Bismillahir-Rahmaanir-Raheem
Shaykh Kamaluddin Ahmed db
7/7/15 Night Bayaan
- Taubah (intention for itikaaf)
- Nights to seek laylatul Qadr: if a person seeks LQ on the 5 odd nights they are guranteed LQ. Imagine if the first night of itikaaf is LQ. We should show our thirst to Allah swt by praying and supplicating.
- Very few people left on earth who can say they follow the entire sunnah and shariah. Nabi صلى الله عليه وسلم left an entire community who were on sunnah and shariah entirely (sahabah). We are in a time of fitnah, for Allah swt bless us in itikaaf is a tremendous bounty of Allah swt, He bestows it upon whosoever He wills. It is a great Mercy of Allah swt.
- Very few people are entirely Allah's. One shaykh said to His students tell me what Tawheed means. They said many things but finally said you tell us, Shaykh. 'It is to live your life entirely for the sake of that One, that is true Tawheed' many of us live for other things, pleasure, careers etc. Tawheed means those people live for Allah swt.
- We want to spend every second and moment in true taweheed, I want my eating to be for Him, my sleeping for Him, all my time for Him. This is another intention for itikaaf.
- Free oneself for the zthikr of Allah swt 'only in the zthikr of Allah swt will hearts find peace' beg Allah swt, ya Allah give me so much sulook in these next ten days and nights that it's enough to bring me into itminaan in jannah. Ya Allah you allowed me to come in itikaaf for 10days/nights ya Allah enter me into your jannah. If a person can enter into jahannam after going into a club or pub, can't a person, after entering the masjid enter into jannah?
- Imaan = heartfelt feeling for Allah swt. Even our imaan is something we need to work on during itikaaf. To work on our manners, attributes etc. Make duaa ya Allah swt make me a person with tawakkul, sabr, shukr, make me a better ummati, make me a better slave, make me a better mother, daughter etc. Every niyyah should be made, not just itikaaf. Think of anything and everything you have heard in Deen and seerah and make duaa for that in these nights! He wants to give everything, so why not ask for everything?
- 'The most honoured of you in the sight of Allah swt are those who have the most/best taqwa' ya Allah I want the most & best hayaa, the most concentration in salaah, the best zthikr, zero ghaflah. Why have this hope? Because Allah swt is the best! The most, best treasures, He wants to bestow all of it on His believers. We must yearn.
- In these days and nights you may also tire yourself out. Nothing wrong in exerting yourself such that you become TIRED! How many students spent nights studying for exams? How much have you tired yourself for dunya? When will we tire ourselves for Allah swt? Push yourself. You don't know how much you can do if you haven't tried!
- Ya Allah grant me the strength and power because I want to use it for you!
- Some of us will want and try, we may live our lives like that but inshaaAllah Allah swt will forgive us for that yearning and wanting.
- Allah swt has given us 10 pages of gold, write what you want on it.
- People are like ice, you either make use of it or let it melt away.
- BY's shaykhs Shaykh Shaykh was a farmer, would plough and harvest the land. Someone asked how much zthikr do you do? He said 70,000 times ALLAH, whilst doing harvesting. However, even salikeen can't do ONE tasbeeh! Strange. These are salikeen! Make tasbeehs regularly, make durood regularly, make istighfaar regularly, make sunnah masnoon duaas regularly, let them become ingrained in your heart, don't slack! Maybe some of you already slacked, how many of you said the azthaan duaa? If you forget, replay your day and say them all at night.
- Salikeen should be doing one juz Quran a day and one hour muraqabah. Zthikr qalbi + Quran go hand in hand. Get the hidayah of the muttaqeen. You have to make this ibadah of Allah swt.
- Time is passing away, the clock has started ticking.
- Dont talk too much. Owais Qarni - in madinah, he couldn't wait too long, came to see Nabi صلى الله عليه وسلم but he wasn't there. So owais went back to attend to his ill mother. Umar r.a. went to see owais, Nabi صلى الله عليه وسلم told him to take a shirt and make duaa for the ummah. So sahabah went to search owais. Owais travelled from qarn to madinah seeking Allah, deen. We also sunnah mutakifeen travelled seeking Deen. Owais waited as long as he could then had to go back. Some of you are in that situation, you came here but have to go back. you came with thirst, Allah swt honours these things. When sahabah met him all he said was jazakAllah Khair, we both have an aakhirah to work for.
- Work on salaah these next few days, FEEL it! Someone said to a shaykh I want to pray like sahabah prayed. At tahajjud time, my shaykh said go make wudhu for Allah. This had an effect on him, he did wudhu with such khushoo. Then he came and shaykh said pray for Allah. This also had an effect on him, he prayed many rakaats, then shaykh said this is the salaah of sahabah. So work on your wudhu and salaah!
- If a person tries their whole life to befriend Allah swt, Allah swt will never raise that person as His enemy on the day of judegemnt! So we've come here to try! Our sins warranted that we should have been punished and deprived of the Mercy of the month but still Allah swt allowed us to fast and pray and sit in itikaaf. Allah swt doesn't want us to go away empty handed, so wish for ourselves we want to fill our hearts with no or of zthikr.
May Allah swt make this a means of being steadfast on Deen. Aameen ya rabbal aa'lameen
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