Safi Khan – Soul Food for College Students The Du’a Series Class 8
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but 100 Allah, Little do they know that if they just pray to them as
well to 100 Allah or we're, we're here and we're blessed to be here
humbly love. Every moment that we get to be here together as a is a
huge blessing from ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada that we can never ever
take for granted.
So, today in sha Allah, we're continuing on with our series on
the the DUA, the importance of dua, and last week we were
finishing or we finished the chapter on the timings the
particular times of the day, or the week or the year, in which dua
is extremely blessed and accepted by Allah subhana wa Tada. And so,
now we move on to the chapter in which the author is discussing
conditions during which dua is answered and conditions are
different than time because timing is very, very specific, right?
It's talking about a time or a, a, you know, a situation in which a
person's do I was accepted in relation to time and, and when it
happens, and the condition is moreso of the status of that
person. You know, what kind of condition are they in? What's
their head? What's their circumstance? Okay. And so today,
Inshallah, we're going to be going through the wisdoms, there's 12 of
us today, that inshallah will, you know, open our eyes of Allah
because I think some of these ones are things that sometimes people
don't really realize what condition a person is in that
Allah subhanaw taala, listen, not only hears their dua, but also is
answering their dua, in terms of the quality of the DUA that was
made. Okay. And one thing that I want everyone to kind of look out
for today is that you'll find several, a Hadith of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, in which he says that a person's dua
are these three circumstances or circumstances in which a person's
dua is never rejected. And you'll see the Prophet actually stating
many more than three because each of the 12 that we're going to list
he's gonna almost say that of the three. These are the qualities in
which a dua is never rejected. And so you'll see at the end of it all
It's not just three, it's actually like 10. And a lot of people ask
the question why, why the Why did the Prophet system continuously
say, of the three qualities or the three characteristics or these
characteristics that dogs never rejected and that it means that
Subhan Allah, Allah is so merciful, that he doesn't just
limit it to three, you could fall under any of these categories and
Allah Subhana Allah Tada will accept your DUA. Okay. It's like
for example, if anyone has seen narrations in which people are
there reading that, if a person fast on this particular day, your
sins will be wiped away from the previous year and the upcoming
year, right happens you know, when it comes to Leila, to look harder
when it comes to the day of auto fall on the day of Ashura, all
these different days of fasting, it is mentioned in the Hadith that
a person's sins will be removed. Now, does that mean that if one
person fast on the sofa and the other person fast on Joshua one is
better than the other? No, it's that Allah is presenting to us so
many different opportunities to have sins wiped away, that they
cannot be contained into just one day or one condition. They're,
they're plentiful. Okay, that's the beauty of Islam. And so, let's
go ahead and Sharla and dive right into it. The first condition of a
person whose condition allows for their dua to be accepted by Allah
subhana wa Tada and this is very, very intense from the beginning,
which is a person who has been wronged in their life. Okay, so
the author he mentions here he says, if a person has been wronged
by someone, Allah accepts the dua of that person against the person
that wronged him. This wrong could be that he was cheated or she was
cheated of their rights, oppressed, persecuted, slandered
or any form of wrong that a person may be inflicted with okay? And
this is backed by a Hadith of the Prophet SAW Selim, where he said,
Fear the dua of he or she who has been wronged for verily it ascends
to the skies faster than sparks of light, right. So if you can almost
imagine how quickly light travels people talk about the speed of
light, right? And this is again is used as like an imagery in this
hadith of the Prophet saw some says that a person who's been
wronged that makes a dua there do ours reach Allah subhana wa Tada
faster than you can even see light coming from a distance. Okay? Now,
why is this so important? In Islam? I want everyone to
understand that there is this concept of hook Luke ullery Bad,
the rights of the creation or the rights of the worshipers, you can
directly translate it, okay. And the scholars, they actually say
that the rights of creation are sometimes even more sensitive than
the rights of ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. Now, there's a reason as to
why because when a person fails to deliver the rights of ALLAH, ALLAH
SubhanA wa Tada is Rahim, Rahman, I look forward, he is the one that
will forgive without any difficulty whatsoever. If you
forget to pray, and I'm not obviously like giving a fatwa
here, but if a person fails to pray, or they fail to, you know,
perform an act of worship for years or they neglect Allah in
certain ways for a period of time, that person turns back to Allah
Subhana Allah to Allah and as we have discussed, Allah being the
most merciful, Allah subhanaw taala mentions in a hadith glitzy
he says that I am as my servant thinks of me. So forgiving to
Allah subhana wa Tada is nothing, confer yakun. The snap of a
finger, Allah can forgive without any sort of difficulty. But when
it comes to hookah, Larry Bird, the rights of people, the rights
of creation, not only does a person have to ask Allah for
forgiveness, but they also now have to ask that person that they
wronged for forgiveness as well. And people unfortunately are
obviously less forgiving than ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. And that's
why it's so much more important to make sure that your rights of
people are just as beautiful as the way that you preserve your
rights of ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. And when you wronged somebody,
it's that much even as important. As a person who forgets to pray
and they're asking Allah for forgiveness, they forgot to
fasten. They're asking Allah for forgiveness, right? And this is
why there was so much common practice in our tradition of very
wise people who would say that I would never go to sleep at night
without asking ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada to clear my heart of any sort
of ill feelings that I have for anybody. And ask Allah for
forgiveness for if I've ever done any wrong with anybody, or if I've
ever done something wrong to anybody. And you'll see something
customary. When a person leaves for Umrah or Hajj, they're going
on a travel expedition, right? And we'll talk about this later in
today's session. What a common practice is that you kind of clear
a lot of your, you know, issues that you have with people, right?
