Abu Bakr Zoud – The Problem With Checking Notifications

As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullah.

Brothers and sisters in Islam, notifications.

Some of us act and behave as though

we were created for our notifications on our

phone.

So if you observe the behavior of people,

they're always consistently reaching out to their phones,

to their watchers, checking notifications that are coming

in.

And I'm not saying that notifications are not

something important.

You may well and truly check your notifications.

But what I am trying to send of

a message in this video is do not

check notifications during times of worship.

The unfortunate thing is when people, for example,

attend Salat al-Jumu'ah and then reach

out to their phones, take it out, and

then they begin to read notifications.

This invalidates the reward of the Jumu'ah.

Not only this, when people are doing their

Umrah or their Hajj and they consistently take

out their phones and they're checking notifications, what

email came to them, what message came to

them, what money came into their account, what

left and so on.

When we're reading Qur'an, it's a time

of worship.

It's inappropriate to take out the phone and

to start playing and checking notifications.

So what I'm saying is when we are

in a state of worship, that time should

be different to times when we are not

engaged in worship.

So when you're reading Qur'an, for example,

don't check notifications.

You already have notifications from Allah Azza wa

Jal.

Every ayah is a notification from Allah Azza

wa Jal.

The heart is connecting with the ayah or

at least try to understand and try to

connect with the ayat and avoid connection with

the phone and its notifications.

When you're making du'a, focus on your

du'a, keep the phone away.

When people finish their Salat today, I've seen

many after Salat reach out to their pocket,

take out the phone and start checking notifications

and messages.

We're still in a state of worship after

a Salat.

After the prayer there is adhkar to say,

adhkar after the prayer, reciting ayatul kursi.

So we need to respect and honor these

times and keep the phone and keep the

notifications away from us.

It's a habit a lot of us have

fallen into but with practice and bringing awareness

to this matter, inshallah we're able to do

better.

And I say to you something, notifications will

never end.

Even when you're dead and you're on the

washing table and you're being washed and shrouded,

you may receive a notification on your phone

from the local pizza shop telling you buy

two pizzas, get one free.

Notifications will never end, they will continue.

So it's not the most important thing, especially

during worship.

Focus on your worship, keep the phone and

the notifications away and you may check that

later.

We ask Allah to accept from us all.

We ask Allah to grant us khushu' in

our worship.