Abu Bakr Zoud – And Whoever Wants The Afterlife =

Abu Bakr Zoud
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The speakers discuss the importance of pursuing the afterlife and avoiding distractions during the process. Prayer and praying at night are crucial for success, as it is a disaster and reward. The speakers also emphasize the importance of praying and staying up late, as it is a disaster and reward. The speakers stress the importance of not rushing to achieve success and finding one's way through life.
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Assalamu alaykum.

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Alhamdulillah.

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It is good to be back after 6

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months and to see these beautiful faces.

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I ask Allah

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not to deprive us of each other's

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brotherhood in this life and in the afterlife.

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Brothers and sisters in Islam,

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tonight's topic is titled, Uaman araadal akhira.

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Whoever Desires the Afterlife.

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And I want to begin tonight

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with a story

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that happened

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among the greatest of men to walk this

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earth after the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.

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And this is an authentic story narrated by

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Imam Ahmed,

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A story that happened between Abu Bakr, radiAllahu

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anhu,

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Omar radiAllahu anhu,

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and Uthman

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radiAllahu

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anhu.

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And this story happened during the Khilafah of

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Abu Bakr as Sadiq

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radiAllahu

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anhu.

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Uthman radiAllahu

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anhu says

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that I was sitting

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in a place where the people gather and

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sit,

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And he says, Umar

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passed by me

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and gave me salaam.

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And I did not notice his salaam, so

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he did not respond to him.

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So

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Umar

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was bothered by this,

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and he continued until he reached Abu Bakr

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And he complained in the office of Abu

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Bakr

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Imagine this, Abu Bakr is the Khalifa at

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the time.

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He complains.

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He says, you Abu Bakr,

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I just passed by our brother Uthman,

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and I gave him salaam, and he did

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not respond to me.

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So Abu Bakr radiAllahu anhu

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took this matter very seriously, and I want

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you to pay attention

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to the brotherhood that was established among the

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Sahaba.

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It was a serious matter, no joke.

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So imagine how busy Abu Bakr radiAllahu anhu

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would be,

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but he picked himself up and he said

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to Umar radiAllahu anhu, let's go and visit

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our brother, Uthman, and see what the problem

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is.

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The busiest man in Al Madinah, he said

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let's drop everything and go and deal with

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this manna right now before it grows.

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Brotherhood was valued among them.

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What has happened to us? We ask Allah

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to rectify brotherhood among us.

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So they both went towards where Uthman

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was sitting.

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Abu Bakr approached

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Uthman. He said, You Uthman,

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this is your brother, Omar. He came to

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me complaining

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that moments ago he passed by you. He

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gave you salaam and you did not respond.

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So Uthmar

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said, Wallahi,

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he did not pass by me and he

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did not give me salaam.

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He didn't realize at

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all. So Umar was

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frustrated.

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He said,

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I passed by him, and I gave him

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salaam.

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However,

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that is the arrogance

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of you people, the family of Umayyah, which

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is the family of Uthman radiAllahu anhu. It's

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getting heated and intense.

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So Abu Bakr radiAllahu anhu,

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he said to

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Omar, by Allah, Uthman has spoken the truth.

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And he did not notice that you walked

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in front of him and gave him salaam

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because there is something that is bothering him

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and occupying his mind.

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Haven't you realized that sometimes in your life,

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you might be so busy and occupied with

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something

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that I may walk in front of you

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or give you salaam or say something to

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you or your wife may say something or

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your husband may say something to you or

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your children may say something.

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You say, wallahi wallahi, he I I wasn't

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I didn't even notice.

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That's what happened here.

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So, Arul Waqir

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he said, the aufman.

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What is it?

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What is it that has occupied your mind

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and bothered you? That you didn't even notice

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your brother passing by you and giving you

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salaam? Indeed, it has to be a huge

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thing.

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So Ufmar he

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said,

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and Nabi

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passed away

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and I forgot to ask him about

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Manajat

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Uthak Al Amr.

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I forgot to ask him

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what are the deeds I should do

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that will earn me safety on the day

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of judgment?

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Shifty's

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concern? His concern was the afterlife. He was

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bothered so much

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that he's stressing out. I didn't ask him

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Nabi

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what will save me on that day when

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people are being destroyed and ruined and punished?

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So Abu Bakr

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said, by Allah,

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I asked the messenger

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this question during his life.

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So Ufner

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out of happiness and joy and excitement got

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up and

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he said to him,

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He says, may my mother and father be

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sacrificed for you.

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You are the most rightful person to ask

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this question to the messenger

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Please share the answer with us.

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So then Abu Bakr

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said,

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I said to the messenger

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What would save us

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from the horrors and the terror of the

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day of judgment?

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When Nabi said,

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He said to him, Nabi salallahu alaihi wa

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sallam said,

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the one who accepts

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the word

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that I delivered to my uncle

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and he rejected,

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it would be a severe for him on

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the day of judgment.

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And the word that Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam

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delivered to his uncle and preached to him

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and to entire humanity

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is la ilaha illallah, the word of a

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Tawhid.

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Indeed, a Tawhid is the major matter that

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will save you and I from the horrors

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and the terror of the day of judgment.

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But brothers and sisters in Islam, if we

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observe and look into this story once again,

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we realize

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Uthmer

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is from the 10 that were granted the

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paradise and guaranteed the paradise.

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Yet he is still so bothered

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by the preparation for the day of judgment

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that he does not realize.

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Umar passing by him and giving him salaam.

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What are you bothered by, You Uthman? But

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you're already guaranteed the paradise.

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Why are you stressing so much?

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Why does it seem that the main concern

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for you is the afterlife?

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Indeed, this is a quality and a treat

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of a believer.

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He's not deceived by his actions and by

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his deeds and by his goodness.

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And deceived by the words of the people

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and the priests of him. He continues to

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work

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pleasing Allah

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until the day he meets Allah Az Zawajal.

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Today,

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you might pass by someone,

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and he might

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respond in the same manner of man responded.

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And he might say to you, brother, I

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did not realize you walked past me and

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gave me salaam.

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But the difference is in nowadays,

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you might say, brother,

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what occupied your mind? Perhaps 90% of the

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time, it's something worldly related.

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Some debt that he has, some work that

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he has, something related to the worldly life,

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not to the afterlife.

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We ask

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Allah to rectify our state and our affairs.

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Brothers and sisters in Islam,

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the believer should not make the mean and

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the greatest concern of his in this life,

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the worldly life, and its provision.

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That should not be the mean and the

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greatest concern of the of the believer.

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Because the end of the day, we are

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all leaving

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what we accumulated

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and acquired in this worldly life. And we're

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moving on to a life that is permanent

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that doesn't end and that is a life

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with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in the paradise.

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So what Allah

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gave you in this worldly life, you must

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use it to build your afterlife.

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So your main concern

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should be the afterlife in preparation for that.

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And there are many ahadith

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and many ayaat in the Quran

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that repeat this matter over and over and

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over again.

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Allah

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He

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said,

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Allah

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speaks about believers

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and he says whoever

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desires the afterlife,

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meaning the afterlife should be a desire for

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the believer.

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You should have passion,

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engulfing, flaming passion and love for the afterlife

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because that's where you will see and you

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will meet your maker and creator.

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How can you not have this as your

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main and greatest concern?

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Allah says,

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Then he said,

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And he exerted the effort Jew taught,

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meaning there is a path that you're supposed

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to take

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and follow

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in order for the afterlife to be your

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mean and greatest concern.

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This

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topic is repeated a lot in the Quran,

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a lot in the Sunnah. And I tell

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you something.

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When a topic is made mention of

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many times in the Quran with sunnah,

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it is an evidence of something.

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It is an evidence of the fact that

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the disease

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of the love and the concern of this

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worldly life

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and neglecting the afterlife in preparation for the

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afterlife

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has become

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rampant and widespread among the people.

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The disease of the love of this worldly

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life and the attachment to this worldly life

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is a great disease and a sickness

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that has become a pandemic

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of this day and age.

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That's why Allah will

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mention

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more than

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many times

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in the Quran

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about making sure that your main purpose and

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your main concern in this world, the life

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is the afterlife.

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When Nabi

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repeats this to his companions over a 100

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times,

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because the disease of the attachment to this

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worldly life is going to become widespread.

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And what do we mean by this? Brothers

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and sisters in Islam, it's not haram to

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love this worldly life.

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It's not haram

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to acquire its wealth and to love the

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wealth and to spend it. It's not haram.

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When does the attachment to this worldly life

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become haram? When?

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It becomes haram

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when you don't care how you acquire it.

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When you are acquiring this world worldly life

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through al halaalalal Haram, you don't care. Through

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arribah, through al haraam,

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selling drugs, stealing others, taking loans from people,

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not paying it back.

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That's when the attachment to the worldly life

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becomes haram and dangerous in your case.

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And the other thing that makes it haram

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to love this worldly life and attach to

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it,

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when you have become so attached

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that now you don't have time for your

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obligations and for your responsibilities.

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You've neglected us salawat.

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You've neglected al Masjid. You've neglected salatuljumah.

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Because,

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oh, I have work. I'm making money. Sorry,

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I can't come to

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And when you abandon your responsibilities,

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the wife complains about her husband, we don't

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see him.

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Maybe maybe

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once a week we see him for a

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couple of hours and then after that,

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he's with the boys the whole day, the

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whole night, and he's at his work the

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entire day and the entire night. We don't

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know where he is.

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When this worldly life becomes a reason for

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you,

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in where you're acquiring it from Al Haram,

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and it becomes a reason for why you've

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neglected the obligations,

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and you've neglected responsibility

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to family members and your children and your

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parents.

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Now the worldly life and your attachment to

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it is haram. It's dangerous. It's going to

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destroy you.

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But if you're earning from this worldly life

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through the halal means that Allah has made

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And by the way, there will be a

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lot of barakah in this and it'll be

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satisfying

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more than the one who acquired Al Haram.

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He'll never be satisfied.

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And if the worldly life did not distract

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you from a salat,

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1 salat, 2 salat in al masjid,

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from your Quran.

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It didn't distract you from your family, and

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your wife, and your husband, and your children.

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Alhamdulillah.

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Your relationship with this worldly life is healthy,

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it's good, and there's nothing to be condemned

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about that.

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Then Allah

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when he condemned the love of this life,

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he said,

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He said, you people love.

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And meaning the worldly life.

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From for something to rush because everything in

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this worldly life is rushed. Haven't you seen

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the attitude of people today? Rush, rush, rush

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everything Allah quick, quick, quick. How we can

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finish this quick? And how can this service

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be delivered quick? And who's faster? And who's

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delivering quicker.

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Even this is marketing strategies now among the

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com companies.

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Who'll deliver it in half an hour? Who'll

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deliver your order in 15 minutes?

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That's a dunya. That's it's it is.

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You'd rather pay a lot more for something

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to come quicker than pay less for something

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to come longer and later.

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That's it's called an ajila. Allah condemned those

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who love this worldly life.

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Then he said immediately after,

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and you neglect and you abandon the preparation

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for the war afterlife.

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So if your attachment for this life

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was at the expense of abandoning preparation for

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the afterlife,

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that love is condemned.

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That love is going to destroy you without

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you even knowing.

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So you be careful with me and understand

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what we mean

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by loving and attaching yourself to this worldly

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life. No problems.

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Enjoy what Allah gave you on earth.

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But

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let it not be an obstacle and a

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barrier between you and preparation for the afterlife.

