Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Love of Allah and Spiritual Devotion
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The importance of acknowledging and reconciling misunderstandings in a conversation is emphasized. The shrouds of natural and Islam are discussed, including the shrouds of natural and natural. The importance of remembering events and being presentable is emphasized, as it is crucial to boost health and prosperity. The crisis of political momentum and the importance of taking a spiritual crisis to uproot is also emphasized. The importance of learning about Allah's qualities and names for better appreciation of him is emphasized, and a course on Islamic essentials and a certificate for individuals who take a short course is mentioned.
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If you have a little issue with somebody, we run into a few
problems with people, some misunderstanding, some little bad
feeling
or you feel the other person is hurt. Now, of course, if you've
hurt them, you need to probably actively make some effort to
reconcile that. Do the, you know will probably will not be enough,
right? Because then they're hurt. So you need to say I apologize or
something like that. But if it's just some misunderstanding, and
you're trying your best, the best thing that I found to work is
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Allah subhanho wa Taala creates the human being. And one of the
main reasons that Allah subhanaw taala created us he was completely
happy.
Allah subhanaw taala doesn't need anything.
He has everything. And everything is in his control. And he's always
been existence.
And he doesn't need anybody to acknowledge Him or two didn't need
anybody to acknowledge him or to
glorify him or anything like that. But then Allah subhanaw taala
created the human being created the world actually and created the
human being, and we are the center of the world. Yes, there's animals
and there's lots of other creations of Allah subhanho wa
taala. And each one of them has a purpose. And there's no doubt
about that everything has a purpose. And for many of these
creatures, for many of these creative beings, we know their
purpose, or we understand some of their purpose.
There's some narrations as well, they mentioned that Allah subhanaw
taala, created this world, so that
people recognize him.
He decided, Allah subhanaw taala decided in eternity that there
will be a world there'll be a dunya there'll be an era, there'll
be human beings. And of course, there'll be all these other
creatures, like there'll be the angels, and there will be jinn.
And they will be animals, and they will be the solid objects.
There'll be trees, the plant life, the animal kingdom, and so on and
so forth. None of these things existed before in our worldview,
none of these things existed before. Of course, we've never
experienced that time, because we came into all of this creation.
But that's how it was. And there will come a time when God
Illuminati have fun, everything will eventually perish.
Now, Allah subhanaw taala, then create created people on the
fitrah. So when other medicinal was created, he was on the fitrah.
Everybody is created on the fitrah and that's the Hadith of the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam it says that Kulu, the
Nullah do Allah fitrah that every offspring, every child, every
newborn is born on the fitrah many people like to translate this as
born on Islam. Actually, not entirely correct. Because Islam,
it technically means to adopt the faith, actively adopt the faith
that yes, this is the faith that I choose. And you can only do that
once you're of discerning age. Once you can make a distinction
between things, once you can understand things. That's when you
say, okay, yes, this faith, I want to go for it. This is the faith
that was my father's faith, my mother's faith. This is the faith
I was brought up in, but I'm going to accept this faith that's
acquired faith.
However, fitrah the primordial nature, natural inclination
towards God, that is natural faith. That
That's natural faith. That's why when people pass away if children
pass away before maturity, they're supposed to go to paradise. The
believers, children's for believers, children, for sure. And
non Muslim children. According to the strong view, they also go to
Paradise because they're inerrant, they're still on the natural
faith, they have not had time to mess it up, to corrupt it, to
change it to take on another faith.
So, we start off when we when we are born, we start off with a van
in the ear.
The Name of Allah, a van is one of the most powerful calls to Allah
subhanaw taala. That formula, the four times Allahu Akbar and then a
shadow Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah shadow Nam Hamza rasool Allah, it
is a collection of some of the most powerful calling to Allah
subhanaw taala.
