Adnan Rajeh – The Significance of Invocation 13
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A woman named Aisha is trying to convince her daughter to go to a house where she found a worker to help with her father's work. She is concerned about her daughter's health and wants someone to help her. The importance of taking care of oneself and family, including feeling like a subhanabled individual and losing the gorer of others, is discussed. The speaker also talks about the value of the Prophet's remedy and how he sees the value of the remedy in finding something worthwhile.
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I'll tell him.
فَعَادَتْ فَذَكَرَتْ عَائِشَةُ ذَٰلِكَ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ الصَّلَاةُ
وَسْلَامًا Aisha said, this is the Prophet ﷺ,
that your daughter came and she was looking
for, maybe you can send her a servant
or someone to do something for her.
Her hands, she's in pain, her hands hurt
her all the time and she wants someone
to help.
قَالَ فَذَهَبَ إِلَيْهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ
وَسَلَامًا The Prophet ﷺ went to her house.
قَالَ وَكُنَّا قَدْ أَخَذْنَا مَضَاجِعَنَا And Aisha and,
sorry, forgive me, Fatima and Ali had already
gone to bed and they're in their bed.
The Prophet ﷺ knocks on the door, they
know it's him, he enters ﷺ.
So it's the house of his daughter and
of Ali, who is the closest thing to
a son he raised him from when he
was a child.
So he's very comfortable obviously in this household
and they're very comfortable with Rasulullah ﷺ.
And who wouldn't be comfortable with Rasulullah ﷺ
entering their household?
Some of us wouldn't because sometimes we don't
have something to show off.
You have to have a household that is
worthy of his presence ﷺ.
So some of us would not be comfortable
with him entering, not because we don't love
him, but because we don't want him to
see what exists on the other side of
those doors.
So we'd prefer him not to come in
to see the mess that we have.
But Aisha, but Fatima and Ali, no, their
house is a beautiful house.
It's a house of barakah, a house of
ibadah, a house of Islam, tuqa, iman and
jihad.
So they're proud for him to enter ﷺ.
And the hadith, So the Prophet ﷺ put
his feet under the covers because it was
cold outside.
And she felt the coldness of his feet
ﷺ.
He's with his daughter.
I've heard what you wanted.
Can I tell you, can I give you
something that's better than what you asked for?
You asked for a servant or someone to
come and help you.
I have something better for you.
He's sitting in their home ﷺ with his
feet under their covers ﷺ.
And I don't know at that moment what
possibly could be better than this anyways.
But that's what he's asking.
Can I give you something better?
Yes, whatever.
What did you have better?
وَكَبِّرَاهُ أَرْبَعًا وَثَلَاثِينَ فَهُوَ وَاللَّهِ خَيْرٌ لَكُمَا مِمَّا
طَلَبْتُمَا When you go to bed, when you
come to go to bed, say subhanallah 33
times.
And say alhamdulillah 33 times.
And say allahu akbar 34 times.
And if you do that, it is better
for you than whatever benefit you are going
to get from a servant sent to your
house to help you with things.
There's more benefit in you doing this every
night than a servant.
And when you think about this, you're wondering
what exactly is this helping with?
How is this helping?
How is it helping her?
My hands are hurting.
I want someone to do the work.
And you're telling me before I go to
sleep.
You say this.
Because the way the Prophet ﷺ, this is
the beauty of the piece for me at
least.
The way he saw invocation ﷺ, he saw
it as fuel.
To him it was fuel.
It was something, if your tank was empty
and you were getting tired, the dhikr of
Allah ﷻ was fuel.
That would strengthen you.
That would give you the power to continue
to do something, that you're getting more ajr
by doing yourself.
You see, if Fatima had a servant to
do it, she loses the ajr, abir-raha.
She's losing the ajr of doing this every
day for her husband and her children.
There's a lot of ajr.
And you taking care of your own family,
yourself.
There's more ajr for a wife, for a
mother, to care with herself, for her children,
and for her husband.
There's nothing that is equivalent to that ajr.
So if someone comes and does it for
her, she's losing out that ajr.
Now she's relaxing, obviously, a little bit, and
she's resting, but she's losing out of the
ajr.
The Prophet ﷺ did not want, for the
ones he loved, for whom he loved, to
ever lose the ajr that Allah ﷻ had
given them.
So he gave them, instead of giving her
a way to rest, he gave her something
to fill her tank.
Here's the fuel, so that you can continue
to do this and persevere, even though it's
difficult.
Because that's how he saw ﷺ, the remembrance
of Allah ﷻ.
It will strengthen you.
It will allow you to rise above.
It will allow you to persevere and get
across the finish line, go up the difficult
mountain, go up against the tide, against the
wind, despite the difficulty.
And that's how he saw dhikr of Allah
ﷻ.
In another narration, out of Muslim, where he
kind of continues, He said, I have not
stopped doing this every single night since the
day the Prophet ﷺ told me this.
So one of the people sitting there, we
don't know if he meant this in an
ill manner or if he meant it well.
I don't know.
I'm going to say the guy didn't say
this in an ill manner.
Not even on the night of Suffeen, where
it was a horrible, horrible battle.
And it was a very difficult night for
the Emir al-Mu'mineen and for the Sahaba
in general.
And that night he didn't go to sleep
at all.
He didn't sleep at all.
So he wanted to, you didn't leave it
once, not even once.
وَلَا لَيْلَةُ صُفِّينِ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فَقَالَ رَضِيَ
اللَّهُ عَنْهُ وَلَا لَيْلَةُ صُفِّينَ Not even that
night.
I did this every night since he told
me ﷺ.
It's the value that he found, in saying
the name, in saying subhanAllah, in saying alhamdulillah,
in saying Allah.
He saw it that way.
And he knew that Fatimah Zahra and Ali
would feel that way about it.
And they didn't walk away upset.
And they didn't say, well he could have
given me something but he didn't give me
something.
No, they felt and they saw, and they
acknowledged that he, that night, gave them something,
more valuable than a servant or anything else
that they could have asked for because of
the fact that they understood what it meant
to be offered a door to speak of
Allah and for Allah to speak of you,
for you to take from Allah subhanAllah wa
ta'ala the madad that will allow your
heart to fill up with all the barakah
and all the strength that you can continue
to perform your tasks and then meet Him
in a situation, in a position where you're
happier and you're closer to Him subhanAllah wa
ta'ala.
And that's why I love this hadith and
I love this story.
yarwil imamul muslimun fee sahihihi an ali ibn
abi talib radiallahu anhu qal lamma ishtakat fatimatu
alaihassalam minarraha zahabat ila rasoolillahi sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam tatlubu khadiman falam tuwafiq rasoolallah fa akhbarat
a'isha fa zakarat a'isha thalika li
rasoolillahi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam fa zahaba rasoolullahi
ila baiti fatima fa dakhala fa kallamahuma wakana
qad akhada mazja'ihima takulu fatima hatta wajadtu
barda qadamihi ala sadri fa qala alaihi as
-salatu was-salam qad balaghani matlabukuma afala adullukuma
ala ma huwa khayrun lakuma mimma talabtuma fa
qulna bala ya rasoolallah fa qala alaihi as
-salatu was-salam idha akhaztuma mazja'ihkuma fasabbihallaha
thalatan wa thalathin wahmadahu thalathan wa thalathin wakabbirahu
arba'an wa thalathin fa huwa waladhi nafsi
biyadihi khayrun lakuma mimma talabtuma fa qala ali
fama taraktu thalika mudh amarani bihi rasoolallah fa
qala ahadum wala layla tasuffeen ya amir al
mu'mineen qal wala layla tasuffeen