My brothers and sisters, was there ever a time that, from the endless oceans of time, yes, the endless oceans of time, was there ever even a simple small episode of time when human beings used to be something that wasn’t even worthy of being talked about, wasn’t even worthy of being mentioned and also wasn’t even worthy of being remembered.
When You Meet Allah Almighty in Jannah
Allah Almighty asking you and me a very simple question: was there ever a time when no one remember you, was there ever a time when no one talked about you. Even after I came into this world, you’ll notice something: human beings, by their design. One of the words for human, the origin of the word “Insan,” is actually “Uns” (love and compassion). Human beings don’t just give love; they also want to receive love, and they want to receive compassion.
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So, even from childhood, as you become a little bit self-aware, you are looking for attention. If your mother’s not looking at you, you said, Mama, Mama, Mama, look, Mama, those of you that have kids know this already.
So, kids need attention; they are always looking for attention, and when they get a little bit older, they draw something they want to show you because they want your attention and they want to be acknowledged.
Look at how I’m dressed, look at what I did, look at what I can do. The kid can’t even jump yet; this is his jump, but he says, Look at me, look at this now, look again, because he wants that attention for himself. He wants to be the word “Medkoor,” someone who is mentioned, someone who is remembered. This is put inside the nature of a human being.
So, as you grow older, you want to: when you’re a teenager, you want to dress nicely, you want to look good, because you want to be seen and noticed, you want to be mentioned, you want to be talked about, and as you grow further.
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We live our lives looking for acknowledgement. Even when people get married, the wife is looking for the acknowledgement of the husband, and the husband is looking for the acknowledgement of the wife. We’re looking to make our parents proud. You know, when you graduate, everybody’s congratulating you, but you want to be Medkoor to your dad, Dad I graduated, Dad it’s done, Dad did you see the picture.
You need to get that congratulations from your father or your mother, because there’s always someone we want to be remembered by. You know there are studies now, and people are now more isolated and feel more lonely and alone than ever before in history.
Human beings have such a deep desire to be Medkoor that a teenager sees all their other friends online and they’re like, I don’t have an online account, I don’t have that many followers, I’m not being seen, I’m not Medkoor, I better take another picture, no, I better change the filters, I better do something else, I better change the background or the light wasn’t good enough, and then post it.
Brother, somebody will put a heart emoji; somebody will put a thumbs up. I can exist now, and if you don’t post it, if you don’t post your next slice of pizza, if you don’t post your, you know where you’re standing, what park you’re in, or some wisdom from Abu-Jah or something, if you don’t post that, then all of a sudden nobody knows you exist.
So, you know in this same Surah Al-Isan later on at the very end Allah Almighty described or towards the end Allah Almighty describes people who make it into Jannah. May Allah Almighty enter all of us enter all of us into his Jannah.
When we make it into Allah’s Jannah eventually there’s point, where Allah Almighty described that his believers are being dressed up. You’re going to meet with Allah Almighty himself, you’re getting dressed in Jannah to have a meeting with Allah Almighty himself now.
When you have that meeting with Allah Almighty and may Allah Almighty grant everyone of us that meeting with him when we have that meeting he’s giving us a drink. Allah is giving us the drink and while he’s giving us the drink, he’s talking to us and what is he saying: This is your pay, this is your rewards and your efforts was appreciated, your efforts was acknowledge meaning human being were created not remembered, human beings will die and people may or not may remember them, but Allah says:
Longer then the age of the universe and longer then the existence, Allah will remembers my efforts. Allah Almighty will acknowledge then and Allah will say you did good efforts, and you’re getting rewarded now. Allah acknowledge me, I am remember by Allah himself, there’s one thing to do Zikr of Allah, this is an Ayah where Allah is doing Zikr of you.
He’s mentioning you, he’s remembering your efforts, he’s acknowledge your effort. So now I learned something about my need for validation my need to be acknowledged my need to be seen Allah put that need inside us and no human being can ever fulfill that need. When you want somebody else’e attention or somebody else’s acknowledgement you will always be disappointed and then you realize if you’re truly grateful.
If you’re truly grateful, then you’re looking for Allah’s acknowledgement and that’s it that’s enough for you. That’s enough in Jannah, Allah Almighty says here: is your here’s the acknowledgement and so I and you have to make a decision as you’re leaving this school, as you’re graduating you’re thinking about a job, you’re thinking about career, you’re thinking about the next chapter of your life.
Every one of those chapter has to have one title “How will Allah remember this?” What impact am l leaving behind and am i leaving behind something that can continue to make me remembered by Allah. If i’m going that then I have succeeded what am I trying to get at yes human beings were made we not remembered for most of history.
Yes, we have very little time in this world and in that time after that time we might become not remembered, you might even become at not remembered next year, that might happen to you, so that’s the reality of my life and your life infact even if you do a lot of good for someone, a year later they’ll forget, they’ll say what did you ever do for me, they don;t remember you not remembered, but the only one will whom you will be forever is goign to Allah Almighty.
Conclusion
So, Allah Almighty says to some people:
“Today we are forgetting you like you forgot this day”
So, my brothers and sisters, we have a choice, we want to be the people that are forgotton by Allah and remembered by people, or we want to be the people that are remembered by Allah, no matter what people think, may Allah make us those that are truly remembered by Allah and given that drink on the day of judgment.