 إن شاء الله سوف نتخلص في صورة يسين one time يلسل عبد الله و يجين الكريم إن شاء الله و نتخلص في صورة يسين two times after that إن شاء الله أرحي ألفهم سدا فأغشيناهم فهم لا يتصرون وسوا أم لم تن لشيء مرسله أرسلنا إليه مثنين فكذا فعززنا بقالث فقالوا فقال الشيء تكذبوا مرسله أسل لكم و لن مصرفون وجاصوا المدينة و جلون مرسلين إتبعوا أجروا مهتدون و ما يه ترجعوا إيه تن إيه يريد من رحمان بضون شفاعتهم شيء لون مقدون و جعلني من المكرمين و ما يستنزعوا أهلكنا قينا محفظوا أملته أيديهم أفلايا سبحان الذي خلق الأزواج أنفسهم الشمس تجري بمستقل يزل حتى لشمس يمغ تدريت القمر و للليل ساب و كل كل مشنون و خلقنا قمنا و إيديكم و إيحةوا واحدة توثيتوا ولا مرجعون و نفخف الصور بينهم من الأجدات إلى ربهم ينسروا اما كنتم تعملوا دو الشيطة و زخناهم و ما استطاعوا دو الشيطة و مشاربا فلا يشكروا و اتخذوا قارا قارا يمنقوا دو كل شيء صلاحك الله و رحمه الحمد لله الحمد لله و الثلعين المصرات و الصلاة و على أشهر الأملياء و صيد المصري و بزنا محمد و آراء و صحابت جمعين ربنا زبنا ولا تنقصنا و اكلمنا ولا تهمنا و عطنا ولا تحرننا و أأثمنا ولا تفرعنا و وضعنا يا رب العالمين ولا أحاولنا ولا قبوته إلا بالله إبحال العالم و سبحانه و رحمه و رحمه إلا معلمتنا و إلا أنت عيما بكيم السلام عليكم و رحمة الله و بركاته الحمد لله is always an honor to share a platform with our teacher قارعمه بالله والله سبحانه و ساته preserve him thank you bless him I was reluctant to recite along with him because I like the rest of you I enjoy to listen to him recite God willing and we are here tonight to take advantage of an opportunity which you can give to us like many other opportunities that Allah has given us in our lives in that when we look at the human story or when we reflect upon the human story at least for me I like to personally see the human story as an example of a creature which has been estranged from his mastery through a violation for a sin committed and then given the opportunity after being cast down from grace into this particular realm to redeem him or herself و سبحانه وتعالى has given us the opportunity to repent and redeem but our redemption is not really through practicing our individual devotion but rather it is also through a responsibility which the Quran calls at خيلاكم now this is the month of شعبان this is the month where the Prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام fasted more than the other months it is not from the أشر حرم from the four sanctified months of the Islamic calendar which Allah سبحانه وتعالى said that these months were sanctified from the day he created the heavens of the earth it is not the month of fasting the month of Ramadan either the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم in spite of that he took advantage of the opportunity to fast this particular month among other months but more than any other month of the year during this month as we know there are traditions which teaches that during this month of شعبان is a very special day it is said in some of the traditions that during the night of شعبان الله سبحانه وتعالى he descends to the lowest heavens and he calls out ألا مستغفيرون يستغفيرون أغفر الله ألا مستغفيرون فأغفر الله is there not one seeking forgiveness so that I may forgive him ألا مستغفيرون فأرزق الله is there not one seeking revision and sustenance who I will grant sustenance to ألا مستغفيرون فأغفر الله is there not one who is in tribulation or tried or one who is distressed who I will grant well-being to is there not one asking to be relieved of their distress during this night now the history of the celebration of the month of شعبان the half of شعبان it goes back to more than a thousand years now of course you would think that of course that it should go back to 1400 years of that the assumption would be that the prophet يسلسفان was someone who initiated the practice but our scholars are they differed about this from the early period and there is no live information to show us what exactly the prophet يسلسفان did on this night nor any reliable narration from the Sahaba but we do find among the Tabiri that there were some who magnified this night among the mean scholars of the scholars of شعب such as the Tabiri the Mashbi the Damascus the great Tabiri the Hadith scholar مقود and also خارب among others and it is from them that this practice has spread to Basra and then other sectors but there are those on the other side as well who felt reluctant to do so such as meaning of the scholars of Medina the psychos of Imam Mahdi and the reason I even bring this up I mention the very fact that there is some disagreement about this is that a pet peeve of mine is that I observe and have observed for many years how when Muslims would gather together to for occasions like this one and there would be someone who would come up and speak and they would talk about the evidence for why this is permissible that's permissible for me I just feel that if you are coming here then the assumptions would be that you have a conviction that there is something special about this night and there is no need there should be no need to speak about like for instance why the motive for instance is permissible or it's not a bit of I want things like that and but of course I would say that I would acknowledge as well that by even saying what I say would seem to be some of the same thing but the main reason why I want to bring this up is simply that we as Muslims have to be not only careful about undermining or misrepresenting the legacy of the Prophet and that we come out is too strict too extreme but we also have to be careful about developing a sense of arrogance or a sense that we are better than others when we do things that we believe to be true and we know the others object and that is to say that if we are going to gather as we are gathering that we should try our best to begin with the best of intentions we should not do this as a reaction to anyone or to sort of sort of rubber than anyone's face that if we believe this and we believe we come up with a pure intention that we do it because we believe in something we believe that it's a special night we believe that it's a blessed night and insha'Allah Allah سبحانه وتعالى we hope and pray that He will give us the blessing of this night and I mean if I'm a Shafiq his reports have said that قد بلغني أن دعاء الشجاب في خمسة ليان that he has preached me that دعاء is accepted during five nights and he mentioned ladies in the Juma'a ladies in the Aideen the two aides the beginning of Rajab ونصف شعبان and the half of the sh'aban and then he went on and said فأستحبوا أستحبوا كل ما حكيتوا فيها دي ليان and I consider it favorable to do all of the things that I have narrated about these nights right so this is about Shafiq so I remember Shafiq himself that they acknowledged that there was something special about the night the half of Sh'aban and this was Sh'aban but again there were other scholars who did not necessarily acknowledge that and it is important for us as Muslims that we try best not to see those who feel reluctant to participate as being people who don't truly love the russian jihadism and that ourselves we truly love the practical practice and that is why we do what we do and there is enough of that going around so it is an important thing to reflect upon a very important thing to reflect upon is to begin with good intention with the right intention not do it out of reaction but out of conviction and if we don't have conviction then we probably won't get the full blessing of the night anyway so there are many virtues as I alluded to by this Hadith I attribute it to the Prophet Muhammad and things have merit and virtue for many different reasons they said that a thing can be virtuous because of the time that it happens so for instance these are multiplied during the month of Ramadan so during the month of Ramadan when we do good deeds they are much more important than outside of the month of Ramadan or on other blessed days that we are familiar with that the fasting is good but fasting on Mondays and Thursdays is even better or fasting on the White Nights is even better so sometimes it's because of the time that an event happens or a thing where a particular worship is carried out sometimes it is deemed to be virtuous and meritorious because of the place it happens now we just pray Salatul Mubarak and we learn that when we come together for Jama'a in general that our individual prayers are multiplied by 25 or 27 times so sometimes because of how many people there as well but the place where it happens the Masjid or let's say let's just think about this Salat happening in Makkah in the Masjid Haram what happened in the Prophet's month what has been in Al-Aqsa the multiplication of those lessons so because of the place the deed occurs can give it great merit so the time, the place sometimes it can be the people who actually carry out the deeds as well that Al-Aqsa and Panwaratata would look upon certain people and see that they are present because of their presence that Al-Aqsa and Panwaratata was great reward to the congregation and he does to that congregation and the actions of those people or the individual when that individual acts and does a particular thing that others do that your charity may not be like mine that I might get only one point from my charity you make it 100 points for yours because we don't know who is really closer to Allah and we don't know that don't describe charity to yourself he knows best the one who has a lot of charity he says that because of the time, the place, the individual but sometimes they actually deed itself what is the action that was done and one thing we know that the Prophet's ﷺ did and the month of Sha'ban was fast and fasting this month is really all about Ramadan even though it is before Ramadan but it's really all about Ramadan some of them say that everything used to be called the month of Sha'ban the month of Quran the month of the readers month of the reciders because they themselves would prepare for the month of Ramadan during the month of Sha'ban that they would increase their worship they would increase their Salawat their Zakahawat and their Qur'an especially the recitation of the Qur'an because Ramadan is really a celebration of the revelation of the Qur'an that's really what the month of Ramadan is all about it's the celebration of that revelation that Allah has given us guidance in this realm and he's given us a responsibility of Qirafah but he's also given us guidance to ensure that we are fit for Qirafah fit for Qirafah and I do think it's extremely important that as Muslims as we increase any act of worship that we take on or adopt any particular type of routine of worship that we reflect upon what the ultimate goal Allah SWT has with us in this realm and I would say that we all know that it's إبادة وما خلطت وجنة ونسأل إلا ليعبدون yes, Allah wants us to worship only Him only Him that's the aim in order to know Allah SWT but Allah also said when He created Adam إني جعله في القامة خليفة I am placing a Khalifa a vice-jarent in this realm a steward for this realm the human being is the only creature on this planet with both the capacity to save all life and to destroy it and Allah SWT has given us this status of this realm to remain in the objective of maintaining balance and so Allah SWT created us as psychosomatic beings as beings when we are both flesh and then we are spirits we are flesh and we are spirit as well and as we increase our knowledge the aim is for us to gain greater mastery over the flesh over our appetites and so when you look at fasting fasting should be seen as a tool to help us perfect our humanity because we truly have to be concerned about our appetites that if we gain mastery over our appetites we remember that why did Allah SWT He praised Adam because in the end because they looked at Adam and said He can be He can be an influence He can be corrupted Are you going to place in there someone who says blood and creates mischief They can see through the very fact that when you have an appetite there's a possibility that you can be corrupted but Allah turned it to something else وعاللَّ مَنَادِمَ أَسْمَهَكُوا اللَّهَ They turned it in a different direction that He gave Adam the knowledge of all the names and He didn't want to say that He gave him rationality gave him will gave him reason gave him the ability to master his appetites and so Allah SWT has given us His responsibility even if we fail as if we know because of how many teachers that the human project sort of fails at least for most people not for the NBA not for them not for the Saudi Keyin not for them it doesn't fail with them but for most people it's a failure Allah SWT with them no it's not a failure but what did those people do and so passing is something that the Prophet SWT did and so He told us too that the doors there are these three things and He mentioned that that passing is a shield and charity it extinguishes sin in the same way that water extinguishes fire and the prayer that a person makes in the middle of the night so to say these three things gateways to goodness gateways to virtue to say that it's passing and charity and touch a loss of our basic needs who drink among other forces of gratification a loss of wealth and a loss in sleep but these become the gateways to goodness the gateways to virtue because the ultimate aim the Quran says is that is to say that we don't want to send to be people who do good things we want to be people who want to do good things when we don't even have the opportunity and if we are people who not only do bad things but we want to do bad things when we don't have the opportunity that is really a big problem when we build a month of Ramadan if we are fasting as a school in itself a self mastery a self discipline that we can become what Allah has created us to become so He gave us this responsibility He gave us the tools in order to fulfill that responsibility and fasting when the Prophet ﷺ fasted some of the scholars say that when he fasted when Ramadan came it would be easier for them to deal with it if you don't fast the entire year then all of a sudden you fast one day right before Ramadan you're going to have some problems most of the time like headache or among other things it's going to be difficult but you shouldn't just simply fast because of good health you're fast for reward of course but fasting for self mastery is teaching the things that your body needs that you can give up the things that your body does not need but also more importantly to give up the things that your soul does not need and will ultimately corrupt it so this is an opportunity for us and as I stated Imam Shafiq said that it is one of the nights where Allah ﷺ He accepts prayer so we should take full advantage of this night as much as possible as much as possible we can do it's the tabernain who are initiating who popularize the celebration of لشعبان they should come out to the masajid they would perfume the masajid they would wear the best holding of that night they would pray and they would fast the following day so some of you because today is a good day of fasting and Monday is always a good day of fast another reason why it's a good day of fast because it's among the white nights of the month the 13th, 14th, 15th the nights of the full moon as well that's another reason why it's good to fast it so if you if you can withstand that we should take full advantage of this blessed night and the following day we ask Allah that he grant us the strength to take full advantage of this night and that he answer all of our prayers and he grant us the ability to fulfill our humanity because our Prophet as he told us I have been sent for nothing else than to perfect noble characteristics and may fasting be a source of human perfection where a source of self-discipline and mastery for Allah سبحانه وتعالى سبحانه وتعالى سبحانه وتعالى السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته everyone if you are following how you are making reading and it stops then you also stop actually I like people to recite with me especially in the occasion like this last night everyone wants to say yes in out loud I don't have any problem with that I grew up with that actually in Morocco 15 of Shaban beginning of fragile 27 of fragile the night of Moulin so since I was young I have no problem reciting with that word بزاك الله خير ستدي عبد الله thank you so much for me it's an example it's a very good example is the person who grew up here in America and he's still young actually and he's a doctor already PhD in Islamic studies and you can recite Qur'an in beautiful way you can recite Hadir his translation from Arabic and English is excellent actually I learned a lot of English because when he translated from Arabic he said that's the word in English so I learned a lot from him he's my sheikh too بزاك الله خير بلا بلا سيون is two children مريم and Muhammad is here thank you so much for coming tonight I'm sure everyone here he benefited something tonight in his speech there is an effa hat I don't know it's Tryad the affa hat an effa hat how do you translate it an effa hat it's really like it's good breath it's bringing good breath it's bringing good breath it's trying to go out and smell it this is what we are doing here an effa hat tonight