Safi Khan – Soul Food For College Students Dear Beloved Son Class 11
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All righty, Inshallah.
We're gonna go ahead and begin.
All right, Bismillah walhamdulillah, as-salatu was-salamu
ala rasulillah wa ala alihi wa as'habihi
ajma'in, salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu.
Inshallah, everyone is doing well.
So, inshallah, we're going to continue on with
our weekly soul food session, inshallah ta'ala.
We have a really cool weekend coming up
for our college community.
We have our monthly special program, our Fireside
Session, tomorrow night, inshallah, after Maghrib, and that's
going to be a good time.
But inshallah, tonight we'll carry on with our
series that we're doing, Ayyuhal Walad, My Dear
Beloved Son, My Dear Beloved Student.
So, this particular session is titled Dhikr, it's
titled The Remembrance of Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala, and I'll tell you exactly why it's
titled that.
So, in this particular session, Imam al-Ghazali
rahimallah, he actually basically talks about a couple
of different ways where the remembrance of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala will benefit the individual,
okay?
And dhikr, by the way, is a profound
form of worship.
I think a lot of people tend to
overlook how powerful dhikr actually can be.
The Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, one time
he said, كلمتان حبيبتان الى الرحمن He said
that there are two phrases that are extremely
beloved to ar-Rahman, Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala.
And then he said, خفيفتان على اللسان والثقيلتان
في الميزان So, he basically said that these
two phrases are light upon the tongue.
خفيفة على اللسان, they're very light upon the
tongue.
But, ثقيلتان في الميزان, they're extremely heavy, ثقلة,
they have a lot of weight on the
scales on the day of judgment.
And then he proceeded to say, سبحان الله
وبحمده وسبحان الله العظيم He said these two
phrases.
It's so easy to say these two phrases,
but most people, they don't realize how weighty
they are.
Sometimes we think to ourselves that the longer
the essay, the better it's going to be.
The more time I spend on something, the
better it's going to be.
That's not necessarily true.
We don't believe that in Islam.
In Islam, we don't think about the quantity
constantly, we think about the quality.
A person can be standing in Salah for
like 2-3 hours, but their intention can
be completely skewed.
And because of that intention being skewed, there's
no sort of actual quality and that reward
from Allah.
Verses, a person who may stand for 5
-10 minutes in their Salah, they might not
have too much time that they spend in
their Salah.
But, it was extremely weighty.
Why?
Because they really concentrated on Allah.
So when it comes to the Deen, we
don't talk more about always what, we talk
about how.
That how question is so important.
Because when a person answers the how, they
usually understand the yield that they receive back
from an action.
If I tell somebody, yeah, I gave like
$1,000.
To an average person, $1,000 might seem
like a lot of money.
But that $1,000 of giving may not
have any impact on the softness of the
heart of that person.
Why?
Because they gave that $1,000 out of
arrogance.
But when a person may give $10, $15,
$20, it doesn't seem like too much in
the grander scope of things.
That $20 given for the sake of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala was done in such
a profoundly sincere way that it really impacted
them for the rest of their life, the
rest of their year, the rest of their
month.
So we really focus on these things.
And so, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he
talks about dhikr in this particular regard.
So the first thing that Imam Al-Ghazali,
he says in this chapter, is that he
quotes a couple of verses in the Qur
'an when it comes to dhikr.
He says, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mentions,
وَمِنَ اللَّيْلِ فَتَهَجَّدْ بِهِ He says, and in
the evening, wake up and commit to your
tahajjud.
Pray tahajjud bihi, within it.
Now, he says about this, أَمْرٌ That this
is a command from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta
'ala.
To wake up in the night and pray
a little bit is a commandment from Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Now, one of the most beautiful things about
this is that there's a hadith that was
actually in Sahih Muslim where the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam, he said, that the most beloved
prayer to me, the most beloved prayer to
me, after my five prayers, is قِيَامُ اللَّيْلِ
The prayer in the middle of the evening.
Tahajjud.
Why?
Anybody know why?
Why was tahajjud so beloved to the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam?
Anybody want to take a shot or a
guess at this?
What do you think?
Why would tahajjud be so beloved to the
Prophet?
Why was qiyam so beloved to the Prophet?
Anybody want to share?
What do you think?
Why is tahajjud important to you?
What's tahajjud?
Yes, in the back.
Okay, it's extra.
It's not like your, it's not your expected
amount, right?
It's not your fault, it's not your obligatory,
so you're going above and beyond.
Very good.
Anybody else?
Anybody else have any idea why tahajjud was
so beloved to the Prophet?
Provides comfort.
Very, very good.
Tahajjud, subhanallah, you know, tahajjud to the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was actually made a command
upon him.
Allah told him to basically separate yourself from
the average person by praying tahajjud.
Not everybody will pray.
If you want another level of relationship with
me, you're going to spend time with me
in the evening, while everybody else is asleep.
When you think about this in relation to
your friends, I want you guys to think
about this in terms of social life.
When everybody does the group hangout, it's all
fine, right?
Alhamdulillah, everybody has a good time.
You guys go out, everyone chills and has
fun and laughs and jokes and everything like
that.
But then that friend that gets a phone
call on the way home after the hangout,
y'all know that's like a next level
friendship, right?
So how do you think that went?
Like, you're like, what did I do to
earn this special honor, right?
Like, we were all just together, like, 7,
8, 9, 10 of us, but that one
person you hit up after everybody else is
gone, right?
This is like the equivalence of tahajjud for
a believer when it comes to their salah.
Their fajr, dhuhr, asr, maghrib, isha' all beautiful.
These are all elements and ways of getting
close to Allah out of your obligations.
But the one who wants the next level
of relationship with Allah is the one who
commits to Allah when nobody else does.
That's always going to be the recipe to
connect to Allah.
Think about this.
Connect to Allah via a mode in which
other people usually don't think about, right?
So when a person makes their worship, time
with their family, the average person, they look
at time with their family as just like
corporal punishment, right?
Like, I have to sit with my mom.
Yeah, I got to talk to my dad
about like the 8th hurricane that hit Florida
this year, right?
Everybody thinks about these things as like just
obligations.
I know Abrar's shaking his head because his
heart is deeply impacted as a Floridian.
But, you know, subhanAllah, you think about the
time that people put in just as obligations.
I'm doing this because I have to do
it.
Now think about the difference when a person
says, I'm doing this because I want to
do it.
I'm not taking care of you because I
have to take care of you.
I'm taking care of you because I want
to take care of you.
I'm spending time with you not because I
have to.
I'm spending time with you because I want
to.
This is the difference.
This is why tahajjud is so unique.
You don't have to pray tahajjud.
It's not an obligation on you.
You can go to sleep every night and
not wake up until fajr.
But, a person who says, no, no, no,
no.
I don't want to be like everybody else.
I want to wake up.
By the way, tahajjud another kind of element
of tahajjud that's so amazing, tahajjud is a
salah that the scholars, they say, is a
prayer that you wake up for.
So tahajjud is not something that you can
just kind of pray after isha just, you
know, continue on with your night.
Tahajjud, why is it unique?
It's because tahajjud you wake yourself up from
your sleep before fajr.
Tahajjud is the most beautiful in the last
part of the night.
Okay?
There's a lot of symbolism in that, by
the way.
Why is it recommended by the scholars to
wake up for tahajjud?
Because you're proving to yourself as-salatu khayrun
minannawm that prayer is better than sleep.
Prayer is better than sleep.
In fact, the only reason I sleep is
so I can pray.
You know that hadith about eating one-third,
one-third, one-third?
A lot of people have been taught that
hadith growing up, right?
That the Prophet used to say, you know,
one-third for food one-third for water,
one-third for air.
A lot of times what people forget is
that hadith was only taught because the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wasallam said that you only eat
enough that you can stand straight in your
prayer.
It all goes back to Allah.
Everything you do goes back to Allah.
You're eating, you're sleeping, everything goes back to
Allah.
So you think about it.
He says that So in the evening, wake
up and pray tahajjud in it.
It's going to change your life.
Okay?
Then Imam al-Ghazali, he says He says,
and in the last part of the night,
in the hours of the early dawn, these
same people, they were found doing what?
What does just taqfirun mean?
They were found asking Allah for forgiveness.
The same people.
It's so interesting, don't you think?
People that are waking up in the middle
of the night, those same people are spending
the wee early hours asking Allah for forgiveness.
Now, this question was asked to the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wasallam constantly.
Ya Rasulullah, you're so beloved to Allah.
You're so saved from so much punishment that
the rest of the humanity would be punished
with, right?
Why are you getting up?
Why are you making dua?
Why are you asking Allah for forgiveness?
And what did the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam,
he said?
What did he say?
He says Should I not be a grateful
servant?
What does this prove?
Sometimes the people that make istighfar are the
people that seemingly don't even need it.
They're the people that everyone looks at and
they're like, wow, these people are so close
to God already.
Why are they making istighfar?
Those are the people that are locked in
with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala on a
whole other level, subhanAllah.
Can you imagine?
This person, they prayed tahajjud already but they
spend the last bit of their tahajjud yastaghfiroon
asking Allah for forgiveness.
You want to know why this is so
beautiful?
Because the fuqaha, they say that the people
that pray tahajjud and then later on ask
Allah for forgiveness, what are they asking Allah
for forgiveness for?
They're asking Allah for forgiveness if they worshipped
him in any way other than the best
way while they were praying tahajjud.
I'm going to give you guys an example.
Have you guys ever met somebody who says
sorry even though there's nothing to say sorry
for?
Like a friend, they came and brought you
lunch one day and you're crying, ugly crying
like you're thinking about me, oh my god
and the friend's like, I'm so sorry I
ran out of time so I couldn't get
you the thing that you wanted but I
had to get you something else and you're
like, why are you apologizing?
Nobody buys me lunch this is the best
thing that anyone's done for me for this
entire month but I'm sorry, I wanted to
get you something better that person is so
ihsani they are striving for excellence to the
highest degree where when they do something even
if it is a little bit less than
perfect, they're like, ya Allah I'm so sorry
for that the average person will not ask
Allah for forgiveness until they've messed up completely
they've done something terrible that's when they will
ask Allah oh Allah, I'm sorry oh Allah,
I messed up who Imam Al Ghazali is
describing here is a person who is so
in tune with Allah that they ask Allah
for forgiveness when other people would say about
them, why are you even doing that?
there's nothing that you can ask Allah for
in terms of forgiveness but here's the thing
about a true believer they understand that no
matter how perfect I may seem to the
average person around me I know how imperfect
I truly am within my heart right a
true believer understands that although other people around
me they see somewhat of like a put
together person I try my hardest I tried
my hardest to be good but I know
deep down inside all of my vices all
of my mistakes I want everyone to pause
for a second right now I want you
to think sometimes the human ego accompanied by
shaytan we start gassing ourselves up a little
bit yeah you know made it to masjid
four or five times this week actually a
little bit of a masjidi person myself they
feel good about themselves and by the way
this is the danger of a person who
claims to be religious I remember somebody said
something very powerful to me one time they
said don't ever call yourself religious unless you
can wake up for fajr without an alarm
really interesting quote I always used to think
about that I was like why does he
say that why does he say don't call
yourself religious until you can wake up for
fajr without an alarm because when you can
wake up for fajr without an alarm that
means it's a part of your biological clock
you will never oversleep fajr because it's so
ingrained within you that your body your soul,
your mind, your heart cannot even continue sleeping
when it's time for fajr so he told
me until you reach that stage don't call
yourself religious we're not religious man we're trying
our heart is to be good we're nowhere
near religious and if a person truly believes
that about themselves then they will know no
matter how many times I come to the
masjid no matter how many times I pray
in the middle of the evening I do
these things because I need them I do
these things because I need them the person
who wakes up in the middle of the
evening to pray they do that because they
know how badly they need that like I'm
praying this evening because I know how many
sins I've committed in my life trust me
I need this my uncle one time subhanallah
it was so strange I remember this conversation
he was known to be a very generous
person very generous person I remember growing up
I used to always know him to be
the first guy that raises his hand at
every single fundraiser always the first person and
he used to always encourage other people he
would always donate his time, his energy, his
efforts everything like that and one time when
I was like 11, 12 I was like
the snarky little pre-team one time I
asked him why why are you the first
person why do you lead the charge in
that regard he goes you have no idea
how badly I need the rewards for this
because you have no idea how badly I
need the reward for the sadaqah that I
give subhanallah you see the difference of perspective
I'm thinking of him as like wow subhanallah
you're such a pious person you're such a
righteous person you're giving so much money wow
you pray so much you go to the
masjid so much you do this and that
the human being when they see that they
get impressed by piety but the true pious
person who's engaging in those actions they think
of themselves as extremely faulty like wow I
need this you think of me as pious
no no no I'm an extremely sinful person
I'm doing all of this because I need
Allah's mercy and his reward so he says
he says he says that this is an
example of gratitude when a person wakes up
and they make tahajjud they pray tahajjud and
then they spend the last few moments of
the late evening early morning doing istighfar it's
out of shukr to Allah should I not
be a grateful servant think about how many
things in your life that you have to
thank Allah for right now think about that
weird kind of missed blessing in your life
that goes ignored or neglected it could be
just like as simple as water it could
be as simple as eating a meal before
I left the home today to come to
roots to partake in soul food I was
sitting with my wife and my daughter and
my wife was asking me what do you
want to eat tomorrow for dinner and I
remember telling her yeah I don't care whatever
you feel like I'm good with it and
she goes it's so difficult to think about
what to make for dinner and I paused
for a second I said the difficulty for
us is to think about what to choose
to eat for dinner you know those phrases
you say that if you say it enough
it sounds weird like that word that sounds
weird if you say it over and over
again it's difficult for us to choose what
we want for dinner that's such a strange
statement there's certain people in the dunya right
now as we exist in the same planet
that are mixing together water and like wheat
to put together something that resembles bread that's
like hard and it's hurting the teeth and
the mouth but they have no choice and
sometimes we're over here and we're like chicken
or beef you know shrimp or chicken we're
thinking of so many things and so many
options and we don't realize to ourselves that
these are not normal things these are not
normal things we have normalized things that are
extremely luxurious y'all and Allah Subhanahu wa
ta'ala is not telling us to like
take that away from yourselves no no no
be hungry, be thirsty be in misery, no
no no Allah is not saying any of
that Allah is just saying whatever you engage
in just acknowledge it as a blessing in
your life don't ever lie to yourself and
tell yourself that wow this is so normal
no no no it's not normal it's not
normal so he says shukran and then he
says finally an ayah of the Quran and
these same people they pray for forgiveness in
the early hours of the morning just merely
out of the remembrance of Allah Subhanahu wa
ta'ala they don't even know what they're
asking Allah for forgiveness for they're just sitting
and saying Allah have you guys ever done
that before you don't really know what to
say you're just kind of sitting there doing
dhikr Subhanallah Astaghfirullah Astaghfirullah Allahu Akbar by
the way sometimes we forget it's because of
the inshallah becoming a synonym for maybe Alhamdulillah
becoming a synonym for great we've synonymized a
lot of things in terms of our Arabic
but the reality is we forget that Allahu
Akbar doesn't just mean something random Allahu Akbar
is actually a form of dua right Astaghfirullah
is a form of dua Audhu Billah is
a form of dua you are asking Allah
for certain things when you say Astaghfirullah you're
literally saying to Allah I seek forgiveness within
you all forgiveness is from you Audhu Billah
oh Allah I ask you to protect me
those aren't just random phrases you're asking at
that moment so what Allah is describing here
as dhikr is a person who is saying
the same things that a person who is
asking for forgiveness for but they are so
in love with Allah that they just want
to mention his name they want to keep
Allah's name within their heart upon the tongue
they can't live a day without mentioning Allah
it's something to behold actually how many times
in our days do we mention Allah's name
do we go a full day without saying
the name Allah do we go a full
day without saying the phrase Allahu Akbar do
we go a full day without saying the
phrase Audhu Billah Astaghfirullah Subhanallah Walhamdulillah do we
allow ourselves to do that or are we
people who sincerely we are so so we
are so beloved and we love Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala so much that we can't
think it's like waking up and I'm sure
everybody in here in their phone they have
that one friend that they have that iMessage
streak with like one day does not go
by without us communicating on some level it's
like the snap streak it's like a thing
in like Jeddah like all these people Snapchat
but it's like think about this it's like
literally like an iMessage streak right like you
have like a streak of days where you're
constantly in communication with this one person and
if that one friend y'all ever get
like weird panicky if that one friend doesn't
text you for like a full day you're
like are they dead should I check on
them like are they okay like are they
passed out did they not get their chicken
nuggets last night like should I do something
what's their location right like we panic we
panic now imagine if we do not have
that same feeling when it comes to our
creator we don't panic when we don't say
Allah's name in one full day we don't
panic when we don't say Allahu Akbar one
full day may Allah protect us from that
everyone say Ameen so then Imam Al Ghazali
he then continues on he says something beautiful
he says for the Prophet he said ثلاثة
أصوات يحبها الله يحبها الله there are three
voices three voices three noises that are beloved
to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala ready for
this this is beautiful he says the first
one is the voice of the rooster that
wakes up people in the morning very beautiful
statement by the way if you think about
it you're like what are the most beloved
voices to Allah they're like oh yeah somebody
who like does dhikr somebody who prays the
first thing the Prophet says the voice of
the rooster the voice of the chicken that
wakes somebody up in the morning you're like
wait what why in fact there's actually a
Bukhari hadith I want everyone to look this
up inshallah when you have time tonight look
up a hadith in Sahih Bukhari that talks
about the virtues of a rooster very random
by the way you're like wait what a
rooster is annoying makes loud sounds why would
that be virtuous they actually say this is
not they this is the Prophet the Prophet
he said that when a rooster crows especially
in the evening is because they've seen an
angel in their presence they've seen an angel
in their presence this animal is beloved to
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala why because it
senses purity around it and also the scholars
they also elaborate and they say this animal
is beloved to Allah because this animal actually
is so biologically programmed by Allah that they
begin their mornings by proclaiming something that signifies
the start of their day it's not like
you you wake up in the morning and
you're wiping off the Dorito crumbs from last
night away from your face you fell asleep
with your phone on your face so now
you have this imprint of a 5 by
2.5 screen you wake up and you
go to the bathroom and you're like oh
my god what happened to my hair overnight
I don't even think this is possible who
is that person in the mirror we look
like messes in the morning anybody not a
morning person in here definitely not morning people
so you wake up in the morning and
you look like when you look in the
mirror you're like you ask Allah for protection
from whatever that is so this animal is
beloved to Allah because they wake up with
the remembrance of Allah that it is a
blessing from Allah that we're able to start
this new day subhanallah and then he says
the second most beloved noise to Allah is
the noise or the voice of a person
who recites the Quran anyone know the rewards
of those who recite Quran can you imagine
this by the way I think a lot
of times we do a huge disservice whenever
we recite Quran and we think to ourselves
that I'm just reading a book you're actually
reading the same words that were stated by
Jibreel to the Prophet 1600 years ago I
just want you guys to imagine this when
you're reading the Quran it is not just
Arabic words when you recite you are reciting
things that Allah told Jibreel to tell the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam these are the words
of God and when a person the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says when a person struggles
with it they get Ajran two rewards, why?
because sometimes Shaitan comes to a person they
say wow you're so bad at this you
should just leave it anybody ever felt that
before?
you're like I just can't you hear the
Hafith next to you doing the back and
forth movement you're like oh gosh you're nowhere
near that level for you Lahum Ajran just
know that Allah has reserved twice the amount
of reward for you if you struggle there's
a beautiful reward for people that struggle in
this Deen guys Allah does not want you
to be perfect Allah wants you just to
try just to try that's all it is
and Allah will reward you according to how
much you try if you care and you
try Allah will take care of you care
for Allah and Allah will take care of
you that's the second the third Imam Al
Ghazali he says the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
says the voice of a person who asks
Allah for forgiveness the voice of a person
who asks Allah for forgiveness they're not shy
in asking Allah for what they need then
Imam Al Ghazali he continues and he says
there's a famous famous scholar by the name
of Sufyan Al Thawri he says Allah the
exalted has created a wind a breeze a
breeze Allah has created a breeze that blows
in the early hours of the morning it
blows in the early parts of the morning
y'all know that early have you ever
walked in the morning before by the way
go walk in the morning now it's like
amazing y'all know like that Jahannam weather
back in like July when you used to
wake up at like 8am and it was
still 98 degrees outside like why did I
open this oven door right now mashallah when
you go outside and walk what is it
it's like 65 now in the mornings right
it's amazing by the way I encourage everyone
to do this sometimes you feel that slight
breeze I know I'm going to sound a
little dramatic here but doesn't that breeze in
the fall in the morning feel a little
bit heavenly it does it really does like
it's not it's not frigid it's not like
the February breeze that like hits you like
a sharp knife that breeze in October when
it hits you in the morning it's like
oh my gosh like how do I bottle
that just carry it around with me it's
like air conditioning right so Sufiana Thoudy he
says that Allah sends a specific breeze in
the morning and this breeze is filled with
so much rahma so much mercy and he
says that this breeze it carries the dhikr
of the one who makes istighfar to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala the reason why that
breeze feels so good is because it is
taking your dhikr of Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala to him now obviously we don't take
this like literally right because your dhikr your
Quran cannot be carried literally physically but Sufiana
Thoudy is trying to get you to kind
of appreciate things like the beauty of that
breeze there's meaning to it how many of
y'all have ever seen something in nature
and you began to just remember Allah you
ever saw like the ocean you saw mountains
you saw like rolling hills you've seen like
beautiful waterfalls you've seen like you know extremely
amazing scenery in your life and you can't
help but think about Allah you're like wow
this is incredible anybody ever in here get
frustrated about trying to take a picture of
something that looks so cool in person but
when you take a picture of it it
looks like absolute filth particularly like the moon
right I know for a fact that y
'all been driving late at night sometimes and
you're like the moon subhanallah it's beautiful it's
like bigger than the entire earth and then
you take your iPhone out and it looks
like this you're like wait am I looking
at two different things like what's going on
with me like am I going through an
episode no you're not there are certain things
in the dunya that you're actually just supposed
to appreciate with your own eyes that were
given to you just put the camera away
put the camera away appreciate Allah for what
he is and try to appreciate his blessings
with your eyes think about a place where
you've gone to that has smelled incredible you
know Medina anyone been to Medina before or
even Mecca and you've done sajdah on that
carpet dude you can't describe it I've tried
by the way I've tried I've tried to
capture it in bottles and like taking it
with me from some random Arab guy that
tried to sell it to me from like
the Hilton next door and I'm just like
it doesn't smell the same there's something special
about it you know what one of my
teachers told me by the way he said
you'll never be able to capture the smell
of the carpets of Medina because the carpets
of Medina are also scented by the foreheads
of the Muslims that pray there yeah they
spray their perfume on there on the carpets
to make it smell good but you can't
replicate the smell of millions of people who
pray and they say subhanAllah on those carpets
you can't capture that there are certain things
you can't capture how do you how do
you how do you bottle up like a
sound that you heard right you know like
people have like there's like apps nowadays like
you know like Spotify has like playlists about
like peaceful noises you study right like birds
chirping and like waves crashing on rocks and
all these different things and you're like yeah
it's cool but like I heard it live
right I remember what that sounded like I
remember what that river sounded like you can't
replicate that so Sufiyana Thoudi he's saying that
this breeze from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
it carries up to Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala your dhikr okay and then subhanAllah very
beautifully it also says he also said in
the early hours of the night a caller
from under the throne okay in the early
part of the evening okay a caller from
under the throne calls out they say let
the worshippers rise and the worshippers the true
worshippers of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala they
will get up they will get up and
they will pray to Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala by the way can I tell you
guys something scary subhanAllah this is a really
crazy like spirituality check how do we feel
when we hear the call to prayer within
our hearts you know like when we're busy
busy in the day doing things and we
hear the adhan how do we feel how
do we feel do we feel like I'm
gonna stop what I'm doing now and like
pray or when we hear the adhan we're
like yes I can take a break from
what I'm doing to pray those are two
very different reactions by the way y'all
feel me like one person is like yes
I'm excited I told you guys a story
like months ago about the store owner when
I was in Medina as soon as the
adhan went off him and his Dunkin Donuts
were done he like he put that chain
fence in front of his door like before
the adhan could even get to its second
like phrase like the mu'adhin said Allahu
Akbar didn't even say the second Allahu Akbar
the guy was like alright I'm done here
but we are like no no no man
like one more episode like one more episode
I can just do one more episode before
I pray no no no I can do
like 10 minutes more of like this phone
call before I hang up and pray dude
there are volumes written about people and how
they react to the call of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala when Allah's name is mentioned
Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar do we just get
uncomfortable and get annoyed and get irritated or
are we people who say Alhamdulillah that Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala is allowing me to
take a break from my day to pray
to him so he says when these people
are called they will get up and they
will immediately run to their salah okay and
then at that point a caller will call
let those who pray for forgiveness arise and
they will get up and they will seek
for forgiveness they will seek forgiveness of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala these people will get
up is there anybody who is going to
ask me for forgiveness those people will stand
up and they will answer the call of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala but they will
say I don't want to ever miss Allah's
call then check this out the last group
of people okay the last a person at
dawn will call and they will say oh
people who are heedless wake up those who
are heedless get up get up those who
are forgetful get up wow
that's a powerful line that he said and
they will get up from their beds as
the dead are resurrected from their graves meaning
that these people will not get up like
everybody else they will love their sleep they
will love their comfort they will love their
luxury and their leisure and they'll get up
last after everybody you know those people who
are like late to a sale y'all
ever been to late to a sale before
at a store everybody else has that pre
-order in right my wife just told me
that she's super late to like the vela
watercolor hijab fad and she's like is there
any left I'm like I don't know I've
heard people talking about this for like months
I have no idea and she was like
oh my god I think I missed it
I think they all had to stop and
I'm like man subhanallah like you know when
it comes to so many things in our
lives we're like the first people to put
our email addresses in like get me the
notification when something comes out how many of
us done that right you like done that
with like flights and like other things in
your life like if there's like a ticket
that's on sale it's on pre-sale like
you let me know when it's up and
going so I get a notification before anybody
else so I can buy it guys think
about how people go insane when like a
new iPhone is dropped right I've seen people
literally like they'll refresh refresh refresh refresh so
they don't lose out on buying something they're
constantly refreshing but when it comes to like
stuff they're like yeah I'm okay just kind
of like being the last in line to
get in I actually you know saw this
in person can I tell you guys a
story it's actually fascinating I always have this
core memory alhamdulillah and it actually happened this
past year for me this core memory of
Umrah alhamdulillah rabbil alameen I don't take this
for granted any day of my life Allah
has allowed me to do Umrah almost every
year of my life since 2018 alhamdulillah rabbil
alameen this past year this past year Ustaz
Abdurrahman and I we went together and we
were leading our group with Qalam if anybody's
interested by the way we're going in winter
inshallah together so if you're down and one
evening he texted me and he said hey
do you want to like give it a
shot for like Rawdah anyone know like Rawdah
Rawdah basically is the original Masjid of the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam where he used to
pray and lead Salah and everything like that
it's a very small area of Masjid al
-Nabawi today it's a very large complex now
mashallah but Rawdah is like the original place
where the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam used to
pray along with his companions alright and it's
actually like color-coded in a different color
than the rest of the Masjid the pillars
they look different the carpeting looks different it's
very very different very unique and it's like
a signature of that Masjid the only catch
is if you want to pray in the
Rawdah nowadays you have to basically like sign
in through like an app you have to
like apply okay and basically you you apply
and they tell you that like okay you
are confirmed to stand in line for Rawdah
at this time of the day okay so
me and Asadur Rahman were like you know
let's give it a shot let's try it
inshallah okay so we stood in line and
I remember just being in the back of
the line that night it was after Salat
al Maghrib and we got in line and
we were like so far behind and there's
certain people who like came up to the
officer who was like letting people in into
like the waiting area and like the QR
code that they had was messed up and
so they were like turning certain people away
so me and Asadur Rahman got up there
we were sharing one QR code which you
should never do but we shared one QR
code together and we just kind of screenshotted
it and we basically like after like 10
minutes 15 minutes 20 minutes we finally made
it up to like the front part of
the line and at that moment like Asadur
Rahman he got in so he got in
pretty fast and then I was the second
one up and the guard like shot daggers
at me I was like what is this
guy looking at me like this for right
he looked down up at me and then
he was like okay by the way like
all the guards in like Saudia like they
act like they hate you okay I'm like
I'm sorry that I'm praying in the Prophet's
mosque if this inconveniences you in any way
so I got so Asadur Rahman got in
then Alhamdulillah I got in and they took
us to like this kind of like waiting
area like outside of the Rawdah in like
the main courtyard of the masjid and everybody
was sitting there and everybody was like going
back and forth like doing dhikr of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala they were doing their
sunnah before Asadur Rahman etc etc and me
and Abdurrahman were there and we're just like
let's just let's just see what happens here
I don't know I don't know if we're
gonna get in and by the way if
you get into the Rawdah it they might
give you like 7 to 10 minutes maximum
nothing more and not only that you'll be
dragged by this random like Saudia guard and
be like hey get out you're done right
it's like a very it's like the most
spiritually unspiritual experience of all time it's very
weird and so all of a sudden like
the line they let in by rows so
there's like a giant courtyard of like 6,
7, 8 rows and then they let one
row in 10 minutes then they leave other
row in leave 10 minutes so we were
like the 5th or 6th row wallahi I
kid you not as soon as they called
the Adhan for Salatul Isha we were the
row that was about to get in okay
and I remember I was like I looked
at next to me to him and I
said are we gonna be able to like
go in and pray Isha there?
He's like I don't know man I don't
know let's just keep trying and so at
the very end it was our turn to
go in and the Adhan was called but
then obviously there is the Iqamah right and
the Iqamah means that it's actually the time
for the congregational prayer so the Adhan gets
called and Alhamdulillah like we get in okay
so we get in we get a spot
in the rowdah we're making insane dua that
we don't have to leave before the Iqamah
is called because what happens if the Iqamah
is called?
You're there for Isha you're gonna pray Isha
in the rowdah okay so I'm just like
alright man we've been here for like 3
minutes 4 minutes man where the heck is
this Iqamah guy right like where's the Iqamah
guy?
Tell him to give the Iqamah fast and
so Alhamdulillah on our like 8th minute like
a minute before they were about to ask
us to leave so the other group can
come in the Mu'adhin gets up and
he goes Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar I kid
you guys not Alhamdulillah you know when a
person goes to Umrah several times sometimes your
reaction when you go to Umrah is different
like the first time you cry the second
time you're happy that you're there the third
time you're happy that you're there this time
I could not help but absolutely break down
into tears because I didn't even think that
I was going to pray in the Prophet's
rowdah that evening and not only was I
able to but I stayed in there for
about 25 minutes almost half an hour and
we got to pray Isha in there and
I'm telling you guys I would not have
done that if Abdurrahman did not text me
earlier that day and say hey do you
want to try rowdah tonight between Maghrib and
Isha we'll just try it how many times
how many times do we get those opportunities
and again that's like a bigger picture more
grandiose kind of example but how many times
do we get these smaller opportunities and we
turn them down like a friend will hit
you up and be like hey do you
want to go to Roots tonight and you're
like I don't know man like you know
I'm tired I didn't eat today I don't
know if I feel like it what if
that Monday night heart work or that Wednesday
night or that Thursday night soul food what
if that was your final time stepping in
here what if think about this and this
is kind of an emotional point here but
imagine like your mother texts you one night
and she's like hey do you want to
have dinner with me tonight how do you
know that that was not the final text
message that your mother would ever send you
and we're like no I don't feel like
it man I'm just going to kind of
hang out by myself how many times do
we pass up on these opportunities where we
are called by goodness but we pass it
up because we think that we're busier or
we have better things to do or we
just don't have enough energy I'm telling you
guys there's a time to sleep and there's
a time to take advantage of these opportunities
when something good comes up the prophet would
never give up an opportunity to do some
sort of khair even if it's small even
if it's small the call to adhan comes
in don't ever flee from that place you
never know when you're going to hear another
adhan again in your life when somebody's reciting
don't just walk away like it's nothing stop
and listen for even just a few seconds
you don't know if you're going to hear
the Quran after that moment you get that
phone call from your mom pick up that
phone call I'm telling you pick up that
phone call you do not know if that
phone call will ever come in again I
was hearing this story from one of my
teachers yesterday where he was talking about the
crunch for time and how human beings are
always at a loss for time he said
that a person called him like frantically calling
him and he was like no no I'm
actually so caught up in other things that
I couldn't make his call and then subhanAllah
check this he said when I called that
person back later that day they actually said
what I needed you for is actually over
now what was that need that you needed
he said my father was in the hospital
and he was in a serious life death
situation and I needed to know your opinion
about something but he actually passed away and
my teacher he said I've never felt that
pit in my stomach in my life like
that we think to ourselves that yeah this
opportunity is going to come around again at
some point we don't know that guys we
have no idea that that's going to happen
continue to inshaAllah take advantage of every opportunity
that you're given rise when Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala calls you answer the call when
somebody of goodness calls you be there inshaAllah
so that you don't regret later on you
don't want to have that in Arabic it's
called hasr sadness, regret, remorse you don't want
to have that remorse at the end of
your life you want to have that happiness
that you answered whenever it was time for
you to answer it so inshaAllah we'll wrap
up with that we ask Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala to bless us inshaAllah and allow
us to benefit from these sessions and we
ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to make
us of the people who are answering the
call of Allah ta'ala and we ask
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to make us
of the people who follow the sunnah of
the Prophet I'm going to go ahead and
put a QR code up on the screen
for you guys inshaAllah and we're going to
do about 10 to 12 minutes of Q
&A inshaAllah before we break for Salatul Isha
so I want everyone to get out their
phones inshaAllah you can hover your phone over
the QR code inshaAllah ta'ala and then
we'll hopefully be able to do some really
cool Q&A together oh wait for me?
who's like screaming in the background over there?
let me just check on that person, they're
okay oh is that what it is?
okay alright so the QR code is inshaAllah
on the screen if you guys inshaAllah hover
your phone cameras over the the QR code
then inshaAllah you'll be able to ask the
questions I'll
give everyone like a minute to kind of
submit their questions inshaAllah and then we'll start
answering some of the questions together okay alright
so I'll go ahead inshaAllah and start answering
some of these questions real quick somebody asked
yeah let me go ahead and actually approve
these so that you guys can kind of
see it in the larger questions and then
you can like thumbs them up inshaAllah if
you want to okay so somebody said how
can I make the most of the time
I have left with my father plus my
own health issues are here too I'm having
to take one the role of care and
provider first and foremost may Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala reward you for taking care of
your parents in such a sincere manner and
may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala relieve your
parents, your father particularly of any sort of
illness that he's going through and Allah give
him shifa everyone say ameen and how do
you balance that one thing that I will
kind of passionately say is that I don't
think anyone at the end of their life
has ever regretted taking care of their parents
you know in the moment that situation may
be extremely testing and trying but when it's
all said and done I think anyone would
say that I am so happy that I
was able to do what I could while
Allah gave me that opportunity because you know
the reality is and this is just kind
of the situation at hand is your parents
you will have to say goodbye to them
at some point in your life right and
there's never a person who usually says that
I did everything correctly with my parents you
always have regrets with your parents right but
what I will say is don't look at
taking care of your father as something that
sacrifices like who you are because whatever you
are doing for your father Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala may be taking whatever gaps that
you feel like are present in your life
and whatever opportunities you feel you are missing
in your life and Allah will elevate you
to an extent that you will have no
idea subhanAllah like how high Allah has taken
you right when it comes to like your
own like challenges right your own health issues
you know one thing that I will say
is you know make the intention that you
want to take care of your father but
at the same time ask Allah constantly make
dua that Allah relieves him from whatever he's
going through right but what I would just
say is don't everybody in this life by
the way is given a purpose everyone's purpose
is to get to Jannah and to please
Allah now the route to doing that is
going to be different for each and every
single one of you for some of you
is going to be like raising a good
family and raising really amazing children for some
of you it will be taking care of
your parents for some of you it will
just be doing the honor of living a
good life for some of you it may
be fulfilling a certain career a certain passion
that you have that again goes back to
you know being good with Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala everybody has a different route to
Allah right so whatever route that Allah has
given you one thing that I would share
with you is embrace it embrace that role
that you've been given as much of a
difficulty it may be at some times in
your life and you feel like you're sacrificing
a lot know that everything one day will
pass including this moment and so take advantage
of the moments where Allah gave you time
to take care of the people that you
take care of somebody said how can I
stop just praying out of only habit and
not out of love very good question if
somebody wants to begin to pray out of
habit sorry pray out of love and not
just out of habit one thing that I
would suggest is begin to shift your idea
of what prayer is in the first place
you treat things like habits and chores when
you look at things like chores right so
for example I know this stage of life
that I'm in I know a lot of
dads who like look at like babysitting their
kid as like babysitting their kid so they'll
like avoid like hanging out with their kid
because they're like I'd rather do other things
like sincerely Wallahi honestly every day I look
at my daughter Aya I think to myself
I'm never going to see her at this
stage again but there will be one day
where she's three and the next time she'll
be five the next time she'll be eight
the next time she'll be thirteen I'm never
going to get back two and a half
year old Aya ever again in my life
if I view that as a chore I
will never enjoy that experience ever in my
life even through the tantrums even through the
tantrums like I cannot look at this situation
as just a chore in my life redefine
it find out how to make it not
a chore for you find out a way
to make it something that you sincerely love
and that might be your own flavor by
the way that might be your own flavor
that might be your own take on Salah
that your Salah is something that you sincerely
connect with Allah about certain particular things and
that's how you get yourself out of the
funk of thinking of it as like a
task and something that's habitual rather than something
that you love okay very very good there's
a guy who's literally fundraising behind here such
an insane alright how you forgive yourself and
trust Allah no can somebody close that door
Hamza just close it I can't hear a
person yelling at the top of their lungs
anymore about who's going to get 5,000
I feel like I've been traumatized by that
statement in my life growing up so I
need to stop it alright so somebody says
how do you forgive yourself and trust Allah
know this Hamza please for the love of
God it's done can you close it again
I think somebody opened it Abdullah please can
you handle Abdullah is the
door closed there's no way that door is
closed I feel like he's going to jump
through the ceiling and ask you guys for
5,000 next I'm actually trying to protect
you all sincerely okay so how do you
forgive yourself and trust Allah know that Allah
may have already forgiven you for something that
you haven't forgiven yourself for just know that
you know the feelings that you have for
yourself and sometimes it's like self hate self
you know disappointment you know self pity whatever
it may be know that Allah does not
hold these feelings for you right so I'm
going to be very honest with you you
can be upset with yourself all you want
to but don't project that sadness on Allah
Allah could have already forgiven you for something
that you still hold yourself accountable for okay
so just be able to differentiate the feelings
that you have for yourself and the feelings
that Allah has for you okay okay the
next question is how can I make okay
so I answered that already I'm struggling to
wake up for Fajr on time even with
alarms what should I do set more alarms
seriously though if this person is asking like
in a sense that like they have trouble
waking up for Fajr on time even with
all the alarms like you sleep through it
then take the next level of precaution and
like ask somebody in your house like wake
you up dude or if you don't want
to do that set your alarm and throw
your phone across the room before you go
to sleep I'm telling you it's crazy it
works miracles okay also another pro tip set
your alarm for like 30 minutes before Fajr
I'm telling you it'll help it'll help how
many times like do we set our alarm
for like 30 minutes before class starts you
get up and you like rush and you're
like in this crazy manic state you're like
trying to figure things out in your life
if I just gotten up like 30 minutes
before that I would have actually been more
ready I would have been prepared right so
set your alarm for like 30 minutes before
Fajr right very very good okay somebody asks
okay I'm going to prove all of these
real quick inshallah so we can answer them
one by one can I pray tahajjud if
I didn't pray all five prayers no no
you should pray your five prayers first you
should pray your five prayers before you engage
in tahajjud inshallah because tahajjud is something that's
called your nafl your nawafil right it's voluntary
it's purgatory you will be asked about your
obligatory first so always pray your obligatory before
you pray your nawafil very good question okay
how do you stop beating yourself up forever
overthinking and any hurtful thing you might have
done to others and forgetting your own needs
this is where I'll be honest with you
guys you have to have tough conversations with
people around you if you feel bad about
overthinking any hurtful things you might have done
to others then you should get into a
very daily or weekly kind of cadence of
just saying to people hey if I ever
if I did something that maybe have been
hurtful please forgive me clear your conscience honestly
ask people for forgiveness as much as you
can okay don't get into the habit of
like yeah you know they'll be fine if
you're truly worried about something that you may
have done then do a daily weekly monthly
whatever it may be and say like you
know if I ever said something to you
we talk a lot but if I ever
said something to you I have a good
friend in my life by the way that
does this all the time they message me
like once every like week and a half
and they're like hey if I said something
to you this week that was like taken
you know in a bad way or in
a hurtful manner I sincerely I'm sorry and
I apologize for that and majority of the
times I'm like yeah there's nothing they have
to apologize for but they do it all
the time because they feel the sense of
responsibility right so inshallah if that's something that
you feel is relevant then inshallah do that
okay as a father of a daughter yourself
is Islam a valid reason for a father
to stop showing affection after their daughter reaches
the age of puberty no no the prophet
would show immense amount of affection for Fatima
his daughter long after she actually hit the
age of puberty when she was married to
Ali he would constantly constantly like show affection
for her kiss her hold her hand walk
her while holding her hand he would basically
walk her to where he would sit and
sit her down in his seat like if
you want to talk about like public displays
of affection the prophet would literally show all
of that to his daughter Fatima okay this
is just something that he used to do
that he used to love I think we
have to really really start differentiating culture from
Islam guys you really have to and if
you're unsure whether something is culture or Islam
you need to ask somebody who has studied
Islam because they'll be able to tell you
and a very wise scholar will tell you
that there is absolutely a difference between the
two can sometimes culture like coincide with Islam
once in a while yes but are they
two separate things at the end of the
day yes yes this has traumatized a lot
of people throughout their life you know the
lack of love in my home and my
family and my parents and even spouses subhanallah
you know like I've had people that it's
really sad I've had people come up to
me and saying like my husband doesn't want
to like hold my hand in public because
he thinks that it's actually un-Islamic I
mean what a tragedy dude what a tragedy
I know some people are laughing but it's
a tragedy man you're talking about the same
religion in which the Prophet raised his wife
Aisha up and down the deserts of Medina
you're talking about the Prophet who actually like
held Aisha on his back she was like
holding onto him and putting her chin on
his shoulder as she was watching Abyssinian dancers
this is the same religion that you're talking
about that you know you can't hold your
spouse's hand in public obviously there's limits you
know you shouldn't be that weird high school
couple that has their foreheads together waiting in
line for that ride like y'all don't
think I'm that tapped into you, you guys
are crazy I'm locked into the internet that
weird couple but at the same time at
the same time this is Islam, Islam allows
for whatever the Prophet used to do right
very very good um why do so many
people feel like they aren't going to ever
find love and feel under deserving and unworthy
can I tell you something?
dunya man, dunya is the worst dunya will
tell you that like by the way let
me tell you something in order for a
person to find confidence in a loving marriage
they must have confidence in who they are
as a person because if not you are
going to bring all your insecurities into that
marriage and it's going to be very challenging
you're going to start thinking about realities that
are actually the farthest thing from reality you're
going to start making up scenarios in your
head that are not near truth right, what
I would say is get away from the
dunya standards and expectations man start going towards
things like being content in terms of who
you are and what you expect from somebody
have candid conversations, the issue is that people
overstep the stage of having good conversations about
a future marriage and they go to all
the fun stuff and like all the lovey
-dovey stuff and they take the baraka straight
out of that relationship right, like the 2am
text messages like hey are you watching rings
of power?
I don't need to know that like, have
good conversations about like, you know, aspirations and
goals and standards and morals like those are
things that you should talk about pre-marriage
right so, think about that a little bit
inshallah, okay next question how do I start
being more private and stop having the urge
to tell everyone my sins or situations, good
question know that a person who hides their
sins at the end of the day actually
are more they're more shameful and they have
more hayat at least they know what they're
doing is wrong right, no one will ever
be able to be sinless, it's impossible, but
a person who hides their sins they hide
and they don't promote it that person has
a level of taqwa, even if they're not
like a perfect person, they understand that I
can't do this publicly, they understand that I
have shame about it whenever I engage in
it it's not something that I'm proud of,
right how do you go about concealing your
sins just be mindful be a person who's
not like an absolute haywan honestly there's a
reason why the prophet used to contrast animals
and human beings a lot you never want
to have animalistic personality traits and characteristics right,
inshallah we learned to avoid that, somebody asked
how do you handle childhood mistakes childhood mistakes
are tough right, because I mean you know
unfortunately we have memory and some of our
memories are very very strong, understand that Allah
has allowed a person to see the next
day because of a very particular reason if
Allah allowed you to see the next day
and continue on with your life there's a
reason behind that continuation it's because Allah wants
you to turn a new leaf if you've
made a mistake as a child obviously if
you're literally a child understand that Islam is
merciful enough to know that a child who
makes a certain mistake they can't be held
accountable for it like an adult would right,
and number two is to know that every
hour, every day that Allah allows you to
live is a moment where you can turn
inshallah a new leaf okay, I often find
myself questioning my sincerity I find that I'm
not sure if I truly mean it, how
can I work on this re-establish your
niyyah multiple times through an action, re-establish
your niyyah multiple times through an action if
it means at the beginning, middle and at
the end so be it, re-establish that
niyyah three times, don't just make a niyyah
once and call it a day, make a
niyyah once twice and thrice convince yourself that
nope this is not why I'm doing this,
I'm doing this for Allah, I'm doing this
for goodness okay let's see do I have
the right to advise someone on something that
I'm also actively trying to work on yes
but be aware right like if I am
like constantly backbiting, I shouldn't be like bismillah
walhamdulillah as-salatu was-salam ala rasulillah like
I shouldn't be giving khutbahs about backbiting but
you can say to that person, by the
way this is something that I'm also sincerely
struggling with so I actually feel that this
advice would be relevant for you and me,
you know that whole tagline of somebody who
says that this is a reminder for myself
before anybody else, that's actually a very good
tagline, because you're proving to yourself that you're
not obsessed with your own ego and your
own arrogance, you're saying I'm giving this advice
because I need this advice more than anybody,
and I've been given this advice by other
people, right, so give advice but be honest
about the things that you're struggling with as
well inshallah, okay last couple questions, we're gonna
quickly kind of finish this off why would
a practicing Muslim avoid conflict or mending situations,
why would someone avoid forgiveness for months honestly
guys, can I tell you something, be merciful
on people, we have no idea what people
are struggling with, I know that for some
people it's easy to go have those hard
conversations but it's not easy for everybody, how
many of you guys feel like you're okay,
like, being conflict like, you know, you're okay
with conflict, like you're okay having those tough
conversations anybody, raise your hands oh my gosh
subhanallah, we have all these attachment avoiding people
in here, okay so how many of you
guys feel that conflict is something that's very
very hard for you to kind of approach,
anybody raise your hands, the rest of you
guys are also complicit because even raising your
hand is challenging for you, so I already
know this okay, so be merciful upon people,
don't judge people that may be, you know
taking their time to having a tough conversation
they may be thinking of a lot of
things and, you know, if you find it
to be easy, a person who's asking this
question, you find it to be easy to
approach conflict, make it easy on the people
around you, don't make it difficult for them,
okay how do I stop feeling my deeds
are not going to get counted even if
my intentions are pure you have to have
confidence in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sometimes
we are our own worst enemies guys and
we can't allow ourselves to do that okay,
inshallah, we'll wrap up with that, we ask
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to make our
intentions pure, we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala to allow us to be people of
sincerity, of ihsan, of excellence, and we ask
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to allow us
to be people who constantly engage in istighfar
and tawbah, we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala to allow us to be people who
try our hardest in every step and every
chance that we get, we ask Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala that whatever opportunities that he
presents to us, we ask Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala to allow us to engage in
those opportunities for good, and we ask Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala to forgive us for
all of our sins and our shortcomings ameen,
rabbana ameen, subhanakallah wa bihamdik wa nashadu wa
la ilaha illa anta wa astaghfirullah wa kanatuhu
wa raik, inshallah tomorrow is our bonfire, so
just letting everybody know our fireside session tomorrow
evening it's gonna be from 7 to 8
.30 so come inshallah, pray maghrib here we're
gonna have like snacks and all that good
stuff inshallah that'll be tomorrow here at Roots
at 7pm, we'll see you guys then inshallah
and there's no RSVPs necessary, just come inshallah,
bring a friend, love to have you guys
assalamualaikum y'all