When a person leaves this world and we see this happening with our own eyes morning and evening and we pray the funeral of other people. They were present for some time in this world and after a short while, they haven't just left this world, rather they are buried underneath the crust of the earth. Whoever has come, he must depart. That is the law. But living and being occupied in this world, makes the human being so lazy and ignorant of this fact and he forgets that reality more or less. His happiness and his issues in the world make him forget this one reality and fact, despite it being so important for us to be aware of. In the hadith it is mentioned that a person should remember death 25 times a day at least.
اللهم بارك لنا في الموت
و في ما بعد الموت
And if he does this, then Allah will make him depart from this world in the state of Imaan. But we don’t even do this. Allah has given us the entire day comprising of 24 hours, Allah has given us time. At least after any salaah, we should fix and recite this dua 25 times.
اللهم بارك لنا في الموت و في ما بعد الموت
What a great guarantee. And in some hadith it is stated that Allah ta’ala will grant such a person the death of a martyr. Why? What does this action contain? It’s a big lesson. Do you understand? To remember death is a very important action. Allah's Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam's words are unique and great. The reason is that when you remember something 25 times then obviously you won't forget it. So a person who doesn’t forget death will also prepare for death. So the worst thing is to forget death. "I'm not going to die." People don't say this with their tongues, but naturally it’s absorbed in our lives. Our style of living and our actions demonstrate that we have forgotten death. Our way of living is different. If you observe the lifestyle of those people who remember death, their morning and evening, their afternoon and how they pray. Observe their prayers. And observe the worship of those people who have forgotten death. Even though they are praying, they are reciting the Quran as well, they are also implementing the actions,
But there is a difference like the difference between the heavens and the earth. The one who remembers death knows that his deeds are going to be presented further along the line and he will need to go to Allah ta'ala's court and present his salaah. He knows that all his actions will be presented in the court of Allah so he aims to present them in such a way that Allah ta'ala becomes pleased with Him through his deeds and forgive him. This is his style. Allah is not going to look at the quantity of our salaah. He doesn't need our prayers. He doesn't need our recitation of Quran. Doesn’t matter how great and how loud we recite, we cannot fulfil the right of that worship. How will we present that deed in front of Allah?
If we notice that Allah ta'ala has created a creation and their job is solely to prostate and bow. So tell me. Look at the creation and we are here immersed in the world but Allah ta'ala has given us an opportunity that whenever you commit an action, then remember one thing, that you are going to present this dua in Allah's Court, this salaah, this dua. We restrict our actions only to this world. "I've prayed salah, I've prayed salaah in congregation. Okay it's fine." It’s like we are just getting rid of that action. No. One prayer and one sajdah is so valuable and we shouldn't discredit it. When a person remembers death and he prostrates, then his prostration is immaculate. So brothers, we observe people dying day and night. We observe their janazah. Where is that person going who is passing away? And how far are we between the one who is passing away and us? I've seen such that a person has died and his wife has died. I've seen this myself and I'm telling you this. In karachi, there's a big graveyard from miles and a person's wife passed away. And 40 years passed and she passed away when she was young. Then 40 years along the line, his children had the desire that when their father passed away, he should be buried besides his wife. Now 45 years later and that graveyard has expanded for miles and they are looking and I'm telling you this. They said, "let's have a look for the grave." Alhamdulillah the children kept looking and they arrived at the grave of their mother and right besides that grave, subhaanAllah after 40 years, the husband who died was also buried next to his wife who died 40/45 years before. So this is death. This is a reality that one has to leave this world and when he departs, he must go into the same soil, the same ground. Look at the difference between us and those who have passed away ,not much at all. So this is the reality which we do not think much about. We forget about it. Never forget the reality of death. Always remember it. Whenever you're about to do any action, then before doing so, make an intention, "oh Allah whichever action I am about to do, I am doing it out of the fear of death because I will die and will need to present this deed to Allah." You’ll then see the value of that deed and how much you appreciate it. The greatness and the light will appear in that deed. Another thing will come in to your deeds. Sincerity. Sincerity is the soul of all the actions and this will also appear in your deeds. You won't do it for the world and you don't need to tell that person that "I'm not doing it for the world. I'm doing it for Allah's sake." You have no need to remind people of this because sincerity will be aroused when we supplicate. Those people eyes will be moist with tears and they will supplicate and say, "oh Allah forgive me." One is a traditional way of doing it. You can supplicates for 10 hours long. Those supplications are not actual supplications. Just one deep sigh a person does and he supplicates with sincerity, then that supplication, is very valuable and high grade in the eyes of Allah. And it will happen at that time when you remember death.
Anyway. When a person leaves this world, he will be in two conditions. The subject that I wanted to share with you, I just said something extra in between, this introduction regarding death. Allah ta'ala enabled me to speak this with my tongue and more fear of death has come in to my heart. So brothers the real point here is that when the human being leaves this world, me and you, then we will be in either of 2 states. The entire Quran contains this message. Rather, this message is the subject of the Quran if you understand. The subject of the Quran is what I am sharing with you today and this is the real subject of the Quran which I’m sharing with you. What is that? There are 2 states a person will depart in and the Quran tells us that. The complete Quran tells us this. One state is this, that either he will be from amongst the successful ones or from amongst the losers. Say SubhaanAllah. Yes that’s it and Allah ta'ala has given us examples in the Quran of the previous nations and previous people. This nation came and they were removed like this. This happened to them. They forgot death. Punishment was sent to them. The whole Quran has given description and in the end the essence is that it is reminding us through the Quran. That’s why, remember that the messages Allah ta'ala gives to us regarding the Hereafter, Allah has placed a lot of reward in those messages for this reason that due to that reward, a person will perform the action and reach the ultimate purpose. This is why in the Quran, when you recite one letter, you receive 10 rewards. The reason is so we can attain the objective whilst we are reciting it and that the subject can be embedded in our brains. Allah wants to explain to us and penetrate our minds with this message that there will be 2 states. You will either be from the successful ones or from amongst the losers. Then Allah gives the complete description. Who are the successful ones? Allah speaks of Paradise, the Hur, houses, mansions and rivers and ranks and status and orchards and the wives for this reason because you will attain this Allah says. What beautiful Surah's. Recite Surah Rahman during Fajr and at Tahajjud prayer time and you’ll enjoy it. And Surah Waqiah, the rewards Allah ta'ala mentions. He speaks of the people on the right and the people of the left. This will be their conditions and this is what they will get. The fruits and the bananas and vegetables. They'll get drinks, there will be Hur's and couches and they will be looking at each other. These are examples. Why have we been given this description? Allah ta'ala is reviving the belief within us that remember which group you are going to go in. Join the successful ones. Dont join the losers whatever happens. This is the message of the Quran which Allah ta'ala is delivering to us. Why would Allah inform us of the stories of Hur in Surah Rahman? Its not a story or a drama. Surah Yusuf and the events of the previous nations, these aren't stories, rather, when believers recite it, their Imaan increases. Just like the dua which Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam made, "oh Allah, increase my yearning so I can see you." Beautiful dua. We have so much yearning for the world. Oh Allah I want this, I want this. Allah says, leave all of the world and develop this yearning that, "oh Allah, I want to see you in the Hereafter." Allahu Akbar. What a great desire. What a difference in mindset. Allah says don’t think about what you ponder over in the world. Think about the opposite. Think about me. Because very soon you will attain these things. So now what is the situation? The losers. Allah ta’ala has told their events.
