Farah Islam – Being ME Virtual Qiyam

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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inshallah we'll see you for the next webinar SNM Lonnie Kumar

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