Friday Prayer - Sheikh Abdulrahman Cherri

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[0:00]ahbar [Music] [Music] as [Music] [Music] f ill I seek refuge in

[2:27]God the all hearing the all knowing from the eist in the

[2:31]name of God the most merciful the most compassionate all praise is

[2:39]due to God the first before creation and life and last after

[2:43]the annihilation of all things he is the all KN who does

[2:49]not forget those who remember him does not diminish the reward of

[2:53]those who thank him does not disappoint those who call upon him

[2:57]and does not sever the hope of those who place their trust

[3:02]in him I bear witness that there is no deity but God

[3:05]alone without a partner and I bear witness that Muhammad S is

[3:12]his servant and messenger he sent him with guidance and the religion

[3:17]of Truth to make it Prevail over all religions even though the

[3:22]polytheist May dislike it oh God send your blessings upon Muhammad and

[3:29]the family of Muhammad and bless Muhammad and the family of Muhammad

[3:33]and have mercy upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad in the

[3:40]best way that you have sent blessings bestowed blessings and shown mercy

[3:45]upon ibraim and the family of ibraim indeed you are the praiseworthy

[3:50]the Glorious and you do what you will Servants of God I

[3:56]advise you and myself to be mindful of God the almighty to

[3:59]follow his commands and to avoid his prohibitions on this Friday I'd

[4:07]like to mention a few things that are related to the sacredness

[4:12]of this day as I have last week in a general sense

[4:14]but I want to go into more specifics during this week if

[4:19]we look at the behavior of the IMs the prophet sallallahu alaihi

[4:25]wasallam and his teachings we see that they try to maintain the

[4:32]Perfection of the human being on multiple levels it wasn't only one

[4:39]facet of the human that was addressed by them because in reality

[4:42]what we are as humans is we are individuals right each individual

[4:46]has their own Journey towards Allah subhana tala you have your own

[4:49]life you have your own soul you have your own being but

[4:53]at the same time you're part of a collectivity as well and

[4:58]a religion such as Islam that claim to come to all of

[5:01]mankind and it came as the final message of Allah subhana wa

[5:07]ta'ala we have to assume that it came as a collective message

[5:12]a comprehensive message it didn't come only to deal with a specific

[5:16]type of problem related to a specific time in history of humanity

[5:22]this is a difference between a revolation that is possibly not claiming

[5:27]that it's the final Revelation so let's say it was a that

[5:31]came before Islam it didn't have this claim that this is the

[5:32]final message of God it's okay to assume that this religion didn't

[5:39]come as a comprehensive religion because it was perhaps dealing with a

[5:44]specific issue that was prevalent at that period of time keeping in

[5:48]mind that there's going to be another Revelation that's going to come

[5:51]and perfect it or amend or fulfill whatever is missing so if

[5:57]a message doesn't claim that it's the final message then we don't

[6:01]assume that it's trying to deal with every single human problem it

[6:04]might be a temporary issue and that's taken whatever is taken into

[6:08]consideration when it comes to that message is that there's going to

[6:12]be another one that's going to come and amend that or P

[6:16]whatever is empty when it comes to Islam the claim is there

[6:19]it's the final message that the prophet Muhammad s alai is the

[6:27]final message so when we have this in our mind and we

[6:29]see that the religion is s claims this we have to understand

[6:33]that it has to be a religion that is more Collective or

[6:35]more comprehensive in its nature it doesn't only deal with one facet

[6:42]of the human being so if we look at Islam we come

[6:44]to examine it does it fulfill this criteria or no and looking

[6:50]at the laws that were revealed and the teachings that were given

[6:54]by the prophet we see that every single aspect of the human

[6:59]society and the human being addressed so we have aspects that deal

[7:02]with the individual on an individual level we have laws that concern

[7:09]the human being in their own life so your prayers your fasting

[7:13]you're getting close to Allah your relationship with God these things concer

[7:19]your personal relationship with God they're governed they're managed on the spiritual

[7:25]level and on the worldly level laws that concern the D and

[7:31]laws that concern the a next we kind of expand the circle

[7:36]the relationship between the individual and the other we have the immediate

[7:42]other which is your family your immediate family and then we expand

[7:47]the circle as we go along we see that there are laws

[7:50]that were reveal that govern the relationship between the human being the

[7:55]individual and his or her immediate family Islamic laws related to The

[8:02]Dun aspect the worldly aspect and those related to the spiritual aspect

[8:07]as well we expand the circle a bit more now we have

[8:09]this community that you live in Islam has also addressed this issue

[8:15]how do I deal with people who are within my own collectivity

[8:18]there are laws concerning that there are ethics that we have to

[8:22]follow certain criteria that the prophet and the imams has placed for

[8:27]us in order to manage and govern these relationships and we expand

[8:30]even more than we have the society until we reach all of

[8:35]humanity and then we have teachings and laws that are related to

[8:38]dealing with all of existence so you have animals you have nature

[8:42]you have trees you have land things that are not even animate

[8:48]objects so Islam has come to fulfill all of these roles and

[8:54]it came to teach us that your relationship isn't only with yourself

[9:02]there's so an egocentric approach to life is not what it's them

[9:09]teaching teaches one that there is caring for the self but there

[9:11]also has to be care for the other as well and it

[9:15]also teaches us that this other is not only a human being

[9:20]but everything in this creation is from God I am responsible towards

[9:25]everything a lot of times when we you know live as individuals

[9:28]in our communities we feel that the only thing that we should

[9:33]be concerned with is our relationship with our family members or our

[9:36]community and we hardly deal with people around outside of it they

[9:40]kind of create a bubble for ourselves and we say okay we

[9:43]are Muslims and this is the only Circle we're going to be

[9:48]in and we kind of Disconnect from the people outside of that

[9:51]circle now this is kind of natural that human beings tend to

[9:56]gather amongst each other if they have some familiar concept or idea

[10:00]that they share between each other right and we tend to distance

[10:03]ourselves from the people that we don't have a lot of familiar

[10:08]things with and what you know the social media apps have done

[10:11]is they they've taken this into consideration too like their algorithms if

[10:13]you search a certain thing then everything is going to show up

[10:18]is going to be related to that it kind of begins to

[10:20]develop algorithms based on what you search how you think and then

[10:24]it puts you in a bubble as well because it makes you

[10:26]feel comfortable makes you feel safe it makes you feel like powerful

[10:32]so each and every one of us now have our real bubble

[10:34]that we live in in the outside world and now we also

[10:39]have that bubble that we live in in the virtual world so

[10:41]we're never exposed to these other opinions and if you're not expose

[10:47]to that opinion you become more radical in your own opinions you

[10:51]become more um firm in what you believe in and you reject

[10:54]the other very severely and very harshly what Islam wanted to do

[11:01]it wanted to maintain closed ties between the Muslims but it also

[11:06]wanted the Muslims to be connected to people who are outside of

[11:09]the F of Islam at the end of the day these individuals

[11:13]are creatures that Allah subhana T has created they are human beings

[11:17]they came from Allah they didn't come from another God or from

[11:20]some other being they came from God as well not everybody has

[11:25]to be a Muslim for you to respect them and within the

[11:27]fold of Islam not everybody has to be on your own your

[11:30]own sect for you to respect them as well if we look

[11:34]at the of the IM because they were asked about this on

[11:41]many occasions during their times they began the the Shia the followers

[11:45]of the imams and in the Sunni School of the followers of

[11:48]the other the SE of they began developing these closed circles theology

[11:54]was beginning to develop at that time argumentation beliefs were beginning to

[12:00]set the ashis are an individual of a group of people who

[12:03]have a set of beliefs in theology they became the ashis opposed

[12:08]to them are the and then you had everybody either belonging to

[12:14]this or belonging to that and sex were beginning to develop now

[12:17]the imams were approached and they had followers who were very very

[12:23]radical in their approach to life so there was one individual named

[12:26]z he would refuse to marry a woman he wanted didn't want

[12:33]to get a wife because there was a possibility that this wife

[12:37]might change her mind about her beliefs during the marriage this is

[12:41]how strict he was in his in his thought he was very

[12:45]radical in that sense he didn't want to risk being with someone

[12:48]that might change in their life and he's already categorizing the other

[12:52]in in such a way where if she doesn't share his belief

[12:57]system then he cannot even live with her in one house so

[13:01]the IM tried to amend that he had a lot of discussion

[13:05]with Zur and Zur was adamant about this idea he didn't want

[13:08]to change his opinion and he kept bringing verses from the Quran

[13:13]trying to prove to the IM that if the other individual doesn't

[13:16]believe in what I believe in then they're going to help because

[13:20]this was a predominant view at that time either mman you're a

[13:26]Believer or you're a c this is the these are the categories

[13:27]that the Quran had mentioned according to Z and this was the

[13:30]argumentation of that that group of people and a lot of Muslims

[13:36]believe this that there's no middle ground between IM belief and kufur

[13:42]which is disbelief so the IM argues against this to Zur he

[13:46]tells him no we actually have other categories that make a person

[13:52]not a Believer and not a disbeliever so Zur insists that no

[13:58]there isn't any it's not possible he argues with the IM he

[14:01]tells him well isn't there Only Hell or Heaven he's trying to

[14:03]argue from a different perspective if there's only hell and heaven where's

[14:08]this third place where these other non-believers or believer where are they

[14:12]going to fit if you're a Believer you go to heaven if

[14:15]you're a non-believer you go to hell this other category that you're

[14:18]telling me about looks like they have no place in the Hereafter

[14:22]they don't belong anywhere right so the IM brings quranic evidence to

[14:27]show that in addition to these two categories Allah subhana talks about

[14:32]other individuals such such as for example and they were people who

[14:42]and another group was people who have mixed good deeds and bad

[14:46]Deeds these are neither Believers nor disbelievers in that sense of reward

[14:50]and Punishment Allah in the Quran says that he will deal with

[14:55]them after death another category which was the main category that the

[14:59]IM was trying to argue for is the those who are um

[15:05]let's say weaken or they're weak weak in their intellect meaning that

[15:10]they have not received the truth or they have not received it

[15:16]in the right way for them to follow it so let's say

[15:19]that the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam was in Mecca right and we

[15:23]had people during his lifetime that were living in South America they

[15:29]didn't receive Islam that message was not sent so the prophet was

[15:33]alive The Message of Islam was there what do we do with

[15:37]these individuals do we treat them as Believers or non-believers considering that

[15:40]the prophet was alive at that time but they did not receive

[15:44]the message so this this would be a must they didn't get

[15:47]the message of Islam all right is it enough for us to

[15:51]say that after the prophet came and the message was revealed and

[15:55]it became accessible that everyone is now accountable on the same level

[16:01]in same degree and much you know it's not some people the

[16:05]deficiency doesn't come from the message not being there some people are

[16:09]incapable of understanding the message properly if being told about the message

[16:14]from a non- infallible individual so when the prophet speaks to someone

[16:19]the prophet is very well aware of how to use language and

[16:27]arguments with that individual because they're the masters of humanity you know

[16:31]what this person needs a person who's a philosopher you don't talk

[16:34]to him about Islam the same way you would talk to a

[16:38]Shepherd you have to use a different argument you have to use

[16:40]a different language different mentality you don't talk to everybody in the

[16:43]same way so I for example might consider myself a messenger of

[16:47]Islam now after the prophet had passed right we car the message

[16:50]we're Muslims we go out and people want to call people to

[16:54]Islam or they want to argue that Islam is the True Religion

[16:56]but the arguments that I use are terrible arguments arguments that don't

[17:03]um uh convince people if Ed right there's a lot of people

[17:09]that do that they go out there and say okay this is

[17:10]Islam I'm going to claim this and if they don't listen they're

[17:14]K it's because their hearts are blind but it's very possible that

[17:17]the arguments that I'm using are incorrect they don't fit with the

[17:20]mentality of that individual they're not at the level of comprehension of

[17:23]that individual or my arguments are lower than what that person is

[17:27]able to think he might be a more intelligent individual than I

[17:30]am so just because I argue for Islam and that person rejects

[17:33]it doesn't make that individual a disbeliever in that sense they could

[17:39]be of the why because they didn't receive the message in the

[17:44]correct way with the correct Arguments for them to accept it so

[17:47]and this is the majority of humankind not everybody has the correct

[17:54]access to Islam and Islamic teaching not only that but because the

[17:57]prophet had departed from this world and the imams had also departed

[18:04]and as we the Shia believe IM went into a cation because

[18:07]of what the humans had done at that time they prevented this

[18:10]guidance from reaching us then we don't have access to the perfect

[18:17]version of Islam we have a access to a very good version

[18:19]of it we have a lot of teachings that have been passed

[18:22]down the general understanding of Islam is there the general rulings are

[18:26]there but we don't have access to the exact teaching so there

[18:30]is a possibility that there's a deficiency in that area so we

[18:35]shouldn't expect individuals that are outside of our fold to completely be

[18:40]convinced of this idea yes people who are good their hearts are

[18:43]pure and they have this attaction to God and want to learn

[18:48]about him there's a higher chance that they will Beed to Islam

[18:50]than other people who are not interested in this so keeping this

[18:54]in mind we have to understand that our relationship with the other

[18:58]has to be on this basis it has to be less judgmental

[19:03]during these days this is about the non-muslim imagine how it is

[19:06]when you're dealing with the Muslims as well you have to be

[19:10]even more forgiving in this sense even more careful about judging other

[19:15]people within the same M the same sect if you're a sh

[19:18]the IM tells Z that the Shia there are some people who

[19:24]are on a higher level of spirituality they have a higher level

[19:27]of comprehension they understand and they're closer to Allah subhana more this

[19:31]is a certain group of people don't hold everybody accountable to the

[19:36]same level as you hold these individuals don't expect everyone outside of

[19:40]your fold to understand what you're talking about a lot of people

[19:44]on line now talk about like the merits of the imams and

[19:47]the high spiritual Stations of the imams and whoever doesn't accept this

[19:51]idea they consider to be non followers of the IMs they're they

[19:55]give them names right the thing is not everybody's on the same

[20:00]level as you are maybe You' delved into the Hadith maybe you've

[20:03]developed yourself spiritually you're able to comprehend spiritual realities and TRS not

[20:06]everybody can do this so don't judge everybody based on the criteria

[20:13]that you have you expand the circle now there are people who

[20:16]just follow the IM believe them that they believe that they are

[20:21]their leaders but they're not spiritually connected to them they don't comprehend

[20:25]the levels and ranks of spirituality but they have love for and

[20:29]they follow their laws this is a bigger you have to maintain

[20:34]a good relationship with these individuals then you have a bigger Circle

[20:37]you have Muslims who love but don't follow the rulings that come

[20:41]from them from the example they're L of Love IM the the

[20:48]prophet because they obey the prophet's command about loving them you have

[20:52]to have maintain a certain type of respect with them as well

[20:56]a certain type of connection with and then you have in big

[20:59]ccle of some Muslims who were never a lot of Muslims that

[21:06]learned to love that were in certain countries they would come out

[21:10]and say that a lot of our on the me they never

[21:14]told us about this stuff there are individuals who intentionally try to

[21:19]keep usate away from the people when they come to know about

[21:22]them and they know how much the prophet commanded us to love

[21:25]them and follow them they develop an affection towards them so these

[21:30]individuals you also have responsibilities towards them if you expand the circle

[21:34]then you have the general Muslim and general Muslim so don't even

[21:43]share any of this with us the IM tells them that well

[21:45]they share Islam with you they don't share IM which is a

[21:50]deeper level of Islam but they share Islam with you so your

[21:52]responsibility is to visit them to ask about them to maintain good

[21:56]ethics with them you visit their dead you visit they're sick you

[22:02]funerals up there there's responsibilities towards so this is the have with

[22:08]the other people because what's happening now especially with in this day

[22:13]and age is these bubbles that are being created we're becoming more

[22:16]radicalized in our own opinions we reject the other person just because

[22:21]of difference of opinion we work together on a certain cause as

[22:28]soon as there's a difference of opinion we part we don't know

[22:31]how to live with one another and this radicalization of thought is

[22:36]a big problem we shouldn't have it we have to understand and

[22:41]learn how to live with one another even though there are differences

[22:43]in our cause and opinion we have to learn how to compromise

[22:46]how to reach Middle Ground how to understand how to deal with

[22:53]other people and remove this radicalization where we reject anybody who doesn't

[22:57]hear our opion we have to be more compassionate or loving or

[23:01]forgiving if Allah subhana T was to deal with us how we

[23:04]deal with people all of us are going to go to hell

[23:07]nobody wants God to deal with them the way they deal with

[23:12]other people we want God to forgive us for every mistake we

[23:14]do but when we when it comes to people's mistakes we're very

[23:18]hard when it comes to forgiving like no we I can't forgive

[23:23]this individual that mistake is too big or if I forgive them

[23:24]they're going to continue doing this wrong thing we become this judge

[23:30]this moral judge and we think that we're more wise than Allah

[23:33]subhana tala if God is the most wise judge and he adopted

[23:39]this method of forgiving forgiving excessively then we have to adopt that

[23:42]model and not try to come to our own model which is

[23:48]this radical understanding or behavior when it comes to dealing with the

[23:52]other praise belongs to God the first without a first before him

[24:33]the last without a last behind him behold there's his eyes full

[24:36]short of seeing him describers as imaginations are not able to depict

[24:41]him he originated the creatures through his power with an origination he

[24:50]devised them in accordance with his will with a devising then he

[24:53]made them walk on the path of his desire he sent them

[24:57]out on the way of his love they cannot keep back from

[25:02]that to which he has sent them forward nor can they go

[25:04]forward to that from which he has kep them back I bear

[25:10]witness that there is no God but God Alone with no partner

[25:16]and I bear witness that Muhammad s.

[25:20]is his servant and messenger oh God send your blessings upon Muhammad

[25:26]the Seal of the prophets and the master of the Messengers and

[25:29]send your blessings oh Lord upon Ali the commander of the faithful

[25:35]and upon fatimat zah the lady of the women of the worlds

[25:38]and upon Hassan and Al Hussein the masters of the Youth of

[25:44]paradise oh God send your blessings upon the imams of the Muslims

[25:49]Ali Hussein and Muhammed Ali Muhammad and M ja Al Muhammad Al

[25:56]Ali and the awaited M may Allah hasten his reappearance ease his

[26:02]emergence and make us among his supporters and followers I took a

[26:16]bit extra more time than I wanted to in the first sermon

[26:19]so I'm going to have to summarize this one inshallah in order

[26:21]to uh be respectful of your time what I want to talk

[26:27]about is Dua of Friday now my intention was to present a

[26:33]uh long commentary on but because the time is short I'm going

[26:36]to summarize and so when we look at the duas of the

[26:40]imams the supplication that they taught us the supplications were not only

[26:45]things that they taught us to recite in the Masjid or in

[26:49]our homes in order to ask for something from God or to

[26:55]um complain about something the supplication that the imams gave us can

[27:01]be categorized into different categories there are supplications that are long like

