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Bismillah Alhamdulillah wa Salatu was Salam ala Rasulillah Salam ye
Nico My dear being me sisters, Giselle Kamala Clayton, for
joining me. I'm your host, Dr. Ferrara I, Sam, for a very special
session on the beauty of PM. And I want to start out by sharing how
if I think about if I reflect upon what is a Surah, or verse of the
Quran that really changed my life, I'd have to say it was surah and
moslem mill, which is the 72nd chapter of the Quran, when I read
the Tafseer of this surah honestly, I'm not exaggerating
here, it changed my life. And so if there are any sorrows or any
verses from the Quran that changed your life, please do share them in
the comments below because it's always beautiful for us to learn
from each other to be inspired by each other. And so, in Surah, and
Musa mill in the Deaf survey in tafsir, Ibn katheer There is a
great account from Arusha, the Mother of the Believers really
loved while I'm here, in which he states how in the beginning of
Surah, and Musa mill night worship or pm was actually made obligatory
upon the believers, it was actually a thought of prayer.
Right so the the messenger so low, it was sent down and his
companions are the Allahu Anhu actually stood for an entire year
in night worship, until their feet swelled. This is how I showed on
the low one had describes it. And it was only later after an entire
year had passed, that Allah is going to with the Allah revealed
the last part of this surah where he lightens that burden, and says
that night worship is actually only optional now. It is only
voluntary prayer now and when it used to be obligatory.
Honestly, when I read that, the companions and our beloved
messenger are so low, it was setting them that they would stand
in prayer for so long. And basically Allah Spano Dinah says
in the in that story, you know, to stand to pray all the night,
except a little half of it or a little less than that. So
basically, they're saying almost the entire night in worship,
right, so much so and with such dedication, and with such love,
that their feet are swelling, and in one narration, it said that
their shins would would swell as well as panela. Honestly, that
shook me when I read that, consider the lives that they lead
the Companions, the early believers at that time, right, it
was a time of extreme fear of extreme persecution, where they
had to hide their Deen had to hide their faith. And at the same time,
many were probably being discovered and being found out and
being tortured. Or it's panela. We cannot imagine honestly, what the
early believers must have gone through what that time was like.
And so they're spending the entire day in that kind of persecution.
And then almost the entire night of us going with the island has
made it obligatory, fall upon them, to spend it in night
worship, spend it in PM.
That's amazing, right? When I read that I am
I'm shaken by the love the dedication that those early
believers had. And when I read that, I couldn't not have this act
of worship in my life. It just, I had to have it. So it's panela and
worked, you know, really hard little by little to bring it into
my daily routine to bring it into my acts of worship throughout the
day. And it changed my life. I mean, I really did Subhan Allah.
And so you know, what is it that about night worship, you know, why
would Allah spend with the Allah make this one of the early
commands, you know, right after soon after the first revelation,
why would this be be the obligatory prayer upon the early
believers? What's so special about it? What's so amazing about it?
And so, Allah subhanaw taala actually gives us an answer to
this answer and wisdom mill. in it. He says, in the nursery at the
lady here, I should do what Oh, Maquila? Verily rising at night is
better for understanding and more suitable for speech or for
recitation, right? That the purpose of standing at night for
prayer is better training for the heart for the spiritual heart for
the column. And the tongue is more conducive to recitation. And it's
so true, right when we're going through the day. Oftentimes panela
you know, whether we want to or not, and obviously, I don't think
we want this to be the case. But oftentimes, we are rushing through
our prayers, it's often we have to pray to something else to tick off
our task list because we have to rush off and go to another meeting
or go to another
their obligation. And that's kind of how a rat race kind of day
often goes. But Scott, Allah, the night is an entirely different
beast, it's an entirely different time.
For example, in the, in the commentary, you know, Abdullah
Yusuf Ali, who I think has one of the most famous translations, most
famous English translations of the Quran, in his commentary of surah
and Muslim men, he says, The soul must stand bare and open before
Allah in the silence of the night. And that's so true, right? It's
exactly that at night, when when you are getting up from your bed,
forsaking your warm bed, especially in the cold and dead of
winter. Right, when you're getting up at night, solely for the sake
of Allah subhanaw taala solely for his divine pleasure. That's,
that's big, right? That's,
that's honestly powerful and incredible. And it's only in that
stillness in that serenity in that calm of the night, that we can
really commune with our Lord, where we can really have those
intimate conversations with our Creator,
which we can't have, when we're in that rat race that we go through
during the day. The night just brings us halwa brings this
beautiful seclusion, this stillness, where we can really
feel it's just me and Allah. It's kind of what's going on with
dialer and how powerful that silence can feel that stillness
can feel.
For example, as well to add to that, you know, steady Tamia
Zubair who is of course, a big favorite, a fan favorite of being
me, we always love to have her as a speaker 100 Allah, may Allah
have mercy upon her and her and her family, may Allah bless them
during this time. She said once in her Tafseer class, you build your
spiritual stamina through nightmare through pm, your knifes
or your ego is trampled by night worship, this is the only way you
can tame your knifes the only way you can lead it rather than having
your knifes lead you.
I thought that was such a powerful statement and so absolutely true.
Right? You are leaving the comfort of your warm, wonderful bed to get
up and to pray, get up to pray only for Allah subhanaw taala.
That is a powerful statement is a powerful punch in the gut to your
ego, your ego, your neffs, which only calls you to comfort only
calls you to hedonic pleasure, right only calls you to
just satisfying lust after lust, desire after desire. That's what
our neffs asks us to do. But when you say you know what, no, I'm not
going to sleep. I'm not going to. I'm not going to dream comfortably
in my wonderful warm bed. No, I'm going to get up because my lord,
my Creator, my akhira my hereafter is more important than this.
That's an incredible and powerful statement. And incredible and
powerful way to train your knifes
spine a lot just, again, what night worship is just so powerful
and so life changing, I think we cannot I think we can't fully
appreciate how amazing this act of worship really is. And, and I want
to end and I want to leave you with the beautiful quote of one of
the Debbie own. Who said that the angels look down from the heavens
upon those who pray tahajud as you look at the stars of the sky.
Isn't that such a beautiful? It's such a beautiful image that he
paints in that beautiful quote, basically he's saying how, just as
we look up at the stars of the sky, how the stars of the sky
illuminate the dark night. We as though are those of us as as
worshipers who are getting up at night to pray in our homes. In the
dead of the night in the stillness of the night. We are illuminating
the dunya we are illuminating the earth and the angels from the
heavens. The beautiful angels looked down upon us to see us
worshipping Allah Subhan Allah What a beautiful and incredible
image to think about and to aspire to May Allah splendid with the
Allah allow to headjoint allow pm allow the beauty and power of
night worship to illuminate our homes.
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again for tuning in for this special session and hopefully
inshallah we'll see you for the next webinar SNM Lonnie Kumar
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