Life, Death and Hereafter

Life, Death and Hereafter

 

Allah loves meeting the believers (Bokhari: - 8.514: ubadan ibn as samit)

The Prophet (S.A.W) said: “whoever loves to meet Allah should know that Allah loves to meet him, whoever hates to meet Allah should also know that Allah hates to meet him”

Someone said: but we dislike death, he explained “it is not as you think; when the time of a believer’s death approaches he receives the good news…. Of Allah’s being pleased with him and his blessings upon him. Also at that time nothing is dearer to him than what is in front of him. He therefore loves the meeting with Allah, and Allah too…..loves meeting him.

But when the time of a disbeliever’s death approaches, where upon nothing is more hateful to Allah than what is before him. So he hates the meeting with Allah and Allah hates the meeting him.

 

Allah hesitates in taking the believers souls (Bokhari: - 8.509: Abu Hurairah)

The Messenger of Allah (S.A.W) said: “Allah said, I declare war on him who shows hostility to a close friend of mine, and the most beloved things with which my slave draws me are…what I have made obligatory for him. And he keeps on coming closer to me through performing extra deeds… till I love him.

When I love him….I become his sense of hearing with which he hears…..his sense of sight with which he sees. His hand with which he grips and his legs with which he walks,

Should he ask me (for anything) I will give him and should he ask for My Protection… I will protect him.

I do not hesitate in doing anything as I hesitate in taking the soul of the believer, for he hates death…. And I hate to disappoint him.

 

Speaking well about the dead people (Abu Dawood: 20.3227: Abu Hurairah)

People with a bier passed by the Prophet (S.A.W). his companions spoke highly of the deceased person and he said: the garden is certain for him. The some people with another bier passed by The Prophet‘s (S.A.W) companions spoke very badly of him. He then added, you are witnesses for one another.

 

The Fire (Muslim: 40.6831, Abu Huraira)               

The tooth of a disbeliever in the fire will be like the mountain of Uhud and the thickness of his skin a journey of three nights…

 

The Least Suffering (Muslim: 1.0415: Nu man Ibn Bashir)

The Prophet (S.A.W) SAID: Verily the least suffering for the inmates of the fire would be for him who would have to wear shoes and laces of fire…. Yet his brain will boil with these, as does a cooking vessel. He will think no one is in a more grievous torment than him. While he actually is in the least torment.

 

The Garden

No soul knows what comfort is in the garden (Muslim: 40.6780: Abu Hurairah)

The Prophet (S.A.W)  said: Allah exalted is he said: I have prepared for my slaves ….what no eye has seen…no ear has ever heard… and has never occurred to a human heart.

 He then recited this ayah…

“No self knows the delight that is hidden away for it in recompense for what is used to do” (As- Sajdah: 32.17

 Mishkaat: Tirmidhi / Abu Sai’id)

The Messenger of Allah (S.A.W) SAID, “The lowliest of the inhabitants of the Garden will be he who has …

Eighty thousand servants… seventy two wives… and for whom a round pavilion of pearls, chrysoprase, and

Rubies as large as the distance between Al- Jabiyah and San’a will be set up.”

They will wear crowns… the smallest pearl of which will illuminate the space between east and the west

“When a believer in the Garden wishes for (anything the wish will be accomplished instantaneously. Should he wish for) A child… its conception, delivery and growth will be accomplished in a moment, as he wishes.”

 

A huge tree with a phenomenal shadow(Muslim 40.6784: Abu Hurairah)

The Messenger of Allah (S.A.W) has said: “In the Garden, there is a tree under the shadow of which a rider can travel for a hundred years. (Muslim 35.6475: Abu Hurairah)

The Prophet (S.A.W) once said : “ Allah has ninety – nine names; whoever commits them to memory will enter the garden…”

 

The seven to be in Allah’s shade on that day (Muslim 5.2248: Abu Hurairah)

The Prophet (S.A.W) said “Seven are the people whom Allah will protect with his shade on the Day of Judgement, when there will be no shade but his: A JUST RULER

A youth who grew up in his worship

A person whose heart is attached to the Mosques

A person who loves and meets another and separates from him for the sake of Allah

A man whom a beautiful women of high rank attempts to seduce but who rejects the offer, saying I fear Allah’

A person who gives Sadaqah, concealing it so that the right hand does not know what the left hand  has given

A person who remembers Allah in secret so much that his eyes shed tears

(Mishkat: Ibn Majah / Umm Salamah)

The Prophet (S.A.W) said “If a women dies while her husband is pleased with her, she will enter the Garden.”

 

The Garden for visiting a brother (Mishkat: Tirmidhi / Abu Hurairah)

The Prophet (S.A.W) said that when a Muslim visits his brother… The Almighty will say , “ You are Happy and

Your walking is happy; you will come to an abode in the Garden.”

Whoever gives up Salaat falls into disbelief (Mishkat: Tirmidhi / Buraydah Ibn Al- Hasib)

The Prophet (S.A.W) said “ What distinguishes us from the disbelievers and the hypocrites is our Salaat. Whoever gives up Salaat falls into Disbelief.”

 

Dying in bed but rewarded as a shaheed(Muslim 20.4695: Sahl Ibn Abi Umamah)

The Messenger of Allah (S.A.W) said“ He who sought Martyrdom  with sincerity will be ranked by Allah among the Shuhada’, even if he died in his bed.”

 

On listening to the punishment of the grave (Muslim 40.6860: Anas)

The Prophet (S.A.W) “If it were not for fear that you would abandon the practice of burying the dead, I would have certainly supplicated Allah to make you able to hear the torment of the grave”

 

Allah’s Forgiveness (Muslim 37.6631: Abu Hurairah)

The Messenger of Allah (S.A.W) once said that Allah sent down one hundred part of his Mercy upon Jinn, Humans and other beings on earth;… it is because of this that they love one another and show kindness to another… even the beast treats its young with affection. He has reserved for Himself ninety – nine parts of Mercy, with which He will treat His slaves on the Day of Rising.

 


Please accept any mistakes as my short comings. Jazakallah