It is God's grace that within Islam we have a wide spectrum of believers, with many shades of gray, and within each shade of grey, there are levels and levels. While the 'sparrows' amongst us have a flight path distinctly lower than the 'eagles', the beauty of God's mercy and grace ensures that at the 'end of the day' each one of us is judged at different level according to our innate ability, IQ, EQ, financial and social strata in life etc and etc. The companions of the Prophet who lived with him and see miracles happening around him will be judged differently than a present day scholar fourteen centuries way down the lane. Similarly, one cannot expect the 'sultans' and 'princes' of a country to be judged on the same scale as a road-sweeper with Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur.
At the end of the day though, the common denominator still is the question of taqwa, and nothing in English can fully explain taqwa. In part it encapsulates , ' an admixture of both fear as well as enduring hope for His rahmah and mercy '. Fear and hope as He is ' nearer to us than our jugular ', as the prophetic and Qur'anic expression goes. For Pak Mat Nyadap of Padang Pa' Amat, Kelantan, the simple villager, whose only claim to fame is his goats and one or two cows in the field, he would be asked, beyond his goats and cow of course, as to how he treats his children and wife or wives; how many daily obligatory prayers he had missed and why?; and also whether he manage to pay his yearly zakat fitrah, which is nominal. The Prime Minister Of Malaysia, numero uno in his land, will be asked a wee bit more apart from his strayings from the five pillars of the faith: " Dear abdi, and why in your 25 years of being the substantive PM in the land, you have not moved an inch towards instituting My 'shariah'. In fact, on your record here, you and your lot seem to be working against Me and the very people who wanted me! ".............and so on and so forth. For mere mortals like you and me , the opening gambit will be " Man Rabbuka? " [ Who Is your Lord ?], followed by " Man nabiuyuka? " [ Who is your 'Penghulu'? ], upon entry into 'Alam Barzark' [ The realm of the grave ].
A Lord and 'penghulu' that we all profess to follow but never quite follow.Further questionings before the 'Sirat', I don't know', but definitely not simple arithmatics or calculus.
Suffice to say the bottom-most of the heap in the 'eternal furnace' will be inundated by false ulama', scholars and the mufti-class who remained quiet on the side despite their knowledge of the truth;... amidst dictators, past and present day Fir'auns and all the Qaruns put together, etc and etc.
Now back to Imam Suhaib Webb. In this lecture, which was delivered in Kuala Lumpur, he addresses a different issue, the inevitable issue of sect and sectarianism within Islam, which seem to keep the ummah on hold .....Arab , non -Arabs, Sunni and non-Sunni, Salafis and Wahabis, Sufi and non Sufi's, modernist and post-modernists, and not to forget.........lastly the 'new animals', they called themselves the liberal-Islamists'. [ by the way, do you consider this 'Mamak Friday', Syed Apakhnamadiadah a 'liberal Islamist'? This chap who wrote some trash on 'The Black Stone worshipers'. This Mamak Friday is thoroughly on a confused spiritual plane, all his own....]. This new animals some scholars would categorize as being spiritually confused but let us not get further worked up by them. We should all pity them. Now let us listen to this young man, Imam Suhaib Webb who despite his relative young age, speaks with distinct clarity of thought :
Imam Suhaib Webb on Akhirat Deficit Syndrome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGNVVYBXGHA
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