Judgment Day: Deeds That Light The Way
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Justice for the Oppressed | Judgment Day: Deeds that Light the Way Episode 14
Allah is the Most Merciful, but He is also the Most Just, and that justice is particularly shown and upheld when the rights of other people are in question. How we treat people in this world is going to determine if we meet Allah’s justice or His mercy. On the Day of Judgment, it would be in our best interest to have been among the oppressed in this world, rather than the oppressors.
Note: All depictions are purely conceptual and only vocals were used in the making of the soundtrack.
“Closed Caption is provided by Muhsen”
Transcript
This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. You can't be a good Muslim but a bad person. It doesn't work that way. On the day of judgment, Allah is going to divide the testimonies of the people into two. Those that were hurt by you and those that were helped by you. And we're going to break out the way that each of those impacts you uniquely. But that's really the only value of the people as witnesses on the day of judgment. As for your personal religiosity, the ahadith suggest that Allah doesn't bring anyone else to say, I saw that person pray and fast and that person was a good worshipper. Allah knows whether or not that's true of a person and of course Allah knows everything. But the value of the testimony of people is, who did you hurt, who did you help. Now for the first category, there's something very important to note. On the day of judgment, you're either going to meet Allah's justice or his mercy. His justice is that he scrutinizes you for your deeds, like that person whose limbs are brought forth to testify. His mercy is that he overlooks those things and he forgives you. However, when it comes to issues between us and other people, Allah will hold us to a standard of justice only. Because it would be unjust to not give the wrong person their right and forgive on their behalf. And that's why Imam Sufyan al-Thawri rahimahullah said, for you to meet Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with 70 sins just between you and Allah would be easier on you than to meet Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with a single sin between you and his servants. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, the first thing concerning which judgment will be passed amongst the people on the day of judgment will be bloodshed. Now the scholars reconcile that the first thing between you and Allah called forward is what? It's prayer. But between the people it's murder.
And in one very vivid authentic hadith, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, yaji'ul maqtoolu bilqatili yawm alqiyama maasiyatuhu waraasuhu biyadihi On the day of resurrection, I want you to think of the scene. The murdered will bring forth the murderer with his forelock and his head in his hand. And his own jugular vein is dripping with blood and he will say, ya rab qatalani hatta yudniyahu min al arsh And he's coming to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and saying, my Lord, he killed me. My Lord, he killed me. Until he brings him right up to the throne of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. SubhanAllah, imagine a scene where people are dragging their murderers and their oppressors to the throne of Allah to get justice. And that's why the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, always be the abd that is mazloom, that is wronged, not the one wronging, that is maqtoor, that is murdered, not the one that is qatir, not the one that murders others. And remember how the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said that the dua of the mazloom, the dua of the oppressed has no veil to Allah, even if that person is a non-believer. Now, of course, that person has to deal with their disbelief on the day of judgment. But the one who wronged that person is still going to be held to justice. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, man dhalama mu'ahidan whoever wrongs a person that is protected by a covenant, meaning one of the people of the book, by violating his rights or by burdening him with more work than he is able to do, or by taking something from him without his consent, he said, ana hajijuhu yawm al qiyamah, I will be his prosecutor on the day of judgment. SubhanAllah, can you imagine the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam standing against you as a prosecutor on the day of judgment on behalf of who? On behalf of a disbeliever. Because you still have to face justice for wronging that person. Even more than the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam being a prosecutor against you, imagine Allah and the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam being at war with you.
And Allah says this about the one who refuses to give up practices of usury, of riba. fa'thanu biharbi minallahi warasurihi Be prepared for a war with Allah and his Messenger. Ibn Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala anhuma, he says, yuqalu yawm al qiyamah bi aakiri riba khudh silaahaka lilharb It would be said to the one who consumes riba on the day of judgment, take up your weapons for war. Now, riba is not just a crime between you and Allah. Interest and usury bury the poor in debt and perpetuate all sorts of injustices and abuses at the economic level. So this is another form of hurt against people. But beyond violence and theft and proprietary aggression, most of the sins that people commit against each other are by the tongue. And that's why the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, nothing causes the people to fall face first into the fire, like the harvest of their tongue. The harm your tongue causes to others, we've already spoken about. It's been made clear in your appearance on that day, your situation is known. But now it's going to also be made obvious what havoc it wreaks upon one's deeds. We start with the famous hadith of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, where he said, Atadroona man al-muflis? Do you know who the bankrupt person is? They said, Ya Rasulullah, the bankrupt person is the one who has no money or no possessions. And he said, no, it's those people amongst my ummah, the one who comes forth on the day of resurrection with their prayer, with their fasting, with their zakah. Imagine a whole lifetime of Laylatul Qadr and salah and sadaqah. But he insulted this person and he slandered this person and he consumed the wealth of this person. He shed the blood of this person and he beat this person. So all of these people are lined up, those who you hurt with your tongue, with your keyboard or whatever else that you hurt them with. And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, Fayaqrud, so Allah sits him down. Fayaqtassa hadha min hasanatihi, wa hadha min hasanatihi
And each one of those people comes, starts to take his good deeds away until he is left with no good deeds whatsoever, completely bankrupt. And he says, Ya Rabb, oh my Lord, I've got nothing left. Faukhidha min khatayahum, faturaha alayhi So then whatever is left of his grievances, the sins of those other people that are still lined up are taken from them and they are cast onto him. And eventually the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, he'll be cast into the fire. Sa'eed ibn Jubair radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, he said that a servant will be brought forth on the day of resurrection and presented with his record. And he doesn't see any of his Salah, none of his fasting, none of his good deeds. And he says, Ya Rabb, hadha kitab ghayri, oh my Lord, this has to be someone else's book because I had all these good deeds and I don't see them here. And Allah will say to him, Verily, your Lord does not overlook or forget. Your deeds have vanished because of your gheeba, because you were backbiting people. So be careful with the honor of people. Be careful with the news that you read and spread, with the funny comments and the gossip. It won't be funny on the day of judgment. Now there's the other side of this. What if you're one of the people standing in line on the day of judgment and there will be people on the day of judgment going from line to line, just collecting their good deeds because of what they endured from others. Abu Umama radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, he said, Inna al-abda layu'ata kitabahu yawm al-qiyamah Fayara feehi hasanat lam yakun AAamilah That verily the servant is given his record on the day of judgment. This is the other side. And he sees all these good deeds that he has not done. So he says, Ya rab min ayn li hadha Oh my Lord, where did all these come from? And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will say, Because of the backbiting of people against you, wa anta la tash'ur And you had no idea that they were backbiting you. So imagine that on the day of judgment, you're saying,
Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, all that was said about me. Alhamdulillah, this person backbited me. I'm glad they were talking about me. Because it's all showing up on your book of deeds that day. Abdurrahman ibn Mahdi rahimahullah, he said, You know, if I didn't hate that Allah would be disobeyed, I would have wished that there is not a single person left in the whole city, except that he backbited me. And he said, What could possibly be sweeter than a man finding a good deed written in his book on the day of judgment that he didn't do, and he didn't even know about? And if that's the mercy of Allah to you, for deeds of hurt that were done against you by others, imagine the bounty of Allah for deeds you did to help other people when they were in need.
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