Surah Al Jumuah #25 Secrets Behind Salah
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The importance of connection with the Quran is discussed, including the use of "il wear" and "will" in Arabic and the importance of praying on Friday. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of remembering Allah's words and the use of the "rem embacing words" in Arabic. The title of the Friday before the weekend is called the rememb desired and the importance of remembering Allah's words is discussed. The speaker also mentions sponsorship opportunities for students to learn the Quran and share it with family and friends.AI Generated Transcript ©
What's the ultimate dhikr according to the Quran?
The Quran.
The Quran.
But when he says
the remembrance of Allah Allah is not talking
about the sounds of the Quran.
Allah is talking about the message of the
Quran that impacts the heart.
So our connection, the more intimate we become
in our connection with the Quran,
our recitation is going to become more spiritual.
1st
Aw, Ilahi Adikarillah.
Actually, also
I didn't mention salah. Ithanudiya this salah so
let me come back to this I'll show
you something about salah first the word salah
which we translate as prayer yeah
Is actually an Istida. Istida in Arabic means
to warm your hands on a fire.
Okay? Or to borrow a fire from a
like there's a barbecue fire and you can
take your torch and you can light up
your fire. Musa
used it when his family was freezing in
the desert cold and he said, I'm gonna
go up to that fire and I'm gonna
see if I can find some directions
and hopefully I can get a little bit
of the fire so you can get some
warmth. La'alaqqum Tasdalooon
Same word from salah. Okay.
It's used also for people being thrown into
the fire of hell.
From the same word
And from it we get the word prayer.
What does prayer have to do with heating
and fire?
Actually the idea is when you put something
in the fire or when you heat something
it becomes soft.
Okay. The heat makes it softer if it's
a stick and you put it in the
heat it starts bending,
right?
The idea of salah, the spiritual meaning of
salah, one of its meanings is that its
intensity
humbles you,
it softens you, like it softens your heart,
it softens your thoughts, it softens your feelings.
Like those who believe their sins
their skins become soft.
Right? So there's a there's a there's an,
a detoxing happening
and there's a melting of you happening when
you're standing in the prayer. It's incredible.
Then Hassan Nasr al Jabbat in his dictionary
he argues, this is a little bit technical
but really cool, so I'm I'm sharing it
with you. The word salah has to do
with Sad,
Laam and You.
Sad, Laam and You. And in Arabic there
are vowels. Alif, Waw and You are vowels.
So if you get rid of the vowels,
then what consonants are left?
And
So the theory in Arabic linguistics that the
if there's 3 letters
and one of them is a vowel,
then you look at the 2 consonants in
this case
and any word that shares those two letters
is related to that word.
So you take the common denominator which is
and
from it and the other vowel would be
if you put a wow in the beginning
which is another word in Arabic, which is
similar to salah because it has sad and
lam in it. One has a vowel at
the end, the other has a vowel in
the
beginning. It's really it's like studying algebra. Honestly
it's really cool. But anyway so this word
wasl which is which
is means to connect.
And so salah also means
to join,
to connect.
You know like
They cut what Allah has commanded to keep
joined.
When we're called to salah we firstly connect
to Allah.
And by extension in a very secondary way,
we actually also connect to each other.
Allah says, (QS. Al Mujadilahi: 3) And theoretically,
hold on to the rope of Allah altogether,
and don't be divided. What's a physical demonstration
of everybody holding on to the rope of
Allah together, and not being divided?
Friday prayer.
Friday prayer, everybody's together, they're not divided.
And they're all holding on to the rope
of Allah. Right? So there's this idea of
connection. So let me come back and just
go through some of these other things. Then
the call is made that the laam actually
means for the purpose of. The ultimate purpose
is the prayer itself. But we know that
Jumu'ah is not just a prayer, it's what
else?
It's the Khutba. It's the Khutba and the
prayer.
And which there's 5 prayers in a day,
which prayer do we not pray on Friday?
We don't pray luh. Luhr is 4 rakas.
But the Friday prayer is what? 2 rakas.
