What Truly Lasts Beyond Death?

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Alhamdulillah.

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Subhan Allah. forch.

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We have a narration which has been collected by regarding the virtues of knowledge. Again we are in the chapter and the book of knowledge of the 12th book. Do we remember how many books are in 19 books in book number 12 is the book of knowledge regarding the virtues of knowledge. He mentions a narration on the authority of Abu narrates that the prophet sallall.aii Wasam said the dunya and the word dunya comes from adun and adun means that which is closest to us. So it's referred to as the life of the dunya meaning the closer of the two lives to us currently. He says that the it is and everything in it is now what does that mean? Does that mean it is cursed?

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Allah subhanahu wa tala.

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And so, What does the word mean? Sometimes this will be translated incorrectly as the dunya is cursed along with everything in it. In the Quran when Allah mentions Allah this is translated roughly to being damned. And what is damned? is that something is removed from the mercy of Allah. That's what is. We say that for instance, who is someone who is in the Quran? The chief tin of the in the Quran. he saysl, which is interesting, right? Because and are kind of two sides of the same coin, right? L is the jin version and is the human version essentially. But yeah, both of them they are melon. So what does this mean? This means that they are damned. What is the result of being damned? You are exempted. The damned person is exempted from the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. They have been removed from the mercy of Allah. Not eligible to receive mercy from Allah. But is that what the dunya is? It is all exempted from the mercy of Allah. No. Allah tells us that he has created everything and everything is created into the mercy of Allah. Correct? Right. So what's meant here is linguistically in the language of the Arabs is something that is something that is tending to decay, something that is tending to be become nothing that is dwindling away and something that is inconsequential and something that is distant from the highest levels of of attributes. This is referred to as linguistically and that's what's intended here. Doesn't mean everything and everybody is is created in this dunya into the damnation of Allah. That is the belief of modern Christianity, the original sin. Correct? By default, we're all in the red. And then we have to have a savior come and get us out of the red into the black. That is not the belief of the Muslim. That is not something that was taught to them by Isaam. The human being is created into innocence. And then we proceed to write in our books what we choose. Correct? And so what's this narration is saying is that everything in the dunya is tending towards decay is tending towards becoming inconsequential to becoming a distant memory. Everything is bound to this decay and everything hence is distant from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala except there's an exception. What is the exception? He tells us four things. He says everything in the dunya is distant from Allah. Everything in the dunya is to decay. Everything in the dunya is to whittle away and pine away into nothingness. Everything in the dunya is bound to oblivion except for four things. This narration is meant to be taken literally. Only these four things remain. What are they? The remembrance of Allah, the obedience of Allah, the scholar and the student, the scholar of the knowledge of Allah of the Quran and Sunnah. That's what the whole chapter is about. and his student. That is it. Only thing that will remain when your death comes for you, when your death comes for you, when your numbers pulled, when my numbers pulled, when your numbers are pulled, when your soul is extracted, what comes out with your soul? These four things. That's it. Nothing else. You're a physicist, you're a doctor, you're a brilliant lit you know a brilliant teacher of literature, whatever it is, these are issues of the dunya. You will leave them behind and you will shed them with your physical form. They are no longer of use to you. The only thing that will be consequential of these things is what you did with them that fit into these four categories. This is where does the prophet sallall.aii wasallam get this? I mean obviously correct. So everything he says is part of the revelation but most of what he says or much of what he says comes from what he understood from the Quran. What is a chapter or a verse of the Quran that every one of us memorized right now that says this exact same thing?

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But that doesn't mention you said I'm mentioning you last cuz you got it right. Yes. Insan,.

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It all goes back in the box. Look at the ground that's underneath your feet. You know, on this same right here, this exact spot a thousand years ago, 500 years ago, 200 years ago, a completely different people stood right here, made proclamations of eternity, and now where are they? We don't even know their names. They would kill you over this piece of land. They're not here anymore to fight for that land. and it's gone. We don't even know their names. That's how little they have to do with this piece of land that they bled on. What do you think is going to happen to us? Or are we special? Maybe we're special. Maybe we're the special ones. We're the chosen ones to be here forever. Maybe our strain and struggle for life will be different than the thousands of generations that preceded us. That's something you're going to have to roll the dice on. Proverb the proverbial dice. Are you special or are you fitting into the pattern?

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That's it. Everything else goes back in the box. Everything. We to think that we're very important and we are in a sense. It's how we make ourselves important. We like to think that I to think that my son will never say dad to anyone else. I to think that my wife would never in a million years marry again. I to think that my car is mine and my sofa is mine and my stuff is mine, that my money is mine. But you know what? It's not. And if your wife gets lonely enough, she'll marry again. And if your son is taken care of enough, he'll call someone else father in a general way, in a respectful way. None of us is beyond being replaced. What makes us irreplaceable? Our relationship with Allah. That is the only thing that is unique about us. Everything else has been done better, more thoroughly, and longer. than anything we're going to do. That's just the reality of our existence. Now, that could be a good thing or it could be a very bad thing. I find it to be very liberating that I'm not bound to this rat race. That my struggle is special with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. That in spite of humanity overlooking my pain, every moment of my pain is charted with Allah. and I'll be recompensed for it. And that no one before me or after me has the exact same relationship with Allah that I have. I find that to be a great relief and for.

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Being a Muhammad.