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And once again, two signs

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will tell you that you're on a dangerous

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path. If you're acquiring its wealth through Al

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Hawa

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and if it's distracting from the obligations and

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your responsibilities.

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Brothers and sisters in Islam,

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in Nabi

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he said in the hadith,

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He said, whoever among mankind

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made the afterlife his greatest concern.

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Allah

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promised him three things. And I'm going to

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tell you step by step how can the

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person make the afterlife his greatest concern.

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But for this person, he's promised 3 things.

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Nabi salallahu alayhi wa sallam says, Jama Allahu

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lahu amrahu

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Allah will organize his affairs. Allahu Akbar.

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How beautiful is this reward, especially in a

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day and age where people's affairs are all

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disorganized and over the place.

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Today if you see a brother or you

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see a sister and his eyes are rolling

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and going around, Yeah. What's wrong with you?

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I have debts. I have bills. I have

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wife. I have situations. I have my children.

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I'm trying to get this. He's

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disorganized.

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He's got no clue how to be productive

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during the day and what to complete and

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what to accomplish of all the life projects.

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He's all over the place.

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And Nabi said,

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the one who made the afterlife his greatest

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concern.

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Allah will organize his affairs.

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Perhaps he'll have a lot of on his

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plate, but he seems to be calm and

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he's able to complete what he needs to

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do during the day and during the night.

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Not only this reward, but in Nabi says

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Allah

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will place richness in his heart.

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His heart will be wealthy.

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Rich in his heart. Forget the pocket. Rich

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in the heart. What does it mean to

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be rich and wealthy in the heart?

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It means Allah will give you contentment

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with whatever you gain on this wealthy life.

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Haven't you seen brothers and sisters in Islam?

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People that have tens and 1,000,000 of dollars.

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They live like a poor person.

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His heart is not content. He's still running

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after more.

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Whereas there are some

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that don't have a fraction of what he

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has,

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perhaps sleeping and living in tents.

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And he is peaceful

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and tranquil and content with what Allah gave

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him.

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Indeed, the Nabi

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once asked Abu Dharr. He said, Abu Dharr,

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who do you consider the rich and the

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poor man?

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Abu Dharr

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perhaps just like us, he answered the way

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we would have answered. He said, you Rasool

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Allah, the poor man is the one who

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doesn't have the dollar and the cent in

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his pocket. He doesn't have money.

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And the rich man among us is the

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one who is loaded.

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He has the cash.

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Nabi said to him,

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He corrected his understanding.

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He said to him, the rich among you

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are those who are rich in their heart,

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content with whatever Allah gave them from Al

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Halal.

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And the poor among you

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are those who despite having

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treasures,

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they're still not content in their heart. SubhanAllah.

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And they rush to acquire the worldly life,

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even if it meant to disobey Allah's commands

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and take it from Al Haram.

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Allahu Akbar.

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So there we go. That's the second benefit,

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That the heart will be content with what

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Allah

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gives you.

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And the 3rd matter,

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And the worldly life will come to you

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on its nose.

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Allah

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will open doors and opportunities

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that you never requested and you never ran

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after.

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The worldly life on its nose, it will

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come to you.

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Humiliated

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on its nose, it will come despite you

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not wanting it. These

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are the rewards

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of the one who made the main concern,

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his afterlife.

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The world will come running after him even

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if he doesn't want it. It'll come to

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him.

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Look at the case of Suleyman, alayhis salaam.

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One of the lines comes running after him.

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He doesn't even want anything of it. Allahu

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Akbar.

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So brothers and sisters in Islam,

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I share with you a hadith that's also

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important on this matter. Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam

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said,

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manjaalalhuma

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hammanwahhidah.

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Nabi

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says,

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whoever focuses on only one concern,

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and that is the concern of the afterlife.

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You see, we have many concerns,

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financial concerns,

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relationship

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concerns,

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health concerns,

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whatever it is of concerns.

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And then there is the afterlife concern.

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Nabi

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said, Whoever

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focuses on just one concern,

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which is the afterlife.

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And you see, every single concern you have,

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it's poisonous.

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It doesn't contribute to the betterment of your

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health.

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Every worldly concern will take away from your

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health slowly and surely.

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It'll take away from your health. There's no

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doubt. Every stress and every concern over any

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worldly life problem will take away from you.

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And Nabi

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he said

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Whoever focuses his concerns to only one concern,

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the only healthiest concern

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that will make you glow and grow is

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the concern of the afterlife.

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Every other concern is going to destroy your

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health.

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The only one concern

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that is beautiful and good for you to

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have is the concern of the afterlife.

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The concern of the first night in your

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grief.

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Have you ever thought of this?

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How are you going to spend the 1st

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night in the grieve?

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When the people have put you there,

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put the dirt onto you and have walked

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away.

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Have you had a concern when you come

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out from your grieve and you're naked, barefooted,

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circumcised

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and poor having nothing of this worldly life

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with you over there?

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These are the great concerns you're supposed to

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have. Have you ever had a concern

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that on the very same scale Abu Bakr,

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radiAllahu anhu's deeds were placed on? That's the

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very same scale your deeds are going to

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be placed on.

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You prepared for that day? You have a

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concern?

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Nabi

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says whoever focuses his concerns on one concern,

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and that is the afterlife.

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He said

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Allah

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will be enough for his concerns in this

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worldly life.

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Meaning every concern you'll have in this dunya

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Allah will look after and will take care

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of it for you.

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Then he

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says: and whoever scatters his concerns

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among the matters of this world, you

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have a concern financially related or here related

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or somewhere here, or you're concerned about your

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car and its service and when it sells

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and when it buys or this one. Yeah,

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your

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concerns are scattered and dispersed everywhere.

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Nabi sallallahu alaihi wasallam said

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Allah

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will

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Allah

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does not matter

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to him. He does not care

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which of these concerns

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causes your death and your destruction.

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Inevitably, one of these will cause you that

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much stress that you will die from it,

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and Allah does not care which one will

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take you out of this worldly life.

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So brothers and sisters in Islam, making the

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concern of the afterlife

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should be the greatest concern

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of the believers.

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How do we do this?

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Brothers and sisters in Islam,

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making the afterlife your greatest concern

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is not with words you say at the

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beginning of the day.

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It's not like you get up in the

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morning and you say Allah Bismillah

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InshaAllah today the afterlife is my main concern.

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That it doesn't look like that.

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Making the afterlife your greatest concern

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is a moment and a stance of action

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that is required from you from the early

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hours of the morning.

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The one who made the afterlife his greatest

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concern

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will be up before Salatul Fazir.

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Will be definitely up before solat al fajr.

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Find for yourself

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half an hour,

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1 hour,

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maybe as a start 15 minutes before Adar

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al fajr.

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This is the last third of the night.

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This is only for people who are serious

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in their relationship with Allah.

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The doors are open.

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Allah

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has descended to the lowest heaven.

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And he is asking

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throughout the last third of the night,

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is there anyone that will request anything from

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me so that I may give him?

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Is there anyone that is seeking my forgiveness

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so that I can forgive him? And he

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continues to repeat this

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all throughout

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that last 3rd of the night until Adhan

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al Fajr.

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The one who's made the afterlife, his greatest

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concern will be up at that time.

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When you get up my brothers and my

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sisters in Islam half an hour before Salat

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Al Fajr,

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Bismillah,

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you wake up and you begin with Al

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Wudu.

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Watch this.

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As you head towards Al Udu in this

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cold freezing weather,

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you turn on the tap. Perhaps it'll take

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some time before it warms up, and there

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is no problem for it to run until

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it warms up.

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It's not considered wasting water,

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as Al Ulamah Rahim

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have answered concerning this matter.

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So it's fine to turn the taps on,

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to wait until

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it warms up.

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Then you begin your wudu.

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And

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then

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Nabi

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he

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said,

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Listen to this virtue. Allah

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says a person from among this Ummah

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gets up at night,

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and he strives and struggles and fights against

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himself to make alwubu,

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meaning it's not something easy, it's something difficult.

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Informed us of this unseen matter.

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There are knots.

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So when this person wakes up and washes

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his hands,

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one knot is undone.

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When he washes his face, another knot is

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undone.

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Until he wipes his he washes his foot

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and a third

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knot is undone.

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Now he'll be productive for that day and

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he's energetic.

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Allah azza wa jal from above observes what

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you do

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even if your family members around you have

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no clue what you're doing.

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Then Allah

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he says to the angels,

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Allah tells the angels that are behind the

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veil of

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Allah Take a look at my slave.

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Look at him.

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Allah

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is taking pride of this slave and this

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servant. He's showing him off to the angels.

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Look at this slave of mine.

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Look what he's doing for my sake.

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This is how you make the afterlife your

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greatest concern. It's not words. It's a moment

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of action you're going to establish for yourself

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throughout your life.

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He says, look at this sleeve of mine.

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Go ahead my slave. Ask me.

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Ask me.

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Allah

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says whatever he asks me, I'm going to

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grant him whatever he asks me. I'm going

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to grant him. Allah says it twice.

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They said the first time Allah says it

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is for your worldly needs.

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Whatever you ask him of worldly needs, he's

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going to grant you.

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And the second time Allah says it is

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for your afterlife needs. Whatever you ask for

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your afterlife,

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Allah

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will grant you.

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He hasn't even started praying.

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Look at the position he's in. He's in

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a perfect position of an accepted dua.

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Allah is taking pride of this slave and

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showing him off to the angels.

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As I haven't even started.

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Brothers and sisters in Islam also focus and

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be aware of the fact that when you

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make war,

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it is washing away your sins.

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The sins that are going to destroy you

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and I if we die and they're still

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not removed from our account.

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Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says as in

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the hadith of

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that when a person washes his face, all

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the sins of the face they drop. The

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sins of the eye, and how many sins

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are we exposed to on a day to

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day basis, especially with this hair.

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The eye is exposed to,

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and all the sins of the tongue, and

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the sins of the ee all of this

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is washed away as you are washing the

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face.

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And you wash your hands, and the sins

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of the hands are going, and you wash

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your feet, and the sins of the feet

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are being washed away.

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When you're making Wubu, I want you to

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change your perspective.

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Many of us when we make Wubu,

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we attach the concept of Wubu to a

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fakli batter.

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What does that mean? Meaning we ask ourselves,

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did I lose my wobo?

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If I engaged in a deep sleep, I

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lost my wobo. I'm gonna make wobo.

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If I relieve myself, I lost my wobo.

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I'm gonna make wobo.

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Don't have this perspective anymore. Change it.

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Ask yourself,

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did I sin from last obu until now?

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If you did sin, go and make obu.

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Don't ask yourself, did I eat camel meat

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or not?

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Did I go to the toilet or not?

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Forget this. We all know this. Have a

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higher relationship with al Ubu. Ask yourself,

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did I sin from last time?

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If you did go and make Ubu. This

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is why Nabi

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would make Ubu for every salat,

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every single salat he'll make Ubu.

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And I want you to internalize this meaning

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as you're making an Abu'l in the morning.

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This is someone who actually makes the afterlife

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his greatest concern. Look how it started.

00:31:03 --> 00:31:05

Fajr hasn't even taken place yet. And look

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at his beginning.

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That's someone serious about his afterlife.

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Afterwards

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and after if you meet this Uru,

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head towards a prayer area in your house

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and there is no problem to designate a

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special area in your house for a salat

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and it is also permissible to move from

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place to place in your house and pray

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there's no issue concerning this or that.