That's why the shaytaan is supposed to run. The hadith
mentions that whenever a van is called the shaytaan, runs, can't
stand the van just can't stand the van, it can't stand any vicar of
Allah. But that van is just too powerful. That's why along with
Sadat, when we do a van, we must do a van for salad to invite
people, it's a very specially chosen words, it could have been
maybe more effective, more louder, more easier to ring a big bell,
you know, as you know, is done in other traditions or to blow a
trumpet or play some other music or something like that. But no, it
has to be natural. Everything in Islam goes back to nature, where
you don't need instruments, you know, it's all about the nature,
so to call to make this call. So we start that with the van and the
EComm in the children's ear. And hopefully that's going to remind
them of where they came from. That's going to remind them of the
fact that Allah is the Creator.
And as Allah subhanaw taala mentions in the Quran that all all
human beings, after Allah subhanaw taala created other money salaam
he extracted all of his progeny, that means every single one of us.
And then Allah manifested himself in front of them. And he asked
untie your Lord. And they said, Of course you are Bella. And that's
to be wrong, become Carlo Bella Shahina.
Now, I don't think anybody remembers that.
Does anybody remember that moment when they witnessed Allah subhanaw
taala. The reason I asked is because there may be somebody
because there have been people in history who remember that he says
it really remembers that. What kind of recollection? I'm not sure
I mean, I don't, I don't. But there may be some special person
here who remembers it?
Right. So the point is that most people do not remember it. But
we're reminded of it when we come into this world, we're reminded of
it right by Allah subhanaw taala through the Quran, telling us
about this event. And this incident, and the prophets remind
us of it remind us that we must be worshipping Allah because he's our
Creator
is our Creator.
So
thereafter that we're expected to go according to this during our
life, and then Subhanallah were then expected that while a dawn
was given in our ear, because we were helpless, we were children,
we were infants, we just came into this world with nothing.
We came
with nothing and we were given the name of Allah. So in sha Allah,
when we go, we will take the name of Allah.
And that is a good sign. There's many things that we do in our
Sharia that are symbolic, in that sense, based on the hereafter. The
Prophet saw some use to like a dam on fee Coalition, which means
starting from the right,
why would the right be superior to the left? I know in the Muslim
psyche, the right is superior. That's like now it's inherited in
our mind that the right is superior. I don't think we can
think of a time when it was not I mean, maybe you can, but the right
is always superior. But what's the purpose that the right is
superior? I mean, the right hand, generally is a stronger hand for
most people, right? Biologically speaking, they write with the
right hand most people do some people write with the left hand.
So they get there could be some physiological advantages of the
right hand as well. I'm not sure about the right leg though. But
the right side is such
but it's because in the hereafter you've got this whole theme in the
Quran about us Hubballi Amin, the people of the right side paradise
being on towards the right side. And Hellfire being on the left
side, the book of deeds being given in the right hand. So that's
why can you see how important in Islam that is? That's why the
prophets Allah Islam is compassionate needs
Sure,
there was somebody eating with his left hand and he said, Eat with
your right hand and said, I can't eat with my right hand. He was
doing it. It seems like he was saying that in a protesting way. I
can't eat with my right hand.
There was on said, Okay, you can't eat with your right hand. So the
guy could not then eat with his right hand afterwards says don't
eat with your left hand, because the shaytaan is with his left
hand. It's kind of really interesting. You know, I don't
know if anybody's done any more intricate studies on the right
compared to the left. But that would be an interesting study,
further study to do we believe in it anyway. That's why we like the
right so there's a lot of these symbolic things in the world that
we do that insha Allah will benefit us in the hereafter.
There is, of course, the following of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam so that He gives us His entire intercession in the
hereafter. Now one of the biggest things in this world that we have
in our devotion and our worship, is remembrance of Allah subhanho
wa Taala everything is done to remember Allah. Why would you stay
hungry? In these fasts? Why would you stay hungry?
If it wasn't for Allah subhanho wa taala, then just tell people
you're fasting, and then just have a nice meal in secret.
You know, there's no need to actually stay hungry if you're not
doing it for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala.
So that shows that there's a remembrance of Allah involved in
the fasting. We just need to make it active, as opposed to just
subconsciously or just ritually that we're doing it. There after
that, look at the verse where Allah subhanaw taala says Hakim is
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Established namaz established Salaat for my remembrance.
So the whole purpose of the salaat is that the remembrance is all
included in there is remembrance of Allah.
All the way from Allahu Akbar, we start with that. Well, actually,
we start before that, right? We start by purifying ourselves and
why do we purify ourselves?
purify yourselves, because purify will do is considered the shedding
of sins.
So the idea is that if I'm going to meet someone, visit somebody,
petition someone, then I want to look totally presentable, and be
presentable and feel presentable.
You know, when you feel scruffy right, when you've had sweat, even
though you've put perfume on, it doesn't feel good. That's against
our nature. We need to make ourselves spiritually like that as
well. Physically, mashallah, there's a lot of people who do
that.
The workplace forces us to do that. People force us to do that.
You have to be presentable. Some people just don't care.
They're not looked on it in a very praiseworthy way. Are they? Right?
But society forces us to be presentable.
But Allah wants us to be presentable spiritually as well.
That means our heart be present for Allah subhanho wa taala. Allah
wants to be remembered. So he makes a number of things happen in
this world that are there for our reminder.
For example, you know, the Muslim do us therefore remembering Allah
subhanaw taala because they all that is your calling Unto Allah,
starting your food with the name of Allah. And those are very, very
powerful.
If you have a pain in a certain place,
hold that place and pray to Allah, Allah humara bananas, as he will
best wish the under Shafi la Shiva Allah she felt okay Shiva Allah,
you heard the sacrament
and in sha Allah Your pain will be dealt with.
Tried it numerous times. hamdulillah it's helped numerous
times if you
I think I've mentioned this a few times before now, if you have a
little issue with somebody, we run into a few problems with people
some misunderstanding, some little bad feeling
or you feel the other person is hurt. Now, of course, if you've
hurt them, you need to probably actively make some effort to
reconcile that. Do the, you know will probably will not be enough.
Right? Because then they hurt so you need to say I apologize or
something like that. But if it's just some misunderstanding, and
you're trying your best, the best thing that I found to work is
Allahumma Eliphalet Nakuru, Vina Allahumma Ursula Herta Bina and
Masha Allah Allah Tala makes it easy for the hearts to mend again,
which means Oh ALLAH recon
started between our hearts and reform, whatever is between us
beautiful door.
So the idea is that in everything that we do, we thank Allah
and one of the things that we have mashallah
living where we do especially in the West and so on, and mashallah
the community the Muslim community has become enhanced and prospered
such that I, you know, a number of mustards actually provide IGR for
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An absolute luxury.
I mean, if that's a measure of prosperity, I mean, what else is
going to be a measure of prosperity? I mean, that's a date
that costs twice or thrice more than that. I mean, thrice more
than the cheapest date. They've been simple. I mean, why does the
masjid Why is the masjid obliged that the individuals who mashallah
contribute obliged to give Isiah I've seen at least three mustards
I think that give ajua Last year at least,
that just shows prosperity and prosperity is something from Allah
subhanaw taala. Prosperity can also be a fitna.
There's literally called fitna to surah and there's fitna to the raw
fitna of adversity that provides its own challenge and fitna to
sutra provides its own challenge
Hamdulillah, you know, we have the opportunity to have so many
different types of foods,
and so many different types of resources. And
we take it for granted.
We shouldn't take it for granted, because we don't know how long
it's gonna last because there is a big bubble, in the economy we live
in. I mean, when you look at it from that perspective, you get
scared, and bubbles do burst. So we do need to be careful. And
there is the current inflation and current increase in pricing and so
on. But Allah subhanaw taala if he has blessed us before, he will
bless us now. I'm not worried about that. But what I am worried
about is that we take, we treat this in the wrong way. And we
don't remember Allah, and we don't thank him. Because Allah subhanaw
taala he wants two things from us. He wants many things, but he wants
our remembrance, that we don't forget who he is because
ultimately he is the creator and the giver, the nourisher and
sustainer of everything. That is what's most important. So when we
eat and you see different foods, all you have to do is
Alhamdulillah Like genuinely tell your children make sugar
hamdulillah Allah gives us so much. It's simple. And once you
get into the habit of remembering Allah subhanaw taala you'll, it'll
become easier. It'll become easier to do that. Allah subhanaw taala
because He created us for the purpose of his remembrance. That's
what he wants from us. So then he's established all of these
different worships. There's a story. We've covered that in our
health Hellfires series. There's a guy in hellfire, he's being
punished.
And then suddenly he says, something that has an Allah
promised this, or has an Allah subhanaw taala said he's going to
do this. And Allah says, You know what, free him because he's
recognized me. He knows me. He has modified me.
When I read that, I was just amazed that that is the purpose.
Allah wants us to even somebody in hellfire when he shows that he
knows Allah Allah is willing to forgive him and take him out of
there.
The ultimate success in this world is recognition of Allah subhanaw
taala. How do you get recognition in your life?
It needs to become organic, it shouldn't be that you only
remember Allah subhanaw taala in your Salah.
Or formally sit and remember him. That's an intensive remembrance.
You know, when you sit down and you're like, I'm gonna dedicate
the next 10 minutes, the next hour to remembrance of Allah Subhan
Allah hamdulillah on meditation, whatever. That's like intense,
right? That's just additional intense, profound focus. But Allah
wants us to remember him throughout because we're not like
what other religions have become, that they become very selective
and very particular about
separating between life and between the secular or the normal,
everyday activity and devotion to Allah. They made it too formal.
They formalized it too much. That's not what is required. We
have a formal aspect for sure. We have the Gemma in the masjid. We
have the Juma but again, there's a social benefit to that, that when
believers come together, and remember Allah together, there's
an amazing benefits for that. Humans are never humans have never
been created to be alone.
If you look at our whole system,
Some of what Islam encourages, and society in general, humans have
never been
created to be isolated, to be separate from one another. We
can't even exist. We can't survive that way. Yes, some people do
that. That's why her Michoud
is not allowed in Islam. That's not what it is.
Yes, it's fine as a large, you know, as a cure as a therapy to go
away for a while. You know, you can do you know, it's better to
actually be away from bad people anyway. Right? That definitely,
solitude is better than that. But good company is better than even
aloneness. shaytaan can attack much more in aloneness, than with
good people. And humans, we learn from one another. And according to
our scholars, I mean, we will take from others without even realizing
that's how profound and powerful human companies human company is
so powerful, that you will, it will rub off on you, you can call
it rubbing off. Imam Ghazali calls it stealing, I think you will
steal behavior from somebody else without realizing it. Right. So
that's why the Hadith says that Be careful of your sitting people. If
you see with a good person, it's like the example of sitting with a
person who gives perfume and he's gonna give you a few sprays and
you're gonna come out smelling nice and if it's a bad person,
then it's like sitting in a blacksmith place. That makes sense
now because that's human beings. That's our human reality.
And that's why Allah subhanaw taala then says as well in the
Quran, Kulu Masada clean, be with the truthful ones. Make an effort
of being with the truth for once. Because when people are truthful
around you that will rub off on us as well. We benefit from others.
You know, I've been in a position where you're the Imam of the
community. And you everybody is expecting you to provide them the
guidance. But then we also need some guidance, we also need to get
somewhere
so we have to go back to somebody else. This is a chain this is how
it works. Except those who are mashallah so mashallah they've
made such an effort and they've gotten so connected to Allah
subhanaw taala that Allah subhanaw taala just suffices them directly,
the Olia May Allah subhanho wa Taala makers of the earlier the
only way to get to become a weenie of Allah and only of Allah just
means a Friend of Allah.
And the friend here just didn't mean a buddy kind of friend you
know, the normal kind of you chill out with or something like that.
That's not the idea here the idea of friend here somebody will, in a
genuine sense of it is somebody who takes care of you.
