 تشرف بل اشتغالي بالعلم ولا تبغي به ما عشت يا دا دا دا لا وياله من شراف عظيم وكن ذاكرا لله في كل حالة فليس لذكر الله وقت مقيّد cobra audiences is you the author says and what does و لا تبقى من هؤلاء هؤلاء لأنه كما يتحدث عن صحيح مصلي من حديثة عائشة ربي الله تعالى عنها أنها قال كان النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم يذكر الله على كل أحيانه أن المسجد كان يتذكر الله في كل حاله فهي كان يذكر الله في حال القيام when he was standing كان يذكر الله في حال القعود when he was sitting عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم when he was lying في حال الضجاع و في حال الدهاب and the times that he would leave every time he would remember Allah and he was صلى الله عليه وسلم the most from the creations of Allah those who remembered him the author goes on to saying the remembrance of Allah doesn't have a restricted time there is not a time where you designate the remembrance of Allah Allah is remembered and is exalted every time and every place whether that time may be from the night or whether that time may be from the day but there are some adhkar which we can say are restricted at a particular time such as adhkaru adbar salawat the adhkar that are done in the morning and those which are done in the evening and the adhkar that is done after the prayer and the likes of these adhkar are known as المقيدة because they are restricted to what it is restricted to either a particular time or a particular situation or a particular reason but there are adhkar which are and that is the one that the author is speaking about that doesn't mean because those adhkar are restricted at a particular time that adhkar remember Allah except those times that isn't the case now the author is going to go into speaking about the virtues of remembrance of Allah the virtues that it has فذكر إله العرش سيرا ومعلنة يزيل الشقا والهم عنك ويتردو ذكر of the lord of the throne inwardly and outwardly reads you of misery and distress and repose them the author says فذكر إله العرش سيرا remembering Allah the lord of the throne سيرا means ومعلنة means on your tongue so a person remembers Allah without having utterance coming from their tongue the person says it loud this wow here is either of them both of them this is the first benefit that the author mentions to us يزيل الشقا is the first benefit that the dhikr has he gives us from the benefits that it has remembering Allah واتعالى and that means it removes distress and the opposite of الشقا is what السعادة happiness depression what removes it is the remembrance of Allah سبحانه وتعالى so if it removes if it removes distress and depression what will take the place then حلة السعادة happiness then will occur and the person will feel in their heart هناء في عيشه in his life he feels tranquility and at ease and he finds the comfort in his eyes and now what I want you to all realize is that happiness does not mean that you're not going through a hard time this is one thing you truly have to understand happiness is an action or it's a favor Allah places in a person's heart even that the person is suffering and is enduring a lot of pain and calamities externally it does not in any way form or shape affect a person's heart have you not seen many people who are living a very hard life and don't have any means of income and have seen atrocities around them مع ذلك the smile that they are able to give billionaires may not be able to and millionaires may not be able to give it are you with me brothers it brings happiness to the heart and the author also says وَلْهَمَّ عَنْكَ وَيَطْرُدُوا and it removes from you pain again, hem is also distress as Allah told us in the Quran أَلَابِ بِكْرِ اللَّهِ تَطْمَ إِنُوا الْقُلُوبِ for verily in the remembrance of Allah does the heart find tranquility صورة الرعاد ayah 28 so the heart will not find tranquility except through the remembrance of Allah سبحانه و تعالى so far what we've learned is that the remembrance of Allah is what gives tranquility to our hearts it gets rid of distress depression agony anxiety you don't need to take pills you don't need prescription from doctors you don't need to go to a consultant this is already prescribed for you 1400 something years ago is the fact that you have left the remembrance of Allah and your heart has become empty and your heart has become distant from the remembrance of Allah and all your heart is yearning for its creator just like when your body loses protein it affects your body if you're not taking enough protein you lose energy you need glucose in order to make the body function these are minerals that the body needs the heart also needs a ذكر the remembrance of Allah and when it doesn't gain it and it doesn't get its amount that is required your heart will start to become hollow empty and then you'll start to feel suicidal depression anxiety distress a lot of people my beloved brothers and sisters what they try to do is they try the ذكر for a week or two they don't see no results for example as they may say and they stop straight away they stop straight away إبن القيام said something very powerful a year or two you weren't remembering Allah and by what you said you weren't remembering Allah and by one week or two weeks or a month you want your heart to feel full it's like a utensil or a bottle or a a gallon of you're placing water in there but the water that you're placing is drops of water you've done it for an hour this thing is empty and it has been empty for a very long time the size of it is big إبن القيام is comparing is the timing that you were distanced from the ذكر which is equal to this big big gallon that when you pour a cup of water in there it won't get full the same is with the heart who's not been remembering Allah for a very long time you need to be remembering him for a lot of times in order for it to then show on your limbs and your heart to finally feel if I for example my car breaks down due to lack of petrol and I go and I put one pound in there and I go to the car and I pour the one pound in there and I look at the car and I say take it and the car still doesn't move and I keep saying but I put money in there the one pound will not really do anything for you صح it's depending on the car but it won't do it for you صح but that one pound will do something for somebody whose car's engine is small right the same is with the person whose heart was always remembering Allah but they became heedless for a very short time if they come back they're going to what they're easily going to إن شاء الله تعالى this depression and anxiety will go but if you're remembrance of Allah is very little for very short for a very long period of time you didn't do it when you do come back you need to be doing it for a very long time الله says in the Qur'an أَنَمْ يَأْنِنِ الَّذِينَ آمَلُ أنْ تَقْشَعَ قُلُوبُهُمْ لِدِكْرِ اللَّهِ وَمَا نَزَّلَ مِنَا الْحَقْ وَلَا يَكُونُو كَالْ لَذِينَ أُوْتُ الْكِتَابَ مِنْ قَبْلُوا فَطَالَا عَلِيْهِمُ الْأَمَدِ ما بأنا فطالا عليه مُلأمَد The time was very long فَقَسَة قُلُوبُهُمْ So this person's heart became قَسْوَةُ الْقَلْبَ حَبَنْ And to get out of a قَسْوَةُ الْقَلْبِ you need to really be doing it for a very long time in order for your heart to come back to your life So a month or two is not enough for you and that is why it's important That is why ابن القييم says it's important So giving up straight away and saying to yourself that I have been doing dhikr and I'm still depressed and I've tried everything which you've prescribed to me will say when a person is in a coma it's not like a person who's got a headache your situation is critical when a person heart stops working what do they do they take what what's that which their doctor's using how they resuscitate the person they place those we say a manifestation is when they push the person down and somewhere what's that what's that different yeah which they use to bring bring that back to the person and then they put a mask on the person and then the person is dealt with seriously that's what many people situation is like but what they want to do is they want to use a paracetamol or they want to use a simple medication in order to no, you need dhikr يجب أن تذهب معها و يجب أن تأخذ أن تدعوها و تعالى الوقت لا تقوم بعملها و يجب أن تقوم بعملها و يجب أن تقوم بعملها سأعطي مثل أخي و أخي و I'm married أخي أخي و أخي أخي أخي أخي I'm going to change و بعد سنة أخي I'm going to stop my bad habits I'm going to become a different person I'm going to try and shout out to Allah and stop those things that you've complained about I'm going to change that after a week if she goes back to how she used to be will that person ever think to themselves she's done it for a week so it's changed his perspective or is he going to still see her as that period of time or is he still going to see her as having this bad characteristics question So a sister and a wife and a husband are married and what the wife does is that they both complain to each other so the husband writes down all his cons and the wife also writes all the cons that are against her so everybody promises that they're going to change let's say for instance the sister says I'm going to change my bad characteristics so she does it for a week after a week she comes back to how she was let's say after a week she comes to her husband and she says I changed I'm changing look at me I'm changing and she mentions that all the time is that a good thing is that a good thing that she keeps bringing it up I'm changing no it's not that's the characteristics of many Muslims who say I'm doing dhikr but nothing's changing I'm doing dhikr but nothing's changing it's not a good thing if you're doing dhikr keep doing it there's no need for you to mention it because this is something good that you're doing regardless of if your depression goes or not it's something you need to do because it's something you should do so you with me so if the husband and the wife if the wife