Mohamad Baajour – Khushu Improve Your Salat In Few Steps
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The speakers discuss the concept ofics in the internet and how hard work and effort are necessary to achieve desired results. They also mention upcoming events and a flyer on finding pleasure in the internet. The conversation shifts to distractions and the importance of not drinking or drinking in general, and to practice slowing down and losing jobs. The speakers encourage people to focus on their emotions and slow down their work to enjoy their experiences.
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Our topic is again the a'mal of the
qulub, the actions of the heart, and we
have mentioned few of them and tonight inshallah
ta'ala is probably one of the one
one of the a'mal of the qulub that
we all are striving to achieve and that
is al-khushu.
Al-khushu is a'mal of the qalb right
you could make your face very humble and
your eyes but still it's in here no
matter what you do outside as a matter
of fact when the khushu hit the heart
all the other stuff automatically will humble itself
you don't have to start faking you know
just have the heart humbled with khushu in
the salat automatically the eyes will concentrate on
the place of sujood the the brain is
focusing everything will follow because of the main
hadith of rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam if there's
a piece of flesh in the body if
it's good everything will follow and if it's
corrupt everything will follow it is the heart
but before we start with that khushu is
not only in the salat khushu is in
every single ibadah in our life but the
main one that we always hear about is
in the salat but khushu it's in and
outside the salat even when we are alone
from others how do we achieve khushu in
every single moment in our life by continuously
remembering that allah is watching me that is
the khushu in islam not only in salat
which is the same one we will use
when we are discussing the salat but in
general having khushu in islam in in your
siyam in your hajj in your umrah in
your hafidh of the quran in your dua
allah is watching me number one and being
aware of allah's greatness and recognizing your
own deficiencies remembering that allah is constantly watching
you remembering or knowing trying to know the
greatness of allah and remembering i'm from i
am nothing you know those combined will make
a person in his in his deen it
means in general it refers to the heart
that stands with complete humility lowliness and full
concentration towards allah azza wajal khushu resides within
the heart and is manifested through the limbs
and the organs so first it goes into
the heart and then it amplifies and is
shown in the rest of the body and
i just don't want to talk theoretical and
all that stuff everybody loves the topic of
how to achieve khushu in salat and of
course we're not going to be able to
do it in 30 minutes i have a
15 hour series on youtube that tells you
in details inshallah we were bored alone in
in kovid so i sat down in the
back me and brother basir and we did
that series subhanallah all my life i wanted
to do that series and always always occupied
and busy and busy and busy there's no
way where are we going to get 15
hours from and then kovid came i sat
down in the back may allah reward them
samir and basir and we made them a
studio and bismillah and subhanallah we took our
time and we recorded the whole series it's
called finding pleasure in salat and it's on
on youtube so all that 15 hours i'm
going to try to make it in 15
minutes inshallah first question is the khushu in
the salat because we always hear about it
is the khushu in the salat achievable yes
or no for sure what's the delil what's
the evidence what's the evidence that khushu is
achievable successful
are the believers who are they ya allah
he explained he told us few characteristics the
first one can allah tell me that successful
are the believers of something they cannot achieve
that means it's achievable many of us think
that khushu is only for sahaba for tabi
'in for tabi' tabi'in no habibi khushu
is for everybody who strives to achieve to
achieve khushu wa allatheena jahadu feena lana hdiyannahum
suburana whomsoever struggled to have anything in islam
he will get it allah promised last ayah
in surat al-ankabut so khushu first you
have to establish that khushu is achievable 100
percent is achievable but it needs work it
needs work this ayah in surat al-mu'minun
describes the qualities of successful believers not just
believers qad aflaha al-mu'minun now it started
by mentioning the people in salat and ended
by mentioning the people in salat and there
and at the end of the description what
did allah say wow
that means if i have khushu in my
salat i can be from the people of
the firdaus this is the decreed by allah
so this is a very important matter even
if it takes me all my life i'm
gonna strive from tonight from my sunnah of
isha i'm gonna start from now planning and
trying and struggling and striving in order to
achieve the khushu because allah said it will
lead you to the firdaus it will lead
you to the firdaus one time rasulallah was
in a battle and he assigned a muhajir
and an ansari as guards when the rest
of the sahaba are sleeping so the muhajir
and the ansari they saw it's a quiet
night so one of them told the other
said you know what it's quiet you go
to sleep rest and i will pray a
few rakahs so one of them slept and
the other allahu akbar start praying tahajjud in
the middle of the night while he's praying
one of the mushrikeen came and saw him
got the arrow boom he got him on
his shoulder took the arrow in the shoulder
from the shoulder and continued praying hit him
with another arrow took the arrow from the
shoulder and continued praying hit him with the
third arrow now he's getting weaker he took
the arrow out and as he's going down
to sujood he woke up his brother finished
the salah the brother told him what is
this why didn't you wake me up from
the first arrow why you did not wake
me up from the first arrow what did
he say i was reciting the and i
was so into it that i hated to
stop where are we where are we a
fly will distract all our salat not an
arrow a fly imam al-bukhari praying sunnah
of duhr not duhr sunnah of duhr after
he finished the salat amunir after he finished
the salat he told his servant i felt
something in my back can you check while
i'm praying he lift up his shirt he
found 17 b bites i felt i felt
something in my back i felt something in
my back 17 bites with from the b
bites i mean for us er with the
whole package subhanallah why are these aliens
they are human beings but they followed and
they struggled and tried and tried with every
salat with every salat to achieve the khushu
at the salat rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam all
this is just introduction he said the first
thing that will be lifted from this dunya
is the khushu and look what he said
soon you will enter a masjid and you
will find not one ring a bell the
first thing that will be lifted from this
dunya is khushu you will go into a
place of prayer and you will not find
one everyone is thinking about something how to
try to achieve khushu and the salat it's
something that by the way don't ever think
that i got there and i'm teaching you
how i am still trying and i will
continue trying till the day allah takes my
soul to achieve the khushu and the salat
and trust me when you get that feeling
you there's nothing there's nothing in this dunya
that matches that feeling you know it reminds
me when one of the tabi'een was
making ruku' of sunnat al maghrib ruku' of
sunnat al maghrib he was it took so
long in his ruku' that the bird landed
on his back thinking it's a statue and
the other sahabi the wall of the masjid
fell and he continued and then when he
finished why nobody told me that the why
nobody told me that the masjid the is
falling apart somebody tell me so i can
leave they are they are somewhere else from
the minute they say allahu akbar they depart
subhanaka rabbi this does not start from the
salat it starts before the salat and during
the salat and after the salat before the
salat i have to prepare myself ali the
grandson or as i have one zain al
abidin the grandson of ali radiyallahu anh when
he's making wudu' his face used to become
so red why your face is becoming so
red do you know who am i about
to meet do you know who am i
about to meet he's trembling any i'm about
to meet allah azza wa jal so prepare
ourselves before the salat i am about to
meet my creator the one who gave me
everything i have the most merciful the all
beautiful i'm standing in front of him imagine
i'm preparing myself you know for such an
amazing meeting with allah azza wa jal i'm
telling myself before i all this before i
say allahu akbar i'm about to go to
a meeting we get so excited if we
meet a mayor a governor i'm meeting the
king of kings here in this dunya the
higher the status of the person the tougher
it is to meet with him with the
king of kings all you have to do
is allahu akbar and the meeting start so
first prepare yourself please take this very seriously
prepare yourself before you start the salat second
wudu' from the moment of wudu' this is
all lead to khushu' before the before the
salat i am performing wudu' and i'm telling
myself rasulullah wasallam said as my as the
the water is dropping from my hands the
sins are dropping as the waters are dropping
from my face the sins are dropping all
of that i'm i'm preparing all of that
i'm preparing myself for the meeting i walk
and i come with sakina to the salat
not 50 miles an hour in the parking
lot and you expect to have khushu' in
your salat it's not gonna happen i'm telling
you from now if you're speeding to come
to catch the salat you are disobeying rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wasallam because he said come to
the salat with sakina whatever you catch you
catch whatever you miss you make it up
and no i don't want to i see
from there from the corner that the imam
is in ruku' i put the turbo and
yalla ya shabab speed pushing everybody i want
to catch the ruku' ya habibi why why
why what happened so all of that happens
before the salat then this is extremely important
i tell myself wallahi this always worked with
me before allahu akbar you see that white
hearse outside there's a white hearse in the
parking lot before you say allahu akbar you
say they're waiting for me this is my
last salat can you really take it seriously
and imagine that this is literally your last
salat how would your fatiha be how would
your ruku' how's your sujood how's your tahiyyat
it's my last one khalas they're waiting outside
allahu akbar that's it no more no more
salat for me that says it allah changes
everything if you live the fact that this
is i'm about to pray my last salat
now let me ask you a question could
that salat we just prayed be our last
