Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Riyd alSlihn Missing The Prayer and Kufr Ribt 12232018
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We
we continue with, Babu Amri Bin Muhamfavatiya
Alasalawat,
the chapter regarding the commandment to guard the
prayers.
So this is one of the things that,
what we were talking about before the dar
started,
with,
some of our more junior students that
the constant ficker and the constant worry about
the salat time,
the the the the reminder of remembrance that
a person has inside of their heart of
is it have a is it a prayer
time right now? Have I prayed yet? When
is the prayer gonna come in? When is
it gonna leave?
This is also a a type of the
zikr of Allah.
A person doesn't have to you know, not
all zikr involves grabbing a and, you know,
saying something out loud or quietly or whatever.
This is also a type of remembrance of
Allah,
and this is a one of the
of the the
the nafs when a person is
treading the path toward Allah
that a person
becomes aware of the passage of time.
And this is something that I've seen both
in people who are new to the deen,
when they enter
into the deen as well as those who
were born into the deen, but then they
start practicing later on in life is that
they freak out because of their awareness of
the passage of time,
and that's a good thing. They freak out.
Why? Because they all of a sudden,
realize how much time they're wasting
because they've, now started to take account of
their the hours and the minutes of their
day,
in
taking account of the 5 daily prayers, which
obviously doesn't take the entire day.
But just awareness itself is a big deal,
and, they'll come freaked out and they'll say,
Sheikh, I've been wasting my life. What do
I do? And I say, calm down.
You have been wasting your life, but now
that you're aware you're doing it, then, you
know, we can work on something.
Whereas the real waster is the one who's
wasting and they're not aware of it. You
still have some time left.
And so we continue
I wanted to go back to a hadith
that we read last time and just say
a couple more things about it.
Given that this is not a hugely popular
issue that people are going to,
be real excited to talk about, but it
is part of the deen.
Inshallah, this is this is, I think, an
appropriate venue to talk about it in.
It was a hadith narrated by
Saidna,
Abdulah ibn Amar
but it's similar wordings are narrated by a
number of companions including
Abu Bakr Siddiq,
who's,
who narrates, he says,
Islam.
And so hadith narrated by both Bukhari and
Muslim that the messenger of Allah he
said,
I was commanded to fight the people
until they bear witness that, there's no god
except for Allah and that's Sayna Muhammad is
his messenger
and to establish the prayer and that they
should give zakat.
And once they've done so, by doing so,
that action will protect their their their their
lives and their property,
from me except for through the Hak of
Islam. Meaning, afterward, if you kill somebody,
you may be killed in retaliation, and, you
know, if you do damage property, then your
property can be taken in in restitution.
But the rule is that that that your
life and your property is sacrosanct from the
prophet
meaning from the all the institutions of the
deen. And the rest of their hisab is
with Allah. Meaning, there's so many other parts
of Islam than just praying 5 times a
day and giving zakat. But the rest of
it, he said that there the way of
dealing with that, this Masnun way of dealing
with that is what is gonna be through
the
and preaching and through other mechanisms rather than
than than the coercion of the state.
And so,
this is something
I just really get upset about these things,
and
there's a very concerted effort both,
both by non people, you know, other faiths
that see Islam as a, an impediment to
their,
kind of hegemony in the world, as well
as now increasingly,
Muslims,
people who are,
you know, legally in the hookahum of being
Muslims, and Allah knows what's best best what's
inside of their heart, whether they do these
things out of
some intentional hatred for the deen or out
of some misguided,
quest to,
do something better than what was taught by
Allah and His Rasool
but Muslims especially Muslim governments
and then thereafter, those
who are
those who
are associated with their, you know, those scholars
that are associated with their with their rule.
So,
Okay.
So the
so the,
this is this is a hadith of the
prophet and you have to love
the and his companions that they said things
very straightforward in a very straightforward way. And
the PR and spin, other people can worry
about in dealing dealing with it. That's fine.
But you should understand what the what the
content of the message is first, and then
you can worry about the spin and the
style of it later.
And so, when the messenger
said, I I was commanded to fight the
people until they bear witness that there's no
god except for Allah and that
Muhammad is his messenger and establish the prayer
and gives zakat.
People people say, oh, look. Islam's so violent,
so horrible.
And, see, you know, jihad and all of
this other stuff, and, you know, it's right
there in your text. So either you you,
have reform Islam and throw all this part
out and just keep the part about kissing
bunny rabbits and the rest of it throw
it all away or,
you know, admit that it's like a backwards
and barbarian religion. So we live right now
in a place where
what is the the the model of the
deen and the the the deen, one thing
is a person's personal religion and one thing
is that the the society
has with each other,
in in ordering itself in a in a
moral and a virtuous and upright state. So,
you know, modern modernity is what
that I was commanded to fight the people
until they let let a man marry another
man or something like that. And literally people
kill each other for stuff like that, for
democracy. You know? And I'm like, great. You
know, I don't have a beef with democracy.
I don't have a bone to pick with
democracy. There's certain
parts of democracy that can be used for
good, of course, and there's so certain benefits
in some parts of it, and there's misuses
of it as well. But, you know, this
idea that it's some sort of, like,
level virtue that's worth fighting other people for.
Give me a break, you know, democracy for
all however wonderful it is. Right? It's what
elected
this man who's
made it like
respectable for, like, news media outlets to teach
the American people, you know, the name of,
like, questionable actresses
and,
that don't star in the films that you
and I watch. And, you know, weird fraud
and weird, you know, just types of behavior
that we don't even tolerate from school children.
It's made it really acceptable now, and people
have become proud of it. So this is
obviously, democracy does have a downside. People should
admit that, and it's not really worth something
killing other people for which is really interesting
because if you look at, like, if you
look at foreign policy,
the you always see whenever it comes to
a Muslim country, they'll be like, oh, look,
you know, know, they're not ready for democracy
yet.
And the country will be sabotaged in such
bizarre ways until, like, the democracy is good
until it will give the result that we
want. But if it doesn't give the result
that we want, then
so the thing is forget about practical matters
for a minute. Okay?
Practically, I'm not a politician. I'm not lobbying
for one thing or the other. Allah knows
best, you know, what what, you know, what's
best for the world and what's best for
the people, both Muslim and otherwise.
And in those matters, my opinion is just
as good as yours. It may actually be
less useful.
But
completely in the world of abstract,
ideas,
democracy is not something that you're going to,
you that you're going to establish as a
cornerstone of any cogent, like, thought process.
Because like everything else, it has its good
days and it has its bad days. It
has its good uses and it has its
bad uses. And even in the good uses,
sometimes you'll get a bad result. And even
in the bad use, you'll get a good
result sometimes.