keeps saying I'm changing I'm going to change and I'm going to change are you with me it's not a good trait and it's not a good character it's something that she should adopt and she do it regardless of what the circumstances are the same applies with the husband himself those cons that are mentioned about him are things that he needs to adopt and do regardless of what the situation is so this is the many Muslims problems that you find they do something and after a week or so they say I've tried it and it never worked the reason you did it is because you just wanted to get a result you're a bit it's the problem even that wife what she did it for is that she wanted just in a week for her husband to forget everything for the years that she was doing the mistakes she wants him to forget everything in one week and does that make sense and for his preconceived notion to eradicate which isn't the case if you've been lying for the last 4 years and you said I'm going to stop lying and after a week you stopped lying just for a week you want him to totally think that you're not a liar anymore is that going to happen you probably need the same amount of 4 years to change the perspective for him to forget what was there before are you with me and that's how the reality of this everything is but what we have is this very stingy way of looking at things we want to do something and we want to see the results straight away I did this where is the result to it so I changed for a week that week I changed that week I changed where does it go but you're not changing because you need to change regardless of what the person thinks of you or the perceptions of others and that's the same with the ذكر of الله and his remembrance am I making matters clear the remembrance of الله is the same you don't complain and say oh I've tried it and it didn't work and if it didn't you always want to see results for what you do why do you okay pay attention to this let's just say you did do ذكر but you got other things for it not what you were looking for why does Allah have to give you exactly what you want what about if He gave you other things what about if you were a woman and you didn't know this you're a woman who would not have had children and by starting ذكر and then you got married الله طبارك وتعالى uplifted that for you but you never knew that because you weren't married before you never have known that you're a woman who couldn't have children these are things that you also have to keep in mind and understand now وين يأتيك الواسوى سو يوما يشردو يتفعل كل شيء في هذا العالم ويجب أن يجد و should the whisper come to you at any time it fends him off الآثر now goes into this line of poetry he mentions two extra benefits ذكرهز two more two more benefits the first one is ويجلبوا للخيارات دنيا واجلا that the remembrance of Allah brings to you ويجلبوا means what it brings about it brings forward it makes you gain and achieve الخيارات good and barakat blessings while you're in this world دنيا such as what صحة البدا you're physically Allah makes your body healthy وقوة في جسمه وصفاء في عقلي الله طبارك وتعالى it gives you a healthy brain you can think with الله also gives you a good risk سبحانه وتعالى all of those are benefits of this dunya it brings that for you the one who remembers Allah he gains خيار in this dunya بركات in this dunya صحة then which is still the واجلا في دار الآخرة also in hereafter it brings about good for the hereafter الله reward you for remembering him it also repelled from you we're still on the first one it also repelled from you the opposite of both of them if it brings about good then it also repels evil from you in this dunya and if it also brings you good in the hereafter it repels evil from you in the hereafter the second one the author mentions in the second شطر of the line is وإي يأتيك الواسواء سو يوم ويو شريدو if the whisperer the one who wants to whisper to you and bring whispers to you which is who الشيطان remember صلى الله عليه وتعالى is what to him طاردن it is one that tells him pushes him away from you as a slave of Allah and if you are heedless of Allah's remembrance and you're a person who really remembers of Allah remembers Allah then what does it open for you what is it open for you it opens for الشيطان to have a path to misguiding you and whispering to you are you with me brothers you all know the famous ayah in the Quran نقيد له الشيطان فهو له خرين the person who forgets the remembrance of Allah is heedless of the remembrance of Allah Allah tells us ومن يعشو عن ذكر الرحمن نقيد له الشيطان فهو له خرين الشيطان then becomes your closest friend and will الشيطان bring about good for you no not at all ولدار كبن عباس رضي الله تعالى عنه he said الشيطان جاثيم على قلب ابن آدم الشيطان is one that sniffs the people's hearts it's one that observes the people's hearts and looks at it if the person becomes heedless and he senses from there that the person is heedless and he's not on his toes وَسْوَسْ say places وَسْوَسْ فإذا ذكر الله but when the person remembers Allah خَنَسَ he turns away running away ابن القي mentions in his كتاب الوابل وصيب so the devil who is your enemy will be far from you by remembering Allah ولداركا there's a famous hadith a very famous hadith and Imam would tell me denerated this hadith in his sonan that is ذكرية said to his people نبي الله ذكرية said to his people إن الله أمراني بخمسي كريمات Allah commanded me five things أن أعمل بهنة for me to implement five things first I have to implement them first before I preach it to anybody I myself ذكرية I myself have to implement it so the person has to first of all implement what they know first of all الله make us those who implement what we know forgive us for what we don't implement that we preach to others وأمركم أن تعملوا بهنة and I was also commanded and I was told by Allah to command you guys to implement it as well and as ذكرية mentioned so many things from them which was what وأمركم I command you أن تذكروا الله to remember Allah pay attention to this now he tells them straight away the benefits that they go to gain if they remember Allah he says فإنما مثل ذلك فإنما sorry فإنما مثل ذلك فإنما مثل ذلك the example and the parable of this is كمثال رجل خارج العدو في أثره سريعا حتى إذا أتع على حصن حصين it's like a person who the enemies are on his toe أمره they are on his they're on his hill they're so close to him he's running away they're on his hill they're just about to catch him and then he throws himself into a big strong fortress فأحرز نفسه منهم and he locks himself in كذلك العدو just like that is the slave لا يحرز نفسه من الشيطان إلا بذكر الله that a slave cannot protect himself from الشيطان except with the remember of Allah so that's why the author of the book سعيد من وحف القحطان he called his book حسنو المسلم he got it from this hadith which is the fortress of a Muslim fortress from what protects himself from what الشيطان so this book is a fortress you're protecting yourself from who الشيطان نعم فقد أخبر المختار يوما لصحبه بأن كثيرا الذكر في السبق مفرده فأخبره يوما أخبره يوما أن أخبره في ذكر يوما أخبره نفسه أخبره أخبره فأعيدة من فوائد ذكر أخبره من أخبره أو تذكره سبحانه وتعالى صباحا أسلماء أخبره أن أعط Мне أجوض أسلماء يوما أن يوما أن يوما يوما أخبرتها أن أخبره ان يوما يوما ان يوما أخبره أخبره بأن من فضلك يوما يوما سبحانه وتعالى أخبره أخبره قالوا the companions they said وما المفردونة who are the مفردونة يا رسول الله or the messenger of Allah and the messenger responded by saying الذاكرون الله كتيرا والذاكرات the مفردونة the ones who remember Allah from the male and the female so the اوثى here is saying فقد اخبر المختار يوم اللي صحبي that the chosen one meaning the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he informed his companions يوم and one day he said to them بان كثيرا ذكري that the one who remembers Allah the most في السبق مفردو is the ones who remember Allah most have surpassed من كلما else so the شيخ رحمه الله is referring to that باتكل حديث they pass everybody else and they gained that.. they are going through one station after another station لن يملكك جبا يقوموا بجميعهم ولكن كما يقوم سمجعل اثناء ورغموا من أحد مستشفى من أحد مستشفى من أحد مستشفى من أحد مستشفى in jannah و لذلك أعوى مسنجه عليه الصلاة والسلام he told us words that are very light on the tongue we don't want to come to see that soon insha'Allah very light on the tongue كلمة تاني خفيفة تاني في اللساني ثقيلة تاني في الميزاني حبيبتاني إلى الراحماني سبحان الله وبحمده سبحان الله العظيم أو كما قال عليه الصلاة والسلام سين سبحان الله وبحمده سبحان الله العظيم سبحان الله العظيم is very light on the tongue heavy on the scale and very beloved to Allah it's very light on your tongue you could just be sitting there and saying it all day not only that not only that you can be sitting with somebody and whilst you're saying it you're moving from one stage in jannah to another level in jannah and you're passing that person you're not going anywhere you're physically not doing anything you're just sitting there and saying it that's how powerful it is سبق المفردون the مفرد is the one who remembers Allah سبحانه وتعالى male or female ولي ذلك السمضة ومشايخ especially one of the مشايخ I met in Subaliashik Ahmed دكتور Ahmed Imam حفظه الله لن أرى الله لن أرى anyone who remembers Allah as much as I saw him too from the normal characteristics of his and his norms is that he covers his mouth he places his شماغ that he wears over his mouth and he covers it you rarely see his mouth rarely you see his mouth and what he does is that when he's picking up a book when he's walking to the masjid when he's going down the staircase when he's going up the staircase when he's between conversations even while he's listening to he's doing his dhikr and he responds and he goes back to his dhikr and this is something we've see very naam we see very lightly we see very very lightly may Allah make us those who are consistent in the remembrance of who الله سبحانه وتعالى نعم