Summer is here, temperatures are extremely high and rising even higher, becoming more-and-more unbearable day-by-day.
Then, should we not reflect on the fact that there is a day coming (very soon) on which the sun will be brought close. On a day, when there will be no shade except for those provided with Allāh's Shade.
The Messenger of Allah (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) has indeed described for us this successful group in the following narration, may Allah make us from them.
Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) said, "Seven (people) will be shaded by Allah by His Shade on the Day of Resurrection when there will be no shade except His Shade. (They will be), a just ruler, a young man who has been brought up in the worship of Allah, a man who remembers Allah in seclusion and his eyes are then flooded with tears, a man whose heart is attached to mosques (offers his compulsory congregational prayers in the mosque), two men who love each other for Allah's Sake, a man who is called by a charming lady of noble birth to commit illegal sexual intercourse with her, and he says, 'I am afraid of Allah,' and (finally), a man who gives in charity so secretly that his left hand does not know what his right hand has given." [Sahih al-Bukhari, 6806]
This is a khutbah delivered by Abu Uwais Abdullah Ali (rahimahullah Ta'ala) based around the following hadeeth:
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Abu Hurairah (رضي الله عنه) narrated that the Prophet ﷺ said: "Whoever invites to guidance will be rewarded like those who follow him in the guidance are rewarded, and that will not decrease the reward of those who have followed him." [Collected by Imām Muslim]
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