Salim Morsy – Maximize the Value of Your Prayer Episode 7

And we'll come back again to our series,

for today insha Allah, we will have

another example

of

the

prophets and the messengers that Allah

obligated them

with the prayer, with the salah.

And today,

our example will be about prophet Yunus ibnumatah,

prophet Jonah,

peace be upon him. And we will see

how Allah

obligated him in Surah

to perform a prayer, and he used to

pray

and Allah

explained

in Surat the Saffat

verse number

143.

Allah

mentioned the whole story of prophet,

Jannah

when he left his village, when he left

his people,

when he gave up and just he decide

to go

and to leave his people and to leave

the job that Allah

appointed for him.

When he left and Allah mentioned,

And, you know, he arrived the ship, but

the ship was loaded

so much, and they need to to throw

some,

stuff,

into the the sea. And, and

they did make a lottery,

and they choose prophet Juna

3 times. Each time they did not

follow, you know, the

the the command because they knew him that

he he is a a a righteous man.

He is a pious,

and they repeated 3 times in the end.

You know, they decide to threw him into

the sea. And what happened after that?

When when he jumped into the sea, Allah

Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala commanded the big fish, the

the whale

to swallow

him

up. And it's a miracle.

The whole story, it's a miracle from Allah

Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. You know, if Allah did

not tell us in the Quran,

you know, we will really have doubt

to to believe in a story like this.

And he

remain for

a while inside the big the stomach

of of big fish.

So how long? You know, there is different

narration.

It's not our point. Some narration said

he stay for 3 days, and some narration

said for a few hours. And other narration

said for 40 days, and this is not

our point. Our point

to emphasize

that Allah

obligated

all the messengers and the prophets before our

beloved prophet Muhammad

with the salah,

obligated them to pray and to to perform

a prayer

on time.

And this is what we have today.

You know? And Allah mentioned

If he wasn't

among

the one the the the one who glorifying

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,

he

will stay in the stomach of big fish

until the day of

resurrection.

SubhanAllah.

But Allah because he was,

praying,

because the meaning of Musa'bihin

means,

you know, to pray.

And he used to pray in

the easiness tie easy time before that. And

this is why prophet Muhammad

encouraged all of us

to get to know Allah

to come close to Allah

as much as we can in the time

of easiness.

Because if something happened

and become

hardship for some of us, Allah

will protect

us and Allah

will defend us.

This is what happened,

with our,

beloved prophet Junah,

peace be upon him. He used to glorify

Allah

before that. He used to pray to Allah

before that. And when we

he received the hardship time

and Allah

protected him, and Allah

helped him out. And this is why

the the the scholars explain

that

If you act as a real servant of

your Lord, and Allah

will protect

you in the time of hardship.

And this is what Allah

explained

in Surat Asafat,

and he says,

And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala saved him. Allah

commanded the big fish to put him outside

of of his stomach.

And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

commanded

the the tree to grow, which is the

tree of,

pumpkin

or the tree of zucchini, different narration,

you know, because the the tree of zucchini,

growing so fast

and has some chemical

to take the flies away because his his

body was injured.

And if if the the flies figure out

his body, it will be a big mess

with his body. This is how Allah Subhanahu

Wa Ta'ala

saved

him inside

the the stomach of big fish, and how

Allah saved him even after

the fish put him outside of his

big stomach. And this is how Allah subhanahu

wa ta'ala mentioned in the other chapter.

You know, that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,

And this is our glad tidings today that

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala like he

respond to,

prophet Jonah and saved him and helped him

out. And Allah

will respond back

to Al mumineen,

the true believers.

If you feel that you fear Allah,

if you feel that you are a good

believers, a a real believer to Allah,

don't worry because Allah

will save you from any

bad situation or from any

hardship time, especially

the the time that we have right now,

the,

COVID 19, the quarantine that we have, the

pandemic that we have, and we ask Allah

to

protect all of us and to help all

of us out and to make all of

us among those

who glorifying

Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.