[SPEAKER_00]: There is a secret key that establishes a bond and an attachment between us and our Creator, Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.
[SPEAKER_00]: This key, my dear brothers and sisters, is almost valuable gift from Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the greatest Nehanna and blessing, which Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, bestowed upon us, called Da'ala, supplication and prayer.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it is the thing which connects our inner unings and our heart to attach to a loss of honor with the eye that like a vulnerable child is when they are born to this world and attaches themselves to their mother.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so they find peace and protection.
[SPEAKER_00]: No matter what happens to them in life, do art.
[SPEAKER_00]: And do art.
[SPEAKER_00]: in the Arabic language means to call upon, to call upon.
[SPEAKER_00]: What a beautiful word that Allah told us to use, inviting us to call upon Him.
[SPEAKER_00]: When someone tells you, I'm here if you need me, you can call me anytime.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, in the beginning it'll be easy.
[SPEAKER_00]: But if you continue to call that person over and over again, or someone calls you over and over again, even if they are your own blood relatives, it gets to a point where you do get tired.
[SPEAKER_00]: But Allah is the only one who says to you that you can call upon Him forever, and you will never get tired.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not annoyed.
[SPEAKER_00]: of you when you call upon him.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, the loss of Hanna wa Ta'ala says in the Quran, that it is only those who are rebellious and are filled with pride, arrogance that choose to turn away from calling to Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when Allah says to you call upon him, it is not a matter.
[SPEAKER_00]: of slavery or superior making you feel that you are an inferior being of some sort.
[SPEAKER_00]: Of course, a lies superior to us, and we are inferior to him.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's not for that purpose, a lot does not need us to call upon him.
[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't need the attachment.
[SPEAKER_00]: But when a log gives us the example of our parents, and how he lets us see their undescriable love and their unconditional love to their children, a good parent doesn't want anything in return,
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah is showing us a glimpse of what He means when He tells us call upon me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah wants you to attach to Him and He wants good for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because He is a Rahman of Rahim.
[SPEAKER_00]: The most merciful, the ones whose mercy never runs out.
[SPEAKER_00]: The two names which Allah tells us to repeat
[SPEAKER_00]: Every single raka of our prayer that we pray.
[SPEAKER_00]: Bismillahirrahmanirrahim alhamdulillahirrahim al-Balayalamim al-Rahim.
[SPEAKER_00]: The best dua in the world is al-Fatiha.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Fatiha that we recite in every raka of Salat.
[SPEAKER_00]: The first seven verses of the Quran in the absolute first sort of on the first page of the Quran is called Surat al-Fatiha, the opening.
[SPEAKER_00]: The best and most comprehensive prayer that you can ever ask, if you don't know any other way to call upon Allah, just recite Saurat al-Satihah.
[SPEAKER_00]: The middle of it is in Adina Suraat al-Mustafin, our Allah guide us to the straight and best past.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you can apply that meaning to anything in life.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you are lost, send us to the straight path of my Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you're confused, send me to the straight path of my Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: When all is going bad, O Allah, I'm losing myself, send me to the right path.
[SPEAKER_00]: When I feel, in pain, I'm vulnerable O Allah, keep me on the straight path.
[SPEAKER_00]: My brothers and sisters, and so,
[SPEAKER_00]: The opening that Allah wants us to know is that He is always there for you, and that He always waits for you to connect to Him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah says in the Qur'an,
[SPEAKER_00]: Ther liestan jiboni, wilyot minobila, an loum yoboshodon.
[SPEAKER_00]: Chapter two verse one eight six, Allah says, O Muhammad, him brackets, when my servants ask you about me, tell them I am quite near.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, some translations will say, tell them, but the correct meaning is,
[SPEAKER_00]: I am near.
[SPEAKER_00]: Tell them that I say, I am near.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or Allah is saying, you don't need to tell them.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will tell them, I am near.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah is speaking directly to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Say, I am near.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hear and answer the call of the caller whenever he calls me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let them listen to my call and believe in me, perhaps they will be guided right.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hear an answer, the call of the caller, whenever he calls me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you see how a lot describes you in the description, the caller?
[SPEAKER_00]: There is a hidden message there.
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot doesn't want you to just call upon him every now and then.
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot doesn't want you to call upon him only when you need him, when you need him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Once in a blue moon.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah says to you, I want them to be called as, which means always, always, always.
