26 - Istikhara: Seeking Guidance From God - Sayed Saleh Qazwini

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[0:06]foreign foreign practices that we see within the religious people the people

[1:07]who are practicing religious Muslims is this is something that we see

[1:18]it is very common a lot of people if they are confused

[1:23]about a matter they're unsure whether they should do something or not

[1:29]do something they resort to an istakhara they do Akira and this

[1:37]has become something that is very common in the Muslim Community in

[1:42]the Shiite community in fact sometimes you see some people they don't

[1:46]have a relationship with the Quran they don't read the Quran they

[1:53]don't pick up the Quran but the only time they want to

[1:55]associate with the Quran is when it comes to is other times

[2:00]some people they have no relationship with the scholars they don't know

[2:04]the scholar and the scholar doesn't know them but the only time

[2:09]they pick up the phone to call the scholar is when they

[2:16]want when they want Akira so this is something that is practiced

[2:21]and is very very common however many people don't know much about

[2:25]it even many people who do Hira probably every day they don't

[2:28]know the real meaning of Hira and they don't know how it

[2:32]works and what is how it functions so what is means it

[2:43]means seeking the hair seeking that which is good from Allah when

[2:51]you want to seek the good you want more good more benefit

[2:56]in your life that's called means you're seeking it you're going after

[3:02]it and when we look at the narrations of the Elizabeth we

[3:06]see that there are many narrations that encourage many narrations that encourage

[3:13]people to do is meaning this is meaning if a person is

[3:37]lost shaki someone who is who's breaking the rules of God not

[3:41]doing not not pleasing to Allah for someone to do something without

[3:48]seeking doing with Allah and another Hadith from Imam Ali alaihissalam he

[3:58]says he sent me to Yemen and he told me while he's

[4:11]giving me advice he says you will not go through a Hira

[4:20]you will not go through a sense of confusion if you do

[4:28]and you will not have regretsara consultation when you speak to other

[4:36]people no here we see that there are many of these narrations

[4:41]but these narrations they're not understood in the way that we understand

[4:46]is Takara right now today when I say is what do I

[4:49]mean I mean you go you take the Quran or some people

[4:54]with the subha they do is these narrations that's not what they're

[4:58]talking about these narrations are talking about from Allah seeking care from

[5:07]God how what's the best way to seek rain from God duh

[5:11]when you do Dua this is so these narrations there are many

[5:22]of them they talk about and the importance of they're talking about

[5:29]every time every day in every matter in your life resort to

[5:35]Allah and this is common sense this is what our religion tells

[5:38]me when I wake up when you opened your door to get

[5:46]in the car ask Allah for the when you go to work

[5:48]ask Allah for the when you come back home ask Allah keep

[5:53]asking Allah and this is the sign of a Believer someone who

[6:01]always relies on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so means turning to Allah

[6:06]why because I know I cannot bring the benefit to myself I'm

[6:13]weak I can't do anything on my own I always need Allah

[6:16]without God I'm nothing so I have to always Seeker from Allah

[6:23]and the best way to do that is through prayer through Dua

[6:34]there's no hair and the person who does not do istakhara meaning

[6:43]ask Allah for the in a Day 70 times 70 times a

[6:48]day what does this mean this means right now I want to

[6:50]eat I want to break my fast I say make the hair

[6:54]in this food I want to enter into a business make the

[6:59]hair in this I want to sign a contract oh Allah give

[7:01]me the hair in this I want to leave the house oh

[7:05]Allah always ask Allah for the hair and this is from others

[7:17]this is also something very good a real leader is a leader

[7:23]that will always listen to the advice of others a real leader

[7:27]is not someone who makes decisions on their own a real leader

[7:32]is someone who surrounds themselves with individuals that they could seek advice

[7:36]from learn learn from other people's experiences learn from other people's knowledge

[7:43]and this is when he is the great prophet rasulullah at certain

[7:52]times things not related to religion not related to Faith he would

[7:56]talk and consult with the community and Allah says this in the

[8:03]Quran foreign so a real leader is a leader that does not

[8:32]make decisions on their own no matter how experienced you have no

[8:35]matter how knowledgeable you are you have to always consult with other

[8:41]people especially if it's a matter that's going to concern other people

[8:44]and here this verse was revealed before the battle of uhud and

[8:48]here we see that even though rasulullah knew what was the right

[8:55]thing he also did consultation with the others and it ended up

[8:58]not being in a good thing but it was later on it

[9:01]was for the benefit of the community why after the battle of

[9:07]bad one year later the kofar they came back to Medina and

[9:11]they were marching to Medina and they want to fight the Muslims

[9:15]again meaning go and consult them rasulallah tells the Muslims this are

[9:26]coming do you want us should we go outside of Medina and

[9:32]fight them face to face in the battle or should we stay

[9:35]in the city then when they come in then we will fight

[9:39]them and we will kill them we will be better fortified we're

[9:42]not outside in the in the middle of in the middle of

[9:44]people so rasulullah his opinion was to stay close to Medina and

[9:52]once they come the Muslims would Ambush them and the Muslims would

[9:58]defend them defend defend themselves but the the Muslims some of them

[10:01]they said no we will go outside and we will face them

[10:04]one face them just like we Face them and better rasulullah said

[10:08]you is this what you want they said yes this is what

[10:13]we want out he went out and the Muslims ended up getting

[10:19]killed because of the weakness but anyways the point is in the

[10:30]Quran but once you make a decision some people they're very indecisive

[10:36]oh should I do this should I not do this should I

[10:39]go out should I not go out should I eat this should

[10:42]I not eat this if you want to live your life always

[10:44]being indecisive you're never going to be able to do anything you're

[10:50]never going to reach any goal should I go out today should

[10:51]I not go out should I drink this should I not drink

[10:55]this this is how some people are Allah when you make the

[11:01]azima when you make the decision then Allah that's it leave the

[11:05]matter up to Allah but before that you need to go and

[11:09]do your research you need to do go do meshwara you need

[11:10]to go and consult you need to go and do ask around

[11:15]and this is what Islam teaches us how to make better decisions

[11:19]in life don't just go and jump into a decision and say

[11:24]I'm doing Allah no you have to go study it do meshwara

[11:26]and then you do tawakalan Allah now this is one type of

[11:31]Allah and here the best way to do this if you are

[11:38]unsure you want to do something you made the decision that for

[11:46]example you have two jobs or two schools either you accept a

[11:49]or you accept B is that you've already made the decision you

[11:53]did the research and you've made the decision you say I want

[11:59]to go to a but you want Allah to bless this so

[12:03]what do you do you go and you pray a turaka prayer

[12:06]you pray a turaka prayer and when you finish the Torah a

[12:12]prayer you say Allah make the hair in the decision that I've

[12:21]made ask Allah to bless you and Allah will bless you this

[12:27]is one type of and this is the best type of you

[12:31]using your Akil using your intellect and then you ask Allah to

[12:37]bless you in the decision that you have made now there's another

[12:42]type of this is the more common one and that is I

[12:46]don't know which decision to make should I go to the school

[12:51]or should I go to the school should I accept this job

[12:52]or should I not should I buy this house or should I