However, Allah's being there, Allah's existence, the fact
that people should be allowed to
what, to, testify that there's no god except
for Allah. That this is the cornerstone of
our society, of any human society.
And that the prayer is established that the
ones who want to pray will say their
prayers unimpeded. And that the zakat will be
collected for those people who submit to the
dean of Islam,
which as an individual known as ever asked
to,
do so by the Sharia. They may be
for political reasons forced to convert to god
knows what, but that's has that's a political
act. That's not a that's not a shari
act. The shari'a doesn't doesn't allow it, and
it doesn't even count if you're coerced. It
doesn't even count your Islam in the first
place. Like, we have mentioned last time.
So that's not something I don't think that's
something that people should feel embarrassed or ashamed
about. We can make it clear. Okay. We're
we're not here in America as Muslims. Our
Muslim community is not going to use, you
know, bike, whatever
common understanding that we have with our government
or whatever through citizenship or through whatever people's
immigration and things like that that we're not
gonna employ,
the the methods of, like, martial coercion in
order to affect this this goal. But this
is our goal. We have the right to
have this goal by the first amendment, and
the fact that,
that our civilization
had eras in which that happened is not
a bad thing.
Jihad is not a bad thing. Jihad, and
when I talk about Jihad, I'm not talking
about, like, a Muslim,
you know, human rights organization saying, well, my
Jihad is to wake up early in the
morning and make fix breakfast
for my kids. Okay. That's great. A lot
that I'll reward you for that. You know,
it's your struggle. Good for you. Right? But
I'm talking about what? This the the the
the the the taking up of arms in
order to, establish,
you know, a society in which, the the
recognition of Allah and his worship is a
cornerstone.
This is not a bad thing.
And this is one of the things, like,
this crazy,
thing happened last week
in in Morocco where there's 2,
European
backpackers,
who are, like, beheaded by some, you know,
someone who,
you know, whatever,
pledged allegiance to the Islamic State or whatever.
Right?
A,
every crazy person in the Muslim world does
that.
All of these people. And there's absolutely no
actual evidence that they have any coordination with
anything. Just someone's crazy, and so they say,
I'm an Islamic state you, and that's it.
That's it. It's become like some sort of,
like,
you know, it's like if if you got
upset at every high school kid who, like,
acted like a gangster and said I'm gonna
cap you or whatever, it's not like you
can go back and say, oh, look. Rap
music is responsible for or whatever. God knows
what.
They have nothing. They obviously their person is
crazy and they chose to manifest their craziness
through this one thing. And oftentimes, they're good
and prodded into doing these things by by
by different agencies.
That's the first thing. The second thing is
this is that
look at the articles the way the articles
are written. Oh, this person is a jihadist.
It's like, calm down there. What if, what
if in the Muslim world we had, like,
a newspaper or the Muslim community had a
newspaper? And every time a church going Christian
or someone who at least nominally affiliated with
Christian, like, on their Facebook profile, you know,
they did something wrong. So, oh, look, these
Crusaders did this and this Crusader did that.
You'd be there are Muslims like that by
the way. They're all nut heads.
There are Muslims who are like that.
And they're all weird conspiracy theory in in
that cases and morons and, like, people generally
that are not, like, pleasant to get along
with type of people.
And, you know, you know that that's not
that's not fair. There's not there's no adal
in it. You know? And we're not necessarily,
you know, a lot some people they do
those types of things. Why? Because
because, they're like, oh, they do that to
us.
Whoever they is and whoever us is, they
do that to us. And so this is
there's a there's a precedent even for refuting
that argument,
which is that said Abu Bakr Siddiq
I mean, Mashal, the the empire, the Persians
were trampled under foot during his reign, much
of most of it.
And so one time they presented the head
of 1 of the slain Persian generals to
him in Madinah Munawar. Look. It's Madina. You're
in the masjid of the prophet. What are
you gonna do? You bring some, like, dead
kafir generals head into the masjid. It's just
a dumb thing to do.
Like, the common sense of Iman knows it's
a dumb thing to do. But in the
heat and the rage of battle, they did
all they did something like that. They actually
brought this guy's head into the Madina. Madina
is not a place to bring these people
dead or alive.
Madina is a nice place. It's a clean
place. It's a beautiful place. You don't bring
stuff like that into Medina Munawar. It's it's,
you know so some someone brought it in,
and he he he chastised,
he chastised him. And he said, well, if
we had died, if we'd been killed, that's
their custom is that they bring this the
head of the slain general to their king.
And,
you know, that
said Abu Bakr Siddiq is like, we don't
follow their sunnah.
You know? We don't follow their sunnah. And
so, yeah, that's fine. They can throw, like,
whatever jihad is a good thing. It's something
a person goes out of his house for
the, sake of Allah and he risked their
his life and his his his,
property in order to,
in order to please Allah to Allah and
in order in order to make the the
word and the worship of Allah to Allah
supreme. There's nothing wrong with that. That's a
good thing. That's a beautiful thing.
Okay. Does this mean I'm saying for you
to grow? You know, go join whatever, not
headed group that, you know, is running around
in the backwoods of Syria and Iraq? No.
In fact, I don't think those people have
anything to do with jihad in the first
place.
So I'm not, you know, I'm not talking
about I'm talking about a very an abstract
level. That's a good thing. If a person
does it properly, there's say it in it.
This is part of our deen. We don't
need to feel bad about that. We don't
need to make excuses about that. We don't
need to, and in fact, to feel bad
about this is actually it's a a great
defect in a person's iman. And if you
feel bad about that, then the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam himself, his companions, and the
entire Islamic history, none of it is going
to make sense. If you didn't feel bad
about it, what would happen?
What would happen?
You have,
and, like, his 15 followers sitting somewhere, and
next door, they're bearing someone's baby daughter alive.
And they're like, yeah, we don't agree with
that, and we're gonna issue, like, a press
release. Come on.
That's Allah mercy is more than that. Amongst
his creation that he
he brought up from amongst,
from amongst the people somebody who would stop
these things. This is why the is
and there's some people from this Ummah who
will constantly be
quashing in this in the in this creation
of God and that's what it means to
be a Khalifa of of Allah on the
earth. That's what the Khalifa means. It doesn't
mean having a government. Having government's an instrument
by which that that that is prosecuted, but
the is what? That this mercy should be?
Not overwhelmed by the barbarism of of of
of just crazy people.
And so we don't not only do we
not need to feel bad about it, it's
a part of our iman to be proud
of it. And fine. If some nut headed
group of people is doing it wrong, call
them out. But that doesn't have anything to
do with what the what the rule is.
Those things are exceptions, and they're misapplied as
well, you know, just because some, you know,
kid from, like, whatever,
you know, is entrapped by an FBI agent,
and the kid already has, like, mental issues,
and they entrap them into, like, going and
do something stupid. Okay. Look. You just proved
that teenagers are stupid. This has nothing to
do with any tenants of our faith whatsoever.
And we should be we should be very
clear about that. Unfortunately, a lot of people
are not clear about it. But one of
the good things about the current political climate
in America is
the very thin veil of, like, how stupid
and comical these things were from before, even
that's been lifted now. And so a lot
of people know, you know, that, like, hey,
you know, you guys are alright. This is
just the same nonsense,
that's coming on everybody, coming to everyone's door.
It's coming to your door before it's now
coming to everybody's door, so we know. This
is a good time to share these things
with people even politically. I think, it's a
good time to share these things with people.
Although, that shouldn't be the barometer of what
your din is, but for those who are
highly political minded for them, we can say
also, yes, this time is, you know, your
your,
misgivings you have, they're assuaged now,
because really people don't care anymore. Now people,
you see you see them at the airport
and just as a backlash, you know, against,
like, you know, hijacking the government in order
to build a stupid wall or whatever, backlash
for all these dumb things. People are, like,
actually, they see you as a Muslim, and
they're, like, extra nice to you now instead
of, like, you know, you know,
rather than whatever Captain America who works for
the TSA was sniffing your underpants in front
of everybody in order stop the next of
911 or whatever. I mean, that's happened to
me. I say that goes good. You know?
You're a real American hero. You're gonna stop
a big, you know, thing. Why don't you
sniff it one more time? See, you might
smell something you didn't smell
before. Sir, you know, I'm just doing my
job. I'm like, no, you're not.
I go, but you you know, whatever. Go
go have a have a good time. That
all of that's gone now. It's like fizzled
away people and by and large, they know,
you know, they've all called each other so
many names that, like, when they call us
a terrorist, it doesn't mean anything anymore because
they all call each other names all the
time. So once you've been called a name,
you know it's nonsense
from another person.
So, you know, this is the plan of
Allah. None of us would have chosen this
as, like, the ideal way that we want
things to be in this country. But now
that it's happened, there's some there's some, benefit
that we're taking, unfortunately,
or fortunately as a person may have thought
of it. But that's that's what it means.
The should be established in a place. The
Adan should be called. There's nothing wrong with
that. After that, there are many people who
are gonna pray and they're not gonna pray
and learn. And Islam does the teacher go
door to door beating people up or forcing
people to do a lot of stuff, you
know, especially people who are not Muslims.
So they have no need to fear, fear
any of that. But at the same time,
when somebody uses the word Jihad in order
to mean something bad, this is wrong. This
is stupid. This is a caricature. This is,
like, really
cheap
propaganda.
Like, you know, they should one would hope
that they would be a little bit more,
sophisticated with it. This is a very, like,
cheap type of propaganda,
and it's nonsense, and, we're not you know,
we don't accept it. We're not happy about
it.
So now there's a class of hadiths that
are inside this chapter,
all of which,
basically
are more explicit than the ones that came
from before and alluding to the idea that
that that that missing the prayer
is a type of,
disbelief.
And so the atidah of the is
that missing the prayer
is a sin. It's not disbelief
whether a person does it intentionally or unintentionally.
But if there was ever a a deed
which was considered to,
itself or sin that was considered to be
Kufr as an exception to that rule,
some of the and the Hanabilah, they they
they they considered
abandoning the prayer without valid
excuse. They considered it to be,
a
they considered it to be kufr
because of these Hadith. And so the majority
of the, they they explained the Hadith and
will explain them also, in a way that
doesn't, you know, they understood them to meet
something else other than that. But, anyone who
speaks a little bit of Arabic should know
that it is not unreasonable to take the
meaning of Kufr,
from the meaning of Kufr in the way
that that we use it in the theological
sense. It's not it's not
it's not, like, unreasonable at first glance.
And He doesn't speak from his vain desires.
Rather everything he says is a a a
a revelation that's revealed to him.
And therefore, he chose the words on purpose,
in order to even for for the majority
of the who don't consider to the abandoning
of the prayer, without excuse to be kufr,
but they do consider this to be something
that the prophet chose to say
deliberately. And the effect of it, he chose
and he understood what it what it meant.
And, you know, we should also ponder over
that that this is something that is it's
it's it's a sin unlike other sins.
He said, I heard the messenger of Allah,
sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
say that, indeed,
the thing that stands between a man in
between disbelief and, worshiping other than Allah
is the,
is is what? Is, is the abandonment of
the prayer.
And so the meaning of this the meaning
of this is what?
Is that the the salat itself is the
greatest word. That's the greatest zikr that a
person does.
It's the greatest word that a person has
for,
receiving,
blessings and light from Allah to Allah and
progress in their
saluk and their journey toward Allah to Allah.
And without the help and the madad that
they received from the prayer and from the
salat,
it will be difficult for them to,
stay in the or in the state of
Iman.
It's a state of the heart and that
state is difficult to maintain without
without the without the Many people may believe
that they're maintaining it and Allah knows best
what the reality is.
Knows best what the reality is. So we
don't walk around calling people a cafe or
whatever, but at least as a general trend,
abandonment of the prayer without excuse is something
the
messenger
himself is saying that this is the barrier.
This is, you know, the Trump wants to
build his wall. This is the wall. This
is not the wall between America and Mexico.
This is the or US and Mexico. This
is the wall between what? It's between Kufrin
and and and and the iman of a
person.
And so if you look at the wording,
like, technically, it doesn't say that the person
who leaves the prayer is
not a a a Muslim, but this is
the the the the impediment obstacle between between
them. And the the ergo, the the conclusion
that the mind logically makes is that if
that impediment and obstacle is
removed, then a person there's nothing stopping them
from leaving the deen.
Be our protection.
So we'll read through a couple of these
hadith and then we'll talk about them a
little bit.
Who he narrates the covenant that's between,
us and between them.
The covenant that's,
between us and between them.
And who is the us and who is
the them?
Baybawi,
the famous Shafir e Qadi in the Sahib
al Tafsir.
Many people, by the way,
you probably heard me mention this a number
of times. Is one of the most abused,
subjects of,
of Islamic learning
and people to them
is like, oh, the story time of stories
that this reminds me of in my life,
which is not what Tafsir is.
But the actual understanding of the Quran based
on
sound principles of logic and the sound understanding
of the Arabic language and the
explanation of parts of the Quran by other
parts and the explanation of,
the Quran based on the the the the
the
the teachings of the messenger of Allah
and his companions,
and their students.
So that
he he wrote a which is, like, unreadable
to many people.
Many people who are like imams in the
master then looked at as scholars. The tafsir
is not readable to them. It's a very
highly technical work.
So he's saying that the the meaning of
the covenant between us and between them, who's
the us and who's them?
Said that the the us and the them
is the,
the people of the iman and the
The people of Iman and the hypocrites. Who
are the hypocrites? They're people who profess,
he profess Iman outwardly,
and inside their heart, they they they they
believe in Kufr.
Now,
Nifaq comes in what? It comes in, like,
the
the the the the part time package, full
time package.
Right? So the part time package is that
a person should have, Nifak in certain parts
of their belief or at some time during
their their their day or their life or
certain events or certain practices of theirs.
Whereas the full time, meaning of nifaq is
what?
Is that, a person, like, literally is like,
I don't believe in this deen, but I'm
gonna just keep saying I'm a Muslim so
I can
get a job, get married, you know, have
less awkwardness at my parties. Every year nowadays,
there's usually some sort of, like,
Huffington Post or Patheos blog or whatever will
run the article by some
knucklehead,
who, you know, they're like, oh, you know,
I haven't been fasting Ramadan
for for, like, years, and so I go
leave my home and eat and this and
that. And, I'm like, oh, wow.
Good for you. You know? You're you're a
person of complete, like,
cowardice, spinelessness,
no character whatsoever,
and a weasel,
and, you know, you got a blog article,
so good for you. Enjoy 15 minutes in
fame of fame and, good for you. So
people, they run articles like that. Those are
like fuck pieces. Those are like, you know,
that I consider those those types of articles
to be about as useful as, like, whatever,
like, celebrity breakup articles or whatever. They're not
you know? They're interesting because everybody wants to
read something salacious and horrible,
but,
at least the society values, like, tearing people
down a lot. Like, it's like a really
like, people, like,
salivate, and they they really,
what is it? They they they savor
they savor the flavor,
of, of, you know, people getting ripped down.
And the more perfect and wonderful they are,
the more enjoyable it is to see them
get ripped down. So, yeah, they're like, oh,
wow. These people, they're, you know, they're modest
and they, like, you know, worship a lot
on. They don't drink and they seem to
have, like, good family. So, like, look, this
one guy does, you know, he goes to
Burger King during Ramadan
and, like, you know, usually regular people have
one heart attack because he's not fasting. I
have 2 because, you know, it's not halal.
But whatever.
Whatever. Who cares? It happens. It's not kufr.
The boasting about it is probably closer to
kufr than actually not fasting, but
So this is a.
Now this hadith this hadith actually is kind
of like a counterpoint because the are people
who are outwardly profess Islam,
and the and the the Sharia runs on
the outward.
There's no way if you can tell if
somebody is telling the truth or lying when
they say
and nor are you obliged to even speculate
about that. Rather what another
that we we vouchsafe their secret that's in
their heart to
he'll join the he'll he'll he'll judge them.
So legally there, they're still Muslims.
Right? Which is the idea of, like, right,
these hadiths if a person wants to say,
oh, look. There's a hadith that says that
the, you know, that that, that says that
the banning the is,
then the one of the meanings of that
is what? It's nifaq, it's hypocrisy.
Now
this a doesn't mean that you can walk
up to everybody who does anyone who, like,
you see, like, miss a prayer and be
like, you're monofic. There's a hadith. Allah knows
best.
But what it does do is
it it it it it it provides some
sort of clarification that that person you you
cannot legally accuse them of Kufr.
At least legally, they're Muslim. Allah knows what's
in their hearts.
So the ahad that the the ahad that
separates us and them is what? It's the
salat,
and whoever leaves it, that person has committed
disbelief.
So the idea is what is that if
it's nifaq, then legally you can't say it,
but
it's a matter that's hidden and unseen.
But Allah knows.
And, you know, even if if a person
could be like, oh, look, this is a
proof. It's not like kufir in the sense
that you can't can't make that fear of
someone for it. But at the same time,
it means you're a like, it's not a
good thing. It's a really bad thing. Right?
You're the
That just means
that you'll have a punishment worse than the
punishment of people who are getting drunk on
Christmas.
You know what I mean? Which is a
bad thing. It's a really bad thing a
person should want to annoy, avoid it. If
a person has iman in their heart, they
should not like that. They shouldn't be happy
about it.
You You know? If you're not able to
reform yourself overnight, that's fine. Habits good habits
are hard to make. Bad habits are even
harder to break.
That's fine. You know? But, like, in your
heart, if you have the desire for it,
you're still on the way to something. You
know? Whereas if you if you,
still think, like, praying 5 times a day
is useless. This is really, unfortunate. Like, I
have relatives who say stuff like that, uncles
and things like that. There used to be
a time that people's elders used to give
them sagacious advice.
And so whoever has,
people who are their elders and their parents
and, you should thank a lot to Allah.
So I have an uncle who,
you know, he went off on a tirade
about, like, oh, there's this one, you know,
country I went to and worked as an
engineer. And in that country, there are people
who, you know, they pray 5 times a
day, but they get drunk and stuff for
a lot. And, you know, I wasn't like
I mean, I was just very early in
my studies at that time, but I was
like, yeah. You know, that's actually,
you know, having a beer is not I
mean, it's bad. Don't get me wrong. You
know, it's not a good thing to do.
But as a sin, it's it's it's nothing
compared
to it's nothing compared to, abandoning the prayer.
And this is a this is a this
is a sign that points to a greater
defect in our imam,
which is what?
I guarantee you almost any Muslim kid, If
you went home, if you cracked open a
Budweiser in front of your parents, they will
they will have a heart attack. And don't
do it because it's haram and it's bad
and it's like, they should have a heart
attack. Right? They would have a heart attack.
Justifiably
so. Right? You, you know, you know, if
you're a
resident of, like, Colorado or,
or Washington state or, you know, recently much
to the chagrin of my,
my my my my, my friend and respected
brother, Dawood Walid.
If you're, you know, you roll up a
roll up a joint and start puffing,
you know, your parents are your parents are
gonna probably have a heart attack and they
very well should.
But people sleep through fajr every day.
They don't even set their alarms.
People sleep through Fajr everyday. People waste the
Zohar Asar
They'll go days, without praying. They'll skip
the
for the most inane of reasons. They'll do
all of these things. Nobody will say anything.
Rolling up the joint and smoking it is
bad. Having the beer is bad.
Missing the prayers is even worse,
but worse than all of the above is
what?
The idea that
the dean is teaching one thing and we
have our own sensibilities that are different and
we feel entitled to those.
This is all like really I mean, there's
a lot wrong there. Right? And the funniest
thing is that the thing that's gonna be
the most
the most,
destructive for a person's deen in this world
and for their heart and their in this
world and for their life, their physical life
also.
For their body, for their health, for their,
risk, for all of it. That's the thing
and that that that's the thing that that
by changing it, they'll they'll get the most
benefit in the hereafter
and the most,
barakah
in their life and in their provisions and
in their wealth and in their heart and
their body and their everything.
Out of all of them, that's the same
thing and it's also the same thing as
the easiest to change
out of the 3 of them.
If you're an alcoholic, it's not easy to
give up alcohol. If you're addicted to drugs,
it's not easy to give up drugs.
If you're not condition to wake up for
a fudger in the morning, it's probably easier
to, like, get conditioned to it than it
is to, like, you know, for, like, a
hard alcoholic to give up alcohol or whatever,
but it's not easy also.
Right? You have school and things like that.
You have work. It's not easy. I I
I I accept that. I understand that. Right?
The easiest thing is to be like, you
know what? This is more important than all
the other things. Because how much, Amal, do
you have what practically, what do you have
to do in in in accepting that in
your heart?
Absolutely nothing.
It's just what? Rasulullah SAWSOME said so, and
that's why I believe it.
That's the sad part. But the good news
is what? It's the easiest thing to change.
And the only thing that will prevent a
person from changing it is kibir's arrogance.
Otherwise, it's the the good news is what?
That's the easiest to change. Once you change
that, the door is open for the other
things to change. They can open for the
other things to change as well. Without changing
that, maybe a person will pray 5 times
a day, but the defect from that one
thing in the iman is so
deep and it's so,
critical
that who knows if even praying 5 times
a day is going to help that person.
And Allah knows best.
So this is this is like it's a
scary thing that a person should abandon their
prayer without without
excuse,
you know, that that that that that's that's
like literally the the differentiator between a person
of iman and a person of nifaq.
That's that's a that's a very scary thing.
People should take it seriously. I mean, this
has to do with what? It has to
do with the modernist understanding,
which is what?
That the,
better please don't do that.
The modernist understanding that what? That the are
not what's important. The reason Muslims are down
is because we don't have a government, we
don't have money, and we don't have, like,
you know, political party. Okay, Khilas, now we
have we have 2 sisters in the in
in in congress.
You have 2 alternative, hijab, non hijab, you
know, it's, you know, Arab, non Arab. We
got the we got, like,
That's, like, big deal.
Politically, it's a big deal. Is it
who here is, like,
you know, seeing dreams of Medina now or
whatever? No. We're just the same slabs we
were yesterday.
So,
to
to our people politically even if they establish
the caliphate and then we just end up
doing weird stuff like, you know,
fighting out battles in the in the of
of the Muslim and killing killing the ulama
and killing the family of the prophet and
god knows other, like, you know, highlights of,
like, stupid things that Muslims have done over
the centuries.
That's not really much of an achievement. Oh,
great. We have a Khalifa though now.
You know, Imam Abu Hanifa is like dies.
And you know how Imam Abu Hanifa died?
Bahibrahim, do you know how he died?
He died he died in solitary. He was
in prison.
Uh-uh.
Uh-uh. Abu Jafar al Mansur.
Because of Abu Hanifa, there's a great amount
of sympathy for the Abbasis against the Al
Umayyah was because of Imam Mohanifa, his political
views and opinions. How was he rewarded?
He was put in solitary because Abu Jafar
was a very astute politician,
And, he,
he's even a he's Hashimi as well, but
he's a very astute politician and he knows
that the man who can bring a revolution
once can bring it again. So he was
very afraid of Abu Hanifa's political ability. So
just as an insurance policy, he put him
in solitary. He was in prison in the
in the bottom of a dried out well.
And he used to teach Darfs from the
bottom of a dried out well. He's a
man who used to read the entire Quran
in in, in his Tahajjud time, and probably
the greatest legal mind in the history of
the Ummah. And,
that's how he that's how he passed from
this world. In fact, the Ulema mentioned that
he was even then he was not dying,
so they poisoned him.
And all of that happened under auspices of
a Khalifa who was actually a very close
relative of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
You know? So go figure.
So I'm not saying, like, caliphate's evil or
nothing. I'm just saying that that's not gonna
that in and of itself is not gonna
solve your actual problems. If it's a manifestation
of your problems being solved, it's gonna be
a good thing. But if you just think,
oh, look. Great, Khalifa.
No. They're gonna do all kinds of that
same Abu Jafar Mansur is, like, you know,
he's the same one who because of whom
Malik was beaten,
in Madina Munawara, and he he he was
he caused so much bloodshed. I mean, the
man with his political adversary is completely ruthless.
He would oftentimes he's oftentimes known to, like,
promise people safety, safe passage if they surrender.
Once they surrender, have them all killed. If
that's the type of Khalifa you want, go
for it. You know?
Wonderful.
But,
you know,
this these are things these are things that
if we change these things first, then the
rest these are the roots. The the tree
then can grow. If these things are changed
first, and then if the tree grows, then
there can be fruit. And, you know, if
the roots are good, they're pulling good things
out of the ground. The fruit can be
good.
If if if the roots are already the
roots are soaked in poison,
the fruit is gonna be poisoned also, and
it's just gonna be another,
another,
line in in
in the history of, stuff that people should
be ashamed of.
So,
the Tabiri who's,
who who is
mentions
that that the later generations, they all bear
witness to his greatness amongst the generation of
the Tabi.
He narrates as a a scholar,
from his learning from the companions of the
messenger of Allah
that there was no sin that they that
that that the opinion of Kufr was tied
to that sin amongst them except for the
the the abandonment of the salah. So this
has a context as well, and the context
is during the time of the the the
Sahaba, late Sahaba Tabi'in,
the the emergence of the which was a,
like, a complete, like, deviant sect of people
who
who considered themselves to be Muslims.
They,
they considered any sin that a person did.
They considered that a sin would take them
out of the pale of Islam.
And,
and this is this is something that that
the the right? This the
are not.
Even though they met the Sahaba, they actually
met them in what battle and things like
that. Right? But They're not considered
why? Because they didn't accept the,
the the the the authority of the as
the canonical
transmitters of the deen from the prophet
rather they would hear
the Quran and they would interpret it in
their own way. And so,
and they were a menace to the to
Islam. They're a thorn in the side of,
of the Muslims,
for centuries, and they still exist today. Most
of the slave traders,
you'll hear this, like, you know, people are,
well, Muslims are bad to the Arabs. They're,
you know, slave trade. Most of the slave
traders that used to
Muslim slave traders, quote, unquote, that would take
the,
engage in the the business of unlawfully obtained
captives. They're usually.
They're usually Omani,
connected with the Omani trade empire.
The capital which is not in Oman, the
capital which is in was in Dar es
Salaam in,
the island of, Zanjibur.
Alright? Zanjibur and Tanganyika,
they
unified into one country, which is what Tanzania
is. Zanjibar, Zan. Right? Tanganyika and Zanzibar
become Tanzania,
but they got kicked out by the locals
for being colonizers, which was essentially what they
are. And so they had to go back
home to their homeland, which was,
which was,
which is is Oman.
And but they used to maintain a a
kind of like a Venetian style, like, trade
empire that would go up and down the
East Coast of Africa and through,
you know, many of the same places the
Yemenis used to trade. Trade. So the Hadaramese
would go and take the din in different
places. These guys would just engage in some
very questionable,
types, commercial practices. That's why Goa'Dhar any Pakistanis
here?
Goa there, the port city of Goa there,
the was
obtained by Pakistan from Oman,
even though it's not I mean, it would
make sense that it should be part of
Pakistan.
But, it was Gowad there was a port
city that Omani, their in their old trade
empire they used to use, and they had
limited u usage for it, so they gave
it up to the Pakistanis.
Now instead of the, the the Khaledge,
running it now, it's gonna be run by
the Chinese. So
I I don't feel very good about that,
but.
So, yeah,
the the the is the
who fought them. So the Tabir in obviously
also were opposed to them.
So this is this is this is, who,
like, you know, the the the Tabi'in who
are the flag holders, the the,
in that generation,
and they're the ones who are closest in
generation of
the
Sahaba. For him to say this, this means
that it's a I mean, it's not something
that they're gonna say for no reason. It's
something that that it if anything, it would
count against them, which is what the the
given that there is a group of psychopathic,
like, homicidal maniacs that are preaching their messed
up version of the deen to one another,
that we disagree with.
If there was one sin that we ever
heard from the companions that some of them
held the opinion that it was Kufr, it's
what? It's abandoning the salah to that excuse.
So, that's the point of in the context
of this
this,
this this,
being
narrated.
Which is,
that's in that, the messenger
said,
the first
the first thing that's going to be accounted
for,
from,
the the the slave is gonna give account
for on the day of judgment from his
deeds is the salat.
And if the account of the salat is
is is correct,
and,
if meaning meaning what? That it's all the
salats are in place, then that person has
will be from the people of happiness and
the people of success.
And if that accounting goes badly,
then that person has,
that person has
lost. That person is a loser, meaning everything
has gone wrong.
That person is not gonna get what they
want. Their their hopes are gonna be dashed,
and they're gonna they're gonna be a loser
on that day.
And if the account is,
like, almost there, like, you know, 80%
or 90%, which I guess enough to, like,
fly an airplane or, do medical operations on
people, but Yomokiyama is not gonna
quite make it like that.
That, that if there's there's there's some, some
something missing, some decrease in it that shouldn't
be there,
from that person's father prayer, then the lord,
mighty and majestic as he will
say,
look at my slave.
Does he have any
extra salat,
some nonfard prayers that that he did,
that can be plugged into the holes that
are left in there? Their,
in their in their in their obligation
obligatory
prayers.
And so if that happens, then that will
make up for what was
lost. And,
then afterward, the, rest of the prayers or
sorry, the rest of the the deeds, the
accounting of the rest of the deeds are
gonna go in the same way. They're gonna
follow that same,
you know, whatever the result was for the
salat, that's the way the rest of the
deen is going to be accounted for. Meaning
what?
If you follow your own deen
and you wanna do it your way,
you,
bail yourself out of the troubles of the
day of judgment. If you wanna follow the
deen Allah's way,
then, count on Allah to be the one
who,
will be the source of your your success
on that day. If you wanna do it
your own way, do it your own way.
This is the thing that our our people
nobody ever gets upset or lose sleep at
night that their children don't pray, but they,
you know, they'll, you know, cuss cuss their
kids out for, you know, whatever marrying someone
from a different race or,
you know, not becoming a medical student or
getting a minus instead of an a. Okay.
Go, you know, go go marry your, like,
first cousin if you want. Right? Go become
a medical student and go get a pluses
and everything. That's fine. Don't miss your prayers,
though. This is more important than any of
that stuff.
Those things, you know, no one's gonna regret
those things, yomo, piyama, necessarily. This is something
necessarily a person will regret, that it's gonna
actually mess up all the other things that
a person thinks. So these are the real
important things. All those things are gonna get
messed up by not doing this properly.
And this this brings another point which is
what?
Which is that, and something that that we
mentioned before and it should be mentioned more
more and more that the dean is not
like magical.
You understand what I'm saying? To some people,
the dean is magical.
It's what it's like watching a Star Wars
movie.
Okay?
Premise.
Messed up things happening in the universe. There's
this one dude or dudette, I guess how
it is now, I'm told.
And and,
yeah. And they have this thing called the
force because of which nothing else matters anymore
because they'll be able to hack their way
through all sorts of stuff. It'll be close
at times, but more or less, like, yeah,
the force. That's it. Right? You watch Lord
of the Rings, same thing. There's the ring,
but, like, you know, some evil will come
down and fly you away and, like, you'll
be fine. Don't worry. Right? Everything has, you
know, these are what magical things. These are
not the way real life works out.
Real life is what? Everything is is accounting.
Everything is numbers. Everything is, everything. There's balance,
you know, when you, you know, you when
you, you know, throw something, you know, you
can't be like, oh, inshallah, this time instead
of it falling down, it'll go up. It
doesn't work that way.
And to a lot of people, because there's
stuff that's happening in the, you know, in
the unseen realm.
Doesn't mean that it's fake. It just means
you can't see it.
Is kind of like, you know, the existence
of your your ancestors or the, you know,
yeah, they exist. Even though you may not
even know what the name of your, like,
whatever 7th, 7th, or 17th, or 70th, or
7 100th lineal ancestors, but it doesn't mean
that they don't exist. They existed. Right? But
it's it's something you don't see. Something that's
in the grave, just because in the grave
doesn't mean it's magical, fantastic,
you know.
Uh-uh.
Fantastic in the sense of good, maybe, but
fantastic in the sense that it violates the
the rules and operations of logic? Absolutely not.
There are many people their practice of deen
is like that. It's based on magical thinking,
especially, Masha'allah, Sufism is or Khalas, it's like
all based on magical thinking. Right?
You don't
learn the fiqh, You don't learn the,
you don't practice any of the stuff, but
you think I took with so and so
and
because of that, somehow magically, this is gonna
help it's not gonna help you. There's no
the power of Nispah and this and that.
