Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Riyd alSlihn Ayat alKurs Ftihah Baqarah Kahf Ribt 09272018
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So we continue and we finish today.
The chapter regarding
encouragement.
It's from the book of the
of the, the
the virtues
and the section on the virtues of the
Quran.
And,
this chapter,
the chapter regarding the encouragement
to read
particular
ayahs and surahs
that come from the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
Abu Huraira radiAllahu alaihi wa sallam who narrates
that the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam said, don't turn your houses into graveyards.
Maqabir is the the the the jama of
Maqabir
Allah Ta'ala says in his book says that
you've been distracted with
the gathering of worldly things
until you visit the
visit the graves. Meaning that once you visit
the grave, you'll realize that all of the
stuff is not gonna go with you.
But until then, it's going to it's going
to keep, distracting you from what you really
should be doing.
So,
he said, Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in this context, he says
don't make your houses into graves.
Meaning what? Like, devoid of life.
And
the
the idea is what? That the metaphor of
life and death
for for and
is used in the in the Quran
in so many places.
And, here,
according to that metaphor,
describes the house in which the Quran isn't
recited,
to be
like a.
And that's one of the unfortunate things people
have. Like, they have, like, TV as, like,
ambient background noise,
or music as ambient background noise. And,
it
it prevents people from reciting the Quran, and
the recitation of the Quran
is is beneficial for so many reasons.
I guess the the culture of the Quranic
recitation seems to be gone from a lot
of places in the world right now,
in the Muslim world as well as in,
in non Muslim countries. But, like, I'll give
you an idea. When I was in Mauritania,
people used to make the Quran every day.
They used to make
every other day. Mir, can you please go
go just go around the building from the
back?
Okay. Yeah. Send her from the back so
the sisters can go from the front.
The idea is that that you never like,
the the recitation of the Quran was kinda
like a buzz you heard in the background
all the time. It would never it really
never was absent.
It may tone down during certain hours of
the day or certain certain hours of the
night, but it never really was absent.
And it was considered a perfectly normal thing.
Even people are sitting together,
it wasn't considered, like, antisocial if people are
just sitting and reciting the Quran.
And the the benefit of that is what
is that, like
so a tea bag, when you put it
in water, it diffuses slowly.
Whereas if you put a tea bag in
hot water, if you put dip it in
for, like,
10 seconds and pull it out, you're not
gonna make any tea. You're not gonna get
that flavor. You're not gonna get that color.
There may not be as much of a
difference between,
between, you know, someone leaving it in for,
like, 4 minutes and 5 minutes. But, like,
there's a big difference between, like, the fur
you know, like, for, like, 10 seconds and
a minute.
And the more you put in, the more
more of it kind of diffuses into you.
And,
you're not gonna get that until you you
you recite the Quran and become acquainted with
its every with its every letter,
and its every,
sound,
and its every Surah,
with the way the Ayat Ayat are separately
and with the way that they come together.
Together as
a so the idea is that,
you're not gonna get that. Like, you're not
gonna get like, a very simple thing. Right?
One thing is, like, the scholarly understanding of
Quran, not not everyone's gonna get it. But,
like, regular people can
get things like hearing the Quran recited in
your dreams.
Every ayah has
a significance
legally, but it also has a spiritual significance.
So people who hear certain ayah and their
dreams, what it is is the experience a
certain ayah
in this world and in the.
So you may have an experience or you're
about to have an experience
and the the mind doesn't understand that because
you haven't studied. You know? So the mind
doesn't understand what does I mean. But the
has heard this I in in some other
realm of existence,
and then it realizes that that thing is
gonna happen.
So it doesn't know how to explain it
to you because your doesn't have eyes.
It can't take a phone with it into
the and take a picture of what's gonna
happen in the future.
So what it does is if it experiences
something while you're sleeping or whatever or in
a dream
from that side, and it comes back and
it tries telling your brain, oh, this is
like,
you know, this this this is like,
you know,
And so the mind knows which ayat, it's
like like one of the last ayah of
swords, but it doesn't know what it is.
Right? It's not gonna be able to make
that that that translation.
So you have certain people in this in
this world who have this knowledge
that they can tell you, oh, you heard
this ayah in your dream.
This is what it means.
But if you don't know what the ayah
is and you're not acquainted with it, you
won't your mind will not know how to
how to translate that.
