Maryam Amir – Feeling Salah
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The speakers stress the importance of finding an emotional connection during busy situations, finding lost and finding it again, and being aware of words in actions to avoid confusion. They also emphasize the importance of physical touch and affirmations, avoiding distraction, and using physical presence as reference. The success of praying and affirmations is also discussed, along with advice on how to handle stress during busy days and recapping the story of a woman namediali.
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There's a verse in the Quran where Allah says, in Allah, you will
send him over leavers. And then this is a description of Allah
sending Salawat, sending salaam on the Prophet, peace be upon him,
and the angels sending salaam to the Prophet, peace be upon him,
and encouraging that the believers send Salam on the Prophet,
sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam, Allah, Muhammad. But when this
verse was revealed, the companion in Medina, those from Mead,
muhajiri and the amsar from Medina, their response was that
the Prophet Loy said of God a verse for him. Why don't we have a
verse for us?
In the tafsir of Ari, he mentions that the companions were asking,
What about a verse for us? And so then Allah said a different verse
for the companion. And this verse is, yeah, from book. This is the
verse right before it. This verse, who Allah alaika To who Leo
wejaminal, what can I Binna Rahima? Then Allah sent this
verse, that this verse is for the believers, and the verse is, he is
the one that sends his Salam, his Salawat, upon you, upon you, and
the angels to take you out of the darknesses to the light. So Allah
sent a verse just to be a comfort for all of us that he sends Salam
upon us. What does this Salam mean? It's commentators of Quran
mentioned, it's his mercy upon us, it's his blessings upon us. It's
his protection for us, it's rewards for us, it's forgiveness
for us. And this is all from Allah. But he also commanded the
angels, the angels to send Salam upon us. What does it mean when
the Angels send Salam upon the believers? There are a number of
places in the Quran where Allah talks about the presence of angels
and the actions of angels and what the angels do for believers.
Angels can't do anything except for what Allah orders them to do,
which means that there are angels that Allah has literally ordered
to do nothing but pray for us to say Amin to our dua. Imam Al
dahlow mentioned that if one angel, only one, were to say Amin
for the dua of the believers, just one angel, it would be enough for
the entire Ummah, literally everyone on Earth. But it's not
just one angel. He has ordered legions upon legions of angels to
make dua for us. What are the types of dua that they make? Yes,
they keep asking forgiveness for us. Right after
that, Allah talks about the angels making dua that we will be
protected from hellfire, that we will be entered into paradise, not
just us, but the people that we love with us. It's so lonely to
think about Jannah by yourself. Jannah is amazing. Jannah, you
want to be with the Prophet sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam. You
want to be there with the people that are so incredible from our
history. But don't you also want to be there with the people that
you love, and the angels make dua for that the Allah would enter us
into paradise with the people that we love, subhanho wa taala. So
when we're looking at the angels having this role in our lives,
that they come for this protection and this dua and making dua for
our forgiveness and Allah ordering them to be able to do this for us.
What? What brings these two things together? The ayah before it,
this verse, talks about Allah, Salawat,
and it talks about the angel saying, salam, Salawa upon us. But
what is the verse before that? The one that we started with? Yeah,
you Hala, Dina. And that was cool, Allah. So they run Kira, we can
generally translate praise Allah. Remember, Allah, what time? I'll
see that. So, you know, say subhanallah, Allahu, Akbar in the
morning, in the evening. But the commentators of tafsir say this is
about salah, that you actually pray, that you do your Salah,
including after fajr and after Asr, excuse me, Fajr time and Asr
time, that you do the actual Salah. So now we have in the Quran
this verse that was revealed of Allah upon the best of the
prophets, upon the best of humanity, the companion saying,
What about us? We want a verse, a verse coming down for the
Companions, giving also that glad tidings of salat and salam and
connected to Salah,
but for all of us when we're.
I'm trying to navigate the law. Sometimes it's not necessarily
easy for us to feel a emotional connection, an emotional
connection. It's Ramadan. It's already a few days in. How many of
you have had a moment where you sat back, even though it's just
been a few days and thought I haven't even achieved one of the
goals I was planning to this Ramadan, that's 100% theme. Are
you already just a few days in and thinking I am nowhere, absolutely
nowhere, and there's no way I'm going to make the bowls I was
planning because I'm already five days behind, like there's that's
that that's going to happen. So we already sometimes feel this
immense form of loss and guilt, and the month has barely even
started now going into a slot, it's not that easy for us to focus
on this moment of repentance, of shukur, of gratitude, when your
child is trying to climb on your back, when you smell that you're
burning something as you're cooking, when you know you have a
meeting and you're rushing between jobs, between meetings at your
work, trying to just get something in when you know that you have all
these notifications popping up on Your phone, and you wonder what
it's about when someone just said something about you somewhere
else, and you're thinking, why did that have to happen? All of those
thoughts filter through our experiences, and that's not even
talking about going through trauma or mental health issues or
struggling in a relationship that you're in the moment. None of
those things are even addressed when you're simply trying to go
into Salah and say, Allahu, Akbar. And this is why it's important for
us to differentiate that when we enter salah, when we're going into
prayer, there is a difference between Allah bringing the
blessings of the action, separate from how I feel emotionally about
the action. Ramadan is a month of blessing. Anyway. If Somaya so
kindly gave me a bar of chocolate, why didn't you do that today? So
Maya worst friend. So if she gave me a bar of chocolate, she's such
a sweet person. Love her. She gave it to me today. She makes me happy
and shell she gets the reward of that. It's a charity from her.
Inshallah, it's a gift from her. All those good things, right? If
she did that exact same action last week. Would she get less
reward? Yes, because the Ramadan is a different type of blessing.
She still gets reward, but Ramadan increases the blessings because
it's Ramadan, same action you change your baby's diaper before
Ramadan. Not any mad high probably, unless you've been
struggling with infertility, then being able to change a baby's
diaper is a moment of awe and joy, because you never thought you'd
get that opportunity. But now, all of a sudden, in Ramadan, that same
action, you're doing that same action, and the blessing is
manifold. It's not your your focus on diaper changing was different.
It's that the monk itself brought in the blessing. So now think of
Salah when we're talking about the angels, the angels Biden and will
say it mentioned that when you pray, there's an angel that comes
on your right, there's an angel that comes to your left, and
there's a legion of angels that stand behind you, as big as
mountains. That is not because you're focused more in Salah. It's
not because you're weeping and emotional in Salah. It's because
you are praying. It's the action of prayer itself. So when we're
navigating how we feel about salah and trying to bring focus, I'm
sure all of us, all of us honestly, probably want to come to
prayer and feel like a presence. We want to be able to come to
prayer and feel like internally. It has changed us. It has moved
us. We feel grounded, we feel peace. Of course, we want that,
but think about the companions of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
said that Sophia Radi Allahu Akbar, she saw a group of
companions making sajda after the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam
passed away while they were reciting a verse of sajda. So
there are certain places in the Quran where it's recommended it's
a sudden, that's not required to make sajda in this part. So they
made sajda, and she said, this is the sajda, but where are the tears
you're making sajda about a verse that talks about going into sajda
and you're crying and you're not crying. These are the companions
seeing companions with Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa after he
recited a verse that had the sajda, he made sajja, and he said,
here's the session, but where's the tears? Where is where's the
crying?
When he was the Khalifa, a group of people came from Yemen, and
they came and they saw, they visited with him, and they heard
the Quran, and they started to weep. And he said, This is how we
used to be. We used to cry like this. We used to cry like this.
This is Abu Bakr, really, a long one.
So obviously, if the people who lived with the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wasallam, if they were raised by the prophet,
emotionally, spiritually, in all these ways of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wasallam, are not meeting 24/7 is it okay that
we, centuries later in America, trying so hard to hold on to our
religion in the midst of everything else?
Don't always have an intense emotional connection. Absolutely,
salah, in and of itself, is blessed simply because we are
doing the action of Salah. But now, how do we build that
emotional connection? This is where we need to just take a
moment to step back and ask ourselves, how do we see prayer?
Because a lot of times, for all of us, myself, 100% included out of
mixtape, all of us, perhaps most of us. Sola is something we're
trying our best to do. Maybe sometimes we are not where we want
to be with it, but we're trying. We want to be trying, but it
doesn't necessarily mean
that it is something that we are excited to do. 24/7,
probably when we wake up for selectful Pleasure, for example,
is the first today.
Maybe, maybe please come give the class, if that's you.
But realistically, a lot of us are like, I need to pray. I need to
make wudu while maybe your children are already awake for the
day, or you're just trying to pray and make everything you need to do
before that happens, before you get ready for work. It's not this
moment of transformation every single morning I wake up, but it
should be, of course it should be, but we're human, and Allah didn't
ask us to make every single Salah a revolution. He asked us to be
consistent with our salah. And when we look at this concept of
emotional connection, we need to take a moment to just recognize
that Allah did not require feelings from us. When my mom and
I went for hedge hamdules, my mom, may Allah, bless her and bless all
of you, there was a woman in our group who was very, very
talkative. Do you remember she sat right across from us. Super
mashallah, very talkative, very energetic, very excited to meet
every single person in our tent. There was like 400 people in our
tent, and then after a fuck, she I saw her the next day, very, very
down. She was just sitting, staring in one spot. She looked
very sad, and so I kind of went to her. I said, Sister, are you okay?
Because I already,
well, not the morning before Arafa. We went to Arafa. She was
so, so excited. Allah put away for Arafat, and she was just so down.
They said, are you okay? And she said, I didn't cry a single time
in Arafat. I didn't cry a single time in Arafat. So I don't know is
my head actually accepted? Now I want to walk you backwards to what
happened in arapa the day before. There were a few people on the
mic, group leaders. People were trying to encourage DUA and
encourage salah, and encourage focusing on Allah and on the
microphone consistently, consistently. If you are not
crying today in Arafa, how can you call yourself a believer if your
heart is not soft in alpha, how would you expect it to be soft any
other day of you, you are in alpha. You're not at home, you're
in alpha. Okay. What do you think happened to those who could not
weep the next day? Not everyone weeps when yelled at. Sometimes we
need an emotional connection. So when we see someone like this,
beloved sister, I share them. So the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasalam says crying in Hajj is not is not
crying in Arafa is not hedge just going to Arafat is Hajj.
Unfortunately, many times and maybe you've heard it. Raise your
hand if you've heard messages like that, like the real believer cries
all the time in salah or in Quran, in taraweya. If you are not
weeping, then what is your heart? What Where did Allah require us to
weep? For him to accept our deeds? The the Prophet taught us in a
hadith, would see that Allah tells us that the way that we come close
to him, is to action. It is through action and then the
obligatory action, and then the extra. Now, why? For me, this is
so powerful. If you look in the Surah, a story of Surah Meriam,
when she is giving birth, she says a statement, yeah, late any Mitsu
Abu dahabancia. She wished that she had died before this and that
something completely forgotten. What is so interesting to me, in
addition to everything else in this verse, so obviously, she's
saying something very emotional. She's physically in pain. She's
thinking about what people are going to say about her when she
brings the baby. She's going through a lot. What does Allah
say? One he acknowledges how she's feeling. La tefeni, he doesn't
say, Why do you feel this way? He doesn't condemn her feeling. He
comforts her. He comforts her. And then he tells her to do something,
shake the date palm tree. Shake the tree. She's literally giving
birth. Any of you who've been giving birth not a time to shake a
treat, in addition to the fact that any of us, any of us who take
a date from three dates, are not going to rain upon us. But in this
moment of giving birth, her thoughts are cyclical. They're
emotional. She has so much, excuse me. You know, I don't speak about
many has to love, but the verse, the way the verses are talking
about it's a very.
Emotional moment, and so Allah points her to something that
today, Cognitive Behavior therapists tell us to do that when
someone is going through something very emotional, you can't change
someone's emotions. You can't change your own emotions. Your
feelings are your feelings. What you can impact are your actions.
