 I'm strategic enough. I'm rich enough. I don't need to ask for more money for money. I have enough I don't need to ask for more success. I have enough. I don't need to ask for more health I have enough. I don't need to ask for more this. I have enough I'm if I'm working on a project. I I prepared so well that I don't need to ask But we learned from our prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam That you know, he was promised to win the battle of bedir. He was promised to win But he stayed up all night asking And he asked in such a way that he'd raise his arms that his cloak would fall off and say never back it would put it back up Why? Because adduha is the essence of worship. Why? Because it shows our neediness It shows we need you, ya Allah. I Need you, ya Allah. I can't do this alone. I'm desperate. I'm broken. I need you, ya Allah That's what's evidenced by asking when we ask for someone from someone. We're showing that we have a need Fakir faqir is needy. That's why Allah's ghani. He has no needs and as mughni the fulfiller of needs So we ask him and we continue asking him We continue asking him for whatever it is that we need We ask and we ask and we ask and Allah's and you're so lucky think about this You get to talk To the creator of the universe You get to talk To the creator of the universe you get to talk to him you get to talk To the Lord of the worlds you get to talk to the most powerful Al-Qawwi you get to talk to the beginningless and never-ending Who am I to talk to Allah the one who who has sins and makes mistakes and who has arrogance Who am I to talk to him and he listens to me and he listens to me He's not too busy for me Subhanallah jalla jalaluh I can talk to the Lord of the worlds the creator Who am I and so we enjoy That sweetness that closeness that intimacy that proximity because every moment that you ever existed Allah was near to you But were you near to him Every moment Allah was with you were you with him? Every moment Allah was remembering you were you remembering him? Every moment and he's so near that you can whisper in your heart and enjoy That conversation with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and it's very important It's very important and even in the prayer we say samyah allahu liman hamidah Allah hears and so we have to We have to strive to feel Allah is hearing me in this moment And when we feel that Allah is hearing us then we can feel Allah is near My lord is near and he responds he answers the call of the one who calls him And the idea is he's our number one our number one if I can use the word number one teammate Jalla Jalaluh in a manner that's respectful to Allah and respectable, but He's on our team He's with you wherever you are. He's with any group no matter the quantity But are we turning to him? He's with you wherever you are. He's with any group no matter the quantity Are we turning to him? Are you using? Are you benefiting from that asset? Do you have? Are you calling Allah? Am I calling? Are we calling Allah as an ummah? I You will be answered so long as you're not hasty so the sahaba responded with two questions One sahabi one companion asked And so sallallahu alayhi sallam responded he said so long as you don't say I prayed and I prayed and I didn't find I found I didn't find any answer So why should I keep praying? And the other sahaba said asked If that's the case that I'm going to be answered either an uqtir then I'm going to make a lot of duha I'm going to make a lot and make uqtir uqtir. I'm going to do kateer and sallallahu alayhi sallam responded. He said Allah is even more no matter how much you make Allah is even more Allah's generous Allah's the generous Right and in the in the very important wisdom from ibn ataa illa he says If you're making a lot of duha And the gift is delayed Don't despair because acceptance is guaranteed in the way he chooses not in the way you choose And in the timing he chooses not in the timing you choose And three things happen when we make duha one of three things either the duha is accepted at a timing Allah wants in this life Secondly the duha is exchanged For preventing a tribulation a difficulty that's coming down Because we know the duha goes up the calamity is coming down and then they meet and they wrestle And the duha will wrestle With the calamity and prevent it from coming down And the third thing Allah Saves the duha for you until the day of judgment So one of those three things happened and so we're not going to be like that person that says qadda hautu qadda hautu walam ara an yas tajib Ali I prayed and I prayed and I don't find any answer We will continue to demonstrate our desperation to Allah With whatever it is and use Allah and and and lean on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala In a manner that's appropriate and befitting and with adab And ask Allah and Allah says ask and I will give and at night Allah says who's asking me so I may give him Who's calling me so I may answer him who's seeking my forgiveness so I may forgive him This summer I was with a man who was 370 pounds 370 pounds and then in 10 months he lost the 170 pounds I told him how'd you do that? And so he started to tell me he said well I hired this trainer and he took my blood tests and he gave me all these This nutrition Regimen and he gave me all this exercise and I walked and then I and then I started exercising and mashallah He looks very healthy and he started working out and he looks beautiful mashallah And then after he took we talked for like 30 minutes and then he's like but you know what Can I tell you the truth? You know I was like, okay, sure. Tell me the truth. What is that? He's like the truth is Last Ramadan I asked I begged God for three things I begged him to help me lose weight I begged him to help my wife's immigration papers to work because they haven't worked for about four years And I begged him to help my wife and I get pregnant He said after Ramadan all of a sudden I had this decision that I'm going to lose weight And I for the first time in my life. He's in his like He's a grown man the first time in my life. I'm everything first time in my life he's like And we went to we went to the to the doctor to the to the to get medical assistance to get pregnant And when we went there they came and told us good news. You're already two weeks pregnant And then my wife's papers and immigration after so many years. They finally worked out. He's like so the truth is It's all Allah It was all duha and Allah answered my duha Of course, we take that we take the meat and we take the means with our limbs But our heart is with Allah and also this summer. I was with someone who was married about 16 years and never got pregnant and they Tried the medical assistance to get pregnant and didn't get pregnant All of a sudden. Alhamdulillah. Masha'Allah la quwwata illa billah. She's pregnant He said what happened? What happened? What'd you do? She said Honestly, my sector duha I just gripped duha And we got pregnant Everything medical failed And so we come back to us We come back to us. Are we leveraging this gift of duha? Where we are calling Allah Are we asking Allah If you want your child to be something specific, are you asking Allah or are you just relying on your own strategies? Am I just relying on my own strategies because i'm so sophisticated and intelligent and strategic and smart And so we turn to Allah and we ask him We ask him and we ask him and we ask him because la hawla wa la quwwata illa billah Can't do anything without him Right, so we add this ingredient to our worship regimen. It is calling Allah So we have prayer and we have fasting. We have zikr and we have pilgrimage and we have honoring parents and obeying parents But now we ask calling of law Calling Allah begging Allah talking to Allah and the special times are after the farad prayer The special times are when we're in sujood with our face on the ground special times are at night Before fejr call Allah if you have a need call him call him call him and continue calling Continue calling and enjoy that closeness and enjoy that Intimacy and that brokenness and know that the lord of the world is listening to me Wow, how amazing is he? How amazing is he subhanallah Alhamdulillah Oh, Allah. Oh, Allah. Thank you for the gift of Islam. Thank you for the gift of our prophet Muhammad He's a gift to humanity. He is our role model. He is our teacher He is he is our superhero. Let us live like him. Let us emulate him and copy him. Let us love him Let us mention his name on our lips and our tongue and let us fill our home with his mention And let us copy him so we can have beautiful muhammad in character Ya Allah help us enjoy islam and the sweetness of islam Help us honor our parents and obey our parents and protect our children. Ya Allah Ya Allah and protect our children. Ya Allah. Let us let us enjoy calling your name Ya Allah and bring us closer to you. Ya Allah gently Bring us closer to you gently. Ya Allah and when we reunite with you in the next life Let it be a moment of joy. Ya Allah not a moment of regret. Ya Allah Let it be a moment of happiness and celebration not a moment of remorse. Ya Allah Ya Allah, you are our lord. You are our maker. You are our creator. You are our designer We live for you. We breathe for you. We walk for you. We give for you. We love for you. We hate for you We only get angry for you. We're silent for you. We speak for you. Ya Allah we dress for you We use our ears for you. We use our eyes for you. We use our tongue only for you. Ya Allah Ya Allah help us live for you Ya Allah. Ya Allah let this life give us goodness in this life Goodness in the next life and protect us from the hellfire. The hellfire is real and heaven is real Ya Allah, we ask you for gentleness. Ya Allah, don't let us be hypnotized Hypnotized by this world hypnotized by shaytan hypnotized by delusions. Ya Allah help us wake up Help us help islam wake us up and the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam wake us up So we can be close to you so we can obey you so we can surrender to you Willingly and voluntarily. Ya Allah wake us up gently. Ya Allah wake us up gently. Ya Allah Ya Allah Make us lovable to you Ya Allah Make us lovable to you Ya Allah Ya Allah, Ya Allah, Ya Allah, Ya Allah and give us the ability to respect our elders and honor our elders and give Give our elders their rights and to have mercy and gentleness to our to our young Ya Allah Ya Allah we ask you for everything good that our dear prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam asked for We seek protection from every harm that he sought protection from