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fall remember just remember Allah sees
it all
alhamdulillah all praise due to Allah
and may Allah's peace and bless ings
beyond the last messenger of Allah we
welcome you again dear viewers to our
program in the names of
Allah in our previous program we had
began to look at the name Allah we
identified it as the greatest name of
Allah and we brought the evidences to
support that then we began we looked at
the general meaning and we said it was
the most comprehensive of the names in
that it included all of the other names
of Allah and their meanings they're all
included in the term Allah in English we
usually say this is the proper name of
Allah whereas other uh names describe
some of Allah's particular
characteristics whereas the name per se
is Allah anyway um we went on to look at
how this name
could be applied in our day-to-day lives
we said Prophet Muhammad may God's peace
and blessings be upon Him gave us a
brief formula bismah which actually is
coming from the Quran but uh he gave it
to us as a formula to
use in a variety of different
circumstances in our day-to-day lives
fulfilling day-to-day needs and as a
means of praising Allah also he gave us
Allah oh Allah in a series of different
supplications which he prescribed at
different points in our day so we began
to look at them in our previous
session the Dua of the morning and the
evening which he gave to Abu Bakr and
Abu
Bakr may Allah be pleased with him
conveyed that to us then then we looked
at the basmalah and that was Allah the
basmah he gave us uh before eating three
times a day or more that we eat whenever
we eat or we drink we say in the name of
Allah and doing that according to the
Sunnah of the messenger of Allah then
turns that simple Act of eating or
drinking into worship something very
unique we worship God by eating and
drinking you know most people if you
told them that they would say what kind
of religion is this it's kind of strange
they think of worship as being you know
you go to the temple or you go to the
church and you raise your hands or
whatever you know you bow or but the
idea of eating and this is worship it's
something strange but as we said in the
very beginning that for the believer the
whole of his life can be turned into
worship Allah told us to dedicate Our
Lives to him all aspects of lives when
he
said say indeed my prayers my sacrifices
my living and my dying are for Allah the
Lord of all the worlds that is
dedication of life in its
totality that is the way or the motto or
the the uh belief basic belief of the
believer of Muslim every Muslim should
have that uh driving him throughout his
daytoday
life the
second basic function that we tend to do
on a daily and a regular basis is that
of going to the bathroom we eat and of
course then we have to relieve ourselves
we have to pass it on that is the nature
Allah has created us in that
way were it not that we did that uh it
would be a serious problem for us to be
constantly taking in things and not
passing anything out all of the
creatures have the same process of
things coming in and things going out so
we go to the bathroom on a regular basis
so what did the prophet Sall wasallam do
with Allah's instruction he took told us
to
say whenever we go to the bathroom we
say oh Allah I seek refuge in you from
the evil gin males and
females we protect ourselves with this
uh supplication directed to Allah
subhana wa ta'ala
remember even at the time of going to
the bathroom and again the same
principle applies that applied to eating
that if we go to the bathroom following
the Sunnah of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam in that we go into the
bathroom stepping in with our right foot
Sor sorry stepping in with our left foot
and um you know cleaning ourselves in
the way that he prescribed and he did
prescribe a way and we leave the
bathroom stepping out with our right
feet right foot first and we say when
we're finished that is excuse me oh
Allah uh then the very Act of going to
the bathroom became an act of worship of
Allah you know something so simple as
that but as we said it had to be with
the remembrance of Allah and the whole
purpose behind bah before eating Allah
before going to the bathroom is to keep
Allah in our day today lives at all
levels at all levels and what is the
value of that does Allah need that we
REM be we remember him he didn't
instruct this to his messenger because
he had a need from his creatures because
surely Allah has no
need he is the one without need
everything else in creation has a need
except
him so why why did he prescribe that we
should remember him so often because of
the fact that in the remembrance of
Allah in the remembrance of
Allah we find the right
way if we are aware of Allah it's very
difficult to do what's wrong it helps to
keep us on the straight path to follow
the right
choices to make the right
decisions all of that is the benefit
among the benefits that we get from
remembering Allah and of course from the
other side we also have in the
remembrance of Allah as Allah
said it is only with the remembrance of
of Allah that Hearts find
rest so on one hand it helps us to be
conscious and do the right thing and on
the other hand we find in it Tranquility
this is where the Tranquility the real
uh richness of the heart lies in the
remembrance of Allah because when we
forget him we become open to all of the
evil forces we go astray and we find in
it a sense of
wretchedness life becomes a wretch Ed
