 السلام عليكم ورحمة الله ورحمة الله everyone is doing well. So tonight is a special night. It is the 27th of Rajab, the night of Isra' and Me'raj. الحمد لله one of the best things that we can be doing on this night is gathering together as believers learning the dean of our messenger. And this was a night in which strong parts of the dean were given to him. And then they were passed down. And so we'll discuss that. Inshallah. But we'll continue on in our discussion of the soul's eternal journey. And we have reached the third section. So this is the section. Once somebody finishes out and culminates their life in this dunya, in this world, which is the purpose for the human creation. They will then transition into another realm into another world. And this transition is literally the main thing that the human being has hopefully been working for and preparing for their entire life. And if not, then it should become the main thing that we are working for and that we are preparing for. And this is the moment at which we die. Which الله سبحانه وتعالى says in his Quran that كل نفس دائكة الموت every soul shall taste death and will taste death and is tasting death because every day that goes by is a day that we actually don't get back in our life. It is that day, that part of our life we have already died essentially. And we are moving closer and closer to a death that we don't know when it exists. ذكر الموت. Remembering death is one of the most virtuous ways to clean the heart, to clean the قلب. And it is one of the most virtuous ways to get close to Allah. Allah mentions death often in the Quran. It's very, very frequent the mentioning of death. And the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم told us to frequently mention death in our gatherings and to frequently mention death in our lives. Why? Because it helps the believer anchor themselves and realize that yes, I'm here in this world, but I'm here for a purpose. It is one of the many lives that I'm going to live. And the purpose of this life is to prepare for that moment in which I will leave this world and which I will, Insha'Allah, meet Allah. I will leave this world in which I will meet our Lord. And so he's going to talk in this section about the different things that happen when somebody actually passes away and the questions that we are asked in the grave. And while most of these things are fairly straightforward, we've probably learned about them before. Maybe we might know some of the basics. These are supposed to not be concepts that just sit in the brain. They're supposed to be deep spiritual realities that penetrate the hearts. And when the reality penetrates the heart, it should change the way in which we live our life. It should change the way in which we live our life. We don't want these concepts to simply be No, no, no. That's hot heat. That these are concepts that should actively result in it with an impact on our life. So he says that at some point every believer is going to die. And there is the moment of death. And he actually doesn't expand upon the moment of death in too much detail in this specific text. But he gets into what happens right after the believer passes away. Other scholars, Imam Ghazali has a whole book that's written entirely on every single thing that's going to happen when you die. And just so you can prepare yourself for it. And what is going to happen? The things that the believer will see or will not see. The way in which they will experience things. The feeling that happens when the soul is leaving the body. All these different feelings that happen. Because when one dies, they enter into an entirely different realm where they are very much present and awake. Everybody around us at this moment starts to think that we're gone. But we actually have just woken up at this point. So I say Naali Karamallahu wajr radiallahu anhu. He says that people are asleep and when they die they wake up. The vast majority of people. So he says wake up before those moments. Let your enough start to die before the day in which everything, the sensory realm will start to disappear. This is something now we can actually practice and implement. And we should practice and implement. Because these concepts, they're not meant to be things we just learn in like a Sunday school fashion. Just memorize them. And they don't make any impact. We should start to reflect on these moments. How will I be when I die? So we live our life through this Dunya. For some it will be 30 years, 40 years. Some it will be 70 years, 80 years. For others it might be much, much, many fewer years than that. Maybe 10 years, 12 years. But everybody has a lifespan that's been written for them. On the day that Allah created them and on the day that they are born. Then they now start to go through life and they live that lifespan. So we don't know when that day is going to come. We don't know when that day does come. The preparation is going to be very, very important. And so the first thing that one can do is actually start to meditate and reflect on what will I be. What state will I be in when I die? What state will I be in when I die? What how will I have when I pass away? And what will be the experience that I will be experiencing? You kind of try to imagine this experience. So one can actually do a form of تفق or reflection, meditation where they start to think, I'm going to be in some place. Whether it will be with people. Whether it will be set in. Whether it will be in a hospital. Whether it will be while I was sick. And then I will start to experience the different feelings that come with death. Every believer will see the angel of death. We'll see everybody will see the angel of death. The believers will see the angel of death. Ideally, insha'Allah, if their life was righteous in a pure form and in a more beautiful form. The people of either disbelief, كفر or sinfulness will see a very scary situation start at the moment in which death begins. And that is the first bad sign for them of a ruined life in the year after. That what they see when they are they start to get into a state of trepidation and worry and anxiety and at this point nobody can help them. Because this is at the point where only Allah knows what's happening and when he's going to take the soul. He mentioned this in Surah Al-Waqia that as the soul gets closer and closer who will actually be there? Only God will be there. And so your relationship with God now becomes at most important. If somebody had a pure relationship with God Allah will insha'Allah choose to bless them with the حسن الخاتمة a good ending, a good seal. And then Allah will hopefully be with them when they pass away. And hopefully their loved ones that are with them will be reminding them of goodness and reminding them of saying the Shahada and so on. But it could also be a سوء الخاتمة an evil ending where they outwardly it may look basic but inwardly they're having a very difficult time. You might just see them passing away in a hospital but they're unable to do any form of thickor. They're unable to have a good beautiful ending. And that's the moment that the believer's life is preparing for. So what happens now? There's no this is not an intellectual game at this point. There's no intellectual component to this. I think we can probably turn that one off. I think it's fine. I think we can turn that one off. Is it helpful for you guys? It's fine? Yeah, we can turn it off. It's like a weird echo. Thank you. So what happens now is somebody will die according to the way they lived. There's no cheat codes. There's nothing one can just memorize and say okay now I'm going to find a way around this. The way in which one lived is the way in which they would die. If they lived a life of goodness and of righteousness then we hope and if Allah accepted it we hope that it leads to a time a death of goodness and righteousness. And if they lived the opposite of that Allah can always change it but it's much more likely that it's this that it is a bad ending. So the reflection here one should always think okay how are my days passing? How are my days passing? Am I living a life such that if I were to die tonight or if I were to die tomorrow or if I were to die in my sleep I would be content with the day that I had lived before this. Because