Zia Sheikh – Ramadan Khatira Day 5 6102016

in Sahih Muslim.

Abu Huraira radiallahu ta'ala narrates that the

Prophet ﷺ put me in charge of safeguarding

the zakat of Ramadan, meaning the provisions and

the food of Ramadan that had been accumulated

or donated to the Baytul Mal.

The Prophet ﷺ had put me in charge

of taking care of it.

So while I was taking care of it

at night, I was the security guard, a

man came and he tried to steal some

of the food.

So I grabbed hold of him and I

said to him, I am going to take

you up to the Prophet ﷺ and complain

that I saw you stealing from this food.

So the man, he started complaining and saying,

please let me go, pleaded and saying that

my family is poor and I needed the

food, so please let me go, I won't

do it again.

So in the morning, when I went to

the Prophet ﷺ, he asked me, Ya Abu

Huraira, ma fa'ala aseeru kal baari?

Abu Huraira, what did your prisoner do last

night?

So before even Abu Huraira could tell him,

the Prophet ﷺ already knew.

So Abu Huraira said, this and this happened

and he pleaded with me and I forgave

him and I let him go because I

felt sorry for him.

So the Prophet ﷺ said that he is

going to come back.

The next night, indeed the same thing happened.

I caught the same man stealing, I grabbed

him and I told him that I am

going to take him up to the Prophet

ﷺ and he pleaded with me again, I

felt sorry for him.

Next day, the Prophet ﷺ asked me the

same question and he said he will come

back again.

Then the third night, the same thing happened.

The same man came and he was caught

stealing and then Abu Huraira r.a insisted

that he is not going to let him

go.

He is not going to let him go

because this was the third time and enough

is enough.

So this man, he said to Abu Huraira

that if I teach you something, something very

valuable, would you let me go?

He said, what is that?

What are you going to teach me?

He said that when you go to your

bed at night, idha awaita ila firashik, fa

ikra allahu la ilaha illahu al hayyul khayyum,

ayatul kursi.

When you are going to your bed at

night, recite ayatul kursi and this will be

a form of protection for you from all

sorts of evil and all forms of shayateen

and then Abu Huraira r.a after learning

this, let him go.

And then the next day, obviously the Prophet

s.a.w., he already knew and then

Abu Huraira r.a, he said that this

man, he taught me this, these words about

ayatul kursi.

He taught me this thing about ayatul kursi.

The Prophet s.a.w. said, sadaqaka wahuwa

kadhub.

He told you the truth even though he

is a huge liar.

He is not kadhib.

Kadhib means just a liar.

But kadhub, somebody who is always lying.

It is mubalagha in Arabic, which basically emphasizes

the fact that he always lies.

He is always lying, but here he told

you the truth.

And then the Prophet s.a.w. said,

you know who this man was?

Abu Huraira r.a said, tell me who

it was?

The Prophet s.a.w. said, that was

the shaytan came to you in human form.

So what we learn from this is the

power of ayatul kursi.

The Prophet s.a.w. verified what the

shaytan had taught Abu Huraira that ayatul kursi

is a very powerful medium to protect one

from all these forms of evil.

And I mentioned that a couple of days

ago in brief, but I thought I would

revisit the issue again just to emphasize.

The recitation of ayatul kursi, it is recommended

that after fajr three times, after maghrib three

times, after every other surah one time and

as this hadith suggests that a person before

going to sleep, he should recite it and

blow upon the hands and rub over the

body, rub over the body of the children

and this will be inshallah a form of

protection.

In addition to that, we need to also

understand that there are more important forms of

protection and that is fulfilling the obligations that

Allah s.w.t. has put upon us.

The fara'ib that Allah s.w.t.

has put upon us and staying away from

the muharramat and the maasi, this is an

even bigger form of protection and I will

give you an example of that which will

make you understand that when you are building

and constructing your home and you call the

alarm company to come and install an alarm

in your property and the alarm person, he

says to you that, you know, it is

impossible for me to fit an alarm into

your house because you haven't even put doors

and windows into your house yet, okay.

If you don't even have doors and windows,

what is the purpose of the alarm?

So the doors and windows of the house

is the comparison that you can make to

the fara'ib and the obligations that Allah

s.w.t. has put upon us and

until you don't have those doors and windows,

the alarm which is ayatul kursi, you know,

it is kind of weak on its own.

So many people what they tend to do

is they want this magic pill, something which

is an easy shortcut while not fulfilling the

obligations that Allah s.w.t. has put

upon them, they want these easy shortcuts for

protection and for fulfilling of their needs, you

know, give me a dua that I can

recite that will fulfill all of my needs.

Well, do you pray your five times salat?

Well, no, I don't.

I am a little bit lazy from that

perspective.

Well, you have to do that first before

doing any form of dua.

So in all respects, whether it is for

protection or fulfillment of needs, the first and

foremost is fulfilling the obligations that Allah s

.w.t. has put upon us, five times

daily salat, giving up the zakat on time

when the hajj is obligatory to fulfill that

and all of the other obligations that we

know about, if they become obligatory upon us,

we need to fulfill them and then staying

away from muharramat, the things that Allah s

.w.t. has forbidden, the things that are

prohibited, we need to understand them and keep

away from them and then all of these

other duas and adhkar and awrad, these are

secondary in comparison to that.

They will only be beneficial or they will

have the most power when we are going

through the system that I have just mentioned.

Without that system, all of these awrad become

weakened and they will not have the same

power as when a person is going through

that whole procedure that I have just mentioned.

Why is ayatul kursi so powerful?

I will just finish by saying this.

If we read the translation of it, it

combines all of the major awsaf and the

qualities, the asma'us and sifat of Allah

s.w.t. in one ayah.

There is a riwayah from Ubay ibn Kaam

r.a. The Prophet s.a.w. asked

him, do you know which is the greatest

verse in the Qur'an?

And a person might think that when the

Prophet s.a.w. is saying a'abamu

ayah, the greatest ayah, maybe he is talking

about size.

But Ubay ibn Kaam r.a. Abu'l

Mumthir is mentioned in this riwayah.

He responded by saying it is ayatul kursi.

The Prophet s.a.w. made dua for

him for his knowledge that he gave the

correct answer.

In size, it is not that big in

terms of the wording.

But in terms of the content, the qualities

of Allah s.w.t., his power, his

kingdom and the fact that nobody is equal

to him.

He never slumbers.

He never sleeps.

All of these qualities are mentioned in one

verse and the combination of all those qualities

in one verse make it the most powerful

verse in the whole Qur'an.

I pray that Allah s.w.t. gives

us tawfiq to understand and practice what is

being said in it.

Tomorrow, Insha'Allah tomorrow, Noman Ali Khan will

be here.

He is going to be taking my place

and also on Sunday, we have a very

famous ex-cricketer, Saeed Anwar.

He is going to be visiting us after

Salatul Asr and he is going to be

giving a talk in Urdu.

So please do try to participate.

It is after Salatul Asr on Sunday.