Ammar Alshukry – Is The 27Th Night Laylatul Qadr
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The conversation covers aspects of the holy month, including the importance of forgiveness and sharing moments with others. It also touches on the holy month's significance for graduation and its cultural significance, as well as the holy month's importance for sharing graduation experiences. The conversation also touches on the holy month's importance for sharing graduation experiences and providing resources for those affected by it.
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Alrighty, everyone.
Welcome to day
number 26
of Ramadan
360.
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It's so beautiful to see how many folks,
just like the Ummah, how international the Ramadan
360 community is and just getting a taste
of that every year,
is beautiful.
To you Sarah as well. So welcome back,
guys. We are shooting towards the end.
I'm still here during the sessions that I'm
not hosting. I'm just really enjoying being in
the chat and benefiting and actually listening to
the session instead of being distracted by a
million other things. But, so I really enjoyed
Sheikh Salim and Hani's session yesterday, and masha'Allah,
brother, brother
of the man would is one of our
our premier
professional hosts. So it's great to always have
him presenting and and leading the experience, but
I am I do get a little jealous.
I I I wish I'm I'm with you
guys on those days. I wish I I
get a chance to introduce and to connect
with you guys on screen. So I'm glad
to be back
with no other than Sheikh Amari Shukri,
back for the final time to do a
full session with us, at with Ramadan 360.
Alhamdulillah, Sheikh Hammar never disappoints. And honestly, it's
not Ramadan 360 without having a blockbuster 27th
night. It's the 27th day session with Sheikh
Hammar, hamdulillah.
His topic today is going to be generosity.
And apt 1, I know because a lot
of folks wait for the 27th night to
make some of their biggest contributions, their biggest
efforts, their biggest duas, their biggest,
you know, like, just basically that's a pinnacle
of Ramadan for a lot of folks. Not
that that, you know, I'm sure Shif Omar
will discuss a lot of the the the
the merits and a lot of the the
details of that inshallah with you guys inshallah
in just a couple of seconds. But,
very excited for today's blockbuster session. If you
didn't know already, this is gonna be a
longer session. So we're gonna be here for
about an hour inshallah with Sheikh Omar, and
then we're gonna have a. So we still
have Quran reflect, but this is probably gonna
be the the blockbuster
Ramadan 360 session. So just mark your calendar
so that you guys are aware. It's gonna
be a little bit, inshallah, more barakah filled
than usual as well. We're gonna get a
bit more time, alhamdulillah, with our instructors,
today.
With that said, as always, I wanna give
a shout out to the amazing folks that
are working on the ground to take care
of the most vulnerable in our ummah. In
the US, we've got HHRD.
In Canada, we have Islamic Relief. And in
the UK, we've got forgotten woman, Jazakam Malekir,
for all your support. For Fazleen, shout out
to you in the chat. The links are
there. They're in your YouTube description, so please
do support them generously. And with that, please
as always support the amazing work that Amagrib
does in our, Ramadan campaign. Please do visit
Amagrib.orgforward/donate
and do as much as you can to
top up your efforts to maximize them, in
these final few opportunities that you have. And
one thing I wanna highlight before we jump
in today's session, I know Sheikh Hamar is
waiting patiently, but I love to cut it
to time. Technically, I still have the first
the next couple of minutes.
One of the things that I've always loved
about Almagrib, for those who don't know, most
actually, mostly you probably don't know unless you
were taking classes and I meant mentioned this
anecdote is before Al Maghrib, I used to
work with new Muslims. I used to work
with an, a small organization,
that supported Muslims for about 7, 8 years
I was with them, alhamdulillah, and across all
of the GTA and some in the in
the US as well. And I saw so
much of the struggles that any Muslims had
coming into Islam. And, unfortunately, the statistic was
that, 70 something, I think, was 72% of
new Muslims, after the 1st year of joining
Islam, they left the religion.
A lot of it had to do with
community support, but a lot of it also
had to do with lack of knowledge and
lack of connection, lack of access to resources,
lack of awareness of of where to take
this journey. I know that was a shocking
statistic. They made me so sad when when
I was working, and I used I used
to see this reality, to be honest. A
lot of the people I work with, you
know, did not stay with Islam if if
I didn't have you know, and I still
have some contact with them, but
I didn't have the resources back then that
we do now at.
You know, I wasn't as connected with Ammagrib
until a little bit later on, and I
was just like a a fan, a student,
a free Friday attendee, a scholarship recipient at
that time. And that's when I was able
to start, you know, providing that resource and
taking, you know, just a new Muslim to
1 Almagrib class that changed the trajectory of
their life. That, you know, they didn't have
an interest. They they felt like Islam was,
maybe restrictive. It was not very growth. You
know, there's a lot of, you know, misconceptions
that they had or that they built up
over time of connecting with some community. And
it took 1 among your class to completely
throw that out and to completely make them
fall in love with the religion and get
excited about learning and get excited about
just what the potential that Islam had for
them. And one of the consistent aspects that
that Amal Gharib Basal has had is giving
people equal access to that kind of knowledge
and especially facilitating authentic,
concise, easy to understand access to knowledge for
new Muslims. And one of my favorite resources
for that is faith essentials, which I know
Sheikh Hamar is is very near and dear
to Sheikh Hamar's part because he's the director
of faith essentials.
But there's so many other programs. There's so
many access. There's always scholarships that we make
available so that people coming into the deen,
they have somewhere to go. They have a
community to support them. Ramadan 360, as always,
has amazing new Muslims, who have joined our
community year after year, who have joined and
then become part of the Amalgam family and
and made this part of their journey. So
part of what you support when you support
Amalgam is to give authentic knowledge, to give
a community, to give support to new Muslims
who are new in the deen and trying
to perfect and trying to to to find
that purpose and and to stay connected to
it. So with that said, I don't wanna
take too long, which I say that after
already taking too long. But I wanna jump
into our 26th,
session Insha Allah. Benefit from Sheikh Hamar on
the topic of generosity
with Ramadan 360. Shout out to everyone who's
made it. Shout out to everyone who's who's
back after a bit of a a hiatus
and whoever's been here from the very beginning.
Let's jump in. I see Sheikh Hamar is
ready with me. Assalamu alaikum.
How are you doing today?
How are you doing, Absa? Alhamdulillah. I'm just
relieved, Sheikh. You're coming in from a proper
background. The sun is not in your face.
I'm not stressing. I hope it's not well.
Don't worry. I'll I'll keep a surprise.
First of all, Owa is walking in the
streets of New York City. I see you,
Owa. You gotta be careful with that earthquake.
Hope you guys are okay today. Yes.
I know all throughout New York City, everybody
who attended this, Jum'ah today heard,
that's everybody is was that your Jum'ah experience?
May Allah protect you guys. I was checking
in on my family too over there. Everybody
is good.
It
is,
bittersweet
to be with you all for a final
Ramadan 360 session, at least for me. And
I know there are a few more coming,
and it's always a beautiful gathering and a
beautiful community
that
gets together.
And like Hafsa mentioned, it doesn't have to
end in Ramadan,
but,
it continues through all of these different beautiful
Al Madaba projects. One of them that's dear
to me, of course, is Faith Essentials,
and that's where I I created,
you know, a lot of connections. And one
of the people that I wanna shout out
is, of course,
missus Florida, Rabad.
Because I was recently checking out, the YouTube
series, and I found her to be the
absolute most consistent commenter,
the realest one when it comes to the
algorithm.
May Allah
bless and accept from you and everybody.
That being said,
I wanted to begin just talking a little
bit about competition.
And that is,
you know, Allah
when he describes Jannah in the Quran, he
says.
Allah says,
or Jannah, let competitors compete. Let competitors compete.
And the prophets themselves, they competed.
When he was going on the night of
back and forth between Allah and Musa.
And Musa keeps telling him, go back down.
No. Go back
up. Go back up because you're not gonna
be able to pray 50 prayers a day.
You're not gonna be able to pray 40
prayers. You're not gonna be able to pray
30 prayers. You're not gonna be able to
keeps going
and engaging with Rasoolullah
And then
when eventually
the prophet
says, I'm not going up for 5. After
5, I'm not going up.
And he leaves,
Musa alayhi salaam weeps,
and he says, this young man
who was sent after me, and the prophet
is 53 years old at this time if
the salah happened or 50 years old rather
in 10th year.
But Musa, alayhi, was saying, this young man
who was sent after me, more of his
followers are going to enter Jannah than my
followers.
Right? And ibn Hajar
he comments on this, and he says, don't
think that Musa is jealous. I mean, that's
not appropriate for a regular righteous person, much
less of a a prophet.
But he was saddened by the fact that
Bani Israel squandered his message, and so he
didn't have as many followers as the prophet
did. But in any case, you have that
spirit of competition. And the prophet
in fact, he told us he said
to He said, marry women
who are loving and have plenty children. Why?
Because I wanna boast the largest number of
followers on the day of judgment.
And so you have that sense. And then
you know,
they learned it from the prophet
and so they competed.
And they competed in every avenue of goodness.
And maybe we'll come back to some of
these episodes, but we know that in battle,
we know that in sadaqah, we know that
in recitation of the Quran, we know that
in so many different ways, the Sahaba whom
they competed with one another. Tribes competed with.
Individuals competed with one another. And so the
question you have to ask yourself is, who
are you competing with? And then we
have us,
you know, the the believers. Who are we
competing with? It's Ramadan. This is our playoffs.
It's our World Cup. It's our
it's whatever. It's the greatest competition for us
is Ramadan when we are all collectively
on the same schedule, and we're all competing
with Allah. We're competing
for the forgiveness of
Allah. And so who's in front of you?
Like, Umrah
in front of him was Abu Bakr, and
one time the prophet
was fundraising, and Omar says, no. No. Today,
I'm a be Abu Bakr. Today, I I'm
going to win. And Omar is chasing someone
who he sees to be ahead of him.
So the question that I have for you
right now is who are you chasing? Who
is who is in your community that you're
chasing?
Who is praying more consistently than you? You
see them in the first
all the time. Who is the person who
is reading more Quran than you? Who is
the person who's giving more than you? Who
is the person who's serving? Which of your
siblings is serving your parents more than you
or better than you? Who are you competing
with?
Who are you competing with? And I'll tell
you, even this topic of that
we're talking about today
came as a result of
this spirit of competition
that had. The prophet
on occasion, he told them of a man
from Bani Israel
who used to go out in the path
of Allah every single day and every night
he would retire and pray
just nonstop.
And the prophet
said and he did this for more than
a 1000 months.
When they heard that, they didn't just
they didn't just receive that information like we
might have received it. Wow. That's a really
nice story. Masha'Allah. Good for him. You know?
Cool
story. No. That's not how they
received that information.
Their competitive
nature became triggered,
and they said, You Rasoolallah,
we don't even get to live
for a 1000 months. We don't even get
to live for 83 years.
We don't get to live that long.
And so they were complaining to the prophet
that other people who live before us are
able to worship Allah
at an intensity
and duration
that we don't even have access to because
we don't get to live that long. We're
in Ummah, the prophet
said that our age is between 6070.
And so because of that,
Allah
reveals
Allah
gives us this Ummah whose lifespan was made
short seasons of goodness as a means of
support. Allah gives us this
speak too much about the tafsir. We have,
Ustadatemia, and I also wanna not gonna speak
too much about the tafsir. We have, Ustad
Adeyemi. And I also wanna shout out Ustad
Adeyemi, of course, because she is
the,
queen of Ramadan 360 pretty much. She has
been here more consistently than I think anybody
else. Right? Not even the hosts.
She's the MVP of Ramadan 360.
And so, may Allah
reward her and everybody who's been, participating
and organizing.
That being said, I wanted to share a
couple of things with regards to.
We all know the virtues of. We know
the importance of.
What are some of the things that we
should be paying attention to? How do we
enliven these nights? How do we enliven these
nights?
First of all, I'm sure you've already heard,
but I'll briefly just go over. We know
that the prophet
said to seek them out in the last
10 nights, and he said the odd nights.
And the prophet
also said, seek them out with 9 days
remaining. Seek them out with 7 days remaining.
Seek them out with 5 days remaining. So,
really, no night is safe because
if Ramadan ends up being 29 days, the
9 days remaining becomes the 20th night. So
it could be an even or an odd
night, technically.
So no night is safe. You have to
seek it out every single night in the
last 10 nights. But that being said, the
sahaba radiAllahu in whom they held positions as
to which night is laylatul Qadr. And so
Abdul Laid ibn Surud famously so position number
1, we got Abdul Laid ibn Surud. Abdul
Laid ibn Surud is in Iraq, and he
said that whoever wants to experience Laylatul Qadr,
you know what they should do? They should
pray the entire the entire year. Pray the
entire year, you'll get to experience Dailatul Qadr.
And so that's one position. Abdulai ibn Zurud
is you gotta seek out the entire year.
Then we have position number 2. That's the
position of Abu Sayedid al Khudiri. Abu Sayedid
al Khudiri said it's on the 21st night
of Ramadan.
Why? He said he tells the hadith of
the prophet
making itikaf in the middle of the month,
and then he was told that day at
al Qadr is in the last 10 nights.
And so the prophet, after making it to
Qaf already for 10 days, he says, what
you're seeking is ahead of you. And so
the prophet
then tells them whoever is seeking it out,
then let them continue to make itikab, and
I was given I was shown
that I am prostrating between mud and water.
And so Abu Sayed the Khudiri says, and
there wasn't even a cloud in the sky.
But that day or that night rather, it
began to rain,
and the leaf or the roof of the
prophet of
the was made with palm leaves, water, I
e, is sinking through. And he said, I
saw the
prostrating
like he described
between water and mud on his forehead, and
he said that was the 21st night. So
Abhisaid Al Khotibi is like it's the 21st
night.
Then you have,
Abdullah ibn Abbas
who holds that it is either the 23rd
or 27th night. And Umar ibn Khattab had
asked them, and he said, what what night
do you think is greater suqaddah? And he
said, amir mumineen, I think it's either with
7 nights remaining or 7 nights having passed,
either 7 or 7. He said why? He
said because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala created 7
heavens, so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala created 7
earths, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala made the days
of the week 7. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
made our food from 7. And and and
and he's saying that there's some sort of,
you know, sequence with this this number 7.
And so Amr ibn Khattab
said he said to him, you've noticed something
that we didn't notice.
So Abdulai ibn
Abbas, rather, 7 27th or 23rd, and then
you have Ubayb Nikaab. Ubayb Nikaab
says it is the 27th night. He is
approached in Medina, and and Ubaym nikab is
approached by people from Iraq, and they come
to him telling him what Abdulaih ibn Mus'ud
said. They said, your brother, Abdulaih mister'ud, says
that whoever prays,
whoever wants to experience their zukat needs to
pray the entire year. And so Abdullah,
or Ubayb e nikab, rather, he said to
him he said, you know, he knows what
night it is, but he didn't want you
to rely on it alone. He didn't want
the entire masjid to just be full on
the 27th night. That's when everybody shows up,
and the rest of, you know, Ramadan, nobody's
there. Or the rest of the year, nobody's
there. Nobody's praying qiyam. Everybody just shows up
on the 27th night. They just fill the
masjid. They, you know,
chatter and laughter and and
that's it. He said he didn't want you
guys to rely and make that your crutch.
But he said he knows it's the 27th
night.
And they said, how did you know that?
He said because of the sign that the
prophet
told us that
the next day, the sun would rise without
any rays.
And
Abdullah or rather Ubay ibn Nikaab used to
swear that it's the 27th night, and that's
the position
of the majority of the companions
and the majority of the jurists that if
you're going to put your eggs in one
basket, it's gonna be the 27th
night. That as as, you know, you seek
out all 10 nights, but if push comes
to shove and you only have 1 night
that you can go for, that you go
for the 27th night.
And Allah
knows best, but
rotates
every year, and that's how you combine between
these narrations.
Saying the 21st, Ubayb ibn Kab saying the
27th, that it rotates, and there's nothing wrong
with it rotating.
But if out of all of these rotations
that it is weighted and that it is
weighted more for the 27th night. And Allah
knows best more often than not or more
often than others, it's the 27th night. May
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us to experience.
So then the question becomes, what do you
do?
What do you do on?
What do you do?
So
the greatest thing that a person can do
on Laylatul Qadr is salah.
That whoever
stands the nights of Laylatul Qadr. Whoever stands
the night. And so qiyam
is the best and as
the prophet
said, that salah is the best the it's
the best subject,
and salah combines all of these other things.
So
reading Quran, you do that in salah. Making
dua, you do that in salah. Making dhikr,
you do that in salah. So salah combines
all of these beautiful things, all of these
beautiful acts of worship that you can do
outside of the salah also. But doing it
inside of the salah, you just you get
all of the you get the combination. You
get the benefit of of everything together.
So in any case, salah is
a what a person should try to do
for sure.
Also,
recitation of the Quran because it is the
best
is the recitation of the Quran. So a
person prays, and then when they need to
rest, they sit down, they read some Quran,
vice versa, back up, read Quran, vice versa,
like that. And then number 3 is, of
course, making
a lot of dua. And I'm gonna talk
about dua for a little while
as well.
But in reality, every act of goodness,
every act of goodness,
every act of worship that you can offer
on,
all of that is wonderful, and all of
that is accepted.
Of it is, like you're mentioning, Ziba says
charity. You know, Ziba is the type,
who will walk into a a session
that's probably gonna be a fundraiser, and then
she reminds them of the speaker of charity.
And that is the most righteous of righteous
hearts.
You're like the person who goes into a
Masjid on the 27th night and says, imam,
you should talk about charity.
You know, you're reminding me. Can I make
a quick, disclaimer? Let me tell you an
amazing story. This is an amazing story. It
has nothing to do with all of these
topics, but you just reminded me, Ziba.
When I was,
1st year in university,
I had a introductory class that was a
500 person auditorium. 500 seats. K? 500 seats.
And
I look through the crowd to see anybody
I recognize,
and I see a Muslim guy named Khaled.
And we weren't very close at all, you
know, he was just kinda like a outer
outer outer layer acquaintance, but you know what?
I say, that's my Muslim brother, let me
go and sit sit next to him.
So I go and I sit next to
Hadid,
and it was the last time that I
sat next to Hadid. You know why? Let
me tell you this.
This was the time
so we had a pop quiz. We had
a pop quiz that the instructor said. Pop
quiz, everybody.
And then the entire auditorium of 500 people,
they all groan.
A collective groan. Oh, no. It's a pop
quiz.
And the teacher starts passing out sheets,
starts passing out sheets. Everybody, you gotta write
your names on the quiz and this, this,
this, this, this.
And
a miracle happened, and that miracle was
the teacher
ran out of paper.
She might have printed only a 150 or
200, and there's 500 people there.
And so everybody's like
they start clapping and they're happy and stuff
like that. And then
from the back of the auditorium,
someone screams
something that cut through all of the happiness.
And
someone yells,
why don't you just write the questions on
the board?
And
I look to the left of me and
it is hatted.
500 eyes look directly in our direction.
And the teacher
says, you know what? That's an excellent idea.
And so she writes the questions on the
board, and we all have to take the
quiz.
That's it was unbelievable, and that was the
last time that I sat next to this
gentleman.
