Name: Episode 22: The Friday Roll Book
Uploaded: 2020-05-15T08:30:00.000Z
Channel: Dr. Omar Suleiman
Description: The angels have a roll book on Jumah, and the early Jumah-goers have a reserved spot in Paradise.

<p>The angels have a roll book on Jumah, and the early Jumah-goers have a reserved spot in Paradise. </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

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Episode 11: Ameen and For You As Well

Episode 12: The Best Supplication

Episode 13: Be Fair When You Judge

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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

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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

 There are two things that would cause you to want to get somewhere as quickly as possible and be as close as possible.  Either it's who you want to see or it's what's being given out.  And those are the two things that are spoken about when Allah talks about Salatul Jumaa, the Friday prayer.  Now we're talking about the first people to get to the masjid for the regular salawat.  You better believe when you go to a masjid that the people that are going to be in the first row for Jumaa  are the people that are usually there for first row of Fajr and A'isha every single day, right?  But the way Allah talks about how we come to Jumaa, to where at least if we're not  able to do so for the other prayers for Jumaa is very profound.  Allah says,  Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala says that when the call for Jumaa is made,  rush to the remembrance of Allah and leave behind your trade.  Leave behind those other things that are worldly that distract you.  Focus on the Friday prayer.  He once said in Jumaa, and this is something that you rarely see someone reminding others about the importance of Jumaa in the Jumaa prayer.  He once said on the pulpit in Kufa, he said that every Friday  when you wake up, the devils go to the marketplace with their banners.  Now remember, every single day when you go outside of your home, you're going to have a banner over your head.  And that banner is either the banner of shaitan or the banner of an angel.  So this is for Jumaa.  He said that there are devils, shayateen, that go to the marketplace with their banners and they try to keep people distracted with the things that are of this world so that they are delayed in coming to Jumaa.  And the angels on the day of Friday, they go to the masajid and they occupy the entrances of the masajid from the very start of the morning.  And so from the morning until the Jumaa, these angels take their posts in front of the masajid.  And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said that they then start to document who is coming in accordance with how early they're coming.  Al-awwal fal-awwal, first by first.  So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said the first to come on that day or those that come in the first hour between the morning and Jumaa, and the scholars say this is referring to sunrise, shurook, to Jumaa.  So the first to come in that first hour is like one who sacrifices a camel for the sake of Allah.  And then the person who comes in the next hour is like one who sacrificed a cow for the sake of Allah.  And then a person who comes in the third hour is like one who sacrificed a ram for the sake of Allah.  And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam kept going, describing the decrease in the reward for the person until he said Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, and the person that comes right before in that last hour is like one who sacrificed a hen or egg for the sake of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.  Then the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, when the Imam rises to the pulpit and says, As-salamu alaykum, he said, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, the angels roll up their sheets.  And what did the angels do?  They sit and they listen attentively to the Imam as well.  SubhanAllah.  So if you're giving khutbah, know that you have angels that are sitting in the audience as well.  So if you don't find people very engaged with you when you're giving khutbah, there are mala'ika that are listening.  And if you are sitting and you're distracted by the people around you, realize there are angels sitting with you as well.  So it's in accordance with how quickly people get to the masjid and how they hasten to the Friday prayer.  Now, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam used to give this example of how people would hasten to the masjid if there were material things that were being passed out.  So here you're talking about the reward, right?  Why would a person miss out on the reward of Jum'ah, you know, and just fulfill the obligation by coming a few minutes late?  And you see that every single masjid, the rush in those last few minutes right before the adhan and then the rush right before the salah, right?  It's like two rushes that are going to take place at the masjid, one right at the time of adhan and one right before the salah.  For those that are just going to just catch the salah itself, they're going to miss the khutbah and just catch the prayer itself.  If there were material things that were being passed out, if the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said that if I was passing out meat, then the people would rush towards it.  When people are, you know, dealing with scarcity of material goods, if a marketplace announces that we've gathered, you know, all these packages of toilet paper and you've got to come in the first hour to get this toilet paper, people would rush for toilet paper, right?  Here you're talking about that reward from Allah and the angels standing at the door and writing in order of who came first.  So that's what the reward piece…

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