Will you be from amongst the successful ones or the losers? So the purpose is that every person living in this world should assess and scan himself, "who am I?" Which group am I in? Have you ever thought about this? Have you ever scanned yourself during the day? Have you ever done self analysis? How foolish a person is. We should think am I from the successful ones or the losers. No no. "You're forgiven thats it." There's no need to think about this we say. Who are the successful ones, who are the losers and what are their signs. What qualities do I have inside me? The qualities of the losers or the successful ones? This is what the Quran teaches us. Analyse yourself. What a great deception if we don't think about this! A big deception. Ponder. Who are the successful ones and who are the losers? Am I in Group A or Group B? Because there's no third group, there's only 2. Successful or failure. Allah has given the signs. So who are the successful ones? I am presenting this topic to you very concisely and I cant go in to detail because I don't have time. So we can revise our lesson. Say SubhaanAllah. We have these gatherings of dhikr, purification, Tazkiya, where the Mashaikh sit down and teach us things because I have learnt this. So I had this desire and Allah ta'ala has given us these opportunities and this gatherings. I’m not giving a bayaan, its not a lecture. I'm not delivering a lesson of hadith to you. MashaaAllah the respected scholars are doing this. But what I have heard from the Faqir's and the Awliyah Allah, I am sitting down and discussing that with you. Lets look at ourselves, our lives, and rectify ourselves. For example, when you hear something, then you need to bring a change in to our lives. We must. That's when there's enjoyment and benefit in me speaking and you listening. And this will happen. It will come. The change will come inshaAllah for sure. A person suddenly shakes and he understands. So I’m giving you the signs of the successful ones. There are two things from which a person attains success by. What is success? He will enter Jannah smiling and successful. This is success. These are the successful people Allah ta'ala has mentioned in the Quran. These are those people regarding which it is said,
لا خوف عليهم و لا هم يحزنون
No grief, no fear, no sorrow. They have no need to be sad or distressed. Their kingdom is going, their shop is going, their land is going, business is going. They don't care how many children are left behind. My wife, my houses. He has got the yearning that where I am going in the Hereafter, I'm going with success. That’s the successful one.
When a successful person passes away, the angels come with a nice fragrance, with a shroud and the person is smiling at the time of death. He welcomes them and I can share such stories with you. I have personally seen people pass away in my life with a successful death. They are smiling at the time of death and his tongue is saying good things at that time because he is seeing good things. He is leaving the world successfully. He's not worried. He's not in the grave at the time. His room is decorated. He is welcomed similar to having red carpets, the lanterns and the lamp. And he's waiting to go. And then he's put in to a nice slumber. A peaceful sleep like how a bride sleeps. And he doesn’t know about his accounting or the world.
لا خوف عليهم و لا هم يحزنون
The doors of paradise are open for him and he enters the Barzakh phase. MashaaAllah he eats and drinks and enjoys because the real paradise will come afterwards after the reckoning. But remember that there is also a paradise within the Barzakh, thats also a phase and first we will be there. Say SubhaanAllah. Alhamdulillah. A person goes to the grave and after reckoning,he will enter paradise but before that, Allah has made a paradise during the period of Barzakh in the grave. The same things, its a reflection, but its not the real paradise. That’s where we go. Its the waiting period. Allah makes it a beautiful place, ease and sleep and tranquillity so even the grave is like a window to his reward in the Hereafter. He sees that. When someone comes and recites Fatihah besides the grave, immediately there is a connection. Someone who goes and sits there and he listens to him. Someone comes to see you and he gives salaam and you reply and they pray for the person in the grave. The person in the grave is also happy that this person is remembering me and praying for me. So you should go to the graves my brothers. Your mother has died. Your father has died. Your friend has died. When your colleague and the ones you love die and they go in to the graves, we don’t have time in this world to go their graves. We don’t even have time to remember them. They are waiting for us brothers. When you go to the grave and meet someone, they are happy. The inhabitants of the grave congratulate that person saying, "congratulations, your son has come." Those people whose parents have died and their graves are nearby, it is essential that after every Fajr they should go and sit there and do Muraqabah and send the reward to the inhabitants of the grave. There is a big Aalim of ours, I wont say his name but you know him.
He is a very big Aalim of our city and he told me and I was very happy when I heard this. We were sitting down talking together and he said, "I go to visit my fathers grave every day after Fajr." And he's a very busy person, he gives lessons. And he said, "when I go to my father grave in the morning, I sit there for a little while." This is the love. He said, "I sit by the grave and I perform dhikr there. I did this for a while and then I was surprised when I looked behind me, there were some other people who had come and were sat behind me so I said, "okay, let's do collective dhikr there." He said, "After dhikr, I do dua for my father and it is as though my father is listening to me from the grave."
So brothers, this is the path, this is the link. Why have we broken the link?
Those who you love, your mother, your father, they are not detached from you. They are still your parents. There's just a veil between us and Aalime Barzakh. Say SubhaanAllah. So they are not far from us. They are very close so we should go and perform deeds for their Isaale-Thawaab.
There are 2 states at the time of a person's death. A person who has these 2 qualities will be from amongst the successful ones and he will be forgiven beyond forgiven and he will enter paradise smiling. There are 2 definitions of the successful people. I've given a shortcut. These are points I have heard from the Faqir and I am sharing them with you. Alhamdulillah. So no lengthy debates. Do this many Hajj, this much Zakaat, this much Quran. Just two things have been said and the Quran says it. This Quran that we recite regularly. That the person who has these 2 qualities, will be raised from the successful ones and he is guaranteed successful.