Brother, can you go around from the back,
please? Oh, yeah.
He also Yeah. Okay.
So,
by next week we'll get the hang of
it. Right? So the idea is, like, if
you don't if you're not reading the
the ayat of the Quran constantly, you're not
gonna you're not gonna have that connection, the
spiritual connection with it either.
And that's on top of, like,
knowing the Arabic and knowing what this means
and what that means with the legal implication
of this and that is, etcetera.
So the life the life of your home,
made the metaphor
between it and between the recitation of the
Quran. That the Quran is not recited in
the home, then the home is like it's
it's it's like a it's kinda like it's
dead.
So,
he says the way you can remedy this
this issue is
in the shaitan,
that the shaitan he runs away from the
house, that Surah Al Baqarah is is recited
in. It's a hadith of Sahih Muslim.
And Surah Al Baqarah obviously is, like, not
only the longest surah of the Quran,
but it is a surah that's, like, filled
with all different types of,
all different types of,
types of things mandated by.
So description of Allah
description of the unseen,
description of the hereafter,
stories, by which people, you know, can teach
one another,
sayings of
great value, of great worth,
that people people will,
people people will will, you know,
they'll appreciate. Right?
So Allah
says in his in Surat Al Baqarah, right,
he says in his book, he says
There's no need for compelling
people when it comes to deen because truth
and falsehood are manifest. Somebody's gonna accept it,
they're gonna accept it, they're not gonna accept
it, they're not gonna accept it. The fact
that a 100 people may mock and jeer
and say, like, oh, look, you know,
drinking alcohol, I think it's alright.
You're you're an idiot. The person is getting
drunk to the point where it's
can the brothers come from the back?
Just walk around the building?
No. Don't make a sign inshallah. We'll they'll
remember for next time. I don't want, like,
no, like
because it's not gonna look nice, you know.
The neighbors make, like, these fancy $1,000 cakes,
and then we're gonna have, like, a handwritten
sign in there. You know?
So the,
neighbors are,
like, some world class bakers. Like, people apparently
go to them from, like, all over the
place. They're, like, critically acclaimed.
I had a piece of cake one day,
like, early yesterday when I introduced myself to
them. It was a good cake.
Not that I know about those things. So
I'm like a face. How are you?
So let's leave it open.
So the the idea is the the idea
is that that what? These types of things,
you know, even if a person is not
a Muslim, it's it's pretty
it's, like, it's pretty,
like, catchy. You know what I mean?
Mariam, can you go? I think there's, some
sisters. You told me they'd sit right here
and show. That way, they can hear, on
the outside of the.
Don't hold the pardah open when you're saying
that but yeah.
So the the the idea is that those
things are, you know, those things are pretty
catchy. Even a person's not a Muslim, they'll
be like, oh, wow. That
that's pretty
cool.
There there are so many there are so
many things in the in the Surat Al
Baqarah that are like that. Right? The the
the,
Ayatul, of course, is in Surat Al Baqarah,
which we'll we'll talk about,
in a second.
The so many laws with regarding inheritance,
right, is in Surat Al Baqarah. The prescription
of,
our prohibition of of riba, of transacting riba
is in Surat Al Baqarah. Allah says
that whoever
doesn't forgo
transaction in riba
take notice of war from Allah Ta'ala and
his Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. There's so much
khair that's that's that's bound up in it.
And so the the the house people have,
like, they say, oh, I think I have
a gin problems. I think I have,
you know, black magic and things like that.
They literally have something called Jadu TV that's
running inside their house. But, of course, you're
gonna have freaking black magic. Jadu is like
the Urdu word for, like, for black magic.
Right? So this is the name of, like,
you know how they, like, chromestick and this
and that. Like, so the Desi one with
all Desi channels in it that came out
before.
It's literally called Jadu TV. And as far
as I'm concerned, if you ask me, all
TV is Jadu TV. Right? I mean, if
Ernie and Bert are gonna be gay, it's
basically game over
for, like, any for them? Apparently, one of
the writers who who did it, they they
said yes. And then, like, Sesame Street's, like,
they're just puppets. But it's one of those
things. Once once you sullied the waters, there's
really no turning back. So
yeah. So it's it's it's it's it's it's
it's it's it's pretty bad. So, of course,
you're gonna have that. Of course, you're bringing
it into your house if even if it's
not from that or if you don't have
it in your house. There are a number
of things that that the sunnah teaches you.
It empowers you yourself in order to deal
with that. And so the recitation of Suratul
Baqarah
and Surat al Imran in a different, in
a different,
hadith,
they they counteract those things. People should people
should read them.
People should recite them. They'll benefit a lot.
And if you know Arabic, then so much
more benefit
that you get from these things.
Rahu Muslim.
So, Saidna Ubay bin Kabra
narrates that the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam said,
o Abu al mumbir.
So Abu al mumbir is the kunya of
Ubay bin Kab,
Radhiallahu Anhu.
He says, do you know
which verse in the,
in the in the book of Allah Ta'ala
will,
will have the the the most magnificent effects
on you.
He said he said,
he said that I said,
So he actually responded with the with the
Ayatul Kursi.
And there is,
there is
some discussion in the the commentary, the hadith,
that generally speaking, the Sahaba
they would they would say Allah and his
Rasool, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
know best.
But,
in this case,
he knew he knew what the answer was,
and
so he,
he gave that answer.
And, this, you know, brings up an issue
that that's there in Apti. I don't know
if however many of you have heard the
you know, read the, read the, the Tawiya
or heard my duros of Tawiya online or
took it on person.
Faiz Masha'al, you'll probably remember from the Tahawiyah
that it's part of our aqidah that the
kitab of Allah Ta'ala is,
you know, it's a sifa of Allah Ta'ala.
It's the sifa of his kalam. So the
question arises, how can one ayah of of
the Quran be more important than the other?
And there's a number of answers. It's like
a thorough discussion that can be had on
this issue,
much of which is somewhat beyond the scope
of what we're talking about tonight.
But, just like,
and their effects have different or is
have different effects. So a person may think
about
a person may think about, like,
you know, like and
and,
you know,
being Ar Rahman, Ar Raheem,
all of these things are basically the same
thing.
And in some way, they're very similar to
one another, but there are subtle differences between
them in the same way that a person
can describe, like,
ice cream and a diet Coke both as
sweet.
I guess, technically speaking, they're both sweet, but
they're very different types of sweet. In fact,
forget about you know, that's a pretty, like,
a large chasm. Like, even, for example, 2
fruits, like watermelon and cantaloupe are sweet, but
they have very different
effects on the person when they're they're eating
them, especially on me given that I'm actually
allergic to cantaloupe, but I enjoy watermelon quite
a bit. There there's there's there's a difference
there in them even though there's some similarity.
And so,
the effects of, of Ayat, some of them,
the the the the way that they they
work and the locusts that they they they
they affect a person in, they're different. So
Ayatul Kursi is like the sledgehammer of the
Ayat.
If you need something done right now and
you don't have time to, like, ponder over
the depth of meaning or whatever, just read
Ayatul Kursi and, like, make dua. It is
your protection. It is your,
enlightenment. It is your to it is, like,
it's so many things for for a person.
And so the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
is basically bringing that to the attention of
Ubay bin Kab. Now Ubay bin Kab out
of the Sahaba radiAllahu ta'ala on whom isn't
like just random dude.
He is,
Masha'Allah Hafiz
who your Sanadas Hafiz goes through.
Right? He's one of the official teachers of
the Quran that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam
kept
for the people. You like you just say
for example, I just accepted Islam last week.
I'm not gonna go to Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam and he's gonna teach me
that's not possible because there's just so many
people. Maybe in a very initial phase there
are certain people who learn directly from him,
but those people who learn from him directly
from the beginning,
he would then appoint from amongst them people
to teach the the Quran to others as
well. You'll probably remember that in even the
Al Qasem we talked about it that there
were 4 from the this is from the
Muhajirun and 4 from the Ansar.
The 4 from the Muhajirun were who
Abu Khadifa
and his mola, Salim, and Abdullah bin Mas'ud,
and,
you know, there's a a difference of opinion
who the 4th one was. Was it Sayna
Uthman
or was it there's a discussion with regards
to who who the who those people were.
