 This is wonderful. This wonderful group we have here and it's amazing. It's not only my California friends But we have friends now joining us from from Indonesia in this morning. We were talking to two of our Indonesian friends Safarendi and Amira and they're putting these children's books into the Indonesian language and I couldn't believe they had been present and seen the program on Wudu and I just wanted to say something we did send out to all of you a Kind of a chart for you to put up at the place where you do would do But I wanted to say to the parents that when I did the children's book I didn't put all of the prayers that you could say at the various stages of would do because I thought it was too much for the young people But if the parents would please go and read the adult book and do their own list I mean just a quick tight a quick quick one minute review for everybody some of you who might have missed it I'm just gonna tell you that one story about would do which will help everybody that once upon a time There was a scholar and he was very proud and he knew everything and he had long robes And then one day an old man came to knock on his door and said what is would do I want to know what is would do and the scholar said how can you old man be in this village your whole life You're a Muslim and you don't know how to do would do go away But the old man insisted so the scholar said come in and he turned on the water And he did the would do and he said now old man you do would do the exact way I did it and you know what happened the old man got it all wrong He did everything backwards and and the scholar said get out out So the old man left with his cane walking away and the scholar sent his as you remember the scholar sent his assistant What was going on and the assistant came back and said oh scholar? I am so sorry to tell you this but that old man you chased away and that you were mean to He's like the most revered and honored Wise elder in our town everyone goes to him for help with their heart So the scholar thought oh no So he put on his robe And he walked down the street and he went to the old man who was sitting there And the scholar got down on his knees and put his hands and head low and he said oh Oh elder, please. Tell me what is would do and the scholar said What you all have been doing when you wash your hands you don't just wash them thinking nothing you think Any Allah forgive me for things. I've been doing guide me to do the right thing Washing the mouth. Oh, I've said some not very nice things Please inspire me to say beautiful kind things and then may what I smell remind me of heaven May my face shine with your light may you protect me? You know and my ears my ears Let let me let me only listen to good things not don't let me listen to naughty things and so Then of course your feet, you know, they have to take you in the right direction So it's a good idea to to make your own chart But the parents should make their own chart and put in some of the things that older people might like to have So anyway, what I just thought I'd do that review with you and suggest So today we're going to do now. We're going to do share screen share screen today we are going to do the mysteries of prayer and it's a Lot and I'm going to go quickly and I can't cover everything But just tonight is some highlights because I feel we're all praying every day And it's good to have some idea you can go to your books You can the workbooks are wonderful that the activities are fun and you can get all this together But I just want for parents and children to have a bit of a some of the highlights for you to know about It might be a little boring for the children, but for goodness sakes You're some of you are seven. You're starting you at least see prayer all the time So it's a very good idea to have some more information about it So we put on my glasses. I've taken notes so I didn't get this wrong Right, but what Ghazali teaches us about prayer everyone also applies to every moment of our life Because prayer has to be filled with like being having reverence and good intentions and humility and understanding and hope Right and shame and our heart should be sincere This is what these are some of the elements of prayer that are very important and when you get your book of prayer I want you to I want you to read oops I want you to read carefully Hamsa Yusuf's introduction on prayer for children. It's absolutely fabulous I thought tonight what I would do is just read that to you but then then there was all the rest so you can read that on your own right and so then I Thought would start with just a minute. I keep messing up here So I don't know whether you all know this. Do you all know? Who taught the prophet peace and blessings be upon him to pray and Who knows Absolutely the angel Gabriel and here right here He's just kicked the stone and some beautiful water is coming out So he taught him to pray and look at that beautiful water from the Zem Zem Which is still going today and you know what then the prophet peace and blessings be upon him He went and taught his wife Khadija how to pray right and oh, but you remember also He went on the mirage up through the seven heavens and it was there that he learned and you all will know the story How instead of having to do 50 prayers a day, which a law would have loved We only have to do five but then the third person to learn how to pray in the Islamic world Was a ten-year-old boy and his name was Ali Ibn Abi Talib. He was a cousin Right and so he was he he learned to pray. He was the third person. You're going to hear more about him later, right? So Now first story. All right children ask yourself could you just be walking down the street And just open the door to the palace of the king or the president and go in and tell him what your needs are Could you just go in and say I want you to help me with my needs? Do you think they would let you do that? Do you think so? No, no, no, no, they wouldn't Yeah, they wouldn't you know, but Who can you go to directly with your needs that's waiting for you all the time to hear? Allah you've got it exactly right Allah He's yeah, he wants you to speak directly to him and he's always available along Exactly and and how do you how do you speak to him? You're used? He's available to everything you need He's never too busy I love it that you just said that that's so