Hazrat Moulana Dawood Seedat Saheb Madrasah Isha'atul Haq · Albert Falls Albert Falls, KwaZulu-Natal
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Solitude And Zuhud | Hazrat Moulana Dawood Seedat Saheb
Solitude And Zuhud Hazrat Moulana Dawood Seedat Saheb
Hijri date 21 Ramadaan 1440
Date 26 May 2019
Duration 1:00:08
Venue Masjid Taqwa Summary Main Topic
The discourse focuses on the virtues of solitude (uzlah), asceticism (zuhud), and humility as explained in the classic text Iqmalu Shiam by Shaykh Ibn Ata'illah al-Iskandari (Rahimahullah). It details how isolating oneself from creation purifies the heart and addresses the spiritual etiquettes required during I'tikaf in Ramadan.
Key Lessons
Benefits of Solitude : Solitude allows the heart to focus entirely on Allah Ta'ala, enabling contemplation (fikr ) on His attributes and bounties without the distraction of people.The Danger of Seeking Fame : The desire for recognition, praise, and fame is a major obstacle that robs sincerity (ikhlas ) and corrupts spiritual progress.The Parable of the Seed : True spiritual growth requires burying oneself in anonymity; just as a seed must be covered in soil to flourish, a servant must remain humble and avoid seeking attention.Concealment of Divine Light : Allah Ta'ala conceals the spiritual radiance (nur ) of His pious servants behind ordinary mundane activities to protect them from publicity.Purpose of I'tikaf : I'tikaf is meant to be a period of total seclusion with Allah Ta'ala, not a social event for chatting, gossiping (ghibat ), or wasting time on phones.
Quranic/Hadith References
Ashab al-Kahf : The story of the People of the Cave who sacrificed worldly comforts to preserve their faith and were preserved by Allah Ta'ala for 309 years.Recording of Speech : Allah Ta'ala mentions in the 26th Juz (Surah Qaf) that every single word uttered by man is recorded by angels.Dua for Laylatul Qadr : The supplication taught by the Prophet (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) to Sayyidatina A'ishah (Radhiyallahu anha): "Allahumma innaka 'afuwwun tuhibbul 'afwa fa'fu 'anni" (O Allah, You are Most Forgiving, You love forgiveness, so forgive me).Salatul Tasbih : Recommended by the Prophet (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) to be performed daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or at least once in a lifetime for complete forgiveness of sins.
Practical Advice
Establish Daily Seclusion : Allocate dedicated time daily to sit alone in remembrance (dhikr ) and reflection on Allah's favors. Transcript Machine-generated, so it will contain mistakes — the audio is the reference. Tap any line to play from that moment.
0:03 Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. 0:09 Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. 0:13 I'm reading from the kitab. 0:16 The name of the kitab is Iqmalu Shiam. 0:20 Iqmalu Shiam means perfection of morals. 0:25 Perfect our akhlaq, our morals. 0:30 This kitab 0:33 The author is Sheikh Ibn Ataullah Iskandari Rahmatullah Ali. 0:40 And the commentary given is by Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah Gangoi Rahmatullah Ali. 0:48 So there are different different chapters in this kitab. 0:53 We will discuss the fifth chapter today inshaAllah. 0:58 This fifth chapter is on solitude and solitude. 1:04 Zuhud. 1:06 Assetism. 1:10 Nothing is more beneficial for the heart than solitude accompanied by contemplation on the attributes and the bounties of Allah Ta'ala. 1:23 So the reason Allah Ta'ala chose this topic because 1:31 Everything happens by the will of Allah Ta'ala. 1:33 I had opened the kitab. 1:37 And the sixth chapter is with regards to time. 1:42 The seventh chapter is with regards to dhikrullah. 1:48 So I turned the page back and then I seen the fifth chapter is with regards to solitude. 1:54 So I said that this is what you have come for. 1:59 That you want to be in solitude. 2:01 Just you and Allah Ta'ala. 2:04 So maybe this is the best chapter for us to read. 2:09 So he says that nothing is more beneficial for the heart than solitude accompanied by contemplation on the attributes and the bounties of Allah Ta'ala. 2:21 Many people adopt solitude. 2:24 But in that solitude sometimes they are engaged in guna, 2:30 So that type of solitude is no good. 2:34 Association with people in general and unnecessary association in particular keeps the focus of the heart on the people. 2:47 When we associate with people, then even if that association is necessary, but because we are associating with people, so we are concentrating on people. 2:59 Now when it comes to the necessary associations that we can't help it, we have to associate, but then they are unnecessary associations. 3:09 And if we really work it out, then most of our free time, etc. 3:13 goes in unnecessary association. 3:16 So this keeps the focus of the heart on people. 3:22 The heart's gaze is diverted from Khaliq, Allah Ta'ala. 3:30 Diverted from Allah Ta'ala. 3:33 Ghaflat increases further. 3:36 Person goes more into a heedless condition. 3:42 In most cases, the cause of ghaflat is mingling with people. 3:48 Mingle with people, this brings about ghaflat. 3:52 When the salik takes to solitude, the people are out of his sight. 3:59 Now he is not worried about people now. 4:02 The search of Allah Ta'ala then necessarily turns his gaze towards Allah Ta'ala. 4:09 Hence for the heart to gain divine proximity. 4:13 Kurba ilahi. 4:14 We talk about kurba ilahi. 4:16 To get that closeness with Allah Ta'ala. 4:19 Nothing is more effective and beneficial than solitude. 4:26 However it is necessary to 4:28 In this solitude to meditate on the attributes and the bounties of Allah Ta'ala. 4:34 To just be alone just like that. 4:35 If a person sits alone just like that, then sometime what can happen, lot of evil thoughts can start going in the mind. 4:44 In English they say that an idle mind is a devil's workshop. 4:50 Idle mind is a devil's workshop. 4:53 So to just sit alone like that, idle, that too is not required. 4:57 But in that solitude, person is sitting alone, the person should be in contemplation. 5:05 Contemplation. 5:07 We should be in a condition of dhikrullah. 5:10 And contemplating over the attributes of Allah Ta'ala. 5:15 Sifat of Allah Ta'ala. 5:17 And we should be contemplating over the bounties of Allah Ta'ala. 5:21 Allah Ta'ala has blessed us with so much. 5:28 The second thing he mentioned. 5:31 Ibn Attaullah. 5:32 Iskandari Rahmatullah Ali. 5:34 He said, bury yourself in the field of anonymity. 5:42 The seed which is not buried underground will not develop and flourish. 5:50 For a seed to flourish, it has to go underground. 5:55 It gets covered up. 5:57 Then Allah Ta'ala causes it to grow. 6:02 But if the seed says that no, no, no. 6:04 I want to be seen. 6:05 I want to be known. 6:08 I want to be with the who's who in the zoo. 6:14 Then it stays on top. 6:17 That seed will just rot. 6:19 It will dry up. 6:20 It will rot. 6:21 Get finished up. 6:23 The seed that goes into the ground. 6:27 It gets buried up with the sand. 6:30 Then Allah Ta'ala causes that to grow into a beautiful plant, a beautiful tree, a beautiful flower, different different things grow from there. 6:41 The dearest wish of man's nafs is to be held in honour and esteem by others. 6:53 As a 6:54 Imam Ghazani rahmatullahi alayhi in his kitab. 6:59 Tabligh-e-deen. 7:01 So it is mentioned there that you get two types of love that drives man's nafs. 7:12 One is the love for wealth and the other is the love for fame. 7:18 One is the love for wealth and drives the nafs. 7:23 One's wealth. 7:24 And the other is the love for fame. 7:27 No person wants to be acknowledged. 7:30 Wants to be acknowledged. 7:31 Don't you hear so many times a person would say that he didn't even say Jazakallah. 7:38 He said not that I need the thanks. 7:42 Not that I need the thanks. 7:44 But I mean the sadist he could do is the principle of the matter. 7:48 He could have said Jazakallah. 7:52 He didn't even acknowledge it. 7:54 Sometime a person does something for his wife also, then he gets upset because she didn't notice what he did. 8:03 Or she didn't thank him how he would have liked to be thanked. 8:08 He brought one gift for her or something and now he expected her to be so thrilled with it and so she just... 8:16 Called him JazakAllah and he took it and kept it on the head side. 8:21 Now he is so upset. 8:22 Why? 8:23 He wasn't acknowledged. 8:24 His effort was not acknowledged. 8:26 So his effort, you see the focus of his effort was on Inshaan. 8:34 Not Allah Ta'ala. 8:35 That's why he got upset. 8:36 Because he wanted to be acknowledged by man. 8:39 He wanted to be acknowledged by Inshaan. 8:42 A person makes a contribution, he wants to be acknowledged. 8:46 Person is a trustee, he wants it must be known. 8:49 Everybody must know, I am the trustee. 8:52 A person did somebody a favor, he wants that person must know that I did the favor. 8:59 It was me. 9:00 So all the time we are looking for acknowledgement. 9:03 In our charitable works too we are looking for acknowledgement. 9:08 So the nafs loves this. 9:10 To be acknowledged. 9:12 Man thus pursues name and fame. 9:16 The characteristic is a highway robber in the path leading to Allah Ta'ala. 9:21 Name and fame is like a highway robber in the path leading to Allah Ta'ala. 9:26 The sadiq is supposed to be going to Allah Ta'ala. 9:29 But this love for fame, it robs him on the path. 9:35 I was saying to you that Imam Ghazali Rahmatullah Ali mentioned that 9:39 That one is love for wealth and the other is love for fame. 9:44 But generally man, his love for fame is more than even his love for wealth. 9:54 His love for fame is even more than his love for wealth. 9:58 In fact, if he becomes famous, then even the wealth of the people are at his disposal. 10:08 So fame is something he searches for even more. 10:12 Because through fame, once he becomes famous, he becomes known. 10:17 Now, he got everybody at his feet. 10:20 He got everybody in his palm. 10:26 It is absolutely negatory of ikhlas and sidq. 10:32 When a person is looking for fame, it's the total opposite of ikhlas and 10:37 And truthfulness. 10:39 Sidq. 10:40 That I am true to Allah Ta'ala. 10:45 The aim is worshipping and serving Allah. 10:49 This is the aim of our life. 10:51 Worship and serve Allah Ta'ala. 10:53 Greatness is the right of only Allah Ta'ala. 10:57 Nobody else. 10:59 Therefore the duty of the servant is to humble himself and hold himself in contempt. 11:06 In the Divine Court. 11:09 This is how we supposed to be in itikaaf. 11:14 This is why in itikaaf the person doesn't worry about haircut and you know whether he had a bath. 11:24 He never have a bath. 11:25 He doesn't worry about all these things. 11:28 He is just throwing himself like a beggar at the door of Allah Ta'ala. 11:33 The only thing on his mind is he must get forgiveness from Allah Ta'ala. 11:38 He must get forgiveness from Allah Ta'ala. 11:40 He must become Allah's. 11:42 That's the only thing on his mind. 11:46 Therefore, the Shaykh Ibn Attawullah Iskandari, Rahmatullah Ali, he says that you should bury yourself 12:00 In anonymity, which is like the ground, make yourself lost, unknown, humble. 12:09 Humble ourselves. 12:11 Our opinion must be heard all the time. 12:15 Everybody must see us. 12:17 Everything we do must be advertised. 12:21 In today's time, this is a big bimari, big sickness. 12:26 One is people who are in the public eye. 12:32 The other is even individuals. 12:34 We are greedy for this. 12:37 Everybody must know what we are doing. 12:40 This is why people, even what they're eating too, they're putting on their Facebook. 12:46 Somebody cooks something, that too they're putting on their Facebook. 12:50 Somebody buys something, they're putting on their Instagram. 12:53 Why? 12:54 We're feeling left out. 12:56 We're feeling left out. 12:58 We want the whole world to see now what kha I bought 13:03 Somebody buys one car and I put the key on his profile picture. 13:07 He's gone for holiday somewhere, he put a picture there on his profile. 13:11 Everybody must know. 13:14 Why people mustn't know how much money I got and where I'm visiting and what I'm doing. 13:21 This is all greed for fame. 13:24 Love for fame. 13:26 Fame is not only an actor wants to be famous, soccer player wants to be famous. 13:32 No. 13:32 Every person in their own... 13:35 Sometime a person is a manager of a store. 13:40 Manager of a store. 13:42 Now, he wants those people working. 13:46 Don't you know I am the manager here? 13:49 Don't you know I am the manager here? 13:53 Sometime a person can be an ustad in a class. 14:00 You know, one on him. 14:03 In our country. 14:07 Maybe. 14:08 Knowing him also. 14:11 But his humility is amazing. 14:14 His tawazu. 14:15 His humility is amazing. 14:18 Maulana Harun. 14:21 Maulana Harun Duma. 14:24 Allah Ta'ala continued taking dini khidmat from him. 14:28 Maulana Harun. 14:31 Allah Ta'ala blessed him that he looks very young. 14:35 He looks very very young. 14:39 So Maulana is an ustad in the Darul Uloom. 14:44 And at times now you go out to the students for Jamaat. 14:48 So now you go out to the students sometime the 5th year students, the 6th year students. 14:54 Now those students on them MashaAllah so big big beards and everything. 14:57 They are already looking like Maulana's and you know. 15:01 Because they are in that field. 15:03 That is what they are studying. 15:05 So they look like that. 15:06 Allah Ta'ala gives them that nur on their faces, etc. 15:10 So Muhammad sometimes goes out in jamaat with the students. 15:16 So if they go to some town, those people don't know who's who there. 15:23 So you get one, two zimedars, you know, from the town. 15:27 So now they'll sit with the jamaat. 15:29 So, your student jamaat from where? 15:31 So, okay, what you studying? 15:33 You in his class? 15:34 You, what you doing? 15:35 So, when they come to Marana, they ask him also. 15:40 So, what you studying? 15:42 Now, he don't turn around and say, no, no, no, I'm the ustad here. 15:46 He also is, I'm also in the madrassa. 15:51 This is what he's talking about. 15:54 Bury our self. 15:57 If a person is the director of the company, he wants everybody must know, I am the director here. 16:04 Why they looking at the other person? 16:07 He is just working. 16:08 I am the director. 16:10 Look at Huzoor-e-Paak sallallahu alayhi wasallam. 16:14 Nabi-e-Karim sallallahu alayhi wasallam is making hijrat. 16:20 Coming away to Madinah Munawarah. 16:22 Sayyidina Abu Bakr radiallahu ta'ala is accompanying Nabiya Kareem sallallahu alayhi wasallam. 16:28 Now when they reach, the people come to greet. 16:33 People are coming to make sanaam. 16:36 Nabiya Kareem sallallahu alayhi wasallam, Allah Ta'ala had blessed him that he didn't get grey hair and all of that. 16:43 Nabiya Sallallahu alayhi wasallam, Mubarak beard was black even in his old age. 16:48 His hair on his Mubarak head also was black. 16:52 When certain surahs were revealed, where a lot of azab was mentioned with regards to Jahannam, etc. 17:00 Then, few grey hair appeared on Nabi al-Karim's ashram. 17:05 Here, just little bit by the temple. 17:07 Few, few strands in the Mubarak beard. 17:12 And people asked Nabi sallallahu alayhi wasallam, because overnight this thing happened. 17:16 And he said, 17:18 Shayyabatni. 17:20 Made me grey. 17:21 And he gave the names of those surahs. 17:23 Those surahs made my hair go white. 17:27 So, Nabi Akarim sallallahu alayhi wa sallam looked young. 17:31 Sayyidina Abu Bakr radiyallahu ta'ala, although he was younger than Nabi Akarim sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, but he looked older. 17:39 So the people came, they started making musafaha with Sayyidina Abu Bakr radiyallahu ta'ala. 17:46 Nabi sallallahu alayhi wasallam is not telling them. 17:49 We are meeting him. 17:50 I am the Nabi of Allah. 17:53 They never saw Nabi al-Karim sallallahu alayhi wasallam before in their life. 17:56 And Sayyidina Abu Bakr radiyallahu ta'ala and look at him now. 18:00 He is also making salaam with them. 18:03 Not because he wants to take the front line. 18:06 But he knows now Nabi sallallahu alayhi wasallam is tired. 18:09 It's been a long journey. 18:10 Right? 18:12 So many people want to make salaam. 18:14 Now they will come to know who is Nabi sallallahu alayhi wasallam. 18:17 They will meet him tomorrow, next week, next month. 18:21 Everybody will get a chance. 18:22 But for now, it's been a long journey. 18:25 It's hot. 18:25 Muzir-e-Paq sallallahu alayhi wasallam also is tired. 18:28 Right? 18:29 So, he is also greeting the people. 18:32 The people all thinking he is the Nabi of Allah. 18:35 And he is greeting them also. 18:38 Then eventually, 18:40 The sun was shining. 18:43 Sayyidina Abu Bakr radiallahu ta'ala and he went to shade Nabi Akarim sallallahu alayhi wasallam. 18:49 Nabi sallallahu alayhi wasallam sat down and it was sunny there. 18:52 There was no shelter etc. 18:55 Imagine the Nabi of Allah ta'ala. 18:59 Such a long journey. 19:00 Hijrat. 19:01 How much difficulty. 19:03 Everything. 19:05 Now he comes to Madinah Munawarah. 19:08 And where the Nabi of Allah Ta'ala Sallallahu alayhi wasallam is going to sit is not even a shelter to shade him from the sun. 19:20 And we feel that we deserve so many things. 19:23 Our right to have this and have that and have this. 19:28 Something slight just doesn't go according to our plan and how we want it and we are getting upset. 19:35 Look at Nabi Karim Sallallahu alayhi wasallam 19:39 So Nabi Karim sallallahu alayhi wasallam, he sits down. 19:42 Now Abu Bakr radiallahu ta'ala goes to shout to him, make some shade for Nabi sallallahu alayhi wasallam. 19:49 Then the people realize that who is the Nabi of Allah? 19:55 Who is the Nabi of Allah? 20:00 The point is the humility. 20:03 Humility. 20:07 So make ourselves lost, unknown, humble. 20:12 I am nobody. 20:15 I am nobody. 20:16 Why do I need to be acknowledged? 20:18 I am nobody. 20:21 The seed which is not planted under the soil would not grow and flourish. 20:28 Similarly, if man does not bury himself in the field of anonymity but remains in the pursuit of name and fame, 20:37 He will not attain spiritual excellence and perfection. 20:40 He will remain defective. 20:42 A person wants that people must acknowledge him. 20:46 Then he will always remain defective. 20:50 Today the whole fashion, the whole industry, everything is promoting this thing that I must be known. 20:59 I must be known. 21:01 You just take the youngsters today. 21:04 Now for example, 21:06 If you turn the clock back, then our communities never had so much of money, you know. 21:14 Never had so much of money. 21:16 So, for example, in the whole of Allendale area now, maybe one person got one GTI, you know. 21:27 One person got one GTI. 21:29 So, everybody knew now, who's the GTI driver, you know. 21:34 Everybody knew. 21:36 Now Allah Ta'ala opened the doors. 21:40 Opened the doors. 21:41 So now that GTI is gone. 21:43 Very common. 21:43 Every second third person is driving a GTI. 21:46 The VW garage they'll tell you they sell more GTIs than the normal you know a Golf that's not a GTI. 21:52 They sell more Golfs that are GTIs than the Golf that's not a GTI. 21:58 So so many people got GTIs. 21:59 Now bichara you see that nafs it doesn't get changed. 22:04 Right? 22:05 He doesn't get chained now. 22:06 He said, now how are the people going to know that which one is my GTI? 22:14 Now everybody is driving GTI now. 22:17 So now what he must do, even if it means him making his bonnet pink also. 22:23 No problem. 22:24 Even if he goes and makes his exhaust sound like his car is switching off. 22:30 Because everybody went and made exhaust. 22:32 Powerful sound. 22:33 You know before. 22:34 Everybody put. 22:36 Powerful sound. 22:37 So they're driving. 22:37 Oh that's what. 22:38 Hear the sound. 22:39 Hear the exhaust sound. 22:41 Right. 22:41 Now everybody got powerful sound. 22:43 Now he needs to make it unique. 22:44 So he makes one sound. 22:46 Sound like the khai is switching off. 22:47 Everybody must turn to see. 22:49 Oh. 22:50 Hazrat Jitia is here. 22:52 See. 22:53 You see this snake inside. 22:55 How it is. 22:58 We look at it like a job. 23:01 But this is a real sickness inside. 23:03 It's a real sickness. 23:04 It's a snake. 23:07 It's a snake inside. 23:08 It's a spiritual sickness. 23:10 If it is not treated, then ujjum, kibar, all these things happen. 23:18 And then we don't know what our akhirat is going to be. 23:23 So be a nobody. 23:24 Be anonymous. 23:25 Just be a nobody. 23:30 Allah Ta'ala has concealed the anwar of the hearts of His awliya in the dense veils of their external states so that they remain safe from the disgrace of publicity. 23:46 He thus saves them from fame. 23:50 The hearts of those who are blessed with divine proximity and divine presence are radiant with innumerable rays of zikr and ibadah. 24:01 Dikrullah. 24:03 Ibadat. 24:04 Such nur. 24:05 It's shining so much that everybody would have turned round to see. 24:10 Everybody would have turned round. 24:13 Everybody would have known this person. 24:14 Look at his heart. 24:16 Look at that heart. 24:17 But Allah Ta'ala has concealed it. 24:19 Nobody can see. 24:21 The treasures of the heart, nobody can see. 24:24 Their hearts are actually nurani with the celestial rays. 24:28 Right? 24:29 Right? 24:30 However Allah Ta'ala has concealed the illumination of their hearts with dense veils. 24:37 Dense veils of mundane activities. 24:40 That they too have to eat. 24:42 They too have to drink. 24:43 They too have to marry. 24:45 They too have to sleep. 24:47 So what the Kuffar said. 24:50 What the Kuffar said with regards to Nabi Akarim sallallahu alayhi wasallam. 24:55 It comes in the end of the 18th Sifarah. 25:01 Ma li haza rasool. 25:03 Ya'kuru ta'am wa yamshi fil aswaq. 25:08 What is the matter with this messenger? 25:10 What kind of messenger is this? 25:13 He's eating food. 25:14 He's going to the marketplace. 25:16 In other words, he's doing things that all of us do. 25:20 He's doing the same things that all of us do. 25:23 So how come he is so special to be like a messenger? 25:27 Hmm? 25:29 So Allah Ta'ala conceals that what the person really is. 25:35 Allah Ta'ala conceals it that he also has to get involved in mundane activities. 25:40 So he looks like a normal human being also. 25:42 Ordinary person. 25:47 Externally he has made them resemble the masses by their indulgence in necessary worldly activities. 25:56 Thus the difference between these odiya Allah and the masses, you can't make it out. 26:03 You can't really make it out. 26:06 These external worldly states are like thick veils which conceal the anwar of Allah Ta'ala's odiya from the eyes of people. 26:18 But those whose batini gaze is sharp, those whose batini gaze is sharp, 26:25 They recognize these Anwar even behind the veils. 26:30 Like Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi Rahmatullah Ali when he went to his Sheikh and he said to him that I want to make my Islam by you. 26:47 So the Sheikh told him he said I got nothing man. 26:51 Go away from me. 26:52 I got nothing. 26:53 Where are you going to benefit? 26:54 Go away to some 26:55 Real Sheikh. 26:58 So he told the Sheikh beautifully he said to him. 27:03 He said that when a person who is drunk with worldly wine. 27:16 A person who is intoxicated with worldly wine. 27:21 So he cannot hide his intoxication. 27:25 As much as he says, no, I'm not drunk. 27:28 But you see the wobble in his feet. 27:30 You see the redness in his eyes. 27:32 And the stench on his breath. 27:35 Just ask those people who employ labor and all of that. 27:40 Friday they got paid. 27:41 Saturday morning they come, they are so sober. 27:45 The most sober. 27:46 If the boss say, you're drunk. 27:48 No, I'm not drunk. 27:51 But his breath is reeking. 27:53 He can't walk straight. 27:55 His eyes are red. 27:57 And in his account also. 28:00 In his squalette. 28:03 But he never drink. 28:06 So he's telling him. 28:07 He's telling his chef, Shams Tabrez, that the person who drank worldly wine, when he cannot conceive his intoxication, 28:18 Then the person who has drank from the goblet of Allah Ta'ala's love, how is his intoxication going to be concealed? 28:26 How is that intoxication going to be concealed? 28:33 So those people who Allah Ta'ala blesses them with their ruhani gaze, they can make out. 28:39 They can make out. 28:42 The general public can never discern these rays of celestial illumination. 28:47 Because their physical vision cannot penetrate these veils. 28:51 They therefore echo the statement which the kuffar made to Nabi al-Karim sallallahu alayhi wasallam that you are but a man like us. 29:00 You are but a man like us. 29:02 Whereas the nur that Nabi al-Karim sallallahu alayhi wasallam had such nur of Allah Ta'ala and Nabi sallallahu alayhi wasallam had that if a person 29:14 Just came into Nabi sallallahu alayhi wasallam's company for a short while. 29:19 Just a short while. 29:21 He brought Iman. 29:23 And then he left and he went away. 29:24 He didn't come back also. 29:27 But he passed away with that Iman. 29:30 Then he is a Sahabi. 29:31 He is a Sahabi and his rank is higher than the rank of all the Odiya Allah of the whole world. 29:41 Because he spent that little while in the company of Huzoor-e-Paak sallallahu alayhi wasallam. 29:49 Person goes to Madinah, Manawarah even today. 29:53 He himself, he doesn't know what is it that attracts him. 29:59 He doesn't know himself what it is. 30:02 But it is those anwarat, that nur of Nabi-e-Kareem sallallahu alayhi wasallam which is there. 30:09 Just like in Mecca Mukarrama, there is the Anwarat, Tajalliyat, Rahmat, everything that is cascading down onto the Baytullah. 30:19 That is the magnet. 30:21 People from far and wide, they come. 30:24 Any moment of the day or night, people are making tawaf of the Baytullah. 30:29 Like that, you go to Madinah Munawwarat. 30:32 I mean, somebody wants to go full petrol, even if the price is going up, 30:38 He goes past the petrol station. 30:40 He is in a long queue. 30:41 He is all right. 30:42 I will just pay the extra tomorrow. 30:44 We are going to stand in this queue. 30:47 People sometimes need to do grocery shopping. 30:49 It is a necessity. 30:50 It is a rurah for their stomach. 30:52 But they go to... 30:53 He is very busy. 30:54 Leave it. 30:55 We will see some other time. 31:00 But you go to Madinah Munawarah. 31:03 All the time it is busy. 31:05 All the time it is busy. 31:07 But you will see people, they are waiting. 31:10 In the old days, when the haram used to close, it used to open again, tahajjud time. 31:15 People used to go away, tahajjud time. 31:17 Standing outside and they are waiting. 31:20 When the haram is going to open? 31:22 When the haram will open? 31:24 Today's times also, the balance of the haram gets closed. 31:27 Only the front masjid is open. 31:29 People are staying sometime behind Tayyiba side, going back couple streets back. 31:34 But they will walk from there. 31:36 They will walk from there. 31:39 Right through the walk. 31:40 Come right to the front. 31:43 To enter. 31:44 And go to make salaam to Huzoor-e-Paak. 31:46 Sallallahu alayhi wasallam. 31:47 Right? 31:48 What is attracting them? 31:49 What is pulling them? 31:50 What is the magnet? 31:51 They themselves do. 31:54 You go to make salaam. 31:55 Do you hear any jaam? 31:57 Illa mashaAllah. 31:58 Maybe one, two of you have heard something. 32:01 Akabireen in the past, they have heard. 32:04 Right? 32:04 But the general public, what do we hear? 32:06 We don't hear anything. 32:09 Just see now, the Saudi government, they have started charging visa fees, right? 32:16 And it's not cheap. 32:18 But has it reduced the crowd in any way? 32:22 Didn't reduce the crowd in any way. 32:25 So it's this noor. 32:28 Noor that is attracting. 32:32 It's attracting. 32:36 Allah Ta'ala has hidden these anwaar 32:38 Exuding from the Odiya Allah so that their honour is maintained. 32:43 He has protected them from the disgrace of publicity. 32:47 For if these Anwar had to become known to the general public, it would have been on the tongues of all and sundry. 32:53 Such publicity is dishonourable and in conflict with the dignity and honour of Allah Ta'ala. 33:00 Mentioning in public even the name of a modest, chaste and beautiful lady protected behind her parda is dishonorable on account of her high degree of modesty and honor. 33:12 This then is the example for the Anwar of the Oliya Allah concealed behind these dense worldly veils. 33:23 See the people of Kahaf. 33:25 People of Kahaf. 33:27 Ashabul Kahaf. 33:30 So, they were hidden. 33:36 They went away. 33:38 What a qurbani they made. 33:41 Left their homes, everything. 33:43 The king threatened them. 33:46 Say, if you are not going to come back to idol worship, then we will put you to death. 33:56 They went away. 33:58 Allah Ta'ala 33:59 Gave them protection in the cave. 34:03 So for 309 years, 309 years, nobody knew who they were. 34:15 The people who lived in their zamanah, so they knew these youngsters were missing. 34:21 But at that time, they were looked down upon. 34:25 They were looked down upon. 34:26 They were regarded as like fugitives. 34:28 They are running from the law. 34:32 They went away and they stayed in a cave. 34:36 309 years. 34:38 After that Allah Ta'ala exposed them. 34:41 For the hidayat of the people of that community. 34:43 We are not going into the details of the incident. 34:46 Allah Ta'ala exposed them. 34:48 Now when Allah Ta'ala exposed them. 34:52 Now even the king. 34:54 Came to the cave. 34:57 Now the king also came to their cave. 35:00 And now the king is making them an offer that, see, you'll come away, come and live in the town. 35:07 Come and live in the town and we will, you know, you will be like the guests of the king. 35:12 We will take care of you, whatever. 35:14 Because what a great miracle Allah Ta'ala showed using them. 35:20 So these are not ordinary people. 35:22 Great people. 35:23 Right? 35:25 So they told the king, they said, alright, we will make our mashwarah here. 35:31 They went away back inside the cave. 35:35 They went away back inside the cave. 35:36 Allah Ta'ala took them all away. 35:40 Allah Ta'ala took them all away. 35:45 Why? 35:45 Because now the fame became public. 35:49 The fame became public. 35:52 Now what what people would have done and what what people would have said etc. 35:55 etc. 35:56 So Allah Ta'ala took them away. 36:00 But sometime Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala also makes certain people, makes certain people known. 36:11 Makes certain people known so that people can benefit from them. 36:16 Deeni benefit. 36:17 Deeni benefit can be derived. 36:20 Sometime you get certain ulama. 36:22 Allah Ta'ala makes them known. 36:23 They going to a certain town or something to have some program or whatever. 36:28 You see so many people coming for the program. 36:31 If they were not known, how are the people going to benefit? 36:35 So Allah Ta'ala system, the main thing is that in us, we mustn't be looking for fame. 36:42 We must have humility. 36:43 We must have humbleness. 36:44 We mustn't be looking for fame. 36:47 Don't be looking for acknowledgement. 36:49 Right? 36:50 And if we want really the taluk ma Allah to grow, then we must spend time in solitude. 36:57 We must spend time alone. 37:00 Just talk to Allah Ta'ala. 37:01 Leave the friends and leave everything else. 37:06 Have time where we sit alone. 37:09 Just you and Allah. 37:11 Nobody else. 37:13 You and Allah. 37:16 That should be a daily thing. 37:18 Should be a daily thing. 37:20 For our Mu'taqifeen. 37:21 Alhamdulillah. 37:23 They've come away into the masjid. 37:26 So for them, this must be their whole 24 hours. 37:34 Their whole 24 hours must be like this. 37:38 No talking. 37:40 Heart is in contemplation. 37:44 Not looking for company and worried about who's in the next door tent and 37:49 Who ate what and who's... No. 37:51 Nothing. 37:52 You are in solitude. 37:54 Just you and Allah. 37:58 Till the Shawwal moon comes out. 38:01 Just you and Allah. 38:03 Allah Ta'ala will give us tawfiq. 38:07 Tonight is the first of the odd nights of this Mubarak month. 38:14 As we know, there is a possibility it can be the night of Qadr. 38:18 Right? 38:19 So you must not waste the night. 38:21 Make ibadat, etc. 38:23 Read the dua. 38:24 Allahumma innaka afoon. 38:26 Tuhibbul af. 38:27 Fafwani. 38:30 Masha radiyallahu ta'alana. 38:32 Ask Nabi sallallahu alayhi wasallam. 38:34 That if I have to find myself on this night, then what must I read? 38:39 What must I do? 38:41 The Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam told her, read this dua. 38:44 Allahumma innaka afoon. 38:46 Tuhibbul af. 38:47 Fa'fu anni. 38:47 He said, O Allah, you love to forgive. 38:51 You are very very forgiving. 38:53 You love to forgive. 38:54 So forgive me. 38:56 Forgive me. 38:57 Masha radiallahu ta'alan ha. 39:00 She mentioned that if I have to find myself on the night of Qadr, then I will ask Allah ta'ala for two things. 39:09 One is I will ask Allah Ta'ala for forgiveness and the other is I will ask Allah Ta'ala for safety. 39:17 So Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam's dua with regards to these two things which we can make. 39:23 Allahumma inni as'aluka la'afwa wa la'afiyah. 39:28 I ask of you forgiveness and I ask of you for afiyah. 39:33 I was explaining to our young friends little earlier on that afiyah is 39:38 It doesn't just mean now my khaam must be safe and my house must be safe. 39:43 Afiyat, it includes every type of safety. 39:48 Safety of our dunyavi assets. 39:50 Safety of our iman. 39:52 Safety of our chastity. 39:53 Safety of our aqaid. 39:56 Safety of our a'mal. 39:58 Safety from the azab of Qabr. 40:00 Safety from the difficulties of Medan-e-Hashr. 40:04 Safety from the faiz of Jahannam. 40:06 Safety from the anger of Allah Rabbul Izzet. 40:10 Includes everything. 40:13 So we should make these duas in abundance. 40:15 Make other duas also. 40:18 Try and read Salatul Tazbi. 40:19 Especially those in itikaaf. 40:22 Others also make himmat. 40:23 It's not difficult at all. 40:26 Salatul Tazbi. 40:27 You make niyyat. 40:29 You're reading four rakats. 40:30 Nafl. 40:32 Salatul Tazbi. 40:33 You get Salatul Istikhara. 40:34 You get Salatul Hajj. 40:36 Salatul Tawbah. 40:37 So this is Salatul Tazbi. 40:39 Right? 40:40 Nabiya Kareem Sallallahu alayhi wasallam mentioned that try and read this namaz daily. 40:46 Every day try and read this namaz. 40:48 If you can't read daily, then at least once a week. 40:51 You can't read once a week, then once a month. 40:54 You can't manage once a month, then once a year. 40:56 You can't manage once a year, then at least once in your lifetime try and read. 41:01 So Salat-ul-Tazbih is four records. 41:04 Namaz. 41:06 The person who say Allahu Akbar, he will read his Sana. 41:11 Right? 41:12 After Sana, then he will read the third kalima. 41:15 SubhanAllahi walhamdulillahi wa la ilaha illallah wa Allahu Akbar. 41:20 Till there. 41:21 Not la hawla wa la quwwata illa billahi al-aliyyil adhim. 41:24 Just till wa Allahu Akbar. 41:26 Right? 41:27 So I'm going to give you two tarteebs that our ulama mentioned how to read. 41:34 So you read your Sana and thereafter, this is the first tarteeb now. 41:39 You read 15 times. 41:41 The third kalima. 41:42 Right? 41:43 Fifteen times. 41:45 Then you read Surah Al-Fatiha. 41:47 We read our Qiraat. 41:49 Our Surah. 41:50 After the Surah, before going into Ruku, we read another ten times. 41:56 So now it's twenty-five. 41:57 Right? 41:59 Then in Ruku, we read our Tasbihat. 42:01 SubhanAllah. 42:03 Three times. 42:05 After that, we read the third kalima ten times. 42:08 Right? 42:08 So that brings it to thirty-five. 42:11 Then in Qawma. 42:12 When we say, Sami'allahu liman hamida. 42:15 Rabbana naka alhamd. 42:16 Now we are in Qawma. 42:18 Then in the Qawma, read again ten times. 42:21 So that brings it to forty-five. 42:23 Then from Qawma we go into Sajda. 42:27 Read our SubhanAllah. 42:29 And then read again 10 times. 42:31 So that's 55. 42:33 When we come up from the first Sajda, now we are sitting in Jalsa. 42:37 So read the Dua for Jalsa. 42:39 Allahumma khfirli. 42:40 Warhamni. 42:41 Warafini. 42:42 Warzukni. 42:43 Wasturni. 42:44 Right? 42:44 And then read another ten times. 42:47 You don't know the dua for Jalsa, then at least read ten times. 42:50 It does be, right? 42:52 So you read ten times. 42:52 So that will come to sixty-five. 42:55 Then you go for the second sajda. 42:57 SubhanAllah. 42:58 Three times. 42:59 And read ten more times. 43:01 So that brings it to seventy-five. 43:04 Right? 43:04 So each rakat, we read seventy-five times. 43:08 By the end of the fourth rakat, we would have read three hundred times. 43:15 After this namaz, then all our gunas will be maaf. 43:19 InshaAllah ta'ala. 43:21 Allah ta'ala will forgive our sins and whatever duas the person is going to make, then inshaAllah ta'ala these duas will be makbul. 43:32 These duas will be accepted. 43:35 So we must make dua after that. 43:37 Cry to Allah. 43:40 So that is the one tarteeb. 43:42 The other tarteeb that a person can read 43:45 Is that when he starts his namaz. 43:48 So he reads 15 times. 43:51 The third kalima. 43:53 Then he reads his Surah Al-Fatiha. 43:55 He reads the Surah. 43:56 Then he doesn't read 10 times before going into ruku. 44:01 Right? 44:01 No, he doesn't read 10 times before going into ruku. 44:04 Then in every posture again he'll read 10, 10, 10, 10. 44:08 Now when he finishes the second sajda. 44:11 Before standing up for the next rakaat. 44:15 He must sit. 44:16 So that means after the second sajda he'll come back into the sitting position and read again ten times. 44:23 So that's how he'll get his 75 and then stand up for the second rakat. 44:28 Right? 44:30 So we can try and read Salat-ul-Tazbi, make some extra tilawat, engage in zikrullah. 44:39 I was explaining to our young friends that 44:41 Generally, in this type of environment, for example, we are in the masjid, in the house of Allah Ta'ala, so there is no television here, nobody is going to watch TV, nobody is going to listen to music, there is no opportunity to make zina of the eyes, etc. 44:56 So we are protected from all those type of gunas. 44:59 But the one guna that we can get ourselves involved in is the guna of the tongue. 45:06 We read today 26 Sifarah in the Taraweeh. 45:10 So Allah Ta'ala mentions in the 26 Sifarah. 45:19 In other words, each and every word that we utter, right, everything is being recorded. 45:26 So don't get involved in ribat. 45:28 Mu'takifeen now, for example, now... 45:32 Two. 45:33 Three more taqifin. 45:34 Now they start grouping together. 45:37 Then start talking about a fourth one. 45:40 About a fifth one. 45:41 Ghibat takes place. 45:43 All our sawab is gone. 45:45 Sometime we start talking about ulama. 45:50 One pamphlet may come in a masjid. 45:51 Something. 45:52 Now we start talking. 45:53 Yeah, but that Maulana he is like that. 45:55 And this Maulana he is like this. 45:56 Now we are making ghibat of ulama. 46:00 So by itikaaf 46:03 You remain in solitude. 46:05 That is what this ibadat is all about. 46:08 It's an ibadat of seclusion. 46:10 An ibadat of solitude. 46:12 Right? 46:13 That's one. 46:16 Try and remain in zikrullah and thinking of Allah Ta'ala. 46:22 Don't get involved in conversations, talking and all those types of things. 46:30 The cell phone also, put it off. 46:33 You don't need to know every time one message, one message. 46:36 Put it off. 46:37 If you worried about your family, they worried about you or whatever, right? 46:44 Then you can give them a time. 46:47 Give them a time. 46:49 They say certain time I'll put my phone on. 46:52 If you need to know anything, whatever, you contact me at that time or at that time I will contact you. 46:57 I will send some message just to see everything is okay. 47:01 The whole time now to be messaging and talking and all of that. 47:06 This just spoils the whole momentum of the itikaaf. 47:11 And the mutaqifin amongst yourself. 47:14 That is the biggest challenge. 47:16 Is amongst yourself. 47:19 Don't talk. 47:21 Don't talk. 47:22 No group coffees and group teas and all these type of things. 47:26 If you do it by who's gonna stop you? 47:28 We can't come here like a policeman and watch you and all that. 47:31 But you will be spoiling your own itikaaf. 47:34 You took the time out. 47:36 Those of you that are married. 47:37 You left your wives at home. 47:39 They going to a bed alone. 47:44 They got nobody to talk to. 47:45 You could have been there to talk to them. 47:47 To give them company while they making ibadat etc. 47:51 But they made the kurbani and the sacrifice because you said you going to sit for itikaaf. 47:58 So sit for itikaaf then. 48:01 Don't come on a socializing event. 48:04 It's not a socializing event. 48:06 And it's not jamaat also. 48:09 You're not out in jamaat. 48:11 So don't confuse the two. 48:13 Right? 48:13 You're not in the khanaka. 48:16 We're now gariye gariye. 48:17 You need to go to your sheikh and find out this and find out that. 48:20 You're not in the khanaka. 48:22 You're not in jamaat also. 48:24 That you have to give dawah to everybody and make sure everybody is have morning fikr and everything. 48:29 You're not in jamaat. 48:30 That's a different ibadah. 48:32 You're not in the khanaka. 48:34 You're not in jamaat. 48:35 You are in itikaaf. 48:37 And itikaaf is seclusion. 48:40 So maintain the seclusion. 48:44 Be quiet. 48:45 Don't talk. 48:47 And after when the shawal moon is sighted, then you see what you got in your heart. 48:54 See what Allah Ta'ala will give you in your heart. 48:57 But you want to sit and talk and joke. 49:00 And another big problem is people who are not in itikaaf. 49:05 Now they got one friend who is sitting for itikaaf. 49:08 Now they come now. 49:10 Four, five of them. 49:11 Now they want to sit around with this fellow. 49:12 Start talking to him and all of that. 49:15 You are doing a disservice to the person. 49:18 Leave him alone. 49:20 Leave him alone. 49:21 Let him enjoy his itikaaf. 49:23 He has made niyyat to sit for itikaaf. 49:25 Let him enjoy his itikaaf. 49:28 So people ask, what must do in itikaaf? 49:31 What else you gonna do? 49:32 Talk to Allah. 49:34 Talk to Allah. 49:35 That's what we have to do. 49:38 So, one is, it's a month of Quran. 49:47 So try and maximize on your tilawat of Quran Sharif. 49:52 Second, Nabi Karim sallallahu alayhi wasallam said that in this month, read La ilaha illallah. 49:58 Istighfar. 49:59 Ask Allah for Jannat. 50:01 Ask Allah Ta'ala for protection from Jahannam. 50:03 So, do this. 50:06 Do this in abundance. 50:08 Right? 50:09 Then, Durood upon Nabi Karim sallallahu alayhi wasallam. 50:13 Then, a Mu'taqif should carry some good literature. 50:17 He should read some Kitab or something. 50:21 Ensure all your nawafil are performed. 50:25 Israq is performed. 50:26 Your duha is performed. 50:28 Your uwameen is performed. 50:30 Your tahajjud is performed. 50:32 Ensure all your masnoon surahs are recited. 50:35 Your morning duas are recited. 50:37 Your evening duas are recited. 50:39 Your wazaif after salah are recited. 50:41 You got nothing else to do. 50:43 You are in no hurry to go anywhere. 50:46 So ensure that all of this is done. 50:49 Right? 50:50 You can space yourself out. 50:53 Don't burn yourself out also. 50:56 If you're feeling tired in this ibadat, now start doing another ibadat. 51:00 If a person has got kazai umri, this is an opportune time. 51:04 You are in itikaaf. 51:06 Catch up on as much kazai umri as you can. 51:11 With regards to programs, we will have this one program here. 51:18 Every night, inshaAllah ta'ala, we'll have a program. 51:22 And, in the day, from eleven o'clock to quarter to twelve. 51:29 Eleven o'clock to quarter to twelve, we'll have another program. 51:32 Right? 51:35 That is program where we will read from some kitab, some of malfuzat of our akabireen, etc. 51:44 Then, if Allah ta'ala gives tawfiq, 51:48 At half past three. 51:50 Half past three in the morning. 51:54 All the motakifeen should be ready to make your zikrullah. 52:01 So try and wake up in the morning about three o'clock latest. 52:07 Make your wudhu everything. 52:08 Read some tahajjud. 52:11 And half past three. 52:14 Then it will be time for zikrullah. 52:16 Upas 3 to 4 o'clock would be time for Dikrullah. 52:22 4 o'clock to about quarter past 4 would be time for Dua. 52:26 And thereafter you got from quarter past 4 right up to quarter past 5 to sort out your Sehri etc. 52:35 After Fajr the Mu'taqif shouldn't go to sleep. 52:39 Mu'taqif should remain awake. 52:42 Continue with his Tilawat. 52:45 Or whatever other Ibadat. 52:47 Right until Israq. 52:49 After Israq, then the Mu'taqif wants to go and rest. 52:53 He can go and take a rest. 52:55 Rest in the day. 52:57 Try and spend the nights in Ibadat. 53:00 But that don't mean that you must have a sleeping marathon also. 53:06 Maximum we need is six hours sleep. 53:08 You don't need anything more than that. 53:11 Six hours sleep. 