And the hadiths on this matter are numerous and well known, so the believer must believe in everything that has come from the Book and the Sunnah regarding these unseen matters, and not contradict them.
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The Shaykh : He says: "And the hadiths on this matter are numerous and well known.
So the believer must believe in everything that has come from the Book and the Sunnah regarding these unseen matters" so that he may be a true believer. Who are the believers? Those who believe in what? The unseen.
"And not contradict them with what he observes in this world" meaning that some people, may Allah protect us from that, denied the punishment of the grave and denied the trial of the grave, and said: How can this be? We dig the grave the next day or the first day and find that the grave is the same, it has not been widened, and there are no signs of punishment, and we find that the body is also unchanged, and how can a person sit in his grave when bricks have been placed on it and the like of these matters? They measure the matters of the Hereafter by the matters of this world. These are not believers; these do not believe except in what they see, so they are not believers in the unseen. The believer in the unseen says regarding what Allah and His Messenger have informed about: truly, truly, truly. This is the believer. But these, may Allah protect us from that, are a people of atheism who do not believe except in what they see. So we say: We do not contradict this with what we observe in this world, because the matters of the Hereafter are among the matters...
"Are not measured by the matters of this world due to the clear difference" and the difference is apparent.
Moreover, we say to these people: Is it not the case that one of you sees in his sleep in a dream that he has visited his friends, and that he has arrived at such-and-such a city, and that he sat and stood, and he is what? On his bed, unchanged, even his blanket has not fallen from his back, and yet he sees many things, even though the connection of the soul to the body in sleep is stronger than the connection of the soul to the body after death. If this is the case for the soul in the state of minor death, what about the major life, I mean the major death.
So the important thing, my brothers, is that it is obligatory for us regarding the matter of the Hereafter to do what? To believe and submit, and not to say how or why? On the Day of Resurrection, people will be on a single plain, and you will see the believers with their light moving what? Before them and on their right hands, and the disbelievers in darkness, having no light, and the place is one, and the time is one, but the matters of the Hereafter are never measured by the matters of this world. For this reason, he said: "Due to the clear great difference between them, and Allah is the One to be sought for help" .
And this is the difference between the true believer and the denier and the hesitator. The believer says: We have heard and we have obeyed and we have believed, and this is the truth, and there is no problem with it. And the atheist hesitates or denies. Is the time up?
The student: No, there is still time.
The Shaykh : Very well.
So the believer must believe in everything that has come from the Book and the Sunnah regarding these unseen matters" so that he may be a true believer. Who are the believers? Those who believe in what? The unseen.
"And not contradict them with what he observes in this world" meaning that some people, may Allah protect us from that, denied the punishment of the grave and denied the trial of the grave, and said: How can this be? We dig the grave the next day or the first day and find that the grave is the same, it has not been widened, and there are no signs of punishment, and we find that the body is also unchanged, and how can a person sit in his grave when bricks have been placed on it and the like of these matters? They measure the matters of the Hereafter by the matters of this world. These are not believers; these do not believe except in what they see, so they are not believers in the unseen. The believer in the unseen says regarding what Allah and His Messenger have informed about: truly, truly, truly. This is the believer. But these, may Allah protect us from that, are a people of atheism who do not believe except in what they see. So we say: We do not contradict this with what we observe in this world, because the matters of the Hereafter are among the matters...
"Are not measured by the matters of this world due to the clear difference" and the difference is apparent.
Moreover, we say to these people: Is it not the case that one of you sees in his sleep in a dream that he has visited his friends, and that he has arrived at such-and-such a city, and that he sat and stood, and he is what? On his bed, unchanged, even his blanket has not fallen from his back, and yet he sees many things, even though the connection of the soul to the body in sleep is stronger than the connection of the soul to the body after death. If this is the case for the soul in the state of minor death, what about the major life, I mean the major death.
So the important thing, my brothers, is that it is obligatory for us regarding the matter of the Hereafter to do what? To believe and submit, and not to say how or why? On the Day of Resurrection, people will be on a single plain, and you will see the believers with their light moving what? Before them and on their right hands, and the disbelievers in darkness, having no light, and the place is one, and the time is one, but the matters of the Hereafter are never measured by the matters of this world. For this reason, he said: "Due to the clear great difference between them, and Allah is the One to be sought for help" .
And this is the difference between the true believer and the denier and the hesitator. The believer says: We have heard and we have obeyed and we have believed, and this is the truth, and there is no problem with it. And the atheist hesitates or denies. Is the time up?
The student: No, there is still time.
The Shaykh : Very well.