 Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. May the peace and blessings of Allah SWT be upon you all. Alhamdulillahi wassalatu wassalamu ala Rasulillahi wa ala alihi wa ashabi yajmain. We commence in the name of Allah SWT the most forgiving, the most merciful. We seek the forgiveness of Allah SWT as well and we praise Allah SWT upon all conditions. We send blessings and salutations upon Muhammad SAW, his household, his companions. We ask Allah SWT to bless them all and to bless every one of us and to grant us goodness. My brothers and sisters calling out to Allah SWT in a way taught to us by Allah himself, by the Messenger, peace be upon him. And whenever we read a verse in the Quran where Allah is praising certain qualities of goodness, it is important for us to try and extract a way to seek the goodness from Allah. That was a Sunnah of the Prophet SAW. When he read verses of heaven and jannah and goodness, he always asked Allah SWT to grant that to him. And whenever he read verses of the fire, the punishment, those who were misfortunate, unfortunate, filled with misfortune, he always sought the protection of Allah from that type of a condition or from becoming from among those people. So today I want to commence with a verse where Allah SWT in Surah Al-Hujurat, verse number 7, describes goodness and he praises certain qualities. So a dua that is derived from that would be of benefit for all of us. Here is the dua. This means, O Allah, make Iman loved to us. Make us love Iman, belief in you, make it loved to us. Wazayinhu fi qulubina and beautify it in our hearts and make disliked to us. Disbelief, disobedience or disbelief, sin and disobedience. Al-Kufra wa al-Fusuqa wa al-'Isyana in that order. Disbelief, sin, disbelief, sin and transgression. So to go against the command of Allah, make it disliked to us. Wajalna min al-Rashideen would actually mean make us from among those who are righteous, guided among those who have a good understanding, a sound understanding of the Deen. So because Allah SWT praised these qualities and the people of these qualities in Surah Al-Hujurat, this is why we have derived words and these words have been said from the very first generation. The Sahab, radiAllahu anhum, and continuing all the way to this age and that's why it's important for us to use the same words to ask Allah SWT to grant that to us so that we can also be from among those whom Allah SWT has praised. Once again Allahumma habib, ilayna l'iman. O Allah make beloved to us, ilayna, believe in you. Wa zayyinhu fi quloobina and beautify it in our hearts. Wakarrih ilayna al-Kufra wa al-Fusuqa wa al-'Isyana and make disliked to us. Disbelief, Sin, and Transgression. And Make Us From Among Those Who Are Righteous, Rightly Guided, You Know, Filled With Wisdom, Etc. So This Is A Beautiful Du'a That We Should Be Calling Out To Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala With. I Want To Move On To Another Du'a. This Du'a Is Made Mention Of In Sunan At-Tirmidhi In The Hadith. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam Has Been Using These Words To Call Out To Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Very Comprehensive. You And I Know That There Is Something Known As Qunoot In The Night In Salatul Witr Just After Salatul Isha, The Odd Number Of Units That We Read Right At The End There Is A Du'a. This Du'a Is Known As Qunoot, Du'a Al Qunoot. You Know That Du'a Which Is Read In Qunoot With At Most Humbleness, Concentration, We Are Calling Out To Allah Just Before We've Ended Our Day. What A Beautiful Blessed Way Of Ending The Day. This Salatul Witr Is Something That We Should Never Be Missed In Fact, The Hadith Of Abu Huraira, RadiAllahu Anhu He Says, Osani Khalili, He Says My Best Friend. My Best Friend Has Given Me Some Words Of Advice. One Of These Pieces Of Advice Was An Uttira Qabla An Anama To Make Sure That I Fulfill The Witr Salat Before I Sleep. So That Was The Advice Of The Prophet Salallahu Alaihi Wasallam. I'm Sure Every One Of Us Can Take Heed And We Should Make A Greater Effort To Give This Salat Its Special Position And Its Importance. So We Have A Du'a That Is Made Within That Witr At Times And This Du'a Can Be Made At Any Time Any Place. Allahumma Qisim Lana Min Khashiyatika Ma Ta'hulu Bihi Bainana Wa Baina Ma'aseek. It's A Long Du'a It Starts Off With O Allah Grant Us Enough Of Your Or Grant Us A Sufficient Amount Of Fear Of You That Would Create A Barrier Between Us And Your Disobedience. That Is Amazing. So O Allah Let Us Have Enough Fear Of You That Would Create A Barrier Between Us And Sin Against You Whenever There Is A Sin To Be Committed Make Us Conscious Of You. So Khashiyat Would Also Mean Fear. It Could Mean The Consciousness Of Allah As Well. So O Allah Let Us Be Conscious Of You To The Degree That It Would Keep Us Away From Sinning. So This Is A Powerful Du'a Where We Are Asking Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Whenever There Is Something Wrong To Be Done O Allah We Would Like You To Keep Us Away From It. Let Us Have Enough Consciousness Of You Or Fear Of You That It Would Actually Keep Us Away From The Sin. Allahumma Qisim Lana Min Khashiyatika Ma Ta'hulu Bihi Bainana Wa Baina Ma'aseek. The Second Part Of That Du'a Is Wa Min Ta'atika Ma Tu Balli Guna Bihi Jannataka Wa Min Ta'atika Ma Tu Balli Guna Bihi Jannataka And Grant Us Sufficient Obedience Of You That Would Make Us Reach Paradise Which Is Our Goal. Obviously The Goal Is Paradise. So O Allah Let Us Have Enough Obedience. Let Us Be Obedient To The Degree That That Obedience Leads Us To Jannah And To Paradise. The Third Part Of That Hadith The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Used To Call Out To Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Wa Min Al-Yakini Ma Tu Hawwinu Bihi Alaina Masaibat Dunya This Is Amazing. Grant Us Enough Conviction In You Such Conviction That Would Make Easy For Us The Difficulties The Trials The Tribulations Of This World This Dunya. So We Are Asking Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala O Allah Give Us Yaqeen Give Us Conviction To The Degree That All The Problems That We Face On Earth Become Easy They Become Simple We Know That You Are There For Us We Know That What You'Re Doing Is The Best We Know That Whatever You Have Done You Are In Absolute Control You'Re Doing It For Us And For Our Benefit So This Is Yaqeen So Far We'Ve Asked For Three Things Number One Is We'Ve Asked For Enough Consciousness Of Allah That Could Be A Barrier Between Us And Sin We'Ve Asked For Obedience That Could Actually Let Us Reach Our Goal Of Jannah We'Ve Asked For Conviction That Would Make All The Difficulties Easy Then The Fourth Part Of The Dua Allahumma Mattiina Bi Asma'ina Wa Abusarina Wa Qowatina Ma Ahyaitana And In Another Narration Ma Abqaitana O Allah Grant Us The Good Use Of The Faculties Of Our Hearing, Our Site And Our Energy These Three Things The Physical Strength The Hearing And The Site O Allah Give Us Good Use Of These Things Because The Day You Take It Away From Us We Don'T Want To Regret How We Used It. So My Brothers And Sisters While We'Re Asking Allah To Give Us Good Use Of The Site That He Has Bestowed Upon Us The Hearing That He Has Given Us As Well As The Energy That He Has Given Us We Should Be Making An Effort To Use These Faculties Correctly. No Point In Only Asking Allah And Then We Do Whatever We Want And Then We Say Well I'Ve Asked Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala He Didn'T Give Me Well You Need To Make An Effort As Well. Imagine How Beautiful This Dua Is. The Prophet Peace Be Upon Him Is Asking For This Yet He Used To Use All Of These Faculties In The Best Possible Way. Imagine He Says In The Dua And Let These That The Good Use Of These Faculties Be Something That Lasts Long. It Lasts Right To The End Of Our Lives And It Goes Even Beyond That. You Know Al-Warif Is Generally Referring To The Air. So Let These Be Inherited From Us. What Is This? The Good Use Of These Faculties Let It Be Inherited From Us In Two Or Three Different Ways. Number One Let Us Be Able To Make Good Use Of These