The Questions of the Grave- Faith in the Messengers

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1 The Questions of the Grave Feb 2, 2017 The Questions of the Grave- Faith in the Messengers First I need to know about Allah. Then the best of the worshippers: The angels. Learning about the angels helps you learn how to worship Allah because they are the best devotees. Where do I find how to worship Allah: The Books. Where can I find examples on how to worship Allah: The Messengers. Every pillar of faith helps you in worshipping Allah. Faith is like a tree- when faith is strong, you worship Allah strongly. All the pillars of the faith you saying it with the heart.

2 The Lorem Questions Ipsum Dolor of the Grave The Truth about Prophethood Prophethood is a connection between the Creator and the creation. To 1 tell the people about Shari ah. Allah sent the messengers to tell us what Allah loves, what Allah hates, what Allah wants from you. It is not for us to take the Messengers as a mediator. We don t believe they take us to Allah. We need to go to Allah. 2 Prophethood is gift from Alllah. Allah will choose the Prophets. It is not that a person can train to be a prophet. Allah chose them (even before human existence) because Allah knew that they had the best hearts. Allah knew their capabilities, what they can do, and what they can go through. They are the best of people. There are sects that believe that anybody can be a prophet or can be better than the prophet. 3 It is Allah s choice. There is no amount of knowledge or amount of dua that can make someone a Prophet. Allah chooses who He selects as a Prophet from His Wisdom. Ash-Shura ayah 13: Allah chooses for Himself whom He wills and guides to 2

3 Lorem The Questions Ipsum Dolor of the Grave The Wisdom in Sending the Books For Messengers- we say Allah sent Messenger (Irsaal Ar-Rasool) For Kitaab- we say Inzaal Al-Kutoob, meaning revealed, from up to down. Allah is sending them. They are not forcing on the people. They are just showing the people, reminding the people. To take people out of darkness to light- When Allah sends a messenger to a 1 people, it means the people were in darkness. There might be a period of time where there were no messengers, for example between Jesus and the Prophet Muhammad. That means when the Prophet Muhammad was sent, the people needed the guidance. What is the light? Knowledge. Darkness is ignorance (jahiliyah). They are disobeying Allah and sinning. The Prophets bring the people out of the darkness to the light: from worshipping idols to worshipping Allah alone. Ibrahim came when the people were in ignorance, devoting themselves to the idols. Allah sent Ibrahim to take people out of the darkness of worshipping idols to worshipping Allah- Tawheed & La ilaha il Allah. They used to increase in idols for each need they had. Ibrahim broke all the idols. How can you worship something that cannot respond to you or defend themselves? You need to worship the every living. We cannot have 2 or 10 gods, because if you have two, they will fight and only one will remain. Ibrahim kept one left, showing them that he cannot respond. All of the Rusool came for Tawheed. To be a slave of something other than Allah doesn t only mean idols. It can be anything. It can be yourself, it can be money, people, position. It can be anything that you devote all your feeling towards. You re around it all the time. This is the meaning of abd- slave. That s why the Prophet said: Woe to the person who is a slave of the dirham. Slave of money. Meaning, if he give it, then he s happy, if he doesn t get than he will be angry. How will you know that you re a slave of something? If you got it, you will be happy, if you don t get it, you are angry. It controls your emotions and actions. Woe to the person who is slave of clothes and furniture. What does it mean to be a slave of clothes? This brand will give you value. This or that will give you happiness or sadness. The Messengers came to free slavery to anything that is useless to being a slave of Allah. That s why talisman are bad, they are so attached to it and they feel in danger if they don t have it. The Rusool are taking the people out of slavery to freedom. 3

