Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Du’a is not to Dictate Orders to Allah
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The importance of fasting during busy months like busy months like Christmas and New Year's Eve is discussed, as it is a source of blessings and security. The speaker emphasizes the importance of fasting and the need for strong message to be taught to others. The speaker also discusses the power of words like "median" and "median" to create understanding and trust in the world, as it is the essence of worship. The importance of worship and worship is emphasized, as it is the essence of worship. The conversation between a judge and a young man about a book called "The Greatest Wife" is mentioned as a reference to a woman named Jesus, and the secret hidden from the public is discussed.
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My dear respected brothers and sisters our difference.
Allah subhanaw taala brings us together here before the month of
Ramadan begins.
Mashallah, we've had a number of inspirational
statements from our two previous speakers as well may Allah
subhanho wa Taala grant us the ability to be well rounded. And to
get the best out of the month of Ramadan.
You see, generally the word storm is a negative term, you don't want
to be in a storm. And the storm is brewing you want to get out, you
want to get shelter, you want to get to safety and you want to get
to refuge. But I think there's probably no better word than to
describe Ramadan with a, an absolute storm of blessings. And
that's a stone you don't want to run away from. You want to be
immersed in that storm. And you want to be fully immersed in that
because the barchart and the blessings of this month are so
amazing. As highlighted in a single Hadith, let's just say
there's a person who decides that he doesn't want to fast today,
because he's got football today.
Or somebody's at work, and they have to take a client out for
lunch. And it'd be weird, like, you know, to get them to eat and
I'm not eating. So they decide that it's a very important meeting
at work because I'm in corporate London, right. And this should
justify for it because I have to earn a living, I'm just
justifying. See how my mind works.
So he decides not to fast. And then after a after Ramadan, they
feel guilty, so they decide
to fast every single day out of the year. Aside from the five days
where you can't fast. The hadith mentions that they would not be
able to get the same attain the same reward is that one day that
was missed. It's just the whole concentration, every moment is so
powerful, that it can turn an absolute sinner into great Willie
of Allah, if you just get it right. Allah just wants any excuse
during the month of Ramadan. And one of the best ways to express
that with Allah. But one of the best ways to connect with Allah
during the month of Ramadan is the topic that I've been given which
is dua
which is
now
unfortunately, many of us don't make dua anymore.
Let's be honest, I mean, until I didn't do this myself, I was in
the same boat, I'm still kind of in the same boat, but
how many of us have
remember reading
the etiquette of Doha anywhere that they can recall? What are the
etiquette of making dua? What are the principles? What are the
guidelines? What is recommended by the Prophet salallahu ideas? And
what are the etiquette that we can glean from the Quran and from the
Hadith about the best way to get our door as accepted? When's the
last time do we remember actually reading some kind of some kind of
guidance in that regard and and using that guidance.
That is the biggest reason why our doors are not being accepted. And
we're not having a good experience in that regard. That's what I
think anyway.
Do ours have the is just like with everything else for our Salah to
be valid and accepted, divinely, and also juridically there are
rules and regulations that have to be fulfilled, and the better we
are at them.
Then that is how much more acceptance they will gain and how
much of a blessing it will give us. Likewise, when it comes to
prayer and Doha as well as the same kind of thing.
Unfortunately, today, we don't make dua anymore. I mean, even
those of us who raise their hands and say, Oh Allah give me this and
I want this and I've got an interview tomorrow, I want to be
successful. I've got that project tomorrow, I want to get that
contract. I want to get those grades I want to get that place in
Imperial College or wherever it is, you know, I want to get that
job. I want to get married to that that guy or you know, I want to do
this or I want to do that whatever it is. This is how we do it. But
we're dictating to Allah Allah when you give me this, it's just
like a shopping list. It's really unfortunate that that's how it's
become. It's become like a shopping list as though God will
do our bidding. So we just make a whole list of things and he will
just do that.
