Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Riyd alSlihn Prayers of Protection 02182018
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So this is a the chapter regarding the
the recommendation
to
make dua while traveling.
So the previous chapters had to do with
what the specific duas were for traveling
and now it's a general recommendation for traveling.
Said Abu Hurair radiAllahu ta'ala anhu narrates that
the messenger of of
Allah said, 3 duas or 3 supplications
to the Lord,
will be answered and there's no doubt in
them being answered.
One is the supplication
of
the person who's been wronged or oppressed.
And the second is the supplication of the
traveler
And the third is the supplication of the
the the parent for the
child. Or in this case,
the literally means the the supplication
of the parent against the child.
And
this hadith is narrated by Saidna Abu Dawood,
and, Tilmidi, Imam Tilmidi
said that it is a good hadith, hadith
Hasan.
But, in the narration of Abu Dawood, the
the expression of
of a parent,
making dua against the child
is not mentioned.
And there's more,
there's more,
I guess, Kalam and and,
more
commentary with regards to that.
And that is that there is another narration
of the same hadith,
by, that Bazar narrates
in which instead of having the
the the the dua of the parent against
the child, it's mentioned with
the the one who,
fast until they
until they open their fast. That that person's
dua is not,
is not,
ignored.
And
it may be that the the the
they actually refer to 2 different things that
the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam said.
That he wanted to mention 3 things now
and he wanted to mention
three things at another time. Not because of
forgetfulness
or whatnot, but just because it's the messenger
of Allah
is in general his
uslub and style of education was to give
people
information
in,
in in in amounts that they can process
and a level that they can process.
So it's possible that at one occasion he
mentioned,
one set of 3 and at another occasion
he mentioned another set of 3.
As far as the the the duav, the
parent against their child,
Ibnu Majah narrates
the same hadith
but his,
but with one word different.
That instead of,
it's,
which means that the the the
the dua of the parent
for their child, not against their child.
And,
really both of them
are true at the same time. The idea
is what is that when a parent makes
a dua
with regards to their child whether it's for
them or against them, that dua is answered
by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So,
parents should be very careful about what they
what they pray for, for their child. They're
I've
heard of and met many parents who have
cursed their children
and then live to regret it because the
exact curse that they gave to their child,
ended up happening. And that's not what they
wanted to. They just said the curse out
of exasperation.
But the question then arises that what is
the common thread between all three of these
things,
which is the
the dua of the the person who's oppressed
and the dua of the traveler and the
dua of the parent,
for their children.
And the common thread between them is what?
Is that a person says it in a
in a state of desperation.
Meaning, they know that they're in a situation
where their own means
and their own artifice and their own intelligence,
their own wealth is not gonna help them.
The person who's mafloum, the person who's been
oppressed, their rights were taken away from them.
Things are not functioning the way they should.
And,
had they had the power to retaliate, they
would have done so, but they don't.
And the the traveler,
a traveler may be an extremely wealthy person.
But if you know, you're traveling in a
foreign land, you're you're traveling in Slovakia and
you've you you lost your wallet. You don't
have a credit card with you, you don't
have any cash with you, etcetera,
then you're being a billionaire means nothing.
You can't even talk to people because you
probably don't speak Slovak. Right?
A person becomes
in that situation
unable to avail themselves of their own wealth
and their own
means in general.
You're like in an airplane.
You're really tired.
You you know, there's a baby crying next
to you. Someone might say, well, if you're
a billionaire, you're probably flying 1st class. There
are things that are in the airplane that
happened that the first class people have to
go through as well.
If there's turbulence,
you know, 1st class is not immune to
turbulence.
If, Allah protect us and and and and,
Allah,
you know, forbid that such a thing should
happen. But if the plane is gonna crash,
the first class crashes with the rest of
the plane.
And this is one of the things I
find really funny. Like, there are Hajj groups
that are, like there's, like, the the the
okay. The normal ones are starting to get
close to $10,000
now anyway. Right? So you have, like, these,
like, weird, like, Russian, like, petro oligarch, like,
$100,000
type hedge groups. The fact is that you
still have to make dawaf.
You could be, you know, going to the
Jamarat on helicopter from the palace. Right? We
still have to make dawaf in the same
in the same month off. You're still gonna
get pushed by the same people from all
the different wonderful parts of Asia and Africa
and Europe and, like, other places where, like,
wonderful people who push really hard come from.
You know, you're gonna you you can't you
know, there's no, like, there's no,
you know, gold package, diamond, platinum package, GABA
that you can go to that's different than
the one that the other people go to.
So when you're in Safar, there are certain
things you just cannot control.
And when you're when your own
when your own hila runs out, your own
artifice runs out an ability to solve your
problems,
then you only have to ask Allah ta'ala.
It's a state of desperation. And the third
is the parent for the child. And people
know, Masha'Allah,
that a parent loves their their their child.
And sometimes children don't listen and they don't
make smart decisions,
unfortunately. And we know that. Some of us
have been that child that has completely driven
our parents, like, up the wall. And some
of us have children like that that are
driving us up the wall.
And, you know, all you can do at
that point
is make dua.
But because
because of your amount of
care for your child and concern and sacrifice
that you made, you have a spiritual connection
with them. And when you make dua offer
for them or against them, that dua has
a very direct line with Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
So
this is really important. This is like what,
you know, kinda like hood Sufism here right
here. Not like as in the hood as
in like because it has anything to do
with the actual hood, but it's like a
more rugged form of Sufism that you probably
won't find in like
the high high minded books of the the
Mashaikh,
which is this. In their books, you should
be getting along with your parents and making
them happy. Okay?
You're in rebat and Lombard right now.
You're, you know, if you're like me, you're
probably not making the cut for that level
of Sufism.
The bare minimum, the floor, on the bottom
end is what? If your parents hate you
and you hate your parents, right, just try
your best not to cross them when you
don't need to.
And this happens. There are some people whose
parents are
frankly and starkly unreasonable,
especially since we live in a society where
Islam is not the
culturally dominant,
force.
And there are many people perhaps who are
listening to this Darsse here or or somewhere
else whose parents may not even be Muslims.
And so they definitely won't understand.
The idea is this, is that even if
you're, you know, even if your pops is
like the Fox Newsiest
making America great again, like, just crazy dude.
Right?
And they hate the fact that you're Muslim.
Okay? If there's 2 choices you have in
front of you, 2 courses of action, 1
which will cause him to, like, yell at
you 10 times and one will cause you
to let yell at him 15 times, then
pick the 10 times one. Why?
