Safi Khan – Soul Food For College Students Dear Beloved Son #7
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The Maghrib program will start soon and cover topics such as death, life, and the importance of knowing one's weight and responsibility. Visitors will also discuss the struggles of graduating high school and losing loved ones, the importance of learning and finding one's way to achieve success in life, and the negative consequences of living in difficult environments. The speakers also touch on the negative impact of past events on one's life and the importance of avoiding graduation. The conversation ends with advice on how to avoid confusion and allow oneself to remember the person they want to forget.
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All right, inshallah, we're gonna go ahead and
get started.
All right Bismillah walhamdulillah, as-salatu was-salamu
ala rasulillah wa ala alihi wa as'habihi
ajma'in Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu
So, alhamdulillah, as you guys have probably noticed,
we're inching closer and closer to like a
very very early time for Maghrib So time
is against us, but alhamdulillah Inshallah, in just
about another few weeks, maybe four weeks or
so We'll be, a part of the program
will be inshallah to do sohbah and spending
some time together socially prior to Maghrib Then
we'll pray Maghrib together and then the class,
the halaqa will start officially after salah is
over So that'll be in the next like
four weeks probably inshallah, three to four weeks
So we just have this next like two
to three weeks of like that crazy fast
halaqa So that we can make it to
Maghrib on time inshallah, okay?
So what we're gonna cover today is a
about like a chapter and a half, okay?
Because the first chapter is rather short And
this chapter is titled at least the the
English translation is titled the chapter that is
reflecting upon death It's reflecting upon the idea
of mortality the idea of a person's Finite
nature of their life that everything will come
to an end at some point and so
imam al-ghazali rahimahullah in this chapter He's
giving his student who asked him for advice
beautiful beautiful advice about the Duration of a
person's life and the shortness of the time
that they have in their life Okay, and
so he begins by saying he says live
as long as you may Okay, he says
Live as long as you may whatever time
that Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala has given you
and by the way this is something that's
very incredible because a hadith the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam teaches us that When you
were in the womb of your mother when
you were in the womb of your mother
Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala He dispatched Jibreel alayhis
salam to go and to essentially breathe your
ruh into you, okay, and Even before this
took place Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala Would give
you certain things in your life in terms
of the stages of it Okay, that Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala created you min nutfa, min
alaq, min mudgha, right?
He made you this tiny little drop of
Existence and then Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala then
made you into what we call alaq Alaq
basically is like a clot of cells that
are together and then mudgha Mudgha is basically
this lump of flesh aka the embryo and
so Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala is giving a
beautiful kind of nuanced detail of the the
trajectory and the phases of your life even
before you grew consciousness Okay And then the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says that Allah
then sends Jibreel alayhis salam To breathe your
soul into you and along with that Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala determines a few things in
your life and One of the few things
that Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala determines in your
life is something that we call al ajal
The time that you've been given Okay The
time that you've been given isn't it kind
of interesting to think to yourself that the
determination of how long you will live in?
Your life has already been decided for you
Like you are living in your life, right?
Experiment if you have if you could know
how many years you would be alive for
in this dunya Would you opt to know
or would you opt to not know?
There's always like a mixed review in the
crowd, right?
Everyone says that yeah I'd like to know
because if I know that I'm gonna live
40 years and at least I know Exactly
how much time I have in the dunya,
but then the other opposite side would say
no I don't want to know anything because
if I know something I might get lazy
or I might get anxious or whatever and
whatnot Right.
That's why sometimes we've had a lot, you
know human beings They don't understand the the
weight and the burden of knowledge, right?
Everybody wants to know things but they don't
realize that with knowledge comes great responsibility I
mean if you knew that you were going
to live 40 years of life You were
not going to see the 41st year of
your life.
What would you do differently?
What would you differ do differently?
There was a companion who came to the
Prophet alayhis salatu was salam one time and
he asked the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
He said ya Rasulullah Tell me about when
The last hour will strike meaning like tell
me when this world will come to an
end and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
He would respond to him by saying what
are you doing to prepare for it?
He answered that question with a question.
The more important question is how are you
preparing?
Are you just worried about the exact moment
or are you thinking to yourself?
What am I going to do in preparation
for the reality of that moment, right?
And so Imam al-Ghazali he mentions first
and foremost he says live as long as
you may okay fa innaka mayyitun He says
for verily you will pass away Verily you
will pass away.
Okay, fa innaka fa inna It's it's it's
it's an emphasizing moment, right that there is
no doubt.
There is no doubt Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala He says in the Quran and social
NBA.
He says kullu nafsin da'iqatul mawt He
says that every soul will taste death Every
soul will taste death.
Wa ilayna Turja'oon and you will all
return back to me.
Don't get this mistaken, right?
There there are not many things that human
beings have the privilege of knowing with Absolute
conviction in this life One of the things
that you know with absolute conviction is that
you will pass away at one point Okay,
so Imam al-Ghazali he's drawing to attention
this point to his student Sometimes we we
are so engrossed with our day-to-day,
you know, I get up every morning I
wake up for Fajr.
I go, you know back to sleep maybe
for an hour or so Then I get
up I wash up I get ready for
my classes or for work or whatever it
is I go from 9 a.m. To
like 1 p.m. Classes after classes I
go I get some studying done.
I get some lunch.
I go home.
I see my family I head out at
night for whatever I have committed to myself
in my life and I come home and
then I wash up Pray my isha rinse
and repeat and in the mundane miss of
our schedules.
We start to kind of think that this
is life This is all there is to
it There's nothing more and this is the
trap of the dunya the dunya will try
to convince you that your daily is forever
It's gonna be like this forever How many
times has life hit us in the face
y'all like you got a reality check,
right?
You thought something was gonna be forever and
then you graduated and you're like, well what
now?
there there are certain people in here who
are like in the realm of a graduation
and Post-grad and now you're like in
this limbo stage of life.
You're in the barzakh of the dunya You
don't know what to do.
All right, you've been institutionalized.
I go to class every day I go
study for exams.
So after I get that diploma and I
walk across the stage the next Monday hits
and you're like Do I do?
Do I just do I go into class
like do I still go then?
You're that weird super senior that nobody likes
you're saying hi to your teachers and she's
like, what is this guy doing here again?
So like it's you know, what do we
do?
Right?
So Imam Ghazali, he says that in the
cat mate You will pass away.
Okay, and then he draws attention to something
else He says love whoever you wish he
says What a bib?
Men, shut up, man.
Shit.
So he says Love whoever you wish you
will have relationships in your life.
One of the blessings of Allah subhanahu wa'ta
'ala is to love Right.
Everyone knows that ayah in the Quran that
everyone recites at every nikah since the beginning
of time Right Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala mentions
that we have created you right from men
and women From the first from the first
creation Adam alayhis salam Wa khalaqa minha zawjaha
wabatha minhuma rijalan kathiran wa nisa'a Wattakullaha
allathee tasa'aluna bihi wal arham.
What does that mean?
It means in in in in a glimpse
Allah azza wajal wattakullaha Be conscious of Allah
The one who gave you the ability to
have relationships in your life in the first
place You wouldn't know what love was if
it wasn't for Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala Isn't
it a great crime to use a natural
pure emotion that Allah gave you to manifest
into actions?
That is displeasing to him Think about that
Love something that Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala gave
you to exercise in a pure and halal
way But sometimes people take that beauty that
ni'ma of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala and they
use it in ways to displease him may
Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala protect us and So
he says love whoever you wish and he
says but know that these same people Fa
innaka mufariquhu He says for one day you
will taste The separation from these people that
you love You'll taste separation from the people
that you love You know you look at
your parents and subhanAllah How many of us
have you know as you get older and
you guys are in you know You're your
college years your your years where you're kind
of like formulating these real kind of Experiences
as a young person as a young man
a young woman How many of us have
pondered over the the mortality of our own
families so often now our parents are aging
in front of us Right, you see your
parents no longer being the younger people that
they were when you were kids You're seeing
them age.
Your mother is visibly older.
Your father is visibly older.
Your families are getting older and Imam Al
Ghazali he's drawing to attention this truth this
reality even the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam he
was taught in a very very almost a
really really abrupt manner The reality of losing
loved ones the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam a
man who lost you know he buried five
of his six children Think about this the
only child of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
that outlived him was his daughter Fatima Radhi
Allahu Anha She's the only one that outlived
him Can you imagine a father burying five
of his six children?
I mean this is this is a tragedy
beyond tragedy Losing one child is enough Losing
a second and a third and a fourth
and a fifth so this was Allah's way
of of polishing the sabr the patience in
the heart of his messenger sallallahu alayhi wasallam
and Not only that he lost his mother
Amina When he was six years of age
He lost his own father before he himself
was even born His father Abdullah passed away
some of the narrations mentioned two months before
he was born Never knew his father in
this dunya Loses his grandfather Abdul Muttalib when
he was eight years of age Loses his
only protector from the Quraysh his uncle Abu
Talib Loses his wife Khadija bint Khuwaylid radiallahu
anha the first person who ever Believed in
la ilaha illallah in the community of the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam He lost each one
of these people don't you think there was
some sort of just difficulty and separating from
things that he loved But this is the
Tarbiyah of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala The development
the teaching that Allah azza wa jal gives
every single one of us So if any
of you have ever lost somebody in your
life Any of you have ever lost somebody
in your life thing to yourself This is
one of the realities of this world and
this is one of the ways that Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala Reminds us that inna lillahi
wa'inna ilayhi raji'un We all go
back to him None of us are here
permanently.
In fact Imam Al-Ghazali in another beautiful
book that he wrote Okay, it's actually the
small pamphlet such a tiny little book.
It's called Sharh Sadr It's a very small
book You know in most bookstores, you won't
even see it because Imam Al-Ghazali he
wrote so many prolific and famous books He
wrote the alchemy of happiness.
He wrote a lot of books on Shafi
'i fiqh one of the books that he
wrote that was a tiny little manual is
a book called Sharh Sadr which means like
the expansion of the chest and in this
book, all he writes about is the reality
of the journey of death and He reminds
the reader and he says note that death
is Nothing except a journey from this dunya
to the Creator Every one of you your
nafs your soul within you is yearning to
go back to Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala.
You don't realize it though Because there's this
exterior part of you that is in love
with this It's in love with this and
we crave the food and the sleep and
the luxury and the leisure and the daily
Activity and the friendships and the social lives
and the money and all these different things
But there's a deeper part of your soul
that yearns for Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala And
so Imam Al-Ghazali he's saying to anyone
who's lost anyone know that this separation Although
it's difficult the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam used
to cry by the way He used to
cry anyone know what what what the year
in which the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam lost
Khadija and Abu Talib was known as Aml
Huzn the year of sorrow the year of
sadness Why was it who was who?
Why was it called that?
Why was it called Aml Huzn the year
of sorrow the year of sadness because it
was visible on him the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam That he was in grief The Sahaba
some of the Sahaba RadhiAllahu Anhum Ajma'een
they used to they used to tell the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Ya Rasool Allah It's
time to come out of the home After
his wife Khadija passed away.
It's time to come out of the home.
He was heartbroken His beloved spouse had passed.
I mean, this is a human emotion.
This is a human relationship But Allah subhanahu
wa'ta'ala reminds us Kullu Nafsin Da'iqatul
Mawt You will you will taste death It
is a reality of life and you will
feel the sting of separation from the people
that you love when their time is called
back to Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala But this
is the consolation for the believers as much
as you're hurting and you're missing your loved
ones as Much as the the heart is
in grief and the eyes are shedding tears
Know that the believing souls that were with
you that departed from your company and they're
going back to Allah They are ecstatic To
be reunited with their Creator They're so excited.
