 العالمين والصلاة والسلام على أنبياء الله جميعا وعلى سيدهم وخاتمهم حبيب إله العالمين بالقاصب المصطفى محمد على هربيته الطيبين الطهرين المعصومين والصفوة من صحابته المنتجبين ومن تبعهم بإحسان وإيمان إلى يوم الدين أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وإذا سألك عباد عني فإني قريبا أجيب دعوة الدعي إذا دعان فليستجيبوا لي وليؤمنوا بلعلهم يرشدون العبادات الإسلامية والعبادات والعبادة لقد been divided into ranks and levels some of them are higher than the others so what is the best type of worshipping and service in Islam the prophet peace be upon him says the highest ranking worshipping and service in our religion is the dua the supplication when you speak with God when you speak with God this is the most honorable type of worship you are performing رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم says the prayer of worship the nerve system of the worship and the service is supplication and dua when you speak to God إمام الصادق عليه الصلاة والسلام says the best worship is the dua the best type of service serving God and worshipping God is when you speak to God when you recite the dua ما من شيء أفضل عند الله من أن يسأل الله ويطلب ما عنده nothing is better than asking God and demanding of what he has in his treasures asking him وما أحد أبغف إلى الله من من يستكبر عن عبادته ولا يسأل ما عنده and nothing is more disliked than the person who disdains from asking God he doesn't want to ask God this is a sign of conceit and arrogance and it is mentioned in the Quran God says those arrogance are the ones who do not ask me he doesn't want to pray to me إن الذين وقال ربكم ادعوني أستجف لكم إن الذين يستكبرون عن عبادته سيتخلون جهنما داخرين they are disdaining from asking me and the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم always asks God even if you are very comfortable even if you have everything around you even if you are in peace even if you have food you have money you have health you have family you have success still you need to ask God ask him ask him of his bowties the Prophet says you are not going to lose anything if you ask God in fact you are going to gain one of the three things when you do dua when you make dua and ask God definitely you are going to score one of these three points number one إما ذنب يخفر له إن العبدة the servant لا يخطئه من الدعائي إلا ثلاثة as true servant is not going to miss when he prays to God he is not going to miss but he is going to score one of these three number one إما ذنب يخفر له God would forgive your sins the second وَإِمَّا خَيْرٌ يُعَجَّلُ لَه some goodness that has been reserved there for you but it has been put on hold sometimes God says I am going to answer your prayers but not now I will put it on hold so when you pray that goodness is going to be expedited and sent to you with overnight meal it comes to you fast وَإِمَّا خَيْرٌ يُعَجَّلُ لَه وَإِمَّا خَيْرٌ يُدَّخْرُ لَه sometimes you ask God he does not answer you immediately the same day the following day he is going to reserve the answer reserve the goodness for you for the future but my friends the dua has manners and adab and the prophet and our imams they walk us through the manners of dua how do you ask God what do you tell him in what manners you speak to him these are mentioned in our traditions number one number one there are specific times prime times for supplications the supplications is answered and God listens to it all the times but God says there are specific times that I would pay more attention to one of these times comes every week on Thursday nights وَنَهَا رُلْجُمَا the day of Friday so 24 hours from sunset of Thursday until sunset of Friday this is the prime time to recite dua to ask God to turn to him to be with him this is one the second يَوْمُ عَلَفَا the day of Arafat also it's a day of dua the third the nights of Qad these are the best prime times of supplication and prayers and dua so don't miss the nights of Qad wherever you are even if you can't make it to the mosque in your house in your bedroom in your living room try to turn to God with a clean heart pure intention and ask him for yourself and for your family and also every night just before dawn before Fajr and that time is called do you know what is called that time it's mentioned in the Quran it's mentioned twice three times وَبِلْ أَسْحَارِ هُمْ يَسْتَخْفِ الْمِ وَبِلْ أَسْحَارِ it is the Sahab Sahab means it is the last part of the night an hour an hour before Fajr Fajr today let's say it's about 4.15 so from 3.15 until 4.15 that is the best time of these 24 hours the best time to stand and talk to God I always say if you can't do 11 raka'a you can do the 3 raka'a of Salatul Lail if you can't afford 11 too much for you do the 3 if you can't do the 3 do 11 raka'a with Qunud if you can't do 11 raka'a you are in your bed open your eyes close your eyes whatever you want to do in darkness say ya Allah I need you you are my only help you are my only hope you are my only friend at the time sometimes my family would abandon me my friends would abandon me but you don't abandon me so I need you please I need you don't leave me alone talk to God talk intimately to God He would respond to you it depends on the quality of your talk on your condition on your heart if your heart is really connected to Him definitely He's going to answer you He's going to answer you this is what to sahar و بالأسحارهم يستغفرون و المستغفرين بالأسحار so this is the prime time of every night إن من السحلي the hadith says إن من السحلي إلى طلوع الشمس تفتحوا أبوابوا السماء the gates of heaven are going to be opened during that time you know most people they shut their doors they shut their gates except the gate of God in the middle of the night his gate is never shut it's always open تفتحوا أبوابوا السماء و تقسموا فيها الأرزاق your provision your risk is going to be determined during this sahar time can you imagine most people they sleep during this time Allah decides that your risk your provision your sustenance is going to be determined now I'm determining it now تقسموا فيها الأرزاق و تقضى فيها الحوائج العبام and you regret need sometimes the need is simple easy but sometimes the need is huge you have a big hajj these huge needs are going to be fulfilled during this time of sahar from one hour before dawn before fajr until sunrise which is about two hour and a half two hour and a half you have this window that you speak to God because this is the prime time this is where God wants you to stand before Him and ask Him and then there are certain conditions that the dua is going to be listened to faster with more intention one of them is نزول المطر نزول المطر نزول الغيف when the rain comes down I know here we in California we wait for the rain we get excited so when you see the rain even if it is a drizzling few drops immediately go under the sky say first of all إلهي my lord thank you for this rain we really need the rain and then start asking Him your other needs pray for your parents your family your cousins your community your friends remember them during the rain وَمَا بَيْنَا الْأَذَانْ وَالِقَامَةَ when you do the adhan and after the adhan if you are in the masjid I know when adhan is being done people speak people at the back especially women ما شاء الله whatever the story they have they do it during the adhan this is a holy time we have to listen to the adhan first of all if the adhan is raised we have to repeat the adhan I mean silently not with a loud voice if the mu'addan says الله عكبر we say الله عكبر if he says شدو الله we say حي على الصلاة we say حي على الصلاة and then between the adhan and the iqama so this is the best time to ask God وعند الصلاوات المكتوبة the five daily prayers once you finish your prayers do not just get up and leave this is not good stay 3 minutes 3 more minutes 2 more minutes do the tasbih tasbih that is the best type of zikr احسن الثكر the best type of zikr ذكر الله is when you do the tasbih 34 times الله عكبر 33 times الحمد لله 33 times سبحان الله one person told me he said what I like about the school of Ahlulbayt is that when I was someone else different path once we the Imam says السلام عليكم محمد الله السلام عليكم we get up and we leave and Imam is the first one to leave masha'Allah but when I came to Ahlulbayt mosque الحمد لله you do tasbih you do zikr you do dua you shake hand with others this is the time where Allah listens to you pays attention to you so remember with every Salat after every Salat we have تعقيب what is the meaning of تعقيب تعقيب in Arabic means what comes after تعقيب you act with what comes after so what comes after the prayers is the dua so stay if you are in the masjid read the dua don't speak especially in Ramallah the مشتر حج مشتر is reading dua and masha'Allah the tables are filled and women start and men not just women we don't respect the dua dua is they not less than important than the prayers the Salat itself so و عند الصلاوات المكتوبة these places and these occasions are prime time for the dua and then و حالة السجود أقرب ما يكون العبد من الله من ربه و حوساجد فأكثر فيه the best time where you get the closest to God is when you do the sujood prostration physically you are the lowest physically you are the lowest you put your forehead on the ground but spiritually you are the highest spiritually you become the highest the closest to God the nearest to God أقرب ما يكون العبد إلى ربه so try at home when you do your prayers the sujood prolong your sujood don't do it fast enjoy your sujood now we علم العبد if the servant knows how he's going to be overwhelmed with God's mercy and a blessing لما رفع عمت سبوم من السجود he or she wouldn't have raised their head from sujood if only we know how much God is going to bestow us how much of his a blessing and mercy so حالة سجود whenever you have urgent dua don't do it when you are sitting or standing go to sujood go to the sujood prostration and then ask God when you are in the state of sujood the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم this is the the dua that he used to do يا خير in his sujood يا خير المسؤولين يا خير المعطين ارزقني ورزق عيالي من فضلك فإن كذلك فضل عظيم one of the du'as that the prophet used to do in his sujood now it is also mustahab that when you raise your hand in dua after you finish you wipe your face with your hand why the hadith says whenever a servant whenever a servant whether adult young child men women raise his or her hand for dua Allah would not return his hand empty handed Allah will put some of his blessings in that hand so when you raise your hand for dua whether it is in the prayers or after the prayers especially after the prayers once you finish the dua wipe it on your face or wipe your face with your palm because the blessings of Allah is in your palm in your hand ما أبرز عبد يدهو إلى الله العزيز الجبار إلا استح الله تعالى أن يردها صفرا Allah would not return his hand empty صفرا means empty حتى يجعل فيها من فضر احمته ما يشاء فإذا دعى أحدكم فلا يرد يدهو حتى يمسح حتى يمسح once you do the dua then wipe your face with it because your hand now is full of blessings the other condition of the dua how do we do the dua do we do it with loud voice we scream الله sometimes of course people scream I know my mother used to scream when we were running around but this is not the etiquette the right etiquette of dua dua الله teaches us how do we pray how do we mention him in the last verse in Surah Al-Isra Chapter 17 ولا تجهر بصلاتك ولا تخافت بها وابتغي بين ذلك السبيل neither scream تجهر don't الله is there موسى I said to him one day oh my lord how do you want me to call upon you should I scream or should I be silent which one which one you prefer الله said to him موسى once you remember me in your heart I'll be sitting next to you I'll be next to you so you don't have to scream you don't have the only one who has good ears sometimes we call on our children our neighbors our wives our friends they don't answer they pretend that they don't hear they don't listen but الله is the one who always listens and he hears you يا أسمع الساممين يا أبصر النظرين يا أحكم الحاكمين we will recite these things Insha'Allah and duaة جوشة الكبير during the nights of القدر in this mosque so Allah can hear you كافها يا عيل صادك ورحمة ربك عبده زكرية الله قلت زكرية وَاَيْ إِذْنَادَ عَبَّهُ نِدَاءً خَفِيَّةَ زكرية was an old man his wife was very old and he wanted a child he wanted a child he kept saying رب لا تضرني فرغا وانتخيروا الورثي oh God do not let me leave this life without offspring without children so give me at least one son one daughter I don't want to leave this life with no legacy he kept praying but he kept praying how? in a private اتناد عربه ونداءً خفير in secret why in secret? because you're going to have more اخلاس more sincere when you speak to God in secret you're going to have more earnestness and more اخلاس and more sincerity rather than shouting and letting all people know what you are doing you are doing that in private and the Prophet ﷺ says دعوة واحدة تخفيها افضل من سبعين دعوة تضهرها one dua one single dua that you keep it low keep it private and secret تخفيها you can seal it better than 70 times of dua where you do it in public because when you do it in secret this is just between you and God you are not sharing that with others and it has more اخلاس when you are alone by yourself by yourself the Prophet ﷺ said sometimes one of you ends up in a desert somewhere you know no man's land nobody is there and the time of the prayers arrives and he does wudu there and he stands to do as the prayers were no one is there the only person the only human is him Allah would be proud of that person God is going to brag about him he says to his angels look at my art my servant no one is in this in this land in this desert in this corner in this but he remembered that this is the time of the prayers because he wants to come to me so now I ask you my angels to go down in a prayer behind him he becomes an Imam not for Orange County Masjid he becomes an Imam for the angels angels are praying behind him although Mashallah you are angels and better than angels الحمد I should say this okay and then when you do your dua make your dua simple don't make it check experience dua you know make it very simple Allah some people they know the grammars they know how to speak they are very eloquent they are very profound but Allah wants your dua to come from your heart even if your language is a broken you don't speak good English you don't speak good Arabic you don't speak good Farsi you don't speak good Urdu Allah looks at your heart he wants your dua to be spontaneous and natural natural you know natural without tekeluf you don't pretend something you are not pretending the dua you send it from the bottom of the heart and make it simple right to the point you know the best dua the dua that has came at the end of Surat Al-Baqar Chapter 2 in the Holy Quran we read this sometimes in Salat Al-Jua it has only 7 items the best dua has only 7 items no more ربنا لا تؤخبنا النسينا أو أخطانا سكند ربنا ولا تحمل علينا قصرا كما حملت وعلى الذين من قبلنا ثيرت ربنا ولا تحملنا ما لا طاقة لنا بيه وعفو عننا واخفر لنا ورحمنا أنت مولانا فانصرنا على القوم الكافي 7 items بيه سبط that's the end of Surat Al-Baqar we do this on Fridays بيه سبط بيه سبط 7 ملطات وحد after the other بيه سبط بيه سبط سبنطنيا لا تقع بيه بخير ما يفعله و الله يفهم كل ملطات كل ملطات كل ملطات كل ملطات كل ملطات ثم بعد ذلك 2 more items و بعد ذلك نحن نحن نحن اهام اخر شيء من الملطات من دعاء لا تساعد الله شيء حرام ورحم أو شيء ورحم لا تساعده او الله دعني اقوم في هذا الملطات لكي يمكنني you know ملطات الملطات او ملطات you know كازينو في فيغس لا تفعله لا لا تفعله هذا دعاء is حرام و الله is not going to listen to it او يساعد شيء which is a violation or a sin when women was asking الله she loved a man who was married او الله makes his wife die so I can marry him الله will never listen to this دعاء believe me don't waste your time so do not ask something which is illegal or immoral or irrational or some people say او الله just five million dollars just five million masha' Allah you are so generous again الله will never listen الله says you want money go and work I'm not going to send you a blank check I'm not going to send yes at times of emergency I save you I send you some money for emergencies but five million dollars no no I have wisdom I have cause and effect I have organization in this universe I have discipline you want to destroy the discipline I don't do this to you yes sometimes if your boat is a broken cap sizes in the ocean I can send someone to save you I can do these miracles but to send you five million dollars this is not a miracle this is not even wisdom this is not even a gift God is not going to do that so don't ask these things ask what is really doable and rational yes someone the doctor says this I'm doing my best to save his life go on a pray God will perform miracles here God will interfere in these cases God will interfere this is a rational request but asking something you know like the other guy who was asked always asked to marry the king's daughter the king's daughter and when they asked him okay are you prepared he said everything is prepared everything except one thing the approval of her father everything is okay ready only her father has to accept these things are irrational and we should not waste our time for امير المؤمن عليه الصلاة والسلام says يا صاحب الدعاء لا تسأل ما لا يكون ولا يحل do not ask what is not going to happen لا تسأل ما لا تسأل تسأل and be wise in this إن شاء الله tomorrow we are going to continue on the second part of the manners of dua we learn them now to incorporate them during this month إن شاء الله the month of Ramadan my friends is the month of dua and we are coming to the ليل القادر slowly slowly so we have to build up build up this energy from now the beginning of the month so when the night the night of the 19th 21st 23rd and after that 25th 27th they arrive you are ready إن شاء الله you are ready to commit yourself to prayers and supplication and dua please recite this ayah with me five times لشفاء المرضى وقضاء الحوائق many of our friends I know them they would come in Ramadan to the Masjid but these nights they cannot come because they are bedridden either in the hospitals or homes and also many people have حوائق and needs and these are the nights of dua ليل رمضان أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم أما يجيب المصطرة إذا دعا ويكشفوا سو أما يجيب المصطرة إذا دعا ويكشفوا سو أما يجيب المصطرة إذا دعا ويكشفوا السو أما يجيب المصطرة إذا دعا ويكشفوا السو أما يجيب المصطر إذا دعا ويكشفوا السو أيا الله يا مجيب دع W przedstaw المصطر يا قضب حوائق المحتاجين الله مبن اللهم ارضانا بالشفاء والعافي المريضة المنظورة وجميع المرض المنظورين اللهم ألبسهم ثوب الصحة والعافي اللهم تقبل صلاتنا وصيامنا وقيامنا ودعاءنا وقرآننا في هذا الشهر العظيم وجعلنا من عتقائك من النار وعجل في فرج إمامنا وسيدنا صاحب العصر والزمان وإلى أرواح المؤمنة والمؤمنات والشهداء دواب الفاتحة مع الصلاة على محمد المقال محمد