You reach out to somebody and say, you know, so that's why they come
if I've ever wronged you in my life, please forgive me. I want to
continue I want to go on this journey with a clear conscience.
Why is that? Why is that a thing? Why is that a reality because
weighing having this burden of knowing that someone is
Is is, is something if someone is feeling wrong about me, somebody
has an ill feeling towards me or I have an ill feelings towards
somebody else. It's something that a believer should not feel easy
going to sleep at night with. It's not a comfortable feeling. And
this is why the prophecies of he described a person of Jannah,
there was a man who literally walked across him in the provinces
and told his companions. Look, this is a man of paradise. And one
of them got up and they're like, Well, I mean, I got to figure out
why. Let's, let's figure out why this person has a personal
paradise. And he followed this person. And he said, In the
narration even mentioned that he made up this elaborate story,
where he had to stay with him for a couple of days. He's like, Yeah,
you know, me and my family got into a fight. I gotta crush with
you, man. I'm so sorry. My hands are tight, can't help it. And he
goes, and the the person is obviously, you know, nice, you
know, gentle person says, Yeah, sure, you can come stay with me.
So he observed him for a period of time. And after this period of
time, he said, I've noticed him, he does everything that we do.
There's nothing special. There's nothing that strikes the eye. So
at the end of his tenure with this man, he said, I've got to level
with you. I'm staying here with you. Because the profit is
awesome, told us that you're a man of Genda. Tell me what do you do?
I haven't seen you do anything out of the ordinary you pray just like
we do you sleep like we do you eat like we do. You have a family like
we do. There's something special that I've noticed. And he says
that the Prophet, the Prophet told me, I'm the man of God, you know,
like the, it's getting, he's getting excited now. He says, I
really don't know. I have no idea. I have no advice to offer you. And
so as the man turns around, he goes, Wait, just one second, I
have one thing I can offer you. And the thing that I can offer you
is I try my hardest, that every time I lay my head to rest, that I
don't have any ill will towards anybody else. And I try my best to
make sure that nobody has any ill feelings towards me.
What a powerful lesson here that the Prophet described a person
that falls in this category as a person of Jannah. He could have
said, This man prays all the time, this man fast all the time, this
man just 100 No, no, his description is he tries his
hardest to make sure that he has no ill will towards anyone in his
life. Okay. And so there's a couple of narrations here. And
I'll share these just for the sake of clarity and for the sake of,
you know, making sure that we understand he says that it's
appropriate here to quote the story of the noble companion by
the name of sod they've been a be well cos sod they've been a be
well cos was a companion of the Prophet SAW Salem that was sent to
this area called Kufa. Okay to teach people Islam to almost, you
know, be like an emir, like a leader of their people. And so it
was said that when Irma Radi Allahu Orion was Khalifa Amara, he
heard from the people of Kufa that there was a little bit of
complaint about SAR, they've been Abeba costs and so on that took it
upon himself to do a little bit of research here. He said, I want to
go see who's talking and who's stating ill things about sad WWL
costs. And so he goes and everyone he talks to they say to him, no,
no, you know, sad, they're gonna be well, cos he's, he's good. He's
good. I haven't heard anything bad about him. He hasn't mistreated
anybody. And until he goes to this one area, where a man by the name
of abou Syed, not to be mistaken by his father, this man by the
name of Abu Saad, he says, if you're really asking us by Allah
for Allah, He it's like the Wallah bros. Right when they swear that
the ball was out and not in like you don't have to make a binding
contract with God I believe you okay? So he goes full Allah He by
Allah know that he was not just in his judgments, nor to he
distribute the wealth equally, nor was he easy with us, okay. And at
that point, Saddam and who cos he stands up and he says, Oh Allah,
I'll make a dua Oh Allah, if this person is lying, take his eyesight
away and give him a long life and inflict him with trials. And this
is a very strong narration by the way, you know, we got really
scared when we read these things, but you know, the, I know a lot of
people like Man, why didn't started the causes forgive this
man for like, speaking ill of him? Well, the the behavior and the
statements and the actions of the Sahaba are indicative of the
spectrum of what is allowed. Okay. So for example, if no one ever did
this, you would assume that it would be haram to have the stents
but because Saddam and Abby will cause he did this and it was
recorded, although the more virtuous route maybe to forgive
somebody understand that this actually exists. Okay. And so
sadly, nobody will cause he makes a serious dua against this person
in a Busan, who claimed that he was not just he failed in his
judgments, he did not distribute wealth properly amongst the
people. He did all of these different things. And so the
narrator, the one who is narrating this, this, this, this rewire,
says, I saw the same man who accused side of NWO costs of all
these things, and I saw him after a long time blind, his eyelids
were misshapen, and he used to
harass people walking in the alleys, he was a mean old man he
used to like, basically be miserable. He used to, like, you
know, you know, pick and be rude to children on the streets. And
whenever he was asked, you know, how are you? What's your state? He
would say, I became an old man. And great trials have afflicted me
because of the dua of Saudi Arabia costs, which proves what be very,
very careful not and I don't want to inflict any sort of like fear
and anxiety in people that Oh, anytime you wronged somebody,
they're going to automatically make dua against you. This also
has created this horrible cogniser culture, where everyone's like,
Oh, no, I didn't say salaam, back to that person, my washer dryers
and explode tomorrow. Like, we also have this kind of attitude
where like, we think that oh, yeah, the next day, I got COVID.
Why? Because that Auntie looked at me last night. No, no, that's an
also not necessarily true. We need to find a balance in this right?
It's not always true that yeah, just because something happened to
you is because someone made dua against you. That's not also true.
But what what this principle does, is that it allows us to put
another layer of a guard in front of us, right? I always give this
example to people, just because you lock your door every single
evening doesn't mean that you won't get robbed. No. Does it mean
if you unlock your door every single evening, and you go to
sleep with your door unlocked? Does that mean? Does that mean
guarantee that you'll be robbed? No, it doesn't. But what does it
do? It adds a layer of protection. So what does it do to add a layer
of protection in this scenario is to make sure that our
relationships are good with people, right? To make sure that
if there are any ill feelings we have, it is up to us to go over to
this person and say, Listen, I want to say that I forgive you for
the sake of Allah, why for the sake of Allah, because forgiving
somebody for the sake of Allah is more powerful and forgiving for
your own sake.
Because your own sake could be selfish. Your own sake could have
limitations. I'm forgiving you because I feel good about you
today. Have you ever happened? Do I forget this raffling generous
today? Right? I watched like an almost unlimited video, feeling
happy, right humbled him that inspired me to forgive someone.
What about the next day you wake up? And you're not feeling so
good? Will that forgiveness still exist? Or will it be taken because
I only forgave this person because of how I feel? No, no. When we
forgive somebody for the sake of Allah, we forgive them because we
know that it makes Allah happy. It's pleasing to Allah. When we
love somebody for the sake of Allah, we're saying that I love
you for a reason that transcends my own logic. I love you because
ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada told me to love you, right? Very, very
powerful lesson here, okay. The second
circumstance in which a person is forgiving or the person's dua is
accepted, is a person who falls in severe circumstances. And I don't
even need to elaborate on this on SubhanAllah. We're seeing it every
single day in our lives today. A person who falls under severe
circumstances, their dual eyes are heard in the heavens. I want you
guys to think about this. When a person finds himself in a grave
crisis, and his heart is about to shatter with grief and fear. At
this point, they turn to Allah with a heart like that of no other
person.
And one of the reasons why Subhan Allah and Allah mentions us in the
Quran, he says, he says a min ug Bill matara, either Dara who is
not the person who responds to the distress one when he calls out to
him, Is not he Allah who responds to the distressed one, when he
calls out to him? And he says, a quote from him I'm going to be
here, who mentioned Allah has guaranteed the response of dua of
the one in distress, as he himself Allah azza wa jal informed us of
this in the Quran. And the reason for this is that the one in
distress will turn to Him with pure sincerity. When a person is
in distress, one thing is not questionable about them, which is
their Nia. Right, which is their Nia, when a person is going
through trials and afflictions and hardship. Can you question why
they're making dua? Can you question why they're worshiping?
No, no, Allah has given them such a serious, serious challenge in
their life, that the only option they have to turn to is a Closs.
That's it. And we have several narrations in the theater of the
prophets are some that indicate this. One of the narrations is the
story of the three men that got that got caught inside of a cave
they made due to Allah Subhana Allah Tada because of their
desperation, they kept on listening to Allah, the acts that
they have done that were sincere only for his sake. And because of
those actions that were in the realm of sincerity, Allah removed
that difficulty from their life. He removed that boulder from the
mouth of that cave and they were able to leave. Okay, another
example we already talked about. This is the example of Yunus it
has said I'm stuck in the belly.
overwhelm. Can anyone ever be like yeah, you know Yunus made that dua
because I think he was on Instagram Live like, no, no he was
inside the stomach of an animal. And in that state he said, La
ilaha illa Anta Subhana Allah in the continental body mean, when
Prophet Adam Ali Hassan was being given the command from ALLAH
SubhanA wa Tada. Why did you disobey me? Why did you listen?
Why did you succumb to the whispers of shaitan? What did he
say? Rob? bunna Viola Amna and fusina were in love told Farah
Luna What are Hannah Luna koonunga middle hustling? He made that dry?
Because Allah told him at that moment, you will no longer reside
in paradise, you will live in the world in the dunya and at that
moment, his heart crumbled. I have to make this dua, I have to make
this dua to Allah subhana wa Tada out of my desperation. One of the
greatest dogs I want you guys to actually like look this up in the
Quran. This is insulted casas, it's a DUA of Musa alayhis salam,
when he was escaping from Egypt, from the kingdom of the Quran, and
he had accidentally committed murder and I say the word
accidentally, very seriously here, because he was trying to split up
a fight between two people in his community. And he had accidentally
out of his immense strength that Allah gave him he pushed one of
them too hard and they ended up dying. And so somebody came from a
far distance from the from the city and said, We are Musa, you
have to leave here because when Fatone hears about this, he will
not listen to your reasons as to why this happen. He's going to
immediately try to punish you or kill you. So Musa he grabbed
whatever he could have around him and he left and he went to this
area called Meridian. Okay, he went to this area called Meridian,
and some of them are fussy, don't they say for seven days Musashi,
who said he was eating the leaves of trees. That's what he was
eating to sustain himself for seven days, the leaves off of
trees that he could find. And when he reached this area called
Meridian, he helped these two young people these two young
ladies, because they were all the way in the back of this, you know,
mass of shepherds and they didn't want to go in the middle of all of
these men so they were had a little bit of hay out. And so he
took their animals from them and he went and got water from them
return them back to these two women, and he went under the shade
of a tree and he says, rugby in neatly mountain Zelda lamb and
Hayden faqeer powerful dua a short though it's only one line. But
what does this do? I mean, rugby in knee Lima and delta Isla Yeah,
I mean, Hayden, Felker. He says, Oh Allah. I am in a desperate
situation a desperate state of any good men Hayden filial. I'm in
need of it. I'm in desperate desperate need of it. Yeah, Allah.
And to this dua, ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada answered him, he gave him not
only a job for 10 to 12 years, but he also gave him a spouse, Musa
Hassan got married, so everyone's gonna start writing this down,
right? So, you know, subhanAllah what a powerful example of Masada
is that um, success in dua. Okay. So a person who is in this
desperate state from trial, they cannot be questioned about their
sincerity, that sincerity is automatically there. And so
imagine Subhanallah and this is another added layer of wisdom and
profound takeaway here, which is when a person is in difficulty,
don't look at it as Whoa, why me? Why did Allah put me through this
in fact, because of your trials, Allah gave you the gift of
sincerity of this moment.
Sincerity is not found all the time. Sincerity flees us in every
action that we engage in. When we step onto the prereq. For Salah
when we give an act of charity, when we do an act of charity, we
give money, we give time, we give energy, whatever we do, there are
moments in which sincerity is always questioned. Because our
hearts change, we want to give $20 into the donation box. But the
moment that we see through our peripheral vision that someone's
watching us are knifes is being attacked, or knifes is being put
to the test. Initially, I was doing this because nobody was
watching me and I want to do it for the sake of Allah. But now all
the sudden, I may slightly enjoy being watched by someone in this
act of generosity. And at that moment, the neffs has to ask
itself, why am I doing this? Why am I doing this? And so one of the
blessings of trials is that Allah subhanaw taala is giving you an
automatic moment of sincerity. So when you're going through
something tough, don't say to Allah, Oh Allah ye, O Allah, why
me why now? Why this way?
Thank Allah subhana wa Tada some of the Sahaba and some of the
scholars, they used to thank Allah subhana wa Tada for their trials.
Oh Allah. Thank you for giving me a moment in which I can prove my
Eman.
The moments in which my email
And it's tested. It's a moment of gratitude to Allah subhana wa
Tada. The people of Philistine right now are going through the
trial of the century, or probably even more than that.
And yet you find the examples of Chicago from that area of the
world to be plentiful.
They're literally showing hamdulillah I'm happy that I have
this. You know, one of the most beautiful videos I've seen from
these past like 10 months, of course, from obviously, aside from
all of the moments of is the karma of iman of axon, all these
different moments of beauty. I remember one of the joys that I
saw was a moment I believe it was two to three months ago, where
there was a small gathering of people who were enjoying a meal
together, it was like Uber or something like that. And they were
like turning the pot over. And they were like, kind of getting
happy and joyous. And they were sharing this meal together in
Philistine and I was thinking to myself Subhanallah like, look at
this, a small moment of sharing a meal. They are so happy with it.
Why because there's context of this. They're being tested so
extremely, that a small meals that they can share together is the one
of the greatest moments of gratitude and their entire year.
