 نبدأ بقصة الله ، نفكر الله ، نفكر نفسنا أننا لم نفعل هذا العالم ، نفكر نفسنا أن ننتهي إلى الله. الدنيا دار بلا ، هذا العالم هو المدينة من المدينة ، الله سبحانه وتعالى يقول فهدأ عود بالله من الشيطان الرجيم ، ولا نبلوانكم بشيء من الخوفي والجوعي ونقص من الأموالي والأنفسي والثمرات ، وبشير الصابري. الله سبحانه وتعالى يتجاوزنا في هذا المدينة من المدينة. بعض الوقت أننا نفكر أننا لدينا the right to expect perfection, but this is not heaven, this is not jannah. This is our journey to jannah. And as all of us are experiencing this life, we might have different tests, different difficulties. What is my test? What is yours? Someone might have a test of health, cancer, loss of life, a collapsing business, demotion, suspension, getting fired, a difficult marriage. All these different tests, a child who may be so heavy on our heart. And as we carry these tests, our invitation today is to reflect on who to for assistance, for aid, for help, for victory. And the question to ask ourselves that do we think we can bring victory to our own selves? Do we think have we كل إن الإنسان لا يضغى أن رأىه استغنة. When man went out of bounds, when he thought himself independent, independent, I don't need you. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And so relying on our strategy. Or are we turning to Allah? Who are we turning to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? So if we've been holding a problem, a struggle, an issue, a concern, what is the remedy? What are we pouring into that? To get that opening, to get that فتح. The invitation today is to the value and the power of ذكر in that solution. If we've been deluded to think that my esteemed strategies and my brilliant mind and my brilliant opinions are going to solve all of my problems and issues, then we are surely deluded. And so I want us, I invite all of us to think of potentially that concern, that problem, that difficulty we're carrying. And to explore a couple of verses in the Qur'an that relate to ذكر. The first one is with Prophet Yunus alaihi salam. Jonah. And we know his story. When he was in the darkness of the ocean and the darkness of the night and the darkness of the belly of the whale where no one can hear him and no one can see him and no one can sense him and no one can help him. الله. Our Creator. Our Maker. Our Designer. The one who sustains us, taught us and told us from this story. فلولا أنه كان من المسبحين للبيت في بطنه إلى يوم يبحثون. If Sayyidina Yunus alaihi salam did not engage in Tasbih. Did not do Tasbih. Did not turn to Allah. And do ذكر. With the famous prayer. Then the Prophet Jonah with Yunus alaihi salam would have stayed in the belly of the whale until the day of resurrection. And what challenge are we? How long have we been carrying our challenge? Trying to solve it from this angle and that angle. Are we doing enough ذكر? Are we doing enough prostration? Are we doing enough Tasbih? The other verse of the Quran. يا أيها الذين آمنوا Or you will believe إذا لقيتم فيئة Or you will believe if you face an adversary اتبتوا رذكروا الله كثيرا Two. لعيكم تفلحون. If you are facing an adversary اي شخصة. اي مشكلة. اي مشكلة. اي فهمتو. اي فرن. اي سطور. اضعوا الرقم ، اضعوا السبب اضعوا السباب ويذقولوا الله كثيرا اذنوا الله لعيكم ذكر الى الوئة لعيكم تفلحون لكي تستمر لديكم السارة لديهم these 2如果ترون وزالتنا العديد 2021 ، أفضل أفضل أفضل أفضل أن أستطيع أن أفضل أفضل أن أفضل على my way أن أصدقائي أن أستطيع أن أستطيع أن I'm strong that I'm liberated that I don't need anyone is fundamentally against this nature of us being utter needy broken slaves that are helpless and can't do anything without Allah and so if we're carrying this burden my marriage my child my work are we doing thicker are we pouring thicker on to it and in a third verse in the Quran we know that your your chest is constricting because of what they're saying فسبح بحمد ربكة do تسبيح do ذكر بحمد ربكة and praise with حمد of your lord of your caretaker وكم من الساجدين and be from the prostrators be from those who prostrate and so are we sprinkling thicker are we pouring thicker as a means as a valuable tool or have we been fooled and deluded to believe only in these only in the measurable scientific empirical means and espad that we can take there is the espad and there is the moussebb the espad is the means and the moussebb is the cause or Allah subhanahu و تعالى our our our limbs are with taking actions and our heart is with Allah our limbs are taking actions and our heart is with Allah and what is the difference of the one who does thicket and the one who doesn't do thicket the one who's with Allah and the one who who is not with Allah the one who remembers Allah the one who doesn't remember Allah and if you want Allah to wake us up with difficulty i have seen people who won her husband drowned in the pool behind her house and then she came to the masjid looking for Allah i've saw someone who was in the hospital for three months and then he left the hospital and came to the masjid looking for Allah i saw someone who was taken to to prison for the first time in his life and then he left the prison and came to the masjid looking for Allah what do we need for Allah to wake us up and remember our ultimate purpose of existence as this dunya distracts us and as the devil deludes us to wake us wake up from the هبنوسيس of the world and ذكر compared these two verses whoever turns away from my ذكر from ذكر my remembrance فإنه له نحيشة بنكة بنكة it means like what it sounds he has immiscible life and then he's resurrected blind and then he says y'all why'd you resume me blind when i when i could see and then Allah says the way you forgot our signs in our verses or neglected or turned away today you will be forgotten and it's right now is a recommitment to do ذكر every single morning because we are needy and broken and desperate and we need ذكر and doing ذكر isn't we're not giving a we're not we're not helping god or elevating god we're helping ourselves inshallah and we compare this verse to the other one and so we sprinkle it's an invitation today to re-evaluate our relationship with ذكر to re-evaluate it first intellectually and then decisionally first intellectually to see do i truly value this verse and i'm going to read it to you first intellectually and then decisionally first intellectually to see do i truly value ذكر or have i been deluded by the devil to think that oh that's just for the realize the sheikhs oh that's how's that gonna help me i need to go do the hustle and bustle there's two ingredients واذكر الله كثيراً the only thing Allah commanded us to do a lot كفيراً the only thing in the Quran to do a lot are you doing a lot of it let's ask ourselves am i doing a lot of it am i doing a lot of it or am i not and so we're re-evaluating our relationship intellectually first to re-affirm just like every morning the body when it wakes up the body tells the tongue tells the tongue we are we are submissive to you so be good so we can all be good don't take us to a bad place we need to tell ourselves and talk to ourselves i value ذكر ذكر is important in my life i want to go to my go to my grave was as a person of ذكر i want my house to be a house of ذكر i want my family to be a family of ذكر i want my marriage to be a marriage of ذكر if we're having marital problems let's do as a marriage let's do ذكر together الله أكبر تقرأ ذكر ذكر ذكر ذكره هو أكبر ذكر ذكر ذكر ذكر ذكر ذكر ذكره سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم تسليما كثيرة. الحمد لله ربي العالمين الحمد لله الحمد لله الحمد لله الحمد لله الحمد لله و لذا نرى إيقاوية مستوى و إيقاوية و إيقاوية. ذكره ممتع. هل تريدت أعيونك؟ هل تشعر بردية؟ إيقاوية؟ لا إله إلا الله. تخفر أعيونك. تخفر الله. تخفر رزق. إن شاء الله. لا إله إلا أنت سبحانه وتعيني كنت من الظالمين. دعوة أعيونيس. أي شخص يقول أنك ستفعله من إيقاوية و إيقاوية. لا إله إلا الله. لا شيء أفضل من قبل. والله مصلي على سيدنا محمد. تكفى همك. تخفرينك. و every time we say الله مصلي على سيدنا محمد. الله قرر 10 صلوات عننا. من يجب أن يستطيعهم. و every time we are moving us from darkness to light. كيف نقلق هؤلاء هؤلاء هؤلاء؟ هؤلاء هؤلاء هؤلاء؟ الحمد لله تشعر بردية. الحمد لله سبحان الله يشعر بردية. الحمد لله سبحان الله يشعر بردية. سبحان الله العظيم. و يجب أن نقلق معه. و نقلق معه. سبحان الله يشعر بردية. سبحان الله العظيم. و ندعنا اليوم. سبتنبر 17 سنوات. ندعنا و ندعنا. ندعنا مع الله سبحانه وتعالى و النسانجر الله صلى الله عليه وسلم. و ندعنا مصر. الله سبحانه وتعالى. و نعم نعم نعم whatever we are. نعم is noble. but the heart is attached to Allah سبحانه وتعالى. as one poet said لكداره في قلبي. To Allah he said يا الله you have a home in my heart. What is in our heart? And so let's cleanse our hearts and whatever your family is. If you've never been zikr with your family today is the invitation to begin inshallah. And so when your child becomes 15, 16, 18, 19 and leaves the house you passed on to them the tradition of zikr. We all came to this country. Our parents came to this country. All of our grandparents there were people of zikr. There were people of zikr holding saying يا لطيف a thousand times اللهم صلي على سيدنا محمد a thousand times or a hundred times every day. We don't want to be the generation that severs that zikr. We don't want to be that generation. We want to pass it to our children. And so today we go back home and we want to be light. We're not going to be heavy and burdensome on our children or on our families but we're going to model it and demonstrate it. And so on Fridays before نغرب we bring a small we sit in a circle before sunset in a special hour and we do it اللهم صلي على سيدنا محمد however much is reasonable 100 times, 300 times 1000 times and you can do more your children can do less. That's fine. But when your child goes up becomes 18 and leaves they will do this tradition with their kids with their children. And then we wake up in the morning the first zikr we have on our tongue and on our heart is Allah before we hold our cell phone before we go to WhatsApp before we check our credit card or bank account and this is called retirement planning this is retirement planning long term retirement planning is not our 401k it's not our pension that is very short term that's very immediate term very short term may Allah make us people of zikr and bring us closer to Him gently with gifts and not with tests اللهم خفر المسلمين والمسلمات والمؤمنين والمؤمنات الحياة إنهم والأموات Oh Allah help us find the value of teachers in our life and the value of scholars in our life and the value of scholarship in our life and the value of institutions in our life and help us find qualified teachers to guide us on this beautiful gift you sent us Islam ya Allah let us taste the sweetness of Islam ya Allah let Islam be a gift to us and not a difficulty ya Allah and ya Allah let us taste the sweetness of this faith ya Allah and ya Allah here we are as a collective as a group as a community as a masjid as a ummah recommitting to you ya Allah ya Allah every night when you say من يدعوني فأستجبله من يسألوني فأعطينه من يستغفرني فأستغفر ya Allah every night you come down at night and you say who is calling me so I may answer him who is asking me so I may give him who is seeking my forgiveness so I may forgive him ya Allah we are calling him ya Allah we are asking you ya Allah we are seeking your forgiveness help us be people of the night ya Allah help us stand for the ummah and pray for Afghanistan ya Allah and raise our hands to you ya Allah and let our tears drip from our eyes ya Allah بالخير واللطف والحافلة ya Allah let us not sever and neglect this beautiful faith and gift and let us pass it to our children ya Allah and let our offspring and tell all the day of judgment be of people of لا إله إلا الله ya Allah help us value ذكر ya Allah and save us from the delusions of thinking and being deluded the only thing we have is asbab and means and strategy ya Allah ya Allah we are here recommitting in this very moment to take the asbab and to turn them to an asab ya Allah we know we have no power and no strength except by you and from you and to you we know that the destroyer is being so impressed with ourselves ya Allah and being impressed with our opinions ya Allah ya Allah save us from destroying ourselves ya Allah save us from arrogance and being so impressed with with our opinion ya Allah and ya Allah ya Allah if our families are suffering ya Allah restore our families ya Allah if parents and children are fighting bring them harmony ya Allah ya Allah if marriages are suffering bring them together ya Allah بالخير واللطف والعافلة اللهم جعل خير عمرنا أخرة وخير أعمالنا خواتما وخير أيامنا يومن القاك فيه اللهم إنا نسألك من اللهم إنا نسألك من الخير كله عجله وعجله ما علمنا منه ما لم نعلم ونعوذ بك من الشر كله عجله وعجله ما علمنا منه ما لم نعلم اللهم إنا نسألك الجنة وما قرب إليه من قول أوعمل ونعوذ بك من النار وما قرب إليها من قول أوعمل اللهم إنا نسألك من خلاله يا الله وعطينا الله لا يجب أن نقوم بشكل جدًا يا الله لا تقوم بشكل جدًا ربنا آتنا في الدنيا حسنا وفي الآخرة حسنا وقنا عذاب النار وصل اللهم تعال على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه ومن ولا سبحان ربك رب العزة عما يصفون وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله ربي العالمين إن الله يأمر بالعدل والإحسان ويتائذ القربة وينه عن الفحشاء والمنكر والبغي عذكم نعلكم تذكرون واذكروا الله العظيم يذكركم واشكوروه حلان عمه يزدكم منشن الله وانه سيكلمك شكرا الله وانه سيكلمك وأقم الصلاة