Abu Taymiyyah – 7 Ways To Attain Khushoo In Salat Cardiff
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The speakers discuss the importance of achieving the khushur and the presence of Islam in culture, including the importance of standing in front of Allah and not being afraid of doing things. They also emphasize the need for individuals to take responsibility for their own mistakes and practicing the salif in obtaining knowledge. The importance of practicing the salif and not standing in front of the king is also emphasized. The speakers also discuss the importance of learning the Arabic language and investing in the tafsir of the time.
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My dear respective brothers and sisters, first and
foremost, I would just like to thank the
organizers
for inviting me over to give this lecture.
The messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he told
us in a hadith that was narrated by
Imam Abu Dawood
and the authority of Abu Huraira where the
messenger said,
The one who doesn't thank
the people, he won't be thankful to Allah
So
we ask Allah
to aid and assist
those who organized it and make it
a means where Allah
puts good deeds on the scale of good
deeds, inshallahu ta'ala, on your markiama.
Today, my brothers and my sisters, as you
guys are aware, we want to speak about
7 ways of how to attain the khushur
and the salah.
Some of us may be sick and tired
of walking into the salah as if it
is a routine.
We go in and out, and we haven't
felt
that connection between ourselves and Allah
You know my brothers and my sisters, something
that the Messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam told
us
with regards to the Ibadat,
And it may be that
2 individuals,
they perform the exact same Ibadah,
but they end up coming out with different
rewards.
And
this is something the messenger told us about
different Ibadat.
With regards to the month of Ramadan, the
fasting that we do,
Messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he told us, Rubbasayim,
sallamil
siyamiljuwalatash.
Perhaps an individual, he fasts
and he gets nothing out of the fasting,
except what?
Thirst and hunger.
Perhaps a person,
he might be spending the nights in the
month of Ramadan praying,
and he gets nothing except what?
Tiredness
and also just spending the night without achieving
anything.
Also the messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he told us with regards to the Hajj.
Whoever performs hajj, and he doesn't fall into
obscenity,
and also transgression,
then this individual is the one who's going
to come back
like a newly born baby.
Those who have gone out on Hajj, and
I'll tell you this as a Hajj operator,
sometimes being with the Hujjaj,
you can witness it with your own eyes
that this guy may have
destroyed many aspects of his hajj,
of the way he deals with others,
the way he's maybe hurting people,
the way
he, you know, is just being argumentative from
the moment he touches down.
In the Ardal Haramain, in Makkah o Madinah,
all the way till the time we come
back.
Can that person be the same as the
one who was patient,
and endured the difficulty,
the heat
and the troubles that one has to go
through when going out on hajj.
And the messenger
my brothers and my sisters, he also told
us about the
Perhaps an individual when he comes out of
the salah,
he only ended up getting what?
10%, 20%, 30%, and so on and so
forth. Ilaha akhir al hadith.
This salah that we just prayed my brothers
and my sisters, salaatul Asr. It could be
that when Muhammad prayed,
the reward that he got was completely different
from
when Ali
prayed.
And that is
a high that the Messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam
to us.
So isn't it sad my brothers and my
sisters,
that the only interaction we have with Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, because the messenger told us,
right?
When when he stands up for the salah,
he's interacting with his Lord.
He doesn't feel anything in his heart.
It is as if it is just a
random routine,
like the different other aspects
that he does on
his day to day life.
Imagine my brothers and my sisters,
we had a getaway.
Have you guys heard of a getaway vacation?
At Kufar, they have something called a getaway
vacation.
Well, he even wants to get away from
his wife and his kids.
It's called the men's vacation,
where they go out and they go crazy
and so on and so forth.
Because he's been so stressed out throughout the
year,
he just wants to get away from everything,
guys.
The people of the past, minas salihim,
those who are righteous, they also had my
brothers and my sisters a getaway.
You know what this getaway was?
Mutayim
he says:
In this dunya there is a jannah, there
is a paradise.
Whoever doesn't enter into this paradise,
he won't enter into the paradise of the
Akhirah.
Scholars, they differed. What was he speaking about?
Some scholars they mentioned, a Ridah.
Being satisfied and content.
When you go through a different Ibtilaat,
different troubles and difficulties.
Sabar is one thing. Patience is one thing.
There is a level above that, which is
ariva, to actually be pleased.
To be happy,
satisfied
with the difficulties and the trials that you're
going through. And some of them my brothers
and my sisters, they said it is what?
It is the salah.
When they entered into the salah, they forgot
all the humum and the humum.
All the distresses, the difficulties, the problems, the
troubles
that he's going through in this dunya.
It was an opportunity for him to just
get away from everything because we're in what?
We're in Darul Ibtila.
Especially living in this society today that has
been so sexualized.
You go outside, you look to your left,
you look to your right, you look in
front of you, you look behind you, there's
just fa'ahesh everywhere.
Walk into your home sometimes is like a
war zone.
Go to the wife, there might be troubles,
your children again, it's just driving you crazy.
You know the messenger
my brothers and my sisters,
whenever he went through troubles,
Taniyahzalayl
salah,
he would rush to the salah.
And he went through trials and difficulties and
problems and the stresses he would go through
and run to the salah.
Because that is where he found his what?
Intensement.
Today my brothers and my sisters, when we
go through difficulties, do we not go and
sit in front of the creation?
And we complain and complain and complain, and
we show our sadness,
grief, and sorrow.
And a lot of the time, they can't
do anything for us.
They can't do anything for us majority of
the time.
And he's probably sitting there. The person that
you're complaining to is thinking, When is this
guy gonna go?
Everybody's busy, right?
You've got things to do and be sitting
around hearing a guy complaining and complaining.
But you have my brother's mother, Al Malikud
Dayan,
who is calling you to answer this call,
this interaction.
And He is ready to remove all the
problems that you have.
Just now when I went to one of
the masajid,
I was giving them the importance of a
dua in the salat itself.
In that salah, my brothers and my sisters,
there is a position
which the messian
said,
He's somebody who strives
in making that dua in the sujood for
indeed we responded back to you.
We responded back to you.
Assalam my brothers and my sisters,
it is not like the different other Ibadah
that we do.
It is looked at completely differently.
So my brothers and my sisters,
like I said imagine we had this getaway,
this salah
which allows us now to, you know, get
away from everything.
And since salaam alayhi said to Bilal,
cause us to go through the pleasure,
the contentment of the salah.
And my brothers and my sisters, once you
taste the sweetness
of Ibadah,
that time of,
you know,
making Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala second to
everything
else will come to an end.
You might even reach a point where you're
waiting for that opportunity from Allah ajawajal.
Can't wait till the next salah,
instead of looking at it as if it
is a burden coming my way.
Alakulihihal my brothers and my sisters,
before I mention the 7 points,
I want to stand over the statement of
Ibn Qayb
where he said,
The A'b, the servant,
he stands in front of Allah
in 2 cases.
Going to be standing in front of Allah
the day when you meet him.
Allah mentions,
the day when the people are going to
be standing in front of their Lord, the
Lord of all worlds.
And also standing in front of Allah
in the salah.
An Ibn al Taym
goes on to say,
Whoever
takes the issue of the salah
very lightly and he doesn't fulfill it,
how he should be? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is going to what?
Make the mokhif, the time when he is
going to be standing in front of
Allah really difficult for him.
And whoever my brothers and my sisters
gives us concern,
importance,
trying his utmost best
in
perfecting that standing where he which he stands
in front of Allah ajaw on a day
to day basis,
and Allah
will make it easy for him then.
Can you see the direct link my brothers
and my sisters?
2 times you're standing in front of Allah
Perfect
your salat,
and this is why we are here today.
The believers are successful.
1st characteristic that was mentioned was what? The
first quality.
Those who have Khushu and the Salat.
So my brothers and my sisters,
the first point I'm going to mention Insha'Allah
Ta'ala
is Istihhararunatharillahi
ta'ala ilik.
In order to be able to attain that
kushoor
is that you are somebody
who constantly has on the back of his
mind
that Allah
is watching him.
That
individual, he will lose
this blessing or this quality
of
having the Khushur in the salat.
The moment he begins to become unmindful,
that Allah
is constantly watching him, looking at him.
And that is not just my brothers and
my sisters in the salah,
it is also outside of the salah.
That time my brothers and my sisters, when
you're under your blanket,
and the shaytan is whispering
in your ears
to go and bring out the haram on
your phone.
You know the shaitan has worked so hard
my brothers and my sisters,
to look at Fawahish,
in such an easy manner.
I'm sure we remember the times when we
used to have these big Dell computers, Sahib.
The only way to access the internet is
through these big computers. They didn't have laptops
then. Guys, remember the big Dell with the
big back? They used to sit in the
living room,
And the moment somebody wanted to do haram,
he's watching the door. The The moment he
hears something, everything says
It was more difficult to be watching haram.
But now it is so easy because of
these
smartphones that we have.
Jawala t dakiya, that's what they call it.
Smartphones.
It's actually making the kids bleed,
making them thick, sitting in front of it
throughout the whole day.
And there
is articles that have been written on this,
how it actually affects the mind and reduces
his intelligence and so on and so forth.
Alakulihal,
the one constantly, my brothers and my sisters,
has Allah
on the back of his mind.
And it's times like that, my brothers and
my sisters, who Allah
provides for you. Right?
And this is taqwa
in its essence.
That you do what Allah
told you to do.
As if Nurrajib
mentions,
people normally translate the issue of taqwa as
what? As fear. It's actually more comprehensive than
that.
Is that you place a shield between you
and that which you fear.
What is it that we fear? The anger
of Allah azza wa jal. Right?
And what is this shiyud?
To
do what Allah told you to do and
to stay away from the things that Allah
told you to stay away from. It's times
like that my brothers and my sisters, when
you're under your blanket and nobody is with
you,
and everything is calling you to do haram,
that you
taklibis shaitaan, that you overcome,
push away the shaitaan. That Allah
now all of a sudden
begins to open doors for you.
Whoever comes with taqwa Allah is going to
give him a way out.
And will provide for him from where he
doesn't expect. Rizq my brothers and my sisters
isn't just wealth.
Also Al'ill my brothers, knowledge.
The word rizq can be used in that
sense as well.
And all the other qualities
and blessings that we want,
not just that which is materialistic.
So here my brothers and my sisters, he
clearly says Ibn Al Qayim
The more a person he has Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala on the back of his mind,
this person will have more.
He will have that glorification, that reverence in
his heart towards Allah
Every step that you take, every move that
you make my brothers and my sisters,
you're asking yourself, is it really for Allah
ajazawajal?
Am I doing this for Allah ajazawajal?
When I say something, when I do something
with my limbs, is it really for
Allah When I'm about to sin now, do
I have Allah in the back of my
mind that he is arratib?
That he's overwatching
every single movement
that I do.
And then you also have my brothers and
my sisters, to have Allah on the back
of your mind, that He's watching you, standing
in front of you, when it comes to
Rasalah.
The grandson of who? Alib Nabi Talib Radiallahu
Ta'ala Anhu. Alib N Hussain.
Whenever he made wudu, my brothers and my
sisters face would go yellow.
Fa yaku lu lahu alahu, his family would
say to him,
What is it that which keeps happening to
you all the time?
And he would say,
do you guys really know who I'm about
to stand in front of?
I wanna ask you guys a question.
You know my brothers and my sisters, when
we go for an interview,
the amount of preparation that we put into
it,
alisaqidalik,
we're thinking about what we're going to say,
We make sure we iron our clothes so
we're looking slick,
suited and booted.
We normally have a bath once a day,
or maybe once in 2 days. We're gonna
make sure on that very day,
we're having 2 showers. 1 the night before,
1 in the morning is all, so we
look great.
We're practicing before we are about to enter
into
interviewers office.
Isn't this also my brothers and my sisters,
more of a reason for us to,
you know, prepare ourselves for?
Arazahu,
the one who provides for the interviewer and
the one who also provides for you.
We put so much thought and effort into
the Khalq,
the creation.
The Khalq, the creator himself.
It's more of a reason that we behave
in such a way.
Alaf ibn Ayub.
If a fly came onto his face, my
brothers and masters, he wouldn't try to expel
it from it.
How is it that you are patient upon
that?
A fly is coming onto your face.
It can be really really agitating. Right?
Those who transgress, they are patient
upon when they are being whipped by the
rulers.
Liukal, just so the people can say fulanun
sabur, so and so is patient.
And they boast about it.
I was able to enjoy
the whipping of the ruler,
would boast about it.
And I stand in front of my Lord,
and you want me to start fidgeting and
moving
in front of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
over a little fly as such.
The next point that I want to mention
my brothers and my sisters is point number
2.
Constantly my brothers and my sisters,
seeing your shortcomings,
and seeing your deficiencies.
And this is the way of the uliya
my brothers and my sisters.
They don't become deluded or complacent
with the good deeds that they
have come with.
They always see themselves that they can do
better.
This is why Imam Syedir
in his lines of poetry when he was
talking about the characteristics
of the awliya,
Sayyidirullah
llahkhira.
He says,
doing the good deeds that are obligatory.
And also the voluntary act is their way,
while at the same time
they always see themselves that they can what?
Do better
and that they are falling short.
I'm gonna ask you guys a question,
what is the very well known du'a that
one reads on the last 10 nights of
Ramadan?
Jameel, Allah minaka'afoon tuhibul a'afoo fafani. Right?
Waib.
Does anybody know how this du'a came about?
Jameel Fatiha
was from the greatest of those,
from the companions. And I say the companions
because she was even better than many of
the male companions.
And that just shows you just because you're
a woman,
it doesn't necessarily mean that you're limited
when it comes to seeking knowledge and also
hitting new heights.
Aisha Radiashi said,
If you if I come to know when
Leila Talwada is, would you advise me to
say would you advise me to
supplicate with? And he taught the dua.
Ibnurajah
my brothers and my sisters,
he teaches us something.
Very nice beautiful benefit with regards to this
dua.
Says
He only asked her to seek forgiveness.
And this is when after working so hard
in the first 20 days of the month
of Ramadan,
And also she came into the last 10
days, she's even working more hard.
Because the smart and intelligent individual,
what he does is he strives when it
comes to doing good deeds,
and then he then sees himself falling short,
not having accomplished anything. He doesn't get too
complacent.
He mentions it.
What do they do then?
If he's smart, the one who just came
out of the month of Ramadan,
after he'd done so many great deeds,
he rushes back to Allah
to
ask for forgiveness. You know like who?
Like the
sinner.
Zazani, my brothers and my sisters, the one
who just committed zina, if he's a smart
intelligent individual, what is he going to do?
The guy who fell into Zina, he committed
a sin.
If he's smart and intelligent, what's he gonna
do?
He's gonna repent to Allah right? He's gonna
seek forgiveness.
He's saying to you,
if you want to be from the best
of the people,
and be like an individual my brothers and
my sisters,
who begs Allah for forgiveness,
after he's done the good deed, the same
way the sinner does.
Same way the sinner does.
And because my brothers and my sisters hada,
yurisusayyahan
Miral In Kisar,
When a person constantly sees himself
falling short,
it causes him now my brothers and my
sisters to break down in front of Allah
'Azza constantly.
My brothers and my sisters the whole day
goes past, how many of us before we
go to sleep we actually think
of all the different interactions that we had?
Maybe I said this. Maybe I done this.
That should have been right. I could have
maybe dealt with in a better issue, that
statement that I mentioned.
Because we're all going to make mistakes. Sometimes
we become unmindful, we're just human beings.
But we actually, my brothers and my sisters,
we seek forgiveness
and just contemplate on it.
So
he
says,
go back to your nafs
and look at its shortcomings.
Because this is now going to cause you
what? To feel really small and break down
in front of Allah
As for the creation, then don't look at
their shortcomings.
What we're speaking about here is, the shortcomings
that people have in their
private lives, in their own actions.
See, as opposed to when an individual now
he stands on the mimbar and he's propagating
bida, the sharia has another way of dealing
with that.
But looking at the people's shortcomings,
when you yourself have so many shortcomings of
your own.
You know my brothers and my sisters,
and I've seen this time and time again,
And I believe in something my brothers and
my sisters called, man ayaaraqaubidim
billam yamudhatayamalahu.
Even though the hadith
is fabricated, but the ma'ana is saih, the
meaning is true. Ibn al Qaym and many
other scholars, they talk about this.
Never does a come never comes a
time where you degrade or humiliate somebody because
of a sin that he's committing,
except
that there will come a time when you'll
be doing the exact same thing.
Instead of you now, my brothers and my
sisters, asking Allah a'hu to guide him.
Oh Allah forgive him. Oh Allah make him
a better person.
I believe in this.
I really really do.
There was a lady that I knew,
She had a daughter as well. Her daughter
Masha'Allah, you know, it was great.
There would be other girls
who would be doing Fawahish, going outside, you
know, taking off the hijab.
One time, the other girl from across the
street, she got pregnant.
This lady started spreading,
Look at her, she got pregnant outside of
marriage and so on and so forth,
because that is really huge in many communities.
And before you knew it my brother and
my sisters, her own daughter,
instead of her making dua, asking Allah to
protect her daughter, she was what? She was
degrading, right, and belittling.
It became
Allah
decreed that her daughter becomes the worst of
the girls in the area.
Sleeping around,
committing fawahaj, and so on and so forth.
What makes you think that it can't happen
to your daughter?
Instead of rushing back to Allah, oh Allah,
protect my kids from what happened and guide
them.
There was a brother in the merge in
Yemen where I was studying,
who used to throw around fatawa from Yemen
to some of the brothers in London.
Tell them that wearing trousers is
haram. And if you work at a particular
workplace, you can't wear your trousers. It's haram.
Imam.
And if they did end up working,
wearing trousers,
he would tell the brothers in the masjid
to be really rough and tough with them,
so they come back and to boycott them
as well.
You know my brothers and sisters, what happened
to this, brother? Because obviously when you're abroad,
sometimes,
you know, you're kind of disconnected from the
reality of the world. You don't know what's
going on.
So this brother came back and he realized
how tough it is,
to find a job where you can wear
your soap.
You can do whatever you want.
Do
you know what Allah Azzawi trialed him with?
Forget about wearing trousers,
his brother was wearing purple ones.
He was working in the Heathrow airport, they
made him wear
purple trousers.
Wallahi, before he used to say, I prefer
that Allahu subha'a that that that my my
knee gets chopped off.
Allahi, this very words that I heard my
own ears, I prefer for my knees to
be chopped off, than for me to wear
trousers.
And now not only is he wearing, but
he's wearing purple ones. But then if you
guys walk around with
purple trousers,
Wasn't that right?
A lot of rainbows.
Point in the marriage is my brothers and
my sisters.
Look at yourself.
Really look at your own deficiencies.
Look at your own deficiencies
and that will cause you to have a
constant relationship with Allah ajawajal.
And you'll have a constant habit of what?
Breaking down.
No matter what level you reach in knowledge,
in righteousness, and so on and so forth.
Because there is always, what, room for improvement.
And the moment you begin to think I've
made it, that's a problem.
Umrah bin Khattab
He was with Khadai ibn al Yaman. Who
was Khadai ibn al Yaman?
Sahib ul Sirdi Rasulillah.
He was from those who knew the secrets
of the mess of Allah alaihi wasallam.
One time somebody died, he said to him,
fashhad,
give your witness.
Give your testimony with regards to this individual,
he told him.
And then Umar ibn Khattab, as he was
about to leave them, as he grabbed him,
and he said to him,
was I from those who the messian I
mentioned from amongst the munafiqin had the Umar
ibn Khattab.
The one who was walking on the face
of this earth, he knew he was going
to Aljannah.
He told him you're not and he goes
I'm not going to tell anyone after you.
Even Umar radhiyallahu used to go to Safa.
Guys know what Safa and Marwa is, right?
We all know so. In Nas Safa wal
Marwaatimin Sha'a'ilillah,
right next to the Kaaba. It will say,
you
Allah.
Oh, Allah asked you just like you guided
me
to Islam,
do not strip away
from myself.
And Ibn Umar alayallahu ta'ala Anamun likewise, Abdullah
ibn Umar and many of the companions,
they always looked for avenues
of how they can become better individuals.
We know the famous story of Abdul Abi
Nur ibn Aas. Right?
And one time they were sitting with the
mess of Allah,
There will now come upon you an individual
who is from the people of Al Jannah,
mister Abdullah ibn Umar.
A light bulb in his head went on,
And the messenger said this 3 times,
when that individual walked in the 3rd time,
he goes, I wanna spend 3 nights with
you.
Just so we can find out,
what is it that caused him to be
from the people of Jannah?
Even though Abdallah ibn Aasi was somebody who
was a.
He used to pray in the night and
he used to what? Always fast.
The messian
had to actually tell him, yeah, calm down.
I tell him sleep,
pray.
Fast, don't fast.
Keep balance. Take it easy.
It's always finding ways how I can improve
and become a better person.
The third point, my brothers and my sisters,
that was mentioned is,
to learn about Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
I'm gonna ask you guys a question.
The moment you find out about a random
Musali,
somebody who just randomly plays in the masjid
not plays praise.
That he
is somebody who gives a lot of charity,
he's a very righteous individual,
does that not increase love in our hearts
for that person?
But before that we just saw him as
an average Joe, Sah.
Just comes, prays and he goes.
But we begin to find stuff about him,
and then he puts something in our heart,
Have we met individuals like that?
It's a question guys.
Taib,
also the sister that you have a marriage
sit down with, before that you had a
what? Particular
image about her,
but then you found out she prays at
night. Allah.
May Allah make all your wives like that,
Amin, and your future ones. And if you
have
1, may Allah make her like that. If
you want another one, make her as well.
Jameel,
I should've took the mic off,
I'll start. Alakulihan,
the moment you begin to find out good
stuff about her that she prays,
increases, you know, your urge of wanting to
take her. Then
you find something else out and something else.
You're finding more
information about her, more qualities.
It will increase your love.
Sure we all agree to that. Sahawalla. And
the sisters likewise, when they hear about that
person,
have to be fair and equal.
And likewise my brothers and my sisters,
I'm not trying to compare a lady to
Allah Azza wa Jal,
but Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala when you come
to realize, my brothers and my sisters,
that he is the mudabbir of all affairs.
Isn't there times, my brothers and my sisters,
where we feel like we are going through
an iptila?
Something that we really really love is taken
away from us,
and you think that the whole world is
coming down upon you,
and then maybe 1 year later you say
to myself, subhanAllah,
if that was still in my life, I
wouldn't be able to do x y and
z.
We realize the hikma, the wisdom of Allah,
Fema bad, later on.
And that just causes
what? To feel so good about Allah
When you come to realize, my brothers and
my sisters, in Allah
that he is the provider
of all things,
and he constantly provides for you.
Will this individual actually go out and start
doing benefit fraud or cheating the government or
eating haram and so on and so forth?
He is the alter the alternator, the provider
of all things, the one who controls
the Abt in every way possible.
Through that, my brothers and masters, learning his
names and attributes,
learning about the akhida
that one must learn about in order to,
you know, improve his chances of entering into
Aljannah.
This just increases your what? Your glorification of
Allah
The way you see Allah
As for you not knowing about Allah
how are you going to have him on
the back of your mind?
If you really, really love something, it's going
to be what?
Constantly in the back of your mind. You
all know the story of Romeo and Juliet.
And in Arabic they have something called majnuulayla.
One who was majnuul about Layla.
Constantly on his mind,
Haakadah.
You learn about the names and attributes of
Allah azza wa jal that is now going
to what? Increase your love about Allah azza
wa jal and is constantly going to be
on your mind.
And this will cause
that glorification
to be in your heart towards Allah
Point number 4.
This is one my favorite ones, my brothers
and my sisters.
That he prays a prayer
as if he's not going to have another
opportunity
to pray another one.
The farewell prayer.
You know about the farewell prayer?
It's not a 6th a lot.
It was a video that went round,
Well, I was discussing this very point when
the Grenfell Tower, you know,
the catastrophe that took place.
And it was in the month of Ramadan,
and I was given this reminder,
that Amriss
salaam told us about the salah.
Even though between
the prayers that we pray,
it's only a couple of hours.
So if that's with regards to the salawat,
then it's mim Babi' Allah.
It is foremost that we treat this Ramadan
as if it is
Allah's Ramadan.
So a lot of people are commenting, is
this a 6th salah?
Is this another salah that we don't know
about?
A farewell prayer my brothers and my sisters
is
that you pray every single salah as if
it is going to be your salah.
It is not a 6th prayer.
My brothers and my sisters, the guy on
death row,
when they give him a couple of moments,
you know, to go and do whatever he
wants,
if it's a Muslim
and he decides to go and pray to
Allah
is that prayer going to be the same
prayer as he was praying throughout his life?
His mind is going to be more at
it, right?
He's going to treat it differently because he
knows he's about to leave this world.
And that would be the case if we
knew when we are dying, Sah.
Somebody is now diagnosed with cancer.
A kid, from the apparent, it looks like
what?
It's a very very bad thing, sir.
But one thing he's going to do, and
perhaps this is a blessing in disguise,
he is going to be on his toes.
Because he's been diagnosed with cancer, the doctors
have said to him he's gonna pass away
soon.
He's going to
prepare a preparation like no other.
This is why the messenger
told us,
that be somebody who excessively thinks
and ponders upon that which is going to
destroy all his pleasures, and that is Al
Mu't.
Told
us,
I initially prohibited you from visiting the graves,
And now I say to you go and
visit it.
Why? What is the reason behind it?
It
reminds you of the akhira. In another narration,
watuzahidu
fid dunya.
It makes you overlook the pleasures of the
dunya.
So if one has death on the back
of his mind,
wallahi that prayer is not going to be
the same. And this is exactly what the
messenger
said.
'udkurilmota
fis salatik, remember death in your salah.'
Because if one remembers death in a salat,
it is most likely
that he's going to what perfect
And pray the prayer of a man
who thinks that he's not going to be
able to pray another prayer.
Point number 5, my brothers and my sisters,
again, this is a very very powerful point.
He says,
You have on the back of your mind,
my brothers and my sisters,
that you are
on the bridge that has been placed above
the jahannam.
We've all heard about the Sirat. Right?
Allah
mentions. There's not an individual except he has
to cross that bridge
that has been placed above the jahannam.
Look what Hatem al Assam Al Mas'ul Al
Salati when he was asked by salah, he
said,
When the time of the salah comes, I
go and perfect my.
So if he didn't have wudu, he's gonna
go what? Perfect his wudu.
Then I come to that place where I
want to pray.
I sit there
until I, you know, become collective.
Then I stand up for my salah.
Then I place the Kaaba
front of my eyes,
my eyebrows.
And I placed the Sirat,
the bridge that is above the hellfire, imagining
it under my feet.
While Jannata'ani Amin and the Jannah is on
my right.
When Nara and Shamali and the Nara is
placed on my left.
And I placed the angel of death behind
me.
I see it to be as if it
is my last prayer.
How many of us, my brothers and my
sisters, have ever imagined that, all the years
that we've been praying?
This is the salif, my brothers and my
sisters, that we need to try and be
like.
The salif, and when I say the word
salif, my brothers and my sisters, I mean
the 3 golden generations.
Those that messengers salallahu alayhi wa sallam prays,
The best of those is my generation. Those
who came after them and those who came
after them.
Any teacher, my brothers and masters, who comes
to you guys,
his only
objective
and job should be that he teaches you
the way they understood the religion of Allah
Whether it is,
Whether it is in akhida,
whether it is, my brothers and my brothers
in the actions that we do, whether it's
the statements that we have,
likewise, the akhlaq is very, very important.
We look towards
them, not necessarily people who are breathing today.
Are you with me my brothers and my
sisters?
That is our religion
and that is my job as a teacher.
Somebody who goes out and gives dua to
the people.
And that should be the case with any
individual,
and that should be your yardstick of how
you attain knowledge, from whoever it might be.
Sheikhi also mentioned something where women
because you find a lot of people they
find it astonishing
when they see somebody having khushur,
a concentration,
a reverse in his salah, even in what?
A salawat where you don't
read the Quran loudly. Because normally we just
find it what?
In tara'a we when the imam or Maghribu
alaysha when he's reading out aloud,
find people go have start having khushur
because of his voice. Not
necessarily because of the mai'ani, but because of
the voice.
But my brothers and my sisters with regards
to the Ma'ani, one understood it but we're
gonna come on to that point.
That individual
whatever he's reading, even in the salawat where
you don't read aloud,
he's still going through khashur.
How can he not have kushur when he's
actually standing in front of Allah
Remember that example that I gave guys,
how nervous that individual gets when he's going
into the interview room,
He's practicing.
That's what I'm gonna say, she says this,
'?' Make sure, tie, everything, suited, booted.
That's how we treat the creation.
This is an interview my brothers and my
sisters with our Lord.
Allah, as the wajal, has called you, hayya
al salati hayya al Falah.
Rush to the salah, rush to that which
is going to bring you what?
Success.
Muslim Ibn Yasar, the great Tabi'i,
he
said
If you were standing in front of the
king,
you went into queen Elizabeth's
palace,
and you really desperately wanted something.
Is anybody here going to be fidgeting?
Wobbling myself about?
You're gonna be concentrating,
because you're standing in front of the Queen.
Adeshihaqi says, if you really desperately needed something
and you stood in front of the king,
you're going to have khushur for him,
Going to be in full concentration.
Point number 6.
That you empty your heart and that you
prefer Allah
over everything else.
You know my brothers and my sisters last
year, and I always bring up this joke
with the Newcastle community.
Year before,
not this year, last year,
guys remember, it was the World Cup. Right?
The World Cup, Sahar.
I was giving a lecture on Saturday in
Newcastle,
some of you guys may know, Usid Mohammed
Tim.
We're actually debating
whether people are going to turn up or
not. Why?
Because the game has gone to extra time.
Forget about the lecture, it was Maghrib time.
Brothers are saying: Subhanallah, I don't think anybody's
gonna turn up to Maghrib salah, because the
England game is going on.
Sheikhim, my brother is saying,
emptying your heart
and preferring
Allah over everything else.
The fact that my brothers and my sisters,
that we might actually reach a point where
we choose Harry Kane,
England semifinal game last year.
Over salatul magrib.
Wala hadi musiba.
I wanna ask you guys a question, what
does Allahu Akbar mean?
Allah is the greatest. Right?
Zaq Allahu Khairan,
Jameel.
Tomorrow if somebody started insulting Allah Azzawajal,
how do you think the Muslim community is
going to react?
There's gonna be a price.
Khadib is gonna be on fire.
And he's a Gadalik?
But my brothers and my sisters, when you
look at the statement now, Allahu Akbar, Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala is the greatest,
that means that Allah
is greater than everything else that you're currently
engaged in.
If you now prefer Harry Kane or Lionel
Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo,
the football that you're watching,
and you say I'm gonna pray later, what
have you done my brothers and my sisters?
Have you really really acted upon Allahu Akbar?
We might say with our tongues, but we're
actually acting upon it with our limbs.
This is why Imam Shavir
said, If you really really wanna know your
position with Allah
and see what caused you to stand to
him.
How much are you actually giving to Allah
Subhanahu wa ta'ala? Is Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala
your main priority?
Or have you thrown Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
behind you,
and you've made him what? A lesser of
a priority
for what you're doing at the time.
My brothers and my sisters, whatever we are
doing,
if we carry on watching that game,
even though we might not necessarily believe it,
but your jawari actually show it,
your limbs.
You have actually said the hurricane is more
greater than Allah
or you know, messiah, whoever it might be,
because you've preferred him over Allah
So here my brothers and my sisters,
that you prefer Allah
over everything.
Emptying your heart.
Sometimes my brothers and my sisters, we rush
out of a war zone. Some of our
homes has become a war zone, and we
rush into the salah.
And by the time we reach the last
teshahood, we read, oh now we're in salah.
Because there's so many things on our mind.
The iqqah, the aadan, my brothers and my
sisters, is there for a reason. What you
think is there for?
That a person starts his preparation for his
meeting and his interaction with
Allah Is that a person who prepares himself
physically and likewise mentally?
Sit in your car, maybe go to somewhere
where you are by yourself,
and put yourself in that mind frame that
you are now about to enter into
the meeting with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. The
same thing that you would do when you're
waiting for the interviewer to call you into
the meeting.
When your mind is so occupied.
When you stand up to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala, then stand up
straight
in obedience to Allah
just like he commanded you.
And also be very wary of turning around
from side to side.
That you look to Allah
while at the same time you're thinking about
what?
Or you're looking at something else?
They say my brothers and my sisters, the
Iltifaat in the salah is of 2 types,
imalaymrah.
I think it is in Miftahudaras
Sa'ad he mentions.
Moving your body in a salah, and also
what?
Moving
your eyes.
And also what?
Moving your mind to somewhere completely different from
Allah
You ask Allah for Jannah and you seek
refuge from the fire, Waqalbaqasaheel,
and your heart is distracted.
Wa la tadrimatukullu
bili sanik and you don't know what you
are saying with your tongue.
And last but not least my brothers and
my sisters,
point number 7 is,
hadabburur Quran.
To ponder upon the book of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
For indeed what the pondering and contemplation of
the Quran, my brothers and my sisters, what
it does is, it unlocks the heart.
And this is exactly what Ibn Taym mentioned,
in Miftahudar as Sa'adah.
When he says,
Miftahuhayatulqalb,
and he mentions 3 things.
That which is now going to open up
your heart.
First thing that he mentions is tadaburul Quran,
upon the book of Allah
Be with me my brothers and my sisters.
It amazes me how somebody can recite the
book of Allah Azza wa Jal and he
doesn't know its meanings.
How is it that he can taste the
sweetness of the Quran?
How is it that he can what? Taste
the sweetness of the Quran.
My brothers and my sisters, I'm not gonna
lie to you guys.
Before I learned the Arabic language,
Tarawi was just like, '?'
Is it gonna end?
When is it gonna end?
And some of us may be feeling like
that because we don't understand what the imam
is reading.
And, you know, it would really really hurt
us that we see certain individuals, right,
who are crying, they're going through the kushoor,
but we don't have a clue what's happening.
That really also hurt me,
and it kind of encouraged me to go
and what? Learn the Arabic language. So I
can at least understand that long tarawih.
Sometimes it goes on for ages and we
don't have a clue what's being said.
And you can only, my brothers and my
sisters, really taste
the sweetness of the Quran,
you go and study Arabic.
This is why Umar ibn Khattab
he said,
learn the Arabic language.
Is part of your religion.
You might have
a tafsir in the English language,
but it won't be as sweet as that.
It really won't.
But as an alternative, if you don't have
that, the least you can do my brothers
and my sisters is invest
in the tafsir of nakaseer
in the English language,
and I think they have it over there.
Have it over there, in the Maktava.
It's one of the nicest books that I've
personally read in English language. I don't like
reading English books.
But the ways, you know, he worded the
words in a very simple manner,
something is like really cheap.
Taraweeh in the month of Ramadan, in the
month of Quran and even outside of that.
Because the benefits my brothers and my sisters
of
pondering upon the Quran is many.
I'm going to conclude with this Insha Allahu
Ta'ala.
Is there anyone here who doesn't want a
happy life? Put your hand up.
We all wanna stay miserable.
You want to be happy?
Masha'Allah. That was very enthusiastic.
I haven't seen anything that feeds the mind
and also feeds the soul
and also preserves your body.
Also guarantees you happiness.
More than constantly looking in the book of
Allah I'll
I'll repeat that again. I haven't seen anything,
he says,
that feeds the mind and the soul and
looks after your body
and guarantees you happiness more than constantly looking
in the book of Allah
You know guys, I've met multimillionaires,
sometimes come to Medina, bump into them,
we talk,
and he's depressed in his life.
Just want some of them even wanna go
as far as taking their lives.
And when you
just ask him a couple of questions,
it's not rocket science to understand what he's
missing in his life.
The book of Allah
has all the money that he needs.
Any of these materialistic things,
he's got it all.
He wants to move from one country to
another, he can do that in the
moment of a phone call.
But the guy is unhappy.
And we've seen many many cases of people
committing suicide, right?
They have everything they need in the dunya,
but the Quran is missing in his life.
And Ibn Taymiyyah is saying, one of the
greatest things that is going to guarantee the
happiness that you're looking for,
is the Quran. Because wallahi,
my brothers and my sisters, we can sit
here till tomorrow.
Every problem that one is facing, we can
find in the book of Allah
And that is a guarantee
without the shadow of a doubt,
And also my brothers and my sisters,
I want to read the Quran, and he
ponders upon it. It is from the greatest
of means that is going to protect him
from falling into sin.
It is as if you are building a
gate around your home.
When you build that gate around your home,
it's going to protect it from the lusos,
from the thieves and the criminals. Right?
This is exactly what the Tada Bur Quran
is doing to you.
You're putting a shield around yourself
from all the Maasi
that others
might easily fall into. Wallaia dubillah.
Oh, at least he said, oh ba'aliyah, at
least you're gonna find they're gonna protect you
from some.
It's a form of protection.
We ask Allah
my brothers and my sisters
for listening attentively, and we ask Allah
with his names,
to make us from those who have the
khusur and the salat.
So we're able to taste that sweetness,
that
click, a connection between us and Allah
Assalamu alaikum, my brothers and my sisters, for
attending
and listening attentively.
And I ask Allah
to really bless Sheikh Abu Bashir for organizing
this,
for being a means of
goodness,
and