And from the Ansar,
there all 4 of them were from Khazraj,
Abu Darda, and Ubay bin Kab, and
Zayd bin Fabbet,
and Abu Zayd,
who was a person not so well known
because he passed away very very soon after
Rasoolullah
passed away, and because, he didn't have any
any direct heirs. His his he had no
brothers who survived him nor did he have
any,
children nor parents,
who survived him. But at any rate, so
Ubay bin Kabr who
this is, like, who's being asked as one
of the people that the prophet
taught the Quran to directly,
and one of the people whose job was
was,
was to teach the,
teach the Quran to,
to the Ansar.
And ostensibly that's a much larger group of
people than the Muhajrin is.
It's because there are just so many more
Ansaris than there are. Muhajid
in in Madinah Munawala.
So he asked him he tests him on
something that he taught him already. He says
which of the which of the which of
the verses from the book of Allah Ta'ala
will have like the the greater effect? He
says
which is the Ayat of Kursi.
So he he patted him on the chest.
He he kinda hit him on the chest
as a a like Shabash, like as like,
in order to
in order to show his approval
of the the the answer that he gave,
that you gave the right answer. And he
says, may may may ill may knowledge,
enter you with ease without difficulty. May you
accumulate knowledge without difficulty.
So, like, it's one of the things,
I'm assuming you're of Arab background.
Right? So one of the things Arabs say
when you're eating, like, your mother probably says
to you, like,
Right? Or, like, you might hear hear some
auntie saying it or whatever. I've heard it.
It's a thing that people say. Hana means
to eat something,
and it tastes good, and you don't have
any indigestion
afterward.
Right? So for example,
if you eat,
like, very fibrous food, you won't have indigestion,
but it's not gonna taste good. If you
eat desi food, it may taste good depending
on what your flavor,
profile is, but then afterward, you're gonna pay
for it. So,
hana in this in this in this,
in this case means what? It means to
to consume something without without difficulty, with enjoyment
and without difficulty afterward.
So he says,
Abdul Munder.
Abdul Munder may you know,
he gave him out of being proud of
him, giving the right answer, he gave him
the dua that may enter you without
without without without grief or without trouble,
which is often not the case. Oftentimes, people
struggle quite a bit in order to
in order to, get ill.
So it's
a kind of a long hadith narrated by
Bukhary,
and it's it's it's a it's an interesting
one.
That,
said that
once the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam entrusted me with the
with,
swatching over the zakatul fitr from Ramadan.
So, you know, zakatul fitr is
like all of the Zakat, it's paid in
kind.
Now we pay cash equivalents. It's basically,
the rugs that we take from the Hanafi
madhab.
Otherwise, the other 3 Madhab say that it
should be paid in kind.
But, the point is is that,
the zakatofitter,
it was
essentially paid in the the the the produce
that Madina Munawara had,
which was mostly dates.
Although some people paid it in in other
crops and whatnot,
that
it's just basically a storehouse full of food,
full of full of staple foodstuffs.
And so he said that,
one day someone came and I caught him,
basically grabbing a handful of stuff. So probably
dates or whatever, but grabbing a handful of
stuff. And I I I caught him and
I said I I'll take you I'll I'll
take you and report you to the messenger
of Allah
for stealing zakat, which is pretty bad.
And then he pleaded his case with Abu
Huraira. He says, look, I'm needy, and I
have a a a number of dependents
that, depend on me, and I'm in severe
need,
so let me go. And so Abu Hurair,
he's a he's a soft hearted, person,
and, he he he let him go.
He said the next day when I woke
up in the morning, the messenger of Allah
himself
asked me,
what happened to your your your your your
prisoner
or your, your,
what are you gonna say? The the the
guy you arrested yesterday, what happened to him?
And, he says he says that, you know,
I'd I'd let him go because he complained
that,
he complained that he was in in severe
need, and he had a lot of family.
So I I felt bad for him. I
had mercy on him. I just let him
go.
And so, Rasoolullah
says,
he lied to you.
He lied to you when he said he
wasn't gonna do it again. He'll come back.
He'll do it again. Watch.
And so,
he's Abu Ghraibullah
said, I knew that he was gonna come
back
because the messenger of Allah said he would
come back.
So I waited for him.
So I waited for him, and I just
I kept an eye out. I knew this
guy's gonna come back. So,
again, he came and I caught him, I
caught him trying to stick his hand in
in one of the bags and grabbing grab
something.