Because that parent of yours
has
in their dua
a power which is
not, which is not, something that's, like, optional.
And if they make dua against you, you
will taste the bitterness of that dua in
this world even if they're not a Muslim.
If they made it against you in
without a right,
then you will be rewarded on the
on the other side,
and they will be punished on the other
side for it.
However, the effect of that dua will hit
you over here. There are certain hierarchical relationships
in the Sharia.
This is something that perhaps like Islam has
in common with Confucianism. Confucianism
has a lot of teachings with regards to
what your social relationships should be with other
people. Right?
And it's it's not devoid of Hikma.
There are certain relationships even though everyone is
like the land of the free, home of
the brave, it's America, love it or go
home, go back where you came from. We
don't like to, like, think about hierarchical relationships
because it's, like, against our, like, national mythology.
But the fact of the matter is there
are hierarchical relationships.
Right? When you tell the police when you
tell the police to his hands on the
car, he's not gonna put his hands on
the car. When he tells you to put
your hands on the car, you better damn
well put your hands on the car. Otherwise,
he's gonna make Swiss cheese out of
you. And the slug from the 9 will
literally knock you over. I mean, you will
not be able to charge him even. It
will knock you over. It's you it's a
hierarchical relationship.
Life is filled with them. Just because you
shout that you're free doesn't a 100% make
it true. So at any rate, there's certain
hierarchical relationships in the Sharia.
Parents to their children is one of them.
Right?
A a husband to his wife is one
of them, even though this is not a
popular thing to say anymore, but that's what
that's what the the the the sunnah, the
prophet
teaches us with explicitly.
So who what if my wife my husband's
a total moron? Don't marry a moron. Right?
Like or like, you know, there's remedies to
it. Like, well, I married him. I didn't
know he was a moron. Okay. There's remedies
to that. You know, you can go get
counseling. You can go talk to one of
the ulama. If things are,
irrevocably,
broken, then you can get separated from them.
But as long as you're married, even if
the person is a,
they're they're being a a husband to you
as a wife, there's something in it. Allah
to Allah stack the deck in his favor.
Elders to
youngers, learned people to unlearned people, the ulama
versus the.
Be very careful how you deal with those
people. Does it mean that every is completely
like an angel and, like, never makes mistakes
or never does unfair things or says never
says bad things or never even commits sins?
Absolutely not.
But there is a and a
mystery in that
that you need to still watch the way
you deal with that person. If you don't
even know how to read the Quran and
you're talking to a Hafiz, if you don't
even know how to read Arabic and you're
talking to somebody who, you know, like, has
the of
the ulama and hadith and in different subjects,
you'd be careful how you how you mix
it up with that person. Why? Because if
they make a on you, if they do
something, if, you know, they say something and
in the spiritual realm, it causes you harm.
And they did it because the the position
they occupy
that, that Allah gave them
because of their knowledge or because of their
being elder or because of being husband or
because of being parents or because of,
you know, any one of these things,
if they do something, it will harm you.
Just like if he that person picked up
a rock and threw it at you, it's
gonna hurt.
The mess will be sorted out on the
day of judgment.
Now one might say, well, if the mess
is gonna be sorted out on the day
of judgment, then why should I care? And
the fact of the matter is there is
some sort of logic to that,
but on and and certain times, you do
have to stand up to people,
and you just trust that Allah to Allah
will take care of you eventually.
However,
the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam is what? Remember this because this is
a book of this is a book of
tasawaf. Right? This is how you're going to
make progress in your practice of tasawaf. The
sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
is what? That Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam when offered 2 things,
he always took the easier of the 2
except for if it involved
ang
angering Allah.
So if your parents tell you to
don't pray anymore
And if you do, I'm gonna make dua
against you. You just you gotta keep praying,
you know. That's just that is how it
is. People are in hard situations. That is
what it how it is. Even if there
are duas against you, harm you in this
world, Allah will compensate you from some other
side in this world and he will compensate
you in the hereafter as well for having
to have gone through the trouble, and that's
the test that he chose for you.
However, if it's one of those things like,
you know, I wanna go to,
sushi and you wanna go to, like, whatever
the desi restaurant,
then just shut up and go to the
desi restaurant.
Okay? But the nihari gives me indigestion. Well,
the duas against you are going to make
be much worse than the indigestion that, like,
some standard nihari is going to give you.
Just go drink water. Go have some salad
over there. You know what I mean? Go
order off of the kids menu or something
like that.
That's that's why it's because this is a
hierarchical
relationship that that's there. Even if your parents
are crazy, they still love you.
And and even if your parents do destructive
things to harm themselves and to harm you,
they still love you.
Who said that every human being, what whatever
they do is rational?
Oftentimes, if you wanna deal with other people
well, you have to not think about what
they're
saying with their words, but
think what is this person trying to express.
And oftentimes with irrational people,
they're the 2 of them are very wildly
different things.
Right?
So,
that's something that you, you know, that's something
you have to be very cognizant of and
be very careful about,
that you don't
cause problems for yourself. Life is difficult enough.
The test of this life is difficult enough.
Don't put yourself deeper into the hole by
busting it up and dusting it up with
your, with your with your parents or with
your elders or with your teachers or whatever
for no reason.
Even if they are wrong.
Your
Allah made everyone
and everything in this, creation for a purpose.
The ulama have explicitly said your purpose in
life not to teach your parents din.
They will not listen to you. Abu Hanifa's
own mother wouldn't listen to him.
You understand what I'm saying?
It's it's a story near narrated about him
that he he his mother asked him to
go to so and so other, student or
other, scholar
and ask him, some messile, ask him some
issues.
So Abu Hanifa dutifully went to that sheikh
and asked him, you know, what do you
say concerning this and that? And the person
is like, you're like the imam of all
the people of, like, all of the people
of the ummah, in fiqh. Why are you
asking me?
He's like, my just, like, don't bust my
chops. My mother sent me. Just give me
the answer and let me go. And he
goes, well, how about this? You tell me
the answer, and then I'll tell the answer
back to you. And then you can tell
her that she said or that he said
this and that. Right?
Imam Al Hanifa who used to, like, pray,
the whole night and pray fajr with the
wudu of Isha and, like, we finished the
made katham of Quran every night on top
of being, like, one of the geniuses of
the ummah, and he narrates hadith directly from
the Sahaba radiAllahu on whom. If his mother
doesn't care about what he has to say
about Din, then your mother doesn't care about
what you have to say about Din.
My mother does she's not gonna listen to
this, but she has no she really doesn't
care what I have to say about Deen.
And you know what? The some of the
dumbest moments in my life have been, like,
not understanding that. And some of the best
ones have been when I realized, oh, yeah.
Allah Ta' didn't even he's not even gonna
ask me how come your parents didn't like,
their fiqh was wrong. Why? Because it is
known that most people, their parents don't don't
wanna hear it from their kids.
And if they're not trying to hear it,
you don't have to say it to them.
Now, obviously, I've seen this. It's a rare
thing. Some people, someone who has so much
control over their nafs that, like,
a a father will ask like something from
his son and listen to him or from
their daughter or whatever. Those are exceptions. The
exception tells you nothing about the rule. Right?
Don't don't go through life dusting it up
with your folks. All it's gonna do is
cause trouble for you in this world.
Even even if you're a 100% right and
oftentimes these issues are so emotional, you're not
right a 100% of time anyway. And you're
then if you're wrong, you're gonna get it
real bad on the other side also.
And if you're right, the best case scenario
is you're gonna break even. Just
circumnavigate these things. Sail around them. Don't go
into them. You know?
It's like, you know, Ryu when he you
beat Street Fighter 2 with the Ryu character.
You know? He doesn't show up at the
pedestal at the end, and he's just walking
down into the sunset because other people care
about winning and losing. Ryu only lives for
the fight. Don't be Ryu.
That's not the dean. I know some cats
who are like that. They don't care about
even winning or losing. They just live for
the fight. That's not you're you're never gonna
get anywhere spiritually,
that way. You're never gonna get anywhere really
in anything socially, economically, politically, any of that
stuff.
So these are those special occasions that you
need to circumnavigate. Now if you're like a
good, like, Masha'a Shahir is like a good
guy, look at him. His mother must, like,
love him so much. Masha'Allah. Right? So if
your parents, you can use it in your
favor as well. If you're if your your,
you know, parents are are really love you
and like you're like the joy and the
the light of their eyes and the apple
of their eye and whatever.
Then you can use that as well. The
duas and the ability to please them you
can use it as well. The person whose
parents are happy with them, pleased with them.
Those people oftentimes on top of receiving a
reward in the hereafter,
Allah will give them wealth in this world.
That's what they say that a reason for
for
uh-uh sabotaging your own risk risk in this
world is to that your parents are unhappy
with you.
Whether justly or unjustly.
And the reason for having wealth in this
world is the duas of your parents.
So, you know, don't don't mess it up
if you don't have to. If it's really
messed up, try to mitigate and do damage
control. And if you are actually,
your head's above water in this in this
thing, then, then use it, you know, use
it to your advantage because there's a great
secret locked up in it.
It's a chapter with regards to those prayers,
that are to be said when someone fears
other people or fears other than them. Meaning
jinns and animals and shayateen. Anyone anyone or
anything that's gonna harm them. And nowadays stuff
for Allah
protect us and protect the Muslims and protect
all the innocent people in this world. And
people are getting their entire villages are getting
burned down like getting shot out of the
sky by drones and things like that,
that somebody guys, like, playing playing a video
game at a call center in Nevada somewhere,
except for instead of, like, blowing up pixels,
he's blowing up people. And then when he
goes home, you know, his wife yells at
him for not picking up work. And he's
like, this is a real thing. They have
to have counselors for these people. Like, I
just I just burned, like, a a village
of, like, 1500 people down today.
I just killed, like, 500 1500 people today,
500 people today. How dare you yell at
me about the milk?
Stuff for Allah. So these duas are are
are are are necessary.
He, narrates that the prop messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
when he would fear, when he would fear
a a a people.
Right? That's someone would say so and so
tribe is is plotting against you
or they're going to attack or they're going
to,
you know whatever
their brigands are going to rob your caravans
or something like that. When he would fear
a group of people his dua that he
would make was
Allah. Oh Allah,
we place you in their necks. Meaning what?
That we ask you to turn their evil
plans against us into their own neck.
How many has plotted and schemed against the
people of Iman and Allah Ta'ala has made
it their own destruction.
You see the entire USSR
is now like 13 different countries.
They,
they tried to,
take over Afghanistan.
Now why the * anyone would try to
take over Afghanistan is completely beyond me. It's
like Napoleon trying to start a war land
war with Russia in the middle of the
winter.
That's wonderful, but why?
Right? How much money does Afghanistan have? Not
a whole lot of money. How much oil
does it have? Absolutely none.
Mineral resources, I guess they mined some rubies
and sapphires, but you can get all that
other stuff from other countries that have a
lot more resource. Afghanistan is a completely landlocked
country
filled with like
tribal people armed to the teeth with short
temper.
Okay. I guess you can try to take
it over. And so they they ended up
fighting this long, drawn out protracted war, which
wasted 1,000,000,000 of dollars and ended up bankrupting
them. Large contingents of Russian soldiers still live
in Afghanistan to this day. You know, that
they abandoned their their, they abandoned their units.
And, many of them actually accepted Islam, and
they just, like, speak Farsi and Pashto and,
like, live in villages over there because they're
they got decimated so badly. There's just no
point going back.
They actually go back to Russia, like, you
know, every couple of years just to visit
relatives, but they live in Afghanistan now and,
like, praying the mustard 5 times a day.
This is this is a a pre modern
society,
completely bankrupted them. And so now what happens
like,
we've it's how how long has it been
since 911? This is 2,000 and what?
18. So it's been 17 years almost. It's
gonna come up coming up on 17 years
of this,
pointless war.
Remember, no one and no one who was
even connected by our government, who's connected to
911 was from Afghanistan. Remember
that. None of them were. Right? Why are
we taking over Afghanistan? Allata knows best.
And so that war is going on. And
after 18 years,
over 3,000 people, US soldiers died. Forget about
the 100 of thousands of Afghanis who probably
died and went to jail and whatever.
Over 3,000 more US soldiers died in this,
fool's errand in Afghanistan
than,
then,
died in the actual 911.
And that's what our government says. They artificially,
like, deflate the numbers in order to make
these things politically tenable.
All of all of which for what?
They still, like, don't
control
by
US government estimates something between 60 70 percent
of the country.
And what what's the point? How much is
it gonna get us in terms of money?
Absolutely nothing. What is the political importance of
Afghanistan? Absolutely nothing. What is the what is
what all we did was made heroin cheaper,
because the Taliban used to rule from before
they eradicated the the the cultivation of heroin
poppies. Now much of the heroin fields are
are are blooming with, you know, pretty flowers.
I'm from California. California, the state,
flower is the the golden poppy. Right?
So that's, I guess, nice,
from that point of view. But when you
turn it into heroin, then it becomes a
little bit more of a demon. It's not
as cute anymore.
How many how many
has plotted against the Muslims and made it
just a for their own for their own
sorrow and their own destruction.
And this is the the the the duas
and the prayers of the people, they don't
go unanswered.
They don't go unanswered. So when a person
fears,
let them say the dua of the prophet
Oh, Allah, we
we we place you in their necks. Meaning
what? We ask you to place their plans
against us that they come down on their
own necks and not on ours.
When we seek refuge in in you from
their evil.
And the of this dua is not primarily
in this world. The the place of manifestation
of this dua is not primarily in this
world. In this world, from time to time,
place to place, Allah will show us,
how he does this in order to bring
coolness and and and happiness to the hearts
of the believers
so that they don't go through so much
difficulty
that they become despondent and give up hope.
But the primary manifestation of this dua will
be in the hereafter
when the people who, commit and perpetrate
and oppression,
they will come to truly regret their actions
in a a full and complete way.
But unfortunately, and alas, that regret,
is not going to benefit them on that
day.
So better to better to repent and and
stop
harming innocent people in this world. It would
have been better for everybody, and it's it
still can be better. People can always repent.
It's never too late.
It's a chapter
of what a person should say when they,
enter the house.
Typo.
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my
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So,
she's the the wife of,
earth man
bin
who was one of the early who accepted
Islam.
And he was a
person known for his, and he made hijra,
and he died early in the
the early period of Madinah
And he was
a early convert and one of the very
close people to the prophet
and a person who was known to after
having accepted Islam to turn his back on
the world. He was a person of Zuhd.
And,
Sayna Amr alaihi alahu anhu is reported to
have said that he died. He became ill
and died.
And he said that at that time when
he died from illness, he said that I
I was disappointed.
Meaning, I I thought of him that he
was such a
such a person of high rank. How is
it that he died on his bed from
sickness and he didn't die as a shayid?
And then he said afterward, when I saw
that the prophet didn't pass away in the
battlefield and Abu Bakr
who didn't pass away in the battlefield,
then he goes, that feeling left from my
from my But the point is that he
held him in esteem as if he was
a a a person of high rank in
Islam.
But we don't hear so much about him
because he he he accepted Islam early, but
he also passed away early in,
in the
after the hijrah of the prophet in the
Madinan period.
So she narrates that I heard the messenger
of Allah
say when he entered into the house,
or to I heard him enter the house
and say, I seek refuge in the words
of Allah,
all of them, from the evil that he
created. Whoever says that, they will not be
harmed,
until they, leave from that from that that
that house or from that place of,
from that dwelling.
So this is a important these are important
duas.
And one of the things we don't memorize
stuff,
and
some people place more emphasis and importance on
memorizing things. Some people place more importance and
emphasis on understanding.
Both of them are important.
You know, have some time, you can have
the dua written and then practice it and
say it again and again, and then you
learn it. Once you learn it, you learn
it forever. This is a very important dua.
This
is a dua that that,
like, it's important, like, when you go to
places like Mauritania
like, I was in the in the desert,
there's, like, scorpions and snakes and, like, all
kind of weird, like, wild animals,
lions, tigers, baboons that'll throw rocks at you,
like, weird stuff out there. You know what
I mean? And,
a donkey could kick you. Getting kicked by
a donkey, it sounds fun, but it's funny,
but it's not funny at all. It's really,
you know, if the donkey kicks you in
the right place, you know, he he might
hit like, you you might be like a
slot machine. Your eyes will spin until you
hit the jackpot.
It's not a it's not fun stuff.
So you're all of a sudden, like,
12 hours from the nearest hospital,
and,
then you're then you learn all these duas
because you're like, you know, you don't have
anything else. Right? If you get sick or
whatever, there's no hospital you can go to
or whatever, but then you realize an important
lesson which is what?
Which is you didn't have anyone else other
than Allah
even if you're sitting inside the hospital.
This is one of the reasons that the
duas are readily accepted in these places
or in these circumstances. It's not because the
circumstance is, like, sacred or holy.
Otherwise, everyone who's, like, executive platinum on American
would be like a wali of Allah and
some of them are actually alcoholics and drunkards.
Right?
Because they get free drinks on the airplane,
they make a fool of themselves. Right? It's
not the saffir itself that makes you a
It's the fact that there's a hijab
in your heart between you and Allah, that
you think somehow your money, your car, your
house, your position, your job, your title, your
family, your passport, all of these things are
gonna help you. And so sometimes you,
there are certain situations that you're in,
like traveling, like being, like your kids, like,
giving you grief, etcetera,
that lifts the the hijab
in your heart between you and Allah
and reminds you of how desperately in need
of his mercy you were
even though you were just as desperately in
need of his mercy before, even a person
is a wealthy person and has degrees and
pious and blah blah. That person is still
completely
helpless in front of Allah Ta'ala, more helpless
than a newborn baby and in need of
Allah Ta'ala's help and mercy more than a
newborn baby.
They just don't realize it. So sometimes certain
things happen that like, you know, that that
that that lift that hijab in your heart.
Now, if you're a smart person,
you will be able
to lift that hijab when it comes in
or keep that hijab lifted.
That way, if your heart is in that
state, then everywhere you go and whatever you
do, your duas will be accepted.
This is the reason that some of our
were very needy. They would complain to Allah
ta'ala about everything.
And someone might say, what is this, you
know, toughen up, suck it up, be a
tough guy. What are you gonna be a
tough guy in front of Allah ta'ala? You
should be tough in front of one another
and in front of the creation.
Alright. You should show, you know, you should
show how strong you are and don't show
your weakness in front of the creation. What
are you gonna show Allah to Allah how
tough you are? Right? You show your Allah
to Allah your weakness,
and your need of him and then he
will be mercy to you. And if you
show your toughness to Allah then go go
figure out your own problems. Go figure out,
you know, your own solutions. Go take care
of your business on your own.
Don't expect any help. So these these duas
are very important important to know. And the
fact of the matter is that even though
there's not scorpions in most people's houses over
here,
but still things can happen.
Even if you live in the safest neighborhood,
still things can happen. There's no neighborhood that's
so safe that it can protect you from
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And so a person should need, should know
these these duas. So the first
one was. This
one now people should memorize it. Right? So
this is It's a short I think it's
a short version that the the there's a
longer
version
of etcetera. You don't have to just remember
it's the short the short version. So
This is from the duas of the morning
and the night.
Life is difficult enough as it is. You
don't need you you need to take this
protection in order to not have to waste
your time on all of these kind of
side things that everybody else has to deal
with. Allah gave you an ability to reduce
the the the amount of, like, runaround
that you have to do with all these
other side, problems that you have to deal
with. Use these duas as a shield against
them.
Even if you say all the duas, someone
might say, well, Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
used to say all the duas all the
time and he also had to deal with
problems. Right?
His problems, quote unquote problems that he had
to deal with is Allah,
giving him his in the hereafter.
Those were not really problems. Those are what
he was created for. But how silly would
it be that that you're so busy dealing
with like like silly side things that you
never got a chance to work on your
dean or yourself a person as a person.
And the difference is what? If you spend
your whole life, you know, dealing with the
auto mechanic or whatever,
then
or doing kind of like silly like side
things or dealing with side side problems.
It doesn't improve you as a human being.
It's just a waste of time.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, this is a
type of help also that you can take
that you ask Allah to protect you from
those things that are not gonna benefit you
in the.
Those troubles you have in this world that
are gonna benefit you in the akhirah. On
that day, you're not going to regret them.
Those troubles that you have in this world
that are not gonna benefit you in the
akhirah, you're gonna say that was a waste
of time. That's what the the the difference
is. So learn these duas so that you
don't have to you don't have to deal
with all of these, with all of these
other matters.
Seek refuge in the words of Allah, all
of them, from the evil that he,
he created. This is from the duas that
a person should say 3 times in the
morning after fajr and 3 times after,
Asr and from whenever they they fear harm
from someone or from something.
This
I seek refuge in the words of Allah
ta'ala, all of them from the evil that
he
created. Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said whoever
enters a a a dwelling and says says
this dua,
they won't be harmed from anything until they
leave from that dwelling.
Said, Nabilahibni,
Omar Adiallahu Anhu said that once the, or
sorry, not once, but in general when the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam used to travel,
and he was traveling and the night was
approaching,
he would say, oh, oh, earth or oh,
land,
my lord and your lord is Allah. And
I seek
refuge in Allah from, your evil and from
the evil that is,
on you,
or the evil that is in you, meaning
in the earth. And from the evil, that
was created,
in you.
From the evil that, walks upon you.
From meaning from right dub bayadubu is like,
it means
to crawl. It's basically every every, creature that
moves on the land.
And I seek refuge from you, you Allah,
from the the evil of,
Assad. Assad is what?
Assad is a a a lion.
Means what?
Means
black. Right? The color black.
But here it means
according to the commentators there's some difference of
opinion.
One is,
the the one that's gets first mentioned
is is is a,
like a big shot person.
Right?
Means black.
They're actually from the same the same word.
So blackness is somehow associated with what with
being like a leader or like a a
a person who's like a chief of people.
So
that's a that's a that's one
one opinion.
Another opinion regarding what the meaning of the
word Aswad is here from the lexicographers
is it means a large snake.
It means a large snake.
And Allah knows best, which one it is.
It seems that Noah prefers the first
the first opinion and Allah Allah knows best.
And I seek refuge in you
from snakes and from scorpions.
So he said that I that
I seek refuge in you from the,
inhabitants of this land.
And, the the commentators say that this doesn't
just mean the people, but it also means
the jinns and the animals,
that that live in this land.
And
the the the the
the progenitor and his progeny.
The Walid and Walid here is,
according to Nawawi and Ishara toward Iblis.
And because Iblis is the father of the
jinn just like
Adam, alaihislam,
is the father of of humans.
So just like in in,
in in Arabic, if you say,
it means any human.
If you say shaitan
in Arabic, it could mean Iblis himself
or it could mean one of his progeny
even if that shaitan is a Muslim or
even if that jinn is a Muslim.
Why? Because he may not be a shaitan
spiritually, but physique or but like in his
physical,
creation he's a shaitan.
So hadith of the prophet
that every human being has a shaitan that
that follows them around.
Right?
And then,
the Sahaba asked
Rasul what
about you? He says, yes. I have a
shaitan also and mine became a Muslim. Mine
accepted the deen.
And so this is, you know, this is
something that that's a reality as well
that a person has a shaitan that will
tag along with them, that's born with that's
born when they're born and will tag along
with them and that person that shaitan will
influence you and you will influence the shaitan
as well. So if you're a pious dude
and you're reading Quran all the time, then
shaitan is in good that shaitan is in
good company.
That shaitan maybe maybe actually very pious
person. Maybe if you slip up and try
to do something bad, that shaitan will influence
you to do something better.
And if you're a
rotten person, then you taught your shaitan bad
habits.
And if you try to leave,
those bad habits, maybe shaitaan is not ready
to leave yet so he'll drag you back
into it.
And,
say that this is like maybe when people
say that, oh, like, I'm in, you know,
communion with your dead whatever grand pa and,
you know, did you did he used to
call you junior when you were a kid
or whatever? And, like, yeah. I've never told
anyone that. And and, you know, maybe just
the shaitan that they're talking to, the jinn,
because jinns have lives that are much longer
than than human beings.
And Allah knows knows best. But,
that those jinns that that that influence people,
the hadith of the prophet
that the shaitan runs through a human being
like blood runs through his veins. Meaning the
shaitan in its normal form
is,
is not is not physical. It's ethereal.
So that that shaitan can enter into you
and affect you.
And the amount that it affects affects you
is commensurate with what?
With your state.
So if your eyes and ears and stomach
and private parts are, completely filled with haram,
then you're weak. You're not able to resist
that shaitan.
And if they're not, on the other hand,
they're protected from them, all of us from
amongst those people,
then the shaitan has little to no access
to you.
So Rasulullah
used to seek refuge
in Allah Ta'ala from from from those shayateen.
That a person they should bother a person
in their I mean, there's, like, different levels
of access that the shaitan has to a
person.
A person, you know, gets angry and say,
I don't know what got into me. I
did this. I did that. We see all
these weird school shooting and weird, like, sexual
abuse and weird this and that and the
other thing. People are otherwise very competent people.
They do these super ugly things. They themselves
don't understand how and why they did them.
The reason is what? Is that,
you know, the spiritual world exists. Not everything
is just your own decisions about your own
things. It's not like the spiritual world is
magical that a person who's been praying, you
know, 5 times a day and, like, you
know, scrupulous about their deen for the last
30 years is gonna one day turn into
a school shooter.
It's what? It's the the the breakdown of
a person's morality in a person's spiritual state
and their mental state.
It gives access then to other stuff,
and, then those things work synergistically in order
to, harm you. Just like if you're a
good person, those things can work synergistically in
order to benefit you.
And that's one really beautiful thing about this
Khalil Center
is that it's a very practical manifestation of
of how a person can implement the teachings
of the deen,
in their life in order to in order
to avoid,
in order to avoid some of these really
highly destructive states that a person may get
into.
Right? So reading
70 times is not gonna cure clinical depression.
Go go to a
a therapist. Go to a specialist. Go to
someone who knows what they're talking about. They'll
help you to, you know, they'll help you
with your state. And then at that time,
also then you
receive the treatment from the dean, eating reading
Ayatil Koursi 73 times is not gonna harm
you either. It may benefit you as well
if you're doing other things that are right.
And so, it's good that these kind of
practical manifestations of the teachings of Islam are
there so that people can benefit from them,
rather than going about solving problems in the
wrong way and then afterward blaming the deen
when you don't get the outcomes that that
that you desire. Right? What did Rasool Allah
say? He said tie the camel and then
trust in Allah
Right? That's that's sunnah of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. If you don't wanna do
that, then you you have your own separate
different deen.
That's not what the the deen of Allah
So chapter regarding the recommendation
to,
quicken or in hasten,
the return of a traveler to his family
once he's done doing what he needs to.
Meaning, when you're on a trip,
do what you need to and then go
home. Don't just hang out, outside of your
home for too long.
Can I borrow your pen again? I apologize.
There's another typo here.
Unfortunately, a lot of these,
these are commercial editions that they just they
print out as fast as they can in
order to
sell.
They don't hire a llama in order to
actually
edit them properly.
There's by the way, you know, if anyone,
you
know, Mahin, if you become like some sort
of, like, steel magnet or aluminum magnet or
whatever one day,
there's no good there's no good printed edition
of Bukhary. There are good manuscript editions of
Bukhary. There's no good printed edition of Bukhari
much less any of the other books of
Hadith.
There's no good edition of the.
There are many really good,
really, really important works in our tradition, and
they're filled with typos.
And they're filled with or they're only based
on one manuscript that's not like the best
manuscript to use or whatever. Whereas some of
the old nussah that are handwritten and they're
sitting in libraries, some of them in in
like libraries in the possession of non Muslims,
unfortunately.
Those manuscripts are were prepared painstakingly.
And many of them have to the original
author. Some of them are in the hand
of the original author themselves.
And and editions are not prepared from them.
Rather, these kind of commercial prints are quickly
put out
and then, like, people go through difficulty because
what will happen is that they'll read a
print typo and not all typos are like,
you can pick them up, like based on
grammar or,
not all typos you can fit are nonsense.
Like here, it's it's it's
which obviously doesn't mean anything.
You know, not all the typos you can
pull out like that. So it would be
a great service to the Muslim world
if because we don't have copyists anymore. And
this is one of the things that that
upsets me so badly.
You have these kind of modernist people. They're
like, oh, look. Olamar is so stupid. Why?
Because when the printing press came to the
Turkish, to the Ottoman Empire,
the olamar forbid it because they, you know,
they saw the pounding of the sheets, like,
with the machine so hard. And so this
is disrespectful to the books of al Haram
harina pound the sheets like that. And because
of that, you know, ergo, the ulama forbid
at a certain time and place printing presses.
Therefore, ulama are stupid and they cause the
whole Muslim world to fall and like that's
why everything sucks now. Well, interesting,
you should say that because the ulama haven't
had any influence on the Muslim world for
over a century and almost every Muslim country.
And, you know, those countries now, like, are
in a worse position than they were from
before. So go explain that, first of all.
2nd of all,
one of the reasons that they one of
the reasons they were not eager to have
the printing press replace the the replace,
manuscripts is what?
Is that the the copyists, the the the
the.
He wasn't merely a calligrapher.
Now we have some people who are like
artsy calligraphers.
That person wasn't merely a calligrapher. That one
person was a trained editor.
And they knew how to compare different manuscripts.
They knew which manuscript for what was in
which library. It's like a complete
skill set. Okay?
They were afraid
that if we bring printing presses in, that
set of people is gonna be supplanted.
You can bring printing presses in but you
still need to keep that set of people
who keep that knowledge. So that what? So
the the editions of books are not corrupted.
The problem is that now those people are
left without jobs, they're left without a living.
So some people do it out of their
love of deen. There are people you can
still find like that. Right?
This is, for those of you who are,
like, active in the Internet and things like
that, there's a Mufti Hussain Karoriya. Don't ever
get into an argument with him about anything
because he's always gonna beat you even if
he's wrong. Why? Because you're gonna say your
point, and then he's gonna say his point.
And then you're gonna say your proofs are
from what book. And he's gonna say his
proofs are from what book. And then he's
gonna ask you which edition do you use.
And then you'll be like, I don't know.
So go check. And then you'll say, oh,
it's Darukotobelmiyya
print. And he'll be like, oh, that one
is a bogus edition and they only use
this one manuscript where I have 15 other
manuscripts that say that
that section that you quoted actually says this
and you're you're just gonna lose. There are
some people like that that no
knowledge of, of these things. But they're very
few and far between
and they they receive no support from people.
Because of that, there's no good edition of
these books even in Arabic.
Much less good translations, etcetera, etcetera.
So no, the ulama were not, you know,
stupid people and
eventually they did actually bring the printing presses
into the Ottoman Empire. You know why and
how they brought them into the Ottoman Empire,
by the way?
The printing presses were mass ordered by the
Ottoman Sultan,
for the the refugees, the Jewish refugees from
Andalus, from Spain
that were fleeing from the Spanish inquisition.
The same Catholic church, the pope goes around
like much like patting kids on the head
in photo op. Yeah. The same that same
Catholic church basically,
you know, sanctified.
And I say that in quotes.
They they gave the holy blessing to what?
Go through all of the Iberian Peninsula. Every
Jew you find, kill them. Force them to
become Christian or kill them. Every Muslim you
find force them you to force them to
become Christian or kill them. They opened up
offices of the inquisition in the new world.
The Muslims who were here from before,
Columbus,
they killed them. They found them, hunted them
down, killed them. They did it in Philippines.
The Philippines was a completely Muslim country. Now
only the southern third of the the Philippines
is still Muslim majority.
The northern 2 thirds, what did what did
they do? They forced people, they took their
children away from them, they killed them, tortured
them, etcetera, forced them to abandon the deen.
And that's how, Philippines is is is the
only,
Christian majority country in the entire Asian continent.
