Summary: Could not get what was said before this as the Al-Qur’an was being read<br> <br> 0:52 Dedication is important, u know that is important, yes I know it is important. But does she take it on time or no? I have to call, I have to go, I have to make sure she takes it, because, something’s missing. I know this is good. It’s different. Than saying I know that this is something I have to do, I must do it, I don’t have a choice.<br> Allah didn’t just teach Lukman (RA) that he should be grateful to Allah, tone coloro show gratitude. Showing gratitude is one thing, He understands that It’s an Amal, I have to do it, in everything that I do in life I have to show gratitude to Allah. It must invade all of my action, all of my thoughts, all of them have to be tinted with one thing, in one color and that’s the color of being grateful to Allah. I have to find excuses to thanks Allah, in everything I do. And, so when we read this advice that Lukman is giving his son, you must to understand that I must remind myself, he is not trying to benefit anybody else first, he is trying to be grateful to Allah.<br> And what we learn from that is when you and I try to help our own family, when the father is in audience, trying to help their sons, when the brother is trying to help another brother, the first motivation of dad is that to help your brother. The first motivation for me is to be grateful to Allah. It’s not about someone else, it’s about me first. I’m doing it only because, I want to show first and foremost gratitude to Allah. This is an idea I will come back to towards to end of my khutba, because the end of this advice is tied to this concept. You might think it’s a very simple thing, but it can get very complicated very fast and we can lose sight of it very easily. So I take you towards the tail end of this advice. “Ya Bunayya Akhimi Salah”, you heard these words a thousand times, “My beloved son, the son that I love”, Yabni in Arabic or Yabna even, “Ya Bunayya” “My beloved son, my dear son” Its like he is giving him a hug, patting him on the back, showing him love and then saying “Son, Listen”, you know a lot of times fathers give sons advice, actually, fathers all that they do is give sons advice. Right? Your son calls you on the phone and all he gets is “Did you do this? Did you do that? Did you finish this? Did you finish that? How come you didn’t do this? How come you didn’t do that? Ok I gotta go” Right? Your son is not even like calling you anymore because all that he hears is advice on the other end. Right? A lot of times especially as sons get older, they have a hard time talking to their dad because dad is always correcting them and they have, you know, young men, they have short tempers, so there is always a tension between father and son. All the time. All the time. So this father is wise right, right? Allah told this in the beginning, he taught him wisdom, part of his wisdom is when he talks to his son, he talks to him with love. How many fathers here that have teenage boys, that talk to their boys with love, that talk to them in a loving fashion that they are not threatened, allright, here he goes again, he is going to start his lecture again, I know what’s coming now, I see that look on his face, completely disarms his son. He says, “Ya Bunayya” there is a difference between say “hey, go read salath, its Maghrib time”, he says, “hey son, come here, you know its Maghrib time, lets pray together”, there is a difference in tone isn’t it? What is hard in the heart, he will say “ok fine, I will pray because you are telling me to” and other will say “ya you are right dad, I should pray lets go to the masjid together. Different results. Different results entirely. So he says “Ya Bunayya Akhimi Salath”<br> <br> And I will just give you one of the Fawaidh, One of the benefits of salath that are part of this conversation. You know, Our salawath our prayers, literally the Arabic word salath is from silah which is to ...
