Hacene Chebbani – The Power Of Voluntary Prayers In Islam
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The importance of voluntary prayers in achieving spiritual success is discussed, including the benefits and excellence of voluntary prayers, the Day of Jannah, and the importance of avoiding double counting during prayer. The speakers emphasize the importance of protecting one's sight and hearing, setting up daily prayer, and taking care of one's behavior. The importance of praying on time and organizing priorities is also emphasized.
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Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu.
Our program tonight is about the power and
the excellence of voluntary prayers in Islam.
Voluntary prayers are called Sunnah prayers.
They are called Nawafil in Arabic.
And Nafila is something extra that you do
for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala.
So aside from the five daily prayers that
a Muslim, every Muslim must perform on a
daily basis, we have these Nawafil, Sunnah prayers
that are prescribed, they are part of our
prayers.
And they were prescribed by Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala and his Messenger ﷺ.
And neglecting them does not expose the Muslim
to the punishment of Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala.
There are some scholars who said if someone
insists on neglecting these Nawafil and voluntary prayers,
he will be blamed on the Day of
Judgment.
Some ulama said that the Messenger of Allah
ﷺ will blame him and tell him on
the Day of Judgment, why did you leave
my Sunnah?
But to the best of my knowledge, this
is not something confirmed.
If I confirm it, I'll share it with
you.
But so far, to the best of my
knowledge, this is not something confirmed.
Because we know from a famous hadith in
which an Arabi, a Bedouin came to Rasulullah
ﷺ and this hadith is always used by
the ulama to say, any other prayer besides
the five daily prayers is not mandatory, is
not an obligation.
In this hadith, this Arabi, this Bedouin asked
Rasulullah ﷺ about the arkan of Islam, the
pillars of Islam.
When he came to Salat, he told him
about the five daily prayers, five prayers every
day and night.
So this Arabi, this Bedouin, he said, I
will do exactly what you said.
I'm not going to add anything, but I'm
not going to delete from them.
So I will do exactly what you said,
five daily prayers.
And after he left, Rasulullah ﷺ said, He
will be successful if he's saying the truth.
If he's saying the truth, if he will
do exactly the five daily prayers, then on
the Day of Judgement he will be successful.
So all the ulama use this, they always
use this dalil to say that all the
other voluntary prayers are not mandatory.
They are not mandatory.
But some of them are highly recommended.
Some of them are regular sunnah prayers.
We will know insha'Allah the details, insha
'Allah the details of all the sunnah prayers
in the next halaqat.
This one and the next one and maybe
another one.
For three weeks we will talk in detail
about all the voluntary prayers and their status
in the shariah of Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala.
But now they are optional, but we can
confirm something.
Because I will share some amazing ahadith today
with you about the benefits and the excellence
of these voluntary prayers.
So there is no doubt that the one
who neglects them will miss great rewards.
Young people, there are some young people who
say, Okay, they tell their parents, be happy
that I am at least praying the five
daily prayers.
You don't want to do the voluntary prayers,
right?
And there are some adults here who don't
do them and they say, The excuse, we
are busy, we are kada, we are...
Mother, they say, I am busy with my
children, I am cooking for the family, doing
this and that.
People have their own excuses, right?
We are not going to blame them because
they are not blamed in shariah for not
doing them.
But I would like to confirm tonight that
the one who neglects them will be missing
great rewards.
This is number one.
And he will also, they will also miss
the opportunity, the opportunity for their obligatory prayers
to be rectified on the day of judgment.
To be rectified.
And we have a famous hadith about it
that I will share it with you today.
And this person might also miss the opportunity
of being one of those who could be
described as close friends of Allah.
It is a famous hadith about al-awliya,
al-wilaya.
How to have this status?
How do you build this strong and beautiful
relationship with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala?
And be among those who are called al
-awliya in Arabic?
I guess the best translation would be close
friends of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
I will share a hadith about this with
you tonight.
And also this person might miss the opportunity
to compete with the rest of Muslims about
high ranks in Jannah.
And there is an amazing hadith about it.
And I want you to pay attention to
it.
About those who have, the dwellers, the dwellers
of lofty mansions in Jannah.
Those who have high ranking in Jannah.
And how do you achieve this status?
So, and the person might also miss, you
know, calmness and serenity and tumalina in this
life.
Because when you get engaged with voluntary prayers,
you are basically doing what?
You are remembering Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
It is one form of remembrance.
Remembering Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Isn't it that with the remembrance of Allah,
the hearts are assured.
So, that's Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tawfiq.
Now we, I try to provide a proof
for all these statements.
I mentioned couple of statements here.
But everything has, is based on a proof
from the sunnah of our messenger sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam.
Now when it comes to rectifying our, the
conditions of our obligatory prayers.
We have this famous hadith.
And that was collected by all ashab sunan,
the four imams who wrote the sunan.
Imam Ahmed and maybe some other scholars.
But I know at least five ulama who
collected this hadith.
Tirmidhi, Nasa'i, Abu Dawood, Ibn Majah and
Imam Ahmed.
In this hadith, an Nabi alayhi sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam yaqul.
