Last advice of Ibrahim Adhem

Auto-generated transcript:Alhamdulillah Rabbil Alameen wa salatu wa salamu ala ash-sharafi al-ambiyyi wal-mursaleen Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam.
Tasliman kathiran kathiran.
My dear respected brothers, sisters, elders.
Before I begin my khutbah, I ask you to make dua for the forgiveness of the father-in-law of our dear brother Muhammad Kibodia.
Who died today, he was sitting in Juma'ah in the Saf listening to the khutbah.
When the khutbah finished and the Imam said,
People stood up and he was still sitting there.
So somebody said, please stand up.
And he was gone.
La ilaha illallah.
Inna lillahi wa inna alayhi rati.
I ask Allah to give me a khatim. I like this inshallah.
Inshallah.
Allahumma khufir lahu wa rahmah.
Wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
Wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
The body of one of our brothers, a revert, who was the only Muslim in that family.
And as I was bathing the body, and I went deliberately.
Alhamdulillah, we have enough people to do this work.
I said, I need the reminder for myself.
So I went.
Because the previous body I bathed was about 25 years ago from the same masjid.
So I thought, too long, the time has passed.
So I need the reminder.
I went there.
And subhanAllah, as I am bathing the body, I am thinking to myself,
this man could have been a billionaire, a trillionaire, and he could own planes,
and he could own, you know, massive palaces and whatnot.
Or he could be somebody off the street from under us,
living out of a shopping cart, which he stole from someplace.
He could be anybody.
All I have there is a body.
And I remind myself and I remind you that one day this will happen to you and me.
This will happen to us.
And I had a, alhamdulillah, an amazing realization at that time.
And I was thinking all this, you know, all this.
Maybe he had wealth, maybe he didn't have wealth, and so on, so on.
And I was thinking, how can I get this?
And I was thinking, how can I get this?
And I was thinking, how can I get this?
And the question that popped in my mind was, how do I know what will stay here when I'm dying?
When I die, how do I know what will stay here?
And how do I know what goes with me?
And my realization was very simple.
And that was that whatever I can see will remain here.
Whatever it is.
I can see my wife.
She will remain here.
I can see.
I can see my friends.
They will remain here.
I can see my property.
It will remain here.
Whatever I can see will stay here.
What will go with me is how I acquired the property.
What decisions did I make?
How did I behave?
What did I choose?
Where did I choose to earn my living?
Where did I choose to commit to pornography?
And what did I deeply feel that this community needs toď?
I was not safe in the behind of
the altar.
I was not safe in the rise of God by health and sickness.
I was not safe in the rise of God by health and sickness.
I had an addiction to Str pattern You'll see the money accumulating during this process.
going to my qabar. But the fact that I used my money for a good cause will go with me.
And I think that was a huge reminder for me. He says, Suhaillah, focus on why you are doing
something. What is the niyyah? What is the khilas? What is my ta'allukh with Allah?
Who do I look to for help? Who do I worship?
Salim bin Abdullah bin Umar, radhiallahu anhum, was making tawaf.
When Hisham bin Abdul Malik, the khalifa,
also came to make umrah. So he saw Salim bin Abdullah bin Umar, the grandson of Umar bin
Al-Khattab, radhiallahu anhum, making tawaf. And he looked at him and he saw that his clothes
didn't look particularly good. They looked old and they looked,
you know, maybe they had some holes in them, Allah knows.
And he was carrying his shoes in his hand.
And he saw that the shoes also looked like they were broken.
So he came next to him while they are making tawaf.
And he said, Salam, and he said to him, tell me, is there anything you need? What can I give you?
I mean, he has a good heart.