 As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh Bismillahi walhamdulillahi wa salatu wa salamu ala Rasulillahi wa ala alihi wa sahabihi ajma'in All praise is indeed due to Allah SWT Blessings and salutations upon Muhammad SAW We ask Allah SWT to bless him, his household, his companions, every one of us To grant us goodness up to the end May Allah SWT accept from us the supplications that we engage in so often The needs that we have are so many And it is Allah alone who listens to the dua and the supplication and responds positively My brothers and sisters, we were speaking about Ibrahim alayhi salatu wa salam's du'as, his supplications The Prophet Abraham, there are so many supplications I remember in the previous episode making mention of the fact that These prophets of Allah asked Allah more than what we ask Allah They called out to Allah more than you and I Look at their du'as, look at how beautiful all their supplications were They were so loved by Allah that Allah mentioned the same words in the Quran They also called out to Allah on more than one occasion for the same thing And different wordings It's important for us to understand this We were looking at Ibrahim alayhi salatu wa salam He asked Allah SWT for offspring, he was granted the offspring But early on in his life When he had asked Allah SWT for guidance He says to Allah SWT ربها بلي حكمة والحقني بالصالحين O Allah, grant me hukman Now hukman refers to a few things In the previous episode I had made mention of how it refers to the power of the authority But primarily it actually refers to knowledge So O Allah grant me knowledge, grant me the knowledge of the book etc It was revelation that was due to come to Ibrahim alayhi salatu wa salam With knowledge you are empowered So you have the power Without knowledge you're not empowered You are actually weak because you don't know So when all of these are connected You're asking Allah for power, for authority, for knowledge, for wisdom Even prophethood In the case of Ibrahim alayhi salatu wa salam Allah blessed him with that a little bit later on And Allah blessed within his offspring Them with the prophethood as well So the next dua that Ibrahim alayhi salatu wa salam made Was the dua for being remembered afterwards by the people with something good So if you've been to a city You leave, they should speak good about you If you have passed away, you've left the world People talk about you, they speak good Allah accepted this dua, what was it? وجعله لسان صدق في الآخيرين Surah Al-Shu'ara And Allah says, this man is saying O Allah, let me have a remembrance of goodness Upon the tongues of those whom I will leave behind As a result in Salah up to this day When we are seated in the Salah And we are about to end the Salah We say Allahumma salli ala Muhammad wa ala ala Muhammad كما صليت على إبراهيم وعالى آل إبراهيم إنك حميد مجيد We are sending salawat upon Muhammad sallallahu alaihi salam And we are saying, O Allah Blessings upon, send blessings upon Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa salam In the same way that you blessed Ibrahim alayhi salam Where did Ibrahim alayhi salatu wa salam fit in here? He was blessed by Allah And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala ensured up to this day That we too remember him with goodness on our tongues So Allah chose to add this as per the teaching Of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi salam to us in the Salah Amazing He just said, Rabbi Habli Hukman In fact, he says وجعلي لسان صدق في الآخيرين O Allah, let me be remembered in a good way By those who are to follow Here we are, every Salah Billions of people are remembering Ibrahim alayhi salatu wa salam with a good remembrance Amazing Look at that dua Look at how when Allah accept something He doesn't just give you what you've asked for It's beyond the imagination It's beyond the imagination You ask a multi-billionaire for one dollar And he ends up giving you 10 million I mean, subhanallah for him, it's nothing It's zero That's a normal worldly example The example of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is far higher But let's move on to some To more of these beautiful du'as of Ibrahim alayhi salatu wa salam In the same verses واجعلني مورثة جنة النعيم Make me from among those who inherits Paradise Grant me Paradise in other words The Paradise and the goodness that comes within the Paradise This shows us the importance of asking for Paradise Working towards it is one thing Seeking it is another thing وغفر لي أبي إنه كان من الظالين Oh Allah forgive my father For indeed, he's astray Now this was in the young age of Ibrahim alayhi salam He was asking for forgiveness for his father But later on Allah taught us something Through the example of Ibrahim alayhi salatu wa salam To say When you seek forgiveness for someone They need to have had the remorse Felt the remorse They need to have sought the forgiveness And had to turn to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala If they did not do that You don't ask for them To achieve something they did not want Simple When a child has done something wrong At the school And the headmaster calls the parents to say The child has been suspended Please take the child away If the parents come to apologize That apology will only be accepted If the child is showing remorse And acknowledging that what I did was wrong But if the child is showing no remorse And the child is ready to do it again and again and again And is saying to the parents Listen, I don't need you to ask for this I don't want it Wouldn't the parents look so foolish To actually go back to the school and say We're apologizing on behalf of the child On behalf of who? On behalf of a child who's not apologizing Who's not apologetic to begin with So Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying If people don't want to worship me Why are you asking me to have mercy upon them? Why are you asking me to grant them paradise When they did not believe in paradise in the first place Leave them alone What will happen is between them and I We will sort it out between ourselves You don't need to get involved You can only get involved when you want to ask for the mercy For someone who believed in the mercy But they may have faltered here and there Someone believes in jannah They believe in Allah They believe that they want to worship Allah But they were weak You say Allah have mercy on them Forgive them Someone who didn't even believe at all Allah says leave it between us We will sort that matter out May Allah make it easy For every one of us in our offspring So that was a benefit we learned from the dua Ibrahim A.S. made to have mercy on his own father When his father chose a totally different path It's like I was speaking to someone who doesn't believe in the hereafter at all And they were saying you know you guys are so bad Because you believe that people are going to go to heaven and hell And I said all religions are free to believe That a person who's good will go to heaven And a person who's not may go to hell But you don't believe it also Why are you worried? Why are you worried? I mean what are you worried about? If I ask Allah I ask Allah for guidance for that person But I don't need to say Oh Allah give him Jannah When he doesn't even believe in Jannah That's the explanation of this particular verse And what happened later on When Ibrahim A.S. was actually corrected by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in his prayer So then he says Wa la tukhzini yawma yub'athoon Yawma la yainfa'umaloon Wa la banoona illa man Ata Allah bi qalb salim Oh Allah do not embarrass me on the day that you resurrect the people The day that no wealth and no children will be of benefit Except for the one who has a sound heart Wow he's worried about the hereafter Ibrahim A.S. The friend of Allah is asking Allah Oh Allah do not embarrass me the day you resurrect everyone It's a dua I should be making You should be making We all should be making We've all done things We would not like people to know about We wouldn't like them to see It should be between us and Allah We say Oh Allah la tukhzini yawma yub'athoon Yawma la yainfa'umaloon wa la banoon Illa man Ata Allah bi qalb salim Oh Allah do not embarrass me on the day That you resurrect the people The day that no wealth No children will come to benefit anyone besides He who has a perfect heart or a sound heart May Allah grant us that sound heart So what is a sound heart? A sound heart is actually that heart That is filled with the obedience of Allah Or worshipping Allah alone And not associating partners with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala If you want a sound heart You need to work towards it You need to ask Allah to give that to you You need to make sure that you understand it And you ask Allah on the day of judgment To make you from among those who actually comes with a sound heart And Allah will not embarrass you May Allah not embarrass any one of us This was Ibrahim alayhi salatu wa salam And he was calling out to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala In this beautiful way And there are so many other du'az of Ibrahim alayhi salatu wa salam That he has asked for That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has bestowed him with And given him And all of us have reaped the benefit of the du'a of Ibrahim alayhi salatu wa salam Like I said in the previous episode Even the du'a of loving the Ka'bah Loving the house of Allah In makkatul mukarrama It has reached every single one of us And we actually reap the benefit therefrom Now I want to go into some of the du'az Of the other messengers of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala You know, Loot alayhi salam made a du'a to be protected from his people And he says Rabbin al-jinni wa ahli mimma ya'maloon O Allah protect me and my family Because his family were the only ones who followed From what they're doing The immorality that they're involved in Look at Shuaib alayhi salatu wa salam Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says He said Before I translate that Shuaib alayhi salam was sent to a nation Who used to cheat people in business Shortchange the people They wanted to make money by hook or crook They just needed money money money They worshiped the money Everything was about the money Everything was about merchandise How they got it was besides the point They just wanted it Hook or crook They shortchanged They cheated They stole They deceived They did anything They could and Allah warned them And sent them a prophet To remind them Don't become greedy Greed to the level That makes you do things That are wrong So here he makes a du'a at a certain point He says O Allah We lay our trust in you Alallahi tawakkana We lay our trust in you Now it's interesting To lay your trust in Allah When we're talking about business Because if everyone is doing business Dealing that is very clandestine That is actually clandestine to the degree That when you try to correct them They might sideline you And you may not earn You may not make money But the provider is Allah So you've got