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Juz’ 21: Dr. Hassan Elwan and Dr. Rania Awaad | Wisdom, Leadership and Awareness

How do we live lives always in awe of Allah? How can we practice the wisdom of Luqman? What traits do we need to become pious leaders?

Dr. Rania Awaad and Dr. Hassan Alwan join Sh. Abdullah Oduro and Dr. Omar Suleiman to explore the answers to these questions and more within the 21st juz.

0:00 - Intro
2:25 - Dr. Omar Suleiman reflects on the flow of each surah in this juz
10:11 - Dr. Rania Awaad reflects on the wisdom of Luqman
19:41 - Sh. Abdullah Oduro reflects on the concept and traits of leadership
27:41 - Dr. Hassan Alwan reflects on being in awe of Allah
36:38 - Final reflections

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Transcript

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As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Everyone, welcome back to Qur'an 30 for 30 and alhamdulillah, I know we're off to a later start today because of the webathon and going into the 21st night, bidunillahi ta'ala, but it is officially now going into the last 10 nights. I pray that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accept all of our ibadah in these 10 nights and all of our ibadah in Ramadan. Allow us to be amongst those who observe Laylatul Qadr, forgive us for our shortcomings, remove all grudges, remove all sin, remove all envy, remove all ego, and allow us to connect to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and fill our hearts with the love of the Qur'an, of His Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, and be recipients of His forgiveness. Allahumma ameen. Alhamdulillah, as we come into this blessed night, we are blessed alhamdulillah to have with us Dr. Rania and Dr. Hassan, alhamdulillah, no strangers alhamdulillah to Qur'an 30 for 30. We look forward deeply to your segments every year and of course Shaykh Abdullah mashaAllah, always with his wonderful insights. I want to remind everyone before we start inshaAllah ta'ala to please donate to Yaqeen bidunillahi ta'ala. I know it's the last 10, that's when everyone likes to give their donation inshaAllah ta'ala, so please do continue to support the work. I hope that you're enjoying everything that's coming out this particular Ramadan and we want to ask Dr. Rania and Dr. Hassan about why everyone from California is moving to Texas. So let's just start there. What's happening? I had nothing to do with this by the way. You're too sweet, you're too sweet Shaykh Hassan, that's what it is. That's the obvious answer, mashaAllah. We have an exodus of California to Daos, but it's not because of the lack of barakah in California, it's because of the house prices, clearly. That's all it is. Because mashaAllah there's so much that's there.
Well Shaykh Abdullah is the only person in here who knew Texas was special from the start. He lived in Texas his whole life mashaAllah. He saw it, he saw it all the way through. He saw it all the way through. From Houston to Daos. We're blessed to have you both, and inshaAllah ta'ala we'll go ahead and we'll get started with this very special juz. So I actually wanted to just point to a very beautiful connection, subhanAllah, between three surahs that we find here which each of our esteemed guests bid'ah ta'ala will be touching upon with some detail. And it's at this point in the Qur'an as you get to the last third of the Qur'an that you start to see multiple surahs in a single juz, and it can be lost. The connections can be lost, and that's why it's so much more important for us to really pay attention and ponder upon really how our hearts are being pulled through these particular ayat. And subhanAllah as you look through these three surahs, first and foremost surah al-Rum. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala talks about the process of creation in surah al-Rum. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, وَمِنْ آيَاتِهِ أَنْ خَلَقَكُمْ مِنْ تُرَابٍ ثُمَّ إِذَا أَنْتُمْ بَشَرٌ تَنْتَشِرُونَ One of his signs is that he created you from dirt and then behold, there you are, human beings spreading all over the earth or spread all throughout the earth. وَمِنْ آيَاتِهِ أَنْ خَلَقَ لَكُمْ مِنْ أَنفُسِكُمْ أَزْوَاجًا لِتَسْكُنُوا إِلَيْهَا وَجَعْلَ بَيْنَكُمْ مَوَدَّةً وَرَحْمَةً إِنَّ فِي ذَلِكَ الْآيَاتِ لِقَوْمٍ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ Verse 21 of surah al-Rum and from his signs is that he created for you spouses from amongst yourselves so that you may find comfort in them and he has placed between you compassion and mercy surely in that are signs
or in this are signs for people who reflect and then وَمِنْ آيَاتِهِ خَلْقُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَاخْتِلَافُ أَلْسِنَتِكُمْ وَأَلْوَانِكُمْ إِنَّ فِي ذَلِكَ الْآيَاتِ لِلْعَالَمِينَ and one of his signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and the diversity of your languages and colors surely in this are signs for people of knowledge so this surah starts off with the believers or the believers finding joy in the Romans overcoming the Persians despite being the underdogs and the idea that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will give victory to those whom He pleases and this was a bushra glad tidings to the Muslims that they too would have victory and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala would empower them because Allah is the one who created them and Allah azawajal is the one who creates those outcomes in accordance with what He decrees and with what He sees fit and pleasing to Him subhanahu wa ta'ala but here is something really miraculous and beautiful about these ayaat to the next set of ayaat in surah Luqman and then in surah As-Sajdah notice here how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala takes us back to the beginning and how our inability to understand the beginning is why we have such flawed understandings of the presence so for example how can you be arrogant if you understand that you were created from dirt and that's the first ayah here and then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala talks about what He has placed between us in marriage, how can you be an oppressor in your family life if you read this ayah of how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has created spouses to be to one another have you forgotten who you are and then have you forgotten your purpose in marriage and what Allah azawajal has placed between you as spouses and then finally how can you be a racist, how can you be a person of pride, how can you be a person who thinks they are better than other than them when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has said that it is He who diversified your languages and your colors so Allah azawajal
is saying that you're not understanding the present because you don't understand the beginning and then subhanAllah you move on to surah Luqman and in surah Luqman obviously the powerful advice of Luqman al-Hakim to his son, Luqman alayhi salam amongst the things that he says to his son as he's trying to instill in him this concept of tawheed and taqwa and God consciousness and how that God consciousness is going to shape his relationship with everything in the world around him he says Oh my dear son even if a deed were to be the weight of a mustard seed if it was hidden under a rock in the heavens or in the earth somewhere, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will surely bring it forward surely Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is latifun khabir, Allah is most subtle yet all aware so subhanAllah this idea of Allah azawajal having created and knowing everything that he created as we know in surah al-mulk shouldn't the one who created this know everything about it be familiar with every single detail in it and so here Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is speaking to us about how guided his son by reminding him Allah created you from this nothingness and brought you into this, surely Allah knows when you put forth a deed even if you consider that deed to be nothingness or concealed, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the creator, nothing is concealed from him and then finally you go to surah as-sajdah which is a very powerful surah subhanAllah where we are supposed to read it on jum'ah and it's one of the habits of the prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam to read at night as well, where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in verse 4
allahu ladhee khalaqa assamawati wal arda wa ma baynahuma fee sittati ayyamin thumma istawa 3ala al3arsh ma lakum min doonihim waleeyan wala shafee'an afala tatadhakkaroon yudabbirul amra min assamai ilal arda thumma ya'aruju ilayhi fee yawmin kana miqdaruhu alfa sanatin mimma ta'uddoon thalika a'alimul ghaybi wa shahadatil azizul rahim alladhee ahsana kulla shay'in khalaqa wabada khalqa alinsani min teen thumma ja'ala naslahu min sularatin min ma'in maheen and we can go on and on, subhanAllah just a very powerful set of verses, but I'll stop here, look at the connection of these verses to the previous surahs Allah, it is Allah who has created the heavens and the earth and everything in between in six days and then rose to the throne, you have no protector or intercessor besides him will you not then be mindful and reminded, he conducts every affair from the heavens to the earth and then it all ascends to him on a day whose length is a thousand years by your count thalika a'alimul ghaybi wa shahadatil azizul rahim, that is the knower of the seen and the unseen, the almighty and the most merciful, the one who perfected everything that he created and he originated the creation of mankind from clay and then he made his descendants from this extract of this humble drop of fluid and then he fashioned thumma sawaahu wa nafakha feehi min roohi wa ja'ala lakum al-samaa wa al-absara wa al-afida qaleena ma tashkuroon then he fashioned them and breathed his spirit into them and then gave you hearing and sight and intellect, yet hardly you give any thanks, subhanAllah you're an ungrateful people because you're unable to consider the past, so you don't understand the present because you're unable to consider the past and so Allah azawajal is showing us through this creation his beautiful creation, his perfect creation, how we have to respond to that and understand that that encompasses
awareness that encompasses his perfection that means that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has created perfectly and decreed perfectly and hence you should try to thank him as perfectly as possible and that should dictate the way that you worship Allah and the way that you treat everyone around you from your family to everyone else inshaAllah ta'ala with that I will pass it on to Dr. Rania, jazakumullahu khair barakallahu fikum bismillahirrahmanirrahim wasallallahu ma'ala sayyidina muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wasallam ajma'in thank you so much Sheikh Omar, inshaAllah I'm going to really dovetail there and start from four ayahs surah Luqman 12-15 and whenever I think about Luqman al-hakim, Luqman the wise as you mentioned I think about the work that Yaqeen is doing, there are so many lessons in the story of Luqman, surah Luqman but I'm going to focus on just a couple because there's so many here, but first let me say this to preface my statements you know today we find ourselves in this era of post-modernism and where agnosticism is really rampant and that is knowing that there is something greater than us but the unwillingness to pin it down you know to be able to say with Yaqeen that Allah most high is the one that has the wisdom and the knowledge and that's what we as Muslims do, it's exactly what we do that Muslims are the ones who Aslam, they literally submit themselves fully to the rules of God and they accept that knowledge and wisdom comes from Allah and there's other fancy terms we can use to describe this post-modern era you know liberalism, hedonism, epistemological and moral relativism but I'll just keep it brief inshaAllah and say that today we find there's a lot of people who are very educated degrees on walls, but very few are actually knowledgeable and even fewer are considered wise and it might be because that knowledge and wisdom today are seen as these social constructs things like, what's your pedigree?
where did you go to school? what did you study? what are the letters behind your name? so in this era of post-modernism our educational systems more often than not are actually flawed and they promote things like self-centeredness, greed, vanity characteristics that Aslam considers literally diseases of the heart and success is seen as being able to buy the next big thing, or be the next big person, or have your content go viral, right? so with that we have to understand that today's conventional wisdom under these circumstances is really a mirage and in order to really understand true wisdom we have to turn to the Quran and this is where Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la gives us the story of Luqman Al-Hakim and he calls him the wise وَلَقَدْ آتَيْنَا لُقْمَانَ الْحِكْمَةَ أَنِشْكُرْ لِلَّهِ right? he says that we have blessed Luqman with wisdom and be grateful to Allah so one of the very first signs of someone who's given wisdom is they actually acknowledge that gift, that they're grateful they give thanks they're humble and then they turn it around and pay it forward they teach it to others so the very next ayah says وَإِذْ قَالَ لُقْمَانُ لِبْنِهِ وَهُوَ يَعِظُهُ يَا بُنَيَّ لَا تُشْرِكْ بِاللَّهِ and remember when Luqman said to his son advising him oh my dear son don't associate anything in worship with Allah and here we reflect on this very beautiful father-son relationship or parent-child relationship that this child is a gift but also an amanah a responsibility that we're given meaning that as parents we are our children's first and primary teachers not school, that this responsibility to transfer the wisdom that Allah has given us to our children from the moment they open up their eyes to the world we don't wait for teachers
or Sunday school or someone else to do the heavy lifting, that we as parents are the primary teacher of our children because as parents we have the power to convey Allah's wisdom, whereas teachers convey knowledge so if we don't have prerequisite knowledge we send our children to teachers but we as parents convey wisdom how? the way Luqman does so for his son وَهُوَ يَعِظُهُ and he advises him not stuffing it down his throat, not screaming or yelling not saying do as I say not as I do so lesson one is that wisdom comes from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala not the society around us which may be corrupted and that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives us sources of wisdom to imbibe in ourselves and our children such as what? the Quran and the Sunnah these are the fountain heads of wisdom but they require our full submission so here we see lesson number two the next verses وَبَصَيْنَ الْإِنسَانَ بِوَالِدَيْهِ حَمَلَتْهُ أُمُّهُ وَهْنًا عَلَى وَهْنًا Allah's commanded us to honor our parents that our mothers have bore us hardship literally upon hardship, hardship upon hardship and as a mother myself who's been through pregnancy and postpartum, nursing, weaning and that cycle again and again with every subsequent child I'll tell you it's exactly what Allah says, it's hard and on top of that to know that some women, one in five in fact, are going to go on that whole cycle of hardship and on top of it experience a hardship like postpartum depression, that's not their fault more often than not it's actually biological or hormonal, shifting right, and by the way we all know more than five women in our lives that have been pregnant, it's a very common condition so we do need to stop acting like it doesn't exist or telling women, faulting
