Essential Du'a Prep for Hajj - The Post Nusuk Transition

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الملخص

TLDRIn this informative session, the speaker emphasizes the integral role of dua (supplication) in Islam, particularly during the holy month of Ramadan and during the Hajj pilgrimage. They outline the importance of dua as an act of worship that fosters a deep connection with Allah. The discussion offers practical tips for enhancing one’s dua practice, including the significance of beginning with praises of Allah, the need for sincerity, and the benefits of praying in one's own language. Additionally, the speaker encourages making dua for oneself before expanding it to include requests for others. Emphasis is placed on utilizing specific times and acts of worship, such as during fasting or in prayer, to optimize the chances that one's dua will be accepted. The session aims to enrich participants' understanding and approach to making dua in their spiritual lives.

الوجبات الجاهزة

  • 💡 Dua is fundamental to worship and life.
  • 🌙 Fasting enhances the effectiveness of dua.
  • ❤️ Speak to Allah in your own language for sincerity.
  • 🙏 Always begin dua by praising Allah first.
  • 🌍 Include prayers for others, acknowledging collective needs.

الجدول الزمني

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    A reminder to stay calm and patient while waiting for Ramadan to finish; the speaker predicts that at least 50,000 visas were issued based on past statements.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Discussion on the significance of Dua (supplication) in the Islamic faith, emphasizing that life is ultimately meant for worship and submission to Allah.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Understanding that slavery to Allah is a form of freedom; true freedom comes from servitude and submitting to the divine will.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Dua is characterized by humility and obedience to Allah, and is fundamental to life as it symbolizes one's relationship with the Creator.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    The importance of recognizing Allah's graciousness in answering prayers, and the necessity of making Dua with sincerity and a deep connection to Him.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    How to approach Dua: through understanding, humility, and focusing on others' needs, not just one's own desires. Prayer should be heartfelt and genuine, initiated by praising Allah.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:35:00

    Dua can take various forms, including asking for help and guidance, and it is encouraged to include specific supplications taught by the Prophet. The more you make Dua with intention, the more likely it is to be accepted.

  • 00:35:00 - 00:40:00

    Illustration of the Prophet's diligence in making Dua extended over long periods, showcasing that true worship includes lengthy supplication. This practice builds connection and sincerity with Allah.

  • 00:40:00 - 00:45:00

    Encouragement to express personal feelings and requests to Allah in one's own language while utilizing traditional prayers and supplications to enhance the experience.

  • 00:45:00 - 00:50:33

    The concluding guidance on preparing for spiritual practices outside of Hajj, including engaging with prayer lists, writing personal prayers, and fostering communal awareness and concern for fellow believers.

اعرض المزيد

الخريطة الذهنية

فيديو أسئلة وأجوبة

  • What should I do before making dua?

    Start by praising Allah and sending salawat (blessings) upon the Prophet.

  • Is it okay to read duas from a list?

    Yes, you can read duas from a list; it maintains the organic nature of your supplication.

  • How do I keep my dua sincere?

    Speak from your heart in your own language, express your feelings, and articulate your needs clearly.

  • Why is fasting important for dua?

    Fasting boosts the effectiveness of dua as it brings a person closer to Allah in humility and submission.

  • Can I make dua for others?

    Yes, it's good to make dua for others after you've prayed for yourself.

