V.2, CD7: Intro to Paradise and Hell October 10, 2008
Posted by ummibraheem in 'Umar Al-Ashqar: Paradise and Hell, The Hereafter Series.Tags: description of hell, description of paradise, punishments of hell
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Bismillah. I know I’ve been taking forever transcribing the rest. I really wanted to get it done before the baby, but with 5 more CDs to go, I don’t know if that will happen. Who knows, though?
This CD does an intro to the description of Heaven and Hell and then begins the descriptions of hell and its punishments. I did notice, however, the descriptions of Paradise seem to be in a lot more detail 
I know much of it will be repetition (or rather continuation) of ‘Umar al-Ashqar’s Paradise and Hell. Actually, I think Imam Anwargets a lot of his material from that series. In either case, repetition is good 
Besides, Imam Anwar doesn’t go to the same lengths as ‘Umar al-Ashqar (at least I think so). Here it is:
Paradise and Hell
Remember what ‘Aa`isha said: “If the first thing revealed in Qur’aan was ‘do not drink’, the people would have said ‘we are never going to stop drinking.’ And if the first thing that was revealed in the Qur’aan was telling the people to not commit fornication and adultery the people would have said ‘we’re never going to stop commiting fornication and adultery!’ The first things that were revealed in the Qur’aan were the Surah Al-Mufassal[1] that talked about and mentioned hell fire and paradise. Until the hearts were attached to Allah subhaana wa ta’aala, THEN the orders for halaal and haraam came down.” ‘Aa`isha said that if you first tell people this is haraam, that’s haraam, they won’t listen to you. The first things that were revealed were about paradise and hell. When the hearts were attached to Allah the dos and don’ts were revealed.
We can tell from ‘Aa`isha radiyallahu anha that the way to attach the hearts to Allah is to remind ourselves about paradise and hell. We are immersed in this world too much and detached from reality. We are not getting enough dose of akhirah. Unless we remind ourselves of it constantly, it’s not going to be on our mind. We are very attached to the ones we love in this dunya, the things that we have and the pleasures this life can offer.
Ask ourselves, if we were faced with the angel of death in this moment – even though he doesn’t have to seek permission from us as with the ambiya – “Are you ready to leave right now?” would we be ready to go?
I don’t think any of us would be ready to go. (more…)
