Did Allah Put You On This List? | The Other Side: Barzakh and Beyond Ep. 13

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The Other Side | Barzakh and Beyond

Did Allah Put You On This List? | The Other Side: Barzakh and Beyond Ep. 13

Are you on the list? Which group are you with? In this world, we chase after names on prestigious lists—job promotions, elite schools, exclusive memberships. But in the hereafter, only two lists matter: One leads to eternal joy, the other to unimaginable regret.

Some will be greeted with celebration, their names written in Illiyeen among the honored souls. Others will be absent from the gatherings of the righteous, their fate sealed in darkness.

The choices you make now determine your place in the next world. The prayers you pray, the good deeds you hold onto, the company you keep—they are all being recorded.

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00:00Did you make the team? Are you on the list? Just like you would come home and your family

00:13would eagerly await the outcome of the job interview or the exam or an important deal, your family in the barzakh anticipate what the fate of the souls of the living is. Everyone

00:25wants to know who made it. And the categorizations between who is righteous and who is wicked which get so blurred in this world are now crystal clear. So now you find out, did you

00:40make it?

00:55In the barzakh you have two primary lists and then you have multiple degrees and levels that are to those lists. But first you ask, are you on the list itself? The Prophet (ﷺ)

01:07came out to the Sahaba one day and he had two books in his hands. And he said, do you know what these two books are? And the Sahaba said, no Ya Rasulullah unless you tell us. He said of the one that was in his right hand, this is a book from

01:19the Lord of the worlds containing the names of those who will go to Jannah as well as the names of their fathers and their tribes. And he said it's complete to the last human being so there will never be any increase or decrease in their numbers. And he said

01:34as for the one in my left, this is a book from the Lord of the worlds containing the names of all of those who will go to hell as well as the names of their fathers and their tribes. It's completed to the last man so there will never be any increase or

01:48decrease in their numbers. And the Sahaba are looking at the Prophet (ﷺ) and they said, Ya Rasulullah, is there any reason to do good then if the matter is already decreed? And the Prophet (ﷺ) said, follow a right course

02:02and keep as near to it as you can. For the last deed of one who is going to go to Paradise will be a deed appropriate for those who go to Paradise no matter what he may have done

02:14before. But the last deed of one who is going to go to hell will be a deed appropriate for those who go to hell no matter what he may have done. Then the Prophet (ﷺ)

02:25made a gesture with his hands throwing the books away and he said, your Lord has decided everything about mankind. A section will be in Paradise and a section will be

02:36in the blaze. Fatima bint Abdul Malik who was the wife of Umar bin Abdul Aziz (رحمه الله), she said the verse, a group in Paradise and a group in hell was the most terrifying part

02:50of the Qur'an to Umar. SubhanAllah, he didn't just inherit leadership and greatness from his grandfather. He also inherited this exemplary fear of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that other

03:00people around him couldn't understand. Remember when Umar bin al-Khattab (رضي الله عنه) would go to Hudhaifa bin al-Yaman (رضي الله عنه) who had the list of the hypocrites from the Prophet (ﷺ) and he would say, ya Hudhaifa, am I on there?

03:14So how do you prep for that moment? What can you do to ensure that your last deed causes you to make the cut or that your last deed is one that Allah loves? Well make sure that

03:26you have good deeds that you never let go of, so much so that you are known specifically to be of those who do that deed. So I want you to think of all of the ahadith where the

03:37Prophet (ﷺ) mentions Allah writing down categories. Where do you fall? You have the angels that are standing at the doors of the masjid on Jumu'ah with their roll books and they're writing down the names of all of those who come to the salah every

03:51week until the imam says salamu alaykum and then they close their books. Are you one of those who consistently walk into the masjid a few minutes late? Or do the angels always

04:03record your name at the top? What about the first row of the masjid, ashab al-saff al-awwal, the people of the first row? Are you part of that exclusive group to Allah subhanahu

04:14wa ta'ala? The Prophet (ﷺ) said whoever wakes up with ten ayat at night, lam yuktab minal ghafilin, he will not be written from the heedless. And if he reads a hundred ayat, kutiba minal qanitin, then he's written from the devout. And if

04:29he reads a thousand ayat, then he's written from the muqantareen, those who pile up good deeds. Are you consistent enough in any one of those that it could be your last act? Or

04:40do you maybe see your consistency in a simple act that you do with your family? Like when the Prophet (ﷺ) said, when a husband and wife wake each other up to pray at night, they are written from adh-dhakireen Allaha kathiran wa adh-dhakirati, those who

04:55remember Allah frequently from the men and from the women. Or maybe you're amongst the generous. Imam Siraj wa Hajj, (حفظه الله), has this beautiful example that he always would mention in regards to charity. He'd say, tomorrow, the rule books will go out

05:10with the names of all of those who gave charity and I don't want a zero next to my name. And the lists go on and on. Identify yourself in those lists. Which category are you in?

05:23Now the list of those who are saved in the barzakh is made apparent at different points for different people. And the first narration I want you to pay attention to is what the Prophet (ﷺ) said about our father Adam. He said, (ﷺ),

05:36that on the night of al-Isra wal-Mi'raj, the skies were open for me. And as soon as we arrived to the lowest heaven, I looked up and I saw Adam (عليه السلام). And he said,

05:46and he is exactly like the day Allah created him, lam yataghayyir minhu shay', nothing changed from him. And he said, he's sitting in the middle and a soul passes by him to

05:56the right. If it's a good smell and a good soul, he laughs. And he says, write down his

06:08name in the highest heavens among the blessed souls. And if it's a filthy soul and a filthy smell, it passes through his left and he cries. And he said, let his name be written in the

06:20lowest dungeons amongst the imprisoned souls. And I want you to think SubhanAllah about Ghazza again. How many arwah have passed through the 'Illiyyin that made us cry, but made

06:33him laugh. And as for the rest of us, when do we laugh or cry together or over one another? Prophet (ﷺ) said that when a person dies and people rush to ask

06:47him for news, similar to how people are keen to know the news of travelers upon their arrivals, they go to him and they say, what did so-and-so do? What did so-and-so do? And then that person

07:00replies with surprise and says, wait, didn't they come to you? What is that hadith referring to? Someone died between you and that loved one. So I want you to think if your mom died

07:1110 years ago and your brother died five years ago, and now you died. The expectation was that the one in between joined the souls of their loved ones. But then there's a realization

07:23on the part of both the one who just died and the one who has been dead, that the person that was mentioned was not received by the righteous souls. And so there's only one other

07:34outcome, which is that he's busy in his punishment and he's entered into the legions of doom instead. So they both say, inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'oon. We belong to Allah and

07:46to him we shall return. dhahaba ilal hawiyah. It must be that he was taken to hellfire. How painful would it be for you to be the one they're talking about in this narration?

07:56And SubhanAllah, on a side note, they're so accustomed to saying inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'oon when tragedy hits them, that they're still using that vocabulary in the barzakh. And so the gatherings of the righteous go on without you and people move on even

08:11quicker from you in the barzakh. Question you ask yourself, are you missing from the gatherings of the righteous today? If so, how do you expect to be in them tomorrow?

08:22If you're not in the masjid, in the circles of knowledge and remembrance, in the places where people volunteer and do good work, in the spaces of justice and enjoining good and forbidding evil, why would you suddenly feel like you're going to end up in those circles

08:35in the barzakh? So the believers are now reuniting as they were together in this life.

08:48The emphasis is on reuniting with the promise of Allah that they all believed in and used to work towards. Does this all sound familiar to the Day of Judgment? That's the point.

08:58This moment is a preview to receiving the book in your right hand instead of your left and then going to the gathering of the believers and celebrating with them. The moment you

09:08will go and meet your family in the barzakh is then pure joy because of two things. Number one, you miss them for years and years in this dunya and you finally get to meet them

09:19again but also because you both now see that you've been saved from the punishment of the grave and you've made it to the next station of the akhirah. And the thing about these

09:29people is that as certain as they were in Allah, they weren't so certain of themselves and that's what kept them working so hard until the very last moment. And in those final

09:40moments the consequences of the people of yaqeen, the people of certainty and the people of doubt will be made clear. Remember that window you have in your grave to the other

09:50place that you're not going to? It's the window of yaqeen versus the window of shak, the window of doubt. Listen to how the Prophet (ﷺ) describes the lead up to that. He says, a window will be opened for him towards the fire and he will look at it seeing how

10:05its parts consume each other and it will be said to him, look at what Allah has saved you from. Then a window will be opened towards Paradise and he will look at its beauty and

10:15what it contains and it will be said to him, this is your place instead. And then it will

10:20be said to him, you were upon yaqeen, you were upon certainty, you died upon it and

10:32if Allah wills, you will be resurrected upon it. As for the wicked man, he will be made to sit in his grave in fear and distress and it will be said to him, in what state were

10:41you? He will say, I don't know. It will be said, who is this man who was sent among you? He'll say, I don't know, I heard people saying something so I just said the same thing they said. Then a window will be opened for him towards Paradise and he will see its beauty

10:55and what it contains and it will be said to him, look at what Allah has deprived you from. Then another window is opened for him towards the fire and he will look at it and he will

11:05see how its parts consume each other and it will be said to him, this is your place instead. You were upon doubt, you died upon doubt and if Allah wills, you're going to be resurrected

11:17upon doubt and then that person is going to be punished. You know, I want you to think about what missing out meant in this dunya compared to what it means in the barzakh.

11:28The equivalent to look what Allah saved you from in the barzakh is when someone calls you away from Allah in this dunya and says, look what you're missing out on and in the barzakh, nothing would make you happier than having not listened to those calls and for

11:43having instead listened to the caller who calls you to good deeds that will now be your greatest companions as the companions of this world start to fade. Think about what Ibn Umar (رضي الله عنهما) saw in his dream. He said, one night I

11:56was taken by two angels to the gates of hellfire, wa idha fiha nasun qad 'araftuhum and I saw people that I knew and they knew me. So I started to cry out as I was looking

12:09at them, a'udhu billahi min an-nar, a'udhu billahi min an-nar, a'udhu billahi min an-nar I seek refuge in Allah from the fire, I seek refuge in Allah from the fire, I seek refuge in Allah from the fire until the angels took me to Paradise instead. So you need to think

12:21about that window in your grave to the other destination and if you're in a chamber of fire looking at the garden you could have had, who are the obvious people you expect

12:31to see there that you wished you would have imitated more with your deeds and if vice versa that you can't for sure say who's in hell, who would you expect to be amongst

12:42those who have called you to the deeds of hellfire. In the barzakh you have your memories with you and you have your regrets, a window to all that could have been that if you're

12:52in punishment you have a long time to stare at. But in this world it's not the window to the other destination but it's the window of opportunity that is shutting faster than

13:02you think calling you to take heed and repent before it's too late.

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