Part 9

then He will ask him, ‘How did you act concerning them?’ He will

say, ‘I left no way in which You like property to be spent without

doing so for You.’ He (Allah) will say, “You have lied. You did all

that so that it might be said you were a generous man, and such

was said of you.’ Then it will be ordered that he be dragged on his

face and thrown into Hell-fire.””

Abi Hurayrah narrated that the Prophet (3) said: “Whoever wronged his brother with regard to his honor or any other matter, should seek his forgiveness today, before there are no longer any dinars, or dirham; and if he has any righteous deeds, they will be taken from him, in accordance with the wrong he did; and if he has no good deeds, some of the bad deeds of his counterpart will

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be taken and added to his burden.’””!

Keep Remembering the Destructor of Desires

Aba Hurayrah narrated that the Prophet (3%) said: “Remember the destructor of desires (ic. Death).””

Aba Hurairah narrated that the Prophet (9) said: “Whoever wrongfully takes even a span of the hand from a land, Allah will order him to dig it down to the seventh earth, and then He will fence it on the Day of Judgement until He judges between

Ibn ‘Umar narrated that the Prophet (4) said: “Whoever wrongfully takes away a land, will sink into the seventh earth on the Day

Aba Hurairah related: I heard the Messenger of Allah (4) saying: “A person may utter a word that he thinks harmless, but it results in his falling in Hellfire [the depth of] seventy years [in

” Sahih al-Bukhari (3/138) and al-Hibban (9/227).

* Sunan al-Tirmidhi (2409), Sunan al-Nisa‘i (4/4), Ahmad in his Musnad (2/

* Ahmad in his Musnad (2/181), Sahih al-Bukhari (2453), (3195) and Sahih Muslim (1612)

“ Sunan al-Tirmidhi (2409), Sunan al-Nisa‘7 (4/4), Ahmad in his Musnad (2/

* Ahmad in his Musnad (2/334), Sahih al-Bukhari (8/125) and Sahih Muslim

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Worldly Fire compared to the fire of Hell

Aba Hurayrah narrated that the Prophet (3) said: “This fire of yours which burns the son of Adam (in this world) is one seventieth of the heat of the Hell. They said: ‘We swear by Allah, our

fire is quite enough.’ The Prophet (48) said: ‘It is sixty nine times more and each part of it is like the heat of your fire,””*6

‘Adi ibn Hatim related: The Messenger of Allah (48) said: “Allah, Exalted is He, shall speak to every one of you without [the need for] an interpreter. When you look to your right side you will find only the deeds you have done [in this worldly life]. When you look to the left side you will only find the deeds you have done [in this worldly life]. When you look in front of you there will be Hell so

save yourself from Hell-fire even by giving half a date-fruit in charity.”

The Resurrection of People on the Day of Judgement

‘A’ishah related: The Prophet (38) said: “You will be resurrected on the Day of Judgement naked, uncircumcised and bare foot.” ‘A’ishah asked the Prophet (3%): “would men and women look at each other?” he said: “O ‘A’ishah, the situation is too difficult to look at each other.”*

* Ahmad in his Musnad (2/313), (2/467), Sahih al-Bukhari (8/147) and Sahih Muslim (2988)

” Ahmad in his Musnad (4/256, 377), Sahih al-Bukhari (7/198), (8/185, 202) and Sahih Muslim (1016)

* Ahmad in his Musnad (6/53), Sahih al-Bukhari (8/36) and Sahih Muslim

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Ibn ‘Umar narrated that the Prophet (38) commented on the ayah, sphere CdSe olpees “The Day when mankind will stand before the Lord

of the worlds?” [a/-Mutaffifin 83: 6}

saying: “People will have their sweat reach the level of their ears then.”

Aba Hurayrah related: “When the ayah

Gd Zs 79% Ying 22 5iN “And warn, [O Muhammad (3g)], your closest kindred.”

The Prophet (38) said: “O people of Quraish - or something with the same meaning - ransom yourselves from Allah for I cannot avail you at all against Allah. O ‘Abbas ibn “Abdul Muttalib I cannot avail you at all against Allah. O Fatima bint Muhammad ask me whatever you like, but I cannot avail you at all against

Aba Hurayrah narrated that the Messenger of Allah (34) said: “The Hell-fire of Hell complained to its Lord saying: O Lord! My parts are eating (destroying) one another. So Allah allowed it to take two breaths, one in the winter and the other in the summer. The breath in the summer is at the time when you feel the sever-

“ Sahih al-Bukhari (4/7), (6/140) and Sahih Muslim (206)

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est heat and the breath in the winter is at the time when you feel the severest cold.”

