Hamza Ayedi – Be Mindful of Allah Halaqa series #4
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Welcome everybody
to part 4 of our halakha series. Iffadillah.
Be mindful
of Allah.
This is the explanation of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam's advice to Ibn Abbas.
And we're explaining the book.
What's the book called everybody?
So today inshallah we were hoping to talk
about
asking Allah
seeking help from Allah
and starting to talk about Al Qadr Al
Qadr. Before we get started, I got some
candy. We got some review inshallah just to
make sure that we kind of recall what
we talked about last week.
So if you remember, we talked about that,
the prophet told him in Abbas
Be mindful of Allah and be mindful of
of the limits of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
and Allah will protect will protect you. And
we talked about some of the things that
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will protect in return
when you are mindful. What are some of
the things we mentioned? Yeah,
I got some strawberry ones today so maybe
this will motivate.
Protecting
you from
taking the wrong path.
Can I throw it? Can you catch it?
What else?
Has it.
Nam, He'll protect your wealth, your health.
Oh, nice catch. Oh, almost, almost.
A shot, you really want the candy, you
Allah. I'll give it to you because of
the shot, you Allah.
Be mindful of Allah and Allah will protect
you. But, it's it's general.
So we mentioned many things. From those things?
Then what about the most the most important
thing that you possess? What
Yeah. Every Muslim.
What's gonna what's the first thing the angel
will ask you in the grave?
Your deen. So the the most from the
most important thing that Allah will protect is
what? Your deen right? Yeah. What's your name?
Taeib. What else?
The fathers. Ah, your children.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will protect your
children. What was the proof for that we
mentioned last week?
What was the proof for that? We talked
about the story of
of Al Khadr, right? Musa and Al Khadr,
right? And they went to the town,
The those really greedy people that wouldn't even
offer them any food. Right? And even though,
uh-uh, Allah's
the father of the 2 the 2 the
2 orphan kids. Right?
Even though Allah, their father put a treasure
for them, like money for them to take
care of them in the future.
And it SubhanAllah. The wall was falling apart
and it's in the town where people are
really like greedy and Allah protected
protected them because why?
Their father was a righteous man and so
on.
We talked about how,
Yeah? Another thing is when you are mindful
of Allah you'll find him there with you.
So we talked about
of Allah.
What does that mean?
Like how is Allah with us? We said
there's 2 kinds first of all. What's the
2 kinds of Ma'iya?
That's one of the ways. So Allah Subhanahu
wa Ta'ala is with you. He's he's supporting
you with with,
what you see, what you do. Right? So
Allah guides you to see what's right and
guides you to stay away from what's wrong
and guides you to do what is right
and so on. So that's one of the
ways that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is with
you. We mentioned there's 2 kinds of Ma'iha.
What are
they? A general and a specific faddah.
Now, so Allah this is the general ma'iyah,
Allah is with with us
through His knowledge, and He knows what's happening
everywhere.
And then the other one is the more
specific, He's
with
and other ayat like that.
That Allah is with the believers.
So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is with the
believers. Yeah. And He specifically. And He's there
to support them and to aid them. Yeah.
It's not The other one is general like
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is aware of what's
happening with his knowledge,
etc. Okay. Jameel.
Next question.
We talked about getting to know Allah and
there was an advice that the Prophet gave
Ibn Abbas
about getting to know. When should you get
to know Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la?
Always. Always. So in the in the tough
times and in the?
Good? Good times. And the good times. Right?
So his
taraafirullahhi.
Right?
Right? The the default is that people get,
you know always go to Allah in times
of difficulty. Right? So the prophet is telling,
even Abbas,
don't be like that. Right? There's another level
you should aim for is what is that
you should be with Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.
And we mentioned the story of Yunus. Right?
We said that Yunus
when he was in the belly of the
whale. Right? In the darkness of the ocean
and darkness of this, you know of of
the of the skies. Right? Of the night.
And
the angels said, oh, Allah this is a
familiar voice from an unfamiliar place. And so
and they said to Allah this is a
person who used to always call to you
in the good times. Right?
Uh-uh and then Allah
of course Allah ordered
the whale to spit him out. And then
Allah said in the surah
That if he was not from the one
who used to remember Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la
in the good times, he would have stayed
in the belly of the whale until the
day of judgment.
Taib.
Taib. How do you get to know Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala? I don't know if we
went over this. We might have went over
this. We
talked about getting to What does that mean
when we say get to know Allah Subhana
Wa Ta'la? He says,
What does that mean? You need to get
to know Allah. What does that
mean?
Right? To be familiar with Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. Because when you get to know Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala what happens?
Your trust in Him increases.
When you get to know Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala
your trust in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala increases
right? And then your Hasan al Dun of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala increases. Your good thought
of Allah
increases
and that will bring you closer to Allah's
Muhammad. Jimmy, let's get down to business inshallah.
Today we want to talk about
asking Allah, singing His help and we're going
to talk about the khadul tab. As always
we start with our hadith.
I'm going to read the Arabic.
And
So that's the 1st generation. The 2nd generation
it says
So now we're in the in the part
where it says
So now the Prophet is telling Ibn Abbas,
if you need to ask,
who should you ask first? You should ask
Allah.
You should ask Allah.
I wanted to start with this ayah and
Surah Nisa. Allah says
Right?
This is the shahid this is the main
part.
And he asked Allah
from his bounties. Right?
Some of the they say that this eye
came down,
when she
told the prophet
you know how come
the men can go
for for fighting, right? And we can't.
The default was that the men would go
fight in the battles. Right? So and of
course this is like the highest status. And
that time when there was battles, that's the
highest status to go and be a martyr.
Right? And so she's like, Yani, it's almost
like she's saying, you know, they have an
advantage over us.
Right? And so, this ayah came down.
Right? Do not do not crave what Allah
has given some of you over others.
And I wanted to mention this because we
live in a time now where, there's, you
know, there's a movement where they're trying to
say that, you know, woman
and men should be, equal. 100% equal and
everything. Right? And then, they they go against
some of the things that are in our
in our din. So they say, oh you
know what?
The woman should not get half.
Because in our deen there's some things that
Allah
decreed from his wisdom. Right?
That the woman will get half. What are
some of the things?
What
are some of the things? Taban their inheritance?
Yeah?
I'm talking about specifically like double.
Think about akhika. What about the akhika? When
the child is born.
1 sheep for the boy. One sheep. 2
for the boy and wife. 2 sheep for
the boy. Someone might say, well, what's what's
this?
Like, it's not fair. Right? What else?
What else? What else? What else? Think of,
so we we talked about inheritance. Right?
Yeah.
What's the ayah of the inheritance?
Right? The gets twice of the of the
of the. Right? The male gets twice,
the female. We're not and I'm not gonna
just stop and justify it but I just
want to give you some examples. What are
some of my other examples?
There's about 5 of them.
The witness Sah. And Surat Al Baqarah, the
longest ayah in the Quran. Allah Subhanahu Wa'anahu
Wa'anahu Wa'anahu Wa'anahu Wa'anahu
Wa'am
Yeah? So,
if there is no 2 men to witness
then 1 man and 2 women.
What else?
I think there's another 1 or 2. Can
we squeeze them out? If they come up,
inshaAllah, we'll go back then. So it's very
interesting here that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is
saying,
this is from the weakness of iman for
someone to say, you know, it's not fair.
Right? It's not fair that
they get this. Then Allah says
Right? And so it's not about like
what people perceive as equal.
It all goes back to what?
And deeds. Right? And sometimes it looks like
Allah
you know, uh-uh it looks like from our
point of view that something is not fair.
Right? And someone might say well, it's not
fair that you know, like some woman might
say, well it's not fair the woman have
to hold the kid for 9 months.
But from another angle,
yeah.
You could say, well it's not fair that
they get to have the ability to give
life.
So at the end of the day when
you look at it, Allah
has, from his wisdom
has has given everybody equal proportion of khair.
Right? It just depends how some people measure
it. Some people measure it by wealth,
Some people, measure it by,
what else?
Comfort. Some people measure it by power.
Different things. But when it goes back to
his taqwa and hasanat. It goes back to
taqwa and hasanat. Right? And so for a
woman,
right, salama is asking about going to battle.
But for a woman, the prophet said that
when she goes to Umrah and Hajj, it's
the same it's like going to jihad for
her.
Which one is
easier? Going to Umrahai or going to battle
and you know risking your life? SubhanAllah.
And so on. Type. So
So Allah has so much. So this is
a command from Allah
to ask from his bounties. And if you
go to the hadith, there's so many hadith
about asking Allah. The prophet says, Ask Allah
for his bounty for Allah loves to be
asked. Allah loves to be asked. The opposite
of the son of Adam. Allah is angry
at whoever does not ask him.
Allah gets angry when a person does not
ask him. Another hadith. Allah loves those who
are earnest and persistent in supplication.
Those who are always asking Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. So if
you compare Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
to the human being, it's exactly the opposite.
Right?
The person
many times we go to people first and
they're the ones who are the first to
you know hate it when you ask them.
And if you ask them more than once,
right? They get upset
and so on.
Each of you must ask his lord for
all his needs even the strap of his
sandal if it breaks. Yeah. And look, the
prophet is saying even like you're walking around
and your sandal breaks, ask Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. Ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. What's the
point of all this? The prophet was trying
to teach you an abbaaz that connect your
heart to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Whenever you're
in need of anything, what's the first thing
that should come to you? The one that
takes training is Allah
Anything. Anything that comes to your mind, you
should ask Allah
So it means that if you're afflicted with
a difficulty or you have a need, then
the first thing you should think of is
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Right? So for example
your child gets sick.
Your child gets sick. May Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala protect their children. What should you think
of first?
So
one person might be like, Okay which hospital?
Which medicine?
But what should a true believer think of
first?
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Who's the Shafi'i?
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Right? And so you
might have a headache and you're like, Where's
the Tanno?
Does the tynol work without the permission of
Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala? No. So
And by the way, it's extremely dangerous to
believe that
it's the taniwa that makes that pain go
away.
Part of
our our our creed, our aqida is to
believe that
It's not the tunnel that takes the pain
away, it's what? It's Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And the tunnel is just a Sabab, right?
It's just a means. It's Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. And so we want to teach ourselves
to have that, to have that. Methylan you
lose your
job. Right?
Many people the first thing they'll do is
like okay I know what to do. Set
up my resume, I know so many people
in the industry, I'll go call them.
And then if nothing works, they'll bug, Okay.
Let me just go make dua.
What should we do? We should do the
opposite, right? Ask Allah subhanahu wa'ala first, right?
Because a risk is with Allah
subhanahu
wa ta'ala. Right? Subhanahu wa ta'ala, even logically
like I mean if you knew 2 people,
right? 1 who possessed everything and 1 who
had nothing, who would you ask?
The one who had nothing?
Ahasim.
I'm saying if you have a choice, you
have 2 people, one of them has everything
wealth, houses,
cars and one has nothing. Who are you
gonna ask?
It's a very easy decision.
Yeah. The one who has everything. Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala has everything, subhanAllah. So why would
you ask someone else? Why would you ask
someone else? So so when you need something,
right, taban
These are just some guidelines, yani. When you
need something, generally, and this is, yani,
kind of in a general sense, when you
need something, something needs to get done, just
do it yourself. Right?
Don't depend on others. Do it yourself. Right?
But keep in mind that
What does that mean?
What does it mean?
When you say?
We say this all the time.
Youani, there nothing can take place. Yeah. Nothing
can change from one state to the other.
Yeah. You can't
I can't get up right now.
Without without the permission of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. Without Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is tawfiq.
That's what it means.
Right? I have no power.
So yes, you have something easy. I wanna
throw the candy. Right? I'm not gonna sit
down and make dua. I'll do it myself
but at the same time I know that
I don't have any power except through Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So that's the first thing.
Right? If you cannot, of course, ask Allah
first. Ask Allah
There's a story of this, it's mentioned in
the book of Ihhaq, his name is Ihhaq
ibn Abad. And this person,
he was in need of something. Right? And
so no. No. Ishaq ibn Abad, this person
was a wealthy man. Right? There was two
stories. I'm confusing it. He was a wealthy
man and,
he was he went to sleep and then
in his dream
a voice was telling him, go help the
needy man. And go help this needy man.
And so he got up, he took some
of his wealth, and he went to ask
people like, who needs help? Nobody needed help.
Go back to sleep. Okay?
And then like the dream came back the
the voice go help
the
he he he got up again and it
was like I think it was like
late in the night.
You know he took some wealth right? And
then he went to the masjid.
And then he found this man
making dua to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And
so he said like, what's your need? Like
what are you doing at this time in
the masjid? So the man tells tells Ishaq,
he said,
I used to have 200,000
or 200 dirhams, sorry, 200 dirhams.
And,
and I lost them. And my family's in
need, and I'm in need.
And, you know, I'm asking Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
So so he says to him, Ishaq Sastom,
here's 300 dirhams,
right? Or 300 dinars, right?
And if you need any more help, if
you need any more help,
then
this is my name and this is where
I live.
So the the man, the needy man who
who who's asking Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, he
said, If I need something
if I'm
in need of something, then I'll just ask
the one who brought you to me.
Then I'll just ask the one who brought
you to me. What's the point of the
story?
That the man's heart is attached to who?
To Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So Yeah. And he understood that this man
Allah brought him to him. Right? So he
didn't need to ask someone.
Because understand someone might say, well he could
just go ask a person. No, but that's
not the right way of the believer. Yeah.
And
the
He He should ask Allah Subhanahu,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Right? So in in the in the book,
uh-uh,
ibn Rajab he says that asking Why should
you ask Allah? He says asking Allah and
not His creation,
it logically makes sense. Why?
He says because
asking
right? When you ask someone, is that something
honorable?
Like when you go to someone and say,
help me, I need a job. Is that
something that you're excited to do?
I'm asking you guys. Is that something you
look you look forward to? Yeah. Today I'm
going to ask. Yeah. Actually it's something that
it's it's not yeah I mean it's not
promoted in our deen. Yeah. That the the
upper hand is better than the than the
lower hand. And so it's something degrading.
Right? And so because it's something that is
degrading, right, for the person, it should it
should only be done to Allah
Right? It should only be done to
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And because asking,
right,
is
in a sense it's a type of Ibadah,
if you think about it. Asking the way
and there's nothing wrong with asking a person
something that they're able to do. Right? But
a higher level is to ask Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. And so a person should not
humble
himself, yeah, through asking other than Allah.
Right? And this is a sign of true
love,
Yani. A sign of true love to someone,
Yani, in general, like even any person, is
that you ask them not others.
If you really,
if you really meddle and let's say husband
and wife. Right? If a husband can get
something from his wife, right? And he really
loves her, would he ask it from somebody
else? No. He asked from his wife. It's
a sign of love, Iani. When you one
of the signs of love is that you
ask the person that you love. Right? And
so if you really claim that you love
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala has everything, then why would you ask
someone else? Right? This is what he's trying
to say. And of course Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala, as we mentioned, is the possessor
of everything.
One of the things about
a dua is that dua
is Ibadah. As the Prophet mentions, it's a
du'a who will Ibadah,
a du'a who will Ibadah. And people sometimes,
yeah, they don't understand the significance of dua
when it comes to al Ibadah. Ibadah is
worship, right? And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
The main reason why Allah created us is
to worship Him. Does Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
need our worship?
Su'al.
No. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala doesn't need our
worship. If everybody worshiped Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
it wouldn't increase him in anything. And if
everybody disbelieved,
it would not increase him in anything. SubhanAllah.
Tayyid. So,
the Prophet Muhammad says, that
that dua
is is in of itself worship. And then
he recited the ayah in Surat Ghafir
And Allah said
call upon me and
I will respond to you. What's the next
ayah after that?
Anybody know?
Those who are
arrogant.
And now he says,
So now he equated a dua
with ibaadah.
Right? Those are who are too arrogant to
call upon me. Remember we said, the prophet
said that Allah hates it when a person
doesn't ask. And sometimes people are like, Yeah
I don't need to ask,
like I'm fine.
