 السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا وحبيبنا وشفيعنا وقائدنا وقرة عيوننا سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلال وجهك واضم سلطانك اللهم افتح علينا فتوح العرفين اللهم علمنا ما ينفعنا وانفعنا بما علمتنا يا رحم الرحمن يا رب العالمين الله سبحانه وتعالى has revealed the Holy Quran to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and through سيدنا جبريل عليه السلام and سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم one of the Sahaba to read the Quran to understand the Quran and to be strong in the Quran so we all know that the more we read the Quran the more we understand the Quran تفهم القرآن. وعندما تفهم القرآن, سنكون أسرقاً أسرقاً إلى الله سبحانه وتعالى. لذلك لذلك لدينا سورة الفاتحة إتراكة. ثم سنقوم بكثير من أي جزء من أي 30 جزء من القرآن. لذا فاتحة is a must for every raka'a. And the other Surah is of your choice. So it's obvious that the Fatiha has a great importance. So this is why Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم says من صلى الله عليه وسلم صلاتاً لم يقرأ فيها بأم القرآن فهي خداج. And he said that 3 أي غير تمام. So if anyone observes a prayer in which he does not recite the Qur'an, it is deficient. And he said this 3 times. So not complete. So what is Ummul Qur'an? Ummul Qur'an is the Fatiha. The first Surah in the Qur'an is called Ummul Qur'an. And without it our Salah will be deficient. So the Salah will not be complete. And Allah سبحانه وتعالى emphasizes the importance of Surah Al-Fatiha when he specifies it in one of the Surahs when he says ودعا تينك سبع من المثاني والقرآن العظيم. And we have certainly given you O Muhammad 7 أيضاً which means 7 أيض. Of the often repeated ayas and the great Qur'an. So we have given you as 7 أيضاً المثاني the 7 أيض that are repeated which is Al-Fatiha. And also we have given you the great Qur'an. So Allah سبحانه وتعالى has given us this great Surah to recite in each and every raka'a we pray to Allah سبحانه وتعالى. And there are several names for Surah Al-Fatiha. So one of the names is Ashifah. The cure. The people of Allah سبحانه وتعالى the friends of Allah some of them are very blessed. And they have a special Ijaza in reading Surah Al-Fatiha for someone who is sick putting their hand on the painful part of the body and they would read Surah Al-Fatiha and they would recite a few du'as that are special for cure and Allah سبحانه وتعالى will heal that person. So Surah Al-Fatiha is called الشافية the cure. Another name for Surah Al-Fatiha is Arruqya which is the remedy. Also the remedy is another word for the cure and as we said that it heals the person who reads it or who is read to him. Name for Surah Al-Fatiha is Alhamd which means Praise to Allah This Surah starts with Alhamdulillah Normally some of the Surahs are called by the first few words or the first word of the Surah is called Surah Tabarak It starts with the word Tabarak So many Surahs are named by the first word that comes in the first ayah So Surah Alhamd is called Alhamd Praise to Allah Also it is called The word Um means mother So it's the mother of the Quran And Umul Kitab also another name for Surah Al-Fatiha is the mother of the book So the main Surah that starts the book that starts the Quran is the first one which is Surah Al-Fatiha Surah Al-Fatiha is called Al-Assas And the word Al-Assas means the foundation And it is said that Surah Al-Fatiha has the foundation of Islam It is the foundation of Islam It talks about a lot of important ideas And these basic principles of the Islam religion So this is what we are going to see in our Hadith Now the opening of the book shows its importance And how important is this book is And Allah starts his book To indicate how important this Surah is So The Al-Fatiha When you open a book you see that there are a few words about the whole book So Surah Al-Fatiha It summarizes all the main principles that are mentioned in the Quran Our Hadith today is about Surah Al-Fatiha And how important it is And what Allah says about the person who reads Surah Al-Fatiha So let's start with the Hadith I'm going to read the Hadith And then I'm going to give some lights on the Hadith And as we mentioned earlier when we hear the words Allah says it means that we are reading the Hadith So قسمت الصلاة بين و بين عبدين السفين و لعبد ما سأل فإذا قال العبد الحمد لله رب العالمين قال الله حمدني عبدي و إذا قال الرحمن الرحيم قال الله تعالى أثنى علي عبدي و إذا قال مالك يوم الدين قال مجدني عبدي و مرة قال فوضى إلي عبدي فإذا قال إياك نعبد و إياك نستعين قال هذا بيني و بين عبدي و ليعبد ما سأل فإذا قال إهدنا الصراط المستقيم صراط الذين أن عمت عليهم غير المغضوب عليهم ولا الضالين قال هذا ليعبد و ليعبد ما سأل مشاء