Ruku

Why Subhanallah, my Allah? So it doesn't remain a biology lesson.

And Subhanallah, my Allah, is from Ruku and Sajdah.

Subhana Rabbi, Subhana Rabbi, they got to learn this.

Okay.

Third, recitation of Al-Fatiha.

Fourth, Ruku'a, bowing.

And the fifth is Qiyam, standing upright after Ruku'a, standing upright after bowing.

6.

Sujood.

The recitation of.

Subhanarabbi al-Azim.

In Ruku'a.

If there's a mention of hell, you will seek Allah's protection from it.

قَالَ ثُمَّ رَكَعَ Then he went into ruku' فَجْعَلَ يَقُولُ سُبْحَانَ رَبِّيَ الْعَظِيمِ So this is what everybody says in their ruku' right? سُبْحَانَ رَبِّيَ الْعَظِيمِ So this is one of the names of Allah عز و جل That occurs most frequently in your life In addition to the name of Allah عز و جل Allah And also Ar-Rab And also Al-A'la, you mention Al-Azeem frequently.

So it's a name that you should be familiar with or the next time that you mention, you should remember what it means.

And also, The Prophet ﷺ, when he encounters difficulty or stress, he would say, لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ الْعَظِيمُ الْحَلِيمُ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ رَبُّ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَرَبُّ الْعَرْشِ الْعَظِيمِ So he glorifies Allah Azzawajal.

And that is, if you want to think about it, one of the great lessons of Salah, if not the essence of the Salah.

Which is to submit yourself to Allah Azza wa Jalla in ways where you are humble and Allah is the greatest.

So in particular, in that ruku' you bow like people bow to their kings and to their masters.

But you know that you are never to bow to any human being.

He'd recite a surah.

And then before he goes into ruku'ah, he'd recite, قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ And then ruku' and every rak'ah he'd do this.

He'd finish what he wants to read.

The companions started picking him up until he did this for Al-Maghrib, Al-Isha, Al-Buhar, Al-Asr, Al-Fajr.

We've never seen anything like this before.

So then the Prophet ﷺ said to them, go and ask him, why was he doing that? So they went to him.

They said, the Prophet ﷺ asks you, why were you reading Surah Al-Ikhlas after every surah just before your ruku'ah? Why? He didn't even take a second to think he already knows why he's doing this.

He said to them لَأَنَّهَا صِفَةٌ رَحْمَانٌ فَأُحِبُّ وَنَقْرَأَهَا Because it describes the most merciful.

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentioned that He is the one subhanahu wa ta'ala who chooses His messengers from the angels and from the humans.

And Allah azzawajal then commanded us to pray, to make ruku, to make sujood, to do all of the acts of worship and all of the deeds of righteousness that we may achieve prosperity and how this, uh, this nation, as well as the nations that came before, who believed in Allah and followed their prophets were upon tawheed, all of them are known as Muslims.

So Allah azzawajal commands us to establish the salah, give the zakah, and to seek Allah's protection.

So we begin with, inshallah ta'ala, in today's episode, the twenty-third chapter of the Quran, Surah Al-Mu'minun, or The Believers, and it consists of one hundred and eighteen verses, and it is a Makki surah.

Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala then says in verse number 5 وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ لِفُرُوجِهِمْ حَافِظُونَ And who guard their chastity and their modesty meaning that they don't commit zina they don't do anything which will take away from them their modesty because the believer is the one that is modest and we will see this inshallah ta'ala in more detail in the following surah in surah tun-nur.

Modesty and chastity that you're careful what you look at that you're careful in terms of what you listen to that you're careful in terms of where you place your desires that is something which Allah Azzawajal has commanded us with to be chaste and to be people of modesty.

