the reality of departing from this world

The reality of departing from this world

Shahla bismillahi r-rahmani r-rahim al-hamdu lillah wa salatu wa salam o allah rasool allah wa ala aalihi wa sahbihi ajma’in i am very happy to see you here today really it brings me great joy to be talking to my children my sons and my daughters do you know what topic they have given me today?

 Do you know the topic ?  if you know the topic do you know the topic that is a volunteer so it’s called cheating yes what is the topic the reality of departing from this world the reality of departing from this world who wants to depart from this world.

 Who wants to depart from this world they don’t want this world anymore why what is your name stand up why do you want to depart from this world yes because this world is not going to last forever okay but that doesn’t mean you want to depart from it now let me modify my question who wants to depart from this world now they want to leave this world now we still have to have lunch isn’t it yes and we still need to this evening .

we need to go home and sleep in our bed isn’t it so it’s really a tough one but I want to ask you a question how many of us know of someone young who has left this world we know someone who was young and they left this world if you know someone put your hand high up very high up almost all of us know of someone right now.

 I will come to my point put your hands down and that is do you agree that the one who brought us into this world can take us back to him at any time is that correct if he wants he can take me now he can take you now it might be looked at as a bad thing while we are on earth because we still have a mission we have plans.

 if I ask you what do you want to become when you grow older let’s ask you the question put up your hands to tell me what would you like to be when you grow older yes you at the end stand up and say it loudly what do you want to be when you grow older and engineer someone else what do you want to be loud a neurosurgeon la ilaha illa Allah beautiful what would you like to be which airline which which airline would you want to be a pilot for which airline which is your dream airline you want to fly for masha’Allah okay let you can decide that later as well.

 yes you want to be a doctor yes said loudly you want to be an Islamic scholar mashallah mashallah yes it’s good okay alright there anyone from that side yes at the back get up and say it loud what do you want to be I can’t hear you you want to be a what dermatologist la ilaha illallah enders and you who is in front a doctor mashallah okay so all this shows our plans we plan and it is correct to plan we must have a plan and it is okay for now if you don’t really know what you want to become but right now.

 you know you need to go to school you need to pass your exams you need to pass primary you need to pass secondary you need to go to university all you need to do something and soon inshallah you need to one day perhaps maybe you are thinking inshallah I will get married am i right how many of you want to get married one day when you are much older you want to get married put up your hand you want to get married put up your hand yes okay put your hands down excellent I can see our big chef here he also he says I want to get married one day inshallah .

may Allah bless you right not right now but sometime in the future you will get married by the will of Allah so man has plans but Allah can subhanahu wa’ta’ala he has the final say sometimes you want to do something and Allah does not want.

 you to do that you want to marry someone and Allah knows that this person is not what you think he or she is so Allah doesn’t want it to happen when he closes the door don’t be sad just say alhamdulillah I am happy o Allah right I am happy you are happy with what the decision of Allah Allah can change those plans at any time you want to be a doctor you might not make the grades if you don’t make the grades do you become depressed no you try again maybe you want to try the third time after that maybe you can change .

your field and become something else maybe Allah wants to take you through a different door all together right so Allah knows best what is suited for you in the same way Allah knows when it is best to take my life away and your life away people will be sad when you lose your mom when you lose your dad your brother your sister one day maybe a child it is sad because we are going to miss them but we are believers we are what we are what we are believers we believe in the life after death right when you die and you go back to allah subhanahu wa’ta’ala.

 you will get a chance to meet all those who you would like to meet there in general fear those in jannah may Allah give us generous a I mean so we are concerned we have a mission we want to fulfill it Allah can change it at any time now how many of us here have a guarantee that tomorrow morning we are going to be alive does anyone have a guarantee that they are going to be alive tomorrow morning put up your hand nobody not even one right nobody because-

 we don’t know what might happen now what might happen later I don’t have a guarantee if I don’t have a guarantee then what do I need to do surely as much as I want to be a doctor I want to be a dermatologist I want to be a pilot I want to be an Islamic scholar I want to be what did you say a neurosurgeon as much as I want to be all of that which is very beautiful it is so encouraging to hear that and I really would like to see you .

work hard to achieve as well as much as it is encouraging to see that I tell you something you need to understand you might just meet with Allah before that you might return to Allah that is the reality the reality of death is something that can come at any time you need to be prepared to meet with Allah now if a person wants to meet with Allah I’m sure you’ve heard of people .

who have a good death someone who dies in Salah if they are praying and they die while they are praying is that a good death or a bad death if they are doing good work and they die while doing good work it’s good for them right and if a person dies while they are lost in immorality in evil in intoxicants in sinful behavior is it good or bad for them bad for them so from that what I need to know is every day I need to do a few things I need to make sure that.

