*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
#needy-mentoring.
