Mohammad Ali Hazratji – Reflect on the Quran #9 Surah Muzammil Ayat 17

Mohammad Ali Hazratji
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The Prophet salallahu Alaihi wa transcription is a culture where individuals and leaders should show the living examples of Islam to avoid interruptions by spouses. Prayer is emphasized as a habit, and weighty words and negative emotions can affect behavior. The best advice for achieving spiritual growth is to pray at night and avoid drinking at night. The best way to be in peace after the pandemic is to pray at night and prepare for the day.
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Bismillah Alhamdulillah

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Hamden, Katherine Eban Mubarak and fie and then your leak will be

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Jalali YG he will be oedema Soltani

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was sal Allahu Allah Hara halka he mo from Medina Sadiq aalameen Alma

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bootha Rahmatullah Alameen wa ala he had been operating while as

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hobby a liberal Miami monta via via Sun ala yo Medina. Allahu

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McTague na minha

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olam after some Messiah Mia, alumina Riddick Crick,

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who allow open the hearing channels of our hearts to your

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remembrance

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of Allah don't leave us to our own cells

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for the blink of an eye

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and

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Illuminate our hearts with

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your words, the Quran, with the correct understanding of it, and

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even more importantly,

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the obedience to your commands and acting on the Quran. I mean,

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so today we start another of the real early makan Surah which is

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Surah

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Al Muslim mill, Muslim mill, Muslim mill and with the third our

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SIS like Sister sutras, they are next to each other. You know,

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7374, also in Revelation, and these are two of the titles by

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which the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam has been addressed by Allah

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Subhana Allah and the Quran.

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So he is called a Muslim man he is called ultimate death. What are

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the other names Allah has called him, of course, he's called

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Mohammed Salah he's called Ahmed

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is called ha ha is called Yacine is called Abdullah in the Quran,

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not must define the Quran, these are in the Quran.

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And so those are some of the titles that Allah subhanaw taala

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has used for the Prophet sallallaahu Salam in the Quran

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itself.

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So as you remember the Prophet salallahu alayhi salam, again, you

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look at this early period, there's a handful of Muslims, the Prophet

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salallahu Alaihe Salam has just had a few messages revealed to

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him, he is still

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sort of in awe of this responsibility of this sighting of

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Jibreel la sala. And so on this occasion, again, he is home, and

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he's covered up in his bed clothes, he is wrapped up.

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Perhaps his sleeping.

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One, one version is that the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam was

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wrapped up in his bed cloth and sleeping. And another narration

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says that this was after an encounter with Gibreel Allah

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Salam, and he was again in that state of fear and shivering and he

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was wrapped up.

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So

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Zamyla means to wrap yourself to cover yourself up.

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Zamyla also means in Arabic to raise something to carry

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something. Again, you can see the implications that he's the one

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who's going to be carrying the message is going to be raising the

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word of Allah subhanaw taala above all else. So Allah subhanaw taala

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starts the surah by addressing Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam

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imagine in his room in the house of his house, the house of our

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mother Khadija, the Allah

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on how he's got his daughters, there are four of them, which are

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little girls because he's 40 years old. He's

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and he's got Holly ebony Abi Talib Radi Allahu Anhu living there. I

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mean look at this noble household.

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So

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he is wrapped up and the message comes. Yeah, uh, you Hello Muslim

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milk. Coming Leila ill kalila Nyssa who are winning Kuzmin who

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kalila O Z alayhi wa reptilian core Anna 30. We'll start with

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that. So I've changed the format we're not going to do the whole

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thing we're going to do this this much. So I'm going to have the

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read the translation up to here

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first for IERS

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Oh, you hopefully already wrapped in a mantle seeking cover out of

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fear and rise the night long in prayer.

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except for a little a bit, or pray half of it, or take from this a

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little, or add to it, and they're in recite the Quran with a

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measured recitation.