 I am in the obedience of Allah in case I die today I did something good so you start off your day with something what do you start your day off with what do you start your day off with salat al-fajr am i right get up because that might be your last opportunity to do what last opportunity to to pray it might be your last day the Angels will have written this man his death is at 4:00 p.m. he started off the day with salat al-fajr after that he read half a page of Quran after that.

 he was seeking the forgiveness of Allah then he said bismillahi and he left his house he never ever returned to the house was it a good death or a bad death mashallah you get the point so we have actually helped ourselves by thinking of the reality of departing from this world we are going to leave and because we are going to leave you don’t need to be very worried I trust me when you go to the other side the other side it is a much much better life than .

this one here you will never be tired again you will never age or become old again you will have what you want at the other side unlike here when we are here we get sick once or twice in the year small flu or cough sometimes little bit more serious that’s why we need our neurosurgeons dermatologists and doctors right so things will happen here that we sometimes do.

 we it’s tough when you go to the other side it’s a much better place but you need to prepare for it you need to prepare for it if I show you a beautiful house and I show you Wow see this house it has bedrooms it technologically very advanced it has everything very nice would you like it do you want a very nice house do you want or not you want a nice house right what do you need to do.

 if you want that house you need to pay for it how much would it cost a few million IRAs am i right maybe tens of millions of NARAS am i right maybe hundreds of millions of NARAS am i right now if you see a house listen carefully and you love it and you want it the first thing you need to do is gather the money are you following when you think of it and you are focused that I’m going I am young when I grow old I want to marry like everybody said here when we grow older inshallah may Allah bless you with good husbands and good wives may you be the best husbands to your wife and may you be the best wives to your husbands say;

 I mean right so if for example you see a house and you know how many tens of millions it is and you know what you want the house you need to work hard from now to get to work one day and earn the money and when you earn it it will take you several years to gather that money one day you will say alhamdulillah I have the money let’s go and pay for the house and we will get it by that time there might be a better house in the market right and you will get a better house but you had to work very hard for it if you don’t work hard for it is it going to just you go there and you say right I want this house they say well it’s so many million no .

I wanted free of charge is anything free on earth no there is something free oxygen so far they have not charged us for oxygen we breathe right you take a deep breath take a deep breath when you exhale we were told that your life is shorter do you know why you are one breath less if Allah wrote five hundred and fifty billion breaths for you in your life you are one short by the time you breathe every breath is taking you closer to the end to the meeting of Allah like.

 I gave an example to one person about eggs I said if Allah has written already that you are going to eat thirty thousand eggs in your life how many thirty thousand for example it’s just an example every time you eat eggs you have one egg closer to your death you understand so the one young man put his hand up and said I will stop eating eggs from today.

 I said no no it’s not going to make your life any shorter it would mean a lot less eggs for you may Allah bless us all so we need to be focused upon the best house of the hereafter because when you are alive you will be alive for a certain number of years let me ask you a question how long do you want to live for on earth at what age do you not mind dying put up your hand and answer the question yes what is the age you that now you have lived you think it’s a good age.

 I can die yes 90 mashallah yes 70 yes 70 yes loudly because we are far 68 yes at the back how much 40 no x – inshallah inshallah yes your how long you want to live for 60 years a little bit more insha’Allah can I tell you what’s the proper answer yes it’s correct yes what you are what are you saying how many years 100 Lala my beloved children even .

if Allah gave you your wish you still have to go back to Allah right or wrong whether you go today or tomorrow or after a hundred years or 90 or 60 or 40 you still have to go back to Allah right between 60 and 70 alhamdulillah may Allah give us a good healthy life okay now I tell you it’s amazing because in this world when we are alive we all know we are not going to live for more than 60 70 years maybe.

 one guy might live to 100 some of them don’t mind going at forty etcetera etcetera let me tell you nobody really wants to die we should not wish to die because we have problems face the challenges when you are writing an examination and the questions are hard do you just say .

sir I’m walking out of here let me go I don’t want to take this exam no you attempt it you try your best to answer the questions even if you have not answered some of them correctly but inshallah you will pass with your attempt the same way when Allah gives you challenges in your life you stand up to every challenge and you face it whether you like it or not you cannot say.

 I want to die my life is too tough my examinations my tests from Allah they are too difficult Allah says line you can leave Allah who Nelson in Laos ah ha Allah does not test Allah does not burden any soul with more than it can manage or shoulder so Allah knows your extent when you are in grade one you have questions according to grade .

one when you go to grade 10 and 12 you will have questions according to the grade you are in do you think you are going to university and the first question on the paper will be what is one plus one what is one plus one if that is a question right at university there is some catch to it you know that am i right you will have to think 20 times a this is not for this level.

 maybe there is something it’s like they say they were you know in one of the corrupt countries there was a man who went there was a man who went to a certain come opening as an accountant to seek a job he went to seek what a job he wanted to be the accountant of the big company and that company was corrupt right.

 so they were when he arrived there he saw two people standing outside the office waiting also in fact they were sitting waiting to go in for interviews so they were three in total so the first one was called out he went in the person interviewing him was the CEO .

the big boss of the company he asked him what is 1+1 I want to be the accountant of a massive firm and you are asking me what is one plus one he said it’s two he said thank you you can leave so the other two were sitting outside they looked at him and they said why are you out so quickly he said I don’t know.

 I went inside he asked me what is 1+1 I said it is 2 he told me you can leave so I went so when the second guy went in he knew that if you say 2 to 1 + 1 the answer is the answer is going to be wrong according to them right in reality it’s a correct answer but that man is looking for something different so when the second guy went in the the boss says you know what what is 1 plus 1 he wants to be the accountant of a firm right so what happened is he said it is 11.

 he said sorry you can leave so as he is coming out he told the third guy who asked him what happened how come you are out so quick he says I don’t know he just asked me the same question what is 1+1 I said 11 because the first guy said – and it was wrong – according to them so I said 11 and it is still wrong so then he said ok ok fine when the third guy walked in the man says right sir what is 1 plus 1 what did the third guy do you know what he did guess what he did he knows if I say – he’s going to say goodbye right if I say 11.

 he’s going to say goodbye what should I do he said sir can I close the curtains he said ok close the curtains he said sir can I turn off the light he said ok he turned off the light he said what would you like it to be la ilaha illallah what would you like it to be so corrupt that the accountant is saying listen boss if you tell me one plus one is five hundred,

 I will make sure that it works out to five hundred somehow you see that is corruption you understand what I’m saying corruption when the accountant is corrupt then you you will lose everything we want to be honest but I want to tell you something when we get to the hereafter it is a good place where you will not find corruption you will not find any evil and in order to get there we need to work we need to work hard like I said I work so hard to want a house in this world to want a house in this world but I did not prepare for the eternal house and home.

 you want a house in general who wants a house in Jannah put up your hand okay put it down you need to pay for it how much is it you’re not in IRAs in deeds you need to do your Salah you need to stay away from sin you need to read Quran you need to make the dhikr of Allah remember Allah you need to worship Allah alone you need to follow the Sunnah as best as you can you will have a house in general here DOS you will have a house in general fear dose so this is something you need to think of everything comes with a price janma is actually very reachable but it comes with a price,

 just be a good person you know your friends at school help them Allah will help you sometimes at school we have small gangs am i right small cliques it’s my little circle and then we look at another girl like the five girls are friends they look at the sixth or seventh girl they laugh at her they mock at her they tease her wallahi you are going to lose your palace in Jannah to fear those why do that help her smile later so what if she is different.

 so what if there is something wrong so what meaning so what if for example she might have made a mistake correct her so what if her colour or the part of the country she comes from or another country altogether or she is not so clever or she according to you she might not be so good-looking let me tell you if you are very very clever in your classroom it does not mean you are going to be successful in this world some of the people with the most money .

they were not really very bright at school later on Allah gave them much money do you know that so if you have failed once or twice at school don’t be depressed but the bigger failure is when you are losing focus what is the focus while we are focusing on building our lives we should not forget to also focus on ensuring that our hereafter is okay I started my day in a good way so the day I die I would have done it still afar what is instead of our.

 oh Allah forgive my sins if I’ve made some speak nicely to one another even amongst the boys sometimes we don’t speak nicely to our friends our colleagues sometimes we think we are too clever sometimes we think we have richer than those guys my dad drives a better car than your dad I’m not going to talk to that boy he’s not of my standing my status not at all we talk to everyone we are building our Jannah we speak with respect we are honest we don’t use swear words and abusive words if you use swear words it means you are not worried about Allah if you are not worried about Allah will you have a house in general Allah owns that house you want it .

I want it Allah says just be a good person that’s easy just be a good person stay away from bad things have good friends talk to each other change your life be a good person if you ask me for example I wouldn’t mind walking around if I had the time greeting every single person here and trying to put some form of goodness in your life if I can even if it means just with a smile subhanAllah and that’s what makes us happy because Allah is watching to helps to smile is a charity and to make someone else smile would even be a bigger charity you understand to make a person happy is a very big charity you follow my point so from now on inshallah .

we are going to focus on how we can build others Allah will build you you want to build your palace in Paradise you need to help other people you need to reach out to others someone in your classroom is not extremely intelligent and you are very intelligent you know what you need to do spend some time with them to teach them in a nice way don’t say are you .

you don’t know you you are thick now you you are you are you’re dumb you are daft those words are words that show you that you don’t understand the reality of departing from this world you might go before that person then you will meet Allah Allah will say you know .

I put someone in your classroom you used to call them bad names why what are you going to say you will not have an answer too late now it’s too late you didn’t seek forgiveness the same applies to girls I’m not too sure about this country but in many places bullying is real we bully kids just because he’s small come here polish my shoes yeah take Polish yeah .

if he doesn’t hey I’ll fix you it happens in some places am i right yes why do you belittle another you are a creature of Allah they are a creature of Allah learn to respect each other because one day we are going to leave this world when we leave the world we want to be smiling people would say there was such a good boy such a good girl she left and you know what she was?

 the best in the inn from all of them la ilaha illaallah wouldn’t you like someone to say nice things about you when you die or you want them to say finally dead Hey you want them to say that may Allah bless you talk nicely to others speak with respect to others treat others the same way you want to be treated it means you are focused .

so I spoke about building your relation with Allah fulfilling your Salah you start your day with Salah if you have got a plate for some reason still start with Salah that same Salah you can read it kava if you have missed it because of your sleep or whatever else but started with Salah get used to these good things Quran spend some time many of us have phones and technologically advanced devices right we have smart tablets and smart phones and-

 so on and many of us spend time on there either watching things or playing games right some of these games are nice give me the names of some of the games mashallah another name FIFA what else mashallah another game another game another one another one la la la we are getting more names of games than we know the names of Allah Masha Allah Masha Allah .

now it’s good to know them but what I want to tell you it’s not bad to play a game but to get addicted to it is a problem we get very excited time for Salah but but you know Shaitaan is telling you no keep on going keep on going and the angel he knows that a this person is now going to die in the next 15 minutes and they still mention you are dead and the game is here like this and you are gone .

I rather die in Salah right that’s why when the time of salah comes you are enjoying your game i’m not saying don’t play put it aside do your salah and don’t do it.

 so fast it might be the last salah you agree to be like i said you know what it is actually such that we don’t know the date of death of anybody i am not frightened to die .

I am just concerned about preparing for the day that’s all we make all the other side I’m going to see you guys gameplay Charla Jeremy we meet in general right if someone goes we are believers we believe me I’ve come to a better place if I were to ask you how old are you how much 12 we will you 13 years ago you don’t know how old are you 15 where were you?

 16 years ago how old are you yes 16 hour where were you 17 years ago I need an answer this only 14 where were you 15 years ago with Allah well done well done well done he was with Allah so if Allah gives you how long would you like to live for for example .

how many years approximately 80 where will you be 85 years from now if you had died at 80 with Allah game very good well answered mashallah I came from Allah and I’m going to return to Allah that’s the reality of departing from this world you understand in lillahi wa inna ilayhi rg1 .

we belong to allah and we are definitely going to return to the same allah so how can I keep on playing my game stripe at you belong to the game when you are going to return to the game not at all we belong to Allah you can play but understand try over at times you need to know .

your times some people sit and watch movies some people sit and listen to songs or whatever they may be doing you need to understand what is beneficial for you what is going to help you your time on earth is very short I want to give you one more example before I go .

I think my time is up is my time up mashallah they have only three people in this whole thing yes the rest of them are same so those three they can take it yeah it’s a lot of decides when your time is up right they are saying your time is up now when we say a lot besides of your time took em what did but right now they said yes meaning this particular talk let me give you one example how many of you have played football before or soccer put up your hand,

 I think girls will play better than these points but they put your hands down how many minutes is the game 90 minutes what is it that defeats the beginning of the game that is exactly what does he do blows the whistle when he blows the whistle what is your job you kickoff and what do you do.

 you keep on kicking the ball in which direction to the opponent right towards the goals on the other side the goal goes so throughout the 90 minutes everybody is focused on the goal post on the other side right did you have it so Hannah Lonnie what did you are reading 1-0 can you stop the match and say right we won no what if you are winning 5-0 can you just stop the match halfway and say we are done and you do that it has to go all the way to win the referee decides the match is over what will you do Rosa listen again right you blow the whistle right is in a certain way .

okay so I tell you something even if your score is 50 zero you will still keep on playing until the whistle blows right you cannot just say how we are winning 50 0 you know why if you give up and you go off the other party will come in and they will score 51 and the final score will be 51 50 who lost but 5 minutes ago or 10 you were winning 50 0 because you walked away they could keep him out in out you understand what I’m saying .

so they will come a time when your whistle will be blown when the whistle is blown we will see the score the score is three zero five one right now I want to tell you at the beginning of the match if you are losing and the opponent is winning 3-0 and they still 45 minutes remaining huh is there any chance of winning yes right now you are losing how much please zero how much are you losing 3-0 when the match ends.

 if you still keep playing properly you will win 40 they still have cleared now I have four there are matches like that am i right plenty of them you can only decide the winner at the end of the match and Allah sometimes he gives you a little bit more time in life from the beginning to the end when the whistle is blown you start what do you do?

 your entire life you have a goal post Shaitaan is coming this way here and you are going that way they you need to score goals one after the other what are the goals of life your salah is a goal mashallah 1:0 I read further this morning one zero right good deeds our goals our Quran is a goal what else is the goal fasting is a goal zakah is a goal going for Hajj is a goal being kind is a goal staying away from sin is a goal .

so Shaitaan will score some goals sometimes but don’t worry about Shaitaan you keep playing until your whistle is blown at 80 years 90 years 45 years 60 years whenever the whistle is blown you will then meet Allah he will give you your results and he will say well done you tried your best you can now get the World Cup what is the World Cup ? in our case.

 it will be genital fear dose may Allah give us generous a I mean so the reality of this world and its departure is similar to a football match where from the beginning to the end you need to keep on going keep on going don’t stop you know how they have a new machine that actually you’re standing in front of the thing they have a new machine that actually tells you they have a new machine that tells you how much you have run .

so they will tell you this player ran 11 kilometers display around 12 15 kilometers that player only ran six kilometers and that’s how it is you get the point in our lives we will continue striving until our whistle is blown even if Shaytan caught you one day and he made you do something wrong so Shaitaan is winning 2:0 that’s not the end of the match is it the end of the match I will get up and I will score five there in the end we will have five –

you understand my point every day ask yourself what did I do which is good today and don’t lose your score by an own goal you know what’s an own goal when you start giving your own good deeds away to others by talking bad about them backbiting harming deceiving cheating all those our own goals we will never be able to go further.

 if that happens my dear children I have spoken a lot I have enjoyed it discussing with you and alhamdulillah we ask Allah to bless every one of us it has been a beautiful teen session insha Allah if Allah gives us the opportunity one day to meet again we will meet again in this dunya.

 if Allah does not give us the opportunity to meet in this dunya we will meet again in genital fear dose Ameen Oh sallallahu wa sallim wa barik ala nabina muhammad wa salaamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh .