hit by a stray arrow. And when his mother found out that he had died, she comes to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and she says to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, Ya Rasulullah, I want to know what happened to Haritha. Im kana fil jannahi sabartu. If he is in paradise, then I will be patient. Wa im kana ghayra thalik, ijtahattu alayhi fil buka. And if he's not in Jannah, then I'm going to push myself to cry even more and more and more and more. I need to know where my son is. Is he in Jannah? Did he make it or not? And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam responds to her and says that Jannah is not just one Jannah. It is multiple levels in Jannah. And your son reached al-Firdaws al-A'la. Your son reached the highest level of Jannah. SubhanAllah, when someone passes away and you wonder, could they have died shaheed? It's very clear that we go through every single one of these stations and every single time the shaheed has this rank of his own. And you want to know, are they there? And everyone wants this level of certainty, right? That's why I want to see a dream of them being in Jannah. That's why I just want something to know that they are okay. And of course, the person that passes away, whether they are shaheed or whether they are just a believer that has some of the blessings that we've mentioned, both of them want to come back to just tell their family or at least inform the family, not come back, inform the family that I'm okay, alhamdulillah. But we don't get that.
And so we have these categories of shahada. Now, obviously, if a person passes away in battle, it's different, right? There are rulings that apply only to the shaheed that dies in battle. It is the clearest way that a person would die shaheed and the ahkam of the shaheed, the rulings that pertain to how you shroud the shaheed, how you pray on the shaheed and so on and so forth. All of that is specific to that type of shahada. However, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam mentioned numerous categories of shahada. The Messenger of Allah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam mentioned the one who dies in a plague or of a plague. And we're living in the time of COVID-19 and bi-idhnillahi ta'ala all of those who pass away upon iman due to COVID-19, we pray that Allah Azawajal accept them as shuhada. They bi-idhnillahi ta'ala match that definition. You have the one who dies of drowning, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam mentioned. The one who dies by a fire. He mentioned SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam the one who dies of pleurisy. And he mentioned SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam the one who dies of a stomach disease, an intestinal disease. And this is very interesting because the designations at the time are different, right? You don't have the same encyclopedia of definitions of disease. And so what's translated as pleurisy or inflammation around the lungs really could just mean chest pain or a heart attack. What's translated as a stomach disease could mean anything internal in that sense, right? So any type of cancer, any type of disease in that sense. It could be anything internal that causes an untimely death. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam mentioned a woman who dies in the process of childbirth. She's pregnant or she's giving birth or nursing and she passes away. And that's why she is in a state of jihad while she is delivering, while she's pregnant and giving birth. That is the closest that a person will be pushed to death is that time of pregnancy. So if she passes away during that time and we know that that happens sometimes, then she is a martyr. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam mentioned the one who dies protecting their property, okay?
So it's not just dying for the sake of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la in the sense of protecting the religion, but the one who dies protecting their own property. What then SubhanAllah of the one who dies trying to protect someone else or protect someone else's property, right? But a person who dies trying to protect their property, a person who dies defending their lives. So someone who is murdered, defending their lives or defending their family. You know, if someone, may Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la protect us all and protect our families. You know, if someone dies protecting their family, then they are a shaheed. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam mentioned the one who dies due to a falling structure, sahibul hadm, someone who is crushed. And this is where most of the ulama mentioned the one who dies in a car accident. Obviously, you didn't have cars back then, right? And so the idea of, you know, being crushed by a structure, being crushed in a car, being crushed by a structure, that didn't exist in that time. But most of the ulama consider a car accident today to be from sahibul hadm, to be from a person who is crushed. All of these, bi'ithniAllahi ta'ala, are forms of shahada, are forms of martyrdom. And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, again, taught us to have husnul dhananAllah, to have a good expectation of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. So when someone dies due to one of these conditions, and the underlying theme of them is an untimely death, a sudden untimely death, due to, you know, either a disease or a disaster, then we have that good expectation of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la though we cannot express certainty that they are shahada in that sense. So what about the state of their body and how they looked, right? And again, you know, we talked about the shahada of Uhud, and what it's like seeing people mutilated. And we see sometimes the body out of a really bad car accident, and you think, Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, what's happened to that person? Remember that the souls transcend the body, and that's why the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, yughfaru lahu fee awwali duf'atin min damihi.
First and foremost, that the person is forgiven at the first strike. As soon as they are struck, then they are forgiven. wayura maqadahu minal jannah And they are shown their place in al-jannah. So when you see Asiya Alayhi Salaam and the way that she was killed, obviously a woman of perfect iman, and a great example of shahada, a great example of a martyr standing up to the fir'aun, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la saved her before the stone fell on top of her. And so we should not be worried then about the bodies and the condition of the bodies when the souls have been promised so much goodness. And we ask ourselves, can I also die shaheed? And one of the things that's extremely important to understand here is that we should make dua for the reward of shahada. You know, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la does not need for us to be in a certain state in order to give us a certain station, but we have to be sincere in asking Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la for the station. And so you have this beautiful hadith from the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, whoever asks Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la for shahada, be sidqin min qalbihi, with truthfulness in his heart. Right? So this is the key. You're asking Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la with sidq, with truthfulness. Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la would deliver that person to manazil ash-shuhada, to the station of shuhada, wa in mata'ala firashihi, even if that person dies in their bed. It's not about the crazy outcome. It's not about the body being shredded to pieces. It's again about the sincerity of asking Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la for that station and a person could gain that station even in their bed. And so, yes, we hope when our relatives die in such a way that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la grants them that rank. And we hope that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la grants us that rank, even if we die in our bed and not in any of those categories
that have been mentioned above.
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