Ibraheem Menk – Stealing From Prayer
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Slam. Don't steal.
Most of us will say, we are not
thieves.
We don't steal.
So why are you telling us not to
steal?
But Rasulullah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam taught us about a thief who
is worse than the ordinary thief.
He says
The worst of people
in theft are those who steal from their
salah.
He does not complete his ruku,
and neither does he
complete his sujood.
So he steals from that salah that Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala
told him to complete.
And this is what we find is the
case with many of us.
As we stand up for our salah,
we don't take enough time in our qiyam.
And we rush through the fatiha. As though
we are fish out of water. We want
to get
back into the water. What is the water
for us? The dunya.
So we want to get back to where
we are comfortable. The salah makes us uncomfortable.
We can't connect with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
enough. And
it is too much for us to take.
Why?
Because we have made ourselves
used to the fact
that
the salah is something that you need to
do. So get it over with and done
with and leave.
You know, oftentimes,
if you look at the one praying,
what does he do? Allahu Akbar.
Why? Why?
Why are you rushing so much, yet you
can spend hours on end on your cell
phone with nobody bothering you? Nothing taking your
attention away. You can sit and go through
reel after reel, video after video. But when
it comes to connecting with Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala,
your attention is very short.
In fact, some of us go through our
salah thinking of
everything else out there.
And previously,
we would say that on your way to
the masjid, you see so many things. You
see cars. You see buses. You see people
walking. So you come into the Masjid, and
that is what is in your head. Today,
people are on their phones
and seeing all sorts of things, let alone
whether it is halal or haram, even if
it is halal content that they are viewing.
And now when there are 5 minutes left
for this salah, what do we do? Quickly
put the phone away, make our udu in
1 minute, perform the 4 aqaat in 4
minutes or 3 minutes, and we are done.
Why? Because we just wanted to get over
with it. Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told
us, you don't pray, there is a punishment.
So,
as believers
who know that we are going to stand
before Allah
one day,
how hard is it for us to say,
instead of 5 minutes, I'm going to take
10 minutes in my salah.
Instead of performing my salah at home, I'm
going to go to the masjid. How difficult
is it for you?
Perhaps you find it difficult to go for
5 salawat in the day. At least choose
2 salawat or 1 salah a day where
I will make the salah in the masjid,
and I will make dua to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala to give me more salah, to
gift me more salah. You know why? Those
who find themselves in the masjid
are not there because they chose to go
to the masjid, because they put petrol in
their cars, because they decided to turn that
engine on and force themselves to the masjid.
They were invited by
Allah as VIP
guests of His. Those who come to the
salah are the ones who will find themselves
closest to Allah
Allah on the day of piyama. You want
to perfect your standing
before Allah
then perfect your standing
before Him in this dunya. You want to
perfect it when you get to Him. You
want to be shining before Allah
then shine in your salah today, here and
now. Take a few more minutes to perform
that salah. And even if you are taking
just those 4 minutes for 4 aqaat
of salah, even if you are taking only
just those 4 minutes,
concentrating
your salah
upon Worship Allah as though you see Him.
You know when you stand up and you
say your takbira tulikhram,
Allahu Akbar.
Imagine Allah in front of you. Think of
Allah
Imagine it's you and him alone.
And that is the salah that you want.
Why? Because when you get to Allah
then that salah will be a shining light
for you.
The hadith of Rasulullah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam says that give glad tidings to
those who walk to the salah in the
darkness
with complete light on the day of tiyamah.
With complete light on the day of Piyama.
Why? You chose when everybody was asleep, when
nobody could sacrifice, in the darkness of the
night to get up and walk to the
masjid? Allah says, in the darkness, you did
it for me. I will give you light
today on your mulqiama.
Which one of us would want to say
that we don't want that light? But how
many of us are willing to sacrifice
and wake up at that time? Most of
us are not at work at that time.
How hard is it for us to wake
up? Half past 4 in the morning, perform
a few raka'at of tahajjud. And 5 o'clock
comes, let us move to the masjid.
And that will guarantee you the light before
Allah
When you stand before him and people are
worried about themselves, there you are smiling before
Allah
You see,
one man walks into the masjid of Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
and he goes and he performs his salah,
and he comes and he sits with Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. So the messenger Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam, he responds to his salam. And then
he says,
Go back and pray for indeed you have
not prayed. But the man performed 2 rakat
of salah.
So he goes, he performs his salah, he
comes back. And the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam tells him
Go back and perform your salah. Repeat it
because you have not prayed. What did he
say? You have not prayed.
And then the man comes back
and he says He goes to sit down.
The messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam tells him
yet again,
Go back and perform that salah for you
have not prayed.
So the man says,
I don't know better than this, oh messenger
of Allah.
So teach me, O Messenger of Allah. So
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam tells him,
When you stand up to your salah then
perfect your wudu. You see where the perfection
of that salah begins. It begins with your
wudu. When you bang out that wudu and
you want to get over and done with
it, and perhaps you even have your phone
there on the sink watching something while you're
performing your wudu, then that is not a
complete and perfect wudu. Perfect that wudu. Wash
every
limb properly. Your face properly from the
which
means where the hair is meant to come
out until
the bottom of the chin and from one
ear lobe to the next ear lobe or
from that which is in between the the
ear, in the middle of the ear. From
that part of the ear to the next
part of the ear.
And then when you move to your hands,
ensure that you wash your hands from the
tips of the fingers to
just after the elbow.
And ensure that you begin
from the tips of the fingers rubbing every
part properly. Both hands like that. And then
when you make your Masj, you remove the
extra water. Wash your hands, remove the extra
water. Take your hands, make the Masj from
the front of your
forehead to the back of your head,
back again with the palm of the hand,
and you
ensure that you rub the ears as well.
Put your finger inside. And then when you
wash your feet, wash your feet properly. Top,
bottom, in between the fingers. That is
That is perfecting your
Why? For Allah
I'm going to meet my maker. If you
were to meet the president of the country,
how would
your bath be? Or perhaps you were getting
married that day. How would your hussul be?
You would shower and ensure that you have
the best of perfume. You look tip top
for that meeting. But because we are instructed
to meet Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala 5 times
a day, we take it for granted. This
is a gift from Allah
Imagine the president inviting you 5 times a
day, come for a meal to my house.
Come sit with me. We'll talk. We'll chat.
We'll have a good time together. What would
you do? Every every time you have to
meet him, you make sure you look good.
You look tuk tuk. Why? But because it
is so frequent, we have forgotten whom we
are going to meet with, whom we are
going to stand before. And that is none
other than the one who created you.
Then face the
then make the
That Allahu Akbar is you uttering that Allah
is greater than everything in your life. So
here I am, oh Allah. And you utter
that
and
Then recite whatever is easy for you to
recite from the Quran. Allah is making it
easy for you. Recite the
and then recite something easy from the Quran.
And this is where
most of us
most of us make a mistake in our
ruku and in our sujood.
Make your ruku until you are completely
at peace
in your.
What does that mean? Every single bone is
in its place. You're not in motion before
you get up. What happens? You say, Allahu
Akbar.
And this position,
thumma.
Then stand up until
Until you are completely
at ease standing. This position is where many
of us What do we do?
No.
The bare minimum and then Allahu
Akbar. And you go into your ruku,
Then make that sujood until you are completely
at ease with your sujood.
Then
get up again until you are completely
at ease.
Until you are completely at ease sitting.
This is the position again where we find
people say,
No. Until you are completely at ease, what
did Rasulullah
salallahu alayhi wa sallam tell the man? He
says,
Go back and perform your salah, for indeed
you have not performed salah. He didn't say
you have stolen from your salah. He didn't
say your salah is not complete. He said
you have not performed salah. Meaning, the one
who missed this salah and this man, they
were the same. Exactly the same. No difference.
Why? Because
their prayer was not counted. This one didn't
pray. And this man prayed, but he prayed
so badly that it is as though he
has not prayed with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
How many people I see even today in
the masjid? And I'm not here to fire
at anyone specifically. All of us at times
are guilty of this crime.
What do we
do?
Before we are completely at ease, we are
in the next sujood.
Why?
Take 2 seconds.
2 seconds, brother.
In fact, I remember telling 1 uncle. And
Alhamdulillah, he's not in this country.
I remember telling him, uncle, your salah is
not accepted if you don't sit long enough.
The next salah, same thing. And And I
thought to myself, Allahu Akbar.
Who knows? Maybe he's excused. We hope he's
excused with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala because there
is one opinion that I don't follow.
But there is one opinion that says if
you do that only between the 2 sajda,
then it's okay. Only one opinion. The rest
of the scholars all say what? Your salah
is not accepted. Why? Because of this hadith
of the one who was bad in his
salah.
So, dear brothers and sisters in Islam,
it is a simple message. Simple.
That can benefit you a lot with Take
few more seconds
in every posture.
Few more seconds.
And the bare minimum,
you say once.
You you say
go into your sujood
once, the bare minimum. Don't say it.
Such that before you even complete it
In fact, after you complete it, your motion
has not even stopped. So what you do?
Your motion has not even stopped. Your salah
is not accepted.
And that is according to all of these
scholars. If you go into your sujood,
and you don't spend enough time in that
sujood, until you are completely at rest, your
salah is not counted.
Imagine getting to Allah
thinking, I've got all my salah.
I've got all these years that I put.
And then you come to find
that, you know what? I didn't spend enough
time in that salah for it to even
be accepted
with Allah Brothers and sisters in Islam, spend
2 seconds.
It is a call to spend
2 seconds more in every posture. And Allah
will grant you more reward than you can
imagine. May Allah perfect our salah. And may
Allah
perfect our standing before him.