Farah Islam – Virtual Qiyam #01

Bismillah Alhamdulillah wa Salatu was Salam ala Rasulillah Salam wa

Aliko My dear being me, sisters, Giselle colloquia. And for joining

me, I'm your host, Dr. Farah high stem for a very special session on

the beauty of PM. And I wanted 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 Musa

mill, which is the 72nd chapter of the Quran. When I read the Tafseer

of this surah honestly, and 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 tafsir of it in tafsir Ibn kefir, there is a great

account from Arusha, the Mother of the Believers really love what 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 fun with 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 her

the Allahu Allah describes it. And it was only later after an entire

year had passed, that Allah has put it with the honor revealed the

last part of this surah where he lightens that burden, and says

that, that 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

messengers, hello, I Neva send them that they would stand in

prayer for so long. And basically Allah Spinoza Anna 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 swell

as well as panela. Honestly, that shook me when I read that,

consider the lives that they lead the companions that 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 and what that time was like. And so they're spending the

entire day in that kind of persecution. And then almost the

entire night, it was fun with the Isla has made it obligatory,

followed 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. I just I had to have it. So it's panela I

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 then 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 the the obligatory prayer upon the early

believers? What's so special about it? What's so amazing about it?

And so, let's begin with the honor actually gives us an answer to

this answer and Muzammil. in it. He says, in the nursery at the

lady here, I shared 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 a

prayer is better training for the heart for the spiritual heart for

the club. And the tongue is more conducive to recitation. I mean,

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

or obligation. And that's kind of how a rat race kind of day often

goes. But Subhanallah 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 this halwa brings this

beautiful seclusion, this stillness, where we can really

feel it's just me and Allah. It's kind of what kind of was 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, oh, we always love to have her as a speaker handed in there 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 contain 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 nafs

Subhan Allah 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 rune 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, 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 who 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 look 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 spawn with the honor allow

to headjoint allow pm allow the beauty and power of night worship

to illuminate our homes.

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rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.