 All right, Bismillah. So what we were speaking about last time is just for the first like five ten minutes if I have to fix a connectivity issue Just pardon me. I just want to make sure that people online are able to tune in So what we were chatting about last time was the importance of following the Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ in all of our activities in addition to our worship and what Imamah Haddad mentioned and he where we stopped was he talked about the Sunnahs of Walking the Sunnahs of talking the Sunnahs of going about your day And now we're going to get into some of the Sunnah the Prophet ﷺ would have in Other daily acts of his life, right? So we'll start with sleeping and then we'll get into Some of the Sunnahs of eating and then some of the Sunnahs in relation to Some of the Sunnahs in relation to other daily tasks that somebody might might go through InshaAllah and I think that the context that's really really important here But we also said last time was that when somebody makes the intention to follow the Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ Just know that that is the absolute best way possible to do anything There is no better way possible to do something than in alliance in accordance with the Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ It might seem oh, you know, we let's say we're at regards to the Sunnah of eating, right? Oh someone might say we have the Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ was to eat with his hands and to eat with a few specific fingers Someone might say well, that was back then. Maybe they didn't have utensils And so now, you know, we're so advanced and and we want to use our various utensils and Composable utensils and so on and so forth. Why would we need to follow that? It's not you don't have to follow it But just know that that is the most virtuous way to do in the way that the Prophet ﷺ taught them to eat And these types of things the the important realization here to have is that these are not mundane activities What the Sunnah does is it turns things that seem outwardly mundane into inwardly powerful activities That allow one throughout their day to get spiritual assistance and spiritual assistance Because somebody won't be praying 24-7 someone will not usually be fasting all the time and someone will not be reciting Quran all the time and so on and so forth But somebody through their intention and through their following of the Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ they are able to Achieve a state of consistent spiritual progress throughout their days And that's why the Sunnah in these different actions that we're talking through are really really really important If somebody isn't there yet though, that's okay but the goal should just be to magnify these things to see them as something great and Then to try our best throughout our life to try to get there And if it's not for our whole life to at least have a period of our life for it's okay I'm gonna try at least in this portion of my life to follow the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah So Allah wa-Alihi wa-Alihi wa-Sahbihi wa-Sallam And so we'll get in now into the Sunnah of sleeping and this is something you're gonna do every single day of your life Right sometimes people will sleep more than one time a day But at least in the night everybody is gonna lie down and go to sleep And so the Prophet ﷺ he's teaching you he's like hey I care about you so much Respect of it is that somebody sleeps and they lie down on the right side They face the kibla ideally so someone's face is on the right side and they're lying down on the right side And they're facing the kibla and that they are They go into a state of repentance and they enter into a state of repentance. What does that mean? It means that somebody enters into a state of Ya Allah forgive me for what I did today, right? You actually take yourself to account you take yourself to account for the sins that you might have done that day and You ask Allah to forgive you So it is before you go to sleep because the sleep is as they say that the the little sister of death sleep is Very much a metaphor what Allah is trying to teach us every single day You may fall asleep But there might be a day where you may not wake up and there will be a day eventually Where Allah will put you into a sleep where you won't wake up in this abode You'll next time you'll wake up will be in the abode of the grave Right and everybody else will think that you're gone, but you will be in transition into a different life and So that is a very very important thing to keep in mind So that's the first part of it the second then some what somebody would do to follow the Sunnah The process of them is to read the three Erica of the Suras would be transmitted to his entire body and so that would be The second step that someone does you write down You lie down on your right side remind yourself of death Repent for all of your sins and read these three goals. Now. What is the benefit of these three goals? Well, we'll get to it. So what is the benefit of these three goals is the of these Suras is that it puts somebody into a state of protection It puts someone into a state of protection now when somebody is asleep. You are more vulnerable to The unseen forces someone is more vulnerable to the unseen forces And so when somebody is in a state of protection and they are seeking Allah's protection by following the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Now they are going to be in a much better state than had they left been left vulnerable So that would be another another step. Yes question Yeah Right, right. Yeah, but when I meant there's recite you would recite. Yes. Thank you So the prophecy some would recite recite these when we say recite where we say read where we're meaning kind of colloquial that somebody here Would go ahead and recite these three Suras So the next step after that is that somebody would recite what's called the ayat al-kursi the ayat al-kursi the ayat al-kursi is a Very very very potent and powerful verse in the Quran That is also extremely Strong protection extremely strong protection. Now. This is the time that When someone is asleep is the time many many times when Dark forces are trying to attack somebody right and now this again may sound kind of strange But it's this is the reality. This is the reality that somebody who Give leaves themselves vulnerable in any moment when they are heedless And they are not doing what Allah would would want them to do they leave themselves vulnerable to the jinn and to the Shia team when the jinn and the shia team they enter somebody or they put they try to bother somebody while they're in a state of Sleep that person's dreams are affected that person's state of sleeping is affected that person could potentially have insomnia and Anxiety and so on and so forth because you are not in the state of protection It doesn't mean and we ask Allah protection doesn't mean that would happen necessarily But it is the vulnerability is left right and so again This is where the sunnah it puts a fortress which a poor foot put puts up a fortress, right? so then the next step here would be that somebody is Recites those are the three for protection. Does anybody have any questions? question They're coming Okay, so we'll save the comments in shala till the end of the section if anybody has any questions on the protection Okay, so then we'll go to the the the next step of this is the Prophet's Islam would encourage us to Recite and I'll actually give the context for this so one time I say the Fatima Anha that she came the daughter the blessed daughter of the Prophet's Islam. She the Prophet's Allah, Salaam had acquired Some some after one of the battles. There was a large amount of People that had come with the battle, right with the spoils of the spoils of war that the Prophet's Islam was Potentially they could have been available to assist the Prophet's Islam or assist the companions, right? And so I say the Fatima and I'll tell her I know she went to the Prophet's Islam And she said they were extremely tired her and say the Ali they were very very very Exhausted with everything they had to do right these people they lived a very very tough life They weren't like just because they were They had they have high status in this Dean does not mean that they had a very easy life No, the higher status someone has the more difficult someone's life is and so they had gone through immense physical difficulty For just taking care of everything throughout the house getting the water from the wells the amount of miles that they had to walk How hot it was how much the work that they had to do to prepare their food and so on and so forth So she went to the Prophet's Islam. She said yeah, so she she went to him actually and she didn't she didn't say anything She went to him to ask him. Is there somebody who you could assign to assist me like a servant? but she didn't ask him she was too shy so she returned and Then the Prophet's Islam. He came in and he knows what's going on Salah, Salam He has an intuition right as as he said he has what's called firasa The most powerful intuition possible where he understands what's going on without you having to say anything He'll be able to figure it out completely no issue at all. So He went to say Nali and say the Fatima of the whole and then he said, you know, what is what is it? Why did you come right and they explained to him? You know, we're exhausted. We're so much work to do. There's so many things to do We were potentially seeking some some help from In hoping that you potentially assign a servant to us And he said how can I do this to you when the people a la Sufa a la Sufa were people who? Were very very very poor like they barely had enough clothing to cover themselves Let alone enough food. So how can I give you help when they don't even have enough food? I have to help them. He said let me teach you can I not teach you something though? That is better than what you were asking for and they said please and so he said before you go to sleep every night Recite three times subhanallah, three times 33 times subhanallah 33 times. Alhamdulillah and then 34 times Allahu Akbar And this beat this will assist you in all of the tasks of the following day It will assist you in all the tasks of the following day more than Somebody could have assisted you like as a human being you having a helper now This is tried and tested someone has like a lot of stuff that they have to do the next day They have some they want to have a productive day with their job or with school This is tried and tested to recite before you as you're going to sleep as you're lying down 33 times subhanallah 33 times. Alhamdulillah 33 times Allahu Akbar and so What does that mean? What does that mean that this is again a form of barakah that will assist you? What is someone doing someone is saying? I y'all I'm placing my trust in you and I'm glorifying you and I'm praising you and through that somebody hopes that they will see Success in their life through that somebody hopes that they will see success in their life. Yes question In one narration is 34 times. So Allah Akbar. Yeah, yeah And then you have other narrations that will say that someone is 33 33 33 and then la ilaha illallah wahtu la shariqa la la hu l-mulkulu Alhamdulillahi wa l-kulishin qadir as the as the final one So that those are the the as in relation to sleeping so you have three times Allah had Allah in us one time each someone was like that then somebody was like I took her seat So they blow the first three into their hands and this takes like a minute to do and then I took her seat takes like 30 seconds to do and then these other ones take like a Minute and so you're talking about a total of two minutes Maybe and then somebody makes strong intention before they go to sleep and you're talking about a very very baraka filled sleep Very very blessing filled sleep right versus sleep just being a mundane activity someone's going dreaming about burgers and This and that and all sorts of things right and then there's people who they're present when they're sleep It's a completely different type of sleep. They have a completely different interaction with the unseen realm And one of the signs of somebody's spiritual progress It doesn't have to be the case But it is a sign is that somebody starts to have more access to the unseen realm via dreams So you'll have different people potentially start visiting you amongst the Olia and then eventually amongst the prophets Right, somebody might have the prophets visit them on the highest form the prophet So it's on himself will visit somebody in a dream when someone is in touch with the spirituality It does not have to be the case But it is it starts with these basic things so it starts with these basic things Right, somebody might have a dream Of themselves at the Kaaba and in special places and so on and so forth Yes You pertain to this is like You're saying like do things to protect yourself while you have control because when you're awake You have control to not behave this and you have control But when you get in that dream state you feel like you're out of control and think that it's happening I think a good analogy could be that Our life is like our day our day we we have to be careful and try to do things that create barricade protection Protect us before we go to sleep So similarly our life we have to do those same things before we go to the greater sleep Exactly, you know, we could we have control now and then when we get in our sleep is that we're out of control Right, right. No, no, that's exactly it Yeah, the more somebody while you have a chance while we have a chance That we try to do the actions the better it will be inshallah when we no longer have that chance Um, okay. I'm gonna send you out. Do you know if it got fixed the wi-fi? Okay, let me just try something Sorry, no it didn't come on. Yeah, I'm trying to fix it Is it could you ask him which one it is? I don't have the if I could just get the then the password for that then I could log into the youtube. Sorry guys, forgive me Could I try that out because my hot spot keeps dying Okay, can I try yours out? Sorry guys So as we get that yes Uh, yeah, so 33 times you glorify Allah and you say subhanallah subhanallah subhanallah subhanallah So that would each be said one time till you reach 33. You can count those on your fingers, right? You know, you have 12 Four fingers three each 12. So you do that in sets of three until you get to 33 Um, and then and then you have 33 Alhamdulillah. And so in that you're praising Allah. You're saying alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah And then you have 33 that you are saying Allah or 34 you're saying Allah Akbar Allah is the greatest Allah is the greatest Allah is the greatest Thank you Okay, any other Questions Uh, yes question Yes, there is a dua and that was the next one we're going to get to the dua is right here Bismiqa One second here. Sorry. Let me just try to reset this stream Bismillah Okay So the dua that you want to say before you go to sleep and it's for those who have the text it's listed here on page 54 And so you're saying in the name in your name. Ya Allah my lord Do I rest my side and in your name do I raise it? So forgive me for my sins Ya Allah protect me from your testisement on the day when you gather your servants. And so you're asking Allah Right kind of what we just mentioned some of this in in um, in english the intentions that you're making You're asking Allah the more potent thing would be to Do the three colors that I took her see and this dua There's dua from the sunnah if somebody does not have the dua memorized, right? Then you would just make the same dua in english, right? You essentially the same meaning that ya Allah turning to you. I ask that you forgive me for all of my sins Right and that I ask that you protect me In my sleep and on the day of judgment and again So what you're doing here is you're reminding yourself of the day of judgment somebody would be reminding themselves of uh The lesser death and the greater death To answer the question. Oh, yeah Bismiqa Allahumma amutu wa ahya. So Bismillah in the name of Allah Live and die. Alhamdulillah. I'm I'm there's there's various narrations. So I'm sure that I I don't know that one But I'm sure it's there. Yeah, so um There are various dua's someone can do right? I think we've probably heard at least three or four different types that somebody could do And of course the shorter ones will be easier to memorize. So the one that was mentioned, um, will inshallah be easier to memorize So those would be the the supplications and the recitations in a To do before sleeping Right, and then there's one more thing that someone would want to do. Does anybody know what else? Um You want to have done before you go to sleep ideally Yes Try to wipe try to wipe the bed three times dust everything off. Yes, and then Best like take a shower be completely clean Yeah, ideally you're in a state of wudu at minimum someone is in a state of wudu while sleeping Right, and so why does somebody know why you would want to be in a state of wudu while sleeping? Like what would be the What would be the reason for that? What does wudu do? Yes Exactly, exactly. Mashallah spot on someone you that you're in a state of ritual purity and as a result you're protected from the unseen forces, right? um the wudu throughout the day protect somebody Throughout the day you if you are about even if you are not in a state of prayer as we mentioned before Someone should try to be in a state of wudu even if they're not about to pray Right, but if you're especially about to go into a conversation You know is difficult and it's going to potentially get into attention and so on and so forth so much would definitely be in a state of wudu Right because you will protect Yourself from your own nuffs from your own ego and protect yourself from the shaytan and then when you go to sleep as Was mentioned you were no longer able to control anything and so now again you want to put another fortress These are this is just about spiritual fortresses. You're putting around yourself, right? So wudu has a fortress