 السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا وحبيبنا وشافيعنا وقائلنا وقرة عيوننا سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلال وجهك وعظيم سلطانك اللهم افتح علينا فتوح العارفين اللهم معلمنا ما ينفعنا وانفعنا بما علمتنا يا رحم الراحمين إن شاء الله today we will start with حديث number 18 sorry حديث number 19 we finished 18 last time so إن شاء الله we will be starting with عون الله تعالى وحفظه the help of الله سبحانه وتعالى and his protection so عن ابن عباس رضي الله عنه قال كنت خلف النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم يوما فقاد يا غلام إني أعلمك كلمات إحفظي الله يحفظك إحفظي الله تجده تجاهك وإذا سألت فسأل الله وإذا استعنت فستعين بالله so this is let's stop here and start with the first part of the حديث this حديث is on the authority of عبد الله بن عباس رضي الله عنه and he said one day I was behind the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and he was riding on the same mount behind سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and he said سيد محمد said oh young man I shall teach you some words of advice so he said to him be mindful of Allah and Allah will protect you be mindful of Allah and you will find him with you so this is an advice this is a lesson for us when you are with your child then talk to him if you are on a ride if he is in the same car with you then talk to him this is a one to one class between you and your child teach him and this is what سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم did with بن عباس رضي الله عنه so he said to him يا غولام he addressed him يا غولام oh boy oh young man oh young boy so بن عباس was still young at that time and he heard this advice from سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so سيد محمد said to him I am going to teach you a few words so what are the words of سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم normally the words of رسول الله the messenger of Allah are of simple expressions and this is what we will see in this حديث but these simple expressions have comprehensive meaning they have so much information they have so much knowledge they have so much wisdom so when you give advice make it short don't make it a long one so that the one who is hearing you would not get bored so these are all lessons for you when you want to give advice to people for everyone when anyone want to be following the steps of سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم in a special category as a teacher so you have to have a style you have to have a way a good way that would attract the attention of the one who is hearing and that would be in a way that is simple first of all and easy to understand so he said to him احفظ الله يحفظ so be mindful of Allah be mindful of the orders of Allah follow the orders of Allah so what will happen تحتاج لك when you need Him we always need Allah سبحانه وتعالى especially in times of calamities especially in times of hardship so when we are travelling than what we do we have some food to take we have some drinks to take we have some clothes to take and we have to prepare ourselves so the same way we always need to prepare ourselves for the life we are living because this life is a journey it's a journey that will take us from this dunya to the day after so we have to be prepared in this dunya and we have to be mindful of Allah سبحانه وتعالى so that He would protect us later in the day after when we follow the orders in this dunya we will be winners in the day after we will be protected we will be of those who will enjoy the blessings of Allah سبحانه وتعالى so during the time of ease be with Allah سبحانه وتعالى don't wait until it's a hardship time and you start to pray you start to make dua and you start to get connected to Allah and to know be connected to Allah all the time and you get connected to Allah through His book learn the Qur'an read the Qur'an try to understand the Qur'an because this is a complete method a complete successful program if someone follows the orders there of the Qur'an so be mindful of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and what will happen so these words these are precious words that Allah سبحانه وتعالى محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم is teaching Ibn Habbas which is in turn a lesson to all of us then he says إذا سألت فسأل الله so if you ask then ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى do not go to people just to ask them for favors no ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى and how do you ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى making a lot of dua so dua is the essence of Ibadah because it manifests our need of Allah سبحانه وتعالى so do not belittle the power of dua especially the dua of the mom to her children this goes like magic so the mom cares about her children not only for this dunya it's not just to provide them with all their needs no the wise mom should know that her kid whom she loves a lot they're going to die one day and when they die Allah سبحانه وتعالى is going to reward them but if she's mindful in this dunya she will do her best so that Allah will reward her children so she would raise good children so that they will be winners in the day after so she wants them to be victorious in the day after so when we make dua we do it not only for the dunya but we do it for the akhir and as I just mentioned don't go to people and ask for help and if you constantly ask someone then what will happen if you go to a person and ask him for something and then a few days later you go to him and you ask him for something and then a few days later you go to him and you ask him for something a few days later you go to him and you ask for something then what will happen if someone consistently consistently and constantly ask people for help they will dislike him or they will get angry this is dunya these are people but the more you ask Allah the more Allah will love you so let's think about it in another way we are all servants of Allah and we are all poor for his help for his protection for his mercy so how can we ask the poor and the unable and leave the rich and the able how can we do that so we have to direct our asking to Allah سبحانه وتعالى in dunya when we ask people for help then we are humbling ourselves in front of them and actually the act of humility is more benefiting in front of Allah so we should only ask Allah وإذا سألت فسأل الله if you ask then ask Allah and asking Allah is a great form of worship it's a great implementation of the wahid because you are manifesting your need to Allah سبحانه وتعالى you're manifesting you need for Allah and you are manifesting that his greatness and his ability is going to help you so what do you do if you have anything in this dunya you want to take a decision then ask Allah what to do ask Allah what to choose so what we do we always pray and and Salatul Istikhara is asking Allah for help to choose the best so if there is something that you want to do and there are people who do Istikhara for every single decision important decision in their life so if they want to travel should we travel or not they do Salatul Istikhara if they want to do something important they would ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى for help for guidance so what is Salatul Istikhara it's two rakaz we pray two rakaz regular any two simple rakaz and at the end when we end the prayer we ask Allah with a special دعاء that's called دعاء الاستخارة سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم told us how to do Salatul Istikhara how to make the دعاء he said إذا هم بالأمر فليركع ركعتيني ثم يقول so you pray two rakaz and then at the end when you when you do the Salam you say اللهم إني استخيرك بيعلمك واستقدرك بقدرتك واستقدرك بقدرتك so او الله I ask you for the good by your knowledge and I ask you for the strength by your power okay وأسألك من فضلك العظيم and I ask you for some of your immense abundant favor فإنك تقدر ولا أقدر you have the power and I don't وتعلم ولا أعلم you know and I don't know وانت علام غيوب you are the one you are the knower of the unseen worlds you know everything اللهم إن كنت تعلم أن هذا الأمر خيرن لي you are the one so او الله إذا تعرفت هذا هذا الأمر سيكون good for me سيكون good for me في ديني في ديني في ديني في رجلي ومعاشي وعقبتي وعقبتي وعقبتي أوك ووجل Ham many though خيل訳 ف是我خه investigation so if you want know you say الله أنت تسأل الله for guidance in that affair, in this traveling. So you say, if this traveling is good for me, in my deen, in my livelihood, and the end of my affairs, and it's a conclusion at the end, فقدوره لي. فقدوره لي. فقدوره لي. فقدوره لي. وإن كنت تعلمو أن هذا الأنرى أو إذا تعرفت ذلك. هذا أفضل لي ليس جيدا في my religion, في my livelihood, and at the end of my affairs. So فصرفه عني وصرفني عن. So يا الله let it go away and let me leave this thing that I am thinking of doing. وقدور لي الخير and decree what is higher for me ثم رضيني and make me content. Make me content. So this is how we do صلاة الاسخار. And some people say, okay, we will do صلاة الاسخار at night before bedtime and we will wait for a dream to clarify what will happen. Sometimes this happens, sometimes it doesn't. So there is no need for a dream. If you don't see a dream, what do you do? You say, okay, what do I do? I'm not going to do anything, no? Sometimes just how things go is the answer to your أستخار. So if you if you did not see any dream to