53:12 So you just have to 53:14 Adjust it where you are getting few hours in the day, few hours in the night and you are getting your six hours sleep. 53:20 If a person really needs seven hours then that also is fine. 53:24 But more than that we don't need unless a person has got a medical condition. 53:29 With regards to eating, go easy. 53:33 You are hardly moving so you don't need so much of intake. 53:40 You don't need so much of intake because you are hardly moving around. 53:42 You are sitting in the masjid. 53:44 Right? 53:47 So if we just try and follow this tarteeb, InshaAllah ta'ala, the main thing, the main thing, I am saying this again, is keep quiet. 53:59 Solitude. 54:00 Seclusion. 54:02 Don't talk. 54:04 Don't talk. 54:06 Something really necessary you need to say, say it. 54:09 Otherwise don't talk. 54:11 Don't even give suggestions to this one and that one. 54:15 And even the brothers who are on khidmat, don't even engage them in conversation. 54:21 Now we say, no, they are not in itikaaf, so I can talk to them. 54:26 Leave them, let them do their work. 54:29 If something really now you need to tell them something, something really there's some problem, some challenge you are facing, then you bring it to their attention. 54:38 Otherwise make sabar and carry on. 54:41 You are Allah's mihman. 54:42 Not anybody else's mihman. 54:44 You are Allah's mihman. 54:45 Ask Allah for your needs. 54:49 Ask Allah Ta'ala for your needs. 54:50 Don't ask insan for your needs. 54:54 We must shift our focus from insan to Allah Ta'ala. 54:59 Ask Allah Ta'ala for, really now, if you really need something, emergency, whatever, then you can bring it to the attention of those who are on the khidmat. 55:08 Other than that, just carry on with your work. 55:11 Carry on with your work. 55:14 If anybody needs to know any masla masail with regards to itikaaf, then you write it down. 55:21 Whatever masalah you need to find out, somebody is unsure about something, you write it down, inshaAllah, and you leave it on the desk tomorrow when we come, 11 o'clock, then maybe we can address those masahid. 55:33 If I know the answers, we can give you. 55:35 If I don't know the answers, we can find out and then inform you. 55:38 Right? 55:40 So, in the night time, the big lights all will be put off, but there are smaller lights under the 55:50 Quran cabinets. 55:52 You can sit there, make your ibadah, whatever. 55:55 You want to take a rest, take a rest. 55:56 If you are tired and you need to sleep, sleep. 56:00 You are tired, you need to sleep, sleep. 56:02 Right? 56:03 You can't push yourself and do more than what you can manage to do. 56:07 But at the same time, don't be lazy. 56:10 At least do what you can manage to do. 56:13 At least do that much. 56:14 Do what you can manage to do. 56:16 Make lot of dua. 56:18 Mu'taqif. 56:19 Make lot of dua. 56:20 Make lot of dua for yourselves. 56:23 Make dua for your families. 56:25 Make dua for entire ummah at large. 56:31 Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. 56:33 Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala alihi Sayyidina Muhammad yuwa barik wa sallim. 56:40 Allahumma laka alhamdu kulluh wa laka alshukru kulluh. 56:44 Allahumma Rabbana zalamna anfusana wa illam takhfir lana wa tarhamna lana kunanna minal khasinin. 56:52 Allahumma innaka afuhun. 56:54 Tuhibbu al-afu fa'afu anna. 56:57 Allahumma inna nas'aluka al-afwa wal-afiyah wal-mu'afata al-daimah fi al-deeni wal-dunya wal-akhirah wal-fawza bil-jannah wal-najata minal-naar ya'n la faqiba wal-gunasu wal-naar 57:12 Forgive each and every sin that we have committed, O Allah. 57:16 Ya Allah, forgive us and forgive the entire ummah, O Allah. 57:20 Ya Allah, you accept our broken, broken ibadah, O Allah. 57:24 Ya Allah, these bandas of yours that have come into the masjid and in the masajid around the world for itikaaf. 57:30 Ya Allah, you accept the itikaaf. 57:33 Ya Allah, let it be a spiritually uplifting and beneficial itikaaf, O Allah. 57:39 Ya Allah, you let the itikaaf be a means of najat for the entire ummah, O Allah. 57:46 Ya Allah, You guide us. 57:48 You protect us. 57:50 Ya Allah, keep us in good health. 57:51 Give us tawfiq to exert ourselves in worshipping You, O Allah, in a manner that is pleasing to You, O Allah. 57:58 Ya Allah, make us all Yours. 58:00 You become ours, O Allah. 58:02 Ya Allah, bless us with Your love. 58:04 Bless us with the love of Nabi Karim. 58:06 Sallallahu alayhi wasallam. 58:08 Attach our hearts to you, O Allah. 58:10 Ya Allah, attach our gaze to you, O Allah. 58:13 Ya Allah, remove our gaze from insan. 58:16 Let our gaze be upon you. 58:17 Ya Allah, bless us with humility, O Allah. 58:20 Bless us, Ya Allah, with zuhud, O Allah. 58:22 Ya Allah, make us your humble servants, O Allah. 58:26 Give us the realization that we are just slaves. 58:28 We are just servants, O Allah. 58:31 Ya Allah. 58:44 Ya Allah bless us with the ni'mat of laylatul qadr wa Allah. 58:49 Ya Allah accept our rozas. 58:52 Accept our tilawat. 58:53 Accept our tarawees. 58:56 Ya Allah accept our zikrullah. 58:59 Accept our sitting in your house. 59:02 You become pleased with Allah. 59:05 Ya Allah you be pleased with us wa Allah. 59:10 Kipasud Iman. 59:11 Tikasud Iman. 59:12 Razaratasud Iman. 59:14 Wallah. 59:16 Allahumma inna nas'aluka ridaka waljannah. 59:19 Wa na'udhubika min sakhatika walnaar. 59:22 La ilaha illallah. 59:23 Anta nastaghfiruk. 59:25 Nas'aluka aljannah. 59:26 Wa na'udhubika min annaar. 59:29 Allahumma inna nas'aluka min khairi maa. 59:31 Sa'alaka minu nabiyuka sayyiduna Muhammad. 59:34 Sallallahu alayhi wasallam. 59:36 Wa na'udhubika min kulli shadri mastaa'da minhu nabiyyuka sayyiduna Muhammad. 59:41 Sallallahu alayhi wasallam. 59:43 Anta almusta'an wa alayka albalaq. 59:46 Wa la hawla wa la quwwata illa billah. 59:49 Wa sallallahu ta'ala ala khairi khalqihi sayyiduna Muhammad yuwa ala alihi wa ashabihi ajma'een. 59:57 Ameen. 59:58 Bi rahmatika ya arhaman rahimeen. 1:00:01 Wa alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen.
Guard the Tongue : Avoid backbiting, unnecessary talk, and discussing others, especially during I'tikaf.
Maximize the Odd Nights : Spend the odd nights of Ramadan in extra prayers like Salatul Tasbih, Quranic recitation, and sincere du'a for forgiveness and afiyah (wellbeing).
Etiquettes for Mutakifeen : Turn off mobile phones, moderate sleep (around 6 hours), eat lightly, and maintain solitude until the moon of Shawwal is sighted.36:34
Hazrat Moulana Dawood Seedat Saheb