salat yes or no wallahi i don't want
to cry but i remember when my brother
nidal he prayed with us isha duhr the
next day we were praying janazah on him
he died before fajr he did not know
that isha that isha was his last isha
just like us literally literally it was just
like us went home 3 a.m i
got a phone call your brother died he
was praying isha in the first row duhr
he was in the beyond the first row
praying on him so this could have been
my last salat next is try to have
a place with no distractions no distractions don't
start your salat and you're expecting a phone
call don't start your salat and you put
your baby in a place where it's very
dangerous where don't start your salat and you
want to go to the bathroom all these
are distractions from khushu'a all of this
i'm preparing myself and one subhanallah way before
what does that have to do with it
as if allah is telling us if you
want to have khushu'a in the salat
be from the people who are stay away
from vain talk did you see what happened
did you know what happened he got a
divorce and all that talk that has no
no benefit whatsoever whatsoever waste of time waste
of energy waste of hasanat sometimes stay away
if you find a gathering of vain talk
talk that has no benefit salam alaikum leave
that helps also in general with khushu'a
all of this is i'm preparing myself before
i say allahu akbar now during the salat
when i say allahu akbar few things happen
number one the meeting with allah starts officially
starts number two certain things that are halal
become haram like talking halal become haram eating
drinking laughing all become become haram third as
i'm moving rasulullah said my sins are dropping
the sins are placed on the shoulder of
the muslim and every time he moves all
the sins are dropping fourth a shaitan with
phd in distraction is assigned to you phd
maybe he's now doing postdoc okay this guy's
job is only literally just to make you
think about everything except the salat the minute
you say allahu akbar what is she cooking
today where did i put my phone there's
a project finished all of it subhanallah you
start thinking about everything i told you the
story of imam abu harifah rahmahullah when a
man came he said oh yeah imam all
my savings all my savings i put them
somewhere and i completely forgot what i put
them so i remember hanifa he said what
do you think i don't know the ghaib
he said but all i can ask you
is pray two rakah get up in the
middle of the night pray two rakah and
ask allah to guide you where did you
put him remind you said jazakallah khair ya
imam he went home allahu akbar he found
the money he went back next day to
imam abu hanifa so what alhamdulillah i found
him he said what happened he said the
minute i said allahu akbar the shaitan came
and reminded me where the money is i
left the salat he's not continuing the two
rakah i left the salat and i went
to get the money said wallahi imam harifa
said wallahi i did not i knew he's
not gonna make you continue a good amal
that's why he told you where where the
money is so this is normal you remember
uh we were talking the other day uh
the our sunday halaqa the brothers were asking
me how do we know that you know
the if we prayed five rakah do we
make sahu questions about fiqh and and it
was a very famous story of the man
who has four stores when the man prayed
five he was the only one screaming hundred
percent it was four ya shaykh how are
you sure everybody was debating yes no here
i'm sure because every salat i think about
the income of one store i got to
the fourth and i'm about to say salam
and you get up i don't have five
stores so i know for a fact that
this is extra rakah so this is this
is normal it becomes yani it's very hard
to not to get distracted so you have
to constantly fight it how allahu akbar i'm
about to meet with allah azza wa jal
now one of the greatest thing again one
of the greatest thing that helped me number
one before the salat this is my last
salat and during the salat wallahi try it
i can comfortably say hundred percent will change
your salat allah is watching me you will
feel ashamed ashamed to say you'll be ashamed
because allah is watching you will not do
that if your mother is watching you you
will not do that if your imam is
watching you would you dare do that if
allah is watching you alhamdulillah allah is watching
me imagine i'm i'm reciting in a competition
and i'm gonna win ten thousand dollars for
the beautiful voice how would that recitation be
no no allah is watching me allah azza
wa jal is watching me every move every
single move it will change all your salat
third or whatever number it is remember that's
another amazing tool rasulallah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
told us the only surah in the quran
that allah actually answers you back is the
fatiha so read like imam ibn jubreen rahimallah
he said recite the ayah and enjoy the
reply my abd
is grateful to me every ayah allah replies
only in the fatiha so i would i
am in literally this is a hadith in
sahih muslim and i think it's also in
bukhari the salat is divided between me and
my abd right so i'm actually having a
conversation that you claim that you are you
love allah the most what kind of conversation
is this what what kind of conversation is
this slow down slowing down should bring us
to the next point slowing down in the
salat changes everything everything slow down you know
what i want you all to repeat after
me when we
say that we are praising allah i know
i said it many many times what kind
of praise it's not about how many times
you said it it's where does it come
from did you really mean it i am
praising allah as a matter of fact one
of the sayings one of the authentic dua
in the ruku allahumma one
of
the dua of the ruku ya allah my
eyes are in khushu my ears my my
brain my veins all are in khushu to
you ya allah rasul salam taught us this
so slow down in the salat where are
you going why are you rushing in the
salat why are you rushing where are you
going what are you worried you're gonna lose
whatever you're worried you're going to lose is
in the hands of the one you're standing
before right is it possible that because you
dedicated an extra minute an extra minute and
a half he will make you lose your
job lose the deal get fired impossible impossible
and the difference between a good salat and
a quick salat is literally a minute minute
and a half minute minute and a half
not 10 minutes 15 minutes and we if
you put a ladder in the corner and
come tomorrow for juma and just watch watch
you will think you're in a aerobics class
up and down we pray just to get
it over with we pray not as a
ibadah like looking forward the tabi'een used
to say when we are in salat we
are in a garden when we are in
salat we are in a garden our food
is khushu and our drink is the more
tears where are we from these people let
me just go because of the time as
i'm praying remember that when i am in
sujood subhanallah one of the scholars said something
so beautiful sujood is so beautiful that allah
prescribed it twice everything is once you you
are in sujood and tell yourself i am
the closest to allah would you i mean
how would that sujood be would you be
like i want to get out i'm in
the closest to the one who can answer
whatever problem i have why are you rushing
if we say that there's a man here
who will give you whatever you want and
you pushed and you pushed and you pushed
and you became so close and then when
you become so close i want this and
then you run no you're going to tell
me listen please my children my wife my
mother ya allah ya rab you are in
sujood the closest rasulallah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
told us who told him the more you
make sujood the more you get closer to
allah the more you make sujood the closer
you are to allah subhanallah so this is
all during the salat allah is watching me
the sujood i am closest to allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala allah is answering the fatiha
i want to slow down in every move
subhanallah let's do this experiment okay we we
did it years ago let's do it again
look at that door right there everybody look
at that door you see that door keep
looking at it till i tell you to
stop okay rasulallah walked in from that door
how do you say would
you dare say that look at this salat
you know what you know what scares me
the most on the day of judgment to
be told go back and pray because you
did not pray after 50 60 years of
salat he walked in alayhis salatu was salam
sitting in imagine a man walked in allahu
akbar boom boom boom just like our salat
and he said go back and pray go
back and pray because you did not pray
he did not tell him 50 was accepted
go do it again no no this thing
that you just did i have no clue
what it is this is not what i
taught you go back and pray because you
did not pray can you afford on the
day of judgment now at least this man
went back and he told ya rasulallah teach
me that's all i know but can i
or you afford on the day of judgment
to say go back and pray because there's
no there's no go back there's no go
back this is it this is the go
back this is the go back slow down
yeah slow down he told him go back
and pray because you did not pray and
he told us another hadith listen carefully ya
rasulallah how much listen listen carefully how much
from my salat is accepted whatever you focused
on you focus 10 10 is accepted 20
20 is accepted you did not focus it
will be thrown in your face get out
like one of our shuyukh saw a man
praying so fast he said after he finished
said who are you praying for he said
to allah he said wallah if you're praying
for me i will throw it in your
face what kind of salat is this he
said if you're if you're praying and gifting
that's a lot to me i will throw
it in your face so slow down yeah
one slow down please slow down your salat
after the salat we make istighfar we beg
allah to accept that salat and if it
was a salat with ya rab give me
one more you know don't be like uh
boasting about yourself oh you should see the
salat i prayed no habibi you forgot that
15 years of of other salawat just beg
allah to give you one more two more
you know and try struggle it's a it's
an action of the heart it's really what
needs works because if it was for example
if it was the action of the hand
i will make sure the hands are proper
and this and the eyes are focused because
it's limbs that's why it's hard because it's
here it's inside nobody can see it here
everybody can see i'm doing this i'm doing
this i'm doing this and all of that
can be seen this he can only see
it do not take
our soul before you make us taste the
khushu' and salat ya allah do not take
our soul unless you are pleased with us
ya allah make our last deeds our best
deeds and our last words la ilaha illallah
make a lot of salat on rasulullah salam
and keep in mind that tomorrow is the
pleasure of juma is the best salat of
the week please come at 6 15 inshallah