 We begin by praising Allah We thank Allah and Then we remind ourselves. We weren't made for this world and we warn ourselves That we are returning to Allah my brothers and sisters Every day if we pray the bare minimum 17 raka'as per day Two raka'as for Fajr, four for Dhuhr, four for Asr, three for Maghrib and four for Aisha'a We say one word 153 times 153 times we say Subhana Rabbi What does it mean? If we say three times in Ruku'a and three times in Sujood Three times while we're bowing and three times in each prostration That's nine times in each raka'a 17 times 9 is 153 Subhana Rabbi And if we've been praying for one year or five years or 40 years We've said it hundreds of thousands of times. What does Rabbi mean? Who is our Rabb? What does Rabb mean? What is this word that we say a hundred fifty three times a day? What does it mean? Do we feel it? Do we know it? Do we connect with it? Do we understand it? Why is it that the first verse revealed to our beloved leader and teacher Prophet Muhammad? Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Ba'da A'udhu Billahi Minash-Shaytanir-Rajim when he was in the cave of Hira'a Jabal al-Noor on the mountain of light and Sayyidina Jibreel Gabriel came to him and he said read in the name of Iqra'a Bismi Rabbika The first verse Revealed in the Quran is Rabbika your Rabb Who is our? What does Rabb mean? What does Rabb mean? When we're saying a hundred fifty three times subhanah rabbi We're saying subhanah Glorious is transcendent is amazing is who? Rob Who's the glorious one? Who's the amazing one? Who's the transcendent one? Rob What does Rob mean and? Why is that the word? That our fiqh our religion our God designed and chose that we say Even more than the name Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala la hudul jalal Why do we say Rob more and so the goal is in the next few minutes? It's a short Khutba today. It's a short reminder today That when we leave today, we know what the word Rob means And so the next time we say I know what Rob means and you know what? maybe I can Hang on that on that bat has a Shadda Robbie it's a double bat Robbie and maybe I can hang on it because it's a letter to be hung upon with two bats But Robbie and I can feel it and so the idea of Rob Has three components The meaning of Rob subhanahu wa ta'ala our Rob It's often translated as Lord Lord, but that doesn't mean much to us. We don't use that word in our vocabulary in our lingo What does Rob mean and what does Lord mean? I? Don't I don't use that word in my whole life with my kids. No one uses Lord How is it gonna resonate with my heart? How is it gonna clean me? How is Salah gonna wake me up? And so Rob? the three ideas in the Rob number one my owner Number two the one who Cares for me and number three the one who grows me Owns me grows me Cares for me Subhanah Robbie my owner They say that We're taught that the number one reason why we worship Allah is because he deserves to be worshiped Number two gratitude Allah deserves to be worshiped so if we can think about this glorious is my owner I have an owner I don't own myself own myself someone owns me Someone owns me someone owns my time someone owns my money someone owns my body someone owns my eyes. I Don't own them. I Manage them. I Have the responsibility to manage them. You're all shepherds and responsible for your Flock and that's a man with his household a woman with her household the children and a person with their limbs We manage them. Allah owns them So we say Subhanah Robbie my owner and I think I have an owner then Salah prayer that moment prayer can be Can be an awakening? Prayer can be something that Resonates that our heart moves because Subhanah Robbie and the second meaning the one who Cares for me the one who takes care of me. He's been taking care of me From the day I was born before I was born He took care of me with all these things I'm not independent. Kalla. Inna insana la yataqa arra'ahu staghna Indeed man went out of bounds when he thought he was independent Independent of God independent of your rub independent of our rub. I Have a lot of money in my 401k. I don't need anyone. I Have a lot of muscles and I'm healthy. I don't need anyone. We're desperate and vulnerable and broken in every moment to our rub He takes care of us. He takes care of our children. He takes care of our health. He takes care of our families He takes care of our of our careers. He takes care of everything and then when something good happens We take credit when something bad happens. We blame everyone else When the hadid in the 40 Imam know we hadid When wajadda khayran, faly Ahmadillah When wajadda khayr adalik fala yalu mana illa nafsah. When you find good Give credit to Allah praise Allah. And when you find anything else, don't blame anyone except yourself Allah is the one who takes care of us and takes care of me and takes care of all of this stuff And so we say You're amazing, 153 times minimum. And if we pray sunnah or dhuha, or witter, or terawih, add all the time thousands and thousands. Rabbi, Rabbi, Rabbi, takes care of me. And the third meaning, the one who grows me, molds me, because Rabb is related to tarbiyah. Tarbiyah is the one who is the murabbi, the murabbi, the one who is ad-dabani Rabbi, our beloved Prophet SAW said, my Rabbi ad-dabani, ad-dabani, he beautified me, he correct, he raised me, and he made me beautiful, and so our Rabb is molding us and growing us. And sometimes when something is to be molded, it needs some heat, it needs some pressure, may Allah be gentle with us. But it needs to be nudged, it needs to be corrected, it needs to be pushed in a certain way. And so Allah is the one we entrust more than we trust our own selves. More than we trust our own selves, because He can take care of us better than we can take care of ourselves. I say this, and I ask forgiveness from Allah, for indeed He forgives all sins. Bismillah, Alhamdulillah, wa salatu wa salamu ala Rasulillah. Nearly a thousand times in the Quran, the word Rabb is written. So in the standard 600 page Quran, that's more than one time per page. Rabb, Rabb, Rabb. And so this is our invitation today, to connect with our Rabb. قل أعود برب الناس, ملك الناس, إله الناس. They're different. They're different meanings. And so Rabb, this is the word chosen by our Rabb, by our owner, our master, our creator, that it's the first word, first in the first verse revealed with this religion to our Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, that it's the most word we say every day. And finally, when we're saying it, we're saying سبحانه رب بي. رب بي. There's a ya at the end. And what that means is we're saying my owner, my caretaker, my nurturer, my provider, my grower, the one growing me. And so it's not, we're just saying the owner, the caretaker, the provider, the molder. No, we're saying my, I have an owner. And so sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is here to wake us up from our hypnosis, our hypnotized state. When we forget and we get deluded by the dunya, when we get distracted, when we need to wake up, we come to sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, to turn everything off, pause the world, to be with the creator of the world. And we turn to our Rab, who we're all going back to him. And he's watching us every moment, nurturing us, our nurturing master, our nurturing owner. And so this is, insha'Allah, an invitation to connect with that idea, my owner. And so at least once per day, at least one of the 153 times, to slow down. And think of one of these three meanings. And think of one of these three meanings. Rabbi, Subhana Rabbi, my owner. Because insha'Allah, we forget, we forget. And then when we do dhikr, we remember and we wake up. And then we feel the unts, the closeness of Allah Subhanaahu wa Ta'ala. May we feel that closeness in prayer, insha'Allah. Salah from wasala, to connect. Salah from wasala, to connect. To connect with Allah. And that door, one of the ways to connect with Allah Subhana wa Ta'ala is to think about, to contemplate, to know, he is my owner. I don't own myself, he is the one taking care of me. I can't take care of my own children. He is the one who's molding me into something that I need to be molded into. So I can be that noble, wa laqad karamna bani adama. We made, we ennobled, we made the sons, the children of Adam, noble beings, noble species. Our highest calling, so we can walk in the Muhammed in light, salallahu alayhi wa salam. And be the people, the sons, the children of Adam, those Muslims, they're special. They're special. They walk in a way reflecting the Divine. They have the most beautiful character. Why is it that they're so amazing to their neighbors? Why is it that they always respond with beauty? They're so gentle, they're so generous, they're so... Why? Because we live for the Divine. We don't live for ourself. We live to make Rabbuna, Rabbuna happy. We live to make Arab. We know that this world is meaningless, not worth the wing of one mosquito in the sight of God. That everything will be dust and ashes and nothingness. Nothingness. كل شيء هالكم إلا وجهة. Everything will be destroyed and nothingness except the essence of our God. إلا وجهة. Everything. And as we navigate this journey of life, we remember these ideas. And insha'Allah today we take this home and we share it. Insha'Allah we take this and we put it as we always, every Friday we come to get to... We come every Friday to adjust something in my spiritual journey. Every Friday we take something. Just like we're adjusting our career and our finances and our investments. We want to adjust our religion and grow every single week. We want to be close to Ya'Allah. We want to be only yet. We want to be Wali's and friends of God, walking with the light of God. And so we take this insha'Allah this adjustment of Rabb with these three meanings. That Allah is my owner. Allah is the one who cares for me and Allah is the one who grows me. Rabbi, Rabbi, Rabbi, Rabbi, Rabbi. Oh Allah, we ask you to forgive all of our sins, Ya'Allah. To forgive all of our sins, Ya'Allah. And to gather us in your paradise, Ya'Allah. And to not let us get close to the fire, Ya'Allah. And to not let the fire get close to us, Ya'Allah. And we ask you to let us worship you as you deserve to be worshiped. And to remember you as you deserve to be remembered. And to submit to you as you deserve to be submitted to. We ask you, Ya'Allah, to make you our number one reason for existence. We ask you, Ya'Allah, to let us walk for you and talk for you. And love for you and hate for you. And be angry for you and to smile for you and be happy for you. And to give for you and to withhold for you. We ask you to let us trust you more than we trust ourselves. To love you more than we trust ourselves. We ask you Ya'Allah to get us closer to you with gentleness Ya'Allah. Don't let us be distracted by the dunya, deluded by the devil. Don't let us live this life and then go to our grave of remorse and regret. Let us live the life of meaning, where we honor those around us, where we live this beautiful message of Islam, where we follow our teacher Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, the teacher of humanity and our teacher. Islam is the final test, Quran is the final testament. Islam is the last religion standing, the beacon of truth and we hold on to it. We recommit to you right now. We renew our faith to you right now. We will stay in the boat of Islam forever, until our last breath we will continue to try until the day we die Ya'Allah. Ya'Allah make it easy for us to love you. Make it easy for us to be lovable by you Ya'Allah. Ya'Allah make it easy for us to be beautiful to our families. Ya'Allah, beautify our character. Remove the filth from our heart. Remove the filth from our heart. Remove the filth from our heart. Ya'Allah correct our character gently Ya'Allah. Ya'Allah, Ya'Allah we beg you, we turn to you. Ya'Allah we can't save ourselves. We can't save ourselves Ya'Allah. We ask you to save us from our own selves. We ask you to save us from our own selves Ya'Allah. This community belongs to you Ya'Allah. All of us belong to you Ya'Allah. We ask you to elevate our families, elevate our teachers, elevate our scholars, elevate our Imams, elevate our Shuyukh, elevate our elders to give us the ability to honor our elders and to love those around us. To spread this beautiful light that we receive through our Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. To let us embody that beautiful light and to be beautiful to those, to forgive those who harm us, to be beautiful those who are ugly to us, to love those even who are difficult to us, to be generous to those who are greedy to us and to connect with those who push us away. Give us the strength to forgive those who've harmed us and to connect with our family. And we ask you Ya'Allah for everything good that our dear beloved Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam asked you for. And we seek protection from every harm that our dear Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam sought protection from. Inna Allah wa malaykata huyu salloon ala nabih Ya'ayyuhal lazeena aamanu sallu alayhi wa sallamu tassleema Allahumma salli ala seydina Muhammad wa ala aali seydina Muhammad kama sallayta ala seydina Ibrahim wa ala aali seydina Ibrahim fi ala alameena innaka hameedun majeed Inna Allah ya'amur bil adli wa l'ahsani wa ita'i tharqorba wa yannha anil fahshai wal munkari wal baghi Ya'izhukum la'allakum tathakkaroon Uthkur Allah al-Azim ya'athkurkum Remember Allah and He'll remember you wa aqim al-salah