Stopping 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. May His peace and blessings be upon His honored messengers. Muhammad was the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him and upon his family and his companions, peace and blessings be upon them. My brothers and sisters, Abu Ghulayr reported in a hadith which we have all heard many times that Rasulullah said, Allah has caravans of angels who have no work but to follow gatherings of remembrance, gatherings of Zikr of Allah. When they find such gatherings in which there is remembrance, they sit with them and some of them surround the others with their wings until the space between them and the heavens is covered. When they disperse, they ascend to the heavens and Allah asked them, although He knows better than them, from where have you come? They say, we came from your slaves on the earth who are glorifying you, declaring your greatness and oneness, praising you and asking from you. Allah says, what do they ask from me? The angels say, they ask for your paradise. Allah says, have they seen my paradise? They say, no. Allah says, what if they were to see my paradise? They say, they seek your protection. Allah says, from what do they seek my protection? They say, from your hellfire, our Lord, our Rabb. Allah says, have they seen my hellfire? They say, no. Allah says, what if they were to see my hellfire? They say, they ask for your forgiveness. Allah says, I will pardon them, give them what they request and grant them protection. They say, our Rabb, there is one among them, a simple slave who happened to pass by and sit there along with them. Allah says, I will also grant him pardon for whoever sits with these people will not suffer misery. And this is in Bukhari, Sayyid Bukhari and Sayyid Muslim, Muttafakoon Aalayh. May Allah have mercy on us and may Allah grant us the tawfiq to do what benefits us and to save us from what does not benefit us. And grant us to do what pleases Allah and save us from what does not please Allah. My brothers and sisters, think about this. If you want to learn swimming, what do you need? You need a place to swim. You need a swimming pool. You need a lake. You need a river. You need a body of water. If you want to learn to play cricket, what do you need? You need a cricket field. If you want to learn tennis, you need a tennis court. Right? If you want to learn golf, you need a golf course or at least minimum you need nets for practice and then of course you need a course. If you want to become a doctor, you need a hospital. You can be anything, to prepare yourself for anything. You need a place. Where do you go if you want to learn to become a human being? In insan. Insaniyat in Arabic and Urdu is not a term which is biological. Insan does not mean the mammal who walks on his hind legs. Insan is somebody with a character, somebody with the qualities which bring him close to Allah. Now, where do you go to become an insan? This is what Prophet Muhammad did with Masjid and Abu Ayyub Sharif. People like to talk about the Jamia Muhammadiyya. They say the sofa was a university. But my submission is that there was no such thing as Jamia Muhammadiyya. There was no sofa, was not a university. Rasulullah was not teaching a curriculum with a syllabus for a certain period of time. He did not do any dastarbandi, did not qualify people and call them alims or something. The people who came to Rasulullah and benefited the most from him were the people who spent time in his sohba, in his company. And they did not just spend time in his company by just being bodily present and their minds somewhere else. They were there consciously. They were there with great shaukh, with great love. They were there with great desire to learn and to imbibe from him every little thing which seemed, we say little only because maybe it takes a short durat...