So that is why we have in our religion things like lowering your gaze things like the hijab for the women and the jilbab things like even for men in the way that they dress that it can't be too tight or too revealing of their body parts things like for example segregation in our religion that there shouldn't be free mixing of the different genders where people become extremely familiar with the other person unless there's a need to speak to someone or a need to address them or something that you need from them just this open kind of free mixing that you often find in societies in the west that's something which isn't good in Islam because what it leads to is shaitan being able to come in as the prophet said sallallahu alayhi wa sallam a man and a woman are never alone except that shaitan is the third with them shaitan whispers and shaitan brings into people's minds certain things and so therefore Allah Azzawajal has given to us in our sharia those things that will ward us and keep us away from that which will compromise our modesty and chastity so these are people who preserve their modesty they don't commit zina they don't do anything which is untoward and if they need to do that they do it in the way that Allah Azzawajal has legislated and made halal as Allah Azzawajal then says in verse number 6 إِلَّا عَلَىٰ أَزْوَاجِهِمْ أَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَانُهُمْ فَإِنَّهُمْ غَيْرُ مَلُومِينَ Except with their spouses or their slaves with these they are not to blame meaning that this Allah Azzawajal has made halal the wives that you have your husbands these are relationships that Allah Azzawajal has made halal and legislated for you and the slave girls that they used to have towards the beginning of Islam that is also something which Allah Azzawajal has made halal and permissible and so therefore that's something which is not blameworthy but to express your carnal desires in a different way and other than that which Allah Azzawajal mentioned Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala has made that haram even within marriage there are certain things that are not befitting for the Muslim such as for example anal intercourse or for example approaching one's wife when she is on her monthly cycle and so on these are known in the rulings of Islam so look at how this surah when Allah Azzawajal is describing the success of the believers he mentions them in terms of their salah he mentions them in terms of their financial obligations and he mentions them in terms of preserving their tongues and their limbs their body parts from that which will harm others because when you speak and you speak with words that aren't beneficial you often say things that will hurt others and if you commit zina then you are often harming people and their families and those relations of theirs that people do haram with so Allah and that is what Allah Azzawajal then says in verse number 7 فَمَنِ ابْتَغَىٰ وَرَاءَ ذَٰلِكَ فَأُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْعَادُونَ But anyone who seeks more than this is exceeding the limits meaning anyone that goes beyond that which Allah made halal of marriage and slave girls then these people have gone beyond the limits meaning that they have done what is haram and therefore Allah Azzawajal has made haram anything else other than the nikah that Allah Azzawajal has legislated with all of its conditions and all of its components that make it an obligation because in that there is the preservation of lineage and in that there is upholding of rights one right to another whereas when the when it's done outside of the bonds of marriage and outside of this sacred relationship or this relationship that Allah Azzawajal has sanctified or made sacred in terms of the rights that are involved therein then people can often oppress one another as you often see in different types of relationships in which there is no marriage Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala then says in verse number 8 describing another characteristic of the believers وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ لِأَمَانَاتِهِمْ وَعَهْدِهِمْ رَاعُونَ Who are faithful to their trusts and pledges these are people who fulfill their words their covenants their pledges their promises the oaths that they've taken and the greatest of those pledges and trusts is the one that they took with Allah Azzawajal that they would worship him alone the pledge of tawheed and then they fulfill the other pledges that are upon them of fulfilling the rights of the creator and the rights of the creation and so this is also something which is important as Allah Azzawajal mentions in Allah amurukum and to addul amanati ila ahliha Allah commands you to fulfill your trusts and your obligations so this is from the ways of the believer from the characteristics and the attributes of the mu'minun that they're people of trust they're people of integrity they're people who fulfill their responsibilities Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala then says in verse number nine, and who preserve their prayers.

So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala began as the first attribute of the believers with the prayer, and He ends now with the last attribute that is mentioned in this passage with also the believers.

Allah gave him a lot of blessings in a time.

And then his Ruku would be the same as his standing and the length of that would be same as standing.

And sujood will be same as his ruku.

That's how the Sahabi described it.

Thereafter, while the Imam is standing and reciting, the Muqtadi will remain silent, he will not recite Ta'awud and Bismillah, Surah Fatiha, Surah.

Then the Imam will go into Ruku by saying Allahu Akbar, the Muqtadi will also go into Ruku by saying Allahu Akbar and both will read the Tazbih Subhana Rabbiyal Azeem.

When rising from Ruku, the Imam will say, And the Imam and the Muqtadi will say Rabbana wa lak alhamd.

Then they will make the Takbir to go into Sajdah.

And in the final sitting for the Qaeda Ullah, there will be Tashahud.