Signs, Stages, and Events of the Day of Judgement Explained

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The people will be resurrected and gathered on Yawm al-Qiyamah Fah, barefooted Urah, unclothed Ghurlah, and uncircumcised Our will not be established except upon the most evil of people There will be no shade except for the shade of the Arsh That anybody who denies or does not believe in Al-Yawm al-Akhir has left the fold of Islam And I say in the Qur'an what its verses have brought, for it is the Most Generous, the Most Merciful And I say, Allah, Exalted in His Glory, said And the Chosen One is the Guide, and I do not turn away In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful And all praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds And the end is for the righteous, and there is no enmity except against the wrongdoers I bear witness that there is no deity except Allah, alone, with no partner Protector of the first and the last And I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and His Messenger And His Chosen One and His Companion The One sent as a mercy to the worlds May Allah's peace and blessings be upon him and his family and his companions and his followers until the Day of Judgment Ayyuhal Kiram, today we are going to speak about a day besides which there is no greater day and no day more severe And it is that day that every single one of us will pass by it All of Bani Adam, from the first to the last, without exception, every single person will face this day And this day which we are speaking about, Yawmun Azeem, the great day, the difficult day It has been mentioned in the Qur'an and the Sunnah In fact, you will not find a page of the Qur'an except perhaps there is a mention of this day Or a reminder regarding the day Or some detail or description regarding this day And similarly, the collections of hadith The collections of hadith, they are full of hadith and narrations regarding this day And of course we are talking about the Yawmul Qiyamah Yawmul Deen, Yawmul Hisaab and Jaza And it is Al-Ba'ath Ba'da Al-Mawt, the resurrection after death And it is Yawmul Hashar, the day of gathering And it is Yawmul Ardh Al-Akbar, the day in which everybody will stand in front of Allah And everything will be exposed and shown and nothing will be hidden It is, as Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la described it in the Qur'an Al-Qari'ah It is Al-Ghashiyah It is Al-Haqqah It is Al-Taamah And it is Al-Sa'ah, the hour, the hour which will be established And believing in Al-Yawmul Akhir, the final day This is from the Usool of our Aqeedah And it is from the pillars of our Iman So much so that anybody who denies or does not believe in Al-Yawmul Akhir Has left the fold of Islam Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la said it in the Qur'an Zaa'ma allatheena kafaroo allan yubAAathoo Those who have disbelieved, they claim that they will not be resurrected Qul balaa warabbee latubAAathunna Say, rather, by my Lord, surely you will be resurrected Thumma latunabba'unna bimaAAamiltum WathalikaAAalallahi yaseer And then you will be informed regarding that which you used to do And verily this is easy upon Allah So belief in the final day, Yawmul Qiyamah, Al-Sa'ah This is from the core tenets of our religion From the Usool of our Aqeedah, from the Arkaan of our Iman From the pillars of our Iman And this great day, it shows us the wisdom of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la And the justice of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la In creating the Dunya And that is that no person will leave this Dunya Except they will be recompensed for the actions which they did in this Dunya They will be recompensed in the Hereafter Meaning there will be accountability, questioning, reward and punishment So the one who is punished in the Hereafter Is punished according to the justice of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la And whoever is rewarded in the Hereafter Is rewarded by the mercy and the Fadl of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la And on that day, no criminal will be able to escape His crimes which he committed in this Dunya And similarly, no person who was oppressed in this Dunya Will come on that day except he will have his right And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la said فَمَنْ يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ خَيْرًا يَرَى Whoever does even the smallest amount of goodness Meaning in this Dunya, يَرَى He will see it Meaning on Yawmul Qiyamah He will see its reward وَمَنْ يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ شَرًّا يَرَى And whoever does even the smallest amount The tiniest amount Of evil, i.e. in this Dunya Will see it in the Hereafter And so The one who neglects The Akhira Will be in a state of loss The one in this The person in this Dunya Who does not work for the Akhira And does not invest for the Akhira And does not sow seeds in this Dunya To harvest in the Akhira Will be at loss And the greatest success Is entering into Jannah And the greatest loss Is being prevented From entering into Jannah Allah Subhana said in the Quran فَمَنْ زُحْزِهَا عَنِ النَّارِ وَأُدْخِلَ الْجَنَّةِ فَقَدْ فَازُ Whoever is removed from the fire And entered into Jannah فَقَدْ فَازُ That person has succeeded وَمَا الْحَيَاةُ الدُّنْيَا إِلَّا مَتَاعُ الْغُرُورُ And as for The life of this Dunya It is only Entertainment And amusement And a beautification But Ghurur It is a deception Or a mirage And when we speak about اليوم الآخر يوم القيامة When we speak about the final day The day of resurrection There are أشراط الساعة وأحوال الساعة وأحداث الساعة أشراط الساعة Refer to The signs which will occur Prior To يوم القيامة Alluding and indicating To يوم القيامة Approaching And the Messenger ﷺ He said بعثتُ أنا والساعة كهاتين He said ﷺ I was sent And the hour is Approaching as close As these two And he lifted up his two fingers And the meaning of this is Like the space between these two Fingers is how close The Prophet ﷺ Was to the Establishment of the hour And this is why the Ulama mention That the first sign of يوم القيامة أشراط الساعة The signs of يوم القيامة The first sign Of يوم القيامة Was the sending of the Prophet ﷺ Because he is the final messenger And he is خاتم النبي And there is no other Prophet Until يوم القيامة So his very sending And his appearing in this dunya This was the first indicator Of The establishment of the hour This is the first sign Among شروط الساعة And then his death ﷺ Him passing away Was another sign of يوم القيامة Because after His passing away And the religion of Islam is complete And the sharia is complete The message has been conveyed Then there is يوم القيامة There is the establishment of the hour So this is أشراط الساعة And as you know أشراط الساعة The signs of يوم القيامة Are two types الأشراط الصغرى والأشراط الكبرى The minor signs And the major signs And the minor signs Of يوم القيامة Are either events Which will occur or have occurred Or are occurring Or the general state of affairs In the dunya as time progresses And many If not the majority of The minor signs of يوم القيامة Have already appeared And passed And other signs of يوم القيامة We are seeing them today And they continue To pass And then there are الأشراط الكبرى The major signs of يوم القيامة And the major signs of يوم القيامة Are nine or ten Specific incidents Signs which will occur And once they Begin to occur They occur one after the other And the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم In a hadith He described the major Signs of يوم القيامة Like the beads On a necklace And if the necklace is cut Then how quickly the beads Fall off one after the other And this is like the major signs of يوم القيامة That as soon as one occurs Then the next one will occur And the next one will occur Until the last one occurs And then there is يوم القيامة So these are أشراط الساعة The signs of the hour Then there are أحوال الساعة And أحوال الساعة أي حالات الناس يوم القيامة Is the state And the situation of the people And how they will appear On يوم القيامة And this is called أحوال الساعة And finally We have أحداث الساعة And أحداث الساعة We mean الحوادث التي تقع يوم القيامة Meaning the specific Events which will Occur on يوم القيامة When the people will move From one event to one stage To the next stage to the next stage Until finally entering into Their final abode Either it is جنة for the people of توحيد may Allah make us from them Or it is the fire For the people of كفر And فسوق May Allah save and protect us from it So the basis of the Lecture today is regarding أحداث الساعة The events which will occur On يوم القيامة However, before We speak about The events on يوم القيامة I want to Begin by talking about The reality of يوم القيامة And the severity of يوم القيامة And firstly We have to understand That يوم القيامة Is not a day which is to be Taken lightly And when Allah speaks and Describes يوم القيامة In the Quran It is described as being يوم عظيم A great severe day يوم يقوم الناس لرب العالمين That day in which the people will stand In front of their lord And he is رب العالمين The lord of all creation And Allah describes يوم القيامة He said يوم عسير على الكافرين غير يسير He said on that day It is a day which is عسير i.e. difficult على الكافرين غير يسير And then Upon the Kuffar Even less easy Meaning even more difficult And Allah He described The state And the feeling of the people On يوم القيامة He said يوم ترونها تذهل كل مرضعة عما أرضعت Then on that day You will see a mother Who is breastfeeding her child And while she is breastfeeding her child She will neglect her child Why? Because of the severity of this day He said و تضع كل ذات حمل And that woman Who is carrying A baby in her womb She will lose the baby She will drop the baby And Allah describes the people in the same ayah He said وترى الناس سكارا وما هم بسكارا And you will see the people As if they are Intoxicated However they are not intoxicated He said However However The punishment of Allah It is severe And on that day The relationships Friendships Connections or the networking that we've done In this dunya Everything will be lost And friendships, relationships Partnerships will be of no value Allah Subhana said يوم يفر المرء من أخي That day In which each person Will flee away From his own brother و أمه و أبي And his own mother And father و صاحبته و بنيه And his spouse His wife And his own children And why will these Relationships And these friendships Why will they be lost Allah Subhana said لكل مرء منهم يومئذ شأن يغني Because on that day Each person Will have their own situation to worry about And nobody else will be worried about Anybody else The mother will not worry about the daughter And the father Will not have concern for the son And the husband The wife will have no concern for each other Every person Is only worried About their own selves Their own actions And their own situation As I mentioned لكل مرء منهم يومئذ شأن On that day Each person, every individual Will have their own شأن Their own record, situation And account to worry about يغني And this will prevent them From thinking about Others And even Those who used to follow each other In the dunya They will free themselves from each other Allah Subhana said إِذْ تَبَرَّى الَّذِينَ التُّبِعُوا مِنَ الَّذِينَ التَّبَعُوا وَرَأَوُوا الْعَذَابُ وَتَقَطَعَتْ بِهِمُ الْأَسْبَابُ He said Subhana إِذْ تَبَرَّى الَّذِينَ التُّبِعُوا مِنَ الَّذِينَ التَّبَعُوا That those who were followed They will free themselves From those who used to Follow them وَرَأَوُوا الْعَذَابُ And then they will see the punishment in front of their eyes وَتَقَطَعَتْ بِهِمُ الْأَسْبَابُ وَتَقَطَعَتْ بِهِمُ الْأَسْبَابُ And then the أسباب The علاقات, the relationships تَقَطَعَتْ They will be broken So much so that even Our greatest enemy العدو الكبير الشيطان Iblis, even the greatest Most severe enemy Even he will Free himself from those Who used to follow him Because in front of him will be the Reality of رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ Allah subhanah mentions كَمَثَلِ الشَّيْطَانِ Like the example of الشَّيْطَان إِذْ قَالَ لِلْإِنسَانِ كفُرٌ When he said to the people Meaning this dunya He would say to the people Disbelief Do not worship Allah فَلَمَّا كَفَرُ And then when people Have disbelieved, meaning in this dunya Due to الشَّيْطَان قَالَ إِنِّي بَرِئٌ مِنكَ Then on يوم القيامة Shaytan will say إِنِّي بَرِئٌ مِنكَ Verily I free myself From you وَإِنِّي أَخَافُ اللَّهُ Because I fear Allah رَبَّ الْعَالَمِينَ And He is the Lord of Creation Allah Subhana said فَكَانَ عَاقِبَتَهُمَا أَنَّهُمَا فِي النَّارِ خَالِذَيْنِ فِيهَا وَذَلِكَ جِزَاءُ الظَّالِمِينَ And the reward For both of them The recompense for both of them Meaning the follower الشَّيْطَان The people and the one who was followed الشَّيْطَان Both of them Will enter into the fire خَالِذَيْنِ فِيهَا And both of them will remain in the fire وَذَلِكَ جِزَاءُ الظَّالِمِينَ And this is The final ending and the recompense Of the transgressors And on that day The ones who were Disobedient And those who used to oppress Others and those who Did not worship Allah Subhana Neither did they obey Him Each one of them Will feel great Regret and sorrow Over not obeying Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala And their sorrow And their worry will be so severe That they will be biting Onto their fingertips And biting onto their nails Allah Subhana said وَيَوْمَ يَعُضُّ الظَّالِمُ عَلَى يَدَيهِ On that day the Zalim The transgressor يَعُضُّ عَلَى يَدَيهِ He'll be biting onto his fingertips يَقُولُ يَا لَيْتَنِ اتَّخَذْتُ مَعَ الرَّسُولَ سَبِيرًا يَقُولُ يَا لَيْتَنِ اتَّخَذْتُ مَعَ الرَّسُولَ سَبِيرًا And he will say If only If only I took a path With the messenger And on that day Allah Subhana informs us Of the different faces The different people And that there will be on that day Faces which will be radiant And joyful Smiling And looking at each other Whilst there will be other faces which will be darkened And burdened with dust Exhausted by hardship And the righteous people On that day they'll be gathered together And the criminals On that day and the oppressors And the kafireen Will also be gathered together He said Subhana وجوه يومئذ مصفرة ضاحكة مستبشرة On that day There will be faces مصفرة which are radiant ضاحكة Smiling and laughing مستبشرة Giving each other glad tidings Of reward Because of their iman And their sacrifices which they made In the dunya And then he said وَوُجُوه يَوْمَئِذٍ عَلَيْهَا غَبَرَ And then there will be other faces on that day Which will be Dirtied with dust تَرْهَقُهَا قَتَرَ He said أُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْكَفَرَةُ الفَجَرَ They are the kafira And the fajara Either disbelievers And the disobedient So this is the situation of the people On that day As for the environment And the surroundings On that day Allah also mentions it In great detail in the Quran So firstly we are informed That the earth It will tremor There will be a tremor Or a shaking or an earthquake He said يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ اتَّقُوا رَبَّكُمْ إِنَّ الزَلْزَلَةَ السَّاعَةِ شَيْءٌ عَظِيمٌ O people Fear your Lord Verily the tremor Or the shaking of the hour Will be something which is severe So the earth will shake There will be a single shaking And everything Will become plain And level And The mountains will disappear The trees will disappear The valleys will disappear Everything will be level So as for the mountains They will become like a mirage As if they never existed Or As is in the other ayat These sturdy Stable strong high mountains Will become as feeble As wool Fluffed up wool Allah Subhanah said وَتَكُونُ الْجِبَالُ كَالْعِهْنِ الْمَنْفُوشِ And the mountains will become Like fluffed up wool And as for the oceans The oceans will be engulfed In flames And a fire Which will dry them up He said subhanah وَإِذَا الْبِحَارُ سُجِّرَتْ And in another ayah فُجِّرَتْ When the oceans The lakes, the seas When they will be engulfed in flames So much so That the water dries And as for the sky It will open up And the stars They will disappear Or they will be scattered away Or they will fall They will lose their light Allah Subhanah said إِذَا السَّمَاءُ فَطَرَتْ When the sky It is split وَإِذَا الْكَوَاكِبُ تَثَرَتْ And when the stars They fade away Or they disappear وَإِذَا الْبِحَارُ فُجِّرَتْ And when the oceans Explode In flames And on that day Allah Subhanah will bring The sun very close To the people And there will be no Shade on that day Except the shade of the throne of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala And in the hadith Of Abu Hurairah The messenger salallahu alayhi wasalam He described That day He said يَوْمَ لَا ظِلَّ إِلَّا ظِلُّ On that day there will be no shade Except for the shade Of the arsh Of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Why will there be no shade? Because firstly The sun will be brought close And secondly There will be nothing To shade underneath Because there will be no trees No valleys, no mountains No Corners Or anything Everything will be flat And the sun will be close And therefore there will be no shade And the only shade Which will be present Will be the shade of the throne Of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala So either People will be shaded Under the shade of the arsh Of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Or people will be exposed To the heat and the sun Without any shade And then when the sun Is brought close And there is no shade Then people will sweat And each person Will be drowning In his sweat According to the level of his Or her sins So there will be some people Because of their sins Their sweat will reach their ankles And there will be others Whose sweat will reach their knees And then others Whose sweat will reach their waist And others Whose sweat will reach Their chest And others, their necks And others, their chins And others will be drowning in their sweat According to their sins May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la give us protection and forgiveness And on that day, the earth Tubaddalul Ardh The earth will be changed The earth will not be the earth which we recognize He said Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la Yawma Tubaddalul Ardhu Ghairul Ardh Was Samawat On that day, the earth will be, will change Ghairul Ardh And it will be a different earth Was Samawat And also the heavens above Wabarazu Lillahi Al-Wahid Al-Qahhar On that day, everybody will appear in front of Allah Allah Al-Wahid Who is one and unique Al-Qahhar The one who subjugates and overwhelms And cannot be subjugated So this blessed ayah It shows us Yawma Tubaddalul Ardh Ghairul Ardh That the earth, it will be changed for a different earth However, what is the meaning Behind the changing of the earth Meaning Is it the same earth which we are living upon? This earth Except that the description of the earth It will be different Or is it physically a different earth A different parallel that we will move to So some of the ulama said That it is the same earth that we are living upon Except everything will be different And we will not recognize the earth we are living on But it is the same earth Why? Because the earth that we know It is an earth which contains high points and low points It contains peaks and valleys It contains mountains and trees and greenery And stars above us And oceans, deserts But as we mentioned on that day Everything will be flat There will be no peaks, no valleys, no mountains, no trees, no oceans Everything will be flat and level And some of the ulama said That it is the earth in of itself Which will change Meaning we will be moved To a different dimension or different parallel And this Tubaddalul ardh This changing of the earth When will it be? And we will speak about this shortly But this will be after the resurrection So the changing of the earth Will be after the resurrection And we will speak about this in more detail in a short while So now We come to Ahdaath Yawmul Qiyamah i.e. Al-Hawadith Al-Latee Taqaa Ba3da Al-Ba3ath We are going to speak about The actual events and occurrences And the different stages Of Yawmul Qiyamah And just before Yawmul Qiyamah We know those signs will be fulfilled Especially the major signs And from the last signs which will occur Just before Yawmul Qiyamah Is Tulu3 Al-Shams Min Al-Maghrib That the sun will rise from the west So right now as we know The sun it rises from the east However When Yawmul Qiyamah occurs Just before the occurring of Yawmul Qiyamah The major sign will be Tulu3 Al-Shams Min Maghribiha That the sun will rise from the west As we mentioned previously The sun will rise from the west And Yawmul Qiyamah will occur And this is when only the most evil people Remain upon this earth So the righteous pious people will be taken away And the most evil people remain And then the sun will rise from the west And then Yawmul Qiyamah will occur And in the hadith the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said La Tuqa Musa'a Illa Ala Ashraar Al-Nas That the hour will not be established Except upon the most evil of people So only the most evil of people Will remain immediately before The establishment of the hour And therefore Once the sun rises from its west And the righteous people are taken away And only the evil people remain Then the trumpet will be blown And when the trumpet or the horn Once it is blown Everything which is living at that time And everything which exists at that time Every person All of them will die All of them will cease Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said Wa Nufiqa Fissur Fasa'iqa Man Fissamawati Waman Fil Ard Illa Man Sha'a Allah Wa Nufiqa Fissur That the trumpet will be blown into Fasa'iqa Man Fissamawati Waman Fil Ard And then everybody in the heavens And whoever is upon the earth Sa'iq All of them will cease Illa Man Sha'a Allah Except for the one Whom Allah wills to remain And this exception And Allah knows best It could refer to the angels for example And some of the ulama mentioned The arwah of the shuhada The souls of the martyrs And others and Allah knows best So this will be the first incident Occurrence or haditha By which Yawmul Qiyama will begin And that is Nafq Fissur The blowing into the trumpet Or the horn Then Thumma Nufiqa Feehi Ukhraa And then there will be another blowing Of the trumpet or the horn Fa Ithaahum Qiyamun Yanzuroon And then everybody will rise And they will be resurrected Yanzuroon And they will be looking around So this noble ayah in Surat Az-Zumar It shows us That there will be two Blowing Of Asur The trumpet or the horn Now whether It is one horn or trumpet Which is blown into twice Or it is Two separate horns or trumpets Which are blown into This does not matter much And in general These matters and these details They are from the Ghaybiyat From Ilmul Ghayb From the matters and the knowledge of the unseen Which only Allah Subhana knows And therefore questioning these matters And asking about them in detail It Is not something which is encouraged And in general the Sahaba They would only ask questions Regarding those matters which affect Their Ibadah Their worship Answers which they require In order to Rectify their Ibadah of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Or find out about the reward Of those Ibadahs In general they will not question About matters Which do not affect their Ibadah So for example This issue here we know That the trumpets will be blown And people will seize And then people will be resurrected What's important for us Is to worship Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala And to prepare for that day As for knowing and questioning and researching Whether it is one trumpet which is blown twice The same one Or is two different trumpets or horns Which are blown separately This does not affect us It does not affect our Iman It does not increase it in any way In terms of our Ibadah Or the Ahkam of our Shari'ah But what's important Is that we worship Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala And we seek forgiveness for our sins And we prepare for Yawm Al-Qiyamah So we should not Make the study of Islam And our questions Something which is purely academic We are asking questions For the sake of asking questions Rather we research And we ask questions To gain clarity about our Ibadah About our Iman and our Aqidah And what we understand from this Ayah Surah Az-Zumar Is that there will be two Blowings of the trumpet The first of them Is a blowing of the trumpet For everybody to seize And this is called Nafkhatu Sa'aq The blowing By which everything will drop Everything will seize Everybody who is alive at that time Will die And then there will be A second blowing After this And this is called Nafkhatu Al-Ba'ath The blowing of the resurrection Either blowing of the trumpet After which people will be resurrected And this is from the Ayah which we mentioned And between These two blowings of the trumpet In the Hadith of Abu Hurair R.A In Sahih Bukhari and Muslim The Messenger S.A.W. said مَا بَيْنَ النَّفْخَتَيْنِ أَرْبَعُونَ مَا بَيْنَ النَّفْخَتَيْنِ أَرْبَعُونَ That between The two blowings of the trumpet Are 40 There is a period of time of 40 Between the Blowing or the two blowings of the trumpet The people asked يَا أَبَى هُرَيْرَ O Abu Huraira أَرْبَعُونَ يَوْمًا Will it be 40 days? He said رضي الله عنه أَبَيْتُ I refuse to answer Then they asked him أَرْبَعُونَ سَنَةً Will it be 40 years Between the blowing of the trumpets قَالْ أَبَيْتُ He said رضي الله عنه I refuse to answer Then they said أَرْبَعُونَ شَهْرًا Will it be 40 months قَالْ أَبَيْتُ And he رضي الله عنه He said I refuse to answer And this again emphasizes The point which I mentioned previously Abu Huraira رضي الله عنه The Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم Informed him مَا بَيْنَ النَّفْخَتَيْنِ أَرْبَعُونَ That there will be a period of time Of 40 Between the two blowings of the trumpet And this is to show us The severity and the greatness of that day That this will not be something Which is simple or easy Rather it is an enormous day And between just the two blowings of the trumpet أَرْبَعُونَ But Abu Huraira رضي الله عنه He did not question the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم Is it minutes 40 minutes 40 days 40 years 40 months 40 weeks But he understood the severity of that day And this is why Whenever the people then asked him Is it 40 days Is it 40 years Is it 40 months Each time أَبَيْتُ I refuse to answer Because he did not know And neither did he question رضي الله عنه So the first نَفْخَةُ نَفْخَةُ السَعَق نَفْخَةُ الفَزَع Is the blowing of the trumpet By which everything will drop and cease And then there will be a wait Or a period of 40 And only Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala knows The reality of that 40 Whether it's 40 days Or months Or years Or whatever it is Only Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala knows The reality of that 40 of that time And then there will be the second Blowing of the trumpet And that is نَفْخَةُ البَعَث Or نَفْخَةُ القيامة The blowing of resurrection So the second event which will occur After the trumpets Or the two blowings of the trumpet Is البعث بعد الموت The resurrection Or the sending after death And the meaning of البعث أي إحياء الموت The returning of life To those who have deceased And every person Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said يَقُومُ النَّاسِ لِرَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ Every person will arise In front of the Lord of the worlds Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala When he described يوم القيامة In the surah which we have all memorized And we all read surah Zalzalah He said إِذَا زُلْزِلَتِ الْأَرْضُ زِلْزَالَهَا وَأَخْرَجَتِ الْأَرْضُ أَفْقَالَهَا وَقَالَ الْإِنسَانُ مَا لَهَا يَوْمَئِذٍ تُحَدِّثُ اخْبَارَهَا بِأَنَّ رَبَّكَ أَوْحَالَهَا Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions إِذَا زُلْزِلَتِ الْأَرْضُ زِلْزَالَهَا Now when the earth It is shaken With that earthquake or that tremor وَأَخْرَجَتِ الْأَرْضُ أَفْقَالَهَا And the earth It will throw out Its burdens The burdens which are Contained within the earth They will be discharged They will be thrown out They will be exiled Or exited from the earth And the sahaba alayhimu ridwanullah They spoke about the meaning of أَفْقَالَهَا And these things which are hidden And stored inside the earth Beneath the earth And they are burdening the earth What will they be? And many amongst the sahaba They said that The أَثْقَالَ Which are buried in the earth There are two things النَّاس والقنوز People and treasure So the people will be thrown out Because they'll be resurrected They'll be resurrected from their graves And their places of burial And also the treasures Which are hidden And dug inside the earth And hidden under the ground They will also be discharged And they'll be in plain sight In front of the people It's as if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is telling us That here are Or here is the gold And the silver And the metals And the rare stones That you used to chase after In this dunya And you would fight with each other Over them in this dunya And you would deceive and oppress each other And compete with each other Over these matters in the dunya And here they are In front of you now So on that day No person will be worried about Any treasure or wealth Gold or silver And the Messenger ﷺ In the hadith of Aisha r.a And the hadith is Sahih Bukhari Muslim He spoke about The physical state of the people When they are resurrected And they stand up once more And we know from the Qur'an That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Will resurrect us Just as Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Created us in the beginning This is how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Will resurrect us And the meaning of this is As the Messenger ﷺ said يُحْشَرَ النَّاسُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَ حُفَاتًا عُرَاتًا غُرْلًا That the people will be resurrected And gathered on Yawm al-Qiyamah Hufa Barefooted Ura Unclothed Meaning naked Ghurla And uncircumcised And this is because when we Came into this earth And when our mothers Gave us birth We entered in this dunya And we were barefooted Naked and uncircumcised And this is how each person Will be resurrected And of course If we think about that day And that each person Will be resurrected in this state And yet there will be Mothers and fathers Sons and daughters Friends People you know People you don't know And yet every person Will appear in front of each other In that state And this very thought Subhanallah It was the thought of Ummul Mumineen Ayesha r.a So she said Ya Rasulullah Ar-rijal wa an-nisa jamee'an Yanzuru ba'duhum ila ba'd On that day Men and women All of them standing together Looking at each other And each one of them Is naked and barefooted And uncircumcised And the Prophet ﷺ replied Ya Ayesha Al-amru yawma idhin ash-shadd On that day O Ayesha The state and the situation The worry of the people The anxieties of the people Will be so severe That nobody will care To look at anybody else Or notice anybody else He said Ya Ayesha Al-amru ash-shaddu min an yuhimmuhum dhalik On that day The situation and the worry Is so severe That nobody will be concerned About the appearance of another person And then after Al-qiyamah wal-ba'th Al-ba'th ba'dh al-mawth The resurrection after death And people being discharged from the earth And everybody standing up in this state There will be Al-Hashr And Al-Hashr Is the gathering of the people And the gathering of the people Will be in a place Which is known as Ardhul Mahshar And Ardhul Mahshar Or Al-Mahshar It is the land of gathering Or the area of gathering And every single person Without exception Beginning with Adam Alayhis Salaam To the last person Who dies just before Yawmul Qiyamah Every single person All of them Will be gathered In the same place And nobody will escape The Mahshar Or the gathering in front of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala And this includes Every person The person who died on their bed And the person who was killed The person who was buried The one who was drowned in their sea The person who was eaten His body was eaten by the vultures Or another person who was eaten by a prey Every person Regardless of how they died And how or where they were buried And if they were buried As I mentioned A person who was buried in his grave Another person who drowned at sea A third person who died In the desert on the mountaintops And his body eroded A fourth person Whose body was eaten by vultures Every single one of them Will be resurrected in this state And every single one of them Will come together And they'll be gathered In the Mahshar The land of gathering And the Messenger salallahu alayhi wasalam He mentioned the Hashar The gathering And Al-Mahshar The land of gathering In numerous ahadith In one hadith In the Musnad of Imam Ahmad The Messenger salallahu alayhi wasalam He said هاهنا تحشرون He said Over there you'll be gathered He repeated this statement Salallahu alayhi wasalam three times هاهنا تحشرون Over there you'll be gathered And the narrator of the hadith He said فأشار بيده إلى الشام And he pointed With his hand He pointed with his blessed finger To Al-Sham And Al-Sham is as we know Syria and the surrounding areas And he would say Pointing towards Al-Sham The north of Medina هاهنا تحشرون Over there in that direction That land You'll be gathered And from this The Ulama mentioned Other narrations and hadith That There will be two instances of gathering And there'll be two lands of Mahshar i.e. two lands of gathering One will be before the blowing of the trumpet And upon the earth And another one Will be after the blowing of the trumpet And on Yawm Al-Qiyamah So the first Hashar The first gathering As I mentioned It is before Yawm Al-Qiyamah Before the blowing of the first trumpet And this is also one of the major signs of Yawm Al-Qiyamah The Prophet ﷺ He mentioned regarding one of the Ashraat Al-Kubra The major signs That there will be a fire Which erupts Or appears in Adn In Yemen In that direction That area And this fire will be so severe And so great That it will force the people To flee Towards Al-Sham Every person who is alive that time Because of this great severe enormous fire Which will erupt from Adn Or Yemen Al-Yemen They will be forced To go towards Al-Sham And they will gather in Al-Sham And this is the first Hashar This is the first gathering And that is Al-Mahshar Or Ard Al-Mahshar And that is the first Land or area of gathering And it is Sham And then there will be a second gathering And that is Ba'd Al-Nafkh After the resurrection And after the blowing of the second trumpet And everybody has risen from their graves There will be a second gathering And there will be another Mahshar Another land of gathering And what we spoke about previously Yawma Tubaddal Al-Ard Ghair Al-Ard When the earth will be changed For a different earth Depending on the two means which we mentioned This is when it will occur So that changing or the alternating of the earth Whether it is the same earth But looking completely different Or it is actually a different earth A different parallel, a different dimension Ala kulli haal This is when it will be And of course the first person Who will be resurrected Is our messenger Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam He is the first who will be resurrected And he said in a hadith Ana awwalu man tanshaqal ard an That I am the first for whom the earth will open I am the first who will be resurrected And in another hadith in Sa'il Bukhari The messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam He mentioned his five names He said li khamsatu asma I have five names He said Ana Muhammad I am Muhammad meaning my name is Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Wa ana Ahmad And my name is Ahmad Wa ana al-mahi And I am al-mahi And the meaning of al-mahi is the one who wipes something Wa ana al-hashir And I am al-hashir And the hashir means the one who resurrects Wa ana al-aqib And al-aqib means the one who is at the end So these are the five names of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam And he mentioned these in the hadith Li khamsatu asma I have five names And based upon this hadith The ulama They restricted Some of the ulama They restricted the names of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam To only these five names And he has no other name And as for the other words which are mentioned regarding him They are descriptions of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Not names of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam So in the Quran We find that Allah refers to him as An-Nabi Al-Muddathir Al-Muzzammil Rahmatan lil-Aalameen As-Sirajul-Muneer Da'i ila Allah And other names like this These terms They are descriptions of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam He is Al-Mustafa The purified one Al-Mujtaba The chosen one Al-Murtaza The one who is pleased by Allah He is Al-Muddathir And Al-Muzzammil The one who is wrapped up And cloaked He is Rahmatan lil-Aalameen He is a mercy to mankind He is Sirajul-Muneera He is the shining The bright shining lamp He is Da'ian ila Allah He is a caller to Allah He is Rasoolullah The Messenger of Allah The point is that all of these are descriptions of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Like we say so and so is tall Or short or heavy or light or fair or dark These are descriptions of a person His names are these five Firstly, Muhammad And this beautiful name of our Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Muhammad This is what he is known by In this Ummah And the scripture of this Ummah Ayat of the Qur'an And his second name He said, I am Ahmed And I am Ahmed And this name Ahmed Is what he was known by In the previous scriptures And by the previous messengers And the nations And Ahmed and Muhammad Both of them share the same root And Allah Subhanah mentions The statement of Isa Alayhi Salaam وَإِذْ قَالَ عِيسَى ابْنُ مَرْيَمُ يَا بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلُ إِنِّي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ إِلَيْكُمْ And when Isa Ibn Maryam He said, O Bani Israel Verily, I am a messenger to all of you مُصَدِّقًا لِمَا بَيْنَ يَدَيَّ مِنَ التَّوْرَاتِ وَمُبَشِّرًا بِرَسُولٍ يَأْتِي مِنْ بَعْدِ إِسْمُهُ أَحْمَدٍ And I've come to verify That which came before me From the Torah And then he said وَمُبَشِّرًا بِرَسُولٍ يَأْتِي مِنْ بَعْدِ إِسْمُهُ أَحْمَدٍ And I give you the glad tidings Of a messenger who will appear after me إِسْمُهُ أَحْمَدٍ And his name will be Ahmad So he was known by this name صلى الله عليه وسلم In the previous scriptures He said وَأَنَا أَلْمَاحِي And I am Al-Maahi I am the one who wipes something And then he mentioned the meaning of it أَلَّذِي يَمْحُوا اللَّهُ بِيَ الْكُفَرِ Because I am the one Through whom Allah will wipe away Al-Kufr He said وَأَنَا الْحَاشِرِ And I am Al-Hashir The one who resurrects He said يُحْشَرَ النَّاسَ عَلَى قَدَمِي And this is because The people will be resurrected Immediately after me I will be the first one who is resurrected And then the others will be resurrected Immediately after me And then he said وَأَنَا الْعَاقِبِ And I am Al-Aaqib And then he described it أَلَّذِي لَا نَبِيَّ بَعْدَ The one after whom there is no other prophet And Al-Aaqib means the final or the end of something So, the next event is As we mentioned The resurrection of the Prophet ﷺ And then the next occurrence or event Is the resurrection of the rest of creation All other humans from the first to the last And then People will remain in the Mahshar In that land of gathering For a very long time And remember The sun will be very close to the people And people will be drowning in their sins And there will be no shade Except the shade of the throne of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala And because of the length of the standing And the severity of the day And the heat of the day People will be in a state of fear Anxiety, panic and worry Like Allah Subhanu wa ta'ala described the people وَتَرَاهُمْ سُكَارًا وَمَا هُمْ بِسُكَارًا You will see the people as if they are intoxicated But they will not be intoxicated And each one of them Will be hoping To be removed from this gathering And if people are worried About how long they are standing there They want to move on They want to move on to the next phase Of Yawmul Qiyamah And then Whilst they are in that state And suffering from that severe thirst Then the next event or occurrence which will occur Is Al-Hawd Is the pond Of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam And this Hawd It is not the Kawthar Which Allah Subhanu wa ta'ala mentions إِنَّ أَعْطَيْنَاكَ الْكَوْثَرِ Verily we have given you, O Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, Al-Kawthar So there is a difference Between the Hawd and the Kawthar Sometimes people they Mistake or misunderstand And they think that the Kawthar and the Hawd are the same thing The Hawd is one thing and the Kawthar is something else There are clear differences From the differences is That the Kawthar will be in Jannah And the Hawd will be before Jannah It will be on Yawmul Qiyamah It will be upon the earth on Yawmul Qiyamah Depending on the meaning of the earth being changed But it will be upon the earth before Yawmul Qiyamah This is the first difference The second difference is That the Kawthar Which will be much bigger And much greater than the Hawd The third difference is That water will be channeled from the Kawthar Into the Hawd Water will be channeled from the Kawthar Into the Hawd So these are some of the differences Between the Hawd and the Kawthar The point is That in the Hawd It will be established That pond or lake Or gathering of water Will occur And this Hawd Will be for the Prophet ﷺ And the followers of the Prophet ﷺ And some of the Ulama have mentioned According to some of the narrations That the standing of the people At the Mahshar Before the Hawd Will be like 50,000 years And only Allah knows The meaning of year And the meaning of thousand And the period of time On Yawmul Qiyamah And the Messenger ﷺ He described the Hawd He said ماءه أشد بياض من اللبن That the Hawd May Allah allow us to drink from the Hawd Its water will be whiter And more pure than milk وأحلى من العسل And it will be sweeter than honey آنيته عدد النجوم سماء And its utensils Which people will use to drink Will be like the number of stars He said وطوله شهر وعظه شهر And the length of the Hawd Will be like the travelling of a month And the width of the Hawd Will be like the travelling of a month He said من شرب منه شربة لا يضمى بعدها أبدا And whoever takes a single gulp From the Hawd Will never feel thirst after it again As I mentioned This Hawd Will be for the followers Of the Prophet ﷺ Meaning this Hawd It will be for Ahlus Sunnah Those people Who lived according to the Sunnah Of the Messenger ﷺ And died upon the Sunnah Of the Messenger ﷺ And they did not innovate They did not change They did not add or take away Anything from their Deen It is those people Ahlus Sunnah Who will come to the Hawd And they will be allowed To drink from the Hawd Of the Messenger ﷺ And there will be other people From the Ummah of Muhammad ﷺ Who will come In order to drink from the Hawd However they will be prevented From drinking from this Hawd And this is mentioned In the hadith of Anas ibn Malik R.A That the Messenger ﷺ He said لَا يَرِدَنَّا عَلَيِّ الْحَوْدُ رِجَالٌ مِّنْ أُمَّتِي That there will be people from my Ummah And they will approach me In order to drink from the Hawd حَتَّى إِذَا رَأَيْتُهُمْ And they will come so clear That I am able to see them وَرُوفِعُوا إِلَيَّ And they will be raised up to me I to the Hawd And When they are about to Drink from the Hawd They will be prevented And stopped from drinking from the Hawd فَلَا أَقُولَنَّ And then I will say Meaning Muhammad ﷺ He will say أَيَّ رَبِّ أُمَّتِي أُمَّتِي O my Lord, this is my Ummah O my Lord, this is my Ummah Meaning why are they being prevented فَلَا يُقَالَنَّ لِي And then it will be said to me إِنَّكَ لَا تَدْرِي مَا أَحْدَثُ بَعْدَكِ That you O Muhammad ﷺ You are not aware Of what they did after you And how they changed after you And how they altered after you And so when the Prophet ﷺ Is told and informed About what these people did after him And how they changed And altered and innovated Then he will say سُحْقًا سُحْقًا أَيْ بُعْدًا بُعْدًا Be far away Be distanced from me and the house And it will be said إِنَّهُمْ قَدْ بَدَّلُوا بَعْدَكِ That these people They changed things after you And the Prophet ﷺ will say سُحْقًا سُحْقًا أَيْ بُعْدًا بُعْدًا Be far away Be far away And the Ulama amongst them Al-Imam An-Nawawi ﷺ In his sharh of this hadith The Ulama, Al-Imam An-Nawawi among them Mention the possible meanings of إِنَّهُمْ قَدْ بَدَّلُوا بَعْدَكِ That they changed or innovated Or altered after you So they said that perhaps The meaning of this is That they are المرتدون Those who apostated From Islam after the death Of the Prophet ﷺ Perhaps this is one meaning of They changed or altered The second possible meaning An-Nawawi mentions That they are أَهْلُ النِّفَاقِ The people of hypocrisy Because they show Islam And they will show the Prophet ﷺ That they are Muslims However inside them They were hiding their Kufr And the third possible meaning Behind this hadith is That they are أَهْلُ الْبِدَعِ وَأَهْلُ الْأَهْوَى The people of innovations The people of desires Like the خَوَارِج and the رَوَافِدَ And the other أَهْلُ الْبِدْعَ That it will be these people Who are prevented from drinking From the hudh of the Messenger ﷺ And here we take a وَقْفَة A short moment To think and contemplate This hadith shows us The virtue and the فَضَل Of following the sunnah of the Messenger ﷺ And being far removed From every type of bid'ah And the people of bid'ah And this is one of the reasons Why the salaf They used to detest bid'ah so much And also أَهْلُ الْبِدْعَ The people of innovation And if there was no other virtue And reward In following the sunnah except That you will be permitted To drink from the hudh This would be sufficient As an encouragement First to follow the sunnah of the Messenger ﷺ And if there was no other Punishment For innovations, for bid'ah Except that that person Will be prevented From drinking from the hudh Of the Prophet ﷺ Then this is sufficient As a warning for the people Of innovation And then the next Event or occurrence Which will occur Will be شفاعة The intercession of the Prophet ﷺ And that is That the people have remained In المحشر In that situation In that gathering In the land of the gathering أَهْلُ الموقف The people of standing They have remained in that situation For a very very long time And they are suffering from Worry and anxiety And the people Will be desperate To move From this stage or this phase To the next phase And so The people They will approach some of the Prophets In order to Intercede on their behalf That they can now move on From this phase to the next Phase And so Our Prophet ﷺ He will intercede On behalf of the Ummah On behalf of humanity for them to be moved And this is what is Referred to As المقام المحمود Allah ﷻ said in the Quran عَسَىٰ أَن يَبْعَثَكَ رَبُّكَ مَقَامًا مَحْمُودًا Surely Your Allah He will send you مقامًا محمودًا For that great station That great place And that is the right of the Prophet ﷺ For الشفاء And this شفاء This intercession It is known as الشفاء العظمى The great intercession The great شفاء And that is for the شفاء The intercession of the Prophet ﷺ For the people To move Away from the Until the next phase or stage Of يوم القيامة And this شفاء it is mentioned in a lengthy Hadith how the people They will approach Adam ﷺ And they will ask him يا آدم إن أول الخلق You are the first person who was created And you are the first Of the Prophets فشفاء عند ربنا So seek intercession On our behalf in front of our Lord And Adam ﷺ he will remember His mistake And he will say لست لها That I am not the person Who is able to make this شفاء For you And then humanity will move on from Adam ﷺ And they will approach نوح ﷺ And then they will request from نوح ﷺ يا نوح اشفع لنا عند ربك Oh نوح intercede on our behalf In front of your Lord And نوح ﷺ he will remember The dua which he made For or against Humanity when he was alive And he will say لست لها That I am not the person for that شفاء I am not the person for that شفاء And then the people will move From one Prophet to another Prophet to another Prophet To Ibrahim ﷺ to Moosa ﷺ To Isa ﷺ And each one of these great messengers Will remember something And each one will say لست لها That I am not the person Who has the right And the great status And the great station To perform this شفاء Until the people Will end up near the Prophet ﷺ So humanity Will approach the Prophet ﷺ Our Prophet نبي الله محمد ﷺ And they will say يا محمد اشفع لنا عند ربك اشفع لنا عند ربك Oh Muhammad ﷺ Intercede on our behalf In front of your Lord And the Messenger ﷺ will say أنا لها I am the one Because this شفاء Is the exclusive right Of the Prophet ﷺ Like in the hadith of Jabir رضي الله عنهما Jabir ibn Abdillah Al-Ansari The Prophet ﷺ said That I was given five Exclusive rights No other messenger Was given any of these five rights And one of them He mentioned And I was given the شفاء And the meaning of the شفاء Is شفاءة العظمى This great شفاء It is his exclusive Right So then the Messenger ﷺ He mentions That he will Praise Allah ﷻ And he Will make this شفاء And then the people will be allowed To move from This standing in front of Allah To the next phase And then after the شفاء Of the Prophet ﷺ For the people To move on to the next phase Will be العرض And the meaning of العرض Is people being Shown or exposed In front of Allah ﷻ And there are two Types of عرض The first one is the general meaning of العرض And that Is عرض الخلائق كلهم على ربهم And that is All people Standing in front of Allah Or being shown to Allah or being exposed in front of Allah ﷻ The people And their records Of deeds, all of them Being shown in front of Allah ﷻ And nothing can be Concealed on that day And this is what Allah ﷻ mentioned in Surah Al-Haqqah He said يَوْمَئِذٍ تُعْرَضُونَ لَا تَخْفَى مِنكُمْ خَافِيًا On that day يَوْمَئِذٍ تُعْرَضُونَ You'll be shown and exposed And nothing will be kept a secret Nothing will be concealed So this is the first Meaning of العرض And that is People, humanity And their actions being shown and exposed In front of Allah or to Allah And nothing will be Hidden on that day And then the second More specific meaning of العرض Is عَرْضُ مَعَاصِلْ مُؤْمِنِين Is The sins of the Believers being shown And exposed in front of Allah ﷻ And the people Accepting their sins The believers admitting Their sins And then Allah ﷻ Hiding those sins Covering those sins And forgiving their sins And this is الحساب اليسير This is the minor Accountability or the easy Accountability And from the supplications which the Prophet ﷺ Taught the Sahaba اللَّهُمَّ حَاسِبْنِي حِسَابًا يَسِيرًا Oh Allah Hold me to account With الحساب اليسير With the minor حساب Or the easy حساب And this will be for those people For the believers who have Sins and they'll be given The record of Deeds in their right hand Allah ﷻ said فَأَمَّا مَنْ أُوْتِيَ كِتَابَهُ بِيَمِينِهِ فَيَقُولُ هَا أُمُقْرَأُ كِتَابِيَ And as For the one who is given His or her record Of deeds in the right hand He or she will say هَا أُمُقْرَأُ كِتَابِيَ Now this is the record Of my deeds Let the people read their record Of my deeds So those people who are given Their record of deeds in their right hand They will be happy And they will be delighted And from the sheer extent Of their happiness Is that whoever they will meet They will say هَا أُمُقْرَأُ كِتَابِيَ Read the record of my deeds And the Messenger ﷺ He spoke About The حِسَابٌ يَسِيرٌ The easy Accountability or the minor accountability Meaning the specific Meaning of العرض And that is the sins And the bad deeds of the believers Being shown and exposed to Allah But then Allah ﷻ covering it And forgiving it all In the hadith of Ibn Umar and the hadith is in Sahih Bukhari Muslim The Messenger ﷺ He said إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُدْنِي الْمُؤْمِنِينَ That Allah ﷻ He will bring the believer close فَيَضَعُ عَلَيْهِ كَنَفَهُ وَيَسْتُرُهُ And then he will place A screen or a veil On the believer وَيَسْتُرُهُ And he will hide the believer From being exposed in front of the people And then it will be said To the believer أَتَعْرِفُ ذَنْبَ كَذَا وَكَذَا His record or his scroll Will be shown to him And he will be asked Do you recognize this sin? Do you recognize this act of disobedience? Do you recognize this bad deed? And the believer will say نَعْمْ أَيْ رَبِّي Yes of course my lord And he will be shown أَتَعْرِفُ ذَنْبَ كَذَا وَكَذَا Do you recognize this sin? Do you recognize this sin? And each one of them He will readily admit That yes this was one of my sins One of my actions And then Allah will say سَتَرْتُهَا عَلَيْكَ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَأَنَا أَغْفِرُهَا لَكَ ٱلْيَوْمِ Allah will say Just as I hid And I concealed these deeds And these sins in the dunya Then I will forgive These sins now I in the akhira فَيُعْطَى كِتَابَ حَسَنَاتِ And then he is given his record Of good deeds and good actions And this Ayoub Ikhwa Again if we pause for a moment and we think about this It is Imperative upon us That we Make every effort To stay away from sins And if we fall Into sins That we immediately make istighfar And tawbah And then we try our best to do righteous Actions in order for our sins To be expiated And Allah subhana said إِنَّ الْحَسَنَاتِ يُذْهِبْنَا سِيِّئَاتٍ Verily good deeds They wipe away the effects of their Sins And also if we fall into a sin We don't talk about it We don't inform anybody We don't Show off about our sins Make a show about our sins And the messenger salallahu alayhi wasalam He said إِنَّ أُمَّتِ مُعَافَىٰ That my ummah, all of them They will be forgiven My ummah, their sins will be pardoned He said إِلَّا الْمُجَاهَرُونَ بِالذُّنُوبِ Except for those people who used to sin In the open In front of people They had no haya No shame No shyness, no sense of embarrassment To sin in front of the people So the first obligation Is that we fear Allah subhana In both private And public, in secret and in the open And secondly We try our best And we make mujahadah We strive to stay away From sins And thirdly If we fall into a sin We make tawbah and istighfar Immediately And we try to Expiate those sins by doing Righteous actions And then we conceal Our sins and we feel Embarrassed for anybody to know about Our sins and what we have to Stay away from is ever sinning In front of other people And this is a severe warning For those people Who either sin in public And they have no haya No shame or any sense of embarrassment About their sins or They sin in private and then they Destroy themselves By speaking about their sins And boasting about their sins In front of the other people Allah subhana will say As we mentioned regarding the believers سَتَرْتُهَا عَلَيْكَ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَأَنَأَغْفِرُهَا لَكَ أَلْيَوْمُ سَتَرْتُهَا عَلَيْكَ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَأَنَأَغْفِرُهَا لَكَ أَلْيَوْمُ That I concealed and I Covered for you your sins in the dunya And I will forgive them on this day فَيُعْطَى كِتَابُ حَسَنَاتِ And then he is given The record of his good deeds This is Al-'Arf And then after the Arf Is Al-Hisab And Al-Hisab Is the questioning And the accountability Of their actions And the Questioning As we said The Jidal People will try to present Their excuses And they will be questioned regarding Their actions And in the hadith of Ibn Mas'ud The Messenger ﷺ He said لَا تَزُولَ قَدَمَا بِنَ عَادَمِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَ حَتَّى يُسَأْلَ عَنْ خَمْسِ That two feet of a person Will not move on Yawm Al-Qiyamah Until he is questioned About five matters He mentioned وَعَنْ شَبَابِهِ فِي مَا أَبْلَاهِ Regarding his years, how he spent them Regarding his youth And how he wasted it Regarding his wealth, where he earned his wealth from Where he spent his wealth Regarding his actions and his knowledge And Allah ﷻ said in the Qur'an فَيَوْمَئِذٍ لَا يُسْأَلُ عَنْ ذَنْبِهِ إِنسٌ وَلَا جَانٌ On that day No person from amongst the humans or the jinn Will be questioned About their actions or their sins Ibn Abbas said لَا يَسْأَلُهُمْ هَلْ عَمِلْتُمْ كَذَى Allah will not ask them Did you do this action لِأَنَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِذَٰلِكِ Because Allah ﷻ knows That they did their action And the people also know That they did do those actions وَلَكِن يُقَال However it will be said to them لِمَا عَمِلْتُمْ كَذَى وَكَذَى Why did you do this sin Why did you do that action So as for admitting Whether we did the action or not There will be no questioning Because everything will bear witness Just as The record of deeds The scroll of deeds will bear witness And everything which is written By the angels will bear witness And The earth will bear witness And just as one's hands One's feet One's body One's tongue One's eyes Everything will bear witness That these sins were committed And nobody will deny And neither will be questioned That did you do those actions Rather the questioning will be لِمَا فَعَلْتُمْ لِمَا عَمِلْتُمْ Why did you do such and such an action So there will be an opportunity For the people to Give their excuses And people will have no excuses On that day So to summarize When it comes to the عرض and the حساب There are three different moments Firstly there is العرض العام And that is everybody being shown to Allah Everybody being exposed to Allah And the actions of the people Being exposed and shown Then there is العرض الخاص And this is الحساب اليسير And that is the sins Of the believers being shown to Allah But without Questioning, without حساب The person will be asked Did you do this? Did you do this? Not to verify whether the person Did it or not But for the believer to appreciate That yes I did commit All these sins And then Allah saying to the believers That I covered those sins In the dunya for you I'm going to forgive them in the Akhirah And this is the حساب we should ask from Allah اللهم حاسبنا حساب اليسير Oh Allah, because every person Will face that حساب And every person will stand in front of Allah سبحانه To ask for the minor accountability And then there will be The greater حساب And this is the مناقشة, this is the questioning This is when people Will be asked to give their excuses And they will not be able to give their excuses And in the hadith of Aisha رضي الله عنها أم المؤمنين She said سألت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم عن الحساب اليسير I questioned The messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم Regarding الحساب اليسير فقلت يا رسول الله ما الحساب اليسير So I said, oh messenger of Allah What is الحساب اليسير Because the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم Used to teach the Dua اللهم حاسبني حساباً يسيراً The easy or the minor accountability So أم المؤمنين عائشة رضي الله عنها She asked the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم ما الحساب اليسير What is the easy question, what is the minor accountability The messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم Replied And the hadith is in the Muslim of Imam Ahmad الرجل تعرض عليه ذنوب That a person His Sins will be shown to him And exposed to him ثم يتجاوز له عنها And then Those sins will be pardoned And then the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم Said إنه من نوقش هلق And ask for the person Between whom Or ask for the person who is questioned And argued with And he is asked to present his excuses And his excuses are rejected This is the person Who will be destroyed So then after the عرض And after the حساب There will be الميزان And الميزان Are the scales The scales of justice Which will be sent down In order to weigh The actions of the people Allah سبحانه mentioned them in the Quran In a number of ayat In two ayat وَنَضَعُ الْمَوَازِينَ الْقِسْطِ وَنَضَعُ الْمَوَازِينَ الْقِسْطِ لِيَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ And we will Place The scales of justice On يوم القيامة فَلَا تُظْلَمُ نَفْسٌ شَيْئًا And no person will be wronged Or oppressed on that day So these ميزان On the scales of justice And Actions Will be weighed on those scales And the records Of deeds will be weighed On those scales And people Certain people will also be very Weighty on those scales And Allah SWT mentioned In the Quran فَأَمَّا مَنْ ثَقُلَتْ مَوَازِينُهُ فَهُوَ فِي عِيشَةٍ رَاضِيَةٍ And as for the one Whose scales will be heavy He will have a pleasurable life Meaning When that person's good deeds And bad deeds are weighed up His good deeds Are much more heavier than their bad deeds فَأَمَّا مَنْ ثَقُلَتْ مَوَازِينُهُ And as for the one Whose scales Are scales of good deeds Outweigh the scale of bad deeds فَهُوَ فِي عِيشَةٍ رَاضِيَةٍ Then he will live A life of pleasure And happiness وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَازِينُهُ And as for the one Whose scales Are light, meaning The bad deeds will outweigh The good deeds فَأُمُّهُ هَوِيَ وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَاهِيَ نَارٌ حَامِيَ Then that person, his final abode Will be the burning fire And the Messenger He mentioned The incident of the weighing up Of the records And this hadith, this famous hadith It is known as حَدِيثُ البِطَاقَةِ And that is That a person From the Ummah of Muhammad ﷺ He will be called out On Yawmul Qiyamah عَلَى رُؤُسِ الْخَلَائِقِ In front of everybody فَيُنشَرُ لَهُ تِسْعَةٌ وَتِسْعُونَ السِّجِلَّةِ And he will be shown 99 different Records of his actions كُلُّ سِجِلٍ مَدَّ البَصَر And each one Of his records or scrolls Will be as far as the Sight of the eye can see ثُمَّ يَقُولُ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ And then Allah Azzawajal will say to him هَلْ تُنْكِرُوا مِنْ هَذَا شَيْئًا That from all of these Actions which you did Everything which has been recorded against you Do you deny any one of these Actions And the person will be forced to say لا يا رب, no oh my lord There is nothing I can Reject Or excuse myself from From these actions And then it will be said to him أَظَلَمَتْكَ كَتَبَتِي الْحَافِظُونَ Did My angels who used to Preserve and record All of your deeds, did they wrong you in any One of these actions, did they oppress you in any One of these actions, did they record anything Against you which you did not do Which you are free and innocent from And the person will say لا يا رب, no oh my lord There is nothing that they have Oppressed me regarding Then it will be said to the man أَلَكَ عُذْرٌ أَلَكَ حَسَنَةٌ Do you have any excuse And the person will say no oh my lord أَلَكَ حَسَنَةٌ Do you have any good deeds with you And the person will say لا يا رب, no oh my lord And then it will be Said to him بَلَى Rather إِنَّ لَكَ عِنْدَنَا حَسَنَاتٌ You have Good deeds recorded with us وَإِنَّهُ لَا ظُلْمَ عَلَيْكَ الْيَوْمُ And today you will not be wrong You will not be oppressed فَتُخْرَجُ لَهُ بَطَاقَ فِيهَا And then a single Small record like a card will be brought Out which mentions this one Good deed, so this person From the Mu'mineen From the Ummah of Muhammad He has سجلات, records And scrolls which are rolled out And each one مَدَّ البصر As far as the eye can see Containing all of his actions And his bad deeds and his Sins And when this person has lost complete Hope because he thinks that He has no hasana with Allah Then a بطاقة will be brought out And this is why this hadith is known as حديث البطاقة And on this بطاقة There will be one Good deed And on this deed Or on this بطاقة it will be said That he said أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهِ لَا اللَّهِ وَأَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا عَبْدُهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهِ لَا اللَّهِ وَأَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا عَبْدُهُ وَرَسُولُهُ I bear witness That there is no deity worthy of worship except Allah And I bear witness That Muhammad ﷺ Is the worshipper of Allah Against all of these سجلات There is this one بطاقة Those سجلات contain all his sins His actions, his statements His decisions, the haram which the person did This small بطاقة It only contains لا إله إلا الله أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهِ لَا اللَّهِ وَأَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا عَبْدُهُ وَرَسُولُهُ صلى الله عليه وسلم The man when he sees them He will say يا رب Oh my lord ما هذه البطاقة مع هذه السجلات What is the value or the worth Of this one small بطاقة In comparison to the سجلات Of my actions And it will be said to him إنك لا تظلم اليوم Today You will not be wronged فَتُوضَعُ السِّجِلَّاتِ فِي كِفَّةِ So those scrolls and those records Of deeds and evil actions They will be placed on one plate of the scales والبطاقة في كفة And that one single بطاقة It will be placed on the other side Of the scales فَطَاشَتِ السِّجِلَّاتِ وَثَّقُلَتِ البطاقةِ And that بطاقة will become heavy And it will outweigh All of the سجلات And this shows The virtue And the great Weight Of لا إله إلا الله Just that statement لا إله إلا الله But it was with إخلاص and sincerity And the توحيد of Allah subhanah And the person understood the meaning of لا إله إلا الله And he fulfilled The rights of لا إله إلا الله By the فضل of Allah By the mercy and the greatness And the kindness of Allah It outweighs the sins Which that person did So التوحيد From the greatest virtue Of التوحيد أنه يكفر السيئات That it wipes away The evil actions And this shows us The virtue of التوحيد And أيها الكرام If there was no other virtue For توحيد And for the people of توحيد Except that this will occur On يوم القيامة And it will outweigh All of those bad deeds This is sufficient as an encouragement For us to pay the people of توحيد May Allah make us from them And if there was no other And if there was no other warning For the people of شرك And the action of شرك Except that they are invalidating التوحيد and this حديث And this occurrence will not occur for them Will not happen for them Then this is sufficient as a warning Against الشرك And it shows the severity And the extent of الشرك And as I mentioned Not only will the scrolls Be read On يوم القيامة But actions themselves And the Prophet ﷺ He mentioned the حديث Which Imam Al-Bukhari He ended his Sahih with He said There are two statements Which are light upon the tongue ثقيلتان في الميزان And they are heavy on their scales حبيبتان إلى الرحمن Beloved to the most Merciful What are those two words سبحان الله و بحمده سبحان الله العظيم These two phrases سبحان الله و بحمده سبحان الله العظيم Light upon the tongue But heavy on يوم القيامة Heavy on the scales On يوم القيامة And then After the ميزان After weighing of the deeds And the scrolls and the actions And also the people Then the next event The next occurrence Is that people will be Grouped People will be grouped together In different groups And there will be a لواء Each Prophet will have a لواء And a لواء in this dunya It is like a flag or a banner Meaning something which will be easily Recognizable that this is Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم And where the Ummah of Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم Should gather and go to And each Prophet Ibrahim, Musa, Isa All of the Prophets they will have with them their لواء That banner or that flag Or something which is recognizable That the people are together With them And people Will be grouped behind The لواء of Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم And the various Prophets According to their Categories or the types Of people And Allah سبحانه said in the Quran وَإِذَا النُّفُوسُ زُوِّجَتْ And when the people Are paired together And the meaning of being paired together Is that the oppressors Will be paired with the oppressors The kuffar will be grouped with the kuffar The righteous will be grouped With the righteous And perhaps also and Allah knows best The different types Of actions Those people who are diligent upon their Salah, they will be grouped with the people of Salah and those who used to fast Will be grouped with those who fasted And so on and so forth And this also shows us Ayyuhul kiram The importance of Righteous companionship And that people will be Grouped in the Akhirah with the same People that they used to Accompany in their dunya So accompanying righteous people And being with the righteous People and loving the righteous People, a person Hopes that maybe this May be a cause for me Being resurrected with those very People that I used to always be Around and accompany And I used to love and try to imitate them I love the righteous people I love the righteous people Even though I am not from The righteous people But I hope That because of them I will attain some form of shifa on yawmul qiyamah Or maybe I will be Grouped with them on yawmul qiyamah And then after the people Are grouped And categorized Together, the next Event which will occur will be As-sirat And as-sirat is a bridge Which will be over jahannam And as-sirat Like every other Matter which has been mentioned It is something which is real So this is an important point That all of these events, all of these Occurrences and all of these entities Which you mentioned, every one of them Haqq wa haqiqah Every one of them is something which is physical And real We are not talking about anything which is Metaphorical, so the scales Are real scales The arsh of Allah subhanah Is a real arsh, and this is why it has A shade And the angels coming to the people In the grave, they come to the people In their grave And the grave being Expanded or the grave being Restricted, this is real The grave in of itself, it is Expanded, and it is restricted But all of this is From al-ghayb, from the matter of the Unseen, and this The grave, this occurs in the Barzakh, so it is real However it occurs in the Barzakh And it does not occur in the Dunya, so the point is like this The sirat, the bridge Which is over jahannam That every single person Without exception, from the first to the Last, from the most righteous And pious to the most evil, every Single person will pass over the Sirat, and Allah subhanah mentions in the Quran There is nobody amongst you except That he will pass over the Sirat And this sirat, the messenger Sallallahu alayhi wasallam, he Described it, that it is Finer than A strand of hair And sharper Than the edge of A sword And the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam He described how Quick or how slow People pass over the sirat Depending on their actions And their deeds and sins So he said Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam That people pass over the sirat According to the extent of their actions So some people They will quickly pass Over the sirat as quick As the glancing of an eye And so on and so forth Some people they will pass Over the sirat as quick as lightning And others As quick as the wind And others as quick as a Person who is riding a fast Horse, and other people As quick as or as Slow as a person who is riding a Camel, and other people Will be walking And other people will be running And other people will be crawling And other people will be Held behind And the speed at which a person Passes over the sirat Over Jahannam Will be according to the actions of a Person And the first of those people Who will pass over the sirat Is our messenger sallallahu alayhi wasallam And as he is passing He will say Allahumma salim salim Allahumma salim salim O Allah save us O Allah give us safety O Allah give us Safety And the Muwhidun The people of Tawheed And the people of Iman They will pass over the sirat And as for the Kuffar They will fall into the fire And also the people of Iman The people of Tawheed Who died upon Tawheed But perhaps they have sins And maybe some of their sins were not forgiven They will also face some punishment In Jahannam according to their sins May Allah forgive us all And we have to remember That as for the sins of a person Of a person of Tawheed Of a person of Iman There are different ways and reasons For these sins to be forgiven And in reality this is a Bashara This is a glad tiding For the people of Tawheed And Al-Ikhlas Not that this is An allowance for us to do sins We mention firstly We have to fear Allah wherever we are And we have to strive to stay away from Those sins But if a person Fell into a sin At-Tawbah Forgives the sin General Istighfar forgives a sin Good deeds wipe away sins The Prophet He spoke about Wudhu And how When you are making Wudhu The water which is dropping from your limbs Those drops of water It is like sins which are dropping away Who makes Wudhu? The people of Salah Those who are diligent upon their Salah The Prophet He spoke about the Aalim The scholar, the teacher The Talibul Ilm And how the angels seek forgiveness For this person And how the fish at the bottom of the sea Seeks forgiveness for this person And how the ants and the lizards And the birds, everything makes Istighfar For the Aalim and the Talibul Ilm And the one who teaches people goodness And also the people who come to the Masjid And they wait for the Salah And they come and they sit in the first row The angels seek forgiveness For those people And the Prophet s.a.w. spoke about How How charity It extinguishes the fire And how charity It saves a person from the anger of Allah So also charity By charity sins are forgiven And the Messenger s.a.w. spoke about those people who walk to the Masjid How in every step Which they take a good deed is being written And a sin is being Forgiven and expiated And those people who shake hands And as long as they remain shaking hands Then their sins are being Forgiven So also good deeds wipe away A person's sins And in addition to this The struggles that a person Goes through in this life On account of those struggles If he remains a person of Iman and Sabr And Ihtisab And hopes for the reward Which is with Allah On account of these struggles The sins are wiped away In the hadith of Ummul Munna Ayesh The Messenger s.a.w. He said That even if it is The pricking of a thorn Just the pricking of a thorn That small amount of discomfort By it Allah s.a.w. wipes away a sin Or writes down a good deed And also an illness A difficulty, a struggle Poverty, weakness As long as a person Is a person of Iman and Tawheed And Sabr and Ihtisab By all of this Through all of this Sins are being wiped away And then there will be some people Who may face Some punishment In the grave In order for the sins to be wiped away For the Akhirah And also Ash Shafa'ah The Shafa'ah of the Prophet s.a.w. On Yawmul Qiyamah Our Shafa'ah for each other on Yawmul Qiyamah The Shafa'ah of the Ulama The Shafa'ah of the parents towards their children The children towards their parents Also all of this Sins are wiped away And then even if there is nothing That a person has From everything which I've mentioned Then the Rahmah of Allah s.a.w. The Mercy of Allah in of itself Just the Mercy of Allah Even if there was no Tawbah, there was no Istighfar A person didn't do many righteous actions But the Fadhal And the Mercy of Allah s.a.w. Allah s.a.w. forgives Allah does not forgive For Shirk to be committed But He forgives Anything which is less than Shirk For whoever He wants So it is Shirk and Kufr Which cannot be forgiven if a person dies upon them But anything which is less than this As long as a person tries To have Taqwa, strives to stay away From those sins, makes Istighfar Makes Tawbah, is regretful The Mercy of Allah And the Fadhal of Allah also forgives Those sins But on Yawmul Qiyamah From some of the believers who have passed the Sirat They will also fall into The fire for their sins To be For them to be cleansed from their sins And after those people Have passed over the Sirat And now only the believers remain Then they will pass By another bridge And this bridge it is known as Al-Qantarah And Al-Qantarah is the bridge Which is on the edges of Jannah Al-Qantarah it is also a bridge A Jisr which is on the edge of Jannah The Sirat When the people passed over it They passed over it Depending upon The rights of Allah Which they violated i.e. the sins which they did However in addition to the rights of Allah There are rights of people We between each other We have rights upon each other And we have obligations and responsibilities Towards each other And in this Dunya Rights are violated And even those rights Even though they are not the rights of Allah In terms of good deeds and sins And Ibadah And disobedience But they are the rights of people Those rights have to also be rectified And so the people will stand Upon the Qantarah And they will dispute Their rights And the rights will be given And the rights will be taken And the hasanat will be exchanged And the sins will be exchanged And this will occur on the Qantarah And again it's important for us To take a Waqfah A pause of contemplation To think about the rights Of each other which we are Violating And to rectify our relationships And to apologize For our violations And to repay our dues and our debts Before we reach the Qantarah And then there are no more excuses There are only hasanat and siyyat There are only rewards and punishments Which are going to be exchanged And from the famous statements of Umar Ibn Khattab Al-Farooq He would say Hold yourselves to account Before you are held to account Meaning hold yourselves to account In this dunya Whilst you still have an opportunity To stay away from sins And return to Allah and make tawbah And become close to Allah Before you are held to account On Yawm al-Qiyamah in the hisab Which we spoke about in which there will be No more excuses and no more opportunity and then he would say وَوَزِنُوا أَعْمَالَكُمْ قَبْلَ أَن تُوزَنَ لَكُمْ and weigh up your own actions before they are weighed up for you meaning analyze your actions in this dunya weigh up your good deeds and your bad deeds in this dunya increase in your good deeds and lessen your sins so your good deeds outweigh your sins in this dunya before that day comes when the meezan the scales of justice which we spoke about will be sent down and then your actions will be weighed up and like this ayyuhal kiram our rights between each other our violations between each other our disagreements between each other apologize for them and mend those relationships and connect the ties of kinship which we have broken and fulfill the rights and pay your dues and give your debts before that day comes when we have to stand on the qantarah and then after those disputes and rights are settled and those disputes are judged over then the people will enter into their final abode so the people of kufr and shirk and fusuq in jahannam na'udhu billah and the people of tawheed and iman whom allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has forgiven their sins they will come to jannah however however when they come to jannah they will find the doors of jannah are closed and nobody's able to enter into jannah and this is when the second shafa'ah of the messenger sallallahu alayhi wasallam will occur and also this shafa'ah is the exclusive right of the messenger sallallahu alayhi wasallam so people will attempt to enter into jannah they will not be able to do so and the messenger sallallahu alayhi wasallam said in the hadith of anas radhiyallahu anhu and the hadith in sahih muslim aati baab al jannah yawm al qiyamah that i will approach the gate or the door of jannah on yawm al qiyamah but it will be closed so i will seek permission for the gate or the door of jannah to be opened so the gatekeeper of jannah will say man ant? who are you? so i will say ana muhammad i am muhammad and the gatekeeper of jannah will say bala umirtu alla aftaha li ahadin qablak he will say it is you it is you oh muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam and i was told to not open these gates for anybody else before you and so the first person who will enter into jannah will be our prophet muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam and the first people to enter into jannah will be the ummah of muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam and also fuqara ul ummah the weak the oppressive the poor the downtrodden of this ummah who are from the people of tawheed and iman they will enter into jannah before the rich and the wealthy and the people of affluency power and authority from the people of tawheed from the people of al-iman and this is the meaning of nahnu al-akhirun al-awwaloon tahadith in sahih muslim the messenger sallallahu alayhi wasallam he described his ummah he said nahnu al-akhirun al-awwaloon we are the first we are the last and we are the first we are the last the first meaning that we are the first to enter into jannah but we are the last of the nations who have appeared so we nahnu ummatun muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam the people of sunnah and the people of iman and tawheed amongst him nahnu al-akhirun al-awwaloon we are the last to appear in terms of succession from the various umam and the nations but we will be the first bi-idhnillah to enter into jannah and this is from the virtue and the greatness of our prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam and how allah subhana has honored the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam over and above the other prophets and their messengers and how allah subhana has honored the ummah of muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam because of them being his ummah over the other umam and the messenger sallallahu alayhi wasallam he said ana sayyidu waladi adam wala fakhr that i am the best of the children of adam wala fakhr but without any pride or arrogance and in the hadith in sahih muslim inna fuqara al-muhajireen yasbiqoon al-agniya yawm al-qiyaman bi-araba'ina kharifa the poor amongst the muhajireen they will proceed to jannah before the rich on yawm al-qiyama by 40 by 40 years or so and in another narration the messenger sallallahu alayhi wasallam he gave relief and glad tiding to the weak and the downtrodden and the poor he said ya ma'ishr al-fuqara all gathering of the poor ala ubashirukum should i not give you the great news the glad tiding he said inna fuqara al-mu'mineen yadkhuloon al-jannah qabla agnia'ihim binisfi yawm that the poor amongst the mu'mineen will enter into jannah before the rich and the wealthy from the mu'mineen binisfi yawm by half a day and the meaning of half a day exactly is known by Allah and in some narrations khamsa mi'ati aam by 500 years but of course this does not mean that the poor necessarily have a higher rank in jannah than the wealthy because this is based upon righteous actions and there are rich and wealthy people and people of authority and power and status who in terms of their righteous actions they are better than the people of poverty and there are poor people who in their actions are better than other rich people so in terms of the rank or the level of the reward in jannah that is based upon a person's actions in terms of entering into jannah some of these narrations they allude that the poor will enter before the rich and the ulama mention that this is because the poor people the downtrodden the oppressed the weak in this in this dunya they faced certain struggles and difficulties and harms that the rich people and the wealthy and the powerful did not necessarily face and an account of this and from the mercy of Allah is that those very people will have the reward of entering into jannah first but as for the reward inside jannah according to a person's actions and so the poor amongst the muhajireen will enter into jannah before the rich amongst the muhajireen Allah knows best and then the poor amongst the ansar will enter into jannah before the rich amongst the ansar and then the poor amongst the ummah in general will enter into jannah before the rich from amongst their ummah and the other explanation that some of the ulama gave is that of course not in all cases but in the majority of the cases those who are rich and wealthy usually have more rights which they have to repay or fulfill sometimes people they have become rich on account of certain actions which they did which perhaps were not completely correct so therefore their hisaab and their standing on the qantarah and setting their disputes may be more than the poor because the poor person he earned from halal and he spent whatever little he had in halal the rich person naturally because they have more wealth they spend more and they live and buy they live in more luxury and they might and they buy more luxurious products so on and so forth and therefore their hisaab and their question is also going to be greater and then after this the people enter into jannah and then the life of the hereafter yawmul khulood the life of eternity it begins the people of jannah in jannah and the people of the fire in the fire and the people of tawheed and iman who may have entered into the fire on account of sins they are removed from the fire after being cleansed from their sins and the people on the qantarah once their hearts are clean from disputing with each other and any malice or jealousy or complaints that they may have against each other and they have also been purified their hearts have been purified then they enter into jannah because jannah is the land of purity and only pure bodies and pure hearts will enter into jannah and in order for bodies and hearts to be pured disputes have to be settled and rights have to be repaid and then they enter into jannah we ask allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to make our hisaab the hisaab which is easy allahumma hasibna hisaaban yaseera allahumma inna nas'aluka aljanna wa na'udhu bika minannar allahumma inna nas'aluka shafaata an-nabi salallahu alayhi wa salam yawmul qiyama allahumma fil lana ma qadamna wa ma akharna wa ma asrarna wa ma a'alanna wa ma anta a'alamu bihi minna anta almuqaddimu wa anta almuakhilu la ilaha illa ant wasallallahu wa ala nabiyyina wa salam