 وصراته والسلام على أنبياء الله جميعا وعلى سيدهم وخاتمه الحبيب إله العالمين أبل قاسل المصطفى محمد قال تعالى فيه وعلى أهي بيتها الطيبين الطائرين قال تعالى في كتابه الكريم أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الغجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وقال ربكم مدعوني أستجب لكم نحن أقرب إليه من حب للوريد، نحن أقرب لكم than your jaggle on vein نحن أقرب لكم، إذا كنت أقرب لنا فهي تعرف then and out فهي تعرف كل شيء about usهي تعرف about our thoughts, our aspirations, our dreams, our sufferings Why should we say oh God why should we speak it Yes God knows that God also wants you to know You are telling yourself when you ask oh God you are not telling him you are telling yourself You are affirming your need and your slavery to God and your dependency on God So this is a statement that you make not to God when you ask him to yourself That all Mustafa you need God you are dependent on him You cannot survive without him you need him he doesn't need you This is the meaning of God the meaning of God is not to alert God and tell him hey God You are not paying attention to me so please listen he is listening he is watching you He knows even if you don't speak he knows exactly what goes in your heart and your mind But this is for you This is a type of training for you تربيع دعاء is the best type of تربيع And nurturance Because the دعاء keeps you close to God And keeps you aware you that you need God all the time And once you depend on God that is the best type of nurturance and growth And development And spiritual and mental development When you know that you need God you cannot survive without him The moment we believe that we are self sufficient The moment we think we think that we don't need God today That is the moment of damnation and failure in our life So we need to develop and maintain this feeling that we always need God This is why we talk to him This is why we ask him Yesterday I mentioned few conditions of how to reach out to God And how to speak to him the manners And today I am going to continue with another 4 or 5 points One of the ways that we have to speak to God Is we have to speak with him humbly Humbly Humbly أدعو ربكم تضرعن تضرعن means in a humble way With a humiliation Humility before him تضرعن وخوفيا And in secret Secretly Because you have to humble yourself When you need God Definitely you have to humble yourself God says about the prophets The prophets إنهم كانوا يسارعون في الخيرات They were number one in goodness Whenever there is goodness and kindness and help and service They are number one يسارعون في الخيرات They rush to help others And also ويدعوننا they call upon us رخبا with desire They know that God is going to give them See sometimes you call someone Asking him for something Not going to respond to you And sometimes you call someone And you know that he is going to say Yes of course Of course I am going to be with you Of course I am going to help you Of course I am going to come for your aid This is the way you have to speak to God If you think that you are calling God And God is busy with someone else With another creatures Another عباد This is not the type of God You must You must pray with desire يدعوننا رخبا ورحبا also With fear With reverence With respect وكانوا لنا خشري ودعوا أبكم تضروا عن Always call upon your God With a humility Don't be arrogant A person who is arrogant His prayers are not accepted Because he is sick His soul is sick And he has to fix his soul first Before speaking to God God does not accept the speech Of someone who is arrogant But someone who is humble Humble himself تضرع in Arabic Means to humble yourself Humble yourself before God Tell him God please You know how much I love you And I have done so many sins in my life I know I didn't listen to you for a long time I went in the wrong direction For a long time But now I am sincere Now I mean it I come back to you So please take me under your wings When you speak to him like that Definitely he is going to receive you And definitely he is going to listen to you Beside Allah says The prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم Says إذا أحب الله عبدا إبتلاح When God falls in love He will test that person Those that God Is not happy about them Because they did something gross He is not going to test them Why? Because they are already being tested And they failed You know if a person at the school He fails twice, three times Fifty times The teacher is not going to keep testing him He was sending home Doesn't go to your mommy Okay But They are tested by the teacher Always God only test those Who he loves Regularly Everyday To see whether they are still with him or not Are they still maintaining Their relationship with God Or not So the prophet says If God loves someone He is going to إبتلاح To test him or her To test You lose something financial Your car breaks down They lay you off your job Okay God forbids some type of sickness Or ailment Okay These types of إبتلاح Okay Then Why God tests him Until So he That person when he pray to God Do إبتلاح With the humility And God would enjoy his voice Yes God does enjoy your voice Some voices God does enjoy So he wants you to pray to him Because if God gives everything He is providing everything We would never say to him يا الله Let me ask you this Be honest with me If your life is peaceful Is good Would you still say Please, please You would never say that Because you have everything When you turn to him The day you miss something in your life The day you miss At that time you tell him Please, please, please But when you have everything Then you say Why should I pray Only when we need him we