Mustafa Khattab – Taraweeh Gems 3 Fasting & Dua

When my servants ask you, Mohammad,

about me,

I'm truly near. I respond to the guapo

whoever calls upon me.

So, there's something very special about this tag.

If you look at the Quran where Allah

is talking to the Quran and

he's saying, when he ask you about something,

tell the prophet this.

14 times in the Quran. They ask you

about this. Yeah. Muhammad, tell him that.

This is the only exception in the Quran.

This a.

There is no

Why?

It says when he asks you about

me, Allah is giving you the answer right

away. There's no one between you and Allah.

Right? So he's telling you,

when they ask you, Muhammad, about me,

I'm truly near. He's giving you the answer

right away.

Not through the prophet, but Allah subhanahu wa

ta'ala is talking to you directly. There's no

one between you and Allah.

There's also another thing interesting about this ayah.

When you read the ayah before and the

ayah after, they talk about

The Ayah after

it talks about,

a man's relationship with his wife during the

night of Ramadan. So the Ayah before and

the Ayah after talk about rulings related to

fasting and Ramadan.

But this particular one is talking about Dua.

It technically, it has nothing to do with

the ayah before

and the ayah after. Why is it there?

Why it is put in there?

Well, this style is very common in the

Quran. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is talking about

a

general theme

and in the middle he puts an Haya

that

seemingly has nothing to do with the Ayah

before or after. Another example,

in in the Quran in Surah Al Baqarah,

the Ayah that talk about divorce.

Like, 3 or 4 pages

talk about divorce,

then there's this ayah in the middle,

Then he talks about divorce again. Right? So

3 4 ayah about divorce,

1 ayah in the middle that talks about

salah,

then he talks about divorce again. What what

does salah have to do with marriage and

divorce? So the ulama say,

if you have respect for Allah and you

pray with time, you keep up your salah,

you will always have respect for your wife

or your husband

and there will never be problem in the

marriage if you keep a keep a good

connection with Allah. This is why the ayah

is put in the middle in the ayah

that talk about marriage and divorce.

So marriage and divorce have a lot to

do with salah.

And this is why broken families when people

come and ask about,

for counseling and they're shooting at each other,

they're calling the police on each other, the

first question I ask them do you guys

pray?

99%

of the time the answer is no, we

don't pray.

So if you have no relationship with Allah,

how can you keep a good relationship with

one another? So this is the wisdom.

As for this ayah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

is telling us

whose dua will never be rejected. Their dua

will always be accepted,

and one of them is the fasting person,

As Sahih.

If someone is fasting in Ramadan or outside

Ramadan,

their dua will always be accepted. And this

is why the ayah here is put between

the ayah to talk about Ramadan and the

different rulings.

So

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is telling us in

the ayah, when you pray to me I

will respond to you. It doesn't say I'm

going to answer. He's saying I will respond

because the response will come in different forms.

So for example, if you pray to him,

I wanna marry this lady or I wanna

find the you know,

get this job,

then maybe Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will give

you the job or he will give you

this wife.

Or maybe

you are asking for a particular job,

an iman job, or a teacher job, or

a doctor job, when you are asking to

pay a particular person,

a husband or a lady or a man,

then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala knows that this

is a miserable job or he knows that

this is a crazy man or a crazy

woman. If you marry them,

you will be miserable.

Right? So he knows that there's nothing good

about these people if you marry them or

in this job. So he gives you a

different job or he gives you a different

person to marry. So he responds in a

different way.

Sometimes

you are asking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for

something and this through a lot about many

of us that you ask about something, you

Allah, I want to marry this person or

you Allah, I'm sick or you Allah, I

have a difficulty.

Remove this difficulty or give me a job

or something. Then, you know, Allah

responds after a long time.

Why?

There's a hikmah behind this because

Allah

is telling us in the Quran,

if he keeps showering his namal on you,

you always turn your back to him.

You only give back to him and ask

him if you need something from him. He

knows us.

Surah al Fusilat ayah 51. If we show

our our nirmaw and humans,

they turn their back to me, to Allah.

But if they are in a difficulty, they

have a problem,

they always come to Allah with lengthy dua.

They are crying, they're asking Allah forever.

So he knows us. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

wants to keep your company.

He knows if you make dua to him,

he gives you your answer to the dua

the same day, you'll turn your back to

him. But he keeps you asking for dua

for weeks or months because he wants to

keep your company.

And always

remember if,

the distance between you and Allah is getting

bigger,

always keep to in your mind that Allah

hasn't moved even for 1 inch. You are

the one who's moving away. So always make

Dua to him. If he doesn't respond to

you in this dunya by giving you what

you're asking for, maybe he knows that this

is not good for you in this dunya.

He will give you the reward in adhira

for your dua and for asking him. We

We ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to give

us the best in this life and the

best in the life to come and we

ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to always answer

our dua in what is best for us

in this dunya and in Afr Al Mi'in

Nabi.