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Head towards your prayer area

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and intend

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if you're starting this and you're new to

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this start with Tulaqa'at.

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If you've already began this journey, it's time

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to upgrade.

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Come up to 4 rakaat now.

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If you've already been doing 4 for many

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years, it's time to upgrade. Come up to

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6 rakaat.

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See where you are. Increase it. Push it

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up a little bit. No problems. You're preparing

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for your afterlife.

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You'll appreciate

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doing this later on when you're standing before

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Allah

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And moments before you leave this worldly life,

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you'll appreciate that you did this.

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Increase it. Let's say we're starting here. We're

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beginners.

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Start off with 2 rakat.

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You stand. You face alqiblah, and

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you begin to pray. Brothers and sisters in

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Islam, this is called

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the night prayer. Allah night prayer is not

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complicated,

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it's not difficult.

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2 alaka'at is the minimum

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and Allah in the Quran He prays the

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Ibadur Rahman One of the qualities he says,

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Those who spend some of the night

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for their Lord,

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in sujood and in standing.

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For, their lord, implies sincerity.

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The most sincere prayer of the day and

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the night will be your night prayer,

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because no one can see you. No one

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can hear you. Only Allah

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sees you.

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Abin

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Abbas, sir, radiallahu anhu, he said the minimum

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to qualify

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to be from those people that Allah praised

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is to pray 2 rakat at night.

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Whoever praised 2 rakat, he's included in this

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ayah that Allah praised the Ibaal al Rahman

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for spending some of the night praying.

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What a virtue. What an honor. Lawhu Akbar.

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And then when you pre these 2 rakaat,

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what are you going to read? I want

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to share with you a hadith.

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Nabi he said

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listen to this.

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He said,

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And Nabi

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said, whoever stood up

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and prayed,

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showed gratitude to

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Allah, praised Allah,

00:34:03 --> 00:34:04

glorified

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Allah,

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and emptied his heart out for Allah,

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then he will leave that salat

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just like a newborn.

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Has come out from all his sins.

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Brothers and sisters in Islam,

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isn't that the hadith and the reward of

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al Hajj?

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You can be a newborn with every 2

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raka'at you pray.

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Look at the opportunity Allah gives us.

00:34:30 --> 00:34:32

This is someone that actually wants the afterlife.

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But I want to go back.

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The Hadith said,

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glorify praised Allah,

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showed gratitude to Allah, glorified Allah. How do

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you achieve this? How do you do that

00:34:45 --> 00:34:45

in?

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You know how?

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Taught us something.

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It is by reading Surat al Fatiha in.

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Because when you say,

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Allah says,

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My slave has shown me gratitude.

00:35:03 --> 00:35:06

When you say Arrahmanir Rahim, Allah says Athna

00:35:06 --> 00:35:08

alayya Abdi, My slave has praised me.

00:35:09 --> 00:35:11

When you say Malik yawmid deen, Allah says

00:35:11 --> 00:35:12

Majadani

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Abdi, My slave has glorified me. Even that's

00:35:15 --> 00:35:17

the first three things in the hadith, you're

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achieving with the first three ayaat of surat

00:35:20 --> 00:35:20

al fatihah.

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Then wafarraqalbahu

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emptied your

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heart for Allah,

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meaning

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you had no distraction in your heart.

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And the time of the day

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in where your heart is completely

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free

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with no distraction is this time of the

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day.

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So my advice is when you get up

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for those 2 o rakat,

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listen to me very carefully.

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Don't touch your phone.

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And more importantly,

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don't take it to the bathroom with you.

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Don't touch your phone.

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When you wake up half an hour before

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Adan al Fajr,

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wake up fresh

00:36:03 --> 00:36:04

and go to the bathroom.

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Do what you have to do and make

00:36:06 --> 00:36:08

your and go straight to.

00:36:08 --> 00:36:10

Don't touch this poison

00:36:10 --> 00:36:13

here, because the moment you touch it, you're

00:36:13 --> 00:36:14

going to pollute your heart.

00:36:15 --> 00:36:16

It'd be the pollution starts.

00:36:17 --> 00:36:19

You open a message, oh, reminds you of

00:36:19 --> 00:36:21

something. You open it, allostaffairullah,

00:36:21 --> 00:36:22

I didn't want to see this in the

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first thing of the morning. Heck, this is

00:36:25 --> 00:36:26

how the phone has become.

00:36:27 --> 00:36:29

So you begin to pollute your heart. You

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disrupt it now when you're standing insulate your

00:36:31 --> 00:36:33

thinking of what you saw. You haven't emptied

00:36:33 --> 00:36:36

your heart for Allah. That opportunity for a

00:36:36 --> 00:36:38

newborn has gone.

00:36:38 --> 00:36:40

This is a very important tip. Don't touch

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this.

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Allahu Akbar.

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When Nabi says,

00:36:49 --> 00:36:50

whoever preys 2 raka'at

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and prays and reads 10 ayaat,

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he will not be counted among the heedless

00:36:56 --> 00:36:57

for that night.

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If you're not considered from the heedless, meaning

00:37:00 --> 00:37:03

you are recorded from among those who remembered

00:37:03 --> 00:37:03

Allah

00:37:04 --> 00:37:07

How beautiful is that? If you're recorded among

00:37:07 --> 00:37:10

those who have remembered Allah that night, that

00:37:10 --> 00:37:11

means you're preparing for the afterlife.

00:37:12 --> 00:37:14

That means your main concern is the afterlife.

00:37:15 --> 00:37:16

Congratulations.

00:37:16 --> 00:37:18

Keep doing this every single night.

00:37:20 --> 00:37:21

10 aat.

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That's

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alongside

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right? 7+3,

00:37:29 --> 00:37:30

that's 10.

00:37:31 --> 00:37:32

When Nabi

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said, and whoever stood the night and read

00:37:35 --> 00:37:36

a 100 ayaat.

00:37:37 --> 00:37:39

Brothers and sisters, if you have been reading

00:37:39 --> 00:37:40

10 ayaat for a long time,

00:37:41 --> 00:37:42

it's time to upgrade.

00:37:42 --> 00:37:45

Come up to a 100 ayaat. Whoever reads

00:37:45 --> 00:37:46

a 100 ayaat

00:37:50 --> 00:37:53

He will be registered and recorded among

00:37:54 --> 00:37:56

those who are obedient

00:37:56 --> 00:37:59

and devout to Allah as soon as an

00:37:59 --> 00:38:00

Qanitin, like Mariam

00:38:03 --> 00:38:04

Like Ibrahim

00:38:08 --> 00:38:10

You want to be ridden in that same

00:38:10 --> 00:38:12

record where Ibrahim's name is?

00:38:12 --> 00:38:15

A 100 ayaat every night. The name will

00:38:15 --> 00:38:16

go down in the same record with Ibrahim

00:38:18 --> 00:38:18

Allahu

00:38:19 --> 00:38:22

Akbar. Whoever's been reading a 100 ayaat,

00:38:22 --> 00:38:24

time to go up. When Nabi

00:38:25 --> 00:38:27

says, and whoever preys

00:38:27 --> 00:38:30

reading 1 1,000 ayaat.

00:38:36 --> 00:38:39

He's recorded from among those who have been

00:38:39 --> 00:38:40

given great huge

00:38:40 --> 00:38:43

reward, cannot be amassed and calculated

00:38:43 --> 00:38:44

except by Allah

00:38:46 --> 00:38:47

What's a 1000 ayaat about Hajar?

00:38:48 --> 00:38:48

He

00:38:49 --> 00:38:49

said

00:38:50 --> 00:38:51

Juzat Tabarak

00:38:51 --> 00:38:52

and Juzat

00:38:53 --> 00:38:56

Amma together makes a 1000 ayaat.

00:38:57 --> 00:38:58

2 ajzat

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That's at a later stage. Start working towards

00:39:01 --> 00:39:02

that. Have a goal. Have a plan so

00:39:02 --> 00:39:03

that you're always motivated

00:39:04 --> 00:39:05

to get up at night.

00:39:05 --> 00:39:07

Perhaps on a Sunday when the day is

00:39:07 --> 00:39:09

free, on a Saturday when the day is

00:39:09 --> 00:39:09

free,

00:39:11 --> 00:39:12

grab you almost half

00:39:13 --> 00:39:14

and read Tabarach Jazaamma

00:39:16 --> 00:39:17

for this huge reward.

00:39:18 --> 00:39:21

Having the intention of I'm preparing for my

00:39:21 --> 00:39:22

afterlife,

00:39:22 --> 00:39:24

making my greatest concern the afterlife. And I

00:39:24 --> 00:39:25

tell you something,

00:39:26 --> 00:39:28

Don't rush the prayer.

00:39:29 --> 00:39:32

Don't rush a salat. You know, Allah he

00:39:32 --> 00:39:32

wants.

00:39:33 --> 00:39:35

I walked in a masjid. I'll never forget

00:39:35 --> 00:39:37

this. I'll share it with you. I walked

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in a masjid e o salat al jumah.

00:39:39 --> 00:39:40

I walked in early,

00:39:41 --> 00:39:44

and I happened to end up praying next

00:39:44 --> 00:39:45

to an old man, an old man in

00:39:45 --> 00:39:47

the community center.

00:39:49 --> 00:39:51

I prayed a salat, Subhanallah.

00:39:51 --> 00:39:54

Prayed 2 raka'ah just before I sat, very

00:39:54 --> 00:39:55

quick and I sat.

00:39:56 --> 00:39:57

So the old man,

00:39:57 --> 00:39:59

he looked at me and he was smiling.

00:40:00 --> 00:40:01

And he said to me,

00:40:03 --> 00:40:04

I said,

00:40:04 --> 00:40:06

he says, can I give you advice? Look

00:40:06 --> 00:40:08

how beautiful this is. See, when you wanna

00:40:08 --> 00:40:11

give someone advice, tell him that. 100% of

00:40:11 --> 00:40:13

the times it works. He says, can I

00:40:13 --> 00:40:14

give you advice?

00:40:15 --> 00:40:17

Who's gonna say no? A believer that is

00:40:17 --> 00:40:19

honest and really wants the good. I said

00:40:19 --> 00:40:21

to him, yes, please give me advice.

00:40:22 --> 00:40:24

He said, it seemed to be that you

00:40:24 --> 00:40:25

rushed your salat.

00:40:25 --> 00:40:26

I said,

00:40:27 --> 00:40:29

I think I did rush my salat.

00:40:29 --> 00:40:31

He didn't say anything. You know what he

00:40:31 --> 00:40:32

said? He said,

00:40:37 --> 00:40:38

He read to me

00:40:38 --> 00:40:40

too, this is what he did.

00:40:42 --> 00:40:42

Indeed

00:40:43 --> 00:40:44

successful are the believers,

00:40:45 --> 00:40:47

those who have Khosur in their salat.

00:40:47 --> 00:40:50

Brothers and sisters and staff, Allah tied success

00:40:50 --> 00:40:51

to Khosur in salat.

00:40:53 --> 00:40:55

You're looking for success. You know the entire

00:40:55 --> 00:40:56

world is looking for success.

00:40:57 --> 00:40:58

Everyone you see you say, what do you

00:40:58 --> 00:41:00

want in life? I wanna be successful.

00:41:01 --> 00:41:02

And what do you want in life? This

00:41:02 --> 00:41:04

is the same purpose and the goal of

00:41:04 --> 00:41:06

the Muslim of the kafir of anyone.

00:41:06 --> 00:41:08

Everyone wants success.

00:41:08 --> 00:41:11

Yeah, but Allah told you success is in

00:41:11 --> 00:41:11

this.

00:41:12 --> 00:41:14

Success is in that 2 rakaat. You are

00:41:14 --> 00:41:15

going to pray at the end of the

00:41:15 --> 00:41:17

night, and in every salat you are going

00:41:17 --> 00:41:18

to pray.

00:41:18 --> 00:41:21

So why are you rushing your success for?

00:41:22 --> 00:41:24

These are moments in which you're charging your

00:41:24 --> 00:41:25

success.

00:41:26 --> 00:41:27

You're building your success.

00:41:29 --> 00:41:30

You know how they say you got to

00:41:30 --> 00:41:32

come to work early every day and exert

00:41:32 --> 00:41:35

so many hours to build success upon success

00:41:35 --> 00:41:35

upon success?

00:41:36 --> 00:41:40

Your salat does that. Every salat is building

00:41:40 --> 00:41:42

your success and another and another until it

00:41:42 --> 00:41:43

reaches levels

00:41:43 --> 00:41:44

with Allah

00:41:45 --> 00:41:47

So don't rush the prayer.

00:41:48 --> 00:41:50

Don't rush a salat. This is your greatest

00:41:50 --> 00:41:51

relationship with Allah

00:41:53 --> 00:41:55

Some rush the prayer to the point where

00:41:55 --> 00:41:56

Assalat

00:41:56 --> 00:41:58

itself is no longer accepted.

00:41:59 --> 00:42:02

To ask Allah to save us. Nabi

00:42:03 --> 00:42:04

once he was in the Masjid,

00:42:05 --> 00:42:07

A man prayed and then he came to

00:42:07 --> 00:42:09

sit in the presence of the messenger sallallahu

00:42:09 --> 00:42:10

alayhi wasalam.

00:42:10 --> 00:42:12

You know what Nabi salallahu alayhi wasalam said

00:42:12 --> 00:42:14

to him? And that's a man that existed

00:42:14 --> 00:42:16

at that time. He said,

00:42:18 --> 00:42:20

He said to him, brother, go back and

00:42:20 --> 00:42:22

pray because you did not pray.

00:42:23 --> 00:42:24

You know what we learned from this?

00:42:25 --> 00:42:25

Sometimes

00:42:26 --> 00:42:28

you may do the actions of a salat,

00:42:28 --> 00:42:30

but you're considered from among those who did

00:42:30 --> 00:42:33

not pray. That's exactly what this man did.

00:42:34 --> 00:42:36

He did the actions of salah.

00:42:37 --> 00:42:38

And the judgment of Rasulullah

00:42:40 --> 00:42:42

was to say to him, you did not

00:42:42 --> 00:42:43

pray.

00:42:44 --> 00:42:46

Then in that hadith, Nabi highlighted

00:42:47 --> 00:42:49

on an issue that he was missing in

00:42:49 --> 00:42:52

his salat that rendered his salat cancelled and

00:42:52 --> 00:42:53

void.

00:42:53 --> 00:42:54

And that was

00:42:59 --> 00:43:02

And that means that in every position of

00:43:02 --> 00:43:02

a salat,

00:43:03 --> 00:43:03

relax

00:43:03 --> 00:43:06

until all the bones have settled in their

00:43:06 --> 00:43:07

joints.

00:43:08 --> 00:43:09

That is

00:43:10 --> 00:43:12

a ruken. That is a pillar of a

00:43:12 --> 00:43:12

salat.

00:43:13 --> 00:43:15

So when you go into rukuwa,

00:43:16 --> 00:43:18

and hold it for a few seconds

00:43:19 --> 00:43:21

until you've got the position correct.

00:43:21 --> 00:43:24

And you've made sure that all the bones

00:43:24 --> 00:43:25

have settled in their joints.

00:43:26 --> 00:43:28

Once they've taken their position,

00:43:29 --> 00:43:31

now you've done what is satisfactory for us.

00:43:32 --> 00:43:33

When you come up from Arrukuh,

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stand there. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait until everything

00:43:37 --> 00:43:38

settles in its place.

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Then go into sujood.

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As for the one who,

00:43:47 --> 00:43:49

like a rooster, as was mentioned in Hadith,

00:43:50 --> 00:43:52

then this salat is missing.

00:43:55 --> 00:43:57

You're not giving time for your bones to

00:43:57 --> 00:43:58

settle back into their joint.

00:43:58 --> 00:44:00

So that is what is wejab when it

00:44:00 --> 00:44:01

comes to our salat.

00:44:01 --> 00:44:03

So we make sure that we don't rush

00:44:03 --> 00:44:05

it so our salat could be counted and

00:44:05 --> 00:44:06

accepted for us.

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And I want to also share with you

00:44:11 --> 00:44:11

something.

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These 2 rakat

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are also a great opportunity

00:44:17 --> 00:44:18

for a great worship.

00:44:19 --> 00:44:21

I tell you what that is, but I

00:44:21 --> 00:44:22

want you first to think.

00:44:22 --> 00:44:24

Follow with me along,

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or follow along with me on this matter.

00:44:27 --> 00:44:29

I'm asking you a question.

00:44:29 --> 00:44:32

What is the greatest and most beloved deed

00:44:32 --> 00:44:34

in the sight of Allah, Asoashil? Who can

00:44:34 --> 00:44:35

tell me?

00:44:37 --> 00:44:39

Praying on time, give me something more specific

00:44:39 --> 00:44:42

in a salat. What is the most beloved

00:44:42 --> 00:44:43

deed to Allah

00:44:43 --> 00:44:45

and the closest you'll ever be to Allah?

00:44:46 --> 00:44:47

A sujood.

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A sujood. We all know that, right? And

00:44:49 --> 00:44:52

Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says the closest

00:44:52 --> 00:44:54

slave will ever be to Allah is in

00:44:54 --> 00:44:54

a sujood.

00:44:56 --> 00:44:59

If a person is praying only the fort,

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how many raka'at is that a day? 17.

00:45:04 --> 00:45:07

In 17 raka'at a day, how many sujood

00:45:07 --> 00:45:07

is there?

00:45:09 --> 00:45:10

17 times 2?

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34.

00:45:12 --> 00:45:13

Right? That's the math. 34.

00:45:15 --> 00:45:16

Let's say

00:45:16 --> 00:45:19

in every sujud of the fault, you are

00:45:19 --> 00:45:20

making a sujud

00:45:21 --> 00:45:22

of 10 seconds.

00:45:22 --> 00:45:24

That that doesn't even happen.

00:45:25 --> 00:45:27

People, their sujood, count it. How long is

00:45:27 --> 00:45:27

it?

00:45:28 --> 00:45:30

3 to 4 seconds. Yeah. Let's be generous

00:45:30 --> 00:45:32

and say our sujood is 10 seconds.

00:45:33 --> 00:45:35

Well, imam can't even do 10 seconds because

00:45:35 --> 00:45:37

people are sick and people are old and

00:45:38 --> 00:45:39

An obligation,

00:45:40 --> 00:45:42

the imam has to look after those that

00:45:42 --> 00:45:43

are praying behind him. So he can't pray

00:45:43 --> 00:45:45

as though he's praying alone in his house

00:45:45 --> 00:45:46

and take his time.

00:45:47 --> 00:45:49

So let's just be generous and say every

00:45:49 --> 00:45:52

sujood of the 34 is 10 seconds.

00:45:53 --> 00:45:56

That means 34 sujood during the day means

00:45:56 --> 00:45:58

at the end of the day from 24

00:45:58 --> 00:46:00

hours, you made sujood 6 minutes.

00:46:01 --> 00:46:02

6 minutes.

00:46:03 --> 00:46:04

Now

00:46:05 --> 00:46:06

in 1 year,

00:46:07 --> 00:46:10

if you calculate your sujood of 4th in

00:46:10 --> 00:46:10

1 year,

00:46:11 --> 00:46:14

you would have made a total of 1.5

00:46:14 --> 00:46:15

days of sujood.

00:46:15 --> 00:46:17

1.5 days.

00:46:18 --> 00:46:20

In 60 years, let's say someone lived 60

00:46:20 --> 00:46:22

years, minus these, is not praying and so

00:46:22 --> 00:46:25

on. You would have made sujood

00:46:25 --> 00:46:26

75

00:46:26 --> 00:46:27

days of sixties.

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If you were to convert that to a

00:46:30 --> 00:46:31

percentage,

00:46:32 --> 00:46:33

0.3%

00:46:34 --> 00:46:36

of your life is spent in a sujood.

00:46:37 --> 00:46:40

Now let me tell you the question. Are

00:46:40 --> 00:46:40

you prepared

00:46:41 --> 00:46:43

to stand before Allah

00:46:44 --> 00:46:45

and meet him

00:46:45 --> 00:46:46

with 0.3%

00:46:47 --> 00:46:48

of your life

00:46:49 --> 00:46:51

spent in the most beloved deed to him,

00:46:51 --> 00:46:53

and the closest you'll ever be to him?

00:46:54 --> 00:46:56

I don't think anyone's ready.

00:46:56 --> 00:46:57

0.3%

00:46:57 --> 00:46:58

of your life? That's

00:46:59 --> 00:47:00

that's this much?

00:47:01 --> 00:47:03

And it's and this is supposed to be

00:47:03 --> 00:47:03

the greatest

00:47:04 --> 00:47:06

deed that Allah loves to see his sleeve

00:47:06 --> 00:47:07

in.

00:47:08 --> 00:47:09

We got a problem.

00:47:09 --> 00:47:10

What's the solution?

00:47:11 --> 00:47:12

How do we solve this?

00:47:19 --> 00:47:20

Says.

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Said, and during the night, prostrate to him

00:47:23 --> 00:47:24

and praise him

00:47:24 --> 00:47:26

a long part of the night.

00:47:27 --> 00:47:29

So I said to you that the night

00:47:29 --> 00:47:30

prayer is an opportunity

00:47:30 --> 00:47:31

to catch up

00:47:32 --> 00:47:35

on a sujood that is the most beloved

00:47:35 --> 00:47:36

to Allah, a sujal.

00:47:37 --> 00:47:38

So in your 2 rakaat,

00:47:39 --> 00:47:39

focus,

00:47:40 --> 00:47:40

relax,

00:47:41 --> 00:47:42

don't rush.

00:47:42 --> 00:47:44

A lot of the catch up needs to

00:47:44 --> 00:47:46

be made during this time.

00:47:47 --> 00:47:49

And make your sujood

00:47:50 --> 00:47:52

sit in your sujood for a minute at

00:47:52 --> 00:47:54

least if you're new to this. 1 minute,

00:47:55 --> 00:47:57

1 minute. You're gonna feel like it's a

00:47:57 --> 00:48:00

mountain on your shoulder, but that's because we're

00:48:00 --> 00:48:01

not used to it.

00:48:02 --> 00:48:05

But what? We can't be sit down and

00:48:05 --> 00:48:06

be sad and depressed about, we're gonna do

00:48:06 --> 00:48:07

something about it,

00:48:08 --> 00:48:09

Are you still alive?

00:48:10 --> 00:48:11

Do something. Start.

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30 seconds.

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One minute for every sujood.

00:48:15 --> 00:48:17

So at the end of your tour, that's

00:48:17 --> 00:48:19

4 minutes spent in a sujood.

00:48:20 --> 00:48:20

Feel it,

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and let that 0.3%

00:48:23 --> 00:48:24

start increasing in your life

00:48:25 --> 00:48:27

and have this intention and perhaps you meet

00:48:27 --> 00:48:28

Allah

00:48:28 --> 00:48:30

and he grants you a great reward. We

00:48:30 --> 00:48:32

don't know. But let's do our best and

00:48:32 --> 00:48:33

what we can.

00:48:33 --> 00:48:35

And as you're in your

00:48:37 --> 00:48:39

sujood, you're praising Allah

00:48:40 --> 00:48:43

the most high. Shuf, how beautiful is this?

00:48:43 --> 00:48:43

Reflect.

00:48:44 --> 00:48:45

In Ruqur, we say

00:48:47 --> 00:48:47

Are we?

00:48:48 --> 00:48:49

In sujood,

00:48:51 --> 00:48:52

we say Why wasn't it flipped around?

00:48:53 --> 00:48:54

Why couldn't we say

00:48:56 --> 00:48:57

Listen very carefully.

00:48:57 --> 00:49:00

Al Ala means the most high.

00:49:01 --> 00:49:03

And the Most High opposite to that is

00:49:03 --> 00:49:04

the Most Low.

00:49:05 --> 00:49:08

When you are in the lowest position ever

00:49:08 --> 00:49:09

and that is the most noble of you

00:49:09 --> 00:49:12

goes to the lowest part, which is the

00:49:12 --> 00:49:13

ground.

00:49:13 --> 00:49:16

From there, Allah wants you to declare that

00:49:16 --> 00:49:17

he's the most high.

00:49:18 --> 00:49:19

See the meaning?

00:49:20 --> 00:49:21

You will not

00:49:22 --> 00:49:24

appreciate the meaning of Allah being the most

00:49:24 --> 00:49:26

high until you are the lowest.

00:49:27 --> 00:49:30

So go down. Not require it. Go down

00:49:30 --> 00:49:30

even more.

00:49:31 --> 00:49:32

Put that face of yours

00:49:33 --> 00:49:35

that you will not put down for anyone

00:49:35 --> 00:49:36

else but Allah

00:49:37 --> 00:49:38

into the ground.

00:49:39 --> 00:49:41

Smother it into the Earth.

00:49:41 --> 00:49:43

And from there,

00:49:43 --> 00:49:44

say,

00:49:46 --> 00:49:47

it will have any completely

00:49:48 --> 00:49:49

different taste to it.

00:49:50 --> 00:49:52

When you know what you're doing, the worship

00:49:52 --> 00:49:54

is going to wallahi will sit there longer

00:49:54 --> 00:49:55

than a minute. Trust me.

00:49:56 --> 00:49:58

You got to build on these things slowly

00:49:58 --> 00:49:59

slowly. SubhanAllah.

00:49:59 --> 00:50:01

Keep repeating. Keep going.

00:50:01 --> 00:50:04

10 times, 20 times. Take your time. Subhan.

00:50:07 --> 00:50:08

My lord. It wasn't SubhanAllah.

00:50:10 --> 00:50:12

The words in a sujud are personal.

00:50:13 --> 00:50:14

I praise

00:50:14 --> 00:50:15

my Lord,

00:50:16 --> 00:50:18

the most high. Subhan means perfect.

00:50:19 --> 00:50:21

Perfection belongs to him.

00:50:21 --> 00:50:23

He's perfect in every way

00:50:23 --> 00:50:26

because all his names and attributes and actions

00:50:26 --> 00:50:28

are perfect. There's no flaw. There's no imperfection

00:50:28 --> 00:50:29

in them whatsoever.

00:50:30 --> 00:50:33

Taste the meaning. Understand what they're saying. You'll

00:50:33 --> 00:50:34

sit there more than a minute.

00:50:36 --> 00:50:36

SubhanAllah,

00:50:37 --> 00:50:39

Fasjud is going to give us the opportunity

00:50:39 --> 00:50:41

to make the most and catch up.

00:50:41 --> 00:50:43

Wallahi, there was a shaykh

00:50:43 --> 00:50:45

that told us a story.

00:50:45 --> 00:50:46

He said

00:50:47 --> 00:50:49

I entered Al Masjid Al Haram

00:50:49 --> 00:50:51

and I performed my Umrah

00:50:51 --> 00:50:53

and after al Umrah he said I wanted

00:50:53 --> 00:50:55

to rest and relax a little bit.

00:50:56 --> 00:50:58

So I sat on the carpeted area in

00:50:58 --> 00:50:59

al Masjid Al Haram.

00:51:00 --> 00:51:02

He said as soon as I sat I

00:51:02 --> 00:51:06

observed someone coming in standing and beginning his

00:51:06 --> 00:51:08

prayer. And it was about 2 to 3

00:51:08 --> 00:51:09

hours before Al Fajr.

00:51:10 --> 00:51:12

He said, I just saw him because he

00:51:12 --> 00:51:14

was the only one in my vision that

00:51:14 --> 00:51:15

was praying.

00:51:16 --> 00:51:19

And I saw him until he entered into

00:51:19 --> 00:51:19

a sujood.

00:51:20 --> 00:51:21

And he sat.

00:51:21 --> 00:51:23

He was in a sujood

00:51:23 --> 00:51:24

for a while.

00:51:25 --> 00:51:28

He said, Wallahi, I counted for him 40

00:51:28 --> 00:51:29

minutes in a sujood.

00:51:30 --> 00:51:32

And I said to myself,

00:51:32 --> 00:51:34

if he wasn't enjoying it he wouldn't have

00:51:34 --> 00:51:36

lasted 40 minutes.

00:51:38 --> 00:51:39

You can't do 40 minutes if you don't

00:51:39 --> 00:51:41

enjoy it, and you cannot enjoy it if

00:51:41 --> 00:51:42

you don't know what you're doing.

00:51:43 --> 00:51:44

These are 2 things you have in your

00:51:44 --> 00:51:46

mind. This is a lot of catch up

00:51:46 --> 00:51:47

I'm making.

00:51:48 --> 00:51:50

Number 2, Rabbi Al Aleh.

00:51:51 --> 00:51:53

I'm the lowest, he's the highest.

00:51:53 --> 00:51:55

And that hopefully will enhance

00:51:56 --> 00:51:58

the time you will put in that. Allahi

00:51:58 --> 00:51:59

brothers and sisters in Islam.

00:52:00 --> 00:52:03

A sheikh Avawz also told us a story

00:52:03 --> 00:52:05

about an old woman that came and asked

00:52:05 --> 00:52:06

him a question.

00:52:07 --> 00:52:08

She said to him, Yes Sheikh,

00:52:10 --> 00:52:13

I'm old now, and I'm very weak, and

00:52:13 --> 00:52:15

I cannot stand very long on my feet.

00:52:16 --> 00:52:16

And

00:52:17 --> 00:52:19

we used to pray, and we used to

00:52:19 --> 00:52:23

recite 1 juzah per rakah in a salat.

00:52:23 --> 00:52:25

Is it allowed for me

00:52:25 --> 00:52:28

to now reduce it to half a Juzet

00:52:28 --> 00:52:28

per rakah?

00:52:29 --> 00:52:30

An old woman.

00:52:31 --> 00:52:34

She's asking, is it allowed to reduce from

00:52:34 --> 00:52:36

1 Juzet to half a Juzet per rakah?

00:52:37 --> 00:52:39

What are we gonna say about ourselves?

00:52:40 --> 00:52:41

Well,

00:52:41 --> 00:52:42

even 1

00:52:42 --> 00:52:43

or 2

00:52:44 --> 00:52:45

ask Allah

00:52:45 --> 00:52:47

to bestow his mercy upon us.

00:52:47 --> 00:52:49

And to honor us with

00:52:50 --> 00:52:52

For indeed the prayer of the night is

00:52:52 --> 00:52:54

an honor for the believer.

00:52:54 --> 00:52:55

Jibril alayhi salam

00:52:56 --> 00:52:58

said to Nabi salallahu alayhi wasalam

00:52:59 --> 00:53:02

and nasharafal mumim kia mumu bill layl. He

00:53:02 --> 00:53:03

said to Nabi

00:53:03 --> 00:53:05

you better know and inform your ummah as

00:53:05 --> 00:53:08

well that the honor of the believer

00:53:08 --> 00:53:10

is his prayer at night.

00:53:11 --> 00:53:12

You don't have prayer

00:53:12 --> 00:53:13

at the night.

00:53:14 --> 00:53:15

I don't know. Do you have honor or

00:53:15 --> 00:53:15

not?

00:53:16 --> 00:53:18

The believer charges up his honor

00:53:20 --> 00:53:21

in the night prayer

00:53:23 --> 00:53:25

because you are engaged in a conversation with

00:53:25 --> 00:53:26

Allah and

00:53:27 --> 00:53:29

that's the most honorable position to ever be

00:53:29 --> 00:53:32

in. Because the day is gonna come, and

00:53:32 --> 00:53:33

the day is gonna be be a long

00:53:33 --> 00:53:35

and difficult day, because you're going to be

00:53:35 --> 00:53:37

speaking to human beings, and this human, and

00:53:37 --> 00:53:39

moving from this person, and phone call, and

00:53:39 --> 00:53:41

someone upsets you, and someone angers you.

00:53:42 --> 00:53:44

Dealing with human beings is very difficult.

00:53:46 --> 00:53:47

So if you don't have a part of

00:53:47 --> 00:53:49

the night in where you're talking to Allah,

00:53:49 --> 00:53:50

how do you recharge?

00:53:50 --> 00:53:52

Where are you gonna get your honor from?

00:53:58 --> 00:53:59

After you finish your tour,

00:54:00 --> 00:54:01

sit down

00:54:01 --> 00:54:03

and engage in Alistair Afar.

00:54:04 --> 00:54:06

One of the qualities of the righteous is

00:54:06 --> 00:54:09

that they use that time of a sahar,

00:54:10 --> 00:54:11

which is sukur time,

00:54:11 --> 00:54:14

which is about 15 minutes before Adhan al

00:54:14 --> 00:54:14

Fajr

00:54:15 --> 00:54:16

in seeking Allah's forgiveness.

00:54:17 --> 00:54:19

That's the best thing you can do at

00:54:19 --> 00:54:20

that time.

00:54:21 --> 00:54:24

If you're serious about the afterlife being your

00:54:24 --> 00:54:25

greatest and main concern,

00:54:26 --> 00:54:28

at that time you will be sitting making

00:54:28 --> 00:54:28

istighfar,

00:54:29 --> 00:54:30

and the best istighfar

00:54:31 --> 00:54:31

is to say.

00:54:36 --> 00:54:38

O Allah grant me forgiveness, and my parents

00:54:38 --> 00:54:41

grant them forgiveness, and the general Muslims and

00:54:41 --> 00:54:44

female and male Muslims grant them forgiveness as

00:54:44 --> 00:54:45

well.

00:54:45 --> 00:54:48

And for every single Muslim

00:54:48 --> 00:54:51

male and female you will earn a reward

00:54:52 --> 00:54:54

if you seek forgiveness for them.

00:54:55 --> 00:54:56

The day hasn't even started.

00:54:57 --> 00:55:00

Look at the type of reward this person

00:55:00 --> 00:55:02

has collected in his bags and in his

00:55:02 --> 00:55:03

record.

