Mubeen Kamani – Quran Tafsir Healing the Soul April 5 2024
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Iqbal.
Iqbal.
Iqbal.
Assalamu alaikum, everyone.
First of all, may Allah reward you all
for coming, so early. We are the pioneers,
so may Allah accept from all of you
and reward you in the greatest way. Now,
our sheikh, sheikh Mobeen, is gonna be doing
the lecture,
this afternoon inshallah
instead of, sheikh Fazil. May Allah reward him,
in a second. But, of course,
just to give you a few hints.
First of all, you know, you all reserved
your spots and you deserve it. You came
early, so may Allah reward you.
If there are any emotions or feelings, please
be careful. If somebody tries to jump between
you or disturb you, let brother Ahmed in
the office deal with it. Brother Ahmed will
control things.
That's his job. So don't
argue with each other. If you waste your
time with the argumentation, you will waste your
throw up. So please make sure that you
just be patient with everyone. You already put
in the effort. You came early. You got
the reward. So, don't ruin it with arguing
with brothers who might disrespect the rules. Okay?
Regarding the food, we have 3 iftars tonight.
So there is one for everyone,
there's one for youth, and there's one for
those who are doing.
The brothers who are doing will do it
in their room. So please,
don't disturb them.
The youth will I'll remind them to go
to the back later on, so don't worry.
And if they cut in front of you,
they're youth, don't worry about them.
Be patient.
Be patient. Inshallah, you'll get great reward. The
whole idea, all the famous hadith say, tonight,
Allah will forgive everyone. I'm not gonna butcher
the hadith, except of course,
I probably already did, but except those who
have grudges against other people. So clear up
your hearts, don't start a new grudge over
a spot or over a food line or
things like that.
For your patience and understanding, may Allah reward
you all.
Earlier this morning,
after Fajardo, we
spoke about
maximizing and kind of going all out in
the last portion, last days of Ramadan. And
one of the things that,
action items that we spoke about is making
duas, and preparing your duas.
And over the next
hour or so, I will go through some
different steps.
If you have something to write with,
please take some notes.
This
will be beneficial for you tonight
what I tell people is, if you have
especially a book, a diary, each step, what
you want to do is put one of
these steps on the top of each
Or
if you wanna do it on your phone
or your laptop, whatever, on your tablet. But,
I will give the skeleton
with some examples,
of dua,
and,
you can fill it up with your own
duas.
To start off
our
discussion, Allah subhanahu wa'anahu wa'anahu wa'anahu wa'alain the
Quran tells us different duas.
And
there are so many duas in the Quran
like this.
My issue,
those duas are great.
Allah puts them in the Quran for us
to learn from them.
But my issue is, for the largest part
of my life, I didn't speak Arabic. And
even today, my Arabic is
okay.
So when making these duas in Arabic, sometimes
what happens
is I don't really connect to the duas.
Arabic
is not my mother tongue. They say, if
you want to know what your mother tongue
is,
then
check what you talk to Allah in.
If you talk to Allah in English, then
that's your mother tongue. If you talk to
Allah in Urdu, that's your mother tongue. My
mother tongue is not Arabic.
So where these duas
that we are taught
from the sunnah, from the Quran are great.
However, for me, it's hard to connect with.
And that's why
putting together,
in my opinion, duas that you
don't read,
but come from your heart is more powerful.
It's more meaningful. It's you
talking to Allah and telling Allah what you
want.
What do you want from me?
What's your problem? What are you struggling with?
What are your hardships?
Tell Allah.
It's like when your child comes to you
and says, Abba, I'm struggling with so and
so thing.
I'm having this issue.
And they open their heart out in front
of you. I know I shouldn't.
I know you taught me differently, but this
is what I'm going through right now.
So here, du'a.
In In this Hadith, the prophet says,
a
dua is the essence of worship, the purpose
of worship, the main part
of worship.
Why do you praise Allah?
You praise Allah to make Allah happy. Why
do you want Allah to be happy?
So that when he asks
from you,
when you ask him, he gives to you.
That's why you praise Allah.
Now the crazy part is that sometimes we
praise Salah
for 10 minutes, 20 minutes,
you know, coming to the masjid,
going back the whole time.
But the ratio of dua to salah
is very off.
And you ask yourself the question,
how long
can I make dua for?
I remember one time I was in Chicago,
you know, Jumu like today.
And the brother next to me,
he started to make Dua.
And in this moment, I said, I'm gonna
listen to his duet. I wasn't meaning to
be
nosy,
but I want to be inspired by his
duet that, you know, maybe that I can
make duet like that.
His duet was so
unique that I remember it word for word.
Exactly word for word. He said, oh, a
law.
You know what I want, so give it
to me, Amin.
That's it.
And he left.
Oh, Allah. You know what I want, so
give it to me, Amin.
5 seconds.
And as
I stood there for a moment just shocked.
Like, what just happened?
But after I got over the shock,
I said to myself, that's actually me.
He did it out loud. I do it
in my heart.
How many times have I said this to
Allah?
Allah did it. Give it. And that's it.
And you move on with what else whatever
else you were doing.
But the prophet says,
du'a is a main part of your worship.
You're worshiping Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so that
he can accept your du'a. So your du'a
the time, the duration has to increase. Now,
you know, Allah subhanahu wa'ala in the Quran
says,
He says, call. Ask me.
Make duas. Supplocate.
And if you supplicate, and if you call,
I will accept.
You do your part.
Let me do my part.
You ask,
I'll accept.
So here Allah Subhanahu wa'am, I'm putting the
open invitation.
You just make Dua and then leave it
to Allah Subhanahu wa'amaha. Now, your
dua,
well,
is a very important gauging
system
to look at your relationship with Allah
If you want to know how strong your
relationship with Allah is, look at your dua.
Because
the more stronger a relationship is,
the more frequently you talk to a person.
For example,
your spouse,
strong relationship,
you talk to them often.
But when you're going through some issues and
the
the strength of relationship weakens, you talk less
now.
You sit in silence.
So the stronger the relationship,
the more you will talk to one another.
The people that you have a strong bond
with, you call them multiple times a day.
Number 2. If the relationship
is strong,
the conversation,
the depth changes.
So the frequency,
the depth.
A person that you don't know,
who you don't really have a relationship,
that conversation is usually surface level.
How are things? Good?
Okay.
That's it.
But a person that you have a strong
bond with,
you're able to open up.
I'm struggling with this.
I'm having this issue.
So, if you look at your du'a and
you ask yourself the question,
in my du'a, am I at surface level,
or do I go in the depth when
I ask the law
And the more the more stronger your relationship
will be, the more debt you will open
up.
Number 3,
when your relationship is strong,
you open up your vulnerabilities in front of
somebody.
Somebody. A person that your relationship is not
strong with, you put on a facade.
Everything is good.
You know, as Maiman's, we have a saying
that if you don't have bond, then slap
yourself in the mouth and make it look
like you have
bond.
Play the part.
So for a person that I don't know,
everything's good in my life. But a person
that I know,
I tell them, look. I'm struggling
mentally. I'm struggling health. I'm struggling with my
children. I'm struggling financially.
You're now
open to be your real self in front
of that person.
And, you ask yourself, in front of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, which version do I put
out?
Do I open my heart out in front
of Allah?
Oh, Allah, things are hard.
It's hard to stay away from sin.
It's hard to control my tongue.
When I get into an argument with my
wife, I just let her have it.
I love my children, but sometimes I just
destroy them.
I tear them apart.
I'm struggling a lot. So you look at
the vulnerability.
Number 4,
when a relationship is strong,
you see that the conversation
is now casual.
When the when it's a beginning level, when
it's not strong,
the conversation is very formal.
For example,
when you came into itikaf, you met everybody,
assalamu alaikum. 2 hands.
But now that your relationship got stronger, it
comes with a
it's chest bump as well.
Why? Because
stronger.
If you ever seen
a grandmother make du'a, a daddy make du'a,
they call to Allah that, oh, my.
They make it so casual.
You know, they just drop all formalities because
when you are strong with somebody, there is
no formalities.
Like we say, when there's brothers, there's no
formalities among brothers. When they're friends, there's no
formalities amongst friends. But somebody you don't know,
somebody that's a stranger, there's formalities. So you
ask yourself, when I'm talking to Allah Subhanahu
Wa'ala, when I'm talking to Allah Subhanahu Wa'ala,
is it is it formal?
I have no other door to turn to.
You're the only door that I have.
If you don't
It's now very calm.
It's very casual.
Number
5. You enjoy the conversation.
A person that you don't have a strong
bond with, that conversation sometimes is forced.
It's like when your wife makes you go
to her friend's house.
And you have to sit with the husband
and you have this very awkward,
you know, conversation
that nobody's enjoying.
But when it's somebody that you like and
you have a strong bond with, you can
talk till 2 AM at night,
and you're so good.
You enjoy the conversation. So you ask yourselves
the question, how much do I enjoy the
conversation?
And that will lead to how long the
conversation is.
The stronger the bond, the more you have
to talk about.
The more longer you're going to talk.
So, each of these, you look at your
du'a and you say,
Okay. This will gauge my relationship with Allah
Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
The first step of making du'a.
So, there I have 11 steps on here,
and if you and then we're going to
give examples as well for each of the
steps.
If for each step
you are able to put 1 minute
with the examples that we give, with each
step if you are to put,
put 1 minute, you're
now 32nd
dua is turned into a 11 minute
dua. And over the over the last few
days Ramadan, you want to increase that, and
increase that, and increase that. And dua, like
anything else, the more you do it, the
better you get at of it. I remember
when I was a kid, my mother used
to say that she would make Dua for
hours.
And I always kind of doubt her. Dua
for hours.
But one day,
I was at home and she just said,
I don't know what's going on. And I
asked and asked and asked and asked. And
I kept checking. Is she awake?
What's going on? And she's just talking to
Allah.
She's enjoying the conversation.
And what I realized is that it's because
of her experience in doing so.
So
we will take 11 steps, and if you
put 1 minute, and Insha Allah, you can
increase that solely, solely, and then, you know,
hopefully, that can turn into half an hour.
It can turn into an hour. It will.
It may not seem like it,
but it's like that friendship
that's new. Once that friendship gets solid, then
just see.
So the first step, when you ask Allah
Subhanahu wa ta'ala, number 1, you praise Allah
Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And this is, of course, you know, logical.
If I want something from somebody,
a little praise
goes a long way.
You know,
today,
nice fitted.
Now, if I ask for something,
maybe more open.
So you praise Allah
Our goal is going to be
to make du'a in our language,
as much as possible. So I'm going to
give you the examples,
and we're going to keep it in our
language.
A good example of praising Allah
is Surah Fatihah. And we went through the
translation of Surah Fatihah earlier. The Surah is
called Surah Ham. The Surah of Praise.
If there was a better way of praising
Allah, Allah would have told us to say
insulah.
So Surah Fatihah.
Number 2,
you praise Allah
by his names.
Now, that doesn't mean that you need to
memorize
To be honest,
I think it's better that you don't.
You ask yourself what are some qualities that
only Allah
has? Only Allah hears everybody
at one time.
Only only Allah sees everybody.
Everything.
Only Allah
is the one with the supreme
permission
for things to happen in his dunya.
Not even a leaf
can fall from the tree
without his permission.
Bird can fly without his permission. Not even
an ant can take a step. So this
is when you say to Allah subhanahu, oh
Allah, this is how powerful you are. And
you can compare yourself and say, oh Allah,
you are the most powerful and I am
weak. Oh Allah, you are
independent and I am dependent on you. Oh,
Allah, you are the giver of risk and
I am in need of your risk. Oh,
Allah, you are the one that gives cure
and I am
diseased and ill.
So, you praise Allah not just by His
name,
but a comparison between the 2, yourself and
Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, that is step number
1.
In one hadith, Rasulullah salallahu alayhi wa sallam
says, there's nothing more dear to Allah
than when a servant makes du'a to Allah.
There's nothing more dear to Allah
than
when a servant makes du'a to Allah.
It's like
when
the child comes home and says to the
mother,
mom,
I'm hungry.
And she gets a smile on her face
and says,
don't worry. I'll take care of you.
She enjoys
making that roti.
She enjoys cooking. Why? Because
my child needs me.
And Allah subhanahu
here, he enjoys our calling out to him.
My servant needs me and understands I can
give to him.
Number 2,
and this is a cheat code.
The second step is to thank Allah.
And Allah says,
If you want more of something, be thankful
for whatever I have given you. And we
spoke about this a couple of days ago.
So here you go into depth and you
think about every single that Allah has given
you.
Which of Allah's favors will you deny? You
know, when this verse was revealed, the prophet
when the prophet read this verse, he turned
to the people and said, why are you
quiet?
So the a the the jinn are louder
than you.
That they are saying to Allah, oh Allah,
we accept all of your favors.
When the prophet read the verses,
he said that, why are you quiet?
The jinn are saying,
oh, Allah. We accept all of your favors.
And the companion said, oh, Allah. We accept
all of your favors. So number 2 and
this makes sense. That if you want more,
then you show that you're thankful.
For example, somebody gives you chai,
and now you're saying, give me more chai.
But you say, jazakala for that chai.
They're open to give it to you a
second time.
But if you don't value the first, then
why will Allah give you the second?
So step number 2, be
thankful to Allah. Now, this is, of course,
going into depth outside of just surface level
iman, health, you know, wealth, but every single
thing that Allah has put into your life.
The ability
to manage your thoughts.
The ability the ability to maneuver through your
emotions.
You know? Go into the depths, and thank
Allah Step number 3.
And this is sending peace and blessing upon
the prophet
The best way of sending peace and blessing
upon the prophet is
And once again, if there was a better
then Allah would have put it
in. But the question is, why do you
need to send upon the prophet
And the answer to that is,
if you want something from somebody, then you
bring you talk about a common interest.
When we were studying
in overseas,
if somebody came to our house and asked
my mother,
how are the boys? How how are Mubeen
Hussain?
My mother would become super generous.
Come in, take
have some samosas. Take some samosas back with
you.
Why? Because you talked about my my beloved.
And the beloved of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is the prophet
So step number 3 is that you praise
the beloved of of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And that number example number 1 is Ibrahim.
And example number 2
is sending peace and blessing upon the prophet
based off the sirrah.
Oh, Allah send peace and blessing upon the
prophet
who was born without a father.
Oh, Allah send peace and blessing upon the
prophet
who
became orphan at the age of 6,
whose people
made him leave his homeland,
who was injured in the battle
of
Uhud, talking about all the different incidents in
life of the Prophet. And this, your heart
really connects to each one.
Step number
here, at least prophet said
a
servant of Allah becomes
closest to Allah
when he's in shazam.
And he's making du'a to Allah subhanahu wa'ala.
And now the question comes,
can you make a normal sajdah outside of
salah and make du'a?
In your language outside of salah, you can't.
Inside salah, it has to be an Arabic.
Arabic. It has to be Arabic.
Outside of salah, you can
go into salah and just talk to Allah
This is what the hadith here is talking
about. The servant becomes closest to Allah, the
servant is nearest to Allah when you're in
salah and you're asking Allah
You drop yourself in front of Allah, and
say, oh, Allah,
only you can lift me back
up. Step number 4.
And this is that you make du'a for
the ummah.
And to understand this,
if I were to ask you something for
myself,
versus I were to ask you something for
everybody,
which one shows selflessness?
For everybody.
So here you say, oh, law, before I
talk about what I want,
I'm gonna be selfless.
Before
the urgency
of everything that I have to ask for,
I'm going to be selfless
and put the need of everybody else.
And you make dua for the people in
general. The ummah in general. To have mercy
upon the ummah the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam to protect the ummah the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. Then, of course, you talk
about
places or, you know, troubles that people are
going through.
Oh, Allah. Help those who are suffering with
any type of addiction. Oh, Allah. Help those
who are ill. Oh, Allah. Help those who
are drowning in debt. Oh, Allah. Any type
of hardship
that somebody else may be going through,
you ask by that. You then another example
is you ask
by place.
Help the Muslim in Palestine. Help the Muslim
in Sudan, in Syria,
in Pakistan,
in America.
Just because we got cars doesn't mean that
just because we're not being, you know, we're
not being,
there's no war here, doesn't mean that Muslims
in America don't need it. Dua. They need
Dua. We need. Our children need.
Our youth need.
Guidance.
Holding on to Islam. Protection from fitna. There's
so much out there.
Making
and institutions.
Now,
when making du'a for
the of the prophet
this right here,
this is what the prophets of law always
amused you.
So you're now in a particular sunnah of
the prophets of law. Would
stand up in
at night, and he would make dua until
in worship until his feet were swollen.
And the companion would say,
He says, duas are is for my ummah.
So making duas for the ummah of the
prophet
Making du'a for the people that deserve your
du'a.
So, actually, in the last one, one thing
I'll point out, for the ummah,
especially for the troubles of the ummah,
this
is a cheat code
because if you want if you are struggling
with a trouble,
then you make that dua for somebody else.
If I am struggling financially,
I say, oh Allah,
give a bas pays more money. Open your
doors of risk on a bas pay.
And the adi says
that Allah
sends an angel,
and the angel says,
and may you have as well.
So, whatever you want in your life, if
you want your children to be obedient, make
duavra that someone else's children will be obedient.
If you want love in your marriage, make
duavra that somebody else had love in their
marriage. Cheat code.
Number 5.
Making dua for people that deserve your dua.
A couple of days back, we read the
verses,
People that have done good to you, you
repay them back with
Dua.
Now, another thing that I will add on
here, and then we'll talk about this a
little bit more later on.
If there's somebody that you have wronged,
then you make dua for them as well.
Let's say, for example,
I've wronged Ibrahim,
and I've really wronged him. And I go
to him, Ibrahim, please forgive me. He says,
do you want to say, I would love
to, but I can't. What you did was
hurtful.
Then,
it's my job to make du'afar.
Not that he forgive me, but just make
du'afar in general.
And that on
the day of resurrection, I could present to
Allah that, oh Allah, I was sincere.
Now, people that deserve your Dua, of course,
your parents deserve your Dua, your family deserve
your Dua, your friends,
your acquaintances,
your teachers,
your siblings.
