# Ep. 30: The End of the Journey of Faith | The Faith Revival **Author:** Dr. Omar Suleiman **Series:** The Faith Revival **Published:** 2017-06-25 **YouTube:** https://youtu.be/gYulxyakRgg **URL:** https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/faith-revival/the-faith-revival-ep-30-the-end-of-the-journey-of-faith **Topics:** Allah, Faith ## Description Let Islam be your ending, and ask Allah to make the last of your actions the best of your actions. ## Transcript **[0:01]** As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh everyone. Eid Mubarak first of all and welcome to our final episode of the Faith Revival. May Allah reward you all for tuning in for all of these episodes and donating to Yaqeen so that we can continue to do this work insha'Allah **[0:19]** ta'ala. What is something that we can end with? You know, all of us have tuned into this series and all of us study faith for the sake of hopefully having it for our entire lives. And the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam says, al-a'malu bilkhawateen, that **[0:35]** actions are judged by their ending. And he mentioned to us sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam that towards the end of time, he said a person would wake up a believer and they would sleep without belief. Or a person would go to sleep a believer and they would wake up without belief. So subhanAllah for some people belief goes in and out in its entirety. And Allah **[0:54]** tells us in the Qur'an, fala tamutunna illa wa antum muslimun, don't die except in a state of Islam. We find the Prophets of Allah saying, Ya Allah let our ending, even the Prophets of Allah saying to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, tawaffani musliman wal hikni bis salihin, **[1:09]** let me die a believer. Let Islam be my ending, do not let my ending be devoid of faith. We will slip, there is no doubt that we are going to have moments throughout our lives where we are going to be away from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and our iman will be at a low point. **[1:26]** But in our good expectation of Allah, our good assumption of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, we can only hope and pray that our last actions are the best of them. And the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasalam heard a Bedouin one time making this dua, Oh Allah make the best of my deeds the last of them. And the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasalam said what a blessed supplication. **[1:44]** Make the best of my deeds the last of them. Meaning all this up and down that I'm going to face in life, let the last of my deeds be the best of them. Let the last of them be upon iman and upon faith and be those that are most blessed to you. And subhanAllah there **[1:59]** are so many people that are blessed with this and such a blessing to see when the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasalam said man kana akhira kalamahu la ilaha illa Allah dakhalal jannah. Whoever leaves this world and their last words are la ilaha illa Allah. There is no God but **[2:16]** Allah. SubhanAllah my entire life I've been struggling with la ilaha illa Allah, struggling to realize la ilaha illa Allah and all of the different facets of my life. But whoever's last words are, you imagine the believer is sitting and the angels have come to collect **[2:33]** the soul and that person has the strength to say la ilaha illa Allah dakhalal jannah. The Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasalam said that person will enter paradise. If you can bring yourself in those last moments. And saying la ilaha illa Allah at the very end is like lifting 500 pounds. You've got to prepare yourself throughout your life to be **[2:51]** able to lift that heavy weight to say la ilaha illa Allah even in those last moments. So there's a beautiful dua and it's so powerful, especially coming from the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasalam that I want you all to memorize as we're going through this series about faith. **[3:08]** The Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasalam used to say ya waliya al-islami wa ahli, oh guardian of Islam and its people, masikni bihi hatta alqaq. Allow me to be bound to Islam until I meet you with it. Ya waliya al-islami wa ahli, oh guardian of Islam and its people, **[3:29]** masikni al-islam hatta alqaq. Allow me to be bound to Islam until I meet you with it. And if you think about all the examples the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasalam gives us, like a person holding on to a hot coal, the believer is imprisoned in this world and then **[3:45]** he's freed afterwards. The Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasalam is mentioning to hold on to my sunnah towards the end of time in particular with your back teeth, with your molar teeth, as if someone's trying to pull it away from you. So the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasalam is saying allow us to be grabbing on to it tight until we meet you ya Allah and then **[4:02]** we release it. Ya waliya al-islami wa ahli, masikni bihi hatta alqaq. Oh guardian of Islam and its people, bound me to Islam until I meet you with it ya Allah. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us to meet him with faith. May Allah forgive our shortcomings throughout **[4:19]** this journey of trying to find and maintain faith. Allah knows that we will struggle, Allah knows that we will face moments of low faith, but Allah is most merciful and as long as we don't allow low faith to become no faith, then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will overlook **[4:38]** it bi-ithnillah out of his mercy upon us and we ask Allah to allow us to meet his mercy on the Day of Judgment and not his justice. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to allow the best of our deeds to be the last of them and we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to allow our hearts to be softest in those last moments of life and we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala **[4:56]** to enter us into Jannatul Firdaus. Allahumma ameen. May Allah accept your Ramadan, accept your fasting, accept all of your good deeds, your charity, your prayer. May Allah accept your Laylatul Qadr even if you slept through it. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala write it down for you and show mercy upon you and I. JazakumAllahu khayran. It's been a pleasure **[5:15]** to have your attention throughout this month of Ramadan. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accept it from all of us. See you all hopefully before next Ramadan inshaAllah. 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