beautiful that you understand that exactly, you know And so he's waiting for us and he wants to speak with us And that's why we need to know how to pray but this pray is the prayer is the door now also Another thing This is uh this if you go out into the wilderness out into the parks out into and you call the adan All the angels want to come and pray with you Look at that if you go out and the prayers are like like There's a stream in front of your door and water the Oh river is going by five times a day that you can purify and wudu is just the same thing But it's washing your heart at the same time. You see And so you have to know that your prayers everybody are like a key to heaven And you have to be you have to do them on time And you have to be very careful with your wudu And you don't want to hear a story about why you have to be careful with your prayers. Listen to this all right When you say do a perfect beautiful prayer and your wudu is good that prayer rises up in white glowiness and it says May Allah protect me Just as you have protected me in other words when you do your prayer correctly you've protected it from being hurt And so it rises up and it speaks to Allah And so it's important to protect your prayers and you know what happens if you don't do your prayers, right? You know what's going to happen The prayers are going to be sad imam al ghazali said they're sad and they come to you and they say Why did you neglect us? We are sad Why did you steal parts of us away so we were left not complete and not whole How could you steal a part of your prayer away? Maybe you didn't do part of it? Maybe you rushed through part of it. So it got left out and it wasn't whole And the prophet peace and blessings be upon him said the worst people the worst people steal prayer And prayer is precious You have to keep it safe so nothing can hurt it. Don't you all want to take good care of your prayers? You don't want them to be sad. Do you? No So Allah gives us very special a very special and complete way to pray And so if he's teaching us all of this, we wouldn't want to do a shabby messy prayer, would we? No So we're going to find out how to make our prayers completely complete. We don't want our prayers to be sad, right? Now I don't know whether you know this. Do you all sometimes pray with your family? Or in a group? Yes, you do. Oh, I'm sarah. I'm so glad you do that because listen to this I do if you pray in a group with more than just yourself The prayer is 27 times better And there's a stand waiting you hear this story once upon a time at the time of the prophet peace and blessings be upon him A man missed the prayer in a group and he stayed home He didn't make it to the mosque and everybody went to him and they said we are so sad for you We've come to tell you we're sad for your great loss Because it was so terrible not to have played prayed in a group in the early days of Islam If someone Was late for a prayer for three days Everyone went and they comforted them and they said they were sad for them And if they and if they miss and if for seven days they missed Coming to pray in a group everyone would go to their home and cry and be so sad for them That's how important it is. You know, that's important to know that, isn't it? And you know, this is you know this position when you pray called sujood There's a hadith that Allah loves those who who love to meet him And there's no moment where we're closer to him than right like in this position that you're looking at in sujood Right and it's even said that when you sit back up from the sujood You're back on your heels and you can run your fingers up from your knees just up like this You're like I don't know why I did that Oops You're like pulling your sujood back into when you're standing and your verticality. It's very important. You're sujood So as you all know and this is my favorite verse in the entire Quran Allah says wasjood waqtariba Bow down do this make sujda and draw near So what he's saying is the more down you are the nearer you are Did you know that your head is the most noble part of your body? And if you put it all the way down on the ground All the way down on the ground that is what you should do when you come before your creator Now Do you think it's important to pay attention when you're praying or should you be thinking of lots of other different things? What do you think? You need to pay you need to pay attention right Yeah, in fact When you start to pray, it's good if you do two two rakats You know and ask Allah, you know to And if you do that with no distractions, you're forgiven for your past sins And every prayer you do you can consider it to be a goodbye a farewell prayer Like you're you're saying goodbye to how you used to be and now you're going to travel to meet god fresh You're saying goodbye to the old person You know that little boy we talked about who was 10 years old ali bin abi talib You won't believe this children But when he was about to pray he started trembling like this And he turned pale and everyone said what's happening to you. He said oh When you think of who you were about to stand before isn't that something if you think i'm about to stand before Allah Isn't that overwhelming wouldn't you be a bit scared too? Yeah Sure you would right So you see yeah So also, you know when you go to pray um After you do your would do you know what's a very good idea You don't want to quickly do your would do and then run to pray and you're still a bit Thinking about things and of everything going on your head. So imam al ghazali says find a place And sit quietly to your body is calm and to your mind is calm and what you can do Is imagine right That you're sitting in front of the Kaaba. You see this little girl here sitting imagining. She's sitting in front of the Kaaba So what you can do is um also you can pretend you can pretend It's your last prayer and that'll make you be concentrated in it But while you're there imagining the Kaaba but from between this point right between your your two Eyebrows right here. You're imagining you're standing in front of the Kaaba And so this can calm you down before you start your prayer You don't want to just run into your prayer a little bit frazzled right and by the way Imam al ghazali said if you're in a mosque, do you ever go in a mosque and hear people chatting and talking? Have you ever had that happen? They met conversation you can't in the mosque. You can only talk about spiritual But sometimes people are chatting and you know what the hadith is that people who chat in mosques It's like eating Up all their good deeds just the way Cattles are eating grass right Now there's something very interesting here father. Hamza has taken the children. They're having ice cream They've just been to a museum about the human body and they saw Hands and veins and hearts and many things and so the father hamza is telling them here. He said children you know If you have a body There's certain parts of your body that you need to be alive He's going to compare this to prayer like your heart needs to be there Your lungs need to be there, but if you lost an eye in an accident or lost a hand or a foot You would it would you would still be alive? It would still be if you've lost certain parts of prayer it would still be prayer, right? But he said if if for example, you know you you lost your eyebrows or your eyelashes You wouldn't be very beautiful. Would you you know? You might look a little ugly with no eyebrows So You know, we're asked to do sunnah prayers the extra prayers like the prophet did peace and blessings be upon him Those are the things that make the prayer complete and beautiful, you know So wouldn't you want to to to do your prayers as beautiful as beautiful prayers and as complete as possible? Right, you wouldn't want to reduce your prayers to a minimum, would you? So here here is father hamsa talking to them and the children say no no no We want to we want to have beautiful prayers, right? And then he said, you know Besides learning to pray Here two children they're standing to pray in front of the kibla And they know that they have to lift their hands and bring them down to their here and down to their sides And that you have to learn how to do that and look they're facing the kibla when they pray and Imam al-Ghazali recommends that when you're standing to pray let your eyes your gaze Not go beyond the edge of your prayer rug Don't start looking around if you're sitting down to prayer Would it be giving full attention to god if you started looking around or yawning or scratching or looking at other people? Would you do that if you were in front of your grandmother or in front of? No, exactly. You're right. You wouldn't do that. So why would you do that in front of god? That was terrible, right? And also you have to make An intention you say ania that you're intending to pray And you want to keep This remember we're trying to be present to god We're not have we don't want our minds to wander away when we say the takbir And when we make the ania we try to keep Ourselves in front of a law without thinking of other things and that's very very hard to do, right? But you want when you do your prayer you say I intend to pray pray the fadr prayer you want that Intention to come from your heart put your hand on your heart and feel your intention I intend to do this, right? And then you know when you do the takbir, you know put your hands up like this Try to Try to Stay completely present to a law, right? And you do everything slowly. You're not trying to rush every not trying to rush through. All right so now um And you'd have you sometimes you've seen people they do a supplication and then they do their hands over their face like that Imam al-Ghazali says the prophet peace and blessings be upon him. He did that too And so remember you're not going to do any bad manners. No yawning. No Looking around at other people you want to be completely respecting a law just like you expect respect other people Now And this is the bowing you all know about that I'm not going to go through Ghazali telling you exactly how to bow and where to put your hands and what you do Because you know this from your parents But we're going to talk today about the things you're supposed to be doing inside like not the outer side of wudu But the inner so we're going to be working on that today. All right So one day the children decide they're going to go and try to find Hajj Abdullah in his little village And they went all the way to this little village and they found a little poor house And they knocked on the door And his wife opened and she said oh, you're the lovely children. I've been hearing about you I just want to tell you that he's in the mosque praying won't you come in and have some lemonade And the children said no we'll go ahead But they looked and they noticed the house was very empty They were very poor, but it was full of light and humility and beauty And then they went they went to the mosque and they talked to they went over to see Hajj Abdullah in the mosque And he said, you know, it's important That you have to learn to be The inner parts of your practice of your prayer, you know I mean And then he said you've been doing the wudu with thinking all of those great thoughts now, haven't you Would you like to go back to wudu where you're just doing it without thinking or without Think that that would just be doing the outer thing. You don't want to do that So now you're going to learn about how to pray in an inward way And um You have to know that the other pillars we do when you fast, it's difficult on your body when you make the Hajj It's difficult on your body When you do zakat, maybe it's difficult on you But if during those three things you're thinking of other things and you're not concentrated on a law There's still a lot of good that's going to come from zakat and from fasting But do you think if you do a prayer and you're thinking about something else the whole time Going to the cinema toys Any do you think that your prayer will be that good if you let all of that go? What do you think? No, no, thank you for saying no. Yeah No No No, because gizali said Exactly if you're just making motions And moving your lips and saying words, but you're not thinking about what you're saying now Understand it, right So we need to now if you were if you were with one of your friends your little schoolmates Would you fiddle around and look around in different directions and pay no attention to them? Wouldn't that be rude to them? So you want to try to be present when you're praying with a law You want to because you're having an intimate conversation with him, right? You're having a a conversation with your lord, right? so Oops, I keep doing this second now The children go to visit hajj Abdullah under the magic tree in the secret garden. All right And he tells them, you know children We it's they're different invisible Some you know, they're invisible feelings that make a great difference if you're calm That's one thing if you're upset. That's another feeling. That's not very nice But you need there's six states of being you need to have inside of you when you're praying You need to have presence in your heart You need to have understanding veneration. You need to have hope. We have to have modesty some shame And you want to uncover these wonderful qualities that are already part of your own golden heart, right? So hajj Abdullah said he said you have to notice sometimes you're thinking about worldly matters You're supposed to be praying but you're thinking about everything else and everybody does it and it's very hard to stop so um You have to like um if there are things that you're looking at in the room You ought to remove them For example, if you're trying to pray and you keep looking at all the patterns in the carpet that you're praying on Wouldn't it be better to pray on a plain blanket? If you're if you're in a room with pictures all over it You're looking at the pictures and thinking of you could get you could move those you could move your prayer rug You could move to a different place with a plain wall But those are things that you can change but the real problem is Inside of you all the thoughts that come up now There's another issue Besides being present in your prayer in your standing bowing sujood You need to understand the meaning of what you're saying I mean Is it worth just saying a lot of words and you don't know what they mean? No, because and you can understand what you're saying no matter what age you are at the different Different levels of age. There's a way to understand everything And also we need to feel small We need to Feel all and respect for Allah. We can't just be feeling nothing like we're standing in front of our lord and then just Just our minds are all over the place. No, we have to honor Allah We have to be present and we have to have that with understanding and then All we have to feel all, you know, sometimes you're with somebody very important or older And maybe a grandparent and you you're a little anxious. You might disappoint them You know that you want to feel that with Allah, but you also want to have hope, you know I mean, this isn't just like a king or a queen You know who can't really give you anything you need Allah can give you anything you need and you can have Good hopes in what he can do with you so, um We know that Allah loves us so much right we know that right And we we feel really ashamed when we do things that are not kind or are wrong Like maybe you kids, maybe you don't share Maybe there's some little children. You don't let join in Maybe you have a younger sister or brother and you won't let them play with your group Oh, that's a terrible thing to do. So you feel bad about it. Don't you, you know And so we have to feel bad sometime. It's important, you know now Well, it happened to me on my room because we kind of get in the fight I did Yeah, sometimes I get in the fight because I believe he's hiding something away from me Yeah, you exactly but you feel bad about fighting. Don't you it doesn't feel good. Does it? Yeah, it feels like Yeah, it doesn't feel good Imam al-Ghazali says if you want let's say to pray in a beautiful way If if something really matters to you, don't you find a way to make it happen? Let's say you want to get a toy and you Beg your mother so long. She finally gives in and gets it I mean if you really want to get a beautiful prayer and now you know how important prayer is You you you're going to find a way to do it, right? Because I mean Do you think the law looks at what we do or he looks in our hearts? Where do you think a law is looking? Or right He's looking at our hearts. He cares how we are hearts in our hearts That's right in our hearts, right? and so Now so here he here is what he wants you to do. All right, let me just do the next picture here This is hajj Abdullah talking to the kids in the garden. It's getting late There's probably should go home to their parents. Don't you think? But he's telling them it's important things so now, okay Do you all know what takbir is? You put your hands up and say allahu akbar before you pray Do you all know that have you ever done that? Said allahu akbar like that the takbir Okay, now what you have to do before you do this next time is the following First remind yourself think to yourself. I'm about to stand before god, right? Prayer will lead me to the next world, right? And as I'm saying allahu akbar, I'm going to try to empty my heart And think what the words allahu akbar mean It's like god is greater than anything. Isn't that right kids? God is greater than anything anything we can think about So when we're doing that when we're saying that God is greater than anything we can feel a little bit of Sphere, you know that we might not do the right right thing we can we we have reverence for a law, right and then Just a minute And then just so you know This is the grandfather and grandmother. They're up in the tree house with the children having tea and cakes And the grandfather is asking them how they're doing with their inner prayers, right? And he says, you know, anyone can see outer movements if I do this If I do this Anyone can see that right? But only god can see what's inside of my heart. Isn't that right? So it's important that we get the state of our hearts right for prayer Prayer can't just be moving lips and up and down movements. It's it's who we are inside while we're praying, right? and so the grandfather says I'm going to tell you ways you can be more present Before you even start to pray before you even start to pray and it will help get you going in the right direction Okay, before you pray what can help you is First you're making your wudu. Isn't that right? You do your wudu and when you're doing that You're going over things you wish you hadn't done and you hope to do You're feeling humbled. You're asking for guidance and then you dress properly, don't you because you have respect You don't just go and pray and bathing suits or horrible clothes You see because you're you're standing before Allah And then you hear the adhan and you know when the adhan is going you're all supposed to repeat it When he says Allah Huwaqbar repeat along with it with the adhan and try to feel joy and happiness when you're listening to it, right? I can't see your screen. You can't hear me And everyone else here. I can't see your screen. I hear you. I can see I can see a screen Well, I I don't I can see your screen too. Yeah, I can Yeah, so Anyway, this when you're when you're well, you can start Um start getting ready for prayer And for going to meet God by your wudu and by the way you dress And then when then when you go and stand in front of the kibla, right? Do you know what the kibla is? Who can say Yes Yes, the direction of the kaba, right So So imagine, um You're standing listen to this carefully everyone. You're standing in the direction of prayer, all right Your face is in that right direction, right? Your heart should be also in the same direction facing it, right? If you start looking around looking out the window The heart moves with you, right? You you you don't your mind and your heart will turn with you. So you have to There's a hadith that says gazale said let the face of your heart be with the face of your body So be straightforward. Okay, then you stand up straight everyone. Okay everyone stand up straight All right, and then you bow your head Now the reason you're bowing your head. It's as I said, it's the highest part of your body, right? And if you lower it, it's like you're humbling yourself before a law. You're not full of crap You're bringing yourself down before god, right? You know and you can imagine standing before a law at the end of your life, right? Or in standing in front of your grandparents or a respected elder, you know And you you want to be at your very very best And then, you know, we want to calm our minds as we enter into prayer, right? And we have to look at our thoughts and see what kind of thoughts are tempting us to think about them And we have to keep turning away and turning back and being present, right? And remember feel your intention in your heart And then your intention can be this. All right. This can be your intention I want to be near to god and pray as correctly as I can I am aware what a grace it is that he allows me to speak with him Even with my misdoings and mistakes You know children imagine we can all learn to be present with god in this amazing Unimaginable wondrous conversation we are able to have with him, you know, and this is available in our prayers Can you know if you try to do it? It'll work So now when you say your tech beer Allah walk bar Right at that moment Be like you're standing in front of a king Of course And be present to that because your mind is going to wander very quickly And you try to hold onto that hold onto the tech In one day you'll hold it a second longer and a second longer So it goes through your whole prayer and it's with you all the time but start out if you can just hold Being present without thinking about other things during the tech beer. Can you all try to do that? Just just thinking about Allah not letting your mind wander away because the mind is always wandering And then when you take bring down your hands You're doing this push everything away push everything else behind you. Just try to do that All right now we have the fatih. All right. You see the fatih here No, you skip two pages Like well I did Yeah, I don't want your state stay still Okay, when we're doing the fatih. All right when we start the fatih You know, you hear people say I oothe billahi I seek refuge from the accursed shaitan. I would be lying in a shaitan and regime You you hear that being said that's what you begin with right? And then this is interesting gizali tells the story once upon a time. There was a little boy And there was a beast that came a huge beast With dragon's teeth and the little boy said I seek protection from the beast in a safe fortress Will that save him standing there saying that? No, he better run, right? So what he needs to do is change places So it's the same with you nothing will save you From shaitan except to change places to stop doing things that are no good anymore, you know And the fortress that you can go into is la ilah illallah. It's the shahada and Shaitan is always trying to make us think of other things and not be present while we're saying the fatih But so when you say iothe billahi don't just move your tongues iothe billahi minash shaitan. Don't just do that think I am getting away. I am not going to let him take away my good thoughts. All right And then when you say bismillah you all say bismillah, don't you? The name of the law the source all being Then we say our rough I I I always I always think uh bismillah anytime I eat Oh fantastic Always when you begin anything when you start a trip when you walk out the door. It's very good to say bismillah But now listen to this You know when you say arachman arahim don't just say it in your minds Go to a new place while you're saying it think think he's a law's kind to you He's merciful He gives this gives you hope And then you say Maliki yo madin the king of the final day now when you say that You should be a little afraid right that you might do something wrong So now you've gone from being thinking. Oh, he's so merciful. Oh, he's so kind to uh, oh I better be good. He's the king of the final day, right? So that's veneration and fear and then when we say you alone. Do we worship? Iyakanabudu right You know when you say that You alone. Do we worship? mm-hmm Just notice that we are in trouble and we are weak And We can only turn to him. Don't just say the words really feel. Oh my goodness Only you only you can I turn to when I'm in trouble only you right? And then when you say why Iyakanastain you alone we asked for help Be humble, you know, you need his help. Where else are you going to get help when you say that really say it? I need your help, right? And then you say guide us on the straight path beg him Say in your don't just say guide me on the straight path Just say oh I want to come near you. I don't want a crooked path The the two paths is a crooked path and a straight path. If you had the two paths before you Which are you going to want to take everybody? the straight Yeah Crooked one right imagine that clean good path And you know if you a lot gazelle imam all gazelle says this two kids If you say the fatihah like we've just talked about not just say it fast But slowly think about those things think about a law think about what you're asking begging if you do It imam all gazelle says if you recite a fatihah in this way You will be one of the people a law mentions among the servants who praise him. You'll get mentioned by a law He'll mention you can you imagine being mentioned by and say it slowly, right? How else are you going to be present to a lot you're rushing through right? And think of what you say be in awe. I mean, you know You and you also you also want to You also want to be still you don't you want to be moving don't want to be moving around One of the essentials is you want to be? Humble present in your heart so you need to think about the positions you're in all right Okay, say you're standing straight. Let's think about our positions We've now talked about the different things we say in the fatihah and we thought about how we have to be when They're different modes of being as we're saying things, right? So now we're standing straight. Okay Listen to this The prophet peace and blessings be upon him said God faces the one offering the prayer as long as he does not turn away So face a law right keep your head and eyes from turning And keep your inner self from turning right Stay facing a law Because if you turn away He's turned to right. He's turned away from you right Pretend like you're you're would you be talking to a friend of yours? Any of your friends and then turn away from them while you're talking to them. Would you do that? No, that would be rude So No Yeah, you don't want to do it Now hate you do that to my friends. Oh, so you want to just see these kids with the birds on the head You see the children here Can you be so still that a bird could land on your head and you're just standing there? You're still and you're present to a law and you're looking straight ahead, right? There's a story about a man that the birds didn't just land on his head Even when he was down in sujood, they landed on him too You know and then when you say a look now remember when you change positions when you change prayer positions Each time you say Allah hu akbar or the imam says Allah hu akbar Now when you say it, don't just say Allah hu akbar Allah hu akbar, right? Think of his greatness, you know, and that you're asking him for mercy He is the most great Think that don't just say it and then when you bow, you know, when you bow down um In your mind as you bow over right as you bow over, right? Feel low. Don't feel like this feel you're humbling yourself. You're bowing You're being reverent to god um, and then then you know um When you say Say god Here's the one who praises him sami allahu lily hamida You know that means if god hears the one who praises him, right? That means he answers the one who thanks him, you know, you have to know that when you're saying these things Allah is present you're standing in his presence, right? And then when you rise up from the bow They're still standing with birds. All right when you rise up from the bow You say my lord all praises yours, right? And listen to this. All right. Just as you're rising up From the and you're and you're saying this prayer My lord all praise is yours. Don't just say that Think praise fills all that is in the heavens and the earth Imagine when you're saying that Imagine that you're in a place with light with praise filling all the heavens and the earth Imagine you're in your room where you're praying and suddenly you're in a place where light goes out forever and ever, right? And then when you are in sujood when you go down and do sujood remember Feel the highest way you can be before god That's your noblest part. Your face is in the lowest place like it's in dust, you know I should have I've jumped ahead here So i'm just going to continue saying what I was saying. All right But when you put by the way, do you know what imam al ghazali said? If you could possibly pray in the real earth Not on a prayer rug in a house on a floor, of course We need to pray that way But he said if you went out and prayed outdoors and put your head in the dust, right? He said This would remind us that we've come from the earth and we're going back to the earth and we put our lower self in the lowest Place because we can feel the dust. He said it's like it's like We're taking the root of the tree and putting it down The the branches of the ground and putting them back into the earth, you know And so we want to feel that we are created and we're returning to a law And then, you know, we say supana rabia lala Glorified my lord on most time. We say that several times and if you're saying that You know, you should you know glorifying a law supana law You should be in the state of being not saying supana law supana law. You should say, oh Imagine I'm sitting here glorifying a law. So you have to feel these things inside of you You and you know what is going to happen when you feel humble and low and put your head on the forehead On the ground you will feel relief And I bet some of you have noticed that that you've you've felt relief before and a law Loves our weakness in our humility when and when we say we're sorry And then you say you can also say alahu akbar I I think I've lost where I'm going all of these pictures, but that doesn't matter. They're very beautiful. Oh, no I'm going back. It's too soon. Okay, so Also When you say alahu akbar You don't forget you're in direct conversation with the law and you have to ask him for your special needs you know And you ask him for For forgiveness before you do your second sujud And then when you're sitting up like this, you know, you finished bowing you're sitting up like this And you think to yourself everything belongs to god including the prayers offered and even who I am and then Right. Remember you have to give your greetings to the right and the left So the the the prophets you have to make the prophet peace and blessings be upon him present in your own heart And greet him directly from yourself This is not just saying assalamu alaikum warahmatullah. Just saying it you're actually in direct Connection with him. He's there for you right and these greetings do reach him You know and remember that he returns our The greet the our greetings to him So you're in connection with him when you're doing that And then also when you're saying the shahada, you know Imagine taking shelter in the fortress of god, right? And you can say do after your parents and all of the faithful And then you greet all of the angels and the others who are present But when you're doing this, I want you to be in a state of real gratitude with your with your heart, right? And thank Allah for this chance to complete this active worship And imagine you're saying goodbye To what might be your last prayer you never know And there's a hadith which says prayer is part of the hereafter when you enter it you leave this world Can you imagine when you're praying you're actually leaving this world? Right So what you're learning is that you have to be humble and present in your heart, right? In your prayers Now Then there's such a thing as the friday prayers. All right um Let me see if there Oops i'm going back All right Have any of you ever been to the mosque for Friday friday prayers? Have you have someone Have you yes You got to go you know that You know that you know how they choose the imam for the mosque He's somebody who everyone likes Not somebody they don't like and who is the smartest one Or the best person who recites and if the imam makes a mistake when he's leading you in prayer It doesn't matter your prayers are still perfect You know the first imam was the prophet peace and blessings be upon him and then abu bakr and omar And the prophet said peace and blessings be upon him your imams are your messengers before god And then the man who does the call to prayer the muazzin muazzin If if he does it for seven years, he's promised heaven And if he calls the prayer for 40 years, he enters paradise with actually no questions no questioning And the imam is responsible for making everybody pray on time Once the prophet peace and blessings be upon him who was an imam was late and somebody else took became the imam instead you don't want to be late and You want your and the man make sure the rows are straight you see these children They're sitting in straight rows and the gaps are closed and then there's a second adhan It's called the akama or the the call for readiness. All right And they call friday the lord of the days um the lord of the days gabriel came to uh Gabriel came to the prophet with a white mirror in his hand And and mentioning that these on friday. These are the best hours that the the hours on friday And the conditions many things can take place But when you have when you have the friday prayer You need to have it at noon of course and 40 people have to come And there are two sermons and the second sermon the friday sermon should be clear but not long But now you need to know there are 10 manners 10 manners For for for going to the friday prayer. Okay This is what we want to do children on thursday you start preparing Right. It gives you special graces. You make your intention on thursday And you ask a loss forgiveness, right? It's better than waking up on friday morning and saying hey, what day is it thursday? You're already thinking tomorrow is friday and i'm going to get to pray with the congregation And then you take a bath on friday morning and do your nails and teeth and everything clean And wear clothes that don't stand out white is good And you know why you set out early to the mosque Because if you get there early you can do a retreat here is hajj abdulla. He's gotten to the mosque early He's doing a little private retreat if you get there early You can sit quietly before all the people come and ask god's forgiveness and there's a hadith When it's when it's friday the angels sit by the door recording the first ones to come in You see the angels wings here. They're interested to see who comes in first It says when it is friday the angels sit by the door of the mosques and in their hands are pages of silver and pens of gold With which they record the first as the first in their order of entering the mosque And al-bukhari and muslim said The angels say oh god if poverty has delayed him enrich him if illness cure him if some work relieve him Relieve him of it for the sake of your worship and if it's some vain distraction turn his heart back to your obedience So angels are either side of the door everybody Recording who's getting there and what time they come right? And of course when you when you go in see the angels right here recording Hmm when you go inside You're not supposed to start climbing over people's backs to get up to the front row, right? And you don't walk in front of people who are praying you don't ever do that, right? And another reason to to arrive early is just try to get a seat in the front So that you can hear better, but listen to this If you're so generous and you want other people to be on the front row then you could go and sit in the back You have to look at your intentions and then You and you you say you're doing your own prayers. You're just doing some special prayers and the ma'am comes in The second he comes in you stop your own prayers right in the middle And if you're talking to someone you stop talking And if someone is talking down the row just gesture to them just gesture you don't say anything like no prayers All right Next you do your prayer correctly. These are the 10 things you've got to do And then 10 the last thing listen to this If you can if you would like to stay in the mosque until aster or even maghrib On a special retreat. It is a wonderful thing to do on fridays But if you do it just impress people so they think oh, he's really great He stayed after you know, he's doing a retreat then you better not do it You should think about your own weaknesses. So remember when you're in the mosque you only do spiritual talking And friday is a very special day to do good deeds and special services Of course every day is a good day to do it But it's especially good on friday because there's something during the day of friday called the noble hour And this noble hour is hidden But if you are thinking about a law and the noble hour comes and you ask him something Oh guide me help me. He will answer you and give you what you're asking for or something better that he knows of So that's what the noble hour is So we end end by saying that when you go to visit a mosque The first thing you do when you go in is do to rakas, right? You do two bowings, right? Does anyone know what happens if you're saying one of your prayers and you forget where you are you don't know whether you Stood up once or twice. This can happen. You know You you you're praying and all of a sudden you think oh my goodness I just I just forgot where I was what you do at the end of your prayer, right? Is the end of your prayer is just before you you do your final? Greetings of the angels. You just go you bow down twice. It's called. So juda. So what you just do that and then you Do that if I ever make a mistake in Salah That's right. And you know what I brother just taught me How to do that? I am so glad that you know I only learned about it when I was like 40 years old And what happened was I was in mecca at the kaba during ramadan Millions of people and the man was leading the prayer next to the kaba and all of a sudden He started doing the sujooda sehwa And I didn't know what he was doing. He was so humble that He forgot where he was and he wasn't embarrassed. He didn't hide it He actually was there so close to Allah that he did the sujooda sehwa meaning I forgot where I was during my prayer, right? now um We're going to end it here and answer some questions. But just let you To let you know that there are Many kinds of prayers not just the regular prayers They're the nawafil the sunnah the recommended the gift voluntary istahara glorification and the prayers of pressing needs And other other group prayers too. So these are all things you can learn about But what what imam al ghazali says when he ends the book of prayer is The thing he wants you to do even if you do something one little thing Just do it regularly say you decide that every time you do takbir You're going to remember you're standing in front of Allah and you're going to try to be present and you're not going to lose your attention if you just do that every time you pray Regularly you're going to get somewhere. So that is a very quickly done the book of prayer And oh, we're not going to do the curriculum. They're just some nice nice pictures of kids here. There's a couple that I really Can we color um while listening? Yes While you're listening, I'd love it if you colored while we're listening Yeah, look at this lovely little boy from Indonesia. Isn't he beautiful? And this little girl is being present. Look at that She is being very careful to not let her thoughts get carried away And this one's giving gifts. Look at her these little wonderful children I have questions. How many pictures are these? How many what Pictures of kids There are lots of pictures of kids This is my favorite one. Isn't she lovely? She's doing duet, isn't she So I'm gonna end the screen here Stop share Stop share I want to show you my drawing. Can I see your drawing? Hold it up. Let me see it. Where is it? I think it's one of the scratching thing that you Can I see it? Could you hold it up? Can someone help her hold up her drawing? Wow, that is beautiful. Where is it? There I can't see because it's um upside down Maybe I'll move across It looks really beautiful. Looks like that Zahra, right? Zahra. Rahmatullah. That is beautiful. Look at that. That's my name. Wait, wait Well, I'm seeing a drawing that's being held up here. It looks really good. Wait, I didn't have a drawing We don't Well, then whose drawing is it? Let me look and see everybody's here. I think they're two zahras. I'm one of them Well, why is it? I'm not seeing the drawing Okay, she stopped holding it. I'm putting yeah, she stopped Okay, can you hold it up one more time? There's two zahra's action. Who's uh showing the drawing? I'll oh And she has the drawing she's holding it up, right? Okay, there it is I can see it. Okay. Oh That's is that the golden great bridge? Oh, isn't that beautiful the London bridge. It's the London bridge. Oh, isn't that wonderful. I like your drawing It's wonderful. Do you like to draw? Yeah Yeah, you know what I'd love for you all to do is your homework this week is um Think of anything we said today any of the stories any of the stories we told and do a drawing of An idea that you like the best that meant something to you. Well, everybody do a drawing and show it to me next week Will you do that? Yes About like a design on a carpet or something. Yeah Oh, that's a Thing you can do if you pray and your prayer rug is driving you crazy because you look at all the patterns Maybe you can get a paper bag And draw your own prayer rug cut it out out of paper and make it simple and make it something That wouldn't distract you. Could you do that? Yeah, yes, but how are we going to do that in? Mars No, you just do it at home. Just get a paper bag and cut it up and make it into Or before prayer or in the middle You can do whatever you want I'm talking about After prayer before prayer in the middle Well, you're not going to be drawing in the middle of a prayer. It should be before or after Okay But I think what I want you all maybe here's what I want you all to do I think what you probably Should take away from today Along with your parents is when you do your prayer All right, just like when you do your review really think about What you're doing But don't just say the words and move Really imagine if you're saying Dina Serrata, you know Show us the clear way really in your heart feel yani. Oh Allah guide me. Show me the correct way If you're saying supana law really feel Awesome, and you know what you're going to discover in your in your place where you pray It'll be you'll be slowed down. You'll be thinking about it. You'll be in a room full of light You'll see light going on forever So will everybody tell me next week do one prayer and tell tell me Well, everybody do that. I already did a prayer today. Oh, sorry I know what I did I prayed um from pleasure to um more than a minute. It's not a shat time yet Oh, yeah, what time is it where you are see for me? It's five after ten So I have to go to bed. I'm five minutes late for bed. What time do you go to bed? For me For me it's seven or like kind of eight or seven B is seven. For me it's nine o'clock. For me it's nine o'clock. Bed time is at nine o'clock Okay, will you wish me a very good night and tell me to sleep well. Tell me So what city are you in? Yes, enjoy your day What did you say? In the town called Louisville, Kentucky It's where Muhammad Ali clay lived and died and also where Kentucky fried chicken started I've been to your house. I think Kentucky fried chicken I even met colonel sandor's sister, you know, he started Kentucky fried chicken Yeah The time for the time for me is the time for the time for members