"Guide Us to the Straight Path" - Sayed Ali Qazwini | Ramadan 2025 - Night 26

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[0:03]Amen.

[0:13]Amen.

[0:31]Respected brothers and sisters, illuminate your hearts and minds in this majus

[0:36]with a loud salawat.

[0:46]According to the Islamic literature cannon, one of the greatest if not

[0:54]the greatest chapter in the holy Quran is fat.

[0:56]It goes by several other names and allies such as the mother

[1:03]of the book.

[1:03]It's the introductory right the preamble of the Quran and according to

[1:08]some opinions that great name of Allah of God that by which

[1:15]you invoke Allah would never reject your haj your request is mentioned

[1:19]within this holy chapter you find the centrality of fat is centered

[1:27]upon this verse this is the core theme within the entire chapter

[1:35]chapter everything that pre precedes it is what leading and building up

[1:39]to it and what comes after this verse is simply concluding statements.

[1:44]So if you look at fat you start by saying whatman in

[1:49]the name of God the beneficent the mer merciful at the time

[1:53]of the holy prophet during the time of whenever you would engage

[1:57]in any action you would invoke who the mat the manat the

[2:00]these false gods.

[2:03]So before you go and ask any request from God, you invoke

[2:06]the name of the one and true Allahel.

[2:10]After that's what alhamdulillah you understand that there is a master and

[2:20]servant relationship and you understand that no matter where you go across

[2:23]this globe, you are always under the dominion of Allah.

[2:28]No matter where you go, how deep of an underground bunker you

[2:33]may have, you will never evade the dominion of Allahel.

[2:37]And in fact, according to many of the muas, those who do

[2:42]exesus of the holy Quran, they say all of the traits of

[2:44]Allah can be summarized in these two because everything in this universe

[2:49]and without is what?

[2:52]Under the mercy and benevolence of God.

[2:59]You see the Quran could could have said, "Oh God, we worship

[3:05]you." Right?

[3:04]Because a central theme of Islam is that we worship God.

[3:11]However, the phrasing and the grammar used here is what?

[3:15]We only worship you, oh God, and nothing else.

[3:17]Meaning all the worship is directed solely towards you.

[3:23]Meaning this leaves no room for the false idols and the false

[3:26]gods.

[3:27]But also this means my nefs my personal desires should have no

[3:31]what place when it comes to worshiping Allah in my heart.

[3:37]If I'm watching a football game if I'm doing anything and all

[3:40]of a sudden I hear the call to prayer the adan I

[3:44]have a choice.

[3:44]Do I worship allahel leave what I'm doing or do I continue

[3:49]following and worshiping my own desires?

[3:51]Over here we invoke the name of God and we say our

[3:53]worship and our dedication and our attention is solely towards you.

[3:59]Then we ask Allahh for what?

[4:04]For guidance.

[4:05]Now this is a dua right like many of the other duas

[4:10]mentioned within the holy Quran and the hadith literature and canon.

[4:12]What is this dua?

[4:15]We ask Allah subhana ta to guide us to the straight path.

[4:19]Everything in this chapter in this verse was simply building up to

[4:24]this dua.

[4:25]And what's special about this dua is that this is the only

[4:31]you could say it's the only dua that you are obliged to

[4:33]say how many times?

[4:36]10 times a day in your prayers.

[4:37]There is no other dua that you're obliged to request from Allah.

[4:40]This is the only prayer, the only supplication that every single day,

[4:46]10 times a day, God wants us to invoke.

[4:48]Oh Allah, guide us to your straight path.

[4:50]And then afterwards, after the prayer, after the dua, our concluding statements,

[4:55]meaning what straight path?

[4:58]Which straight path?

[5:04]Not those who have invoked your wrath, nor those who have gone

[5:10]astray.

[5:07]And in many versions of the exes Jesus, the taps, this is

[5:12]referring to who?

[5:14]the path of the Christians and the Jews whom Allahh either invoked

[5:17]his wrath was invoked or they had gone astray.

[5:20]Thus you find the centrality of the verse is what of the

[5:25]chapter this singular verse.

[5:27]Oh Allah guide us to the straight path.

[5:31]Every single day alhamdulillah we have the opportunity to recite this dua

[5:34]and invoke God's.

[5:39]Now this begs a question.

[5:42]If we are here in a mosque and we are born and

[5:46]we follow the path of Muhammad and al Muhammad then why is

[5:50]it necessary to invoke haya to invoke guidance every single day?

[5:54]Some might ask if I already do my daily prayers if I've

[5:59]done the Hajj and I follow the path of the aren't I

[6:03]already onah why is it then every single day I have to

[6:08]keep on invoking God to what send down his guidance if we

[6:13]as we claim we follow the true and righteous path of as

[6:19]imparted to him by the family then why is it that we

[6:20]continually ask Allah for guidance now you find scholars of thequran they've

[6:25]gone and developed three opinions on why is it that every single

[6:28]day we invoke God's guidance the first opinion my dear brothers and

[6:35]sisters is that when we ask Allah subhana t for guidance we

[6:40]have to understand how the system of haya and guidance works to

[6:45]illustrate this example in a similar concept the concept of free will

[6:49]and predestination some scholars have used the following analogy They say, "Imagine

[6:55]you're paralyzed in your left arm.

[6:57]You visit the physician and they have some sort of medical device,

[7:00]some wire.

[7:01]When they attach it to your arm and you know the electricity

[7:04]starts flowing, you're able to what?

[7:06]Move your arm." Suddenly your arm is imbued with new life.

[7:10]But as soon as these wires and the medical equipment is unattached,

[7:13]what happens?

[7:15]You're unable to move your arm.

[7:17]They say haya, yes, comes from God.

[7:19]Allah subhana t is the one who senses haya.

[7:23]However, we have to choose every single day if we are worthy

[7:26]recipients of this guidance.

[7:30]Every single day, Allahh, he can give us the chance of choosing

[7:33]haya.

[7:34]But at the end of the day, it's my choice of what

[7:38]do I continue staying on this path?

[7:40]Thus, these scholars, they say means what?

[7:45]Meaning the continuation of guidance.

[7:47]Yes, right now I'm guided.

[7:49]Alhamdulillah.

[7:49]If we can claim that.

[7:51]Well, what about tomorrow?

[7:53]What about the day after?

[7:54]We know many examples from Islamic history, from many of our contemporary

[7:58]everyday lives that there are people who may they may have been

[8:02]on the straight path, but they slowly went astray.

[8:03]If you look at the time of sallallahu alaihi one of his

[8:09]closest companions and in fact relatives was whom?

[8:10]None other than his.

[8:12]However, later on during the time of Min because of his son

[8:17]who influenced him, who brainwashed him, he ended up going and fighting

[8:19]against M and he fell from the grace.

[8:23]On the other hand, you look there are people who they engage

[8:27]their entire lives in sin, not leading a righteous and godly lifestyle.

[8:32]However, sometimes even if it's at the very end, Allahh will give

[8:40]them a chance to turn to him.

[8:42]Every year we reanalyze the legacy of Al during someone who fought

[8:46]against Imam Hussein who cut the root but in those final vital

[8:52]moments he decided to accept God's in one narration attributed to Imass

[8:58]peace be upon him he says he speaks to Allah he invokes

[9:03]God's name he tells him he says oh Allah grant us the

[9:13]honor the of what?

[9:12]Because of your we are able to worship you in the past

[9:18]so that also in the future we can continue to pray and

[9:22]worship towards you.

[9:25]Thus they say in the sense that yes perhaps right now we

[9:28]are on but what about in the future?

[9:33]You know thean is always working overtime is about to finish.

[9:36]He's going to work through three four five shifts right?

[9:38]So we have to make extra extra care take extra precaution on

[9:45]continuing to stay on the path of haya.

[9:46]This is the first opinion espoused by scholars.

[9:50]Another opinion is no not that is the continuation of haya.

[9:56]The reason this is a dua and every single day 10 times

[9:58]a day we make this dua is because all Muslims we all

[10:08]agree on what?

[10:07]The foundations of Islam.

[10:10]After we all depart from this dunya, we're in our grave.

[10:12]The angels, they come and they ask us what book, who is

[10:17]your god?

[10:17]Every Muslim or anyone who claims to be Muslim will say allahel.

[10:21]What is your book?

[10:22]Every Muslim will say the Quran.

[10:23]What is your dean, your religion?

[10:27]Every Muslim will say Islam.

[10:28]These issues all Muslims agree upon.

[10:29]And in fact, in order to qualify to be a Muslim, there

[10:31]needs to be consensus.

[10:34]However, in some of the particular matters of faith, you find there

[10:38]are are many discrepancies amongst Muslims, allahel, does he have finite physical

[10:46]descriptions or no?

[10:48]Find not all Muslims agree on this.

[10:50]Some Muslims because of verses like the hand of God is above

[10:56]your hands.

[10:55]They say God must have a physical hand.

[10:57]In some of the Muslim books, it's narrated that jahannim hellfire after

[11:04]everyone that is destined to go to hellfire enters, it's still hungry.

[11:08]Says, "I want more." And then according to that narration in some

[11:14]Muslim books, Allahel, he takes his leg, he places it inside hellfire

[11:17]and then heaven says, hellfire says, you know, I've had enough, right?

[11:21]I don't need anymore.

[11:25]This is my do.

[11:26]We accept this.

[11:29]Well, obviously if you're an adherent of the path of then no,

[11:32]we do not accept this.

[11:35]You cannot delineate and define God.

[11:36]But you find Muslims do not have unanimous consensus on an issue

[11:41]like this.

[11:42]Is God just?

[11:42]You find some Muslims, they take the opinion that if God wanted

[11:47]to take Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi and place him in hellfire, he

[11:51]has the right to do so.

[11:52]And he's Allah, right?

[11:54]Who's going to argue with him?

[11:55]You find not all Muslims have consensus on this issue.

[11:59]Whereas for example according to the path of the B no even

[12:01]Allahel is bound by what he has placed himself and bound himself

[12:07]to the rules of justice and fairness and equity.

[12:10]You find in other issues for example if someone has sinned and

[12:15]transgressed whether against Allah or against others if someone's committed murder will

[12:20]they spend a definite amount of time in hellfire or will they

[12:23]be in hellfire forever you find there is no unanimous consensus amongst

[12:27]Muslims on this issue a lot of issues there is no unanimous

[12:31]consensus the prophets are they immaculate from any and all sin and

[12:36]forgetful behavior or no not all Muslims have unanimous consensus.

[12:41]And by the way, these are important issues.

[12:43]Yes, they're not the foundations of faith, but these are very important

[12:47]issues.

[12:45]Thus, this second opinion says when you invoke constant haya, you are

[12:51]saying, "Oh Allah, even in this particular issues, grant me haya." No,

[12:55]we were not there during the time of the prophet to ask

[13:00]and im so that we can ask him.

[13:03]Therefore, we constantly ask for haya for guidance so that we can

[13:07]be on the proper path in terms of these specific issues.

[13:11]The third opinion as to why we constantly ask for haya, we

[13:19]constantly ask for guidance is when we find and look at the

[13:22]rules of the Islamic faith.

[13:23]Do we accept those rules based upon my own personal understanding, my

[13:28]own personal inclination, what I like or based upon what's known as

[13:32]the what I find in the Quran, what I find in the

[13:38]hadith.

[13:37]You find some people they personally have a preference towards a certain

[13:40]issue.

[13:41]So what they say that kalas I don't care what the Quran

[13:47]says I don't care what the hadith says I want to follow

[13:49]this certain path you know every year this controversy abounds why is

[13:55]it that we have two or multiple why can't we all just

[13:57]agree and while in theory and concept this sounds great staying united

[14:01]you know mashallah Muslims are around the globe are united on everything

[14:05]but at the end of the day the person who issues the

[14:10]fatwa they can't issue a fat That's why based on their own

[14:12]personal inclination, they have to look at what the Quran says.

[14:16]They have to look at what the hadith says.

[14:19]If the hadith says, for example, and they're convinced, it's based upon

[14:23]the citing of the then they're obliged to follow that, not their

[14:27]own personal inclinations.

[14:29]If one person reads the holy Quran and they find upon this

[14:33]verse those people of the book meaning Jews and Christians their food

[14:41]their is halal upon you.

[14:41]So someone says you know what that means I can go to

[14:47]McDonald's well boycott on McDonald's I can go to Subway and what

[14:49]and eat you know Subway chicken or Subway beef right?

[14:52]This is what the Quran says.

[14:54]Well, we have to understand what the Quran within the context.

[14:59]We have to see what are the verses surrounding it.

[15:01]We have to even understand the Arabic language at the time of

[15:05]does mean any type of food because that's how it's used now.

[15:10]But what was the meaning of at the time of according to

[15:12]some of the the dictionaries at the time of at the time

[15:18]of the was what?

[15:21]Lentils and vegetarian food not necessarily meat.

[15:22]So there's context to this.

[15:26]I can't just look at something and because it suits my personal

[15:29]desire, I say, you know what, I'll follow this.

[15:33]Once I immed peace be upon him, he was walking the streets

[15:36]of Medina.

[15:37]He was walking in the marketplace when he saw a man standing

[15:40]by a bakery.

[15:42]The man, he was looking at the loaves of bread and he

[15:44]was looking at the baker.

[15:47]When the baker, he turned around for a minute, he saw the

[15:49]man who was standing outside, the customer, he just took two loaves

[15:53]of bread and he just very briskly and swiftly started walking away.

[15:56]Now the imam said, you know, perhaps he had some with him.

[15:59]You know, he has a he's prepaid for these bread.

[16:02]How do I know?

[16:03]So the imam was walking.

[16:05]He saw this person.

[16:05]He stopped at a fruit seller.

[16:07]And again, when the fruit seller turned his face, he turned around.

[16:11]He took two pomegranates and he swiftly walked away.

[16:13]Now the imam, he was intrigued.

[16:17]He continued walking.

[16:16]When he saw that man who has two pomegranates and two loaves

[16:19]of bread, he stopped for a second.

[16:23]He saw a poor individual.

[16:24]He looked at him.

[16:24]He said, "Are you hungry?" You know, this man said, "Yeah." So

[16:28]he offered him the two loaves of bread and the two pomegranates.

[16:31]That's when the imam went and spoke to this individual.

[16:36]He came up to him.

[16:36]He told him alaykum salam.

[16:40]He says these two loaves of bread and these two pomegranates did

[16:43]you purchase them?

[16:43]He says no.

[16:45]He says then by which right did you take these two pomegranates

[16:50]and these two loaves of bread?

[16:51]You know this is a sin this is an so the man

[16:55]he looks at him he says are you Muhammad?

[16:58]He says are you the grandson of he says yes.

[17:01]He says, "Isn't it a shame you don't know the faith of

[17:03]your own grandfather?

[17:04]You don't know the book that was revealed upon your grandfather Muhammad."

[17:08]He says, "Enlighten me." He says, "Don't we read in the Holy

[17:14]Quran, if you come with a good deed, you that good deed

[17:21]is multiplied 10fold.

[17:25]But if you do a bad deed, right, you sin, you will

[17:29]only get minus one, one negative deed.

[17:31]So he says, I have two pomegranates and I have two loaves

[17:37]of bread, so that's four.

[17:37]Four * 10, that's 40.

[17:38]And yeah, I stole, so that's minus four.

[17:41]So I have positive positive 36 deeds.

[17:44]So he says, "Oh, Jaffer Muhammad, read the book of your grandfather."

[17:49]And what?

[17:48]And then you come complaining to me.

[17:50]He says, "Yes, you've read the book, but you haven't done you

[17:56]don't understand what you're reading.

[17:57]You have to read and you have to comprehend the Holy Quran."

[17:59]Yes, it's great that we read the Quran, but we need to

[18:01]understand the context of the Holy Quran and who the as provided

[18:08]by the Alb.

[18:07]He says, "No, your math is wrong.

[18:10]You know, you have to retake the MWA or you know, whatever

[18:14]this test was this past month." He says, "Redo your math." He

[18:18]says, "You stole." So that's what minus4 then he says you acted

[18:26]upon a property that's not yours that's another minus4 when you act

[18:30]upon a property that's not yours even if you give it as

[18:31]charity you don't get any you don't reap any benefits or rewards

[18:36]so he says that's altogether net negative8 so he says you are

[18:40]the one who needs to go back and read the whole Quran

[18:43]so just because something sounds good right like a Robin Hood story

[18:46]doesn't mean that what this is actually what Allah subhana t wants

[18:49]me to do you find in some Sufi sects those who do

[18:53]the you know the Darvish roller dances and all kinds of stuff

[18:56]you can find them in Syria and Turkey other places some of

[19:00]them what they believe is that if you reach a certain stage

[19:03]of religious enlightenment you know you've become basically like an ayatah after

[19:07]that point you no longer have to pray and you don't have

[19:12]to fast why isn't that the point in which you even you

[19:15]increase your fast and your prayers even more they say read the

[19:18]Quran The Quran says, "Worship your Lord until comes upon you." And

[19:28]they say, you know, if you've reached a high stank, a high

[19:30]rank, and you have of Allahawel, then you no longer have to

[19:36]do worship.

[19:35]Well, if you go to the of this verse, all Muslims, they

[19:40]all agree that the of this verse is what?

[19:42]that that you don't have to pray, you don't have to fast,

[19:44]you don't have to give your Islamic religious dues after you've retained

[19:49]a certain rank.

[19:52]No, they say is what is death.

[19:54]Because after death, when we're placed inside our graves, Allahh that veil

[19:59]that we can't see this world of the unseen, of the jin,

[20:04]of the angels, all that which is occurring but we can't see

[20:08]is suddenly what?

[20:10]Visible to us.

[20:09]Now we can see properly.

[20:12]Now we can have true.

[20:13]Now I understand everything that I read in the holy Quran.

[20:16]Everything I heard from Allah Muhammad, it's all true.

[20:20]And I will be what?

[20:21]Held accountable.

[20:23]Every minute that I spent in this duny, what was I doing?

[20:26]I now understand that there is there is thus the of this

[20:33]verse is what?

[20:33]Worship until the final moment of your life.

[20:36]Not you worship until you reach a certain rank and then no

[20:41]more salah no more.

[20:41]This is an improper understanding of this verse.

[20:46]Thus when we invoke Allahel to grant us his haya every single

[20:53]day it is incumbent upon us that we ask Allah subhana ta

[20:58]to grant us.

[20:59]In some narrations what is theat exactly?

[21:02]They state the surat is a bridge that is overhanging on top

[21:08]of jahannam that all individuals have to pass.

[21:10]And according to some narrations it said it's narrower than the tip

[21:16]of a sword.

[21:14]We all have to cross this bridge and there are obstacles on

[21:20]this bridge.

[21:20]One obstacle is prayers.

[21:23]You know some of us we might trip.

[21:26]Another obstacle is hajj.

[21:26]Another obstacle is what?

[21:29]Keeping our kinship and our ties with our family.

[21:31]You know, if I haven't done my dues towards my parents, towards

[21:38]my family members, my siblings, my nephews, you know, if you if

[21:40]you don't pay your nephews and your nieces the idea, you know,

[21:43]that's problematic.

[21:44]That might be an obstacle and I might trip.

[21:47]There are obstacles on the right.

[21:48]So, all the parents, all the uncles and aunts, please prepare your

[21:51]ideas inshallah.

[21:53]And inshallah, the surat will be wide.

[21:56]This is what every single person has to pass and inshallah we

[22:00]can all with our and with the grace of Allah pass.

[22:05]However, in one narration attributed to Imak peace be upon him, he

[22:09]says there is a different type of as well.

[22:12]A companion comes he asks him is there just one type of

[22:19]the one that we hear the one that overhangs.

[22:20]He says no.

[22:26]There there's two there is one in the the one that we

[22:30]all pass.

[22:30]But what is the and the in another narration attributed to im

[22:36]Muhammad Bakar he says that what a is Muhammad and al Muhammad

[22:44]peace be upon them.

[22:49]When this verse was revealed according to the narrations, he looked at

[23:00]im and he said, "Thus my dear brothers and sisters, we invoke

[23:08]every single day Allahel to grant us the to grant us the

[23:13]and the honor of being upon the path of Muhammad and Muhammad

[23:16]to grant us a life filled with what?

[23:19]with and dedication towards Allah and to grant us this until the

[23:26]final moments of our life.

[23:38]Alhamdulillah for the souls of all our for those who have come

[23:44]today for our beloved ones.

[23:46]Let us all recite.

[23:47]Before that,

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