Tammam Alwan – Isha Khatira 19062021

Tammam Alwan
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We have a narration that comes to us

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and this is in the end of which

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he

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compiled and he added 2

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further a hadith or he added several a

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hadith to Imam Anawis

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where he says that Abdul Abdullah

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ibn Buser

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Radhiallahu Anhu

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he narrates that a man came to the

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prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.

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And he told him

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the rulings of Islam,

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these practices that you've taught us,

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they've become so much for us.

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And you can imagine he's maybe feeling a

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little bit overwhelmed at the moment.

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And he says, can you give can you

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give a door

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or a means of access?

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A way that we can basically hold on

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to, that we can cling on to that

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is comprehensive

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in nature, that is all encompassing in nature.

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And

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Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says in a hadith

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we all know very well. He said, let

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not your tongue cease

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from being moist

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from the remembrance of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

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Continue in the remembrance of Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala. And this wording is from imam,

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imam Ahmed Rahim, allahu wa ta'ala.

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As I was thinking about this hadith and

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reflecting upon it,

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I remembered an autobiographical

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story some

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books that I think we can derive a

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few lessons from about the impact of thikir

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and how we can actually make this a

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part of our lives and also teach this

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to our families.

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And we have a story from, Sahilub Nuh

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Abdullah H2 study, Rahimu Allah, that he narrates

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about himself.

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And he says, when I was 3 years

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old,

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he's a little kid,

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he said, I used to be with my

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my my maternal uncle, my mother's brother,

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and I used to wake up in the

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middle of the night and see him praying.

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And we can probably infer that he's referring

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to Tahajjud here.

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And you can imagine a little toddler kind

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of coming up and and coming underneath the

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blanket and and looking and curiosity. Why what

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is this person doing? Why is he getting

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up in the depths of the night? What

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is he up to?

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And his he says, my uncle asked me

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do you not remember

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Allah

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who created you?

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And he says, I asked him, how do

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I do that?

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And he told him, I want you to

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just contemplate

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about these three concepts here.

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He literally tells him in Arabic

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to say it

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with your heart and not with your tongue.

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And he says, Allah

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Allah is with me.

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Allah

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Allah is looking upon me. He's observing me.

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Allah

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is watching me.

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And he says, just just think about these

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words. Just think about them. And so he

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says, you know, I was a I was

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a little kid, and I would just wake

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up at night. I would just think, wow.

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Allah is with me. Like the ayah.

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He's with you wherever you are. Not literally,

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but in terms of knowledge. He's aware of

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everything you do. So I would be thinking

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about these. Wow. Allah is watching me. Allah

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is with me.

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He said, I went to my uncle and

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I told him, I've I've been really thinking

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about this. He said, now now do it

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consistently. Every night when you wake up, you

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see me praying. Just remember Allah and think

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about your relationship with Allah

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He said, I continue to do it.

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And then I went back to him and

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I told him, you know, Khali, I've been

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doing it.

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He said, increase it. He said, I increased

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it and then I told him that I've

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I've really been thinking about Allah. I've been

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remembering him regularly.

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Every single night he said, do not leave

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this until the grave. And it's a long

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story that he narrates but he basically says,

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I, you know, I became 6 and 7.

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I was sent to the Maktiv. I memorized

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the Quran.

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He said, thereafter,

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and this is the key point here, he

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said, my uncle took me aside.

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And he said, oh, Sahil, I have a

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question for you.

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Tell me about the person

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who Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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is always with him

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or with her.

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If

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Allah is with this person,

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and Allah is looking upon this person, and

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Allah is observing this person, and Allah is

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watching this person,

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Is this person going to do anything displeasing

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to Allah?

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He says that's where it hit him.

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And, you know, the lesson that I wanna

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drive from the story, obviously, you know, these

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words, they're not they're not words that I

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recommend any of us, you know, think about

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or contemplate.

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We have we have the Quran.

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We have the Hadith of Rasulullah Sallahu Alaihi

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Salam. And how many hadith of have come

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to us 1400 years later.

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And so on and so forth. But the

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lesson here is one child's journey, he says,

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as he grew up, as he became 12

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years old and he became more conscious of

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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and how it happened

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over time and how it wasn't necessarily

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words that are uttered. Because he was in

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a positive atmosphere in his home, because he

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had people who were worshiping Allah Subhanahu Wa

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Ta'ala, he was positively influenced by them. And

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so the reminder that I wanna remind myself

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and you all, as well of, but starting

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with myself is first of all to act

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upon the,

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to contemplate the, to not make it just

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words that we say

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but to really think about it and to

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let it penetrate our heart through regular and

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regular

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recitation of the

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and the that we have from the Quran.

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The second lesson that we derive from it

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is that sometimes we might not see the

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effect of prayer and regular salah and it

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just takes time until we feel its sweetness.

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As he says in the long narration, he

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said, I felt this halawah inside and until

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it begins to influence us positively. And 4th,

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that the ultimate,

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you know, influence of this

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is that it encourages us to do good

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and it prevents us from doing what is

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displeasing to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. We ask

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you,

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In this night when we've gathered in one

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of your houses after worshiping you, we ask

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you, To make us from adzakirin,

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wazakirat,

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from those who remember you. We ask you,

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Allah, to make us from those who remember

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you in the morning and in the evening.

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We ask you, Allah, to make us from

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those who remember you at night when others

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are sleeping. We ask you, you, Allah, to

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bless our family to also be people of

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remembrance,

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We ask you to fill our houses and

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our homes with. And we ask you, allah,

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to make this

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penetrate our hearts. We ask you to fill

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our hearts with remembrance of you,

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and we ask you Arab that this

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be a means for your to do what

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is pleasing to you and to avoid what

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is displeasing and that it be a means

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to protect us from the and to enter

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us into Jannah.

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