Right? When they're off when everything is good,
right? They don't ask Allah. That's why the
Prophet told him,
Get to know Allah in the good times
as well. And they ask Allah also in
the good times. Right? Right? And so this
is actually a major sin. When a person,
right, says, I don't need Allah
And sometimes we do it the other way.
It's almost like the person is like, I
don't think Allah can do it. And this
is from ignorance, right? That's also
that would also be like a major sin.
Look at this,
this is the hadith Qudsi. It's a very
beautiful hadith. I just wanted to read it
out.
Of course a hadith Qudsi is a narration
where the Prophet says that Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala says. So the Prophet is narrating what
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says and I'll read
the Arabic, you just follow me follow the
English if you don't understand Arabic. He says,
So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is saying that
I have made injustice
haram. Right? I've made injustice
haram upon myself.
Right? And so don't
do injustice upon each other. And then he
says,
Right? And now Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala starts
mentioning all these things. Okay? And this goes
back to that you
know we have nothing except what Allah has
given us. So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is
saying here that all of you are
misguided
except those who have guided. And so if
you want guidance who should you ask?
Yeah? Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala says in surat
Right? Talking about the Prophet
Right? So Allah Subhana Wa Salam, right? So
Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la who guided him to
the straight path.
And then he
says, right?
All of you are hungry except those who
I've had who who I have fed. Right?
Sometimes you're like oh I'm the one who's
bringing food to the table.
Allah is bringing the food to the table.
You are just the means. Right? This is
something that we need to kind of step
back and think about. Right? And so if
if you someone is in need they ask
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And he goes through
all of them. Go to the
let's go to this part here.
Look what he says here in the middle.
Right? If the first of you and the
last of you and all the ints and
all the jinn, right? All the humans and
all the jinn.
If everybody was righteous and everybody worship Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala it would not increase anything.
And then the opposite,
if everybody was evil and everybody disbelieved it
would not decrease anything. Then look what he
says here, this is the one that I
highlighted
If the first of you and the last
of you, the human and the jinn
And all of you were in one place.
And you ask for everything that you want.
I want you for a second to think
of everything that you want.
Money, cars, wealth, everything.
And everybody from Adam's time until the end
of time was to ask Allah and Allah
gave them everything
it would not decrease anything from Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. Right? He says
Like a needle if you put it in
the ocean and you take it out. Did
you decrease anything from the ocean? Nothing. SubhanAllah.
So
this is this part of the hadith is
very beneficial in
many ways. First thing is when you ask
Allah don't be cheap.
Many people when they ask Allah they're very
cheap.
Like sometimes we measure our iman we're like
okay because my iman is not not that
high I'm gonna ask him for right? And
uh-uh and Sheikh Muhammad al Sharif may Allah
have mercy on him he used to say
that you know uh-uh who goes to a
king and asks for a penny? Right? Who
goes to a king and ask for a
penny? And you go into Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala who has all this
wealth and power and you go ask for
a penny. Who does that? SubhanAllah. And so
one of the things we learn from this
is that when you ask Allah, Ask, ask
and don't,
don't, and don't be shy.
Right? And that it doesn't decrease anything from
Allah
That's how great Allah
is. Taweeb,
Jameel, let's keep going.
Some of the beautiful lines mentioned in the
book about asking others. Right? We mentioned about
that a person should ask Allah Subhana Wa
Ta'la and not ask others.
So he says here,
You know, don't ask the son of Adam
anything.
And ask the one whose doors
Yani, there's no hijab, there's no nothing blocking
the doors of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. All
right? In some of the other religions, if
you want something, if you want to make
tawbah,
you have to go to this person
and you have to do stilfar to him.
And there's a there's a middle man, There's
no middle man in our deen, alhamdulillah. Yeah.
You don't have to go to another person.
Allahu YHddabu, interrupt a su'ala who Allah gets
angry when you don't ask him.
SubhanAllah. And the son of Adam, the person,
when you go to him,
he gets upset. Do people like him when
you ask them? In general, they don't. Right?
When you ask people, in general, they get
upset, especially if you go again and again.
Right?
Another quote he says,
If I ever had a need of something,
and then
it's it's difficult for me to get. Right?
