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Muharram – The month of Allah

Muharram – The month of Allah

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Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers, Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions. May peace and blessings be upon him. Our brothers and sisters, we are in the sacred month of Muharram, one of the four sacred months. That's also the beginning of the new year. We ask Allah to make this a year in which we can gain His Rida. You will notice that I am not saying this will be a year full of peace and harmony and this and that, because all of those are the effects of the Rida of Allah . There is no sense in asking for peace and harmony and prosperity and health and so on, when our life is going in the opposite direction, trying to attract the anger of Allah. You cannot have any of that stuff if Allah is angry. The only way to have peace and harmony and health and wealth and so on and so forth is if Allah is pleased with us. So I don't ask for any of the effects. They will happen. They have to happen. There is no way that somebody who Allah is pleased with will suffer in the sense of this dunya. It may look like suffering even, but that won't be suffering from the sense of this dunya. So we ask Allah to enable us to live lives which please Him . The ayat of Surah Tawbah which I recited before you, the meaning of which is Allah said, Verily the number of months with Allah is twelve. Twelve months in a year. So was it ordained by Allah on the day when He created the heavens and the earth. Four of them are sacred. That is the right religion. Abu Bakr narrated that Rasul said, The year is twelve months of which four are sacred. Three are consecutive, meaning one following the other, which are Dhul Qaidah, Dhul Hijjah and Muharram. And then Rajab, which comes between Juma'at and Shaaban. And this is in Bukhari. Allah said the about this ayat, which is the ayat from Surah Tawbah E Expertly Allah said Allah has chosen I'm sure He said Allah has chosen a special thing, a special people, special creations. He has chosen I'm sure the first creation. From among the angels. He chose kinship entourage of Allah and among all mankind, He chose intercessors of Allah. From speech, he chose the remembrance of himself, which is dhikr. From among the spaces on the earth, he chose the masajid, the mosques. From among the months, he chose Ramadan and the sacred months. So venerate that which has been chosen by Allah, because people of understanding and wisdom respect that which has been chosen by him, Jalla Jalaluhu, and this is from Tafseer ibn Kathir. Abu Hurairah, radiallahu anhu, in a hadith reported in Muslim Sharif, said that Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said the best fast after Ramadan is in the month of Muharram. So Muharram is a month in which Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam encouraged us to fast during this month, as much as you can, as many days as you can, with special significance given to the 10th, which is called the Yawm al-Ashara, the second. Ashura, which is the 10th of Muharram, which is tomorrow. And Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, the recommendation is to fast not only that one day by itself, but to fast either the 9th and 10th, which is today and tomorrow, or to fast 10th and 11th, which is Saturday and Sunday. So whatever you like, inshallah. Infiqus Sunnah, Sheikh Sayyid Sadiq says, Abu Hurairah, radiallahu anhu, reported, I asked Rasulullah, Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, which salah, which prayer is the best after the fardh prayers? Please note, he's asking after the fardh prayer. There's no question about the fardh prayer being the best of all prayers. Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was asked, which is the best deed? He said to pray the fardh salah at its time. At its time, on time, not delayed and so on and so forth, as soon as the time comes. So fardh salah.

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