Mirza Yawar Baig – Remember to remember
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The importance of action and permanent action in Islam is emphasized, along with the need for permanent action and making it a habit. Development is also discussed, including waking up early to start the day, reading the Quran, spending 2 hours on worship, and pursuing the Sun Shall we? to achieve peace of life. The speaker emphasizes the importance of avoiding overemphasizing the importance of obtaining the blessings of Islam and not seeking the father of Islam's which is the only way to be accepted. A positive attitude towards actions is also emphasized.
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My brothers and sisters, I am reading from,
translation of this, book,
of
which is called the devotion.
And,
some very beautiful
lessons, which I think are well worth
us to think about and reflect on and
implement in our lives.
The Hadith of Rasool,
where he said, which means if I direct
you to do something, do what you are
able to do.
Now based on this hadith,
Imam Anawir Rahman Tullalli,
the great
scholar
of Islam
and
the author of many, many books.
One of the
most famous of them is,
or 2 of them. 1 is,
and the other one is, Arbain and Nawia,
the 40 of Nawirang Tlal Ali and,
which I think all of us are aware
of and, we have read in part or
completely.
He says that
anyone who gains knowledge of an excellent act
should put it into practice at least once
in order to be counted among the people
who did it.
It is not proper to learn of something
good and then fail to put it into
practice.
So it is very important to
the whole focus in Islam always is on
action
because it's only action that you can
take to the market, so to so to
speak.
He
says
and,
of making dua to Allah
He says the meaning of which is Allah
has not required any obligatory act of worship
farida,
of his slaves, but he gave it a
well known limit, hadd, hadd,
of when, where, and how it is to
be done,
while granting valid excuses to people who are
unable to do it except in the case
of the zikr of Allah, remembrance of Allah.
Allah
did not set a limit which one must
always adhere to, and Allah did not excuse
anyone for leaving it aside
unless his intellect is overpowered by illness or
incapacity. Meaning, unless a person, you know, go
goes into dementia or or something like that.
The person is not exempt from making zikr.
On the contrary, Allah
commanded
his slaves to make his zikr
in all situations.
And he said,
and what a glorious one is he to
speak.
He said, so make mention of Allah
standing, sitting, and lying down on your side.
Allah
said mentioned in in the famous of Surat,
Al Imran also.
These are the intelligent people
who remember Allah
standing, sitting, and lying on their sides.
And then Allah said,
oh, who you believe,
remember Allah
a great deal.
So that is during the night and the
day, on the land, on the sea, in
the air, when you're traveling and at home,
and you are if you are if you
are wealthy and healthy, and if you are
poor and and and sick,
silently and and allowed and in every state.
This is very important to remember and do.
Now it's also in,
accordance with the sunnah
that,
we,
set aside a certain
time
also to make askar. Now in this, we
have the askar of the morning, askar of
the evening, the askar we make after, salat
al fajr, the askar we make after.
The askar we,
askar is the is the plural of.
Askar we make, before we go to bed,
the recitation of,
for example,
and,
and for those who want to do that,
the recitation of
in the warning. And all of this, these
are all and many and many more, obviously.
These are all,
you know, recommended.
Definitely the
making,
repenting to Allah
and seeking Allah's
pardon in that.
Many, many times a day, in which we
have the
where he said, I seek pardon from Allah
70 times a day. The said we also
counted a 100 times. So imagine what we
need to do.
Also sending
to the Sharif,
more and more and more as much as
possible.
All of these things are
are highly recommended,
and these are things which we must make,
a
permanent part of our life. This is something
that we must do,
on a daily basis without fail.
Now,
so never never leave them out.
The benefit of, having these as fixed, say,
for example, you say, I will send
salat and salaam on the resource and salaam
beside the roof shalif
100 times a day. I will make istighfar
100 times a day,
and so on.
And I will do the,
after,
the first salah, which was the sunnah of
Ravi.
You know, all of these things, we must
make this into a permanent part of our
lives.
Take for example, the,
Alkar,
the the
remembrance of Allah of Allah which
did after every salah.
After every first salah, he would recite he
would say 3 times, then he would recite.
So,
you can vary the order of this, but,
you know, this is the the the usual
order.
He would recite,
then he would recite
the,
and the,
in all the,
one time each, except for and
where he would recite these 3 times each.
And then he would,
do
which is
and allah wakbar 33, 33, and 34 times.
And then he
would say,
He would do this 10 times,
and then he would,
then he would make dua. Right? So the
point is that,
many times we see people who
immediately after after the first salah, they raise
their hands and they make Dua and they
make Dua loudly.
They sometimes insist on the imam,
that he should also make dua, and if
he doesn't make dua, then they criticize the
imam.
But
the the established
Sunnah of Rasool Salam, which is to make
the Azkar before making Dua.
This, we
forget. We don't do this.
Also, the fact that
after making Dua after for salah,
this is something which
and the Sahaba, they did it, but they
did it individually,
and they did it silently.
Now there were times when because of need,
Rasulullah
also made dua publicly,
and loudly,
but he did not make dua only after
farsalah, and he did not make dua after
every farsalah as a habit. He never did
that. So insisting on that can amount
to starting a in Islam, which is highly
reprehensible.
So, anyway, without going into all that, the
point I'm making here is that these and
and others,
including
reading some portion of the Quran every single
day. This is another very, very important thing
to do.
Some portion of the Quran. So I always
recommend that
we wake up for the Hajjut.
Wake up 1 hour before the time for
starts.
At least 4
or 6 or 8,
and then read
1 juz, 1 sibara of the Quran,
and then go to the masjid for.
And this whole process will take, you know,
2 hours. It
but remember that those 2 hours are 2
hours spent in worship. These are 2 hours
for which you and I, if we do
it, will be rewarded by
Allah on the day of judgment.
Right? Every breath we take in those 2
hours is worship. So, it's not something to
be seen as a burden. Oh my god.
2 hours. Think about that. 2 hours in
the beginning of every single day,
when you start the day, you begin with
2 hours of worship of Allah.
What can be more Mubarak than that? Right?
What can be more blessed than that?
And with what else can you,
expect,
the mercy of Allah,
than with doing this. So
we need to develop an attitude of
searching for and running after
the
the the blessing and the father of Allah.
He says supplications,
duas have which
hold them up. The means like buttresses or
or pillars which hold them up. They have
wings that let them fly up to the
heaven.
They have special times for acceptance and special
conditions as bad for success.
If a person plants
the arkan, the buttresses, the pillars firmly
and in the right way and sets the
wings
loose to fly,
the dua, the supplication, mounts up towards heaven.
If he makes them at the right times,
he will reap great rewards. If he makes
them under the right conditions, he will receive
great success.
The pillars of the supplication,
the pillars of the dua
are the presence
of the heart with Allah
Meaning
of Khushu
with Allah SWT holding Allah SWT
in Khashu
in Khashyat of Allah
in
His awe fearful awe
being self effacing,
being humble and broken before Allah
and having perfect
hope in Allah's infinite generosity.
The wings of supplication of Dua are truthfulness
and eating what is lawful and pure. Believe
me, I cannot possibly overemphasize this.
Every single
scholar of Islam starting from Rasool alaihi wa
sallam, who is the greatest and the finest
and the best of all of them, and
then going, you know, after him to the
and
others.
Every single person has always and always
emphasized
the fact that if you earn halal and
if you eat halal only
will your dua be accepted. If you are
earning haram and you're eating haram, then your
dua is not accepted. It is rejected.
Eating something which is
not lawfully slaughtered, meaning eating something that is
not is
hara is hara. It's like eating a roadkill.
It's like it's like eating a dead body.
So please understand
this. So he says,
the wings the the the the things that
take the dua up to the to Allah
are
truthfulness, not telling lies, and
eating, meaning earning and eating, physically eating and
eating as in earning
that which is pure, lawful halal.
It's special times, the special times of Dua
are your free times that is when your
heart is free from everything
other than Allah. And the times when you
are by yourself such as the time during
the last 3rd of the night. Again, we
come back to the importance of the Hajj.
Its conditions are
to first send salutations upon
meaning
to first glorify Allah
and then to send and
then
making your dua because as
said, duas which are,
are duas are never rejected
if
they are
if they have,
and Salam on the,
before and after them. So imagine that this
is like a like a like, you know,
making parenthesis or brackets,
between which your Dua is, and our Dua
is sandwiched. And then, inshallah, this Dua is
never rejected. We ask Allah to
grant us Dua's which are never rejected
and to accept our duas and to grant
us from that which he knows which is
good for us.