 رحمان الرحيم ربشرح لي صدري ويسر لي أمر وحل العقدة من لساني يفقه قولي بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا وحبيب قلوبنا وشفيع نفوسنا أبل قاسم محمد وعلى أهل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين المعصومين لاسيما بقية الله روحي وأرواح العالمين لتراب مقدمه الفداء أما بعد رسبكتد سكولرز ألدز بلدز وستز أسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته شاء الله for tonight's topic as very brief as we minimize the time as we get closer to it إن شاء الله in portraying the lectures and portraying the thoughts of Ahl al-Bayt the teachings of Ahl al-Bayt I chose to talk tonight about a very important topic in reference to the holy month of Ramadan and in which we can grasp its essence and its most blessed rewards in the month of Ramadan in which is the faculty of dua the faculty of if you want to have another name for its Salat because Salat in itself is a root word which we can derive from a dua being made now insha'Allah tonight and tomorrow night we'll be discussing this and tonight we'll be discussing three main aspects the first in which we look at the holy Quran in reference to Zakaria what did he make dua for? what were the conditions in which he made his dua and with the Allah سبحانه وتعالى bless him with the second we'd like to look at an example in history about a particular person and dua and then we conclude tonight by looking at the concept in itself in a more depth and insha'Allah tomorrow we'll break it off by looking at dua in more detail first and foremost tomorrow we'll look at dua and what are the conditions of dua tomorrow we'll look at dua and what are the main aspects in which dua is not accepted what are the veils? what are the actions that we do that may veil dua that's not even getting out of this particular room let alone get going up towards the skies and being accepted and especially in this particular month of worship especially in this particular month in which Allah سبحانه وتعالى شاوز his blessings on us so it's very important to look at the pit holes in which some people may fall into when making dua the things that we may overlook when making dua and hopefully we overlooked these mistakes and tried to fix them within ourselves I'll just speak about myself first and foremost insha'Allah and therefore when concluding after these two nights we'll make sure to ourselves that when we do make dua we've already taken care of all the prerequisites and insha'Allah our duads will be accepted now I'm saying that please help me in starting the two-day topic of dua with Allah and Salawat على محمد وقال محمد علي ابنة أبي طالب عليه أفضل الصلاة والسلام is asked about dua and in instances we find ourselves in a loophole in which once we make dua to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and we're granted it straight away other times we make dua and dua and dua however we find that Allah سبحانه وتعالى doesn't provide that particular dua that we want now we're going to look at this more depth tomorrow insha'Allah but علي ابنة أبي طالب has a beautiful statement he says when you make dua when you ask from the Almighty Allah سبحانه وتعالى make sure you keep knocking his door because the more you knock the more likely for Allah سبحانه وتعالى to open that door and allow you to come in or grant you that which you wish so Allah سبحانه وتعالى from that hadith we can derive and in other hadith that we can derive that Allah سبحانه وتعالى loves when his servant repetitively asks him repetitively shows Allah سبحانه وتعالى that he is in need of him he shows Allah that he is the one that he goes to when he is in need he doesn't go to any tomtick and harry to ask he asks first and foremost from Allah سبحانه وتعالى and that's very important when looking at the concept of dua the concept of needing Allah سبحانه وتعالى now if we go amongst this particular room every single person no one can come forth and say I have no problem whatsoever they can't say I have not one issue that I may need any assistance in if we go amongst this room you'll find to ourselves that each and every one of us if we were asked what do we need assistance with what do we need Allah for what aspect of our lives do we need to make dua for Allah to accept you'll find each and every individual in this room will have something different whether it be a financial problem that they face whether it be a concept of marital status whether it be a spouse whether it be an offspring you find to ourselves that there are some things that are very materialistic in this world however we find it in the utmost perspective we find that it has a large significance in our life and it may be of a spiritual perspective in which we seek nearness to Allah سبحانه وتعالى we seek guidance so each and every individual throughout this room we find ourselves that what we need Allah سبحانه وتعالى to answer one of the prayers or the other and it's not only down to one particular aspect that we need from Allah there's every single thing in our life we need from Allah سبحانه وتعالى and we need to prostrate to Allah and make dua and you got to remember