And this is also about the excellence of
the prayer in general.
Now, he said.
This hadith is sahih.
He said the first actions or deeds which
a servant will be held accountable for on
the day of judgment will be his prayer.
This is when it comes to ibadat.
When we talk about ibadat, acts of worship.
The first thing that the person will be
taken to account for on the day of
judgment is his salah.
When it comes to other issues, like violations
and crimes and everything.
Then the first thing will be blood, killing
someone, killing an innocent soul.
That will be the first problem to be
dealt with.
But when it comes to ibadat, the first
thing is salah.
So Rasulallah alayhi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
in this hadith.
If they are found to be sound, Ya
'ni his salah is good, mashallah, this man
was trying his best to perform his salah
in the best way.
Then he will be safe and successful.
This person will be safe and successful.
And his account for the other things will
be easy.
After the salah was found, mashallah, beautiful.
He beautifully performed his salah.
Then everything will be easy after that.
Rasulallah alayhi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he said
he will be safe and successful.
But if they are incomplete, his salah was
incomplete.
Then this person will be unfortunate, unfortunate and
a loser.
But there is good news here about those
who do the voluntary prayers.
So he said, however if any shortcomings are
found in the obligatory prayers, then the Lord
will say, the Lord Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala.
And here this is a proof that this
part of the hadith is a Qudsi hadith.
Because the next statement will be made by
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
It's a Qudsi hadith.
So they came to this person, his salah
was incomplete.
Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will make
a statement.
He will give an instruction to the malaika.
He will tell them, see if my servant
has any voluntary prayers with which the defect
or the deficiencies of his obligatory prayer are
rectified.
So your voluntary prayers will be used yawm
al qiyamah to rectify and fix and remedy
your obligatory prayers.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, complete
his obligatory prayers with his voluntary prayers.
And the rest of the deeds will be
treated in the same way.
Your fasting will be treated in the same
way.
That means if you had some issues and
problems with your fasting during Ramadan, which is
an obligation, then the malaika will look at
your voluntary fast to rectify your fasting in
Ramadan.
If you had some issues with your fasting
in Ramadan.
And the same thing with zakat.
If you had some issues, some shortcomings regarding
the obligation of paying the zakat, then the
malaika by the command of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala will look at your sadaqah, your
regular charities and try to rectify your obligations.
Now, what is the nature of this rectification
or remedy?
Or how does it work?
There are two opinions.
The first opinion is the opinion of a
small group of scholars.
They said the only things which will be
rectified on the Day of Judgment are shortcomings
within the prayer.
Within the obligatory prayer.
Like any destruction, lack of khushur, not praying
on time, doing the prayer but not on
time.
So these are shortcomings within the prayer.
So these are the obligatory prayers which were
missed, will not be rectified.
And that is the opinion of a small
group of Muslim scholars.
The majority, they have a different opinion.
Majority of Muslim scholars, they have a different
opinion.
They said all deficiencies, all shortcomings in the
obligatory prayers will be rectified with the voluntary
prayers.
And I adopt this opinion, the second one.
Why?
Because the hadith is a general statement.
The hadith, Rasulallah s.a.w. said in
the hadith, He said, if any shortcomings are
found in the obligatory prayers, then Allah s
.w.t. will say this and this and
this and this.
So Rasulallah s.a.w. did not say,
if any shortcomings within his obligatory prayers are
found, then it will be rectified, they will
be rectified with his voluntary prayers.
He said, any shortcomings, which is a general
statement.
And this should include the obligatory prayers that
were missed.
So if someone missed some obligatory prayers when
he was young, and he is not able
to, it is safer, it is better to
make them up now.
Right?
If you have extra time, if you have
time.
And we have time, actually, if we want
to.
If we want to make the time for
them.
But if someone is extremely busy, is not
able to make up those prayers, then inshallah,
we hope that his voluntary prayers will be
used on the Day of Judgment.
His sunnah prayers, his nawafil will be used
on the Day of Judgment to rectify and
fix the obligatory prayers.
Or any shortcomings in his obligatory prayers.
So now you know the importance of, and
this is only one proof.
Now, the second proof here that I have
tonight, about the obligation of this, the importance,
not the obligation, the importance and the excellence
of these voluntary prayers.
There was a tabi'i, his name is
Ma'dan ibn Abi Talha al-Ya'muri al-Kinani.
He was from the area of Hisham.
Great tabi'i.
Used to, you know, learn from the sahaba
radiallahu anhu.
So he came to Thauban, he said, لقيت
Thauban, مولى رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم
فقلت أخبرني بعمل أعمله يدخلني الله به الجنة
So he came to Thauban, who was a
sahabi, a friend, a companion of Rasulullah صلى
الله عليه وسلم.
And he told him, tell me about a
deed.
If I do, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
if I perform, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
will allow me to go to Jannah.
Because of it, because of this deed, right?
And Thauban kept quiet.
He asked him three times, he kept quiet.
I don't know why, the reason why Thauban
kept quiet for three times.
Maybe he was thinking, what could be the
best deed?
Wanted to help him with some information.
This is a tabi'i.