[27:08]right on Thursday night you come spend about supplication there are other

[27:12]supplications that are short like the supplications of the days of the

[27:17]week and there are even shorter supplications if we look at the

[27:23]Quran pray to God in one sentence they didn't even have introductions

[27:33]to it they didn't have like a long explanation like oh Allah

[27:39]do not leave me alone without children and you're the best of

[27:43]inheritance a prophet praying to Allah subhana to Grant him a child

[27:49]very short supplication there's no there's no Salat there's no praising of

[27:54]God it's a very short sentence so we understand from this that

[28:01]applications play a different role according to what we're trying to achieve

[28:05]from them someone who's drowning in the water is not going to

[28:09]try to remember the DU from or or something and start reciting

[28:13]that for God to sa right if you're drowning you're going to

[28:17]say Allah get me out of here right it's going to be

[28:19]like very improvised Dua on the spot coming from the bottom of

[28:26]your heart that serves a certain function and in reality that kind

[28:29]of Dua is usually the most sincere prayer it's like when you're

[28:32]in a very bad situation it comes from your heart you're suffering

[28:37]in your life you're having a difficult time a lot of us

[28:40]were students you know we became very religious before the final week

[28:44]right when it came to finals start sending questions to the she

[28:50]and you sent me a Dua to pass this exam and when

[28:51]you're doing the exam you're doing all the bests right anything you

[28:58]memorize in suay school all comes out from the bottom of your

[29:01]heart because you want to pass that exam right so most of

[29:06]the time when we're in that kind of like dire situation we

[29:09]are able to pray from our hearts but usually those kinds of

[29:12]prayers are related to our desires is something that we want and

[29:18]God had allowed this and out of his mercy and forgiveness he

[29:21]grants us those prayers even though it comes from a selfish point

[29:25]of view right but Allah is a very forgiv God a very

[29:30]merciful a very compassionate God even things that sometimes are very selfish

[29:35]inside of us he grants it to us as long as it

[29:38]doesn't give us a lot of harm it doesn't cause us a

[29:41]lot of harm another or a higher level of job are those

[29:45]prayers that the IMs have taught us so we have the Imam

[29:49]being an individual who's elevated spiritually right the Imam doesn't have the

[29:55]ego when he's talking to Allah subhana tala he's Beyond himself he's

[30:00]transcended himself so he becomes the master of spirituality and in order

[30:05]for him to be or because he is a master he has

[30:10]an obligation or duty to teach the students how to become better

[30:13]you go to university or you go to school that's what your

[30:15]teacher's responsibility is in class right they're supposed to elevate you on

[30:19]the intellectual level make you smarter individuals and if they're true teachers

[30:24]they care about your ethics and your morals and your behavior as

[30:28]well so because they've reached that higher level and children begin without

[30:34]these teachings the teachers's responsibility in society is to elevate those individuals

[30:38]and teach them and prepare them to become better human beings because

[30:42]of the experience that the teacher has in their life right they're

[30:45]on a higher level the imams being Superior to us spiritually they

[30:51]are like those teachers we are like those children we're still not

[30:55]very aware spiritually of what's best for us we're not aware of

[31:01]what decisions are best for us what paths to take in life

[31:04]we usually behave based on our egos and The Limited information that

[31:08]we have so the imam's duty as a guide is to elevate

[31:12]us is to teach us how to speak to God how to

[31:18]contemplate about God what path to take in life their role is

[31:20]that teaching role one of the methods that they use are the

[31:23]supplications that we have like last night we had the supplication of

[31:30]God of which is a very very beautiful supplication the imams Begin

[31:35]by teaching us who God Is So if you're asking God for

[31:38]something why do you have to begin with praising God in different

[31:42]types of Praises like what I recited at the beginning of the

[31:45]sermon and the other sermon these are taken from the supplications and

[31:48]the sermons of the IMs this type of description and you can

[31:51]see that each one's different than the other so why do the

[31:56]IMs do this well it's to create a higher Consciousness within ourselves

[31:59]if you're talking to a child and you're going to visit someone

[32:03]very important you have to prepare them for it right especially if

[32:06]you have a child that you can't control very well you have

[32:09]to tell them look we're going to a very important person it's

[32:12]a very respectful place we have to stay quiet we have to

[32:15]do this we have to do that and by instilling these ideas

[32:18]in the child's mind their imagination begins to play they start imagining

[32:22]what you're telling them that this is a place like this a

[32:25]place like that they alter the their behavior based on that type

[32:30]of language that you use with so before entering that sacred conversation

[32:35]with god the IM teaches us that you have to first of

[32:37]all fix your imagination you came from work you're busy with your

[32:40]kids you've been watching like Clips on on on your phone or

[32:44]your TV or you listening to the radio if you still do

[32:45]that some people still do that if you listen to the radio

[32:49]and you want to enter that conversation with god but you have

[32:57]all of this stuff playing in your head so the IM creates

[33:00]that barrier it throw with his language he throws those things to

[33:03]the side and he begins to replace those ideas that you have

[33:08]with a higher level of Consciousness God is the first who had

[33:11]no first before him he puts you on that level now I'm

[33:17]talking to the Eternal I'm supposed to elevate myself from this world

[33:21]over here that's filled with limitations and space and time and everything

[33:25]here is restricted now I'm getting into a conversation with the Eternal

[33:30]I'm going outside of time and outside of space so by and

[33:33]you know this is just one example this is approach this is

[33:39]why did they praise them this way and why what are the

[33:43]words that they use are not just trying to fill the page

[33:47]with poetry and language right everything they write and everything they say

[33:51]has a meaning and a purpose our job our responsibility just like

[33:54]in school the teacher teaches you the knowledge but there's a responsibility

[33:58]upon the student as well the student has to receive that knowledge

[34:02]has to review that knowledge has to study that knowledge it's not

[34:05]enough just to listen to it right if you want to become

[34:11]a scholar a student if you want to pass so the imams

[34:13]give us the Dua it's our responsibilities as the students to look

[34:17]at those duas and to study them to contemplate over them to

[34:22]try to understand them and once we do that elevates us first

[34:26]of all on the Consciousness level on the int intellectual level and

[34:31]thirdly when we understand these two we begin to elevate on the

[34:37]spiritual level as well because our conversation with God begins to change

[34:41]now I'm more aware of who God is I'm more conscious of

[34:46]who God is if I don't become conscious of who God is

[34:48]then when I'm speaking to him I'm not really speaking to him

[34:53]I'm not even aware that God exists a lot of us read

[34:54]the Dua and we have no feeling that we're speaking to God

[34:59]God we're just repeating uh words and they're just sounds coming out

[35:03]of our mouth right so in order to develop that feeling and

[35:07]I'm not saying that we're responsible to do that for the whole

[35:10]duration of du if one of us is able to achieve this

[35:15]feeling or this state for one minute in the Dua this is

[35:18]a great blessing and you want to increase that every single time

[35:22]a lot of our Scholars tell us that you're not expected to

[35:27]read like all of which is pages long and connect with God

[35:31]on that you know with or or J your favorite da in

[35:35]in the month of Ramadan right it's very it takes an hour

[35:40]or so to read right you're not expected to connect to God

[35:43]for that whole hour and you're not expected to read all of

[35:48]duas in their long duration you tell us that sometimes a segment

[35:51]of Dua is what you're connected with because that's the kind of

[35:54]spiritual state that you're in if you're someone under a lot of

[35:56]distress certain segment of du you connect with more than the others

[36:03]that's where you have to focus more if you're in a feeling

[36:05]of love and Ecstasy with Allah subhana wa tala then there are

[36:08]segments in Dua command that fit for you they're more focused on

[36:13]the idea of love with Allah so in that segment connect with

[36:16]God and don't feel bad if you don't connect with the others

[36:21]so start with this small connection and try to understand the duas

[36:25]and eventually you realize that your relationship with God improve and grows

[36:29]over time we ask Allah subhana to grant us this closeness and

[36:33]proximity to him and to allow us to enter this sacred communication

[36:39]with him with more Consciousness and understanding

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