Suhaib Webb – Lesson Three The Etiquettes of Worship

Welcome now to our 3rd gathering

discussing the book Al Kharidah Al Bahiyyah

talking about the sanitation of the soul. And

we noted that the first practice that we

want to start to engage in, and from

now on, try at least to say it

a 100 times a day as best you

can.

Muhammad Rasoolullah.

If you can only say

it's okay.

But if you open, you know, you wanna

completely open the door, try to add Muhammad

to it.

The sheikh, he

says, Right? The Sheikh, he says,

from.

So abundantly,

basically, abundantly engage

in the dhikr

of with etiquette.

Allah will raise you.

The sheikh, he uses the word edeb. We

know the word edeb means etiquette.

And in Islam, when it comes to acts

of worship,

we divide etiquette into 3 parts. You wanna

remember this. Number 1 is what's called al

kabbaliyah

before the act.

Number 2 is what's called al musahaba. Like

the word sahabi, right, is during the act.

So as I'm accompanying this act, what etiquettes

do I have?

And then finally, al Badiyyah

after the act. So after the act, what

do I do? So you'll remember this every

major act of worship.

Let's take salah. So before before salah of

course the etiquette

is going to be like state of wudu,

but also like I want to turn off

my phone. I wanna get in the state

of mind. I wanna limit my distractions. I

wanna prepare for salah. So the sahaba

before they would pray they would change colors

and people would ask them what's

wrong and they say you know who I'm

who I'm about to meet. Right? So creating

the sacred space in my mind and heart

to engage now salah.

And then of course during salah, I want

to think about

my, you know, attention in prayer, my in

prayer,

make sure that I'm observing.

Right?

Being devote to Allah

in salah,

that I'm performing it correctly also.

And then after salah, Allah says no Quran.

Like salah keeps a person from evil.

So here we look at this act of

salah. We see a kabariyah,

musahaba,

badiyah, before, during and after.

So in the sheikh, he says,

that, you know, increase

a

bundle

with Adab. Here he means before you say

it,

during

and after. And he's gonna talk about that.

Now he says, the first is the etiquette

that should happen before we engage in dhikr

and he mentions a few.

The first

is

so I should make sure that I'm in

a state of wudu if possible if possible.

It's not you have to but if if

possible.

And that the place around me is clean,

if possible.

The third

and that you go into this in a

state of hope.

Like you walk into this meeting with hope,

man.

So that you would you reach what you

need to achieve

and that your entirety is is put into

it. So you walk in and I walk

into it with a state of hope.

The third

and

that before also we repent to Allah

as much as we can. In any way

we can.

Whatever you need to say in whatever language,

but I I'm walking in with a clean

slate.

I've I've seen Allah's forgiveness. I've see I've

I've seeked Allah's forgiveness.

The next

is

and then we send peace and blessings upon

the prophet

because this is miftah.

Right? This opens the door,

with a beautiful relationship with Allah

and Allah commands us. So we are observing

the command.

The next one,

and if possible,

try to face the qibla because, of course,

there's so much barakah and blessing. It's the

best direction to face

and that you bring, you know,

yourself into this place, like, whether you're into

totally. Like, you're totally there.

So these are the etiquettes before,

we engage,

in dhikr. Next time we'll talk about the

etiquettes after or during, excuse me.

So these are the etiquettes that we say

during dhikr next time inshallah. We're going to

talk about the etiquettes we say during

and

towards the

end.

So these are the etiquettes that we say

before. Now let's move on and talk about

the etiquettes that we say during

remembrance of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. He says,

Now the sheikh, he talks about what are

the etiquettes that we should observe while we

are actually in a state of remembrance of

Allah. Number 1 is

that

that

that

we try to bring ourselves completely in the

presence of this situation.

So as I'm saying,

astaghfirullah

or la ilaha illallah, we're talking about here,

that meaning is is on the front of

my front of my thinking and I'm I'm

pondering and investing myself in

And I'm present. Allah says about the Quran

in That the Quran is a zikr. What

are the

that the Quran is a zikr. What are

the conditions of zikr? Number 1, My heart

is there. I'm not I'm not thinking about

this and that. My heart is present.

And if I'm saying it and you we

should make the zikr too loud or too

soft, should be in the middle voice that

I'm listening to it.

And that I'm present. Shaheed means

And actually if you think about it, Arabic

is really cool. It talks about the person

who's reading the Quran, they are shaheed on

themselves

as though they are they are witnesses

to the actual act. So be as though

you're a witness of what you do. It's

kinda cool. Right? So that you could describe

exactly what you've done perfectly.

So that's also here the idea is that

while I'm in the state of

As though I could describe everything I'm doing

because

I'm so invested

in the actual act. Very beautiful.

So inshallah next next time we're going to

move into the that we should say during

the actual act.