Shadee Elmasry – Purification and Prayer Class #1 2of2
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All these black dots upon people's hearts get wiped out. When they're
patient with the tribulation, the Tribulation is a carwash. And when
your car comes out of the wash, it's bright. So our hearts are not
hard like material matter, but they do have a reflecting nature,
as Allah subhanaw taala is Prophet said, the hearts reflect. So when
it's cleaned off, it reflects more. Of course the Quran is
approved for us and against us because the Quran, if we act on
it, it's approved for it, if we don't act on it, and we're still
reading it, it's a proof against us. There was once a guy who said
that he doesn't want to learn, because he knows he's gonna have
to change if he learns.
So this guy, he tried it, he thinks he can get around it, but
he's being a fool. Because you can't fool Allah into thinking
you're ignorant, right? So then you have more excuses.
All right now all men go out in the morning and sell themselves
with their actions, thereby setting themselves free, or
destroying themselves. There's a philosopher who said, the human
being is a God Maker, which means that the human being must always
be serving some cause. You serve a cause you serve something,
eventually that thing really becomes sort of
it becomes a master human beings always need to master, we're
always serving something, we're always climbing a mountain, we're
always doing something. Whatever we do, really, we're devoting
ourselves to something that will own us, that will bring us harm
and benefit. Okay? So someone who really serves his financial
status, that situation, he will be owned by that financial situation,
how? Because if it goes bad, he's going to be depressed, okay? Or it
has demands, it continues to have demands, you make more money, you
have a bigger company, okay? That company is going to start to
control you, it will have more demands on you. Okay, so
I want to learn a little bit on this hadith, but it was so
critical, because there's so many things about Imen in this hadith.
Alright, so let's go Zack. Pick it up
Yeah, that's what
we do not to be almost like disbelievers. He's
only trying to be conscious of him. Establish a prayer. And do
not be like those who associate with God. All right, so you see
that
says, establish the prayer and don't be like those who associate
others with God. So a Prophet also has a hadith like this. The
prophets Hadith says, the contract the covenant between us and being
a pagan, okay, is the prayer. As soon as we leave off the prayer,
there's no difference between us and a pagan. Us and someone who
has no religion not. In general, we divide religions into two types
Abrahamic and pagan. You're Abrahamic at least you have one
God and you have connections to prophets, you pray you purify
yourself, pagans, that have a clue where they are, who they worship,
okay, making stuff up, not making purification, not making the hot,
no cleanliness rules. This is something to know. You want to see
where cleanliness is. Guaranteed. People who have hygiene and
cleanliness are associated with an Abrahamic faith, even if they're
historical, like if they're atheist today, but before they
were Christians, or Jews, right? They say about the Jews eat his
food, but don't ever wear his jacket.
The Christian you could wear his jacket but don't eat his food.
What does that mean? It means that the Jew is very careful about the
cleanliness of his food, but he's physically unclean Other than
that, like he's got hairs all over, they're dirty. They don't
they give cars all dented, okay? They're physically unclean.
The Christian is the opposite. He's physically cleans his body.
But he is food is unpure impure. All right.
But guaranteed though pagan people. Go go out east. Go get
your Chinese get your Indians. No hygiene. Why no connection to an
Abrahamic faith. Cleanliness is one of the traditions taught by
prophets, every habit of cleanliness, derived from a
prophet, mostly Prophet Ibrahim ah, de Sena, Prophet Ibrahim, he's
wanted to talk about weekly clipping nails. Weekly cutting
hair under the underarms between the private parts. Trimming
mustache, okay. Cleaning the mouth. That will do all the will
do rolls your feet. We all day the Muslim is cleaning. You can't have
any Jassa he tells us what is impure.
What can you eat? What can you not eat? turn now to the pagan people?
All that's out the window. All right, so if we're people who
don't pray at that point, Allah says whoever doesn't pray is not
blessed in any other matter of religion. So just like a pagan,
alright, keep going.
It is known that people outside of the m&p reckoning phases in
Judaism, Christianity and Islam, not have the formal prayers,
philosophy.
Therefore, when someone stops praying, he becomes a disrespect,
no different.
