 الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن والثناء الجميل وشدوى الله إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له يقول الحق وهو يهدي السبيل وشدوى النسيدنا ونبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بإحسال إلى يوم الدين أما بعد إن شاء الله تعالى today's reflection is going to be on حسن الخاتبة having a good end and dying in a good way the first point regarding this is the righteous people how humble and how humiliated they were and humble in their actions they would never be deceived by their ability and they never saw themselves to be something they were very humble الامام الدهبي رحمه الله he mentions in the biography of الامامه أحمد رحمه الله الامامه أحمد من حمد رحمه الله he says عن عباس الدوري he said وكان الجارل لنا he was a labor of us this is a story that happened to Imam Ahmad so listen to the humility and humbleness of Imam Ahmad الامام أحمد a man came to him his name is he came to he had a mother he said my mother for 20 years she couldn't move she was in place she said one day my son go to Imam Ahmad and ask him to ask Imam Ahmad to supplicate for me so Allah can remove this illness from me it is possible because of course and the dua of Ahmad is going to take this illness away from me so I went on behalf of his mother I knocked on the door and when Imam Ahmad was في واحسنه you're sully praying في أعلى مبالك of our prayer فلما فرغ من الصلاة و الهمد رحمه الله فلشت برية هو قد من who من هذا الناس who's knocking on the door and then he said I said to him it's so unsolved وقد أرسلتني أمي my mother has sent me and my mother for 20 years she's been in one place she's ill she can't move and my mama Ahmed said ماذا تريد مني ؟ قلت أن أمي يساعد أن تساعدها أن الله يمكن أن تساعد هذه الأمر منها فأجابني مغضباً أليما محمد أنا مغضباً أليما محمد قلت مغضباً أنغرياً وقاله إذا قلت بل أنا أحواج إلى دعائها أنا أحواج إلى دعائها فأنت محتاجة إلى دعائها أحتاجت دعائها أكثر فأنت محتاجة إلى دعائها وقالت أنا أحواج إلى أحمد فلصرفته أمي أمي محمد وما كانت أمي أمي محمد وقالت لأمي قلت لأمي لا تقلت قلت أحمد بأن يجعل دعائها لأمي قلت لأمي لا تقلت أحمد لم ينطلق لقد صمد على تجعل دعائها لأمي يعني أنه يجعل دعائها لكن سنرى في المحاول أن أحمد سيد محمد الله أمي أمي محمد أنا أحواج أمي محمد وأن تدعي الله أن تستطيع الدعائه يمنع for أن أدعي الله رب العالمين لها أنا في أجل أجلها دعاة أكثر than she needs my dua and this would come from a man who doesn't see himself to be something high who has the humility in knowing that this left is weak and it requires Allah SWT's aid and support my beloved brothers and sisters we need to be scared of سوء الخاتمة we need to be scared of an evil ending الله سبحانه وتعالى he tells us in the Quran a story and he says سبحانه وتعالى واتلوا عليهم or Muhammad read on them نبأ اللدي the story of the one آتيناه we gave him آياتنا عوى واسس فنسلخ منها he exited he left it we gave him our verses and he walked away from it and he left it فاتبعه الشيطان then shaitan followed his path فكان من الغاوين and he became from those who were destroyed وَلَوْ شِيْنَا اللَّهَا سَيْدَا if we willed and we wanted لا رفعناه we would have raised him سيطان ورقص وَلَا كِنَّهُ بَتْهِدْسِ اِنْدِفِجُلْ أَخَلَدَا إِلَا الْأَرْضِهِ he chose to go down الله wanted to raise him but he wanted to go down he wanted his earth الله wanted to hear after for him الله wanted to give him a high station وَلَا كِنَّهُ أَخَلَدَا إِلَا الْأَرْضِهِ وَتْتَبَعَ هُوَا and he followed his whims and his desires فَمَثَلُهُهِ his parable his example is كَمَثَلِ الْكِلب the likes of an example of a dog اِنْ تَحْمِلَ عَلِيهِ يَلْهَدْ if you give to the dog and you provide for the dog his tongue will still be out and if you do not give the dog او تَتْرُقُ يَلْهَدْ even if the dog is still the same it doesn't change meaning this man when the Quran was given to him it didn't change him it didn't make him a better person this man his story is a very bad ending الله سبحانه وتعالى he gave him the Quran but he chose to turn away from it so his final ending was it good? his final ending is like that of a dog the lowest ranked animal that's what his example is you sometimes find brothers who memorize the Quran they learn the book of Allah and they chose to turn away from the book the Quran that they've memorized the word is that they've got they turn away from it he's hanging around with people who don't know anything about the religion Chris is his friend and Michael is Steve but he has a different identity he's got the Quran الله gave him the Quran so he chose to turn away from it that person he has chosen something low from something great that was given to him واتبع هواه he follows his wings and his desires so that person should be very worried of a bad ending the Prophet ﷺ's companions were not like that like him the Quran they stuck by it and they also stuck by it what meaning that they pondered over it ولذلك الإمام الترطوش is كتاب الحوادث والبدع he says لم يكن في أصحاب رسول الله it was not present in the companions of the Prophet ﷺ من يقرأ القرآن any person who would read the Quran ولا يتدبروه and would not ponder over it it was not amongst the companions a person who would read the Quran but would not ponder over it ويفقه معانيه and it was not amongst them لأن القرآن يجب أن يدفع ذلك المنطقة، فلا يتدبرون القرآن أم على قلوب أقفالها فلا يتدبرون القرآن، ولو كان من عند غير الله لو وجدوا فيه اختلاف كثيرة كتاب أنزلناه إليك مباركم ليدبروا آياته القرآن ينزل لذلك المنطقة، فحالة صحابة يظهر لك أنهم التدفعون علىه وإنما حدثت هذه البدعة، تدفع هذه المنطقة، ماذا تحدث عن المنطقة؟ يترون القرآن ولكن لا تدفعه، لا تفهم ما يعني this المنطقة، فقط لتعلم المنطقة ، لتعلم المخالج فقط لتعلم كيف يدفع إمكانا هذه المنطقة ، وقد أحدث بعد ذلك في أقوامين من المنطقة هذه الانتظار تبدأ بعد ، هذه ليست ما فعلت هذه الانتظار هل هم مختلفين لأحد الذي يحاول أن يتبع عليهم أن يأتيناه آياتنا فلسلخ منها فااتبعوا الشيطان وفكالة من الغاوين ولو شيء لا لا رفعناه بها ولكنه أقلد إلى الارضي والتبع هواه ، هل هذه والانتظار تبدأ بهم؟ ها؟ مختلفة هو أن هذه الانتظارات القرآنية يتبعون بها حياتهم لذلك يتبعون بها لذلك تظهر لنا سوء الخاتمة يمكن أن يكون لديهم خطأة جيدة إبن أبي موليكا who is a Tabi'i قال أن أمام البخاري يتبع معلقا وحديث البخاري الذي يتبع معلقا يعني أن البخاري لا يتبع معلقا من مجتمعه بسغة الجزمي ولكنه يتبعه في طريقة تصميمه أن إبن أبي موليكا قال أدرقت أن أعرف ثلاثين من أصحابي رسول الله أعرف ثلاثة of the companions of the Prophet كلهم ، كلهم يخافوا على نفسه من النفاق all of those which I met they all feared hypocrisy they were all scared that they might die an evil death they were all scared of hypocrisy they were all scared of hypocrisy أصحاب رسول الله the companions of the Prophet they were scared of what يخشون النفاق they feared hypocrisy and they were also scared of what سوء الخاتم amongst them were who brothers and sisters amongst them is companions who were promised paradise why else they were walking on this earth the only thing that they were waiting for is to taste the bitterness of death and then Jannah awaits them on the other side that's it what's between them and Jannah is what Jannah a death and they were still scared of what they were still scared of hypocrisy so a person who doesn't know where they're going to be and you don't know where you're going to go to you should be the person who is the most scaredest there are people who الله سبحانه وتعالى He gave them Eman but then they finally became hypocrisy and they became منافقين after having received Eman الله سبحانه وتعالى He gives us examples in the Quran but let's just take one example this example is what Allah mentioned in Surah Utoba Allah says يقول لا يقول النبي يسيطي يوم محمد إلما we were nothing except they were إلما is من أدوات الحصر وَنَلْحَصْرْ مِنْزَا أَلْإِثْبَاتُونْ لِلْمَدْكُورَ وَنَفْرُ عَمْمَا عَدَاءَ it means there was no other thing we were doing this for إلما كنا our only intent in this was نخوض ونلعب we were just trying to spend time like this and we were only joking we were only having fun قل سيت ذا محمد أب الله in Allah وآياتي and the verses of Allah ورسوله and his messenger كنتم تستهزئون are you mocking لا تعتبروا don't look for excuses قد كفرتوا verily you have become disbelievers after you gained and you received إيمان إناعفوا if we forgive عن طائفة if we forgive a group ميكوا from amongst you نعدد we will verily punish طائفة a group of people from amongst you and the reason why is because بأنهم they were كانوا مجليمين they were criminals and wrongdoers this verse has a seven muzool a story to it as Ibn Jalil At-Tabari mentions in his Tafseer بسندن حسن that Abdullah Ibn Umar he said this was one of the battles of the battles of the process of this was غزوة تبوك a group of individuals they sat with one another and when they sat down some of them said لم أرى كقرائنا we have never seen anyone like our reciters أرغب بطونا what do they mean أرغب بطونا أو سع بطونا those who eat more than them our reciters they love munching they love eating and when they meet the enemies they are the most coward of all ولا أكدب ألسلن and there is no one more of a great lion than them and they are referring to here who نبي اللهي محمد and they are referring to who حملت القرآن the people