The Merits of Rajab - Sheikh Abdulrahman Cherri

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[3:01][Music] and and m [Music] [Music] Salam alikum everyone good to good

[4:19]to be back as you may know in the last couple of

[4:23]weeks uh with say Sal and a group of some of Mecca's

[4:28]brother and sisters went to omra and Zar alhamdulillah we came back

[4:35]last night sayah will be back inshallah tomorrow um he went to

[4:41]um to for the Z of IM uh all this time we

[4:47]kept you all in our prayers we ask Allah to Grant you

[4:50]the Zara of um the umra especially nowadays that we enter the

[4:56]month of rajab uh as you know is something uh would be

[5:02]nice to have and we ask Allah to grant us uh the

[5:08]OM inallah in the coming days and the coming years um there's

[5:11]not much to announce I no announcements uh as far as I

[5:16]know so maybe there is but inah we'll remind you later uh

[5:19]but for now uh please uh help me welcom after muhamad this

[5:45]was on this side last week right than you respected brothers and

[6:31]sisters and sisters and brothers just in case I know some people

[6:35]are sensitive about the order of this so we'll we'll alternate so

[6:39]nobody gets gets sad may Allah subh accept your your prayers your

[6:46]fasts as we enter the three the three sacred months this being

[6:53]the month of rajab which is the first of the three sacred

[6:55]ones I was asked last week to continue the theme that I

[6:59]was speaking about which was related to family issues last week we

[7:04]spoke about the relationship between the parents and the children um but

[7:08]because of the timing of today and being the beginning of rajab

[7:12]and the announcement that was made on the flyer also coincided with

[7:16]the being the May of rajab I thought I'd stick to this

[7:18]tee theme and inshah on some other occasion I'll be able to

[7:23]uh speak about the uh the family issues on on a deeper

[7:26]level inshallah so as we enter the the sacred months the three

[7:34]sacred months in Islam which are the months of rajab Shan and

[7:40]Ramadan these three months are specific months throughout the year where God

[7:48]had told us to pay extra attention to they differ from the

[7:50]other months of the year there are certain things that occur during

[7:53]these months and certain events that make them distinguished and different from

[7:59]the other months now we have narrations that describe these months by

[8:05]giving them a specific title so in the opinion of the general

[8:10]people the masses Shah Ramadan is the greatest month and then you

[8:17]have shaan next and then you have rajab as the third so

[8:22]they if you take it that way rajab is a uh the

[8:24]first step towards reaching that goal which is Shah Ramadan so you

[8:30]begin by preparing yourself from now now until you reach that level

[8:35]but there are people with different levels of spirituality there's the prophet

[8:40]Sall who has the highest level of or of God the nosis

[8:48]of God knowing god and then you go down after him with

[8:51]people with different degrees and different levels each individual has a different

[8:55]experience according to their level they experience these events these times these

[9:01]uh relationships because of these occasions with God in a different way

[9:07]so the more spiritual you are the different type of relationship that

[9:09]you have it's like if you love someone now there's the type

[9:12]of love that you have is more of a caring love you

[9:16]don't really experience that romantic feeling right you have the thing you

[9:19]know where you you know get to know someone maybe your spouse

[9:24]or your family member or a friend and the type of love

[9:26]that you have for them is a caring love you show them

[9:29]care you give them attention you you know work for them and

[9:33]nothing goes beyond that there's not really much of an emotional attachment

[9:37]to them now some parents might have this type of relationship with

[9:40]their children they feel like I'm a father or a mother and

[9:44]it's mostly on the father's side I don't have to express a

[9:46]lot of emotion towards my child they don't have that type of

[9:51]Love relationship or a spouse a husband and a wife or a

[9:53]wife and a husband you know perhaps the way they got married

[9:58]you know maybe it was arranged marriage maybe it was you know

[10:00]uh families who knew each other they said this is a good

[10:02]person for you and they got to know that person and that

[10:06]relationship stayed on that level and never really evolved emotionally so this

[10:09]is someone who you know you got married to and you want

[10:13]to raise a family with so you get along with one another

[10:15]you talk to each other every now and then but there's nothing

[10:17]really emotionally tying you both of you together and then you have

[10:24]people who have no they have deeper emotions they have emotions and

[10:27]they have feelings towards the other person they're they care about the

[10:31]individual not just on the outer level but really on a deep

[10:33]personal emotional level they love that person now that also differs in

[10:41]degrees you know you're you're chatting with your spouse you're talking on

[10:44]the phone or someone say oh I love you oh I love

[10:45]you too or I love you more you know things like that

[10:49]that might not be expressing the deepest level of love it could

[10:55]be one level of love because love is described as a gradational

[10:58]reality I don't if you heard that heard about this concept or

[11:02]term but if you go to like Islamic philosophy they use this

[11:07]term to describe the reality of God and the world they say

[11:10]it's a gradational reality they compare it to light if you take

[11:12]a light light bulb let's say or a source of light like

[11:15]the Sun or the light bulb or a candle or anything that

[11:17]emits light the closer you get to the source of the light

[11:23]where the light comes out from so the light bulb the bulb

[11:25]itself has the brightest light next to the bulb right the strongest

[11:32]light now the more you move away from the bul the source

[11:34]of light the weaker that light becomes right so you have a

[11:40]light here this is the this is the most lit area the

[11:41]more you move out and you move away from it the weaker

[11:46]the light becomes until it becomes Darkness what they call they call

[11:50]this gradational which means it has grades grades of intensity the closer

[11:53]you are to the source the the intense more intense it is

[11:57]the farther away you go the less intense it is so if

[12:01]we talk about love love is like that it's comparable to light

[12:06]it's gradational there's different grades so not every time you read the

[12:10]word love it's referring to the same amount of Love or the

[12:13]same understanding that you have of love it might mean something else

[12:17]so when in the Quran uh Allah tells us that you know

[12:24]um if you love the God and the prophet then follow the

[12:28]prophet your love has to be accom me with action this is

[12:31]a certain type of love where your love is reflected in your

[12:35]behavior it's not just something you claim it's not something you announce

[12:38]with your tongue you might feel it but it's not so intense

[12:41]that it's reflecting in your own behavior you might have something of

[12:47]you know 1% love towards the individual you have a nice feeling

[12:49]you know I love you you do have that feeling of care

[12:53]you have that feeling of giving attention but it's not so intense

[12:56]as to obey that individual and obedience on the deest level of

[13:00]Love isn't an obedience like we would look at dictators how they

[13:05]command you know people to obey them and listen to them and

[13:07]they do it out of fear no a person doesn't feel subservient

[13:11]in a bad way to the person that they love if you

[13:13]love an individual deeply you would do everything they want not because

[13:19]they're telling you to do it out of authority and command but

[13:22]rather because you love that individual you want to you see yourself

[13:26]dissolved in the individual you're absorbed in them you don't want to

[13:32]do anything that displeases them nothing that bothers them so a person

[13:37]with this type of attachment and love with God has a different

[13:41]type of experience during these nights and days and of course throughout

[13:46]their life but specifically these so we have the the scholars who

[13:51]they describe as Mystics right they're on a very deep level of

[13:56]spirituality they look at theith and they find another group of where

[14:01]the Prophet says that is the month of God this is inverse

[14:10]right so you think that sh Ramadan is is the best month

[14:16]but to these RAB is the greatest month for them because it's

[14:19]the month of God and then it goes it great uh it

[14:24]goes based on one two three soan and then Ramadan like that

[14:29]this is the etal experience that they have so they begin their

[14:34]deepest relationship and connection with God in this month but this is

[14:39]for specific group of people the prophet says that right it's for

[14:45]the general people so for us as general individuals someone like me

[14:48]I want to First work my way up in order to be

[14:53]able to experience the greatness of rajab where the Prophet used to

[14:57]consider it the greatest month in the of Allah subhana tala so

[15:02]for us as regular individuals we have to begin with the outer

[15:05]Journey we begin on the outside we follow this gradual steps we

[15:08]begin with Shah we start to train ourselves to reach that month

[15:14]of Ramadan that will be our goal month of Ramadan includes fasting

[15:20]it includes supplications prayers a certain type of dedication and a certain

[15:27]type of discipline that we don't usually have throughout the year so

[15:33]because it's very difficult for a person to change their habits overnight

[15:37]it's very important for us to use the month before the month

[15:40]of Ramadan to begin to change those bad habits that we have

[15:46]this is always our goal every single year Ramadan comes you're used

[15:51]to eating every single day different types of meals and of course

[15:55]we have the mecca of food here in America right in Dearborn

[15:57]right every Muslim you go to like wherever I go oh she

[16:03]where you from I'm I'm from Dearborn oh the food is amazing

[16:05]there it's like you know we we're known about nothing except food

[16:09]this is like our achievement as dear Warners we achiev the Pinnacle

[16:13]of of of food uh Delight or whatever whatever it is so

[16:16]we're known for food here some people are known for like you

[16:21]know making car Detroit like our neighbors like the cars right of

[16:23]California you know you got the computer chips and all that stuff

[16:28]there here we got the food alhamdulillah you know at least we

[16:32]got something so people come from all over the country to visit

[16:34]here just to eat and they don't come to get knowledge they

[16:37]don't get you know no it's the food so living in this

[16:42]food culture here of course uh the month of Ramadan is like

[16:45]the what the antidote the opposite of like what we what we

[16:51]experience it is a very big challenge for someone who doesn't have

[16:54]control over their their own appetite and it is for any regular

[16:57]person someone who does have that attachment to food it's still it's

[17:02]still difficult you know you're fasting for a large portion of the

[17:04]day you're not eating you're not consuming water or or uh food

[17:07]and it's not something that's natural for you then you're going to

[17:10]face a big challenge Shah Ramadan is going to you know become

[17:16]a month where you're trying to tolerate the suffering of not eating

[17:20]and not drinking so in order to ease yourself into it you

[17:24]have these two months that you can use to prepare yourself especially

[17:27]if you know that you're of those individuals who cannot tolerate drastic

[17:32]changes in your life especially when it comes to your eating habits

[17:38]so it's recommended that during these months you fast as much as

[17:42]you can not only to train yourself there's benefit in fasting in

[17:46]the month themselves but Our intention could be for this every week

[17:50]I'm going to fast one day just to break that habit and

[17:55]not only to prepare yourself for Ramadan but also to train yourself

[17:58]that after the month of Ramadan you don't want to break that

[18:02]habit of fasting you know it's recommended to fast throughout the year

[18:06]there are three months every three days of every month that are

[18:09]very recommended the 13 14 and 15 right the white or or

[18:17]14 15 16 so these days are recommended to fast every single

[18:21]month but if we put in our minds that Ramadan is the

[18:25]only month that I'm going to fast in because God has obligated

[18:27]this month then it pro proves to us that we as human

[18:32]beings we really do need God to force us to do things

[18:34]because if he doesn't Force us to fast Ramadan would we ever

[18:38]fast most of us I'm saying hardly do we ever volunteer to

[18:44]do things like this right fasting extra prayers extra duas we don't

[18:47]really do these in our lives because we're so occupied with other

[18:50]things so we want to change that perspective that mentality that we

[18:56]have I'm going to start fasting in rajab even if it was

[18:58]one day instill that in yourself that I'm going to do a

[19:01]recommended fast because I want to get myself into the habit of

[19:08]doing recommended acts outside of the areas where God has forced me

[19:11]to do them I don't want my relationship with God to be

[19:14]that one where I only do what he forces me to do

[19:18]you know it's like that child in a house they only obey

[19:22]the father or mother because they're forced to the moment they're out

[19:24]of the house or the parents are not looking they go do

[19:26]they do their own thing you don't want that type of relationship

[19:30]with God and God doesn't want that relationship with you either he

[19:34]wants a relationship to be based on mutual love and care but

[19:36]because as human beings we neglect ourselves our attention is on the

[19:41]outside for most of the time and not the inside God is

[19:46]forced to force us to try to create an Awakening inside of

[19:50]ourselves so this is one thing that we can keep in mind

[19:54]this year I'm going to fast at least one day in rajab

[19:58]if you can do more is even better but at least one

[19:59]day to instill in myself that I'm going to do recommended acts

[20:06]outside of the areas where I'm obliged to do this is going

[20:08]to reflect in your daily life as well extra prayers that you

[20:14]do you know how beautiful is it for a person just randomly

[20:18]to get up and do wo purify yourself and stand on the

[20:23]prayer mat and tell Allah I'm standing here because I want to

[20:28]pray two raas for you just to thank you you didn't tell

[20:33]me to do this you haven't forced me to do this but

[20:35]I'm going to do it because you've given me so many beautiful

[20:39]things in my life every single day you gave me so many

[20:42]so much blessings I want to get up and whatever these prayers

[20:46]I'm doing what they have no value in and of themselves it's

[20:51]not like I'm thanking God or I'm giving him enough of thanks

[20:54]for what he's given me but Allah appreciates that to get up

[20:57]and to say Allah I'm going to pray this is from the

[21:00]bottom of my heart you did not ask me to do this

[21:03]you not force me to do this I want to do this

[21:06]because I want to appreciate I want to show you I appreciate

[21:07]what you're giving me even if it was too sincere throughout our

[21:12]life how many times have we done this if God wants to

[21:15]treat us the way we treat him then he should neglect us

[21:19]throughout the whole year we don't give him attention we don't care

[21:23]for him we don't talk to him as much as we should

[21:26]right and then if we come and we perform two from the

[21:30]bottom of our hearts that might be the opening the spiritual opening

[21:34]that we're asking for Allah will appreciate it so much it will

[21:40]give you something and much more in return so we have to

[21:42]begin to try to change this type of relationship that we have

[21:47]with God especially here in the west we have this opportunity because

[21:49]the culture that we're growing in here or that we've grown in

[21:53]is a culture that doesn't really instill this idea of dictatorship or

[21:59]authority in the general type of relationships that we have in the

[22:02]society you know sometimes if you're growing in a family where the

[22:08]father or the mother or the family members the uncles have this

[22:11]hierarchy of authority and they base their relationships with their children on

[22:16]authoritative uh Behavior then the child usually grows up thinking that God

[22:22]is also authoritative like that whenever they picture God they picture God

[22:25]like their father or their mother you know God is command in

[22:29]me to do things if I don't I'm going to get in

[22:30]trouble I'm going to be punished right so there becomes a problem

[22:36]here first of all we have to get out of that state

[22:40]to understand that God does not behave like my parents God doesn't

[22:43]have any personal grudges against me God doesn't have any personal issues

[22:47]against me or with me God doesn't deal with me as a

[22:52]regular human being does you need to get yourself out of that

[22:56]state and mentality and then you move on to contemplating and thinking

[23:00]about the type of relationship that God has with you okay I

[23:04]want to understand how does God look at me how should my

[23:07]relationship with him be and you contemplate you look around you in

[23:14]our duas the imams teach us a lot of things a lot

[23:16]of key ideas that will help us understand this type of relationship

[23:19]they tell us that thank God the one who gives you blessings

[23:26]before you even ask for them this is a type of relationship

[23:29]that God has with you he's so loving and caring for you

[23:35]that before you ask for the thing he gives it to you

[23:40]what type of relationship does that resemble I think in the home

[23:44]most of the time the mother would be like that where the

[23:48]mother feels what the child wants and she kind of understand what

[23:53]her child wants and she makes sure that she can give the

[23:57]child that thing even before they ask for her the moment that

[24:01]the child desires something you want to provide it for that child

[24:05]Allah subh looks at us that way the moment we feel for

[24:11]something that I want something God wants to give it to us

[24:13]even before we ask for it and we see it in our

[24:17]lives many times you know in theith and the commentaries of our

[24:20]when they talk about prayers and supplications they tell us that Dua

[24:24]isn't only what you say with your mouth it's only not only

[24:28]what you ask for verbally there can be the Dua of the

[24:31]heart too that God also looks at and God also answers sometimes

[24:36]you're sitting down and you just desire something Allah listens to that

[24:40]because God says that he knows The Whispers inside of our hearts

[24:43]he knows the language that we speak the speech that we have

[24:48]inside of our souls so he gives us these blessings before we

[24:52]even ask for them he forgives us for so many transgressions that

[24:55]we do so there are so many things that God overlooks and

[25:00]this is how we should understand our relationship with him if there's

[25:05]if he's such a loving God such a caring God such a

[25:10]God that gives us this love and wants it on the deepest

[25:16]level and I have to change my perspective of him I shouldn't

[25:19]look at him as this dictator or a being that only wants

[25:23]to punish me and wants to force me to do things in

[25:24]order to get some self-satisfaction right a lot of dict creers they

[25:31]love this feeling of authority and power why do they order the

[25:34]the people below them or beneath them to do things is because

[25:36]it it has a self-satisfaction for them right well God doesn't have

[25:42]that he doesn't need to feel satisfied personally so when he commands

[25:46]me to do something I have to understand that that command is

[25:49]there because of a benefit for myself I have to change that

[25:52]perspective why does God want me to do this and not do

[25:56]that why does he put so many limitations on me well we

[25:59]all know as human beings that we cannot live without limitations we

[26:02]need them we need something to regulate our lives but the way

[26:07]you go about understanding why God does it is also very important

[26:11]that's why Imam categorizes the people into three right he said that

[26:15]there are some people who view God in a transactional way that

[26:19]I'm going to do this salot because I want to get this

[26:22]benefit and reward and this is the relationship of a businessman of

[26:28]a merchant and there are certain people before Islam this is how

[26:33]they used to deal with God right whenever they wanted whenever God

[26:36]wanted something from them they would tell them okay we'll do it

[26:41]for you but you do this in return or you know a

[26:46]group of people in uh in Mecca when the when the when

[26:52]Islam was revealed through the angel Gabriel Alam in the Quran this

[26:56]incident is mentioned it was a group of uh people who belong

[26:58]to the religion of Judaism in Mecca at that time there was

[27:03]a certain group of people who objected to the prophet and they

[27:08]told them look we believe in God we believe in The Messengers

[27:10]we believe he sends angels we we believe in in God's message

[27:16]and and what Moses and David brought but we have a problem

[27:22]with Gabriel throughout the years Gabriel was the one who kept bringing

[27:26]God's punishments to us we don't like this guy so accept Islam

[27:31]will accept the message if God sends Michael instead the angel of

[27:35]mik tell God go back to God and tell him let him

[27:39]send the Revelation through mik through Michael and he'll accept it but

[27:42]as long as it comes from Gabriel we this guy we just

[27:46]don't want to hear from him we have a toxic relationship with

[27:49]Gabriel so as long as it's from him we're not going to

[27:54]accept it and Allah then revealed in the Quran that whoever is

[27:56]an enemy to Gabriel is an enemy to Allah as well it's

[28:00]not you who decides how God sends his message so there are

[28:05]people like that they look at God they only remember him when

[28:08]they want something they only remember him when they need something you

[28:11]feel like your life is not going the way you want or

[28:15]you have opportunities that you want to reach suddenly you become closer

[28:18]to Allah subhana tala you start praying and I'm not saying it's

[28:22]a bad thing it's still good even if you're doing it for

[28:24]that reason it's still good because you are trying and you are

[28:27]communicating with God and God will accept it but it's not the

[28:32]best that you should aim for as a Believer you should always

[28:34]aim for the best in your life the other type of relationship

[28:40]is based on that fear you obey certain individuals in society in

[28:45]your family household because you're scared and some people are like that

[28:49]with God the Imam describes as individuals as the relationship being that

[28:55]of a slave or a servant you have a slave master and

[29:00]you have a slave or a master and a servant the servant

[29:06]obeys the master because he or she is scared not because they

[29:08]want to if they had the choice they wouldn't do it but

[29:12]because God has said that if you know if you do certain

[29:13]things and you don't do other things you're going to go to

[29:18]hell you're going to be punished based on this they act and

[29:21]they move and they behave and then the Imam gives another category

[29:24]which is based on the emotion of love and the IM says

[29:30]that this is the worship of the free persons you're free from

[29:38]that fear as Allah says in the Quran the Believers reach a

[29:42]point where they have no more fear there's no more fear in

[29:45]their heart they have Tranquility they have peace they have proximity to

[29:52]the Divine and this is the relationship that the Imam says is

[29:55]the best type of relationship to have and everybody can achieve it

[29:58]it it's just a matter of changing your perspective your mentality your

[30:02]type of behavior your understanding of God God doesn't hate you God

[30:07]doesn't want to punish you God doesn't want you to fail in

[30:09]your life in fact he wants the opposite and if he ever

[30:14]does make things obligatory upon you it's because there's that aspect or

[30:17]element of discipline that's necessary for us as human beings to have

[30:21]in order to perfect ourselves and improve ourselves because most of the

[30:26]time we're not disciplined as individuals we need laws and sometimes even

[30:31]with laws we're not disciplined just go out on the streets a

[30:34]few miles down see the driving there we have laws that dictate

[30:39]how people should drive and still people can't follow it and you

[30:42]see the chaos that happens a lot of accidents a lot of

[30:46]people losing their lives because some people just don't want to be

[30:49]disciplined where they have to be disciplined now you don't have to

[30:52]be under laws like in in an excessive manner all the time

[30:57]there has to be some room for us as humans to develop

[30:59]ourselves not always do things because the law dictates for us to

[31:06]do that but there is a bare minimum where we need someone

[31:08]to discipline us because if there isn't that discipline then we're going

[31:12]to be chaotic and we're not going to be individuals we're able

[31:16]to improve ourselves it's like somebody you know who uh is told

[31:20]that okay you can do a test but you can do it

[31:25]an infinite amount of times for your University or your school you're

[31:28]never going to be motivated to study for that test because you

[31:32]think to yourself okay if I fail just do it again if

[31:35]I don't do well this time I'll do next time and if

[31:39]not next time I have an infinite amount of times this is

[31:41]how the human self is it believes that is going to live

[31:47]forever it procrastinates it keeps delaying things day after day after day

[31:51]after day if there wasn't deadlines most of us won't finish the

[31:54]work that we have to do so discipline is an important factor

[31:59]in our lives and God when he deals with us he deals

[32:01]with us as human beings not as angels and people used to

[32:06]object to God when Islam was revealed the Quran tells us about

[32:09]individuals who told God why don't you send us an angel instead

[32:13]of a human being why don't you send us another creature some

[32:17]Divine you know uh creature that you know is flying in the

[32:20]sky or has some magical powers why did he send us a

[32:25]human Prophet because the message is for you human beings God used

[32:30]every means of communication for us as humans to understand as humans

[32:35]if he sent us an angel or a Superman or someone then

[32:39]we're going to always say okay look that's Superman he can do

[32:44]it right I'm not Superman I can't do it but God spoke

[32:46]to us on our level as human beings he sent us a

[32:51]human prophet he used human language to speak with us he involves

[32:55]our emotions when dealing with us and he tries to regulate our

[33:02]life why in order for us to understand his wisdom and his

[33:05]care and his love and to get closer to him so what

[33:08]we can do in rajab to go back to the main topic

[33:11]is to try to use this month to change that relationship and

[33:14]change that perspective in this month I'm going to do extra things

[33:18]in Ramadan I forced to fast there's a kind of pressure for

[33:24]me to read Quran I'm going to do it voluntarily in this

[33:27]month even if it was one time it would be good it's

[33:31]a good change to do so it's recommended to fast in this

[33:33]month there are other things that are recommended as well and that

[33:38]is for example to do certain invocations which is Vick that are

[33:43]not recommended as much in other months one of them is to

[33:47]recite to contemplate over that to recite it throughout the day to

[33:53]think about it that there is nothing in existence except God there

[33:58]is no deity no God to worship except God and we have

[34:00]in our Hadith that whoever listens to something has worshiped it whoever

[34:08]sees something has worshiped it when you give your attention you give

[34:11]your care you give your focus and your feelings to something that's

[34:14]a form of worship you're becoming subservient to it you're following that

[34:19]thing you're allowing that thing to control you therefore it's a form

[34:24]of worship so I'm going to focus this month on saying to

[34:28]remove all deities from my heart whether they're my senses that I'm

[34:31]using to worship those things or my heart internally I want to

[34:38]purify everything if I'm listening to something I want to make sure

[34:41]that I'm listening to something that's good if I'm saying something I

[34:44]want to make sure that I'm saying something that's good I want

[34:47]to cut out my bad habits I don't want to speak negative

[34:49]about people I don't want to backbite I don't want to listen

[34:54]to negative things to wrong things I don't want to watch things

[34:56]that are bad for me so these are things that we have

[35:01]to focus on this month watch over yourself so that when Ramadan

[35:04]comes the month of Ramadan comes I'm already prepared I've already moved

[35:08]up the spiritual ladder now when I fast in the month of

[35:12]Ramadan I'm not only suffering physically in fact I'm receiving that spiritual

[35:15]benefit that I'm supposed to be receiving when I'm fasting as the

[35:19]prophet said that some people when they fast all they get from

[35:22]it is hunger and suffering and pain whereas the prophet and the

[35:29]imams and and the pious individuals they're progressing on the spiritual level

[35:33]when they're fasting they're gaining close proximity to Allah they're purifying themselves

[35:37]and this has to happen gradually it doesn't happen overnight so another

[35:42]thing that we do recommended to be recited a thousand times this

[35:47]month divide it every day I want to say it 10 times

[35:52]I want to say 100 times I want to say it 50

[35:55]times and when you say it contemplate over it if saying it

[35:57]100 means that you're you're not going to be thinking about it

[36:00]you're just trying to finish it then say it 10 times but

[36:03]with contemplation close your eyes sit in a quiet place try to

[36:08]remove everything from your mind except God this is one method to

[36:14]to do in order to practice another thing that's must to do

[36:18]another invocation is it's recommended to be recited how many times how

[36:29]much more 10,000 yes 10,000 times it's recommended you don't have to

[36:37]do 10,000 they say if you can't do 10,000 do a th

[36:40]if you can't do a thand do 100 if you can't do

[36:44]100 do 10 if you can't do 10 do one always use

[36:45]this when it comes toar invocations use this if something is recommended

[36:51]to recite a thousand times always keep in your mind that you're

[36:54]also allowed to recite 100 if you can't 100 then 10 you

[36:56]just you add zeros if you can do 10,000 you can do

[37:00]more you can do 100,000 some people do it that like that

[37:04]but always re always do it based on your own capacity don't

[37:06]look at the number and try to force yourself to get the

[37:12]number no the number is there according to your capacity if you

[37:14]can't do 10,000 you do a thousand if you can't do a

[37:18]th if you're not used to invoking then start small because the

[37:21]Imam says a small amount that's consistent is better than a large

[37:27]amount that's inconsistent if I say I'm going to pray a thousand

[37:30]Reas every day okay the first day I pray them the second

[37:35]day I'm starting to feel that you know maybe I made the

[37:40]wrong decision here the third day you're like you know God is

[37:42]merciful he's not he understands I can't do this I'm just going

[37:45]to stop doing it okay is that better or if I pray

[37:49]Tas every day for a whole year is that better which one's

[37:52]better the consistency spiritually consistency is very important not the amount of

[37:58]that you do but the consistency in what you do this is

[38:04]a spiritual recommendation or instruction that are prophet and the IMs and

[38:09]our give us consistency is key to changing yourself internally don't look

[38:14]at the amount the quantity look at your consistency so if every

[38:17]day you can do an extra it's better to do that for

[38:23]a whole year than to do 100 today 100 tomorrow for a

[38:25]week and then end it consistency a lot of people say oh

[38:29]I'm having like an or Dua list that I want to do

[38:32]throughout the year and then they keep adding and adding and adding

[38:34]to it until they reach a point where they can't do them

[38:39]and they end up leaving the whole list that's the reaction that

[38:42]you get so don't keep adding to your list have a small

[38:44]list but be consistent with it that's what's important so the other

[38:52]recommended thing is again 10,000 is the number but also they say

[38:56]1,00 100 10 or one if you realize they're connected to the

[39:04]Divine aspect of connected to Allah that's where the Prophet said this

[39:10]is the month of God so in this month you want to

[39:13]purify yourself you want to remove all the things that disconnect you

[39:17]and detach you from God so that when sh comes all you

[39:19]can see is him try to change your habits you can't change

[39:24]all of them pick one Habit to change I am someone who

[39:29]has anger issues and I always use this as an example because

[39:32]it's always a problem for most of us and nowadays it seems

[39:37]like people are just getting angry and angry and angrier nobody has

[39:41]any type of Tolerance anymore you go to Super Market you just

[39:46]you know you turn around incorrectly someone yells at you you do

[39:49]something everyone's just screaming and yelling so if you find yourself in

[39:53]that position throughout the day or that situation put that as your

[39:57]goal I'm going to try and this month of rajab for the

[39:59]sake of Allah I am going to control my anger for at

[40:04]least 3 days I want to be patient put goals for yourself

[40:10]and it happens to be that you know if if the month

[40:11]of rajab is not good enough for you to put resolutions then

[40:16]it happened to be that the beginning of the month coincided with

[40:19]the new year right everybody has res New Year resolutions here yes

[40:23]no no okay is that because it's not a Islamic thing or

[40:28]because I don't like resolutions both okay well okay so put resolutions

[40:35]on next day so it doesn't coincide with the first day but

[40:38]it's always good to put goals for yourself even if there were

[40:41]small ones so don't say I'm going to become you know um

[40:44]a saint in one day no I want to remove one bad

[40:47]thing and if you remove one bad thing from yourself you're already

[40:50]above the majority of humankind because most people don't care about improving

[40:53]themselves on that level so if you can change one bad thing

[40:56]inside of you then you're already ahead of so many people you're

[41:01]already successful and you've already paved the way for you to gradually

[41:05]improve and change to the better so start with small goals consistent

[41:07]goals keep that in your mindan sometimes comes and says oh you're

[41:11]feeling very spiritual how about you ask the and then you start

[41:17]reading it you start realizing okay I was I was tricked into

[41:19]this you because Shan does that he comes through Dean through religion

[41:24]to make you leave religion as that one person who I think

[41:29]I've told you the story before that he came to IM and

[41:34]uh actually the IM was telling someone that when somebody becomes a

[41:42]Believer take them up the ladder gradually don't give them so many

[41:46]things that they cannot carry and it'll break them then he told

[41:48]them of the story of the man who converted to Islam there

[41:52]was a guy who was a Muslim like you know we have

[41:55]a lot of the dawa guys right they go they want to

[41:57]convert everyone they but they don't tell them there's like the fine

[42:01]print that they don't mention to anybody Islam is this and beautiful

[42:06]and Allah and and Brotherhood and this and that this guy like

[42:09]oh my god I've never like felt this this beauty in my

[42:14]life Community bonding God one and good and evil it sounds amazing

[42:16]y I want to become Muslim all right come do the shahada

[42:19]does the shahada and this is I'm changing the story a little

[42:24]bit but it's the same lines the IM says this guy he

[42:26]beautified Islam for this individual so basically he did all this stuff

[42:30]he marketed Islam to him right this is the da people whereas

[42:36]Islam is shouldn't be dealt with in this way so this guy

[42:42]becomes Muslim and the guy that converted him he knocks on his

[42:46]door in the middle of the night and that guy wakes up

[42:51]from his sleep he shocked like never never had anyone knocking on

[42:54]this door this early in the morning right it's still dark outside

[42:57]it's not even the morning and the guy he opens the door

[43:02]he's like oh the guy that converted him he's like what is

[43:04]there something wrong did something happen he said no no we have

[43:05]to go to the Masjid we have to do Salah we have

[43:08]to read Quran So This Guy's new he doesn't know anything right

[43:12]he's going to trust what this guy's telling him so the IM

[43:14]says he takes him to the mid it wasn't even morning prayer

[43:19]time for morning prayer yet it was night prayers this guy's like

[43:25]extra vigilant so he takes him there the guy sits down okay

[43:27]now start start praying start reading Quran until the aan comes so

[43:30]the guy thinks okay I got to do this so he starts

[43:33]reading the Quran he starts praying he imitates what the guy's doing

[43:36]thean comes they get up they pray Jama together andan finishes the

[43:42]guy said okay I'm exhausted I want to go back to sleep

[43:44]I'm tired I God knows what time he slept he wasn't planning

[43:48]to get up this early in the morning so he gets up

[43:52]he finish Salat he wants to go home and the guy tells

[43:53]him no no no no where are you going where are you

[43:55]going he's like what what's going what's going on I thought we

[43:57]finish Salat he said yes but time is in just in a

[44:02]few hours so how about you just we stay here we have

[44:05]the Quran is good to read the Quran it's good to do

[44:07]it's good to do this and that let's just stay until it's

[44:11]prayer so the guy you know Under Pressure he doesn't know maybe

[44:15]this is the right thing I got to obey Allah he stays

[44:19]until the time and the same thing happens he finish and and

[44:22]the IM tell the guy tells him um after and prayer hey

[44:27]m is just in a few hours especially if it's a winter

[44:31]night right the difference between and and the time between and is

[44:35]very short only a few hours so the guy stays he prays

[44:40]and as soon as he was done this guy flew to the

[44:42]house he went back home the next morning again before fidget time

[44:51]he hears a knock on the door the guy opens the door

[44:53]and he says he sees his Muslim guy that converted him there

[44:57]conver of him was standing over there he's like what do you

[44:59]want he's like we have to go to the m he's like

[45:01]get out of here you and your religion I don't want to

[45:04]do have anything to do with you the IM says this that

[45:09]the guy that brought him into Islam is the same guy that

[45:11]took him out of Islam why because the guy he can't handle

[45:17]this much take him slowly and gradually so Shan uses this method

[45:21]he throws weight on us in the name of religion in the

[45:26]name of being good and spiritual in order to get us out

[45:29]of spirituality this is one of the tactics that he uses so

[45:34]be careful one of the equations or formulas that our Scholars give

[45:37]us is that only do as much as you can do on

[45:43]your worst day the worst spiritual when you're feeling the lowest spiritual

[45:47]uh feeling that you have what you can do on that day

[45:49]is what you're going to use as your schedule for the rest

[45:54]of the year because you want to be able to be consistent

[45:56]right that's your goal to be consistent then you have to be

[46:01]able to do these things because you have days where you're going

[46:03]to be very low some days you're spiritually high some days you're

[46:07]spiritually low low so you have to be able to maintain that

[46:11]consistency which means on your worst day how much can you do

[46:15]five Salat or five di or five duas yes if that's how

[46:21]much you can do on your lowest day then even if on

[46:24]other days you feel much better spiritually and you can do much

[46:27]more don't do them as part of your consistent program if you

[46:31]want to read an extra chapter on that day okay but don't

[46:34]make your program based on oh I'm feeling very spiritual today I'm

[46:37]GNA make a program for the rest of the year you put

[46:39]du and I'm going to recite it every day and I'm going

[46:43]to recite I'm going to do this I'm going to do that

[46:44]and then as soon as your mood and your spirituality fluctuates and

[46:47]goes down realize you can't do anything and then you break that

[46:53]Inc that consistency then you feel low your mood goes bad you're

[46:55]a failure you can't you know do anything in life you start

[46:58]criticizing yourself and you leave the religion for a long time you

[47:05]just do your now so be careful of this don't look at

[47:08]you know especially of a lot of us you know on the

[47:13]nights of they put the PowerPoint with all these and then people

[47:17]sit here and they feel like they're forced to do this right

[47:20]you're not if you realized each of those is a separate Hadith

[47:27]that the IM gave to a certain individual so it's not like

[47:30]the IM told everybody here's a list do all this stuff no

[47:34]what do the scholars do they looked at a Hadith one person

[47:36]asked IM what to do said okay recite thisas in the of

[47:41]he told him Only this thing another person asked him or another

[47:44]IM he told him another thing so the imams didn't give him

[47:49]the list they gave him one specific act what we did is

[47:51]we got all of these we put them together and it's like

[47:54]we are told to do all of this at once right no

[47:57]if I went to the IM and I asked him what do

[47:59]I do on this night he might tell me to do one

[48:01]thing or two things he might tell me something not even on

[48:05]the list right so we have to keep in mind it's not

[48:07]about how much we do on this night of for example yes

[48:11]it's must to stay awake all night it's must to do Dua

[48:13]must to Quran it's must to be awake and Vigilant as much

[48:18]as you can and you train yourself throughout and throughout Shan to

[48:22]do this to pray more to be more focused in them but

[48:26]again if you can on that night to have one sincere prayer

[48:32]to God it's much better than doing a 100 Focus always on

[48:35]sincerity that's because we're not buying and sell it's not a stock

[48:38]market with God we're not buying and selling we're trying to build

[48:44]this pure sincere relationship God I want to be closest to you

[48:46]I want to do something from my heart but really I can't

[48:51]read the whole Jo I can read two segments five segments with

[48:53]Focus okay then do that that do doesn't mean that you always

[48:58]take the minimum sometimes you got to give yourself a push yes

[49:00]but don't push yourself too much that your break yourself and don't

[49:04]hold back so much that you never progress in your life always

[49:08]look for that internal balance so these are just a few words

[49:11]that I wanted to share with you some things that um might

[49:15]assist us during this month it's a blessed month we ask Allah

[49:17]subhana tala to grant us the ability to get closer to him

[49:22]during these months and to be able to do this in a

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