Abdullah Oduro – The Invocation of God 25-06-2024
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The speaker discusses the five types of people in prayer, including the one who is negligent and wants to overpower, the one who is attentive and busy with thinking about Allah, and the one who has a heart of a certain type. They stress the importance of prioritizing desire for money and being busy with trading or fixing websites, and stress the importance of value and effort in achieving forgiveness. Prayerers should pray at home or listen to a Quran or wear a combination of clothing, and prioritize their desire for money and be busy with trading or fixing websites.
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What he's speaking about now,
we we covered the 5 types of people,
in regards to the salah, that there are
5 types of people.
We cover those 5, and the one that
is a totally, totally negligent,
the one that is that that that preserves
the time and and and and its honor,
but, he allows a whisper of
Satan to affect him. The third one is
the one that preserves its honor
and and fights the shaitan.
And the 4th is the one
that stands in the prayer and is attentive
and is busy with thinking about Allah to
where the shaitan does not affect them. But
the 5th one is the one that stands
in front of Allah
but he his heart is totally between the
hands of Allah
totally attentive.
And,
he's basically it's almost a euphoric situation to
where that salat isn't he's. He's solely busy
with the salat. And that's the best type.
That's the. That's the one that comes close
to Allah
Now Ibn Okaym goes on to mention
3 types of hearts. If you notice, Ibn
Okaym, he he enumerates things to make it
easy for you to understand.
Right? So now he's enumerating 3 types of
hearts. Before, he just talked about 5 types
of people in
the prayer. 5 types of people in the
prayer. And to be honest,
where do you where do you think that,
let's say, the majority of Muslims may fall
in under
out of those 5?
12. So he said the one that is
totally negligent
and the one
that preserves
the and
the times and things of that nature,
but they're always fighting the shape or the
shape the affect them and distract them.
The
is the whispers affect them and distract them.
I would say 1, 2, and 3, probably.
123.
You know? The average the highest level of
the average person is probably the one that's
consistently fighting off the Satan. They're they're trying
their best. Right? And maybe in Ramadan, they
reach 4.
Right?
They reach 4. And to be totally honest,
if someone if a family member passes away
or something, they may reach to 5,
you know, for a day or 2, for
a week or 2, depending on the situation.
Right? But this is beautiful because you get
to see yourself within all 5 of these.
Right? Now Ibn Khaim is mentioning 3 types
of hearts. He says,
He says here, verily,
the servant is strengthened,
in their in their attendance of the prayer
and their,
being involved and busy with it being with
their lord.
If they were to overpower and have authority
over
their desires
and,
their lusts.
Alright? And then he says here,
the individual that is of this type, the
one that overpowers his desires,
and their their their desires do not affect
them, he says,
if that's not the case, then this is
a heart that their desires
have overpowered them,
and they're captivated
by their lusts.
And Satan has found a place,
that he finds
a home there.
And if Satan finds a home in this
type of heart, how can the heart be
free from the whispers
and the distractions?
How can the heart be free from the
whispers and the distractions? So when he mentioned
these 5 types,
now he's talking about the heart that falls
into one of these 5. So here, you
say the one that desires does not overpower
that person, they may be a 45
that we mentioned.
Right? Maybe 3, the third one that they're
constantly fighting their shape on.
But then he's saying the one that does
not overpower their desires. And this is what
is important here because,
the desires that we may have, it may
not be in haram things.
What's one thing that we desire
that could overpower us, for example?
Money. Okay. Money.
So
money could your your desire for money could
overpower you at the time of prayer, for
example.
Let's start with the worst scenario. Your desire
for money and being busy with trading crypto
or fixing your website or dealing with the
client.
Right? And the time for prayer is about
to leave,
but you have to finish this deal.
You have to finish this research that you're
doing,
sending this email out.
Right? But the time for prayer is about
to leave. That is where a choice has
to be made because that desire that you
have is not haram. It's how you provide
for your family. But it teaches you prioritization.
And also, now that thing,
which could've which was wadju upon you to
provide for your family by this means
becomes a distraction.
Did you catch that? It becomes a distraction.
That's the worst scenario. That's before the prayer
leaves. What about in the middle of the
prayer and the best time in the beginning
of the prayer where one leaves that off
and attends
to the salah. This is why as well,
the adhan
has a huge maqam and position in the
deen.
Because when you look at the sharia, Allah
has always given you an opportunity
to be at your best at the actual
time of the particular worship.
So for example, we have the adhan that
we hear at our houses. You know, we
have the adhan that goes around.
That should be a time frame for you
to what? That's a signal for what? To
get ready for salah. To
get ready for salah.
To get ready for salah. Because we're so
used to hearing it, is it
right?
We continue on with what we were doing
before the. But in actuality,
it should be
a a way of getting ready for salah.
So what's some of the things that we
could do that would signal that we are
getting ready for the salah?
Let's say we're sitting and watching television or
we're on the Internet. What's one some of
the things we could do?
