Shadee Elmasry – Power of Prayer
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waiting for non religious,
non religious celebrations, national holidays, the traditional
Islam sort of school of thought, has more room and flexibility for
these things based on knowledge not based on nothing. The hand
bullies, also known as selfies today, they're basically more
conservative. Right? So they're far more safer in this regard. But
at the same time, they don't benefit from the various benefits
that they could gather and vicar is definitely not an innovation
because we know for sure, the Prophet in Sahih Bukhari he did
teach his companions, the method of his teaching, was to do the
aloud with everyone Subhan, ALLAH SubhanA, Allah Subhan, Allah 33
times that hamdulillah Al Hamdulillah, Al Hamdulillah, 33
times Allahu Akbar three times, and then daylight, Allah to the
rest of it. After every prayer, the Prophet did this in the
beginning in Medina, until everyone knew it. Right? Once
everyone knew it, knew it, then he stopped doing it aloud. But the
point is that if he did it once, that means it's permissible.
Right? And, and he used it for a function to get the people to do
it. Right. And therefore, if he did it once, who, and it's known
anytime, profit did something once, okay, it becomes valid to do
it at any time. Therefore, who should come and then say it's
invalid to do this? Right. And innovation do this when the
Prophet himself use this as a teaching tool? Okay, so this is
one of the proofs for that, but that's a whole nother subject.
I guess,
have a thought that
a lot of families, in their objections, like the think like,
Okay, after someone passes away, it's not appropriate to
refinance for them or something. And so like,
I mean, it's not just that, I mean, they have, I guess, other
things that they object to, or that they don't do, and the, I
guess, limit themselves in, you know, the
different types of, you know, bad that they can do. And it just, you
know, seems you have something specific,
like a specific example.
Well, no, I mean, just that if they, if they limit, I mean, if
they Okay, vicar, and then you know.
I mean, the other example, I could think of was, you know, the renal
Quran for someone who's died, but
I mean, even those matters, they should be able to accept that
because
there are proofs of for that.
But yeah, I mean, they do limit themselves. And then again, we do
say like, it is a limit. It's not a massive limit, though. I mean,
it's still in the category of extra deeds. Right? There are
obligations that are confirmed, such as things profit never left
off. These are the two main ones, then there are no effort, extra
deeds that a person could do the profit and effort not necessarily
did them himself, but a person could do them. Right.
So these are the types of things that if they limit this third
category, well, it's not totally too much, because they do have the
main things right then. And there are pretty much agreement on 75%
of the matters with humble ease. Unfortunately, in modern times,
it's there's a little more distance between traditionalists
and humble is now selfies. But that's unfortunate. But I think
somebody becomes responsible for innovation once huge insights
others. That's correct. Yeah. Things that you can do on your own
or anything in your privacy of your home. Once you start seeing
that this is how it's supposed to be done. Yeah. When you enforce it
on people. Yeah. I mean, we we're not allowed to enforce.
You're not allowed to enforce matters, that are obligatory, you
can't force someone to do something obligatory, let alone
forcing them to do something. That's not right. And then it's
the responsibility of a scholar to clarify positions. This is very
important to to clarify, this is an opinion and this is an opinion,
right? And therefore people should feel that they have knowledge of
both paths, and they're free to choose which path to take.
I find a lot of scholars don't do that. They just present the one
side and then yeah. Why people like me find out later? Yeah, no,
that's sort of unfortunate that it's it's, that was actually one
of the proofs that someone is actually on as a sign of what we
call the people of sunnah. And Jamar is to cite all of the
opinions out there, right? And you say, Well, this is what I
believe is more correct. But at the same time, it's very important
to
write to establish, just put out what's out there, and the people
choose No one's forcing.
Okay, the adversaries.
You want to
be adversaries in the restoration roles. You've come to notice do
some imperils nature of this field. And it's how I do between
upwards to their tongue. Then as for him whose skills are happy, he
will live a pleasant life. But as for him, whose skills are light,
his mother is the abyss and what will convey to you what she is
reading fine note and none shall escape the feral which of the
scale save the man the code himself to account in this world
and wait up his deeds, statements, ideas and our field of the law.
That's Omar. Oh my God word. They gotta be pleased with him says,
call yourselves to come before you yourselves are called to count the
way yourself up before you yourself are weighed up. A man's
weighing of himself can only consist in his sincerely repenting
every sin before the dies, and in remedying his image of inadequacy
in discharging his obligations towards God, and in righting the
wrongs that he has permitted green by grace and in reconciling
himself with all those who were injured by his tongue, his hands
and the bad opinions which he harbored within his breast. He
should set their hearts and right so that when he dies, not a single
injustice or obligation or obligation will remain take his
credit, that your man will enter heaven without threatening. If,
however, fish or perish before making preparations for
his adversary, she'll surround him, feeding him by the hand, the
prologue or the throat, while one of them says you wronged me, and
another human assaulted me, and made another remark. And another,
you mentioned me to my discredit in my absence, and another, you
were my neighbor, but treated me badly. And another, you had
dealings with me, but she didn't mean and another, you sold
something to me or defrauded me and conceal from me the defect of
your merchandise. And another says, you live the burden devalue
of your books, and another you saw that I was in need and you were
rich, you didn't yet did not feed me and still another, you saw me
wronged and were able to put an end to that role, finally said you
human my persecutor and failed to protect me.
While you are in the state of Florida, adversaries cling to you
with their claws and hold on to you by the scruff of your neck
while you are dumbfounded and bewildered by their multitude, for
there shall be no one with whom you've had a Durham's worth of
dealings during your lifetime, or with whom you said about once
against whom you did not commit some injury, whether by backbiting
or treachery, or contemptuous glance while they were too weak to
oppose you. At this time, you strain your head upwards towards
your Lord and Master, that perhaps he might deliver you from their
hands, then your ears are assailed by the call of the Almighty,
majestic as his glory. Today each tool is recorded for what, which
it acquired. No one justice is there this day, then your heart is
divested of all dignity, as you tell yourself that your doom is
inevitable, and recall that of which God exalted at warranty on
the tongue of his emissary, when he said, consider that consider
not that God is heedless of that which he wrongdoers commit. He
only gives them respite until a day on which I shall stare as they
came as they come pouring on in fear. Their Heads Up raised their
gaze returning not to them, and their hearts as air. So give
warning to mankind. How great is your pleasure today, as you shrug,
suck dry people's reputations, and as you appropriate their wealth,
but how intense will be your lamentation or that day when your
LORD shall stand upon the carpet of justice and when you shall be
made to speak on your own behalf? Even though you shall be bankrupt,
indigent, helpless and a base, unable to restore any right or to
come forward with any justification than your good deeds
for the sake of which you had exhausted yourself in this life
shall be taken from you and made over to your adversaries as a
company compensation for their rights which you had abused you
So I will hold a euro, the emissary of God, may God bless him
and grant him peace once said, Do you know who's to bankrupt?
And we reply, the bankrupt among us. emissary of God is He that has
neither direct nor urgent or to his name nor any property. But he
said, the bankrupt of my nation is he that shall come forward on the
day of arising with a prayer, the fast and the tip. But having
insulted this man and abused that man, and having consumed another's
wealth, and shed another's blood, and struck yet another, each one
of these shall be given a portion of his good works, and should
these be exhausted before his obligation is discharged, then he
shall be assigned some of their sins which will be will be heaped
upon him, then he shall be cast into *. Seeing therefore, how
your misfortune shall be on that day, since you have not wanted
work that is free from the vise, I service, and as on the subterfuges
with the devil should over every lengthy period, you gain one sound
good deed than your adversaries will make haste to seize it.
Perhaps if you were to call yourself to account while you
persevered and fasting during the day, and praying at night, you
might you might come to know that not a single day passes without
there falling from your tongue, some slender against some Muslim,
which cancels out the entirety of your good deeds, what then will be
remaining sense, such as consuming what is unlawful or doubtful? And
what of the insufficiency of your virtues, how many you hope to
escape from your iniquities on a day, when the very hornless sheep
show exact retribution from the sheep that had horns? I will,
though, has related that, that God's emissary My God bless him
and grant him peace wants to be held to sheep fighting one
another. Although he said, Do you know over what thing they bought
each other? No, I reply, he got knows he said, And shall judge
between them on the day of arrival, said it hub will have
commenting upon his word great and glorious is here. And no beast is
there upon the earth new neither any bird which flies on its two
wings, whether they are nations like unto yourselves, on the day
of arising, all of creation will be gathered together, the cattle,
the writing beasts, the birds, and every other thing and it shall be
by God's just said, it's exalted escape, that he takes the hornless
sheep's case against the horned one. Then he shall say, be dust,
which is the time at which the unbeliever says, with that,
eyewear dust.
So how shall you fare Oh, unfortunate one of the day when
you shall behold your scroll empty of those good deeds over which you
tie yourself at such length and ask where are my good deeds to be
told? They have been transferred to the scrolls of your
adversaries, and you shall behold your scroll all filled with sins,
which you had long persevered in avoiding, and which you had
expended much effort and abstaining from. And you shall
say, oh, Lord, these are sins I never was committed to be told.
There are the sins of the people you slandered and,
and to whom you intended harm them wrong when selling, or
neighborliness, or when holding conversation or an argument or
when you mentioned them, or while you studied or through any other
kind of relation with them.
Said even muscle the emissary of God and God bless him in granting
peace said, The devil has despaired of images ever being
worshipped in the land of the Arabs, but he shall be satisfied
with you, if you commit which is less heinous, degrading faults,
which are the mortal sins, therefore avoid, avoid injustice
as as much as you're able, for truly on the day of arising and
Botsman shall come with the righteous deeds, like unto the
mountains, believing that they shall save him, but Bosman after
Bosman shall come forward saying, Oh Lord, so and so dealt with me
unjustly and he shall say, erase some of his good deeds, and thus
shall the matter proceed until none of his good deeds remain.
This is a hint of group of travelers who arrested in desert
place, having no firewood, they scattered to look for some and
before a warm they have made a great fire and prepare whatever
they wish that was it shall be Woodson's. So these people, this
is why it's quite important to try to remember.
Try to remember everyone who we've done wrong to and you can even
make a dua which says Allah all those who might have wronged
unknowingly.
Thank you, okay, knowingly or unknowingly
forgive their sins, increase their risk, have mercy upon them.
Forgive me for what I've done wrong to them, increase them in
this
Life, okay, increase their risk, make their lives easier, alleviate
their pain that goes up as a credit for you to them that makes
their life better. When you make dua for people, it makes their
life better, right? And so when their life is better, it's as if
you've done sadaqa to them. Many people don't really believe that.
making dua for people is worth anything. But this is so wrong.
There was a study done.
Amazing study, I wish to get the actual actual report. But you must
have heard about this. This is one of the most amazing studies done
about prayer. And it took people in hospital a list of names of
people to a hospital, gave it to certain people involved in the
study, who were not, who were just people who believe who they're not
necessarily priests or anything, just regular people who
participated in the study.
And they were told to pray for these people. Okay.
Then they were compared these half this half of the patients with
another half, which they didn't do anything for them. Okay. And they
overwhelmingly those people who are prayed for by regular people,
not priests are people who are excelled in prayer, like they're
the Dalai Lama or something. They have magnetism, none of that
regular people. Okay, who were prayed for advanced by the
testimony of the nurses faster than normal. Okay, because those
people were told, you know, a lot, do a lot of prayer for these
people as part of the experiment, you paid for it, basically sit in
a room and pray for the people on this list for two hours, take $30
and leave, right? College kids or whatever. They were told to do
that. And the nurses weren't in on it. And they were told they, they
they reported back that overwhelmingly, the people who
were prayed for by strangers, normal average people off the
street, they were paid for it on top of that, right?
They improved. So when we pray for people, we must be the some way or
another, their life will be improved, right. And when we
improve people's lives like that, by praying for them any wrong that
we did, hopefully it will compensate, that prayer will
compensate. Right. And on top of that people who pray are happy
people. This is another fact. Right? This is why I can't really
imagine a world without religion. People who pray are healthier
people and happier people healthier emotionally, right.
They're healthier people and they're happier people. And when
you pray for people you got you love them, you start to love this
is your subject like this is a person you keep praying for them.
You're gonna only start to see the good, you want to see that your
prayer works, right? So you're gonna say, Oh, he's doing good,
right? Like that. So for this reason, I think that we should
make it a practice. In turim, Yemen, after every prayer, they
make a dua for the OMA the homeless. And they make dua that
Allah alleviates the Ummah, the difficulties, that Allah takes
them lightly, that Allah takes their actions and weighs them on a
light scale. In other words, doesn't take them to count that
Allah forgives them, that Allah heals their sick, gives jobs to
their unemployed, marries their single people, gives children to
those seeking children. All these do us some people think it's
mundane, right?
In some countries, getting a driver's license is really hard,
such as in Britain, or in Saudi Arabia, getting a license driver's
license, not anyone could get it takes like a two, three years. In
England, they even have a show a reality TV show about kids in the
process of getting their license. That's how hard it is. Because you
might fail four or five times. One time, we had a we had a session
and we had a session of Da just for a kid to get his driver's
license because he kept failing. It's that hard. But in Britain,
that's why when you go to UK, you won't see scratches in the car on
cars, people drive very carefully, right, and you could lose your
license real fast. And the reason they take your license real fast
is the excellent public transport system everywhere in England to
have excellent public transport system. So if you have like a
minor issue when you're driving, it'll just take it away. And you
won't have it for like a year. So people drive very careful. It's a
big privilege because they don't really need cars. The point being
is that you make too hot for people constantly, we got to make
the offer the people that we have issues with too, because
guaranteed we do an act of backbiting guaranteed we're going
to do, we're going to mark Garrett, we're human right? All of
us. Imam Sheikh doesn't make a difference. Whether you spend
eight hours a day on the religion or eight hours a day working in
corporate America. We're all sinners, all of us, right? Don't
kid yourself. The only one who I believe may not be a sinner is
like an old man. He's too old to sit, or an old woman who is just
so so old. She can't even move. But if you're alive in this world
that we live in, you're exposed to so much you're going to do rock
So where people have tilba We're not a movement of righteous, pious
people, right? If that's the case, and I'm not going to make it in
that movement, we're a movement of people of Toba, and the best of
Toba is making dua for people because the worst of sins is a
sins against other people.
