Suicide Doesn’t Remain Unpunished

Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidul Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya Rasulallah, Madad Ya Sadat As’habi RasuLillah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Dastur Mawlana Sheikh Abdullah Faiz Daghestani, Sheikh Nazim al-Haqqani. Madad. Tariqatunas sohba, wal khayru fil jamiyya.

Bismi Llāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm:

(Qur’ān 17:33). Allah Azza wa Jalla says, ‘Wa lā taqtulun-nafsa allatī ḥarrama Allāhu illā bil-ḥaqq’, ‘And do not kill the soul which Allah has forbidden, except by right.’ Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla says not to kill anyone unfairly. Life is something given by Allah ﷻ. And when its time comes, Allah ﷻ will take it. You cannot take others’ [lives]. Let alone others’, people nowadays take their own lives when they get bored. They commit suicide and die.

Certainly, most of those who commit suicide do not have a sound mind. When there is no sanity, their account is in the presence of Allah ﷻ. But when people are sane and do it knowingly, their punishment is very big. While trying to get away from one thing, they fall into another bigger thing. They fall into greater trouble, greater suffering and greater torture.

As this time is a difficult time, people are very depressed and ask for death as a salvation from it. Some people come to us and ask us to make Dua for their death. Death is something given by Allah ﷻ. We don’t make Dua for anyone to die. Let the oppressors die. And when normal people come and ask for death, we make Dua that their problems are gone.

Otherwise, as we said, there are people who are insane or with an illness who do it unknowingly. When Allah ﷻ doesn’t give a mind, their account is different. But when sane people decide to kill themselves because of bankruptcy, it is not a salvation. You are saved in front of people by going bankrupt. But in Islam, they say – Bankrupt people are not imprisoned. They don’t have anything anyway. You should expose them, “This man has gone bankrupt. If you want to give him as help, you can give him. But you

www.hakkani.org shouldn’t work with him, as he doesn’t have money anymore”. They used to expose people in old times by taking them around the country so that they don’t cheat others. Otherwise, there is no imprisonment for bankrupt people.

This is so. A bankrupt man should live with this trouble and be content with it. You get this for your actions. If you did good deeds, this is a test for you. And if you did bad deeds, this is your punishment in this world. But don’t think that you will save yourself by committing suicide. Even if you go to jail in this world, what you did has such a punishment that Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla makes you die repeatedly until Qiyamah. As our Holy Prophet ﷺ said, however someone dies, at the time of death, the exact suffering of his death and his death scenes will continue until Qiyamah.

“I die and I get away”. Death is not salvation. Salvation is for believers who wait for the order of Allah ﷻ to die. Also, there is no need to rush. Everyone will die anyway. It is not a clever thing to commit suicide and suffer until Qiyamah. As we said, crazy ones do so. And if sane people do so, they will carry its punishment until Qiyamah. And on the Day of Resurrection, Allah ﷻ knows their condition, and how great the trouble they’ll face.

This used to happen in the countries of faithless people, in the richest countries in the world. Suicide occurs most often there. They think that they are the most intelligent people. Let alone this, they have invented something that whoever wants to die without pain, they inject them or give them a pill. They made up such a service as well. May these rascals get in over their heads with their service.

As they don’t have Iman, they think that death is the end, whereas the main matter starts after that. These deceased people are in suffering until Qiyamah. “They don’t suffer”. They do suffer, because they don’t have Iman. Certainly, the suffering of death exists. Whoever you are, even if you take gold injection or pills, there is no death without suffering. Some people have it a lot and some have it a little.

Therefore, people shouldn’t be caught in the traps of shaytan. Especially youngsters who do it more often when they get bored. They say, “I have a long life to live”. How do you know that you will live long? Even if you live for a thousand years, eventually, it passes in the blink of an eye. Therefore, Muslims should seek refuge in Allah ﷻ. They should believe in Allah ﷻ. What is life? It passes in the blink of an eye. Therefore, when you commit suicide, you destroy yourself and cause a lot of suffering to everyone around you.

www.hakkani.org I was sad when we went to Russia, in Muslim states like Bashkortostan and Tatarstan, people were telling us, “Many people from our classmates committed suicide”. Of course, they came out of communism. They took their own lives at a young age.

Suicide does not remain unpunished. There is very a big punishment for it. Therefore, Iman is important. May Allah ﷻ strengthen our Iman. And May He ﷻ strengthen the Iman of Muslims so that they know what they are doing. They should trust in Allah ﷻ and leave their death to the will of Allah ﷻ. May Allah ﷻ give us a good life. May Allah ﷻ not leave us to our egos.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 14 December 2021/10 Jumādā al-Awwal 1443 Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah

www.hakkani.org