What are the 2 qualities? Listen carefully. First and foremost he should have Imaan. لا إله إلا الله
Imaan is the first thing. Without faith brothers, there is nothing can be achieved. That is the wall that separates us between disbelief and faith. That is the difference between faith and no faith. So the first quality which is necessary for a human being to possess, is Imaan. So if this Kalimah is in your heart, then you have faith within you. Belief in Allah. So the first thing is Imaan. Say, Alhamdulillah we have Imaan within us. The second quality with which a person is included amongst the successful ones has been mentioned by the Quran. قَدۡ أَفۡلَحَ مَن تَزَكَّىٰ
Isn't this in the Quran? That he is successful. Who? The One who has Imaan is successful and the second quality. مَن تَزَكَّىٰ
The one whose heart is clean. The one whose heart is purified. If he possesses these 2 things at the time of death, what two things? Imaan and a clean heart, then he will be included amongst the successful people. If he has one thing less, May Allah forgive, then he wont be from the successful ones. We understand what Imaan is.
so what is the second thing? About which Allah has clearly mentioned that we require this also. Naturally the definition of Dunya is deception, everyone will claim that his heart is clean. You will say it and I will say it. 'Our hearts are clean." Allah has explained the signs of a clean heart. Don’t just make empty false claims that your heart is clean. Dont look at your deeds and your worship, and say "my heart is clean." There are signs for a clean heart. Which hearts are defined as pure? I am explaining this so we can analyse ourselves and determine which condition we are in. Because death is a reality and it will expose right and left, it will separate the milk and the water. There will be no contamination. Here you can deceive and say, "im a wali Allah, im a Qutub. Im a Gawth. Im pious." And everyone can claim this in the world. "I am pure hearted, clean hearted. I do this and this action. I present my sheets to you. I can show you many clean sheets. I do such and such worship." Pure heart. So what is the sign of a pure heart my friend? The pious predecessors have defined this. A very easy determination. A pure heart is that heart which has a special quality and that is that it readily accepts whatever Allah ta'ala prefers. Whatever Allah ta'ala dislikes, it immediately rejects those actions.
You know the stomach, if you give the wrong food to the stomach, then it vomits immediately because the stomach doesn't accept the impure thing. Because it was either dirty, or poisoned or a virus or a disease. Immediately the stomach vomits it out because your stomach hasn't accepted that food. Your stomach is pure and prefers the pure. I’m just giving a small worldly so you understand what I'm saying. Yes. So, when does vomiting occur? A person throws us when there's something impure. You were fine and you got an invitation to a feast, you’re eating and then you go home. "Oh I feel upset, nausea." There was something wrong in the food you ate, there was something impure in there, so your stomach didn't accept it and you vomited. So the pure clean heart is such that, when there is an action against Allah’s preference and pleasure, then immediately the heart will reject it and say, "I wont accept this." Say SubhaanAllah. Islam is very simple brothers. There's no arguments.
It is not difficult at all to understand the deen. Rather we need to find someone who can explain it to us. Its not difficult at all to understand, but when you understand, then implement it. If you've understood what a pure heart is. The pure heart is that heart whatever instruction comes from Allah ta'ala like this, then you accept it from your heart. "Allah you like it to be done this way, oh Allah accept it." Then he keeps the thirty fasts of Ramadan with passion and desire. Allah's pleasure and preference. Allah said that I want you to do this. Allah likes it that His servant comes and as soon as Fajr prayer begins in the morning, he leaves his bed, mattress, quilt, house. He doesn’t remember anything. Nor his wife or children. He does wudu and runs to the masjid and prays 2 rakat for Fajr. That’s Allah’s pleasure and the heart accepts that. He likes that. No excuses, no barriers. Your heart likes doing this action. Just like your heart likes to count wealth, counting notes, running the business and running after the world. Your heart likes it, that’s why your heart runs after it. If your heart didn't like it, then how would you run after the world. Your heart likes that I do this and that in the world, that’s why you engage in such actions. So whatever the heart likes, the pure clean heart will only like that which Allah likes. So the heart is pure. SubhaanAllah. What a beautiful subject today, if only we understand this subject. A beautiful lesson today. The heart is clean. It doesn't matter how many whispers of Shaytan come, deviating you and saying, "you are destroyed, oh you'll lose out. You don't have Imaan. You're not a strong Muslim." Say, "I don’t care. I want to see the feeling of my heart that am I readily practicing those actions which Allah ta'ala likes, I don’t care at all with the whispers of Shaytan and Jinn because if my heart is correct and clean, then I am going to persevere in these good actions. That’s all we need to do. So if your heart is happy with what Allah is happy with, Fajr time, you hasten to the Masjid. But what do we do, "no no, its okay. I will read at home. I will pray at the earlier time." Allah says I don't care about beginning or after time, all I know is that you pray Fajr in congregation unless you have an excuse, like you are sick or there are big problems that you have. There are shariah excuses which are valid. Some. But if you have no Shariah excuses, you are healthy, you can travel, you can come, there is no distress, no restriction or barrier and your heart likes it that you run, then most definitely, those hearts which are pure do not like to sit at home at prayer time. Say SubhaanAllah. His heart is desperate like a fish when its out of water. His heart is desperate to get to the masjid and quickly join the congregation. If you don't feel like this in every action that Allah ta'ala likes and instructs, Allah says don't swear at anyone, don't dishonour anyone, don’t consume someone's wealth, don't oppress anyone. If your heart likes this and accepts this, I shouldn't do this." "I can never do this." The heart says do this, and then a man comes and says, "ooh do this," sign on this dotted line and inshaAllah we can split the money. No body will know. We will do wrong and money will come to you." This is widespread practice in the world. "Just sign here, sign on this contract. You live here. And you won't even know what’s happening in India. We will make some money. I'll put it in your own name. Half the house is yours, half is mine. Lets deceive. And you're living here, no one will know what you did. He won't know that we tricked him. We will usurp that land, you just sign it." And your heart will shake suddenly. "No, no, i can't do this. Its impossible. I cant do this my friend. May Allah forgive me. No brother I don’t want this money. My heart doesn't feel right." Then understand that your heart is pure mashaaAllah. In the same way, the heart rejects those things which are in Allah’s disobedience, those things which Allah ta'ala has defined to us that He doesn’t like, but we laugh and joke. We like singing. But the heart of the one who is pure, he says, "what is this destruction?! Switch this off. I don’t want this!" The standard of his heart has become such that everything that Allah ta'ala dislikes, he dislikes. So understand that his heart is clean. If you don't have this condition in your life brothers, then what is that situation? He's not from the successful ones. Then he's in deception. It doesn't matter if he's done one thousand Hajj or one thousand Umrah, one thousand recitation of Quran, does one thousand Ramadan, but the state of the heart has not changed. That worship is not clean and then that worship will vanish with the air. It is futile. Because Allah has placed a condition, Imaan and pure heart. قَدۡ أَفۡلَحَ مَن تَزَكَّىٰ
Thats it. End of story. No second or third excuse. So now we need to look inside our hearts. Lets analyse, let's scan. Am I living a life of deception that when Allah's commands come, how many of them do I reject? We chose and select them. We should like that thing which Allah ta'ala likes. That’s it. End of story. Allah likes this and my heart won't accept if I don’t do this. That’s it. My heart doesn't feel like doing what Allah ta'ala doesn't want me to do. SubhaanAllah. So this is Allah ta'ala's instruction and guidance on what we should do to clean our hearts. Say SubhaanAllah. What do we do to make out hearts like this? قَدۡ أَفۡلَحَ مَن تَزَكَّىٰ.
وَذَكَرَ اسْمَ رَبِّهِ فَصَلَّى
What does Allah ta'ala say next? وَذَكَرَ اسْمَ رَبِّهِ فَصَلَّى
Allah clearly says that my creation, if you want to purify your heart. You have faith so if you want to clean your heart then there is a solution and a method which is, doing the dhikr of the name of your Lord. The Quran is prescribing this to us, not a Mawlana sahib, or a Mufti sahib.
قَدۡ أَفۡلَحَ مَن تَزَكَّىٰ.
وَذَكَرَ اسْمَ رَبِّهِ فَصَلَّى
That if you want فلاح success, and be raised with those who are successful, then you must have 2 qualities, faith and a pure heart. And if you want to make your heart pure then there is only one way you can achieve that. And what is that? Recite the name of your Lord, your Creator. Do dhikr of His name. What is His name? His name is Allah. Allah says that you are living in this world and this world will spoil your heart, shaytan will come, various circumstances will come but Allah said if you do dhikr of my name, then I will give you the cure and Allah has given the guarantee that you will most definitely depart from this world with a clean heart. This is the reason we go to the Mashaikh, the Awliyah. Why do we go to their company? To learn the dhikr of Allahs name. Mufti sahib isn't telling you this world so you can debate with him. No Aalim or Sufi is telling you this. Rather, the direct verse of the Quran is speaking to you, there is no hadith even in between. A person's heart becomes so clean by doing dhikr of Allah that Allah’s liking and His liking become one. Here there is another great point which arises here. When we do dhikr of Allah, if you want to determine if your dhikr is successful or not, then Allah has given a clear standard. Whoever’s dhikr is giving him benefit, then the condition of his heart will be such that it will become pure. When a dhaakir begins dhikr and he goes to a shaikh or a wali Allah, then his heart begins to improve and transform. He begins to dislike those things in the world which Allah dislikes and has ordered us to abandon. And he begins to like those things which Allah likes, then consider that his dhikr is successful. SubhaanAllah. Because the objective for which he held the tasbih and began reciting Allahs name and the objective for which he went to the Wali Allah for, he is beginning to attain that objective. It doesn't matter if he gets no Kashf, no dreams, no miracles, no vision, no sight of angels, no enjoyment, no taste, his business has gone downhill and he has distress and problems from the world. It doesn't matter because the dhikr of Allah is not attached to these secondary things.
The dhikr of Allah is attached to the primary thing, is your heart clean or not? That’s the objective of the dhikr of Allah. The rest of it has no link with dhikr. "Oh I'm vanishing, I’m floating in the air, I’m not a wali Allah, I’m not pious. I’m not virtuous. My affairs of the world are not getting easy." Dhikr has no relationship with the world. Whatever situation your life is going to be in, you have to pass through the phases, the ups and the downs. Like a boat in the sea. You travel on the boat. Sometimes the waves take the boat up, sometimes it takes the boat down. Sometimes round and round. Sometimes there's a storm and the boat will keep going up and down but it will keep travelling. Eventually it will reach the coast line. That’s our life as well. Up and down. Rough and smooth. We need to work hard on one thing. To make our hearts pure and remain pure. And we have been told the sign for this. Through dhikr of Allah you gain a pure heart. Consider your dhikr and your company with your shaykh to be successful when you have that change arise in your heart that alhamdulillah whatever Allah ta'ala likes, you begin to like and you will sacrifice however much and whatever you need to in this world. That’s how it is when you like something. When you like something in the world, you sacrifice time and effort for that don’t you? You enjoy giving sacrifice for that. You do it with love. For example, there's a person who runs a market stall and it is snowing in the cold winter. He has to go Scotland and I’ve seen this all my lifelong. He wakes up early morning at 4am. Its cold. They pack their goods in their van. They have a truck and a container and they say, "I’m going Scotland, I am going to put up my stall" and he is happy to drive there through the intense cold. And he is struggling. They fight each other to get a stall in the market so they can go there and work. What is this? They have love for these things in their heart. "I will travel there, make money, count the notes. We will sit down and spend our money." They like that. How much difficult they go through, they are losing their sleeping, petrol cost. My brothers. Allah ta'ala likes it when we get up and struggle and strive and make effort. We should enjoy that when we do it for Allah ta'alas sake. There shouldn't be any dislike or complaints, "oh I have to pray, my eyes don't open. I don’t feel like it. Its too hard. I have to go work I can’t pray." What excuse is this? That means that in your heart you don't like this. The love hasn't entered your heart yet. You have to do more dhikr for this. The successful people with pure hearts present themselves in Allah ta'ala's court. They are those who are happy with Allah ta'ala's pleasure and Allah ta'ala had made jannah for them and they will be successful in the Hereafter. Allah ta’ala has prescribed one clear path for them and if you want to travel on this path, then do my dhikr in high quantity.
وَذَكَرَ اسْمَ رَبِّهِ فَصَلَّى
Do the dhikr of my name morning and evening. Keep doing your Tazkiyah. Am I successful or am I Improving? Am I getting to my destination? The person who has not adopted this path is doing a big mistake. Those poor souls are on the wrong path and they are deviated severely. Understand and come on to the right path. Understand your purpose of life and grab hold of the dhikr of Allah. Engage in abundant remembrance. Connect yourself with a Wali Allah, take his company so he can guide you and explain to you how to do dhikr and question you why you don't do it? Have the intention that "I am engaging in dhikr to improve my heart and please Allah." May Allah swt grant us the ability to implement this. Ameen. Recite Durood shareef.
