 You know, I parked it over there Partway over there, that's the question. You parked your car, you parked your She-camel She-camel by the way, that's one of those words that Muslims have a monopoly over. No other, no other English-speaking person of any other faith, or of faithless, without faith, will ever use the word She-camel ever in your life You will never hear it, but that word belongs to us. We own that word She-camel. So what did you park? Your motorcycle, your bicycle, your scooter? What exactly did you park over there? We would introduce it, we would say I parked my car over there, and then I moved it in the afternoon Right? So what does it mean when we don't mention the car and we just say it, right? It's a very easy example, a very rude example, especially with respect to the Quran But Allah Almighty mentions it as a reference to the Quran without having mentioned the Quran in the Surah And this is to show the exaltation that he gives, the veneration that he gives to his only speech That it is ghaniyun an t'alif, it is without any need for introduction It doesn't need introduction, its reputation precedes it And if Allah Almighty says that he revealed it on the night of Qadr, everyone knows what he is talking about So this shows the exalted place that the Quran has and the veneration that we should have for it That he revealed it on the night of Qadr, the night of Qadr, the night of Qadr Allah SWT has among the year selected or chosen certain months as the forbidden months The favorite months and among the months he has chosen certain days as the favorite days And among the nights he has chosen certain nights as the favorite nights I will mention them in the days of Qadr, Allah SWT says And remind them about the days of Allah SWT That these are special occasions that Allah SWT calls our attention to Those who exalt the symbols of Allah SWT that is directly from the taqwa in their own hearts And late at Qadr is the single most important night of the entire year And Allah SWT introduces it in this surah, this was the man that he chose for the revelation of the Quran to come all the way down to earth And he asked the Prophet SWT What will make you truly fathom what the night of Qadr is I'm not translating Qadr because a very difficult word to translate It means so many different things It's power, it's apportionment and it's also a decree The decree of Allah SWT And to call it late at Qadr in itself is very, very There's a lot of mystery there To call it the night of decree There's another verse in which In which There are late at Mubarakah In which That we have revealed it on a blessed night In which every single matter of wisdom is disseminated Scholars have looked at these two verses And they have assigned that verse to the middle of Shaban That in the middle of Shaban all the decrees come down to the earth But in late at Qadr they get disseminated among the servants They get distributed and disseminated So this is one way of interpreting that verse Now the late at Qadr Allah SWT asked the Prophet SWT What will make you fathom the greatness of this night And this was something that the Prophet SWT already appreciated Beyond our ability to comprehend It's something that the Prophet SWT already exalted In his heart Because this was the night in which he first met his teacher It's a very special night for the Prophet SWT And a very special night But look at how Allah SWT asked this question What will make you understand? Allah SWT is the one who makes us all understand Allah SWT Allah will teach you He will make you understand But when Allah himself says to the Prophet SWT And Allah has all the means and all the power Allah has the means to make the Prophet SWT fathom But he doesn't give him those means He does not give him the full understanding of late at Qadr He doesn't give it to him Even though his knowledge was perfect His knowledge was complete The Prophet SWT's knowledge was perfect But Allah's knowledge is infinite And from his infinite knowledge He has the means Allah has the means and the power To enable the Prophet SWT To fully grasp the greatness of late at Qadr And yet he does not give it to him But he gives him distinctions of the night He gives him a taste of the greatness of this night Without explaining it He says what will make you understand Well Allah, you will make me understand You can make me understand But Allah SWT doesn't give it to him He says That's right So he tells him about the distinction of the night But he's still not explaining it to him He's still not distilling it And detailing everything that happens in this night And why it is so great But he gives him a distinction He says The night of Qadr is better than a thousand months And a lot of people have pulled out their calculators And they say how do I do this now A thousand? What do I do? A thousand? Divide it by twelve That's how you do it They say oh wow, 83.3333333 years Is better than 83.33333333333 years Okay, what does that mean? If I tell you Let's not put it in my words Your mother told you Everyone here grew up young And their mothers at one point said I told you a hundred times To make your bed before going to school You might have told me seven You might have told me that In the past six months I distinctly remember you telling me three times You better not say that to me You better not say that to me But you can think it And perhaps many of us thought You only told me about three times But I got the message What does your mother mean by saying I told you a hundred times It means that it's too much to count It means that it's too numerous It's too much to keep track of And it's gotten me to the point Of a lack of patience with you That is so often that I had to tell you That's what she means by a hundred It doesn't mean one zero zero The greatest number the Arabs had Was a thousand That's the greatest number the Arabs had There's no number after a thousand And then they start counting thousands How do you say a million in Arabic? You better not say mignon I better not hear somebody say mignon That's not how you say million in Arabic How do you say million in Arabic? A thousand thousands A thousand thousands So the greatest number the Arabs had Was a thousand And Allah takes the greatest number And He doesn't say Laylatum Qadri to Sa'wi El Fashahar He doesn't say the night of Qadr equates A thousand months That is the same He doesn't say it's 83.333333333 years And you have the reward Of worshiping Allah SWT And serving Allah SWT And devoting yourself And all of the du'a And all of the graces that are coming That that equates 83.3333333 years of doing that Allah takes the greatest number And then He surpasses it By the word khair Khairun min He surpasses the greatest number By the word khairun min That Laylatum Qadr is better than Your greatest number And when Allah takes the greatest number And then He says It's better than It's better than that Well Allah is the greatest bounty Allah SWT has the greatest bounty And so It's another way of saying It's infinitely better Because it taps into His infinite bounty When Allah SWT It's khairun min That khairun min Taps into His infinite bounty Which is We enter into the Laylatum Qadri We enter into the Laylatum Qadri And if you were to count the graces And the blessings of your Lord You would not be able to enumerate that Right? You would not be able to enumerate that So it's far better than a Qadr This one night This one night And Allah SWT Constructs the barakah of one night As He wills He says Yassubu bana anbenu aalim an daab Wa anand daab Bi yadi laylu annaha The children of Adam Invade against the vicissitudes of time Oh, there's no time Time flies Oh, I gotta kill time Walter Raleigh says You may think you're killing time While time quietly kills you We're constantly talking about time In this fashion Yassubu bana anbenu aalim an daab The Salam Aalim insults And invades against the vicissitudes of time And I am time Wa anand daab I am time Bi yadi laylu annaha In my hand is the night and the day And so when Allah SWT says That laziness of Qadr is better than a thousand months You take a thousand months And Allah SWT will put the barakah Wheresoever He wants Wheresoever He wills He'll put the barakah in one night That will surpass the barakah That He puts in a thousand months In much more than a thousand months In many, many more months Than a thousand months Than a thousand months Than a thousand months In that one night In that one night Laylu an taqadr Laylu an taqadr Laylu an taqadr Laylu an taqadr So it is... And Qadr is esteem also It's estimation Laylu an taqadr It's the night of value The night of estimation The night of constriction as well Laylu an taqadr It's the night of constriction Fa anand insanuh alayna duttaibatu Fa anand insanuh Look at this human being that when Allah swt tests him and by giving him, he tests him by giving him he says my lord has honored me And when he tests him by constricting his provision upon him, by constricting his provision upon him, he says my lord has humiliated me So this word qadr means to constrict also and that was a night of great constriction for the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Laylatul qadr was the night of great constriction for him that he had to seek the expansion through his wife's, through Khadija's consolation But he was constricted, he was constricted, he said I fear over myself, I fear over myself And Khadija says qalla, she says perish the thought, perish the thought You are this and you are that and you are this and you are that and there is no way that you can be, that you would ever be possessed He doesn't even say it but she understands it She negates what he's thinking Qalla, stop right there, stop right there That was the night of great constriction for him So Allah swt reviewed it on that night of constriction And that was the night that Jubeen literally constricted the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam And that was not a hug Qalla, you know he came to be nice and came into the cave and gave him a great big hug A great big bear hug, just picked him right up his feet and said hey, man I'm missing you Nothing like that, no Allanahu sharidul kula The one who was in doubt with great strength taught him Angels, we had this Hollywood sort of imagery Whenever we were thinking about angels with their little, these little share of them with their arrows That go around, you know, matchmaking, right, cupid A lot of people become Muslims out of cupidity Come one, come all, right But they're going around matchmaking and, you know, little angel here and a little angel here There's no angel whispering, there's no angel And they're like the little fairy in House in Wonderland I'm not sure what it was Think about it, right, like think about it Like angels in that, like Jubeen, alayhi sallam Are you serious? Are you serious? 600 wings The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam looked upon Jubeen, alayhi sallam He said, I looked east and west, north and south, I looked over the Ophel He covered the entire horizons in his original forms The entire horizons again And he saw him manifested within 600 wings That was no hug, that was no hug What kind of a hug leaves a person saying that he took me? He took me, Akhamani, he took me Until I was on the verge of breathing my last breath And then he let me go And that was three times that until I was on the verge of breathing my last breath Until I was about to, until I was about to die Great, great constriction We will cast upon you a very weighty word, a very heavy word That was a matter of constriction of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam That led to the greatest expansion It was difficult, the revelation was very difficult for him in the very beginning Very difficult, to make sense of it was very difficult It needed the tafsir of a Christian To confront him It needed that Khadija and Waraka believed in the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Before the Prophet believed in himself Before he believed in himself, they believed in him So Laylat Al-Qadri, khayru min al-al-Fishar Tanazal min mala'ika Waraka fihal bi ibn Rabbim min kulli'an The angels descend on me and the Lord By the permission of the Lord With every affair, with every affair The mala'ika descend on this night With the permission of the Lord On every affair I'd like to take a step back a little bit After the, after Laylat Al-Qadri After those first five verses were revealed And usually when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Received his revelation, he would receive it in verses of five Five verses, may Iqraq Bismi Rabbika bade khalaq Khalaq bade insana min alaq Iqraq warabbu kinaqram Alladi alana min qalam Alana min insana min alaq Five He would usually get it in five He would get it in four surahs In long surahs Many, many more verses in five But usually when the verses would come down They would come down in five In fives So after that was revealed to him There was what is called Fajah in the weapon A love in the revelation And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Did not receive revelation for a while after that The, the Some say three months all the way up until two years But al-Bahaki says that six months was the Was the love And most, most scholars would agree with al-Bahaki That that is probably the most accurate Duration So just imagine how soon the bin al-Islam comes to him And that whole Thing happens with waraqa That for six months For six months after that Nothing comes For six months after that nothing comes And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Begins to feel that He has displeased Allah subhanahu wa sallam By doing something or neglecting to do something That there is something that he is doing That has prohibited, prevented Jibril al-Islam from coming down again Or from For the revelation, you know He doesn't know, this is a six month memory Just think, six months back It's a very long time What are we in now? April June So Where were you January 1st, 2018 And look how far back that was Look how far back that was Six months in a long time And so he begins to feel that Maybe I've done something to displease my Lord And Allah subhanahu wa sallam reveals to him Surat al-Dukha As a consolation to his heart Surat al-Dukha And in Surat al-Dukha he says Your Lord has not forsaken you Nor has he displeased Nor has he displeased After Jibril al-Islam recites Surat al-Dukha to him The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam That turns to him and he confesses And he says According to him He says that And Jibril al-Islam responds saying It was just the command of your Lord That withheld me from you It was just the command of your Lord That kept me back from you So what is Laylatan Qatar What is Laylatan Qatar for the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Such that six months go by And he's recounting That reliving that experience Of the cave For the past six months For the past six months He has not forgotten me For the past six months He has not forgotten a detail Of that visit in the cave For the past six months He's been obsessing About that encounter With Jibril al-Islam in the cave And how he held him And how he revealed those verses And how he just came out of nowhere And how he just went right back For six months He couldn't let that go Obsessing over that memory I've missed you Laylatan Qatar for the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Allah Think back to the first time you ever laid eyes On your significant others Think back to the first time You ever laid eyes on your wife Or on your husband Or on your first love If it's not your wife or your husband today Think back to the first time You laid eyes on her Or you laid eyes on her Can you forget that moment Can you forget what she was wearing What he was wearing Can you forget the ambiance of the room Can you forget the context of it Can you forget the first time They looked back at you Can you forget the first smile Vivid What if you didn't know you were going to marry them at that point? Leave that to the foqa I'm talking about love here I'm talking about love I'm talking about love Love at first sight Do you remember Do you remember And that's for a human being What if your beloved was a Bonafide angel What if your beloved Was an angel Straight up an angel And you have a relationship The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Has relationships with men and women Whom he loves With an angel Ladies and gentlemen The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Was the night That commemorated The first time he ever laid eyes On his beloved And they were on a first name Basis Jibril alaihi sallam was on a first name Basis with the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Allah does not call the Prophet By name Out of How we should exalt the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam And out of the honor that he bestows On the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Throughout his book he says Yaya ayyuhal nabi But Musa he says Ya Musa Nud ya ya Musa Ibrahim he says Ya Ibrahim Ya Yahya he said Ya Yahya All of this Allah swt Even though the Ibrahim Is in the mount of his father Allah states it Allah reveals it But Ya Musa Or he calls them by their first name But the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam He doesn't call them by their first name The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Never called them by his first name His own wives called him Ya Rasulallah Or Ya Abul Qasim They would call him by his kunya His own wives in the call By his first name When he comes In a hadith Which is known as the hadith Hadith of Jubeel We used to be in Russia With the Rasul of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Of course we have a man He is very strong He is very strong He doesn't know anyone He doesn't know anyone The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam He has put his hands on his knees He has put his hands on his knees He has put his hands on his knees He has put his hands on his knees He said Ya Muhammad Tell me about Islam While we were sitting in the presence Of the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam There was a man who came out of nowhere The whitest of white clothes The blackest of black hair He didn't have a trace of travel upon him And no one of us knew him And he was not familiar to any one of us And so he put his knees Before the knees of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam And he put his palms on his thighs And he says Ya Muhammad Tell me what is Islam Until the end of the hadith in which the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam It turns to those who were sitting As those birds were perched on their heads And he says He said Do you know who this question was They said That was Jubilee I tell you That was Jubilee He came to teach you your religion First name basis First name basis And at the At the low tree Of the utmost periphery The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Is told By his companion He said you go Because if you go You go If you go You will penetrate You will be able to enter If I go I will burn up And so the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam It turns to him and he says So this is the place where every Khalil For sakes is Khalil This is the place where every intimate friend For sakes is intimate friend You know what Khalil is Khalil is related to Khalil which is vinegar You have all the properties of vinegar That are mixed up all into one So you have just one substance That's Khalil Because his will was so intertwined With the will of Allah That they were inseparable Whatever Allah willed And whatever he willed Allah s.a.w answered that Khalil Allah Says you're my Khalil That's the highest level of friendship And so he said So this is the place where every Khalil Abandons his Khalil And he enters Into the Divine Presence Frikana Qawba Qawsenia And he was but Two moments or nearer still Wa l-Qadra a'umnazdatin ukhra And he saw Jubeel alaihi sallam And a second descent In full glory 600 wings For the night of Qadr For the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam That was his anniversary That was his anniversary That was the anniversary Of the first encounter Of the night of the first encounter In which the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam fell in love And that could have been a slip of the tongue Of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Because toward the end of his life He says Had I taken a Khalil From this creation It would have been alabak But his tongue got the better of him Because in al-sa'in na'raj 10 years before He called Jubeel alaihi sallam That was his beloved That was his beloved And Laylat al-Qadr Was the night The anniversary of the night In which he first fell in love With his Teacher And protecting angel Jubeel alaihi sallam And every anniversary Is betokened by a gift Every anniversary is betokened by a gift Is it not The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Rajab wa shahlu l-Allah Wa sha'ban shahi Wa Ramadan Shahlu ummati Double take What are you just saying Rajab is the month of Allah Sha'ban is my month And Ramadan is the month Of my ummah You guys know what's happening What just happened What just happened Ramadan is the month That hosts Laylat al-Qadr Ramadan is the month That hosts Laylat al-Qadr Which is the night of the anniversary Of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam And every anniversary has a gift What is the gift of Laylat al-Qadr What is the gift of Ramadan Who receives that gift The ummah The ummah receives that gift The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Gifts the ummah You and me That which commemorates his anniversary With Jibril alaihi sallam He gifts it to his beloved He is the beloved of Allah He is our beloved But we are also his beloved We are the beloved of the beloved But nothing in the world We are the beloved of Allah We are the beloved of Allah We are the beloved of Allah But the beloved is not mentioned In the presence of the lover Except that he sacrifices Drunk out of his wits Where are those types of lovers Who deem the sacrifice Of all of their possessions And even their own souls Yet insignificant And so when you mention The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam He sacrifices He gives of his most Precious prized possessions He gives of all of his possessions He gives everything Until he leaves this world with nothing to his name Yet there was no man on earth richer than he was But he gives He gives And especially during Ramadan They say The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Was the most generous of all people And he was at his most generous During Ramadan When Jabbil alayhi sallam would come down to him And he would recite the Qur'an to him In Ramadan And in Islam sallallahu alayhi wa sallam He came down and recited the Qur'an to him twice So Ramadan for the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Was unlike any other month He would recite the Qur'an to him twice And he would recite the Qur'an to him twice And it was unlike any other month Ramadan for the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Was what he was looking forward to All year round Ramadan was something that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Could not let go of He couldn't let go of Ramadan And in special status of Ramadan And that's why he fasted every Monday and Thursday And that's why he fasted every White night in the days of the white nights That's why he fasted all of Shaaban Just waiting for Ramadan to come Fasting Shaaban That's why he fasted the 10 days That's why he fasted Ashura That's why when there's nothing in the house To eat he would say, I'm fasting I am reliving All of Ramadan I'm reliving what Ramadan has to offer Ramadan continues out Long after Ramadan It's not about the month It's about how the month What the month does to us And how the month carries us And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Would not let go of it throughout the year He couldn't let it go The very first sunnah Of the Muslim ummah The very first sunnah of the Muslim ummah On the day of Eid Is to neglect the Quran Is to leave the Quran alone And that guilt that we feel From missing the just It's gone the day of Eid You miss one just during Ramadan And you feel this guilt that I've got And now you're going to read Two just or three Just to stay ahead of the pace Just in case you miss another You know, later on in the week That I've got I'm ahead of myself Where is that guilt on the day of Eid Where is that guilt on the day of Eid It's like Ramadan is the honeymoon For the believer And the day of Eid is the divorce Ramadan is the honeymoon For the believer And the day of Eid is the great divorce The irrevocable divorce Three times divorce Talab to get, talab to get, talab Not so with the Prophet's ummah Later to cover for him And then with that With all of that And with what we don't even know That was stirring in the Prophet's heart What will make you understand And fathom the greatness of Later to cover for you That's the Prophet What will make you understand What will make you fully grasp it To Nazar al-Malaikatu Where we'll look at the Eid And we'll look at the Eid Going back to Surat al-Duhah After Surat al-Duhah was revealed The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Told Jibri Alaihi Wasallam I've missed you And Jibri Alaihi Wasallam Wasallam was saying Mahalasani in the An-Rabbi And then he quoted the verse That's not in Surat al-Duhah It's in a different I don't remember where it is in the Qur'an He said And we do not descend except By the command of your Lord We do not descend except By the command of your Lord But what did Allah say In Surat al-Qadir He said The Ibn-e-Rabbi Not the Amr-e-Rabbi The Ibn-e-Rabbi That the Angels and the Ruh Descend therein By the permission of their Lord Not by the command of their Lord In the other verse What did Allah say He said That we don't descend except By the command of your Lord We do not descend except By the command of your Lord But here in Surat al-Qadir He says that they descend And the Ruh descends By the permission of their Lord What does that mean Why not the command This is exactly what Ibn-e-Rabbi says Is that The word permission here Presumes that the Angels Requested From Allah SWT To be among us on the Ibn-e-Rabbi That during Ramadan During ladies and qadr There is a yearning And a burning desire in the Angels To be among us On the night that commemorates The anniversary Of the Prophet SAW They want to be among us To celebrate that anniversary They want to be among us To celebrate that anniversary And bring the decrees of Allah SWT And be showered Among the believers To be showered By all the grace of Allah SWT Here on earth with us They don't want to miss out And so they had the permission Of their Lord every male to come down To come down They come down with the permission What Ruhu fiha Tanazar al-Malaik What Ruhu fiha What's the Ruh What's the Ruh SAW He's called the Ruh Fa al-Sanna ilayha Ruhana Fata mafya lalaha basha'a Al-Sawiya That we sent to her Our Ruh And so he appeared before her As a man in all respects And this is understood to be SAW It's understood to be SAW It's understood to be Who else? Aisa al-Islam Going to an Amarazi Said the scholars differ about this Ruh We don't know who this Ruh is For certain Could also be Sayyidina Aisa Who comes down By the permission of his Lord To be among the ummah Of Muhammad SAW Until his greatest second coming But he has visits He comes down and he visits According to this interpretation And he is the Ruh of Allah And we have to take a step back here He is the Ruh of Allah Just as the Prophet SAW Is the Rasul of Allah You guys got me So when we say Muhammad the Rasul of Allah Muhammad is the messenger of Allah None of us is thinking essence That he shares in his essence And when we say Aisa Ruh of Allah None of us is thinking about Essence And if you are thinking about essence You've got to put Ruh of Allah In the same category The same cognitive category As Rasul of Allah As Naqat of Allah As Kalimant of Allah The Sheikamal of Allah Are you thinking essence? The Kitab of Allah The Book of Allah Kalimant of Allah The Word of Allah And the reason Aisa SAW is called The Ruh of Allah is because Allah Possessed his Ruh His Ruh belonged totally to Allah There was no attachment to the world Whatsoever And that's why in the same way The Jad is just that He will teach the exact opposite of what Naisa SAW taught He is the Antichrist He will teach salvation through pure materialism Whereas Aisa SAW taught Salvation through pure Spirituality And he had no attachment to this dunya He said My legs are my beast of burden The moon is my lamp at night The sun is my heat in the winter I retire to the For the night with nothing to my name I arise in the morning with nothing to my name Yet there is no man on earth Richer than I am They said he owned nothing but a comb And a cup And so he saw someone combing his beard And he saw someone else drinking From the stream with his hands And so he gave away his comb And his cup and charity They said one time that he was reclining And he had his head on a rock And shaitan walked by And he said I knew I could tempt you I knew I could get you with the dunya I knew that one day he would succumb One day he would succumb To the comforts of the dunya A rock and so he took the rock And he hurled at that shaitan And the world lit it Ruh Allah The spirit of Allah He possessed his Ruh And for that reason he was called Ruh Allah Ruhan minhu Ruhan With the verse Anyone know it? There is another verse There is another verse And I may be confusing But this is Ruh Allah And so this is one of the other interpretations Where it says And then another interpretation Is that the Ruh Is a creature of Allah That Allah created And From that creature Allah breathed into Adam his Ruh Because when he says After I had fashioned him And breathed into him of my Ruh At that point Then what? Fall before him prostrated So what is this Ruh? When I breathed into him of my Ruh What does that mean? Is that the essence? Are we thinking essence now? Again It's creation It's what Allah created And from that Ruh He breathed into Adam his Ruh And Imam al-Samakshar he says That there was no breath And there was nothing breathed There was no breath And there was nothing breathed Allah swt Allah swt Transcendent and exalted Far above anything that we might Ascribe to him And so when he says After I had breathed into him of my Spirit There's no breath This is the language of love This is the language of love In which Allah swt paints the image for us Of these divine attributes That Allah swt Has infused into us To reflect his names and attributes So that when Allah swt Because Allah swt is Rahim We also have Rahna And Allah swt is Adn We also have Adala And because Allah swt is Allim We also have In We also have Sawa Because Allah is Shakur We also have Shukr Because Allah is Wadoon We also have Wood To manifest and reflect The names and attributes Of Allah swt back to him And there's that Hadith That take upon yourselves Embodied the traits of Allah Embodied in yourselves The traits of Allah swt So this Roar From which Adam A.S. gets his Roar And from which you and I get our Roar This is the Roar that descends With the angels On Laylatul Qadr Comes down To be among us On Laylatul Qadr Weubahi Binah Rabbul Alameen When we stand At Tarawih When we stand at Tarawih He kind of boasts about us To the rest of the angels He boasts about us And he gathers those angels together And he says, witness my servants Behold Did I not tell you that I know What you know not Did I not tell you that I know What you know not That day you questioned and you asked me Are you going to create therein So mischief, while we do celebrate your name And extol your praises And I told you what Didn't I tell you? I told you I know what you know not So now behold my angels Behold my servants Behold my slaves Did I not tell you that I know what you know not And that's in Tarawih Tanazal Al-Malaik It's over with what he had Be in Rabbi and in Quli On every affair By next year it's already written Who is going to make Hajj This year Who is going to die this year Who is going to be born this year Who is going to All of that is decided All of that Is brought down And disseminated So that this may be our very last Ramadan Allah Allah It was the last Ramadan For the many people That came before us Many people in our families Didn't make it to this Ramadan And that's because of the decree Of ladies and gentlemen last year That they would not make it this year Salam What is Salam What is Salam We have For the first time in all of Muslim history We have unanimous Agreement Full consensus Rejoice Peace Salam is peace Salam is wholesomeness It's soundness The day in which neither wealth Nor sons Will avail them of anything Save such As come before Allah And what Salim With a sound heart With Salim here is related to Salam Soundness It's soundness, it's wholeness, it's oneness It's perfection Allah is as-salam Allah is as-salam It's perfect Something that is in the state of Salam Is free Of any deficiency Free of any fault It's whole and sound It's perfect, it's complete Salam Salam A statement from a Contagionate word Salam And this can only This Salam Can only be Reached Can only be attained to Once we have Islam Full submission to Allah Full submission to Allah With our intellect With our hearts, with our spirits To be fully in submission to Allah Then we will have soundness In ourselves Then we will be whole with ourselves And the result of that Is that we will be in a state Of what? Of peace Tranquility, serenity That's the result Peace is Salam But it's the result Of having submitted ourselves To Allah And it's all connected Islam needs to Salam And there can be no Salam Without Islam Enter into submission Entirely This until the rise of dawn What a beautiful Surah What a beautiful Surah And about Ayat Al-Qadir The Prophet ﷺ Was going to tell us When the night was, when the anniversary was He was going to tell us And then He came out and he found the Sahaba Squabbling about it Arguing about it, back and forth Differing about it So he told us Seek it out in the last ten nights Seek it out when? In the last ten nights And he didn't tell us when it would be To teach us a great lesson But if you want the peace of this life Then you cannot have peace When there's recurring You cannot have peace when there's Disagreeing When there's arguing back and forth You cannot attain to peace That's one of the distinctions Of ladies and Qadir And if you're going to argue About ladies and Qadir Of Salam, what you have When it brings you Salam And so he said So seek it out in the last ten nights And then another hadith It's in the odd nights Of the last ten nights But the interesting thing is The Muslim community is divided In terms of when we start the month You have Half of us who go by Calculations May Allah guide us And you have the other half of us Who go by Naked eye sighting May Allah preserve us I went there Huh? So every night Of the last ten nights Is an odd night Huh? Every night is an odd night And the Muslim community He had specific clothing That he designated Just for ladies and Qadir And he believed that ladies and Qadir Was on the 25th And he would take out these clothing He would don them For ladies and Qadir And then after the night passes He would fold them up And put them back And not touch them until the next year I dawned on yourself At every Masjid What is a Masjid? House of God It's a house of God Any other answers? Place where you mix your food Place where you mix your food You say it by ear pick Well Okay Is it just that This is a place where you mix your food Huh? That's right That's right. It's Nafael. And Nafael is Ismul Zaman and Ismul Makkah. It's every place of Sujood and it's every occasion of Sujood. It's every place of Sujood and it's every occasion of Sujood. That you are to adorn yourself in that state. It's everywhere you make Sujood and every time you make Sujood. To take on you, to put on you, to put on your Sunday best. Okay? You guys know about your Sunday best? It's not your Sunday best. It's your Sunday best, it's your Monday best, it's a Tuesday best, it's your Wednesday best, it's your Thursday best, it's your Friday best, it's your Saturday best because you're postrating all of those days. You're postrating all of those days. So it's not just the place of worship, it's the time of worship. To be in your Sunday best, to be in your best clothing. And this really refers to the men and not the women. The women are always dressed as though they belong in the message. I mean you guys are just always dressed in your Sunday dress. The men, if we had to categorize the men, there would be about five or six different categories that men fall into. If we're talking about the way that men dress at every place of Siju and every occasion of Siju, men fall into about five or six different categories. You know what those categories are? Wajib, Mustahal, Mubah, Makru, Haram. And the sixth one is Wajib or Farat, if you have. If you get that, then I'm glad you appreciate it. So the way we dress, the way we dress, if it's, you don't even have to know, you don't even have to have the calendar in front of you to know that it's Sabbath. If you live in a community where you've seen Jews going to the synagogue on Saturday, so they're like, yeah today's Saturday, must be Sabbath. It must be Saturday, today's a Sabbath. How do you know that? Because of the way that they dress when they go to the synagogue. And you can lose track of the days, but if you see Christians going to church, say, oh today must be Sunday, why? Because of the way they dress when they enter that house of worship. What gives Juma away? What gives Juma away? How do people know that? Yeah, parking. That gives Juma away. That's a dead giveaway. Oh, it must be Juma. But it's not the way we dress. That's the point I was trying to get to. It's not the way we dress. Because we will come into those doors dressed in all kinds of funky ways. We will come into those doors dressed, I mean dressed like we were, dressed like we just got up out of bed sometimes. Come into Juma in our sweatpants. Just like we got off the, just like we started, just like we came out of the YMCA after working out, playing basketball at the YMCA. Coming in with shorts. Right? Just like we were at a baseball game or something like that with all the paraphernalia. All the advertisement. That's the way we come into the Masjid. Khulu zinatakum mada kulli masjid. Allah SWT said, zinatakum. And Sayyidina Anas, Allah SWT, he had zina just for ladies in Qadr. He had a hero, an outfit that he wore just for ladies in Qadr. Wa man yuhadim sh'a'a'ir Allah fi innah min taqwa qulu Whoever exalts the singles of Allah that is directly from the taqwa in the hearts. So look for it in the last 10 nights. Some of the scholars said that it moves year after year. That if it's the 27th, it's not the 27th every year. That it may be the 27th this year. Next year it might be the 21st. The year after that it might be the 29th. The year after that it might be the 23rd. Why is that? Because, I am time. I control night and I control day. And if I want the 29th to be the night that we celebrate the anniversary of the Prophet ﷺ with his beloved, then so be it on that year. If I want to change it the next year, I'll change it the next year. And so they said, since that's the case, Laylatun Qadr could be any of the nights of Ramadhan. It could move in any of the nights of Ramadhan. Fatubuha fi Ramadhan. So seek it out, all of Ramadhan, seek it out. And if that's the case, then it could be any night throughout the entire year. Laylatun Qadr could be outside of Ramadhan. And this is what informed the Sudanese proverb, Laylatun Qadr. Every night is Laylatun Qadr. And the next person you lay eyes on, that's Laylatun Qadr. To live in that spiritual space, to be present in that presence, that every night could treat every night as though it was Laylatun Qadr. And so, let's say that at least once a day, at least once a night, because that could be Laylatun Qadr. To push ourselves every night. And especially during Ramadhan, especially during Ramadhan, from the nusus that we have, the text that we have. But it shows the posture that we should have toward our door and the exaltation that we have for Laylatun Qadr that we never forget this night. And they treat every night as though this could be the night. O Allah, if this is the night, departing out of His blessings. And the next person you meet could be Sayyidina Khidr. Meaning, the next person you meet could be the greatest teacher. The next person you meet, they could give you lessons that Sayyidina Khidr was giving to the mosques, those same lessons. If our hearts are open to receiving those lessons. If we're not looking for the long garment here, the hat, the long beard. Because Sayyidina Khidr could be that 80-year-old woman bagging your groceries. That could be Sayyidina Khidr. The next, it could be the guy pumping your gas. That could be Sayyidina Khidr. He doesn't even have to be a Muslim. Because in Hikmah-ul-Dallat-ul-Mu'min Aina ma wajadaha, taww'ah qubya. Wisdom is the lost property of the faithful. Wheresoever they find it, they are more entitled to it. Meaning that wisdom could come from any quarter. And who knows? Who knows? That could be Sayyidina Khidr. So these are meanings that insha'Allah, that we take with us, we carry with us, we focus on these meanings here in Ramadan. But it behooves us to ask the question, Ya Allah, why did you make a month of absence? Why did you make a month of fasting? And turn that into a pillar of a religion, of a religion that you revealed. You took a month, and you made that into a pillar upon which this religion stands, without which the entire religion would collapse. You take a building, a high-rise building, and you put it on five pillars, and then you break down one of those pillars. What happens to your building? What is Islam without Ramadan? What is this religion without the pillar of Ramadan? Arkhan. These are Arkhan. So what is it about Ramadan that makes it a pillar? And is it just for the month? Is it just for the 30 days? Or the 29 days? Is it just for that? It's training for the whole year. That's it. That's it. And with that, we'll start from the beginning. We have some time for reflections, some time for questions, or anything you'd like to share about the month or anything that you have on your list. Any question? Do you have any reflection on the fact that in Ramadan the father is dead three times in the studio? Or later some color itself. This is mentioned behind. Later some color. What are your reflections on? I was hearing someone talk about it and saying that that also connects to the idea that there's three fathers every month. I think that's because one plus eight is nine and then on the 27th people are seven. I don't know. Much younger people are calling me the same. Masha'Allah. I've never heard of that. These are interesting insights that people would have. But I have not heard that I haven't heard it confirmed or anything. So you're saying what now? The first day and what now? It's the 9th, 18th, 27th. Oh, if you're dividing according to the three? Yeah. And so what are those three colors? I guess it's kind of what you're saying that father could be any night. I look for father throughout the year. No, I don't know. So I haven't heard that. Yes. So you mentioned the meaning of qadr qadr as restriction of constriction. Constriction. Constriction, how it's relevant. Also, decree. How many of us decree? I'm wondering if you could talk about how the meaning of qadr as power. How that is relevant in Qadr as power. Qadr is related to it. Qadr is related to it. And obviously, when Allah swt decrees, now there is the will and there is the power. There is qirada and qudra. That Allah swt has the power to bring into existence that which he wills and that which he decrees. So it's not the decree comes down, but then also it's the manifestation of that decree that comes forth through his qudra, through his power. So the decree comes down who is going to reach next Ramadan. And that comes down there is qadr, it's disseminated. Who is going to reach the next Ramadan. And then the qudra brings that decree to manifest. So if the next Ramadan you and I inshallah are here. And that is the qudra of Allah swt that he has sustained our life so that we are able to reach the next Ramadan. Does that help? Yes. And also the qadr is the the night that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam first received the first revelation. But I've also heard that the night that it descended into the Quran is that Allah is Mahfud. So there is a relation between did it descend to Mahfud and immediately the qadr came down to I mean to reach the first few verses of it. Now so you have inzal and tanzib right. And these two verbs are used in the Quran in various contexts. Inzal is the Quran is coming down all at once from the from the the Mahfud to the lowest of the heavens. And then tanzim is that bringing verses over a span of 23 years. Right. So tanzim is more it's not in fact but it implies a process. It implies a continuation of something. So if but inzal is that it comes down at once. Right. Yes. These are all signs that are mentioned in hadith. And the one is that the some will come with that the some will come as a disc. You'll see the sun and without the sambra will be dimmed and that there will be that the sun will rise like that. That's one of the signs. But I think what's more important is that Laylat and Qadr is one of the most important signs is that Laylat and Qadr is the day in which the Prophet first met his Beloved first met his teacher and for a lot of people I think Laylat and Qadr will be personalized. It's the day where you fell in love with Allah it's the day where you gave yourself totally to Allah it's the day that you totally completely connected to Allah so Laylat and Qadr could be in the words of the teaching and personalized Laylat and Qadr as well and so one should really focus on that much more than focusing on trying to see in the heavens and in the horizons was it tonight, was it tonight the purpose of Laylat and Qadr is to make the night you are there to Qadr to have your personal intimate connection with Allah on that night and leave the signs of the heavens to take lessons from them but to be more concerned with making every night your personal Laylat of Allah. It touches me very much because when you mentioned it's better than a thousand nights and you said three years a month at 83 years it's a lifetime so a whole lifetime can be summed up in a night that you can follow and so if it's if it's tonight for you then tonight is your Laylat and Qadr that's the beautiful thing about it and this is one of the things that Imam Malik is going into the whole thing about tarawih in the Malik you might have the tarawih is considered and perhaps in the other land as well it's considered front-key fire it's not front-line it's called it's a Sunnah you can say it's a Sunnah-key fire that's not a legal term by the way but it shouldn't be established but he preferred to pray tarawih in his own home and not to pray it in Jamal because for him it wasn't about finishing the Jus doing a whole Khatam on the way it wasn't about the quantifiable approach that we have to tarawih it was about connecting to Allah SWT and making every night your Laylat Qadr with Allah SWT making every night that you connect to Allah SWT so that's the point it's very good that you have Khatam of the Quran but the whole point like I mentioned before that sometimes a lot of us have Khatam in tarawih and we have a Khatam outside of tarawih and we have our own Khatam and the very first communal Sunnah like we mentioned before the very first communal Sunnah is that the day of A'in any guilt over missing our Juz goes from our heart we don't have any guilt that guilt is gone from our hearts so did we have a Laylat Qadr or did we not did we have that moment with Allah SWT in the month or did we not the emphasis was far greater that he put much much more emphasis on having a personal connection even if it means that you don't even go to the Masjid and you have your prayer at home but you have your prayer and you have that prayer you establish that prayer with Allah SWT and you establish those moments with Allah SWT and that was his that was his preference and that was based on the A'in not all of the A'in were in the Masjid but it was going on it was being established but it wasn't the way that we over emphasize it and we're standing behind the Imam and either we're connecting or we're not for Imam Malik it was much more important to have that connection even if you're not going to finish your Khatam but to recite Allah SWT and to connect to Allah SWT through that recitation even if that recitation is a few verses or a couple of surahs the whole point is connecting you know what Ramadan was being established and obviously some of the rules change that you couldn't just pay to have a Ramadan made up you have to actually make it up later and then it was you missed the fast deliberately break your fast and then I guess it was also Ramadan Ramadan was the hottest month of the year for the Arabs and then but that last month we made Ramadan fasting easier for you do you have any comments around that obviously it was selected to become part of but was it easier because everyone else was doing it so when the Arabs were naming the month the original name of Ramadan was Nanta and Shawwal was Waqib they changed the month when they changed months they would change them at the time that the month would come so every month got a name that was based on the time of the year in which they decided to change the names and this predates the public so they noticed in Ramadan that it had never been as fiercely hot throughout the year so they knew that this was their August the hottest month of the year is probably August or July so it must have been July when Ramadan came and this was the month where camels every third word in the Arabic has to be camels or not that's a Qaeda that's a Qaeda that's a linguistic principle I'm being facetious so they noticed that this was the month where their hooves were burning their hooves would burn in this month they would get callous and blisters so they called it Ramadan which is the month of burning and for the believer it's a great metaphor because this is the month in which sins are burned away it's the month in which all of our sins are burned to ashes and then the next month after that they noticed that the udders of the camels again and the sheep and the cattle were empty and the young did not have enough milk to drink from their udders and so they called it Shahwad Tashura Fi Adbam that this is when the milk was not there and Shahwad means to be vacated to be purged there's nothing there so for the believer again this is a great metaphor that after all the sins are burned up there's nothing there in Shahwad clean slate in Shahwad you have a clean slate there's nothing in your vessel of sins that's been totally emptied there's an emptying out in Shahwad with that there's great ease obviously Ramadan is not always in July we're in June now next year it's going to be May and whatnot so the tasir that you're referring to that comes throughout the year depending on when Ramadan is being established and also with every hardship there is ease with every hardship there is and this is the promise of Allah SWT so there is a hardship of Ramadan but that is met with great ease as well in the month and you find that like you alluded to the fact that we're all doing it together there's a great ease in that just imagine if you were doing Ramadan on your own just imagine if you were doing Ifad on your own like a lot of converts they don't have a place to go to for Ifad very difficult very difficult for Muslims during Ramadan in the community or with family there's a great ease in that there's a great ease in that so these are just some reflections on what you just said there doesn't have to be questions or comments because it's closed now that's true so are all sins forgiven or only minor sins I read somewhere that only minor sins are forgiven so the Prophets of Allah SWT said that every one of the five prayers right one juma to the next one Ramadan to the next is an expiation for all of the sins if the cardinal sins are avoided which means that just by praying I'm forgiven for all of the sins if the cardinal sins are avoided which means that just by praying I'm forgiven for all of the sins praying I'm forgiven for all of the minor sins between this prayer and the past prayer right I don't even have to tell what for those I'm forgiven just by virtue of praying I'm forgiven for that by virtue of attending one juma and then the next juma all those sins that I had accumulated in that week I don't even have to tell what for those so what happens then what about the cardinal sins juma does not erase the cardinal sins the prayers do not erase the cardinal sins the Ramadan does not erase the cardinal sins Hajj even Hajj you have to redress the wrong you have to redress the wrong if there's a wrong that involves the rights of others you have to redress that and with all of these Hajj, Ramadan, fasting praying the cardinal sins require tawbah they require repentance they require sincere repentance and the tawbah does not have to be for all for every sin you could make a general tawbah for all of your sins minor and major and it's good as a to have with Allah swt even though prayers erase minor sins to make tawbah for those minor sins for those minor sins and not to distinguish the believer he said the believer is the one who sees his sins he sees the most minor of his sins like it's a mountain getting ready to crush him and the hypocrite is the one who sees the greatest of his sins as though it were a fly coming to his nose and so he brushes it away so the proper etiquette to have with Allah swt is to make tawbah for all sins but the meaning of that hadith is Allah will cover all the minor sins from last Ramadan as long as you do tawbah everything tawbah for the major sins tawbah for the major sins do a quick review of the major sins so that's another question the scholars of theology have differed about the distinction between major and minor such that some scholars would mention that there were 200 major sins and some would say they're just seven so you have a big spectrum for what's considered major some of the signs for the major sins though are the for the distinctions after going through all of the texts scholars have devised lists for how we can identify a sin as being major or minor some of that is if the word haram has been used if it concerns the rights of others if there is a punishment assigned to it these are sort of distinctions or if Allah swt uses certain words like kaburah that's a major sin or certain imagery like Allah swt says would anyone like to eat the flesh of his dead brother that's a major sin now because the gravity of the image that Allah swt is revealing here these are signs that there's a line that's been crossed between minor and major but al-Telbah for all sins is the best way to go can you explain taqwa in more detail and kind of like a non-history of taqwa taqwa now taqwa is an interesting word Allah swt has prescribed fasting in order that we have taqwa taqwa is interesting how would you guys translate taqwa what's a good translation for that one God Consciousness it comes from like the taqwa that protects the cautiously what else so it's interesting that God Consciousness was the first definition and I would wager to say that God Consciousness was probably the first word that came across a lot of people's minds here who was thinking God Consciousness first and a lot of the translations are in God Consciousness and that's because the translations are written with a certain audience in mind in a certain cultural context where certain words are buzzwords for spiritual abuse perhaps and also where there is a desire to win over the reader according to their own sensibilities in a way that is inviting and not warding off there are certain words that within these terms that we are very uncomfortable using and that's because we have applied political correctness to the translations of our words into our own conceptions of those words you cannot use the word guilt anymore guilt is a no-no and to guilt someone is one of the worst things that you can do spiritually to a person whereas it is a condition for Talba true Talba that is lacking in guilt is a challenge that you're playing around you're not sincere part of sincerity is that the first step of having sincere Talba in a Suha sincere Talba is not a guilt or regret over what it was or remorse so Lois wasn't the death of Satan there was a man who wrote a book called The Death of Satan very very good book and I recommend where he talks about the passing of words into archaic usage in our own time Satan himself you can't use that word anymore the death of Satan you can't use the word evil evil doesn't we don't speak we don't use that word it's dropped from our vocabulary sin is another word in these words you can't use the word anymore if you use the word in a conversation you automatically feel that you have otherized yourself that you don't I know I don't really belong in this conversation I use the word sin now you have a certain impression about me that I'm just going to go and crawl back into my hole I don't belong in this conversation anymore I've sort of excluded myself I'm not cool anymore so Talba is not God consciousness right Zikr is God consciousness a good translation for the word Zikr is God consciousness and not even remembrance the remembrance of God I'm going to remember God a thousand times I'm going to remember God a hundred times I've got this opinion you don't need to remember God a hundred times unless you're forgetting God a hundred times if you forget God a thousand times you need to remember him a thousand times we've got consciousness in Zikr to be conscious of the presence of Allah that's a better word that Zikr would be connected to that Talba is to remember Talba to remember something you've forgotten but Zikr Zikr literally means to mention to mention God and we mention Allah on our tongues and we mention him in our hearts so it's closer to God consciousness than any other word Taqwa means to like when that man went to say Naumal al-Amar and he said Taqwa al-La and say Naumal al-Amar begins to cry how do you say Naumal understand that word that's what the word means he begins to weep he's an Amir al-Mu'minin at this point and the man comes up to him out of nowhere this man comes out of nowhere he says Taqwa al-La and he begins to weep did he tell him have God consciousness is that how Amir al-Amar understood that does he mean have God consciousness when the Prophet said Taqwa al-Naumal does that mean have consciousness of the fire even if with half a date so that means I'm going to be conscious of the fire with half a date where does it mean where does the word come from what's the root of Taqwa yeah exactly it's to take as though you were taking between yourself and your Lord a protection of Taqwa it's as though you were protecting yourself from Allah through Allah wa firru min Allahi ilallah and flee from Allah to Allah that's Taqwa it's to protect yourself from Allah through Allah and it's to protect yourself from the fire through half a date so you're taking half a date and you're making that half a date as a barrier between yourself and the fire as a protection as a shield or a guard between yourself and the fire and this was just in the language and then the Lord or it may have been Abu Ghraida who was asked about Taqwa and he asked the person he said have you ever walked home on a pitch black night he said yes he said how did you walk home he said I picked up my loin cloth another word that belongs only to me that belongs we own that word we own that word we have exclusive rights to that word and I try to use that word at least twice a week in conversation I challenge you to do the same what's the way you use that you gotta figure that out so he said I would draw my loin cloth I would pick up my loin cloth and make sure I don't step on any thorns or any shards or glass or anything in the way so I'm protected from him he said that is Taqwa that is Taqwa that is Taqwa and the the definition of Taqwa we define Taqwa in different ways there are different levels of Taqwa but they would say the true Mu'taqi is the one who leaves off much of what is permissible he leaves off much of what is permissible he leaves off all of what is all of what is Haran all of what is Makru and much of what is Mubah lest he fall into the Makru like an example of that is a person who you know it's permissible for you and I to have a conversation but let that conversation go beyond 5 minutes into 10 and then from 10 minutes into 30 and then from 30 minutes into an hour and then from an hour into 2 hours and I is on guard after 2 hours of our conversation as I am at the very beginning or is it very much after I have established this conversation with you is it easier for me to say after 2 hours what I would have been ashamed to say after 2 minutes so even though the talk is permissible I am going to leave off much of it when I know that I am moving into now this permissibility it's meeting me somewhere what about the idea that Haran kind of I think we will follow she was asking me too I got to see where Muslims in Haran is a guidance for us but Haran is a guidance for all of mankind so who would be like the one who could potentially get guidance someone who inherently has this desire to protect and proceed cautiously and life is not just about following whims which could be just something to make into that without knowing anything about relations Allah says that He misguides many people with the Qur'an and He guides many people with the Qur'an so the Qur'an is used to guide and misguide so those who are guided then He called them but when words are used in isolation they tend to take on inclusive meanings and when they are used in juxtaposition they take on exclusive meanings so if mutaqeen is used just on its own then it has a very vast it's an umbrella word for muslimin muqminin siddiqeen sabideen it's going to include everyone basically muslimin muslimin all those who are submitted that it's a guidance for those who submit but when taqwa is used like in that verse in muslimin or muqminin or muqminin now these words have very specific meanings because they are mentioned all in a string on a series in close juxtaposition to other words now they have very specific meanings whereas if they are used in isolation they have very broad and general meanings taqwa allah sallam isiyamakum sallatakum za'aakum akfirum indikri qawli allam indika'af al-faw'anna that is something that we should not say lady aisha she asked the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam what should be the ta'a of lay'at and qadr and he said to her he says allam la indika'af allah you are ever pardoning you loved pardon so pardon us and in another narration allam la indika'af allah you are ever pardoning generous you loved to pardon so pardon us so this is something we should not memorise if we don't handle memorise and we should say it repeated very often especially in these last ten nights at least a hundred times try to do it a hundred times allam la indika'af al-faw'anna in different times of the night insha'Allah and may Allah SWT make this alam allah la indika'af al-faw'anna and the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said whoever is two days or equal he denuded himself he is deceived himself so what do you think about whoever is two days or equal if this alam allah is like the last alam allah then we are in major major denusion al-faw'anna because the most transformative alam allah ever and one of the signs of that is how we carry the month forward into the next month and then into the next month after that what are the traces of Ramadan insha'Allah what are the traces of Ramadan where are those traces al-faw'anna al-faw'anna al-faw'anna al-faw'anna