And
he says, I'm gonna report you to the
messenger of Allah
and he says,
leave me alone because
I'm in need
and,
I have I have family that I have
to feed and I won't come back. So
Sayid Nabuhureya,
he had mercy on him again and he
let him go. And so this is Sayid
Nabuhureya radiallahu anhu, this is his
his,
this is his his nature, his character. The
prophet didn't explicitly tell him that don't let
him go again. He just said he's gonna
come back.
He said he lied to you and he's
gonna come back.
And,
you know, somebody wants to make a deal
out of this. Like, why didn't he why
did why did he let him go a
second time?
Well,
you know, it's because he's soft hearted, and
that's also part of the deen as well,
to not be a jerk to people. People
are repeat offenders and things like that. This
is a very, like, weird protestant type mentality
we have where, like, someone's asking for money
or food, and we're like, no. He's gonna
go buy drugs with it. Okay? He's gonna
go buy drugs with it. What he does
with the money is is his issue. I
mean, obviously, you don't wanna cut someone a
$10,000 check if the guy's like you seem,
like, literally shooting up in front of your
eyes. But at the same time, giving a
dude who asks you for a quarter a
quarter is not gonna feed, you know, his
heroin addiction.
And even if it does,
with some of his money, he also has
to buy a bottle of water or something,
otherwise he'll die.
So, and what they do with it is
their problem,
what you do for the sake of Allah
Allah will reward you for it, and he'll
ask them what they did with it. He's
not gonna ask you what they did with
it.
And so this type of having mercy on
people,
I mean, people make bad choices because they're
in bad situations. There's so much, like, so
many statistics about, like,
being poor makes you waste even more money.
Because, like, for example, a person is poor,
and because of that,
when they
I don't get a speeding ticket.
They,
you know, they don't pay it on time,
and then their driver's license gets suspended. And
then they're still poor and it's still suspended,
and so they need to work so they
have a job that they can go do.
And they you know, they're like, I'm just
gonna drive my car. It's better than asking
for a handout. But then when you get
stopped, your car gets impounded and this and
that. So the expenses,
they they rack up. And so, like, a
judgmental person from the outside will be like,
well, you shouldn't have been speeding in the
first place. Okay. Thank you, Sherlock. Like, you
yeah. Everyone, I think, at this point has
figured that out. But, like, nobody's nobody's perfect.
People make mistakes. And just because they make
mistakes and some of them make them again
and again doesn't mean that the entire human
being should be thrown away. So obviously, we
should try to make people and, like, correct
their bad habits to the point that it's
possible. But at the end of the day,
it's, like, it's gonna be, like, jumping from,
like, you know, like, you know,
being, like, 60% functional to 80% functional or
90%. No one's gonna be a 100% that,
okay, Colossus, prisons and mistakes are all done.
They're not gonna make mistakes anymore, and they're,
like, just this total perfect person.
That doesn't that doesn't happen in this world,
after the the the
the
the the the the leaving of the.
So Sayidna Buhari radhiallahu anhu, that was that's
what it was. 2nd time happened, you know,
he knows what it's like to be poor.
He's not judgmental, and he has a soft
heart, and he doesn't have acumen for governing.
Sayedna Umar
because of his ilm, he has great ilm
and piety.
Obviously, Rasuulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam trusted him
with the zakat, so that means he's a
trustworthy person.
But at the same time, Saina Umar alaihi
wa sallam when he trusted entrusted him with
the governorship of Bahrain. The people of Bahrain
after a couple of months wrote to Medina
and they said, he just prays all day
and fasts all day and he's just like,
you know, that's what he's into. And we
have stuff that needs to get done, and
it's just not, you know he just has
a he has a very, his he's doesn't
have, like, a aggressive, like, attitude toward getting
things done,
which is fine. Your virtue as a as
a ruler is different than your virtue as
a a a person, like a private person.
Some people may have really bad habits,
as a human being, but, like, they have
good they're good at doing something,
like, you know, like in governance or in
accounting or in whatever, you know, being a
basketball coach or whatever. So just because a
person is bad at other stuff, doesn't mean
you should stop them from being good at
what they're they're good at.
In fact, that's all the more reason that
you should allow them to do something right
so that, you know, they get through life
without having screwed up everything, you know?
So
you kinda kinda see the the the the
the you can see that in him that
that's that's not really his thing, you know?