Obeyed Nispah is like electricity. Right? Okay. There's
electricity at the at the whatever the power
plant.
You'd haven't plugged anything in. How are you
gonna get it?
That's what your your Amala. If your Amala
are done properly, a person prays 5 times
a day. This is the whole point of
the the lesson, and it's a greater point
also that people need to know. He says
what? If you don't have any medium for
those, for those abstract concepts to manifest inside
it, you don't have anything. It's like it's
like,
multiplying a really huge number by 0. It's
always gonna be 0. But you don't have
any you yourself didn't put anything
forward. Rather you think that because I'm connected
with so and so, I'm gonna go to
Jannah. The were
connected to the prophet
so they literally took Islam at at his
hands.
They took use of the that the Sufis
are very proud of. They actually literally took
that
from the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. He
was their sheikh, he was their murshid, he
was their khalifa, he's the one that they
became Islam at his hands. Their Arabic was
better than your Arabic. They used to pray
salat in the masjid with him. You know,
at least nowadays, people are pious because they
make it to Jumar or they pray Isha
at the masjid.
At least 2, 3 prayers in the in
the Jamaat, they used to pray them with
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Right? So
what's the difference between them and us when
we think that somehow this nisbah is gonna
save us? It's the it's there. I'm not
like the other group of people are gonna
say, oh, it's all hocus pocus, pine, sky
and jelly. No. There's a lot of reality
to it. But you have to understand the
in order to know how you're gonna get
that reality, get the benefit out of it.
And so if you're,
you know, the the system is what? If
you wanna receive this Noor inside of your
heart, if you wanna receive this help, if
you wanna be like, you know,
Sahaba
on whom and, you know, the successes that
they had and the honor that they had
both in this world and the hereafter, both
in their their deen and the dunya. Right?
This is, like, the step 1, and if
you're not gonna do it, then it's not
magical. Islam is not like the force that
you're gonna be able to, like, whatever,
you know, put on a blindfold and, like,
you know, use your lightsaber to, like, you
know, like, whatever
whack a back blaster
shots like, you're playing, like, backhand in tennis
or something like that. It doesn't work that
way.
The prophet never said it worked that way.
The never said it worked that way. Those
who say it works that way, they're they're
selling you a a property on the moon.
And, you know, if you're that gullible, just
come to me. I would like to,
you know, I would like to take your
money and use your car and, like, all
that stuff. Right? Why take it to somebody
else? You know, take it to me inshallah.
At least at least I'll use it for
something good. You know? I'm not gonna you
know, I'm reasonable. I'm not gonna I'm not
gonna put book private jets. I'll just use
your money to buy, like, you know, 1st
class tickets on it, you know, because it
was reasonable. Right?
If you're if you're that type of person,
come to me and waste your money then,
instead of somebody else. But if you don't
wanna be that person, which hopefully nobody should
want to be that person, then, you know,
use your brain. You know, you're not gonna
you're not gonna
you're not gonna you're not gonna your kite's
not gonna,
fly in the air if you don't, you
know, if you don't if you don't actually
get it out of the house ever. And
what is that? That's the that's the the
salat. And so if it goes right, there
we mentioned in the previous abwab how how
it's gonna go right. And if it goes,
you know, if it goes wrong, we mentioned
in this about how it's gonna mess everything
up.
So one of the things I wanted to
mention before continuing or continuing on to the
next chapter is this is that
there's this weird,
misconception that people have inside of their mind
or inside of their heart. That praying 5
times a day is what pious people do.
And,
you know, I guess, fine. Some like, the
people who are actually pious, they all do
it. But that doesn't mean that everyone who
does it is pious.
You understand the difference?
The people who pray 5 times a day,
the people who are pious, they all pray
5 times a day. But the people who,
people who
pray 5 times a day, not all of
them are pious. In fact, very few of
them are.
And, someone, you know, might say, like, mostly
my relatives, they'd be, oh, I know so
and so. It's a very pious person, but
they don't pray 5 times. They're okay, you're,
you know, I guess that's fine. That's whatever
deen you're talking about. It's not the deen
that the prophet described. It's not the deen
that Allah described in his book.
Right? Because where is this in Quran? I
don't believe in Hadith. Okay. Whatever. The Quran
itself is a Hadith, but, like, we'll indulge
you. You know, it's it's in the spirit
of Christmas.
You know? It's, you don't wanna be Scrooge
and, like, Tiny Tim needs his operation. So
fine. I'll give you, you know, a lot
right that that that that,
who's Hafiz here?
That they they left behind them a people.
Right? Did men mention all the and the
all
of
them,
that that that that all these good and
pious people. And Allah says that what happened.
Right? They left behind them a people,
that came afterward who,
what did they do?
They wasted the prayer
and they,
they they followed their their,
their their their their their their passions.
Right? Meaning, I the logic was what? I
wanted I want I like this. I wanna
do it. That's what we're gonna do it.
Kalas.
We're gonna do it. Not everything you like
is something to do. Many things you like
is not something to do. If we if
we all did something
that we did what we liked, you know,
this guy would be eating, like, cotton candy
breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and he'd probably be
dead by now. Right? But we make him
eat vegetables, and that's why he's still around.
Right?
Otherwise, you eat candy and ice cream all
day, wouldn't you? But is it a good
thing?
No. So sometimes following your desires can be
a good thing, but, you know, not always.
A lot of times not. Right?
So,
they they did those two things, and what
are they gonna find? They'll
be tossed into or they shall meet with,
with.
So the meaning, the linguistical meaning of the
word is what? Is is is misguidance
after knowing better.
There's
which is like the misguidance if you didn't
know in the first place,
you know. You looked at about antifreeze and
you're like, Kool Aid, and you just downed
it and you died. And then that's not
right? That's Dalal.
Is what?
Is like, you know it's antifreeze.
You have a degree in chemistry, but you're
like, oh, it's red. Reminds me of Kool
Aid. Let's check this thing out. And so
you down the whole thing, and then when
you're dying, you're like, wow. That was a
dumb idea. I knew it was a dumb
idea.
That's what means linguistically.
Right? But the meaning here is that Allah
after this
stupid tendency that human beings have.
Allah protect us from our the evil of
our
it's
part of the
that we seek refuge in Allah from our,
the evil in our own selves,
which is like that type of stupidity,
amongst others,
and from our own bad deeds that our
bad deeds catch up with us and harm
us.
That that
that what
that this is
named after that tendency.
So
people will be punished there, and it's for
the place who for for the
Kufar are not punished for wasting the prayer,
at least according to the Mathuridi school, which
has a very solid argument. The Kufar and
Jahannam are not punished for missing the prayer,
for not fasting in Ramadan, or for eating
machine slaughtered chicken. What are they punished for?
They're punished for their kufar.
So if is a place for the people
who wasted the prayer, then what?
It means it's a part of Jahannam that's
for the the people's
protect us from it and, give us the
of protecting ourselves from from ending ending up
in that place. So this idea that only
pious people pray, this is a wrong idea
And people will come, you know, they'll come,
like, to you after, like, a or ban,
and they'll be like, oh, you know, Sheikh,
you mentioned that. That's really bad.
You know, but, like, sometimes,
I, you know, I do these sins, and
I do this thing with my friends, and
I,
you
know, do this other thing, and then I,
you know,
do the third thing, and I do bad
things on the Internet, and I do this,
and I do that, and I do all
these different things. And then and then, like,
how can I I feel like so ashamed
of myself? How can I show my face
in front of Allah and pray? Like, feel
like a monafiq. And it's like, look, first
of all, most people's friends are dumb and
they do dumb things with them. You just
get better friends. 2nd of all, I don't
I think, like, the Internet was made for
people doing bad stuff, so that's also by
design. That's like an assumption anyway.
All those things, put them to the side.
The salat, is it for pious people? No.
If you're going to Jannah anyway,
then even said that Aisha asked about the
prophet why do you pray to Hajjid all
night when Allah Ta'ri promised you you're gonna
go to Jannah?
Right?
The salat to the sahabah of the allahu
and to them, what was it?
It was something we do to extricate ourselves
from the evil, effects of our sins. It's
something we do to pull ourselves out of
that condition. And,
it's not, you know, so if so I
tell people, I say, look, if you have
this idea, how can I show my face
in front of Allah to Allah, then you
know what your maqam is with Allah, and
the prayer is for you?
Anyone who goes to the slot thinking that
I'm a pious person, I'm gonna pray right
now, that person has problems that are way
deeper than any of the things that we're
talking about right now.
That person is a wicked person. That person
that person is a wicked person.
Out of the sins of the heart, I
mean, they're the sins of the limbs. Right?
But
leaving the prayer is the one that's the
the closest to Kufr.
Out of the sins of the heart, right,
like envy, jealousy,
you know, like,
hatred, things like that.
Khibr
arrogance is the one that is the the
the most resembling the one that resembles Kufr
the the most completely.
In fact, Kufr is what? It's a perfected
type of arrogance, if you can call that
perfect. It's a completed type of arrogance. A
type of arrogance that has no holes in
it, basically. It kills the entire heart. So,
obviously, you're not gonna be reading salat being
like, yeah, I'm pious.
You don't do that.
If you do that, do you have problem
your salat has a problem that cannot be
fixed by making wudu. Your salat has a
problem that can't be fixed by joining a
madhab.
You have a problem that can't be fixed
by joining a tariqa. You have a problem
that's not gonna be fixed by,
you know, going to Darul Qasim and Dar
salam retreat or full time program, and
your your problems can't be fixed by that.
Your problem is so deep it can't be
fixed with any of those things. Nobody prays
like that. The people pray what? Knowing their
sins, and they go to get forgiveness from
Allah
You go to Allah and ask for forgiveness
because nobody else can forgive except for him.
And,
at that point then you're like, yeah. I'm
a messed up person. I need to have
this salat. Otherwise, I'm gonna go to Jahannam
and also probably gonna end up sabotaging the
rest of my life also. That's that's those
are the those are the salat of the
pious people. People think that, oh, like, you
know, I'm not pious. I'm not gonna pray.
Hey. That's the salat of the pious people.
What does that mean? Allah is saying that
that person who has that thought process that,
like, man, I messed up. I messed up
person. You know? I've spent, like, the last,
like, 6 hours watching kitty cat videos on
YouTube. Like, what's wrong with me?
You know. And some some some person is
probably listening to this and they're, like, oh,
I did that, but I didn't nothing's wrong.
Oh, wait. Maybe there is. Right? That's good.
I'm not seeing it to, like, insult you.
We've all been through that.
We should have that realization and, like, okay,
something's wrong with me. I need help. You
go to the where you get the help.
That's that's what makes a person a pious
person. That's people their idea of piety is
like putting the the cart in front of
the horse. It's not gonna go anywhere.
So this idea that the salat is only
for the pious people, this is wrong. In
fact, the people who are pious, they all
went through this,
getting dragged through the getting dragged through this
this process. Brings them to the prayer and
through that, they become pious. A person who's
a messed up person and he keeps praying,
that person be raised
amongst the pious. That person will already be
in the 90th percentile in the day of
judgment.
Right? That's a big deal. That's a great
I remember one time
one time, like, we, in in the Bukhari
Darce,
that, they humored me for letting me into
the Dora Hadith. I probably still am not,
like, qualified to even enter the class much
as graduate from it. But I made, like,
a a a really dumb grammatical mistake, and
Allah
has, rewarded me afterward by by making me
teach the books.
And now I, like, realize how much I
didn't know anything back back in those days
when I was studying.
But, and I how much I still know
nothing. But,
I remember I made a really stupid mistake
in in in
reading, and the sheikh, like, just looked at
me with, like, disappointment. Like, he lives in,
like, the Darul Kufers. So what do we
expect from this? So he just appoints someone
else you read. Right? And so afterward, I
went to I said, Stadji, do you need
to forgive me? I'm sorry. I know it
must be really frustrating. You guys put in
so much time and effort into running the
madrasa and, like, teaching and, you know, you
prepare for darshan and then like some student
does something like that. It must be very
disheartening.
And so he's like, he he, you know,
he said in a very very clean Urdu,
like these are people from from from, like,
you know, very proper Urdu speaking background.
So he says, don't worry about it. He
goes, even the realization that you you you
you made right now, this is a great.
Like, meaning you're an idiot, but it'll be
okay. You know? So I was like, thanks,
but that's fine. There's some people, they, like,
memorize all all of Sahih Bukhar and they
can tell you all the. I'm not one
of those guys. But this is what I
learned from my my that what?
Just even the realization itself is a great
from Allah to Allah. Otherwise, the whole world
is populated by idiots who are idiots that
never realized they were idiots, and they don't
realize then they don't cannot go to and
ask for help.
And and that's that's what a loser. A
loser is not the one who ask who
comes and asks Allah. That person never who
comes in the court of Allah to ask
for help, that person can never be described
as a loser. Allah gives to everybody who
asks him. The one who doesn't ask that
person is the is the loser.
Whoever, you know, whatever loser looserness we have
inside of us,
Allah take it away and replace it with
his
deen and with iman and with and with
with with good things.