When a person leaves this world and we see this happening with our own eyes morning and evening and we pray the funeral of other people. They were present for some time in this world and after a short while, they haven't just left this world, rather they are buried underneath the crust of the earth. Whoever has come, he must depart. That is the law. But living and being occupied in this world, makes the human being so lazy and ignorant of this fact and he forgets that reality more or less. His happiness and his issues in the world make him forget this one reality and fact, despite it being so important for us to be aware of. In the hadith it is mentioned that a person should remember death 25 times a day at least.
اللهم بارك لنا في الموت
و في ما بعد الموت
And if he does this, then Allah will make him depart from this world in the state of Imaan. But we don’t even do this. Allah has given us the entire day comprising of 24 hours, Allah has given us time. At least after any salaah, we should fix and recite this dua 25 times.
اللهم بارك لنا في الموت و في ما بعد الموت
What a great guarantee. And in some hadith it is stated that Allah ta’ala will grant such a person the death of a martyr. Why? What does this action contain? It’s a big lesson. Do you understand? To remember death is a very important action. Allah's Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam's words are unique and great. The reason is that when you remember something 25 times then obviously you won't forget it. So a person who doesn’t forget death will also prepare for death. So the worst thing is to forget death. "I'm not going to die." People don't say this with their tongues, but naturally it’s absorbed in our lives. Our style of living and our actions demonstrate that we have forgotten death. Our way of living is different. If you observe the lifestyle of those people who remember death, their morning and evening, their afternoon and how they pray. Observe their prayers. And observe the worship of those people who have forgotten death. Even though they are praying, they are reciting the Quran as well, they are also implementing the actions,
But there is a difference like the difference between the heavens and the earth. The one who remembers death knows that his deeds are going to be presented further along the line and he will need to go to Allah ta'ala's court and present his salaah. He knows that all his actions will be presented in the court of Allah so he aims to present them in such a way that Allah ta'ala becomes pleased with Him through his deeds and forgive him. This is his style. Allah is not going to look at the quantity of our salaah. He doesn't need our prayers. He doesn't need our recitation of Quran. Doesn’t matter how great and how loud we recite, we cannot fulfil the right of that worship. How will we present that deed in front of Allah?
If we notice that Allah ta'ala has created a creation and their job is solely to prostate and bow. So tell me. Look at the creation and we are here immersed in the world but Allah ta'ala has given us an opportunity that whenever you commit an action, then remember one thing, that you are going to present this dua in Allah's Court, this salaah, this dua. We restrict our actions only to this world. "I've prayed salah, I've prayed salaah in congregation. Okay it's fine." It’s like we are just getting rid of that action. No. One prayer and one sajdah is so valuable and we shouldn't discredit it. When a person remembers death and he prostrates, then his prostration is immaculate. So brothers, we observe people dying day and night. We observe their janazah. Where is that person going who is passing away? And how far are we between the one who is passing away and us? I've seen such that a person has died and his wife has died. I've seen this myself and I'm telling you this. In karachi, there's a big graveyard from miles and a person's wife passed away. And 40 years passed and she passed away when she was young. Then 40 years along the line, his children had the desire that when their father passed away, he should be buried besides his wife. Now 45 years later and that graveyard has expanded for miles and they are looking and I'm telling you this. They said, "let's have a look for the grave." Alhamdulillah the children kept looking and they arrived at the grave of their mother and right besides that grave, subhaanAllah after 40 years, the husband who died was also buried next to his wife who died 40/45 years before. So this is death. This is a reality that one has to leave this world and when he departs, he must go into the same soil, the same ground. Look at the difference between us and those who have passed away ,not much at all. So this is the reality which we do not think much about. We forget about it. Never forget the reality of death. Always remember it. Whenever you're about to do any action, then before doing so, make an intention, "oh Allah whichever action I am about to do, I am doing it out of the fear of death because I will die and will need to present this deed to Allah." You’ll then see the value of that deed and how much you appreciate it. The greatness and the light will appear in that deed. Another thing will come in to your deeds. Sincerity. Sincerity is the soul of all the actions and this will also appear in your deeds. You won't do it for the world and you don't need to tell that person that "I'm not doing it for the world. I'm doing it for Allah's sake." You have no need to remind people of this because sincerity will be aroused when we supplicate. Those people eyes will be moist with tears and they will supplicate and say, "oh Allah forgive me." One is a traditional way of doing it. You can supplicates for 10 hours long. Those supplications are not actual supplications. Just one deep sigh a person does and he supplicates with sincerity, then that supplication, is very valuable and high grade in the eyes of Allah. And it will happen at that time when you remember death.
Anyway. When a person leaves this world, he will be in two conditions. The subject that I wanted to share with you, I just said something extra in between, this introduction regarding death. Allah ta'ala enabled me to speak this with my tongue and more fear of death has come in to my heart. So brothers the real point here is that when the human being leaves this world, me and you, then we will be in either of 2 states. The entire Quran contains this message. Rather, this message is the subject of the Quran if you understand. The subject of the Quran is what I am sharing with you today and this is the real subject of the Quran which I’m sharing with you. What is that? There are 2 states a person will depart in and the Quran tells us that. The complete Quran tells us this. One state is this, that either he will be from amongst the successful ones or from amongst the losers. Say SubhaanAllah. Yes that’s it and Allah ta'ala has given us examples in the Quran of the previous nations and previous people. This nation came and they were removed like this. This happened to them. They forgot death. Punishment was sent to them. The whole Quran has given description and in the end the essence is that it is reminding us through the Quran. That’s why, remember that the messages Allah ta'ala gives to us regarding the Hereafter, Allah has placed a lot of reward in those messages for this reason that due to that reward, a person will perform the action and reach the ultimate purpose. This is why in the Quran, when you recite one letter, you receive 10 rewards. The reason is so we can attain the objective whilst we are reciting it and that the subject can be embedded in our brains. Allah wants to explain to us and penetrate our minds with this message that there will be 2 states. You will either be from the successful ones or from amongst the losers. Then Allah gives the complete description. Who are the successful ones? Allah speaks of Paradise, the Hur, houses, mansions and rivers and ranks and status and orchards and the wives for this reason because you will attain this Allah says. What beautiful Surah's. Recite Surah Rahman during Fajr and at Tahajjud prayer time and you’ll enjoy it. And Surah Waqiah, the rewards Allah ta'ala mentions. He speaks of the people on the right and the people of the left. This will be their conditions and this is what they will get. The fruits and the bananas and vegetables. They'll get drinks, there will be Hur's and couches and they will be looking at each other. These are examples. Why have we been given this description? Allah ta'ala is reviving the belief within us that remember which group you are going to go in. Join the successful ones. Dont join the losers whatever happens. This is the message of the Quran which Allah ta'ala is delivering to us. Why would Allah inform us of the stories of Hur in Surah Rahman? Its not a story or a drama. Surah Yusuf and the events of the previous nations, these aren't stories, rather, when believers recite it, their Imaan increases. Just like the dua which Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam made, "oh Allah, increase my yearning so I can see you." Beautiful dua. We have so much yearning for the world. Oh Allah I want this, I want this. Allah says, leave all of the world and develop this yearning that, "oh Allah, I want to see you in the Hereafter." Allahu Akbar. What a great desire. What a difference in mindset. Allah says don’t think about what you ponder over in the world. Think about the opposite. Think about me. Because very soon you will attain these things. So now what is the situation? The losers. Allah ta’ala has told their events.
Will you be from amongst the successful ones or the losers? So the purpose is that every person living in this world should assess and scan himself, "who am I?" Which group am I in? Have you ever thought about this? Have you ever scanned yourself during the day? Have you ever done self analysis? How foolish a person is. We should think am I from the successful ones or the losers. No no. "You're forgiven thats it." There's no need to think about this we say. Who are the successful ones, who are the losers and what are their signs. What qualities do I have inside me? The qualities of the losers or the successful ones? This is what the Quran teaches us. Analyse yourself. What a great deception if we don't think about this! A big deception. Ponder. Who are the successful ones and who are the losers? Am I in Group A or Group B? Because there's no third group, there's only 2. Successful or failure. Allah has given the signs. So who are the successful ones? I am presenting this topic to you very concisely and I cant go in to detail because I don't have time. So we can revise our lesson. Say SubhaanAllah. We have these gatherings of dhikr, purification, Tazkiya, where the Mashaikh sit down and teach us things because I have learnt this. So I had this desire and Allah ta'ala has given us these opportunities and this gatherings. I’m not giving a bayaan, its not a lecture. I'm not delivering a lesson of hadith to you. MashaaAllah the respected scholars are doing this. But what I have heard from the Faqir's and the Awliyah Allah, I am sitting down and discussing that with you. Lets look at ourselves, our lives, and rectify ourselves. For example, when you hear something, then you need to bring a change in to our lives. We must. That's when there's enjoyment and benefit in me speaking and you listening. And this will happen. It will come. The change will come inshaAllah for sure. A person suddenly shakes and he understands. So I’m giving you the signs of the successful ones. There are two things from which a person attains success by. What is success? He will enter Jannah smiling and successful. This is success. These are the successful people Allah ta'ala has mentioned in the Quran. These are those people regarding which it is said,
لا خوف عليهم و لا هم يحزنون
No grief, no fear, no sorrow. They have no need to be sad or distressed. Their kingdom is going, their shop is going, their land is going, business is going. They don't care how many children are left behind. My wife, my houses. He has got the yearning that where I am going in the Hereafter, I'm going with success. That’s the successful one.
When a successful person passes away, the angels come with a nice fragrance, with a shroud and the person is smiling at the time of death. He welcomes them and I can share such stories with you. I have personally seen people pass away in my life with a successful death. They are smiling at the time of death and his tongue is saying good things at that time because he is seeing good things. He is leaving the world successfully. He's not worried. He's not in the grave at the time. His room is decorated. He is welcomed similar to having red carpets, the lanterns and the lamp. And he's waiting to go. And then he's put in to a nice slumber. A peaceful sleep like how a bride sleeps. And he doesn’t know about his accounting or the world.
لا خوف عليهم و لا هم يحزنون
The doors of paradise are open for him and he enters the Barzakh phase. MashaaAllah he eats and drinks and enjoys because the real paradise will come afterwards after the reckoning. But remember that there is also a paradise within the Barzakh, thats also a phase and first we will be there. Say SubhaanAllah. Alhamdulillah. A person goes to the grave and after reckoning,he will enter paradise but before that, Allah has made a paradise during the period of Barzakh in the grave. The same things, its a reflection, but its not the real paradise. That’s where we go. Its the waiting period. Allah makes it a beautiful place, ease and sleep and tranquillity so even the grave is like a window to his reward in the Hereafter. He sees that. When someone comes and recites Fatihah besides the grave, immediately there is a connection. Someone who goes and sits there and he listens to him. Someone comes to see you and he gives salaam and you reply and they pray for the person in the grave. The person in the grave is also happy that this person is remembering me and praying for me. So you should go to the graves my brothers. Your mother has died. Your father has died. Your friend has died. When your colleague and the ones you love die and they go in to the graves, we don’t have time in this world to go their graves. We don’t even have time to remember them. They are waiting for us brothers. When you go to the grave and meet someone, they are happy. The inhabitants of the grave congratulate that person saying, "congratulations, your son has come." Those people whose parents have died and their graves are nearby, it is essential that after every Fajr they should go and sit there and do Muraqabah and send the reward to the inhabitants of the grave. There is a big Aalim of ours, I wont say his name but you know him.
He is a very big Aalim of our city and he told me and I was very happy when I heard this. We were sitting down talking together and he said, "I go to visit my fathers grave every day after Fajr." And he's a very busy person, he gives lessons. And he said, "when I go to my father grave in the morning, I sit there for a little while." This is the love. He said, "I sit by the grave and I perform dhikr there. I did this for a while and then I was surprised when I looked behind me, there were some other people who had come and were sat behind me so I said, "okay, let's do collective dhikr there." He said, "After dhikr, I do dua for my father and it is as though my father is listening to me from the grave."
So brothers, this is the path, this is the link. Why have we broken the link?
Those who you love, your mother, your father, they are not detached from you. They are still your parents. There's just a veil between us and Aalime Barzakh. Say SubhaanAllah. So they are not far from us. They are very close so we should go and perform deeds for their Isaale-Thawaab.
There are 2 states at the time of a person's death. A person who has these 2 qualities will be from amongst the successful ones and he will be forgiven beyond forgiven and he will enter paradise smiling. There are 2 definitions of the successful people. I've given a shortcut. These are points I have heard from the Faqir and I am sharing them with you. Alhamdulillah. So no lengthy debates. Do this many Hajj, this much Zakaat, this much Quran. Just two things have been said and the Quran says it. This Quran that we recite regularly. That the person who has these 2 qualities, will be raised from the successful ones and he is guaranteed successful.
What are the 2 qualities? Listen carefully. First and foremost he should have Imaan. لا إله إلا الله
Imaan is the first thing. Without faith brothers, there is nothing can be achieved. That is the wall that separates us between disbelief and faith. That is the difference between faith and no faith. So the first quality which is necessary for a human being to possess, is Imaan. So if this Kalimah is in your heart, then you have faith within you. Belief in Allah. So the first thing is Imaan. Say, Alhamdulillah we have Imaan within us. The second quality with which a person is included amongst the successful ones has been mentioned by the Quran. قَدۡ أَفۡلَحَ مَن تَزَكَّىٰ
Isn't this in the Quran? That he is successful. Who? The One who has Imaan is successful and the second quality. مَن تَزَكَّىٰ
The one whose heart is clean. The one whose heart is purified. If he possesses these 2 things at the time of death, what two things? Imaan and a clean heart, then he will be included amongst the successful people. If he has one thing less, May Allah forgive, then he wont be from the successful ones. We understand what Imaan is.
so what is the second thing? About which Allah has clearly mentioned that we require this also. Naturally the definition of Dunya is deception, everyone will claim that his heart is clean. You will say it and I will say it. 'Our hearts are clean." Allah has explained the signs of a clean heart. Don’t just make empty false claims that your heart is clean. Dont look at your deeds and your worship, and say "my heart is clean." There are signs for a clean heart. Which hearts are defined as pure? I am explaining this so we can analyse ourselves and determine which condition we are in. Because death is a reality and it will expose right and left, it will separate the milk and the water. There will be no contamination. Here you can deceive and say, "im a wali Allah, im a Qutub. Im a Gawth. Im pious." And everyone can claim this in the world. "I am pure hearted, clean hearted. I do this and this action. I present my sheets to you. I can show you many clean sheets. I do such and such worship." Pure heart. So what is the sign of a pure heart my friend? The pious predecessors have defined this. A very easy determination. A pure heart is that heart which has a special quality and that is that it readily accepts whatever Allah ta'ala prefers. Whatever Allah ta'ala dislikes, it immediately rejects those actions.
You know the stomach, if you give the wrong food to the stomach, then it vomits immediately because the stomach doesn't accept the impure thing. Because it was either dirty, or poisoned or a virus or a disease. Immediately the stomach vomits it out because your stomach hasn't accepted that food. Your stomach is pure and prefers the pure. I’m just giving a small worldly so you understand what I'm saying. Yes. So, when does vomiting occur? A person throws us when there's something impure. You were fine and you got an invitation to a feast, you’re eating and then you go home. "Oh I feel upset, nausea." There was something wrong in the food you ate, there was something impure in there, so your stomach didn't accept it and you vomited. So the pure clean heart is such that, when there is an action against Allah’s preference and pleasure, then immediately the heart will reject it and say, "I wont accept this." Say SubhaanAllah. Islam is very simple brothers. There's no arguments.
It is not difficult at all to understand the deen. Rather we need to find someone who can explain it to us. Its not difficult at all to understand, but when you understand, then implement it. If you've understood what a pure heart is. The pure heart is that heart whatever instruction comes from Allah ta'ala like this, then you accept it from your heart. "Allah you like it to be done this way, oh Allah accept it." Then he keeps the thirty fasts of Ramadan with passion and desire. Allah's pleasure and preference. Allah said that I want you to do this. Allah likes it that His servant comes and as soon as Fajr prayer begins in the morning, he leaves his bed, mattress, quilt, house. He doesn’t remember anything. Nor his wife or children. He does wudu and runs to the masjid and prays 2 rakat for Fajr. That’s Allah’s pleasure and the heart accepts that. He likes that. No excuses, no barriers. Your heart likes doing this action. Just like your heart likes to count wealth, counting notes, running the business and running after the world. Your heart likes it, that’s why your heart runs after it. If your heart didn't like it, then how would you run after the world. Your heart likes that I do this and that in the world, that’s why you engage in such actions. So whatever the heart likes, the pure clean heart will only like that which Allah likes. So the heart is pure. SubhaanAllah. What a beautiful subject today, if only we understand this subject. A beautiful lesson today. The heart is clean. It doesn't matter how many whispers of Shaytan come, deviating you and saying, "you are destroyed, oh you'll lose out. You don't have Imaan. You're not a strong Muslim." Say, "I don’t care. I want to see the feeling of my heart that am I readily practicing those actions which Allah ta'ala likes, I don’t care at all with the whispers of Shaytan and Jinn because if my heart is correct and clean, then I am going to persevere in these good actions. That’s all we need to do. So if your heart is happy with what Allah is happy with, Fajr time, you hasten to the Masjid. But what do we do, "no no, its okay. I will read at home. I will pray at the earlier time." Allah says I don't care about beginning or after time, all I know is that you pray Fajr in congregation unless you have an excuse, like you are sick or there are big problems that you have. There are shariah excuses which are valid. Some. But if you have no Shariah excuses, you are healthy, you can travel, you can come, there is no distress, no restriction or barrier and your heart likes it that you run, then most definitely, those hearts which are pure do not like to sit at home at prayer time. Say SubhaanAllah. His heart is desperate like a fish when its out of water. His heart is desperate to get to the masjid and quickly join the congregation. If you don't feel like this in every action that Allah ta'ala likes and instructs, Allah says don't swear at anyone, don't dishonour anyone, don’t consume someone's wealth, don't oppress anyone. If your heart likes this and accepts this, I shouldn't do this." "I can never do this." The heart says do this, and then a man comes and says, "ooh do this," sign on this dotted line and inshaAllah we can split the money. No body will know. We will do wrong and money will come to you." This is widespread practice in the world. "Just sign here, sign on this contract. You live here. And you won't even know what’s happening in India. We will make some money. I'll put it in your own name. Half the house is yours, half is mine. Lets deceive. And you're living here, no one will know what you did. He won't know that we tricked him. We will usurp that land, you just sign it." And your heart will shake suddenly. "No, no, i can't do this. Its impossible. I cant do this my friend. May Allah forgive me. No brother I don’t want this money. My heart doesn't feel right." Then understand that your heart is pure mashaaAllah. In the same way, the heart rejects those things which are in Allah’s disobedience, those things which Allah ta'ala has defined to us that He doesn’t like, but we laugh and joke. We like singing. But the heart of the one who is pure, he says, "what is this destruction?! Switch this off. I don’t want this!" The standard of his heart has become such that everything that Allah ta'ala dislikes, he dislikes. So understand that his heart is clean. If you don't have this condition in your life brothers, then what is that situation? He's not from the successful ones. Then he's in deception. It doesn't matter if he's done one thousand Hajj or one thousand Umrah, one thousand recitation of Quran, does one thousand Ramadan, but the state of the heart has not changed. That worship is not clean and then that worship will vanish with the air. It is futile. Because Allah has placed a condition, Imaan and pure heart. قَدۡ أَفۡلَحَ مَن تَزَكَّىٰ
Thats it. End of story. No second or third excuse. So now we need to look inside our hearts. Lets analyse, let's scan. Am I living a life of deception that when Allah's commands come, how many of them do I reject? We chose and select them. We should like that thing which Allah ta'ala likes. That’s it. End of story. Allah likes this and my heart won't accept if I don’t do this. That’s it. My heart doesn't feel like doing what Allah ta'ala doesn't want me to do. SubhaanAllah. So this is Allah ta'ala's instruction and guidance on what we should do to clean our hearts. Say SubhaanAllah. What do we do to make out hearts like this? قَدۡ أَفۡلَحَ مَن تَزَكَّىٰ.
