What’s the value of the Dhikr of Allahﷻ

Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

--- *This transcript was automatically generated by AI and may contain errors. * --- In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful. All praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the most honored of the Prophets and Messengers, Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and upon his family and companions, peace and blessings be upon them. We have the Hadith of Rasulullah ﷺ which all of us know, which is the first hadith in Bukhari. It is also the first hadith in Riyadh-ul-Saliheen of Imam al-Nabi r.a. And that is the hadith narrated by Ameer al-Mu'mineen Abu Hafs, Umar ibn al-Khattab r.a. Where he said that he heard Rasulullah ﷺ saying, Where he said that the reward of the deed is based on the intention and a person will have what he intended for. And then he further clarified and said that a person who makes Hijrah for the sake of Allah and His Rasul ﷺ, he will have the reward of Hijrah for that purpose. And a person who makes Hijrah, he immigrates for a worldly need or to marry a woman, then his Hijrah will be for that purpose and not for the sake of Allah and His Rasul ﷺ. Now obviously he is not prohibiting somebody from migrating for any halal purpose. I start saying that this is haraab, should not be done. But he is just putting it in place to say that the reward of the deed is based on the intention. I therefore remind myself and you to check our attitudes, especially our attitudes toward the teaching and learning of Islam. With what an attitude do we come to a class? Now, the reason I am saying that is because, first of all, as we see today, many class of deen is almost always sparsely populated. Where this is not the case, Alhamdulillah, it means that those people and community have understood the truth of life. But most of the time it is not. So there is a sparsely populated, few people come. And then you have complaints about how this class was for too long and it should have been shortened and so forth. So I remind myself and you, let us look at this in the context of deen. Now, when you look at it in the context of the hadiths which I mentioned to you, first question to ask yourself is why am I attending this lecture or whatever it is, right? This session, this salaka, this class, why am I attending that? Now, obviously, the within quotes right answer would be I am attending it to please Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and to learn something about my religion which I intend to practice. Now, if that is the intention, then why would you ask for that to be shortened? Because all the time that you spend in that class is counted as Iqbala, it's counted as worship. We have the hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam where he said that when people gather for the remembrance of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, this is a general statement, remembrance of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala can be in many ways when they are gathering together to read Quran, to study tafsir, to study hadith, to talk about Islam in different ways and how to apply it in their lives and so on. All of this comes under the dhikr of, under the title of dhikr of Allah because we are doing it for the pleasure of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So when Abhishma sallam said that when people gather that way, then there are malaikas, there are troops of angels whose job is to search for such gatherings and they go around the world and when they find such a gathering, they surround those people and they fill the space, whatever room or hall or something they were in, they fill the space and then they pile up one on top of the other until they reach the first heaven. So think about that when you are sitting there in the class and you look around and you find only a few people, well believe me every space in that room is filled with malaika, with angels. And these angels bear witness to what is going on and once the class is over, the session is over, the angels go to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and they report and of course Allah su...