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Sunday, September 13, 2015

A Sign of a Good End Depends on the Final Deed of the Person: Dying in Whilst Worship is Cause to Enter Jannah

On the authority of Sahl bin Sa’d [may Allaah be Pleased with him] said that the Prophet [Peace and Blessings be upon him] said, “Verily, all actions are judged by the final ones.” [Reported by al-Bukhaaree (6607)]
Al-Haafidh ‘Abdul-Haqq ash-Shabeelee [may Allaah have Mercy on him] said:
Know! That a sign of a bad end – may Allaah protect us from such – will not afflict someone where his outer-deeds are steadfast and his inner-self (i.e. thoughts, intentions and acts of worship of the heart) is pure.
A sign of a bad end is where a person’s intellect is corrupt and his inner-self has firm intention to commit major sins and translate such intentions into his actions.
It may be that a person has these intentions right up until the point of death, and then he repents before his life is taken, in which case the person will be rewarded. In such a case, it could be that the Shaytaan distracts and seeks to delay the Tawbah of such a person up until the final point of his life, he repents, and thus is taken in this state (i.e. of repentance).
[The Final End and Remembering Death (Pg. 178)]
It is narrated on the authority of Hudhayfah [may Allaah be Pleased with him] that the Prophet [Peace and Blessings of Allaah be upon him] said, “Whoever fasts a day, seeking by it the Face of Allaah, and dies in such a state – will enter Jannah.”
[Ahmad (22235) and classed as Saheeh li Ghayrihi by al-Arna’oot]
In a similar narration reported by Muslim (5126), “Every slave will be resurrected doing what he did when he died.”

Ibn Jawzee [may Allaah have Mercy on him] said, “The person will be raised in the state he died upon – his final deed will be the deed that he is resurrected doing.” [Kashf al-Muskhil fi Hadeeth as-Saheehayn (1/751)]

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