So he said, Thauban, سألت عن ذلك رسول
الله صلى الله عليه وسلم He said, I
asked Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم the same
question about this.
قال فقال, رسول صلى الله عليه وسلم قال
عليك بكثرة السجود فإنك لا تسجد لله سجدة
إلا رفعك الله بها درجة وحط عنك بها
خطيئة حديث في صحيح مسلم حديث هذا في
صحيح مسلم So this tabi'i, Ma'dan ibn
Abi Talha, he came, as I said, to
Thauban and he asked him about, tell me,
he just told me about a good deed.
Something that I can do and Allah سبحانه
وتعالى will allow me or give me Jannah
as a reward for these deeds.
So Thauban told him, I asked Rasulullah صلى
الله عليه وسلم about the same thing.
And he said, prostrate much.
This is what Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم
told him.
عليك بكثرة السجود Prostrate much to Allah سبحانه
وتعالى for you did not prostrate to Allah
one time except that Allah سبحانه وتعالى would
raise, look at this hadith, will raise your
rank one degree with it.
So for every sajda, when you pray two
rak'ahs, how many sajdas you do?
Four.
And then Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم told
Thauban, for every sajda, Allah will raise your
rank one degree with it and will erase
one sin for you.
So you are raised one degree in Jannah.
Not in this dunya.
In Jannah.
And we need to combine this with another
hadith, I'll tell you about it.
So your rank will be raised one degree
in Jannah and one of your sins will
be erased for every sajda.
And of course, all the ulema understood from
this hadith that Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم
is not talking about an isolated sajda that
we do for no reason.
This is not sunnah.
Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم did not do
it, the sahaba did not do it.
All the ulema understood from this hadith and
similar hadith that Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم
is talking about nawafil, about voluntary prayers, about
sujood during salah.
During salah.
Making sujood, prostrating to Allah صلى الله عليه
وسلم during salah.
There are some people who understood differently.
They have a different understanding.
That it's okay for you to do a
single sajda without any reason.
If you do a single sajda by itself,
it has to be justified.
Either it is a prostration for recitation, sujood
tilawah.
Or prostration for gratitude.
Prostration of gratitude.
Sujood shukur.
You hear some good news.
Your son graduated or he got some money
or anything.
Good news about someone, a family member who
left the hospital.
You can make sujood, sujood shukur.
In a prostration of gratitude.
Or you make extra sujood after the salah
to forgetfulness.
Sujood sahoo.
Right?
But there is no sujood by itself.
Because I saw people, after they finish the
salah, they say salamu alaykum.
And then they do sujood, sajda.
They perform one sajda.
It's not sujood sahoo.
Just sajda, another sajda, an extra sajda for
the sake of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم.
This is not part of the sunnah.
Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم is talking about
sujood during the salah.
Or within the salah.
Now what happens when you achieve high ranking
in jannah?
Ah, I want you to pay attention to
this hadith.
I want you to really pay attention to
this hadith.
This hadith is amazing.
In this hadith, Bukhari and Muslim.
Bukhari and Muslim.
Agreed upon.
وَالنِّسَاءُ يَدْخُلْنَا أَيضًا فِي هَذِهِ الْعِبَارَةِ كُلْمَا ذُكِرَ
الرِّجَالِ فِي ثَوَابِ الْآخِرَةِ النِّسَاءُ يَدْخُلْنَا مُبَاشَرَةً فِي
هَذِهِ الْعِبَارَةِ رِجَالٌ آمَنُوا بِاللَّهِ وَصَدَّقُوا الْمُرْسَلِينَ يعني
ليسوا أنبياء.
This hadith is amazing يا إخوان.
What happens to you, what do you get?
When your rank is raised in jannah.
This is Bukhari and Muslim.
The hadith of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri.
Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم.
And this is by the way one of
the easy ways to raise your rank in
jannah.
He said Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم.
The people of paradise.
Not the people of jahannam.
The people of paradise will look at the
dwellers of the lofty mansions in jannah above
them.
Will look.
The people in paradise in jannah.
Will look at the dwellers of the lofty
mansions above them.
He said the way.
In the same way as one looks at
a brilliant star.
He used the word Kawkab.
Kawkab is sometimes translated as star.
Sometimes translated as planet.
But he said shiny or brilliant.
So we don't know he meant star or
a planet.
But usually people will live on planets.
That's a different story here.
But he didn't say that these people will
be in different planets.
But this is a possibility.
I'll tell you about it.
It's a possibility.
I cannot confirm it.
But he's comparing the distance between those who
are in the lofty mansions.
And those who are in jannah.
The people of jannah will be looking at
these people.
Living in lofty mansions.
The same way we look in this life.
At a brilliant star in the west or
the east on the horizon.
On the horizon.
Imagine yourself now.
You go outside and you look at the
star in the sky.
What could be the distance between you and
this star?
What could be the distance?
Thousands of miles?
That's a possibility, right?
This is what NASA is doing.
Is saying these days, right?
When they talk about the locations of these
stars.
And the locations of these planets.
And we have planets in the solar system.
We have exoplanets and so on and so
forth.
So, and Rasulallah ﷺ continued.
He said, all that is because of their
superiority over one another.
So people will be in different levels.
And these levels are beyond our imagination.
This difference between different levels.
Is beyond our imagination.
And then the sahaba here asking this question.
Because when they heard this statement.
They thought about something.
That these places, lofty mansions.
Must be the dwelling places of what?
Of prophets and messengers.
So they ask him, ya Rasulallah, oh messenger
of Allah.
Are these lofty mansions for prophets and messengers?
Which no one else can reach.
That was the understanding of the sahaba.
And Rasulallah ﷺ said, no.
He confirmed that this place is not for
prophets and messengers.
But in a very interesting way.
He said, no.
By Allah in whose hand is my soul.
They are people who believed in Allah and
his messengers.
Like you and me.
Allahu Akbar.
So this, everyone is invited.
Invited to raise towards Jannah.
This invitation is open for everyone.
It's a raise, ya Ikhwan.
And for every sajdah, remember.
For every sajdah, your ranking.
You are raised one degree.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will raise your
ranking one degree.
And will raise one of your sins.
And it's up to you.
My goal in this halaqah is to help
you to love voluntary prayers.
And to change your perspective about voluntary prayers.
Especially young people.
So this hadith, I made a comment about
it.
But I'm not sure about it.
That Jannah could be located in different planets,
in different Allah wa alam.
No one has said anything.
So I'm not going to confirm it.
I would respect my limitations.
I cannot confirm it.
But there is a hint in the hadith.
That people on the day of judgment could
be living in different planets.
And think about it.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has created billions
of galaxies and planets.
Maybe for a reason.
Allah wa alam.
I cannot confirm it.
But there is a hint in this hadith.
But what is confirmed in this hadith.
That there will be on the day of
judgment, different levels.
And there are some people who will be
living in lofty mansions.
And people will be looking at them without,
by the way, without any grudges.
Without any negative feelings.
There is no negative feelings in Jannah.
No grudges in Jannah.
No pain in Jannah.
And there is no regret.
I searched this matter.
Is there any regret in Jannah?
Yes, there is a hadith.
Famous hadith.
The people of Jannah will have
no
regrets except for an hour which passed by.
In which they did not remember Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
But this hadith is not confirmed.
Some ulama said it could be hassan.
Some ulama said no, it is daif.
So this hadith is controversial.
That's why many ulama believe that there is
no regret in Jannah.
There is no regret.
Right?
If there is any regret, it will be
before.
When people are taken to account before they
enter Jannah.
When people are taken to account and their
deeds are presented to them, then they will
feel the pain at that moment.
But after they go to Jannah.
So these people, yes, they recognize that there
is a huge difference between them, people of
Jannah.
Between them and those who live in this
lofty mansions.
But without hassan, without jealousy, without envy, without
any grudges, without any negative feelings.
Because they will be happy too.
The rest of the people will be happy
in Jannah, right?
But they will be able to recognize the
difference between themselves, their status, their ranking and
the ranking of those people who were racing
towards Jannah with nawafil and with good deeds.
The third proof about the excellence of voluntary
prayers.
There is a story that took place after
the hijrah of Rasulallah ﷺ.
And this story is amazing.
This is a beautiful hadith.
Rasulallah ﷺ, we know that he left the
city of Mecca and he went to Medina.
And everyone knows, everyone knows the way he
left Mecca.
He was not alive.
People didn't give him a party in the
city of Mecca.
They were not friendly to him.
They were trying to kill him, right?
They sent people after him.
They told them if anyone was able to
catch Muhammad, and we say ﷺ, our Prophet.
If anyone is able to bring him dead
or alive, we give him 100 camels as
a reward.
So people were going into different directions looking
for our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ with his companions.
Left the city of Mecca.
Before he left, they were trying to what?
You know that, they were trying to kill
him, to assassinate him.
They had a plot.
And they came, they surrounded his house.
But luckily, alhamdulillah, Rasulallah ﷺ got the news
from Jibreel that they were trying to kill
him.
So he left his house.
And he left Ali ﷺ in his bed.
And he knew that nothing will happen to
Ali.
I don't want you to think anything.
Don't entertain any negative thought about this.
He knew, Rasulallah ﷺ knew that nothing will
happen to Ali.
And Ali ibn Abi Talib will be safe.
But anyway, these are the conditions in which
Rasulallah ﷺ left the city of Mecca.
He was running, fleeing the city.
And these people were, they killed some of
his companions.
They were persecuting his companions.
They did not accept his message.
They were saying he is a liar, he
is a majnoon, a crazy, he was this
and this and this and this.
Right?
Now he reached the city of Medina.
Abdullah ibn Salam, who was a Jewish scholar
at that time.
He was a Jew before he accepted Islam.
He said, I decided to go and look
at the face of this man.
Try to get more information about him.
This man claimed that he is a prophet,
that he is a messenger of God.
And these people, they are the Jews, they
got some knowledge.
They got some knowledge about prophets and messengers.
They are familiar with the Torah and the
Injil.
They have their own stories.
And he was a scholar among his people.
So he wanted to know, who is this
man?
