Ammar Alshukry – Mindfulness in Prayer

Ammar Alshukry
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Mammallow introduces herself to the group and emphasizes the importance of mindfulness and mindfulness in prayer. She highlights the secret of Islam's subhanho data and the secret of Islam's "verbal" and the use of "has been spoken of" in the context of the song, which refers to the negative influence of the speaker's actions on others. The speakers stress the importance of physical preparation, avoiding distractions, and learning to be present during prayer. They stress the importance of avoiding distractions and addressing one's own values.

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			Fellas, if you guys have any questions, you can feel free to message us in the chat box.
		
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			I wanted to welcome everybody to gender circle event. Marshmallow. We're here with Chef Omar Al
sugery. He's here from River Oaks and Houston. Is that right?
		
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			My husband, he's about to come down. He's actually from Houston. So he's really happy that you're
not from Dallas like some other scholars.
		
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			So am I.
		
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			So Marshall, Asha Kumar here is going to talk to us about mindfulness and salah I won't take much
time. But chef if you want to briefly introduce yourself to our group, we'd appreciate it
		
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			Okay, um, the last last model sued that can you give me a an idea of how much time we're going for
tonight? What's the plan you take all the time you need right guys?
		
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			No, inshallah. Inshallah, whatever capacity that you'd like to extend the time to, that's okay. So
an hour is good around an hour, hopefully, around around an hour plus or minus, plus or minus, yeah,
that's the key here, because we'll see how things go. sha Allah. But yeah, my name is Amara Shoukry.
I grew up in Queens, New York. I'm from Sudan originally. And like many kids, whose parents were
very attached to their countries of origin, I bet I bounced around back and forth between New York
and Sudan. While growing up, and I recently moved to Houston, actually a couple of years ago. So
this is year number five for me in Houston, and I was in Clearlake. before and I now live in River
		
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			Oaks Islamic, where I am Imam at River Oaks Islamic center. And I'm an instructor for automotive
Institute. I was a student and a volunteer and I basically rose through the ranks with regards to
motive back in the days in New York as well. Hi, I'm Dylan, I have a degree from an Muller
Institute. And I am pleased to be with you all in gymnasts circle tonight. I'm very happy to be with
you guys. Is everybody here from Chicago. Is this a Chicago thing or? Most of us? Yeah, most of us
are from Chicago. This this our agenda circle. It's the sisterhood group in Chicago. It started off
at my house and then thanks to COVID we expanded and so no Mosh now mashallah we have people from
		
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			all over. So I see the chat box going off. There's lots of people from everywhere
		
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			mashallah, it's awesome.
		
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			I see Chicago, Texas, Dallas, Toronto, Canada, New Jersey, Minnesota, Mississippi, Buffalo
		
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			you got muted again, she
		
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			didn't think interestingly enough, Chicago.
		
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			When I when I went to Chicago for the first time, it was you know, when you there are some cities
that you have relationship with before you even go? It's just you have there's through what you've
seen and what you've heard and you have certain relationship with in Chicago was one of those cities
for me. As a kid I grew up watching family matters. It was set in Chicago.
		
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			You had the Chicago Bulls and their run through the 90s. And that was, you know, that was my
family's team. Even though we were in New York. I just kind of followed what my dad taught him a
whole lot like that. He liked the book. So we were a bulls family. But when I when I got to Chicago,
I got there in the wintertime my first time and I did not know cold until I came to Chicago like I
never felt before like my face was gonna fall off. And that's what happened in Chicago. Summertime.
In the summertime Chicago was as beautiful as anyplace in the country. Mashallah, that's a lot of
luck. But your pizza is not pizza. So I don't know what what that's about Chicago style. But I did
		
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			enjoy Italian beef. When I was introduced there to Italian beef. That was nice.
		
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			I wrote a poem it goes in a land where vivid stories are told of great fires, Great Lakes and
mobsters of old Al Capone was from Chicago right? Championships carried on the dreams of the bowl.
The first feelings nostalgia second feeling is cold.
		
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			It's been a long time since I wrote that poem after I
		
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			and you ask yourself where the weirdness will stop where gyros are called giros. That was really
strange to me. And so it is called Pop. Nonetheless, you'll participate beyond belief and destroying
deep dish pizzas and Italian beef. I didn't really enjoy deep dish pizzas that was just for the line
and for the audience, but
		
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			reminisce walking down streets no walk down streets reminiscing of Gotham, surrounded by the
majestic and awesome. As a snowflake descends down the Magnificent Mile, the ambience of Chicago you
can't help but love itself. Anyway, that was the Magnificent Mile. That's what it's called. Right?
		
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			Yeah, that was just
		
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			I think I remember writing that in 2008 2009. And, you know, the dark night, the dark night was
actually filmed in Chicago. Yeah, you remember that? That's why Gotham that live, right? Yeah, no,
it makes sense. I'm actually from St. Louis. But I moved here to Chicago during med school and
residency. And this is where I met my husband.
		
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			At the end of this class, we need to hear you do a poem about gender circle. So my gender circle,
yeah.
		
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			Depends on how my gender circle experience is going to be so.
		
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			Cool. So let's begin. Right? So at hamdulillah Salam, ala Rasulillah is like the same Seema
cathedra. So this session is on mindfulness and prayer. And I'm basing it on a book by a author
named Dr. Heidi abou shaggi. And Dr. Heidi Bucha. It I don't know if any of his books are
translated, but his his writing is just beautiful in so many spheres. So if you have access and can
Google up his name, and just find random books on whatever, he's always worth the read. And so this
book is called The Oh with Amara are suddenly praying for the first time praying for the first time.
And it's all about mindfulness in the prayer. And so I'll be I'll be snipping from that as well as
		
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			from ignore pain and claim also has a book called a short for Salah, which is mindfulness and
prayer. And I know that for sure, has been translated into a lot of things concentration and
		
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			humility and brokenness. But I do think the best translation for our purposes in the time that we're
living, where people will understand what you mean, is this term of mindfulness, and mindfulness in
the prayer starts,
		
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			from the very beginning,
		
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			just recognizing, if I can give an introduction that when you look at the prayer, the difference
between a prayer that is prayed perfectly right completely, versus a prayer that is rushed.
		
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			At the end of the day, if you were to count the minutes, between a prayer that is done with thought,
Nina, with tranquility, with serenity, where every station has given its right in the prayer, versus
a prayer that is just bagging it out without much benefit. It's maybe cumulatively two minutes or
three minutes is the difference. Right? It's just two minutes or three minutes.
		
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			But the difference is like between the heavens and the earth. And so the prophets of Allah, they
send them says the worst thief is the one who steals from his prayer, right? It's just a matter of
two minutes and three minutes, but yet for some reason, and a lot of that reason is che pod because
he doesn't want you to pray, because that is the thing that vexes him the most if we get to that
Inshallah, to Allah, but the difference between the two is just a matter of two, three minutes. And
so, you know, just in introducing this topic, the first thing that we have to do with regards to
mindfulness is just not rush. Take your time, take the extra two minutes, tranquility is the name of
		
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			the game and not just in the prayer, but before the prayer, and hence the Prophets the lightness and
I'm told us to not even rush with the prayer that when you walk to the prayer that you walk with a
tranquility with the serenity that you never run to catch the Salah in the messages that you walk to
it you keep your pace, you don't you don't increase your heart rate to catch the salah. No, come
with that tranquility come with that serenity. So that's the first thing so I want to just knock out
some some really important aspects right from the beginning. If anybody needs to log out in 10
minutes, they've already benefited in sha Allah. So number one is taking your time in the salon.
		
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			Number two is variety is key. Variety is key variety is the name of the game.
		
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			When we talk about mindfulness, presence of mind, I want to give you guys an example.
		
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			When you are driving home, when you're driving home from your workplace, or you're driving home from
your masjid, or you're driving home from your daily commute, whatever that daily commute is, and
you're talking to somebody on the phone and you're not thinking of the roads at all you are
completely oblivious to everything around you. But your normal exit that you take your normal exit
that you take is blocked and
		
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			in there, you look at your GPS, and there is some crazy detour that you have to take. And you're
talking to that person on the phone, and you have to get off three exits down now an area that you
never get out at, and is unfamiliar to you. What do you say to that person on the phone? That's my
question. What do you say to that person on the phone? When you now are getting off at an exit that
you're unfamiliar with? The answer is,
		
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			I'll call you back. Right? And what are you saying? You are saying, I'm going to call you back
because I am in unfamiliar territory that focuses that requires my focus. Me being in that
unfamiliar territory requires of me mindfulness. I can't be mindless in this moment. I can't be
robotic in this moment. And so one of the greatest tools that we have to create mindfulness in the
prayer is variety in the prayer variety. If every single Salah you walk in with the thick, same
three sword as the same tensile as or what have you, then yes, it's going to be very hard for your
Salah to not be robotic. But
		
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			we usually have some sore that we've memorized in our lives, that even though we know them, they're
just not heavy in our rotation. I'm talking about Solothurn Bina, right, I'm talking about solid,
maybe a thicker thought there are so that we are maybe how I seem sort of the Bacara I don't know,
everybody's got a different variety of sort of that they might have memorized. But it's not in their
rotation very heavily. And so these are the sorts that you want to dust off, or maybe as well learn
new swag, right, learn no sweat as well. You know, it's a really interesting dichotomy that you
either have people who have memorized Usamah, or some of yours, I'm more 10 sort of resemble. And
		
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			then you have a father of the Quran. And we don't have much variety in between the people who know
fiber does that and the people who know seven, and the people who know six, and the people who know
10, right, and that comes from a culture of just continuing to learn the Quran, but in any case,
varying and that's why in every station of the prayer, there is variety, every station, what do you
get up when you when you say, when you get up from record, what do you say there's a variety of
things for you to say, when you enter into the prayer, there's a variety of things that you can say,
when you are instituted there's I mean, the world is open and beyond it's while you're into you,
		
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			it's for you to converse with ALLAH SubhanA data. And so that variety should force inshallah data,
presence of mind and mindfulness. So that's number two. Number three, is recognizing that this is
going to take time.
		
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			This information that we're going to share, Inshallah, tada take your time with it. It's a roadmap.
It's not just about the destination. It's not just about the destination, but it is about the
journey. And that's why you find so many of the sellers, when they talk about the sweetness of
prayer, they'll say I struggled with the prayer for 10 years. Pamela, I struggled with it for 10
years, or 20 years. And then I tasted it sweetness after 20 years. And so recognizing that there is
beauty in the struggle, not being disillusioned, not giving up, not losing faith, not losing heart,
that Shahla My goal is to continue to focus on my prayer, to be concerned about my prayer, to try to
		
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			perfect my prayer as best as I can.
		
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			That's number three, number four is to recognize the whole short is like Iman, for sure, this
mindfulness, it goes up and it goes down. It doesn't say stagnant. And so if you're not working on
raising it, and if it isn't increasing, then it's decreasing.
		
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			So I want to make sure that there's something that I'm always going to be working on the province of
allied ism said the first thing that will be lost from this ummah is mindfulness in the prayer,
right. 1400 years ago, mindfulness of the prayer has been a struggle with the Ummah ever since. And
every generation, it gets more challenging, and it gets more difficult. And so we want to be
sensitive, and we want to guard this because it is incredibly valuable, because we know and Allah
says those believers are successful. Who are they? Those who have in their salon? Oh, sure. Those
who have mindfulness in the prayer, right, so those who guard their prayers and are present in their
		
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			prayers. Number five, or was this number four? Number four? It No, this is number five, emptying
your heart before the prayer. This is a protip. emptying your heart before the prayer. And what I
mean by emptying your heart is as the great companion of the Prophet some of it is and then he said,
Michelle, Carla, Julie, and yep, that'd be Hagerty, Kabbalah the holy Salah yet fulfilled Salah are
called boo Farah, he said it is from the under it is from the understanding of a person the wisdom
of a person, the fifth type of person, that they resolve any issues they have before entering into
the prayer so that when they enter their heart is unoccupied.
		
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			so that when you enter into the prayer, you know what if there's something if there's something on
the stove real quick that I can resolve, before jumping into a lot of the hot now and I shouldn't be
jumping into a lot of blood in the first place, but the notion of if there's something that I need
to get done, then let me get done with it now, and hence, I mean, and this this manifests in a lot
of different ways, this notion of let me resolve whatever it is that I want so that when I enter
into the prayer, I enter in with a mind that is unoccupied. So whether it's food the Prophet saw the
light is and I'm says that when I shot is presented, which is dinner, and the Russia is is is is, is
		
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			present the time for Asia, then eat first don't sit there smelling the food and being hungry and all
of that and, and try to have a focus prayer note, take your time, eat, enjoy, get satisfied. And
then enter into Salah so that your mind is focused. The province of allied SNM says do not pray
while you are repelling the two filthy things both which is basically urine and defecation. And so
you are avoiding you don't pray while you need to use the bathroom. Right? I'm trying to keep my
will do so let me pray right now. No, the Prophet sallallaahu Selim says don't do that. Use the
bathroom, renew your role and then come so that you have a heart that is gathered and a mind that is
		
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			unoccupied. Okay.
		
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			And of course it comes to any other issue as well. Anything else that you are preoccupied with that
you resolve it before entering into the prayer?
		
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			The importance of the prayer Imam Matisse sets in Mr. Kudrow home minute Islam, Allah did help the
Himalayas Salah their portion, the portion of people from Islam is proportionate to their portion of
the prayer and their Raha their hope in Islam is in accordance to their hope or their desire for
Islam is in accordance to their desire of the prayer, their love of the prayer.
		
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			Fight if nutsack says So recognize yourself and know yourself. Why is that until calla Catherine
Islamia InDeck. And he says and beware of meeting Allah subhanaw taala with no share of Islam with
you or no, no, no respect for Islam or no love of Islam with you. Because your share of Islam, the
share of Islam in your heart is in accordance to the share of the prayer in your heart. The share of
Islam in your heart is in your share is in the share of the prayer in your heart. And so recognizing
the importance of this prayer, that is not a burden rather it is something that Allah Subhana Allah
Allah gifted us the ability to communicate with him, the prophets Allah lioness and ascending to the
		
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			heavens, to receive this command of the Salah. How many a prayer did we pray distracted? How many a
prayer in our lifetimes did we lose to Bliss? How many battles have we lost? And so the secret of
the prayer is in turning towards Allah subhanho data with your entire being your body and mind, your
body and, and just like it's not permissible to turn your body away from the table endless Allah, if
you turn your body away from the table in the Salah, then an obligatory prayer, then your Salah is
negated, it's canceled it's voided. And if a person if that's the case, with regards to a person
turning their body away from the fibula, what do you think about the person who turns their hearts
		
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			away from Allah subhanho data and the prayer. And this, this presenting yourself to ALLAH SubhanA
data happens in a number of ways. Number one is in protecting yourself from all of the whispering
and the distractions that take away from the reward of the prayer, right? Having complete focus that
I'm not engaging in anything else when it comes to the prayer. And you know, one time I was having
this discussion about mindfulness,
		
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			and a convert brother, he comes up to me and this brother, he he says to me, he says, Is there
something wrong with my prayer? And I said, What do you mean? And he goes, you know, you're talking
about being distracted and all of this type of stuff and fighting it. And I said, Yeah. He said,
Well, I don't experience any of that.
		
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			He was like, when I enter into the prayer,
		
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			and everything disappears.
		
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			And is just me and Allah subhana wa Tada. And he was like, I get goosebumps when the time of prayer
comes. I don't even have to check my event app or anything like that. He said, I get goosebumps, my
body responds to the time of prayer and he said, when I'm outside of the prayer, I feel less alive.
I feel like I am most alive when I enter into the Salah, and everything else
		
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			is just like a shadow of life. And he's like, I can't wait for every so long. I can't wait. It.
There's nothing that I enjoy in this world more. So what's wrong with my prayer? I'm like, Dude,
there's no, there's, there's nothing wrong with your prayer, okay? I read about your prayer and
books, okay? I read about your prayer books, there's problem with our prayers. That's what we're
trying to work on, we're trying to get like you. But that is a bounty of Allah subhana data he gives
him whatever he wishes, some of us are gonna have to work for it. Some people Allah subhana data
gifts it to, in any case,
		
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			protecting yourself from all of the whispering and distractions that take away from the reward of
the prayer, turning to Allah subhana data number two, turning to Allah by exalting him and being in
awe of him worshipping a lot as if you see him
		
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			that when I use this word a lot, I love it very much that you are entering into an audience with
Allah Subhana Allah, you're entering into an audience with the King of kings, and it's just you and
it's just him. And so when you enter into the Saba that you are in awe of him, you are worshiping
Allah as if you see him. And then number three, that you're turning to Allah by contemplating the
meanings of that which is said in prayer, and pondering over them deeply. Thinking about the
meanings of prayer, and the meanings of prayer. I have two resources that I want you to look over.
Number one is, it's on YouTube. It's a course called sweetness of Salah by Dr. Mohan Abdulaziz Dr.
		
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			Mohan Abdulaziz he has a course called The sweetness of Salah and you can find that on YouTube. And
it is unbelievable. It's maybe seven or eight years old that recording is
		
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			but number two we have another series which is on a Muslim supporter which is called Faith
essentials the online faith essentials the online as you hear my my baby screaming in the
background, but that's okay. We're in quarantine. We're all locked up together.
		
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			She's just trying to give me her feedback as well. But
		
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			meanings of prayer, meanings of prayer by Tamia Zubair, and this is on faith essentials dot online
to me as were started to me as the daughter of Dr. Farhat Hashmi, right, a world renowned scholar,
may Allah preserve them both. And her course is called meanings of parents on faith essentials
online, it goes through all of the meanings of the prayer as well, right? But here we're talking
about the meanings of not just what is said in the prayer, because we're gonna go over some of those
inshallah. But even the meanings of the Quran itself, right, and this is a lifelong journey for all
of us, that when you are reading the book of Allah subhanaw taala, that you are understanding what
		
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			is being said, and what is being communicated to you now. We're starting the prayer.
		
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			How do we start the prayer? Well, even before we start, we gotta prepare for it. And how do we
prepare for it, we'll,
		
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			we'll do and we'll Lou has two dimensions, it has an inner dimension, and it has an outer dimension.
The outer, of course, is purification for the body and preparation for the limbs for acts of
worship. And like your Mama loves it, he said that when you are making a will, that you recognize
that sins are falling with every drop of water. And so when I'm washing my hands, the sins that I've
committed with my hands are dropping. And when I'm rinsing my mouth, the sins that I have spoken,
are falling out of me. And when I'm washing my face, the sins that I've committed with my eyes, and
when I'm coming to my arms and my head, when I'm washing my feet, right, you're just imagining sins
		
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			falling off of your body through this, this physical cleansing. The inner is that so that's the
outer is purification for the body, and preparing the limbs for the acts of worship and then you
have the inner which is purifying the heart from the contamination of sins and cleansing it with
repentance. And so Allah Subhana Allah appears the two together the physical purification, and the
inner purification that happens when when Allah Subhana Allah says, in Allah you have buta webbing,
where you're able multiple hearing ALLAH SubhanA. Allah loves those who repent, and he loves those
who purify themselves. And so I have the physical purification happening and I have the inner
		
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			purification happening by seeking forgiveness from Allah subhanaw taala and repenting to Allah and
Allah Subhana Allah loves those who purify and those who repent. And that isn't sort of Al Baqarah
verse two to two so the numbers two to two.
		
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			And the prophets that ally Dave's and then he told us he says mommy come in. There is no one yet
thought but there is no one who makes will do and so they perfect their will do and then when they
perfect their will do they say a shadow Allah Allah illallah wa had the whole actually gonna wash I
don't know Mohammed Abdullah Surah 40 hatherleigh Who avoidable gender samanya Yat Holdeman au
Harsha in Muslim, he says except that all of the gates of paradise are open
		
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			and eight gates of paradise are open, they will enter from wherever they wish, from whichever one
they wish. And so when you make will do remember this nicotinic because all of the gates of paradise
will be opened for you. And then we enter into facing the Qibla.
		
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			You face the Qibla. And in that moment where you are facing in the Tabler, you raise your hands in
emotion, as if you are casting the world behind your shoulders.
		
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			What am I throwing behind, I'm throwing behind me that paper that's due. I'm throwing behind me
where I parked my car, I'm throwing behind me every bill, I'm throwing behind every argument that I
had, right? Because I recognize that Shavon is going to throw all of these at me. As soon as I enter
into the bar, I'm taking all of this and I'm throwing it up. I'm throwing all of this out.
		
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			shaytaan is so aggressive as soon as you enter into the prayer. That's why we've all experienced
this when you entered the Salah, all of a sudden you start remembering things that you hadn't
thought of all day. All day, you haven't thought about that paper that's due two weeks ago. And then
you're like, Man, the professor mentioned the quizzes tomorrow, all of a sudden you remember the
quizzes tomorrow? You had forgotten about it for two weeks. Right? And that's why Hanifa from his
his genius, may Allah have mercy on him. Imam, Abu Hanifa Imam came to him and he said, You know, I
had I had buried some money of mine. And I have no idea where I buried it. I have no idea. And so
		
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			remember, Honeyville told him he said, Go and pray to rock house.
		
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			And so the man went to pray to rock us. And he started his salah. And before he even went to the
core, do you remember where the money was? And he just exited the prayer. It's like a really simple
guy. He just exited that he didn't even finish the prayer. And then he went and he found the money
exactly where and he went to the mambo Khalifa and told him and he said a Supanova He said, As soon
as I enter into the bear, I remember where it was, and Abu Hanifa Hamdulillah. He said, I did not
think that che thought would leave you alone to pray to look as to Allah soprano that
		
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			just took us he's like, I don't think Shavon would have let you do that. Right. And so we recognize
that when you enter into this prayer, I am casting behind everything of any importance or any
significance and a lot of times of no significance. Whatever the entire world I'm throwing it behind
me. And if that is the case, then cast What is your heart, aside from the moments in that prayer and
remember that ALLAH SubhanA data turns to the one who isn't in the prayer. As long as they don't
turn away.
		
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			I shouldn't be alone now she asked us for the loss of Allah they send them about about looking left
and right in the prayer also, he said this is a way of stealing that she thought takes away from the
prayer of a person Shavon whatever. And this is something that we have to be aware of that when you
enter into Salah you are entering into in general you are you are at war with JSON in general. Okay,
just your entire existence and this is something that we forget that every single day you have an I
have an enemy that wants to destroy you.
		
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			Luckily then Allah home Sirata Mr. Kim shaytaan says in the Quran, he says I will sit for them on
your straight path. I will I will be waiting to ambush them.
		
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			And then I will come to them mean bein ad him. We mean hopefully him why a man him Why should my ad
What did you put on Shaqiri he says I will come to them from before I will be waiting for that on
your straight path. And I will come to them from in front of them and from behind them and from the
right of them and from the left of them. He's describing a complete ambush. You're just lollygagging
down the straight path you're just killing minding your business. And che Athan is coming to and
he's declared it in the Quran. And so this is and you know, I once was looking throughout the Quran
to see what was the thing that Allah Subhana Allah commands mankind the most? What was the thing
		
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			that Allah commands mankind the most? When he says, Yeah, you have Nast? What is the thing that
Allah is admonishing or encouraging or what is the address that Allah makes the most to all of
humanity, the Muslim and the non Muslim. And the number one thing was to have Taqwa. Right, and it's
incredibly important and consistent. Then the number two thing that Allah subhanaw taala commands
mankind to be aware of, is to take Shavon as an enemy.
		
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			Recognize that he's your enemy. He's not your friend, he is for you and a clear enemy, so take him
as an enemy. Take him as an enemy, meaning he is your enemy. Don't take him as a friend don't think
that there's some sort of truce that happened. There's no truce, it is war from the time you enter
this world until the time you exit, and if that is the general case, then recognize that salah is a
battle
		
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			that is war, but every Salah that you pray is a battle
		
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			and shaytaan as soon as you enter into Salah he attacks and so the province of the lightest enemy is
asked by Ayesha and he says and he says that is
		
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			is a stealing that shaytaan does from a person's prayer. And so guard your mind, guard your heart,
guard your mind's eye from falling into distraction. Allah subhana data says, Yeah, you ended the
latter Karabo Salah for antem suka Allah. Allah says don't enter into the prayer while you are
drunken.
		
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			We're not just talking about being drunk from alcohol here. We're talking about a drunkenness that
comes from negligence. Can you imagine a person entering into the audience of a kink? Someone
entering into the quarter of a king, someone entering into the office of a king? And they walk in?
And they have this kings undivided attention? What do you want? What can I help with you? You with?
What is your need? What is and they say, set up, walk around, touch some stuff in the office and
walk out. They had the king's undivided attention. Right? Or maybe they're not even listening to
what the king is saying they're ignoring the king just being I mean, that person might have entered
		
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			into an audience with the King, and instead incurred the king's anger, the king's wrath, the king's
punishment. And so we want to avoid we want to be aware of entering into the Salah, and somehow some
way earning ALLAH SubhanA diatas anger, what do you have now to take B so we thrown the world behind
us and we said Allahu Akbar, right? Allah is greater, greater than what greater than everything.
		
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			And that could be it is two types.
		
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			According to Moodle, he says, The first is the tech be of the Saba code, the tech being of the
foreigners, the people who are first, right, that's a bit of the first the people who are ahead of
everybody else. And the tech bit of the CIBJO code, he says is the technique where the author fills
that person's hearts, and then channels upward until it manifests in their tongue. And so by the
time they said Allahu Akbar, their chest has been filled with awe and reverence and love from Allah
subhanaw taala, it starts at the heart until it reaches their tongue where they pronounced Allah.
Right. So you see that.
		
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			And he says, this is this is like the top of the top these types of people by the time they get into
entered it, they've already been immersed in awe and reverence. And then he says, the other is the
tidbit of deceit, and mock deceit. So plus it is, you know, the person was not in the front, but
they're, they're the average guy.
		
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			And that is the person who begins with the remembrance on their tongue.
		
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			But the meaning of the tick bead then transfers downward, so you have from the bottom up, and then
you have from the top down, top down, the first thing they say is Allahu Akbar, right? They don't
enter in with that state, but they're saying Allahu Akbar. And now they're entering into the zone of
the prayer, it transfers downwards, and then they wrestle with their intentions and distractions,
until their heart is occupied by the presence of Allah subhanho data. And so we were reminded that
the statement itself is Allahu Akbar, right? That's the first thing you say. The first thing that
you say when you enter into the prayer is Allahu Akbar, Allah is greater. And so beware that the
		
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			first statement that you make in the prayer be a lie.
		
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			Beware aware that the first statement you make as you enter into the salah be alive. What does this
beat itself cure? When you say Allah, but it cures arrogance, you are reminded that ALLAH SubhanA
data is greater than you are and, and
		
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			pride and arrogance is continuously cured in the Quran. Because arrogance is the greatest impediment
to benefiting from the Ayat of Allah. Arrogance is the greatest impediment to benefiting from the
Ayat of Allah Subhana Allah to Allah. Allah says in surah, the latter half of the latter verse 146,
sorry for an 80 Latina take a bona fide ability to help
		
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			when your ocular it now ubia
		
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			Allah subhana Dias I will turn away from my science, those who are arrogant upon the earth without
right and if they should see every sign they will not believe in it. And if they see the way of
consciousness, they will not adopt it as a way and so arrogance becomes this great impediment and in
fact even in Surah Al Fatiha er cannot be the way er can study you alone. Do you worship and you
alone? Do we seek for help? Should Islam irritate me? And he says that this verse cures to
incredible diseases in humanity. Number one, is it showing off right intending other than Allah
intending an audience other than Allah Subhana Allah with your actions, your acts of worship, in
		
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			particular? How does it cure it? You say yes and not would you alone? Do we worship? I'm not
worshiping anyone else. I'm not seeking anyone else. So it cures it yet number one. What Yeah, can I
stay you alone? Do we seek for help? What is that cure? It cures
		
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			Killer. It cures arrogance. Every single believer no matter how strong no matter how rich no matter
how connected, no matter how resourceful no matter how powerful, they all declare to Allah subhanaw
taala I need your help. And you alone do we seek for help? And so when we pray today in sha Allah,
you're praying your next prayer, when you say Allahu Akbar, remember these meanings and remember
whose presence you're going to enter and then we enter into a stiff da, and then a stiff DA is you
know, the beginning of the prayer, what you say even before you recite Surah Fatiha and the prophets
of Allah they have said them he would say Subhana Allah humo behenic. What about a customer with an
		
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			aged look whether Allah has a route, as reported by necessity, he says, Go exalted, so behind is
exalted.
		
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			Subhana means exalted. Can I give you guys I'm sorry, we're already so far behind. But let me give
you guys
		
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			let me guys let me give you guys a gift. Okay, this is my gift for you guys.
		
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			The word sub Han is generally translated as what is generally translated as Glory be to God. It
doesn't mean Glory be to God. It doesn't mean that at all, cool.
		
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			Sub Sub Baha means to exalt sub Bahasa literally sub Sahara means to move away from and that's why
swimming in Arabic is called Siva, I'm moving away from the shore. Right? Um, and so we'll call off
the felonious balloon. Allah subhana data talks about the planets, they're all in orbit, everything
the sun and the moon. They're all Yes, backbone. They're all in orbit. There's motion involved. And
so what does this beef mean? It means that I am declaring Allah subhanaw taala, far removed, far
removed from what from imperfection. And that's why you'll find in the Quran that Allah subhanho
data will say Subhana after an imperfection has been attributed to him.
		
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			They said that Allah has a son Subhana
		
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			Allah is Exalted from this imperfection. So behind Allah, the SRB abtahi laden exalted is the one
who took his servants on a nice journey from a mystery that has been a mystery that up so you don't
think Allah has the power to do that? Allah is above the imperfection of inability.
		
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			That's why you'll find the Quran if you read the Quran, you'll find that the route whatever ALLAH
SubhanA data says Subhana that it will be following a imperfection that they attributed whether that
the angels are his daughters, or whether it's the gin or what, you will find that cool. And in fact,
even when, when we ascend while we're traveling, we say Allahu Akbar, because no matter how I hide,
Yet Allah is greater. And when I descend, I'm walking downhill. What do I say? I say, Subhan Allah,
Allah is Exalted, from lowly places. And when I lower my face onto the ground, I Say Subhan Allah,
Allah, as I lower myself and humility, my Lord is the highest and the prophets of Allah they set it
		
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			up when he said something when he saw something that he disliked because it was imperfect, he would
say Subhan Allah we flipped it somehow everybody the Arab and the non Arab we all flipped it. And so
now we say subhanallah when we see something perfect, we see something amazing we're like this
sunset is so beautiful Subhanallah
		
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			but that's not know when you see something perfect. What are you supposed to say? You say Masha
Allah right sort of them calf La Quwata illa biLlah when you enter into your Jana, why don't you say
Masha Allah La Quwata illa biLlah Subotic Allah right all of these phrases are phrases that we can
say now,
		
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			I am not sharing this with you, I understand that the entire Muslim Ummah is getting this wrong,
okay, the entire Muslim Ummah, I am not sharing this with you so that you cannot become the
Subhanallah police and you go and you try to correct everybody like everybody's gone in a direction.
But you know what, we're in a bit of a we're in a session of knowledge. And so we are supposed to
know more than the average person so I'm not sharing this with you so that you can be the Suppan
police. But I am sharing this with you so that you can have some fun with it on your on the next
time. sha Allah after this Quarantine is over and you get invited to your friend's house and they
		
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			cook a meal and they're excited and they say to you how is the meal you can look at them you can
smile real big and you can say subhanallah
		
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			Subhanallah it was
		
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			anyway, in fact, when we hear the when we hear thunder, what do we say when we hear thunder? We say
so behind the leather you said the Harajuku Hamdi while Milan economic confetti. Exalted is the one
who the angel
		
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			was exalt. And so why do we say sort of Han? In the moment where we hear thunder? What is the
imperfection that we are exalting Allah subhanaw taala for? Well, we know that primitive societies
What did they believe about thunder? They believe that thunder was the voice of God. They believe
that thunder was chariot chariots right by the gods riding through the heavens, right? So there's
all sorts of all sorts of, of beliefs tied to this notion of thunder. And so we say Subhan
Subhanallah these are the Harada behandling. Anyway,
		
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			I was a quick tangent for us here. So what do I list if that you Say Subhan? Allah Subhana Allah
Houma rather Exalted are you that I will just remind them of all of this because the translation
says Glory and Praise be to you, Oh Allah, and it's not glory. So Han means Exalted are you Oh
Allah, and bless it is your name and exalted be Your Majesty, and there is none worthy of worship
except for you. So that is one way that you enter into the prayer, you can enter into the prayer
from the aspect of glorifying Allah subhanaw taala.
		
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			But you can also enter the prayer like a sinner. Remember, I talked to you about variety, and so
there's variety, even as you enter the prayer, what is the way that you enter the prayer like a
sinner? So you can use the one that I mentioned now? Or you can use this version, where you enter in
and you say Allahumma by benei, obey and come back to Ben and Masha when Margaret have already asked
the prophets of Allah and suddenly said, Yes, Allah when you enter into the prayer, you're quiet for
a minute, what do you say? He said, I say, oh, Allah distanced me from my sins like you've noticed
that you've distance between the East and the West.
		
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			Oh Allah Allah manakin Iman Hatha, I can tell you Naka so we'll have your two minute Dennis. Oh
Allah purify me from my garment. purify me for my sense, like a white garment is purified from dirt.
Right? White is more difficult to wear because your everything shows and so you have it has to be
spotless it has to be clean, and purify me from my sins. Like a white garment is purified from filth
or dirt. Allahu Massimino Hubei besides you and Matt You will Oh ALLAH purify me wash me cleanse me
from my sins with ice and water or that you can mind between the two so you've got the center's
entrance and we've got the the the exalted entrance, the glorifies entrance. We have a third where
		
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			the province that Allah said that he would enter into the prayer and he would say Allahu Akbar, All
praise is due to Allah. Would you have to wait here the lady for Torah similarity? Well, I have
directed my face to the one who has created the heavens and the earth, Hanif and Muslimah. I am
declaring Hanif and worshipping Allah subhanaw taala alone as a Muslim mama and Eminem chicane, and
I am not from those policies verily in masala tea on a Suki Rama haoma, Marathi Lila, hello,
beloved, I mean, lash, Erica will be the co owner to Anna Williams living. Verily my prayer and my
sacrifice my living and my dying are for Allah, the Lord of all that exists. He has no partner. And
		
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			by this I have commanded, and I have been commanded. And I'm the first of the Muslims, like Atlanta,
Subhanak will be Hamlet, Allah, you are the sovereign, and there's nothing worthy of worship except
for you. And this is also an insight. And then after that, so we've entered into a variety, you
know, you play around with them by play around, they mean you choose different ones at different
times, again, to increase that mindfulness, and then you enter into the st yada, or oh the bIllahi
min ash shaytani R rajim. And do not skip this, do not skip this because like I said, you are
seeking refuge from the Shavon the prayer is a battle against Shavonne and there's no station that
		
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			vexes him more, that harms him more. And there's no battle that is more severe than that of Salah.
And so Allah Subhana Allah commanded you to seek refuge in Him, that you'll be fortified and safe to
contemplate the verses of Allah subhanaw taala that illuminate the heart and to get access to the
verses that get that guidance to the believers and Allah Panisse as revelation to mankind. So Allah
knows a place his hatred and his envy and He knows our inability to win the battle without him.
		
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			Allah knows shape ons, hatred, and Allah knows our inability to win the battle without him. And so
He commands us to invoke his assistance and to seek refuge in Him. And in doing so we're protected
from Shaytaan. In doing so, we're protected from Shavon just just again, so that we can kind of
recognize let me let me give you a quick example that'll that'll
		
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			sort of the Philip uncertainness In sorcerer falak. You seek refuge in one attribute of God, one
attribute of God you said put a little bit further I seek refuge and the Lord of the dawn that is
one attribute of Allah he is brought up
		
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			with that one attribute you
		
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			You seek refuge from for things. Machete my follow up from the evil that he created when we share it
in the first article, but machete Heiser can either walk up and from the night I seek refuge in his
creation, and from the night and from magic and from envy these four things, I sought refuge in one
attribute of Allah, the Lord of the daybreak, from four attributes or 444.
		
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			Things in sort of a NAS, you seek refuge, not in one attribute of Allah, but in three attributes of
Allah, good our own happiness, Maliki NAS Illa hiddenness three attributes of Allah, the Lord of
mankind, the king of mankind and the deity of mankind. What am I seeking refuge in Allah from not
from four different things just from one machete it was was a kindness from the evil of the whisper,
angry cheater, who's that? That's a thought.
		
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			That is Shavon Shavon is for you an enemy, take him as an enemy. Take him as an enemy.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			Now
		
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			we've entered we've said this The either
		
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			swords or Fatiha, you recite sort of their fights. I don't want to get into sort of Advaita again,
I'll refer you to sweetness of salah or the meanings of prayer by Saturday, me or Dr. Forehand, but
I will just direct you to one beautiful thing and sort of de facto really beautiful. I know Chicago,
you guys study Arabic all the time. Chicago is famous for all of its institutions and all of that
type of stuff. So there is something in the language of sort of their fat which is called filthy
fat. And if the fat means a changing of tense, changing of tense,
		
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			All praise is due to Allah Who the Lord of the Worlds, the benefits and the Most Merciful,
		
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			the Master of the Day of Judgment.
		
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			What tense is that?
		
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			All praise is due to Allah the Lord of the words, are you talking directly to him? Are you talking
about him? All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds I'm talking about him, right? Is that
third person I always get my persons wrong. I'm assuming that's their person. It is third person.
And so all of a sudden, now it changes IACA not Buddha. What Yeah, can stay you alone do we worship
you alone we seek for help.
		
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			This in Arabic is called LT fat. It is it is shifting, it is turning from I'm turning from third
person to second person. And that is done for a number of reasons. But the symbolism that the
scholars mentioned, they said number one, when you praise someone, when you praise someone to praise
them in their absence, to praise them in their absence is more sincere. And so when I am praising
Allah subhana data, I am praising him, without speaking directly to him. I am praising Allah subhana
data saying All praise is due to Allah because that is more sincere. But when it comes to the
request, to request directly from them, in their presence is more
		
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			Elijah Elijah meaning that it is more expected right? It is more there's more hope involved. I'm
speaking directly to them.
		
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			I know Maryam isn't that amazing? My name is that Allahu Akbar, okay. But then there's number two,
there's a second aspect or another symbolism that scholars look to. And they said, when you are
beginning sort of the Fatiha and you are praising Allah subhanaw taala it is as if you are on the
outside of his court. You are on the outside and you are invoking ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada that you'd
be granted entry. And so you say at hamdulillahi rabbil Alameen on Rahman Rahim Malik Yama Deen you
are praising Allah subhanaw taala and as you are praising Allah the curtain is lifted, the doors
have opened and you have now been ushered into the audience with the King and so you are now as if
		
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			you are looking at him saying he cannot do what you're gonna say. You alone do we worship and You
alone we seek for help.
		
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			And now as you are in direct audience, you continue with your request then also Ottomans the themes
about the livina and AMTA right, the shift changes halfway through the store and that is very
beautiful. Okay.
		
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			Now
		
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			your size, sort of their fats how until you get to mean and when you say I mean the prophets of
Allah it is and it tells us as reported by Behati he says that Weber's I mean coincides with the
mean of the angels will have their sins forgiven all of their sins, all of their previous sins. And
there aren't that many actions in Islam.
		
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			Um, that come with the promise of all of your sins being forgiven. Maybe 10 More or less, right? Not
less, there's at least 10 But it's not that much more.
		
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			As far as if you do this, all of your sins will be forgiven. It's things like, hey, Jura, it's
things like, hatch. It's things like saying, I mean, in the Salah, it's things like Siyam of
Ramadan, pm Ramadan, Yom Laila through cada right all of these things have it. And so, but again,
it's limited. It's of course, accepting Islam for those who are brothers, sisters who convert to
Islam, right. It's incredibly valuable. All of your person sins are being forgiven. But we see a
number of these things actually being tied to the prayer number one whoever says Amin in the Salah,
and if you're I mean coincides with Amina the angels, all of your sins are forgiven. Also Earth
		
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			might have not followed your line he reports he made We'll do it one time and his his will do his
Hadith where he does will do is one of the famous descriptions of the prophets will do when you
study the chapter will go in. And then hadith of manhood I find he makes will do and then he said I
heard the prophets of Allah do send them say men thought but and who will do we had there whoever
prays whoever makes will look like this will do of mine. And then he prays to rock is law you had
the Sufi hemianopsia they do not engage in any sort of self talk you're not distracted in the Salah,
your focus, you pray a completely focused to rock us, except that all of their sins are forgiven.
		
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			Right incredible about any tool guys, at any point in time it is available for you, but you make
will do like the prophets of Allah they send them did and then you pray to like us with complete
focus. Then we enter into the court, we enter into the court, and we recognize that Arabs did not
like to bend their backs for anyone. It was a symbol of humility and debasement. And some of them
were ready to make such that before they make a little core. They're not bending their backs. What
are the things that you say in little core? What are the things that you'll say on record, you say,
for example, some handy Melkote will jump Java wrote, while Kibriya when album as reported by NSA.
		
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			And again, my point here is to just showcase that there is variety in every station, and I would
refer you to really study and to go back to these books and go back to these other lectures that I
ever described. That gives you these because variety is such an important key ingredient to this,
this, this aspect of mindfulness of Hana the men of good Mallacoota is the Dominion and so exalted
is the one who owns the Dominion, whichever route, Jabba root means power. Jabba root means power
will keep it up keep it out means greatness, whilst you're kind of data being above everything else.
Well, album and album has also greatness as well. They're a little bit similar, and they're a little
		
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			bit different. But for our purposes, that's what that means. And then and then when you get up from
record, you say, Send me Allah halimun Hamidah.
		
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			Allah accepts from those who praise Him. Allah accepts from those who praise them. Semi high does
not mean Allah hears. There's the word some Arabic has a number of meanings, a number of meanings,
and semi I hear of the meanings of Semia is to accept is to accept Allah accepts from those who
praise him and that's why the prophets of Allah they said I'm used to seek refuge and Allah from
what mean Dora Allah you smell from a dua that is not accepted. It doesn't mean heard. Every day is
heard by Allah subhanho data, and Allah hears those who praise Him and Allah hears those who don't
praise Him. So if you say, say my Allahu Allah Muhammad, that means Allah hears those who praise
		
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			Him. But does that mean Allah doesn't hear those who don't praise Him? As long as that means? It
means Allah accepts from those who praise Him and so then you say I've been Allah can hunt right to
you to all law to you belongs all praise and so you say send me Allah Hanuman Hamidah there's so
much more that you can say when you come up from from work or you can say send me Allah Hanuman
Hamidah Hamden que seguir en de Ven, Mubarak and V. A ham that is blessing and pure and, and, and
plentiful, Thielen plentiful, Samoa to a Middle Earth, filling the heavens and filling the Earth
with a mash temperature in back and filling whatever you wish other than this, less than that when
		
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			the match the the the deserving of Fennec praise and glory are
		
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			the most the truest thing that any servant has said that Allah Subhana Allah that is the one
deserving of praise and glory who's who's more deserving of praise and Allah subhanho data.
		
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			And we are all servants to you.
		
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			Allahu Malema at the moment that oh Allah there is no one who gives or sorry, Allah Mala mana Illuma
outplayed whether
		
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			Mr. OPWDD ma'am and at what I am Farooq, reject them in collegiate. Oh Allah, there is no one who
can withhold what you give and then can deal with you withhold, and there is no one. And there is no
one who has any relationships or status or resources that can avail against you. There's no There's
nobody who doesn't matter what connections you have. There's There's Jett is a person of incredible
resources and power and all of that. But there's no one who has that type of authority over you.
All. Right, all of this can be said, when you get up from record. And in fact, the Prophet saw the
lights and heard a companion saying this after record, and he looked, and he's after the summer, and
		
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			he said, who said that? And I said, I did yes with Allah. And he said, I saw the angels, each one
trying to race with this statement that you had set up to the heavens, like they were trying to they
were competing to take it up to the heavens. And so variety, the different things that you can say,
coming out of record, and then we enter into sujets.
		
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			We enter into sujood. And sujood is the most profound symbol of worship, with many virtues, with
many virtues and many objectives. Okay?
		
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			Allah subhana, Allah says, in Surah, Al Fett, verse nine, Muhammad Rasool Allah, Muhammad is the
Messenger of Allah, Allah de anima, who actually don't want to fall and those who are with him,
because companions are severe against the disbelievers will Hama will be you know, they are merciful
towards one another.
		
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			The description of the companions of Rasulullah sallallahu de setelah, is that they are harsh
against the disbelievers and they are merciful to one another. Somehow we have become the opposite.
We are harsh against each other. And we are merciful to those outside of our community. But for the
people who are within our community, we don't play with kid gloves. We try as best as we can to
knock them out and cancel them and fire them and all of that type of stuff, right? We've got it
backwards. I said, don't I lay off in Roubini and Mattoon. The Arabs, they say are you a lion
against me? And you are an ostrich and war? Right? You're you're big and bad against me. But when it
		
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			comes time to actually challenge those who who show and deserve that energy and that strength and
that power and all of that type of stuff. You're just an ostrich, you're hiding your head in the
sand.
		
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			Any case, Allah subhanaw taala describes them and he says,
		
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			thorough homework and Superjet and you have to warn him and Allah he'll read when you see them
prostrating and bowing, seeking Funland mean Allah, seeking the bounty of Allah subhana diamonds
follows the mountain, if you will, to him in a very subdued, their mark is on their faces from the
trace of prostration. Their Mark is on their faces, and so on which I had explained this to be for
sure. Others said that it's light other said that it's an aura of respect. And and it's a it's one
of the virtues of security that the province of lifetime will recognize on their light will be in
accordance with their sujood The more someone prostrates the more light and its virtues is that
		
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			ALLAH SubhanA data prohibited the Hellfire from burning the parts of the body that touched the floor
and prostration right, and so these joints that touch the floor, these parts of your body, and what
are the objectives of sujood? What are the objectives number one is humility. The most noble of you,
right this? Think about it outside of Salah when would you ever make suit? Right? non Muslims, many
of them most of them? If not, I don't want to say all of them, but it couldn't be all of them right?
Just that high of a percentage have never brought their foreheads onto the ground ever for any
activity in their life.
		
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			For our brothers and sisters who are Converse here, can you know correct me if I'm wrong, but before
you accepted Islam, was there ever a situation where you put your forehead onto the ground and if
that's the case, if you did then what
		
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			falls to the ground in in the dust in humility.
		
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			And so you make sure your your and your nose and your hands are connected to the earth and you make
sure that your forearms are not and that your stomach is not resting on your thighs nor as your
thighs resting on your calves everything is in its place. Doing all of this humbling yourself to the
King of kings in The Lord of the world. And with that physical humility and tranquility there also
has to be an inner tranquility and humility. And as the body prostrates the heart also has to
prostrate as the body prostrates the heart also has to prostrate and so be humbled in all of ALLAH
SubhanA data broken in his presence repentant to him. And
		
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			number two, the second objective of sujood of course is nearness. nearness to Allah subhana wa Tada
ALLAH SubhanA Dias this West stood walk tarried in the end of Salah that Allah feel that nearness
while you're Institut remembering that you're never closer
		
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			To Allah then you are in that position the prophets de la de Sena me said, he said, You are closest
to a lot when you are in sujood. So do what so make a lot of DUA and the longer your prostration is
the more your closeness with ALLAH SubhanA that is extended. And who else doesn't love the company
of those who we love to be extended?
		
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			And maybe this is the reason why, you know, there's a serenity and a sweetness that we feel in
suits, and the longer that we stay in it, the more enjoyable it becomes, as we continue to come
closer to Allah subhana wa Tada. So number two is the second objective is nearness to Allah.
		
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			And number three, the third is
		
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			the Prophet sallallahu Sallam says, As reported by Muslim and Buddhahood and others who are Massoud,
fetch the head fetch day
		
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			the prophets of Allah de send them says As for sujood, then strive into
		
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			the feminine and use the jab Allah perhaps you will be responded to or it is it is not perhaps but
it is appropriate it is right that you will be responded to
		
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			and so don't be selfish when you're Institute Don't be selfish when you're institute a couple of
aspects when you're in the first question is what should I make that for when I'm Institute What
should I make that for?
		
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			You know, one thing that I learned from Michelle is
		
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			number one is for example let's fix a lot of voters a lot that also selected an issue even right
there eight eight such as this asepsis
		
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			first such data for example could be for the Prophet satellite is Am I making up for possible loss
Allah Allah muscle, the Adam, I'm gonna do it, Mohammed, right, I'm making some sort of draft for
the province on the lightest.
		
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			Number two, the second stage is that, for example is for your parents every single time it's always
for your parents. Or maybe I know some Misha who their first such that is for their parents, they
just go with their parents. And then the other six, such this revolve around what's happening in
your life, whatever your goals are, whatever you're working on, right? Whether it's
		
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			for this quarantine to be lifted anybody, right? Maybe it is for the
		
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			your health, maybe it's some goal that you have for your wealth, maybe it's an educational goal,
maybe it's whatever, right but we all have things that are happening in our lives. sujood is this
best time for you to be making dua to Allah subhanaw taala for it.
		
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			And not to be selfish and make God for yourself only. But that you make out for others. You know,
one time I was praying, federate, behind chef who did asuni here in Houston, my Shia and after, you
know, there was something happening and Alyssa,
		
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			I don't remember the year but there was some sort of advance that was happening or some sort of, you
know, trial that the people that was that were going through ALLAH SubhanA data, relieve them and
free them from their occupation. So after the semester, after the Salah, Chef wood, he just kind of
turned around and you know, however many people were there for dinner, he said, Who here made draft
for for philosophy in the Salah, who made draft for it?
		
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			You know, we're kind of all sheepish, sheepish, but the reality is, is that we are very weak in our
engagement of drought, as per the things that are going on in our lives,
		
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			as per the things that are going on in our lives, even right now, right? We're in a global pandemic,
ask yourself like I will ask myself the question, how much time do we actually spend invoking Allah
subhanaw taala to lift this pandemic from us?
		
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			Maybe at the beginning we were really energetic to do that making a lot of dua for it to be lifted.
But now as it's kind of become the new normal, I've got my Netflix I figured out my work maybe I've
got this I've got that, you know, Ramadan happened but I'm not finished. Now I'm not even I'm not
even raising my house. I'm not even in my schedule, asking Allah subhanho data to lift this pandemic
from us.
		
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			Right and so engaging ALLAH SubhanA data while you're into engaging Allah, one of the the
		
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			not just for yourself, right? Don't be selfish in your sujood I would did that. He said I make dua
for 30 of my brothers, this great companion to the provinces Senator, I make dua for 30 of my
brothers and my salute. I named them and I named their fathers. I named them with their names and
their father's name like their first name and last name. I mentioned them in my salute all of my
friends
		
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			Write who is a real friend, a friend is someone who mentions God to you and mentions you to God.
		
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			If I'm not on your email list, don't send me a Google doc telling me that you're going to Omaha and
if you want me to make dua, if I want you to make dua for me, then fill out this form. No, I'm not
filling out a form.
		
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			I'm never filling out a form. Don't send me that.
		
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			You better be making do out for me if we're friends.
		
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			You better the province of Allah, they send themselves the draft for a person in their absence. The
drop of a brother for their daughter of a Muslim for their brother or their sister in their absence
is Mr. Job. It is responded to Houma is asking when making drought and seafood, can we make the DUA
in English? The answer is yes. And follow prayer and follows prayer. Are we going to have a
difference of opinion depending on who you ask? Yes. Do I believe that you can Yes.
		
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			And I want to share with you actually because this is a very popular question I want to share with
you and you can refer back to MGR, the American Muslim jurists Association,
		
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			the American Muslim jurists Association, which is a large fifth council here and a very well well
respected council that we have in their 14th Imam conference on contemporary issues facing new
Muslims. And you can go back to their website, I'm jet.org, I believe, or I'm gonna online, but if
you just Google American Muslim jurists Association, you'll find it there 43 minute conference on
contemporary issues. The entire conference was devoted to contemporary issues facing the Muslim
		
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			and they offered and they said, in general, people may make supplications in their native language
during the prayer regarding any issue in which it is permissible to supplicate outside of the prayer
of religious or worldly matters. I'll read it again. In general, people may make supplications in
their native language, during the prayer regarding any issue in which it is permissible to
supplicate outside of the prayer, or religious or worldly matters. Meaning is it's hard for me to
make dua for this inside of the outside of the prayer, I can make up for it inside of the prayer.
		
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			In my native language, what does native language mean? The only people who are not allowed to make
dua in a language other than Arabic,
		
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			in the Salah, are people who are arabic speaking.
		
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			So if I am if I'm a native error, right, I'm a native Arabic speaker in Salam. Salam is not the time
for me to practice my French. It's not the time for me to practice my Spanish. But if I don't speak
Arabic, and I want to talk to Allah Subhana Allah about my car that broke down last week, what do I
do I have in the Sunnah of the prophets of Allah, they said, I'm about a car that broke out, broke
down.
		
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			I want to vent to Allah Subhana Allah about something that's going on in my life, I can do that
Institute. And in whatever language, the tears will flow, and the heart will break and the tongue
will speak,
		
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			then that is the most important aspect is that communication with Allah Subhana Allah data. And so
if you're Institute and you are false, novel prayer, I believe that you can make your app in English
or auditory or whatever language and by the way, if you ask any Arab
		
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			do they make too out when they talk to ALLAH SubhanA data? And so do do they do it in Arabic like
classical Arabic? Really, some do, but your average Arab will speak to Allah subhanaw taala and
whatever their dialect is, right? And that's not that's not the pure Arabic language, right? And so
this is something that's already in practice. We're just trying to expand it to include all of our
brothers and sisters Inshallah, that okay, let's, let's wrap up here. Okay, so we're talking about
sujood. We're still in objective number three of sujood, which is,
		
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			number four is forgiveness of sins, that you reflect on the sins that you've committed and that when
your institute descends, fall from you, the more tranquil you are, the more you weep, the more
sincere you are in your weeping the more distance leaves you the province of the lightest, and them
he says that a slave when they stand to pray, all of their sins are brought forth, and they are
placed on his head and his neck. And then when he makes Roku or sujood, they fall off, ensued or
record this fall off. And this is reported by Bruno Amon is an authenticated by shahada divine May
Allah Subhan Allah Allah have mercy on all of them. And so it goes without saying that the more sins
		
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			one has, the more extended their prostration should be. And
		
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			another objective of sujood This is number five is the battle itself. Right? We talked about Shavon
and the battle and remember the crying of a bliss, that when you make sujood He weeps and he says
the Son of Adam was commanded to prosper
		
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			Great and prostrated and for them is Jana, and I was commanded to prostrate and I refused. So for me
is the fire
		
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			and
		
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			you're like okay, well I wasn't really thinking about harming at least by making Sajida but you
know, some of our great Muslims were like that I'm gonna blah blah the Allah I know, when he would
leave when he would pray he would recite very, very loudly and I will work with the law and when he
used to recite your site very, very quietly and so Allah Subhana Allah Daddy says, Well, I teach you
how to be Salah Tico and how to have it we have a bitterly been a daddy Casa de la Sabina. Remember
when he was asked why do you recite what what was asked? Why do you recite so quietly? He said in
the Mahabharata between IG I'm simply conversing with my lord. It's like a one on one conversation.
		
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			See your way out right? This is an a&b conversation, see your way out.
		
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			I don't need anybody else to hear. Oh man, why are you reciting so loudly? He said, Oh, through the
shaytaan I'm repelling shape on like Roman is like I'm fighting this
		
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			I'm repelling che Athan, right Ahmed is engaged with his battle with shape on all the time. No
wonder he's probably beat up shaytaan so much shape and eventually started crossing the street like
I don't want to see this guy anymore. Right. And so just being present with Russell with the the the
engagement of Shavonne remembering that Mr. Wilkie said he said Aw Jubeir
		
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			my stroke who is the great Tabby and he was a servant of Aisha Radi Allahu anha and used to say when
he used to narrate Hadith from Arusha, he will say, and heavy materials will be lies on the lies
from the beloved of Rasulullah sallallahu as he was speaking
		
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			mountain of knowledge say Demetri bit
		
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			what his story is unbelievable, maybe another time, but he says to him, there's nothing left of the
sweetness of this world. Other than dusting our faces, a person will continue to rotate between
these objectives and and make your or you might make your entire Salah for one of them.
		
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			For example, I might make my entire Salah for example, just for the purpose of driving today.
		
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			Or I might make the entire purpose of my salah for example, just to beat up shape on today, every
session, that's what I'm focused on. Or I might make my entire select example today, just focusing
on the notion of my sins being forgiven and extended my sujood and sins falling off. Or I might make
it for example, for the purpose of just enjoying that nearness with Allah Subhana Allah.
		
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			And so all of these things, and then eventually a person, I hope that we all experienced this, that
we get to this point where we experience what what material is safe to say, you come to Japan, which
is the sweetness, when you're either to call a tiny for Salah and the prophets, Allah ism says the
coolness of my eyes has been made and so on. Now,
		
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			the province of Elijah said that He prohibited and he, he, he said that when one of you goes into
sujood, they should not pack in their suit. You don't just bounce your head off the ground. That's
your system. And he gave the example. He said it's like a person and we can appreciate this example
coming out of Ramadan. He said, it's like a person who is hungry. And they only eat two dates, or
they only eat a day or two. What will that benefit them? Do you imagine if your thought at the end
of a long day is simply a day or two? You're going to be fighting somebody? You don't benefit? Yeah,
technically you broke your fast, but it didn't really benefit you. Right. Similarly sujood it's like
		
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			that. Technically you made such though but you don't benefit from that system. And so again, taking
your time and what's the difference between a such that where you're picking the ground, and he's
such that where you're actually saying somehow I'd be allowed as powerbi.com will be another five
seconds? Six seconds. Again the worst thief is the thief who steals from their prayer. The worst
thief is the thief who steals from their prayer
		
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			okay.
		
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			And then you go into your second session after the first and reflect on how out of all of the
actions in block out that entire block ah, this is the one that has two doses prescribed
		
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			such that you need to have them and the more you prostrate the higher USN then it is the most
symbolic action of worship and then you enter into a dyad to allow sorrow to play back. And what
does it mean it means life.
		
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			It means life hat and it also means perfection and ceramah it means free from freedom from
deficiency. And then you at the end you conclude by seeking refuge from for things
		
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			seeking refuge from
		
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			a
		
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			A punishment of the grave, and the punishment of the Hellfire, and fitna and mercy had the job, the
Antichrist and the fitna of living and dying. And then you make a throw after that as well, after
you're done with it, the here and the follow up on the progress of Elijah setelah. This is also a
moment of drought right before you exit. And that symbolism is also beautiful. Because when you're a
guest, and you're about to leave somebody's house, what is the host? Say? Is there anything else I
can give you? Is there anything more that I can offer you here? Why don't you take this here? Why
don't you take that they're trying to load things into your car, before you leave.
		
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			In the salah. Right before you exit.
		
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			You have the opportunity now to make your final requests. Is there anything more that you want? Is
there anything else that you forgot? That that's it Ah, what a beautiful, beautiful prayer that we
have. And then you see a satellite a coma.
		
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			And you're looking to the right, and you're imagining that this setup that you're seeing is
extending to every believer who has ever lived, and the angels and everything of ALLAH SubhanA
Tadesse creation, and then you look to the left, and you believe the same thing, and you are exiting
the presence of the king and you are saddened by the disconnection, which you are thankful for the
audience, and you are exiting the presence of the one who happiness lies with. And so this is the
Salah, and a quick overview, if I could just mention a few more physical practical steps that we can
do in sha Allah.
		
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			Of course, I think one of the most important things while we're in quarantine is just the physical
preparation that you that you dress nicely for the prayer that you smell good that you put on
perfume that you that you prepare a place for the prayer, that you remove any sort of distractions,
and there are many a hadith to that effect. The prophets little lady has had them removed curtains
and he changed garments, and he replaced garments, if they were too distracting from his prayer. And
so if that's what the Prophet saw a light is and and what about us, right? How distracted are we in
by the art that we have in our houses and by the TVs and by the things that we're wearing? Right?
		
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			Being very sensitive to where your eye falls, and so on. Even and even children and all of that, of
course, absolutely. So as best as you can, if you can kind of create a little niche for yourself in
the house, maybe if you have that type of space that you create a prayer place, or at the very
least, that you just mentally and physically.
		
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			You will know a difference between a prayer where you dress up and try it out. Get dressed up
beautifully for this Allah, Allah subhana data says yeah, but you had them who do Zenyatta Komenda
chemistry or children of Adam beautify your predict your yourselves in every Masjid must hear
doesn't just mean masjid for walls message, it means every place of prayer, including if that's what
I'm about to pray right now to share my house. And we want to take advantage as well of kind of
praying at home all the time, because we've been praying at home all the time, I can get dressed to
the nines and I'm doing just fine and I can put on perfume and I don't have to worry about bothering
		
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			anybody or anything like that. I can do that all by myself. And it's all good, right? And so I can
play around with and see where I find my heart. I can I can create an ambiance for myself. I can do
all of these things, all of these weird things. Sisters were mentioned yoga, like you go to the all
of these weird, these retreats and all of that type of stuff, mindfulness and concentration and they
will do all of that right. All of this affects the prayer undoubtedly, all of this affects the
parents so trying as best as we can. Okay, cool. And with that in Charlotte out of southern lights
and Mohammed I don't know what the
		
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			does aka l'affaire shift Amara that was mind blowing I think I speak for like the all the over 200
people that joined us Subhan Allah That was amazing. We're going to start a petition so he can make
sure that you come back I know how much I had to convince you this time.
		
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			So make sure you guys go on Instagram and DM Sheikh Omar and convince him to come back to General
circle.
		
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			Oh, go ahead. Thanks for the invitation. You'd have to convince me if I remember correctly I
accepted right away
		
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			that he did accept right away and we were supposed to do this during Ramadan but Alhamdulillah we
had so many things going on and this was perfect timing after Ramadan to make sure we keep up with
our spirituality.
		
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			My husband was listening in and he said that anytime he eats my food he's gonna say Subhan Allah
from now on
		
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			as well if she knows she's been on the secret but you know what?
		
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			What What a legend that's legendary right there.
		
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			Alright, just like a love affair. If anybody has
		
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			Any questions
		
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			you can try to message in here I sent a link if you guys want to join the chat for any class
announcements, and any inshallah any future classes
		
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			we can go from there Shahla. Did you want to do a quick draw, share? And then we can head out? I see
there are some questions. Do we have some time for them? Or what can we do? Um, yeah. So I see them
in the chat. So let's see here.
		
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			How do you make dua after to shout before to steam? Can they be chosen for banner ads? Yes, they can
be or they can be personal DUA and native language. Both of those are fine.
		
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			Do you have advice for working people, medical professionals having to take pay between seeing
patients? How can we make the most of it when time is limited, it's like anything else. It doesn't
matter whether you're a working professional, or whether you're working in corporate America, or
whether you're a student or anytime that a person is busy, and they don't have time. Or as much time
as they were like that they they do what they can to hula must adopt them. And so I can pray a
perfect prayer in five minutes.
		
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			I can pray a perfect prayer in six minutes, right? It's just about hitting the beats and being
presence of mind. And as best as you can, finding a place where you will be able to focus for a
minute. However, whatever communications you need to make, make, to have need to have to make with
the people around you so that you can have just five minutes of focus and presence of mine, then,
and that's it.
		
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			I would also say one of the great things that helps a person be focused in the prayer and have an
audience with ALLAH SubhanA data in the prayer is being mindful of Allah outside of the prayer. And
so having a lot of Vicodin and they get it Hamdulillah this session isn't about ticket but it could
very well be about ticket because they could have a massive Hana data is if you're in the medical
profession. I would the example that I like to give about medicine, and Victoria here she can
correct me. But what is the one thing as far as exercise that doctors always recommend patients do?
		
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			What is that one exercise?
		
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			What would it be?
		
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			Um, cardio
		
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			walking
		
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			you
		
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			steps a day or what have you. And it's just walking for people you know, we want to do like big
things like walking isn't. It's too easy, right? Even my daughter's crying at the idea of walking,
she wants to go on a jump, we want to run. We want to do CrossFit, we want to do triathlons. You
don't have to do all of that. You just need to walk. That's it. And thinking of Allah subhanho data
is like that. Just it's the most basic thing. But over a lifetime it gives you the greatest results
when Nicola so saying Subhanallah and that hamdulillah and that in Allah and Allah, Allah Allah,
Allah Allah. In fact the prophets of Allah Addison because you said busy, the prophets of Allah,
		
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			they send them gave the Dhikr of Allah as a prescription to the people complain to him about being
too busy, or being too weak, or being too old. Lots of times a person comes to us from Allah says
Allah says Allah so Allah insha Allah and Islam, but cathelicidin the legislation's of Islam are too
much like just tell me something that I can hold on to just give me one thing. He said, Let your
tongue be moist with the remembrance of Allah. Okay, so I will tell you, just a reminder that make a
lot of the gift, make that your constant companion outside of the prayer, right, Your Presence of
Allah outside of the prayer, then Inshallah, when you enter into the prayer, even if it's a short
		
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			prayer, Inshallah, that presence of mine will be there as well.
		
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			Do you have advice off for how Muslim women moms can leave distractions with kids hanging off of
you? It is hard with kids hanging off of you. I know. You know, my wife prays with my daughter
hanging off with her all the time. And as soon as we start praying, that's when she enjoys. She
becomes most adventurous, but as best as you can understand that Allah Subhana Allah is ALLAH
SubhanA data is most Merciful and Allah Subhana Allah knows your circumstances. So as best as I can,
and maybe some of the mothers as well. I don't want to I don't feel like I need to speak behalf on
behalf of everybody here. You all have your own experiences so you can type in the chat and
		
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			Charlotte died and you can help our sister here who need some advice as far as moms goes.
		
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			Let's see here.
		
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			How do you make graphics shows we answered that sometimes my kids do something super cute and I
smile. Do I have to do the whole prayer again? No, a smile won't break it.
		
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			Laughter might bet a smile won't, but you need to be careful. You know, I'm reminded of a dad
		
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			who one time he was, he gives the example of the importance of knowing Arabic. But he was in Salah,
and he was talking about his firstborn daughter. So this is his first child, and she's a year old.
And he's in Salah.
		
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			And he's reading so often when after code is being slaughtered.
		
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			And she's kind of just crawling and picking herself up off of the table, and she's leaning against
the table. And he says, she's in front of him, and he's reading sort of an went off record. And then
all of a sudden, she pushes off of the table. And she starts taking her first steps. And he's insula
watching her, take her first steps.
		
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			And he was just like, oh my god, like, it was so unbelievable.
		
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			And then he hears a verse that he's reciting.
		
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			Yeah, you had leadin Armineh that will he come on while Comala Hola, docman decorilla Oh, you who
believe. Do not let your wealth or your children distract you from the randomness of a life.
		
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			Do not let your wealth and your children distract you from the remnants of a lot. My EFI daddy como
Lake como hacer la and whoever does that they are of the losers. When you said I was a
		
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			child is walking first steps. And this verse hit me like
		
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			Do not let anything distract you from the Mercy of Allah, from the from the remembrance of Allah.
That is our goal that we all decided to get to. All of our kids are super cute, and amazing and
adorable. And when we enter into salah, they start smiling and all of that which is beautiful and
Alas, panned out to protect all of our children. But we Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar. And what's
beautiful, we didn't talk about that during the session. But why do we say Allahu Akbar as we're
rotating through the Scylla it's like a camera that constantly needs to be refocused. You know, when
you've got a camera starts to get blurry, you need to refocus it, you need to refocus it. And even
		
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			as we're entering into Salaat we said Allahu Akbar the first time when we entered, but even within
the prayer, there's just so many things that are so a lot with what again, a much greater and then
I'm going in again, a lot with what is greater than whatever distractions are coming my way, even if
those are my children.
		
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			If I could, I just got a private question, which I think is worthy for your attention.
		
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			The question was, How can a person combat laziness when they want to pray, but there may be just
overcome with laziness and aren't able to be consistent in Salah. So number one is to recognize that
laziness in Salah is one of the signs of the hypocrites loss of Hannah Dyer says what about calm
enough seletti Calm Musa, you might win and that's what I have called on the light enough that when
they stand for the prayer, the standard least
		
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			when they stand for the prayer, the standings we believe the hypocrites they would.
		
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			It was the last thing that they wanted to do, right. So my first thing is, if I'm lazy about the
prayer, remember right at the beginning of the session, we talked about the amount Muhammad saying
that your Islam is tied to your your share of Islam is tied to your share of the prayer. You love
the prayer, you care about the prayer that's your love and care for it's not your lazy about the
prayer. You're lazy about Islam. Right. And so I recognize this something that I shouldn't be very
concerned about, and I'm glad that you're mentioning it. As for how does a person then remove that
laziness from themselves?
		
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			I would say double dosage on the hereafter
		
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			learning about Jana, learning about the hellfire, go on listen to a few lectures, detailed
descriptions, Paradise Hellfire Day of Judgment, these types of things, I guarantee you that will
not only make you it will make you jump out of bed to pray tomorrow.
		
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			It will make you jump out of bed to pray to workouts because that is where we're going. And so,
there's there is an incredible rectifying nature to learning about the Hereafter. And part of our
problem communally is that we don't talk about the hereafter that much anymore. When was the last
time you were sitting in the car with a friend and instead of talking about the Chicago Bulls
because let's be honest, there's nothing to talk about that you sat and you talked about paradise or
you talked about the Hellfire you talked about was the last time right we only talked about gender
and not almost now in academic settings. But when was the last time you in a friend just said you
		
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			know what let's let's read some a hadith about the hellfire. Let's talk about paradise.