But look at us, we share meals we go out to eat, we have good times,
and not one Alhamdulillah was was was stated that evening.
So we have to be people who think about these things that Subhan
Allah, Allah blesses the people who go through trials with moments
of sincerity, and so he makes sure that their dua is very, very
beautiful. The number three, the author he mentioned, is a person
whose dua is answered after a calamity. So let's read about this
one of the occasions in which dua of a person has answered is after
a calamity has befallen them. However, it is necessary that
person display patience and satisfaction and Allah's decree
and not lament over their misfortune on sedima This is a
powerful, powerful narration check this out ready? This is
incredible. Um selama narrated that the Prophet SAW Selim, he
said, There is no Muslim that is afflicted with calamity. And they
say what Allah has commanded them to say in early Allah he were in
LA he Rajon? What does that statement translate to y'all?
Indeed to Allah, we come from an indeed to Allah, we are returned
in LA Rajon, we're going back to him.
And that's the first thing that they do. The second thing that
they do is they say to Allah, Oh Allah give me the adjure of
patience. Allah reward me for my southern Allah reward me for my
steadfastness, my estate karma, my sticking to this Deen even through
this difficulty, and then finally, they say, Oh Allah grant me
something better than whatever I have been through to replace it.
So when a person asks themselves, I've gone through such severe
trial, that Allah took something away from me that I loved. Allah
took something away from me that I loved. How can I ever find
happiness? Again, the ending of this hadith says that they should
ask Allah Subhana Allah to Allah, Oh Allah give me something better
than whatever I had lost. If I lost the job, Allah gave me
something better than that job, if I lost a friend, in a friendship
that I had with them, and for some reason, that friendship broke
apart, and I was heartbroken. Why Why Allah would you take this
friend away from me? We believe in our in our faith in our Amen. That
Allah will actually replace that with something better, Allah will
replace them with something that is better with someone that is
better. And it's actually illustrated in this beautiful,
beautiful example for the life of unset Amma herself on Sonoma.
Check this out. She said, When my husband abou sama died, I said
this dua, but could not help thinking who is better than Abu
Salam. She was married to this man. She loved him, she cared for
him.
But she followed this advice of the Prophet and she says in early
Allah he were in LA Raji Arun.
But she, she continued to ask herself I mean, how, how is it
possible that I give her that I have someone better than my, my
late husband who passed away. And then she says, then the prophets
of salaam himself
sent me a messenger proposing to me. So ALLAH blessed me with
someone better than home cinema, which was the prophet it herself
was set up.
So she couldn't think how is it possible? How can I ever you know,
find anyone in my life that will give me companionship, and the
prophets awesome says, Well, how about how about we get married?
And all of a sudden, I couldn't believe her ears.
What Sakina What beauty? I mean, this is an incredible example of
this. So don't ever think that after a calamity is Oh,
over how can I ever you know, go back how can you ever have
something better than Allah will give you something better because
of your your Eman that you displayed? Number four is the
example of a Musa hit the example of a traveler, okay, why he says
here the person who has left their home and is on a journey is a
stranger in the land that they traveled to being in musasa by the
way, mashallah we have one of one of our good friends here brother
hottest all the way from the UK. Right? I asked him what it was
like to be in Dallas and he just shook his head and said, different
and I said, Welcome to Texas. Everything is Masha Allah, much
more grand and sometimes much more ridiculous and all these different
things right? You can share adjectives to describe the state
of Texas but when a person is traveling, they're away from their
home, their comfort, everything that they're used to their, their
their state of sanctity is gone for a period of time and this is
why Allah azza wa jal has allowed people to either combine their
prayers or to shorten their salah, or if they're fasting to make up
that fast and not fast the day that they're traveling. Why?
Because traveling is difficult. And they are alone away from
friends and family. How many of y'all have ever been on a trip in
which you're not just going there for vacations? Different right big
vacation, you're excited about it. But But think about something for
school or for work, right? Think about you're traveling to go see
somebody that you know, you don't necessarily know that, well,
you're going to a foreign area. And at that moment, nothing is the
same. The streets are different, right? I remember the first time I
went to Ramadan. I went to Mecca and Medina and as excited as I was
to travel for Amara, I remember I was like, Man, this place is not
home. You know, Medina hamdulillah became home because I went to it
so often and I fell in love with it. But in the beginning,
everything was different. The lines to wait for food are
different. The customs of going to you know the restroom or getting
water are different, right? The way you speak to people as shops
are different. Nobody cares about who you are right? Customer
Service nixed that from your idea right? Next out from your mind is
not there. This is all of the reasons why a person who's
conservative was softer or moussaka, it's difficult, right?
And so this is why it is set by the prophets I send them the three
or the demons that are responded to there is no doubt concerning
them. The DUA of a person who has been wronged the dua of a traveler
and the dua of the father for his son and we'll talk about the last
one in a second inshallah. Okay. Let's talk a little bit about this
one, because this one has has, it's like twofold. The dua for a I
want you got to reorient this one in your notes. The dua for a
father for or against his son, I want you to I want you to write
the dua for a parent for a child, the dua of a parent for their
child why the proof of this condition has been mentioned in
the Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. He
says the dua of a father or a mother for his son or his daughter
could be the dua of blessings and mercy for him. There is nobody
that loves you like your parents, nobody. There's no one in this
world that loves you like your parents. It's impossible. And this
is why Allah Subhana Allah Tada, the closest relationship that
Allah can share with you that will give you a hint of how much Allah
loves you is the love between a mother and a child. That's the
closest example you cannot find any other example and if that is
the closest one now imagine how much Allah subhanaw taala cares
for his creation, okay. And because of this, because of this,
you could imagine and I can guarantee you everyone in here,
everyone in here has a memory, even a singular memory of seeing
their parents or their grandparents making to offer them
when they were like the most jungly of all people.
You are like, not praying or hate staying out until like 12am. You
know, you're saying that you fasted that day, but you know, you
slipped yourself like a croissant earlier, all these different
memories you have and you go into your parents room at night and
your mother is weeping for you.
Why? Because there's nothing she has to gain from this. There's
nothing that she is going to gain from this. In fact, you are going
to gain she makes dua for you and Allah subhanaw taala listens to
her that
your moms and your father's your mothers and fathers made to offer
you when you didn't have the men to raise your hand for yourself. I
cannot imagine sitting here right now as a 30 year old men, how many
do I have my mother I'm still benefiting from just to this day.
My mother must have made dua at some point that oh Allah allow him
to find a place that he loves to live in. A spouse that he cares
for a spouse that cares for him, a child that he cares for in a child
that cares for him, there is no way you know Subhanallah I thought
to myself that
This until my you know, my wife was pregnant. Or until like we
were in the realm of like, you know, thinking about having a
child. I can guarantee you I never thought of making a dog that I
love my child or my child loves me, but I can guarantee that my
mother made the dog for me. 100% Guaranteed.
One time I specifically remember I went into my parents room when I
was like a teenager. This is like the height of Jamelia. Okay. 15 I
think 15 is like the height, the climax, the height of jacket here.
I went into my mother's room, and I saw her crying. I saw her
crying. And I remembered at that time I have this memory of you
know, my family being in a tight spot. It was a difficult time for
my family. And I remember when I spoke to her I have this vivid
memory and I said mom like what do you make and do offer there's
getting so emotional is it's for Allah to help you you know help us
get out of this difficulty or whatever it may be. She goes no,
no, every time I say you or your siblings names I started tearing
up.
I mean, this type of dua is something that cannot be cannot be
replicated in any other relationship. Okay. And so this is
why the six dua that is accepted by Allah, circumstantially is the
dua have a child for their parents.
The sun for the father has mentioned specifically in the
Hadith, but obviously, we know that shutter II it can be applied
to daughters for their mothers, daughters, for their fathers and
sons for their mothers as well. Okay. And this is why this is
where he quotes a hadith the Prophet SAW sent to me says, the
Prophet mentioned, when a person dies, all of his or her actions
are cut off.
kilter, and they're cut, they're done.
Except for three Illa salah, except for three things. One,
sadaqa, giardia, right, a type of charity that is continuous, and
never stops. For example, if a person gives $5 towards a machine,
it and that machine have survived for centuries, that $5 wasn't
really $5 To begin with, was it that $5 ended up going towards a
brick
that was placed on the wall of the machine. And that brick helped
keep the masjid intact for hundreds of years. And that Masjid
allowed people to come pray for hundreds of years. Because that $5
That one towards that one, one brick was not really just $5 to
begin with. I had this memory Subhanallah at roots. years ago,
this is now I think, four and a half, five years ago, this college
student came up to me. This is a really terrible pitch for
Sustainer ship, but I'm going to do it. This one cost and came up
to me and she said, Oh, stop. I'm really embarrassed. I said, why?
And she said, because I want to become a sustainer. And I said no,
no. Are you kidding me? I'm pretty loud, like, be a part of our
community. We love we love everyone. We love our sustainers
we love whoever gives back and tries to keep this place alive.
And she said no, no, I can only I can only do $1 A month but you
guys don't have that option.
And I said I said Subhanallah I said You wait right here. You wait
right here I'm going to create for you a particular link in which you
will be giving $1 repeatedly. Okay. And this person four years
ago, was a freshman in college. She just up to Masha Allah her
donations to be about $30 a month now.
But that $1 A month $12 a year. Someone will look at that and say,
Wow, what's the point? What's the point? $12 in a year? Are you
kidding me? No, no, no. What if within that year, one of the stars
that we hosted for our community, it went to a new Muslim who
benefited from that meal and now they have chosen to become Muslim,
stay Muslim and pray and all because that one meal that you
sponsored for them $12 For that year now has literally catapulted
them through this incredible journey of Islam.
Never ever undermine your Southern kajiado Okay?
Then he mentions hola Island and interfere, knowledge that
benefits, knowledge that benefits. When you teach somebody something
and it benefits them for the rest of their life knowledge is
contagious. And the third is a pious son or daughter that prays
for them.
We Subhanallah cannot do too much for our parents from the hadith of
Abdullah bin amo, right? The men who carried his mother on his back
for the entirety of Hajj and he came back to the Prophet So
somebody says, or as he came back to him to live in Dharma, and he
says, Yeah, I believe in karma that I repay my mother for what
she has done for me when I was a young child. And he says to him,
he says, You have not even made up for one singular contraction.
one another when you have not made up for one singular moment of
labor pain that she went through with you
So what's the only way you can repay your parents? Allah says in
the Quran, he says, Well film La Houma. Jana had do li minerality
we'll call Rob Durham Houma, come out, obey Anissa. Lira.
What's the best way to repay your parents? Spend a little bit of
time every evening and say to Allah, how many of y'all raise of
hands? How many of y'all have watched your parents in the past
few years? show signs of ah, raise your hands.
It's very, very, it's SubhanAllah. Very mind boggling to see.
It's very mind boggling to see.
When I look at pictures sometimes, right? I look at pictures of you
know, my parents holding my daughter. And I go back years and
see pictures of them holding me. And I say to myself, I said
SubhanAllah.
Time is an incredible, incredible thing.
It allows for wisdom. But it also allows for reflections and mercy.
And one of the greatest ways you can repay your parents and you
will not be able to fully repay them. But spend a little bit of
time every single day before it's too late with them, and make
continuous to offer them.
You never want to give yourself the chance to say, Oh Allah, I
wish I had done more. I wish I had spent more time even if you would
the disease that is rampant amongst like the younger
generation of Muslims is like, Oh, look, we're like the ultra woke
generation. We're like, Yeah, my parents are like, on their phone
all the time. Even when I'm with them. I understand. I get it. I
get it. My father is a Facebook, fiend. He loves it. Okay, he's
like, did you watch that link that I sent you the other day? Like,
which one? It's like eight of them in one hour? No, but literally,
think about it. Subhanallah even if they're on their phone, don't
you think they spend time with you on your on your phone?
Don't you think that they spend time with you when you were three
years old, playing independently with your toys. I do this all the
time around with my daughter, I see her she's literally across the
living room. And she's like, making him some make believe story
in her head. And I'm just sitting on the couch. I'm like, this is
this is cool.
Subhanallah you know, the moments that make us so worth is every
time she looks over, she sees her dad and she smiles and she goes
back to doing what she was doing.
Don't over complicate time together. time together can be as
simple as sitting in the same room together even doing different
things. Just sitting in the same space is something that's
beautiful. Okay, the seventh one inshallah will end in the next
couple of you know, we don't have too much time left together, but I
want to end by like 8805 The Seventh One, the seven
circumstances a person who is fasting. The prophets or somebody
says the person who is fasting, their doors are never rejected.
Why? Because a person who is fasting is so close to Allah
subhana wa Tada, that when they are in that state, and they they
make that call to Allah subhana wa Tada. They're doing so in a state
in which there is purity. It's almost like that person who is
going through trial, and they're in a state of loss. This person is
in a state of some, they're in a state of fasting, they're in a
state of purity with Allah subhanaw taala. So there, there is
not there was not rejected and this is why it says here and the
one who has been wrong Allah raises it above the clouds and the
doors of the skies are open for it. And Allah subhanaw taala The
Lord says, by my honor and my glory, I will help you even if
it'd be after some time. So when you make dua when you're fasting,
don't lose hope and the doors while you fast Allah subhanaw
taala will give you the answer to those two hours even if it is
years from now. Okay, number eight is the person reciting the Quran.
Obviously, we don't need to even you know, elaborate onto this as
as more than an already as a parent, which is that the person
who's reading Quran is in such a state you're reciting the words of
ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada something that is so beloved to Allah, that
Allah subhanaw taala answers the doors of a person who loves him
enough to recite His words. Number nine is the person performing Hajj
or Umrah or any sort of, you know, sacrifice or trials or or, or
energy that is spent towards Allah subhanho wa Taala in the form of
jihad or any of that, okay, then I want to skip to these last couple
of ones, there's only 12 of them. So I want to skip to these last
two. Number 10 is the dua for a person in his or her absence. This
is an extremely powerful one,
the dua of a person in their absence. It is narrated
by a person by the name of someone bin Abdullah. He says that I went
to Syria and visited a boo a Derrida in his home. But he was
not present when I arrived. So I asked his spouse Imelda I and she
asked me Are you going to perform Hajj this year? And I replied, Yes
Now I'm so she said in that case, do not forget to pray to Allah for
us for good for the Prophet saw someone he said. He told us
To say, the dua of a Muslim for his brother or sister in their
absence is responded to, there is an angel in front of him or her
that has been assigned to them every time they make dua, the
angel says Amin and to you as well.
How many of y'all have ever experienced the type of
friendship? Where you remember your friends in your doors even if
you have not seen them for a long time?
Know that whatever you have said about them, oh, Allah allowed them
to pass that exam. They've cried to me for days. Oh, Allah allowed
them to get into that school that they've been telling me about for
the past few months, they've had anxiety and stress about it. Allah
allow them to get into that school. The province doesn't mean
says the angels they say I mean for this person as well. And
you're like we I didn't make that dua for myself, but the angels say
mineral Allah, please allow them to have that as well. Allow them
to have that as well. I'll tell you guys, something really
incredible. The friendships that are worth keeping with you that
are worth keeping around are the friendships in which there is dua
that is found within them.
And it doesn't have to be said, it doesn't have to be said. But a
person knows when another person is making to offer them the
sincere that well wishing I care for you. I'm even here to give you
some some some tough advice sometimes. Those are the types of
friendships that are worth keeping around. Okay? And he elaborates
even further he says one of the scholars they wrote in this hadith
there's a point of benefit to be obtained and that is, if your DUA
is responded to because your brother's absent from you, then we
hope that the angels do offer you will also be responded to because
you are absent from the angel.
Like your Hamdulillah you guys are all good people but most likely
you're not around Mala eco all the time.
Sometimes we you know, our we put ourselves in situations that the
melodica like,
brother, you know, like Muhammad hopeless.
But because you were so beautiful in your Eman to make dua for the
absent person in your life. The angels will also make dua when
you're absent from them.
When you're not in a good place, the angels will say yeah, Allah
allow for them to have this and this and that. Even if they're not
around me right now. The relationship is so beautiful
Subhanallah okay. And then number 11. The one who remembers Allah
subhanho wa Taala constantly. The one who remembers Allah subhanho
wa Taala constantly meaning that a person of taqwa, right, and
obviously it was defined what Toccoa Allah's telkwa is walking
through an area that is heavy with thorns and shrubs, but they are
walking with their garments lifted because they don't want to get
caught up in it. This is always a an example that is given to allow
us to remember what it is like to think about Allah subhanaw taala
every situation you go through in your life. And then finally, the
last but not least, the just ruler, okay? The ruler that is
allowed. The just one. And everyone in here, by the way,
immediately disqualify themselves from this particular circumstance.
But I guarantee you that you should not do so why? Because
every single one of you has been in a position where you had to
make a judgment on something in your life.
If you've ever been in a circumstance, when you're trying
to arbitrate an argument between two people that you love, you have
been a ruler at some point. You don't have to wear a crown on your
head to be a ruler. If you have ever had to arbitrate any
situation you have been a ruler A person who has passed some sort of
judgment at one point
and a person who can observe justice at this time. Oh they're
doing us are extremely extremely beautiful to Allah Subhan Allah
Tada. Okay, so be a person who's just and one of the son of the
prophets or something by the way, I'll give you guys a tangible
takeaway of this 12 circumstance is always make sure you hear both
sides of every argument you hear
never ever pass judgment very quickly. The professor some from
hearing one side would always hear the other side. And you know what
a particular narration mentioned. Even after he heard both sides it
would say for Sucka total Sula, he's an ally seldom he remains
silent. Why? Give yourself time, give yourself time to take certain
things in. Be a person of justice of adult of balance, okay, so
inshallah with that, we will end our session for this Thursday.
Next Thursday in sha Allah is going to be incredible factors
that aid a person's do in being answered, will talk about
particular you know, virtues of the heart, that inshallah will
enhance a person like sincerity, etc will elaborate on all those
bit in the law he Tada We ask Allah subhana wa Tada to make us
of the people whose doors are accepted. We ask Allah subhana wa
Tada to allow us to be people who are frequent in our doors to him.
And we ask Allah subhanaw taala to never allow dua to be something
that is abandoned by us. And we ask Allah subhana wa Tada to
accept all of our doors, and we ask Allah subhana wa Tada to allow
us to be people of sincere
80 People have lost people of have good intentions. And we ask Allah
subhanaw taala to free the people of Palestine. We ask Allah Subhana
Allah to Allah to relieve them of their trials and tribulations and
we ask Allah subhana wa Tada to allow us to benefit from their
Iman I mean a little bit on Amin Subhanak Allahumma will be 100
Cornish to the Allah Allah, Allah and nostoc If you look at one or
two, but I know that I normally customarily and all the regulars
that are here every week are gonna be like no no, you do a q&a after
you're done. There's a very wise reason why I'm not doing a q&a.
There are too many people outside today. I do not want everyone to
listen to q&a today because q&a is something that we do offline off
camera. So inshallah we'll continue on with our q&a
Bismillahi Tada. Next Thursday. It doesn't look good on set on ya can
waterfronts Allah He Obata Catherine