| Alhamdulillah, Allah  made Muslims to meet at least once a week. Allah wanted them to meet five times a day, but because of dunya issues, Muslims, alhamdulillah, meet once a week for fellowship. They come together as they might have issues that concern them. But the most important thing in our lives (many people might look into it, but not in enough depth) is that we have to be alarmed.
We were passing by here and I saw a bulletin board on which was written "Be alarmed!" … with (or be very alarmed), written underneath.
That has huge meaning. We are looking for companies to get alarms to be armed from burglars, but we are forgetting that we have a bigger world that has to be armed. We have a universe that has to be armed. Don't look too far for the universe that has to be armed…You are a huge universe by yourself.
If you want to count how many cells are in your body (and each is a factory) they estimate that there are 3 trillion cells.
Allah warns us to be alarmed - that not everything in this life is for entertaining ourselves. This is not only doing five prayers, as many people who do the obligations think that that is enough. That is part of the religion, but the other two thirds are the state of iman and the state of ihsan, according to the famous hadith of Sayyidina Jibreel  and Sayyidina `Umar (r). Allah wants us to be alarmed. He sent His Messenger to alarm us - to wire us. Everything that Sayyidina Muhammad (saws) has mentioned has wires: wires that are connected together in a certain way so that if there is one problem the system will shut down.
These companies, when they come and arm your house, watch for even one problem and when they see one, they call you and say "Oh, there is problem in that room."
So what do you think? Allah has put all these devices on us; put angels to monitor us. What are you going to say? Are you going to lie?
You cannot lie. You cannot dare to say "No, this is wrong."
When the fuse burns, the whole system will break down.
It's so very simple - one step towards shaytan and our whole system shuts down and we follow shaytan. It is very simple and very easy. You check yourself: all of us are like that. We are one moment falling into the trap of shaytan and our whole system shuts down. Like Sayyidina Adam - are you better than Sayyidina Adam? Sayyidina Adam is the father of every human being and Sayiddia Hawa is the mother of every human being. Iblees came and gave him one short circuit and he and his wife ate from the forbidden fruit. He was a prophet. We are not prophets, we are not companions of prophets, we are not imams, nor are we awliya. We are normal human beings.
That means that if Sayyidina Adam's system shut down, then our system will surely shut down with even a very small problem.
He was already in Paradise and because of the shutdown he was sent to Earth. We are already on Earth. That shows how far we are from what Allah wants us to do… we must not say we are so close because we are praying our prayers. "la tumaninu…"- We, O Allah , are doing this for you." No, it is not from you. Hasanat are from Allah . Bad is from us. Who is bringing us to here?
"Fa talaqa adam bi kalamaatin fa taaba ilahy." He learned to say, "O Allah , what is good is from you and what is bad is from us."
Today we are trying to give advice to people but we are not following the advice ourselves.
How many of us try to speak of the goodness of Islam - Islam is this and Islam is that - but we are not applying it to ourselves. To make a bigger mosque some organizations receive 50 million dollars: to do what ...To do more dawah? Allahu Akbar - that is the problem today. It is a business with salaries, with an office.
Did you see Prophet (saws) collect 50 million dollars and give it to sahaba to build businesses and buildings?
Allah gave a remedy for everything. Prophet (saws) gave medicine for everything. And the best medicine is what the Prophet (saws) mentioned to us. What he said is what will make things easy for you.
How many are following their egos? Everyone except Sayyidina Muhammad (saws). And we know that Jibreel came to take the place of shaytan. All except Sayyidina Muhammad (saws) have that place of Shaytan in their hearts. Prophet (saws) said, "I have made shaytan to become a Muslim. No one can do that except Sayyidina Muhammad (saws).
But we have an opening from the Holy Qur'an in order that they can save themselves from many problems.
I will give an example of that which many people might not be aware which was used a long time ago and people today are dropping it from their studies or from their knowledge.
