- There's a famous saying from Umar ibn al-Khattab
radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. He said, "La yakun hubaka kalafan,
wa la boughdouka talafa."
He said, "When you love someone, don't love them so much
that you attach too much to them.
And if you hate someone,
then don't hate them so much that it's destructive."
And Ali radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, he said something
very similar, that you know, it may be one day
that the person you love most becomes your enemy.
And it may be that your enemy
one day becomes a beloved friend.
And the way that you get around loving too much,
to where you attach your faith to a person
and your faith tanks and your disappointment just grows
if anything happens.
Or hating someone so much
that it consumes you, is to attach that love
and hate for the sake of Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la.
That way there is always balance.
And SubhanAllah, on the Day of Judgment,
you never know who you're going to run into
in Jannah that actually is going to be there
enjoying it with you, rather than being
thrown into Hellfire because of you.
So we've spoken about family and friends,
and there are many conversations that we find
in the Quran and the Sunnah between the people of Paradise.
And there are categories of foes, categories
of those who used to be your opponents in this life.
And one category are those that used to call you to evil.
The friend that used to try to be a Sahib,
that tried to drag you into Hellfire instead of Jannah.
So Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la says,
"Fa aqbalah b'athouhoum 'ala b'atheen yatasa-aloun."
That, once again, they're inquiring with one another.
They're asking about this person, asking about that person.
So, some friends have found each other, and there's a mutual
friend that's clearly missing from the gathering.
"Qa la qa-iloun min houm, inee kamil li-qareen."
And then one of them says, "You know I remember
a close friend of mine that used to be with me in dunya."
"Ya qoulou a-innaka la mina al-musadaqeen."
And he used to tell me,
"Do you really believe in this stuff?
Do you really believe that faith is true?
Do you really believe in an afterlife?"
"A-itha mitna wa kuna turaaban
wa 'aydhaaman a-inna la madinoon."
"Do you really think that once we die
and we become bones and dirt,
that we're suddenly going to come back
and that we're going to live after that?"
"Qala hal antum mut-tali'oun."
So this person that is speaking to others in Jannah
about his old friend who used to call him to evil, says
"Do you want to look for that person?"
Fa atal'aa fara-ahou fi sawa-ee al-Jaheem.
And then he goes out to look for his friend,
and he sees his friend in the lowest part of Hellfire.
And as he looks at his friend in Hellfire, he says,
"Qala tAllahi inn kid-ta latur-deen.
Wa lawla n'amatu rabbi la kuntu mina al-muhthareen."
"You know, you almost got me.
You almost made me amongst those that followed your path.
But Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la is so kind,
that Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la
saved me from this particular fate.
And Allah 'Azawajal granted me Paradise instead."
And he says, "Afama nahnu bi-mayateen?"
Like, "Is this real? Are we really not going to die anymore?
Have I really been saved from all of this fitna,
all this temptation?
These people that used to say there is no afterlife,
and everything that comes after Jannah.
Is there even an after-Jannah?
Am I really here forever?"
And he says, "Illa mawta-tanna al-oula,
wa ma nahnu bi mu-athabeen."
"Is it really so, that we only die once
and we're never punished again?"
And he says, "Inna hatha la-houwa al-faouzou al-Atheem."
He said, "What an incredible success this is."
"Li mith-li hatha fal y'amalee al-'amiloun."
"This is what those who strive should be striving for."
Now, SubhanAllah it's really interesting
because when you read in the books of tafsir,
some of the Mufassireen, they said that the
two friends that are being referred to here,
are the two men in Surah Al-Kahf.
Remember that there was the person who had two gardens,
and he thought that because he had two gardens,
he was preferred to the other person.
And he said, "You know I don't think that I'm
going to be resurrected. And even if I'm resurrected,
if there is such thing as an afterlife,
then I'm pretty sure I'll do well over there as well."
So that's one group of Mufassiroun, they said that this
is referring to those same two people in Surah Al-Kahf.
The person with two gardens who thought
that he was superior because of what Allah
Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la blessed him with in this dunya,
and did not prepare himself to attain
the garden of the hereafter.
And now the person that he was looking
down upon has Jannah, while he has Jahannam,
while that person is in the midst of Hellfire.
Then you find another narration about two men
that were actually business partners.
And this shows up in some of the books of tafsir as well.
And these two business partners
were as different as could be.
One of them - righteous, religious, of high character.
The other one could care less; he was all about his money.
And so they make this business deal
where they earn eight thousand dinars
and they split the eight thousand into four thousand
and four thousand.
And basically, as the partner who's not religious takes
that four thousand dinars,
he starts to spent it in various ways.
So first he purchases a piece of land,
and he thinks that this real estate is
the best thing that has ever happened to him.
Whereas his believing partner,
he spends a thousand dinars in sadaqah and he says,
"Oh Allah, I'm seeking to purchase the land of Al-Jannah."
And he mocks him. You know, like, "What land in Jannah
are you talking about? You really believe
that you're going to get any type of property in Jannah?"
And then he goes and he purchases a home,
and his righteous friend says,
"Oh Allah, I'm spending a thousand dinars
and I'm seeking a home in Paradise."
And he says to him, "What are you talking about?
There is no home in Paradise. Stop wasting your time."
And then he goes, and he spends a thousand dinars
on a relationship.
And he says, "Oh Allah, I'm spending a thousand dinars
and I'm seeking the spouse of Al-Jannah."
And he says, "What are you talking about?
There is no spouse in Jannah,
nothing that's going to happen for you there."
And then he takes his last thousand dinars
and he spends it on servants and all sorts
of material things.
And the righteous one spends it and he says,
"Oh Allah, I'm seeking the servants
and the material things and the adornment of Al-Jannah."
And SubhanAllah, the entire time as he's spending
for the sake of Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la,
he's being looked down upon and mocked.
And certainly, you know, these narrations might be relegated
to something very specific, but think about our own lives.
The people that try to tempt us.
And they don't outright insult us,
but what they do, is they try to put down
the religion and they try to make it seem
like it's not that big of a deal.
Like come on, you're taking this religion stuff
way too seriously.
And when they're saying that, what they're implying is
go ahead and enjoy the sinfulness,
because it's not going to be that severe in consequence.
And the believer is thinking,
I'm not losing my Jannah because of that.
So you have to ignore the whispers of shaytan,
and you've gotta ignore the whispers sometimes
of your own friends. These are people that were friends
in dunya, and one friend was trying to take them away
from Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la.
May Allah grant us righteous friends
and grant us righteous places, Allahumma ameen.
So that's one category on the Day of Judgment, right?
The person that tried to take you away
from Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la, and now you're saying,
"Alhamdulillah, I did not listen to you."
The next category is your tyrant, your oppressor.
Someone who hurt you.
And you know, Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la
promises the oppressed that,
"I swear by My might, I will come to your aid,
even if it's after some time."
And this religion is not one that tells the oppressed
to just put their oppression away
and to pretend that it doesn't exist.
This is a religion that tells you
that you will have justice on the Day of Judgment.
And here the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam
tells us that there are people in Jannah that will be
able to look through a window into the Hellfire,
and to see those that oppressed them,
those that harmed them, being punished.
And they would know thereby that Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la
has indeed fulfilled his promise.
Ka'ab radiAllahu Anhu says, "Between Jannah and a-Nar
there are peepholes.
And when a believer wants to look
at his oppressor from this world, he looks through one
of those peepholes, and he sees the person that harmed him,
and sees the person that did so much to them,
because Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la did not let
that dua go to waste."
Now, there are some people who will
bump into folks in Jannah that they thought
were not going to make it.
And this is one of the strange occurrences that we find
from the of the ahadith of the Prophet
SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam,
where the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said
Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la actually laughs at two men.
When the murderer and the murdered meet in Jannah,
Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la laughs at them.
Imagine the scene on the Day of Judgment when
Hamza radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
runs into Wahshi radiAllahu Anhu in Jannah.
And this is really incredible, SubhanAllah.
The Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said
because it may be that someone martyred someone else
and then they made repentance to Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la
and they too were martyred.
So they're both Shuhada and they're in Jannah now,
in this degree together,
and they're bumping into each other in Jannah.
Imagine Hamza and Wahshi.
Imagine the Shuhada of Uhud,
when they bump into Khalid ibn al-Walid
radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. "Like, wait, you're here as well?
You know, you're the person that
caused all this heartache."
Ikrima ibn Abi Jahal, who died a Shahid.
You know, Ikrima radiAllahu Anhu was one of the architects
of Uhud. And he's there now, and the Shuhada of Uhud
are meeting with Ikrima radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
The Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said,
Allah laughs at this meeting, because it seems like
such an awkward meeting.
But the reality is, what, that there are some people
that do very bad things, and then they repent to Allah
Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la, and Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la
puts both of those people in Jannah
without decreasing the reward of the one that was harmed
in any way whatsoever.
And that you're not going to be upset, like,
"Ya Allah, how did this person make it?
Throw them out of Jannah."
No, because when you get to Jannah,
there is no hatred, no harm,
nothing that exists of bad feelings
between two brothers or two sisters in Jannah.
The Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said that,
when you enter Jannah, you'll be brothers
with no disagreement, no hatred amongst you,
and your hearts will be like one man's heart.
And you will be engaged in glorifying
Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la together,
morning and evening.
And you are going to see people that maybe you
quarreled with. And you want to solve your disagreements
here, because most situations have mutual wrongdoing.
It's not always the case, and it's in fact
rarely the case, that you have
someone who is entirely in the wrong
and the other person that's entirely in the right.
You have a lot of people that quarreled,
brothers and sisters that quarreled.
And that's why you have this emphasis
from the Prophet SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam
on people making up with one another,
people reconciling amongst themselves.
And imagine, SubhanAllah,
Sayyidina Ali radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
And it's one of the the hardest things
that you see, even from the Sahaba.
While it was instigated from the outside,
there was a war that took place.
And Ali radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu was so saddened
when he ended up on the opposite side
and you had an instigator that attacks
the camp of Ali radiAllahu Anhu,
and attacks the likes of Aisha radiAllahu Anha,
and Talha, and Zubair radiAllahu ta'ala Anhuma.
And it causes them to go into a battle with one another.
And Ali radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu specifically,
after Talha ibn Ubaydullah radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
was killed, was martyred, Ali radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu washed
Talha radiAllahu Anhu. And then he prayed upon him.
And then he called the people forward,
and he had his son, Muhammad ibn Talha, sit next to him.
And Ali radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu with the son of Talha sitting
next to him, he said,
"Ya qouluna lam yakhrouj illa souf-fahaa."
"You know, some people are making the claim
that only fools came out to fight."
You know, people thought that Ali radiAllahu Anhu
would be happy if his opponents were insulted.
And he's saying, "No, the most honored faces on earth
came out to this. For verily, I heard the Prophet
SallAllahu 'Alaihi Wasallam say,
'Talha wa Zubair jaraaya fi al-Jannah.'"
Talha and Zubair are my neighbors in Jannah.
And he said, "I ask Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la to make you
and me amongst those whom are mentioned in the ayah,
That we will remove from their hearts
any type of sense of injury, any hurt.
And they will be brothers joyfully facing each other
on thrones of dignity. And the ulema say, SubhanAllah,
this idea of "ma fi qouloub-iheem"
That anything in their hearts,
all hard feelings, are taken away.
That there is no resentment that's left there.
There is no sense of, "Well, why did Allah
Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la forgive that person?"
"Why did Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la raise that person?"
And so that former foe would actually become your friend.
And both of you are enjoying the reward
and the blessing of Allah Subh'anahu Wa Ta-A'la
together in Paradise.
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