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 *Entering the Jannah Together!*

Of course, it's part of our Islaam that we relate with people. In fact, we may not be able to actually display our 'Islamness' if we remain in isolation or in solitude especially now that people have been blessed with some consciousness about the Deen.

And it’s a hadeeth which was narrated by ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Umar (May Allaah be pleased with him and his father), in which he (the Prophet 'alayhis-Salaam) said [and 

this is a well-known hadeeth],

 

*“The Muslim who mixes with people and patiently bears their harm is better than the Muslim who does not mix with people nor bear their harm.”*

Collected by at-Tirmithee and Ibn Maajah and authenticated in Saheeh Sunan at-Tirmithee, vol. 2, pp. 306-7, no. 2035.

In other words, it's through serving people that our places in the Jannah get guaranteed!

Meanwhile in the hereafter, it wouldn't cause us any bewilderment when we are to witness some fellow entering the Jannah with their hands fetted with chains!

In one of the ahadeeth narrated by Abu Hurairah, the Prophet (Peace and blessings be upon him) said:

*“Allaah wonders at those people who will enter Paradise in chains.”* (Al-Bukhari)

حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ، حَدَّثَنَا غُنْدَرٌ، حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ـ رضى الله عنه ـ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ ‏ "‏ عَجِبَ اللَّهُ مِنْ قَوْمٍ يَدْخُلُونَ الْجَنَّةَ فِي السَّلاَسِلِ ‏"‏‏.‏

Sahih al-Bukhari (3010)

In-book ref: Book 56, Hadith 219.

Yeees!  

Though this was originally about the war prisoners of Badr who reluctantly and eventually succumbed to Allaah's (as they later entered into the Deen and died upon its injunctions), it could be replicated in our strivings today to ultimately earn people within our spheres of influence the bliss of the afterlife.

```Allaah, repay one who spends in charity!```

#prisoners-welfarism

#widows-cares

#orphans-education

#indigents-advocacy

#ill-health

#needy-mentoring

*HIJRAH: AN OBLIGATION TILL ETERNITY*

Man primary obligation in life is to worship His Lord, His Creator - Allaah. He does that in line with his ability and capability.

However, he has the option to migrate (go on HIJRAH) to a comfortable location if he's threatened where he stays and couldn't carry out this responsibility .

Allaah says:

```“Indeed the angels ask those who they cause to die while they are oppressing themselves: “In what state were you?” When they reply: “We were weak and oppressed in the land.” The angels will respond saying: “Wasn’t Allaah’s earth spacious enough for you to emigrate?”
Such people will find their abode in hell; what an evil destination.”``` [An-Nisaa' (4): 97]

In other words, the obligation to make hijrah was one whose consequence was hell for those who did not agree to do so (AbuuAmeenah).

In an authentic narration in Sunan at Tirmidhi, the Prophet ('alayhis-Salaam) said:

“Hijrah will not end until repentance ends, and repentance will not end until the sun rises in
the west. Hijrah will not end until the end of this world.”


According to Abuu Ameenah (Dr):

_"The Deen is the solution.
Islaam is the solution. It is the solution for all of the problems of human society. That’s the bottom line. So, we do have to consider the circumstances that we are in and ‘Hijrah’ remains an obligation
on us until the Last Day. And Hijrah here doesn’t necessarily mean packing your bags and catching the next flight to Canada. The Prophet ('alayhis-Salaam)
had said: “The true muhaajir (the one who makes hijrah) is the one who abandons what Allaah has prohibited.” So, it’s about giving up, leaving.
If it means shifting your home or shifting your job or shifting your friends, your neighbors, or
whatever, you do the necessary changes to ensure that you live a life or we live our lives which are pleasing to Allaah Subhaanu Wata’alaa."_


```May Allaah help us with the doing of that which will end up bringing us ultimate goodness fid-Dunyaa Wal-Aakhirah, aamiin.```


AbuuHaashim M. A. BOLAJI