there will not be some specific moment at which it's going to be announced to us that now prepare yourselves and get ready. No, it's going to be that it comes. And it's mentioned many a time and Imam Ghazali mentioned this in his text on death that there were people who lived lavish lives and lives of luxury and the kings of this world and so on and so forth. And at some point he mentioned a situation in which they have these like very very gated homes they get kind of like a gated mansion type of situation and so all of a sudden somebody blows open the gates blows open the gates and the guards who are there say who are you stop get out of here and he says and literally the guards have no impact on on the one who's coming through the gates so they can't the guards are unable to stop them at the gate then there are more guards at the door that are unable to stop this one from coming they're unable to stop this one from coming so they go they go to the house and he enters into the house and he just completely walks past the guards and then he enters into the home and he points to the corrupt king to the corrupt ruler and he says you I've come for you and now he knows the king knows that this is the angel of death the angel of death has come and there's no and he says give me some time I just I got some situations take care of I have some people to fix some things with I have to take care of this I want to live righteously and he says no no time you had your time you had your whole life you were given this and he lists off all the blessings that he was given and he lists off more and more things and he says and you didn't use it wisely now it's just doom for you that's it and now I've come to see that he and then he seizes his soul and the entire this unveiling has happened and they're able to see what most people are not able to see by witnessing this and his soul is taken and yeah all of the life of luxury and corruption and everything that people live they enjoy the life of dunya it's fine he goes back there if they enjoy the life of dunya but it's not looking too good after that and so they this is the feeling that somebody can have and so one should one should practice this moment one should practice this moment right and really reflect okay how am I going to be in these in these days if this happens to me for the believer it could be a it's a very very different experience it's a very different experience and for the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم permission was sought if the angel of death is not as high ranked as the prophet عليه السلام permission was sought is it okay for me to take is it okay if I do this now because he is the greatest of Allah's creation for the rest of us permission is not going to be sought the angel will come and will do what they are what he is supposed to do but we hope that he will greet us and he goes and then he also mentioned the angel of death checks on people multiple times a day or multiple times a week and this might seem how can one do this with billions of people the angels don't operate inside of the realm of calculation just like we believe in unseen AI LLM models that can calculate that have insanely powerful computational capabilities the angels that Allah has created have far more significant computational capabilities and abilities that Allah has given them so they're checking on people and so he's observing what kind of life are you living but ultimately Allah will give the command take this person's soul in this location at this time and the angel of death will be present not a minute before not a minute after is it possible for the soul to leave the body than what Allah has written for somebody or so so the second takeaway is to imagine what happens when the angel when the angel does this and then start to imagine now what happens when the person goes from this moment of being of passing away to what happens now their body is washed their body is washed and so the believer feels the effects of the whistle the believer feels it it's all happening it may seem like the man the one who was passed away is not feeling anything they're feeling ev ev their sensory their senses are amplified in fact according to some narration so they feel a lot of things they understand what's going on they know if someone's treating them roughly or not and so we that they just transition into a different realm into a different realm just like in this realm the angels they can see us but we can't see them in that realm the dead they know what's going on with the living they don't know what's going on with the dead with the exception of the prophets that Allah opens the door of this to them and the prophets are able to see some of them what's going on and the inheritors of the prophets what's going on with the dead and so one now starts to be washed and one must prepare themselves for these moments and then the funeral so he goes into a little bit of detail in terms of what is the and how should one prepare for this moment in their life how should one prepare for this moment in their life where ideally they have a good ending and a righteous funeral meaning righteous people attend many people pray over them and inshallah it's a means of forgiveness for them as the prophet gave many incentives for believers to attend the funerals to attend the funerals so he said that much anyone who escorts the janaaza of a Muslim until he prays for him for her shall receive one measure of reward and and each measure is the size of Mount Uhud Mount Uhud is huge if anyone has ever been to Medina Manora it's this huge mighty majestic rock like mountain it's not like a dirt mountain it's a rock like huge and so it's that's one measure of reward that they receive for attending the janaaza and if they remain until they're buried they receive one measure of reward as in this narration and it is also said in one narration that whoever escorts the funeral of their fellow Muslim Allah orders the angels to escort their funeral prayer and pray over them when they die so one way one can prepare for death in these moments is make it a habit okay you know what once a month or once every three months I'm going to escort I'm going to make the time to go to a janaaza and I'm going to just if it's especially if I can on a weekend or something and people are busy with work during and you don't need to actually know the people there's people who are passing away and massage it all the time 31st must shed right here down the street 10 blocks away they have a whistle area they pray janaaza like every two three days is a janaaza after the heart that's being prayed and so then people just whether they know them or not they escort them but number two it gives us the number two it gives somebody the reflection of death because they'll say you know this is going to happen to me and it's important when one looks at the body and the mayets who's passed away they're wrapped in we are wrapped in white shroud when we die that one realizes themselves in that place not we don't we don't kind of divorce the reality and just oh yeah I'm here I just got to go through the motions when we're present in front of the dead and going in a sign of our heart being alive is that we understand the reality of what's happening this person is about to go and be buried in a cover and a grave and then they're about to meet a lot that's the reality of what's happening their soul was just taken from the angel of death so that's not a time of jokes of laughing of catching up with our friends and so on and so forth especially when someone is able to see the body should be a time of immense seriousness and weightiness and ideally where one is where one is weeping sorry my wife is out of town and he is very attached right now so if he runs around I just ask them for a little bit of help and keep him entertained so one should have a weightiness to this it's not a time of lightness right getting getting food with people hanging out and gathering these are times of lightness but funeral janasas they're times of heaviness one should really it should really hit us what's happening what's taking place here and if we make it a habit to attend them again it doesn't have to be every day or every week although somebody wanted to they could attend janasas