 My brothers and sisters, be aware of God, the way He deserves to be aware of, and don't die without having surrendered to Allah. We begin by thanking God. We thank Allah. We thank Him endlessly, because anything we have is not from ourselves, it's from Him. We thank Him for taking care of us, even when we forget Him. We thank Him for taking care of us, even when we neglect Him. We thank Him for taking care of us, even when we may be disrespect, may Allah protect us, be gentle and forgiving. We thank Him for giving us, even when we don't thank Him. We continue to praise Allah, because He's so praiseworthy. He's amazing. God is amazing. Subhan Allah. He's incredible. He's majestic. He's magnificent. He's tremendous. He's towering. There is no one like Him, so we praise Him. And our praise falls short, no matter what. Then we remind ourselves that we weren't made for this world. We weren't made for this world. Then what world was I made for? What world were we made for? Something much greater, much bigger, much more long-lasting. And you're going to live there one day. You're going to be there one day. And then we continue to warn ourselves, are we preparing for that day, for that life, or are we too hypnotized by this world, by all the gifts that the Gifter gave us? Are we forgetting the Gifter? Are we preparing for our next life? So we warn ourselves that you're going to go back to your maker, and he's going to ask you. And that question is going to begin in the grave. Who is your Rabb? You say it 153 times a day, if you just pray the five daily prayers. You say 153 times a day, because three times in Sujood, that's nine times a ruka, you pray 17 rukas. 153 times a day you're saying, my Rabb, you are my Rabb. So the first question you're asked in the grave, man rabbuka. So 153 times a day you're saying, my Rabb is. So the first question you're asked, man rabbuka, who is your Rabb? The first verse revealed in the Quran to our prophet in the cave, you guys all know the story. I seek refuge with Allah from the accursed Satan, in the name of Allah the Merciful. Who is your Rabb? So today as we come this Friday, to find our Lord, to find our Rabb, to readjust, reacclimate our purpose of existence, to remind ourselves why I actually was created, right? The question for us today is, I want you to ask yourself, you probably have a lot of different kinds of shoes. What kinds of shoes do you have? What kind of shirt do you have? What kind of car do you have? What kind of hair do you have? What kind of physique do you have? Are you muscular? What kind of smile do you have? What kind of school do you have? What kind of bank and money portfolio do you have? What kind of socks do you have? I want these kind of socks, not those. These are cooler, these are nicer. What kinds of glasses do you have? And then we think, I want this kind of hair, I don't want that hair, so we work on it. I want this physique, I don't want that physique, so we work on it. I want these, what kind of grades do you have in school? I want these grades, not these kinds of grades. I want this kind of car, so we work on it, not that kind of car. I want this kind of look, I want this, so what kind? We have all these different kinds. And so, just like there's a lot of different kinds of shirts and shoes and shorts and pants and hairstyles, right? And physiques and clothes and car and schools. And you choose, Allah gave you the choice. Oh, I want this kind of hairstyle, I want this kind of pants, I want this kind of hat. What kind of hat do you have? I want this kind of... And so, the question for all of us today is, what kind of heart do you have? What kind of heart do we each have? Because there are different kinds of hearts. So what kind of heart do you have? Do you have? And these are all Quranic hearts, there's so many different hearts in the Quran. So just like we work and choose our hairstyle, you can choose the kind of heart you have. And so there's hearts in the Quran, there are rusty hearts. Ran, barran ala qulubihim. Ran, there's rusty hearts, there's sick hearts, sick, fi qulubihim marat. There are hard hearts, there are hard hearts, like stones, like rocks, kal hijara. These are all in the Quran. Now ask yourself, I'll ask myself, we all ask ourselves, what kind of heart do I have? There's also dead hearts. There's also hearts with locks on them. Afala yatadabbaruna al-Quran. Am'ala qulubin aqfaluhah. Locked hearts with a lock. Where's the key? There are sealed hearts, sealed, like they're sealed, they're closed. Right? So there's all these kinds, and then there are other kinds of hearts. The kalba salim, the salim, the one that's flawless, the one that's sound. Then there's the heart that is mu'tuma innah, the one that's tranquil and peaceful. And then there's the heart al-muneeb, the one that turns to God. So my question for all of us today is, you chose your hairstyle, you chose your pants, you chose your style, you chose your style, you chose your language, you chose the music, you're kind of music, you chose your kind of coffee, you chose your kind of sandwich that you get when you're... You kind of ice-cream, you might like chocolate or you might like the vanilla. You might like the Ben and Jerry's full of all the stuff or you might like the the fruit flavors So you have a style you chose this and so What kind of a heart do we have? Because and that's all that matters And if we we are here we come on Fridays to remember our purpose of existence Turn to God he accepts those who turn to him Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. Thank you, Allah. Thank you for giving us Islam the recipe for happiness Thank you for giving us Islam. Yeah, Allah the recipe for happiness. Thank you for all these endless blessings So there's two Remedies that we're gonna share today That wherever my heart is this is medicine for my heart imagine you never brushed your teeth That's the grossest thing ever Your teeth will be Brown and black and green and they're gonna hurt you and they're gonna become sick and they're gonna become rusty and They're gonna become stones and they're gonna die May Allah protect us from that right Imagine your body Right your hair. Maybe you if you never wash your hair if you never comb your hair If you never condition your hair if you never perfume your hair, what's gonna happen to it? It's gonna become crusty and rusty. It's gonna smell bad It's gonna become sick diseased Right Imagine your body you never washed it. You never cleaned it. What's gonna happen? No one's gonna be want to smell you. No one's gonna want to see you. No one's gonna want to talk to you You're gonna stink Right Imagine you leave Some a piece of sandwich outside or piece of cheese. What happens to it? It becomes rusty and it becomes crusty and it starts to smell bad and starts to become moldy and it stinks and No one wants to get near it Because it's not being washed and cleaned and fed and given medicine and taken kids not nourished So how about your heart? Are you nourishing your heart? How about our hearts? Are we nourishing our hearts? Because if we don't nourish our heart the same thing happens just like our teeth Just like our hair just like our body Our heart becomes stinky Our heart becomes rotten our heart becomes rusty. No one then wants to be close to our heart No one wants to be near our heart Because it's not being nourished just like your body you walk walking is an exercise you do exercise you clean yourself You're nourishing it so people can come next to you. You smell nice You smell good But what happens to the heart if we don't nourish it and clean it and wash it it also becomes Disease then becomes sick and rusty, but just like Just like if if I don't brush my teeth. I Don't smell my own bad breath But everyone else can If I don't take a shower and I don't put deodorant on I Don't smell my I don't smell my odor, but everyone else can and the same thing with the heart I don't see all the ill and filth and grossness that's pussing and oozing out of my heart But everyone else can and so today we're here to wash our hearts and that's what this Religion is Islam Islam Allah is amazing. He's beautiful. He understands us. He made us. He designed us, right? He designed us. He designed Islam. He knows that we make mistakes Right and so that's why he's at Tawab He accepts those who turn to him and so we We need to wash our hearts two ways, right? So the first way The first way, okay Allah says in the Quran Fela yetadabbarun al-Qur'an. I'm a lot. I'm a lot of loob and a faluha Allah says he says Subhanahu wa ta'ala. He says yetadabbarun This is a very important word al-Qur'an. He didn't say yaqra'un al-Qur'an He didn't say do they not read Quran or are on their hearts locks He didn't say read the Quran. He didn't say Ya'fawun, memorize the Quran. Those are all important reading the Quran and rising that is all important But what causes the the lock on the heart is when we don't yetadabbarun al-Qur'an. What does that mean? One time I was sitting in a class and There was a teacher teaching in Arabic and there was a translator translating for all the English speaking students and some Someone asked the question. They said sheikh Tell me tell me what I need to do the bare minimum I need to do in America Just to like to be to be you know close to a lot the bare minimum so the teacher said You know other than your fard your fard prayers. He said and he said pray doha pray with it and and and read Quran with tadabbur He said pray the morning doha Sunnah Doha he said pray the witter before you go to bed Sunnah or watch it and then pray and then read Quran with tadabbur So the translator was there and so he translated he said the sheikh says you need to do three things You need to pray the doha you need to pray witter and you need to read Quran And I was like oh and he stopped Because he didn't he there was a key word that the sheikh said Ma tadabbur he said read Quran with tadabbur with what with understanding with contemplation So that's the first remedy to wash our hearts so our hearts don't stink So our hearts don't become rusty and gross where everyone else can see all this ooze Filth coming out number one. We're gonna read a portion of the Quran with understanding Are we in this is number one Maybe you're 10 years old. Maybe you're 12 years old. Maybe you're 15. Maybe you're 19 Maybe you're 22 and you've been coming to Saturday school and Sunday school and Muslim school in the Friday prayer And maybe you've memorized this amount of the Quran and read this amount of the Quran and this but did you ever read to? Understand what God's telling you So reading the Quran with tadabbur with understanding the second remedy that we have so we can avoid those gross hearts Those ugly sick hearts is based on a hadith of our prophet And this hadith is beautiful. It's amazing and the hadith says by Ibn Umar radiallahu anhu ma narrated by Tirmidhi in a Sahih hadith He says Don't talk too much without Remembering Allah Fa inna kathrata kalami be gayri dhikr Allahi ta'ala qaswatun lil qalb Because talking a lot without doing dhikr Of Allah Hardens the heart Wa abad annaasi min Allah Al qaswat al qalb al qasi and the furthest people from God are the hard hearts So we want to avoid hard hearts. We want to avoid locked hearts sick hearts rusty hearts Dead hearts, diseased hearts, and these are our two remedies number one a portion of the Quran that we read with understanding contemplating And two dhikr Dhikr has it's a spiritual nourishment You know when you brush your teeth with your toothbrush and you put toothpaste that's like the toothbrush of the heart The toothpaste of the heart, you know when you take a shower and you put soap. That's the soap of the heart dhikr You know when you take medicine because we're sick And it makes us feel better with Allah's will Allah makes us feel better through the medicine Using Allah makes us feel better connection with the medicine This is like the medicine of the heart That's right. This is like the medicine of the heart Now, let me ask you something. Do you know what ingredients are in are in thailand all? No Do you know what ingredients are in ibuprofen? No But you still take it in benadryl. No And now you might say well vikr. I don't feel it. How is it making me better? How is it curing me? How is Allah, it's in the Quran The ultimate not the doctor said Allah said the one who created the doctor So we leave today relieve this friday prayer with two things We read a portion of the Quran every day if you're reading nothing Then make it one line If you're reading nothing make it half a page But don't go to bed without saying good night to god After he gave you everything all day, you don't say good night It's like it's like you're invited to a lunch or a dinner And then you drink your tea and you walk out And you don't say thank you to the host You don't say goodbye to the host. How rude how rude Allah's hosting us Allah's hosting your soul in your body Allah's hosting you in your home Allah's giving you your job giving you your money You don't want to say good night to Allah's panel to Allah in a manner befitting to him So we think we read a little bit of his words Right and don't let Quran don't excuse me. Don't let shaytan trick you And make you have such a high lofty goal I have to read a whole 20 pages that we skip it. No start with one line start with one line Right adwamuha wa anqaal. Allah loves most of all the consistent even if small And the second thing we leave with today is a portion of dhikr every day Portion of dhikr Right dhikr is remembering God in the morning and in the evening and whatever you're doing today some some staghfirullah Ya Allah forgive us to clean the heart some some la ilaha illa Allah to remove the rest of the heart And some Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammad prayers on the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Right sallallahu alayhi wa sallam To help us and relieve us and make us feel better and these are prophetic prescriptions Quranic prescriptions they come from the ultimate being that doesn't help us manage our body. He created our body Much smarter than all the doctors Alhamdulillah Allahumma salli wa sallam wa barak ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbiman wa lah Ya Allah please bless us Ya Allah Ya Allah forgive us Ya Allah Ya Allah gather us in your paradise Ya Allah Ya Allah give us pure hearts Ya Allah Friendly hearts Ya Allah Gentle hearts Ya Allah Ya Allah don't let us return to you With unless you love us don't let us return to you with regret Don't let us go back to you remorseful for for anything Don't let us go back to you and unless you love us unless you're proud of us Ya Allah help us to reform our lives and reform our actions So we can live for you and breathe for you and walk for you and talk for you and die for you Ya Allah let our heart be a home for you Let our heart be a home for you Ya Allah you give us so much luxury You give us so much luxury We choose all of these things Ya Allah Help us choose the beautiful heart Ya Allah Help us beautify our hearts Help us have a portion of your words in the divine Qur'an Your words in the Qur'an every day And a portion of the Qur'an every morning and every evening Ya Allah we ask you Ya Allah to protect us from the torment of the Hellfire Ya Allah we ask you Ya Allah to bring together our families and our marriages Ya Allah and our communities Ya Allah Ya Allah help us beautify our hearts Help us nourish our hearts Ya Allah So they can be beautiful and beautiful aromas can come from them So it attracts people So it has lights from you so it attracts people Ya Allah Ameen Ameen And send peace and blessings on our best friend Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Our leader our role model our master And his family and companions and his wives and children And let us love all of them Ya Allah Let us be from them Ya Allah Wa Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen Remember Allah and he'll remember you Wa Shkuroohu Ala Niamihi Yazidkum And thank him and he will increase you Wa Aqim Al-Sala