[12:55]not buy the house or should I buy a different house sometimes

[13:00]we're indecisive sometimes we don't know here there's also a type of

[13:06]istakhara and the purpose of that is to help us make a

[13:10]decision because for how long do you want to stay indecisive for

[13:12]how long are you going to stay either this house or this

[13:16]house this house or you have to make a decision so sometimes

[13:21]one way to make that decision is to ask Allah to turn

[13:27]to Allah and this way is that you pray a tour one

[13:33]one way this is this also has several ways we are very

[13:38]we're very familiar with the Quran for example but there's also many

[13:41]other ways and perhaps some of them the the narration of it

[13:46]is stronger than others we only rely on the Quran well there's

[13:49]other types one of them is I have not made the decision

[13:55]yet but I go and I do a turaka prayer you go

[13:58]you have two things in mind either you want to go to

[14:02]Harvard or you want to go to Princeton inshallah you all your

[14:05]kids you get into the best schools you want to go you

[14:09]don't know which school to go to so what do you do

[14:11]you go and you pray to the prayer and then you ask

[14:17]Allah for the hair and then whatever comes to your mind the

[14:20]time that shaytan does not come near you shaytan cannot the meaning

[14:26]Allah says he says that the the ibadan cannot come to you

[14:39]after you've prayed shaytan is not going to be able to deceive

[14:41]you so after you've prayed then you will be able to make

[14:47]a clear decision that decision that you make you go ahead with

[14:50]that decision so what's the difference between the first two that we

[14:54]the first one is that you've already made the decision and then

[14:56]you do the Salah and then you ask Allah for the the

[15:00]second one you haven't made the decision yet you pray the turakas

[15:03]you ask for the whatever thought you get in your mind you

[15:08]go ahead with it and you do and Allah there's another type

[15:13]of and this is called what is this this you take three

[15:22]pieces of paper or six piece of pieces of paper the three

[15:27]you say if I'll do the second one you write don't do

[15:34]and the third one you leave it blank these are in the

[15:36]narrations of the Albert this is not something that you know we're

[15:39]just saying that you you come and you take this pieces of

[15:43]paper and you put them randomly you mix them up you put

[15:46]them under your prayer mat and then you pray you ask Allah

[15:51]for the hair and then you pick one of those you pick

[15:56]one of those and the one that you pick if it's if

[16:01]Al you go ahead and you do it if it's you don't

[16:02]do it and if it's blank then you leave the decision for

[16:09]another time maybe right now is not the time to make the

[16:11]decision there's another one right now you see some people they do

[16:17]this with the with the test this also has narrations it's the

[16:21]stones and this is you do Dua you say Allah Allah you

[16:29]ask Allah you recite Surat several times and then you pick you

[16:39]keep going you you keep pulling two two two beads until you

[16:43]see how many are left if you have two that are left

[16:47]then that means this is bad and if you have one that's

[16:53]left that means this is good and you go ahead and you

[16:55]do that and this is one type of according to the narrations

[17:00]and then there's the other one that we commonly hear about and

[17:05]that is the Quran the Imam he says when you when you

[17:11]are confused about a matter is not it's not when you already

[17:16]know what you want to do I already know what I like

[17:18]I already have made the decision then I don't need to do

[17:22]Hira but if I don't know I'm still confused 50 50 then

[17:25]here you open the Quran and you see the verse that comes

[17:30]up now some of them it says you count down seven verses

[17:34]this is one type another one says the first verse that comes

[17:38]up you see is this a positive verse is this talking about

[17:41]Paradise is it talking about Allah he's talking about something good then

[17:46]that means this is something good that you do if it's a

[17:50]negative verse if it's talking about jahannam if it's talking about adab

[17:54]punishment then that means you don't do it and if it's something

[17:57]that is in between then that means you leave it now a

[18:01]lot of people they don't know whether this is good or whether

[18:03]this is bad this is why our phones keep ringing because some

[18:08]people they keep calling and they say you know what what is

[18:12]this and what is what is what is the Hira what does

[18:15]it mean so these are the types of Estacada however there are

[18:22]many misconceptions when it comes to stakara one does predict the future

[18:29]does the Hira tell you whether your future is going to be

[18:34]good or bad no some people they think that staccara is predicting

[18:39]the future you know I remember sometimes in karbala we're sitting in

[18:42]the shrine of Imam Hussain people keep coming to my grandfather he

[18:45]leads prayers in the shrine of Imam Hussain they come and they

[18:49]tell him so he opens the Quran and he says good so

[18:52]they become happy they're like alhamdulillah you know I'm gonna make a

[18:55]million dollars now there if it turns out bad oh you see

[19:01]the reaction and the it's as if their whole world is turned

[19:05]upside down I remember one time a man came the staccato turned

[19:09]out bad he said that means I'm never gonna you know my

[19:14]wife our marriage is going to be horrible I'm never going to

[19:16]find happiness in my they they think it's predicting the future when

[19:19]that's not what stakara is stakara is just right now I need

[19:24]to make a decision A or B which one should I do

[19:28]it doesn't tell you whether it's going to be a materialistic benefit

[19:32]or a non-materials materialistic benefit in fact we don't have an Islam

[19:40]in if you find there are some people they sit and they

[19:43]they come and they tell you they take a cup of coffee

[19:47]and they start reading it and then they come and they say

[19:51]you're gonna have five children you're gonna you're gonna have a good

[19:55]job this is this is called the rajman bin Rabe and this

[20:01]is Haram when you come and you're saying you're predicting the future

[20:05]we cannot predict the future say that no one has the knowledge

[20:15]of the rape and the samawat and the Earth and in the

[20:21]heavens other than Allah and it's Haram to say I know the

[20:24]future it's Haram just predict the future and it's Haram to give

[20:30]money there are some people they come and they spend hundreds of

[20:34]dollars on fortune telling they come someone told me told me say

[20:40]it I've spent so much money on fortune telling usually people who

[20:44]have some sort of you know slow they're kind of you know

[20:50]they would go to they would go to a fortune teller for

[20:52]everything go and look at the fortune teller the fortune teller is

[20:55]sitting on the ground they have a miserable life if they were

[20:58]able to tell the future they would know the future for themselves

[21:02]they would be able to have a better future for themselves usually

[21:06]the fortune teller if you go into these poor countries you see

[21:09]they're sitting on the ground and they're they look miserable so here

[21:13]no one can predict the future no one could come and talk

[21:18]about the future even they would come and they would tell rasulullah

[21:21]to tell them about certain things they want to make money here

[21:28]and there rasulullah says I don't own enough the benefit or the

[21:38]harm it is all in the hands of Allah if I had

[21:47]the knowledge of the rape then I would go after more now

[21:51]here don't let us not confuse the two rasulullah God gave rasulullah

[21:59]knowledge this is why rasulullah he would foretell certain things for example

[22:04]he knew Imam Hussain was going to be killed he tells he

[22:09]knew about certain things but this is this is the only things

[22:13]that God gives you I don't know whether I'm going to be

[22:18]rich poor live tomorrow Die Tomorrow these are things that we have

[22:26]no control of and does not predict the future and we should

[22:33]not you should not live your life in a way where you

[22:36]keep going to Sahara there are some people every day they're calling

[22:39]for me oh that means this is going to happen this is

[22:44]that's not what it is just to help you make a decision

[22:49]this is the first second there are some people that are indecisive

[22:59]too much reliance every day they can't make a decision this is

[23:08]not a healthy lifestyle in fact this could be a type of

[23:14]disorder where every decision that you want to make you want to

[23:16]do is should I leave the house today I'm going to do

[23:20]a staccato should I eat this or this it's Takara what should

[23:22]I have for lunch what should I have for dinner what this

[23:25]is not a healthy lifestyle at the end of the day Allah

[23:31]has given us is the greatest gift from Allah that's the ability

[23:38]to weigh decisions make sound decisions and life weigh the pros and

[23:43]the cons of every decision that you're going to make for me

[23:49]personally I probably do a staccato once or twice a year why

[23:54]because everything it's it's a lot of things are very clear for

[24:00]for example if something is mustahab something is good and something is

[24:06]not mustahab right now like for example I want to go and

[24:09]talk to the Masjid should I do Akira for that no because

[24:12]this is mustahab this is something good this is something God wants

[24:14]me to do I want to go for ziara should I do

[24:18]a staccato for that no unless I'm confused about the timing about

[24:21]certain things then you do it but something that's already mustahab or

[24:25]something that's wajib you don't even need to do staccato for so

[24:29]God is already telling you what need what you need to do

[24:34]regarding certain things and your uncle is telling you this is when

[24:36]it comes to certain things that you really don't know for example

[24:39]there's two houses you don't know this one is good for me

[24:44]or this one is good for me and I like both of

[24:47]them now I don't know what decision to make then here you

[24:50]could do Estacada because there are certain things it will help relieve

[24:53]you from that stress like why did I make this decision why

[24:57]did I make this decision I should have done that then you

[24:59]say okay it turned out good or it turned out bad and

[25:05]this is one of the reasons why a person should not do

[25:10]Hira because you have the another reason is that a lot of

[25:12]people if the stakara turned out bad what do they say God

[25:17]did this to me God chose my life like this a few

[25:25]days ago a someone messages me and tells me I married someone

[25:27]and this person after I married them they turned out that you

[25:30]know they were not good they were not the way I wanted

[25:33]so why would God do this to me I told her you

[25:38]knew this person or did you go and marry blindly she said

[25:41]no I got to know him I talked to him okay I

[25:46]said okay then this is you got to know him and then

[25:47]you come and you say this person turned out to be now

[25:50]there are certain things that are secret like no one knows about

[25:53]but there's other things that are apparent you could tell if a

[25:59]person is by having a conversation maybe one week two weeks three

[26:01]weeks one month you ask around here and there you could tell

[26:03]about a person so some people they want to do Heroes so

[26:09]that they could blame God for everything bad but then if something

[26:13]good happened they say that was me this is the nature of

[26:18]people now another another point can I go against the Kira so

[26:24]for example I did the Kira it turned out to be bad

[26:25]should I go ahead and do that or it turns out good

[26:29]should I not do that here that we do this is not

[26:38]a hundred percent precise if I know for a fact that rasulullah

[26:42]tells me to do this or don't do this or the imams

[26:47]one of them they come and they tell me this is something

[26:48]you have to do or something you should not do then it

[26:52]becomes wajib upon me to follow but when I'm doing this most

[26:55]of the time it's speculation even the Quran even I've seen Scholars

[26:59]they open the Quran one verse one scholar says this is good

[27:05]another scholar says this is bad because they have a different methodology

[27:08]maybe one verse in the beginning is good in the end is

[27:13]so they come and they say do I look at the end

[27:16]or do I look at the beginning so at the end of

[27:23]the day is you can go against it if you want to

[27:25]you can go against it but what they say is they say

[27:31]give sadaka because removes if there is going to be something bad

[27:36]that might happen then the sadaka will repel that and sometimes the

[27:41]benefit or the harm is something that we do not comprehend we

[27:46]don't realize it let me give you this example it's narrated from

[27:49]the story of the life of Imam a man he comes to

[27:54]Imam and he tells him I need a stakara to go on

[27:59]a business trip the Imam tells him he does this and he

[28:04]tells him it's bad don't go the man he goes ahead and

[28:10]he goes on that business trip he does that business trip and

[28:16]he makes a lot of money he makes a lot of money

[28:19]and then he comes back to the Imam is bad but I

[28:27]made a lot of money why is this he tells him when

[28:33]you are on your business trip did you miss your Fajr prayer

[28:38]once he thinks for a moment and he says yes one day

[28:41]I missed my Fajr prayer the Imam tells him that's why it

[28:45]came out bad and this shows us that the benefits is not

[28:51]always materialistic benefits maybe I make millions of dollars but I ended

[28:54]up losing God I ended up missing one prayer yes that one

[28:59]prayer is worth more than millions of dollars and the Quran comes

[29:04]and this tahara comes and tells you something so sometimes we don't

[29:07]always understand the reasoning behind it we don't always understand what kind

[29:12]of benefits I'm seeking the worldly materialistic benefit but Allah is telling

[29:17]me the spiritual benefits that comes and benefits me and benefits my

[29:23]family and future Generations but of course so this means that we

[29:28]can go against tahirah but give sadaka but if we know that

[29:33]it is for sure this is the order of Allah this is

[29:35]for sure the order of rasulullah or the imams then we can't

[29:39]go against this because Allah says meaning if there's a law a

[29:53]decree by the prophet or the imams or God then you have

[29:56]to follow that so this is when it comes to going against

[30:02]the stakhara another very important point is is Allah speaking to me

[30:08]in the Gira is Allah talking to me and the hero or

[30:11]is it just you know random something random here also depends sometimes

[30:18]there are some examples of people that they do the Hira and

[30:25]it comes out exactly for their story the verse comes out something

[30:29]exactly suiting them there are many examples of this you open the

[30:32]Quran and it tells you something that has to do with you

[30:37]but this is for people who truly understand the Quran for people

[30:43]who have a relationship with the Quran if I don't have a

[30:45]relationship with the Quran then the Quran is not going to talk

[30:48]to me because I'm not I'm not giving it attention we have

[30:51]the Quran on the shelf and we're not reading the Quran and

[30:55]then I want to go back to the Quran so that the

[30:57]Quran could guide me that the Quran could show me no yes

[31:01]if I truly respect the Quran if I read the Quran and

[31:06]I apply the laws of the Quran in my life then when

[31:08]I do the Quran will talk to me and the Quran will

[31:14]benefit me so it might seem like it's chance and it's random

[31:19]but it's not always chance and random sometimes things happen for a

[31:24]reason like when we were talking about the subha or the stones

[31:28]someone might say like what is this this is a type of

[31:30]Lottery a type of random Allah gives us the example of Eunice

[31:36]prophet yunus he goes he goes into the boats that is filled

[31:42]with people and then there's the the boat is in the ocean

[31:49]and there's a well so they're like we have to throw someone

[31:52]outside because the well is keeps harassing the boats they keep drawing

[31:55]a name who are we going to throw outside there's all they

[31:59]have to throw one person out they keep drawing the name and

[32:01]every time they draw the name the name of Eunice comes out

[32:03]Prophet yunus Allah says in the Quran they keep taking out the

[32:11]name and they keep saying it's the name of Eunice it's random

[32:14]but always the name of Eunice so there are times where Allah

[32:20]has want something specific to happen one story I will mention inshallah

[32:27]will conclude my grandfather in 2006 he was in Iraq and I

[32:32]heard the story from my uncle he he says that in in

[32:38]2006 my grandfather was in Iraq he was praying the Maghrib and

[32:41]Asha prayer and the tafsir and the shrine of Imam Hussain on

[32:44]his way going back home he's sitting in the car two motorcycles

[32:50]they come they take the gun and one person shoots him and

[32:53]he gets shot in the hand he gets shot in the hand

[32:56]this was an assassination attempt in 2006.

[32:59]so later on he goes to Iran he goes to Iran from

[33:07]karbala because there's doctors there he goes to Tehran Tehran there the

[33:11]doctors they tell him you need to the the bone here the

[33:17]bone was broken into 12 pieces so the the doctors and Tehran

[33:22]they told him you have to keep your hand High because the

[33:25]blood you don't want the blood to come down because if the

[33:30]blood comes down then you won't be able to move your hand

[33:32]then the pain persisted and persisted and persisted he goes to mashad

[33:38]to visit Imam he saw another doctor because the pain was continuing

[33:42]and mesh had the doctor tells him you have to stretch your

[33:47]hand you have to stretch your hand because if you keep it

[33:49]like this it's going to get stiff it's going to get stuck

[33:53]you need to stretch it so that it's it's better for the

[33:55]hand so now what should he do one doctor tells him you

[34:00]have to put your hand up another doctor tells him put your

[34:03]hand down he goes to the Quran he opens the Quran and

[34:08]this verse comes out Allah tells the prophet don't put your hand

[34:23]don't put your hand close to your neck and don't stretch it

[34:29]out all the way so what did he end up doing he

[34:32]ended up putting it in between not all the way and not

[34:34]and not all the way up here and his hand got better

[34:39]of course this verse was the context of this verse was about

[34:46]rasulullah he used to people used to come and ask him for

[34:49]money sometimes someone asked them for a shirt so rasulullah gave his

[34:54]shirt now he wants to leave to the Masjid he has nothing

[34:56]he gave so the Quran comes and says don't hold your hand

[35:03]back meaning don't give anyone and don't put it out all the

[35:08]way where you give everything away then you're going to be regret

[35:12]be halfway so this verse came out and this shows you that

[35:16]if you are truly with the Quran the Quran will be with

[35:20]you and the Quran will guide you and the Quran will speak

[35:22]with you but we need to strengthen our relationship with the Quran

[35:28]Sometimes When We Do some people I see over Reliance on Estacada

[35:32]but they don't read the Quran this is not good read the

[35:36]Quran and do it when you need to and the Quran should

[35:43]have a much greater role in our lives we ask Allah to

[35:49]make us from those who benefit from the Quran those who take

[35:52]advantage of the Quran and those who have a strong relationship with

[35:59]the Quran foreign [Music] foreign

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