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Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar. I bear witness that there is no god but Allah. I bear witness that there is no god but Allah. I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. I bear witness, I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. Come to prayer, come to prayer. Come to success, come to success. Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar. There is no god but Allah. Praise be to Allah. Praise be to Allah, who draws near to His creation whoever draws near to Him and comes close, and gives abundantly to whoever is obedient and good, and accepts the repentance of the wrongdoer, even if he has erred and sinned. And I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, alone, without partner, a testimony of a servant who said it sincerely, believing and certain. And I bear witness that our Prophet and our Master Muhammad is His servant and His Messenger, the noblest of people in lineage. May Allah send prayers and peace upon him and upon his family and his companions, a prayer by which distress is removed from the heart.
Now then, O Muslims, fear Allah and do not be among those who have been negligent and have done wrong, and do not resemble the wretched and unfortunate. O you who have believed, fear Allah as He should be feared, and do not die except as Muslims. O Muslims, you are in the abode of troubles, hardships, and passing away. Its sorrows are burning, its calamities are overflowing, its events are grave, and its difficulties are piercing. Its inhabitants are warned, its covenants are broken, and its ropes are frayed. It is a dwelling that shines like a mirage and passes like clouds, and deceives with the shimmering illusion of a mirage. Its demise is certain, its ease does not last, its hardship does not cease, and its affliction does not end. Its bloom leads to wilting, its life to annihilation, and its people are travelers, departing and arriving. They are but targeted prey, shot by its arrows and choked by its fate. It is as if their situation has changed, and they have called out for departure, and their dwellings have become graves, and their wealth has become inheritance. Have you not seen it amusing its children in the evening and leaving lamentation in the morning gatherings? It is a dwelling whose pleasures are deceit, and its promises are falsehood. And the worldly life is nothing but the enjoyment of delusion. And the worldly life is nothing but play and amusement. And the abode of the Hereafter is better for those who fear Allah. Will you not then reason? And the closeness of a shadow that vanishes, and the passing of dreams that visit.
From Anas, may Allah be pleased with him, he said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "It is incumbent upon Allah that nothing is raised from this world except that He lowers it." (Narrated by Al-Bukhari) It is a dwelling that afflictions change, and calamities befall it, and misfortunes and trials cloud it. Death has drawn its swords in it and scattered its destinies among mankind. And whoever does not die soon will die later. And We did not decree for any human before you eternal life. So if you die, will they be eternal? Every soul will taste death. And We test you with evil and good as a trial, and to Us you will be returned. Where are those who were before us? Where are those who were before us? Where are the men who were beauty and adornment? How many dead have we seen who were alive, and soon they will see what we have seen? Where is he who was our friend and companion? Where is he who was our fellow traveler and companion? The strings of fate have snatched them, and the arrows of death have struck them.
O you who are drowning in sins and heedlessness, O you who are drowning in sins and heedlessness, will you not take heed of the graves of your fathers and mothers? Will you not learn from those who have passed of your brothers and sisters? Stop at the graves and look how many dead they have contained. They have passed, and you will not remain after them. And you will not live forever in this life. So prepare yourselves before the onslaught of death and its descent, and take your provisions before the opportunity is lost and the time arrives. And let not this fleeting world make you arrogant, nor distract you from the Everlasting Abode. Let not its adornments deceive you, nor its pleasures make you forgetful. Let not its trials lead you astray, nor let its devils and misleaders tempt you.
O disobedient one, O disobedient one, reflect on your state, and think about yourself, and remember when your time has gone, and your pillars have crumbled, and your record has been spread, and your scale has become light. Do you rejoice in sins and disobedience, and forget the day when forelocks will be seized? And you commit a sin deliberately, not caring, while the Lord of the worlds is watching you. What has deceived you and tricked you and led you astray? And what has driven you to disobey your Lord? And what has caused you to fall and be humbled, so that you have met the Almighty with what is not fitting, and committed the forbidden and incurred sins?
O you who are preoccupied with play and disobedience, O you who are preoccupied with play and disobedience, O you who are preoccupied with play and disobedience, how often do you disobey your Lord and act openly? How often do you neglect prayer and act arrogantly? How often do you commit sins and boast? O you who are preoccupied with your desires, O you who are engrossed in your pleasures, O you who are wasting what cannot be returned of your times, O you who do not fear your Lord in your private moments. How long will you draw curtains over evil? How long will you close doors against wrongdoing? O you who are alone with sins, hasten one day when your forelocks will turn gray. O you who conceal sins, are you not ashamed? Allah sees you in private. Has your Lord's indulgence and concealment of your many misdeeds deceived you? O you who have gone astray and wandered, and whose prolonged indulgence has deceived you. Allah has given you respite, and you have challenged Him. Have you not feared the consequences of His disobedience? May Allah have mercy on a person who has made this world a righteous mount, by which he reaches the gardens of Paradise, and by which he is saved from Hellfire and its depths. And blessed is the servant who looked out for himself and prepared for his grave, and paved the way for his demise, and prepared his resting place, before his appointed time expires and his deeds cease, and before tears are shed and shed, and repentance is offered and not accepted, and before he becomes in a desolate, dark, and gloomy belly, unable to increase his good deeds or decrease his bad deeds.
I say what you hear, and I seek forgiveness from Allah. So seek His forgiveness, O the successful ones who seek forgiveness. Praise be to Allah, who has sheltered whoever sought refuge in His kindness and closeness. And I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, alone, without partner. He has healed with His favors whoever despaired of his illnesses. And I bear witness that our Prophet and our Master Muhammad is His servant and His Messenger. Whoever follows him is upon guidance, and whoever disobeys him is in misguidance and ruin. May Allah send prayers upon him and upon his family and his companions, a prayer that remains, and peace that follows.
Now then, O Muslims, fear Allah and be mindful of Him, and obey Him, and do not disobey Him. O you who have believed, fear Allah and be with the truthful. O Muslims, hasten your return and accelerate your repentance, for your Lord is Forgiving, Acceptor of repentance. He forgives the sins of His servants, time after time. And whenever their sins and their repentance are repeated, His forgiveness for them is repeated. Allah, the Exalted, says: "And Allah wants to turn to you in mercy." (Quran 4:27) And Allah, the Exalted, says: "Will they not turn to Allah and seek His forgiveness? And Allah is Forgiving and Merciful." (Quran 5:29) And Allah, the Exalted, says: "Except for those who repent, believe, and do righteous deeds. For those, Allah will replace their evil deeds with good. And ever is Allah Forgiving and Merciful." (Quran 25:70) And Allah, the Exalted, says: "Say, 'O My servants who have transgressed against themselves [by sinning], do not despair of the mercy of Allah. Indeed, Allah forgives all sins. Indeed, it is He who is the Forgiving, the Merciful.'" (Quran 39:53) And Allah, the Exalted, says: "And it is He who accepts repentance from His servants and pardons evil deeds, and He knows what you do." (Quran 42:25)
And from Abu Hurairah, may Allah be pleased with him, he said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "By Him in whose hand is my soul, if you did not sin, Allah would have taken you away and brought people who sin, and they would seek forgiveness from Allah, and He would forgive them." (Narrated by Muslim) And from Anas, may Allah be pleased with him, he said: I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say: Allah, the Almighty, said: "O son of Adam, as long as you call upon Me and hope in Me, I will forgive you for whatever you have done, and I will not mind. O son of Adam, if your sins were to reach the sky, and then you sought forgiveness from Me, I would forgive you. O son of Adam, if you came to Me with sins filling the earth, and then you met Me without associating anything with Me, I would come to you with forgiveness filling the earth." (Narrated by Tirmidhi) And this is from His generosity, His bounty, His kindness, and His mercy to His creation, despite their sins and transgressions. He calls them to repentance and forgiveness, and pardons their offenses. So whoever repents to Him, He turns to him. So erase the traces of disobedience with the subsequent good deeds, and hasten to repentance before it is too late. And do not delay repentance, for whoever delays repentance until he sees the angel, and the soul struggles in the throat, and the chest becomes tight, and it reaches the throat, and the soul gurgles upwards in the windpipe, then repentance will not be accepted at that time, nor will there be an escape. May Allah make me and you among those who repent and turn back. And send prayers and peace upon Ahmad, the guide, the intercessor for all creation. Whoever sends one prayer upon him, Allah will send ten prayers upon him. O Allah, send prayers and peace upon our Prophet and our Master Muhammad. And O Allah, be pleased with the Rightly Guided Caliphs and the guided Imams, those of noble lineage and high status: Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali, and with all the family and companions, and with us along with them, O Generous, O Bestower. O Allah, grant honor to Islam and Muslims. O Allah, grant honor to Islam and Muslims, and humiliate polytheism and polytheists, and destroy the enemies of religion, and protect our lands and the lands of Muslims from the plots of plotters, the schemes of schemers, the hatred of haters, and the envy of envier, O Lord of the worlds. O Lord, make this country safe. O Lord, make this country safe. O Lord, make this country safe. O Allah, protect our soldiers stationed on our borders and our frontiers, and accept their martyrs among the martyrs, and grant healing to their wounded, and return them to their families safely, O Lord of the worlds. O Allah, grant success to our leader and our guardian, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, in what You love and are pleased with, and guide him to righteousness and piety. O Allah, grant success to him, his Crown Prince, and all the rulers of the Muslims in what brings honor to Islam and reform to Muslims, O Lord of the worlds. O Allah, heal our sick, grant well-being to our afflicted, and have mercy on our dead, O Lord of the worlds. O Allah, grant victory to our brothers in Palestine over the oppressive aggressors and the occupying tyrants. O Allah, purify Al-Aqsa Mosque from the defilement of the usurping Jews, and protect our people in Palestine, and mend their brokenness, and hasten their victory, and overlook their slips, and relieve their distress, and free their captives, and heal their sick, and accept their dead among the martyrs, O Lord of the worlds. O Allah, grant us rain. O Allah, grant us rain. O Allah, grant us rain. O Allah, send down rain upon us and do not make us among the despairing. O Allah, send down rain upon us and do not make us among the despairing. O Allah, make our supplication heard and our call raised, O Generous, O Great, O Merciful.
Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar. I bear witness that there is no god but Allah. I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. Come to prayer. Come to success. The prayer has begun. The prayer has begun.
Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. La ilaha illallah. Allahu Akbar.
Allahu Akbar. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, Master of the Day of Judgment. It is You we worship, and You we ask for help. Guide us to the straight path, the path of those You have blessed, not of those who have earned Your anger, nor of those who are astray. Amen.
When the earth is shaken with its [final] earthquake, and the earth discharges its burdens, and man says, "What is [wrong] with it?" - that Day, it will report its news, because your Lord has inspired it. That Day, the people will emerge in separate groups to be shown their deeds. So whoever does an atom's weight of good will see it, and whoever does an atom's weight of evil will see it.
Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Sami' Allahu liman hamidah. Our Lord, and to You is the praise.
Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar.
Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, Master of the Day of Judgment. It is You we worship, and You we ask for help. Guide us to the straight path, the path of those You have blessed, not of those who have earned Your anger, nor of those who are astray. Amen.
The Striking Calamity! What is the Striking Calamity? And what can make you know what the Striking Calamity is? It is the Day when people will be like moths dispersed, and the mountains will be like wisps of wool. Then as for him whose scales are heavy, he will be in a pleasing life. But as for him whose scales are light, his refuge will be [the] Abyss. And what can make you know what it is? It is a blazing fire.
Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Sami' Allahu liman hamidah. Our Lord, and to You is the praise.
Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar.
Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullah. Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullah.
Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullah. Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullah.
I seek forgiveness from Allah. I seek forgiveness from Allah. I seek forgiveness from Allah. O Allah, You are Peace, and from You is Peace. Blessed and Exalted are You, O Owner of Majesty and Generosity.
And so, brothers in faith, everywhere, the rituals of prayer and the sermon of Friday have been completed from the Prophet's Mosque. The prayer was led by His Eminence Sheikh Salah bin Muhammad Al-Budair, who also delivered the sermon. I ask Allah the Most High to accept our good deeds and yours. Here is the Friday sermon in which His Eminence urged the general congregation to fear Allah, the Almighty, and to be mindful of Allah in secret and in public, and that what brings a person closer to Allah is righteous deeds, and what distances him from Allah is his distancing himself from righteous deeds. O Allah, make us among the righteous and make us among the God-fearing, and forgive, O Allah, our fathers, our mothers, our children, our spouses, our offspring, and all those who bring us closer to You and to You, for You are the Hearer, the Near, the Answerer of prayers.
Here is Friday, and here are the blessings continuing upon the worshippers, the devoted, the rememberers, and all Muslims. And it is incumbent upon a person to draw near to Allah, and to do every deed that brings him closer to Allah. O Allah, make us among the accepted ones on this noble day, and make us among those whose supplication and deeds are accepted, and every deed that brings us closer to You, by Your mercy, O Most Merciful of the merciful, O Most Generous of the generous.
Glimpses of the Prophet's Mosque, of this pure, sacred, and blessed land, of this good land, the pure city, the Prophetic city. Feelings that stir the souls of Muslims upon seeing this pure, blessed place. Feelings that permeate the souls of servants, their hearts.