He's trustworthy, but he has a very soft
heart and that kinda overwhelms him. And that's
not a bad thing. That's a good thing.
In this particular
you know, in the particular,
context, one can try to judge or whatever.
But, like, when you see the greater picture,
you see a lot of khair in him,
that he he just he's not, like, he
just doesn't wanna prosecute. The guy whenever he
complains about his poverty, his soft heartedness makes
him just, like, not not wanna bring the
hammer down on him.
So
so he says he says, you know, I
promise I won't come back. He's I he's
I'm poor. I'd have I mean need, I
mean, I should say, and I have family
I have to feed and,
I won't I won't, I won't come back.
And then, the the next morning, Rasulullah
said, okay. What happened with your with your,
with your prisoner,
this time?
He he said that, he said that,
yeah, so
he complained about his need and his about
his dependence and so
I just had mercy on him and let
him go. And so Rasoolullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
again says, 'He lied to you and watch,
you'll come back a third time.'
So he came back a third time and
I caught him trying to stick his hand
in the bag and grab some stuff.
And,
I grabbed I I I got him. And
I said this time I'm going to I'm
definitely gonna report you to the Messenger of
Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. This is the 3rd
time in a row and each time you
said that you're not gonna you're not gonna
come back and you came back anyway.
And,
he said,
he said, just let me go
because,
if you do, I will teach you some
words that will Allah will, benefit you through
through those words. And he says, yeah. What
are they? He says that when you,
when you
return to your bed or when you resort
to your bed,
to rest from the the the difficulties of
the day.
Read the until
you're done with it
until you finish its its recitation.
And indeed there will not
cease to be a guardian angel that walks
that watches over you and that,
and that indeed no shaitan will no shaitan
meaning what the
the kafir jinns, not just shaitan himself, but
any jinn that that that that wishes evil
or harm over you. So none of the
kafir jinns will be able to,
come to you and tell you
and tell you until you wake.
And so so I thought that was strange
he said that, so I just I just
let him go.
And so,
Rassulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, the 3rd time he
asked him, he said, what happened? What did
you do with your prisoner this time? He
said,
oh Messenger of Allah,
he claimed that he was gonna teach me
some words that will benefit me, that Allah
will benefit me through them and so I
let him go. So, Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
said, what were they? He said, he said
to me, when you seek refuge in your
bed,
then read the Ayatul Kursi from the beginning
of it until you you finished the ayatul
And then he said that there will
not cease to be as long as you're
as long as you're resting
a a a guardian angel that watches over
you and no shaitan can come near you
until you wake.
And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said,
indeed
he told you the truth even though he
himself is a liar. He says, do you
know who, who
who visited you 3 times and spoke to
you 3 times, O Abu Hurairah?
He says, no. He says that was shaitan.
So,
uh-uh at any rate the point is is
what that
that uh-uh
that that
it's
a protection for a person when they're when
they're sleeping at night. And that's like a
scary time because your sleep, you can't you
can't protect yourself outwardly
and inwardly,
you know, you can't do so either.
And people have issues, like, they have nightmares
and they have they have, like, problems when
they sleep.
Some of which may be caused from caused
by the unseen, some of which can be
their own, like, psychological
issues or indigestion or other medical things or
whatever. You can go talk to doctor Face.
But, you know, oftentimes those things affect one
another as well.
So it's a sunnah to read the Ayatul
Khorsif before going to sleep. That's one of
the one of the many things about the
Jamat,
other than cream cheese and honey, is what?
Is that, they teach you the adab of
going to sleep, which very few people know.
You should sleep on your right side. You
should read Ayatul Khursi before you go to
sleep. You should do this x y z.
They they teach you all these adab. These
are things that people should do anyway even
if you're not part of the Tablija Mathur
or Maghoya. As long as you're Muslim, these
are sunnahs of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
And Ayatul Kursi is also really
it's interesting the the the reference of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala if you accepted Damir as
being Allah
Like Allahu La ilaha illahu wa. He is
that's one of his names as well, Jallallahu
Allah.
If you if you count the Bamir as
well, the mention of Allah's name is 16
times in it,
which is one of the reasons it's like
the sledgehammer.