So, like, if you were watching TV, shut
down.
You're watching TV, and what do you do?
Shut down the TV. Okay. And do what?
Then do what?
You ask yourself, do you have? You go
and make the. Okay. You can also do
what?
Sorry? Pray your sunnah. Pray your sunnah. Right?
After you have your wudu, pray your sunnah
at home. Or even better, come to the
masjid. Pray your.
You could pray your at home as well,
which is is preferred as well.
What else?
So okay. So you can listen to some
Quran. Right? Or you can put your on
or the clothes that you want to wear
on. You call your family and say, get
ready for salah. It's time for salah. Right?
Like, that this is how you get ready.
Right? And this is, you know, a way
to prepare you, not only physically, but as
well mentally
mentally.
You start to review your day
because you're about to go in front of
Allah. Na'ib goes on and he says here,
He said, hearts are of 3 types. The
first type is the empty heart, the one
that is empty from faith and all good.
That is the dark heart.
Satan has relaxed himself
from
trying to whisper from
from from whispering the whisperings of that heart
because he already has it under under control.
That's his residence. So he doesn't need to
try to influence
influence it. He has real estate there.
Then he says
here,
Satan has relaxed from whispering to this person
or this heart because he has taken it
as a house and a residence.
And he rules as he pleases
in complete control.
And he has he has the utmost control
over that heart.
The utmost
control over that heart.
And then he says,
the second type of heart,
He said the second type of heart
is the heart that has been illuminated
that has been illuminated
by the faith and the iman
that has licked the its its torch.
That illumination
has caused a certain torch to be lit
in his heart.
But upon it are is the darkness of
desires
and passions,
certain passions and desires that that person may
have.
In this particular heart, Satan
comes to it and affects it.
He doesn't live there, but he visits.
And his visitation is accepted at times. Right?
He said,
he said, this harp is like it's it's
dual. He it's consistent. It's a consistent battle
consistent battle between him. This is the 3rd
type we were talking about, right, of of
of put people in the salah. He said
he had a
He said, people in this type vary a
lot.
Ibn is saying, this is probably the most.
That people in this type of heart vary.
Their heart is illuminated with the faith, but
Satan still has an effect on it. Right?
It's like a shadow that comes in the.
It doesn't stay there. It moves.
Right? He says here,
Hey. So they're from those that the victory
of Satan is more predominant over them than
the victory of the light. And he says,
So for it's
the opposite. It's the person that, no, they
have more of a victory over Satan, but
Satan still has an effect on him, but
it's less.
He says,
and then he said those are and there
there are some people that is, like, equal.
Satan 50%, that person Satan 49, that person
5th the the light is 51.
And he
says, this is the third type of heart,
and we'll stop here.
The heart that is brimming with
Iman. He said it is the heart that
is brimming with iman and is lit by
the light of iman,
and the veils of passion are lifted.
The veils of passion are lifted.
And the light has been removed.
The light has been removed.
So for the light that's in his heart
has a shine to it, has a level
of illumination to it, more illumination than shine
to it.
And for that, not that that that shining
light, it has the potential
to bring light to other things, to illuminate
other things, like a torch.
As light, you can put light on something
else and bring light to it. And he
says,
Look at his
he's comparison. He said if the was to
try to come close to that light, what
would happen? What do you think he said?
If the darkness of the West West came
near that light
that has the potentiality to bring light to
something else, like a torch, what would happen
to that West West?
So it would stop?
It would it would just it would
burn. It would burn away.
Right?
That's a comparison he's saying here. And then
he says,
he says,
it is like the sky that has been
protected by
the stars.
He says he gives the example like the
as Allah mentions in the chapter of Tabarak.
That when the shaitan come near them, they
will be shot and struck down. So that
is generally he goes on, but that is
generally what
is talking about, the 3 hearts here. The
heart that is totally empty, the heart that
has the mixture, and the heart that is
totally brimming with iman. And that comes with,
as he mentioned before, the,
the total dominance or level of dominance over
the desires and the passions. And that is
what is important that we look at what
we value. And we talked about this in
the last. You have to look at what
you value and see if it co if
it complies
and coincides with what Allah
values. And what Allah values is what he
has
legislated in his religion, what he has legislated
in Islam, such as salah. He values that.
How much do we value it? Do we
wait till the end of the time of
the prayer? Do we not offer when we're
able to? That shows the level of value.
And that value,
the result of that will be more nur
that is given to the heart. And that
is what we call from the tawfiq of
Allah, from the of Allah, the guidance of
Allah. The more
as Allah says, those that act in a
form of guidance, Allah will increase them in
guidance.
Meaning,
in the end of the day, we as
human beings just have to make the, what,
the effort.
The effort. And the effort is the.
The effort is the struggle, and Allah loves
the struggle. So may Allah make us a
little struggle in his path and allow this
struggle to be a means of our expiation,
to be a means of forgiveness for any
sins.