وَذَكَرَ اسْمَ رَبِّهِ فَصَلَّى
What does Allah ta'ala say next? وَذَكَرَ اسْمَ رَبِّهِ فَصَلَّى
Allah clearly says that my creation, if you want to purify your heart. You have faith so if you want to clean your heart then there is a solution and a method which is, doing the dhikr of the name of your Lord. The Quran is prescribing this to us, not a Mawlana sahib, or a Mufti sahib.
قَدۡ أَفۡلَحَ مَن تَزَكَّىٰ.
وَذَكَرَ اسْمَ رَبِّهِ فَصَلَّى
That if you want فلاح success, and be raised with those who are successful, then you must have 2 qualities, faith and a pure heart. And if you want to make your heart pure then there is only one way you can achieve that. And what is that? Recite the name of your Lord, your Creator. Do dhikr of His name. What is His name? His name is Allah. Allah says that you are living in this world and this world will spoil your heart, shaytan will come, various circumstances will come but Allah said if you do dhikr of my name, then I will give you the cure and Allah has given the guarantee that you will most definitely depart from this world with a clean heart. This is the reason we go to the Mashaikh, the Awliyah. Why do we go to their company? To learn the dhikr of Allahs name. Mufti sahib isn't telling you this world so you can debate with him. No Aalim or Sufi is telling you this. Rather, the direct verse of the Quran is speaking to you, there is no hadith even in between. A person's heart becomes so clean by doing dhikr of Allah that Allah’s liking and His liking become one. Here there is another great point which arises here. When we do dhikr of Allah, if you want to determine if your dhikr is successful or not, then Allah has given a clear standard. Whoever’s dhikr is giving him benefit, then the condition of his heart will be such that it will become pure. When a dhaakir begins dhikr and he goes to a shaikh or a wali Allah, then his heart begins to improve and transform. He begins to dislike those things in the world which Allah dislikes and has ordered us to abandon. And he begins to like those things which Allah likes, then consider that his dhikr is successful. SubhaanAllah. Because the objective for which he held the tasbih and began reciting Allahs name and the objective for which he went to the Wali Allah for, he is beginning to attain that objective. It doesn't matter if he gets no Kashf, no dreams, no miracles, no vision, no sight of angels, no enjoyment, no taste, his business has gone downhill and he has distress and problems from the world. It doesn't matter because the dhikr of Allah is not attached to these secondary things.
The dhikr of Allah is attached to the primary thing, is your heart clean or not? That’s the objective of the dhikr of Allah. The rest of it has no link with dhikr. "Oh I'm vanishing, I’m floating in the air, I’m not a wali Allah, I’m not pious. I’m not virtuous. My affairs of the world are not getting easy." Dhikr has no relationship with the world. Whatever situation your life is going to be in, you have to pass through the phases, the ups and the downs. Like a boat in the sea. You travel on the boat. Sometimes the waves take the boat up, sometimes it takes the boat down. Sometimes round and round. Sometimes there's a storm and the boat will keep going up and down but it will keep travelling. Eventually it will reach the coast line. That’s our life as well. Up and down. Rough and smooth. We need to work hard on one thing. To make our hearts pure and remain pure. And we have been told the sign for this. Through dhikr of Allah you gain a pure heart. Consider your dhikr and your company with your shaykh to be successful when you have that change arise in your heart that alhamdulillah whatever Allah ta'ala likes, you begin to like and you will sacrifice however much and whatever you need to in this world. That’s how it is when you like something. When you like something in the world, you sacrifice time and effort for that don’t you? You enjoy giving sacrifice for that. You do it with love. For example, there's a person who runs a market stall and it is snowing in the cold winter. He has to go Scotland and I’ve seen this all my lifelong. He wakes up early morning at 4am. Its cold. They pack their goods in their van. They have a truck and a container and they say, "I’m going Scotland, I am going to put up my stall" and he is happy to drive there through the intense cold. And he is struggling. They fight each other to get a stall in the market so they can go there and work. What is this? They have love for these things in their heart. "I will travel there, make money, count the notes. We will sit down and spend our money." They like that. How much difficult they go through, they are losing their sleeping, petrol cost. My brothers. Allah ta'ala likes it when we get up and struggle and strive and make effort. We should enjoy that when we do it for Allah ta'alas sake. There shouldn't be any dislike or complaints, "oh I have to pray, my eyes don't open. I don’t feel like it. Its too hard. I have to go work I can’t pray." What excuse is this? That means that in your heart you don't like this. The love hasn't entered your heart yet. You have to do more dhikr for this. The successful people with pure hearts present themselves in Allah ta'ala's court. They are those who are happy with Allah ta'ala's pleasure and Allah ta'ala had made jannah for them and they will be successful in the Hereafter. Allah ta’ala has prescribed one clear path for them and if you want to travel on this path, then do my dhikr in high quantity.
وَذَكَرَ اسْمَ رَبِّهِ فَصَلَّى
Do the dhikr of my name morning and evening. Keep doing your Tazkiyah. Am I successful or am I Improving? Am I getting to my destination? The person who has not adopted this path is doing a big mistake. Those poor souls are on the wrong path and they are deviated severely. Understand and come on to the right path. Understand your purpose of life and grab hold of the dhikr of Allah. Engage in abundant remembrance. Connect yourself with a Wali Allah, take his company so he can guide you and explain to you how to do dhikr and question you why you don't do it? Have the intention that "I am engaging in dhikr to improve my heart and please Allah." May Allah swt grant us the ability to implement this. Ameen. Recite Durood shareef.