And so the ism al-'Avam
according to almost all of
appears in it. I see. Yes? I'm not
sure if this is a relevant question or
not, but I'm remembering when you said earlier
about reciting as a quick c, say if
you're in a rush or something that you
don't have time to ponder.
There's a difference between, reciting it just by
Yeah. The words.
There's a difference between, reciting it just by
saying the words and then pondering actually Sure.
Reflecting on the words. Sure. Is there a
difference on the effect it will have?
Yeah.
Yeah. Well, pandering whatever. So there you there
are certain after the Quran that are recited
as duas,
and people say them and and they have
a a certain effect. And then the more
you ponder over them, the deeper and deeper
the the
the the the benefit to you spiritually. So
there are certain IAF, like, if you say
them, it will protect you something in the
unseen.
But that may not necessarily have to do
with that. That's a worldly benefit in the
sense that even though it's not material, the
the of that the the the, manifestation of
that benefit is in this world.
Whereas with the pondering, it brings into your
heart, and it drives out darkness from your
heart, and it makes you a person, closer
to Allah ta'ala. The benefit of those things
are in this world and the hereafter as
well.
And so when when you wanna have that
latter benefit,
that's one of the things, like, for example,
you can't recite the Quran when you're, when
you're in Janaba.
There's some difference of opinion for the sisters
when they're in Hayd. According to the majority
opinion that they can't recite in Hayd either.
But the Ulema all agree that if a
man is in Janaba or if a woman
is in Hayd,
or in Janaba,
that with the eye with the knee, I
was just reciting them as, like, to protect
you from or to protect you from harm
even from humans or something like that.
Brother, do you mind coming around the back?
The sisters can come from this entrance. The
brothers just come around around the back.
Yeah. I apologize. Our our our yeah.
Yeah. Go ahead and see her inshallah.
The I apologize to the sisters inshallah. We're,
like, we're just setting this place up. I
mentioned to the brothers as well
that,
we're not we don't really know exactly how
to set up everything yet, but we'll make
a better arrangement for brothers and sisters eventually.
And it's a humble
it's a it's a it's a humble establishment
also because,
you know, this business doesn't pay as much
as it used to. So,
we'll all make a little suburb with what
we have. So the the idea is this
is that that, like, the even the the
women that are in Hayd,
and the brothers are in Janaba,
there are ayah to the Quran which with
the with the,
intention of tilawa,
and and
cleansing your heart and all that other good
stuff. It's haram when you're actually in janaba,
when you're in the major ritual impurity. Like,
if husband and wife make love to each
other or something like that and haven't made
it. It's haram. It's actually
a a a a a a, you know,
a lack of respect for the Quran to
reside in that situation. However, if it's like,
oh my god, someone's gonna kill me. And
I'm gonna read Ayatul Kursi, like, as a
dua, like, just for protection, that's permissible. The
Allah may allow that. Or for the sisters,
if they're if they're reading it as with
the niya of it being a a dua.
So they're 2 different things that have 2
different benefits. And if you're, you know, if
you're gonna read it anyway, you may as
well get both,
but but but they they they are 2
different things. Yeah.
So,
so the Ayatul Kursi has the mention the
mention of Allah ta'ala
by name 16 times. And the Ism ul
Adham, what is that?
There's an idea that the Rasul sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam
taught that there's a name of Allah Ta'ala
that if a person is to ask by
it, that person will receive
the answer to the dua like immediately.
And there's a different he did it's not
clear,
And the strange thing is that a number
of them that claim to know it, they
would do that. Like, they basically pull the
hat the rabbit out of the hat when
they needed to. Like, if they were in
a jam, you know, you people would see
them making dua and then like miraculous things
happen and what they would be like other
people would be like, what was that? And
then someone says this person knows the ismul
alaab.
And this is also an experience that that
that many of the masha'i had throughout, history.
It's really interesting. Like, I taught I taught,
like, IFS, like,
as a sub.
Anyone here go to IFS ever? No? Okay.
Yeah. There you go. So I taught as
a sub IFS, like the, I think 7th
grade,
Islamic studies boys class was completely blown away
by this concept. They're like, what? This is
a thing and nobody ever told us? I'm
like, well, I'm telling you right now. They're
like, no. You're making that up. That couldn't
be, like, that's probably some or whatever. And,
like, sheikh Omar Qureshi is walking down the
street. I'm like, hey. Don't believe me? Go
ask Sheikh Omar. I won't even prompt him.
