Why Patience and Prayer Change Everything

Alhamdulillah. Continuing in the chapter of patience authored by Noah. We are still in the opening verses of this chapter. It's very very important to pay close attention to the verses. Oftentimes in a book that is geared towards hadith a person can become a little bit tunnel visioned and hyperfocus on the narrations and overlook the verses. Just in a book that is primarily geared towards tia a person can become hyperfocused on the verses and overlook the narrations and their relationship. These verses represent the basis upon which all of the following narrations are to come. I want to share a statement of with you all. mentioned this in his book. He said that Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala said in he was commenting on a verse in that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said speaking to the messenger we have sent down upon you the book in order that you may judge between the people and amongst the people and judge the people based on what Allah shows you from the book. Notice the wording based on what Allah shows you of the book. Commented on this statement and said, He said the prophet sallall.aii wasallam has never made a judgment. Every judgment he ever made was based on the verses that he understood from the Quran. When we look at the Sunnah and its relationship with the Quran, we see that the Sunnah has three three active roles along with the Quran. Number one, it will say exactly what's in the Quran. It will reiterate exactly what's in the Quran. Number two, it will expound upon and detail something that is otherwise generalized and undetailed in the Quran. So it'll take something that's general in the Quran and detail it and expound upon it. And the third is that the sunnah will have in it something that's not found in the Quran anywhere. something that is added something that is from Allah but it's not found in the Quran and this is very much for instance zebra meat is permissible donkey meat donkey domesticated donkey meat is haram where is this in the Quran it's not in the Quran it's in the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam putting on a or perfume For a person who is in aam, this is haram. The scholars have agreed on this. Is this in the Quran? No, it's not in the Quran. This is in the Sunnah. As a matter of fact, this ruling came to the prophet sallall.aii wasallam in Hajj when a companion asked him in the exact same way that the Quran came to him in salah. Is this in the Quran? No, it's not in the Quran. These are rulings that are found in the Sunnah that are not found in the Quran at all. So we have number one, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam says what's in the Quran exactly. Number two, he details or expounds upon it or elaborates on what is something something that's touched upon in the Quran. Number three, there is a ruling that is not found in the Quran at all. There's no fourth. These are the only three aspects of the Sunnah with relation with regard to its relationship with the Quran. Now if we understand that we understand that the majority of what the prophet said is what he understood from the Quran. The majority the majority of what he said is what he understood from the book of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in his sunnah. So when you're reading a narration, often times you are reading the understanding of the prophet sallall.aii wasallam of what is in the Quran. And this is why you can find a root to every narration back in the Quran in the book of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. They come together. He said, I have been given the Quran and that which is it along with it. Meaning the sunnah it meaning in authority. Sunnah is the same as the Quran in authority. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So when Anoi mentions verses all these subsequent narrations are going to be built and based on these verses he says he then mentions the statement of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala verse number 153 of he says Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala commands saying, "Seek all of you aid in patience and prayer. Indeed, Allah is with those who are patient." So the great merit of patience is that Allah is with those who are patient. So Allah tells us that he is with those who are patient. That's an incredible merit. And this articulates that it's an incredible act of worship. But what does it mean when Allah says seek aid in patience and prayer? What is meant by patience and prayer? Seek aid meaning in those things that are difficult in your times of difficulty. When things happen, something hard happens, something difficult, a tribulation, a crisis, an unfortunate im event, a befallment, what do you do? You seek aid in being patient through that, but you seek aid in patience to be patient. What does that mean? So some of the scholars because of this mention that what's meant by patience here is a.

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One of the meanings of this is that some of the companions, some of the scholars mention that what's mentioned by patience is fasting. Fasting. Why? Because fasting embodies patience. It's a proof that I can go without that which keeps me alive. I can go without food and drink for a number of hours. If I can do that and that is something that I have to have in order to physically stay alive, then I can definitely be patient and everything else. Also, fasting is a simulation of the dunya. What does that mean? It's a simulation of the dunya. It's a microcosm of our time on the dunya. Think about it. When a person begins his fast, he starts with eating and drinking in the morning before the sunrise in order to get the best start. He starts out not eating, being patient, being patient. Slowly things get a little bit more difficult, a little bit more difficult. And they might encounter extreme difficulty during the day of fasting. And then finally, just when the sun sets, the person eats and drinks. And it's as if that never happened. It's as if there there was never any thirst. There was never any hunger. How many of us are scarred, suffering from PTSD from fasting? None of us. It's silly, right? None of us can remember a time when I fasted and it was so terrible that I could never fast again. No, we've had hard times fasting. But as soon as the water touches your lips, it's gone. It was it was an illusion. And that is a simulation of the dunya. Exactly the same. The illusion of the hunger and the thirst. As soon as the angel of death comes, immediately it's relieved as if it never happened. And this is why we are encouraged to constantly fast. We'll mention some other aspects of this verse tomorrow inshallah or actually Saturday. Fridays we do merits of the day of J. Alhamdulillah.