the idol. Of course. He has a fortress the three equals have a fortress the The dua that we recited has a fortress the subhanallah. Alhamdulillah. Allahu akbar has a fortress, right? And inshallah You do that you place your lives on Allah. You'll be you'll be in a very very good spot while you sleep. Yes and then spiritually We're protected by our purity of heart So like when we have a pure heart that is a form of protection for us It's like even silence is a form of protection And if you have a pure heart as a form of protection, so so washing the exterior or Making boudu Is is that is that on the outside? So you want to be Pure and clean on the inside and pure and clean on the outside. So You're not out Right you're more perfect for god Right and so among the inward etiquettes of sleeping. There's actually one of the famous narration that One time a man walked into the masjid of the prophet sallam and the prophet sallam said this man is is a man from paradise And so one of the sahaba He was like This man's man from paradise. Well, what does he do? So he went to the man? He said hey, can I stay with you for three days? And he said okay, sure And so he observed him. He stayed with him during the day Didn't see anything extra at night time. He did not see this man praying long qiyam alayl at the hadjad or anything He did all his basics so he observed him. He didn't see him do wake up for any extra fasts Right all the things you would expect somebody who was in person of paradise to do and so the it continued and continued and then After three days he he came and he told the man, you know He said actually the reason I asked to stay with you is because the messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said That you were a person from paradise and I observed you and they say anything special about you What's so what's up? Like, you know, what's what's what is it? He said I can't really think of anything. The only thing I can think of is before I go to sleep at night I forgive everybody in my heart And I clear my heart of all negative feelings essentially towards anybody, right? And he said and the salah responded that and that is the deed, right? That is the deed So there is the inward etiquette. You don't want to be in a state where like You're sleeping mad at people and holding grudges against people and angry with people and so on and so forth Ideally, somebody wants to sleep in a state as was mentioned of outward purity and of inward purity and inward purity is very very important here As is it important as it is important throughout the day So that's like with regards to when somebody goes to sleep now And then he's going to list the other aspects of the sun as of sleep So the next thing he mentions is that somebody wants to be mindful of their time So he says don't oversleep max someone to sleep eight hours, right? More than that he says you're wasting your life somebody lives 60 years He spent 24 hours in a day eight hours of the 24. That's one third So somebody's are 20 years of their life for 60 years of life has gone to sleeping, right? So he says at max that's what someone should be doing And if it's less and someone is using that time to worship even better Then he mentions that if somebody can take this is hard in our society But if possible, it is a sunna to take a nap in the midday So right after a lower time roughly, right? Let's say they're in 12 30 or so one o'clock someone would take a short nap And it's a sunna of the Prophet ﷺ and it assists one he mama had mentioned It assists one in waking up to do extra prayers at night Right, because if somebody is up at like five o'clock, let's say and they start their day They pray at the Hajj and so on and so forth and then fudger And then like by the time it's one they're pretty tired Even a second cup of coffee might not be enough Right Even if it's a if it's a double espresso shot latte or anything still might not be enough So you might may take a 30 minute nap or a 40 minute nap that that refreshes somebody As all these theories coming out now all the things the Prophet ﷺ would do short small quick naps They're saying oh, this is highly productive intermittent fasting Oh, this is highly productive all the stuff coming out in kind of modern productivity writings as it's already been in our tradition Now it's not a good thing if we start to adapt it because of the writings that are coming out now We should ideally adapt it with the intention that it's in our tradition already Right, so this would be another sunnah. It's hard to do again with work and whatnot But if somebody's able to take it on MashaAllah that is a sunnah of sleeping And then he mentioned the spiritual realm you're stopping provision from reaching you and he has Um different different uh and things that will bring more barakah in someone's life Just to get easier and you keep going and going and same thing Spirit these are says try not to regularly sleep after us or and try not to regularly sleep after mug grip And mug grip if somebody who sleeps Then what you do is you ask Allah for protection you turn to the left. Does somebody sees a really really? InshaAllah Yep on you and so the question is if somebody has a really really rough that might not be advised because that would be The last thing you mentioned is what is the sunnah of actual sleeping Night what and and so on and so forth. They don't have electricity, right? So you at in those days on him according to many of the scholars hold the heart sometimes Netflix shows and so on get up and they wake up as we measure is the time when a lot In barakah will come from somebody being awake when the time of fudger and to lie down Yes question Yeah, I don't I know this the prayers are emphasized and there's a Allah mentioned in the Quran to out that that's the case. Yeah, I don't know if anybody knows the Hadith around that Yeah, sorry, I just thought I don't want to misquote if I don't know. Yeah Okay, so then the next thing that he gets in just so we we covered off, right? So now mama had that what he's doing is going to like the bear human was that You know not sleeping on your stomach Says when you begin eating you always begin with Bismillah as think we know this in all of our situations Someone starts with Bismillah in the name of Allah So you are essentially asking Allah Religion our religion has a lot of emphasis on cleanliness then When somebody is eating With a group of people The etiquette is that your hand is not like going all over the bowl, right? So usually what people would do rather have their own plates is people would eat out of a kind of communal plate And so you do not want to be like, oh, you got a nice piece chicken there. Let me grab that and you know So on and so you you eat with what's the closest to you when you're eating by yourself and when you're eating with other people Right, that is the adab of of eating And then somebody should eat not from the middle of the plate But the sunnah is to eat from what's closest to you, right? So you have food that's closest to you you start with eating that rather than start This is really really important in our times of like over abundance and the wasting a lot of food I'm talking like any piece of rice, whatever it is, somebody finishes it the believer But I go now it's dirty. No, no, no, no, you clean the food and it's specifically mentioned to not leave it for the shayateen To not leave it, right? So you drop a little bit just know that if you saw somebody you loved And that person that you loved did something in a certain way if you really love them You would just want to do it the way that they did it That's what love is when someone loves somebody they're like How would they do something? Right, how did they look? How did they act? How did they walk? How did they talk? How did they eat? And that is at the essence of following the sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ You can't really follow the sunnah if you don't have love if it's just this like ritualistic thing You are doing it, but it's missing the heart The heart comes when somebody has love and when someone has a lot of love for the Prophet ﷺ They will want to do things in the way that he did it regardless of what's popular in modern times Regardless of what's popular somebody will want to do things in the way that he did it We have a lot to get through to the question Okay, I'm going to get through this section because we just have 10 minutes and we'll say it for the end unless it's a question So then the next sunnah with regards to eating is That somebody has General gentle conversation with people it's a sunnah to eat with people and to try to not eat by yourself Right and then somebody actually has conversations and Um Has good etiquette and good manners while sitting and eating with people who are around them right And he mentions here that you ideally same things everybody's you know We're taught to do when you're young someone's not chewing with their mouth wide open someone is not Trying to speak with food in their mouth and so on and so forth These are all etiquettes from the sunnah If somebody were to sit with the messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and share a meal It would be the absolute best meal of their life and it would be the absolute best company You could ever have and it would be the most amazing someone has ever felt with the way they're with In in ever having a meal because every single etiquette that the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam did was dignified As Allah mentioned in the quran wa laqad karamna bani adam and we have noble bani adam We have noble bani adam. What does it mean to have a noble bani adam? It means to have given them Dignity Allah has given the believers given all of bani adam dignity Right the human being is It stands upright. We're not walking on all fours. There's a level of dignity attached And there's a dignity with eating. There's a dignity with conversation There's a dignity with as you go about your day There's a dignity with talking and walking and sleeping and every single aspect of our team has Uh has a dignity has dignity and dignified ways associated with it And then there is a dua after eating as well. So the basic dua After eating if someone does not know you say, Alhamdulillah, you praise Allah You don't want to get up from the table without thanking God Right, you generally don't want to you want to make sure you yeah, Allah. Thank you And then there's a there's a dua that somebody would recite That heal us here that you would say, Alhamdulillah, Allahumma at'a'amani Okay, then That you're saying, Ya Allah Praise be due to Allah that oh Allah you have fed me on goodness. Therefore use me in goodness And Alhamdulillah to Allah all praise be due to Allah who fed me with neither any ability nor power on my part Now this is something the believer doesn't just recite you reflect a little bit That if it wasn't for Allah and again in our context in our society, most of us have never really felt hungry Unless someone was like fasting and they were forcing themselves to be hungry But most people have not actually felt like sustained days of hunger because they don't have food Right because they do not actually have food But what what the especially in other societies where food was not abundant and it was difficult to to have food People would regularly be thanking Allah for every single bit of food that they received for every single bit of food that they That they received because you didn't get it on your own if it wasn't for Allah Someone would not have been fed at all and someone would not have had sustenance And then he gets into another important part in this dua That you're asking Allah, Ya Allah you fed me from purity now use me You have fed me from goodness now use me in goodness Use me to do good things because what you the idea of you are what you eat is at the center of our tradition If somebody eats pure they will do actions of purity if somebody eats haram they'll do actions of haram It's very simple And it's the first thing someone should ask if they're caught up in certain bad deeds is what is what am I eating Someone is not eating halal And here we mean Like proper Halal slaughtered food right some food that is actually slaughtered in the name of Allah Not food that is slaughtered in the name of whatever whatever You know the atheists that mcdonald's might be slaughtering in it. That's not what we're talking about talking about the food That is slaughtered in the name of Allah that is the that is the goal for somebody to Try to get to the point where they're trying their best to eat halal and tayyip food all the time Right if someone cannot do that at least that minimum Of course, they're staying away from like alcohol and pork and so on and so forth But that's like the basics right and then ideally someone gets to a point. Okay Especially depending on where they live if this these options are available They they should really we should really try our best to get to a point where Halal is is the only type of food that we eat right and we find alternatives If we're really into fast foods and so on and so forth that there's other options that we can go to that are halal alternatives But there will be a direct impact and for anybody who doesn't Know if there will be direct impact and I just try it for 40 days As it comes in a narration the one who eats halal for 40 days their heart will be purified And so try it for 40 days And if you try it inshallah, you will see an immense benefit immense benefit because again actions Are related to to the food that somebody eats to the food that somebody eats And Lastly the last kind of aspect with relation to eating is do not be true concerned about the food that you are eating Like the goal is not the food the goal is someone eats the meal enjoys the meal And they get on with their day. The goal is the sustenance and the energy It's not to be like obsessively focused on the taste of the food And is it like this way and is it a michelin restaurant and so on and so forth? That's that's not that's not From our tradition as it comes into hadith prophecy some said the worst of my nation are those Who eat luxurious food and their bodies grow on it their only concern lies with different kinds of food and clothing That's that's what they care about the only thing they care about and they speak pretentiously Right so like everything is about the type of food somebody has the type of clothing someone wears And they speak in a very very arrogant way the prophecy some is saying this is the worst of my nation You don't we don't want to be when we ask Allah for protection We don't want to be from the worst of the oma right we want to be from people that Food is seen as this is fuel. Alhamdulillah. I'm going to eat it Right, but that's again a higher virtue Someone might not be at that point the nuts generally speaking will try to make everything about food food taste food That's all the nuts ones always think about food Ramadan. Yeah, what am I going to eat for iftar? It's just you just started the day and it's like what am I going to eat for iftar? That's the nuts. That's the nuts the ego the lower self But if somebody starts to climb the stations of spirituality food becomes less of a concern And it's like okay. I just need the food to give me energy Right. I just need to need the food to give me I enjoy it and taste good and say Alhamdulillah But it's not the main concern of like all the different types of food and it's 17 course meal and so on and so forth right it becomes like The the association is not the most The the food is not the most important thing that someone is is focused on and at the the the the last point I think that I was just finished covering here is The food should be halal and then the income someone bought the food which should be halal Right now you can buy halal meat But if you bought it with the money that someone made dealing drugs or owning a liquor store That's not permissible money. So the food is not going to be permissible So the food that somebody eats will be haram. So the action someone will do will be haram Now this is important in relation to like The actions we see ourselves doing children doing so on and so forth I'm number of people sometimes Have conversations around things that like family struggling with children are struggling with right Someone's caught up in drugs and so on and so forth But you dig a little bit deeper and it's like the food that someone grew up in grew up on was primarily haram Right and the income might have been primarily haram And so now naturally the action someone will be inclined to do will be generally haram It doesn't always have to be the case But it is we're talking here about things that happen based on hadith of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam So it could be the case and so that's why the income should be permissible The source and then the source of the food should be permissible and someone should generally speaking Try to make sure that we go a little bit out of our way. We live hamdallah in the bay area in oakland It's not difficult. There's halal shops everywhere to get food But if someone doesn't live in that type of area goes out of the way to make sure to try to be Eating with with halal food as it comes the narration that the the heart of the one who eats halal for 40 days becomes illuminated And wisdom begins to flow from their tongue Right and Allah honors this person with the type of renunciation of the world, right? This person is not obsessed with dunya Allah gives them an honor By by cleaning their heart with this so again the purity of the heart starts to take place But the one who eats suspect and prohibited things you don't verify someone's not sure This starts to affect somebody and the more Careful someone gets the more they're going to be like, okay. I'm at a place But like 95 of the food here is pork Maybe they have one fish option But like if they're cooking all the fish with all the pork you probably want to stay away from that Maybe go to the other fish spot, right? So then someone starts to get a more careful now I don't want my my food because it's going to come in my stomach And it's going to power the deeds that I do to touch all these other things that are not considered permissible Right, but again, it takes Step by it's it's important to come to do so step by step And so if somebody is trying to go on this path, they're not eating from halal right now They want to do it the ideal situation would be that someone says, okay, I'm gonna I'm currently not doing so I'm going to try for 10 percent of my meals to eat halal and then you increase it to Half of my meals a week and then three quarters of my meals for the week and then all the meals So that we can see how it goes for a portion of of weeks and portion of days You'll find very little cost difference, but you will see a major baraka impact in your life Right and so that would be the step that that somebody Or the process that someone takes and if they Are still struggling with it seek seek Allah's assistance and know that following the sunnah in this case will have immense immense immense assistance But and I again highly highly just recommend that we all we all try this out So for the sake of time inshallah, we'll we'll wrap up here. We didn't get to the final section We'll we'll get to the final two Sunnahs in the next section. So just to just to wrap up we covered the sunnahs of sleep so someone Wanted to see if anybody can recap what those are And then we'll the sunnahs of eating and then we'll take two questions and then we'll add anybody remember the sunnahs of sleeping and I can't see all the way but Yes Yep, and then in your heart you Right. Yep Very good Yes so Sorry, it's loud Because the heater you said produced unethically Hmm, right, right Right, okay. That's a good question. So the so the question was uh with regards to food that What exactly do we do with regards to unethical food, right? So like if something is produced unethically that could be right now There's a lot of the meat industry has a lot of unethical practices part of the produce industry has unethical practices There could be Problematic labor practices and so on and so forth. So Allah mentioned in the Quran that eat halal and tayyib food Halal is the slaughtering and tayyib is a purity of the food Tayyib in this case would apply to ethically sourced fair trade Uh, properly what's what's uh, grass fed Like all of those types of things that we're seeing in our time that would fall under this idea of tayyib food Right now somebody now, this is where it kind of depends on how much someone wants to look into it Ideally somebody gets to the point where they're like, I really want all the food to eat that I eat is really really pure And so they'll pay more to get Really local pure food that they know the supply chain was done properly Same thing with their clothing, right? They won't usually get clothing that's made in sweatshops They'll go and they'll get like fair trade clothing certified clothing Maybe even get stuff tailored like people will find these avenues But that that depends if someone can financially look into it and make that happen at a minimum It's halal ideally it's halal and tayyib as Allah does pair the two often in the Quran and now that Would mean that a lot of the meat industry and produce industry and so on and so forth Somebody would ideally inspect into it and say okay. Is this locally produced or is this naturally? Is this a national international production? How are these animals raised in industrial farms? Are they raised in Free range type farms and someone would look into it and then they would choose the better Option that they have that would be the ideal If that makes sense. So it is it is a concept that we have and it's actually a very very important concept That there's a quite a few Good talks given by imam imam daud daud yasin at zaytuna and she comes a use of at zaytuna They've both given good talks about this idea of halal and tayyib food And kind of what does it mean in the context that we live in? Yeah Anybody have actually will finish off the review and then we'll end with questions So the so there's some as of sleeping again sleeping on the right side Making a Intention and or seek asking a lot for forgiveness forgiving everybody who might have harmed you right or you might hold a grudge against Residing the three full full Full of allahat full out of the fallak full out of the nas three times Blowing them on their hands wiping them over the whole body residing idle kursi residing the dua that we mentioned before sleeping Um, and I mentioned already sleeping on your right side, right and then the three subhanallah 33 times subhanallah. Alhamdulillah. Allahu Akbar 34 times Those would be all of this can be done in two three minutes And inshallah then someone goes to sleep and someone will sleep very Calmly and happily inshallah So those are the so there's a sleeping and then we mentioned as soon as of eating which we'll just quickly review Start the food with a dua Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim and then the other dua we mentioned To have a strong intention with the food that somebody is eating with the intention of worshiping Allah And the intention the food gives them energy to worship Allah And someone ends by saying alhamdulillah and doing the dua that we mentioned while ending um And then someone eats from pure sources of food and the income should be pure and ideally ethically sourced as well again These are steps that somebody gradually tries to take and if someone does all of this in relation to these two activities We'll see a lot of newer in your life a lot of light in your life and a lot of barakah in your life And if somebody doesn't then the it's always available if someone when someone's ready to go ahead and access it inshallah Yes The amount of corruption That is spread that if these people have at least standards back then for their own life We should really look at how Not available The situation will come You know now you have to really think that we have to look at other sources to axilize forgiveness We're engaging in some of these type of things because the people are sophisticated life You may you may go to Trader Joe's you may go to all