ANTHONY JOSHUA PRAYED FAJR SALAAH
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In this podcast, we talk about how important it is to wake up for Fajr and how many Muslims don't even bother to wake themselves up in the morning. We also talk about why it is so important to wake yourself up for the morning and the importance of it.
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There was a night where I couldn't sleep yeah and probably like four in the morning
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so I get out of my bed and I'm like you know let me let me start praying.
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Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh brothers and sisters and dear friends hope
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you guys are well inshallah brothers and sisters as you guys know AJ who is also known as Anthony
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Joshua so he's got a boxing match coming very soon inshallah in Saudi Arabia so he's been
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there and a reporter asked him a very very important question and he gave a very very
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unique answer to it very interesting he doesn't really claim if he's a Muslim or not but he says
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something very interesting you know even if you're a believer or not a believer he says
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that sometimes when he's at the gym sometimes I don't know if you use the word nervous but he
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says sometimes he can't sleep so because of that he hears the adhan the call to prayer and I think
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he's joined some of his friends you know he has a lot of Muslim friends for Fajr very interesting
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brothers and sisters subhanallah if you can think if you think about it I've recently come
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across a lot of non-Muslims who are actually they want to try and I can believe when I first
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was looking into Islam I used to fast I used to try to fast I wanted to know what fasting was about
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so it's something that is close to my heart as well because I wanted to see what's the fasting
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about etc you only truly understand the sweetness when you become a believer because usually as a
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disbeliever when you fast you're just like okay I'm staying away from food why am I staying away from food
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I don't know just to try it fasting prayer and the things that you do actions of ibadah are greater
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and it has a sweetness to it when you inshallah like do it for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
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but it's very interesting that Anthony Joshua Anthony Joshua would want to go and wake up for Fajr
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which is one of the most hardest prayers brothers and sisters yeah what does that say about us how
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many Muslims are watching this and they do not wake up for Fajr and you anybody that comes to me and says
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i can't wake up i'm i'm tired um um my life is busy in a nutshell what you're trying to say is this
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it's as if i was you're saying that your lord who created the heavens and the earth was not aware
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that when he sent and bear in mind what he came down by the angel Gabriel to the prophet Muhammad peace
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be upon him but when it came to the issue of salah the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him had to go to
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the heavens and meet Allah and we don't know if he saw Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala we do not know but he had
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to go there and get the um the ruling when it comes to salah which shows how important it is
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brothers and sisters what you're trying to say to yourself if you do not wake up for salah is the
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following Allah doesn't know my affairs that i'm going to be busy in the worldly things and he has
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told me to do something that i can't do this is border it can be kuffer i'm not i'm not saying you become
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a disbeliever but the thought of it that Allah is telling you to do something and not aware what an
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insult to him if i go to my son and say or my daughter i wouldn't need to do a and they're like
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i can't do it what they're basically trying to say to me is like as if i don't know that they can't do
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it and i am making them do something they can't do no Allah knows very well we can do it you have 24
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hours a day five minutes Anthony Joshua who is i don't know if he's a believer or not
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if he's a disbeliever for him to wake up for fajr and for you not to let me tell you something it's a
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matter of priority if i came to you and i said i will give you five thousand pounds which i don't
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have if i had it and i would maybe lend it to you to wake up for five minutes you will set 27 alarms
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you will ring your neighbor and say if i don't wake up bang the door smash the door you will tell your
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wife to wake you up you will do everything in your power why for five thousand pounds so it's a matter of
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priority but when your lord is promising you jannah what is five thousand pounds and you say what
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tired no no no you're not tired you are not tired it's a matter of priority it's a matter of iman
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it's fine when i first came to islam i found it very hard to wake up for fajr the first year
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i made dua i asked allah please and wallahi allah subhanahu wa ta'ala made it easy for me i'm just
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going to wrap up on that but from Anthony Joshua we can learn a key lesson if him i don't know if he's
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a muslim or not but let's assume that he's not if he can go and go to prayer and wake up for fajr or
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knows he hears the adhan imagine as a disbelief you hear the adhan you're like you know what
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let me go and pray how could it be that we're in muslim households where your mom and dad is a muslim
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not like people who are families are not muslim and wallahi they wake up look i don't know what
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to feel sorry for me i would sometimes tiptoe tiptoe in my house so my my dad doesn't hear me
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waking up for fajr how is it that you're in a household where your mom and dad is
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begging you to pray that's all i'm going to say brothers and sisters let this be a reminder
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and set your alarms setting your alarms is a gold it's good it means you are now striving to wake up
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set your alarm even if you don't wake up you know that you set your alarm for fajr
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inshallah you'll get the ajr until next time assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh