1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,399 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 2 00:00:15,660 --> 00:00:18,660 The Muhammad Ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Musa Mosque 3 00:00:18,660 --> 00:00:21,660 in al-Badi' presents 4 00:00:21,660 --> 00:00:24,660 Musk of the Discourse 5 00:00:24,660 --> 00:00:26,660 by Sheikh Usama Bahr, 6 00:00:26,660 --> 00:00:28,660 may Allah preserve him. 7 00:00:30,660 --> 00:00:33,659 The Delight of Seclusion 8 00:00:33,659 --> 00:00:37,170 Seclusion with Allah the Exalted 9 00:00:37,170 --> 00:00:42,979 increases the believer in faith and light. 10 00:00:42,979 --> 00:00:45,979 Al-Hasan al-Basri said, when he was asked, 11 00:00:45,979 --> 00:00:49,140 "Why is it that the people of the night have light upon their faces?" 12 00:00:49,140 --> 00:00:52,140 He replied, "Because they were in seclusion with their Lord, 13 00:00:52,140 --> 00:00:55,240 so He clothed them with some of His light." 14 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:59,240 Therefore, we say to anyone who has fallen into a trial or calamity, 15 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:01,619 "O my brother, 16 00:01:01,619 --> 00:01:06,620 sit with your Lord in a session or a moment of seclusion during a quiet hour, 17 00:01:06,620 --> 00:01:10,620 until you find tranquility while you are in the presence of Allah the Exalted." 18 00:01:10,620 --> 00:01:14,620 How magnificent is this tranquility that pours into the heart, 19 00:01:14,620 --> 00:01:18,689 which makes a person stable and at peace, 20 00:01:18,689 --> 00:01:20,689 just as the Exalted said, 21 00:01:20,689 --> 00:01:23,689 on the tongue of His Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, 22 00:01:23,689 --> 00:01:26,689 as he addresses and recites. 23 00:01:26,689 --> 00:01:30,689 “If ye help him not, still Allah helped him when those who disbelieve drove him forth, the second of two; when they two were in the cave, when he said unto his comrade: Grieve not. Lo! Allah is with us. Then Allah caused His peace of reassurance to descend upon him and supported him with hosts ye cannot see, and made the word of those who disbelieved the nethermost, while Allah's Word it was that became the uppermost. Allah is Mighty, Wise.” (9:40) 24 00:01:30,689 --> 00:01:34,909 And the Exalted says on the tongue of His Prophet Musa, peace be upon him, 25 00:01:34,909 --> 00:01:36,909 addressing his people. 26 00:01:36,909 --> 00:01:41,909 “He said: Nay, verily! for lo! my Lord is with me. He will guide me.” (26:62) 27 00:01:41,909 --> 00:01:43,909 And as the poet said: 28 00:01:43,909 --> 00:01:47,140 "I wish you were sweet, even while life is bitter, 29 00:01:47,140 --> 00:01:51,140 and I wish you were pleased, even while all people are angry. 30 00:01:51,140 --> 00:01:54,140 If your love is true, then all else is easy, 31 00:01:55,140 --> 00:01:59,140 and all that is upon the earth is but dust." 32 00:01:59,140 --> 00:02:03,680 (Correction of previous line: And all that is upon the earth is but dust.) 33 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:06,680 This is how your longings and joys should be 34 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:09,680 when you are attached to Allah the Almighty. 35 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:13,780 It is the joy of obeying Allah and receiving His bounty. 36 00:02:13,780 --> 00:02:15,780 Allah the Exalted says, 37 00:02:15,780 --> 00:02:19,780 “Say: In the bounty of Allah and in His mercy: therein let them rejoice. It is better than what they hoard.” (10:58) 38 00:02:19,780 --> 00:02:22,780 "Let them rejoice in that; 39 00:02:22,780 --> 00:02:29,219 it is better than what they accumulate." 40 00:02:29,219 --> 00:02:31,219 There are those among people who rejoice 41 00:02:31,219 --> 00:02:35,219 in the temptations of the world, such as wealth and the like, 42 00:02:35,219 --> 00:02:38,219 while the believer rejoices in a humble prostration 43 00:02:38,219 --> 00:02:42,219 in a quiet night and at the time of the dawn, 44 00:02:42,219 --> 00:02:46,219 in which he calls upon his Lord, sheds a tear, 45 00:02:46,219 --> 00:02:50,219 and humbles himself before Him, glory be to Him and the Exalted. 46 00:02:50,219 --> 00:02:52,219 As Allah said, 47 00:02:52,219 --> 00:02:56,219 “Who forsake their beds to cry unto their Lord in fear and hope, and spend of that We have bestowed on them.” (32:16) 48 00:02:56,219 --> 00:03:01,219 “Who forsake their beds to cry unto their Lord in fear and hope, and spend of that We have bestowed on them.” (32:16) 49 00:03:01,219 --> 00:03:09,069 "and spend from what We have provided them." 50 00:03:09,069 --> 00:03:12,069 What is this longing that takes hold of the heart? 51 00:03:12,069 --> 00:03:16,300 This is our master Bilal, may Allah be pleased with him, 52 00:03:16,300 --> 00:03:18,300 when his death approaches. 53 00:03:18,300 --> 00:03:21,300 His wife cries out and says, 54 00:03:22,300 --> 00:03:24,330 and he replies, 55 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:35,620 "It is the longing for the meeting with Allah the Exalted." 56 00:03:35,620 --> 00:03:37,620 And in the Battle of Uhud, 57 00:03:37,620 --> 00:03:41,620 Anas Ibn al-Nadr, may Allah be pleased with him, cried out, saying, 58 00:03:41,620 --> 00:03:43,620 "How wonderful is the scent of Paradise! 59 00:03:43,620 --> 00:03:47,620 By Allah, I truly find its scent before Uhud." 60 00:03:47,620 --> 00:03:50,620 Then he rushes forth, longing and desiring, 61 00:03:50,620 --> 00:03:52,620 loving and yearning, 62 00:03:52,620 --> 00:03:56,620 passionate for the meeting with Allah the Exalted, 63 00:03:56,620 --> 00:04:00,620 throwing himself forward, embracing death before it comes to him, 64 00:04:00,620 --> 00:04:03,620 and thus he departs as a martyr. 65 00:04:03,620 --> 00:04:08,030 For an hour in which a person is in seclusion with Allah the Exalted 66 00:04:08,030 --> 00:04:14,030 is better than a thousand hours spent occupied with the world and all that is in it. 67 00:04:21,319 --> 00:04:24,319 In the hearts, 68 00:04:24,319 --> 00:04:28,319 increase in closeness to the Most Merciful, 69 00:04:28,319 --> 00:04:32,319 so that joy may embrace you. 70 00:04:32,319 --> 00:04:36,319 Attach your soul to your Lord, 71 00:04:36,319 --> 00:04:40,319 and fill the surroundings with light. 72 00:04:40,319 --> 00:04:48,509 Everyone who obeys the Lord melts into the sweetest feeling, 73 00:04:48,509 --> 00:04:51,509 [a state of] mercy and then light, 74 00:04:51,509 --> 00:04:55,509 and revelation thereafter. 75 00:04:55,509 --> 00:05:03,509 If Allah wills a thing, He says to it "Be," and it comes to pass.