them or saying they're being ungrateful that God has given them this child and now they're depressed or to just snap out of it, it's not how it works it's actually the way Allah describes it in the Quran hardship after hardship and that's not even counting for people that had hardship in the conception stage or in the stage before that of finding a righteous spouse right, so having children bearing children is truly a hardship upon hardship and so Allah says so honour them at the very least, honour them for the difficulties they have been through to get you here وَإِن جَاهَدَاكَ عَلَىٰ أَن تُشْرِكْ بِي مَا لَيْسَ لَكَ بِهِ عِلْمٌ فَلَا تُطِعْهُمَا وَصَاحِبْهُمَا فِي الدُّنْيَا مَعْرُوفًا honour them, but if they pressure you to associate with me what you have no knowledge of then don't obey them it's not blind obedience when it comes to parents different than what culture teaches لَا طَعْفْ لِمَخْلُوقْ فِي مَعْصِيَةِ الْخَالِقِ you can't obey the creation if it means disobeying the creator but Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says despite that, look, even if they tell you to do the most possible the worst possible thing they tell you to disobey me still و and وَصَاحِبْهُمَا and keep their company in this world courteously Subh'anaHu, that word is amazing I'll share with you a quick resource that I found incredibly helpful to me it's a book called بِرَ الْوَالِدَيْن by Shaykh Muhammad Mawlud, he's a West African Mauritanian scholar who took all the rules related to بِرَ الْوَالِدَيْن filial piety and put them into poem form الحمد لله I have an ijazah in this and when you teach this and I'll tell you, I'm not the expert in this actually I think the expert is more like the translator Shaykh Rami Yusuf and I'm not saying that just because he's my husband he really does Mashallah have a gift of simplifying very difficult
complex topics but every time either one of us has taught this metin we get the same questions how do I do بِرَ الْوَالِدَيْن when Allah has commanded us to do so but I have a rough relationship with my parents because if it's a good relationship it's very streamlined but what if there's been harm what if I've had a tumultuous relationship so this is the work I do in therapy perception and reality testing first but let's say the reality is someone has had a rough patch or rupture with their parents and maybe they've recently converted to the faith or recently started practicing and their parents are not accepting them Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says and still keep their company in this dunya the صلة الرحم that connection of the womb of the blood kin is to not cut it off which could be as simple as saying السلام عليكم or Ramadan Mubarak and معروفة is courteous to be courteous because Allah is never going to command us to put ourselves in harm's way or to perpetually put ourselves in a state where we're being perpetually demeaned or harmed so in closing I'll say this if you find what I'm saying very difficult or you've experienced a lot of harm I get it, it's my line of work, I understand people really do have a rough go with each other but this is where I really recommend therapy particularly Islamically integrated therapy so that the advice that your therapist gives you isn't just oh that's toxic put boundaries and then as a Muslim you don't even know how to implement that but Islamically integrated psychotherapy takes into account Islamic wisdom, so back to the wisdom discussion and fully integrates Islamic rulings that helps you learn the therapeutic skills and techniques needed to heal as part of therapy so I really hope folks make use of this they reach out for help when they need it they fully use the Quranic wisdom that's there to heal ourselves and then to transfer it on to our children inshallah JazakAllah khaira for those wonderful powerful reflections Sheikh Abdullah
inshallah ta'ala we will pass it on to you now Bismillah tawba sheikh Bismillah wa salatu wa salam wa ala rasulullah wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa man wala amma ba'd that was very powerful in regards to how the individual is able to take the path in leading themselves by following what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has given them the blueprint in order to master the self and understand the self firstly and master the self in regards to those individuals that may be the hardest for them to maintain their dare we say adab their manners because it's such as the parents and the brothers and sisters that can sometimes quote unquote push our buttons and the shaytan can really play with us but subhanAllah when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives the legislation it's something that we can handle if we try our best to control ourselves and therefore be leaders of ourselves and guide hopefully others with that inshallah ta'ala and that's what I want to talk about in a chapter of Sajdah Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala talks about the group of Banu Israel of the people of Musa alayhi salam that there was a group of them that they were imams within themselves and they guided people as well Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in verse number 23 regarding this he says ... Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says verily we bestowed the book upon Moses so entertain no doubt if the Prophet Muhammad received the same and we had made the book a guidance for the children of Israel ... and he says after that Allah says here and we and they remained steadfast and firmly believed in our signs when we created among them we created among them leaders
