Omar Suleiman – Angels in your Presence #21

Omar Suleiman

Episode 21_ The First Rows _
What is the significance of the first rows in the Masjid? Are they physically the first rows, or do they encompass something deeper?

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The speaker discusses the importance of not denigrating certain people in massages, such as the uncle or the Auntie, and how it can cause confusion. They also mention the importance of not disregarding certain people in the first row of the church, such as the first row of the church, and how it can lead to a loss of habitat.

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			So I never like the denigrating of the mustard uncle or the Auntie, for several reasons. But one of
the things that I think we really, really need to take into consideration is that if you go to the
masjid, who are the people that are usually in the front row, and who are the people that are
usually staying behind to clean up after everyone has left, and it's usually that uncle that's being
denigrated on some online commentators platform, or that Auntie that's being mocked.
		
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			And particularly when it comes to those that love the massages, which is one of the things that
causes a person to be shaded by the throne of Allah Subhana Allah, and the Prophet sallallahu Sallam
and though the narration of upside below the line is not the strongest, but it has a correct meaning
that if you see a person consistent with the motion of the doula who will imagine that if you see
someone consistent with the mustard, then bear witness that that is a person with faith. And of
course, a lot confirms that there are people that go to the masjid, that want to get to the huddle
that seek to be purified, what then have a person who makes it a point to always be in the first
		
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			row, that person that's in the front row is harbor suffering. And the Prophet sallallahu wasallam
said in the lahoma that he gets Oh, you saw Luna Allah soften that the Allah and His angels send
their prayers upon the first row. Now, the first row is not actually about physically being in the
first row. It's about how early you're coming to the masjid and the way that you adjusted yourself
to make it a point to always be that person that's there. First, that's always there before the Imam
says Allahu Akbar. And if you think about it, it's a mindset. Because if you generally went to most
massages, you would see that the people that are usually in the first row are the same people all
		
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			the time. And the people that usually catch the second, third, fourth, that are caught are usually
the same people every time, right, because just like you have some people that set their watches to
five minutes in advance so that they're not late, or people that are very punctual with things that
are important to them. There are people that have the mindset of always being in the first row. And
the angels recognize those people and the angels always send their prayers upon them. And it's a
category of people. When you read the books of the seller of the pious predecessors, one of the ways
that you talked about someone who repented and changed their life was that they became from us how
		
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			the software word they became from the people that were always in the first row. So that's one of
the ways that you knew that a person's repentance was sincere, and that they really turned back to
Allah and they left behind another way of life. And it's not just that the angels love to send their
prayers upon the people in the first row. The prophets like Selim said, that one of the blessings of
this oma is that Allah has established our prayer in the same way that the angels line up for their
prayer. So the way that we make our rows and form our rows is the way that the angels form their
rows before a loss of habitat as well. So when the angel see those people that are coming early to
		
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			the masjid, and that are lining up in the same way that they line up before their Lord, then they
love to see those people. And there's also the Hadith where the Prophet slicin um, said that the
angel sent their prayers upon those that are on the right side of the road. Now, that's not someone
who just praise on the right what this is referring to, is when the when the row is imbalanced, it
should be imbalanced, slightly to the right, if it's going to be imbalanced. So you want to have the
Imam as centered as possible, but a person who's even thinking about where the angels line up and so
the angels filled the right side, before the left side and it all fills in together. That doesn't
		
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			mean second row, right is better than first row left first row is always better. This isn't a
sporting events, okay. It's the people that are there first in front of Allah subhana wa, tada and
the prophets license that the angels prey upon those who fill the gaps as well. Okay, so when we
line up like the angels for prayer, then they prey upon us. And when we come to our worship,
punctually on time, longing for it, the way that the angels long to worship their Lord and the way
that they line up, then they particularly take note of those individuals, and a loss of Hannah
Montana particularly takes note of those individuals.