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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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  • Forgive each other

    Forgive each other
    Mar 30 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon His messengers and messengers. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family and companions. He is the one who has received a lot of peace. And what is next? My brothers and sisters, one of the most important things, if not the most important thing, is, especially in Ramadan, is to clean our hearts. Is to clean our hearts and to free our hearts from all hatred, from all enmity, from all greed, from all envy, jealousy, all negative emotions. To free our hearts from this. To clean our hearts and to make them pure for the sake of Allah alone. Part of that is to forgive each other. No matter who it is, no matter what they did, forgive them for the sake of Allah. Let me give you evidence from the Seerah, from the Quran and from the Sunnah. From the Quran first. When Misthah bin Uthatha indulged in gossip during the slander incident of Al-Ifq against our mother, Aisha Siddiqa radiya Allah anhu, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala then sent down revelation confirming the innocence of Aisha Siddiqa radiya Allah anhu. Abu Waqar Siddiqa radiya Allah anhu, who had been spending on Misthah because he was his relative and he was poor, so Abu Siddiqa radiya Allah anhu used to give him some financial aid, he said, by Allah, I will never spend anything on Misthah again. After what he said about Aisha, Qadil anhu. So here was a man who slandered the daughter of somebody from whom he was receiving aid. Now can you think of anything more serious than that? And not just any daughter, this was the daughter of Abu Waqar Siddiqa radiya Allah anhu. She was his mother according to the relationship with Rasulullah, she was the wife of Rasulullah, yet this man instead of being grateful, he slandered her. So if Abu Waqar Siddiqa radiya Allah anhu at that point said, look I was helping this man, I was giving him financial aid, this was a poor guy, I was helping him in his poverty and he backstabbed me by slandering my daughter, so I am going to stop my financial aid, this would be completely just and fair and completely understandable and something which nobody can find any fault with. Yet Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, see what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala did. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala revealed Quran and this is from the fazail and the marks of praise of Abu Waqar Siddiqa radiya Allah anhu, that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala revealed Quran to advise Abu Waqar Siddiqa radiya Allah anhu not to do what he had decided to do. So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala revealed in Surat an-Nur, ayah number 22 Allah said, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, So here is the first dalil, the first evidence that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants us to forgive others and that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is pleased with that and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala does not want us to hold grudges against each other. Rasulullah s.a.w. mentioned in one hadith where he said that in an argument if you are right yet you give up your position for the sake of your brother, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will give you a palace in Jannah. When you are right, you give up the place, he will give you a palace in Jannah. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, if you do good to those who do you evil, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will give you a palace in Jannah. See the case of Rasulullah s.a.w. himself, he was mercilessly persecuted for 13 years in Makkah. His closest friends, some of them were killed, some of them were tortured, including his daughter, she was killed. The people of Makkah who were his own relatives, who were his close relatives, including Abu Lahab who was his own blood uncle, he was his closest relative, he was like his father. They rejected him, they abused him, they did all kinds of evil against him. Anyone who thinks that they have been wronged by somebody, I challenge you,
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  • Ramadan Reminders 2025 – #30 – Eid Mubarak

    Ramadan Reminders 2025 – #30 – Eid Mubarak
    Mar 30 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honorable prophets and messengers. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him and upon his family and companions. He is the most merciful and the most merciful. My brothers and sisters, we come finally to the end of this month. SubhanAllah, let us leave this month with a sense of loss, with a sense of grief, not with a sense of happiness and relief. Alhamdulillah, we are happy that tomorrow will be the day of Eid. And inshallah, that is something to be happy about. But we are happy about the fact that there is Eid, but we are not happy about the fact that Ramadan is over. And be very, very, very conscious that today might be the last fast of your and my life in Ramadan. Because if Allah does not give me another Ramadan, this is my last Ramadan. I said this in the beginning, I am saying it again. Let us consciously have this thought that this is my last Ramadan and make it the best Ramadan of my life yet. Two or three important things. One is the fasting of Shawwal. The six days after Ramadan, Abu Ayyub said, The Prophet said, Abu Ayyub Al Ansari narrated that Rasulullah said, Whoever fasts Ramadan and follows it with six fasts from Shawwal, That is equal in reward to fasting the whole year, every day of the year. So Ramadan effectively is like fasting for ten months. And Shawwal is fasting the six days equals to sixty days because Allah gives one for every hasana, for every good deed. Allah gives ten hasana. So therefore, fasting of six days gets us the reward of fasting for sixty days. So, for sixty days, fasting of one month gives us the reward of fasting for ten months. And therefore, we have fasted for the whole year. So do not miss the fast of Shawwal. The fast of Shawwal can be kept at any time during the month of Shawwal. They don't have to be kept continuously or continuously. You can fast on Mondays and Thursdays, for example, and you will finish the six days in the whole month or at any whatever combination. Don't pick a Friday to fast. If you are fasting, for example, the Yawmul Bidh, 13th, 14th and 15th of the month, if you are fasting, one of them is a Friday. No problem. Alhamdulillah. But don't pick the Friday to fast because Friday is a day of Eid and fasting is not permitted on Friday just by itself. Otherwise, you can fast. I find the easiest way is immediately after Eid, give it a day or two because the period of Eid is for three days. And after that, just fast six days and you are done. But whatever is convenient. So don't miss the six days of fast of Shawwal. Now Eid itself, it's called Eid ul Fitr. And therefore, Zakat ul Fitr, the charity for Zakat must be given. And it must be given. It is wajib on behalf of all Muslims, young and old, male and female. Even if a child was born the previous night, Zakat ul Fitr is wajib on that child also. Check with your masjid wherever you live. Whatever is the amount of Zakat ul Fitr, make sure it is given. Give it before you go for Salat ul Eid. It is not permissible to give it after. For example, the Hadith, not example, the Hadith, the dahlil is Hadith in Sayyid Abid-A'ood. Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said whoever gives it before the Salat, it is Zakat ul Fitr. And whoever gives it after the Salat, it is ordinary charity. And therefore, it is very important to make sure that you give Zakat ul Fitr outside, before the Salat ul Eid. So be very clear about that and make sure that you give it. Ideally give it one or two days before the day of Eid, which is most convenient. So anyway, Kullu Aam, Mantum Bi Kheir. Eid Mubarak to all of you. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give you the Eid in the best possible way. Think of the people who cannot celebrate this festival, who are in difficult circumstances all over the world. Make lots of dua for them. Give lots of sadaqa.
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  • Ramadan Reminders 2025 – #29

    Ramadan Reminders 2025 – #29
    Mar 29 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Alhamdulillah. Arabic See the attitude of the Sahaba whenever some things were told to them. When the Sahaba were told of the last signs of the last days and the Holy Prophet said that the period of time will lengthen and an hour will become as long as a day and the day will become as long as a week and the week will become as long as a year and so on. The Sahaba did not say well you know how is that going to happen? What will happen to the rotation of the earth? Is it happening because of that? They asked the question. They said, Ya Rasulullah, how will we pray during this time? If a day is as long as a week or a month or a year whatever, how are we going to pray the five sarawat during this period of time? So there is complete yakin in what the Holy Prophet said and they were focused constantly on how can we maximize the benefit of that or if it was a dangerous thing how can we avoid that danger? Similarly in Laylatul Khazr when Aisha Cindy Khairul Zailana heard about Laylatul Khazr and about the benefit of Laylatul Khazr, she asked Rasulullah a beautiful question. She said, Ya Rasulullah, if I should find Laylatul Khazr, meaning if I am searching for Laylatul Khazr in the last ten nights and I am on that night, it's not that she will know specifically that that is the night, but meaning one of those nights is the night. So she said, if I find Laylatul Khazr, what draw should I make? What should I ask Allah SWT on this night? And he taught her this dua which all of us know, Alhamdulillah if you don't memorize it and make this dua, Rasulullah SAW said, Aisha, ask Allah and say, Allahumma innika afoon tuhibbul afoo fa afu annee Allahumma innika afoon tuhibbul afoo fa afu annee Allah, truly you are the forgiver. You love to forgive, so forgive me. See the beautiful dua, it's not saying I deserve to be forgiven, no, it's saying you like to forgive, so forgive me. It will benefit me because I will be forgiven. Ya Allah, you love to forgive, you are the great forgiver. innika afoon tuhibbul afoo fa afu annee Now many times you hear this dua, people say, Allahumma innika afoon kareeb tuhibbul afoo fa afu annee See the issue is, the best way of doing something is the exact way in which Rasulullah SAW taught us to do it. It's not haram if somebody says innika afoon kareeb, Alhamdulillah it's a good, you know, he is glorifying Allah SWT. But there is no one who glorified Allah more than Rasulullah SAW. So if he said something and he did not add the word kareeb, don't add the word kareeb. If somebody adds it, leave it, doesn't matter, nothing to argue about. But make sure that when we follow the Sunnah, we follow the Sunnah exactly as Rasulullah SAW taught us to follow. So Allahumma innika afoon tuhibbul afoo fa afu annee Wallah, you are the great forgiver. So you love to forgive, so forgive me. And we as sisters ask a lot of forgiveness because we know that when a person makes tauba, it's the part Allah SWT accepts it. And Allah SWT converts their evil deeds into good deeds. So this is a hugely beneficial thing. Then Allah SWT helps the one who is seeking forgiveness. Allah SWT does not send azaab until, Allah SWT does not send azaab until or as long as there are people who are seeking forgiveness. And Allah SWT does not, Allah helps the person who is seeking forgiveness out of difficulties. Allah SWT solves his problems for you. So forgiveness is a wonderful thing to seek and we, swa Allah, we need it more than anybody else. So continuously seek forgiveness, especially in nairatul qadr. And make sure that you make istighfar and tauba because tauba is very important. You seek forgiveness and it changes your life. It's not that we seek forgiveness and then continue in our old, you know, evil ways. No, you seek forgiveness and then you get out of it. Get out of that bad habit.
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  • Ramadan Reminders 2025 – #28

    Ramadan Reminders 2025 – #28
    Mar 28 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful. All praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honor of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, and upon his family and his companions, a very short peace. So what is this? Our brothers and sisters, Allah SWT told us about the Night of Al-Qadr. Allah SWT revealed a surah. Allah said, Allah SWT said, Which means, indeed, it is we who sent this Quran down on the Night of Al-Qadr, the Night of Glory. And what will make you realize what the Night of Al-Qadr is? And what will make you realize what the Night of Al-Qadr is? Allah SWT said, The Night of Glory is better than a thousand months. That night the angels and Jibri, peace be upon him, Descend by the permission of their Rabb for every decreed matter. It is all peace until the break of dawn. Nowadays, Al-Qadr, Allah SWT is telling us, what do you know? Understand this, realize this. What do you know about it? Meaning, understand and realize what a tremendous thing this is. To worship Allah SWT in the Night of Al-Qadr is more than, not equal and so, more than continuous worship for 83 and a half years, one thousand months. Continuous worship. Obviously, it goes without saying that nobody can possibly continuously worship for that period of time because obviously he would have, he would need this and so on and so forth. Now Allah SWT is giving us this as a gift. And this is the whole point of Ramadan. Ramadan comes as a gift. We have to recognize this as a gift. Now Allah SWT gives us lots of things, lots of freebies in Ramadan. Lots of upgrades. Now if you don't take advantage of it, it shows us that either a person has no iman, has very little belief or no belief because he doesn't take advantage of this. Or it's just suicidal laziness because, you know, yeah, you have a belief, but you still don't want to do what you need to do in order to benefit. So what can anybody say? So here Allah is saying this is one night. Now this night is in the last, you know, one of the odd nights in the last 10 days of Abadarul Kareem, last 10 nights. So that is why we need to be very focused and make sure that we don't waste that night. Now, which is this night? Again, as I said, don't fall into arguments. They asked the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. He gave them signs. But very interestingly, he gave them signs of the morning after. He said the morning after, maybe there will be a little drizzle, some rain, maybe the sun will rise with the rays which are not harsh and so on. Now the question here is very simple. The question is, it still doesn't tell me which night is Lailatul Khadr because if I really want to say I will pray on Lailatul Khadr, I should know before it happens. I should know the previous evening. So I know, OK, this night I'm going to do this. But if I know the following morning, the night is already gone. So imagine I spend the night in sincere worship and in the morning I see these signs. Alhamdulillah, I am very happy because that means I have been praying because that means I got this night of Lailatul Khadr. But if it's the opposite, if I wasted this night and may Allah have mercy on me if I did something wrong in this night or just slept through the night, didn't do anything and next morning I see all the signs that last night, the previous night had been Lailatul Khadr. I still don't know for sure because we are interpreting signs. But the point I'm saying is what is the use of that because the night is wasted already. So the thing to do is, again, don't get into arguments, don't involve yourself in useless things. Focus on the nights. Focus on worshipping Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as sincerely as possible in all the nights of the last 10 days of Ramadan. So by that way, we automatically get the night which is the odd night. Yaa Aska Allah wa lailatul khadr wa lakhbis bil khair wa l-afya wa sallalla...
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  • Ramadan Reminders 2025 – #27

    Ramadan Reminders 2025 – #27
    Mar 27 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honorable prophets and messengers. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family, and peace and blessings be upon him. My brothers and sisters, Alhamdulillah, we are in the last ten days of Ramadan. The fuzillat of these last ten days or last ten nights, I think everybody knows. We have the hadith of Uyayna bin Abdur Rahman and Ruzaila Anuma who narrated, My father narrated to me the night of Al-Qadr was mentioned in the presence of Abu Bakra. So he said, I do not search for it due to something that I heard from Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam, except for during the last ten nights. For indeed I heard him say, search for it when nine remain or when seven remain or when five remain or during the last three nights. He, Uyayna Ruzaila Anu said, during the twenty nights of Ramadan, Abu Bakra used to perform Salah, just as he performed Salah during the rest of the year. But when the last ten began, he would make extra effort to pray more in the night. Now we know the hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam also where he came out of his house. There was some argument happening in the Masjid. He came out and he said to the people arguing loudly, he said, Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam had informed me about the exact night of Laylatul Khadr. But because of this argument that is going on in the Masjid, Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam caused me to forget it, but search for it in the last ten nights of Ramadan in the odd nights. So 21st, 23rd, 27th, 29th are the odd nights of Ramadan al-Qayyim. Now on a side note, of course, this also teaches us the danger and the problem with raising voices and arguing and so on in the Masjid. But in this case, think about this, that Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam was made to forget the exact night. But Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam caused him to advise us to search for the night of Laylatul Khadr in the last ten nights. Now there is obviously everything there is khair, alhamdulillah. And the benefit of this is that it gives us the opportunity of worshipping Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam with great sincerity and devotion, which of course you must do all the time, but at least in this case, in these nights, the last ten nights of Ramadan al-Qayyim and in the odd nights. Now the thing I want to say to you is please don't fall into arguments. Again, the whole issue of problem with us today is that we argue about useless things. So don't fall into arguments about is it the 21st night tonight or is it possible that it is not? Maybe it is the 20th, maybe it is the 22nd, because in Saudi Arabia it is 22nd or in Pakistan it is 21st and this and that. I mean all kinds of people who do not understand either astronomy or don't understand the deen, may Allah have mercy on us. We make the statements and we get into arguments. The best thing is treat that entire period of the last ten nights of Ramadan al-Qayyim as if every night is an odd night, because even if you take the fact that Ramadan, the starting of Ramadan, because it is based on moon sighting, sometimes there is a different sighting. So people have, they start on one day in one place and a day later in another place. It is possible that when you are observing the 21st night in your country, it is actually the 22nd and vice versa. So the best thing to do is treat all those nights as if they are the daylatul khatr. Worship Allah SWT with complete and total dedication to Him for this because of the benefit and the fazilat and the position and the maqam and the magnitude of the daylatul khatr. Fiasco, Al-Usman and Tara to grant us the daylatul khatr with khayran. Afiya inshaAllah. Wasallallahu ala Nabiyyil Karim wa ala Aliya wa ala Sabaibiyyin. Bi rahmatul rahim.
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  • Ramadan Reminders 2025 – #26

    Ramadan Reminders 2025 – #26
    Mar 26 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the most gracious, the most merciful. The Prophet Muhammad also taught us this dua in the Quran. This is an English language. Allah save me from dependence on anyone except yourself. Make me ghani, make me free from need and dependent only on yourself. Allahumma kfini bi halalika an haramik wa aghanini bi fadlika aman siwak. So make this dua, make this into part of your morning and evening asqar inshaAllah. Make this dua in the morning, after Salatul Fajr maybe 3 times and after Salatul Maghrib you can make this dua again inshaAllah. Allahumma kfini bi halalika an haramik wa aghanini bi fadlika aman siwak. Make this dua inshaAllah. We ask Allah SWT to grant us khair and hafiz. Make this dua powerful for us and accept it from us. My brothers and sisters, as I mentioned too, dua is the connection between the slave and his Rabb, Jallatul Ado. And Ramadan is the time when we are close to Allah SWT. We are fasting. The dua at the time of iftar, this is something which is very important. At the time of iftar is one of the times of acceptance of dua. So two things you must not do. First, don't get the people in your house so involved in preparing all kinds of fancy foods. And this, I like this, I like that and this samosa and that, you know, whatever. So that they lose time to make dua. Those of you who are servants, who are Muslim servants, leave the world. Let them pray. Let them make zikr. People in homes where your spouse is or the ladies in the family, whoever makes your food, leave the world. Tell them, look, we want to simplify our lives. We don't want you to be in the kitchen at the time when you should be on your musalla. You should be making dua to Allah SWT. You should be reciting the Quran. This is the time. Time of iftar is the time for the acceptance of dua. So spend that time making lots and lots of dua. Don't be chit chatting. Get out of you. Get out from your phone. Right. Don't involve the people in who are, you know, who are in the house, who prepare food and so on. To get too burdened and too, you know, engaged in that rather than making dua and making manajat and asking Allah SWT what is mercy ahead. Don't do that. You focus on yourself. Focus on dua and help them also to make dua. Right. It's very, very important. The time of iftar, no conversation. Each one making dua, make a lot of dua. And so on. I make a lot of dua for this Ummat of Muhammad SAW. It is such a terrible thing that times we are going through so difficult times. And Hamdulillah, Allah SWT at a personal level has kept us free. Make this become the assets for those who are not free, become assets for those who are in serious trouble. In your mercy, O merciful and all praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds.
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