Right?
And here,
you can even add on a Duwah that,
oh, a law, anybody that has asked
me, bless them.
Give them ease in their life. Remove difficulty
from their path.
Be pleased with them. Forgive their sins.
Anybody that asked me,
you now make a complete duet that they're
included
in. Number 6.
So, if you look at it, we have
5 steps so far, and we haven't asked,
usually we jump into what we want.
We haven't even gotten there yet.
Number 6, before you ask, you clear
the past.
It's like when you go for tea, and
you say, put on my account, and the
person behind the counter says, no. First pay
off your account, and then we'll add more
to your account.
You go to ask Allah, and Allah says,
before I give you, what about everything that's
remaining?
You have stuff that you need to ask
for forgiveness.
Now,
the majors the minor sins, those are easily
forgiven.
The major sins are our conditions.
And the conditions that have a major sin
forgiven, number 1, you have to stop the
sin.
You can't be engaged
in this sin and ask Allah Subhanahu wa
Ta'ala for forgiveness
from that sin.
You can't say, oh, Allah. Forgive me for
being
hurtful to my parents, but in that moment,
you are not talking to your parents.
You can't say, oh, Allah. Forgive me for
dealing on rebah, that my business transactions are
in rebah, and you currently are drowning in
rebah.
Okay. If you're making an attempt,
that's different.
You can't say, oh, Allah,
you know,
forgive me for looking at haram, but then
looking at haram.
A lot of time people do this. They'll
listen to me and say,
while in it. And the scholars say
that needs
itself.
If you are engaged in this sin, and
you're asking the law for forgiveness, then that
needs
a Now,
the definition of major sin and minor sin
I think Sheikh Wasl was talking about this
the other day.
No
sin is minor
if you keep in mind who you are
sinning
against. No sin is minor if you keep
in mind who you are sinning against.
If you keep in mind that I am
disobeying a law, then no sin is minor.
Major if
you keep in mind who are who you
are asking forgiveness from. That whatever your sin
is, Allah can forgive and Allah will forgive.
And there's so many who had these 2
backed it off.
That if your sins were to reach the
peak of the skies, we talked about this
before.
Whoever repents from a sin is as if
they've never sinned at all.
Number 2. You have to be remorseful
and regretful
and shameful of your
sin. You can't be telling others of your
sin or boasting about your sin, and then
ask the Allah for forgiveness.
I can't post my sins online,
on Facebook, on Instagram,
and then turn to Allah at night and
say, oh, Allah, forgive me.
That forgiveness,
it's like when your 2 children get into
a fight, my children sometimes, they get into
arguments.
And I say, go and ask your sister
for so go and say sorry to your
sister. And she goes, sorry.
So when my children get into an argument,
I tell them, go and tell your sister
sorry.
And she goes, sorry.
And I say to her, you didn't mean
it.
That's a fake sorry.
If you are showing your sins to others,
and sharing your sins,
then that
is fake.
If you don't have shame, if you don't
have remorse, a true Tawba, you will actually
feel bad about it.
Number 3, and this is important tonight,
because tonight we're going to ask for a
love for forgiveness.
Is in that moment,
you make full intention not to go back
to that sin.
In that moment.
You are sincere. Oh, Allah. I'm gonna try
my best. I'm gonna need your help.
I'm gonna need your help to stay away
from this sin.
But, oh, Allah. I'm gonna try my best.
The prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, one time
he asked the companions
that what do you think of a person
who asks Allah for forgiveness for a sin
and then he goes and does that same
sin again?
And then he asks for forgiveness, and then
he does that same sin again. And then
he asks for forgiveness, and then he does
that same sin again. And this becomes a
constant cycle.
The companions said, Yeah Rasool Allah, that person
deserves to be in Jannah.
Because each time he makes a promise to
Allah that, oh Allah, I won't do it,
but then he breaks the promise.
He didn't learn his lesson.
But the prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam said, No.
He'll be in Jannah.
Each time he asks Allah,
he comes with hope.
And Allah will not turn away his hope.
Each time he asks Allah, his bond with
Allah gets stronger.
That Allah loves
when you repent.
And this person will be in jannah.
So even if you fall into that same
sin again,
you ask Allah for forgiveness for your anger,
but
you then you get angry. You ask Allah
for forgiveness again. You get angry. You ask
Allah for forgiveness again. But each time you
have to be sincere. Now, the other thing
I will add here is,
these are sins that allow us to forgive,
but then there are those sins that we
do towards others.
To other people.
That requires
a different type of forgiveness.
Because
I can't
say sorry to Imran Bay for something that
I did to
doctor Khalil.
And my mom is like, Oh, you didn't.
You didn't do it to me. Go and
ask him.
So you say to, oh, Allah, I'm sorry.
Allah in return say, but
you didn't disobey me. You didn't hurt me.
You hurt that person. You need to go
make amends with that person. And if you
sincerely try, then there is Hadith where the
prophet
says, Allah will negotiate
on your behalf on the day of judgement.
Hadith says, Allah will say to this person,
okay.
Let him go. In return,
I will bump you up to 1st class
in Jannah.
The airline gets you a little bit late
and they bump you up to 1st class.
Allah
says, for my sake, forgive him. I'll bump
you up to 1st class.
How about Jannad Al Naim?
You want 3 of those? Okay. I'll give
you 3 of those.
Forgive.
Number 7.
Making du'a for everything that you need
in the hereafter
or for the hereafter.
Before you ask for your dunya,
ask for
the dua that the prophet make. Oh Allah.
Don't make this dunya
My biggest concern.
My biggest concern should be the hereafter. So
you ask for the hereafter first. Oh Allah.
Give me jannah. Oh Allah, protect me for
Ijannah. Oh Allah, give me water in the
hand of the prophet
Oh Allah, help me in my salah. Oh
Allah, make my grave from the ground in
paradise. Oh Allah, give me at the time
of my death.
Everything that you will need that will get
you into Jannah,
that's where you this is where you ask
a lot. And
the
Dua that we've been talking about for the
past few days,
Help
me
remember you. Help me worship you. Help me
thank you
in the best way possible.
So here,
these these are everything that you need in
the hereafter.
Seven steps, and we haven't asked for
usually, are step number 1.
Now,
step number 8.
You ask for whatever you want.
There's nothing too small, and there's nothing too
big.
The prophet says, even if it's salt, ask
Allah. Even if it's the laces of your
shoe, ask Allah.
The companions were the prophet said to the
companions
that
if a believer is sincere in his asking
from Allah, Allah
will give it to
you. No matter what it is.
The companions said, you RasulAllah, then we're just
gonna keep asking.
And Nabi salallahu alaihi wasallam responded back,
Who's stopping you?
Ask.
If you don't get it immediately,
you'll get it later
when it's better for you.
Right? Now you may not value it, but
later on when it's good for you, you
you evaluate.
Today you asked, oh, Allah. Give me a
car. Give me a car. Give me a
car. But you are 17 years old. You're
not gonna value it. You may,
you know, protect,
you know, wasted.
But later on when it's good for you,
then Allah will give it.
Or Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will give you
something better.
You wanna go to UTT because all your
friends are going, and Allah will say, no.
I have Harvard waiting for you.
Allah will replace it with something better.
Or Allah removes a hardship from your path,
because of this one du'a that you asked.
Allah didn't give it to you. Something else
that was meant, a hardship that was meant
to be in your life, Allah subhanahu wa'ala
diverts that.
In the final, the prophet of the law
of the law of Jerusalem says
that in the day of judgment,
a person
will be brought a bunch
of good deeds and he will say, oh,
love. These aren't mine.
And he will be told that, remember that
one crazy du'a that you made?
You asked for a pink unicorn.
You asked for a flying car.
A jet.
Something crazy that you asked for,
that you
knew it's not gonna happen,
but you were sincere in your asking to
Allah. This is in return of that.
Says, that this person will then say,
gosh.
Only if I wish
that none of my were accepting the duniya
and I got the reward all here and
hereafter.
I wish nothing was accepted.
And I got the reward for everything in
the hereafter.
So load up on your duas. Even when
you ask for dunya,
ask. Ask. Ask. Ask. Ask.
If you don't get
it, you'll get the reward in the hereafter.
Now,
number 9. This is a particular duas.
This is an all inclusive,
another cheat code.
The du'a is, oh Allah, I ask you
for the good that your slave and your
prophet Muhammad salallahu alaihi wasallam asked for.
And I ask protection and I seek refuge
from the evil that which your slave and
your prophet, Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa sallam, sought
protection from.
This is all inclusive. Why? Because,
all the duas of the prophet salallahu alayhi
wa sallam, you just entered yourself into there.
My mother used to say to me, Britta,
when you get tired
asking Allah,
just say, oh Allah,
accept my mother's duas.
And she used to say that
from my grave, I would make I will
make duas for you.
So that whenever you get tired, just say,
oh, just say this over and over, oh,
law. Get grab my mother's duas. Grab my
mother's duas. Grab my mother's duas. I say
that, from my grave, I will take
I will continue.
I will make duas for you from my
grave.
Similarly, here,
you now enter yourselves into the duas of
the prophet
Anything good that the prophet asked you say,
oh, Allah, give it to me. And anything
the prophet sought protection from, you say, oh,
Allah.
I see protection from that.
And he said to me,
is like engines on a train.
When the load is light, you just need
one engine. But when the load is heavy,
and you wanted to get there fast,
then you're gonna put engines in the beginning,
multiple,
and end engines at the end, multiple.
And then see how fast that dua reaches
Allah
Step number 11, the final one,
is once again praise Allah
And I asked my teacher,
why at the end?
And he said, if Allah gives it,
he's great.
If he doesn't give it, he's still great.
Your relationship with Allah
does not depend
if he gives to you. That is
a kid's relationship.
Your child, when you give to your child,
they love you.
But when they don't give it,
that love decreases right away.
My child, my son, well, if I give
him what he wants, I'm the best Abba
in the world. And if I don't give
it to him, you never give me anything.
So and so's father gives him whatever they
want.
I wish I had a father like that.
So, our relationship with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is not dependent on
if he gives to us. Alhamdulillah,
if he does, and alhamdulillah, if he withholds.
That's with through his, you know,
wisdom.
Now, last slide. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam said, the supplication,
the du'a of each and every one of
you will be granted
as long as he's not impatient, and he
doesn't rush Allah.
And And the companions
ask,
How would a person rush Allah?
And the prophet
says that he will say, oh Allah. I
asked you, but you didn't give it to
me.
This is actually very common.
People will say that I've been asking Allah
for a wife for so long, but I'm
still single.
I've been making duas for so many years,
but Allah doesn't listen to my duas. You
make duas for
me. Don't rush Allah's duas.
It's not Amazon.
You don't copy and paste, and it showed
up on your door the next day.
You don't choose a delivery.
You don't choose when it comes to you.
You put in the order, and the order
comes when Allah wills,
because he's the one that's giving.
You haven't even made a payment.
So what's the demands for?
And I always share with people,
duas are not meant to be accepted right
away. We ask Allah, oh, Allah, accept my
duas right away. But in reality, duas are
not meant to be accepted right away. Because
if you gave your child everything that your
child
asked for immediately,
what would happen?
They would be spoiled.
They wouldn't value you.
They won't
then what's the?
What's the benefit?
I'll just ask Allah, Allah will give it
me. What's the iman in there? What's the
faith?
So duas are not meant to be we
think that, no. It has to be accepted
immediately, but duas are not meant to be
accepted immediately. Understand,
it will come when Allah will.
Why? Because Allah knows what is best for
us.
So these are some steps, 11 steps that
we have for du'a.
I'll quickly go through them again, just so,
to recap. If once again, you add 1
minute to each,
your Duwah is now transformed.
And we have a few hours till,
you know, which are our night worship.
Sit down right, right, right under each one.
Think of different ways of praising a loss
of Hanamata.
Right? And this was tell you how your
connection with Allah is. Go through different ways
of praising Allah,
and let it come from a very casual
from your heart.
Number 2. Thank Allah
for everything that Allah Subhanahu Wa'anahu has given
you,
and take a dive
deep into your imagination.
Think about the things that you've never thanked
Allah for. If
you tried to count Allah's blessings, you can't.
So there are so many things that you
haven't asked, you haven't thanked Allah for.
Then, send peace and blessing upon the prophet
salallahu alayhi wasalam. Why? Because,
is Habibullah,
and you are talking to Allah about what
he loves.
You are
building that common ground.
Number 4. Make du'a for the ummah to
show that you're selfless.
Put other people first. Put other people's needs
first
before you put your needs.
And there are steps, and some examples on
the screen.
So first, make du'a for the ummah, the
prophet and we said, this is the sunnah
of the
the prophet
did. The lamborghini that you asked for the
prophet and didn't ask for that.
But you asked for the ummah.
Number 5, make dua for the people that
deserve your dua.
Think about everyone.
We can't repay them.
We can't repay our parents, but
we can try to make duas for them.
That's
the least we can do. If and if
you wronged somebody, make dua for them as
well.
Number 6. Repent back to Allah
for the majors for the minor sins and
the major sins. The major sins by,
making sure you stop the sin. Number 2,
by showing remorse and regret for the sin.
Number 3,
stopping the sin
completely. Alito used to say that
there's a 4th one here.
And he will say the 4th one is
disconnecting
yourself
from anything that will lead you back to
that sin.
They're a group of people
that we drop our guard with,
and the inner,
you
know, the side that we don't like comes
out.
You may sin with them.
You talk about things that you shouldn't talk
about.
You may do things with them that you
shouldn't do.
Cut that path, Arizon says. Close that path.
There may be apps on your phone that
you do think that you shouldn't. Delete those
apps.
Block those sites.
Block those people
that you that you talk to.
It's a difficult
decision. It's a difficult step,
but he says that that's where true repentance
is. And here, again, asking asking people for
forgiveness as well. Not just Allah Subhanahu, but
asking people for forgiveness.
Hereafter. In the hereafter, for the station the
hereafter, oh Allah give me Jannah, oh Allah
give me, speed at the But for the
hereafter
who controls my tongue. Make me a person
who there's a du'a, the prophet of Allah
radiates a sallam. He said,
He
He says, oh Allah, I ask you for
protection
from the evil of my eyes. Don't let
my eyes sin.
And I ask you protection from the evil
of my ears. Don't let my ears sin.
Sin.
My
tongue.
My emotions.
My situation, my thoughts, my issues.
So you ask Allah
for the hereafter.
And this was a du'a that we've been
talking about.
Oh, Allah
help me enjoy
worship.
Okay.
These are my go to duas.
Number 8, making duas for anything and everything
you want in the dunya. Nothing too small.
Nothing too big. Understand
Who are you asking from? His kingdom is
vast. You can give anything. All you need
is 2 letters.
All you need is 2 letters.
And you're set.
If a lost one that looks at you
and says,
today you get the.
The life is set.
So ask the law
And
we say that there are different levels of
acceptance of duas. Immediately,
later, when it's better than for you, Allah
gives you something better. He removes a hardship
or
the best,
gosh. I wish
only if none of my duas were accepted
in the duniya, and I got the reward
for it all in the hereafter.
Number 9.
Cheat code getting into duas of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, tagging
let the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam do
it.
Say, oh, Allah. Everything that the prophet asked
for, there are certain things that we don't
know about. Kanad.
What is kanad? I don't know. But the
prophet asked for it.
Oh, Allah. Make me content in whatever you
have given me.
There are certain things that are good for
us that we don't even know. Certain things
that are bad for us that we don't
know. Here, you're entering yourself into all the
dua of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. And
then finally, you wrap up with durood
because you're putting these engines onto the train
in the back to push your dua to
Allah
And
numbers 11, you're praising Allah because our relationship
is not
tangible
on the acceptance of du'a.
Your heart does not change
if Allah gives, and if Allah doesn't
give. Your heart is your connection with them
stays the same.
In the last, we had this hadees that
you don't rush Allah. Understand
it comes when a lost
wants it to come. It will help you.
Yes. Cut any pathway that will lead you
to this sin.
Anything that will lead you to this sin,
block that pathway.
Delete the app, block that person,
you know,
maybe
stop that subscription that you have.
Right? If your phone is loaded up with
iTunes
music, you know, if you're asking for forgiveness,
then it's time to delete that off your
phone.
Those those people make you send the news
time to change your crowd.
So these are 11 steps,
taken from different Hadis different. And there's no
there's nothing that says that this is
this this is
the the method.
But these are taken from different Hadis and
different Quran and compiled,
to give some structure,
to our duas. So we make duas at
last time. Yes.
Yes.
Yes. Any.
But in in it
can be
English. But,
in the in in.
So in it
has to be Quran and Hadis.
In it
can be your own, but it has to
be,
in Arabic.
Like, for example, in
which is not
we make dua for
That's, you know, there's no Quran. That's our
language, but it's it's it's in Arabic. That's
fine.
Yeah. Just a normal subject. That's fine. English.
Which one affects your heart more?
Whichever one affects your heart more. But see,
the the the the the tricky part with
the Imam,
his dua
is, thousands of people are saying, I mean.
If any one of them hit,
you you you win.
But you have to work on your heart
as well. So there has to be a
balance I would say a balance between the
2. So,
may
Again, please remember me, my family, my parents,
my children. In your duas tonight, inshallah, I
will try to remember you all. We ask,
whatever
duas we make in these final days, not
just tonight, but in these final days, Allah
subhanahu wa'am accepts. Allah subhanahu wa'am yeah. I
I one time I heard someone making duas
that, oh, Allah, make me somebody that makes
duas.
Make me somebody that constantly asks this from
you.
So, we ask the lost mother that he
gives us joy in dua. He gives us
pleasure in dua. The depth of our dua
chains, the frequency of our dua chains,
the formalities of our dua leaves, that we
find joy in our dua. We have this
slide right here.
This shows you, you know, the how strong
your relationship is with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Yes.
Yeah.
And, that's more dangerous. Without knowledge is more
dangerous. Why? Because you're just going to continue
doing it.
So, having that knowledge, and you know, that's
why,
we used to say that
action
without knowledge
is is
misguidance.
And knowledge without action is It's
a burden.
Abu Bakr used to do that.
Once again.