{"id":2920,"date":"2022-11-04T20:04:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T20:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/?p=2920"},"modified":"2022-11-04T20:04:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T20:04:04","slug":"death-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/2022\/11\/04\/death-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear brothers and\nsisters, in a time where each and every taboo is being dropped in front of our\neyes, there is still a topic which is seldom spoken of but is a certainty for\neach and every one of us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The topic this week\nis on our death from this world and this is both a certainty and an unknown as\nwe know this time is coming for us but none of us know when it will come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The imam mentioned\nayat 185 of Sura Al-Imran in reference to today\u2019s reminder and it is translated\nto say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every soul will taste death, and you will only be given your [full]\ncompensation on the Day of Resurrection. So he who is drawn away from the Fire\nand admitted to Paradise has attained [his desire]. And what is the life of\nthis world except the enjoyment of delusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear brothers and sisters,\nwe are being told by the Lord of all that we are here only for a short time.\nThese ayats are warning us not to get lost in the distraction of this world.\nAnd that this world is merely a vehicle, a test from Allah SWT, that we are\nexperiencing before our return to Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As is done in\nprevious reminders, if we are travelling to our destination, say on a train,\nwould we be focused on the destination that we are travelling to? Or the train\ncarriage that we are sat in? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we are going to\nvisit our loved ones on that train, is it the train that gets all our attention\nand care or rather is it the excitement of when the journey ends and the loved\nones we will be meeting?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such is the analogy\nof this life. So many are focused on the train journey itself, they are\ndedicated in making the journey, the focus of all their love and attention.\nThey even forget about the fact that they are on the journey and that it is the\ndestination that ought to have their time and effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Muslims we must\nbe careful that we do not fall into this trap. We need to be mindful that we\nare only travellers and that we must pack and prepare well for our destination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today\u2019s reminder\nconcludes with 4 practical tips or points of contemplation that we must take\naway in order to keep our mind focused on our destination and to keep the\njourney, i.e dunya as a secondary thought and not to prioritise it over the\neternal life to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>We must\nask ourselves if we are people who are focused on the afterlife. Are we truly\ndetached from this life. Practically this can be applied through a few tests.\nFor example, when hardship reaches us, is our first thought to think that this\nis simply a test from our Lord and that our reaction is what is measured and\naccounted for by Him? Or are we the type to complain when the going gets tough\nand begin to compare with such and such and become envious as to why they have\nand we don\u2019t?<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Are\nwe the type to lose our temper when things don\u2019t go as we expect? Either\nthrough events or even other people\u2019s injustices? Or are we the type to think\nthat the event is from Allah SWT and to return to Him in pleas and prayers and\nin the case of injustice, pray and forgive the shortcomings of others in the\nhope Allah SWT shows that same mercy to us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The\nsecond point is that the good deeds we are doing need to be for the right\nreasons. Unfortunately our Lord has told us that there will exist people in\nthis world who are good but are doing it for the sake of others. An example\nbeing a person who gives to charity but makes sure everyone knows about it. Or\nsomeone who teaches Quran, not for the sake of Allah SWT, but for the status\namongst his family or friends. These people are the biggest losers because they\nare doing all the right things but their intentions are corrupt.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We ought to ask ourselves for each and every good deed, are we thinking\nof Allah SWT when we are doing this? Are we sat on a prayer mat five times a\nday thanking Him for the opportunity to do such and such good deed? If our\nremembrance of Allah SWT isn\u2019t there when we are doing good, then can we be\nsure that the intention is for Him?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The\nthird is to ask Allah SWT for a good end. If you speak to doctors working the\nA&amp;E in Muslim countries, you will find that a lot of them are surprised by\nthe fact that not all those who are even told to recite Shahada do so in their\nfinal breath. In fact, this in itself is a blessing from Allah SWT that we\nreturn to Him with the blessed words in our final breath. The Prophet SAWS\nsaid:<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>whoever\u2019s last words are there is no Lord\nexcept Allah enters paradise<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We need to ask Allah SWT that we return to Him in a state of remembrance\nof Him just as we lived life in remembrance of Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>And\nfinally, that we need to start banking for the next life. None of us know when\nour time in this journey is up. Nobody is certain when our destination will\narrive and so we need to be preparing for the journeys end each and every day\nwe are still here. This should be in the practical manner as instructed to us\nby the best of creation, SAWS.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Acts such as daily remembrance through duas at set times. We all have\nphones with alarm functions or to-do list apps we can download so set daily\nreminders for duas, for recitation of even a single ayat of the Quran, for\nweekly acts of charity or voluntary fasts for the sake of Allah SWT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Start small, form small habits but make them consistent and insh\u2019Allah\nthese will rack up over time and will count in your next life. Remember, it\u2019s\nconsistent acts such as these which will also serve to weaken the influence of\nShaitaan in this life as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear brothers and\nsisters, we pray that Allah SWT enables us to be of those who are mindful of\ndeath and that we return to him in such a state. The imam reminded us of the\nhadith in which the Prophet SAWS said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen Allah wants\ngood for a slave, He puts him in action.\u201d It was said: \u201cHow does he put him in\naction O Messenger Of Allah?\u201d He said: \u201cBy making him meet up with the\nrighteous deeds before death.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us be of the\ncorrect mindset so that we are of these people mentioned in the hadith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear brothers and sisters, in a time where each and every taboo is being dropped in front of our eyes, there is still a topic which is seldom spoken of but is a certainty for each and every one of us. The topic this week is on our death from this world and this is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_regular_price":[],"currency_symbol":[],"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon"],"blocksy_meta":[],"post_slider_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","post_slider_layout_landscape_large":"","post_slider_layout_portrait_large":"","post_slider_layout_square_large":"","post_slider_layout_landscape":"","post_slider_layout_portrait":"","post_slider_layout_square":"","full":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}