You know, when I discovered that, what do I really meant I did a I
read a book by shakable has an idea
Another way, it's essentially the way he it's just a very small,
it's actually a very small book. It's what he considers to be like
a Syrah of the prophetic dua sera through the prophetic dua. It's
essentially just an analysis of the way the Prophet sallallahu
Sallam made dua. Now you have to understand what is coming together
here. Allah, our divine supreme Lord and Creator, who is the
source of any good that comes into this world. He is responsible for
us being in the world in the first place. And he is responsible for
our upkeep and our continuation and endurance in this world. And
anything that comes comes from Him. So He is the one to call out
to
the one who knows the most, the one who is his most beloved, is
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam there is nobody who knows
the prophets, Allah is more than that.
Who knows Allah subhanaw taala more than the Prophet salallahu
Salam. On top of that, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam knows
the best way to express his needs. Because he is the most eloquent of
Arabic speakers, if not the most eloquent speaker in the world ever
to have lived. He says, I have been ot to German, I'll tell him.
I have been given this ability of comprehensive statements. So
you've got a person who knows Allah more than anyone else, who
is also Beloved of Allah. So it's a beloved speaking to his lover.
And it's the most eloquent one. So can you imagine how powerful those
words will be? Do you think you could get any words that would be
more powerful than that? That's basically what is embodied within
the prophetic dua. He knew what he was saying. He knew what Allah
subhanho wa Taala what makes his mercy flow, what starts his
blessings to shower down upon us, the prophets, Allah some knew
about that. And you see the Prophet salallahu Salam and the
way he sets the scene. He hardly ever just jumps into a door and
says, Oh Allah, give me this and give me that and give me this and
give me that. He always starts off by setting the scene Allahumma
interrupt be La Ilaha, Illa and halacha. And he will do Khurana
Allah, Arctic or whatever they must not art. This is obvious. All
of this stuff is obvious. Oh Allah. You are my Lord. Isn't that
obvious?
You're the one who created me. I am your servant. All of these are
obvious facts. There's no denying them, not by the Prophet
sallallahu sallam was the greatest believer. But all of this he knows
this is what creates, this is what begins to invoke the mercy of
Allah subhanaw taala. So that's how he starts. You see his dua
outside of thought if after he's been literally evicted, thrown
out, stoned, so that he's bleeding after he'd gone there on his that
our mission and it comes out and the DUA there. Oh Allah in the
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nurse. He goes and he starts expressing his humility. This is
because the prophets of Allah is a new word. The nature of DUA and
supplication was, it wasn't just barking orders. It was an
expression of servitude. That's why if you look at a pinata Illa
Allah Eskandari. He has a wonderful one of his one of his
aphorisms is laughter Jarrell bought a burqa taller than lil
atai. Lad the general Tala Baca Tala been lil Altace wala can
leave Hardy OBU D attic, do not make you're seeking, you're asking
your supplication and asking for a gift. And asking from Allah
subhanaw taala to give you something rather make it as an
expression of your servitudes
he says something else he says, when Allah has given you the Tofik
to raise your hands and to ask with sincerity, then that is a
sign that he wants to give you.
Otherwise he would never even let your let you raise your hands. He
then says something else this all of this indicates what the how the
nature of Doha should be what the nature of Doha should be something
else. He says.
The fact that you've been able to even ask of Allah is the gift
itself.
Because who gets to show that humility and ask Allah the Prophet
sallallahu sallam said, a dua who will a bird a da da da da is
worship. Da is the essence of worship. I remember reading that
the first time. How does dua in which
You are asking for something it seems like a selfish.
It seems like a selfish move a selfish statement, articulation of
some sort, I want this. How is that worship, worship glorifying
God?
How does that come together? How do you reconcile the two. And
again, it's just because we're losing,
we're missing, what the real dua is. What a dua should be for, is
not a servant in the morning or employees in the money today we
need to do is good. And there's good news. This needs to be on a
list of things. You see, when a person sincerely makes dua to
Allah subhanaw taala, what they are doing is they are expressing
their need, they are expressing that they are in need of Allah.
And it's only Allah iya cannot do what yakka necessary, and it's
only you we can seek any help and assistance from this is an
expression of that this is what it's supposed to be. So I can't
ask anybody else. That's why I'm asking you. I can only ask you
because you're the source of every
What better worship is there than that?
If a person can get this right, dua becomes the essence of
worship.
Because you are expressing to Allah, our servitude, we're
expressing his lordship. And we are then putting out there that
this is the true relationship. And that is the relationship that
Allah subhanaw taala wants us to confess to. And that's why one of
the greatest characteristics of the prophets Allah mentioned in
the Quran, in one of the most noble instances is Subhan Allah
the SRB Abdi that Glorified be He who took his servant by night,
from Masjidul haram to Machu Luxa. He could have said, His Great
Prophet, his beloved, so many other characteristics could have
been used, but he says his servant, because the Prophet
sallallahu sallam was that true servant, he had the highest level
of servitude, that anybody could be yet he was the greatest human
being that ever lived.
If you look at the doors of the prophets of Allah, some they are
amazing they they teach us how to ask, they teach us what we should
be saying. The prophets Allah some says La ilaha illallah, who la vie
will Helene La Ilaha illa Allah Who Rob will Akshay Levine, he
starts off by saying that there is no God except Allah, Lord of the
great throne, and he gives all of these praises to Allah. Then he
asks, Oh Allah, I asked you by every known name of yours, Allah
means Luca Ismene, who are like, I asked you through every name of
yours that you possess, that you have until the goofy kita big that
you have revealed in your book.
Or you have
inspired it to a particular individual, or you have withheld
it to yourself and confined it to yourself and you've not reveal I
asked you by all of those names, and digital digital Quran or
Robbie Illumina.
You see how he does it is not just, Oh Allah give me refuge of
Allah give me the Quran, oh Allah give me this blessing. You have to
start you have to build a relationship. There's a discourse
that takes place, there's an expression of servitude
and that's why
there needs to be conviction in our in our doors. There's a very
interesting story hjem new use of he is in the Haoran he starts his
toe off as bad as he was he did tawaf.
You know, to office, right? And he sees this blind guy on the side
making this dua to Allah. Oh, Allah give me back my sight. So he
goes up to him. I know you're not blind brother, but
do you know who I am? So the blind guy is like, who are you? I am
head judge. Now that was enough to send shivers down anybody's back,
because everybody knew him.
And he said to him, he said, by the time I finished my toe off,
you better have your sight back. Otherwise you're dead. And when
had judge said that it meant it because he's, he killed literally
1000s of Sahaba along with other people, I mean, he was just at the
word they would be slain. So now he carries on with this stuff. And
when he finishes, he goes back to that man, and that man has his
sight back.
That man has his sight back. And he said, This is exactly this is
exactly why I said what I said to you your DUA Allah give me this
Allah give me that oh Allah give me this Oh Allah give me that
there was no conviction in it.
When you make dua, the prophets Allah some said fail Yeah, Azim
you should be full resolution. And then we wonder and then we get
tired, and then we give up and say I've been making doors for the
last 30 years it hasn't been accepted.
That's dictation to Allah. subhanaw taala you know if I've
gone on a trip and I bought back from Egypt or somewhere some
Very delicate piece, some very delicate wall piece. And my young
son, they're six years old, he wants to start playing with it
because it's very flashy and nice.
I know if he has it, he's gonna break it. It's very expensive. I
bought it for four or 500 pounds. I don't want to risk that, what
would I do to my son? instead? I say, Look, this is not good for
you, let me put that away, and I'm gonna give him a suite or give him
something else.
With the same thing, Allah runs the NIV arm of the world, the
whole system of the world is in his hands. This is quantum world.
And we think that everything we want must be done with just one
particle within that system, psi G.
How can whatever we want,
have to happen. Allah has a timetable. And when we ask him, he
is definitely going to respond to us. And there's no doubt about
that. If what we want is appropriate for us in the grand
scheme of things and his predetermination, then he will
give it to us.
And if it's not good for us to have it, then maybe he'll give it
later. And if it's never good for us to have it, then he will give
us something else, he will remove a calamity from us, He will give
us something
and then he will give us a better return for it in the hereafter
when a person has mentioned when a person will think I wish none of
my doors in the world were accepted and I got all of my
reward in the hereafter. So do not ever think every dua we make is an
expression of herb udia it takes us that much closer to Allah
subhana wa Tada. And that's what
and it gives us some there must be so many calamities that have been
removed from us because of the doors we are making several times
a day sometimes, but we don't know.
Just let go of the offer a few days and see what happens.
Now
as Ramadan is coming.
I mean the topic I was given was dua or shaky shakable. Earlier, he
recommended he advised me suggested that I discussed this
book very quickly in the last two or three minutes that I have. This
is a book that we worked on. And the reason I worked on this book
is because it's one of the most amazing collection. There's a
number of amazing collections out there of
of the hours. But the reason why this is so amazing. It's written
about 400 compiled about 400 500 years ago by moonlight el arte, he
was somebody originally from Afghanistan, Hirata any of Danny's
here.
No, but he had moved to Mount Carmel, Colorado and become one
great Scotland is left behind a legacy of work, literal work which
mashallah everybody benefits from today. So he said, look, there
were lots of people doing lots of doors in those days. And a lot of
them were not very authentic. So I decided to put together all the
doors from the Quran, plus all the doors from the prophetic
narrations, and then end the book with a section on solid solid on
the Prophet sallallahu sallam. Now, one of the most amazing
things I see I mean, there's numerous people around the world
that read this book, it's part of their daily, literally daily,
daily wizard, right. And that's why it's called El Hizbul out of
them while we're doing a form, which is the supreme daily
remembrance. And see, the benefit that I see of this book is that
when a person completes it from beginning to end, whether that
takes them two months, whether that takes them six months,
it's supposed to be read in a week, technically, I mean, that's
the, that's the idea seven days. But if you can't do that, then you
read it over a month, you read a few pages a day, but when you
finish it, by the time you finish it, you would have asked Allah for
everything that you should be asking Allah for, for the perfect
life of this world, and are hired on by yerba. And you've also
sought refuge from everything that you're supposed to be seeking
refuge from, by the end of it. Now, as I said, there's many
collections and you know, we can all do as a beneficial, but that's
the beauty that I found in this book. And that's why we worked on
it, to produce it in this beautiful way with five color
press and so on and so forth, is being compared with the it's been
compared with the manuscripts and so on so forth. But mashallah,
that's if hold on to any dua litany, and you will feel that
your heart will find more contentment. And what better time
than the time for dollar in whether generosity I mean, it
mentions in the Shemitah liftin movie that the generosity of the
Prophet sallallahu sallam was at its greatest in the month of
Ramadan? If that's the expression of generosity of the Prophet
sallallahu sallam, and he's only a reflection of Allah. Then can you
imagine Allah? Allah has generosity in the world during the
month of Ramadan, when he is opening up the doors of paradise
as the hadith of Abu Huraira dimensions inside Buhari, the
doors of hellfire being closed and he's getting rid of the shaytaan
for us, at least for that month. And he is
magnifying every four to 70 times and that's not a joke. It's not
buy one get one free or even get five free. It's not even a closing
down sale. This is one to 70 and every Nephal to a fund, and so on
and so forth. And you've heard the forgotten. But that's what the
beauty beautiful parties and nobody misses the bollock out of
Ramadan. Have you seen how even our sisters they get this ajeeb
him to cook these amazing foods during the month of Ramadan. We
should be taking, taking it easy on that actually because those
samosa and everything like that, that Iftar is actually very
harmful, right? And we're supposed to be actually curbing our desires
and not just, in fact, there's no word in the English language.
There's a brunch, but there's no lunch and dinner word is there.
And unfortunately, if that's what we're doing, then that's really
sad. But that's off my topic. May Allah subhanho wa Taala
is there's a big dua, but it's not beyond Allah. May Allah make every
one of us a monster job with that words, in this month of Ramadan.
And what that means is that may Allah make every one of us of
those people whose every dog gets accepted. May Allah accept Welcome
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