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  • Sabr and Salah

    Sabr and Salah
    Jan 11 2026
    Auto-generated transcript:We mentioned the Ayat of Allah SWT where he said, Allah SWT said, After that Ayat Allah SWT said, Allah SWT said, O you who believe, take the help. Take istiaanah. Take the help of sabr and salah. Inna Allaha ma'a sabirin. Verily Allah is with those who have sabr. Now the question is, what is sabr? The usual understanding that we seem to have of sabr is to do nothing. Sabr karo. Tu kya kano? Kuch nahi kano. Whatever is happening, just bear it in silence. Now this is a completely false and totally wrong interpretation and meaning of the word sabr. They'll give you two dalayl. One from the Quran and one from the Sunnah. The dalayl of the Quran is, in several places, Allah mentioned the mujahideen. He mentioned those who are fighting in wars. Fighting the enemies of Islam. Soldiers on the battlefield. In the front line. Allah SWT called them, He didn't call them mujahideen. Allah SWT called them sabireen. He said sabireen. And Allah said, if there are a hundred, Allah will give them. victory over a thousand. If there are a hundred, Allah will give them victory over two hundred. And so on. Allah called them sabireen. Now a soldier who is fighting in a battle. There is no one who is more engaged, who is struggling more than that soldier. He is literally fighting for his life. He has invested everything in that action. Nothing is left behind. Especially if you look at hand to hand combat. In medieval times. It's complete investment. Total commitment. Even for a second, a blink of an eye, if he loses concentration, if his attention is diverted, he is dead. Literally his life is at stake. He is not sitting like, nowadays in some bunker playing computer games. No. That kind of person engaged in that kind of activity, with that kind of commitment and total investment, Allah SWT is saying, this is a sabir. He is doing sabir. Second Dalit from the Sunnah. Rasulullah SAW, in Bahraini, he is saying, this is a sabir. He is doing sabir. He is doing sabir. Rasulullah SAW, in Badr, they were in Madinah, when they got information, that Abu Sufyan, is coming with his caravan. And this caravan has, the, the original, capital of the caravan, most of it was, the possessions of the Muhajirin, which the, people of the, the Masjid-e-Mishri, now Pankah had usurped and stolen. They took that and Abu Sufyan, had traded with that and he was coming back with the, result of that. So this caravan, really consisted of things which, came out of the possessions of the, Muhajirin. So Rasulullah SAW decided to, capture that caravan. So he was in Masjid-e-Nabawi Sharif, and he took out the caravan, and he was going, and he announced, he said, whoever is ready, come with me. So the people who went with him, the 300 and something, they were not, going for a battle. They were not prepared to go for a battle. If they were, if that had been announced, that we are going to go and there is going to be a battle, then they would have prepared, they would have had their armor, and they would have had their weapons, and so on and so forth. So they were ready to do something. So you get up and go, whatever you have, you have. So when they reached, or before they reached Badr, they got information to say that, Abu Sufyan has, changed his direction, because he got, his intelligence was very good. So he got news that, the people of Muhammad SAW, are leaving Madinah, and they are going to attack the caravan. So he changed his route, and he took a different route. So he was not going to be at Badr. On top of that, he sent a man, to Makkah, and he went on a fast camel, and when he reached the, when he reached Makkah, right at the Haram, near the Kaaba, which was the center of the town, he slashed the nose of the camel, so it was bleeding. He unsaddle the camel, and he took it to the caravan. And he said, he took the saddle, and put it upside down, and he started screaming, and yelling, and he said, oh you are finished, and your caravan is gone, and everything is looted, and all your goods are gone, and you are losers, and all kinds of things. He said, what happened? He said, he got the people together, and he came to Badr, with an army, and this was, they were going for war. This is not the same thing, like saying, let us go right now. They prepared. They had weapons, they had material, and so on. And 11 to 13 hundred of them, they were 12. And when the army was close to Badr, he got information that, the whole situation has completely changed. We were going to capture a caravan, the caravan would have had some few guards, it was not an army. But on the other hand, now we are going, if we go to Badr, then we are going to face an actual army. So he made mashwarah. He asked, he called all the people together, he went with him, there was some Ansar, there was some Maha Jiroor. He called them together, and he said, what do you advise me to do? I would like to go, and since we have set out, we don't want to turn back. But what is your ...
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  • Dhikr is reciprocal

    Dhikr is reciprocal
    Jan 10 2026
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions. Peace be upon him and upon his family. Huma Baadu, my brothers and sisters, we were talking yesterday about how do you get close to Allah. The purpose of life is to get close to Allah. And we get close to Allah through knowledge. Allah showed us how to get close to Him. Allah said, Allah said, Be grateful to me and do not be ungrateful. Make my shukr. And do not make kufr. Do not make kufran ni'mat. Do not be ungrateful for what I have given you. This shows us that it is a conditional statement. You will see in the Quran, Allah SWT mentioned many of His blessings, many things He will give. Jannah and Maghfirat and this and that. But every single thing is conditional upon something. Allah SWT did not say, don't do anything, I will still give you. Everything is conditional. Do this, you get this. Do this, you do it. Now what you get is multiples and multiples of what you do. So this is not related. Allah is not saying you have to work very hard to get a little benefit. No. You have to do the opposite. You have to do a little bit, get a huge benefit. But you have to do that little bit. . Our problem today in life is we don't want to do anything. On top of that, we want to do the opposite. We want to disobey Allah SWT and still we want a situation where if we raise our hands, the armies of angels will descend to defend us. It doesn't work like that. Sorry. So, Allah SWT, conditional statement. You make my zikr, I will make your zikr. You remember me, I remember you. . Allah SWT says, when my slave remembers me inside himself, in his heart, I remember him within myself in a way that suits my majesty and grace. When my slave remembers me in company, like we are sitting here, Alhamdulillah, Allah says, I remember him in a company superior to his. Because this is, Allah is remembering us. On his arsh. And who is around the arsh? The mukarrabin of the malaika. Right? And Nabi SAW said, when Allah SWT says, I remember you, Allah will remember you, specifically mention you by name. Allah SWT says, Zafar Ansari, Muzaffar Beg, Haviz Abbasi, and all of you. . Specific by name. Now the thing is, we need to, we all know this. I mean, this hadith I have read and heard and repeated a million times. May Allah SWT give me the ihsas, the feeling, the reality of the hadith in my heart. We need to reflect on what does it mean that my Rabb Jalla Jalaluhu is mentioning me on his arsh. What does it do to me here? What's in my heart? Ta'ala Allahu al-Amsal. Allah SWT is beyond any misal. We don't give a misal of Allah SWT, but just think about this. If you get a phone call here from a friend, somebody who says, and he remembers that he is somebody who mentioned someone else who is, you know, some prime minister, some president, somebody, some big chap, may not even need to be that big. You know, maybe your local MLA is enough for us. And he says, I had gone to this party and he was asking, where is so and so? What will you feel? Oh, this man remembered me. This man remembered me. Allah SWT is saying, I will remember you. I will remember you. Do you have a sense of that? So the remembrance being close to Allah SWT means you are somebody who Allah remembers. You are somebody who Allah SWT mentions. That's the sign of closest to Allah SWT. How will that happen? When we remember Allah. Conditional statement, you remember me, I remember you. Then Allah said, Make shukr. Be grateful to me. Do not be ungrateful. One of the, one of my favorite scholars, Ulama Muhammad Mutawalli Ash-Sharawi, Rahmatul Ali. He was a great scholar from Al-Azhar, from Egypt. He says, whenever you lose something, whatever it is, maybe you lose your wallet. Maybe you lose a business. Maybe you lose a job. Maybe you lose some aspect of health. May Allah protect us from all of these things. Maybe you lose a job. Maybe you lose a near, dear one. He says, don't think only about what you lost. Consciously think about what you still have. And you will find that what you still have is always more than what you lost. Ajiv. For example, may Allah protect us from all this. Somebody might say, so and so lost his life. He lost his eyesight. May Allah protect us from all this. He lost his life. He lost his life. May Allah protect us from all this. May Allah protect us from all this. So, eyesight loss is not a simple thing. It's a very, very major thing. It's so major that Allah said, if I take away the eyesight of my slave and he does not complain, and he says, Allah says, what else can I give him except Jannah? You lose your eyesight, which is in this world. At some level it will go, if you live long enough, it deteriorates anyway. But in exchange of that, you...
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  • Awareness of Allah ⁠ﷻ

    Awareness of Allah ⁠ﷻ
    Jan 9 2026
    Auto-generated transcript:As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. Wa alaykum as-salamu alaykum. Bismillah wa alhamdulillah. Amdan kathiran tayyiban mubarakan fihi. Amdan yaliqu bi jalali wajhihi wa bi yadhim sultani. Wa sallallahu ala khairi khalqihi Muhammadin as-sadiq al-amin. Al-mab'uthi rahmatan lil'alamin. Wa ala alihi al-tayyibin al-tahirin. Wa ala ashabihi al-ghurri al-mayamin. Wa man tabiahum bi ihsanin ila yawm al-deen. Allahumma kthubna minhum. Ameen. Qarallahu subhanahu wa ta'ala. Ya ayyuhu alladhina amanu taqallaha haqqa taqati. Wa la tamutunna illa wa antum muslimun. We begin by praising Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who is deserving of all praise. No matter how much we praise Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, it is not enough. Ahmad salallahu alayhi wa sallam, the one who praised Allah more than anyone else, said, Ya Allah, I cannot praise you as you deserve. You are only praised as you have praised yourself. And we send peace and blessings on the basis of the diam. best of his creation, khairu khalki, our beloved, our habib, our maula, Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and his noble family and his ahlul bayt. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to open our hearts to that which is useful for us in our relationship with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, that helps us to come closer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in this dunya before we are presented to him in the akhirah. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reminds us, actually commands us to have taqwa and we are reminded of this ayah every Juma. Ittaqullah, have taqwa of Allah, haqqa tuqati, what Allah deserves, what is deserved. What he is deserving. So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is commanding us to be in a state of taqwa throughout our lives and to die in that state because if you are in a state of taqwa, you are going to die in a state of loving submission, Islam. وَلَا تَمُوتُنَّ إِلَّا وَأَنْتُمْ مُسْلِمُونَ Having submitted completely to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. That we submit without questions, without whether it's easy, whether it is difficult, whether we are living in a non-Muslim country or we are living in the haram. Under all circumstances, to have taqwa of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. To be aware of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, to be conscious of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala at all times. Aware. That Allah watches me at all times. إِنَّ اللَّهَ كَانَ عَلَيْكُمْ رَقِيبًا Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, and certainly Allah over you is Ar-Raqeeb, one of the names of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Ever watchful. Allah not only sees the external actions, but Allah sees what thoughts come to my mind. What I entertain, what I plan, what my aspirations are, what my goals are, what my likes and dislikes are, what moves me to action, what makes me feel lazy. Be aware, Allah says, be aware that Allah knows. So we must live our lives at all times with this awareness. What I'm thinking, what my goals in life are, what my likes and dislikes are, the choices I make in my life, all of that is an open book to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, even though the one sitting in front of me doesn't know what's inside me. It's open to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So live in that state, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says. So whether it is in times of difficulty. Or in times of ease. Duniya is darul bala. You are going to be challenged. That is normal circumstances. This is not jannah. So if you face difficulties, and difficulties come in different forms. It could be health challenges. It could be family challenges. It can be economic challenges. It can be social challenges. Living in a different kind of environment. All difficulties are from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to test each one of us. What is our true worth? Because everyone claims to have Iman. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says that the Arab, the Bedouin said that we have believed. Aamannah. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says that we have believed. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam tells them. No. Iman has not even entered your heart. All you can claim is that we have accepted Islam. That we have accepted Islam. So the internal states are known only to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And ultimately where is that? As he said. inside the heart. But that then controls us to our학교 beementhang. This state. My book. Honestly, my book is only from Salman Abdullah Zahra. Now there is an older, my book is more newer, recent. my thought processes, what I'm thinking, what I'm planning, what my goals in life are, likes and dislikes. All of that has to be within that envelope of taqwa and awareness of Allah. Keeping that in mind, in the last day or two, we have witnessed what Allah has written in the universe. Allah says, إِنَّ فِي خَلْقِ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَاخْتِلَافِ اللَّيْلِ وَالنَّهَارِ لَآيَاتٍ لِأُولِي الْأَلْبَابِ Allah says...
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