Name: How to Become A Great Person | Midnight Majlis
Uploaded: 2025-03-27T04:38:05.000Z
Channel: Dr. Omar Suleiman
Description: The end of Ramadan is a time to redouble your efforts. Pray more, fast more—give more. Why do you keep falling into the same bad habits? Dr. Omar Suleiman and Sh. Yaser Birjas explore Ibn Hazm (rh)’s raw guide to treating corrupt character—how to spot it, fight it, and finally change.

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Dr. Omar Suleiman

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Sh. Yaser Birjas

Introduction

How to cure your heart of hardness

Heedlessness vs. forgetfulness

Remembering Allah vs. remembering people

Disliking dhikr is showing enmity to Allah

Loving the people of remembrance

Allah never neglects to remember you

When Allah and the angels sends salawat upon you

Gatherings of remembrance are gardens of Jannah

When the angels join your gathering

When you accidentally end up in the masjid

When Allah tells the angels He’s proud of you

Praying and fasting with your heart

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Sharia, or Islamic law, is the divinely ordained path governing ritual devotion and aspects of daily life. This section covers research on Islamic jurisprudence, including worship, commerce, family law, and penal codes.

Sharia

The insight of Ibn al-Qayyim (rh)

Dhikr illuminates hearts and graves

The light in the heart of Umar (ra)

Du’a for Allah to make you a light

Allah is Al-Nur

How can we see Allah in Jannah?

Building a life of anticipating meeting Allah

Do you feel the pain of being away from Allah?

What the Verse of Light means for you

The hypocrites’ hearts don’t have light

Dhikr must be more than lip service

Dhikr brings true richness and power

Dhikr disperses your regrets

Are you bothered by missing good deeds?

The ma’iyyah (with-ness) of Allah

Tasting the sweetness of closeness to Allah

Dhikr is not a spiritual ecstasy

Seek Jannah, and closeness to Allah is even greater

Dhikr is not a cheat code

The tadabbur (reflection) of prisoners

Dhikr is the easiest form of worship

What have you planted in Jannah today?

Huge rewards for light acts of dhikr

Are you pleased with Allah, Islam, and the Prophet ﷺ?

Dhikr in the busiest time of your day

Are your role models people of dhikr?

The emptiness of people chasing this world

Dhikr is your Jannah in this life

Imam Ibn Taymiyyah (rh) and Imam Jamil Al-Amin (rh) as prisoners

Seeking a good ending

The downpour of blessings when you say a good word

Your consistent dhikr suffocates Shaytan

Allah’s pleasure is the real reward of dhikr

Dhikr removes sadness and grief

The traffic jam of blessings in your life

Dhikr, your body, and the vagus nerve

Can music live in a heart that loves Qur’an?

Your face beams when you do dhikr

Dhikr brings rizq and openness

Speak less and remember Allah more

Dhikr increases your love for Allah

When Allah mentions you by name

Dhikr in the morning is your spiritual breakfast

Tips for memorizing Qur’an

Remembering Allah but still angry?

Every sincere du’a is helping you

Make du’a for your ummah in the last 10 nights

How dhikr (remembrance of Allah) grounds you

The 5 parts of your shield against the Shaytan

3 keys to happiness: gratitude, patience, and seeking forgiveness

The 3 pillars of gratitude

“Alhamdulillah, I can’t complain” is a complaint

Why Zakariyya (as) didn’t speak for 3 days after receiving a blessing

The 3 pillars of patience

Thinking positively about patience

Your joy while enduring hardship for the sake of Allah

Shaytan’s 3 doors into your heart: heedlessness, desire, and anger

How arrogance inspires anger

2 ways to make your heart steadfast

If you love something more than Allah, Allah will punish you with it

Outline of Ibn al-Qayyim’s book, Al-Wabil al-Sayyib

How to perform dhikr mindfully

Mentioning Allah first in a moment of reaction

Why the Prophet ﷺ prescribed dhikr in certain amounts

Connect with the Qur’an and the masjid

Midnight Majlis

As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. Wa alaykum as-salamu wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. Alhamdulillah, Rabb al-'Alamin, sallallahu wa sallam wa baraka on our Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) and his family and companions, and peace be upon him and many others. We welcome you again to the 29th of this beautiful month of Ramadan. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us among those who will be granted the full reward of Laylat al-Qadr, O Lord of the worlds. Here, from the Valley Ranch Islamic Center all the way in Irving, Texas, with Shaykh Omar Suleiman, as we have this beautiful majlis on the book of Imam Ibn Hazm, may Allah have mercy on him, Al-Akhlaq wa al-Siyar, morals and behaviors. So those who are following with us, we are reading right now from chapter 9 on practical morality on page 49, insha'Allah, in the English translation. And in the Arabic text, it's Faslun Fima Ta'amalun Nasubihi Wa Fil Akhlaq. So if you guys remember, you followed the sequence of these chapters as we were studying it together. Right now, rahimahullah ta'ala, he's going to be speaking on, you could say, more like coming to the final chapters. So he's now trying to summarize as much of his experience as possible on these different topics. So that's why he's now focusing on something that's very pragmatic, basically etiquettes or akhlaq or manners. So he began by talking about how to be genuine, how to be authentic, what does it mean to be smart, what does it mean to be this, what virtues have been mean, how to define those virtues. So he's speaking on this subject, rahimahullah ta'ala, in this chapter, insha'Allah ta'ala. So as we were speaking earlier on this chapter, the very beginning of the chapter is very interesting. It really speaks so much about something that we unfortunately in our time today, people are struggling with. Because of the social pressure and the social circles that you have to belong to, being part of. It's so exhausting to many people, even Hazm rahimahullah, he's talking about this, one of those negative traits of it. So bismillah, let's begin with that discussion. Bismillah, alhamdulillah, as-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. [Arabic recitation] [Continued Arabic recitation and discussion] Be in this dunya, like live this life as if you are a stranger or just passing through. Like you're not staying for too long, that's what it means. So therefore, when we look at the Prophet's (ﷺ) food and clothes and rides, they were just means to reach a different destination, higher destination. For us, it becomes the destination itself. Like what we wear, what we eat, what we ride had become that destination. People work so hard, making so much money, hoarding so much stuff, why? Because the possession of this particular shoe, this particular car, this particular cuisine, or eating this place or that restaurant, all these things had become unfortunately for many people their destination itself. Like I work so hard for this, so I deserve to do that. However, let's be balanced over here. The Prophet (ﷺ) was asked, when a man came to the Prophet (ﷺ), he said, O Messenger of Allah, a man likes to have a good dress and a good hair. [Continued discussion] His clothes, just to do the best job for it. To cover up and go to make riba'at and salah and so on. So, brand names, fancy stuff, colors, not a big deal. If it's available, he would wear it, if it's not, and so on. Like the Prophet (ﷺ), one time he was seen wearing a nice, beautiful red suit. And suit in the culture of the Arabs back then, meaning two pieces, such as for example, loincloth and a shirt on top of it or something like that. So, he was once seen wearing a nice, beautiful red suit that had white stripes. And the Sahabi, he was describing the Prophet (ﷺ) in that beautiful moon, full moon. He goes, look at the Prophet (ﷺ), look at the moon, look at the Prophet (ﷺ), look at the moon. Look at the Prophet (ﷺ) again. I said, wallahi, I saw the Prophet (ﷺ) was much more beautiful than the moon in its full night. Like he's seen that. So, again, it's not haram to wear nice and to dress nice, and to have a nice ride and so on. But it shouldn't be the destination. Our heart should not be attached to the shoes we wear, to the clothes we put on, to the perfume you own, to the car you drive, to the food that you eat. It shouldn't be attached to this. Our food should be just sustenance on the journey towards akhira. Our ulema even, Shaykh, tell us something about when it comes to seeking knowledge. He said, as a talib al-'ilm, as a student of knowledge, you know, you have to be quick in three things. Number one, in eating. Number two, in writing. Number three, in walking between errands. Like you don't have time. You don't have time to eat and sit down and have a fancy meal and all that stuff. That's why, if you look at Zad al-Ma'ad, Ibn Qayyim (رحمه الله) describing how the Prophet (ﷺ) used to eat, some of the description of the Prophet (ﷺ) eating, he actual…

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