Our fuqaha looked at this and said, the
reason we don't pray the 4 rakas of
Luhru is that 2 of them become the
equal of the Khutba and the other 2
are the prayers that we pray.
Which is why the Khutba becomes a part
of the prayer.
Okay. So we're compensating
2 rakas of wuhr with actually the khutba.
Okay. Which is why you should take every
precaution you can to come to the Friday
prayer early. You should also take every precaution
you can. It's not just any speech.
It's a part of the salah in that
sense. So you shouldn't be talking or you
know distracted just like you wouldn't do that
in the prayer. You wouldn't in the middle
of your prayer be like Allah.
Will let me respond, I'll not.
Okay, I'm about to go to ruku, I
gotta go talk later, Allahu Akbar.
Would it do that and you shouldn't do
that also in what?
In the khutba,
in the khutba. And even from an early
age our children should be taught Khutba is
not any other speech.
Any other speeches going on, people are talking
to each other, no problem.
But this, you shouldn't be. Now, I'll share
with you my own again,
might sound controversial to you but I'm gonna
share my position on this with you. There
was a, because this
was assumed that the 2 rak'ahs of wuhr
are now equivalent of the hutba which is
then making it the hutba sacred, the hutba
is now become sacred. Now that it's become
sacred
it should be
in Arabic. So fatwa came that the Khutba
itself should be in the Arabic language otherwise
it's not really considered a Khutba.
Okay.
The problem I have with that view
is that 1, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
spoke in Arabic because he was speaking to
an Arab audience. It's number
1. The opening praises of the Prophet's Masnu
and Khudbah or the fact that we praise
Allah and send salawat on the Prophet SAW.
Sure do that in Arabic, that's a great
sunnah of the Prophet
But
if somebody who's Arab or speaks Arabic starts
talking about you know, how
we should help our young men and women
become more independent,
and become financially responsible
so they can get married early,
But he says all of that in Arabic
to a Turkish community.
And he says all of that in Arabic
to a Bangladeshi community. Did any of them
hear anything about the Ayat of Allah?
They didn't.
Or that's actually
what I'm shared shared with you is inspired
by an Ayah of the Quran. The Quran
talks about these issues,
you know. That it talks about financial independence
and how you have to become and related
to merit. So this is an important issue
that the community needs to hear, but now
they can't hear because it's only being said
in
Arabic. And the problem with that is
Allah never said the Arabic language is sacred.
The sacred words in the Arabic language are
sacred.
Quran is sacred,
not Arabic.
When I say, that's
not more Islamic.
I was like, How's it going bro? That's
justice is equal. You know what? There was
a funny story in that country where they
don't speak Arabic, but Arabic is supposed to
be like really the Islamic language. They have,
they had a problem in that Muslim country
where people they just go by a because
there's no public bathrooms, right? So people go
by a wall, and they just pee.
It's just disgusting,
and they put giant signs, please don't urinate
here, please don't pee here, etcetera, and nobody
listens. This is
disgusting. Right? So somebody came up with a
genius idea.
They put it in calligraphy Arabic.
Do not pee.
The problem stopped.
Because in the minds of people,
Arabic itself is sacred.
So
Yeah
so I do believe the basnoon part of
the khutbah, the hamdot of Allah
and the salawat of the Prophet
I think we should preserve that sunnah of
the Prophet But the message of the khutbah
actually should be in the language of the
people.
And that's why it was separated from the
prayer itself.
So it's supposed to be a message for
the people. So anyway that's
Now,
this next next piece,
a part of the day of Friday. This
is really important because the people that came
before us, the Israelites who were given the
Torah, they were not told to pray a
part of the sacred day. And for them
the sacred day was called
Asabt, the Sabbath
and actually they were told to pray the
entire day and leave all business the entire
day. I'm gonna go into detail about that
later on but I'll tell you one thing
now and that is Allah has taken what
used to be part of the Sharia of
Musa
and He reduced it
and He made it lighter.
Now there are other things in the Sharia
of Musa
that Allah made lighter also.
Like the things they added on. Like for
example, I told you they consider the camel,
impure, right? And
Allah clarifies that no, it's not impure you
can eat that in the Quran. There's a
there's an isha'aayat Surah Al Imran
Similarly, they used to have days in which
they would fast. Allah made those days optional
but He made the fasting of Ramadan
mandatory.
On this note you should note a few
things
about our prayers and theirs. Their prayers they
used to have also ruku and sujood like
we have.
They used to have ruku and sujood but
it seems that they used to have sajda
first and ruku second.
Okay.
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And we get that ishara in how Allah
spoke to or the angels spoke to Mariam
salamu ala'liha
Do Sajdah and make Ruquah
Okay. So they do Sajdah and they make
Ruquah But we do Ruquah first then we
do Sajdah So Allah changed the format of
the prayer
Then they used to pray towards Jerusalem.
Allah changed it towards what?
The Kaaba.
They used to pray in the middle 3
days of the month.
Allah changed the day of Ashura.
Allah changed the fasting to what?
Ramadan.
He man did the fasting in Ramadan.
So what is Allah doing? He changed the
capital,
He changed the national holiday,
Right? He changed the sacrifice
He kept some things but He altered each
thing you know what that is? When a
nation has a new capital
When a nation has a new constitution, the
Quran. When a nation has a new We
don't have an independence day, we have an
independence month.
And usually a nation has an independence day
when their
right? And then we celebrate that at the
end with Eid actually, right? And then daily
claim to Ibrahim alaihis salam Allah gave us
Iida al Abha.
And we make bigger claim to Ibrahim
than they can ever make because now millions
and millions and millions of people go to
Hajj and we have an Ibrahim convention every
year.
Right? That's literally an Ibrahim
convention. And we slaughtered the animal just like
who slaughtered the animal?
Ibrahim
So we
reclaimed Ibrahim alaihis salam. We reclaimed the legacy
of Ibrahim, we reclaimed the prayer, we reclaimed
the fasting, we reclaimed the final revelation. All
of it's getting reclaimed and the same way
they had the day of Sabbath and Allah
said, Now the sacred day shall be
Jawah. That got reclaimed too.
There's a reclaiming happening. Wait, wait, wait. What
about Saturday? No. It's actually Friday.
It's Friday.
So and it's not the whole Friday. It's
only a part of Friday. Allah said about
them
He tells us about the people of the
book. Allah has given this final Prophet
He has given him something that removes the
burdens and the chains that were on them.
They were chained by the Sabbath and Allah
has removed that and invited
them to something much easier which is the
day of Friday. So He says to us,
rush by the way
the meme has a sound, right?
Badu Uqayl, another tribe of the Arabs used
to say
with the sukoon Jumwa
like Pakistanis
Jumwa.
So you're more Banuwa Okayl basically.
So you have it I won't I would
have to correct you say no no you
say Jumu'ala.
No you can say Jumu'ala, it's okay. Jum'ala.
Jum'ala is okay Arabic to say. It's not
it's not wrong to say, okay? Anyway,
by the way before it was called Jum'ah
it was called Aruba or Aruba
which actually means relaxation.
Yeah. So before it's it's old name in
Arabic was Aruba.
Pretty cool name too. But Jama'a is better.
Are you imagine somebody saying, hey, you're gonna
go Aruba? I was like, no. I'm going
to Bahama.
Anyway,
let's let's talk a little bit about by
the way, just just FYI. So it was
called aruba. Ayaamulhusbuuh and then arabfil kadim here
Awal. Sunday was called Awal.
Ahuwanujubar
that was Saturday,
that was Monday.
And then
Dubar,
and Mu'yis,
and then Aruba
and then Shiar. Shiar
is actually Saturday for them. These were the
names of the week in ancient times. Now
of course we have Al Ahad Alithnayin, Athulathah,
Atharbi'aan, Khamis and Al Jumu'a and Sabt.
But interestingly Sabt is the same.
As Sabt now which in the the, Hebrews
say Shabbat
and in English the Bible calls it Sabbath,
which actually comes the Arabic etymology is Sabata.
Sabata means to cut
like
comes from Sabbath also. He made your sleep
a time that cuts you off from this
life,
right? Whatever problems you got going on, they're
not going on when you're sleeping. Your stress,
your anxiety, or this, you the fights over,
the arguments over, the meetings over because you're
you're not there anymore. You're cut off. Right?
So the word subat, it was used because
it cut them off from their business, their
earnings, everything. It cut them off completely, right?
So Allah says,
rush to the remembrance of Allah or rush
towards remembering Allah.
Now Allah could have said when the call
is made for the prayer
as part of the day of Friday, rush
to it.
Rush to it and the it would refer
to the prayer. But Allah now gave a
new name to the prayer which is what?
The remembrance of Allah
This is called
Meaning we expected a pronoun but Allah used
a noun. Simple let me put that in
simple words for you. If Allah calls to
the prayer, go to it.
That makes simple sense, right? If Allah calls
to the prayer, go to it. The it,
everybody hears it, they know what it is
talking about. What's it talking about? The prayer.
But Allah says, when Allah calls to the
prayer, go to remember Allah.
Go to remember Allah. So instead of saying
the word prayer or saying the word it,
He replaced it with
remembering Allah which is really amazing for a
couple of reasons. The most obvious one of
them is salah is on the outside, but
the remembrance of Allah is on the
inside. This is Al Kitab with Hikma together,
isn't it? Because Salah is Kitab and Vikrullah
is hikmah, and they got fused again. So
you don't get to separate them from each
other. 1 is the matter of our actions
and the other is the matter of our
hearts. We also now learn what is the
ultimate goal of the Friday prayer, is to
truly engage in the remembrance of Allah. So
now the concept of remembering Allah a little
a few comments about that before I give
you your break. We're not gonna be done
with the Sayah that quickly because there's lots
to discuss here but I'll just tell tell
you something about the dhikr of Allah. When
somebody says I'm doing dhikr nowadays what do
they think of?
Or they have the the beat situation,
and the way they move that beat I'm
impressed with the way they move the beat.
It's machine gun.
Right?
And now you have, like, people that have
digital,
like,
pretty soon you're gonna get the AI to
do your dhikr for you.
Vikar turned into this weird thing. I mean,
honestly, you could do that stuff fine, but
it turned into this other institution that actually
started getting further and further away from what
Allah was describing
as dhikr, the remembrance of Allah.
The remembrance of Allah. Allah says,
They remember Allah standing, sitting and on their
sides. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam taught us
when you walk into a home make this
dua, when you walk into the bathroom make
this dua, when you start eating say
when you wake up make this dua. When
you go to sleep, make this dua. When
you're with your wife, make this dua. When
you get in the car, make this dua.
When you reach your destination, make this dua.
When you hear some good news, make this
dua. When there's rain, make this dua. When
it's hot outside, make this dua. Oh my
God!
What is that? What is all of that?
That's the dhikr of Allah.
Just remember any opportunity in life it just
becomes remembrance of Allah. It's not a generic
set of words.
Those words have value of course. Alhamdulillah, SubhanAllah,
Astaghfirullah.
Those are heartfelt words and we're supposed to
do the the wiz of those words that
has its own place but the actual dhikr
of Allah was in life situations.
And it's not supposed to be some kind
of a posturing or a kind of a
demonstration
of your spirituality.
Like when somebody walks in that you don't
like and you say Astaghfirullahalawbaheem
or Laahuwalaquwalaquwalaquwalaquwalaquwalaquillaabimyah.
Or people sometimes they say Alhamdulillah
and other times they say Alhamdulillah
waqhalaquullihad
Meaning Alhamdulillah no matter what
even though you're here.
You know
And those are that's not dhikr. That's just
you trying to slap someone with religious terms.
That's not it's not that's not let's not
call that dhikr. Dhikr is done from the
heart
and dhikr is done
but genuinely you remember Allah and the ultimate
thing the ultimate component of dhikr. What does
the Quran say about the Quran itself?