life where we might accumulate around
ourselves all of the uh trappings of
wealth and
success but without that
internal spiritual wealth of
consciousness of God then all of this
becomes meaningless and that's why it is
not surprising to hear stories of people
who are at the top of the pyramid they
seem to have everything yet they're
killing themselves with drugs you know
committing suicide doing some of the
craziest things when we read about it we
say why would somebody do that well
because there was no inner peace they
didn't find peace in the remembrance of
Allah and that's we said on the other
side where people are not aware of Allah
then that leads them to disbelief
altogether when Trials come to them we
spoke about that in an earlier program
that one of the biggest reasons why
people go asay to the point where they
deny God's existence is because they
don't have that regular Consciousness
and when the Calamity strikes they can't
accept that this could possibly be with
the permission of God so they end up
denying God altogether but a person who
is remembering God all the time whether
things go well or things don't go well
then when that Calamity strikes they
have the patience they have the kind of
patience which will carry them through
it
so the prophet may God's peace and
blessing be upon Him gave us even at
this most mundane
moment this most lowly moment in our
lives remembrance of Allah calling on
him with his greatest name
after that we
have the
day-to-day uh practice of prayer and
what precedes prayer ablution where we
wash ourselves we clean ourselves up for
prayer
again
ablution this act the spiritual
act has been prescribed after after the
basah that saying Allah's
name doing it in the name of Allah is a
requirement for it to really be complete
Prophet Muhammad s wasallam had
said there is no prayer acceptable to
Allah for one who doesn't make ablution
and the ablution is not acceptable to
Allah in its
completeness if one does not mention the
name of Allah before
it actually the text of the statement of
the Prophet wasallam implies that if you
didn't mention the name of Allah you
didn't say bah actually the Woo is not
accepted at all however the majority of
Scholars in looking at it concluded that
this was a
recommendation and that we can say
instead rather than saying that it is
not valid allog together what we say is
that it is not complete it is deficient
it has lost some of its full spiritual
reward and when we think of ablution we
should think of it primarily from its
spiritual perspective from the spiritual
perspective and not merely from the
physical perspective because
fundamentally wo is a spiritual
act with that dear viewers we're going
to take here a brief break and I will
see you after the
break when you are weak the road seems
long remember just remember seek
strength from the
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strong many people trying to get
together but all their efforts were in
vain because of ignoring or turning away
from this great Foundation we see many
people coming to the way of Truth
following the guidance of Allah subhana
wa ta'ala but later on they get off
track what is the reason behind that
Unity is a result it's not a cover
up we have to be United from inside and
Allah made this clear in the Quran when
he
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said you are weak and the Road seems
long remember just remember seek
strength from the strong
alhamdulillah all praise due to Allah
and may Allah's peace and blessings be
on the last messenger of
Allah I welcome you again dear viewers
to another in our Series in the names of
Allah and as we pointed out earlier and
throughout the series
we're looking at how the names of Allah
have relevance to our day-to-day
lives Allah has revealed those names for
us to take benefit from
them on one hand in knowing who he is to
be clear on who he is to know who he is
and who he isn't to make sure that in
fact we're worshiping the one true
God on the other hand it is also for us
to
reflect those
qualities and those
characteristics which the these various
names necessitate in us as human beings
and that's for those which do that there
are some names like Allah
andman which are not applicable to human
beings to Allah's creatures so it's not
about us trying to reflect those but we
praise Allah with those names but for
those names which have the human element
in there where human beings can reflect
some aspects of those names then the
names are there to guide us through our
lives and by guarding them knowing
them uh understanding them and applying
them in our lives 99 of them in
particular Prophet Muhammad s Ali
wasallam said the reward is
Paradise and as we're going to look at
these names I'm sure it becomes more and
more clear
why the knowing or the
guarding or the
counting with resp with regard to
understanding 99 of Allah's names any 99
because we said before that 99 is not a
limitation
but 99 of them if we are able to guard
them through living what they
necessitate one is guaranteed
Paradise because a person who does that
would surely be a truly righteous
believer in the
previous uh episode we looked at uh in
the beginning of
that Prophet mam wasallam had prescribed
for us to
sayah at the beginning of
wudo and we said that the reason behind
that is to keep the spiritual character
of voodoo we should be conscious of it
not to think of it merely as a physical
cleaning though that is
there
however if if we look at some of the
other statements of the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam with regards
to
woodoo we find him saying that when a
person makes woodoo properly he does a
complete woo washing his limbs
properly and doing so
sincerely that with every drop of water
which Falls from his face the sins of
his face fall away and with every drop
of water which falls from his limbs his
arms and his feet then the sins of his
arms and his feet drop away and of
course sins are not considered to be
things physical that they could be
contained in water and fall away from
our bodies like dirt would when we bathe
but the prophet may God's peace and
blessing be upon him
he said that they
do and this is because of the fact that
wo when done properly purifies us
spiritually there is a cleaning external
but the internal cleaning is of even
greater importance because we are about
to engage in an act of
worship or we could say another act of
worship because W do itself is an act of
worship too but in the major act the
formal prayer or an informal prayer you
know which takes a
fixed
uh
form this prayer has to be preceded for
it to be valid it has to be preceded by
woodo so the point here is that the woo
when done properly with the bismah
before
keeping its spiritual quality or
spiritual
aspect
preserved then the consequence is that
the person now who embarks on the act of
formal
prayer that person will better be able
to give the prayer its full
due where we have just washed
ourselves uh you know quickly rushing to
the mosque we just throw water on
ourselves we're not even really
conscious of what's Happening here and
we just run into the Masjid we stand up
and we start to pray our minds still in
work still at the job still at home or
whatever with our kids you know we're
standing there going through the
movements but spiritually we're not
there and of course the reward for
prayer is based on
the spiritual consciousness that we put
in that prayer if it's missing then we'
have just gone through a physical act
which could just as well have been
aerobics or anything
else that's why also not only did the
prophet give
us
uh guidance spiritual guidance at the
beginning of the woodo we say bmah but
at the end of woo itself he added
also that we
use the name of Allah Ya Allah in
Allah we find that there
also we find that the prophet wasallam
had said that when we complete W if we
say oh Allah make me of those who
frequently turn to you in
Repentance and of those who frequently
make ourselves clean purify
ourselves that
again the spiritual
element is focused on here after we've
completed woodoo we began in the name of
Allah we've done this physical act which
is supposed to be removing sins from our
limbs
and we close that act with calling on
Allah oh
Allah make us after this act make us as
a result of this act of those who turn
to you regularly in
Repentance from
sin and of those who seek to purify
themselves
regularly so what else what else do we
need to understand the real status the
real place of woodoo in our day-to-day
lives this is why we're encouraged to
stay in a state of
woodoo whenever we use the bathroom make
woodoo to regularly make woodoo even
after you have woo the time for prayer
comes make woodoo again it's good
if we're doing it from that spiritual
perspective then it is all good for us
and it helps us in a way that perhaps a
person who is not involved who is not
spiritually attuned would not be able to
see because the physical element is what
is most obvious the spiritual requires a
spiritual search a spiritual effort to
bring out its
reality
also after uh making woodoo then the
next thing before us is the prayer
itself and we find actually that the
prophet in the beginning of his
prayers though the prayer starts
basically with the fa we find which is
the first chapter of the Quran we find
that he would make an introductory
prayer and he made a number of different
versions there a number of different
ones which he did anyway uh one of them
which uh one of the companions had asked
about for the prophet Sall wasallam to
tell him and that was Abu hura he asked
the prophet Sall wasallam what is it
that you're saying you know before you
start the recitation of the fath the
first chapter of the Quran because he
noted that he would pause and he seemed
to say something to himself so he asked
him and he told him he said what I say
is and it's a a long a fairly long Dua
but basically again we starting off with
Allah oh
Allah put distance between
me and my
sins and the Dua goes on to say uh put a
distance which is like the distance
between the East and the
west
and clean me from my
sins the way you clean or the way a
white garment is cleaned
from
dirt this is the basic Dua which he gave
which Begins the prayer and there are
other versions anyway we're closing this
session now our time has
come leaving you with the thought of
remembering to say
bismah before woodoo this is one in
particular that most Muslims don't
observe most are not even aware that it
was an
instruction strive to put this back into
our daily uh routine routine which
should help us to grow spiritually to
come closer to God to become better
human beings who are more beneficial not
only to ourselves but to our families
and the societies around us with that
dear viewers I'd like to thank you for
being with us in this segment of our
program in the names of Allah and we
hope to see you in our future
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episodes seems long remember just
remember seek strength from the strong
when