 السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله والصلات والسلام على رسول الله وعلى آله واصحابه أجمعين والتبع is indeed due to Allah سبحانه وتعالى بلسنين وصفاتين على محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم we ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to bless him, his family, his companions to bless everyone of us to grant us goodness and to accept all the supplications we will be making we are making during this month of Ramadan and beyond امين ساسر my brothers, sisters Yesterday we were speaking about سورة الفاتحة and I explained how important it is I will be continuing with the Surah but I need to recap for those who might have missed it Firstly, we will all call out to Allah We all have needs that Allah has placed We all have things that we want We must call out to Allah We must understand that Allah alone is the one we seek help from So, how do we call out to Allah نحن نحن نجد تسجيلة. لكل من يجب أن نتعلم ، those we know those we don't know. نحن نكتب المجموعة من الله سبحانه وتعالى. نكتب المساعدة المساعدة. نرى بلاسنة ومساعدة على محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم. وإذا كنتنا ، سيكون أفضل لدينا أجل دي ، فقط قبل أن نخبر الله سبحانه وتعالى. فالما أنت تجدت شرطة ، والما أنت تكون جيد في بعض المجموعة ، أنت تجدت بعض المجموعة ، أو حتى أنت تجدت من بعض المجموعة ، أن المجموعة تعتقد أو تكتب المجموعة. ثم ، بعد تكتب المساعدة من الله ، ونرى بلاسنة ومساعدة على محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم ، نحن now call out to Allah سبحانه وتعالى. وعندما نخبرنا بخبر الله ، في ذلك الدعاة ، لا يجب أن نكون لدينا أجل دي ، لذلك لا تسأل الله أن نساعد أجل دي لك ، وإذا أنه يجب أن تساعد أجل دي ، بين الناس ، أنفسك ، ومن المجموعة أن تكون لدينا أجل دي ، فهو يجب أن تساعد الله أن تساعد المساعدات ، المساعدات ، وعندما يجب أن تكون لديك أجل دي ، لا يجب أن تساعد الله أن تساعدهم ، ولكن يجب أن تقول ، أساعد الله أن تساعدنا أن تساعد المساعدات ، يجب أن تفتحهم ، يجب أن تفتحهم ، هؤلاء أجل دعاة. قطيعة رحم is a term used in the Hadith of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم referring to the breaking of family ties. لن يجب أن نفعل دعاة where we are asking for the breaking of family ties. That's something that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم has mentioned. It's a very powerful point. Many people forget about it because when we call out to Allah a lot of the times people just say Oh Allah, break that one, destroy this one. I don't want to see this one, etc. Let's not do that. You say Oh Allah, guide them, soften them and keep on making the dua and repeat it and keep on repeating the dua because that is definitely part and parcel of the plan of Allah سبحانه وتعالى. Repetition of a dua is very, very important. Repeated in the morning in the afternoon in the season of the season. When I say in the season I mean during the blessed days, the blessed nights and even outside of it. Don't wait and don't delay. Keep repeating it. Let's get to Surat Al-Fatiha. The Hadith in Sahih Muslim tells us that Allah سبحانه وتعالى responds at every verse of Surat Al-Fatiha and he has said I've divided the Surah into two. There are seven verses in the Surah. The first three belong to Allah. The other three belong to the human being, belong to the worshipper and the middle one is divided exactly half. So half for Allah and half for the worshipper. How? When we say الحمد لله رب العالمين all praise is due to Allah سبحانه وتعالى. Allah says my worshipper has declared my praise. When we say الرحمن الرحيم the most forgiving or the most beneficent the most merciful Allah سبحانه وتعالى says أثنى علي عبد which means my worshipper has declared my praise in a different way. I declared my praise. When we say مالكي يوم الدين which means owner of the day of judgment Allah سبحانه وتعالى says مجدني عبد my worshipper has declared my majesty my greatness and for my worshipper is whatever he wants and Allah keeps on saying for my worshipper is whatever he asks for. Right at the beginning according to one of the narrations Allah says I have divided صورة الفاتحة between myself and my worshipper into two and for my worshipper is whatever he wants. When the first verse is read again according to one of the narrations he says and for my worshipper is whatever he wants. When we say إِيَا كَنَ عَبُدُ وَإِيَا كَنَ استَعِينَ You alone we worship You alone we seek help from. Allah says this is between myself and my worshipper and for my worshipper is whatever he is going to ask me whatever he asks me. Imagine Allah سبحانه وتعالى is saying this is between myself and my worshipper which means him and I or him and you and for you is whatever you are going to ask for. What's the first thing you're going to ask for? The most powerful thing that you and I can ever ask for and Allah has instructed us to keep repeating this in every unit of prayer. It was enough for us to ask for it once and he tells us fine I've given it to you but in order to keep reminding us to say this is something you desperately need and you need to work towards it. I will give it to you but work hard to achieve it as well. That is إِهْدِنَ الصَّرَاطَ المُستَقِيمَ Guide us to the straight path. Wow. سبحان الله. قايدان is the most important دعاء and prayer supplication you could ever make. That's why we are forced we have to repeat that دعاء. Your Salah your prayer that is compulsory upon you five times a day it will not be accepted unless you have read سورة الفاتحة in it. Unless you have called out to Allah for guidance. Guide us to the straight path. Oh Allah. Guide us to the straight path. My brothers and sisters let's keep on asking Allah for guidance. And it's not good enough to ask Allah for something and you're heading in a different direction. Imagine you say to someone please take me to Canada. And suddenly you find yourself catching a flight to go to Australia. I mean where are you going? What did you ask for? When you had the chance you were not serious about what you were asking. You were not desperately asking for something and seeking for it. You were actually somewhere else asking for one thing and doing another. So when you ask for guidance be serious. You're reminded about this question that you're asking Allah or the supplication. You're reminded about it by its repetition. Every single prayer it's being repeated. This is Allah. سبحانه وتعالى اهدن الصراط المستقين. Guide us to the straight path. You see how the first three and a half verses Allah. And then يا كنستعين which means you alone we seek help from and here we are asking you for guidance. This is now all the other three and a half verses connected to the worshipper and what he wants we're going to give him. It's just one dua. One supplication. Guide us to the straight path. The rest of the verses are connected. The other two verses are connected to a description of what this particular supplication has in it. Guide us to the straight path. So what is the straight path? Like how when Allah says الحمد لله رب العالمين all praise is due to Allah Lord of the worlds. One might say who is the Lord of the worlds? So الرحمن الرحيم is a description of who the Lord of the worlds is. مالك يوم الدين is a description of who the Lord of the worlds is. So in the same way that part of the Surah was divided in order to describe Allah. This part is divided in order to describe what you're asking for. I want to be guided to the straight path. So what is the straight path? The path of those whom you have favoured. Subhanallah Amazing. Amazing. Amazing. سورات الذين أنعمت عليهم. The path of those whom you have favoured. You have bestowed your favour upon. غير المغضوب عليهم. Not those whom you are angry with. ولا الضالين. Not those whom who have lost the path. So Oh Allah, guide us to that path of those whom you had favoured. Not the ones you became angry with. Not the ones who lost the way. And then we all say أعمين. May Allah grant us the beauty of this and may Allah open our doors in a way that we actually appreciate. That for Allah to make us repeat a dua constantly it has to be the most important dua in existence. Because if you have guidance you have everything guide us to the straight path. You ask Allah for guidance in every aspect of yours. And this is when the Almighty would actually be pleased with us when we have called out to him. And we are trying to work also in the same direction. I want to move on in this beautiful series of supplications from Revelation. I move on to the supplications of the prophets of Allah سبحانه و تعالى. And I start off with this or it's the second thing. The first was سورة الفاتحة. I felt it was the most important. A lot of the scholars who've spoken about supplications from Revelation have started off with سورة الفاتحة and it's correct because Allah started the whole Quran with سورة الفاتحة. It was revealed more than once to Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and it happens to be in the order of the Quran right at the beginning it's known as the opening. In سورة الفاتحة there are such powerful powerful words of supplication. In fact, if you're asking Allah to guide you to the straight path that is guidance. The first of it is guidance towards Allah guidance towards that which is correct. Guidance towards that which is upright. Guidance towards that which is beneficial. Guidance towards that which is going to be filled with contentment and happiness. So سورة الفاتحة in it. There are so many beautiful beautiful aspects that we would be achieving just by calling out to Allah. And when we get to the prophets of Allah remember I gave you the example in the first episode of this series where I said when you have a combination lock and someone's given you the numbers or told you look this number will work that number will work and you are busy trying all other numbers perhaps you might stumble across a number that may work in one of the locks or on one of the locks but if you're already told certain numbers rather use those numbers the chances of you getting through are far greater than if you were to start afresh and say words that have not yet been tested but still we are allowed to obviously call out to Allah in fact I want to give you good news. The good news is that Allah knows what you want to call out with or what you want to ask Him even if you haven't said it and even if you are unable to communicate it in the proper way Allah knows it because Allah knows what's in the hearts but He wants your tongue to bear witness He wants you to try He wants you to say something He wants you to engage in an act of worship known as the utterance the saying so that is why it's important to also try your best to say when a child wants something you know what the child wants but you want the child to say things sometimes so it's so cute isn't it and you say oh Allah imagine you're a big man you're a person who has a lot authority power wealth and you're calling out to Allah that's the height of goodness in terms of bestowment by Allah سبحانه وتعالى upon you it's amazing so my brothers and sisters the more you have in terms of the more humble you're actually closer to Allah because you have shown that whatever I have is not going to actually help me if it is not for the mercy of Allah so we call out to Allah سبحانه وتعالى always and this is why we look at the prophets of Allah they were chosen by Allah they were told that you are chosen but they still called out to Allah they cried to Allah you sit and look at the prophet peace upon him calling out to Allah he's the best of creation the most noble of prophets the highest of all totally amazing position granted to him by Allah سبحانه وتعالى that no one else was granted shall be granted and here he is calling out to Allah those words need to be studied by every one of us that's why we have an entire series for the whole month of Ramadan it's a month of dua it's not just the month of the Quran it's not just the month of giving it's also the month of supplication so when we speak about supplication from revelation in the month of Ramadan we have in it a lot revelation is from Allah the month of Ramadan supplication is for Allah the month of Ramadan and it's obviously for our benefit we calling out to Allah when we bring the two together we have a study of the dua that we should be engaging in in this month from the revelation that was also revealed in this month and it is the month of the study of the revelation so these are the prophets of Allah and I want to start off with the dua made by Adam عليه السلام the first of our species Allah created him Allah made him Allah told him I have raised you in rank above the others subhan Allah some became jealous you know Iblis became jealous what did Allah do Allah favors Adam عليه السلام by telling him here in this paradise and what was the paradise there are different narrations they say it was not the same paradise that we will be going back to at the end but it was a part of the paradise a special part of the paradise that was made in order for the fulfillment of what Allah wanted to achieve so some call it جنة الابتلاع which means it was the gardens you know جنة means a garden so it was the gardens of Eden those which الله سبحانه وتعالى had created in order for the testing of Adam special place but it was considered جنة so this is just an opinion there is another opinion saying no it was one and the same thing all these are opinions but it's interesting to mention them just to know however in essence we firmly believe that Allah created Adam he was in jannah you know we don't need to get into the debate about the way of the jannah and how and what but if you would like to know the opinions it's interesting and Allah told him one thing don't eat from this tree in fact لا تقرب هذه الشجرة you and your spouse don't come close to the tree so I remember someone asking me did Allah instruct him not to eat the fruit or not to go close to the tree and I said Allah instructed him both instructions it's like زينة adultery Allah says لا تقربوا زينة don't even get close to adultery why does Allah don't get close to adultery because it means everything that leads up to it is also prohibited may Allah safeguard us may Allah protect us so there is no point in a person coming to say well Allah said don't get close to it but he didn't prohibit it that's foolish the same would apply when it comes to Adam if someone says لا تقرب هذه الشجرة means don't get close to the tree but you know who said you're not allowed to eat from the fruit if Allah says don't get close to the tree not eating from the fruit is included in that so there are a hadith where Allah speaks about the fruit in fact the fact that Allah makes mention in the Quran later on فأكل منها they ate from it already shows that the prohibition included eating from it you were not allowed to eat from it but unfortunately for a reason best known to Allah in his divine wisdom Adam ate from it he committed a sin and الله سبحانه و تعالى he had it in this huge plan to show us humankind that when we falter what we should be doing in order for that الله سبحانه و تعالى allowed Adam عليه السلام to perpetrate this sin and immediately regret it so my brothers and sisters when you and I commit a sin and we are human we will, we have, we shall remember when you regret the sin it is a sign that you believe in Allah سبحان الله whatever you've done what no matter how old you are no matter what gender you are no matter where you come from your race whatever you have done against Allah's instruction if it makes you regret you still have a lot of hope in the mercy of Allah it's a sign of iman إذا صرتك حسنتك وسائتك فأنت مؤمن the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him in one narration says when your good deed makes you happy makes you calm makes you feel good and when your bad deed makes you regret then you're a true believer it shows that you believe in Allah that's why you're regretting the sin that's why you're feeling good about the good deed you did if you didn't regret it it means you've got no one you're answerable to so Allah سبحانه و تعالى loves it when you regret your sin you committed something you drank alcohol you had a bit of a drug may Allah save God all of us whatever wrong you've done immediately thereafter you say I shouldn't have done this may Allah forgive me I shouldn't have done this so you regret it you feel remorse that's what happened to Adam then he said a few words unto Allah in one verse Allah سبحانه و تعالى says that he taught him some words and in another verse Allah says تلقى آدم من ربه كلمات