Month Of Sha'ban - Weekly Series - Sheikh Jafar Hammoud

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[3:51][Music] salaam alaikum brothers and sisters and welcome back to the final

[4:27]session of our shaban series with shaykh zafar hammut inshallah you are

[4:34]all well and getting ready for the holy month of ramadan which

[4:40]is almost upon us next week inshallah just a couple of points

[4:49]before we invite shaykh jafar we hope to continue with our monday

[4:53]sessions inshaallah and also our thursday sessions throughout the holy month of

[5:01]ramadan we will have a different speaker for the monday and thursday

[5:05]sessions those will be inshallah released and the event details in the

[5:09]poster will be released in in within the next day or two

[5:13]hopefully so stay tuned uh throughout ramadan inshallah there will be lots

[5:16]of content and material for you to to stay with us and

[5:25]uh do the ipad at and without further ado we're going to

[5:31]uh invite shahid alaikum i'm feeling a little bit uh emotional coming

[5:52]to the end of the challenge series with you it's been you

[5:56]know the lectures have been powerful and insightful and it's been beautiful

[5:59]uh you know having you with us and becoming part of the

[6:05]family it won't be hopefully hopefully the next time is uh personal

[6:11]not virtual huh inshallah we we would definitely love a physical appearance

[6:15]and to be within the masjid and uh to see all the

[6:21]brothers and sisters in sha allah insha allah thank you very much

[6:24]for having me over to you inshallah for our final session foreign

[7:15]in the name of allah the beneficent the merciful the gracious the

[7:20]almighty all praises be to allah creator of mankind master of the

[7:25]day of judgment respected brothers and sisters in islam assalamu alaikum in

[7:35]these blessed days and in these blessed nights and what is remaining

[7:41]of the holy month of as we approach the month of allah

[7:47]ramadan we ask allah subhanahu wa tahalah to give us the strength

[7:52]and the power and the ability to fast the days of shah

[7:59]ramadan and to perform our worships to the best of our ability

[8:04]insha'allah allah says in the holy quran return back to your lord

[8:34]well pleased and pleasing him and enter among my righteous servants enter

[8:41]my paradise it is said that the holy prophet sallallahu alaihi one

[8:48]time saw a group of men gathered so he asks them as

[8:55]to why they are gathered in this large crowd they replied to

[9:00]him saying there is a man who's getting buried it's his funeral

[9:06]the prophet sallallahu alaihi it is said he walks closer to where

[9:12]they are burying this man and he sits next to the grave

[9:17]on his knees and it is said that he cried and he

[9:24]cried so much that his clothes were soaking from his tears he

[9:32]then says my people for a day like this get yourselves ready

[9:43]who also said in one hadith that when the believer dies his

[9:53]resurrection begins there might be a misconception many people have that the

[10:06]afterlife begins when the day of judgment arrives when really and truly

[10:14]the the after life begins with death as simple as that the

[10:20]first stage of the afterlife is the death of the human being

[10:24]death brothers and sisters is something that we cannot run away from

[10:30]death is an absolute certainty in life everyone dies there's no exception

[10:36]uh who you are no matter what position you've reached no matter

[10:43]what status you've gained no matter how much money you have no

[10:46]matter how great you are we are all going to leave this

[10:54]physical realm and it's pretty clear unfortunately throughout this pandemic and throughout

[11:00]this these times we live in we we see this in our

[11:03]eyes on tv even we might have family members friends we might

[11:07]know who passed away all from different age groups because of this

[11:13]deadly virus and if you think of it is there anyone any

[11:19]person any individual in this whole creation in this whole existence in

[11:26]this that his life or her life is more valuable and of

[11:37]importance than the infallible imam in rasulallah of course not i think

[11:44]this is something we can all agree upon yet we see that

[11:50]the prophets and the imams their time came to an end they

[12:00]left this physical materialistic world and traveled to the metaphysical world allah

[12:07]sent the angel which is the angel of death to take their

[12:13]souls away and these are the most greatest of people rasulullah the

[12:19]best creation of allah no doubt our seventh imam imam he was

[12:31]once standing at a grave site and it is said that he

[12:35]mentions this hadith indeed something that ends with this referring to death

[12:44]is worthy of its beginning being spent in abstinence and indeed something

[12:50]that begins with this is worthy of its end being feared with

[12:54]apprehension would take the opportunity in moments like these when there's death

[13:06]occasions when they see a funeral when they are near a grave

[13:11]to teach the people by giving them some lessons some words of

[13:18]wisdom to reflect and to contemplate about the scene of death the

[13:22]washing of the body the grave being done getting ready just for

[13:27]the body to be buried the large crowd of people people mourning

[13:36]and crying on their beloved ones this these images stick in the

[13:43]back of our heads and perhaps they are a reminder for us

[13:48]dear brothers and sisters that one day it is us that will

[13:59]be inside of that grave this body we see in front of

[14:05]us it once had dreams just like us it had its wishes

[14:12]its goals its hopes its ambitions but allah decided for its time

[14:18]to come to an end just like every other person that has

[14:22]lived in this dunya in this scene imam is telling us that

[14:35]this whole dunya we dream of and we work and live for

[14:41]can be summarized in this moment next to the grave this is

[14:45]the final destination as we mentioned previously when one is placed in

[14:51]this new home of his or hers in the same state they

[14:56]were once in with only three cloths wrapping around their body with

[15:04]nothing but their actions their ahmad in front of allah subhanallah that's

[15:10]the only thing allah takes into consideration this is the reality of

[15:19]man he was created from clay and will return into the clay

[15:24]this grave is his new home from the time being until the

[15:30]day of judgment and where each and every one of us will

[15:34]be held accountable and fully responsible for the actions and the deeds

[15:42]we performed in this dunya let them be good or bad this

[15:47]is the final call from god when it's too late to change

[15:55]the outcome it's too late to change the results kalas the result

[16:01]the conclusion is set you cannot change it but there is one

[16:06]thing you can change that being the final preparations before the call

[16:16]from gods what you do before you reach this final call from

[16:23]allah subhanahu wata'ala when your time is up if we accumulate a

[16:28]list of the most important priorities we have in our life i

[16:34]am sure many of us will realize that we have prioritized the

[16:41]wrong items now a common list of these priorities we might have

[16:45]or our youth might have is for example to make money to

[16:50]have a good job to buy a mansion to buy yourself a

[16:55]luxurious car to reach a social status to shop to attend these

[17:01]large social gatherings to obtaining a social status while all of these

[17:07]might be of importance and valuable and they're permissible as long as

[17:11]you do not do anything haram allah doesn't say you can't you

[17:16]know buy things and achieve your goals and dreams but has to

[17:21]be in the proper manner the issue brothers and sisters is when

[17:26]we recognize these things we mentioned above all else when in reality

[17:34]if we look at all of the above all of what i

[17:39]mentioned what is the most important that might come up to you

[17:45]the most important is none of the above the most important is

[17:54]simply time especially the time of our youth and our young adolescent

[18:02]the second it took for you to hear me right now is

[18:07]gone the minute it took for you to hear me is gone

[18:08]it's not going to return it's not going to come back these

[18:13]moments you will never get back it's not like a football game

[18:16]where at when 90 minutes uh pass the ref is going to

[18:19]give some stoppage time some extra time no allah is not going

[18:25]to tell you five hours before he sends israel to take your

[18:29]soul and add that stoppage time for you to do whatever good

[18:34]you can that time is limited therefore it goes to show without

[18:38]a shadow of doubt that it is vital and important for us

[18:45]to organize our timetables and ask ourselves as to where this time

[18:49]is being spent that's why allah says in the holy quran and

[19:02]never say of anything indeed i will do that tomorrow and do

[19:09]not postpone what you have until another day this ayah this beautiful

[19:16]ayah should resonate with a lot of us especially those of us

[19:22]who procrastinate now another understanding from this verse could be that the

[19:29]human being is quick to assume that he will have more time

[19:32]as if time made a contract with you and you know you're

[19:37]guaranteed a life until tomorrow or until 3 4 7 10 years

[19:44]from now and subhanallah how delusional man can be as we grow

[19:52]older time passes more and more quickly with the responsibilities we carry

[19:57]time never stops time never pauses time never sleeps it's the most

[20:03]precious thing you own so do not let anyone or anything steal

[20:08]it away from you that's why he says is telling us that

[20:22]verily the night and the days are working in you now how

[20:25]are they working in you by making you older by making you

[20:30]grow by making you lose this strength and this stamina and this

[20:38]power this ability you once had and they are taking away from

[20:43]you so take back from them what does take back from them

[20:46]mean it makes it means to make the most out of these

[20:48]minutes and these seconds that are passing by to do as much

[20:53]as you can one of the uh greatest companions of rasulallah he

[21:04]tells the holy prophet one time ya rasulullah enlighten me give me

[21:09]some words of wisdom and this is what the ashaab especially the

[21:14]close companions of the prophets and the infallible imams would do when

[21:19]they would be sitting in a gathering or they would be walking

[21:22]with rasulullah sitting with rasulullah they would ask him ya rasulallah tell

[21:25]us something advise us of something so rasulullah tells abu dhabi you

[21:40]need to be more greedy about your time about your life more

[21:47]than about your money usually people and maybe many of us uh

[21:56]might do this where we want to make every sense every dollar

[22:01]we saw we become greedy sometimes we want to save we want

[22:05]more and more the rasool is telling about here the same way

[22:10]people want to make the most out of their wealth and to

[22:17]gain as much money as they can throughout their lifetime you need

[22:21]to focus be greedy the same way people are greedy when it

[22:25]comes to money be greedy when it comes to time when time

[22:27]comes when this hour comes when this month arrives make the most

[22:32]out of it do not let it pass by just like that

[22:36]be greedy you want every single minute every single second you want

[22:39]to use it wisely and this is similar to the famous arabic

[22:44]saying which says that time is like a sword if you do

[22:53]not break it it will break you how can time break me

[22:55]what is meant by this thing well it comes to the basic

[23:00]understanding brothers and sisters of our purpose on this earth which is

[23:05]for each and every one of us to reach perfection to reach

[23:09]kamal and we spoke about this in detail in the previous discussions

[23:13]the perfect soul and we are all capable of reaching this perfect

[23:22]soul through hard work through dedication through perseverance and mainly this is

[23:29]achieved in the way we spend and designate our time as time

[23:35]on this dunya is delusional the real time starts in the and

[23:41]this is a philosophical discussion on its own maybe another time you

[23:45]can speak about it time on this earth can be a sword

[23:48]that breaks you and use it uselessly and wastefully when you spend

[23:54]all the time of the day and actions that will not aid

[24:01]in your that will not help you in your akhirah that will

[24:04]not help you in achieving that perfect soul there are four brothers

[24:09]and sisters as we approach the ramadan less than a week from

[24:13]now next week insha'allah this sacred time of the year is going

[24:20]to begin the month of allah the month of blessings and bounties

[24:22]it is important to briefly shed some light about the topic of

[24:30]time management and how we need to make the most out of

[24:32]the sacred time and we will discuss this by answering the following

[24:39]questions number one as to why is having so much uh free

[24:43]time a bad thing number two how does islam view laziness number

[24:49]three what is considered as a waste of our time and number

[24:52]four how does islam encourages us to organize our time the first

[25:00]question is why is having so much free time a negative thing

[25:04]and the answer to that is very simple because at that moment

[25:09]you are the most vulnerable you are the most weak if you

[25:17]look at when you might have committed a sin amass at them

[25:22]or when you have begun to have these negative thoughts negative ideas

[25:30]these fears anxiety depression a lot of these emotions are heightened in

[25:36]your free time once you become in the state of laziness in

[25:41]your free time you're also making an emptiness that destroys the soul

[25:47]of yours and it is proven uh statistically that those who are

[25:54]unproductive in their free time are more likely to stay in that

[25:57]cycle of comfort because merely thinking about doing something becomes too much

[26:02]of an effort tell us they're used to being in this state

[26:06]and the situation that if they were to change something in their

[26:08]lives change a routine it will be extremely difficult because it requires

[26:16]them to perform uh to perform some action and to put some

[26:20]effort and energy which they're not capable to do because they are

[26:23]used to this lifestyle in your free time when you are alone

[26:28]just doing nothing the faculty of imagination which is one of the

[26:35]faculties of allah created us with which is the satanic power as

[26:40]the call it in it begins to become stronger and it reaches

[26:46]its peak shaitaan is the most active at that time so those

[26:49]are saitan's business hours so it's so easy for one to fall

[26:57]into sin that's why they advise people to always accompany or occupy

[27:09]themselves with something to have their minds focused on something so if

[27:13]shaitaan were to come to you in that specific moment and try

[27:17]to manipulate you somehow try to whisper to you try to present

[27:19]to you this image or this scenario and you might think that

[27:25]you know it's ideal it's nice i should give it a shot

[27:31]i should try it you won't fall for these false representations you

[27:34]won't fall for these tricks because you have something more important to

[27:38]think and to worry about because you're occupied you're already doing something

[27:42]and this by the way on the side note is something that

[27:45]uh that speak speak a lot about of being alone and uh

[27:52]especially having free time when you are alone that's why it's recommended

[27:56]uh you know for one to always occupy themselves with people to

[28:01]stay around people it's one of the ways to stop yourself from

[28:05]sinning from masuya it's makru it's mentioned in the generations it's magruder

[28:10]want to eat alone to sleep in a house by themselves it's

[28:13]important to have someone even if they're not in the same room

[28:16]just in the same house they're closed they're nearby this helps you

[28:23]overcome some of these negative thoughts and desires that might come to

[28:28]your mind and it might stop you from sinning and if you

[28:31]think of it if you recall a lot of the times that

[28:33]shaitaan might have tried to manipulate you if you were if you

[28:40]were uh if you weren't around people how would you how would

[28:45]you have thoughts of that picture that he presented to you many

[28:50]of us i'm sure will say that it's because of you know

[28:53]the people around me i didn't sin or i didn't think of

[28:58]it much i didn't give it much thought this stopped me so

[29:00]this is one of the ways to stop shaitan is to occupy

[29:05]yourself with something number one and number two to stay around people

[29:08]to have people around you so this can be an extra barrier

[29:14]for you to stop you from sinning and from falling into the

[29:22]false representations of shaitaan now this is one of the ways obviously

[29:24]one should work on controlling their nephes on purifying their nephes in

[29:31]order not to reach that level but if this is one of

[29:33]the ways one of the these steps you can take let it

[29:37]be being around people stops you can't do it whatever way helps

[29:40]you to stop sin do it so islam views laziness which is

[29:44]casa as the leading factor for causing a person's failure in this

[29:49]life and in the hereafter and now regardless of islam's opinion on

[29:53]this the human being's mind our hakun tells us that laziness is

[30:00]something destructive it's a negative trait to carry around no one goes

[30:08]around boosting how they've been lazy for uh several years or four

[30:12]months it's not something that people find appealing that people find interesting

[30:15]it's the other way around it's when someone is able to do

[30:18]so much in the in those years or in those uh months

[30:24]that people find very interesting and people look at and like say

[30:28]wow this is something special this is this is an individual who

[30:33]was able to work hard this is an individual i need to

[30:36]take as an example in the way they work so this is

[30:43]the way to do it he says affects the person the individual

[30:55]both in the deen in the religion and in the dunya in

[31:00]this life we live in like how does it affect you and

[31:02]your deen what does laziness have to do with your religion or

[31:06]how pious or how much god consciousness you have if you think

[31:10]of it there is no act of worship without action every requires

[31:21]me to perform an action going to requires me to go to

[31:25]the sing to place my hand under the water to wash my

[31:29]face to wash my hands praying requires me to stand in a

[31:34]certain way to raise my hands in a certain way so it

[31:39]requires me to perform some actions now even if this action does

[31:42]not require you to move physically but it requires you to move

[31:45]intellectually you might not say this be out loud or scream or

[31:53]stand up while you're saying you can be sitting in your room

[31:56]on your laying in your bed and in your heart saying it's

[32:04]still a form of action that requires energy that requires liveliness and

[32:09]the one who's lazy to pray the one who's lazy to perform

[32:14]salah the one who's lazy to wake up for fajr the one

[32:16]who's lazy to fast the holy month of ramadan this individual becomes

[32:23]lazy and impatient and careless and when you uh become lazy and

[32:32]you ultimately lose your religion in doing so because you've reached a

[32:37]state where you're not bothered you're not willing to wait for the

[32:43]results yeah and you ask allah for something you want the answer

[32:46]to come right away if it's not right away you're not bothered

[32:48]because you're too lazy to wait so this is how it affects

[32:53]your religion and the relation you and similar if we look at

[33:01]it from the dunaway perspective from the materialistic side we cannot sustain

[33:09]ourselves by being lazy by just sitting at home doing nothing not

[33:13]going to work not going to school not having a business not

[33:16]having a source of income just sitting chilling 24 7.

[33:20]allah provided us with every possible thing we need in this world

[33:27]in order to become successful these are from the name of allah

[33:30]that we should constantly thank him for and allah wants us to

[33:39]use these faculties these powers these blessings whatever you want to call

[33:46]them in the best way possible they require us to put some

[33:51]effort they require us to work hard they require us to take

[33:56]the initiative to take action i remember uh one time one of

[33:59]my teachers told me this story in high school and i've mentioned

[34:03]it more than once on the member so i want to a

[34:07]catholic high school and the religion teacher he was giving one of

[34:11]those motivational speeches you know how to take action how to work

[34:14]hard how to be persistent and he mentioned this joke which i

[34:19]found was very interesting that he said there was this man who

[34:26]used to pray a lot day and night to god in order

[34:31]to win the lottery constantly praying all the time oh god oh

[34:37]jesus until god sent him an angel and that angel told that

[34:44]man please i beg you just purchase the lottery card first and

[34:48]then hopefully you can win and obviously i'm not using the story

[34:54]to tell you to go and purchase lottery tickets no that's not

[34:58]that's not the the idea the idea is that sometimes in order

[35:01]for us to or most of the times when we want to

[35:05]succeed when we want something when we want to achieve whatever goal

[35:09]it may be we need to take the first step take the

[35:12]first action take the initiative if we do not do so allah

[35:16]is not just going to drop money on us everywhere so this

[35:18]requires us what not to be lazy this requires work from us

[35:24]this requires effort so this is how uh being lazy how kessel

[35:27]can affect you religiously spiritually and at the same time it can

[35:31]affect you and you know your dunya so a person who's lazy

[35:38]technically will not gain anything from the anything from the dunya he'll

[35:41]be a failure so this brings us to the third uh question

[35:48]that what is considered as a wasting of time and in a

[35:53]narration imam al-baqar i dislike the person who is lazy when it

[36:04]becomes the histonia affairs and when we read these these narrations and

[36:11]we interpret them and we reflect upon these words of the massoum

[36:17]the infallible imam these words you know should be taken seriously these

[36:22]words should be contemplated upon as the is the official representative sent

[36:29]by allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala in other words they are the men for

[36:34]the imams or the manifestation of allah and the individual so i

[36:41]can uh translate what this narration means that the individual who does

[36:46]not look after his worldly affairs is the individual that has not

[36:54]taken responsibility for himself number one and for others now you might

[36:59]look at this and at first sight you might think well this

[37:05]makes no sense because islam tells us to worry about our in

[37:08]the end all matters is the amman and our spirituality and our

[37:14]relationship with allah subhanahu wa and at times we may think that

[37:19]when we go to work when we open a business when we

[37:24]perform an investment that this action is something dunya something materialistic it's

[37:31]for the world it doesn't please allah and this thought is ultimately

[37:40]incorrect when you wake up early in the morning and when you

[37:44]head to work when you head to university you you know you

[37:49]might have bad days you wake up you're mentally and physically tired

[37:53]you know you're trying to work hard study hard to accumulate this

[37:57]uh this money and this wealth to spend it at the end

[38:02]of the month and you're paying your bills and on food and

[38:08]drinks this act in itself even though it's appearance from the outside

[38:12]it's outer appearance it's materialistic it's reality its essence can be can

[38:22]be spiritually you can make it an act of worship by changing

[38:28]and alternating your intention when you go to work when you go

[38:32]learn when you go to school when you do whatever act it

[38:39]is to make a living if you put your intention that when

[38:42]i go to work or when i go to school and carry

[38:46]on this task so i can ultimately reach my perfection so i

[38:52]can train my soul so i can be able to become from

[38:58]the leaders of the imam by helping the community by giving some

[39:01]of this money this wealth i am making to the poor supporting

[39:06]my islamic center to perform programs to grow to help our community

[39:11]become better all of this is ajir in the eyes of allah

[39:15]subhanahu wa and all of this allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala rewards for that's

[39:21]why in the uh narration it is said al-qaeda that the one

[39:29]who provides for his family is the same as the one who

[39:33]fights in the name of allah subhanahu wa the one who goes

[39:40]to jihad it is in the same ranking but again it is

[39:45]the intention which changes this uh level or this uh azure if

[39:50]it is going to actually be ajit or not and if someone's

[39:56]just working and all they can they worry about is uh you

[40:01]know buying luxurious things without understanding the purpose or how is this

[40:06]thing that i buy going to help me spiritually how am i

[40:12]investing in uh growing uh spiritually am i actually using this money

[40:15]for example to buy some books towards a mosque am i paying

[40:18]almost on this am i giving the zakat am i you know

[40:23]paying my financial islamic jews or not if it's not in that

[40:30]way then of course it's not going to be a sense of

[40:34]allah but generally speaking it is and it can be there's a

[40:42]narration by a name a person named safwan athori and it is

[40:47]said that this person one time he goes to medina and he

[40:52]sees a man who you know was fit who was seen physically

[41:00]strong nothing wrong with his body this man had two children and

[41:03]he was working very hard in his lands harvesting so this person

[41:12]says safwan authority i approach this man this man i thought i

[41:15]can maybe give him some words of advice of wisdom and when

[41:20]i approached him i saw it was imam jafar so i asked

[41:28]him you know you're sweating you look so tired you have your

[41:33]children helping you know why are you working so hard why are

[41:36]you doing all of this it's dunya listen to the reply of

[41:42]the imam that imam says i have to seek and look after

[41:47]my risk and prevent my family and myself from humility of asking

[41:55]you and others for help tells him that i need to do

[42:03]this i have a responsibility towards my kids islamically i have a

[42:07]responsibility towards my family towards my kids towards my wife i need

[42:10]to be able to provide for them the basic necessities they need

[42:13]in their life to survive and the imam further says that if

[42:19]death were to come to me in these moments while working then

[42:25]i would be in a state of worship for allah therefore i

[42:34]emphasize that it is important that we take ourselves out of that

[42:41]bubble and we realize that we can worship allah in these acts

[42:45]that their outer appearance is dunya we brothers and sisters as long

[42:50]as our intentions are there in every act we can do we

[42:55]can seek we can't always be in the state of roughly of

[42:59]unawareness and sometimes if you want to invite look look look at

[43:03]this simple action that you can do when you want to invite

[43:09]someone for uh dinner or for lunch or when you're with your

[43:13]family having dinner or lunch you buy them a treat you buy

[43:16]a dessert you buy them this food you take them out this

[43:20]food let's say that they was the day of a birth of

[43:24]an imam let's say so you can make your intention that this

[43:28]food is saying or an imam will call them or imam in

[43:33]java then you will receive just look at these certain things you

[43:36]look at it what's how's this worshiping allah this is why i

[43:43]bought you guys this this is the intention this is how allah

[43:46]takes these small acts into consideration and trust me brothers these small

[43:52]acts can change sometimes the the the uh results uh in the

[43:58]day of judgment and there's so many narrations that speak about this

[44:01]you know this small amal one can perform the way uh you

[44:05]know they treat each other the way they perform certain acts the

[44:10]way the relationship is with their family with certain individuals this all

[44:14]of this allah takes into consideration maybe this small act that you

[44:22]performed is why allah decides to put you in paradise and not

[44:24]in the hell fire who knows perhaps even during his time in

[44:33]this world we all know story he was a hard worker rasulallah

[44:39]used to work himself to attain this he used to work in

[44:46]lands harvesting he led a very successful caravan and business in trading

[44:53]and this is why i say the hadith was so impressed with

[44:57]rasulallah the way he handled the business the way uh obviously there

[45:01]was other things that were very beautiful she found about rasulullah the

[45:07]way he treated the workers the way he talked to people but

[45:10]rasulallah was successful in what he did for say the khadijah and

[45:15]because of this beautiful personality of rasulallah being able to combine between

[45:21]the two being able to perform these dunyawi obligations you can say

[45:25]in the best manner and at the same time perform your ahibaidat

[45:29]in the best way possible and it is what elevates a person

[45:36]and there's a beautiful narration in which one of the uh wives

[45:42]of the holy prophet says that one time she missed him the

[45:49]prophet was uh away she wasn't near her so she was worried

[45:52]as to why he didn't come to bed yet and she wakes

[45:57]up and sees him standing in the prayer in the late night

[46:02]in a full state of worship and she tells him ya rasulallah

[46:04]i see you tiring yourself and doing these acts of worship yet

[46:09]allah has forgiven you for what you know you have done if

[46:14]you've done anything in the end you're uh [Music] you're the messenger

[46:18]of allah what does rasulullah reply to her he says and will

[46:26]i not be a thankful servant for allah allah he addresses the

[46:34]holy prophets when you finish from the table from preaching from spreading

[46:45]the message of islam to the people from your day-to-day affair from

[46:48]your business from whatever it is refer back to me come back

[46:55]to your lord come back to allah and i will accept that

[47:03]look how easy it is brothers and sisters to refer back to

[47:05]allah azzawajal yet we're lazy and we decide to do other things

[47:10]when we should be thanking allah subhanahu wa ta'ala on a daily

[47:16]basis a simple allah a simple says that after each salah perform

[47:21]a sajdah thank allah azzawajal for the blessings and the he has

[47:28]given you so activity does not only refer to physical it also

[47:33]means to be mentally active and the quran warns us from this

[47:40]intellectual laziness as well and it advises us to do tafakkur and

[47:43]to reflect and to contemplate that's why you have in some of

[47:46]the narrations one hour of worship is better than 70 years of

[47:54]worship or sorry one hours of reflection of contemplation is better than

[47:58]70 years of worship of ibadah and now for your mind to

[48:07]think about the signs of god about the creation of god about

[48:10]the blessings allah gave to you this is one of the ways

[48:16]you can grow your relationship with allah when you look at when

[48:21]you look at the creation and see this beauty and see this

[48:24]then how about the creator the master the one who brought all

[48:31]of this together so this is a way of activity as well

[48:35]and the same way one of the ways of activity as well

[48:44]is to be physically active through exercise through taking care of your

[48:48]body and as you know we are required to take care of

[48:49]our bodies to be in a perfect uh mental and uh physical

[48:55]state and in order to be in that perfect mental state requires

[48:58]us sometimes to be physically uh comfortable and physically ready that's why

[49:05]um you know perhaps who knows one of the heckman one of

[49:10]the wisdom behind the movements of prayer is this you see the

[49:14]the different movements from from standing up to going down to raku

[49:19]you see there's a relationship between this physical movement and between the

[49:24]spiritual between the words between the bottom so the salat has a

[49:29]bahir and a button so with that being said brothers and sisters

[49:33]we see that as muslims as we need to try to make

[49:39]the most out of this time and fill them in the best

[49:43]way possible whether it's taking care of our religious affairs and what

[49:46]allah allows us and what is permissible and of course taking care

[49:52]of our affairs this brings us to the last question i would

[49:56]like to quickly speak about is how does islam advise us to

[50:00]organize our time and this is the probably the most important question

[50:04]you know what is the way islam gives to us he says

[50:13]try to divide your time into four segments an hour or a

[50:22]time for meditation to god an hour to spiritually connect through allah

[50:26]through worship through salah through the house an hour for earning your

[50:34]livelihood you're working going to work on your job to socialize with

[50:45]your brothers and sisters and the imam mentions what type of brothers

[50:49]and sisters you should be accompanying yourself with those trustworthy friends who

[50:56]point out your moral weakness and who are sincere to you in

[51:04]their relationship and last but not least is a time exclusively devoted

[51:11]for non uh haram pleasure with the family with yourself so the

[51:17]imam salam allah is telling us that you know there's that time

[51:20]of the day as well you need for yourself and there's a

[51:23]time where you can chill you can you know watch a movie

[51:26]you can go and play football you can play fifa whatever you

[51:29]want to do as long as it's not haram and it's not

[51:31]you do not overdo it of course and when the imam says

[51:34]it doesn't mean like one hour or one hour for allah you

[51:38]can you can spend your whole day for allah and do it

[51:43]in doing that especially ramadan the majority you should assign a certain

[51:46]amount of the day certain hours to perform this is something that

[51:53]should be part of your schedule the imam means a time so

[51:57]your time should be divided into these four segments if you're able

[52:01]to do so then you're you are making the most out of

[52:04]your time now being uh you know productive uh needs proper plan

[52:15]and organization and uh one of the main things you need to

[52:20]do is to put yourself uh a schedule and before you put

[52:25]yourself a schedule it is important to keep in mind that this

[52:30]time the swakot allah gave to you and for that reason i

[52:36]need to try to take care of this amana by using it

[52:38]wisely and the main reason for one to get the tawfiq in

[52:44]order to be uh complete his or her tasks in the best

[52:48]way is this understanding of time that it is that you should

[52:54]be thankful for this put in your hands and you should not

[52:58]delay the opportunities like we said in the very beginning and the

[53:02]verse do not say that i will do it uh tomorrow respect

[53:05]the appointment you have something i that's due tomorrow due to make

[53:12]it uh you know finish it by tomorrow you have an appointment

[53:15]with someone tomorrow make sure you're on time and this is uh

[53:20]the the way that our scholars as well will teach us one

[53:22]of the interesting stories that i find very beautiful from the life

[53:27]of imam khomeini is it is said that one time the imam

[53:32]had a problem in his house so the sink wasn't working so

[53:36]he calls one of his students to you know find a plumber

[53:39]for him so the plumber tells him i'm going to come tomorrow

[53:43]morning at 8 00 am 8 am so that mom tells him

[53:47]tomorrow at 8 a.m i'll see you this person knocks on the

[53:51]door the plumber knocks on the door and emotionally opens the door

[53:55]and he looks at his uh his watch he looks at the

[54:01]time and it's 805 this person was literally five minutes late only

[54:06]five minutes late he tells him inshaallah i will see you tomorrow

[54:10]come back again uh at this at the specific time you told

[54:16]me about until the the next day came and he was able

[54:18]to arrive 8 a.m sharp so you know romania was very strict

[54:23]in his time and his wife and his children would say this

[54:27]that the imam had a set schedule this hour of the days

[54:30]with the family this of the days for my studies this hours

[54:32]to take care of issues political issues whatever issue it is this

[54:38]was the schedule of this and this is the way brothers and

[54:40]sisters we should be that we have a set schedule and to

[54:45]end off here how do we organize this time of hours the

[54:49]first thing is to plan the tasks uh in you know in

[54:57]the way uh we like whether it's planning ahead of time weekly

[55:01]uh daily monthly this obviously differs from person to person now ramadan

[55:07]is coming we have one month we should be preparing for this

[55:10]month how am i going to uh make the most out of

[55:15]this month and when i'm proof when i'm placing these tasks that

[55:18]i need to perform monthly let's say in sha ramadan i need

[55:20]to look at what tasks are of a higher priority for me

[55:25]to accomplish and to reach i'll give you an example in short

[55:28]ramadan let's say i want to work on praying on time this

[55:31]is something i lack so i want to try my best to

[55:34]working on time yeah at the same time i want to do

[55:39]other things i want to start waking up for salah today i

[55:42]want to read every single day i want to try to complete

[55:45]the whole quran but if you if you for some reason are

[55:50]not able to handle all of these what is the highest priority

[55:54]of the above that should be placed there up there it's obviously

[55:59]praying on time so praying on time is number one i'm not

[56:02]saying do not focus on other things you can't fully you need

[56:07]to train yourself to do musta but it doesn't come right away

[56:10]you know there's a priority when you perfect the start working on

[56:15]your ibada was constantly asked by people that what does one need

[56:23]to you know focus on how does one reach allah you know

[56:27]what his answer was simple all you have to do is do

[56:30]your wajiba and stay away from the muharram even these extra uh

[56:34]extra sayings extra just behind if you do your wajibat perfect it

[56:42]you are not in need for that so this is uh number

[56:48]one number two is to obviously distribute the tasks uh according to

[56:53]how big they are and you're not going to place let's say

[56:56]you have an assignment uh that requires a lot of work you're

[57:03]not going to give it an hour of your day while you

[57:09]give watching tv six hours of your day so you have to

[57:12]see you have to be a rational in the way you place

[57:14]the task you have how big the task is and how important

[57:20]the task is number three and this is uh very easy in

[57:22]this day and age is to write down the tasks you have

[57:30]now some of us are not traditional anymore using a pen and

[57:33]paper or notebook you can use your phone put a reminder tell

[57:40]siri to to set you an alarm to wake up for salah

[57:42]have a schedule in front of you write them down put a

[57:46]sticky note somewhere but have your tasks set in front of you

[57:49]and this helps brothers and sisters and knowing that i need to

[57:52]do this and this and this sometimes we might forget sometimes people

[57:56]might say well are you kidding me this is like something babies

[57:58]would do or something people do in elementary school it's it's it's

[58:02]not this way no it actually helps you to be more productive

[58:05]and to accomplish more things uh last but not least brothers and

[58:10]sisters is to evaluate these tasks and to see my flaws when

[58:21]i finished them when i completed them like this was there something

[58:28]wrong and how i uh distributed my time was there something uh

[58:32]missing in my schedule something i forgot about try to remember last

[58:36]year last year ramadan what did you do wrong what was there

[58:40]missing why do you feel that you didn't you know something you

[58:44]were doing throughout the whole month why weren't you able to stay

[58:49]consistent in doing so you lost that spirit why how can you

[58:53]what can you change in that uh in this short ramadan something

[58:56]you lacked pastor for an example that one of the goals should

[59:03]be last last ramadan i used to once allah time would come

[59:07]i used to have iftar then pray and when i'd come to

[59:12]pray my stomach would feel so full i'm not very i'm not

[59:16]in the mood spiritually to pray for allah and i'm just tired

[59:20]i just want to sleep down and just lay down i'm not

[59:24]in the attitude i don't have the perfect attitude for salat well

[59:27]one of the ways that you know can help you overcome that

[59:32]and some people might find this useful some people know is to

[59:34]pray before iftar for example to perform your salat take your time

[59:39]10 15 minutes do what you have to do and then that

[59:44]way you know you performed your salah you were in a good

[59:46]state you were able to be spiritually there and then eat enjoy

[59:49]your meal for uh how long you you want so these are

[59:55]some of the tips brothers and sisters we can use and hopefully

[60:00]we can um apply them starting from now in order to make

[60:03]the most and to benefit from ramadan we ask allah subhanahu wa

[60:09]ta'ala to give us the tawfiq be sincere with allah ask allah

[60:14]for guidance ask allah to give you the strength in order to

[60:18]make the most out of this beloved time brothers and sisters remember

[60:21]we spoke about death that we spoke about we spoke about what

[60:26]happens in the afterlife and yeah and who knows if we're going

[60:31]to have this opportunity again to fast another shahadu so let us

[60:36]take advantage of this let us try to make the most of

[60:41]it we ask allah subhanahu wa tahalah for the [Applause] lecture amazing

[61:10]tips inshaallah in preparation for the holy month of ramadan i hope

[61:15]you know our audience who have tuned in will be able to

[61:21]take a lot of tips and advice from what you have given

[61:24]today and for those who couldn't uh tune in live insha'allah they'll

[61:26]be able to catch up on the recording uh once it's posted

[61:29]uh right after this live um we have just one question inshallah

[61:35]maybe just dedicate a few minutes before we go on to uh

[61:39]one person has asked and i'll just bring it up onto the

[61:45]screen uh how do we incorporate worship uh remembrance of allah in

[61:48]our daily lives but not part of a routine i used to

[61:52]read quran daily on the train to uni but then i went

[61:55]on holiday work uh working from home and and that all stopped

[61:58]and i forgot to read for a long time so what would

[62:04]you advise this father advice i would give is if you guys

[62:10]remember the the past discussion we spoke specifically the second one when

[62:14]we spoke about the divine love of allah and we said that

[62:18]the highest level of love is the divine love that our relationship

[62:23]with allah should be a relationship of love and the way to

[62:33]uh elevate your spiritual connection with allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala is to look

[62:40]at it that way that if you have a person you love

[62:44]a person you care for a person you really admire the person

[62:47]a person who's done so much for you in your life you

[62:52]know the the least thing you can do to them is something

[62:58]they will uh love something they like from you something they would

[63:07]appreciate not that allah needs our ibadah but allah appreciates when we

[63:13]do that number one obviously he's giving us azure and we're getting

[63:17]hassanat for it and number two it's because we're understanding his greatness

[63:23]his majesty understanding who allah is the asthma of allah requires from

[63:34]us other than thanking him other than you know being doing our

[63:42]obligatory prayers these obligations that we need to perform this for we

[63:49]need to incorporate in our lives some of these muslims and some

[63:54]of these muslims like you said reading quran reading quran or reading

[64:00]it's about consistency consistency in what sense in a sense that the

[64:05]same way i have salah the same way uh i need to

[64:09]pray five times a day it's it's a it's a no-brainer you

[64:13]know there's no way out of it if i'm on vacation if

[64:18]i'm uh at work if i'm at school i need to figure

[64:19]out a way to pray the same attitude we we should have

[64:23]would this must happen obviously perfect your salat and perfect your obligations

[64:28]and then after that move on now move on it can be

[64:32]a small act if you find reading quran something that you know

[64:37]you're not able to do on a regular basis or daily you

[64:39]know don't hold a hundred watermelons in one hand start with something

[64:45]simple after salat i can start performing this piazza zala for example

[64:48]i can write as a small tattoo which will take me to

[64:50]three minutes i can have it on my phone so i'll make

[64:54]sure that i'm going to remember to read it so there's different

[65:00]steps and different ways i can take in order to incorporate this

[65:03]in my day-to-day life and i need to be consistent and this

[65:09]is this is the most important point it's not about it is

[65:14]yet it can be reading quran even though we should be reading

[65:16]quran it's the month of allah but in days other than we

[65:24]need to be a consistent choose one act and perfect it whether

[65:28]it's whether it's whether it's reading quran one page of quran one

[65:35]line it doesn't need to be that all every single day you

[65:40]need to read ten pages or five pages or which is it

[65:44]from quran that amount of pages is there yeah you might look

[65:48]at it not bothered today i'm not feeling it read how much

[65:52]you can but do not leave it yeah and even if you're

[65:56]holiday you're on a holiday or you had long hours today you

[65:59]worked overtime you can't read five pages read one page i'm sure

[66:02]you can read one page read read one surah read a line

[66:07]but think of it read it with your heart so this is

[66:10]the same way it's about consistency that when you want to do

[66:13]this thing you put it in the back of your mind that

[66:16]i need to start working on myself in in this specific category

[66:22]i need to be consistent in performing them whenever i whenever it's

[66:28]not whatever i can that i need to perform it at all

[66:32]times i need to be consistent in it i cannot leave it

[66:36]no matter what the circumstance is this is the way uh it

[66:40]starts to become easy for me to hold up the quran and

[66:43]to read or it becomes easy for me to stand up on

[66:45]the prayer mat and pray to allah's panel so i need some

[66:50]consistency and obviously you talk from allah i i cannot hear you

[67:05]i was on me thank you thank you very much uh for

[67:10]the last couple of weeks may allah reward you for all your

[67:14]efforts insha'allah the brothers and sisters and everyone watching will keep you

[67:18]and your family in their prayers and yeah inshallah we're you know

[67:23]we're going to miss you but inshallah i won't be for too

[67:26]long thank you so much for this opportunity and i think thank

[67:29]for me all the brothers and sisters all the organizers volunteers for

[67:33]their hard work and for their efforts may allah you know give

[67:39]them from the blessings of this blessed month and may allah you

[67:44]know we can all reach this level of uh perfection insha allah

[67:48]and work on ourselves through the guidance and through this for the

[67:54]community and for our youth insha'allah a recitation of the mail by

[68:15]saying uh who's been patient waiting patiently as always so we'll bring

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[97:20]sisters to keep saying ahmad and his family inshallah and pray for

[97:24]him for the holy month of ramadan uh okay so uh we've

[97:34]come to the end of our uh weekly series throughout the whole

[97:38]throughout the the month of shaaban and uh now we make preparations

[97:45]to move on to our ramadan program so inshaallah from next week

[97:51]thursday will be our first ramadan thursday session program and then following

[97:57]monday we will start our monday sessions as well so uh i

[98:00]won't give anything away just yet look out for the posters sha

[98:06]allah and tune in with that i ask for your prayers please

[98:08]keep us in your dua forgive us for any shortcomings and until

[98:13]next time salaam alaikum

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