 أعوذ بالله إسمي العلي من الشيطان اللعين الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم دومايوز السلام عليكم جميعا ورحمة الله وبركاته أردت أخر أبناء هنا عن دعاظ ديبا أعودنا لفتح دعاظ التي تقومنا بتجاهات رموان بعد كذلك لذلك أبدأ بأن الله مؤدخل على أهل القبور السرور ونستخدمها الفتحة المجمع في مرحب المنفاستيشن من الشيخ خلفان تقايدنا من هذه الدعاة و كما قمت بشكل مرحب في المرحب والفي المقارنة فإذا كنت ترى وردت وردت وردت أن ترى فكرة فكرة فكرة و المرحب يستطيع أن يكون مدينة بشكل مرحب ويجب أن تستطيع أن تجد التجار سنبدأ today's session سنبدأ في مرحب المرحب المرحب المرحب المرحب أبدأ مع اللهم اكسو كل عريان أو اللهم اكسو كل مخلصة now again i mean you're gonna get fed up with me saying this but actually on the surface level of this there's not much more to it that means the eye oh Allah for those who do not have clothing and the decency of clothing then inshaAllah you can grant it to them and we'll probably typically go straight on to the next line of the Da'a but as is the goal we want to dig deeper and dive deeper into what is actually this line about why is this line in this Da'a something that sounds so simple yet it must have a further meaning so to try and dissect this and to try and begin our discussion the first question is what is the goal of clothing our Allah clothes every unclothed one what is the goal of clothing by answering this we'll actually be able to open up our discussion in the dimension we want to now view this through so the goal of clothing ultimately it's a basic necessity of life it's something that everyone needs in different materials color size whatever but it has two fundamental goals and if we look to the Quran we can see these and we don't have to look to the Quran to understand them but it's nice that we have the reference to it so we can look to the Quran صورة العراف and then we can look to a حديث from our موسيب نجاعة من الكابن عليه السلام so let's start with صورة العراف it's one of the seven verse 26 الله سبحانه وتعالى says يا بني آدم our children of Adam شولي we have sent down for you clothing that covers your shame and an attire that causes beauty and the attire of piety that is better so الله سبحانه وتعالىه mentioned two explicit goals of clothing number one it covers your shame and secondly it's an attire that causes beauty إمام موسيب نجاعة فر الكابن عليه السلام is reported to have said that whenever a person would like to put on a new dress he should wipe his hand over and say praise belongs to Allah who clothed me with what I cover my shame and beautify myself among the people again we see cover my shame and beautifying myself therefore simply put clothing has two goals number one to have a level of حياة and modesty to cover oneself come on this body and secondly to beautify oneself so it's a protection and also to beautify fine now we've understood this let's go into this line from a different angle Oh Allah clothes every unclothed one so I myself Alhamdulillah have clothes إن شاء الله they fulfill those two purposes but now I want to go further and I'm going to say let's understand the inner clothing this is the outward it is semi nice it's beautiful maybe it covers me in the correct way now let's go inside so how can we understand this we of course know that the human that we as creations as humans are not just composed of أخر and physical nature we have an inward nature as well our soul and etc and this internal body if you like this internal existence of ourselves has even more significance and is more significant than our outward we know that when we get buried into the ground this becomes nothing more to most of us and the only thing that remains is the soul that then journeys into the أخر so the question then becomes with the first goal of clothing what is the thing we are concealing with this clothing the clothing for the outward is concealing our body and the question is on the inside what is the thing that is concealing what is the شيم it's trying to conceal and when we look to sort of the طارق in sort of 86 verse number nine or last part of what it says the day when the secrets shall be made manifest the secrets the things we're ashamed of the things we don't want anyone to know about the things that are private to us these are the things that will be made the day when the secret shall be made manifest when they'll be exposed and these are the things that we need to be covering the secrets our secrets perhaps our sins the things we don't want anyone to know about only الله سبحانه وتعالى لن أعرف and we say in many of our Allah please cover up my sins and my vices and don't make them public to the world but there will be a day when those secrets shall be made manifest so we're asking Allah to cover our shamefulness to cover our sins it's Allah's mercy that can enable that to be covered you can almost see it as a way that we must be spiritually clothed whilst we're physically clothed we must also be spiritually clothed and if we're not if we're spiritually unclothed we must react and to do that the reaction needs to be to seek this divine intervention we must seek to Allah سبحانه وتعالى to clothe us internally to cover up our sins and our vices to eradicate them hopefully but to cover them up as well and by doing this it helps us establish تخوة which we discussed in one of the previous سشنين and I recommend you to have a watch of that different of that discussion and maybe perhaps a different angle of thought or that we've uh that you've not heard of before it's a big topic fine so we understand that clothing has two goals number one it's to cover up our body you know our our shame and secondly it's to beautify oneself and we've just turned it on its head and we said the inward clothing the thing we want to be protected from is our shame of our sins our inward sins we don't want anyone to know about so what about the second application of clothing the beautifying oneself what is the inward version of this and as we said the the goal is of beautification is there for clothing however we must of course observe this with a boundary with our boundaries we must not overdress to the point where it attracts the wrong attention and for the wrong reasons and it's important for us maybe just to go on a bit of a side discussion which is that if this happens if we do dress ourselves with the goal of beautifying for the sake of others that we shouldn't be doing it for this goes against the overall goal our overall goal in life which prompts quite a nice discussion around what is the goal of life what is it that we're actually trying to do and ironically in life especially nowadays with with our generation i guess we could say we want to know the goal behind everything we want to know the why behind everything now oh you need to eat this why i need to know why before i do it once upon a time people would be told you this is what you need to do and that's it they would follow 100% but nowadays the millennial generation our generation are very much more inquisitive we want to