Suhaib Webb – Treasures From The Sunna Part Five
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I hope everybody is doing amazing. I know
that
certainly been a, stressful
and indeed kind of mercuro week.
We ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to give
us the best Insha'Allah in this life. In
the next wa'alaikum, salaamu alhamdulillah. This is our
weekly gathering every Friday evening
around 11:30 Eastern Time. We're reading this
book called,
Al Muhtar
Min Kunus, As Sunnah and Abuya.
Some chosen
treasures from the sunnah of the Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam by a great, great scholar as
I mentioned before Doctor.
Muhammad
Abdullah Duraz who actually died in the early
fifties in Lahore, Pakistan. Although he's originally Egyptian,
he did his studies in Al Azhar in
Egypt, and then he studied also in France.
He wrote his PhD, his doctoral
thesis on
Akhlaq and the Quran, actually in the French
language, in French,
Avayur Hamu. And as I said many times
before, this is the summary of a summary
of a larger text. Right? The larger text
is like that big, like that whole shelf
of even Al Athir.
And then a Zebidi,
one of the great great scholars
summarized it in Tayesir Ulsul.
And then
now Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah Duras, Doctor Mohammed Abdullah
Duras summarized it in this book, mashallah. And
there's been a few people that have reached
out, hamdulillah, and offered to help keep up
with the notes and so on and so
forth. Maybe we can create a community Google
Doc
for this text, and people can add the
notes that they hear. That's gonna help me,
tremendously. May Allah bless you. Before we get
started,
you know, we lost a great scholar today
in Sudan,
Sheikh Noreen.
We ask Allah to
forgive him, to,
We pray that as Allah allowed us to
find joy in our hearts through his recitation
of the Quran,
that Allah will bring that same joy and
expanse
to his grave,
and to his family.
Also there have been a number of people
contacting me now who have COVID 19, who's
some of them are
are are our friends, some of our teachers,
Sheikh Abdul Samad,
who teaches at Swiss,
has COVID 19.
Keep him in your duas.
One of my family members today,
contacted us and let us know that he,
subhanAllah, has COVID 19.
Ask Allah to cure them, to protect them,
to bless them, and inshaAllah to make this
means of their forgiveness and inshaAllah to help
us as well. So now we reached the
the
3rd hadith,
in this series and I said this is
a course. So I really encourage you to
try to tune in every Friday to take
notes
and to follow along. This is a course
actually that we plan to teach at MySchoolSwiss,
in a much deeper way, But at the
same time there is always of course an
added dimension to the live element, Alhamdulillah.
And this hadith is from Sayyidina
Amr al Khattab radiAllahu Anhu and we know
that Sayna Amr radiAllahu Anhu
his name is of course, Amr al Khattab.
He was known as Al Farooq, right, the
one who distinguishes between truth and falsehood.
The second khulafa Ar Rashidin,
one of the people who participated in Badr,
one of the 10 people promised paradise
and in Sahih
Buhari
and Sahih Muslim he has about 38 hadith,
narrated from him.
He passed away in Medina around,
I think
23 years after the migration of the prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, and he was around 63
years old. And he's married,
excuse me, buried was called Dufina Bilhajuratil
Baqiyyah in Janatil Baqiyyah.
Actually excuse me, he's buried next
to the prophet next to Sayna Abu Bakr
Radiallahu Anhu.
This hadith from Sayna Amar, he says,
says that when,
revelation would come to the prophet
He says that we would we would hear
coming from emanating from the face of the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam towards his direction. Here
Sayyidunaa Amaruddin Khotab radiAllahu anhu
is describing
one of the most important moments in your
life and my life.
And that is that when the Quran was
revealed to Saydul Aqwan Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
centers the Quran
in our lives
as though it is oxygen
to the body.
He says
that we have sent down to you the
Rooh.
Rooh means the Quran,
the spirit.
And just as the ruh
just as the ruh
brings life
to us,
as Allah says,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala breathed life into Sayyidina
Adam,
that brings a physical life,
Allahu Akbar of the Quran
and the sunnah of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam,
they bring us
a faith based
life.
When people ask me my iman is down
or my iman is weak, and I go
to the Quran.
Right? Spend time alone with the Quran.
Some people sometimes they say like I feel
like my heart is dying. That's out of
their humility Mashaal, that's a beautiful person.
For someone to be that vulnerable and that
honest is much better than someone who's arrogant
and never looks into themselves.
You know Al Busti,
the great Afghan,
Are you looking for a prophet in something
that was built to be broken?
Turn to your heart
and manifest its noble qualities.
Allah, he said because it's by
your soul that you are a person, not
your body.
SubhanAllah.
So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala centers the Quran
as oxygen for the heart,
And none of us should be too scared
of the Quran to have a relationship with
it. That's from Shaitan.
Shaitan is gonna come to you and tell
you like, you know what you were doing,
you know who you are. When did when
did Shaitan become someone who like, is using
evil
to make us feel bad? When he's the
one,
he's the one who calls us to evil.
This is a game of shayta.
You know that you were doing this, you
were talking to this person, you know, whatever.
You were engaged in this kind of conversation.
You were, you know, at some place with
your friends that you shouldn't have be with.
You were you were mean to your parents.
Whatever. Right? Shaitan comes at you.
And he says to you,
Yani, you don't have an you're not good
enough
to have a relationship with the Quran.
But SubhanAllah, if you weren't good enough to
have a relationship with the Quran,
why would the one
who sent the Quran
cause you to long for a relationship with
the Quran?
And that's how you trust Allah's plan for
you,
SubhanAllah.
That's why SubhanAllah
they said the verse
When the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam became despondent,
we're gonna talk about this in the future,
when revelation stopped for a while, he became
despondent
because he wanted Quran.
He wanted the Quran. He longed for the
Quran.
And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says
in the 8th chapter of the Quran,
after
Answer Allah and his messenger when they call
you to what resuscitates you.
What brings you life?
This is the Quran
and the sunnah say.
So I want all of you listening.
This week, I need one thing from you.
I need you to focus on the 6th
chapter of the Quran.
Just focus on it. Spend this week.
Be with the 6th chapter of the Quran.
Just let it let it let it flow
through you. And the next week insha Allah
after our
gathering here, we'll meet in a Facebook room,
myself and all of you, and we can
talk about what you were able to extract
from the 6th chapter of the Quran. Like
tonight, start that relationship with the Quran, man.
Don't don't don't feel like you're not good
enough. I don't speak out of me. My
parents speak out of me. I'm not a
good person. My family was really good. I'm
man, we all have our ups and downs.
It's okay. It's part of life, man. Don't
let that stuff destroy you. My teacher used
to say, don't let sins destroy you twice.
The first way that sin destroys us is
we fall into sin. The second way that
sin destroys us is we allow the sin
to keep us from being better. Right? So
the sin now haunts us after we've fallen
into sin, we've repented to Allah, we're struggling
to do our best, the sin won't leave
you alone, so now the sin is able
to extend its life.
La khalas
Resuscitate your iman with Quran.
SubhanAllah.
It's very important, you know.
And if you doubt yourself,
remember this, how many of you today in
the chat you read Surat Al Fatiha?
How many of you today at least once
you read or recite a Surat Al Fatiha?
How many people? I'm sure like
everybody will say insha'Allah,
I I did. I read fatiha. I read
fatiha. You know what that means?
That means something so powerful
because the word Fatiha actually means almaftuah,
what was opened for you.
Meaning you didn't open the opportunity to read
this chapter,
Allah Azzawajal
opened it for you so you could enter.
SubhanAllah. That's why the correct translation of Al
Fatiha is not the opener, it's what's opened.
Who opened it for you? When you said,
who opened
that moment for you.
So that means Allah
Allah is so close,
so loving,
so caring
that every time you read Al Fatiha, you
should find the confidence that Allah, no matter
who I am,
has opened the door for me.
Are you gonna step in?
Am I going to step in?
That means bravery.
So he
says
That when revelation will come to sayna Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, we would hear the
the buzzing of bees
coming from
his direction.
He said and then one day
there was
revelation descent upon him,
alayhi salatu salam. And we stayed.
And here we learn something about the discipline
of the Sahaba.
We find that also in the famous hadith
of Jibreel.
Right? When Jibreel comes to Sayna Muhammad Sallallahu
Alaihi Wa Salamani ask him those questions about
Islam, Iman and Ihsan
And Sayyidina Umar says, Farabi's to Malihyan.
Right? Sayyidina Umar says after he left,
I stayed and I stayed quiet. Here again,
from Makathna,
we stayed and we were quiet. Look at
look at the discipline of the Sahaba.
And this is the beauty of studying hadith.
That the Hadith in in in in Mecca
and in Medina, you find people there a
little wild. Right? But as you get later
and later into the Mecca Medina period, you
start to see the discipline of the community,
the adeb
of the community,
the the confidence of the community. Unlike sometimes
if you get around a religious teacher,
and the more you're around him or her,
the less confident you feel. This is not
what happened with the Sahaba.
The Sahaba was suhara. They were weak.
Says you were nothing.
Nobody respected you.
And then we blessed you and we sent
a prophet to you.
And then you became strong enough as a
community
that you stood on your own. The opposite
of the people around the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam,
they experienced,
growth.
And they found their bearings and their confidence
in a healthy way.
He said, and then then then we we
we we we we we we set for
some time and we didn't say anything.
And then the prophet
he turned towards the Al Qibla, and he
raised his hands. Man, can you imagine
being in that situation
when the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
would be making dua in front of you?
You Allah.
He says,
and here we learn the adab of dua.
If possible,
it's recommended to face
and then he raised his hands.
This is somewhat of a controversial issue, unfortunately.
And last week, I provided you a a
a a scholarly grammar
for navigating seemingly contradictory texts.
Some of you may remember this, called it
a ta'arud.
You find it in the end of the
chapters in the books of Oso Lefebvre,
which we teach at my school.
Means where there seems to be opposition,
contradictions.
And we know that there is the famous
hadith of Anasib Nurmagick
who said
that the prophet never raised his hands
in du'a unless it was unless
it was for the prayers of rain,
the the the prayer for rain.
Some people, they read that, and they thought,
oh, so this means it's a bida. And
this is where we need to be very
careful about the word bida and the the
misusage of the word giddah.
Some people out of their piety and their
love and their passion for the sunnah of
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and their
dedication to Sayyidina Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
maybe accidentally
or
inadvertently they are utilizing terms for which they
don't understand the meaning. The word bida is
from bada'a. Bada'a means to come from nothing.
As for Allahu
His name is Al Badia.
Badia
the one who caused the heavens and the
earth to come from nothing.
So the word Bida means something
something which has no foundation indeed.
Here we see foundations.
The hadith of the prophet
here Sayyidina Amun Khattab says that the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he lifted his hands and made dua. This
is not bidah these people have evidence.
Also the hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam that Allah is the noble and
the generous and
he is shy
When somebody raises their hands and dua to
say no to them, there's other evidences.
So we have the hadith of Sayyidina Anas
radiAllahu anhu and then we have a number
of ahadith
that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he
raised his hands in dua. For example, the
hadith of Sayyidina
Abu Hurayrah RadiAllahu
Anhu. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said
This man that was traveling, he was tired,
disheveled, he was fast, he had not eaten
any.
And he raised his hands as if to
say all of these things
are things that bring about the barakah of
the acceptance of the dua. That he was
traveling,
that he was someone who was
poor, that he was someone who was disheveled,
that he was going through a hard time,
that he was hungry and he raised and
lifted his hands in dua.
All this shows that these are things which
lead to the the the acceptance of dua.
So what do we do? We have the
hadith of Sayyidina Anas ibn Malik radhiallahu anhu
which is related by Bukhari.
But subhanAllah, if you look in Sahih al
Jameh or jameh as Sahih al Bukhari, you
find that there are chapter actually 2, the
chapter on raising your hands in du'a, and
then within a subsection
on raising your hands in du'a. So obviously,
Imam al Bukhari knows what's going on.
Most ulama said unfortunately that people confuse
the hadith of the antisypneumatic
and think that it applies to all situations
where it doesn't.
Secondly, the anti hypnotic at the end of
this narration says until we could see his
armpits.
So most ulama, they say what this means
is
that Right? That the person like lifted their
hands like that to where you could see
their underarms.
This only happened in the dua of this
tisqa.
As for other dua like this, we have
so many ahadith,
authentic ahadith of the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam that say he lifted and
raised his hands in Dua or that we
should raise our hands in Dua. Many of
those hadith are Sahih,
so we just should not say this is
Bida, we should say this is an issue
people that differ over. Okay, kalos.
Like you don't have to make it a
big issue, but be careful if you call
something bida
and there is a hadith or an action,
then you are
irresponsibly
using the term.
That's why one of our teachers Masha'Allah,
he used to say, before you can say
Bida, you have to do incredible research,
Right? And you have to make sure that
your your research is solid.
So say, you do not umar Abu Luqhatah
who says
At the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he
faced the qiblah and he raised his hands.
We learned something else also from this hadith,
how the Sahaba love the Prophet Sallallahu
alaihi wasallam.
How they are
extremely,
extremely,
extremely
focused
and precise in their description of the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And if you wanna continue that we offer
here at Swiss a free class every Sunday
night, Masha'Allah,
on the Shamail,
which is a book collected by Sayna Atir
Midi, RadiAllahu Anhu,
on all of the qualities of the Prophet
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What an opportunity to learn
about the the qualities of the prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
Then he says
and here we wanna learn this du'a. So
tonight our assignment InshaAllah for those of you
who are seriously taking this class is to
learn this du'a. And I'm gonna teach this
dua throughout the week on Instagram as well
as TikTok, Insha'Allah,
Insha'Allah.
And this dua
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said after he
faced Iqiblah,
after revelation came to him, he faced Iqiblah,
he raised his blessed hands,
salallahu alaihi wa sallam. Sayyidina Anas said the
Prophet's hands used to smell better than musk,
salallahu alaihi wa sallam and suleim and Sahih
Buhari used to collect the sweat
from the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam for
the barakah and because his sweat, masha'Allah,
smelled like musk.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam alaihi after
salat was salam
or taslim. He he he turned to the
Qibla
and he made this dua,
Allahumma.
Allahumma is when you call on Allah by
all his names. That's why it has a
meme at the end of There's a difference
of opinion.
Some Alama said the meme means Yeah, You
Allah.
They said, meem is usually used for plural,
like if you say, you,
you, plural.
One whom they. The meme oftentimes is used
to signify Al Jama. K. A harmful meme.
Right? The letter mim often means like a
plural.
So when the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
says Allahumma,
and when you say
Allahumma,
it is though you are calling on Allah
Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala
by all his infinite name attributes.
SubhanAllah.
So the Prophet says, Allahumma,
here's the dua, if someone can write it
in the chat, it's gonna help people, man.
You can write Arabic or the transliteration.
Oh, Allah
us and don't decrease us.
SubhanAllah the Ulema,
They discussed this du'a
because if you if you have a little
bit of an Arabic background,
you probably noticed that there's no object Allahumazidna
what? What? Like,
oh, Allah increase us. Increase us in what?
Don't decrease us. Decrease us in what?
And this is something that's beautiful in the
Arabic language that oftentimes the object is hidden.
And to prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and
to prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he left
the object as if to say oh Allah
increase us in all good in this life
and the next.
As though he is saying
Oh, Allah, give us good in this life
and the next. So Allahum Azidna
increase us in everything.
And don't decrease us in in all the
good.
Other ulama, they said no. No. No. There's
only one thing after iman
that fits the form of this dua.
And it is the only thing that the
prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam was commanded
to ask an increase in.
That's the only thing subhanallah
that say the Muhammad salallahu alaihi wasallam was
commanded in the Quran to seek an increase
in.
Does anyone know?
Whoever guesses, I'm gonna give you a free
scholarship to Swiss.
Whoever that one person that guesses correctly, what
is this du'a? What is he asking an
increase for? I will give you a free
lifetime scholarship to my school.
Whoever guesses it. Let's see, miss Mila. We're
gonna take a few seconds. Who's gonna guess
it? Who can guess when the prophet says,
oh Allah increase us and don't decrease us.
What do you think he's referring to?
Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam. Does anyone know? Masha'Allah,
Masha'Allah.
Anyone can guess?
See some people trying.
According to most Ulama,
the only thing that the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Was Salam and Masha'Allah
we see
sister,
Nusayba
Ahmed.
She has earned
a lifetime scholarship
to Swiss
Allahu Akbar
because she guessed correctly, alhamdulillah.
And also,
Masha'Allah.
Oh, Allah increases in knowledge.
Oh, this is our ummah. Like, this is
how beautiful you are as a community.
People trying to throw shade on us. Look
how y'all this this nonsense happened to now.
You know, that's what we see in front
of us.
Oh, Allah increase us in knowledge.
And do not take away our knowledge.
Subhanallah. Subhanallah.
The only thing that the prophet has commanded
to ask an increase in is what?
This is our Ummah, man. We're an Ummah
of knowledge.
So make sure that you do good in
school, man.
Make do that you make sure that you
kill in your, you know, metaphorically that you
slay in your university studies. Understand that your
knowledge that you learn
and how well you do in school as
well as your religious education,
the stuff will come back to help you
in life and help others.
And honor us and don't dishonor us.
If you understand in Arabic and rhetoric, this
is called
prophet is using the opposites, increase, decrease,
honor,
don't dishonor.
Honor us with taqwa because Allah says in
the Quran
That the most honorable people to Allah are
the people of Taqwa. How do we achieve
Taqwa? Through worship.
That's it.
It's not complicated.
By serving our parents,
by being good husbands,
by being good wives,
by being good neighbors,
by being responsible citizens.
Oh, that is
to leave sin, to leave evil.
And don't allow us
to be debased by falling into disobedience.
And give us and don't prohibit us.
Give us Jannah
and don't prohibit us
from Jannah.
And choose us and prefer us with your
faggot
and don't choose anyone over us Subhanahu
and make us content with you
and be content with us.
So this du'a is the du'a
I want everyone to try to learn
over this week if you can, and I'm
gonna teach it InshaAllah on Instagram and other
social media outlets.
Oh Allah, increase us and do not decrease
us. Honor us and don't debate debate us.
Give us and don't prohibit us. Make us
content and be pleased with us.
Because what here you learn something very beautiful
in this Dua as we finish tonight.
I know it's power time goes quick, man.
Number 1 is that the first thing he
asked for is knowledge.
Then after knowledge, he asked for action because
knowledge comes before taqwa.
And then what should Taqwa lead to?
Taqwa should lead to Jannah.
And then after Jannah, he asked for something
which we hold as even greater than Jannah
and this is the Ridwan of Allah.
Quran says the Radwan of Allah is the
greatest thing.
So
in this dua also is the methodology of
personal growth and tarbia.
I should learn first,
learning should lead to taqwa. What is taqwa?
To avoid sin and evil and to increase
my obedience.
What should that lead to Insha'Allah
working for Jannah.
What should that lead to?
Radwan of Allah
Subhanahu wa ta'ala. This Hadith Alhamdulillah and a
summit and a qat, I read the sunnah
of Sayyidat Tirmidhi to more than 10 Shirk
Alhamdulillah.
This hadith
I relate this hadith Alhamdulillah with the sunnad
back to Sayna Imam Atirmidhi,
back to Sayna Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam, and this hadith alhamdulillah is
a good hadith from Sayna Tirmidhi.
Also, there is a point to make that
most ulama in du'a allowed hadith.
Only a minority said you can't use hadith
in
in du'a.
The only area where scholars were concerned about
hadith, da'if is number 1 if it's extremely
da'if as mentioned by Sayna Imam Ibn Hajar.
Number 2 if it's dealing with issues of
fiqh, and of course number 3 if it's
dealing with issues of aqeedah. So Amadwa
most ulama were actually very very relaxed on
this issue, Only a small minority alhamdulillah,
and they also have their reasons. So we
don't need to make big issues of dua.
But this Hadith Alhamdulillah is a good Hadith,
So he
says,
and it's good when you ask also like
hey, where's the source of this? That's a
good thing Mashallah,
always ask for sources mashallah.
What's the dua?
Oh Allah,
increase us and don't decrease
us. Honor us
and don't debase us.
Us.
And give us and don't prohibit us.
And prefer us and don't prefer others over
us.
And be pleased with us,
and let us be pleased and content with
you.
Then Sayyidina Umar as we finish tonight he
says,
then the prophet turned to them
and he said
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said to
them,
reveal to me at this moment
were 10 verses. Whoever
scaffolds them and establishes
them in their life
will enter Jannah.
You Allah.
Ten verses?
Only 10 verses of the Quran?
How many of us we got more than
10 pairs of shoes?
How many of us we got more than
10 games in the crib? How many of
us we got more than 10 colors of
eyeliner?
How many of us we got more than
10 colors and certain kind of clothes?
Ten verses is all we need to learn
and then establish them in our life
and weaken it to Jannah.
That's it.
That's it.
Whoever whoever establishes these these ten verses
will enter Jannah.
What are those verses?
Surat Al Mu'minun.
Allah, Allah.
The first ten verses of * Mu'minun. Next
week inshallahu
ta'ala,
we're going to continue and read the opening
of * Mu'minun.
But remember this,
the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he said
Whoever
whoever
when when Allah created
Jannah,
he said to paradise,
speak.
And paradise said,
successful are the believers.
This verse, SubhanAllah.
So over the next week, Insha'Allah,
I'm going to be explaining the dua.
Right? This dua. And then also I will
be explaining
the first ten verses of Sultanul Qi.
At the prophet
said,
And next week Insha'Allah we'll continue with our
discussion
on the book of Al Mukhtar,
Min Kanuz,
Sunnah and Nabawiyah of the great scholar and
Sheikh
Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah Duraaz rahimohullah.
This book deals specifically
with the issues of Iman.
If you have any questions,
I'm happy to take any questions if you
have them now.
If not,
Again, we run a school, online school called
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If you have any questions inshallah,
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you have,
if not, Insha'Allah we'll be back next week,
Insha'Allah around the same time,
to go over Insha'Allah the Hadith
and build on the discussions that we're able
to engage in tonight.
Can we become best friends with non muslims?
Absolutely.
If those non muslims are righteous people, it'd
be better to be friends with a non
muslim who is good than a Muslim who
is bad. Right? A Muslim that's bad, sometimes
we let our guard down around Muslims. And
we shouldn't confuse the verses of
Quran. Don't take the Jews and Christians. The
translation is wrong. It doesn't say Right? It
says
are people that you use to fight against
other Muslims. Does your program have Arabic spoken
material? We don't teach in Arabic but we
have classes on the Arabic language.
But we teach our ours as an English
medium because the the the community that we
serve across the globe,
is primarily an Arabic speak, English speaking community.
I do have private Arabic classes with some
people and I'll get out,
with some people, but but for the most
part, our classes are in English, InshaAllah.
See some peeps from Malaysia here at Termaqasse.
Any other questions,
ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to bless you,
to raise you, to increase you, to protect
you,
to uplift you and to make you Insha'Allah
from the Salihin.
Here's a question from someone, if the religion
is mercy then why are religious people not
merciful to the weak believers? I know people
holding on by a thread and pious representative
of God saying they're going to *. Yeah,
I mean that's a problem, right?
We really need to at least within the
American context, we see it by Clairemont doing
something that we're trying to do with Swiss.
We need to teach people how to minister
to other people. Religious knowledge is not a
a a license to
be
to expect that people serve you. Religious knowledge
is the responsibility
now that you have to serve people.
And I like to tell people that you
you cannot
be an imam or sheikh or teacher
unless you love the Muslims and you love
people.
It's like a component, like, you know,
so I it's unfortunate, and I think we
have to create programs that allow people to
kind of come through a post traumatic stress
religious syndrome,
when they've been mistreated and we
ask
Allah May Allah make it easier.
So someone's ask someone's saying that you mentioned
there would be I didn't actually say small
sin, I said there's a sin. No matter
who you vote for, there will be sin.
And that's because and this is in the
hope that I just now posted on on
YouTube
that it's impossible to escape sin. As human
beings, we have to sin. And we know
that the Biden platform, we should be under
no delusion
that Joe Biden is not a prophet.
Right? Joe Biden does not have ISMA,
and there are components of his platform that
we find as sinful. At the same time,
in voting for Joe Biden,
there's acts of obedience.
So the point here is that we have
to be much more nuanced to what we
see unfortunately in attempts at,
American Muslim political theology.
Is that either a complete rejection
of politics
in the name of leaving sin, or a
complete rejection of religion to gain political efficacy.
What I'm talking about is that religion actually
provides us a language that allows us to
realize that there are times that we may
have to engage
in navigating good and evil or evil and
evil
and choosing
certain types of evil over others because in
that situation, that evil becomes good,
but it's still evil.
And what that means is we have to
work.
We cannot stop if Biden wins the presidency,
which it appears he's going to do. That
does not mean that we've entered Jannah.
But what that means is that we have
to continue the great work
we as a faith community have responsibility of
upholding.
That's
the brevity of kind of
Any other questions inshallah, everybody's doing well, alhamdulillah.
So we have a du'a request from not
men saying please make dua for me and
my family, we are facing many problems and
violence.
And can you tell me any dua? So
we mentioned dua just now Naaman, and you
can watch it afterwards inshaAllah, but I just
thought it's very good.
And may Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala bless you
and increase you in Nahman and protect everyone.
Make dua for Nahman and his family.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala bless them and
raise them
and protect you from violence, men.
And we, alhamdulillah, your brothers and sisters here,
InshaAllah, we all make
Any other questions, Insha'Allah.
We have also people joining on Facebook and
YouTube. There's quite a few people here,
How can I increase Khushur and Salah? We're
gonna talk about that next week Insha'Allah.
There's a question coming in from a mother.
I have a son who is 11. He
was practicing praying 3 times a day, but
recently I noticed he felt burdened to fulfill
this. I told him if you're not ready,
you can start during puberty.
Yeah. Right? We all have young children. We
know that young children is really the ability
to balance,
right, between,
you know, wanting them to feel excited about
religion and and being concerned that we're gonna
overbear overbear
them. I think it sounds like you're doing
a great job, and we pray for you
as a mother
that you gotta work it in slow. Right?
And and parenting is about the long game,
not the short game.
I've seen a lot of parents who really
try to push everything on their child, and
the more they push, the more they push
the child away. I've seen parents that are
overly relaxed
and lose their children to to the dunya,
and then I've seen those parents that are
kind of in the middle. Right? That balance
between
when to be
strict on things and when to be more
understanding. And those are the parents that I've
seen,
by the grace of Allah tend to do
a great job. How can we obey our
parents? That depends on the situation. Right? But
you wanna support them, serve them. Parents don't
have the right to to destroy your life
or ruin your life or overrule things, but
at the same time they have a great
barak and great,
right
of khidma
in service to us, Alhamdulillah. We'll talk about
parents is coming up by the way soon
Insha'Allah.
Are we allowed to make dua in sujood,
in our own language, in Fard prayer? The
strong opinion is no, In the Fard prayer,
no.
In the nafil prayer we have a difference
of opinion. My
my my strong
advice is to learn some basic prayers in
Arabic that are very general
and and say them in Khushua, in sujood
with Khushua, and then,
afterwards you can pray, in English, but the
strong opinion. I know I know there's a
lot of things out there. I respect those
opinions. I'm by no means,
you're asking me my opinion. Right? So that
doesn't mean that those people are wrong. I
respect them,
and I hold that their opinion is is
very important,
but I feel it's safer,
to learn, you know, those duas for sujood
and Arabic.
He became,
How do I memorize Quran without forgetting?
I memorized the school in New York City,
but we
memorize 1 page a week. Can I memorize
just amma and tawarak also one at a
time? So the best way that I can
tell someone to memorize the Quran is to
to memorize 5 verses at a time if
they're relatively
not too long verses. Right?
If they're relatively
short verses,
5 verses at a time,
Whoever memorizes 5, they never forget them. And
then what I used to do is I
would memorize those 5 verses and then I
would pray the whole day with those 5
verses, so
and the next day my sunnah for Fajr,
I would read those 5 verses.
So I know if I woke up and
I had those 5 verses, then it was
done, Alhamdulillah, then you move on, then you
move on.
Is the date of the Prophet was certainty
depends by how you define certainty. The majority
of the Ulla majemunu Ulla Rama, they said
this is the birthday of the Prophet was
Rabi Al Awwal. We don't need to fight
over the birthday of the Prophet, we are
a community is being destroyed. We don't own
our resources. We have dictators, we're being destroyed
and ripped to pieces. We're being droned.
We have members in our community being held
in jails without being on trial, and we
are arguing about the birthday of the prophet
What does it tell you?
We have young women in our community that
live in abusive relationships.
We have youth who are dealing with drugs.
We have young people that are struggling to
understand Allah, and we we find the time
to argue about when the prophet's birthday was.
Nah, man. There's bigger issues.
There's bigger issues. And what people are arguing
about stuff like this is because they're online.
They're not on life.
But we have to be concerned with the
needs of people, man.
May Allah cure your father and bless him.
We'll take inshallah. One more question. Yes. Someone
is saying, can you please make dua for
my father? He is diagnosed. You Allah. I'm
so sorry.
Khunah, Hassan
or Hassan,
his father has been diagnosed with cancer. We
ask Allah to cure
Abar Hassan.
We ask Allah to cure him, to bless
him, and to increase
him. InshaAllah 2 weeks from now, not this
week, we're going to do another Instagram
question,
only dedicated to issues of the deceased.
So what happens with death, what happens after
death, how you can help people who have
died,
what goes on with people who have died,
and all of those kind of issues. InshaAllah,
we'll start that in 2 weeks. Barakala feekum,
tizakamalahu
khairan.
May Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la bless all of
you and increase you. Remember, don't get caught
up in fighting over little side issues. We
are an Ummah which is being decimated.
And we should not have the time and
the bandwidth to fight over secondary issues and
be at the service of others.