From my understanding, this makes sense that
we, in one sense, should be more careful when dealing with like a
cashier, or whoever someone or like a cab driver, that you're
never gonna see, you're gonna see and because you're never going to
get that opportunity to feel like how can you you know, please yeah,
forgive me for, you know what I said? Or what I did, like, I mean,
you might not even realize it to leader that you were rude or
something, right? And then I guess that's true. You never see them
again. But you're also you also can still make dua for that
person. With their description. Oh, Allah, you know that you know
who the cab driver is or who this person was that I will never see
again, you know them. I asked you to shower, abundant blessings upon
them today, make their day happy today, make their kids blessed.
Right? Give them good health, give them good grades, give them good,
wholesome food and risk, and you can make those doors.
It does mention that we should
get those injured by his tongue, his hands and that that opinion.
Yeah.
Which we have or
think about, he's not judged.
Well, you're correct about that. I think probably what is meant here
is the bad opinions that you actually acted on, or advised, for
example, and there's not even a sin to, but
it's not really a sin. For example, if I have a bad opinion
about a person, and I tell people don't marry your daughters to that
person, right? I know that he has very bad habits, and he's abusive,
for example. So he actually got harmed by that. So even though I
was mistaken, I might owe him some compensation. Right, even though I
might not get a sin from Allah, because I thought I was doing
good, right. But I owe him compensation. Where's that kind of
compensation going to come from from my good deeds, just like in
this in Sharia, if you hit someone by accident, there is no sin from
Allah. But your Sharia says, You owe him compensation. Right? We
owe them compensation. So that what might be you know what, what
he's talking about?
All right, let's continue reading.
What he's word truly, you will die and then you die, then on the day
of rising before your Lord, shall you dispute was revealed, all of
our asked our mystery of God shall the worst sins which has between
us and the world returned to us? Yes, he replied, They shall
certainly return to you until you return to everyone who has a right
that which he deserves. And elsewhere, as said, by God, the
matter is, this is why in the past, many people used to live
alone. And if you ever watched movies of the past, like, never
seen like Lord of the Rings, how they used to live, and you see
like to get from one town to another, was like a massive field
and mountains and caves that belong to no one. And in the past,
you could live there, no one can stop you. Now, it seems like we're
trapped, like every part of the world is part of a nation. Right?
It's part of a nation. Whereas in the past, you can have a couple
sheep and go live in a cave and come down to the mound, the grass
and the day, go back up in the cave, make a little hut for
yourself.
And that's how people use a lot of people used to live. The great Abu
Medion will Medion was in North, I think it was Northwest and de
Lucia the furthest part of the Muslim ummah. He was an orphan,
his mom died. Then he had a dad and two brothers, and then him,
the dad died. So his older brother was in charge and was very abusive
on him. So he ran away.
And on his running away, it's farmland, so there's massive
terrain, tracts of land that no one owns. So he was there and
found a hut. And in this hut was a worshiper that he owned a couple
of animals, ate from their milk, the grant aid from that basically,
and he lived with him for about two years until he learned some
Quran and some, some Islam. And then that chef told to move on and
go to Morocco, Fez, Fez, Morocco, so he went down there, but that's
the south people used to live and that was the safe way Prophet even
talked about when people used to live many centuries, that there
was a worshipper who lived for 700 years in a cave,
never interacting with anyone just worshipping Allah subhanaw taala.
It's probably not obviously not the way we live but we understand
how how they can live like them. Okay, keep going. Therefore, be
In all of the violence of the day, on which networks let's start with
the ignored, ignore yet a single blow or word disregarded, in order
that the victims of injustice might wreak vengeance upon those
that did the wrong set on us. I once heard God's emissary May God
bless him and grant him peace say, God shall gather together his
bondsman who shall be naked, dusty, and
boom.
Without physical defects.
We asked What does bother me? And He answered, that they have
nothing with them than their Lord exalted as he shall address them
with a voice heard, or just as it is heard from nearby saying, I'm
the king. I'm the reckoner. It is not proper for any hope, heavens,
people, when any one of the people of * has been wronged by him,
that he should take his place in heaven, until the latter has
exacted retribution from him. Neither is it right that any of
his people should enter how when he has a grievance against any of
Heavens, people, until he knows exactly what retribution from him,
even for no more than a slot. And we said, how shall that be, when
we have come to God, great and Boreas is he naked, dusty and,
and he replied, with good and evil works. Thus fear God or Botsman of
God, and beware of committing any injustice in justices against his
bossman by seizing their property, impugning their reputations,
injuring their feelings or dealing with them in an ill mannered
fashion. Forgiveness is most likely granted through that which
is purely between a bondsman and his Lord. As for the man who has
accumulated many wrongs, but then turns from them and your
repentance and for whom it would be difficult to make amends to all
those who had wronged, but who store up an abundance of good
works for the date of retaliation, and love Him with perfect
sincerity, keep certain of his good works a secret between him
and God. So then none shall come to know them but him. It may be
that this will bring him closer to God who has altered his faith, so
that he thereby wins that grace which He has stood up for his
loved ones. For the believers, that the wrongs which is bossman
have incurred might might thereby be turned aside. It is as an as
related of God's emissary, My God, My God bless him and grace and
peace, while the emissary of God, may God bless him and grant him
peace, we'll see did once we saw him walk so heartily that his it
for visible, what has made you our own emissary of God, basketball on
May my father and my mother be a ransom. And he replied, I laugh
because of the two men from mining two men from my nation, who shall
kneel in the presence of the Lord of power. One of them says, Oh, my
Lord, grant me retaliation for the wrong for which I'm owed
recompense for my brother. And God exalted as he says, give you a
brother that in which he has wronged Oh, Lord, he replies, none
of my work that works for me. Then God exalted as he says, To the man
that made the demand, What shall you do with your brother, seeing
that none of his righteous works remain? And he replies, Oh, my
Lord, let him bear some of my burden in my stead. And the
emissary of God, and God bless him and writing please wept, as he
said, Truly, that shall be a mighty Day, a day when men have
need of others to bear their burdens. Then he continued and
said, And God says to the one who made a request, lift up your head,
and look to the gardens that he does. And he says, Oh, my Lord,
I'd be hauled off to cities of silver and golden palaces, Greece
about with those for which province shall they be, or for
which saint or martyr? And he says, they belong to whomsoever
pays me their price. Oh, my Lord, He says, and who possesses their
price, you possess it. He replies, and what might be he asks, and he
says, Your forgiveness of your brother, Oh, my Lord, He says, I
have forgiven him. Then God exalted as he says, Take your
brother's hand and bring him into heaven. And God's emissary when
God bless him and grant him peace said, fear about and make
reconciliation amongst yourselves, for God reconciles the believers
with one another.
This proceeding tradition is an indication that such a state might
only be obtained through emulating the ethics of God, which means
reconciliation between men and the other divine properties. Now
contemplate your own case, should your school scroll devoid of in
Justices of the past, showing his grace by pardoning you so that you
become certain of eternal joy? Then how abundant will be your
happiness upon taking leave of the place of judgment? With a noble
robot God's got pleasure, good pleasure.
conferred upon you and your promise such Felicity, as will
never be followed by any low and pleasures such as will never be a
sailed on inside of extinction. At this your heart will fly from
happiness and joy in your face will become radiant to like gleams
and shines lay the full moon. Imagine how you show stripe
proudly in front of creation, head held high, your back free of any
burden, with a joyful expression of pleasure and a coolness of
satisfaction sparkling from your bra, as the creatures of the
former and later generations, behold you and your condition,
envying you your beauty and your fairness. The angels are marching
before on behind you, crying out over the heads of all present,
behold, so and so the son of so and so. God is well pleased with
him, and has made him pleased his his Felicity such as will never be
followed by any world. Do you believe that this rank shall be
less glorious than a degree you have attained in this world in the
hearts of men who have the hypocrisy, flattering
dissimulation and I service if you realize indeed that it is better,
or rather than between the two, there exists no comparison at all.
Then work to attain this degree through pure sincerity and an
honest intention in your dealings with God. For you shall never
attain it, save it and in this way, but if and we seek refuge in
God from such a thing, the matter should be otherwise you should
usual there proceed with your scroll, a crime which you deem
trivial, but which in God's sight is grave. Then you shall be made
people for that reason and he shall say, my purse rests upon
advisement of ego. I didn't accept your work.