Here is an e mail which I found particularly useful. May Allah enable us all
to benefit and act upon it and re-focus our lifestyles Insha'Allah.
IN THE NAME OF ALLAAH THE MOST KIND THE MOST MERCIFUL
> >Assalaam 'alaikum wa rahmatullaahi wa barakaatuhu. > >Innal hamdalillaah
>was-salaat was-salaam 'alaa rasoolillaah.
> >Below is a transcript of the lecture: > >'A Party in Paradise and a party
>in Hell' >========================================= > >by Shaikh Abu 'Ali
>Nabeel al-Awadhi. >
> >------------------------------------------------------------ >
> >Bismillaahir-Rahmaanir-Raheem > >Alhamdulillaahi rabil-'aalameen,
>was-salaatu was-salaamu 'ala >nabeeyinaa muhammad wa 'ala aalihi wa
>ashaabihi wa man tabi'ahum >bi ihsaanin ila yawmid-deen, amma b'ad: > >The
>Companions of our Prophet Muhammed (salallaahu 'alayhi wa >salaam) used to
>gather to remember death so that they would benefit >their souls by
>increasing in fear of Allaah and strive to gain His >pleasure. If this was
>the case of the Sahaabah and they were the >best of generations, the most
>pious and God-fearing of this ummah, >then what about us? Surely, it means
>that we need to engage in the >rememberance of Allaah - The Most Perfect,
>The Most High - even >more. After all, we are in far more need of this act
>of worship >than they were. > >Let us begin at the end of a man's life, in
>his last moments. He is >lying on his death bed and his family are at his
>side. His father is >calling for the doctor. His wife asks him: "To whom
>are you leaving >us?". The man's little daughter asks him, "Why do you not
>answer me?", >and his small boy cries but nobody responds to him. This is
>the >situation Allaah, The Most High and The Most High, has informed us
> >about: > >"Nay, when the soul reaches the throat, and it is said: "Who
>will >cure him now?". The dying person concludes that this is the time >for
>departing. The leg joins the other leg." [Al-Qiyaamah: 26-29] > >They place
>him in his shroud, his leg joins his other leg. Then he >is carried upon
>the shoulders and taken to a dark hole. If he was a >transgressing criminal
>he cries out: "Woe to it! Where are you >taking it?" > >"The drive that day
>will be to your Lord" [Al-Qiyaamah: 30 ] > >Then he is lowered into this
>ditch and dirt is thrown upon him until >he is sealed in it. If he was a
>criminal, Allaah - The Most Perfect >and The Most High - says: > >"So he
>neither believed nor did he pray. Rather he belied and turned >away"
>[Al-Qiyaamah: 31-32 ] > >This trangressor will remain in his grave alone,
>there will be no >one to sit with him and no one to keep him company. He
>will feel >the heat of the fire, smell its foul odour, and be tortured
>therein. >This man's grave will sqeeze in upon him so much so that the
>bones >of his rib cage will cross each other. Despite all this punishment
> >and all this torture and pain, he will hope that the hour will never >be
>established. For this man knows that the hour is far worse and of >he will
>be in greater loss on that Day. > >The man hears 'As-Saakhah' from within
>his grave, and what is >'As-Saakhah'? It is the second blowing of the
>trumpet. This is when >all that is in the graves shall be raised and
>ressurrected. > >So the criminal will cry: "Woe to us, who has woken us
>from our >resting place?" It will be said: "This is what the Ever-Merciful
> >promised and the messengers where truthful" [Yasin: 52] > >The earth will
>be torn away from above him. This man will see the >heavens being cleft
>assunder, the stars falling and being scattered, >the oceans in their
>greatness bursting forth, burning, the graves >will at that time bring
>forth their contents. Every person shall >know what he has sent forth of
>good and bad deeds at that moment. >[Al-Infitaar: 1-5] > >Then he will
>raised up and driven to the crowding place: >'Al-Mahshar'. That day, the
>mother who is nursing her child will >become careless of it, the mother who
>is carrying her child will >drop her load. That day, mankind will appear as
>if they are drunk >yet they they are not drunk. Indeed the punishement of
>your Lord >is great. [Al-Hajj 1-2] > >The mother will come to her son and
>say: "Oh my son, my breast was >a container for you, my womb was a
>container for you. Oh my son I >seek from you a hasanah (merit) that I may
>approach Allaah with. >My son, do not be greedy towards me". In the world
>this son would >have sacrificed his life, rather many lives for merely the
> >happinness of his mother so how does he treat her now? He responds >to
>her plea: "Get away from me! Leave me! Indeed I am in need of >this merit
>more than you." > >"So when 'As-Saakhah' comes. That day a man will flee
>from his >brother, from his mother and his father, from his wife and his
> >children. That day every man shall have enough to make him careless >of
>others." [Al-Abasa: 33-37] > >So mankind will wait in this crowding place
>for 50,000 years, after >which Allaah, The Most Perfect and The Most High,
>will come to judge >them. So He will call the criminal and say to him, "Oh
>so and so, >did I not give you of the cold water to drink? did I not give
>you a >healthy body? Did I not give you many bounties? What have you done
> >with all that which I bestowed upon you?" > >So the man replies, "I have
>done nothing my Lord." > >So he lies to his Lord on that day. Allaah says:
>"Where are the >witnesses!". So the Angels come and bear witness that this
>criminal >did not pray in those moments of prayer, he drank, fornicated,
> >lied, cursed and insulted. He turned away from belief and was proud >and
>arrogant. So the criminal says to his Lord, "I do not accept >accept a
>wintness except one from myself." > >His Lord replies to him, "And you have
>that?" > >"The day when we shall seal their mouths, there hands will speak
>to >us and their legs will bear witness to that which they used to >earn"
>[Yasin: 65] > >So he turns to his skin and says to it: it was only for you
>that I >was arguing. > >"Nay, when the earth is shaken a true shaking and
>your Lord comes >with the Angels in rows. That day the Fire will be brought
>near. >That day man will remember but how will that remembrance avail him?
> >He will say, 'Woe to me! Would that I had put forth something for >this
>life.' " [Al-Fajr: 21-24] > >This man then remembers. This criminal
>remembers that when he heard >the call for prayer and he did not respond to
>it. He remembers when >he woke and the sun had already risen yet he had not
>prayed al-fajr. >This man remembers when he abused this one, when he
>slandered that >one, when he earned that unlawful wealth, when he struck
>this one >and killed that one. This criminal remembers every sin with which
> >he disobeyed Allaah with.That day all his remorse and regret amounts >to
>nothing. > >Then Allaah will say, "Sieze him and fetter him. Then throw him
>into >the blazing fire. Then put a chain which is 70 cubits long through
> >him. Indeed he did not used to believe in Allaah, The Most Perfect, >The
>Most High." > >The Angels will then drag him upon his face into the fire. >
> >As he enters it he will see his friends from the world already >present.
> > >"Every time a nation enters it curses it sister nation" >[Al-a'araaf:
>38]. > >So he is greeted with curses and given a wretched abode in which
> >to abide. The fire encompasses him from all sides roasting, burning >his
>skin completely, > >"Whenever their skins have been done (burnt away) we
>replace them >with new skins so that they may taste of the punishment"
> >[an-Nisaa: 56]. > >Their food in the fire is Ad-Daree' (a thorny plant).
> > >"No food will they have except Ad-Daree'. It neither nourishes nor
> >removes hunger" [Al-Ghaashiyah: 6-7] > >When they eat it they choke due
>to the thorns. So when they are >choking they ask to be rescued with water,
>so they are rescued with >an intensly boiling water which grills their
>faces when they appoach >it. When they drink from the water, due to its
>heat, it cuts their >intestines and causes them an increased pain. > >They
>eat from Az-Zaquum. They eat a bitter fruit which cannot be >tasted. >
> >"Indeed the tree of Zaquum will be the food of the sinners. Like >boiling
>oil, it will boil in the belies, like the boiling of >scalding water. It
>will be said : Drag, sieze him and drag him into >the midst of the blazing
>fire. Then pour upon his head the torment >of boiling water. Taste! You
>were pretending to be the Mighty the >Generous" [ad-Dukhaan: 43-49] > >Due
>to this intense pain, suffering and anguish they are >experiencing they
>call upon the guardian of hell-fire, > >"They call, Oh Maalik let your Lord
>destroy us" After many years >he responds to them with two words "You are
>staying" [43:77]. > >After all of this, they have one last chance and they
>call upon >their Lord, "Oh our Lord we were indeed astray! Oh our Lord we
> >were indeed misguided, we did fall short. Return us to the world >so that
>we can do good instead of that which we used to do." > >Allaah replies to
>them, "Rot in it and do not speak to me. After >this they do not speak nor
>do they utter." > >They are then called from afar, "Oh dwellers of the
>fire, do you >know what this is?" They reply, "Yes that is death in the
>form of >a ram." Death is then slaughtered in a place between Al-Jannah an
> >An-Naar. It is said to the dwellers of the fire, ever-lasting >life
>without death. > >As for the other group, the ones who obeyed their Lord in
>this >world, let us describe briefly their fate: > >When he is placed into
>his grave it is widened and made spacious for >him. He smells the sweet
>fragrance of Al-jannah and feels some of >its comforts. He sleeps in his
>grave like a bride on her wedding >night who no-one shall awaken except her
>beloved. When the cry comes >he is gathered to the crowding place and waits
>there for 50,000 >years. This time passes as if it were the time between
>Zohar and >Asr. Then the Lord of the worlds comes to make judgement, so He
> >calls His slave saying, "Oh my slave, do you not remember that sin, >do
>you not remember this sin." So the slave replies, "My Lord I >have
>perished!" So Allaah replies to him, "I hid it in the world fo >you and
>this day I forgive it." > >This good man is handed his book in his right
>hand. Due to his >happiness he runs to the people and says "Take it; read
>my book. >Indeed I used to think I would meet my accounting." > >"So he
>will be in a content life" [Al-Haaqah: 19-21] > >Then he will be crowded
>from a group of al-jannah. > >The Jannah has eight gates and between each
>gate is a distance >that would take 40 years to traverse. There comes a day
>when the >gates are crowded. So as this slave of Allaah enters Al-Jannah he
> >is greeted with salaam (peace). He sees before him 4 rivers: > >"... In
>it are rivers of water, the taste and smell of which are >not changed.
>Rivers of milk of which the taste never changes, rivers >of wine delicious
>to those wo drink and rivers of clear and pure >honey ..." [Muhammad: 15] >
> >He has therein a house and he knows this house as he knows his >dwelling
>in this life. His house is made from bricks of gold and >silver. In it he
>has wives from the Hoorul-'een. > >"And Hooron 'een, like untouched,
>unseen, precious pearls. A reward >for what they used to do." [Al-Waaqiah:
>22-24] > >"Indeed we have created them a special creation, made them
>virgins, >loving only their husbands of equal age." [al-waaqiah: 35-37] >
> >Every time they cohabit with their husbands they return to being
> >virgins. > >Outside this house he has a tent, in it he has wives. When he
>goes >to one of them, the other does not see him. > >In Al-Jannaah the
>righteous slave has everything he desires, wishes >and wants. He neither
>feels extreme heat nor the bitter cold: > >"They will see there neither the
>excessive heat of the sun nor the >bitter cold." [Al-Insaan: 13]. > >There
>is not a tree in Al-Jannaah except its trunk is made of >gold. When he
>requires its fruit he does not need to get up from >his place, since it
>comes to him: > >"The bunches of fruit thereof hang low, within reach"
> >[al-insaan: 14]. > >"They are served by youthful boys who never age. If
>you were to see >them you would think them scattered pearls" [al-Insaan:
>19] > >So he resides therein, tranquil and at ease. No pain, no ill feeling
> >and no foul speech. Life without death, lasting with no end. > > >These
>are not mere stories that we tell to amuse ourselves or scare >one another,
>rather they are the destinies of the ones who obey >Allaah and those who
>disobey. Allaah calls His slaves to repentance >many times in every day so
>avail these opportunities. Repentance has >only three conditions, that you
>be sincere to Allaah, that you leave >the sin and that you make a firm
>resolve that you never return to >the sin. > >So be the children of the
>Hereafter and not the children of this >life; a party in Paradise and a
>party in the Hell-fire. >
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> >Wassalaam 'alaikum wa rahmatullaah. >-- >"Take benefit of five before
>five: your youth before >your old age, your health before your sickness,
>your >wealth before your poverty, your free-time before your
> >preoccupation, and your life before your death." >[Muhammad sallallaahu
>`alayhi wa sallam - al-Haakim, >al-Bayhaqee, Saheeh] > >JIMAS >PO Box 24,
>Ipswich, Suffolk, IP3 8ED > >Tel/Fax: 01473 251578
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