Salah Mahmoud – Fortress Of The Muslim 10.1.24

Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest,

I bear witness that there is no god

but Allah.

I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger

of Allah.

Come to prayer, come to success.

The prayer has been established, the prayer has

been established.

Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest,

there is no god but Allah.

In the

name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most

Merciful.

All praise is due to Allah, Lord of

the worlds.

The Beneficent, the Merciful.

Master of the Day of Judgment.

It is You we worship and You we

ask for help.

Guide us to the straight path.

The path of those on whom You have

bestowed favor, those who have not incurred Your

Wrath, and those who have not gone astray.

Ameen.

So He knows what you do not know,

so He has made other than that a

near victory.

He is the One who sent His Messenger

with guidance and the religion of truth to

make it prevail over all religion.

And sufficient is Allah as a Witness.

Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.

Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest,

there is no god but Allah.

Their mark in their faces is the mark

of prostration.

That is their likeness in the Torah.

And their likeness in the Gospel is like

a seedling.

He brought forth its stem, and it gave

birth to it, and it grew strong, and

it settled on its stalk.

He makes the seedlings grow, so that the

disbelievers may be enraged at them.

Allah has promised those who believe and do

righteous deeds among them forgiveness and a great

reward.

Allah is the Greatest, Allah

is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest, Allah

is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest, Allah

is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest, Allah

is the Greatest, Allah

is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest, Allah

is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest, Allah

is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest, Allah

is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest, Allah

is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest, Allah

is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest, Allah

is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest, Allah

is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest, Allah

is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest, Allah

is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest, Allah

is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest, Allah

is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest, Allah

is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest, Allah

is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest, Allah

is the Greatest Oh Allah make the morning

prayer be a light for us on our

graves, and also the prayer of the ascent,

and also the prayer of the ascension and

weight proved for us on Judgement Day.

Oh Allah режимعل الإسلامillah ,and grant us life

against Islam, and grant us death against Islam,

and resurrect us against Islam, enter Jannah with

safety and security, O Allah give us a

good life, and grant us death and forgiveness

from death O Allah,erase us from what

we have done, O Lord of all untoer

Еea阿مع 초ت الواحد Continuing with Salatul-Istikhara and

I received some questions about whether it's salah,

like do you have to actually pray, because

the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said in

the way of Jabir radiyallahu anhu, he said,

you know, falyanka waka'tayn, which means to pray,

or can you just make the dua?

And actually, the answer to that is that

you can do both, but the salah is

better, right?

Why can you do both?

Because imagine that you are in a car,

you're driving, and you receive the phone call,

and you actually immediately have to make a

decision, so there's no time for you to

pray.

So in this case, you can say the

dua, inshallah, there's no problem, but it's awla

wa al-afdal, and better is to make,

to pray, and then make the dua.

When do you make the dua?

You can make the dua after tashahhud, right?

You finish at tashahhud al-sharif and tashahhud,

the last part, and before saying salamu alaykum,

or even after you finish the prayer also,

if you do not memorize the dua, I

highly recommend that you memorize the dua al

-istikhara, and you just say it, inshallah, and

Allah knows what is in your heart.

Dua al-istikhara is not, the purpose of

dua al-istikhara is not just to find

solution, or to find solution to the issue,

or to actually be able to decide.

It's more the tafweed, it's a concept of

tafweed.

Tafweed is like, you are, you know, you're

resorting to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A

'la.

You're saying, ya Allah, I have done, I

exhausted all the options and all possibilities, and

there are a lot of things that I

don't have any knowledge of, so ya Allah,

help me decide and help me choose that,

right?

So if you think about the concept of

al-istikhara, it's not just the matter that

you're looking for.

Don't take it from that angle, all right?

Making dua al-istikhara, because a lot of

people after one salat al-istikhara, two salat

al-istikhara, they just give up.

You know, it's not helping.

But you need to know the deeper meaning

of it.