The Least of Punishment In Hell

Al-Nu‘man ibn Bashir narrated that the Prophet (38) said: The most lightly punished person in Hell will have two sandals and laces of fire because of which his brain will boil like a cauldron.”

Shaqiq ibn ‘Abdullah narrated that the Prophet (3) said: “Hell will be brought forth that Day by means of seventy thousand ropes, each rope will be held by seventy thousand angels.”

‘A’ishah related: Two old ladies from among the Jewish ladies entered upon me and said, “The dead are punished in their graves,” but I thought they were telling a lie and did not believe them in the beginning. When they went away and the Prophet (48) entered upon me, I said, “O Allah’s Messenger (2)! Two old ladies...” and told him the whole incident. He said, “They told the truth; the dead are really punished, to the extent that all the animals hear (the sound resulting from) their punishment.”

“| Sahih al-Bukhari (1/142) and Sahih Muslim (617)

“ Sahih al-Bukhari (8/98) and Sahih Muslim (586)

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The Severity Of the Punishment of the Grave and Its Squeeze

In another report Ibn ‘Abbis related that the Messenger of Allah (38) said: “By in Whose Hands is my soul, I heard his groaning

and witnessed how his bones were displaced (because of that 2946

Anas ibn Malik reported: when Zaynab the daughter of the Prophet (3%) passed away as she was sick most of the times during her life, the Prophet (4%) followed her funeral and when he reached her grave [in which she will be buried]. His face became yellow when he went down her grave then suddenly his face looked happy. We asked him about that so he said: I recalled how weak my daughter is and the severity of the punishment of the grave so I came. Then I was informed that she has now been eased, even though she was squeezed once from which she screamed in

pain. Her scream was heard by everyone from the east to the

4 Al-Hakim (3/206), Ibn Sa‘d (3/430) and Ahmad in his Musnad (3/327, 36, 377)

“ Al-Tabarani (10827), (12975) in a/-Kabir

” This narration declared incorrect and unauthentic by al-Suydti and Ibn alJawzi. See: al-Hal al-Mutanahiya (2/908) and al-La’ali al-Masno ‘ah (2/434)

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“ Musnad Ahmad (5/164), Sunan al-Nisa‘f (4/116) and al-Hakim (2/367).

Averting Excessive Fear and Cautiousness of Death

Fear and cautiousness occur in matters related to the future. A resolute person is he who prepares for what he fears before it befalls him, and avoids excessive fear of what must inevitably befall him, because (in this case) his fear does not benefit him. Indeed the fear of Allah was so intensified in the hearts of many righteous people that they asked Allah to decrease it. The reason behind asking Allah such is that fear is like a lash; if a camel is lashed continuously it will worry, but the lash should be used when

it is lazy in order to motivate it.

It was narrated that Sufyan al-Thawri told a young man who was sitting with him, “Do you want to fear Allah truly and rightfully?” The young man said, “Yes.” Sufyin said, “You are a fool! If you fear Him truly you would not be able to fulfill the obligatory acts!’”!

' Sufyan al-Thawsi: ibn Sa‘id ibn Masrigq, Aba ‘Abdullah al-Thawri, one of the great /mdms and worshippers of this nation. He was titled “The Leader of Believers in Hadith’ and was well versed in /afsir. He was the teacher of Abt Hanifah and Malik amongst others and died in the year 161H.

Appendix Two: Averting Excessive Fear and Cautiousness of Death

Section One: Excessive Fear

A person of sound mind should not fear illness excessively, because it must inevitably befall him some time during his life and fearing what is inevitable is merely an increase in harm. As for fearing death and thinking about it, it is something that is hard to do but what eases it, is knowing that death is inevitable so caution does not benefit the person in anyway rather it increases one’s cautiousness. Every time a person imagines the intensity of death, he experiences it emotionally, this is why he should not picture death in his mind, he will only die once, not multiple times, and avoiding thinking about it will ease it.

A person should also know that Allah is able to make it easier, if He Wills, and that what is after death is more disturbing than death itself, because death is a bridge that takes us to our eternal dwelling. However, one should frequently think about death to work towards it, not just for the sake of imagination.

If the thought of leaving this life saddens the heart, then the cure is to know that this world is not a dwelling of satisfaction, rather its pleasure and satisfaction is in departing it, therefore this is not something that one should compete to possess. Thus, a wise person is saddened by leaving this life only because of the righteous deeds he will miss performing, and that is why the righteous predecessors used to be saddened by death as well. When Mu‘adh ibn Jabal was on his death bed, he said, “O Allah! You know that I did not love this world and living long in it for the beauty of flowing rivers or for planting trees. Rather for fasting hot days, forbearing in acts of worship for hours and joining scholars in circles of Your remembrance.”