 السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والصلاة والسلام على أشرف المرسنين سيدنا ونبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم يا ربنا يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي الجلال وجهك وعظيم سلطانك اللهم افتح علينا افتح العرفين اللهم علمنا ما ينفعنا وانثعنا بما علبتنا يا أرحم الرحيم اليوم is a new day this means we have another chance to practice the ten outer actions that will get us closer to الله سبحانه وتعالى these actions which we covered earlier have given us more time more chances to get prepared to meet Allah سبحانه وتعالى so in this closing session I will try to link together what we covered during the past 11 sessions and I will start with a story and the title of this story is a chance that will never be repeated so the narrator tells us the story yesterday I went back to my home I was so tired my wife told me why you don't change and rest a little bit so the food would be ready and indeed I went to my room I changed my clothes I had a nap but it was a long nap when I opened my eyes it was the voice of the caller of the event calling for us for prayer so I went out of my room and I went to the kitchen I found my wife bearing the table and I said I took my seat on the table and I asked her what did you cook for us my dear she did not answer I repeated the question again and again but I had the same answer no answer I was so surprised I did not get angry but I was surprised this is the first time that I asked my wife something and she ignores me she didn't pay attention to me I turned to and looked to the door and I found my son Ahmed coming into the kitchen and I asked him to get me a bottle of water from the refrigerator but his response his reaction was the same as his mom I got more surprised Ahmed is answering me he's not answering me he's a very good son he is he is a very good he has the best manner going on I tried I wanted okay to leave the kitchen but I heard my wife saying Ahmed go and wake up your father so tell him to come ready dinner is ready I was really surprised Ahmed went to my room to wake me up so I called him and I said with my loud voice hey I'm here but he did not he did not look even at me and he went quickly and he left me surprised and one minute after that Ahmed came his face was telling so many things so his mom looked at him and she asked him did you wake up your father and he couldn't he didn't know what to say he he he he said I tried mom but he I tried many times but he did not answer me hearing him I was more surprised what is this boy saying I'm here what is what's this boy saying so my wife went quickly to my room and she was followed by my children they were all terrified so I followed them just to to see what's what's going on so she was trying to wake up someone else who is on my bed he looked exactly like me he was wearing the same clothes and he was sleeping the same way I do that was surprising very surprised stunning so when she when she did not have an answer when when this man did not wake up she she started to cry and my children started to cry and they they everyone was trying to call that man on my on my who is sleeping on my bed and they were just clinging to his clothes trying hoping that he will answer and I was unable to understand what's going on يا الله what's happening who is this person who is exactly a photocopy of me why no one is not hearing me why no one can see me so Ahmed went quickly out of the house and he came out a few minutes later with my father and my mother and also my siblings and everybody started to cry everyone was my mom was hugging that sleeping person on my on my bed and she was crying and crying like everyone I went to her I tried to to to touch her to talk to her to to make her understand that I'm here next to her but I couldn't nobody was listening to me so I looked at my father I turned to him I tried to hug him I tried to to talk to me to my wife to my siblings but no one was hearing me my siblings went out to prepare the gym and my father was crying he sat on the chair he was unable to stand up and I was so depressed of that nightmare what's going on I'm trying to wake up but what's going on so the the person people started to come into the house the responsible they washed the body that was on my on my bed and my children helped with shrouding the body and they put the body in the cascade friends and family all came to the house and everybody was hugging my father who was crying and they were giving him condolences and they were giving condolences to my siblings to my children to my wife and they were they were making doha for mercy and for to be patients also the cascade was taken to the to the messaged so no one was left in the house so I went immediately froming after the journalism so everyone so everyone everyone everyone came to the Genaza they all everyone came to the masjid they lined up after the Imam and it was obvious that they are going to pray on me so I was it was so crowded but I was able I was able to get into between the lines easily without touching anybody the Imam started the prayer and I was calling everyone hey I'm with you you cannot you don't feel me I am I am calling you you don't listen to me I am with you you don't you don't see me when I do not have any answer I went to the cascade I opened the cover and I looked at the man who was sleeping in there when I opened when I opened the shroud he opened his eyes and he looked at me and he said my turn is over I am my life is done but your life you are starting the eternal life I was with you on your life but today I am going to be buried but you are going to go to have a break running I couldn't do anything I found myself in the cascade nothing was helping me I am unable to see anything I am unable to move I am unable to speak I was just listening to the Imam finishing the prayer and then they took me to the graveyard and I was put in there in my grave and then they started to pour soil on me and then I heard footsteps of the people leaving the way at that time I realized it was the end maybe it was the beginning of the end but I had meetings I had a lot of work to do I had some debts that I haven't paid back to people yet I want to write my will I want to do something good I want to command good I want to forbid evil and suddenly slowly I heard footsteps coming towards me oh my god now my deeds will be estimated these should be even Karwanakir they are coming to me and I was I was shouting I was calling رب يرجعون رب يرجعون رب يرجعون لعن لي أعمل صالحة فيه ما تركت oh my god send me back oh my god let me go back so that I do righteous things I be a good one I'll be a good Muslim but no one heard me and nothing happened while I was at that moment I heard my little baby calling me بابا food is ready so I opened my eyes and I found my younger sister my younger daughter just waking me up so to go to have dinner with the family for a second I was I was just getting myself back again and I was sweating and I said to myself hey my nefs hey my soul you are back so let me see what good you are going to do after today it was a waking up dream I was given another chance this time I was given another chance but when it's time for me to leave this dunya I will never have another chance so I was given another chance and I