Long Necks And Gray Hair | Omar Suleiman

Your first gray hairs can be really really stressful, they're, a wake-up call, and that's why many of their illumat they say when Allah says: haven't we given you a long enough life to figure it all out and the nadir the Warner came to you. They say that gray hair is actually the Warner that Allah is talking about. It'S a sign that you're getting closer to your return to Allah, which is why the prophet saws Allah will forgive a person up until they reach the age of 60, meaning the proof has been established against them at that point. So that's one element of this. The other element is what caused that gray hair to sprout other than old age gray can be induced, of course, by stress and Allah says about the day of judgment that it would be so severe that it would turn a newborn's hair gray, the prophet saws. He was known to not have much gray hair, but he had this sudden onset and when he was asked why he said it was all from Surah and it's sister surahs, the surahs that are like it. So, what's the takeaway in this regard, anything that was used for Allah, anything that aged for Allah, anything that was induced for Allah is actually a great sign of Honor. You look at the person who has endured a wound in the cause of Allah or someone who put their joints through stress from the amount of worship or service that they did or someone who has a mark of prostration on their forehead. And the list goes on. And on and on and on, but the point is that the marks of the righteous in this world will certainly be streaks of reward in the hereafter one of the people. The prophet saws said Allah would not even look at or speak to on the day of judgment, an old man who committed adultery because with all those years and with diminished desire, he still went ahead and disobeyed Allah. But, on the other hand, you have those people who lived long lives of worshiping Allah and they're special and by the way we should be honoring them as well, the prophet saws. He is not one of us who does not have mercy on our youth. Nor knows the honor of our elders and so subhanallah the youth require Mercy, not harshness. The elders, on the other hand, require honor, not mockery and that's how you start to build a prophetic and balanced community. So how does Allah honor that age? On the day of judgment, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, said whoever grows a gray hair in his Islam. It will be a light for that person on the day of judgment, and the prophet saws also said that practically do not pluck your gray hairs. For that reason, you can dye them if you want to in ways that are permissible, of course, and you can cut your hair, but don't pluck them entirely, as they will shine on the day of judgment for you, Allah, the most rewarded people on the day of Judgment are believers who led long lives of righteousness now, in the broader sense, it's not just about gray hairs. The gray hairs merely speak to this trend of marks of righteousness that are shining on the day of judgment. So for the Shaheed, for example, the Martyr, the prophet saws, no one is wounded in the cause of Allah and Allah knows who is sincerely wounded for his cause. He will come on the day of judgment and his wounds will be looking just like the day that he was wounded and the color of that blood will be the color of blood. But the difference is that the blood will have the smell of musk and no one is feeling sorry for that person on that day, because they are beaming with light in all of the places that they were wounded for the sake of Allah. So I think about with his chest, beaming on the day of judgment who said every part of my body has been marked for the sake of Allah at this point in my life and then you connect that to this other group of people. You see and this large group of people coming forward and they have these long, elegant, necks and the prophet saws that the callers to prayer will have the longest necks of the people on the day of judgment. Now he explains that the Arabs refer to nobility and people of leadership as people of long necks. So these people are the forerunners now some of the scholars. They say that the is connected to the Masjid, because there is a person that is so regular in the measure that the people yield to them for their decision making, and so there's also a position in this life. That'S denoted by that position in the Hereafter and then there's something that connects to the tongue here, because this tongue is shouting out what shouting out the victor of Allah, the remembrance of Allah. He said that the prophet saws that, even if you're alone in the mountains call the Adan for verily the sound of the voice is not heard by a Jinn by a human being or any creation, except that it will testify for him on the day of judgment. So, what's the takeaway from this, if I'm not old, I'm not then, and I'm not a warrior. One of the questions that you're going to be asked on the day of judgment is one of the first things. You'Re asked about what consumed your body so any wrinkle. Any gray hair any one of those stretch marks for the mothers out there, who literally, were in Jihad with their pregnancy any Dark Circle under your eyes, due to the sleeplessness from qiyan or from concern that you had for this ummah. All of that is going to be light on the day of judgment, so long as it was for the sake of Allah. So long as it was sincere and the Practical side for the community is just like. Allah is going to honor. Those marks on the day of judgment we see those marks in our community as Badges of Honor amongst us.