00:55:04 --> 00:55:06

Hey. This is a person that is serious

00:55:06 --> 00:55:09

about the afterlife being his main and greatest

00:55:09 --> 00:55:09

concern.

00:55:10 --> 00:55:12

Then afterwards brothers and sisters in Islam

00:55:14 --> 00:55:16

Adhan al Fajr enters

00:55:17 --> 00:55:18

and you pray 2 raka'at

00:55:19 --> 00:55:20

sunnat al fajr

00:55:21 --> 00:55:24

and you never ever missed that And even

00:55:24 --> 00:55:26

if you did not have time to pray

00:55:26 --> 00:55:29

it before salatul fajr, pray it after salatul

00:55:29 --> 00:55:29

fajr.

00:55:30 --> 00:55:31

Because Nabi

00:55:32 --> 00:55:34

never left out the 2 raka'at of al

00:55:34 --> 00:55:36

fajr, whether he was a resident or a

00:55:36 --> 00:55:37

traveler.

00:55:37 --> 00:55:38

When Nabi

00:55:40 --> 00:55:42

says the 2 raka'at of Fajr, meaning the

00:55:42 --> 00:55:43

sunnah 2 raka'at

00:55:44 --> 00:55:46

are much better than this worldly life and

00:55:46 --> 00:55:48

everything that is in this worldly life.

00:55:49 --> 00:55:52

How does that make sense? Like how?

00:55:52 --> 00:55:54

Imagine someone offered you

00:55:54 --> 00:55:55

$10,000,000

00:55:55 --> 00:55:56

Said to your brother,

00:55:57 --> 00:55:59

come to my office. I'm going to hand

00:55:59 --> 00:56:00

you a briefcase of $10,000,000

00:56:02 --> 00:56:03

When Nabi

00:56:04 --> 00:56:06

from this end is telling you the 2

00:56:06 --> 00:56:08

rakaat you'll pray is a lot better than

00:56:08 --> 00:56:10

that suitcase and what's in it.

00:56:10 --> 00:56:12

How does that make sense?

00:56:12 --> 00:56:14

How how does it make sense? I'll tell

00:56:14 --> 00:56:16

you how. This is how it makes sense.

00:56:18 --> 00:56:19

They said,

00:56:19 --> 00:56:20

because

00:56:20 --> 00:56:23

the reward of these 2 raka'at is going

00:56:23 --> 00:56:24

to be permanent.

00:56:25 --> 00:56:26

You're gonna die in the 2 raka'at, and

00:56:26 --> 00:56:28

its reward is going to enter your grave

00:56:28 --> 00:56:30

and keep going until you're resurrected from your

00:56:30 --> 00:56:32

grave until it's put on the scale.

00:56:33 --> 00:56:36

Whereas this worldly life, even if you had

00:56:36 --> 00:56:38

it all in your pocket, the day you

00:56:38 --> 00:56:39

die, it's all gone away from you.

00:56:40 --> 00:56:41

It's temporary.

00:56:41 --> 00:56:43

And what is permanent is a lot better

00:56:43 --> 00:56:44

than what is temporary.

00:56:45 --> 00:56:47

Wallah, literally everything will go away.

00:56:47 --> 00:56:49

They say that even

00:56:49 --> 00:56:50

yeah. Imagine

00:56:51 --> 00:56:52

a person lost a tooth and put a

00:56:52 --> 00:56:54

golden tooth instead of it.

00:56:55 --> 00:56:58

If the family forgot that golden tooth, they'll

00:56:58 --> 00:57:00

dig him up and take the golden tooth

00:57:00 --> 00:57:01

and put it back.

00:57:02 --> 00:57:03

You're going with nothing.

00:57:04 --> 00:57:04

Allah.

00:57:05 --> 00:57:07

Your parent the the family will say, well,

00:57:07 --> 00:57:09

we buried our dad and we forgot this

00:57:09 --> 00:57:11

tooth. Don't dig him up. We're crying. They'll

00:57:11 --> 00:57:13

take it out and they'll bury him back.

00:57:14 --> 00:57:15

Tooth.

00:57:16 --> 00:57:17

Stop. You're gonna take it. You will not

00:57:17 --> 00:57:19

benefit from it. Even that's gonna go out.

00:57:21 --> 00:57:22

I feel there's no mercy.

00:57:22 --> 00:57:24

You're gonna leave only with your deeds.

00:57:25 --> 00:57:28

That's what's permanent. That's why the 2 akhahat

00:57:28 --> 00:57:30

is a lot better than this worldly life.

00:57:30 --> 00:57:33

And then add to this, every deed of

00:57:33 --> 00:57:35

goodness you do is much better than this

00:57:35 --> 00:57:36

worldly life and everything else.

00:57:37 --> 00:57:39

Based on this logic, because all of it

00:57:39 --> 00:57:41

will be going with you until you meet

00:57:41 --> 00:57:42

Allah

00:57:42 --> 00:57:43

with it.

00:57:43 --> 00:57:44

So don't miss them out.

00:57:46 --> 00:57:47

You pray them.

00:57:48 --> 00:57:48

Afterwards,

00:57:49 --> 00:57:50

head to Al Masjid.

00:57:51 --> 00:57:52

Head to Al Masjid

00:57:52 --> 00:57:54

to pray Salat al Fajid.

00:57:54 --> 00:57:56

Don't sit at home and pray it at

00:57:56 --> 00:57:56

home.

00:57:57 --> 00:57:58

Unless you're sick

00:57:59 --> 00:58:00

or you're a traveler

00:58:00 --> 00:58:01

or you're extremely

00:58:02 --> 00:58:03

far away from Al Masjid, then you have

00:58:03 --> 00:58:06

an excuse not to get there. That's a

00:58:06 --> 00:58:07

different story. That's something

00:58:08 --> 00:58:08

that is temporary.

00:58:09 --> 00:58:10

But your permanent

00:58:10 --> 00:58:14

permanent permanent situation with salat and fajr

00:58:14 --> 00:58:16

should be in Al Masjid. When you're healthy,

00:58:17 --> 00:58:19

you're a resident in your house,

00:58:19 --> 00:58:21

pray it in Al Masjid.

00:58:22 --> 00:58:24

That's what the Masjid was built for.

00:58:24 --> 00:58:27

Otherwise, why was it made? You see, I'll

00:58:27 --> 00:58:28

tell you something. I'll tell you something. Look

00:58:28 --> 00:58:30

how encouraging. This is perhaps the first time

00:58:30 --> 00:58:33

you ever hear it. Brothers and sisters in

00:58:33 --> 00:58:33

Islam,

00:58:36 --> 00:58:38

initially initially fundamentally,

00:58:39 --> 00:58:41

we are supposed to be praying every salat

00:58:41 --> 00:58:43

in Al Masjid Al Haram,

00:58:44 --> 00:58:45

right in front of Al Kaaba.

00:58:46 --> 00:58:47

But Allah

00:58:47 --> 00:58:48

knows

00:58:49 --> 00:58:51

that not everyone can do this

00:58:51 --> 00:58:54

because people are gonna live around the globe

00:58:54 --> 00:58:55

and wherever they may be. That's impossible. How

00:58:55 --> 00:58:57

are we gonna pray 5 prayers and a

00:58:57 --> 00:58:58

Muslim Al Haram?

00:58:59 --> 00:59:01

It takes 14 hour 15 hours to get

00:59:01 --> 00:59:02

there. You can't.

00:59:02 --> 00:59:04

So Allah gave permission

00:59:05 --> 00:59:08

for houses of his to be built on

00:59:08 --> 00:59:08

earth.

00:59:09 --> 00:59:11

So like the mother is Al Masjid Al

00:59:11 --> 00:59:11

Haram

00:59:12 --> 00:59:14

and its children around the world will be

00:59:14 --> 00:59:15

Al Masjid.

00:59:16 --> 00:59:17

Then Allah

00:59:17 --> 00:59:18

decreed,

00:59:18 --> 00:59:20

when the time of salat enters,

00:59:21 --> 00:59:22

if you cannot get to Al Masjid Al

00:59:22 --> 00:59:23

Haram,

00:59:23 --> 00:59:26

enter any one of these closed masjid and

00:59:26 --> 00:59:28

face Al Masjid Al Haram.

00:59:29 --> 00:59:32

And that's why the one who prays salat

00:59:32 --> 00:59:32

alfarb

00:59:33 --> 00:59:34

in Jame'ah,

00:59:35 --> 00:59:38

his reward is the reward of a Hajj.

00:59:39 --> 00:59:39

And Nabi

00:59:40 --> 00:59:40

he

00:59:41 --> 00:59:43

says in the authentic hadith,

00:59:50 --> 00:59:51

the one who walks

00:59:52 --> 00:59:54

to an obligatory prayer in Al Masjid,

00:59:54 --> 00:59:57

it would be recorded for him as though

00:59:57 --> 00:59:59

he had performed

00:59:59 --> 01:00:00

a Hajj.

01:00:00 --> 01:00:03

And the similarity here is in reward,

01:00:04 --> 01:00:05

not insufficiency.

01:00:06 --> 01:00:07

So if you've never done Al Hajj,

01:00:08 --> 01:00:09

you can't say, brother,

01:00:09 --> 01:00:10

I completed

01:00:10 --> 01:00:12

my Hajj, I prayed the masjid.

01:00:13 --> 01:00:15

Now you're gonna go pay your money and

01:00:15 --> 01:00:17

go to al Hajj and do your Hajj.

01:00:17 --> 01:00:20

The similarity in al Hadith is reward, not

01:00:20 --> 01:00:21

sufficiency.

01:00:22 --> 01:00:26

Imagine every single salat for the Upray and

01:00:26 --> 01:00:28

al Masjid reward Hajj. So you can possibly

01:00:29 --> 01:00:31

earn the reward of 5 Hajj

01:00:31 --> 01:00:33

every single day if you are to pray

01:00:33 --> 01:00:34

the prayers in Al Masjid.

01:00:35 --> 01:00:37

And anyone who prayed a voluntary prayer in

01:00:37 --> 01:00:40

Al Masjid earns the reward of a Umrah.

01:00:40 --> 01:00:41

Like, if you are to pray

01:00:42 --> 01:00:44

or salat al buha

01:00:44 --> 01:00:46

or the eclipse prayer or whatever is prayed

01:00:46 --> 01:00:49

of the nawafil prayer in al Masjid.

01:00:49 --> 01:00:51

See how al Masjid,

01:00:51 --> 01:00:54

it's tied to the house of Allah. You

01:00:54 --> 01:00:57

face al Kaaba, it's reward Hajj, Umrah.

01:00:57 --> 01:00:59

It's as though a person has reached the

01:00:59 --> 01:01:00

house of Allah, Asooshil.

01:01:01 --> 01:01:03

And this is why the masajid were built.

01:01:03 --> 01:01:04

Allah

01:01:08 --> 01:01:10

gave permission for these houses

01:01:10 --> 01:01:11

that they

01:01:12 --> 01:01:15

the name of Allah is raised in them.

01:01:15 --> 01:01:17

As salah is raised in them.

01:01:17 --> 01:01:18

So use them for what they were made

01:01:18 --> 01:01:19

for.

01:01:20 --> 01:01:21

And there's

01:01:21 --> 01:01:24

a woman that preys at home,

01:01:24 --> 01:01:27

and the sick person that preys at home,

01:01:27 --> 01:01:30

and the traveler that preys at home that

01:01:30 --> 01:01:31

used to pray in the Masjid,

01:01:32 --> 01:01:33

will all

01:01:33 --> 01:01:36

earn the same reward as the man that

01:01:36 --> 01:01:37

preys in the Masjid.

01:01:38 --> 01:01:40

So nothing is missing out for the sisters.

01:01:40 --> 01:01:42

Often the sisters worry,

01:01:42 --> 01:01:44

and they say what about me? Should I

01:01:44 --> 01:01:47

attend the Masjid to earn this reward?

01:01:47 --> 01:01:49

We say no. We say definitely you can

01:01:49 --> 01:01:51

attend the Masjid and pray no problems,

01:01:52 --> 01:01:54

but if you prayed in the house, you

01:01:54 --> 01:01:56

will earn the exact same reward

01:01:57 --> 01:01:58

as the man that prays in Al Masjid.

01:01:58 --> 01:01:59

This

01:02:00 --> 01:02:01

is the virtue of Allah

01:02:03 --> 01:02:05

Well, there is a big big pandemic

01:02:05 --> 01:02:06

in this Ummah.

01:02:08 --> 01:02:09

Many many Muslims

01:02:10 --> 01:02:11

don't pray.

01:02:12 --> 01:02:14

They don't pray it on time,

01:02:14 --> 01:02:16

and that is a disaster.

01:02:17 --> 01:02:20

How can you claim that the afterlife is

01:02:20 --> 01:02:21

your greatest concern

01:02:21 --> 01:02:23

if you're not even praying

01:02:23 --> 01:02:24

on time?

01:02:24 --> 01:02:27

What in Taiwan? How's the afterlife your greatest

01:02:27 --> 01:02:28

concern? How?

01:02:29 --> 01:02:32

How? Explain to yourself, not to me. Explain

01:02:32 --> 01:02:32

to yourself.

01:02:33 --> 01:02:34

How are you going to prove on the

01:02:34 --> 01:02:35

day of judgement

01:02:36 --> 01:02:38

that the afterlife was your greatest concern

01:02:39 --> 01:02:42

when you're sleeping straight through salat al fajr

01:02:42 --> 01:02:44

not caring to get up and only caring

01:02:44 --> 01:02:46

to get up for work an hour or

01:02:46 --> 01:02:48

2 or whatever it is later?

01:02:49 --> 01:02:50

If you miss

01:02:51 --> 01:02:54

once every while, once every 6, 7 months,

01:02:55 --> 01:02:56

yeah, I mean, no problem. Still

01:02:57 --> 01:02:59

still give condolences to yourself on that day

01:02:59 --> 01:03:01

and be upset on that day.

01:03:02 --> 01:03:04

But if you're praying

01:03:05 --> 01:03:06

once every 6 months,

01:03:07 --> 01:03:08

then enter

01:03:08 --> 01:03:10

the heart is is somewhere in your body,

01:03:10 --> 01:03:12

somewhere else. The heart has died.

01:03:13 --> 01:03:14

The heart has died indeed.

01:03:15 --> 01:03:16

Indeed, we say to you.

01:03:19 --> 01:03:21

You need to wake up from this heedlessness

01:03:21 --> 01:03:22

and from this slumber,

01:03:23 --> 01:03:25

and you still have time. You're still alive.

01:03:26 --> 01:03:29

Correct it in order for the afterlife to

01:03:29 --> 01:03:30

be your greatest concern.

01:03:31 --> 01:03:33

Salatul Fajr. Nabi

01:03:34 --> 01:03:35

he said,

01:03:37 --> 01:03:38

he saw in his dream

01:03:39 --> 01:03:40

a man laying down

01:03:41 --> 01:03:43

and an angel grabbing a boulder

01:03:43 --> 01:03:45

and smashing it on his head and the

01:03:45 --> 01:03:48

head smashed into many pieces

01:03:49 --> 01:03:51

and the boulder will roll

01:03:51 --> 01:03:53

then the head will come back to form

01:03:53 --> 01:03:55

and shape then the angel will get that

01:03:55 --> 01:03:58

boulder and slam it on his head once

01:03:58 --> 01:03:58

again.

01:03:59 --> 01:04:01

And the head will be scattered,

01:04:02 --> 01:04:04

and pieces of it will fly all over

01:04:04 --> 01:04:06

the place, then it's brought again, and that

01:04:06 --> 01:04:09

continues as a punishment until the day of

01:04:09 --> 01:04:09

judgment.

01:04:11 --> 01:04:11

So then,

01:04:12 --> 01:04:12

Nabi

01:04:14 --> 01:04:15

was told by the angels,

01:04:18 --> 01:04:20

As for the one who you saw whose

01:04:20 --> 01:04:21

head was being

01:04:22 --> 01:04:23

crushed in that manner,

01:04:24 --> 01:04:25

then that is someone who

01:04:28 --> 01:04:30

He knows the importance of the Quran, but

01:04:30 --> 01:04:32

he abandoned and neglected the Quran.

01:04:36 --> 01:04:39

And he sleeps straight through the obligated prayer.

01:04:39 --> 01:04:41

He ignores, he neglects

01:04:41 --> 01:04:43

the obligated salat,

01:04:43 --> 01:04:46

but the punishment came on his head. Why?

01:04:47 --> 01:04:49

I know when you pray, when you're sleeping,

01:04:50 --> 01:04:52

you're taking comfort with your head on the

01:04:52 --> 01:04:53

pillow.

01:04:53 --> 01:04:55

Brothers and sisters in Islam,

01:04:55 --> 01:04:57

that pillow is temporary comfort.

01:04:58 --> 01:05:00

That pillow will turn against you, and it'll

01:05:00 --> 01:05:03

become a greater source of punishment against you,

01:05:03 --> 01:05:04

when now

01:05:04 --> 01:05:06

the boulder is being thrown on such a

01:05:06 --> 01:05:08

person's head. We ask Allah Azzawajal to save

01:05:08 --> 01:05:09

us from such a punishment.

01:05:10 --> 01:05:13

So don't think the pillow is offering comfort.

01:05:13 --> 01:05:14

That's deception.

01:05:15 --> 01:05:16

The pillow is deceiving you.

01:05:16 --> 01:05:19

Wallahi, it's deceiving you. That's not comfort.

01:05:20 --> 01:05:22

In nama, the one who gets up and

01:05:22 --> 01:05:25

prays, he will enjoy the everlasting comfort in

01:05:25 --> 01:05:27

his grave and in the afterlife.

01:05:29 --> 01:05:31

Walking to Al Masjid at night

01:05:31 --> 01:05:33

when it is dark and gloomy

01:05:33 --> 01:05:35

is a source of light on the day

01:05:35 --> 01:05:36

of judgment.

01:05:36 --> 01:05:37

When the munafiqun

01:05:38 --> 01:05:40

are struggling to look for some light to

01:05:40 --> 01:05:41

walk on a salat,

01:05:41 --> 01:05:42

And, alhamdulillah,

01:05:43 --> 01:05:45

your Surat has charged up your battery really

01:05:45 --> 01:05:46

well,

01:05:46 --> 01:05:48

and your headlights are beaming.

01:05:49 --> 01:05:50

And you're crossing a Surat

01:05:51 --> 01:05:53

amidst this darkness that Allah

01:05:53 --> 01:05:55

overwhelms mankind with

01:05:55 --> 01:05:57

Allahu Akbar as the messenger said.

01:05:59 --> 01:06:00

Brothers and sisters,

01:06:01 --> 01:06:03

the one who prays salatul fajr

01:06:03 --> 01:06:04

in jama'ah

01:06:06 --> 01:06:06

earns

01:06:06 --> 01:06:09

the reward as though he prayed the entire

01:06:09 --> 01:06:10

night.

01:06:11 --> 01:06:12

Allahu Akbar.

01:06:13 --> 01:06:14

Now now I told you get up half

01:06:14 --> 01:06:16

an hour before Adhan al Fushr

01:06:16 --> 01:06:18

and pray 2 raka'at.

01:06:19 --> 01:06:21

But would you like the reward of that

01:06:21 --> 01:06:23

whole night, even those 5 hours that you

01:06:23 --> 01:06:24

spent sleeping?

01:06:25 --> 01:06:27

Come and pray your salat in al Masih.

01:06:27 --> 01:06:28

It's salat take 10 minutes, and go back

01:06:28 --> 01:06:29

home,

01:06:29 --> 01:06:31

and continue your sleep, or do what you

01:06:31 --> 01:06:31

like.

01:06:32 --> 01:06:34

You would have put in your record the

01:06:34 --> 01:06:36

reward of an entire night in salat as

01:06:36 --> 01:06:38

though you never slept.

01:06:39 --> 01:06:41

Show how Allah is generous?

01:06:42 --> 01:06:45

If you are serious about making the afterlife

01:06:45 --> 01:06:47

your greatest concern,

01:06:47 --> 01:06:50

then Allah will meet that passion of yours

01:06:50 --> 01:06:52

with an abundance of reward.

01:06:53 --> 01:06:55

You just move. Put that little bit of

01:06:55 --> 01:06:57

effort and you'll see great reward on the

01:06:57 --> 01:06:57

other side.

01:06:58 --> 01:07:00

That's the night prayer. It frees you from

01:07:00 --> 01:07:03

hypocrisy. Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said the

01:07:03 --> 01:07:05

heaviest salat upon the

01:07:05 --> 01:07:07

is salat al fajr and salat al aisha.

01:07:08 --> 01:07:10

So the one who's praying salat al fajr

01:07:10 --> 01:07:10

in al Masjid,

01:07:11 --> 01:07:14

he saved himself from hypocrisy, and it's good

01:07:14 --> 01:07:16

evidence that he's not a hypocrite.

01:07:17 --> 01:07:20

These are meanings we ask Allah that he

01:07:20 --> 01:07:22

allows us to live up to and that

01:07:22 --> 01:07:24

we can accomplish them.

01:07:24 --> 01:07:27

After we're coming towards the end of our

01:07:27 --> 01:07:27

talk,

01:07:28 --> 01:07:29

sit down

01:07:29 --> 01:07:31

and engage in after

01:07:31 --> 01:07:32

the prayer.

01:07:32 --> 01:07:34

Sit down still remembering

01:07:36 --> 01:07:38

this is this is why or this is

01:07:38 --> 01:07:40

how the afterlife is my greatest concern, so

01:07:40 --> 01:07:41

sit down.

01:07:41 --> 01:07:42

Astaghfirullahatubuileh

01:07:43 --> 01:07:43

3 times

01:07:49 --> 01:07:51

If you can't say it 33 times, the

01:07:51 --> 01:07:53

minimum is 10 times each. Say it.

01:07:54 --> 01:07:55

Sit down. Don't rush.

01:07:56 --> 01:07:57

You see the people have you observed the

01:07:57 --> 01:07:59

state of the people today after us salat

01:07:59 --> 01:08:00

and how they rush?

01:08:01 --> 01:08:03

Wallahi, you think like someone's following them with

01:08:03 --> 01:08:04

a stick telling them get out of a

01:08:04 --> 01:08:04

masjid.

01:08:05 --> 01:08:08

Especially at salat al Jumayran is jammed on

01:08:08 --> 01:08:10

the border, and they're stuck in trying to

01:08:10 --> 01:08:11

come out the ark. What's wrong?

01:08:12 --> 01:08:14

As though what's outside is better than in

01:08:14 --> 01:08:15

what's inside.

