Abdullah Oduro – Nightly Reminder 29-04-2024
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The speakers discuss the importance of seeking refuge in Allah's language, including in actions and emotions. They stress the need for seeking refuge in a relative's actions to avoid harming others and emphasize the importance of love and being a distraction from worship. The speakers also emphasize the importance of knowing the truth and setting firm on one's religion to avoid impermissible behavior.AI: Transcript ©
Says in his book entitled the gardens of
the righteous in the chapter of the virtues
of dhikr,
remembering remembering Allah and encouraging others to do
so.
Narrated that the prophet
used to seek protection after the prayers in
these words.
Oh Allah, I seek refuge with you from
cowardice,
miserliness, and from being sent back to a
feeble age
and seek refuge with you from the trials
of this life
and those of the grave. And this is
recorded in the
on
the section of supplications.
So this hadith,
again, the it's it's authentic.
It's
in Bukhary.
So it's an authentic hadith where
mentioned the prophet used to mention
this. So he used to mention this
at the end
of the prayers.
So
when you say at the end of the
prayers, it's right before the Teslim.
So after you do
and you say
Muhammad and Allah
Ibrahim, these are this is one of the
duas that you can say.
There's numerous.
You could say these that are that are
mentioned by the prophet
and then you can make your own as
well. So for example, if you were to
say this one here,
then you can say
Allah
You can say, oh, Allah help our brothers
and sisters in class. You can make whatever
dua. As a matter of fact, there's another
hadith of the prophet mentioned that the dua
this dua is not rejected.
This is one of the time frames
and situations that the du'a is not rejected.
So here when he mentions his du'a, he
starts out with saying.
So when
we say, oh, Allah, I seek refuge in
you, and this is important
when we seek refuge.
Why do we seek refuge with Allah?
What's the whole purpose of seeking refuge with
Allah
before we even get into the subject matters?
Safety
from?
Jahannam.
Safety from Jahannam. Okay.
And the allies in control, so any issues
are any.
Any.
Could be protected
from coming towards the shore to.
Right. So those are kind of it's one
the least of the other. So you seek
refuge in Allah from anything that Allah is
displeased with.
And remember when we talked about yesterday, we
said that
even mentioned that there's,
that is anger,
negligence.
Right? But then he he he he he
gives you the equipment
or the army
internally with what?
Insight,
intellect,
and the Nur.
So for example, this hadith is the Nur.
This is the Nur. This is what Nur
literally will give you that guiding light in
a place of darkness.
You don't know who to seek refuge with.
Sometimes you seek refuge in a relative, a
spirit. But we in Islam, we have the
Nur that you seek refuge with Allah from
anything that will affect you and influence you,
to do an action of Jahannam,
to do an action of polytheism,
to do an action of,
you know, being amazed with yourself
and not turning into Allah.
Right? Or do it inaction,
not to act at all.
And that could be impermissible as well,
not to pray, not to make du'a, not
to call on Allah.
So here, that is the importance of seeking
refuge in Allah. So we see the 3,
Right? So you're seeking refuge in Allah, and
that's where we get the name
from,
the one that retreats to Allah.
So when he says,
He says, oh, Allah, I see grief in
you from cowardice
and miserliness.
Cowardice and what's the connection here
between cowardice and miserliness?
Okay. So the cowardice is not acting,
but what is the inner
feeling
or action
that leads to cowardice?
Fear. Fear.
How? How? How?
Right. The miser is always well,
yes. Every exactly.
Every miser is a coward, and a coward
can be more than a miser. It can
be many other things.
No. But this is the the wisdom of
the dua in this sequence. This dua is
on purpose, in
these on purpose.
So cowardice,
for example,
miserliness.
Is everyone with me?
But how is a miser a coward?
Fear of poverty.
We should mention this hadith in the fundraisers.
What do you think?
In fact, that's what they do. Remember this
hadith? This what what this Sheikh Mohammed record
this number, this this lesson, Inshallah.
You know, the prophet said, man.
He said,
does not decrease the money.
Your your money does not decrease. I remember
when when he was giving a fundraiser, he
said something so believable. He said, this fund
I do not want your surplus
money. He said the surplus. I want the
money that's important to you. If this means
something to you, the money that's important, not
the leftover tayo. Well, we have some leftover.
Okay. Give it in charity. No. The attitude
should be the opposite.
SubhanAllah.
So here the prophet was saying, I seek
refuge in you from cowardice and miserliness.
We see the connection
that the miser is someone that fears poverty
and that is a sign of a of
coward could be a sign of cowardice
because they are not ultimately trusting in
Allah. What's one name that can remind the
coward
not to be a miser? One name of
Allah.
Arazak. Arazak, Karim. And what was the other
one I heard? Arazak.
Okay.
Means what?
The wealth. The wealth. Okay. But there's another
name that's connected to that's probably more He
wasn't.
The one that enriches
his servants. Right? And then we had a
razzak,
the provider. Allah will provide for me. So
if I give in this manner for the
sake of Allah, inshallah Allah will provide when
he wants and how he wants. It's not
up to me. If I want it tomorrow,
he may give it to me next week.
And it's upon me not to be disappointed.
No? I have to be patient. Right? So
the prophet he sought after that,
And I seek refuge for being sent back
to a feeble age. Why would he seek
refuge in this?
This is also mentioned in the Quran.
Being it's in a feeble age. Some would
call this
senility or senile, being senile.
Right?
Why?
You could be dependent on others. What else?
You may not be able to provide for
yourself. You may not be able to provide
for
yourself. You know, Allah says in the Quran,
It's a beautiful verse. Allah says he is
the one that has created you in a
state of weakness,
then brought you in a state of strength,
then brought you back to a state of
weakness and old age.
He creates how he wills.
And, SubhanAllah, you realize, SubhanAllah, you know, there
are similarities
between these 2, between the young and the
old because they are reliant.
Right? But we don't want that reliance to
be something to where, you know, maybe some
of our organs may not be functioning to
where we are in total need of our
relatives. And if that's the case, that's a
test from Allah
that he chooses to make us and put
us in that. But some scholars mentioned this
is a form of, you know, where it's
where you're senile, where, you know, you may
not remember or you may be very,
aggressive
towards other people around you, relatives, etcetera.
And the prophet said,
And I seek refuge in you from the
trials of this life
the trials of life and those of the
grave. So what's a trial of this life?
What's a for
example?
For example.
So he said okay.
Okay. So he said, yeah, he mentioned the
verse
money,
children.
How can money and children be a fitna?
The way we're choosing money, so we all
want money. Mhmm. It's a
prophet
Okay. But you need the money to provide
for the children too.
They distract you from worshiping the law?
How? So do should we go home and
say,
you are a distraction. What did I do?
How how can they distract you, especially the
young newborns? Right? How can they distract you?
You hear the adhan?
We've all done this before. I wanna stop.
We've all we've all fallen in the it's
not the adhanacy of comma.
The love. Is love Love and love love
is for this duniya.
A
fit in a love? Love is a fit
in a love. What do you mean for
this dunya? You have to be more specific.
It is
it includes
job,
everything. So
can love of something permissible
turn into something impermissible?
That's what's important.
Many times, we think love of the dunya,
of love of haram things.
No. It can be something that is totally
halal for you. Rather, it could be something
that is for you to take care of.
You know, the other day I was explaining
distractions to a couple of youth. I was
saying,
you
know, it's very important as a human being
for youth to prioritize in life. Right?
But sometimes
that which was not a distraction at 7
PM
becomes a distraction at 7:45 PM when it's
time for something that's a priority. Prayer.
Prayer.
You go to hang out with your friends.
You go to whatever. Something that's permissible and
maybe even obligatory upon you to do.
7 PM, it's not a distraction.
7:45,
when the salah comes in, it has become
a distraction.
Shaitan
and Rajeem. Because Shaitan is the one that
distracted you. That's why he is a regime.
Regime means.
To me, that is it is casted away.
Right? So it's very important to
define distraction, distinguish distraction to where one can
dominate
The
The questions. What are the questions?
That's the answer.
Who is your lord? Lord. Yeah.
He's a prophet. Right? He's your deen. Who
is your prophet?
Right? And you say
I
am pleased with Allah as my lord.
With this wait.
My Islam is my deen,
and Muhammad is my my, my
messenger, Nabi Muslim, prophet and messenger. But those
that don't answer correctly, you know what the
prophet said that they will say?
What would be their response?
Hey,
you are.
Exactly.
They'll say,
They'll say,
I don't know. I heard something, and I
said it. I'm saying it.
No?
And this is very, very important because it's
not you're not gonna be able to strategize
when you're in the cover. It's going to
be something that has been inculcated, that has
been that has been inside of you that
you have really believed in your heart.
Right? So this is important. And then lastly,
what did the prophet say the soul of
the believer? How will they leave from the
body?
He said it'll be like
a drop of water leaving from the faucet,
slowly leaving,
easily
and gracefully.
But then the soul of the disbeliever, how
will it leave from
the body?
Okay.
Wet, not just wool,
wet wool. Look at the description.
He said this the the the the soul
of the disbeliever will be will be taken
out of the body like
wet, like a thorn being pulled out of
wet wool. And then he'd say it'll be,
and he'll say it'll have a terrible smell.
Right? So this is from the of the.
May Allah make us of those. This is
when we ask him for. We ask him
to keep us firm in his religion.
Oh Allah, make us firm. The one who
flips the hearts, make us make our hearts
firm on your religion.
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