know why before we do anything i want proof before i have any chance of doing it so ironically we don't even ask ourselves or many in the world don't actually know if you're to go and ask them what is the goal of life you want to know the goal of your work of this of that but what is the goal of life and they will be a little bit you know perplexed and all will have a consistent answer even maybe some will have no answers at all and i think we've neglected our understanding behind our goal especially and we're just coming back to this point when we're clothing ourselves to beautify ourselves for reasons that go against our goal that's a sign that maybe we don't really understand the goal in its truest essence and it's important to note that by not knowing the goal man will always face difficulties what do i mean by that what we mean by this is that some will say oh my golden life is to become successful okay defined successful and they may say oh you know i want to have loads of cash okay fine let's let's take that let's assume that that could be a legitimate goal in life let's go and ask those who have earned reasonable money and wealth and ask them have you ever faced difficulties and i'm certain unless they're lying they'll say yes of course i have money doesn't solve difficulties so that can't be the goal of life we need to understand what is the goal of life and we have answers to the goal of life from Quran and hadith and this will take us on on a bit of a journey and firstly we look to chapter 51 verse 56 in the very famous verse and i've not created the jinn and men except that they should worship me now most people would go okay cool now i know the goal in life is to worship الله actually if you look carefully this is giving us the aim the aim is indicated as worshiping الله that you and i as creations our aim should be to worship الله what is the result of worshiping الله and this is where we get to chapter 15 and verse 99 and worship your lord until conviction comes to you so we're told worship that is the goal that is the direction as what we should do and by doing so and worship your lord until until conviction comes to you so actually we understand that the global goal that the end goal is معرفة الله سبحانه وتعالى is having this conviction this understanding of الله سبحانه وتعالى that is the end goal the closer one gets to his lord the better the knowledge of his creator and it's an unlimited thing you then have more yearning to understand the unlimited and we live in this material world whereby we are given things like clothing things like food things like حلال drinks things like you know housing shelter all of these things we're given these materialistic things for us to use so that we can get to our ultimate goal which is معرفة الله سبحانه وتعالى however however nowadays what we know we're going through is that people's goals are becoming the materialistic things themselves rather than being a means to the ultimate goal and people then see that when they get attached to those materialistic things they don't feel a level of satisfaction whereas those who detach from those and use them as a means to their final goal which is معرفة الله they have a level of satisfaction and happiness and serenity that none of us can understand or begin to appreciate so coming back to what we mentioned we were talking about الله all of the unclothed we said that the goal of clothing is to follow the one to protect and cover our shame and secondly for us to beautify ourselves and then we said but what if you beautify yourself and it goes against the شرية it goes against what we are allowed and it draws the wrong attention well actually that goes against our global goal in life we then have now zoomed into the goal in life so let's come back and say okay what is the inner beautification what is it and this is a very short answer which is that the same way that تقوى as we mentioned in the previous session is one's protection from vice and evil it's important we go back to that understanding of تقوى so please please revisit that clip if you can it's a source of protection against evil and vice the same way it's also a level of embellishment تقوى is a source of embellishment of beautification as well it embellishes the inner form of the human being it beautifies the inner form the inner self it let it let you become excellent with your character and it makes this creation a beloved one of Allah who are you trying to beautify this is a beautiful way to put it who are you trying when you put on your clothes let's say you're doing it for the wrong reasons you're trying to beautify yourself for the sake of someone else to be attractive to you right and we're saying that's the wrong way to do it right taking that same premise that if you beautify yourself with your clothes there's a reason there's something you're trying to attract you're trying to get attention from similarly when you beautify your inner self who are you trying to attract you're trying to attract the attention of Allah that you dress yourself up in تقوى such that you become the beloved of Allah Allah is attracted towards that creation of his is a beautiful way to see it so as a summary we said that clothing has two purposes to cover oneself and cover one's shame and also to beautify and when we apply these two principles to the inner self we then understand we need to protect our souls number one we need to ask Allah to protect and hide our vices and our shame our inner shame which is our sins and to wipe them ideally but if not to cover them and not to reveal them on the day of judgment and secondly that we saw that beautifying ourselves from an inward perspective is attractive it's a way of attractiveness الله سبحانه وتعالى that we become a humbled human that we become humbled and attractive creation to him and then we mentioned this really important point about the fine line between beautifying oneself with clothing and this going against the greater goal which led us to the discussion in the middle around what is the greater goal and we concluded that of course we're given the direction وما خلقت ال جن وما and we have we have not created man or jinn except that you should worship وما خلقت الجنة والإنس إلا ليعبدون وما we have not created the jinn and men except that they should worship me and this gave us the this gave us what we should do except that we should worship me and however the outcome of that وعبد ربك حتى يأتي أكل يقين and worship your lord until conviction comes to you the global goal at the end of the day is to have this conviction in الله this معرفة of الله this نينست الله قربة في الله قرب إلهي this is the ultimate goal for us so when we recite this line of دعاء الله مكسوم كل عوريان والله ينظره كله ينظر تعرفها وخلق بالها and think oh الله لتدري النقاق وف簽 أشاركوا ومقاربا ويشاركوا ف وعن يجعلني فرق أن أسلبي لمساعدني to أنساء الله واجت لنا لتاتجاه حتى تروننا الى الثقة في هذه الجنة والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركه