Abu Taymiyyah – Am I A Disbeliever If I Dont Pray
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Prophet,
we'll be speaking about today
about a very important topic
which is the
issue of a salat.
The importance of the salat.
What happens if I leave off the salat?
Does it take me out the foldable Islam
if I leave off the matter of
a
salat? How does the issue of salat
or what is the kind of weight that
the salat has in my religion?
This is the topic that we will be
insha Allahu Ta'ala discussing today.
The importance of this matter because if you
look in our society today,
the way we look at other things,
it is not like the way
that we see the issue of a salat.
Some matters now that you find is very
very delicate and very touching our community.
If a girl from our family, she gets
pregnant,
a girl from our family, she gets pregnant,
from a guy does no halal for her.
What happens? Everyone is talking about it.
There is, there is.
The mother, she's going angry, the father is
going crazy.
Why? Because this is gonna bring shame to
the family.
This is gonna bring shame to the family.
This is when it comes to a major
sin.
If someone from my family is drinking hamar,
which is unheard of in our communities,
but only now is becoming to become is
becoming apparent.
Everyone is talking about it.
Another major sin. If we find from the
youth who is drug dealing,
again, it's a very big issue.
The thing that we care more about,
the thing that we care more about, not
the fact that this person is disobeying Allah,
but
the fact that he's what?
Bringing shame to the family.
The fact that he's bringing shame to the
family.
How are the other people gonna see our
family?
How are the people gonna be looking at
us?
What are the people going to be saying
to us? What are they gonna be saying
about us? And etcetera.
That's the bigger issue than anything else. Not
the fact that he's disobeying Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
If that was the case,
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is a big issue, brothers, the way we
see the issue of salat.
So the topic today, it revolves around how
did the Sahaba,
how did the salaf used to see the
issue of a salat?
When he came to the prayer, how did
I used to see it?
Because, brothers, you know, if
my Apple phone,
something happens to it, What do I do
with it?
Can anyone answer the question? If my phone
breaks now my iPad that I have here,
the Apple iPad, what do I do with
it?
Who do I take it
to? I take it to Apple.
Why? Because Apple is the one that
created his iPad.
He knows the matter inside out.
The perspectives and the way that he sees
this matter
is different
from any other company. And likewise, Galaxy if
the Galaxy something happens to it, we go
to Samsung.
Why? Because they know the issue inside out.
So the issue of a salat, who knew
the matter more than anyone else?
The prophet
told the Sahaba.
So then the Sahaba, they saw the issue
of a salat
in a certain way. So we want to
learn their perspective. How they saw the issue
of a salat.
Are we seeing it the way the salaf
and when we use the word salaf, brothers,
especially this word is, there's all sorts of
controversy around it. People become allergic when we
mention the word,
or we mention the word.
Little do they know that the meaning
of
is something that is.
When we use the word, where is the
intended purpose? The prophet
said,
The best of you is my generation.
Then those that came after them and those
that came after them. So the Sahaba, the
the So when we're using this word,
we intend by it, the
Sahaba, the It is not a party,
it is not a Hizb, it is not
a
group
that was trying to call to rob, it
is the way of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
And how does Sahaba
saw this kind of matter that have been
in? People like Ibn Abbas. How did they
explain the Quran?
Today, we find when we come to
when it comes to the Surah, there's
people like the shia they
interpret this surah
that it was sent down upon who?
First he is what? He's got Dalil. He
brings you the Dalil is what
he brings you from the Quran
and I am from the Quran
And he tells you the intended purpose, Umr
Al Khattab.
Umr Al Khattab,
Ali, and Fatima, they came together.
And many many Ayada is distorted. So what
is the differentiation
between how I interpret this Surah
and how anyone else interprets the Surah.
What can differentiate us?
And what is the correct
matter between the 2? Where is the correct
matter?
The only way to judge between any matter
is to take it back to the understanding
of the Sahaba.
If we don't do that, we got problems.
If Fulan's coming tomorrow, he brings his own
understanding.
The intellects of the people, they differ.
One's gonna come, he's gonna say this.
Is
gonna come, he's gonna say this,
basing
it upon his own intellect.
So we have the fam of the Sahaba,
the understanding of the Sahaba when it comes
to any matter. The Siam,
the Salat, The Sahaba, the Zakat, the Hajj
and every other matter. It is the understanding
of the Sahaba. They set the blueprint for
us.
When you have a building, you have a
blueprint, something to follow.
Otherwise,
the whole building is going to break. Ask
the engineers.
You have to follow that blueprint
to it exactly.
Otherwise, something wrong is gonna happen.
And, likewise, in our religion, we have a
blueprint
of the, the Sahaba, the
the.
How we interpret this this hadith,
these ayat, these ways.
My sheikh, I can't take his understanding.
Or my father, or my mother, when it
comes to.
It has been dealt with the Sahaba, the
Tabia in, the Tabia I Tabia in. They've
come and they've brought the understanding. And,
Ibna Abbas
from the Sahaba who knew the Quran very,
very well, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
in many, many narrations
made du'afim Allahumma'alimu
Ta'weel, Allahumma'alimu
Quran, Allahumma'afakiho
fadeen. Oh Allah give him an understanding in
the religion. Oh Allah teach him the book.
So you find that sometimes when it comes
to the ayat,
the Sahaba Ridwanullahhi
Alaihi Alaihi, him, their understanding takes precedence over
anyone else.
You can't put them and someone's understanding for
us to come or for someone to come
in this time and give us a better
understanding or we give his understanding presidents to
it.
So the whole point is we have a
blueprint.
We have something to follow. So when a
person is calling himself
people that follow the hadith,
all these words are the same thing.
My species, my words. Someone just saying some
of his tongue
are not doing anything with his actions.
And today, you find today, you find, brothers,
pay attention
here. That the word
has been distorted.
You mentioned the word
or amongst the people.
People they run away. As if this is
a bell will come into the people.
Just means, as we have just been clearly
mentioning,
you want to follow the Sahaba, then follow
the way. That's what it simply means.
So brothers, how did the Sahaba see the
issue of Salat?
Are we seeing it the exact same way?
What is that which differentiates a person, a
Muslim,
from the non Muslim? Have we ever thought
why is the thing that differentiates me from
Mark and John,
they are my neighbors, why is the differentiation?
Is it because he drinks chamal and I
don't?
There's some non Muslims, they don't drink hamar.
Is it because they eat pork and I
don't eat pork?
You find some of them some of the
non Muslims are health freaks.
They are health freaks, and they don't eat
pork.
They don't eat meat at all, vegetarians.
So what is it that differentiates and makes
me different from them?
A question that we post to ourselves,
that we ask ourselves, what's the difference?
Probably as you find
If a man wasn't fasting,
fasting another pillar from the pillars of al
islam.
If a man wasn't fasting
maybe the sahaba they said this guy is
sick.
Maybe he doesn't have the ability.
Maybe there's something in his immune system that
is preventing him from fasting. They had excuses
for him. If he wasn't performing Hajj, they
might have said, maybe the guy or this
brother, he has no money.
When it came to the issue of a
or zakat or maybe the guy is poor,
The girl wasn't wearing hijab. Maybe she's a
slave girl.
Or she's new to Al Islam.
But when it came to the issue of
a salat, nobody had any excuses.
Because if you can't pray standing up, you
have to pray sitting down.
You can't pray sitting down. You have to
pray lying down. It's never ever falls off
a person. There is no excuses.
Even when a person is travelling, Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala made it easy for him.
Once you hit the road there's no harm
for you to combine the prayers
or to shorten the prayers
even the doctor the doctor who's going to
be going in operation that last maybe 10
hours islam has made easy for him
Islam has made easy for this person to
combine the prayers due to his situation.
A person that doesn't have any water, he's
in the middle of a desert.
He doesn't have anything,
he still doesn't fall off this person.
That's why you have the issue of.
You can't say to yourself,
there's no misjid, there's no prayer mat. I
can't pray here. I'm gonna pray while I
go home. The prophet
mentioned another hadith.
I was given 5 things.
No one before me was given these matters.
The whole earth.
The whole earth
is a prayer mat
except for 2 places,
the Maghbara, the grave, and also the toilet.
And he has been made as a purifying
agent.
Wherever a person is,
wherever he
is
and the time of salat comes
it is upon him to pray
It never ever falls off a person, never
ever falls off him.
The
brothers,
nobody get emotional here.
I'm not calling anyone a kafir
saying that this person is disbeliever or he's
a god or anything like that.
Imam
Ahmed
used to see the guy that doesn't pray.
The one that lives of the prayer out
of laziness to be a gal.
Kaffir.
When a person in our society today, when
a person
doesn't leave out the prayer, how do the
normal people react? How do their normal parents
react?
Insha'Allah he's going to pray later.
When he's drug dealing
it is the vocal and main point that
everybody is speaking about.
Day night he's got meetings,
come we're gonna speak about this matter.
They call you,
Yeah. Please speak to my son. He's dealing
drugs.
Never do you find an issue about the
salat?
This is a major sin, brother. We have
to understand. A girl getting pregnant
with a guy that is not halal for
her is a major sin.
Drugs is a major sin.
Music is a major sin. All these other
matters are major sins. We're not trying to
belittle the matter it being a major sin.
Because if a person dies,
drug dealing,
committing zina, killing he's under the will of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Either Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala forgives him or he doesn't forgive him.
That doesn't mean we get all mashallah
you know all you know we got we
become full of hope
inshallah Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is going to forgive me if I carry
on doing
this. Rather brothers and sisters, you don't want
a bubble, a cloud on the top of
your head that there's even a possibility
you're touching the fire.
The prophet said
to us, and now
The fire that you have in your house,
that you kindled with is 1 70th.
1 70th of the fire
that you're gonna be touching in the hellfire.
1 70th.
So if we can't bear the barbecue,
we can't bear the barbecue.
One time I accidentally pushed someone onto the
barbecue. It was an accident. I didn't do
my purpose.
For whole week, he's complaining about a little
burn, a little burn.
This is the fire in Adunya brothers
and sisters.
I have to say sisters because someone said
to me yesterday,
there there came some complaints about me not
saying sisters.
So brothers and sisters,
you don't want a possibility of you even
touching the fire.
170th,
170th, brother.
It's 170th of the fire that you have
in the fire in the in the hellfire.
If we can't bear the fire in this
dunya, then brothers, how on earth do we
expect
that even if we're touched with it on
your that
we can take this matter lightly.
Wallahi brothers and sisters, the issue of a
salat was serious when it came to the
sahaba. The prophet sallallahu alaihi was telling them
about the jail,
the one with one eye and he's a
liar, deceiver.
He told them that when the jail comes
when the jail comes he will stay upon
the earth for 40 days.
One day like a year,
2nd day like a month, the 3rd day
like a week,
and the rest of the days will be
like the normal subsequent days.
What do you think the first thing that
the Sahaba asked about?
Okay, Tlaib, if one day is gonna be
like a year,
what we supposed to do
the first things that the Sahaba asked
how are we gonna pray?
With one day being like a whole year,
how are we gonna pray?
Imagine today like
this was a situation on our time. How
am I gonna do my homework? When am
I gonna watch my TV? When am I
gonna watch this game? When am I gonna
do this? When am I gonna play football?
First thing that popped up to the Sahaba's
mind.
So the prophet told them
to approximate,
to estimate the time,
and to pray it in its according time.
First thing, prophet, this is a terrifying thing.
The issue of a dajjal is not a
normal matter.
So does the hava might have been excused
if they became scared
or their minds became shut, especially when the
prophet
talked to them about the Ishu Abdul Jahl.
People that are claiming Al Islam,
the majority of the people are going to
be following the Jal.
One of the things that we seek refuge
in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala from, when we
Aynat shahood.
People that you see today who are claiming
alaihis salam,
because they don't know their religion, they're gonna
be what? Following the jal. How are you
gonna differentiate between the jal and who's not
a dajal when you don't know the hadith?
When you don't know Al Islam,
when you don't know the basics of your
religion.
They used to become terrified. When the issue
of the jail came up, they became terrified.
First thing they ask,
brothers and sisters
the prophet
mentioned
The difference between you, that which distinct that
differentiates you
and the body,
and the sick, the sick that you find
on Milton Road. The Christian,
the Jew is one thing.
A salat. The prophet
said, whoever leaves you off,
this guy is a kafir.
I'm not saying this. My sheikh is not
saying this.
Or my mother or my father. The prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is saying the difference
between you and them is salat.
Whoever lives up is a kafir.
Prophet, Kufar is not like a major sin.
Kufar, you become Khalid, Muhammad.
You abide in the hellfire forever and ever.
All the Mahadeeth, the ones that said, He
will get taken other 5. No, no, no.
There is no
one coming out.
And some of the ulama, Allah of the
ulama today they find the guy that leaves
off the salat, he is not Muslim.
So there's no difference between you and Mark.
No difference whatsoever.
That which is between shirk and kofor, tarkas
salat, leaving of the prayer. Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala tells
Whoever the shirk
we have made the Jannah haram upon him
will never ever enter into the Jannah.
And
the word is anything that is less than
it, but we know
are on the same level when it comes
to.
So no matters, brothers, as you can see,
it is not a light matter that we
look at the matter lightly.
To be in it. Okay. Inshallah, my son
is gonna pray later.
They never used to see an action that
was abandoned to be over than salat.
And we mentioned before, when it came to,
when it came to when it came to
Hajj, they saw it. Maybe excuses excuses. We
give this person excuses.
Because the salah never ever falls of a
person.
Why did the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
say,
hit the child,
at the age of 7? That doesn't mean
beat him, smack him, kill him, to
just
So a boy at a very young age,
he becomes used to it.
Go ask an old man, a 50 year
old man,
he start memorizing the Quran,
start doing this from now on, you find
that it's very very hard for him to
adapt.
As for a young person, Mashallah, he listens.
You're able to draw something in his head
and make it stay in there. Very very
easy, much different than an old person who
become used to his ways.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said at
a very young age, at
the age of,
hit them. As any any taps, that doesn't
mean kill him or beat him like mad.
Give him a black eye.
So he becomes used to it.
In order for him to preserve
his identity and that's it.
As a Muslim, brothers, if we are not
doing the salat on a day to day
basis,
what are we doing as Muslims?
The Hajj happens once in your lifetime.
Whoever has the ability, then he has to
perform the Hajj.
The Siyam
once a month,
once a month, sorry, once a year.
And then sometimes the other Nawafil is at
different times of the year.
The sadaqa
every now and again.
Once a year.
On a day to day basis, if we
are not performing this Ibadah,
think to yourself, brothers and sisters, what are
we doing as Muslims? How are we giving
Khidma service to al
Islam? Because this is the only time
where a person
is interacting with his Lord. The prophet
said to us
When a person stands up for prayer, he's
interacting with his lord. There's an interaction going
on.
So if you don't have the interaction with
your lord,
the whole day, what are you doing?
What are we doing as Muslims?
We are able to be patient for 90
minutes.
When Arsenal and Man United or Barcelona are
playing.
Anyone that walks past the TV, we throw
something at him. Get out.
100%
concentration
when it comes to the match.
We sit down for 2 hours watching a
film.
2 hours, we sit there watching a film.
All these other soap operas for half an
hour,
we sit there.
To the heavens to get the salat. It
is one of the only things that the
prophet Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam took directly
in person from Allah Azza wa Jal. The
issue was salat.
He went all the way to the 7
heavens.
All the way.
Every time he came back because in the
beginning, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, go back.
You have 50 salat tell you about 50
salat.
Every time he came back to Musa
when he was coming down Musa alaihi wasalam
tells
the prophet
go
back to your lord
because your ummah doesn't have the ability to
do this.
So he got reduced.
30, 20,
10.
Every single time the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam is told by Musa go back to
your Lord.
Until he came to 5
Musa
tells the prophet
go back to your lord. 5.
5 prayers a day.
We can't do 5.
Musa was truthful.
We as an Ummah, it is hard for
us to do 5.
Sometimes we wish the day was 48 hours
in order to fit everything in.
Proverbs 25 minutes. There's 24 hours in the
day.
25 minutes. No one's asking you for anything
else. 25 minutes.
Look what the prophet
told us about just the
the Nawafil.
The 2 before Fajr, it is more beloved
to me than anything in this dunya.
The 12
Nawafel is also called the ratib,
the 2 before Fajar,
the 4 before Duhar, the 2 after Duhar,
the 2 before or after Maghrib Afan, and
the 2 after Isha. The prophet
said, whoever prays 12 Rakaat
12 Rakaat,
this person will get a house in Jannah.
This is about the Nawafil brothers and sisters.
The Nawafil, forget about the Faridah. You're getting
all this reward for the Nawafil.
And you get what? A house in Jannah.
Today looking at society, brothers and sisters, looking
at society,
The extent the people go to get a
house,
in order to buy a house what happens?
Fulan takes mortgage from this bank.
They are happy to take Riba
in order to what? To get a house
in this dunya.
Riba.
What do you know about Riba?
The action that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentioned
in the
Quran, that there is no action
that is more great
in sin,
and a bigger sin than the Isha Baribah.
Why? Because the one that falls into Riba,
he is announcing
And if you don't stop your rebah, then
announce your war. Does anyone here have a
jesh?
An army that's ready to come out and
stand in front of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala?
Due to that one riba he took, that
1p or 1 pound of riba.
Well I can't live if I don't have
a house.
Sometimes people look at me when we're speaking
about this matter in work as if I'm
a madman.
The the concept of the people and how
they think today,
when the discussion come as if you can't
live if you don't have a mortgage.
Brothers
in this country, what happens? If you lose
your job, you get something called housing benefits.
Your housing benefits is always sorted.
And there's always ways that Allah Subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
In order to get a house as if
it is from the necessities
of your life,
a life and death situation.
Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says that in a state
of Ithirrar,
if a person is dying, he's allowed to
drink hamar, he's allowed to eat a dead
animal, he's allowed to drink, eat pork.
When he's dying, life and death situation.
Am I now dying, or is it having
any major effect on our life? Is it
from the
when it's related to the, to the life
of a person, to the man of a
person?
This is our state today.
The whole point is
we are going to such an extent.
We wanna do so much. Put our life
on the line in order to what? To
get a house in this,
And we take riba.
That 12 rakaat, 12 rakaat brothers and sisters
that you pray,
you get house in Jannah.
Every single time you pray 12 rakat.
This is what Yajuan, brothers and sisters, we
and
Noah Phil. The
What excuse do we have in front of
Allah? He's
given us 24 hours in a day.
24 hours he has given us in our
day we can't give 25 minutes.
And also when it comes to marriage is
something that just popped up to my mind
very very important,
the father sitting there, the mother sitting there,
The family is sitting there.
Someone's come now to get my daughter.
The whole family is there.
Pay attention here, brothers. Look at the questioning
that takes place.
What job do you have?
What job do you have? Fair enough. What
job do you have? What degree do you
have?
Does anyone ever ask about salat?
You could be marrying your daughter off to
a kafir,
a guy that
doesn't
pray.
But that comes all the way secondary.
Inshallah in the future is gonna pray.
But when it comes to a drug dealer
coming for our daughter,
We do it without any hesitation. No.
A drug dealer
or a guy that drinks or he does
this, he does fraud and everything else.
The issue of assad wallahi katheer.
How much do we find? Mesakim brothers come
up to me. Wallahi, I went to this
family, I wanted to get married to his
daughter, but they said to me, oh, you
don't have a degree.
Or you don't have a job or you
don't have this.
Nobody asks about the Salat.
Are we seeing the issue of a salat
like the Sahaba red one, allayhim,
saw the issue of salat? The prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam said,
a woman is married due to four reasons,
her beauty,
her lineage, and her wealth.
The 4th thing that he mentioned, and he
gave emphasis to it.
He gave emphasis to the issue of the
religion.
It's a phrase that the Arabs have,
That
don't hit your hand on the sand with
regret. That if you don't take this, you
might become regretful.
Brothers, have we ever imagined in such a
way that we might be marrying one of
our family members
to a guy that's not Muslim?
And like we mentioned before the sahaba they
saw this in such a way
the prophet
called the
Would you get your son or your daughter
married to Mark or Jane?
Nobody here is gonna allow this.
But like we mentioned before, the differentiation between
this and that is the issue of salat.
Look at.
Look at.
Is leading the prayer.
Is leading the prayer.
The comes and he stabs him up while
in his prayer.
But the sahaba, they carried on praying.
Gets taken to a house.
Those that are with him, they give him
water.
It comes down his intestine.
They give him milk. The milk is coming
out.
This.
The man that some people they thought he
was invincible.
The shaitan used to be scared of him.
Whenever Umar ibn Khattab took a road, the
shaytan goes scared, he went around the bush.
And he went around the bush. And he
went around the bush. And he went around
the bush. And he went around the bush.
And he went around the bush. And he
went around the bush. And he went around
the bush. And he went around the bush.
And he went around the bush. And he
went around the bush. And he went here.
Shaitan is scared.
Wallahi, the enemy,
the enemy fit Omar Ibn Khattab.
Even Abu Bakr radiAllahu Anhu mentioned,
the day when Umar Ibn Khattah became a
Muslim.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala honored the religion of
Al Islam.
Mentions that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala honored the
religion 2 times.
When imamahmed got whipped and he got beaten.
Why? Because he was saying that the Quran
wasn't created.
And also who?
The day when Umar Ibn Khattab entered into
religion.
The Muslims became honored, the Kufa started trembling,
shaking,
Khalaq, they got, Umrah,
now step back.
So Umar ibn Khattab gets stabbed up while
in his prayer, gets taken to a house.
They tried in every way to wake him
up. They can't wake him up. Abba stands
up and he says, I know how to
wake up.
I know how to wake up. Umr Al
Khattab.
He starts telling Umr Al Khattab, it's time
for the prayer. It is time for the
prayer.
He jumps up and he said, wallahi.
He swears by Allah.
There is no iman.
That guy has no faith, the one that
leads out the prayer.
If they repent
and they establish the prayer,
and they pay the zakat,
they are your brothers in the religion.
Otherwise, the whole brotherhood has been negated. This
guy doesn't have the of Islam.
And a person has kafir brothers, the.
Sheikh Usaymin,
Sheikh Salah Alfuzan, some of the major scholars
that we know today.
Wallahi, they will give the shukum
of a tariq salah, the one that abandons
the prayer, like the one that commits shirk.
You don't bury him in
the
where the Muslims are buried.
You can't inherit him. If he has a
£100,000
in his bank, and he's left a.
You cannot inherit him, because he is a
girl.
You cannot wash him,
because he is a girl.
This is the fatwa that the ulema today,
the ulema that we have, the major scholars
forget about the or the or anything like
that the ulema
that we have, one of the biggest.
They have this position
that this guy is not a Muslim.
So he stands
up.
The prophet
is dying.
He's dying.
Some of us, we would be given our
Messiah. Make sure you do this. Make sure
you do this. I've got this money buried
in this place. Make sure you get it.
The
prophet,
there used to be times where
there used to be times where there's no
food in his house.
Season after season there is no food in
his house.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi was sent me is.
What was from his last words that he
said?
He starts calling out.
Prayer.
Prayer.
And make sure you look after those
that your right hand possesses.
And he kept on repeating a salat,
and the prophet salalahu alayhi is on his
deathbed.
So how can we take this matter lightly?
Is it a matter that we can see
the way we see it?
25 minutes of your day.
25 minutes of your day that you have.
And another important thing the uncle always tells
me, one of the uncles here, every time
he sees me after a Khubay he tells
me, Muhammad, make the issue of Al Jama'a,
a topic of the Khutbah.
Make the issue of Al Jama'a,
here
a topic of the Khutba.
Make the issue of Al Jama'a. Here, Marshall
and Saint Matthews,
we have the place, it's packed with our
community. Muslims is packed.
Tells
me every Fajr is maybe one line, two
lines. You go to some of the other
masajid,
4, 5 people attending.
Look at the difference between this and when
it comes to the month of Ramadan.
Even the Ishav Al Jamah, brothers and sisters,
the Ish of Ajamah, I should exempt the
sisters on this one because the Jamah has
no waje upon them.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
had I known that the people were praying
in the house,
had I known the people were praying in
the house I would have burnt them inside.
He tells,
ibn Maktoum
who was blind,
you Rasoolullah I am blind and I come
to the masjid, he said to him,
he goes,
and this man,
he is blind.
He goes, do you hear the? He goes,
yes. Upon you to attend the JAMA'A.
If this is the case for a blind
person,
a blind person who can hear the nidah,
and we live around the masajid
or in an area of 6, 7 masajid,
we have the same nephews.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
Give glad tidings to those that walk in
the night.
Noor complete noor on the day of resurrection.
So when you are hearing the Adan, you
know that the Salatul Maghrib
is gonna be crashing with Champions League soon.
When Bayern Munich is playing with us with
I was I was gonna say, Barcelona.
With Arsenal,
are you are you gonna be now
watching this game, or are you gonna be
calling and accepting the prayer?
That's the question that lies.
Most of us Masha'Allah we say Allahu Akbar.
We all know the meaning of Allahu Akbar.
Can any brother what's the meaning of Allahu
Akbar?
Allah is the greatest, Allah is the greatest.
When we say Allahu Akbar with our tongue,
do we really intended with our limbs?
That
Allah is the greatest.
If I'm playing football or I was watching
a game, wallahi brothers,
even though we might say with our tongue,
we are saying it
The Allah is not the most great.
Messi
and Ronaldo
and,
what was the other one called?
Someone says something.
These people are more greater than Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. That match I'm playing is more
greater than Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
That boss or that wife is more greater
than Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Even your parents, you have to tell them
in a nice way. You have
to go.
Nobody takes precedence of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
If you want to know your position
with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala how close you
are, then take this, statement of Imam Al
Shafi'i.
If you want to know your position with
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
then see where Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala stands
with you.
How do you react when it comes to
the prayer?
Are you carrying on doing whatever you're doing?
Or are you standing up to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala straight away?
Which one are you running to?
You are saying in other words, brothers and
sisters, that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that
he is not the greatest and that job
that I'm doing, that Messi that I'm watching,
that Ronaldo, everything else is more great than
Allah.
A
lot of people they ask, a lot of
people they ask, brothers
and sisters,
how do I attain for sure? How do
I attain for sure in my salat?
Sometimes I pray, I put the effort in.
I stand up the prayer. How do I
attain?
A very, very frequent, frequent asked question. How
do I attend for sure? How can I
concentrate in my prayer?
If only you stop yourself for one moment.
That you say to yourself
and you put your mind in such a
way.
That you are now meeting
Allah What happens when a person is going
for a job interview?
Puts perfume on.
Tie, blazer,
trousers.
You don't find one crease on there.
It is ironed.
When he gets an extra,
few times he gives the iron to his
blazer.
He prepares himself.
The questions he's got it inside out because
it's searching on Google. What the guy's gonna
ask?
He's preparing himself.
He walks into the interview room. The only
thing on his mind is that boss. How
I'm gonna
pass the interview,
and he's concentrating. He doesn't flinch to the
right, he doesn't flinch to the left.
Eye to eye with the boss or the
guy that's given him the interview.
Look at the concentration. What happened? He put
himself in that state of mind well
before
the time of the interview.
Few moments before the salat. Brothers and sisters,
few moments before the salat, tell yourself you're
gonna be standing in front of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
Has any of you ever been put in
the
office?
Don't be shy. Abu's not gonna say anything.
It's done and dusted.
Who is who who anyone?
All of you know are good people, Masha'Allah.
What happens, okay, when you go inside that,
and
when you get stuck into that head teacher's
office, what happens?
Trouble. Everyone's scared.
Some of the kids, they even sometimes they
urinate because of fear.
Due to fear,
what happens?
The person is watching his master,
His head teacher.
He doesn't look left. He doesn't look right.
You are standing in front of your lord.
Brothers and sisters, you are standing in front
of your lord. The prophet said, He is
standing
when he stands up in his prayer he
is interacting
direct interaction of your lord
And we're not going to go into it
now because of the time limits and everything.
Don't think that when you pray and when
JAMA prays and when Mohammed prays, all of
you are coming out with the same reward.
Sometimes you can pray, you get absolutely nothing.
We all know the hadith of the Musiah
Salat. He prayed, he went to the prophet,
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
go back, you haven't prayed.
So he went back to the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam again said go back you haven't prayed
so So he goes and prays, goes back
for the 3rd time, same thing. So he
tells the prophet,
teach me.
He used to pray up and down, up
and down, up and down.
The prophet
A
man, he leaves his prayer, and he comes
out with 10%
or 1 tenth or 1 20th or 1
30th
or 1 40th of the reward.
Everybody
differs when it comes to
the.
Some people,
they are committing a major sin inside of
prayer,
and I'll tell you why.
The
prophet said, shall I not now inform you?
The biggest thief,
not the guy that does highway robbery
or the CEO that's in charge of the
bank, and he takes the money.
Nobody knows.
Or he does this or he does that.
Or the thief that pickpockets.
The prophet
said, shall I tell you of the biggest
thief, the guy that steals from his prayer?
How does a man steal from his prayer?
Can you steal your record
and your sujud?
Can anyone steal anything from his prayer?
The prophet sallallahu alaihi said
He doesn't complete the
and he doesn't complete the sujood.
Up and down. Up and down. Very, very
quickly. There's no it none. There's no,
calming down in the prayer.
Running back to that match.
Running back to that match. Oh, I'm gonna
miss this. I'm gonna miss
this. I'm gonna miss this. You wanna put
your salat
at jeopardy,
And you wanna run to a kafir.
Time and time again. Prophecy, if we look,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us about
Complaint for me.
The
people of the book, those that commit shirk,
they are the worst of creation.
You're running away from your Lord
and you're running to the worst of creation.
This is the reality.
You have chosen the worst of creation over
what Allah
The
biggest thief is the one that sees from
his prayer.
So this is the case, brothers and sisters,
about
the issue of salat.
The reason why I thought this was a
very, very important topic
is because
we don't see the issue of salat
like we see other major sins.
And like I mentioned before,
just this thing, I've seen it time and
time again, it happened. Time and time again,
it happens.
A girl, she gets pregnant, it is the
biggest that
our father can ever incur.
Day and night, no sleep. No sleep.
The shame is going to come to my
family. People are going to say the father
of Fulan
and the father of Alain,
his girl, she became pregnant over
this guy or this white guy or this
person, this other person.
But when it comes to,
inshallah, he's gonna pray soon.
He's gonna pray soon.
So we ask Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala, brothers
and sisters, Shaikh Abdul Haq wants to come
up and he
is gonna open a majali,
q and a.
Let's take this issue seriously. Will lie our
communities they don't see the matter of
or as serious enough, shall I say, or
as serious as other things.
And at the same time, brothers, I say
again, I am not calling anyone a kafir.
How many of our communities do we have?
People, close members,
who don't
pray.
And all these hadith, all these
of what they said regarding the salat.
Are we now gonna allow someone in our
family to take the matter of Salada easily?
Allah of the Ulema,
forget about me. Allah of the Ulema, they
see this guy to be no different
from Mark and Jane.
No difference whatsoever.
So we ask Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, to
benefit us from what we heard.
And if anyone had anything regarding a topic
you didn't understand until Sheikh Abdul Haqq comes
up,
we'll just quickly go through inshallah.