Safi Khan – Soul Food for College Students The Du’a Series Class 4
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The speakers discuss the importance of praising Allah Subhana' etiquette procedures and praising his success in the DUA. They stress the need for people to be in a state of will do during the session and encourage them to practice these behaviors. They also discuss the importance of praising Allah Subhana' direct quotes and his use of shams and shameless practices during his time. The speakers also touch on emotional struggles and how they approach family members with them.
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All righty Sharla let's go ahead and
begin
Bismillah Alhamdulillah wa salatu salam ala Rasulillah while early
he was heavy hit edge marine Sudan welcome everybody. How's everyone
doing? hamdulillah everyone doing okay? Everyone's weekend good
hamdulillah look at the weather mashallah beautiful. Everyone's
planning for like a tornado watch, right? hail, wind, right? An ice
age from the
hamdulillah Hamdulillah. You know, there's a there's a beautiful
thing, right? If if there's a will, Allah subhanaw wants out, I
usually make some ways, right? So humbly law that Allah has allowed
us to gather here together for the session. So
a couple of things, obviously wanted to start off with, I wanted
to kind of share the program plan tonight.
We'll do our main session, our main Holika that we engage in
every single Thursday night. And at the very end, I wanted to leave
some really, really good amount of time for the continued q&a that we
started last week. We didn't get to finish it. So in sha Allah,
we're going to try and answer some more questions regarding some of
the stuff that everyone asked about. We're also going to make a
do our we're going to end today's session with a dua for the
situation that's going on in Rafah right now. Obviously, everyone's
been keeping up with it. Hopefully, you've noticed that
there's a lot of a lot of a lot of injustice is taking place in in
Philadelphia, so we're going to make dua
to end our session today in sha Allah Tada as the prophet slice
alum, he says right that the OMA is like one body when one part of
it is hurting the rest of the body or the other part of the body
should also be hurting. Right? Because we're not people who just
gloss over these things and just think that oh, yeah, well, you
know, it's so far away from me, right? It's not that big of a deal
but we actually acknowledged that this is a part of our our OMA,
this is a part of the prophets, Allah license OMA, so this is a
very, very serious situation. So inshallah we'll end with that. And
then there is another dua who you know, there's a community member
who's always here for soul food. They have a family member who's
really really sick. So inshallah we're going to ask for some dye
that and for that as well. All right, so we're gonna begin
our session today, as everyone's sipping on their boba. How's it
Bobo? By the way? Is it good on the law? Jasmine? Haha. It's, it's
shallow. We're gonna see how it rolls right? Some of the suck
about baristas that are here on Thursday nights are really,
really, really wanting to do some boba for you guys. So, college
right? You guys basically spend like 80% of your money on boba
anyway. So inshallah it's just, it's just a it's just a little
treat here from the lads soul food. So, Charlotte, we'll see.
We'll see what we do. We are going to roll out of samosa menu. So
there's been a lot of really interesting drinks. Right, I heard
there's something about some sort of matcha strawberry situation
with rubs. I don't know what it is, but it's some sort of crazy
stuff. But we'll, we'll some people were really passionate how
many people here like loves that I'm gonna do a crowdsourcing
moment right here. With milk or water. The people who drink rubs
or with water, I need you to just get up and leave and never come
back. I'm just kidding.
Says, we, we want you here. No matter how crazy your drink
preferences are. Humbling that 100 Allah loves it for me. I just
thought a rubs that guy, when I see rubs, and I taste rubs up, I
just think that I walked into like a botanical flower shop. And I
just don't want to inhale that. And so like it's just, maybe it's
maybe it's just me. But humbler? I know it's a I know. It's a crowd
favorite for a lot of people so humbler? Alright, so we are going
to continue on with our dua series, right. And as we continue
to progress through the series, we're going to be talking about
different components of the DUA. Right? So in the beginning, the
first session of the entire series, we talked a little bit
about the different blessings and the benefits of making dua, why
making dua is so paramount in our religion, then we talked a little
bit about the preconditions of making dua, right? How do you make
dua and like what are the things that you do before you actually
make set dua to beautify it, right? Because, again, as people
who are maturing into their religious spirituality, right, as
people who are kind of maturing in their spirituality in their
relationship with God, we know that actions are men are not
always just one thing. There are things before it. There's the
actions during the actual act itself. And then there are
obviously things that happen afterwards. And this is
represented in so many different ways. For example, a part of your
Salah is to make sure that you are in a state of will do, right, so
your Salah, although the actual act of praying does not begin with
your will do. But there is a condition or a precondition to
your to your prayer that matters. So, so seriously, that your prayer
will not count unless you're in a state of will. Right. So you know,
there are a lot of things that happened before, during and after
an act in Islam that dictate the quality of the action itself.
