Assalamualaikum. I want to bring a certain matter to the forefront of your mind and that is DEATH. You will find people in this dunya who reject Allah (SWT), who reject the angels, Jannah and Jahannam (Paradise and Hellfire) and there will be people who take it as far as rejecting the the Prophethood of the Great Prophets(Peace Be upon Them). But my Brothers and sisters, that one person who has denies everything else will never deny the fact of DEATH, that every single one of one day will DIE.
Worship your Lord, Worship Allah until the certainty comes to you. The experts of the quran say that when the word certainty is mentioned in the quran (Yaqeen), Allah refers to death. So worship allah until death comes to you. Death is a certainty. No matter what you do. The law of Allah is:
And the Angel Of Death, (My brothers and sisters don’t be mistaken), he is not bothered, how powerful you are, or if you have a kingdom. He will not be scared of you, if you are rich, or an oppressor. He is not bothered where you are, what you are doing. at your appointed time he will be in front of you and my friends YOU WILL DIE.
Only Allah knows when you are going to die, no matter what you, only Allah knows. You have been given an appointed time on when you will die, the exact time, not a minute before or after. You have been given a fixed time on which you will spend on this dunya.
Chapter (62) sūrat l-jumuʿah (Friday)
(Qul innal mawtal lathee tafirroona minhu fa innahoo mulaaqeekum summa turaddoona ilaa 'Aalimil Ghaibi wash shahaadati fa yunabbi'ukum bimaa kuntum ta'maloon)
"Indeed, the death from which you flee - indeed, it will meet you. Then you will be returned to the Knower of the unseen and the witnessed, and He will inform you about what you used to do." i.e in the dunya.
The King From A’AD
Ibrahim(AS) had once asked the angel of death that you have taken the souls of millions of people, has there ever been a time, while taking the souls of these people, have you ever felt remorse for anyone?have you ever felt pity on anyone?
The Angel of Death says yes, I remember one time, that a woman, a pregnant woman, was travelling by a ship and while she was giving birth the ship, Allah ordered me to take her soul, so I went to take her soul. I took out her soul after she delivered a beautiful baby boy. And I asked Allah, O Allah what about this Boy. Allah told the angel to place the boy on a plank of wood from the sinking ship and i will look after him. The angel of death did as he was told but he wondered to himself, he says to Ibrahim (AS), that I kept wondering how this baby will survive. And look at the way the system of Allah works, how he saved then baby by guiding the plank to a beach where the baby was found by a group of people.
As this baby starts to grow up into a teenager, Allah (swt) endows him with power, Allah gives him a Kingdom and make him a king. He is known by the name Shaddad BUT the power and kingdom starts going to his head and he starts proclaiming he is GOD, he was Allah. They said to him "Shaddad look, Allah is the being who gives life and death, Allah(God) is the one who has created Heaven and Hell". So Shaddad say's "So what?, Life and Death??, I'll show you i give life and death". So he told his guard to "Go out and bring a group of people (innocent people), People from the community, And this group of people are brought before shaddad, And then he makes two group out of them, He says to his guards kill the first group.. So the first group goes, And the guard went to kill these people, And he says to the people "Look i give death". So he ordered his guard to "go kill the second group", So when the guard goes to kill the second group and they're about to kill them, Shaddad say's "STOP!", Shaddad says to the people "Look i give life".
Than they say to him "Look shaddad, God has made Heaven and Hell, Wheres your heaven and hell?". So shaddad started to acknowledge and he started to build a (Paradise) on this earth. These architects and builders, actually made something resembling a Jannah(paradise), They made such a Beautiful garden, So many fruits in this garden, beautiful women, trees, Very Beautiful that they made flowers.
When the winds blows from the flower The smell of the fragrance of musk and amber would animate from these flower, Such a beautiful Paradise. He made a Jannah(paradise) on earth, Now comes the day of open ceremony, Shaddad is the special guest, Its his paradise he is eager to see his Jannah, And show the people that "Look I have made a Jannah(Paradise) as well" and he was challenging Allah, So he gets on to his horse, He’s going to this Jannah on this open ceremony. When he got to his Jannah, And when he was just about to get off his horse, He put one step off his horse. He only had one step on his Jannah, At that time Angel of death was there waiting for him. One step inside and one step out side, Shaddad Ask him "Who are you?", He says "I am the Angel of Death and i have been ordered by Allah(god) to take out your soul at this time, right now at this minute. And the Angel of Death extracted his soul, Take his soul out.
And Later Allah informed the Angel of Death that, "O Angel of Death, this is that same very boy, who you saved (took out his Mothers Soul), But you saved him, This is that very same boy who's soul you have taken out today".
My Brothers and Sisters, death is in Allah’s hands, only Allah knows when you are going to die. You Know at the time of death, there was one brother who for his whole life was an alcoholic and when on his deathbed, instead of saying the Kalima ‘La ilaha illallah’ he is saying ‘ give me a vodka, you have one also’. these are his words as he leaves this world. This my brothers and sisters are True facts.
My brothers and sisters, you will die at your appointed time, but the choice is yours, if you have lived a life of good, if you have lived a life of obedience to Allah. If you were an obedient Muslim, you performed your salah and you didn’t violate the commandments of Allah (swt).
أَقُولُ قَوْلِي هَذَا، وَأَسْتَغْفِرُ اللّهَ لِيَ وَلَكُمْ ولِسَائِرِ الْمُسْلِمِيِ ، فَاسْتَغْفِرُوهُ،
إِنَهُ هُوَ الْغَفُورُ الرّحِيمُ.
If you stay in the way of the deen, and only obey Allah, then the Angel of death, as soon as he comes to take your soul, he would say ‘ Oh friend of ALLAH, Allah gives his Salam (Peace) to you, Allahu Akbar. Allah gives his Salam to all of you, Subhanallah.
Oh Allah I ask of you peace & faith in this world & in the hereafter
Thank you Allah swt for all the blessings ,Oh Allah Forgive all our sins, give us all that is good & keep us away from all that is bad
O Allah grant us the gardens of Firdous and save us from the Fire