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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the Prophet and the Messengers.
Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family, and peace and blessings be upon him and upon many, many.
My brothers and sisters, may Allah bless our scholars. One of the scholars, he said, be thankful that Allah allowed you to stand at his door.
Be thankful that Allah allowed you to stand at his door.
Don't be in a hurry. Don't try to knock on the door because he knows you are there.
He does not need to be alerted to the fact that you are standing at his door.
Don't knock on the door. Don't demand this and that. Don't expect answers.
Don't say, now that I'm here at your door, open the door.
Now that I'm here at your door, give me what I want. Nothing.
Just stand at the door and stand at the door with the sense of awe and majesty and intense gratitude that Allah enabled you and permitted you to stand at his door.
Just that.
Just that.
Just that.
And the guidance to stand at the door of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Yet, you, with all your problems, you with all your issues, you with all that you have,
with your dirty hands and your dirty tongue and your dirty book of deeds,
Allah allowed you to stand at his door.
So just encouragement.
Have that sense of gratitude in your heart as you stand at his door.
And remember that if he allowed you to stand at his door,
he knows why you are there.
He knows you are there.
He knows why you are there.
And he allowed you to stand at his door because he will open the door
and he will give you what you need and he will give you what you want.
There is no doubt about this and there should be no doubt in your mind about this.
But don't be in a hurry.
Do not be in a hurry.
Do not disturb.
Do not try to push.
It is the sign of Abodiyat.
It is the sign of the slave that the slave is so conscious and so aware
and so overwhelmed with just the thought that my Rab allowed me to stand at his door.
That he does not do anything.
Just standing at the door of his Rab is something which is so beautiful,
which is something which is so invigorating,
which is so enervating,
which is so ennobling,
which is so rejuvenating
that it does not even occur to him to go beyond that.
Say, Alhamdulillah, I am content.
I am content.
I am here.
I am content.
You know, I think about this as in the days, in my early days,
my childhood I had, we lived in a big house and we had dogs
and of course they were outside the house but
one of the things that I always sort of thought about was
a dog is happy just to lie on the mat.
mat outside your door. That's it. He won't go anywhere. He won't ask for anything. He's just
lying there on that mat. And when you come out of the house and he jumps up and down, he jumps,
you know, he shows his delight in multiple ways and his tail is wagging and so on. And he's barking
in that special tone, which tells you that this is not a bark of anger. It's not a bark of fear.
It's a bark of complete and total delight that you have appeared. Complete delight.
And he's jumping up and down. Complete delight. He's not looking for food. He's not looking for
you to do anything with you. He's just absolutely delighted that you exist. He's absolutely delighted
that you are there and that he has the opportunity to look at you. He has the opportunity to stand
there in your presence.
That's it. He's so happy with that. I tell myself that is how I should be with regard to my
Rabb, Jalla Jalaluhu. That when I go and obviously Allah SWT does not appear in our presence in that
sense, but we ask Allah SWT to enable us to see him in Jannatul Firdaus inshaAllah, as Rasulullah
promised that Allah will show himself to us.
We hope that day will come. And we hope that we will be the people who Allah SWT will
permit to see him Jannatul Firdaus.
But today, when we stand in Salah,