Faculties Right Up To The End Of Our Lives. Number Two Let The Reward Of The Good Deeds That We Have Done Through Our Lives Extend Even Beyond Our Lives. There Is Something Called Sadaqatunjariya Which Means A Charity That Would Last Long. You Know That Is Continuous Even After You've Passed Away. If You Have Delivered Knowledge, Taught Knowledge If You Have Been Charitable To The Degree That People Are Benefiting From Your Charities Even After Your Death, You Will Receive A Full Reward Of All Of That And That Is Very Very Important. It's Definitely Very Beneficial. Thirdly, Oh Allah, Let This The Good Use Of These Faculties Extend Even To Our Offspring And Those Whom We Leave Behind. Let People Benefit From It, Learn From It And Adopt It And Practice Upon What We Have Actually Left Behind We Will Be Rewarded For Having Left A Good Example. As The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam Says Mansanna Sunnah Hassanatan Falahu Ajoruha Wa Ajoruman Ameela Biha Ila Yawmil Qiyamati La Yankusu Dali Ka Min Ujoorihim Shay'an. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam Says Whoever Sets A Good Example, Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Will Grant Them The Full Reward Of Having Set The Example As Well As The Full Reward Of Anyone Who Practiced Upon That Example Right Up To The End. The Day Of Judgment Without A Decrease In Rewards For Any One Of Them. So That Is The Multiplication That Is Being Spoken About Even Here If You Used Your Faculties Of Hearing, Sight And Your Energy In A Way That People Learned From You To Make Good Use Of It. You Will Get A Good Reward For What You Did As Well As For What You Left Behind Right Up To The Day Of Piyamah And This Is Included In The Terms Wa Jaalhu Al-Wari Tha Minna That Oh Allah, Let It Be That Thing That Is Inherited From Us As Well. Wa Jaal Tha Arana Ala Manzala Mana Oh Allah, Let Our Revenge Be Precisely Upon Those Who Have Oppressed Us. Let The Proper Revenge Or Retaliation Be Upon Those Who Have Wronged Us. When Someone Has Wronged Us, Let Us Not You Know, Seek Revenge From The Wrong People. Sometimes You Don'T Identify The Criminal In The Proper Way. Sometimes You Might Be Accusing An Innocent Person Of Having Wronged You. This Happens A Lot. My Brothers And Sisters, I Have Come Across Cases Where People Say This Person Did This To Me And That Person Did That To Me. When They Did Not Do That To You, Someone Lied To You. Sometimes People Go To Fortune Tellers, They Go To People Who Claim To Be Religious As Well. And Unfortunately These People Shamelessly Take The Names Of Others And Say That Sister Or That Brother Or That Mother-In-Law Or That Daughter-In-Law Or Sister-In-Law Or That Uncle And Aunt Or That Neighbor Did Magic On You And They Have Wronged You. And So We Hate Them Right Up To The End. Whereas They Were Totally Innocent Of It. Shaytan Was Guilty Of Lying To Us Through The Lips Of Whoever We Believed. We Need To Be Careful Of This Because We Become Guilty And We Will Actually Bear The Burden Of That False Accusation Or That Dirty Suspicion. May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Grant Us Goodness. I Pause For A Moment. I Want To Speak About How Important It Is To Resolve A Matter, Solve A Matter If You Have A Physical Problem, A Health Matter, A Mental Psychological Issue, An Issue Within Your Home. You Need To Know That Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Will Grant You The Cure. If You Have The Cure, You Don't Need To Worry Too Much About Who Did What? Because That Is A Distraction That Will Now Make You Lose Relationships As Well As The Hereafter. If You Want To Stay Away From Someone For Some Reason, Alhamdulillah Because There Is Physical Evidence To Prove That They Did Something Perhaps Or They Did Not Like You Or They Have Said Words, Etc. You May Want To Stay Away In A Good Way. But If You Have Superstitious Ideas And You Are Doubting People, That Is Extremely Dangerous. What Is More Important Is To Cure Yourself Than To Know Who Did Something Especially When The Evidence Is Very