 We are here to ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for forgiveness, he's still bowing. And once in Medina the Messenger of Allah ﷺ heard the complaints of the Sahaba who had said the rain would delay. And so after the Jum'ah prayer he went up to the, he spoke to the people and he said you have complained about the delay of the rain and about the dryness of your earth. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has ordered you that you make dua to him. And he has promised you that he will respond. Praise be to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the Lord of Creation. La ilaha illa, la ilaha illa Allahu ya fa'alum wa yurid. There is no God except Allah and he does whatever he pleases. Allahumma anta la ilaha illa anta. Oh Allah, you are the one who there is none other than you. Al-Ghani you, the independent. Wa lahanu al-Fuqara and we are the ones in need. Anzil alayna al-Ghayth. Descend upon us rain and help from the heavens, ya Allah. Wa ta'al ma anzanfa lana quwwatan wa balaqan ila'in and make what you have sit down for us provisions to get us to the afterlife. The Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam reminded us and taught us in this beautiful way that our istisbah, our seeking of rain is through istifa, is through seeking forgiveness and he reminded us of what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has promised to us. He ordered his Prophet, Nuh alaihi salam, fa'uldu stop bilu rabbakumu, innahu kana ghaffara. So Nuh alaihi salam said to his people, seek forgiveness from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. He is the All-Forgiving One. Yursil al-Sema alaykum madrara. He will sin down the heavens with rain. And so we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for forgiveness. We ask him for istifa. The Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam in his huqba abjum'a would remind people to have taqwa of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. To have this presence of the orders and the prohibitions of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Staying away from the prohibitions and fulfilling his commands outwardly and inwardly. And during the huqba of Eid, the team was takbir, reminding us that it's a day of celebration in that we glorify Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala by saying Allahu akbar Allahu akbar Allahu akbar. And the huqba of istisbah, the speech of this prayer, is to remind us to do istifa, to ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for forgiveness. Astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah. And it's a reminder to us that we will make mistakes and we have made mistakes. As humanity, as individuals, we have made mistakes. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, Allah will hold back the rain from the heavens when we make those five of mistakes. And so corruption in the earth, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the Qur'an that the fa'sad, corruption has become apparent in the oceans and in the land bima kassabah ad-nas, for what our hands, for what our hands have done as human beings. And so the reminder for us is that to bring back the rains that have been held back, we make istaghfirullah, we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for forgiveness. And it's a reminder to us of our humanity. If in the tum'a we're reminded to stay away from the haram, to stay away from the prohibition. In this istis fa, we are reminded that we did make, we have made mistakes. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is giving us a way to turn back to him. He is giving us istaghfirullah. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us in the Qur'an, and Allah ha'yukhibtu tawadin, Allah loves those who repent to him. And there can be no people who repent to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala unless they make those mistakes, unless they commit something that is forbidden, unless they leave something that is an obligation. But when they turn back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, and when we turn back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, we become from the tawabin, from those who turn to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in tawbah. And Allah loves those who turn back in tawbah, who turn back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in tawbah. And we ask forgiveness for our sins and for the sins of our brothers and sisters, all over the world who have done this. We remind them too that it might not be something that we did here, it might have been something that has been perpetrated against the laws of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in another place. Allah reminds us in the Qur'an, wa tsebu fitna ta'al nasoos liban nandadina walla mounin kru khasa, fear, a fitna, a tribulation that will not only affect those who were oppressors, it will affect other people as well. We don't know why these fires are happening. We don't know why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is holding back rains that could put these fires out. It might be something that we did. It might be something that our state did, that our nation did. It might be something that's been perpetrated against humanity on the other side of the world. But why is it? Why is it that other people will fall into the punishment when it comes down? And the Sahaba clarified this to what they said because we are silent. We are silent. Even if somebody else does something that's wrong, we have to speak up against it. And so this is a reminder to us to not only hold our own limbs accountable for what we do and keep our limbs back from doing things that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has prohibited, but we also have a duty upon us an obligation to remind other people as well. To be from the people who make in joining righteousness and forbidding evil. And we're reminded though even in that, even if we fall short in our own actions, even if we fall short in not reminding and ordering other people of their actions, at the end of the day, if we come to terms with our humanity and we make istilfar, we seek forgiveness from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, Allah can send us to heaven just for that. And He did not tell us to make a complete toba. He didn't say, Tuva il Allah, and then He will send down to heavens. He said, Make istilfar, seek forgiveness from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Istilfar is the process of seeking that forgiveness, even if we know we might go back to committing some of those things. Toba is the process where we completely leave something, and we change our life, and we never go back to it. That is a true toba. The toba ten nasooha that Allah tells us in the Qur'an, wa tubu il Allahi toba ten nasooha, turn in a true repentance to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. But the order for istilfar, and the order that Nuh Aleyhi Salam told his people to do, to bring the heavens down with rain, is istilfar, seeking forgiveness from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And so we have to be constant in this process of seeking forgiveness. Astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah. We also have to remember the compassion that we should have for not only ourselves and our family, and our fellow human being, but all the animals that are affected by these fires. And all of the plants that are affected by these fires, and we're asking for the rahmah of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to come down through our istilfar, through this prayer, through turning into Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in sincere repentance, we're asking for that rain to remove this tribulation from us, and from the children, and from the animals, and from the plants. The early tradition of the Muslims for this prayer of istilfar was that they would bring out the weak, and the old, and the women, and the children to present themselves to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to say, we need the rain, all of the people in the community, we need the rain. Send down the rain upon us. And so we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to sit down the rain upon us. Astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah. Alhamdulillah wa s-salatu wa s-salamu ala Rasulullah wa ala a'lihu wa s-salamu ala kuma'im. When we look to the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, to show us what it is that we need to do, he told us, and he told, as he told the Sahaba, to make the istilfar, and to ask for the rain, and that those rains also be something that leads us to jannah. We're not asking for the rains to preserve our dunya. We're not asking for the rains to preserve our stay here on earth, just for our stay here on earth. It's for us to get to the next stage of our lives, the after, the next life. We do want the preservation of the dunya. And we are worried about our brothers and sisters in Islam and our brothers and sisters in humanity, whose homes and lives in the hills are in danger because of this. And we feel sad for those brothers and sisters of ours in Islam and in humanity who have lost their homes, as one with the family in back of their lives on the fire. And we ask Allah to bring down mercy upon them and to make their suffering easy, and to reward them for what they have experienced, and to remove this tribulation of these fires so that we don't have more people perish. And the Prophet ﷺ also taught us in Dua, asking for rain. Do not let us perish due to your anger, and do not destroy us due to your punishment with your punishment, and give us well-being before that. Give us affina. That's what we're asking for Allah to send down upon us. To send down upon us pleasant things. When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ would ask for the rain, he would also ask not only for rains that are of aid and beneficial, but that are not harmful. And then the clouds when they come, and the winds when they come that they are not harmful, some of these fires that we're seeing right now are from a storm that happened where the lightning fires began the fires. So these fires that we are tribulating and being choked with right now began through rain. We're not asking for the rain of Allah ﷺ that comes with a punishment. We're asking for the mercy of Allah ﷺ. One of the names of rain that's in Arabic and it's mentioned in the Qur'an is Rahmah, is a mercy. So we're asking for the mercy of Allah ﷺ in the general sense and in the specific sense of rain. And we're asking that this rain that sit down upon us and the winds that come with it are not winds that increase the fires. They're winds that cool the fires and put the fires out. And we're asking for coolness to be brought to the fires just like Allah ﷺ sent a coolness to the fire that Ibrahim ﷺ was sent into. And he told the fire, Quni barna wa salam and be peace, be cool and peaceful. We ask for that. Astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, You have complained about the dryness of your houses. It was the delay of the rain. And Allah has ordered you to make dua'a to him. And Allah has promised you that he will answer. Alhamdulillah, Lord of the worlds, Al-Rahman, Al-Rahim, Al-Malik, Al-Yawm, Al-Din. La ilaha illa Allah. Yaf'alumma yurid. Allahumma anta daa ilaha illa anta. Al-Ghaniwi wa n'ahlu al-Fukar'a. O Allah, you are the independent and we are the ones in need. Anzdir alayna al-Ghayt. Sit down upon us, the Ghayt. Sit down upon us rain. Allahumma agitna. Allahumma agitna. Allahumma agitna. O Allah, sit down upon us. The rain, the beneficial rain. La ilaha illa Allah. Anzdir alayna al-Fukar'a. La ilaha illa Allah. Al-Ghaniwi wa n'ahlu al-Fukar'a. Al-Ghaniwi wa n'ahlu al-Fukar'a. And make what you have sit down upon us something that allows us to get to the next life. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for forgiveness and we present ourselves to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as the early Muslims presented themselves in the lowest of our fashions. Recognizing our mistakes and recognizing our weaknesses and recognizing that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala does not owe anything to us. We also know that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala can sit down, rains upon a person who is disobedient to him out of his karam. How much generosity has Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala already given to us? And we're not the best people. This shoulder cloth that I'm wearing is from one of the tawad-e-eem, the righteous men in Mauritania, Sheikh Mohammed Zayn al-Adresya al-Hasri. This blue shoulder cloth. And there was a man who was known in the area for not praying most of his prayers. And we know that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has ordered us to establish the five daily prayers. And so if we do not pray the five daily prayers, we are in a state of sin. And it was known that this man would not pray most of his prayers. And even when people would ask him about praying, he would just brush it off. But one day he went to the village of Sheikh Mohammed Zayn, this man who I'm wearing his shoulder cloth. And on the way back in the desert, he became overcome with thirst. And so he raised his hands to Allah, to the heavens. And he said, Ya Allah, a spanish, a spanish, give me something to drink. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala brought down the heavens with rain for him. A reminder to us that when we make dua to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, it's not just because we're righteous or we do good deeds. It's because of the generosity of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. In the hadith of the Messenger of Allah, he said, Sometimes there are people who are disheveled, not just physically, but also spiritually. But if they raise their hands to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, Allah will give them something. Why? Not because of that person's righteousness, not because of our righteousness, but because of the generosity of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. He is given out of his generosity. All he asks from us is turn and ask. Be humble and ask. Recognize our weakness and ask. He's not asking from us perfection. He's asking that we turn to Him. And this is why we turn to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to, to, to sit down the heavens, to bring us mercy. To bring us the Rahmah that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala brings with the heavens. Alhamdulillah, I know you and I enjoy myself. Tuhad tapwa wa Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and to turn to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and his tafwa. And the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, he used to make his tafwa. seek forgiveness of Allah SWT many many many times during the day and we are reminded to bring that sunnah back into our life. If the messenger of Allah SAW can ask for forgiveness from Allah SWT many times over 70 over 80 over 100 times a day then we can do it too. We can turn to istilfah and we can remind ourselves and those watching at home we're reminding you and we're reminding ourselves to have taqwa of Allah SWT and to turn to Allah SWT in istilfah. Allahumma astighna ghaifan mughifa Haneen ghadata Aajiran ghaira aajiran mujaliran saqhan fadhaqan da'iman O Allah, bless us with abundance and pleasant rainwater that will deliver us from this calamity. Immediately rather than delay, one that fills the entire horizons and counts hard on the earth, completing, covering our lands, lasting and long as is needed. Allahumma astighna ghaifan mughifa Nari'an muri'a Nafi'an ghaira da'iran aajiran ghaira aajiran O Allah, send upon us helpful, wholesome and healthy rain. Beneficial, not harmful rain. Now, not later ya Allah. Allahumma aghidna Allahumma aghidna Allahumma aghidna O Allah, relieve us. O Allah, relieve us. O Allah, relieve us. Allahumma astighna ibadaka wa ibadaka wa baha'imak Wanshur rahmatak wa ahlibaladak al-megit O Allah, provide water for your servants and your cattle. Spread out your mercy and resurrect your dead land. Allahumma la'atakunna bihrababit Wa la'atuhnikna bihradadika wa aafina qabradadika O Allah, do not let us perish due to your anger and do not destroy us with your punishment and give us well-being before that. La ilaha illa anta Yab'alu taf'alu ma turid Allahumma anta la ilaha illa anta Al-gani wa nahnu al-fukara Anzil anina al-ghaib Waj'al ma anzansalana quwwatan Wa dalagani ila hain Allah is the greatest All praise be to Allah, Lord of all the worlds O Allah, guide us on this journey O Allah, give us your blessings O Allah, bless us with your blessings O Allah, give us the path of success O Allah, guide us on this journey O Allah, guide us on this journey O Allah, guide us on this journey My friends, I ask Allah to send His blessings To everyone who has died I ask Allah to send blessings And he will not forget you. Allah knows what he will do. He will be the guide for Egypt, so remember him. He will remember those who fear and avoid them. He will be the light of the grave. Then he will not die. He will remember those who are good. And he will remember the name of his Lord. He will remember the life of the world. And he will not die. He will not die. I will be the guide for Egypt. Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest. Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. We went to the Prophet. We went to木. We created like fish with hidden branches. They were not different stones. Not hip, not wings. The sun and the clouds were bestowed with AMP, God Almighty and the помers of God. The sky and the heavens and the universe, to nieces! Allah is the greatest, Allah is the greatest, Allah is the greatest, Allah is the greatest. Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah.