I wanted to summarize all of the positions or all of the questions about Shawwal. And of course the basis of that is the Hadith of the Prophet (pbuh), He said that whoever fasts in Ramadan and then follows up Ramadan with six days from Shawwal, it is as if they have fasted an entire lifetime to it.
If you feel like it’s going to be tough and you might miss out on the six days of Shawwal, if you try to make up the days, especially if there are a lot of days, then make the priority in sha Allah to fast the six days first and then make up those days afterwards ‘Allah’s will’ up until Shaban of the next year.
We must be thankful to Allah (swt) Almighty for accepting us to be from among those who worship Him alone. We should always look into our acts of worship and purify them for the sake of Allah alone.
If you come out of Ramadan and your Salah has improved, you have succeeded. If you come out of Ramadan and you have a new love for Salah, you have succeeded.
Young people don’t realize true success is when Allah loves you to pray for Him because Allah puts it in the heart.
You want to succeed? Success is depicted by how you fulfill your Salah.
You can have the millions and the billions and maybe in this worldly life you have everything, luxury. It is nothing in the eyes of Allah.
Allahu Akbar, If Allah helps you to get up early for SalatAlFajr, to make wudu and to come and fulfill your two sunnah.. It is better for you than the whole Dunya and whatever it has, this whole world and whatever it has.
It is time to purify our heart. The diseases of the hearts are plenty. The heart is the seat of government of your entire body.
The Hadith says, In your body there is a piece of flesh. If it is pure, the body is pure. If it is dirty, the body is dirty.
We all suffer at some point or another, heartbreak or things do not go exactly as we had planned.
Allah says those whom, when calamity strikes them or something negative strikes them.
Allah also speaks about testing us by not giving us things that we desperately want. Sometimes you desperately want something and Allah wants to delay it a little bit, but you want it urgently. Sometimes Allah doesn’t want to give you something you desperately want. And sometimes there is a huge barrier between you and something and Allah wants to give it to you. Allah will give it to you. And if there is no barrier between you and something and Allah does not want to give it to you, it’s not going to happen.
So we need to attach with Allah and to Allah. You must realize Allah does one of a few things. He either grants you what you want later on, or He replaces what He has taken away from you with something far better than that.
This worldly life is temporary. So for us to think that we will have permanent solution to our problems, that’s not possible. The only permanent solution is when you get paradise.
You just need to know how to navigate, Number one, through your crisis. Number two is to call out to Allah, who is the owner of the heart of that child as well.
What do you think the universe is? Do you think it existed by itself? Anything that begins to exist must have a cause.
The question right now is whether the universe is contingent on the cause or is it self-sufficient and- Self-existing?
We believe that God did not begin to exist. We believe God is self-sufficient, eternal, immortal, all-knowing, all-powerful. These are the attributes of God, what defines Him as God.
The necessary being is never dependent whereas the contingent being is always dependent.
If something that doesn’t even exist, how can it bring about something that does exist like the universe?
The only alternative is something. It cannot be nothing.
What comes down on Laylatul Qadr is everything that will happen of that year in terms of the recording of your sustenance, what you’re going to gain that year, your rizq, your sustenance is decreed. What will happen in terms of your lifespan, the events of the year that will come?
Ibn Abbas (ra) says that on that night (Laylatul Qadr), who’s going to pass away that year comes down.
That’s why, as you are in the end of Ramadan, one of the most blessed things
We’re not a people who make dua for long lives just for the sake of living long. We are people who make dua for Allah to take us from this life when it is best for us, when we’re in the best state of Imam /faith.
Because there is no rizq that will be decreed that is more precious than a good ending.
we say, oh, Allah, take me away when you are pleased with me.
There are two scenes on Laylatul Qadr that are profound and engage the Angels in a way that they are not engaged at any other time of the year.
The first scene is the scene of hope, the scene of traffic where you literally have Angels transferring between the heavens and the Earth, descending upon the various Masajid, descending upon the various homes, descending upon every individual that is engaged in a state of dhikr, in the state of the remembrance of Allah and taking those names back up to Allah.
As Ibn Kathir (rah) says, what comes down on that night is everything that will happen of that year in terms of the recording of your sustenance, what you’re going to gain that year. So as you’re doing your accounting for the year and you’re making all sorts of your strategic decisions of what you want to earn that year, just as Allah decrees, every drop of rain that will fall, Allah on that night decrees every single Penny that will go into your account, your rizq, your sustenance is decreed. What will happen in terms of your lifespan, the events of the year that will come.
Mostly people think others have more money than they actually have. But anyway, what is of greater interest is people want the money for themselves.
Allah Almighty says that certain things have been beautified for man as a test. So money is one of them.
There is no point in having wealth that comes without blessing. There is no point of having so much when it comes with you having lost your connection with the Almighty or no happiness, no contentment, no good health.
So how would we be able to earn wealth and sustenance and at the same time ensure that it’s coming with the blessings of the Almighty?
Point number one: Your five daily prayers and bear patience upon it.
The second thing you need and lots of contentment and goodness and happiness and even multiplication in wealth, you must ensure that you seek the forgiveness of Allah on a daily basis.
And the last point I want to make mention of if you would like Baraka and Blessings, my brothers and sisters, ensure that your character and conduct is amazing. Don’t hurt a soul.
Worship Allah alone and remember to treat everyone else with utmost respect.
There isn’t anything on planet Earth that requires more attention and polishing and purifying and curing than the condition of the human heart.
The first Prophethood was heralded with open heart surgery. So Prophet would began with the purification of the heart from a physical perspective, this is why this topic is so serious.
The receptor of Islamic admonition is the heart. The receiver what receives the Islamic reminder, whether Quran or Hadith, or a Friday sermon or a lecture like this, what is receiving it primarily is your heart not your ears, not any other sensory faculty that you have.
The analogy of the human heart and how it behaves to revelation.
The motivator towards the doing of good deed is the heart. The practitioners of Islam, those who practice their religion, they do so because of their hearts that encourages them.
The prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said, there is a limb in the body. If it is sound, the rest of the body will be sound. If it is corrupt, the rest of the body will be corrupt.
The place where fitnah is presented to is the human heart.
The home of happiness is the heart. If you leave your heart unattended, watch how happiness will vanish. And the opposite is true. Give your heart the attention it deserves. And watch how Allah will bring happiness back into your life
Imam Ibn Qayyim (Rah) said, who should be written with ink of gold or something more precious than the ink of gold, like the tears of the righteous believer that he sheds for the sake of his Lord.
He said, but in the human heart there is a sense of scattering that can only be gathered by returning back to Allah. And in the human heart there is a sense of loneliness that can only be erased by finding companionship with Allah.
And in the human heart, there is a sense of fear and anxiety that can only be removed by fleeing back to Allah. And in the heart there is a sense of regret that can only be extinguished by being content with Allah.
The greatest of all deeds, they are the deeds of the heart. in the absence of certain internal acts of worship in the heart that are absent, all of it will be in vain.
The center of attention on the Day of Judgment will be the human heart.
We muslims, We believe in one God. We believe that God is independent. That God is self-sufficient that God created everything. This God doesn’t need help. He is the owner of everything.
So the problem is here, to making the evolution; you need to make the mutation of a cell (DNA)
My question is, if you need the DNA to making the evolution, how does the DNA come? And the mutation you spoke about, this mutation cannot be happen exact time in exact way, in exact time for everyone.
You do not believe God for what? Because it is a belief, but you are believing many things which is against the science.
We believe that there is an intelligent Creator who makes everyone in a very, very nice way, in a certain way, Who makes every human being, and this God, what we believe this God is one,
So, the problem is if you die without believing God, and God exists, you have to get the punishment.
The All-Loving 