It Actually Starts with Tahajjud | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

We Begin by praising Allah subhana wa tala and bearing witness that none has the right to be worshiped or unconditionally obeyed except for him and we bear witness that Muhammad Sall alai wasallam is his final messenger we ask Allah to send his peace and blessings upon him the prophets and Messengers that came before him his family and companions that served alongside him and those that follow in his blessed path until the day of judgment and we ask Allah to make us amongst them dear brothers and sisters typically when we talk about the effect that we are having on the rest of the umah there is this sense of introspection that's lacking what role am I playing at the spiritual level when it comes to everyone else and so you can talk about the role of sins and bringing about burden or you could talk about the role of Dua and bringing about relief but Subhan Allah there's a very specific act of worship that distinguishes us from everyone else and many people would think that this act of worship is for this small group of people it's for the a it's for this small group of friends of Allah subhana wa tala that not many people can do and some would even say that it's unwise to even talk about this act of worship when people are struggling with the bare minimum so someone might say why would you talk about why would you talk about the night prayer when most Muslims are struggling to even pray five times a day and I'm going to tell you exactly why and why it's so important in this moment if a person is not praying five times a day then it could be that they are a source of sin upon this umah but if a person wants to be a source of strength for this umah then that's where comes in that's number one number two it could be that in that night prayer that Allah subhana wa tala provokes in you a Sweetness in your talking to him in your relationship with him in those moments of being alone that actually transforms the quality of your five salawat if you learn to enjoy your if you learn to enjoy two Ras at night that can actually transform all five of your prayers during the day because you actually would have had some meaning in it and you're not thinking about everything that has to come and everything that you have to do tells the prophet sallallah wasallam that verily the night and in the night it is a time where you can develop greater strength and you're less distracted because there's so much that you have to do during the day and so the quality that you gain from two raas at night can transform five prayers of the day but there is something else that I really want us to get to and I say this by the way Subhan Allah that this is something that we should all aspire to starting with myself this is a deed that we should struggle with and this is a deed that I am struggling with and this is a deed that I hope all of us will struggle with that in this moment in particular there is nothing that can build us for the moment like as individuals and as societies there is nothing that can give us victory over those who oppress us like this particular act of worship and I want to take you back to the moment that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam comes to Medina and he gives his inauguration speech and you've all heard this many times but I want you to pay attention to the only thing that differentiates the speech or the main thing that differentiates the speech from anything that anyone had ever heard before he gathers all the people the Muslims the Jews of Medina the polytheists of Medina the people that maybe the few Christians in Medina people of all different backgrounds and Fates right they're coming around to hear what this man is going to say sallallahu alaihi wasallam in Med when he finally has a platform he can finally speak because in Mecca they didn't allow him to speak in public sallu alaihi wasallam they persecuted him in his own home oh people spread peace now if you're not Muslim you can appreciate spread peace and of course we have the specific greeting but it's more than that because so many Muslims sayum but they intend everything else with with except for Salam when they give it to you they sayum peace be on to you but everything under the words of Salam is not Salam right so Alum is an intention towards your brother as wellum peace be on to you an intention from sister to sister as wellum peace be onto you spread peace not just with your words but with everything else all right if I'm if I'm someone who's hearing the prophet Salli was for the first time I've heard something like that before feed the poor beautiful Salam is what Jesus peace be upon Him used to say in the Bible right even now peace be on to you this is the greeting of the prophets alayum feed the poor we can find this Noble trait in multiple ways of life of course we want to excel with it and we have a different push towards it but feed the people and especially the poor and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam says and connect your families establish the ties of kinship this is a beautiful trait a beautiful quality that has a universal manifestation then he says s pray at night while other people are sleeping stand up and pray at night when everybody else goes to sleep you'll enter Paradise in peace this is different Subhan Allah in the narration ofd worship who is never heard of before the most merciful worship and and so on so forth spread peace and feed the people the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam is saying that the way this Society is going to be established and distinguish itself the secret ingredient beyond what we already know of the good things that Allah has put in us to naturally incline towards the secret ingredient is going to be that those same people that are spreading peace those same people that are feeding the poor those same people that are working are not making an