Yeah. I stand at the door of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
with humility, right?
And O Allah I
have intended you and I have intention to
ask you,
O
Allah. It's a very beautiful line. He says,
and you will not see me. Right?
You will not see me standing at the
door, yeah,
of somebody who has wealth, or whatever, or
power.
Right?
Right? And and back in the day what
would they do? And maybe now in a
different way. Right? If someone had wealth or
whatever and people come to ask, they would
have like
a kid or a doorkeeper.
So someone comes asked to tell them like
he's sleeping, go away, whatever. So he's saying
you won't see me at the door of
of this human being, right?
Who when I go to his door, he
sends he sends his, his, his servant or
whatever and tells him, you know, he's sleeping.
Go away. And people do that sometimes, right?
You know, sometimes
people come to ask for something.
Right? And maybe they're looking for you. So
you know, you tell your wife, open the
door, tell them I'm not here. Or when
someone calls, right? You say, oh he's sleeping.
But you're not sleeping, right? You shouldn't do
that. They'll be lying. And then he says
in the other line, he says,
Right? This this is, he's talking to those
who
are trying to push away people who ask.
He says,
I mean those people who try to push
away those who ask. Right?
Right?
Yeah. You might have any guard keepers at
your door but Allah has no guard keepers.
Yeah. And there's nothing stopping you from asking
Allah. There might be something stopping you from
asking a human being. Right? Right? You know
shame or they might turn you away but
with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala it's always yes.
It's always gonna be. Allah
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will always be there.
Right? And SubhanAllah like I mean Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala literally comes down. Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala in the famous hadith.
Allah
comes down in the lowest part of the
heavens, in the 3rd part of the night.
This is every day. Right? And he asked
people.
Right?
The prophet
prophet
Right?
Who's who's who's calling and I will answer
to him? Yeah. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
while most people are sleeping, right? Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala comes down and this is like
dua lama say this is from the the
times that dua will be accepted. Right? Allah
comes down and says who's there to ask?
Right? And so people do all these things
and they I need to to
to to get what they want and and
subhanAllah Allah subhanahu wa'ala comes every night. Right?
Who's there to ask for forgiveness and I'll
forgive them? Right? So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
is coming every night asking people and most
people are asleep subhanAllah most people
are asleep.
When the Prophet
came to Al Madina, the first Khudbah he
gave he gave he said to the people,
Ashush Salam.
Right? Spread salaam.
And
Yani connect with your with your family members.
Yeah?
What did he say?
Yeah. Right? Pray in the night while people
are sleeping. That's what Jannah be Salam. Because
that's the time where the person is the
closest to his Lord and that's the time
where Allah comes and asks, who's there to
yeah And ask for forgiveness and I'll forgive
them. Hallas. Done. Done. Deal. Right? SubhanAllah.
So this is a great opportunity for for
a person every day. Right? Allah Subhanahu wa
Ta'ala says,
Allah is close. If you ask Allah is
telling the prophet to tell to tell every
one of us,
Yeah. If my slaves are asking about me,
tell them
I'm close.
Right? I'm Anakarib
anytime, any any place you are. Right?
All you have to do is ask.
Very interesting story here it's mentioned in the
book.
So this person by the name of Asbaq
ibn Zayd, he says that once me and
my family had nothing to eat for 3
days. He says, my younger daughter came out
to me and says, father I'm hungry. So
I came to the to the basin
to where to make the wudu.
He says, I made wudu and then I
went to the masjid and I and I
prayed. I prayed to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And he made this dua in the middle.
He says, oh Allah grant me sustenance from
you. You. Do not give anyone the opportunity
to have a favor over me, and do
not hold me responsible for it in the
hereafter. Yani doesn't want to have any favors
for anybody. He wants something from
Allah By Your mercy, O Most Merciful of
those who show mercy. So he's making this
dua to Allah
He says, I then returned home, and my
eldest daughter stood to meet me and said,
'Father,
Yani,
my uncle came a while ago with this
bag of dirhams,
silver coins,
a porter carrying flour
and another carrying different products from the market.
You any food and drinks and everything. So
money, food and drink. You any khalas. That's
it.
