Servants of the Most Merciful
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Episode 10: With Their Families in Paradise
Dr. Omar Suleiman dives into the 9th & 10th qualities of the servants of the Most Merciful.
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. Alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen, wa la'udhu wa la'ilaha wa la'adhaalimeen, wa ala'aqibatu lilmuttaqeem. Allahumma salli wa sallim wa barak al abdika wa rasulika Muhammadin salallahu alayhi wa sallam wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa salam taseeman kathira. First of all, once again, Eid Mubarak to you, whether you're celebrating on Saturday or Sunday. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accept all of your ibadah, all of your worship. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us from ibadah ar-Rahman, from the servants of the most merciful and descend his mercy upon us. I don't want to get into the Eid debate right now. I just posted something on Instagram very briefly, but follow your community insha'Allah ta'ala and may Allah azza wa jal accept from you whatever that day is. It's kind of bittersweet subhanAllah to come to the end of this to be honest with you. So this is the last session of ibadah ar-Rahman, the last of our live programmings for Ramadan. And I pray that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accept from us all and that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala forgive us for any shortcomings that we may have. And certainly we do have some shortcomings. I genuinely appreciated and loved the sense of community that's been fostered, alhamdulillah, through this online audience. And really I just want you all to know that the supportive messages that you've sent to Yaqeen, the comments that you've made, though we haven't been able to read all of them, but they've meant a lot to all of us. And it's kind of kept us going through the amount of sessions that we've had to have. It's really kept us going and kept us focused because of how we've heard from all of you, how this has been a benefit to you. So I pray that Allah accept on behalf of the entire team. If you get a chance to go to Yaqeen Institute's website and click the About Us, then you'll see alhamdulillah just how many people are a part of making this happen.
So I want you to make dua for them, all of the team members, their families, ask Allah to accept from them the moments that they had to step away from their personal ibadah to make sure that I don't mess everything up with this technology. Please do make dua for them inshaAllah ta'ala that Allah accept from them and accept it as ibadah and make it a means of them being amongst those that observe Laylatul Qadr and that observe Ramadan fully. And again, I do inshaAllah ta'ala promise to be back on very soon inshaAllah. So after Eid, which we're celebrating Sunday here, take a couple of days off inshaAllah ta'ala, and then I'll start with some brief reminders, live reminders online inshaAllah, evening reminders. And then we will be launching a very special June campaign inshaAllah ta'ala with daily programmings once again. The theme of connecting to the Quran, staying connected to the Quran. I don't want anyone to lose the connection that they felt to the Quran specifically this Ramadan. I pray that all of us will be able to stay connected to the Quran. So connecting to the Quran from various angles. So we will have, you know, programs every day inshaAllah ta'ala starting in a week, focusing on the parables in the Quran, the miracles in the Quran, continuing reflections on the Quran, verses of healing in the Quran, and so much more inshaAllah ta'ala. So please do stay tuned and we'll be back at it soon enough inshaAllah ta'ala. And also I'm going to ask you to fill out the survey that's in the description or in the comments. I'm not sure if they put it in the description or comments inshaAllah, but please do fill out the survey and let us know how we can do better for you inshaAllah ta'ala. As I said earlier tonight, you know, we've tried to be here for you before Ramadan, especially when COVID broke out, and we've tried to push ourselves as a team, again as a team, Yaqeen is a massive team alhamdulillah,
to push ourselves to stay with you during Ramadan and inshaAllah ta'ala we'll try to be there for you after Ramadan as much as we can bi'idhnillah ta'ala. So with that inshaAllah, coming to the end of Ibadur Rahman, the servants of the most merciful, and as I get to the end of the servants of the most merciful, just an FYI, it's raining really really hard right now, so I pray that it's a descent of mercy upon us and that it's a means of acceptance for us inshaAllah ta'ala. So I ask Allah to accept from us all. And as I was studying for this series, I really personally regained an appreciation for these ayats and connected with these ayats in a very different way alhamdulillah. And tonight is the sweet ending that I pray that all of us will have. And you know, the last hadith that I'll read tonight is one that I hope inshaAllah ta'ala we'll keep reciting to ourselves over the next few days in particular as a means of keeping our goal in focus bi'idhnillah ta'ala. So Allah azawajal says, wal-ladheena yaquloona rabbana habalana min azwajina wa dhuriyatina qurrat a'ayun waja'alna lilmuttaqina imama Our Lord, grant us the delight of our eyes in our spouses and children and make us leaders of the pious. So, you know, the most distinctive characteristic of these ibadur rahman is their eagerness for the rahma of ar-rahman which is most manifested in their prayer for salvation. And so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions that they are praying for their own salvation. Rabbana asrif anna a'adhaaba jahanan, remove from us the punishment of the fire. And they're very sincere as they are shedding tears asking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to grant them salvation.
