• Salah protects

  • Apr 15 2025
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Salah protects

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  • Auto-generated transcript:Bismillah al-Haram, adhara-rohim, alhamdulillah, my dear respected brothers, sisters, elders. I remind myself and you that all acts of worship, all ibadahs are tools. The ibadah, the act of worship is not for itself. It is meant to achieve something. Each one has a different goal. For example, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said about the purpose of salah. Qudlu ma'uhiya ilaika minal kitabi wa qimi al-salaat. Inna al-salaata tanha'anil fahsai wal-munkard. Walazikrullahi akbar wallahu ya lamu ma'a tasna'oon. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said which means recite what has been revealed to you of the book and establish the salah. Indeed, salah deters one and protects one and separates one from indecency and wickedness from all kinds of sin. Inna al-salaata, verily the salah, tanha' takes you away from anil, from fahsai wal-munkard. From all indecencies, all shameless actions and all munkard, all disobedience of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And then Allah said the remembrance of Allah is even a greater deterrent in that because when you remember Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala immediately, you will stop doing whatever wrong action you were doing and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala fully knows what you do. So salah is a tool. If I am praying five times a day and I look at my life and I should look at my life, and I find my life is still filled with disobedience of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, then I must question my salah. Did I pray properly? How come this thing is supposed to work and it is not working in my case? Something is wrong with my salah. There was a man who used to come to Sayyidina Amar, who was very close to him. He and a farm used to grow some vegetables. He would bring vegetables for him and so on, he used to come. Then he stopped coming. And some time passed and Sayyidina Amar asked the other people, he said, He used to come so often, he used to be with us and he is not coming. They said, yeah, yeah, yeah, Amir Bominin, he has fallen into bad company. He is doing all kinds of wrong stuff. He is indulging in all sorts of haram stuff. Sayyidina Amar said, has he stopped praying? They said, no, he continues to pray. He is still praying. He has not stopped praying, but he is doing all sorts of other stuff along with the prayer. So Sayyidina Amar wrote on a piece of paper, which is that of the Quran, Allah swt forgives all sins and he accepts tauba. He wrote that on his piece of paper and he said, give this to that man and tell him to continue to pray. Now think about this, the man is doing all kinds of haram things. The man is doing all kinds of haram things. Sayyidina Amar is not saying tell him to stop doing haram. No, he says continue to pray, tell him to continue to pray. Why? Because we know the prayer is supposed to work. And sure enough, after a few days the man came back and he said, Yabin Bominin, Jazakumallahu Khair and I got your mursal, I got your message. And Alhamdulillah, Allah swt has protected me and saved me. I have made tauba, I have done istafar and I will not go back into the stuff that I was doing. Salah is a tool. The purpose of fasting is not to, it's not an endurance test to see how long you can stay away from food and so on. But to inculcate taqwa in our hearts. Qutiba alaykumu sriyamu, qala jalal wa ala ya ayyuha alladheena amanu, qutiba alaykumu sriyamu kama qutiba ala alladheena min qablikum. Limada? La'al lakum tattaqu. Fasting has been prescribed upon you as it was prescribed for those before you. Why? So that you become muttakeen. Thereby transform our lives and put our lives on the path of success in this world and the next. This is what I keep saying over and over and over again. Please understand this. Islam is not suffering in this world and Jannah in the hereafter. It is not. Islam is a beautiful life in this world and a beautiful life in the hereafter. Islam is wealth and power and authority and you name it in this world and correspondingly and far more in the hereafter.
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