And then this
person,
he says, pass greetings to my brother. So
this person who brought the things, he told
the daughter,
pass greetings to my brother and tell him
that if he ever
my real brother. So that means it's her
what? It's her uncle.
Right? So the man who brought everything, he
told the girl, pass greetings to my brother,
Youani, your uncle. Right? So he's he's her
uncle. So he said, pass greetings to my
brother
and tell him that if he ever needs
anything to to supplicate with this prayer and
his need will be fulfilled. Right? So his
daughter is telling him this. And then he
says, he says, Wallahi, I don't have a
brother.
He says, Wallahi, I don't have a brother.
Wallahi, Allah kullshim kadir subhanAllah.
Like it's not really his brother and he
could have been an angel or somebody else.
But Allah.
Seeking help from Allah. So he says,
And when you need help
you ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Where do
we get this in the Quran?
Like when you open the Quran, when's the
first thing that pops that we get this
message?
This is the ayah that we read every
salah, every rakah.
Ibn Hazra said that this ayah, like it's
the essence of every scripture
that has been sent down by Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
This is Surat Al Fatiha. Everybody here has
memorized it but how many of us actually
reflect upon this? Yeah. So
You alone we worship Allah
How is this related to the hadith?
The general meaning of the hadith.
Who can tell us? The connection is very
Yeah, very obvious.
Yeah it's very obvious right? So
Right? It's the same thing. When you say
Iyakanabud,
we said Iyakanabud
be mindful of Allah's limits, follow His commandments,
stay away from the prohibitions.
That's exactly what Iyakanabud
means, that you worship Allah only. Right? And
with worship, to do what Allah tells you
to do and stay away from what? Allah
subhanahu tells you to stay away from. So
really it's exactly the same thing.
And once you worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
that should lead you to what?
What should that lead you to?
That you seek help from Allah only.
It's exactly what we get from this ayah
that we read every time. But have we
thought about it?
So that you only we should seek help.
That we should only seek help from Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala. So two benefits he mentions
the author. The first benefit, right? In seeking
aid from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala only is
that the servant does not have the strength
to perform any actions of obedience without Allah's
help.
Oh Allah I can't even complete this prayer
without your help.
I need your help to be able to
pray.
This is something that we need to internalize
in our day to day Ibadah, right? That
I,
if it wasn't for Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
you wouldn't have made it this halaqa. If
it was if it's not from Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala you wouldn't be praying. So O
Allah I'm worshiping you but in order for
me to worship you is what? I need
your I need your help I need your
help and your support.
And then the other benefit is that there
is none who can aid him in the
betterment of his worldly and religious life except
for Allah. So the second benefit we get
here is that nobody can help you in
your life except through Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Except through Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. Right?
What is the difference between
asking Allah and seeking Allah's help?
Because he said,
1 minute, right?
What's the difference?
Is there a difference or are they the
same?
Where's the The same meaning. The Arab.
Close. Close meaning, right? But there's a difference.
Otherwise the prophet wouldn't have mentioned the same
thing twice.
Right? So al su'al is a bit more
general. A su'al asking is a bit more
general, right? A su'al is a bit more
general. Al isti'ana
comes from the word i'ana, right? Is
to help someone. Right? And
so
is to help someone but at the same
time you are putting the effort. What does
that mean? Methanol and they give the example.
Methanol and you're driving and you got a
flat tire.
Anybody here had a flat tire before?
Nobody?
All of you do your dua.
So you have a flat tire and,
you've never done it before.
Everybody had to go through this. Right? And
then you need help. Right? So you ask
someone to stop. Right?
Al is
is to ask for help.
When you add the word ist at the
beginning of of any verb, it's to ask
someone for help. But it's not just to
it's not like you're like, oh can you
help me cheat my tire And then you
sit in the back seat. Yeah. You scroll
through your Facebook and the guy is just
doing your tire. Right? Al istiana is to
put the effort and the person is helping
you. And that's exactly what istiana is. Al
istiana is like when you need help with
something. And so, Madeline,
you are
Madeline, you're going
through an exam. Right? And you've done your
work. You've done your work and you go
to the exam and you say, oh Allah
help me, you know, get a 100% or
something or do well. Right? Or to to
pass.