But they now extend that rahma to their spouses and their children. And so in the broader sense to their families as well. And as we said, al-aqraboona awlaa bilma'roof Those that are closest to you are most deserving of seeing your beautiful character. And one of the ways that you exemplify beautiful character for your family is you make dua for them. Fasta jabalahu rabbo Deep into the night that prayer that ibadah, that dua that you make for your family is a special prayer. The prayer that you make for your parents to be forgiven. The prayer that you make for your spouses and your children to be guided and to be granted everything that you want granted for yourself. And so what is the prayer that they are making for their spouses and their children? It's a prayer for salvation. Okay Rabbana hablana min azwajina wadhuriyatina qurrat a'ayun Before anything else it's a prayer for salvation that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant them the same salvation that they were asking for themselves. Now this is I think probably one of those times. In fact throughout these ayat this is the time where it's most important to pull back into history and to see the situation unfolding the way that these companions were seeing the situation unfold in Mecca. Most of these people that were making this dua right now were in a situation where their spouses and or their children had not yet embraced Islam. Okay So there are very few examples of families that embraced Islam in the Meccan period in the early Meccan period. And this is when the surah is revealed. And so these people and remember the sahaba are a generation of converts. They're calling upon Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and they're saying,
Oh Allah guide our families. Oh Allah guide our spouses. Oh Allah guide our children. And you can imagine, you know, these are people that have become deeply in tune with the reality of the afterlife. And that also have deep love and empathy for their families. And as they are reading about the torment that some will face in the afterlife, how badly they don't want their families to be on the receiving end of that torment. Some maybe even more than themselves. Okay, maybe even more than themselves because sometimes we love our family, especially children. We could love them more than we even love ourselves. And so you have that sahabi or sahabiya, that male or female companion whose wife or husband has not yet embraced Islam, whose children have not yet embraced Islam, and they are insisting upon idolatry and oppression. And they are calling upon Allah and saying, Yeah, Allah, let them be the coolness of our eyes. Let us see the moment where they embrace Islam and they enter into this realization as well. And there's an important part here of da'wah, which is The one who doesn't have something can't give it. And so this person is already in a reality of prayer and in a reality of understanding the hereafter and be connected to the akhirah. And they want to give that to their families as well. One of the easiest ways to run your family away from Islam is to be a hypocrite with your religion, is to be a hypocrite with your religion. And so these are people whose families are witnessing their excellent character. They're witnessing the way they carry themselves as ibadur rahman, both in regards to their individual prayer habits and in regards to their public interactions.
They are maintaining a certain regimen, holding themselves to certain standards in worship and in work, in private and in public deed. Things that cause admiration to grow in the hearts of those that are near to them, that see them in their sincerity. And they're calling out and saying, Yeah, Allah, guide our spouses. Yeah, Allah, guide our offspring. Yeah, Allah, guide our parents. This is a generation of people, some of whom whose parents threatened them and told them that they would go on hunger strikes until they left Islam. Right. Imagine your mom telling you, I will go on a hunger strike until you leave Islam. Right. So this is a generation of converts and they don't want to be the only righteous and safe people in their homes. They want that to extend to everyone that is in their homes. And they say, Wa ja'alna lil mutaqina imama, make us leaders of the pious. This is not referring to political leadership or leadership in a way that befits vanity, but instead leadership in a way that befits piety. Make us guides of good. Make us amongst those that lead the way. Make us amongst the sabiqoon, make us amongst the forerunners, make us amongst the true servants. And the ulama mentioned that this is in comparison with the idolaters and the oppressors who were competing over what? A takathur, they were competing over quantity that would engage in all sorts of sick practices to ensure that their heirs would be amongst the royal and amongst the elite in Mecca and would hold certain positions, status, wealth, whatever it may be. While they were in rivalry over this world and were focused on placing their children in leadership positions in the sense of dunyawi leadership positions,
these people are concerned with leadership in the sense of taqwa, leadership in the sense of piety. So let's break this ayah down a little bit further. Number one, qurra ta'ayun, let it be the coolness of our eyes. The last ayah that we spoke about, we mentioned that these are people whose hearing and sight, when it hears the admonition, itha dhukiru bi-ayati rabbihim, when they are reminded of the ayat of their Lord, they do not become deaf or blind to those ayat. So that is in that they receive admonition properly. But there is another level of this which is the Prophet ﷺ explaining to us in a long hadith Qudsi that when a person becomes amongst those who love Allah and are beloved to Allah ﷻ, kuntu samm'ahu alladhi yasma'u biha wa basarahu alladhi yufsiru biha, I become the hearing with which my servant hears, I become the sight with which my servant sees. What that means is that that person only wants to hear that which is pleasing to Allah, only sees that which is pleasing to Allah ﷻ. So here you have now a synchrony of the joy of my eyes being the pleasure of Allah's sight. What is pleasing in Allah's sight? Taqwa, piety, right? What is pleasing in my sight? That my children be pleasing to Allah's sight. And so ibadur rahman and ar-rahman are pleased by the same thing now in the family members around ibadur rahman, in their spouses, in their children, in their parents, their brothers, their sisters. What is a joy to their eyes is what is pleasing to Allah's sight. So Rabbana habalana min azwajina wa dhurriyatina qurratu a'ayin, O Allah let us see that moment where they embrace Islam,
where they embrace faith, where they embrace righteousness, and where they move forward. SubhanAllah one of the most touching videos, if you look up there's a video of brother Hamza Sources talking about his mother, may Allah ﷻ bless our brother Hamza. He's talking about, you know, just you can see the pain, right? Of how badly he wants his mother to embrace faith. And it's really moving and subhanAllah there are many times that we'll find situations like this where, Ya Allah I want my family to experience guidance, I want my family to experience clarity. This is a theme prevalent throughout the Quran and one that spans everyone from the prophets to the most common believer possible. So Allah ﷻ tells us in surah al-ahqaf that the person who حَتَّى إِذَا بَلَغَ أَشُدَّهُ وَبَلَغَ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً قَالَ رَبِّي أَوْزِعْنِي أَنْ أَشْكُرَ نِعْمَتَكَ الَّتِي أَنْعَمْتَ عَلَيَّ وَعَلَىٰ وَالِدَيْنَ وَأَنْ أَعْمَلَ صَالِحًا تَرْضَاهُ وَأَصْلِحْ لِي فِي ذُرِّيَّتِي إِنِّي تُوبَتُ إِلَيْكَ وَإِنِّي مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ So Allah complete the favor upon us by letting us be a family of believers. And Allah tells us right after that the painful discussion between a parent and their child. وَالَّذِي قَالَ لِوَالِدَيْهِ أُفٍّ لَكُمَا أَتَعِدَانَنِي أَنْ أُخْرَجْ وَقَدْ خَلَتِ الْقُرُونُ مِنْ قَبْلِي وَهُمَا يَسْتَغِيثَانِ اللَّهَ وَيْلَكَ آمِنِ إِنَّ وَعْدَ اللَّهِ حَقٌّ فَيَقُولُ مَا هَذَا إِلَىٰ أَسْاقِرُ الْأَوَّلِينَ
Are you telling me I'm going to be resurrected and people have perished before me? And so, وَهُمَا يَسْتَغِيثَانِ اللَّهِ Those parents are begging to Allah ﷻ, Woe to you, believe, وَيْلَكَ آمِنِ For your own good, for your own good. And that person dismisses everything that their parents give to them. Allah tells us that this is a feature of the prophets. The joy of Ibrahim ﷺ standing with his son Ismail ﷺ next to the Ka'bah, holding up their hands to the sky and saying together, رَبَّنَا تَقَبَّلْ مِنَّا O Allah accept from us. O Allah make me and my offspring amongst those who establish the Salah. O Allah I have put my family here in this barren desert. رَبَّنَا لِيُقِيمُوا الصَّلَاةِ So that they can establish the prayer. So that they can establish a prayer. O Allah allow them to be amongst those that establish the prayer. So you have the joy of Ibrahim ﷺ with his son Ismail ﷺ holding their hands up. And then the pain of Nuh ﷺ as his son stays behind. And Nuh ﷺ who for 950 years gave da'wah and is facing rejection from his wife and from his son. And he's calling upon him and he's saying to Allah, يَا أَللَّهِ نِبْنِي مِنْ أَهْلِي That my son is from my family. يَا أَللَّهِ هِي مِنْي He's mine. Let him come forward. But SubhanAllah he holds back and he ends up in a place of misguidance. Back to the story of Ibrahim ﷺ. Ibrahim passing away and making sure that his children are upon faith. Ishaq speaking to Yaqub, Isaac to Jacob saying, What are you going to worship after me? Yaqub speaking to Yusuf, Jacob speaking to Joseph, عليهم السلام أجمعين What are you going to worship after me? So all of these verses about the parents trying to transfer faith through their children.
And this is something that goes from again, it goes from the prophets all the way to the common person. And may Allah ﷻ allow us all to have families of righteousness. This is also a connection in that it's an embodiment of rahmah to the family. It's an embodiment of rahmah to the family. They want their families to be saved from harm. They want their families to be saved from harm. And their priority is not just that their families become successful, that their children graduate and gain respectable positions in this life. Certainly they want to see their children succeed. But their priority is that their children and that their families are amongst those that are saved. Okay, so this is rahmah to the families. That Allah ﷻ is talking about from ibadur rahmah. What does Allah ﷻ say next? Allah ﷻ says, أُولَٰئِكَ يُجْزَوْنَ الْغُرْفَةَ بِمَا صَبَرُوا وَيُلَقَّوْنَ فِيهَا تَحِيَّةً وَسَلَامًا They are the ones. SubhanAllah, this ayah is so deep, so deep. أُولَٰئِكَ يُجْزَوْنَ الْغُرْفَةَ بِمَا صَبَرُوا They are the ones that are rewarded with lofty palaces in paradise for their patients. They are the ones that are rewarded with lofty palaces in paradise for their patients. وَيُلَقَّوْنَ فِيهَا تَحِيَّةً وَسَلَامًا And they are received in paradise with respect and with greetings of peace. Here, tahiyyah is salutation, it is honor, it's dignified. They are welcomed into paradise and given salam, given the verbal salam in paradise throughout the entire time. It's daar salam, the abode of peace. As you enter into jannah you will hear salam. Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala says
لَا يَسْمَعُونَ فِيهَا لَغْوًا إِلَّا سَلَامًا That you're not going to hear any idle speech in jannah except for salam, okay? Which is that you're going to hear a lot of salam in paradise. The angels saying salam in paradise. The people of paradise greeting each other with salam. Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala saying سَلَامٌ عَلَيْكُمْ يَا عِبَادِيٍ Peace be on to you my servants. سَلَامْ سَلَامْ سَلَامْ It's all salam in paradise. The greeting of Ahlul Jannah is salam. Not just the humans but the creatures. The greeting of Ahlul Jannah period is salam. So you hear a lot of salam in jannah. So let's break this ayah down. وَلَائِكَ يُجْزَوْنَ الْغُرْفَةِ They are given al-ghurfa. Now obviously in common Arabic ghurfa is just a room. Or when we speak about it. But ghurfa, al-ghuraf refer to not just mansions and palaces. But typically speaking it would refer to a multiple story home. And the highest room in that home which is reserved for the royals and the elites. So basically the master bedroom of a palace. So it's referring to the highest palaces in jannah because we know that there are levels in jannah. And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has made it so that the highest levels in paradise are for Ahlul Balaa. Are for people who were tested. The Prophet ﷺ said in an authentic hadith from Anas ibn Malik radiAllahu ta'ala anhu. عِظَمُ الْجَزَاءِ مَا عِظَمِ الْبَلَاءِ That the greatest reward comes with the greatest trial. وَإِنَّ اللَّهَ إِذَا أَحَبَّ قَوْمًا اِبْتَلَاهُمْ And verily when Allah loves a people, He tests them. فَمَنْ رَضِيَ فَلَهُ الرِّضَى وَمَنْ سَخِتَ فَلَهُ السُّخْتِ The Prophet ﷺ said, and so whoever accepts that with pleasure will earn his pleasure, will earn the pleasure of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And whoever is discontent with that will earn the discontentment of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala on the day of judgment. And so, أُولَئِكَ يُجْزَوْنَ الْغُرْفَةَ بِمَا صَبَرُوا And those will be rewarded with the room by what they patiently endured. Verily they will attain these high palaces, these luxurious mansions, and these luxurious residences in Jannah. بِمَا صَبَرُوا By what they patiently endured. By virtue of the patience that they had. Now there are different levels of patience. There's patience with people, there's patience with prayer, there is patience with establishing good, there's patience with natural disaster, there's patience with health, there are different types of patience. So let's break this down a bit. Abu Umamah ﷺ narrated that the Prophet ﷺ said, I guarantee a house on the outskirts of paradise لِمَن تَرَكَ الْمِرَاءَ وَإِن كَانَ مُحِقًا For the one who leaves off arguments, even when they are right. And I guarantee a home in the middle of paradise, in the center of paradise. For the one who abandons lying, even when joking. And I guarantee a house in the highest part of paradise. For the one who حَسَّنَ خُلَقًا Who perfected their character, or who excelled in their character. So حُسن الخلق is the broadest stroke here. So the Prophet ﷺ says the highest level of paradise belongs to the one who has حُسن الخلق, to the one who has excellent character. And excellent character comes through patience with people with bad character, which is something that we established early on in this series. So Allah ﷻ says, أُولَٰئِكَ يُجْزَوْنَ الْغُرْفَةَ بِمَا صَبَرُوا Al-Furqan 2.5 Here صبر is not specific. Sometimes in the Qur'an, when the word صبر is used, when the word patience is used, it has a very specific connotation. Here it's used in the broadest sense possible. Why? Because عِبَادُ الرَّحْمَٰنِ endure persecution with patience.
عِبَادُ الرَّحْمَٰنِ endure insult with patience. عِبَادُ الرَّحْمَٰنِ are steadfast in struggling in the way of Allah ﷻ with patience. عِبَادُ الرَّحْمَٰنِ carry out long hours of worship and work tirelessly without any concern for this world with patience. عِبَادُ الرَّحْمَٰنِ resist temptations, the temptations of this world and the temptations of the Shaytan with patience. عِبَادُ الرَّحْمَٰنِ are patient in raising their families upon good. So when Allah ﷻ says, وَأْمُرْ أَهْلَكَ بِالصَّلَاةِ وَاسْطَبْرْ عَلَيْهَا Wa'amur Ahlaka bis Salat wa istabir alayha Enjoy your families with prayer. وَأَمُرْ أَهْلَكَ بِالصَّلَاةِ وَاسْطَبْرْ عَلَيْهَا And exercise great patience with so. Allah ﷻ talks about having patience with those righteous people that are looked down upon in society. Remember Islam was a religion that appealed first and foremost to the downtrodden, to the slaves, to the oppressed, to those that did not come from elite places, to the poor. And Allah ﷻ says, وَاصْبِرْ نَفْسَكَ مَعَ الَّذِينَ يَدْعُونَ رَبَّهُمْ بِالْغَدَاةِ وَالْعَشِيءِ يُرِيدُونَ وَجْهَا And Allah ﷻ says, Wa Asbir Nafsaka Ma'a Al-Ladhina Yad'uuna Rabbahum Bil Ghadati Wal Ashi'i Yuriduna Wajhaha Be patient, make yourself patient by keeping the company of those who call upon their Lord in the morning and in the evening, seeking His pleasure Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. So, عِبَادُ الرَّحْمَانِ are made patient. وَتَوَاصُوا بِالْحَقِّ وَتَوَاصُوا بِالصَّبْرِ They make each other patient in the face of the natural difficulties that come with being amongst the people of Islam. By the way, this is my right hand in case the camera shows left hand. Bismillah. Alhamdulillah. Just in case no one thinks I'm going back after Ramadan, drinking with my left hand again. Alright. Not that I was drinking with my left hand before. It's camera people. So, صبر is vast.
