 السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والصلاة والسلام على أشرف المرسلين سيدنا ونبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أشبعين يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلال وجهك وعظيم سلطانك اللهم افتح علينا افتح العرفين اللهم علمنا ما ينفعون وانفعنا بما علمتنا يا أرحم الراحمين اليوم سنقوم بفوكيس على سبه الثلاثة افتح العرفين افتح لنا أفتح علي الله سبحانه وتعالى وانتبعنا أكثر مستعدة لدينا لدينا when we leave this world to meet Allah سبحانه وتعالى so what is this new outer action of today it is remembrance of Allah سبحانه وتعالى which is doing zikr doing zikr is very important because سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم talked about that and he said سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said the similarity between someone who remembers his lord someone who does this zikr and someone who does not remember him is like that of the living and the dead so it's like someone who is alive and someone who is dead الله سبحانه وتعالى ordered us in the holy Quran to make zikr and to remember him سبحانه وتعالى so he said in surah al-Baqara in ayah 152 فاذكروني أذكركم وشكروا لي ولا تكفرون so remember me I will remember you and be grateful to me thank me and do not deny me do not deny my blessings so why do we remember Allah سبحانه وتعالى why do we always make zikr why do we see gatherings of zikr and attend them سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم لا يقعد قوم يذكرون الله عز وجل إلا حفتهم الملائكة وغشيتهم الرحمة ونزلت عليهم السكينة وذكرهم الله في من عندها سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم when a group of people assemble for the remembrance of Allah when a group of people sit together to make zikr to remember Allah سبحانه وتعالى then what happens the angels surround them and Allah's mercy envelops them غشيتهم الرحمة ونزلت عليهم السكينة tranquility descends upon them وذكرهم الله في من عندها and Allah سبحانه وتعالى makes the mention of them before those who are near him who are those الملائكة so وذكرهم الله في من عندها سبحان الله and سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said in another hadith he was encouraging his companions to attend the gatherings of zikr so he said إذا مرتم برياض الجنة فرتعوا قال وما رياض الجنة قال حلق ذكر so and this is reported by Anas رضي الله عن that يد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said when you come upon pastures of paradise feed on them so try to gain as much as you can from these places and then one of the companions asked سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم what are these places and said the Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم said they are the circles where people sit in circles to remember Allah سبحانه وتعالى so these are the circles so these are the gatherings of zikr so because we want to be of those whom حفتهم الملائكة وغشيتهم الرحمة ونزلت عليهم السكينة وذكرهم الله في من عنده angels surround us and mercy envelops us and tranquility and sakinah descends upon us and Allah سبحانه وتعالى will mention us before the angels then we want to be with these types of people with this group of people and سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم told his companions he was sitting with them and he said سبق المفردون so the مفردون have gone ahead so they are winners so the companions asked يا رسول الله ملمفردون so who are these who are this group of people which is called المفردون سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said الذاكيرون الله كثيرا و الذاكيرات those men and women who frequently remember Allah سبحانه وتعالى so those are the winners those are the ones that are getting the high rewards in the day after so how can we be considered of these مفردون of الذاكيرون و الذاكيرات those who frequently who always remember Allah سبحانه وتعالى how can we be of them okay we have an answer from سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم he said so when a man awakens his wife during the night and they both performed سبراكاز صلى الله عليه وسلم they are recorded among the men and women who remember Allah سبحانه وتعالى who celebrate remembrance of Allah سبحانه وتعالى you might ask what is the best zikr to say again we get the answer from our teacher from سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم he said so he gives us the answer so the best the most excellent way to make mention of Allah سبحانه وتعالى the best zikr is to say لا إله إلا الله and the the best the most excellent supplication the best supplication is to say الحمد لله praise be to God so this is the best of supplications of دل الدعاء now we say we are all leaving this dunya and we are all going to meet Allah سبحانه وتعالى one day all our deeds are going to be presented to him and there will be a scale our deeds will be scaled so we have to get ready for that and going to Allah سبحانه وتعالى is the beginning of the road سيدنا إبراهيم talked about that so we want to we want to make sure that we can leave the things in the things that fascinate us in this dunya we want to leave these things behind we want to go to Allah سبحانه وتعالى we want to remember Allah سبحانه وتعالى so سيدنا إبراهيم عليه السلام said وقال إني ذاهب إلى ربي سيهدين this is in surah to saffat ayah 99 سيدنا إبراهيم said indeed I will go to my lord you will guide me so when you sit alone remembering Allah سبحانه وتعالى and doing zikr you might feel something special right you're sitting you're with Allah سبحانه وتعالى doing your zikr but after some time of doing this zikr you feel that you entered the stage of presence you feel that you are present with Allah سبحانه وتعالى and this stage remember if you get into this stage this stage does not does not last long it might be seconds it might be a few minutes so you have to keep doing your zikr then this state might become longer longer and during this state you might receive the secrets from Allah سبحانه وتعالى so the starting point of zikr is the zikr of the tongue while you are sitting you are saying أستغفر الله أستغفر الله أستغفر الله and you are thinking of so many things but you are saying أستغفر الله if you are remembering Allah سبحانه وتعالى then the next stage of zikr is the zikr of the heart you feel that your heart is longing to be with Allah سبحانه وتعالى to make zikr so you start by the tongue you go on then you move to the state of zikr by the heart when some people of zikr sit with people of dunya they feel sorry for them that they are deceived by this vanishing dunya they feel sorry for them that they did not taste the beauty of zikr which they themselves have tasted and when they are asked to describe this state and to describe what they know to describe what they feel about zikr to anyone who has not tried it they would say you know this is the same as describing the taste of ice cream to someone who has never tried ice cream so no matter how hard you try to explain it to explain the taste to explain the experience they will not they might not have an idea only but they won't get it so looking at سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم we feel that all his life he was in a state of zikr when he would be teaching he would be remembering الله سبحانه و تعالى when he is with his family he will remember الله سبحانه و تعالى when he is in a fight he remembers الله سبحانه و تعالى when he is when he needs anything from الله سبحانه و تعالى he perfects supplications to الله سبحانه و تعالى so Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم used to make zikr all the time for each and every situation he is in and we have so many examples in the seerah that talk about the zikr of سيد محمد صلى الله عليه و تعالى so we just mentioned that سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم used to make zikr all the time for each and every situation he he is in when he is with his companions he is teaching them he is remembering الله سبحانه و تعالى when he is with his family he is remembering الله سبحانه و تعالى when he is in a fight yeah in the battlefield then he remembers الله سبحانه و تعالى he does a lot of supplication so I am going to mention now a few examples about his zikr so جاب الرضي الله وان reported that I heard I heard سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم saying إذا دخل الرجل بيته فذكر الله تعالى عند دخوله و عند طعامه قال الشيطان لأصحابه لا مبيت لكم ولا عشاء و إذا دخل فلم يذكر الله تعالى عند دخوله قال الشيطان أدركتم المبيت و إذا لم يذكر اسم الله تعالى عند طعامه قال أدركتم المبيت والعشاء so سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم says if a person mentions the name of الله سبحانه و تعالى upon entering his house and when eating while eating then Shaytan will say he will address his followers he will say you will find nowhere to spend the night nor dinner in this house the person mentioned the name of الله سبحانه و تعالى then if the if a person enters without mentioning the name of الله سبحانه و تعالى Shaytan will say to his followers you have found a place to spend the night in and if he if the person does not mention the name of الله سبحانه و تعالى at the time of eating then Shaytan will say you have found a place to spend the night in and a place to eat till you have found a place to spend the night in as well as food so we always have to mention the name of Allah سبحانه و تعالى when we get into our homes and before we start our food another a zikr is when we hear the when we hear the when we hear the when we hear the when we hear the when we hear when we hear when we hear when we hear when we hear when we hear when you hear the then then Repeat what the the one whoQUALS the toances محمدًا الوسيلة والفضيلة وبعثه المقام المحمود الذي وعدته حلت له شفاعة يوم القيامة آتي محمدًا الوسيلة والفضيلة نعم حلت له شفاعة يوم القيامة when whoever says upon hearing the event