Yahya Rhodus – Connecting Our Hearts To The Prophet Muhammad

Yahya Rhodus
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The importance of learning the blessed deen of Islam to establish a loving connection with the Prophet is emphasized, along with sharing experiences and words to enhance the audience. The sermon in the Bible describes the importance of remembering the story and the history behind certain words and phrases, such as "has been" and "has seen." The sermon also describes the importance of remembering the story and the history behind certain words and phrases, such as "has been" and "has seen." The message is that people should be rewarded for their actions through the holy eye and be rewarded for their actions.
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Alhamdulillah, alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen, wa afdala salat wa

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atamu taslim ala Sayyidina wa Mawlana Muhammadin wa

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ala alihi wa sahbihi wa salim ajma'in.

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Allahumma salli wa sallim ala Sayyidina Muhammadin, nurika

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sari wa madadika jari wa jama'ani bihi

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fi kulli atbari wa ala alihi wa sahbihi

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ya Noor.

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This blessed Salawat upon the Prophet ﷺ in

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it is that we ask Allah ﷻ to

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gather us in all of our different stages

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with Rasulullah ﷺ.

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This is the maqsad and the goal and

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the aim of the true people of Allah

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ﷻ, is that they be connected and affiliated

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to the best of creation ﷺ and every

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single one of their states.

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They don't want to have anything transpire in

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relation to them except that it is a

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means for them to be affiliated in the

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deepest and most spiritual sense of all.

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And ultimately that the more and more that

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you spend time learning this blessed deen, when

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you start with alif, ba, ta and you

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learn the basics and then you continue to

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study throughout your life, the more and more

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when you study with true scholars, the more

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and more you realize how central the Messenger

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of Allah ﷺ is to this deen and

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how important it is to establish a loving,

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living, heartfelt connection with him ﷺ.

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And this is when you see the true

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people of Allah ﷻ that transmit these uloom

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and these various sciences, some of which we

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just heard about from Shaykh Uzair, is that

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this is how you see they are.

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These are people that have a very real

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and living relationship with the Prophet ﷺ, is

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that there is an outward dimension to that

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and then there is an inward dimension to

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that as well.

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And what a blessing to be from the

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ummah of our Prophet ﷺ.

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What a blessing to be from an ummah

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that has this unbroken chain back to them

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such that we know with absolute certainty that

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he lived.

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We know with absolute certainty that hundreds, if

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not in the thousands of various statements that

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it is that he said ﷺ, because according

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to one of the two opinions of the

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people of the science of hadith ulama, they

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say is that if a hadith is sahih,

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you can be certain that our Prophet ﷺ

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said it.

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And this blessed collection that we have spent

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time reading over these past ten days now

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and tomorrow will be the 11th and we

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will do the khatm inshaAllah ta'ala after

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asr and all of you are encouraged to

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come.

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This is a special occasion and this is

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a very blessed occasion and inshaAllah ta'ala

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we hope it will be a time of

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istijabat ad-dua, where prayers will be accepted,

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where we can come with all of our

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needs and all of the needs of the

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people that we know and how many people

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do we know that are suffering in our

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own lives, people that we know and then

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people that we hear about in the ummah

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of our Prophet ﷺ, let's come together with

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the intention of dafal bala, that from the

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blessing of finishing a complete reading, is that

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a ward off tribulations from us and from

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our family, loved ones, people that we know

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in the ummah of our Prophet ﷺ and

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that it also lead to salah al-muslimin,

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that Allah ta'ala rectify the state of

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our fellow believers from the east to the

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west.

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This great imam was someone who followed the

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Prophet ﷺ closely, one of the scholars mentions

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a dream from the early periods is that

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someone saw the Prophet ﷺ and he was

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leaving a village and Imam Muhammad bin Ismail

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al-Bukhari was walking behind him ﷺ and

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every time that the Prophet ﷺ put his

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foot somewhere, that Imam al-Bukhari put his

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foot there and then that Prophet ﷺ put

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his other foot here and then he would

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put his foot there, he was walking just

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behind the Prophet ﷺ and putting his feet

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exactly where the Prophet ﷺ placed his blessed

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feet.

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One of the meanings of that is, is

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that this book and this is just one

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volume, it's three volumes for a total of

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about 7500 hadith, is that this is one

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of the greatest preservations that we have, one

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of the greatest manifestations of the preservation of

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the sunnah of our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and

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we read this today and as we read

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this, it just crossed my heart is that

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it needs to be shared and it is

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a little bit of a longer hadith but

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it relates to gatherings of goodness like this

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and this is in the kitab al-da

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'wat, the chapter on supplications and when you

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hear a hadith quoted but then when you

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hear it quoted with the sunnah, it has

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a different impact upon you.

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So we're going to read this whole hadith

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inshaAllah ta'ala with a very brief translation.

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So it says hadathana, meaning that he's been

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informed by this blessed individual Qutayb ibn Sa

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'id, hadathana jareer, anil a'mash, an abi salih,

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an abi huraira.

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So it goes back to the blessed companion

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who narrates more hadith than anyone else, Abu

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Huraira.

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Qara qara Rasulullah ﷺ and he says that

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he said that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ

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said.

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So again, that we know these words are

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actual words that the best of creation said.

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Think about the implications of that.

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These words that we're about to hear were

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uttered from the blessed mouth of the best

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of creation ﷺ who as we heard Shaykh

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Uzair said is that everything he says in

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hu illa wahyu yuha, he receives revelation and

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he conveys it ﷺ as a hadith and

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his words are one of the types of

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revelation.

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Inna lillahi malaikatan.

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Indeed that Allah has angels.

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Yutufuna fit-turuq is that they go about

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in the streets.

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Yani they wander about in the streets.

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Yiltamisuna ahl al-dhikr.

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They are looking for the people of dhikr

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in both of its meanings, knowledge and remembrance.

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There's angels that are roaming looking for the

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people of dhikr.

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Were the veil to be removed, this would

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be something people could witness.

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Fa idha wajudu qawman yadkuruna Allah.

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Notice it's in the plural.

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And so if they see a people who

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are remembering Allah, tanadu, they call out to

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one another because they're roaming in a group.

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And they say halummu ila hajitikum, that come

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to your need.

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Qala fa yuhiffunuhum bi ajnihatihim ila al-samaa

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ad-dunya.

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Is that they surround them and they encircle

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those people with their wings all the way

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extending to the samaa ad-dunya, the terrestrial

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heaven.

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Allahu Akbar.

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Look at what our Prophet ﷺ was informing

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us of.

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This is something we believe in with absolute

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certainty.

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Is that when people come together to remember

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Allah, this is what happens.

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The angels see them.

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And that the blessed gatherings of remembrance is

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that tataraa.

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Is that they shine light into the heaven

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and the angels know where they are.

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And then they're attracted to them because they

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are beings of light.

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And then they encircle these gatherings and that

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they, that take care of them.

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And this meaning of that putting their wings

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around them, of all of the meanings of

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protection and blessing and all and all and

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on and on.

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Qala fa yas'aluhum rabbuhum wa a'lam

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minhum.

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And so their Lord that asks them and

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He knows better than them.

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Ma yuqulu ibadi.

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What are My servants saying?

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Qalu yuqulun wa yusabbihunak wa yukabbirunak wa yahmadunak

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wa yamajidunak.

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Is that they're doing tasbih and saying SubhanAllah.

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They're saying Allahu Akbar.

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They are praising you and they're glorifying you.

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What have we been doing from the beginning

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of the majlis other than remembering Allah, that

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supplicating Allah, sending salawats upon the Prophet ﷺ.

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Then Allah says, fa yuqul hal ra'oni?

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Allah asks the angels and of course He

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knows better.

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Is it have they seen Me?

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Fa yuqulun, the angels say la wallah.

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No by Allah.

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Ma ra'uk?

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They have not seen you.

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Qal fa yuqul wa kayf la ra'oni?

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How would those blessed people be were they

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to have seen Me?

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So then the angels say, la ra'uk

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kanu ash-shadda laka ibadatan wa ash-shadda

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laka tamjidan wa akthar laka tasbihan.

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Were they to have seen you, they would

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have worshipped you any more.

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They would have glorified you even more and

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praised you even more.

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Qala fa yuqul, famma yas'aluni?

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What are they asking Me?

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Qala yas'alunak al-jannah.

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They're asking you for paradise.

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Qala yuqul wa hal ra'oha?

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And then Allah says to the angels, have

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they seen it?

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And they say, no by Allah, O Lord.

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They have not seen it.

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And then Allah says to them, how would

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their state be were to they have seen

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it?

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He says that they would have even done

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more to be able to attain it and

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to seek it and have desired it even

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more.

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And then Allah ta'ala says, what are

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they seeking refuge from?

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And they say, the angels, they're seeking refuge

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from the fire.

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Qala yuqul wa hal ra'oha?

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Have they seen the fire?

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And they say, no by Allah.

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Ma ra'oha?

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They have not seen it.

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Qal fa yuqul wa hal ra'oha?

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How would they be were they to have

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seen it?

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And then the angels say, were they to

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have seen it, they would have fleed from

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it further and had more fear of it.

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And then look at what Allah jalla jalaluhu

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says to these blessed beings in His creation,

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these beings of light, angels.

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Fa yuqulu fa ushhidukum anni qal ghafartu luhum.

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I am making you witnesses that I have

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forgiven them.

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Why do our teachers tell us so much

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about majanis, how important gatherings are?

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Because they're more aware of these realities.

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This is just one of many ahadith about

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this.

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They know how important these gatherings are and

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what you attain in them and the blessings

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that happen that are beyond our ability to

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ever truly perceive or know.

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And that this is that one of the

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great bounties which is forgiveness of sins.

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And there's a long list of others that

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go along with it.

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But Allah that makes them bear witness that

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I have forgiven him.

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Subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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He forgives the sins of the people who

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gather for His sake.

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And then look at what the angels say.

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Qal yuqulu malik mani malayka.

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One angel says among those who are in

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the presence of Allah.

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Fulanun laysa minhum.

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There's someone who came that's not from them.

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Meaning this person didn't even have the right

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intention.

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This person didn't even come to make dhikr.

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To remember Allah ta'ala.

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They might have just come because there's someone

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there that's going to like sell them a

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car after.

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Or that someone owes them money.

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Or that they were just dragged to and

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didn't want to be or whatever.

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Of all of it, there's someone from among

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them that's not even from them.

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Innama ja li haja.

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He came because he had a need.

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Qal.

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And then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala responds

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to this angel who brings us up.

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He says, humul julasa.

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La yashqa bihim jalisuhum.

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They are people that anyone who sits with

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them will never be damned.

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Meaning is that these were people that are

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going to be forgiven.

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Even if they're not from them.

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This blessed hadith of our Prophet ﷺ.

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This is one example of many of the

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hadith in this blessed book.

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All of the hadith in this blessed book.

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That come from that blessed mouth of his

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and that blessed heart of his ﷺ.

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Because the nature of Prophethood is that it's

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teaching us things that were not to be

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for those realities that are being uttered by

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them we wouldn't know them at all.

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Were it not to be that our Prophet

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is telling us this, we wouldn't know this

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is transpiring.

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So may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala open

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up our hearts to these meanings.

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And bless us to be able to realize

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the greatness of this deen.

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And the greatness of the inheritance of the

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Prophet ﷺ that has been bequeathed to us.

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And that is still among us.

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And may we live our lives learning it.

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And struggling for it.

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And sacrificing so that these meanings can remain

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for the next generation and the generation after

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them.

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And the generation after them.

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In sha Allah ta'ala.

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May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give us

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tawfiq and open the doors of His mercy

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to all of us.

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And bless us to be from the people

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of Dhikr.

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Bless us to be people who are encircled

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by His angels.

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Ya Rahim wa Rahimin wa Sallallahu alayhi wa

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sallam Muhammadin wa alayhi wa sallam wa alhamdulillahi

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rabbil alameen.

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