Salah begins outside the masjid

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And 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 and his companions, and a lot of respect. And after that, my brothers and sisters, we just finished Salat al-Maghrib by Jam'ah. Alhamdulillah, in terms of the reward of this, Rasulullah said this is to pray this, any Farsala by Jam'ah has 25 to 27 times the reward of praying it on your own, by yourself. About Salat itself, about praying by itself and that also not for Sunnah Salat, which is the two Sunnah of Salat al-Fajr. Rasulullah said, the two Sunnah of Salat al-Fajr are better than all that is contained in the heavens and the earth and between them. Combine them all. So, in this, so if this reward for the Sunnah Salat prayed alone is that much, which is more than everything in the earth and in the heavens and whatever is in between, then what is the reward for the Farsala prayed by Jam'ah? This is the beauty of this Deen. This is the beauty of this Deen. That Allah gave us things which are apparently small and insignificant. How long did it take to pray? You know? Totally maybe, five, seven minutes, 10 minutes, let's say. Nothing more than that. May not even be 10, maybe about five, seven minutes. And the reward for that is? Now, think about this. Think about this reward in the context of the place where this reward is going to be really visible for us to see. That is on the day of Yawal Khayama, the day of judgment. On the day of judgment, the difference or the value of one Hasana, just one good deed, is the difference between Jannah and Jahana. Just one. Just one single good deed, the value of that is, it can spell the difference between Jannah and Jahana. So what about Farsala, prayed by Jam'ah in the Masjid, all of this reward, I mean. Now, what does this teach us? What does Salah teach us? One of our, one of our, Ashaati is one of our teachers. May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la fill his cover with Noor. Ma'an Yunus Patel, Sir, Ram Thiru Laleh. He went to, I actually met him on that trip. He was going to Makkah. I was going somewhere else. I can't remember where, but I met him in Dubai, in the lounge, in the Emirates lounge. And he said, I'm going for Umrah. I said, I requested him, please make dua for me and so on. He finished Umrah, he's sitting in the Mataf in front of the Kaaba, he passed away. Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la called him to himself. Now, he used to say, Salah begins outside the Masjid. Salah begins outside the Masjid. You might say, I go to the Masjid for Salah, I'm praying. Yeah, sure, of course, obviously Salah. But he said Salah begins outside the Masjid. So we said, Shaikh, what do you mean? He said, your religion is what happens after Salah is over. The quality of your religion, the level of your Iman and Yaqeer and so on. He said, this is measured by what you do outside the Masjid when Salah is over. So what does it teach us? Some things, I'm not, this is not an exhaustive list, but some things it teaches. First and foremost, Salah teaches me that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la and obeying Allah is more important than anything else. This is the first lesson. That is why whatever else I might be doing, when the time of Salah comes, Salah begins outside the Masjid. So we got to go pray. We can't be doing something else. We can't say, oh, but you know, my office, my shop, my business, my this, my that. No, no, no. Time for Salah, we go and pray. So the first and foremost thing we learn is that Allah and obeying Allah takes precedence over everything else. Second, it teaches us the importance of purity, of Taharaq. Because our Udhu is the key to Salah. Without the Udhu, there is no Salah. So purifying myself, Udhu, if I need to kusar, may I kusar. Make sure that the body is pure. I've done the Udhu. And then only we go into Salah. So the importance of purity, the importance of cleanliness. Third thing is the importance of Tawajjo, the importance of focus. Because Salah is Ibadah and the Ibadah begins with the Niyah. If there is no Niyah, there is no Ibadah. When you, for example, when the Adhan is called, when the Masjid is calling the Adhan, what are we supposed to do? First thing, reply to the Adhan, which is whatever the Muslim is saying, you say it, say also the same thing. So it's Allahu Akbar, you say Allahu Akbar, it's Allahu Akbar, it's Allahu Akbar, and so on, except for Hayyara Salah and Hayyara Fala, you say, La Hawla Wa La Quwwata Illaha Bida. And then when this Adhan is over, then what do you do? You send Durood on Rasulullah . First thing, people make these mistakes. First thing you do is send Salat and Salam on Rasulullah . You don't immediately say Allahumma Rabbah Azizu Azizu At-Tama, no. First you send Durood on the Rasulullah . Then you say the Dua of Adhan, Allahumma Rabbah Azizu Azizu At-Tama Ila Al-Akhir, till the end. Then you say, Ashadu an la Ilaha Illa Allah wa ashadu anna Muhammadan abduhu wa rasulu You say the Kalima. And then you say, Raditu Billahi Rabbah wa bi Islami Deena wa bi Muhammadan Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Rasula wa Nabiyya You say this three times. And then Rasulullah said, Any Dua you make after that, Allah will accept. Right? Now, this is for the Adhan when the Mawzeen is calling the Adhan. How about if the Adhan is being played nowadays, we have those those little very convenient things, those clocks and you know, whatever they call, like phones and stuff. If that is happening, should you also do the same thing? Repeat after the Adhan and so on? No. No. Why not? Because the Shart, the condition of the Ibadah is near. That phone has no near. The clock has no near. It's an inanimate thing. It's a machine. You change the time of the clock, it will call the Adhan in the middle of the call, the Fajr Adhan in the middle of the night. You know, there's no Aqal. The Shart of Ibadah is near. The Mawzeen has the near. He's making Adhan with the near, with the Shaur, with the understanding. So when you are hearing the Adhan from a machine, that is why praying to a machine, for example, you say, I don't know enough Quran, so I'm going to pray Tarawih, I'll put on the machine and I'll pray. No. There's no Salah behind the phone. So near. Salah is teaching us the importance of near. You make the near for to pray. Now the near is not necessary. Again, we also learn that when you are praying, it is not necessary to say the prayer with your tongue. I am praying three rakahs, Salatul Maghrib, by Jama'at, behind this Shaikh, behind this Imam, on this red carpet, in 377 Amersetown Road, Islam etc. No, all of this is not required. Ibn Taymiyyah said, the one who says that is showing two deficiencies. He said, what deficiency? He says, there is a deficiency in intelligence, in Aql, and deficiency in Deen. He says, deficiency in Aql because, do you make a near like this when you are eating your food? I am eating this food so that I will get strength, so that I will do this or that. Do you do that? No, you don't do that. Do you make a near when you sit in the car and say, I am going to drive this car from this address to that address. The action is proof of the near. There is no need to make that near. The near is in the heart. When you come and stand here, you are standing here for which Salah? When you came and stood here, you stood here for which Salah? Zohar? It is in the heart. That is sufficient. And the deficiency in, that is the deficiency in Aql, if you are saying it. And deficiency in Deen is because Rasool never did this. And he never told us to do it. So you are starting something on your own. So Saha is teaching us that we must make a near. He is teaching us that this is the way of life. He is teaching us that this near must be made intelligently and must be made according to the Sunnah of Rasool Allah's Satsang. Then the Salah is teaching us to be systematic and to be, we stand in one's of, shoulder to shoulder. Right? Shoulder to shoulder. You make sure you are not back and forth. You are not somebody's forward, no. All in one line, shoulder to shoulder. You don't talk in Salah. You don't look here and there in Salah. You are focused. You subject yourself to one leader, who is the Imam. And the leader is not the leader because of this reason or that reason or this nationality or that nationality or because he is wealthy or because he is poor or, on one basis only. What is that basis? He knows more Quran than others. Now you are not, it's not necessary to take an exam, but somebody who you know, knows more Quran, is more on the Sunnah. That is the reason why to pray behind somebody who is not following the Sunnah, who is breaking the Sunnah, the Salah is, Salah becomes, in some cases it becomes invalid. You cannot pray behind such a person. In other cases it is defective. So somebody who is on the Sunnah of Jesus appearance and so on, and somebody who knows more Quran. So the leader is somebody who has more knowledge than others and is more, you know, worthy of emulation and worthy of following because he follows the Prophet . So you follow the leader. Now this is so strict in Salah that for example if you make Sajdah before the Imam, your Salah is gone. You follow, you don't do your own thing. You follow. So he knows the Masail. Huh? So he knows the Masail too. Yeah, of course. So he knows the Masail of Salah. So he can't just, anybody just, you know, no. So he has knowledge. I mean, point I'm making here is that, the, you follow a leader who has knowledge. You don't just follow somebody because of popularity. Today we live in a world where you elect somebody on what? On what basis? Popularity. Just see, just monitor conversation. When you, when you listen to people, right, many of you listen, you spend a lot of time listening to politics and whatnot,