Which Paradise Gate Will You Enter?
The Eight Gates of Paradise: Excellence in Worship and Divine Reward
Summary
This is a detailed Islamic lecture analyzing a hadith about the eight gates of paradise. The speaker, referencing a scholarly work based on Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, explains how the Quran alludes to eight gates of paradise through a specific grammatical structure (the waw of eight), while the Prophet Muhammad explicitly mentioned eight gates in the hadith. Each gate corresponds to excellence in different acts of worship such as fasting, prayer, jihad, and filial piety. The lecture emphasizes that entering through a particular gate depends on one's excellence and dedication to that specific act of worship, not merely performing it mechanically. The speaker uses detailed examples to illustrate how the quality and sincerity of worship determines one's reward and which gate one enters paradise through.
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Continuing in Abdi. He is a scholar, a doctor out of alar university who specializes in and hadith. And as we've mentioned before, this book largely is based on the work by say a very well-known and prestigious well esteemed scholar and jurist from alar university. he passed away. He wrote a rather lengthy book called very well known and is truly a more or less a summary and some parts of are taken word for word straight out of forch.
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Bkari and Muslim both report in their authentic compilations a narration on the authority of he narrates that the prophet sallall.aii alaihi wasallam said indeed in paradise there is a gate meaning a gate to paradise one of the gates of paradise Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala did not mention explicitly the number of gates for paradise in the Quran he mentioned he rather gestured church or insinuated the number of gates that Jenna has. How many gates does Jahannam have? May Allah subhana wa ta'ala hopefully we will never even have to see it. But how many gates does Jenam have? Seven gates. And this is in the Quran, right? Which right? Okay. Allah indicates in the Quran in a chapter of the Quran in a verse he eludes to the number of gates of paradise. Who is our Lawi of the morning? our grammarian who is going to tell us what verse what chapter this is anyone very awkward silence no guesses a zuma huh let's hear Huh?
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Yes. Say it loud. No, you're missing the exact part. A great scholar of grammar from the 4th century. He mentions that this wow. He mentions that this wow here is a remarkable wow that is only used in the Arabic language for the number eight only eight. Our local grimarian is today and that is that Allah subhanaha he says the hellfire it has a different wording the verse right before it he says meaning that the gates of the hellfire are opened. You don't even need that well. The sentence is perfect without it. But this well in Z is called well. It is only used in the Arabic language to articulate the number eight without actually saying the number eight. So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, it's as if he said, "And all eight glorious gates of paradise are opened at mass entirely, completely in their faces for them to enter." This well according to this well in his book this well is only found in two places in the Quran. It's found in Z and found in where that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions this well with the number of the people of the K those young men that are an example for us. He mentions that they were seven and their eighth is their dog. Their eighth, their dog was the eighth member amongst them. And he uses this wow again. So the Quran eludes to the number eight in these two verses with respect to the gates the number of the gates of paradise. However, in the sunnah the prophet sallall.aii alaihi wasallam is much more explicit with mentioning the number of gates. He tells us in a in a narration of that paradise has eight gates and for each gate is a designated group of people. meaning that there are eight gates and the scholars have attempted to enumerate and label these gates exactly. We know for a fact there's a gate of fasting, right? Which is this narration here. there is a gate for jihad, there is a gate for salah, there is a gate for obedience of one's parents etc. different great rights of Islam. Now what makes it that a person would enter through one of these gates? A person is called to enter invited through one of these gates because that person was particularly excellent at that act of worship. Meaning the people that fast they were very excellent at fasting. Person may say how do you become excellent at fasting? We all fast the same way right? It fasting is a non-action. It is refrain. It is the act of refraining from eating or drinking. Now we all do that. We're all equal in that, right? There's not some of us that eat and drink a little bit and some of us that eat and drink a little bit more. No, you're either fasting or you're not. So, how can a person be excellent at fasting? It's not speaking about refraining from eating and drinking. person is excellent at fasting when he refrains from as we've taken before in the narrations the more a person refrains from vulgarity from obnoxious behavior from ignorant behavior from loud and unruly behavior the more a person refrains from sinfulness and timewasting etc. The more a person becomes excellent at fasting, we all start fasting at the same time in the morning. And as we go through our day, some of us remain at 100%. Some of us go down to 90, 80, 75. What do I mean by that? Meaning in our reward, some of us will have 100% of their reward. Some of us will deplete our fast with engaging in these prohibited acts in sinfulness. And the more a person does that, the more their reward for fasting depletes until there's no more reward. There is zero reward. The prophet sallallah.aii alaihi wasallam tells us he said there are some who fast and the only thing they achieve by fasting is hunger that's all they get out of it no reward they just did this physical exercise of making themselves hungry and then breaking their fast that's it Why? Because they continued to deplete and deplete and allow a shaitan to pick at the chinks in his armor until there was nothing left of it. Technically, he fasted. His ruling is not to repeat the fast. We wouldn't say repeat your fast, but there's no reward there. The same thing with salah. If a person makes a perfect salah but doesn't have any doesn't have any focus doesn't have his heart is not there his heart is elsewhere and his body is there the prophet sallallah.aii alaihi wasallam tells us that some people have 10 out of 10 of their salah. Others nine out of 10, others eight out of 10, others seven, six, five, four, three, two. Some people make salah. There's no reward at all. Why? Because that salah was compromised. The spirit of the prayer was compromised. The spirit of fasting was compromised. So the people that are invited through this gate of paradise, these are the people who were excellent at fasting. They were very good at it. And you know, people are fingers on a hand. They're not all the same. Different different, you know, how we say in America, different strokes for different folks, right? Some people are very excellent at fasting. Some people are very excellent at knowledge. Some people are very excellent at jihad. Some they're just good at it. They it. They don't get tired doing it. They enjoy it. They embrace it. Right? And some people are good at all of those things. What who's who's a companion who is invited from every one of those gates? Abu Bakr Sadik. Can you imagine Abu Bakr there? There's gatekeepers and there's the angels there that are waiting to serve the people of per they're wait they were created just for that Allah says young handsome men who were created and they are eternal young men who were created just to serve the people of paradise. If you saw them from a distance, you would mistake them for scattered pearls. This is the description Allah gives us of the servants of paradise. Imagine these servants are competing with each other to see which one of them can get Abu Bakr Sadik to enter through his door. They're all invited. Come over here. Forget that one. Come over here. Come through this door. Come through this door. Abu Bakr is invited through all eight gates of paradise. This gate is called in the Arabic language is taken from is to quench one's thirst. which is on the same it's it's structured in the same way that the that the name of Allah is structured alman means that the gate that is eternally quenching of the thirst of those who enter through it is called this gate meaning that Whoever enters through this gate will never have an experience of thirst again eternally forever. This person will never taste thirst again. We will continue this narration inshallah tomorrow. for.
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