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| The Virtues of La ilaha ilAllah Wahdahu La Shareeka Lahu |
The Virtues of La ilaha ilAllah Wahdahu La Shareeka Lahu
Not done with
this dua and inshallah just a quick recap we talked about this allah as an
extension of the best zikr that exists and what is the best zikr what did the prophet
saw some say is the best form of zikr the best form of remembrance is and the
best form of dura is al-hamdu lillah wetalked about what said that hemd is the
price of every nirma in this life alhamdulillah is the price of every narama in
this life andis the key to al-jannah and as we went through the meaning of this
dua just to recaphe alone is an affirmation once again of the word of taheed he
has no partner so he is one in his essence he is one in his names and his
attributes and he is one as well in that no one shares in his duties with him
he needs no one he is dependent upon no one subhanahu wa ta'alahe has no
partner in anything that he does to him belongs that means everything is
everything that is possessed the entire dominion the possession of all time and
place and everything in between the known and the unknown allah mentions the
surah that is named after this word of the dominion that he is the one who
controls life and death the one who possesses all of the dominion all of that
which is to be possessed you give to whom you will of that possession and you
withhold you take from those whom you will to is that's also part of allah
subhanahuta'ala's honor is a part of his mulk you give honor to whom you willand
you humiliate whom you will and in your hands belongs all goodsubhanallah one
of the things that's very beautiful about this is that we know that allah
controls everything rightbut from the adap of the prophet salallahu and
especially when we are making durayou attribute to allah subhanahu wa ta'alagood
is all in your hands and evil is not to be ascribed to youbecause we're calling
upon allah asking him for the good of that right and to protect us from the
evilof those that transgress is praise isit has both the praise of allah
subhanahu ta'ala and then gratitude to allah upon all things so we covered how
this dura is to be said every morning 10 times or 100 times what is the reward
of saying it 10 times this is just to move on now to the rest of our discussion
what's the reward of saying it 10 times in the morning and 10 times in theevening
to free four slaves four slaves in sha allah brotherwants to make them five
inshallah if you increase it will be more of it and if you recite it and
particularlythe prophet saws to free four believing slaves and we said the
reward of freeing a slave is that every part of you is freed from the fire every
part of you is free from the fire so the reward is the reward of freeing for
slaves andif a person says it one hundred times then what would be the reward it
is like freeing ten slaves the prophet salallahu a person says it 100 times
it's like freeing 10 sleeves a hundred blessings will be recording recorded for
that person 100 good deedswill be recorded for that person a hundred sins will
be removed from that person and itwill be a herz it will be a protection for
that person from the shaitaan for the entire daysubhanallah like in a fortress
that cannot be penetrated is a prison it's a fortressthe shaitaan will have
absolutely no access to you throughout the day he will not be able to penetrate
this fortressthat you have throughout the day and no one will be able to do
anything better whateverand no one will be able to accomplish anything better
than what you've accomplished for the day except for someone who recites the
duamore than you meaning don't limit yourself to a hundred if you want to do it
a thousand times a day i know that sounds a thousand timesa day but subhanallah
reading it a hundred times takes you less than ten minutes reading it a hundred
times takes in lessthan ten minutes so if you were to to say that you're going
to say it 200 300 400 times you're going to accomplishmore in one day then keep
on reciting it nowwe move into the next part of this inshallah which is how
this dua is used in other situationsand it's it's really uh powerful because
you see more rewards that come out of it as welland when we say tahil is the
best form of zikr i want you to remember a very easyanalogy insha'allah the
best form of istikhar the best form of seeking forgiveness from allahsubhanahu
ta'ala is the chief the master of seekingforgiveness right it even starts off
with of coursethe affirmation of tawheed oh allah you are my lord there is no
godbut you wanna[Music]but this is called sayudur istifa the master of seeking
forgiveness the best way to seek forgiveness nowhere's the analogy i want you
to remember thiswhy because everything that is said in say the istighfaris
already embedded in it's already embedded in it's embeddedall of the meanings
of seeking forgiveness from allah subhanahu wa ta'ala are already embedded inthat
short form of zikr allahbut this elaboration allows those meanings to take
greater root in your heart aswell so it's it's you know elaborating or it isaffirming
within your dura as well so you are extolling allah's virtuesfurther you're
praising allah more you are affirming the meanings of those more but they're
also taking greaterroot in your heart likewisethe meanings of that are really
all embedded in la ilaha but just like say that is more virtuousbecause every
phrase of it is dikkit then simply saying in the same way this entire dua is
morevirtuous than merely saying so the first thing the hadith of thealaihi
allah said whoever says subhanallah 33 times and says allahu akbar 33 timesand
says 33 times and then seals that withafter every single prayer what is the
reward does anyone know the prophet salallahusaid that allah will forgive that
person's sinseven if that person's sins equaled the foam of the seathink about
all of the foam of the seas the prophet salallahu said sayingsubhanallah 33
times alhamdulillah 33 times 33 times and then sayingit is as if that person's
sins are entirely forgiven even if their sins encompass thefoam of the sea we
go on to some of the other hadith where the prophet saws isnarrated to have
said this dura after every salah but there is more to it so the prophet saw
some wouldincrease and sometimes the the text prior to the hadith is enriching
soin this particular hadith which is also authenticwho wrote a letter to
al-mura even when he asked him to share with himsomething that he learned from
the prophet saws that was very impactful right share with me something youremember
from the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam a habit that you took something
that you act upon on a regular basis so a sahabi talkingto a sahabi and saying
give me something rich that can benefit me for whatever is left in this worldso
he wrote back back and he said that the prophetsallallahu alaihi washe would
say after every thorough prayer after every obligatoryprayerallahso this is
obviously an elaboration that the prophet sawso allah no one no one can stand
in the way no one can withholdthat which you have given no one will interferewhat
you're going to give no one's going to stand in the way of subhanallah so
beautifuland this is again when the prophet saw islam is teaching us how to
make dua you you make your with certaintywith certainty in what you are asking
allah for and these meanings if you don't believe this then what'sthe point of
making dua if you believe that someone can stand in betweenwhat allah subhanahu
ta'ala decrees for you of good and what you receive then what's thepoint of
saying it so the affirmation has to come from a sincere placeno one gets in the
way of that which you are going to give me so when i'm asking you whatever i'm
asking you for that i knowthat no one is going to forbid it there is no one
that's going to nullify what you're going to give meokay and no one can give me
what you have forbidden to be given to me so if i try to get somethingand allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala has nullified it or has put a barrier between that and methen
no one is going to be able to give that to methe riches or nothing can avail a
wealthy person against you so subhanallah the power of that is thatif someone possesses
something that they think gives them some sort of immunityin this life
generally speaking as you go on if you have more power more access youknow more
important or influential people you have more wealth you have more possessions
youhave more anything right more authority the more that you gain of this life
the morethat when bad things happen you start to think that you know i'm going
to be able to get myself outof this right that's one of the things that was
humbling about a pandemic right is that it couldn't protect everybodyright what
you had did not necessarily protect you though of course disparities you know
still show in everything rightbut the point is is that nothing's going to avail
me when i stand before allah subhanahu wa ta'alaor in my standing before allah
no matter what i have no matter how immune i am starting toto feel nothing can
avail a person with allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala so thisis one way that would hear
the prophet saw i saw him sayafterthere is another narration from abdullah ibn
zubair and his son is saying that i heard himaladmin i heard him giving khutbah
and he was saying that the prophet salallahuthis is the interesting usage of
the words and the scholars say either what he's saying is that the prophet saws
would still say thisat the end of every salah or as the prophet saws is leaving
his prayer so if the prophetsaisam is walking home this dikket is still with
himi don't expect everyone to memorize all this by the way by salah unless you
truly have morningmemory masha'allah so we'll we'll find a way to post them
inshaallah todayor by tomorrow so the prophet says some would say once again
the dura and then he would say la ilahthat we are sincere to him in our
devotion even if the disbelievers hate itthat we will remain sincere in our
devotion to the oneness of allahit includes subhanallah so much of this because
hamd is so encompassing but again the elaborationto allah belongs all blessings
all bountiesandthat we are sincere in our devotion to him even if the
disbelievers dislike that the next narration iswhen the prophet saw some taught
her every single night to say as she goes to sleep subhan allah 33 times
alhamdulillah 33times allahu akbar 33 times and in one narration the prophet
saws and seal it with this dua so you haveafter every prayer and then you have
at the time of sleeping as well obviously we coveredlast week that the prophet
saws would say this in a safa well as well however what i'm about to sharewith
you all very interesting even though dallas is a very flat placethe prophet saw
sallam was narrated to say this in two other places in a way thatresembles the
suffolk one is after a battle after a battlethe prophet saw some would say this
dura and when the prophet saws found himself on a high placeokay so if he is on
a high place obviously when a person is on a high place when they're standing
ona mountain or a hill and the riddamas say this is not restricted to asafoet
marwahin general a person could could could feel a sense of greatness right
they'veconquered something great they're standing on top of a mountain i'm
looking out to the world but the higher you get the more you needto remember
how low you actually are right you need to humble yourself and remember who you
arewhen allah blesses you with something when allah grants you something when
allah gives you victorythen a person needs to remember who they are and this is
very important to understandfor a moment inshaallah because the best of
hardship is what la ilahado i have there is no better thing to say in atime of
hardshipokay subhanak is to declare the perfection of allah and i was amongst
the wrongdoersand the reason why this is important is that there it mentioned
that indira tesbirusually comes in a time of hardship in a time of seeing
something that is displeasingin a time of seeing something that is hard upon
you or something that isdispleasing to allah subhanahu wa ta'ala subhana how
perfect are you how perfect are youthat imperfection be ascribed to you how
perfect are you that my own wrong doing right would haveany effect on you how
perfect are you that you would would be ableright that you are able of course
always fully able to lift me when i am down because subhanak rightsubpanic when
someone is amazed by something satanic so the point is is that tasmiyahusually
it's not limited to that of course but usually comes when a person is in a
place of hardshipalhamdulillah comes when a person is in a place of gratitude
allah has bestowed upon them somethingalhamdulillah allah has given them
something alhamdulillah so this also comes in the secondaryportions of the dura
so obviously this is after the prophet sallallahu alaihi swhen the prophet saws
was on a high place on the earth or when he came back from a victoryhe would
say la ilahaalhamdulillahin complete submission worship of our lord hamidon and
praising our lord so theprophet salla islam would encompass all of that as he
was standing on a high place and he would remind himself whatsadaqathat allah
has fulfilled his promise and allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala has supported his
servant and allahsubhanahu ta'ala has removed the confederates all by himselfanother
way we say from the prophet we see from the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
is that the prophet saw some said if yousay this dura one time so now is the
easiest one no additions to itjust that if a person was to say it one timethat
it would ward off when a person is feeling lazy so you'regetting tired
throughout the day you're starting to slack off you're yawning a lotand you're
starting to feel like you're not so productive this is a dua that would
energize aperson once again okay so subhanallah if a person just says this
throughout the dayas they start to feel instead of just i'm tired and i didn'thave
my caffeine today and whatever it is right away program yourself of course you
sayyou say isit would ward off laziness two more times that we find this onenarrated
that the prophet salallahuwhoever is disturbed or they wake up during their
sleep so you know a nightmare woke you upobviously there's this there's a
person seeking refuge in allah so these things are not in contradictionrather
they are in addition a person wakes up at night for any reason though you have
a hard timesleeping you have a crying baby you have you know it's raining hard
outside the light is bothering you justsomething woke you up it's hot it's cold
but the point is very encompassing in that regard youwoke up in the middle of
the night and a person saysokay because this is easy to remember inshallah you
woke up at night you're having ahard time going back to sleep before you pick
up your phone and say let me scroll and just watch some videos or something
like that or start textingor catch up on messagesthese are the phrases we
always say subhanallahthe prophet sawsan said whoever says this in one
narration he also added oh my lord forgive me he saidwhatever dura you make at
that time you will be answered okay and he saysand if that person goes even
further and he gets up and makes and prays two rakahs then their prayersare
definitely accepted so subhanallah what do you ask allahsubhanahu wa ta'ala for
ijabaso at that time if you just wake up and you don't even get out of bed but
you say thatsubhanallahwill be accepted and then if you get up and you make
wudu and you pray yourtahajjud your qiyam is certainly accepted as well right
and abdullah um if i knew that allah accepted from meone i would wish to leave
this world at that point because that's the value of anaccepted prayer from
allah so the prophet saw is saying do this and your dua's and your prayerwill
certainly be accepted so the next time you wake up at night insha'allah this is
how you respond thelast thing is very common but still very profound and i hope
insha'allahnow with a fuller appreciation of this diket as a whole this dua
makes a littlebit more sense to you the prophet salallahu says and of course
this hadith is one that is subjected togreat dispute dispute not because there
is a fabrication in the chain or there's any severe weakness in fact it's anauthenticated
hadith according to many of the great of hadith and it has a chainbut just
because it sounds it sounds incredible you know sometimes when you hear ahadith
or you hear it and it's like the rewards are are written in such a way and and
usually that is a sign of afabricated hadith when it's like say this and it's
as if you have two million moons and i don't know why anyone wantto have two
million ones but it's as if you have you know unlocked the keys of thisand this
and this and that three thousand times and if you say this 24 times usually
those types of hadithespecially when they are on whatsapp even if in
parentheses it says bukhari and muslimusually it's a sign of a fabrication
however this hadith the prophet saws in a hadith fromeven abdullah that
abdullahand he is ever living and he does not die okay so this is the only
additionto the dua and he is powerful or he has power overall things the
prophet sawsallah will write down for that person one thousand by one thousand
hasanat which is a million the wordmillion is not a real arabic word okay so
alf elf a thousand times athousand is a million aand allah will remove from him
a million sins a thousand by a thousand sins and allah will constructfor that
person a palace in paradise this is upon entering into the soup uponentering
into the marketplace now this hadith if you look at this narration again itjust
sounds incredible it's like well if that's the case let me just spend my day
going tothe soup over and over again walk in walk out walk in walk out walk in
walk outuntil they call the police on me at target right let me just keep going
in and out saying that you're that's not thepractice of the salaf right to just
go to the marketplace and go in and out because this is an incredible uh
narrationbut there it might mention many wisdoms for this number one the
prophet saws says that the most beloved of places toallah are this is the
easiest answer ever the place you're sitting in right now the masjid these are
the most beloved placeson earth to allah and the most hated places to allah onearth
are al are the marketplaces now i could go into further detail inthat regard
because there are of course places that are more exclusive to some of the fawahsome
of the evil that traditionally could be found in the marketplace but are now
just entirely you know places that arededicated to that evil and that sin so
what is what is the hadith mean the place where people are most likely toremember
allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the message masjid the place where people are
least likely to remember allahis when you get into the marketplace and truly
subhanallah those of you that have been to certain countries or you might even
be from thosecountries originally the marketplace is a loud place it's a place
where immediately right when you walk in people start to bombard youi mean it's
a very hard place to remember allah okay the traditional right people are making
all sorts of oath people are trying to throw whatever product in front of you
and get you to that product right sojust imagine yourself as you walk into this
now obviously you walk into the marketplace it's quiet go get yourshopping cart
no one's there um to mess with you except for maybe thethe store attendant who
greets you as you walk in right or you do online shopping which let's have
let's have hope and allah that that counts too as soon as you open your online
shopping shop and i'm not joking about that by the way say it when you open
your online marketplace you know what the least that could happen the worst
thing that could happen is that you meet allah on the day of judgment and you
just get the reward of that dura without which we've already covered incredible
form of right and maybe you would have had lots of dua that has been unlocked
to you good of this world that's been unlocked you as well now why you where
you meet he gives life and he gives death and he is ever living and he does not
die because when a person sees the dunyain front of them and they remind
themselves there is no real life except for thelife of the hereafter then that
means that they are not allowing anything to distract them from allah subhana
waso you're reminding yourself where true life is and where death is and who
the actual giver of life because you go to the marketplace to get something of
this world and some peoplefind the meaning of life in products that they own
right so you're reminding yourself ofwho allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is and what
the value of this life is so when a person enters into the marketplace and they
say this allah will write down for thema million hasanat removed from them a
million a million sins and allah will build for them a palace in paradise how
generous and merciful is allah subhanahu wa ta'alahow generous and merciful is
a lost pentagon someone says how is that even possible don't do math with the
mercy of allah it's incredible yes it's a lot subhanallah but we're dealing
witha lord who is more merciful than we can comprehend who is more generous
than anything that we have ever seen of generosity from anyone else and that's
the point butcall upon allah while you are certain in the response so that is
why we hope in the night even when we stay here after salat al-fajr remember
allah until the sun rise that allah would write down hajj for us complete
witness because we're dealing with a generous and a merciful lord may allah
write it down for us fully may allah allow the the brilliance of this diker the
beauty of this decade to take root in our hearts for it to be frequent on our
tongues for it to be manifest in our deeds and for us to find the entire reward
on the day of judgment
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