Maryam Amir – Allah protects you
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In the Quran, Allah says in Allah, Allah and the believers, the
Angels send Salawat. They send Salam on the Prophet. Peace be
upon him. And then there's a command, oh believers, send Salam
on the Prophet Allah AMA. When this verse was revealed, the
Companions, the muhajirun and the amsar, their response to the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, mentioned in altabari, was
that it's not fair that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam gets a verse, gets Allah to get salam from Allah and the
angels, what about them? And so then Allah revealed another verse,
and that other verse is who all led you. Sally, Alaikum, wanala,
Ike to Hulu, you reject me. Nina Rahima, that he is the one who
sends sola what upon you, and the Angels send send those same
silhouettes to guide you out of the darknesses to the light, and
he is so merciful to the believers. What does it look like
when Angels send silhouettes on you? Why is it important that the
Angels send Salam on you? When the Angels send silhouettes upon you?
Different scholars of tafsir mention that one, when Allah says,
hualah, Alaikum, it means that he sends his mercy upon you. It means
that he sends blessings upon you. It means that He gives His
protection to the left and to the front and behind you, that angels
are there just to protect you. Can angels do anything except what
they're commanded to do? No. This means that the angels themselves
are ordered to do nothing except for protect you and pray for you.
The angels we know are on our right and on our left. And my
Sheik Abdul Adib, he was telling me that mashaAllah, he's a person
of the Quran. He's a scholar of the Quran. He has the shortest
Senate in the world. And he said that when he makes a mistake. And
of course, this is like, hey, his mistakes are not like our
mistakes. This is his mistake. Is like, I didn't realize that I cut
someone off in traffic. And then I start saying, Isla fit Allah. And
then I turn to the angel and I say, don't write it down. I'm
going to make a salfar.
He's not making dua to the angel. He's not asking the angel to for
forgiveness. He's just interacting with the angels that are around us
and that are part of our lives, the angel on the right. When we do
something right, we know that the angel writes it down. And
sometimes it's just one good deed, sometimes it's 10, sometimes it's
700 sometimes it's more than that, and we know that the angel on the
left is ordered to wait so that if you do something wrong, there is a
command from Allah that the angels are commanded because the angels
can't do anything except for what Allah commands their weight. They
have to wait until it is some time, because you might ask for
forgiveness. And if you ask for forgiveness, then the angels don't
write it down as a bad deed. And in fact, if you intend to do good
and you don't do it there, it's written as good. If you intend to
do bad and you don't do it, it's still written as good. But the
angel on the left waits, and then they ask, okay, now, should I
write it down, and then they're told, No, wait, they still might
repent. And this conversation keeps happening until finally,
finally, then it's written as one bad deed. The angels interact with
us in the way, not only that they watch over us and that they write
for us what we do, but also in the specific way they pray for us.
Imam Al Bava, we mentioned that if one angel were to ask for the
forgiveness of all the believers, it would be enough for all of the
believers to have just one angel. But Allah, in more than one
occasion in the Quran talks about a legion of angels asking for the
believers forgiveness, an entire legion of angels. There's a verse
in the Quran that Subhan Allah
just blows my mind in terms of how much he raises our ranks when he
commands angels to do something for us.
Allah, talks about the angels who hold up the Arsh. They are the
ones a ladina yacht. They hold up the Throne of Allah. And what do
they do? They believe in him. You mean una be he was still fear. Una
lilanu, what is Yu? Minu?
The behe. The angels are holding up the Throne of Allah. Okay,
angels, Beings of Light created by Allah. Do they believe in Allah?
Obviously, they're holding up the Arish of Allah. Do they believe in
him? No doubt. Why would Allah say they believe in Him? When?
Obviously the angels believe in him. Sheik hasharawi mentions,
because there's this Allah is saying that they believe only in
what he has allowed them to know. They don't have their animal love.
They don't know the unseen. They don't know what's going to happen
in the future. The only one who has that knowledge is Allah. And
so they hold up the Arsh. They believe in what they have been
taught by Him and ordered to know by him, and that's it. And then
what way is this is so incredible, because Allah ties the repentance,
the asking for forgiveness of all of us to who to Allah himself. The
angels are holding up the Throne of Allah. They believe in Him. And
what do they do? Literally nothing
but praise him and make dua for us
that they ask for our forgiveness, and in the next verse, they ask
that Allah joins us with our loved ones in the hereafter.
That not only, of course, would we want to be with the Prophet
sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam and the and the righteous people in
the Hereafter, but when you think about the hereafter, don't you
also want to see your your child?
