 نستعينه هو نؤمنه بني ونتوكل عليه ونعوذ بالله من شرور أنفسنا ومن سيات عمالنا ما ينهي الله ثلاثة لنا وما يبدي الثلاثة لنا ونشدوا الله إلهي الله وحنه لا شريك لنا ونشدوا أن محمد العبد هو رسوله أرصله بالهدى ودين الحق يغيره على الدين كله ولو كاله المشركود يا أيها الذين آمروا اتقوا الله حقا تقاته ولا تلقوا لا تموتوا إلا وانتوا مسلمون يا أيها الناس اتقوا ربكم الذين خلقتوا من الناس يواقلا وخلقوا منها زوجها وبث منهم رجانا كثيرا ونساءة واتقوا الله الذي تساءلوا منه والرحام إن الله كان عليكم رقيبة يا أيها الذين آمن اتقوا الله وقولوا قونا من السديدة يصلف لكم عمالكم ويفرنكم ذروبكم ومن يطعي الله ورسولكم فقال فاز فاز العظيمة أما بعض الله سبحانه وتعالى رفيله في القرآن one of the greatest surahs one of the greatest revelations that's ever been revealed and he says about it ونقا دقا تينك سب عمينا المثاني وان قرآن العظيم we have given you the seven of repeated verses and the Quran and these seven of repeated verses are the Surah Fatiha this Surah is the fifth Surah to be revealed in the first Surah to complete in Revelation we know that the Surahs were revealed part little by little but this is the first one to be finished completely in Revelation and so before we begin to speak about the Surah we have to seek refuge from Shaytan the one who wants us to not appreciate the Quran and the one who leads us away from the Quran and who says we seek refuge from Satan the accursed the one who put his rationale over the rationale of Allah and the one who thought that his decision was the decision that was the better decision and decision that belonged that was higher than Allah's and then we start and the first ayah in the name of Allah the most merciful the most beneficent and so Allah starts with his own name one of the highest name was known as Bafun Jalalah and he starts with that name and he describes himself and he says the most merciful the most beneficent in whatever mercy whatever benefit we see is a manifestation of the mercy the benefit that Allah gives us and we know that there is no benefit and no mercy except through Allah and then we start the first ayah the next ayah we know all praise is due to Allah the Lord of all creation the Lord of the worlds and so every praise that we give is only due to Allah when we praise someone else in reality we are praising Allah because Allah is the one that created the situation that we are praising and so whether the thing is that our souls are sometimes the one that don't praise Allah but the sun the moon the stars the trees that are green the animals the insects and everything in between all of these things praise Allah whether you like it or not all of these things praise Allah and we need to recognize that we are the only ones that go against the will of Allah sometimes and not against the will of Allah we go against the orders of Allah because nothing can go against the will of Allah and so Allah tells us he describes himself as the Lord of all the worlds and so then he says the next ayah again a repetition أروح من يروحين the most merciful the most beneficent again and this is a constant reminder that Allah is always going to have mercy for us and always going to have benefit for us and actually both of these words both mean mercy but أروح من is the merciful who gives mercy to the disobedient to the non-believers and to those who are unappreciative of Allah and the ones who are appreciative of Allah the ones who are obedient and the ones who believe so this mercy applies to everyone but أروحين is specific أروحين is the mercy that we receive the Muslims receive on the Day of Judgement through the Shafa'a the Prophet ﷺ and may Allah make us of those who get the Shafa'a and so this is a specific mercy that we're giving and then you need to remember that whether you want to appreciate, obey, or disobey whatever you want to do that Allah is there's going to be a day when you're going to have to present yourself to Allah and he says ماءني ماءني master the owner of the Day of Judgement that whether you believe there not on that day you're going to have to present your deets to Allah and he's going to show you what you did and what you did wrong and what you did right and what you deserve and he says أقرأ كتابة كنسوز الإسراء read your book the book of your deets كفا بناسك اليوم عليك حسيبا that what you've done your book is enough to show you what you deserve that this is enough to show you what you deserve so that if we want to appreciate that Allah is the Lord of the Worlds and that he's the most the merciful the most beneficent then we're going to have to show our face with whatever we came with and then Allah will say look at your deets you know what you know what you deserve and then we make a transition from speaking about Allah to speaking to Allah in the Quran and the reason this is is because we are by this point in the prayer we should have turned our hearts towards Allah and realized that we're speaking to Allah and this is our prayer is a communication with Allah and let's appreciate that fact so we say يَا كَنَ عُبُولُ وَيْيَا كَنَ أَسْتَعِينَ only you do we worship and only you do we ask help from and Allah is the only one who deserves worship because he is the رب العالمين so he says in the first ayah he's the رب العالمين and then in the fourth ayah he says that he is the one that we say that he's the one we worship and the only one we ask for help from because he's the only one deserving of that and we don't worship the idols of money and the idols of business and the idols of ourselves the idols that we create for ourselves we worship only Allah and أبو حرير عضي الله وعن he narrates حديث قدسي which is a hadith where Allah speaks with the Prophet ﷺ paraphrases and so these aren't part of the Qur'an and the Prophet ﷺ says that Allah said قسمتوا صلاة بيني و بينا عبد in your slain فلسفها مين وانسفها العبد that I have divided the prayer as in I have divided the Fatiha that our prayer is not complete I have divided the Fatiha into two halves the first half is for me but the second half is for my servant and so we realize in the first ayah Allah describes himself but then he moves to our and he says إيه كنعبو and it ends there إيه كنعبو that's for Allah the worship we give to Allah even though it does not benefit one bit and it only benefits us if we leave it there's a benefit of Allah if we do it there's a benefit of Allah only benefits us but then he says وإيه كنستعين and in that portion we realize that we've moved to asking for ourselves and we're asking for ourselves because he is the رب العالمين and no one else can give what he gives not even ayodah worship is due to anyone else and then we ask by the next ayah we ask إيه دينوصي وطل مستقين قايدوصي the straight path the path of our prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم who guided us and the path some of the I'm not saying that this path is that the path of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم the straight path is the path is the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and we ask because Allah is الرحمن الرحيم we notice that there's a correlation Allah is الرحمن الرحيم so you'll guide us for the straight path all we have to do is ask and all we have to do is work towards being on that straight path and we want to be on that straight path because Allah is الرحمن الرحيم we need to realize that this path إسلام إيمان إحسان the Quran that we've been given is the ultimate mercy it's the only way we're going to make it to our destination the only way we're going to make it to our destination we need to realize our destination is not this world but our destination is the Akhira and this world is just a stop on the highway that is the deen the highway that is our religion and we want to become distracted by the stops and we want to make it to our destination and we the سرات المستقيم is the sunnah and we need to implement the sunnah and realize that the sunnah is not just extra credit that implementing the sunnah is not extra credit it's not fine if you just do your follow that's not okay we can't reduce our the Islam to just what's called we need to also realize that Islam also contains the sunnah the way of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم what he's given us and that they were going to become like those who were who were unappreciative of it before so then the next ayah سراط الذين أن عمت عليهم غايم المغضوب عليهم والله those whom you favored the pious predecessors the righteous that came before us and even those who came before our Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم those nations were also given a sunnah that they were supposed to follow but the thing is they lost the way and that's why we have our deen because they lost their way and we need a deen for the entire world and so they lost their deen and they became the ones that earned the anger of Allah and we asked Allah not to make us among those but they became those who earned the anger of Allah and left the sunnahs of their prophets and what they were giving and when they left that Allah said you know Allah showed that He doesn't need them Allah simply replaced them with a new umma and we know where the last umma but we need to appreciate that where the last umma where the best umma that Musa A.A. wanted to be part of this umma he didn't want to be a prophet of this umma first he has to be a prophet but Allah said no then he said I want to be part of the umma but Allah said you can't be part of this umma you're already giving your own umma so we're blessed to be part of this umma and to be gathered that's where the word comes from and on top of that it's also Day of Eid it's a day of mercy a day of celebration and we should celebrate the fact that we are given opportunities to celebrate and opportunities to enjoy with each other to enjoy the Deen that we've been given and we don't want to be among those who didn't appreciate and didn't enjoy the Deen and they got lots along the way those are what are those are the Allah and Meen the ones who got lots of love and love the ones who got lost along the way and stopped maybe on the highway that is the religion and they stopped and they stopped to look out all the sites that were on the highway and they never realized they forgot that they were supposed to get to a destination until it was too late and it became too late and they were replaced so we don't want to be among those who lose ourselves in the more in the less important aspects of the in the most less important aspects of our lives you know we sometimes we fight arguments about where do I place my hands where does it to my size does it to my chest whereas if those aren't the things that are important Allah is not looking for where you put your hands you should know where to put your hands in the prayer obviously but that's not what Allah is looking for He is looking for your heart and to know that you appreciate the Deen and so إن شاء الله let's allow ourselves to appreciate the Deen to accept the blessings that we've been given and not to to allow it not to allow the blessings to leave us because Allah will take the blessings that we don't appreciate it I'll say this وصفل الله وعلكم ونسائد المسلمين وصفلوا إنه هو الغفور رحيم بسم الله ورحمه ورحمه وسهاته وسلامه على رسول الله وعاله وصحلي الله وعاله if you came late really the message I'm trying to get across is that the Fatihah has meaning and we recite it every single day at least 17 times 40 times if you're not leaving the Sunnahs so it's our job to at least appreciate the fact that we've been given these 7 great ayat and no nation before us has been given something like this this is the 7 jewels of the Qur'an these 7 jewels have not been given to anyone else no other nation has been given something like this an opportunity for us to first of all know our Lord and then to ask our Lord and then to speak to our Lord in our prayer it's a unique we're in a really unique situation where we're allowed to speak with our Lord and every single day Allah will give us our reminder through this Su'a that we have that He is the Lord of the Worlds that He is the Merciful that He is the One that's going to judge you if you don't appreciate those facts and then it reminds you to ask to recognize that first of all we worship Him and ask help from Him but then to ask for the help from Him and help in the matter of the Deen we can ask for help in other things but the most important thing is to ask for help in the matter of the Deen and if we don't ask for the help and don't ask for help in the matter of the Deen and we let it go we'll never see the benefit and then the Ummah will be gone and will be left without the sunnah without guidance and will be lost and will become amongst those who lost the way who Allah has showed their aim or pattern replaced and so remember that this way is the way of the Prophet ﷺ it is the Prophet ﷺ that his way is the only way that works right now it's relevant at all times and that will become irrelevant there's always a way to implement his sunnah there's nothing irrelevant so we should recognize that and try to find ways to implement his sunnah even if it's one small thing every single day if you can do it do it and recognize that this Prophet ﷺ was the greatest blessing we have and Allah says in the Qur'an that Allah and his angels send the blessings and the peace upon the Prophet ﷺ and He commands us to send the blessings and the peace on the Prophet ﷺ that this is an action that Allah and his angels do because we need to be in constant gratitude of that so with that we say اللهم صني على سيدنا ومولانا محمد وعلى آل سيدنا ومولانا محمد اللهم أنت السلام ومك السلام تبارك يا ذن جلالي وإكرام حينا وأضخلنا دار السلام ربنا آتنا في الدنيا حسنا وفي الآف ربنا حسنا وفي عذاب النوم ربنا هبنا من أزواجنا ورطائنا وجعلنا لمتقلنا ماذا إن الله وملائكته يصلونا على النبي يا إهم دينا آمر صلو علي وسلم تسلمة اللهم صني على سيدنا مولانا محمد وعلى آل سيدنا ومولانا محمد بارك صلم وصني عليك إن الله يأمر بالعدل والإخسان وإتاء وينهى علي فحشار والمنك والبض يعذوكم رعلكم تذكرون أذكروا الله يذكركم ولعوه 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