is one of the neffahat You can be sleeping إن شاء الله وفي الجميع شاء الله أتبعوا أسرسة إيسا إيسا إن شاء الله 2 أم 4 time وننقل لتراعي إن شاء الله ومشي الرحمن ومشرع بمغفرة وأجر قليل إنما نحن نحي المدن وكل شيء أحصيناه في إمام مبير وقرب لهم مثلا أصحاب قرية إذ جان مرسلون فقالوا فقالوا أبشر مثلنا إن شيء قد لمرسلون وما رجم أنكم ولا يمسن عذاب أذي قرتم بل أنتم قوموا مصرفون وجان أقصوى المدينة رجل يسعى من التبيع المرسلين ملا يسألكم أجر قليه ترجعون أأتخذ من دوني رحمان بضرني شفاعتهم شيء ولا ينقضون إن إذا لفي ظلال انت بربك فاسمعون قيل دخولين قال يا ليتقومي رب لي وجعلني منا صيحة واحدة يا حصرتنا على كالوبه يستهزون ألم يروكم أهلكنا قللوا يرجعون وإن تأحيينا وأخرجنا من أحبا وفجرنا فيها بنا العون سبحاء والشمس تجني لمستقر وإلاها ذهب كتب والقمرق للشمس يمسبحون مشهود وخلقوا يركبون وإن شاء نظر إيديكم وما أخلفكم لعلكم ترحموا أنوا طعموا من لو يشاءوا مصادقين ما ينظرون إلا صيحة واحدة تأخذهم وأهم يخصمون ولا إله أهلهم يرجعوا رحمان وصدق المرصلون إن كانت إلا صيحة فإذاهم جميعوا لدينا محضرون واليوم لا ترم نفس شيئا ولا تجزون إلا ما كنتم تعملون إن أصحاب الجنة اليوم في شرول فاكهور هم وأسواجهم في ظلال على الأرائك متكهور مهم فيها فاكهور ولا أحيم سلا تعبد الشيطان إنه لكم عدو مبين وألعبدوني هذا صراط مستقيم ولقد أظنتوا عدون إصلوا هل يوم بما كنتم تكفون اليوم أختبع تشهد عرجلهم بما كانوا يكسبون ولو نشاهر فما سناع يصفرون ويوم نشاهر فما سخناهم على مكانتهم فما استطاعوا نضيع أو الشعر وما يمغيله إن هو إلا عملت أيها لكول واذن فيها منافع ومشارب أفلا يشكرون وابتخذوا بيتلع لهم ينصرون إنه يعلم ما يصرون وما يعدنون أو لما خلقناه من نطفة وإذا هو خصيم مبير وضرب لنا مثلو ولس يخلقه قال لي يحيى رايمار وهي رني والحياة لي جعل لكم من الشفل الغفر نار فإذا أنتم لنه توقدون أو ليس الذي خلق السماء يخلق مثلهم بلا وهو الخلاق العليم إنما أموه إلى أراد شيئا أن يقول لوكم فيكون سبحانكو تكل شيء وإليه ترجر الله مجأ ثواب ما قرأناه ولوره ما تلوله إلى روح سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم وإلا أواح آبائنا وأمهاتنا وأجدادنا وإخواننا وأخواتنا يا رب العالمين الله مجأ الماقرناه الشفاء لنا ودواء لنا ولسقامنا يا رب العالمين آمين آمين آمين بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم نرسلين على صراط مستقيم لقد أأموكم عود من خلفهم سدار فأخشيناهم فأم لا يبصد وزواء رخش يا رحمال بالغيب فبشره بمغفرة وأجل الكريم إنا نحن نحيل ما رهم وكل شيء أحصيناه في إنا من مدير وقروا نرسلون إذا أرسلنا إلي فكذبوا ما فعززنا بذادذ فقالوا إنا إليكم مرسلون قالوا ما للملاه المبير قالوا لم تندهوا لنرجم أن نكون ولا مداباً أليم ملأنتم قوموا نصرفوا وجاءوا الصدير إلتبيواكم أجعوا أهم هتدون ومالي لا أعبد الذي فطرني وإلي طبيعتاً إيه يلنى الرحمن بضرطهم شيء ولا يمقدون قروا ليقبي ولمفعضهم خامدون يا حصرة على العباد ما يأتيهم من رسول ليستازئون أهم إليهم لا يرجعون فمنه يأكلون وجاءوا بيا جن نحيل وعلاب وفجرنا فيها من العيول ليأكلوا بلتوا أيديهم أفلا يشكرون سبحان الذي خلق الأزواج كلها مما تنبط الأرض ومنها منفسه المرم ننسلخ منهم ما أعرف إذاهم والشمس تبري لمستقر للها ذلك تقدير العزيز العرين والقبو قدرناهم لا أزرى حتى عادك العرجون القدير للشمس جن ببي لها أن تدلك القمر ولا الليل سابقنا وقول لهم في فلك يسمحون وعالة لهم عن كل مشهود وخلقنا لهم من مثلي ما يرجعون عاديكم وما خلفكم لعلكم تحمرون ولا تأتي من آية من آيات يرغيهم هلاك وإذا قيل لرزقكم الله لو يجاء كنتم صالقين ما يرجعون إلا صيحة أو واحدة تأخذهم وهم يخسمون فلا يستطيعون توصية ولا إله أهليهم يرجعون وارفخة الصور فإذا قمنا لاجدات إلى ربهم ينسنون قالوا يا وينا من بعتنا بمرقدنا هذا المرسلون إن كانت إلا صيحة واحدة فإذاهم شميع الذين محبارون فاليوم لا تُغلم تجزور إلا ما كنتم تعملون إن عصحاب الجنة اليوم في شهر فاكهون هم وأزواتهم في ظلانك متقهون لهم فيها فاكية ولا هما يدعون سلام رحيل وامتاز اليوم أيها المدرمون ألم آم إليكم يا ببط الشيطال إن هونكم عدوم متعسرات مستقيل ولقد عظلة منكم جبل لن تفيرها فلم تكونوا تعقلون هذه جهنم التي كنتم تعدون إسرأوا اليوم بما كنتم تكفرون اليوم نختموا عليهم وتشهدوا عرجلهم وتشهدوا عرجلهم بما كانوا يكسبون ولو نشاء ولو نضمصنا على آيونهم فاستبقوا السراط فأنوا يكسرون ولو نشاء لما سخناهم على مكانتهم فما استطاروا مضيهم يكسوا في الخلق فلا يعقلون وما علمناه الشعر وما ينبغي له إن هو إلا ذكر وقرآن مبير ليقول أنه خلق لا لولة إيديناها مالكون وللهم ولهم فيها ملافق ومشارب فلا يشكرون والدخل من دون الله يانية لعلهم ينصرون لا يستطيعون نصرهم وهم لهم جنض ونضبون فلا يأذن وخصيم وولة مرع وربي كل خلق فاللم يجعل للأخضر فإن ام تنين تقدر وليس الذي خلق السماوات والعرض بقادر على أي أخلق بلا رؤول خلق العريم إنما هذا الشيء الذي يريه مراكوط كل شيء وما يريه ترجعون صنع الله والله تحافظنا إن شاء الله إن شاء الله إن شاء الله