Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

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  • We came to give, not to take.
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  • Dua after Salah

    Dua after Salah
    Apr 3 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:As-Sulillah Al-A'laman Al-Reheem. Alhamdulillah Rabbil Alameen. Wa Salat wa Salamu Alaa Sherafi Al-Anbiyaib Al-Mursaleen Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Tasliman Kaseeraan Kaseeraan. Muhammad Bahu, my brothers and sisters, one of the most beautiful duas which we all know and which we do is the one that Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam taught to Abu Bakr Siddiq. Abu Bakr Siddiq reported, I requested Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam to teach me a dua which I could recite in my salaam. Thereupon he said, Allahumma Inni Zalamtu Nafsi Zulman Kaseeraan, Wala Yaghfiru Zunuba Illa Anta, Faghfir Li Maghfiratan Min Indik, Wa Arhamni Innaka Anta Al-Ghfuru Al-Rahim. Allahumma Inni Zalamtu Nafsi Zulman Kaseeraan, Wala Yaghfiru Zunuba Illa Anta, Faghfir Li Maghfiratan Min Indik, Wa Arhamni Innaka Anta Al-Ghfuru Al-Rahim. Allah, I have wronged myself a great deal. Inni Zalamtu Nafsi Zulman Kaseeraan, I have wronged myself a great deal. There is none to forgive sins but you. So grant me pardon and have mercy on me. You are the most forgiving, the most compassionate. And this is in Bukhari-e-Muslim. Now think about that. The commentary, Imam Nawir Ahmadul Aliyyat says it is desirable to recite this Dua in Salah after the Shahud and before the Salim, before Salah. One can recite it at all other times also. Now the point here is this Dua is being taught to Abu Bakr Siddhi Sadalan whose Salah was at a level where people used to see him pray and they would come to Islam. This was the complaint within courts made by the Quresh about Abu Bakr Siddhi Sadalan. This was the reason why they put a condition. As you know the story from the Seerah, Abu Bakr Siddhi Sadalan was leaving and going away from Mecca because of the persecution of the Quresh. And one of the chiefs of the tribes, he came there and he saw him going. So he asked him where he was going. Abu Bakr Siddhi Sadalan told him, he said, no, no, this is not right. You can't leave here and go. How can you have Mecca without Abu Bakr? So I will give you protection. He called his sons and his sons that he put on their armor, they came to Mecca. They met the half of the Kaaba and he announced and said Abu Bakr is under my protection. So Abu Jahl said to him, we accept your protection, but on condition. The condition is that Abu Bakr must pray inside his house. He must not pray where anyone can see him. Now see the peculiar condition. What does it matter if somebody is praying, whether anybody sees them or not? Obviously it mattered. So the man asked the question, this man said, well, what kind of a condition is this? Why does it matter to you whether he is praying outside or inside? They said no, because when he prays in a place where people can see him, people are, our people are becoming Muslim. His prayer is so impressive and so effective that people are accepting Islam. We don't want this to happen. So let him pray inside. Abu Qasid Al-Hadilano agreed and he prayed inside his house for two or three days and after that he came outside again. He was praying in the courtyard of his house and the Meccans, the Khurais, Abu Jahl and others, they complained to this, to the man who gave him protection. The man said, look, I can't give you protection because this is the condition under which I give you protection and if you don't follow those rules, I can't give you protection. Abu Qasid Al-Hadilano said, JazakAllah, thank you for your protection. I don't need it anymore. Alhamdulillah, Allah is enough for me. Now point being, somebody whose salah is so good, Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is teaching him, make this dua, Allahumma inni zalam tu nafsi zulman kaseera. When is this being made? At the end of the salah. At the end of salah of such beauty and such power, of such sincerity inshallah. What does it tell us? It tells us that when we do something good and we do something for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'...
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  • Duas to remember

    Duas to remember
    Apr 2 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, the Dua'as of Rasulullah are the most comprehensive, the most beautiful, the most complete in the fewest possible words that you can imagine. And we ask Allah SWT to accept those Dua'as from us the way He accepted it from His Habib Sallallahu Alayhi wa'ala Alihi wasallam. Among those Dua'as is one which is narrated by Anas bin Malik Adyalanu. Even the debt of gratitude that we owe to the Sahaba, without whose keen observation and without whose assiduous and persistent and very sincere preservation of the words of the Rasulullah SAW, we would not have any of these beautiful Dua'as preserved for us. We ask Allah SWT to reward the Sahaba in keeping with His Majesty and Grace. The entire Ummah of Muhammad SAW owes a huge debt of gratitude to all the Sahaba of Rasulullah SAW. So, Anas bin Malik Adyalanu who spent the entire period that Rasulullah SAW stayed in Medina with him, the whole 10 years, and he was with him from the time he himself was say about 10 years old to the time he was 20. He literally grew up in the house of Rasulullah SAW. He is one of his closest companions, one of his favorite Sahaba, a man who learned the Deen at the feet of Rasulullah SAW by literally living with him. Imagine if you talk about the benefit of Suhbah, the benefit of the companionship of the Rasulullah SAW, the people like Anas bin Malik, people like Abdullah ibn Abbas, who literally grew up in the house of Rasulullah SAW. Zayd bin Haritha Adyalanu, Usama bin Zayd Adyalanu, who literally grew up in the house of Rasulullah SAW and they saw him day and night and they were in his company day and night and they listened to him. And imagine these are not kids who are being bratish and stuff. They were very deeply conscious of the fact of whose company they were in, whose house they were in. They were hugely respectful. They had the essence of adab. They were very thoughtful and they were so conscious of the wealth that Allah had given them by the company of Rasulullah SAW. There is this famous story of Abdullah ibn Abbas who said that he saw Rasulullah SAW waking up for Tahajjud. What does it mean he saw him? It means that he was already awake. This is a little kid, he is maybe 10-11 years old. He was already awake. Why was he awake? Because he knew where he was, he knew in whose presence he was. So he said he saw the Ravi Alayhi Salaam wake up, so he ran to get water for Uduh and he poured the water when he made Uduh and Rasulullah SAW when he finished his Uduh, he put his hand on his blessed hand on the chest of Abdullah ibn Abbas, Radyalanu and he said, O Allah, give him the Fiqh of the Quran, give him the understanding of the Quran. Right? This is the dua being done for a little kid, 10-11 year old kid. But why is it being done? Because it is not just a kid. This 10-11 year old kid emotionally is at the level of adulthood. This kid is somebody who knows who he is with. He is not thinking, oh, this is my cousin. No, this is the Rasulullah SAW. This is the whole benefit of adab, which is so, so critically important. Anas bin Malik Radyalanu was also another one like this. His mother who brought him and gave him to the Ravi Alayhi Salaam and said, Ya Rasulullah, I am giving my son to you. Let him be your servant. Let him be with you. This is the wisdom of his mother who put her own, in a very positive sense, agent in the house of Rasulullah SAW so that she could learn from whatever the son observes. So he says, Anas bin Malik Radyalanu says, the Nabi SAW used to make this dua, Allah I seek refuge in you from helplessness to do good, helplessness in every way, from laziness, from indolence, from cowardice, from senility and from miserliness. And I seek your protection against the torment of the grave, the adab-e-l-khabr and the trials of life and death. In another narration in Muslim, he adds this line, Now imagine this beautiful dua is asking refuge from helplessness, adj,
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  • Why Ramadan?

    Why Ramadan?
    Apr 1 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, as my brother recited the ayah from the Quran concerning Ramadan, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, Ya ayyuha allatheena amanu kutiba alaykumu sriyamu kama kutiba ala allatheena min qablikum la'allakum tattaqun which as he translated means, O you who believe, fasting has been prescribed upon you as it was prescribed for those before you so that you may become pious, may become more God conscious. It's very important therefore to understand that fasting like salaah, like prayer for example, and like all the acts of worship in Islam is a tool. It's a tool to achieve something. It's not for itself. Salaah for example, prayer is not for itself. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, Inna as-salata tanha anil fahshai wal munkar. The purpose of salaah is to separate you from, to protect you from, to keep you far apart from all forms of sins and all forms of misdeeds and all forms of rebellion and all forms of promiscuity and shamelessness. So if I am praying five times a day and I find I'm still lying and cheating and slandering people and blackbiting and doing all kinds of stuff, then doing drugs and alcohol and God knows what, then obviously I need to check my salaah to say what is wrong with my prayer that it does not seem to be doing what it is supposed to do. My prayer is supposed to make me lead a clean life, but my life is still dirty even though I'm praying. So something is wrong with my prayer, right? Take any tool, take absolutely any tool that we use. Every tool has a purpose. The tool is not for itself. You don't take the tool and you polish it and everything else and keep it nice and safe on top of a shelf. You use the tool, whatever the tool is. And if the tool is not working, then you see the results of that. So I'm, this tool is supposed to do this for me, it's not doing it, it means there's something wrong with the tool. I go, I fix the tool. And that's what we do with our all forms of worship. Salah is to keep us, to help us to lead a life which is clean and pure. Fasting is to help us to become conscious of God, of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in every aspect of our lives. It's not for its, fasting is not a endurance test of how long you can stay without food and water. Fasting is meant to do something and that something is to make us conscious of Allah so that every action of mine, everything that I am going to do before I decide, I will ask myself, is this something which is going to please Allah or not? If it is something that will please Allah, I do it. If it is something that does not please Allah, I will not do it. And if it is something about which I have a doubt, whether this will please Allah or not, I don't know, then I will not do it until I clarify the doubt and then of course I decide to do it or not to do it. That is the meaning of taqwa. Taqwa is to have this awareness of the presence of Allah in my life. Now that does two major benefits for us. It does two great pieces of good for us. The first thing is that a person of taqwa remains protected from all forms of sin and all forms of disobedience of Allah. Please understand this, in Islam every sin is intrinsically bad. Somebody asked me many years ago, over twenty-five years ago, I was speaking at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and it was a lecture called Introduction to Islam and at the end of that, a lady in the back, she raised her hand and I said, yes please and she said to me, she said, what is the Sharia? Right? Every once in a while you have this thing of saying, America is coming under Sharia law. I mean it won't happen in a thousand years, let me assure you. But at the same time, people make up these rumors. So somebody said, what is the Sharia? So I said to her, Sharia is the way in which every decent, law-abiding, socially conscious, a person of principles would like to live, period. Even if you remove Islam from it and say forget about Islam, let us just look at the Sharia law itself.
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