Name: Episode 28: In Your Room Praying Behind You
Uploaded: 2020-05-21T08:30:00.000Z
Channel: Dr. Omar Suleiman
Description: When you pray at home, angels the size of mountains pray behind you. How can we best reap the rewards of such a gathering?

<p>When you pray at home, angels the size of mountains pray behind you. How can we best reap the rewards of such a gathering?  </p>

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Spiritual beings created from light who carry out God's commandments without hesitation. They play various roles in the cosmos, including recording deeds and delivering revelations.

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Episode 1: They've Got Your Back

Episode 2: Hold Your Pens

Episode 3: Fasting While Others Eat

Episode 4: Sleep Well

Episode 5: Switching Shifts

Episode 6: As You Step Out

Episode 7: The Banner Above You

Episode 8: Responding to Your Haters

Episode 9: Your Brother's Honor

Episode 10: The Honor of Your Prophet

Episode 11: Ameen and For You As Well

Episode 12: The Best Supplication

Episode 13: Be Fair When You Judge

Episode 14: The Seeker of Knowledge

Episode 15: No Strings Attached

Episode 16: The Ultimate Healer

Episode 17: An Entourage of 70,000

Episode 18: When Your Loved Ones Are Dying

Episode 19: Have You Ever Seen an Angel in Human Form?

Episode 20: A Caller from Heaven's Gates

Episode 21: The First Rows

Episode 22: The Friday Roll Book

Episode 23: From Prayer to Prayer

Episode 24: Struggling to Recite

Episode 25: From Your Mouth to an Angel's Heart

Episode 26: When Jibreel Descends Upon You

Episode 27: The Heavens are Creaking

Episode 28: In Your Room Praying Behind You

Episode 29: Gatherings of Remembrance

Episode 30: When Allah Loves You

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Throughout your existence, there are angels in your presence. But it’s your actions that cause those angels to either praise you or disgrace you. Through this series, we will explore the actions that invite these blessed unseen beings to pray upon you, and carry your name and mention to the One who created us all. Join Sh. Omar Suleiman this Ramadan.

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This section covers the core articles of faith (Īmān), namely faith in Allah, His angels, His books, His messengers, the Last Day, and the divine decree (qadr). Other related topics, often found in classical theological works, are also found in this section.

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Angels in Your Presence

 So as the masajid have been taken away from us, even if temporarily,  it's dawned upon us how special those places are.  But we also have our homes and what you want to do with your house is turn it  into as much as possible a place of praise. The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,  he said don't turn your homes into graveyards.  So always leave some share of your salah, some share of your prayers for the house,  even if you pray the congregational prayers in the masjid so that your homes  can also be places of barakah, places of blessing, places of prayer.  And you know, subhanAllah, when people are always talking about how do we expel  the shayateen from the home?  How do we expel the jinn?  And the reality is, is that you invite the mala'ika into your home with the recitation  of the Qur'an and with the presence of prayer and remembrance and those things  naturally would expel the opposite of them, which are the shayateen,  which are the devils.  And so you want to have a strong share of your prayer for the home and you  want your home to basically be like a masjid in the sense that it's a home  of praise, a home where Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala is worshipped frequently  and you want to have an allocation of that.  Now, one of the things that's very powerful when you're thinking about the  mala'ika, when you're thinking about the angels is when you pray at home,  you're not alone.  Okay, so even if you're not surrounded by rows of people, you're certainly  not alone. And Sa'eed al-Musayyib radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu narrates that no one  goes into prayer, even if they're on waterless, desolate land, ardi fala,  which we'll talk about, but you're praying all alone, except that an angel  would pray to your right, an angel to your left, and angels would pray behind  you, amthalul jibal, angels the size of mountains are praying behind you.  Can you imagine you're entering into salah, you're entering into prayer in  your bedroom, in your living room, in your, you know, in your dining room,  your office, wherever it is, and you think it's just you, and there are  angels the size of mountains that are praying behind you as you're saying  Allahu Akbar.  Wouldn't that cause you to think a little bit more instead of going  alhamdulillah, you know, to actually think about the way that you're  reciting and to take more seriously the moment.  Obviously, the most serious element of it is that you're standing before  Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala, but as you're standing before Allah, you have  these angels the size of mountains that are praying behind you.  And there is something special to praying alone and what that denotes  in terms of ikhlas, in terms of sincerity.  And so you find these two hadith, one of them from Abu Sa'id al-Khudri  radiAllahu anhu, that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said that  the prayer in congregation, the prayer in jama'ah is like 25 times the  individual prayer.  And then the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, and salah that is  in falah, in the middle of nowhere, okay, which is the best way I think  you can translate falah, in the middle of nowhere, is like the prayer of  50 times the reward.  Okay, so it's like twice the reward of the jama'ah. In another hadith,  the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he mentioned that  Ya'jibu rabbukum  your Lord is pleased with a shepherd in the mountains all by himself  who calls out the adhan, who does the iqama, and then he does the prayer  all by himself and Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala calls the angels and he  says, look at the slave of mine.  Look at this one.  Look at him.  He's all alone.  He calls the adhan.  He calls the iqama.  He makes the prayer out of fear for me and love for me.  And he says to the angels subhanahu wa'ta'ala,  qad ghafartu li abdi wa adkhaltuhul jannah  I have forgiven the servant of mine and I have entered him into  paradise.  Why? Because of the sincerity of this person in the middle of nowhere  in the mountains.  And if you haven't had the experience of calling the adhan in the  mountains, do it on your next hike inshallah ta'ala.  It's really an incredible feeling.  But you know, the idea that this man is all by himself in the middle  of nowhere on the outskirts of the city and still finds that  clinging to Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala and announces themselves  alone.  So does that mean that instead of coming to the masjid, I'm going  to drive out to the country and pray and I'll get more of the  reward?  No, these two hadith are talking about a person who happens to  be in the middle of nowhere, not a person who goes and seeks  the middle of nowhere for that prayer.  And there is an implementation of this beyond just the sincerity  of praying alone and the angels that are like mountains praying  with you.  You know, when you're on a journey or you're traveling and you  stop at a rest area or you're praying, you know, in a place  that's really, you know, foreign, that's away and you're doing  that out of sincerity…

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