 الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن والثناء الجميل وشد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له يقول الحق وهو يهدي السبيل وشد أن سيدنا ونبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بإحسان إلى يوم الدين أما بعد أولا أريد أن أقول إن شاء الله تعالى أردت المسجد والإنجاز who have allowed me to come and speak in this message and deliver my lecture I personally say this with sincerity and honesty there is not a message of the whole country of the United Kingdom more beloved to me than this message I love this message more than any message there ever is of course I mean the UK and the reason why I say that is because this is the message that I grew up in these teachers that are in this message are my teachers who taught me I learnt here, I studied here I am very very humbled to be speaking in the presence of my teachers our Shaykh Shaykh أحمد طايلوي sits on this chair he teaches lessons from here it's very humbled for me to come and sit on his seat and to teach but I thank them all for allowing me to deliver my lectures I'm very nervous I'm normally not like that when I give it in my local message I also am happy to see the brothers who I haven't seen for a very long time some brothers I haven't seen for 5-6 years I've seen them again and North London is where I grew up all my life this is where I was coming back to North London it's amazing seeing the brothers grow I left some brothers they didn't have no hair no bed, nothing I've now come back and some of them have more hair than I am taller than I am it's an honor and it's a blessing to see you brothers again and I ask Allah that He makes this a continuous meeting and that we meet each other in good and we departure each other in good the series that I've chosen was an idea that came to me after I visited on a particular Monday I gave a lecture in the masjid when I left I drove and on the way on the high road I didn't see the brothers that I would normally see when I left this masjid when I came in I didn't see a lot of people who I could recognize so I realized a lot of the brothers have gone now they've moved on some of them are married some of them have children it's nice to make a circle for us to all benefits the lands are different where I am is in west London it's very far to come here I left at 5 o'clock I got caught up on the A 406 but every moment I was getting closer to the masjid I was so happy and any opportunity I got to come to Asuna I'm always ready the topic I've chosen is lessons pertaining to the hereafter الله سبحانه وتعالى He divided the stages that we are going to go through into three the first one is دار الدنيا and دار الدنيا is the place that we are at right now it's this world and the second one is دار البرزخ which is a stage between the dunya and the day of judgment and the last one is دار القرار the place where the person will stay forever the first دار which is the دار الدنيا what the focus point is and the thing that you are judged based upon is the body and your limbs if a person thinks of doing something evil he wants to do it but he doesn't do it he won't be punished for it because what is accounted is what you do your limbs and your actions are what you are judged for we came into this dunya not without permission no one consulted you and asked you whether you want to come into this world or not you were brought to this world and every single action that you do you will be held accountable for it the day of judgment and every statement that you say you will be held accountable for it the day of judgment but when the person goes to the بارزخ which is the grave here what counts is the person's روح the person's soul the body here even may perish as the prophet SAW said that the person's body goes and nothing remains from it except the back part of the person it's called Arabic-Ajbu-Theneb that's only what remains I forgot the English term for it it comes from the evolution term there's a better scientific term that's what's the word the coccyx bone that's the word that's all that remains from the person everything else goes the thing that's getting punished in the بارزخ is your روح the body does feel it though the pain goes to the body as well just like when you go to sleep and you have a very bad nightmare the person wakes up sweating sometimes the person may even cry in their sleep but what's going through the pain is the روح but when the person comes to the third stage which is the day of دار القرار the thing that is judged the person based on is the body and the soul together so we've mentioned three the dunya is your body the بارزخ is what your روح and the day of دار القرار it's what it is the body and it's also the روح I'm not going to be focusing on دار الدنيا this world and the trials and the tribulation in which it has I'm going to be speaking about the دار البرزخ that's what I'm going to be focusing on إن شاء الله تعالى الله سبحانه وتعالى He said in the Quran حتى إذا جاء أحدهم الموت حتى إذا جاء أحدهم الموت until one of them if death comes to them قال رب الجعون the person says Oh Allah take me back to the earth and this ayah is talking about the disbelievers when death comes to one of the disbelievers the thing that he says he requests something from Allah the disbeliever says to Allah قال رب الجعون Oh Allah take me back to the take me back to the dunya this is a request that he has put forward to Allah this is something he wants قال رب الجعون لعلي أعمل صالحا فيما تركت the reason why I want to go back to the dunya is so I can do a righteous actions I want everyone of us here to ponder now and to think what is it that this person's request is what is the request that they put forward what is it that they are asking for لعلي أعمل صالحا فيما تركت this is what I want I just want to do a righteous actions when I go back to the dunya I don't want to go there because I want to have children I want to make money the only thing I want to go back in doing in this dunya is what what is the thing that he is requesting for righteous deeds and I have always said this brothers the thing that matters is your righteous deeds everything else is going to forsake you and everything else is going to walk away from you except what except your actions the prophet said to us عليه الصلاة والسلام يتبعوا المي to three the dead person three things will go with him فا يرجعوا ثنان ويبقى واحد two will come back and one will remain يرجعوا أهلوه ومالوه your children and your money all of them go back nothing you lose your name when they are washing your dead body they no longer refer to you by your name your name is called the dead body have you washed the hand of the dead body have you washed the fingers of the dead body everything you owned has gone your wife there is a duration a period of time after that she is thinking about getting married she is going to move on in her life the children are waiting to take the inheritance of their father life will carry on the world will not stop for you there is only one thing that has gone with you now there is only one thing that has moved on from دار الدنيا to دار البرزخ it has moved with you from the دنيا and it's moved with you to the برزخ and it's also going to move with you to the هرافتا and what is it it's the thing that the person is asking for here in this ayah لعلي أعملوا صالحا فيما تركت Oh Allah I just want to do a righteous actions I want to do something good and we're going to speak about righteous actions in more details now Allah سبحانه وتعالى is going to tell us in this verse what's the response to his request he's put a request forward he is asked if he can be brought back to دنيا so he can come with righteous actions Allah says to us in response to what he asked for كلا never إنها كلمة هو قائلها what he has said is mere words on his tongue he is only regurgitating he is only uttering words that have no reality to it إنها meaning what he has asked for if you ponder on the ayah as you all know grammar in the Arabic language there is a difference between a كلام and a كلمة a كلام in the Arabic language is a sentence and a كلمة is the مفرد of a كلام ابن مالكي says كلامنا لفظ مفيد كستقم واسم وفعن ثم حرفون الكلم وحده كلمة والقول عام وكلمة بها كلام قد يؤمن كلمة is a word are you with me brothers pay attention to the ayah here what did this man say he said قال رب يرجعوني لعلي أعمل صالحا فيما تركتو is this a kelima or is it a كلام كلام الله refer to it as a what just a kelima this is to show that it is nothing it's like you just said a word when he is actually said a whole sentence إنها كلمة هو قائلها he is the only one who is saying this no one is going to take him back to this dunya and no one is going to give him a second chance he is crying over spilled milk have you heard that phrase before in other words nothing is going to be redone for him now we have to think brothers now we have to ask ourselves a sincere and honest question we have that opportunity today the poet he said يمثل ذلب في لبه مصائبة قبل أن تنزل فإن نزلت بغتة لم تروح لما كان في نفسه مثلا وذل جهل يا من أيامه وينسى مسارع من قد خلا فإن دهه متبسروف الزمان ببعض مصائبه أعلى السالف مثل حسن البصري ابن القي برنز فيه كتاب إغاثة للهفان في مصاعد الشيطان برنز أوسع فيه كتاب مدارج السالكين الإمام القرطم برنز فيه تلكرة من سفارين رحم الله أخرى برنز هذه الصورة حسن البصري he dug a grave in his own house in his own room and he went inside it he lied inside the grave that he made and he said قال رب برجعوني لعلي أعمل صالحا فيما تركت أو الله take me back to this earth so I can come with righteous actions and then what he did was he spoke to himself and he said to himself you have now been given an opportunity stand up work hard and multiply your efforts that's why the poet he said you مثل ذلبه what he does is he places an example of himself before the problem comes before that day comes he rehearses it he does it in advance and so if it comes to him and the real day hits he's ready for death it doesn't shock him it doesn't move him in any way of form or shape then Allah says كلا إنها كلمة هو قائلها ومن ورائهم برزخ إلى يوم يبعثون and in front of them the word وراء جزاك الله خيرا the word وراء in the Arabic language what does it mean does it mean behind does the word وراء in the Arabic language does it mean behind وكان وراءهم ملك يأخذ كل السفينة غصبة was the king behind them or was he in front of them if he's behind them so why is he making a hole inside the boat for if they've passed the king and they've left him behind why is he making a hole inside the boat for in the Arabic language there are words that in the Quran it's called التباد what does it mean التباد it carries the two opposite meanings that one word the word وراء means أمام and it also means خلف just like the word قر however you want to say it it means it can carry both of those meanings so here what it means is وكان وراءهم in front of them was برزخ in front of them is برزخ يعني عبد الرحمن ابن زيت he said that برزخ is ما بين الموت والبعث it's what's between death and the resurrection that's what برزخ is and the lesson that we're going to be taking today is بتايني to the برزخ and lessons بتايني to it ضحاك ابن مزاح من he said البرزخ ما بين الدنيا والآخرة now what I said before was this statement قال ربير جعوني او الله take me back to the dunya so I can come with righteous actions is this specific to the disbelievers I said that the ayah was it's talking about the disbelievers but is it specific to them or is it more generic it also involves the believers it also involves the believers what's the deal for that the deal for that is قوله تعالى the statement of Allah وانفقوا give in the cause of your Lord من ما رزقنا that which we have provided you with من قبلوا before ايأتي احدكم الموت before one of you death strikes me فيقول ان then he says ربي my lord لو لا اخرتني if only you delay for me الى اجل قريب to a designated time which is close فا اصدقا so I can give charity واقن and so I can be from من الصالحين those who are pious so it's the same thing this ayah is talking about believers that they would say فا يقول they will say my lord ربي my lord اخر delay for me what is it that he wants to be delayed for what does he want what does he want again he mentions it in this ayah فا اصدقا I want to give charity ابن القيم said فا اصدقا the ayah is talking about صدقا specifically because this person didn't pay the cat but if a person didn't pray the salah he's gonna say so I can pray everybody's going to be talking about what they didn't do فا اصدقا so I can give the zakat that is obligatory on me واقن من الصالحين and I can be from those who are pious that day you're going to regret not being from the pious people now you ask yourself a sincere question brothers why would you want to cry that day when you can prevent it today and can a person become pious if the people who is around are not pious are you able to become pious if the friend that's on your right and the friend that's on your left is not righteous where would righteousness come to you from where would piety come to you from the thing that harms many brothers if you look at them and many sisters is the people they affiliate themselves with and the people that they hang around with and the friend as it said صاحب صاحب your friend would drag you down your friend would either be the reason for you to go to paradise or your friend could be a reason for you to be in a state of destruction the person this is the thing he did to me meaning he prevented me from being pious whenever I wanted to pray whenever I wanted to remember Allah he was obstacle in front of me I wasn't able to be good be sincere and honest if your friend today in this world if he can't help you imagine a hypothetical scenario you got caught red handed trying to steal something from a bank or something or Tesco's let's keep it simple Tesco's with your friend in any way form or shape would he take that sentence for you if the police caught you both would he he would leave you and rather it's as bad as this he would say don't be a snitch صاحب don't be a snitch you got caught take it all yourself and you see some people in prison because the reason why they're in prison is what because they just don't want to snitch he's in prison because he doesn't want to snitch he's taken 5-6 years for it صاحب my question here is if your friend couldn't help you now what makes you think he's going to help you the day of judgment and how is he going to help you so you need to think brothers you need to ask yourself these sincere questions are you wishing to meet Allah the day of judgment if you are then perfect your actions فمن كان يرجو لقاء ربي the one who is hoping the meeting of his Lord فليعمل عمل صالحا يا إخوة do righteous actions come with righteous deeds work hard our messenger عليه الصلاة والسلام who was promised paradise alive while he was in this earth الله سبحانه وتعالى promised him paradise and not only did he he's the best who Allah created from the children of Adam he is also forgiven for his past sins and his upcoming sins مع ذلك his legs would swell and he would be standing at night and praying what is he doing righteous actions none of us here have been promised paradise alive has anyone been promised jannah you don't know where you're going to be and you don't know where you're going to end you don't know where your final abode is going to be when I was coming on my way right now I called my mom and as I was speaking to my mom she said to me your face is glowing and my face has become old my mom said this to me I said to your mom in 4 months from now I'm going to turn 30 and then we started to talk about when I first started my teenage I was first 13 and then I finished and then I started in the 20s and then now 30 I started to hit 30 and then it's no matter of time that you see yourself very old those who celebrate their birthdays who say that they celebrate their birthday they're celebrating a period of time where they're getting closer to their grave that's how much Hebaan has duped them you as an individual every single moment you live you're getting closer to your grave and you're getting closer to the day you're going to meet Allah what is it that you have prepared and what is it that you have put forward these are questions I really want your brothers to ask yourselves and to think what is it that I have put forward and what is it that I have worked with what is it that matters that I said righteous deeds the effort that you put in when Allah allowed him to hear the speech of the ants and the speech and the talking of the ants سليمان he smiled Allah said in the Qur'an فتبس مضاحكا من قولها سليمان he smiled and the تبس م is two types there's a تبس م which is تبس مضاحك when you smile and you're laughing and there's a تبس م الغضب when you smile but you're angry in the حديثة العفك the story of the عفك عائشة was falsely accused of what she was accused of the prophet smiled what did the narration say the prophet smiled a smile of anger this is the smiling of happiness but what is it that سليمان said he said the dua that he made is Oh Allah give me the ability and empower me with the ability to come with righteous actions because the person brothers the reason Allah brought you to this world is to come with righteous actions تبارك الذي بيده الملك وهو على كل شيء قدير الذي خلق الموت والحياة ليبلوكم أيكم أحسن وعملة Allah created you and brought you to this world to see from amongst us who's going to come with righteous actions and good deeds your day goes by another day comes and another day passes by and you haven't in any way form or shape come with any righteous deeds rather you've accumulated sins and shortcomings Allah says in another ayah ولي كل درجات all of them they have levels and ranks and Allah SWT has given them but based on what مما عملو all of it is based upon what actions that they have put forward ولي وفيرهم وجورهم and Allah SWT is going to take for them ولي وفيرهم أعمالهم Allah is going to take for them the righteous deeds وهم لا يضلمون and they won't be oppressed righteous deeds good actions you know who is the chaos, the smart person the clever person is not the person who makes money you know we look at a person who is a business minded person every little opportunity he'll make money the smart person is every opportunity he finds a way he can get a righteous deed from it even if he's unable to get a righteous deed in a particular scenario what does he do he smiles in the face of his Muslim brother he knows that even can be a reason for him to get reward every minute helping a Muslim person every opportunity he gets he wants to get a righteous deed from it Allah says in the Quran من كان يريد العزة anyone who is looking for Allah فللله العزة فالله سبحانه وتعالى alone is عزة for him alone is for him عزة جميعا all of it إليه to him الله سبحانه وتعالى يصعد it ascends high up to him alone الكلم الطيب عبد الله ابن عباس كلم الطيب means ذكر الله the remembrance of Allah والعمل الصالح and the righteous deeds يرفعه it's also raised to him سبحانه وتعالى عبد الله ابن عباس what did he say is meant by العمل الصالح he said أداع فرائض الله coming with the obligatory things on you there were three men they were walking one day and as they were walking they went into a cave and the cave locked on them ثلاثة نفر من من كان قبلكم حتى أواهم المبيت إلى غار فدخلوه فنحدر سخرة بن الجبل فسدت عليهم الغار فقالوا إنه لا ينجيكم من هذه السخرة إلا أن تدعوا الله تعالى بالصالح عملكم when they got locked into the cave they spoke to themselves and they said the following nothing today is going to help us and it's going to take us out of the trap that we're in except what بصالح عملكم our righteous deeds that's the only thing that's going to save us today the first one says اللهم إنه كان لأبوان الشيخان كبيران والله I had two elderly parents وكنت لا أغبض قبلهم أهلا ولا مالا I never used to provide and I never used to give anyone before them يجب أن يجب أن يجب أن يجب أم and his father وما يجب أن يترك يجب أن يجب أن يجب أم and his wife لذلك one day he said I came to the house and I found my mother and father both of them sleeping because the parents when they reach an old age they used to be they used to a routine if you're slightly late from that particular routine they go to sleep and they get tired so the parents went to sleep but he was an obedient child what did he do he stood next to his parents holding the cup for both of them the milk because that's what he used to give them every night he would bring the shepherds back he would pour the milk in there for them and he would give it to them but he came late but he didn't go to sleep he stood right next to his mother and his father's head and he waited for them to both wake up and he held the cup in his hand and he said اللهم اين كنتوا فعلتوا ذلك بتغاواجك but if I did this for your sake ففررج عننا ما نحن فيه take us out of this calamity that has befallen us this place that we're locked in take us out of it ففررج الله الله تبارك وتعالى he moved the rock for them slightly subhanahu و تعالى but they couldn't get out of it his parents woke up they got the cup of milk they drank it and they were happy what did he say in the narration while he's standing next to his mother and his father's head and he's holding the milk his children his children are holding onto his legs dad we want the milk because they used to drink what but the procedure and the schedule is that mom and dad get fed first and whatever's left over is what you guys get these are his own children he has chosen to be obedient to his parents righteous deeds righteous deeds that's what saved him that day when he got locked into the cave and the second one and the third one each and every one of them the story was what when they got locked in what did they say to each other the only thing that's going to save us is our righteous deeds the disbelievers the thing that's going to be done to them is that their righteous deeds are going to be nullified as Allah said in the Quran و قديبنا إلا ما عمله من عمله فجعلناه هباء من ثورة the disbeliever his righteous deeds are all going to be nullified and nothing is going to remain from it as for the believers أولئك الذين نتقبلوا عنهم أحسنة ما عملوا و نتجاوز عن سيئاتهم في أصحاب الجنة وعد الصدق الذي كانوا يعدون the disbeliever his righteous deeds are all nullified and the believers one is what is not nullified but the prophet told us in the hadith of Thoban Tabarani narrated in his mu'ujam ترميلي narrated in his sunan that the prophet SAW told us a group of people who are going to lose their righteous actions إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَّهِ رَاجِعُونَ and they are not disbelievers, they are Muslims the prophet SAW أَلَا مَنَّا أَقْوَامُوا مِنْ أُمَتِي يَأْتُونَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَة I know a group of people from my ummah that are going to come the day of judgment they have righteous deeds as big as the mountain of Tehama فَا يَجْعَلُهَ اللَّهُ وَاللَّهُ وَمَيْكْ أُلْهِ his righteous deeds هَبَا أَمْ مَنْ ثُرَفُ nothing, null and void so the sahabas they said يا رسول الله are these people not Muslims? do they not believe in Allah in the day of judgment are they not Muslims? the prophet SAW he said no, of course they are Muslims يُصَلُونَ they pray كما تُصَلُونَ the way you guys pray وَيَصُومُونَ كما تَصُومُونَ they fast the way that you guys fast وَلَهُمْ and they also have a portion at night meaning at night time وَلَهُمْ وَلَهُمْ وَلَحَظُمْ in the night means that at night time they pray قيام الليل so why are these Muslims going to lose their righteous deeds وَلَكِنَّهُمْ إِذَا خَلَوْ بِمَحَارِ مِنْ لَهِنْ تَهَكُوْهَا but when they are by themselves and no one can see them and they are in the dark room alone they do all the sins that come to their head every thing that they want to do they laptop their phone they chat to whichever woman they want to chat with they say whatever they want to they speak the way that they want to speak they watch whatever videos they want to watch they act in whatever way that they want to act وَلَكِنَّهُمْ but they are these individuals if they are alone they don't remember Allah and it's sad that you have made Allah اهُوَنُنَّا وِرِنَ إِلَيكِ you have made Allah the lowest of those who look at you because you know yourself you would never dare to do that in front of a respected person in your community you wouldn't do that in front of your parents but Allah has no value in your eyes whatever sins that comes to your mind you want to do it in front of him you're not shy you're not embarrassed that Allah is looking at me how am I going to do this أبو بكر رضي الله تعالى عنه it was said that كان لا يغتسل قائمة he never used to do غص القائمة he never used to stand أبو بكر why حياء من الله because he was shy of Allah أبو بكر رضي الله تعالى عنه so when you think of a sin and you do it knowing the consequences or thinking about it then this will eat into your righteous deeds and as I said to your brothers بارزخ what matters is what righteous deed is what matters many brothers and sisters call me and I know some of you guys have probably come in contact with people like that people who tell you they live in a very hard life صحيح sometimes even Muslims I get emails sometimes sent by Muslims who say I'm very suicidal he's a Muslim his name is Mohammed Ahmed Khalid Zaid Amr Muslim he's suicidal he doesn't want to live and I'm guessing many of you guys come across people like that people who slit their arms just so they can get rid of pain common صح problems like that what is it that can remove all of that الله سبحانه وتعالى يسالين القرآن من عمل صالحا من ذكر أو أنثا وهو مؤمن فلنح ينه حياتا طيبة ولا نجز ينه أجرهم بيحسن ما كانوا يعملون any man or woman who comes with righteous deeds who does good action will live a good life whether it be a man or a woman good actions gives you a good life and you will live a good life but if you come with crimes the crime will eat into your body if you don't drink water what happens to you you dehydrate and in the long run what's going to happen to you you're going to deteriorate and you're going to be sick and you're going to be ill and you're probably going to die from it right true or false okay the same applies with whether a person does not nurture his heart with what it requires the religion is what the heart wants and if you don't nurture your heart with it your heart will be suicidal it wouldn't want to live does that make sense it's the supplement of the heart righteous deeds this series that I've started the aim is not to go too technical and the aim is not also to make it too long the objective from it is the best of speech is the best of speech is that which is little but it shows the path and it also indicates what's needed anything which I have said that was wrong short coming false errors it's from me and Shaytan and Allah and his messenger are free from it سبحانك اللهم بحمدك أشد ولا إله إلا الله أستغفروك وأتوب إليه