foods You may go to sprouts and at least the idea Is that you're seeking something you know tiny but the reality of it is that With all the bureaucracy and the processes of how things are gathered how they're done You know, you still may run into a crisis, you know, and so you just have to kind of really Turn it up as best we can Of what and then look at our own Fool sources, you know, and even like earlier you mentioned It's like the concept of eating A lot, you know, this is not from the Islamic tradition You know similar I don't need to say that the person has more than two items on the plate Then they they've already entered their knobs into the situation You know, so I mean, you know, these are just things these stories are just designed to give us something to look at To gauge outside of the western project like outside of the normities of what we see in western society Give us a more noble and honorable Being the shooter board Right, right. I'm the Zakhler. I know for those for those that were uh, that couldn't hear I was very very insightful Zakhler for mentioning that at the time especially throughout throughout history and throughout Muslim history Food has been a very very important aspect and central to Islamic spirituality like absolutely central And there was a heavy emphasis on producing your own food if possible On making sure the source of the food is pure and so on and so forth And so in our time We have to be really really we have to find ways to try to go back to that if possible And if not at least be open to questioning kind of some of the the corporate Um slogans that were fed often that we might think hey, something is pure and so on and so forth But that's not actually the case and ideally at least know that it's worth doing deeper due diligence Rather than just kind of accepting it at that base value Zakhler for mentioning that So I know we're coming late. Is anybody have any other questions? Yes question I can't I can't hear you at all. I'm so sorry the heater is on Would would what would be considered food waste? No, no, that's a great idea. Yeah, that's a good. That's a good thing Yeah, so someone asks would composting or feeding animals until I'm being considered food waste. No, no, no, yeah, that would be Um, if someone has like a lot of fresh food available And you can't finish it and nobody in your family wants to eat it for sure if you did the animals Don't just throw it away and then if if there's no animals around and somebody would Um, somebody would would compost it. Yeah, that would be that would be ideal Um, yeah, I feed my cat many a left over. I know that he enjoys it a lot Any other any questions on sister side? question Any other questions? Okay comment. Go ahead I appreciate what The comments that we're making. I was gonna add on that when he was talking about Um, if we're not supposed to eat too much uh, you know We should probably share that. Um, it's good not to like fully satiate yourself, but to try to stop short that purposefully stop short of fully satiating yourself because That's how the preference is supposed to have part air and part food, you know, and part like liquid So a lot as soon as not to eat too much not to fully satiate yourself to try to cut back And leave yourself a little on the hungry side, you know, so to fight down your nerves So if you love the property and the sooner you're not gonna just overeat and fully stop yourself Stop short just eat some not too much. Right. Right. Exactly. Okay, and then bear up in the bottom There's the most purpose in the bottom of the plate. So Where I heard that the property to finally the bottom of this plate Because there's supposed to be the most therapy in that in the bottom Yeah right, so So, uh What was mentioned was that it's important with regards to eating to also Be careful how much somebody eats, right? I think we're mentioning this that the muslim is not somebody who's overly concerned about That amount of food that they're eating and try to limit and stop short of being full And ideally someone only eats as minimum that they need but in our time I remember I asked one of my teachers about this um A while ago that you know, it's mentioned in the books Especially the books of spirituality that like literally they would barely eat right just just enough to get by and he said in our time I'm stopping three or four short Is going to help you get to what they were able to do because of just how much Abundance and snacking and so on and so forth is available inshallah. That's something to keep in mind Um And and and to try to also clean the plate fully if someone is able to take their fingers and lick the plate If someone is able to to literally lick the bowl itself It's from the sun now the property some and the sahaba to make sure every single portion of the food Is wiped up and it's clean inshallah. So um for the sake of time to the vote. We'll go ahead and end. Um, it's getting it's getting quite late Um, it's okay with the contributions. Anybody have any final questions? Okay, we'll go ahead and end with the Forgive us. Yeah, forgive us for our sins. Forgive us for anything It is that we have done or anything that we have said or anything that we have thought yeah Allah that you do not find pleasing Ya Allah allow us to follow the sunnah of the prophet sallam in every way ya Allah every action and every action of our life Ya Allah allow it to know of the prophet sallam Ya Allah to be part of our life Ya Allah the new of the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam to be part of our life Ya Allah hamarahimin ya Allah and we Asked that all those who are sick and struggling and going through difficulty that you remove their difficulty and that you remove their Sickness and that you give them a complete cure Then anybody who has any issue or worry or anxiety or problem that you cure it that you remove it and that you fix our problems Ya Allah hamarahimin We ask you for everything good to the purpose of song ask for me ask you for protection from everything evil that you have protection from was all Allah was all about