promised myself not to lose it I promised to establish my prayers to pay صدق to pay the cash to help the needy to fast to fast the month of Ramadan and to fast extra days during the year to perform hajj to have a daily word of Quran to go to thicker gatherings to seek lawful to be good to all creatures of Allah I promised to command good and prevent evil and I decided that I will follow prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and apply his sunnah but what happens really when we die now we have a chance but when we die what happens there has been an article written by a Kuwaiti writer his name was عبد الله الجاو الله so he said when I die I will not get worried I will not take worry about my body because it's going to to vanish but I am going I know what will happen to me my my siblings and my friends my Muslim friends they would they would take my clothe they would wash me wash my body they would shroud me they would take me out of my house they would take me to to the message they would pray on me they would take me to the grave and they they will bury me my things will be given away my books my keys my bags my clothes and if my family were were to do good they would they would give everything I have as a as a so that that will benefit me life will go on my job will be given to someone else my money will be given to will be distributed among those who will inherit me even though I will be I will be asked about and repent me where did I get it from and was it lawful or not or the first thing that will that I will lose is my name because when I die they will say where is the body they will not call me by my name and when they want to pray on me they will say bring the jinnasm they will not call me by my name and when they will when when they are ready to put me into the grave they will say get the deceased so we put him in the grave they want they want to say my name so I will not I will not think of my lineage of my tribe of my people of my job of my fame these are things that are just for dunya and people they will they will be sad and they will be divided into three groups of people those who know me just by the name they will say oh he passed away miskeem my friends they will they will feel sorry they will be sad for a few hours days and then they will go back to their own life and the third group will be in my home they will feel the sorrow and that will be also for a week two weeks months two months but then like everybody who passed away life life again will go on so the story is done the life story is done but the real life the real story started it's the after it's the after you left everybody and nothing is with you except your deeds so the question now what have you prepared for your after what have you prepared for your grave so beware cling to your prayers to your pride and to the Nawafia to the prayers to the good deeds to Salat al-Lait praying at night so that that that will help you to be saved so الله سبحانه وتعالى says رب لو لا أخرتني إلى أجل القريب فأصدق this is about someone who passed away but he was not doing really good deeds in this life so he would say يا الله let me I wish you you would give me just more time so that I would go back and I would give صدق فأصدق I will pay I will pay the car I will pay أصدق he didn't say I want to go back to make Amra or to pray or to fast so this this color said the deceased would say I want to go back to give صدق because of how big the reward of صدق is so just pay pay and give صدق now we would we would ask what is is صدق just money no it's the good word is صدق smiling in the face of your brother is صدق being good to people is صدق having good manners is صدق so our life is a treasure that we should save it's like someone who said by the beach before pleasure so it was still dark and he looked around him he found a small bag filled with stones so he took the one of the stones and he throw it into the water of the of the sea so he liked the resonance of the water so he took another stone and he throw it and he kept throwing one stone after the other then light the sun rose and there was light so there was only one stone in the bag one stone left so that man looked into the stone and he found it a jewel so he discovered that all the stones that he has thrown into the water they were all precious stones they were jewels so he said oh my god how how bad I was I was throwing stones I was throwing these jewels that I thought they were just stones just to enjoy the the resonance of the water I swear that if I knew it was just jewels I wouldn't have wasted one of them unfortunately we are all like that man the bag of stones which is the bag of jewels is our life which we waste hour after hour uselessly the resonance of the water of the stone on the water is the dunya and the pleasures of the dunya the darkness of the night is the heedlessness which we live in and the pleasure of breaking the up is the reality and this reality happens only when we die we wake up when we die so our days are jewels we should save them we shouldn't waste our time we should use our time wisely so that we do not we do not feel sorry we do not we do not feel sorry when they're feeling sorry it will not be helpful so our hours days weeks months years are precious stones they're valuable stones that we should keep and not waste we have to be careful we have to take advantage of every single moment we have to use our time to gain the love of Allah SWT and we have to connect to our beloved سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so that he directs us to the right path that leads to the pleasure of Allah SWT we have to truly love سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and follow his sunnah we have to learn good manners from سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and apply them he says أقرمكم مني مجلسة يوم القيامة أحاسينكم أخلاقا the closest of you to me on the day of judgment are those of good manners so we have to have good manners we have to learn how to have good manners it's loving the beloved this is one of the best ways so that we are saved the non-muslims look at سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم at our surah at our how we react in this dunya they don't look at him in his real picture so if the picture if our actions are good and they will look at him in a different way they would say these are the followers of Muhammad so we have to love سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم same way that سيدنا آدم asked الله سبحانه و تعالى to forgive him because of his love because of Allah's love to Muhammad he says سامحني لأجل حبك لمحمد so Allah سبحانه و تعالى said to Adam عليه السلام how do you know that I love him سيدنا آدم said when I looked up at the throne I saw if I saw his name is next to your name is connected to your name and you will not connect your name to a person unless you love you love him the most loving the beloved this is Allah's love to say give the Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم things I loved Allah I loved سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم when when سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم was at Mount Uhod he said to the Sahaba Uhod جبل يحبنا و نحبه Uhod is a mountain mountain that loves us and we love mountain so love here it