This is why the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, quote, the
difference between us and the disbelievers is the prayer. Also
the prophets of the law. So it was said, the first thing one is asked
about one of their jobs on the Day of Judgment is the another thing
that cleanliness is something that has to be revived by Muslims is
that the biggest tribulation that we're facing is that the dirtiest
countries in the world are the Muslim countries. And if that's
the case, I don't know how you do Dawa anymore. How do you have the
nerve to tell people about Islam? When if they just take a look at a
Muslim country? It's the dirtiest country in the world. Okay.
Literally, I went from Cairo, middle of Egypt, driving on a
minivan. To them. Yeah. Which is five, four or five hours trip,
maybe a little less north east. The whole basically almost the
whole northern part of the country. We drove through. And I
purposely observed from the minute we turn the ignition, until we
turned it off in damietta.
They were garbage aligned on the whole highway, the entire curb,
you would not see it, you do not see if there's a curb there or
not. Because there is literally a trail of garbage. How then, are
you going to make data to people? When are you going to tell them?
Where do I go, okay, that's the that's your country. You can
philosophize as much as you want if you guys are dirty, just like
the politics. Right? They're fighting over politics in these
countries, Islamic politics or secular politics. It doesn't make
a difference. You have any greed to pick up the garbage yet? Know
how to you don't even know how to pick up the garbage? How could you
establish an Islamic state, you can even pick up the garbage
Okay, keep going.
Be very vigilant about
especially the middle prayer, and stand off before law with
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam explained as middleware is
awesome.
One time, one time the Muslims were praying for her. And some
agents came upon them to attack now, but instead, they sat up
during how they pray. One of them said, if you had attacked them in
their prayer, you would have defeated one of them said they
have a prayer
that is near to them in their fathers and sons.
This hadith showed that even a pagan knew how much offer prayer
was important for them. Yeah, so they said that this pagan said,
they have a prayer that's more dear to them than their fathers
and sons. That is awesome prayer. And
also, prayer is the middle prayer in the Quran. The middle prayer is
awesome because you have feathered though her awesome mega Venetia
and another opinion Phaedra is the middle crit. Okay, because you
really start with motherhood. The lunar calendar starts with mother,
right? And then you go to Aisha, so Phaedra is in the middle, then
Dora Nasir. Okay, keep going. The Prophet saw a long while he was
spoke about people who pray after prayer. This is the prayer of the
hypergrid wait until the sun gets yellow or near sunset. Then he
gets up and
X for
barely remembering a law.
Yeah, so praying officer late, is a sign of hypocrisy, waiting,
waiting, waiting all the whole time and then pecking for Whenever
the Prophet talks about people who pray incorrectly he used the
example of an animal, right? So he said pecks for like a chicken
pecking at corn. Because that's how he looks like when if you look
from far someone praying really fast. He's just pecking right,
making a real quick search and jumping. And then he also said the
one who comes down slothful lazy.
He says don't go down like a camel. And the ultimate dispute it
is it is
By going knees first or hands first right? But they said it's
neither of that it's going down lazy slamming yourself on the
ground. Okay? So when you see someone especially someone who
you know someone not not educated indeed he's going to come down and
slam his knees onto the ground and then make sujood shaking the whole
house so this is the coming down like a camel like an animal. Okay,
keep going. That's the point I was so high as to engender a feeling
in your heart that you are in front of a wall. If you stand and
that feeling is not there it is okay to keep praying low reward
the one who tries even if he failed what a lot is not the
person who tries to steal it says that you want them with what they
see the process if they strive and honesty shall God
All right, it's very important idea here. People don't do good
actions because they feel so full of faith and they want to do good.
That's the it happens it could happen. People should do right
right actions because they know this is the right thing. Allah is
watching me I'm going to do this and I know for sure Allah will put
a serenity in my heart when I do it so there's got it there's got
to be that element of Yeah, I don't feel it, but I can control
my hands I can control my eyes. So you utilize what you can control
Allah will fill you with the man afterwards Thank you God observing
appear properly
with a
central successful indeed although
also says command your family that affair very patient will not ask
you to provide we will provide for you the final success will be on
the side of high investment.
Again, where is linked? Alright, so salah, all Marvin Khattab says,
How do you expect a person to succeed in the dunya? If he is
sloppy with his salah? The most important matter of his akhira he
is sloppy about it? How do you expect him to succeed in the
dunya? If he's in business, you expect him to be trustworthy to
you? How could How could you expect a Muslim to be trustworthy
to you if he's not even trustworthy with himself on the
AMO camera by skipping his Salah. So the first thing sign for all
I've been hooked up was the prayer and all over Qatar, we used to
send out scouts to observe his governors when he was the Calif he
said go spies, go and spend the day in the masjid and see if he's
coming late, or he's coming early. If the report came back, he's
always coming late. So he didn't come at all okay, for a week for a
month, then Omar would actually remove him just for that. Okay,
being late with the prayer, he knows if you're not taking your
prayer properly, nothing will come from on top of another thing for
the believer. Now someone may say well kafirs don't pray at all and
they're very successful. There's a difference though, you when you
know about salah, as soon as the prayer time comes in, there's
something hanging over your head, you know, you have to do it, your
brain is not going to work properly knowing you have
something else to do. Right. So the Prophet liken this and he said
as soon as the event comes in, a cloud comes upon the believers
head.
And nothing he does is clear he can't see clearly can't think
clearly. Until he observes His Salah mix will do and makes a lot
the cloud goes away. Okay, and his intellect can move smoothly. If
you ever feel blockage in your work in your studies in whatever
you're doing. You feel that blockage? Most likely one of the
reasons you delay your prayer, thinking, Okay, I need to get this
done. And then I'll make salah. In reality, Allah can cause that one
thing, he can make it so complex that it's going to take you 30
minutes. Whereas if you had prayed, he could make it so easy.
It will take you five minutes. And this happens by experience to a
lot of people. And it will happen to you now that you've heard right
now that you know about this is going to happen right? It might
not happen to someone who's ignorant, he doesn't know better,
but now you're going to experience it yourself. So success is tied to
the prayer.
Okay, keep going on verse also show that people tend to be lazy
about the prayer.
One must exert effort in the matter and not be lazy. Further,
it is not enough to do it to do this yourself. You cannot allow
your friends and family to take real life. When must give advice
and encourage them the purpose of a law why they
He was taught that true friends remind each other.
All right? If you're in a Jamaat, and someone's taking the prayer
lightly, just think twice about that person as a friend. If
someone's coming and moving you and saying we need to get to the
first row, that is someone you need to stick to. Okay? Someone
who's taken the prayer very seriously is are these are the
people you should stick to? Okay? Someone who encourages you to come
to the masjid. That's someone you should stick to. People don't
realize how important the masjid is because in the masjid, it's
very hard not to pray Well, right. You pray well? Well, firstly,
there's an Amen. So you can't make record when you want to. If it's
up to me, the prayer might be 2.5 seconds. Right? I'm gonna make a
quick call to Allah. Allah accepts it. Right? And there's something
else nice to do in the living room. So I'll recite the sword a
sword. Well, when you're in the Imam, you have no choice. So you
might as well pray properly, right? You might as well make a
dua properly instead of doing it quickly. And moving on. Secondly,
you see other pious people in the masjid. This is one of the things
people don't realize about the Masjid. You see other pious
people?
You look and you see, Sivan? That brother is making it really hard.
I'm not maybe I should do that, too. Okay, you see someone else?
You're about to walk out? Your friend is praying, suddenness. You
wanted to talk to him. So what are you going to do? Just wait like a
dope, no, pray so nice to. So people, encourage people and come
into the Masjid. This is one of the reasons. And it's one of the
sources of humility. If you pray by yourself, you said 100 I
prayed. And you will never know that your prayer stinks. That you
rush that you don't pray and make this via you don't do soon as you
come to the masjid, you realize so and so I get up every time. So and
so is never up, he's always making to speak. He's making dua he does.
As soon as, after 1234 days, you see see in this, you're gonna
start off being affected, you realize my prayer is no good. I
need to be like this person. And this is why Jamaah is so
important. And why the Prophet said it's 27 times greater than
praying alone.
Another thing the Prophet peace be upon him admitted to us in many
not to us, but recognize and admit it recognized, that will do and
prayer are very difficult, they're very difficult, there's the
greatest deed you could do is the difficult will do. What is the
difficult will do its will do in cold water, it will do in fact
Phaedra time, the highest deed that you can get close to Allah.
Okay? Is will do in the difficult time. But one other thing I will
do in the difficult time is being jammed up at a workplace. So we
are encouraging the Muslims, of course, try to do sensitivity
training and get yourself a will do section, okay. If not, you're
going to be stuck. Right? And no one wants to be in a suit. And
make will do it's a catastrophe, okay, to be in a suit and have to
make will do because you're gonna get yourself wet, you're going to
be untidy, it's going to be messy, okay, but that's what it is
mechanic. So if Imagine if the precondition is difficult, then
the prayer itself as well is going to carry some difficult, one of
the most difficult matters of prayer. If you can get over this,
you will have a massive reward on the day of judgment. And that is
the constancy of prayer. The fact that the prayer doesn't wait until
you're in the mood, right you got to do whether you're in the mood
or not. Every day, it's not stopping. So there's, it's very
easy to just become an automaton and get into the motions of
prayer. And to be able to break that and be sincere when you when
your intellect tells you to be sincere. That's a big skill that
you have to learn. Alright, keep going.
People who pray sincerely can be more difficulties than those who
do not pray. losses, seek help.
Thus, prayer is something that makes one more patient and another
verse will last who kind of what palaces most certainly, all that
brings in an immoral to a morality, evil deeds and
aggression. 29 or 45
you ever pray sincerely.
Light enters his or her heart, and thus, they become more more
serene, satisfied, and at peace with themselves. They therefore
have no need to seek the more pleasure nor do they get angry for
the wrong reasons and in the wrong way, making them look rest.
So, think about this, the amount of difficulty
And that will do bajada rules Salah five times a day, this
constant
training
if and then the focus. That's just the physical, not the mental
element within the prayer. Okay? The mental element within the
prayer, you're adding that to it. That training Subhan Allah, Allah
has trained some hard people. Allah is training us hard. Focus,
wash yourself, stand up, right bow prostrate, walk to the masjid deal
with the people in the masjid, okay? All of these things makes up
his training. If you do this properly guaranteed, you're going
to be able to bear a lot of more burdens, because every day, you're
carrying burdens, so you're gonna get stronger.
Okay, to go into this
zone whole is reflected.
The spiritual state of the region reflected the prayer, the state of
the locality is reflected in the prayer, the state of the family is
reflected in a shared prayer at the mosque. Because families
should be going together
in our time and place at least, at least once a week.
In our in our time and place at least that's like a that's like a
fragment of it.
You said attend with the Prophets a little while while he was in
stay afterwards.
If there was no more now than the messages so long, it was gonna
be boring. Since I'll be
on the lawful hands would have already went home. Because one of
the traits of an upright family, they go through meshes together.
Finally, the state of the leader
is reflected.
All right, so this is a massive thing. If you want to see what the
OMA looks like, go to hatch. If you see Oh, amazing people there,
right, and hygiene. And people know what they're doing. That's
the OMA. You go to eight, you go to eight prayer, okay? And you see
something positive, then the region is good. Juma prayer is the
locality. Aisha prayer.
In the masjid reflects families, what families are out there. You
have kids, eventually you need to get them married. You need to be
people who come to the masjid with your family once a week at night,
because those are the kids, your kids, your kids will eventually
marry. You want to marry into those families. You don't want to
marry some strangers that don't observe at the masjid.
What else are they doing with your time, so you're not really
prioritizing Allah's house. So then the individual and this is
the scary part reflect that federal however, there's a little
caveat or pointer here that
when he says that, the ultimate say that they really mean in the
masajid of the Muslim world because Fajr for us, is not the
same as Federer in a Muslim world where you're literally walking two
steps to go to a masjid. Every house in the Muslim world almost
can walk can hear that and then by voice voice, and you could walk.
So for them, the men have to print the message. For us. It's
not the same obligation.
Alright, let's keep reading
chapter two,
virtues and encouragement to the prayer.
Imagine that a river flows near a man's doorstep and that he bathes
in it five times a day. So the prophets of Allah always put any
dirt remain on him.
Surely not the Companions replied. This is the likeness the proper
said, Of the five prayers with which alone washes away so that's
inside the body and Islam and
one prayer after another washed away the sins of what happened
between them as long as the major sins were avoided.
