Sheikh Uthman Hadi - How you start your day

Episode Date: July 22, 2025

Sheikh Uthman Hadi shares the best way to remember Allah (SWT) and start your day. he shares practical tips for the best conncetion with Allah (SWT).  Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/sheikh-uthman-hadi--6689369/support.https://sheikhuthmanhadi.beam.ly

Do you want to have a connection with Allah, right? This is a question that I've been asked multiple times by multiple people there. Like, hey, do you want to have a connection with Allah? Well, do this. Do you want to have a connection with Allah? Do this? Do you want to have a connection with Allah? Do this?

Hold on. Let me break this down for you. If you want to have a connection with Allah, first of all, you have to read Allah's book. That's the only way to have a connection with it. If you say, okay, Allah's aphanama and Allah says in the Quran, worship me, make dua to me, read my book, learn, do this and do that. You follow those commands.

And what ends up happening? Well, guess what? Now, you follow Allah supranahua what he said, and ultimately you follow the teachings of the Prophet of Allah who came from Allah, suhphanu, ta'u, and guess what? Now you are following these things. The best routine that you can make in the morning is to wake up. Say your du'a when you wake up.

It is to make wudu. You ready for prayer? It is to read Quran, make doha pray. After you pray, perform all your thicker, your athkhar. After that, pray, sadat to doha. Then after that, you go on with your day. The first thing people do when they wake up is they go on social media, scrolling, and doing these things. Then Allah, say in the Quran, go on social media when you first wake up and go start scrolling through videos.

Go start scrolling through your feed. No, he didn't say that. Allah suhphanahua sa'a'u'a said in the Quran, he said to remember him constantly. How do you remember him if you're on social media? You use it for a good reason. You use it to look at reminders of Allah subhpana and huazada. And if you do not want to be on technology first thing in the morning, which is actually a good thing. Because of your first in the morning, that's the first thing that's going through your brain.

That's the first thing that's starting you're off of your day. What's the best thing for you to start doing? To wake up to. The best thing for you to wake up to is making woodoo. It's the best thing. The best thing to wake up to is the azzan. The best thing to wake up to is wudu. The best thing to wake up to is prayer.

The best thing to wake up to is the presence of Allah, supranahua'u'a. Those who deeply connect themselves to Allah, they are deeply connected to him throughout any and everything that they do. When they hear the azzan, they could be sleep. There could be no adana. And guess what? You still have it in your heart. You still feel it in your soul.

You still know. Allah's calling me to pray right now. It's time. It's time for me to pray. It's time. One thing we never think about is our routine. One thing we never think about is those are those moments that we spend with Allah, subhpano,u, in seclusion in the morning by ourselves. We never think about those things. We never think about the times that we spend just being with Allah. We never think about those times. We always wonder what's happening in the world. We always wonder, what am I supposed to do today? We always wonder, what's my pay going to be like?

We always wonder, what am I going to do with this? What am I going to do with that? But we never take a moment to think. The only way to truly start our day off is by remembering Allah supranahu atab. By following the teachings and the sunnah of Rasul-all-u-ah-u-u-a-u-u-u-a-u-u-u. That's the only way.

Because when you do these things, you're deeply connected to Allah. And now that deep connection allows for you to better yourself throughout these days. There's no better way to start off your day than to pray, fudger. And all the times you miss that fudger. You shouldn't be feeling happy. You shouldn't be feeling as if it's just a normal day. You should be feeling as if a part of my day has been broken. A part of my day has been disrupted.

A part of my day has been destroyed. And I miss that remembrance with Allah. I need to get better. I can't do this again. I cannot do this again. The longer and the more time that I do this, what happens? Eventually, the shetan creeps in and he makes it normalized. Because it happens with everything. Allah, subhphano'u, ta'allah, warns us about how the shetan will normalize things within our lives.

He will normalize things. He will make things normalized as long as we follow his paths, his tricks, and whatever he puts in our path. So what's our main thing that we should be doing? you should be remembering Allah. You start your day with remembering Allah, you end your day with remembering Allah. Why do you think that the Prophet of Allah Allah Allah al-a-u-salam used to pray Isha

and afterwards go directly to bed? He didn't wait and sit up, watch TV, he didn't sit up and stay on his phone scrolling. He didn't have a phone, right? But even if he did, he didn't do it. Right? He didn't go engaging in conversations. He didn't go talk for long periods of time.

He didn't go and just sit around all the time. he went to bed. You end your day by remembering Allah. You begin it with remembers, and you end it with remembrance. And between that day, you do the things you're supposed to do, but you have a cutoff point.

You say, okay, at Fudger, this is the time that I start. Inshallah, I start 30 minutes after I've done everything with my Fudgeur. Even if I know, I finished praying Fudger at 510, 520. You know, right now for me,

Fudger's coming in at 504. Okay? So, you finish praying Fudger at 525, right? Okay, what do you do after that? After that, you perform your thicker. After that, you read some Quran. After that, you read the Quran.

After that, you make dua. After that, you pray Salah Tallah, or you do it the opposite way. You pray to that duha, then you read your Quran and make dua. Then afterwards, that's when you start your day. That's when you start doing stuff. Because when you get in the mindset of remembering Allah, Suhpanao'u, T'Ala, throughout your whole morning, throughout your whole day, Allah will make things easy for you because you're always remembering him.

He'll make things easy for you. You think about it. What happens when you commit sins? You don't remember Allah. If you remember Allah every time you commit this thing, you would never commit that sin. Because you remember Allah, Sapanu's Allah. You remember his punishment. You remember that Allah's upon His Allah is watching me at all times. The only way to ensure that you have a constant day-to-day routine, that you have a constant wake up, you have a constant go to sleep. You have a constant sound heart is to remember Allah, because when you remember Allah subma which Allah, the hearts find ease and peace. And the last thing I want to say, and this is one of the things that I love saying

as a reminder to myself, is that when Salah begins, worries in, right? When you remember Allah, the world stops. Everything else stops. I don't care what it is. Think about the people of Gaza. Do you think that when they remember Allah, do you think that they're thinking about the next time

if they're going to be bombed? Or do you think that they're thinking about their hereafter? Do you think that they're thinking about the time when they used to be able to go play a video game? Do you think of the time where they're thinking about the time when they used to be able to eat food? No. When they're remembering Allah, they're focused on their lord.

They're focused on their ajarah. They're not focused on their dunya. They're focused on their ajarra. Because ultimately, they have remembrance being installed within their hearts. And that, that courage that we see them have, That bravery that we see them have. That happiness that we see them have,

even though you're going through these times, only comes from the remembrance of Allah. You cannot get that from starting your day off with social media. You can't get that from starting your day off with engaged three-hour conversations with a person. You can't get it like that. You'll be happy in certain moments of that conversation, maybe laughing, me joking, whatever.

But you will not ever find happiness. You will never find ease upon your heart until you remember Allah, subana huazana. And he is the only one. who will allow for us, allow for our hearts to be connected to him, and he was the only one that will make it easy for us to do whatever the case might be. So if you're having problems with work, the next time you go to work,

remember that Allah, Supperahua Tala is the one who placed that work there. Remember that Allah supano'hah is the one that woke you up this morning. Remember that Allah supanohu is a one that allowed for you to do what you're doing right now. No one else, not your boss, not a manager in your, your business? None of that. Not your family. Because maybe your family came in and helped you wake up today. No, that's not what it's about. What it's truly about. It's about your faith and remembrance of Allah, Supperahua'ah, in all situations. May Allah, forgive us of our sins, grant us the best of understanding. All right for us to always remember him with full, pure

intentions. And may he grant us the ability to all. May he grant us the ability to be able to, um, may he grant us the ability to all face our fears with whatever it is that we fear happening and may Allah, Siphano-ta-a-la, free the people of Gaza, may he allow for everybody to always remember him, no matter what the circumstances or the case may be. Dizakamu al-hairan. And, alaqa, and of all right of allah, and ala, and alaqa.