were carrying the quran who were the companions of the prophet today if you go on twitter you look at instagram you look at facebook you find a lot of Muslims mocking the religion and they are laughing they should be scared of these verses dangerous right there are symbols of Islam they are mocking they are laughing and another person tweets it and another one tweets it and he is tweeting it and they are laughing about it they should be scared and worried and concerned in falling into this فقال الرجل and a man from amongst them who was sitting with them said to them he said بالانت منافقون and he said بالانت منافقون rather you we said this is a hypocrite تتكلم بالنفاق you speak with hypocrisy ولا أحمل النها I will carry this incident to who إلى رسول الله I will tell the prophet about what you guys did فدهب إلى رسول الله the man came to the prophet but before he could even inform the prophet of the incident that happened revelation already came to the prophet from high above Allah already told him what happened so the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم of these verses they came down so these men after having tasted the sweetness of an iman what did they lose the iman was taken away from them and Allah سبحانه و تعالى he forgave when he said لا تعتدر و قد كفرتهم بعد إمانكم إناعفوا عن طائفة the one who is being forgiven here is مخشيب نحمير رضي الله تعالى عنه إناعفوا if we forgive is referring to him that was a companion who was forgiven because he begged the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and it was accepted from him but the rest they weren't so this ayah it shows us how somebody can gain iman and it can leave him our prophet used to ask الله أنتباة على ديب he used to consistently ask Allah to keep him firm upon the religion the prophet used to say الله أو الله يا مقلب القلوب the one who turns and tosses the heart سبت قلوبنا make our hearts firm upon على دينك your religion make our hearts firm upon your religion أنا سبن ماليك in the companion he said a man said to the prophet when the prophet said that a man said to the prophet يا رسول الله أو مسجد الله إنا قد آمننا بك we believed in you وصدقنا we also have trusted and also believed بما جئت به that which you have come with من الهدى والنور the guidance that you have brought us the light that you have come with we have believed in it and we've taken on board أفتخش علينا do you fear for us are you scared are you worried for us the messenger said إلما قلوب الخلق the people's heart جميعا and all of them are بين أسبعين من أصابع الرحمن it is between the two fingers of Allah يقلبها الله turns it كيف يشاء however he will in other words yes your heart are between the two fingers of Allah Allah tosses and turns it the way he will سبحانه وتعالى الإمام التيرمذي الإبلو ماجه they narrated it الشيخ ناصر رحمه الله he authenticated it in his كتابة المشكات المصابح so our prophet the best man who walked on this earth is supplicating to Allah and he is asking Allah يا مقلب القلوب the one who tosses and turns the heart ثبت قلبي على دينك keep my heart steadfast upon your religion سفيان الثوري رحمه الله a man came to him and he said to him هل بكيت على سابق علم الله فيك have you ever cried a man came to سفيان الثوري and he said to him have you cried because of the knowledge that has of you knows that you are going to finally end and what has been destined for you doesn't it make you cry when you remember it and you think about it سفيان الثوري you used to say تركتني لا أفرح you have left me never going to be happy again من بعدها أبدا I'm no longer going to be happy based on what you've told me if you ponder today how many people do you know who were once in the front line in the message they were fasting Mondays and Thursdays they were righteous they were upright, they were steadfast and suddenly everything changed and things have gone the opposite but as you guys would call it it went pear shaped things have changed ماليكم لدينا he used to he used to stand in front he used to face towards the qiblah and he would cry and he would say يا رب ما يلود قد علمت أهل الجنة أو الله you know the people of Jannah من أهل الناري from the people of the Hellfire أو الله you know the people of Jannah from the people of the Hellfire you know ففي أي الفريقين from which of those two groups كوتي ما ماليك is ماليكم لدينا رغم he would stand and he would face تقبلا and he would say to himself أو الله you know the people of Jannah from the people of the Hellfire which of those two parties is ماليك from amongst and he would cry and he would carry on crying and the reason why he would cry is على سابق علم الله the knowledge that Allah has of you سبحانه وتعالى and that which he has prepared for you my beloved brothers and sisters لا ترى بالظاهر don't ever be deceived by the apparent form that you see from a person وَالْوَسْأَرْبَكَ الْإِخْلَاصِ don't be deceived by the out appearance and always ask Allah's sincerity Our Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم he told us a story of a man and this story is found in Bukhariya Muslim in the two most authentic books after the book of Allah سبحانه وتعالى on the authority of the companion ساعد الساعدي رضي الله وتعالى عنه the Prophet told us on the narration mentioned to us that there was a man who went out in one of the expeditions in one of the battles with the Prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام and this man the companions they saw him to be the best and the most strongest and the most dedicated man from amongst them the narration mentioned this man in the battle he presented efforts they came without which no one surpassed he fought well so the companions when they came back to their camp because the battle it goes on for a while people go to sleep and they carry on after when they came back and they conversed amongst themselves they started to talk they mentioned him and everybody saw him everybody was speaking about him in a good light praising him glorifying him venerating him the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and when he heard them what they were saying about this man the Prophet said to them هو من أهل النار this man is from the people of the house fire فقال رجل إيمان then said أنا صاحبه I will accompany this man I will be with him shoulder to shoulder I will be his shade so when the battle went back and they went to fight again and they fought he said I made sure I watched that man I wanted to observe him and see where he is up to the man in the battle he got wounded a severe wound hit him and when he got wounded فلم يصبر على ألمها he could not endure the pain فجعل النصلة سيفه he placed his sword upwards he made the sharp side face up and he placed his stomach on it and he put himself to death he hastened his life he hastened his death when the man saw him killing himself he ran back to the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم فرجع الرجل إلى رسول الله the man ran back to the Prophet فقال he said to the Prophet اجهدو I testify أنك رسول الله that you are a messenger said from Allah حقا وصدقا that you are truly a messenger said from Allah فقال له النبي the Prophet said to him وما ذاك why why have you said that he said when you said when you said a messenger of Allah that this man is in the Hellfire I made sure that I went with him and I made sure I observed him and what he did was he killed himself he committed suicide he killed himself the messenger said a powerful statement here he صلى الله عليه وسلم he said إن أحدكم that one of you لا يعمل بعمل أهل الجنة he would do the action of the people of Jannah فيما يبدو للناس all of that is as it seems to the people it looks like this man what he's doing and everything he holds up to and his principles are all what from the apparent it looks like he's from the people of Jannah so what's the problem here the problem here is the efforts are only directed at the right he's doing the action of the people of Jannah فيما يبدو للناس as it seems to the people it's directed at the right he's only working on his outer appearance and he's only working on his beard and how short his garment is but he's forgetting that he should what the heart the greatest organ that he needs to observe he's forgetting to look at that so everything he's doing is what it seems from the outer ثم يسبق عليه الكتاب and then what was written from him overcomes him فيعمل بعمل النار so he does the action of the people of the Hellfire فيدخول الناره then enters the Hellfire and another one another person he does the action of the people of the Hellfire فيما يبدو للناس as it seems to the people he's drinking alcohol all of this is from the outer though internally this man his heart is strong he's got some good faith in him he's going off track he's misbehaving with himself now but he has a strong element in his heart ثم يسبق عليه الكتاب that element that was in his heart overcomes everything and so he starts to do the action of the people of Jannah suddenly the man just changes or the girl changes and they start working towards good and then they die upon that path so they enter Jannah so don't let you ever get fooled by you having the outer appearance done when it's really important to work on your work your inner self our prophet said in the حديث مَا مِنْ نَفْسِنْ مَنْ فُوْسَةِنْ إِلَّا وَقَدْ كَتَبَ اللَّهُ رَبُّ الْعَلَمِينَ مَقْعَدَهَ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ there is not a person who breathes except Allah has written for them the Lord of the heavens and the earth has written for them a place in Jannah or a place in Hellfire everybody he has a place in Jannah and he has a place in Hellfire everyone وعلم الله وعلم الله knows رب العالمين the Lord of the heavens and the earth he knows من أهل الشقاوة here أم من أهل السعادة Allah knows is he from the people of Jannah or is he from the people of Deen جزاك الله خير is he from the people of Jannah should he be taken to the place that was made for him in Jannah or is he from the people of Hellfire and is he going to be taken to Hellfire when he comes you guys know a surah called صورة التغابل right there is a surah in the Quran called صورة التغابل right yeah what juice is it in صورة التغابل what juice is it in where what juice but Salah صح so a surah we expect قرآن from you guys مهشد سنا where we live in west london and other places we hear so a surah call let us down okay I'm going to pick up the young kids from a surah so صورة التغابل what does it mean what does تغابل mean yeah does anyone know what تغابل means what does تغابل mean you can help us here it's not a rhetorical question a direct question I need somebody to answer it yeah now you yes you don't know hey who else who can tell us what تغابل means yeah you guys can't look at google or something can't google it up yeah lost again lost again right تغابل means the person the day of judgment when he comes and he is shown may Allah protect us from this he is shown his place in jannah and he said this could have been your place in jannah but you chose to be a criminal and you chose to go against Allah's command so you're now going to enter in this place in hellfire what does he feel he's lost a great great reward he could have received that's the names of the day the day of judgment so every slave there's a place in jannah for him and there's a place in that in the hellfire every one of us if we make it to jannah we will be told this could have been your place in the hellfire but you got saved how's he going to feel happy الحمد لله I made it through brothers and sisters what really matters is not how good you are all your life what really matters is بل خواتين what really matters and what is observed is your final enemies that's what matters if all of your life you were a Muslim but the last minutes before you pass out before you pass away and you die and you become a disbeliever when it mattered the 30 40 years you were a Muslim when it mattered but remember you are most likely going to die upon that which you used to do in the course of your life if you were a noble person who spent majority of his time in the masjid the chances of you dying in the masjid is higher if you are spending your time on the streets on the corner you are spending your time selling and buying drugs and you are doing that very often you are most likely going to die in that way so what matters is what بل خواتين I am going to tell you guys a story and I am going to conclude with that story this story is the beginning and the end and he transmitted this story from the great Imam ibn al-Jawzi رحم الله he is in the history of the Ummah but in the history of the Ummah so ibn al-Kathir took it from ibn al-Jawzi a man whose name used to be called Abduh Ibn Abdul Rahim his name was what Abduh Ibn Ibn Abdul Rahim this man he had two noble characteristics the first noble characteristic that he had was he was a half he memorized the what the book of Allah the second characteristics that this man had he was he used to every time the Muslims would go and fight with the Romans he would always be with the Muslims and he would fight with the Romans so he was a man that the people respected they admired him a righteous individual one day they were in a fortress they were in a a fortress the Muslims were protecting that fortress from the Romans he was in a fortress and his eye called a Roman woman he saw a Roman woman walking when he saw her he approached her and when he approached her he went to her and he said to her كيف السبيل إليكي how is it that I can get to you what is it that I have to do if I want your hand in marriage she said to him لا سبيل there is no way إلا بألتكتك الإسلامة there is no way to get to me unless you want unless you believe in Islam وتدخلوا في الكفري when you enter into this disbelief ففعالة he did he walked away from Islam he chose he chose كفر and this belief of Allah he followed her he left the fortress of the Muslims that he was in and he entered into the fortress of the Romans in which he was fighting all those years so the narrator of the story he said when we were walking after that we would come across this man we would see him we would walk by him and we would look at him and we would say to him كيف شعبك what's your affairs and he would say والله by Allah إن الآن I write at this moment ما ألكر من القرآن إلا تلك الآية only one verse ربما يودل الذين كفروا لو كانوا المسلمين I don't remember this verse this verse what does it mean that the disbelievers will wish the day of judgment if only they were Muslims ربما يودل الذين that the disbelievers they will wish if only they could be believers of Allah SWT that's what I remember there is no other that I remember from the Quran he forgot everything and the one ayah that was remaining with him is the verse that's a proof against him سوء الخاتم that's a bad evil ending and some of you might think this is a story that took place many years ago this is not but I remember a young boy who was in the masjid that we were in he was in our masjid and he was he started a program in our masjid memorizing the Quran and on the internet he got to know a Polish girl he met a Polish girl and this brother is in the masjid he's in a two year Quran program memorizing the Quran he's one of the elite students he was handpicked to be part of the program what he did was he met this girl on social media this Polish girl said to him you have to come to Poland he spoke Poland he took a flight to Poland for a while no one heard from him he brought her to London or they came together to London and I remember when I last saw him when I last saw him I saw him drinking alcohol and insha'Allah he's not going to have an evil ending but it's worrying in the course of your life you will see many people many people that you once knew you were upright, steadfast they slipped and I'll tell you brothers the first step of deviation if you really want to know that you are going to become corrupted and you're scared and you're worried that this might happen to you I will tell you something if you do you might be saved and that is stick with the masjid when you see that you are far from the masjid you disconnect yourself from the masjid you are vulnerable because when shaitan now comes to take you from a crowd of many Muslims and you're with your jama'a for him to come and attack you is not easy for him if you're with your boys and your rivalries they come and you're with your boys on the block can they get to you but what about if you leave your area code and you go to another one what's happening what's going to happen what happens you know what's going to happen that's the reality if you leave the masjid that's where you're from this is where it is the day that you take a step out you've left your area code now shaitan for him as the prophet said the wolf eats the goat that's alone have you guys watched wildlife what does he do when the herd of sheep are together what does he try to do he tries to get one out of the herd he tries to get one out of the group once he turns towards the opposite that's it the lion is on to that one but whilst they are all together is he able to get them that's what it is so if you really want to know why many people fall off is the first step is that they stop coming to the masjid they stop coming to the masjid and once they do stop coming to the masjid حديث ولا حرج it's a chain of problems a domino effect everything now is open you do drugs then zina and then khabar and then mada and whatnot you're open to going to prison and I say that to everybody I'm Abdulrahman Hassan I'm the Imam of the masjid I'm the Imam of that masjid I'm doing it for myself and if I take a step out of that the masjid I walk out of it I'm scared for myself I am scared for myself that I might get attacked by shea b'an whilst I'm with my brothers and I'm in the masjid and between those walls I'm safe so remember that remember that statement I said to you and think about it how many brothers do you know who are coming to the masjid and are selling drugs it's either none or never they don't so inshallah that was the reflection of today anything which I have said that was wrong or incorrect it's from me Shaytan and Allah and his messenger I'm free from it