Or maybe 1 of 2 or 3 now,
I guess, because there's been some geographical change.
But the point is is what?
Is that inquisition, the Jews that ran from
from Andalus to save their lives, the Ottoman
Sultan who was the Khalifa at the time,
Sunni theocratic rule.
Right? Now this is the Islamic state, this
Islamic state. I think that they actually enjoy
saying Islamic state and the news just like
Azatan against the Muslims. We have nothing to
do with Daish. They're a bunch of Yahoo
wackos, and I'm glad whoever fights them, Allah
reward that person. And I'm glad that they're,
you know, they're they're getting beat pillar to
post and having the floor mocked with them.
And I hope it continues until they're completely
gone. But the thing is that the actual
state that was a Sunni theocracy,
what did it do? While while Europeans were
busy, like, like, trying to, like,
sniff out Jews who are trying to, you
know,
lay low,
the the Sunni, theocratic ruler of of the
Muslim world,
he not only gave them refugee status. Right?
The same refugee status that these people who,
go to church on Sunday are trying to
get revoked. Not only did he give him
refugee, he give them refugee status, a carte
blanche,
but he also set up print shops for
them.
So the printing business in Istanbul was run
by the Jews.
Why? Because they set up print shops for
them. And they said that you lived under
a Muslim rule in Spain, under the vima
of Allah and His Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And you paid you paid Jizya even though
they didn't pay Jizya for all but very
short period of time. But the your forefathers
paid Jizya, so we'll honor the honor the
agreement that you have.
And so, the print shops were all run
by run by Jews.
So no, the Ottoman Empire is not like
they didn't have any print shops or whatever.
But when it came to the
the the the scribes and copyists,
they have a very sacred profession in which
they preserve a great number of the uloom.
People have lost those uloom. Right? You
one day you'll read Dora Hadith, nobody will
ever ask you which edition of Bukhari are
you using.
Why? Because the ilm is almost gone. There
are very few people who can answer questions
like that. I have a friend,
who who did research in the different manuscript,
tradition traditions of of Bukhary.
Uh-uh. His name is uh-uh Abdul Alim Garrett
Davidson. I think he's a professor somewhere in
South Carolina right now or whatever. Inshallah, I'm
gonna bring him insha'Allah to rebat
sometime after Ramadan
and have us measures for the ulema so
he can talk about the the the different
manuscript variants of of Bukhari and the different
books of hadith. People don't know don't don't
know about these
things,
and for for that for that reason. But
at any rate, coming back to the hadith,
that's an important I apologize it was somewhat
of a a tangent.
But it's important to know about, you know.
While a lot of our manuscripts are sitting
in in in libraries that are even non
Muslims don't know.
You know, instead of buying like freaking a
Picasso or
you know, buying,
Van Gogh painting or whatever
and, like, you know,
I'm not just picking on one country. All
of them do it. They waste their money
on all these just
dog ugly works of art. If you wanna
call it a work of art, Go buy
buy some of our manuscripts. You know what
they do, Kufar? They'll go travel to the
Muslim world. They'll buy a must have beautifully
written, beautifully illuminated.
And they'll cut the thing into single pages
and,
put them in a frame because they can
get more money for it that way.
Now tell me if ISIS is going in
like destroying,
weird temples from the times of Jahiliyyah
and it's archaeological
disaster,
which is fine. I'm not you're not gonna
get no pushback from me. Right? The Sahaba
didn't destroy them. So why is ISIS gonna
destroy them? Right? But, if they're going to
if they're gonna do that and you're gonna
make a big deal out of it, what
about this?
What about burning so many libraries that got
burned in colonialism, etcetera. Nobody nobody cares. Nobody's
gonna
shed a tear from from them. We don't
even expect that from them. They don't know
any better.
But,
for us, if we have some, you know,
you
should instead of, like, you know, wanting to,
you know, have a have a really sweet
house with a pool and this and that
and the other thing, you spend your money
on other things. Say, I wanna have I
wanna prepare that. The sheikh said that there's
no good, addition of.
Man, there are people who are people of
great knowledge. You could pay them literally the
project cost, like, 30, 40, 50, 60, $100,000,
and they will buy the manuscripts or at
least travel to the places where those manuscripts
are,
collect several of them, and prepare it in
addition and have the money to have it
edited. Those people will work for almost nothing,
because the books are their love.
We have very few people. See, this is
one of the problems that someone graduates from
Darshan Azami, they say fullan is a alim.
There I mean, an alim is the person
who has love of knowledge and they you
know, the ijazah you receive when you graduate,
it's not a jazah saying that you're an
alim. It's a ijazah to go become alim
now. You have the tools, start reading books,
start learning all of these things. You have
people like this, especially in the Muslim world,
they will work for nothing just because that's
their passion. You just need to keep them
alive. You know, they need to pay rent
and, like, pay,
for food, both of which are really cheap
in the Muslim
world, and you can do that. And once
your family has prepared an addition of
the, yeah, everybody else is going to use
that addition and tell you,
And, you know, even if you're, like, not
a mega sincere person,
you know, there's a good showing off in
there too.
Not that you should do it for that
reason, but, you know, my my thought of
that as a as a person who's,
loves knowledge is that what? Is that once
the addition is there, you can make toba
later. Let's just get the addition on first.
The sad part is if you don't do
it with sincerity, it's not gonna happen.
Because Allah wouldn't give that wouldn't give that
much salaab to somebody who's not sincere.
But, it's important to know it's important to
know about these things. So Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam said
that traveling is a a piece of torment.
It's a piece of adab,
and it forbids a person from eating the
things that that are good for them and
and drinking the things that are good for
them and getting proper sleep. So if you're
out and you,
fulfilled whatever need you have,
it mean even if you're going on vacation,
you wanted to rest up. Once you're rested
up, come back home.
Come back home. Home. Don't just stay out
for for for too long.
So we'll read we'll read 2 more Hadith
inshallah and then we'll
finish.
It's a chapter regarding the recommendation
of,
returning to one's family during the day and
the dislikedness of returning at night unless there's
a necessity to return at night.
And so the the idea is what? That
a person is gone and their wife and
their kids
are at
home, or or, you know,
their wife and their kids are at home.
So they should return during the daytime, not
during the night.
So, Sayidina Jabi radiates
that the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam said, if one of you is
long sojourn,
or sorry. Long in their absence from home,
let them not come come home and knock
on the door of their house at night.
The messenger
for
in another narration, he forbid
a a person from from coming home or
knocking on the door at night of a
man,
for their his family.
And then also
narrates that the messenger of
said, let not a person,
knock on their door,
of their family at night.
And the messenger of Allah, salallahu alayhi wa
sallam, sorry, not that he said that he
used to not knock on the door of
his family at night, rather he used to
come to them either in the in the
morning or indeed, in the in the last
part of the day.
And the reason for this is what it's
it's something that, you know, should have been
common sense, but it's kinda not, which is
what when you come home and
you find everything's in chaos and disarray, you're
not gonna be happy.
When you come home
and
you're, you know, you're you the kids the
you know, the kids are all sleeping here
and there, and you're hungry, and you're in
a bad mood, and you yourself, imagine if
someone's coming in the middle of the night,
that means that they themselves will be in
a bad state. They'll be sleepy,
so they'll be moody and fussy,
They'll be hungry,
etcetera etcetera. There won't be any food for
them. What are you doing? You're just making
a bad bad reintroduction
for yourself with your family.
Come in the daytime.
Your children will
be happy to see you. Your wife will
be happy to see you. She will have
at least washed her face.
You will also have a chance to have,
like, washed her face before meeting her. Let
it be a good meeting.
And this this is, like, a lot of
things
in marriage,
you know, you get out of it what
you put into it. So,
you know, if you
like that your wife should look nice, then
you should also make yourself look nice. If
you'd like the house to be clean, you
should also help in cleaning it as well
or at least not make a mess. If
you like that your children should present themselves
to you well, then you should also present
yourself to them well and teach them how
that they how they should present themselves well
to you. Whereas if you come into the
middle of the night and you wake your
wife up in the middle from the whatever
and her breath doesn't smell like you like
it to smell and your breath probably doesn't
smell like you like it to smell, it's
not gonna be a good meeting. And this
is something Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
used to do, you know. Like when you
would go on Hajj for example,
it's a sunnah
that he would
he would camp
at Dhutuwa,
pitch camp if it was evening or night
time. He would pitch camp and sleep. And
then at the break of dawn,
he would wake up and then,
pray fajr and make hussul and clean himself.
Even though you're in a haram, even though
he's in a haram, but you'd, you'd take
hussul not the type that you rub yourself
because you're gonna like lose hair and then
have to how much dham do I have
to give? No. But he just pour water
on himself so that that that that like,
you know, he would be somewhat clean and
put on the ihram and then he would
enter Maqamukaram in a good state.
Imagine Rasulullah salallahu alayhi wa sallam
in in the the Ashura, in the months
of Hajj, that he stops in Vutuwa,
and he takes ghusl, and he enters in
at the time of the sunrise,
like a groom coming, like, at the head
of his, wedding party,
into the house of Allah
If you don't put in the effort in
order to make this experience sacred, it's not
gonna be sacred.
If you don't put in the effort in
order to make it a holy experience and
the experience that's filled with the remembrance of
Allah, you're
just trying to hurry up, run, run, do
this, that, and the other thing like a
headless chicken, everything.
Ramadan like that, eat salat like that, your
5 times daily prayer like that. It's your
salat man. When you wake up and pray
fajr, right, who am I gonna beat up
about not going to the masjid? You know,
you could stay with me. You might say,
okay. This guy doesn't go to the masjid
himself to for fajr every day. Right? We
have our because all of us live, like,
10 miles or 7 miles from the Masjid
or whatever,
but fine. If you're not if you're gonna
just wake up in your, like, pajamas and
t shirt and pray Fajr, and then you
don't get anything out of it, whose fault
is that?
Wake up. Take a shower. You know, even
if you don't need to take a shower.
Right? Wake up. Take a shower. Wear your
nice clothes. Put on perfume. Read the fatiha
slowly.
Right? With proper Tajweed.
Right? This is one of the things that,
like, people people do this. They don't they
don't even they don't say the
properly. So
stop for all, man. Slow down. Say it
nicely.
Say it nicely. If you don't take the
time to make things nice, then don't complain
afterward if they're not nice.
And so this is a reflection of this
general sunnah of the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam. That he used to, when he
would come home, he would tell his sahaba
radiallahu alaihi wa sallam when the army was
coming home from jihabsi sabiullah. Imagine that. They
just came. People died. People are wounded.
Right? What would he do? They pitch tent,
pitch camp outside of Madinah.
Go. All of you, wash your clothes,
take a shower, brush your teeth,
you know,
look good, look nice.
Right? Have clean clothes. Come in the best
of, of,
of, of states.
And then enter Madinah, and then when you
come home and you knock on the door,
you see your wife, your wife sees you.
They'll have the the the knowledge that the
the the the army is like a day's
march from here. They'll prepare themselves for you.
You'll prepare yourself from them. There will be
happiness in that occasion,
because you put something into it. Whereas if
you just show up out of the blue,
you don't text your wife, you don't tell
her you're coming, you don't, you know, whatever.
And then then afterward, you show up at,
you know,
at my office because you're too cheap to,
you know, or, like, too lazy to, like,
put in that application form for Khalil Center.
By the way, if you don't have money,
they won't turn you away. But, and if
you have some money, they'll give you a
discount. Nobody's turned away from KC for lack
of funds But, you know, you don't even
wanna fill the form out because you're lazy.
So I'm gonna have issue with my whatever
my marriage and things like that. Don't call
me up and be like, I have issue
with my marriage. And then when you come
home, it's like, well, she never cooks for
me, and she never dresses up for me,
and she never does for me and, you
know, whatever. Don't don't be like that. If
you yourself are a slob, you're gonna hear
it at that time.
A lot of it is what is you
get out of it with you, what you
put into it. Allah
give us the that we
have,
you know, we have beautiful experience with our
family and spiritually, and we put into something
into the dean. You put in a very
little amount of effort, and you get a
lot out of it. It's not like it's
not like it's a waste of time.
Everything that's worth having, it's also worth working
for. If you see someone, oh, look, this
guy has a $1,000,000.
Well, what did he have to do in
order to get that $1,000,000? Right? If having
the $1,000,000 is worth it, then doing the
work is worth it.
If you find that doing the work to
get there is not worth it, maybe the
$1,000,000 itself is not worth having. It's not
worth looking forward to.
Everything the dean is like that as well.
If it's worth having, it's also worth putting
the time and the effort into getting.
And we know, okay, you can't say, well,
I don't want to put in the effort
so maybe it's not worth having. It is
worth having because Allah
told
us. So that's a sign that also the
effort that you put into it is not
commensurate, that you put in same effort and
get same results. You put in some effort
and you get much more, result out of
it. Allah to give all of us to
enjoy that.