And generally speaking, the Quran and the Sunnah talk about higher levels in Jannah in connection to the more patience that a person have. So, for example, the Prophet ﷺ talks about a person who loses a child. That's the greatest بلاء that you could face, losing a child. And Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala asked the angels to build بيت الحمد, a house of praise for the person who loses their child and says, الحمد لله إن لله وإن إله رجعون that that person has a particular place in Al-Jannah. So, the higher, you know, the more you endure in this world, whether it's at the hands of other people or inexplicable disaster, then the higher your rank in Jannah is going to be. So, أُولَٰئِكَ يُجْزَوْنَ الْغُرْفَةَ بِمَا صَبَرُوا What do the angels say? سَلَامٌ عَلَيْكُم بِمَا صَبَرْتُم Peace be on to you for the patience that you have. وَيُلَقَوْنَ فِيهَا تَحِيَّةً Now, تحية refers to respect. And essentially that is the honor and the respect that they did not get in this life from the fools, but they get in the hereafter from the angels. Okay? So, the honor and the respect that they deserved, but unfortunately because of their natural disposition, because of their humility, because of their character, they had to endure much in terms of insults and disrespect in this life. And so, here they receive تحية. سلام returned to them for the سلام that they used to respond to always when they were faced by الجاهلون, when they were faced with different situations, they always responded with سلام. They responded with سلام as a form of peace when bringing together brothers and sisters, even if that was themselves being brought together or bringing themselves together with their brothers and sisters, and they responded with سلام in the face of الجاهلون,
in the face of those that were foolish, and those that tried to provoke them, سلام. And so, here now it's only appropriate that the سلام that they used to give to people is returned by the angels in الجنة. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, خالدين فيها حسنة مستقر ومقامة Therein they shall abide forever حسنة مستقر ومقامة What an amazing abode, what an amazing place to settle, so what an amazing residence, and what an amazing place to rest for the rest of your existence. If you remember, when Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala talked about the fear that they have of hellfire, إنها ساءت مستقرًا ومقامة That it is a miserable place to dwell, and a miserable presence to endure, so it referred to place and then time. مستقر refers to the place, مقامة refers to being there for a very long time. Here Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala responds and says حسنة مستقرًا ومقامة You see the beautiful response of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, that this is the best place to have in response. You feared the residence of hellfire, Allah is planning for you and decorating for you the residence of paradise. You feared spending some time in hellfire, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is entering you into paradise for eternity. So this is Allah's response to the dua that is made before, and this is when Allah Azawajal says وَالْآخِرَةُ خَيْرٌ وَأَبْقَىٰ That verily the hereafter is better and longer lasting. So خيرٌ refers to, and that's when comparing this world, the abode of this world to the abode of Al-Jannah, that the abode of the hereafter is better, what Allah has given you, has in store for you in the hereafter, is better than anything that could be given to you in this life due to the natural limitations of the realm in which we dwell right now.
وَأَبْقَىٰ And it's longer lasting, it's forever. If Allah were to give you everything that you wanted here and remove the limitations of dunya, then you would still die, and so you would miss out on it. So Allah Azawajal loves you too much to give you something that is limited in a limited realm. Instead Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gives you something that is unlimited in an unlimited realm, okay? Which is the reward of paradise. So this is the beautiful response that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gives to those that call upon Him in fear of not just losing out on the abode of this world but of dwelling in the abode of hellfire. May Allah Azawajal protect us all. So I want to end with this hadith insha'Allah Ta'ala which I think brings it all home insha'Allah Ta'ala. And the rain is picking up so this actually might knock out my electricity and my power, you know, with the lightning and the thunder here. May Allah Azawajal accept from us all. So I'm going to end with this hadith which is really one of my favorite hadith. And so you might have heard me say that before with a few other hadith. This is definitely one of my favorite hadith. May Allah Azawajal allow us to hear these words. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said that there will be an announcer in paradise. So imagine you've just entered into jannah and you have gone to your new palace in al-jannah. You're taking it all in, looking around, and you're saying, is this real? SubhanAllah, I mean because it has in it what no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, what no imagination has ever been able to comprehend. Jannah has opened up before you, you're in jannah, you're being guided to your new residence
where you will dwell forever. And you're looking around and you're just like, wow, subhanAllah, is this real? And so what is the first announcement that is made to the people of paradise? May Allah Azawajal make you and me amongst them. Ameen, ameen, ameen. May Allah make you and me amongst them. May Allah make you and me amongst them. Allah allow us to hear these words the way that I'm about to narrate them to you, but from a different voice. The Prophet ﷺ said as you enter into your jannah and you take your place, a beautiful abode, an everlasting place. Once you get into jannah you're not getting out. You make it in there, there's no expulsion from jannah. يُنَادِي مُنَادٍ A caller calls out, يَا أَهْلَ الْجَنَّةِ O people of paradise, إِنَّ لَكُمْ أَن تَصِحُوا فَلَا تَسْقَمُوا أَبَدًا That indeed you will be healthy and you will never be sick again. You will be healthy and you will never be sick again. In this world, sometimes it's not that the quality of life around us deteriorates, it's that we deteriorate because our health withers away. And so, by the way, when you get into jannah, you're never going to lose your health. You don't get old in jannah. Jannah doesn't get old, nor do you get old. You're in a perfect space and with perfect health. So the caller calls out and says, يَا أَهْلَ الْجَنَّةِ إِنَّ لَكُمْ أَن تَصِحُوا فَلَا تَسْقَمُوا أَبَدًا You will be healthy and you will never be sick again. وَإِنَّ لَكُمْ أَن تَحْيَوْا فَلَا تَمُوتُوا أَبَدًا And you will live here forever and you will never die again.
وَإِنَّ لَكُمْ أَن تَشِبُّوا فَلَا تَحْرَمُوا أَبَدًا And verily you will enjoy eternal youth and you will never grow old again. وَإِنَّ لَكُمْ أَن تَنْعَمُوا فَلَا تَبْتَئِسُوا أَبَدًا And you will be content in comfort and luxury and you will never face misery or hardship again. SubhanAllah. How beautiful is this call. And the Prophet ﷺ said, فَذَلِكَ قَوْلُهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ وَنُودُوا أَن تِلْكُمُ الْجَنَّةُ أُورِثْتُمُوهَا بِمَا كُنْتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ And so it was called out to them that this is the Jannah that you have inherited by virtue of the good that you used to do. This is the paradise that you have inherited by virtue of the good that you used to do. Ya Allah, make us amongst those that enter into our abode in Jannah without any form of accountability or any form of punishment, without being touched by the fire. And Ya Allah, allow us to hear these words from the caller that we are told about. And Ya Allah, allow us to enjoy these blessings. Again, يُنَادِي مُنَادٍ A caller calls out, إِنَّ لَكُمْ أَن تَصِحُوا فَلَا تَسْقَمُوا أَبَدًا You will forever be healthy and you will never be sick again. وَإِنَّ لَكُمْ أَن تَحْيَوْا فَلَا تَمُوتُوا أَبَدًا And you will live forever and you will never die again. وَإِنَّ لَكُمْ أَن تَشِبُّوا فَلَا تَهْرَمُوا أَبَدًا And you will be young forever, perpetually young and never grow again. وَإِنَّ لَكُمْ أَن تَنْعْمُوا فَلَا تَبْتَئِسُوا أَبَدًا And you will be content in luxury forever, never to face misery or hardship again.
And that is the promise of Allah ﷻ to Ibadur Rahman. May Allah ﷻ make us amongst them. May Allah enter us into His rahmah with His rahmah. And always make us people that long for His rahmah. And that manifest rahmah to everything that is around us. And may Allah ﷻ allow us to dwell in graves with His rahmah. And allow us to be raised with His rahmah. And allow us to dwell perpetually in His rahmah. May Allah ﷻ allow us to be worthy of this lofty title of Ibadur Rahman. May Allah ﷻ shower us with His forgiveness and mercy in this final night of Ramadan. May Allah ﷻ forgive us for our shortcomings. Allahumma ameen. Jazakumullahu khayran to all of you once again. Inshallah ta'ala I will see you soon again inshallah ta'ala. We will continue our programming shortly so please do stay tuned. Again, keep us in your du'as. Keep our patient families in your du'as. If you go to the Yaqeen website and you go to the About Us and you read through the teams. Make du'as for each one of our team members and their families as well. That Allah ﷻ grant them the acceptance of this Ramadan and Laylatul Qadr. And an angel will say ameen and for you as well. I thank you all for giving me some of your precious time in this Ramadan. I take the amanah of ilm very seriously. That if you dedicated time to listen to anything that I had to say. Then that is a great trust that you've bestowed in me. I ask Allah to forgive me for anything I may have said wrong. Or any misguidance that unintentionally may have escaped from my mouth. May Allah ﷻ protect us all from misguidance and may Allah ﷻ keep us firm on the truth. And so for the last time in Ramadan, inshallah ta'ala I'm signing off. And wishing you all the best and making du'a for you tonight. Wa sallalahu wa sallim wa barak ala nabiyyina Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa salam. Tasliman kathira.
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