Right? This is a listi'ana. When you've done
your work and you ask Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala
for help. Right?
And then the famous quote he says,
This is a very beautiful line.
Uh-uh. He says that
if
if if the if the young boy, Yani
or any person,
if he has no help from Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala,
then the first reason for his failure is
his hard work.
Right? Yani, naturally people say, Yani, if you
work hard you will succeed. But the poet
here wants to make it very clear that
you can work as hard as you want
but if if you have no aun, no
help from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, then all
that hard work
will
be the first reason why you fail. You
can
work as hard as you want but if
you don't have the help of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala then you will fail.
SubhanAllah, time flies. Let me just finish with
this. So we have some examples.
Nabi
he told Mu'ad, O Mu'ad I love you
for the sake of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
and he said to him,
after every salah, yeah after every salah say
what? Most of us here know this du'a.
What's the Arabic?
Right? What do you say? What does that
mean?
What does that mean? O Allah help me
remember you.
The Prophet is teaching Mu'ad that even to
remember Allah you need, you need Allah help.
What else? Allah helped me
to be grateful to you.
Don't just think that you can be grateful
like that you need Allah's assistance
and to to do
the best of deeds. So that also needs
Al i'ana right? If you remember the story
of Musa alaihis salam when
when
when Musa went to Firaoun.
Right? And then
he showed him the miracles.
And then what did the the
I guess would be the
the right hand man of of Firaun, right?
Or the the powerful elites of of of
of the people of Firaun. They said to
Firaun,
are you gonna leave Musa and his people
to cause corruption?
Are you going to leave Musa and and
Firaoun,
Musa and Harun to spread facade in the
earth and spread the dawah in the earth.
And then Firaun says
Indeed we're gonna go back to killing their
their young children
and we're gonna imprison their women
and we will overpower them. And he's going
to come back even harder than before. SubhanAllah.
And so Musa said to his people what?
Yeah.
Seek aid in Allah Subhanahu Ta'ala
and have patience
Even though the situation is bad and firaoun
is going to come with more,
punishments,
remember that the earth belongs to who? To
Allah.
And the final victory is for who? It's
for the righteous. And then what happened after?
Then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala did what?
So when they had when they asked for
help from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and they
were patient, what happened after?
What happened in the story of Musa and
Firaun?
Right? So Allah sent all the punishments to
Firaun. To the point that Firaun and his
people said what?
They went to and they said they went
to Musa, they said, oh Musa tell your
lord to stop the punishments.
All the punishments, the the blood in the
water, the the locusts, the
yeah. And so many things happened. Uh-uh. Lice.
And so they said
Right? They asked Musa to ask Allah subhanahu
wa'ala. So the point here is that even
though the odds might be stacked against you
what's the what's the what's the thing you
should do?
And there's many stories like that Yaqub alaihis
salam
what did he tell his children when when
Yusuf
and Binyamin were lost? He said,
Allah is the one that you go seek
help from. Yeah? And then Allah swam says
says, We're planning to go through Qadr. This
is exactly where So inshallah we'll, we'll start
the topic of, al Qadha because this is
the last part of the hadith,
or almost the second last part where the
prophet told ibn Abbas, right? That if the
whole ummah was to gather to harm you,
right? They will not be able to harm
you except
that harm that Allah has written for you.
Right? And if they were
all gathered, everybody got together to give you
extra benefit, then they will not give you
more than what Allah has given for you.
And
that the pens have been lifted.
This is something that's preordained by Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. Now the the topic of Al
Qadr is one of those,
I guess topics that confuses a lot of
people. I remember once we were attending this
seminar
on the 40 hadith nawawi
and
one of the this is one of the
hadith that was mentioned. And
he literally spent
like 4 or 5 hours just on this
hadith or just on this topic of this
hadith, Al Qadr.
Because people have so many questions about Al
Qadr.
If Allah has preordained everything,
what's the point of us of doing actions?
What's the point of dua? Right? So all
these questions come up.
InshaAllah we will cover that next week. BarakAllahu
if you come for attentive listening.