Waleed Basyouni – When The Dua Was Instantly Answered
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The speakers discuss the importance of praying to Islam and connecting their heart to it to connect with their gods. They stress the need to be a good role model for their children, particularly in marriage, and to invest in their children. The importance of fear and hope in deeds and humility in achieving good deeds is emphasized, along with the need to pray for one's family and community. The speakers also mention upcoming events and a deadline for voting.
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Inna alhamdulillahi wa nasta'aynuhu wa nastaghdeehu wa
nastaghfiruhu wa na'udhu billahi min shururi anfusina
wa min sayyiati a'malina man yahdihi allahu falaa
mudhilla lahu wa man yudhlin falaa hadiya lah
wa ashhadu an la ilaha illallah wahdahu la
sharika lah wa ashhadu anna muhammadan abduhu wa
rasuluh Allahumma salli wa sallim wa barik ala
nabiyina muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa
sallim allahumma tasliman kathira amma ba'd All praise
due to Allah and his praise and blessings
and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam his family, his companions and
his followers until the day of judgment I
bear witness that Allah is the only one
worthy of worship and Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam his last and final messenger Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala says in surah al-anbiya
وزكريا إذ نادى ربه رب لا تذرني فردا
وأنت خير الوارثين فاستجبنا له ووهبنا
له يحيا وأصلحنا له زوجة إنهم كانوا يسارعون
في الخيرات ويدعوننا رغبا ورهبا وكانوا لنا
خاشعين When Zakariya cried out, prayed to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala Oh my Lord, do
not leave me childless لا تذرني فردا وأنت
خير الوارثين You are the best of successors
Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says فاستجبنا
We right away responded to him Answered his
call And we gave him Yahya, John And
amended for him his wife وأصلحنا له زوجة
إنهم كانوا Indeed they used to hasten in
good deeds And supplicate And supplicate us in
hope and fear رغبا ورهبا And they were
to us humbly submissive وكانوا لنا خاشعين This
verse, two verses What I would like to
reflect upon with you today in our khutbah
So many lessons we can learn from this
short two verses Number one وَزَكَرِيَّ إِذْ نَادَى
رَبَّه When Zakariya cried out to his Lord
Prayed to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala In
regard to a worldly matter with him Being
childless and he would like to have children
That shows you that you know what One
of the thing that we need to revival
in our life today Is the focus on
dua And believing in the power of prayer
Unfortunately today And dua is something that became
You know a habit, a custom We don't
put so much belief in it We don't
put so much emphasis on it We don't,
our kids don't see that There is one
sister told me once I will never forget
that She said shaykh What I loved about
Islam when I converted to Islam Is because
the type of relationship that you have with
Allah But I'm surprised by how Muslims Don't
have that focus and emphasis on the prayer
She said for example when I was a
kid Every time we go to bed I
would pray with my father who was a
Christian at that time We'll kneel down by
the bed and we'll pray But I don't
see that as something that I see a
lot That people pay that much attention to
prayer And you know what This is something
we should If you look back in the
time of the Prophet ﷺ That he always
rushed to the dua And dua play a
major role in every step in his way
Even when he take his first step outside
the house He would say O
Allah protect me from being misguided or mislead
Protect me from someone acting ignorant with me
O Allah guide me and guide through me
What a beautiful dua That's the first Putting
his trust in Allah as he goes out
The first thing he says when he opens
his eyes He pray to Allah The first
thing he says before he goes to sleep
He pray to Allah Prayer is 24-7
And today unfortunately prayer It became you know
Just something we do without even thinking about
it We don't give much attention to it
We don't teach our kids That this is
one of the most important thing to do
Yes you need to study for the exam
Yes you need to do your homework Yes
you need to do all this But you
know what comes in the top of all
this lust Before and after and during doing
all these things Is to pray to Allah
Yes when you're sick you take your medication
You go to the doctor But before you
go to the doctor While you're at the
doctor After you visit the doctor While you're
taking your medication You still pray to Allah
The power of dua is something It's not
about It's about you connected your heart to
Allah And what can be better when you
are connected to the heavens Connected to the
almighty Allah The most honorable, noble thing is
prayer Because it connects you directly to Allah
So here's Zakaria He prayed and he cried
to his lord Then Allah said right away
we answered his call And here you need
to understand The answer of your dua Sometimes
comes instantly Immediately Right away And sometimes it's
delayed Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala decide the
answer Based on his infant wisdom Based on
what he sees the best Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala doesn't do things in this world
According to our wisdom To our desire To
our timeline To what we want He do
it according to what perfect sense Everything done
according to a perfect measurement The time The
portion How it comes The way it's done
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala have his wisdom
And reasons behind all these things So I
want you one of the reason for your
dua To be immediately accepted And answered And
given what you request When you have so
much sincerity in it Zakaria alayhi salam was
not looking for You know just a child
to boost with his children Or make you
know Give him a strength or No he
wants a child who carry that message Who
continue to lead the children of Israel As
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala appointed kings one
after another To lead them And their kings
were their prophets as well So we answered
him and gave him Yahya We gave him
John Because the child is Hayat Yahya in
Arabic language means life Because it give life
to the person When you have children that
you know an extension of your life But
only if your children Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala bless your children You extend your life
by doing more good Making salah, making dua,
making dhikr, making donations You know continuing benefit
people, helping others And you contributed to their
success And that continue to you know increase
your life span In a sense you increase
still continue receiving the reward From your children
Good deeds In Arabic language When you die
your deeds stop except because of three reasons
One of them a righteous child you leave
behind Also Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said
And Amended for him his wife What that
means Mufassiri Muhammad said His wife used to
be an aggressive woman Her tongue is sharp
Not a very friendly person Sometimes cross the
line Use language not appropriate So Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala Mended her it means he
guided her to adopt To became a better
person A better manner A better wife Loving,
compassionate, good wife Many of the Mufassiri said
that And some said no amended his wife
It means she was unable to bear children
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala made her
able to have her period And was able
to bear children And both opinions are acceptable
And no problem with both And both there
is a benefit for us to learn It's
important before you have a children To have
a good role model for these children So
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala amended his wife
Made her possessive the best of manners Before
this child comes So he can see a
good role model in front of him So
that child will be raised in a house
Where both are role model It's important to
choose the right woman for your children It's
important for you when you think about marriage
You also think about your children How they
gonna be Sometimes we just figure that out
quite late But those who have not yet
married Those who are young Those who have
children This is a good advice to keep
in mind To give and to pass to
your children Make sure your daughter married a
good man And your son married a good
woman A woman and a man that the
parents That they will be a good role
model for their children Also, you ask Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala To give your children
And with children the barakah, the blessings That's
why Al-Bukhari rahimahullah ta'ala said You
ask Allah for children But you ask Allah
to bless these children So not be a
curse on you It's important to think of
how You know How important it is to
be To Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
bless you With a righteous family And among
this family member is your own son or
daughter You know One
of the brothers said I was for six
years Going to doctors or going back to
doctors You know, going to clinic, doing tasks
Everything looks fine, but no children Six years
we tried And somebody told him Increase your
dua Using the same dua of Zakaria And
increase your istighfar He said, I continuously do
this during the day and the night In
my salah And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
after six years Blessed me with children alhamdulillah
And have multiple children after that Another thing
that I would like you to pay attention
to In these verses Where Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala said Explaining to us Why they
deserve Why Zakaria deserve to be His dua
to be answered What's so special about him
He said He said They used to rush
They used to hasten They used to hasten
in good deeds They referring to who?
Who they?
Two opinions among the scholars And both are
correct Both can be accepted One, they referring
to prophets and messengers And all these prophets
and messengers Used to hasten in good deeds
And all the prophets and messengers that were
mentioned in the surah One common factor between
all the prophets and messengers They hasten in
good deeds And that's something to reflect upon
Ya habibi My dear brothers, my dear sister
A prophet and messenger Forgiving all his sins
Promised jannah Yet he hasten to good deeds
When he see an opportunity of good deeds
He hasten to it He never hesitate He
double the effort What about you and me
Who should be hasten to good deeds more
Us When the prophets and messengers They are
role model They inspire us not by words
But by actions Also It was said They
used to hasten in good deeds They used
to hasten in good deeds Referring to The
parents The father and the mother They used
to hasten in good And that's why Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala Have blessed them with
this righteous child And that's a lesson for
us You want your children to be good
MashaAllah Allah will manner successful Religious Stay away
from drugs and bad things Be a role
model Make sure that you yourself Invest in
the ta'a of Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala He
is a great scholar From the successors He
said sometimes I increase my night prayer Just
because I want Allah to bless my children
I do extra things So Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala reward me by Making my children
More righteous It is important When you see
A house Where the husband and wife compete
In goodness What a beautiful scene When you
see the husband and wife See who pray
more Who fast more Who read more Quran
Who wake up early to Salah Who pray
earlier in the time Who pray sunnah Who
miss sunnah When you have that kind of
Competing Between father and mother What do you
think children will look like What a beautiful
image this verse Draw for us Fill
khairat In goodness All kind of goodness And
that's Kept so general Because people have different
interest I might Hasten in good when it
comes to Salah When it comes early to
the masjid reading Quran Learning the deen Teaching,
giving da'wah Donating for the sake of
Allah And if I say to you Hey
everybody donate Today to our waqf You should
have that zeal I will be the first
to do Waqf Means endowment Just in case
if you wonder what it means I will
have that zeal You know what I will
be the first one Hey we have a
program for him Yeah I will be the
first I am the first To submit Yaqul
Ibn alward If you can make that a
rule If you can make that a rule
I am not going to let anyone You
know win that race And I am going
to win Other than me I will be
the first in this race Which is the
race to Allah You know I am going
to put that Extra mile Because the good
news is You know There is no traffic
jam On that extra mile That you put,
the effort that you put When good is
not Good enough When you ask yourself is
good or great And I want to be
a great, I want to be excellent When
you make that choice Between being good or
being great That's when you say They hasten
in good deeds May Allah subhana wa ta
'ala Make us among them Astaghfirullah Astaghfirullah And
in the end Allah subhana wa ta'ala
In the end Allah subhana wa ta'ala
Says that they pray to Allah When they
are in a state of fear and hope
And also While they are completely submitting The
self to Allah subhana wa ta'ala With
humility And that's the essence of Ibadah The
servitude of Allah Is to submit yourself To
Allah subhana wa ta'ala in humility No
arrogance Whatever He orders you Whatever He commands
you I heard and I obey Allah I
submit myself to your will To your orders
And to your will And to whatever you
decreed upon me I'm happy with it I'm
submitting myself to it Even if I'm not
very happy And you know hard for me
I know there is a greater wisdom I
know my payday is coming I know my
break is coming And I'll be patient and
I'll submit myself to your will Ya Allah
Ar-rahab war raghab Rahaban war raghaba Also
there is a different opinion among what it
means Some said like what you heard Fear
and hope Which is fine But also ar
-rahab war raghab You submit yourself to Allah
subhana wa ta'ala With your heart full
of fear from Allah And hope as well
To balance that And sometimes one of them
can be higher When you're about to commit
a sin You don't have Wallahi Allah subhana
wa ta'ala And he forgave me and
the tawba is acceptable Just let me drink
that alcohol Or do that or watch that
No no at that point You put the
fear more You repented to Allah subhana wa
ta'ala And you sincerely repented You really
regret what you did Now you don't think
about Jahannaman azaban aleeman You know Ta'am
al naar You don't think about that You
increase that hope Upon death you increase that
hope You don't go to someone dying Who
is a Muslim you tell him Allahumma astaghfirullah
How many sins you have done Now you're
going to deal with all your haram stuff
At this moment you increase that hope Subhana
wa ta'ala Yaqul ba'dal ulam ma wadidtu
anna fi sahifati shay' min amal al hajjaj
illa hadhi al kalima Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
said I never wish to have anything Of
al hajjaj ibn yusuf's record Of deeds except
this One thing he said before he died
You know al hajjaj Umar ibn al aziz
said If Allah yawm al qiyamah says Every
nation bring the worst man Ever exist in
that nation And we brought al hajjaj We
will beat them all He will be the
worst of the worst Okay Then he said
The ulama said I never wished anything from
his deeds Except one thing He said it
before he died What did he say Ya
rab
those
people think Less of your mercy They think
that you cannot forgive someone like me With
all my sins Ya rab show them how
merciful you are and forgive me What a
word just right before he died And then
he died after that That's the hope upon
them Also it was said In a time
of ease and a time of hardship So
That's another meaning as well What that means
It means we are consistent in our ibadah
We are consistent in our dua I don't
just pray to Allah And submit to Allah
when I'm in the ease Or I'm in
the hardship No all the time What motivates
you to hasten in good deeds Is the
hope and the fear The hope for the
reward Make you advance yourself in good deeds
The fear also make you Hasten in good
One thing to reflect upon That Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala Start with hope before fear
Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala way more
merciful Another thing to reflect upon That Allah
talk about prophet and messenger That they have
fear in their heart And they have the
hope and the fear If that's the prophet
and messenger have this in their heart How
come our heart empty How come our heart
and mind Is not filled with that fear
and hope Allah speaks about The prophet and
messenger And he said They submit themselves to
us With humility Today one of us donated
Maybe last Ramadan Couple of thousand dollars And
mashallah make khatm al quran last Ramadan This
is enough I have enough good deeds for
the next year Or make Qiyam al layl
or come to fajr prayer Or pray the
five times daily prayer I prayed all my
five daily prayer today He feel khalas I'm
done Or somebody Memorize the quran or somebody
just because People call him shaykh or call
him imam Or whatever he think that he's
all that Now Allah talk about prophet and
messenger Who receive revelation from Allah He said
that they submit themselves With humility Arrogant Arrogant
is not The manners or the character Of
a muslim Can you see how much we
can learn From just two short Verses Let's
change our attitude And our way of reading
the quran To be more in depth Connect
more with the meaning Make sure that you
reflect Upon the verses See how it can
impact you in your life May Allah Protect
all of us And protect our brothers and
sisters Who suffering around the world Especially my
brother and sister in palestine We ask Allah
by his name And attributes to bring An
urgent relief to them And victory to those
who Have been abused and oppressed And moved
out of their homes And may Allah To
Give them aid and help And relief and
make us among Those who always will Continue
praying for our brothers and sisters And support
them and don't forget their case We ask
Allah To use us In the best of
ways and also To give us a zeal
That you know Interest Give us that zeal
and interest And commitment To always do what
is right To always do the best of
deeds May Allah give us Aid us and
give us that Ability to continue worship you
Until we meet you May Allah forgive our
sins And shower us with your mercy And
bless this community And this gathering Arabic
Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic
Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic
Arabic Today is the day of Friday And
it's a day where Allah Encourage us To
increase our Salah and Salam Allahumma Arabic Arabic
And in the end my brothers and sisters
Just I forgot to mention something important That
as you all know today is the last
day of the early voting, make sure your
vote is cast.
I know you get tired of the election,
I'm tired of it already, but it is
important for our community to go, even if
you vote for one person, even if you
vote for one issue, and ask if you
don't know, but make sure that your name
is cast.
Ballots is more powerful than bullets.
You know, and it's, I'm gonna tell you,
I know you say, we didn't see change,
we do big, it's not about necessarily your
generation.
This is an accumulating effort.
If you don't start today, this is about
the next generation, mainly.
For me, that's how I see it.
I see the impact of what we're doing
today is the next generation, not our generation.
But if we drop it today, there's nothing
for the next generations, and next generation will
start from way back.
So it's a long-term, it's a long
shot.
Yes, there is a win, can be short
-term, but the long-term is to have
an impact, and a long-term impact.
May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
make it easy, and He says, We have
a choice, and we will begin our journey
with the Lord of the worlds.