[SPEAKER_00]: Call upon Allah when you need Him or don't need Him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Call upon Allah in ease and in hardship, in sickness and in health, in good times and bad times, and don't ever stop calling upon Him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Whether you need something or you don't, because calling upon Allah has a more vast meaning than just requesting what you want, and we're going to explain that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah also says in the Qur'an,
[SPEAKER_00]: Pray to me, Yarni, call upon me, pray to me as another word, and I will accept your prayers surely those who appear or act too proud to worship me shall enter hell utterly abased.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do I therefore brothers and sisters does not only mean to call upon Allah but it means worshiping Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you think you are
[SPEAKER_00]: arrogant to not even worship Allah and ignore His existence, then this person has chosen to go to another path.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah also says in the Quran,
[SPEAKER_00]: with humility and in secret.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in secret alone, between you and Allah, silently, quietly, surely he does not love transgressors, meaning those who transgresss in the way they make dohaq.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we're going to come back to that and share Allah to explain in detail.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah also says in sort of seven verse, fifty-six
[SPEAKER_00]: O Allah, you see, do you feel the wrong thing about a day or something?
[SPEAKER_00]: O Allah, do you feel the wrong thing about a day or something?
[SPEAKER_00]: O Allah, do you feel the wrong thing about a
[SPEAKER_00]: With fear and longing, surely Allah's mercy is close to those who do good.
[SPEAKER_00]: Longing, tomahaya.
[SPEAKER_00]: In the Arabic language literally means, out of greed.
[SPEAKER_00]: pommet means greed.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the bidding on the context for you place that word pommet in the Arabic language, it can change the meaning from greed to extreme hope.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what it means here, longing means hopeful, hopeful for what, always hoping for the day when you meet Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So when we call upon Allah, it's not just temporary.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some people restrict it to just the nail.
[SPEAKER_00]: But Allah says, call upon Him with the anticipation looking forward to after you die when you go up in the day of judgment in paradise when you meet Him and talk to Him and He talks to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Call upon Allah imagining yourself already in paradise and you are speaking to Allah and seeing Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what it means.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thom are there.
[SPEAKER_00]: What are we working here for bread and sisters?
[SPEAKER_00]: What is our end goal for every Muslim?
[SPEAKER_00]: What is it?
[SPEAKER_00]: Two things paradise and being saved from the fire.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is there anything else?
[SPEAKER_00]: That's all.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah SWT responds to people, especially when they are in need and desperate.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah says,
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah says in sort of twenty-seven verse sixty-two, who is at who he eats the prayers of the distress when he calls out to him and he removes his difficulty.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who is there other than Allah?
[SPEAKER_00]: Who this is of the call of the distressed and who removes his affliction and who is it who makes you vice-gerence of earth, who made you to look after this earth and give you leadership and power to look after it, is there any God associated with Allah in this task?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is there anyone else who hears your prayer other than Allah?
[SPEAKER_00]: Who are you calling out to?
[SPEAKER_00]: Why turn away to anyone other than Him?
[SPEAKER_00]: How little do you reflect?
[SPEAKER_00]: How little do you reflect on the creation that is around you?
[SPEAKER_00]: How little do you reflect on yourselves and the signs that Allah has dispersed all around you that all tell you they guide you and they point to who made all of this who to turn to?
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you not see the sun subjecting itself to you and giving you heat and vitamin D?
[SPEAKER_00]: Those are following which course, who put it on this course, the moon and the tidal waves of the oceans and the earth and the crops that grow for you and the rain that comes down and the animals that are subjected to you, how are they subjected to?
[SPEAKER_00]: Do does this not tell you something about the Creator so why do we turn to anyone other than Allah?
[SPEAKER_00]: Anything else?
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala finally says in surat number seven verse one eighty
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah has the most excellent names.
[SPEAKER_00]: So call on him by his names and shun those who distort his names.
[SPEAKER_00]: Shun those who call Allah something other than what he is and calling names that are not attributed to him.
[SPEAKER_00]: that do not be fit in Subhanah.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're calling by the most beautiful men's they taught you, they shall soon be recruited for their deeds.
[SPEAKER_00]: So opening with this introduction brothers and sisters with these beautiful verses of the Qur'an, which are numerous throughout the Qur'an, Allah has made the core of the Qur'an about dua and worship and attaching yourself to Him.
[SPEAKER_00]: My dear brothers and sisters, what is Dua in the Shariah meaning in Islamic meaning really?
[SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet peace be upon him answer that question.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, in Dua hulaibada, Dua is worship itself.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dua is worship itself.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what Dua is.
[SPEAKER_00]: And my brothers and sisters,
[SPEAKER_00]: Dua is worship, but it has two forms that it comes with.
[SPEAKER_00]: Two forms of Dua.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number one, we call it the Dua of Request.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that is basically asking a law for what you want.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anything of this world, or of the hereafter, O Allah forgive me, have mercy upon me, grant me provision, grant me a righteous spouse, grant me children, righteous and comfort to my eyes, save us and protect us, grant my business success, O Allah guide me, all this is called, Dua'a, of request, and this is one form of worship.
[SPEAKER_00]: Every time you do you worshiping Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: The second form of dua of worship is called dua of actions, pleasing to Allah and avoiding that which this pleases Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your Salah is duaq.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your fasting is duaq.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your Hajj is duaq.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your Zakat is duaq.
[SPEAKER_00]: Being good to your parents for the sake of Allah is duaq.
[SPEAKER_00]: Charity is duaq.
[SPEAKER_00]: Helping someone is duaq.
[SPEAKER_00]: Working to provide your family is duaq.
[SPEAKER_00]: looking after the needy and the poor is doing it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Bringing a smile to someone is doing it, gifting someone for the sake of Allah is doing it, protecting someone is doing it, and on and on and on.
[SPEAKER_00]: Looking after a destitute animal, animal is doing it, planting a tree, even in the middle of the desert.
[SPEAKER_00]: For beasts and creatures to shade under it is doing it.
[SPEAKER_00]: All of this is also called dua of actions for the sake of Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: What does that mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: It means brothers and sisters that every time you do good deeds, if you've got Allah in mind and you're doing it for the sake of Allah, guess what?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a type of dua that Allah looks after you and gives you your needs and wants without you actually asking for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Did you know that?
[SPEAKER_00]: Your prayer, your Salat, when you pray from Allah, whoever to a Salat, might they come in the end.
[SPEAKER_00]: All of that is also called Da'at.
[SPEAKER_00]: Salat is called Da'at.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, Da'at is sometimes called Salat, in Fadiths.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in the Quran, Salat, when they used to say to Nuh and Saadah and all those prophets, they used to say, A Salat, okay, that Murukha.
[SPEAKER_00]: Does your Da'at and your worship tell you to do this, so Salat means Da'at and Da'at means Salat, which means connection to Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you pray from beginning to end and you didn't ask a lot for a single thing except the words that you've learned, then this means that whatever you're learning for, any needs that you have while you're praying, any fears that you have when you approach prayer, any wants and needs and worries that are approaching your while you're doing Salat, guess what?
[SPEAKER_00]: Without asking for it, your Salat becomes the dohape for that.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you are good to your parents, even if you don't feel like it, you are making doha.
[SPEAKER_00]: Did you not hear the Prophet ﷺ's Hadith?
[SPEAKER_00]: When he said, whoever would like that their life be quality and blessed, and their provision be a lot, then connect your ties.
[SPEAKER_00]: Be good to your parents.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is a doha.
[SPEAKER_00]: You receive something for that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Did you not hear Insahib Bukhari and must them about the woman or the man who gave a dog water to drink for the sake of Allah and because of Allah forgave them without saying oh Allah forgive me?
[SPEAKER_00]: They had done really bad major sins.
[SPEAKER_00]: So every good deed done for the sake of Allah is a doha.
[SPEAKER_00]: So now what is doha?
[SPEAKER_00]: Doha is
[SPEAKER_00]: What is it?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's worship.
[SPEAKER_00]: And worship is, doye, and it comes in two forms, doye of request, and doye of doing everything in life that pleases Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So to entire life, they are entire life.
[SPEAKER_00]: My brothers and sisters, Allah says in the Quran,
[SPEAKER_00]: Manami LaSalle, Hamindra Karanza, any male or female of those righteous deeds?
[SPEAKER_00]: We shall give them a blessed life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now here, any also in the hereafter, that's a duaat, although you haven't actually asked for a blessed life by living a life of righteousness, Allah gives you a blessed life.
