Yasir Qadhi – Purification Of The Soul Importance And Techniques
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Dear Muslims, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has reminded
us to be conscious of him in the
Quran when he says,
Today's khutba
is about 1 of the most central concepts
of our religion.
Some can even say it is the primary
concept of our religion.
In the entire Quran, as you're aware, Allah
Sub Anahu Wa Ta'ala has given many oaths,
many qasam,
walduha,
walasr.
And the oath or the qasam is meant
to emphasize what is gonna come after it.
And
the strongest oath in the entire Quran,
I. E, the most number of Qasams that
Allah has done in any 1 location.
It is done in Surat Washamsiwatuhaha.
Over 15 different Qasams are mentioned in over
11 verses
in order to lead to 1 particular verse.
So 1 can say
that the most,
if you like,
qasam verse, the verse that has the most
emphasis when it comes to Allah giving a
qasam
is the verse,
qadaflahamanzaqaha
wakadukhaba
mandasaha.
The 1 who purifies his soul has been
successful,
and the 1 who pollutes his soul is
the 1 who is destroyed.
There is no other verse in the entire
Quran
that has been emphasized in terms of a
qasam
more than this verse. If you read Surat
Al Shams, when you get to the middle
of the Surah, after the beginning is entirely
qasam after qasam after qasam. Allah says, what
is the point of the qasam? Qadhaaflahamanzaqaha.
The 1 who purifies the soul is the
1 that has been successful.
And that is why don't be surprised when
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala links Jannah to the
purification of the soul. You will only enter
Jannah when the soul is purified. Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala says, Jannati Adin Tajlimintahtyahalanharukhalideenafiha
wathalika jazaumantazakah.
The jazah,
the reward
of the 1 who has purified
the soul will be Janatin tajimatahtialanhar.
So the concept of tazkiyah,
of having a pure soul, of having a
good heart, this is without a doubt of
the most central aspects of our faith. As
I said, 1 can truthfully state, this is
the goal of the religion. This is why
Allah revealed the Sharia. He sent the prophets.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala revealed the books. The
primary
goal is how we live a purified life
so that we achieve Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's
pleasure.
So in today's brief khutba, I want to
remind us of this very complex topic. We
cannot do justice in 1 Khutba, but a
reminder is always of benefit. And the goal
as always is to make us more curious
so we begin our own journey outside and
after the Khutba. So what is tazkiyatunafs?
How do we achieve it? What are some
of the mechanisms
to achieve tazkiyatunafs?
What are the goals of tazkiyatunafs?
What is the reward of tazkiyatunafs?
That will be briefly our khutba today. The
concept of tazkiyah, of tazkiyatunnafs.
The word tazkiyah has 2 meanings. And if
you understand these 2 meanings, you will understand
what is tazkiyatun nafs. The first meaning of
tazkiyah
is to purify, to cleanse.
The first meaning of tazkiyah,
something is filthy. When you do tazkiyah, it's
no longer filthy.
Something has elements that it should not have,
impurities.
After the tazkiyah process, it has no impurities.
So the first meaning of tazkiyah is to
purify, is to cleanse.
And the second meaning of tazkiyah,
zakah in the Arabic language, pre revelation of
the Quran, zakah meant to grow and to
flourish, to nourish. Zakah
means something that is there is now bigger
and better. So the word
tazkiyah implies both of these concepts.
The first of these concepts, you get rid
of the negative.
The first of these concepts, you eliminate the
impurity,
the filth.
And the second of these concepts, you nurture
the good. You make the good even more.
You allow the soul to flourish. So the
concept of tazkiyatun nafs therefore is a dual
process.
There are 2 prongs. There are 2
simultaneous things that you must do to achieve
tazkiyah.
The first of them, cleansing,
and the second of them, nurturing and growing.
And the 2 of these are obviously linked
together because when something is filthy, it will
never reach its potential. And when you try
to make something better than its potential, when
you try to nourish something, you must cleanse
it of its impurities. So the 2 go
hand in hand.
You cannot
allow something to flourish until you cleanse it
of its negatives. We all know in our
backyard, if there are weeds, we're not gonna
have the flowers we want to grow. You
have to nurture the flowers and get rid
of the weeds at the same time. You
have to water the flowers, you have to
make sure everything is good, and you eliminate
the bad. The same concept applies for tazkiyah
to nafs. And by the way, the word
zakat is from the same concept of tazkiyah.
The exact same zakat of our money and
tazkiyah of our soul. The same concept. Whenever
you hear a lecture about zakat, the lecturer
will tell you the same thing. Zakat has
2 meanings. The first is to cleanse, and
the second is to grow. That's exactly the
whole point of tazkiyatunafs.
When you give zakat, you purify your wealth,
and you allow Allah's barakah to come into
it. So when you give zakatul mal, you
are purifying the negative, and you're allowing the
positive to grow. And the same happens to
tazkiya 2, and nafs. Now, therefore, if tazkiya
has 2 prongs,
cleansing and nourishing, we must briefly talk about
what exactly do we cleanse, and how do
we cleanse it, and what exactly do we
nourish, and how do we nourish it? And
again, I give the disclaimer. This is a
deep topic, how much can we do in
1 brief khutbah? But just to summarize,
the cleansing is done.
The first prong, you get rid of. What
do you get rid of? You get rid
of every theological,
and
spiritual
and akhlaq impurities.
You get rid of the impurities to do
with theology, aqidah,
the impurities to do with the soul, The
impurity is to do with your mu'malat, with
other people. You cleanse the heart of that
which should not be there. And without a
doubt, the worst aspect that anybody can have
is to worship other than Allah. And that's
why Ikhlas, sincerity,
believing in Allah, the kalima,
this is the beginning of all tazkiyah. When
you affirm only Allah has the right to
be venerated, when no other entity is competing
with Allah Sub Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, when neither
your money, nor your wealth, nor your status,
when there is nothing in this dunya, you
will sacrifice for other than Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. This is the ultimate
beginning and end to tazkiyah.
Tazkiyah begins with affirming
La ilaha illallah. Tazkiyah begins by eliminating from
your heart any competition, aoodhubillah,
that Allah might have because there is no
competition in the heart of the believer. There
should be no subservience,
no ultimate loyalty,
no veneration,
no sacrifice of everything other than for Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. We eliminate from our heart
any entity or any even concept that might
be grabbing our attention that is diverting us
from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Also, we do the tazkiyah by cleansing our
heart from every single spiritual disease. Every ailment
that should not be there, we cleanse our
heart. Every single marad or disease, not the
physical disease, the spiritual disease of the heart.
And this is a long list of spiritual
diseases. You can listen to many khutbas and
duroos about the various diseases of the heart,
But without a doubt, some of the most
important diseases we should be aware of without
a doubt are arrogance, which is the beginning
of all spiritual disease, Iblis and arrogance.
Arrogance when you refuse to acknowledge the truth.
Arrogance when you refuse
to submit yourself to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
When you feel yourself
superior to other people, this is the core
of all spiritual diseases. And this leads to
another spiritual disease, conceit. You wanna concentrate on
yourself. Another spiritual disease, showing off. Another spiritual
disease, wanting to be the center of attention.
Yet another spiritual disease is to be jealous
and envious. All of these are spiritual diseases,
and tazkiyah is done by cleansing the heart
of these spiritual diseases. Your heart should be
pure. As the Quran says, illaman attallaha biqalbin
salim. As the Quran says, the Kalb has
to be salim. The Kalb has to be
pure, and that purity is achieved, as we
said, by the concept of tazkiyah. And so
we eliminate from our heart every negative, and
this is done as well by monitoring the
heart. You know, we all monitor this physical
heart. We all check our blood pressures, our
cholesterol. The doctors check it every year or
so. So the similar way, our spiritual heart,
there is a term in Arabic called muhasabatunnafs.
Muhasabatunnafs
is you monitor the spiritual level of your
heart. And when it comes to muhasabatunnafs,
you don't need necessarily to go to any
other doctor because you know the inner mechanisms
of your soul better than anybody else. You
have to start monitoring your own heart every
day, every night monitor.
Am I envious? Am I jealous? Am I
arrogant? Am I conceited?
Am I self centered? Am I always thinking
about myself and not other people? This is
the beginning. You are the best doctor for
your own qalb. You know your inner recesses.
And that's why 1 of the main mechanisms
of tazkiyah is you have to decide, you
have to commit to become your own doctor,
muhasabatunnafs
You have to start monitoring your inner mechanisms,
and that requires honesty to yourself. That requires
honesty to yourself. As Umar Radag Khatab said,
hasibu anfusa kumqablaantohasaboo.
You had better account for yourselves before Allah
will account for you. If you account for
yourself, then on the day of judgment, accounting
will be much easier. If you don't account
for yourself, well then you have to face
a bigger issue on the day of judgment.
So
dazkiyah is done, as we said, firstly by
cleansing the heart. Cleansing it of theological problems
and cleansing it of spiritual diseases and of
akhlaq issues. Then we said the second aspect
of dazkiyah is we want the soul to
grow. We want the soul to nurture. We
want the soul to become better and pure.
So along with eliminating, because the 2 are
not it's not first this, then that. You
do the both together because each 1 helps
the other. The stronger your heart is, the
easier it is to cleanse. And the more
you cleanse your heart, the stronger the heart
is. It's a circular thing. Each 1 helps
the other. We do both simultaneously.
We do both simultaneously. We don't wait until
the 1 is done. No. You plant your
seed seed and you get rid of the
weeds. You put the water in and you
monitor anything that's harming your plants. All of
this is done simultaneously.
The same goes for our qalb and our
heart as well. So then, along with the
tazkiyah, along with the cleansing, we said the
next reality is growing. And what is that
growing? How do we grow? How do we
nourish? How do we replenish? Multiple ways to
do this. Without a doubt, the number 1
mechanism
of replenishing the soul is to practice the
rituals of Islam. And every single ritual of
Islam, its primary goal is the nourishment of
the soul. The primary goal of salah and
of zakah and of sayam and of hajj
is to replenish the soul, to make the
soul and the nafs stronger in the eyes
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Allah says in
the Quran, wa aqimisalatalidhikri.
The purpose of the salah is to remember
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Allah says in the
Quran, khudminamwalihim
sadakatan
totahiroonbiawatuzakihim
Sadakah to zakihim. We talked about tazkiyah, and
Allah is saying, sadaqa purifies their soul. When
you give sadaqa, it doesn't just purify your
money, it also purifies your soul because it
eliminates stinginess,
eliminates greed. It makes you generous. So Allah
literally links the salah to purification. He links
the zakah and sadaqa to purification.
And the same goes for sayam and for
Hajj. Without a doubt, all of the rituals
of Islam are the main mechanism to purify
the soul. You cannot purify the soul when
you're not praying regularly. You cannot purify the
soul when you're not fasting Ramadan, you're not
giving Zakah. These are the primary mechanisms of
tazkiyatun nafs. So along with eliminating the bad,
we must also perform the rituals. But it's
not only that as well. There are other
aspects of tazgiatunafs
as well. And of these aspects,
of the greatest aspects of purifying the soul
is to attach the soul to the Quran.
The Quran is Dalkira. It is zikr. It
is meant to remind your soul of Allah
Subh Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allah calls the Quran
dalthkira and dhikr. The name of the Quran
is dhikr. Wa anzanaalika
dhikra. Allah calls the Quran dhikr. Meaning the
Quran reminds you like nothing else reminds you.
So to immerse yourself in the Quran, to
be surrounded by the Quran is of the
mechanisms of
tazkiyah. Of the mechanisms of tazkiyah is every
type of dhikr. Every SubhanAllah,
walhamdulillahwala
illaha illallahallahu akbar alabithikrillahi
tatma innlulul.
1 of the ways your hearts will find
good goodness and wholesomeness is by the dhikr
of Allah
Of the mechanisms of tazkiyah as well, along
with the rituals, along with Quran, along with
dhikr of the mechanisms of tazkiyah2nafs
is also
that we cleanse our heart by turning to
Allah with tawba and istighfar. And tawba is
unique in that tawba
is simultaneously
cleansing and nurturing. It's the 1 of the
deeds that when you do it, it is
both category 1 and category 2. You are
cleansing
and you are reaching out to Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. 1 of the most effective mechanisms
of tazkiyah
is tawba and istighfar.
Because in tawba and istighfar, what is tawba
and istighfar? You recognize your negative and you
ask Allah for the positive. So you are
literally doing 1 deed for both of them
at the same time. You want to eliminate
the negative and you want the positive from
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So of the most
important mechanisms of tazkiyah
is returning to Allah, repenting to Allah, asking
istighfar from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Also of
the ways to attain tazkiyah, and this is
something that the prophet himself explicitly mentioned, and
that is to monitor
your own bodily desires.
Because the body and the soul, it is
said that there's a small tension between the
2. The body and the soul, at times,
there's a tension between the 2. And if
you give too much to the body and
ignore the soul, then the tazkiyah becomes difficult,
and you harm the soul. And if you
ignore the soul completely, what's gonna happen? It's
gonna wither away. Our Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
therefore warned us about too much entertainment.
Iyakum wakathratuddahefa
inna kathratuddahekitumitulquluob
Too much entertainment makes the heart go dead.
Entertainment itself is halal, but a little bit
of it like salt to the food. If
you are immersed in entertainment, and we have
to be careful, we're in the summer months
here, and most of us are children, especially
all they do is entertain all day and
all night. And as I said, a little
bit is understandable,
but when all they do is entertain themselves,
then this is not good for the soul.
The soul needs some tarbia. It needs some
spiritual food. If you don't give food to
the soul, it will wither away and die.
If you only concentrate on the body and
the pleasures of the body, we have both.
We give the body its due, and we
also give the soul its due. So of
the ways of doing tazkiyah
is we control the desires of this of
the of the body. And we only desire
we only
affirm the bodily desires in that which is
halal. And we minimize the, that which is
even mubah, but it is taking up too
much of our time. So all of these
are mechanisms of tazkiyatul nafs. 1 other point
before we finish our first khudba. The Quran
has very interesting
categories of the soul. And this is well
known. The Quran mentions 3 categories of the
nafs. In the whole Quran, there's 3 categories
of the nafs. Allah Sub
says, there is a nafs that is allawwama.
And a third, second category, a nafs that
is amarabisu.
And a third category, nafs that is mutma'inna.
In the whole Quran, there's 3
specific
adjectives or descriptions given. The first of them,
at Surah Yusuf Allah mentions
that there is a nafs that is amara
bisu.
An nafs, a soul that instead of attaining
tazkiyah,
it's commanding
the owner to do evil all the time,
a marabusu.
A second category,
fa la'qsoom bi nafsillawwama.
Allah's swearing by the nafs that is regretful,
guilty, reproaching itself. It's not at peace. It's
at unease, but it's not evil. It's kind
of in the middle.
It is vacillating between good and evil. It
has points of good and points of evil.
And so at times, it's feeling good. At
times, it's reproaching itself. It's not at full
comfort and ease. And then the highest and
the third category, an nasal mutma'inna,
the soul that is in perfect ease. Now
the goal of tazkiyah is to go from
nafsalaammarabisu
to nafsal mutma'inna.
The goal of tazkiyah to nafs, we go
from 1 side to the other. Some ulama
have said some ulama have said that every
1 of our souls is in 1 of
these 3 categories.
So some people are nafs al amara bisoo.
Some people are nafs al mutma'inna. And some
people are nafs al lawwama. And this is
an opinion.
However, the other opinion which I personally sympathize
with is that actually
the same soul can be all 3 depending
on your own spiritual state.
The same soul can be all 3, not
at the same time, at different times.
When you are more pious in the month
of Ramadan,
when you are doing Hajj and Umrah, when
you're spiritually strong,
your nafs becomes mutma inna. You feel at
peace, You feel at ease. You feel good.
When you are in the midst of evil,
this is nafs al amarabisu.
You have lost sense of religiosity.
You're doing things that will cause you shame
and embarrassment, and your nafs is amarabisu.
And in the middle, when you're not committing
a sin, when you're not at the height
of ecstasy, you think of your good deeds,
you're happy. You think of your bad deeds,
you're sad. This is Anafsallawama.
You are reproaching yourself. Why did I do
this? I could have been better. This is
Anafsallawama.
Our experience teaches us,
every 1 of us is these 3 depending
on our state of religiosity.
Every 1 of us is these 3. But
the goal, what is the goal? The goal
is that when we meet Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala, when the malakul mawt comes, when the
Angel of death comes, the goal is that
our nafs should be mutma'inna.
And this is what Allah says in the
Quran. You ayyatuhan nafsul mutma'inna.
Irjiiillarabbikiradya
tammarthiya.
Oh, nafs that is mutma'inna.
This is at the time of death. This
is when you're still alive and you see
the angel of death. You need to have
nafs al mutma'inna to get this. You have
to have dazkiyah. And of course, since we
don't know when the angel of death will
come, we have to make sure our soul
has reached nafs al mutma'inna.
You ayyatuhan nafsul mutma'inna.
Oh, nafs that is at content and peace.
Irjree ila rabbiki. Come back to your Lord.
So right now, the nafs is over here.
The nafs is mutima'inna in this world. And
Allah is saying, because you're mutima'inna,
come back to me. Raadiya tan mardiya.
I am pleased with you. You are pleased
with me. Fadhuli fi'ibadi wadhuli janati. Come into
my Jannah. Come into the righteous servants. That's
who's gonna happen? The nafs al mutma'ina.
And how do we get to nafs al
mutma'ina? By the tazkiyah of the nafs. And
1 final point of tazkiyah to nafs, which
is of course central to this
concept is that obviously, tazkiyatunafs
is a gift from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
We try, we put in the effort, but
as usual,
every effort has to be Allah blessing it.
We do what we need to do, but
in the end, it is Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala that fulfills the effort. And this is
what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says explicitly in
the Quran. Wallawula Faddlullahi
Alaykumurahmatuhu
mazakamin
kummin ahadin abada walakinallaha
yuzakimanyasha
Allah Azawajal
is telling us, were it not for Allah's
blessings on you,
none of you would ever have been able
to purify your soul.
You don't control. It is Allah Subh'anaHu Wa
Ta A'la. You can try, put in the
effort. And whoever puts in the effort, Allah
says, I will purify his soul. But you
must put in the effort. And you have
to realize in the end, wallahu yazakimanyasha
Allah is the 1 who does tazkiyah. Allah
is the 1 who cleanse. You put in
the effort to cleanse and you are sincere
to to want to be cleansed, and you
want to achieve that tazkiyah. But in the
end, it is Allah who grants. And because
it is Allah who grants, 1 of the
ways you must do tazkiyah
is by raising your hands to Allah and
asking Allah for tazkiyah2nafs.
And this is exactly what we learned in
the prophetic traditions, in the Hadith, in the
Sunnah. Our Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam would regularly
make du'a, especially in tahajjud. He would make
du'a to Allah. Allamaatinooofusahataqwaha
zakiha
antakaylumanzakaha
antawaliyuha
wamawlaha. This is a prophetic du'a. It's a
hadith. It's a du'a. He would make in
tahajjud. And in other salawat, he would make
this du'a. Oh Allah, make my soul have
taqwa.
Purify my soul. Zakkiha
purify my soul. Memorize this dua. Zakkiha antakayruman
zakaha. You are the best, meaning the only
1 who purifies the soul. So all Muslims
understand the blessings of tazkiyatul nafs. It is
via tazkiyatul nafs you will earn Allah's pleasure
and enter Jannah. Understand the mechanism. It's 2
pronged. You have to cleanse the bad and
nurture the good. Understand how this is done.
And I've summarized much of this. And of
course, realize as well that in the end,
only Allah is the 1 who grants those
gia. So you have to ask Allah Azawajal
for that tazgia. We ask Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala to bless us with them through the
Quran, and may He make us of those
who has verses they understand and applies halal
and haram through our lifespan. Ask Allah's forgiveness.
You as well ask him for his Dhighafoor
and the Rahman.
Alhamdulillah,
alwahid al ahad as Samad alalilamyarid
walam yukulahu
kufwan
ahad wabadu. Without a doubt, tazkiyah is 1
of the most important goals of our religion.
However, as with all such concepts and goals,
we have seen historically that
many people
go to extremes
either way. And this is we learn from
our past
We learn from misinterpretations. We learn from incorrect
ways what is the correct way. And just
like every aspect of Islam, you have those
that have gone to both extremes.
So too in tazkiyah, we have those that
have gone to the both extremes. Without a
doubt, the most common and extreme, may Allah
protect us all, is to ignore tazkiyah, to
not make tazkiyah a priority. That is without
a doubt a problem. And of course, at
the individual level, this is an individual problem.
But perhaps worse than this, there are movements,
there are interpretations of Islam, there are trends
that completely
neglect the giatun nafs. They don't concentrate
on the soul and the purification of the
soul. And we see the effects of those
movements, any movement,
any trend, any, you know, group or sect
that doesn't concentrate on deskiyah, we see the
impact that they go a wrong way. They
act overly fanatical. They lose compassion.
They don't have the softness of the heart.
And we see this historically, and we see
it in our times as well. Tazkiyah is
indeed a central concept, and anybody who neglects
it, neglects it at their peril. This is
the 1 extreme. On the other extreme, again,
as with all concepts, there are those that
have taken tazkiyah and they have made it
something in their minds that is the only
goal of Islam. And so for them, tazkiyah
is the the seminal goal, and all other
goals are neglected. And this is against the
Quran and against the sunnah. Of the goals
of Islam is you live a good life,
You have a good family. You establish
a marriage and children. Of the goals of
Islam, rabbanaatinafidunya
hasanawafil akhirdi
Of the goals of Islam, you have a
job and a career. Of the goals of
Islam, you build a civilization and have Izzah.
Of the goals of Islam, you contribute to
man kind, and none of this contradicts tazkiyah.
And this is a mistake and a misunderstanding
that some groups have. That tazkiyah means I
have to cut off from society. Dazkiyah means
just rebada tahajjud and that's it. Dazkiyah means
just my own wahasaba. And our Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam explicitly said, in our religion,
there is no monasticism.
We don't have monks. We don't have those
types of priests. We are people of the
dunya and akhirah simultaneously.
And tazkiyah needs to be done as you
have your career and you excel in your
career. Tazkiyah needs to be done as you
get married and you fulfill the rights of
the husband and wife. Tasqiyah needs to be
done as you raise your children to be
the best. Tasqiyah needs to be done and
you contribute to mankind, and you build civilization,
and you bring izzah to Islam.
Izzah in every single sense, political, economic, military,
every type of izzah also has to be
given. And this is the real tazkiyah.
Taskiyah is done along with the dunya. It
is not done in contrast to the duniya.
That's not the way of our religion. And
unfortunately, some trends and some movements have done
this and that is also a mistake. So
the ultimate tazkiyah is found in the life
of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And when
you see his seerah and when you understand
who he was and what he did, he
was successful at every aspect of the dunya,
and he was obviously the most successful in
the deen as well. This is how tazkiyah
is established.
Real tazkiyah of the soul, it is done
in spite of your busy schedule and not
by abandoning your schedule. Real tazkiyah is done
as you live in this dunya and you
contribute to this dunya. That is how tazkiyah
is done. As for this notion, oh, in
order to have tazkiyah, I have to break
away from the dunya. I'm sorry, you have
misunderstood.
And this is not the way of the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. So tazkiyah is a
goal. And perhaps 1 can say it's the
primary goal, no problem. But that goal doesn't
mean all the other goals are not done.
No. Other goals are also there, and we
must
bring the healthy middle and the balance, and
we must do what we can to fulfill
our rights of this world along with the
worship of Allah. And in reality, when we
understand this, then tazkiyah is also done
via one's contributions to mankind, via one's family.
That's why even zakat is called tazkiyah. And
how are you gonna give zakat if you
don't have money and you don't have a
career? So even when you give zakat, it
is a type of tazkiyah. So the ultimate
tazkiyah is the combination of being the best
you can be in this dunya and your
heart is spiritually pure. And when we do
this, Insha'Allah Wa Ta'ala, we'll reach our maximum
potential potential. We ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
to grant our souls purity and tazkiyah, and
we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to make
the path of tazkiyah
easy for us. Allahummanidayinfaaminoo.
Allahumalatadhanahualayumizhambanillagafartahwalahhammanillahfarrashtahwaladayinan
Stow, straighten your rows, leave no gaps in
the line.
Alhamdulillahi
rabbilahalamin
There's been a request for dua. A number
of our,
a number of our musalin, their relatives have
passed away around the world.
We have,
sister Aprosa,
her
father passed away, in Saudi Arabia in Al
Ainron.
We have brother Mohammed Qasim as well that,
he's the father of 1 of our Muslim
in Lebanon. He passed away. We have brother
Abdul Rahman,
he's, a cousin of 1 Armasaliin. He was
died a shahid in Gaza in the incident
that happened yesterday. We ask Allah
to forgive all of them and to grant
them firdaus and to make, their qabr a
place of jannah and a place of respite
for them. We also have requests for dua
for those that are sick. 1 of our
epic volunteer sisters is in the her mother's
in the masjid. Her mother's in the hospital,
receiving treatment, so she makes asks for dua.
We ask Allah
to cure all of our sick ones. And
also, we would like to, welcome,
delegates that have come, from, Somalia. We have
the Grand Mufti and we have the head
of the Sharia Council. They have a conference
in Dallas, and they have chosen our masjid
epic to come, so we're very honored to
have them.
From, from Ethiopia sorry. From Ethiopia, they have
come.
And They have Najashi. From the land of
Najashi, I'm being reminded, so I should know
better.
From the land of Najashi, they are here
alhamdulillah. So we welcome them to our community,
and we thank that they have chosen our
Masjid to come and pray, Jumasa. They welcome
in our community.