started by the mountain and then سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم loved the mountain so we have to love سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم then he will love us he cares about us yes but we want to make him love us we want to be coolness of an eye to say another another example of the things that love سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم is the love of the trunk of the tree to say when when when this he used to stand and lean against the trunk of a tree then they decided to build a pulpit for سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so that he will be raised a little bit so people would see him and that would be better for the so the first time they سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم after the pulpit was ready so he went up and gave the and all people heard the crying of the trunk of the tree he cried because the trunk of the tree cried because he felt that سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم is away from him he couldn't bear it they built the pulpit to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and that pulpit was the reason that سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم is not leaning against this trunk of a tree so what happened سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم stopped his he went down and he hugged that trunk and he said he hugged he hugged that trunk this trunk calmed down we all wish that we were that that trunk to get this hug from سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so we have to practice to practice love one time one of the wisest people was asked what is the difference between a person who just utters the words of love and a person who loves who lives love is it okay I will explain to you he invited them to big feasts and he started with those who just say the words of love but they don't know what it means actually so he when this group of people were at the table they were given the soup and everyone was given a very long spoon to eat with a one meter spoon and they were to eat this soup with this big huge spoon they tried but they could not and all of them spilled the soup and they could not eat it so everyone was hungry the wisemen said okay now look at the other group so there was another feast for those who have love in their hearts who practice love and when they were at the table they were given exactly the same spoons long spoons and they were given the soup so that so each one looked at the spoon and he took the spoon he filled it with soup and he was feeding the person in front of him so that they all ate and they were all full they thanked Allah سبحانه وتعالى so in this dunya whoever thinks of just feeding himself he will stay hungry all the time but whoever thinks of the others whoever thinks of feeding his brother in Islam his brother then they will both be full so there are steps of love steps to do before we love we have to clean our hearts and we have to shine it and then love will sprout in the heart so how would we love سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم first of all by knowing him by following him الله سبحانه وتعالى he talked about about the real love of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم he talked about following سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم obeying him he who obeys the messenger he who obeys the messenger he who obeys the messenger has obeyed Allah so we have to obey سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم we have to know him how he lived as a husband as a father as a grandfather as a teacher as a leader we have to know سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم we have to be in the presence of those who love سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم because love transmits through hearts and we have to ask الله سبحانه وتعالى to give us the love of his حبيب الله سبحانه وتعالى said in surah ghafir ayah 60 دعوني أستجب لكم ask me and I will answer your your calls so when your heart starts to feel the love of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم then we have to thank الله سبحانه وتعالى because الله سبحانه وتعالى said in surah ibrahim لا انشكرتم لأزيدنا if you thank then I will increase you if you thank me I will increase you so what's the fruit what's the result of of loving سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم sending salat to him and we all know that سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم by this الله سبحانه وتعالى will give us salat in times so now we are sending salat to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and said the closest of you to me on the day of judgment will be those who sent the most blessings up on me whoever sends the blessings up on me الله will send blessings up on him 10 fold and then the result of loving سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم is gaining his companionship on the day of judgment and he says and where's and our friend also then insha Allah while loving سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم we will be with him so loving the beloved is our call so we have to know that who we are loving while loving سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم who is a human but not like all humans he's a human but he is the one whom Allah SWT loves the most he's a human whom Allah SWT has honored him with the banner of with the banner of thanking Allah SWT this is سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم who is going to argue Allah SWT to talk to Allah SWT and to intercede to his Ummah so we have to strengthen our relationship with Allah SWT and with سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and as we said we have to make lots of dua and Allah SWT has given us certain times that that the words are multiplied this is the month of Rajab Shaaban, Ramadan the night of Israel and Miraj then the the fifteenth night of Shaaban the ten days of these these times are like a fuel station for us to get fuel that will be the sustenance for our soul for the whole year so we have to do our best during these blessed times we have to take advantage of these chances that Allah SWT has given us so with this سبحان الله we when we practice these ten outer actions that we have covered for the past eleven sessions then we will get closer to Allah SWT and we will be more prepared to meet Allah SWT when it's our death we want to be of those whose death is easy who have who die on the best land that Allah SWT loves and who die when they have their best actions have been done so with this we conclude our part one of this series and Insha'Allah we will we will have another a group Insha'Allah another session which will be part two and this part two will will focus on the heart on purifying the heart from blame or the characteristics anger envy and love of this world pride self admiration and a lot more so until we meet with our part two of this series I will send you my Salam and I will ask Allah SWT help us stay steadfast on the right path the path of that would lead to the pleasure of Allah SWT so that we will be of the winners on the day of judgment وصلط اللهم على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم و السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته