Abu Taymiyyah – Whispers of the Shaytaan Waswasa in My Wudhoo, Salat & Faith
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So wasawis in? Yeah.
That which is even more common is wasawis
in a salah,
wasawis with regards to my faith, wasawis in
my brothers and my sisters is the doubts
that an individual now begins to experience when
making wudu.
Right?
Let me give you guys a principle.
In dealing with with ours.
The fuqaha they say,
You know when we make wudu, we have
to make sure that we've done every part
properly. Right? We have to make sure that
you've done it properly. And if you've missed
out anything, double check, and then wash it
right.
It's very very important,
and fundamental when it comes to wudu.
However,
the person who's suffering from wudu, and may
Allah cure them as they are many.
We say to make wudu and get out
of the toilet.
If it means that someone drags you out,
then let it be it.
Wallahi, brother and sister, it broke my heart
seeing some people go into the bathroom,
and they stay in there for hours. Some
wake up before fajr, and they don't leave
the bathroom except after sunrise.
It's Ibtilamin Allah.
Right? So
make wudu.
Cut out the whispers. Get out of the
toilet.
That's how, inshallah,
you're going to what?
Overcome these was hours when it comes to
the wudu.
Right?
Then you also have, my brothers and my
sisters, that which relates to the salah. We
have a hadith for
this. Uthman ibn Abil Aas, radiAllahu ta'ala, and
one time he came to the prophet
and he said,
The shaitan has managed to get in between
my recitation of the Quran and my prayer.
Keeps irritating me.
It's causing me a lot of problems.
Right? What shall I do? The messenger
said,
This is a shaitan called khinzab.
Right? If you feel this faith, says,
seek refuge in Allah and say
Right?
And then also dry spit on your left
three times.
Not phlegm,
not that.
Talking about what? Dry spit to your left.
So Husayn ibn Abi al asked, he says,
I did this.
Allah has really removed it.
Alright.
While you're inside of your salah, the shaytan
comes
and begins to give you doubt about you
having lost your
udhu.
Also taught us
a very important principle. In the hadith, it
says
If you now begin to feel a disturbance
in your salah,
or should I say in your stomach,
Right? Begin to feel a disturbance, sometimes you
feel like that, right? Have I lost my
oodha, have I not?
Right?
Messenger
he said,
falayakhrujannamin
al masjid. He should not leave
the salah.
Here, masjid means salah.
The principle here is, and it's a
leading legal maxim.
Something that has been established with certainty
should not be dismissed
due to some doubt that has arisen.
What does that mean? Did you not just
come out of the toilet and make
You went, you made and then you started
prayer. Has that been fulfilled with certainty, brothers
and sisters?
Certain, right? We just saw the guy walking
out, I just made wudu now. Like me,
father said I made wudu. I went into
Surah Salah, and then shaitan starts playing with
me. Oh, maybe you've lost it. I begin
to feel that doubt. Should I give this
doubt any consideration?
No.
Because
what has been established with certainty cannot be
dismissed due to some doubt that has arisen.
Does that make sense?
And that's not just specific to the salah.
It could be outside of the salah. You're
doubting, will I have I lost there, have
I not? You go back to the asal,
which is you made wudu, and that's where
it stands.
Very, very handy principle, my brothers and my
sisters.
So many questions that I receive all the
time pertaining to this.
And then the third I think is, which
is very very common, having doubts about Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Right?
One of the companions one time came to
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he said,
Indeed, oh Messenger of Allah, we have these
conversations with ourselves.
And,
you know, it's it's something that is really
disturbing to mention.
Right? Or to be vocal about it. We
feel very
uncomfortable to say it with our tongues that
which we are speaking to ourselves about.
The messenger
he said, wajatamu,
this is what you found?
He said, yes. The messenger said,
This is
the pure pinnacle of faith, or the essence
of faith.
As
sheikhul
Islam,
Sheikhul
Islam
says,
right,
These Wazawis,
they come to anyone who turns to Allah
Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
SubhanAllah.
Right. And then he says, Fayyam Baghi alahi,
upon him is to be firm,
to be patient,
and to occupy himself with dhikr,
with the remembrance of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Right? Whenever he feels that, straight away he
starts remembering Allah as a wajal.
In another narration we are told
in another narration my brothers and my sisters
we are told
that the shaytan comes to you and he
says, mankhalaqakava,
Who created this? Who created that?
Right? Up until he says, Who
created your Lord?
Messenger
said,
whoever experiences this, then let him say,
and let him cut this out. Stop thinking
about that. And turn towards the remembrance of
Allah
Right?
Even Sheikh Usam Taymiy was asked, inna al
yahuda w nasara, the Jews and the Christians,
they claimed that they don't suffer from waswasa.
His response was
What is the shaytan going to do to
a heart that has already become corrupt?
Why should the shaytan busy himself with them?
He will come to people of iman,
people with faith,
always trying to pull you into a shirk
and an kufr.
Right? So some of the solutions my brothers
and my sister is to rush into dhikr.
To rush into reading Quran.
Abu Rayra
as they reported by Darimi, he says,
The
house becomes a comfort zone. You know when?
Right?
In yukraafir Qur'an. When the Qur'an is recited
in it.
The malaikah, they come there.
And also the shayateen,
they will run away from this kind of
place.
That's when you recite the book of Allah
Azza wa Jal.
And then the opposite was mentioned as well.
It becomes a place that is so uncomfortable.
The shayateen, they come to this place, and
the angels, they run away from it.
Quran when the Quran is all recited.
A dhikr,
al Quran my brothers and my sisters,
right, and also rush into prayer.
Rush into prayer. Isn't this what the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallamahu alaihi wa sallamahu alaihi
wa sallaha, he'll rush to the prayer.
And that will ease, insha'Allah,
a lot of that which we are experiencing
at the time.
InshaAllah, we're going to go down to the
last two questions.
What minute is the game on? Just to
make sure that we
come in touch up.
You mentioned something about uswas when it comes
to religion. Mhmm. And people doubting, questioning themselves
when it comes to Islam and even Allah
I think one question that often comes up
is we see so much suffering
around for Muslims.
We see Muslims are targeted. We see Muslims
are in a hard
in difficult spots in a lot of the
Muslim land being killed,
salvations, whatever
else they're suffering with, that we ask Allah
to ease their affairs.