01:08:15 --> 01:08:18

As though who you're going to meet outside

01:08:18 --> 01:08:20

is better than who you are in conversion

01:08:20 --> 01:08:21

with with Allah

01:08:23 --> 01:08:23

Relax.

01:08:24 --> 01:08:26

Relax. Take your time.

01:08:27 --> 01:08:29

Sit down and engage in your

01:08:30 --> 01:08:32

After al afghar, begin to recite.

01:08:36 --> 01:08:38

The supplication of the morning and the evening.

01:08:39 --> 01:08:41

And if you've never heard of this before,

01:08:41 --> 01:08:42

open the book, The Fortress of the Muslim.

01:08:42 --> 01:08:45

There's many apps. Download it. Go to the

01:08:45 --> 01:08:46

section,

01:08:46 --> 01:08:48

morning dhikr, afternoon dhikr.

01:08:49 --> 01:08:50

There are about 24.

01:08:51 --> 01:08:53

Read them. If you can't do all 24

01:08:53 --> 01:08:55

and you're new to this type of worship,

01:08:56 --> 01:08:56

do one.

01:08:57 --> 01:09:00

At least 1, at least 2, 3, something.

01:09:01 --> 01:09:03

But to redirect it altogether, well, that's a

01:09:03 --> 01:09:04

problem.

01:09:05 --> 01:09:07

This is an issue. And they are a

01:09:07 --> 01:09:07

Muslim.

01:09:07 --> 01:09:09

And you want to have and you want

01:09:09 --> 01:09:11

to build these habits in your life and

01:09:11 --> 01:09:12

die upon them.

01:09:13 --> 01:09:14

So that you can prove at least to

01:09:14 --> 01:09:16

yourself and say Alhamdulillah.

01:09:16 --> 01:09:18

I hope Allah accepts my efforts

01:09:19 --> 01:09:21

of making the afterlife my greatest concern.

01:09:23 --> 01:09:24

I

01:09:25 --> 01:09:27

spent the last 2 years

01:09:28 --> 01:09:31

explaining the morning and evening afghar. Alhamdulillah,

01:09:32 --> 01:09:34

we completed that course and it's uploaded on

01:09:34 --> 01:09:35

YouTube.

01:09:35 --> 01:09:38

And I recommend for you that you listen

01:09:38 --> 01:09:40

to an episode once a week. There are

01:09:40 --> 01:09:41

30 episodes.

01:09:42 --> 01:09:42

Listen

01:09:43 --> 01:09:44

and learn and understand

01:09:45 --> 01:09:48

how powerful Al Ghar Subhaah al Mas'a is.

01:09:48 --> 01:09:51

By Allah I promise you if you only

01:09:51 --> 01:09:54

hear 3 to 4 lectures not the all

01:09:54 --> 01:09:55

30, 3 to 4.

01:09:56 --> 01:09:58

You will you will ask yourself:

01:09:58 --> 01:10:01

How have I been living all this time

01:10:01 --> 01:10:03

and not seeing what Allah wanted me to

01:10:03 --> 01:10:04

say?

01:10:05 --> 01:10:07

It's not worship, but it is a very

01:10:07 --> 01:10:09

stressed upon sunnah for you and I to

01:10:09 --> 01:10:09

say.

01:10:10 --> 01:10:13

It charges the heart with certainty, with iman.

01:10:13 --> 01:10:16

It changes your vision, your focus in life,

01:10:16 --> 01:10:18

your mindset. The reward is is unbelievable.

01:10:19 --> 01:10:22

It's medicine. It's protection from evil, from envy,

01:10:22 --> 01:10:25

from jealousy, from magic. It is abundance of

01:10:25 --> 01:10:28

reward. It's whatever you want is all in

01:10:28 --> 01:10:30

there. There is even a zikr in there

01:10:30 --> 01:10:32

that if you say at once, then Allah

01:10:33 --> 01:10:35

records for you as though you have fulfilled

01:10:35 --> 01:10:37

the gratitude of that day.

01:10:38 --> 01:10:41

You won't feel guilty about all, did I

01:10:41 --> 01:10:43

thank Allah enough today? Of course, we will

01:10:43 --> 01:10:44

never be able to thank Allah enough, but

01:10:44 --> 01:10:47

from the mercy of Allah, one dhikr you

01:10:47 --> 01:10:49

say, it will be written. You have

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achieved a satisfactory level of being grateful to

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Allah for today.

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A lifesaver indeed and a life changer.

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Listen to those and connect with that

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after you read your afkar after us salat

01:11:03 --> 01:11:04

and afkar sabah

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read something of the Quran. One page. And

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no one understand

01:11:09 --> 01:11:10

that doing afghar after

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and afghar of the morning is a lot

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better than reading the Quran immediately after.

01:11:18 --> 01:11:20

Pay attention to what I'm saying. Most definitely

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is the best on earth,

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but when something is legislated for its time

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that would be better than.

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So what is supposed to be said after.

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So the one who says the after

01:11:35 --> 01:11:36

the prayer

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is better than the one who is reading

01:11:38 --> 01:11:40

Quran straight after

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because

01:11:42 --> 01:11:42

after

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comes at that time.

01:11:44 --> 01:11:46

Otherwise, where where else are you going to

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say them? So that's better. You understand?

01:11:49 --> 01:11:50

And then you read some Quran,

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and now

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from finally coming.

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To say it how many times? Who knows?

01:12:04 --> 01:12:07

A 100 times. You can 10 times. One

01:12:07 --> 01:12:09

time is narrated. 10 times is narrated. The

01:12:09 --> 01:12:12

minimum is 1. 10 is better than 1.

01:12:12 --> 01:12:14

A 100 is better than 10, but all

01:12:14 --> 01:12:16

3 have been narrated in terms of numbers.

01:12:17 --> 01:12:19

And the 100 could be split. 50 in

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the morning, 50 in the evening, no problems.

01:12:22 --> 01:12:22

But

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as you sit there and you say,

01:12:28 --> 01:12:30

you keep repeating it.

01:12:30 --> 01:12:31

You will realize

01:12:32 --> 01:12:35

that this entire universe was created for the

01:12:35 --> 01:12:36

fulfillment of this word.

01:12:38 --> 01:12:39

Then you begin to ask us, Anna, what

01:12:39 --> 01:12:40

was I rushing to?

01:12:41 --> 01:12:44

What am I rushing to? This whole world

01:12:44 --> 01:12:46

was created for this world.

01:12:47 --> 01:12:48

The hellfire was created

01:12:50 --> 01:12:52

for The paradise was created

01:12:53 --> 01:12:55

for What am I rushing to?

01:12:55 --> 01:12:58

You'd rather sit and spend some time with

01:12:58 --> 01:12:59

your maker and your creator,

01:12:59 --> 01:13:02

and you'll realize the you'll realize the worthlessness

01:13:03 --> 01:13:05

of this worldly life. That the worldly life

01:13:05 --> 01:13:07

would not have existed without

01:13:08 --> 01:13:10

So what were you rushing to?

01:13:11 --> 01:13:14

You see, if your morning starts like this,

01:13:15 --> 01:13:17

the sun hasn't even come up yet,

01:13:18 --> 01:13:20

and you walk outside the Masjid having done

01:13:20 --> 01:13:21

all this now.

01:13:23 --> 01:13:24

Allahu Akbar, what is this?

01:13:25 --> 01:13:26

Such a person now

01:13:27 --> 01:13:29

has the correct frequency in life.

01:13:29 --> 01:13:31

He's tuned into the right frequency.

01:13:32 --> 01:13:35

He knows now how to tackle the

01:13:36 --> 01:13:38

challenges and the calamities of the day. Allahi,

01:13:38 --> 01:13:40

brothers and sisters, compare this person

01:13:41 --> 01:13:43

to the one who slipped through the whole

01:13:43 --> 01:13:43

night.

01:13:45 --> 01:13:46

Gets up late,

01:13:46 --> 01:13:47

the sun has come out.

01:13:48 --> 01:13:50

Rushes, maybe he makes wudu and prays al

01:13:50 --> 01:13:51

fajr.

01:13:52 --> 01:13:53

Maybe maybe he says, you know what? It's

01:13:53 --> 01:13:54

gone. I'll pray tomorrow.

01:13:55 --> 01:13:58

What a horrible start. That's why Nabi sallallahu

01:13:58 --> 01:14:01

alaihi wa sallam said, and whoever made this

01:14:01 --> 01:14:02

worldly life his main concern,

01:14:04 --> 01:14:06

Allahu will disorganize his affairs.

01:14:06 --> 01:14:09

Such a person, you do find them waking

01:14:09 --> 01:14:10

up, maybe he's late to work. He already

01:14:10 --> 01:14:12

begins his, oh, allah boss, and now I'm

01:14:12 --> 01:14:14

coming late. Subhanallah. He just got sick at

01:14:15 --> 01:14:16

he starts his day with a lie.

01:14:18 --> 01:14:20

He starts his late lazy

01:14:20 --> 01:14:21

with a lie.

01:14:21 --> 01:14:24

Probably hasn't even eaten breakfast yet. Doesn't know

01:14:24 --> 01:14:27

how to manage his breath. It's stinky.

01:14:29 --> 01:14:31

The the the the shaytan has urinated in

01:14:31 --> 01:14:32

his ears, and Nabi says,

01:14:35 --> 01:14:37

He's walking around with urine of his shaitan

01:14:37 --> 01:14:38

in his ears.

01:14:38 --> 01:14:41

Where's the productivity in that day?

01:14:41 --> 01:14:43

How is the afterlife your greatest concern?

01:14:45 --> 01:14:47

Ask Allah to forgive us,

01:14:48 --> 01:14:50

and to allow us to turn teams. Subhanahu

01:14:50 --> 01:14:50

wa ta'ala.

01:14:52 --> 01:14:54

Then Nabi salallahu alayhi wa sallam

01:14:54 --> 01:14:54

says,

01:14:57 --> 01:14:59

and Allah will place poverty right in between

01:14:59 --> 01:14:59

his eyes,

01:15:00 --> 01:15:02

meaning right in between his eyes. Yeah. And

01:15:02 --> 01:15:04

in the world, the life is here, but

01:15:04 --> 01:15:05

he's still not content.

01:15:06 --> 01:15:08

He feels very poor on the inside.

01:15:08 --> 01:15:10

And then Nabi Salam says,

01:15:12 --> 01:15:13

he will have no bonuses in this life.

01:15:13 --> 01:15:15

Whatever is written for him will come.

01:15:15 --> 01:15:16

No bonuses.

01:15:17 --> 01:15:19

Just take what what there is and and

01:15:19 --> 01:15:20

and get out of this worldly life.

01:15:22 --> 01:15:23

We ask Allah

01:15:24 --> 01:15:26

to grant us goodness and acceptance.

01:15:26 --> 01:15:27

We ask Allah

01:15:28 --> 01:15:30

to accept this gathering. We ask him

01:15:30 --> 01:15:32

to forgive our sins and our shortcomings.

01:15:33 --> 01:15:34

We ask him

01:15:35 --> 01:15:37

to allow us to be productive in the

01:15:37 --> 01:15:38

early hours of the morning.

01:15:39 --> 01:15:40

We ask Allah

01:15:40 --> 01:15:43

most importantly to grant us strength and ability

01:15:43 --> 01:15:45

that we worship him and he will remain

01:15:45 --> 01:15:47

consistent and steadfast upon the worship.

01:15:48 --> 01:15:48

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