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In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the Universe. And peace and blessings be upon the honorable prophets and messengers, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him and upon his family and companions. Tasliman kaseem kaseeha. Many years ago, I was in Saudi Arabia in Dammam, and I went to meet a very famous alim there, who I had been following and learning from for many years. So I met with Maziz, I met him, and it was about Salat al-Isha, so you know around 8, 7, 8 p.m. And he said to me, if you’re free after Salat al-Isha, please come home to meet, it is a great honor, the alim is inviting me to his house. I went to meet him, and then guess what time I left? After Salat al-Fajr. And as we left, he gave me a parting advice. And his advice he gave me was, the next time you meet an alib, shake his hand and rub. So I came here to do a door of Darussalam, and then we spent an hour with the teachers. Now I am here with you, and Allah knows best what is ahead of me. Hande Allah. I’m delighted to see all of you, maashada, may Allah bless all of you, and grant you his khashiyya in your heart. The hasil of ilm, please understand this very clearly, because when we are in madrasah, we get stuck with the books, kitab, kitab, kitab, kitab, kitab. And we forget, not deliberately, but we forget the purpose of all that. Imam Ahmad bin Hambal Ram to Lali had a friend called Bishar al-Hafi. Now Imam Ahmad himself was so tremendously rigorous about knowledge, that one day somebody asked him to do istambadul akhkam, how many ahadis, and we are here talking about the dakhri, the ilm-ul-rijal, the whole works, right? How many ahadis should a person know? Imam Ahmad did not reply. So the man started to push him, and guess what number he started with? Did he say, is it enough to know ten ahadis, enough to know a hundred? No, he said, is it sufficient to know ten thousand ahadis? Ten thousand ahadis memorized with the huchens of the writers. Imam Ahmad said no. He said twenty, he said no. He said thirty, he said no. He said forty, he said no. The man went all the way to a hundred and twenty thousand ahadis memorized, and Imam Ahmad says maybe, right? Same deed. So one day somebody asked Imam Ahmad, he said, you have this great rigor with regard to how many ahadis a person should have memorized and so on and so on, but your friend Bishr al-Hafi, Rahatul alaih, you call him your ustad. But he does not know hundred and twenty thousand ahadis. How is he a uttab? Imam Ahmad said something which I want to leave with all of you, and I ask Allah to put in my heart. Imam Ahmad said Bishr has the husul, he has the hassle of the ilm. He has the essence of the knowledge, he has the purpose of knowledge. He said what is that? He said khashyatullah. He said khashyatullah. Right? So remember this, khashyatullah. Purpose of your learning here is not to become an alin, not to become a fazil, not to get a bachelor’s, a master’s, not to make heads of the foran, not to be an expert in usul al-ahadis or whatever. All of these are zimn and all of these are things that will happen to you in matter of course as you go through the curriculum, your purpose to be here is to have the khashya of Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala in your heart. Now question is, how do I know if I have the khashyat of Allah or not? Wait, she agrees, I should have khashya of Alhamdulillah. So now do you have it or not? Do I have it or not? One of the things that I teach is six sigma quality and six sigma is a quality standard. For example, if I ask you, I’m doing a business, I’m manufacturing something that is 99% perfect. Is that good or bad? 99% perfect, good, right? 99% is 10,000 mistakes per million. Six sigma is 3.4 mistakes per million. That is the difference from 10,000 to 3.4. The man who invented that, he said, if you want, his name was Michael Harry, he worked for Motorola. He said, if you want to know what somebody values, see what they measure. Metrics. If you want to see what somebody values, see what they measure. Unless you have metrics, you don’t know. We prayed salaat of Zuhur, right? If I ask you, what was the quality of your salaat? Can you answer this question? You should be able to answer it, why not? What was the quality of your salaat? So what did you pray? You prayed something where you don’t even know what it was. I mean, good, bad, ugly, what is the state of it? You have no metrics. Unless you have metrics, you will never know. We know the hadith, we have heard this many times. Salaat is of different kinds. There is salaat, somebody prays, which does not even go above his head. You heard this, right? There is salaat, where somebody prays, which goes directly to the Arshawa Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala. There is salaat, where somebody prays, where the salaat is taken like a dirty clock and slapped back in his face. Yes? Now, I just prayed salaat of Zuhur, which one was mine? Will it go to the heavens or did it come to my face? Metrics, measurement, how do I know I have Fashatullah? You don’t have to go anywhere. The kitab of Allah is the best guide. Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala said, إِنَّمَ الْمُمِنُونَ الَّذِينَ إِذَا ذُكِّرَ اللَّهُ وَجِيلَ قُلُوبُهُ Metrics, measurement. Understand the Quran from the perspective of the Quran. It’s not only the tajweed and the… إِذَا ذُكِّرَ اللَّهُ وَجِيلَ قُلُوبُهُ وَإِذَا تُلِيَتْ أَلَيْهِمْ آيَاتُهُ زَادَتْهُمْ إِيمَالَ And the result of these two things? A heart which is responsive and Iman which increases? وَعَلَى رَبِّهِمْ يَتَوَكَّلُونَ Yes? You are all in the Debs, you know the Surah, you know the ayah, number and so on. Now my point is, what happens to my heart when Allah is mentioned? Rivayat, alhamdulillah, you go to Madrassa, you get a lot of stuff that you can use to lecture on platform for the rest of your life. Right? You will get all sorts of stories. Remember that every story you stand here and narrate to people is a witness for you or against you. You have all heard this story. Sayyidina Ali bin Abidai when he heard the adhan, Allah hu Akbar, Allah hu Akbar, his face would become white. Somebody said, why you look like you are so scared, what happened? Did you not hear the adhan? Allah hu Akbar. We know the hadith of the Prophet, sayyidina Ayesha Siddiqa radiyallahu anhu, our mother she said, he would be with us and he would be, you know, in the world and the family and talking and so on and as soon as he heard the adhan, it would be like he did not know any of us, he would become an instantly, he would become a stranger. We heard this way? So what happens to you, what happens to you when you hear the adhan? What metrics Allah has given us, the metrics, measure yourself, am I a Momin? Allah showed us how to tell myself, how to answer. What happens to my iman when I listen to the Tawakkul of the Quran? Do I have Tawakkul on Allah? The sign of Tawakkul on Allah is my heart filled with fear of this dunya, aspirations and desires and you know, looking for others to help me or is it Allah shupana hu wataar? Medics, right? I’ve got 30 seconds left, they told me 10 minutes is 9 minutes and 33 seconds. So final point, dua. Allah shubhana hu ta’ala put shurut, He put conditions on every form of a weather. For salah you need a condition, for sawm you need a condition, for zakat you need a condition but for dua there is no condition. yad quroonallaha qiyamahu wa faroodahu wa ala jinnu bihundi First to dua. Start in sitting, lying down, running, wherever you want dua. Whether you have hudu or not, whether you are liable for ghusl or not, dua is jais. So my final question to you is, do you talk to Allah? Do you talk to Allah? No talk about formal, formal duas, no no no no, do you talk to Allah? What is my dhalil to ask you this question, do you talk to Allah? Did you reflect on this ayah? Reflect on the ayah. Here is a little boy, he must have been a little boy because if he read the ayah and so on and so forth, this is not an adult speaking. Little boy. He is not making formal ibadah, he is not reciting whichever kalam. He says, Allah show me how do you bring back the dead to life. Rabbi, my Rab, he is not saying ya Rab, no my Rab, my Rab, it is me and you. Me and you. How do you bring back the dead? So I want to end with this. May Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala accept. May Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala make this means of khair and baraka for all of us. I am leaving you with some thoughts. What is the measurement for khashyatullah in your heart? And in terms of dua, do you talk to Allah? Talk to Allah. Ask Allah, tell Allah your story. He knows it anyway, but as a slave, mayaqtir.
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