Ep 224. - Farhat Amin’s Funeral Prayer and Reminder - Dr Sohail Hanif Part 1
Innā lillāhi wa innā ilayhi rājiʿūn
"Indeed, to Allah we belong, and to Him we shall return.”
It is with great sadness that Muhammad Jalal’s wife passed away on Wednesday. She had been courageously living with cancer for over three years. She was a soul who remained obedient to her Lord to the very end and never wavered in her iman and goodness. May Allah open the doors of mercy for her and leave her good deeds and service to the ummah as sadaqah jariah for her.
يٰۤاَيَّتُهَا النَّفۡسُ الۡمُطۡمَٮِٕنَّةُ
ارۡجِعِىۡۤ اِلٰى رَبِّكِ رَاضِيَةً مَّرۡضِيَّةً
Allah will say to the righteous,˺ “O tranquil soul!,
Return to your Lord, well pleased ˹with Him˺ and well pleasing ˹to Him˺.
The Prophet (saw) said:
“The most beloved people to Allah are those who are most beneficial to others.”
Farhat lived this truth. May every act of kindness and dedication to our ummah she performed count as sadaqah jāriyah for her.
We ask Allah (SWT) to envelop her in mercy, to forgive her sins, to make her grave a garden from the gardens of Paradise, and to reunite her with her loved ones in Jannat al-Firdaws, the highest level of Paradise.
"Allahumma ighfir laha, warhamha, wa 'afiha, wa'fu 'anha."
"O Allah, forgive her, have mercy on her, grant her peace, and pardon her."
May her soul find rest, and may we all find strength in the legacy she left behind.
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alhamdulillah our prophet sallallah.aii he said when you've buried the deceased
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stay there and pray for them and ask for their forgiveness and ask Allah to give
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them strength and support because they are going to be questioned our master Abdullahb our master
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he instructed his companions saying when you bury me stay there stay around my grave he said
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for the length of time it takes to slaughter a camel and distribute the meat let's call it 20
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minutes where we recite the Quran and we make dua for our sister and we mention something of
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the words of Allah and his messenger it's reached us from the salaf to recite the
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opening and the ending of Bakar and some of our say to recite the opening at the head of
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the deceased and the ending at the feet of the deceased so we'll start with Quranic recital
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alhamdulillah
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happy for
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Oh my
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god
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fore foreign
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foreign
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for
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Amen amen
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amen amen alhamdulillah
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early
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oh Allah we are a group of believers and we have buried our sister and amongst us is her husband
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and amongst us is her son and amongst us are her brothers and amongst us are her family members
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and amongst us are the members of this ummah oh Allah accept our shaf for her oh Allah accept our
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dua for her oh Allah accept our pain and make it a reward for us oh Allah make this grave a grave
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of light for her make this journey a journey of joy and blessing and rewards make this a
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journey of of mercies and make her grave vast for her oh Allah let her never ever ever ever
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ever feel pain after the day that she left this earth let her only feel your blessings
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let her only feel your closeness oh Allah she sent forward children to you oh Allah unite
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her with them oh Allah give her the comfort with them oh Allah give her the joy with them
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oh Allah there are prophets and messengers and angels of yours in this next world let
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them receive her with joy let her them receive her with kindness amen and oh Allah whatever mistake
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she's done forgive her whatever mistake she was aware of or wasn't aware of wipe them out oh Allah
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and you are the all generous and you are the all kind oh Allah we are your your witnesses on earth
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and we testify that she believed in you and we testify she believed in your prophet sallallahu
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alaihi wasallam and we testify she honored the trust and we testify she taught this religion
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oh Allah accept our testimony and make the ja necessary for her oh Allah unite her with all
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of her loved ones and oh Allah give great sabar to those she has left behind give great reward
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to her husband who has lost children and wife give him a great everlasting and make this a separation
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which is not a separation which is followed by togetherness forever for you have promised the
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spouses are together forever and you have promised the children and the parents are together forever
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the people of imman so let this be a separation that's followed by togetherness forever and bliss
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and joy oh Allah give great reward to those who are bearing the pain of her loss for you have
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promised that every pain is a source of reward every difficulty is a source of gifts oh Allah
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give us the strength to bear this loss and give us a great a from your kindness oh Allah have
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forgiveness and anyone she might have wronged oh Allah take care of that for her inspire them
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to forgive her inspire them to overlook it let she have no one to ask her for anything on the
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day of judgment let her enter your Jenna without a let her enter the highest part of the ja in the
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company of the prophets and this is not difficult for you oh Allah oh Allah accept our shaf for her
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and oh Allah have mercy on all of us when we reach where she has gone oh Allah have those
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pray for us like you have blessed those who pray for her and oh Allah unite us all in the shade
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and the company of your prophet sallallah.aii wasallam for he is awaiting his ummah let us find
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the comfort of reunion with him and that's not difficult for you ya Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
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forch
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amen muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam
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allah Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam allah Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam
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oh Allah forgive all the Muslims of this graveyard and forgive all
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the Muslims of all the graveyard of the believers and protect them and believe
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and have mercy on them and be their companion in this life and in the next
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life alhamdulillah
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the family have asked us to share a few words as a reminder
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alhamdulillah and the truth is there is no reminder stronger than the sunnah we have
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all partaken in we have washed our sister we have perfumed our sister we have clothed
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our sister we have we have accompanied our sister and we have placed her hair on her
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next journey and this is the journey home we are a people who believe in an a does not mean
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next life means last means the last stop means arriving at home and so we bear this loss with
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difficulty but it is a journey that we're all on and it is the journey home and our
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sister was blessed with a blessing which was painful but it's a pain whose joy she will
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now be experiencing is that she sent forward children our prophet said sallallahu alaihi
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wasallam whoever has sent forward two scouts and this means two children who've gone ahead
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who will receive you from my ummah they entered the garden our mother said that Aisha asked him
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what about if they've only sent forward one child the prophet said sallallahu alaihi wasallam they
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also have the ja and then she asked what if they don't have any children they've sent
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forward the prophet said sallallahu alaihi wasallam I am their far I've gone ahead and
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I'm the loss that they felt every believer lives in this life with the pain and that
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pain is not to have kept the company of our prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam keep this
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pain as a source of reward because you will find the reward of this pain when you enter
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this journey the journey home that our sister is on and the separation ation is hard prophet
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said this life is a gift and this blessed soul was a gift to her children to her parents to her
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friends these are gifts we thank Allah for and we don't accuse Allah when he takes back his gift and
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he didn't take back his gift because he couldn't maintain it he took back this gift because he
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wants to give a longer gift a better gift and so we accept the destiny of Allah subhanahu wa
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ta'ala we are Allah's and we're all going back on the journey home and this journey home eman
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is an Arabic word that means to enter safety and so iman is your safety it's your it's your way
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you prepare and you look forward to the journey home our master our master bil on his deathbed
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he said he was so excited and he said tomorrow I'm going to be with my friends Muhammad and
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his and we have so much cause for hope for our sister because a people of are
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never defeated a people who know that the last journey is ahead nothing will defeat
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them when Allah made the fire a source of salam and coolness for our master Ibra
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It wasn't only for him the truth is every fire is coolness and peace for the believer every
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difficulty is followed by a deliverance and a reward and our sister with amongst the sources
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of hope that we have for our sister is that the prophet said sallallahu alaihi wasallam
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when people praised someone who died he said it's become necessary and they said what he said jenna
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is necessary because you were Allah's witnesses on earth i have a text message yesterday somebody in
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San Francisco was remembering our sister because a book of hers was in his mosque that's the blessing
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of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that's a cause of great hope that all over the planet people are
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testifying and there is another cause of great hope for her and for us because there's a surah
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we are meant to be reciting at this time before the death and after the death before the moving
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on and after the moving on and that surah is yasin and our prophet said sallallahu alaihi wasallam
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yasin is the heart of the Quran and at the heart of yasin is a man our scholars call him and this
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man was not a prophet at the heart of the heart of the Quran is a man who's not a prophet but his
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glory was that he wanted well for his people and he testified that they should follow the
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messengers and he testified that he was the slave of his lord
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and I promise you and I swear in this moment our sister is masid in she is
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on the heart of because whatever she wrote and whatever she taught
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and whoever she advised it was her own language and her own way to say
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what it was her own way and her own language to say
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And this person at the heart of there's something at the heart
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at the heart of it's the final destination and for the people
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who are on the heart of it's a glorious destination allah subhanana wa ta'ala
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says Allah always mentions the jah in company jenna is not Jenna on your own
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allah says the spouses are together and the children are together and the loved ones are
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together that's the world he wants to give you this world cannot hold what he wants to give you
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and that's why moments like this and its pain are just the beginning of a next journey and we draw
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strength from that journey for our pain we have so much cause for hope for her and for us because
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our hope is not in our actions our actions have all of their faults and everything we've
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built somebody else could have built everything we've done someone else could have done but our
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hope is in the ful of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala we are part of an ummah across time and space
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do you know and I swear to you prophet Noah praised prayed for our sister's forgiveness he
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said every believer across time and praise prophet Noah has praised for
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them do you know prophet Ibraimam prayed for our sister he said
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Our honor and joy in the fabul of Allah is we are part of an ummah across time and space just enter
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into iman people do you know will pray for our sister as long as there is hajj on this planet
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because no one leaves the plane of Hajj except praying for all the believers the living of them
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and the dead of them do you understand the ful of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and so all I say
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at the end is this much we have an opportunity because we are going to go home and we are going
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to go home and we want to go home in glory and the way you go home in glory is you follow our
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sister in following you don't have to be a prophet you don't have to be perfect you
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don't have to have all the things you think you need to have you have to want well for people
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he came from wherever he was he wanted good for people and all he testified to was the
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messengers have brought the truth and Allah is one everything you can teach every sunnah you
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can practice every community you can support you are Allah's witnesses on earth so I ask
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Allah to accept our testimony for our sister and ask Allah to give us a testimony on earth
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that we testify that Allah is one and that Muhammad is his prophet sallallahu alaihi
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wasallam and we do whatever we can to tell people to follow the male we ask Allah to
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gather us with our sister in the company of our prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam we ask Allah
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to give great rewards to her family for their loss we ask Allah to bless her son because she
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lives on in in her feed and whatever good you do is her good and whatever good anyone who
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is taught by her does it's her good and may that good never stop until the end of the end
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of the days amen may Allah bless you all and bless our sister and bless Amen amen balanian
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