 In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of all the worlds. Then, peace and blessings be upon all the Prophets, messengers and messengers. Beloved of Allah, the Merciful, in the name of Allah, the Merciful. Mustafa, Muhammad, and his family, the good, the pure. May Allah bless Muhammad and his family, Muhammad. Dear viewers, peace and blessings of Allah be upon you. We thank Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, that has blessed us to be discussing the Holy Verses of Quran and the Nations of Ahl al Bayt, peace be upon them. We have reached Surat al-Baqarah and the verse that we're Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, states, alladina, talking about the pious people, taqeen, alladina, yuuminuna, bilgayb, those who believe in the unseen, wa yuqimuna salah, and they maintain the prayer. Wa min ma'razaqnahum yunfikum, insha'Allah, one or two hadith. Wa ba'ad yuqimuna salah, and an explanation, insha'Allah, we continue. Wa min ma'razaqnahum yunfikum. Imam Sadaq, peace be upon him, says, this is in also Qafi Al-Sharif, Noble Qafi Volume 3, page 343 where Imam Sadaq, peace be upon him, says, tasbih al-Fatima, aleyha salam fi kul, yawmin, fi dobwere kul, salatin, ahabbu ilayy min salat alfraqah, fi kul, yawmin. If we want to add more and not to be happy and content with the bare minimum, you know, some people, when it comes to the religiosity, they do the bare minimum, but when it comes to the worldly affairs, they go for the highest and highest and they are not satisfied and happy with the bare minimum and they're not content. Well, we want to shift and change and change our perspective differently. When it comes to religiosity, we shouldn't be satisfied with the bare minimum. Too little bit extra, a little bit more mustahabbat, add on to it. When it comes to the worldly affairs, bring the expectation a little bit lower. We see how much content, how much more happy, insha'Allah, we will be. Imam SAW says, after Salah, insha'Allah, our Salah, we have done it. We have given the importance of Salah. As we mentioned in the previous episode, we sit on our prayer mat, we wait for the Salah, we pray our prayer in the same spot in our house, so our mind becomes in habit of when we come, we get Salah, knows okay, this is the time for communicating with the Creator, and we have organized place after Salah, Tespihat Fatima al-Zahra SAW, very, very, very recommended. This will be our first action plan in this episode, insha'Allah. Thirty-four after, we say Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar. Thirty-four times, Allahu Akbar. Thirty-three times, Alhamdulillah. And thirty-three times, Subhan Allah. Imam SAW says, do for me doing this Tespihat Fatima al-Zahra after Salah, it's more loved to me, more loved, I love it more than praying one thousand rak'a every day. How much more thawab it has, Tespihat Fatima al-Zahra, very, doesn't take maybe more than, less than, it takes less than a minute, more, a probability. So, our Salah, it finishes, when the time finishes, we have to start seeing the effect and the influence of our prayer on our demeanor. Number one, being thankful because we read two times, if it's Salat-ul-Subh-Tur times, we read Surat-ul-Hamd, thankful, Alhamdulillah, Rab-ul-Alamin. So that should always remind us, after our morning prayer, until Salat-ul-Zahr, we have to keep being thankful to Allah SWT, as much as we can, as much as we can, saying verbally, thankful in our heart, being grateful to Allah SWT, in our action, showing thankfulness to Allah SWT. And then always seeking aid from Allah SWT, because in our Salah, again, we said, so we always seek aid from Allah SWT. Again, these are the effects of Salah that should come into our lives. So this is the perspective that Salah has given us. And also, being asking Allah SWT for us to be on the right path within every decision that we make, that needs constant reminder because we keep forgetting. That's why we need to pray Salat-ul-Subh. Start our day with a meditation with remembering to be thankful to Allah SWT for what he has given us, and asking Allah SWT to make our day and to aid us in our challenges, what we discussed about it in the previous episode, and then asking Allah SWT, Ehden al-Saraat al-Mustaqeem, O Allah, keep me firm and steadfast on your path. I want to get to you, Allah, and I'm seeking nearness to you. So we go through our daily life. We go to work. We go to school at home with kids, with parents, with husband, with wife. Whatever we do, we keep these three elements in mind. Probably, by the time of Salat, the Duhur time comes. Same way that our physical body needs, again, boost of energy, boost of protein, or our soul also needs another boost. Salat al-Duhur. Again, we gain that spirituality. Our soul is revived. Our soul is cleansed from the sense that we might have committed from being negligent toward Allah, other human being, the creator, and everything that is surrounding us. Again, that boost again. Until Maghla, again, we might go through things that we suppose not to go through, again, that cleansing before we go back to sleep. So this is what we need to get out of Salah and making sure that God forbid, God forbid, we are not from those people who don't pray. Insha'Allah, none of us are. Insha'Allah, we believe in the importance of Salah. But chapter 74, verse 43, we see Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, brings within the holy verses of Quran, people ask, people haven't asked from people of Hellfire, what made you into Hellfire? What happened to you? How come you end up in Hellfire? Qalu lam nakumina al-Mussaldeen. They will answer. People of Hellfire will tell other people that we were not among those people who prayed. So God forbid, God forbid, insha'Allah, we are not from those people. And then again, advice to the parents where they have said, what can we do for our kids to be praying and loving prayer? Allah says, chapter 20, verse 132, wa amur ahlaka bussalat wastaber alaiha and enjoin prayer on your family. And your followers and steadily adhere to it. Don't give up. Keep reminding them in the nice of manner, with gifts, with appreciation, with telling people, Masha'Allah, he's praying, see how he likes to be appreciated and how he likes to be thanked by him, a gift slowly, slowly, slowly, and keep wastaber alaiha and steadily adhere to it. Continue to remind them and remind them and remind them and don't give up and you cannot force. Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala hasn't forced us. So we have to not give up and keep, that becomes an action plan, and keep telling them, keep reminding them in different ways, different times. We do whatever it takes to, to remind. Let's go to the next phrase within this verse. Insha'Allah, we finish this verse tonight. Time allows us, wa mimmar razaqnahum yunfiqoon. In Quran, 27 times giving charity has been mentioned with establishing salah. If you remember, within the previous episode, we said that if we summarize the mission of the Prophet to two objectives they had, two missions that they had. One, to construct and rectify the relationship between people and Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, which that, the epitome of that is salah, and the second mission was to establish that relationship between people and other people amongst themselves. So that is zakat. Wa mimmar razaqnahum yunfiqoon. We discussed about it within the previous episode. It's about giving and giving everything that we can from everything. Not only some people might think of zakat, wa mimmar razaqnahum yunfiqoon. They think of zakat, they think of wajibat act. Wajibat, it's not only wa mimmar razaqnahum yunfiqoon. It's not only wajib money that we must pay, which is Khoms and zakat, no other than that. Because zakat, it's only applied to nine things. The wajib zakat applies to nine things. To cows, if a person has cows, or has camels, or has sheeps, or has gold, which is the coin money, not the normal gold, the jewelry that they will know. The coin, if it's a golden coin, that people buy and sell with it, or silver. And from commodities, raisin, date, barley, and wheat. Well, this day and age, typically people don't have it, especially people in the West. We don't have cows, we don't have camels, we don't have sheeps, and we don't have golden coin or silver. And we don't have raisin, and date, and barley, and wheat. So we say, okay, we pray, and this doesn't, wa mimmar razaqnahum yunfiqoon. If we want to translate it, which none of the interpreters have said, this applies to zakat wajib. No, this is general, to all sort of giving, and it's not only to Khoms, anything that we can give. As we mentioned, for example, zakat ul alemin nashrokh, that if a person has knowledge, must educate other people and spread it out, where Imam Al-Sadr, alaihi s-salam, in Tafsir Nur al-Thaqalain, Volume 1, Page 26, says, under this verse, wa mimmar razaqnahum yunfiqoon, Imam says, anna ma'nahu, the meaning of this verse is, anna ma'nahu wa mimmar al-lamnahum yabuthoon. From what we have taught them, us Ahlul Bayt, alaihi s-salam, we have taught them, they spread this knowledge that we have taught them. It's very important. This is a duty upon each and every one of us, the knowledge that we have gained from Ahlul Bayt, alaihi s-salam, to spread to other people. That is a kind of zakat, especially after the tragedy of New Zealand, New Zealand, and 50 Muslim brothers who were killed. People are learning about Islam while it is obligatory upon us, the followers of Ahlul Bayt, alaihi s-salam, to teach them and educate them about the knowledge of Quran and from the perspective of Ahlul Bayt, alaihi s-salam. So, Salah is something, one thing, zakat next to it, again 27 times where Salah has been mentioned in Quran, zakat has been next to it. Salah, zakat, Salah, zakat, Salah, zakat. Salah without zakat is not accepted, and zakat without Salah is the same thing. We have, we've seen within the story of the life of the prophet, according to the historians he came and he kicked some people out of the Masjid. Why? He said they do Salah, but they don't pay zakat. Zakat is any charitable thing that we can give to other people. This is, again, zakat specific zakat to nine things. For example, if a person has 40 sheeps, somebody has a form, has 40 sheeps, every year that comes to it, he has to give one sheep to the needy people, or if he has five camels, he gives one sheep. So, that is zakat wajib, and also zakat al-Fitrah. It's also zakat wajib. No. Wa-min ma-ra-zakh-na-hum-mi-un-fiqoon. From whatever we have, the transition goes, and spend, spend out of what we have provided for them. Whatever it is, again, as we mentioned within the previous episode, if it's a reputation, if it's a knowledge, if it's a connection, he knows someone that can solve someone's problem. He's a doctor, he sees needy people, well, he helps them, he visits them freely. If he can't pay from his own pocket for the medicine, well, if he can't do it, he must do it. If I know how to, for example, fix a car, I see one of my community members, his car broke down, and he has nobody to fix it for him. Well, I do it for him for free. Whatever speciality that we have, whatever talent that we have, whatever potentials that we have within us, wa-min ma-ra-zakh-na-hum-mi-un-fiqoon, Allah that has given us, we must provide to other people. And we must be very, very careful not to neglect this part. So the action plan will be, let me diagnose myself, let me go through my lifestyle. Have I had this kind of personality of giving to the Islamic centers they need, to the needy people, orphans, sick people, people who want to get married? For example, right now in Iraq, I have people contacting me, because I came from a state they think, okay, I have connection. Alhamdulillah, I try to call other people, collect some money, help people who want to get married, but they don't have the means to get married. Or they have sick people. We had a case, for example, a family had a cancer, and they had to go to chemotherapy, but they don't have money to provide. We talk with some people, they provide it, and we, Alhamdulillah, were blessed to be the means to this. So do whatever you can. So wa-min ma-ra-zakh-na-hum-mi-un-fiqoon, whatever that you have, you don't have to be a millionaire to pay. No, you have a ten dollars, you can pay a dollar, pay that dollar. I conclude with this story. Rasulullah was sitting within the masjid. A person came and he gave him one dinar as a charity, and he left. Another person came and gave him ten dinars as a charity. He left. The third person came and he paid him hundred dinars, and he left. Rasulullah told his companions that these three people, in the eyes of Allah, they are equal. The companions were surprised. How come the first person paid one dinar? The second person paid ten dinars. The third person paid hundred dinars. How come they are the same? Rasulullah said the first person, all of his belonging was ten dinars. He paid one tenth. The second person, all of his belonging was hundred dinars. He paid ten, that was one tenth. The third person had one thousand dinars. He paid hundred, that was one tenth. That's the ratio that Allah SWT sees. So, if we don't have it yet, let us have that characteristic. Let's ask Allah SWT to give us that blessing to be able to give for the sake of Allah SWT and Ahlul Bayt Aalim, salam. We will conclude with the most important du'a, and that is du'a Faraj, insha'Allah, asking Allah SWT to hasten the appearance of our beloved Imam Mahdi Aajir Allah Faraj Al-Sharif. Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim. Allahumma kulli waliyyika al-Hujja min al-Hasan Salawat uka aleyhi wa ala aba'ih fi haadah sa'atuhi kulli sa'a'ah waliyyan wa khafradah wa qa'idah wa nasirah wa dalilan wa aina hatta atuskanu wa ardakatua wa tumatta'u fiha taweela barahmatika ya arhamar rahameen.