Allah Loves
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. Asalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Welcome back to Allah Loves. So we talked about consistency and if you take the idea of consistency, the methodology of consistency as being the most beloved quality of good deeds, you then have to pair it off with the most beloved of good deeds. We know that the Prophet peace be upon him said the very first thing that you will be asked about on the day of judgment is your prayer, as-salah. The Prophet peace be upon him as he was passing away he said as-salatul-salah, wastawsu binisai khairah, your prayer, your prayer and treat your women well. So prayer is the most fundamental practiced pillar of Islam after a person enters into the fold of Islam with the testimony of faith. And the Prophet peace be upon him taught us to pair off consistency with this fundamental pillar. This hadith that we're going to cover today is from Abdullah bin Mas'ud, may Allah be pleased with him. He said, I asked the Prophet peace be upon him, ayyuul a'mali ahabbu ila Allah, which of the actions are most beloved to Allah? The Prophet peace be upon him responded, as-salatu ala waqtihah, prayer on time. In another narration the Prophet peace be upon him said, as-salatu li awwali waqtihah, prayer at the beginning of its time. It sounds really simple but let's talk about this for a moment. You know a lot of times when you're talking about qiyam al-layl and taraweeh prayer and all of the sunnah prayers and these different extra deeds that we could do, we forget the bare basic prayer. The first thing we'll be asked about, the obligation, the most important part of our religion which is the five daily prayers. Praying them on time, guarding them, making sure that you're following all of the pillars of the prayer itself, making sure you're not omitting anything, neglecting anything. That is the most beloved thing that you could do
to Allah. So even though we should be talking about the night prayer and we should be talking about the sunnah prayers because those serve as a cover for those prayers, realize that this is the core of it all. That's why the Prophet peace be upon him said that on the day of judgment when a person comes and they have deficiencies in their obligatory prayer, then Allah says well where are the voluntary prayers and Allah starts to fill in the missed obligatory prayers or the deficiencies in the obligatory prayers. So the voluntary prayers are meant in many ways to cover for the deficiencies that you have in the obligatory prayers and we obviously have thoughts that take us away from our prayer, things that happen in the prayer, distractions, all of these things that happen. But let's focus on this for a moment. Prayer at the beginning of its time, what makes it so beloved to Allah? And this is the case for all of the prayers except for salatul isha, except for the isha prayer in which there is preference in delaying it a little bit. Now what makes it so special? It shows Allah that when you hear hayya ala salat, hayya ala alfalah, come to the prayer, come to success, that you are longing for him as you come to the prayer. Ibn al Qayyim may Allah be pleased with him, he said come to Allah biqalbin mushtaq, with a heart that is longing for him, with a heart that is in anticipation of him. The Prophet peace be upon him used to say arihna biha ya bilal, comfort us with the prayer, oh bilal. He said the prayer was the coolness of his eyes. So prioritizing the prayer shows that you are prioritizing Allah in your life. Now Allah understands that there are things that get in the way in terms of career and school and sometimes travel and things that will cause you to have to push a prayer to a later time within the boundary and of course if you are traveling combining those prayers but still on your normal day at a normal time, how early do you pray the prayer once the window enters of that prayer? And you will notice subhanallah that at the end of the day you are going to pray the same five prayers, it is just a mindset
that you have. Some people wait until five minutes before the next prayer, some people do it five minutes before the first prayer. At the end of the day you are still praying the same five prayers but it is an attitude, a mindset that you have with Allah. And Allah says in the Quran about the hypocrites, when they get up for the prayer they get up lazy, they don't feel like doing it, it is just like ah, they are dragging their feet, they barely catch it. Allah also tells us about the nations that came before, that there came after them a people that lost the prayer and they followed their desires and so because of that they would find punishment. And Omar ibn al-Khattab radiallahu anhu commented on that, he said first of all, they lost the prayer means that they started to delay the prayer beyond its permissible time. So they would pray the equivalent of a prayer at the time of Maghrib instead. And that if you delay your prayer enough habitually, eventually you are going to start going into the next prayers, eventually you are going to start missing prayers altogether, it is just a natural regression that takes place. And then they followed their desires. In the ayah that came before that verse, Allah mentions in Surah Maryam that there was a group of righteous people when they heard the verses of ar-Rahman, when they heard the verses of the most merciful, then they fell on their faces in prostration and crying. And Omar had a very beautiful way of explaining this verse, he said that that verse where Allah mentions the righteous, they had khudu' which is to humble yourself in bodily fashion, to stand before Allah in the proper way to guard the physical elements of your prayer. So they fell on their faces in prostration and they had khushu' humility which is the internal discipline that caused them to cry. This next generation lost the physical discipline and they lost the internal discipline. So outwardly they lost their prayers, inwardly they longed for other than Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And I will end with a
very powerful narration from Ibn Al-Qayyim rahim Allah on this idea of prayer. He said that when a person, when the servant of Allah enters into prayer, and then he turns away from Allah, not a physical turning away from Allah, but internally turns away from Allah. Allah says to that servant, O my servant where are you turning to? Are you turning to better than me? Have you found something better than me? More worth it than me? So again, start with the basics and especially in Ramadan, if you can get anything right, if you can get your five prayers done on time and make it a habit to start praying it early in the time so that you don't start missing the prayers, then that would be a blessed task with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And the Prophet peace be upon him said that when a person comes on the day of judgment, having prayed their five prayers on time, not omitting anything out of understanding their importance, then they have a promise with Allah that he will enter them into paradise. We ask Allah to enter us into paradise, to forgive us for our shortcomings and to make us amongst those who long for him. Allahumma ameen. Jazakum Allah khayran wa salamu alaikum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuh.
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