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So, there is a command to the Prophet salallahu Salam, this is

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in the second person singular. Come mean stand up here you had a

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Muslim men who may Leila, Ill kalila stand up, what does come

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mean, literally means to stand. It means in this case, leave the

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warmth of your bed, leave your comfort, leave your comfortable

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life, leave all of those things because you have a great task and

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a mission. And you have a burden of heavy responsibility. Therefore

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stand up and prepare for the task ahead of you, which requires a

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continuous, steadfast, sustained effort, he is being told there is

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something big that's coming. And this should be the formula for all

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the people of Dow because this is addressed to Rasulullah sallallahu

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sallam, but whoever wants to be his follower and take this

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responsibility has to take it as seriously as that, that this is a

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lifelong mission that requires a lot of sacrifice, and it is not a

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place of rest and ease.

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So the Prophet salallahu Salam is given a direct command.

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Yet he has made a model for all those who follow

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Allah subhanaw taala tells him that you have a mission. So you

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have to make yourself upright first come.

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So you be the example because the best dollar is by example, it's

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not by words, it's by Tamil people need to see Islam in practice. And

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we face that challenge today we give literature to people, but

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they say show us the living examples of Islam we can show a

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country we can show individuals we can show leaders. So that's a real

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tragedy. So the the best data is to be the example of of of Islam.

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So

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what does it mean? Leave your bed at the end of a day? When you're

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tired? What do you love the most? Your bed you want to sleep?

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Spouses don't want to be disturbed by their spouses even no matter

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how much I want my sleep. Saying leave the warmth of your bed leave

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your comfort sacrifice what you love against your knifes which is

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your sleep.

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So just remember that everything in our deen including this has to

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be applied first on me.

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We tell people do this do this. Am I doing what Rasulullah sallallahu

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alayhi salam was commanded to do not periodically not irregularly

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but continuously in our deen. That is the karma as Rasulullah

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sallallahu alayhi salam teaches us what Allah loves best is even if

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it's a small action, but it's done continuously and regularly with

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this karma with steadfastness. We must remember this very important

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lesson that the Quran Allah here it's addressed to the Prophet

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salaallah alayhi salam is for me. My personal growth

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must precede my teaching and Tao

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it's not detached that I convey my message or we people are into Tao

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we have to give Dawa to nonslip what is my personal situation?

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Okay, that should always be part of this.

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Now, that's what it means call me late. Stand in the night in

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kalila. Also, there is a ishara in this, you know,

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late the night means darkness. stand upright,

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as Have you seen

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on the

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oceans where the land is nearby, you see a lighthouse

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to guide people. So charlatan Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi.

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Salam stand up in the darkness of the night as a light to all of

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humanity. Okay.

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So Allah subhanaw taala says, Kumi, Laila ill kalila How much

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should you stand up and what does this stand up means? This is

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Kiambu lane which means stand up in Salah in remembrance of Allah

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subhanaw taala call me Leila Allah kalila stand up for the whole

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night. Except a little bit.

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How long is the night brother Tala these days? Pretty long. How many

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hours

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14 hours. Allah is saying stand in front of Allah.

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For 12 to 14 hours or a little less, maybe 11 to 13 hours.

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Miss fo half of it. Oh will Koosman who kalila? Or is it last

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little more half the night? Allah subhanaw taala is giving a formula

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from five hours to 13 hours stand in prayer at night when you are

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fatigued.

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Suppose the last one Salah had stopped at that point, what would

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our position be? I don't know about anybody else.

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While this was mandatory, it was yes. The point here is if Allah

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had left it at heart, you have to pray half the night or whole

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night. Where would we be even those who get up for tahajjud who

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pray two hours and say I've done great you'd be failures. You

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wouldn't even be half of the minimum that hola San

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Jose de la or more than that.

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Allah made this far have made this an obligation for Rasulullah

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sallallahu Sallam in the early Muslims.

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So what was the response or full masala rallies? He used to pray

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all night.

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Now, technically, if you look at this, this is addressed to

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Rasulullah sallallahu sallam.

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Yet those early Muslims his followers prayed all night. Like

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our mother Aisha tells us that for the whole year discontinued after

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this was revealed one year they prayed all night.

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She says that features to swell.

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If you've prayed to three hours at night, like we do in Ramadan, your

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feet will swell my feet you know how they were in Medina

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night after night for a whole year.

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Now the scholar said that this it was made mandatory Fahrrad for the

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early Muslims even though technically it's addressed to

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Rasulullah sallallahu. So it's also a sign of etbr of love of his

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early followers that you're commanded, we will also do the

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same. Okay. This is how the new forest were trained early on.