And he said, I want to meet him.
And I looked at his face.
I recognized immediately that this is not the
face of a liar.
But this is not the proof that I
am trying to talk here, to use here.
He said, the first thing when Rasulallah ﷺ
reached the city of Medina, Rasulallah ﷺ made
a statement.
And this statement is very beautiful.
And I believe that this is a miracle.
Because if anyone else was in his shoes,
if I was in his place, I wouldn't
be speaking this language.
I would be talking about my enemies.
Now I reached the city of Medina.
I am planning to build maybe an army,
to build a state.
We are powerful now.
We should take revenge and do this and
that and that and deal with them.
We are going to show them.
This is the language of someone who is
in these conditions.
They were trying to kill him.
If he speaks this language, you give him
the benefit of doubt.
You say, okay, I mean, he has the
right to speak this way because they were
about to kill him.
You know what he said?
What Rasulallah ﷺ said?
The statement that he made.
He said, This hadith, we need to spend
some time with it.
He said, oh people, extend the greetings of
peace.
The greetings of salam.
They were trying to kill him.
He is talking about peace.
Rasulallah ﷺ.
Feed people.
Give food to people.
And keep the ties of kinship.
And pray at night.
And this part is related to our subject
tonight.
This part is related to our subject tonight.
And pray at night while people are asleep.
You will enter Jannah in peace.
And we need to understand, what does it
mean to enter Jannah in peace?
Ya Ikhwan, this hadith is amazing.
Wallahi, whenever I think about it, I just
say, la ilaha illallah.
This man was Rasulallah haqqan.
He was true messenger of God.
Because if he was someone else, he would
be behaving in a different way.
He is talking about peace.
About feeding the poor and the needy.
He is talking about keeping the ties of
kinship.
His mind is in a different...
He is thinking about other things.
He is not thinking about his enemies who
are trying to kill him.
Because he was a true messenger of God.
He was a teacher.
He knew his mission very well.
He knew his mission.
He was sent as a teacher to teach
humanity.
Right?
What a beautiful message.
But what is related to our halaqah tonight,
is the part in which he said, صلوا
بالليلي ونسوا نيام.
Pray at night while people are asleep.
So he is talking about voluntary prayers.
Extra prayers at night.
And he said, you will enter Jannah in
peace.
So he talked about the greeting of peace.
And we need to know, offering salam.
Offering salam is not wajib.
It is recommended.
Returning salam is wajib.
You need to know that.
And yeah, Ikhwan, please.
There is a phenomenon in our communities.
I don't know.
I have no explanation for this phenomenon.
A problem.
I would call it a problem.
That two people would be standing up together,
talking to each other.
Two people.
One of the brothers would come, because he
knows the first one, he doesn't know the
second one.
He would shake hands with the first one,
and completely ignore the second one and leaves.
To me, this is a big problem.
You have a Muslim here standing up, talking
to the other brother.
You come and you shake hands with one
of the brothers, and you ignore the second
one because you don't know him.
I have seen it many times.
In this community and other communities.
وَهَذِهِ مِنْ عَلَامَاتِ السَّاعَةِ السَّلَامُ بِالْمَعْرِفَةِ One of
the signs, minor signs of the Day of
Judgment, is that people will offer Salam based
on معرفة, relationship.
If you don't have a relationship with him,
he doesn't offer Salam to you.
If you don't know the person, you don't
say Salam to them.
So Rasulullah ﷺ, he said, أَفْشُوا, you know
أَفْشُوا, what does أَفْشُوا extend?
Spread the greetings of Salam.
This is the first instruction or piece of
guidance.
And then he said, feed people.
And the Ulama, they said, feeding people here
include, honoring your guests, giving food to your
guests, number one.
Giving food as a gift to other people,
gift.
And feeding the poor and the needy.
Three ways of feeding people.
Honoring your guests by giving them food.
Giving food as a gift to your neighbor
or friend or someone else.
And also feeding the poor and the needy.
This is number two.
And then he said, keep the ties of
kinship.
And we know Salatul Rahim is a big
subject in our deen.
And I think the lowest level of keeping
the ties of kinship, is that you purify
your hearts.
I purify my heart from any hard feelings
towards my family members.
Nothing in my heart, nothing in my heart
against my family members.
This is the lowest maybe, the minimum requirement.
The lowest level of keeping the ties of
kinship, Salatul Rahim.
And then he said, pray at night while
people are asleep.
You will enter paradise in peace.
What does it mean in peace?
This is very important.
So Alim, one of the Ulama, he said,
it means you will not enter Jahannam before
you go into paradise.
And you will not be taken to account
extensively.
If anyone is interrogated while being taken to
account, he will be punished.
If someone is taken to a large extent,
taken to account to a large extent, extensively,
that means the Malaikah will look at every
deed and they will ask him about every
sin, this person definitely he will be punished.
So, we can conclude from this ahadith that
the people of Jannah are three types.
There are three groups.
The first group, they enter Jannah without hisab.
Without being taken to account.
Going to Jannah without any question.
First group.
And they are not 70,000, they are
more than 70,000.
