Invocations of God #28 Satans Jealousy of the Praying Person
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Channel: Abdullah Oduro
Series: Abdullah Oduro - Ramadan 2024 - Invocations of God
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The speaker discusses the scenario of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam's statement to the people of Bethlehem, which is the second pillar of his message. He gives advice to listeners to not pray until they have caught up with the prayer and advises them to not pray until they have caught up with the prayer. The prayer is designed to make the individual take away from the law and become negligent, but ultimately the I do the enemy's plan. The speaker also reminds listeners to remember the text in the prayer and to take it away from their remorse feeling.Transcript ©
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So we're continuing on with the hadith
and at Tiramidi
where the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam is relating
the statement of Yahya to the people of
Bethlehem.
And he's telling them 3 of the 5
pillars of Islam
And we have reached the salah, which is
the 2nd pillar. And now I've been okay,
Rahim Allahu Ta'ala, is talking about
the situation. He's creating this scenario.
And this portion of the lesson is very,
very beautiful because within the next couple of
lessons, he's going to talk about the actual
actual scenario. And it's important that you, when
listening to this, that you think of your
own personal story within the particular
scenario. So you have the scenario but then
your particular story is that what you need
to recall to really benefit from the lessons
in the speech of Ibn Uqaym to
ultimately benefit from the Hadith
of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, the statement
of Yahya Alaihi Wasallam. So he says
He said, and these servants,
when they stand for the prayer,
say Satan gets jealous.
For verily he has stood,
he is in a standing of a supreme
station
and the nearest to Allah
So Satan, just generally the nature of Satan,
we have to remember that Shaytan Wa Adu
Wa Taqidu Wa Adu Wa Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala says,
Never really
Shaitan is an enemy.
So take him as an enemy. So Allah
is saying that he's an enemy, so you
need to take him as 1. You notice
how Allah gives you the knowledge then gives
you the responsibility of the knowledge. He says
that shaitan is an enemy, but what does
that mean for you? He's your enemy. So
you need to take him and address him
and know him as one. But now identifying
what are the things that the enemy will
do to you, What are first of the
things that he despises, which you should, by
default, love?
And what are the things that he will
try to do to you, which you should
know that when you do those things, it
takes you away from that which Allah loves.
Further, he loves it. So then he says
here,
for verily.
You know, Satan is jealous at the individual
because he's he's standing in the most noble
and closest in proximity to Allah
and the most in which is the most
enraging
to Satan. He says
He
said so he will
take all and air every necessary means
to make him not stand for the prayer.
He's gonna take any means.
So then he's saying here basically that Satan
will take every single means to make him
forget it and to think and hope for
other things. And he will take him,
by foot and by by by any by
any means,
until he makes him, makes
him
negligent to where the prayer will become insignificant
to him and he will eventually
leave it. That is the process of shaitan.
So let's just stop for here for a
minute.
Whenever you think that the prayer is insignificant
or you think that it is a burden
on you, know that that is ultimately the
I do the enemy's plan.
Generically speaking, he wants to take you away
from the law and in the prayer, he's
going to take certain means. So
Ibn Al Qaym is mentioning here, firstly, initially,
Satan wants to take you away from the
prayer and if you do it, it makes
him angrier,
which is showing that he will not give
up. He's going to take other means. What
are those other means? Ibn No. Pen mentions
it here.
This is beautiful.
He says here, so if Satan
was not able to do that, to make
you leave off and be negligent of the
prayer
to where you don't do it
or you eventually leave it, He says, well,
Esauhu and,
the individual
was to resist,
he was to resist him and to stand
by standing in that prayer. So if he
was to resist Satan and to go ahead
and pray. You know, people are telling you
not to pray. You're at work or you're
looking at things and people are telling you,
you know, why are you praying? Are you
in an environment and the time's about to
go out and you wanna pray? That time,
Satan's gonna come to you. Just don't do
it. Why are you gonna do it in
front of people? Why are you gonna do
it at this time? It's not suitable. Look
at what you're wearing. Whatever it may be,
he's going to take you away from that
prayer. If he's not successful in that, you
go ahead and you do it anyway. You
fight yourself. You say it doesn't matter. I
need to pray in front of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. I need to pray because this
is what he's giving me, etcetera. You remember
his beautiful names and attributes and the means
to do that action of worship. Satan is
not gonna give up. He says here that,
if he if Satan was not able to
do it and the individual stands at that
noble station being the prayer.
So he's saying here, at this time, listen,
he will come to him
with thoughts
that will come
between him
and his heart and soul. SubhanAllah.
He's gonna explain it here.
Listen to this.
Is saying here that that the process of
Satan, how Satan will take you away from
worship in general, particularly the prayer, which is
the most noble of the worship. And that's
why he's calling it the Maqam, the the
station. So
if Satan is handicapped and he's not able
to take you away from the praying, you
stand at his noble position, he will stand
in front of him in front of his
slave, in front of the the the the
the servant that is praying to where he
will come with his thoughts.
He will bring certain thoughts to him that
will serve as a barrier between his heart
and soul.
He doesn't stop there. He goes deeper. He
creates the scenario. So what I want you
to do here is when you listen to
this scenario, think of the particular thing you
were thinking about.
He says here.
So he reminds him in his prayer
about something that he did not remember
before the prayer
until,
perhaps,
that thing that he forgot about
before the prayer.
Right?
He said
to the degree to where he forgot about
that particular thing, and he gave up on
it.
Alright. He gave up on it.
So he makes him remember it in the
prayer. You're thinking about something at work. You're
thinking about an assignment at school. You're thinking
about something you had to do for your
business
while you're on the way to the prayer,
and you're fighting Chape On. You know, you're
leaving from the airport. You're about to go
to the airport. You have a flight, and
you're trying to think of your lecture. You're
trying to think of who you're supposed to
call or this this one, that text that
you were supposed to send to somebody.
You forgot about the text that you were
supposed to send, and then you say, Allahu
Akbar. You get in the prayer, and Satan
brings, oh, yes. That's who you you were
supposed to text. Don't forget to text him.
You remember the what was said in the
text. It was an argument. It was a
refutation. It was something, and you remember it
in the prayer. This is how Satan will
come to you. This is exactly what it
would be okay in his saying. He's saying,
you forgot about some toy. You you you
were trying to think about it, and you
couldn't remember. You said, no. Anyway, I gotta
go pray. You start to pray, Satan will
make you remember at that time. He says
to make him to
to to occupy,
to preoccupy his heart
with that thought.
So he'll take him away, that thought,
that text,
that message,
posting that video is going to take you
away from the remembrance of Allah
So now he is in the prayer with
no presence, no heart.
So he's saying so so he's not going
to reach the station that someone that was
present in the prayer reaches. He's not going
to reach that level because this process just
took place.
He
said,
He says, so he diverts himself and he
leaves from the from his prayer just as
he came in
with all the problems. And he's saying here,
with his mistakes and his faults and his
burdens,
that does not
lighten the burden on him, that the salat
did not take away. So this is important
here. He's just showing the
process of the prayer
and the steps that that that Shaitan will
take. So Satan will Satan will firstly try
to make you leave the prayer. If you
don't, he will come with your thoughts.
And Ibn al Qaim gives a beautiful example
here He
will call He will cause you to remember
those things that you forgot about before the
prayer.
He will bring to you thoughts
of those things
that will preoccupy you
from the prayer.
Now, there is a way to where one
can use those thoughts
to
enrich
the prayer
to where if one was to think about
a text message
that it was an argument between him and
the brother,
you think about it and you say, oh,
Allah. Forgive me. You think of where my
mistakes are. This is how the humility
is is is is planted within the prayer.
You think about your mistakes and you say,
Allahu magfirli.
You think about how he did you wrong
in the text. Allahu Magfirli. Allahu.
Oh, you have gafoorik filo. Oh, the offer
can forgive him for Yes, Saboor.
It's very difficult for me to to let
this slide.
Make me patient to let it go.
Oh, make me patient. This is how you're
using that thing that Satan was trying to
make you
divert you from the prayer and you're using
it as a means to remind you of
Allah and to increase you. Satan doesn't want
that. That's why the prayer ended up in
and of itself
is that which even needs, dare we even
say, more of a spiritual battle between you
and Satan because Satan is still trying. But
it's important, firstly, that you know that.
Now that you know that,
be ready for Satan to try to come
to you in any aspect of worship. But
one way that we can easily alleviate ourselves
of that is thinking of the beautiful names
and attributes of Allah and which name applies
in this particular
situation situation
that Satan was trying to take me away
from using my thoughts in this to separate
my heart from it. But how we connect
it is by remembering the names of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
names and attributes.
names and attributes.