 We have many of our family and friends around the world, many people in our community that are going through trials, tribulations and in particular there is one young sister from our community who is very unwell. Let's join each other in da'a and ask for her very quick shafa'a. In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful. In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. All praise is due to Allah, Who guided us to this and we were not guided if not guided by Allah. And the prayer is sent upon the most honorable prophets and the righteous. Sayyidin Al-Mumajj Al-Bashir Al-Musaddakh Al-Mustafa Al-Amjad Al-Mahmoud Al-Ahmad Al-Qasim Al-Muhammad Wa ala ahli baytahi t'ayyabin Al-Tahilin Al-Masumin Wa ala ala Allah wa ala dhalimina min al-awwalina wa al-akhirin Amma Ba'ad, Qala Imam Al-Hujj Aleyhi Al-Salam Allahumma, inni asaluka qalilam min kathirin ma'a hajitin b ileyhi awheema Wa ghinaaku anhu qadim, wahoo andi kathir wahoo aleyka sahlun yaseen Allahumma, inna afwaka anzambi, wa tajawuzaka ankhatii Wa safhaka anzulmi, wa sitraka alaqabihi amali Wa halmaka ankathir julmi, indama kana min khatai Amdi wa atma'nifi an asaluka ma la astawjibuhu min salawat Awaited Sabia, Imam al-Zamanah My respected teachers, elders, brothers and sisters Salamu alaikum jami'an wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh In this section of the da'ad, iftitah, in which the Awaited Sabia, Imam al-Hujj, Al-Jalallahu ta'ala, Farja Al-Sharif Commences this part. He starts by demonstrating his relationship with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Through a modality of mentioning the grandiosity In terms of how much Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala can afford to a human being Both in terms of the qualities of volume But also demonstrating the need of the quality of the worship as well Here the Imam states Allahumma inni asaluka qaleelam min kathirin ma ahajitin bi ilayhi azeema That my Lord, Allahumma inni asaluka, I ask you Qaleelam min kathirin ma ahajitin bi ilayhi azeema I ask you for a small amount from a very vast amount For the needs that I have And the fact that I'm asking for this in such a manner I recognize I am the one in need But indeed that this is nothing to you It is nonexistent to you When I ask and I seek from you this small amount in volume From the vast that you have It is nothing in the fact It's nothing that you can't even do without If you give it to me It's not that you can't do without it And that you are giving and by virtue Your stockpile will be diminishing But also I recognize that for me to obtain that very same thing It causes a titanic effort for me to put in To try to obtain such a thing Whereas for you it is so simple And it is so easy for you And then he continues Allahumma inna afwuka an zamdi Wata jaa wazuka an khatiiati Wa safhaka an zulmi Wa sitraka an kabihi anali I recognize my Lord that when I seek from you And I ask for forgiveness for my sins And I ask you to overlook the evil deeds that I have done And that you show me leniency to my ill conduct I recognize the fact that you give me these things It encourages me to seek more from you And to ask from you Because I have the confidence that you will overlook my faults You will overlook my weaknesses And the steps that I have taken within this world Having said this my Lord I continue in the da'a I continue and I recognize That there is no Lord like you I recognize that despite this There is no Lord, no Master like you Who is able to be so generous And at the same time someone who is supposed to be so patient Upon a la'eem like me A la'eem in the Arabic language Means a criminal But the type of criminal who will be willing to do any sort of crime There is no limit Some criminals who will say Well I am only a thief I will only go into a house and I will steal This is the limitation of my sin And then there will be another criminal Who will say Well I will go and do something greater I will go and do murder for example When I am saying I am saying that you are such a Lord You are such a Master You are one who is so generous You are one who is so patient upon the person Who knows no boundaries in his level of sin There is no curtailing what I do Ya Rabbi In this situation I recognize that you are constantly calling me And I am the one who is rejecting you You are the one who shows me unabounding love Whilst I am the one who shows you hatred and anger This is the section of the da'a When the Imam speaks on these matters There are huge, huge levels of depth That the Imam wants us to understand And to take away from this section of the da'a Arguably this section of the da'a Is the most spiritually orientated part of the da'a Because previously Not only am I speaking to Allah SWT In a manner that begins the da'a In recognition of him But also I am engaging in my loneliness But in this particular facet of the da'a I am engaging in another level of loneliness I am now actually saying to my Lord That I recognize that I am so small and insignificant Without you there is nothing I am capable of doing And indeed, despite my incapability Despite my recognition of your superiority I continue to act in a manner that objects against you But despite this I know that you are the one who is going to give me You have given me confidence in coming to you And therefore the manner in which I seek from you Is key in this discussion We want to focus as much as possible Insha'Allah tonight On this opening line of this da'a Allahumma inni asaluka Qaleelam min kathirin ma ahajatin bi ilahi azeema O my Lord, when I ask Allahumma inni asaluka I recognize I am asking for something Which is so small and insignificant But yet you have that which is so vast And I am indeed desperately in need Of this little bit that I am seeking from you When I ask from you It's nothing to you It doesn't exist It's not hard for you It doesn't cause you any difficulty to give it to me But indeed if I need it When I seek it It is a titanic effort for me to go and get this Whereas for you it is so easy and simple for you How do we understand this? When the Imam alaihi salatu was-salam Talks about this matter of simplicity And ease and nothing We understand that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Is the one of course Who says in Quran-e-Majid On a number of occasions That he only needs to say to a thing B and it is Kun fayakun Of course when we understand this It doesn't mean literally That he has to say to something Kun fayakun He doesn't need to say B In order for it to become That of course will be a limitation For Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala But this has been put At the level of humanity So that we understand How simple a task is For Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala That there are no restraints No restrictions upon him Arguably the best explanation Tafsir of this line of da'a Comes in sermon number one Of Nahjab al-Aghah Given to us by the commander of the faithful Ali ibn Abi Al-Qalib In his ultimate description Of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala He talks that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala There is no human No calculation that can really Fathom his greatness Then he comes onto the section In which he describes The creation of this universe He talks therein about The creation of the angels And the creation of Adam Ali ibn Abi Al-Qalib And all of these different sections In one of the earliest sections He talks about the creation of the universe He says when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Created, he created creation Most initially He created creation most initially And in doing so He didn't have to go through Any reflection of the mind He didn't have to test the waters He didn't have to go and see Whether this experiment would be correct And then alter his creation And then change it for the betterment He created creation most initially He did not go through any reflection of the mind What does this mean? It means that when you assess All of creation From what we might describe Is the most simple of creation Such as the amoeba The single-celled organism Up to the most loftiest And grand list of creations Whatever that might be There was no need for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala To test or experiment Any part of that creation Let us look at this from a scientific manner For just a minute If I am ill I know straight away that there are These antibodies within me That will fight whatever illness Is within me If I cut myself The cells will already go towards The place in which I am cut In order to stop the bleeding If I look at the most awesome of creation If I see the intricacies of DNA If I look at all facets of creation Be it how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Has made the system of nature How every single organism Or how every single creature Is reliant upon each other Up until the top of the food chain Or how every single creation Is embroiled Embedded upon the system Of all parts of the rest of nature I recognize that every part of nature Is constructed within itself When I look outside And I see all of the seasons When I see how there are turtles In their hundreds Thousands that will recognize it On one day within the calendar year They must climb upon one particular island In order to go and try and give birth To those eggs cover them up And then return back into the sea Only to return exactly the same day The next year But when I multiply this perfection By every single creature I recognize that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Created all of this in his perfection But without testing any of it There was no pre-planning involved There was no writing down and saying I will make this creature do this And by virtue it will impact this creature And by virtue this will be the opportunity For this creature It was nothing but Qun fa yakoon Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Does this all within his glorious nature And it is nothing but simplicity And ease for him Now when I say I really begin to fathom his greatness My lord I seek from you just a little bit From the vast amount that you have Because I am such desperate need of it For you it is so simple Look at what you have created my lord It didn't take for you to experiment It didn't take for you to pre-plan It didn't mean that you went and saw That creation was wrong and you adjusted it All of this was so easy for you It was nothing for you Having then conceived Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in this light What am I really asking for My lord I am asking for a little bit The reality is that all of this In the physical And the metaphysical domain Is easy for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala The whole universe is easy for him Indeed the heavens And the hell is easy for him as well Meaning When I am asking from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala For a little bit from him The reality is that for me It is all encompassing Because for him it is so small And so simple So thus it is the entire universe I am asking for everything And anything that is worthy Of coming to me as a human being Because the little to me Is everything to him It is so simple It is the huge amount in existence Now when I ask this I am not asking for a little The reality is I am asking for a little in your eyes Not in my eyes Because if I ask for a little In my eyes When I look at little for me A little is just one meal That's a little bit for me Or I am asking for one simple facet Of life and existence But when I ask for a little from you I recognize that even a little Is grand by virtue of your creation So I am asking for everything I am asking for all of my risk I am asking for all of my health I am asking for all of my family I am asking for all of my community I am asking for all of my spirituality The fact that I am asking for a little By your standards means everything By my standards There is a Sufi saint Who says a wonderful line When asking for just a little bit From Allah SWT Says my lord I only want a little bit from heaven I only want a little bit from heaven In fact I only want so little from heaven I am willing to accept you Allowing me to sleep on the floor of heaven You know what If you don't want to give me all of your palaces And if you don't want to give me all of your gardens And all of your flowing rivers And proximity to you and Ahlul Bayt That's fine But just give me a little bit of heaven I am willing to even sleep On the floor of heaven But my lord If you decide That I am destined for hellfire Make me the fuel of hell In order that I may burn your enemies in hellfire That's what I am asking for Just a little bit To give me completion All I want is a little bit from this heaven And if you do decide I am worthy of hell I want to be able to burn your enemies one by one This is what it means to elnkalkate That asking for a little bit It's not a little bit It is by literal terminology a little bit But when you knock at the door of the one who has unending Unbounding seas of generosity There is no such thing as a little bit when you ask from him Here The Imam alaihi salatu wassalam Is playing with words The beauty is that as you know in the Arabic language There are layers of depths to everything The literal meaning is called the haqaik And then when you come to the metaphorical meaning You come to the majazi And therefore when you are able to look at a word You can look at it through both lights Does the Imam mean literally a little bit Or does he mean metaphorically a little bit from you Now the fact that this is a play on words The Imam is speaking in context of volume I am seeking a little bit from a vast amount The condition, the relationship is a small amount Against a very large amount This means volume based However the opposite of volume The opposite of quantity is what? Quality Instead of asking for a lot On quantity I can be asking for a lot in regards to quality What is the difference? In fact if you look at the purpose of our creation Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala states within the Holy Quran The purpose of your creation is not quantity It is quality within yourself He says in the opening lines of Surat al-Mulk Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem Alladhi khalaq al-mouta wal-hayata liyabluwakum ayyakum Ahsan wa'amala Ahsan wa'amala Wa huwa al-Azeezul ghafoor He is the one who has created us Why has he created us? He has created death and life So that he may test us And see whom amongst us Has the very best quality of action Not the quantity of action Why did he state this? He has created death And he has created life If you look at it from the sequential perspective It doesn't make sense to me, does it? I don't die then live My first existence here is that I was born into life Then the angel of death will come and take my soul And then I will die Yet my Lord in order says He has created death and life Why? He has mentioned death first So that you and I remember death first He wants you and I to remember That there is a finite time within this world I have created the concept of death Remember your death Before you remember your life Your life is confined Your death will bring you to the lap Of an ever existing world Remember death then life Which created death and life Which will make you better I have created death and life Why so I may test you to whom? To see whom amongst you Is the very best in quality of actions Not quantity Quality of actions He wants us to see How much there is within the heart He wants to see that when I stand in front of my Lord I am genuinely trembling in front of him He wants to see when I am reciting Quran It penetrates the heart It causes a difference the very next day Here when we understand the quality Against quantity argument It is a very simple thing to Envelope it within the month of Ramadan Imagine now the heart The heart is called what within Arabic It is called qalb Don't call it qalb Otherwise you are calling your heart a dog Yes, the qalb It is the heart The reason why it is called qalb the heart Because it comes from the word taqallub Taqallub means it is rotating It is constantly in a state A process of going round Meaning that a heart goes round It goes up, it goes down Not physically, spiritually It is constantly in movement We cannot find this It is constantly in movement We are already at which night in Shahr Ramadan We are at the sixth night, yes How much has your heart moved Within these six nights There are times when you have felt tired There are times when you have felt lazy Maybe not you, definitely me There are times when you have been spiritually elevated And it comes and goes, doesn't it There are times when you really feel spiritually energetic And you can't wait to really be conversing with your Lord To do a little bit more ibadah Whatever it may be This is the meaning of qalb This is the meaning when the heart continues to rotate And go through this process of being close to Allah And a little bit further away from Allah His idea is That when you are in proximity to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala You maximize it at that particular time For example tonight Imagine you are leaving the masjid And you are en route home There may be a moment when you really feel connected to Allah Something will happen You will see maybe the full moon Or maybe you will see someone in front of you Or you will remember something from Quran Or something has happened during the day That you become grateful for All these are sparks within the heart In order to bring you proximity Towards Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala The idea is within the heart That as you become closer to Allah You maximize that moment You don't shut off That means you don't go to do something else You don't go to eat You don't go onto the computer You don't go and check the email You don't go to the baraza You don't sit with the friends You don't have to go to the sports club at that moment The fact that you are being called by Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala Make the most of that moment Because you don't know when it's going to come round again This is the idea of this heart being going around And this proximity to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala It's like that cell phone It has the bars And it shows you how much signal you have If you are further away If you are in a remote place You get less signal You are not as close to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala But when there is more signal You take advantage You are able to download quicker You are able to have a better conversation It's the same thing with the heart When there is more signal More proximity with Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala You don't allow for a distraction to take place You maximise that very moment You go and do whatever the heart feels like going to do at that moment And when the heart stops reciprocating That is when you close the book That is when you close the Musallah That is when you get back up and say I will return when the heart is feeling it again There is a way to understand this Our fourth Imam, Imam Zain al-Aabadeen SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was in his Salah And of course the Imams We are obliged to be wearing good clothes Clean clothes, pure clothes for our Salah Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala says Zain al-Mujalis, he says For example within the Holy Quran That you should adorn yourself At every place of worship Zainatakum Ainda Kulli Masjid Adorn yourself at every place of prayer Meaning that when you're in prayer You should be looking good You should want to stand in front of that Lord In a manner that befits that Salah Imam is wearing his cloak in Salah And the Imam as he's in Salah However the movement was It caused his Aba to slip, it slipped down So for example whether he was in his Takbir Or he had got up from his Sajda His Aba slipped down He didn't go to pick it up He didn't go in and put it back on himself The Companion was watching and observing this After the Imam's Salah He came to him and said to him I watched your prayer Your Aba slipped down in your Salah But you did not go and attempt To actually put it back upon yourself Why? He says to him Oh my dear companion I was in conversation with my Lord Meaning my proximity, my concentration Was entirely upon him Had I have stopped For a moment in order To put my Aba back on I would have been performing shirk Before Allah SWT Imagine He considers That to stop in Salah To put back on a slipped Aba Shirk Because I've become Or I've rather made something A partner to Allah in my concentration I could have put it on But had I done so I would have stopped my proximity With Allah What he deserves in my Salah Hence we have the opportunity To just introspect for a second How easily distracted I Not you How easily distracted I am with my Salah A fly comes in front of me I want to bat it away Someone shouts out I get distracted Something happened in the day It enters into my Salah The idea is spiritually That when I am engaged With Allah in proximity When the feeling is really there In this month Maximize it So I learn how to practice Proximity to Allah SWT Rather instead of just stopping And saying my lord I did feel something I did feel close to you But now I'm heading towards the Baraza No, when you're feeling In proximity to Allah Maximize it It will become the training ground For you And then when you enter into your Salah You will not have those distractions anymore There is a wonderful Outstanding huge Line within the Holy Quran That describes this Prophet Musa A.S. Has been with his community Banu Israel He has relinquished them Helped them move from the Zulm of Pharaoh So now they are They have exited The split sea And they're now In a state of freedom Allah SWT Now calls Prophet Musa A.S. For 30 days In order to come with him And as we know he Makes the additional It becomes 40 days Musa A.S. Is requested by Allah SWT Leave your community Come with me Why? Because I am now presenting to you The Tablets of Toad Art The verse Within the Holy Quran Describes this incident In the most beautiful of manners It says Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim Wama a'ajalaka an qawmika ya Musa O Musa What made you hasten From your people so quickly? Wama a'ajalaka A'ajalaka Like we say to the Imam A'ajal a'ajal Quickly hasten Hasten my master It's the same root word Wama a'ajalaka an qawmika ya Musa O Musa What made you hasten From your people so quickly? The scenario here is Musa A.S. is being called Back to the top of the mountain In order to Receive the Tablets of Toad Art He leaves his community And as he's running up the mountain He's running so quickly According to one tradition He actually slips over upon a rock That's not bad It's not embarrassing It's actually a testimony To the beautiful nature of Musa A.S. He's been called by Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala He's now running towards Allah So quickly that he actually Slips upon a rock The question is my lord The question is Musa Why are you running so quickly? Now here I want to make this Simple relation Think about this Salat time is 1235 1236 We know that I am supposed to Leave everything I am doing In order to hasten towards Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala Come to prayer Come to prayer Come to success Come to success Come to work How quickly do I Hasten towards my lord How quickly do I leave What I am doing My own people In order to hasten towards Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala But now I want you to think A little bit more laterally Imagine you and I Are Musa A.S. Would be nice We've got a good path into heaven Imagine you and I Are Musa A.S. And you and I have been told The reason why I am asking you To leave your community Is because I am going to Give you told art It's not a small issue is it To my being the recipient Of divine revelation You know that by virtue of this revelation Millions of people around the world Are going to be guided Towards Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala By virtue of this revelation You will also have the secrets Of revelation opened up to you Now the question Revisit the question O Musa What makes you hasten From your people so quickly To the extent that you are actually Going to run so fast That you trip over a stone Maybe if I was Musa A.S. I would have responded my Lord The reason why I am running so fast Because I can't wait to receive Torah I can't wait to be the recipient Of divine revelation However, Musa A.S. Is not distracted by this Revelation or no revelation I care not You're going to make me see These secrets I care not The response within the Holy Quran O Musa The reason why I am running so fast Is one reason and one reason only Just to seek your pleasure I am not distracted by anything The fact that I am feeling This proximity to you The fact that I am engaged In this very moment In seeking you I don't want anything else my Lord It doesn't matter to me All these other things Are just distractions Recipient of divine revelation Give it to someone else It doesn't matter All I want is your pleasure And your pleasure alone This is a huge, huge spiritual example From Prophet Musa A.S. To you and I He is saying It doesn't matter about anything else I am completely annihilated Within the love of Allah I don't concern myself With the small distractions From within this world There is a line of poetry from Rumi He says I was walking in the garden With my lover Now here we have to understand What he means His lover is Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala It doesn't mean literally We said there is the haqaaik There is the literal And there is the majazi There is the metaphorical I am walking in the garden With my lover The garden is dunya The garden is the world He sees this world As a place to know Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala I am walking in this garden With my lover Distracted by a rose My lover became angry with me And said oh Rumi Oh my lover What makes you distracted from me Why are you looking to this rose When you have the beauty Of my face here It's imagining you're walking With your wife Or if you're a sister On the other side You're walking with your husband You're walking with that partner That partner is everything to you Nothing distracts me One single rose Does not distract me From the beauty of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Similarly nothing in this world Is supposed to distract me From Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala When I ask I am asking for you And you alone Allahumma inni asaluka qalila min kathilin Ma'hajatin bi ilahi azeema What is the Imam really Trying to say now In this next level of meaning You are all encompassing There is so much vastness Of you my Lord I am seeking just a little bit Of you and you alone This is what I want Allahumma inni asaluka qalila min kathilin Ma'hajatin bi ilahi azeema All I want is a little bit of you Give me you and I will be satisfied There is a technique That we want to discuss Illustrate insha'Allah In order to understand The beauty of this There's a line from the Akumail which is outstanding From the commander of the faithful The section begins qawwi ala khizmatika jawarihi wa shtud ala ala azeemati jawarihi wa habli aljiddfi khashittik My Lord I want you to strengthen My limbs in service of you qawwi ala khizmatika jawarihi wa shtud ala ala azeemati jawarihi wa habli aljiddfi khashittik At the end of this section He says waj'a allisani bi zikilika lahija wa qalbi bi hubbika mutayyama wa munna aleyya bi husni Ijabatik What is the Imam saying In this next section of the line My Lord I want you to increase the zikah That comes from my tongue waj'a allisani bi zikilika lahija The result of which wa qalbi bi hubbika mutayyama The result of this continuous zikah is that it will enter, penetrate the heart so it becomes a reality within me Now what are the best lines of zikah and how can we understand this The very best line of zikah according to the commander of the faithful is tahleel la ilaha illallah la ilaha illallah Why? The first reason is because it becomes a secret between you and Allah There is no need for you to move your lips Close your mouth now and say la ilaha illallah It is the movement of the tongue isn't it It's so beautiful The beauty of reciting tohi doesn't need to be in front of anyone It is a secret between me and my Lord the time praising you la ilaha illallah la ilaha illallah Commander of the faithful says the very best action one can do is to recite la ilaha illallah 100 times The only thing better than this is to recite it 101 times meaning continuously more and more and more with the tahleel The next best zikah that one can recite is a salawat upon Muhammad in al-Muhammad There is a hadith which says Ibrahim a.s. you know he started as an abd of Allah then he became the Nabi of Allah then he became the Rasul of Allah then he became the Khalil of Allah and then he became the imam before Allah we know what he had to do to become the imam before Allah with his sacrifice and his knowledge of certainty but what did he have to do to become the Khalil of Allah what made him raise his station from the one who was going from the Rasul of Allah to the Khalil of Allah the hadith says to us he continuously would recite salawat upon Muhammad in al-Muhammad this is what raised him from being Rasul to Khalil of Allah it's very simple what we can do to raise our spiritual station the hadith says that when there is a gathering and people have been reciting the salawat upon Ahl al-Bayt at the end of the gathering the Malayka leave the Malayka leave but upon them is the scent of the salawat as they are ascending back towards the heavens there is another group of angels who are descending from the heavens to visit another gathering where salawat are mentioned upon Ahl al-Bayt the ones who are descending meet the ones who are ascending they say to him oh angels of Allah what is this smell upon you this is the scent that we have received from having been in a gathering when the lovers of Ahl al-Bayt recite salawat upon Muhammad in al-Muhammad if this is what the angels are smelling imagine internally in my soul how fragrant my soul really is this is how we can be constantly engaged with Allah as a final suggestion I would like to humbly impart one action one amal that you and I can perform in order to remain constantly with Allah SWT not to be distracted so that we may journey towards what Musa A.S. felt when he didn't even care about tauraq but only cared about the pleasure of Allah SWT we mention here just now that there are certain zikr that we can recite Imam A.S. said we would like to present to you a very quick and small suggestion all of you here now insha'Allah are listening to me I hope if you haven't gone bored yet and here I am speaking to you but despite us being engaged in the physical exercises of me speaking with you and you listening to me insha'Allah that doesn't mean that we can't be exercising our soul at the very same time just practice this I am going to continue talking but I want you to pick that tahleel or any zikr that you want call upon Yolul Al-Basiru Al-Sameel Yarazaaq whatever tahleel whatever salawaz whatever zikr you want right now recited don't let your lips move continue to recited be engaged with your Lord talk to him at the same time whilst you are listening to me you can see that physically you are engaged with me you can listen to the words that are coming from my mouth but at the same time spiritually you are able to be engaged with your Lord very capable of doing it in the same way whilst I am talking to you it is capable for me to still be engaged with my Lord my tongue is engaging with you but my heart is in secret conversation with my Lord no one knows what I am speaking about and no one knows what you are speaking about right now either this is a practice that we can continue to perform and evolve ourselves with insha'Allah you are still practicing this you haven't stopped, you haven't forgotten about it you are still doing this yes continue to do it right now continue to practice it you are listening but at the same time you are in zikr with your Lord you don't need to be holding the tasbih you don't need to be seen that you are reciting but you are enveloping yourself in true tawheed if for a number of years Ibrahim was performing a silent and secret zikr with his Lord when he was engaged with his society and it moved him to the point of being the Khalil of Allah I ask you if you continue to silently recite zikr where will you be at the end of the month of Ramadha when the blessings are overflowing from Allah swt continue to practice this when you go home and you get in the car recite it, you will be with your family you will have your son, your daughter your wife, your mother, your father with you fine, engage with them in discussion but continue to be whispering secret discourse with your Lord challenge yourself I will whisper to my Lord for one minute and I won't get distracted but if I do and I break the one minute and I only do 15 seconds next time I will fulfill the one minute and then improve upon it I will go to 2 minutes and 3 minutes and 5 minutes and constantly I will be engaged my Lord my Lord I am asking for just a small amount of you from the absolute grandiosity that is you please raise your hands join us in da'a we pray to Allah swt the hastening of the reappearance of the awaited saviour Allah allow us to be alongside him at all times in our life and in our death if we are to pass away from this world it is to reappear raises from our graves so that we can be alongside him and participate in his victory we ask you Ya Allah there are many people around the world who are in desperate need there are trials and tribulations throughout the whole world Ya Allah give them victory security and safety we ask you Ya Allah forgive our sins the sins of our parents all those whom we love all those that love us all of our mahoomeen Allah allow us to understand Quran and this month better help us to fulfill our fast as you have ordained for us we ask you Ya Allah for the opportunity to perform the ziyarat of Ahl al-Bayt peace be upon them all we ask you Ya Allah in the final moments of our lives for the opportunity to die in the love of Muhammad and Ali Muhammad may I ask you to recite one loud salawat in honor of the awaited saviour Imam Al-Hajj Al-Jalallahu ta'ala