ち học أن نت serait armed today in sha Allah we're going to be spending a bit of time actually talking about a very very important night that is taking place tomorrow, known as the 15th of Shaban. So we'll start off talking about some of the virtues of the night and then the practical dhikr that someone can do. This is probably among the top two to three most important nights in the entire Islamic calendar. So you have the Qadr and the odd nights, and then you have Nisf-e-Shaban, which the Ulama have singled out as a very, very virtuous night based on various hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So very, very important night for us to try and do a significant amount of worship. So that's really going to be the topic of the conversation in shah-e-tadeh. So to start with one thing that's really important to remember is that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, every time he swears by something in the Quran, it means it's really important. And often Allah swears by time, and he swears by different types of time. So he'll say wa al-asr, like literally taking an oath by time. He'll say wa al-fajr, taking an oath by the time of fajr. That means you know the time of fajr is very important, otherwise God wouldn't have taken an oath by it. He swears by wa ad-duhah, the time of the mid-morning. He says wa layl, swearing by the night. Also again signifying the importance of this time. And so in that what the, that's mentioned in the commentaries is that time in general is really, really important to God. And you, as Muslims, we have this idea of sacred time and sacred place. Right? So all time is not the same, and all places are not the same. Right? So the month of Ramadan is not the same as the month of Dulkai. It's not the same. Right? If you, you can fast the entire month, let's say you fast the entire month of Muharram. Great. You can do that, but you have to fast the month of Ramadan. It's not the same. It's fasting an entirely different month. If somebody goes to a virtuous place, right? Like I think I mentioned this before, but if somebody were to go to the plane of Arafat, right? In Makkah and the right outside Makkah, if someone were to go there and they were to just on a random Tuesday in a random month and we're just to stand there, that's great. It's totally fine. Nothing wrong with doing that. But it's not the same as being on the plane of Arafat during Hajj when that is a core pillar of the Hajj. Right? And same thing with being in Minan-Mustalifah. You'll see if you go there in a random month, nobody's there because that's not a central place of worship during that time. Versus the Kaaba, which is always a place of worship. Umrah is always being done. And Medina, where the Prophet is always being visited. And so similarly, you have certain times of day, which are very, very important. And the benefit you get from doing something in that time, you won't get that benefit in doing something outside of that time. The prayer being the primary example, right? Praying Fajr in its time has a completely different effect on the soul than someone who wakes up late and misses, has missed Fajr and makes it up. It's still, you know, we have to make it up, but it's very different than praying on time. And it's very different than not praying at all. Or like, oh, I'm just going to pray all of my prayers at nighttime because I, I, you know, miss them all throughout the day. There's a very different effect that it has. And so again, this idea of time becomes really, really important. So just like Allah has selected certain times of day to highlight and select certain times of week to highlight. So the day of Jumma is not the same as Monday or Tuesday, right? You don't just came on Monday at 1.30 p.m. in the Masjid and you're just like, hey, just kind of, you can come for Doher. That's great, masha'Allah. But it's not the same as coming for Salatul Jumma, where that's the day of congregation. And it is a very, very, very virtuous day in our religion to the point where there's a whole Surah in the Quran called Suratul Jumma, where Allah is honoring that day and immense, many, many, many types of events, immense spiritual events took place on the day of Jumma, on the day of Friday. Because Allah singled it out as, this is an important day. I want you to honor this day. For the Jews, it's the day of Sabbath, right? The Saturday, right? And for the Christians, it's Sunday. But in every religion, there might be different days. But for the Muslims, that day is the day of Friday. That day is the day of Jumma. And you're not going to have the same benefits that you get on Jumma as you, or you won't get the same benefits on other days as you'll be able to get access to on Jumma. Just so that's kind of at a weekly level. And then that also happens yearly. There's days where Allah singles out. He singles out months, and then he singles out days to give the believers boosts, to give the believers boosts, right? You ever play a game, and you know, a video game or like Mari or something, you're walking or jumping around and you get like a star boost and you become more powerful in the game, right? The spiritual days that Allah has singled out for this Jumma are like that. There are days of boosts, there are days of getting extra spiritual breezes and extra benefit in your life to help sustain you throughout the rest of the year, to help sustain you throughout the rest of the year. And that's why they're so important. They're so important that if somebody constantly, you know, in the busy lives that we live, very difficult for people to worship abundantly all the time, right? To constantly pray at the Hajj, and to read lots of Quran, and to pray the night prayer, and to fast often out all extra type things, assuming the fire that's already taken care of. And God knows that. He knows that thing that's not easy, right? And he gives an immense reward for people who do that consistently. But he also then gives some something a little bit easier for the rest of us. But it's hard, right? And you're like, okay, here's a day or two for you to really, really focus. And for you to really single out and to make sure that you do extra worship, because I'm going to be nearer on this day. And I'm going to be closer, right? And in a figurative sense. And there's going to be more barakah and more du'az answered and more forgiveness granted and more mercy that's being spread throughout the world. And so make sure to take advantage of it. And that is the day of the night, rather, of Nisf-e-Shaban. So the Nisf-e-Shaban is approaching. So that means Nisf-e-Meem is half, right? So it's half of Shaban, the middle night of Shaban. It takes place on the 15th night of the Islamic month of Shaban, which where we happen to be in California, that will be tomorrow night. That corresponds to tomorrow night will be the 15th Shaban. And that is a night in which again, we'll talk about some of the some of the different, you know, benefits that we want to make sure that we take advantage of. Depending on if somebody, you know, online, you guys are somewhere else, you want to check with your local area, when was the moon cited? And when does that night fall? It might be Thursday night, might be Friday night. There's really no chance that it's that it's sooner than that, right? So that's the night the night in Islam enters on Margaret. And then, you know, it continues. So the 15th night will have begun tomorrow. Now, high level summary in terms of what happens at three or four big things are mentioned in the Hadith. First is a ton of people are forgiven on this night. A lot of people are forgiven on this night. Then a lot of mercy is distributed on this night. There's like it's like a magnet for attracting Allah's mercy. But you have to have your heart open. You have to be trying to receive because there's times when the mercy is distributed, where if you are if you are ready to receive it, there's going to be very different than somebody who's in a state of heedlessness and a state of gafla and not ready to receive the mercy. It won't affect them in the same way. Then the third thing that happens at night when do'as are answered tonight when do'as are answered and to single it out to make sure to make a lot of do'a. Someone can do a one whole hour or two whole hours just presenting your needs before Allah. Alhamdulillah, right? And then it's also a night to do abundant prayers. So extra night prayers, no specific amount of the Hajj or things that someone has to do. But amongst the tradition, there used to be people who would do a thousand rakahs and whatnot in this night. I mean, like people, the big time worshipers, they would do a lot, right? Really, really focused on taking advantage of this night. Those are not things anyone has to do, nor are they from like from from Hadith of the Prophet ﷺ. These are just things that people, masha'Allah, did out of their love of worshiping Allah, out of their love of worshiping Allah. So, so those are the four main categories are mercy, forgiveness, do'as being answered. Oh, and the last one, a night when tribulations are warded off. So you make a lot of the off or tribulations that could be coming your way to be warded off and for protection from those tribulations, protection from those from those tribulations. So then we'll get into the kind of the specifics, right? So there was a, there's a, there's a Hadith that is that mentions that one time say the Aisha of the Oh, yes. Then the day is called the 15th of Shabbat, the night, and it's tomorrow night, Thursday. It will fall and if you're in, you know, California fall Thursday, March 17th. So right 24 hours from today, from now, like Maghrib was just about an hour ago, it will start and it will continue all the way up until the night will continue up until right before Fajr. And then that day also, the day of the 15th of Shabbat, which we'll talk about shortly, is also a very virtuous day. It's a day that we're supposed to, that is recommended to fast and there's no requirement or anything. It's just good, good to fast. And we'll also talk about how important this is to help somebody start to prepare for Ramadan, because most of us probably haven't fasted either since the last Ramadan or since maybe a day of the day of Arafat or the day of Ashura or something like that, right? Because and mashallah for those who are consistently on the Sunnah and they're fasting all the time. Obviously, that's really, really good. So the, the, does that answer the question? Yeah. So one night, I say the Aishah, one second, there is a Shabbat Barat. Yeah. So this night is also known in the subcontinent as the Shabbat Barat. There's like different names, Nisf-e-Shaban, Lailat-e-Nisf-e-Shaban. When something is great, people give it specific names. We'll get into this later, but just because people are asking this question online, there's groups of people out there that their main goal in life is to prevent other people from doing worship. They love to do that. They don't mind if people are watching TV and on Netflix and TikTok and that, but if someone starts to do a little worship, oh, it's a big problem. If anybody tries to tell you to not worship God extra on any specific night, ignore them. Just ignore it. In the time we live in, those people should not be considered. There was a time in place when people were trying to be super, super, super scrupulous to have proof that everything they did in their life, not just worship, everything they did in their life, the Prophet Salaam did. Meaning that these were a category of people that if the Prophet Salaam did not eat something, they would not eat something. If the Prophet Salaam never look, obviously he didn't spend time on screens and shows and this and that, they would not do that. If they knew that his lifestyle had a certain level of tahajjud, they would spend that many days in tahajjud. If they knew that there was a certain amount of Quran you should be reciting, they would recite that much Quran. They would be sending salawat upon the Prophet Salaam all the time. Their whole life was extra worship. That was it. That literally with their life would revolve around obviously being with their family, taking care of their family and so on and then worshiping as much as possible. Someone can show us that that's the mass amount of people in society doing that today. Mashallah. But usually that's not the case. Most of the time we're struggling to just do the basics and if we try to do extra and someone says, don't do extra, there's no proof for this. You can't prove it in this, this, this, this. Just ignore them. You don't. Number one, there's plenty of proof and we'll talk about that in a second. There's proof from the Muslim, there's proof from the hadith, there's proof from the greatest scholars of our religion, including the likes of mama haddad, mama suyuti and others. But secondly, to worship Allah and to seek His bounties and to, to ask Allah for forgiveness and dua and so on and make dua. It's always a good thing and it really doesn't matter if someone is doing that. Like there's not something to stress about. Unless someone is in that scholarly class of people that again their entire life from morning to evening is based on the sunnah. Then in that case, go ahead and scrupulously validate if every little act of worship is in accordance and you'll still find that it is in this case. But if you, if you, if you're that bent on it, right? But that's, that's to answer the point someone asking about, about the little thing is fishaba and there are people out there called bida police. They love policing other people. It's called innovation police. Just tell, tell them whoever's asking the question to worry about the haram going on in society and not worry about worship that people are trying to do. You will not get bad deeds for trying to worship Allah. That much is very clear in our religion. So the proof for this. Now let's get into some of the proofs. So one time I say the aisha radi allahu anna, she was out and she saw the prophet sallam leave and she saw that she followed him and she saw that he went to the graveyard of al-baqi. If anybody's been to Medina you'll know that the masjid of the prophet sallam is here, which is where his house was and the graveyard is literally here like maybe three to six minutes walk from the masjid. So he went to the graveyard and she saw him there in the graveyard and making dua, raising his hands in supplication and she inquired what's going on. She inquired what's going on here and he told her that oh this is a bit on this night that the night of 15th shaban is what the night happened to be on this night at the 15th of shaban she the prophet sallam said that Allah forgives more people than there are hairs on the sheep of this certain tribe known as the tribe of kalb and this tribe was one where there was obviously tons and tons of sheep and if anyone's ever been up close to any type of animal right or you'll know that the animals have a lot of hair right that sheep has a lot of hair so that's all of the hairs in the entire tribe of all the sheep in that tribe right so millions and millions and millions essentially and that Allah forgives more people on this night right then that metaphor the prophet sallam used to say that he forgives a lot of people and then she said that Allah gazes at his creation on this night a special gaze this is called another the special gaze of Allah you always want to ask Allah for a special gaze if you get a gaze of from Allah like a special gaze you're set you will it's a magnetic pull to pull you towards him right so so Allah gazes at the at people on this night and he forgives them except two types of people he said the first is somebody who actively associates partners with God who associates partners with God and the second is someone who is anybody want to guess or know what the second category might be first has to do with God the second has to do with your fellow people that it's somebody someone who who holds ranker and basically hatred and grudges in their heart against their fellow Muslims that everybody's gonna be forgiven except these two categories of people now take a step back and think that in this situation none of what Allah is looking at is based on the physical everything he's looking at to decide on the forgiveness is based on what's inside right so you could be outwardly doing all the things fall and but inwardly there's a there's a mess going on you hate this person you hold hatred against this person you are calling these people out you feel like these people are always always you know wronging you or whatever it is right and you're just you just are somebody who hates a lot of people you have a lot of grudges right and then and then so this it's a deed of the heart nobody will know if that's the case you could smile in front of us oh it's so good to see you and inside your side oh my god I hate this person right like that's that happens and there are people like that and so Allah forgives people except the one who has that trait in them and then the other category that except the one who is also a deed of the heart we're except the person who's giving weight to anyone other than Allah and there's that there's formal types of worship like of idol worship that really barely happens anymore you don't see people like bowing down to stones and whatnot very often but you have what's called idol worship in a different category which is people who worship they worship themselves we might worship money we might worship fame you might worship power you might worship these other idols that have been created these are all against these are inner things that you won't see on the outside of somebody you might see manifestations of it but you won't be able to tell that this person like actively is worshiping someone other than Allah that what that means the actual external meaning of this according to many of the scholars is you actually like believe that there's a God other than Allah right but the inner meaning you always want to think about is if you are weight giving anything in your life or any other part of our life more weight than we give what God says that means we're associating somebody with God in the spiritual sense right that means like someone is out you know watching a movie or something and the prayer time comes in and they're like and forget it I'm in the middle of the movie like I can't leave the theater it's a movie right like and they're like oh I gotta finish it and the next thing you know prayer time goes and in that moment they were worshiping their entertainment and what their nests desired more than God because if you were wanting to worship God the prayer would have been priority right over now that doesn't mean that that thing is literally a physical God that somebody worships but it is a sign of associating spiritually other than Allah right something other than Allah and the same thing will happen that if the years go by in our life and we prioritize desires we we prioritize any desire we have that means we take Allah says in the Quran have you seen the one who takes his Hawa as his God or her God have you seen the person who takes their desire as their God as you don't want to worship anything other than God which in the truest form as you believe that nobody has power other than God but in another form it's that you associate your attention and your you prioritize something that distracts you from God that means that there is still these kind of mini idols that are that are set up yes right yeah another form of what's called ostentation right hidden shirk is to to worship and do it for the sake of other people watching you so you might be worshiping and you're like oh I can't wait for this person to praise me now that that's what that's what's called the form of hidden shirk so you don't thank you for for much one example one example right now it should be that the purity is directed entirely towards Allah and the sincerity is directed entirely towards Allah yes yep yep great question so the question was when we say forgiveness what kind of forgiveness applies and how does it work so in general the assumption should always be for forgiveness to assume a good opinion of Allah and hope that all of our sins and as many sins as possible are getting forgiven right because kind of in the realm of Allah ultimately to decide which sins he forgives and which sins that you need specific you know repented but according to the books and the kind of the form away for specific If if if if that applies someone doesn't lower someone curses or someone listens something haram goes and like kill somebody that doesn't apply just because you did a horror asserted that sin for that's not how works right that if someone say makes a sincere toba from sin that they did a sincere repentance. They really sincere ask a lot for might have done a major sin. So the major sin categories are give it like being down by body part different categories. You'll have swearing a false oath, bearing false testimony, adultery, fornication, right? So basically like like sexual relations outside of marriage. You'll have stealing something. You'll have interest taking out interest and or dealing with interest considered one of the major sins of the religion that a lot of people in our time don't even think about it. Economic sins are some of the big ones because they cripple entire societies if they're not taken care of. And so those are those are some of the examples that somebody running away from when all the Muslims like in a battle or something and someone runs away that's considered a major sin. Eating pork is considered and drinking alcohol consuming intoxicants. So those are ones you have to make a very specific toba for that. Those are not considered minor sins that are just erased. A minor sin would be, you know, again, a bad word slips out. You lose anger a little bit. You lose your cool with somebody, right? You don't lower your gaze. And maybe once or twice or whatever it is, right? Someone's listening to something that's impermissible, you know, a little lie comes out here and like those types of things would be considered the kind of category of minor sins. Now, the one thing in this, but that's like the outward realm, right? Inwardly, no sin is really minor with God because like it's a big deal to disobey him. At the same time, God's mercy is so vast that nothing is too major for him to forgive. So you kind of always have to have that delicate balance and never feel like, Oh, I'm at a place where I can't be forgiven. And I just did something too wrong. And then also never at a place like, Oh, it's just a minor sin. It's no big deal. I'll keep doing it. That's, that's, that's bad manners basically with God and kind of minimizing it. So in this case, any time somebody makes a sincere repentance, like there's three components to that. One, you feel bad about what you've done. That's the first step of repentance. So remorse, the guilt that sinks in, I shouldn't have done