What will survive your death?
Gaining and Guarding Your Deeds: Understanding True Spiritual Wealth in Islam
Summary
This lecture introduces a series on gaining and preserving deeds that matter in the afterlife. Sh. Ali Mashhour emphasizes that Islam teaches not only how to accumulate good deeds but also how to protect and guard them from invalidation. Drawing from Quranic verses that warn against invalidating deeds and charities, Sh. Ali Mashhour establishes the foundational concept that true spiritual wealth is measured by what we retain through death and into the Day of Judgment. The lecture uses a powerful hadith from Sahih Muslim about bankruptcy on the Day of Resurrection to illustrate how good deeds can be nullified and transferred to others due to sins of transgression and oppression, making the protection of one's deeds as crucial as their accumulation.
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Milano for him at hamdulillahi rabbil alameen wa sallahu wa salam o allah rasool e kareem i'm a bad law subhanahu wa'ta'ala has instructed us in numerous places in the quran he has said subhana wa ta'ala well - between you and alikum do not invalidate your deeds he said elsewhere in the Quran yeah you had ladina aminal lair - between Losada catacomb he has said that which translates to o you who have believed do not invalidate your charities now this is an interesting concept because islam not only teaches us how to gain but it also teaches us how to keep and guard our gains and so this series how to gain what you keep meaning those things that really matter in life the things that will carry on through the stages of death those things that will carry on to meeting your Lord Suppan Ahuja to Allah those things that will be with you on the day of judgment your actions your deeds so we are going to discuss in this series how to gain what you keep but not just that but also how to keep what you gain because it's not just about giving the eggs into the baskets but it's how to make sure that you keep them in the basket and that you don't shoot yourself in the foot the Prophet sallallahu wasallam has mentioned this concept in Sahih Muslim.
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That the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam i said i said 1 ml Mullis do you know what a bankrupt individual is they said that a bankrupt individual that we know is that is an individual who has no wealth has no property the Prophet sallallahu aceldama said the bankrupt individual from nation meaning on the day of resurrection the truly bankrupt is one who will come on the day of resurrection having amassed for himself abundant reward from prayer from fasting from charity but this person will also have amassed a great amount of sin he will have insulted people he will have transgressed to people he will have overstepped his bounds oppressed others wrong to others the prophet sallallaahu aceldama said that this individual his good deeds that he had amassed for himself will start to be distributed amongst his victims each victim will be given of this individual's good deeds and if his good deeds run out before retribution has had before those wrongs are righted then his victim sins will be placed on him and he then in the Hellfire may Allah protect us and so in this series we're going to discuss not just how to gain and how we are sure that something is acceptable with Allah.
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Alem sallallahu wasallam ala nabina.
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