4 The Lorem Questions Ipsum of Dolor the Grave Freedom is when you are a slave of Allah. Ibrahim is not scared of anything except Allah, you don t rely on anyone except Allah. This is the real meaning of freedom. I don t obey anything except for what Allah said. Allah said obey the Messenger, I obey the messenger. Allah said, obey the ruler, I obey the ruler. Allah said, obey the parents, then I obey the parents. You are free when you are the slave of Allah. They came not only to make people in a trap. They came to free the people. Any other religion other than Islam is a prison, a chain. Allah is pleased with Islam, anywhere you can pray, any time you can make dua. You don t have to something tangible that you need, that can get lost or broken or have it stolen. Anywhere you go, you can call Allah. When you are a slave only of Allah, even your connection in this life, it is because Allah told you. I m not a slave of my husband, my kids, my parents. I am a slave of Allah, but He told me obey them and to fulfill obligations. 2 To tell people why Allah created you. Allah didn t create us to be slave of this or that. The Messengers came to remind us that we are slaves of Allah. We cannot know that this is your job, except the through Messengers. If you buy a device from the shop and you don t know what it works. You would ask a technician to come and help you to teach you. The factory sent me this person to teach me so you know that he s the only one that can teach you because they are sending him. And Allah is the highest of examples. Allah sent the Messengres to tell us and teach us why Allah The created Special you, what is our Status job in this life. of All of the messengers Quran are telling people to worship Allah alone. All the Messengers and Prophets are Muslim- meaning La ilaha il Allah. No Messenger came to say, you worship me or take me as a mediator. They are not worries about the number of followers. They never called to worship themselves. To be a proof to the people The people will not have an excuse. 3 4:165 [We sent] messengers as bringers of good tidings and warners so that mankind will have no argument against Allah after the messengers. And ever is Allah Exalted in Might and Wise. To tell the people about some of the Unseen- Things that happen in the future, 4 such as the Day of Judgement, Yajooj wa Majooj, what will happen in the grave. You cannot sense it with your own sense or thoughts. Allah told some of the unseen to the prophets. The prophet saw Paradise, etc because his faith was so strong. It didn t change them after seeing it, because he already believed in it. He wasn t overreacted because he already believed in affirmed. Allah told them to tell the others the unseen, which shows how much they believe in the unseen. There are many things we cannot see, but themost important things we need to know from the unseen is what Allah has told us. For example, other things, like what will happen tomorrow (fortune tellers), it will stress us. 4

5 Lorem The Questions Ipsum Dolor of the Grave To be a role model for the people- The messengers were not only teachers. They 5 were role models. For example, you go to the dentist. The dentist themselves, sometimes they have good or bad teeth. When you go to the beautician, and the beautician themselves look nice or not. You want to buy a product, but then why doesn t the seller use it. Before, the ministry of education was called ministry education, but now they call it tarbiyah wa ta leem - meaning ministry of nurturing and education. Before they are learning from the material, they are learning from the teacher s manners. The Prophet s (SallalAllahu Alayhi wa Salam) character was the Quran. The pillars of faith help us with our worship. When we learn about the angels, we can learn to be better worshippers. With our worship we are better than the angels. Angels don t like arguing and screaming. They are obedient. The books are our curriculum. And our Messengers are our teachers and role models. The Messengers are the best of humans, the best of characters. 6 Purifying the Nafs (fixing and purifying the heart)- When all the previous points are given, then point number 6 is fulfilled. When you listen to what they are saying, when you get the knowledge, when they told you about the unseen. We need to be fixed to go to Paradise. For example, when we are preparing children for when you re going out of the house. Before leaving the house, we need to be fixed (change clothes, comb hair, etc.) For some children this is a struggle, it takes longer when they do not accept. For others they know and they make it easy. This is how the dunya is. We need to be fixing and preparing for Jannah. SubhanAllah, some people do not accept and it takes longer. Some people just accept and it s easy and quick. Those that are rejecting will not be reformed for Jannah. So we learn the deen, be truthful, and go to the next step. We cannot be stuck somewhere. I need to listen to the Prophet for fixing. Sometimes I will be delayed, but we want to be reformed quickly to reach the next level. No ones wants to be in An-Nar, no one wants to be in the lowest level in Paradise. Some people don t want to change. But Allah wants to reform us and change. Sometimes when you re doing wrong and others are benefiting from this wrong. So they don t want you to change. From where do we get fixing and purifying? By the books, the messengers, when we learn about angels, quran, ayah. This is all teaching us and purifying us. 91:8-10 And [by] the soul and He who proportioned it. And inspired it [with discernment of] its wickedness and its righteousness, He has succeeded who purifies it, And he has failed who instills it [with corruption]. 5

6 Lorem The Questions Ipsum Dolor of the Grave 62:2 It is He who has sent among the unlettered a Messenger from themselves reciting to them His verses and purifying them and teaching them the Book and wisdom - although they were before in clear error - Sometimes we recite and we don t realize how it s affecting us (purifying us). We recite and memorize. Then you teach them manners. Then you learn! The Prophet (SallalAllahu Alayhi wa Salam) came to teach us manners. When we see a persons character/manners, we see if they actually learn. The messengers came to plant a seed of faith and truthfulness- then we water it and we see it grow. This is how we grow the tree of Iman. That s why in Jannah the highest level is the best of manners. How many messengers we have, the scholars have maybe about approximately. There were 25 messengers mentioned in the Quran. How about prophets? Meaning thousands- they are the ones that follow the previous messenger to put emphasis on it. All Messengers are Prophets but not all prophets are messengers. Messenger is a higher level. We need to respect, honor, follow them example, and believe in all of them. The best was is the Prophet Muahmmad (SallalAllahu Alayhi wa Salam) and we follow him.