that. Why did I do that? Right? That guilt. Second, you actively ask for repentance. So you, this is the, what's recommended by the scholars is you actually like try to cry or sincerely say, y'all, I'm really sorry, like forgive me for this thing that I did. And it's a specific focused repentance. If possible. The third is you commit to not doing nothing again in your life. And so that then encompasses repentance. That repentance, if done for major sins, inshallah, if Allah will accept will be, you know, cleared in these nights, it's a very, they're very good nights to make a lot of repentance generally and specifically. So the specific things we've done and what it does is also prepares you hard for Ramadan, where of course there's going to be a lot of forgiveness granted. Yeah. Any other questions? So both of the main things that prevent forgiveness from happening on the night of 15th of Shaban, which again, as we mentioned tomorrow night, inshallah, comes from, it comes from sins of the heart, basically, you're not forgiving people and associating partners with Allah. And then the Prophet ﷺ also mentioned about this night that when it comes to spend it in prayer as much as possible and to fast the following day, because Allah calls out from sunset until Fajr of the following morning, that is there anybody seeking forgiveness from me such that I may forgive them? Is there anybody seeking provision from me such that I may provide for them? Right? And is there anybody who is suffering such that I may relieve their suffering? And this is a very, very beautiful call that takes place on this night of misfashaban. And so, and these are hadith, again, for many of the people who enjoy trying to discourage people from worship there, you can find them in the Muslim Ahmad, you can find them in the collection of Ibn Majah, you can find the Tab'een, the early generation from the Salaf, that the great Tab'e Mujahid, that he was so adamant on this night that he mentioned that it was the night meant, there's a surah in the Qur'an on the surah of Dhok'an, that he mentioned that the night called out in that surah, the night where all decrees are decided, is the misfashaban. Most of the other ullama took the opinion that it was a little but you have such to the point where this is from amongst the greatest commentators of the Qur'an to walk the face of the planet. And they called out this night as being really, really important. So again, highly, highly, highly encourage everybody, single it out, worship abundantly, use it as a way to rejuvenate spiritually, use it as a way to reorient ourselves and prepare for Ramadan and as a way for our needs to be accepted. And only later in life does somebody know the benefits of the spiritual gifts they get when they seek out these nights of all these, these amazing nights. When you seek out the night of 27th of Rajab, that the night where the Prophet went to the Miraj, Isra'a Miraj, the night of misfashaban, of course, the last 10 nights of Ramadan and really any night of Ramadan, which has a lot of virtue, ladut al qadr itself, right? You seek out the virtuous days, the day the Prophet Alaihissala to Islam was born into the world, that this amazing gifts that are being distributed. The whole heavens celebrate these things and the angels celebrate. This is the whole job of the angels is to just worship and they love when big, big days of worship come. The humans on this earth, us humans, we want to mimic the angels in some moments. So we also want to have times we just dedicate to worship. And so we should try for ourselves and for our families to really, really make these things into, into important things. We also have Imam Ali, who's mentioned, Sayyidina Imam Ali, that he, Ali ibn Abu Talib, that he mentioned that he went out on the 15th night of Sha'ban. And he mentioned that there are five nights in which Do'a is not, not rejected. And this he mentioned as one of those nights, right? As the night of the misfashaban. And then amongst those, he also mentioned the night before Eid, the two Eids and the night, the first night of Rajab and then often actually Thursday night. So this is the night before Friday. Thursday night is a night in general in our religion, which is a very noble night to do extra dhikr and to make extra Do'a. This happens to be one where the misfashaban will fall also on a Thursday night. So for anybody who, you know, feels uncomfortable about doing extra worship because of the night of misfashaban, just do it because it's Thursday and Thursday night and you'll get the benefit of both, inshallah. Right. So the, there's a lot of other things to discuss about pause there. Any, any questions that anybody has as far? Yeah. Yeah. The question was, why do people think it's controversial? Yeah, in the last like 200 years, you have, you've had a group of Muslims emerge that anything that they cannot find a very, very rigorously authenticated hadith for, they just reject it and they say, don't do it. And then, and then they go to the point they go with it. No, they just, it's, it's, it's just a misunderstanding of the way the religion works. And they take the hadith with Prophet Muhammad said that every innovation is misguidance and every misguidance is in the fire, as if you don't have a very authentic hadith to prove something, then don't do it. And like I said, if you are somebody who scrupulously in every aspect of your life follows the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad, I mean every aspect, right? Like somebody, they don't engage in any media. They're really careful about what they every aspect, you don't need really that many extra nights to worship. You're always worshiping all the time. But in the time we live in, there's a principle and a school known as taking hadith that might not be rigorously authenticated, but using them for good deeds to encourage people to do good deeds. In this case, this is one of those nights where there's in the collections of a hadith, there's various gradings of the hadith. Some of them are weak. Some of them are not as weak. You have various reports of different, different people in the early generations doing this. But there's, it's not like as authenticated as let's say, which is like mentioned in the Quran. So as a result of that, you've had this group emerge. It's kind of like a puritanical type of way of looking at it. Just say, don't do it, don't do it. So the reason I mentioned it is because there's like a whole troop of people who they make it their mission in this time and three times of the year, the Maulid, Niswa Shaban and Rajab to just say, don't do worship, don't do worship. But if you want to go like Batman, it's fine, but don't worship because you know, it's haram. So it's, it's, there's, there's like a, a misunderstanding of that approach. So I'm getting questions for that online, which is why I mentioned it. Like it's like repeatedly, you know, those questions coming. Yeah, no problem. So the, the three the three types of then worship that we should be doing. So there's, there's worship that is general, right? So forgiveness, seeking forgiveness is the first we'll start off with, then we'll talk about making dua, types of dua to make and then specific vicar to do, inshallah. So seeking forgiveness, someone can do this in a very, very general way. And then someone can do it very specifically, like making repentance from a sin that they might have committed, right? The general way means you take you, you, you, you just say astaghfirullah as many times as possible, asking a lot to forgive you, asking a lot to forgive you. One of the, one of the shoe who was recently visiting Imam Fawdei drama, he said, if someone can do 70,000 times astaghfirullah, and I looked at him and I was like, 70,000. And that would be really good on this night. But as many times as possible, right, that you, we should try to do, it's 500, 1,000, but sit for at least, or five, 10 minutes, just sit, take a dhikr, a tasbih and just do astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, and just say, Ya Allah, forgive everything I've done. Forgive everything I've done. It's a way of cleansing the heart. Again, there's no specific number someone has to do. It's just a nice, nice time for astaghfar. And Allah says in the Quran, often make astaghfar and you'll see provision coming down. Make astaghfar and we'll bless you. Make astaghfar and the rains will come. I mean, all of these things, astaghfar is a solution for a lot of problems on the face of the earth. It's if there's a night where the Muslims are all making astaghfar, that's a night where a lot of blessings will come inshallah and a lot of tribulations will be lifted. So that's one of the things that's mentioned the hadith to do, is to make a lot of astaghfar. The second thing is to specifically seek make dua for provision, right, to make dua for provision. In this case, there's two types you want to make dua for. Your dunya needs and your spiritual needs. So there's spiritual provision, which is like the Himmah to worship and these types of things and being able to get spiritual stations and gifts and so on. And then there's dunya provision and job and income and risk and whatnot. You want to make dua for both in this night, right? So single out time. If someone has children, make dua for them. If someone wants children, make dua for that. If someone's married, make dua for blessings and your marriage. If someone's not married to make dua to get married, right, to make dua for on this. And there's no, like, again, specific way to do it. It's just you make a general dua in whatever language you are able to make that dua. And the third is the relief of suffering. As was mentioned in the hadith of the Prophet, alaihi salatu as-salam. So this is, this should be like probably one of the more important aspects of worship on this night that really sincerely sit and ask Allah to relieve you, your family, your community, and the Muslims and anybody around the world who's suffering from their suffering. Allah can stop any war he wants. Allah can stop any difficulty and tribulation that's going on. But we, we, our job is to beg him and to ask him and inshallah he is the one who will answer, right? And so we really want to use these moments to sincerely ask Allah. We, we made mistakes. We are sorry. Please stop my suffering, my tribulations, the adversities I'm going through, what my family is going through. Everybody has their own problems. Everybody knows what those problems are, right? We all know whatever issues we're going through in our life. It's a very, very important. Sometimes we don't get enough time to just sit and really think and beg God to help with that. And the key here is not a list, but rather sincerity. Really getting sincere and asking God and asking Allah to forget, to, to, to remove these difficulties is the most important aspect, right? So, that only he can remove problems, gather around the world and they wanted to help you with something. If it wasn't for God, they couldn't help. They're not able to help. Everybody was able to, wanted to get around your, all the people you and I think are enemies and so on and all the different people that are trying to hurt the Muslims around the world and everybody were trying to, to try to harm and God didn't permit that. You couldn't, you could not get harmed. And so seeking relief from suffering and relief from difficulty and relief from tribulation is a really, really important part of this night to do that. And again, the core here is sincerity. It is sincerity. And then the, that's also, it's also mentioned, again this is not what I'm about to mention. It's just mentioned by the, some of the, the, if someone would like to do it. To recite surah yasin three times in this night. The first time is to recite yasin, surah yasin, with the intention of a long life in obedience of Allah. So, to recite yasin with the intention of a long life in obedience, the proof for reciting yasin is this, there's a narration which mentions yasin is for its intention. So, you recite yasin for a specific intention that you are about. The second is to recite surah yasin for all the tribulations to be warded off, calamities to be diverted. Again, the same three categories essentially of dua you made now you recite yasin for them. And the third is for provision for health, for sustenance, and for healthy, and for expensive provision. And so to recite surah yasin for these three things and if, if someone is able to do so, you know, on their, on their own with their family that's good. If you aren't able to recite it, to listen to it and follow along, you know, listen to I know like MCC, MashaAllah is doing a program tomorrow night right around like after Mughra, but they'll be doing group recitation, I think it's, it's going to be live stream right to follow something like that, or to follow along on YouTube, whatever it is, but to have a connection with surah yasin. It's a very important surah and there's a lot of benefit in reciting it on this night. Yeah. Oh MashaAllah, okay, so it's just right down the street, right? Yeah, so there's there's a Masjid 57th in Shaddik, MashaAllah, MashaAllah Iman that will have surah yasin recitation, and and I think some thicker in the lie, inshaAllah, tomorrow night. Yeah, yes. Yeah, there's a good question. The question was that, is it enough just you say astaghfirullah or should you also be very like focused on the types of things that you are asking for, forgiveness for? So there's two ways to do this. The first is everybody should have a general practice where you just say astaghfirullah often without, you don't have to have anything where you're focused and thinking you're just doing astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, for all the sins you and I make. It's mentioned hadith that the Prophet ﷺ would seek forgiveness, fervently seek forgiveness from Allah, over 70 times a day. It's just he is with various formulas of bikr that he's seeking forgiveness and so that's very, very good to do. It's from the Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ. Then there's like you saying astaghfirullah very, very focused with a specific thing in mind. That's good to do and to practice and then what happens if someone practices the second often, it basically becomes the normal state when you're doing the first because the more presence you have in small moments, the more presence you'll have in other moments. But it's very difficult to like get to the time where you're doing a lot of astaghfirullah and then to always be very present. And it's mentioned, I believe by, it's mentioned by one of the great Ibn al-Tahilah but it might be someone else that having at least one part of your body engaged in bikr is better than none and having two or three is better than of course one. So meaning like if your tongue is doing it but your heart's not that present, Alhamdulillah, at least something is doing bikr. If your tongue and your heart and your mind are all present, that's really, really good. But you kind of work your way towards that. So it's basically a lot of astaghfirullah generally and then the specific repentance, that's not done by just saying astaghfirullah. You want to really specifically sit and beg Allah to forgive you and that should continue for a period of time to really ask for forgiveness for something specific that was done. Yeah, does that, that's a question. Alhamdulillah. So that's, I mean, that's generally, I don't want to go too long here. Alhamdulillah. So basically the main takeaway is it's a virtuous night to make sure tomorrow night inshallah to try and to worship extra. If somebody is not able to, if someone is on their cycle and they're not able to pray or recoron, that's really fine. You can do this taqfar, you can do dhikr, you can make doaa. There's a lot of other things that can be done. It does not only have to be extra prayer. And so, but if possible, to also do extra prayers, right, to wake up aslaat at the hadjad and to then pray, make a lot of forgiveness and to make a lot of doaa and to ask Allah for the tribulations and calamities to be warded off. And the last bit that we'll just touch on inshallah and then we'll go ahead and wrap up is to make your intentions for the month of Ramadan. Make your intentions for the month of Ramadan. Ramadan is coming. It's, you know, maybe now at this point two, three weeks, two weeks away. And so again, these special nights come to give the believers assistance, to give you some boost because again, most people haven't fasted in a while. Most people have not done extra night worship in a while. Most people have not singled out time to just do extra dhikr in a while. And so to try to use the night of Nisf-e-Shaban to do that, to be present and to expose yourself to the secrets and the breezes that are going to be being distributed and inshallah then to use the that the time to make intentions in Nia for the month of Ramadan, inshallah. So with that, if anybody has any questions we'll do we'll take the questions inshallah. And for the brothers that are here for Isha, I forgive me. Usually on Wednesdays we're going to do Isha at nine just to wrap up the class. But if you guys want to pray for a Jama'at we are more than welcome to just we're just