turn to allah read your five salah a day
a muslim
and he does not read five salah allahu
akbar
how can that be my brothers and sisters
if you have read
one in the past and now you are reading
two it's a very big improvement but that
is not
still the ideal you need to continue
because as muslimeen
we have khamsa salawatinvi
if you look at the hadith of jabal
radhiallahu and when he was sent to
yemen
he was told to teach the people several
items from amongst them
one of them was tell them they owe allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala
five daily prayers not two not three
you know we word it differently when we
speak to the younger people
sometimes we tell them you know you need
a key to enter for example let's say
paradise
you want to enter paradise you need a
key you want to enter this door you need
a key
each key has a number of teeth just like
if i want to phone you i need your phone
number brother
if i have one error in the whole phone
number
i won't get through to you you see so if
i would like paradise
i need to read five salah on a daily
basis that is the figure
that's the number of teeth on the key if
you have one tooth missing what happens
try it take your key and break out one
tooth put it in
it won't open your door but there are so
many other teeth one is missing
my brothers and sisters against your
laziness
or mine against the coziness of your bed
against whatever you are doing in the
mall
or at your workplace or enjoying with
your family
stop everything at the time of salah
and quickly fulfill your salah imagine i
am saying quickly
whereas by right it's not supposed to be
done quickly but
even if you have done it in the midst of
your work
and you have fulfilled that salah come
what may wallahi that may just be the
means of your entry into paradise
some of us are not submitters you know
we follow islam where it
where it is easy for us only well we
need to do better than that which means
where it is easy alhamdulillah where it
is difficult
we still want to try and we still want
to please allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
the other day i got a beautiful message
on my phone i need to share it with you
it showed a little caricature lifting
weights you know weights which have
heavy weights i think
maybe 60 70 kilos on either side and
he's lifting weights he says you think
you're strong
you see the question is you think you
are powerful
obviously this is because the young
people of today they want to have big
muscles you know and they want to be
seen and they want to be felt when they
greet you you just got to say
because you cannot look at them anymore
in the way that we used to in the past
no big man you got to look at him
carefully so it says
if you think you're very strong you you
can lift
lift your blanket for salatul fajr then
you will be strong
allah you are strong you want to lift
lift your blanket at salat that is the
heavyweight title allahu akbar
brothers and sisters i thought it was a
very good message
because today the message of the deen
needs to be put forth to our children
and ourselves
in a way that we look at it and we
really think wallahi it is correct
the powerful person is the knot is not
the one who can lift 120 kilos
with one hand and with his little finger
subhanallah no
it isn't a powerful person is the one
who can
lift his blanket up for salatul fajr and
for tahajud
speaks about these powerful believers
and allah says they are the ones
whose sides refuse to actually lay down
on those beds they
move themselves off the bed the beddings
in order to stand up in prayer for the
almighty
at night praying to allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala
fearing him and having hope in his mercy
may allah grant that to us