Why is dua not accepted – 4

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 noble Prophet and the messengers. Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, may peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions. Tasliman kathiran kathira. After that, my brothers and sisters, we are talking about the advice that Ibrahim Adham, Rahmatullah Ali, gave to the people of Basra. What he said to them when they asked him why their duas are not accepted. And as I mentioned before, he enumerated ten reasons why their duas were not accepted. We have looked at the first two, which is, he said, you have known Allah, but you do not fulfill the rights of Allah. And the second thing he said is that you have, you read and recite the book of Allah, but you do not act upon it. You do not act according to it. The third one he said is, you claim to love Rasulullah, but you abandon his sunnah. Just think about this. In many countries, they celebrate the birthday of Rasulullah. So first and foremost, they celebrate the birthday of Rasulullah on a particular day. It doesn't matter which day it is. On a particular day, usually they do it on the 12th or Abiyul Awal, on a particular day, and as a function, and, you know, people gathering together and reading Naath and Nasheed and whatnot, reciting and then giving speeches. That itself is wrong. It is not the sunnah. Rasulullah never did it. He never told anyone to do it. The Khulafa Rashidin didn't do it. None of the Sahaba did it. It is something that was started by the Fatimi Khulafa, the Fatimi dynasty, the Shia dynasty in Egypt, 300 years after Rasulullah passed away. So first of all, this is a, let me give you the historical data on this. So celebrating Miladun Nabi is completely and totally against, the sunnah of Rasulullah . Data part, if you think about, if you just look on the stages of people who are celebrating this, this event, we don't even know which date he was born. So anyway, in that name, every time I have looked, I have seen the majority of them are people who do not have beards. The beard was the sunnah of Rasulullah . So how ironic. That you claim to love Rasulullah , you will sing a Nasheed in praise of the Nabi , but you will not follow his sunnah with regard to his appearance. Your day begins with the manhus, with the, with the, with the, with the, nahusat of shaving your face, of taking away the sign of Rasulullah sunnah from your face. Your day begins with that. How ironic is that? Right? Now think about this. Allah told us why he sent Rasulullah . And he called the Rasulullah his blessing, his ni'mah. Allah said in Zawah Al-Imran, لَقَدْ مَنَّ اللَّهُ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ إِذْ بَعْسَ فِيهِمْ رَسُولًا مِّنْ أَنفُسِهِمْ يَتْلُوْا عَلَيْهِمْ آيَاتِهِ وَيُزَكِّيهِمْ وَيُعَلِّمُهُمُ الْكِتَابَ وَالْحِكْمَةَ وَإِنْ كَانُوا مِنْ قَبْلُ لَفِي ضَلَالٍ مُّبِينٍ Allah said, Indeed, Allah has done the believers a great favor by raising a messenger from among them, reciting to them his revelations, purifying them and teaching them the book and wisdom. For indeed, they had previously been clearly astray. Think about this. Allah called not the Qur'an, but the teacher of the Qur'an as a special blessing, as his ni'mah on the believers. And he emphasized that in two ways. One, by using the word لَقَدْ, surely indeed. And by how he ended the ayah by saying, وَإِنْ كَانُوا مِنْ قَبْلُ لَفِي ضَلَالٍ مُّبِينٍ For indeed, they had previously been clearly astray. The Qur'an obviously is a ni'mah of Allah. It is a ni'mah of Allah. Islam itself is a ni'mah of Allah. But the reason Allah is calling Rasulullah the special ni'mah and not calling the Qur'an the ni'mah is because the Qur'an is locked. It's like a chest of, which is full of precious jewels, but it needs a key to be opened for you to access them. And that key is Muhammad . Without that key, the rest of, full of jewels cannot be accessed. You cannot use what Allah has given because you don't have the tool for that. You don't have the key for that. Muhammad is the password to that database of success called the Qur'an al-Karim. Without that password, that database cannot be accessed. Now what can be clearer than this? To show that it is only the way of Muhammad . His blessed sunnah, which is the right way, and that everything else is misguidance. Please reflect on the fact that people had been following some ideology or the other before the advent of Islam because they considered it to be the best way. People, they were not living under trees. They were not living as complete, like animals. They were not. They were living according to some system. And the two big systems of the time were the way of the Romans and the way of the Persians. These were the two dominant civilizations of dynasties of the time. And the Arabs followed some of that way. Some of the ways they followed was their own ancestral ways and so on and so forth, tribal ways. But Allah says that all of that, all of that was being clearly astray. The only way to success is the way of Muhammad . As they say, when the destination is chosen, the path becomes clear. When the destination is chosen, the path becomes clear. That was and is the problem. We must choose our destination. Based on that, the path will become clear. All paths do not lead to Jannah. All paths do not lead to Jannah. Only the path of Muhammad leads to Jannah. This path of Rasulullah has four aspects or four stages or four key actions that we must do. Allah sent Rasulullah to take us through four stages. Number one, recite the ayats he received. Two, purify the listeners and followers. Three, teach them those ayats in all their aspects. And four, show them the wisdom by practice, which is two. görünhood Europa If I were to use four words, I would say, pective, help, attempt, demonstrate, adaso ор activities, but four steps or four stages that lead to the ultimate goal, the rida, the pleasure of Allah SWT. Imagine, to understand this better, imagine a farmer who has received a batch of very superior seed which is guaranteed to give him a bumper crop. What will he do? He will secure the seed and keep it safe. That's the first thing. The seed should not be lost or contaminated. So he will secure the seed and keep it safe. Then he will prepare the soil to ensure that it is conducive to receiving the seed. Then he will plant the seed. Not before that. So firstly he will keep it safe, then he will prepare the soil to ensure that it is conducive to receiving the seed. That is free from pathogens, it is the right pH value, it has the right amount of organic content, and it is properly irrigated and so on. And then only will he plant the seed. Finally, he will water it and he will pray for success. That is the relationship between Tilawatul Quran, Tazkiyatul Nafs, Watarbiyatul Akhlaq, Ulumul Sharia, and Ittibaul Sunnah. All stages must be passed through. That is the meaning of love for Rasulullah SWT. Not simply singing Anasheez and celebrating Mawlood Milad, and claiming to be some Ashik-e-Rasool, but abandoning his Sunnah. This is not love. This is a lie. To love Allah SWT is to obey Him. To love Rasulullah SWT is to emulate Him. To love the Quran is to understand and follow it in every aspect of life. To love Jannah is to choose the path to Jannah over every other path. To love the possibility of being in the company of Rasulullah SWT is to do what his blessed companions, his Sahaba did, and to be in the company of Rasulullah SWT. To love Allah SWT is to choose what they chose. Every claim must be supported with a choice made consciously and followed sincerely. After that, we have the mercy of Allah SWT and His forgiveness to look forward to, and the Shafa'at, the intercession of Rasulullah SWT, inshaAllah, on the day when there will be no shade except the shade of Allah SWT's throne. I ask Allah SWT for the shade of His throne for all of us. Allahumma adhillana tahayyibina hatta arshuk. Yawma la dhilla illa dhiluk. Wa la grant us the shade under your throne on the day when there will be no shade except your shade. So let us prepare for that day by correcting our lives and bringing them on the path of Allah SWT. In conclusion, the three requirements that we have spoken of until now for our dua to be accepted are to fulfill the rights of Allah, to live by and follow the Quran, and to love Rasulullah SWT, and show that love by sincerely following his sunnah. The way forward is clear. Let us follow it and not allow anyone or anything to distract us from it.