He says,
It is nothing but Dhikr.
This is the description of what?
In
the
Quran.
In it no doubt there is a powerful
Dhikr
for anyone who has a heart.
Remind with the Quran whoever fears My threats.
Remind with the Quran.
No, no, no. It is a very powerful
reminder.
Whoever wants can remember it. Remember what?
The Quran.
I swear by the Quran that has the
power of dhikr.
What's the ultimate dhikr according to the Quran?
The Quran.
The Quran.
But when He says
the remembrance of Allah, Allah is not talking
about the sounds of the Quran.
Allah is talking about the message of the
Quran that impacts the heart.
So our connection, the more intimate we become
in our connection with the Quran,
our recitation is going to become more spiritual.
By the way even if you don't understand
Arabic and you listen to recitation you'll feel
something.
You'll feel a connection
but the more you start learning the Quran
even indirectly
Arabic is not the key to understanding the
Quran. Arabic is one of many doors, many
locks that have to be unlocked in the
heart. It's just one key, but there are
many gates.
And those gates, the more you spend time
with the last book, you will recognize those
other gates. They each one of you have
different gates inside of them that are locked.
I was in a because I'm gonna give
you a break. I'll just remind you guys
of one of the most amazing experiences in
my life. I went with Doctor. Suhayb to
something called Douratul Qur'an.
Dawatul Dhul Quran. We went to Ummal in
Masbath
and we spent a week there.
And what Sheikh
Ardaud
Wustan said to us on the 1st day
was so amazing. The whole program was in
Arabic. We spent an entire week living in
the Masjid.
Nobody, like we were the only I think
we were the only 2 non Arabs there.
Me and me and Doctor. Saheb right and
of course I'm gonna be like super Pakistani
so I wore shalar kameez the whole time
because I'm not gonna pretend to be Arab
Listen. So because I'm not. But so but
anyway, so we're there the whole week and
then
first and and he said,
And you know, Ail Al Amal.
Among you are business people, among you are
scholars, among you are fuqaha, among you are
Islamic court judges, among you are hadith scholars.
And then he said, among you are taxi
drivers. I was like, okay.
We're okay now.
But nobody knows who anybody is. Nobody is
he goes and he goes Alhamdulillah nafhamul arabiya
we understand Arabic
When the Quran is recited on us, we
understand it.
There are walls between us, our hearts, and
the Quran.
And the walls aren't just about knowledge because
we have the knowledge,
but they're still walls. We're gonna spend a
week
trying to break those walls between us,
our hearts and the Quran.
And he said we're going to do something
called Qira'at Qalb. We're going to recite
there's a there's a mind reading of the
Quran, there's a mindful reading of the Quran
and there's a heart reading of the Quran.
We're going to do a heart reading of
the Quran.
That's what we're gonna do. I'm telling you
this was one of the most
unreal Quran experiences of my life,
of my life.
We would sit there and we will recite
the same ayat. I've heard those ayat 100
of times but we're sitting there and Sheikh
Talu Sultan will recite
and we would all repeat after him
You
know the one who opens the he the
one who makes the morning tear out from
the sky.
And the one who made the night calm.
And we're sitting in the masjid we're reciting
this and you look outside and right after
Fajr the morning light is coming out and
you're looking at that and you're hearing Allah
say Fadukul
Isbah
and
it's like you heard that for the first
time.
You're just
you can read the tafsir, you can read
the grammar, you can do all that but
now you're not reading from your mind you're
reading from
Come to Allah's remembrance. Bring your heart
to the Jum'ah prayer.
Bring your heart to it. That's its point.
Some people complain Khadukhudba
is always talking about the same thing. We
need some new information.
Why is it always saying the same thing?
What is the what is the definition of
reminder?
Is reminder something new?
By definition,
reminder is something that you forgot
that you need to be told again and
then again and then again and then again.
So the Khutbah needs to be actually the
dhikr of Allah. So I'm gonna give you
guys your break at this point in the
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