When Angels Dispute Over a Killer's Soul
The Story of Repentance and the Angels of Mercy vs. Punishment - Riyadul Saliheen
Summary
This Islamic lecture discusses a hadith from Riyadul Saliheen (Gardens of the Righteous) narrated by Abu Said Al-Khudri about a man who killed 99 people and then sought repentance. The speaker explains how the man was directed by a scholar to change his environment and migrate to a better place to maintain his repentance. The lecture covers the moment of the man's death while traveling to this new land, where the angels of mercy and angels of punishment disputed over his soul, reflecting the Islamic concept that angels are assigned different roles in the afterlife based on a person's deeds and circumstances.
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله والصلاه والسلام على رسول الله واشهد ان لا اله الا الله واشهد ان محمدا عبده ورسوله اللهم صل وسلم وبارك على نبينا محمد وعلى اله واصحابه اجمعين اما بعد فتكمله لحديث ابي سعيد الخدري رضي الله عنه في باب التوبه من رياض الصالحين ابو سعيد الخدري رياض الصالحين ابو سعيد سعد ابن مالك ابن سنان الخدري صلى الله عليه سعد ابن مالك سعد بن مالك ابو سعيد سعد بن مالك name رضي الله عنه سعد بن ابي وقاس سعد بن مالك بن مالك ابو سعيد ابو سعيد مالك بن سنان ابو سعيد الخدري comparations صلى الله عليه وسلم was عليه الصلاه والسلام الخريس الى خدر وهو بطن من بني خزرج من الانصار انصاري 74able صلى الله عليه وسلم was man of and the narration of the propet regarding the man who had sought out redemption. He had killed 99 people. He went looking for a schar. He turned out to kill people and then sought for repentance and was asking for a schar to direct him as to how to repent. This scholar not only directed him to repent and encourage this but he also explained to him how to go about repentance and the most important thing a person can do when he or she rep or one of the most important things in order to sustain that repentance and to maintain it is to change a person's to change their place where they toangecially people that they are previously with even if they don't think these people around them are bad for them if they w a bad influence then the person would not be in the situation of needing to repent from such atrocities and so he commanded him to go he advised landi important place and said فاعبد الله معهم ولا ترجع الى ارضك فانها ارض سوء وضبطه بعض العلماء فانها ارض سوء الله فانطلق حتى اذا نصف الطريق نصفه نصف الطريق يعني وصل الى نصف الطريق اتاه الموت And so went heads this new land to a new le and when he was between the land of wickness and landed decreed for him to die on that road. فاختصمت فيه ملائكه الرحمه وملائكه العذاب ang الله قل يتوفاكم ملك الموت الذي وكل بكم الله nameر.
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if is beforeing of fire and ment so we understand from this that are angels of mercy there are angels of punishment all of them are angels of death they all work under the command ang point here areagre ang of mercy came to take because of where he is and where he was headed and the angels of punishment came because where of where he's coming from and where he has been. And so they disagreed as to who has more of a right to take this soul? Is he more worthy of punishment or mercy? And are the angels of mercy more of this soul or the angels of punishment? We will continue this tomorrow. وجوده ان يغفر لنا خطايانا نساله تعالى ان يغفر لنا ذنوبنا وان يتقبل توباتنا وان يغسل حباتنا وان يسلل سخيمه قلوبنا انه ولي ذلك والقادر عليه وصلى الله وصلى اللهم وسلم على نبينا محمد وصل اللهم وسلم على نبينا محمد وعلى اله واصحابه اجمعين والحمد لله رب العالمين.