Shadee Elmasry – The Power of Dhikr & Du’a
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Well we
grew up
in LA
but at the same time besides LA is the thing that follows right after
the components of Victor and speaking directly with Allah. And
that is extremely necessary for us to understand and kind of like
capitalize on or to make sure that whatever needs we have you're
communicating with Allah.
So for that, we will have Dr. Shadi talked about it today and
hopefully next week as well.
Rasulillah while he was some human, alright, so, I like to
begin the subject of drop
with another subject. Another question that comes up to a lot of
people and a lot of people.
A lot of people actually have a problem with this. And they
sometimes have a crisis basically. And that is a simple question of
why
do bad things happen? And why is this important? This subject is so
important because if you are going to benefit from vicar and dua,
okay. You must be able to handle the impetus, the impetus that will
push us to Vicodin, da, okay. And DA is really a type of liquor and
it's one of the best forms of liquor but it's a little bit
different. It's better actually, dua is greater than dua is greater
than okay. It believes he did a lot of Vica and that what caused
him to elevate he was weakened to up Believe it or not, right? Dua
means is comes from someone humble. Right? Someone humble, and
it believes was not humble. Okay. So, dA is a symbol symbolizes your
relationship with Allah azza wa jal. So, your toe hate of Allah
azza wa jal is actually embedded in the moment that you make a DUA,
right? Because obviously, you're only calling one God.
Your belief in the power of Allah azza wa jal is embedded in your
process of dot because obviously, you're not going to ask someone
powerless, okay? You're feeling or your admission that you are a
humble servant, that you are, who low and you're asking from someone
higher is embedded in your DUA. Okay, it's embedded in your drug.
So the one who makes da da is the best a bet that you can do after
from the after your obligatory prayers. Da is the best, the
better you can do. Okay. Someone was asked. I'm making a lot of
vicco. But I'm not advancing. I'm still the same person. Right? I'm
not events, okay.
The answer request answer is, how much do I or you making? Okay? I
really hope parents is enjoying those freedoms, aren't you? Right?
If it was anyone else, I wouldn't have said anything. But it's
Harris. Right. So they've got so what's your McCall where were we?
We were saying someone was making a lot of thicker, okay. But he
wasn't advancing.
He was asked, Are you making a lot of DHA?
Right? And the answer was no, he's not making a lot of DHA. Right?
All right, you got dua is greater than thicker, and it's type of
thick and it's the type of thing but what's the difference vicar
itself is to strengthen your spirit vicar itself is to raise
your ranks. The vicar itself is to cool your anxiety. Okay? vicar is
almost like
vicar is very beneficial to yourself. But it's not necessarily
admitting your weakness. And Allah azza wa jal loves for us to admit
our weakness. Okay? This is why one of the best stickers is La
ilaha illa Anta Subhana indiquant two minute volume vitamin, you
need to study this they could know it very well because when you are
in trouble, and not only any trouble, why is this thicker
special? Okay.
Well, Prophet Ibrahim was in trouble and he said another great
that could pass when Allah when Amma Rocky, Allah is enough for
me, and the blessing is the one that I rely on. But Prophet Yunus
he said another Decker he was in trouble too. He said, There's not
worthy of worship but you glory be
to use Subhanak in the context of volume in the word Subhan. When we
say Subhan, Allah or Subhanak means you are flu free from
blemishes. Alright, Allah is declaring that Allah has no flaws,
and hemtt
Right you always attached via unhemmed Hammond means that you're
declaring that Allah possesses every virtue, everything good
Allah possesses. So this is why we say Subhan, Allah Subhan, Allah
hamdulillah these are the meanings of these two. All right, Subhan
Allah, Allah is free from all blemishes. Alhamdulillah Allah is
the Possessor of all virtues. But why is it that Prophet Yunus is
Salam? His vicar is different from Prophet Ibrahim's? Prophet
Ibrahim's Decker is when someone oppresses you,
you say has been allowing them, but most of the times we're not
oppressed, right? We oppress ourselves. We make mistakes, we do
sins and wrongs and end up in big trouble. This is where you need
the vicar of Prophet Yunus. I said, I'm and this is why the
prophets I send them said, Don't ever say you're that anyone,
anyone is better than Yunus. Because Prophet Yunus we know him,
right? He went to give Dawa to the people in Nineveh era. And he
ended up getting frustrated with them. And he left them without
permission. Prophet is not allowed to leave without permission. Okay.
Then the whale swallowed him. And he was in the darkness, the same
darkness that they were in and he was cloistered. So they don't know
that he he's now experiencing darkness and he's experiencing
being cloistered up. Well, cover is darkness as well. And it's
being cloistered up. So he didn't really understand that how bad
Cooper is. So Allah azza wa jal taught him, not by making him go
through Cofer, but showing him you see this year in the stomach of
dwell, you don't like it? Likewise, they're, they're in a
stomach and they're in a closed dark space. Right? In a bigger
sense through the heart, right? So prophesy, Sam said, don't say
this, because you Prophet Yunus went through that, so that we can
learn a lesson that when you make a mistake, when you're in trouble
because of your own misdeeds, this is where you need the vicar La
ilaha illa Anta Subhanak in the country, Mila vitamin, there is
none worthy worship but you.
Glory be to You or your few are free from blame for flaws, and I
am from the wrong doors. So Allah azza wa jal, you've combined
everything here. You've given Allah to hate. You've mentioned
that he his glory, right and his attribute of having no flaws. And
then you've also blamed yourself.
If you aren't, you're a bad, you're wicked and you're to be
strong, blame yourself. Then Allah azza wa jal never punishes someone
who's already blaming himself. And if he punishes them, he will
benefit from that punishment. All right. All right. If you get
suffer a consequence, after your penitent of your sin, you will
benefit from that consequence. Okay, it looks bad, it looks like
you're being punished, but you'll benefit from it like that. Now,
again, I'm backtracking to something else before all this,
okay, before they could enter is comes in impetus and that is bad
happenings. Things that you don't like to happen in your life,
things that are bad, because when Allah azza wa jal loves to hear
your voice, he pours upon you trials and tribulations and things
that are no good. And you have to learn how to handle
in the realm of belief things that are no good, okay. You need to let
Nurten understand the value of bad happenings, the one who can value
and understand the wisdom and then utilize okay, like a fulcrum. That
occurrences is the one who will travel to Allah fastest, you will
go to Allah as Allah says Pharaoh Illallah li to Allah azza wa jal,
okay, and Allah azza wa jal talks about a competition among society
in all right, are you Homer ocra were to do another meta Hua funada
decided in the look which one of us can be closer, and they are
hoping for his reward and mercy and fearing his punishment. Okay,
so bad occurrences. Why did bad things happen? Okay, why did bad
things happen? I just posted this stuff today because someone asked
me about it and they said, their family members have a big issue
with a recent death of someone young. Why do bad things happen?
Okay, so if Allah is just unfair, why do bad things happen? Okay, if
he's got mercy, why do like babies born with deficiencies or things
like this? So firstly, embedded in this question, okay. If you is you
believe in Allah. Because if you're saying Why does Allah cause
bad things to happen? In this question, you are admitting your
belief and Allah no one
believes in God not a Jew or Christian or Muslim except you
believe in another life after this life.
This is the first point, you will believe in Allah azza wa jal,
you're mentioning him in the question, you then must believe in
the afterlife, right or wrong, right? So you believe in the
afterlife, we got to bring up the subject of the afterlife always,
you must never try to imagine life and study a matter in life without
reference to the afterlife. This is like the way that God wants you
to view things just this life. And this is how secular news is
treated, we analyze things just this life. And most of them never
analyzes a situation from just the perspective of this life. Who does
so is a fool. Because in your belief, you admit the belief of
the afterlife, and you believe that it's greater than this life.
So everything that you analyze, you must have in the realm of it,
okay, in the context of it the afterlife. And not only that, the
greatness of the afterlife over this life. The your Eman is almost
proportionate to how much you're thinking about the afterlife.
Another question, if you might imagine is up and down. And why is
it some people have fear of Allah and others don't? It's all about
one simple question. How much are you thinking about the afterlife?
It's a very simple question. Okay. If you are adding that dose, you
will notice a change and you don't even have to try to change you
will change. Okay, you did not have to try to change it, you got
to run. Alright, if someone's running because they say I need to
get in shape, you're gonna run to two blocks, and here you're gonna
be tired. Okay? But if there's a dog running after you, you don't
need to tell anyone to run. He's going to run on his own. Right? It
could be you know, most out of shape person. Right, and you will
see them running. Likewise, the tell someone to try to eat
something that doesn't look good. Okay. A kid won't eat it. But if
it looks, it's got sprinkles on it. Right? And it's looks bright,
like ice cream. You don't need to tell him to eat it. All right, so
description of the afterlife, and one of the series of the brothers
you should do a series and you probably did it last time
about the unseen
but not even the unseen the afterlife description of that all
the afterlife right from the grave all the way to the Hellfire to the
paradise to the judgment, what matters in the judgment, what
doesn't? Okay, the vicar dimension of the afterlife. So this is the
first thing that we have to come to mind when we ask the question,
Why does Allah cause PDS bad things to happen? There's an
afterlife. Now when we say that there's an afterlife, it allows us
to bring in a second question. Okay. The second question which is
what? Which is? Second question is if we believe in an afterlife,
then what are the consequences of bad things in the afterlife, and
we notice Prophet didn't leave us in the dark. Prophet peace be upon
him said very clearly, every single thing
that causes you hum, or a GM and have anxiety about the future of
GM about the President hasn't about the past. Three things have
come and hasn't. Him is about anxiety about the future of GM is
present state anxiety or upsetness and hasn't is about the past. And
the province is that he mentioned these three things then
Ashoka not even a prick on the skin. So these are what emotional
difficulties and physical difficulties, the physical
difficulty at the level of a prick of authority. Nothing of these
occurs to a moment except that Allah azza wa jal compensates him
on the Olympia
compensates him on the
cut what is compensation is equal.
But if he has suffered, then he gets rewarded for it. And reward
is more than you deserve. Compensation is good. That's
equal. All right. If I have a my if I get migraine headaches once a
month, some people do. Okay. If I get migraine headaches once a
month, I'm wondering like my life is debilitated at this point one
every month I'm out for a day, okay? Some people are like that,
okay, you're going to be compensated, not just compensated,
compensated and if you have sub rewarded, this goes for the Muslim
and the calf and and everyone, ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada says,
in the haram to Allah Komodo wa jal to Allah Maha Rama, okay. I
have prohibited you from volum and I prohibited myself from Allah
azza wa jal says He prohibited himself from the oppression. So
what is oppression harm? That's not compensated, or you do a good
thing. That's not compensated, alright? Not a Muslim or a
catheter. Anyone. Everyone who does receive some harm will be
compensated in this life for the next one.
for both, and anyone who does good, it will be received a reward
in this life, or the next or both. Okay, so we have to realize that
so if we're told, and we know for sure, okay, that the compensation
of the afterlife, okay, it turns it eternal. And the suffering of
this life is temporary than what's a better deal. Which one is a
better deal? If I'm going to suffer if I'm suffering in this
life? Well, this life is only 60 or 70 or 80 years, but the
compensation is eternal. So who's winning at the end? So much. So
the prophets I sent him said, When you see the reward of the blind,
you will wish that you are blind.
And we're not allowed to wish for harm on ourselves or others. We're
not allowed to wish for harm. We're not allowed to say Oh, Allah
tests me, oh, Allah bring tribulations on me. You're not
allowed to say that. But prophets, I seldom said when you see them,
you will wish that you were blind. Okay, you will wish that you were
blind. Okay. So every harm is so now we ask the question now that
we believe in the afterlife, when bad things happen, and we know
that the compensation is eternal, the suffering is temporary.
We ask the question, is this suffering bad anymore? Or is it
actually good? Okay, or is it actually good? All of you who are
studying are studying for four years than having full medical
school for four years, then being a doctor for the rest of your
life? Right? So is it worth it or not? You're losing four years of
your life, you're gaining your whole life. So it changes the way
we view good and bad so much so that the SATA in of our OMA said,
The righteous of the wise people of our OMA said the trials and the
tribulations are the Feast of the wise, it's a feast. Because when a
trial comes upon him, he knows he is going to be pushed towards the
Quran DUA and that he is earning credit with Allah azza wa jal just
for bearing with his difficulty, the only time that we can say that
bad occurrences in this life is actually a punishment against you.
Okay? Is when the bad occurrence causes you to do more since then
we say you're being punished, and you're not going to be re
compensated or rewarded. This is your punishment. Okay? Like what?
Okay, you lose your money, all of a sudden, you're broke, you lose
your job, all of a sudden, you're in a really bad situation. Okay?
As a result of this, you become a drug addict, okay? You, you did
not respond well, right? Or you're punching walls and beating people
up, or yelling at people, we tell you. This is not anymore. As long
as you're doing that. It's not a test anymore. Right? You're not
going to be compensated, you're going to be punished. This is a
punishment, and you're gonna get more punishment. Right? Which is
that will say, yeah, it's insane to me through a reward of a bad
deed is another bad deed. Okay, so as long as a person is having
somebody you need to understand that bad things happening to you
is actually the first way that Allah makes you do the grandma,
okay? He makes you do you have to really not like bad things. No one
likes bad things, but you have to understand them and benefit from
them. All right, you have to benefit from and what are some bad
things that happen to the Muslims? Well, anything that happens to
humans will happen to us, right. But other things happen to us that
don't happen to anyone else. And that is Allah's Will, through the
book, which is his prohibitions, and his obligations, and I'm not
able to fulfill to stop myself from doing a prohibition, and I
keep sinning. This is also a bad happening, right? It's a bad
thing. When someone is, is unable to practice the deen properly,
there is an obligation and I have no strength to fulfill it. You
have to view this equivocally as if you had gotten a cold or got
hit by a car. You have to view it in the same way. Your own
shortcomings is about happening. Okay. And your own shortcomings
should be the biggest impetus to vicar and dA. Right. Your own
impetus so they couldn't do it. No, nothing you someone sometimes
people are asking a question.
Allah azza wa jal, he made me in such a way that every time I see
someone else who doesn't have my problem, I just feel so depressed.
Right? Anytime this comes to you, you have to have wisdom. This is
Allah's impetus to you at this point. Remember me because I'm
your only cure. Okay, I'm your only cure. This is how we
understand if we want to use why you can't really in Islam talk
about one subject, you only have to bring two three subjects in,
right because they're all connected. So this is your impetus
number
Three, if someone who says
okay, Why did Allah cause bad things to happen? Okay? If you
believe in Allah you also believe in other. Right? We believe in God
that everything is destined. Everything is destined. Now in the
subject of Kedah, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
layin FAO had their own man Tada okay. Any precaution that you take
you can take precautions prophesy Samson Pray take precautions
prophesy centum said tie your camel he said many times you know
where shields when you go to war he doesn't he? Isn't he a prophet?
Doesn't he rely on Allah but he wore two shields to the battle.
Okay, didn't he plan battle better? So we take precautions but
the prophets I sent him said take precautions but believe that
precautions do not stop Destiny whatever is destined to happen
it's still gonna happen. But he said one thing stops destiny.
Okay. Do Ah Do I can slow down or break up destiny. So destiny is
like a rock coming down on your your do I can push it away? Well,
what's the point of pushing it away? Well, it could push it away
because if something if a flu hits a two year old, it could kill him.
But if it hits a 20 year olds it's not right. It's not really a big
deal. So you change so you're pushing dua can push away
tribulation that's coming upon you to a point that he won't affect
you later on. Or do I can break up break up a destiny a trial that's
coming upon you and better alright prophesy Sam said there's an
angel, he is McKelvin Bella. That means this angel is Angel of
trials and tribulations and bad happenings. Allah says poor such
trials on so on. So and he goes in towards it. The only defense that
you have is your job. Okay. Your dua cannot change the essence of
the trial that's coming upon you. But it can change when it happens
and it can break it up. So a car accident you got a car accident. a
fender bender, you have four fender benders or one big car
accident which one would you prefer? Right? For fender benders,
right? So we know that Allah subhana wa Tada says in the Quran,
all right.
Allah subhana wa Giada says, we did the book, nothing can be
changed. Okay, but it can be decreased. Heather Can you can't
change it. If Allah wills for you to be sick, you're going to be
sick, but how are you going to be sick? When are you going to be
sick? This is the question. Do I can change all this? It can make
it something you don't even feel broken up into many little things.
Okay, broken up into many little things, many little sicknesses
over the course of 20 You got a
broken
it, it can be broken up. Okay? And two things that you don't even
notice. But it will not change, right? It won't change the essence
of it won't change. Okay, like a rock, right? You're gonna have a
rock falling on your head and you can die. Or that rock can
dissipate into dust since that you walk into one day and you don't
even realize what happened, right? It's the same essence, right? Same
thing. This is what the prophesy centum said dua can push the
biller. And this is why it's so important. Some people say well, I
mean the situation is a lost cause. Why should we make dua or
some stranger comes up to you and says, Oh, my grandmother died. Can
you make dot sick? I don't even know you or your grandma. Right?
What kind of dog do you think I'm going to send up for you? Right?
Manners da, right. This is a type of diet that we have in our
community, which is do I have good manners? Like okay, fine my leg of
her agenda? I don't even know who she is right? Okay, well, I want
you to make the offer maybe she's bad right? No, you got to think
realize that you're a draw whether it's for yourself or others Okay?
Has this effect too so you gain Whenever someone asks you for a
dua number one number one if you don't know the person there is
still receive your DUA. I mean, if you don't know someone's, you go
call one 800 My Apple when you have a problem, you don't know the
person on the other end, they're still gonna get the call right?
They will still get your DUA they will get by we you should say Oh
Allah, I don't know this person, but you know them. So, grant them
such as such and such number to the angels prophesy. centum said
six angels come down. Furthermore, you got to realize that the DUA is
my practice and prophesy centum said Allah whom I need Allah
Vickery for sure Creek was helped me. So how does it How does it
mean what does it mean help me to learn how to make thicker because
your thicker than your DUA is really based on
your power, your own strength in the province I set him said the
dua of the oppressed is the greatest of dua strongest why?
Once the oppressed feels that he has no one to help him, alright,
his drive becomes very strong, extremely strong. As long as you
have a plan B and A Plan C and A Plan D, your DUA is not going to
be that strong. Okay. As long as you have, you know, something to
fall back on, you're not going to be that strong. Okay. But the dua
of the oppressed, okay has no barrier between it Allah azza wa
jal. So you got to know that DA,
DA is what gives a person happiness, because the prophets,
Allah azza wa jal said, the greatest moment of of a servant is
when he's in a moment of feeling like a servant. See, feeling
needy, feeling needy. Okay, this is Oh, dear, how can you feel
needy? If what you're making do out with a half half a heart?
Okay, you're making a lot without any strength. Now, how do you when
do you feel strength when I'm in trouble? So do I have to wait
until I'm in trouble every time I make dua, or the intelligent
person learns how to simulate this, right? How do we simulate
this? You simulate this by telling yourself, look, I might not be in
trouble at this moment. But at any given moment, I'm in the hands of
Allah, anything can change. Anything can change. You might be
comfortable now. So what is the benefit of making dough out when
you're comfortable? The prophets I sent him said the one who
remembers Allah when he's comfortable? Allah remembers him
when he's in trouble. Right? This is very important. Whoever
remembers Allah. All right, man out of Allah fitted rakaat RFO
love his should man Tara federal law either raka Zarafa la
fissured. If you know Allah, in good times, Allah will know you in
bad times, you actually, even artha also tells us it is a bigger
test to be in good times and to be in bad times. If you're in bad
times, you know, you're in trouble. You know, you're gonna
get on your knees, you know, you're gonna go to the masjid, you
know, you're gonna not doing anything wrong, you're gonna be
more careful, because you're in trouble. But you said the one who
does too, is in good times, he's in more need of Allah zoologia.
Okay, because you can relax, you're not sending up any dua
anymore. Now, if a trial comes upon you, you're not sending up
any defenses. You're not sending up any arrows to push away these
trials. Okay. So this is the thing, this one bad occurrences
happen. You have to remember you believe in Allah, you believe in
the ACA, you believe in Allah, you believe in other? All right, you
believe in Allah, you know, Allah knows better than you. Okay? And
he pushes us to make dua and they go through bad times. And how does
he tests people who pass this test? By not giving them any bad
times? This is one of the biggest tests, okay? If you learn the
trick, and you realize, Oh, I get it now. Every time there's a bad
time, right? I advance. I make a lot more to hedge it and Vicodin,
sulla and da, and I start avoiding firearms, doing my obligations and
being better. And I advance. All right, you start figuring out the
pattern. Well, Allah azza wa jal, he has a lot more, right? There is
not going to be it's not that simple. What's the next test then?
The next test is no tests.
The next test is no trials, no troubles. You ever have a moment
like this? SubhanAllah? My grades are good. It looks good. Families
don't no one's bothering me. Got a job? Subhan Allah, right, what's
going on? If you're smart, you shouldn't be so happy. You should
realize this is another test. This is a big test. What Allah leaves
you, he's going to see are you what are you going to do on your
own? on your own? What are you going to do? When you're doing
good? What are you going to do, and you're a bad at this time will
be a little bit different. It's going to be a little bit
different. You're expected to do more for other people.
If you're down and out, unemployed, you're in trouble.
You're in a bad situation. All right, your situation at this
point, Allah doesn't expect you to do anything for anyone else. Allah
expects you to clean out your own house, right? Fix your own
situation.
But when your situation is fixed to the expectation is different,
Allah expects you to give to others. All right? And Allah azza
wa jal has only made the rich and the fortunate. A funnel for
others. You have to view yourself as a funnel. I'm a funnel, I'm
getting all this goodness, I gotta give it out. I gotta give it out.
What happens if a container gets full, you stop pouring. But if
that container has holes in it, okay, and it's giving out in the
right sources. It's spending its money in the right sources. Allah
will keep pouring into that container. Okay, he's using you to
benefit his servants. Okay.
And then you have to pray that Allah accepts your a bed. He
accepts your charity, he accepts your good works. All right, this
is your dot know, your dot and the beginning is all alleviate my
trouble.
Now when good times and you're helping others, your DUA is except
my worship and Allah lows, lows, the worship that is done without
any fear or question, is it accepted or not? You always have
to ask and wonder and have fear is my evatik going to be accepted or
not? And this is where it comes in again, the dua for your deeds to
be accepted. Very important. I mean, how many times the last time
we actually thought about this, right? Nowadays, in the end of
times, where which we are in, okay.
We think if I do a good deed, really, I mean, look at what's
going on in the world, how bad and corrupt the whole world is, if I
do a good deed, Angel Jabril should come and shake my head.
Okay. That's how people think. All right, I should be patted on the
back. Because half the people in the world are not even they're
going against the law, not even they're not even heedless. They're
going the opposite way. Okay, so no, you can't think like this. You
must think oh, like accepts my deeds, because Allah doesn't need
our deeds. Okay? Allah doesn't need our deeds, as we have to ask
for this. And then what is the greatest thing to ask for? Another
piece of advice has to do with the latest of color. And all of those
great times were the greatest times of dua little cousin, and
the last six of the night or third of the night in sujood. While
traveling wall sick, your mother for you, the draw of your mother
for you, okay, the dua of the oppressed. If you can find someone
oppressed and have them make dua for you, if I was a lawyer, by
trade, I would work for one of these cases where they look for
someone who's wrongfully convicted, right wrongfully
convicted, because these people are special, right? If you could
win the dua of one of them, if you can make one of them alleviate his
tribulation Subhan Allah, your position with Allah azza wa jal is
going to be very special. Okay. So the Prophet RHS O Messenger of
Allah in these great moments, what do I do we make, and he sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam said, ask Allah for Afia Afia Allahumma indica
foon Khadim treble alfalfa and what is I fear? I fear is the
greatest, the highest form of forgiveness.
We have forgiveness of sin, have offered for forgives all types of
Sins of alpha forgives all types of sins all the time. But there's
still a difference. What's the difference between the Guevara and
alpha? A four means I forgive you, it doesn't necessarily mean things
are going to be the same. Right? This is the sad part about
forgiveness. Yeah, I forgive you. Doesn't mean things are gonna be
the same. I felt okay. Awful means I forgive you and nothing will
change, everything will stay the same. This is
an awful has a greater thing to be forgiven, doesn't mean that it's
forgotten. But I feel means it's forgotten. That means Allah has
erased it from the minds of people from the memories of people, okay,
and causes the melodica the angels to forget it and to wipe it out of
the book. So you do a deed and you come on Yom Okayama. And you don't
find it on your scroll. This has got to be prophesy. centum said
this is the greatest of diet that you can ask for La Mina CAFO And
Kareem to humble alpha alpha one. So we've done our 34 minutes and
just to summarize, we talked about some of the most important
Thickers has when Allah when Mr. McKeon this is when you're
oppressed, La ilaha illa. Allah Subhana kinik consumerlab.me when
you're when you're in trouble, but you're the cause of your own
trouble. Okay. We talked about the meaning of Subhanallah and
Hamdulillah. Okay. And then we went and we went back a little to
the impetus, what is the impetus of the kicker is bad things
happening to us, and how we must receive the it's like power, a
power outage, right? A power outlet. You got power, bad
occurrences or power, there's power that comes with everything
bad that happens to you. But if you don't have an outlet, if your
outlet doesn't receive it, you don't know how to handle it. Okay,
you won't know how to handle it. So you need to understand how
great of an opportunity every bad happening is the incident in Syria
right now. Okay. There there are is so many bad things happening.
But the actual good things that are happening are innumerable.
Allah azza wa jal is never bringing a calamity on his own,
except that is for the favor of their afterlife, like a calamity
on one person. You could say yeah, maybe he did.
Maybe he deserved it. But when a calamity comes on an entire nation
like this, okay, then you have to know this is for the good of the
ummah. Because their deeds someone says, Okay, well why are the
Syrian people? Are they so good, right? Why is this happening to
them? What did they do? They didn't do some something that
great. You go to Syria, it's like any Arab country, there's
corruption, there's all sorts of bad things. How do you know? Well,
Allah azza wa jal doesn't cheat people by what they do. He has
mercy.
How do you know that some of their grandparents were not so good.
Allah made dua here they may drop for their grandkids. How do you
know that some of these grandparents looked at the
situation of colonization of the downfall of the Khilafah of the
death of scholars and said Oh Allah, what chance will my
grandchildren have right? What chance will they have there's no
kid anymore, the French are coming in, the British are coming in, the
TVs are coming in the schools are getting shut down. The scholars
are dying and those grandparents may die for their children. Okay,
and this is how Allah azza wa jal is giving them Paradise by making
this life of theirs. Okay, taking away their home in this life. You
think Allah takes your home away twice? He's gonna take away your
home in this life. You're gonna get something back. This is how
Alonso agenda saving these people whose grandparents were good, as
Allah tells us in the Quran for color from embed in colorful abou
Salah turboshaft. What? They had good people, but their grandkids
were bad. They couldn't keep it up. But if Allah azza wa jal still
wishes to have mercy on them. He pours on them trials and
tribulations. So that now he may be they were bad.
But it's very hard to be bad when you're homeless. So Allah cut
short their bad deeds, he cut short their bad deeds and caused
them to be traveling wandering the earth Europe, no one wants them
wherever they're going. Nobody wants them, right traveling the
earth. How what bad deeds can you do when you're wandering the earth
like a Syrian right now? Okay, SubhanAllah. So there's a lot of
good in this, okay. But you have to understand the afterlife. And
we also do understand that even though we know that there's good
doesn't mean we stop from helping them. Okay, so let's stop here.
And that's a summary of basic summary of the issue of diet we
covered a lot of other things hopefully you put them in your
notes, and we can
open it up right now for your questions and your answers.
Raise your hands
that's not better to raise your hand in general since the province
I send them was seen that he raised his hands in dot but he
never raised his hand and do it after Salah. So neither is it
something you're gonna get a sin for. It's not going to invalidate
your DUA nor is it going to be something sooner that you
shouldn't do.
Yep. Can you go into like the proper installation? How exactly
good question very good point.
When we deal with the unseen, it's very sometimes you don't know how
to deal with the unseen. Okay, you're speaking to someone unseen
to you.
There is firstly, there's only one limitation on dua ever, in terms
of
not what you say, but the nature of it. And that is of course, dua
in the bathroom, and vicar in the bathroom. That's the only
prohibition that you have.
Otherwise, other times we don't make dua is in ReCore
you don't make dua and record you make to spear in record, you can
make dua while standing you can make dua of course Institute and
while sitting but Akula is a time in which you don't make we don't
make dua we make to spear okay.
The Edit of dua is that any time
you make dua, your DUA is can is valid, but the greatest way to
make a proper Okay, is by beginning by thanking Allah
zoologia By recognizing and admitting our flaw, okay,
recognizing our meeting our flaws and our sins, and by recognizing
the one whom Allah loves, that is, say dinner Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam. So beginning by praising Alhamdulillah, and then
also
admitting our own shortcomings, okay? And dua can be in any
language. As for the inside the Salah, there's a difference of
opinion. And the majority hold that inside the prayer you should
only speak in the Arabic tongue and keep the rest in your heart.
Now what is important in the DUA is your weakness and you're
meekness in the Presence of Allah. You don't walk in front of to
Allah azza wa jal feeling self confident, haughty,
Do you know what you're doing? That Allah will say, if you're
that strong, go do it yourself. Okay? But Allah loves the one who
comes to Him with weakness, with fear with nervousness, that's how
you should approach the Kings. Okay? Allah is the king and he
doesn't want you to have to treat to be with him as if you're
another king. When you're out with the people, you should be
confident, right? You can go out be confident with the people don't
go into the court of the king. Okay? With anything you're nothing
the more you're nothing, the more you are something in his sight.
Okay, so the most important etiquettes are these etiquettes of
the meaning the etiquette of the heart as for the etiquettes of the
body where as we said the bathroom that are cool, okay.
Yeah, there the DUA is best best to be done while sitting down
facing the fibula.
And of course the best straw is in the suit. Okay, so there's some of
these etiquettes of Da know what do you never make dot for we are
not allowed to make dua against other people. Okay, we are not
allowed to make a dua Oh ALLAH burn him in the hellfire. Okay,
you don't do this. Okay, so someone says All right, so what
about the oppressors, tyrants and all these, you should make dua Oh
Allah stop them from their tyranny. Right? That's isn't that
enough? Okay. Oh Allah, compensate all the victims, and you can
Jonnie
take the draw from the prophesy send them if he made dua on
someone, take those words, but it's generally not the way of the
Muslims, that they're just making dua on people, but in some cases,
it's not wrong. And there are some cases where it is not wrong, okay?
To make draw on people, okay. And usually, that dot should be in
this world. So you don't want to say Oh, Allah put them in the
hellfire. Right, you would really would say Allah impoverished them.
Why? Because that would stop them from oppressing you or smite them?
Right, that will stop them from oppressing. Okay. That was for
example, there were some Sahaba Sahaba the 70 Sahaba the province
I sent him sent to a nudge to the east in Arabia to go and give
dower and some people from that tribe had come and asked for
teachers. So the Prophet said a lot 70 Then they betrayed them. As
they arrived halfway there, they surrounded them and killed them
all. So the Prophet can be very upset with them. extremely angry,
he made Knut for over 40 days pollut is another place of job
after the last little cool track record of your Salah is to stand
and make dua okay to make a DUA and that is Knut. That is for one
serious things happen, okay. And he may draw against them by name
in the prayer. Okay. But you know, this DA is a dua of in calamities
of this life that will stop them and punish them in this life. And
he did not make dua against their afterlife. Okay, so if we're going
to make a dua on people, you should have this in mind that your
DUA against them is to stop them from doing what they were doing.
Is there any other specific
things that you had in mind? Regarding the etiquettes?
Yes
it'd be a phrase a lot. Also salon the prophesy center admit your own
wrongs is very good, right?
Make yourself humble. Okay. And then and, and with salon, the
prophets I send them as well.
What's that? Oh, including others in your DA is one of the fastest
ways to get your da answer. Okay. There was one guy he said he was
in Mecca when I was in Mecca as a student seeking knowledge and
there was a kid who was just down and miserable. Okay. And this guy
though is making dua and thinker all the time. So then one of the
wise men he came up veteran in the religion, okay. He said, let's
hear your dog and he's he's making to Allah, this, this, this, this,
this this? He said, Okay, are you the only one in this universe?
You don't have a mom. You don't make dua for your mom. You just
from that Allah may not answer your dog. You know, you paid for
this trip of yours, right? Okay.
Your dad doesn't receive any da he paid for this thing, right? You're
here because of him. What about us teaching you none of us get da
only DA is received as you so you're a narcissist. Okay, so the
bet and then immediately as he started to make dua for others, he
looked saw as if a cloud came off of his chest, and he just became
happy again and just totally relaxed and happy. Because if you
want your dog to be an
Don't make it for everyone. Okay? If you want something in this
life, transform it into a service. Okay? There was one man, he said
to two students, they were seeking knowledge. One of them succeeded
the other, he failed. Okay, he failed. All right. And they said
the one who succeeded is because he kept saying, oh, like, if you
give me knowledge, I'm gonna pass it on. The other did it. He just
wanted knowledge for himself. Right? If you want something, if
you transform it into a service in your DUA, you'll get it. Oh Allah
give me this. If you give me this, I will give it to others. Right? I
will help others. Okay. I will help others. Okay. So this is one
fast track to your DUA, is to make your DUA about others. Because if
you can imagine, and of course, this doesn't exist, but if you can
imagine that there is a line of acute there is no such thing, that
there's a line of dot people's prayer being answered. Okay? If
your draw is for yourself, well, I mean, that's just one person. But
if you're making a dua for 100 people in the community,
right, and you're just you're one of them, okay, your draw is going
to be brought forward. Right? Because you're thinking about
others and that which is what we call with the idea that which goes
to others is far greater than that which is just for yourself.
Yeah,
it's outside of the prayers would you say?
If it is a vicar or a dua of the Sunnah learn the exact way the
prophets I sent him said, do not change a single letter. And we
know this because the prophesy Saddam gave Satan a special job
for her. I showed you Alana was firing.
Right she was firing in the province I sent him saw that she
needs a special job. And that dua is Oh ALLAH cool the fire of my
heart. Right? So she uttered it back to the prophets, I send them
but with a slightly different word, and he corrected it. He
said, No, don't use that word use this word. So if a dua is a sunnah
dua from the prophesy syndrome, you must take the effort out and
not be lazy and learn exactly how to say it in Arabic Tunc Okay, and
make that dua in Arabic as for all other matters, you can make dua
how you wish and it can be in the car in the bus while walking in
any moment. Don't over formalize the matter of so that you never do
it. Right? It's always that oh, I'm only going to make dua with
will do. Okay. In the My room on the rug with a candle, then you're
never going to do that right? It's not going to happen. Make dua like
people like normal people make when they're in trouble. No one we
waits. When you're in trouble, you make the on the spot. Sometimes
you speak it sometimes it's in your art. Sometimes you write it
down. Sometimes you say it in your language, sometimes not write
another line, whatever. That's how you make draw. Now. That brings up
another point. Do I for specific things must be qualified with the
statement? If it is good for my dean, and my dunya This is very
important, right? It's very important. Okay, so yeah, why?
Because Allah subhana wa Tada says wedd own internal biz, Shari da
Hoberg.
An individual makes dua asking for evil thinking it's good. Okay, you
will make dua for something because from our limited judgment,
we say it's good. But Allah knows it's evil. For us, it's not going
to have a good end. Okay. So, I mean, if a kid had wants, wouldn't
every kid like to have Skittles all the day? Right, but you know,
it's bad, right? He thinks it's good. Being You know, is bad. So,
our, the relation between our knowledge and a kid's knowledge,
okay? The relationship between our knowledge and allows is far
greater.
All right, a kid, a five year old kid will catch up to you and
knowledge in 10 years, right? He'll be 15 or Okay, let's say 20
years, you're equals, if there's a five year old, if you're all 20s,
right, you're 2021 Okay? You have a five year old nephew. And 20
years, your equals, okay? Your will be like 50 or 40. And he'll
be like, What 25 year equals pretty much 20 to 25. There's very
little difference, right? And the difference is between you and him
now is just experience, nothing that you've intrinsically
achieved. All right? Well, Allah azza wa jal, it can go another
1000 years, and will still be as Allah described, just like a
needle pricked into an ocean. That's our knowledge of all of
humanity and Allah's knowledge. Right. So, it's very fathomable
that we think something's good. In fact, it's very bad, right? And we
think something's bad and in fact, is very good. So Allah azza wa
jal, we're guided to say, grant me this if it is good for my
again and my dunya and for that there is a special Salah called
istikhara salatu istikhara maybe tofield and the brothers and and
who are in the email list can email that to everyone you must
learn this Salah and this Allah is done for every decision big or
small that you should make the Salah and if you make istikhara
okay you will not fail this is a promise to the prophets I send
them okay that if you make a staccato you will not feel
Estacada is to rock as followed by a specific DUA and you continue to
do this until when until you become truly firm in your resolve.
And even when you are firm, you continue to do it until the matter
becomes easy. Right? So it's Takata is not just when I haven't
made up my mind some people think that it's Takata is just when I
haven't made up my mind no is Takata is also to make the matter
more easy. Okay, because you say in the store Oh ALLAH if it's good
for me make it easy, right? If it's bad for me make it difficult.
So you continue to do the istikhara you can join between
sunnah and istikhara. So your method of sadhana is about or your
federal subpoena is so far is allowed to so you can continue to
do this until you're as firm in your resolve then you continue to
do it again until you the matter becomes easy for you. Okay, or the
opposite sometimes the matter starts closing up. Okay, starts
closing up then you know, you have to leave it it's not good for you.
Okay, so we should qualify our with the statement if it's good
for my DNA Yep.
Good Can you turn to kind of
you just continue to make us Takara and you continue to make
his Takara and if it continues to be bad, the doors closing then you
have to admit a loss like admit defeat put up the white flag,
okay. And let her marry someone else.
Okay, so this is basically high percentages Takata is used for
that right?
But
you continue to make use of auto but one of the things about it is
the beauty of this DA is that it says
and make me pleased with your choice. This is why this is so
important because it says all if it's good idea to not only make it
easy make me happy with it because you want to be happy at the end of
the day so and if it's bad okay make it difficult and make me
content without it so that's what yep
friends, and one of the things that was brought up
and one of the things that promises one was
to make up for his mother because she
died Muslim. But at the same time I went there to
direct Madden football because they should have been a
great mother even though he was a lot.
So, the question is,
are we like not
are we allowed
to the whatever weathers illusion,
in case of people who have converted them to make them up
with their parents, for example, or maybe their parents or their
family members.
Okay, assuming that you meaning here dead, deceased of them, so
firstly, you always your we make dua for anyone that you can make
dua for anyone,
except those whom Allah has already informed us is damned.
Like you're not going to have a draw for a bliss, for example,
right? Because he's already dead. And it's not appropriate, okay?
But you can make dua for anyone else. Now for the deceased,
someone who dies upon cover, we are not allowed to make dua for
them. This doesn't necessarily mean that their situation is
damaged forever. Because you don't know maybe they died about it. For
example, many people died before receiving the message of Islam. We
know that the ruling on them is that there'll be given their own
tests on your Muslim so they're some of them will go to heaven,
some will go to help, but we are still not allowed to make dua for
anyone who died outside of Islam. Okay, because if this was the
case, that firstly, there's we don't necessarily have a know why.
Some things in the religion there are two categories. One we call my
opponent manner rationally discernible, the other is to top
booty, which is we don't know why Allah told us to do so.
That's it. Okay, so everything that has to do with the other
worlds, the next world, the spirit spirit, realm of the spirit and
the afterlife is taboo. Like, who knows why it's five prayers a day,
not four. Not three. Why is the Ramadan special? Right? Why not?
We make solum in another month, right? so on so forth. Why is it
one out of 40? Why not? 10% or 5%? Okay, it's 2.5% fat, which has to
do with the other world? We don't know. All right, and we have to
have to walk off right? So this is one of them. The province I sent
him in the Quran came told us do not make dua for the those who die
outside of Islam. Maybe we can say the wisdom maybe is that so we
don't get attached to them. Maybe, look, if we see the whole Ummah is
making dua for kuffaar, then maybe there's no incentive to actually
do good, right. Right. If the whole thing about in the Haram in
Mecca in the 27th night of Ramadan, four or five, 3 million
people or however many million people are there making dua for
everyone, then I feel like there's not much incentive. Right? Allah
knows best, right? A lot of us best. But the issue is that we're
just told not to do so. Okay. It doesn't necessarily mean that
person is going to the hellfire, our daughter's not going to be
determining that. So but we're just not allowed to do so just in
the same way you're not allowed to marry them. Right? In this life.
Likewise, after their death, they're now to make dua for and
here's another thing. If he died outside Islam, he doesn't even
believe in your DUA. Right? So another thing, right whereas a
Muslim, he dies even he'd have dies upon major sins. He's
benefiting from your DUA in your grave in his grave.
Someone else can.
people misuse in sha Allah too much okay? In sha Allah, let me
just break it down. Make it very simple. If you use a command tense
verb in your sentence, then you say insha Allah afterwards, okay?
You didn't say for example, I was doing my own work in sha Allah.
Okay? You will for example, I'm going to call you tomorrow in sha
Allah, that's a command tense verb Simple as that the law says
assortative KEF.
Do not say that you will do something. Except that you also
say insha Allah so people
that's the only time you should use it. Right? May Allah give you
Tofik Hello, that's it. That's the end of the dot okay. I love give
you this, right? May Allah give you not Inshallah, right? You're
ready asking Allah azza wa jal, right.
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you say exactly. Yes. That can be in any language to
practice. Yeah. Because if you don't know how to express that in
Arabic, then you could say it in any language.
Arabic but then in that part, I would say that
was that?
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You've said
sometimes or alum Anika phone Kareem.
There's two narrations one with Kareem and one without getting
a full one. Kareem is good because you know, you want to be forgiven,
but also given, right? And if you add the word Kadeem, that Allah
will also grant you things and from the meaning of our food is
you do wrong, Allah wipes it away, he keeps treating you the same and
he keeps giving you more. And this is how life is for us. Like we
keep making mistakes, but Allah keeps giving us more. Was that a
hand up back there? Yeah.
Okay, so this question says, should we say we're going to
Jannah or should we say we're going to gender Inshallah, right?
Yeah,
no one I don't think should say we're going to jump. He should say
May Allah Anderson's agenda or get granted. That's what makes more
sense. So both those two people turned out to be ignorant. The one
is correcting the other and he's upon double ignorance. Okay.
because his statement made no sense either. So we yeah there was
say my alloga was Candice Jana?
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there are so long as the five prayers. Are you talking about any
prayer?
So with a person here, he doesn't know Arabic. So what do they do?
In the prayer? The official prayer right that begins with a low aquat
and ends with Salam aleikum. They will just learn a couple vicar
like La ilaha illallah and repeat that as long as you're praying
behind the Imam until they learn what's needed. And then outside
the prayer, they can make all their supplications Okay, and
whatever language that they know
and they could read the meanings of prophetic simplifications and
read those All right, all right, does that come along? Kara? Thank
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