[SPEAKER_00]: So two forms of duaat.
[SPEAKER_00]: My dear brothers and sisters, I've recited some of the verses of the Qur'an, and here are some hadiths that will give you a heart, some pacing shall Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: The hadith is a Sahih, Al-Hakim, Abnomaja, and Timidhi, Rasul al-Sallallallallallallallallallallallallallallam said, Your Lord, Your Lord is shy,
[SPEAKER_00]: But of course, when we talk about Allah with descriptions that we are familiar with from a human perspective, we are not saying Allah is like a human hash it in that, I'll be back.
[SPEAKER_00]: But Allah also says, and tells us words to give us an understanding of something, a meaning that gives us this type of feeling that our Lord is close to us.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, Your Lord, in Narabbakum Haye, Your Lord,
[SPEAKER_00]: is, has a type of shyness, what does that mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: Get him.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is honorable and generous.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, that he may not be.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is shy of his servant that when his servant lifts his hands up, to call upon him, to return his hands empty.
[SPEAKER_00]: To return his hands, empty.
[SPEAKER_00]: You call to Allah and you lift your hands up and Allah says, it also says that Allah is shy to return your hands, empty.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah's ﷻ also responds to disbelievers, non-Muslims.
[SPEAKER_00]: If the non-Muslim calls upon Allah sincerely without any partners directly to Allah, the one through God.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet ﷺ said in Sahih, in Ahmed, which is authenticated by Imam Al-Al-Bani, he says, beware.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet ﷺ said, beware of the supplication of the oppressed, the oppressed, someone who you wronged.
[SPEAKER_00]: For the dua of the oppressed person will not be rejected by Allah even if it was from a disbeliever.
[SPEAKER_00]: For the dua of the oppressed, there is no veil between it and Allah the most high, the omnipient.
[SPEAKER_00]: In the Quran, Allah says in sort of seventeen verse sixty-seven, and when a calamity befalls you,
[SPEAKER_00]: On the sea, all those whom you invoke forsake you accept Him, Allah, but when He delivers you safely to the shore, you turn away from Him.
[SPEAKER_00]: For man is indeed, most at thankless.
[SPEAKER_00]: Scholars, including the great Imam Bantanya says, this believers, if they are oppressed or in need, and it just will even cause upon Allah alone,
[SPEAKER_00]: He responds, Subhanahu wa Dahlah, to things such as provision, sickness, safety, protection, and so on.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if Allah even responds to the non-Muslimi rejects Allah, he feels she calls upon Allah sincerely, imagine for the believer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who worships Allah with all their heart and does not make any part of the Allah and says the Shahada.
[SPEAKER_00]: How generous and compassionate Allah is, Compassionate He is.
[SPEAKER_00]: I remember
[SPEAKER_00]: once at a school I taught.
[SPEAKER_00]: An onmuslim man entered and asked for the Imam of the school.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they came to me, and this man was about in his forties.
[SPEAKER_00]: He looked very tired, very distressed.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, I'm an onmuslim, but I didn't know where else to go.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just want to pray you're prayer to God.
[SPEAKER_00]: I set him the conditions I have to pray only to Allah that one and only said, please, I'm ready to do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he sat with me and he did a salar with me and then he sat down lifted his hands up and I coached him what to say.
[SPEAKER_00]: Alhamdulillah was salatu wa salam ala Rasulillah and he made the door and he left.
[SPEAKER_00]: I never heard from him again but
[SPEAKER_00]: The fact that he came to ask to call upon a lost panodala one and only.
[SPEAKER_00]: I did not reject him, because a lot tells us he responds to anyone in destitute who needs him subhana with a ailer, even if he is a disbeliever.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hope you are up that his matter was taken care of.
[SPEAKER_00]: My brothers and sisters
[SPEAKER_00]: Ibn Al-Kayim, the great scholar Ibn Al-Kayim, you've heard of him.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is a book called Adat-Wad-Dawat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Every house whole should have one.
[SPEAKER_00]: And now at Hamdelilaz, the PDF form of it, translated into English.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's called the sickness and its cure, the ailment and its healing, Adat-Wad-Dawat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Magnificent book, every person should read that as part of their system of learning Islam.
[SPEAKER_00]: Adat-Wad-Dawat, the sickness, the ailment and its cure by Ibn Al-Kayim.
[SPEAKER_00]: In that book he talks tremendously about Dawah and getting closer to Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he describes based on the Hadith of the Prophet ﷺ that the Dawah is like a bow and arrow.
[SPEAKER_00]: So obviously he's a eleventh century scholar.
[SPEAKER_00]: They had bows and arrows at that time.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, it is like a bow and arrow.
[SPEAKER_00]: The more you stretch the bow, the further the arrow will pierce.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your dua is like that bird.
[SPEAKER_00]: If more you stretch it, the more it comes from your heart.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the more you are honest to Allah and you humble yourself to Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the better your actions and deeds are in your life, the stronger your dua will reach the target.
[SPEAKER_00]: And according to the Prophet ﷺ, in the Hadith which is intermediary and others, and in the authentic Arabic al-Bani, that a Rasulullah ﷺ said that the dua
[SPEAKER_00]: And the calamity that comes down from the heavens, the dua goes up, the calamity comes down, and they meet in the heavens.
[SPEAKER_00]: They meet halfway.
[SPEAKER_00]: They start to wrestle each other.
[SPEAKER_00]: Either the calamity beats the dua and comes down weaker, weaker.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or, the Dwight repels the calamity completely gone cancelled, or they continue to wrestle till the day of judgment.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that is based on the words of the Prophet ﷺ also, that nothing can affect or change.
[SPEAKER_00]: Calamities of Godot except for Dwight.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm going to explain that in a second.
[SPEAKER_00]: For now, I would like to talk about what are the conditions of a valid diet?
[SPEAKER_00]: And one of the etiquettes, the manners in how to make your dua better.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the conditions for a valid dua and the etiquettes of how to make your dua better.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number one, the conditions.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to enumerate nine, nine conditions for a valid and proper dua, the way a resource allows that you used to do it and taught us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number one.
[SPEAKER_00]: The first condition is to call upon Allah alone.
[SPEAKER_00]: Pure monotheism.
[SPEAKER_00]: in His Lordship, in His worship, and in His names and attributes.
[SPEAKER_00]: What does Lordship mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: Lordship means the actions of Allah and the power of Allah and the work of Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: What is the Lord, the creator, the sustainer, the provider, Allah's actions.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nobody is part of the Allah's actions.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've done a lecture about law of attraction and the law of manifestation.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you remember that lecture?
[SPEAKER_00]: We've got to be careful.
[SPEAKER_00]: not to go to extremes to give too much significance to outside forces or energies or whatever you want to call them to give them too much emphasis to remember that Allah is the one who can bring or take away.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nothing can happen without his permission or will, so he is the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: And number two, worship, you turn to Him.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's your actions.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your actions are only to Allah and no one to well, not to anyone else.
[SPEAKER_00]: And lastly, His names and attributes.
[SPEAKER_00]: You call upon Him with His names and attributes.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you don't call upon God with other names and attributes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number two, the second condition, you have to have the presence of the heart.
[SPEAKER_00]: What does it mean to have the presence of the heart?
[SPEAKER_00]: It means that when you call upon a lion, you make daughter, you have the feeling inside of you of his greatness and his majesty.
[SPEAKER_00]: You've got to know who you've turned to.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who are you talking to right now?
[SPEAKER_00]: Who is this a lion who you're talking to?
[SPEAKER_00]: Who is this one who you are praying to?
[SPEAKER_00]: Arrasal Sahaselam said, Insayy termidhi, and know that Allah will not respond to a person who makes a dua from a heart that is neglectful, neglectful.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, some people, they just say it with their mouth, but they don't mean it with their heart.
[SPEAKER_00]: We finish Al Salat, and some people are still full of stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they're not even really aware of what they're saying.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just like a robot.
[SPEAKER_00]: Stuff was thrown and looking around.
[SPEAKER_00]: They come way to talk to the person next to them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes they finish salar, the first thing you do, they talk.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're talking about something and saying stuff for a lot in the background with their mouths.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is not a door art.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or I make a door art quickly because I have to.
[SPEAKER_00]: But my mind is on something else.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've got to run.
[SPEAKER_00]: Got to run.
[SPEAKER_00]: Give yourself time with your heart present for a few seconds or a few minutes.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the heart being present.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number three, using only permissible intermediaries.
[SPEAKER_00]: What does that mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: People usually feel that they need to go get to a loss through something.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is where idolatry came from, is where people wear talismans and amulets and they think I can get to God better that way.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or they think they have to be at the grave of someone special in order for Allah to accept their duaat.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not true.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are three types of permissible intermediaries that you can use.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number one, Allah told us in the Quran, his names and attributes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because they are Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: His names and attributes are Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number two, to resort, to mentioning your good deeds that you have done.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like you say to Allah my Lord, if you know and you do know that one time, just throwing an example, one time, I help two brothers reconcile who are about to disunite.
[SPEAKER_00]: and I did such an thing and such a thing to keep them united for your sake.
[SPEAKER_00]: If my Lord you have accepted that I've done this for your sake, then grant me this dua.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's an intermediary, but you are intermediary through your good actions, which are still between you and Allah, you're not making any part of the Allah, and this is based on the Hadith in Buhadi about the three men who got stuck in the cave.
[SPEAKER_00]: I won't repeat it, but you can go and look at it.
[SPEAKER_00]: The third type of intermediary
[SPEAKER_00]: is to, uh, Japan a lot for God in the third one.
[SPEAKER_00]: The third type of intermediary of Spamulah is going out of my mind.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the point is that you are, through your actions of worship.
[SPEAKER_00]: So while you're doing good acts, so you're worshiping Allah, you're doing Salah, you're reciting Quran, you are helping your mother and father, you're helping someone in need, you're giving charity.
[SPEAKER_00]: While you're doing good deeds, while you're worshiping Allah, whole upon Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: The dua is stronger while you are doing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Good deeds.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, and that's from the Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ. Number four of the conditions of the dua and making it better is not hastening.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not hastening.
[SPEAKER_00]: What does hastening mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: It means that you want your response now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number two, you say your dua to quick.
[SPEAKER_00]: So one of the ways that we are slow with our dua, and I'm going to explain it later, is that we start by saying alhamdulillahi Rabbi, anamin, praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then you send Salawat on the Prophet ﷺ, and then you call upon Allah with one or two of his names, and then you respectfully ask Allah, and you finish it with alhamdulillah, wa salad wa salam ala Rasulillah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, this is not hastening.
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[SPEAKER_00]: How do you make dua?
[SPEAKER_00]: How do you call upon Allah?
[SPEAKER_00]: And the man said, Ya Rasulullah, I say, I say, I say, Allah, I ask you for paradise and I ask you to save from hellfire.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, I don't know all the murmuring and the, you know, verbal.
[SPEAKER_00]: in the dancing that we do with our words are all around what you are saying.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's it.
[SPEAKER_00]: What we're doing at the end of the day is we're asking a lot of paradise and to save us from the fire.
[SPEAKER_00]: So some people can't find the words, but simple words are a lot of us give the paradise to save us from the fire.
[SPEAKER_00]: You say the shahada and so on.
[SPEAKER_00]: Very easy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number five.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your dua must not contain how to arm requests or cutting of ties and kinship.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a condition.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you want your diet to be accepted, you do not ask Allah for something that he is not pleased with, cutting off ties that make the diet for something hot on.
[SPEAKER_00]: One time I heard this young person say, can I ask Allah for so and so to be my boyfriend or girlfriend and to love me?
[SPEAKER_00]: So do we gonna ask Allah for something hot on?
[SPEAKER_00]: No.
[SPEAKER_00]: No one is going to say that?
[SPEAKER_00]: May Allah give me the courage to use foul language like the other side can be known and sing it at school or something like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now you can't do that from the sisters.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a Hadith that comes to my day and say in Muslim Rasul al-Salam said, a person's diet will always be accepted by Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So long as they do not call for something that is Haram or the cutting off ties, one person said Yara saw Allah, what does hastening the Dua'a mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: And he said, it's like a person who says, I made Dua'a, and I made Dua'a, and I kept making Dua'a, but I don't see that my Dua'a was responded yet.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then he gives up, dispares, and stops making Dua'a.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there they go, we are that a doya.
[SPEAKER_00]: The thing is maybe doya is good for your right now, maybe later.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe what you're asking for is not going to be good for you and this life and I'll lower once they give it to you and you're here after.