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If we allow ourselves to sink into sin in dunya, then we will drown on Judgment Day. In this episode of The Book of Heart Softeners, we reflect on the terrifying imagery of people drowning in their own sweat according to the weight of their deeds, while others are sheltered beneath the shade of their charity and sincerity.
As the heat of the sun, the crowds of humanity, and the nearness of Jahannam converge, one question rises above all else: what have we prepared to protect ourselves on that Day? This conversation explores the acts beloved to Allah—private charity, resisting temptation, tears shed in secret, love for His sake—and how small moments of sincerity become cooling shade when nothing else can offer relief.
Join Sh. Omar Suleiman and Sh. Ali Hammuda to remember that every sacrifice made for Allah in this world becomes shelter in the next. Special thanks to Heenat Salma Farm for hosting and supporting this series, and to Caravane Earth for collaborating with us on this journey.
This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings.
00:00Shade on Yawm al-Qiyamah is absolute survival, and shade on Yawm al-Qiyamah is a sign that Allah Almighty wants to give you Jannah.
00:14The second thing is, now the Prophet, may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him, is giving you practical ways to construct your shelter on the Day of Judgment. We're not talking about building houses in Jannah yet; we're talking about constructing your shelter on the Day of Judgment.
00:56Abu Hurairah, may Allah be pleased with him, narrates that the Prophet, may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him, said that the people will sweat so profusely on the Day of Judgment that their sweat will
01:07sink seventy cubits into the earth, and it will rise up until it reaches people's mouths and their ears. Subhan'Allah, we have spoken about the idea of the land being bare; we've spoken about
01:21you being bare. So the land is bare, you are bare, and now this reality is about to be reconstructed in accordance with your deeds, fully in accordance with your deeds.
01:33And when you think about the weather, what's the weather like? What's the atmosphere? And how that impacts you, both from a place of mood as well as from a place of comfort.
01:46There is weather that feels pleasant or looks pleasant, like when we talk about shade in Jannah, we're talking about comfort, but then there is weather that is severe, weather that actually impacts your very being.
01:59And I want to give you, just in the reconstruction of this reality, something that is so basic, in sha' Allah ta'ala. And Shaykh Hadi, perhaps you can break this down for us, this idea of the sun and the sun being so close, and what that actually means.
02:11Remember, as you were going to your grave, you were followed by two things that turned back. What were they? Your wealth and your children, right?
02:22Now when it comes to your wealth, let's just take this very simple example. The Prophet, may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him, said, كُلُّ امْرِئٍ فِي ظِلِّ الصَّدَقَةِ حَتَّى يُفْصَلَ بَيْنَ النَّاسِ Every single person has the shade of their charity until the people are separated.
02:35So there is one element of this, which is the equivalent of your personal shade on the Day of Judgment is your sadaqah, is the charity, is that which you spent. On the other hand, the Prophet, may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him, mentioned that there will
02:46be people that will be swallowed into the ground, and those are specifically people that stole land from others, right? So think about the difference, right? Your own elevation, you know? If you gave charity, you're being shaded from the sun.
03:01If you stole money, stole land from people, you're being swallowed into the earth, and the Prophet, may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him, gave some other examples as well that relate to arrogance and oppression. When it comes to zakah, the Messenger of Allah, may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him, tells us about
03:14people that did not pay zakah on their wealth, the right of the charity on that wealth, and that that treasure or that zakah is heated up, and then it's branded on that person.
03:26So imagine with the heat of the sun, you also have heated metals on you as well, burning you as well. Okay, the Prophet, may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him, mentioned someone who stole land, being suffocated or choked by that land.
03:40So you have this varying degree of both where the sun is in position to you, as well as where you are in position to the very land that you're standing upon.
03:52And the temperature is being controlled by Allah, glorified and exalted, in accordance with what you gave, what you took, how you acted, with what you had in terms of your possessions.
04:00Shaykh Ali, can you break down for us this whole idea of the closeness of the sun and the way that you are going to be interacting with the sun on that day?
04:11Alhamdulillah, wa salatu wa salamu ala Rasulillahi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'in. So one thing is to be afraid on the Day of Judgment.
04:21Another thing is to be drowning in your fear. That is the scene which this hadith illustrates for us. People who will be almost fully submerged in their own perspiration.
04:35Praise be to Allah, glorified and exalted, how two people can be side by side on Yawm al-Qiyamah: one person shaded, enjoying this journey to Paradise, and another person literally being gagged by their own perspiration.
04:49Today, sweat, perspiration, is a mercy from Allah, glorified and exalted. It is a sign that your system is working, that your body is alive, that your existence
05:01is fighting for you; it's a sign of health. So you heat up, the hypothalamus sends a signal to your sweat glands, and all of a sudden droplets, as we know, begin to form on our body, and the idea is that with the evaporation of these
05:16droplets, heat is drawn away from our vital organs, from the heart, from the lungs, from the blood vessels. We cool down, and it is precisely this system that enables the athlete to cross the finish
05:31line without collapsing, and it enables the child to run in the summer months without passing out, and it enables us to survive fevers when we're ill. It's a protective mechanism from Allah.
05:42You perspire today, you say Alhamdulillah—it's a sign that you're alive and well. On Yawm al-Qiyamah, we have a completely different image being illustrated here.
05:53People who are almost drowning in their own perspiration, and this isn't because of record- shattering rainfall.
06:02This is purely the product of human perspiration because several sources of heat have all converged in one horrific way, and the most painful thing about this, brothers, is
06:16that there isn't anyone whom we can blame if we find ourselves experiencing this other than ourselves, because there is another hadith that gives a vivid description of the perspiration
06:28that will happen in Sahih Muslim on the authority of Miqdad, where the Prophet says, فَيَكُونُ النَّاسُ عَلَىٰ قَدْرِ أَعْمَالِهِمْ فِي الْعَرَقِ "People will be submerged in their sweat on the Day of Judgment in accordance to their
06:42deeds, in accordance to their doings," and then he explains—listen to this illustration—he said, مِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَكُونُ إِلَىٰ كَعْبَيْهِ وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَكُونُ إِلَىٰ رُكْبَتَيْهِ
06:54وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَكُونُ إِلَىٰ حِقْوَيْهِ وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَلْجِمُهُمُ الْعَرَقُ إِلْجَامًا وَأَشَارَ إِلَىٰ فِيهِ "He said, some people will be up to their ankles in sweat, some people up to their knees in
07:06sweat, other people up to their waist ties in sweat, and others will be completely submerged in perspiration," and the Prophet, to illustrate this, to make it vivid, he pointed to his mouth,
07:18trying to stay above it just to breathe. Now, as you alluded to, Sheikh Omar, the heat of Yawm al-Qiyamah is from several sources
07:30that have all come together. The first and most obvious of them is the sun. The sun today that hangs over our head by a distance of around what is it, ninety-three million miles or so, and
07:43despite that, we can have heat waves today that can cause you to feel so dizzy or even pass out, and countries will have certain legislation about a certain temperature whereby if it exceeds it, then you're not legally allowed to be exposed to direct sunlight because it's
07:57just unhealthy. Here in Qatar, I think it's 32.1 degrees, last time I checked, and that's a sun that is what, ninety-three million miles away from our heads. On Yawm al-Qiyamah, the sun is
08:08brought forth كَمِقْدَارِ مِيل—the distance of a mile in Arabic—and the narrator of this hadith says, "I don't know what is meant by a mile." He said, "It's one of two: it's either
08:19the mile, the human distance of the mile equivalent, or it's the mil, which in Arabic is in reference to the stick that is used to apply kohl to the eye, and what is that?—one or two inches.
08:31So that is the sun, source number one of the heat. Then you have the second source, which is the colliding of the many billions of bodies coming together on one plane of Resurrection.
08:45They call today, scientists, this phenomena the "heat domes." When many people come within a small area, and people are breathing and colliding, it's suffocating. So extend that
08:59to all of the generations to have ever walked the earth, all appearing together on one space. That type of heat that will happen as a result of that—that's source number two. Then you have source number three. What is that, brothers? Any ideas?
09:12Jahannam, which is another source of heat. Allah said, وَجِيءَ يَوْمَئِذٍ بِجَهَنَّمَ—
09:22"On the day, we will bring the hellfire." يَوْمَئِذٍ يَتَذَكَّرُ الْإِنسَانُ وَأَنَّىٰ لَهُ الذِّكْرَىٰ—"That's the day when man will remember, but what
09:32will remembrance do for him on that day?" And Muslim narrates of the Prophet, may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him, said, describing the moment that Jahannam arrives, he said, يُؤْتَىٰ بِجَهَنَّمَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ
09:45لَهَا سَبْعُونَ أَلْفَ زِمَامٍ، مَعَ كُلِّ زِمَامٍ سَبْعُونَ أَلْفَ مَلَكٍ يَجُرُّونَهَا—
09:52"Jahannam will be brought on the Day of Judgment with seventy thousand rains, and upon every one of those
10:00rains will be seventy thousand angels dragging it." Allah said, describing this moment in the Qur'an, إِذَا رَأَتْهُمْ مِنْ مَكَانٍ بَعِيدٍ— "When Jahannam sees them from a distant place."
10:10When Jahannam sees them from a distant place—notice what Allah says: not "when you see Jahannam," but "when Jahannam sees you." So it's a creature that talks and breathes and speaks and
10:24feels and communicates. When Jahannam sees them from a distant place, سَمِعُوا لَهَا تَغَيُّظًا وَزَفِيرًا—
10:32"They will hear the roaring of Jahannam and its exhalation." These are three sources of heat that converge in this horrific, terrifying way, which shows that when we speak about shade
10:47on Yawm al-Qiyamah, this is not just a luxury; this is not an optional add-on that would be nice. Shade on Yawm al-Qiyamah is sanity. Shade on Yawm al-Qiyamah is absolute survival, and shade on Yawm
11:02al-Qiyamah is a sign that Allah Almighty wants to give you Jannah. And that is the most promising aspect of the shade—not what it gives you just on Yawm al-Qiyamah, but that it is a sign of what Allah
11:13has prepared for you after that. Shade. If you look at the impact of your actions here first, as they
11:22relate to others—you know, think about the coolness that charity brings to others, brings to their chest, right? The relief that it brings to their chest, right? Someone who's in debt and you pay
11:36off their debt, someone who owes you money and you forgive their loan—think about how expansive their chest suddenly feels, right? They can breathe now. Because when you're in debt or when you're in
11:48poverty, you're suffocating. They can breathe now. On the other hand, think of someone that you're wronging—may Allah protect us, right—and burying someone in debt, or stealing from someone, and the
11:58way that they are suffocating due to the financial circumstances you are placing them in. So you are being paid back in a very specific way, and a lot of his mercy, by the way—and out of his justice—
12:11allows for some of these consequences to be felt in this life as well. So you give charity to someone, and Allah, glorified and exalted, puts barakah, puts blessing, in your wealth, and so as a result, your
12:22wealth increases, and so you find greater relief and greater joy in the wealth that you have here, greater shade, greater comfort from your wealth here. On the other hand, when a person steals or
12:35resorts to impermissible means, then they find that there is a loss of barakah in their wealth, there is a loss of blessing in their wealth, and as a result of that, it gives them no benefit, gives them
12:45no comfort, no joy. So there's a preview of sorts to the Day of Judgment, but beyond that—so your personal shade is your sadaqah, right? Beyond that, the Prophet, may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him, mentioned seven people
12:56that are shaded under the throne of Allah, glorified and exalted—seven categories of people. Now, Imam Ibn Hajar, may Allah have mercy upon him, wrote a book on the different stages,
13:06the different stations, those that lead to the shade on the Day of Judgment, and he illustrates tens of categories that can be derived but they all have a common theme and the Prophet SallAllahu
13:20Alaihi Wasallam mentions to us these seven categories of people so imagine on the day of judgment when it's not just your personal charity that is shading you but it's the throne of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
13:31that is shading you okay and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam goes through and he mentions a just ruler SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam he mentions young people that grow up in the worship of Allah
13:43Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala I'll paraphrase for the sake of time he mentions someone whose heart is attached to the masjid he mentioned SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam two people who love each other only for the sake of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala he mentioned someone who is called by a woman of great beauty and status
13:58and he said no I fear Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala so someone who resists temptation he mentioned someone SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam who gives charity in secret and he mentioned someone who sheds tears in secret so these are the seven categories again I'm going very quickly
14:11because I want to focus on the underlying theme Ibn al-Qayyim Rahimahu Allah says the underlying theme here is Mukhalafu al-Hawa that they all resisted something for the sake of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
14:23the just ruler resisted power the young person that was called to adultery and fornication
14:30resisted lust someone resisted ego someone resisted greed right all of these you know forms of resisting temptation for the sake of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala holding yourself for the
14:43sake of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and now you find yourself after you've resisted recognition resisted ego resisted lust resisted power now you're finding that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
14:54brings you under his throne on the day of judgment and imagine the view looking out and seeing everybody else sweating drowning in their sweat and you under the throne of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
15:08there's something I want you to think about very practically here number one you don't need to be special to fall into any of these categories you just need to be sincere none of these categories
15:20or at least there is no person who can make the claim that they can't fall into any of these categories right despite whatever wealth you may or may not have position you may or may not have
15:32right who can claim that they don't belong to any of these categories or they can't belong to any of these categories so that's the first thing I want you to think about here the second thing is now
15:44the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is giving you practical ways to construct your shelter on the day of judgment we're not talking about building houses in Jannah yet we're talking about constructing your shelter on the day of judgment this is shade for survival not serenity serenity will come in
15:58Paradise by the night under the coolness of those trees and under the coolness of that shade this is survival how do you build your shelter because this is a land that you will stand on for
16:08some time until you go on to your permanent destination and you want to be prepared and bring it with you you know SubhanAllah when you go for Hajj you see people that make the preparations for Mina and Muzdalifah for example and things of that sort right and that sleeping
16:23bag makes a world of difference if you brought it with you in Muzdalifah you know so what are you doing every day to construct that shade for yourself and last thing I'll say I
16:34remember I asked one of my teachers where are the Shuhada where are the martyrs because we've seen so many of these Shuhada in Gaza and he said Allah knows best but the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
16:45said that they are in chandeliers suspended from the throne of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala so they're in a league of their own right they have their place and when you talk about
16:56resisting the desire to live right when they were faced with a situation where they put their lives on the line for the sake of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala so what have you resisted for the sake
17:08of Allah to where he will now provide you coolness on that day and his shade on that day when there's no shade except for his. JazakAllah khair ya Sheikh Omar. There is a statement where they say that
17:22as you sow so shall you reap it is the way of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala that many a times the good deed that Allah Almighty offers or the reward that he offers for a good deed there is a
17:35connection between them they match in one way or another so as was mentioned by Sheikh that the undercurrent covering all of these seven categories is a certain heat that was suppressed
17:46in the life of this world so the first of the seven categories as you mentioned that imam a just imam the temptation is to not be just because you have the power to execute your will
18:00he suppresses that heat go through all of the seven you'll find the same theme young man whose heart was attached to the masjid the temptation is to not be attached to the masjid because your
18:13life's ahead of you he suppresses that heat a person who was invited by a beautiful and high ranking woman to commit what is impermissible he suppresses that heat so Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
18:25rewards this type of behavior and because of that former suppression Allah Almighty suppresses the heat of Yawm al-Qiyamah for them because they've done that down payment already in the life of this world. BarakAllahu feekum. Let us see if we have any questions from yourselves.
18:40I can ask one question. Sheikh Ali you mentioned that Jahannam is this creature that sees hears and
18:48speaks when I feel a lot of us think of Jahannam we just think of a big fire is there any hadith
18:55narration or verse that kind of clarifies what Jahannam really is? Jahannam is anything but
19:06a pure furnace or simply a chaotic ball of fire rather it is a very sophisticated
19:15creature of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala that has a voice it has a neck it has eyes on Yawm al-Qiyamah we have been told that a neck of Jahannam will crane forth and it will look over into people
19:27on the plane of resurrection and it will tell people whom it is preparing itself for.
19:37Jahannam we know of the different ways that it punishes its people both physically and psychologically and no doubt this is one of the many aspects that helps a Muslim stay in line
19:49a constant reminder not just of what Paradise is but especially when a person is in the former years of his or her life to also remember that there is a destination called Jahannam and though
20:00it's not very popular today to speak about it it is one of the many Islamic concepts that should be revived in our hearts time and time again.
20:10Remember fear and hope if you only talk about Jannah then you're at risk of delusion right when you ask like us SubhanAllah psychologically
20:22fear tends to motivate us to the point of survival hope tends to push us to acts of excellence when you think about fear of consequences in your own life if I don't do
20:35this this is what will happen to me that gets you to the bare minimum of survival but then talking about Jannah is where you think about the extra rewards the extra sabiqah the extra you know
20:48recitation of this dhikr and that dhikr but sometimes fear of failure is the necessary
20:53motivation that you need to fall in line and to not end up facing those consequences.
