69- (3) Biography of the Prophet - The Night Prayer - Sayed Mohammad Baqer Qazwini

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[0:25]we continue our journey into the life of the holy prophet previously

[0:33]we examined snippets of the prophet saw ibadah the prophet's worship the

[0:40]prophet is our role model so we want to know how the

[0:45]prophet worshipped allah subhanahu wa how is it that the prophet sallallahu

[0:52]alaihi found time for prayer and for ibadah one very beautiful hadith

[0:59]in the book of tafsir ali ibn ibrahim it's a book on

[1:05]the tafseer of the holy quran he narrates this hadith from his

[1:09]father ibrahim ibn hashim from ibn abi the prophet was in the

[1:31]house in the room of um when it was her turn her

[1:37]night because the prophet would divide the knights equally amongst his wives

[1:40]so that night was the night of um she could not find

[1:48]him he was not in the room nasa that she became jealous

[1:59]you know maybe he is spending time with another of his wives

[2:07]so she went searching for him because that's her night so she

[2:11]does not want the prophet to go you know to another house

[2:15]by the way um as we've examined before was a very righteous

[2:19]lady and the difference between her and other wives of the prophet

[2:26]is that the other wives of the prophet such as ayasha and

[2:29]hafsa according to surat their envy and their jealousy led them to

[2:34]god's disobedience it allowed for their hearts to go astray in tatum

[2:42]allah tells them you have to repent because your hearts have strayed

[2:48]um even though sometimes um experienced normal jealousy or let's call it

[2:56]envy it was not to the point that it would push her

[3:01]away from the path of allah subhana wa to allah she just

[3:03]went and searched for the prophet she did not conspire she did

[3:07]not cause him headaches she did not disobey him so that's very

[3:10]important to note that sometimes we human beings we have emotions we

[3:17]may experience jealousy we may experience envy and sometimes it's uncontrollable that's

[3:21]okay allah subhanahu ta'ala is not going to hold you accountable for

[3:27]that but once you act upon your jealousy that's when it becomes

[3:32]sinful is now searching for the prophet sallallahu alaihi when she found

[3:36]him in one of the corners of the house and the darkness

[3:41]of the night he was raising his hands and crying this is

[3:47]the best of allah's creation and he cries at night what did

[3:52]he say oh allah all the good things that you've given me

[4:02]that benefit my dunya and akhra do not take it away from

[4:06]me oh allah do not ever allow an enemy or someone who

[4:18]is jealous of me to gain victory over me and then to

[4:21]rejoice at my loss is when you've saved me from something never

[4:32]put me back in danger never allow evil to find its way

[4:38]to me allah never leave me to fend for myself to protect

[4:47]myself you always be my protector and guardian so um she found

[4:52]the prophet sallallahu alaihi in the corner of the house making the

[4:57]supplication at night in this hadith when she heard this from the

[5:07]prophet she started to cry such that the prophet he noticed her

[5:10]crying so he ended his worship and he came to her why

[5:15]are you crying she told him may my parents be sacrificed for

[5:23]you ya rasulallah walim why should i not cry and you have

[5:29]such a high position allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has forgiven all your

[5:33]sins you don't even have a sin and yet you ask allah

[5:39]subhanahu wa ta'ala to forgive you you ask allah not to take

[5:44]away the good things in your life you ask allah to not

[5:49]let the enemies rejoice at your loss and you have such a

[5:56]great status that made me cry it's as if um did not

[5:59]expect someone at the status of the prophet to humble himself so

[6:03]much before allah the prophet told her ya'am what gives me safety

[6:10]and security even if i'm the messenger of allah i have to

[6:15]keep my position it's not that you achieve a position and that's

[6:19]it you know how sometimes when you achieve a high let's say

[6:24]academic status you have to get re-certified can you say that's it

[6:30]i got my doctorate degree i got my teaching degree i'm set

[6:32]for life no you have to get re-certified there are some professions

[6:38]every two years you have to get re-certified because they need to

[6:41]make sure that you are maintaining that status in essence the prophet

[6:45]was teaching um salama that every minute of my life i have

[6:50]to get re-certified just because i'm a messenger doesn't mean i made

[6:55]it khalas what gives me safety and comfort that this will stay

[6:58]maybe one split second i get distracted from allah and i'll lose

[7:03]what i have.

