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Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds.
Peace and blessings be upon the honour of the Prophets and Messengers,
Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family.
Peace and blessings be upon them.
And after that, my brothers and sisters,
it is very important after the first prayer to do the Masnoon adhkar of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family.
All the adhkar, all the dhikr the Prophet used to do after the first prayer, it is very important to do that first.
Before anything else, before the khatira, before anything which the Imam wants to say or any haddars or hadiths or anything else.
Finish the adhkar of, these are all Sunnah Mu'akkadah.
They are almost as important as the first.
Finish that, then do whatever else you want to do.
So the Prophet said, first and foremost, after you finish your Salah, you say Astaghfirullah three times.
Astaghfirullah, Astaghfirullah, Astaghfirullah.
And then you say Allahumma a'inni a'la dhikrika wa shukrika wa husni ibadatika.
And then if you like, you can say Allahumma takabbal minna innaka anta as-sami wal-alim wa tuba'ilina innaka anta at-tawabur raheem.
And then you recite Ayatul Qursi.
The recitation of Ayatul Qursi,
after the Salah,
the first Salah,
Rasulullah said, the one who recites Ayatul Qursi after the first Salah,
the only thing that is between him and Jannah is his death.
Meaning, as soon as he dies, he will go to Jannah, InshaAllah.
So simple.
Ayatul Qursi after the first.
So, the Ulema have said that this could mean Ayatul Qursi immediately after the first,
or it could mean Ayatul Qursi as the last thing,
before you say Salah.
So after Atayat and after Dhurut Ibrahim and after the Dua's,
you recite Ayatul Qursi and then you say Salam Alaikum, Salam Alaikum.
In the Salah.
So the Afdal way is to do that and immediately after Salah also.
So after you say Salam, Salam, then Ayatul Qursi.
And then SubhanAllah, Alhamdulillah, Allahu Akbar, 33, 33, 34.
And then La ilaha illaAllah,
Wa a'dahu la sharika lahu, la huma al-mulk, la huma al-hamdu, wa ala kulli shay'in qadir.
So this is the minimum.
And then of course, if Allah gives us tawfiq,
La ilaha illaAllah, wa a'dahu la sharika lahu, la huma al-mulk, la huma al-hamdu,
yuhi wa yumeet, wa huwa ala kulli shay'in qadir.
That addition of yuhi wa yumeet.
Huwa ala kulli shay'in qadir, ten times.
And after that,
Allahumma la ma'aleh ala ma'atayta, wa la muti lima manata, wa la yanfawzal jaddah minkal jaddah.
These are the little one lines.
This we must memorize and we must say this.
Right?
Then you do your, whatever else you want to do.
The dars or anything else.
But until you finish the adhkar,
don't be in a hurry.
If you do not even have,
peace of mind and sukoon in salah, in the masjid,
where will we have it?
That this life is full of all kinds of tensions and this and that.
At least in the masjid, let us be, stay with peace and khair.
InshaAllah Allah Ta'ala will give us khair.
The key thing is to understand that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala gave us this deen
in order to give us sukoon.
The purpose of the deen is what?
To give you trouble or to give you,
deen is not meant to give,
deen is meant to solve our problems.
Deen is meant to give us sukoon.
But anything is beneficial only if you use it.
You can have a beautiful house
and in that you have, for example,
you have an air conditioner in your bedroom.
But here in Hyderabad in the summer,
the temperature is going to 40 degrees Celsius
and you are sweltering in the heat,
burning in the heat.
You are trying to sleep in the bedroom and you can't sleep
and it's so difficult.
And somebody says, why don't you turn on the AC?
You have the AC, it is installed, it works.
Why don't you turn it on?
You know, this example sounds stupid,
but that is exactly what we do with our religion.
We have it, alhamdulillah.
All of us, at least all of us here in the masjid are born Muslims.
Our parents were Muslims, their parents were Muslims,
until Allah knows when.
We must ask ourselves, what good is that?
I'm not saying it's not good.
I'm saying, what benefit am I getting from this?
I'm burning in the heat.
I have a beautiful air conditioner in my room.
I have the remote control in my hand.
I won't turn it on.
What chance does it make?
But that's exactly what we do with our religion.
Allah gave us a beautiful system of life, whole life.
Start with salah, which is why it is five times a day,
reminder, reminder, reminder, reminder, reminder.
How must I live my life?
The way you do salah.
You don't pray any way you like.
You pray, you pray.
How do you pray?
Prophet said what?
Sallu kamar ayyitumuni usalli.
Pray as you have seen me pray.
Not any way you like.
I cannot invent my own method of praying, which I think is very beautiful.
No, no, no, no.
If it does not follow the method of Rasulullah exactly,
then that salah is not acceptable to Allah .
It is trashed.
So how must I live my whole life?
The way I pray.
First principle is do it like the Rasulullah deal.
How must I treat my family?
The way Rasulullah treated his family.
How must I do business?
The way Rasulullah did business.
How must I drive my car?
You might say he did not have a car.
He didn't have a car.
But how did he walk on the street?
How did he ride his mount on the street?
Did he ride it in the middle?
Did he ride it in a way which caused problem for other people?
Did he dismount and tie the animal somewhere where it's a nuisance for everyone?
No.
It's not a question of whether it's a car or a camel.
The question is how do you behave?
What do I do with inheritance?
What did he do with inheritance?
What is the usool of Islam?
What about business dealings?
I give somebody my word.
I have a deal.
What should I do?
Fulfil it?
Don't fulfill it?
Five times a day, five times a day we are reminded.
God is the best.
He is the best.
He is the best.
He is the best.
So, Salah is not only about Salah.
Salah is the reminder for the whole of my life.
It's not only about Salah.
Salah is a tool.
Today, one of the problems we have is
either we have people, may Allah forgive us,
who leave the Salah itself.
They won't pray.
We have Ramadan Muslims and this, that.
They don't pray.
They don't pray.
This whole masjid will get full in Ramadan.
The rest of the time, Allah bless all of you,
who come on a regular basis, but that's it.
Mashallah, beautiful faces, but only the same,
five, six faces, 10 faces, that's it.
So we have Ramadan Muslims, then we have we Muslims.
Then we wonder why are Muslims getting beaten up
all over the world?
You tell me why.
You tell me why.
Everyone is walking there and everyone is getting wet.
You have an umbrella, you don't open the umbrella,
then you say, why am I getting wet, right?
You are supposed to open the umbrella, keep yourself dry
and help somebody else, right?
Imagine you have this umbrella, which is extendable.
Take other people also under them,
let them also see the beauty of Islam.
Just see how today is,
which is the fastest spreading religion today?
Which one?
Islam?
Nope.
The fastest spreading religion today is commercialism.
Commercialism.
How many of you have a mobile phone, have a smartphone,
how many of you have a mobile phone, have a smartphone,
How many of you have a mobile phone, have a smartphone,
in your pocket. Everyone, right?
I'm sure
you also have some version of the Quran
on this phone.
You also have social media.
Which one do you see more?
Which one do you look
at more?
Simple.
If you tell me, you don't have to tell me.
I'm nobody. This is between you and Allah.
If you say seriously,
I read the Quran
more than I look at my social media,
I'm not a Hindu.
I'm a county among the Auliya.
Who does it? Do I do it? I also don't do it.
So which is the,
if I'm choosing between social
media and the Quran, and social
media, I'm watching six hours a day, the Quran,
if I read one choose a day,
how long does it take? Half an hour?
So which is the
fastest spreading religion?
Now,
the social media
which is on my phone,
which is the
Tableti Jamaat of Commercialism,
the evangelical
part of commercialism,
is social media.
Whether it's Facebook, whether it's Instagram,
whatever,
you have the influencers, you have this one,
that one, you have ads, you have
schools, you have all these things.
Scrolling, scrolling, scrolling.
Drawing you towards
buy this, buy that,
have this opinion, have that opinion,
that's the purpose, right?
Tell me, who forced
you or me to put that
on the phone?
Did somebody force us?
Did the government issue
a geo to say
everyone must have these
things on their phone?
Is the police standing there
and catching your phone?
Open your phone, show me.
Do you have this Facebook?
Okay, good, you can go.
No Facebook? Go to jail.
Is it happening?
Did somebody bribe you?
What's his name?
Was that a guy?
Who looks like a fish?
What's his name?
Huh?
What's his name?
Facebook guy?
Mark Zuckerberg.
Mark Zuckerberg.
What is the name of the
general who commanded the army
which conquered
Persia?
Battle of Khadzia.
Who was the general?
Which is the fastest spreading religion?
Islam or commercialism?
Zabi of Rasulullah,
you don't remember.
Sa'ad bin Abi Waqas.
What is the name?
Sa'ad bin Abi Waqas
Radiallahu anhu.
Biankar or Nabi Salam.
Commanded the army
and the battle of Qadzia.
We don't know Mark Zuckerberg.
We don't know Sa'ad bin Abi Waqas.
This is how powerful it is, brother.
It's an ism.
Commercial ism.
What's an ism?
An ism is a religion.
It's a religion.
It's a religion.
It's a religion.
It's a religion.
It's a way of life.
It's something which impacts your values
and your ethics and your morals.
It's something which gives you icons.
I did this in the masjid in Massachusetts
where I am.
One evening I was eating
and a whole bunch of young men
and all of them, big beards.
Everyone's got big black beards.
A whole bunch of them.