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my brothers and sisters i'm sure we are aware that we are within the ten best days of the islamic year and i'm sure we've come across the hadith or we've heard it the hadith of ibn abbas in radha allah there are no days of the year wherein good deeds are more loved by allah subhanahu wa ta'ala than those that are done within these 10 days referring to the first 10 days of the month of dulhajja we are well within these 10 days but i want to draw your attention to a few very important factors when we think to ourselves that allah loves good deeds during these days more than he does throughout the year what's the first thing that comes to our minds i'm sure almost all of us myself included we start thinking of doing extra deeds and we start thinking perhaps i can read the quran perhaps i can do some nafil and sunnah perhaps i can be charitable perhaps i can you know do something that is voluntary etc not realizing that that is not where you start that is never a starting point and this is something that we need to clarify because many times shaytan makes us think about that which is voluntary when we have not yet considered that which was obligatory and farah and this is why the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam says that allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has said that the most loved deeds the deeds that i love the most from any one of my worshippers are those deeds that i have made compulsory and farad upon them which means your father salah it means your zakah it means your fasting in the month of ramadan that which is farah it means also that we should be abstaining from that which is haram that which is sinful because what is the point really of a person who engages in lots of voluntary deeds but they are perpetrating adultery they are deceiving and cheating people they are consuming usury and interest they are perhaps gambling and on drugs and so on we need to make a greater effort to become from among those who can quit this so if you during these days decide that i have quit this bad habit that i have had for so long wallahi it is better for you than engaging in extra voluntary deeds while you have wiped them out by perpetrating sins that are major may allah help us to abstain from major sin so when you hear that allah loves good deeds the most the first thing that should come to your mind is farah that which is compulsory do i get up for fajr let me get up early let me take a little bit more time in the way i fulfill my salah if my fajr is 5 minutes every morning let's make it 10 because this is a good deed it's the deed that allah loves the most and i am in these 10 days of dulhajja and i would like to improve myself as a person so let me start increasing in terms of the quality of the good deed sometimes we end up missing farah we miss our father and then we sit with a sunnah salah and we fulfill without having made kabba kada meaning that which is fulfilling your lost salah that which you missed for some reason you now need to make it up it's called kada so it's more important to do kada than it is to do the sunnah or that which is voluntary my brothers and sisters this is a very interesting point when we would like to please allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the first thing we should do we ask ourselves two questions if you want to please allah subhanahu wa ta'ala you ask yourself two questions the first question is have i fulfilled my obligations unto allah allah asked me to do certain things allah has requested from me certain things have i fulfilled these things very interesting allah asked you to fulfill your salah allah ask you to do so many things we know what the duties are allah asks you to dress in a specific way allah asks you to speak in a specific way allah subhanahu wa has required from you that you eat a specific type of food etc have i fulfilled the obligation unto allah obligation that which is farah the second question is have i stayed away from that which will anger allah those are the two questions if you can answer those questions with the correct responses you are heading in the right direction now shaytan will come to us what does he temper with shaytan usually tampers with one of these two things either he makes you leave your farad or he makes you engage in sin so now allah wa ta'ala teaches us one of the greatest acts of worship do you know what it is he taught it to adam alaihissalam a very great act of worship after a sin was committed and adam alaihissalam ate that which he was not supposed to eat allah subhanahu wa ta'ala taught him some words allah gave him a few words taught him these words what were these words [Music] is teaching adam alaihissalam to say this so we need to say this too we say oh our banner and fusana we have wronged ourselves what we did just now was very wrong it was oppressing ourselves and if you don't forgive us and if you don't have mercy upon us we are going to lose so allah taught adam alaihi salam those words adam alaihi salam said those words genuinely and he was forgiven and allah made tawbah one of the biggest acts of worship so much so that the hadith says tawba wipes out whatever sins you've made in the past you know when a person is not a muslim they've done whatever they may have done in their past life they revert to islam as they enter the fold of islam and declare what we know as the shahada bearing witness that there is only one deity worthy of worship who is allah and bearing witness that muhammad peace be upon him is the final messenger of allah once they declare that shahadah guess what happens to them all their bad deeds are wiped out all their bad deeds are wiped out it is selected formatting it's not that everything is wiped out all your bad deeds are wiped out that's what happens when you engage in tawba for those who are already believers because sometimes a person might feel you know when you don't really know or you don't have deep knowledge you might think look you know people who enter islam they're forgiven totally right what if i exit it and enter it again i'm formatting my hard drive right that is foolish thinking subhanallah we are not allowed to think that way allah does you a favor allah says we will give you that as a gift if you just ask allah's forgiveness subhanallah that person was not a believer they accepted islam you are a believer you just have to say oh allah forgive me that is such a great act of worship i call upon yourselves and myself during these 10 days to engage in that which is most beloved to allah and that is seeking forgiveness of allah subhanahu wa and declaring the remembrance and the greatness of allah al-qurasm the quran says encouraging us to remember the name of allah during specific days go to the tafsir and you will find that some of the mufassirin have said that these specific days are the 10 days of dulhija we are in them right now so remember allah often we all know that we should increase takbir don't wait for the day that the takbir commences in the masjid after the father of salah don't wait for that day yes when that day comes you will participate in that takbir that is read after salah but throughout these 10 days we are supposed to be repeating that techbear and various other tech bhirat what is that means the declaration of the greatness of allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala and it goes as follows the sunnah wording allah there are two different ways of saying it you can have three takbirs right at the beginning so you could also say either you say twice or thrice right at the beginning you're declaring the greatness of allah you are saying there is none worthy of worship besides allah and he is the greatest and all praise belongs to allah so allah says say that subhanallah do we say it another very interesting aspect is when you remember allah within yourself like say my mouth is closed i haven't moved my lips in my mind i'm thinking of allah it's an act of worship and the hadith says whoever remembers me within himself i remember him within myself how allah knows best but allah says you know people do remember allah within themselves it's an interesting act of worship very important but i can teach you a greater act of worship to make an effort to move your tongue to move your lips to use a bit of your voice why it's a very big act of worship far greater than thinking only start saying it so when we are sitting a lot of the times what happens to me nowadays i'll be honest with you you're reading your phone and you get a message someone passed away someone is sick someone or something bad has happened for example sometimes you end up saying in your mind and you make a dua for them in your mind wallahi let's not forget just because technology has advanced we need to also say that aloud oh allah forgive him allah cure him let's seize an opportunity my brothers and sisters people have passed away may allah give them jannatul say amen people are sick and ill right now as we are talking may allah cure them whoever they are say amen and one more people are struggling and suffering across the globe as we speak whoever they are wherever they are we pray for them may allah alleviate their suffering amen so to say it why is it better because your tongue bears witness your voice bears witness your organs bear witness your lips bear witness it's a greater act of worship for example if you were to remember allah with your tongue and if you were to get up and you were to fulfill two units of prayer what would happen the two units of prayer would probably get you to a place slightly higher if it was done in the proper way because i tell you now your whole organs the organs have moved your feet have moved your your forehead is going to bear witness for you that this man prostrated the closest you can ever as a worshiper be to allah is in the position of sujud prostration allah loves that position so if allah loves that position so much and these days are most beloved unto allah why don't we fulfill our salah at least the father on time i want every one of us myself included to bear in mind one thing whenever you are reading your salah please take your time why the hadith says every time you fulfill salah fulfill it as though it is the final prayer that you are fulfilling in your life farewell prayer if someone told you listen you're dying at two o'clock this is your last jummah i think up to five to in fact we'll extend it beyond right we want to die in be pleased with us when he takes us away and honestly speaking if i can just divert for a second the best death is that death wherein allah is pleased with you no matter what age you pass away no matter how you pass away no matter who was with you and wasn't with you and where you were all that is irrelevant if allah is pleased with you wallahi you have the best death and if allah was displeased with you even if you died smooth sweet without much feeling subhanallah trust me we have lost may allah grant us goodness so let's go back to what i was saying we have the best days and we have the best acts of worship now if we bring them together we'll realize one thing today is a friday do you know that the friday is the eid of the muslim the eid of the week it's actually the best day of the week without a doubt the hadith says the best day that the sun has risen upon yom ulju muati the friday adam on it was created and so many things have happened on this day but i tell you if the friday is the best day of the week and the 10 days of the hija are the best days of the year what do you think would be the value of a friday inside of those 10 days let's seize the opportunity to seek the forgiveness of allah may allah forgive all of us may allah forgive us may allah forgive us for those sins we've committed that we know and those that we don't know and together with that forgiveness may allah purify our hearts so that we can become people who are consciously changing themselves bringing themselves closer to allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that's the way now one clarification also some of you might be thinking what about ramadan surely ramadan i tell you very interesting ramadan the nights are better the last 10 nights of ramadan are the best nights here we are talking about the best days see the difference why because in ramadan we have one night that is more powerful than a thousand months and that is laylatul allah says the night of decree known as laylatul qatar is better than a thousand months so that's the best night and the best 10 nights are the last 10 nights of ramadan but the days because there is the day of arafah being the 9th of dulhajja is the day of arafah it is the most powerful day it is it is called the day of hajj that is what it is you must arafa you must hajj what should we do well i tell you the sunnah of the prophet salallahu salaam you want to know how powerful is the day of arafah if you have gone for hajj you are in arafah but if you have not gone for hajj the sunnah is to fast on the day the ninth of dulhejja try not to miss that fast because the hadith says you ka firusana it forgives and expiates the sins of the previous year and the current year amazing how powerful this beautiful day is one day the ninth of dulhajja fast it fasting for the non not means those who are not gone for hajj if you are in hajj it's not a sunnah to fast on that day because it's a day of action and it's a day when you are actually going to be in arafah it's hot and whatever else might be and you might be busy it's not a sunnah to fast when you are in hajj you are there when you are not in hajj wallahi going to be on a friday thursday to fast that particular thursday is such a great reward i encourage yourselves and myself inshallah if we can to fast on that day because it's a beautiful deed and allah says you know what i love the good deeds the most during this season so much that if you are too fast on that day i'm going to forgive all your sins i'm sure we all want a new beginning i'm sure we all want redemption i'm sure we'd all love to earn the pleasure of allah so here allah is giving you a bonus now have you ever thought that how merciful a lord is allah subhanahu wa tahala every little while he gives us a blessed day a blessed season we have muharram you have the tenth of muharram powerful subhanallah you have the season of hajj you have the season of one after the other it comes two three times a year and this is amazing because allah keeps reminding us no matter what shaitaan has done to you my mercy one droplet of it will wipe out whatever shaytan has done remember that you can have worked with shaytan for 70 years and then you can have spent one minute with allah that one minute trust me if it was done correctly it will wipe out 70 years of what the devil has built within an individual so never lose hope in the mercy of allah but we need to be moved we need to be motivated too many distractions happening around us that is why allah says hang on start concentrating on your farah that which is compulsory you'll enjoy it how many of us pick up the quran and we read even this every morning i promise you my brothers and sisters try it it's not asking of much one verse one verse every morning even from your phone your application on your phone pick it up read one only one trust me it will go to two and two three and you will enjoy it and you will look at the meaning of it and you will start passing it to your friends that's the power of allah if haram can magnetize you so much when you forget allah trust me when you start remembering allah that halal will magnetize you in a more powerful way trust me it requires an effort you see one might ask that so if allah knows everything about us then why did why didn't he just tell us okay guys you know what i'll give you jannah don't worry about your deeds no the thing is allah has placed us here in order to recognize us with us being our own witness so allah knows me allah knows you allah knows everything about us but what about you imagine there was a court case without witness they just jailed you you would say but i didn't do this so the judge says well we knew you were going to do it so we jail you you know before i remember there was a certain person whenever he used to send a child to go and do something he used to call him and slap him and say now take the milk he says but why did you slap me he says what's the point of slapping you after you drop the milk i'd rather slap you before you drop the milk so that you don't drop it so similarly it is injustice or it is unjust for anyone to punish us for a crime we did not commit so allah says go to earth when you go to the earth do whatever you have to i have told you what to do what not to do when you come back you can bear witness against yourself you can bear witness against yourself did you do this yes i did who did it you do you deserve the punishment yes guess what through my mercy i'm going to forgive you you can still go to jannah that is allah may allah grant that to us that is the rahmah of allah he wants to forgive you allah is looking for any excuse to forgive you but those who follow the their desires whims and fancies shahawat means immorality the immoral paths of the world they would like the rest of us to actually be twisted a very very strong twisting to be diverted in a very very strong way let's not be diverted by the devil my brothers and sisters let's remember that allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's mercy encompasses everything for him to have asked us to do things so that we can bear witness for ourselves or against ourselves we have an opportunity to prove ourselves so let's prove ourselves to allah the same way if someone were to ask you do you know this brother the answer is i know about him perhaps i have seen him but if you are asking me for a point of reference i need to have done business with him i need to have traveled with him i need to have known him lived with him i need to have been interacting with him and done dealings with him because i need to have checked him at a time when things did not go his way that's when he can prove himself remember this all of us we don't know each other besides he's a brother of mine until the day you are bitten by the person when things don't go their way then you learn oh now i know why things did not go his way there was a loss in the business he cheated me something happened the same applies with allah subhanahu wa ta'ala but allah knew everything where allah says we leave you to dima we leave you we let you do whatever you have to the day things don't go your way do you actually thank allah does it bring you closer to allah because i promise you when things are bad you turn in one of two ways some people become very bad they start questioning allah you lost a life you lost someone's someone lost their health something bad happened what do some people do they start questioning allah they go far away from allah in that case they lost but a mu'min when you have a problem it's supposed to bring you closer to allah so your problem defines you not only with allah even with the rest of the human beings mark those words write them down in gold inc and read them every day subhanallah your problem defines you when something happens in your life your family your spouse a big mistake happened it will define you who are you you only get to prove yourself when something very bad happened or negative happened or something happened in your life that was not according to your liking that's the only time the only time you can prove yourself and that's when we prove ourselves that's when we get to know each other may allah help us prove ourselves to him to begin with because when you prove yourself to allah trust me you don't need to worry about anyone else allah will deal with everything else may allah bless every one of us make things easy for us in the dunya as well as allah
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