Ramadan 2024 #12 The Month of Dua

You know, one of my closest friends who

was

close in terms

of learning about the events of Sheikh bin

Baiz,

the former,

grand mufti of Saudi Arabia. He says he

would always pray, you know, the whole 3rd

of the night and beg Allah for the

Ummah. And when there was a part of

the Ummah that was really suffering, like Ghazah

being bombed previously and so on and so

forth, or a flood hitting Pakistan and so

on and so forth, he would spend the

whole night asking from Allah for the Ummah.

And Ramadan

brings opportunities.

Opportunities really such as before you break your

fast, the dua you made reaches Allah

inshallah.

Islam, I pray you're all doing phenomenally well.

Welcome

to another episode in our Ramadan series for

this year 14/45. And in this episode, my

dear brothers and sisters in Islam, I want

to take you back to the basics and

that is Dua. That is Dua.

SubhanAllah, supplication.

And,

this is something of course we're doing and

we know about, but I just want to

focus on not the fact are we making

dua, but are we making enough dua.

SubhanAllah.

The month of Ramadan brings to us so

many opportunities

for our duas to be accepted. Yes. In

the week we have Jumu'a and the last

third of Jumu'a and whoever raises his hands,

his or her duas will not go unanswered.

And you know, dua at the time of

rain, dua when you're a traveler.

Ramadan subhanAllah brings opportunities. Opportunities really such as

before you break your fast, the du'a you

made reaches Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, insha'Allah. If

you don't have anything preventing it, of course,

And those preventions we've discussed in previous episodes,

right, or in in previous Khutbaas, in previous

lessons.

So as long as you don't have, you

know, those preventions, then there's every opportunity given

to your Dua to reach Allah Subhanahu Wa

Ta'ala.

Are we making enough? The The last 3rd

of the night for example. Are we making

enough?

And when I say enough, you know, Ramadan

is one of those months in which

throughout every month we ask, We ask. We

ask. We ask. But in Ramadan we got

to really ask.

And when I say really ask,

I mean think about the 2 year old

child

who wants that sweet in the shop

and the parent says no and the 2

year old child throws a tantrum,

right? It's on the floor screaming,

kicking, bringing the shop down and people are

looking at the parents and the parents are

feeling

embarrassed at at what's going on and what

will people think and what will people say

but the child is going to ask and

ask and ask until

the child gets what he wants.

It throws a tantrum. I'm not saying throw

a tantrum with Allah of course but I'm

saying beg from Allah and ask the asking

of that child minus the tantrum.

You know that,

even when the parent says no the child

doesn't take no for an answer and Allah

never says no. Allah never says no. So

Ramadan needs that increase

that increase. I mean look at the prophet

sallallahu alaihi wasallam.

He was promised

victory

at Badr,

but even then

he

made so much dua to Allah

His hands went so high because his head

lowered so much

out of the amount of time he spent

with his hands raised

and his upper garment would fall off and

Abu Bakr would come and put it over

him and it would fall off and he

put it over him and eventually Abu Bakr

had to come stop the Prophet sallallahu alaihi

wa sallam had to had to take him

out of it subhanAllah.

Right? And he would say to Allah that

you Allah, you know,

I'm gonna paraphrase

You Allah, you know, give me the the

victory that you promised me. Even though Allah

promised him he still made dua, what is

he teaching us

And firstly how much Allah

loves to see his slave begging from him,

because that is ultimate, ultimate servitude, ultimate

depiction of the slaves knowledge that I am

totally

dependent and I call out to the independent.

1 Allah. Allah is a Samad, the one

who is totally independent. Right? So do we

show Allah

enough of this from ourselves? Many people, you

know they're going through difficulty and hardship

and when they come see me you know

I tell them,

Masha'Allah this must be really the focus of

your dua, tajjud for example.

Subhanallah my brother, you know the bias before

us they used to say that if you

don't wake up for tahajjud to ask then

really

what you want, you don't really want it.

It's not it's not really high

on the scales of wishes

because and people claim they say no I

really really want this, but hold on. If

you're not waking up with Tahajjud then you

don't really want it. It's not really important

to you because if it was really important

to you, you would be waking up. You'd

be sacrificing your sleep and asking from the

Lord of the worlds when he's at the

first heaven and he's calling out to his

slaves and he's saying is there someone who

needs something that I may give them what

they want?

Subhanallah.

And when it comes to dua, it's it's

the clearest manifestation of tuhil and that there's

no intermediary between us and Allah subhanahu wa

ta'ala. I mean immediately after the verses of

fasting Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says

that if my slave asks you about me

then I am Niya. And what's amazing in

this verse

is that

with every verse when when when when when

the verse releases to us this idea that

a question is asked and the prophet is

asked about something, Right?

Allah says, they

ask you concerning the soul.

Say to them, oh Muhammad.

Ruhabin amri rabbi right that the soul is

from the creation of Allah.

So Allah says say to them o Muhammad

but Allah says when they ask you concerning

me, when they ask you concerning Allah,

Allah doesn't say tell them oh Mohammed, Allah

answers the question immediately himself.

I am Niya. Indeed I am Niya.

Answer the call of the caller when the

caller calls.

SubhanAllah.

SubhanAllah. So one of those phone calls you

make and there's no answer on the other

side or you get to the voice mailbox.

Allah answers your call, but he'll answer it

in a way that's better for you. And

that's perhaps a topic for another episode.

Right? He'll give you what you

would have really asked for had you known

what's coming to you in the Qadr.

So Sanas Allah doesn't give you what you

ask for but He gives you what you

would have asked for had you known. So

meaning Allah has really

given you even when you didn't ask.

Meaning he gave you when you asked for

something else.

He gave you what he knows you would

have asked for had you known this you

know, this matter was on your way. That

you wouldn't have asked for that something else,

you would have asked for this. This is

how perfect Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala responds to

our call. Subhanah.

So this Ramadan make

dua, you know, make dua. Have those private

moments with Allah and raise your hands and

beg from online and beg for the for

the oppressed my dear brothers and sisters, Ghazah,

SubhanAllah. Ghazah.

You know one of my closest friends who

was

close in terms of

learning about the events of Sheikh Ben Baz,

the former

grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia. He says he

would always pray, you know, the whole 3rd

of the night and beg Allah for the

Ummah. And when there was a part of

the Ummah that was really suffering like Ghazza

being bombed previously and so on and so

forth or a flood hitting Pakistan and so

on and so forth. He would spend the

whole night asking from Allah for the Ummah.

How much are we asking Allah for Gaza?

Are we watching more Instagram and TikTok videos

than really making dua to Allah for the

people of Gaza? Right? So I leave you

with these thoughts

and

dua, dua, do I remember

asking the asking of a 2 year old

minus the tantrum. I love you all for

Alaikum.

Alaikum.