 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين ثم الصلاة والسلام على أشرف الأنبياء محمد وآله الطيبين الطاهرين اللهم صل على محمد وآله محمد أسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته نحن بخير لله سبحانه وتعالى لدينا أردت أن نتحدث about the verses of the Holy Qur'an and the narrations of Ahl al Bayt عليهم السلام نحن نتحدث عن صورة الحمد بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم أنا الحمد لله رب العالمين أنا الرحمن الرحيم مالك يا وم الدين إن شاء الله في this episode we will discuss إياك نعبد وإياك نستعين you alone do we worship and you alone do we turn for help if we look at this translation you alone do we worship and you alone do we turn for help one might argue where did we find we don't see this in the Arabic word alone I mean as the Arabic translation there is no Arabic word in it that translates into alone where do we find this when we bring إياك نعبد well within the Arabic grammar we worship you but when إياك نعبد وإياك نعبد do we worship that means the only when the word comes first within the Arabic grammar that we study in seminary that illustrates that it is that alone is there when إياك comes first that you نعبدو when Allah comes first and then نعبدو the action the فعل comes later إياك means to Allah you alone نعبدو we worship that alone comes into existence that we only worship you Allah and we only come to you for help that is as far as the Arabic grammar it's concerned and why Allah مفقول إياك came first and then نعبدو which is us فعل and فعل came after that that becomes a translation of that that you alone do we worship and you alone do we turn for help and also one of the commentators was he was stating a good point that if we say نعبدو ك نعبدو means we worship ك refers to Allah when we say نعبدو ك نعبدو first we are discussing ourselves we are mentioning ourselves first نعبدو و and then ك we worship you but قرآن it's bringing إياك first Allah comes then we come into this even to statements and within this first Allah is there you know Allah is there infinite before and before and after but within the even structure of the sentence it's first Allah سبحانه وتعالى mentally everything is Allah first and then us we can't I mean it's not nice to say first نعبدو ك why to bring even إياك no نعبدو when we say then okay we have a priority we came first and then Allah we worship you that which was I thought to be interesting for me to share with you after stating that all praise belongs to Allah سبحانه وتعالى الحمد لله رب العالم and he is the lord of the worlds رب العالمين مالك الرحمن الرحيم all magnificence all beneficent all merciful master of the day of judgment and مالك يوم الدين can we worship anything other than Allah سبحانه وتعالى intellectually logically we can't if he is the one that start everything and we start everything with him and he is the initiator he is the creator he is the generator everything starts with him and he is all beneficent all merciful also he is the master and the lord of all the worlds and then he is also the master of the day of judgment what else whom else can we worship than Allah سبحانه وتعالى it's not logical to partner someone else and worship someone else besides him and this was the message of all the prophets we see that all the prophets that came they would say we have one example of a chapter 23 verse 23 where Allah says أعبد الله مالك من إلهين غيره worship Allah you have no other God beside him when Prophet Noah came Prophet Abraham Prophet Solomon and all the other prophets that came within the verse if you just search this أعبد الله مالك من إلهين غيره you will see all the prophets that they came and they were sent by Allah سبحانه وتعالى to guide people they came and they discussed this verse and they said أعبد الله they came to bring people to worship Allah سبحانه وتعالى you have no other God God beside him so أعبد الله سبحانه وتعالى it is logical that again since we went through all of these process him only we should worship and none beside him then this is the purpose why we have been created within the Quran there are 3-4 purposes mentioned while Allah سبحانه وتعالى created us one of those reasons why Allah سبحانه وتعالى created us it is for us to worship him chapter 51 verse 56 where Allah سبحانه وتعالى states وما خلقت الجن والإنسة إلا ليعبدون I did not create the jinn and the humans except means the only reason that I created the jinn an ends ghost and human being I did not create the jinn and the humans except that they may worship me so I bother to Allah سبحانه وتعالى reason why we have been created us and the jinn which if we think of it that this is why we have been created and this is the purpose behind our creations creation by Allah سبحانه وتعالى we won't go left and right we continue spending our time every minute of our time worshiping Allah سبحانه وتعالى and Ibadah to Allah سبحانه وتعالى so Insha'Allah in this episode or the next episode we will discuss what do we mean by Ibadah do we mean we should just sit on our prayer mats all day long and all night long to just keep praying and praying and supplicating and praying Insha'Allah we will discuss that if this is by the definition of Ibadah so for us it is very important to be عبد الله to be a true person that is doing Ibadah to Allah worshiping Allah سبحانه وتعالى none by Allah سبحانه وتعالى and all of our Ibadah must be toward Allah سبحانه وتعالى nothing by name you might say شيخ of course everything that we do from our Salah from our Zakat from our Hajj and all of our Wajibat that we do we're doing it for Allah سبحانه وتعالى true but one can argue that when we are doing our Ibadah do we have our intention is our intention sincere for Allah سبحانه وتعالى خالص and مخلص sincerely for Allah سبحانه وتعالى or we have someone else in mind I'll give you an example for example we are praying in a mosque no one is there and we are reading the Salah unfortunately some people pray their Salah quickly and fast they just go through the Salah through the verses through the akkad quickly they just want to move on بسم اللحمه ورحمه ت obrigado وبرحمكم برفة اللهم but as while they're praying and they are worshipping Allah سبحانه وتعالى with their intention as soon as somebody walks in to the masjid و ربما هذا المسجد الذي يطلق في المسجد المسجد الذي يطلق في المسجد الذي يطلق في المسجد يوجد some kind of business with him و he wants to show him that I am sincere و I am a good Muslim و I pray my prayers good سرلي as soon as that person walks in he says بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم well this worship was it only يا كنا عبود that we only we you alone do we worship or my tone my speed changed because someone else walked in and not put part in this with someone else or when I do something good and I do it I am waiting for some for people to appreciate me and to acknowledge me well in that case is not it's not sincere for Allah when we say يا كنا عبود you alone we worship and you alone do we turn for help and no one else not my work after my work before my work every intention that I have it's completely detached from everyone except Allah سبحانه وتعالى I only do it sincerely and purely and genuinely for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and no one else so the action plan will be that we should start analyzing and diagnosing our actions to observe ourselves think ponder everything we do think and testing our intention how much of this intention how much percentage was for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and how much percentage was for me to either get acknowledgement for me to get some kind of certificate for me to get something in return for me to be appreciated by people for me to get something well that much percentage we have according to a hadith that Allah said if you did something for me and also for other people I give even my share and my portion to other people let them bless you let them reward you let them give you what you were thinking so everything that we do that is very very important before we start our intention to be sincerely for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى something sincerely for Allah سبحانه وتعالى especially our Abadat Salah, Psalm, Zakat, Hajj Homs all the other Wajibat first it's when we have that intention and when we start Abad we're doing something for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى we won't be crushing through it we won't do a very bad job at it no we make sure we do something we do our best in it we are doing something for our creator so that's number one we started with we think about it throughout what we are doing throughout this affair or endeavor we keep reminding that this is for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى at the end of it even after that we might start a project or endeavor started with and we are thinking and then through it we have and at the end we have but after 2-3 days 5 days we talk to people and we start showing off we start having show off to people that I did this or my Abadat it might be interesting to say this joke a person was praying and he was praying very nicely in his سبحانه ربي العظيم وبحمده ربي صلى الله عليه وسلم سبحان الله سبحانه وتعالى he was returning to Salah because people were watching him they said wow masha'Allah he is praying very nicely and his pronunciation and his being humble and he is surely doing it for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى while he was in his prayer he paused and he looked toward them he wants to show off basically basically his Salah is invalidated and also none of them is accepted by Allah سبحانه وتعالى because he was showing off to people so when we say we only worship you do we only you alone do we worship and you alone do we turn for help we should believe in it and we should act upon that everything we do it's for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and we read in the Holy Quran that رسول الله is our role model he is we read also in تشاهد واشهدوا أن محمدا عبده ورسوله رسول الله محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم first he is a abd he is a true abd slave of Allah سبحانه وتعالى that his abad is genuine and he is abd first and then warasul so the level of being abd is higher than رسول than a messenger واشهدوا أن محمد عبده ورسوله because when he prayed يجعك نعبد ويجعك نستعين everything was for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and none but Allah سبحانه وتعالى so the action plan will be and insha'Allah the rest of the discussion will come in our next episode which will be is about in what kind of abad we mean and what we need to do to be complete for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى but the action plan for this episode again we will remind ourselves when we say again there's a reason why every day we repeat again and again and again it's because to remind us who we are worshipping who we are truly worshipping and who we are returning back for help that should be Allah سبحانه وتعالى again you alone do we worship and you alone do we turn this should become every minute of our life that everything that we do it's for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and insha'Allah we will say that okay abad we are discussing we will discuss it in the next episode we will conclude this episode and begging Allah سبحانه وتعالى to hasten your opinions and may Allah be with you which is the most important دعا بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اللهم كل وليك الحجة ابن الحسان صلواتك عليه وعلى آبائه في هذه الساعة وفي كل ساعة وليا وحافظة وقائدا وناصرة ودليلا وعينا حتى تسكنه واردك طوعا وتمتعه فيها طويلة رحمتك يا أرحم الرحمين