And you take care of them. Our taking care of Allah means our
taking care of the obligations and what He requires from us and for
us to be the way he wants us to be. May Allah make us the way he
wants us to be.
So that's, that's basically what that means.
Now, Allah subhanaw taala says, the verse I read at the beginning,
those who believe they are most ardent and intense in their love
for Allah,
they must love Allah more than everything else. That's what true
belief is supposed to bring us like, if we are believers,
then we must love Allah more than anybody else. How would you love
Allah more than everybody else, that's the lifelong struggle. But
if we can love him more each day, and each week, and each year, and
through each Ramadan, and I think it's simple, the way to love Allah
subhanho wa Taala is just to become a bit more attuned to his
workings in the world.
Just to become a bit more conscious of Allah in our life.
So any bounty that you have any gift that you have, and we have
many gifts is to take them back to Allah and to think about these
things. It's reflection, the world doesn't allow us to think except
about the next project, or the next paycheck, or the next
business opportunity or the next
meeting or whatever the case is, is just so busy. It is just so
busy. We don't have time to think about these things that where am I
going in my life?
There's a few times in life that people get forced to do it. I
don't know there's a psychological aspect of it that one is midlife
crisis.
When you get about 3940
Suddenly you start worrying because you're getting over two,
you're getting to the hill 40s The Hill 40s that peak the summit.
And then you're gonna go over and a lot of people start wondering
about this time. What have I done so you start looking at the back?
What have I done in the past?
Have I accomplished anything?
Have I gotten anywhere? Have I got anything to show?
These people, they will sustain a bad marriage until about the age
of 40. And then we'll get divorced. It's a really weird age,
you have to be very careful at the age.
And if Allah subhanaw taala, for the righteous ones, that's when
they start thinking, you know, because everybody's been thinking
about Allah thinking about Allah thinking about Allah struggling
with the dunya struggling with the dunya. And when they get to the
age of 40, they start thinking, Man, I'm getting old. I'm getting
there now.
What have I got to show for my hero?
See worldly people at the age of 14 midlife crisis, they will start
a new business, buy a new car, take start taking holidays,
thinking that I've wasted so much time now. And now let me do
something for the dunya.
That's worldly. A lot of people who have been struggling with the
deen, but they're conscious and they want to do something at this
time, that is when they will start actually thinking that what have I
done for Allah?
So one of the scholars said that by the age of 40, if your good has
not dominated your evil,
then you're going to struggle. In other words, he says you're going
to struggle.
So by the age of 40, you better get it right, you better be in the
right direction. You've had enough time to mess around. You're not a
youth anymore. In Islam, according to many Muslim scholars, youth is
until age of 35.
Yeah, it's from when you become mature, to the age of 35. That's
what it says youth, then your middle age starts. The Scholars
say that at the age of 40, you want to really get then the final
age is 60, there's still a chance until we die. There's always a
chance in Islam, but there's obviously a maturity period and a
solidifying period and everything. You know, the longer you leave
something, it gets set.
Right? The longer you leave, something gets more set, then it
becomes more difficult to uproot. Just like trees, you plant a tree,
it grows some roots. It has some stability, but you can uproot it
and shift it. But you keep something there for 10 years, 15
years, 20 years and then after they becomes much more difficult
to uproot. So we need to start weeding out the blameworthy
traits. It's a crisis. It's a crisis. We should have a spiritual
we should have a spiritual crisis Allah give us because that is what
wakes us up. That is what happened to people like Rizzoli and others
when they had a spiritual crisis. That's when they then became
something different because so I want to say that you know, it's a
challenge for everyone. It's a challenge for everyone. Religious
people, we can become an imam. We can be teaching the Quran, we can
be teaching the Sunnah. We can be preparing Quran sunnah all the
time, we could be literally taking the name of Allah all the time.
But if it becomes a vocation, that's the problem. If my reading,
my leading my speaking becomes a vocation, and no longer do I think
that I'm doing this for Allah all the time.
That's the problem as well. Might be a better problem. It might look
better, but it's still a problem. But that's why people like Imam
Ghazali, who were on the highest level of teaching, and
with so many Allah, ma and so on. He felt the crisis that I'm doing
all of this for sure.
So he decided to give it up.
Yes, it was a loss at that time for the people. They felt what is
he doing?
But then after that, he went and did his profound worship and
reflection. And then when he came back, he came back even stronger.
You can only get stronger. So imagine if you don't even do
anything with religion, then it's gonna fit. I mean, if it's a fitna
even with religious people it could be then can you imagine if
you're not even doing anything that even looks like religion.
That's just purely dunya dunya dunya because at least if you're
doing a religious aspect, you're gonna get eventually influenced by
it. The name of Allah can never be devoid of benefits.
The word Allah is such a
profound words.
It has its own life and efficacy. So the orlimar say that when you
say Allah in even in the passing,
didn't Allah tell you this, then Allah tell us this just like that.
It has an effect. The word Allah the name Allah is so powerful that
it has to have an effect on us.
So
what we want to do is we want to introduce Allah subhanaw taala
more in our life. Theoretically, he is there theologically he is
there we believe in Allah, but to make Allah
The reality in our life all the time, so that we become like those
Allah says, who remember Allah standing, sitting and lying down,
not just in salats
not just having to sit down for it, but we do Shakur, for any good
thing that we have. We do Southern, for the sake of Allah
for any difficulty that comes our way.
We attribute everything and we take everything back to Allah. And
we're trying to remember Allah multiple times a day, just
remembering him just, he comes into our mind, for whatever
reason, for whatever reason, we're acknowledging something, we're
attributing something to him, we're thanking him for something,
we're glorifying him we're praising him, or something like
that. Only then can Allah subhanaw taala become the most Beloved to
us, as Allah says in the Quran, that those who are believers are
the most ardent lovers of Allah subhanaw taala.
And Inshallah, the more we learn about Allah, through reading the
Quran with meaning, that will tell us who Allah is in his interaction
with the people, it's an amazing experience. And number two, by
learning the names of Allah, the more names of Allah subhanaw
taala, that you learn, learn, the more you get to know about that
person. There's a person in your community.
It's regular guy, a neighbor. And one day you had an issue in your
house and he came in fixes like, wow, I didn't know that you could
do plumbing. I didn't know that you could do you know, you're an
electrician. I didn't know that you knew a bit of you know,
handiwork.
You get a new appreciation for that person, don't you? Then you
had another issue. And it was oh, I can deal with that as well. I've
got some contexts. Now you've got a second appreciation for this
person. That person was just a normal neighbor, a normal guy in
the masjid normal colleague at work, suddenly you've discovered
he's got several capabilities. Your appreciation grows because
you're getting a better understanding of his multiple
qualities. And the greatest qualities are by Allah subhanaw
taala.
There's nothing in Allah that will put you off. It's all about
attraction. There's just attraction in Allah. But we don't
have time to figure him out. And to remember him to understand him
to get to know him. That's why the more you that the only way to love
something is to get to know more about it. The more features you
understand have a phone you want to buy that phone the more
features you figured out about a certain car or a certain area
certain house then you get attracted to it. Same thing with
Allah subhanaw taala Is this the law of attraction that works with
Allah and he has the most attractions there is the most
qualities there are.
So may Allah subhana wa Tada.
Allow
our love to grow for him and may Allah subhanho wa Taala love us
May Allah make us of the Olia and may we become the only of Allah
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Zopa Hogberg, Dominion Femina herb Boo who are in Dec, Ya Allah we
ask for your special mercies. We ask for your generosity. We ask
for your Rama, we ask for your forgiveness. We ask for your
MACURA of Allah forgive us our sins. Forgive us our wrongdoings,
our excesses, our transgressions, our shortcomings of Allah, our
distractions of Allah we have
been heedless for so long. We ask you forgiveness for those sins
that we remember and especially those that we have forgotten of
Allah do not cease us for the sins in the hereafter allow us to be
purified of them to be cleansed of them. of Allah, we ask you
forgiveness for sins,
that have taken away the blessings from our homes that have taken the
blessings away from our societies that have that have brought
darkness in our homes, in our lives of Allah that we no longer
feel contentment, that no we no longer feel satisfaction that we
no longer feel, solace and comfort of Allah we ask you forgiveness
for those sins that have turned people against one another that
have that has produced fires in the homes in which there are
raging fires between husband and wife, parents and children and
Brothers and sisters, oh Allah over petty things of Allah allow
us to
recant from these things allow us to make Toba and to be become
returned to you, of Allah grant us forgiveness, especially from those
sins that have now become part of our life. And we no longer even
considered them sins anymore. Oh Allah. If we were to die in this
state, then we don't have much hope. But Allah we have our entire
focus on your mercy of Allah. This is a month of generosity. We see
so many people spending so much during this month, so many people
are
providing for the poor, they're spending in your path of Allah,
you are known to be more generous than everyone including the
mothers who have so much love for their children and compassion and
so much sacrifice. Oh Allah, we have no other god to go to. We
have no other Lord, we have no other door to go to. Oh Allah we
can only come to your door. Oh Allah these brothers and sisters
who are sitting here and those who are listening. Oh Allah bless all
of us. Oh Allah forgive us, O Allah. Make us like the day our
mothers gave us birth of Allah increases during this month of
Ramadan of Allah with this month of Ramadan moving swiftly through
our Allah we ask that you allow us to take advantage fully from this
month. You do not allow us to waste this month of Allah except
our coming here and sitting here in this Masjid of Allah. It is
your it is you who brought us here so we thank you for that first,
but our Allah we know that you then reward us for the good deeds
that we do even after you enable us to do them. So Allah we ask you
for your closeness and your love and your reward of Allah elevate
us through the Quran. Allah blesses through the Quran, raises
through the Quran of Allah guide us through the Quran of Allah
enrich us through the Quran. And Allah allow the Quran to be an
intercessor in the hereafter for us and Allah allow it to be.
For a means of entry for us into paradise and as a means of
elevation of Allah We ask that you protect us and our children, our
progenies until the day of judgment of Allah, you've given us
so much, but Oh Allah, we need preservation of our faith which is
most valuable to us. We came into this world with the name of Allah
in our ears, oh Allah allow us to depart with Allah on our tongues
of Allah allow us to depart in a way that the death is a gift for
us that a death is an opening for us for great goodness and eternal
bliss. Oh Allah make all the stages of the Hereafter easy for
us. Oh Allah, Oh Allah, Oh Allah bless all of those who have passed
away from our families and friends of Allah especially in this COVID
situation. Oh Allah, we ask that You grant us protection grant us
Afia grant us well being, grant us health and grant us blessing in
everything you have given us and our Allah do not allow us to use
what you have given us. Do not allow us to use it in your
disobedience of Allah allow us to be thankful for whatever you have
given us, make us of those who constantly abundantly remember you
and oh Allah Who abundantly Thank you, Oh Allah, Oh Allah, we ask
that you send your abundant blessings and our messenger
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam grantors his company in the
hereafter. Subhan Allah decarbonised that Yama Yasi fono
Salam o Allah wa Sabina will handle.
The point of a lecture is to encourage people to act to get
further an inspiration and encouragement, persuasion. The
next step is to actually start learning seriously to read books
to take on a subject of Islam and to understand all the subjects of
Islam at least at the basic level, so that we can become more aware
of what our deen wants from us. And that's why we started Rayyan
courses so that you can actually take organize lectures on demand
whenever you have free time, especially for example, the
Islamic essentials course that we have on the Islamic essentials
certificate, which you take 20 Short modules and at the end of
that inshallah you will have gotten the basics of most of the
most important topics in Islam and you'll feel a lot more confident.
You don't have to leave lectures behind you can continue to live,
you know, to listen to lectures, but you need to have this more
sustained study as well as local law here and Salam aleikum wa
rahmatullah wa barakato.