Al Fattah (Wa hua Khair Ul Fatiheen)

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07th January

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04th March, 2014.

Introduction

Today we will continue with .

We are talking about Al Fattah as He will open the doors

according to His knowledge. Surah Fatiha is an impact for the

name Al Fattah.

We say that only YOU we worship. Ibadah is from heart. Before

our body prostrates our heart should feel the worship. Sometimes

you do too much Ibadah but your heart is somewhere else so this

is not Ibadah Allah will not accept this. People might see you

worshipping but in real it’s about the heart. Nothing in the world

is greater than worship of Allah. The essential elements are love,

fear and hope. This is a contract between you and Allah. Worship

is Allah’s right and your right is we ask Him alone. We rely only

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to Allah and we can’t do it without Allah. We will not rely on

anyone except Allah.

The power of istiaana (asking): This is an action of the heart. The heart can talk, see, move and do

everything. Our limbs move according to our heart and its

movements. Whenever we feel something in our heart then we

take action accordingly. Allah wants us to seek His help alone. In

our heart we should always feel that we need to ask Allah. Only

Allah will appreciate your heart movements. We say that we will

not seek help from anyone except Allah. Prophet Muahammad

(Sallaho alihi wassalam) said that Allah prefers a momin who is

strong than weak. The strong Momin is the one who is strong in

faith with your heart and its actions. The power is seeking the

help of Allah alone. Every worship has power and it’s from heart.

Reasons to seek help from Allah alone:

Weak.

Allah wants to help us according to our nature. He wants our life

to be easy. He wants everything our life, our Hereafter, our grave

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questions etc. Allah knows that we are all created weak. We are

all weak in our nature so we all need to ask Allah. Did the old

people have alarms to wake up? No but they still woke up. We put

hundred alarms but still we don’t wake up. This is because we rely

we rely on things other than Allah. The power of Dua is to make

this easy. So we need to ask Allah. Just our heart should move to

Allah alone. We don’t rely on us or anyone else or the means. If we

rely on anyone else then Allah will leave us on our own. We want

quickly the results so we become hasty.

Hasty

Human beings are hasty and they might call for evil because of

their hastiness. Sometimes a mother continuously ask for her

children but then she gets tired and finally makes dua against

them. This is our nature and to overcome it we need to ask Allah.

we need to against our nature and overcome our nature.

Hardship

Allah created the man in hardhip. We have to face hardships in

life. The more we try to create ease we face more hardships. We

have more technology and we have so many hardships like we rely

on technology and we need to fix it. We should never make

anything a substitute of Allah. We should never rely on anyone.

As we face more difficulties so we need to ask Allah more.

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Arguing

We argue because we need to prove our point. Sometimes we don’t

accept to the truth because we don’t want to accept it from

someone and it leads to proudness. We want people to believe that

our point is right. Human being are very arguing. Sometimes we

don’t want to show truth rather we need to show ourselves.

Sometimes people ask for suggestions and someone gives a good

suggestion but the leader does not accept it just out of proudness.

Allah says that I gave all examples in Quran for you to ponder and

see. Don’t justify yourself if you are wrong. If you don’t wake up

for Fajar then don’t say I was tired just say that I didn’t wake up.

We need to ask Allah for this.

The definition of Istiana is to rely on Allah which is the action of

heart. We need to believe in our heart strongly. We need to rely on

Allah to bring all good and bring all evil and with trust and

believe that it will happen for sure. Can you trust someone more

than Allah. We ask Allah that we are trusting you alone. This will

make your life easy and you will feel light. Allah will deal with us

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how our heart thinks about Him. Human beings will not accept if

you don’t trust them completely for work given to them. Allah has

created us for this reason.

We will not be a human being until we worship Allah. to give

yourself value we need to worship Allah alone. Istiaana is

summed up in the statement this is

to show that nothing has power except Allah. This is a treasure of

Paradise. This is a very precious statement. Prophet Muhammad

(Sallalho alihiwassalam) said that Ibrahim told me to tell your

people that is from the treasures of

Paradise. This is a treasure of Dunya and Akahira. This is a very

precious statement. Children always get attracted to magic and

something amazing. This is a real treasure. This is the real

precious thing the others are all fake things and to distract the

mind. We rely on no one but Allah. This power will cure you from

Ajz and Kasal. These are two sicknesses which means disability

(ajz) that is we feel that we can’t do it and kasal is laziness of

doing. These are the two feelings we get when doing Ibadah. A

disability makes us rely on something else. May Allah make us

live with health. So don’t want any disability from doing worship

of Allah. this will be cured from

which is from Iyaa ka nastaeen. Nabi (Sallelaho alihi wassalam)

said that don’t make anything impossible. This will give us soo

much power. Don’t act like a disable person as if you can’t do

anything. This will help you from proudness and arrogance to

make you humble. The worst thing is to get proud of our own

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Ibadah. This is very harmful. Even if we worship Allah all our life

that’s not enough so how can we be proud.

When we say that we worship and we ask Allah we become united

and humble. We should never look down on anyone. Sometimes

people seem not to do much but they do a lot. If you remove pride

from your heart you will be able to worship in the best way. This

is to bring your ego down. We cannot judge people on their

appearance. It will remove any traces of arrogance or pride and

make you strong. It will remove your Riya and make you humble

slave of Allah and hence Allah will accept your duaa. This is the

rights of Allah and our right. There is no worship except by asking

Allah. this will make your Duaa that you will next make that

guide us to the straight path. We will do it next week Inshaa

Allah.