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Auto-generated transcript: Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem. Alhamdulillah, Allahumma salli wa sallim ‘ala sharafi al-mubayyin wal-mursalin Muhammadin Rasulullah ﷺ. Many of us are afraid to be Dais because we fear the position or the work itself. However, the position of the Dai is not the problem; it is the work that matters. This job was given to… Continue reading Da’awa – 3

Bismillah,2151. APAKAH IBLIS JUGA DIRAHMATI ALLAH ﷻ ?Riyaadhush ShaalihiinChapter 51 | HarapanQS. Al-A'raf: 156Dan tetapkanlah untuk kami kebajikan di dunia ini dan di akhirat; sesungguhnya kami kembali (bertaubat) kepada Engkau. Allah berfirman: "Siksa-Ku akan Kutimpakan kepada siapa yang Aku kehendaki dan rahmat-Ku meliputi segala sesuatu. Maka akan Aku tetapkan rahmat-Ku untuk orang-orang yang bertakwa, yang menunaikan zakat dan orang-orang yang beriman kepada ayat-ayat Kami".

Bismillah,2152. SUDAH KOKOHKAH KALIMAT TAUHIDMU?Riyaadhush ShaalihiinBab 51 | HarapanHadits 417 | Hadits Ubadah bin ash-Shamit Radhiallahu 'anhuDari Ubadah bin ash-Shamit Radhiallahu 'anhu, beliau berkata, Rasulullah bersabda,منْ شَهِدَ أَنْ لا إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ لاَ شَرِيكَ لَهُ ، وأَنَّ مُحمَّداً عبْدُهُ وَرَسُولُهُ ، وأَنَّ عِيسى عَبْدُ اللَّهِ وَرَسُولُهُ ، وَكَلِمَتُهُ أَلْقاها إِلى مَرْيَمَ وَرُوحٌ مِنْهُ ، وأَنَّ الجَنَّةَ حَقٌّ وَالنَّارَ حَقٌّ ، أَدْخَلَهُ اللَّهُ الجَنَّةَ عَلى ما كانَ مِنَ العمَلِ » متفقٌ عليه ."Barangsiapa bersaksi bahwa tidak ada Sesembahan yang berhak disembah kecuali Allah semata, tidak ada sekutu bagiNya, dan bahwa Muhammad adalah hamba dan RasulNya, dan bahwa Isa adalah hamba Allah, Rasul-Nya, kalimatNya yang disampaikan kepada Maryam, dan ruh dariNya, dan bahwa surga itu benar adanya, neraka itu benar adanya, maka Allah akan memasukkannya ke dalam surga, bagaimana pun amal perbuatan yang dilakukannya." (Muttafaq'alaih)

Bismillah,Sering Teringat Dosa Masa Lalu, Salahkah?(I Often Remember Past Sins, is This Wrong?)Ustadz Muhammad Nuzul Dzikri -Hafizhahumullah-Video Tanya Jawab dari Kajian Wanita No. 216“Akhlak Tertinggi Ahli Surga”www.youtube.com/live/n6Fd9q3-qVI

Bismillah,Saudaraku, siapa yang bisa tenang kala kondisi ekonomi mengalami turbulensi?Mari simak cuplikan Kajian Rutin Tadzkiratus saami' yang disampaikan Ustadz Muhammad Nuzul Dzikri dengan judul “214. JALAN KELUAR & REZEKI BAGI ORANG YANG BERTAQWA.” berikut ini agar kita bisa kembali bangkit dari kesedihan.Ingin tahu lebih banyak soal zakat?InsyaAllah, bisa menghubungi LAZ Muhajir melalui 0822-1121-1136Zakat bersihkan jiwa, tebarkan kebaikan.

Bismillah,Kunci Melembutkan Hati Ayah agar Mau NgajiUstadz Muhammad Nuzul Dzikri -HafizhahumullahVideo Tanya Jawab dari Kajian Riyaadhus Shalihiin No. 2021“Anak Sambungku Suka Membanding-Bandingkanku dengan Ibunya”

Bismillah,Aku Takut Mati!?Ustadz Muhammad Nuzul Dzikri -Hafizhahumullah-Video Tanya Jawab dari Kajian Tematik“Lembaran Baru Setelah Berqurban & Berhaji”

Bismillah,Membangun Rutinitas Adalah Awal Perubahan(Building Routines is The Beginning of Change)Ustadz Muhammad Nuzul Dzikri -Hafizhahumullah-Video Animasi dari Kajian Tadzkiratus Saami' No. 234“Dua Unsur Agar Kita Bisa Sabar”

Hol ko waɗi mogo no janngine e nder duɗe?   Ko adii ɗuum, gila e duɗe leslese haa e duɗal jaaɓi haaɗtirde, kala duɗal ina joginoo dental mogiyankooɓe, tawi ko janngooɓe. Kono hannde, ngal ɗoo gollal ina ɗesi majjude.   Hol ko saabi  ngool majjugol?   Holi battane mogo e nder nguurndam janngooɓe? Ngam jaabaade ɗee naamne eɗen ngonndi e Thierno Ibrahima Sory Tounkara jannginoowo mogo to duɗal “institut supérieur des arts en Guinée”   e Amsatou Balde mogoyanke jeyaaɗo to Senegal. Bismillah mon e taskaram men Laawol Ganndal e Needi. 

Bismillah,Belajar Arti Sabar dari Seporsi Pare(Learning Patience from a plate of BitterMelon)Ustadz Muhammad Nuzul Dzikri -Hafizhahumullah-Video Pendek dari Kajian Tadzkiratus Samii' No. 251“Sabar Itu Berat, Tidak Sabar…”

Bismillah,Mentalitas Seorang Muslim dalam Bekerja(A Muslim's Work Ethic)Ustadz Muhammad Nuzul Dzikri -Hafizhahumullah-Video Animasi dari Khutbah Jumat“Totalitas Dalam Menunaikan Amanah”

Bismillah,Alasan Orang Bisa Tenang saat Krisis(The Reason Some People Can Stay Calm in Critical Situations)Ustadz Muhammad Nuzul Dzikri -Hafizhahumullah-Video Pendek dari Kajian Tematik“Buah yang Anda Dapatkan dari Ibadah Haji & Qurban”

Bismillah,250. SAAT KITA KEHILANGAN SEBUAH NIKMATTadzkiratus saami' Ustadz Muhammad Nuzul Dzikri

Bismillah,2149. KALA ISTRI TAK LAGI MENGHORMATI SUAMITanya JawabUstadz Muhammad Nuzul Dzikri

Bismillah,280. JAGALAH CAHAYA HATIMUKajian WanitaKitab Al Wabilush ShayyibPasal: Keutamaan berdzikirHati bisa berkarat karena dua hal: kelalaian dan dosa-dosa. Pembersihnya juga ada dua: istighfar dan dzikir. Siapa yang lalainya lebih banyak maka karatnya akan menutupi hatinya, dan karatnya itu sesuai dengan kelalaiannya. Apabila hati berkarat, segala sesuatu tidak akan menjadi jelas sehingga ia melihat kebathilan sebagai sebuah kebenaran dan kebenaran sebagai sebuah kebathilan. Sebab, ketika hati dikerumuni oleh karat, menjadi gelaplah hati itu dan hakikat dari sesuatu tidak nampak baginya sebagaimana aslinya.Apabila hati telah dikerumuni oleh karat dan menjadi hitam serta ditutupi oleh kegelapan, maka akan rusaklah pandangan dan pemahamannya sehingga ia tidak akan menerima kebenaran dan tidak mengingkari kebathilan. Inilah hukuman terberat bagi hati. Sumbernya adalah kelalaian dan mengikuti hawa nafsu karena keduanya (lalai dan mengikuti hawa nafsu) akan menghapus cahaya hati dan membutakan penglihatannya.

Bismillah,2150. RAHMAT-KU MELIPUTI SEGALA SESUATURiyaadhush ShaalihiinBAB 51 | HarapanQS. Al A'raf: 156Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala berfirman,۞ وَٱكْتُبْ لَنَا فِى هَٰذِهِ ٱلدُّنْيَا حَسَنَةً وَفِى ٱلْءَاخِرَةِ إِنَّا هُدْنَآ إِلَيْكَ ۚ قَالَ عَذَابِىٓ أُصِيبُ بِهِۦ مَنْ أَشَآءُ ۖ وَرَحْمَتِى وَسِعَتْ كُلَّ شَىْءٍ ۚ فَسَأَكْتُبُهَا لِلَّذِينَ يَتَّقُونَ وَيُؤْتُونَ ٱلزَّكَوٰةَ وَٱلَّذِينَ هُم بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا يُؤْمِنُونَDan tetapkanlah untuk kami kebajikan di dunia ini dan di akhirat; sesungguhnya kami kembali (bertaubat) kepada Engkau. Allah berfirman: "Siksa-Ku akan Kutimpakan kepada siapa yang Aku kehendaki dan rahmat-Ku meliputi segala sesuatu. Maka akan Aku tetapkan rahmat-Ku untuk orang-orang yang bertakwa, yang menunaikan zakat dan orang-orang yang beriman kepada ayat-ayat Kami". (QS. Al-A'raf: 156)

Ñannde 31 lewru tataɓuru ɓenndu nduu e sahaa ñalawma teddiniraaɗo Daara, Hooreejo Senegaal, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, huniima hesɗitinde e ɓeydude nafoore daaraaji (duɗe Quraan) e nder leydi ndii. Laamu Senegaal ɓami anniya naatnude duɗe Kuraana en e jande ngenndiire.Holno oo anniya jogori laatoraade. Ngam heɓde heen ko laaɓi eden ngondi e Mama KANE SOW jannginowoo tawaaɗo dental rewɓe jinnaaɓe yarlatiiɓe ina njanngina e nder duuɗe kuraana no wi'ee NDAYOU DAARA. Bismillah mon.SOW

Bismillah,Alhamdulillah, Allah mudahkan ikhtiar kita bersama untuk berkunjung dan menemani perjuangan keluarga dengan anak berkebutuhan khusus.Di balik senyum keluarga yang kita temui di hari-hari itu, mereka sedang berjuang setiap harinya menjaga anak-anak istimewa yang Allah titipkan. Mereka tidak mengeluh karena mereka tahu, setiap ujian datang bersama pertolongan Allah.“Tadinya saya dan bapaknya itu udah down ya, pesimis. Karena kan kalau pakai selang Nasogastrik, gimana ya susunya. Butuh banyak banget. Jadi saya suka irit. Tapi, saya nikmat banget ini ngurusin dia, dari sakitnya, UGD-nya. Kata Al-Qur'an juga, ‘Di balik kesulitan pasti ada kemudahan.' Jadi takdir Allah masya Allah gitu, indah,” ungkap salah seorang ibu.Mari panjatkan doa terbaik untuk mereka, maupun bersedekah rutin melalui program

Bismillah,Saudaraku, kegalauan dan kesedihan seringkali hadir dalam hidup kita. Tapi apakah kita sudah memahami esensinya?Mari simak cuplikan Kajian Rutin Tadzkiratus saami' yang disampaikan Ustadz Muhammad Nuzul Dzikri dengan judul “214. JALAN KELUAR & REZEKI BAGI ORANG YANG BERTAQWA.” berikut ini agar kita bisa kembali bangkit dari kesedihan.Ingin tahu lebih banyak soal zakat?InsyaAllah, bisa menghubungi LAZ Muhajir melalui 0822-1121-1136Zakat bersihkan jiwa, tebarkan kebaikan.

Bismillah,Gerak-Gerik Teman yang Harus Diwaspadai(Signs You Should be Aware of In a Friend)Ustadz Muhammad Nuzul Dzikri -Hafizhahumullah-Video Tanya Jawab dari Kajian“Bolehkah Istikharah Berulang-Ulang?”

Bismillah,2147. AKU GAGAL, AKU KECEWA SAMA ALLAH?Tanya JawabRiyaadhush Shaalihiin

Bismillah,2148. KETIKA HATI TIDAK LAGI BERGETARTanya JawabUstadz Muhammad Nuzul Dzikri

Bismillah,Tak Ingin Menikah Lagi Usai Suami Wafat(Choosing Not to Remarry after My Husband Passed Away)Ustadz Muhammad Nuzul Dzikri -Hafizhahumullah-Video Tanya Jawab dari Kajian Wanita No. 209“Cermin Hati Wanita yang Halus & Lembut”

Bismillah,Pesan Penting buat Perempuan yang Lagi Jatuh Cinta(An Important Message for Women Who Are Falling in Love)Ustadz Muhammad Nuzul Dzikri -Hafizhahumullah-Video Pendek dari Kajian Tadzkiratus Saami'No. 249“4 Tingkatan Orang yang Bersabar”

Senegaal yuɓɓinii mbatu winndereyankeewu mbuñaari "Yidan" ko wol goo ko batu nguu ina waɗe nder Afrik, tawi ina hawridini e ko ina ɓura 200 yimɓe mawɓe anndanɓe needi e nder winndere ndee ngam yeewtidde e peeje baawɗe waylude ngonka jaŋde duunde he. Koɗo men e Taskaram men Laawol Ganndal e Needi ko Mamadou Amadou Ly, gardiiɗo gollorduFedde nde wona laamu yankoore ngam ƴellitde jaŋde (ARED) e keɓɗo mbuñaari Yidan 2025, kono kadi Daraniiɗo ɗemɗe ngenndiije e nder jaŋde sukaaɓe. Bismillah

Bismillah,2145. HARAPAN BAGI YANG TIDAK MENDUSTAKAN & TIDAK BERPALINGRiyaadhush ShaalihiinBab 51 | HarapanQS. Thaha: 48Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala berfirman,إِنَّا قَدْ أُوحِىَ إِلَيْنَآ أَنَّ ٱلْعَذَابَ عَلَىٰ مَن كَذَّبَ وَتَوَلَّىٰSesungguhnya telah diwahyukan kepada kami bahwa siksa itu (ditimpakan) atas orang-orang yang mendustakan dan berpaling. (QS. Thaha: 48)

Bismillah,2144. HARAPAN DI BALIK ANCAMAN-NYARiyaadhus ShaalihiinBab 51 | HarapanQS. Saba': 17Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala berfirman,ذَٰلِكَ جَزَيْنَٰهُم بِمَا كَفَرُوا۟ ۖ وَهَلْ نُجَٰزِىٓ إِلَّا ٱلْكَفُورَDemikianlah Kami memberi balasan kepada mereka karena kekafiran mereka. Dan Kami tidak menjatuhkan azab (yang demikian itu), melainkan hanya kepada orang-orang yang sangat kafir. (QS. Saba': 17)

Bismillah,2146. MEREKA TAHU TAPI MEREKA MENOLAK Riyaadhush ShaalihiinBab 51 | HarapanQS. Thaha: 48Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala berfirman,إِنَّا قَدْ أُوحِىَ إِلَيْنَآ أَنَّ ٱلْعَذَابَ عَلَىٰ مَن كَذَّبَ وَتَوَلَّىٰSesungguhnya telah diwahyukan kepada kami bahwa siksa itu (ditimpakan) atas orang-orang yang mendustakan dan berpaling. (QS. Thaha: 48)

Bismillah,SEPERTI BAYI YANG BARU LAHIRKhutbah JumatMasjid Nur SalmaCentennial TowerUstadz Muhammad Nuzul Dzikri Hafizhahumullah

Bismillah,Asupan Gizi Terbaik untuk Jiwa(The Best Nutrition for The Soul)Ustadz Muhammad Nuzul Dzikri -Hafizhahumullah-Video pendek Riyaadhush Shaalihiin No. 1882“Pekerjaan Baru Telah Melalaikanku”

Bismillah,Meminta Surga Tertinggi = Meminta Ujian?(Asking for the Highest Paradise = Asking for Trials?)Ustadz Muhammad Nuzul Dzikri -Hafizhahumullah-Video Tanya Jawab dari Kajian Riyaadhus Shaalihiin No. 2027“Siapa yang Boleh Meminta Surga Firdaus?”

Bismillah,279. CARA MENGHILANGKAN KARAT HATIMUKajian WanitaKitab Al Wabilush ShayyibPasal: Keutamaan berdzikirTidak diragukan bahwa hati itu bisa berkarat sebagaimana timah dan perak berkarat, dan pembersihnya adalah dzikir, karena sesungguhnya dzikir itu akan membersihkannya hingga seperti cermin yang putih bersih. Apabila dzikir ditinggalkan, hati pun akan berkarat; dan apabila berdzikir, hati pun akan bersih dari karatnya.Hati bisa berkarat karena dua hal: kelalaian dan dosa-dosa. Pembersihnya juga ada dua: istighfar dan dzikir. Siapa yang lalainya lebih banyak maka karatnya akan menutupi hatinya, dan karatnya itu sesuai dengan kelalaiannya. Apabila hati berkarat, segala sesuatu tidak akan menjadi jelas sehingga ia melihat kebathilan sebagai sebuah kebenaran dan kebenaran sebagai sebuah kebathilan. Sebab, ketika hati dikerumuni oleh karat, menjadi gelaplah hati itu dan hakikat dari sesuatu tidak nampak baginya sebagaimana aslinya.

Bismillah,2143. BOLEHKAH ISTIKHARAH BERULANG-ULANG?Tanya JawabRiyaadhus Shaalihiin

Bismillah,2142. MAU MENIKAH, MESTIKAH SETARA?Riyaadhush ShaalihiinTanya Jawab

Once a month I teach a tafseer class at UWA, and tonight we finished Surah al-Fatihah. We started back in April, paused in May while I was at Hajj, and picked it up again this week.This is the most important surah in our lives. We recite it at least seventeen times a day — and there has to be a reason Allah asks that of us. The whole reason we sit with it is to see how seven short verses, recited so many times that they almost slip past us, are actually a map for how to live.We began by going back over the verses we'd already covered, because the later ones don't land without them.Grounded is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Bismillah — In the name of AllahThe first thing to notice is that Bismillah isn't a complete sentence. “In the name of Allah” — and then what? In Arabic this is a shibh jumla, a fragment. The sentence is left open on purpose, and you complete it with your action.That's why the Prophet ﷺ said that anything important begun without Bismillah is cut off from blessing. When you say it, you're invoking Allah's help before you've even started.From that one word, three things follow.First, it's a filter. When you put Allah's name on something, the wrong things become hard to do. I mentioned the Indonesian sheikh who was asked whether smoking is makruh or haram. He refused to give a fiqhi answer. He simply asked the man: can you say Bismillah before you smoke? The man said no, of course not, it wouldn't be appropriate. Then you already know the answer. Put a Bismillah in front of a thing, and you find out very quickly what it's worth.Second, it's a mindset. When you do something in the name of someone great, you raise your game. A footballer plays differently for his country than for his local club — the colours change how seriously he takes it. So when a Muslim acts in the name of Allah, he doesn't do things half-heartedly. The Prophet ﷺ told us Allah loves itqan — excellence, doing a thing to the best of your ability. You see it in the smallest acts, like taking wudu carefully without wasting water, and you see it across the whole of Muslim civilisation. Walk through the old mosques of Andalusia and look at the detail in the calligraphy, the care in every surface. That care begins at Bismillah. Allah is beautiful, and He loves beauty.Third, it's our source of barakah. Because we're invoking Allah's help, we stay humble when we succeed — we know it was His work through us, not our own greatness — and we stay calm when we fail, knowing there may be something better in it. We're not euphoric in success or crushed in failure. We did it Bismillah, and we leave the outcome to Him.Grounded is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Alhamdulillah — All praise is for AllahThen comes gratitude — and gratitude, it turns out, is the real engine of human happiness.There's a study I keep coming back to, out of UC Berkeley and UC Davis. They took people struggling with depression and split them into groups. One group received nothing. One received medication. One was given gratitude work — every day, write down the things you're thankful for. After a month, the group that did nothing got worse, the medicated group improved, and the gratitude group improved just as much as the medicated one.But the follow-up study found something sharper. Gratitude has pillars. To be grateful you need three things: the beneficiary (you, the one receiving), the benefit (the thing itself), and the benefactor (the one who gave it).When a friend buys you a kebab, all three are obvious — you know exactly who to thank. But who do you thank for good rain on a morning you love? For the parents you didn't choose? For children born healthy? You had no hand in any of it. The Bureau of Meteorology reports the weather; it doesn't send it.This is why, for those who removed God, the gratitude eventually collapses — the mind quietly asks, who am I actually thanking? It's no accident that the self-help shelves are filling with crystals and auras and the old paganism is creeping back. People are reaching for a power to thank and finding nothing there.We already have the answer. Alhamdulillah. And the fact that Allah even taught us who to thank is itself a thing to be grateful for — which is why it becomes an endless loop. Alhamdulillah for the Alhamdulillah.Rabb al-'alamin — Lord of all worldsSo who is this we're thanking? Allah is Rabb — and Rabb doesn't just mean Lord. It carries the meaning of nurturing. Not a creator who set the universe running by its own laws and stepped back, but One who creates, sustains, and nurtures every moment. And al-'alamin — everything that exists besides Him.Then immediately: ar-Rahman, ar-Rahim.Why mercy again, so soon after Bismillah? Because it isn't repetition. Imam al-Tabari disliked calling anything in the Qur'an repetition — we repeat ourselves only when we've run out of better things to say, and Allah never has. The mercy here is placed deliberately. The word Rabb — Lord, Master — can stir fear; this is a power that can do anything to us and we can do nothing back. So the instant that fear rises, Allah answers it with love. He is not a Lord laying traps so you'll trip and fall into the fire. Every law He sets is for our benefit, not His — if all eight billion of us turned away tomorrow, it would take nothing from His majesty, and only harm ourselves.This is the balance the scholars call khawf and raja', fear and hope. Lean only on hope and you grow careless; lean only on fear and you despair. Rabb al-'alamin and ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, side by side, hold you upright.Maliki yawm id-din — Master of the Day of JudgmentThis verse is read two ways — Malik (King) and Maalik (Owner) — and here is something worth understanding about our recensions. The different readings of the Qur'an don't contradict each other the way variant manuscripts elsewhere might. They complete each other.A king and an owner aren't the same. I own this iPad — I don't call myself its king. As owner I can use it, lend it, smash it, and no one can question me; I control every detail. But you don't own a country, you reign over it — a king sets the laws that govern the whole. The owner handles the detail, the king handles the big picture. Allah is both. On that Day He sets every rule — who speaks, who goes where, when it begins — and He holds every single soul down to the smallest detail.And notice the word din. Allah could have said yawm al-qiyamah. He chose din, which in Arabic is one vowel from dayn — debt. Religion and debt are bound together, because the reason we worship at all is a debt of gratitude we owe Him.The Prophet ﷺ embodied this. He prayed through the night until his feet swelled, and when Aisha asked why — when Allah had already forgiven him entirely — he answered: should I not be a grateful servant?That's the summit. People worship for different reasons. Some out of fear of the Fire — valid. Some to bargain, O Allah, I have an exam — also valid, also sincere. Al-Ghazali called these levels: the slave who obeys out of fear of beating, the merchant who trades. But the highest is the one who worships out of sheer gratitude, moved by love.An easy way to check where you sit — I use it on myself. Look at how you set your alarm for Fajr. If sunrise is 7:15 and I set it for 7:00, just enough to make the prayer before it's lost, I'm moving out of fear of missing it. The one moved by gratitude sets it for 5:00 — time for tahajjud, some Qur'an, then Fajr. Same prayer. Very different relationship.And this debt isn't only with Allah. The Day of Judgment is the day all debts are settled — including the ones we owe each other. The Prophet ﷺ told us of the true bankrupt: a man who arrives with a mountain of good deeds, sees his scale, thinks he's bound for Paradise — and then the people he wronged come forward. He cheated me. He hit me. He slandered me. His good deeds are handed out one by one until they run dry, and when they're gone, their sins are loaded onto him instead. He started rich and ended in ruin.So al-Fatihah reminds us, seventeen times a day, that everything we do is being counted. This is why the Qur'an says prayer restrains us from indecency — at Fajr you're reminded twice, at Dhuhr four times, before the day can pull you off course. Maliki yawm id-din. Settle your debts before they're settled for you.The turnUp to here, every verse has been about Allah — describing Him, praising Him from a kind of distance. Then the whole surah pivots.Iyyaka na'budu wa iyyaka nasta'in — You alone we worship, You alone we askIn Arabic you'd normally begin with the verb. Allah front-loads iyyaka — “You” — and that inversion is where the word only comes from. It isn't written in the verse; it's created by the word order. Only You we worship. Only You we ask. And He says it twice, to drive it home.Then look at na'budu. We translate it “worship,” and we shrink that to rituals — prayer, fasting, dhikr. But its root means slave. A slave has handed over his freedom; he doesn't get to say no, not this one. So this is far bigger than the window of prayer. Every part of life — how we work, how we rest, how we treat people, how we entertain ourselves — belongs to Allah.People hear “slave” and recoil. Translators reach for “servant” instead, and even that's going out of fashion. But enslaving yourself to Allah is the one freedom that's real — because we are never as free as we imagine.Ask a child almost anywhere in the world to recognise the golden arches and they can, often before they can read. They link it to happiness — the happy meal did its work. But be honest: is that the best burger you've ever had? Is that the best playground in your city? The parks in Perth are better. We didn't choose to want it; a marketing machine chose for us.Or take diamonds. You “need” one to propose — except diamonds are neither rare nor precious. They're abundant; the scarcity is manufactured. The entire idea was a De Beers campaign from the 1920s, and it reshaped what a whole civilisation believes love requires.Even right and wrong get sold to us. Things shift from forbidden to acceptable not because the science changed but because someone with deep pockets lobbied hard enough. A hundred years ago, women in Perth dressed almost like Muslim women — high collars, long sleeves, covered ankles. A century later they're barely clothed, and it's called freedom. Yet the bikini was designed by a man. How is that liberation?So iyyaka na'budu hands us a fixed point. Our right and wrong, our values, our whole standard comes from Allah alone — and that's exactly what makes us stable when everything else is being marketed at us. We reaffirm it seventeen times a day.And iyyaka nasta'in — only You we ask for help. Of course we ask people for help too. But a believer knows that if someone helps me, the help still came through Allah. When I drink to quench my thirst, it isn't the water doing it — it's Allah, using the water as His means. Even so, the Prophet ﷺ told us that whoever doesn't thank people hasn't truly thanked Allah. So this isn't an excuse to skip past gratitude to the person in front of you. Thanking them is part of thanking Him.Ihdina as-sirat al-mustaqim — Guide us the straight pathNow, finally, we ask for something. And of everything a person could ask the Lord of all worlds for — wealth, relief, rescue — the prayer lands on guidance.And there's no “to.” If Allah meant guide us toward the path, the Arabic would include ila. He leaves it out. Professor Quraish Shihab puts it well: if you ask me the way to the musalla, I can point — out the door, left, right, right again. That's directions, and goodbye. But ihdina sirat al-mustaqim, with no ila, is the other kind — come, let's go, I'll walk you there myself. So we're not asking Allah to show us the path from a distance. We're asking Him to walk it with us — every step, every decision, sometimes hour by hour.Then the word sirat itself. Arabic has several words for path — sabil, tariq — but sirat is a wide one. Its root means to swallow something whole; a sirat is broad enough to swallow crowds. This matters. The straight path isn't a narrow ledge for our group alone. It's vast. Whoever prays as we pray, faces our qiblah, eats our slaughter — the Prophet ﷺ called that person a Muslim. We can disagree sharply on creed and method and still not expel one another from the path.And within that one wide road there are subul — lanes. Allah says of those who strive, We will guide them to Our ways — plural. Some people reach Allah most easily through prayer; sunnah prayers come light to them. For others it's fasting beyond Ramadan, or teaching, or feeding the poor, or caring for orphans and single mothers. Different gifts, different lanes, same road.Which means I have no business looking down on anyone. I might memorise more Qur'an than the next person and assume I'm above him — when he may be carrying half his community on his back while I spend my time reciting. Allah handed out different talents on purpose. Use yours as your lane to Him, and leave the contempt behind.The path of those blessed — and the two who lost itAllah doesn't leave the path abstract. He names who's already on it: the path of those You have blessed. Elsewhere He tells us who they are — the prophets, the truthful, the martyrs, the righteous. So this road isn't some untrodden wilderness we have to hack through. People have walked it ahead of us. Find your heroes among them.We're built to follow heroes — it's why influencers now out-earn the executives of the platforms they post on. So Allah meets that instinct and points it somewhere worthy. We should know our prophets. We should know the siddiqin — Abu Bakr, the certified truthful. The martyrs — Umar and Uthman. The righteous companions, each one.If our children can name all eleven players on a football team but not the ten companions promised Paradise, something has gone wrong in the home. I'm not against knowing the players — some people can tell you the exact weight of the racquet Federer uses, custom-made, not the commercial one. Fine. But then let's also know the length and weight of our Prophet's sword. The more we know our heroes, the more we love them, and the more we want to become like them.Then the final turn: not the path of those who earned anger, nor of those who went astray. The classical scholars sometimes named specific groups, but I prefer the reading that looks at character — and it ties the whole surah together.Look back at the seven verses. The opening ones — Bismillah, Alhamdulillah, ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, Maliki yawm id-din — are verses of knowledge. They tell us things. The later ones — only You we worship, guide us — are verses of action. We do something with them.So the two who lose the path are:* The one who has knowledge and refuses to act on it — that's the one who earned anger. He knew and chose not to.* The one who acts without knowledge — that's the one astray. All effort, no guidance, lost despite his sincerity.There's a hadith — discussed by the scholars, used by al-Mundhiri to spur us — where the angels come first for those who knew the Qur'an and didn't live it, before the idol-worshippers, and when those people protest, the answer comes: are the one who knew and the one who didn't know the same? Disobedience out of knowledge is heavier than disobedience out of ignorance.The complete surah is both together: knowledge and action. You know, and you act on what you know.Seven verses. And the Prophet ﷺ told us this is a conversation — every time we recite it, Allah answers, line by line:When you say Alhamdulillahi rabbil 'alamin, Allah says: My servant has praised Me. When you say ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, He says: My servant has glorified Me. And when you say ihdina sirat al-mustaqim, He says: This is for My servant — and for him is what he asked.That's the conversation we have with our Lord at least seventeen times a day. Tonight we finally heard the whole of it.One more thingAt the end of tonight's class, I opened something I've been building for a while.It's called Grounded — a way to actually learn the Qur'an you recite, instead of reading a translation once and forgetting it. It follows the same shape as the class itself: you learn an ayah, you recall it, and then you ground it in a daily habit. One ayah a day. About fifteen minutes.We start, of course, with al-Fatihah — the same surah we've just finished.It's been in private beta with my own students at Qaswa, who've been on it for a while now — competitive enough that some of them stay up at night trying to climb the leaderboard, only to wake up and find they've been overtaken. Tonight I opened it to the UWA cohort as the next group in.If you're a paid subscriber to this Substack, you're next in line. I'll be sending invitations before long, and you'll be among the first outside these classes to join.Stay tuned. Next month, a new surah.Here's the fuller version. Every point gets room to build the way it did in the room, and the app section now places UWA correctly — Qaswa students were already on it, UWA is the second cohort. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.grounded.day/subscribe

Bismillah,2141 JIKA AKU BELUM BERTAUBATRiyaadhush ShaalihiinBab 51 | HarapAyat ke-1 | QS. Az-Zumar: 53Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala berfirman,۞ قُلْ يَٰعِبَادِىَ ٱلَّذِينَ أَسْرَفُوا۟ عَلَىٰٓ أَنفُسِهِمْ لَا تَقْنَطُوا۟ مِن رَّحْمَةِ ٱللَّهِ ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَغْفِرُ ٱلذُّنُوبَ جَمِيعًا ۚ إِنَّهُۥ هُوَ ٱلْغَفُورُ ٱلرَّحِيمُKatakanlah: "Hai hamba-hamba-Ku yang malampaui batas terhadap diri mereka sendiri, janganlah kamu berputus asa dari rahmat Allah. Sesungguhnya Allah mengampuni dosa-dosa semuanya. Sesungguhnya Dialah Yang Maha Pengampun lagi Maha Penyayang. (QS. Az-Zumar: 53)

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Michael Jackson-film, Bohemian Rhapsody-mítosz és a foci-VB amerikai káosza ep. 317   Ebben a MÓKA Live adásban Attilával megint hoztunk egy nagy adag amerikai és popkulturális témát, ahol Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury, New York, foci-vb, 105 dolláros vonatjegy, turistacsapdák és pénzügyi döntések szépen összefutnak egyetlen beszélgetésben.   Elindulunk az új Michael Jackson-film kapcsán: ki játssza Michaelt, miért érdekes Jaafar Jackson szerepe, és hogyan lett egy családtagból a világ egyik legismertebb popikonjának megformálója. Szóba kerül a Jackson család bonyolult története is, Randy Jackson, Jermaine Jackson és Jaafar anyjának különös családi kapcsolódásaival.     Beszélünk Joe Jacksonról, Michael apjáról is, és arról a nehéz kérdésről, hogy hol van a határ a fegyelem, az ambíció és a gyerekkor elvétele között. Vajon lett volna-e Michael Jacksonból Michael Jackson ugyanaz a brutális nyomás nélkül? És ha igen, milyen árat fizetett ezért emberként?   Innen átugrunk Freddie Mercuryra és a Bohemian Rhapsody legendájára. Miért hívják így a dalt? Mit jelent a rapszódia? Lehet-e a „Mama, just killed a man" sort úgy értelmezni, hogy Freddie a régi önmagát „ölte meg"? Szóba kerül a Faust-párhuzam, az ördöggel kötött alku, az operai rész, Bismillah, Beelzebub, Figaro, és az is, hogy egy dal hogyan válhat mítosszá.     A zenei vonalon maradva előkerülnek kedvenc Queen- és Michael Jackson-dalok, a különleges énekhangok, Révész Sanyi, Horváth Charlie, Zámbó Jimmy, és az örök kérdés: Péter hány hangot tud kiénekelni? Spoiler: egyet sem, de azt biztosan.   A beszélgetés második felében New York és Amerika kerül fókuszba. Beszélünk a 2026-os foci-vb New York/New Jersey körüli közlekedési kihívásairól, a MetLife Stadiumról, a Madison Square Gardenről, a Penn Stationről, és arról az őrült lehetőségről, hogy egy napon lehet vb-meccs és Knicks NBA-döntő is. És igen, előkerül a híres 105 dolláros vonatjegy is.   Szó lesz arról is, hogyan lehet turistaként New Yorkban elkerülni a lehúzásokat: hot dogos árak, Central Park környéki tekerős taxik, percdíjak, és az aranyszabály: előbb ár, aztán hot dog.   A végén pedig pénzügyi témák is jönnek: amerikai oktatás, diákhitel, esküvői költségek, válás, tartásdíj, és az, hogy mit tanácsol az ember a 21 éves lányának, ha jól keres, de még előtte áll az élet összes drága meglepetése.   Ez az adás egyszerre könnyed, személyes, vicces és néha nagyon komoly. Pont olyan, mint Amerika: kívülről csillog, belül néha ropog, de beszélni róla mindig van mit.  

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A summary of the whole Qur'an in one Surah. And the first thing Allah put at the beginning, before any command, story, or ruling, was two names for mercy.  That choice says a lot. Ustadh Muhammad Tim Humble talks about two names you hear all the time in this episode of Allah's Names and Attributes: Ar-Rahman and Ar-Raheem. Familiar, but not fully understood. Why do they start almost every Surah, except for one? You will know exactly what you are asking for and who you are asking it from once you understand it and use these names to call on Allah. Sign up now to AMAU Academy: https://www.amauacademy.com/ AMAU Academy: https://www.amauacademy.com/ AMAU Junior: https://amaujunior.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amauofficial/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AMAU Telegram: https://t.me/amauofficial YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AMAUofficial Twitter: https://twitter.com/AMAUofficial iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/al-madrasatu-al-umariyyah/id1524526782 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/08NJC1pIA0maaF6aKqZL4N Get in Touch: https://amau.org/getintouch BarakAllahu feekum. #AMAU #Islam #Dawah