How long do I have in Barzakh

Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honorable prophets and messengers. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, and upon his family, peace and blessings be upon him. My brothers and sisters, the... We normally utilize or we apply two kinds of criteria to deciding whether any of our spending is better or worse, which is a better place to spend. Right? Two questions. I'm not talking about any financial plan. Generally speaking, if you want to spend money, then one criterion is we say, we compare between something which has... which can give you pleasure, so short-term pleasure versus something which has a long-term benefit. Right? So which do you... which is the better one to spend? Short-term pleasure, yeah, of course. You have a party, you do something, you go to... you have a holiday, you spend money on that, you, you know, you buy something temporarily. But the same money, if you spend to buy in an investment, right? To buy gold, to buy long-term investment, to invest in a house and so on, then between the two, anybody will say the second option is the better option because you put your money where it is going to give you long-term benefit. If somebody takes... takes even time for the... for that matter. For example, our children, they go to school, college. They will want to go and play, go for a game or something with their friends and so forth, right? It's a good one, they learn. Nothing wrong with that. But if they are doing it and the cost of their studies, so if they have to go study, there's an exam, they leave the exam, they go play cricket or they play soccer or something, what will you say? The sort of question is, is it halal or halal? The question is what are you doing with the time? This time you should have been spending, studying for the exam, which has a long-term benefit on your life. Instead of that, you are playing a game, the game you can play anytime. You don't have to play the game just then. And even if you don't play the game, so what? Whereas if you fail the exam, then it is likely to have a long-term negative effect on your life. So this is how we compare. Where am I going to spend more time? I should spend more on that compared to where I'm going to spend less time, right? That's the basic principle. Sayyidna Usman bin Affan ad-Dhaya Lhanu died in the year 656. Today we are in 2025. So 2025 minus 656 is 1369. Right? 1369, do the math. 2025 minus 656 is 1369. Sayyidna Usman bin Affan ad-Dhaya Lhanu has been in the Barzakh and he continues to be in Barzakh for 1369 years. So how many years in the Barzakh am I planning to spend? How many years are you planning to spend? You're going there, believe me. We will go there. The day we see Malakur Mawd, the door opens. And we will remain there until Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala calls us, until the surah is blown out. Until Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala calls us, until the surah is blown, Israfil A.S., Rasulullah S.A.W. said Israfil has the trumpet to his lips and his eyes are fixed on Allah. He is in that position. Allah knows time has no meaning in that context. Thousands of years, millions of years, Allah knows best. So that instantly He will blow the surah and then we will come out of our graves. That period is Barzakh. So how many years have you got? The reason I'm asking is because we spend money. We work hard. We make dua for this life. This life is all on. 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, the Friendly Brothers, Friendly Ice Cream because you are, give you local examples. Friendly's Ice Cream was started, the company had started in 1935 by the two Blake Brothers. One of them died at the age of 102. And the other one, Priestley Blake, who built a house just after Long Meadow in Summers. When you're driving from here, you cross into Summers. On the left you see a house called Monticello.