[7:13]the prophet says that eunice ibn metta prophet eunice the one who

[7:17]was swallowed by the will for one moment one moment he kind

[7:22]of got distracted from god because of the evil of his people

[7:27]he left in anger i'm not going back to these people and

[7:29]he thought maybe that he'll be saved for a moment he was

[7:37]distracted from allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and the prophet sallallahu alaihi states

[7:40]we know what happened to prophet yunus we know what was his

[7:47]fate for one second for one moment he was distracted and he

[7:51]almost died and if it was not for his tasbih him asking

[7:55]allah for forgiveness he would have stayed in the stomach of the

[8:00]well until the day of judgment as the holy quran states so

[8:04]the prophet salallahu alaihi was expressing this beautiful prayer that every single

[8:10]moment i have to get re-certified it's not just a position position

[8:16]that i keep for life every moment i have to honor this

[8:20]position and i have to work for it this sheds light on

[8:25]the prophets philosophy of ibaad and why is it that the human

[8:30]being needs constantly to worship allah subhanahu wa ta'ala now when we

[8:35]look at salah and the prophet's relationship with salah because we're now

[8:40]examining the prophet and worship we find that even in sunni sources

[8:45]this is mentioned so i'll quote for you hadith from sunni sources

[8:49]in which the prophet would consider salah the ultimate relief for instance

[8:56]when he would be in a state of distress salaam alaikum when

[9:00]he would be in a state of sadness the prophet would say

[9:05]arachna bihaya bilal what does arachna mean relieve us with it with

[9:17]what what's the pronoun it here salah bilal in essence what was

[9:23]the prophet asking him to do you said it when the prophet

[9:27]felt depressed he would tell bilal relieve us relieve us call the

[9:32]adhan so we get up and pray when the tragedies would surround

[9:37]him he would say when he would hear that someone passed away

[9:42]he really considered salah the peak of his relief during his day

[9:48]can i say that about my salah that's how the prophet salallahu

[9:54]alaihi would pray and when the time for the adhan would come

[9:58]the prophet would not know anyone around him so this hadith is

[10:04]mentioned by abuzar ad in his in his book basically he says

[10:16]when the prophet would hear the call to prayer it's as if

[10:22]he does not know anyone even some of the wives of the

[10:26]prophet they've confirmed this we're sitting with the prophet we're having an

[10:29]enjoyable time he seems so intimate with us he's part of the

[10:33]discussion he's leading maybe the discussion we feel like he's an intimate

[10:38]friend he knows us all and he gives us full attention the

[10:41]minute he hears the adhan he gets up as if he doesn't

[10:46]know anyone around him subhanallah that's how he interacted with salah are

[10:51]we like that or if when our in our saharas and it's

[10:56]continuing for hours and hours no he doesn't know anyone around him

[11:11]everyone turns into a stranger i don't know you you don't know

[11:16]me i have now my salah doesn't matter what i'm doing that's

[11:21]how he would treat sada and everyone knew that there is one

[11:26]hadith my dear brothers and sisters that's very striking about the ibadah

[11:30]of the prophet too often we forget the sight of the prophet

[11:33]you know normally when we think of the prophet we think of

[11:38]the major events that happen the migration the persecution the battles remember

[11:41]the prophets had the prophet had a very important side the ibadah

[11:45]of the prophet and the prophets ibadah surpasses any other creation normally

[11:50]we know let's say imam zayn al-abidin the prophet is the greatest

[11:57]ibadah in history they found one of the companions of the prophet

[12:01]and by the way this hadith is even mentioned in bukhari this

[12:07]hadith states that haifa once spent the night with the prophet you

[12:12]know how the prophet spent that night it's a it's a very

[12:16]interesting hadith of course from me not in bukhari the prophet stood

[12:25]up he got up to pray salat ali you know how the

[12:31]prophet would praise salah today if we pray it 11 minutes fast

[12:35]we think we've made a big achievement and it's even burdensome for

[12:40]us the prophet prayed salah to layla after salat so hadith says

[12:46]i went with him he started his salah the prophet started to

[12:56]recite surat al-baqarah how many verses of surat al-baqarah 286 hodeis said

[13:02]i thought in my mind he's going to do sujud at verse

[13:07]100.

[13:07]remember it's an affiliate you don't have to complete the for the

[13:13]full surah so i thought to myself he's going to stop at

[13:17]a hundred there's no way he's going to continue the whole surah

[13:37]now imagine how many chapters the prophet is reading standing on his

[13:44]feet in the first req then says [Music] he doesn't just read

[13:54]like that any ayah that contains mercy he asks allah ya allah

[14:00]give me mercy by the way in your salah you can always

[14:01]do a dua in the middle of your recitation did you know

[14:06]that for instance you're resigning a surah right and it's about the

[14:08]fire of hell or the rahman you can say ya allah make

[14:13]a dua between you yourself and allah when you supplicate in your

[14:17]salah it does not invalidate your salah it's if you talk it

[14:21]invalidates your salah you talk worldly talk but if it's a dua

[14:24]that you make any time in the raku and the sujud between

[14:26]the verses it does not invalidate your salah because that is supplication

[14:32]to allah and salah itself is a type of supplication so you

[14:36]can do that the prophet whenever he would stop at a verse

[14:39]in salat in the holy quran he would ask allah for rahm

[14:47]whenever he would come to a verse about adam o allah protect

[14:53]me from this when you read the quran do this he would

[15:01]say subhan allah he would interact he feels as if allah is

[15:05]really talking to him listen to the following now imagine if you

[15:10]read baqarah surtil that's what about 100 pages in our script today

[15:18]that's like 1 6 of the quran okay the prophet read those

[15:24]surahs and he's not just reading them fast he would stop at

[15:28]each verse and ask allah for rahm how long does that take

[15:30]haditha says then the prophet went into ruku his rook was as

[15:41]long as him standing and reading all these chapters let's say if

[15:47]it took two hours the took another two hours can you imagine

[15:53]this was the salah to layla of the prophet on some nights

[16:07]very long took a long time then he did the same thing

[16:11]in the second then hidefa says i estimated it says my estimate

[16:22]that just two raka's of the salat it took the prophet six

[16:27]to seven hours and this was during the days when the prophet

[16:33]was hungry and he was poor he barely had anything during the

[16:39]day the prophet didn't sleep somebody if today if i do this

[16:43]i'll fall in my bed the next day 12 hours he has

[17:00]a family he has a family he has grandchildren now he wants

[17:05]to be a role model for them um the house affairs the

[17:11]prophet would help out in the house six to seven hours he's

[17:21]just standing his feet would crack when you stand on your feet

[17:29]for so much swells and cracks what's and then in this hadith

[17:35]i shall tell him why are you doing this to this to

[17:38]yourself when allah has forgiven you he would just say one word

[17:43]as we mentioned last time i just want to show my appreciation

[17:48]to allah i want to show my thankfulness to allah subhanahu wa

[17:52]sometimes sometimes ask those by the ways if you really want to

[17:57]understand this sometimes it's helpful to talk to people who are in

[18:03]love severely you know severe crazy love it kind of sheds light

[18:07]on some of the even though it's different of course as someone

[18:10]who's severely in love they'll tell you that sometimes i'm willing to

[18:14]deliberately go through difficulty for my loved one just to show that

[18:20]person how much i love him i could get a job done

[18:25]the easy route sometimes i'll take the hard route just to show

[18:27]that person how much i worked hard for you ask people in

[18:31]love they'll tell you that i know you might think this is

[18:35]crazy does it make sense but no people who are loved this

[18:37]makes sense to them the prophet stands on his feet just to

[18:39]express his love to allah and to thank allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

[18:45]so this is a glimpse of how the prophet would pray sometimes

[18:50]at night in difficulty in near starvation that's how he would pray

[18:54]but it is the salah my dear brothers and sisters that gave

[18:57]energy to the prophet it's the salah and specifically the power of

[19:05]sujud you know allah and surah verses 97 to 98 allah teaches

[19:09]the prophet what to do when he's depressed when you're depressed what

[19:14]do you do right you cry yes but if people are saying

[19:19]ill things about you they're attacking you launching verbal accusations what do

[19:25]you do you want to fight back this is what allah teaches

[19:30]his greatest messenger allah states in verse 97 and we know that

[19:42]your chest becomes tight what does that mean your chest becomes tight

[19:46]you feel depressed you're hurt because of what they say so what

[19:52]do you do go kill them i glorify allah and i thank

[20:05]allah with his praise what could mean assad glorify allah and fall

[20:10]into sajud and worship allah until the comes to you this is

[20:20]the recipe that allah gave to the prophet this is how he

[20:24]made it during those difficult days remember the persecution in mecca the

[20:28]prophet for so many hours he'd be prostrating by himself in masjid

[20:32]al-haram hurting no one just prostrating abuja would come he would slander

[20:37]the prophet they would bring the intestines of of the camel that

[20:42]was just slaughtered and they would basically contaminate his clothes sometimes he

[20:47]would push the prophet harass the prophet how did the prophet stay

[20:52]strong it was through the power of the sujud through ibadah through

[20:55]the night prayer specifically the prophet sallallahu alaihi was able to withstand

[21:02]those challenges and this is a lesson for us as one merger

[21:05]you know would say he went through a lot of difficulties many

[21:10]people gave him a hard time he was really oppressed so one

[21:15]of his relatives saw him at night in the middle of the

[21:21]night praying and crying he told him what are you doing what's

[21:25]bothering you he said i'm striking them i'm striking them with the

[21:29]arrows of the night i don't have an army that can defend

[21:36]me i don't have a worldly power position to defend me but

[21:39]i have the hibada at night through this i am asking allah

[21:46]to protect me from the evil ones this is what we learn

[21:49]from the prophet sallallahu alaihi yes because people are against the truth

[21:59]they're either ignorant or arrogant they know he represents the truth not

[22:03]everyone wants the truth people are comfortable with their evil ways they

[22:07]don't want someone to disrupt that for them the prophet brought reform

[22:12]they didn't like it the elites of mecca did not like that

[22:16]reform because they were privileged they took advantage of the poor and

[22:20]the slaves and women now the prophets bringing a system of equality

[22:23]they don't want equality i want to call the shots i want

[22:27]to get the privileges that's one reason why they stood against him

[22:31]one other question did the prophet marry all for all of his

[22:36]wives together or when one died he would marry another one sometimes

[22:38]some would die then he'd remarry but at one point he had

[22:42]nine wives together yes when the prophet passed away he left nine

[22:50]wives so yes nine wives simultaneously he was married to them at

[22:54]one time yes towards the end of his life yes yes of

[22:59]course that was one of his biggest tests managing those nights no

[23:05]for the prophet is an exception we've talked about that before for

[23:11]the other for other muslims yes the maximum is four four permanent

[23:14]wives but not the prophet allah subhanahu wa allah commanded him to

[23:17]marry more than four wives so that's an exception for him would

[23:21]he marry at one time we talked about it in detail last

[23:26]year yes in detail why did the prophet marry those wives yeah

[23:30]there's there's a lot of wisdom behind it there are many reasons

[23:35]behind it now as we talk about the sujud the prophet sallallahu

[23:40]alaihi highlights the importance of sujud so according to this hadith from

[23:46]ebin he says i used to spend the night sometimes with the

[23:52]prophet salallahu to help him maybe he needs something he needs water

[23:56]to do with so he told me how can i compensate you

[24:02]you've been serving me now ask me for something some of those

[24:15]companions were smart the prophet told them ask anything i'll give you

[24:18]he said i want to be with you in paradise that's big

[24:23]now you're asking the prophet for something big the prophet sallallahu alaihi

[24:31]says okay you know you i asked you what do you want

[24:33]you said i have to honor that.

[24:40]help me with one thing prolong your sujud increase your sadhu help

[24:47]me out you can't just be with me in paradise like that

[24:51]help me out and the way that you do so is be

[24:55]sincere in your abbaja and prolong your sujud see the power of

[24:58]sujud out of everything else the prophet told him prolong your sujud

[25:01]that means it has such a great effect in the way of

[25:07]allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in another hadith this was in sahih muslim

[25:13]the first hadith this was now from an imam he says a

[25:18]man came to the prophet they told them my sins are many

[25:24]my deeds are little what do you do now i don't have

[25:32]a lot of deeds i have so many sins.

[25:41]have you seen during the fall how the leaves fall from the

[25:45]trees that's what sujud does to your sins they keep falling from

[25:51]from you and another interesting hadith he says amen came to the

[25:58]prophet sallallahu alaihi he told him teach me that makes allah love

[26:09]me and to prolong my life and so i would be resurrected

[26:31]with you ya rasulullah what deer is that so these are six

[26:35]that he asked for imam ali says the prophet salallahu if you

[26:47]want people to love you be good to them for us what

[26:55]does watford mean reject what's in their hands what does that mean

[26:59]reject what's in the hands of people well that's a very specific

[27:07]example don't take bribes it's more general than that don't take anything

[27:12]from people many times we have our eyes on what's in people's

[27:18]hands we want them to give us money help us out you

[27:23]really want everyone to love you don't ask anyone a favor people

[27:27]then will have so much respect for you because many people sometimes

[27:33]they keep begging this person and that person for favors you kind

[27:36]of impact your dignity when you do that don't let a worldly

[27:42]need sacrifice your dignity and if you want allah subhanahu ta'ala to

[27:46]increase your wealth pay zakat if you want allah to give you

[27:52]health pay sadaqa if you want allah to prolong your life engage

[27:56]in sin and here's the point and if you want allah to

[28:02]resurrect you with me with rasulallah what do you do engage in

[28:13]long sujuds for us if we do as subdued 30 seconds that's

[28:17]it it's too much 10 minutes 20 minutes i know people they

[28:24]would recite the entire dua of kumail in one sujud every single

[28:29]week that type of ibadah keeps you connected to allah subhanahu wa

[28:36]ta'ala and so we find the prophet was very big there were

[28:39]some times of the month the prophet was in continuous like month

[28:44]of ramadan during the last days of the prophet's life during the

[28:49]last 10 days of ramadan from you know the night of power

[28:54]until the lailatul the prophet would take his bed sheet you know

[28:59]that sheet that he would sleep on and he would fold it

[29:03]no sleeping for 10 days at night the prophet would not sleep

[29:06]the last 10 nights of the month of ramadan the prophet would

[29:11]not sleep and he would do takaf in the masjid 10 days

[29:13]of non-stop ibada in the masjid that's how he spent the last

[29:18]third of the month of ramadan so we find that the prophet

[29:25]salallahu alaihi significantly his time to ibadah with all of his you

[29:31]know obligations with everything that he had to do the prophet salallahu

[29:37]alaihi gave many many hours every day for ibadah and this is

[29:41]a lesson for us what about the wudu of the prophet salallahu

[29:46]now as we're talking about the ibadah i want to recite to

[29:49]you a hadith from al-imam al-baqarah he captures to us the wallu

[29:54]of the prophet how the prophet sallallahu alaihi did abolution he says

[30:00]to his companions do you want to know how the prophet did

[30:05]with now imam al-baqarah had to say this because there were distortions

[30:11]made at that time where there were other other schools of thought

[30:14]claiming the prophet did with in a different way even though had

[30:18]been changed so imam al-baqarah is telling us i'll tell you exactly

[30:21]how the prophet did with we said yes tell us so he

[30:27]said bring me a container of water we brought it for him

[30:30]then he basically rolled up his sleeve then with his right hand

[30:41]his right palm he inserted it in the water and then he

[30:45]says if your hand is pure do that if it's not just

[30:50]purify it then put it in the container then he put it

[30:54]on his jabin if you want the sunnah when you wash your

[30:59]face when you start your wudu the first area that you pour

[31:02]the water is where normally what do people do anywhere in the

[31:05]face right which is okay as long as you cover the face

[31:09]vertically that's fine but it's what's to happen to start with the

[31:13]jabin the jabin is not the forehead here where is it the

[31:16]side of the forehead this area we call this jabin the prophet

[31:20]would start by pouring water on the jabin this side and that

[31:25]side so pour the water just beneath the hairline on the jabin

[31:36]then basically he would come down his blessed beard until he would

[31:43]wash his face and then he would take with his left palm

[31:47]some water and he would pour it on his elbow start from

[31:51]the elbow and you would go down and then he would wash

[31:54]his left arm and then he would say with the remnant moisture

[32:00]don't acquire new moisture with the remnant moisture wipe your head right

[32:06]feet a left feet this is how the prophet salallahu alaihi did

[32:12]his unfortunately many have changed that then the imam says what's the

[32:26]very bare minimum for three times you draw water from a container

[32:34]one for your face one for your arm one for your other

[32:39]arm that's it that's a very basic some people think that ulthu

[32:42]means you drench yourself in water and i've seen some people they

[32:46]take scoop after scoop of water like 10 15 20 washing the

[32:48]face you don't have to do that sometimes that could be a

[32:52]waste of water seriously imam says that's enough the prophet saw was

[32:57]very simple in fact in one hadith he says let me show

[33:03]you the law of the prophet salallahu alaihi he took some water

[33:09]washed his face one scoop of water his right arm one scoop

[33:12]of water his left arm he did the message he's like that's

[33:17]how the prophet did you could do this in 20 seconds very

[33:19]simple especially at that time when running water was not available they

[33:23]live in a desert environment and so even in wulu conserve water

[33:27]don't waste too much water that's the water of the prophet salallahu

[33:33]i think honestly we've complicated by the way and i i don't

[33:38]know if i should say this but even at the level of

[33:43]scholars they want to do be cautious sometimes their uldu takes minutes

[33:48]and minutes well it's good that you're trying to be muhtat but

[33:52]look this was the of the prophet he was very brief in

[33:56]his will so just learn from the prophet no i need to

[33:58]make sure that okay be reasonable you know as as one would

[34:04]always comment when that person would see another scholar you know trying

[34:09]to rub his arm like 50 times to make sure he got

[34:13]everywhere so basically his wife told him look the water is not

[34:16]scared of your skin [Laughter] don't worry you got it covered the

[34:21]water is there so the prophet would be very brief in his

[34:24]will he would not complicate it today a lot of people privately

[34:30]come to me they have ocd with this stuff ocd with tahara

[34:34]ocd that's documented in our hadith sources so the prophet sallallahu alaihi

[34:48]when he would do the the uh with it's a long dua

[34:53]but just snippets of it when he would wash his face he

[34:56]would say oh allah illuminate my face on the day of judgment

[35:02]when many faces many faces will be darkened then when the prophet

[35:06]saw allah would wash his right arm he would say oh allah

[35:09]give me my book in my right hand on that day when

[35:14]you give the believers their book and then you know on the

[35:19]left hand there is a dua when wiping the head there is

[35:21]a dua when wiping the feet there is fix me on on

[35:25]the day of judgment so yes the prophet would recite those duas

[35:28]and it's highly recommended to recite these doors it's called the we

[35:33]have several versions of them some of them from the prophet some

[35:36]of them from the imams at least read them print them put

[35:39]it you know on your kitchen cabinet next to the sink where

[35:42]you normally do will do from and read it once in a

[35:47]while brings barakah to your life right now yes yes many types

[36:08]of zikr they would say one of them is like for 300

[36:14]times or a thousand times they would say something like that for

[36:26]allah or you just talk to allah to supplicate so yeah we

[36:35]have all these dikkas that's was to have in the sujud and

[36:38]can you well like pray for someone of course of course you

[36:43]can pray for someone you can pray for your family pray for

[36:46]us pray for anything in fact the best position to pray for

[36:50]is sujud now remember we talked about the night prayer and how

[36:55]the prophet saw allah gave significance to it yes brother you can

[36:59]do this yes you can do this in wa of course you're

[37:02]doing your wajib salah in the last sujud let's say you'd like

[37:07]to say a hundred times you can do by all means supplication

[37:12]yes you okay you ask for yes you can any time in

[37:16]salah any point in salah you can supplicate to allah we have

[37:19]hadith about that no it does not have to be in arabic

[37:27]most scholars say that you start in arabic make an arabic dialect

[37:31]then use any language that you would like anything that falls under

[37:35]the label dua in any language you can do so in your

[37:38]saju talk in your own language with allah that's fine that does

[37:42]not invalidate your prayer because you're supplicating to allah that's valid but

[37:46]that's after you say the arabic vikir say subhana rabbi allah don't

[38:02]stretch it too long you know say a prayer two three minutes

[38:07]of me or something else then when you're done do sajda and

[38:12]then you know do a very long sujud that would be better

[38:16]if you want to follow the sunnah of the prophet and the

[38:17]imams yes yes after you finish for you know 10 minutes 20

[38:28]minutes 30 minutes so remember the night prayer and the prophet sallallahu

[38:34]alaihi let's talk a little bit about that because we gave you

[38:36]a glimpse of sometimes how you would pray the night prayer according

[38:41]to the testimony of hadith there is a verse in suratul islam

[38:49]79 in which allah commands the prophet sallallahu alaihi to spend the

[38:53]night in worship and from the night engage in what is called

[39:08]tahajjud what does the mean the comes from the word hudud hujud

[39:15]in arabic means what sleeping no sleeping is called hujud so if

[39:23]you bring it in its basic form in arabic it means sleeping

[39:26]but when you put it in form when you say tahedju means

[39:33]fighting sleep to fight sleep to avoid sleep to stay awake so

[39:40]tahedjud means what linguistically fighting sleep you keep yourself awake now in

[39:49]our islamic literature tahajjud specifically refers to ibadah at night when you're

[39:54]awake not watching netflix no that's not tahajjud even though linguistically it

[39:59]is you're fighting sleep but that's not what it means to hedjud

[40:02]in our islamic literature means to engage in supplication and in prayer

[40:09]and quran so the holy quran says from the night to hag

[40:15]jed due to fight ward off sleep be with it what's it

[40:20]not salah even though he's doing the salah but directly what's the

[40:26]uh pronoun referring to do to hajju with what quran women at

[40:35]night fight off sleep stay awake with the holy quran recite the

[40:40]holy quran what does nafila mean linguistically extra anything that's extra additional

[40:51]ziada for you scholars have understood from this lect for you and

[40:58]also other hadiths that salat and the tahajud was for all other

[41:06]muslims salat is mustahab there's one exception in history there's one man

[41:11]in history upon whom salat alain was mandatory to observe and that

[41:15]is who prophet muhammad sallallahu alaihi he had to observe salah it

[41:18]was wajib on him just like the daily prayers was not optional

[41:23]for him allah commanded him in this verse that you uphold the

[41:28]night prayer so it's what it was yes they of course never

[41:37]skipped it but it was not wajib on them we understand from

[41:41]the quran and the tafseer of these verses that it was only

[41:44]wajib on the prophet not the imams it was highly muslim for

[41:48]them but it was not mandatory so this is a hakum that's

[41:54]specific to the prophet sallallahu alaihi yes i know a guy who

[41:58]is really religious and he's from iraq actually and he's told me

[42:01]about three years ago he said i'm going back to imam jaffar

[42:08]or something and he said on everyone but scholars don't say it

[42:12]because he prays it every day and i said no i well

[42:18]mostly i pray on like thursday nights and during ramadan every day

[42:21]and he said no you know once you get used to you

[42:26]doing again every day it becomes that no no islamically from a

[42:30]legal fitki perspective it's not wajib it's highly highly highly recommended but

[42:34]not wahjit now even if you've been praying it 10 years it

[42:38]doesn't mean now it's wajib on you so no that's not true

[42:42]so the prophet salallahu for him to spend a portion of the

[42:49]night in ibadah and specifically pray the night prayer and the prophet

[42:54]would say to the point where i got the impression from jibra

[43:12]il constantly telling me about salat i got the impression that the

[43:15]good people of my ummah don't sleep what does that mean that

[43:20]means the prophet says when i heard jubilee talking about sarah so

[43:26]much i got the impression that if you're a good follower of

[43:30]my ummah you have to pray salat not that it's wajib but

[43:38]it's a feature of the true believers he states there is no

[43:45]deed that you do accept that it has a specific reward you

[43:50]could put a value of it accept salatella the only exception is

[43:58]allah does not tell us what he's given us for salat and

[44:06]here's the evidence allah talks about the believers the beds of the

[44:19]believers look at this description their bets pull them have you seen

[44:24]especially in the winter it's kind of cold you can't get out

[44:27]of bed it's like there's this magnetic force pulling you towards your

[44:32]bed the believers know they struggle and they get up from their

[44:36]bed kaufman out of fear and out of desire to worship no

[44:49]soul knows what allah has prepared for them see allah does not

[44:53]give us the reward of even even the prophet sallallahu alaihi when

[44:59]he prayed salah to lay allah did not say exactly what he'll

[45:08]give him allah said i'll give you um i'll give you the

[45:23]praised position allah does not specify what it is we know that

[45:33]this status that allah will give the prophet is something everyone in

[45:40]history from angels to humans will praise the basically they will be

[45:45]bewildered at that amazing position we don't know exactly what the prophet

[45:48]will give allah will give the prophet but he says is the

[45:55]power of shafa because the greatest honor that allah will give prophet

[45:59]muhammad sallallahu alaihi on the day of judgment is shafa he can

[46:04]intercede on behalf of whomever he wants look how much trust and

[46:09]authority allah has given him isn't that big on behalf of god

[46:14]on the day of judgment you forgive people you do shafa'a for

[46:19]people that's the biggest position seriously show me an can you conceptualize

[46:23]an honor greater than that allah is the king of that day

[46:28]maliki omideen the owner and the king of that day he rules

[46:32]everything he's assigned a human being he says you're in charge today

[46:36]it's your shafa i hear that flies and counts is there an

[46:40]honor greater than that subhanallah imagine just people looking at rasulullah everyone

[46:46]on the day of judgement even prophets they will look at the

[46:52]prophet ya rasulullah do shafa'a for us and if you remember in

[46:54]our islamic beliefs course about shafa'a we mentioned a fundamental point in

[46:59]which he says every human on the day of judgment even the

[47:07]prophets even us the imams we need the shafa'a of the prophet

[47:11]even the sinless ones why why if you're sinless you still need

[47:18]shafa you don't have sin so he's not interceding for the sins

[47:22]to be forgiven because you're sinless but you still need his shafa

[47:26]to go higher okay that's one way exactly heaven is infinite what

[47:35]did you do to deserve infinity even if you're prophet nu and

[47:40]you spent 2 000 years guiding people but it's 2 000 years

[47:44]it's limited in return allah is giving you an infinite reward what

[47:49]did you do to deserve that infinite reward not you didn't do

[47:52]anything to deserve infinite reward the most thing allah will tell prophet

[47:55]okay two thousand years you suffered ya allah i'll give you two

[47:59]thousand years in heaven and then it's over why should it continue

[48:05]for eternity you need shafa you need an advocate to get you

[48:09]in heaven for eternity that's the shafa'a of the prophet salallahu now

[48:13]remember when we had that class someone told me ask me this

[48:19]question what about the prophet himself who's putting him in infinity war

[48:21]i don't know the answer to that one that's a good question

[48:28]that's allah allah he's the best creation of allah allah intercedes on

[48:34]his behalf and that's why the prophet would say oh allah if

[48:37]i go to heaven it's not because i earned it even the

[48:40]prophet would say that but it's because of your mercy and father

[48:44]because of your favor that i go to heaven otherwise i don't

[48:49]even deserve heaven see if the world ended and there was no

[48:51]heaven we still couldn't complain allah created me he gave me blessings

[48:58]the oxygen that i breathed the water that i drank allah gave

[49:02]me blessings he allowed me to experience what life is and that's

[49:06]it allah is not obligated to give me anything more than that

[49:10]he's not obligated but allah out of mercy he does yes jesus

[49:18]and all those prophets before prophet muhammed will they be with him

[49:23]like on the gates of heaven yes they will walk behind him

[49:27]he will intercede for them everyone from adam until all the last

[49:32]prophets they will walk behind him after him and his ummah they

[49:36]will walk behind him and go to heaven yes so he leads

[49:40]the way remember we talked about in islamic beliefs is the biggest

[49:46]banner on the day of judgment it's bigger than the whole planet

[49:51]it's a huge banner under the arch of allah that is the

[49:56]banner of the prophet muhammad he gives it to imam ali he

[49:59]tells imam ali lead the way and then interestingly by the way

[50:06]imam ali understands that he enters first into heaven because he's carrying

[50:12]the banner he tells me rasool allah you know i enter before

[50:18]you you're the messenger of allah i enter before you the prophet

[50:21]basically tells him when there is a commander of an army and

[50:25]there's a carrier of the banner when they go somewhere the carrier

[50:30]of the banner enters first then the commander goes basically let me

[50:35]yes you're carrying my banner so you go first and we're walking

[50:39]in this group doesn't mean that that's imam ali is better than

[50:43]the prophet no but he's carrying the banner of the prophet so

[50:46]he has to enter so any everyone can see the banner and

[50:52]enter subhanallah yeah that's why i'm clarifying this does not mean imam

[50:56]ali is better no the prophet is much higher it's the prophet's

[51:00]banner but technically technically he enters first [Laughter] yes we have hadith

[51:07]by the way and and you know we're not embarrassed to say

[51:09]this we have hadiths that's imam lady fatima the prophet asks them

[51:15]enter before me he sees them enter then he enters to show

[51:20]those who oppress them on the day of judgment what status they

[51:25]have well the prophet so we find that the prophet sallallahu alaihi

[51:32]really took pride in being a slave of allah and remember the

[51:43]prophet brought the system of ibadah in a corrupt society that was

[51:48]based on idolatry people worshiping idols people had no sense of khushu

[51:53]it was just a folklore that they did bowing to the idols

[51:57]and then maybe mentioning the name of god the prophets the prophet

[52:03]transformed the meaning of ibadah the meaning of worship what it means

[52:07]to worship allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and so we're really indebted to

[52:11]the prophet sallallahu alaihi for being the perfect human being who did

[52:16]subjugate to the almighty god and and that is a source of

[52:21]greatness for the prophet when you think of rasulullah remember his side

[52:24]i think too often we forget that yes in the prophets before

[52:29]how come god they may have had wajib obligations on them sure

[52:40]possibly that something specifically allah required them to do that's very possible

[52:46]but when prophet muhammed came that's when stalin started right no no

[52:51]salah existed but in just slightly different form remember the jews before

[52:57]islam they would pray three times a day dawn afternoon and sunset

[53:02]they would pray even until today the religious committed jews they pray

[53:06]during these times no salah did exist but the full salah that

[53:11]we have you know the way we have the ruku the way

[53:13]we recite the quran and the kill this is unique to islam

[53:16]but salah in other more basic forms existed definitely islam came and

[53:22]broadened the salah and and added many dimensions to it such that

[53:26]the hadith one hadith 4 000 limits and conditions if you want

[53:33]to observe the wajob and the mustahab it's 4 000 details of

[53:38]salah that's how the prophet prayed yeah this did not exist before

[53:43]islam this is something unique that allah gave to this ummah but

[53:47]salah had a basic form all prophets prophet says allah told me

[53:54]to pray prophet isa was an excessive prayer prayer the person who

[54:01]prays muslim he was an ex he engaged in excessive ibadah in

[54:05]fact most of the time he was praying and that's why al

[54:09]islam in that debate with the jathalir the leader of the christians

[54:15]he made this point in that debate the jathali came you know

[54:20]the moon wanted this debate to happen benil abbas wanted to be

[54:25]embarrassed by bringing all these top scholars they're like well if he's

[54:29]surrounded with scholars he'll eventually give in so in the midst of

[54:33]the debate with the leader of the christians his name was the

[54:37]jatali his title you know like an archbishop or whatever and imam

[54:41]islam told him we love everything about jesus except one thing we

[54:48]have one criticism of jesus he couldn't believe what imam was saying

[54:54]you know he was like sitting calm you know he suddenly started

[54:59]to stiffen his back what you muslims have a criticism of jesus

[55:02]what is it he told him yeah everything was good about him

[55:09]he was very low in worship very little in worship he'd barely

[55:15]worship he got upset then he laughed he said i really had

[55:22]respect for you i thought you were really a scholar that i'm

[55:26]debating i had heard about now you know he basically told the

[55:31]imam you're ignorant the mom says why am i ignorant he says

[55:34]no man in history at that time prayed and did ibaadah more

[55:40]than jesus imam says are you sure about that he said yes

[55:43]the imam asked him who was he praying to the hadith says

[55:53]that just got shattered he did not expect that coming he lowered

[55:56]his head to the ground he did not raise it until the

[56:00]debate was over you don't know what to say because he had

[56:02]come trying to prove jesus is god imam what 30 seconds he

[56:08]just disrupted his whole process of thinking [Laughter] subhanallah only the amounts

[56:15]of admit can pull that off subhanallah so yes all the prophets

[56:21]of allah they engaged in excessive you know ibaad prophet adam alaihi

[56:26]salam 200 years he wept in ibadah any bad effect from approaching

[56:33]that tree i've removed it i've forgiven you all the prophets of

[56:37]allah prophet he'd cry so much in ibadah such that the hadith

[56:44]says you know the tears are salty right and that affects the

[56:50]skin he would cry so constantly and incessantly such that there were

[56:56]valleys as the hadith says symbolically on his cheek that means the

[57:03]the dumu the tears had made an engravement on his cheek can

[57:09]you imagine that's prophet to the point to the point where his

[57:13]mother or the people the companions of zakaria his father sometimes he

[57:18]would give a speech he's sitting in a circle he's giving a

[57:22]speech and he's talking about the day of judgment and heaven and

[57:25]hell they would come and they would beg him they told they

[57:29]tell him your son is around here please don't give the sermon

[57:34]because if you say the sermon your son is not going to

[57:36]stop until he falls unconscious this was when he was a young

[57:41]boy when he would hear the mo he'd cry cry cry cry

[57:46]cry until he would lose it that's how the see allah chose

[57:51]them for a reason they were at the peak peak of ibadah

[57:55]and so one amazing legacy of prophet muhammad that we honor and

[58:02]we cherish and we learn from is his commitment to the ibadah

[58:04]and there is so much more to discuss but inshaallah we you

[58:09]know will leave it at that in terms of our subsequent classes

[58:17]will explore other dimensions of his personality tahrir

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