Nadim Bashir – Lack of Focus in Worship – Signs of Weak Eman #2

			Last week we talked about one of the signs of weak faith and weak Iman Can you remember what we
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			was a weak well the sign that we talked about of weak Iman weak faith
		

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			We talked about not having any kind of regret or remorse when a person commits a sin and you don't
remember, today you shall I want to talk about another one. See Allah subhanho wa taala. He says in
the Quran Wa halacha told Jana well insight in learning Abu Dune, our existence and the purpose of
our creation is towards philosophy behind what the ILO is to get to know Allah subhanho wa Taala by
getting to know Allah subhanho wa Taala we can appreciate Allah subhanho wa Taala Allah subhanho wa
Taala wants us to worship him and hence we do worship Him. But the reason why today brothers and
sisters, you and I are not benefiting from our worship is because one of the signs of weak Imani is
		

			that we do things without any attention and without any focus how many times for how many years you
and I have been praying salad salad has that capacity to help us refrain from sins. Salad has a
capacity to help us sit to help us stop sinning and committing sins in our life and helps us stop
doing that. Yet you and I are committed the same sins. How many times have we done an entire Hotham
of the Quran? How many times do we do our thicker to Allah subhanho wa Taala but why isn't these a
badass helping us? Why are we not forgetting the objective of these EBA that it is mentioned by
irritate me Rahmatullah Yanni that the reason why we are not benefiting from our iba that is because
		

			you and I we are praying today we are doing our thicker today we are reading Quran today, but it's
without any kind of focus and without any kind of attention. He says that there are many a Hadith of
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that talk about the sweetness of iman that you can taste the
sweetness of iman, but he did meet up with Allah Allah he says that the reason why you and I we
cannot taste the sweetness of iman is because you and I have no concentration and no attention and
focus when we are doing our a bad. This is why Imam Ghazali Rahmatullah la he says that doing their
iba of Allah subhanho wa Taala without any kind of concentration and focus is like a body without a
		

			soul is like a body without a heart. There is no if there is no soul, there is no body. Likewise
based on this parallel given by Yvonne Kozani if there is no concentration, if I'm coming everyday
to the masjid, I'm just coming because I just have to come to the masjid but I have no idea what I'm
doing that how is that going to bring us the Wrath of Allah subhanho wa Taala if a bother is the
only way to connect to Allah subhanho wa Taala but our iba is soulless our a bada is dead because
there is no room in our iba. How can we expect to connect ourselves to Allah subhanho wa Taala and
this is why when Jabra Irani his Salam he came to us Allah salAllahu alayhi wa sallam, this idea of
		

			not having any kind of focus. The opposite of this is in English is called Mindfulness by an Arabic
is called Muraoka is in Arabic is called Moraga Murata by basically means to have the awareness of
Allah subhanahu wa taala. So, it has mentioned that when he asked what is your son, what did the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam say, and Tabu the Allah? Gah Naka Tara for inlanta? Quinta HuFa
in Iraq, many Allamah they say that this is perhaps the best one the best definitions given by
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam on what maraca is when you are in the state of Morocco but
when we are praying our salad and we understand that Allah is watching me, because in my salon when
		

			I say Alhamdulillah Allah, Allah Allah mean Allah is Allah responds to me. When I say a Rahman
Rahim, Allah responds to me when I say Maliki on Medina, Allah is responding to me. I have to
understand that I'm in a conversation between me and Allah subhanho wa taala. Imagine you're talking
to someone and you have absolutely no concentration. They're talking to you, you're talking to them,
and you have no attention to them. What kind of a disrespectful conversation that is, we are in a
conversation between Allah subhanho wa Taala and yet while we are praying, we're thinking about the
entire dunya physically we're here but mentally or we are doing pull off of the entire world. This
		

			is exactly what's happening. So this is why hadith of Gibreel mentions that what exactly is more aka
and not only that, the same idea that you and I we hear every single Juma fatwa Yeah, you are nuts,
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			Welcome minutes you are either wahala common has Oh Jaha was at the end of this ayah in Allah haka
and alikhan are up the IBA Allah subhanho wa Taala is watching over us, Allah is watching over us.
So that is why what can we do in order to grow the maraca in our life very first thing is that we
have to be always mentally prepared before we do anything. Let me explain. You don't want people
come first a lot. People are coming for Salon at the last minute the last second. They're coming
with their phones, checking their emails, checking their messages, we're not in the mental state to
begin with, how can we go from one extreme to the other extreme, within a matter of seconds, it
		

			cannot happen. This is why we find our own karma. Our scholars, our predecessors, whenever the time
of thought came, they will come to the masjid first. And they will make will do not five minutes
before sometimes half an hour before sometimes 25 minutes before they will come inside the Masjid.
They will pray this other sunnah, they will sit down, they will make dua they will make vicar what
happens is that now when you pray your salad, your slot is going to be very different compared to
the person who came the last second checking their email, checking their messages, and now they're
trying to get into the slot, that concentration is not going to be there. So first of all, before we
		

			do anything, even before we sit down and do our hour of God, know exactly what we're doing. So
mentally, we have to be present before we do anything. Number two is give it time. You have to give
your EBA time in order for your Ibadah to give back to you. That's the reality. We don't give a
time. And not only that, but we have to also know what we're saying. When I say Subhan Allah what is
Subhan Allah even mean is talking about the perfection of Allah subhanho wa Taala looking at
everything around us when we see a baby being born, what's the first thing we say Subhan Allah
right, because this is how this is how perfect Allah subhanho wa Taala is how how we engage in order
		

			to create and how we engage for procreation purposes. And from that Allah subhanho wa Taala he
creates a child when we see things beautiful scenery around us, what do we say Subhan Allah because
only and only Allah subhana wa Taala can do it will lie if the human being tried to do what Allah
subhanho wa Taala does, it will be filled with imperfections. Okay, only Allah subhanho wa Taala is
the one who does things very perfectly. You look at the sky and you look at the Earth you look at
the stories, everything is running by the system of Allah subhanho wa taala. When I say Subhan Allah
instead of saying Subhan Allah Subhan Allah Subhan Allah so Allah, I Say Subhan Allah and I reflect
		

			upon my I reflect upon my surrounding Subhan Allah and I reflect upon my surrounding. When I say
stuff that Allah stuff for the last for those who are stuck for, you know, know, a stuff that Allah
and think about a sin that unite we committed with Allah, you will find the power of is too far. We
know our sins. We know our shortcomings. None of us are perfect here. We may not want others to know
about our shortcomings, but we don't know we do know about our own shortcomings. When I say a stuff
that Allah I think about the sin that you and I we committed the shortcoming that you and I we
committed, you will find the power of a stuffer in there. When you say Alhamdulillah, not
		

			100 100 100 No. Alhamdulillah we often focus on what we don't have. Very rarely do we focus on what
we do have, say Alhamdulillah for what so many things around us. Allah says we're in our dunya I met
Allah He led to Suha how many children have come to me how many youth have come to me? Why do we not
pray slots anymore? Because I have no idea what I'm praying when I'm reading my salad. It's like a
coder, you know, a person who's engaged in coding. If you just if he's coding, coding, coding,
coding, he has no idea what he's doing. After a while he's gonna get tired of it. How many people
they start praying? Salat. Why? Because they have no idea what they're reciting. When I say Allahu
		

			Akbar, what is Allahu Akbar mean? It means that Allah is not the greatest Allah is greater than
everything that I was occupied with. And I left that for my salad Allah is greater than everything
else that does exist. So this is the maraca, the Unite we need to apply in our life. So ask Allah
subhanho wa taala. To grant us maraca to grant us this concentration now what about that? May Allah
subhanho wa Taala make everything that we do meaningful in our life? I mean noble Allah mean
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