going to finish the class. Forgive me. Any any questions? See questions online? Yeah, so there was a question about do you have to seek forgiveness from somebody you have harmed? If if you are able to reach that person and the relationship is not completely you know damaged the virtuous thing to do and the right thing to do is yes you want to seek forgiveness from them. If you've hurt somebody you want to make sure you go and seek forgiveness from them and you first clear your heart and like forgive them and then you also ask them please forgive me like I shouldn't have done what I did and that actually takes a lot of courage to do and Allah knows it takes a lot and that's why it's so virtuous and it's prayed often in the Quran amongst the people who pardon other people and you want to be amongst those people and you want to be from people who also seek pardon from someone you've wrong and so yeah that would be important important to do okay any other questions? All right So Insha'Allah the next two weeks are going to be entirely focused on preparing for Ramadan we're at the point in the book where it's about fasting so we're going to cover that chapter we'll do internal aspects of Ramadan and then practical and thick aspects of Ramadan Insha'Allah so that will be the focus for the next two weeks after which Insha'Allah we'll be in the month of Ramadan and we're still kind of figuring out if we're going to be doing a class earlier in Ramadan or not like in before Iftar if we just as a quick question for people here if there were to be like a class 30, 40 minutes or 30 35 minutes 45 minutes before Iftar and then you know brother Malik or someone else you know had food or people brought some food for Iftar would that be same topics that we've been covering the practical spiritual of the class would that be something people would want to come to kind of quick show of hands yeah okay okay so okay so we'll need to organize it Insha'Allah okay so we'll get we'll organize it I'll let you guys know then my next week or the following week what the plan is for that Alhamdulillah okay okay so we'll go ahead and close out with the dua and then we'll we'll pray Insha'Allah Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim Alhamdulillahi rabbil al-alameen wa sallahu sallahu wa sallahu wa sallam abarika Sayyidina Muhammadin wa la alihi wa sahbihi sallam rabbanaatina fiddani hasnatumah fil aakhrati hasnatumah kina azaab al-nar rabbit khalni mudkhala sidqin wa kharajin ma kharajah sidqin wa jani minna dhulqa sultana nasirah wa qulja al-haq wa zahqal baatil nal baatil akaana zahuqa la ilaha illa anta subhanak inni kuntum ubalimin ya ar-Rahman ya ar-Rahim ya fattah ya aleem ya aleem Allah, ya Allah ya fattah ya mubin Ya Allah, ya Allah we ask Ya Allah that you grant us your pardon and your mercy and your tawfeeb to worship you especially Ya Rabb Al-Alamin anidus ladithanis fa sha'ban Ya Rabb Al-Alamin Ya Allah we ask you grant us and our loved ones and our community members Ya Rabb Al-Alamin immense immense gifts and spiritual breezes that would be distributed in this night Ya Allah we ask for your gaze and for your nether on the night in this fa sha'ban Ya Allah Ya Allah we ask you give us himma to worship you and you give us himma to fast on the following day we ask you prepare hearts for Ramadan Ya Allah please put barakah and what's left of sha'ban Ya Rabb Al-Alamin Ya Allah and prepare hearts for the month of Ramadan Ya Allah Ya Allah please Ya Allah prepare hearts to seek forgiveness from you Ya Allah and to seek your mercy and to seek your gifts Ya Allah wa haab Ya Rasak and please bless us with immense gifts Ya Allah Rahman Ya Shafi we ask that you heal us from our tribulations and from our problems and from our sicknesses Al-Rahman Rahimin we ask that you by your mercy remove our tribulations and our problems from us Ya Allah and from all the Muslims that are suffering and all the different countries of the world Ya Rabb Al-Alamin remove their problems and the Muslims in Yemen and in Syria and in Palestine and in Pakistan and in Kashmir and in India and in Myanmar and all of them and in Afghanistan and in Iraq and all of the Muslim world Ya Rabb Al-Alamin anywhere where there are any people struggling Ya Rabb Al-Alamin please remove their tribulation from them please remove their wars from them Ya Rabb Al-Alamin Ya Allah please stop this war in Ukraine that has started and all the wars that have been going on in the Middle East and in Africa and all over the world for so long Ya Rabb Al-Alamin Ya Allah Ya Allah we ask that you by your mercy and by your rahmat that you assist us and we turn to you we have nobody to ask for help other than you Ya Rabb Al-Alamin we have no one who we can seek guidance from or who we can seek assistance from other than you Ya Rabb Ya Rabb Ya Allah we ask that you help us with our problems and help us with our difficulties and make it clear for us Ya Rabb Al-Alamin whatever it is that we should be doing make it abundantly clear for us in our life Ya Ar-Rahm Ar-Rahimin Ya Allah and we ask you for everything good at the Prophet Allahi Salatu Wasalaam asked for and we ask you for protection from everything evil that he asked protection from and we ask you for Hussnal Khatima a good ending and a good seal Ya Rabb Al-Alamin that in our life give us a good ending and let us Da'a Yapan La Ilaha Illa Allah Sayyidina Muhammad Rasulullah wa sallallahu wa sallam wa baraka La Sayyidina Muhammadin Wa La Alihi Wa Sahbihi Wa Salam Alhamdulillahi Rabb Al-Alamin Subhanakallam Allah Bi Hamdikun Ashadu Wa La Ilaha Al-Asaf Wa Alhamdulillahi Rabb Al-Alamin inshaAllah we'll go ahead and pray Hussnal Al-Isha Fasak Al-Akhir Asalaamu Alaykum Alhamdulillahi May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon you