Deen has three elements: (1) Al-Islam: the five pillars of Islam which are the apparent actions; (2) Al-Iman: regarding the actions

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1 December 15, 2012 Deen has three elements: (1) Al-Islam: the five pillars of Islam which are the apparent actions; (2) Al-Iman: regarding the actions of the heart; and (3) Al-Ihsan: the perfection in worshipping Allah. Under Al-Iman we have already discussed four arkaan: (1) Iman Billah (2) Angels (3) Books and (4) Messengers. Today Insha Allah we will start the fifth rukn ( ) which is the belief on the Last Day, the Day of Judgement ( ). Always Allah mentions belief on the Last Day after mentioning the Iman Billah, such is the importance of believing on the Last Day. It is one of the unseen matters over which a believer has to have firm belief in a manner described in Quran and Sunnah. What is the Last Day ( ). It is the Day of Judgement ( ). On that Day Allah will resurrect all the mankind ( ). Page 1

2 Allah will resurrect the mankind for two reasons: 1. Accountability ( ) 2. Recompense ( ) reward or the punishment depending on the deeds. The Day is called Yaum-ul-Qiyamah because Qiyamah means to stand and on that Day everyone will be standing in front of Allah, waiting for the accountability and recompense. There are so many names of this Day and every name describes one of the things which will happen on that Day. It is called Yaum-ul-Aakhir because there will be no day after this Day ( ) and it will be the last day. That one particular day will be not like our usual day which we have now but it will be thousands of years long. After the Day of Judgement the Day will be - will be permanent; will permanently abode in the place assigned to us after the recompense; whether in Paradise or the hell fire; that s why the Day is also called Yaum-ul-Mustaqir the Day of the Permanent Abode. There are others names which are mentioned in the Quran and the Sunnah. How do we need to believe in the Last Day? The belief in the Day of Judgement includes belief on three things ( believers who believe in the Day of Judgement: ) in orderr for us to be considered as Page 2

3 (1) First Belief: To believe in the resurrection ( ). We need to know what is exactly meant by believing in the resurrection ( ). It means believing in the fact that Allah will bring life to the dead bodies ( ) all the souls will be returned to the dead bodies scattered all over the earth. This will happen when the trumpet will be blown for the second time ( ) by Israfeel AS and all dead bodies will be brought back to life. Then everybody will stand in front of Rabb-ul-Alimeen ( ). How will everybody be descriptions of the condition: Without shoes bare-footed ( resurrected, in which condition? Three ) Without clothes naked ( ); and Un-circumcised ( ) This information is based on Hadith. When Prophet Muhammad narrated this Hadith Ayesha RA asked (rephrased) that if everybody will be raised like that will people not look at each other. Prophet replied that the terror of that day will be such that one would not care about the state of another. Page 3

4 [Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith (Hadith 4.656) Allah's Apostle said, "You will be resurrected (and assembled) bare- footed, naked and uncircumcised." The Prophet then recited the Divine Verse: "As We began the first creation, We shall repeat it: A promise We have undertaken. Truly we shall do it." (21.104)]. This will be similar to the first creation of human kind 1. Belief on the resurrection day should be without any doubts and external influences ( ) and we get the evidences from the Quran ( ) and the Sunnah ( ), which affirm the fact about the resurrection. For people who do not believe in the Quran and Sunnah there is another proof: the intellectt ( ), the brain should realize the fact that there has to be a wisdom behind the creation of everything; eating, drinking, living and then dying is not the logical reasoning behind the creation. 1 Page 4

5 (2) Second Belief: to believe in the accounts and the recompense: ( ). We need to believe that after the resurrection Allah will call everyone for accountability and recompense of his deeds ( ). There will be 70,000 people who will be excluded from this accountability and recompense; they will go directly to the Paradise without any accounts or punishment. They are the mutawakkileen who put their complete reliance on Allah, they will be exempt from all accounts and punishment, may Allah make us among those Ameen. Rest of the people will be called for accounts. There will be different ways of accountability for different people. Some people will face easy accounts ( ), their reckoning will be easy 2. Then there will be people whose accounts will be difficult ( ) and they will be questioned on each and every deed which they used to do. Munafiqeen 3 will face this type of accounts. So there will be three different types of accounts: no accounts, easy accounts and difficult accounts. Then after the accounts people will get the recompense ( ), good ( ) or bad ( ), according to their deeds. 2 Prophet Muhammad supplication for easy reckoning 3 Page 5

6 Evidence of the fact that everybody will be accounted and recompensed is in Surah Ghashiya Ayah 25 & 26 and Surah Anbiya Ayah 47. Evidence from Hadith that everything will have an account and recompense and how just the accounts and recompense will be on the Day of Judgement: Ibn Abbas, radiyallahu anhu, reported that the Messenger of Allah,, related from his Lord (glorified and exalted be He): Verily Allah has recorded the good deeds and the evil deeds. Then he clarified that: Whosoever intends to do a good deed but does not do it, Allah records it with Himself as a complete good deed; but if he intends it and does it, Allah records it with Himself as ten good deeds, up to seven hundred times, or more than that. But if he intends to do an evil deed and does not do it, Allah records it with Himself as a complete good deed; but if he intends it and does it, Allah records it down as one single evil deed. [Al-Bukhari & Muslim] Page 6

7 There will be scale and on that scale every good deed ( ) as well as the bad deed ( ) will be weighed, if the weight of the good deeds is more than the bad deeds then the person will go to Paradise and vice versa. A disbeliever, polytheist or a hypocrite will not have any weights for their good deeds because their good deeds were not done for the sake of Allah so all their good deeds will go in vain. So the equation will be: Good deeds bad deeds Bad deeds good deeds Paradise Hell Good deeds bad deeds A araf (a mountain in between Paradise and Hell people will be in the middle and afterwards they will be taken to paradise). What are the good deeds which have the maximum weights on the scales? good manners good dealings with people with maximum of good behavior for the sake of Allah Page 7

8 What are the bad deeds which have the maximum weight nullifiers on the scale? hypocrisy disbelief polytheism (3) Third Belief: to believe in the paradise and hellfire ( have to have the belief in the Last Day. It will be the abode for ever ( balance of the good and the bad deeds. ). This is the third belief which we need to ) according to the weight in the Paradise the place of all delights some delights known which we taste now and some unknown to everyone which never crossed the minds of anyone. Allah has made this place especially for the muttaqin. Never compromise on this for the sake of worldly pleasure, Allah wants simple things from us and in return has promised something, which no eyes has seen, no ears heard and no mind can think the delight and beauty of such a place SubhanAllah. If we prefer duniya then it is a loss trade because we exchange something better with something which is worse. the hellfire which is the abode of the disbelievers. Page 8

9 So the summary of the belief in the Last Day is the three beliefs we need to have to believe in the Last Day as the Day of Judgement: We ask Allah for His forgiveness and Mercy. Anything that is good from these notes is from Allah. Any mistakes & misrepresentations are my own. I ask Allah for His acceptance of all our good deeds and forgiveness of our sins Ameen. Page 9

Morning Class - Sunday, January 22, 2013

Morning Class - Sunday, January 22, 2013 This is a series of lectures where the Muttaqin are discussed through the Ayahs of Quran covering either their characteristics or other discussion about taqwa.