الله و ليعبد ما سأل فإذا قال فوضى إلي عبدي و إذا قال و ليعبد و ليعبد و ليعبد و ليعبد و ليعبد و ليعبد و ليعبد و ليعبد و ليعبد و ليعبد و ليعبد و ليعبد و ليعبد و ليعبد لدينا so many prayers and I ask Allah for so many things but Allah has never fulfilled any of my prayers so why would I ask Allah for more why would I make more dua so for this person we say when you make dua there are a few things that might happen it's either Allah سبحانه وتعالى will ask the angels to give you what you want immediately or he will save your dua till the day after and the reward will be highly highly multiplied or Allah سبحانه وتعالى will will save you Allah will save you from some afflictions that might have happened to you so Allah might accept your dua and he might save it for you for the day after and it is narrated that a servant of Allah سبحانه وتعالى when he when he was to be tried he when he was to the standing before Allah سبحانه وتعالى he said uh he he saw a great big reward for that's that's uh kept for someone and Allah سبحانه وتعالى looked at that person and he said do you know who this is for he said no y'all I don't he said it's for you and that person was so shocked because he said what have I done y'allah and the answer was you made so much dua and I saved it for you till the day after and that person would would wish that Allah سبحانه وتعالى had never answered any of his dua الله سبحانه وتعالى promised us and we mentioned earlier that Allah سبحانه وتعالى descends down to the lower sky before fajr time before the call of fajr and then and he will he will ask is there someone who is making ربنتان I will accept his repentance is is there someone who is asking for forgiveness I will forgive him is there someone who is asking for anything I will grant him I will grant him this his wish so try try these blessed times that are before fajr time and this is when Allah سبحانه وتعالى promised call me pray for me and I will answer your call I will fulfill your wishes but we have to know what when when to call Allah سبحانه وتعالى and what to ask for when we call Allah سبحانه وتعالى فإذا قال العبد الحمد لله رب العالمين قال تعالى حمدني عبدي so when we start reading سورة الفاتحة we say بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين and just a word about the بسملة which is saying بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم سيدا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم says كل عمل الله يبدأ بسم الله فهو أبتر any action that you do if you do not start it with بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم then your action is not complete so when we start reciting the quran we say بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم and before it we say of course عود بالله الشيطان الرجيب بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم so when we start with بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم doing anything this means that يا الله we are starting our action with re reciting your name we don't have the power to do anything you are the one who gives us the power to do anything praise be so فإذا قال العبد الحمد لله رب العالمين قال الله تعالى حميدني عبدي so when the servant says praise be to Allah the lord of the universe الله the most high would say my servant has praised me so now imagine yourself praying and the words that you are saying you have a conversation you have a dialogue one to one between you and الله سبحانه وتعالى so you say الحمد لله رب العالمين الله would answer you and he says my servant has praised me now what does the word حمد mean the meaning of حمد is praise and this word comes from gratitude and حمد is to acknowledge the blessings so when we say الحمد لله رب العالمين الحمد لله then we are acknowledging the blessings of الله سبحانه وتعالى which are countless blessings our health our knowledge we have a house to live in we have family to take care of we have we have neighbors we have we are muslims we pray we do things we are good things these are all blessings from الله سبحانه وتعالى that we praise الله سبحانه وتعالى and we acknowledge these blessings by thanking الله سبحانه وتعالى so we praise الله سبحانه وتعالى to show that we are grateful we are grateful for all the blessings that we have that we have been given a believer remembers الله سبحانه وتعالى not only when he gets a blessing whenever something good happens to him but even in the time of hardship he acknowledges that الله سبحانه وتعالى has given him all the blessings and he also knows that whatever hardship he is passing through could be much worse so he he thanks الله سبحانه وتعالى for all that happens to him whether good or bad he thanks الله سبحانه وتعالى during east time and he thanks him during hardship he thanks him during east time because الله سبحانه وتعالى says when you thank me then I will increase you and he thanks الله سبحانه وتعالى for hardship because he knows that this hardship could have been much worse so allhamdulillah that it's not worse so this is why الله سبحانه وتعالى has started the holy Quran by acknowledging the blessings that الله سبحانه وتعالى has given us now so the first the first phrase of conversation between us الله سبحانه وتعالى is الحمد لله رب العالمين and when we say الحمد لله رب العالمين الله says my servant has praised me now وإذا قال الرحمن الرحيم قال الله أثنى علي عبدي so when the servant says الرحمن الرحيم the most compassionate the most merciful الله سبحانه وتعالى says my servant has loaded me سبحان الله so my servant has acclaimed me has mentioned me has exalted me has proclaimed me by saying الرحمن الرحيم now الرحمن and الرحيم are two of the attributes of الله سبحانه وتعالى the compassionate the most compassionate the merciful and they are both derived from the word رحمة and we mentioned earlier again i'm repeating these few points that because they are very important الله سبحانه وتعالى has divided mercy into 100 portions and he descended down to earth just one portion and this by this portion we see the mom takes care of her baby the animals take care of their babies the people have mercy amongst each other to one another so this is the mercy that الله سبحانه وتعالى has descended to earth but he kept the 99 portions to the day of judgment to show us the meaning of real mercy to his slaves so mercy is divided into two two points mercy mercy to non-muslims and mercy to Muslims الله سبحانه وتعالى takes care of his servants and when saitha محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم was asked by the mountains او محمد they the new people are opposing you are hurting you and this is especially after time so if if you want i can crush them all but he said no these are these are the servants of الله سبحانه وتعالى i wish that one day some of them will be Muslims look at the mercy of saitha محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم he did not accept any harm for for the people whether Muslims are non-muslims and الله who have mercy on those who are Muslims and non-muslims but the the word is specifically for Muslims for the believers for those who believed in the in in الله سبحانه وتعالى and in the angels in the books the messengers so الله will have mercy on those people وإذا قال الرحمن الرحيم قال الله وتعالى اثنى عليه عبدي now the third the third part وإذا قال مالك يوم الدين قال مجدني عبدي so when a person who is reciting صورة الفاتح says مالك يوم الدين the master of the day of judgment here remarks الله سبحانه وتعالى says my servant has glorified me my servant has glorified me and sometimes or in another narration الله سبحانه وتعالى says my servant interested his affairs to me now when you say my servant when الله سبحانه وتعالى says my servant has glorified me then normally when you glorify you glorify you glorify an important thing so when you when الله سبحانه وتعالى says my servant has glorified me he saw my servant says so the servant has spoken highly of الله سبحانه وتعالى so when he says the master of the day of judgment this is a big a big glorification to الله سبحانه وتعالى on the day of judgment الله سبحانه وتعالى that's before resurrection so everyone dies and there is only جبري عليه السلام the angel of death and the law so Allah talks to the angel of death and he says who is left and the angel of death says oh Allah i took the souls of everyone except for جبري عليه السلام so Allah orders the angel of death to kill jibril عليه السلام so no one is left except Allah سبحانه وتعالى and the angel of death so Allah سبحانه وتعالى says who is left and the angel of death says يا الله only you and and me so Allah سبحانه وتعالى orders the angel of death to to die so there is no one there and this is when الله سبحانه وتعالى mentions in surah ghafir ayah 16 when الله سبحانه وتعالى says so everyone is dead there is no one and Allah is asking to whom belongs everything to whom belongs all sovereignty this day no one to answer and Allah سبحانه وتعالى says to Allah the one the prevailing لله الواحد القهر مالك يوم الدين he is the owner he is the master of the day of judgment also he is the one when when the servant says مالك يوم الدين and the other reply from الله سبحانه وتعالى says فا وضع إليه عبدي so my servant entrusted his affairs to me when you want something to happen what you do what would you do it would make دعاء that's the norm but if you would say يا الله i entrust my affairs to