Do not die except in a state of Islam

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him and his family, is a very peaceful and very much-loving person. And after that, my brothers and sisters, we are talking about the ayat of Allah SWT where he said, يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ حَقَّ تُقَاتِهِ وَلَا تَمُوتُنَّ إِلَّا وَأَنْتُمْ مُسْلِمُونَ Allah said, which means, O you who believe, have taqwa of Allah SWT as it is His right. And do not die except in a state of Islam. We looked at the first part of the ayah. Today we look at the second part of the ayah where Allah said, لَا تَمُوتُنَّ إِلَّا وَأَنْتُمْ مُسْلِمُونَ Do not die except in a state of Islam. A state of Islam means a state of submission to Allah SWT. Submission to Allah means submission to everything which Allah SWT commanded. As I remind myself and you again and again, our problem is not that we disbelieve in everything. Our problem is worse than that. Our problem is that we don't believe in everything. Our problem is that we don't believe in everything. Our problem is that we selectively obey. And Allah SWT mentioned that very clearly in the Quran, where He said, أَفَتُؤْمِنُونَ بِبَعْدِ الْكِتَابِ وَتَكْفُرُونَ بِبَعْدِ Do you believe in some things of the book? You take some things of the book? You obey some commands? And you leave the rest? فَمَنْ يَفْعَلُ ذَلِكَ مِنْكُمْ إِلَّا خِذْيٌّ فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا وَيَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ وَرَضُّونَ إِلَىٰ أَشَدِّ أَذَابٍ وَمَنْ اللَّهُ بِغَافِلٍ عَمَّا تَعْمَلُونَ Allah SWT said that what is the reward? فَمَا جَزَاهُ مَنْ يَفْعَلُ ذَلِكُ What is the jaza? What is the reward? And Allah SWT is using the word reward in a sarcastic way. Whereas where He means punishment. جَزَا سَمَانِ جَزَا نِجَزَا جَزَا كَمَنِ صَزَا هَيَا And Allah says what is the reward for those of you who do this? Accept hardship and suffering and problems and humiliation in this life. خِزْيُنْ فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا This is the beauty of the Kamal of the Arabic language. One single word. خِزْيُنْ خِزْيُنْ خِزْيُنْ It has every bad thing in it. It has disease, it has accidents, it has problems, it has conflicts, it has suffering, it has poverty. You name it. خِزْيُنْ خِزْيُنْ Hard. Your life will become extremely difficult. فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا And it doesn't end with that. وَيَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ يُوَضُّونَ إِلَىٰ أَشَدِّ أَذَابٍ And on the Day of Judgment you will be turned towards the worst of punishments. You might ask this question, at least I am doing something. Somebody else is completely rejecting. He is not even a Muslim. He has not even said, لا إله إلا الله At least I am doing something. At least I am coming to Furaishalatul Fajr. At least I am giving some Zakat. At least I am doing Qurbani in Eidul Adha. And so on. The issue there is not at least. The issue there is the arrogance. Is the Takabbur of the slave. The Takabbur of somebody who has no Hasyat except what Allah has given him. What right do you and I have to be arrogant? When Allah SWT reminded us. And Allah said, وَلَا حَلْ أَتَعْ عَلَىٰ الْإِنسَانِ حِينٌ مِّنَ الدَّهْرِ لَمْ يَكُنْ شَيْءً مَّذْكُورًا As the human being forgotten the time when he had no mention. There was no mention of him. He was not a thing mentioned. What right do you have to be arrogant? On what basis are you arrogant? And we are arrogant. So don't expect me to say. Ya Allah you may have given me three commands. But I will obey only one. The other two commands I don't like. I will not do. This is exactly what Iblis did. Exactly. This is exactly what Shaytan did. Shaytan did not deny Allah SWT. Shaytan did not say you are not my Rabbi. You are not my Khalikh. No, no, no. He did not deny Allah SWT. He did not deny making Sajidah to Allah. Allah, he did not say, I will not make sajdah to you. He said, I will not do this command. I will not make sajdah to Adam because in my understanding, this is wrong. So what is he doing? He is taking his will, his understanding, his whatever and imposing it on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Yaab meru kaisa bolte? Aapki baad ghalat hai. Laaha wa laakho ta'ala. So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying, you do this shaitaniyat in your life, you will be treated like shaitan. So it's not a question of saying, kuch toh bhi karna. Itta toh karna, kuch toh bhi karna nahi hai Islam ke andar. Pura karna hai. And Allah made it very clear. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, Ya ayyuha allazeena amanu, udhkhulu fis silmi kafatan wala tattabiyu khutwati shaitan innahu lakum ma'aduhum mubeen. Allah says, O you who believe, enter into Islam completely and do not follow the footsteps of shaitan. Truly he is your worst and clear enemy. Allah gave us an example of the way to obey. Wa ith qala lahu rabbuhu aslim, qala aslamtu li rabbil alameen. Ibrahim alayhi salam, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, when his Rabb said to him, submit, he said, I have submitted. He did not say, I have submitted to the extent I understand, I have submitted as much as I can, I have submitted completely. Our problem is, for Salah, we will come and pray in the Masjid. Give a donation to the Masjid and Madrasa or something, we will do that. But rights of our own family, sisters, especially, rights of inheritance, no. We will eat up their rights. Tumar ku jahez diya the baba. O ek haram kaam kare, ab tu kuchar haram kaam kare. Your father ate one haram thing by giving jahez. Now you are doing another haram thing by eating up her inheritance. Properties. Living in a joint family house and you have a dispute, the only people who make money in disputes are lawyers. Nobody else. The only people who benefit from disputes are attorneys, lawyers. And they will make sure that you keep on fighting as long as you live so that they can keep getting their fees. Because the truth about every single dispute on the face of the earth, irrespective of who it is between, whether it is a husband and wife dispute, whether it is a sibling dispute, whether it's a parent and child dispute, whether it's a dispute between countries, nations, any dispute in the world can only be resolved in one way which is by sitting down and talking to each other. There is no other way. There is no other way. There is no other way. There is no other way. To resolve a dispute, you have to sit down and talk to each other. But the longer you take to come to that point, the bigger loss you will suffer. So Allah SWT is saying, don't do this. Allah SWT has set the rules and regulations of our life for our benefit. Allah SWT who was Samad, nothing benefits Him, nothing harms Him. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. nothing. follow it. Don't follow the footsteps of Shaitan. Shaitan is not even there. You are following his footsteps. Don't do that. Don't die except in a state of Islam. Because when you die in a state of Islam, when you die with La ilaha illallah, Muhammad Rasulullah, then Allah SWT will give us Jannah, inshallah. Allah SWT said very clearly, the one who believes in La ilaha illallah, Muhammad Rasulullah, with Ikhlas, he will enter Jannah. The Sahaba said, Ya Rasulullah, what is the Ikhlas of La ilaha illallah, Muhammad Rasulullah? He said, the Ikhlas of the Kalima is, it keeps you away from Haram. The Ikhlas of the Kalima is, you will not disobey Allah. But it keeps you away from it. But it keeps you away from it. But it keeps you away from it. But it keeps you away from it. But it keeps you away from it. But it keeps you away from it. But it keeps you away from it. But it keeps you away from it. But it keeps you away from it. But it keeps you away from it. But it keeps you away from it. But it keeps you away from it. But it keeps you away from it. But it keeps you away from it. a deen of talking. It's not a deen of reading and memorizing and so on. All of this is required for a reason. That's like buying a car. You bought a car and every day you are washing the car and polishing the car and making sure there is gas in the tank, making sure that there is the air in the tires is correct. You open the engine, you go under the car, you are cleaning it and then when you have to go somewhere, you are walking. Why are you walking? What happened to the car? No, no, no, the car is good. Then? Then you clean the car every day. I know you are doing it, but why? You brought the car to clean and you brought it to drive. Did you bring the car to wash it or you brought the car to run it? That's our state. This is our state. Our state is Islam came to be practiced. Islam came to be practiced to make us winners in this world and the next. Right? We are taking this Islam, we are keeping it somewhere, we are polishing it, every day washing it. We don't use it. So in this world, in this world, we are Zalil. But all this is because of what? You are not practicing. People are saying this is, believe me, all that is happening to us is because we disobey Allah SWT. Before the coming of Khatim al-Nabiyyin, Sayyid al-Mursalin, Muhammad Rasulullah SAW, Allah SWT used to send Nabi after Nabi after Nabi. The Nabi, the Anbiya would send Nabi after Nabi. Preach to their people. If the people obeyed, Alhamdulillah. If they did not obey, then after a certain time, Allah SWT would destroy those people. Literally wipe them out. Some calamity, some disease, some sound, explosion, flood, something. Allah would destroy those people and then He would send another Nabi. With the coming of Rasulullah SAW,