all the time because there's so many people but one should make it a habit especially the men it is a far the key fire of the community a communal obligation that the janasas takes place a communal obligation as we've learned is if somebody if a few people in the community do it everybody is lifted of the obligation but if nobody in the community does it then everybody carries the weight of the sin it's different than the individual obligations like the prayers so one should try to make the intention to fulfill that obligation every now and then for the sake of those who are passing away and then he says that the spirits when they pass away they endure some physical bodies they may not endure some physical bodies decay others do not decay as Allah says in the Quran that do not think that those who have been slain in the way of Allah are dead nay they are alive with their Lord being provided for and in one narration the prophet said their spirits will be inside green birds who freely move in the garden and retire into lanterns attached to the throne so whatever the spiritual realities or what the prophet just said in the hadith the realities are very difficult for us to understand but the fact that those who have passed in the cause of Allah or those who are very close to Allah among the civiqeen or especially among the nibi'een they don't pass the way a normal person passes and they don't live a life in the grave the way a normal person lives a grave they live a very very different type of life and a different type of experience so if you pray إن شاء الله إن شاء الله is happening to our the martyrs in philistine that may Allah accept their shahada and their martyrdom that they are not they are not living a life anymore the way they were living in this world of difficulty and civil strife and turmoil but rather now they have been freed and they are with their Lord and he is providing for them in the most special of ways this is Quran this is Quran even if one does not look at the narration و so it has also been related to the soul of the believers I assume this means some believers will be inside white birds which feed on the fruits of the garden so there is various ways in which the souls can roam in the realms in the unseen realms beyond just the physical ways right now we are in our physical realm our soul is in our physical body but it is not going to be the case when somebody passes away فهي يقول أن المخطر يتعلم و يتعلم من الذين يتعلمون و يتعلمون. و يقول أنه يتعلم من أجل يتعلم منه و يتعلم معه في المخطر لكي يتعلم كل ما يقول aboutه. كل ما يقول about the one who has passed away. يمكن أن يتعلم المخطر. حقاً للمخطر. حantine عبالно good things about those who passed away if we have bad things to say we avoid saying bad things in general but especially at a time where someone has passed away we only remember good traits about that person about that believer if they are a believer if they are amongst one pressure or something like that they are doomed anyways and it's not the same requirements that one would only say ماذا يفعل؟ فالنهي يقول، أفضل ما حدث، when he's laid in the grave he goes into the grave and there will be one time in your life that's it one time you die that you'll be laid in the grave and this is the moment again that we've been hopefully preparing for all the إبادة و المال and the attempts to draw near to Allah for our intentions to draw near to Allah really started to come to fruition in this moment when one passes away and they're laid in their grave and so once he says one does it by saying بسم الله على ملة رسول الله in the name of Allah according to the way according to the religion of the Prophet ﷺ when one lays the dead into the grave and then those who are present throw dirt into the grave from the verses in the Quran و من خلقنا from it to recreate you to it shall we shall we return you you shall return to it and from it we shall bring you forth another time these are the three that one says when they are pouring dirt into the grave this is something one should always do for those who have passed away and then of course they fill the rest of the grave now for those of us who have not passed into the intermediary realm obviously we're here one reflects on these moments when you're at a grave at a funeral the whole point of the funeral is to think about what am I going to do when I'm there in addition to praying for the deceased and letting it impact you what am I going to when I'm in that state what is going to happen to me will I be ready will I be at least somewhat ready or will I just be in a very difficult situation and one should be at ease with dying this is among the hallmark traits of the righteous is they are completely at ease with dying no fear of death it's the day that I meet my Lord is what they say they're going to join with their and with their beloved the Sayed Nabila the famous Sahaba he was that on the day that he was as it was very clear that he was going to pass in that day or the next he was happy and he said something along the lines of and this day I'm going to meet محمد and his companions صلى الله عليه وسلم I'm going to meet them those who will pass before him like say and now and now I'm finally going to go meet them he was so excited he was so excited and of course his family was not as excited and they were not in that same state necessarily that he was in but he was he knew that I will finally get to meet the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and so their yearning was strong the one whose heart is pure the way to know one of the other ways to know if the heart is pure is how much yearning do you have for Rasool الله and how much yearning do you have for Allah one should have a year enough of a relationship and should focus on developing a relationship with the Prophet that one yearns to be with him and yearns to meet him and yearns to stand before him and kiss his blessed hands and yearns to give salam and yearns for the Prophetic Embrace and yearns for these things one should yearn for this people would say and others would cry all night long all night long doing what what was there and what was there crying for just for the Prophet just for this yearning missing him so much missing him missing him this is one of the best types of ways to increase your connection to Allah is to increase your connection to the Prophet ﷺ because he is حبيب الله and he is the door by which we go through Allah we would not know Allah had it not been for the Prophet ﷺ and had the Prophet ﷺ not told us about him so when this love of the Prophet will serve one well when they pass away and it will increase your yearning for the days in which you will meet then now what happens he says one should recite some Quran while it is possible at the grave and make dua for the deceased so make dua for forgiveness and for that this person has an easy time in the grave and an easy time in transitioning and then and a different narration has mentioned different things it is good to recite Surah Yaseen for the one who has passed away it is good to recite Surah Muq it is good to recite إخلاص إذا الله أحد 11 times or any number of times as much Quran as one can do one should recite and one should have no doubt about the fact that if one is doing it with a sincere attention that it shall light will reach them and be a benefit then now the person who has passed away the question is asked to them who is your Lord what is your Deen and who is your Prophet and now this question the answer does not come from your mind again the same thing and so the answer does not come from one's mind at this point so you won't be able to say okay well I believe this so Allah is my Lord whoever one worshipped in this life if it was money if it was status if it was fame if it was prestige if it was other people that's what their response will be if it was some celebrity whoever we gave precedence to over Allah meaning the time came when Allah's حكم was for something and we didn't do that and we said we did something else we said you know what it's more important that I do this thing which was for some other intention if one does that continuously and has not repented then one should be we should be fearful that that is what we are going to say or is our Lord and then what is your Deen Islam is the answer we know this the way of submission it's not these questions are intellectually basic questions but what is the reality of our state the reality of our state whatever way we follow whoever methodology we follow that's what we are going to say whatever methodology we so if we gave precedence to the religion of Islam that insha'Allah insha'Allah we ask Allah if all of us hope to be in this and divine assistance that we will say Islam and then finally who is your prophet again whoever one looked up to the most we all say how many of us really look up to the prophet so how many of us really that follow his sunnah in every way as much as we can in the best of our ability and yearn for it and don't minimize it one of the most dangerous things and one can do that could ruin these moments is they minimize the sunnah they make it why are you still doing stuff like that such a weird way of doing things that's a very very or they laugh at the sunnah one should never laugh at any sunnah action or minimize any sunnah action even if we don't do that action someone else is doing the action they're doing the sunnah one should not minimize it so the heart speaks now the reality speak again this world is flipped the barzakh the intermediary realm it's not a world of what outward senses it's a world of the inward realm so whatever the reality of your situation is that's what's going to come out of our situation and we're going to say what we need to say and this is what matters now it doesn't matter what people think of you in this world it doesn't matter how successful one was outwardly or not in this world it doesn't matter how much money somebody made it doesn't matter how much is in someone's bank account or their investment account or their 401k or their stocks or this thing or that thing doesn't matter how much prestige somebody gained or what level of attention people give them none of it matters the only thing that matters really at the end of the day did we get these questions right and everything we do in life we'll play into whether we got these questions right but this is the test that we should be preparing for more than any other test or any other exam you know like when we're young when we do we prepare for exams in school if we order for in college or graduate school whatever we prepare for exams when everyone prepares for their exams and then when they as they get older sometimes they might be interviewing for a job or have to learn a new skill they might have to prepare for an interview and they might prepare for a coding test or something else like that there's preparation at different stages of life that's going on the ultimate preparation is this this is the ultimate test whether somebody passes it or not that's the big question that we want to be asking for ourselves and the main thing that's happened in our time is the seriousness of this has kind of disappeared the seriousness of these moments of these days of the reality of what's going to happen in this time it's not as present as it needs to be and so the believers how frequently do we mention death in our gap you don't go to a social gathering where someone is talking about death the gatherings of the prophets in the Sahaba they would talk about death they would talk about it it was like a very clear part what would it be okay how are you going to are you going to be able to answer for that what you just did or what you just didn't do or what you just ate or what you just said when you died this is the way the believers they're constantly reminding each other for that kid in the Quran what we need to remind for reminding benefits the believers so in our life right now let's not live a life of regret where we regret the time that we spent just letting time pass and never thinking about the serious the weighty things it doesn't mean one has to be doom and gloom all the time but there's a seriousness to life that really really really one has to wake up to and contemplating and reflecting on these things is what we'll bring about the seriousness so then he says that the one who allows to swerve in these questions will be confused and hesitating and just like in this world they have been doubtful hesitating confused torturous and neglectful of Allah's commands and prone to violate his prohibitions meaning they didn't do what Allah said to do and they didn't stay away from what Allah told them to stay away from he said they will say I don't know they will start to get into a state of panic at this point nobody can help them خلاص it's done nobody can help them he says now at this point in some narrations the striking will begin meaning their torture in the grave will start and the grave will tighten around them and be filled with church torture for some eternally until the day of judgment and for others according to how much Allah wants to punish them we're talking this could be thousands of years for some people thousands tens of thousands of years before they're resurrected and it gets even worse all for what for 60 70 years of a life that we could have lived we could have lived with righteousness so this is what one has to reflect on and really seriously think I'm going to be in a place six feet down under all by myself if one can visit a graveyard by themselves or with somebody else and look into an open grave and just look okay how deep is it okay how narrow is it and that's it who's in there with us nothing only our deeds nobody is allowed to carry anything in with them and that's it only the عمال and their Lord will be present with them and for the for the one who's in this state that he just mentioned the grave constricts further until in some narrations the ribs go like this and they keep going like this and this and this and the intensity of the punishment continues and for others who are in the felicitous state he says the firm believer the mu'min who was established in faith during their life will be given glad tidings by the angels their grave will become spacious filled with light and delight and their good works will surround them so this is where you're fasting the prayers charity recitation of the Qur'an remembrance of Allah good character treating other people kindly treating our parents well all the different traits that one is supposed to be doing in terms of the rights of Allah and the rights of the people they will come to protect so now the punishment is about to come the Qur'an comes can't touch him can't touch her not why because she recited the Qur'an she recited me would stay up late to recite me would fight their sleep in Ramadan to recite me and now I'm going to protect them his fast will come and the fast will say you cannot touch this person why because they fasted for Allah's sake and now I am their fast and these are personified they're present and they protect one and all of the other إبادة comes and starts to protect one so it's a very obvious situation what should we do how should we prepare but the nafs doesn't want us to prepare in this life so the more one can defeat their nafs and this is why everything we've been talking about with regards to Dhikr and purifying the heart and remembering the moments in our life remembering remembering Allah and remembering the meeting with Allah become so important because one will feel a type of dread in this life where they're like if I don't prepare for this something's going to happen and they'll wake up from their sleep and others if they stay asleep they will never feel that dread like that worry anxiety I better prepare and once that anxiety starts to kick in it should be an activating force to make somebody prepare as one Hadid I've never seen anything more terrifying than the grave the prophet has seen a lot alaih salatu as-salam he said I've never seen something more terrifying than the grave and one time said he came near a grave and he wept so much that his entire beard became wet and it's because he said I heard the prophet the grave is the first of the hereafter stages of the stages of the akhira if one is saved from it then what comes next is easier but if one is not saved then what comes next is even harder it's already hard enough with what we just read and this is not he barely described it if we have time maybe next time if we can get through the rest of the the sessions we'll get into what Imam Ghazali says in detail about the grave every step of what's going to happen the types of punishments that are possible you get that there's a lot of detail that's written in our tradition about the grave we're very fortunate to know what goes on in the akhira who have not been given this access to this unseen realm and knowledge that the Prophet ﷺ give us access to so then it is said why does the torment of the grave happen it is because of three things mainly all sins can bring punishment but the Prophet ﷺ is summarizing he says because first people we talk bad about other people that's the first is slander and backbiting the second is calamni what's calamni calamni it's tail bearing meaning did you hear what happened to this person did you hear what she said did you hear what they said oh that person they said this thing bad about you are you still going to hang out with them why would you hang out this spreading the bad that other people say about you to other people just the worst types of gossip this is one of the main sources imagine every sin the Prophet ﷺ could have listed he says the main sources of punishment for the grave are these because why people take them lightly other sins we might do a sin but we talk bad about people and may Allah forgive us all the time all the time all sorts of things that we say so we have to take ourselves to account the tongue this is what's going to get us in trouble the main thing is going to get us in trouble is this tongue just say what I used to hold the tongue and sometimes be seen walking on his mouth filled with rocks imagine somebody walked around now with his mouth full of rocks what would we think of them this is the greatest and after the Prophet ﷺ they say they said the tongue is what gets me in trouble this tongue is what gets me in trouble trying to prevent the tongue is what gets me in trouble just trying to keep it quiet trying to keep the tongue quiet not overdoing it so one should be very careful what am I saying am I saying an exam okay I'm about to say someone just brought up somebody who I don't like I know that there's like a 98% chance that I say something bad so I better just leave the room or change the topic or pull out my phone and bring something else up and change it up before I let myself get into more trouble because this is about to get bad because and so this is the first two things the third thing is one not carrying them one not taking care of themselves when after they use the restroom and the najasa of the restroom gets on them this is one of the main things is one narration one who does not guard themselves there's a chance being soiled with najasa with urine with other things they will have the carelessness by which they did that and then they would go out and pray and do other things will have an impact on them in terms of the punishment of the grave so the believer is pure and it's clean and does their best to clean themselves does their best to clean themselves this is why for this total side topic but for men it's not permitted or specific but this is one of the main things where this happened this hadith is applied one must make sure that they are properly urinating and such that they are kept clean and that they clean everything for all believers must keep themselves clean must keep them we're not saying that is completely haram in all circumstances but the scholars have essentially said that this hadith would be one would be acting against it in that situation and so the prophet peace be upon him he would frequently make dua from the grave's torment and he urged others to include in their supplications in their dua protection from the grave so we always make dua for the dunya ya Allah I want this ya Allah I want that ya Allah I want the vast majority of the dua of the human being are for this life the vast majority of the dua of the righteous life we have to figure out how are we going to slowly increase the number of dua that we make for the next life we don't just want to do like a super quick and I'm saying this to myself first and foremost ya Allah make it easy for me in the Akhira okay and can I have this car and this job and this and we can ask him for all of it there's nothing wrong in asking him for as many things as possible in this dunya but at least one minute two minutes of the dua once a day should be for the Akhira maybe it's not once a day once a week ya Allah make my life easy for me because then the reality will sink in if it's not just a thing that's going to happen one day so again I'm saying this to myself first and foremost because I'm thinking about the dua that I make and they're far from making dua for the Akhira so we should all try to make it a habit at least on Fridays a virtuous day sit down after some other time of the day and just try to make a significant portion of our dua for the Akhira and ask Allah الله is too generous for us to be asking for 20, 30, 40, 50 years of our life and trying not to get and the main dua that we should make we should start with on virtuous nights and on virtuous moments like Hajj and other moments is dua for the Akhira and then of course anything we want in this dunya ample time to make those dua as well so that's a very quick summary of what happens and then we'll do one other section and then we'll end for good questions and then so then he says okay what's going to happen he said that one thing can benefit you once you pass away and that's the dua and some of the actions of the people who are still here so if your children or your family members or your loved ones or your friends pray to Allah for forgiveness for you Allah can forgive you and me while we are in the grave even if we had done so much wrong so the prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام he said in one narration that we're not for the living the dead would have been doomed why because according to the commentary the prayers and the quest for forgiveness and for mercy that they received and Alhamdulillah that the Muslims there's some Muslims they make dua all the time for all the Muslim Allah مقفل المؤمنين والمؤمنات والأموات that O Allah forgive the believing men and women those who are alive and those who have passed away so there are people in the ummah Alhamdulillah they're always praying for the believers who have passed but we should make it a habit at least our grandparents our parents if they're passed daily if not weekly we pray for them ya Allah forgive my parents even if they're alive or if they've passed forgive those who have passed away in iman before me they need the dua it's the most desperate thing that they could ask for is the dua it's the most essential thing rather that they could ask for the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he says in one narration for somebody to give on behalf of someone who has passed away so someone asked him صاعد إبن عبادة رضي الله and asked him my mother's soul departed suddenly and had she been able to speak she would have given charity would it bring her benefit if I did so on her behalf he said yes so he dug a well the صاعد on behalf of his mother and said this is for my mother so this is what's called صدق جارية one does a you make a much in someone's behalf they go well you give donation on their behalf you give صدق on their behalf once they've passed away we should do this and instill this in our siblings parents or other children people who may be alive after we pass away may not but they may be and to صدق جارية is essential give on my behalf please please give charity regularly remember me visit my grave frequently this should be a habit that we should do with our children and hopefully they will do when we have passed away then another narration says that صدق جارية my parents have died is there anything left by which with which I may be doing good to them I can do good to them he said yes there are four things praying asking forgiveness for them carrying out their promises and being good to their friends and their family those are ways that you can benefit them so praying for sure and asking forgiveness but also doing the virtue that they taught you in this life anytime somebody does a virtue whoever taught them the virtue gets the reward for it it's amazing this is why if we can teach children the Quran and the prayer ooh that and hopefully that person has a long life in obedience that is a huge key some of the scholars towards their later stage of life that's all they would want to do they would just teach children the Fatiha why? Fatiha how many times a day did someone say it? 17 at minimum if they pray 5 times a day let alone if they pray Sunnah and Nawafro and then they're always saying it always doing it and then the Quran and so if someone teaches one how to recite the Quran and teaches one how to pray Alhamdulillah don't let anyone ever take that deed away from you do not let the Sunday school teach your kids how to pray make sure we are the ones to do that not let the Sunday school teach our kids how to recycle at minimum that's the stuff that we want to get the reward for hopefully the Sunday school can add some stuff and they can get some reward too but for anybody who we can teach Quran to any especially amongst those who are young we should do and other good deeds as well so he says that that recite Quran and send it as a reward for them there's about whether this reaches the dead or not according to some narrations even though there's weakness in them it does and what the scholars said is when it comes to difference of opinion on Allah's mercy whether Allah is going to be merciful enough for it to benefit them or not side on the side of Allah's mercy so if anyone says oh why are you reciting yasin for this person is not going to benefit them anyways you could just say okay how about instead I scroll on Instagram and waste my time like everybody else like what do you want me to do no recite yasin for the dead like in the time we live in any good even if the hadith is extremely weak but it's been narrated that it's good to do and it's from the عمال not from أقيدة or فق meaning it doesn't impact your core belief or your fiq it's like an extra good deed we should 100% do in the time we live in too many people discourage others from doing good even the night tonight 27th of Rajab Israel Miraj is it do some people have a difference of opinion on this night maybe like 5 people yes they do is it worth listening to those people sure yeah let's just watch a soccer game tonight instead of worshiping Allah that's the type of logic that people use say no no no don't worship Allah instead just live just keep just play really really careful instead just live the dunya life and don't do anything extra no instead what does the scholar say if there's a chance that the virtue will increase one one goes for the virtue whether it's a little bit or a lot because we err on the side of Allah's mercy always especially in the time that we live in so he says recite for on and often if we can do this for our parents grandparents others اخلاس he says 11 times a day or 11 times frequently he said this is one good thing to do send them the reward of the of the and other other other forms of Quran if one can do a portion of the Quran and regularly say you know what I'm going to do this portion weekly and I'm going to send it to all of those as a gift what is the intention is to send this as a gift and as a reward to my grandma or to my grandfather or to all of them and then according to one it's presented to them as a light as like a newer as a gift coming from this person living in this location or this person the son of this person and then or the daughter of this person and then it's presented to them these are very very noble and virtuous things that one can do and we should teach our children to do this so that they can do it but nobody people don't forget about us the last thing we want to do is be forgotten about in this manner so that's the essence of what we want to cover right now we want to do a little bit more but for the sake of time we'll just briefly talk about the virtues of of Isra and Miraj and then we'll end Insha'Allah so tonight is the 27 of the Rajab 27 of the Rajab is related to Isra and Miraj according to most narrations this is the night in which the prophet عليه السلام when it was a very very very very virtuous night most of them say the scholars that this was the best night of his life عليه السلام the best night of his life why what happened on this night many takeaways first takeaway the year before this night before this this event happened was a very difficult year for the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم his uncle أبو طالب passed away his uncle was protecting him and was like a father to him this is the father of sayدنا علي رضي الله علي ابن أبو طالب this is so this is the uncle of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم very close to him so his uncle passes away already he's lost he already lost his father before he was born then he lost his blessed mother then he loses his grandfather sayدنا عبد المطالب رضي الله and then he loses his uncle and others in his family had also passed and then also who passes away in the same year his wife is the first and the great sayدنا خديجة صلى الله عليه وسلم that she passed away and she supported him when no one supported him she was there for him when revelation was first given to him she embraced him she she provided for him she helped him she supported him she encouraged him she passes away in this year as well and so now he's left all the people who had supported him they're gone the people who had loved him they're gone but Allah remains with him Allah who loves him the most and also gives him all of his support he remains and then what else happens in this year before this event the moment the event of thought if happens where the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم goes to thought if to do what to do that what to invite them to Islam so that all these very difficult situations don't happen when one passes away and they reject him vehemently really intensely reject him they throw stones at him they push him out of the city until his blessed feet were bleeding in some narrations for a kilometer or two a mile roughly where they just kept chasing him out all for what for calling Allah calling them to Allah very difficult situation and so he faced and there was a lot of squeezing that happened in this year it was known as the year prison of difficulty yes and anxiety or not anxiety grief and then it was in this time Allah chooses to bless him with so the first lesson in this is Allah will squeeze us a lot before the biggest opening a lot before the biggest opening and it's not easy squeezing for everybody but the opening does come and when it comes it's a great opening and we hope we ask Allah to give huge foot for the people of Palestine a huge opening because the what they're going through is just it's which can't even comprehend it in terms of the level of difficulty that they're going through but Insha'Allah with it is a huge opening that's coming and we should not doubt that for a second what happens he goes from Masjid Haram Jibril Islam shows up with the Buraq and tells him to ride to ride this Buraq which is like this flying majestic white horse and he goes from Masjid Haram to Masjid Al-Aqsa to wear to Jerusalem to the farthest mosque and he leads all of the prophets in prayer in this Masjid Masjid Al-Aqsa may Allah free it from these occupiers that it is very significant for the Muslims and plays a very significant role on this night and it should be a night in which we pray abundantly for Palestine and then he goes from there to heaven so the first thing and he ascends to heaven and he has various events I don't have time to get into all the details but I would advise if folks can to read in the Seerah about the events that took place amazing things happened on this night he went to every level of heaven and met different prophets and it was a way of teaching the prophet and also teaching us as an Ummah of what's going to take place the second thing that happened that's huge on this night is he goes and he directly he goes to a point Saydina Jibril is his tour guide and showing him okay and he goes to a point where Jibril says I can't go past this point if I go I'll just burn there's too much light I can't go this is only for you this station is yours the prophet the greatest of Allah's creation and he goes and now he enters in to the divine presence to meet Allah directly السلام وعليك ورحمة الله وبركاته when you read that this is what we are reading this is what we are reading this is what the greeting of Allah to the prophet السلام what is he doing this time he is with Allah all he is with his Lord he could just just be with his Lord السلام وعلينا على عباد الله ساله and peace be upon us and the righteous of Allah's servants so he remembers the Ummah in his most difficult times he remembers this Ummah he always cares for the Ummah the prophet is concerned for the Ummah but we can't even begin to understand his concern his concern is so vast for this Ummah and he remembers this Ummah in the divine presence and what does Allah give him any time you go to the house of a very very generous host you will leave with a gift what about the Lord of the heavens and the earth who calls you into his direct presence and the gift of the Salah is given now the formal ritual prayer it's given as 50 until he goes down he goes down now to the next heaven to the seventh heaven and or I don't know if it was on the seventh or the fourth where Musa al-Islam met him Musa al-Islam tells him there's no way they're going to do 50 they can't do 50 50 prayer is too much we pray all the time every 10 minutes would be a prayer he says okay he goes back up and this happens multiple times it's reduced by 5 45 40 35 until finally after so many times of going and meeting Allah until finally it's 5 prayers and then he says Musa al-Islam says they still won't be able to do 5 and he just says the Prophet of Islam says I'm too shy to go I'm not going to ask for anything else it is Allah says you do 5 you get the reward of 50 5 with the reward of 50 this main lesson we take away is the Salah this gift that was given is one of the only things that was given directly to the Prophet of Islam with no intermediary Injured Jibril Islam did not give him the Salah like he did the Quran the Salah was given directly to the Prophet for us to do what so it's our form of this night journey of ascension if somebody crazed their Salah it's the means of relief for him or her and it's a means of their getting close to Allah and reliving this and the Salah has a you literally relived this moment in the Salah it's amazing what took place the third key to remember is that there was a lot of do'az that the Prophet of Islam learned on this night and the Prophet of Islam taught about this night in terms of protection and the do'az that we should do to avoid the things that he saw and he witnessed in terms of the punishments that take place in the unseen but the key is that we use this time to make do'a for ourselves and for relief for the Ummah and to renew our prayer if we've been weak in our prayer renew the prayer this is a night in which one should strive to pray Qiyam strive to pray the Hajud it's very good to do so there's no specific Ibadah one needs to do or has to do or that's been narrated except that it's a good night for do'a and it's a good night to contemplate how much love and concern the Prophet of Islam has for us and it's a very very very special night for Jerusalem and for Masjil Aqsa it is when the Masjil Aqsa was honored with the presence before it many Prophets had prayed in it and had prayed in the Temple Mount in that general area now the Sayyid of all the Mursaleen came and he was the one who was told to lead he was the one pushed towards the front because he is the greatest of Allah's Prophets and this is the greatest of Allah's Ummah of Allah's Communities Insha'Allah and we hope and we pray for Faraj and for relief for this Ummah in all the places especially in Gaza and in Palestine and the West Bank from these occupiers peace be upon you and peace be upon you and peace be upon you and peace be upon you and praise be to Allah if we have a few minutes for questions we can do questions and then we'll pray Insha'Allah yes yeah good question so for the deceased right for who was passed the question is the two eyes that we can make three or four the eyes that we should regularly make first that Allah forgives them of all their sins that Allah encompasses them in his mercy completely the next that Allah makes their grave a garden from the garden of Paradise that he makes their grave enlightened and a garden from the gardens of Jannah and that he makes their grave fast and makes their moments in the grave easy for them the next is a dua that Allah makes it easy for them on the day of judgment and that he allows them to enter Jannah in without any hesab so basically all the events that will now take place and we'll talk about them in the next few classes Insha'Allah that will take place after one dies one makes dua and one makes things in terms of specific surahs at minimum قولو الله وحد he mentions the verses of doing it three times eleven times we should do so what we've seen is our teachers do they do the fatihah and they'll send it to the disease that's very common and then اخلاس and then for those who we really can yasin is very good to do to some of them they do yasin daily one time for all of those and their family who have passed away if you can't do so daily weekly لكن هناك لا توجد موضوع مخصوصاً لكي تستطيع أن تتكلم القرآن بشكل مرحباً ونرى ذلك نعم نعم لذا يمكنك أن تتكلم نعم يمكنك أن تتكلم نعم نعم نعم أكثر من 1 مرحب نعم لذا هل تكون هناك مجدداً من المؤسسة؟ أسؤول هذه المكتبات is that it is mentioned in the sins that take place or rather the punishment that takes place due to certain sins when one is in the grave so does it happen if we repent and how do we perfect our repentance Missy anything we repent from is erased Inshallah so if we repented, we don't worry too much as long as Allah accepts our repentance ونحن نفلس الهواتف فهذا ما نتحدث عنه في المساء العام وانها بغاية ونساء لكي يفعل المحتموض لفتح هذا المقاتل again وكي يفعل المحتموض لكي يفعل المحتموض again مع فتح جهاز سيدي أخوانه من خطأة ثم تفهم الهواتف بقيمة وفي هذه الحيوانين هذا هو المخارق ومن الممكن أن يقوم بشكل ذلك حتى لا أفعل it again بما نتحدث عن الناس إذا one caused a lot of fitna, one should go and do good deeds in their name because the best is to go and say, I said such and such about you, I'm really sorry can you forgive me? but that's not going to go over well in the time we live in knows you aren't going to handle that well so what you do is you give them, gives do some good deed in their name that I sought forgiveness for this and I'm trying to do good in their name and then you speak good about them as much as possible to make up for that but repentance, assume that it's erased yes oh go ahead, yeah good question, question women going to the graveyard, Janaza, is there a basis for that? there's some basis for it if the practices that someone does are really problematic but if they're not, then many of the scholars have permitted it so you have differing opinions on this so much of it has become culture now so in certain cultural practices it's become this huge thing which is overemphasized like no, no, no, women can't go, women can't go this is not okay, it's part of that a lot of people just like to kind of control women but it's not to be taken out of context so there's a few things to keep them out of context first is if a woman goes and she, at the time of the Prophet ﷺ some women would do something called wailing which is this really intense cry where somebody doesn't accept what's happened and they're kind of screaming like why did this happen, why, why, why and that's not permitted in Islam so once someone dies, we're not allowed to ask Allah why did it happen we say Allah, I'm really, really it's really tough on me but you're not questioning why did this happen to me and especially not out loud there's one thing if the whispers happen internally so in a situation where that's going to likely be the case one would, one would not one would not encourage that and so this used to happen at the time and so men would usually be the ones who were accompanying Janazahs and then what would happen in the time is that women would usually go afterwards and they would visit the graves it's totally, totally permitted for women to visit the graves anybody who doubts that doesn't know their deen it's completely permitted, encouraged say the Fatima رضي الله and how would often go to visit her uncle or the uncle of the Prophet ﷺ say the Hamza رضي الله it's mentioned that women would