Salim Morsy – Maximizing Prayer Series
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The speaker discusses a series about the importance of praying for the holy spirit, which is the holy spirit of Jesus Christ. They give examples of the importance of praying for the holy spirit, including praying for the holy spirit of Jesus Christ, peace be upon him, and the holy spirit of the Holy Spirit of God. They also mention the importance of not giving up on impossible requests and not giving up on promises.
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Dear brothers and sisters,
And we'll come back to our series
about
maximize
the value of your prayers
and to prove
that Salah was obligated
upon
all the messengers and the prophets
before our beloved prophet Muhammad,
peace be upon him.
Today, we will have another example,
which is prophet Zakariya,
Zachary,
peace be upon him.
And how Allah
talk to him
when he request
when he
asked Allah
a unique
request.
And for a lot of us, when we
look deeply
about his
invocation
or about his,
request from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
most of us will be this appointed.
You know why?
Because when we look at
condition, that like the the Quran mentioned in
the beginning of Surat Mariam,
how
Zakariya
alaihis salam asked Allah
and he explained
he described his condition.
He made introduction,
you know, to his Lord.
And when Allah
revealed
the chapter to prophet Muhammad and
he said,
And how Allah
mentioned,
you
know,
his mercy
upon
Zakri,
peace be upon him.
When he
called out his lord,
Subhanallah, it was a secret.
He doesn't like anyone to figure it out.
How he
asked Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
What is the
I'm very old.
And he said, oh my lord,
my bones have grown feeble
or powerless,
which is very old age.
And
the second condition,
And
gray hair has
spread
on my head.
And this is the second condition,
but he never
gave up.
He never
this
paired.
You know why? Because he put his trust
in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, and we shall
put our trust in our Lord.
Even if we can see darkness
on front of us, but always
there is hope
in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And what did he ask Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala after that?
SubhanAllah. And this is you know, I really
verily, I fear my relatives
after me.
I'm afraid if I die
and my relatives will take over,
and they will not
give me my right after death.
So I'm asking you
to grant me
a righteous boy.
And also my wife,
she's very old.
And even the the verse mentioned,
My wife
is barren.
She's not able
to have pregnancy
anymore because she is very old
like me.
When we look at this condition,
for some people,
they will
disappear.
They will not
really have hope in future. They will not
have hope in their Lord. But prophet Zachary
Zakaria alaihis salam,
no. He had a lot of hope in
Allah
You know, his bones is very weak,
powerless,
and the gray
hair
spread it everywhere on his head.
And his wife is
barren.
She's not able to to be pregnant anymore,
but he's still asking Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
It's a miracle
from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And he said,
to be inheritor
of me
and of the family of Yaqub, the offspring
of Jacob.
And the scholars mentioned that he will inherit,
Zachary
in
the prophethood and the knowledge that Allah
revealed
to him. Not in the
wealthy or the money or something because
prophets and the messengers
did not leave
wealth for their families.
Like prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam mentioned.
And Allah
respond back to him, and Allah called him
out.
We gave you glad tidings
with
a young boy. His name,
Yahya.
And Allah named him. This is the only
prophet that Allah named him by himself, almighty
Allah. Prophet Yahya,
John, peace be upon him.
No one is similar with him
at all
from mankind.
And the prophet
Zakariyah, he was surprised.
You know, when you when you ask something
impossible
for you, but you receive,
you know, it's it's okay. It's
permissible to ask that. And Allah
return back, yeah. You have it.
You know, the the person will be really
confused.
How how come?
And this is what happened to Sayyid Nazakariya.
How come that I will have a boy
and
How come that I will have a boy,
I will have a son, and I'm very
old man, and my wife, she is old
also. She is not able to be pregnant.
But Allah
revealed to him,
through Gabriel, peace be
upon him. He said,
This is what your Lord said to to
you.
It's easy
for me.
Everything it's easy for Allah
Sometime,
really,
we get confused
when we ask some impossible
request from Allah.
It's not impossible for him.
It might be impossible for us, but it's
not for him, almighty Allah.
Means put your trust in your Lord and
ask him
for whatever
you you will ask as long as you
will not
invoke
with the something bad against yourself.
Ask Allah whatever you wish. Allah
will accept from you. And when we look
at prophet Zakariya
Zakariya,
subhanAllah,
most of us, we have a good condition
more than him,
but he never give up. He asked Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, and Allah respond back to
him.
And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gave him
sign
that
I created you from nothing.
And Sayed
just, you know, as a human beings,
he wants some sign from Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
Oh, Allah, make a sign for me.
Like when you when you have really a
good big news
in your life,
when you have
a good,
great in your exam, and you try to
tell some people just could you hit me?
You know, just pinch my my skin because,
you know,
is is it true? Yeah. It's true. This
is what happened to Sayyid Nazakariya.
And Allah respond back to him.
Remain silent.
Don't talk to anyone
from mankind
for 3 nights.
This is your sign.
And what happened after that?
After the 3 nights,
he
went out
of
his place,
the praying place,
or the private room for the prayer
or the the the niche, the place that
the imam stand
on front of it to lead the to
lead the prayer, Al Meharab. And the Aya
mentioned,
If we really are willing to ask Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala some something,
we have to have a good condition first
with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to establish a
prayer, to start a prayer, to perform
prayers on time,
then we will be able to ask Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for
even impossible
request.
It's not impossible
for Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And this is what
I try to prove right now that the
salah was obligated
upon prophet
Zachary, Zakaria alayhis salaam.
He was praying
all the time
in in in the meharab
when he went out to talk to his
people
with the sign language.
And
glorify
your Lord.
And the scholars mentioned that the salah was
obligated twice.
1 at morning and one at evening.
At morning,
afternoon at evening. And this is
what Allah
told us in the Quran, in the chapter
of blessed Mary,
how salah was obligated upon Prophet Zakariyah Alaihi
Salam. And
he used to pray
in his mihrab
even when he went
out to talk to his people, and he
commanded them to do what?
And
glorify
your Lord. And
the glory
glorifications
here is
prayer, and this is what I try to
prove for all of us. And may Allah
help all of us out to stay firm
in our religion and to perform
our prayers on time
as Allah
wishes from us. And as prophet Muhammad, peace
be upon him, taught us, he says,