فتاب عليه you see the words were taught by Allah they were repeated by Adam عليه السلام and he said these words what were these words سبحان الله these are some of the most powerful words we all need these words ربنا ظلمنا أنفسنا وإن لم تغفر لنا وترحمنا لنكوننا من الخاسرين oh Allah oh our Rab you know oh our Rab ربنا oh our Rab what is the meaning of ربه رب is the one who created you in the first place and who has absolute control of every aspect of your existence he's called ربه all your growth depends totally on him your food your sustenance your health whatever you know he nourishes cherishes provides protects and cures et cetera that's ربه so that is Allah سبحانه و تعالى ربنا oh our Rab oh our Rab sometimes if you're alone say ربه ربه meaning my Rab and ربه without the yeah also refers to my Rab because in the Arabic language you are allowed to drop that yeah when it comes to ربه ربه so here he says ربنا ظلمنا we have oppressed أنفسنا ourselves we have wronged ourselves oh Allah we are the ones who perpetrated a sin we committed a crime we did something wrong we did something we were not supposed to do that is the meaning of ظلمنا أنفسنا و ظلم تغفر لنا and if you are not going to forgive us و ترحمنا and if you are not going to have mercy on us لنكونن من الخاصرين we are the ones who will definitely be the losers you're not going to lose anything we will lose that dua is seeking forgiveness of Allah it's the proper way of asking Allah's forgiveness it was taught to Adam عليه السلام by Allah it was repeated by Adam عليه السلام Allah forgave him as a result but he was sincere there was remorse and he did not do it again do we ever get a narration that says it's not there but I'm just saying for argument's sake that Adam عليه السلام went back to the tree he said it was so tasty let me go back and have some more never never it happened once it never happened again may Allah strengthen us I want to give you good news the good news is that we as human beings sometimes go back to the same sin that we've sought forgiveness from genuinely what happens then well if you sought forgiveness genuinely and you were really asking Allah سبحانه وتعالى and you really regretted it and you really promised Allah you're not going to do it again then that tauba or that seeking of forgiveness was accepted and Allah forgave you and your sin was wiped out completely and when you committed it again and after on without having planned it at the time that you sought forgiveness previously Allah will consider that a totally separate deed it's not something connected to the previous sin even though it was a repetition that's the mercy of Allah so keep asking forgiveness again and again and again no matter how many times you end up committing that sin every time it will be considered and looked at as something totally separate from the previous one because the previous one was totally wiped out you regretted it you asked Allah's forgiveness you promised not to do it again Allah wiped the sin out and there we go what great mercy of Allah so my brothers and sisters you see the supplication that we have for today is the supplication of Adam عليه السلام and Hawwah عليه الصلاة والسلام these were our forefathers the first of our species they also faltered don't lose hope when you falter many people ask me a question you know I think I've committed so many sins I think I'm beyond repair you're not beyond repair I think I've I've done so much I'm an evil person you're not an evil person the fact that there is a a flicker of that candle within and you want to come out that's enough you need to come out you need to seek Allah's forgiveness He will wipe out no matter what you've done the most powerful dua you could have after is to seek the forgiveness of Allah Oh Allah forgive me the sins I've committed those which I know those which I don't know and those that were major those that were minor may Allah Subhanahu و تعالى forgive us all so I'd like to repeat this dua ربنا ظلمنا أنفسنا وإن لم تغفل لنا وترحمنا لنكونن من الخاسرين Oh our Lord we have wronged ourselves and if you don't forgive us and if you don't have mercy upon us we will be the ones who will definitely be the losers Subhan Allah so Allah سبحانه و تعالى says we forgave Adam عليه الصلاة و السلام as a result the consequence was he had to come on to earth but the good thing is all his offspring including you and I were taught how to seek the forgiveness of Allah Subhanahu و تعالى imagine to this day we are taught how to seek the forgiveness of Allah had it not been for that act of Adam عليه السلام we would never have known how to seek the forgiveness of Allah or perhaps there would have been someone else who would have come and this is the way of Allah Allah knows we are human and Allah wanted to forgive us like Allah says in the Quran يُرِيدُ الله أن يتوب عليكم Allah definitely wants to forgive you but it's shaitan who wants us to go astray so we definitely would like to continue calling out to Allah you know when it comes to the messengers Allah سبحانه و تعالى صورة الأنبياء says إنهم كانوا يسارعون في الخيرات they used to do a lot of good deeds و يدعوننا رغبا و رهبا and they used to call out to us hoping and being fearful insha'Allah tomorrow or in the next episode we will be getting to the meaning of this verse that I just mentioned right now at the end of this episode but in the meantime I hope you've enjoyed today I hope we take lessons from today أقول قولي هذا و صلى الله عليه وسلم و بارك على نبينا محمد و السلام عليكم