Because there is a hadith that says they
are 70,000, but there is another hadith
that these 70,000 will make shafa'ah
to a bigger number of Muslims, and they
will go with them.
Big number.
Insha'Allah, Ya Rabb.
So, this is the first group.
The second group who will enter Jannah after
being taken to account in an easy way.
So, his account is easy.
This is the second group.
The third group who will enter Jannah, these
people have committed major sins, and they were
not forgiven for these major sins, but they
are Muslims.
They will go, Umar, pay attention.
Pay attention, Umar.
Umar, pay attention.
He's not listening.
You're talking.
I want you to pay attention.
The third group of people, will go to
Jannah after they go to Jahannam.
So, their hisab will be extensive.
They are taken to account extensively, in details,
and then they will go to Jahannam, and
then they will be forgiven, and they go
to Jannah.
Three groups.
So, the first two groups will enter Jannah
in peace.
These are the ones who will enter Jannah
in peace.
This is the first group of people.
The first two groups, sorry.
The first two groups of people, those who
will enter Jannah without any hisab, and those
who will enter Jannah about, after being taken
to account in an easy way.
Hisab yaseer.
What is hisab yaseer?
The ulema, they said, is arzul a'mal, presentation
of deeds.
His deeds will be presented to him.
Yeah, no, this day you did this, and
this, and this.
Just, he will be reminded.
He will be reminded.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will say,
Okay, I'll forgive you today.
He will not go to Jannah.
But his deeds will be presented to him.
This is hisab yaseer.
Easy account.
But the third group, they will be in
trouble.
So, if you want to be among the
first group of people, or the second group,
you enter Jannah in peace, you do what?
Night salah, and?
Voluntary, increase your voluntary prayers.
In general, Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam here
mentioned qiyam al-layl.
But all voluntary prayers should be, inshallah, included.
Increase your voluntary prayers.
So that is the hadith, the beautiful hadith,
when Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam went to
the city of Medina.
The other proofs, there are some other proofs.
I have the fourth proof here, about the
excellence of voluntary prayers.
And Uqba ibn Aamir radiallahu anhu, that he
heard Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam say, What
of you are Muslims who make wudu and
perform wudu?
Look at the steps of this, this, you
know, prayer here.
So you make wudu.
He makes wudu and performs wudu.
Then he stands up, and prays two rak
'ahs.
He is welcomed with his heart and his
face.
With his heart and his face.
Allah Akbar.
Just for two rak'ahs.
Look at this hadith, this hadith is amazing.
Sahih Muslim.
This hadith is in Sahih Muslim.
In this hadith Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
he said, If any Muslim performs ablution well,
he follow the sunnah, while doing wudu.
So you perform wudu in the best way.
Following the sunnah of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
Then stands and pray two rak'ahs.
Pay attention to this.
Two rak'ahs.
He didn't say ten.
He didn't say twenty.
He didn't say thirty.
He said two rak'ahs.
Concentrating on them with his heart and face.
Face meaning he is not looking around.
His child is passing in front of him.
He is following his child with his eyes.
Or the cat is going around him.
Or whatever.
So he is not paying attention to anything
else.
He is looking at the qibla, the place
of his sujood, or in the direction of
the qibla.
But what is difficult is concentrating with his
heart.
This is kind of difficult.
It's very difficult.
You can try it.
You can try it.
But it's not impossible.
Make wudu and pray just two rak'ahs.
He didn't say dhuhr or asr or kada.
Just two rak'ahs.
But you do it with this attitude.
With this attitude.
That you don't.
You concentrate with your heart and face.
You don't think about anything else.
What did he say?
Then jannah will be guaranteed for him.
Jannah will be guaranteed.
إِلَّا وَجَبَتْ لَهُ الْجَنَّةِ That means if a
person decides to make wudu in the best
way, prays two rak'ahs with full concentration,
without thinking of anything else, he was fully
focused in his salat, he did his salat
with full khushu, and dies after these two
rak'ahs, what will happen to him?
Jannah is guaranteed.
He will be in jannah.
Two rak'ahs only.
The fifth proof about the excellence of the
voluntary rak'ahs, عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ
عَنْهُ The messenger of Allah, SAW, was passing
by a grave..
He asked, who is the owner of this
grave?
They said, this person.
He said, two rak'ahs are more dear
to me than the rest of your lives.
Or, in another narration, Two light rak'ahs,
which you are missing, are more dear to
him than the rest of your lives.
So Rasulullah SAW in this story, Abu Huraira
is telling us about this story, he passed
by a grave, and he asked the sahaba,
who is buried in this grave?
Who is the companion of this grave?
من صاحب هذا القبر?
Who is the companion of this grave?
And they said, fulan, they mentioned a name.
The hadith doesn't mention a name.
So and so.
Muhammad or Ali or Ahmed or someone, a
Muslim who passed away, and he was buried
in that grave.
So Rasulullah SAW, he said, and this is
very important, the Akhwan, he said, two short
rak'ahs, pay attention to the importance and
the beauty and the power of voluntary prayers.
Two short rak'ahs, which you don't pay
attention to their excellence.
We come here to the masjid, standing up
like this, praying two rak'ahs.
You don't feel like you're doing something great,
right?
He said, Rasulullah SAW, you don't pay attention
to their excellence.
You do them, but you don't pay attention
to their power.
To the power of these two rak'ahs
that we do.
So he said, I'm more beloved to this
man who is in the grave than the
rest of your worthy life.
Allahu Akbar.
Why?
Because this man, now, indahu yaqeem, now yaqeem,
certain knowledge, has no doubt about the value
of these prayers.
He's in the grave now.
Now, he doesn't think about his bank account,
has no value in his sight now.
Status in the community, no value.
Degree, nothing.
Nothing.
A name, fame, property.
Now, this man, he's in the grave, he
knows the value of these two rak'ahs.
That's why Rasulullah SAW said, these two rak
'ahs, which we don't, we don't value, we
don't pay attention to their excellence, they are
more beloved to this man who is in
the grave than the rest of your worthy
life.
And this hadith is sahih, sahih al-jamil.
And the hadith of al-awliya, there is
a beautiful hadith, this hadith is very important
because it tells us how to reach this
status, to have a close relationship with Allah,
to be a wali of Allah, to be
described as a close friend.
I have some reservation about this translation, close
friends of Allah, but I don't have an
alternative.
If you know an alternative, let me know
about it.
But this is the description of a wali,
someone who has a very strong relationship with
Allah SWT.
So this hadith is in Bukhari, and it
is a Qudsi hadith.
The message is coming from Allah.
A Qudsi hadith.
And we learn our priorities from this hadith.
We learn our priorities from this hadith.
So he said, Rasulallah SAW said, inna Allaha
ta'ala qal, man aada li waliyan faqad
aadhantuhu bilharb.
man aada li waliyan faqad aadhantuhu bilharb.
Which means, whoever shows enmity to a wali
of mine, a close friend of mine, then
I have declared war against him.
Allah will declare war against this person, or
against this government, or against this regime, or
against this party, or against this militia, anything.
You declare war against a wali of Allah
SWT, you are at war with Allah SWT.
And you might maybe don't see the consequences
of your deeds, people don't see the consequences
of their deeds, but, yumhil wa la yuhmil.
Allah SWT give respite, but He does not
neglect.
He does not neglect.
Anyway, so Allah SWT is saying in this
Qudsi hadith, it's not Quran, man aada li
waliyan faqad aadhantuhu bilharb.
Then He told us how, what is the
best way to achieve this status.
wa ma taqarraba ilayya abdi bishay'in ahabba
ilayya mimma iftaraqtuhu alayhi.
Allah SWT said, and my servant does not
draw near to me with anything that is
more beloved to me than the religious duties
which I have obligated upon him.
So you start with mandatory prayers.
You start with mandatory fast.
You take care of your zakat before you
give sadaqa.
You have to organize your priorities.
Allah SWT made an obligation upon you and
me to pray dhuhr on time, asr on
time.
I cannot just ignore and neglect my mandatory
prayers and at night, mashallah, I stand up
and do qiyam al-layl.
It doesn't work this way.
Because we heard some stories, or questions coming
to shuyukh about people who, they don't know
how to organize their, their priorities when it
comes to ibadah.
Someone who neglects his five daily prayers, he
doesn't do them properly, goes to work, and
he doesn't pray dhuhr on time, he doesn't
pray asr on time, comes home, he prays
dhuhr and asr and maghrib maybe together, and
this is a major problem.
At night, after isha, he would do qiyam
al-layl.
I mean, it's better for you to take
care of dhuhr and asr, pray them on
time, and you don't do qiyam al-layl,
then you will be in the safe side,
inshallah.
You'll be like the Arabi, the Bedouin, who
came to Rasulullah s.a.w. and he
said, I will do exactly what you said.
I'm not going to add anything, I'm not
going to delete anything.
And Rasulullah s.a.w. said, he will
be successful if he's saying the truth, right?
So Allah s.w.t in this Qudsi
hadith, is telling us, these are your priorities.
You wanna have this close relationship with Allah?
You start with the mandatory prayers.
All mandatory acts of worship, including zakat, hajj.
Like, if someone goes to Umrah for 10
times, every time he would spend 3,000,
4,000, multiply by 10, that's 30,000
and 40,000.
How about hajj?
This is rukn min al-arqan al-Islam,
one of the pillars of Islam.
Hajj is more important than Umrah.
Because the ulama disagreed about Umrah, whether it
is obligatory or not.
The right opinion could be obligatory, but at
least they had their disagreement about the status
of Umrah.
But no one disagreed about hajj, the status
of hajj.
Hajj is a faridah, is mandatory, agreed upon.
So you take care of your hajj, right?
If you went to Umrah one time, then
maybe next plan would be, should be for
hajj, right?
You save more money, inshallah, to go for
hajj.
This is just an idea, I'm just sharing
ideas here.
But let's talk about salah.
Salah, you take care of your five daily
prayers.
Do them on time.
And then inshallah, you take care of your
nawafil.
And this is what Allah said, وَلَا يَزَالُ
عَبْدِي يَتَقَرَّبُ إِلَيَّ بِالنَّوَافِلِ حَتَّى أُحِبَّهِ يا سلام
فَإِذَا أَحْبَبْتُهُ كُنتُ سَمْعَهُ الَّذِي يَسْمَعُ بِهِ وَبَصَرَهُ
الَّذِي يُبْصِرُ بِهِ وَيَدَهُ الَّتِي يَبْطِشُ بِهَا وَرِجْلَهُ
الَّتِي يَمْشِي بِهَا وَلَا إِنْ سَأَلَنِي لَأُعْطِيَنَّهُ وَلَا
إِنْ إِسْتَعَاذَنِي لَأُعِيذَنَّهُ Complete protection.
So he said, after he talked about the
mandatory prayers, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said,
I'm saying Allah because it's Qudsi hadith.
And my servant continues, continues, after he took
care of his mandatory prayers, continues to draw
near to me with nawafil.
We're talking about voluntary prayers here, with nawafil
and voluntary deeds, until I love him.
So you continue doing the nawafil, at a
certain point, Allah will love you.
And then he said, فَإِذَا أَحْبَبْتُهُ When I
love you, what will happen?
I will become his hearing with which he
hears, and his sight with which he sees,
his hands with which he strikes, his leg
with which he walks.
And if he asks me something, I give
it.
I give him.
And if he asks for my, seeks my
protection or refuge, I will surely protect him.
This is in Bukhari.
This is in Bukhari, Ikhwan.
And this is of course, all the ulama
agree that this is a figurative speech.
I become his sight with which he sees,
his hearing with which he hears.
All of them agree that this is metaphorical.
This is not real, right?
Allah SWT doesn't become your sight with which
you see.
But it means that Allah SWT will protect
your sight, will protect your hearing.
You don't hear something haram.
You don't see something haram.
You try to lower your gaze.
You don't do something haram with your hands.
You don't do something haram.
You don't walk to something haram with your
feet.
So you become protected.
Allah SWT is protecting you, is guiding you.
And then if you make dua, if Allah
knows that this is good for you, He
will give it to you.
Otherwise He will protect you against a masiba,
a calamity, or He will save it to
you on the day of judgment.
And if you seek His protection, He will
give it to you.
You become a wali of Allah by doing
what?
Following the right steps.
Taking care of your mandatory prayers, mandatory acts
of worship.
And then you increase your nawafil.
And there is also another story about those
whom Allah SWT loves.
If Allah loves you, what will happen to
you?
There is another story.
And this hadith also is found in Bukhari.
So the first one is in Bukhari.
The second one is in Sahih Bukhari too.
So Rasulullah SAW told us, Allah
will give a command to Jibreel to love
so and so.
So Rasulullah SAW said, When Allah loves someone,
He will call upon Jibreel.
I love so and so, so love him.
Jibreel will love him.
Will love this person.
And then Rasulullah SAW said, Jibreel will call
out the people of the heavens.
Who are the people of the heavens?
Malaika, angels.
And he will say, Allah SWT loves so
and so, so love him.
So the malaika in the heavens will love
this person.
And then, Then acceptance is placed on earth
for him.
The believers will feel comfortable with this person.
Believers will listen to this person.
He will have a better relationship with the
rest of the believers.
It doesn't mean that on earth, doesn't mean
that everyone will love him.
Because the people of kuffar will not love
this person.
Obviously.
The kuffar will not love him.
He is following the straight path.
The hypocrites will not love him.
But the people of faith, the people of
iman will love him.
Will respect him.
He will have a better relationship with the
rest of the believers.
And the angels will love him.
And Jibreel, the chief of all the angels
will love him.
And before that, Allah SWT will love him.
This is in Sahih Bukhari.
You make a connection between this hadith and
the first hadith.
This hadith doesn't talk about nawafil.
But you have to put together, 1 plus
1 equal to, put these two hadith together.
Right?
This is the end result of someone who
organized his priorities, took care of his mandatory
prayers, and then he kept on doing nawafil.
Until Allah SWT loved him.
I think that's enough for tonight.
And next week inshallah, we'll start talking about
these nawafil.
The classification of different nawafil.
What is highly recommended, what is not highly
recommended.
The sunan of Rasulallah ﷺ.
There are some disagreements there.
Talk about witr, about tuha, about sunnatul wudu,
about tahiyyatul masjid.
And all the different, try to cover all
the different volunteer prayers in the next maybe
two weeks inshallah.
Because some people are confused about what is
highly recommended, what is not highly recommended.
We'll try to share with you some ahadith
about these nawafil inshallah.
And we teach them to our kids and
our families.
Share this knowledge with our friends, community members.
If someone else gets this knowledge from you,
and they act upon it, you get the
same reward.
Same reward.
So don't neglect your family members and your
friends and your neighbors.
And people nowadays are able to share through
WhatsApp, through Facebook, through Instagram, or by talking
in person to other people.
And next week the halaqa will start at
7.30 after isha, immediately, like tonight.
But it will be 7.30 for the
whole winter inshallah.
Jazakum Allah khair.