Salah begins outside the masjid

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds.
And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers.
Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family and his companions,
and a lot of respect.
And after that, my brothers and sisters,
we just finished Salat al-Maghrib by Jam'ah.
Alhamdulillah, in terms of the reward of this,
Rasulullah said this is to pray this,
any Farsala by Jam'ah has 25 to 27 times the reward of praying it on your own, by yourself.
About Salat itself,
about praying by itself and that also not for Sunnah Salat,
which is the two Sunnah of Salat al-Fajr.
Rasulullah said, the two Sunnah of Salat al-Fajr
are better than all that is contained in the heavens and the earth
and between them.
Combine them all.
So, in this,
so if this reward for the Sunnah Salat prayed alone is that much,
which is more than everything in the earth and in the heavens and whatever is in between,
then what is the reward for the Farsala prayed by Jam'ah?
This is the beauty of this Deen.
This is the beauty of this Deen.
That Allah gave us things which are apparently small and insignificant.
How long did it take to pray?
You know?
Totally maybe,
five, seven minutes,
10 minutes, let's say.
Nothing more than that.
May not even be 10, maybe about five, seven minutes.
And the reward for that is?
Now, think about this.
Think about this reward in the context of the place where this reward is going to be really visible for us to see.
That is on the day of Yawal Khayama, the day of judgment.
On the day of judgment, the difference or the value of one Hasana, just one good deed,
is the difference between Jannah and Jahana.
Just one.
Just one single good deed, the value of that is,
it can spell the difference between Jannah and Jahana.
So what about Farsala,
prayed by Jam'ah in the Masjid,
all of this reward, I mean.
Now, what does this teach us?
What does Salah teach us?
One of our,
one of our,
Ashaati is one of our teachers.
May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la fill his cover with Noor.
Ma'an Yunus Patel, Sir, Ram Thiru Laleh.
He went to,
I actually met him on that trip.
He was going to Makkah.
I was going somewhere else.
I can't remember where, but I met him in Dubai,
in the lounge,
in the Emirates lounge.
And he said, I'm going for Umrah.
I said,
I requested him,
please make dua for me and so on.
He finished Umrah,
he's sitting in the Mataf
in front of the Kaaba,
he passed away.
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la called him to himself.
Now, he used to say,
Salah begins outside the Masjid.
Salah begins outside the Masjid.
You might say,
I go to the Masjid for Salah,
I'm praying.
Yeah, sure, of course, obviously Salah.
But he said Salah begins outside the Masjid.
So we said,
Shaikh, what do you mean?
He said, your religion is what happens after Salah is over.
The quality of your religion,
the level of your Iman and Yaqeer and so on.
He said, this is measured by what you do outside the Masjid
when Salah is over.
So what does it teach us?
Some things,
I'm not,
this is not an exhaustive list,
but some things it teaches.
First and foremost,
Salah teaches me that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
and obeying Allah is more important than anything else.
This is the first lesson.
That is why whatever else I might be doing,
when the time of Salah comes,
Salah begins outside the Masjid.
So we got to go pray.
We can't be doing something else.
We can't say, oh, but you know,
my office, my shop, my business, my this, my that.
No, no, no.
Time for Salah, we go and pray.
So the first and foremost thing we learn is
that Allah and obeying Allah
takes precedence over everything else.
Second, it teaches us the importance of purity, of Taharaq.
Because our Udhu is the key to Salah.
Without the Udhu, there is no Salah.
So purifying myself,
Udhu, if I need to kusar, may I kusar.
Make sure that the body is pure.
I've done the Udhu.