Taleem al Quran 2012 – P21 206C Tafsir Al-Ankabut 45

So in the salata den her Anil fascia II who will mancha that Salah prevents a person from indecent actions from immoral actions, from immoral words, inappropriate words, any wrong action because Salah has a great impact on a person's character, basically Salah it builds your connection with Allah subhanaw taala. Right. It increases your conviction in meeting Allah subhanaw taala it really establishes a strong bond between the servant and his Lord. And so whatever else the servant does in his life, then all of these feelings or all of these, you know good effects of Salah they begin to reflect in the rest of the life. Also, just think about it in Salah What do you do you bend, don't

you? You bend. So Salah teaches you that outside of Salah also you have to bend before your Lord because Salah creates humility. It forces you to leave things for the sake of Allah. So it teaches you a very important lesson you're made to practice this five times a day. In Salah, we remember Allah isn't it. And then outside of Salah also, a person develops the habit of remembering Allah. So basically Salah creates taqwa, it creates fear of Allah or consciousness of Allah consciousness of God in a person's heart.

And as a result, a person is prevented from doing wrong and immoral things. In a hadith which is Musa Dharma, we learn that a person came to the Prophet sallallahu sallam, and he said that so in so person, he prays in the night, and when it is morning, he commits theft.

You know, he actually wakes up for the Hadoop. And then when it's morning, he goes, and he does such wrong things. And the Prophet sallallahu sallam, he said that what he is saying will soon prevent him meaning if he actually this man, if he actually gets up in the night to pray the hygiene, then his Salah is going to prevent him from committing theft during the day also.

And so it happened, right, that when you really give importance to your Salah, then your Salah will force you to stop the wrong things which are still a part of your life. Because salah it makes sin heavy.

It doesn't let you enjoy sin, it doesn't let you enjoy wrong because how is it possible that you just pray your son I use this and I'm really gonna have to listen, I'm really gonna have to look but it's the for the last for the last half hour. And then you go in, you hit somebody, alright? Or you go and you yell at somebody, or you go and you do something seriously wrong. How is it possible? Not possible?

Right? And then how is it possible that you just have a fight with your husband or something and you're very rude with him and then you go and stand before Allah? You know with who sure really your heart your inner voice is going to rebuke you that what kind of person are you? How could you speak to somebody like that and then you come and stand before your Lord like this. So Salah is going to affect a person's character. It's going to affect a person's behavior. It's going to affect a person's relationships. It's definitely going to improve a person's spiritual life.

Think about it, Salah does it let you enjoy Halal

Salah does it let you enjoy halal?

Seriously.

Have you ever eaten fast because you have to pray?

Have you ever done that?

Have you ever sipped on your tea like really quickly because you have to go pray? Or have you ever left your tea because you have to pray and then when you come back your tea is cold? Has that ever happened?

Has it ever happened that you go to the mall and you really want to continue shopping but then you rush out of the mall because you have to pray?

Has it ever happened that you're watching you know a game? Everybody's really excited but it's a moment of time.

So you have to turn that off or you have to go somewhere else and pray you have to stop the game and pray you have to stop the movie and pray Have you ever done that? You have so Salah doesn't let you enjoy Halal even seriously. It doesn't. It teaches you that you prefer Salah over what is halal even and the prime example of sleep seriously you know when you're sleeping you're so comfortable. You know that? That sweet, sweet sleep that you're in

joying like when everything's perfect, your bed is perfect. Everything's nice and then you know it's time to pray. So is your sleep disturbed because of Salah it is so Salah doesn't let you fully enjoy Halal even do you think Salah is gonna let you enjoy? How long?

Is it going to let a person enjoy how long? No, it won't. And that this is exactly how the Sahaba were weaned off of alcohol. Or

Isn't this how the process began that they were told, don't pray when you are in the state of intoxication. So then what happened? The alcohol consumption it reduced because I have to pray five times a day, I have to pray I have to pray. So as a result, alcohol completely, you know, got out of their lives.

So many people have actually come across who have told me that they stopped listening to music very naturally.

very naturally, how that when Quran and Salah became a part of their lives. They didn't need to listen to music. I see some of you shaking your head. Yeah, of course. That's exactly how it is.

Right? Then you don't have to, you know, stop yourself very consciously. Your hand doesn't even go for that CD doesn't even go for that. Whatever it is, you're just not interested in it. Because why is it that that we turn to these things for a sense of fulfillment, isn't it but the Quran and Salah bring you such a sense of fulfillment that nothing else will. So in the Salah, that and her Arnall fascia, you will mancha once the Prophet sallallahu Sallam held two branches of a dried tree.

And what happened? The leaves they fell as it's ever happened these days especially right that you just touch in one branch and you just let it go. You pull it down and you let it go and so many leaves will fall to so many leaves fall and the Prophet sallallahu sallam said Indeed the Muslim servant performs the prayer desiring by Allah's face, and the sins fall off from him, just as the leaves fell off from this tree.

So Salah, what does it do? It removes previous sins and it also breaks the habit of the present sins that a person is committing. It breaks the habit. So in the salata turn her Anil fascia you will mancha wala Victrola he and surely the remembrance of Allah. It is a Kabbalah it is greatest. The remembrance of Allah is greatest meaning when a person continues to remember Allah

in the correct way, then what happens? It is the best when the vicar Allah He a kebab. Now what does this mean one of the crolla aqua, the vicar of Allah is indeed very, very great. How the vicar of Allah is a protection against, against che upon.

The vicar of Allah is protection against danger.

The vicar of Allah is protection against disease, whether that may be physical disease or spiritual disease, whatever it may be, it's a protection it's a shield.

When as the Corolla he, aqua,

the Dhikr of Allah is a strength when a person feels weak.

So over here, we have been advised to engage in the recitation of the book,

read the book, and then when you're done reading the Quran, then you get up and you pray. And then after you're done performing your prayer, then engage into the Quran. Allah keep your tongue moist with Allah's remembrance, then will grief overcome you if you do these three things.

Will your sadness consume you if you do these three things?

Well, it no one won't.

Will you feel broken by what you're going through in your life when you have these three things in your life? Will you think about giving up when you have these three things in your life, you won't have time to feel sad seriously. If you give time to tilava If you give time to Salah if you give time to liquor, honestly I'm telling you, you will not have time to grieve. You will not have time to sit with your sorrows. You will not have time to pity yourself. You won't. And this is the natural way of healing. This is how you heal yourself. Quran Salah Victor.

You know, recently there was this huge problem that I was

Stop problem, a very difficult thing that came that I had to deal with. And generally anything like you know, I like to discuss the issue with my mother. So instantly I message your mom I really need to talk to you.

And she said pray is the hara and then call me.

And I'm like, okay, so I did this the hara,

and then it is the hot again. And then, you know, of course, the whole time went in making dua and many days went, believe me. I actually discussed this matter with her a week after I messaged her. A whole week went by and when I spoke to her when I discussed with her, and Hamdulillah, I was very calm. I had clarity. I knew what I wanted to do what I didn't want to do. It was so clear that discussion was so productive. It wasn't like I'm like, Whoa, I'm so worried. I'm so sad. You tell me what to do. I'm so afraid. I'm so confused. No, I wasn't whining. I wasn't crying. She wasn't spending that time telling me it's okay to get better, you'll be fine. No, it was a very productive

discussion, in which we actually, you know, came to some conclusion, it was very helpful. Why because I had done is to Hara I had cried before Allah instead of crying before my mother, I had expressed my fears before Allah. Before I discussed with my mother, I'm not saying don't talk to your mothers and don't talk to your friends, talk to them, but who has the greatest right upon you?

Who? Allah subhanaw taala. Because who is it that can actually help? Who? Allah.

So really, bring Quran in your life, perform the salah properly, and busy yourself into the care of Allah, this is the best healing. This is the best way of dealing with any problem, any challenge, any difficulty that you're facing in your life. And so to learn couples, we've seen so many different kinds of difficulties that come in a person's way. So any problem you're facing, this is the prescription.