Right. So last week, we talked a lot about the preconditions the
things that happened before that make your DUA extremely special
and unique and beautiful. Now, we wanted to kind of dive into the
actual etiquettes of the DUA itself, what you do during the DUA
that makes your DUA incredibly special. We're going to spend two
weeks on this, there's no way I can cover this in just one
session, because there are like 22 to 23 etiquettes of dua of what
you do while you're making it. Okay, I can guarantee you that
everyone's probably like how, like, what are 23 etiquettes of
dua, you'll see a lot of them in sha Allah, we're only going to
talk about like eight or nine of them today, but you'll see so many
things that you never even thought of were a part of the DUA that are
actually a part of its essence, right? So inshallah we'll go
through them together. All right. So, it says here that there are a
number of manners and etiquette procedures that accompany the
performance of dua, this is that the DUA is accepted, right? The
difference between the section and the preceding one we talked about
last week, is that such etiquette occurs while a person is making
dua whereas acts mentioned in the previous session must occur before
a person makes dua. Okay. So now Inshallah, we're going to start
with some of the etiquettes of the person who is making the DUA
actively. The first is praising Allah Subhana Allah to Allah
before the DUA, okay, and preying upon the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam now, what is it?
mean praising Allah before the DUA, why didn't we just talk about
all these etiquettes being a part of the actual dua itself? Well,
what the author here means is praising Allah before you ask
ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada for whatever you want, okay? praising Allah
azza wa jal for what he is and who He is before mentioning anything
you want in your life. Okay? So he says that this, this is true
because the person who's making the DUA is asking for forgiveness,
mercy and sustenance from his creator. So it behooves the
worshiper to start his or her dua with praise and glorification of
ALLAH SubhanA, Allah Tada, if you think about this, right, in any
scenario that you have, it is of the etiquette of the one who is
asking for something to almost spend time with and give beauty to
the one they're asking from. Right? If you ever have gone to a
teacher, or a boss or a family member, and you ask them for
something, right, you ask them for a favor, you ask a friend for a
favor, you asked the dean of the department for a favor or any sort
of requests that you have for them. It's important that you come
in and you actually spend some time with them. When do you ever
go to like a teacher, or a professor? And you go to their
office and you're like, Alright, listen up, here's the deal. I need
a better grade.
They're like, first of all, are you in my class? Like, I don't
even know who this person is. Right? You haven't introduced
yourself? You haven't, you know, told them which class you're in.
You haven't even you know, ask them how they're doing. None of
that was actually done, you jump straight into the request that you
have for them. This is something and of course, Allah's example is
unlike any example that you can find in the dunya. But think about
if that's what we do for dunya what should be the etiquette of
the people who are speaking to Allah Subhana Allah to Allah and
His divinity. Right? That we believe that Allah deserves more
than anything that the dunya can offer. So if we treat the dunya
better than we treat the divine, what does that tell us about our
priorities? Right? That when it comes to the dunya, we get all you
know, formal and polite and well mannered. But when it comes to
Allah subhana wa Tada. We tend to kind of just like rush it a little
bit, right? All right, hola. This is me, right medium for the eighth
time this week. If anyone's name somebody apologizes a random name
that I just chose right? Here, here I am, right? I really need
you to help me out with this one thing, right? Nowhere in there. It
was a Alhamdulillah said, nowhere in there. It was a Subhanallah or
like a Bismillah or anything like that. We just jump straight in.
And this is why by the way, there's a beautiful, beautiful
statement of the Prophet sallallahu sallam, where he says
Kadima 10 had the button Illa Rahman, he said that there are two
statements that are extremely beloved, to a ramen to the Most
Merciful. And there's a reason by the way, specifically, in that
hadith, that the name of Allah that was used was a ramen because
he could have easily said Kali Mata and hubby botanical Allah, it
would have generally given you the same exact idea, right? There are
two statements that are extremely beloved to Allah. But he says
there are two statements that are extremely beloved two out of man,
what does that mean? You are appealing to the merciful one.