Don't you also want to see your mom? Don't you also want to see
your sibling, your friends, your cousins, and sometimes, for some
of us, we don't know what that's going to look like, even for
ourselves, but also for loved ones that we have who either don't
believe in Islam or maybe they have at some point and they don't
care anymore. Many of us know what that's like. Many of us know what
that fear and that pain is like, and sometimes when we feel all
alone in that moment of sadness for the people that we love. And
of course, we don't know where we are going to be, we pray that
Allah enters us into the highest paradise. But only Allah knows, of
course, but we hope for His Mercy more than our deeds. One time, a
man walked into the masjid of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, and he was just overwhelmed with sadness, and the
Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam asked him, and he was like my
sins, my sins. So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam taught
him to say, Allahumma, your forgiveness is greater than my
sins and my hope in you is greater than my deeds, than my hope in my
deeds, that we sometimes don't have hope in Allah's mercy because
we don't feel like we deserve it. I had a sister tell me this was on
Tiktok. She wrote a comment, a public comment. She said, How do I
know? How do I know that I have hope with Allah when he's mad at
me? And I asked her, How do you know Allah is mad at you? How
could you know? How could you possibly know that Allah is mad at
you? And she said that she got really angry with her husband,
and every time she sleeps, she dreams that she's going to sleep
without saying the shahada at the end of life.
And I thought Subhanallah, who has taught her about Allah,
who has taught her about Allah, that her, her, her relationship
pain manifests in her having dreams that she's not going to be
able to say the shahada at death. That's not working from Allah,
saying that he's mad at you, or that you're not going to believe
in Islam that's having serious, very real, very understandable
issues in life, needing to work with a therapist and a mental
health professional to navigate those emotions. And Inshallah,
those dreams will change when your emotions also change. And
Inshallah, you'll always be given the glad tidings of paradise. But
that idea that so many of us hold on to so often is especially in
Ramadan. It's been a few days. I am nowhere near where my goals of
Ramadan actually were before I started. Please nod your head if
you've maybe recognized that you are also not exactly where you
want to be. That's like so many heads.
And at this point, I'm looking at myself and I'm thinking my goals
were very high,
and it's only been a few days, and there is literally no way I can
catch up right now. I will not be able to meet my I already, from
now I can't meet Michaels, but No, literally, they're really high.
There's no five days. But then I think, Okay, did Allah?
Know that I wanted to
he knows what you want to do, and is he going to reward you for that
intention itself? Yes. So when we're looking in Ramadan and we're
thinking that, how is Allah even going to forgive me when I am not
even holding up to what I've chosen as goals for myself.
Redirect that concept. It's not about what I am doing. It's about
the fact that Allah is the Most Merciful anyway. Don't rely on the
fact that you are generous for his generosity. He is Generous whether
or not you're generous, yes, of course, when we are generous, he
is more generous. Of course, when we worship Him to the best of our
ability, it's even more blessings. But does that mean that if you're
struggling and you're trying and you want to but you haven't been
able to, that he won't accept you, who taught us that? And why is it
sometimes that that voice in our head that we are not good enough
for Allah, not just a voice in our head, but rather the way that we
cast upon Allah and assume that that's how he he sees us. Allah is
not your internal thoughts wad, your self loathing is not Allah
seeing you in a self loathing way. That's how I feel about myself.
Allah is the One was here.
His mercy encompasses everything. One of the companions used to say,
oh, Allah. When he would recite this verse, He would say, WA en
Ashay, I'm something I'm something so Oh Allah, cover your mercy upon
me, and that mercy, that exact concept of mercy, is the one that
the Angels make your offer for us. Oya, still
meaning little. Moenin is someone who embodies the action of belief.
They embody it. You look at them, that is what meaning. That is
someone who is acting on it, living it every single moment.
Mohsin in little mohsinin, mohsinin the people who do even
better, they strive even farther and even more. But lil Nadina
amenu amanu is a verb past tense they have believed. What does that
mean? It means that in their heart there is belief, and yet their
actions struggle to match that belief. So when you feel like
you're not doing enough, remind yourself that in Ramadan night on
a Sunday, you were at the masjid. That is a lot. That is an
invitation from Allah subhanahu wa are the people who believed and
their actions struggled to keep up with the belief. What about the
believers who are fasting in Ramadan? What about the believers
who come to the masjid when they don't have to what about the
believers who hate themselves when they make a mistake and they want
to do better and they still mess up, but they want to do better
that is even more your, your, your, your more deserving of the
dua of the angels. You are even more deserving of the dua of the
angels who are commanded to make dua just for the people who
believed and they struggle. What are the people who believe and
they struggle? Yes, but they're trying. So the angels, when they
make dua for us, it's not something that we hear passively,
oh, there are angels. That's really exciting. We believe in
them. They are physically present protecting us. They are making dua
for us, even when we feel alone. And a story in the Quran that
encapsulates this so powerfully is that of Mariam, alaihi, salam's
mother and that of zakiria alaihi salam and that of Mariam alaihi
salam. When the mother of Maryam alaihi salam learns that she's
pregnant, she is ecstatic. And we know this from different tafesir
that she had struggled with being pregnant. She couldn't get
pregnant. She was struggling with infertility, and when she saw a
little bird feeding her babies, she started making dua. And she
made dua that Allah would bless her with her own child. And then
she got pregnant. And now you can imagine her joy and her
excitement. And then she loses her husband, Arman Alayhi.
So she goes from being so excited,
so excited because she's going to be a mother, finally, to the loss
of her husband, now as a widow, and how is she going to navigate
having a baby? And this is when she makes a particular name.
The way that she makes dua hear is very vulnerable, that she is
broken in the semi or alim. He is the one who hears. He is the one
who knows he's he is the only one who is actually there this dua
parallels the dua of zakiriya alaihi salam, which just a few
Well, this is different suras. This is mainly in Surah Ali Amran
and Surah Maryam. So zakiriya alaihi salam is described in
different ways that one, he enters upon Mariam, and he sees that she
has this fruit out of season that inspires him to go to dua. So then
immediately, hunalike, immediately he goes and he makes dua. Now, how
is this dua made? The description of it in Surah Maryam is one where
I have to tell you, subhanAllah, I have heard jasbi made, as all of
us have heard dua be made, right? Sometimes they rhyme. Sometimes
they're kind of flowy. Sometimes it's almost like someone is
singing or very poetic. But when I was studying in Egypt, the Imam,
the way he would make dua, is the first time I heard dua
on a on a wide level, on a wide scale, because he was making dua
in tarawiah, and he would make dua in the WITR. And the way he would
make dua, it was just, Oh Allah, if you do not forgive us, who is
going to forgive us, begging, Allah ibn, do not turn us away. Do
not turn us away. Oh Allah, if you do not open your doors for us, who
is going to open their doors for us? Ya Allah, don't turn us away.
Don't turn us away the way he would cry. And it wasn't this
crying like it wasn't like, Yes, we all, we all have emotion,
right? But it was the intensity of someone who knows they have
nowhere else to go, this brokenness, this complete
humility, this, Oh Allah, I have shattered pieces of my heart in my
hands, and I'm taking them to you and glue them back together, that
emotion we feel in the Quran when zakiriya alaihi salam is making
dua, and he is saying so humbly, my my bones have become frail that
his hair has become has turned color because he's become so old.
Here's an elderly man here that his wife has been barren, that
he's calling out because he wants to have a child to be able to
continue the message of Islam, to continue the message of
prophethood, as he is calling out like this, this intensity of
whisper, the intensity of call, where no one else is around you,
but you are desperate. Zakiriya, alaihi salam is making this dua,
and he's a prophet of Allah. So he's a prophet of Allah, and he
cares for Mariam. Alaihi salam, the first woman to enter Bethel,
not this. And yet we can imagine that he's been making dua his
whole life. We can imagine because he's a prophet of Allah. So now
this is the moment in his elderly age, the Allah chooses to answer
this dua, and when he does the next verse that the angels call to
him and gave him the glad tidings. Immediately, the dual was answered
within a second that the angels were there. Now there's a
different in difference of opinion on if they are the angel, the
group of angels that gave him this glad news, or if it was Angel
Jibreel, are they his Salam? Because Angel Jibreel has the
highest ranking of the angels, and so to to refer to him in this
plural is intended to honor him. So whether it was Angel, jabriel
alayhi salam or a group of angels, the point is that zakiria alaihi
salam was inspired to make dua after seeing Meriam, alaihi salam
and her certainty that Allah gave her this fruit out of season
because Allah can provide whatever he wants for whomever he wills
this certainty and the way she says, this is hanala in Allah,
hisab, even whether you write it, whether you recite it within
Allah, hisab, or hisab, whatever the Maqam you choose to recite it
in, you feel the lightness of the verse, that it's powerful because
he can choose To do this, but it's also very light. Yeah, Allah can
provide whatever He wills so then what happens right after zakiriya,
alaihi salam is given the news, what is the next part of the
story? Who's given the news?
Miriam Alaihe Salam. So Angel Jibreel gives the news to
zakiriya, then Angel Jabri alaihi salam gives the news to Miriam
alaihi salam, and when he's giving her this news, first of all, he is
in the form of a beautifully formed man. Is what the tithes
here mentioned, and that when she sees him, her first response is to
call him back to Allah. Her first response is to warn him, fear,
Allah. Feel not Allah, don't it doesn't say Allah, fear. Amen.
Him, reminding him that the Door of Mercy is open. Don't do it
Allah, so merciful. He can still forgive you before you do
anything. Ibn mentions that he was so scared he slipped straight into
the shape of an angel and Andrew salam's form. He has 600 wings. He
has jewels and rubies. This is an a narration in Imam Ahmed, in
Muslim Imam Ahmed that he has jewels and rubies just falling
from his wings, that they take the form of people, so they don't
scare people. But Mariam alaihi salam's words were so powerful
that he's the one who flipped back and then he gave her the glad
tidings of a son. And this is so powerful in Arabic, because the
ahabalaki to give you the glad tidings
is joyful.
Zakiriya was given glad tidings, and he was joyful of that news,
even though he himself was in shock the Quran, the way the Quran
is stated. How is this possible when my wife is bare houses
possible and they're in their elder age.
Aloha, Maya shot, however Allah wants, He can do it. Okay.
Juxtapose the joy with the glad tidings that many miles receives.
Her reaction is not to say, I'm chosen. It's not to say
Alhamdulillah, and maybe, honestly, maybe it was to say
those things. But that's not what Allah recorded. He recorded her
shock.
What are people going to say? Thinking about how this is going
to impact the way that people are going to see piety. Because she's
the paragon of piety, her reaction wasn't to receive the gift from
Allah with immediate joy, and again, if it was, that's not what
Allah chose to reveal to us, which, in and of itself, tells us
something that when something doesn't seem like a gift to us, or
sometimes it seems like it's supposed to be a gift, but It
doesn't feel like one,
that there's space to navigate that, and this is where the role
of the angels is so important for us, because there are going to be
times that we feel completely alone and no one in our family is
going to understand, even if they care about us, and no one is
really fully going to grasp the intensity of the emotion that
We're going through, or the fact that we have to numb ourselves so
that we don't feel that emotion,
and especially when someone says something like, why would you get
upset over that, or, Why are you crying? Or hasn't it been long
enough think about the prophets. What does it mean? Hasn't it been
long enough that you've been sad? Hasn't it been long enough that
you've been upset? Hasn't it been long enough that you've missed
someone? Hasn't it been someone? Hasn't it been long enough that
you've been crying? Yahub, are they his Salam? Didn't cry for a
day or two days, he cried for decades, in one tafsir, for 40
years before he was reunited with Yusuf Ade, his Salam. Can you
imagine a prophet of Allah being told, be patient, being told. And
he was told in the Quran, he was told, how much longer are you
going to remember Yusuf, and what does he say in Nana, Eshkol,
Betty, wahazni, Ilah, I complain only to Allah. I complain only to
Allah. I know from him what you don't know.
Of course, for us, we complain to Allah, and we need to seek
support, whether that's therapy or other forms of support. It's
critical. But the point is that Yousef alaihi salam, for all those
years, was not reunited with his father, and it was so long before
you Yaqub alaihi salam, stop crying.
Think about Ibrahim alaihi salam, and
it wasn't just the town that kicked him out of the of this of
their village, it was his father that threw him into a fire. What
does that look like when your own father is the one throwing you
into a fire? And that's real. Even today, that's real. Many
individuals struggle with that in their families.
Think about in the Quran NUHA Salam, the verses of Nua calling
his son to believe in Him are so hard to read. It's just so
emotional. Just Just come. Just come into the ship, just come so
AWI. Ila jabaz, I'm just going to Jada. I'm just going to go to the
mountain. Just going to go the mountain's going to save me.
Many of you know this pain because you have a loved one, and you weep
for them and you care for them.
But Subhanallah, he's a prophet of Allah, Subhanahu wa, and he went
through this gut wrenching pain every single one of the prophets
and every single one of the righteous Asia are they Hassan am
Mariam Ade hasinam, when we look at their stories, they had intense
loneliness, being alone, feeling like there is no one else who can
understand you as part of their narratives, and in none of those
stories.
Would we ever say hasn't it been long enough we would never say
that to a prophet. So why do we say that to our own selves? Forget
saying it to other people. Why do we say it to ourselves? Why do we
expect that we need to be in a particular place at a particular
time with our iman, when the fact that we cry is a sign, or the fact
that we don't cry, but we feel it is a sign that we're trying to
navigate real life, but still with belief in Allah. You know that pan
Allah, badah, the the Battle of the Battle of bedr was in Ramadan,
and this is the battle in which Allah brought angels upon angels
upon angels to fight for the believers, to fight with the
believers, to give victory to the believers. The angels were
present. They were there a helping aid the believers to an impossible
victory. And when they did this, and the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam has a great news that they are the victors. What does he
go back to Medina to
he doesn't go back to Medina with this
earth shattering joy. He goes back to Medina to find that rokaya Radi
Allahu anha, his daughter, has passed away.
The fact that in Ramadan, Allah didn't make this month a month of
just Quran and just salah. And how much did you read and how much are
you worshiping? What is worship? Worship is in the armado Bini, yet
the actions are by your intention, and that looks like taking care of
your emotional state, and it looks like supporting people in your
family, and it looks like dealing with the frustration after
frustration after frustration of you seeing that no matter what you
do, the door is not opening, and you wondering, what is the point,
and where am I going? But you still keep believing in Allah, and
that's exactly what we see from the prophets, and who aided the
prophets, but the angels and Allah promised us that if we believe in
him, that he commands the angels to support us. And what are
different ways that we can actually bring the angels into our
lives. Because, as we can hear, the angels are not just these
beings of light that just exist and are not interacting with us.
We just believe in them, and that's it. No, they're actively
intervening into our lives. If you've ever got into a car
accident, have you? Have you ever got into a car accident? Sorry,
about two and then it feels like something literally pushed your
car away, like it actually feels like something just like protected
your car from hitting something paddle up. Perhaps that was
literally an angel buffering between your car, when you go to
Salah, when you go to pray, it may feel like something you need to
finish quickly. We covered this in the Salah class yesterday. For
those who are wvma many times for Salah, many of us, it's something
we need to do, and we do it, and that's amazing. First of all, may
Allah bless every single one of us for trying to pray. But an angel
comes to your right, an angel comes to your left, an Angels as
big as mountains stand behind you. This is Saeed Ibn musayyb Who
gives us this narration. Angels as big as mountains stand behind you
when you're going to pray, so when you're going to Salah, and
sometimes it's in the middle of trying to take care of kids
running around. Sometimes it's in the middle of children climbing
your back. Sometimes it's in the middle of between meetings or just
running for whatever else you have to do. And sometimes, honestly,
you don't have other things to do. But maybe it's not something that
you're like, oh, I need to pray. I'm so excited. You're just like,
oh, I still need to pray.
But think about the fact that when we go to pray, who is standing as
an army with us? One time, had a law. I was with a group of
Muslims. We were planning an event, and one of the sisters in
our group, Sabrina, was there when this happened, one of the sisters
in our group, she got a phone call, and she just stepped away to
take the call, and then she came back, and all she could say was, I
need to pray. I need to pray. I need to pray. I need to pray. I
need to pray. And we were like, okay, it wasn't time to it wasn't
a lot time. She just kept saying, I need to pray. I need to pray. We
were in, we were we were at San Jose State. We were in a
engineering building. I mean, dishes, we're just at a building.
She just immediately went straight to a corner, and she just started
praying, and she started praying, and she started praying. She
didn't tell us anything. She just went straight to Salah. And then
she came to us after all of her prayers. And then she had told us
that her brother had been hit by a car and pan Allah, rahmat, he
didn't make it. Allah, enter him into the highest paradise. A
letter. He said
that was the first time that I think many of us had witnessed
someone take the law immediately, immediately as a
as a rope to hold on to. She didn't tell us. She didn't sit
down and say, I don't know what.
I'm going to do. She didn't say, I don't know. She just, she just
said, I need to pray. And she just went straight to Salah. That
moment, that choice to go straight to Salah. When you get news like
this, this is not just somebody who is praying and trying to
finish it. It's someone who is praying, and they're aware that
the angels are with them, that they're aware that Allah is with
them, that when they enter this sacred moment with Allah, it's a
conversation that they are having back and forth with the Lord of
All the Worlds. Very personally. It's a very personal connection,
and that connection is one that the angels witness, and they roam
the earth looking for the believers who are not Yes, not
just praying, but also doing actions like reciting the Quran.
There are angels whose sole job is to roam the earth looking for
those who are reciting the Quran, and then they go to them. They go
to that Halakha, they go to that circle of people who are reciting
the Quran. And I'm sure that you've heard many of us that they
surround those people, that with them comes this mercy, that with
them comes this tranquility, this feeling of tranquility. Have you
ever been with a Quran class and you just feel good there? Or you
leave it and you feel like refresh? It's panel, of course,
the barakah of the Quran, but also the physical presence of the
angels and the Companions, the way that they used to recite the
Quran. It wasn't simply, of course, it was to recite it
quickly, that there's a place, you know, there's a time and a place
for all forms of Quranic recitation. But when they would
recite the Quran they would really recite one verse over and over and
over again. They would recite it over and over and try to
understand how this verse applies to this moment in their life. And
this is
a following of the son of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, who would stand all night and just recite one ayah into a
that if you punish them, then they are your slaves until azizul
Hakim, and if you forgive them, then you are the strongest and the
most wise. And this was Isa alaihi salam, that Prophet Jesus was
responding to Allah, Subhanahu wa on the day when he is asked about
the people who worshiped Jesus instead of Allah. But in that
conversation, is this ayah, and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam would recite it over and over and over again, because who
is responsible for this entire Ummah but the Prophet sallallahu,
alayhi wa sallam.