The fact that you, as abdi lillahi tabaraka

wa ta'ala, you resorted to your master,

to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la,

in times of need.

And that is also the purpose of dua,

okay?

So never ever stop making dua al-istikhara.

And the other thing is, Allah knows what

is in your heart.

Don't try to, you know, push it too

hard.

Like, ya Allah, can you please, I feel

more comfortable with this one.

Can you please guide me to that one?

All right, one particular option or choice, right?

Let Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la

choose for you, because guess what?

You might not even be able to do

both of them, and something else will come,

all right?

That's why total tafweed and submission to Allah

Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, ya Allah,

I am doing what the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi

Wasallam told me, ya Allah, I'm doing what

pleases you right now.

Ya Allah, choose for me.

This is very important.

We said, obviously, dua al-istikhara, you don't

make dua for something which is haram, you

know, like, something it's haram in the deen,

you don't do it, because you don't make

istikhara for that, because there is haram involved,

right?

And Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, part

of the dua, and the first, actually, part

of the dua, when you ask Allah Subh

'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la to guide you

to whichever is easier or better, you say,

in fee deeni, in kunta ta'lam anna

hadha al-amr khayr li fee deeni, if

ya Allah, if you know that this matter

and this affair is better for me in

my deen, first, you choose the deen, okay?

Wa dunyai, and then dunya, because the deen

is the most important thing, okay?

Lithalika, therefore, and Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam used

to make this dua, wa la taj'al

musibati fee deeni, don't make the calamity come

in my deen, meaning that to lose my

faith, or my iman, okay?

So the deen is, it should always come

first.

Now, if you make dua in regards to

halal, haram business, or questionable business, or a

business that has doubt, or a job that

has also shak or shubha, what's the purpose

of salat al-istighara or dua al-istighara?

Another misconception about dua al-istighara and salat

al-istighara is that you have to, you

receive a dream, otherwise it doesn't work.

It's not about, it could be a dream,

it could really be a dream, it could

be a nasiha from somebody, it could be

a feeling, it could be so many other

things.

You prayed once and there is nothing clear,

and it happens a lot, pray again and

ask Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la,

okay?

And whichever you feel comfortable, tawakkal Allah.

What if you choose something and eventually it

comes, like SubhanAllah, turns out to be, from

our perspective, negative, or something bad, like a

sister makes dua to marry a brother, and

she said, I felt comfortable, I saw a

dream, everyone was telling me, go for him,

you know, choose him, inshallah, and then he

turned out to be a very bad person.

Don't believe istighara for that.

It's not that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta

-A'la guided you to something which is

bad, okay?

Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, you

choose something, you ask Allah to help you,

Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la helped

you to choose something, but it was like

one of the tests that Allah Subh'anaHu

Wa Ta-A'la has tested you with.

So this is very important concept.

Oh sheikh, I prayed istighara, like what else

could I have done?

Praying istighara doesn't mean khalas, you get the,

whatever pleases you.

You make the istighara, and let Allah Subh

'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la choose for you.

Maybe that that test will be the reason

for you to go to Jannah.

That's why Allah actually got you to that

test.

You never know, okay?

So Ikhwanin salat al-istighara, I highly recommend

that you memorize the du'a, inshallah it's

very easy, and it's also repetitive.

Wa in kuntata'ala man haathal amr khayil

li, and then the next one, wa in

kuntata'ala man haathal amr shalil li fi

dini wa duni wa aqibat amri.

So the du'a is easy inshallah, memorize

it, and anything that happens to you, pray

salat al-istighara, even if you're driving the

car, in any position, ask Allah Subh'anaHu

Wa Ta-A'la to guide you, because

when you do not have the vision in

front of you, you do not see beyond,

you know, that door over there, you need

someone who can see to guide you, which

is Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la.

Asking Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la

to guide us to whichever is best for

us in our deen and our dunya, Rabb

al-alameen.

Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la accept

our du'a, Allahumma ameen.

I say this and ask Allah's forgiveness for

me and you.

May Allah reward you well.