inshallah we're going more depth tomorrow that if Allah سبحانه وتعالى and this is a very important aspect that we'll elaborate on tomorrow so if Allah سبحانه وتعالى doesn't grant you that which you wish it's not that Allah سبحانه وتعالى doesn't want to grant it but Allah might have knowledge that that particular thing that you want may have a negative impact on you I think there was one person as the story goes there was one person that was very rich and he keeps doing dua to Allah سبحانه وتعالى that Allah can you please guide me to your path oh Allah make sure that you make me steadfast on your path and he begins to pray وعليكم السلام ورحمة الله he begins to pray and pray and gain closeness towards Allah سبحانه وتعالى and fast and give charity and then he reached a state in which he was absolute poverty from a state of rich from a status in the community from wealth beyond measure he chose to gain closeness to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and Allah to him he thought to himself well I've become religious and all of a sudden Allah سبحانه وتعالى has taken everything away from me he goes to a particular wise man he goes to a man of wisdom he says look at what I've done I've gone I've tried to get close to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and Allah has taken away everything Allah سبحانه وتعالى has taken all my wealth has taken all my business has left me with nothing and the wise man said one thing and the person began to think to himself he says how do you know that which Allah has taken away is not haram how do you know these wealth that Allah has provided for you when you were in disbelief wasn't haram wealth that thing when Allah سبحانه وتعالى wants to cleanse wants to take away in which we think of it as taking away and ridiculing us or taking away from us Allah سبحانه وتعالى may have a different image may have a different knowledge than we do and 100% he does maybe that wealth he said to the man maybe that wealth wasn't Halal source it was haram and Allah wanted to cleanse you the man begins to think himself or maybe Allah سبحانه وتعالى had that idea for me the simple person I think to myself at face value this is wrong this is right but remember what we said about the story of Musa Allah knows best Allah knows this may be good for you this may not be good for you when Allah doesn't grant us that which we wish now when He grants it in a couple of months time I speak on my self perspective وعليكم السلام ورحمة الله on a personal perspective I had one of my close friends he applied for a job after university for months on end and there was one particular job that he loved that he wanted to get and he put every effort to go on towards and he made do he made everything and Allah سبحانه وتعالى gave that job to a different person even though one of my good friends was the more qualified person and this person begins to think to himself well I've done everything Allah hasn't provided but he was a religious he was a man of religion he says maybe Allah knows best two months after that he gets another job offer without even working hard without even applying it was through a mutual friend and he got a particular job he measured the jobs he said that job that I wanted a lot of travel I wouldn't have spent time with the family it would have been very hard for me to wake up in those early mornings and come back the time period was very hard he said the job I'm offered now after two months is a lot easier the time is better I'm closer to home he says I wanted this from Allah سبحانه وتعالى but Allah had a different plan for me Allah knew who wanted to test me within these two months in which when I get this particular job he thinks and he knows that it will be more beneficial for me therefore don't think to ourselves and we will elaborate on it tomorrow when we make dua that Allah is not listening Allah is listening but they may be none the first level sins they may be actions that we've done actions we've committed that veil this dua from going to Allah and we'll discuss it tomorrow they may be actions that Allah سبحانه وتعالى knows better than us and of course he knows better that we only have face value and there's conditions in making dua and there's the jaba of dua insha'Allah we'll elaborate on it but tonight I want to give you an example and the examples from the Quran because it shows us in the Quran it does not matter how impossible a particular aspect is it's very much very possible to the Lord of the Creation the person who Allah in which he created the cause and effect he's not ruled by it if we think to ourselves in Ibrahim's case he says to Allah I want you to grant me a successor that inherents me Ibrahim how old was he he was in an old age in which he says my bones are beginning to wither and my hair is beginning to become white he says Allah can you grant me and he says my wife he says to Allah he says my wife has reached an old age and she's not able to give birth or even become pregnant but he does not stop Ibrahim he says please oh Allah I pray to you and you've never you've never rejected my prayers my dua you've never rejected them before he says therefore I still pray Allah he says oh Allah will you not grant me this for us it's impossible nowadays can you imagine a 90 year old 90 plus year old having a child in a normal perspective Ibrahim shows us that there's nothing impossible for Allah SWT and he grants him it's a beautiful story in the Quran in which we can learn from the door of Allah SWT it's never closed it's the widest door you can enter from there's a there's a particular book written a particular book which is a translation of the Holy Quran if I'm not mistaken it was علامة طبراسي that wrote this particular translation of the Holy Quran but if we look at the back story how the علامة wrote this particular book you'll begin to realize there's absolutely nothing that's impossible because there's one thing look at the Quran but there's other aspect in which you look at modern say societies and thinking to ourselves wow this story because this story when I read it it struck a chord within me and I end on this Insha'Allah within the time it's for tonight this علامة back in his time he didn't have the instruments the medical expertise but there was this this particular medical condition in which and if anyone's seen insha'Allah homes they can look into this particular medical condition and you find ourselves that the pulse the heart pulse reached such a stage in which it differentiates from the beat to beat that people may think that you are dead however the person's still alive he's immobile he can't move but because the heart beat is so lengthy between one heart beat to the other they think that the person is dead they didn't have the equipment back then they didn't have the medical expertise in which to say that this person is alive or not or feel his pulse straight away they thought to themselves you know what this person is already dead now the علامة the notion says he wasn't in his essence in which he was able to speak or say anything or move he was in sort of a coma so therefore they thought he was dead they wrapped him up in a shroud they washed him they prayed janaza and they buried him look at this aspect imagine being buried six feet under the sand on top of you the dust on top of you six feet under the ground and you wake up imagine because nowadays remember brothers we're all going to be six feet under when we wake up and be asked what did you do in your life we're going to be asked علامة at the time he was alive he wakes up in that state now we think to ourselves imagine the darkness the lack of air in that hole he's trying to struggle to go towards the surface he can't because it's already compacted imagine that's death in itself the علامة says to Allah SWT there's no one there anymore there's no one that can assist him who can assist him Allah SWT so he prays to Allah he says oh Allah if you bring me out of this predicament I make another that I will ensure that I write a translation of your holy book just get me out of this place Subhan Allah and Allah works in mysterious ways back then and up until now there's many people that we know that dig up the graves and steal the coffins at that time Allah willed that that person digs up that grave and he's digging and digging and the علامة says if I make a sound if I scream out that help me he's gonna stop he's gonna freak out he's gonna think that someone dead talking to me from the grave and he's gonna run away so he says I try to stay as still as I can and he's digging and digging until he sees the coffin so you can imagine that grave they go after that that grave that grave they go after that particular moment never ever dug a grave again he imagine he's up to the grave and he's about to take the shroud and a hand comes and grabs him he's gone but at the same time what the علامة is free the علامة gets out of the grave and that's why when he's asked what inspired you he says that moment when I had no one except Allah Subhanahu و تعالى and I made my dua and I made my nether and I made sure that I stuck to the word that I gave Allah Subhanahu و تعالى I end on this brothers and sisters it's just an analogy to give us the perspective that does not matter what kind of predicament you're in can you imagine being more of a predicament than this than the علامة six feet under no one to assist no one to aid him Ibrahim didn't have a child in his old age never in your aspect have the condition that you say to yourself that Allah will not help me Allah cannot do this والأياذ بالله Allah just says to the thing be and it be كون فيا كون he just has to say that he has to think that and if you reach that rank Allah says if you worship me like I have told you I will allow you to say to the thing be and it will be so imagine that perspective brothers and sisters and inshallah we'll continue this tomorrow night in which we will delve into more detail of the conditions of دعاء but on this perspective إن شاء الله we pray to Allah that he accepts our دعاء he removes the veils in which veil the blessings of the دعاء the blessings of the بركات of محمد وآل محمد