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التمرير التلقائي:
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    everybody good afternoon uh pretty much
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    to everybody because even the Yanks have
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    entered into the uh
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    afternoon and um we are not too far off
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    inshallah I see a lot of stress and uh
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    concern about um how long this is going
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    to be people are worried about and
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    getting enough time to eat come on guys
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    chill out man you fasted all day you can
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    fast another couple of hours no no I'm
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    I'm actually only hoping for this to be
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    about half an hour to allow some
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    questions uh we don't need to do any
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    kind of logistics and that's it nuk has
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    closed its miserable self and um uh made
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    its statements when under wiser they
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    said that 50,000 visas were given out I
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    think that my prediction of about 2 3
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    weeks ago has actually come through that
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    the statements that were being made
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    about 20 or 19,000 being made available
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    were actually including those mujam
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    visas the ones that they give out uh
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    complimentary so it looks like that I
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    was proven right again Mystic Meg
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    strikes again
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    masallah um and uh which was obviously
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    meaningless to us cost us in every way
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    especially our American brothers and
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    sisters but we pray Allah subh
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    compensates them for their patience and
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    for their inability to be able to make
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    it this year keeps their intention firm
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    and ready for next year sh inshallah and
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    as you've seen I've posted in our
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    channel the next uh steps um there's a
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    lot of stuff going on I'm not going to
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    regurgitate that for um for time
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    purposes but it's all there and Chase it
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    up inshallah also everybody now
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    alhamdulillah is um uh roomed as such
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    meaning everybody's got there and uh
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    completed their forms and we'll be
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    moving over to the new group soon um
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    where we're going to start after Ramadan
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    now getting people ready for Biometrics
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    if necessary and then to receive visas
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    and then of course the actual study uh
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    itself anyway um what is our Focus for
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    today's uh session today's session
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    really is uh dual purpose the primary
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    purpose is to just make people realize
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    after the previous session that we did
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    last week post nusk trans post nusk
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    transition
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    I guess lecture one um was about opening
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    your eyes to just how dominant um the
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    institution and that's the right word
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    that the institution of Dua is to Haj
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    and actually Dua is everything Dua is
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    life right because if you start breaking
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    it down to its bare fundamentals
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    allahs so the only reason that we've
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    actually even experiencing life the only
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    the only reason that we're even alive
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    right is to worship
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    allaha I didn't create the Jin or the or
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    mankind except to worship
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    me worship me also from the root verb to
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    submit and to enslave yourself and
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    that's essentially what we all are and
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    that's what our job role is to be slaves
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    and to be good slaves to not just a
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    slave master and an owner but an
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    incredibly merciful uh owner and master
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    and Lord who gives Beyond imagination
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    however negative and depressed you may
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    feel or think that you may feel being in
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    this relationship it's actually the
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    exact opposite sometimes we taste
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    moments of Sweetness in our lives those
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    are the moments where our Iman is High
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    where the brain is connected properly
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    and other times we're on a low and we
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    become distant from Allah wa tala the
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    interesting thing about this slavery
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    contract is that we're never held
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    accountable for it in the dun in the dun
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    what do I mean by that that those that
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    openly reject that slavery that reject
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    that that submission that reject that
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    deal that they've already agreed to uh
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    before they were even brought onto this
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    planet in front of Allah subh tala they
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    already be a bore witness that they
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    would be those good slaves that that
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    Allah is their lord and then they turn
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    their back on them as the kuf do Allah
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    allows that to happen Allah does not you
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    know uh if you think about it in some
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    kind of slave movie context when you try
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    to break free then the dogs are set
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    after you and you're grabbed and and
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    you're locked up in Chains No Allah will
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    absolutely pull all the dogs back and
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    allow no chains to be seen anywhere and
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    will go and allow you to celebrate your
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    freedom quote unquote um and so and and
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    then hold you right royally accountable
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    for it and here after so slavery and
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    submission is our function and is our
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    purpose and if we and I'm just building
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    up a narrative here if we if you're
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    agreeing with me every step of the way
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    then you'll understand that along the
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    way as slaves were told to do certain
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    things which are non-negotiables and
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    those are the obligatory aspects of
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    Islam or the pillars of Islam ironically
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    Hajj being one of them that has brought
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    us together in this moment and in this
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    Gathering um and if our slavery was to
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    be characterized by something you could
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    choose various things you could choose
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    the acts of worship that we do you could
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    choose the character of the slave and
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    how they conduct themselves when they're
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    in such a reality meaning that when you
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    know you're a slave when you know that
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    you're you owe everything to allaha
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    arrogance and ego is then suppressed
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    right obedience is then you know on a
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    high there are certain characteristics
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    that we could identify that that that
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    that that that that life by but none
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    would be better none would be more
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    clearer and none would be more more
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    profound than your state of Dua and the
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    reason for that is because the prophet
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    sallallah alaih wasallam
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    said that if you want to actually
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    understand what worship is at its core
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    it's Dua and to understand that further
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    you need to appreciate that Allah subhah
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    wa taala is honored by the fact that
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    he's the only one who's called upon and
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    he's the only one that can give he's the
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    only one that response and he tells us
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    again and he tells us again and he tells
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    us again and that that that narrative
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    that repeats itself throughout the Quran
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    and throughout the Sunnah is not because
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    he needs anything it's the exact
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    opposite actually he has everything to
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    give and he loves to give unlike humans
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    and so what defines us is our desire and
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    our need and what defines him is his
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    giving and his continuous Mercy
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    therefore the Mind shift the mindset
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    shift that is needed is to stop thinking
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    about Dua in human terms because when
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    you start thinking about it in human
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    terms that's when you start to struggle
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    to maintain this relationship this this
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    is this is when you uh struggle to be
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    the right slave that you're meant to be
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    but when you understand that Allah
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    subhana tala is not in need of anything
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    does not get tired of giving and
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    actually this was far bigger than just
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    material items when you appreciate that
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    Allah subh is proud when you call upon
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    him that Allah subh boasts to the angels
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    when you call upon him because think
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    about it when you're calling upon him
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    you're not calling upon others who are
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    not worthy and don't have the ability
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    when you're calling upon others who
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    don't deserve it and don't have the
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    ability you're guilty of the only only
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    sin that will not be forgiven you are
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    guilty of the one thing that will put
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    you in Hellfire forever which is shik
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    it's so important to be able to break
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    things down like that and Dean to break
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    it down like that and worship to break
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    it down like that because then you start
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    to uh appreciate the things which are
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    important in a natural organic sense it
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    is part of your F to make Dua and
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    therefore why why all this big
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    introduction if you do not feel
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    comfortable making Dua for hours there's
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    something wrong there's something wrong
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    if you identify the prophet sallallahu
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    alaihi wasallam and his day and his
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    night a large proportion of it is making
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    Dua the prophet sallallah alaihi
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    wasallam would go into s and the people
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    would be you know behind him that would
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    be
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    praying they think something's wrong we
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    have narrations from companions actually
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    lifting their heads think about that for
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    a second lifting their heads to make
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    sure that everything's still okay and
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    the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam is
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    still in s we have some narrations more
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    so in the Sunnah prayers in the na
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    prayers than in the obligatory ones
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    because it was not the way of the
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    Prophet Sall Al wasallam to elongate the
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    obligatory prayer but his individual
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    prayer and when they were praying the
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    the with him for example whether that
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    was in public like in the nights of
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    Ramadan which only happened three times
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    or whether that was in private with him
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    like Abdullah Abbas and so on and his
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    wives we know that he would make S for a
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    very very long time we have the Hadith
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    actually which people are reading now
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    for the first time the Hadi of the
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    Hadith of when L was meant to be
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    announced but the prophet Sall alaihi
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    wasallam then didn't announce it and
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    that Hadith narrates that the prophet
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    was prostrating and prostrating and
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    prostrating and then when he came up
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    from his prostration the mud began to
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    trickled down his face because it was
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    raining the rain came through the the
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    thatched roof and it was trickling down
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    his face s alaihi wasallam now you may
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    think that when a person is in s that
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    they just making saying
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    subh and that's good and that's also
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    worship and that is also a form of Dua
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    which I'll come to in a second and it's
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    also a very important way of being and
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    staying in the game however the prophet
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    sallallah alaihi wasallam also said also
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    said that you are closest to your lord
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    when you're in SJ and when you're
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    closest to your lord you call upon your
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    lord and every call that you make upon
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    your lord is a Dua even if there's not
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    actually a request in it there are
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    different categories of Dua for example
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    what we think about Dua when we hear the
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    word Dua is Du with the Dua of
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    requesting something in the Salah we
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    have two particular parts of the prayer
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    which are dominated by du the S and
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    before you you sayam that's why in the S
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    you make every Dua that you can think of
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    and you feel it because you just feel in
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    that submissive subjective uh that that
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    that state as a subject that that state
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    as a slave you feel it more in s
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    obviously and then at the end when you
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    finish your which is a
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    Dua muhamad and the best of duas by the
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    way we'll come to that in a second as
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    well and Then followed up by the the the
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    the the ra of duas that you will have
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    memorized your parents would have told
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    you taught
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    you your parents would have told
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    you this is when you weren't so may be
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    educated about your Salah when you do
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    study your Salah you realize that
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    actually these two have not been
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    narrated from the Sunnah but are
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    completely allowed to say but rather
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    from the Sunnah is
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    these are the duas that you learn from
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    the
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    prophet all of these duas that speak
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    about your mental state physical
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    state oh Allah protect me from being
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    miserly from being a coward oh Allah
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    protect me from dementia from cility
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    don't allow me to return back to a
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    useless age which is where I can't
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    remember or see
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    anything I have wronged myself Ya Allah
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    a huge wronging I have done a crime
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    against myself and you're the only one
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    who forgives
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    sins and forgive me because you are the
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    only one who forgives this is you asking
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    for whatever you want and it's an open
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    session it's an open session after your
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    you can go on and on and on and on
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    because this is a time of Dua the
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    prophet Sall alaih wasallam said in
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    theith that this is a time in which you
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    should be making Dua for whatever you
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    want this is a statement that we he
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    repeat it also after thean the prophet
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    Sall alaihi wasallam said that after you
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    have done Muhammad after you hear thean
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    and then after you have uh uh made the
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    uh uh the Dua for the sh of the Prophet
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    Sall alaihi wasallam which he actually
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    asked the Believers to do make this Dua
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    for me so that I receive
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    this this uh uh this uh raised status
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    with Allah subh which is why we
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    say once you finish that what did the
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    prophet in Hadith he said then let him
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    ask for whatever he wants that's when
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    you have this Sunnah act where person is
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    starting to make Dua for what they want
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    themselves it's their time now so the
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    first part was sending salams upon the
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    Prophet wasallam this after thean when
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    you hear the MU the second part was
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    making Dua for the prophet Sall alhi
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    wasallam and be given a special status
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    that he deserves the third is all you
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    the third is all you and I can be as
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    long as you want the prophet sallallah
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    alhi wasallam is natural day I'm just
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    talking about the daytime what about the
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    night time the night time he would stand
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    for hours hours hours the Salah is there
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    making Dua making Dua in line with the
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    state of of the in which Allah subh says
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    that he descends in a man which perits
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    his majesty to the lowest heavens and is
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    there saying who is asking so I may I
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    may give who is seeking forgiveness so I
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    may forgive them this is happening all
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    the time we all ignored it we all
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    carried the sleeping we all thought that
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    this was some kind of game the prophet
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    sallallah alaihi wasallam didn't the
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    prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam life
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    is characterized by Dua because Dua is
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    the very best of your worship and so my
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    brothers and sisters if you are not
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    making continuous Dua and you're like
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    everybody else which is when the Dua
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    starts the hands go like this then it's
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    like that then it's like this then it's
  • 00:14:02
    all about you know blah blah blah and
  • 00:14:03
    everyone gets bored and starts looking
  • 00:14:05
    around and and and the like and it's the
  • 00:14:07
    same Dua that your mom has taught you
  • 00:14:09
    and your dad has taught you and it's on
  • 00:14:10
    autopilot and you're not letting go in
  • 00:14:13
    essence you're not actually connecting
  • 00:14:15
    with Allah subh you're not taking the
  • 00:14:17
    request seriously right this is a
  • 00:14:21
    warning sign to you that you don't even
  • 00:14:23
    have your Dua right in the previous
  • 00:14:25
    session that we did it was me waking you
  • 00:14:26
    up to the fact that Haj is full of Dua
  • 00:14:29
    right now I'm waking up to the fact that
  • 00:14:31
    you're not even making Dua outside of
  • 00:14:33
    Haj you're not even doing it properly
  • 00:14:35
    outside of ha and this is because of
  • 00:14:36
    fundamental misconceptions about how
  • 00:14:38
    important Dua is for us and how much
  • 00:14:41
    Allah subh appreciates it the next stage
  • 00:14:44
    that would come from there first of all
  • 00:14:47
    now you need to understand just how
  • 00:14:48
    fundamental it is that D is something
  • 00:14:50
    that Allah loves get the humanness out
  • 00:14:52
    of it remove the human factor from Allah
  • 00:14:54
    subhana tala you come to me ask me for
  • 00:14:56
    something I'm turning the other way then
  • 00:14:58
    another person comes I see a mile I
  • 00:14:59
    think oh my God what's he want I'm going
  • 00:15:01
    that way that's a human response Allah
  • 00:15:03
    subh is saying more of you come more of
  • 00:15:05
    you ask anyone else needing anything
  • 00:15:07
    it's the exact opposite right he loves
  • 00:15:10
    to give and forgive as we as the Nashid
  • 00:15:13
    says right so um the that wasn't very
  • 00:15:18
    clever I completely forgot
  • 00:15:20
    about the
  • 00:15:22
    um being in the new office I need to get
  • 00:15:25
    used to a few things um so I want you to
  • 00:15:29
    appreciate brothers and sisters just how
  • 00:15:31
    important Dua
  • 00:15:34
    makes a Dua belongs and defines our
  • 00:15:38
    actual life okay our normative life then
  • 00:15:43
    Allah subhana wa tala through his
  • 00:15:44
    generosity gives us special bonus
  • 00:15:46
    moments I've already mentioned a few for
  • 00:15:49
    example the for example at the end of
  • 00:15:50
    the prayer before you
  • 00:15:52
    say for example in the uh moments after
  • 00:15:56
    you hear thean and you repeat after the
  • 00:15:57
    MU for example every single night of any
  • 00:16:01
    night of the year at all times likewise
  • 00:16:03
    another time that a person should do the
  • 00:16:07
    Dua now Dua not just being done but also
  • 00:16:10
    being rewarded handsomely yeah being
  • 00:16:14
    given a much higher status and more CH
  • 00:16:16
    greater chance of being accepted in
  • 00:16:18
    addition to that of course is the time
  • 00:16:21
    that we are in right now and the reason
  • 00:16:24
    that I speak about this now is is I said
  • 00:16:26
    the two objectives behind this session
  • 00:16:28
    today is a to make maximum use of this
  • 00:16:30
    time that we are in right now but also
  • 00:16:32
    as practice for when we need it for HJ
  • 00:16:34
    because as a reminder of the previous
  • 00:16:35
    session if you didn't get to see it and
  • 00:16:36
    it's on the YouTube channel you can see
  • 00:16:38
    it the HJ with a YouTube uh uh thing
  • 00:16:41
    it's above in the channel as well this
  • 00:16:43
    telegram Channel
  • 00:16:45
    too is that the Hajj process the process
  • 00:16:49
    the process is just packed full of hours
  • 00:16:53
    upon hours of Dua and for that you need
  • 00:16:56
    strategy for that you will need a to be
  • 00:16:58
    motivated and to know that this is what
  • 00:17:00
    I do and you need to be having the
  • 00:17:01
    stamina to do it then it's the actual
  • 00:17:03
    things that you do right so this these
  • 00:17:07
    are the the two objectives the first one
  • 00:17:09
    then we are fasting the prophet
  • 00:17:11
    sallallahu alaihi wasallam said that the
  • 00:17:12
    Dua of the one uh at the time ofar is
  • 00:17:16
    not rejected meaning that just in the
  • 00:17:19
    next hour or two for many of you uh uh
  • 00:17:22
    uh just before you break your fast this
  • 00:17:24
    is a time where Allah subhah wa taala is
  • 00:17:27
    at his most generous appreciating that
  • 00:17:29
    people are right on the very cusp and
  • 00:17:31
    the maximum of their physical ability
  • 00:17:34
    they are tired they are they are thirsty
  • 00:17:36
    they are hungry if you are living the
  • 00:17:38
    fast properly a lot of people seem to
  • 00:17:40
    hibernate during fasting this is not the
  • 00:17:42
    Sunnah y during fasting you sleep less
  • 00:17:46
    you work the same you increase things a
  • 00:17:49
    lot of people take the time off I'm not
  • 00:17:51
    going to hate on people taking time off
  • 00:17:53
    but I want you to know that this is not
  • 00:17:55
    sustainable you will not always be able
  • 00:17:56
    to get time off you will not always be
  • 00:17:58
    able to have free time what you have to
  • 00:18:00
    develop is to mine your current time
  • 00:18:03
    more it needs means that you've got to
  • 00:18:05
    dig deeper and make yourself even more
  • 00:18:06
    tired in the environment that you're in
  • 00:18:08
    at that moment and so I want you to
  • 00:18:10
    appreciate that you effectively trying
  • 00:18:14
    to just empty yourself out from every
  • 00:18:16
    other obligation is not the natural way
  • 00:18:19
    and and frankly it will not leave you
  • 00:18:23
    the knacked ill tired stressed state in
  • 00:18:26
    which Allah subh has greater pity upon
  • 00:18:28
    you yes
  • 00:18:29
    because Dua is improved and boosted by
  • 00:18:34
    certain characteristics and qualities
  • 00:18:36
    one of them being broken one of them
  • 00:18:38
    being tired one of them being sad one of
  • 00:18:40
    them being stressed one of them being in
  • 00:18:43
    a state of humility and humbleness where
  • 00:18:45
    you realize that I'm not in control and
  • 00:18:47
    I don't have always the ability to get
  • 00:18:49
    time off and I'm not as senior as I
  • 00:18:51
    think I am and and and and and there is
  • 00:18:53
    such a a complex kind of relationship
  • 00:18:57
    between how Allah
  • 00:18:59
    sees us when we make Dua and how we
  • 00:19:01
    think that we should be and one of the
  • 00:19:05
    beautiful things about the Haj and and
  • 00:19:07
    of course this will come later in our
  • 00:19:09
    studies as well is that even if you are
  • 00:19:12
    the most powerful and the richest and
  • 00:19:14
    whatever it's almost like Allah subhana
  • 00:19:16
    tala in the way that he has ordained the
  • 00:19:19
    acts of the of the Hajj and the
  • 00:19:22
    appearance of the is suppressing
  • 00:19:24
    that ego and suppressing that money and
  • 00:19:27
    suppressing that power
  • 00:19:29
    and obviously certain things they pop
  • 00:19:32
    out if a person's walking around with
  • 00:19:34
    bodyguards a person for example is
  • 00:19:35
    wearing a 1 million pound watch Person
  • 00:19:37
    only living in a certain Tower you know
  • 00:19:40
    during the hjj days there are certain
  • 00:19:42
    things that are going to not make that
  • 00:19:45
    humbling process easy and it is going to
  • 00:19:48
    make you stick out amongst the people
  • 00:19:49
    when everybody is meant to look the same
  • 00:19:51
    and be all burnt and be all tired and
  • 00:19:54
    famished and and so thirsty and the like
  • 00:19:57
    which create that that zone that that
  • 00:20:00
    situation because HJ and in itself
  • 00:20:03
    intrinsically is no more extra rewarded
  • 00:20:05
    or more powerful for your Dua than you
  • 00:20:08
    just being at home right now about to
  • 00:20:10
    break there's no evidence to suggest
  • 00:20:13
    that um all Dua specific duas yes like
  • 00:20:16
    for example freedom from the fire the
  • 00:20:18
    prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam has a
  • 00:20:19
    very specific Hadith on the day of that
  • 00:20:21
    that is the one that where it happens
  • 00:20:23
    most but also Ramadan has that
  • 00:20:25
    Excellence as well right there does not
  • 00:20:28
    have the Excellence of for example and
  • 00:20:31
    at the same time if a person a
  • 00:20:35
    misconception any of these last 10
  • 00:20:37
    Nights by the way not just the 27th it
  • 00:20:39
    could have been last night 23rd big
  • 00:20:40
    shout right 25th Monday night big shout
  • 00:20:43
    Wednesdays a big shout the 29th big
  • 00:20:45
    shout right these odd nights like the
  • 00:20:49
    prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam said
  • 00:20:50
    seek it therein my opinion is that it
  • 00:20:51
    moves every year you don't know which
  • 00:20:53
    one it is but then there's another point
  • 00:20:55
    you need to know about the time that
  • 00:20:57
    we're in that you are meant to not know
  • 00:21:00
    which one it is because you're not meant
  • 00:21:02
    to be a gambler Muslims are not gamblers
  • 00:21:05
    where it's like just throw it out there
  • 00:21:06
    and hope it sticks hope that it lands no
  • 00:21:09
    you're meant to be a person that has a
  • 00:21:11
    base level of worship and a base level
  • 00:21:15
    of worship does not then fall into the
  • 00:21:17
    risk of missing out so if you're
  • 00:21:19
    maintaining a certain level of Dua all
  • 00:21:22
    the way through your life you're going
  • 00:21:23
    to be covered in your in the last 10
  • 00:21:26
    nights and then if you are a intelligent
  • 00:21:29
    Muslim and you know that I have a high
  • 00:21:31
    level of Base my default is high because
  • 00:21:35
    that's how the believer is meant to be
  • 00:21:37
    but in the last 10 nights I read that
  • 00:21:39
    the prophet wasam tied his waist wrapper
  • 00:21:41
    this common phrase that you hear again
  • 00:21:43
    again again which basically means he
  • 00:21:44
    became really he knuckled down he became
  • 00:21:46
    super serious he up upgraded everything
  • 00:21:48
    boosted everything isolated himself in a
  • 00:21:50
    Masjid for it once you start doing that
  • 00:21:53
    in the last 10 then you're also going to
  • 00:21:55
    increase that level more right and
  • 00:21:59
    whatever happens whatever night it falls
  • 00:22:01
    upon you're going to be covered now
  • 00:22:03
    here's the thing everyone says it is a
  • 00:22:06
    it is a a
  • 00:22:08
    night that's better than a thousand
  • 00:22:10
    months bro that's only something of
  • 00:22:14
    value if you spend your months doing
  • 00:22:18
    good if your default position in the the
  • 00:22:22
    nights and the months is not worshiping
  • 00:22:25
    Allah subhana tala at all or very very
  • 00:22:28
    little then what's the point of 100,000
  • 00:22:31
    months it's not and people think when
  • 00:22:33
    they see the Ayah that it is better than
  • 00:22:36
    a thousand months of worship that it is
  • 00:22:38
    the a thousand months of worship of the
  • 00:22:40
    Prophet Sall alaihi wasallam it's not
  • 00:22:42
    it's not the prophet sallallah alaihi
  • 00:22:44
    wasallam worship yes there's some Hadith
  • 00:22:46
    that will indicate that the the the
  • 00:22:50
    power of the night is linked to a and
  • 00:22:53
    the Hadith are not very very clear and
  • 00:22:55
    that's why you shouldn't try to make
  • 00:22:57
    this your your your uh what's the word
  • 00:23:00
    your the B the base for your
  • 00:23:02
    understanding that it is the best level
  • 00:23:05
    of worship that any of the most
  • 00:23:07
    righteous people can do and that it will
  • 00:23:08
    be applied to you that is its potential
  • 00:23:12
    but if you are a person who doesn't
  • 00:23:14
    actually make any effort for the rest of
  • 00:23:16
    the time then even a night that's equal
  • 00:23:18
    to a thousand months of your worship is
  • 00:23:22
    not going to be as rewarding as you may
  • 00:23:25
    think and so again I just want to say
  • 00:23:27
    and the reason I I the reason I
  • 00:23:28
    mentioned this is that don't think that
  • 00:23:32
    just going to H and om is going to be
  • 00:23:34
    that's it I'm clocked it I've smashed it
  • 00:23:36
    all my duas going to be accepted no h
  • 00:23:39
    and are creating a set of conditions
  • 00:23:42
    that are going to make your Dua more
  • 00:23:44
    likely to be answered and likewise
  • 00:23:47
    Ramadan is creating a set of conditions
  • 00:23:50
    that make your Dua more likely to be
  • 00:23:52
    answered the primary one of them is
  • 00:23:53
    fasting the prophet sallallahu alaihi
  • 00:23:55
    wasallam why did he fast every Thursday
  • 00:23:57
    he actually told us I fast every
  • 00:23:59
    Thursday because that is the day in
  • 00:24:00
    which the Deeds are presented to Allah
  • 00:24:02
    subhana wa ta'ala and I love that my
  • 00:24:04
    Deeds are presented to Allah subh and I
  • 00:24:06
    in a state of obedience and Allah loves
  • 00:24:09
    out of the states of obedience that I
  • 00:24:11
    fast such a state of obedience such an
  • 00:24:14
    act of worship that he doesn't even
  • 00:24:16
    mention the reward he says I reward
  • 00:24:18
    fasting personally it's a private thing
  • 00:24:20
    I'll deal with it you know that's the
  • 00:24:22
    kind of guarantee that you want from
  • 00:24:23
    Allah subhana tala you know if you go
  • 00:24:25
    into a if you're going into a shop and
  • 00:24:27
    you're trying to buy something and
  • 00:24:29
    you're arguing about the price and the
  • 00:24:30
    guy goes and the guy turns to you and
  • 00:24:32
    you don't know him to be someone who
  • 00:24:34
    offers massive discounts or anything
  • 00:24:35
    like that and the guy goes listen just
  • 00:24:37
    trust me the price that I charge you at
  • 00:24:40
    the end of this job that I come and I go
  • 00:24:42
    and do your build building work whatever
  • 00:24:44
    what not I will look after you You' be
  • 00:24:47
    like well excuse me I'd rather you just
  • 00:24:49
    tell me the price right now because I
  • 00:24:51
    can't trust you be looking after me
  • 00:24:53
    right that's a human reaction you would
  • 00:24:56
    never ever trust anyone that says that
  • 00:24:58
    and if you did you're silly because they
  • 00:25:00
    can islamically not allowed you must
  • 00:25:02
    agree terms beforehand from a
  • 00:25:04
    contractual point of view because you're
  • 00:25:05
    going to get done afterwards so
  • 00:25:08
    afterwards when they come out and say
  • 00:25:10
    that now this is it you can't argue now
  • 00:25:12
    you're the one who messed up but you
  • 00:25:13
    know who you would trust to say that to
  • 00:25:15
    you Allah subhana wa tala if Allah says
  • 00:25:18
    don't worry about it I'm going to deal
  • 00:25:19
    with it you'll be like you know what
  • 00:25:20
    100% I'll take that that's what fasting
  • 00:25:23
    is so fasting super boosts everything
  • 00:25:25
    that you do especially your Dua and then
  • 00:25:27
    when Allah
  • 00:25:28
    it descends in a manner which he does
  • 00:25:30
    sends the Angels down praises the one
  • 00:25:32
    who's standing in the last 10 nights
  • 00:25:34
    you're being boosted Hajj will be the
  • 00:25:36
    same in Hajj what did the prophet
  • 00:25:38
    sallallah alaihi wasallam describe what
  • 00:25:40
    to the rest of the companions when what
  • 00:25:42
    they were observing was a person that
  • 00:25:44
    their Dua was very likely to be
  • 00:25:45
    responded to he said that he
  • 00:25:54
    lifts the prophet Sall alaih wasallam
  • 00:25:56
    described this person who came full of
  • 00:25:58
    dust broken tired yeah you know dirty
  • 00:26:02
    everything you know he his ego gone he
  • 00:26:04
    looks so so so humble he looked so
  • 00:26:07
    broken he looked so much ready to
  • 00:26:09
    receive and
  • 00:26:12
    and and he lifts his hands out
  • 00:26:14
    desperation to disguise this like like
  • 00:26:16
    this which is rarely very rarely
  • 00:26:19
    narrated from the prophet sallallahu
  • 00:26:20
    alaihi wasallam only a couple of times
  • 00:26:21
    is this and at the battles when the
  • 00:26:24
    situation was very very bad did the
  • 00:26:25
    hands come up this high so that the
  • 00:26:27
    armets could be shown
  • 00:26:31
    his voice is broken desperate voice
  • 00:26:34
    desperate desperate point this person's
  • 00:26:36
    Dua by the way didn't get accepted we'll
  • 00:26:38
    come to that another time but the reason
  • 00:26:41
    that the prophet emphasized all these
  • 00:26:43
    points and in the Allah subh emphasized
  • 00:26:46
    these points is because that is how you
  • 00:26:48
    are expected to present yourself these
  • 00:26:51
    are the things and the characteristics
  • 00:26:53
    of a person's Dua because of practice
  • 00:26:55
    because of a person really feeling it
  • 00:26:57
    because of a person being connected
  • 00:26:58
    conected to that Dua because that person
  • 00:27:00
    realizing how much they're in need and
  • 00:27:01
    so they turn to Allah that's what helps
  • 00:27:04
    your Dua don't rely intrinsically upon
  • 00:27:07
    the location or the place or the moment
  • 00:27:10
    if your mindset is not in if your
  • 00:27:12
    actions are not the ones that are
  • 00:27:14
    becoming of a person who's in need if
  • 00:27:16
    you don't fulfill other conditions as
  • 00:27:18
    well then do not expect just the the the
  • 00:27:22
    position and the time and the moment to
  • 00:27:24
    carry you through it will do a lot for
  • 00:27:26
    you that's from the generosity of Allah
  • 00:27:28
    but that's not the way that the believer
  • 00:27:30
    presents himself in that situation don't
  • 00:27:32
    be a person that acts like a gambler but
  • 00:27:34
    be a person who prepares and so to
  • 00:27:36
    finish off this session I want you to
  • 00:27:38
    make sure that you practice as much as
  • 00:27:40
    possible before you break your fast and
  • 00:27:42
    then during these nights and I don't
  • 00:27:44
    mean 10 minutes I mean half an hour 1
  • 00:27:46
    hour two hours building up so by the
  • 00:27:48
    27th by the 29th you're comfortably able
  • 00:27:51
    to make hours of Dua and here are our
  • 00:27:54
    following few tips the first of them is
  • 00:27:57
    that when you make Dua you start by
  • 00:27:59
    praising Allah subhana wa taala just
  • 00:28:01
    like we do in fat if you look at fa this
  • 00:28:04
    is the biggest and strongest and most
  • 00:28:06
    powerful Dua in the prayer it is also
  • 00:28:09
    one of the suras which is the strongest
  • 00:28:10
    and most powerful suras in the Quran the
  • 00:28:13
    praise of Alat by the prophet is
  • 00:28:16
    unparalleled and what is it essentially
  • 00:28:18
    it's a Dua and where is the Dua it's not
  • 00:28:21
    at the beginning it's right at the
  • 00:28:24
    middle but look what comes before it
  • 00:28:27
    it's the it's the the setup it's the
  • 00:28:29
    intro it's the it's the it's the gifts
  • 00:28:33
    it's the Sak before you ask Allah subh
  • 00:28:37
    for something it's the prayer before you
  • 00:28:38
    start praying afterwards it's the
  • 00:28:40
    praising of Allah subh tala
  • 00:28:48
    alhamdulillah five specific individual
  • 00:28:51
    praising praising praising praising
  • 00:28:53
    praising Ya Allah please give me that is
  • 00:28:55
    the way that the believer presents
  • 00:28:58
    that's like anything in any Walk of Life
  • 00:29:00
    in any situation when you go and you
  • 00:29:02
    need something you give something first
  • 00:29:05
    this is ad this is normal in the Salah
  • 00:29:07
    we even have another one before it when
  • 00:29:09
    you learn
  • 00:29:14
    your what is this this is again praising
  • 00:29:17
    Allah subh before you start
  • 00:29:23
    asking you're asking asking asking
  • 00:29:25
    asking asking to be protected from being
  • 00:29:27
    punished from being protecting from
  • 00:29:28
    being aware of the on the on the on the
  • 00:29:30
    way of the curse for being on the way of
  • 00:29:32
    the guided not not on the way of the the
  • 00:29:35
    Christians and the Jews to be upon the
  • 00:29:37
    path of those that Allah is happy with
  • 00:29:39
    who are those people the people the
  • 00:29:41
    prophets the sh the uh the the truthful
  • 00:29:45
    the the the Mars the truthful ones these
  • 00:29:48
    are who Allah is happy with you are
  • 00:29:50
    asking a lot but you give a lot
  • 00:29:52
    beforehand as well and look at what the
  • 00:29:55
    Allah says in every time you Praise Him
  • 00:29:58
    the prop Allah said Allah SS to the
  • 00:30:00
    angels did you see that my pray my
  • 00:30:06
    slave did you see that my slave just
  • 00:30:08
    praised me my slave just exulted me my
  • 00:30:10
    slave just thanked me each time so happy
  • 00:30:13
    then then when you start asking Allah
  • 00:30:16
    attends to the angels and says give my
  • 00:30:18
    slave whatever he asks for and so
  • 00:30:20
    therefore when you're making Dua always
  • 00:30:22
    start by praising allaha secondly always
  • 00:30:25
    invest in the prophet sallallah alaihi
  • 00:30:26
    wasallam you will never spend more time
  • 00:30:28
    in your Dua sending salams upon the
  • 00:30:30
    prophet except they will come back
  • 00:30:32
    tenfold every time you send Salam upon
  • 00:30:34
    the prophet Sall alaihi wasallam you get
  • 00:30:35
    rewarded 10 times your your status is
  • 00:30:38
    increased 10 times your you get Salam
  • 00:30:41
    sent upon you by the Angels by Allah
  • 00:30:43
    subh which is to be mentioned and to
  • 00:30:45
    have peace and blessings set upon you
  • 00:30:47
    just for sending Salam upon the prophet
  • 00:30:49
    sallallah alaihi wasallam that's just
  • 00:30:50
    the intrinsic rewards for say saying s
  • 00:30:52
    alaihi wasallam at any time but in a Dua
  • 00:30:54
    the prophet Sall alaihi wasallam said
  • 00:30:55
    that the Dua as it's raised to Allah to
  • 00:30:57
    be responded if you don't have salaat
  • 00:31:00
    upon it in it muham Muhammad in its
  • 00:31:04
    short form or
  • 00:31:07
    Allah in its long form if it's not there
  • 00:31:11
    then it it remains hanging it is not
  • 00:31:14
    complete it it is suspended the Hadith
  • 00:31:17
    is not the strongest but the meaning is
  • 00:31:18
    absolutely the the case when the prophet
  • 00:31:21
    sallallah alaihi wasallam was asked by a
  • 00:31:22
    companion how much should I dedicate to
  • 00:31:25
    you in my Dua in sending salams upon you
  • 00:31:28
    the prophet said keep going a quarter a
  • 00:31:30
    half three quarter all of it whatever
  • 00:31:32
    you do you will never invest more in Dua
  • 00:31:37
    in one thing being the prophet Sall alhi
  • 00:31:38
    wasallam and it will pay back as much as
  • 00:31:41
    it does everything that you say for the
  • 00:31:43
    prophet will come back more for you so
  • 00:31:45
    this is another thing to remember the
  • 00:31:47
    third is to be humble is to not be
  • 00:31:50
    mindless is to be clear about what you
  • 00:31:52
    want to say and what you want to do now
  • 00:31:54
    this I want to split into two things
  • 00:31:56
    this requires prep and requires
  • 00:31:58
    creativity the prep is to make sure that
  • 00:32:00
    you memorize those duas that you love
  • 00:32:03
    and that you know
  • 00:32:08
    like duas that you know that were stated
  • 00:32:11
    by the prophet Sall alaih wasallam or
  • 00:32:12
    are mentioned by Allah in the Quran and
  • 00:32:14
    every time that you use a authentic
  • 00:32:17
    Hadith Sunnah of the Prophet Sall alaihi
  • 00:32:19
    wasallam Dua and every time that you use
  • 00:32:21
    an ay you are worshiping as well at that
  • 00:32:24
    same time you are getting extra reward
  • 00:32:26
    and you are boosting your Dua even
  • 00:32:27
    further
  • 00:32:28
    and so I want you to appreciate that you
  • 00:32:31
    using these duas and memorizing them and
  • 00:32:34
    even using them in a rot kind of manner
  • 00:32:37
    that's from the preparation that you
  • 00:32:38
    should be doing right now which will
  • 00:32:40
    build up then for your Hajj andah as
  • 00:32:43
    well the second is the creativity
  • 00:32:45
    because when you memorize something in
  • 00:32:47
    another language especially as a
  • 00:32:49
    non-arab you're going to struggle to
  • 00:32:51
    connect at a really really close level
  • 00:32:53
    but you know what you won't struggle
  • 00:32:54
    with your mother tongue your English
  • 00:32:56
    language your uddu language and you know
  • 00:32:58
    what you won't struggle with you you do
  • 00:33:00
    not struggle with you you know yourself
  • 00:33:02
    best and so when you're speaking in a
  • 00:33:05
    way where you're expressing your need in
  • 00:33:06
    the way that only you know best in a way
  • 00:33:08
    which you yourself feel comfortable with
  • 00:33:11
    oh Allah I'm standing in front of you
  • 00:33:13
    and I am fully fully
  • 00:33:16
    uh cognizant and and I fully recognize I
  • 00:33:20
    don't deserve to be here in this
  • 00:33:22
    situation in this opportunity You' given
  • 00:33:23
    me but I am here Ya Allah and I'm not as
  • 00:33:26
    good as what everybody else here is and
  • 00:33:28
    I'm not as Pious as what I should be and
  • 00:33:30
    I have made more mistakes than my fair
  • 00:33:32
    share but I also know that you're the
  • 00:33:34
    only one that can help me in this
  • 00:33:35
    situation you know when you open up your
  • 00:33:37
    heart and you start speaking naturally
  • 00:33:39
    to Allah this is the absolute most
  • 00:33:40
    powerful of Dua remember that Allah
  • 00:33:43
    subhana wa is listening to the language
  • 00:33:45
    of the hearts not the language of the
  • 00:33:46
    tongues Arabic is in this moment
  • 00:33:49
    overrated in general never overrated
  • 00:33:52
    because you get more rewards for
  • 00:33:53
    speaking in Arabic you get more reward
  • 00:33:54
    for speaking the the Arabic of Quran and
  • 00:33:56
    Hadith but at its Essence if you don't
  • 00:34:00
    have that or you don't have enough of
  • 00:34:02
    that then at the very least make sure
  • 00:34:04
    that you have opened up and you can
  • 00:34:06
    prepare for that you can write that you
  • 00:34:07
    can borrow the lists of your friends
  • 00:34:09
    when you ask them for Dua and they send
  • 00:34:11
    little little rubbish one where they say
  • 00:34:13
    just protect from the Hellfire that's it
  • 00:34:15
    you know quick one that just getting
  • 00:34:16
    over and done with the situation they
  • 00:34:18
    can't think of just think of that's not
  • 00:34:21
    to say that the Dua is rubbish but the
  • 00:34:22
    effort was yeah a person that really
  • 00:34:25
    wants something someone asked me for Dua
  • 00:34:28
    I'm going to say that's the last thing
  • 00:34:30
    you want to be doing for me because I'm
  • 00:34:31
    going to send you a list I'm going to be
  • 00:34:33
    sending you details I'm going to be
  • 00:34:34
    sending you specific strategy and things
  • 00:34:37
    x y z because I want my Dua to work for
  • 00:34:39
    me and you should celebrate those
  • 00:34:42
    friends that are that organized and that
  • 00:34:44
    think at that level and these will help
  • 00:34:47
    fill in the the the hours because you
  • 00:34:49
    might be thinking there's only so much
  • 00:34:50
    that I know but okay that is but what
  • 00:34:53
    you can read and remember you don't need
  • 00:34:55
    to always have to memorize by heart
  • 00:34:57
    sometimes you got the Arabic that that
  • 00:34:59
    you've memorized by heart then you've
  • 00:35:00
    got the natural speaking but then
  • 00:35:02
    sometimes you're going to read as well
  • 00:35:04
    and when
  • 00:35:04
    you're when you're obviously outside of
  • 00:35:07
    the prayer and you're sitting there
  • 00:35:08
    after you've prayed and you're making
  • 00:35:10
    Dua have your phone have your sheets
  • 00:35:12
    have your lists of things that you've
  • 00:35:13
    prepared that you've written that you've
  • 00:35:15
    researched du are lists are so important
  • 00:35:18
    and women are pretty good at this kind
  • 00:35:20
    of thing they do a lot of journaling
  • 00:35:21
    they do a lot of diary diarising they
  • 00:35:24
    write this kind of stuff down men are
  • 00:35:25
    really poor it really poor for some
  • 00:35:28
    reason they think this is beneath them
  • 00:35:29
    or not manly or not correct this is
  • 00:35:31
    foolish this is fool you are not better
  • 00:35:34
    than you are not better than IM sha you
  • 00:35:37
    are not better than IM Ahmed we have
  • 00:35:40
    narrations from them shaf said 100
  • 00:35:43
    people I name in my prayer every prayer
  • 00:35:45
    that's also narrated from IM Ahmed in
  • 00:35:46
    his wit said that I Nam 70 people in my
  • 00:35:50
    normal Salah in my normal Salah meaning
  • 00:35:53
    in the S I make Dua for 70 people that
  • 00:35:56
    is not easily memorized that requires
  • 00:35:58
    some writing down thinking about who is
  • 00:36:00
    it that I owe things to when was the
  • 00:36:03
    last time you sat down and you thought
  • 00:36:05
    in the last 10 15 years where I am right
  • 00:36:08
    now who have been the key players to get
  • 00:36:10
    me there right now who's played what
  • 00:36:13
    role parents would always make it to the
  • 00:36:16
    top you know what's amazing is if you
  • 00:36:19
    pause at parents and say let me actually
  • 00:36:22
    write down why let me prove to myself
  • 00:36:25
    let me get over the wwest that I have
  • 00:36:27
    that is telling me my parents are
  • 00:36:28
    abusive my parents are yeah horrible my
  • 00:36:31
    parents didn't listen to me my parents
  • 00:36:32
    caused me a problem let me get over that
  • 00:36:35
    satanic and write down all of the things
  • 00:36:38
    that they did that made me who I am that
  • 00:36:40
    I'm grateful to them for and you start
  • 00:36:42
    writing those specific points down that
  • 00:36:45
    is not just preparing yourself mentally
  • 00:36:47
    but when you're making Dua and you start
  • 00:36:49
    to enumerate these things this will
  • 00:36:51
    initiate a set of emotions that will
  • 00:36:53
    only make your heart softer that will
  • 00:36:55
    only make your Dua even better a
  • 00:36:57
    statement Subhan
  • 00:36:59
    Allah you know I've just said that make
  • 00:37:01
    the heart
  • 00:37:02
    softer was once sitting in a gathering
  • 00:37:04
    and the companions were watching him and
  • 00:37:05
    they said you know that hardcore hard
  • 00:37:08
    tough guy and all the rest of it he's
  • 00:37:10
    about to make Dua I don't know whether
  • 00:37:12
    he has the soft enough heart to publicly
  • 00:37:15
    kind of maybe expose himself I don't
  • 00:37:18
    know what the right word is but show his
  • 00:37:20
    vulnerability yes that's the word show
  • 00:37:22
    how vulnerable he is and the this is a
  • 00:37:25
    narration in m and he said that and what
  • 00:37:27
    I heard from Omar his heart was more
  • 00:37:30
    softer than I could ever imagine the way
  • 00:37:32
    that he exposed himself to Allah and we
  • 00:37:34
    heard his Dua is something that shocked
  • 00:37:37
    us meaning that this false sense of
  • 00:37:40
    Manliness and and you know bigging it up
  • 00:37:43
    there's no space for this in Dua you're
  • 00:37:44
    a slave get on the floor put your head
  • 00:37:46
    on the floor you fall you start begging
  • 00:37:48
    you're a beggar you're a beggar who are
  • 00:37:50
    you who are you and you know people give
  • 00:37:53
    it the big I've seen this so many times
  • 00:37:55
    inia programs where there's some I can
  • 00:37:58
    notice thingy they're holding themselves
  • 00:38:00
    back they're not exp what are you doing
  • 00:38:02
    who are you trying to impress you fo
  • 00:38:05
    you've come here and spent all this
  • 00:38:06
    money and gone through all this effort
  • 00:38:08
    to show that you are nothing to show
  • 00:38:12
    that you are nothing that you need Allah
  • 00:38:15
    subhana tala so open up your heart I'm
  • 00:38:17
    not going to judge you any different bro
  • 00:38:19
    I'm not going to think that you're
  • 00:38:20
    better or worse any by the way you're
  • 00:38:22
    holding your emotions back and acting
  • 00:38:23
    the tough guy and so it's important to
  • 00:38:26
    and that requires work
  • 00:38:28
    you start detailing these things it will
  • 00:38:30
    not only give detail to your Dua it will
  • 00:38:32
    not only elicit emotions but also
  • 00:38:34
    increase the length of time you're in
  • 00:38:36
    this fantastic act of worship now you're
  • 00:38:38
    starting to understand it really is
  • 00:38:40
    possible that I could make Dua for hours
  • 00:38:42
    and hours so that's now bro that's now
  • 00:38:45
    you practice this get writing get
  • 00:38:47
    researching the other thing that I speak
  • 00:38:49
    about is the um causes of the Muslim
  • 00:38:53
    umah right so the next Pro tip for your
  • 00:38:57
    Dua is always put people at the
  • 00:38:59
    Forefront I need to say before that that
  • 00:39:01
    it is a sun to make Dua for yourself
  • 00:39:03
    first you must always make Dua for
  • 00:39:04
    yourself first you don't say I make Dua
  • 00:39:07
    for me and so on so you make Dua for
  • 00:39:09
    yourself then you make Dua for them you
  • 00:39:11
    saw the prophet Salli make Dua for
  • 00:39:12
    himself then he'd make Dua for narrated
  • 00:39:15
    in Hadith you see this as a statement
  • 00:39:17
    generally you uh uh what did Allah tell
  • 00:39:21
    the prophet alhi
  • 00:39:25
    wasallam seek forgive for your sin oh
  • 00:39:29
    Prophet for your sin in Surah Muhammad
  • 00:39:31
    in the Surah named after the prophet
  • 00:39:34
    sallallah alaihi wasallam Allah told
  • 00:39:36
    Muhammad sallah alaihi wasallam seek
  • 00:39:37
    forgiveness for your sin and then the
  • 00:39:39
    believing men and then the believing
  • 00:39:41
    women are you are you are you are you
  • 00:39:43
    seeing this right so that's another Pro
  • 00:39:46
    tip yourself first in the individual the
  • 00:39:49
    prophet Sall alaihi wasallam did not
  • 00:39:53
    say means us pardon us no he said
  • 00:40:00
    pardon me Ya Allah but if he's making a
  • 00:40:02
    collective Dua where everybody saying
  • 00:40:04
    behind then you say it in the plural but
  • 00:40:07
    when you're making Dua for yourself
  • 00:40:12
    it's then you can start making Dua for
  • 00:40:16
    the for the people and the for the
  • 00:40:18
    people and the mercy for the people but
  • 00:40:21
    that's a separate thing and if you don't
  • 00:40:23
    know the Arabic then say it in English
  • 00:40:25
    but that also requires some research you
  • 00:40:27
    know when you're talking about festine
  • 00:40:28
    about Sudan understand what's happening
  • 00:40:30
    in Sudan understand the pain of the
  • 00:40:33
    Believers understand and research the
  • 00:40:35
    politics and the people and the factions
  • 00:40:38
    and where you want your Dua to work
  • 00:40:39
    don't be lazy oh Allah help them help
  • 00:40:41
    them how help who which faction is
  • 00:40:44
    causing the problem who needs to be
  • 00:40:45
    guided who needs to be pushed away whose
  • 00:40:47
    evil do we need to be protected from the
  • 00:40:49
    prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam would
  • 00:40:50
    be specific the prophet you know a lot
  • 00:40:52
    of people say Dua is only positive
  • 00:40:53
    positive positive not always there's
  • 00:40:56
    anger in Dua as well the prophet Sall
  • 00:40:58
    alaihi wasallam and his curses
  • 00:41:01
    upon and and and the tribes that of mud
  • 00:41:05
    and the tribes that that killed the
  • 00:41:06
    Believers and and even Shan at times
  • 00:41:10
    without unnecessary cursing without
  • 00:41:12
    unnecessary waste of energy right
  • 00:41:15
    without making it too negative there's a
  • 00:41:17
    balance but you need to understand the
  • 00:41:19
    politics of a situation so you read up
  • 00:41:22
    and you start to feel the pain of the
  • 00:41:23
    people so that you really believe that
  • 00:41:25
    you need to actually if you look at and
  • 00:41:27
    all the social media kind of thing if it
  • 00:41:29
    was no children involved I can tell you
  • 00:41:31
    there'd be hardly anything going on it's
  • 00:41:33
    a shame I've spoken about this before
  • 00:41:35
    it's a shame that we are so dependent
  • 00:41:37
    upon the BBC and upon social media
  • 00:41:39
    telling us when we should be outraged
  • 00:41:40
    and when we should be crying and when we
  • 00:41:42
    should have difficulty going sleep and
  • 00:41:43
    when our Dua is boosted when we see kids
  • 00:41:46
    maimed when we see kids crying when we
  • 00:41:47
    see parents holding their babies that's
  • 00:41:48
    the only thing that matters to us how
  • 00:41:51
    embarrassing yeah it should never be a
  • 00:41:54
    based upon our our response should not
  • 00:41:57
    be based upon the uh uh the emotional
  • 00:42:03
    common
  • 00:42:03
    denominator right it's not based upon
  • 00:42:06
    what you find emotional it's what Allah
  • 00:42:09
    subh demands from you the the the life
  • 00:42:12
    of a a fit strong 40y old should make
  • 00:42:17
    you as depressed as the child one the
  • 00:42:19
    fact that you cry more because you
  • 00:42:20
    connect more to a child is a human
  • 00:42:22
    weakness by the way it's a human
  • 00:42:24
    weakness that makes us fantastically
  • 00:42:27
    human but it's not praiseworthy here
  • 00:42:31
    praiseworthy here is you not seeing any
  • 00:42:34
    person dying and your heart burning that
  • 00:42:37
    those kuf dogs have stepped even one
  • 00:42:40
    step into the Blessed land it didn't
  • 00:42:42
    need a person to die for you to start
  • 00:42:44
    posting or for you to start boycotting
  • 00:42:47
    but that's unfortunately how low we are
  • 00:42:49
    how base we are that if the news or the
  • 00:42:52
    emotions are not elicited then we don't
  • 00:42:54
    care if thousands upon thousands are not
  • 00:42:56
    dead then don't become invested this is
  • 00:42:59
    wrong the prophet Sall alaihi wasallam
  • 00:43:01
    abdah they stated about the blood of the
  • 00:43:05
    believer that in the eyes of Allah
  • 00:43:07
    subhana wa taala the destruction of the
  • 00:43:09
    Kaa is worth less than the the loss of
  • 00:43:12
    one life one life and that one life was
  • 00:43:14
    not that two-year-old beautiful cuddly
  • 00:43:16
    baby or a 90-year-old weak mother it's
  • 00:43:21
    one believer however old whatever color
  • 00:43:24
    whatever country and so I want you to I
  • 00:43:27
    want you to understand the point I'm
  • 00:43:28
    making which is that research and
  • 00:43:31
    understanding the value of causes and
  • 00:43:33
    the um and the land should not be
  • 00:43:35
    emotionally affected but if you need to
  • 00:43:38
    be emotionally affected to make a more
  • 00:43:40
    powerful Dua then do the research and
  • 00:43:42
    see the the the the images if you are
  • 00:43:45
    that weak then okay it is what it is
  • 00:43:47
    then research and see how many children
  • 00:43:49
    are dying then and find out and write
  • 00:43:52
    down don't forget the images we will not
  • 00:43:55
    forget we say it but are you living it
  • 00:43:57
    like that do you feel like that every
  • 00:43:59
    night so folks in a few other things
  • 00:44:02
    I'll say use your hands use your hands
  • 00:44:04
    this is a how you make Dua exactly like
  • 00:44:06
    I'm holding it in front of your face
  • 00:44:08
    just below hands together not separated
  • 00:44:11
    not in any other way not you can't see
  • 00:44:13
    now but not you know sometimes you see
  • 00:44:14
    people with their hands on their laps
  • 00:44:16
    very lazy type of Dua unacceptable this
  • 00:44:20
    is not the way of the of the Sunnah at
  • 00:44:22
    certain occasions hands raised to the
  • 00:44:24
    sky the the Dua of the finger is also
  • 00:44:27
    narrated from the prophet s alaihi
  • 00:44:28
    wasallam but this is your default
  • 00:44:30
    position use your own language be
  • 00:44:33
    expressive um and also end with the
  • 00:44:36
    Salat upon the prophet sallallah alaihi
  • 00:44:37
    wasallam so those are I think what I
  • 00:44:40
    wanted to say from a Dua prep mindset
  • 00:44:43
    wise practicing now to get ready for
  • 00:44:45
    later utilizing lists research writing
  • 00:44:49
    it down and then the Sunnah in addition
  • 00:44:52
    to this being in W helps in addition to
  • 00:44:54
    this being in the direction of the helps
  • 00:44:57
    by the way if you did none of these
  • 00:44:59
    things your Dua will still be an act of
  • 00:45:01
    worship your Dua still has a chance of
  • 00:45:03
    being accepted however if you bring all
  • 00:45:06
    of these things praising Allah Allah
  • 00:45:07
    will be grateful if you send salams upon
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    the prophet wasallam everything that you
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    do is blessed if you send salams upon
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    the prophet wasallam it's not struggling
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    in the in the Heavens to get to allaha
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    if you hold your hands in front of in
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    front of allaha then as the prophet
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    wasallam said Allah does not like that
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    Allah Allah hates that a person lifts
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    his hands and then he sends them back
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    empty meaning that you hold it in this
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    way more yes more this a Oliver this is
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    Allah subhana tala giving you more and
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    more and more you hold them there shows
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    your desperation shows your humbleness
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    and you're following the Sunnah as well
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    in this manner by doing this act by
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    using the Quran by using the duas of the
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    Prophet wasallam you are worshiping you
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    are following the very best of examples
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    so that's is that's important by using
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    your own language and getting creative
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    you're getting natural you're organic
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    your your you're speaking the language
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    of your heart which is always the most
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    powerful Dua by making Dua for other
  • 00:46:05
    people individuals and the umah then you
  • 00:46:09
    are fulfilling the Hadith of the Prophet
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    Sall alaihi wasallam which is that you
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    will then get back which Everything you
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    ask for them there's an angel that says
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    aan and you the same and a mean for you
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    the
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    same um sorry I just wanted to jump in
  • 00:46:23
    when you said about uh organic well
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    firstly I just wanted to say we're
  • 00:46:25
    running short on time I just wanted to
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    point out the time to you um and second
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    of all when you mentioned organic um
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    somebody asked in the chat about reading
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    Dua off of the list what if you could
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    comment on that please so like I said
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    the uh reading uh uh as I said in the
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    about 10 minutes ago you should be
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    reading in your Dua you allowed to use
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    your phone you're allowed to use your
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    list you maintain that organic nature um
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    and I think that's all about I want to
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    say
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    I will take one or two quick questions
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    um uh for this session and then we're
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    going to call it a
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    day if you raised hands while she was
  • 00:47:08
    speaking if you did have a question
  • 00:47:10
    please raise it again because um it
  • 00:47:12
    disappears after a
  • 00:47:15
    while I'll give it only two three
  • 00:47:17
    minutes because I said that I would only
  • 00:47:20
    uh go until 5:45 and it's already gone
  • 00:47:22
    past that please unmute yourself Shazia
  • 00:47:29
    sh sh please unmute
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    yourself just keep moving on without
  • 00:47:38
    just two more minutes she's the only
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    one go ahead shik um what what I don't
  • 00:47:45
    understand is like when you said that
  • 00:47:46
    when we make Dua we have to praise Allah
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    tala first and then we have to send
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    salaat on Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
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    wasallam but when we are making Dua uh
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    before uh before I mean
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    after and then before Salam uh then how
  • 00:48:03
    does it work done already done you you
  • 00:48:06
    praised Allah in the F you sent Sals
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    upon
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    the you've already done that haven't you
  • 00:48:11
    when you're asking you've already so
  • 00:48:13
    that's obvious we just make Dua right
  • 00:48:15
    then and there yes
  • 00:48:20
    okay so Shaz is the only one who raised
  • 00:48:22
    her hand I don't know if she's the only
  • 00:48:24
    that's fine will we if people have
  • 00:48:28
    questions in the chat then uh they can
  • 00:48:31
    ask it in the chat and I'll record and
  • 00:48:34
    answer covering all of the uh questions
  • 00:48:37
    so folks um you can put your questions
  • 00:48:40
    down and then I'll do one audio that
  • 00:48:43
    combines all of the answers um uh with
  • 00:48:46
    that because you've completely thrown
  • 00:48:48
    and destroyed every single thing in my
  • 00:48:50
    flow um you're going to have to um work
  • 00:48:54
    out what needs to be said because I've
  • 00:48:55
    got no idea now
  • 00:48:57
    um if you're listening to this call
  • 00:49:00
    right now and you have not uh interacted
  • 00:49:03
    with the bot and filled out the form we
  • 00:49:04
    need absolutely everybody to do that um
  • 00:49:07
    we're we are missing a good number of
  • 00:49:10
    people from the new group chat the
  • 00:49:12
    private one uh so we need everybody to
  • 00:49:14
    be on there if you have any friends that
  • 00:49:16
    you know have joined who aren't on there
  • 00:49:18
    they need to fill out the form
  • 00:49:20
    immediately whoever doesn't fill out the
  • 00:49:22
    form we won't be able to allocate the
  • 00:49:24
    proper rooms to them so it's very
  • 00:49:26
    important that you get that form done
  • 00:49:28
    and you get into the new private group
  • 00:49:30
    chat um typically what happens is we
  • 00:49:32
    focus on Dua prep during the last 10
  • 00:49:34
    nights of Ramadan and then um we have
  • 00:49:36
    Eid obviously and after Eid um that's
  • 00:49:39
    when we really take things into gear and
  • 00:49:43
    uh and go straight into Haj prep so
  • 00:49:46
    we're not going to be posting on this
  • 00:49:47
    chat that you're on right now it's going
  • 00:49:49
    to all be in the private new group chat
  • 00:49:51
    please contact everybody that you know
  • 00:49:54
    that is uh you know friends or family or
  • 00:49:56
    whoever they all need to be in there and
  • 00:49:58
    everybody needs to have their own
  • 00:50:00
    individual telegram accounts as usual if
  • 00:50:02
    we have any other important
  • 00:50:03
    announcements we'll put them on the
  • 00:50:05
    channel inshallah and like she said just
  • 00:50:08
    to reiterate if you have any questions
  • 00:50:10
    about Dua in particular you can put them
  • 00:50:12
    in the chat and he'll respond to them
  • 00:50:13
    inall by Audio so I see quite a few
  • 00:50:15
    raised hands now if you guys could
  • 00:50:17
    please put your uh questions in the chat
  • 00:50:19
    we do have to uh end the call um and
  • 00:50:22
    we'll get to your questions in as soon
  • 00:50:24
    as you
  • 00:50:25
    canh for
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