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Salah is the pillar of my life

Salah is the pillar of my life

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 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 companions. Peace be upon them all. And after that, my brothers and sisters, in life we have a principle, all of us. And that is that we value something based on that thing fulfilling its purpose. Everything has a purpose. The purpose of this chair is to provide a place for us to sit on. The purpose of this chair is not to be a table for us to eat off. You can still do it. That's not the purpose. Place to sit. If the chair stops performing this function, then there is no value for the chair. The purpose of this phone is to do some things, help us to communicate. If this phone goes dead, it happened to me. I had actually quite a new Android phone a few years ago. And one day it... went dead. Literally. I mean, it just became a brick. Then we asked the warrant... It was unfortunately, the warranty period also had just finished. And the only useful thing, if you can call it useful, is the guy tells me, Yeah, this happens. I said, okay, thank you very much. Phone is gone. Kalas. I had to buy a different phone, new phone. Now, point is, I spent money buying that phone, obviously. You know, whatever it was those days. 30,000, 40,000, whatever. Phone went dead. When the phone goes dead, it doesn't change its shape. It's the same phone. It just doesn't work. So, do you think I would have said, you know, okay, so I spent all this money on the phone. And even if it is not working, still I spent the money on the phone. And, you know, it's a nice phone. The time that it worked, it worked. For whatever, one year or something. So, let me just keep it. I'll keep the phone. Maybe put a chain and then hang it on my neck or something. Like a necklace. Will I do that? Will you do that? What would you do? It stopped performing. It stopped fulfilling its function. So, what do you do? You try to repair it. You take it to the shop, whatever, and say, can you repair it? And if you say, sorry, this cannot be repaired. It's finished. Then what do you do? You junk it. You throw it away. Right? The same principle applies in life throughout. Same principle for things. Same principle for relationships. You have an employee. You have a job. You have a job. You have a job. You have a job. You have a job. You have a job. You have an employee. You have employed him for a certain job. He doesn't come. He doesn't do the job. He does not do the job. And so on. So after a while what do you do? You tell him, please go find some other employment. I employed you for a certain job. You are not there. You are not doing this work. I employed you, for example, to drive my car. You are not there. Any time I need to go somewhere, you are not there. I am driving my own car. Then if I am driving my own car, why do I… Why am I paying you? water. Same principle. The same principle also applies to our purpose on this earth. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala did not create this world without a reason. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told us, people will say, O our Rabb, you have not created all this batil, without any purpose, meaningless. No. It has a purpose. What is the purpose? What is the purpose of our creation? Why did Allah create us? Did Allah leave us to guess? You guess, what is your guess? No. Allah told us. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told us in so many words, and very emphatically. In Surah Az-Zariyat, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, وَمَا خَلَقْتُ الْجِنَّ وَالْإِنسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونَ Allah said, I have not created the jinn and the insan for anything other than my worship. إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونَ Nothing but my worship. I created you to worship me. And the first and foremost and most important form of that worship is Salah. Salah at its time. عَلَى وَقْتِهَا Salah at its time. And for the men, by jam'ah in some masjids. Salah at its time. And then Allah did not leave us to decide what is the meaning of Salah, how to pray. No. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala showed us. Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, a group of young, Sahaba came and they spent two to three weeks with the Rasul alaihi salatu wasalam in his company. They stayed in masjid of the Nabi sh-Sharif. They were given food from the houses of the Nabi alaihi salatu wasalam. And these young Sahaba, they were young boys, but you know, they were Sahaba. Nabi sh-Salam taught them, gave them tarbiyah. And the narrator of the hadith says that, we learned so much that I cannot even narrate all of that at one go. He said after two to three weeks, these are all young boys, they have come from, some of them from distant tribes. So they were missing their homes and parents. But then they are with the Rasul, Rasulullah sallallahu...
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