Salah Mahmoud – Fortress Of The Muslim 10.1.24
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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.