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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. As-salamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. To all the brothers and sisters who are tuning in at home, we're starting a filming of the new series we're going to be running called Ahabil As-Sabih, which is translated as The Traveller on the Road.
And this is really taken from the hadith of the Prophet ﷺ where he advised us to be travellers in this dunya, just being conscious of the fact that we're just moving through this period of time for a very, very short period of time before we make it onto our final destination, which is, of course, the akhirah. And I want to get a number of people in this car. I'm starting with Ustadh Uthman Hassan, as you can see, to the right-hand side of me.
And I want to discuss a number of different topics related to Islam. It should be an informal chat. None of it is going to be prepared in advance.
Just a discussion between two brothers talking about the Deen of Allah that maybe other people who are watching can benefit from. So Ustadh Uthman Hassan, you are my first guest, as you normally are. As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
How are you doing today? Wa alaykum as-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Alhamdulillah, JazakAllah khayran for allowing me to be in your car. JazakAllah khayran.
JazakAllah khayran. I think it's the first time you've actually been in my car. So I'm blessed to be in your presence.
I'm blessed. I'm honoured. So today I want to talk about the concept of Al-Istiqama, which is basically, translates in English as steadfastness, but I don't think that the English translation really helps a lot of people either.
So I really want to start by talking about this word. What does it mean? How do we understand it as Muslims? JazakAllah khayran, again and again for allowing me to be in your car and to be a participant in this show, inshallah ta'ala, this series, Aabil Sabir. In regards to Al-Istiqama, steadfastness, Abu Bakr r.a, when it came to the ayah, those who said Allah is my Lord, and then they were steadfast, Abu Bakr commented on that verse.
He said they are those who did not associate partners with Allah subhana wa ta'ala. He's not the only one who said that, by the way, Anas ibn Malik said that, Mujahid ibn Jabrin also said that, Al-Aswad ibn Hilal, he said that, Zayd ibn Aslam and others great scholars of Tafsir, they said that, Ibn Abdullah ibn Abbas, a riwaya of him, he said that as well, which is that they do not associate partners with Allah subhana wa ta'ala. So the first thing a person can be and should be steadfast upon is the reason why he was brought into this world.
وَمَا خَلَقْتُ الْجِنَّ وَالْإِنسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونَ He was brought into this world to worship Allah subhana wa ta'ala. Everything else is secondary. The primary reason why we're here is to worship Allah alone subhana wa ta'ala.
So and it's the promise that we made with Allah subhana wa ta'ala. As Allah mentioned in the ayah, وَإِذْ أَخَمَ رَبُّكَ مِن بَنِي آدَمَ مِن ظُهُورِهِمْ وَأَشْهَدَهُمْ عَلَىٰ أَنفُسِهِمْ أَلَسْتُ بِرَبِّكُمْ قَالُوا بَلَا شَهِدْنَا أَن تَقُولُوا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ إِنَّا بُنَّ عَنَّ هَذَا غَافِلِينَ أَوْ تَقُولُوا إِنَّمَا أَشْرَكَ آبَاؤُنَا مِن قَبْلُ وَكُنَّ بِهِ ذُرِّيَّةً مِنْ بَعْدِهِمْ أَفَتُهْنِكُنَا بِمَا فَعَلَ الْمُمْطِنُونَ that Allah subhana wa ta'ala, He took care of the creation and He placed them, Allah placed them in front of Him. And then He said to them, Am I not your Lord? And every single one of us, we said Allah, Yes, you are our Lord.
So we all bear witness that there is not worthy of worship except Allah subhana wa ta'ala already. So Abu Bakr radiyallahu ta'ala, he is saying istiqama it actually means to be steadfast upon that covenant, that promise that you made, which is what we call the fitrah. The Prophet told us in a hadith, Siranihi O You Majjisani, There Is Not A Person Except That He Is Born Upon The Fitrah.
His Parents Come And They Change That Fitrah, They Tamper With It. They Either Make Him A Christian Or A Jew. The Hadith Did Not Say They Make Him A Muslim.
Because That'S The Original Disposition. Because That'S The Natural Disposition. That Is What Everybody Else Is.
So That'S The Fitrah. So Then Istiqamah Is To Be Consistent Upon That And Not To Change It And To Tamper With It And To Be Upon That. And That'S Why We Also Call New Muslims, We Call Them Rebirths.
Rebirths Of Those Who Are Coming Back To The Original Disposition And The Promise That They Made Allah. Also Umar R.A, He Said Istiqamah Is They Don'T Go Ya'Ni, Looking Left And Right Like The Fox Does. The Fox Doesn'T Generally, Ya'Ni, Move Looking Straight And Walk Or Move.
What He Does Is That He Looks Right And Left. These People Are Steadfast. So They Just Looking At The Front.
They Looking At, Ya'Ni, In Front Of Them And They Go Straight And They'Re Not Looking Right Or Left Because Right Or Left Represents Deviation. Okay. Based On The Ayah The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Explained That Verse And He Done A Tafseer On It.
The Prophet He Took A Trick, Hadith Abdullah Ibn Masroor, The Prophet Took A Trick And He Paved A Path On The Earth. And The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, He Said This Is Allah'S Path. And Then He Done A Path On The Left And On The Right.
And The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, He Said Each And Every One Of Those Paths. There'S A Shaitaan Calling The People To It. And Then The Prophet Recited The Ayah So This Shows Us The People Who Are Steadfast Are What? Are Consistently Looking Forward And They Don'T Look Right Or Left.
Other Than That One Straight Path. Also Abdullah Ibn Masroor, He Said When He Came To Istiqama, He Said They Are Steadfast Upon Doing The Obligatory Acts. The Things That Are Mandatory Upon Them.
They Are Steadfast Upon That. So They Don'T Go For Voluntary Things And Superrogatory Matters When There'S Obligatory Acts Which Are Outstanding, Which It Brings Us To A Very Important Point, Which Is Many People You Tend To See Are Doing Less Important Things When There Are Greater Things That They Should Be Doing. Either They Are Doing Things Which Are Mubah, When There Are Wajib And Sunnah That They Should Be Engaged In.
They Are Doing Things Which Are Mubah. What People Are Doing Sometimes The Sunnah When There'S A Wajib Outstanding. It'S Like Somebody Who'S Praying Qiyam Al-Layl When He Is Missing Fajr, For Example.
And We Just Came Just A Few Months Ago Outside Of Ramadan Where Many People Prayed Salat Al-Falaweh And Then Suddenly Didn'T. Also Abu Al-Aliyah, Who Is The Student Of Abdullah Ibn Abbas And Abdullah Ibn Mas'ud, He Said ثُمَّ أَخْلَصُوا لَهُ الدِّينِ فِي الْعَمَلِ يَعْنِى إِسْتِقَامَةِ يَعْنِى هُمُ الَّذِينَ أَخْلَصُوا They Are The Ones Who Come With Sincerity. فِي الدِّينِ وَالْعَمَلِ In The Religion And In Every Action They Do, They Are Sincere.
يَعْنِى إِخْلَاصُنَا لِلَّهِ صُفِّ الْقَلْبَ مِنْ إِرَادَتِهِ سِوَاهُ فَحْذَرْ يَا فَضِلُ They Do Everything For Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Said. So There Are Many Definitions Of What Istiqama Means. But That Is Important To Understand What The Reality Of Something Is Because If You Don'T Know Something It'S Not Easy For You To Come With It.
So Could It Be Said That In Some Weeks We Spoke About Staying Away From Shirk, We Spoke About Performing The Obligatory Matters And We Spoke About Having A Class For Allah Both Generally And Also In The Actions That You Do. Can It Be Then Said That Istiqama Can Be Kind Of Summarized As Being Steadfast Upon The... I Don'T Want To Use The Word Steadfast Many People Might Understand It But Basically Being Upon The Religion Of Islam, You Know, Being Upon That Straight Path Which Not Looking By Not Looking At Just Being Upon That Religion Of Islam. I Know.
It'S True. That'S Correct. But Also We Have To Understand Who Gives Istiqama? Like Who? Is It Your Own Effort, Your Own Hard Work And That'S It, You Can Get It From That Or Is It A Minnatul Ilahiya? Is That Gift Allah Gives Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala? Of Course, It Is.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihe Wasallam Was Authentically Transmitted From Him Alayhi Salatu Wasallam, Hadith Aisha. She Said That The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihe Wasallam He Used To Start His Prayer, His Qiyamul Lahl, He Would Open It Up By Saying Allahumma Rabbi Jibreel Wa Mikaeel Wa Israfeel Fatir Al-Samawati Wa Al-Arabi, Alim Al-Ghaib Wa Al-Shahada, Anta Tahkumu Baina Ibadika Fee Ma Kanu Fee Yakhtarifoon, Ihdimi Limakhtulifa Feehi Minal Hakimi Ihdimi, Innaka Tahdi Man Tashawina Siratun Zamanih. The Fact That The Prophet Would Say Allahumma Fatir Al-Samawati Wa Al-Arabi, The Creator, The Sustainer, The Provider For The Samawat Al-Arabi, The One Who Knows The Unseen.
And Knows Everything That Is Apparent, Alim Al-Ghaib Wa Al-Shahada You Are The One Who'S Going To Judge Between This Creation, Anta Tahkumu Baina Ibadika Fee Ma Kanu Fee Yakhtarifoon, The Differences That The People Have And The Things That They Differ Upon, You Are The One That'S Going To Judge Between Them, Yawm Al-Qiyamah. Then The Prophet Said Ihdimi Limakhtulifa, Showing You To Be Steadfast Is A Minnat Al-Ilahiya, It'S A Godly Gift. It'S A Gift Allah Gives To The Tabaraka Ta'ala Who Be Wise.
But When The Prophet Wanted To Give Guidance, Okay, And Istiqamah, So It Was Under Guidance To His Uncle Abu Talib, Allah Ta'ala He Told Him You Can'T Guide Who You Wish, Muhammad. We Are The Ones Who Guide, We Are The Ones Who Give Guidance To Who We Wish. So It Is Allah Ta'ala Who Gives Guidance To The People And Makes Them Steadfast.
And Of Course We Ask For It In Surah Al-Fatihah, Every Salah We Pray In Every Raka'ah, What Do We Say? What Amaze Me About This Surah, Surah Al-Fatihah, Is That The Person When He Says O Allah Guide Us To The Straight Path, Make Us Steadfast. What Is Amazing Is If You Go To The Hadith Abu Hurairah, It'S Sahih, That The Hadith I Divided The Prayer Between Me And My Creation Into Two Half. If You Go To The Hadith, When The Person Says That Part Because Remember It'S A Discussion And A Dialogue Between Allah And The Creation, That Part Allah Ta'ala Says To The Creation Or The Slave, Allah Ta'ala He Says When The Person Says Allah Ta'ala He Says That Is For My Slave And My Slave Will Be Given What He Asks For So I Always Thought About It To Question Myself.
How Is That? How Does That Make Sense? Because We Know A Lot Of People Who Pray And They Say With That Being Said Allah Doesn'T Guide Them, They Are From His Guidance. Allah Didn'T Guide Them Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala To The Sunnah For Example, And They Are From Innovation. So How Do We Reconcile That With The Hadith, With The Reality That We See In Front Of Us? If You Read Before That Surah Al-Fatihah At The Beginning, There Are Things That You Have To Have In Order For That Guidance To Be Given To You.
The First Thing Is You Have To Come With The Concept Of Ar-Rajaa Hope, You Have To Have Ar-Rajaa, Yani Hope, What'S The Evidence For That? It Comes From Ar-Rahman And Ar-Rahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen, Ar-Rahmani Ar-Raheem Ar-Rahmani Ar-Raheem Means Hope Because Ar-Rahmani Ar-Raheem Are What? They Are Two Names Of Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala, Both Of Which Come From The Root Word Of Ar-Rahma, Right? So The Person Has Hope Of Allah'S Mercy Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Allah'S Mercy Encompasses Everything. So That'S The First Thing.
So That Person Has To Come With Ar-Rajaa, And Then There'S Also Khawf, Fear Which Is What? Which Is Malik Yawm Al-Deen, The King Of The Day Of Judgment. That'S Scary. The Day Of Judgment Is Something That Scares A Muslim When He Thinks About It And What Is Going To Happen That Day And How It'S Going To Be The Fact That The Quran Talks About That What'S Going To Be Scaled That Day Is Going To Be Mustard Seed Of People'S Deeds.
It'S Scary. So It'S Very Scary. So Then Khawf Comes, Fear Comes.
Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala He Tells Us About It. So It'S Scary. So The Fear Comes Which Is The Second And Then The Third Which Is Love.
Where'S The Love? Because You'Re Praising Him Out Of Love That You Have For Him Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala. The Third One, The Fourth One Is The Fourth Quality, The Fourth Before Ihdeen As-Sirat Al-Mustaqeem Is Ibadah, So The Person Is Coming With Ibadah For Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Alone And He'S Not Associating Partners With Him And The Fifth And The Final One Is Before Is Al-Isti'Ana, Seeking A Help And Aid From Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Because We Can'T Do Anything Unless Allah Helps Us, Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala. So When The Person Comes With Those Five And Then He Says Ihdeen As-Sirat Al-Mustaqeem, Allah Guiding Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala But The Five Prerequisites, He Needs To Come With Those Five And Then He Gets Help.
Okay. So That'S What We Are Asking Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Every Single Time We Pray Every Raka'ah That We Are In, That'S What We Ask Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala. Also Another Thing, You Know, Istiqam, You See This Car, There'S A... Every Part Of This Car Is Not The Same.
Okay. There'S A Most Important Part Of The Car, It'S The Engine, Right? Yeah. That'S The Most Important Part Of The Car And It'S What People Look At When They Want To Buy A Car.
They Ask What'S Your Mileage? They Want To Know How Much You Use The Engine. Tires Can Be Repaired, Repaired. Stereo, No Problem.
It'S The Engine, People Want To Know How Much You Use This Engine. If The Engine Is Bad, The Whole Car Is Bad. Basically.
Istiqam, Where Does It Come From? What Part Of Your Body Really Brings About Istiqam? It'S The Heart. And That'S Where The Person Should Really Focus On. But In Darikah, The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, He Said Every Single Morning That The Person Wakes Up, Every Morning Or There'S Another Hadith I Want To Focus On.
The Hadith Of The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, He Mentioned, Sorry, He Mentioned The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, He Said لا يستقيم إيمان عبد حتى يستقيم قلبه The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, He Said A Person'S Eman Will Not Be Steadfast حتى يستقيم قلبه Until His Heart Is Steadfast. It Won'T Be Used About Istiqam Here. And Of Course, The Hadith That You Just Mentioned, The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, He Said إِنَّ الْحَلَالَ بَيِّنٌ وَإِنَّ الْحَرَامَ بَيِّنٌ وَبَيْنَهُمَا أُمُّرٌ مُشْتَبِهَانٌ لا يَعْلَمُهُنَّ كَثِيرٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ فَمَنِ اتَّقَى الشُّبَهَاتِ فَقَدْ اسْتَبْرَأَ لِدِينِهِ وَعِرْضِهِ وَمَنْ وَقَعَ فِي الشُّبُهَاتِ وَقَعَ فِي الْحَرَامِ يُرعى حَوْلَ الْحِمَى يُونشِكُ اَنْ يَرْتَعَ فِيهُ أَلَا وَإِنَّ لِكُنِّ مَلِكٍ حِمَى أَلا وَإِنَّ حِمَى اللَّهِ مَحَارِمُهُ أَلَا وَإِنَّ فِي الْجَسَدِ مِضْغَةٌ إِذَا صَلَحَتْ صَلَحَ الجَسَدُ كُلُوا وَإِذَا فَسَدَتْ فَسَدَ الْجَسَدُ كُلُّ أَلَا وَإِنَّ قَدْ So yes, in the hadith, the prophet tells us there is an organ inside the human body.
If that organ becomes corrupt, the whole entire body becomes corrupt. And if that organ is upright, then the whole entire body is also upright. So the heart is the point that the person needs to focus on.
And that's why the prophet ﷺ in the hadith, he took his hand ﷺ and placed on his chest. And what did he say? He said, He said the taqwa three times. It comes from the heart.
It comes from the heart. And it comes from the heart. And we know the people of taqwa are the people who are going to inherit Jannah.
تلك الجنة التي نورث من عبادنا من كانت تقية Jannah is going to be inherited to those people. And so Allah says وَإِن مِنكُمْ إِلَّا وَأَرِيدُهَا كَانَ عَلَىٰ رَبِّكَ حَتْمًا مَّقَضِيًّا ثُمَّ نُنَجِّي الَّذِينَ التَّقَوْا وَنَظَرُوا الظَّالِمِينَ فِي أَجْتِيَّ يعني أهل التقوى Allah is going to save them when they go on the Sirat that path, right? They're not going to fall into the hellfire. They're going to make it through the people of taqwa.
So the أصل الاستقامة is the قلب and the person needs to protect his heart. And if he does, the whole body will become established. ولذلك أبو هريرة used to say القلب ملك الأعضاء that the heart is the king of the limbs and he used to say وَالأَعْضَاءُ جُنُودُهُ وَرَعَيَةٌ and the limbs are soldiers, okay? فَإِن طَابَ الْمَلِكِ طَابَةِ الْجُنُودُ وَالرَّعَيَةِ if the king is upright and he's good, then the whole time soldiers will follow him, right? The general knows what he's doing.
The army is the general, right? So let's take it on a tangent because part of the series we're driving on the road whenever you drive on the road, you might take a detour, you might hit a dead end, you might go to different parts. So you just mentioned the heart now. You mentioned the importance of protecting the heart.
One might ask how is... what affects the heart first of all? Okay, we know that we want to protect this. How does it get affected? Is it just our deeds? Or is it things that we see? What affects the heart? The heart suffers from mainly two illnesses. It's called مَرَضُ الشَهْوَ مَرَضَ الشُّبْحَة These are the two illnesses that the heart suffers from.
It's desires and doubts. The highest one is doubts. And that's كُفْر which is the highest and then بِدْعَة which is the second.
كُفْر means disbelief. And a lot of people, a lot of people who are online watching debates and atheists and this and that, the doubts come to them from that. So then the heart starts suffering from doubts.
And then كُفْر starts to become and the person falls into كُفْر. And then you have بِدْعَة innovation where the person starts reading the books of the innovators, sitting with the innovators, sitting with people mocking the Sunnah and mocking the people of the Sunnah and the person starts to have doubts regarding matters of the Sunnah and innovation creeps in which is doubts. شُبْحَة And then there's the second thing that the heart suffers from is شَهْوَة شَهْوَة is desires.
And those are major and minor sins. Because if a person is doing major sins, person is doing major sins, he's falling into desires. عَرَفْت And if the person is consistent upon minor sins, he's consistent upon minor sins, he's doing minor sins, that is also شَهْوَة that he falls into.
And then Allah Ta'ala told us in the Qur'an, Allah Ta'ala, He told us in the Qur'an, He said, أَفَرَأَيْتَ مَنِ اتَّقَدَهُ أَفَرَأَيْتَ مَنِ اتَّقَدَ إِلَهَهُ هَوَةٌ Have you not seen the one who has taken his desires as his what? As his Lord. يعني he worships his desires. As the Prophet said in another hadith, تَعِسَ عَبْدُ الدِّينَارَ تَعِسَ عَبْدُ الدِّرْهَم تَعِسَ عَبْدُ الْخَمْزَةَ يعني يَعْلَمُونَ ظَاهِرًا مِنَ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا وَهُمْ عَلِدَ أَخِرَةٍ هُمْ غَفِرُونَ The person gives in to the glamors and the glitters of this dunya and their desires fall into that from the شَهْوَةُ النِّسَاء The desires of women.
The Prophet said, اتَّقُوا الدُّنْيَا وَاتَّقُوا النِّسَاء فَإِنَّ أُوَّلَ فِتْنَةِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ كَانَتْ فِي النِّسَاء Fear the dunya, fear the women for verily the first fitna of Bani Israel was what? Was the women. So the شَهْوَة If your heart, this comes into your heart and it hits your heart you have to clean your heart. You have to what? And what Allah تبارك وتعالى wants and the heart that He loves is a heart which is pure.
That's why Allah تبارك وتعالى He mentions the people who are going to be blessed and noble are what? Those who have come up to Allah تبارك وتعالى لقلب سليم A qalb which is clean and what is it clean from? يعني من الشبهة والشهوة And is it fair to say that there are avenues to the heart? For example, what you see it impacts your heart and what you say it impacts your heart and what you hear it impacts your heart. The Prophet ﷺ The two eyes they can be zina The zina of the eyes is what? It's looking. So yes of course what you see goes directly to your heart.
The Prophet ﷺ he told us that the Shaytan will use the people's listening. Allah تبارك وتعالى He tells us وَاسْتَفْسِسْ مَنْ اِسْتَطَعْتَ مِنْهُمْ بِصَوْتِكَ وَأَجْلِبْ عَلَيْهِمْ بِخَيْلِكَ وَرَجْلِكَ وَاشَارِكُمْ فِي الْأَمْوَالِ وَالأَوْلَادِ وَمَا يَعِذُهُمُ الشَّيْطَانُ وَإِلَّا هُوَ رُورًا And the scholars they mentioned from this verse the voice of Shaytan is what? Music. So that's where he mentions Shaytan talks to the music, listening to music of course, is رُكْيَةُ الشَّيْطَان as the Qur'an called it.
These things of course they have an effect on your heart. الحمد لله These things, Allah مبارك, they don't really need evidence or proofs to be given. The people who listen to will tell you yes, you're right.
I got corrupted when I started listening to music. You know, I was speaking to a brother recently who recently he's developed I would say an addiction I think that was his own words to Netflix. So this entertainment and this is what many kids are being brought and raised up on now, this entertainment thing.
And I used to think I used to think that the biggest evil from this is wasting time. That you basically spend an hour two hours of your day just watching this and you're just wasting your time. And then I realized later on in life that actually this is a huge problem but it's not the only problem.
It's the fact that as you're watching it, you're impacting your heart. That when the Salah comes, it's actually harder for you now to get up and pray. It's harder for you to just open the Qur'an.
And this is something even outside of Islam they talk about the dopamine effect. So even like now doing something like reading a book or reading the Qur'an even, it suddenly isn't as entertaining for you because your dopamine levels have become so high that we're so used to consuming content online that now when you open the Mus'haf after three minutes, four minutes, you're like I need to do something else. Whereas that was never the case before.
Before this entertainment if you actually protected your heart, protected your eyes and kept away from this entertainment you'd find leather in reading the Qur'an. This would be your entertainment. You'd enjoy it.
You'd be able to do it for hours and hours upon end. That's true. Because the ayah... اِعْلَمُوا أَنَّمَا الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا لَعِبٌ وَلَهُونَ اِعْلَمُوا أَنَّمَا الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا لَعِبٌ وَلَهُونَ But the point that concerns me is فَطَالَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْأَمَدُ فَقَسَتْ قُلُوبُهُ The matter became lengthened for them.
They got distance from the Qur'an for so long. So their hearts became tainted. They started to rot.
It affected their hearts. That's how it became. If you look at the Prophet ﷺ He said to the man He said يا رسول الله أَسْأَلُكَ مُرَافَقَتَكَ مُرَافَقَتَكَ فِي الْجَنَّةِ He said, O Messenger of Allah, I want to be with you in Jannah.
The Prophet ﷺ he said فَاعِلْنِي عَلَى كَتْرَةِ السُّجُودِ Help me and aid me and support me by coming with so much sujood. In other words, be consistent in what you're doing. Yeah, these shows that people watch online Back to back, people are watching series after series episode after episode.
And you know what's something greater that they're missing out, they don't realize that the enjoyment that they're getting from that they could find it in Islam. Like Shaykh al-Sabih ibn Taymiyyah I believe he said that there are two Jannahs. Right? There's a Jannah in the Dunya and there's a Jannah in the Akhirah.
And the one who doesn't experience a Jannah in the Dunya he won't experience a Jannah in the Akhirah. Meaning as I understood it and correct me if I'm wrong that when you have Islam and you're worshipping Allah correctly you're worshipping Him alone there's a sweetness that's attached to that. So you actually experience happiness in this world before you get the ultimate happiness in the next.
This can be found within Islam but unfortunately people look for it elsewhere. You see what it is, you know if you're used to drinking fizzy drink and you cut off from it for a long long time and then you come back to it again that same drink you love it's like, was I actually drinking this? Your taste buds come back things go back to normal that's what it is. But that time you're drinking it you're addicted to it.
You're like, I can't stop this how am I going to ever stop this? And that's what happens when the Dhikr of Allah Ta'ala at the beginning you're going to be like no but I'm trying to read the Qur'an I don't find the joy because your taste buds are gone. Your taste buds are gone. But if you stay upon it, stay upon it, stay upon it get past that initial difficult period where you think that then the sweetness comes.
Allah gives it to you after the initial hardship. Because the heart, you've really basically corrupted your heart so much to the extent you're like trying to drink honey from a dirty cup. You can't taste it.
The honey is sweet. It's your cup. It's my clean cup.
Okay, I took it on a tangent a bit from Istiqamah. What were you saying for a moment? Another point I wanted to mention which is so many people are going to be like, you know what? Which is a concept of Istiqamah. You know what? This is between me and Allah.
They will say for example, Allah is the one who can judge me subhanahu wa ta'ala. I worship Allah in my way. I do things in your way.
And Allah is going to be my judge yawm al qiyamah. In other words, what they try to say is my Istiqamah is not necessarily your Istiqamah. Oh, okay.
But Allah refuted it in the Qur'an. Allah Ta'ala He said فَاسْتَقِمْ كَمَا أُمِرْتَ وَمَنْ تَابَ مَعَكَ وَلَا تَطْعُوا Be steadfast in the way you are commanded to be steadfast. So what we learn is steadfastness is not what you and I call steadfastness or what we want to call it.
It's what Allah would tell us subhanahu wa ta'ala what steadfastness is. And from that ayah subhanAllah, Allah has already told us that steadfastness is to actually not go overboard as well. Overboard in worship you mean? Yeah, yeah.
Some people they overdo things. When they start practicing, they overdo it sometimes. They say I'm not going to get married and this is going to get me closer to Allah.
I'm not going to get married. I'm going to boycott. I'm going to fast every single day without breaking the fast.
Exactly. I'm not going to, you know, study academic sciences, for example. I'm kind of from uni.
Some people kind of, they do extra things which later they regret later and they say I was wrong then and they stop practicing then, which is good to tell them at the beginning. No, don't do this. Steadfastness is with moderation.
The prophet said, The prophet said, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, this religion is easy. There's nobody who makes this religion hard. You see this with some new Muslims.
They suddenly go back to... Yeah, it's true. Because that zeal and that passion is taken to an extreme. Does that make sense? It's pushed to something extreme.
And that later the person, subhanAllah, they just walk away from practicing the deen. They're like, I gave everything to it. I couldn't do it anymore.
I couldn't. Because it's true what they did to themselves is they went too extreme in what they were doing. So what you need is, do things with diligence and do it bit by bit.
And if someone's wondering, what is moderation then? Moderation is the sunnah. It gives you that moderation for you. You can't go wrong to be following what the prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, said.
I go back to the ayah. Don't go overboard. Don't do tughyan.
In the beginning, the ayah said, and he said, Don't be steadfast and don't go overboard. Don't go overboard with what you do. Whether it be going overboard in aqidah, by making takfir of everybody and you only think you're the Muslim.
Making tabdiyah of everybody, thinking you're the only person on the sunnah. You start innovating things in the religion and trying to get closer to Allah. By it, it's extreme.
It's tughyan. It's not the istiqama Allah sanctions, subhanAllah ta'ala. And steadfastness of Allah ta'ala is referring to in the ayah, ثُمَّ اسْتَقَامُوا تَتَنَزَّلُ عَلَيْهِمُ الْمَلَائِكَةَ أَلَّا تَخَافُوا وَلَا تَحْزَنُوا أَبْشِرُوا بِالْجَنَّةِ الَّتِي كُنتُمْ تُوَعَدُونَ نَحْنُ أَوْلِيَآءُكُمْ فِي الْحَيَةِ الدُّنْيَا وَفِي الْآخِرَةِ وَلَكُمْ فِيهَا مَا تَشْتَهِي أَنفُسُكُمْ وَلَكُمْ فِي نَامَةِ الدَّعُودِ مُزُولًا مِّنْ غَفُورُ وَطَحِيمٍ So you're following me around today.
So I have to make this stop. We're going to carry on inshaAllah. I have to make this stop.
We'll come back inshaAllah. JazakAllah khair. We're back on the road.
I actually forgot what we were talking about before. So I'm going to let you remind me inshaAllah what was it I actually forgot. So what we were talking about was يعني what are the موانع the things that can prevent you from استقامة.
That's right. We mentioned, you know, shuhuat and shubuhat, desires and also doubts. And also another point that imitating the non-Muslims.
Because when we say, إِهْدِيْنَا الصَّلَاةَ الْمُسْتَقِيمَ وَاللَّهَ قَيْرَسَهُ الشَّيْءِ There are two paths for us. We see refuge in Allah from, right? The path of the Christians and the Jews, right? غَيْرِ الْمَغْضُوبِ عَلَيْهِمْ وَالْضَالِينَ مَغْضُوبِ عَلَيْهِمْ is who? The Jews. وَالْضَالِينَ is the Christians now.
SubhanAllah, what's amazing is the two things that they have, each one has, but the Muslims combine the two. Okay, I know where you're going. Just explain it for the people.
What do you mean by that? So the Jews, they have knowledge, but they don't act upon the knowledge that they have. Yeah. And the Christians, they have actions with no knowledge.
And the Muslim combines between beneficial knowledge and righteous actions. It's the middle path again. And that again, the middle path.
That is the استقامة. Because Allah says in the ayah, وَالَّذِي أَرَسَلَ رَسُولَهُ بِالْهُدَىٰ الْهُدَىٰ إِذَا الْعِلْمُ النَّافِعُ وَالدِينِ الْحَقِّ إِذَا الْعَمَلُ صَالِحٌ as the Mufassireen, like Mujarrir, Qabir and others mentioned. Yani Allah sent the Prophet ﷺ with those two, beneficial knowledge and righteous actions.
That's something we want Allah to give us, subhanahu wa ta'ala, beneficial knowledge and righteous actions. It's actually every morning we wake up, we're trying to gain more beneficial knowledge and more righteous actions we're trying to come with. That's our mission in life, right? Yeah.
And that's why Allah brought us into the world, by the way. The knowledge what represents it is قَوْلُهُ تَعَالَىٰ the statement of Allah where He says اللَّهُ الَّذِي خَلَقَ سَبْعَ سَمَوَاتٍ وَمِنَ الْأَرْضِ مِتْرَهُنَّ يَتَنَزَّلُ الْأَمْرُ بَيْنَهُنَّ لِتَعْلَمُوا أَنَّ اللَّهَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٍ وَأَنَّ اللَّهَ قَدْ أَحَاطَ بِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ أَلْمًا So Allah is saying I created seven heavens and everything in it, and the seven earths and everything in it, Allah said I created all of that. لِتَعْلَمُوا So you have knowledge.
So Allah is telling us He created us to have knowledge. And the action, the ayah that shows that we were created to do actions وَمَا خَلَقْتُ الْجِنَّ وَالْإِنسَ إِلَىٰ لِيَعْبُدُونَ Ibadah is an act of worship. And the two go hand in hand because you can't have any actions without knowledge.
You can't. You can't, exactly, exactly. وَلِذَلَكَ سُفِيَانَ الطَّوْرِ I think it was him.
Or Sufyan Ibn Uyaynah, one of the two. He used to say, Anyone from amongst this ummah, he used to say, Who acts with no knowledge فَفِيهِ شَبَهُ مِنَ الْنَصَارَةِ He specifically says Our Ibad, our worshippers, who worship Allah with no knowledge have in themselves a resemblance of the Christians. And the scholars who don't act upon their knowledge now have a resemblance of the Jews.
You know, it's one of these things. There are many things in Islam like this. I always reflect upon this.
There are many things in Islam that are very circular. What do I mean by that? I mean, for example, the concept of seeking knowledge and refraining from sins. The more you refrain from sins, the easier it is to seek knowledge and the more knowledge you attain.
And then the more knowledge you attain, the easier it is to refrain from sins because you suddenly know what is halal and what is halal. And seeking knowledge and beneficial actions is another cycle like this. The more knowledge you gain, of course, the more actions you can do because you learn about new actions.
And as you do more and more actions, you start to seek more knowledge because suddenly you engage in action. You think, what's the rule on that? And what do I do here? And what do I do here? And so it's like a cycle. It's a really... You just have to get yourself on the cycle.
The hardest thing is just getting on the cycle. It's like a hamster wheel. As soon as you're on there, you keep going round and round and round.
As long as you don't give up, you're going to make progress. That's true. That's really true.
Why Allah said, In the ayah, The ones who fear Allah, the most are the scholars. I mean, they're not the same. The one who knows, and the one who doesn't know.
And what's amazing is, before Allah says, are they the same, the one who knows and the one who doesn't know? Before that, Allah says, the one who stood up at night and prayed. Yeah. That's what the knowledgeable person does, right? Again, because that's in knowledge and action.
Knowledge will lead to action. I know. And He'll make the person stand fast.
And He'll make the person come with what is pleasing to Allah. Yeah. And it's amazing because Allah, promised for the people of Istiqam, and Allah make us from them.
Two things. Allah says, The angels were what? They won't descend on them. And the angels will say to them, So they say two things to them.
What's the difference between the two? The difference is, don't be scared of, what you see right now. You're seeing a creation you've never seen before. You're heading in a direction, you're scared of what is going to happen to you.
So don't be scared of that. The future, the present and the future is talking about. Don't be worried about your children you left behind.
And your family members. Don't worry, we're going to take care of them. Why are we going to take care of them? It's because, you are a righteous person.
What's it to do with that? Allah says in the Quran, when He spoke about the, the man who, they came to build a, they came to ask for a particular family, to take them as a guest, right? And, Musa and Khadir, the, the family refused to take them as a guest. Khadir and Musa, especially Khadir, was sent a revelation, and was told to go to that particular house, and build their wall for them, because there was treasures under it, and they were orphans, and their parents have passed away. Khadir was sent there, to basically cover it, so nobody steals their wealth.
And Allah is telling us, why He made Khadir do that. He said, وَكَانَ أَبُوهُمَا صَالِحًا فَأَرَادَ رَبُّكَ أَن يَبْلُغَ أَشْهُدَّهُمَا وَيَسْتَخْرِجَا كَنْزَهُمَا رَحْمَةً لِلْمُرْبِّ Allahu Akbar. Allah said, their parents were what? They were righteous people.
So Allah said, a prophet. Father. Right, their father? Yeah, their father.
وَكَانَ أَبُوهُمَا Their two, two boys, but their father. Yeah, yeah. And that's a dunya benefit, right? Gold, treasure, wealth.
It shows that even being steadfast upon Islam, it's not just about the Akhira as well. Of course, that's what we're doing it for. Said Ibn Husayn even used to say that.
He used to say to his children, اِنِّي أُصَلِّي وَأَصْعُمْ I'm going to pray and I'm going to fast. So Allah can protect you guys through my prayer and my fasting. Allahu Akbar.
And Allah says, وَعَقِبَاتٌ مِّن بَيْنِ يَدَيْي وَمِنْ خَلْفِي يَحْفَظُونَهُ مِّنْ أَمْرِ اللَّهِ Allah sends angels. Angels, they take turns. And they protect them from what? From everything.
They protect them. Because these people, they came with what? اِحْفَظِ اللَّهَ يَحْفَظْكِ اِحْفَظِ اللَّهَ تَجِدْهُ تُجَّاهَكِ اِذَا اسْتَعَلْتَ فَاسْأَلِ اللَّهِ وَإِذَا اسْتَعَلْتَ فَاسْتَعَلْتِ اللَّهِ حَدِثَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بَعَبَّسِهِ فِي جَمَعِ تِرْمُ They safeguarded the boundaries of Allah Ta'ala. يعني حافظوا على الصَّلَوَاتِ وَالصَّلَاةِ الْوَسْطَةِ وَقُولُوا لِلَّهِ قَانِتِينَ So they came with حفظ of the prayer.
So what did they do? حفظ حافظوا على الصَّلَوَاتِ وَالصَّلَاةِ الْوَسْطَةِ Protect the middle player. يعني العصر The reason why Allah mentions عصر specifically is because عصر is in the middle of the day when people are trying to make money. It's true, yeah.
So who are you going to choose? Allah or your money and your business? And by choosing Allah, you're ultimately choosing your money because He is Al-Razak and He's going to give you more. It's true, it's true. And also اللَّهَ تَبَارُكُتَ عَلَيْهِمْ وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ لِفُرُوجِهِمْ حَافِظُونَ Those who safeguard their private parts.
And when you do all of this, the Prophet ﷺ, he said to the Sahabas one day, استحيوا من الله حق الحياة Be shy of Allah the way you deserve to be shy of. And the Sahabas, they said, يا رسول الله إنا نستحي من الله والحمد لله We are shy of Allah and praises to Him. And then the Prophet ﷺ, he said, من استحي من الله حق الحياة Anyone who is shy of Allah the way it should be.
فَلْيَحْفَظِ الرَّأْسَ وَمَا وَحَوَى Protect فَلْيَحْفَظِ The word حِفْظ The head and everything that's on it. The eyes and ears and the mouth and everything. وَالْبَطْلَ وَمَا وَعَى And the stomach and what's in it.
نُؤِي حَرَام وَلْيَذْكُرِ الْمَوْتَ وَالْبِلَى Let him remember death. And the day is going to go back to Allah Ta'ala. Does that make sense? Yes.
So you come with an إحفظ الله As I mentioned, you do those حِفْظ of that. And Allah is going to do حِفْظ of you and take care of you. And not only you, but your children and your children's children and your children's children.
Allah protects them subhanahu wa ta'ala because of that. You see a whole entire family is preserved and protected from so many evils in this world. It's just being taken care of.
Because they surrendered to Allah Ta'ala. So Allah doesn't forsake the righteous people. إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يُضِيُّ عَجِرَ مَنَ حَسَنَ عَمَلًا The one who does righteous deeds and possess the efforts.
Allah won't subhanahu wa ta'ala do not forsake him subhanahu wa ta'ala. So that's what it means. أَلَّا تَخَافُوا وَلَا تَحَزَنُوا وَأَبْشِرُوا بِالْجَنَّةِ الَّذِي كُنْتُمْ تُوَعَدْهُمْ The people who are not the people of istiqamah, who are on the other side, who forsake the boundaries and the rules and the regulations set by Allah Ta'ala, who are heedless about it, refuse to be steadfast.
Allah Ta'ala speaks about them in the Quran as well. وَلَوْ تَرَى إِذٍ مُجْرِمُونَ When you see, Allah says وَلَوْ تَرَى إِذٍ مُجْرِمُونَ نَاكِسُوا رُؤُسِهِمْ وَلَوْ تَرَى إِذٍ مُجْرِمُونَ يعني بَاسِطُوا أَيْدِيهِمْ أَخْرِجُوا أَنفُسَكُمُ الْيَوْمَ تُجْزَوْنَ عَذَابَ الْهُومِ بِمَا كُنْتُمْ تَقُولُونَ عَلَى اللَّهِ غَيْرَ الْحَقِّ وَكُنْتُمْ عَنْ آيَاتِهِمْ تَسْتَخْمِرُونَ يعني When the angel of death comes to these ones What does the angel of death say to them? أَخْرِجُوا أَنفُسَكُمُ الْيَوْمَ وَلَوْ تَرَى إِذٍ مُجْرِمُونَ اليومَ تُجْزَوْنَ عَذَابَ الْهُومِ بِمَا كُنْتُمْ تَقُولُونَ عَلَى اللَّهِ غَيْرَ الْحَقِّ Today you're gonna be عَذَابَ الْهُومِ You're gonna taste the harshness and pain Why? Because of what you used to say بِمَا كُنْتُمْ تَقُولُونَ عَلَى اللَّهِ غَيْرَ الْحَقِّ وَكُنْتُمْ عَنْ آيَاتِهِمْ That's the difference between the two parties or the two groups of people إِنَّ الَّذِينَ قَالُوا رَبُّنَا اللَّهَ ثُمَّ اسْتَقَامُوا And he's criminals And it comes down to استقامة It comes to استقامة وَلِذَلِكَ أَحَقُّ الْأَعْمَالِ إِلَى اللَّهِ أَدْوَنُهَا مَنْهَا يعني الله تبارك وتعالى really loves actions which are done with consistency, right? Even if they're small And actually, you know, a lot of people have this concept that if I'm gonna go in, I'm gonna go in hard I'm gonna do a really big thing It's either this or nothing And I actually refuse that concept and says no, start with something small and just be consistent upon it for the rest of your life And from my understanding, many of the salaf they used to, once they used to do an action that was it for them We ask Allah every time Allah makes us steadfast Because that's the scary part We don't know where we're gonna be We don't We actually don't know where we're gonna head And what path we're going to be Because remember I don't know if the audio is gonna pick it up But it's a big benefit for the people in the West and UK To be able to hear that We're just gonna head to the masjid now To be able to hear the adhan like that Automatically It raises your iman Just hearing that Okay, we've only got like maybe 2 or 3 more minutes We're gonna get to the masjid And then we're gonna have to close it What else do you want to add? If we need to do another episode I feel like we haven't quite covered this topic As much as even I would like to So maybe we need to carry on another day Maybe or You know, we've got 2 or 3 minutes left What else did you Anything else you want to add on this particular topic? Let's just always Let's beg Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Keeps our hearts steadfast And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Keeps us firm upon this religion And upon the sunnah of the Prophet A.S. And we always beg Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala To keep us firm Because we don't know We don't know We shouldn't be content And shouldn't rely on ourselves That's the last thing we should do Let's rely on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala And believe and trust him Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Because if the Prophet s.a.w. used to say يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ تُوبُوا إِلَى اللَّهِ فَإِنِّي أَتُوبُوا فِي الْيَوْمِ مِعْتَى مَرَّأُوكَ مَا قَالَ A.S. You know, ask Allah for repentance O people The Prophet used to say that For I verily ask Allah for forgiveness A hundred times a day And also this hadith Of يَا مُقَلِّبَ الْقُلُوبِ يَتَبِّدْ قَلْبِي عَلَى الدِينِ Because the Prophet used to say this قَيْلُ الْبَشَرُ The Prophet s.a.w. said that And anyone other than that you can imagine How it is for them If Ibrahim a.s. was saying رَبِّ جُنُوبِنِي وَبَنِيَّا نَعْبُدَ الْأَصْلَامِ O Allah protect me and my children from worshipping idols And you know Ibrahim He destroyed Allah mentions in the Qur'an He said فَجَعَلَهُمْ دُدَادًا إِلَّا كَبِيرًا لَهُمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَسْلِمُونَ And he took the idols And he destroyed them all And he left the old big one only He destroyed it when he was a kid فَجَعَلَهُمْ دُدَادًا إِلَّا كَبِيرًا لَهُمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَسْلِمُونَ In fact a little boy he was At an old age he was saying O Allah protect me from worshipping idols So we shouldn't depend on ourselves And our own efforts And our own hard work Everything is in Allah's hands Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala That's why we say إِهِدِنَا الصِّرَافَ الْمُسْتَقِيمِ JazakAllah khayr Ustad I really hope you enjoyed it For this first episode We've reached the masjid now So we're going to go inside to pray If there's anything we decide to add On to this particular topic Maybe this will be part of the video And we'll carry on But I don't know We'll see how it goes inshaAllah InshaAllah BarakAllahu khair Assalamu alaikum Wa alaikum assalam So we're back in the car And as you can see We're in a different thobe So it's clearly a different day This is actually a week later Approximately a week later Since we were recording the first video And I know we mentioned a lot of points About Isfahama But this topic is so wide and comprehensive That we felt like we didn't do it justice And we want to continue Talking about where we left off So I haven't I'm going off memory now But just some of the things that I remember We spoke about We spoke about the definition of Isfahama We spoke about how it was Staying away from shirk We spoke about how it was Having ikhlas and nahi We spoke about how it was Performing the obligatory deeds And we kind of summarised it As basically saying it's About being an upright Muslim It's basically being You know, practising Islam The way it should be done We also spoke about The importance of the heart If you remember We spoke about the entertainment industry And how that increases Your level of dopamine And therefore you can't Perform the acts of worship The way you'd like to We mentioned a number Of other things as well And of course the viewers Have just been watching The same video It's all part of one video But do you remember anything else That you want to particularly Remember from the last discussion Or do you just want to go into The other remaining points That we'd like to talk about Isfahama So yeah, let's just go into Inshallah Ta'ala I'll finish up by now Watch those parts And see Still Let me first start by saying Alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen Wasalaatu wasalaamu ala Ashrafin anbiya wal mursaleen Sayyidina wa nabiyina muhammad Wa ala alihi wa ashabihi Wattabi'ina lahu bihsani Ila yawmi al-deen Amma ba'ad A point I kind of touched on But I really didn't go in Which I want to add on to it Which is Istiqama cannot be Unless there's three things You can't come with istiqama Unless you come with three things An yapuna al-istiqama lillah It has to be for Allah Okay, that makes sense Which brings us to the ayah Wa ma umiru illa liya'budu Allah Mukhlusina lahul deena Hunafa wa yuqtimu as-salatu wa yuqtul zakatu wa dharika deenu muqaddima That Allah says I haven't commanded them Wa ma umiru illa liya'budu Allah Mukhlusina lahul deena I commanded them To worship Allah with sincerity Which we kind of mentioned When we spoke about the reality Of an istiqama And istiqama means La ilaha illallah An yastaqeem al-abdu Ala shahadat La ilaha illallah An istiqama Wa mudaqa Etc So it's sincerity And every act of obedience If you don't do it with sincerity And if it's not done In accordance to the sunnah Then of course It's not accepted, right? It's not going to be accepted from you This is an act of worship And it has to be done For Allah's sake Wa didarik any act That a person does If they don't do it For Allah's sake It will be rejected And in accordance to the sunnah There are two pillars That every action Needs to be standing upon It's going to be rejected So let me mention The evidence for both Okay So the evidence If you don't do this action For Allah And you do it for Allah And someone else Or something else You need to remember It's going to be rejected The prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam He told us that Allah said Allah said I'm rich Allah mentioned in the Quran Allah is rich Allah doesn't need anybody He's rich We're the poor ones We're the ones in need of Allah So this hadith al-qudusi Hadith al-ilahi Which is that the prophet Is rewriting it from Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala Allah said I am rich Allah is rich He doesn't need this Association that you're coming with The hadith goes on to say Anyone who associates partners with me In someone else or something else Allah says I abandoned him And that would be associated with him Also when it comes to following The prophet The prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam as well Anyone who associates Anyone who comes with an action That is not in line With what the prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam was It's going to be rejected It's going to be dismissed So the first pillar Of someone who wants to come with istiqamah The first thing required from them Is that it has to be for Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala The second one is That it's with Allah What does that mean? It means you need Allah's help to do it You can't do istiqamah Unless Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Aids and supports you What did we just say? Istiqamah is an act of worship, right? So who do you need to rely on? Worship Allah and rely on Him Also the famous hadith Strive to that which benefits you And seek help from who? Allah And don't give up So strive to that which benefits you Rely on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala And know He is the one who can make it happen And don't give up By the way, those three Go ahead Those three are subhanAllah The backbone for any personal development For a progressing life All these famous non-muslims That people listen to Brian Tracy Tommy Robbins People are always listening to Motivational speakers And they get things from them Anything a person needs to do If it revolves around these three SubhanAllah Strive to that which benefits you In this world And in the Hereafter Seek help from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala And don't give up That's it That's the key to success, right? And the two things that you mentioned When you talked about istiqamah Standing upon these two things That you don't associate any partners with Allah The action that you're doing is for Allah alone And the second one is that you seek help from Allah Summarizing that It's true And the third thing I wanted to mention I already mentioned two so far The first one I mentioned was It has to be for Allah And by Allah And so the first one was for Allah The second was with Allah The second was with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Okay And the third one is The istiqamah has to be In the way Allah commanded and instructed it Which we kind of touched on Istiqamah Allah is the one who instructs us How to be steadfast Be steadfast as you were commanded And you were instructed You can't just say I want to be steadfast In my own little way You know What I think is istiqamah Not necessarily That's not istiqamah That steadfastness is not What someone desires or thinks It's what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Sanctioned On the time of his messenger A.S. So those three Are important for me to kind of A lot of people When they think about istiqamah Steadfastness They're thinking about Being able to perform good deeds On a consistent basis They think about, you know Longevity and the acts of worship What do you think about The concept of habits? So this is something That I've been reflecting upon You might agree, disagree I'd like to welcome your thoughts as well The concept of building habits for me The way that Allah has created us I believe personally Is a huge mercy from Allah That he created human beings To be habitual What do I mean by that? I mean like You know when you're a kid for example And you have to brush your teeth And you're like I don't want to brush my teeth Oh no, you're running away from me You don't want to brush your teeth As you do it more and more in life It doesn't become difficult It just becomes easier It just becomes a habit It just becomes part of who you are And I always like to brush my teeth When I was a kid, I'd carry on I think I used to run away from it And it's just So this can also be applied And also we have to be wary of doing this In acts of worship Because we don't want it to be To become like an idea Just a habit Obviously we want to always remember This is an act of worship Keep that intention At the forefront of my mind Or of other minds But there is a certain element That when you first come into the deen For example You're trying to wake up For the start of Fajr You're waking up for Fajr It's difficult It's not easy for you As you do it more and more and more It becomes easier and easier for you Now Allah didn't have to create us like that It could have been the case That the way you're doing it 10 years later It's the same difficulty In all of your acts of worship That you found 10 years previously But I think it's a huge mercy from Allah That we can actually get used to these things If that makes sense To a certain extent Like it becomes easier on us What do you think of that concept? You see The concept of continuation And consistency of something Generally speaking Brings results Even if it's done in a small quantity Even if it's done in a small quantity A lot of times This is what happens I think we touched on it before as well Which is If we want to do something We have to do it so big And it has to be clear Or else I'm not going to do it Yeah, a lot of people fall into this Big time But that's not what matters What matters is that It's continuous Even if it's small Because you get far as well When the prophet said The most beloved actions to Allah Is that which is done with consistency Even if it's very little Yeah A poet once said Go and seek Go and look for Don't ever give up On what you're trying to attain The biggest harm for someone Who's trying to seek something Is when they give up Is when they stop Is when they say I haven't reached my goal And so I'm just going to stop Yeah Do you not see the water? Do you not see that? The water The repetition of the water Actually penetrates Through a rock Have you ever actually Have you seen it Shahid? I've personally not seen it I've heard that line in poetry before I've not seen it Yeah, I've seen it Honestly, I've seen it I was shocked, Wallahi I actually saw it I saw a stone Where was it? Make a hole inside In the UK I saw a stone A water that kept dropping You know I used to go a lot to the countryside When I was in the UK I used to take some books with me sometimes And I drive outside London And go as far as possible Sometimes I would just drive Not know where I'm heading And then I'll just come to A place where It's just a big mountain Honestly speaking Just countryside I don't know who those people are And I just stand over there And subhanAllah It's just You see I mean, amazement The beauty of Allah Ta'ala So I saw things like that I saw water Just kept dropping on a stone On a rock To the point where it penetrates It actually penetrates It made it black And it made a hole inside And it's happening so often So it keeps It's a very Water Water Light and soft Can actually penetrate through water Through rock Through rock Even let's not go far If somebody cries all the time The mark will start going to their face So But that's It's not once or twice It's like when you cry too much This is what happens to you Yeah Anything you're doing In order to see results It has to be It has to be And the other harm of this concept Of that Either go hard or go home This kind of concept is Normally It results in you Not even Getting on the horse So to say Not even starting that And Often the case And it goes back to burden habits If you really start on something You don't need to Sometimes you think I have to do this for 10 years 15 years 20 years If you do it for 2 or 3 weeks It becomes so easy for you So Allah says In this ayat Those who strive in In our path Those who are striving in our way We guide them to our many paths And there's actually There's actually a question I have for you This particular ayat What do the muhasineen say About this ayat Because we took previously That the Is one And Allah here Is saying to all of us Which is the plural of So how can we now say The plurality is not the path It's the people Every single person Is coming up to this path The people are many But the path is one Those who strive for our path Referring to So the Here is a plural Those who have strived In our sake We will guide them To that path Their path Each person is going to be guided to the path So the plurality is the people Not the path The path is just one And there's a lot of emphasis here as well Right Because if Allah wants here We will guide them But Allah as a Lamb at the start And a Noon with a Shadda Yes So we definitely Definitely definitely guide them Yes So the Noon is Noon Of Tawheed And the Lamb Lamb of Tawheed as well So emphasis More emphasis It's almost like saying We just have Our job is to start making effort Once we start making effort Things become easier So it goes back to The concept of Istiqamah When someone thinks that I have to be steadfast Upon this Deen for As long as I live And praying Waking up Fajr Is hard for me Some people at home Might be watching this thinking I can't ever imagine myself Praying five times a day Consistently Waking up Fajr And never missing it The reality is Just get on the horse Give it a go Try Come back to the verse again The point that you mentioned Which is This verse can be A lot of benefit can be taken from it وَالَّذِينَ جَاهَدُوا فِيهَا So what is required From the person Is the first start of the effort Something has to happen From your side first And that's common in the Quran Allah says إِن تَنْصُرُوا اللَّهَ يَنْصُرُكُمْ وَيُثَبِّتْ عَبَدَيَانَكُمْ فَاذْكُرُونِي أَذْكُرْكُمْ You tend to say You do I'll do this صح إِحْفَظِ اللَّهِ يَحْفَظْكَ The slave is قَعِدَ الجَزَاءُ بِالجِنسِ العَمَلِ Once you show The dedication The determination The hard work The enthusiasm That you're consituous That you're dedicated That you're diligent And you're willing to do this Allah Ta'ala will guide you to that Which is beneficial for you In this world and the hereafter And it brings us to that concept of صَدِّدُوا وَقَارِبُوا Strive to be on that path On that way Remember, it's not about reaching the goal It's about dying on the path The Prophet said in the hadith صَدِّدُوا وَقَارِبُوا The Prophet said Try to be sadan On that right path And get it as close as possible As you can The Prophet said فَإِنَّ وَلَيَّ اَدْخُلَ أَحَدُكُمْ جَنَّةَ بِعَمَلِ No one enters Jannah because of his own actions And the sahabas they said قَالُوا وَلَا أَنتَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ Even you O Messenger of Allah And the Prophet said حَتَّى The Prophet said Even me Even me Even me They said O Messenger of Allah Are you not going to enter Jannah Because of your actions He goes No Why? Because he said إِلَّا يَتَغَمَّدَ لِيَ اللَّهُ بِالرَّحْمَةِ مِنْهُ وَفَوَّلَهُ Unless Allah Ta'ala's mercy and virtue Comes in and helps me and aids me Allah doesn't show me No Your hard work is just a means قُدُخُلُوا جَنَّةً بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ يَوْمٍ It means that your actions Only approves for you But it doesn't mean it's necessary That if you work That you're going to get it So وَالَّذِينَ جَاهَدُوا فِينَا When we strive Allah Ta'ala And we put that on the table Allah has promised us here Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala That he's going to guide us And the more we strive The easier it becomes The more we strive The cleaner our heart becomes Which means that it's easy to do The next good deeds Good deeds breeds good deeds And so if my message to anybody at home Who might be struggling with something right now Thinking something's difficult And thinking this is such a far goal Or I'll never get there Start on the path And Allah will make the rest easy for you Insha'Allah It's true Now the certain word I mentioned Which is استقيموا The Prophet said The Prophet said استقيموا ولا تخسروا Be steadfast You're not going to be able To encompass everything The Prophet said وَعْلَمُوا أَنَّ أَفْضَلَ أَعْمَالِكُمُ الصَّلَاةُ In that same hadith The Prophet spoke about steadfastness Which means in English The Prophet said صلى الله عليه وسلم Be steadfast You're not going to be able To encompass everything Or get everything from it All of its corners You're not وَعْلَمُوا أَنَّ أَفْضَلَ أَعْمَالِكُمُ الصَّلَاةُ The best action that a person can do is prayer Which again You see how all this is connected Remember we said استقامة means لا إله إلا الله So coming with لا إله إلا الله is استقامة And then again استقامة means praying the salah First of all Praying the salah at its right time The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam الْعَهْدُ الَّذِي بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَهُمُ الصَّلَاةُ فَمَنْ تَرَكَهَا فَقَدْ كَفَرُ The covenant between us and them Is the prayer Anyone who leaves it Will be a disbeliever It's dangerous It's a matter of ايمان Kufr It's a matter of what ايمان Kufr Salah determines Your steadfastness Why? Because it's so regular It comes back It comes The prayer comes back It's true Yeah, it's very true That's how Which brings us to the issue of You know Habitual and routine Islam is teaching us Salah comes in You stop what you're doing Go and pray Come back Allah tells us in the Quran فَإِن تَابُوا وَأَقَامُوا الصَّلَاةَ وَآتَوُوا الزَّكَاةَ فَإِخْوَادُكُمْ فِي الدِّينِ وَنُفَصِّلُوا الْآيَاتِ إلى آخر الآية Allah Ta'ala in this verse is telling us فَإِن تَابُوا فَإِن تَابُوا If they repent وَأَقَامُوا الصَّلَاةَ And they establish their prayer وَآتَوُوا الزَّكَاةَ And they give the zakat فَإِخْوَادُكُمْ فِي الدِّينِ They are your brothers Brothers in faith So for them to be our brothers in faith There are two conditions Number one is that they pray Number two is that they give zakat If they don't do that إِذَا فُقِدَ الْمَشْرُوتُ فُقِدَ الشَّرْطُ إِذَا فُقِدَ الْمَشْرُوتُ فُقِدَ الْمَشْرُوتُ Sorry If the condition is missing Then the Iman here is going to be missing, right? As for the zakat There is hadith that has taken out of it External evidence that have proven If a person doesn't pay zakat He is still a Muslim As for the salah Evidence and evidences have proven even more That if you leave the salah You are a disbeliever That's very powerful So You're not steadfast if you're missing prayers If you're praying it late Have you ever thought about the Prophet ﷺ Even when he was dying And he was on his deathbed The last thing he said Was He said the prayer, the prayer, the prayer And that which your right hand possesses Perform the prayer And be attentive to your servants And something that a lot of people take lightly You'll find Like my cultural background For example, in the Pakistani community A lot of people won't pray And you might speak to someone And say, yeah, I don't pay my salah And they'll be like, okay, no problem But if they say, I don't fast For example, like You don't fast in Ramadan? How do you not fast in Ramadan? Which of course is good It's good to react like that But with the prayers It's like you don't react the same way When actually Like you're saying, the prayers Are what makes you a Muslim She even said, right We're at a time, subhanAllah Leaving the salah Is actually a It's an enormity Finding someone who actually prays All five times a day It's actually like No, you're a Muslim That's who you are The matter of salah Is so serious Abdullahi ibn Shaqiq He mentions The sahabah never stood an action Leaving it to be kufr The only action that the sahabah considered Leaving it to be kufr Was the salah And it's seen as an action Now that if someone does it It's like, wow Hadith of the Prophet ﷺ They mentioned That the person who leaves the salah And doesn't pray the salah He'll come Yawm al-Qiyamah He doesn't have no burha No fridja No nothing And he'll be resurrected With Qarun Haman Fir'aun Ubaid ibn Khalif These are salah deen Kufr Kufr Also kufr He's going to be resurrected with them And he's going to be with them Yawm al-Qiyamah So it's a very serious matter When it comes to the concept of salah And praying the salah A brother should not marry a sister Who doesn't pray She's not a Muslim How are you going to marry her? A sister should not marry a brother Who doesn't pray He's not a Muslim Don't say I'm going to teach him When we get married What you're doing at that moment Is you're in a relationship Which is haram You're not married to a Muslim If you're not married to a Muslim You have an intimate relationship With another Muslim A lot of people find this What you're saying now Will be difficult to accept For a lot of people But that's not necessarily Because it's something That is out there Or outrageous or crazy It was there at the time of the salah It's just now That with many generations And years and centuries That have passed We've made it seem like that We've made it seem That it's an extreme opinion But it's not It's out there in the books of the salah Of course it's ikhtinaf And there's a discussion Amongst the scholars You know, the difference of opinion And things like that But this opinion Is a valid one And I have been told By a lot of scholars I agree with you This is... We're at a time When يعني صار المعروف و المنكر و المنكر معروفا The scales went upside down The good has become bad And the bad has become Has become Things have changed And it's not that the sharia Has changed It's because the people Have deviated And gone far from the From the path of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala A point that I want to I feel like In our last episode We kind of Didn't really drive that point home And we didn't really Go in So I really want to go in There are two things that You touched on it There are two things That harm istighfar deeply They deeply harm them And that is the concept of شهوة Desires As a person You have to get control Over your desires You need to control No one's ever going to tell you To not have desires Because that's not That's not That goes into But it's to control It's to have it Under a Under a microscope You keep looking at it Checking on it How is it? What is it? You keep it on a leash It doesn't go and do Whatever it wants The nafs calls you To that which is bad So you have it under control It doesn't just do What it wishes And how it wishes And the way it wants And this is If you look at the world today That we live in Yeah The battle And the fight Is actually on this concept Of desires It's people who say You know Leave me to do what I want Yeah All LGBTQ Is شهوة Desires What else is it? Feminism Is desires يعني Men Abusing their Their Their spouses And egotistic It's all desires It's شهوة What else is it? يعني شهوة It's what's causing All of this harm To a lot of people They just can't Control their desires Whatever their nafs tells them Is that's what they want to do Yeah And the world is built Around that It's built Actually particularly In the western countries It's built around Not just the western countries The internet is everywhere now And the internet as well Is built to just Feed your desires McDonald's here Food here Just It's just all about Desires Desires Desires To know it And if you look at Social media You look at people today They do what he Wants It's like Why do you care That he do what he wants It's his life Or even this concept of You're only gonna live once YOLO Yeah You're only gonna live once What does it mean I'm only gonna live once Does that mean I can do what I want And just open my يعني What distinguishes us From the animals It's true What is that distinguishes The human from the animals It's the animals That when they Feel their desire They do what they want That's why The human beings Okay The عقل And the شهوة Have been given to them both Ibn al-Qayyim says If the شهوة overpowers The عقل The human starts to resemble The animal It becomes like the animal Just like Allah said in the ayah سبحانه وتعالى They are like the cattle Rather they move misguided Than cattle Why? Because the animal Doesn't even know What he's doing is right or wrong This is all he's been given شهوة Desires The lion sees food over there He wants to eat He wants to eat it He wants to As a spouse He can fulfill His desires with it That's the mindset Of the حيوان You are made When the scholars speak About the concept مكلف You're مكلف What does مكلف mean عقل بالغ Sanity So Allowing someone To just follow their desires Unrestricting And say do what you want What does it bring out of the person? It makes the person like the animal And subhanAllah Shaykh That is If you look at this Liberal Ya'di Progressive Muslim mindset That's how it was taking place Which is pushing the Muslims Towards that direction If he wants to If the sister wants to do this Let her do it If the brother wants to do it Let him do it If the father wants to do it Let him do it If the mother wants to do it Let everybody do what they want Freedom Give people their choice You're not going to like this Forgive me in advance It's funny when people say that And they go ahead and do it anyway But part of this series I do want it to be a little bit More relaxed A little bit more personal So I want to bring in a story that Actually you Kind of taught me a lesson already And you actually I benefited from you And that was like I don't know maybe a couple of weeks ago We had some recording to do And I got to the recording destination And you were there already And you said You slept over there You stayed the night there And I said Where did you sleep? There's no beds here You said What do you mean by that? Go into that a little bit more Because that's really That goes into this concept Of controlling the desires You know Tell us what you mean The nafs It wants to do What it wants to do The nafs Is free to do what It feels like it wants It's privileged It's entitled To do what it wants And so what you need to do You need to punish it You need to tell it off You need to control it Your nafs shouldn't have control over you You should have control over it Once that happens You control your nafs You're not only going to be praiseworthy In the world that you live in today Everybody is going to respect And admire you for it And in the eyes of Allah You will be a person who is From the righteous people Look at the saraf When they Would wake up Before the khiyamul layat What did Allah mention The man He's waking up from his bed Leaving his wife Leaving the comfort Going in and doing wudu All of this is a azab for the nafs The nafs doesn't like this The nafs likes a cozy bed It doesn't want to wake up It doesn't want to leave the mattress You don't want to leave your wife Cuddling her Being in that proximity with her You know Being in that nice comfort You want to So the nafs doesn't want that But the mind and the iman Is kicking in This person is pushing themselves Saying no Nafs, I control you Listen, we're going to do this It was transmitted from them That they used to They used to take a stick Used to place it right next to themselves And they would pray And they would pray Until their legs could not hold them anymore They would take the stick And they would hit their sticks And they would say to them You know Do you want Jannah? Are you looking for Jannah? Is that what you want? And Abu Bakr and Umar wanted Jannah as well And they put a lot of hard work into it Does that make sense? Yeah, that's a You know That's a benefit I'm sorry for sharing that But that's a benefit I took from you Because I still don't know where you slept I don't know You know Maimun bin Mehran Was a kateeb to Umar bin Abdulaziz He was a writer for Umar bin Abdulaziz He used to write for him And one day He became blind He became blind He became older So he came to his son And he said I want you to take me to Hassan al-Basri And Hassan al-Basri was Something else Very well known for his eloquence He is very eloquent The way he speaks Hassan al-Basri He is the one who said فَإِن تَخْتَقَتْ بِهِمُ الْبِغَالِ وَأَمْلَجَتْ بِهِمُ الْضَرَابِ فَإِنَّ ذُلَّى الْمَعْصِيَةِ لَا تِفَرِقُوا وَجُوهَا وَقَدَى اللَّهُ إِلَّا يُذِلَّ مَنْ عَاصَابٍ Eloquent speech like that When he talks They said about Hassan al-Basri كَأَنَّمَا ذَهَبَ إِلَى الْآخِرَةِ فَعَيَنَهَا مَرَجَعَ لِيُخْرِرَ الْمَسَرِيسِ It's like he went to the Akhirah He saw what was there He came back to tell the people about it ذَهَبِ مَنْشَزًا لِسِيرَ عَلَى مِنْهُ بَنَاهُ That's how he used to penetrate Whenever he would speak Hassan al-Basri So Maimun ibn al-Mahran Who was a kātib for Umar ibn al-Aziz Umar ibn al-Aziz they said The only people that used to be close to him Were the righteous people Maimun ibn al-Mahran said Take me to Hassan al-Basri Take me, grab me by the hand So he grabbed him by the hand And he walked him Ibn Sa'd mentions this in his Tafakkar And they knocked on the door of Hassan al-Basri The servant of Hassan al-Basri said Who? And then he said Maimun ibn al-Mahran She said You evil sheikh What made you live at this evil time? So he started to cry He's crying and he's weeping Brought out Hassan al-Basri Hassan al-Basri opened the door Come in He came in And he came in He said to him What brought you here Maimun? Why are you here? Go He said I found my heart is hard Again it shows us Subhanallah Do we do that? When we find our hearts Go down We go to the ulama The people of knowledge And say my heart I'm not feeling normal I'm not like I used to be My iman is reduced Do we do that? No, we only go to the doctors If you've got teeth Or if we're feeling a bit sick But iman goes down We don't go to the scholars and the people of knowledge Maimun ibn al-Mahran When he said that to Hassan al-Basri Hassan al-Basri said to him Now he's waiting for Hassan to talk It's the moment He's sitting right in front of Hassan al-Basri The great imam Hassan al-Basri rahimahullah He said Which brings me back to the point That you were asking me before He said Allah said in his verse If we let them enjoy themselves For a short period of time ثُمَّ جَاءَهُمْ And then it comes to them مَا كَانُوا يُعَدُونَ That which they were promised مَا أَغْنَعْ عَنُهُمْ مَا كَانُوا يُبْتَعُونَ That which they used to enjoy Will not benefit them or help them The bed that you sleep on The way you enjoy yourself Will not help you that day When you go to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala It doesn't really matter where I sleep Where I eat, how I eat It doesn't really matter When he read those verses On Maimun ibn al-Mahran He cried so much Until he fainted When he woke up His son grabbed him by the hand Hassan al-Masri said you can go now Three verses only read He grabbed Maimun ibn al-Mahran's son Grabbed his father by the hand And he said dad let's go now Hassan said you can leave now Maimun ibn al-Mahran got up and he was leaving The son said to his father Maimun ibn al-Mahran He said dad Was that Hassan al-Masri? He said yes He said I thought he was going to say something Because Hassan al-Masri Everyone is talking about Is this Hassan al-Masri? He said to my son Wallahi He said words If your heart was alive You would have penetrated it What he just read Speech of Allah He read He penetrated it So this is for me You know Whenever When I came and read this And I came across this Many many other statements You know Umar ibn Abdulaziz he said وَكَيْفَ تَنَامُوا الْعَيْنُ وَهِي قَرِيرَتُهُ وَلَمْ تَجْلِي فِي أَيِّنٍ مِنْ حَلَيْهِ How can someone's eyes go to sleep? And they don't really know where they're going to go Jannah or not Can you really sleep? Like you don't know what What place you're going to be You know From that story you just said This was someone who was Complaining of having a hard heart And when he had that ayat about Allah He's Imam Himself is Imam And then he fainted right? And he fainted Now we Don't faint Or we don't flinch Three verses you said We hear the whole Tarawih Everything we don't cry We don't flinch And we say our heart is good Don't judge me brother It's true Allah you're right Okay I've reached my Destination I'm coming up to it now InshaAllah So we're going to have to stop here But we're going to have Another half an hour today InshaAllah maybe we can finish Istiqam Okay so we're back in the car And I think we can probably finish Our discussion on istiqam On this journey inshaAllah What additional points Did you have to add? There's a lot of things to say About istiqam But there's a powerful statement That shaykh al-islam He said I heard He said I heard something Ibn Taymiyyah is saying He said The greatest form of tala It is to be steadfast upon It is to be upright and steadfast Because shaykh honestly What is it that everybody's looking for? Our youngsters Our youths on the streets We speak to them They say what are you doing on the streets? Honor Fame Reputation Why are people Becoming politicians To be known Leaders Why are people trying to get money Recognition For people to know A lot of it goes back To that concept of Recognition and knowledge Right Even in the 9 to 5 world I remember when I used to work In a corporate company I speak to people They say you know What do you want out of this? I mean it's just a paycheck I didn't care about the company It's just a paycheck I didn't care about the work It's that I want to make it to this position Then I'm happy I want to make it to finance Then I'm Then I know It is And that's why you're Hearing online Shout out What's shout out? Call me out Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah They say that Give me a shout out Give me a shout out, yeah It's because of recognition Someone recognized you People determine you Based on who follows you And who doesn't follow you People are upset You don't follow me online And you recognize me Allah Ta'ala He said in the Quran It brings us back to that What we mentioned in the beginning فَأُمَّا اسْتَقَامُوا تَتَنَزَّلُ عَلَيْهِمُ الْمَلَائِكَةَ أَلَّا تَخَافُوا وَلَا تَحْزَنُوا وَأَبَشِرُوا بِالْجَنَّةِ الَّتِي كُنتُمْ تُوَعَدُونَ نَحْنُ أُولِيَاءُكُمْ فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا وَفِي الْآخِرَةِ Yani You are going to receive In this world Happiness Joy while you're alive The minute you're departing from this world And the angels are taking your soul فَلَا خُفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا خُنْحْزَنُوا أُولَئِكَ أَصْحَابُ الْجَنَّةِ خَالِدِينَ فِيهَا جَزَاءٌ بِمَا كَانْ يَعْمَلُونَ No sadness No pain No sorrow So my advice to My brothers and sisters who are out there Who يعني Want to Inshallah Ta'ala Receive the best of this world فَإِمَّا يَأْتِيَنَّكُمْ مِّنِّي هُدَىٰ فَمَنْ تَبِعَ هُدَايَ فَلَا يَضِلُّ وَلَا يَشْقَى وَمَنْ أَعْرَضَ عَلْ ذِكْرِ فَإِنَّ لَهُ مَحِيشَةً ضَنْكَ وَنَحْشُرُهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ أَعْمَى قَالَ رَبِّي مَا حَشَرْتَنِي أَعْمَى وَقَدْ كُنتُ مَصِيرًا قَالَ كَذَلِكَ أَتَذْكَى آيَاتُكَ فَنَسِيتَهَا وَكَذَلِكَ الْيَوْمَةُ مِنْ سَلَامٍ Those who turn away from the remembrance of Allah They don't want to be upright They do not want to be steadfast The day of judgment, what will be said to them is Well, they're going to become blind, dumb and deaf to the day of judgment And they will say قَالَ رَبِّي مَا حَشَرْتَنِي أَعْمَى وَقَدْ كُنتُ مَصِيرًا First they're going to live hayat, bunk, a hard life in this world And the day of their judgment they're going to become blind Do you know why blind child? Why blind? The hearts become blind in this world? Because exactly They saw the truth, they didn't follow it They heard the truth, they didn't follow it As Allah said وَلْمُقَلِّبُ أَفْقِلَتَهُمْ وَصَارَهُمْ كَمَا لَمْ يُؤْمِنُوا بِهِ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةً وَنَذَرُونَ فِي قُلَالِنَّعْمَهُمْ When the truth first came to them What did they do? They refused to follow it They ignored it Allah says فَلَمَّا زَاغُوا أَزَاغَ اللَّهُ قُرُوبَهُمْ So, being steadfast and upright in this world Brings you happiness in this world first And in the hereafter It brings you The ultimate happiness Which is You're going to be with the أَهْلُ الْإِسْتِقَامَةِ You're going to be with the people أَهْلُ الْإِسْتِقَامَةِ You're going to be with those people You're going to be in their companionship جَعَلَ إِلَّهُ إِيَّاكُمْ May Allah make us May Allah make us from those people What do you have to say now? Yeah, no, not for long to be honest with you I think, you know, we've covered the topic a lot It is a comprehensive topic Not all of these episodes will be this long Some of them might be shorter Some of them might even be longer The purpose of it is to just have a relaxed conversation Without any limits Let's just see how we go That's it You're good with استقامة I think? أَهْلُ الْإِسْتِقَامَةِ So next time then I'm going to put you a bit on the spot Do you have a topic? Or do you want to talk about it afterwards? Do you have a topic that comes to your mind? Do you have a few topics that you think Are good for these kind of car journeys? Because obviously it's the first time People are seeing it So we just want to keep Keep them engaged And let them know what's coming next Inshallah It'll be nice Because the topic is called عَبْلِ السَّبِيلِ Yeah It'll be nice to talk about the hadith كُنْ فِي الدُّنْيَا كَأَنَّكَ غَرِيبٌ Or عَبْلِ السَّبِيلِ The hadith of Allah SWT Which is like the reality of this dunya And how the dunya is It'll be nice to talk about it And how Abdullah ibn Umar understood that hadith إِذَا أَمْسَيْتَ فَلَا تَنْتَظِرِ الصَّبَاحِ وَإِذَا أَصْبَحْتَ فَلَا تَنْتَظِرِ الْمَسَاءِ وَقُدْ مِنْ سِحَاتِكَ لِمَرَضِكَ وَمِنْ حَيَاتِكَ لِمَوْتِكَ How Abdullah ibn Umar understood from that hadith When the Prophet said to him Be in this world like a stranger Or a person who is a traveler He took from that straight away That this dunya If evening comes, don't wait for the morning And if the morning comes, don't wait for the evening And benefit from your health while you have it Before illness strikes you And benefit from your life before death comes to you So that hadith in more details, more explanation Talking about the reality of this world And how Allah talks about it in the Quran And the hadiths bringing it And how the Prophet lived in this world And how he looked at it Yeah, that definitely is coming Either next or it's going to be coming in the series InshaAllah Ustadh, Jazakum Khair For accompanying me on these journeys I've benefited a lot, MashaAllah Jazakum Khair
