How You Will Be Resurrected | Dhul Hijjah Series | Dr. Omar Suleiman & Sh. Ali Hammuda | Ep.5

The Vulnerability of Resurrection

Whose judgment do you fear more? Whose approval do you want more? And that is something that is supposed to exist while you're still here in this world. The same way that you are constructing a house of deeds, you are constructing a version of you on the day of judgment that you want to see. And that is what should be preoccupying you, not the distraction of everybody else who will die like you, and who will be naked on that day just like you, and who will be just as vulnerable as you.

Whenever there is an intense need, the greater the reward. So he said, upon hunger, and drink upon thirst, and clothes upon nudity. So the greater the need, the greater the covering, the greater the concealment.

And it's upon us insha'Allah to start our independent search and research into the aspects that we can apply today to earnest insha'Allah.

(Sahih al-Bukhari, Hadith 6527)

Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala anha narrates that the Prophet ﷺ said that you will be resurrected on the day of judgment حُفَاة, barefoot. عُرَاة, which is naked. And غُرْلًا, which is uncircumcised.

Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala anha says: "O Messenger of Allah, won't the men and the women be looking at each other if this is the situation?"

And the Prophet ﷺ responded and he said: "The affair is too severe for them to be paying attention to that."

SubhanAllah Shaykh Ali, before we get into this, just a really human manifestation of this, especially in Dhul-Hijjah.

The Human Reality of Vulnerability

If you go for Hajj or for Umrah, one thing I always notice is that in the beginning when the group first dons their ihram, there's an awkwardness, right? Like let's say you got a group of men and a group of women, friends, you take school trips, you take couples, and then suddenly the men are pretty exposed. And in the beginning there's an awkwardness, right? But it only takes a few minutes. And especially once you're doing Tawaf, no one's even paying attention anymore.

Because at that point, they're all focused on the Ka'bah. The situation is too severe. And our mother Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala anha, just like the first hadith that we started off with, she asks the question that would be on the mind.

The human interaction. The human response to the situation. But in this situation, لِكُلِّ امْرِئٍ مِنْهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ شَأْنٌ يُغْنِيهِ

As Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, that every single one of us will have too severe of an affair to be thinking about this situation, to be thinking about anyone else's burden, or to be thinking about how other people are looking at us, how other people are perceiving us.

Can you go into detail, Shaykh Ali, with this hadith, what the Prophet ﷺ is specifying here, and what the deeper meaning is?

The Complete Restoration of Creation

الحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله So we have several descriptions of how people will emerge from their graves. We have حُفَاة, we heard, they are barefooted. It's the peak of vulnerability.

There's nothing even on your feet. عُرَاة, completely nude. And then he goes to the detail ﷺ to say غُرْل, which means uncircumcised.

In other words, everything that you may have lost in this world, whether it's by way of surgery, or whether it's by way of an explosion, or a devastating accident, by design or otherwise, is restored to you. So a child who's lost his limb there in Gaza, his arm, his ear, his eyes, a part of his nose or her nose, everything is restored on يوم القيامة. That land will not tilt in favor of anyone, even if it means to restore that bit of foreskin that a person had removed from the body.

As Allah said in the Qur'an: "As we began the first creation, so shall we repeat it. This is a promise binding on us. Allah said, We shall do it."

Ibrahim: The First to Be Clothed

(Sahih al-Bukhari, Hadith 3349)

What is interesting is that the Prophet ﷺ then goes on to say in another narration: "Indeed, the very first of people who will be clothed on the Day of Judgment will be Prophet Ibrahim ﷺ."

So nudity is a common denominator between us all when we are resurrected. The hope is that through the decisions we make today and how we cover ourselves with piety through the right decisions we make in this world of ours, our nudity will quickly be erased insha'Allah on Yawm al-Qiyamah. The first of them, however, will be Ibrahim ﷺ.

And Imam Ibn Hajar, he gives several reasons as for why it could be the case that Ibrahim ﷺ will be the first of creation to be clothed.

Why him ﷺ? Let us perhaps identify some characteristics in his seerah, in his biography, that perhaps we can adapt and reflect in our lives. Because the Lord who will clothe Ibrahim is the Lord who we hope will clothe us as well on Yawm al-Qiyamah.

One opinion is that Ibrahim ﷺ will be the first to be clothed because when he was launched into the fire, he was stripped bare of his clothes. And because he was persecuted in the path of Allah, Allah Almighty will compensate by giving him clothing on Yawm al-Qiyamah to give him security. This was al-Qurtubi's opinion.

Others have said Ibrahim will be the first to be clothed on Yawm al-Qiyamah لأنه أول من سن التسطر بالسراويل He was the first to start the tradition of clothing yourself, covering yourself with the lower garment with the intention of extra concealment or extra covering.

So Allah will return that favour by covering him on Yawm al-Qiyamah as the first of creation. And some have said, and this was the opinion of al-Halimi, is that because Ibrahim was the most fearful of Allah Almighty on the Day of Judgment, so Allah Almighty will give him security as a thanks on Yawm al-Qiyamah by making him the first to be dressed.

The State of Dissociation from Shock

Sometimes, brothers, there is a shock in our lives that causes the heart to collapse whereby you completely disassociate from the world around you. This is perhaps what is being described here on Yawm al-Qiyamah. The sight of nudity that would usually capture our attention is no longer a matter of concern or interest on Yawm al-Qiyamah. Why? لكل مرئ منهم يومئذ شأن يغنيه Everybody will have a matter that will occupy him or her on Yawm al-Qiyamah.

And allow me to mention here, Shaykh Omar, several examples of what it means to disassociate from the world around you because of trauma, because of shock, where something in the heart collapses and in order to protect your mind, it's almost as though your mind almost temporarily checks out to protect the system from being further overwhelmed. So it's as though you disconnect from reality because it's too much to bear. So you're not there anymore.

Somebody who can squat, say, 200 kilos of iron on his back, strong man, but then someone says to him you've just lost a child. And all of a sudden, he can't carry his own body weight, which shows you that the strength was never his quads. It was something invisible inside which gives meaning and which gives resolve and power. Shock caused him to collapse.

We've heard of people who in the case of shock, they randomly start giving the Adhan, the call to prayer in public. It's Habibi, it's not the time for Salat. He's shocked. He doesn't know what he's saying. Or in a time of trauma, someone who starts calling out for someone who died many years ago. They're not there.

I remember a friend of mine, a paramedic. I asked him, what was the strangest thing you've come across? He said to me, subhanAllah, once we came into a home to respond to the death of an elderly woman. We came into the room and she was in the living room and she clearly, all of the signs of death were there on her. And she was a woman, say, in her 70s or 80s. He said what was more startling than that was her daughter, a middle-aged woman, sat by her side and she was combing her hair as though she was still alive. She's clinging onto any remnants of normalcy, refusing to accept that she has gone. Disconnect. You disassociate.

At war, sometimes a person will lose a limb or lose a leg and somehow he gets up and he tries to run. He's not there. Or someone who's even disemboweled and they continue fighting though they don't realize what's happened to them.

Our Prophet ﷺ also experienced a portion of this. When he went to At-Ta'if to invite them to Islam and he was treated in a very harsh way and he left and his ankles were bleeding. You know the story.

What does he say? He said that: "I continued to walk and I only regained consciousness of where I was until I reached Qarn al-Tha'alib." Qarn al-Tha'alib is near Mina today. So he walked from At-Ta'if to near Mina. That's around 88 kilometers. That's almost the entire width of Qatar by the way. He said he walked that entire distance unaware of where he was.

That's what happens to us. See? So it's not surprising that our mother Aisha she receives this response from the Prophet ﷺ saying to her: No, no. الْأَمْرُ أَشَدُّ مِنْ أَنْ يُهِمَّهُمْ ذَٰلِكَ The matter is far greater than for them to realize this.

Now I will just say one thing Shaykh before I pass over which is when I was delivering this hadith to some of my students in the UK one of the students is a psychiatrist and he said to me, you know what is strange is that in psychiatry we call this disassociation. You disconnect from the world around you because of a sudden shock and we have certain techniques to help a person come back to reality and one of them is a grounding technique where we encourage them to take off any material on their feet and to stand on the earth and he said, SubhanAllah you find on Yawm al-Qiyamah people are walking barefooted as though to say to them yes, you are in shock but you need to come back to reality because your accountability is about to start.

So, what is a person to do in this situation other than to prepare the essence of "the garments of piety, that is the best of all garments."

The Reality of Judgment and Approval

Beautiful reflections SubhanAllah I think when I connect this to the previous ahadith there is a lot that we have spoken about of the deeds that you present and then there are the vulnerabilities that are created because of the securities that are no longer there the external and then there is the trepidation of the sins that you have put forward coming to light.

Now, you think about what your clothes represent. Okay? When you walk outside you have a bare minimum that you want to be dressed to an acceptable level and appear let's put appearance right in the broader sense here not just focus only on the clothes but you want to be to an acceptable level because you fear their... can anyone complete that sentence? You fear their judgments.

You fear their judgment. So, I can't go out with one sock I can't go out with a hole in my clothes I can't go out with this because I fear their judgment. Right? They might perceive me in that way so it's the first thing I fear their judgment.

But then you embellish yourself you embellish your profile you embellish your appearance your whole life you're constructing an image of yourself because you want their approval. Fear their judgment want their approval. There's the disassociation from vanity here.

What are you trying to construct? What appearance are you trying to construct? Who are you performing for? Who are you trying to look good for? Whose judgment do you fear more? Whose approval do you want more? And that is something that is supposed to exist while you're still here in this world. The same way that you are constructing a house of deeds you are constructing a version of you on the day of judgment that you want to see. And that is what should be preoccupying you not the distraction of everybody else who will die like you and who will be naked on that day just like you and who will be just as vulnerable as you.

Right? So it really is a powerful way to disassociate. And SubhanAllah I want you all to think about this. I can say that just sitting next to Shaykh Ali elaborating hasn't the day of judgment become just that much more real to you just in the last five hadiths? There's an imagery.

Imagine if we pondered on this every single day of our lives. And that was the state of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam and the companions. They thought about this every single day when they prayed their salah مالك يوم الدين If they read no other ayah about the day of judgment they pondered upon this every single day.

Those images were fresh. And that's the point. That if you embrace that reality and then manifest a reality of yourself in response to that reality then you don't have to see it to act for it.

Right? So you think of yourself standing on that day. How do I want to be constructed on that day? How do I want to be brought forth? What occupies me now so that I don't worry about them today because I certainly won't be worrying about them on that day.

Actions That Adorn Us on the Day of Judgment

Shaykh Ali, I'll pass it back to you with a very specific question. What are some actions that can adorn us on the day of judgment?

So, Alhamdulillah it wasn't just the problem that was identified in this case nudity. As you ask Shaykh there is also solutions offered in the prophetic sunnah and this is from the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So take note brothers.

There's a few simple actions that we can imbue in our day to day that can really be a game changer on Yawm al Qiyamah.

1. Leaving Expensive Garments Out of Humility

(Sunan al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 2481)

The first of them is the idea of leaving expensive garments at least occasionally out of a sense of humility towards Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said: "Any person who leaves expensive clothes out of humility to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Allah will summon that person invite him on Yawm al Qiyamah in front of all of creation to allow him to choose which of the garments of Iman he wants to wear."

So there are some people who open up their wardrobes in the morning and they're about to pull out the Louis Vuittons or the Gucci's or whatever it may be and then something in their hearts happens and they close the cupboard door only Allah knows of the conversation that happened internally that made them turn down that clothing for one day. That's a cause of stitching your own clothes of Yawm al Qiyamah.

2. Consoling the Bereaved

(Sunan Ibn Majah, Hadith 1601)

Another way is to be present for somebody who is bereaved. Something as simple as giving Ta'ziyyah words of consolment and relief and support for someone who has gone through say death. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said: "Any person who consoles a bereaved person in the life of this world Allah Almighty will adorn him with the clothing of honor on Yawm al Qiyamah." What is the clothing of honor? What is the clothing of Iman? That's a surprise left for us Insha'Allah for the Day of Judgment.

3. Covering the Faults of Others

(Sahih Muslim, Hadith 2699)

A third easy one is well brothers "whoever covers the fault of a Muslim or whoever covers a Muslim veils a Muslim Allah will veil him in this world and in the hereafter." What type of veil? It's left open to include every type of veil for every Hawrah, every flaw, every defect, physical or otherwise that you would wish otherwise to be covered.

4. Feeding, Giving Drink, and Clothing Others

(Sunan al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 2449)

Another quality is where the Prophet ﷺ said listen to this hadith and link it to the famine that is rife in Sudan, in Gaza and in other parts of the Muslim and the non-Muslim world.

The Prophet ﷺ said three parts: "Any believer who feeds another believer who is hungry Allah will feed him from the fruits of Jannah. Any believer who gives a cup of drink for another person, another believer who is thirsty upon thirst so there is need Allah Almighty will give them to drink from the sealed nectar of Jannah. Any believer who clothes another believer who is nude who has no clothes Allah will clothe this person from the beautiful green garments of Jannah."

The emphasis of the hadith here as Dr. Abdul Karim Al-Khudair he said that whenever there is an intense need the greater the reward so he said upon hunger and drink upon thirst and clothes upon nudity so the greater the need the greater the covering, the greater the concealment and it's upon us to start our independent search and research into the aspects that we can apply today to earnest some clothing to cover our nudity on Yawm al-Qiyamah and there is a direct connection between not being so distracted by your own vanity by the very real poverty that's out there today and not being so distracted by the vanity of this world to where you forget your poverty tomorrow and I think that's the beautiful connection that all of these ahadith keep on bringing us back to that what are you trying to construct for yourself in the world that you will go to and what are you trying to construct for others in this world that you are in right now

May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us to clothe ourselves with taqwa with a beautiful appearance for Him and may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us to clothe those who are in the poverty of sin or in the poverty of suffering in this world Allahumma ameen

Questions and Answers

Insha'Allah we'll take our two questions Go ahead

Question: How do we constantly remember remind ourselves of the Day of Judgement so that we remember like how what state we'll be in on that day how scared we'll be how do we remember that in our daily lives

So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said that Allah has said that I do not combine for my servant two feelings of fear and two feelings of security if he fears me in this life then I will make him feel secure in the next life and if he feels safe from me in a way that's delusional in a way that he's complacent and he overlooks, belittles what Allah azzawajal has made great then I will cause him to fear me on the Day of Judgement and so there has to be a healthy fear we started off with that a healthy fear that there is a fear that runs you back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when it comes to the Day of Judgement reading about it constantly if you think about how much of the Qur'an is about the Day of Judgement, the scenes of the Day of Judgement visualizing it, reading it constantly if you read the Qur'an daily you will visualize it thinking about its specific scenes

I remember when I did the Judgement Day series and we went through many of these very refined points I would see people about a month after and they would say I was thinking about the Day of Judgement everyday in Ramadan but now a month later it's disappearing and I said subhanAllah that's actually the hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam when he said to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that I've become a hypocrite why? because when we're with you we're so connected we can visualize the hereafter I'm paraphrasing obviously it's like we are in such a state of imam, we're in such a state of faith and then we go back and we get distracted by our families and we get distracted by all these other things and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam explained that this is natural sa'atan wa sa'a, an hour for this, an hour for that a time for this, a time for that if you were to be in the state that you are in with me at all times the angels would shake your hands in the streets you can't you can't possibly do it so to carve out a time of your day where you're making du'a, the morning remembrances and the evening remembrances, there's mention of the day of judgment there try to visualize it, try to be more present in your prayer when you read the verses about the day of judgment and then try to have a daily reading of the Qur'an itself where you are paying attention to those verses and really living in those verses not thinking about how many pages you read how deeply you read the pages every single day and focus on those scenes sa'atan wa sa'a

Question: I made the connection that the three ways that Allah swt describes how we'll be raised is barefoot, nude and uncircumcised it's the same way that we were once brought into this dunya is there any wisdom behind the fact that the way we were brought into this dunya is the same way that we will once be brought back to life

Alhamdulillah, so as you see from these hadith that we're covering there is clearly a systematic undoing of everything that supposedly had meaning in the life of man other than Allah swt so first of all the world was decked replaced, leveled and everything that we thought was familiar and was of worth disappears that's the physical structure around you and the landscapes and landmarks, they disappear but then the clothes that we wear they are also then taken away from us and we were going to come across other hadith where we will realize that even the very air that we will be inhaling on the day of judgment for many people if Allah has no mercy will be a different type of air where people will be submerged in their own perspiration, so it's almost as though there is a systematic dismantling of everything that we thought was real and was of worth and to realize that it was delusional, it was fake it was not real, this is what, this is the only thing that ever held any type of weight

also it's the idea of all of us being put on an equal playing field so this is an earth that will not tilt in the favor of anybody nobody will have home court advantage nobody will be missing a limb or having an extra limb rather all will be identical so that there is a physical manifestation of just how equal the justice of Allah Almighty will fall upon people wallahu a'lam