You're appealing to Allah who is a rock man. So whatever you're about
to say, is really relevant to the merciful character of Allah
subhanho wa taala. Right. And the two statements of the Prophet SAW
Selim he mentioned were Subhan Allah he will be handy he was
Subhan Allah Allah, Allah Subhana Allah he will be handy he
Subhanallah all go all glory is to Allah subhanho wa Taala he is he
is free from any imperfection will be handy he and he is praised. He
is worthy of all the praises that we give him. You know that that's
something that is so unique to Allah. The word hand in Arabic is
so unique to Allah because the word hums means someone who is
deserving of every praise that they receive. Okay? And human
beings can never truly fully fulfill that that claim, right? If
I go up to somebody, and I know Zayn, mashallah, good guy, right?
If I go up to Santa, I'm like, Man, Zane. Such a generous
brother, right? Like, I saw him one time I saw Allah, you know,
give something to somebody else or he displayed a sense of
selflessness, right? But I'm like man has been so generous, so
selfless. Are there possible moments in xanes life where he was
a little bit not selfless? Where it was a little bit hard for him
to be generous? Sure. That's what makes Zane a human being. That's
what makes me a human being. There is no way that we can be
definitively worthy of
Every praise that we receive How many of you all have ever felt
guilty when someone praised you? Raise your hands. Oh, mashallah,
you're so nice and kind. And at that moment you're like, bro, if
this person only knew
all those memories come flooding back. Well, you're so kind to
people that you don't know you're like, Man, I remember that one
time I drove past that one dude, right? Like, I had no idea who he
was, if only this person saw me that time, right? Which proves
that yeah, there are moments where you will not be the most kind,
right? There are moments where you will not be the most patient
someone sees you going through something difficult and
hamdulillah at that moment, Allah allows you to display a sense of
patience. And so somebody walking by they saw that like, wow, saloon
jam Mulan, right? Like what a beautifully patient person. What
they didn't see was two weeks ago when you were like ripping your
family to shreds during this difficult moment. So again, all
jokes aside, right, all jokes aside, you see how sometimes we
are not worthy of the praise that we receive from people. Right? And
this makes us human beings. This is what makes us different from
the Divine. We are very flawed. We have a lot of mistakes in our
lives. But when you say subhanallah he will be humble He,
Allah is the most deserving of all praise, we truly mean it. So when
we say 100 Alhamdulillah Allah is the Greatest Allahu Akbar, Allah
is the most generous, Allah is the most kind. Allah is the Most
Merciful. Allah is the most peaceful, there is nothing that
can be said about him. That negates that trait of his Okay, so
you begin this part of your DUA with the praising of Allah
subhanho wa Taala on here Do you have a hadith that's really
beautiful, it says here, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam. So there was a there was a person by the name of full of
Allah been obeyed. He narrates the prophecies when once was sitting
in the masjid when a person entered and prayed to rakaats
okay, you can assume that it was like sooner or knuffel Salah he
prayed to rakaats after he finished, he said, Oh Allah
forgive me and have mercy upon me. Okay, felt fulfilled on me. What
ahem, need, right? He said these two words, and the prophets of
Allah, He said them, he said, You have been hasty Oh worshipper.
When you finish your prayer, then sit down and praise Allah with
praise that he is worthy of and pray upon me then state your DUA.
Okay. So sometimes, you know, and again, this is such a human
tendency when we're desperate, when we need something, when we
are really, really just kind of in need of Allah's forgiveness or the
benefits and the blessings that ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada can give us
in our lives, we forget about who we are speaking to, and we jump
straight into the request. And it's not always an evil intent. By
the way, not everyone who jumps into straight requesting from
Allah is doing so because they're ill mannered, but it's just out of
our desperation. It's out of our desperation. We're so in need from
Allah that we forget to praise Allah before we begin that need,
right? And this is why you know Subhanallah you know, the people
of Philistine you see them making their Diaz husband Hola. Hola.
Nirmala kill, right? Allah is sufficient for us for whatever we
need. Allah is the best Disposer of our of our affairs. He takes
care of us for everything that we do, right? They didn't even
mention specifics, they just kept on repeating that phrase. Why?
Because it was something that was found within the Quran. Isn't that
powerful? They could have said, Oh, hola stop this stop that. This
is this is painting us and our families and you know, this is
hurting us in our homes and our lives and we're scared to death of
our legacy and what we will leave behind. They begin by saying
husband Allah, Allah is enough for us. Allah is enough for me. Think
about the level of Taqwa and loyalty that this person has to
Allah subhana wa Tada. Right. So glorifying and praising him is
something that is a part of our tradition. And also think about
the second half of this which is praised upon the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And this is a very beautiful point
here. By the way, a lot of people sometimes get get confused like
why why why praising the Prophet saw some is a part of our
advocates of dua. Well, it's an advocate of dua, because you know,
that Allah loves the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
right? Imagine you go up to somebody, and you're like, hey,
like, you know, I really, you know, I really need this thing,
right? And so Oh, by the way, like, medium, like your, your your
friend, amazing person, right? I'm close to her too, by the way, and
they're like, Oh, really worried, right? For sure. What do you need,
right? There's a connection there. There's a connection there. When a
person says Allahumma Salli, ala Sayidina Muhammad, right? You're
saying Oh Allah, send your your blessings upon the Prophet
salallahu Salam, Allah loves the prophets. Allah is Allah more than
he loves anything else. Right? This was the closest person to
Allah ever to exist. So imagine the state of a person who says, Oh
Allah, I also love Your Habib.
I also love your prophet. And it's not like Allah didn't know
That but stating it is something that's completely beautiful in its
own regard. Okay, so that's number one. The second point is the
scholars they say and this is a little bit more technical, but
raising one's hands let's talk a little bit about this Inshallah,
why do we think that is anybody before we continue on? Why do we
think that raising one's hands let's talk I mean, even if you
don't know like the Hadith and like the reasons to why why do you
think raising one's hands is a part of the etiquette of dua Why
do you guys think that this is true?
Anybody want to share any sort of self reflection that you had?
Okay, so the
Okay, good. So the DUA goes up, okay. Okay. Hamdulillah.
Subhanallah, right. Good. Beautiful, beautiful hola feels
shy to deny a person who's raising their hands. Good. Very, very
good. That's it comes from a hadith Very good. Anybody else?
Anybody else? What's the significance of raising one's
hands?
Like, why don't we just make dua like this? Just like sitting down
like this? Why is there a tradition of going like that?
Yeah.
Subhan Allah, it's an opening gesture, right? You're opening up
you're being vulnerable. Very good. Good, good. Good, good
reflection. Anybody else?
Anybody else?
There's something along the lines. And there's beauty to mention that
this is just the way the prophets ism did it. Right. Like if you
want to, if you want the best, you imitate the best. Right? If you
want the best, you do it the way that the person who did it in the
best way did it. Right. When the Prophet saw some taught his OMA
how to pray, what did he say? Pray as you have seen me pray, right.
If you want to pray in the best manner, pray like me, pray like
me, because who taught me Djibouti out of his setup? Who told Gibreel
how to teach me to pray. Allah subhana wa Tada. Islam by the way,
I'll tell you guys something really interesting. Islam is not
about making our own rules. It's about our ability to follow. It's
about our ability to follow and obey Allah and His messenger. Even
if something is like, oh, yeah, this feels right to me, right?
Like I love prayer. You know what? Five I'm gonna pray eight now.
Eight times a day it's better than five makes sense to this guy.
But guess what, you actually may be sinned for that. You may be sin
for trying to make eight obligatory prayers and today
because Allah Tada said, Pray and the prophets was um, said five
prayers a day is what's mandatory upon you. It's not about being
like, oh, yeah, well, I don't know what it feels better to me. No,
no. Can you follow the commenda? Five?
Can you follow? That's what it says. That's what it that's what
it's all about.
So when it comes to making dua, one of the traditions of the
Prophet sallallahu Sallam is raising one's hand, right? So Ibn
Taymiyyah, you can see a quote here, he said, As for the Prophet
SAW Selim, raising his hands in dua, he did it so often, and it's
been narrated in so many Hadith that they cannot be counted. What
does that mean? That the Prophet SAW Selim made to us so many times
in his life with his hands like this, it been Tamia goes, I can't
even count the amount of times I've read stories about the
Prophet going like this.
About the Prophet going like this and raising his hands. And there's
some examples of this right so the Prophet saw some one time it says
that Abu Musa Allah shoddy, he narrated that the Prophet was on
made dua, and I saw him raise his hands until I could see like his
underarms like it was raised so high up in the air, that I could
see his underarms because of how intensely he was raising his
hands. Okay. There's Hear hear a bit about an area that the Prophet
saw some raised his hands and said, Oh, Allah, I asked your
protection for what HUD has done. This is a specific narration that
mentions Harlequin Woody, but then he says, Furthermore, sentimental
fantasy, you know, the Allah one he said the Prophet system, he
said, Indeed, Allah is shy. One of the characteristics of Allah is
that he is shy. He is shy when his servant raises his hands to him in
dua to return them empty handed and disappointed Subhanallah Can
you see like the DUA is so emotional? Do I is so emotional,
think about how you can relate to this. Somebody comes up to you and
they're so desperate and what they're asking you from and
they're like literally pleading begging to you that you feel
terrible not giving them anything.
You feel terrible, not giving them anything. I remember one time
Subhanallah or one time my wife and I we were in New Orleans don't
ask us what we're doing there is a crazy place Subhanallah we're like
yeah, this might be a nice place to go visit and see we never been
there. We walk we drive into the city we like
to feel like it to make will do and wipe my eyes. Just kidding.
Anybody been in New Orleans before? New Orleans is a very
interesting place for high level. Okay, so we were there. Alright,
and so
You know, we went to eat dinner hamdulillah one night, and we were
driving back to our hotel. And there was a person who was
obviously, you know, in a state of homelessness, you know, at the
intersection of the street. And, you know, he, he, our windows were
down, and he was saying he's like, I'm so so desperate, he goes, I'm
so desperate. I haven't. Is there anything that you can give me any
sort of money, stuff like that, right? And that's when shaitan
kind of comes in and starts kind of giving you like that? What's
less, right? The the whispering of shaitan? Where he says, oh, you
know, are you sure? Are you sure you want to give this person
something? What if they use the money that you're gonna give them
for something that's not good, and now it's all on you, et cetera, et
cetera. This is how shaitan gets to the knifes of a person by the
way. This is by the way, the scholars they say that at the
moment where you're unsure of giving, that's when you know you
should give, because shaitan is trying his hardest to get you to
clench your fist at that last moment when you're about to give
something. And shaitan says, Well, are you sure there's a billion
reasons as to why you shouldn't give goodwill? I don't know. I
heard they're kind of shady. Right? That person? I don't really
know about that. Doctor, they always there. Are they always
around? I'm sure that they have help. Right. And that's when you
should get. And so my wife and I literally like we literally had
nothing. We mean, we don't carry cash around as we always have our
cards. And so we're like, I'm so sorry. We don't have anything
honest right now. But we do have this pizza.
And subhanAllah at that moment, like a person in shaitan trick can
easily be like, Are you kidding me offer that?
That like I have eaten like, you know, large pizza like that's what
you want to give this person? They asked for money. That's what you
want to give? And at that moment, I told him I was like, no, no, we
have to. We have to this is shaytaan playing a trick telling
us like this is too bad to give to somebody. No, no. So literally,
we're like, you know what, I'm so sorry. We don't have anything to
give. But here we just we just had some dinner. It would really honor
us if you would share our dinner with us.
I kind of worded it that way. You know what he said? He goes at that
moment, you know, like sometimes there's like this inhibition of
like, oh, like rolling your eyes like this is what you're gonna
give me? He goes, I'm gonna pray for you guys after I eat this
meal.
Straight upset at us. He goes I'm gonna pray for the both of you
after I enjoyed this meal.
Really, really changed my my, my concept about this entire thing
Subhanallah I may have just gained the dua of a person who is
miskeen. Right? What an incredible honor. Okay, so literally think
about it right? You feel shy a person who is so desperate that
you don't want to return there. You want to return them empty
handed. So ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada feels the same way and this is why
the author he said Subhanallah the Lord of Creation feels shy when
one of his servants lifts his hands up to make dua to Him.
Verily, hearts are filled with love and the generosity of ALLAH
SubhanA wa Tada. Allah is Allah Karim allow them right as he is he
is the greatest but the greatest feels shy with us.
We're not deserving of the Subhanallah
the love that ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada has for us. We're not
deserving of that love. We're like we're not. But Allah subhanho wa
Taala is infinite mercy and has beneficence. He gives us so much
that we don't deserve. Think about how many things that Allah has
given us that we don't deserve. Well, I seriously I like sometimes
I don't deserve my family. My family is better than me. Like my
the people in my family are better than me. I don't deserve these
people but Allah gave them to me. And yet I still complain about
them sometimes. Right?
Subhanallah how how weak and vulnerable are we when we think
about some of these things in our lives? Right? And so, here you
know, the the author he says that there are actually three different
types of motions that are narrated from the Companions when it comes
to raising the hands into he says the first type is actually to
point with one's forefinger without necessarily lifting one's
hands and this is the same as like when a person says I shall do
Allah ilaha illallah wa should do and then Mohammed little sort of
light and their Salah that the shahada, right, when somebody says
that they lift their finger up and they it's like almost like a sense
of like thicket of remembrance of ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. Okay, and
then he says, The second type is to raise one's hands to the levels
of one shoulders with the palms facing up. This is done for
regular doors that one makes at any time. So like just the
standard etiquette is just to raise your hands to the point
where your hands are at the level of your shoulders. This is just
the etiquette of the prophets little lies in them right this is
just a standard thing that he did to kind of show that he needed
something right? Yeah, Allah I need this. Yeah, Allah. I'm
desperate for this right. And then he says the last type of action is
only done in extremely severe circumstances, such as asking for
rain after a drought or seeking protection from an imminent
attack. In this case, the hands are stretched forwards to the sky
without joining the two palms together. When this is done a
person
As underarms almost become exposed due to the severity of this
situation and so by the way, this was found in one of the examples
of the provinces and when he used to make dua for rain, I want you
guys to think about that and like Medina in the middle of the desert
when they hadn't seen rain in like months so get ready we're all
gonna make this in July in sha Allah right we're not far away
y'all okay? This is this is very misleading out here. I want you
guys to know that right when june july hits. We're gonna be the same
boat. We're gonna be raising our hands to the sky. We haven't seen
rain in months, right? Oh Allah we are desperate. Allah like our food
and our agriculture and everything that we we prize depends on this
our water depends on this. Ya Allah I'm desperate. Ask yourself,
whenever you've been desperate, have you allowed yourself to
become vulnerable, even physically?
Even physically raising your hands to the sky? Somebody who says that
that looks stupid. You haven't been vulnerable yet?
You haven't been vulnerable yet?
If somebody says that, raise your hands all the way up to the sky
looks a little bit silly. You haven't reached desperation yet?
You haven't. Because if you ever been in a desperate state enough
to do that, you know, you know what it requires of you. You don't
care what you look like. Anyone in here ever begged somebody of
something? And if you haven't, I mean Hamdulillah you know, but if
you've ever beg somebody for something, you don't care what you
look like. You got like tears flowing down your face. Your
hair's disheveled. Like, I mean, it's a state literally of
desperation. Who cares what you look like?
Who cares what you look like, be vulnerable with ALLAH SubhanA wa
Tada dua is a state of vulnerability. It's not a state,
and we're trying to keep up appearances. Oh, you know, I gotta
be like, I don't want to mess up my hair and my topi and, you know,
I got to make sure that I'm all like, you know, straightened up
and let her know, when you're desperate for something. Oh, you
have to beg like a beggar. You have to beg like a beggar. And
don't take it as a dishonor. Because it's only a dishonor. If
you're begging to someone who's not worthy of being beg to.
You're begging to Allah. You're begging to the one who's seen you
at your worst. You're begging to the one who has seen you in your
lowest of your lows. You're not begging to someone who you have to
say face in front of sometimes we reserve ourselves because we're
shy and embarrassed because I can't I can't show that person
this side of me. That's embarrassing. Because what are
they going to think about? They're gonna have this memory ingrained
of meaning or Allah has seen you before you were even born.
us Allah saw you doing somersaults in your mother's womb.
Allah saw you, you know in birth, Allah saw you crying, Allah saw
your diapers being changed. Allah saw those moments of weakness.
Allah also sees you at your moments of you know,
accomplishments. So be vulnerable with ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. Okay.
The third one, I mean, this is you know, stuff that's a little bit
more kind of, you know, routine, but you know, it's important to
share nonetheless, facing the Qibla right, the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa salam used to face the fibula whenever he used
to make dua and this was accounted for in multiple narrations. So
again, it's of the dua of or of the etiquettes of the province or
some to face the Kabbalah when making dua number for performing
will do. This is a big deal. A lot of people don't realize how big of
a deal it is to actually be in a state of purity. When a person
makes dua. Literally, it says here that this is confirmed in the
hadith of Abu Musa lashari, in which it was stated that the
Prophet sallallahu Sallam after the Battle of her name, called for
water perform will do and then raised his hand and said, Oh ALLAH
forgive or obey them in the arm. It was a campaign of the promises
that I'm that he made a small mistake and the promises I made to
offer him. Okay, so he made will do, by the way, this is a question
that is, you know, begged to be asked, How serious are you about
your DUA, right? If you're serious about your DUA, you want to make
sure that you're in the best state.
I'm going to state of purity. I'm going to the state in which like,
there's no impurity on me. So I'm going to make will do before I
make this dua, okay, to cry. Now, this is a really interesting one
because I don't want to I want there's a little bit nuance to
this. How many of y'all have cried in your doors? Okay, how many of
y'all I mean, you don't have to answer this question. But how many
of y'all have not cried on your doors? Nowadays, we have this
danger of almost being performative in our worship. Okay.
And a part of our kind of, you know, checklist before we look at
this, this, this this chapter of Atticus of dawn, saying that we
should cry in our doors, we should ask ourselves, Am I sincere in my
dua, right? Because crying can only be possible if a person is
sincere.
Crying can only be possible if a person is sincere. Okay? You have
to ask yourself, have I made the art to the point where I'm
vulnerable enough in front of Allah to cry? And this is
highlighted in one of the examples of the Prophet SAW Saddam, he
recited the verses the promise of something he said, Oh,
Law my mama, my mama. Oh, this is crazy. I'm gonna read this. This
hadith is Subhanallah It's mind boggling, okay? The prophets of
Allah Azza Lim, he recited the statements of ERISA his setup and
this is narrated and in social Merida, where he said, Oh Allah if
you punish them, okay, in to Vibrio, whom If you punish them,
Ya Allah, they are Your servants and if you forgive them, then you
are the one of honor and all wise. So the Prophet systems alluding to
the OMA of his who's saying that you know, I want to protect my
ummah and he raises his hand he says Almighty Almighty, my mama,
my mama, okay? And he started to cry. And Allah said to God, Allah,
Allah has Salam, this story is mind boggling. He told he told you
bleed, he says, Oh Gibreel go to the Prophet sallallahu sallam, and
your Lord knows and ask him what makes him cry.
Gibreel go to the Prophet and ask him, what he's crying about in his
dua. What's making him cry? So Gibreel he went to the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and asked him, ya rasool Allah, what
makes you cry? What has you in this state? And the Prophet
salallahu Salam, he says that he was crying out of concern for his
followers, just like Ibrahim cried for his ummah, just like your isa
cried for his Oma. and Allah knew why they were crying, without
having to ask you real but Why did Allah ask Gibreel to go ask the
prophet because he wanted the Prophet system to say it. Why are
you crying out of so Allah, I'm crying because Almighty Almighty
so the winds are real. He went, he went back to Allah subhana wa Tada
says, Yeah, Allah, this is why your messenger cries. Allah he
says to Gibreel go back to him now and tell him we will please you
regarding your followers and will not cause you grief.
I want you guys to sit here and think about something. How does it
feel that Allah said this to the prophesy Salam in regarding a dua
that he made for you.
Just let that sink in.
The profit made dua for you he said Almighty Almighty and you
guys insha Allah Insha Allah, no doubt that you affiliate with the
OMA of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
He goes Gibreel go tell him that his dua for his OMA, tell him that
I will please him in regarding his followers, and I will not cause
him any sort of grief.
Who knows? Who knows, we may be all forgiven, because of the
daughters of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
He cried for us when we couldn't cry for ourselves.
He raised his hands for us when we were too lazy to raise our hands
for ourselves.
He spoke for us when we were too lazy to speak for ourselves.
This is who the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam was and now you go
back and think about the first point that we made Allahumma salli
ala Sayyidina Muhammad? Or doesn't that doesn't that praising of the
Prophet makes so much sense now? How can we not praise a man who
did this for us?
How can we be too lazy to say Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina
Muhammad, when we know this happened in his lifetime, there
was a conversation that the prophet had with an angel
regarding us.
Us sitting here in Dallas, Texas, 1500 years later Subhanallah okay.
And then finally, we'll end in sha Allah with some of these.
Number six is to expect the best of Allah Subhana Allah to Allah
and this is so beautiful because it says here in the Quran, were
either sadaqa or EBA do I need for any Corrib oh gee Buddha to die,
either Dan. Allah says, When My servants asked you concerning me
yada so ALLAH is talking to the prophets. Listen, and he says yada
so Allah, you know, your followers are going to have questions about
me, who I am Who is God? Who is Allah? How do I know that Allah is
the Most Merciful? How do I know that Allah Subhana Allah Allah
will forgive me when I asked him to forgive me how do I know that
Allah Subhana Allah to Allah will have mercy upon me what I need. So
all these curious questions Allah He tells the Prophet he says, well
either sadaqa Are you bad Yanni? Oh Rasul Allah, when your
followers when My servants when my worshipers ask about me, tell them
for any Corrib tell them I'm right here.
Tell them I'm right here, you know Subhanallah I had a
you know, I'm gonna be vulnerable for you guys.
After I hit my 30s I don't know what switch flipped in my brain.
I've become like an emotional wreck.
And I say that and like, like I'm very emotional nowadays. Like when
I was like in my 20s I was like this like jungly kid that never
shut it to about anything. I don't know
What happened my 30s but I'm just like, I cry about everything. It's
really weird. It's very strange. And one of my biggest weaknesses
is crying when I'm with my daughter, which is kind of like a
double edged sword because I love her so much, but when she sees me
sometimes like tearing up Julie Baba, he's like, what's going on
here? So today? Yeah, today I got emotional. Just random man.
Subhanallah I was walking, you know, I was here at roots pretty
much until like 334. And I went home to spend some time with my
daughter because she wakes up from her nap around 435. And then
obviously, coming back to teach class tonight. And so I went home
and my wife was home. And you know, my daughter was waking up
from her nap and was like, You know what, let me like, I'm gonna
go out with her for a little balance for some time with her. So
I take her off, she's turning to Inshallah, next, next next week,
so make dua for her. She's, you know, going through like these,
like really exciting adventure stages of her life. So it took her
naturally as father and daughter went to Target.
Spend some time there browsing, browsing the aisles, you know,
Hamdulillah. And so we came back home, and I parked the car in the
garage, and I went out for a little walk with her. And my
daughter, you know, one of the men Allah bless his girl, you know,
she's so much she's so funny. She's very cautious. You know,
like, and this is, this is the reality of being a father of a of
a girl, versus being the father of a boy. I don't have a son yet,
right. So I just have, I just have a daughter. So I just know what
what a girl is like, girls are very calculated. I know. I know
what boys are like, because I have a nephew who's seven. That it's a
miracle that that kid isn't one piece. Okay? Like That dude is
like I'm jumping off rooftops. Like this guy is like this guy's
doing like parkour for a living. So my daughter, on the other hand
is like very careful. She's very calculated, like every step she
takes. She's so funny. Like, for example, if she was here, right
now, and there's like a little ledge that's like barely like one
like half a foot tall. She would actually like sit down and like
climb down a one or a half foot ledge and like, Mama, just just
step, step onto it. Right? Well, you can do it. So we were walking,
and you know how there's like a little bit of a ledge to get on
the sidewalk right from the street. So I'm walking, walking,
he's holding my hand on the street. And we get to the other
side of the street, and she's about to climb up onto the ledge.
So I let go of her hand. I'm just like testing their mic. Let's see
what she does. All right. So she's like, looking at it. She's like,
I don't know about this one. Right. So she's like, staring at
it for like, good solid, like 10 seconds. And I'm behind her. I'm
not far behind her. I'm like, maybe like four or five feet
behind her.
And right before she goes up, she just turns back and looks at me.
She like she has like this, like kind of weird, like grimace on her
face. She turns out, she looks at me and she's like,
and then she took her first step onto the sidewalk. And that's when
I lost it. So I was like, it made me Subhanallah when I read this
idea today, what either said Akari about the need for a new crib.
I looked at my daughter. I was like, Dude, the look that she gave
me when she saw me five feet behind her. Oh, it was priceless.
It was priceless.
I gave her some rains to do what she wants. But the fact that she
turned around and she was like, Oh, my dad's right there.
My dad's right there. It just completely made me break down
because I was like Subhanallah and you relate to this when you read
this idea, right? You think Oh Allah, you know, Allah, please, I
need you. I need you. Allah tells you for anybody. I'm right here.
I'm right here. Whatever you're going through. I'm right here. I'm
not far I'm near. Don't ever think that I'm far away from you.
You sometimes actually are further away from yourself than Allah is
from you. I know that sounds a little bit you know, interesting
of a statement, but we sometimes are our own worst enemies when
Allah subhanaw taala is right there.
We doubt ourselves when Allah actually knows that we can do it.
We are harsh upon ourselves when ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada has forgiven
us for something that we've asked Allah for forgiveness for.
For in need Karim. Allah is there. Allah is near. Hua Ji boo Dawa to
die either done. I respond to the call of the caller, Eva Don, when
they call upon me.
I don't reject this stuff. I don't reject somebody when they call
upon me. Okay. So this is the fifth etiquette of a person or the
sixth etiquette of a person who is engaging in their dua at that
moment. Okay. We're gonna pause here in sha Allah, because it is
eight o'clock and inshallah I wanted to leave some time for q&a.
We made it to point number six and sha Allah next week, we'll start
with point number seven of the etiquettes of dua. Okay. What I'll
do now in sha Allah is I'm going to, we're going to stop the live
streams on the camera and on the
on social media, and what I'll do is I'll bring this up for you guys
in sha Allah so you guys can see it.
This is the sorry, I'm gonna kind of maximize this a little bit here
in sha Allah so you guys can see it.
All right.
Okay, so y'all can go to this,
this
website slido.com and plug in that code in sha Allah and you can kind
of find the anonymous q&a portal and we'll go ahead and Sharla and
do some