And
one woman
when Omar
was the tailor
used to gather the companions and each one would share the saying of
the Prophet son alone that they knew almost almost said
Who knows anyone
who knows anything about them facing
a companion named vapor? Then
was a long way in school saying it is it is washed away by sold out
and
the profits only was said
There are five prayers which Allah has prescribed for So, for those
who perform them properly, without disrespectful as a guarantee, I
will admit them to paradise. For those who have not observed them,
however, God offers no such guarantee that we punish them only
may admit them to paradise as he will.
The Prophet SAW long videos, some of them said, Indeed, the five
prayers for muezzins just as water removes dirt, as
well, what distinguishes us from the hypocrites is our attendance
at late night and early morning prayers, both of which they miss,
and that's as Malad
they missed, they missed them because the prophets time they
missed them in the proper time.
They miss them because in the proper time, there was no light
and thus, it would not be seen by people.
Another narration, if a man meets a law, when he has been neglected
negligent all the prayer, Allah will not pay attention to his
other verses.
And it's
another narration that prayer is a pillar of the
neglected to prepare for downfall.
And likewise the opposite. If someone wants to revive his Deen,
the first thing he's got to look at is his will do his Ghosal HIS
WILL DO and his salah, his five obligate tours. After that, the
disappear after that. After that, he looks at the suddenness. That's
the first thing he's got to revive. At any level doesn't make
a difference if someone is been Muslim for 50 years or less. The
first thing and the heart of the matter the engine. If you want to
revive your deen, you look at your Tahara and your Salah. And then
you start working at that, because it's like that's the sun. That's
the sun and anything else is going to illuminate from there. It's
going to start from there. If you got a family, you want to revive
the family. Talk about husband and wife. Don't talk about homes and
what kind of lights you got up. Right? Don't talk about buying a
home or buying a car leasing or getting a babysitter talking about
if these two people love each other. Right? Do they love each
other? Okay, what time do you spend together? How much time do
you spend together? Once you get that situation and they truly love
each other and they connect every other problem is easy to solve.
Likewise the Muslim, you have you It's you and Allah. Your deen is
not something you do by yourself. Allah is with you. Right. rectify
that relationship by rectifying the prayer. Once you fix the
prayer, everything else would just fall into place. Because now Allah
you're you're you're correct with Allah No, you're good with Allah
No. So he's going to fix everything for you. Okay, same
with husband and wife, they start to love each other. Again, because
they spend time with each other
things will get rectified. So it's time so law needs time and his
belief and his effort and really it's a tried and tested thing
throughout the OMA taharah your will do and your prayer is the
engine everything else is a detail okay keep going.
Is related that
what is the greatest deed to promise honor someone was as
at the appointed time, okay. And here. He doesn't say prayer in the
time. Everyone prays every most of them praise in the time prayer as
soon as the time comes in at the appointed time. Okay. Right when
it comes in. So not delaying not waiting, okay. That is the
greatest deed a person can do.
Release that. The key to Paradise is ritual prayer
is related that if a man performs the five prayers in a proper state
of purity, and advertise prescribed,
they will they will be a light in a proof for that for him on a day
of resurrection. But he will miss it will be resurrected, along with
Pharaoh and heaven.
In other words, with the camp of evildoers, bound to help
in from October
after the affirmation of his unity, no duty to a law has
imposed on no duty. A law has improved and paws on his creatures
is dear to him in obligatory ritual prayer. And anything been
dear to him than this. It would have become a form of worship
with angels,
as it is, each of them were born part of the prayer, some bowing,
and prostrating themselves, some standing upright, and some sitting
on their heels. So the Prophet told us some Allahu alayhi wa
salam, that there are angels in the heavens, that one of them is
standing, reciting prayers to Allah. He hasn't bent his back, or
sat down since Allah created him, and will not do so until the Day
of Judgment.
Some of them are in record. And they will not stray in their
backup since they were created until Yamo PM, and some are in
Sajida.
From when they were created until the Omo PM, they're in Sajida. And
they are completely sufficing. With the worship of Allah, they
don't care about what's happening in the seventh sky, third sky
fourth sky or the dunya. They're not like the angel Jibreel these
are different angels that are only in Salah. Okay? Now, angels don't
fast. They don't make they make to off, they do make up. They don't
give us a calf. So the worship of the angel that is similar to ours
is a vicar and prayer. Alright, so this is the rank of prayer that
angels are doing and some of them are sitting into Shepherd
position. Okay, their entire existence.
Okay, now ratio bizarre. Anyone who deliberately skips a prayer
has forsaken his faith. That is to say, he has turned his back on a
man and is at risk of hasn't no having a strip away from there. I
deliberately skips a prayer we're not talking about the alarm went
off, and I pushed it. And then I said, I'll get up five minutes.
And then you overslept. That's not what we're talking about. We're
talking about literally deliberately, you knew the prayer
was coming, and you skipped. Okay. And that is, for example, someone
at work. Okay. I know, I should go pray. But I just don't.
That person who does that, that is got to be one of the gravest sins
that a person could do. Purposely skipping your turn would turn our
back to Allah. If we do that. Okay, you're turning your back to
him. You got invited. You turned your back. So be careful. Why is
that more dangerous than anything else? It's more dangerous. So one
thing that you I invite you to my house and you keep doing stuff,
right? You keep messing up my stuff. I'm gonna get angry. Okay.
But every time I invite you, you come
or someone on the phone, every time we talk, he hits me off,
right? But every time I call, he picks up the phone. So I'm going
to keep calling. But the moment now I invited him and he doesn't
come on purpose. There is going to come a point I'm not going to
invite him anymore. Okay, whenever you pray, you have to imagine
Allah has invited me and I've accepted the instant you start
dissident done, not accepting
the invitations, you solely won't get them. That means the feeling
in the heart to gum up pray, the reminder, that will just start to
shut off. Allah will just not remind you anymore. Allah will not
send you someone to tell you to come to the masjid. Allah will
make sure you get off email lists to get involved in Islamic
activity. Allah will make sure your Muslim friends stay away from
you. Why all of these people and all these things are invitations.
Allah from Allah, to Islamic activity. However, if we reject
the prayer, will slowly he will take these people away from us.
Take these reminders away and leave you in your darkness. So
here's why we have to be really careful about purposely skipping
the prep.
Okay, keep going.
We'll do a low one said. If someone makes his evolution and
does it well, then sets out with the intention of performing a
prayer is already in the state of prayer, while on his way to it.
With each step what each two steps he takes. A good deed is added to
his record and bad deeds is erased from it. So do not linger when you
hear the call to prayer. The one farthest from the masjid, who gets
the greatest reward? They ask why is that? And he said the oldest
steps he has to take. Alright one of the beautiful things that the
angels like to look at and ALLAH SubhanA likes to see. And
sometimes you see this always see this in the Muslim world is you
see throngs of people walking to a masjid. Walking to Juma if you
ever ombre, the Kaaba, you just see it from your hotel room. You
look down, you see all these people walking to them.
Astrid This is one of the scenes that the angels bless. And Allah
loves to see and he sends these angels and bless all these people.
Okay?
The walking to the masjid is actually one of the deeds to that
the angel said, the top three deeds that remove a person's sins
is walking many steps to the masjid. Okay?
At any Masjid you go to. Don't treat the masjid like the
supermarket, where you wrap around until you find the closest spot
know,
the master treated the opposite. purposely go and find a spot. A
good walk away. A good one minute brisk walk to the masjid. There's
another wisdom in that. Okay. In that walk, you're transitioning
your mind, from worldly things, thoughts, to heavenly thoughts.
The Muslim countries. These architects were so brilliant.
You'll never see in the Muslim world, especially after like a
certain few 100 years. You'll never see the masjid start right
at the doorway. They always had a long courtyard that you would walk
in until you reach the masjid, in that courtyard, and that long
walk, all of your worldly thoughts come down, and your heart and cuts
in the mood for the prayer. So I advise myself and everyone try to
park a little bit of a distance away. Okay. There are exceptions,
of course, winters in exception, rain is an exception, being late
is an exception. They're all exceptions, okay. But
try every once in a while to park away from the message and walk you
get rewarded sins removed. For each step. God was related on
behalf of all a man's action.
The first to be examined on a day of resurrection, we the prayer
is found to be complete, it will be accepted of him with the rest
of his world. When it is found wanting it will be rejected. Along
with the rest of it. Yeah, so a lot doesn't accept the good deeds
of a person who purposely skipped the prayer. It's just simple as
that. Okay, keep going. The Prophet SAW THE LAW, why they will
send them advise.
Command your family to perform the prayer. But then a law will
provide you with blessings
to counsel. Okay, so I'll put up a scholar one said wonderful forms
that prayer is like a merchant, who does not start making a profit
until he has recovered all of the capital he initially spent in
similar fashion. One who who was rare, gets no credit for
supererogatory devotion until he is discharged. negatory prayer
proper. Yeah, so there's no point in trying to do extra deeds. If we
don't do the prayer. Many people sort of get fooled and look at
people who do a lot of good things, but maybe they don't pray,
or they aren't Muslim at all, but they feed loads of poor people and
whatnot. The thing is,
the instant people say so and so is really good, even though he's
not a Muslim. You've already posited yourself as the judge.
Right. And it's not for our position to judge others. So what
is a good deed? is what Allah tells us is a good deed because
He's the judge, right? If he's if anyone else is the judge, then go
get your reward from them. Right? If you're going to judge yourself,
then reward yourself and protect yourself from harm. Right? So
who's who is the rightful judge? The one who can reward you and
harm you. Okay, so the judgment of others about other people's deeds
is meaningless. Okay? Unless they're going to pay them, reward
them or harm them. So what is it good deed is what Allah says, a
good deed. Nothing anyone does, is worth anything in the sight of
Allah, except that after they have
accepted to heed and fulfill the prayer. Now what if something is
genuinely you can't deny that it's good, such as charity, a law that
says take your reward in the dunya your reward taken in the dunya?
Like bliss is bliss. People don't know he worshiped a long time, for
a long time before he fell from grace as a gin. It bliss says,
Where's the reward of all my worship? If you're expelling me
from heaven? Where's my reward? You're supposed to be the just
Allah said, asked me it'll give you but he believes doesn't know
Allah in a millisecond can shut your intellect off. And that's
what he did to Bliss. Instead of saying it bliss at that moment,
ignorance showed, because Allah said to him, ask what you want and
I'll give it to you. What did you ask for forgiveness? What didn't
you ask to be let back in the garden? What did you be asked to
be guided at that point? But no you can't follow along at that
instant ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada shut his intellect off. So what did he
ask for a long life, close access to the to the humans so that he
could lead them astray. Life until the Day of Judgment, access to not
be seen, but to see the humans. This is a stuff at least asked for
in exchange for his worship. And Allah gave it to him. Because
Allah says this dunya is worth nothing. Okay? It's worth nothing.
So he'll give it to you. So he gives the these people their
reward in the dunya. Okay, please, at that moment. Subhanallah could
have changed everything but
used to say when it's time for prayer, to get up and extinguish
the fire. Yep, kingdom for yourself.
Racist.
To me this prayer, the last one, so even the best mousseline the
best people who pray, they do make mistakes. And we all especially in
this era of temptation constantly, no Imams? No Khalif has no Muslim
state. And also the Prophet said,
protection of my OMA has been granted in the beginning.
The beginning state of the OMA is a state of Protection, which means
what which means at the end state of the OMA the Muslims will be
exposed to trials and tribulations. So, when we see the
Muslim is exposed to trials and tribulations, this is part of the
destiny that Allah has for us. So the prayer is a wash between each
one. Alright, let's read this last chapter, last one in the unit. And
then the next class, we're going to start hitting the nuts and
bolts. And we're going to have a little memory jogger quizzes each
class because this is just a massage, and after that this unit,
we're going to enter the rink. Because there's each page, it's
actually not that difficult. Thank you. Each page is actually not
that difficult. But there are 92 pages.
So they start to amass. And we want to make sure by the end of
this course, we really have by memory, all this and the way we're
going to do that constant, I'm going to give a constant memory
jog every week
567 questions on the previous chapter every single week, until
slowly you have amassed
all this knowledge by memory. All right, stop it off
is obligatory when the Prophet
was on set to teach children to pray when seven
but then to begin enforcing it at least
this is so that when a child reaches puberty, which will be
acted as 10 In most cases, then there will be already praying.
The prayer the obligatory one every sane person once they reach
below,
which is puberty or maturity.
There are no other conditions, the obligation is lifted from one when
they are out of contract, such as in a coma or in a state of
fainting. For example, if one loses consciousness during during
the austere time, and they have yet to break, then they wake up
three days later, don't eat that
they would make up and then pray. Alright, so the only two
conditions, three conditions conscious. You're Muslim,
obviously. And you have reached Bulu you have reached the state of
puberty. What is that is that the male fluid comes out of him now,
his sexual fluid comes out of him either through a * or
something. And the woman her blood comes out of her through
menstruation. At that point, they're obligated. So the Prophet
wants us to start at age seven, teaching kids to pray at age
seven. And then by 10, there should be no excuse for them to
miss a prayer. You should be a little stern with them to make
sure they pray. So then if he hits pilloried by 13 or 14, he's
already been doing this for half his life since age seven. Right?
So this is the norm. And you can always tell the Muslim family and
the Muslim kids because if you see a three year old two year old,
coming and everyone's praying and all of a sudden he's bowing down
rolling down. You know that he knows prayer right?
and even he's doing it totally wrong. But he knows the law. He
knows that at this point, they all go down. Okay?
So this is important to get the kids on a headstart.
If you lose consciousness, and we're not talking about heavy
sleep, we're talking about fainting coma. You don't have to,
you're not obligated to someone who is in a coma. He's not
obligated, he doesn't even have to make it up. Okay, you don't have
to make up these prayers either. Also, of course, menstruation
doesn't have to make up the prayer.
But it won't be in this category, because it's obviously so
obligatory. As soon as they get out of it. All right. Any
questions so far? There wasn't any technical information.
But does anyone have any questions?
not genuine, it is still considered.
As
a priority
okay, it's like this.
always deal with Allah subhanaw taala. Don't think too much about
yourself. You say to yourself, say, oh, Allah, I'm going to try
to do this. And you're watching me, and I'm going to put the
effort out. Then whatever the outcome is, you're going to be
accepted by Allah, whatever the outcome is, if you sincerely say,
oh, Allah, you're watching me. I'm going to try my best. And that's
it. Okay.
That's it. Simple as that. You if you can attain concentration for
1% of the prayer, allow it except that 1% Okay, and grow it. Why?
Because you're doing it for his sake. That Allah doesn't look at
the one who has a lot of skills. And religion is skill. Right?
Religion has skills, you learn skills, right? It doesn't look at
the skilled person. He looks at the willed person.
There's will and their skill. Someone doesn't know how to pray.
Like focus, you think that piety? Focusing in the prayer is just a
matter of piety? No, it's training. Focus is about training.
Okay, we all the forgets India, you go in all these
Buddhist temples and how do they learn how to do that? How do they
these Buddhist learn Buddhist monks learn how to focus that
heart training practice. So there are people very good at prayer.
Okay, but there are people with stronger will Allah invest himself
in the one who has the willpower to change and be better? Not the
one who grew up in the last lap of religious luxury? And he knows how
to do it. For the sake of it. No, Allah looks at your willpower. So
if you intended to do good, if you didn't do good in this dunya, we
throw you out. I don't care about your intention. You failed, right?
No, Allah is the opposite. All I care about is your intention. Now
keep practicing
that answer the question.
Okay, that answer, actually, ironically,
the answer to how do I get more focused in the prayer, it actually
has to do with what you do outside the prayer.
Because if you're in a constant state of stimulating yourself
outside the prayer, then you will have a great difficulty inside the
prayer. So the best way to focus inside the prayer is learn,
practice and train yourself to de stimulate yourself outside the
prayer. That means
if you watch TV, or you're online, or you're on your mobile phone,
let's say 70% of the time, okay? The rest of the talk now decrease
that to 50%. So in that 20% of that, what am I doing? Just sit?
Just sit.
Okay, don't don't have to stimulate yourself. You don't have
to always and intellectuals also stimulate themselves overstimulate
themselves all the time. There are people I know. They cannot stop
reading. He can't stop reading. He's gonna have difficulty in his
salah. He's constantly wanting intellectual stimulation, always
picking up a magazine, they cut up an article, write such a person.
All such people need to learn how to just sit in a very calm
environment.
for 510 minutes at a time, if you can do that
you'll be more fit to make the law
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