Al Asr – 2

Auto-generated transcript:We spoke about the first ayat of Surah Al-Asr.
Allah said, Allah took an oath by himself, by time, and he said that truly all humankind,
all human beings are in a state of loss.
Today let's talk about the next time, maybe let's see how far we get.
Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala put, gave us criteria.
Everyone is in loss except,
إِلَّا الَّذِينَ آمَنُ
إِلَّا الَّذِينَ آمَنُ
Except those who have,
have faith.
So this also we spoke about in the last Khatira, what is the meaning of faith.
Then Allah said,
وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ
And those who do good deeds.
Now it's very important to understand what constitutes a good deed in Islam.
For a deed to be good in Islam, there are three conditions.
One is the Niyah.
It is the intention of the deed.
Why are you doing this deed?
If the intention is not good, then even though the deed itself may be good,
it has no value and in some cases it might actually become a bad deed.
To give you an example, reading the Quran, is it a good deed or a bad deed?
Good deed.
But if I am reciting or reading the Quran, when my intention is that I am doing it because
people are watching and people will think, oh Mashallah, what a holy man and what a pious
man is reading the Quran, then what happens to the deed?
Gone, right?
It's real.
It's not only does it nullify and cancel the deed, but it makes it into an action which
is haram, which nullifies.
Same thing for Salah.
Same thing for charity.
Same thing for charity.
You take the whole lot.
We have the very famous hadith of the Salahs, the three people who will be presented to
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala on the Day of Judgment.
The first of them is a scholar of Islam who learned the Deen and who taught the Deen and
so on.
The second one is a philanthropist, somebody who Allah gave a lot of wealth and he spent
it in the path of Allah.
And the third one is a person who was a fighter.
He was a soldier.
He was a warrior.
And not only did he fight, but he fought and he was killed in a battle between, you know,
with people who were evil.
But all three, and I'm condensing that hadith.
I'm not narrating it in detail.
But all three, Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, will be the first of them.
The first of the people to be consigned to Jahannam will be these people.
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And the first of those will be the one who is actually a scholar, Islamic scholar, because
of Nia.
So the Nia is a very, very important, very first condition of the acceptance of any deed.
And therefore, we need to continuously check our Nia to see what is our Nia.
The Nia is like carrying, imagine that you are carrying a packet of money in your pocket
and you are going through a very crowded marketplace.
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So Nia, as far as making Nia, how do you see it Humans?
Who say Nia that they will get stolen from the home, Nisha after this.
What did you do so far.
Why did you say what you say we are not going to bring more like a Harmonize?
What is this so that we may have some.
interesting letter to Sheikh Hussain Rahimahullah Itaada, where this man wrote and he said,
Sheikh, I recite Quran well, so people put me forward for Imamate.
Now, when I am praying, I make the intention that I am going to say, for example,
I make the intention that I will recite 20 ayats.
But when I am reciting and maybe I have recited three ayats or four ayats,
I get a thought to say, you are reciting to please the people because your recitation is good.
You are reciting well. So people will say, oh, mashallah, mashallah, what a great Qari.
So he says, when I get that thought, I immediately, you know, shorten my recitation.
Instead of reciting 20, I decided I have only five.
Maybe I recite one more and I go into ruku, complete the rakat.
What shall I do? And the reply of Sheikh Hussain Rahimahullah Itaada is very, very nice.
He says,
He said, when you get that thought,