Anyway,
so thank you, Zeeba, for reminding us that
we're here to raise funds.
May Allah accept for you. I'm just kidding.
There's absolutely always that one person in class.
So,
what were we saying? We're saying, recite in
Quran
and du'a du'a
and and, oh, Zeebo was basically reminding us
that there's always something that you can do.
Right? There's always something you can do. Absolutely
charity.
Absolutely,
connecting with your ties of kinship, you know,
messaging your family members. All of that is
beautiful, and all of that is beloved to
Allah
But But not only that, but even volunteering
volunteering at the Masjid. You know? You know,
there's
the people who are doing security in the
parking lots, the people who are, you know,
making sure that,
the kids are being babysat. All of that
is part of a person
seeking later Qadr. All of that. You know,
it doesn't have to be just a ritualistic
act of worship, but it can also be
you doing anything that Allah
loves as an act of worship.
That being said,
I wanna talk about du'a in particular. Now
Aisha
she asked the prophet she says in the
hadith is in the Surmidi, she says, if
I know that it is laylatul Qadr,
what should I say?
And the Rasulullah
said to her, say,
Said, oh, Allah, you are love you are,
You pardon.
You love to pardon, so pardon my sense.
K? And this this dua we also talk
about in
today's episode of the names of Allah series
because it's the 27th.
But here, Rasulullah
is teaching us the mean the the dua
that we should make. And this dua is
beautiful, and it is perfect, and it is
appropriate for later.
How so? The scholars mentioned
that you are asking Allah
for afu. And what is afu?
Is to erase the trace of sins.
So I have a ledger, and my ledger
is filled with sins, and you are asking
a lot, oh, Allah, erase it. That's what
that what that's what Afu means. It is
to erase the trace of your sins. It
is that on the day of judgment,
I never did those things because they don't
exist. They're not there. They're gone. We're not
even gonna discuss them. There's nothing to discuss.
They're gone. They're erased.
That is.
And then you have mafira, which is for
the sins to still be there, but you're
you're actually
protected from its harm. And that's why a
helmet is called a mifra. In Arabic, it
protects you from the harm of your enemy.
And then you have, rahma, but we're not
the point here, rahma is you being enveloped
in Allah mercy. But here, maghfira
or Afu rather is what you're asking Allah,
Subhanahu wa ta'ala, for, and it's the highest
level.
And when are you asking Allah for Afu?
You are asking Allah
as you are exhausting yourself in the worship
of Allah.
You know, I was thinking about this yesterday.
Laylatul Qadr could have been in the middle
of Shaaban.
It could have been or not in the
middle of Shaaban, but it could have been
in the middle of Rajab or at the
end of the Ruqaida, or it could have
been right? It could have just been on
any random
any particular day of the Muslim calendar. It
could have been this is later at Al
Qadr. It's that, And then we start from
0,
and we've come with all of this energy,
and
we have you know, we're we're
we're not tired.
We're not exhausted.
But Allah
designed that laylatul Qadr comes after 20 days
of fasting
and qiyam.
You're already by the 20th day, you're already
tired. And now you're being told,
no. No. No. No. No. There's no rest.
After 20 days of tiyam and and dehydration
and sleeplessness and all that type of stuff,
now is the time where you actually turn
it up even more.
And this is when you go for broke.
This is burnout. This is now you whatever
you have.
And so in that extra exertion,
absolutely,
in that extra exertion,
when you are worshiping Allah
at an intensity that you don't the entire
year,
what are you asking a lot? You're saying,
oh, Allah, forgive me.
They're saying, oh, Allah, forgive me.
Forgive you for what? You're trying so hard
right now.
Everything that I offer is not what you
deserve.
Everything that I offer is not what you
deserve. I am offering you what I offer,
and I am embarrassed that I'm offering you
this. This isn't what you deserve.
And this is a common,
common motif that we see in our worship.
When you're done with salah, you offer this
great pillar of Islam,
And after you're done, one of the first
things that you say is Astaghfirullah
Astaghfirullah Astaghfirullah Astaghfirullah. I'm not seeking forgiveness for
a major sin. I'm seeking forgiveness at the
end of a major pillar,
a major act of
worship. Because our acts of worship are still
not what Allah
deserves. It's not what Allah deserves. And so
we offer these things that we offer. And
so that's one aspect, and that's one interpretation
that the scholars make for this du'a being
the du'a of Laylatul Qadr or seeking Laylatul
Qadr.
And it's a beautiful, beautiful dua.
Then we have a second understanding
and a second interpretation as to why this
is the dua of Laylatul Qadr, And this
is also powerful.
And to understand this, you have to understand
what Laylatul Qadr means. Of the meanings of
Laylatul Qadr is that it is the day
of destiny.
It is destiny.
In fact,
we know that your destiny
is written on Laylatul Qadr
for the next year. There are 4 writings
that happen when a person
in a person's existence. Okay. So there are
4 writings that happen. Number 1 is what's
called the eternal writing. The second is what's
called the writing of a lifetime. The third
is what's called a yearly writing, and the
4th is a daily writing. These are 4
writings that happen.
The first one, Allah
created the pen and commanded it to write,
and it was commanded to write everything that
will happen until the day of judgment. It
was written in the
the preserved tablet, al loh al mafuth.
That destiny does not change. That is the
final draft. It's the first and final draft.
It doesn't alter. It doesn't change.
That is number 1. Number 2 is the
writing of a lifetime, and that's in the
hadith that's in Bukharin, Muslim, the hadith of
where he says that when a person's
soul is breathed into the womb of their
mother,
into their body,
The angel is commanded to write down 4
things, their lifespan, their risk, their,
life their lifespan, their actions, their disk, and
whether they'll be of the people of paradise
or the people of the hellfire. Right?
So these four things are in.
However,
these 4 can be altered. They can be
changed. And in fact, Abdullah ibn Mus'ud even
beyond that, Rasulullah
says in hadith that's in Bukhari, he says
that whoever wants for their lifespan to be
extended and for their risk to be expanded,
then let them
connect the ties of kinship.
And so good deeds can increase a person's
lifespan, and they can increase a person's risk.
So these things are not final.
They can change. Then we have number 3,
a yearly writing. And that yearly writing, that's
the point why I'm bringing this up, is
on Leila Tulkad. Allah
says
At the beginning of Surat Dukhan,
Allah says we have brought down the Quran
on a blessed night.
We are warners.
On that night,
every matter of greatness is determined.
And so that happens on Leila Tulkadr.
And ibn Abbas comments on this verse, and
he says
that even the pilgrims for the next year
are written on Laylatul Qadr. So if you're
still, you know, trying to go with Al
Maghrib for Hajj
and you're still, you know, clicking on that
nusuk app, make a lot of dua in
these last 10 nights. Make a lot of
dua in these last 10 nights. Ibn Abbas
says the pilgrims are written on Leir Tufatr
and everything beyond that and everything smaller than
that and everything greater than that. In fact,
a person
might be walking amongst the people,
and they are written with Allah
to be among the dead.
This is written for them that they're not
going to live another year. They're walking around
amongst the people now. May Allah
write for us all a good ending and
preserve us.
That being said, then we have the 4th
writing, and the 4th writing is
the daily writing. Allah
says
Every day, Allah is determining a matter. So
then these last 3, the daily and the
yearly and the of a lifetime are all
changeable and alterable.
And of the wisdoms of that is that
even the angels don't know the unseen. They
don't know the complete unseen. They don't know
when you're going to die
until that becomes revealed to them just like
everybody else. There is some knowledge that is
only with Allah
So that being said,
why is this to come back to the
second meaning of this Dua?
The scholars say that this du'a has to
do with this aspect of your destiny is
being written for the next year. So you're
asking Allah for and
is
pardon and ease and facilitation.
So you're asking a lot to make your
life easy for the next year.
You're asking a lot to make my life
easy. Don't make my life difficult. Don't, you
know, send down calamities upon me. Don't destroy
my deen in the next year. I'm asking
you for pardon. I'm asking you for ease.
I'm asking you for facilitation.
K? So these are two aspects
of this beautiful dua. And notice
how this dua is an amazing dua. It
begins with
Oh, Allah and it's beginning with Allah names,
and that's one of the the etiquettes of
du'a.
You love the pardon.
Again, you're you're making to Allah
You're seeking nearness to Allah. You're seeking acceptance
from Allah
by the fact that he is forgiving and
the fact that he loves to forgive. So
then you ask him, so forgive me. So
pardon me.
So,
the last thing that I'll mention is that
this du'a is a really, really, really short
du'a, and it's important that you not only
memorize it, but you teach it to others.
Shirkad Rzakal Badr,
He's a great scholar in Medina. He tells
a story, and he says that one night
and he's he's the son of a scholar
and the grandson of a scholar. He's got
he's from a family of scholars. And so
he says one night, he was walking with
his father and his grandfather, and they're walking
to the Haram in the last 10 nights
of Ramadan. This was some year.
And he says, as he was walking, there
was a cart that was pulled up, and
it was of young men, and they were
blasting music.
And so he said, I walked up to
them.
And I said to them, guys, if you're
not gonna go to the Masjid, if you're
not gonna participate in all of the that's
happening right now, could you at least turn
off the music? Like, at least, you know,
if you're not gonna participate in the worship,
at least don't be a distraction.
And so they turned off the music. And
then he said to them,
who of you
knows
this?
He
said they didn't know it, so then I
taught it to them, and then I re
I had them repeat it after me, and
And then they repeated after me. And then
I corrected them. And then they and and
then we kept repeating it until they learned
to say it. And I said to them,
at least at the very least, make this
du'a a lot tonight. I just taught you
this du'a. Make this du'a a lot tonight.
You're not going to the Masjid. You're not
doing all of that, but at least between
you and Allah, make this du'a a lot.
He said years went by. He said, I
completely forgot about that incident. Years went by
5 or 6 years, and I had traveled
to a an event
somewhere in the country. And when I got
there, he said,
I was approached after the event, after this
lecture, by a young man, and the young
man looked to be like a a very
righteous young man, wonderful, you know, young person.
And he said to him, you know, Sheikh,
do you remember me? And he said,
nope. He said, do you remember? And he
he reminded me of the incident.
And I said, yes. And he said, you
know, I was there, and I had made
that dua a lot that night, and Allah
changed my heart.
And in fact, a lot of the things
that I used to be attracted to as
far as haram, Allah
completely removed it from my heart and Allah,
you know, guided me. And so thank you
for that moment. And so the sheikh was
saying
that it's really, really important
that at the very least that you continue
to teach people and that you share this
drought with others. You know, your family members,
maybe they're not gonna be able to come
to Taraweeh. Maybe you have some friends who
are, you know, barely practicing
or not practicing at all. Maybe they're, you
know you're never gonna imagine that they're coming
to Tarawi, at least, the very least that
we can do. Even when we go to
the Masjid, you might find kids playing and
just completely distracted. They're not, you know, they're
they're more for the social aspect of the
Masjid on the 27th night than they are.
That you walk up to them and you
say, hey. Do you know this du'a? Say
this du'a tonight. Write it down for them.
Have them repeat it. Like that, engaging people.
You don't know.
You might be opening up a door of
incredible goodness for them.
Absolutely. May
Allah accept from us all. It is a
a beautiful opportunity, and these are called the
nafaha. These are the cool breezes. You know?
It is a cool breeze that comes in
the heat. You know? And it's like when
you're walking by, it's like when you're walking
by a a store
on a summer night and the door is
open and the AC is blasting and you
just catch that cool breeze for a second.
That's what these are. That's what these seasons
are of Ramadan. And so taking advantage of
it and encouraging others to take advantage of
it as well.
Ilham says, if that was the one dua
to ever make during the night, will it
be permissible? Yes. It'll be permissible, but it's
not ideal. You wanna make more dua'at than
that.
There's a lot of things that a person
can do, as far as making dua'at. But
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Now how do we make our dua accepted
on?
What are some of the things that we
can do?
Really, you just wanna look at the etiquettes
of dua. You wanna look at the etiquettes
of du'a, and you wanna remove the impediments.
You want to remove the impediments for du'a
being accepted,
and you want to look at
the etiquettes of du'a. So I wanna look
at what are the things that increase my
chances, and I wanna remove the things that
would stop or lower my chances. And that's
it. And if I do that, inshallah, to
add my dua will be accepted.
So what are some of the things that
impede? Let's start with that.
And I'll tell you, this is one that
a lot of people don't pay attention to,
a lot of people,
and that is our
sins, our sins.
You know, it's amazing how much you hear
people say, I made dua, and it I
don't know why it was
it wasn't it it hasn't manifested yet. I
made du'a, and I don't know why it
hasn't manifested.
I made this du'a, and I don't know
why Allah
hasn't responded.
And one of the major reasons
of delay is because of our sins.
It's a famous hadith. Rasulullah
says in the hadith of Abu Hurayra that's
reported in Muslim,
he gives the example of a man who's
been traveling for a long time.
Dusty and disheveled
raising his hands towards the sky saying,
My lord. My lord.
And his food was haram,
and his drink was haram, and his nourishment
was haram. And the prophet ends by saying,
how is that du'a supposed to be accepted?
You know, that man,
in that journey,
his du'a may not have been accepted, and
he's raising his hands. And he might have
gotten safely back home and said, SubhanAllah,
I'm having a faith crisis
because I was stranded
in the middle of the desert,
and I was crying to Allah with a
greater sincerity than I ever had. And I
was so broken, and I was so scared,
and I was raising my hands to Allah,
and he didn't answer me. Don't tell me
that God exists.
But yet the promise
himself is telling us why that du'a
was very, very, very distant from being accepted.
He said his food was haram, and his
drink was haram, and his nourishment was haram.
And so we have to look and say,
hold on. I need to clean up my
my spiritual nourishment.
I need to look and make sure, am
I committing sins that might be impeding my
drought?
Am I you know, what what am I
doing on a regular basis, or what am
I not doing on a regular basis? You
know, people, they think of sins just as
doing the haram.
But sometimes, a sin can easily,
in fact, even greater be not doing the
obligations.
I don't I'm a male who's a resident,
and I don't go to Jira. I've been
beefing with my mom for the past 3
years, and I haven't talked to her. Well,
how do you expect for your dua to
be accepted and you're breaking one of the
greatest ties of kinship, if not the greatest,
when Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, says that I
have
named Var Rahim,
the womb, after my name, Rahman. And I
have said that whoever connects its ties that
are born out of the womb, I e
relatives, I will connect them, and whoever breaks
them off, I will break them.
I'm drowning in interest.
Credit cards, this and loans, that, and and
I'm drowning in it. And I'm raising my
hands and I'm saying, I don't understand why
Allah
hasn't answered my dua. What do you mean?
Allah declared war
against the people of interest in the Quran.
You're expecting your your dua to be accepted?
Right? So we have to have an honest
conversation with ourselves and say, listen. What am
I doing, or am I doing anything that
might be impeding my dua? And if I
am, don't lose heart because it's the 27th
night, and you're like, okay. Then I guess
I shouldn't even make dua. No. No. No.
The way that you meet it then is
by
initiating Tawba.
I initiate Tawba, and then Tawba becomes that
great act
of erasive sins. And so on on this
night and tomorrow night and the night after,
I am going to repent to Allah
from everything
that I might have fallen in before, and
I'm going to ask Allah by this beautiful
dua.
I'm
going to ask Allah to forgive me, and
I'm going to beg Allah
to change my condition and change my heart
because Allah
is the controller of hearts and Allah is
the controller of resources. So between controlling my
heart and my attachment to the sin or
controlling
my resources and what's calling me causing me
to fall into the sin, Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala can rectify my affairs in a moment.
Let me beg
Allah to do that.
Let me beg Allah
to do that.
So
number 1, we said, is
the,
impediment of our sins. Right? And that becomes
rectified by Tawba.
There's a a lot of other impediments
that
could invoke a person's or cause a person's
dot to not be accepted. Of them is
that a person,
asked Allah for that, which is Haram. The
prophet
said that that that does not answered.
A dua that is Haram or,
that which is entails the breaking of the
tides of kinship. Another is what's called
a that a person is asking for things
that normally don't happen, like, for example, asking
a person,
or a person asking Allah
to bring, you know, this person back to
life. That's not going to happen. You know,
these types of miraculous experiences.
So
these types of things become impediments. Then what
are the etiquettes of dua?
What are the etiquettes of dua?
Let's see here.
And then
we'll wrap up, and then we'll have the
fun part of the session, Insha'Allah.
So,
224,000.
Did we just jump $4,000,
or did we just jump $300?
Hold on one second. I need to be
fed
these donations so I can make dot for
these people.
I need to be fed
these donations. Hold on one second.
Yeah.
So whoever just donated, Habsa says 303100k.
We just got a 300k donation.
I'm
we didn't get 300 k. We probably got
$300. But may Allah
donate, may Allah
bless our brother and sister who donated. May
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala reward them with much
more than what they have given, and may
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala allow them to experience
the shade of Allah on the day where
there is no shade except for his shade.
Say ameen. Okay? We're gonna get the ameen's
going. That's what makes these types of events
fun. Bismillah.
So
we're at 224.
Let's make it a goal of hitting 250
before we call it a night, Insha'Allah,
or hit 250. I think that's a solid
goal. 25 k.
So that being said
and just by guy by the way, if
anybody makes a donation, you can private message
me if you want me to make dua
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a PayPal link. And Even if there isn't
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their should,
okay. So,
may
Allah reward
Aziz. May Allah
bless them and grant them a tomorrow that
is always better than there today and resurrect
them with the and the martyrs and the
righteous and the truthful, and what excellent companions
are those.
So that being said,
what are some of the etiquettes of Dua?
The etiquettes of Dua are great.
The etiquettes of Dua are great.
But even before the etiquettes of du'a, sorry,
there's one last thing that I wanted to
mention, which is another great act of worship
that you can offer in these last 10
nights as you are seeking Allah
forgiveness.
For the people who have been taking the
names of Allah with me
through YouTube,
you all know by now that Allah
loves
for his characteristics to be manifested in human
form.
And so Allah is knowledgeable. He loves the
knowledgeable. Allah is strong. He loves the strong.
Allah
is generous. He loves the generous like that.
Right?
So then the question is,
when you are invoking Allah
forgiveness,
what do you think Allah would love from
you?
Allah would love
for you to forgive others.
Absolutely.
Because it doesn't make sense
that I beg Allah
and say, oh, Allah, please forgive me for
my sins.
Meanwhile, I have my cousin who I'm not
speaking to, and I haven't forgiven. I have
my coworker, who I haven't forgiven. I have
my spouse that I haven't forgiven. I have
this person and that person. I'm not forgiving
anybody, but, oh, Allah, please forgive me.
Doesn't work like that.
Abu Bakr
had an injury
that is
the worst injury that an Arab man could
have ever had in that society. And until
now, it's one of the worst injuries that
any man could have, and that is an
accusation against the honor of your family.
And that
accusation against Aisha, that slander
that his family experienced
was,
it was it was spread by the,
but it was also spread by some of
the believers.
And of those who
spread it was Mistal, who was a relative
of Abu Bakr and Abu Bakr, and he
used to spend money on him. He used
to support him financially. And so could you
imagine somebody who you're supporting turn around and
slander your family?
And so when Aisha
had the verses in sultan Nur declared her
innocence,
Abu Bakr
who said, miss Tal, we're done.
Never ever ever show up. I never wanna
see you. I never want any.
Don't come asking me for any help.
That's why anyone anyone of us would have
done that. Exactly that. And, yeah, Allah
says,
Allah says, do not let the people of
wealth, you know,
turn around and not support,
you know, the poor and those who are
in need. He said, let them overlook
and let them, you know, yes,
Let them let them, you know, kind of
look away, overlook, basically.
Would you not like for Allah
would you not love for Allah to forgive
you?
Like, forgive. Don't you want Allah to forgive
you?
And so he said,
Abu immediately, he said, yes. I would love
for Allah to forgive me. And so he
put him back on his financial support again.
Yahya. I remember one time, a long time
ago, hearing him say this, that you simply
just ask yourself the question. If by forgiving
this person,
Allah would forgive me, would I forgive them?
If by forgiving this person, Allah would forgive
me, would I forgive them?
Okay. I have an amazing gem about this
issue of forgiveness,
but I'm gonna need to see this donation
move up. We're at we're at
225.
If we get up to 2,000
and,
let's say, 300,
225300,
I'm gonna share with you guys
an amazing gem
about forgiveness. It's gonna be one that you're
gonna keep in your pocket, and you're gonna
go and you're gonna flex it on other
people, and you're gonna people are gonna say,
where'd you learn that? And you're gonna say
it on Malat 360, and they're gonna say,
what's on Malat 316? You're gonna say, don't
worry about it. It's gonna go like that.
But it's an amazing,
amazing one. Okay? And I'll even give you
the senate. I'll give you the person that
I heard it from and everything. I'm not
gonna pretend like I came up with it,
because I didn't come up with it. It's
an amazing one, though. It's about forgiveness, and
it's about a question that people always ask
about forgiveness, which is, what if I can't
forgive somebody?
That's the first question people ask. They say,
what if I can't forgive them, though? You're
telling me to forgive and Allah will forgive
you, but what if this person did me
such injury
that I can't forgive them? What do you
do?
See?
Hard to forgive. See? You guys are telling
me the same thing. I've heard this all
before. And I'm telling you, this is one
of the best answers I have heard, and
I'm waiting
for us to cross the 300,
$300,
threshold so that I can answer it for
you Insha Allah Ta'ala. And I'm telling you,
it's gonna be
it's gonna be good. At least I hope
so. I mean, I loved it.
Okay. So that being said,
yeah, Ghazala is saying quick, everybody, insha Allah
Ta'ala soon. Know, you need to message your
family and your friends, and you need to
tell them, like, guys, you know, we're trying
to we're being held hostage over here.
So that being said, let's talk about some
of the etiquettes of dua, and then I'm
gonna come back to this forgiveness when we
cross the threshold, inshallah.
The etiquettes of du'a are many.
The etiquettes of du'a are many. Of them
is that you make sure that you that
you make wudu.
Of them is that you raise your hands
while you're making dua, hadith of Sanman al
Farisi. He said that Allah
is shy and perfect, and he is too
shy that if you raise your hands up,
that he allows for those hands to go
back empty and disheveled,
empty and humiliated.
So that's one of the etiquettes of dua
as well. Of the etiquettes of dua is
that
you forgive others
before you ask Allah
for forgiveness. Of the etiquettes of Dua is
that you give in charity
or that you do any act of goodness,
whether it's charity or whether it's salah or
whether it's fasting and you're breaking your fast.
Right? So before or at the completion of
any act of goodness, it is legislative for
you to make a du'a because this is
an act of goodness now that you're offering
to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
K?
Let's see here.
Oh, we crossed the threshold quickly,
but nobody told me. I had to refresh
myself.
Okay. So we're at 4:88. So now
this issue
of this issue of
forgiveness.
I got asked this question, and I didn't
know how to answer it, to be honest.
I didn't have a good answer.
A person who's been really, really harmed by
somebody,
they might not have the capacity to forgive.
So what do you do then? You just
tell them, no. No. You need to just
forgive them for the sake of Allah. I
can't forgive them.
So
I asked Sheikh Yasir Fazakha. And Sheikh Yasir
Fazakha, we we locally, we call him the
goat. Sheikh Yasif Azaka. Habibullah.
He is
a a sheikh and a and a psychologist,
and he's, you know, one of our mashaikh,
and he's always very generous with his answers.
But he's got that pairing, right, of of
sheikh and psychologists together. So I really wanted
to hear his perspective.
And so he said to me, he said
he said,
number 1,
a person
it's possible that a person just can't forgive
somebody.
That is absolutely possible.
Person might have been done such injury that
they can't forgive this person.
So what will happen to that person on
the day of judgment?
Allah
says, and this is where the Quranic wording
is so amazing. So for those of you
who love Quranic wording and grammar and all
that type of stuff,
came early.
Allah
says,
Allah says,
we have seized.
Nazar means to take by force.
It is to seize by force.
Allah uses that word when he talks about
seizing.
Because people hold on to power.
And so Allah says Allah rips it away.
That's a good word. Allah rips it away
from them.
And, similarly, Allah
on the day of judgment, there are going
to be some people who will have anger
and hatred
that is unresolved.
It might be to another Muslim. How is
that going to be removed? Allah says,
And we have ripped away
what is in their hearts
of
hatred. They will be brothers
upon cushions facing one another. And so
some people just
they do not have the capacity
to forgive and remove that anger, that remove
that hatred. So So what will Allah do?
On the day of judgment, Allah
will rip it out of their hearts
before entering them into Jannah.
And, also,
beautiful is
that their
having
it does not stop them from entering into
Jannah.
Don't don't, you know, don't,
don't burden me with this idea that you
have to forgive them. Otherwise, you won't enter
into jannah. No. No. These people did not
have the capacity to forgive.
Allah accepted that from them because Allah knew
their state. Allah knew their capacity. Allah will
rip it out of their hearts on the
day of judgment, but it will not stop
either of them from entering into paradise.
Okay?
SMS says, will ripping be painful? No. It
won't be painful.
I just I really love that answer, and
I wanted to share it with you guys.
Guys. We're so close to 226, so let's
just keep going
So we have a a great question, which
is what can a menstruating woman do on
Leila Tulkadr?
So I I just wanna end here with
this issue of du'a du'a, and then we'll
talk about just a baseline, and we'll try
to wrap up in the next 7 minutes
because,
we have a as well. She's gonna do
a tafsir of Surat Al Qadr as well.
So, du'a,
you wanna ask Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, you
wanna make your base that you ask Allah
for this issue of alafwar alafiya,
but also that you ask Allah
for yourself, that you ask Allah
for your family, that you ask Allah for
the at large,
and that you recognize that
every time you are making dua
for the believers,
that Allah
is giving you a reward for every believer
in existence.
Says
that whoever says
that whoever makes du'a for the believing men
and believing women, those who are alive and
those who are dead, they receive for every
believing man or woman a good deed. However
many millions or 100 of millions or billions
of believers
have existed and will exist, you are making
du'a for them. And in doing so, you're
receiving a reward for every single one of
them.
And one of the etiquettes that is
of the most important that a person has
in these last 10 nights is to be
certain,
is to have
is to be certain that Allah
is going to respond to you, that you
don't self sabotage
and think less of your circumstances and I'm
a sinner and this and this and this
and this.
Rather, you have good expectation of Allah
that Allah did not inspire you to make
dua to him except because he wanted to
give you. Umar ibn al Khattab famously said
I am not
concerned about the response, but I'm concerned about
whether I make a dua because I know
that the response is going to come with
it. And so being certain that Allah is
being is going to respond to you and
being happy that Allah
invited you to come and make dua to
him in these last 10 nights.
He says.
And he's one of the great scholars of
the 2nd generation. So right after the Sahaba,
he might have missed the Sahaba generation. It's
actually debated whether he was a companion, a
young companion or not, but he was right
there. So he said,
I I was thinking about all of the
pathways to goodness that exist,
and there are so many. There's charity and
there's salah and there's service to people and
there's smiles, and there's so many. Like, just
think of the amount of people who are
doing. How much how many pathways to good
there are?
So he said, and I realized
that all of them are in the hands
of Allah. All of these pathways to goodness
are in the hands of Allah. He grants
them to whoever he wishes.
And your only access
to them
is by asking Allah.
And so he said, so I concluded that
du'a is the pathway to all of the
pathways of good.
All of these pathways,
Allah is the one who grants them, whether
it's knowledge, whether it's service, whether it's worship,
whatever these pathways are.
And the only way you get access to
it, what is with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is by asking him. And so he said,
I concluded that du'a is the pathway to
all of the pathways of goodness. And so
in these last 10 days, make du'a and
make du'a passionately. Make du'a like your destiny
is going to change. Make du'a like Allah.
If he says yes, it doesn't matter who
says no. And if he says no, then
it doesn't matter who says yes.
Make du'a to Allah
like he's the king of kings. Make du'a
to
Allah like he's the controller of the universe.
Like du'a to Allah like if he says
b, it will be, and that is it.
And so let me sit down and let
me invoke Allah. Let me talk to Allah
and let me seek nearness to Allah. And
they're seeking nearness to Allah through many different
ways.
Of them is seeking nearness to Allah through
his names and attributes. And so if I'm
asking Allah for this, I use the name.
If I ask Allah for forgiveness
you're using these beautiful names and attributes. Another
means of seeking nearness is by seeking nearness
through your beautiful actions that you did. Oh,
Allah.
I once did this.
Oh, Allah. It's like that story of the
3 men who are trapped in a cave
that's reported by Muhari.
Each one of them said, oh, Allah. You
know, they were trapped in a cave by
a boulder. It fell and it sealed off
their exit. And each one of them made
dua to Allah
using an action that they hoped was the
most sincere.
And so one of them said, oh, Allah,
I I
I I kept my my food
aside
waiting for my parents to wake up because
his habit was every night he would feed
his parents before he would feed his own
family. And one night his parents had had
fallen asleep early before he came home, and
so he stayed up all night waiting for
them to naturally wake up so that he
could give them food.
And he said, oh, Allah, if this if
I did this only for your sake, then
move us out of the situation. And the
boulder moved a little bit. But the hadith
is beautiful, but the point is is what
are my secret good deeds that I hope
really that when push comes to shove, if
I'm in a crisis, I can offer this
to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and say, oh,
Allah, I hope I did this sincerely for
your sake. If I did, then please remove
this calamity from me or make this easy
for me or remove this harm.
And then number 3, and this is a
beautiful one, a beautiful one, and one that
is really relevant to all of us right
now, and that is to make dua through
your state,
to make dua through your state.
Zakari, alayhis
salam,
he says My bones are frail, You Rabbi.
My my hair is engulfed in white.
My wife is barren. He's describing to Allah
his state, I'm old and I'm weak and
I'm
and my wife, she can't have kids. Like,
this is this is my state. I'm broken,
oh, Allah. I'm so hurt. Gallop, I'm so
I'm so
I'm so confused.
I'm so scared.
You're looking and you're saying, oh, Allah,
50 some odd Muslim countries were so weak.
We're so broken. We're so
we're so disappointed.
We're so grieved. We're so guilty
that we haven't been able to assist our
brothers and sisters in Badza.
Oh, Allah, you see our state. You see
our weakness.
Forgive us. Have mercy on us. Give us
strength. Give us support.
You're asking Allah
by your state. Oh, Allah enrich us.
Oh, Allah grant us a wealth that will
make us not in need of anyone
other than you.
Asking Allah
by your state becomes a powerful tool
of you even just envisioning your own state
and connecting with what you're asking Allah
for.
They say time flies in Ramadan 360,
and it's already the top of the hour.
So Nina, says, she doesn't want me to
forget this question. What about if a woman
is on her message? What can she do
in? She can do everything other than salah.
She can read Quran. She can make dikid.
She can make dua. She can, she can
do all of these types of things.
And the last thing that I'll mention about
Laylatul Qadr, and this is really, really important,
and that is is that the greatest thing
that you can offer are the actions of
the heart, even on the little Qadr.
And Nemo says don't forget the charity. You
guys are insisting. I'm trying to, you know,
add
let me see here.
We're at 20,26,000.
So let's for for Nexmo, let's hit 20,27,000.
We're at 2026,000,
226,000.
For NEEMO, let's hit 2027,
and
will then,
all participate in Finding NEEMO.
So the question becomes,
the question becomes
this issue of, what would we say?
The importance of actions of the heart. Let
me pray 2 rakas, but let me pray
these 2 rakas as sincerely and as beautifully
as I can pray these 2 rakas.
Let me give in charity,
but let me try as best as I
can that when I give this charity, that
I am giving it with humility to Allah
and
gratitude to Allah. Oh, Allah, I am offering
this
$100 or $1,000 or $500, and I am
so grateful to you for the position that
you have put me in where I'm able
to provide for myself and I'm able to
provide for my family, where I'm able to
give charity, and I'm I'm not someone who
receives charity. I'm able to give zakat. I'm
not someone who receives zakat. I I I'm
in a place that is safe and secure,
and I have Internet connection, and I am
immersed in your blessings, Seattle.
I wish that I could give more. Right?
That feeling
becomes greater than the money that you're giving.
A person who who gives money, feeling that
type of gratitude to Allah and that type
of humility to Allah, and I wish, You
Rabb, that if I had more, I would
give more. And I I wish that I
like that person,
they their quality of worship is much higher
than a person who might give 10 times
that amount, but whatever. It's just a check
where they're doing it to show off or
whatever. Like, they're just not bothered. 2 people
can be praying in the Masjid together in
and one person has and and and humility
in front of Allah and
and another person is completely distracted. You know?
They're thinking about the basketball game that's happening
somewhere in the world, or they're thinking about
the the soccer game or the football game.
Right? And they can't wait to check the
score
after Tawaweh is over. The the difference between
these 2 and this person might even pray
more. They might stay at stand there longer
than the other person, but the quality is
what's different. And so on Leiratul Qadr, and
we're seeking these nights,
really, really, really try to focus on quality.
Try to make sure that even if I
don't have a lot of time and and,
again, it doesn't have to be a lot
of time, but I spend my time with
focus
and power
and connection to Allah
and certainty that Allah
is going to grant me.
And if a person does that
with sincerity,
they will be they'll experience the
was asked
by Juaimir, and this is you know, we
even sent out this quote in an email
today. So check out your email if you
haven't checked it out already, if you haven't
seen it.
But it's a beautiful quote. Abahaq was asking.
He's one of the great mufasirians, the students
of Ibn Abbas and many of the companions.
And so Abahaq was asked about, you know,
companions. And so AbbaHaq was asked
about 4 people, a nafasah, the woman who's
in postpartum bleeding
and the,
menstruating woman,
and the traveler, because there are people who
are traveling today. Right? They're they they don't
have the they just need to go somewhere.
They don't have, you know, the the luxury
of spending the night in Tajut and all
that type of stuff. And he says, and
there's some people who are sleeping.
Some people who are sleeping. He said, do
they all have a share of laylatul Qadr?
And Abu Bakr said to him, whoever has
accepted actions, they have a share of laylatul
Qadr.
You might have one person
who made wudu sincerely to Allah
They went to sleep. They prayed Isha, and
they went to sleep, and they're like, you
know, I I need to balance my work
life and all of this type of stuff,
and I need I need these 3 hours
of sleep. And in those 3 hours, they're
getting rewarded by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And
in fact, the
prophet said, if a person intends qiyam and
then sleeps through it and they miss it,
they get rewarded for that qiyam, and their
sleep is a sadaqah from Allah.
And you might have that I'm not encouraging
all of this, by the way. I'm saying
go hard in the last 10 nights. Trust
me. I'm saying that. But I'm also saying
that it's about at the end of the
day, it is about accepted actions. So may
Allah
accept from us all our actions, and may
Allah
make us of those who who experience
and who walk out of this blessed month
with our sins
forgiven. We hit 227,000
pretty fast.
Can we hit 228?
That is the question.
May Allah
bless our brother and sister who just donated
a lot.
May Allah You guys just jumped $1500.
May
Allah make this sadaqa a source of barakah
for you in your wealth and in your
health and in your family and in your
faith. May it be a source of protection
for you and tranquility and safety for you
and your family and all of us. May
Allah
grant you its shade on the day of
judgment,
and may Allah allow it to be a
protection for you in the grave
and gather you with the prophets and the
martyrs and the righteous and the truthful, and
what excellent companions are those.
Now you guys are just making us say,
you know what? Should we hit
228,000?
That's the question. You know? That is his
question. And, hopefully, before ends
today,
you know, hopefully, we hit that 250
But tonight is the night for all of
us to push ourselves. There's nobody who's ever
gone broke because of sadaqa. So make sure
that you give
And more importantly than you giving is that
you become a vehicle for other people to
give. This is the time for you to
bother your friends,
bother your family,
bother you know, put it on your social
media stories. I need to make sure to
put it on my social media story as
well.
And if you don't see it on my
story within the next hour, you can remind
me. But other than that, may Allah accept
from you all. Everybody.
Sheikh. That was the fastest hour I think
we've had so far in Ramadan 360. And
I don't think anybody wants it to end,
but we have to keep the program going.
So many great gems coming out of that.
Some some staff and they, you know, they've
they've learned things that they didn't even know
before. So
that's a testament because we see everything. We
hear everything. I was actually thinking I was
talking really slowly because,
I've been getting criticized for talking too fast.
So this was the super slow motion version.
I don't know what the fast version would
look like. I have we do have some
questions, Shaykh, but I don't think we have
time to take too many. So maybe we
can take just 1 or 2 if that's
possible. Sure. Okay. Real quick. I know there's
a there's a whole class with
coming up on this, but,
does giving charity often alter the daily writing
of our?
Absolutely. The prophet
says,
for example. The prophet
says, heal your sick
with charity.
So if charity becomes a means for the
healing of the sick, for example, that becomes
an alteration of a person's destiny.
If, charity becomes a reason for your to
be accepted, that becomes an alteration of your
destiny. Right? So these good deeds can alter
a person's destiny for sure.
Beautiful.
The next question I have and the final
one is, does one need to observe the
sunnah of sleeping to wake up for tahajjud,
or can one transition into tahajjud after 3
week without lying down? I don't know what
everybody's infatuation with this question is. I've gotten
this question so many times.
Let me break this down, guys. Taha Jut,
we actually have an entire book,
called the night prayer. It's in a mug
of publications. I'm sure somebody can share the
link for it. Free. You can
download it. But Pia Muled is the night
prayer. Any prayer that you pray at night
after isha is considered Pia Muled.
So that's what you care about. What you
care about is Qiamulay.
You can pray Qiamulay
at any time of the night. You come
home from the Masjid, you come you walk
straight into kiamule,
that's fine. Now, the Hajjud
is just a a type of kiamule. It's
a category of kiamule, which is that I
go to sleep and then I wake up.
The same qiyam that you would have prayed,
just by the fact that it's interrupted by
sleep, it now has a different name, a
different title, and that title is tahajjud.
Okay? So there's no difference as far as
reward to my knowledge. There's no, like, there's
no added virtue to sleeping and then waking
up to do it. If I'm up, I'm
up, and I just pray. No problem. But
if you go to sleep and then you
wake up, the term is different. It's called.
It's called the. That's it.
Sense, guys? Did that make sense?
If so, give me a thumbs up.
Okay. Excellent.
Awesome sauce. So with that, Sheikh Hamar, 26th
day, Ramadan
360, right above the 27th
night, and your final session,
to everything that you've done to contribute to
this community and to throughout the year. And
we're looking forward to if you enjoyed sessions
and his time with us, keep up with
him insha'Allah on social media and keep up
with Almaghrib because he's teaching a lot of
classes, a lot of programs and experiences insha'Allah
in the upcoming year. Any final words, Sheikh
Hamar, before we take give Sadatimea the last
of the time that she has left?
No.
Everybody.
Wax up from us and you.
That was
Ramadan 360, day number 26 on the topic
of generosity.
Wishshikh Ahmadashukri. Jazakam alaikar to you all for
your generosity, masha'Allah.
It's honestly, like, humbling to see how some
people give as much as they can. We
had an obeyed Allah,
ibn
Abbas that came in that made such a
difference. And then I see so many to
a 100 rupees here, $10 here, £5 here.
Everyone giving as much as they can and
so many familiar names. We couldn't even shout
them out because majority of you guys asked
us to be anonymous, but may Allah reward
you and may the may the angels speak
your names
in the heaven. With that said, we do
have the opportunity to now reflect inshallah before
we do so. Just a quick reminder, especially
as you're going into the last 10 night
sorry. The 27th night, we have the latest
name from Sheikh Hamara's YouTube series on the
names of Allah, which you guys have been
loving. Please continue supporting. It's on the topic
of on the name of Aliv Afour, which
is perfectly timely considering what we've been discussing
today as well. Alhamdulillah. And shout out to
everyone who's been contributing, who's been engaging, who's
been supporting even hyping each other up in
the chat as part of this community. Let's
keep that energy for our Quran reflect session
with Usadatemia Zubair. And, yes, I I did
get catch a stray there with,
oh, even the hosts are not consistent as
much as the Sadatemia is. Okay? Yes. Sadatemia
is on screen
26 days in a row, but we're all
here. We're still in the chat. We're
still in the sessions. Welcome back. How are
you doing today?
I'm feeling good, very,
refreshed after that session. Masha'Allah.
So so many good reminders
and so much to learn and, alhamdulillah, I
feel very motivated to,
you know, increase in Ibada and Dua especially
tonight. Inshallah.
Alright. Let's continue that motivation. Bismillah Assata will
jump into Quran. Let's begin. To
everyone.
So, we will,
go over the tafsir of Suratul Qadr very
briefly, and then, we'll take your reflections as
well based on the tafsir and also, of
course, what Sheikh Amar spoke about.
So
Allah says
I think I'm gonna share the
the screen quickly
so that you can see it on screen.
There we go.
Where is the share?
I am so sorry. Can you do that
for me, Hafsa? Like, I I can't, Insha'Allah.
Do you have the link ready or I
can pull it up? Pardon? Yeah. If if
you can share a screen with
with on
it. Alright. So Allah
says,
indeed, we have sent it down
in.
What is it that Allah
has sent down in Laylatul Qadr?
Of course, it is the Quran.
But I want you to think about how
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, you know, introduces this.
He says, indeed, we are the ones who
have sent it down.
There's, you know, a first plural,
sorry, 1st person,
plural over here. We, indeed, we are the
ones who sent it down. And this we
is of royalty
because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is mentioning
not only his great favor upon us,
the fact that he sent down the Quran
for our guidance,
but
he's also reminding us of who he is,
our lord,
the the the one like whom there is
no one else.
We are the ones who sent it down
in.
And this is something that you see in
the Quran.
You know, when a great favor of Allah
is mentioned, you see the the plural, the
the we of royalty.
Like, for example,
that, oh, prophet
indeed, we have gifted you with Al Qawthr.
And Allah
says,
indeed, we have sent it down in a
blessed night.
So, yes, the Quran was revealed in,
and that means that its revelation
began on.
And Laylatul Qadr is special,
because of
not only the revelation of the Quran,
but the fact that Laylat al Qadr is
in Ramadan. And in the month of Ramadan,
Allah sent
all revelation.
There's a hadith in which we learned that
the Surah of Ibrahim,
they were revealed in Ramadan.
Injeel was also revealed in Ramadan.
The zabur was also revealed in Ramadan,
and the Quran was also revealed in Ramadan.
And, of course, the tawrat before that was
also revealed in Ramadan.
So
imagine how special this month is out of
all of the months of the year, Allah
has chosen this time
to to send revelation, to send guidance for
mankind.
So Laylat al Qadr
is
is Laylat
is Laylat Mubaraka. Right? It is a blessed
night as Allah says in Surat Duhan that
Now why is
called?
Qadr.
And this is mainly because of two reasons.
Alright?
The first reason is that Qadr means the
worth or the value, the shutoff,
the the honor,
the the the nobility,
the greatness
of something.
So laylatul Qadr is a night that is
very
valuable, that is very precious, that is very
important, that is very,
you know, that that that is a very
high status
near Allah.
And this shows us that if we want
our
position to increase near Allah,
if we want to,
you know, in increase in our,
Yani, if we want to draw closer to
Allah, then we must make use of this
night.
And the prophet
said that whoever
whoever stands in prayer
on
with faith and also with expectation of reward
from Allah,
then then all of his past sins will
be forgiven.
So
because it's a night of,
honor.
And another reason is that means,
destiny or decree. And this is the time
when the angels are given the decrees for
the following year and they descend with it.
There's
another interpretation that Qadr actually means,
constriction.
Right? The the the when when when a
space becomes tight.
And
the reason why laylatul Qadr is called laylatul
Qadr is because
the
so many angels
descend in this night
that there it the that the that the
space, the air, the earth, it becomes
filled with the angels.
Subhanallah. And there's there's angels
everywhere
on this night.
So
Then
Allah asks us a question.
And what can make you know what is
the night of decree?
And a question like this is asked
to make us stop
and think
and realize the greatness of what Allah
is mentioning.
What could make you know what
is? Meaning you don't know what it is,
and there's nothing, nobody who could tell you
about it.
Only Allah subhanahu ta'ala can tell you about
it. And it is that laylatul Qadr
Do you know what
is? It is better than a 1000
months.
Meaning, in its
value, in its worth, it is greater
than a 1000 months, which means that if
you were to do something in this night,
it would count as
doing it for more than a 1000 months.
So imagine the reward
of the one who does a righteous action
on this night.
And imagine the sin of the one who
is sinful, who who does something sinful on
this night.
So this night is not like any other
night. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam mentioned
that
there has come to you Ramadan, which is
a blessed month.
And in it, Allah has a night which
is better than a 1000 months.
Whoever is deprived of its goodness is indeed
deprived.
The person who is left out of the
goodness, the blessings, the virtue, the benefits of
this month,
any of this night, the the one who
does not make use of this night, such
a person is truly deprived.
May Allah protect us. So this night should
not be taken lightly.
A person must strive to seek it, and
it is known that it is one of
the last 10 odd nights of Ramadan, and
Sheikh Armar mentioned in detail about, you know,
how it how it rotates and
and and and which night it could be.
But Aisha,
she said that the prophet
would exert himself in worship during the last
10 nights more than any other time of
the year.
He she
never saw him worshiping
so much
as as much he'd as much as he
did in these
last 10 nights of Ramadan.
So
and the fact that we have not been
informed about when exactly this night is, it
means that you have to,
seek it. Right? You have to strive to
worship Allah the best that you can in
every single one of these last 10 nights.
Now Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says over here
that
that it is better than a 1000 months.
Not equal.
Okay? Not equal, but better.
And
why is it that Allah
is telling us that or or why has
Allah
given us this this,
this huge gift
from himself that he has made this one
night,
better than a 1000 months?
This is purely Allah's Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala state
that he has given
certain times,
certain places,
certain actions,
and certain words,
more
virtue over others.
When you think about it, Mecca
is not like any other place in the
world.
Ramadan
is not like any other time of the
year. Laylatul Qadr is not like any other
night of the year.
Right? Out of the different things that you
say, you're saying
is not like you're
telling someone a a recipe, right, or or
giving them directions as to how how to
get somewhere.
Any there are words that Allah
has chosen over others,
actions that Allah has chosen over others,
places and times that Allah
has chosen over others. Why?
So that
we increase in our rewards.
This is
Allah's
favor on us. And he how merciful
is Allah?
Now one thing also I want you to
notice is that Allah
does not say,
And that
It's not the day time. It's the nighttime.
In every single one of these verses, it's
the night that is mentioned.
Right? And it is specified at the end
of the Surah
that hatamathullahi
Fajr, that that the night ends, that laylatul
Qadr ends
once Fajr comes in.
Right? So it's only the nighttime,
not the daytime. It's the nighttime.
And,
this is because any the the reason why
the night is mentioned is because it is
the night that is better than a 1000
months.
Now you'll notice in the Quran that,
that the night,
is it seems to be
better
near Allah than the daytime.
Okay?
The revelation of the Quran
began in the night, not in the daytime.
Was also in the night.
In the night.
Right? Voluntary prayer
is supposed to be 1 in the night.
In the night, pray the Hajjud.
In the night, Allah tells
us especially to do.
During the night, glorify
him. The recitation of the Quran
is better in the night
because Allah says,
And those who,
are up in the night for the sake
of Allah,
Right? They sleep very little
in the night.
Why? Because they're awake in the night worshiping
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So you see in in all of these
verses that,
the night seems to be better near Allah
compared to the daytime.
Why?
Because
the nighttime
is
for you with your Lord.
There are special
mercies of Allah that you receive
in the calmness of the night
that you cannot enjoy during the day when
you are surrounded by people and you are
distracted by, you know, so many things to
do and the noises and and so on
and so forth.
So make use of the night to connect
with your lord, to draw closer to your
lord.
Allah says, That in this night, the angels
descend,
meaning a lot of them descend, and they
descend in in a group after group.
And among the angels is also,
and this is Jibril.
So they all descend in this night.
And Allah
especially mentions
the fact that Jibril
descends on this night, even though he is
from the angels.
But he mentions him separately to make us
realize
not only Jibril's great position near Allah, but
also how special this night is. Because what
is Jibril's primary role? To bring revelation to
the prophets of Allah. But with the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
revelation came to an end.
Right?
So here,
the fact that Jibril
descends on this night shows us how special
this night is.
They descend by the permission of their lord.
Meaning
Allah allows them, and this is when they
descend.
Which means that the angels don't go anywhere
and don't do anything except by the permission
of Allah.
And they descend
for every matter.
And there's different interpretations of what
means,
but,
mainly,
in every matter that Allah
has decreed,
in a for the for the, following year.
Salamun hiya. This night is salaam.
And this means that when the angels,
any they descend and they witness
those who are in in in worship,
they say salaam to them.
And the angels
pray for those
who they find
worshiping Allah
in this night.
Allahu Akbar. And imagine you're standing in prayer
and the angels are coming and they see
you, and then they say,
Or
means that this night is salaam, meaning it
is filled with peace.
And peace doesn't mean physical security because it's
possible that a person dies, a person gets
injured.
But what it means is that there is
a special peace of heart, a calmness, a
sakinah, a tranquility
because of the presence of the angels. And
this is why Shaytan is not able to
do anything
on this night.
And what this means is that the person
who worships Allah on this night will find
peace and security with Allah.
Allah.
And this night is until
and he it it ends when or or
the the the salaam,
in it, the the special security and safety
that you are supposed to seek through it,
it ends when when once Fajr,
begins,
when when when dawn emerges.
And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam taught us
to ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for the
most important thing in this night, and that
is his forgiveness.
Because if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala forgives us,
then we have succeeded.
That, oh, Allah, indeed, you are ever forgiving.
You love to forgive, so please forgive me.
Alright. Let's hear from you.
Any reflections or,
yeah. Go ahead, Manas.
Go ahead.
I want to ask a clarifying
question.
You said
the angel Gabriel has a role to bring
revelation to prophet Muhammad
and yet he comes down on this night.
But, there's more to angel Gabriel than that
such as a messenger angel in general,
a communicator between Allah, God, Rab, Lord, and
humans such as the communicator between Mariam
and Allah and Musa and Allah. So I
I just wanted to have a clarifying question
because
sometimes I feel angel Gabriel's role
is not, heightened enough. Like, it's very simplified
when I hear it just as a communicator
between
one prophet and Allah in which there's not
really the case. He communicates between humans and
Allah like Maria.
Jazakila Khayram. So what I meant by the
prophet is not just the prophet sallallahu alayhi
wasallam.
It is all of the prophets of Allah.
Right? That was the primary,
not the only, the primary role of Jibreel
to,
bring revelation
to,
to the prophet of Allah.
Now to Mariam,
why was he sent again? To deliver
a message to her.
Alright?
So,
and and and this is why some scholars
actually
discussed
whether Mariam was a prophet or not
because,
Jibril would not come to other people.
Right? Any any,
his his primary role is to bring revelation.
Alright? However, we also learned that any, the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam prayed for Hassani bin
Thabit radiAllahu anhu that Allah.
That, oh, Allah, aid him with.
And he when he stands to recite his
poetry,
then aid him with.
So, yes, Angel Jibril's role is not limited
to bringing revelation,
but it is his his primary
primary role.
And, this is why,
the companions were very sad at the death
of the prophet
because they knew that now Jibreel is not
coming. Any any his his main
task
is complete.
Okay.
Next person.
Let's hear from Leila. Inshallah. Leila, go ahead.
Everybody.
On this special night, I just want to
share that,
I am actually living a dua that I
made
last Ramadan,
and it motivates me so much. And I
believe the biggest reason I joined this class
is because I have done something that hurt
somebody so bad, and I couldn't get over
it. And, I've been crying over it and
doing whatever I can. But now, again, this
night reminded me that to have Yagine
on Allah
that he's the change of hearts.
He, I mean, Allah
can do anything. Who am I challenging? Like
so please be motivated.
Every Dua is heard.
How beautiful
for sharing. Next, we'll take Afifa.
Afifa, go
right ahead.
I wanted to share, something about,
because we're talking about the Dua of Afu,
the Dua of Afu. And,
I wanted to share something,
from
the prayers of the pious, Omar Suleiman,
and that he shares this narration
of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And the prophet, peace and blessings of Allah
be upon him, heard a man while he
was saying, oh, Allah, indeed, I ask you
for patience.
He said, you have asked Allah for hardship,
instead ask him for ease.
And this
I wanted to share because,
that we might ask Allah for sabr
and not to ask that because it's asking
Allah for hardship,
but to ask Allah for Afiya.
To ask Allah for Afiya is the best
thing. I think there's another narration about that.
So be careful about what you ask Allah.
Right? Be be wise.
And,
also, there's one more thing that when you
ask
Allah for something specific of this world,
you must mention that that, you know, make
it good for me. Give grant it to
me if it's good for me
Or grant it to me and make it
good for me.
Inshallah.
Alright.
Hafsa, do we wanna take
any more, or we're good? I hope so.
More person before we close off. I think
I see a newer name, and then we'll
finish, Bismillah. Miraj, we'll take you. Go right
ahead, Bismillah.
I didn't
I hope that I am loud and clear,
audible.
Now you
are.
Yeah. Okay. And so, quick thing, you know,
I, you know, can think of. There's a
who mentioned that the wisdom behind not knowing
when the night of Qadr is,
probably one is laziness. I mean, people would
only worship in this night and not in
any of other nights of the year.
And the second one that they talk about
is the fact that we don't know the
exact night of other.
It actually removes us from some kind of
blame, you know, in comparison to if we
knew when the night of other other was.
And if we were lazy, then that would
bring us a lot more blame.
So
this is kind of to to make it
easy for us and and and, you know,
it it's also kind of a mercy. You
know? As Allah talks about this night as,
you know, night full of mercy, this is
also in in some way a kind of,
you know, showing mercy to us.
Yeah. So this is what, one of the
scholars mentioned
regarding this.
Okay.
May
Allah allow us all to
do things which are accepted by him.
Maybe do whatever we do with utmost sincerity
and your son,
and may all of our duas be accepted,
and may Allah,
reward every single one of you.
That was Usadatemia
Zubair on our 26th day. I think that
leaves us with only 4 days left
until the end of Ramadan 360. Throw it.
If my math is not off,
Everyone who's been part of this journey, I'm
just gonna please see where we're sitting at,
towards Sheikha Mark's goal because I know he's
still refreshing this page. I think we're I
think this is where we're at. So 22,
28.
We hit the 28 mark. We're so close
to 30 and to the ultimate goal of
250. Please continue to give generously. I know
some folks are waiting until the nighttime kicks
in in an hour or so. Just keep
the link open, share it with others so
that they can maximize it. And inshallah, we
hit that our goal. And this is not
just this is not the Al Maghribul, this
is our collective Ramadan 360 goal because you
guys have heard multiple times that that that
charity is giving giving somebody the access to
Islamic knowledge about their deen, including increasing Muslims
in confidence and the love for their deen,
the ability to understand it is one of
the most beautiful charities that you can give
the best you can give because every salah,
every dua, every effort, every worship, everything that
they do, after that, that it it becomes
part of your reward. So my like set
from you all, Jazak Malekar, for being so
amazing and such a beautiful community here. I
know it gets kind of bittersweet here, but
we we're gonna finish strong. Please join us
live for the remaining sessions inshallah. Tomorrow, we
have Sheikhamal Maki inshallah for our 27th day,
and and his topic is gonna be reflection
and contemplation. And I just wanna say one
final thing before we close off is especially
as you're making all these and you have
long list of friends and family members that
you're making the offer for tonight, please do
keep the staff members in
your There's a lot a long list of
folks
who to who work tirelessly around the clock,
who give up their evenings, their weekends, many
of them in a different time zones who
it's already the 27th night for them, and
they're still contributing their time and their energy
because they believe in their efforts. They wanna
do their work with Hassan, and they they
give up so much throughout the year. Many
of them, we found out just just today
that our finance head sister Amina, her father's
cancer has spread. So many of them are
struggling with so many things like that. Please
keep them keep their family members, keep their,
you know, households in near the eyes. May
Allah grant him Shafa and grant healing to
all of those the staff members who are
struggling, who are who are who are dealing
with ailments, and relieve them of all their
their struggles and their stresses. I mean, there's
so many names I can't do justice to
them. You know, there's there's brother Ibrahim, sister
Wajia, Wasif, Hamza, Imani, Ali, Nur, Omar, Imani.
I said Imani already. Shamsia, Radhuana, Bilal, brother
Khalid, Fasleen, in the chat, who you've seen
throughout the month, who's just joined us recently.
Such amazing folks, Sheikh Hamada Sharif, throughout having
the best people leading his organization and being
part of this Dawah, is I feel like
it's manifested
to the amazing work, people who do this
work. Of course, just sneak my name in
there If you're not sick of me just
yet, Insha'Allah,
and may Allah accept and keep the rest
of this community and the beautiful volunteers and
everyone. Just just make sure that you you
you take that off on your list tonight
as well. We look forward to continuing this
journey with you all tomorrow. May Allah accept
all of your and your efforts and your
intention and your desires to do good throughout
this month. And we'll see you guys tomorrow,
same time, same place for now. Take care.