 وصلى الله وسلم وبارك على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وسهف يسلم رب الشهي صدري ويسلي أمر يبهر الأخذة من الثانية القولي وصلى الله وسلم وبارك على سيدنا محمد النبي الأمي وعلى آله وسهف يسلم ربنا ااتنا في الدنيا حسنة ما في الآخرة حسنة ما اقنا عذاب النار رب تخلي مدخل صدق واخرجني مخرج صدق واجعني من دلك سلطان النسيرة لا إله إلا أنت سبحانك إني كنت من وضع علمين وصلى الله وسلم وبارك على سيدنا محمد النبي وعلى آله وسهف يسلم الحمد لله نحن نتحدث عن هذه المتحدة التي قمنا بها في الصلاة وخبرنا عن how to start to attain خشو and focus in our prayer so the prayer is the outward form that's very very important but the inward form is absolutely critical to the prayer right so there's the outward fit the rules of outward fit which is not this is not a discussion on all the rules of the outward form of prayer but that is farred and subligatory for a Muslim to know the rules of the obligatory prayer according to a madab and then we learn about how do we focus in our prayer how do we begin to achieve a state of spiritual excellence right when the prophet was asked by Jibril and the famous hadith Jibril and what is he said it is to worship Allah as though you see him but if you do not see him know that he sees you and so this idea of the text we've been going through is to help us attain this state of this state of spiritual excellence and focus in the prayer is one of the main signs of trying to attain spiritual excellence and it's also one of the main vehicles for attending spiritual excellence because the prayer is our vehicle to reach Allah is why Allah has legislated the prayer to be done 5 times a day because Allah always wants us to be in conversation with him He always wants us to be drawing near to him he doesn't want us in it so if somebody does so for multiple times a day the hope is that maybe they'll do so also in between the prayers for some little bits some vicar here and there remembrance of Allah here and there and then it will inshallah continue and continue until a deeper state of nearness is attained and that is ultimately the end the goal of life as Allah says in the Quran وما خلقتو جنة والإنس إلا ليعبدون that we only created mankind and jinn to worship to worship me that's why Allah created us and all and that that worship as the famous commentator and صحابي ابن عباس رضي الله عنه he said that it means ليعرفون in order to know Allah and you and I will know Allah by starting to follow his rules and then starting to get deeper in all the worship that we do that's what we've been talking about so far and we specifically covered the importance of reflection on each step of the prayer so you reflect when the when you're making ودو number one ودو is not just a basic act ودو is important it's purifying yourselves right it's you and I reflect when we hear the Adan we talked about what to reflect on when we hear the Adan then in each step of the prayer right and if anybody remembers what we discussed in terms of what to do when you start the prayer right so you get into say الله أكبر and it symbolizes when you and I raise our hands we are literally tossing everything other than Allah behind us we're just focusing now purely on Allah and it's like Allah asks us to face تقبلة outwardly we face مكة inwardly we need to face Allah the Lord of مكة not دنيا not our job not all the other thoughts that come into our mind but we face Allah and we try to purify our heart of all the other things that are coming in and the sunnah prayer we discussed is like a warm up a little like a warm up you're warming up for the game as you pray the sunnah okay yeah we're caught up in everything and we pray the sunnah we get into focus then the main event is the the farth prayer that it is that we do right that's the game the game time that we're preparing for so we focus in the prayer so then we get to reading سورة الفاتحة does anybody remember what we discussed when it comes to reflecting yes it says learning the meaning of the الفاتحة you memorized the meaning and to learn the scholarly commentary what's been said exactly yes that's that's completely on point so the first step is to learn the meaning every Muslim regardless of whether we speak Arabic or not most most Muslims we're not born into an Arab family Arabic is not their native tongue but all Muslims we should at least know what is the meaning of the الفاتحة right so when we when we recite the الفاتحة we reflect on the meaning then we discussed the importance of memorizing the meaning you learn the meaning then you memorize the meaning right so again that becomes easier to reflect and then we start to dig deeper into what does it mean there's literally books and books and books written just about the meaning of الحمد لله is the opener الفاتحة the opener of the Quran so we learn the meanings and we reflect then we learn we learn what the commentators have said about the meanings so that will now begin to give us a focus in our prayer right and we reflect every time we say الله is greater than our problems الله is greater than the difficulties we are going through الله is greater than whatever situation we are facing right and that الله continues to help refine our hearts refine our hearts and ultimately again according to the scholars is to to attain a state of purity of heart and that purity of heart comes through focusing in the prayer that's one of the main vehicles of attaining that state of purity that's what we have discussed you know that's far we talked about the different movements in the prayer and what do we reflect on in each of the movements today the focus is now okay that was praying by ourselves right there's a huge emphasis in the Dean on praying in congregation very very important highly emphasized on now the Prophet to try to pray in congregation now what does it mean right why exactly do we pray in congregation first there's a lot of reward in praying in congregation right so the Prophet told us that praying in congregation congregation here means with the group right so two is a congregation right any two of us in this room that's a congregation so you pray with anybody and that's a congregation but what's even more preferred is pray congregation in the Masjid not just that congregation at home the Prophet he told us the prayer in congregation is better than prayer alone by 27 degrees 27 times so somebody prays one prayer that's 27 times the reward for praying in congregation versus praying alone and he also said that the prayer and we're going to get into this specifically here congregation is now being referred to this is specifically and highly emphasized enough for men for men to come to the Masjid and pray in congregation for women it is actually preferred to pray at home and for men it is preferred to pray in the Masjid in congregation so the Prophet tells us that the prayer of a man in congregation is 25 times greater in this hadith than prayer in his home or shop or workplace and when he performs in a good manner you take you are raised a degree every step you take a sin is removed and every step you take good deeds essentially the raised a degree is added right and so there's a lot of blessings and he also told us that someone continues to be in prayer just when they're waiting for the prayer you're in the prayer just when you're sitting there at the Masjid you're waiting for the reward of being in the prayer it's a lot of secrets of coming out of the Prophet's house yes why is it preferred for a woman to pray at home so we're going to get into that yeah and so the prayer right so 25 times the reward of praying in congregation and then the what are some of the etiquettes we'll talk about the ruling of praying in congregation and the rewards and we'll get into some of the etiquettes and how exactly we do so in the Prophet's house part of the approach was to he was building community right and the the congregation as part of building community is essential right the Prophet's house also did not want us to just be doing things completely alone by ourselves right and so there is very very very very strong that emphasize praying in congregation at minimum for Fajr and Isha right so he told us in the the and so he said if people knew the reward of praying Fajr and Isha in congregation they would go to the mosque even if they had to crawl even if they had to crawl to get to the Masjid that they would go in order to to pray Fajr and Isha at minimum that's a goal we should aspire to right so we've been talking about these steps these practical steps for spirituality the next most practical step that we can take is at least one day of the week we say I'm going to pray one prayer or two prayers in the mosque in the Masjid at least we we pick it and we know that we are getting reward for the time we are going there the reward for the time we're there reward for the time we're coming back there's a reward every step of the way right and this is in addition to of course right this is in addition to that so the ideal goal is that minimum in the Masjid if they can at least on let's say for example Friday morning Fajr is highly emphasized Friday is a very virtuous day and Thursday night is the night of Friday because the night comes in Islam at the time Isha is highly emphasized right as somebody could pick those two I'm going to try to get those two in and so praying in congregation becomes really really important so سنة so it comes depending on the that the recommendation here is like what's called a highly emphasized right that somebody should try to do that somebody wants to say how close are you and me to following the of the we examine what are the things that he emphasized us doing and one of the things that he emphasized was to it strengthens the believers it strengthens the hearts it strengthens families when families in congregation so we're starting with talking about praying congregation in the masjid and then we're going to now talk about praying in congregation at home as well right so there's multiple degrees of reward so the absolute highest degree of reward is for for men to pray in congregation at the masjid that's the absolute highest degree of reward for women the higher degrees of reward are actually to pray at home actually to pray at home and there's very very I don't know all the wisdoms of these things but there's very practical reasons for this as well right like if everybody was going to the masjid who's going to take care of everything going on at home for each single prayer right as one example especially when there's young children and so on and so forth involved this is not it but the women will get the same reward there's a hadith where the prophet SAW said that SAW that for women the homes are better for them to pray and that a women's prayer in the in the home is better than her prayer in the masjid better than her prayer in the masjid and so it doesn't mean women can't pray in the masjid that's not what's being referred to but the emphasis and the ruling is not the same for women they're not for men if a man like consistently just disregard this for somebody who's trying to attain a higher rank of spirituality it's a problem if somebody just especially if somebody who lives in a close to a masjid it would be it would be a problem but for women no problem at all the flexibility is completely given and it's emphasized and recommended to pray at home now that doesn't mean that if a woman wants to come it's a problem it's that there are some people who might like try to deduce that in certain cultures but that's not at all the case the masjid is a place for the Muslims the masjid is a place for men and for women the masjid is a place for both praying for education for dua for community building and so on and so forth we're talking here about like the hard time comes if someone is really trying to get closer and closer they're going to find a way at least every now and then to make sure for a man to go to the masjid and pray when the hard time comes right women that that kind of emphasis and requirement isn't there and so we're talking now about a significant amount more reward number one and in doing so and the importance of following the sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ so then we get into the etiquettes of the jama'a right and then we get into sorry jama'a in at home so praying to at home is really important if possible so if somebody is at home and it's like the hard time it's that time comes in and it's possible to pray in jama'a but it's like I'm just going to do it by myself at different times that would not be advisable it's something haram with it get the prayer and get the prayer in just getting the prayer in is a big deal anytime we're just getting it in even even these days like we miss prayers just making it out like getting something in but we're talking about now higher states of virtue right that praying and congregation so for the two spouses to pray together is highly highly virtuous right for the entire family to pray together highly virtuous right the father the mother the children right whoever else happens to be visiting in the home but to make our homes places of where the congregational prayer is established if you remember Allah says in the Quran it's not just that you pray you establish the prayer establishing the prayer is important establishing the prayer means for ourselves for our family members for our children for our loved ones without a level of like this shouldn't be establishing it and encouraging it is very very important and praying in congregation is one way so if if somebody grows up praying in congregation in their entire life right a boy a girl whoever it is they won't be in a rhythm of missing their prayers because their father their mother whoever their parents emphasize that we're praying as a family at least a few prayers a day right I know people this has been the case and for the prayers that they prayed with their families the prayers that they had to pray by themselves they're a little bit more loose on right and so the congregational prayer has further extensive further extensive benefits in addition to this now what the what the rulings on this say what the the rulings on on this topic say that the reward for congregation is given when you pray anytime in congregation the reward for but the reward for praying in the masjid is definitely greater definitely greater than praying at home right but the reward for sure according to many of the scholars is there but there's an extensive reward for getting to the masjid waiting for the prayer and so on and so forth now if you think about the one of the scholars mentioned that if you're thinking about the amount of time that somebody has to pray right and the solidification of their prayer when they try to pray in by following this there's going to be a lot of like things that you can see that the benefits and there's a lot of unseen benefits that start to come when someone follows a hadith of the prophet there's benefits happening in all of the realms for you and me not just benefits that you visibly see it's like okay great pray with people catch up with them whatever else it is but like there's a lot there's the amount of newer that entering right a barakah that comes into somebody's time somebody might say I don't have enough time to do this right but if somebody prioritizes what the Prophet ﷺ preferred Allah will expand the time that they do have and this is this happened Allah expands time so an hour for somebody they could get more done in that hour than the three hours somebody had or the 20 minutes somebody saved by saying I'm not going to go out of my way but within you know what's possible for somebody it's like someone lives 30 minutes from the masjid not saying go 30 minutes each way for every single prayer but if somebody is able to go every now and then for a congressional prayer yeah that's definitely considered a virtuous thing and to know that there will be there will be reward with that so that gets to the level of congregational prayer and now we're going to get into how exactly does the congregational prayer work so there's an Imam and what are the requirements in terms of following the Imam so among the requirements there are that somebody actually follows what the Imam is doing you don't perceive the Imam in their movements right the Imam has yet to bow and go into ruku we don't rush into ruku right the Prophet ﷺ told us we have to follow the Imam of the of the prayer yes no no but we're talking about when the Imam is leading the prayer we follow the Imam and this is this is for some of us it might be I go this is kind of basic knowledge but we would be surprised right like a lot of us just didn't learn this I remember one time I met somebody and we were at somebody's house and we were about to pray in congregation and they were like but what do I do and I was like I follow the recitation and follow like what do you mean what do you do like I've never prayed I've never prayed in congregation my whole life and this was this was somebody who was Muslim you know probably in their 20s but they just had never prayed they never saw the Jama'a prayer being done and they they didn't know what to do and they lived in a country where and this was a woman who never gone to the masjid and so like okay this is reciting and so on and so forth so that's that's kind of step number one in terms of once we actually get to the prayer right and there's not like a ton to get into here it's really just we follow the Imam and we try to get to the first row as much as possible there's a lot of hadith for the Prophet ﷺ told us to try to reach the first row and statements where he said the second thing is part of the prayer is to try to keep the rows straight and what the Prophet ﷺ told us here is that you will straighten your rows or Allah will cause disagreements to come between your hearts so the rows of the Muslims when praying should not be like completely lopsided somebody's here somebody's here they should be straight and even which is why in most masjid there's a line so there's usually like a healer on a line in order to keep the row completely straight right and it comes صحابة that we have seen a time when nobody ever stayed back from the congregational prayer and he said except for the hypocrites whose hypocrisy was well known he's emphasizing here at that time right it was just not common for the صحابة to stay back if you were a companion of the Prophet ﷺ and you were of course why would you not want to pray behind the Prophet ﷺ you want to get every prayer behind it but even in they had their own locales where they were praying at the masjid that happened to be in their neighborhood or wherever it's not all been lived right next to the masjid but the congregational prayer was like hey shops closed it's time to pray right and they would do that among the etiquettes of the congregational prayer is to keep the صورة at medium length you do not if you're leading the prayer you do not really you don't read at that time you also you know don't just read صورة أخلاس right you don't just like read كل الله I had every time the goal is to keep it at it's emphasized to read some of the longer صورة or some of the medium size صورة in the just 29 and there and just 30 of the Quran right of course unless you're talking about listening to recitation that they don't always do themselves most of the time when someone is praying in congregation they're praying behind somebody who is many times the Hafiz of the Quran or many times they know more Quran than we might right and so it's hugely beneficial to learn that versus again only reciting what we know which may be on the shorter side right so there's extensive benefit why Fajr and Isha as well to hearing the out loud recitation so there was there's there's there are so there also hadith warning men against missing the prayer now for the sake of the time we live in I don't know if it's you know contextually the best idea to mention them but if anybody wants to read them they are in the book you know page 65 of the book to just understand a little bit more depth on how much the Prophet ﷺ emphasized it like it was really important to him and so if you and I want to try to attain for us right that's at the end of the day if somebody you love and they tell you to do something you'll say okay I'm going to do my best we may fall short we will fall short let's say I'm going to do my best right we want to we want to be careful of we want to understand and we want to be careful of being like that was for their time doesn't apply to me anymore which is a common argument or statement heard you know many times in the so then we're going to get into into and the importance of what exactly happens in terms of but before we do that any questions on this topic how do you know what to say how do you know what you say because somebody clarified the question to the brother who asked what do you know what you say any questions yeah yeah that's totally fine I promise to some said for the men to pray in the Masjid and for the women to pray alone yeah so yeah to pray at home but it doesn't require congregation right so the the high emphasis of congregation is not on the woman right but it is on the men so if you are leading in prayer yes that's good for the days that you can't make it to the Masjid for short and so um but if you are able to come yeah she's totally totally okay for her to pray alone yeah and higher of higher virtue for you for sure to come to the Masjid um and for her to pray at home versus you skipping coming to the Masjid in order to pray in congregation if that makes sense if the order of priority be Masjid for you in home for her if not both of you congregation together if that's not possible and pray separately at different times does she have the same reward for things praying in congregation so yeah there's a lot of hadith that women will get the same if not more reward for men in certain actions for doing entirely different actions so I don't have all the hadith in front of me but for example um when it comes to things like congregational prayer when it comes to things like Jihad uh right these are not requirements for women they are doing what they are supposed to be doing right and supporting they get the same if not more reward and I can dig up those hadith for for next time can you please explain praying five times a day yeah this must so in Islam five times a day because this is what Allah what God has legislated for us so there is a prayer there's a very very specific prayer there's um units in each prayer and there's a specific prayer done in the morning right about an hour and a half before sunset at the break of dawn there's a prayer that's done it's two units there's a prayer that's done in the noon time there's a prayer that's done in the afternoon time there's a prayer that's done at sunset and there's a prayer that's done at night time and those are the required prayers for somebody to do if somebody wants to do they're more they're welcome and there's a there's a structure and a format so when we say praying in Islam we don't just mean asking God like what we call supplication or making that's not what we're referring to we're referring to a specific format of where we recite our holy book the Quran and where we have very very specific movements associated with it so hopefully that answers the question yeah you've asked what are these thoughts on the Sof the Sof is an absolute essential part of the religion of Islam when practicing appropriately and that's according to all of the Imam according to Imam Shafi according to Imam Malik according to Imam Ahmed Cho Superman and according to Imam Abu Hanifa رضي الله أن there are three main aspects in order for you to start to complete إسلام. إسلام is a belief. إسلام is the five pillars. And your thick is how you perform those five pillars. And the soul is the purity of the heart. And the idea of actually successfully trying to worship Allah with concentration and focus and actually have depth to your religion versus just surface level. And that is the actualization of إحسان. All of these can be found in the Hadith of God. And all of these are sound. And there is not a Hadith that you and I have received today or a narration of the scholars that we have received today, except that it was passed down by people who practice what's called true truth. Not people who practice incorrectly. So yeah, that's the understanding. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So go ahead and move on. Any other questions? All right. So I'm moving right along to جمه. So جمه, also this is now obligatory for men to come. Not obligatory for women. For women to come to جمه. But it is obligatory for men. So a man cannot miss جمه. So if you're talking about major medical emergencies and things like that, would someone have a رقصر or a dispensation to miss جمه. Work is not a rقصر, let's say in this case to miss جمه. That conversation has to be had because this is now something that Allah made obligatory on us to come. So we're talking, referring here to جمه as the congregational prayer of Friday, which is done at around the overtime. Right. And that's what we refer to when we're talking about جمه. As long as somebody makes that, they'll catch جمه. Right. So this is جمه has immense immense benefits. Among the benefits it is a gathering of the believers and gatherings of the believers have angels present. And there's immense lights being poured forth on جمه. And it is an important aspect of allowing the believers to all congregate together and hearing a reminder that remind for reminding benefits the believers. So جمه, reminding when you hear a sermon, right, and hopefully it's something that hits somebody deeply and benefits you and benefits me, right, to hear that. So جمه has that component as well. In addition to all the other, you know, you see the believers, you get to check on how people are doing and so on. Right. Somebody just go to the speaker, turn the volume up and leave behind that speaker. Just want to make sure everybody can hear. Just volume. Just volume. Just a little bit louder. So there we go. A little bit more. Yeah, that should be good. Thank you. So جمه is that's referred to as the Friday prayer in English, right? It's important to go. It's important to be focused and it's important to be part of the heart of the man who neglects three Friday prayers because he holds them in light estimation will be sealed by God. The heart. We're talking about the spiritual heart, not the physical heart. It's worth unpacking here. Who literally is like, it's not a big deal. I don't gotta go. I don't have to go. Holding them in light estimation. For somebody who let's just say God, something comes up, they can't go and it might happen multiple weeks in a row. That's that's different. Once is a big enough deal. Missing it two weeks in a row is a bigger deal. Missing it three weeks in a row and you know, that's that's not the right. You don't want to miss it three weeks in a row. You really want to make sure to pray جمه. At most somebody misses once and then catches the next one and misses once catches the next one. If again, they're caught up in something and they're unable to make it. In which case, if you miss جمه you pray the heart, right? But if you catch جمه then you obviously you pray جمه. So what the Imam recommends here is when somebody is thinking I don't want to go to the Friday prayer imagine that there was somebody at the prayer handing out big bags of money big bags of money and would you be motivated to go if you knew that somebody was at the prayer handing out $250,000 to everybody who comes to the prayer and if you would be motivated to go then but you weren't motivated to go before there's a problem in our faith. Right. Because we're now motivated by the material and we're not motivated by the spiritual. And so that's like he says use that as a as a weighing of like how much do you really care about this. Right. Now everybody is at a different step in their stage in their life. When someone is really struggling with their it's not it's not recommended by any means to forcefully like drag them and we have to be really tactful here. So this is we're talking about our individual self it's not on everybody else to be like oh my cousin doesn't go to now I'm going to drag him with me and you know do this and so on and so forth. There's no compulsion in religion. It's important for you and me to know it's a requirement and then for us to implement it for ourselves not to forcibly try to make other people come it's good to encourage other people to come. So this is we're talking now here about ourselves. There are very few excuses that would be given to just for gojumma entirely. Among the excuses if somebody again talking about sickness major stomach issues that they have to be really close to a restroom and so on and so forth. Those types of things of course they're pardoned the religion is not meant to be not meant to be like that or someone has to you have to take care of a sick person that specifically mentioned here right and that you can't leave them alone right then yeah for sure you stay with them at home right like if a child your wife the husband mother father so on and so forth they're really sick they're struggling in their the only one who can be there of course we need to be there but the the goal always though should be okay if I can I'm going to go right if I can I'm going to go now let's talk practically about what this means with regard to work because most of us work or in school or something right there's two things to remember here one is usually the conversation is difficult to have with our you know workplace our managers whoever it is because it falls right in the middle of the day so there's a couple of things to keep in mind here the first thing is to remember how important this prayer is it's literally emphasized above the prayers right that is how critical it is the second thing is to remember who the true boss is not our boss in this world so sometimes like oh what's my team going to say what's my manager going to say whatever situation we're at with work but remember who's the real person that we at the end of the day have to answer that person sorry who do we have to answer to at the end of the day we have to answer to Allah Allah is the ultimate boss he is the boss of our boss he is the boss of all the bosses of all the men of all the people who may tell us yes or no and so you don't disobey a lot in order to obey the creation that's important to us sometimes we might think well no they said I can't go well that's not sufficient right you don't disobey a lot in order to obey the creation there has to be a way to negotiate that now practically what did with someone do number one I would recommend if we're at work to say hey I have about 45 minutes to an hour I need on Fridays I'm not going to take my lunch and instead I'm going to take this time for lunch that's the first thing if they say no to that say I will come in earlier and stay later in order for me to make up that time highly unlikely if they say no if they say no to that talk to HR and say there's a religious they're not respecting equal employment and there's a religious discrimination going on because they actually have to respect that depending on the state that you live in and those I wouldn't recommend often right that's like really escalating it but those three someone should very easily be able to do so someone is in a job where they have control over their time and their calendars and whatnot we always should block off the time for so much right just out Friday prayer with no people block off time for doctors appointments for dentists appointments think about the last time somebody said hey don't do your dentist appointment nobody said that everybody's like yeah go do what people block off the time for all of these things so as Muslims we gotta make sure we block off time for this now we may have a test in this they may not be easy Allah will test us in our work he says your wealth and your and your families children it said their tests for you maybe testing us through our job you may test us through our employer you may test us through the requirements that they have or that they don't have we have to keep that in mind that it's not that oh well this is happening there's no no there's some test in it Allah wants to see how true are you and me in our belief how true are you and me in trying to obey the commandments of Allah so this is this is obviously really really important now when someone gets to then he talks about the reward for going to the Friday prayer right and so the people who go they are given significant significant reward such that the earlier you come the more reward somebody is given the earlier somebody comes the more reward that they are given but of course again um the the goal is just at least make it for for the most essential parts of it right try to try to make sure to walk that off then there's what is the importance of Friday in general so with the people of the past used to do known as the Salaf the Salaf early generations they used to make many of them Friday as like for sure a day to focus on the year after that's hard obviously with everything we have going on but what we should try to do is for us and this is now like applicable for everybody at least a portion of Friday where it's just I'm going to take out this time and it's just going to be focusing on the fact that one day I will die and one day I will meet Allah and how am I going to answer to him with everything that I may have done what am I going to do and we take ourselves to account we try to take that time out to learn knowledge we try to take that time out to we mentioned in the earlier classes that is a sunnah on Fridays that we should try to do that right we take out that time to do extra Quran I stress a lot to find the promises on them but Friday should be that day where it's like okay if there's going to be any day I'm going to try to carve out a little bit more time on Friday right at minimum but ideally a bit more I'm going to try to read a little bit more I'm going to try to learn a little bit more I'm going to try to do a bit more thicker I'm going to try to read a little bit more Quran because that goes a long way if that happens every single Friday for the entire life of the believer that's really going to add up and it's hard in our times it's tough every day it's just like there's life, there's work, there's family there's this, there's that and sometimes it's just like how is it where is the time going right but when we carve out in that fast-pacedness we have to make time we don't want to push it off and say I'll do it next week, I'll do it next week no we got to start now that this week we say okay I'm going to make some time on Friday for me to just develop further cultivate my relationship with Allah ideally alone time but alone time is very important with Allah as we talked about in the beginning you got to have your own individual relationship with God don't rely on other people's relationship with God to be your relationship we got to have our own relationship with Allah talk to him, we make dua to him we turn to him, we express our needs to him he's already aware of these things but it helps us out Allah wants us to show our humility before him until Friday becomes a very very important day to try to do that and if we cannot do it at the beginning of Friday or at the middle of Friday maybe at the end of it a little bit of time yes yes yes yes yes yes as city pension mentioned that the Friday formally starts for the Muslim right it's known as the night before it will start that it will start on post-Maghrib of that day so right now for example right in Islam the day of Thursday sorry Thursday formally has begun and tomorrow at Mughrib so Friday the way Friday will work is it starts at Mughrib on Thursday night and it's a little bit technical and then it will finish by Mughrib so Jumma formally is done by that Mughrib right of Friday it's not like it finishes at 12 am our we're based on sunrise and sunset we're not based on 12 am 12 pm that type of thing right so that's important too to remember so Friday has a lot of virtues and so the main takeaway here is to try and um to try and just focus a little bit of extra time on that day and if we can't do it on Friday okay we do it on another day but we try to emphasize it on this day so what he says here is free yourself every Friday from all worldly distractions and try to devote this noble day entirely to the hereafter occupy yourself with goodness with movement towards Allah watch carefully for the times in which the eye is requested for it comes in a narration that there is a time on Friday when the eye is accepted right and somebody should ideally someone is portions of the day just trying to make dua hoping that that time comes for the eye is accepted some of the opinions say that it is the time between us or Mughrib on Fridays if we can do it at that time if we can take out a little time let's say right now it's us or comes at 3.30 and Mughrib at 5.30 if we take out like 4.30 to 5.30 I'm going to just make this time me and God doing some vicar doing some many of the times maybe our work has ended already because it's Friday if people pick up early if not okay no worries we do it in the morning or some other point but Friday becomes an important day to try to develop that relationship