What gets judged first on the Day of Judgment?
The Virtue of the Five Daily Prayers and Accountability on the Day of Judgment
Summary
Sh. Ali Mashhour continues his study on the virtues of salah and the consequences of neglecting it. He presents hadiths emphasizing that the five daily prayers are obligatory, and whoever fulfills them with proper concern and respect has Allah's promise of paradise, while those who neglect them have no such guarantee. Sh. Ali Mashhour explains that on the Day of Judgment, a person's obligatory prayers will be the first deed examined, and any deficiencies in obligatory worship can be compensated by optional acts of worship. He also clarifies how different hadiths regarding what will be judged first on the Day of Judgment can be harmonized—salah is first regarding individual worship, while murder is first regarding grievances between servants.
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Alhamdulillah.
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Continuing in the chapters regarding the virtues of salah and the dangers of abandoning salah or squandering the opportunity of salah or incomplete Complete salah.
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On the authority He says, "I heard the messenger of Allah. Wasam say five prayers that Allah has prescribed and obligated upon his slaves. Whoever fulfills and offers these five prayers and has not lost any of them out of a lack of concern or a lack of exaltation of these prayers. This person has a an allegiance and a promise, a solemn oath from Allah that he will enter him into paradise. We'll take that again so that we can remember. He says five prayers, you know, five prayers Allah has obligated upon his slaves. Whoever fulfills them and does not lose any of them or fails to fulfill them because of a lack of concern and exaltation of their position. This person has an oath and a promise from Allah that he will admit him into paradise. He says, "And whoever does not fulfill them, then this person has no promise from Allah. If Allah wishes, he will punish him. And if Allah wishes, he will forgive him." This narration was collected by Im Ahmed and others. He says.
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On the authority of Abi Rahu narrates as well that he heard the messenger of Allah say indeed the first thing that the Muslim servant slave of Allah will be brought to judgment for on the day of judgment is his obligated prayer. And if he has brought it forth fulfilled and complete, then it will be accepted from him. And if not, if it is incomplete, Allah will command to look for optional prayer that he may have made and it will be used to patch his obligatory prayers. and likewise will be done with all of the rest of his deeds. Right? So meaning in fasting he will be judged for his obligatory fasting. If there's any missing, deficient, anything rewardless, anything that Allah does not accept, this doesn't just mean that he didn't do it. Because some of the scholars use this as an evidence that even if a person misses prayer that this is you know something that is a major sin but is not so major that the person is hopeless. this evidence. There are other evidences much stronger than this for that purpose. But the point is is that his fasting for instance it's deficient or he did something to nullify it or he did something that deems it un unacceptable by Allah or unrewarded by Allah then it will be said look to his optional acts of fasting and it will be used to patch his obligatory fasting and likewise zak and likewise. Omra and likewise all other avenues of worship. So the person's worship will be first judged based on how well they fulfilled the obligatory aspects of that worship. If there's a deficiency then the optional worship in that vein and that avenue will be used to patch it. This narration has been collected by Iben Maja. Now, sometimes it's difficult to understand at first glance some of these narrations because when you look at narrations that have this kind of start, it's the first thing that a person will be judged for on the day of judgment. in some narrations it is the first thing people will be judged for is murder. In some places the first thing a person will be judged for is salah. In some instances the first thing that a person will be judged for. So how do we harmonize these? This is relative. So the first thing that a person individually as a slave of Allah and his worship will be judged for is salah. The first thing that Allah will address with respects to grievances between the servants is murder. you know spilling of blood before monetary grievances before grievances of property before grievances of reputation etc. And so these are relative things first but it is relative to the context. Another thing that is important to remember here is that salah is so important that the believer the Muslim is going to be held accountable for failing to pray. Do we think that the disbeliever will not be held accountable for failing to pray? The disbeliever is held accountable as well. Just because they disbelieved does not mean that they were not expected to obey Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. If they had the ability to learn about Islam, to seek out the truth, they failed to do so or they rejected the truth, then this person will be held accountable for failing to fulfill that truth. As Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us that the people of the hellfire will be asked that they will be asked what has placed you in this damnation in this in this in this you know in this hell. And they will say we were not of those who made and we did not feed the poor. Muslims are held accountable for that. Non-Muslims as well. However, they are held accountable in a different way. A Muslim may be held accountable specifically. A person who rejected Islam will be held accountable generally and specifically for failing to fulfill these obligations. Just because a person rejects the truth doesn't make it any less true and doesn't make it any less obligatory upon them. When Allah says in the Quran, this applies to everyone whether they accept it or not.
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