From `Ali (r) , Prophet (saws) said, when he was asked about the importance of Surat al-Fatiha; "People have to know something important for their lives in order to help themselves"- "Attbi`a as-sayyiat al-hasanaat" – "Follow something bad with something good." It will erase it, and Allah will forgive you. Allah gave us many things in the Holy Qur'an which will help us through all these wires we were speaking about - things that will enable us to be armed…There is an alarm in your mind that will pick it up. Sayyidina `Ali (r) was asked about the importance of Surat al-Fatiha concerning any problem we have. He said, "The Prophet (saws) told us that it was revealed from a treasure under the throne. It was picked up and given to human beings by Allah and that is why it is called 'Umm al-Kitab': because it has everything in it. Sahaba used to use it for healing people from sickness. Because when you are ill, your whole body is sick and all the alarms are going out… and ad-Daylami, brought out from `Umran ibn Husayn said, that "For any servant who recites al-Fatiha and al-Kursee in his home no harm will afflict him in his house - morning or evening - from eye of an ins (human) and eye of a jinn (meaning eye of jealousy and envy)."
Because envy and jealousy are polluting everything we do when we move about in our homes and outside.
The Prophet (saws) said that anyone who recites al-Fatiha and al-Kursee will not get harmed by the jealousy of Shaytan nor of ins from their jealousy. They cannot come and make you do something wrong. Shaytan knows your alarms are on today and he cannot come against you. Look how much Allah loves his servants - how he gives what they need in dunya in order to be good servants.
Wa akhraja al-Ubay wa al-Hasan hadith says that the Prophet (saws) said, "For whoever recites al-Fatiha it is as if he recited the Tawrat and Injeel and Zaboor and Qur'an."
For whoever recites al-Fatiha one time or two, ten times or one hundred, or even ten thousand, it is up to you, it is as if you read the Tawrat and Bible and the Psalms and the Qur'an. That is for reading al-Fatiha: as if he had read the four books.
There are secrets of the Qur'an: Yasin is the heart of the Qur'an and the heart of Yasin is al-Fatiha. So what is an easy task that many people are not aware of? I see and we all see, but in some cultures you learn things that you don't learn in other cultures. In the Middle Eastern countries, especially where there is… I don't say that but there are ways that you are raised with it when you are young: that after every du'a or after every prayer we recite Surat al-Fatiha. In many countries you don't see that amongst the Muslims. When they make du'a they wrap with salawat on Prophet (saws) and they wrap with subhana rabbika rabbi'l-`izaati ama yasifoon. Wa salamun ala'l-mursaleen… but they don't recite al-Fatiha. You have to recite al-Fatiha - as it is like reciting the four books.
These things are like the alarm system. If you have a problem, make wudu and pray two raka`ats and recite Surat al-Fatiha. How many of us today are sinning when we drive down the road? What is the easiest sin we are committing - looking. You have to look. It is becoming usual for so many people. Oh, it's ok. Man or woman. Men say, "O, beautiful woman." Women say, "O, handsome man." Both are falling in sin. Allah said, "Follow up the sin with an istighfar - that will waive it."
"Qala qara rasulullah fatihat al-kitab thumma qaal" that Allah said, "y'abna adam, anzaltu alaykum saba` ayaatin, three of them are to me, and three of them to you and one of them is between me and you. Look how Allah's love is to human beings that he gave three to himself and three to us and then the last he shared and said, "I shared it."
"The one that is for me is 'alhamdulillahi rabbil-`alameen, ar-rahman ir-raheem, maliki yawmi'd-deen', what is for you is: 'ihdina as-sirat al-mustaqeem sirat alladheena ana`mata alayhim ghayril maghdoobi `alayheem wa la daleen', and the one between me and you is the 'iyyaka na`budu wa iyyaka nasta'een' - we are worshipping and you are supporting. So Allah didn't just take for himself but he gave to us as well - this for us and this for me. What can we say about His love to His servants? We cannot say sharing but we can say His love.
One verse is from us asking and from him accepting. May Allah forgive us.
In Salat al-Jummah we don't recite al-Fatiha [in du`a] but in normal du`a we do: it is better.
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