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Allah says We obey. It's not a matter of

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of finding ease in it.

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And then Allah subhanaw taala says

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I was it alayhi wa Rottie lil Khurana 13

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This is how Allah subhanaw taala tells us to

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recite the Quran. So 13 of the Quran is to recite it

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slowly

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safeguarding each alphabet as it should be pronounced. Feeling the

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meaning of it.

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Spacing it in a beautiful way

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and beautifying it with your voice.

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Or Atala, in the traditional Arabic used to be that taught

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about the mouth amounts that was clean and pure. That smelled good

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and which had evenly spaced teeth so it looked beautiful. So you

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recite the Quran in a beautiful taste. It's not rushed.

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Okay, so Allah smart Allah tells us to recite the Quran at this

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special time in an orderly, regularly spaced recitation slowly

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beautifying it with your voice. In fact, the Prophet salallahu Alaihe

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Salam taught us and commanded his followers he said they you know

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Khurana be a Swati come beautify the Quran with your voices. Now,

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everybody doesn't have the most beautiful voice what does that

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mean? It means the best voice that you can produce. Okay?

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So don't take it though. I have a terrible voice. I shouldn't recite

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the Quran at night. No, you should do the best you can and the more

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you do Allah, Samantha will make that beautiful inshallah and it

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will have an impact on our hearts which is

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the best

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that we want

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our mother I shall have the Allahu anha or mother almost selama

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who were asked about the recitation of the prophets Allah

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notice. Wouldn't you like to have heard the recitation of the Quran

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right from Rasulullah sallallahu Silla?

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Can you imagine some

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People were fortunate enough to hear it from his mouth. His novel

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not but what must it have been? How beautiful it must have been.

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But they say that he recited it slowly.

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He recited it he said the small or short surahs he would recite so

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slowly that it would seem like long sodas and he would stop at

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the end of each aisle. And he would prolong such as Bismillah

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he'll rock Manuel Rouhani

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This is how he used to resign, he used to stop it. He never rushed

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through it.

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So that's what we should try and do is when we recite in our salah,

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don't rush through it, okay? Don't be in a hurry to get to the end of

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it, eating up half the words, not pronouncing them properly. So

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there's something for all of us to to learn.

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Now, after this, Allah subhanaw taala says in a new key alayka

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colon tequila

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for we shall most surely cast upon you a weighty Word, no, okay.

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So Allah subhanaw taala says, Indeed, we are going to put a

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heavy responsibility,

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colon pillar word that is very heavy.

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What does a heavy weighty word means?

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It means, number one, that this is something monumental because

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first, think who it is coming from. These are the words of

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Allah.

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Number two, what is the meaning of these words, they are weighty.

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Number three, they put a heavy responsibility.

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heavy responsibility of conveying the message and acting on the

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message. Also that they are magnificent spiritually. And they

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carry a lot of weight on the scales on the Day of Judgment.

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They're also heavy as evidence in your favor or against you on the

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Day of Judgment depending on whether you acted on them or not.

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And they are heavy in that they have a great impact on the hearts

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of the believers.

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For pillow also is used as being very rich, the words of Allah so

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rich, that there isn't challenged in the day of judgment that all

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the jinn kind and all the mankind together cannot produce one verse

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that matches the magnificence of the Quran.

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So Allah subhanaw taala is telling the Prophet salallahu alayhi salam

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that we are putting this huge responsibility this wager on you.

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And the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam said in those early days to

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his daughters, he said, all my daughter's there is no rest for

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your father after today.

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Because it's a full time responsibility.

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And one of the last things before he passed away is agile from this

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dunya when his only surviving daughter, Fatima, Radi Allahu Anhu

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Allah was by him.

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He smiled at her because she was weeping. She said there is no

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suffering for your father after this day. And there is only

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restful

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now my desk is

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one day was very tired. Our mother Khadija or the Alana said this

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early on said to him, you're gonna get some rest.

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You know what he said?

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He said, Yeah, Khadija the time for sleep is gone.

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The time for sleep is gone.

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The Word of Allah subhanaw taala also had gravitational Wait, what

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does that mean?

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One day, you know the person who collected the Quran for us, I gave

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you in the first session, who was held in response the primary

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responsibility for gathering and writing the Quran

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forgotten.

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Zaid Bin fabretto The Allah okay. He's the one who was he was one of

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the scribes of the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam but he was

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given the responsibility by Abu Bakr Siddiq, Ravi Allah and later

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both commanded to write the Quran and gathered the Quran. So one day

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he says that I was sitting with Rasulullah Salallahu Alaihe Salam

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and his thigh was resting on my leg as I was writing.

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And then

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they were hiking.

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And he said, as the wind came down the

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Fire of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam that was resting on

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my leg. It felt that my leg was going to snap

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this also happened. I showed the Alana. She was sitting and

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Rasulullah Salallahu Alaihe Salam was lying down with his head on

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her thigh, just resting with his wife.

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And the way came

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she said my thought I thought his head became so heavy

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and it was a cold day. From the weight of it. He broke out in a

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sweat. That's what used to happen when it used to come directly not

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through Jabril Alyssa

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and there are narrations that one more than once he was riding on a

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camel. When he came down. The camel is just dropped would drop

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their heads and they couldn't get up.

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So, colon therapy Allah Allah subhanaw taala says we are going

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to send to you

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a very weighty Word waiting every sense as Allah subhanaw taala says

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Lo and Zelner hurdle Khurana Allah jubbly law writer who Horsham

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motor Sadia Minka Shatila.

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Where was this Quran where if this Quran were to come down on what

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you know as the strongest thing on this earth, the mountains

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you would see the mountains humbled themselves. Why? Because

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they know whose words it is and crumble into pieces and dust from

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Hachette Allah from the oil and fear of

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this is what would happen to mountains if this word came down

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on the mountains. The question to ask is what happens to my heart

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when the Quran goes?

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Yet, Allah subhanaw taala allowed and prepared the heart of

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Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam

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to receive His Word.

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Every letter

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that has been put in the Quran, every word is the word of Allah,

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and has a right to be there should be treated as waiting. May Allah

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subhanaw taala help us to treat every word of the Quran with

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reverence, with veneration with the humility of submission. I

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mean, we should treat every word of the Quran like that.

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Then Allah subhanaw taala says, in Nashua to lay here a shadow what

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arm up wham o kala. And indeed rising by night for prayer makes

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for a stronger impression on the soul for the recitation of God's

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Word.

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So again, Allah smart Allah is telling us the benefits of the

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seas training Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam for his

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mission by saying your strength is going to come from standing at

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night and prayer in front of me because all of the spiritual

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benefits and strength that provides not only to him but to

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everybody else after that comes from that. So if we want to have

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an impact on people, this is a requirement. Okay. In the National

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Theatre lately, it's been translated as a rising National

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Theatre lately rising in the night for what? For Salah for dhikr of

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Allah subhanaw taala for the

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for contemplating and the names and attributes of Allah subhanaw

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taala

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for reading reciting the Quran with 30

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Nashotah Lane Layne, what is the night the scholars have said from

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the time of Asia till dawn, all of that is anytime in that is

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considered part of this. Now the Prophet salallahu alayhi salam

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sometimes got up in the early part of the night, sometimes he got up

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in the middle part of the night sometimes he got up in the last

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part of the night, more frequently in the last part of the night

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because there is a narration of the Prophet salallahu alayhi

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salam, that in the last 1/3 of the night, there is the new zone of

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Allah subhanaw taala, which we translate as descend. Don't think

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of it in any any directional space thing that Allah let's just say

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comes nearer to us into it says that, you know, Allah subhanaw

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taala is not contained in space into the first heaven. And he asks

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three questions. What are the three questions?

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Who is

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asking? Who is asking from me that I may give them who is looking for

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forgiveness?

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so that I may forgive them who request something for me that I

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can grant. So this is a very special time

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of spiritual benefit. And this is a time for some of us and all of

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us in sha Allah soon to stand up at least for part of that time to

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get the benefits of international data lately, he said rising up or

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emerging at this time of the night. Here, I should know what

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our

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what our means to have an impact. It is very effective on the heart,

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okay, it leaves an imprint the word water is also used. For

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example, if you pour cement and you put your foot on it, it leaves

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an imprint. This is the same meaning that getting up at this

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time, the words of Allah when you decided that that time will leave

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an imprint on your heart. Okay, so Allah subhanaw taala, telling us

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special times for special special occasions, were worshipping Allah.

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In this way, Salah, and Quran and vicar have a very special effect

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and produces the greatest impact and impression. Because we are

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also declaring by standing up at that time, our victory our

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triumphs, over over physical exhaustion over what are knifes

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likes, we are going against it we said, My want to sleep. So no, I'm

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going to get out of this warm bed. On this cold night. I'm going to

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splash my face with cold water and I'm going to stand in front of my

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ramp. Okay. It requires special special sacrifice that this person

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has chosen

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to stand in front of Allah.

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Does Allah know that it's a struggle for you? Yes.

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Does he reward you for the struggle? Of course. So remember

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that and that would make it easier that he Allah I am standing I'm

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fighting against my I'm sleep deprived me a time standing to

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glorify You in worship and to remember you and your words.

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And also at this time of the night, the heart is less

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distracted within you if you pray in the middle of the whole time.

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For us doctors, you're you're seeing patient between one and the

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second patient. How much focus can you have, you're thinking of the

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last patient you're thinking of the next patient and whatever job

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you have from one customer to the next and me distracted here.

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Children are not running around. Wife and husband are not calling

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each other work is in there you are you have less distractions. So

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this is a very special time. And prayer is more enlightening. The

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DA becomes more sincere and transparent your heart is not

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you're not distracted you're in there and more rewarding. And just

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a reflection that if you know what happens during sleep,

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Allah smart Allah tells us every day in sleep, what happens to you,

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your soul is taken were

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to the Presence of Allah subhanaw taala. So if you wake up, if you

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look at it this way, the soul has freshly returned from the Divine

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Presence

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Shouldn't it be more readily acceptable of what's the words of

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my Arab?

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So think of that that way.

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And at that time, there is more harmony between external and

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internal more sukoon in every way. And therefore it is more conducive

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to extracting the gems from the words of Allah subhanaw taala you

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read the same words and that moment, you may get a new meaning

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you're gonna get a new understanding. And suddenly the

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light goes on. You know,

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every word of Allah is a gem it you just pick it up and you look

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at beauty from a different aspect of it. Okay.

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So think of it that way.

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A Colombo kala again means the speech at this time is most

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upright or the most correct in the words at this time, that you

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recite them in a better way. So this is what Allah subhanaw taala

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says, I'm going to take a few minutes to go into because this is

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an instruction for piano laid. Okay standing in prayer at night.

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Okay.

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And as we said, In the beginning, early on, this was given us the

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first task, train yourself by standing all night are part of the

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little less than half the night a little more. for one whole year

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they did this.

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After one year, Allah subhanaw taala revealed the 20th I have

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this

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which then give them respect in the sense okay, take it easy do

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what you can but for one year

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and they didn't complain there's no record they said Ya rasool

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Allah this is getting heavy on us. But Allah knows.

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And then Allah smart Allah made it

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a nap Villa

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means an extra or nothing or super, super,

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super good Tory, okay, nothing means you have an option of doing

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it yet. It's a highly recommended option.

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For anybody who's serious about their spiritual growth you can do

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without it to some degree. So it's highly recommended Yet Allah

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subhanaw taala said it's optional. If you don't get up, it's not a

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sin. Okay, yet for Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, it

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remained a furry the fourth, according to all majority of

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scholars for his entire life.

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So much so that if for some reason, like sickness or

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something, he missed the piano lesson.

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In the day, he would pray to our cat to compensate for like we do

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color, right? So he treated it as coda to America.

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So we have our mother Aisha Radi Allahu anha in her room, she sees

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her husband salAllahu alayhi wa sallam standing all night.

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Now when she is in his role,

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this is in the Medina and period.

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And he is still standing because she says his legs used to swell

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and skin used to crack. So as a young lady, she raised the alarm

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on how our ba says your Sula last month ALLAH has forgiven your past

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and your future. Why do you torture yourself like this? What's

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his response is very, very famous. Most of you know. He says to her,

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you know, knowing and sort of indulging has he did a fella

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Hakuna evidencia coup Then should I know if he is he has forgiven

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everything? Should I fly Jaquan Hakuna? Shouldn't I be evidencia

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Coura a grateful servant mean just the fact that he's forgiven all my

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past and future and when he says forgiven, don't perceive it that

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he is a sinner, okay, he's mad. So, what has he forgiven small

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things which he could have done better? For example, okay.

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such as turning away from a blind person and paying more attention

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to the, you know, somebody else things like that search such as

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making a decision in bother to let people go instead of of, you know,

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giving them capital punish things like that.

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So he said, if, you know Allah is forgiven, so what should my

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response be for that? hamdulillah I'm all set. No, I should be more

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grateful by being standing in front of him all night.

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One day Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam came and you know by

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the House of fire tomorrow the alarm right next to it to then the

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Hijra of Isola the alarm just to the

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other side of the of the

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pillar.

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He goes there and they're sleeping.

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Who is sleeping? Look at this beautiful house Alejandra the hola

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Juan

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Fatima Zahra they are sleeping and he goes there. And what does he

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say?

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allowed to sell Yanni do not pray at night. That's what you do not

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pregnant, then they may have paid and gone to sleep or they may have

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intention of getting an MRI.

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Allah to SallyAnn just an encouragement. Do you not pray at

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night?

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Take these two words for yourself the Rasul Allah Subhan. Allah

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Hassan said that to me,

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and see what the response would be.

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I think the other day we were mentioning in one of the

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gatherings brother Yeah. Our mentioned Shafi our mentioned the

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characteristics of Abdullah ibn Umar Radi Allahu Anoma, the son of

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Amara Barbara, the Alon who used to is well known for one of his

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FBI lists that he would do everything that Rasul Allah

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salAllahu. Salam did he used to follow him in the greatest of

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details?

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So, this is narrated by his son Salim, which is the grandson of

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Hamid Al Khattab He says, My father said

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that Rasulullah Salallahu Alaihe Salam once said to people

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and

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Now Mr. Rajan Abdullah means Abdullah Abdullah Omar is such a

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wonderful now Mr. Raja, the best of people.

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Low Kana you suddenly mentally only if he prayed at night means

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he is such a wonderful man. But there's one deficiency. If you

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only pray that night cam will lead, he would be like a perfect

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person. And Salim says from that when he heard that my father never

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slept at night

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that's how you take things. The prophets Allah Allah is didn't

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tell didn't command. He said he's such a wonder of this and look at

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the beautiful way of encouraging him by saying his he's such a

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wonderful he is such a near perfect person, only one little

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imperfection he doesn't pray at night if he did that he would be

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you know, so that's what his response was.

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And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi salam once said to Abdullah

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Muhammad even alas who was another one of the companions or the Allah

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Anoma he said Yeah, Abdullah Lata can Mr. Fuller and don't be like

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so and so. Ghana Yokohama Leila for Taraka Pamela that he used to

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stand up at night and then he gave it up.

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And that's people like me who sometimes get up sometimes forget

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sometimes abandon

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for weeks and months and then go back to it. steadfastness. Even if

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it is two or four cats only for 510 minutes is better than praying

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one week, four hours a night and then forgetting for a month. So we

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should all get inshallah into the habit. And as we said last third

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of the night is the best time for it. So the easy way formula

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practically speaking is to get up a little before Fajr

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spend that time in that we are done we'll come in you spend time

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and it's the fall back, do your budget and then if you want to

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rest you can rest.

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The Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam was asked about what is the best

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Salah after the the obligatory the fried he said Salah delay

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and then he said and the best of the Salah he said in another

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narration he said tonal although it means long standing at night,

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but let us start with short standing Okay.

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When you move to Medina, in when he was in Cuba, this hadith

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narrated from there. This is a very beautiful Hadith I will say

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it in in Arabic many of you know it because it rhymes.

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The prophets said Are you a NAS of shoe seller? What Mo Tom was sell

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Looby Layli when NASA near that the whole janitor be Salem, you

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see how it rhymes? You said a Yohannes Oh mankind of shoe sell

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Salem spread the salam spread the peace, not just the word, but

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treat each other with with peace and you know that people should

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feel that they are safe from you from your tongue from your actions

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from all those things. What utter matam same thing that said we

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people of soccer will say we did not feed the poor, Allah rasool

00:38:23 --> 00:38:26

Allah saying, attend matam feed people.

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We never prayed they said the people of soccer remember Allah

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semana Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam sin was Solu belay. Stand

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up in prayer and night

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when NASA nierman most of mankind is sleeping. And if you do this,

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what did Hulu Janita be Salaam and the reward you will enter paradise

00:38:50 --> 00:38:50

in peace

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implement these things feeding people getting up at night and

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treating people justly giving them security and safety of Jerusalem

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the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam said that talked about the

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wilderness and um that the best fasting was the first thing of the

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lesson um, do you know how that will the lesson I'm used to fast

00:39:18 --> 00:39:19

Yes,

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every other day, alternate days. And he said the best salah is the

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Salah, the preamble late they also had of Salah is of douda. Listen,

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what did he do? He said he used to sleep the first half of the night.

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Then get up and pray 1/3 of the night and then go back to sleep

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for the last 160 of the night. 1/3 and 160 equal how much

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math

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half. So half sleep 1/3 and one six.

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Now, what should we do? Those of us who are married and who have

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spice spice

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offices spices and spouses both.

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We have spices Yeah, we can spouses,

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we have spouses who are spices.

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But

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you get up

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what should you do, and your husband is sleeping, or your wife

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is sleeping, and you get upset and pray peacefully.

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The prophets of Allah, Allah Salam said, Rama, Rama long on Rajan, or

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woman, husband or a wife who gets up to pray, and then wakes their

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spouse, Honey, get up and pray.

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And if the spouse is in deep sleep, and is not getting up, you

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know what they do today, that would be grounds for divorce, take

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some water and sprinkles on the face, this is the sooner

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prepare your spouse before you do it, so that you know lawyers are

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not calling you next day. So this is the sooner this is the sooner

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both ways. He says for a husband who does this to the wife, and the

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wife who gets up because many of our wives are better than us, you

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know,

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can vouch for that, who wakes up their husband.

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And then he said, and if the husband and wife and sometimes

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it's good to pray together,

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he says, Those who get up and pray together would be counted among

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the vacuum clean and accurate, that if unless one talk talks

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about the ones who remember Allah among the men and the women.

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So those are some of the benefits of getting up at night.

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Allah Subhana Allah says in laka Finn hurry Sabhal four wheeler,

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read, during the day, you shall have lengthy occupations and

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calling to God.

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So indeed for you, again, addressing Rasulullah Salallahu

00:42:03 --> 00:42:09

Salam in the daytime Fen Hari Subhan, Allah taweelah You have

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long and long periods of time

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to attend to things, what are the things you may have personal

00:42:17 --> 00:42:20

obligations, you have people work,

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but for him Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam going out to people

00:42:25 --> 00:42:27

inviting them, okay?

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to Islam to the topic of Allah subhanaw taala interacting with

00:42:32 --> 00:42:37

people, okay. And any other things and some of the scholars have said

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that this also means time for leisure, and time for sleep. You

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can sleep in that time

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because you're preparing to get up and stand in the night. Now the

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word in Arabic, Sabha means what? Also

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people who've been in Arabia, in the heat means to swim,

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swimming.

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And this is the same. When we say

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plus b

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plus b,

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you're doing we're saying plus b

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somehow somehow means to swim. Now imagine this, that when you are

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doing this be Subhan Allah to honey, La ilaha illallah Takbeer

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Allahu Akbar,

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that you should feel like your heart is immersed in the water and

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it is swimming towards the last one. Your test should be such that

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is not just in the tongue, but you are actually in there and you are

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suing to Allah subhanaw taala to His nearness, okay. Plus, we

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should be done. With that. Just bear with that feeling with that

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just by being immersed in it

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in his remembrance,

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that you are busy in the day in different occupations, halal

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occupations, all of the things that you need to do. Therefore at

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night, get up and do this dedicate yourself. We will end there and we

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will open it up for questions and answers for a few minutes and then

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we will end the session

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