Dars e Imam-Ahkirat
“Bismillahir Rahmannir Raheem””Al-Hamdu Lillaahi Rabbil ‘Aalameen was Salaatu was- Salaamu ‘Alaa Sayidinaa Muhammadin wa Aalihi wa Asabihi Ajma ‘een (tauheed- risalat- ahkirat and islam-iman-ihsan)
As the hadiths narrate, if the soul was a
believing one, a door onto the fire is opened and the soul is shown it’s place
in the Fire had they disobeyed Allah. Then that door is locked and another door
onto the Garden is opened and they are shown their place there. This door will
remain open until the Day of Rising. Some of the sweetness and fragrance of the
Garden reaches them and their grave is made spacious. The believer sleeps in
peace just as if they were in one of the meadows of the Garden. Their narrow
grave expands and stretches for the soul as far as the eye can see.
This spaciousness, light and greenery in which the believer remains from the
time of his death until the Day of Rising is not the same as we know in our
world. If a living person were to open a grave, they would not find any
expanse, light or greenness there. They would not find an open door through
which they could see the Garden. They do not see bliss or torment. It is only
the dead person who is aware of these things and sees them. Allah, through His
wisdom, has the power to veil this from the living. The proof that this is so
is shown by the fact that there are other creatures like the Jinn who live with
us on the earth. They converse in raised voices among us but we do not see or
hear them. There were angels who fought with the believers (at Badr) and struck
down the unbelievers and shouted at them, but the Muslims did not see or hear
them. Jibril came to the prophet ﷺ in the
midst of the people and they did not see or hear them.
It is a strange fact that animals are able to hear the punishment in the grave
while human beings as a general rule cannot. The prophet ﷺ said, “They are punished and the animals hear
it.” Various forms of punishment rain down on a person in the grave according
to the type of wrong actions they committed. There are hadiths of the prophet ﷺ about the Night Journey which contain descriptions of
the many types of punishment he saw in the interspace between the two worlds.eg
not paying zakaat,fornification,usury/riba,backbiters etc All of this shows
that the Punishment of the Grave is true beyond any doubt.
“Race to forgiveness from your Lord, and a Garden whose breadth is like
the breadth of the Heaven and the Earth” (57:21) The intelligent person is
the one who acts for this world as if they were going to live forever and acts
for the Next World as if they were going to die tomorrow.
Allah instructs Angel Israfeel to blow the horn twice. The first is to ready
every seed for germination(lowest part of sacrum bone ). Water of Life is then
poured upon these seeds in their graves. The soul comes back from the barzakh
to join its biological entity at this time. The second blow of the trumpet
helps those seeds to germinate and produce every person back to normal. They
come out of their graves in a state of shock, naked without any clothes or
shoes.
“The trumpet will be sounded when all that are in the heavens and in the
earth will swoon except such as will please Allah (to exempt). Then will a
second one be sounded, when, behold, they will be standing and looking
on!” (39/68) “The trumpet shall be sounded,when behold! From the
sepulchres (men and women) will rush forth to their Lord! They will say: ‘Ah!
Woe unto us! Who had raised us up from out beds of repose?’ (A voice will say:
) ‘This is what Allah, Most Gracious had promised, and true was the word of the
messengers!” (36/51-52)
Everyone will be raised up with the same identification features down to our
very fingerprints. “Does man think that We cannot assemble his bones? Nay,
We are able to put together in perfect order the very tips of his
fingers.” (75/3-4)
After our rebirth our journey continues as each of us is taken to a place of
Assembly. “On that day We shall leave them to surge life waves on one
another. The trumpet will be blown, and We shall collect
them all together. (18/99) All will be waiting for the Court of Allah, the
Court of Justice to decide for them. The Day of Assembly is a day of fear,
agony and anxiety. It is a day when each of us will be worried about what will
happen to us personally. “At length, when there comes the Deafening
Noise–that day shall a man flee from his own brother, and from his mother and
his father, and from his wife and his children. Each one of them, that Day,
will have enough concern (of his own) to make him indifferent to the
others.”(80/33-37)
With the heat of sun, sweating, and presence of too many people next to one
another, the situation will be very scary and chaotic. “O mankind! Fear
your Lord! For the convulsion of the Hour (of Judgement) will be a thing
terrible! The Day you shall see it, every mother giving suck shall forget her
suckling babe, and every pregnant female shall drop her load (unformed). You
shall see mankind as in a drunken riot, yet not drunk; but dreadful will be the
Chastisement of Allah.” (22/1-2)
On this day seven groups of people will be protected by Allah, these are
mentioned in Hadith: “Seven types of people will be under the shelter of
mercy on the Day when there will be no shade other than
that of Allah’s mercy: 1) a just imam, 2) a young person who kept busy in Allah’s
worship, 3) a person whose heart is attached to the masjid, 4)two people who
loved each other for Allah’s sake, gathered
for His sake and parted, remembering Him, 5) a man who was invited by a
beautiful and charming woman but declined her offer, saying “I fear Allah”;
6) a person who gave charity so secretly that their left hand did not know what
was given by the right hand , and 7) a person who remembered Allah privately, so
that their eyes brimmed with tears.”[Bukhari, Muslim]
Each person shall then be grouped behind his or her leader, prophet, messenger,
mentor, celebrity, etc. All will be put in lines waiting for the Court of Allah
to take place and our journey to continue. “On
the day We shall call together all human beings with their (respective)
Imams” (17/71)
Judgement Day will be our next stop. This is the day when Allah personally will
judge everyone directly with absolute justice. Abu Hurayrah related that the
prophet (saw) said: “Every servant of Allah will remain standing before Allah
on the Day of Judgement until he has answered five questions about five things:
His life–how he spent it; his knowledge–how much he acted upon it; his
wealth–how he
acquired it and how he spent it; and his body (and health)–how he used
it.” [Muslim]
Nafs =me and ruh =he (filled with Allah’s love)
Toubah =softening of heart gives kaifiyat
Toubah is different for different category of people for ex- sinner/aulia/anbiya etc
Sincere toubah= becomes free from sins
When I want to talk to allah I say prayers and when I want that he talk to me I recite quran- Hazrath Ali(ra)
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