So when we are talking about the angels interacting with us, when
you're sitting in your own room and you are reciting the Quran,
and noone else is in your house
who is witnessing it, the angels are witnessing it, and they're
just not they're not just witnessing it. It's not just the
one on your right and your left, there are the angels who are
roaming the earth looking for your voice. They're waiting to hear
your voice recite the Quran. And if you struggle with reciting the
Quran, then double the reward to you. And if you recite it so
beautifully, then you recite it like who like the angels. This
hadith that those who recite it so beautifully are reciting it like
the angels. So when you recite the Quran, know that there are beings
of light looking for you, for your voice to recite. Halakhara, just
remembering Allah. Right now, we're not reciting Quran together.
We're mentioning Quran but remembering Allah. Are there
angels present right now? Yes, insha, Allah. It's a promise from
Allah. And what do they do right now, the angels surrounding us.
They take the names of all of us, and they go to Allah, and they
have a conversation with Allah. When Allah asks them, what are my
servants asking for? What are they asking for that we want to go to
Jannah, that we don't want to go to hellfire? And Allah says the
longer narration, Allah not only promises us that, but also
promises it to those sisters in the back who are just walking
through and they're not actually sitting but Inshallah, they're
getting the reward of it. All of you, yes, exactly, exactly. So
awkward. I didn't mean to make it awkward for you, so sorry. You
were just the perfect example, Mama. Bless you all.
Anytime I gotta tell you a secret. I've never told anyone this
before, maybe I shouldn't tell it. Okay, well, maybe you could do it
till I get the reward of it. If I ever see a halapa and I'm not part
of it. If I'm just walking through the masjid, I just stand there for
a second like, oh, Allah. Count me as that one person who had no
intention of going to the Halacha, but they still want to be
forgiven. Be that person who just walks through like all those
beloved brothers and, Inshallah, all of the.
Edger is going to them. I'm very serious. I'm not trying. I
shouldn't have done that again. I'm sorry.
But the point is, look at Allah's mercy. He's so merciful that
literally, someone, whether they're passing through or they're
not planning to come, or they just came, they just came because
someone else was like, Hey, let's just go for a little bit. And they
were like, I have no interest in doing this, but I I care about you
enough that I'll go that this person is the one who is counted
as the one who is forgiven. This person is the one who inshallah is
counted as the one who goes to paradise. This person is inshallah
counted as the one who's saved from hellfire. How merciful is
Allah that He wants you to win, that he wants you to win. Allah
wants us to win. And this is why, even in our interactions with one
another, angels make dua for the one who teaches good, the one who
teaches good, angels make dua for them. Okay, when you're thinking
teaches good, what is the person that came to mind? Maybe like a
Quran teacher, maybe like someone who teaches Islam. But what about
if you've ever taught your sibling something good? Any parent in here
who's taught their child how to be kind to someone else, or how to
pray, or How to Say Subhan Allah, or how to do good actions, just
someone who teaches good is somebody who the angels make dua
for, and not just the angels. Actually, this Hadith also says
even the one in the sea, there's another one that talks about the
one who's student of knowledge, but the fact that you do good, you
make dinner for your family, and you teach them that etiquette of
saying Bismillah Rahim before you eat, the eating before you eat,
cleaning up that. It's part of the sunnah to be clean. These are good
actions. And the angels make dua for you when you teach others
that, and not only that, when they do it, because you taught them,
who gets the reward?
Yes, the person teaching, the person teaching, gets that reward.
It goes back to them whenever they do it. When you eat Shakur,
there's a hadith that you eat Shahr and the angels make dua for
you. This is also, I believe in Imam Ahmed, Muslim, Imam Ahmed,
that the angels make dua for the one who makes Jehovah, even if
it's just a sip of water.
Subhanallah, how merciful is Allah? And yeah, everyone is like,
I really never wake up. All y'all, we never wake up. As everyone the
angels are making dua for just kidding you all they are, but sha
Allah, they will make more when you wake up. First of all, if we
say salawat on the Prophet sallallahu alayhi was the Earth
man will be Allahu. Anhu asked the Prophet sallallahu, alayhi wa
sallam about the angels that are part of our lives. And the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam taught him that there is an angel waiting
at your lips, that when you send Salawat on the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, that that angel goes to the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam and mentions your name to the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, and not just that, that you get the salaam that
you make when you say Allah Muhammad, or peace be upon him, or
SallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam, or any form of Salawat, you are
raised 10 ranks in paradise. You are forgiven for 10 sins. You get
10 rewards, and what the Angels send that Salam to you you can
never lose with Allah subhanahu wa,
if you visit someone who is sick, the angels, if you go in the
afternoon, 70,000 angels pray for Your forgiveness until the
morning. If you go in the morning, 70,000 angels pray for you until
the afternoon. And of course, of course, this includes someone you
visit in the hospital. But what about when your own child is sick
and you're like, please don't let anyone else in my family get sick
and please let them get better soon. Visit them. Make the
intention that when you're caring for them, you're also visiting
them. When you visit a family member, when you are taking care
of a sick person, tell other if you are sick, tell your family to
come visit me in my room, come, but also wear a mask so y'all
don't get sick too.
But the angels make dua for you. Not just one, not 70,000
SubhanAllah.
There are too many opportunities for the angels to make dua for us.
And one thing that I shared in the talk yesterday. I know some of you
are here, and I'm sorry that you're hearing this information
again, but I just want to make sure that we leave knowing that
it's about the not about our emotional state. This is something
I remember hearing a lot from unnamed places
that Ramadan if we're not weeping, then how really successful were we
in Ramadan, that if we're not crying in the last 10 nights, then
how do we know Allah has forgiven us. Have you heard messages like
that before?
There was a sister when I made Hajj, my mom and I, Alhamdulillah,
when we made hajj, there was.
A woman sitting across from us in the tent, and she was so
talkative, very, very like talkative, and just wanted to get
to know everyone. Very, very sweet. And then we went to Arafa,
and the next day, when we were all back in the same tent, she was
very quiet. She just kept looking down, staring at one spot. And I
went to her, and I was like, Are you? Are you okay?
And she responded by saying, I didn't cry a single time in Arafa,
not a single tear in Arafa. And I don't know if my hedge is
accepted,
and I just want to walk you back to the day before in Arahat, the
messages the day before on the microphone in the tent where
everybody was making dua because they were trying to do these group
like in reminders throughout the day, and one after another, one
person after another said that if you are not crying today, if you
don't weep today, then how can you expect that your Hajj will be
accepted if you're not crying now, your heart is as hard as a rock,
and hellfire is fueled by the rocks.
When you hear messages like this and you don't immediately weep out
of awe to Allah, it can impact your psyche, because this isn't
one or two random people. We've probably all heard messages like
this and have, very likely, many of us, if not all of us, many of
us, have decided whether or not we were successful in Ramadan based
on how many times we've cried out of love for Allah in our salah.
And the reality is that Allah never requires crying as a form of
showing that we worship Him and that we obey Him. It's sweet when
it happens. It's a gift to feel it sometimes, but the fact that you
still worship and you don't feel it is a testament to the strength
of your faith. You're not worshiping a feeling. You're not
chasing a feeling. You're worshiping the One who created
your feelings. Okay? You're worshiping Allah, Who created you,
and all of your feelings just don't want that to be
misunderstood. But the point is that when you worship him, this is
what he asks, how do we become those whom he loves? By doing the
obligation, and then after the obligations, the extra, and when
Allah loves us, when Allah loves you, when Allah loves someone, he
tells Angel Jibreel alayhi salam that he loves this person, and
then Angel jabrillah, alayhi salam tells the inhabitants of the
heavens that Allah loves this person. And then Allah fills the
people's hearts with love for him or her. On earth, Allah loves the
one who acts for his sake, and of course, the intention, and of
course when we feel the emotion, Alhamdulillah, but the fact that
you still keep going as a sign of His love for you. There were three
companions who committed a major mistake that they didn't go with
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. On, on, when, when they
had to go for jihad. And the way that the Quran describes their
state in sorts, Toba will do that like the earth just became so
constricted, the vastness of the earth, and they felt like they had
nowhere to go. But then Allah,
himlia, Tubu, he turned to them.
He turned to them so that they would turn to him. He turned to
them so that they would turn to Him. Anytime in your heart, if
you've had a moment where you have wanted to go back to Allah. That's
Allah inviting you back to him.
If you think you want to go pray, it's an invitation from Allah. If
you think you want to repent, you're sorry for what you've done.
It's an invitation from him. And if you haven't felt that, but you
felt bad about not feeling that. That's an invitation, too, and if
you're none of those things that just make God mail up on all of
our hearts,
the fact that you care at all, the fact that you feel guilty, that
guilt that only comes from loving Allah subhanahu wa, the fact that
you're worried, that you feel apathetic, like I feel apathetic?
Should I be worried about that that in and of itself, is a sign
of Allah's love for you.
And when you love Allah, when you believe in him, this is the world
that we we actively worship Him in, but in the moment of death, in
this moment of that moment of meeting Allah, panata, Allah is
the culmination of how the angels interact with us in all of our
lives. That in that moment, Pan Allah, my mom, she told me a story
of her friend whose little sister had cancer, and they knew that her
time was finishing.
And her parents were in the hospital room, and she said that
she her the girl, she the little girl. She said, Who are those
beautiful people who just came into my room and the parents
couldn't see anybody, and they were like, who? Who do you see?
And she said, they're carrying the most beautiful white dress,
and then she passed away.
We don't know what people are seeing in the moment that they're
passing but Allah says in a Paul Robbin Allahu, those who believe
in Allah, and they are firm on that, that the angels descend upon
them, Allah,
don't be sad.
Don't be afraid, and don't be sad. What abushi Rub gennati, Leti
Kuntum to Adon and glad tiding for what you are promised. National
Olia, o come we are your allies. We are your protectors. We are
your guardians. This moment where you think you might be so alone
and Allah promises you that he's created beings of light to give
you the glad tidings as you as you go into the to the next phase, as
you go into the to forever, as you go into forever. And Abu Bakr al
the Allahu anhu, he asked some of the companions, what do you think
this verse means in Nala, Dina, Kalu, Robu, what is Thomas? And
the companion said, Those who don't commit sin. And Abu Bakr
radi, Allahu Anhu said, No, you've given it a meaning it doesn't have
it means those who believe in Allah,
you believe in Allah, the the scholars of tafsir, when talking
about the verse that you come on the Day of Judgment, yo Malay and
Farah, Manu wala Banu, ilaman as Allah, habiah, al bin Salim. It's
not, none of these things are beneficial, except for the one
that comes with this, Al bin Salim. It's often translated as a
pure heart. So then you think, okay, a pure heart is someone who
doesn't commit sin. But the scholars clarify this doesn't mean
sin, because we're all going to commit sin. But do you believe in
Allah and have certainty on that belief, and have certainty in the
Hereafter? And if sometimes you have doubt in that, if sometimes
you're laying in bed and you're like, Is this for real? Is there
really a hereafter? Is this really the truth? And then you have to
talk through it, and you're like, Oh yeah, for sure. Oh no, it is.
When you go through that conversation, remember that the
companions in Sahih Muslim came to the Prophet sallallahu, alayhi wa
sallam, and told him, sometimes we have these thoughts we can't even
say them out loud. The Prophet will always tell them respond. Was
like, You, you, do you really have thoughts like that? And the
companions were like, yes. And the Prophet, sallAllahu alayhi, was
son, said that Iman, that is clear faith, the fact that sometimes you
have these thoughts that you're not even sure you're allowed to
have
and you're worried about it. That is a sign of true faith. And of
course, if you have questions, if you have doubts, ask about them.
Ask about those specific, specific things. And then, after clarifying
that, go back to the fact that even Ibrahim alaihi salam asked
Allah, a prophet of Allah, who was thrown into a fire that was made
cool, who saw miracle after miracle after miracle, I said to
Allah Adini Kefa, show me how you raise the dead. And then Allah
responded with, Allah awala, don't you believe it? Of course, Allah
knows that haleel, Allah believes.
And he said, Bella walakin, me yotoma in so that my heart feels
this certainty and peace. This, this, this affirmation. If that is
a prophet of Allah, then what about all of us to be the person
who believes in Allah their whole life, and who sometimes struggles
and who sometimes doubts, but then goes back to this belief. This is
the one inshallah. This is the one inshallah where the angels will
give the glad tidings. And to end, there is this narration of Sayyid
Ibn Jube rodi alaghan That he mentions in the tafsir of an ayah
that talks about the people in paradise being with those that
they love. And he talks about a man who comes and in Paradise, he
looks around and he asked Allah, where is, where is where is my
dad? Where's where's my spouse? Where? Where's my grandpa? Where,
where's my son? He doesn't see his loved ones there in Jannah.
And then it is said to this person, you you you did the
action. You worked. You worked to get here. You did the work. They
didn't even they believed, but they didn't do that work.
And this man, he responds by saying, I worked for me, but I
also worked for them. I worked for me, but I also worked for them.
And Allah doesn't want this person to be sad in Jannah, and so he
called those people be entered into the level of paradise that
this person is in, just so that they're not sad in paradise.
One of the ways in which our dua can be accepted is when we make
dua for someone else. When we dua for someone else. There's a sister
here who told me that one time, all Ramadan, she didn't feel
anything. She didn't feel a single thing, all Ramadan. And one day,
while she was praying, she just started making dua for the person
next to her, because she had just talked to the person next to her
who would look really down, and that person said, haven't felt
anything that Ramadan, she was like me too. And in sajda, she
made dua for her to feel something this Ramadan, just to feel
something in Ramadan. And in that salah, this sister, for the first
time, started breaking down, started weeping, started crying.
When you make dua for someone behind their back, without their
knowledge, an angel says, Add me and for you, including when you
make to offer your loved ones, including when you beg Allah to
guide your loved ones, including when you pray for your children
and every single person whom you wish to see in the highest
paradise. While we pray for ourselves to be there, first and
foremost, we also pray for the people that we love.