Adnan Rajeh – The Significance of Invocation #16
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The conversation covers various narrated hadiths and deeds, including alayhi sallalam, alaihi wa sallalam, and the last hadith of Huraira. The importance of recognizing and thanking oneself is emphasized, along with the concept of la ilaha ill servability and deeds of Islam. The speaker also discusses the importance of accepting reality and proving true believances rather than denying them.
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Salam mubarak ala nabiyyina muhammadin wa ala alihi
wa sahbihi ajma'in wa ba'd yarwi al
-imam al-tirmidhi fi jami'ihi bi-sanadi
al-hassan A'nabi Huraira radiallahu anhu qal,
qala al-nabiyyu sallallahu alaihi wa sallam the
hadith is a collection of imam al-tirmidhi
with an acceptable or reasonable chain of narration
in terms of authenticity and narrated by Abu
Huraira and this is the final hadith within
the theme of the significance of invocation we're
going to move on to something different inshallah
ya'ani next week and I want to
end this theme with a ya'ani a
very a lovely ya'ani hadith that inshallah
is ya'ani well well-known and and
and enjoyed where he says alayhi salatu wassalam
afdalu dhikri la ilaha illallah the best of
of invocation is the word la ilaha illallah
and the Prophet alayhi sallallahu alaihi wasallam has
a side note in other ahadith he would
say he would say to the sahaba jaddidu
imanakum renew your faith renew your commitment and
your your acknowledgement of the grace of your
Lord and they would say how do you
do that qala qulu la ilaha illallah say
la ilaha illallah may this word be fluent
and fluid upon your tongue may you find
no difficulty in saying it at any moment
may it may it flow out of you
at every given second in your life ya
'ani there's sometimes you're so say this or
say that you find it difficult and I
and I know that I've been I've said
I've sat before and had people tell me
to say this and to say that and
you're not always really willing to say it
but whenever you hear the word la ilaha
illallah may it flow out of you la
ilaha illallah this is out of anything if
nothing else if nothing else in your life
then make sure that this just flows every
time you're invited to say it in another
hadith the Prophet alayhi sallallahu alaihi wasallam would
say khayru maa kultu ana wa an-nabiyyuna
min qabli la ilaha illallahu wahdahu la sharika
lah lahul mulk wa lahul hamd wa huwa
ala kulli shay'in qadeer the best thing
that I have said the best thing that
all the prophets before me have ever said
is la ilaha illallah wahdahu la sharika lah
lahul mulk wa lahul hamd wa huwa ala
kulli shay'in qadeer and this is this
concept within our deen of the oneness of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the appreciation of
tawheed the importance of us feeling that affinity
to the one and the only and the
divine himself subhanahu wa ta'ala no one
else with no distractions and no one that
comes even remotely close to the relationship that
we have with him to the respect and
love and reverence that we have to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala is all understood is
all summarized in the concept of la ilaha
illallah it starts with there is no God
there is no except him nothing else I
always tell atheists you got half of it
right just join me in the second half
whenever an atheist comes into an argument you're
halfway there you have la ilaha just listen
to illallah with me there is only one
option to this there is no option there
is only one answer that's that's fathomable for
the existence of all of this any other
answer is wrong because there is no other
answer that makes any sense at all except
one which is la ilaha illallah it is
the truth upon it qamatis samawatu wal arda
Allah has established the cosmos upon this word
for this word Adam a.s. left the
jannah for this word Nuh a.s. lost
his son for this word Nuh a.s.
was carried within the ship during the flood
for this word Ibrahim a.s. was thrown
into the fire for this word Sayyidina Zakariya
a.s. was sawed in half for this
word Yahya's head was torn off for this
word Isa a.s. was almost crucified for
this word Muhammad a.s. was removed from
his home and lost his family for la
ilaha illallah for this one word so that
you can carry it so that you can
take this ultimate truth this one wording of
truth and carry it with you whether you
say it or not makes no difference to
the reality of it the reality of the
world of the universe is la ilaha illallah
you are just acknowledging that you accept it
when you accept it you don't accept it
if you accept it then it's la ilaha
illallah and if you reject it it's still
la ilaha illallah it doesn't change you are
just granted by the grace of the one
and only by his grace I am granted
the gift of knowing la ilaha illallah I
am granted the opportunity to adhere myself in
my heart to la ilaha illallah and just
as he granted me this gift he can
take it away just as he gave me
this opportunity this beautiful gem and he put
it in my hands he can take it
away as well so make sure that your
tongue and your heart sing la ilaha illallah
at all times and in every situation regardless
of what's going on may you hold on
to this this is the one thing the
one thing in the hadith of Muslim when
the prophet tells us about the man who
was standing there and he's standing there and
they are just piling on the records of
Sayyidah just piling on the records just piling
on record upon record upon record until the
records are so high that you look to
the sky and all you can see you
don't see the end of them you don't
see the end of the records that are
just being piled in the wrong side of
the scales and of course he's standing there
in complete and absolute loss in absolute agony
in fear he knows that he has no
way and Allah will ask him is any
of this wrong did someone did someone lie
did my malaika write something they shouldn't have
written tell me and I will grant you
justice I will stand for you I will
defend you tell me is any of this
and he will say no this is it
this is what I did do you have
an other give me do you have an
excuse for all this and he says I
have nothing so he walks away and Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala will call upon him
come back we have for you a piece
of paper just a letter something a scribble
nothing so he looks back and he says
and what is a letter what is a
piece of paper going to make a difference
in these in these endless endless records of
sayyiat that I have no one no one
is oppressed here here here only justice is
served no you come back we owe you
something you have to you have to be
witness as we add it to the scales
so they look at the bitaqa so they
take it and they put it in the
scales and it and it and it plummets
and the records go flying into nothingness into
nowhere and he calls subhanahu wa ta'ala
and he says with my name nothing nothing
has the weight of my name nothing will
outweigh the glory of my name so say
la ilaha illallah and embrace it within your
heart because this is how we this is
how we make it yawm al qiyamah this
is what we hope this is what we
we have nothing else to depend upon wallahi
we have nothing else what our deeds on
our I'm going to go I'm going to
go and make an argument with my deeds
with what I've done with my life with
my choices with the way I spent my
time allahu a'udhu billah what am I
going to do to go through my book
and point out all of my all of
my great achievements what I have nothing I'm
coming with the grace of la ilaha illallah
just hoping that that will help us it's
always it's always what it's been there's nothing
else you live your life you just try
to do just enough so that when you
say ya rab I believed in la ilaha
illallah he tells you that is true I
know that's true you truly did yes you
made mistakes but you truly believed in la
ilaha illallah just to be able to claim
that you accepted it because it's a claim
la ilaha illallah is the fact you just
have to be able to prove that you
really did believe it that this claim that
you made was truthful to you and that's
all it is I hope that was a
benefit to you yawi imad tinwidhi fi jami
'ihi bi sanadin hasan an abir huwayata radiallahu
anhu qal qal al nabiyu sallallahu alayhi wa
alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam afdalu dhikri la
ilaha illallah salak al rasul