Angels in Your Presence
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Episode 23: From Prayer to Prayer
What you do before, after, and in between prayers make or break the quality of them. How can we structure our prayers in a way that allows for the angels to remain with us for as long as possible?
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Transcript
This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. What I always tell people is going to make or break the quality of your salah, the quality of your prayer is what you do before and after the prayer. Just like with anything else, it goes back to the preparation. And so if you're someone that just jumps into prayer without any preparation, or even if you're on your way to the masjid and you're listening to the radio, taking phone calls, whatever it is, there's such a difference between a person that takes the time to declutter all that's in the mind and get themselves ready. Then someone who just tries to jump between this and that, particularly when it comes to their prayers. And one of the things that you should do with your prayer, just like when we're talking about Jum'ah, we're talking about the Friday prayer. If you just took the habit of Surat Al Kahf and you made it a point to say, I'm going to read Surat Al Kahf before Jum'ah in the masjid. So you'd get the reward of reading Surat Al Kahf on Friday, and you would have already got there early enough before to assure that you're in the rule book of the angels. Likewise, when it comes to the prayer, the best way to maintain a daily Wird, which is a regimen of remembrance of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, the best way to maintain a daily recitation of the Quran of however many pages it is, or some sort of regimen of dua, of supplication, is to connect it to your prayer. So I'm going to do two pages of Quran before each prayer, two pages after, that would cause me to finish a juz every day. Or I'll do one page of Quran per prayer, or I'll do half a page, or I'll finish this set of remembrances, right? But that's going to keep you in your place of prayer. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said that the angels continue to pray upon you when you are in your place of prayer, so long as you don't break your wudu and you don't move, they keep on praying upon you and saying, Allahumma Ghafir Lahu, Allahumma Rahamahu, Allahumma Ghafir Lahu, Allahumma Rahamahu. Oh Allah forgive him. Oh Allah have mercy on him. Oh Allah forgive him. Oh Allah have mercy on him. So the angels are constantly showering you with those duas when you stay
in your place of prayer. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam specifically mentioned this by the way, when it comes to going to the masjid, if you could connect two prayers to each other and you could choose the ones that have the shortest duration between them. So you say, I'm going to stay between Maghrib and Isha once a week or once a month. But the point is, is that you choose two prayers that are close to each other. And you say, I'm going to use the time between them to remember Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la to connect back with my Lord. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, should I not tell you of deeds that cause Allah to obliterate your sins and elevate your ranks? And the Sahaba said, what is it? Oh messenger of Allah. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said three things. He said when you do wudu and you do it thoroughly to the extremities, make sure that you get every part thoroughly and you increase your khutah, your steps to the masjid and you stay in the masjid between two prayers. And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, that is like a person who is on guard in battle, except the enemy here is your nafs, right? You're, you're, you're doing mujahadatun nafs, you're striving against yourself. And so it's like you're holding a station, a particular part of battle when you're between Maghrib and Isha. And that is a way by which Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la obliterates your sins and elevates your ranks. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he also in one beautiful narration, Abdullah ibn Amr Al-Asr Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says that we were sitting in the masjid between Maghrib and Isha and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he ran back after the salah and he said that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was pulling up his garment and he was running so fast that he was short of breath Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam to tell us something urgent. And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said to us that have you been here for this entire time between these two prayers? And they said, yes. And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said to us that one of the gates of heaven just opened and Allah was boasting about you to the angels. yubahi bikumul malaika
And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la said to those angels, unzuru ila ibadi, look at my servants, look at these servants of mine. qad qada'u fareeda wa hum yantadhiruna ukhra They finished one obligatory prayer and they're waiting for the next one. And so anytime you can think about how to package your remembrance, package your, your, your Quran reading, package your awrad, your regimens around the prayer, then do so because that entire time those angels are going to stay with you and continue to send their prayers upon you.
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