to keep on doing What you believe is right And Allah will provide you He will give you the provision He will definitely provide for you So he says O Allah I lay my trust in you I've got to correct these people I'm going to say it I've got to actually do whatever I have to It's in your hands to provide O Allah I lay my full trust in you And I want you to judge between us Iftah You know When we say iftah It means to open When we're opening the reality We're actually judging between the parties So iftah baynana Wa bayna qawmina bil haqq Wa anta khayru al-Fatiheen O Allah Judge between us and our people With justice for you are the best judge You are the best who's going to judge And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave that to him So Allah sent the punishment to the people of Shua'id To the people of Lut To the people of Nuh To the people of the previous nations When their prophets Who were sent to them prayed against them Until the prophet did not pray against them There was no punishment that came to them Because the prophet was instructed To deliver the message from Allah They came through They provided the message They gave the message They tried very hard They carried on and on When the persecution began That is when the clock started ticking What this means is The people were not okay Or the people did not sit back And say I don't want to listen to Nuh I don't want to listen to Lut I don't want to listen to Shua'id May Allah's peace and blessings be upon all of them The people did not just sit back And say We don't want to listen to them They started harming them They started attacking them And this is why Whenever you are calling towards the right path Those who don't like the message They will not just say Leave them alone Whoever wants to follow Let them follow They will come and start attacking you In your person Your struggle They will try and block you Stop you Attack you They may even want to eradicate you Because You're a thorn in the path You know They're doing their dealings They're cheating people in business If you keep on saying Stop cheating people in business You guys What you're doing is wrong Stop cheating people Stop deceiving people Those who want to continue deceiving and cheating And they're earning out of it You're their enemy Because You are trying to convince people to become upright Such that they won't like it I'll give you an example If corruption has overtaken community To the degree That the justice system is corrupt The police is corrupt Everyone is corrupt The ministers are corrupt Everything is corrupt If that happens To any country Any nation Then those who are upright Their survival is at risk The reason is When they come up to say Guys Don't do this It's wrong The police will attack them The judges will judge against them The ministers will be against them The entire nation will be fighting them Because They've been making their money In the wrong way They've been into bribery You know You could bribe Perhaps in some countries The justice system From the chief justice All the way down Perhaps some of In some countries It is And we've read about it It's such that they're all corrupt So the upright are sitting in the prisons And you know what? Those who are the most corrupt Who are supposed to be in the prisons Are actually the ones Who are jailing everyone It can happen It does happen So This was what we learned From the messengers of Allah That things that are turned around Because of you calling people Towards what is upright May Allah SWT strengthen all of us May He grant justice to everyone And may He make us all From among those who are upright They don't suffice by saying Okay, this guy is saying a good message Let me think about it Let's all become good people You know nations have failed Because of corruption Totally failed If we want to see the success Of our own nations We need to first tackle corruption From where? From the top to the bottom We need to understand When the police are corrupt It's over It's over You know, they say in the Arabic language The people who are meant to be protecting you Have become the thugs themselves Now what do you expect? So here The prophets of Allah SWT Were facing this type of challenge Where those who were the corrupt They were only being told That why don't you correct yourselves? They didn't say We don't want to correct ourselves They said Who are you? We're going to attack you We're going to harm you We're going to stop you And they tried even to eradicate these messengers In the case of so many of the messengers That is why The messengers were forced to raise their hands To say, oh Allah There's no one besides you This system is completely corrupt It's totally gone There is no one besides you Rabbana ftah baynana wabayna qumina bil haqq Oh Allah, I ask you We ask you to judge between us And our people Open the opening Make it clear Make it manifest Who's right? Who's wrong here? These people are not going to do it You are going to do it And you know what? You are the best of judges Anta khayru l-Fatiheen So whenever we are feeling oppressed Whenever we are feeling down Whenever we are feeling let down by a system This is a powerful dua to make Rabbana ftah baynana wabayna qumina bil haqq Wa anta khayru l-Fatiheen Oh our Rabb Oh our Lord Judge between us and our people With justice for indeed You are the greatest of all the judges You are the most just And this dua was made by These messengers And you know what? After a little bit of time Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Indeed sent