The Islamic Perspective on Death - Sayed Ali Al-Qazwini || Muharram 2022

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[0:01][Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign dear brothers and sisters illuminate your

[0:48]hearts and minds mohammed here in the west you hear the phrase

[1:03]often live life to the fullest now what does that mean exactly

[1:11]living life to the fullest how do you live a full life

[1:15]according to their definition living a full life means having as much

[1:23]fun as you can getting married enjoying the pleasures of life and

[1:30]then dying right you could have maybe a meaningful occupation or career

[1:37]start a family but really at the gist of it it's deriving

[1:43]as much pleasure as you can from life while avoiding as much

[1:46]pain as possible that's the definition of life and death is oh

[1:55]something scary right you don't want to mention death death in the

[2:00]material perspective something that you even want to hear about death is

[2:05]the cessation of life right that's how many see it and so

[2:10]the cessation of life means no more opportunity for pleasure i don't

[2:12]want that now if you look to the holy quran the book

[2:17]of allah what's the quranic perspective on life and death what's the

[2:24]quranic perspective on life and what you should extract from life says

[2:31]in the holy quran [Music] that life this life as we know

[2:44]it and experience it is nothing except games and play it's nothing

[2:48]except for pleasure and what is the true abode what is the

[2:54]true life allah continues in the verse as if only people knew

[3:06]that the true abode the eternal abode is not here it's in

[3:13]the afterlife that is where you spend in eternity and that is

[3:16]the true life here my dear brothers and sisters we're just passing

[3:19]on a bridge to get to the next destination which is the

[3:25]achra the afterlife now imagine you're crossing a bridge right let's say

[3:29]you're trying to get from the united states to canada so you're

[3:32]coming through detroit i'm from detroit you pass through the ambassador bridge

[3:36]so you go to the customs right they stamp your passport you're

[3:42]crossing the bridge it's a beautiful bridge it's located on top of

[3:45]the river you can see windsor i believe you could see detroit

[3:48]downtown so imagine you just take a detour you stop on the

[3:53]side of the bridge you get out of the car you just

[3:54]start looking at the view now that's fine if you just do

[3:59]it for a couple of minutes but imagine you say wow this

[4:02]is really nice you get out the tent and you start setting

[4:05]up the tent and you want to spend the night there doesn't

[4:08]make much sense first of all you're probably going to get a

[4:14]ticket from the police for impeding traffic secondly you forgot the purpose

[4:18]of why you're crossing this bridge yes enjoy the views while you're

[4:22]there while you're crossing have fun but ultimately the point of the

[4:28]bridge is what to cross and reach the next destination likewise there

[4:33]is meaning to life and allah wants us to invest in this

[4:36]life we don't want to be one of those ascetic people we

[4:40]go live in the mountains live in desert no allah says enjoy

[4:44]the pleasures of this life enjoy life there's nothing wrong with that

[4:49]but remember that ultimately this is a place an arena where as

[4:56]much as you invest you reap the benefits in the akhirah the

[5:00]benefits are not reaped here you sow the seeds and you reap

[5:04]the benefits inside the afterlife so likewise as you're crossing the ambassador

[5:12]bridge you arrive to the canadian side what is the officer going

[5:15]to ask you for your passport and he sees if you filled

[5:19]out the arrive canada application right if you haven't done that then

[5:22]bye bye you go back and you have to fill it out

[5:24]and come back three days later likewise when we cross the bridge

[5:32]of life to the achara who is the officer waiting for us

[5:36]before imam ali imam ali for the minion will be waiting upon

[5:39]your grave but before we get to that state we have the

[5:43]angel of death he is the officer who stamps your passport and

[5:48]likewise when you get to canada they see your arrived canada application

[5:51]what does see all that you take with you is your amal

[5:55]your hasanat and your say at everything that you have done in

[5:59]your life that's all that you take with you none of your

[6:01]possessions none of your belongings that's all that goes and so we

[6:09]must always remember that we are to invest in this life as

[6:11]much as we can so that we can see the benefits and

[6:15]the reap the benefits in the achra and take them with us

[6:19]because that's all that we are able to take now you can

[6:22]find in the life of abba abdullah imam al-hussein a walking example

[6:28]of the quranic application of what it means to truly live life

[6:34]and what it means to consider death for a believer death is

[6:39]not the end death is simply as we've mentioned a bridge to

[6:43]a another destination now if you have more evil deeds than good

[6:48]the destination is not looking so good it's looking a bit hot

[6:52]but if you have compiled many of your good deeds righteous action

[6:57]throughout your life a heavenly abode is waiting for you in the

[7:01]afterlife and you can find this lesson epitomized in the life of

[7:15]imam al-hussein now some ignorant people they pose the question they say

[7:20]abdullah he must have definitely not known that after leaving medina and

[7:28]going to on his way to kufa stopping at karbala he must

[7:31]have not known that he was going to die that he was

[7:34]going to be martyred otherwise he wouldn't have done it some people

[7:37]very ignorant people they say abdullah his intention was he wanted power

[7:42]he wanted worldly desires and had he known he was going to

[7:47]be martyred he definitely would have stopped his trip and his journey

[7:50]this is a weak and ignorant argument and we can demonstrate through

[7:55]many pieces of evidence that in fact imam al-hussein know exactly what

[8:00]he's doing he knew exactly the mission he was embarking on and

[8:03]he knew that it was going to lead into martyrdom how tonight

[8:06]we will discuss four of these the first is that when abba

[8:11]abdullah was in medina ready to depart on to the next destination

[8:15]going onward to kufa the night before his departure he went and

[8:21]visited the grave of his grandfather rasulullah now as he was visiting

[8:28]he lied down and took a short nap inside that sleep he

[8:34]saw rasulullah come to him now they hug inside that dream and

[8:40]imam hussain tells his grandfather he expresses to him o rasulullah my

[8:43]grandfather i've missed you i would rather right now leave this dunya

[8:48]and join you right now in the what does rasulullah respond to

[8:53]him he says hussain my dear grandson hussain i am longing for

[9:02]you too however allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala has placed for you a position

[9:06]so high near me that can only be attained through martyrdom through

[9:13]shahada so inside this dream rasulullah explicitly tells imam and hussain that

[9:16]you will be martyred so as he leaves madinah onward to kufa

[9:21]imam hussain know exactly what was going to happen yet he knew

[9:25]that this was his mission entrusted to him from allah so to

[9:30]think and to claim that imam hussain he went to kufa he

[9:32]wanted power he wanted to rule over the muslim lands all for

[9:37]world league name that is a ridiculous argument because imam hashem knew

[9:39]exactly what he was doing secondly you find in muslid ahmed which

[9:45]is a sunni source there is a hadith in which um peace

[9:50]be upon her she comes she finds rasool allah crying crying in

[9:54]his room so she asks him oh rasulullah what's the issue something

[9:58]wrong why are you crying rasulullah responds to um that just now

[10:04]jibra il peace be upon him descended upon me when jibril descended

[10:10]he asked me oh rasulullah do you love your grandson hussain hussain

[10:14]was a very young boy at the time do you love your

[10:17]grandson hussein this is the same hussain that's when he would hug

[10:20]the neck of rasulullah in sujood in congregational prayer rasulullah would not

[10:24]rise until he would leave he says of course his blood is

[10:30]my blood and my blood is his blood of course i love

[10:33]him tells him do you know what your ummah will do to

[10:38]him do you know what your people will do to hussein and

[10:41]he says let me show you the land in which he will

[10:46]die and jibril takes rasulullah to the area of karbala and the

[10:50]land in which imam al-hussein becomes a martyr and after coming back

[10:55]that is why rasulallah began to cry a third argument and piece

[11:03]of evidence is that once when imam al-hasan and imam hashem peace

[11:06]be upon them were young they came with their mother lady father

[11:10]to the house of rasulullah when rasulullah saw them he hugged imam

[11:17]al-hasan and he kissed him on his lips which was customary at

[11:23]the time he looked at imam hussain and he kissed him on

[11:27]the neck so hussain was a little taken aback why did he

[11:30]kiss my brother on the lips but he kissed me on my

[11:34]neck so he went crying to his mother lady fatima and he

[11:36]explained to her the situation so when lady fatima came to rasulullah

[11:41]she asked him rasulullah oh father hussain is saying that you kissed

[11:45]my son hassan on the lips but you kissed hussein on the

[11:48]neck why why is that i know you love them both dearly

[11:54]and equally so why is that the tears started coming down from

[11:58]the eyes of rasulullah onto his cheeks his beloved cheeks and his

[12:01]beard he said o fatima my daughter the reason i kissed imam

[12:04]al-hasan on his lips was because that is the area in which

[12:09]he will be poisoned and the reason i kissed imam hussain on

[12:11]his neck is that that is the area where the sword will

[12:16]hit so even from the days of rasulullah it was known that

[12:22]the tragedy was going to befall upon abba abdullah and in fact

[12:28]what's clearer than this example while he was in mecca this is

[12:36]before his departure towards kufa he went inside masjid al-haram in front

[12:39]of the ka'ba he gave a fiery speech to the people what

[12:44]was inside that speech before that i love salawat look at the

[12:55]beautiful words of abba abdullah he speaks regarding death how does abba

[13:00]abdullah see death is he afraid of death does it bring him

[13:07]anxiety does he welcome death let's find out imam al-hussein says he

[13:19]says death to the sons of adam is like a necklace around

[13:22]the neck of a young girl wherever you try to go it

[13:27]surrounds you there's no escape no matter how much money you spend

[13:30]even if you have the best doctors you spend on the best

[13:35]healthcare doesn't matter death is chasing all of us he says and

[13:46]i yearn for death i yearn for death the same amount that

[13:49]ya'akov yearned for his son yusuf yakub who cried 40 years for

[13:55]the loss of his son yusuf imam hussain says that's how much

[14:00]i yearn death now you think a man like this fears death

[14:02]someone who speaks in such a manner regarding the topic of that

[14:07]he fears death he says i yearn for death now why is

[14:10]imam hussain saying i yearn for death the region he is going

[14:33]to be murdered he says by karbala so the imam when he

[14:38]departed from mecca knew exactly the fates that he was going to

[14:43]encounter so this completely invalidates the argument that the imam was after

[14:47]power he was after worldly desires the imam had a heavenly mission

[14:56]which was wha what al islam he wanted to fix the nation

[15:01]of his grandfather and you find the imam and many instances and

[15:12]many khatab sermons a hadith he would mention death and ask his

[15:16]followers and shiatsu remind themselves of death why because when you remind

[15:21]yourself of death you'll remember what the true purpose of this life

[15:27]is you don't get distracted by the jewels and the gold you

[15:30]don't get distracted by the temptations of this world you remember why

[15:34]you are here rasulullah has a beautiful hadith in which he says

[15:42]he says increase your remembrance that which destroys pleasures now what is

[15:49]that rasulullah continues increase your remembrance of death now a question here

[15:58]why is death called the destroyer of pleasures well one reason is

[16:04]that after death you do not enjoy from the worldly temptations of

[16:09]this life but another reason is that dear brothers and sisters may

[16:14]allah increase all of your lives but if you attend someone's funeral

[16:19]and especially after a couple days if the person hasn't been buried

[16:23]when you see the state of the skin of that individual and

[16:29]its decomposition when you see the way the eyes fall out onto

[16:33]the cheeks once you look at that you can enjoy life the

[16:36]same way why because you know in a very short time whether

[16:41]that's tomorrow next year in 10 years and 50 years that's going

[16:46]to be me i'm going to be in that same state there's

[16:53]no escape that's why rasulullah calls that allah says we are so

[17:06]busy with the desires of this life whether it's children money prestige

[17:11]honor until we go to the graveyard once we see that all

[17:17]these people they were just like me they had ambitions they had

[17:21]families they wanted to enjoy life as much as they can but

[17:24]where did they end up six feet under and soon that plot

[17:31]empty plot that's going to be mine if you find yourself distracted

[17:36]by the pleasures of this world just remind yourself of death there's

[17:39]a beautiful story between two companions of rasulullah amar and salman al-muhammadi

[17:46]one day they made up and they were trying to you know

[17:51]outdo one another amar as-salman do you remember death salman said of

[17:59]course always amar says i am so confident in my life and

[18:03]my belief that every night when i go to sleep i don't

[18:06]have yakkin that that morning i will wake up allah subhanahu ta'ala

[18:12]has entrusted us with this amanah from god at any minute he

[18:20]can take back that trust so he says when i go to

[18:23]sleep i have no confidence that i will wake up in the

[18:25]morning subhanallah look these are the companions of rasulullah what does salman

[18:32]respond to that salman says you have too much hope in this

[18:41]dunya he says amar when i take a breath i am not

[18:44]confident allah will give me another allah do i know for sure

[18:50]that this next breath won't be my last allah can take his

[18:55]trust whenever he likes so remember that's always this breath might be

[19:01]my last what am i doing with my life when i wake

[19:03]up tomorrow will i wake up or will i wake up another

[19:10]dimension in an unfamiliar place so always always remember death some people

[19:17]it's a little funny they are under the misconception that if i

[19:21]remember death too much you know it's almost like i'll be manifesting

[19:24]death right death will come somehow come near me or if i

[19:28]remember death too much i might die one day i remember once

[19:32]someone took an appointment with my father my respected father and he

[19:37]was trying to get from my father lessons on going to the

[19:40]hajj you know he was about to go to hajj he wanted

[19:42]some tips some advice so my father said by the way did

[19:47]you write your will one of the prerequisites of going to hajj

[19:50]and may subhana allah grant all of us the tawfiq of going

[19:55]to hajj did you write your will so the man says no

[19:59]why do i have to write my mill am i going to

[20:03]die my father said no inshallah you live a long life but

[20:07]one of the prerequisites of hajj is that you write a will

[20:09]just in case something happens right and besides even if you don't

[20:13]go to hajj are you confident you're going to wake up tomorrow

[20:15]as we just discussed no so he was very afraid he thought

[20:20]writing his will meant that he would die sooner in fact we

[20:23]have a hadith that remembering death and in particular purchasing your own

[20:27]kefin increases your life the hadith says if you want to prolong

[20:32]your life purchase your caffeine now and every time you open the

[20:38]drawer right to wear that nice suit right that very dapper suit

[20:42]you see in the corner of the drawer that kevin that reminds

[20:44]you that today whatever i wear with the suit whatever i wear

[20:49]with this dress i need to make it worthwhile is what i'm

[20:52]going to do going to be a good investment for my akhra

[20:55]or a very bad investment always keep that on the top of

[21:02]your mind but the problem is many of us haven't written our

[21:05]wills we haven't purchased our kefin dear brothers and sisters if you

[21:09]don't do it now you're not solving the issue all you're doing

[21:12]is you're delaying the issue if you don't purchase your caffeine all

[21:16]that's going to happen is someone else is going to purchase one

[21:21]for you if you don't buy a plot of land right now

[21:23]for your grave all that's going to happen is someone else will

[21:26]buy it for you and if you don't write your will all

[21:29]you're going to do is cause chaos and confusion for your descendants

[21:34]do this now while you're still alive go and find a plot

[21:38]of land go and purchase it right write your will if you

[21:45]have any prayers that need to be made up try to make

[21:48]it up and also write it down just in case if you

[21:51]have any facts that need to be made up you have any

[21:53]dues with allah write that down and if you haven't purchased your

[22:00]kefin go ahead and do so allah subhanahu ta'ala says every human

[22:07]being will taste death and allah subhanahu ta'ala may bring that flavor

[22:12]of death any moment he decides once the prophet of allah sulaiman

[22:17]was on the rooftop of his mansion he was overlooking his servants

[22:24]and the quran says his servants were made of who human engine

[22:28]they were carrying construction material constructing his palace and he was overlooking

[22:35]his vast palace and kingdom the quran says we brought a kingdom

[22:38]that we will never bring to anyone after salah some modern estimates

[22:43]state that the wealth of the kingdom of prophet sulaiman exceeded 44

[22:48]trillion dollars try to wrap your head around that the gdp of

[22:53]the united states right the largest economy in the world is what

[22:55]around 22 trillion the wealth and this is what 2000 years ago

[23:01]3000 years ago the wealth of the kingdom of sulaiman was 44

[23:04]trillion dollars according to some estimates so as he's looking at his

[23:10]vast kingdom in his palace who comes to him descends from the

[23:16]skies the angel of death he comes and he says o sulaiman

[23:20]your time is up so sulaiman says oh angel of death but

[23:25]my palace isn't done but the problem is death doesn't wait if

[23:29]your palace is done if it's not done death does not discriminate

[23:34]young old so the angel of death israel says no allah subhanahu

[23:41]ta'ala has commanded me that i take your soul now so says

[23:46]okay well if i can't wait until the construction of the palace

[23:50]is done well at least let me go lie down in my

[23:51]bed he says no so sulaiman was standing and he was leaning

[23:59]on a stick he says all right well if that's not allowed

[24:03]at least let me sit down let me lie down so that

[24:06]when you take my soul i'll just be lying down he says

[24:08]no when the ejal of allah comes it must be done immediately

[24:13]and i waste no time so him standing and leaning on the

[24:17]stick and this is a prophet of allah with a high stature

[24:22]in the eyes of allah such that his servants saw him standing

[24:25]and overlooking the palace they didn't know that he was dead so

[24:29]for days and days they were still working constructing his palace but

[24:33]what's the point he's dead now can you enjoy your palace and

[24:38]your money and your cars when you're dead i don't think so

[24:42]until allah sent termites they bit the end of his stick and

[24:48]he fell down and that's when they realized that sulaiman was dead

[24:52]now there's one interesting incident in sahih al-bukhari this may be the

[24:57]only time in which the agile of allah was delayed and you

[25:01]be the judge once the hadith the same angel of death as

[25:09]came down upon the prophet moses peace be upon him according to

[25:15]this hadith it says moses asked him what are you here for

[25:20]well the angel of death says what else am i here for

[25:23]i'm here for you your time is up the hadith says moses

[25:27]got so angry he punched him in the eye such that his

[25:30]eye fell out now what kind of punch is that mashallah a

[25:33]lot of force and torque behind that so he punched him so

[25:36]hard his eyes fell out now i guess this was his first

[25:40]time encountering something like this so he went back up to allah

[25:43]he started complaining what is this this is this is a prophet

[25:45]of yours i went according to your order to extract the soul

[25:48]he punched me so allah he restored the eye of israel and

[25:53]he says okay now go i've talked to him you know he's

[25:58]calmer now go and take his soul no this is a hadith

[25:59]we'll leave it up to that but that's it for everyone else

[26:13]once you see israel coming that's the end now what can we

[26:19]glean from the quran from the hadith those who have passed away

[26:23]what's their regret those who have passed away and crossed that bridge

[26:27]into the afterlife what is their regret if they had a chance

[26:30]one day to come back to this life what would they ask

[26:36]for would they want to test out their their car one last

[26:38]time for a last ride would they want to visit their house

[26:44]one last time go walk on the beach what does the quran

[26:50]say those who have passed away they have one request oh allah

[27:00]bring me back so that i may do one good deed one

[27:05]act of righteousness because on that day on that fearful day of

[27:08]the day of judgment every single deed and every single act counts

[27:14]so my dear brothers and sisters and i remind myself first allah

[27:19]ta'ala last night in your sleep could have taken back his this

[27:23]morning allah subhanahu ta'ala granted you new life what are you going

[27:28]to do with that second chance allah gave you think of all

[27:32]the chances allah has given you in your life tomorrow when you

[27:37]wake up what are you going to dedicate that day towards pursuing

[27:41]the desires and temptations of this life or investing in this life

[27:47]so that you may reap the rewards in the achra if you

[27:51]invest in this life according to the principles of allah then i

[27:56]guarantee you in the ahra you will be happy and content that

[27:58]is my personal guarantee thus you find on the night of ashura

[28:06]the companions they're inside the tents you'd imagine if you walk in

[28:11]this is the night of ashura the imam has already warned them

[28:13]of what's to come you think that there'd be an environment of

[28:18]dread of anxiety it would be so tense but if you open

[28:22]the door to the tent you would find the companions on the

[28:25]night of ashura laughing they were joking they were bantering they were

[28:31]happy why because they knew tomorrow was not the end tomorrow they

[28:35]would simply cross the bridge towards all that allah would provide for

[28:40]them in the achra thus when imam al-hussein asked his nephew al-qasim

[28:46]he said how do you view death my nephew ke fatar al-moat

[28:50]how did this young boy this young child respond was he fearful

[28:55]was he anxious oh uncle death for your sake is sweeter than

[29:08]honey what kind of iman and belief did these men and this

[29:12]teenager have such that death is sweeter than honey how could they

[29:20]see death in such a way that it is sweeter than honey

[29:24]the taste for the companions of abba abdullah was like honey if

[29:33]anything for the believers for the shia of albeit death itself should

[29:37]not be fearful you know that it's only crossing the bridge to

[29:40]the next stage there is however for the believers for the followers

[29:45]of one stage we should fear that's what's after death some ahadith

[29:49]we gather from the islamic texts that there could be up to

[29:54]50 stages after death from hovering on to around your body to

[29:59]being by your grave to entering the grave there's between these stages

[30:04]50 stages but the worst stage of them all is known as

[30:10]ada the torture of the grave we gather we glean from the

[30:16]islamic texts that a true believer a true pious believer and follower

[30:22]of the albeit will not touch hellfire may allah save us from

[30:26]that however even if you have righteous action and you had firm

[30:31]belief each one of us we have some shortcomings here and there

[30:33]we slip the lie once maybe we saw you know five dollars

[30:37]on the street we picked it up and then i put it

[30:40]in the sadaqa box we have shortcomings here and there how does

[30:43]allah purify us such that we are ready and worthy to enter

[30:48]jannah through adam is what the believer should be fearful of to

[30:55]the extent that imam zain al-abidin peace be upon him and says

[31:00]when i remember i cried what is this the imam says when

[31:08]i remember i cry what goes on in there the imam explains

[31:16]in this beautiful the imam says me [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] day

[32:11]questions that said how are we able to best prepare for death

[32:31]or death such that when the inevitable day arrives we will know

[32:35]what to do and we will not have it not heaven dear

[32:39]brothers this year the make it a weekly schedule to go visit

[32:49]your beloved ones that have passed away the hadith says jummah friday

[32:55]is a recommended day to go it also says it's not recommended

[32:58]macro to visit at night go during the day on friday or

[33:03]any other day and visit your loved ones recite for them a

[33:05]fatah not only will they benefit you will benefit by the virtue

[33:10]of remembering that this is where you will also end up you

[33:13]will be following them soon second i highly implore all of you

[33:19]to learn how to wash bodies if you're able to take a

[33:24]course or learn from someone who's experienced unlearned how to wash dead

[33:28]bodies because when you tilt that body and wash that lifeless body

[33:32]you will remember that one day your body will be in the

[33:39]hands of someone doing the same third ask your friends your family

[33:47]members for forgiveness tonight make a vow that tomorrow and the following

[33:52]days the preceding days you will ask your family and f and

[33:57]your friends for forgiveness from any wrong doing from any shortcomings on

[34:01]your behalf for you will need that forgiveness on the day of

[34:07]judgment fourth my dear brothers and sisters if your parents are still

[34:14]alive i highly implore that you go and you ask them to

[34:17]pray for you because we glean from the ahadith that the duat

[34:22]the dua of parents and especially the mother is unparalleled in its

[34:30]efficacy the dua of the mother will do you wonders so tonight

[34:34]tomorrow if your parents are still alive and especially your mother go

[34:38]and visit them and ask them to pray for you fifth tonight

[34:44]during the imageless look towards the sky and ask allah from the

[34:51]depths of your heart to forgive you to forgive you of all

[34:55]your sins 6 if you have family members or friends that have

[35:05]wronged you find it in your heart to forgive them because the

[35:09]hadith says if you want the mercy of allah subhanahu ta'ala to

[35:12]reach you you need to also forgive others if you want allah

[35:17]to forgive you find it in your heart to forgive others the

[35:19]albeit say we don't like our followers to be ones who hold

[35:22]grudges who cause problems with others so try to make amends with

[35:27]your family members with your friends and forgive them for their shortcomings

[35:31]and seventh and lastly if you have not written your will yet

[35:35]make it a point to write your will the last point inshallah

[35:44]i will discuss is that after you die that's it the door

[35:46]has been sealed shut you're not able to contribute to your 401k

[35:52]to your mizan al-hasanat your scale of good deeds however we have

[35:57]a hadith from the albeit there are three things you are able

[36:02]to do such that after your death you are able to earn

[36:05]passive income you are able to earn edger and rewards for what

[36:13]you do but before that i love salawat the hadith says the

[36:22]first is beneficial knowledge that you teach others whether to be physically

[36:27]having a class and teaching others writing a book writing a pamphlet

[36:33]in this digital age it could be creating a youtube video exploring

[36:36]some hadith or a quranic verse an instagram post or maybe for

[36:40]those youth out there if they're active on tik tok try to

[36:44]reduce some of the other elements that you see and maybe start

[36:47]posting a little bit about the bait about the quran about some

[36:53]islamic lesson that's number one what's number two is continuous how so

[37:03]if you participate in the building of say a masjid a husseini

[37:08]like this if you donate if you build an orphanage if you

[37:12]build something that continues to benefit people after your demise and third

[37:17]wa if you have good children and descendants who pray for you

[37:22]so these three teaching knowledge continuous charity and good descendants and children

[37:32]who pray for you otherwise after death the door has been sealed

[37:36]shut and trust me after 20 50 100 years maximum not only

[37:39]will you be dead your name will be dead as well no

[37:43]one will remember you try to think yourselves your great great great

[37:46]grandfather or mother do you even know their names do you know

[37:50]a single fact about their lives most would probably say no but

[37:55]through these actions you're able to gain ajir and roared otherwise the

[38:00]door has been sealed shut and your name and legacy will end

[38:05]however dear brothers and sisters there was one figure in history who

[38:09]to this day his name lives and stands one person whose death

[38:15]has impacted millions and in fact is the reason why we are

[38:18]gathering today there is not a single continent in which the name

[38:25]of abba abdullah is not mentioned and dear brothers and sisters let

[38:30]me share with you a fact you are here attending this medjlist

[38:33]you are in fact reviving the legacy of imam zainul abedin imam

[38:39]zainul abedin imam sajad was the first to institute the majalis he

[38:45]would gather his family members his close relatives his close companions he

[38:49]would in fact pay someone to come a poet and lament the

[38:55]martyrdom of abba so you being here you are continuing the legacy

[38:59]and tradition of imam zainul abedin by attending the majalis of abba

[39:03]abdullah and by remembering his name his blessed name however attending these

[39:13]majalis and remembering the name of abba abdullah was not easy upon

[39:18]the heart of our beloved imam imam zainul abedin the hadith state

[39:23]for years and years after the incident of ashura imam zain al-abidin

[39:26]would weep such that he would mix his food and water with

[39:31]his tears he would weep so much such that one day a

[39:34]companion a close companion of imam abedin came and he said o

[39:40]imam isn't it enough haven't you cried enough you the albeit you

[39:45]are no strangers to martyrdom why are you crying so much the

[39:47]imam looked at him he said yes you are right but look

[39:52]at the story of yakub yakub he was separated from his son

[39:56]yusuf for 40 years and he knew he was alive and yet

[40:00]he cried for 40 years until he went blind you want me

[40:06]to stop crying when i saw my father another companion came and

[40:12]he saw imam zayn abbadini crying he said imam martin is no

[40:15]stranger for you why do you cry so much says yes you

[40:20]are right we the albeit are no strangers to martyrdom but have

[40:24]we the family of rasulullah have ever experienced syrians where our women

[40:30]are changed our women are taken care of his first of all

[41:02]you have other wealth for your house if you want i'm not

[41:17]crying because of my because my mom will compensate [Music] after they

[41:47]had set fire to those tents those evil enemies set fires to

[41:53]those ladies what is your order what should we do usually their

[41:59]brothers their brothers every king every queen on the day foreign me

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