excuse for themselves to not fight with their bodies and stand up to replenish their souls at night this is what's going to be your secret ingredient to building this Society o an in a way that no one has ever built a society before this is where it's going to come down to the characters that build the culture of Medina a very specific group of people stand up and pray at night when other people go to sleep subh there's a connection here the first address in Medina that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam gives to the people is stand up and pray at night and the first address that Allah gives to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam in Mecca in his most devastating times when he's alone in society is of the first words oh you who was wrapped up stand up at night and pray except for a little bit push yourself oh Muhammad sallallah alaihi wasallam because in Medina you need to build a society but in Mecca you need to build a character you need to build a certain type of spiritual resilience that's going to allow you to deal with oppression in Mecca you have to resist the society that wants you to be something you're not in Medina you have to build a society that no one has ever seen before and the secret ingredient of both of those is going to be your willingness to stand up and pray at night because you're going to nurture something in those moments that no one else can nurture you're going to Kindle a fire in your heart in those moments that no one else knows what it's like to Kindle but you have to be willing to put in that sacrifice before Allah subhana waa made the five prayers obligatory he made obligatory on the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam made the night prayer obligatory on the prophet alaihi wasallam and the Believers by extension then once Allah revealed the five obligatory prayers then the second part of was revealed as said which turned it into a voluntary prayer so you won't you will not be punished on the day of judgment for not praying it's not obligatory and I want to make that very clear but in this moment Subhan Allah you want to build yourself as an IND individual you want to build a society it's the secret ingredient it's the secret ingredient of Victory when Allah subh talks about the Battle of bad when the Muslims were outnumbered by those who had no good intentions towards them and wanted to do all sorts of things towards them Allah subhana T does not attribute the victory that came to them through the archers or the way that the prophet sallai was able to develop a scheme where he could deal with you know this genocidal group of people that outnumbered him Allah subhana says the victory came last night when you were in the tent and you were making Dua to Allah subhana you were supplicating your Lord that's when Allah answered you when you were in the tent the night before it wasn't what you put together the day of it was the night before and we know the famous story of when he was dealing with the Crusaders trying to retake Jerusalem from the Crusaders what does he do in he goes through the tents not yet not yet not yet but when he sees the lights on in the tents now we're ready when he sees that these people who are dealing with the brutal conditions of war against the Crusaders of all people who have seen Horrors that none of us can even imagine even in this time and he goes around and he sees them by themselves waking up and praying at night now it's there now that ingredient is there in our personal lives Dua is an arrow Dua is a connection between you and Allah subhana wa tala over Those who commit against you and on a community level Dua is an arrow that we have against those who oppress our umah it is a connection from us to Allah subhana wa ta'ala it is the secret ingredient it is the distinguishing Factor now again someone is like I can barely pray five times a day I'm I'm struggling with I'm struggling with I'm struggling with in the middle of my work day why are you giving a about dear brothers and sisters we've all adjusted ourselves in these last few months in some way I guarantee you that your social media usage has probably gone up right as you're as you're consumed by what's happening I I guarantee you that your thoughts have shifted I guarantee you that your emotions have shifted your priorities have shifted your perspectives have shifted what better time than for all of us to say you know what I'm going to take on this habit once a week twice a week and if I taste the sweetness of it it might inject the sweetness that I needed in my Salah and it might give us the victory that we need over ourselves and then over those that press us because if you win that Battle Ground then you can win any battle and if you gain that peace then the Jenna is in your heart before you attain any likeness of Jenna in this world or Jenna in the Hereafter but it takes a sacrifice and I know all of us right now are thinking about the ways that we can help and there is nothing like Dua that can help and there is nothing like Dua in the last third of the night that can help and that comes from you as an individual build the individual in meca build the society in Medina think about B think about go back to yourself and say you know what even if I'm struggling with my five daily prayers I'm going to struggle with one night a week two nights a week and then you're not just only not a source of sin to the umah you're actually a source of strength to the umah as well may Allah subhana T give us all the ability to stand up and pray at night and may He inject sweetness into all of our prayers and may He put success in the prayers that we make and may He allow our prayers to be a source of comfort and security and victory and goodness to us and to the world around us to our um in Gaza to our um in festine to our um all over the world Al [Music] for for

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Published: Fri Jan 19 2024