oh Allah Lord of the perfect call Lord of the Dawah and the Lord of the established prayer اللهم رب هذه الدعوة تامة والصلاة القائمة آتي محمدًا الوسيلة والفضيلة grant Muhammad the wasila and the superiority وبعثه مقام المحمودة and raise him up to praise worthy to praise a worthy position which you have promised him so when you resurrect him give him the مقام المحمود الذي وعدته we all know that Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم is going to perform a sajdah on the day of judgment that he will praise Allah سبحانه وتعالى with the forms of praying that he has never ever said so whoever does this حلت له شفاعة يوم القيامة then it becomes incumbent that upon me to intercede for him on the day of resurrection so that person will be eligible for the intercession of Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم so when you hear the event when you hear the calling for the prayer you say اللهم رب هذه الدعوة التامة والصلاة القائمة آتي محمدان الوسيلة والفضيلة وبعثه مقام المحمود الذي وعدته إنك لا تخلف المعاد then the intercession of Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم will be given to that person another place of thicker is when you enter the masjid and when you go out كان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم إذا دخل المسجد صلى على محمد وقال رب يغفر لي ذنوب وافتح لي أبواب رحمتك وإذا خرج صلى على محمد وقال رب يغفر لي ذنوب وافتح لي أبواب فضلك so when the messenger of Allah سبحانه وتعالى would get into the masjid he would he would say صلى الله عليه وسلم أبواب محمد and he would say رب يغفر لي ذنوب يا الله pardon my sins وافتح لي أبواب رحمتك and open the gates of your mercy to me and when he exits the masjid he would say صلى الله عليه وسلم أبواب محمد and then he will say رب يغفر لي ذنوب يا الله pardon my sins وافتح لي أبواب رحمتك and open the gates of your blessings for me another dhikr النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم كان إذا أوا إلى فراشه يقال بسمك الله هم أحيا وأموت so when the when say the Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم would go to his bed he would say بسمك الله هم بسمك أحيا وأموت يا الله with your name I live and die وإذا أصبح قال and when he wakes up in the morning he would say الحمد لله الذي أحيانا بعدما أموتنا وإليه النشور الحمد لله that he make us live again that we are living one more time we have another chance to live after we were dead because we all know that sleeping is a short death وإليه النشور and we will all be resurrected to him and when سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم was teaching the Sahaba about all the types of dhikr one of them was entering the restroom before you enter the restroom you say اللهم إني أعوذ بك من الخبس والخبائس يا الله I seek protection in you from evil and from the male evil and female jinn okay so from the evil male and female jinn and when he used to get out from the restroom الحمد لله الذي أذهب عن so he would thank الله سبحانه وتعالى who has removed harm from him and kept him in health we all know that the best invocation is the dua on the day of Arafa and سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said خير الدعاء دعاء يوم عرفة وخير ما قلت أنا والنبيون من قبل لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له له الملك وله الحمد وهو على كل شيء قدير so the best invocation is the day of Arafat and the best that anyone can say is what I and the prophets before me have said so what did سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and the prophets before him said لا إله إلا الله وحده ولا شريك له there is no god to be worshipped but الله سبحانه وتعالى alone له الملك وله الحمد who has الله has no partner he is the he is the one to be praised he is the one who owns everything he is the one to be praised and وهو على كل شيء قدير and he is able to do all things now if we stop for a second and think about think about remembering الله سبحانه وتعالى think about we can change we can flip our life from habits to worshipping الله سبحانه وتعالى من عادات إلى عبادات so every day the mother of the house and the lady of the house cooks then instead of just cooking either silently or thinking about some stuff or listening to music just mention the name of الله سبحانه وتعالى do zikr while you are cooking do zikr while you are doing your chores do zikr while you go to school do zikr while you go to work do zikr while you are driving do zikr while when you have any minute free then do zikr remember الله سبحانه وتعالى and some people have about 15-20 minutes in the morning 15-20 minutes in the evening just they sit alone with الله سبحانه وتعالى to remember him some people like to sit with their families some people like to go to zikr gatherings some people like to do it by themselves during the night so either way let your zikr every day have 100 استغفار 100 100 100 100 100 15-20 read this zikr sometimes we have another type of zikr which is the zikr of Quran so what is the zikr of Quran some people like to read a world of Quran before they go to bed أية الكرسي قلوا الله أحد ثري قولs قلوا الله أحد قل أودوا بربي الفنق قل أودوا بربي الناس الفاتحة some people like to read the first 10 ayahs of Surat Al-Qa'ab سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم ساد من حفظ 10 آيات من أول سورة الكهف أوصم من الدجال وفي رواية أخرى من آخر سورة الكهف أبو أبو دردار رضي الله وعين ربورت that the messenger of Allah who ever commits to the memory is the first 10 ayahs of Surat Al-Qa'ab then he will be protected from the trial of a dajal from the Antichrist and in another narration it's the last 10 ayahs of Surat Al-Qa'ab so actually it's very easy just to memorize these 10 ayahs it's not difficult and we talked about how to memorize last session when we talked about reciting the Quran and we said that the easiest way is to follow a reciter and to listen you can do that okay now the Quran will protect you this Surat Al-Qa'ab these ayahs the first 10 ayahs or the last 10 ayahs of Surat Al-Qa'ab will protect us will protect us from the dajal from the Antichrist and Sayyidina Muhammad said that as we just mentioned whoever memorizes these these ayahs will be protected from the dajal so this is the first word of Quran the Quran also will protect us from the graves punishment after death when if we keep reciting Surat Al-Qa'ab and Sayyidina Muhammad said read Surat Al-Mulk to protect yourselves from the punishment of the grave another word that is Quran word that is Quran ذكر Sayyidina Ibn Mas'ood reported that Sayyidina Muhammad said من قرأ Surat Al-Waqa في كل الليلة لم تصيبه فاقة أبدا so Sayyidina سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said whoever recites Surat Al-Waqa every night will never be afflicted by want or by need and Ibn Mas'ood used to order his daughters to recite Surat Al-Waqa every night again we have from the treasures of the from the treasures of Ta'arsh the last two ayahs of Surat Al-Baqara and these were a gift from Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم to his ummah during the Israel war and again try to read the last two ayahs as your before you go to bed now we can say okay so we have so many things to do we can do a lot of dikker but there are some shortcuts and the reward for those shortcuts is immense Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم told us everything and he said in one of the narrations كلمتان خفيفة تاني على الديسان ثقيلة تاني في الميزان حبيبة تاني إلى الرحمن سبحان الله وبحمده سبحان الله العظيم two words are light on the tongue they weigh heavily in the balance and they are loved to the merciful one سبحان الله وبحمده سبحان الله العظيم so glory is to Allah and praise is to Allah سبحانه وتعالى Allah is the great the most great he is the greatest سبحان الله وبحمده سبحان الله العظيم one time Sayyidina Abu Zar sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم said to him ألا أخبروك بأحب الكلم إلى الله shall I tell you the the most loved expression by Allah سبحانه وتعالى Sayyidina Abu Zar said yes and Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم said to him أحب الكلم إلى الله سبحان الله وبحمده the most loved words to Allah سبحانه وتعالى is to say سبحان الله وبحمده the mother of the believers رضي الله عنها was a جويرية أم المؤمنين رضي الله عنها was a righteous lady and she used to and she used to and she used to and she used to do she used to pray for her and then stay until until the rising of the sun until and she would be remembering but as I mentioned we are doing the shortcuts now so sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم one day he he was with her and so he went out from her house one morning and that was at the time when he prayed and while she was still praying sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم came back from the prayer and he returned to her when it was sunrise and he found her sitting and mentioning الله سبحانه وتعالى and doing and he asked her if she was still in the same position as that in which he had left her and when she replied that she was so he said so this is the shortcut imagine he said to her سبحان الله وبحمده عدد خلقه وريضا نفسي وزينة عرشه ومداد كلماته so he said to her I said three times four phrases if wait against all you have said today then will be heavier towards what I said سبحان الله وبحمده Glory be to God عدد خلقه the number of his creatures وريضا نفسه and in accordance with his good pleasure وزينة عرشه the weight of his throne ومداد كلماته and the extent of his words he's teaching us shortcuts also even in zikr سبحان الله so four times three times the four words that he said سبحان الله وبحمده عدد خلقه وريضا نفسه وزينة عرشه ومداد كلماته and another shortcut is what say the Muhammad tell us لقيته إبراهيم صلى الله عليه وسلم ليلة أسريبي so say the Muhammad he's saying I met إبراهيم صلى الله عليه وسلم on the night of ascension of يوم الإسرار فقال يا محمد أقر أمتك مني السلام so إبراهيم عليه السلام said could they my greetings to your أمه so now we know that he has greeted us we have to return the السلام ويقول وعليك السلام ويسيدنا إبراهيم وأخبرهم so tell them أن الجنة طيبة التربة tell them that جنة has a vast plane of pure soul عزبة الماء in sweet water وأنها قيعان it's a plane leveled land وأن غيراسها in the plants that grow there what is it سبحان الله والحمد لله ولا إله إلا الله والله أكبر so when you say سبحان الله والحمد لله ولا إله إلا الله الله أكبر then you have planted your place of جنة with these amazing phrases so these are the plants of جنة and another narration سبحان الله سبحان الله العظيم is the whenever you say it each time you say it you are planting a palm tree even during the time of calamities we remember الله سبحانه وتعالى we do zikr without noticing we thank الله سبحانه وتعالى so when there is a problem when there is a calamity we say this is the first word that we say الحمد لله الحمد لله that it wasn't bigger than this الحمد لله that it wasn't this affliction is not in my religion and we know that when we say الحمد لله then الله سبحانه وتعالى will highly reward us but you know what الله سبحانه وتعالى in صورة العصر in he said الله is swearing indeed mankind is in loss why الله swears that man is in loss so with all that said about the rewards of zikr about the shortcuts of zikr man still forgets to say these short forms of zikr which which generate a lot of the deeds and a lot of reward so he misses to collect abundant reward which might need just very short time to say so this is why الله is swearing that man is in loss because he is not collecting he is not easily collecting a lot of rewards a lot of good deeds so one of the benefits of zikr is to be with الله سبحانه وتعالى to feel that you are with الله سبحانه وتعالى now think a little bit more what is another benefit of zikr one of the best benefits of zikr is that it keeps shaitan away it awakens shaitan and what happens when shaitan is away and when he is weak then the soul gets stronger the relationship between the person and Allah سبحانه وتعالى gets stronger when the soul is stronger then a person starts to worship Allah سبحانه وتعالى and what does this remind us this reminds us of the soul in Ramadan in Ramadan the shaitans are chained and the soul gets stronger and stronger and that's why in Ramadan way much more way much more worship to Allah سبحانه وتعالى then we do outside of Ramadan we read more Quran we pray 20 rak'as of tarawih but on the second day after Ramadan the following day after Ramadan we don't do that so this is the benefit of getting shaitan the soul would get stronger and this is what we need in this dunya a lot of things a lot of errors are being shot against us these deceiving errors this deceiving dunya these calamities everything is against man but with zikr we get stronger to face everything because we are close to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and we mention that with zikr Allah سبحانه وتعالى would give us certain secrets he will give us certain light that would enlighten our path so كن مع الله ولا تبالي be with Allah سبحانه وتعالى and do not be afraid of anything else along the way Allah will protect you so zikr is getting us closer to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and Allah سبحانه وتعالى mentioned said in Surah Al-A'raf in ayah 180 ولله الأسماء والحسنة فدعوه بها and to Allah belongs the best names so invoke him by them Allah has 99 names so so many people memorize them so many people ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى with his last names and they know that Allah is close Allah said أستجب لكم I am close to you make dua and the best time to make dua the best time to remember Allah سبحانه وتعالى is before Fajr Allah would come would descend to the lowest the sky and he would say ألا من مستغفر فأغفر الله is there someone who is asking for مغفر for forgiveness and I will give it to him is there someone who is repenting and I would accept the repentance is there someone who is asking for anything and I would grant him but we have to be awake otherwise we would be of those not collecting these rewards that Allah has given us so ذكر is one of the outer actions that gets us closer to Allah سبحانه وتعالى it gets us more prepared for the day when we will leave this dunya to meet Allah سبحانه وتعالى on the day of judgment there will be a card written on it لا إله إلا الله whoever says لا إله إلا الله sincerely with a heart that's believing in it then this card will be thrown on his good deeds and it will have the best reward and whoever says لا إله إلا الله و هو موقن بها he would be highly rewarded و صلى الله عليه وسلم سيدنا محمد و على آله و صحبه و سلم يا ربنا لك الحمد و كما ينبغي لي جلالي وجهك و عظيم سلطانك and until we meet next week سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم و السلام عليكم و رحمة الله و بركاته