Are You Missing Laylatul Qadr's Blessings? | Omar Suleiman

Dear brothers and sisters, we begin today by saying, Allah

Mabalirna Leyla Til Qadr.

O Allah, allow us to arrive, to witness, to observe, to honor

the night of power, Leyla Til Qadr.

May Allah SWT allow us to catch it.

May Allah SWT not make us amongst those who are deprived on its day.

May Allah SWT make us amongst those who are forgiven entirely for their sins.

And I actually wanted to go back to a narration,

the Anas of Nomanical, the Allah the Almighty,

narrates from our messenger,

Salallahu alayhi wa sallam,

at the very beginning of Ramadan,

and I want you to imagine the Prophet,

Salallahu alayhi wa sallam ascending the pulpit

on the very first night of Ramadan,

ascending the pulpit to give a declaration

at the very beginning of this month of Ramadan.

So put yourself in Medina

and the Prophet's name is going to announce

what is most important about this month,

and he stands up, Salallahu alayhi wa sallam,

and he says,

The Prophet, Salallahu alayhi wa sallam,

stands up on the very first night of Ramadan,

around the first day of Ramadan,

meaning in its very beginning,

and he says, Salallahu alayhi wa sallam,

that this month has come upon you,

that this month has come upon you,

and in this month there is a single night

that is better than a thousand months,

and whoever is deprived of its goodness

has been deprived of all goodness,

and no one is deprived except for one

who is indeed deprived, Mahrum.

There's so much to unpack from this Hadith,

but to start off with the very idea

that the Prophet, Salallahu alayhi wa sallam,

as he introduces Ramadan,

he chose one thing to focus on in this narration,

as if he's telling you, Salallahu alayhi wa sallam,

in the very beginning of Ramadan,

the hunt is on.

You have to be looking for that night,

and everything about this month

is about finding the forgiveness of Allah,

of Allah, and there is no night in this month

in which more people are forgiven than this night,

and every single thing about this month

is about Baraka, is about blessing,

and finding moments of increase,

and there is no night of increase

like this night in this month,

do not miss out on this month,

and specifically don't miss out on this night.

There's so much to unpack here.

Number one, the fact that the Prophet, Salallahu alayhi wa sallam,

is telling you that the whole month

is indeed surrounding one night,

and so if a person feels as they look back

on the first 20 days,

and say, I don't feel like I did my best,

the prize of the month is still ahead of you,

in the lehdi tatlahu amamak,

as jibri alayhi salam,

with say to the messenger of Allah,

Salallahu alayhi wa sallam,

when the Prophet, Salallahu alayhi salam,

did not know if lehda till qadr had been achieved yet,

that which you seek is still ahead,

and so that which you seek is still ahead.

No matter what happened in the first two-thirds of the month,

that which you seek is still ahead,

which is the forgiveness of your Lord,

and that powerful night, the night of decree.

The second thing dear brothers and sisters

that we unpack from it,

is how the Prophet, Salallahu alayhi wa sallam,

looked at the one who was deprived on that night.

How much do you have to miss out on,

to miss out on that night?

What a state you have to be in to miss out on that night.

But here's the thing,

if you read that hadith at surface level,

then you can take the notion of deprivation

in all sorts of direction.

And so I actually want to spend a little bit of time with this.

What does it mean to be mahrum?

What does it mean to be deprived on that night?

What counts as being deprived?

Because remember that the Prophet, Salallahu alayhi salam,

said,

No, one of you should die,

except that they have a good opinion of Allah.

You're supposed to think well of Allah.

In fact, these supplications that you are repeating

throughout the night of lehda till qadr,

is an expression of personal van billah,

is an expression of a good opinion of God.

So it's really interesting,

because the Prophet, Salallahu alayhi salam,

is saying that the best deed you can die with

is a good opinion of Allah.

And the du'at that you make,

the supplication that you make on that night,

is an expression of a good opinion of Allah,

which is what Allahumma innaka'afu.

O Allah, you are the forgiving one,

to hebbul affa.

You love to forgive.

Fafu'ani.

So forgive me.

How beautiful is that?

The best deed, the best du'at, the best night.

O Allah, you are the forgiving.

You love to forgive.

That's an expression of personal van billah,

a good opinion of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

I expect good from my Lord.

So don't come into these last ten nights,

thinking that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

is setting you up for failure.

No, the fact that you're here,

the fact that you have these ten,

the fact that you have the intention,

to try to catch Laylat al Qadr,

is a sign of good things,

if you respond in a good way.

So who is the one that is mahrum?

Who is the one that's forbidden?

And the scholars say,

if you plug this hadith,

many of the scholars hadiths,

and if you plug this hadith

into the hadith of Abu Hurayra,

or the Allah, on him,

where the Prophet's laisam, once again,

ascends the menbar.

And the menbar of the Prophet's laisam had,

it's two steps to the top.

And so every step that he took,

he said,

Amin, Amin, Amin.

I told you to imagine the Prophet's laisam

in the very beginning of the month,

giving this, giving this bushra,

this glad tidings,

that if you catch this night,

it is better than a thousand months.

Here, the Prophet's laisam is ascending the pulpit,

Amin, Amin, Amin.

And what was the context?

He said,

Jibril Ali, his salam,

the angel Gabriel.

Tanaz, Zalul Malayikah,

the one who comes down on the night of power,

with all of the angels,

to come and record the worship

and the forgiveness of the servants.

Jibril came upon me,

and he made dua against.

He subplicated against,

khaba wa khasr,

aba'ala hulla wa atkhala hinnah,

multiple narrations here.

He is distant from God,

and entered into Jahannam.

Who?

And he said three thing.

The very first one,

mandakhlaa alaihi ramadan,

walaam yufarlah,

hu ramadan comes upon,

and he is not forgiven.

Many of the scholars said,

if you take this hadith of Laylat al Qadr,

the very first one,

and plug it into this one,

then the explanation of that would be,

a person who was present in ramadan,

and present with Laylat al Qadr,

present with that night

that the Prophet's license mentioned,

and is deprived,

i.e. not forgiven,

is deprived,

mahrum,

meaning they are not forgiven.

So Jibril Ali, his salam,

is one who is honored by that night,

and who honors us by the permission

of Allah's salam on that night.

And he's saying,

what a failure,

what a deprived person,

who has ramadan enter upon them,

and leave them without being forgiven.

Now, mention the other two things,

because it'll help you put into context,

what a mahrum person is,

what a deprived person looks like.

The second thing he mentioned,

the one who you are mentioning the presence of,

they don't send salawat upon you,

they don't send peace and blessings upon the Prophet.

It has two things that are embedded in that.

Number one,

and I'm going to say by the way,

that it is shameful,

or eb,

it's truly shameful.

To hear someone,

whose mother tongue is even Arabic.

And the first time they mention Muhammad,

salah Allah,

may prophet Muhammad,

Oh Muhammad and they don't say Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam the first time

Bukhul it's Bakhil the Prophet's voice I mentioned a stinginess

What type of stinginess is that you love the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam the man was the vehicle by which you have

Revelation the purpose of life and you hear his name and you don't say Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam

You say his name like you say the name of a brother you say the name of a friend or someone in the street or someone that you're reading in the history books

It's shameful

What a stingy person what an ungrateful person who hears the name of the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam it does not invoke

Allah's peace and blessings upon him that's our adab our manners with the prophets right the vehicles of Allah's mercy to us

And this man Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he want to be from the ummah of Muhammad Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam

What a Bakhil person what a stingy human being who finds it okay to just throw his name around and again

Someone even whose mother tongue is Arabic. It's one of the weirdest things in the world

I actually had a convert pointed out to me the very first time

He was shocked. He's like this person speaks Arabic as as native tongue and he's saying

Muhammad Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam without saying Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam what's going on here?

Why because you just reduce him?

So that means your stingy end ungrateful and you're missing out on a simple deed because sending

Salawat on the prophets like them is such a means of elevation

Why would you miss out on something so easy for yourself?

So at least the first time in your conversation when the prophets Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is brought up

You send Salawat on him. Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam

Afterwards, it's voluntary and if you increase it's good for you

And the third person was who the one whose parents reach old age in their presence and they don't honor them

It's one thing when a child doesn't understand the father of the parents

The virtue of the parents over them

It's another thing when you get older and you see your parents age and the prophets like some mentioned

That either one of your parents or both of your parents

But it's another thing when your parents are elderly and you still have the same behavior towards them

And you're not doing the bare minimum of al-bir

Honoring them honoring their position upon you makes you stingy and ungrateful

Like you're trying to miss out. Allah has put such a presence of reward in front of you

You're trying to miss out. Let's connect this back to who is the maharom person

Who is the person who's deprived on lailat al-Qadr because these are characteristics of a deprived person of a maharom

Is the one who is maharom the one who sleeps a few extra hours on lailat al-Qadr because

You know they have worked the next day or they got really tired

They intended to come to the masjid at 3 a.m

But they ended up sleeping until 3 45 does that person wake up and say I'm maharom and cry and say that

I did not catch lailat al-Qadr is maharom the sister that can't pray the night of lailat al-Qadr because of circumstances out of her control

Is the maharom the person who has a health issue or has a sickness to where they just can't stand up during the night and pray

Is the maharom a person who doesn't read too much Quran on that night is a maharom a person who doesn't make enough

On that night none of those things are true

First of all the prophets of Allah is and i'm said that if a person intends a good deed

But they are withheld from it because of sickness or travel meaning a circumstance out of their control

Then Allah records for them that act of worship as if they would have done it perfectly

That's a good opinion of Allah

Because Allah loves to reward and Allah loves to forgive so you put that away

If Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala forbade you from one form of good on that night

He's recorded it for you inshaAllah ta'ala exert yourself in the other forms of good

The maharom is a person who is absolutely negligence and the scholars say two things make a person maharom

Number one not establishing the obligations of that time

And that's why I said Sayyidin Musaib said whoever prays at Isha and Jamaha just pray Isha

At least start there pray Isha and Fajr right whoever fails the obligations of that night and two

Whoever sins on that night he might be thinking i'm not going to be sitting on the little qadr

But what a maharom person you would be

To fight with a security guard fight with one of the mezzat volunteers or fight with the musalli as you're walking in or start

You know see someone out in the parking lot at 4 a.m

After you finished your night of prayer and then you're talking to that person and you say hey

You heard about that person and throw a a a slide comment towards them

What a maharom person you would be to and i don't know i hope no one in in this

Mezzat would do this to be on social media backbiting someone or looking around

You know with with the sins of the eyes during that night of lait of qadr what a maharom person you would be what a deprived person

So deprivation is not doing the bare minimum and

Sinning meaning what that means that if you are just

Presence and you just fulfill the obligations the bare minimum

And you don't commit sins

Intentionally in shah Allah ta'ala you caught lait of qadr

That's a good opinion of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

So don't you know sit there and be depressed at the end of the night say, you know

I don't think I caught lait of qadr and i'm maharom no and there are multiple narrations to this

I can't get into for the sake of time

But here's the second part of that the second part of that is that some of the scholars mentioned

That catching lait of qadr means simply not being maharom not being deprived on that night and it's khairom in al fi shahab

It's better than a thousand months, but they said on top of that

Every deed that you do is multiplied accordingly

So this is where al mazeed minata'a comes in to increase in the good deeds every

Vicar is

Multiply as if you're doing it a thousand months every prayer every du'at is as if you're doing it a thousand months

How beautiful and powerful is that and so you got that bare minimum entrance?

Have a good opinion of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and say that du'at and mean it

I have a good opinion of you oh Allah that if I reach these last ten nights and I

Impresence and I'm not negligent in shahAllah ta'ala i'm written amongst those who got lait of qadr

But I don't want to just get lait of qadr

I don't want just one lifetime of good deeds. I want more and more and more and more

It's like the scholars when they mentioned hedge the logic of hedge

The hedge has the acceptance but still every letter that you read or the omra that you go to every letter of Quran that you read

The tears that you shed the du'az that you make that's on top of that the ibn-e-Lahi ta'ala and so truly come into these ten nights

Allah ma innaka'afuwan to habla'afua fa'afuaani Allah ma innaka'afuwan kareemwan to habla'afua fa'afuaani

Oh Allah you are forgiving you are generous you love to forgive so forgive me may Allah not make us amongst the

deprived may Allah not make us amongst the negligent may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us to be amongst those who are fully

Forgiven on that night and forbidden from the fire Allah ma'am

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