Yahya Rhodus – Futuwwa Virtues of Praying in Congregation
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The importance of praying in graduation and setting up an appointment for prayer is emphasized in graduation, where individuals can practice their daily prayers in a community setting. Prayed time for the holy month is emphasized as a means to have a prayer be accepted and receive reward, including being recognized as a means to be forgiven and being released from the hellfire. Prayed together and being forgiven is also emphasized, along with the importance of praying in graduation and setting up an appointment for prayer. The speaker emphasizes the importance of praying together to be forgiven and receive priority in one's life, as it is a means to have a prayer be accepted and receive reward.
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earlier he will be here Woman, why Allah Hamdulillah we praise Allah
subhanho wa Taala Who is the man am given a gift Subotica diwata
Allah, no matter how much that we thank him for his gifts is that
ultimately that we need to also give thanks for the fact that he
gave us Tofik and enabling grace to give thanks for his gifts. All
we can do as His servants Subhan Allah to Allah is to do our best.
What is within our capacity to show gratitude? For his
innumerable gifts ohana, what to Allah. And one of the greatest
gifts of all after the gift of faith is the gift of the five
daily prayers. Every single one of us has five times a day that we
are praying to our Lord subhanho wa Taala and our salah, our prayer
is the foundation of our deen the foundation of our practice.
Remember Junaid is known to have said life is essentially praying
five daily prayers in waiting to die. Of course you're doing other
things, but this is essentially what life is about. And we know
that the prayer came to us by means of our Prophet Muhammad
Sallallahu I do send them on the night of late Islamic Mirage which
is the greatest night and the hardcover Sula sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam, and this is the precious gift that he brought back
for us and for his ummah. So Allah Allah, Allah wa salam, and it is a
means for you and I to ascend on a daily basis. It is a means for us
to dig deep into that establish a connection with our Lord subhanho
wa taala. And it is of the affair of the believer is that we learn
to establish the prayer, and that we learn to preserve the prayer,
and that we learn the words of the prayer so that our prayer is not
at the surface level, is that it profoundly impacts us. And when we
pray, the way that we're supposed to pray, following our Prophet
Muhammad salah, listen, and the prayer will impact us primarily
and most importantly, spiritually, is that it will change us. And
those prayers that we pray will protect us, and that those pearls
will ward off that harm from us, by virtue of us doing what it is
that we're supposed to be doing in them and trying our best to be
present with Allah subhanaw taala in them. And I wanted to briefly
remind myself, and my brothers and sisters, one of the very important
aspects of prayer, especially in our time, and a time where you and
I if we're honest with ourselves, we know how much we're actually
truly concentrating is that we pray in congregation, what is
called salata, Gemma, we pray in congregation. And we know that our
Prophet sallallahu Sallam encouraged us to pray in
congregation. And one of the amazing things is, as the Urla
might have mentioned, the scholars have said is that we have no
narration or no indication, and the Hadith literature or the
theater literature that the prophet ever prayed a prayer on
his own Salah lady said, he always prayed in congregation, according
to what we know. And this is the way that the true people of Allah
are. And I remember being on a plane with one of my teachers one
time, and Fajr came in and he came back and he woke me up. And he
said, It's time to pray. And I went up to where he was and we
prayed congregation on the prayer on the plane, even on a plane,
they put their dean first and make sure that they are giving Allah
subhanaw taala is right and going above and beyond that and praying
in a way that is pleasing to Him. Subhana wa Tada. And so I want to
share just a few narrations here to encourage us to take the
congregational prayer seriously. And then specifically focus on
Fajr and Isha which had hamdulillah now that after a long
span of time, may Allah Allah ward off from us all sickness in our
own home and all illness and especially that this disease that
is prevalent right now completely Ward this off from us, Inshallah,
tada, we have an opportunity to pray in this space on a regular
base on a regular basis together. And this is something that we
encourage all of our people to do. And for those that are not able to
access this particular space, that if you can pray in your local
prayer spaces, you can pray in your local massage and this is the
best form of congregation is a congregation that is done in
either in a masjid or in a masala and so that the Prophet said and
this is a Hadith in Sahih al Bukhari, Salat al Jami.
Yeah A and Gemma to Z do other sadati if he Beatty he will solve
our dv Sookie he Hampson or Isha Lena darja is that praying and
congregation is better than when someone prays alone at their house
or that wherever it is at their workplace, their souk their
workplace where they are working by 25 degrees. And then he said
for and I had no comida Tabata for Asana if one of you makes will do
in performs that will do well well attended masjid and then comes to
the mosque Llyod Illa salah the only cause that motivated him to
go was that he wanted to pray lamb yah to have to attend hola hola.
We had done Raja, he will not take one step except that ALLAH will
raise him in a degree will help the animal healthier and he will
remove from him a sin had to the whole machine until the enters
into the masjid every step that you take so you 1234 Every step
that you take is an increased dollars or rank. Every step that
you take is a means of forgiveness of a sin until that you come to
the masjid way that duckula Masha canovee salata and Makana to be
Soto Sunday is that if he enters into the mosque, his reality is
that he will be in the state of prayer. As long as he remains in
that masjid and he's praying and what to suddenly Yeah, and he
Eileen malaika and the angels will prey upon him. Matt Damn, if he
misses you, his men, Jesse hit lead you Salafi, as long as he
remains in that spot where he prayed. This is why there's so
much benefit in remaining seated in the spot where we prayed, you
pray the fault you remain sitting, and the angels will prey upon you.
And what does it mean? The Prophet then clarifies you suddenly Allah
mille Villo Allah Muhammad who they will say that, Oh Allah,
forgive him and have mercy upon him, madam, your Hadith v. So this
is a reality that our Prophet was informed of that he witnessed
civilize enemies telling us so that you and I can take this
seriously. And that we can learn to pray in JAMA. And of course,
that early generation of the companions, no one put the words
of the Prophet sallallahu Sallam into practice, like the companions
of the Messenger of subtle lice. And this is why they said is that
during the time of the Prophet sallallahu sallam, a man would
reach an age where he literally had to have two people carry him,
he'd have to put his arms around them, and have him walk him to the
masjid because he was so old and weak, so that he could then stand
on the prayer line. And this is something I've seen in my own
eyes, what I what that has Rahimullah. In his later years,
when I first went there, he was able to walk to the masjid, the
mosque on his own, but then it reached a certain point. All
right, people had to keep him up and hold him up while he was
walking to the mosque, and he still would go to pray in the
masjid, for the sake of Allah subhana wa, tada. This is the way
that the companions were. And this is the way that you and I should
strive to be. And this is in all of our different states. And I
know sometimes it's hard when we're working, when we're out when
we have errands to run. But the more that we make our life revolve
around prayer, the better things will be. And when you schedule an
appointment, when you plan your day, try to plan it around the
prayer. Try to plan it around the prayer time so that you don't
unnecessarily postpone a prayer so that you have someone that you can
pray with. And even if you're praying at home, it's best to have
one congregation for each prayer. If you have three or four or five
or six kids don't have three or four or five or six, individual
prayers. Try to have one congregational prayer, if
possible. And if people have different schedules, okay, maybe
that you can split into two but try your best to establish the
congregational prayer even at home. And the congregational
prayer is fulfilled with two people. So if you have one other
person with you, that's sufficient to get the reward for Gemma for
the prayer in congregation. But the two prayers that are most
important for us to observe in congregation and preferably in a
masjid or a prayer space, our sonata Aisha and Salatin Fajr and
so we have a special emphasis on those in the sunnah of our Prophet
sly centum in a hadith in Sahih Muslim The Prophet said the salah
lies and min Salah Aisha fija Ma, ma Sol, karma Nashville, Lael,
whoever prays so that's an issue in congregation. It says if that
he stood in prayer half the night woman Salah soba
fija maphack Anna masala Lal Kulu in overpraise, slotted Fajr in
congregation, it's as if they prayed the entire night. And this
is why they save for the special nights, like later to the hotdog.
And the other special nights in the year is that the very least
thing that you have to do to get the reward for that night is to
praise a lot of Asian South Asian congregation, because our Prophet
said is as if you've prayed the entire night. So if that's the
only thing that you do, you get immense reward, let alone if you
do increased worship, there's even more reward and even more benefit.
And this is why it's coming a hadith with multiple narrations is
that the difference between us ie the believers and the hypocrites
is that the hicker PIPA Crips were not able to be present for salata
ation, so that is super hijama. They find it difficult, because
it's getting late. And it gets early. And in the summer months,
it's hard, especially in places like where we are where we're kind
of in a northern latitude, let alone when you get up to places
that are really up in the north. And the times get very late in the
time to get very early for selected photo. So this is
something that we should really really strive for. And I want to
briefly mention what the scholars say before we turn it over to
Sheikh will lead the main benefits of Salatin Gemma The first is def
l was suas will have the Ministry of Law is that it will repel from
you insinuations of shaitaan and it will protect you from Shaytaan
and this comes in a hadith of the prophesy centum where the prophet
said is that no three people will live in a village or in an outline
region and outline area and they don't establish a prayer among
them ie there's not a congregational prayer established
save that is stuck Wildomar Lima ship on is it ship on? We'll get
have control over them for I like a bit of Gemma, you should stick
to the congregation in nama. Yep. What is it Bill hacia because the
wolf eats the sheep that is straight from the flock. And so
even if there's only three people living in the middle of the
countryside, they have to establish a congregational prayer.
So by praying together it Ward's off ship on from us even you have
more concentration by focusing on what the Imam was reciting and so
forth. The second benefit is called a Salah is it it's a means
to have your prayer be accepted. And as we've learned, is that
Allah to Allah looks at the Imam and if his prayer is worthy of
being accepted, the entire congregation is accepted as a
result. If the Imams prayer is not word worthy of being accepted, the
Allah looks at the first row and then until that if anyone's
congregation is in congregations, prayer is worthy of being
accepted. Allah accepts that prayer. And then if no one's
prayer is worthy of being accepted, Allah accepts their
prayers because they came together to pray for His sake. And this is
one of the main reasons our teachers emphasize this point so
much in this time, because many of us are praying and many of us know
how hard it is to concentrate. But if you pray together, it's a means
for your prayer to be accepted. And then third, the great reward
as we heard, one narration says 25 degrees, another narration says 27
degrees in terms of its perfect preference for milkflow to the
noob it's a means for our sins to be forgiven. Five, it's Saddam and
in the fuck that way that we can be free from this reprehensible
trait of hypocrisy. And then finally an epsilon Jetman Allah
it's a means to be released in saved from the Hellfire May Allah
subhanaw taala give us Tofik and blessed us to be able to pray in a
way that is pleasing to Him Subhana wa Tada and bless us to
uphold the sunnah of our Prophet slicin him in all of our natural
aspects of our life and to give priority to the son of our
prophesy send him over everything is that we want or that we deem as
important and may what he thought was important be important to us.
Salah ly send me a letter to give us Tofik and bless us and all of
our fares were sold a lot I seen a Muhammad and my dad use up you
send them in hamdulillah