clarify what if you should do this thing or not, it's okay. You might not see any dream, but look at how things are going. If we say our example is I am traveling to so and so place. Okay, see, did you get a visa? Was there any problems booking the flight? Was there was the flight canceled? Did anything happen in the airport that prevented you from traveling? This is the answer to your أستخار سبحان الله. So we have to know how to ask الله سبحانه وتعالى and what indications you will give us. It might be very clear, it might not. So this is the first part of the Hadith. Then, الله سبحانه وتعالى سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم goes on giving advice to ابن عباس رضي الله عنه and he said وعلم أن الأمة لو اجتمعت على أن يمفعوك بشيء لن يمفعوك إلا إلا بشيء قد كتبه الله لك. So what happens? Just remember that if someone asks you if the whole nation just got together to help you to benefit you of something they're not going to benefit you except for something that الله has predestined to you. The same thing if وإن اجتمعو على أن يضروك بشيء لن يضروك إلا بشيء قد كتبه الله عليه and even if the whole nation just gathered to harm you they will not be able to do any harm to you except if الله سبحانه وتعالى has decreed that thing to happen. So this is very important. So they will not harm you except what الله had already prescribed against you. So do not get sad if you need something badly and it did not happen. الله did not predestine that for you. And no matter how many people are there to help you get it you will not because it is all the قدر. It is all the destiny. So we have to believe in the قدر and the قدر. So this is the advice of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم to this young boy. And then the last few words روفعة الأقلام وجفة الصحف the pens have been lifted and the pages have dried. The phrase the pen have been lifted and the pages have dried is a reference to the sacred tablet. Everything is written there. So nothing written on that tablet will change. And thus it is a re-affirmation of Allah's divine will and brings this brings more tranquility more peace to the believer that everything has happened. Whatever is happening is from Allah. It's not from people. People cannot do anything if Allah سبحانه وتعالى has not predestined that thing to happen. If we link this hadith to hadith number 10 in hadith number 10 رفت محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم says ثم ذكر الرجل يطيل السفر أشعث أغبر يمد يديه إلى السماء يا رب يا رب ومطعمه حرام ومشربه حرام وملبسه حرام وغذية بالحرام فأنه يستجاب له. So in hadith number 10 سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم يجب أن نتكلم حيث أنه من who is on a far journey. So that person is disheveled he is dusty and he spreads out his hands to the sky asking Oh Lord, oh Lord and he is asking Allah for things. But his food is haram it's unlawful is eating something unlawful. His drink is haram. His clothing is haram. The way he dresses is not halal. And he has been nourished with haram. And this is a very important message to the person who is in charge of the family of spending of giving money to the family. This money should all be halal. If you go to your job you have seven hours to work then you have to work seven hours. You have to. If you work less without the permission of your boss then that would be unlawful money that your salary is a portion of unlawful money in your salary. So you have to be careful. So this person who is on a long journey and who is asking Allah Oh Lord, oh Lord I want this I want that. And everything in him and about him is nourished with haram. فأنا يستجاب لهم. So how can his supplication be answered? In another in another narration the same hadith سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم says إحبظ الله تجده أمانك. Okay. So be mindful of Allah and you will find Allah with you. So. تعرف إلى الله في الرخاء يعرفك يعرفك في الشدة. تعرف and acknowledge Allah in times of ease and prosperity. And Allah will remember you in times of adversity. وعلم أنما أخطأك لم يقولني يصيب. Know that what has passed you by or you have failed to attain was not going to be full you. It will not happen. وما أصبابك لم يقول ليخطيك. And what has befallen you was not going to pass you by. So again, this is all predestined. And know that وعلم أن النصر مع الصبر victory comes with patience. So there are so many unpleasant things in this life. Because it is not a life that a life of ease. No, it's a life of difficulties. Why? Because if everything is easy here. So how can we enjoy the ease of general, of paradise? And Allah wants to try people. He wants to test people. In times of problems what have you done? Were you patient? Or were you not patient? إن الله مع الصابرين. والله who you have with صابرين. Allah is with patient people. And Allah loves patient people. He loves people with patience. Showing patience. Practicing patience. وعلم أن النصر مع الصبر وأن الفرجة مع الكرب. So know that relief is with affliction. Whenever there is a problem there is a solution to the problem. We need to ask Allah for help. We need to ask Allah for guidance. So the third point is وأن مع العصر يسرأ. And hardship is there with ease. So there is ease with hardship. And Allah said it in صورة الإنشراح إن مع العصر يسرأ. إن مع العصر يسرأ. So with hardship there is ease. So there is a solution. But we have to practice patience. And actually the higher maqam than practicing patience is acceptance. So we accept everything that Allah has predestined to us. And this is a very high maqam that people need to be so much close to Allah سبحانه وتعالى to be able to practice this maqam. It is an opening from Allah سبحانه وتعالى to you if you have acceptance of everything that happens to you. Someone very close in the family dies. إن الله وإنهي رجع practice patience, practice رضا. رضا. I am. I accept everything from Allah سبحانه وتعالى. So when making dua we should have sincerity towards Allah سبحانه وتعالى. And we should trust in Him that He will answer our dua. And this happens in one of many ways. So He answers the dua. He might answer the dua immediately. Your dua will prevent calamity from happening. So it's always a win-win case. إن سورة صغافر آية 60 الله سبحانه وتعالى said وقال ربكم ودعوني أستجب لكم. call up on me. Allah said call up on me. I will respond to you. So raising the hands is what Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم used to do when he made dua. And this is also something nice to do when you make dua. I raise your hands. Raise your hands. And some people feel the barakah of raising the hand when they make the dua they feel that their hands are heavy. And that's because of the ملاعكة. That's because of the angels. إن خزورت بذر سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم made a very long dua. He raised his hands and he asked Allah سبحانه وتعالى for victory over the non-believers. So be firm in your dua. Make your dua. So when you make your dua, be firm. What does this mean? Do not say Oh Allah, forgive me if you wish. No. Just saying Oh Allah a mercy. Oh Allah just be firm with your dua. And always remember that the best time to make your dua is before فجر gets in. And the hadith says the narration says إن الله السماء الدنيا So Allah waits till when one-third of the first part of the night is over then he descends to the lowest heaven and he says is there anyone who is making dua? Who is repenting? هل منسائل is there anyone who is asking for anything? هل مندعين is there someone who is asking for dua? حتى يمفجر الفجر until it's the day break. So Allah سبحانه وتعالى will answer the call of those people. So try to get up before فجر before فجر gets in and try to make to pray to Raka'as and talk them talk to Allah ask Allah for anything you want. So always there's something very important that always remember that when Allah answers your dua you need to do something you need to thank him. Why? Because he said وَلَا إِن شَكَرْتُمْ لَأَزِي بَنَّكُمْ If you thank then I will entree you. This is the mercy of Allah سبحانه وتعالى. This is the love of Allah سبحانه وتعالى to his servants. In the next hadith سيدنا ابن أبي مسعود أبي مسعود الأنصار رضي الله وعلم ساد قال وَلَا الْنَبِيُهُسَ اللّهُ وَالَيْهُ وَسَلَّمْ إِنَّ مِنْ مَا أَدْرَكَ الْنَاسَ مِنْ كَلامِ النُبوَّةِ الْأُولَى إِذَا لَمْ تَسْتَحِفَسْتْنَعْ مَا أَشِيدَ سيدنا ابن مسعود أبي مسعود أبي مسعود أبي مسعود أبي مسعود أبي مسعود أبي مسعود which has been conveyed to people is that if you do not if you have no modesty if you don't have any shyness you're like people will claim freedom I'm free I can say anything I can do anything but Muslims are controlled by rules so we have to scale our actions we know that we are going to die and we know that we are going to be resurrected again and we know that we are going to stand before Allah SWT and we know that Allah is going to ask us for all our deeds or our actions or our words so we are not free but if someone has no shyness then he can do whatever he wants why? does he not think of the day after? we can't understand this Hadith in another way we can't understand it in a way that if the action is Halal then you do not care about people and you do it the first part is someone does the action and he doesn't care about people but that action is wrong but the second one if the Halal if the action is Halal then you don't care we don't care about people if they see you doing it or not you don't care because you are doing something Halal why would you think about it? so but there is one point shyness should be from Allah SWT not from people if there is a sin don't say oh this is a small sin it's okay it's a small sin I will forgive I will ask Allah for forgiveness no don't do that people of Allah SWT do not belittle the sin but think whom you have disobeyed إذا لم تستحفص برما شيت she don't have shyness when you can do whatever you want and this is as I mentioned this is a warning this is a warning next hadith is connected to this hadith actually if you are doing something good then you have believed in Allah SWT and you are on the right path so you don't care so أب عمر رضي الله عنه قال قلت يا رسول الله قل لي في الإسلام قبل لا أسأل عنه أحدا الغيرا قال قل أمنت بالله ثم استقم so this is أب عمر he he said I said oh messenger of Allah tell me something about Islam which I can I can ask no one but you and say the Muhammad ﷺ said he gave the answer and he said to him say I believe in Allah and then be steadfast so we always ask Allah SWT to make us of those who who are steadfast on the right path and Allah SWT promised those people when he said in the Holy Qur'an he said بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم إن الذين قالوا ربنا الله ثم استقاموا تتنزلوا عليهم الملائكة وقل لا تخاف ولا تحزن وأبشيروا بالجنة التي كنتم توعدون indeed those who have said oh Lord our Lord is Allah and then remained on the right course on the right path so the angels will descend upon those people upon them and they they would say do not fear do not get scared and do not grieve do not grieve and they will they will also say to them receive good tidings receive glad tidings good news of Paradise so they have a Bushra they have good news who those people who said our Lord is Allah and they kept clinging to this word by applying everything that relates to this word so what is this Paradise this is which those people were promised so when applying this حديث someone came to Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and this is mentioned in the next حديث عن أبي جابر عبد الله عن أبي عبد الله جابر بن عبد الله الأنصاري رضي الله عنه أن رجلا سأل رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم فقال رأيت إذا صليت المكتوبات وصمت رمضان وأحللت الحلال وحرمت الحرام ولم أزد على ذلك شيء أدخل الجنة وقول نعم so someone came to Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and he said remember that the previous حديث he said أمنت بالله ثم استقل this is the advice of Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم just say I believe in Allah and I'm steadfast okay now someone came to Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and he asked him he said to him do you think that if I perform the obligatory prayers fast in Ramadan and then I do the lawful I treat as lawful that which is حلال and treat as forbidden that which is haram and I do not increase upon that I just do these things shall I enter paradise is that enough so that I will be in paradise I will just pray pray the obligatory prayers fast in Ramadan do the Halal and be away from haram will I be will I be in paradise and Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم said نعم so أمنت بالله ثم استقل say I believe in Allah and then be steadfast on that road and you don't need a lot of worship you don't need to to be to burden with yourself with things you just do the most important things these things pray fast do the حلال and abstain from the haram and then you will be in paradise so this is the the condition for being in Jannah sometimes we we say that it's not our intention or our aim is not to be in Jannah but our intention is to please Allah سبحانه وتعالى and if we want to be in Jannah it's not because of Jannah because sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم is in Jannah and but sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم is not only in Jannah he is in the highest مقامs of Jannah so when you make the Tua'a ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to be connected to be reunited with sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم in the highest مقامs of Jannah so don't say I want to enter Jannah no, I want to be in the highest مقامs of Jannah في الفردوس الأعلى رضاكة والفردوس الأعلى this is our Dua'a we want you Allah to be pleased with us and we want our final destination to be الفردوس الأعلى so this is what we have for today and insha'Allah we will continue next week يا ربنا لك الحمد والشكرا والنعمة والرضا and until we meet again next week I would leave you now by sending you your Salam and you're sending my best Salam and Salat to our beloved Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته