Why Rushed Prayer Gets Scattered Like Dust

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Alhamdulillah. Continuing in the final sentences of surah chapter number 73 the end of verse number 20 Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says He says, "Subhan, hence recite of the Quran what is convenient." What is made convenient and easy for you. We mention that this command of recitation means one of two things. Correct? It means one of two things. When Allah says recite, he is commanding one of two things. What are those two things? The first one is prayer. Meaning stand in prayer inj at night based on what is convenient what is possible for you giving the circumstances of that night or that day or the following day or that night if a person is traveling if a person is ill if a person is in jihad if a person is etc. So it may fluctuate. So he mentions recite meaning pray. The second meaning of recite recitation here means what? First one is prayer. The second one is what's that? Quran meaning recite in salah and that is what is the least permissible or the least valid recitation of the Quran and salah fat. The prophet sallallah.aii wasallam said He says, "Whoever performs a prayer and does not recite in this prayer then his prayer is meaning his prayer is incomplete and this means invalid. This is the bare minimum of recitation and this is why fat is the way it is and it's placed in the mus the way it is and was revealed more than one time to the prophet sallall.aii wasallam. It was revealed both in Mecca and Medina. Right? So the statement of Allah, recite what is convenient for you, what is easy for you of the Quran. Two opinions, two meanings. The first meaning is what is intended by recitation here is what? Salah. And what is intended by recitation is recitation in salah. Very good. We understand now if we say what is intended as salah jump from recite to pray that is that as we've mentioned before it is common common u it is a common way of speaking that you mention in something refer to something by its most critical parts, right? if we if I wanted to refer to a car, what could I call it? Could call what's a part of a car that is integral? Wheels, right? That's not only integral, that's the whole point of the car. If the car was really really really perfect in every way but it didn't have wheels it is useless. Correct? Therefore that's the essence of the car. Everything else is just busy work. So or everything else is designed around that function of wheels of transportation. So an an example of that is referring to the hole by one of its integral or most prominent parts. Also for instance, if a person wanted to refer to a gun, they could refer to it as a what? Huh?

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Fire. It is called that. Actually, there are dozens of references to a pistol. Just a sword, these are iconic things part of human culture, right? What about if you called it a pipe? That's correct, right? Its most critical component is its barrel, right? Just wheels on a car. Or if you refer to a home or a house by how many bedrooms are in it. You got a two-bedroom, a threebedroom. Does that mean it has no kitchen? It has no living room, it has no front door, it has no it's just bedrooms. No. But that is the point of what? Of a home to facilitate your rest in safety and in safety and shelter. So when Allah refers to salah as recitation, this happens in the Quran. He refers to salah as in the Quran. He refers to salah as in in the Quran. Correct? He refers to salah as or in the Quran. All of these are references to salah because these are integral components of it and this is the point of the prayer. So multiple places in the Quran Allah refers to salah as recitation. He says the recitation of we know that our prophet sallall.aii wasallam explained this verse that the recitation of fud is most witnessed. Meaning the angels on the morning and night shift. The angels of the day come down. The angels of the night get ready to go up to to clock out right to go for their and at that moment at that's when all of them are present. And so Allah subhanahu.

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And specifically what part of which part of that is most stressed Quran right that's why the longest recitation of all the prayers is and right the longest recorded is and those two are usually The longest he says establish prayer establish establish. He didn't say pray even though it's a shorter sentence. He could have said and pray. But that's not what's intended, is it? What's intended is not just the performance of prayer. What is intended is the.

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You, Mr. Engineer. The establishment of prayer. That's what's intended. It's not good enough just to pray. It's not good enough. Establishment of prayer. Establishment mean that all of its all of its prerequisites, its conditions, its pillars, its obligations are met to a tea. I have a question. How many conditions are there for prayer? Yeah. Yeah. Eight. There's at least five. Yeah. Good. I mean, you're one shy. It's nine. Nine conditions. How many pillars? 14. How many obligations? Yellow, say it. You got it right the first time. Say that. Now's your Now's your time to shine. Eight. Come on, man. Nine conditions, 14 pillars, eight obligations, and almost countless sunn. Do we know them all? This is critical when Allah says establish prayer. We all just prayed here. How many of us can be certain based on evidence? Not speaking about what dad taught me. Not speaking about what I saw people do. I'm speaking about evidence. Allah said, his messenger said that our prayer is eligible for acceptance. Because in order for our prayer to be eligible for acceptance, it has to meet its conditions, its pillars, its obligations. If we don't know them, then we have no idea what we've just done, do we? The prophet sallallah.aii wasallam was sitting in the masid. A man walked in. His name was Ibuk. And Abu was there and you know it's a big masid. As he walked in he saw the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam there and he said assalamu alaykum and he saidum and then he prayed. Then he went to the prophet sallall.aii am he he approached him and he said he said go back and pray because you didn't pray yet linguistically he just prayed right but legislatively meaning did he just pray let me ask you a question if someone were to Make salah without wudoo knowingly. No, no, no. Just stand and make salah. We all saw him make salah. We could say he prayed, right? But in Islam, as far as the legislation of Islam is concerned, did he pray? He did not pray. He did not pray. Why? Because his prayer is invalid out the gates. He didn't pray. He did not pray because he's missing a critical component. Just in all actions, if a person stands for but they worship other than Allah, did they make salah? Did they give zakah? Did they fast? No. Why? We saw them do it. But in Allah's book, did they do any of those things? Why? Because it's invalid. Right? The prerequisite of all actions being accepted are two conditions. What are the two conditions? No. not any good deed. What is the prerequisite? the condition of any good deed being accepted by Allah, right? So, sincerity. What's the other one? So, what do we call that? Mutaba, right? We call it Mutaba. Meaning that it's not an innovation. We all know this. Because in order for us to become Muslim, we have to say whatahill that's sincerity, right? What is that? That it has to be only for Allah and it has to be in accordance with the will of Allah. That's the condition. Let's say a person worships Asian. They believe that he is the son. He is one of three. They believe in the trinity. But they also believe that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. So they pray and fast Ramadan and give zaka and they go to Hajj and they cry and they and they love and they go to jihad and they they are martyed. Their very soul they gave it for the sake of Allah. Did they really do any of those things on the day of judgment? We understand that, right?

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Condition. The condition has to be met in order for the thing to be valid. If a person knows that this is the direction of the and they face that direction, they turn their back to it and make salah. It's a really good salah. It's a fantastic salah. A touching salah. Anyone walked in and saw that man praying, it would touch their heart. Cried beautiful recitation, perfect form, perfect everything. But he's facing away from the knowingly. Did he pray? So this man approached the prophet and said, he said, "Said go back and pray. you haven't prayed yet. So he went back and he prayed. Then he came back and again he saidum go back and pray for you haven't prayed yet. So the man went back and prayed again. Then he came back. He said he said go back and pray. You haven't prayed yet. This is how many times? Three times. Let's say this wasn't the messenger of Allah. Let's say this was a scholar, a teacher. Okay? And this is your interaction with him. Most people, what would they do? What kind of imam is this? He's not nice. He's a bad imam. He didn't service me properly. I am an unhappy customer. I'm unsatisfied with this customer service cuz the imam, the teacher, the scholar, he's here to serve me. I am the customer. You made me feel bad. How can you learn anything when this is the approach, right? If we don't trust our teachers, there's no point to this. There's no point to this dynamic here at all. This is nothing more than entertainment. if we don't take it seriously and if we don't trust our teachers. He's doing that because he doesn't like me. I know he doesn't me. I saw it in his eyes before. Right? Because we have such ignorance, we can't even separate and distinguish between the whispers of El and our own thoughts. And so everything that pops into our head, it must be true. It's correct. It's definitely true. Can't possibly see it from any other angle. So when he came back the third time, he said, he said, he said, he said, I swear by the one who has sent you with the truth. this is the best I know how to do, so please teach me. Now, why that process? Why didn't he just teach him immediately as soon as he saw what was wrong? We'll see that the reason his was invalid is because it was rushed. There was noina. There was no tranquility. Tranquility in salah is a pillar of salah. At every junction, at every stage, at every place of prayer, at every position, you or I assume in prayer, we have to reach a level of what is referred to as tranquility. Nina, if we don't, the prayer is invalid. this man in what what's his main flaw here? He's in a.

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Companions praying that? did he did he learn that prayer from Abu Bakr and Omar and Ali and Abu and Anb Malik and Albb andb and Zade? Did he learn that from usb and zbin? No, he didn't learn that from them. He saw people doing that. He did it. Hey, it's good enough, right? I got stuff to do, places to be. He's in a hurry. He didn't bother to investigate any further. And we said that the highest skill of a teacher is to first plant a seed of what in the student? Curiosity. If you cannot get your student to be curious, you're wasting your time. You must might as well be talking to this wall right here. That is half of the fen of teaching. Half of the skill of teaching is planting a seed of curiosity in the listener. If it was one of those other companions, he would have probably just told him immediately, "That's wrong. Don't do it again." This man's in a hurry and he's been around the Muslim and still hasn't gotten the message. Therefore, we need to break through that stubbornness. We need to break through that hurriedness. Hur hurriedness, if that's a word, that that huriness, right? to get that seed of curiosity planted to where he's now asking and slowing down enough to say I I've thought about it and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong so please teach me at that moment he immediately taught him he said if you wish to stand for prayer then make then face the and say Allahbar and then recite of the Quran what is it what you are able to and then say Allah and fall into remain in rur until you reach a degree of tranquility. Tranquility is gauged by every bone and muscle in the body reaches a point of rest and nonmovement. This is the level. This is what's referred to asina. We say what's the bare minimum of nina in prayer? It is that the body entirely ceases movement in that position. So you make the entire body all the bones the joints the muscles have to relax and stop and pause in that position entirely. Some of the scholars gauge that by at least saying three times or subh three times or in the sitting between the two ses etc. The point is he taught him. Now this man had been praying a lot but he actually hadn't prayed and that's the meaning of the statement of Allah. Could you imagine the nightmare scenario?

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Day of judgment what they have done of deeds and turn it into scattered dust in the wind." It's not even dust. It's smaller than dust. To Allah, it's smaller than dust. You know what Alhaba is in the Arabic language? You ever you ever sit in the window, the sun is coming through and you look at the the the light and you see those little floaters floating around that little dust that's it's almost too light for gravity to grab it. That's not even dust. Dust once the wind settles, it settles. Heat never settles. It's nothing. It's not even visible to the naked eye. That's how insignificant all of their tears and blood and sweat are because they didn't bother themselves to to think about what Allah wants from them. It's just this is what I have to offer. So, he's going to just have to accept it. That arrogance immediately invalidates worship immediately. nightmare scenario being resurrected. Alhamdulillah got great. You have these mountains of deeds. Nothing. Nothing. And hopelessness. The gates of hell are now open. Once you pass through those gates, there is nothing. No other. You will never ever see the outside of those gates again. We only get one shot at this. We have to try our best. and subhanahu.