The Shocking Truth About Death In Islam (What Happens In Your Grave!)

Very soon the time will come upon each one of us. But will that money, will that wealth, will that property, will those stocks, will those Bitcoins, will those cars, will those houses, will any of that go in the qabar with you? Even your wife? Mountains of good deeds gone. And now you start getting their bad deeds piled upon you until you're destroyed. The Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) then describes this in a hadith that they will carry you to the qabar and 3 things will go with you. Assalamu Alaikum.

Not as excited on this episode. The reminders we've been getting, alhamdulillah, are quite a wake-up call. And in this episode, Sheikh actually is going to take care of the intro, inshallah. Go for it.

A journey that's coming in front of all of us. We spoke about death in the last episode, but what's after death?

—In the grave.

The Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) described this to us in authentic sahih hadith in Bukhari and Muslim. I want everybody watching to really put themselves in this. Don't think about others, don't think about people, you. This is you.

When you're gonna die.

And me. I'm gonna think of myself. Right now, if I'm walking and somebody comes and touches me, I get upset. Why are you touching me? If somebody comes and picks up my foot when I'm sitting, I'll get upset. But very soon, the time will come upon each one of us that you will just be laying there, and you can't do anything. You can't move your arms, you can't move your head, you can't move your body. And it's not that you're gone, you're there. Your soul is still there. Still feeling it. You still see everything, you hear everything, but you're just laying there. And people, whether it's your family or whether it's random people, will be washing your body, touching you all over. Can you imagine? Like, for me today, I'm a very independent person. You know, like, if somebody's like, let me help you, I got this, I don't need you. Right? But imagine you're laying there and they're talking to each other and they're discussing things and they're washing you like you're like a piece of flesh. And they'll wash you and you'll see your family crying and you'll see your friends crying but you can't say anything to them. The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم then described this in a hadith that they will carry you to the qabr, to the grave. And 3 things will go with you. What will go with you? Your mal, meaning at that point you still have your money, hasn't— no probate yet, mirath hasn't happened yet, you still have that money. But will that money, will that wealth, will that property, will those stocks, will those bitcoins, will those cars, Will those houses, will those investments, will those bonds, will those diamonds and gold and silk, will any of that, your clothes, your everything that you own, your watches, will any of that go in the qabar with you? No, none of it. Everything you worked for, everything you've blood, sweat, days, nights, all of that worldly possessions will return. It's somebody else's now. I mean, I hate to be real, but I am real, so I'm going to be raw. Even your wife, you think, oh no, if I die, she'll never— no, she'll marry somebody else. Your children will cry over you for a while, but then they'll move on. Your relatives will cry for a while, they will be depressed maybe for a while, but then the reality is everybody moves on. You know, that's a big reminder.

There's even a great example that we can mention, is still relevant now. The Queen of England was a whole queen. She has her face on all the bills that you see every single day. When's the last time you heard anybody speak about her?

Who? Think about how many kings and queens have been there before that.

It's important you mention this because people feel extremely important and like they'll always be there, but you probably know someone that passed away, like Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وسلم). For a few days, for a few weeks, people will remember you, cry about you, and after that they move on.

Think about it, how much of our life is spent on that?

Thinking about others, thinking about life.

So one is wealth, and let's be real, every one of us works for money. We don't work because we just like to work. We don't go to an office because we love the office. We don't go and start up businesses because we just like looking at people's faces while selling things to them. We do it so we can earn a halal, insha'Allah halal, risk, and nothing wrong with that. But how much of our life is on that? So that's one thing, is wealth. What will happen? It will come back. It will get distributed. It was somebody else's. Your house, somebody else will be living in. You know, subhanAllah, I went to my old neighborhood where I grew up when I was a child. And it's a rough neighborhood. It's in San Diego. I took my sons there. I wanted them to see, you know, because alhamdulillah, my children enjoy a comfortable life. But I went through a very rough childhood, so I wanted them to see that. I didn't want them to get, you know, too soft. So I took them there and I saw those houses and they're condemned, like they were ghetto, they were condemned, they were banned for people to live in, and some of them had been burnt down. In fact, the house that I was raised in was burnt down. So this is where I lived, and neighbors and people that I knew lived there. And now those people are all dead. Young people that I grew up with are dead. Older people that lived there, they're dead. Like when I asked, this person's dead, this person's dead, this guy got shot, this guy got stabbed, this guy just died of old age, he's buried here, he got cremated, right? And I saw those houses get demolished. Right now they've built huge complexes over there and somebody else lives there and everybody that had lived there that worked so hard to make their rent that did haram and even, you know, dealt with riba and built all of they worked for is gone. Nobody remembers them. Nobody goes to their grave. Some of them were cremated, their ashes, their dust, nobody cares. What is it that's left?

What did they take with them to the grave?

You know, I had a friend that I grew up with. His grandfather died, and they didn't want to spend money on a grave, so they cremated, they burnt him. I mean, even you haven't even reached the Naadiya, they're already burning you. And they put the ashes in a— It's haram, right? It's haram. In Islam, we bury people. And by the way, cremating is very bad for the environment. The amount of CO2 and stuff you release is very bad. It's not—

On an Islamic ruling side, so people can understand.

Yeah, from an Islamic perspective, you cannot burn the dead body. You have to bury them. From the earth back to the earth.

Makes sense.

Okay, have fun, carry on. So they had burnt his ashes and they had put him— and he was a kafir, he was not Muslim. I grew up with him in school. They put him in an urn, like a little jar, and they had it in the house. And when he first died, because I was a young kid, My friend was also young, we were 13 years old. His grandfather died, they burnt him, they brought him, everybody was crying, everybody put the urn in the middle of the living room and things. Within a couple of weeks, his little siblings were throwing it around, they were spilling it. His mother was vacuuming it, putting it back in the urn. And within a few months, they threw it away. They threw those ashes away. They were like, "It's too much of a mess, kids keep knocking it over, throw it away." So this is a reality. When you're spending 8, 10, 12, 13 hours a day worrying about that money, think about what's going to go with you. What's the second thing? Is your family. Same hadith. It goes with you to the Ka'bah. But it stops there. Yes. But have you ever seen somebody's mother being put in the grave with them? Somebody's wife who's alive, not unlike Hindus that do this kind of thing, right? Being put in the grave with them. Has anybody's children said, "You know what, bury me with my father"? Anybody's wife, anybody's— No! The reality is they put you in that qabr, and even that family will walk away from you. Right? Now this is important because good people, I'm not talking about bad people. Bad people, okay, they're doing it for dunya, they're doing it for money, they're doing it for luxury. But even good people, they work day and night for their family, which is good. Like, they're doing something good, they're bringing risk to their family. Like myself, I worry about my children and their future, and, you know, I worry about making sure my wife is fed and making sure that, you know, my kids have clothes and they're fed and they have a house and they have, you know, have a future and what if I die, what can I leave, right? But that's the funny thing, even they, you work so hard for, will walk away. Even the ones that love you, even if they stay there for hours, in the end they'll walk away from your grave and you will be there by yourself but only one thing will go with you. What is it? Your amal, your actions.

They're the only ones that go to the grave and enter with you.

So 3 things, the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) told us, 3 things go with a person to their grave: the wealth, their family, and their actions, their deeds, their belief, their good deeds, bad deeds, whatever they did. 2 of them come back. They don't enter the grave. Their wealth doesn't go with them. Their family doesn't go with them. One of them stays. So now just think about your day and how much of your day are you spending on that one that will stay with you?

SubhanAllah, what a way to put it. Can you say it again?

Of those three things— family relations, spending time with your family, kid, mom, brother, sister, uncle, whatever— Worrying about them, taking care of them, providing for them, planning for them, your wealth, earning, spending, meetings, projects, work, deadlines. All of that, how much time do you spend on that every day? Even though those two will come back, they won't go in the qubr with you.

They are halal, but they will just stay here.

But what about the one that will go with you in the qubr? Your actions. Your actions. How much of your day do you spend praying? How much of your day do you spend making dua? How much— look at the percentage. I'm not saying just pray and fast, that's not Islam. But it is unbalanced the way we spend our time. We spend maybe 80% of our time on those two and less than maybe 20%, maybe 10% maybe, may Allah protect us, less than that, on the one that will accompany you inside the grave. We need to reset our priorities. When you go and you're placed in the grave, you will hear, at this point you can still see and hear, you will hear the footsteps. Whose footsteps? The footsteps of your family, of your friends, of your community that went for your janazah, that were there at the Ka'bah. And when the last footsteps are gone, khalas, your connection with this dunya breaks. Now you don't hear, now you don't see, now a different connection. In the earlier episode, we talked about Malak al-Mawt and the malaika, but here we're talking about the Ka'bah specifically now. In that earlier episode, we covered this. I'm going to briefly cover because it's in this hadith as well. 2 angels will come. Angels will— once your family goes away, once your family goes away, 2 angels come to you. And these angels, Munkar and Nakir, they are scary looking. But again, there's always hope for the believer. For the believer, it's not scary. For the believer, it's made easy. For the true mu'min, for the one who strived and struggles on the Quran and the Sunnah, never apologizing, never compromising, never watering down, never giving up, always trying their best, struggling with their kushoo and struggling with their ikhlas and always trying to do good. And for that believer, there's hope. Those malaika will ask him, 'Man rabbuk?' Who is your Rabb? The believer will say, 'Rabbi Allah.' Why? Because he lived by that. They will ask him, 'Ma deenuk?' What's your deen? You will say, 'Deen-e-Islam.' And they will ask you, 'Who is this man sent to you?' You will say, 'This is Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم.' There is a beautiful dua and hadith Imam Ahmad has in his Musnad from the Rasul صلى الله عليه وسلم, hadith sahih, that he should say, 'Radaytu billahi rabbi,' and I am pleased with my Lord, Rabbah, my Rabb, my Lord. 'And I am pleased with Islam as my religion.' 'And Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم as my Nabi.' 'I am pleased with Allah as my Rabb.' 'Islam is my Deen.' 'Muhammad is my Nabi.' What's the benefit of making this dua? The Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said whoever makes this dua, Jannah is wajib on them.

Jannah is obligatory for them.

Allah will grant them. So now imagine this dua, but you have to live by it. You can't just be a parrot, right? Can't just say it by the mouth. But imagine these are the 3 answers for the grave. You already got the cheat sheet. You got the Cliff Notes. You got the answer sheet for the test. Easy. But what's difficult— easy to say— is bringing it into your life. Easy to say, difficult to do.

That's why the reward is so good.

But even if you think about it, it's not difficult to do. We make it difficult. Yeah, the deen is easy, but it doesn't mean easy is deen. Hmm. Huh? The deen is easy, as mentioned in the hadith. But as the scholars explain, istidlalen, it does not mean easy is deen. Meaning if you live by the deen and you make it the priority that it should be, it's easy. But it doesn't mean that whatever you like, whatever is easy for you is the deen. The deen is qala Allah wa qala Rasool, alayhi salatu wa salam. Quran wa sunnah, that's the deen. And if you want to live by it, it's actually very easy.

People make it difficult. So Sheikh, what happens if you're in the grave, the angels come to you, they ask you the questions, and you didn't live on Islam, and you answer incorrectly?

Then you get hit with a hammer, a hammer that will crush your entire being, not just physically, it's not even just your body, it's a pain that is barzakh, and it's a different level of existence until you will be in such agony that if the creation could hear your screams, they would die from it.

They would die just from hearing your screams.

From hearing your screams. You know, I'll give you a very interesting example. Sometimes we bury people, we go to the makbara, sometimes we have to fix their graves. So we have to take the grave out, you know, sometimes there's floods and this and that. And we don't realize what they're going through. One of the shuyukh gave a very beautiful example. This we can understand. He said, you know, if you're sleeping next to somebody and they're seeing a nightmare, they're being chased, they're being hurt, they're feeling pain. Sometimes when people feel pain in sleep, they feel it physically. You know, you can feel the pain. You feel the stress. You know, sometimes you wake up from a nightmare and you start running, or you feel like you're falling. Or you're sweating. Exactly. Like your body is actually reacting because you're in that, right? But the person sleeping next to you, snoring away, doesn't realize it. They look at you, they just see you laying there. That's the qabr. Those people in the qabr, that's why sleep is called the sister of death. The sister of death. You know when we sleep and wake up, we thank Allah for giving us life? بَعْدَ مَا تَنَا. So here now in the qabr, the person who answers incorrectly, the punishment begins. In the last episode we spoke about how they'll be shown Jannah, and they'll be told that this could have been your place. Imagine what sin was worth it, what desire was worth it to lose that. They'll ask you this? Yes. And then you'll be shown the Naar, you'll be shown the Hellfire, and then you'll feel the smoke, and you'll feel the heat, and you will know that's your destination. The punishment begins in the qabr, that's the beginning of it. عَذَابَ الْقَبَرُ. And from that moment, imagine you're in the earth, you're squeezed, it's dark, there's screams, there's punishment. For the fasiq, for the fajr, for the sinful, the kafir, there's no hope there. They see somebody as a ray of hope, an old weak person, they call out to him. The person tells him, 'I can't help you. I am your good deeds, but I'm too weak.' 'Really? Even though it's your good deeds, why can you not help me?' 'It's your good deeds, but they're too weak. You didn't do enough. You didn't protect them. You didn't care about your ikhlas, your sincerity, or your ittiba' sunnah, or you're doing it on the sunnah. You didn't do it for the sake of Allah. You didn't pay attention to it enough.' You didn't prepare for that day. But we always have hope. We always have hope. And this is the moment of hope. This is the reminder you're getting right now to change your life. For the believer, for the person of iman, who gave the deen priority, who made the deen their purpose, for them Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala makes everything easy. They're asked, 'Who is your Rabb?' They say, 'Rabbi Allah.' They'll say, what is your deen? Deen-e-Islam. Who is your Nabi? Nabi Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam. We already had the answers, we had the cheat sheet, but they lived by it, they prepped for it, they prepared for what's after death. So here, qabr becomes wide, beautiful. You're not feeling claustrophobic anymore, you're not feeling tightened anymore.

That's in your grave? That's in your grave. SubhanAllah. It becomes wide.

And everybody will be squeezed when they first come to the grave. Even the believers. There's hadith on this. Yes. Everybody will feel a squeeze.

Will it be the same squeeze for everyone? No.

For the believer, it's like an embrace. The earth welcomes you like a hug. And then it becomes vast for you. So you're relaxed. Like a garden from the gardens of Jannah. You will be trushawn the Hellfire. But you will be told, 'Don't worry, that is not your place. A disbeliever will be put in there in your place. You, your place is Jannah. You lived by it, you worked for it, you didn't compromise your Jannah.' Today people compromise their Jannah. Somebody tell them you make money with riba, they know it's haram, they know it's harb ma Allah wa Rasulihi, they know it's worse than zina with your mom and so many horrible things, but they say, "Money, son. Gotta make my bread. That cheddar. Chase that paper." They compromise their Jannah. So that day, the one who didn't compromise, said, "No, riba is haram. No cheating is haram. No lying is haram. Red line. I'm not going to do haram. I'm not going to sacrifice my Jannah. I don't care." Then Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala will then that day give him the glad tidings of Jannah. And they'll see a window to Jannah, and they'll get the beautiful breeze of Jannah, and they'll be seeing their place in Jannah, and that time in the qubr will go very short for them. And that time in the qubr, for the believer, it's going to be like a pleasure, like a vacation, like, okay, I left this world with all the hardships and struggles and pain, now I'm relaxed. You relax. A lot of people keep telling me, 'You got to take a vacation, you got to take a break, got to sleep, you got to relax.' Tell them resting is in the grave. In dunya, it's time to work, time to build your akhira, time to build your Jannah, time to build your qabar, make it a garden of Jannah, not a pit of naar. So the believer, when he gets to the grave, he's relaxed. You know, somebody that made it. You know nothing but good's ahead now. And that believer, for them that time in the Ka'bah is like 2 salawats.

The time between 2 salawats. Yes.

How easy is that? Very quick. Even it might be 10, 20, 30, 40,000 years for you, it'll go by that fast. You're relaxing, you got your big screen, shijannah, and you're reviewing where you're going to be, feeling the breeze. With your good deeds protecting you.

That's in your grave.

In your grave. Because you were a good Muslim. You'll see a handsome face, a beautiful face. Who is it? A pleasing face. Somebody who brings glad tidings. Who is this? Your good deeds. Your salah, your siyam, your sadaqah, your fasting.

But how is it that earlier the good deeds for the bad person was very weak and ugly?

Because they didn't work on it. You know, it's like this, right? Let's say you have money in your account, and you don't care about money, and you're spending it on haram and halal and this and that, and you're swiping that card, you're swiping that card, you're swiping that card, and you're just spending, you don't care, you don't worry. And then some hardship comes and they're like, look, you got to pay this much. Now you swipe your card, says declined, declined, declined. Why, why, why? You didn't care. You didn't protect that wealth. You didn't keep it. Now that you need it, you don't have it. You may have 2, 3 cents in your bank still, but it ain't enough to pay that bill, right? Same thing here. Now somebody else who was wise, they didn't waste money. They didn't do israaf. They spent what they had to, but they were making sure that they had enough as needed. Now they swipe, accepted. They had prepped, they were ready, they thought about it. Now they can go to their next destination.

The analogy, the money is the good deeds. Yes.

So those people, they didn't care. Oh, it's Ramadan? Yeah. Oh, it's time for Salah? Okay, fine. Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar. Done. As soon as Allah Akbar, oh yeah, you know, later on I got to go. Then I got to go to— Brother gives sadaqah, "Ah man, who's got time for sadaqah? There are always poor people. I gotta go buy me a Rolex. I gotta put ice. I gotta bling." So you didn't protect those deeds, they can't protect you. But when you worked on those deeds, you prepared, then they protect you. The qabr has certain things that specifically bring adab. There's a beautiful hadith, sahih hadith, the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) saw the qabar of two companions and he was worried about them. He made dua for them, he cut a part of a plant and put it there as a shifa from him, especially from him for them. Why? Because they were being punished for something that was very easy to protect yourself. So as a lesson from this, these two things you have to stay away from. What is it? First, Tahara and cleanliness when you go to the bathroom. That seems like something light, but imagine people that go to the urinal nowadays. Urinal is a horrible, disgusting thing. People go and just stand at a urinal, and then there's another guy standing there, no partition, and you're like, hey Bob, how's it going? Hanging a little cold, you know. Hey, how you doing? You know, you're standing there doing your business. They're having conversations and then they zip up, don't even wash their hands, and they're like, how you doing, buddy? Like, I'm good, man.

So what's the best way to stay clean so that this doesn't happen?

The first thing, we follow the Sunnah. Men, women, everybody, we sit down when we go to the bathroom. We urinate, defecate, you sit down so that it doesn't splash. Secondly, you take care of it. You make sure you're not peeing on yourself. Like, this is common tahara, but the West doesn't have it. And then you wash, you use paper, istijmar, napkins, then you wash with water, you cleanse yourself.

With water, it's very important you mention this, because people would just use, A'udhu Billahi, extremely disgusting, but we just use paper, toilet paper, and just carry on.

When you talk about using either dirt or earth or toilet paper, it's called istijmar, right? But then there's istinja, which is using water. And as a Muslim, we should always strive to use water. You know, if there is necessities, you know, you're traveling and things, you can do the minimum with this Tijmar.

But I mean, in most cases it's very difficult to not have water.

If you, you know, I mean, to get a bottle with you, just, just if nothing else, get a water bottle. Yeah, like even I live in the West, right?

I mean, we don't— we travel, you and me, we traveled probably like 15 countries in the past 6 months, but you can just get a bottle. Of course, pro tip, by the way, because I travel a lot and I spent a lot of time in non-Muslim countries. You take a paper towel, just fold it in half before entering the bathroom, pass it under the sink. Yeah, that's water. Then get into the bathroom in case you don't have a bottle, in case they don't have the little— how do you call that? This, the, the cheap sheet for the water. Yeah, just, just get a fold, um, paper, just fold it in half, put some water in there, and then go to the bathroom and you stay clean and you follow the Sunnah.

Pro tip: nowadays they actually sell little Astinja bottles. Really? Yeah, you can get them online. It's not a plug or anything, but you can get them. And there's squeeze ones, water comes out, and there's mechanical ones. You just keep one in your bag with you.

What a way to do business and get good deeds as well. Amazing.

Exactly. Business idea. Yeah, there you go. Might start a new business.

So that's the first one. So staying clean.

Second thing, the second thing they're punished for a lot in the grave, spreading rumors. Backbiting, gossiping, even if it's true.

SubhanAllah. It's interesting the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم mentions that those are so easy to avoid, yet people are punished in the grave for it.

Yes. Now, the second thing is where it destroys the communities. Because when you spread gossip, when you spread rumors, and wallahi, the online fitna is worse than even before. Before it was just about people gossiping to each other, now People are forwarding. You know, you get a WhatsApp forward, some rumor about somebody, and then suddenly 300 people are forwarding it. Cyberbullying, you know, it's a big thing now because now it's on WhatsApp, it's on Facebook, it's on Twitter, it's on X, it's on all these, you know, Snapchats and all that. And now you're spreading these rumors and they could be false. And even if they're true, exposing your brother for their faults and mistakes is haram. Yeah, I mean, there's certain situations, you know, like, okay, this person's going to marry somebody's daughter, that's different. But regularly we don't see that. People just love gossiping, spreading rumors. And again, I don't care if it's true or not. If it's true, that's backbiting. And if it's lying, if it's false, and even if you didn't know but you didn't verify and you've forwarded it, 'You are sinful, you are a liar because you spread that lie, and you are spreading buhtan, you are spreading slander.' And it will be a means of being punished in the Ka'bah.

What's the punishment for those two that you mentioned the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam was making dua for them?

The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam didn't describe their punishment. He just said that they're going through a harsh punishment for something they could have easily avoided. Now the solution here, like we give the solution for the first one, solution is stop backbiting. Stop. Look, if it's not your— like many people come to me, oh, you know, this is that, he said this, he did this, you know, it's not my business.

You know, this, that was a good trait of the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم). They would mention if he would only speak if it was beneficial.

Yes. Always say something good if it's good, or restrain yourself. That's it. If it's not related to me, why am I spreading? Oh, did you hear this? Or did you see her do this? Did you see him do this? Or did you see how he walked out? People are so corrupt now, they have no husn adhan. They don't ever assume good about anybody.

That's a very good point. It's a very good point to remind ourselves and to also don't hesitate to stand up if this happens around you. If you're in a gathering, because usually that's where gossiping and backbiting happens, it's usually not just one-on-one. Sometimes it happens when you Speaking with someone, but sometimes it happens in gathering. They would bring up someone, bring up a topic, look at someone and start speaking. If you are attending this, it's very important somebody mentions this and stops it. And there's nothing wrong with it, the opposite actually, you get rewarded for it. Yes. And you're helping your brothers. Imagine here they're being punished in the grave. Would you let your friends that you know, your close friends, your brother, would you like them to be punished in the grave? And they would hold you accountable. They say, why did you let me backbite? 'Why did you not stop me? You knew it. I was going at it. I forgot I was under the emotion. Stop me.' That's a very, very important point.

Think about it this way. For me, my principle is this. If I'm in a gathering and backbiting begins, I'm going to tell them straight, 'Brothers, I love you guys, but if you're going to talk about people, I'm out. Either stop talking about somebody or I'm out.' And I don't care whether they like it or not. Recently happened between us, somebody sent me a message. What did I do? I told the brother, "Hey, look, if you're saying this about the brother, I'm going to forward it to him. I'm letting you know, I'm not doing it like..." So don't say something about somebody unless you're going to face them. And I forwarded it to you, right? And Alhamdulillah, we cleared it up and things, but that's the way I roll. I don't put up with that kind of a thing. Don't send me messages about somebody unless you want to go clarify with them. Because I'll tell that person and I'll sit you down then. And this is what we're going to do, right? And that's the whole point here, is we can easily avoid this. I get all the time, you know, you need to do this, Sheikh. You know what? It's not my business. That's between him and Allah. May Allah protect him. And have husn done. The Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said, be very careful of suspicion. Because most of dhann is kadab, it's lies.

What does husnad dhann mean and how can we apply it practically for people who are listening in?

Husnad dhann is to always assume good about your brother. Su'ad dhann is when people assume bad. I'll give you an example. I see Abu Lahya coming out of a liquor store and he's got a brown bag in his— Husnad dhann, you know what, that's the only store that was there. He had to stop, he needed water for iftar, he went in there, got a bottle of water, he's coming out. That's what I'm going to assume. I'm not going to leave anything in my heart for that person. Right? Su'idan, oh Abu Lahya, he's going around saying all this stuff, but look, he has liquor, he probably has alcohol in there. What's wrong with people?

Can you expand on this point actually? Because it's very, very common, specifically on social media, people would take the slightest thing that they can tweak and completely get a completely opposite meaning. Such a horrible— put people in bad situations.

Troll-filled toxic environment online today. You know, somebody will make a rumor, a lie about a da'i, about an alim, a sheikh, anybody, right? And people start spreading it like wildfire, making that qabar as a place of punishment for them by doing that. And many times it comes out to be absolute lies.

[Speaker:ABU LAHYA] So that's even worse.

[Speaker:AYUB (ABU LAHYA)] That's even worse. Even if it's true, that's between them and Allah. Why are you spreading it? If you don't protect your brother's honor and hide their mistakes, Allah will expose your mistakes. Do you want your sins exposed? And if you don't want your sins exposed, then hide the sins of your brother. You know, there are certain situations, you know, where maybe it's a criminal matter or something, you go to a judge. But that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about people sitting online spreading rumors, forwards and posts and reaction, "Oh, you know, I heard this, I don't know if it's true, but—" Why are you making videos then? What is it your business?

What's the consequence of not having husn adhan, of thinking bad, of assuming bad? Of a situation. For example, I see you entering a normal store, not a liquor store, not a, you know, just a normal store. But I would assume, yeah, he maybe got some alcohol. Yeah, maybe he bought something wrong. What's the consequence here?

You become a liar. That's why the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said, "يَكُبِضًى مَا دَانَ." And I was telling you in the hadith, because most of this suspicion, the "ضَنَ," it's "كَذَبَ." Because what happens now, you start believing that. Then you start spreading that. Oh, I saw Uthman going to the store and he was getting alcohol. Even though you don't know, but you convince yourself, and now you spread lies, and you will be punished in the grave, and you will then lose your deeds on the Day of Judgment to that person.

SubhanAllah, what an easy way to avoid it, just mind your own business.

Yeah, mind your business. Such a simple thing, but nobody does it. People, reaction videos and posts being forwarded and retweets. Mind your business!

Because the small dopamine, the small excitement, the small energy you'll get from these conversations and spreading things about people, look at the consequences.

But imagine the Day of Judgment. You come with all these deeds you've protected, but now those people that you lied about, that you had sujud done about, that you spread rumors about, that you backbited, even if it's true, they will take your deeds. Allah will give them from your deeds.

The good deeds that you did. So you fed people, you gave charity, you earned good deeds, you fasted, they will take from that. They'll be gone. Subhanallah.

Until you have nothing, but you still owe people, they will start putting their sins on you.

Just because you backbited.

The Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said, "Do you know who is the مُفْلِسُ?" The absolute destitute. 'Broke, poor person?' He said, 'The one that doesn't have a dinar or dirham or land or anything.' He said, 'No, somebody will come on the Day of Judgment.' We'll end this episode on this very, very important hadith so you can implement this. Somebody that will come on the Day of Judgment with mountains of good deeds, so many good deeds, but then they backbited people, they took the haqq of people, they cheated people, they stole from people, they lied about people, they spread rumors about people, those people will take their deeds until you're finished. Mountains of good deeds gone, and now you start getting their bad deeds piled upon you, piled upon you until you're destroyed. Not because you left salah, not because you didn't fast Ramadan, not because you didn't read the Quran, not because you— 'No, because you didn't take care of huqooq al-ibad.' You didn't take care of the honour of others, the rights of others. So may Allah (AJ) protect us from the punishment, the qabr. May Allah (AJ) make us from those that take these serious reminders as serious in this blessed month of Ramadan to correct our path.

Ameen. And subhanAllah, it's— So simple things, yet the punishment is so difficult. We can avoid it just by purifying ourselves, just minding our own business.

Mind your business.