Judgment Day: Deeds That Light The Way
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When Allah Addresses the Gathering | Judgment Day: Deeds that Light the Way Episode 5
What will it be like to meet your Lord? That first encounter is entirely up to you. Your actions and your character determine whether you will be struck with terror or met with laughter and ease.
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. Imagine if you had a pen pal that you wrote to every day or someone that you spoke to on the phone for years and years and then you meet them in person for the very first time. If you took five years of prayer and you just calculated five prayers a day for five years, no sunnahs, nothing else, not even taking into account the various circumstances of people, that means you would have prayed about 10,000 times. That's 10,000 times you've been in dialogue with your Lord and that's not including du'a or anything else. Now if you've had all those conversations and you still don't feel like you've ever spoken to Allah or have a relationship with Him, that's significant. If you have a relationship with Him in this dunya, He's not going to let you down in the akhirah. As the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, wa la yata walla Allah azza wa jalla abdin fi dunya fa yuwallihi ghayrahu yawm al qiyama Allah does not take someone as a friend in this life and then entrust him to someone else on the day of judgment. And so that's the difference between the two arriving on the day of judgment. Abu Hazm rahimahullah was asked, how will returning to Allah be like? He said, as for the obedient one, his return is that of a loved one who is absent, whose family is eager for his return. And as for the sinner, it's like the return of a runaway captive and his captor is angry. All of this is to say that the day of judgment is not just when you meet your deeds, but more importantly, it's when you meet your Lord with your deeds. And you want that meeting to be a reunion, not an introduction, and you definitely don't want it to be an apprehension. Verily, we fear from our Lord a distressful day.
So Allah spared them of the horror of that day and gave them radiance and inner joy. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said that Allah has said, by my might, I will never combine in my servant two feelings of fear or two feelings of security. If he feared me in this world, I will make him feel safe from me on the day of judgment. And if he felt secure from me in this world, then I will make him fear me on the day of judgment. So those that ignored Allah in this life and were blind to his guidance are ignored by Allah in the afterlife and they're unable to see him. They just feel his anger. The disbelievers are veiled from him. And this causes them even greater apprehension because they will know his presence and they will sense his anger, but they see nothing of him subhanahu wa ta'ala that comforts them. As for the believers, they get to see him in that assembly, but not in the full sense of blessing that is present in Jannah. So how does Allah arrive to this gathering and introduce himself to the righteous? The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, Yatajalla lana Rabbuna Azzawajalla yawm alqiyamati dhaahika Our Lord will present himself to us laughing on the day of judgment. SubhanAllah. Like Abu Razim radiAllahu Anhu said when he heard the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam describe the laughter of Allah, he said, Lan na'adam min Rabbin yadhaaku khayra We will never be deprived of good by a Lord who laughs. And this is a gift to the believers that puts them at ease in that gathering. So who are those we find ease for in this first sight of Allah? Now you have the continued theme of humility in the ahadith. So there's one hadith, whoever controls his anger at the time when he has the means to act upon it,
then Allah will fill his heart with contentment on the day of judgment. Allah will restrain his anger from him. But then you have this constant theme with these opening announcements from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala about the people who are going to be granted contentment. There's one narration with a slight weakness in its chain that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said that Allah will announce on the day of judgment, Saya'lamu ahlul jam'i alyawm man ahlul karam that the people of this gathering are going to know today who the people of nobility are. And they say, and who are they, Ya Rasulullah? Who are they, O Messenger of Allah? And he said, Ahlul dhikri fil majalis those people who are distinguished by their remembrance of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Now, almost every narration about those who are granted contentment as they stand there when hellfire and paradise have been brought forward and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala addresses the gathering has to do with being a person of dhikr, has to do with being a person of remembrance. Imran ibn Hussain radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, he reported that the Messenger of Allah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, verily the best servants of Allah on the day of judgment are al-hammadun, those who used to constantly praise him. And one time the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was with the companions and he said, sabqal mufarridun, sabqal mufarridun, those who practice solitude have raced ahead. And he said, Ya Rasulullah, who are those people? And he said, al-mustahtaruna fi dhikrillah, those who are completely immersed in the remembrance of Allah. And then he said, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, yada'u dhikru anhum asqalahum, faya'tuna yawmul qiyamati khifafah. Their dhikr, their remembrance has lifted all of their burdens. And so they come on the day of judgment weightless, with no burden whatsoever. And subhanAllah, you see that Allah starts to call out to them. Now people of dhikr, they loved the most beloved place on earth to Allah. And those are the masajid, which are the most beloved places to Allah. Why? Because of the amount of dhikr in there.
The remembrance of Allah in there. So Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, Allah announces, ayna jirani, ayna jirani, where are my neighbors? Where are my neighbors? And the angels, they respond, they say, Rabbana waman yan baghi an yujawiraka? Oh, our Lord, who is befitting to be called your neighbor? And Allah will say, ayna ummarul masajid? Where are those who used to frequent the masajid? Those who were regular in my houses in this world? Then the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, thumma yumayyiz al ulama Allah then distinguishes the scholars. And remember, the righteous scholars are called what in the Quran? They're called ahlul dhikr, the people of remembrance. And these are the opposite, of course, of the hypocrites amongst them. May Allah protect us, who have their own humiliation on the day of judgment. These are the sincere scholars who lived what they taught, and they used their knowledge to get close to Allah. innama yakhshallaha min ibadihi al ulama Those who truly fear Allah are the true scholars. So this day they have no fear. Allah says to them, ya ma'shar al ulama, Oh, company of scholars, nam adha fikum ilmi wa anu ureedu anu a'dhibakum I wasn't going to waste my knowledge on you just to punish you today. qad ghafartu lakum I've forgiven you all. You see the theme here? Those people of knowledge and in the circles of remembrance that had the shade of the angels in this life going up to Allah and Allah announcing to the angels that he was pleased with us, even though we couldn't hear it or see it, we felt it. Now Allah is making those announcements in front of the angels and in front of everyone else that he's pleased with us. The difference is we're actually there to witness the announcement this time. May Allah make us amongst them. Allahumma ameen. Finally, there is the specific dhikr to the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasallam mentioned for this moment. He said Sallallahu alayhi wasallam Whoever says three times in the morning and in the evening
radheetu billahi rabbah, wa bil islami deena, wa bi muhammadin sallallahu alayhi wasallam anabiyya I am pleased with Allah as my Lord. I am pleased with Islam as my religion and I am pleased with Muhammad Sallallahu alayhi wasallam as my prophet kana haqqan ala Allahi an yurdiyahu yawm al qiyama Allah has taken it as a guarantee upon himself to please that person on the day of judgment. So the three questions in the grave, you're already pleased with the three answers. And so when you think back to what we said early on wa man a'radha an dhikri fa inna lahum ma'isha tan dhanka The one who turns away from the remembrance of Allah has a constricting life. And we said that's in this dunya, that's in the grave and on the day of judgment. The opposite is true when Allah says ala bi dhikri Allahi tatmainul qulub Verily in the remembrance of Allah, don't the hearts find tranquility? That is also in this dunya, that's in the grave and that is now in this gathering on the day of judgment.
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