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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds.
And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers.
Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family and his companions,
and a lot of respect.
And after that, my brothers and sisters,
we just finished Salat al-Maghrib by Jam’ah.
Alhamdulillah, in terms of the reward of this,
Rasulullah said this is to pray this,
any Farsala by Jam’ah has 25 to 27 times the reward of praying it on your own, by yourself.
About Salat itself,
about praying by itself and that also not for Sunnah Salat,
which is the two Sunnah of Salat al-Fajr.
Rasulullah said, the two Sunnah of Salat al-Fajr
are better than all that is contained in the heavens and the earth
and between them.
Combine them all.
So, in this,
so if this reward for the Sunnah Salat prayed alone is that much,
which is more than everything in the earth and in the heavens and whatever is in between,
then what is the reward for the Farsala prayed by Jam’ah?
This is the beauty of this Deen.
This is the beauty of this Deen.
That Allah gave us things which are apparently small and insignificant.
How long did it take to pray?
You know?
Totally maybe,
five, seven minutes,
10 minutes, let’s say.
Nothing more than that.
May not even be 10, maybe about five, seven minutes.
And the reward for that is?
Now, think about this.
Think about this reward in the context of the place where this reward is going to be really visible for us to see.
That is on the day of Yawal Khayama, the day of judgment.
On the day of judgment, the difference or the value of one Hasana, just one good deed,
is the difference between Jannah and Jahana.
Just one.
Just one single good deed, the value of that is,
it can spell the difference between Jannah and Jahana.
So what about Farsala,
prayed by Jam’ah in the Masjid,
all of this reward, I mean.
Now, what does this teach us?
What does Salah teach us?
One of our,
one of our,
Ashaati is one of our teachers.
May Allah Subh’anaHu Wa Ta-A’la fill his cover with Noor.
Ma’an Yunus Patel, Sir, Ram Thiru Laleh.
He went to,
I actually met him on that trip.
He was going to Makkah.
I was going somewhere else.
I can’t remember where, but I met him in Dubai,
in the lounge,
in the Emirates lounge.
And he said, I’m going for Umrah.
I said,
I requested him,
please make dua for me and so on.
He finished Umrah,
he’s sitting in the Mataf
in front of the Kaaba,
he passed away.
Allah Subh’anaHu Wa Ta-A’la called him to himself.
Now, he used to say,
Salah begins outside the Masjid.
Salah begins outside the Masjid.
You might say,
I go to the Masjid for Salah,
I’m praying.
Yeah, sure, of course, obviously Salah.
But he said Salah begins outside the Masjid.
So we said,
Shaikh, what do you mean?
He said, your religion is what happens after Salah is over.
The quality of your religion,
the level of your Iman and Yaqeer and so on.
He said, this is measured by what you do outside the Masjid
when Salah is over.
So what does it teach us?
Some things,
I’m not,
this is not an exhaustive list,
but some things it teaches.
First and foremost,
Salah teaches me that Allah Subh’anaHu Wa Ta-A’la
and obeying Allah is more important than anything else.
This is the first lesson.
That is why whatever else I might be doing,
when the time of Salah comes,
Salah begins outside the Masjid.
So we got to go pray.
We can’t be doing something else.
We can’t say, oh, but you know,
my office, my shop, my business, my this, my that.
No, no, no.
Time for Salah, we go and pray.
So the first and foremost thing we learn is
that Allah and obeying Allah
takes precedence over everything else.
Second, it teaches us the importance of purity, of Taharaq.
Because our Udhu is the key to Salah.
Without the Udhu, there is no Salah.
So purifying myself,
Udhu, if I need to kusar, may I kusar.
Make sure that the body is pure.
I’ve done the Udhu.
And then only we go into Salah.
So the importance of purity,
the importance of cleanliness.
Third thing is the importance of Tawajjo,
the importance of focus.
Because Salah is Ibadah
and the Ibadah begins with the Niyah.
If there is no Niyah, there is no Ibadah.
When you, for example,
when the Adhan is called,
when the Masjid is calling the Adhan,
what are we supposed to do?
First thing,
reply to the Adhan,
which is whatever the Muslim is saying,
you say it,
say also the same thing.
So it’s Allahu Akbar,
you say Allahu Akbar,
it’s Allahu Akbar,
it’s Allahu Akbar,
and so on,
except for Hayyara Salah
and Hayyara Fala,
you say,
La Hawla Wa La Quwwata Illaha Bida.
And then when this Adhan is over,
then what do you do?
You send Durood on Rasulullah .
First thing,
people make these mistakes.
First thing you do is send Salat and Salam
on Rasulullah .
You don’t immediately say
Allahumma Rabbah Azizu Azizu At-Tama, no.
First you send Durood
on the Rasulullah .
Then you say the Dua of Adhan,
Allahumma Rabbah Azizu Azizu At-Tama
Ila Al-Akhir, till the end.
Then you say,
Ashadu an la Ilaha Illa Allah
wa ashadu anna Muhammadan
abduhu wa rasulu
You say the Kalima.
And then you say,
Raditu Billahi Rabbah
wa bi Islami Deena
wa bi Muhammadan
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
Rasula wa Nabiyya
You say this three times.
And then Rasulullah
said,
Any Dua you make after that,
Allah will accept.
Right?
Now,
this is for the Adhan
when the Mawzeen is calling the Adhan.
How about if the Adhan
is being played nowadays,
we have those
those little
very convenient things,
those clocks and you know,
whatever they call,
like phones and stuff.
If that is happening,
should you also do the same thing?
Repeat after the Adhan and so on?
No.
No.
Why not?
Because the Shart,
the condition of the Ibadah is near.
That phone has no near.
The clock has no near.
It’s an inanimate thing.
It’s a machine.
You change the time of the clock,
it will call the Adhan in the middle of the call,
the Fajr Adhan in the middle of the night.
You know,
there’s no Aqal.
The Shart of Ibadah is near.
The Mawzeen has the near.
He’s making Adhan with the near,
with the Shaur,
with the understanding.
So when you are hearing the Adhan
from a machine,
that is why praying to a machine,
for example,
you say,
I don’t know enough Quran,
so I’m going to pray Tarawih,
I’ll put on the machine and I’ll pray.
No.
There’s no Salah behind the phone.
So near.
Salah is teaching us the importance of near.
You make the near for to pray.
Now the near is not necessary.
Again,
we also learn that when you are praying,
it is not necessary to say the prayer
with your tongue.
I am praying three rakahs,
Salatul Maghrib,
by Jama’at,
behind this Shaikh,
behind this Imam,
on this red carpet,
in 377 Amersetown Road,
Islam etc.
No, all of this is not required.
Ibn Taymiyyah said,
the one who says that
is showing two deficiencies.
He said, what deficiency?
He says,
there is a deficiency in intelligence,
in Aql,
and deficiency in Deen.
He says, deficiency in Aql because,
do you make a near like this
when you are eating your food?
I am eating this food
so that I will get strength,
so that I will do this or that.
Do you do that?
No, you don’t do that.
Do you make a near when you sit in the car
and say, I am going to drive this car
from this address to that address.
The action is proof of the near.
There is no need to make that near.
The near is in the heart.
When you come and stand here,
you are standing here for which Salah?
When you came and stood here,
you stood here for which Salah?
Zohar?
It is in the heart.
That is sufficient.
And the deficiency in,
that is the deficiency in Aql,
if you are saying it.
And deficiency in Deen
is because Rasool
never did this.
And he never told us to do it.
So you are starting something on your own.
So Saha is teaching us that
we must make a near.
He is teaching us that
this is the way of life.
He is teaching us that
this near must be made intelligently
and must be made according to the
Sunnah of Rasool Allah’s Satsang.
Then the Salah is teaching us
to be systematic and to be,
we stand in one’s of,
shoulder to shoulder.
Right?
Shoulder to shoulder.
You make sure you are not back and forth.
You are not somebody’s forward, no.
All in one line, shoulder to shoulder.
You don’t talk in Salah.
You don’t look here and there in Salah.
You are focused.
You subject yourself to one leader,
who is the Imam.
And the leader is not the leader because
of this reason or that reason
or this nationality or that nationality
or because he is wealthy
or because he is poor or,
on one basis only.
What is that basis?
He knows more Quran than others.
Now you are not,
it’s not necessary to take an exam,
but somebody who you know,
knows more Quran,
is more on the Sunnah.
That is the reason why
to pray behind somebody
who is not following the Sunnah,
who is breaking the Sunnah,
the Salah is, Salah becomes,
in some cases it becomes invalid.
You cannot pray behind such a person.
In other cases it is defective.
So somebody who is
on the Sunnah of Jesus
appearance and so on,
and somebody who knows more Quran.
So the leader is somebody who has more knowledge
than others
and is more,
you know, worthy of emulation
and worthy of following because he
follows the Prophet .
So you follow the leader.
Now this is so strict in Salah
that for example if you make Sajdah
before the Imam, your Salah is gone.
You follow, you don’t do your own thing.
You follow.
So he knows the Masail.
Huh?
So he knows the Masail too.
Yeah, of course.
So he knows the Masail of Salah.
So he can’t just, anybody just,
you know, no.
So he has knowledge.
I mean, point I’m making here is that,
the, you follow a leader who has knowledge.
You don’t just follow somebody because of popularity.
Today we live in a world
where you elect somebody on what?
On what basis?
Popularity.
Just see, just monitor conversation.
When you, when you listen to people,
right, many of you listen,
you spend a lot of time listening to politics and whatnot,
which is a complete waste of time.
But anyway, at least make some benefit out of that.
Think about it.
You know, you follow a leader,
you follow a leader,
you follow a leader who is a leader of a group of people.
Think about the conversation.
What are they talking about?
Now this thing is going on in New York, right?
Mamdani will be elected or somebody will be elected.
What are they, when they are praising,
say Mamdani or somebody,
what are they saying?
What about him?
Islam says the only thing you should be concerned about is
ethics and values and knowledge.
Not how well he speaks or how,
what a nice thing he said or how he said this to that one and that.
What do we look at when we,
when we look at so-called leaders?
That we get very,
you know, how on earth do we elect such lousy leaders?
Because we don’t know what to look for.
If you were to elect leaders purely on the basis of popularity,
you will elect somebody who is a leader.
You will elect somebody who is a leader.
You will elect somebody who is popular,
but the most popular person is a clown.
Everyone is laughing at him, no?
So then you say, how did this clown get into this seat?
You put him there.
How did he get into the seat?
Look at the quality of the person.
What do they know?
Who are they?
What is their education?
See how we see how today,
we even rate the scholars of Islam.
Popularity, nothing else.
Someone who has so many likes on Facebook.
Someone who has so many things on Snapchat or whatnot, whatnot.
Is this a way of rating a scholar?
So we end up getting people who are bad for you
because now you’ve elected a bad leader.
You can do a lot of damage.
So Salah is teaching you what?
Salah is saying, no, don’t elect people on that basis.
Elect people on the basis of knowledge,
on the basis of character,
on the basis of closeness to the Sunnah of Rasulullah .
Then in Salah, we learn that when you are in Salah,
you focus on Ibadah only, not on anything else.
Can you pick up,
take your phone from your pocket and look at it
and quickly send some messages.
You know what this Imam’s Firaat is very nice.
Also, he made a mistake.
To the extent that if you are reading Quran in Salah,
behind the Imam, your Salah is gone.
Your Salah has become invalid.
Many people do that in Talabi, right?
The Imam is reading and then they pick up their phone.
They are following the Imam.
Your Salah is gone.
You are considered to be out of Salah.
In the Hanafi Madhab,
the Imam is instructed not even to take correction
and Luqma from somebody who is reading from the Musab,
whether it’s the phone,
whether it’s the Musab itself or something.
If he corrects the Imam,
the Imam is not supposed to take his correction.
If he knows that it is coming from somebody who is reading.
Focus.
You are following the Imam.
He is reading Quran.
You focus on what he is reading.
You focus on the meaning of that.
You focus on how does it touch my heart.
This is my Rabb, Jalla Jalaluhu.
This is his speech.
I am listening to it.
How is it affecting me?
Focus on that.
Don’t focus on, you know,
okay, did he say, did he pronounce the Honna correctly?
Is the Madh correct in that or?
That’s not your job.
That is not your job.
If you do that, your Salah is gone.
You are not doing it right.
You are doing it wrong.
And then you follow the Imam,
also in Faiz.
So when he does ruku, you do ruku.
When he does Sajdah, you do Sajdah.
So you follow the Imam both in Qawla and Faiz,
in the speech and in action.
And then what do you do?
How do you end the Salah?
By Salah.
Tasdeem.
Salam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.
Salam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.
Both sides.
Both sides.
Both sides.
Both sides.
salam on this side, salam on this side
to the people on this side
to the people on that side, to the malaika on this side
to the malaika on that side and so on
so see how many
as I told you it’s not a long list but
how many things we learn from this
beautifully bad
and finally
and I want to close with that
sala is the physical
manifestation and the proof
of Iwan
because what did we say
when we entered Islam
la ilaha illallah
muhammadur rasulullah
this kalima
there are three
shurut, three conditions
to enter Islam, one
is to believe in this
belief is in the heart
second one is to say it
aloud
please notice
please
please notice
please notice
please notice
saying it aloud in front of somebody
before the imam in the masjid
in a congregation
getting a certificate for it
none of this is required to enter Islam
all of these are nice to do
for one reason only which is
that if you drop dead tomorrow
and somebody says you know what
this guy used to be a
a Christian or he used to be a Hindu
therefore let us take and cremate him
he said no no no no hold on a second
he’s not a Hindu
because he’s a this guy is a Muslim
because he came here
and he accepted Islam
so this is for that reason
which is that people know
that you are a Muslim
and therefore what to do with you
after you have died
and if you have some property
and so on and so forth
how is that to be distributed
otherwise there’s no reason
there is no
please understand this
if somebody accepts Islam on their own
without announcing it
without telling anybody
they are as Muslim as anyone else
there is no other condition involved
knowing believing in the heart
saying it with your tongue
and then amalik
amal is the tongue
amal will arakhan
to live by that
arakhan is the limbs and the body and so on
amal the on the kalba
now what is the meaning of amal on the kalba
is first amal is salah
how
Allah said aqeemu salah
you said there is no one worthy of worship
except Allah
so who do you worship
Allah s.w.t
and then you say
wa ashadu anna muhammisol rasool Allah
I bear witness that
Muhammad s.a.w. is the Rasool Messenger of Allah
Allah. Now how is the Salah proof of that? The Salah is the proof of that because Rasulullah
said, he said, pray as you have seen me pray. So when I say that Muhammad is the Rasul of
Allah and I am his follower, what is the proof of that? That I used to pray. That is the
proof because how did you pray? The way of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam. There
is no other way. There is no other way. I can’t say, you know what, my Salah is according
to my father was a great, very big scholar. He was a very holy man. And therefore I’m
praying like my father used to pray. If your father prayed like the Rasul alaihi wasallam
and you followed your father, Alhamdulillah, good for you. But then who are you actually
following? The Rasul alaihi wasallam. But you say, no, my father used to do some funny
thing in this, some new thing in this Salah. I am following that. Your father,
your mother taught about the two false and downright what so much man. That was a beautiful
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what the prophet has taught me and I taught you so that if we continually practicerat
to you and then you understood, then they don’t mean you’re weak and you understand
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we worshiped Allah and we bear witness that there is that Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is the
messenger of Allah and I and you and we are all his followers and the proof of that is that we
followed him in Salah he said pray as you have seen me pray and we prayed as we have seen him
as we learned from him how to pray and that is the reason why Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said
he said the dividing line the differentiator between us and them is the Salah between Muslims
and non-Muslims is the Salah the one who rejects it the one who has left it has left Islam
Imam Ahmad and others said this applies even to leaving one single Salah
which is the Salah which is the Salah which is the Salah which is the Salah which is the Salah
without a Shariah reason without a reason which is valid in the Shariah even one Salah one single
Salah if Salah if you leave without a reason valid in the in the Shariah you have left Islam if you
die after that you have died without Islam then of course you pray the next Salah inshallah you
come back into Islam you make a step forward you come back into Islam but if a person does not do
that and may Allah have mercy on us there are people who call themselves Muslims who never
pray for get one Salah they don’t pray at all period then you see them on the day of Eid why
because you get to meet a lot of people nice parties somewhere nice clothes and and turn
up for Eid Islam is not two days or two days a year my brothers this is the value of Salah it
is the differentiator between Jannah and Jannah that’s why I said one deed one deed is Salah
is the differentiator between Jannah and Jannah we ask Allah Subhanahu wa ta’ala Jannah Jannah
to give us a life which is Salah in practice.
Which is Salah in practice.
We give us a life which is Salah in practice.
We give us a life which is accepted by Allah
where He is pleased with us.
We ask Allah to be pleased with us and never to be displeased.
And may the blessings of Allah be upon the noble Prophet and his companions.
And may the blessings of Allah be upon the merciful and the merciful.
And all praise belongs to Allah, Lord of the worlds.