Maryam Amir – The Angels and You from Masjid alAqsa
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The sermon from Islam's spiritual teachings is essential for achieving spiritual success, and it is crucial for everyone to show faith and love for loved ones. The importance of forgiveness and showing love for loved ones is emphasized, as it is crucial for everyone to remember the journey. The importance of not losing memories and moments of regret, not thinking about it too much, and not just talking about it too much is emphasized. The importance of forgiveness and showing love for loved ones is emphasized, as it is crucial for everyone to show faith and love for loved ones. The speaker gives advice on how to differentiate between being true oneself and a genuine person.
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Today, before swatch, did you hear the AYA that he was reciting in
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the angels, they send salaam on the Prophet. Peace be upon him. So
believers, you send salaam on the Prophet, Allah, Muhammad. When
this verse was revealed, Imam Al tawbari mentions that the
muhajirun and the Ansar, they went to the Prophet, peace be upon him,
and they said, This verse is only for you, salallahu alayhi wa
sallam. We don't get anything from this verse because it's about
sending Salawat on the Prophet. SalAllahu alayhi wa sallam. So
then Allah revealed a different verse for us. Allah heard that the
Companions wanted a verse for them, and so he revealed a verse
for us until the end of time, and that Aya Is who Abu
asmaati,
what can I be meaning that he is the one who sends Salam upon you,
and the angels, they also send that salam to take you out of
darkness into the light, and he is forever gentle to the believers.
What does it mean when Allah sends his salaam on you? What does that
mean? The scholars mentioned that it means that he sends his rahma,
His mercy upon you. And when he orders the angels to do something,
it is the only time they can do anything. So that means that the
angels are ordered by Allah to do nothing, but what? Certain angels
have no other role but to send Salam on you. Their salaam means,
according to Ra and a number of other scholars, their salaam means
that, for you, they are making dua for your forgiveness. They are
making dua for your protection, that when you stand in Salah, what
happens? This ayah that I just recite, who Allah the US only
alaykum, the ayah before it. Does anyone know the ayah that comes
right before this verse?
Yeah, you. Hala, Dina, amen of Guru. Laha vira
was a
beautiful then. Who Allah the US only alaykum? What does it mean to
remember Allah? Allah scholars mentioned that this means pray. Do
the salah? Al see that the morning salah and the later in the
afternoon salah, you just prayed. Salatul, Fajr. What happens when
you pray? Zaid ibn musayyah mentions that angels stand behind
you. They stand behind you, and they are so huge, they're as big
as mountains. So when you pray and you don't feel anything, and you
can't focus, when you are in mesh, and you're wondering, Where is my
heart, and why is it hard for me to feel soft when you are in the
middle of everything, and you still take the time to pray, but
you don't feel it Allah doesn't say. And when you feel Salah and
you're weeping out of love for me, that is when the angels come. No,
you enter salah, and all of these things happen, just like when you
enter Ramadan. Ramadan is not righteous. A righteous month
because you do righteous actions. Ramadan is a righteous month
because it is a sacred month. Allah made this month sacred
whether or not the actions that you do reflect the sacredness that
you want to achieve, the piety that you want to achieve. Whatever
you do of good in Ramadan is extra. Is is multiplied, simply
because it's the month of Rama and forgiveness and acceptance that is
this month. Because it's not about how you feel about yourself. It's
about who Allah is, and sometimes, when we think about ourselves with
Allah, we often take the way that we feel about ourselves and we
assume that that's how Allah sees us. So if I'm struggling with self
doubt or if I'm struggling with insecurity, or if I'm going
through something because of my past, or if I've committed a sin
and I can't get over it. It's been five years or five months or five
days, whatever that I'm doing that's causing me to feel like I'm
not deserving of Allah, all of those feelings. Are they Allah
talking to you, or are you thinking about yourself in his
sight and casting that understanding of yourself onto who
he is and assuming that is how he sees you. There was a sister who
told me she wrote this as a public comment on Tiktok. So this wasn't
a private conversation. She said she knows that Allah is angry with
her. And I asked her, How would you know? How? How can you prove
Allah is angry with you? She said she keeps having dreams that she's
going to die, without saying, the Shahadah May Allah give her and
all.
Of us have asked and give us all the shahadah, Mullah Amin, but
this dream is not a prophecy from Allah. The fact that we view
things in our lives as prophecies from God says a lot more about
what we're navigating internally than who Allah is. She also told
me she was struggling with her marriage. Her husband had cheated
on her. She was struggling with a religious connection with someone
who was in a position of religious authority. All of those things are
going to impact the way she feels about her connection with Allah.
She's struggling with her mental health. She doesn't need to assume
that Allah is mad at her. She needs to see a therapist. That
difference, that distinction, that distinction is so critical because
it allows us to understand that if I am mad at myself and I feel like
I don't deserve to be in Salah, that doesn't mean that the angels
are not going to be there. It doesn't mean that if I go to pray,
Allah is not going to look towards me. When you turn to Allah, he
turns towards you. The only time Allah SWT turns away is when you
get bored. And that's not out of his lack of love for you. It's
just your take a minute the prophecy, a minute here, a minute
there. You need some time to rest. Sometimes it doesn't mean you're
not a believer. It means you need a moment to rest. And when we're
talking about who the believers are, do you know what Allah
describes the believers like when he talks about the angels? The way
that Allah talks about the description of the angels is that
he says about his outline and out The ones who hold up
the
ones who hold up the Throne of Allah, and they believe in him,
and they ask for forgiveness for the believers. Why did Allah say
that the angels believe in him? Do you think that the angels believe
in Allah? Yes, but he says they believe in him because Sheik
hashara We mentions that it means that the angels believe in what
Allah has revealed to them, only to show them only. They don't know
the future. They don't know the unseen. They don't know your
future. We don't take them as intercessors. They don't know they
only do what Allah commands them to do. So they hold up the Irish
and they believe in him, and they make to speak of praise to Him.
What do they do while they're holding up the Irish and making
praise to Him. What do they do? What is the only other action that
these angels are commanded to do? It's not to do anything else. It's
not to hold up the heavens. It's not to walk in Jannah. It's not to
be those who walk around the earth and doing incredible things. It's
doing nothing, nothing, nothing but praising Allah and asking for
your forgiveness. That is it. And in the next, ayah making dua for
you and your loved ones, not just you, you and the people that you
love that Allah enters you and the people that you love into paradise
together and saves you and the people that you love from the
Hellfire together, Allah has commanded angels to do nothing but
make dua for Lil ladina Amanu and Lila Dina almanu are not the
people who are mushinin. They are not little meaning. Do you hear
the verb change? The meaning is different than Lin la Dina Amanu,
it's a word, verb change. Lil motminin are those who embody
belief. You pray and you fast and you do good, and you're constantly
asking for forgiveness, and you're worshiping in 24/7 24/7 you're
struggling, but then you're trying mushinin as an E trying mas an
even greater level. But what about the Latina Ammon? Who are they?
They are the ones who believe in Allah. They have belief in their
hearts, but they struggle with the action. They struggle to embody
the action. Sometimes they make mistakes and sins. And who are the
people, who are the creatures that Allah has commanded to ask for
forgiveness, for not the people who are constantly in Ihsan, which
means that they have even more right to the dua of the angels,
but it means that those of us who believe in Him, but we struggle to
to show the action. Sometimes we hate ourselves for what we do.
Sometimes we wonder if we're hypocrites. Sometimes those are
the people that the angels are making dua for yourself. You still
fear. Not one minute, not two minutes, not five years in the
future. It's Alad. It is all the time the angels are making dua for
you. 24/7,
and Imam Al bawe mentioned that if one angel asked for your
forgiveness, it is enough for the entire Ummah to be forgiven. So
what about when you have a legion of angels that are making dua for
you at all times in the Battle of Badr, the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam was accompanied by angels that allowed them to get
victory. They were a small group of believers who believed in
Allah's pala, who had that firm conviction in Him, who didn't plan
to go into a battle. But they were their pan Allah. They went into
this battle with small numbers, physically like us, but who did
Allah?
Aid them with the angels, and when they were aided with those angels,
Allah gave them victory. Now I want you to think about the
prophets of Allah. Are they? He was salam going to bedar Who did
he leave behind? Does anyone know who he left behind when he went so
many names at one time, so hard to hear all of you. One time, so hard
to hear all of you. He left his daughter. She was sick. Now she
was so sick that Rahman radiallahu anhu, instead of accompanying the
group with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam, stayed behind to
take care of her. So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam is in
feso, and now they are victorious. And this is an impossible victory.
And sometimes in your life, you might have Subhanallah incredible
victory that you don't expect, something that is such a gift that
you don't even realize is going to happen. But in that same moment,
what is the news that the Prophet sallallahu, that he will send them
received when they went back to Medina with the celebration of
Beth.
The news upon going back to Medina was that his daughter, rope anha
had already passed away. And it's not like a passing that you can
say goodbye to your loved one who maybe, maybe some of us have said
goodbye to our loved ones before they are buried, maybe we've had a
moment to just hold them and tell them how much they've meant to us
and how much we love them and how much we're going to miss them,
even though we know it's just their bodies, but just that moment
of saying goodbye is a moment of comfort for so many of us, and
those of us who haven't had it with someone that we love, many of
us have talked about regretting it, the regret of not being able
to say goodbye. But you know your action in a lifetime, expressing
love in a lifetime, is more than just a moment of not being able to
say goodbye, the DUA that you make, the Quran that you recite,
the zikr that you the sadaqah that you give for someone who has
passed away, that is true. Goodbye, not just that moment that
maybe you never had. It's the DUA you continue to make for them
after they have passed. That is a type of sadaqa jariya this pan
Allah, one of my teachers, Sheik Abdullah deep he told me that when
the people were passed away, you can give them gifts. What are the
gifts that you can give them, making dua for them and doing good
for them, giving for them. These are gifts that the dead receive
and make. They are so grateful. My friend, her grandmother passed
away. Rahman salah, alaihi and her this was a few years ago. This
year, her grandfather passed away in Ramadan. Rahman salah, are
they? Mashallah? Her grandparents were so righteous. I would always
see them smiling, and they would never stop making Vikram. Always
see them making Vik. I didn't understand they were speaking
Urdu, and I didn't understand what they were saying, and they didn't
understand in English, but all I knew was, do Akro, do akhira. And
I would say, do a and then they would say, make all this dua for
me. I mean, I mean Allah, Allah. I mean, I mean Allah, Allah, kero.
So it always there to have this moment remembering, remembering
Allah with them. May Allah have mercy on Nana and Nani.
This grandmother, she came my one of my friend's cousins had a
dream, and in this dream, she came to her and said, Thank you for
making dua for me, my place in Jannah has become higher because
of your DUA. Of course, we don't place hakuman sharing on dreams.
We don't say this is like a silk ruling because of a dream, but
it's glad tidings. It's comforting when you dream about a grandparent
or a loved one who you missed, who you wish you could see, and they
tell you that, Alhamdulillah, it's joy, that moment of loss, of being
able to say goodbye, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi was sent them.
There's no one better than the Prophet sallallahu. They send them
to be send them to be the one who makes their AFI forever, but still
the loss of visiting his daughter, sallallahu alayhi wa salam, and
she's already buried. That loss was in Ramadan, and this month
they went to bedr in Ramadan, and he, sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam,
lost his daughter in Ramadan. Rule The Allah Salam. So every single
one of you, when you are going through your losses and your tests
and your dua that you've been making for 10 years and you
wonder, should you still make it? Is it worth making? Is Allah
trying to send you a sign that you shouldn't make this dua anymore?
Maybe he doesn't like you. Maybe he doesn't love you. Think about
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. He lost his daughter in
Ramadan. It doesn't mean that he's not he's the Prophet salallahu
alaihi wasallam. And what lesson does that teach all of us who have
loss and pain and sadness? What is that as a reminder for us that we
also not alone, that the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam was
surrounded by the angels who went and helped give them victory. That
didn't mean that Allah left them in the moment of pain and loss. So
when you have a whole lot the Al duha, he is the one who makes you
laugh and the one who makes you cry, instead of looking at your
life and the way that you interact with Allah.
Of the things that you've done wrong. Why are you not thinking
about in the same moment of the trauma you experience, or the
hardship in your relationship, or the moment that you felt like
you're struggling? It's something that has to do with anything else.
Why are you not also thinking but that day I still made ulu, or that
day I still held the door open for someone walking out of a store, or
that day I still gave Sadaqah. You still did something good, instead
of measuring ourselves in a way that's constantly deficient, to
the point that we feel like Allah sees us in a deficient way. Why
don't we look at what he may see as something beloved to him?
Because do you know what he says about when the angels come to us?
It's when we are doing righteous deeds, like, for example, the one
who teaches good to people, who is the one who teaches good to
people. It's not just Imam Al Azali, Rahima Allah. It's the
mother who's teaching her child how to be gentle with someone
else. It's a father who has taught his son or daughter how to say
subhanallah. It's the cousin or the uncle or the aunt or the
sibling or the teacher who teaches someone else something good, and
when they do that action, it goes back to you forever, and when they
teach someone else, and when they teach someone else, and when they
teach someone else, that one person you taught one thing good,
and you didn't think it was a big deal. Inshallah, that action is
continuing, and the dura is going back to you, and yet all of that,
who is the one who makes dua for you. Had to the fish in the sea.
There's another Hadith about the one who is the student of
knowledge, that even the fish in the sea make dua for them. This
one is referencing the one who teaches good. That is you. There's
no way you have never taught one person something good in your
life. The angels are making dua for you when you teach something,
someone good, that hadith is not negated by but when you sin, they
stop making dua for you. But when you make a mistake, this, when
you're not crying in Masjid Al Aqsa, they stop making dua for
you. They are making dua for you because you did the action one
time, I was in Hajj as SubhanAllah. In Hajj, there were a
lot of messages about our emotional state. So the group
leaders, they kept saying things like, if you don't cry tonight, if
you do not cry in this moment, in your Mala Arafat, if your tears
are not streaming, your heart is as hard as a rock, and if your
heart is as hard as a rock, then beware that Hellfire is fueled
with rocks,
which, of course, doesn't always make someone cry out of love for
Allah's panda. And so there was a sister in our group who, after
this experience, I saw her. She was so bubbly before, and she just
sat staring down at one spot, and I said, are you okay? And she was
like, I didn't cry a single time. So was ALLAH gonna accept my
hunch? Why would Allah accept my hunch if I didn't cry. Allah,
quite literally, never requires us to cry out of love for him. There
is no Hadith or ayah that requires this. Yes, the Prophet sallay
Salam taught us, when we recite in the Quran, we should try to feel
it emotionally, even if physically. You know there's a
phrase, fake it till you make it like make yourself feel it. Try so
hard. But that does not mean that you're not a believer who has
strong love for less mentally just because the tears are not coming
out, you're a human being. Wasn't what happening. But when we look
at the way that Prophet saw them, teaches us how to interact with
these beings of light, who Angel jib himself is spoken about as
having 600 wings with rubies and diamonds falling off of him. These
beings of light interact with us, make dua for us as for our
forgiveness constantly when we do action for his sake. So when you
send Salam on the Prophet sallallahu alayhi, he was sent
them, Allahumma, saliva, Nabi Noah Habibi na Muhammad. Do you know
what happens? Angel Jibreel alayhi, Salam himself says, Salam
to you. Angel Jibreel, who is here Angel Jibreel who gave the glad
tidings to merit Salam who came when zakiri alaihi, Salam Madera,
Angel Jibreel who came and recite the Quran with the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi, wasallam every Ramadan, he sent Salam to you by
your name, Emma Allahumma, sorry, was Muhammad when you say Salam to
the Prophet, sallAllahu, alayhi, that he would send them. And you
know what's so amazing about Allah, whenever we make a mistake,
or whenever we don't feel like we've done enough, especially the
end of Ramadan, I know that so many of us, especially mesh we
want to do more. I already regret I've only been here for a day and
a half. I regret the things I haven't been able to do yet. I'm
already feeling sad about the things I wasn't able to worship. I
wanted to do, and I haven't had a chance yet, and I passed out, even
though I wanted to stay awake. And why am I so weak? And all of these
things. Listen, what did the What did the Prophet salallahu Alaihe
wasallam teach us that when we send Salawat on the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi, wa sallam, he responds and says his salam to us
10 levels in Jannah. We are raised, 10 ranks. We are. We are,
10 sins are forgiven, and 10 good deeds come. All of these are in
different narrations of a hadith. But when we feel like we haven't
done enough, is it not enough for us to say, Allah, habina,
Muhammad, Allah wants us to win. How does he want us to win? How do
we know? Because he has two angels on our.
Shoulders on the right and the left, as we all know. But when you
make a mistake, the one on the left doesn't write down your bad
deed right away. He gives you time, he gives you time, and he
gives you time. And then finally, after quite some time, if still we
haven't asked for forgiveness, then it's written down as just one
bad deed, just one. And yet, when we intend to do something wrong,
and we don't do it. You know what happens? But Allah rewards you as
if you did it, as if you didn't do it. He rewards you for thinking
about something bad and deciding not to go for it when you do
something good, he rewards you so many times more. Do you not have a
Lord who wants you to win? My Quran teacher, he told me that
whenever he makes a mistake, and by the way, his example of mistake
was when he accidentally cut someone off on the road, and he
doesn't realize it. So when he does that, he says, he says to the
angel on the right, he says, don't write it down. Don't write it
down. I'm asking for forgiveness. Now he's not making to the angel
on the right, okay, he's not asking for the intercession of the
angel on the right. He's just interacting with the angels in his
life. And so he says, I just say, you know, I'm gonna ask for
forgiveness. And because you for forgiveness right now and then,
that is written down too. It's interacting with the angels in
your life. Another way that the angels make to offer you is coming
early to the masjid, making Waldo, walking to the masjid, sitting in
Waldo, until the salah comes, the angels ask for your forgiveness.
Now, when it comes to women in the masjid, the majority opinion of
the scholars is that it's better for a woman to pray in her home.
Ibn hasam and other scholars, but he's the most popular. He's the
most famous name of them. He mentions that it's better for a
woman to pray in the masjid. And Dr jasda and a number of other
contemporary scholars also expand on this. Why do they say this?
Why? Because they mentioned the narrations of the woman sohabiat.
The sahabiyat used to go to the masjid actively. They would seek
the masjid and go as much as possible. And there are so many
narrations of them coming in the darkness of the night, coming at
random times, other times for salawats narration that they have
narrated when they spoke to someone within the masjid and ask
them a question, saying that they love praying with the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. There are narrations, a few narrations,
of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, saying, for example, to
Muhammad that it would be better for her to pray in her home. This
is one of the most famous examples of the Hadith that a number of
other narrations that are similar to it are built on it being better
for a woman to pray in her home, which is the majority of opinion
of opinion of scholars. Again, it's the majority opinion.
However, some of the scholars, like Ibn Hazan mentioned that
whether it's a question of authenticity in some of these
narrations, or a question of context, versus looking at the
reality of so many sohabits who would have done the best, they
would have only sought the best that they continue to go to the
masjid that it is better for a woman, or it's a woman's choice
that Allah has blessed us with the opportunity to stay home and,
Inshallah, get that reward, or go to the masjid and get that reward.
You know, Ibn, he mentioned, are we going to say, excuse me, if it
hasn't actually said this, are we going to say that a woman is going
to go to the masjid in the rain and walking and all of the effort
and all the difficulty, just whether not to get any reward,
there is a bug on my ear, or are we going to say that? No, that
counts. I personally went through a time where I was afraid to pray
in the masjid because I thought that Allah wouldn't reward me as
much, or he wouldn't be as happy with me. So I would go to a
halakah and I would leave when they were going to pray the horse,
so I could pray the horse so I could pray at home to get the
reward of praying at home. This understanding is when many of us
have learned before that it's better for us to simply not pray
in the house of Allah. And if we choose not to, may Allah bless us
and accept that opinion, masha Allah. But for those of us who
live in the West, who are going out to school and to work and to
all of these places, and we need a place to pray, and the masjid is
closer than our own home. Can we not rest with the idea that the
angels are making dua for us when we are in his house? Can we not
think about what Ibn daqid mentioned that when the Hadith
mentions that for a man, there is an extra reward that the word man
doesn't actually physically mean a man. This man is an Arabic used
for men and women, unless specified that it's specifically
only for men. So we have all of these scholars who speak about the
reward of sitting in the masjid. So when you're here in maqsa, and
I've actually heard from women, when they're in Mecca and Medina,
they don't go to pray extra they literally are in Mecca and Medina,
and they don't pray extra prayers in the Haram, because they believe
that there's more reward in the hotel room. Maybe their hotel room
is part of the Haram, and maybe in that way, it's okay. But
Subhanallah, we are taught so much of our access so differently than
being able to seek these places that were physically and so when
you're here in mashallah, come Inshallah, our brothers, our
beloved brothers and our beloved sisters, knowing that inshallah
angels are making dua for you, that you're sitting inshallah in a
place of the angels while they're praying for Your forgiveness and
your mercy and making dua for you. Subhanallah Allah, so merciful, He
commanded angels to make dua for us when we eat. So did you know
that eating sahore is a way to have the angels make dua for you?
And I know some of you don't eat safour Usually, so angels are not
making dua for you. None of you know. I'm just kidding me, Allah,
bless you. All you.
But the Prophet sallallahu taught us to just take a sip of water.
Even just a sip of water counts as eating. So hard for the angels to
make dua. For you, there are so many other ways in which the
angels make dua, but we're gonna close with just one last example.
One of my friends, she the all of Ramadan, not feeling anything. And
many of us know what that's like, because we're busy with kids and
school and work and life, and it's hard to just sit and feel it in
our heart. My friend, she said, All of Ramadan, she felt nothing.
And then she went to the masjid, and there was a sister sitting
there, and she looked like, like sitting like this. And so that
sister, she asked her, Are you okay? And the sister said, I
haven't felt anything. All of Ramadan, nothing. I just, I feel
like Ramadan isn't even here. And my friend said same. I haven't
felt anything all of Ramadan either. And so my friend decides
in sajda she's going to make to offer this sister. So she just in
there salah. She just makes like, Oh Allah, have mercy on her. Let
her feel the sweetness of Ramadan. Open her heart. My friend said she
started weeping with the sweetness of iman in that moment as she's
making to offer this sister, the angels make to offer you what you
make to offer someone else the companions. They used to make to
offer other companions, because they wanted the angels to say
Amin, and for them, because they knew that if an angel says Amin,
the Allah, this is a guaranteed acceptance. And what does
guaranteed acceptance looks like look like. Sometimes it looks like
exactly what you're asking for. Sometimes it looks like something
different. Sometimes Allah averts some type of evil from you or
saving it further hereafter. But dua is always answered. There's
not a single time your DUA is not being answered. So make more dua.
As a Prophet, sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam taught us there's literally
no loss with dua. And finally, we live in this life with the angels,
and I think all of us know that there are moments when we sit and
we just think, maybe, is this really it? Does that ever happen
to you? Maybe, like in the middle of the night, or at some point you
just sit and you're like, This is really not going to be forever,
and there's actually hereafter. And you might sit with yourself
for a moment and think that, you know Allah tells us about the
angels in the moment of death. Do you know what he says? Before I
tell you what he says, I want to explain to you who this is for.
Who is the person who Allah describes in the verse I'm going
to recite, it's the person who has Albin Salim. Al Salim. You
probably heard it translated as what
a what
a what
a sound heart. When you hear a sound heart, what does that sound
like to you?
Someone who is pure, someone who is clean and heart, someone who
has a righteous heart. Abu Bakar, ODI, Allahu, anhu,
he asked the companions or the tabi Reina question about what the
verse that we're gonna recite means. And they said, someone who
has not committed sin, someone who doesn't commit sins, who said
you've given it a meaning it doesn't have. You give it all of
us, every single one of us, the mofaron, every single one say,
every single one of us is gonna commit sins. It's not committing
sins. Yo man Ali Don 11 at Allah. Habi al bin Salim, the one who
comes to Allah. It's not about how much money they have or the
children or anything else. It's not about the people you know or
what you have. It's the one who comes with a sound heart. What is
a sound heart? It's someone who believes on Allah with certainty,
and they believe in the hereafter. They don't worship anyone. But
Allah, is that you, you are the person who has Albin Sani. Now, if
you have a doubt, sometimes, Ibrahim alaihi salam, who walked
on this earth, he asked Allah, show me how you raised the dead.
And of course, he's the one who was thrown into a fire that was
made cool. And he was told in his old, old age that he's going to
have children seen one miracle after another. None of us have
seen those miracles. None of us are considered Khalil Allah like
Ibrahim alaihi salam. And yet he asked so that he can have his
heart be firm, so that he had a YALI and in his heart, if this is
Ibrahim alaihi salam, not because he doesn't have yakin, of course
he has yoked. Is a prophet of Allah. But what does it give us as
comfort that it's okay sometimes that our heart is kind of like
feeling like this. And then we make the DUA. The Prophet
sallallahu Sallam taught us what the other day, to keep my heart
firm on your deen, this is a dua the Prophet sallallahu, sallam,
the Prophet of Allah, made the most om Salama elites. Om Salam is
the one who taught us this dua from the Prophet sallallahu,
alayhi wa salam, the Prophet saw some could have said, Allah, make
my heart pure. Allah, Let me commit no sense as a prophet
Allah, SWT, of course, he would never did a subsidy Allah, but he
could have made any Allah mean to the highest paradise. That could
have been the DUA he made the most but the one he made, Salawat, is
to keep his heart firm on the deen. So what does that teach all
of us, who sometimes stay up in the middle of the night and
wonder, is this really true? But then we go back and we think it
is. This has to be the truth. So that counts us. That counts you as
Salim. What do the angels say to the person with Albin Saleem when
they come down in the moment of death? They say tells us
that
the.
Angels come down for the one who believes in Allah and his firm on
that
do not be afraid and do not be sad, whatever she wrote on
and
glad tidings her paradise that you have been promised. You are not
alone in this life, when you are in your room and you're afraid,
when you feel alone like no one understands, when you're going
through anxiety and depression, when you're navigating
relationships, when you wish things that are not happening,
when you miss someone that you love, the angels are with you
because Allah ordered them to be with you, to keep you as protected
and asking for your forgiveness and the mercy and the body can
that they bring with their presence. And on top of that, in
the moment of death, Allah knows how afraid you're going to be, so
he sends beings of light that are going to be a comfort for you. And
one of my friends had a dream about her grandfather, Rahman,
snarly. And in this dream, she said that he was standing in this
incredible garden, this this beautiful, beautiful garden that
she couldn't even understand. She couldn't even believe it. And he
said to her, come, come with me. And she thought in the dream that
she wants to go with him, but she doesn't want to die yet, and she
knows that she would have to die to enter where he is. And so she
hesitated for a second, and then she said she heard this noise,
this voice that she's never heard before, a voice that was
unbelievable, and the only way she could describe it is the sound of
the angels. She said, As soon as she heard that sound, she wanted
to step it. She literally tried again. It's a dream. We don't take
How come shuttering from it. We we don't take from it. Just
inspiration. She tried to stand and walk into this garden. She
sees her grandfather standing with his hands stretched out. And then
a voice says, it's not your time yet. And then she wakes up. But
the sound, the voice of the angels, is what gave her so much
comfort. We can only imagine that in that moment. How many people
have we heard of? How many people's pan Allah have smiles on
their faces in that moment? Because what they're seeing is
different from what we are seeing. And this pan Allah to end, there
is a verse in the Quran when Allah talks about the people of paradise
and those who come, they're progeny. And the Prophet
sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam taught us a
he mentions that in the in paradise, there's going to be a
person who comes and they look around and they don't see their
loved ones. And so they ask, Allah, Oh Allah, where's my
grandfather? Where's where's my spouse? Where's my child? Where
are the people that I love? And then Allah, it is said to this
person that it is said to them, you you worked. You worked. The
work that you did was to get to this level of Jannah. They didn't
do the work. They might have believed, but they didn't do the
work. And so he says to Allah, He says to the people, the people,
the people he's speaking with in the Hadith. He says, I worked for
me, but I also worked for them. I worked for me, but I also worked
for them. And because Allah doesn't want this person to be
sad, he brings the people that this person loves into the Jannat
that this person is in. And every single one of you who's here
thinking about a relative, a friend, a child, a loved one who
doesn't care about Allah. And your biggest dua is, Oh Allah, put in
their heart. What then Jamil and ilaik put in their heart a
beautiful return to you. Put in their heart love for you. Let them
know you, let them care about you. Make that DUA and say, Oh Allah,
let my actions be enough for that. Let my actions be enough to bring
them into Jannah too, because Allah is so merciful that He
doesn't want his servant. He doesn't want you to be sad in
paradise. And we pray that Allah will accept it. I
think we are ending if you
want to ask questions, please feel free to relieve I know so many
people awake all night, but if you have any questions, yes, go
ahead. Okay. So how do we differentiate between identifying
ourselves with the good that we do versus arrogance. I'm giving this
advice because the vast majority of people who speak with me don't
have arrogance. They have extreme religious insecurity to the point
that they have despair. And Allah, I have met very few people who
have this level of religious arrogance to the point that
they're like, I'm so amazing. I know it exists. Of course, it
exists. All of us have moments of it. All of us have moments where,
like, Masha, Allah, I did that thing, and then a second later,
you're like, oh, actually, that was literally nothing. But all of
us have that, and we all have to try our best to be sincere, of
course. But how do you be sincere? You're worried about your
sincerity. You're worried about your sincerity means you're a
sincere person. So Inshallah, that concern, in and of itself, is
enough. But the other, you know, the second concern is when we are
constantly, you know, raised in a community that tells us not to be
arrogant, don't be arrogant. Don't be arrogant. It pushes us
sometimes to the other extreme, where we're so insecure about who
we are that we struggle with even our connection with Allah. So if
you are someone who's naturally arrogant, don't listen to me. You
are arrogant, and you need to work on yourself. But if you are not.
Someone who's naturally arrogant, you are struggling, and there are
times that you're going to feel insincere. All of us are going to
feel that way. Sometimes we ask Allah for sincerity, but we don't
have to obsess over that. Instead, we focus inshallah on the good and
if we find that the way that we are identifying ourselves is a way
that makes us feel like we can even wonder if Allah can even
forgive us, are even worthy of the Masjid. I'll tell you this from
Milan. There was a day that I had, a really bad day, just extremely
terrible day. I was feeling so bad about myself and so angry with
myself, and at the end of that night, I thought, I am not worthy
of going to the masjid tonight. I am not worthy. Why would Allah
subhanaw taala want me to come to his house? And then I have to stop
myself, and I have to say that thought is literally exactly what
Allah doesn't want me to have. Because if I go and I ask for
forgiveness and I pray and I pray and I pray and show what my state
is going to change, and I'm going to go to him with hope and do even
more, instead of obsessing over what I've done or what I didn't do
or the amount I didn't finish, and because of that obsession, I'm
paralyzed from doing good in the future. Shay upon wants us to be
paralyzed with our past so we can't focus on doing good in our
future. Anyone else may
Allah bless you all. Thank you so much. The.