Clandestine, May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Save God All Of Us. So Part Of This Dua, Wajal Thakrana Ala Man Zalemana, O Allah Let The Revenge And Retaliation From Us Be Upon Those Who Have Wronged Us. So Allah Takes Care Of This A Lot Of The Times Where People Have Wronged You And Allah Makes Them, You Know Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Makes Them Pay For That Wrong. You Did Not Have To Really Do Much. You Just Made A Dua To Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala. Then The Dua Continues. O Allah Grant Us Victory Over Those Who Have Fought Us, Those Who Have Enmity Against Us. Grant Us Victory Over Those Who Have Enmity Against Us. Don'T Let Them Succeed In Any Way. Look At How Comprehensive This Dua Is. I Actually Love This Dua And I Use It Very Very Often. I Try To Repeat It In Qunoot And I Try To Add It Into The Dua Of Qunoot Because Qunoot Has A Minimum And Then You May Add In It The Sunnah Dua's Of The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam And This Is One Of Them. So One Surna Aala Man Aadana. Wala Ta Jaal Musiibatana Fi Deenina O Allah Never Let A Difficulty Come Into Our Practicing Of Our Religion. Never Let Difficulty, Hindrance Come Into The Practicing Of Our Religion Or Into Our Religion. So The Deen O Allah Don'T Make A Museeba, A Hardship, A Difficulty, A Hindrance In Our Deen. In Our Deen Means Our Religion Number One And Two Is The Practice Of That Religion For Us. So For Example When We Need To Dress Appropriately Make It Easy For Us Or When We Need To Fulfill Salah Make It Easy For Us. Don'T Let A Hindrance Be Created Between Us And The Fulfillment Of Our Faith. This Is A Powerful Dua. Many Of Us Don'T Make These Duas Until We Are Stuck. You See The Problem Is We Forget Allah. We Only Think Of Him When We Have Problems. That Is A Fact. So People Who Have No Problem Wearing A Scarf, They Have No Problem For Example Dressing The Way They Have To According To Religion, They Have No Problem Going For Salat Or Fajr, Filling The Masajid, They Have No Problem You Know Reading The Quran Etc. They Will Not Thank Allah For That Opportunity And They Will Not Seize It. I Know Of Many Places Where There Is No Hindrance But People Don'T Obey Allah. And The Day The Prohibitions Come, The Bands Come, The Problems Come, Then They Are Quick To Say What Happened? We Can'T Follow Our Deen Anymore. Did You Ever Thank Allah The Day That You Could? No, You Didn'T. Or Maybe You Might Have, But Did You Ever Call Out To Allah To Say Oh Allah Don'T Ever Let That Happen To Us. Oh Allah Don'T Ever Let That Happen To Us. Many Of Us Have Not Cried To Allah With That. May Allah Forgive Our Shortcomings. What A Powerful Supplication? Oh Allah Don'T Let This Worldly Life, The Material Life Become The Main Object Of Our Living. Subhanallah. Don'T Make It Our Main Concern. The Main Worry That You Have, The Main Concern You Have Is This Worldly Life. Yes It Is A Concern, But It'S Not The Main Concern. Oh Allah Don'T Let The Material World Be Our Main Worry And Concern. What Is The Main Worry And Concern? Your Pleasure, Paradise, The Goodness, The Fulfillment Of The Obedience Of Allah, The Abstinence From The Prohibitions Of Allah, Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala, That Should Make You More Concerned. You Should Be More Worried And Concerned About That Rather Than About The Worldly Material Life. And There Is A Concern But That Concern Should Not Extend To The Point Of Becoming The Main Concern Of Your Living. Wala Mabla Ghail Mina And Oh Allah Do Not Let The Worldly Material Life Be The Extent Of Our Knowledge. You Know It'S Amazing How The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam Said This. Because What This Means Is Oh Allah Don'T Let The Material World Be Our Main Concern Of Living And Our And Our And The Height Of Our Knowledge. You Know The Main Concern Of Whatever We Learn Is To Do With Whether Or Not We're Going To Earn. I Want To Express Something That Many Of Us And Our Offspring Our Family Members The Muslim In A Guilty Of It'S A Reality Check. My Brothers And Sisters We Go To School We Go To Universities We Study We Get Jobs We Want A Salary Etc. All Of What We'Ve Learned Is Connected To Earning That'S It. All Of What We'Ve Learned Is Connected To Getting A Job Being Able To Earn Of Getting A Business Buying A Business Getting A Salary Whatever It Is Being Able To Have Something Material All Of It. But How Much Of It Is The Obedience Of Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Concern About Jannah Concern About You Know My Whether I Can Read The Quran Or Not Whether I Can Understand The Quran Many Of Us Can Be 60 70 Years Old We Might Have Earned Millions In Our Lives We Still Do Not Know The Meanings Of The Verses Of The Quran. That Not A Reality Subhanallah. So This Is Why Allah Says Oh Allah Allah Says To Us Through The Blessed Lips Of Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam To Make This Dua To Call Out To Allah To Say Oh Allah Don'T Let The Material Life Be Our Main Concern Or The Height Of Our Knowledge Everything We Learn Is About The Material Life Everything We Want To Know Is About The Material Life Today People Know Things Because It'S About The Material Life How Much Of Us Know Things That Will Help Us In The Hereafter May Allah Make It Such That We Take Heed I Mean. So This Is A Very Important Dua The Last Part Of It Is Wala To Sallit Alayna And In One Narration Oh Allah Do Not Impose Upon Us A Leader Who Will Not Have Mercy Upon Us Subhanallah Do Not Place In Authority Over Us Someone Who Won'T Have Mercy On Us That Is A Powerful Dua You'Re Asking Here For Leadership You Know This Is Political Leadership Or Someone Who Has Authority Over You Somewhere Anyway You Are Saying Oh Allah Don'T Let Anyone Who'S Not Going To Have Mercy On Us Have Authority Over Us What An Amazing Dua So These Are Beautiful Dua And In One Narration It Says Bi Dhunubina Meaning Oh Allah Because Of The Sins That We'Ve Committed Don'T Let Anyone Who'S Not Going To Have Mercy On Us Have Authority Over Us It'S Got To Do With The Sins Sometimes And It'S Also Got To Do With The Blessings Of Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Keep Asking Allah Call Out To Allah What A Beautiful Dua I'M Going To Repeat This Dua Insha'Allah For The Benefit Of One And All We Can Actually Say It In These Beautiful Blessed Days It Is Something Very Very Powerful Powerful Allahumma Qasim Lana Min Khashyatika Ma Ta'hulu Bihi Beinana Wa Biina Ma'asiyatik Wa Min Ta'atika Ma Tu Balliquna Bihi Jannatak Wa Min Al Yaqeeni Ma Tu Hawinu Bihi Alayna Masa'ib Al Dunya Allahumma Matti'ina Bi Asma'ina Wa Abusarina Wa Qowatina Ma Ahyeitana Ma Ahyeitana Wa J'alhu Al Wāritha Minna Wa J'al Tha'rana Ala Man Zalamana Wansurna Ala Man Aadana Wa La Taj'al Musiibatana Fi Dinina Wa La Taj'al Al Dunya Aqbara Hammina Wa La Mablagha Ilmina Wa La Tussallita Alayna Ya Rahamuna This Hadith is in Surah Al-Tirmidhi The meaning of it, O Allah Grant us Grant us conviction Grant us the consciousness of you to the degree that it will create a barrier between us and disobeying you and grant us obedience to the degree that it will lead us to your paradise and grant us conviction to the degree that it will make easy for us the difficulties of this world and O Allah Grant us the best use of the faculties of hearing, sight and the strength and energy that you have given us for as long as we are alive and O Allah let it be let it be something that is long lasting everlasting within our own lives and even beyond and O Allah let the revenge be upon those who have wronged us and assist us against those who have fought us or against those who have enmity against us and don't O Allah don't create for us difficulty in our deen or in the fulfilment of our deen and O Allah do not let this worldly life be the biggest concern that we have nor the height of our knowledge and do not place on us do not place on us one in authority who will not have mercy on us May Allah SWT bless us all and grant us goodness Insha'Allah in the next episode we will continue I will say this