 وَأَقُولُ فِي القُرْعَانِ مَا جَاءَتْ بِيهِ آياتُهُ فَهُوَ الْكَارِيمُ الْمُنْزَالُهُ وَأَقُولُ قَالَ اللَّهُ جَلَّ جَلَالُهُ وَالْمُصْطَافَ الْهَاديِ وَلَا أَتْ أَوْوَالُهُ الثلاثة، إن شاء الله التعالى عبادة، وَجْدَ سَلَفْ رَحِمَهُمُ اللَّهُ يُسْ تَقَمْ وِدْ إِزْ ضبطُ لَعَمَل they had precision in their actions وَأَكْلِ الْحَلَانِ وَإِتِنَا وَتِسْ حَلَالَهُ وَهَيْ بِبْنُ الْوَرْضِهِ سَدْ لا يَقُنْ هَمُوا أَحَادِكُمْ فِي كَثَرَةِ الْعَمَلَةِ He said it shouldn't be the aspiration of any one of you to come with a lot of actions Don't make that your aspiration that you come with many many actions Then what should we do? وَلَاكْلِ يَقُنْ هَمُوْهُ فِي إِحْكَامِ وَتَحْسِينِ But rather be a person who thinks about mastering your actions as in being precise in what you do that I mean doing it in the right way being a person who masters what they do so it becomes easy for you to do it perfecting it and making it correct make that your aspiration فإن العبد قد يُصلِّ because a person can pray a lot وَهُوَ يَعْصِيْهِ but he is disobeying Allah in what? فِي صلاةِ in the salat that he is praying so he is praying a lot but he is disobeying Allah in the prayer وَقَدْ يَصُومُهُ he said a person may even fast وَهُوَ يَعْصِيْ اللَّهِ and he is disobeying Allah in his fasting وَلَوْ قُمْ تَقْيَامَ هَهِي سَارِيَهَ and then he said something powerful he said if you stand and you worship Allah and you stand up so still like this pillar so he pointed at the pillar in the masjid if you stand still like this pillar ما نفعك it won't benefit you يعني you're so calm you're so straight you are upright in your prayer it won't benefit you حتى تونظرى until you look at ما يدخل بطنك أحلال ام حرام until you look at what goes into your mouth and enters your stomach is it حلال or is it حرام so two things he mentioned ضبط العمل precision in your actions and also looking at what you eat your intakes أبو بكر رضي الله تعالى عنه his slave boy one day came to him فجاءه بي لبنين he brought to him a cup of milk فشاريب أبو بكر أبو بكر جرانك the milk after أبو بكر جرانك the milk the slave boy said to أبو بكر that he got this milk from كهانة تكنة تكنة بها he said I got this from this money came from where I bought the milk with fortune telling that I did and I'm not good at it he said فأدخل أبو بكر أبو بكر placed his finger يدهو his finger and he placed it in what if he put me into his mouth فقاء and then he vomited everything out everything that was in his stomach he vomited all out فقاء كل ما في بطنه وقال and then he said لو لم تخرج he said if you don't come out everything that's in me إلا مع خروج روحي if you don't come out everything that's in me except by me dying يعني by me taking my soul with it لا خرجتها I will do that to myself and then he said اللهم أو الله إني أعتدر إليك ما حملت العروق والأمع أو الله I ask forgiveness from you that which has entered my veins that I can't stop or entered my stomach I can't stop that أو الله I ask for your forgiveness in that and that you excuse me for that this shows you how they were people who stayed away from that which was harm number 19 في لزوم الطاعة وترك المعصية how they left of sins and they were consistent upon obedience سعيد من المسيب said ما أكرمت العباد أنفسها بمثل طاعة الله ولا أهانت أنفسها بمثل معصية الله سعيد said رحمه الله that the slaves they do not they haven't honored themselves they haven't honored themselves anything equal to the way that they can do it by obeying الله يعني there is nothing that is more honoring for a person than obeying الله سبحانه وتعالى and there is nothing more humiliating ولا أهانت أنفسها بمثل معصية الله and there is nothing more humiliating than this obeying الله سبحانه وتعالى يعني the person becomes nothing insignificant and if you obey الله سبحانه وتعالى he becomes honorable ابن عينا سفيان من عينا said لم يجتهد أحد قط ابن عينا said there is no person who strives اجتهد and a striving there is not a person who strives a striving يعني he strives very hard ولم يتعبد أحد عبادة بأفضل من تركما نها الله عنه ابن عينا said there is not a person who strives or who worships الله سبحانه وتعالى better than the one who stays away from that which he was prohibited from يعني the best form of striving the best form of عبادة a person can come with is to leave of that which Allah prohibited from him سبحانه وتعالى Our mother عائشة رضي الله وتعالى عنها she said something powerful regarding this issue of لزوم الطاعة being consistent upon obedience of Allah and staying away from that which you've been prohibited from and staying away from the sins Our mother عائشة said إنكم لن تلقوا الله بشيء خير لكم من قلة الدنوب there is nothing you can meet الله عز و جل better than a minimal thing يعني the best way you can meet Allah is to have little bit of sins humans can't come without no sins but the best thing for you to meet الله عز و جل is that your sins are very little now we move on to the 20th point of the عبادة of the Salaf رحمه الله and this is concerning the fear of Allah سبحانه وتعالى how they were scared of Allah عز و جل ابن أبي مليكة he said ادرك to 70 من أصحاب رسولي الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ابن أبي مليكة said I met 70 of the companions of the Prophet كلهم يخافوا النفاق على نفسي and every one of them feared hypocrisy for himself every one of them and عمار رضي الله عنه who was a man who was promised Jannah alive while he was walking on this earth he was told he's going to enter Jannah عمار رضي الله عنه and the Prophet even went on to say that I went to your Jannah عمر I saw your Jannah عنابوب عمار رضي الله عنه is from the 10 who promised Jannah 10 من بشرين بالجنة مع ذلك he came to Hudayفة تبنه اليمن and he said to him he said to him هل ذكراني رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم هل ذكراني رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم مع من ذكرى من المنافقين did the Prophet mention me did the Prophet state me with the hypocrites was I mentioned with the hypocrites عمار رضي الله عنه he's scared he's scared of being from the hypocrites that's how the Salaf الصالح was the pious predecessors رضي الله تعالى عنهم the final and last عبادة the 21st which is the final عبادة that the Salaf رحمه الله used to come with that I'm going to mention and conclude with is ألست عداد للآخرة preparation for the hereafter مسلوق البلعبد الرحمن he said إذا بلغ أحدكم 40 سنة if one of you reaches 40 years of age فليأخذ حضراه take your precautions your time is now ending 40 years if you reach it take your precautions فليأخذ حضراه أبو حمزة he said about صفيان about صفوان ابنو سليم أبو حمزة said about صفوان ابنو سليم we spoke about صفوان ابنو سليم before it was said about him ولو قيل له غدا يوم القيامة tomorrow is the day of judgment if it was said to صفوان ابنو سليم tomorrow is قيامة يوم الآخرة is tomorrow ما كان عنده مزيد على ما كان عليه من العبادة there was nothing more that صفوان ابنو سليم could do أبو حمزة he said أبو مسلم الخولاني you said لو قيل لي if someone was to come to me now and to tell me إن جهنما تسعر that jihannam is coming is roaring this direction it's coming to me مستطعتو أن أزيد في عملي I have no knowledge I don't know and I don't believe I have the ability to add on to any of my actions right now يعني جهنم is coming and I was said you're going to die right now hey quickly what are you going to do I wouldn't know anything I can add on to what I'm already doing أبو حزيمين he said ما أحببت أن يكون معك في الآخرة فقدمه اليوم وما كريت أن يكون معك في الآخرة فترك اليوم بحاثو أدوائيس ما أحبت أن تكون لك لكي يكون لكي يومي then put it forward today and whatever you want or so whatever you hate to be with you the day of judgment then stay away from it now think about it whatever you want to be with you the day of judgment put it forward and whatever you dislike and you hate for it to be with you the day of judgment then stay away from it now avoid it this truly gives us an understanding of the Salaf رحمه الله that their عبادة was holistic all of those جوانب all of those perspectives all of those angles that I've spoken about they were the forefront and it shows you that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم this is the type of people he nurtured and this is the type of teaching he left behind عليه الصلاة والسلام I encourage you all إن شاء الله و تعالى to take notes of these points إن شاء الله و تعالى to place it somewhere close to you that whenever you feel that your Eman is low whenever you feel that you're not doing as much as you want to do that you take it forward and you look at these points and you try to rectify your life with it I myself have learned a lot from this preparation of this lecture it's truly been an encouraging Eman boost for myself and I don't think I was the most fitest person to talk about this topic and this topic itself requires a person who has a bad debt a person who is hard working a person who has those qualities and I definitely am very short on those things may Allah forgive me for what you guys don't know about me and make me better than what you think of me also I would encourage you all to go to the كتاب طريق الهجرتين by ابن القيام this كتاب طريق الهجرتين by ابن القيام he has written down a daily routine for the student of knowledge a daily routine not for the student of knowledge sorry he has written a daily routine for every Muslim يعني when you wake up until you go to sleep what you should be doing إن شاء الله تعالى if there's life remaining for us إن شاء الله تعالى and we live on I will take that part of the كتاب and make an explanation on it and discuss it and talk about it إن شاء الله تعالى anything I might have said that was wrong or incorrect it's from me and Shaytan and Allah and his messenger are free from it سبحانك اللهم وبحمدك أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله أستن في روكا واتبولي