Name: How to Spot Fake Friends | Midnight Majlis
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Channel: Dr. Omar Suleiman
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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-salaamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. Alhamdulillah, Rabb al-'alamin, wa salatu wa assalam 'ala alihi wa sahbihi wa assalam, wa barakatna 'ala nabiyyina Muhammad (ﷺ) wa 'ala alihi wa sahbihi wa assalam, tasliman kathiran wa ma ba'd. I welcome you back to our beautiful last 10 nights of the month of Ramadan, the late night khatirah, and this beautiful majlis for Shaykh Omar Suleiman. From the book of Imam Ibn Hazm, rahimahullah ta'ala, al-akhlaq wa al-siyar, morals and behaviors, all the way from Valley United Islamic Center here in Irving, Texas. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make this a blessed gathering, ya Rabb al-'alamin. So Shaykh, this is now the 26th night of the month of Ramadan, subhanallah. What a beautiful journey we had so far with Imam Ibn Hazm, rahimahullah. Tonight he is opening a whole different window for us. He is talking about al-ikhwan wa al-sadaqat wa al-nasihah. For those who are following with us in the English text, it is actually going to be chapter 6 on page 31. Chapter 6 on page 31, insha'Allah wa ta'ala. He speaks about brothers, friends, and how to give advice and nasihah and so on. And before, insha'Allah, we delve into his points, and they're gems really, subhanallah, we need to also keep in mind and keep also the context of his writing, rahimahullah wa ta'ala. Like Ibn Hazm, rahimahullah, he had gone through a lot. Keep that in your mind. Like he dealt like Shaykh Omar had been mentioning multiple times in these sessions. He'd gone through a lot of betrayal. He was the son of a minister in the royal court. Like he didn't have anything to do with politics. He was just a kid. But as a young man, he ended up in prison as a result of that. His affiliation with Bani Umayyah. And then he was released. And then Bani Umayyah took over. He joined right now in the ranks of politicians. And then as a result, he was in prison. And then he left politics altogether to get himself right now busy with 'ilm and knowledge, only to find the exact same corruption in the political elite. And he found that, unfortunately, in what he considers to be corruption in the religious elite, at least the scholarly class of that time. So that's why his relationships has always been, I don't know how to describe that. He's just not someone that holds on to people. He's someone who, he's actually like not an agreeable personality. Like he's not someone that, he doesn't get along with people. Like he really doesn't. He doesn't get along with scholars. He doesn't get along with, he doesn't really have many students per se. Like he's not someone that was really studied like a teacher. His books were magnificent. His writing is out of this world. But he's just not a very agreeable person. Like he's someone, subhanallah, who's very jaded. Like jaded is the word. He's a very jaded person, rahimahullah. And he writes with that pain. And there's value in that. And there's also danger too. Which is that everyone that kind of wants to go into dark mode will just say I'm being Ibn Hazm. I'm going to carry the revolution against everybody. So he is someone who's kind of revolting. But there is benefit in reading in that raw pain. So I mean look, subhanallah, one thing to be very clear. Like we mentioned Imam al-Dhahabi, rahimahullah. Like I love Ibn Hazm. But he says his tongue was sharper than the sword of Hajjaj. He was rough. But this chapter on friends is probably like the best primer on friends that I've ever read from any scholar. Like in terms of just being guarded. So he's guarded. He's someone who doesn't talk much about like friends that impressed him. Or friends that actually lived up to a certain bar. He's actually saying everyone in my life failed me. But I'm not going to fail other people the way that I was failed. So he is dismissing pretty much every human being that he's been around. But at the same time, he's still giving all the qualifiers to say don't become what you hate. I think Ibn Hazm, rahimahullah, in this chapter, he's a realist. He's not really an idealist. He just wanted to see what reality of relationships with people, with friends and so on. He doesn't want to create that idealistic image of everything is beautiful and rosy and flowery and so on. And then eventually you're going to get stabbed. So basically you get backstabbed as a result of so much trust in people. He wants to keep things real. Like look, I had so many good friends, but at the same time, you know, you need to be careful with one, two, three and so on. By the way, Shaykh, this is actually in line of his characteristic that he mentioned we talked about last night when he says one of my favorites, he says, about himself. My favorite quality that I advise you all to follow is to be a straight shooter, basically straightforward. That you don't, you don't, you don't beat around the bush. Simply say it as it is. Even if it's going to cost you friendship and people around you, just be that type of person. Which exactly…

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