down the punishment To those who deserved it And Allah guided whoever He wished to guide And the punishment came down In such a way that subhanallah They regretted ever Having not taken heed Of what those messengers Were calling them towards I want to move on To a beautiful prophet of Allah The most beautiful Yusuf alayhi salatu was-salam Allah speaks about him An entire surah and chapter Named after him But have you ever thought of the duas That were made by the prophet Yusuf alayhi salatu was-salam Some strange amazing duas Amazing supplications That show you the difficulty That he went through The hardship that he had to endure Being a messenger The son of a messenger The son of a messenger The son of the friend of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala So he had so much of blessing But he was tested I look at one of the first duas That come to mind And the ulamas speak about When they speak of the supplications Of the prophet Yusuf alayhi salam Joseph may peace be upon him He said, I love him From what they call me to him And if you turn away from me I will turn to them And I will be of the ignorant Again before I translate this du'a The supplication It's in surah Yusuf Let me set the scene for you Here are a group of women Trying to seduce this man And they are calling him towards sin And one of them is a very beautiful woman She has authority She has wealth She is the wife of a very powerful man And secretly, privately She is luring him towards committing the sin And they threatened him to say You either commit the sin And earn the displeasure of Allah in the process Meaning they were calling him towards it Knowing that this would earn the displeasure of Allah Or we are going to ensure that you will be falsely charged And you will be jailed So the false charges were about to be put in place Against him And he would be jailed as a result of these false charges Do you know what he said? He said, Oh Allah I would love to be jailed Than to be committing a sin against you Allahu Akbar The curse is upon those who falsely charge others How many times we hear of people who charge others For that which they didn't even do So if that is the case It is definitely a major curse And we learn from the story of Yusuf Aleyhis Salatu Wasalaam That he chose something that was much more difficult He was imprisoned for a long time As a result of a false charge That was laid against him by someone If we were in his place One wonders what we would have done A lot of people would say Well, you know, Allah will forgive Here is Yusuf Aleyhis Salatu Wasalaam Saying that I know Oh Allah If it's not for your mercy And the strength that you're going to give me I might incline towards what they're calling me towards Subhanallah Listen to the dua He says Now I'm translating it Oh my Rab The prison that I've been warned against Is more beloved to me Than that which they are calling me towards And if you do not Turn away Their plan and plot against me Perhaps they may put it on me And I will be from among the losers You know I may end up doing something that I don't want to do And I will be a loser So oh Allah, I'm asking you two things Firstly, I'm telling you That I would love to be imprisoned Than to disobey you Secondly, I want you to Turn their plot away In such a way that they don't impact on me Because if they do, I'm going to be a loser I'm going to be the loser That's what he told Allah Subhanallah He is literally asking Allah to be jailed That's what he's saying Subhanallah Assijnu habbu ilay Ultimately, I don't want to be jailed I'd like to see the justice happening But because there's no justice in the system And the false charges are coming across I'd rather be Falsely charged for something Than to perpetrate a crime Against you or Allah Do something totally wrong So sometimes we're faced with a scenario where We're going We're made to choose between the disobedience of Allah And getting a false accusation against you Perhaps being jailed Being accused of something you didn't do Here's Yusuf alayhi salam saying There's no even question You have to protect yourself from disobeying Allah Because we don't know how you're going to get out of that But this one here What will they do? They'll jail you Let them jail you How long are they going to jail you for? If they're going to jail you They've jailed people better than you So that's why when we look at the prisons And we see people in the prisons Not every time is a justice system competent enough Not every time are those in prison actually guilty Sometimes you find people coming out And you know the They are found To be innocent After years of having spent time in the prisons It happens when When it's revisited and they come out innocent Who people look like fools I've seen it happening in so many countries I'm sure we've read pieces in the news So my brothers and sisters It's very important for us to know This dua of Yusuf alayhi salatu was-salam Allah says Fa-stajabalahu rabbuhu fa-sarafa'nhu qaida hun Allah responded his call and turned away their plot From them as a result He went into the jail May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant us goodness And open our doors May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala really grant us the ability To call out to him We need to know how to call out to Allah What to ask him And may Allah bless us all I'm looking forward to seeing you For the next episode Insha'Allah Until then I'll say this Wa-sallallahu was-salam wa-baraka ala nabina Muhammad Wa-sallamu alaikum wa-rahmatu wa-rahmatu