When you change your actions, you impact your thoughts. When you
impact your thoughts, you start changing your feelings. So you
work on the action. Focus on the action that will change the
thoughts that will impact the feeling. And so what does Allah
tell her to do the action? It breaks the cycle of thought. Focus
on the action. And then what prepare yourself to go out after
resting. Take some time. Take a moment you go out and call to
nada. It is your responsibility. He didn't give us Panama to Allah,
to Angel Jibreel. He didn't give it to Prophet zakiriya. He gave it
to Maryam. Are they hesed? So when she goes out with the baby, this
is after she's gone through something very emotional. And for
us, when we're thinking about salah, Salah is going to be in the
middle of emotional things. It's going to be in the middle of
yelling at your kids and being so frustrated. It's going to be in
the middle of having a disagreement with your your spouse
or a parent or someone you love. It's going to be in the middle of
maybe hearing really difficult news from your job, if that's the
reality of life. So how do we then, instead of obsessing over
the fact that I don't feel an emotional connection with my
prayer, how can I focus on the action I need to do for prayer,
and when I do that action, how is that going to ground me? A woman
who I spoke to, she's in her 60s now, she said she's been praying
consistently for 40 years. She has not missed a single Salah for 40
years. She said in 40 years, maybe two times she felt the sweetness
of Salah, and she had a little bit of tears, but the rest of the time
she just felt like Salah is what grounds her, because it's what
Allah has asked her to do. It helps her remind herself of her
day on how to keep going, but she didn't, you know, melt into a
puddle of tears out of awe of Allah's piglets, out of which, of
course, we all want no doubt. But the point is, if you felt that
every time you prayed, would you actually be worshiping Allah, or
would you be worshiping an emotion that you want to have over and
over, that hormonal reaction, that chemical reaction to the feeling
of the sweetness, if you felt that sweetness, and you've ever wept
out of sweetness, what, maybe you've seen the Kaaba, or maybe
you've seen the Kaba and you haven't cried, and that's also
okay, because not requirement to cry when you see the Kaba, but if
you've ever felt that emotional sweetness, nod your head. If you'd
like to feel it again, that emotional sweetness, yeah, we
probably would like to feel that over and over, but realistically,
because that's not life, the point is we still do the action that is
a really committed believer. You are a very committed believer.
When Salah to you is not something that makes you feel like you're in
euphoria, but you still do it anyway that is committed belief.
However, building that relationship is a relationship.
It's not just an action. When we talk about salah, instead of
talking about it as something we want to, you know, do as an
action, we need to do. What if we were to look at it like a
relationship? We need to build. I remember when I first met Bayan,
didn't really know her that well, she seemed cool, but I really
don't. But now, now that I've spent time with her and sayida and
other sisters here, now I want to be with them, because I've started
to get to know them. I don't really feel awkward around them.
There's definitely some people that feel awkward in this room.
I'm just kidding. There is this point if you build a relationship
with someone, and the more that you build your relationship, you
get to see them for who they are, so much more so than that first
impression sometimes. So what I'd like to ask, Does anyone in this
room speak more than one language? Okay, raise your hand really high
if you think you speak a language. Probably most people don't speak
in this room.
Okay, what is it?
Or do other people speak? Or do yes, yeah, okay, yes, Turkish.
Does anyone else speak? Turkish?
No, Turkish, no, okay. Can you be our volunteer? Yeah, all right,
come on up let
All right, so we have sister right here. Please introduce yourself.
Say that is going to tell us anything she wants in her gift,
absolutely anything. Say that for like 30 seconds this I left.
Okay,
I have absolutely no
did anyone have any clues? No, yes, you do. Yeah, I live in
Turkey so, oh, okay, so you had context clues because you lived in
Turkey before. Okay, so what did you tell us? I told him I
lost her. I love you. You.
Speak
Turkish to that is when you can speak a language with your parent
that no one else understands. You can literally be up here giving a
speech and still telling your daughter you should have done
this. Okay, watch out a lot. All right, so say that, and I imagine
if we meet one day and we are let's just say we meet at the
masjid, and you only speak Turkish and I only speak English, and
let's try to have a conversation. We can't really, but she's sweet.
I can feel she's sweet. Hopefully she thinks I'm sweet. Good, cool.
Okay, now if we try to tell each other about all the things
happening in our lives. Do you think it would work the same way
as speaking to someone in the same language? Probably not. You might
feel like if she saw me cry and she hugged me, I would think, Oh,
this very sweet sister who spoke Turkish came and she comforted me.
I didn't understand what she said, but it made me feel so much
better, right? But now watch what if Saida and I, yada, make this
happen. Yada, Alabama, Emmy let's roll on. Aloha. Bless us all and
all of our families. Emmys, what if said and I had met in the
masjid, and then the next year, we suddenly were in Medina, just
walking in mashinaba.
Sudden, I look over, and she looks over, what are we going to do?
Yes, we're gonna come, we're gonna hug, we're gonna scream, make it
more. We're gonna be so excited to see each other, and now we say
goodbye. What do you think if I forget? Almost fine. Oh, one more
time. It's
like,
okay.
Allah, Allah,
okay, see already, it's happening that I want to know afraid.
Doesn't it happen with you when you get to meet someone? Okay? So
you say, Allah, Allah, alright. Now we said goodbye, but now all
of a sudden, this was Ramadan the next year. All of a sudden, we are
in hajj, and I'm in Hajj and she's in hajj, and we see each other
again. Do you think that the shock of that is going to be even more,
the emotion is going to be even more? Yes, okay, subhanAllah, we
met. This is incredible. Now, all of a sudden, we all saw the next
here, Allah,
we've seen, do you think the emotion of that is going to be
increased? Yes, by this time, perhaps I've even tried to learn
some Turkish, because honestly, Allah has put this person in my
life. Maybe she loves to learn some English. So when we meet, we
can actually have a brief conversation. We can actually
converse a little bit and connect. Okay, now finally, what I want you
to think about is maybe we've lost touch for like, 10 years, and in
that time, I've moved to Turkey, or she's moved to the United
States, I now have a much more greater grasp on Turkish, and she
has a greater grasp on English. We need. Do you think our
conversation is going to be, how is the weather?
Do you think it's gonna be elevator music?
Do you think it's gonna be so
great to see you? We're probably even if we've never even talked
mindless those four times of meeting, just gonna say, remember
that time and how was your hedge, even if it's broken in our
languages, right? Because we have what, tell me what it was. That's
exactly it. We had an emotional connection, an intense emotional
connection, may Allah bless you. Say that we'll protect your
family. Bless all the people in Turkey. Bless all the people
everywhere, all the all the women, the vulnerable, suffering every so
now, if we have an emotional connection with salah, even if
it's one time? Do you see how we can go back to Salah in that
moment of vulnerability? Because we know that the one who heard us
the first time is always there. Building that emotional connection
is like a relationship. Right now, there is a very well. It's not
just right now, it's been very popular. It's five love languages,
The Five Love Languages of building a relationship. And so
today, Inshallah, let's talk about salah as a relationship with the
five love languages that we want to build. What's the relationship
with salah? Does anyone know what the love languages are? Tell me
what one is, acts
of service. That's another times.
Words of affirmation, words of affirmation in quality time,
physical touch. Yes. Thank you to all the women.
What we know is that all the men are practicing it, all of them, so
we need to be louder. Masha Allah. Masha Allah. So when we talk about
words of affirmation, when we're going into Salah words of
affirmation, not only is the entire Salah words of affirming
who Allah is to us and us asking him, the Fatiha itself is a
conversation with Allah, and we know that the Fatiha.
As a conversation with Allah. And maybe you know that Allah responds
to you every single time you talk to him, that when you say,
Alhamdulillah, my servant has praised me. Oh Rahman Al Rahim, my
servant has exalted me. Maliki, oh MIDI, that Allah we recognize that
he is the king Iain, buay Akin Astari, then we're asking for him,
and Allah will grant us what we've asked this, this entire the entire
soul Salah Surat is led to dua that we're praising him, we're,
we're, we're exalting him, and then we're asking of him, and he
promises to give us what we ask for. This entire words of
affirmation when we come into salah the entire time is a
conversation we're having with Allah. So first recognizing what
the words mean. If I don't know what sort of Fatiha means, I can
read a translation, so that before I go into salah, I read the
translation. I know what the general idea of the surah is, so
that I know that it's not just me saying words, it's my Lord
speaking back directly to me and you and you and you and you and
you and you and you and every single one of us in chattah we I
remember one time Subhanallah, I saw someone making dua, I had this
thought for half a second. I was like, I really need to make dua,
but let me just wait until they're done, so that Allah will have time
for me. And I was like, Wait a second, that's blacksmith
literally blossomed a thought, Allah can hear all of us at the
exact same time with the exact same amount of of intensity when
we call, when we think about sort of Fatiha is like a dua that we're
asking of him, Subhan, when we think of Da as pan Allah, Pan
Allah, the amount of individuals I've heard incredible stories of
dua, and maybe yourselves have experienced them or know them. And
I want to hear a few of them from you. I'm going to give you a few
examples. When we went to Mecca one time, we were with my
grandmother. And, you know, may Allah, you know, protect all our
all our grandparents. She's, she's elderly. And my dad just said out
loud, like, right out of after we got out of the taxi, remember,
right after we got out of the taxi, he said, I wish we had a
wheelchair, because it would be easier for her. Literally, like he
didn't finish that sentence. But this, this young man ran with a
wheelchair. Ram ran, dropped off a wheelchair, and it ran away.
Literally. He didn't say his name, he didn't say how much it is, he
didn't think you need a wheelchair. He just brought a
wheelchair. And I know that many of you have had those types of
experiences, or heard those types of experiences in holy places one
time, SubhanAllah. I want to share with you that there's a sister who
told me she went to Mecca for the first time, and her mother had
just converted to Islam SubhanAllah. She comes from a
family where she's one of the only Muslims, and after years and years
and years of making for someone to for Allah santola to guide her
family, her mother accepted Islam Hamidah, and she heard Sheik
Mohammed a Sharif May Allah mercy on him and enter him into the
highest paradise and be with his family. Yoda, I don't know how
many of you had heard that he shared a very vulnerable moment
when he was in Mecca. He had a live stream many years ago where
he shared how he was he was navigating trauma when it came to
being a HEG leader in Mecca. And so one of the things he mentioned
was, when he came back for Amra, he needed a plastic bag, and he
didn't have a plastic bag, and he was making dua to Allah, just
making dua. And as he's making dua, one of the things that
someone came up to him just ran up and gave him a plastic bag, and he
passed Hana la like, you know, it's like a sign of Allah
listening to something as minor as a plastic bag. But you know that
Allah sees you. He knows the big you need, but also the really
small. He knows the huge in your life, but also the very minor. And
knowing that someone cares about you so intensely that something as
small as a plastic bag makes a difference in your life, for
someone to care about you to that extent that yes, he will answer,
even for the minor, even for the wishes of your heart that you
don't even pray for you just think that you would like to have this
that Allah answers you. And so this sister told me to as salad in
the memory of she hasn't come in a Sharif. She brought a bag with
her, and she was looking everywhere in Mecca to see who
might need a bag while they're making pawah. And so finally, she
found someone who didn't have a bag. They were just holding their
own shoes, and they were holding all these other things. And she
went and asked if they need a bag, of course, to because they
language. So she gave the bag and the the look of joy and gratitude
from this person and SubhanAllah. Just think how Allah answers the
needs, just like the need of the heart of Shaykh Muhammad Rahman,
we all enter him into the highest part.
And just that, just that one act of acceptance of an of a wish of
his heart, led to someone else doing an action that was
beneficial to this sister. And who knows if this sister, maybe in the
future, will say someone did that for me and so on. I'm going to do
that, that same action for this person. There are so many stories
of incredible stories, that when you hear them, you think there's
no way this was answered, except that it was from the Almighty. And
I want you to raise your hand if you have a story you'd like to
share.
I'm going to share one more while I'm waiting for hands to be
raised, because we'd love to hear your dog stories. They're so
inspirational, exciting to hear. But kanula Last year, when we were
starting to publish Claudia, it's a woman for Anne decider app. You
can download it for free on Google Play and at the stores. This young
woman, she her name is Maria. She saw me at MCA. So at MCA, I just
happened to go because I was attending a talk, and I just sat
and I suddenly had a coughing attack. I wasn't sick. I don't
know why. I suddenly coughed like crazy. And I left the banquet hall
so that I wouldn't interrupt the session out of nowhere. Just
copied like, okay, just know that. So I leave. As I leave the hall,
this sister sees me, and she's like, I can't believe you're here.
And I was like, oh yes. And she was like, my my niece, my niece.
She just has always wanted to meet you. And I'm like, Oh, I would. I
would be so honored to meet her. So she calls her niece. I didn't
know she meant, like, right then she calls her niece. She comes
from Milpitas, MCA, immediately, they all will bless this family. I
was so surprised. And when I met her, do you know what she told me?
She said just the other day, she had written in her notebook that
the person that she wants to meet, she mentioned my name. I don't
know why she want to meet me, but she mentioned my name that she
wants to meet me. And then she's like, I can't believe that I'm
right here. And I just made this job, and I was praying to meet
you, and it was in my notebook, and you're right here. And I
thought, subhanAllah, I was not planning to come to this event. It
was very last minute thing that everything worked out for me to be
able to go. And the only reason I'm standing in front of you is
because I had a crazy covenant attack out of nowhere, and now
Subhanallah had the blessing and the opportunity to meet her. And
again, like, don't know why she wants to meet me, but I was very
humbled that I felt like a lot gets the answer, just the huge
which we all need, but something as minor is like, I just want to
meet someone and Allah facilitating, like bringing things
from the heavens and the earth to come together, just to answer the
need of one person. You know, when it comes to sometimes, we don't
necessarily always see that. We wonder why there might be a job
you've been making for 10 years and you haven't seen the answer,
and you wonder, should you still keep making it like whether or not
it's even worth something you should keep doing? And you wonder
about that. And that's very real. That's real we all go through
that. There are jobs I've been making for 10 years, and until
after 10 years, Allah answered it, and others I've been making for
more, and they're still not answer them. They pray they will be. But
that's a very real, vulnerable process to go into Salah and to
know that the one you're speaking to is the one who answers the
small. He's the one who answers the big, but sometimes he
withholds, and he withholds because he knows it's for your
protection. Does anyone else have a story that they would like to
share with us. Yes, same story that you just mentioned happened
10 minutes ago. Asmaa, so my husband and I, we filled up the
truck with the yard waste from the masjid we are taking to our
property on the mountain to jump in. Okay. Nice to you, Allah, I
wanted to have Mariam stock in person. I attended the race. Oh,
and I said, You Allah, I wanted to attend. And she's here. I'm
leaving. And guess what? We found out that highway 17 is blocked. So
here I when Allah has to block a freeway for all people,
everyone's scheduled need to be changed for you said, I'm so
honored that you wanted to come the mail to open the path for
everybody. But what an honor to
have over here.
Strategies to meet you. It's funny to meet you. Auntie. Okay, so
Padala, does anyone else have a crazy story like that? If you
don't want to speak, it's a really small
you think It's nothing much. So I was back home in my country bucks.
Now, last year, it was really rainy, cloudy, and I talked to
myself, and this is like that perfect baton shy moment, and I
wish I could have this giant. I'm thinking, you know, why am I going
to get this? So walk into the first shop, and it's a jewelry
store, and the guy asked me, goes, would you like some giant? And my
sister's like, no, no, no. My sister goes.
Should have asked for something. I
just said, No, Allah, bless you and answer that.
To add the small and the big for you and all of us here up all the
time, that's such a moment of like, Allah's listening, you know,
like, I just feel like sometimes he gives us the small to come for
us that we're not always going to get the big, but he's listening to
even the small SubhanAllah. That is so comforting. I always, I
always say, like, when, when I make dogs like that, I used to
just be like, Oh, I wish I could have some, like, ice cream or
something, right? I'm like, wow, we should have some ice cream. And
also, 7 million and also $7 million and all these things you
never know, and all those hotels gonna answer that specifically,
any other dog. Sorry, yeah. So I prayed the hedge one time, and I
was just like, God, just throw any job at me.
Couple hours later that day, I got a call from a recruiter, you know,
we're having this job, and then, and they just offered it without
interviews, just,
you know, started, wow,
there's a kid on
this. Yeah, she used to be very important. That's beautiful. This.
Also interesting about your job? You didn't say, oh, Allah, let me
get a job without an interview. You just had a job. But he
facilitated even that aspect of this town. It's so generous. Thank
you. That was beautiful. Thank you. Anyone else? Yes. So when
we were driving the middle of nowhere in Canada, and we're going
to a camp, and I had just given birth of a few weeks back, and I
was really thirsty. It was middle of summer, and I was just craving
this. You know, the all 100% all food bar the strawberry,
strawberry one. And now we know middle of nowhere on a mountain,
and there were no stores, and my husband came into like we just
happened to pass by one storyboarding. Your shirt was
open, and he goes in. He's like, Okay, I'll try to see something
along the lines
of what you want. He comes back, and
he's like, You shouldn't be back. 100%
strawberry, exactly what your husband said. Like, make the draw
you up with something bigger. Absolutely, yes, I have, like, a
really sweet, lighthearted one, but actually really powerful. So
when we
went from a family in 2019 and so my younger
son and,
like, Inshallah, if
you guys don't mind, like, please don't ever tell him if you know.
But
so he is obsessed with candy. Like, I mean, he has to have it
every day. Like, his life of all dried candy, imagines Jenna very
differently.
And so, you know, I wanted to, I wanted to just, like, reward him
off and things like that. And so, you know, I tried to, like, give
him candy. And he was only, like, maybe seven years old at the time,
and so
he made with the first time we made the walk. There was candy
involved. And so he associated with making a lot. So he genuinely
was like, I love this place, like candy falls from
this guy. And so the next time that we went through the walk
together, you know, he was making the same glass, holding his hand,
pulling around, you know, grabbing him tight. And I'm like, just
think
about anything candy. And literally, there was a man who was
also doing the loft, and he had these lollipops, like heart shaped
raffle off, just giving them
out. So he literally
just came by and just like, put it in his hand, and it's so crowded,
so you can't even tell, like, if someone comes and put something in
your hand. And so
he, he genuinely like the association he has with doing ona
and like, doing go up and like, just that, you know that area
around the GABA and sweet is like candy. One genuine, very innocent
and very real vlog that he made, and like
Avenue. So it makes us even as adults, absolutely, absolutely.
I'm sure all of us saw our Imaan increasing, and just hearing that
story that, like Allah allows candy to fall from the sky for May
Allah protect your your son, and always allow that to happen for
him, ya rab, but that he he does those same type of blessings for
us in different ways in our lives. And we may not see it in that
exact way. This pan Allah, that he listens to the small, but to him,
this is big. He listens to the big as well. He listens to the very
big as well. That was so beautiful. Thank you so much. Do
we want to share one more? Anyone? Yes,
this has happened recurring times to me, so I'm really, really
grateful having that. But it's like every time I lose something,
I just have this.
Experience or, I mean, from Allah, I have so many different
instances, and I'm just gonna say generally,
where I'm just looking. And I remember this one time we lost,
like, this really small ball. It wasn't a big thing, right? But my
brother really wanted it, and we were just looking, I don't know
what to do. And then suddenly I'm like, Okay, let me just make dua.
So, like, that's five minutes in, and I didn't even realize I should
be like, you know, praying for this. And as soon as I started
saying dua, like, when I'm when I'm looking for something lost, I
say, I didn't even
finish it, and it's like, right there.
The same thing happened another time. I think I lost, like, the
smallest gearing, you know, and I'm just like, looking around, and
it's just like, right there,
SubhanAllah. Subhanallah, you know, just Pamela that Allah, you
know, anytime you look for something lost, you know, it's
such a reminder that he, he there are people who can be lost from
him, but he can still guide them. And just like a that was so
beautiful, like all of us have gone through that experience of
losing something, but for me, anytime I lose something, you
know, one of the things that I think about is, Oh Allah, as you
have, as you have, caused me to lose this item and find it. Let me
find you again. You know, let the people who have missed you, who
who missed seeing you, who didn't even know about you, to find you
again. And Pamela, one of the things, thank you so much for all
of you that was so beautiful. That was for all the stories that you
shared, one of the ways that when we're thinking about salah is
finding him again. That sometimes, for many of us, Ramadan is the
time that we're like, I'm going to try to be intentional about my
salah. I'm going to try to focus more in it. I'm going to try to do
actually said a weyah, and this is the time to build on that
relationship with Him, SubhanAllah. So we talked about
words of affirmation as one of the ways of Salah, that when you're in
Salah, you are having a conversation with Allah, that even
if you don't necessarily see everything happening with the
angels and everything else, you are in conversation with Allah,
subhanho wa taala, he is listening to you, he is responding to you,
and that this is the very sacred connection and a safe place for
you. The second part of the love languages is quality time,
spending quality time with someone. It simply means having
full focus in the conversation that you're having and that time
that you're spending together. When the companions and the
righteous people used to recycle Quran in Ramadan, specifically,
they would recite Allah. They would leave everything at the
meme, would recite the Quran 60 times in Ramadan. That's finishing
it twice a day. Basically, there were, you know, basically, there
were Imam Ali. He would stop all of the khalafats of Victor and
knowledge and just focus on Quran. So this was definitely a time, a
percent in Quran, a ton. But realistically, many of us can't
even finish the Quran one time in Ramadan, especially if our native
language is not Arabic, and we don't understand what we're
saying, and we're trying and we're trying and we're trying, but even
if we do finish the whole thing, doesn't necessarily mean that we
felt connected to the Quran and Ramadan, because sometimes we
don't understand what we've been reciting for hours and hours and
hours the entire month. So when we're looking at the companions
and the way that they used to connect to Salah, what they would
do is they would take an ayah, and I just realized this mean is, here
may Allah bless her, have some history. So, good history, really
good history. Only good history. So when you go into salah, what
they would do is they would recite when Aya over and over and over
again. So asmaath, little dial, the daughter of Buk, she her
nephew said that she went, he went into her home, and she was in
Salah, and she was reciting out loud. So this must have been an he
was it was an extra Salah. So she was reciting out loud, and so he
could hear her, and she was
saying, famine, Allah, you know, was put he like put blessings upon
us and protected us from from the punishment. And then again, she
said it again, and then she recited it
again, and then she recited it again. He went to the market, he
came back, and she was still reciting the same ayah over and
over and over and over and over and over again. When you're citing
the same ayah over and over, you're not just thinking about one
time, okay, Allah is going to give us paradoxical and I think Allah
protects from * for a goal. No. What does it mean? What does this
verse mean? And my relationship right now with my Lord and the
people that I know, what does this mean for the person that I love,
who may not care about Islam at all, and I believe for them, what
does it mean for me when I struggle in my relationship with
Allah, if I'm having doubts in Islam, what does that Aya mean?
Over and over again, Prophet sallallahu, alayhi wa salam all
night, one time he just tried, recited one ayah into Abu hum
Fain,
that if you forgive them, that they are your sorry, if you punish
them, that they are your slaves, and if you forgive them, then you
are the one who's the mighty and the wise. Over and over and over,
just this one verse in another narration, Hassan Al Basri. He was
one of the scholars of our time, of our of our Ummah, that he would
just lay down in his bed and OH.
Word over, he would say the same verse, the same ayah,
what do your but Allah? If you try to count the blessings of Allah,
you're never going to be able to count every single one of them in
Allah, he is so forgiving. There's no way we can count the amount of
blessings. And he's still so forgiving of that. Subhanho wa
taala. He's still so forgiving. He recited this verse every over and
over and over. And he said, every time he recite this verse, He sees
more blessings come into his life over and over and over again. So I
mean, juve a real one of the things that one of the verses that
he would recite,
panelist, suddenly, I lost it. But okay, same concept, he would just
recite it over and over and over. So why I want to mention this to
you is because sometimes, especially, you know, when we go
into the masjid, or we go to JAMA, the message that we hear about
Ramallah in particular is, how much Quran are you reciting? Are
you reciting this much every single day? I've heard this many
times at another undue Masjid locally, where somebody will make
a khatira after aid and salah, and they will keep saying, Have you
finished the Quran yet? Have you read your Bible just a day? Have
you read your five years that day? That's okay. I
remember at that time I would hear him say this, and I'm like, I
don't even know how to read Arabic. Like, at that time, I
didn't even know how to read Arabic. But, you know, the goal is
so much higher than what I can even imagine. But what if I were
to start it with the language that I understand. My mom one time, she
passed by my room, and I was trying so hard to read Arabic, I
could barely do it. And she was like, why don't you read it in
English too, so you understand? And that moment changed my life.
Reading it in the English where you understand the message of the
Quran to you changes your life because it changes your action.
Allah did not reveal the Quran in Japanese to to Arabs. He revealed
it in Arabic for people who spoke Arabic. So for all of us, of
course, if we can read Arabic, we should absolutely, there's only
blessings in reading it in Arabic.
I have talked about shayntan fleeing from the home of the one
who's reciting the Quran. So we should absolutely read it in
Arabic, but also read it in a language that we understand, so
that when we come to Salah, we can speak to Allah, knowing what he's
telling us. And I want us to just focus on Surah Al if loss ahead.