You know? Just just flag him down and,
like, hey. We had a question. You know?
And just ask him outside the hallway. Don't
ask don't don't ask in front of me,
you know. And so some 2 of the
kids go out and ask him, and they
walk into the oh, wow. He said it's
actually a thing too.
So the old days, they used to check
through the hadith narrators to make sure they're
all upright.
You know, if you're in, like, IFS, this
is, like, the next best thing. Right? So
so they're like, what is it? I go,
if I knew what it was, you think
I'd be teaching at IFS right now?
So the
2 opinions that are the most
widely transmitted,
And they all come with the caveat that
the person has to have
like a clean, like concentration when they're doing
it. That the the two names that you
ask Allah by by which he'll he'll respond
right away.
The two most well known opinions, and there
are a number of others as well.
But, like, you know, this is the thing,
like,
that that if a person says it with
complete concentration conviction, they'll get what they want
right away.
One is Allah
and the other is
So you can, so you can think of
what does it mean. Right. Because this is
like one of the the duas for distress.
Right?
But the the one who is, ever living
and the one who,
through whom everything else or everyone else subsists.
I
I I scream out in dire help for
your mercy.
Is what? It's like when you're about to
get killed, like the type of scream for
help that you do. That's what
is. Like, the that like, you know that
this person, that's it. This is, like, this
is a cry for help that's, like, of
this most severe
of
the most severe
calamity and tribulation.
Right? So that's that's that's the the second
most well known opinion is what? So
then what do you think about the ayah
that starts
Allahu. And so then the the the name
of Allah
comes in 16 16 different times in it
from the beginning to the end.
So again, it's like the the the you
know, for the person who's not the in
these spiritual matters, the is like the sledgehammer.
You just
you know, when you need something, you use
it. If you're not you know, you don't
have time to ponder over whatever.
Saidna Buhrer radiAllahu anhu, he said that the
messenger of Allah
said,
whoever,
memorizes,
10 ayahs
from the beginning of Surah Al Kahf, that
person will be protected. It will be a
protection from the Dajjal.
And in another narration also,
in in Sahih Muslim,
reference is made to the last 10 ayahs.
So pick whichever one you want of them
and,
or both
memorize them. Also, the same the same, benefit
comes for those who recite the first ten
of
Also, the same comes for whoever recites it
on Friday. So if the entire recitation on
Friday is overwhelming, then recite the the the
the the beginning in the
every day. Memorize them. And if you memorize
the whole and read it on Fridays,
you know,
You don't wanna find out which of these
and which ones aren't once the gets here.
And, you know, bad news is,
you know, it looks like,
if there was a week it would happen,
it would definitely be during Brett Kavanaugh's
confirmation.
So
I don't wanna alarm anyone, but it's not
looking it's not looking very nice.
And if not, it's good. There's a lot
of in the there's a lot in them
as well.
Sayna Abdullah bin Abbas radiallahu anhu narrates,
it's a narration of Muslim that,
once when the prophet
was seated with Jibril,
was Jibril seated with the prophet,
he he, sallallahu alaihi wasallam, heard a a
a a a a a
large noise from above him.
And, he raised his his
Mubarak gaze to the heavens,
and he said and he was told,
Jibril alaihisam said to him, this is a
a a a a gate,
in the heavens
that was open today
and was never opened from before a portal
of entry into the into this universe,
that was open and was never opened before,
this day ever.
And, an angel, a special angel came through
that gate, and that special angel came to
the earth and, never came to the earth
before, was never sent to the earth before,
except for on this day.
And then that angel actually entered into their
presence,
and he said, salaam.
And then he said,
to the prophet take glad tidings of 2
lights
that you were given you're give 2 lights
that you were given.
And no, Nabi was ever given those 2
lights from before you.
One is
and the second is the last ayat of
and you won't be,
you will not read,
even a letter from them except for whatever
you ask for, you'll be given.
It's a it's a a narration of Sahih
Muslim,
and it's the last narration of the chapter.
Are there any questions?
Yeah.
You said the, which which I had to
spoke to back on the last
The last I had to from the Lahimaf,
somehow, to. So last 3 3 Ias.
Yeah.
Last 3. Last 3.
Yeah.
Sisters, do you have any questions?