who guided people by our command so this is what I want to capitalize on here this verse here ... and he said we made from them leaders imams leaders as we know imam is someone that is a leader we made from them ... we made from them leaders ... what did those leaders do? the fact that they were leaders and embodied leadership they called with our command ... with our affair being the sharia the deen of Islam the oneness of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala after mentioning an action of the imam or what's expected of the imam from what he or she may do after that what he said what did he say ... he mentioned two pillars of the imam the two elements that every single imam needs not imam of salah only imam al-adl a leader of a nation and even the leader of themselves they do not allow certain elements certain stimuli within society whatever time or place it is to shake them because they have fabat in their faith they're firm in their faith with these two pillars ... and in another ... so it's either when they were patient or due to their patience they were the imams when they were patient ... and they were certain in our signs and those are the two ... when we're talking about patience some of the scholars such as Ibn Qayyim rahim Allah ta'ala he mentioned that patience is of three types or three pillars it's patience in the obedience of Allah patience with trying to wake up for salah you know right now mashallah we have the tahajjud in these last ten days and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us of those that wake up and even just offer one rakah and with the intention of praying the
last of the night that their patience on the ta'a of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala throughout their whole life their patience in trying to do the actions of good patience and staying away from the ma'usiyah patience and staying away from sinful practices Ramadan is definitely a time to detox to stay away from those actions that you know are detrimental to you and the ones even around you that may be affected by you and your leadership and thirdly patience with the qada and qadr patience with the predestination of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and subhanAllah Ibn Qayyim even mentions it in his book a book called entitled the invocations of God where he talks about you know the patience of a adamant to support you I need that they're individuals that are not displeased or in hatred of what has happened to them and and they do not have any shakwa minally sand they don't complain a lot you know the palace of Allah I was telling he visited one of the companions and he's put his hand inside of a some soup and he said yes and the rewire his and then he stopped and he said in a minute Adam is a sophomore to call us where is that a sophomore Haru on us the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he said very even Adam you know if they were affected by heat and if it is something cold he's expressing the fact that we as human beings we may have a tendency to complain all the time but when you realize that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala scholar is always present in every moment and you're aware with Ihsan that he sees you and you worship him as though you see him though you cannot see him he sees you you're patient and you're also patient with the actions of the limbs you don't do any actions with your limbs that show displeasure with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala but all of these three we can say should but it's really you trying your best to be your best and that is what the leader of themselves are they had you had enough at any time they remember it and that is
where I'm not sure some time he has a famous statement throughout numerous a number of his books even okay mentions it even as a medallion Salikin said this somebody will yakin to Nilo imam at a fitting this old the moment to fit Dean with patience and certainty one reaches the imam in their faith and this imam imam at an AMA but it is a leadership that is general and any science and faith that you are in even with the faith is the anchor but anything that you may be in any discipline particularly initially ultimately the discipline of the self you have to be patient with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala his predestination and be certain in his beautiful names and attributes that they were showered upon all of creation and that is one anchor that can bring that patience is remembering the beautiful names and attributes of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala within every moment that you face an even though in shake some to me also mentions with these two had any qaeda tiny that these two are these two elements are there which is needed for to work cool that with it mojib and little imam that these two patients and certainty is what is needed for to work or trust in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that necessitates from it imam that necessitates from it a level of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us suppose that within this faith of Islam within this closest to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala intimate moment please do not forget them and try to have your best intimate moment in this month of Ramadan to reach the level of certainty with him and also the faith in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to where you have leadership of yourself inshallah I rip in the I wanted to plug definitely there are many papers that speak about last but