pray So God says If I don't test you You are not going to come to me I'd love to listen to your voice So I'm going to test you The second condition For the acceptance Of our دعاء The prayers And the You have to be certain Certainty Having certainty That God is going to listen to you And do not say to God God If you wish Do this to me If you don't wish It's okay I can find someone To help me I have someone I know the mayor I know the doctor I know the leader Don't say this to God Say to God God nobody can help Nobody can help me I know the mayor I know the president That they are weak like me They are empty handed like me Nobody can help me other than you I have all the community standing with me But they cannot help me The only one who can help me Is you This is the way we talk to you We tell him We are dependent on you 100% Not 99% 100% I'm dependent on you So don't abandon me I don't care I have family I have friends I have community I have money I have wealth I have people influential people But You are something else You are different You are the other You are the able You are the one Who can perform miracles Those people Can abandon me any day Any minute I can turn And I find now No one next to me Only you So when you pray to him You pray In a manner That you are completely cut off From everything Except الله سبحانه وتعالى And then Pray with the spirit of Optimism Some people pray And they say to God Oh God I'm praying But I know you're not listening to me I know I know You didn't listen yesterday Last week Last month I know today Also you're not going to listen This is not good You have to be positive Not negative You have to be optimistic Not pessimistic If you want to be pessimistic Don't pray Don't waste your time Yes If you are pessimistic If this is the way You talk to God He's not going to listen Talk to him And tell him yes Even when you I did not get the answer yesterday Probably there is a reason But I have faith in you I have faith Imam Assad That says when you pray to God Pray with this spirit This spirit of optimism That the hijab But the answer Is on the door Waiting for you at the door It can get into your house Any second The answer With this spirit Of optimism Be positive When you pray to God And when you are positive God would listen God does not love those who are negative God does not love those Who are always complaining about Anything He only love those Who speak always With the spirit of Positiveism Positive always They say yes It happens They have hope If you get this fondant And life is dark in your eyes You are not going to get to anywhere Anywhere Be always positive Always hopeful In what God has reserved For you Okay So this is the second أليقين بالإجابة And The third Tonight If you pray with the remembrance of God And the prayer of Muhammad And the prayer of Muhammad It's okay to speak to God Any minute Any time To say anything to Him But If you want To expedite your case Have you seen when you go to the Passports office And you want to expedite your passport How much you have to pay Nobody knows Only me The poor guy 60$ Extra 60$ You have to pay To expedite 10 working days Okay Now if you want to speak to God And expedite your case Then You have to pay some more What do you pay This is what you pay ذكر الله Number 1 And the Salat For the Prophet And his family ذكر الله See what we did In دعائل افتتاح A few minutes ago اللهم إني افتتحوا الثناء بحمدك حمد الله Praise Him وانت مسدد للصواب بمنك ويقنت أنك أنت أرحم الراحم في موضع العفو الراحم So you have to sanctify Him You have to praise God In the beginning And إمام الصادق يقول إيج دعاء كل دعاء ستضع ستضع ستضع في حال It's not going to reach there unless you begin your دعاء with حتى يصلى على محمد وآل محمد لا يزال الدعاء ومحجوبا اللهم أكبر بيوتفل The dua is going to be انترسفت It's cannot reach unless you send it with extra power It requires extra energy and power to push it up And that is Extra power is The other requirement for answering our دعاء is رد المظالم رد المظالم It means we live in a society We have a relationship Sometimes we wrong people knowingly or unknowingly Sometimes we hurt people knowingly or unknowingly And knowingly Sometimes we violate their rights Physically materially And sometimes morally And spiritually How is that? Sometimes I take something from someone I take it from him His money His property His house His car His, you know Computer His I take it from him As long as I am taking something that does not belong to me Even if it is one dollar Even if it is one penny The دعاء is not going to be answered That's it God says Go and settle your account with Fulana You took his money You took his car You took his belonging I'm not going to answer it Go رد المظالم Settle your account with him Sometimes It's a penny Sometimes it's a million dollar God is not going to answer it This is The material Physical Sometimes it's not material You have not taken money From someone But you hurt someone With your tongue You accuse someone Of doing something That he didn't do Accusation False Statement Lies Bag biting Slandering Or sometimes In public You insult someone in public And he gets hurt In public You did this You shouldn't do that This is also As a price God says Go And make that person happy again Go and tell him I'm sorry Go and tell him I'm sorry I'm not going to listen to you You did a violation Don't come and ask me Don't waste your time Go and settle your account With that person Go to him Have the bravery The courage The guts Of going to him And tell him I'm sorry I insulted you I hurt your feeling Then Come back to me I would listen to you This is why in the du'a Look at Ahlulbayt How they teach us How to speak to God They teach us That فأيما عبتل This is on Mondays This is the du'a Every each day Has a beautiful du'a So please go and read them Especially in the month of Ramadan After Salat al Dhul Take some 5 minutes Only 5 minutes And do these prayers So you ask God فأيما عبتل I never Any servant of you من عبيدك أو أمتن من إمائك كانت له قبلي مظلمة ظلمتها إياه I abuse that person Okay Whether it's male Female في نفسه أو في عرضه Either I hurt him Himself Or I hurt his عرض means his family His daughter His wife His sister أو ماله أو ماله أو his property أو أهله his family وولده أو غيبة نختبته بها I backbited that person I spoke behind him behind his back He was not there So when they mentioned him I put him down I put him down This is غيبة أو غيبة نختبته بها أو تحامل عليه بميلا أو هون أو أنفة أو حمية أو رياء أو عصبية غائباً كان أو شاهدة حياً كان أو ميت فقصر فقصرتوا سيدي وضاقة وسعي عرضها إليه واتحلوا المن Now I cannot reach to that person I hurt him but I don't know his address now I know I did something wrong to someone and I can't reach out to that person He moved from this city He went somewhere else I'm trying to find that person because I know I hurt his feelings I know I did injustice to him I know I slandered him Now I can't find a way to get to him So God you I leave this file with you You take it over and you make that person happy on my behalf settle my account with that person فأسألوا كياماً يملك الحاجات ويمستجيبت لمشيئته ومصرعة إلى إرادته أن تصلي على محمد وآله محمد وأن ترضيه عني بما شئت وأن ترضيه فأخذت هذا المن who is unhappy with me فأخذته عني فأرجوه God ونفعل ذلك Yes God is the best attorney sometimes we assign this file to this attorney to this judge to this friend they throw it in the trash they don't care about it but God does not do that if you assign him this task God will make that person happy so before you pray remember those that you abused and then let me conclude with this حديث القتصي حديث القتصي is the narration of God himself He says لا تحتاجه عني دعوة إلا دعوة أكل الحرار no prayers can be veiled from me it means all prayers they reach me and you know Imam Ali says even when a Jew or a Christian prays God would listen to them you don't think that only the Muslims only those who fast إنه very Imam Ali says إنه ليستجاه لليهودي والنصاني God would answer the prayers of the Jews and the Christians if it goes from a clean heart God would respond to them because they are human beings they are human beings they are God's dependents God's creatures so God says every prayers is going to reach me the only prayer that does not reach me the one who devours devour the haram He eats something haram something does not belong to him the source of money is haram is Allah the source of money that he gets it does not belong to him I'm not going to listen to him Musa A.S. I conclude with this story he took a group of many Israel children of Israel went him to the desert to pray and God didn't answer one day, two days, three days then Musa said إلهي I'm leaving my house my family coming with those people so please please listen to them the answer came from God this is the answer you come to me whether you are carrying filth with you and you are raising your hands where you slaughtered innocent people with these hands I'm not going to listen even if you keep your hands five days ten days because these hands are sinners there is a blood on these hands you committed wrong injustice murder theft with this hand this hand does not have the power to raise your dog it's not a qualified this is any qualified hand go and clean it first clean your hand how do you clean it just you wash it you wash it by soap no you wash it from sins go and settle your account with him go and apologize go and give ransom go and give fidia whatever go and make people happy go to them when you fill your stomach food which does not belong to you your prayers is not going to be answered not that Allah does not hear his hearing is very good that Allah says I only hear and I only accept from those who are sincere and righteous إنما يتقبل الله ومنر متقين so insha'Allah Allah will accept your prayers in this month remember us remember those who are in the hospitals some of them waiting for surgeries and some of them are at home this is the month of prayers so please let me conclude with this story last last hadith moussa asked Allah Allah how do you want me to pray to you he said يا موسى ودعني على لسانا لم تقصني بر pray to me with a tongue that you did not commit a sin with it moussa said sometimes I commit a sin with my this is a metaphor of course moussa does not commit a sin God said to him then if you know you have committed a sin with your tongue then يدعني على لسانا غيرك ask other people to pray for you if you want to pray to me and you know you have committed a sin then ask a friend a righteous friend tell him please remember me please التباصة دعا I ask you to pray for me so ask each other in Ramadan and outside Ramadan to pray for you إنشاء الله أخفر للمؤمنين والمؤمنات والمسلمين والمسلمات الأحياني منهم والأموات ستابع لهم بيننا وبينهم بالخيرات إنك مجيبوا الدعوات we recite this ayah لشفاء المرضى أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم أما يجيبوا المضطرة إذا دعا ويكشفوا السوء أما يجيبوا المضطرة إذا دعا ويكشفوا السوء أما يجيبوا المضطرة إذا دعا ويكشفوا السوء أما يجيبوا المضطرة إذا دعا ويكشفوا السوء أما يجيبوا المضطرة إذا دعا ويكشفوا السوء أيا الله مناعنا مرضانا بالشفاء والعافية المريبة المضورة واللهما يلبسها ثوب الصحة والعافية وعدجل في فرج سيدنا ومولانا صاحب العصلي والزمان وإلى الواحي المؤمنة والمؤمنات والشهداء دواب الفاتح مع الصلاة على محمد وآل محمد