go to Baki and visit Baki and Janazah Baki which is the graveyard in Medina Manohra and so that's, that's very much encouraged to do the second reason they avoided it is because in societies where there's segregation now there's mixing that goes on and so if we're this is where you apply your own you know, not your own but you apply criteria right if we're not in a society where that is the case anymore and women are standing in one area and men are standing in another area and everyone is doing everything with modesty and with respect and with dignity and one is carrying themselves properly both the men and the women and inshallah there should not be a problem a problem with this and so those are some of the reasons why there's not like a for sure yes or no it's not that black and white I would, I've generally seen our teachers recommend that women do go to the graveyard and it doesn't have to be for the Janazah Janazah at minimum the men need to go to fulfill the obligation but definitely to go to the grave visit, make the contemplate death think about the fact that they will actually be there at some point is completely in line with the sunnah of the Umahat and Mu'minin of the mothers of the believers yeah hopefully that helps a bit and then if more details needed we can expand next time on kind of why some of these things may exist in our religion yeah those could you be a little louder sorry yeah the last part was can you send them yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah more than so you can make an intention that I'm going to read Yasin for my grandma my grandfather my other grandmother my other grandfather my cousin my aunt I'm just thinking of some of the people I know who have passed away in my life and then you just keep going one Yasin for all of them or separately I'm going to do Surah Ikhlas for each of them separately so Surah Ikhlas takes like 10 seconds to read 30 seconds right Yasin takes like 10 minutes so it just you can do that yeah yes one more time oh no it doesn't matter I was mentioning the example Surah Ikhlas you would do that because it's just really short all the benefit of Ikhlas is that it's a khatim of Quran 33% of the Quran 1.3 of the Quran reciting Ikhlas once so you send 3 of them to somebody and it's the whole Quran so we should do so because it's easy we should try to do so frequently for those who have passed away but we can do a general intention and Yasin recites Surah Ikhlas 3 times for all those who have passed away and then when we have time we do more but we should have kind of a bare minimum that we don't leave yeah good we have time for one more question one more question let's see online what book are you referring to Imam Ghazali's book Kitab the book on the remembrance of death and the Akhira it's the book 40 of the Hiyalu Madin it's been translated by Sheikh Abdul Hakim Marat Timothy Winter and you can get it online it's a very very good book how do we teach our hearts to speak the right answer when we are in the Qabar purely based on the life that you live if you live a life of righteousness and you pray your five prayers you will insha'Allah be in a good in a good state and pray your five prayers all the things we're supposed to do with regards to our religion and the virtuous deeds will be in a good state insha'Allah and if we disobey Allah's commands and what He has told us to stay away from then that's where we're going to struggle so our Deen already is preparing us but the extra work that has to be done is extra atkard extra rememorances to purify the heart to purify the heart yeah one should is visiting the grave after Maghrib not recommended the Prophet would go at nighttime to the graves so that's what we have learned from the sunnah would not would not advise one go alone necessarily in the time we live in because it's not the sunnah but just because of the things that could be happening there in terms of the unseen realm but the Prophet sometimes would go sometimes every night to the grave and reflect yes when we visit the grave where do we stand so we'll talk about this Insha'Allah next time where He talks about the etiquettes of visiting the grave but ideally you stand in front of the grave like right at the foot and then you give your salam the person can hear your salam you assume they can hear your salam and that's where you would make the doaa and you would make you know recite Quran so you should stand facing them you can also stand at their house and then facing them you can also stand at their head or sit down close to their head but most of the what we've learned is that people are kind of sitting down or standing where their feet are and that's where they're present but it really depends on if there's room they're not it's sort of a small constricted space you go where you'll be comfortable because there they can hear you when you give your salam and then if you it's more comfortable to sit somewhere else because there's more more room you can do that as well the live is today sorry about that it's the internet has some issues something like that okay we'll end with the doaa and then we'll start with Isha so moving forward the class we'll start at 7 Insha'Allah Isha will be after the class because the Masjid Isha time has changed now Insha'Allah so just a note of the live Bismillah الحمد لله صلى الله عليه وسلم وباركة لسيدنا محمد وعلى آله وسحمه صلى الله عليه وسلم ربنا عدنا في الدنيا حسنة نطن وفي الآخرة حسنة نطن وقنا عذاب النار ربنا تقبل مننا إنك أنت سمي والعليم واتوب لنا إنك أنت تواب الرهيم يا الله يا رحمان يا الرهيم يا فتاح يا مبين يا الرحم الرحيمين we ask Allah that you on this blessed night on this noble night of relief ya Allah that you give forage to the Ummah سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم and to the people of Palestine and that you give forage and relief to all of those who are suffering and that you give water to those who are thirsty and food to those who are hungry and warmth to those who are cold and ease to those who are in difficulty يا رحم الرحيمين amongst the people of Palestine ya Allah and all over the Muslim world ya Allah we ask that you give comprehensive relief and ease to them and that you console the hearts of those who have lost their family members and their children and those who have lost others in this difficult situation in this genocide that's taking place and that you stop this situation ya Allah we ask that you end this situation that you give relief to the Muslims that you give victory to the Muslims that you give victory to the Muslims يا رب العالمين we ask that you give victory to the Muslims or with the قفار ربنا أفريق علينا سبرنا وتبت تفضامنا وان سرنا للقوم الكافرين we ask that you give comprehensive ease and relief to this Ummah ya Allah we ask that you give ربنا وقوم الكافرين يا رب العالمين we ask Allah that you look down upon this Ummah and that you pardon us for the wrongs that we have done and for the wrongs that we are continuing to do and that you do not allow our wrongs to be means of suffering for this Ummah we ask that you give victory to the Muslims all over the Muslim world that you stop the oppression of the Zionists the oppression of the Americans and of the British and of all these different people who are oppressing and who are bombing and who are delighting أنت تؤدي من جنونà المزيدة والوụراحة لجميعهم儒يت المchief تصرفون جنونا him هال diversity سننقمات صفadosو عني خصوصة ثنية ، انت إحتباط الجميع أرمينا حولها إلى عائلنا الأطلاق and to all of those who have passed away before us, who are in Islam and to protect the Deen of all those who will come after us.. And we ask that you give baraka in our lives and that you remove our sicknesses and our problems and our worries and our anxieties and that you allow us to prepare in the best way for the moment when we will pass away and that you allow us to die upon Allahِ إِلَهُ إِلَّهُ مُحَمُدٌ رَسُبُ اللَّهُ We ask that you give us an ease in the moment when we die and that you give فأحسن العمال من الجميع ، كتابة عائلين ، ووائدين ، ونرائح اصالاتنا ، ونرائح جمعية ، وندخل in our beloved ones, and there are those who will follow us يارب العالمين ، حسن الخاتي ما ... the best of endings يارب العالمين ، and we ask that you do this. of those who are struggling in your way or fighting in your way that you accept them all.