Mufti Menk – Points from Surah Sajdah, Ahzaab & Sabaa

			Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim al hamdu lillahi wa sallahu wa salam o Baraka Allah Milena ba ba de who
Allah Allah he was having a Jemaine Allahumma inaka hoon to hit Bala for five one Allahumma inaka
hoon to hit Buddha for five for a lot of them in a boon to Ebola 451 we commence In the name of
Allah Subhana Allah, Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. We praise Allah subhanho wa Taala
upon all conditions we send blessings and salutations upon Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, his
companions, we ask Allah subhanho wa Taala to bless them, to bless his household to bless every one
of us to grant us goodness to bless our offspring those to come up to the end May Allah subhanho wa
		

			Taala keep us all steadfast. I mean, my brothers and sisters tonight being one of the first of the
odd nights from the last 10 nights of the month of Ramadan, it is important for us to call out to
Allah subhanho wa Taala with the dua that we commenced this beautiful session with. And that is, Oh
Allah, you are most forgiving, you love to forgive, so forgive us. Don't underestimate the value of
a prayer.
		

			during any one of these last night's keep repeating it through the night, even if you happen to
recline, even if you happen to sleep for a while. What you need to know what I need to know, we
cannot afford to forego we cannot afford to leave out the nights that are from tonight onwards not
to say the previous nights were not important. But these nights are extremely important. We don't
want to miss even a single one. For indeed, if we were to make that if we were to engage in the
vicar of Allah, if we were to spend just one of these nights
		

			completely in the worship of Allah subhanho wa Taala. Who knows that might just be our agenda. That
might just be total and absolute forgiveness. We read surah a such depth yesterday, and I want to
pick up a point from that particular surah It is named after the such thing which means the
prostration. And in that surah the highlight is actually the the highlight is the prostration that
the believers make. And a lot describes them by saying that that Java Judo boom,
		

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			Their sides forsake their beddings their sides, forsake their biddings they caught out to Allah
throughout the night, hoping in the mercy of Allah and fearful of the wrath and the anger of Allah
subhanho wa Taala and they spend from that which Allah gives them notice the spending is always
thrown in by Allah subhanho wa Taala. So the people who truly fear Allah, they have a quality where
they have hope in Allah, they spend the nights in the worship of Allah very often. And they,
together with the hope they have an element of fear, out of the love of Allah subhanho wa Taala they
don't want to transgress they don't want Allah to be angry with them because they love Allah so
		

			much, just like you and I, if we love someone so dearly, we would not like to hurt them or to make
them feel sad in the case of a human being. In the case of Allah subhanho wa Taala we would not like
to make him angry or upset. It is the love that should drive us to worship Allah subhanho wa Taala.
So the love would mean we fear to we fear to actually
		

			spoil that relationship that we have with Allah Subhana Allah to Allah and we fear the punishment
that Allah subhanho wa Taala has prepared and thereafter he says they spend which means they are
concerned about other creatures of Allah, they spend on others they spend on family members. And
remember spending Yes, primarily it is referring to the wealth that Allah gave you the sustenance
that he gave you. But it also goes beyond that to your character. You spend your character upon
someone, the Hadith speech of a smile being an act of charity, what is that its character, its
conduct being spent because it is priceless. It is something very, very valuable, you cannot even
		

			put a tag on it. May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us every form of goodness. So that is a quality
that this surah is actually known for and it is repeated generally as per the Sunnah of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam on a Friday in Salatin, federal, generally the suit is red, and it is a
reminder for all of us. Come on once in a while, once in a while. Let's spend the entire night for
the sake of Allah Subhana Allah to Allah May Allah strengthen myself and may He strengthen
		

			Every one of us, I mean, we move on to Sudan
		

			and inshallah to Allah subhanho wa Taala asks us and the believers from the time that the Quran was
revealed going right up to the end of time to remember the favors upon you that were bestowed by
Allah subhanho wa Taala. So one of these favors that Allah had bestowed upon the people at the time
was that when the armies in large numbers and they had struck a huge Alliance, they came through to
Madina, munawwara wanting to attack the Muslims and they were confident that we are going to destroy
the Muslims. And Allah subhanho wa Taala inspired through the mutual consultation, the prophet peace
be upon him and his companions to dig a trench around the parts of Medina where it was possible for
		

			horses to cross or for people to cross and the trench was a large trench. When the kuffaar arrived,
the enemy arrived. They were stunned. They were shocked, they had not known of this tactic before
when they saw it. So hon Allah, they were unable to enter Madina, munawwara to fight the Muslims.
And they decided, well, we are going to camp here after some time, you know, these people will
probably lower their guard and we will be able to go in Allah subhanho wa Taala. Remember when he is
with you, nobody can harm you. They can come hundreds of 1000s and millions if Allah is with you,
nothing can happen. So panela my brothers and sisters, do you know that Allah sent the wind and
		

			Allah centerstone and Allah subhanahu wa taala caused them to be destroyed and to run away because
of the weather, the conditions of the weather, and this is why Allah speaks about the weather and
various other creatures of his such as the clouds and and the the lightning and so on. And he calls
them his army, part of the army of Allah subhanho wa Taala. He uses those he can use it for merciful
purposes, and he can use it for punishment. This is why when it's raining, we are taught to make
Allahu Masai but naffaa Allah let this be beneficial reign over Allah, let him not be rain of
destruction, let it be rain that will bring about your mercy and so on. That's just one example. So
		

			in this case, Allah says, Yeah, la Vina man oh you who believe with koroni Allah Allah can remember
the favors of Allah upon you is
		

			What do you
		

			remember when the Alliance's when the entire army the Allies had come forth?
		

			And Allah says, we sinned against them, the wind, just the wind, and we sent against them an army
that you could not see.
		

			What's that army, the angels. My brothers and sisters right now we are in the house of Allah. They
are angels present here without a doubt, Allahu Akbar. Without a doubt, this is the house of Allah.
They are angels present here. When we gather in order to remember Allah and to gain closeness to
Allah. The angels encircle us to ensure we are not harmed. So hannula the angels encircle us, they
make do our for us, they call out to Allah for our forgiveness. So we should understand as
believers, we definitely know that one of the pillars of Eman is that we believe in all the angels
the fact that they exist, and the fact that Allah uses them to this day, as He wills and wishes he
		

			instructs them and they don't go against his instruction. So have hope in Allah. When we I'm in
trouble when you are in trouble. If you have faith in Allah, He will send even the angels to guard
you to protect you to open your doors, you won't know what happened. But Allah knows. People say
that was a miracle. So panela at least they're acknowledging it was nothing to do with them. It was
Allah, how many of us have witnessed things in our lives where we don't know how it happened? Well,
Allah knows. He didn't. So panela he wants to see, will you acknowledge that it's his power. He used
an army that you couldn't see whether it was angels or anything else. May Allah subhanho wa Taala
		

			grant us the ability to reason the ability to think about this. The reason I say this is that verse
is saying, Oh, you who believe. Remember that? Think about it, go back and ponder over it. That's
what we're doing.
		

			Although it wasn't you and I directly, but we believe those were our brothers. They were the
founders of this deal. They fought in order for it to get to us today. So we are seated here because
the Battle of better took place and they were people prepared to lose their lives so that Islam came
to you and I may Allah bless them. May Allah grant them goodness, the minimum we can do
		

			is at least follow the face.
		

			At least follow the dean they gave their lives for it. They gave their lives for it, not just once,
many occasions many of them lost their lives. And what we do, we busy thinking whether I want to
read Salatin or not or not, but they gave their lives today it came to you. How can we think about
that and pondering over whether I should sin or not? Are all the Billa they died so that the DM
could come to you and I and Allah says all believers Think about it. We favor with you. We favored
you by sending you people to protect you and the deen the Prophet sallallahu Sallam is reported to
have said on the day of better, Oh Allah, you see, we hear a 313 save us if you'd like to be
		

			worshipped on Earth, they were saved.
		

			By Allah grant us goodness. So this is the surah that is at the beginning. Later on Allah says,
Lakota, Ghana Allah configure assumed in
		

			Hashanah, Lima Can I have
		

			a woman with a canon law?
		

