Shadee Elmasry – Purification and Prayer Class #10 1of2
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All right. So we're on page 62. And we're talking about the
obligatory prayer
is actually it's watching for the
most of the men is not Muslim man to pray in the masjid, if he can
hear that then without a mic. So that means within voice shot,
right? He's within earshot of someone's voice. He's got to
actually walk. And this is a mercy from Allah because most people,
even though something's good, if it doesn't have if it's not easy,
people just won't do it. And this is why Allah said, as one of the
ways to extract true love from the heart of the believer.
He's placed difficulty, before every good, before every good
deed, there's a difficulty. This is what the Prophet said, Quran
says, are the province that said, the Paradise is surrounded by
hardships, right, which means that every good deed right before it is
a hardship. So how does that extract true love is that it makes
you not just do something because it's easy for you, you do
something because you truly believe in it. Right? And so, if
everything good was easy, then how would Allah know the true believer
from simply someone who just wants good for himself or ease? So Allah
has put difficulties around every good deed, and walking to the
masjid making will do are certainly difficulties. Okay,
they're also the greatest removers of sins, as I think we talked
about earlier. The Prophet peace be upon him.
When Allah placed in his heart, all the knowledge of the heavens
and the earth, and he asked him, What are the greatest the highest
angels disputing about the Prophet peace be upon him responded they
dispute about what are the greatest deeds to remove sins and
increase your rank. And the conclusion was that the greatest
deed that removes your sins is will do in hardships. In other
words, when it's when it's cold, when you're lazy, when you don't
feel like to make will do when it's difficult, that is the
greatest deed that a Muslim could do to remove his sins. And then
what is the greatest deed a Muslim could do to increase his rank with
Allah walking to the mosque, right many steps towards the Masjid.
Okay, and that's a physical steps and allegorical such as riding a
car. But that drive, but specifically the walk, right?
Where you'll notice that there's a lot of Sakina right, a lot of
peace of mind that comes upon a person, if he takes a stroll a
walk to a masjid, you won't feel that if you park two steps away
from a mosque. If you park down the block and you walk then you'll
feel that Sakina coming upon you.
Alright, next Hadith, real
money.
Performing acquisition is equivalent to spending half nine
in visual while on fire conservation is keeping videos not
entirely Alright, so someone who prays Aisha it says if In other
words, the blessing stays with him for half the night. But then if he
prays Fajr as well in congregation that Allah counts that or if he
makes an intention to do so even if he if he misses it, maybe but
mainly if he does it, okay. Then Allah counts his whole night to be
as a night entire night in worship.
Okay, keep going.
Be honest, departments and in all 20 years, it has always been
called Well, while I was in mosque, he was not showing off or
running hurting the people. Alright, so this individual used
to arrive to the dish. This is the greatest site of the Messiah
circle his name. He is the most knowledgeable of the second
generation, second generation meeting
He never met the prophet but he met the companions. Right the
Prophet passed away before he was born. But he didn't meet the
companions of the Prophet peace be upon him. So Satan was saved is
considered to be the most knowledgeable of that second
generation. Okay, and he used to arrive at the masjid before the
event was called. This was the degree to his
scrupulousness and seriousness regarding the prayer and of course
back then these people that Masjid is like two steps away from your
house. So he was able to do so. Okay, keep going.
Three things I wish fun was bothered to set me straight. If I
got crooked livelihood for which I do not have the bag and the
confirmation for
my heaters in London. We met a man who had retired from work.
And the man was full of energy, full of energy. Maybe he was like
68 or 70. Full of energy, physically in amazing shape
mentally in amazing shape, new avenue, loads of people, okay. He
was not your typical seven year olds, who was getting tired, his
joints are messed up starting to forget, has a very small circle.
So he after he left, the person who was with us said, Do you want
to know the secret of that man? We said what is?
He said that man Since his retirement, okay. has committed
not to pray any prayer. Except in a masjid. And on top of that, he
won't ride to mosque. The right back home. Right? He will only
walk to a masjid.
So we're like so the next day we met this guy later on. So how do
you spend your day just pretending we don't know. Right? He says,
well, for fetcher, I'll walk to the local mosque. Right put my
jacket on walk to the local mosque, which is in England,
there's message everywhere England is like almost a Muslim country.
Right London, there's masajid everywhere. So the walk two blocks
to the local mosque. That all go back home, my wife will prepare a
small breakfast, we'll have breakfast together, then I'll take
a nap. Then around 10 She'll make me a nice cup of coffee. And I'll
take a walk to whatever mosque I want. And I'll walk for an hour,
two hours just seeing the people walking, right? Until he gets to
the mosque for the hook or get to the mosque for door. Right? Then
take the bus back. Okay, and then have lunch, maybe take another
nap. Right? Then for us, I'll do the same thing. I'll pick a mosque
and I'll walk to it. Right and some some of the massage that he's
walked to over three hours walking. And London, you could do
that in the city. There's just so much hustle and bustle everywhere,
you'll never suddenly walk in a new one, right? Or on 522 or
something. He's just walking in the middle of the city. This is
how he spends his life. This is how he spends his retirement,
praying in different mosques. And spending the time sometimes
between the prayer.
This is a person that we could say that anyone who would meet would
say is so far from depression, boredom, loneliness, grief, all
the things that attack people in old age. And all he's doing is
what the Prophet said walking to the mosque, right. So this is what
he does. So using spirits in good shape, his mind is in good shape,
his body is in good shape. This is a wisdom of following God's ways.
All right, next one.
If we had missed a congregational prayer, others would commiserate
as souls, fortune and religion is
alright, so they used to feel sad. And one of the signs of
righteousness is that if you miss something good, you feel sad about
it. Right? It's just nice to feel sad and consoling each other if
they actually missed the prayer in the group within the congregation.
Alright, next one.
set of command used to respond. He is someone who does not really
wish good and no good is to be extracted from and all morbid
cooktop also said a statement that he said if you want to look at a
person, take see how seriously they take the five obligatory
prayers. If they don't take the five prayer seriously, then they
don't take God's ears. And if they don't take God seriously, they
certainly won't take your rights seriously. Right. So this is how
they use and we don't judge people. But if you see something
such as a or if you if you have to enter a relationship with someone,
you need to do a background check. Right? And the five prayers are
the most important features of an individual. And if it's not done
right, then anything less will also not be done right. Keep
going. It's really them we MBFS once came to the mosque, only only
to be told that the people had all finished you
We started from the Quran, surely we belong to a lot. and to Him we
shall return then he said Truly to pray and move is dear to me that
I'm the governor of Iraq, okay, so underline that dua there surely we
belong to Alliance and we shall return. This is the dua That is
stated upon a calamity of any type of form. And whoever says this,
English, Arabic whichever language the person says it in, then Allah
will send blessings upon them and will alleviate their calamity and
will will give them wisdom to see why this calamity happened as
well. So this is a very important draw from the Quran. In that era,
Joe and surely we belong to Allah or to Allah, we belong and to Him,
we shall return.
And the logic again, the logic is simple. If someone doesn't take
the prayer seriously, that means they don't believe in Allah.
What other can you conclude? Then you don't believe in the Prophet?
And if you don't believe in God in the Prophet, than what will stop
you from oppressing me. Right when the chance comes, and you can
oppress me what will stop me? Right? If you haven't, if if the
fear of God won't stop you, and you have power over me? Right?
Then nothing will stop. And if you're someone who doesn't pray,
and doesn't care about the prayer, then you must not believe in God
and His Prophet. Okay? Because religion, the religion of Islam,
comes with conditions. It's not an unconditional religion. Right?
It's not a DI, D DUI, do it yourself, okay? There DIY religion
where, or a supermarket religion, it comes with a package, you
either accept the whole package, or you reject the whole package.
There's, there's no picking and choosing it. It's very much like
Apple.
Apple, you when you get one of these iPhones, this is not an
Android. Right? Steve Jobs, he built the whole thing and you want
the whole thing or you take the leave the whole thing. It's not
like Android and Samsung and Google where you can pick and
choose what you want. When you get Apple, this is what you get.
Right? He's going to filter the apps for you. He's going to pick
what the interface looks like. Right? And he's going to fix this
pick what the icons look like. And you don't you have other limited
choices. But it's not like Samsung and Android where you can play
around a lot with same with a Mac computer. Right? So Islam is
similar, right there is no no such thing as interjecting. Well I
think this I think that that's not submission to Allah, you submit
your intellect at that point. You're only sort of submitting to
ego. So this is the importance he puts a number one is on the
prayer. Okay, keep going
up upon himself. The mental functions prayer, prayers and
cognition for four days. Ever Bing up to the garage.