not least that all dr. Hassan one we've been waiting for for you to speak in summarizing and bring it home and give us your wisdom Inshallah In the name of Allah and praise be to Allah and peace be upon the best of the messengers our master Muhammad and upon his family and his companions Subhanallah like hearing everything the gems that I just heard from all of you it brings me to what I want to speak about the stated interest what I want to say is Subhanallah and Alhamdulillah Subhanallah that we have people like that that reflect on the Quran Alhamdulillah that we have this book of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the state of praising Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the state of exalting Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala being in awe of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala this is exactly I think the verses that I want to reflect on and I think it ties everything that we said together subhanallah so the verses are in Surat Ar-Rum and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says so do exalt Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala exalt and glorify him exalted be Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala every single second when it's evening time as you enter the evening and in the morning time as you're entering the morning don't forget Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala remembrance remembrance is about being in a state of awareness of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala which is how Sheikh Omar started this awareness that induces what? praise of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and the second verse says indeed all praise, everything in the heavens and the earth everything is in the state of praising Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and praise is not just thank you you know when somebody gives you something when somebody gives you a gift and you say oh thank you, the gift is so wonderful that's gratitude, alhamdulillah, beautiful but when somebody gives me such a wonderful gift and I say thank you for your kindness you're such a kind individual now I'm praising not just the gift
the attribute of that person and that's what we see in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala everything in the heavens and the earth the praise of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala fills all time and all space everything in the heavens and the earth is praising Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and as you enter in the afternoon as you enter in the morning time be in the state of dhikr of remembrance of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala be aware and subhanAllah when we speak about dhikr so many things that one can say I can quote a hadith that subhanAllah reminds me of what Dr. Rania said wisdom how we need to convey wisdom to our kids, our children we have a hadith of Nuh alayhi salam great prophet that lived for almost a thousand, a thousand plus years subhanAllah and then on his deathbed he's advising his children and can you imagine after this long life he's giving them wisdom he's telling them I advise you with two things two things never leave number one say la ilaha illallah do not cease from saying la ilaha illallah for if the heavens and the earth is on one side and la ilaha illallah is on the other side la ilaha illallah outweighs the heavens and the earth everyone, every believer has something in his heart that outweighs the heavens and the earth but then he gives the second advice which again returns us to the topic he says then do say subhanAllahi wa bihamdi do say that a lot because it is daa tasbihu kulli shay it is the praise of everything everything around you is praising Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala this is how they're doing it in their own way wa biha yurzaqu kulli shay and through it everything gets its provision but how do I do this properly when we speak about saying subhanAllah hamdulillah I can say it with my tongue but dhikr in a simple way it's done with three things
first, cognitively I think of something, I see something I become aware of something and that induces a feeling moves the tongue to say the dhikr of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala simple so subhanAllah is about what? being amazed at what Allah does the ayat of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as Sheikh Omar reminded us there is so many signs around us to remind us to remind us about what Allah does and I'll just give a simple thing I look to water for example hydrogen and oxygen, H2O you can study it and you can understand the hydrogen bond and what have you but look at that, hydrogen and oxygen flammable gases and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala puts them together and here comes water from them subhanAllah Ya Rabbi how can you do this? this is amazing so this, when I observe this when I see this and the heart moves how can Allah do this? this is amazing and then I have hope because within me sometimes in my ego, in my nafs there are two flammable things maybe my lust and my anger and I want a peaceful self I want a nafs mutma'inna but I'm struggling Ya Rabbi you got hydrogen and oxygen they're flammable and you brought water from them that brings life I have anger and lust flammable qualities can Ya Rabbi can you bring them together and bring peace to my nafs from them too? the one that did this can do this as I say those things I say Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah that I saw this Alhamdulillah that this meaning came to my heart Alhamdulillah for saying Subhanallah Subhanallah Alhamdulillah what we know that if we say Subhanallah wa bihamd as the Prophet ﷺ told us a tree is planted in Jannah Subhanallah, look at this so I said Subhanallah wa bihamd and a tree is planted in Jannah for me
is it that easy? Ya Rabbi Alhamdulillah that's easy Subhanallah I can plant a tree in Jannah with Subhanallah wa bihamd that's amazing Allah is so generous Allah is so giving He made it so easy for me Alhamdulillah Ya Rabbi Subhanallah Alhamdulillah Subhanallah wa bihamd for Subhanallah wa bihamd now dhikr being in that state and I share something personal I can use it even in different life situations I remember something very personal when my daughter was young and she was 2 years old 1 year even and she wouldn't sleep she would refuse to sleep I have to carry her and walk in the room for 20-30 minutes you know and just like you know gently like this and look at the love of parents what Allah does you know this is an ayah by itself how much we do for our kids bir al-walidain if they only remember what we did for them they only know what we did for them you can't help but appreciate your parents and I'm carrying my daughter and I'm tired and she's refusing to sleep and I'm exhausted and my back is hurting and I just and again you can get irritated but I started saying what? Subhanallah my daughter her heart is on my heart and I started saying ok let me do some dhikr I do some remembrance of Allah in that situation I don't get I don't want to get disconnected so I started saying Subhanallah wa bihamd Subhanallah wa bihamd but then I remember the hadith every time I say Subhanallah wa bihamd a tree is planted in Jannah so I started to think Subhanallah 30 minutes of Subhanallah wa bihamd that's a forest in Jannah and then a thought came to my head how wonderful will that be that on the day of judgment I take my daughter Ya Rabbi by her hand and we enter Jannah together and I show her that forest I tell her daughter see this forest? that's the tree those are the trees this is the forest I planted for you when you were one years old
by saying Subhanallah wa bihamd and I said Subhanallah Alhamdulillah I promise you the pain wasn't over my back still hurt you know like but look at that now she's 20 years old right the pain is gone yet the memory is there I love Subhanallah wa bihamd I love living by Subhanallah wa bihamd looking at the ayat of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala makes us live in awe in awe of Allah the way he creates is awe inspiring the way he gives is awe inspiring the way he withholds is praiseworthy Allah's praiseworthy for himself that's Alhamdulillah not for only what we get for who he is Ya Rabbi laka alhamd Alhamdulillah innaka imtallah Alhamdulil kareem Alhamdulil jameel all praise for the most forgiving all praise for the most giving all praise for the one that gives all praise for the one that withholds Alhamdulillah and Subhanallah wa bihamd wa Subhanallah wa bihamd JazakAllah khair JazakAllah khair Sheikh Hassan honestly that was so beautiful Subhanallah wa bihamd Subhanallah wa bihamd really that thought of entering Jannah with our families and being able to see the fruits of our labor bid'ah to praise Allah there as we praise Allah here you know Sheikh Hassan one of the episodes of the Jannah series this year is our dhikr in Jannah I think it's episode 25 or 26 inshallah because I was just really loving what the ulama have said about the way we will be praising Allah in Jannah and the difference of our dhikr in Jannah to our dhikr in this dunya but we'll still be awe inspired and when we are awe inspired we're inspired to dhikr so it's a beautiful thing that you just shared may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless you JazakAllah khair for those beautiful reflections JazakAllah khair Dr. Al-Amin for your beautiful reflections
as well and really giving life another layer to those powerful words of advice from Mu'min al-Hakim alayhi salam to his son to appreciate the strive of our parents Sheikh Abdullah JazakAllah khair for your beautiful words about how we actually rise to leadership and there's no greater leadership than the leadership in the home so may Allah make us worthy of being leaders in our home and in our communities and for our humanity as the best ummah that has been produced for mankind JazakAllah khair for the beautiful reflections a reminder to everyone again to please inshaAllah ta'ala keep us in your du'a in these last 10 nights and of course also please do donate to Yaqeen bi-idhnillahi ta'ala and support all the wonderful efforts that are out there BarakAllahu feekum Wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh For more information visit www.fema.org
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