This is the prescription that Allah gave to His Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and this is the prescription that we need to benefit from also, what are the Kerala he Akbar? Why do you think the Prophet sallallahu Sallam he engaged in the vicar of Allah at all times? Then I shall throw on her say about him that he used to remember Allah all the time, everywhere, no matter where he was. All right. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, the comparison of the one who remembers Allah and the one who doesn't remember Allah is like that of the living and the dead. The one who remembers Allah.

He's alive. He's got a life.

And the one who doesn't remember Allah is dead. Sad, gloomy, depressed, failure. Yes. This is how it is. They kind of Allah brings life to you. It gives you motivation, it gives you hope. It gives you protection, it gives you strength. The Quran if you think about it, the recitation of the Quran that is the Vic, isn't it? Salah, that is also Vic, and then we're told well adequate, Allahu Akbar, that outside of Quran and Salah also engage in the Dhikr of Allah. So how is it that you strengthen yourself? How do you remain firm? How do you remain positive, this is a solution.

And also, remember that the Dhikr of Allah it is described as Akbar over here, its greatest, its greatest also, in the sense that it's one of the greatest blessings that a person could be given. The ability to remember Allah. If remembrance of Allah is made easy for a person, that he should really consider himself fortunate.

Because remembering Allah and not remembering Allah, there are two completely different ways of living. A person who remembers Allah, He is fortunate, and the person who is deprived from remembering Allah, then he is truly unfortunate. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, Should I not inform you of the best of your deed, and the purest of them with your master, meaning that deed which is best and purest near Allah subhanaw Varna and the highest of them in your ranks, and what is better for you than spending gold and silver

and better for you than meeting your enemy and striking their necks and is strike your next meeting any great deed that you can think of? This deed is better than that. And the Sahaba said, of course, and the Prophet sallallahu sallam said, The vicar, the remembrance of Allah. When the Corolla he Akbar, meaning Akbar it's the greatest deed

because no

The good deed also, when is it that it has value?

What is it that brings value to it? The remembrance of Allah. Like for example, if a person is performing salah, let's say he's just performed tender ACARA knuffel But that knuffel When he prayed, there was no remembrance of Allah in the heart, like about the hypocrites. We learn the Quran, while I read Quran, Allah, Allah, Allah Allah,

that they don't remember Allah in the Salah, except for very little, hardly they remember ALLAH, so that Salah even if it's 10 rakaat, how much reward is going to bring to a person as opposed to to recall that a person is performing less in quantity, but more they could have Allah? Isn't that vicar going to make the two dakara heavier, isn't it? When it comes to hedge when it comes to hedge even which kind of hedge is best that in which there is the most they could have Allah when it comes to fasting also, they could have Allah when it comes to recitation of the Quran, the Quran, Allah so Allah, they could Allah He, while the Quran Allah He, Akbar. You know, sometimes you're just sitting

and you're like, I need to do something. I need to do something. Because I didn't go anywhere. I didn't drive today. I didn't meet anybody. I've just been home all day. And then you're getting upset with everybody that I didn't get to have fun. You need to do something. What do you need to do?

They could have Allah, whether they could Allah He Akbar.

And it's the greatest why? Because as long as a person is remembering Allah, the person is being mentioned near Allah.

As long as a person is remembering Allah, the more he remembers Allah, the more protection he will have against the fire. In a hadith we learned that Murad bingeable On the lower angle, he said, There is nothing that brings more salvation from the punishment of Allah. Then the remembrance of Allah. What is it that protects us most from Allah's punishment?

What is the greatest shield against Allah as punishment, vicar of Allah,

vicar is what brings us Allah's mercy. It keeps us enveloped in Allah's mercy. And as long as a person is gifted with Rama, he is safe. He is safe against his own show, he is safe against the shadow of Chopin, the evil of people also.

So when a liquid Allahu Akbar, it's the greatest whether you can remember Allah alone, or you can remember him in a gathering, whether you remember him through the spear, or through the allele or through the Hamid any form of liquor on the tongue. And with the heart, well of the Corolla, he a Kabul Walla, Ahuja Alonso, Madison our own and Allah knows Madison our own whatever is it that you do, meaning no action of yours is hidden from Allah. So fear Allah and perform your prayers properly. Invest some time in the recitation of the Quran, invest some time in the remembrance of Allah.

Anything you'd like to say before we continue?

Stand up. Salaam aleikum. I just want to say that you know how you gave us three things in order to keep you out of grief. I think if a person is now used to reading Quran, during the current Salah at regular basis, this become hardest at the time of grief. So if we really want to get used to of coming out of grief, we have to get used to doing these things on regular basis. And also it's human nature. You know how you said, when you were in difficulty, you went to your mom and sister Jamila friend went to her. It's very important if in the end, we go to people, we go to people who connect you back to Allah again. So I was just, you know, thinking about this. Yes, very true. And what you

said earlier that if you're not in the habit of performing solids, and in times of grief, it's even more difficult. Right? But, you know, when you don't feel like praying when you don't feel like reciting Quran when you don't feel like doing liquor. That is when you have to kind of

force yourself, force yourself. You have to, it's like, taking that very, you know, bitter, horrible tasting medication. You don't want it, it's not fun, but you take it anyway.

Why? Because that is what will heal you.

I mean, our sin will make you stop from paying us like this harbor. If they're not awake up from Target, they will be thinking all day what we did wrong today, right? So that's why whenever we are not able to sell a property, they do the Salah the same day, and we have to think what did I do wrong today? So we have to seek a support and with that, we'll be reminding us okay, I'm doing something wrong, which is I'm not

focusing again

very true that where proper Salah will stop a person from sin

too much sin can stop a person from Salah also okay because notice over here it has been set up the masala established the salah and for your karma to Salah remember that it's not just performing the prayer like just reading it, it's about fulfilling all of the apparent conditions the law had conditions as well as the internal the Battlin conditions, the law hasn't a person has will do it facing the Qibla you know, your job, whatever clothing and then Battlin the inner matters also should be proper that a person is paying attention a person is performing with who he is performing for the sake of Allah, then this kind of Salah will have an impact on a person's life.

Right? So anytime you know any sin is becoming difficult for you to leave.

How do you leave it?

Work on your Salah. Perfect your Salah, improve your Salah when you will improve your Salah instantly the level of sin will go down.

Okay, the more weight you put in, you know wherever you put more weight that is what will have more impact in your life. When you pay attention to your Salah Salah will affect your life, when you're spending too much time doing wrong things that will prevent you from Salah. So it's a constant effort, basically, cycle. I just wanted to share how recitation can affect anybody. I had a supply teacher who was not a Muslim, but she'd heard on some of the Quran. And she loved it so much that she was able to memorize it just because she kept on reading the translation. And I'm even in class she started reciting it to me even though classes going on that didn't stop her because she was just

so moved by the Quran. That's very true that just the Arabic even that people don't know about. They have no clue what it is. I don't know if you've seen that video. Right? You know what I'm talking about. I don't want to take the name because you might think that I'm endorsing all of the videos, but there are many videos out there about this that you know, random people, you just play the Quran in front of them and they're really moved by it. They are very much affected by it. It's like it's not music. It's not spoken word. What is it?

It's very different. somebody raised their hand over here.

For some reason me and my kids was sitting in the inside the car. So you know there was an alarm was keep on going in over the car, right? somebody's car was touched by it. I know some of the alarms keep on so I made my kids you know, get terrified as such, there's something wrong right? And take off your seatbelt might really have to run honey. So if you take this and you know what my daughters they're still mama gophers, vicar. Do you know? So I didn't notice I said then after that, you know, I was may keep on telling them there's something wrong. There's something the boys were talking about? No, it's not a fire alarm. But you know, then they really got afraid. But no, Lena she said

Mama tell them to do Zika as well as the crow Llahi Akbar that really when you're feeling afraid or nervous, they could have Allah will just calm you.

One more thing other than the spiritual benefits of many benefits of Salah one of the physical benefit is that when you keep your eyes open, I recently read in Raghu and Sajida it shrinks your lens and it expands as well. So that you know when you call it in muscles in your eyes, it increases and then you your eyesight is you know increasing everyday when you do that. You know sometimes in such a dire i don't know if people keep their eyes open but to swim now to keep the eyes open. And one of the you know, there are many physical benefits as well. Definitely. So I'll be Miss Sana. All right, recitation.

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