Mustafa Khattab – Ramadan Reflections 12 Salah
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And
one way to show you Ikhlas is when
you communicate with Allah
And the best way to communicate with Allah
is through salah.
The word salah in Arabic shares the same
root with the word salah, which is connection.
So when you are in salah, you are
in direct
communication with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
I think one night we mentioned in the
quiz,
if you'd like to connect with Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala, the best way to communicate is
dial this number 24434,
and we said that this is the number
of the daily namaz, the number of salawat
that you pray every day. 2 for fajib,
4 dhor for us, 3 marib and 4
for Isha.
So basically
I will just give a few examples to
illustrate the importance of salah
So basically we know that the the first
question we get when Yamaul Qiyamah is about
salah. As soon as we open our eyes
for hissah, the first question is salah. Did
you pray properly or not?
And the last words that came out of
the mouth of Muhammad
before he passed away were
He was telling people to keep up their
salah.
Then the prophet
passed away. So if there was anything that
is more important in Islam, the prophet would
have chosen it to seal his mission with.
So he didn't talk about
Umrah, he didn't talk about, you know, qiyam.
No. He spoke about salah in particular. The
5 daily namaz and so on and so
forth.
We also know that,
Salah is probably the only act of worship
in Islam that cannot be waived.
So say for example if someone is mute,
they can't talk. When they come to take
Shahada,
they just point like this. This one got
akhaz. This makes them Muslim.
If someone is very sick in the month
of Ramadan, they don't have to fast. It
depends if why they were, you know, how
they would make up the days after and
so on and so
forth. And if someone, for example, does not
have money, they don't have to give zakat.
And if someone, for example, does not have
the physical, the financial ability to go for
Hajj, they don't have to. But as for
salah, if someone is poor,
they still have to pray. If someone is
sick, they pray. If someone is Musafir, they
pray. If a sister is pregnant, they pray.
And and if someone, you ani you ani,
is at the hospital waiting for a surgery,
they pray. So there is no waiving for
salah.
Maybe there is one case for the sisters
in this, you know, time of the month
or after childbirth,
but other than this, it it's not waived
for anyone else. These are the only,
exemptions in sharia.
We're also told when you pray, you are
in direct communication with Allah
When you say something, Allah will respond to
you insulah.
The hadith of the prophet salaam al salahiq,
Muslim, other narrations.
The prophet salaam
says, when you say, Alhamdulillahi rabbil alamee Allah
will say, hamadani abdi. My servant has glorified
me. When you say, rahman al Rahim, Allah
is saying, my servant has praised me. So
every time you say an ayah, in Fatiha
Allah will respond to you. Right?
So as we said, make sure you give
Allah out of quality time when you pray
with Him
because it's a two way dialogue when you
pray.
Otherwise, if you do it very quick, very
fast, faster than light, it is not a
dialogue anymore. We call it monologue in English.
You are talking to yourself. Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamid.
This is not this is not a dialogue
with Allah
So now,
the last thing I will say,
because you only spend a few minutes every
salah to communicate with Allah
The rest of the time you are doing
your work, homework, you're you're you're going about
your your your daily life,
So make it quality time. And this is
why, subhanAllah, if you look at the Quran,
some of the Prophets when they spoke to
Allah
typically they will keep things short. If like
Musa alayhi salam when they told him,
He said a few words.
But when he was talking to Allah
Allah asked him a question. You know the
story in Surataha.
Allah
says,
What is that you have in your right
hand? You have Musa.
He could have said, a staff, a stick.
Asa. No. He said,
He said, it is my staff.
I use it to keep my animals together,
and I feed them, I protect them,
and I I lean on it, and so
on and so forth. And he said, I
have some other uses for the stick for
the stick.
You know, why did he go on and
on and on to talk about the stick
and he said I have some other uses
as well?
Allah didn't ask about that, but they say
in Tafsir, he wanted the conversation with Allah
to be very long because he is communicating
with Allah
The other example is in Surah Mahila, at
the end of the Surah, Isa
When his people said the Hawariyin,
they said
Okay. They requested a sign and he said,
what do you want? They said, okay. We
need iqram. We need food to come down.
And
this is something amazing, like, when you invite
someone,
for Islam or something, give them a Quran.
Just like the hawarean, they requested food. When
you feed someone, you disarm them, and you
put their heart at ease.
And the ayah says
They said, once we eat,
our hearts will be reassured.
So you see the connection between the stomach
and the talb, the heart. Once the stomach
is full, the heart is reassured according to
this ayah. So this is something to keep
in mind.
If you want to talk to someone about
something, you have an issue, take them out
for food. Biryani, shawarma, something. Drink tea,
they relax, Khaliq, you talk to them.
But if you talk on the spot like
this, walk walk walk, they will fight, you
know.
So, Isa alayhi wasalam, when he is making
dua to Allah to
bring down the table,
you see, like this is not the way
Isa alayhi wasalam talks in the Quran. He's
very brief, to the point. But when he
talks to Allah
Yeah. Now outside the Quran, this would be
considered redundancy. Like, he's giving too much information
that is not required.
He could have just said,
He could have just said, but he said,
bring down a table for us.
So he said, bring down a table
from heaven. Like, when a table comes down,
it has to come down from the top.
It will become a feast for us.
It will become a feast for us, the
first of us, the last of us, all
of us, and aside from you.
And gave us a risk, and you are
the best provider. He's putting too much information.
Same thing. He's talking to Allah and
he wants to keep this line of communication
open for as long as he can. So
always remember this when you do salah, you
are in communication with Allah
and imagine
if, you know, the time for salah comes,
and you said, I don't have time. This
is too bad.
Because imagine if you got a call from
Justin Trudeau or from the Queen,
and you're playing video games or something, and
you tell them,
I'm busy. Ask them to call back in
a month. This is not nice, you know.
And we're not talking about the queen, we're
talking about the king, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. So
you have to to, to show respect to
Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, especially when you pray
to Him.
You are talking to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Whatever you need in this world,
money,
everything is in his hands.
When you leave him and you go look
somewhere else, you left the one who has
everything in their hands.
You'll be looking somewhere else in the wrong
place. So I asked Allah
to give us tawfiq.
It's very hot.
So the question for last night, how come
that the Prophet
did he pray Janazah for Khadija al Bilahu
Anhab and he prayed for
you know, Saudah Bintizama and some other wives
of the prophet
The most interesting I I got, answer I
got was someone said because Khadija
died shahid, he didn't have to pray for
her.
This is nonsense.
Right? So, basically, the prophet didn't pray for
Khadija
because this was in Mecca. There was no
salat or janazah at the time. There was
no Ramadan,
no taraweeh,
no 5 din namaz, no hajj, nothing. This
was at the beginning of Islam, so there
was no salatul janazah. But, of course, he
made dua for her, but no janazah. This
is the right answer, and the winner So
I knew the answer last night, so you
didn't allow me to answer.
Try tonight, inshallah.
But the winner tonight is brother Muhammed Taref
Fafai. Takbir. Allah. Taref Fafai. Salazar
Fafai. Taref Fafai. Taref Fafai. Taref Fafai.
The question for tonight. A question for tonight.
And this is something that actually happened to
me, like, 20 seconds Insha'Allah.
1, day in Ramadan,
you know, I set up the alarm to
wake up for fajr,
and this was in Edmonton. I woke up
in the morning.
You know, I ate, big turbos because the
doctor said one fruit, so I ate, watermelon.
Yeah. I was flexible with the truth. But,
anyway, I went to the masjid after I
ate,
and this was, like, the 7th, 8th day
of Ramadan. And there were only 2 guys
in the masjid. I said, subhanAllah, Ramadan Muslims.
1st day of Ramadan, I couldn't get inside
the masjid for Faizh, but now 2 people
only. Then I realized when they told me,
we're looking for you like 1 hour and
a half ago. Where have you been? So
it turned out that, you know, the time
changed,
and I was with wind. They call it
freedom now. And there was a problem, and
it didn't give me the right time. So
I woke up after Faush, and I ate
the Tarbos.
And I went to Fash after everyone left,
you know. So now what is the ruling
on my fasting now? Is it valid? Because
I ate 1 hour after Fash. Is my
fasting valid, or do I have to make
up the day? If you know the answer,
email me, before tomorrow at [email protected].