My grandfather Rahim Allah one time, you know,
he was saying Before he passed away My
mother was telling us a story she said
that I was sitting next to the bedside
of my father, so my grandfather her father
and She asked him how he was feeling.
He was laying in bed.
She asked him how he was feeling and
My grandfather he just said two words.
He said I'm ready Said I'm ready What
a what a what a statement?
I'm ready.
What does that mean?
It means that I'm I'm ready to to
see a lot to meet Allah And one
of the things that Imam Al-Ghazali talks
about by the way in short I saw
the small book that he wrote he said
that one of the things that one who
journeys to Allah at the time of Death
has to do is that they have to
sever they have to sever the ties that
are holding them back to this dunya You
know when you are graduating college you have
to sever the ties of your college experience
You have to move on you you walk
into your first day of your big boy
big girl job No one's nice to you
There are no academic advisors You know the
people next to you in the cubicle are
like what are you looking at?
Right same Spanish like the harsh reality is
you have to be able to sever the
ties You have to be able to move
on you have to be able to graduate
into the next stage of your life and
The same exists for those who are leaving
the dunya and journeying towards Allah azza wajal
So he says everyone will taste the separation
of those who they love When they journey
to Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala and then he
says and Do whatever you will He says
what I'm in mash it.
He says do whatever you will Do whatever
you will he says for in Naka Majzyun
be he he says Because you will be
recorded accordingly to whatever you did This entire
chapter of death is a major reflection on
Knowing that everything you do has an equal
and opposite consequence Look at that read through
the read through the wording live because you
will pass away Love because you will be
separated from those you love act Do deeds
because your deeds will be rewarded accordingly for
whatever you did Fama ya mal mithqala dharratin
khayran yara wa may ya mal mithqala dharratin
sharrayra Everything will be Exposed every stone will
be turned every leaf will be turned over
this is actually almost a a a Continuation
of the chapter of Mahasabha of the chapter
of accountability Why because you realize that whatever
you're going through is not forever and there
will be a time where you'll be asked
about what you went through You'll be asked
about it the friends that you had Who
were they?
What did you do with your friends?
How did you treat them?
the families that you have The parents that
you've been given just as your parents will
be asked about how they raised you You
will be asked about how you treated them
All of these realities will come into fruition
and that the end of it all Allah
will ask you about your amal your deeds
How did you behave?
Not only the what but the how Sure
you can tell Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala that
you pray but Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala will
ask how you prayed How did you pray
how did you fast how did you live
how did you how did you speak to
people and You know something that I wanted
to mention to everybody here that's so powerful
You know the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam He
mentioned that all the the deeds of the
sons and the daughters of Adam Alayhis salaam
will cease to exist upon the time of
their death Meaning that nothing will benefit you
There's no action that you can do that
will benefit you once Allah calls your name
back to him But there are three things
that will continue to benefit you What are
those three things that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wasallam he mentioned number one?
He says a sadaqa jariyya The gift that
continues to keep going that continues to keep
giving what is that?
That means that when you give one small
thing that small thing was given with so
much Sincerity and so much goodness that it
grew into something much bigger You gave one
dollar that one dollar turned into ten dollars
in value, right sadaqa jariyya You undermined your
generosity, but Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala elevated it
because of the pure intention that you had
behind it the second is Second is knowledge
that benefits Ilman nafia as they say Knowledge
that benefits you teach somebody one small thing
and that one small thing turns into a
lifestyle that that person lives by this is
why by the way teaching people Quran and
hadith is so beautiful not in like a
holier-than-thou Smiting you.
Hey, right.
We're not telling people about religion in a
way that demeans them and belittles them But
imagine teaching a person subhanAllah.
I'll give you an example.
Imagine teaching a person that's smiling Smiling to
your brother or your sister is a form
of charity And so that person when they
go around they see their brothers and they
say salamu alaykum how are you and they
have a smile on their face and Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala puts the edger of sadaqa
on their on their scales and They do
it because you taught them that one hadith
How powerful is that and then when you
once you are done in this dunya you
are no longer living in this dunya Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala continues to record good deeds
for you every single time that that one
person smiles You do not have anything to
do physically with him smiling at all.
It's not like you are reaching from the
grave and right No, but you taught him
this You taught them that You taught this
person maybe like how to pronounce the letter
BOD the letter AIN or GHAIN or SEEN
or SHEEN small things nothing big But that
person now benefits so much that even when
you're gone, you're still getting good deeds recorded
on your scales the last thing the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he says is Righteous
offsprings that make dua for you Righteous offsprings
that make dua for you Families as I'm
telling you we have no idea how much
spiritual effect our families have on us and
This is why it's one of the most
difficult relationships to many of us Think about
this how many people in here have ever
had family at the family challenges raise of
hands I'll raise my hand every pretty much
everyone in here everyone in here mothers fathers
siblings Cousins, whatever they may be whoever they
may be Why why is that relationship?
So so sensitive because there's so much writing
on it.
There's so much writing on it The way
you treat your mother The way you treat
your father the way that your parents treat
you people can attain Jannah because of these
things So remember this, okay, and so We'll
inshallah just kind of preview Walk into the
next chapter.
The next chapter is about something we call
Nifaq or Hypocrisy now hypocrisy is a very
serious thing.
It's a very serious thing The Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam one time and I'll share
this hadith inshallah even next week The Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that there are
a few characteristics of those who are hypocritical
The first characteristic of a person who's hypocritical
is that whenever they speak they lie They
either had death like Heather, but when they
speak they lie The truth is not very
often found upon their tongue They just became
a person who is used to the the
cadence of lying in their life And by
the way, lying is not just something that
is done actively verbally lying can be done
in various forms Right being dishonest being untruthful
in a lot of different ways Can somebody
also lie by cheating somebody at work?
Of course they can Can somebody lie by
spreading false gossip about somebody?
Of course, they can Lying kid that becomes
in various forms guys various forms So he
says when they speak they lie.
The second is when they make promises they
break those promise What either why are there
a lot of a lot of that they
break it They completely up they break whatever
promise they made to people You can't trust
these people Why because they tell you that
they're gonna be there for you and when
they when it's time for them to be
there for you They're no longer there What
either why are there a lot of that
and then the final is when they are
entrusted with something they abandon that trust Way
out when they are entrusted with something they
abandon it.
Hey, can you hold on to something for
me?
Yeah, man, I got you You come back
and that iPhone that iPhone 14 for some
reason is now an iPhone 12 How did
it change colors and like?
How did it change like it's like processing
speed and every you know We leave something
with somebody and we are so scared because
we know that this person never upholds the
trust of their given SubhanAllah may Allah subhanahu
wa'ta'ala makes it make us friends that
are trustworthy.
So everyone say I mean So he says
yeah, you had wallet my beloved son he
says Hey, you Satan House, he's a hassle.
Okay, mint.
Ah, sweetie.
He says so what have you gained from
learning?
these beautiful beautiful things theology Kalam well, he
left, you know medicine and administration and poetry
Astronomy and syntax and morphology He mentions all
these different sciences and he says at the
end of it all except to waste your
time Against the will of Allah subhanahu wa'ta
'ala He gives a very harsh wake-up
call He says you engage in so many
things you engaged in all of your studies
you engaged in you know biology and chemistry
and you know a IT and this and
neuroscience and medicine and all these different things
language you dabbled in so much But what
have you done at the end of all
of this is that you went against the
will of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala Now, what
does this mean?
There's a very specific meaning to the statement
of Imam Al Ghazali Rahim Allah He doesn't
mention.
He doesn't mean that in Engaging in studying
of the dunya is haram every single person
by the way It has these things that
they engage in whether it is secular studies
or hobbies or interest that is completely permissible
It's not bad to go and major in
pre-med.
It's not bad to go major in chemistry
It's not bad to go major in in
in in in in in you know architecture
or whatever It may be these are all
completely permissible But what he's mentioning here that
is extremely unfortunate is when a person uses
their dunya To now neglect Allah, they're so
enamored with their classes.
They forget to go to Juma on Friday
They're so they're so, you know into their
their labs and their exams They're studying day
in and day out at nighttime.
They forget to pray their Isha They're so
focused on their exam the next morning that
they sleep through their Fajr prayer So Imam
Ghazali He says you've been you you've really
locked in with all these things in your
life to only just abandon the commands of
Allah Subhanahu wa'ta'ala One of the things
that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and
this is from Aisha radiallahu anha She reported
that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Yazkuru
Allah ala kulli ahiyanihi He said she would
say what the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
that He would remember Allah in every circumstance
every time When he was going out and
hanging out with his friends who would remember
Allah when he was Walking taking his daily
walks.
He would remember Allah When he was buying
and selling and trading in his regular job,
he would remember Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala He
wouldn't use his occupation to neglect Allah in
fact, he would use his occupation to remember
Allah You know Imam Abu Hanifa rahim Allah
before he became a scholar.
He was actually like a merchant He was
a merchant How many of us and think
about this realistically how many of us can
close our eyes and we think of every
Sahaba?
Every one of the Sahaba radiallahu anhum the
companions of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
And we think that all of them were
just scholars.
Anybody have that idea?
Like all of them were just scholars, right?
Abdullah bin Mas'ud Right, Abdur Rahman bin
Auf, Ali bin Abi Talib You know Abu
Ayyub al-Ansari all of these guys Zaid
bin Haritha, Zaid bin Thabit All these guys
were all just they were alims.
They were all scholars and the reality is
the majority of the Sahaba They were actually
not ulama They were they did not spend
their time Particularly studying the religion they were
far more religious than any of us ever
will be they were far more pious than
any of us Ever will be but they
did not spend their occupation being scholars There
were a couple of them that did Abdullah
bin Umar, Abdullah bin Abbas, Abdullah bin Mas
'ud These these people were scholars of the
religion.
They would study hadith, they would study Quran
The majority of them they were just people
that were merchants There were people that used
to be agriculturalists, there were people that used
to go and farm There were people that
used to go and and and and be
shepherds in their in their in their lands
That's what they used to do for a
living but check this out Why are they
even more pious than the scholars that exist
today?
Because even if they only knew Some hadith
they used to act on it like it
was scripture Everything that they used to do
used to go back to Allah subhanahu wa'ta
'ala Everything they used to say would go
back to Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala They would
remember Allah at every end over all of
their life They would spend time in their
homes with their families and they would remember
Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala.
The mundane became extremely sacred The issue with
us is that when we go and we
engage in our studies and school and friends
and socializing We completely forget about Allah subhanahu
wa'ta'ala.
When was the last time that we were
ever out just driving and Aside from the
road raging on George Bush Turnpike, right?
You're driving through the streets and you saw
for some reason Texas has the most beautiful
sunsets of all time We have the worst
land but the most beautiful skies Right, even
California doesn't have anything on the Texas sky
So we look at the sky when was
the last time we're just driving down a
highway and we see subhanallah The sky is
so beautiful and in your drive.
You just say subhanallah You're driving.
You're driving to grab like like share tea
You're you're driving to grab coffee You're going
to like la la land to grab like
your Oreo like McFlurry latte, whatever that is,
right?
But on that drive of the merely mundane
you remember Allah azza wajal This is what
made the Sahaba so special This is what
made the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam so special
The mundane was not mundane.
Everything could be sacred if you put the
right mind to it If you put the
right heart to it We attribute religiosity when
it comes to praying when it comes to
reading Quran when it comes to making dua
when it comes to You know giving sadaqa,
that's when we make religion religious But do
we ever make sacred our hangouts with our
friends?
Do we ever make sacred?
Sometimes when we cook food for our families
Do we ever make sacred our sleep?
Wajal no no McComb subata Certain there were
narrations that would say that certain pious people
would say Oh Allah bless me in my
sleep.
Why?
When we're like face planning like a like
a like a flying squirrel into our beds
People would make dua to Allah to bless
their sleep Why because their sleep is a
form of reenergizing themselves so they could wake
up and worship That's how you make something
completely mundane extremely sacred, right?
So inshallah with this we are going to
pause for the day it is 753 743
and inshallah Salah isn't about another three to
four minutes.
So I don't want to take up inshallah
any time that would you know?
Take away from the salah.
So we're gonna start inshallah with the next
part of the advice of Imam Ghazali here
about this idea of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
questioning somebody when they pass away and then
Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala statement at the very
end of this Chapter here.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala to make
us of the people who are conscious of
our mortality We ask Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
to never allow ourselves to neglect our rights
that are that are due to Allah subhanahu
wa'ta'ala and we ask Allah subhanahu wa'ta
'ala to always make us people of thoughts
and of perception and of mindfulness and thoughtfulness
and we ask Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala to
always allow us to remember him in every
interval of our lives and we Ask Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala to allow us to be
people who follow in the footsteps of his
Habib Rasool Allah Sallallahu alayhi wasallam Ameen Inshallah,
just a couple of announcements before I let
you guys go.
We have a really exciting program coming up
on the 15th of September It's going to
be a program called convert connections We have
Ustadh Mahmood who's running around with his son
Ahmed in the back behind there Ustadh Mahmood
inshallah will be leading that program so if
you have any people in your lives that
you feel would benefit from a program that
is related or Geared towards converts people who
are new to Islam or even people who
are who are tenured in their Islamic journey
But they have a convert experience of somebody
who basically joined the religion from another Another
you know life that they may have lived
beforehand This is going to be a program
inshallah that you can spread And tell people
who are interested in Islam or who are
already Muslim.
It's a program called convert connections It'll be
at 10 a.m. On September 15th inshallah
also We are debuting a program this coming
Saturday called college conversations I don't know if
anyone saw I actually posted on my own
personal Instagram a little bit of like a
questionnaire About like what topics would be amazing
for a roundtable conversations I'm gonna we all
benefit from the halaqas that we do during
the week on Thursdays for soul food But
one thing I really want to do with
the college community is host like a roundtable
Where everyone gets to speak and speak freely
and openly that's going to be a series
called college Conversations and that the first episode
of that will be this coming Saturday at
4 p.m..
Inshallah, so inshallah We want you guys to
come out.
It'll be a gathering.
That's very very it's not gonna be live
stream It's gonna be literally like a circular
kind of like group discussion roundtable discussion We're
going to inshallah have like a series of
topics that we're going to lay out for
the rest of the year We look forward
to inshallah hosting that Saturday at 4 p
.m. Last thing inshallah is myself and and
Sheikh Mahmood We are extremely excited to debut
a lot of college campus visits this year
inshallah So we're going to begin with you
know visits to like for example like UNT
Inshallah make dua for us because we will
be combining our prayers while we go.
I'm just kidding We're inshallah going to be
visiting certain campuses like UNT, UTD, SMU Inshallah,
we're excited for that So if you want
routes on your campus to a certain level
whether it's like a Friday khutba Whether it
is just like a you know, very very
easy conversation a halaqa at some point of
the week Let us know inshallah.
We'll try to do our best to accommodate
but we wanted to start with those campuses
inshallah Ta'ala myself and Sheikh Mahmood.
We're gonna kind of lead this effort together
bismillah ta'ala Jazakumullahu khairan everybody.
Thank you so much for being here inshallah
We're gonna go walk over to the Masala
to pray We'll see the rest of you
guys inshallah on Saturday for college conversations.
Assalamu alaykum y'all