Many of us recite Hulu Allahu ahead, of course, because when
we're too busy for Suratul, all of it, you know, it's just the one
that we do. But realistically, many of us recite shulu Allahu
ahead, probably at least multiple times a day, and very likely
because it's not even intentional. It's just what we immediately go
to. We don't even realize we recite it until we're done, and
then we're like, oh, I should probably pick another Surah, but
that one so fast, realistically, that's probably most of us. But
you know, when we think about this surah, sometimes we feel guilty
about that, sometimes we feel ashamed about that. Sometimes
you're like, oh, I should probably know more unless you were just
memorizing the Quran, or you just converted, or you just are
starting, and you're like, wow, I know this surah, that feeling of,
Wow, I know this surah is the feeling we should actually have
when we come to social if love because quality time is about
spending time thinking about the meaning, the weight, the power of
these words when you go Suratul
Isla in two different narrations. One companion was promised
paradise because of his love for Suratul if lost. Another companion
was promised that Allah loves him. Was told Allah loves him because
he loves the descriptions of the merciful from this surah. If you
recite this surah 10 times, Allah will build you a house in
paradise. This is an authentic NARRATION The Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, one time. Ask the Companions, can any of you
recite a third of the Quran in In the evening, at night? And they,
they were like, Ow, that's so much. And the Prophet SAW taught
them Surah Al IFLA is a third of the Quran. This surah is so
weighty that it is probably one time. So some heard a man reciting
and reciting circle Islam, and he said, It is his rights. And the
companion said, What? What is his right? And the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam taught them that he going to paradise. Paradise is
his right because he's reciting with Allah. So if I want to go to
Salah, and I know I have the craziness of the kids and work and
everything else, and instead of thinking, Oh, I feel so bad that I
can't even focus, or I don't even want to think this surah could be
what makes Allah love me because of my love for this surah. This
surah In this moment could be the reason that I am entered into
Paradise because of my love for this surah. The reason I'm
reciting this surah is because it describes Allah in His Oneness.
What if Allah chooses me to be entered into the highest paradise
only because of my love for this surah? Yes, I'm every single rakat
because it's such a powerful Surah that shift in perspective when
we're thinking about Allah's quality time impacts not the it
doesn't change what we do. It just changed the way we look at the law
and our interactions with prayer. So that's talking about quality
time. Now let's look at physical touch. A lot of physical touch.
You go down, you first, obviously you touch. I tell you, really
nice, bro. So, um.
One time, Alhamdulillah was blessed to go to go to Medina. And
you know, I was just calling for Salah for the first time. It was
so emotional. I felt, you know, standing or praying behind the the
Imam. I start, I put my hands here. I'm just like following my
eyes out, like really having a moment. And I didn't, you know,
you know sometimes, if you've ever prayed next to someone crying,
sometimes you can't tell, but other times you can. Have you ever
prayed next to someone you can tell they're crying. Their
shoulders are, like, heaving, like I was. I felt really bad. I wasn't
trying to, like, disrupt anyone, but it was very focused this
little sister next to me. She's praying too, and we're both
praying. And her Salah is not her focusing on her salah. It's her
moving my hand to be here. So she's like grabbing my hand in
Salah and trying to move my hand so that I can position my hand to
be just like her hand position is because perhaps that's the only
way she learns that is the correct way of right. I understand, but
it's a lot. You know, we don't need to do this, especially when
you're investing the memory and try and have a moment. But the
point is that physical experience of Salah is so real that other
people can see you having a physical experience with salah.
They can even move your hands, because they're like, Salah is
physical, and it must be done in this way. In reality, we know
there's times that you know differences of opinion amongst my
life, that's fine, no problem. The point is that salah is a very
physical experience, and way you move your body impacts the way you
feel in your heart. It brings rest, it brings peace. It brings
this calmness and grounding to the center of who we are. One time, I
was at acupuncture, and I had the lady that the doctor, excuse me,
the doctor, she put a needle here. We were, like, deep in
conversation, talking, talking, and then she suddenly put a needle
here. And I, I just calmed down. And within a flip, I was just so
calm. And I was like, very slowly, like, what did you do? Because I
was talking so fast and so much. Oh, I probably should have told
you. Like, when you put something right here, this piece part, it's
like, it's like a grounding place for your whole body, and it will
center your whole body and will calm you. And the first thing I
thought of was, yes,
we do this, we have pressure points on our body. Pressure
points on our body that Chinese medicine has, you know, been
discussing for centuries, and this is part of our divine revelation,
and how to center our bodies, to have a physical, emotional, mental
connection with our spiritual, with our spirit, with our
spirituality, with Allah. So Salah as we know physical touch, sajda
itself. Sajda going down to sujood is the most, is the closest place
that we can be to Allah, the humility and the awe that we
express in putting our faces onto the ground is the place in which
we are raised. One time, a companion went to the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam asked what he wants, like anything. What is anything that he
wants to ask for? And he said, I want to be with you in paradise.
And the Prophet saw someone was like, anything else? And the man
was like, No, this is what I want. And so the Prophet sallallahu,
Sallam told him, help, help. Help by making sujood just constantly
make such that, as in pray, Allah, do a lot of prayers. Make such
often, because this is something that will raise your ranks. When
you go into sajda, Your sins are forgiven, your status is raised.
It's a space of your being answered. We are going down
physically, but our status in front of Allah is being raised
upon of Musa ALA. It's a physical experience. Every time we go for
Salah, I'm going to go a little bit faster, just because I know
that we're supposed to have Q and A so let me go to the next part
very quickly. We talked about words of affirmation. We talked
about physical touch, and now we're going to we talked about
quality time, and now we're going talk to talk, excuse me, about
acts of service. So acts of service, Salah is not just about
the physical action, right? How many of us know someone who prays
and they are so rude? How many of us have been to the masjid and
there's somebody praying and praying and praying and praying,
and in the next moment, they're literally yelling at Have you ever
had that experience before? Would you say that like, when you go to
the masjid you're like, welcomed with this extreme positive energy,
except for WMA, of course, because mashaAllah alumna and brother
Hesham and teacher, Azza and mashallah, wonderful community
here. But most of the time, many of us have Masjid stories of
someone who's yelled at us and someone who's made us feel
unwelcome, and someone who makes us feel like, Why did I come in
the first place? And many people choose never to come back, and we
probably know people like that that is someone who prays and
they're not actually acting upon salah. Acting upon salah? Well,
maybe they're trying, maybe they're misinformed on how to act
on salah, but acts of service looks like taking your prayer to
action. Ibn Abbas told you all one time he saw a man come into
mashtara Nibali while he was in cast, and this man was crying and
very down. Just looked very, very down. So he asked him, like,
what's wrong? Are you okay? And the man said that he's in debt.
He's in a really big debt with someone else, and he just doesn't
know.
He's going to do if an adve asked him, Do you want me to talk to the
person, like, try to help? And the man was like, yeah, yeah. I mean,
if you, if you're open to that. But then he asked him, aren't you
in an IT cap? It cap is the time where you're supposed to stay in
the masjid unless there's, like, a dire reason you're not supposed to
really leave. You're not supposed to, like, have a whole lot of
conversations at the time of focus and worship. And so the best
points to the grave of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi. He was seven.
His eyes filled with tears. And he says that the man in that grave,
sallallahu alayhi, wasalam, the one in that grave, sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam taught him. Taught him listen to make our TCAF
every day you make our TCAF between you and between the
punishment of the Hereafter is the entire width of the heavens and
the earth or the east to the west. That's huge. One day of empty calf
is that distance puts you in that distance from punishment to help
one person is 10 years of
so Ibn Abba lefty calf, not at MCA, not at wvma, not at the
student. No, he left RT cap and Masjid navawi to stand up to leave
and to help this brother. Excuse me,
Ramadan dry so the law and who took his salah, his Siyam, his
worship to action. What is the action that we are going to do
when it comes to Salah? I want to give you very real examples. When
you are with your children, when you are tired, when you've been
fasting, and your child says, Can you help me play this
favorite, everyone's favorite phrase, can you help me draw? Can
you play with me? Can you help me? And you're like to catalyze so
much to do, but they want to spend time with you. They need your
help. You're relieving the stress of a little believer when you
spend time with them. Allah teaches us, if you relieve the
stress of a believer in this life, he will relieve distress for you
in the Hereafter, when you're at work, and you have something that
happens at work, and you know that this person is falling behind, and
there's something you can do to help them. You are lifting
hardship from someone when you know that you are giving charity
to someone who's in debt and helping them in that process,
don't you know that Allah is going to relieve you that acts of
service that you do because of the Salah that you engage in is a
direct impact. Has a direct impact on the salah that you continue to
engage in. So when we want to have this peace, this this, this
closeness in our hearts for Salah, then do actions outside of Salah
that will impact the salah that we do. And finally, the last one
anyone know, which one we haven't covered yet? Gifts, gifts.
I want to focus on one gift,
Abu Bakr Rahima Allah. Was he the Imam?
No. Was he the imam in Medina? No. But would you probably say that
the amount of rewards that he has received for the more than a
billion people who know who he is and who have memorized with his
recitation now and inshallah for many centuries to have is probably
more rewarded than if he had led Salah in me or Medina
Allah told this person, Edmund, shall we and josaria, this group
of men who had amazing recitations at this time period, he chose
them, and maybe in their lifetime, they could have thought, If only I
could lead Salah in Medina, if only I could lead Salah in beta.
Allah chose them in a different way. When we looked at Abdul
Basit, one of his contemporaries was also named Abdul Basit, and he
has a very similar recitation style to this Abdul Basa. It is a
style, very similar recitation style, if you stream his
recitation this Abdul bas teacher was shefa
Om Sai Shem side. She passed away in 2006 Rahman she had the
shortest Senate, shortest credentialing and one type of
recitation in the world. So men and women would travel from Kuwait
and Saudi Arabia and Palestine to come to Egypt and study under her.
Abdullah was one of her students now who was her teacher. Her
teacher was Sheikha Nafisa. Sheikha Nafisa was the teacher of
Shah inside she Nafisa. So now I want you to go to the 1920s she
was one of five reciters in Cairo's radio station. At that
time, Cairo had women reciting on the Republic radio until the
Cairo's radio channel would have five women who were reciters,
along with the contemporaries like Abdul Basa and others, and they
would recite, and one of those reciters in the generation before
them is she hasta mabruka. I want to give you 10 seconds of
listening to her recitation. Who has Claudia? Anybody? Does anyone
have Claria? You open it? Can you open it for me? I'm so honored.
You.
Too.
Thank you. May Allah. Bless you
so Claudia, the women are ciders after you can download for free
today on Apple and Google Play stores, we have recitations of
women from the early 1900s and this is Shea mabruka. I want you
to just spend 30 seconds listening to her recitation. Go.
Who does she sound like?
Yes, but she was she was reciting this recitation before Abdul Basit
was born. He was born in the 1920s this recitation is before he was
even born. So is it Abdul Basit that we're hearing his style, the
Abdul bastard style that we attribute to Him? Is it his
recitation style, or is it Sheikha mabruka And the people who used to
recite like her in her time, whose names we may not know, but like
she Nafisa and the Sheikha and the shuyuk, the men and the women who
each each learn from each other. They may not be big names that
everybody knows, but Allah has written their names with him.
Thank you so much, sister, may Allah bless you. Thank you for
having me.
Why this is so important when we're talking about salah is
because this whole time, because it's not been working, I've just
been
screaming. I mean, it works. It's just I haven't been using it. So
when we're talking about something like salah, is that every single
one of you who has impacted someone in your life and taught
them something, it is a gift. It is Sadia, it is the gift that
you're giving if you have taught your child how to pray, if you
have taught a sibling to say subhanallah, if you have taught a
cousin or a student like teacher Azama, Allah protects and bless
her generations of students. Something about being kind to
someone else, giving charity in some way connected to Allah. That
is the gift that you keep giving, and that impacts the way that
you're praying. All of these things are connected. Maybe in
your life, you're going through hardships so that your children
are spared of that same hardship. May Allah protect you all. Maybe
because you've helped someone else in something that they're going
through, maybe Allah will help someone that you love because of
someone, some help that you gave to someone else. You don't know
where the blessings that Allah are that he's going to put in your
life. And it goes back to this moment, this presence, this
intentionality about maintaining the one connection that he
required from us five times a day. Yes, of course we should make Jai
whenever we can. Yes, of course we should, whenever we can, but the
requirement for us is only Salah. So how important is this from him,
from the way that he sees our connection with him, for us to
continue it, and finally, to close, we have time for Q and A
insha Allah. There's a narration in the tafsir of an ayah that
speaks about
being in Jannah and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa Salam sahibin
will say, Abu Asmaa, he mentioned that a person will come to Jannah
and they're in Paradise, and they're looking around and they
say, oh, Allah, my lord. Where is my Where is my dad?
Where's my grandpa? Well,
where are my kids? And they mention all of these people who
they don't see in Jannah that they want to be in Jannah with. And
it's told to them
that you worked. You, you you were you did this work. You did the
work. Of course, Allah's mercy. Of course, Allah's mercy. But also
you put in the effort to be here, and they didn't. They didn't do
that same effort. Maybe they didn't care. Maybe they literally
just did not care. They believed at some point, they do have
belief, but they don't care. And so what it said, This person says,
You.
This person says, I worked for myself, but I also worked for
them. I worked for myself, but I also worked for them. And so
because Allah is so merciful and he doesn't want anyone to be sad
in Jannah, he brings those people who don't necessarily care, but
they believe, but they didn't do any work that he will uplift these
people and bring them into the level that this person is in, just
to comfort and allow this person to have joy in Jannah.