			Those who have hope in the meeting with Allah, do you want to meet with Allah, those who have hope
in the last day, they have hoping the goodness that will come out of that last day because they are
trying remember yesterday we spoke about the trial because they are trying they have hope. If you
have hoping the meeting with Allah, you want to meet with your maker. Well then Allah says you know
what you need to do. You need to follow the example of the Prophet peace be upon him, try and learn
his entire life and emulate. He went through so much of difficulty and hardship it did not make him
weaker in faith. Instead, it made him stronger in faith. It made him more powerful in his
		

			conviction. He was upon the highest possible level. But he went even higher when it came to his
difficulties. He was more convinced in the power of Allah subhanho wa Taala.
		

			And Allah says, remember Allah a lot. remember Allah a lot in another verse we heard tonight. Yeah,
are you
		

			are you who believe remember? The first one said, Oh, you who believe remember when we helped you?
The second one says, Oh, you who believe remember, remember what? guru law the Quran kathira
remember Allah a lot, a lot. the remembrance of Allah commences with the Quran. It's the greatest of
the remembrance of Allah. You want to remember Allah you must read the Quran, learn it, understand
it, put it into practice conveyed to others, that is the highest possible form of the remembrance of
Allah. Allah Vickery. chilla, was the best remembrance you can ever have is the Quran. Why? Because
it's the word of Allah. It is spoken by Allah, your maker and mine. When we read these words, it's
		

			they are not yours and my words, and this is why when an error happens in Salah, it is an honor to
be corrected. It is an absolute pleasure and then honor when someone from the back who knows what
has happened, and there is an error yelling out at the top of the voices, you've made a mistake
while law he I swear by Allah, it is such a great honor because it is not my word. It is the word of
Allah. If it were mine, I could have tampered, if it is the word of Allah, there is no temporary
committed permissible. Therefore, Allah says clearly remember a lot a lot, what will it do to you,
it will refine you, it will fine tune you. You will understand that you need to develop this link.
		

			It will make you a better person. It will bring you closer to the hereafter it will make you yearn
to meeting with Allah. And do you know what the prophet muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says,
		

			when I have balika Allah, Allah
		

			whoever loves to meet Allah, Allah loves to meet him. Do you want to meet a law? Guess what Allah
wants to meet you to?
		

			Subhan Allah, imagine I want to meet Allah and then I find out Allah has been waiting to meet me,
Allahu Akbar. That's what the Hadith says. You love to meet Allah. Allah loves to meet you. But I
can tell you the bottom line is when we do good, and we continue doing good. We start thinking to
ourselves, Oh Allah, Oh Allah, it would be such a lovely day when I met you. But when we do bad and
when we are evil, let's be honest. We don't even want to die. We don't even want to come and meet a
religious person, let alone meeting Allah subhanho wa Taala. May Allah help us this is why Allah
says oh you who believe. remember Allah a lot. And the thicker continues to even the test be had
		

			anything to do with the deen is the dhikr of Allah. Just like civilian law, the path of Allah is
anything to do with the struggle to become a better person closer to Allah. The same would apply
when it comes to the words licola anything that would be mentioned that would draw you closer to
Allah is the dhikr of Allah subhanho wa Taala May Allah subhanahu wa taala help
		

			As to understand this great gift and that's why once your tongue is absolutely within what Allah
says in terms of Vicar, it will be known as studied, studied, meaning straight. This man's tongue is
placed, a man whose tongue is moist with the vicar of Allah and the remembrance of Allah. He's not
going to lie, he's not going to deceive, he's not going to cheat. He's not going to utter hurtful
words, whether it's against his family or those who work for him, or those who are around him or
those who are lower than him or higher. He's not going to say bad words, backbiting, deception,
nothing because he doesn't want to waste that time and the movement of it in anything that is
		

			outside of the pleasure of Allah. So Allah ends that particular Surah Surah Al Azhar by saying oh
you who believe there's a reminder for you What is it? Yeah, yo Han Latina mano de con la ku con la.
Sadie.
		

			Oh you who believe be conscious of Allah and only after that which is that which is upright, free
from falsehood from deception, from hurtful words, from vulgar words from anything abusive, and the
list goes on. You know, what is wrong speech? You know it, I know it.
		

			And Allah says, if you are conscious of what you say, and what you utter, we love the fact that you
use your tongue correctly so much that all your other deeds will make them good for you and we will
accept them from You. You.
		

			Allah, Allah come while Villa condo no back home, two things we are going to do for you as a favor.
When you watch your tongue. We will make your deeds good. We will make your deeds pure, which means
whatever deeds you've done, we are going to make them acceptable because you were worried about your
tongue, tongue.
		

			And Allah says you have a few
		

			little sins you might have committed, we will just wipe them out because you are trying very hard
with your tongue. That's why the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam says, My yoke malema, he, he
		

			whoever guarantees me the correct use of what is between the cheeks meaning the tongue and the
correct use of what is between the thighs meaning the private parts, I guarantee him paradise done.
I guarantee him paradise. When the Prophet sallallahu Sallam was asked, which is the deed that will
make people into Jannah. He says, two deeds, the piety the consciousness of Allah number one and
good character number two, the Sahaba then asked what about jahannam which deeds would have made
people go into Hellfire? He says, nevermind deeds, they are organs.
		

			Subhan Allah, Allah from
		

			the mouth and the private paths. For those two people will be burning. May Allah Subhana Allah Allah
protect us. That's why I spent a moment speaking about the tongue, the dhikr of Allah, the fact that
is suited to the hands of Allah tells us in so many different ways to watch out what we say.
		

			In one place, he says remember Allah often and in the other one he says, say that which is straight
when you say that which is straight and you remember Allah often we're going to make you beautiful
people, beautiful people, brothers and sisters, I have a request. The request is from today, this
great night of Ramadan, the 21st May Allah forgive us, let us promise that we will utter beautiful
words to our family members, starting with our family members from today for the rest of our lives.
Only beautiful words. It's not impossible. Even if you have something negative you want to correct
someone there is a method don't break their heart. Don't swear Don't be abusive. Say it in a lovely
		

			way. Come on, you can do it just like you would like when someone corrects you that they use good
words you need to also utilize beautiful words. It is a gift of Allah subhanho wa Taala and this is
why Allah Subhana Allah Allah Allah has blessed us. And Allah subhanho wa Taala says that as for the
believers, as for those who are conscious, he will grant them forgiveness, and he will grant them
genital for those. I want to mention a point or two of the next Surah Surah. Saba
		

			Saba is Shiva which is in Yemen. It is a place so this surah is named after a place why that place
Allah blessed them with beautiful gardens Allah gave them crop and produce and such beauty that for
as far as the eye could see, it was absolutely amazing on either side, Allah says we gave them
gardens and we told him one thing we only told him be thankful.
		

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			be thankful to he who gave you such a beautiful place of dwelling and he is indeed a lord who is
forgiving. Be thankful. Allah said you know what they did?
		

			Because they were drowning in the goodness that Allah bestowed upon them. They turned away from
Allah they renamed they went out of the worship of Allah. Allah says
		

			one word, Allah says they turned away they didn't listen to us. So what did we do for our son Allah
in Salem, Oregon. Now homie Jonathan Jonathan either water cooling some washing machine him in
Sydney in Cali so many things Allah says we sent them a storm and a flood and we replaced their good
gardens with that which was totally destroyed. Every fruit that came out of there was inedible with
they could not eat it every flower, anything that happened it was burnt and destroyed. It was gone.
And Allah says we took it away from them completely. We turned it totally upside down. As a result
of what in gratitude, in gratitude. Brothers and sisters when Allah gave you and he gave me whatever
		

			he gave us, let's be grateful. gratitude to Allah is actually by trying our best to be the best
possible Muslim.
		

			That's all. Then we are showing gratitude to Allah. May Allah Subhana Allah Allah grant us goodness
aku Cody hada or sal Allahu wa salam o Baraka, Nabina Muhammad Subhan, Allah Subhana Allah home will
be handed a shadow Allah, Allah Allah