Opening up
a lowball Granham to absolutions. Absolutely. From hypocrisy.
Absolutely. From Hong Kong. All right. A person who prays
congregation for 40 days straight. Okay. 40 days straight in a group.
Okay. All of his prayers. That's what 40 times five. What's the
math there? 200 prayers in a row. All right, with a group in
congregation. He has a guarantee that I'll never put him in the
hellfire, and he will never suffer from the disease of hypocrisy.
What is the disease of hypocrisy? It has many different symptoms, or
many different faces. One of the disease signs of hypocrisy is that
one day you're a strong believer the next day you're not. You don't
believe not that you're a weak believer, you don't believe at
all. There's a big difference. In Islam, we have weak believers.
There's nothing wrong with that. Prophets was asked Can a believer
be weak? He said yes. But he will always be a believer
to the hypocrites disease is that he always wants to be seen in his
worship wants to be seen Oh, never do his worship unless there's some
material gain behind it. Or the someone who has moments when he
doesn't believe at all. There's no faith at all, okay, and other
things that are disbelief will make utterances of disbelief. Or
when the hypocrite is with
rejecters of faith, he will join them in making fun of the faith
making a joke about the prophet or about Islam and will join them in
that okay that no one will do that except another hypocrite. All
right. So the hypocrisy has these features. Now the Prophet peace be
upon him told us
a person can have partial feature of hypocrisy, okay, but he's not a
hypocrite. He's a believer, but he just has a little bit of
hypocrisy. That's just everyone is like that. But what is someone who
the majority of the heart of this person is cognitive dissonance or
hypocrisy, the Prophet said, when he speaks, there's always some lie
in his speech. There's always something untrue when he said
Because when he promises he always breaks His promise. And if he's
given a trust, if he's given a trust, he breaks it. That means
you give him $1,000. You come back, it's not going to be there
nor part of it's not there. And then lastly, when he gets upset,
he gets a folder in his language. When he gets upset, he starts
being vulgar. Okay? These are the four signs, the Prophet said, if
someone has all four of these signs, then you can trust that
he's a complete one after a complete hypocrite, we seek
Allah's refuge from that, and the only the sign of someone who is
not a hypocrite, what now this is, what's more important, what's a
sign that is not a hypocrite, so we can do that. Number one, fear
of being a hypocrite can see hypocrisy is unknown. Only Allah
knows, we may or may not know about our own selves, right? But
it's unknown. And the hypocrites only cares about what is known to
people impressions. So he doesn't care about the subject, the
hypocrite does not care about the subject of hypocrisy, the believer
is very concerned about the subject of hypocrisy. So fear of
hypocrisy is the number one sign that someone is a true believer.
Number two, they make remembrance of God and private.
They make remembrance of Allah and private.
Number three, they care much about doing the will do correctly.
Again, the hypocrite no one sees will do. You don't go and look at
people making will do, right? Making will do as always alone,
you're always alone when you make it. Okay, so he doesn't care
because no one sees it. So the sign of a believer is that he
cares about making wudu properly. Anyone who does these things,
Allah will always take care of that person. All right, someone
who fears hypocrisy, makes remembrance of God in private.
Okay, and make takes care of their will do your almost you've locked
God's caretaking for you, if you do these three things.
All right. Next one is that on the Day of Resurrection, a group of
people will be assembled the faces like shining stars, the angels
will ask them, How do you conduct yourselves in life? They will
reply on hearing the call to prayer resist set about to make
what do when nothing else disrupt this other group will then be
assembled their faces like waiting moons an answer to the same
question they will say we used to make our material ahead of time.
And next group to be someone will have faces like the sun, they will
say when the call to prayer would sound we would already be in the
mosque. This related that early believers used to be down for
three days if they miss the first worker, and for a whole week if
they miss the congressional prayer tip altogether. All right, so
these are the three ranks of believers. And the Muslim world
used to be a beautiful place filled with massage and and
someone could actually really do this. But now if someone does this
once a week, it's a great achievement. If someone comes to a
mosque once a week, okay, this is actually a very good achievement
twice a week. Excellent achievement, okay.
And really once a week, besides the Friday prayer, Friday, prayer,
Muslim man is going there anyway. Okay. But once a week, twice a
week, just praying in the masjid, or let alone engaging in an
activity or a class or something.
This is a massive achievement. So if we could do this, once or twice
a week, there are some of these people here every day. They're
doing this so
May Allah make them amongst these people.
Okay, really, the prayer will separate between a person and his
own hypocrisy. A person and his own darkness says the prayer will
eventually start cutting away until those clouds are gone, those
dark spots are gone.
And also company, the company we keep is very important, right? You
cannot keep bad company and be a person of the month. It's just not
gonna happen. You can't be friends with people who like to go late
out at night, okay? to Eastern Avenue or these other grungy
places. You can't be friends with people who are just arrogant and
cocky people while simultaneously being someone of the mosque. It's
just the two won't last one of them's gonna go. Why? Because
obviously the be it's inconsistent if you're in the masjid, and then
you're going out late at night. Or if you're with arrogant people who
aren't submitting their egos to God and His Prophet, peace be upon
him in the masjid, that's all you're going to see. You're only
going to see people who are in general, humble enough to submit
their will to God and His Prophet. So it's not going to last you're
going to so the prayer in the mosque actually separates you from
Bad Company and puts you in the status of good company. And when
we say good company, we're really talking from a piety perspective.
You might not like
You know, under get their cultures you might not get there everything
about them. But for impieties perspective, you're in good
company when you're praying in the mosque. Alright, last one.
Everything has one feature that is best.
And the best feature of congregational prayer is
the opening or right so the Prophet peace be upon him said
everything has an elect, top part of it. And the greatest part of
the prayer is when the Imam says Allah Akbar, and we were taught in
Yemen, 100 mo, to take this very seriously, right. And in the
school house that we lived in, it was like a school, but it was a
compound, and about 300 of us lived in the compound. And the
mosque was right in the middle. The Sheikh used to look around
right before he gave the ticket theater of Allahu Akbar. And he
really encouraged us never to miss the first computer of the IMA. And
that if we missed it, and we should feel that you know, next
time we have to not miss it. So that's one of the best parts of
the prep to beautiful.
Alright, let's move to Ridwan on frustration.
The messenger send me messages via plan and the servant has no better
means of approaching a lot and frustration and private. Also,
whenever I'm listening performance or frustration for Allah sake, a
lot of reasons and one degree and absolves him of one long action.
So
worship of Allah in private. And the greatest of worship is the
prayer. And the greatest part of the prayer, the strongest.
The closest you are to Allah in the prayer is in the frustration.
And so thus to make a frustration to Allah in private, okay? When
once someone does that, Allah can forgive all their sins at that
moment and love them and guide them. There's only there are only
two conditions to these two things. Number one, can the number
one condition is that that for Allah to accept our prayer is that
our income is gained in a permissible means that our income
is not based on abusing people. Our income is not based on selling
what is prohibited. Okay, someone who gains an income by selling
wine and in liquor. Well, you're you're gaining wealth by poisoning
others, right and destroying other people's lives. Someone who gains
in income by working in Atlantic City in a casino, right? You gain
your income, okay? By destroying other people's lives. We met a man
who was decent, he was an Egyptian Christian, not almost Christian.
He was out of work. So he went to Atlantic City, he became one of
these guys
wearing a tuxedo and doing the thing. And he said I couldn't take
after two months I was in a shrinks office. Why? Because you
see repetitive people, and you see their state going down, down,
down. And he said, I'm a facilitator to this. Right. So he
left it, the Prophet said your income must be pure. So your job
has to be some kind of service or good or at least something
permissible, right? Even an entertainer, athlete, at least
something permissible, you're not doing anything wrong. You're
actually helping people unwind, right? You're watching someone
who's a pro football player. You're helping people on what
right people bond when they watch football. So you're you're in a
permissible job, okay. It's a permissible job. So that's the
first thing the second thing the Prophet peace be upon him. When he
has he makes these promises, right. Sometimes they're actually
exceptions to ruin the right. What is the exception of ruining a
person's prayer making in all of the effort that they put in the
prayer? Okay, out the window.
Prophet peace be upon him said a man will come on the Day of
Judgment. Perfect prayer.