you there is a special دعاء that's a you know Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم used to say الله هم إني لا أحسن الاختيارة فاختر ولا أحسن التدبير فدبير لي oh Allah i don't know how to choose so i want you to choose for me i don't know how to manage my affairs i want you to manage my affairs so this serve الله سبحانه وتعالى is happy with the person who who entrusts his affairs to him depend on الله سبحانه وتعالى completely ask him to choose the best for you and he will do it so this is the third part the first one again الحمد لله رب العالمين and الله سبحانه وتعالى would say my servant has praised me الرحمن الرحيم الله would say my servant has my servant has mentioned me exalted me and then when you say مالك يوم الدين الله will say my servant has glorified me my servant has entrusted his affairs to me now when we say إياك نعمد وإياك نستعين الله will say so when the worshipper says you do we worship and of you we ask help then الله سبحانه وتعالى will say this is between me and my servant and my servant will receive that he asks for so complete servitude إياك نعمد we worship you and we worship you alone يا الله we have nothing to associate with you يا الله وإياك نستعين and we seek help from you alone يا الله she is something you go to the person who is in charge and you talk to him sometimes you might need someone to talk to that person so that he would give you the exact thing that you want but الله سبحانه وتعالى his door is open you don't need to go through anyone you would say الله إياك نعمد we worship you يا الله and we want help only from you وإياك نستعين so what's the answer to that الله will say this is between me and my servant only and my servant will receive what he asks for I will fulfill his wishes فإذا قال اهدن الصراط المستقيم صراط الذين انعمت عليهم غير المغضوب عليهم ولا باللين قال الله تعالى هذا ليعبدي وليعبدي ما سأب so when the worshipper or when the servant of الله would say guide us to the straight path اهدن الصراط المستقيم which path the path of those whom you have to whom you have been gracious so we ask الله سبحانه وتعالى for guidance and who is the guided person سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم he's the beloved of الله سبحانه وتعالى he's the last of the the seed of the prophets the last of the prophets so when we follow سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم then we are on the straight path we are on the right path that would lead that path would lead to the the pleasure of الله سبحانه وتعالى so what is this straight path it is the path that has been illuminated by سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم for us because one of the names of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم is a new and when you want to go into a path you need to have new you need to have light so this light comes from سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم he explained this religion for us and he told us how to follow him he talked about being good to people he talked about having the best morals to people he taught us how to pray how to play the car how to perform hajj how how to take care of the elders how to take care of our parents how to take care of the young how to be of good manners he enlightened the path for us and when we have light and lure then our path will be easy to follow but if you don't have any light if there is no light then how can we how can we go through that path it's not easy it's so difficult so what we have to do is we have to connect ourselves to say يدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم we have to connect our hearts to say يدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and how can we do that the easiest way or the shortcut for this is to send صلى الله عليه وسلم so you connect your heart to the heart of say يدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم every day morning and night so when the morning do at least 100 صلى الله عليه وسلم at night do at least 100 صلى الله عليه وسلم so you started your day with صلى الله and you ended your day with صلى الله عليه وسلم and you ask الله سبحانه وتعالى that whatever in between these صلى الله عليه وسلم will be accepted by Allah سبحانه وتعالى you are seeking the pleasure of Allah سبحانه وتعالى you want Allah to be pleased with you you want Allah سبحانه وتعالى to to make you of the winners in the day of judgment then work on your heart because when we have a sound heart then everything is easy so we ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to grant us a sound heart we ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to enlighten our hearts with the light of say يدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and with the light of the Qur'an and we ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to guide us to the straight path this path whom Allah سبحانه وتعالى is pleased with صراط اللذين أن عمت عليهم the path of those to whom you have been gracious to those you have blessed to those who followed you to who followed your beloved messenger say يدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم because those are the winners in the day of judgment they will be under the banner of say يدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم at a time that everyone would wish to be under the banner of say يدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم even even prophets so this is the path that we want Allah سبحانه وتعالى to guide us to صراط اللذين أن عمت عليهم those whom you have bestowed your blessings upon not those who have gone astray sorry غير المغضوب عليهم those whom have incurred your displeasure so الله is not is not happy with these people we don't want the path of those people ولا الله الليل and not those who have gone astray no we don't want to follow those people we want to follow the the the path that Allah سبحانه وتعالى accepts and this reminds us of a very important principle of life be with good people عاشر من ينهضك إلى الله حاله و يدلك على الله مقاله be with the people when when you sit with them then they remind remind you of الله سبحانه وتعالى with their words with their actions with whatever they do you remember الله سبحانه وتعالى remember say يدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم و يدلك على الله مقاله when they say words and they will remind you of الله سبحانه وتعالى with these people you will be saved because it said الصاحب صاحب the companion withdraws the other person so if he is good then he will draw his friend to whatever is good but if he is bad then he will draw his person his companion to whatever is bad each one of them the good and the bad want their companions to taste what they are enjoying so we always ask الله سبحانه وتعالى to provide us with good companions who will help us along the way because we know along the way we won't have easy everything everything easy but there will be tests and trials we have to have good companions who will encourage us when we stumble they will take our hand and lift us up when we slip they will take our hand and lift us up those are the true companions that we have to be with and we ask الله سبحانه وتعالى to provide our kids with good companions now imagine this situation that we are living in we are scared that someone will drag our children to the wrong direction and that's why moms should always be models to their children and should always make dua that الله saves their children and do not belittle the power of dua of the mother who makes dua to her children do not belittle that so be generous make as much dua to your children as you can so when someone says اهدن الصراط المستقيم صراط الذين أنعمت عليهم غير المغضوب عليهم ولا بالين عليهم then الله سبحانه وتعالى will say this is for my servant he's asking for to be guided to the right path and my servant will receive what he asks for so how many times do we read فاتحة every day two in فجر four in ظهر four times in عصر three times in مغرب and four times in عشاء three times in وطر so this is 17 times that's without still doing the extra نفل صلوات so we read صورة الفاتحة 17 times we have a conversation with الله سبحانه وتعالى 17 times every day imagine now when we are when we will pray we will have a different understanding to the to صورة الفاتحة we will be thinking oh i'm saying الحمد لله الله سبحانه وتعالى is saying my servant has praised me so when you think of what you are saying and what الله سبحانه وتعالى is responding back to you then your mind will be engaged fully in صلاة you will not be thinking of anything else now you are in true conversation with الله سبحانه وتعالى so you will focus more on your prayers سبحان الله سبحانه وتعالى is the foundation of this religion and in the Quran الله سبحانه وتعالى says those who perform the prayer he did not say الذين يصلون those who pray because praying is not just movements it is thinking of what you are reading so we ask الله سبحانه وتعالى to make us focus on our prayers and to be fully engaged with our prayers to save us and to save our children to provide us with good companions to provide our our children with good companions and we thank الله سبحانه وتعالى for all the blessings that we have that we have that he has given us and we say يا ربنا لك الحمد والشكر والنعمة والرضة and until we meet inshallah next week i would like to send a your سلام and my best