Yaser Birjas – Chapter On Mujahada
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The speaker discusses the meaning of "struggling" in Arabic language, and how it relates to achieving goals. They stress the need to stay in a certain path and dedicate oneself to good deeds to achieve success. The importance of staying true to Islam and dedicating oneself to good deeds is emphasized, along with the need to focus on one's actions and dedication to good deeds to achieve success. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of mu anniversarying and rebuilding one's life.
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الحمد لله رب العالمين صلى الله وسلم بركة
نبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم تسليمك كثيرا
ثماما بعد سيدنا محمد نور رحمه الله تعالى
is moving from one chapter to the other
one.
So the previous chapter we were discussing together
was المبادرة في الخيرات Rushing and racing and
hastening in doing good deeds.
Right now he's moving to a new chapter
المجاهدة باب المجاهدة The struggle in the cause
of Allah سبحانه وتعالى or the inner struggle,
the self-struggle for the sake of Allah
سبحانه وتعالى He mentioned before he comes to
the hadith he mentioned a lot of ayat
to explain the meaning of المجاهدة قال والذين
جاهدوا فينا لنهدينهم سبلنا وإن الله لمع المحسين
Allah سبحانه وتعالى says in translation as for
those who strive hard in our cause we
will surely guide them to our path to
Allah سبحانه وتعالى's way.
So what's المجاهدة المجاهدة in the Arabic language
comes from جاهد يجاهد جهاد ومجاهدة and الجهد
or المجاهدة comes from the trilateral root جاهدة
which means to exert an effort to put
an energy or effort into accomplishing something and
achieving something.
And in the Arabic here المجاهدة على وزن
مفاعلة any word that sounds like مفاعلة like
مجاهدة مراسلة مغالبة all these words it means
there is a mutual effort from both, from
two parties or at least two entities sometimes
that effort is opposite that's why there is
مجاهدة like two entities are putting and exerting
an effort against each other.
So when it comes to مجاهدة النفس over
here what does it mean when you say
you struggle or you put an effort against
your own self what's the purpose of it,
what's the meaning of that so مجاهدة النفس
islamically speaking is when you put the energy
and the effort to keep your نفس to
keep your inner self on the path to
Allah SWT resisting fighting against المعاصي or sins
so usually مجاهدة against internal pressure which is
what going after the sins or after your
desires the lowly desires usually so you're fighting
against that, that's مجاهدة inner مجاهدة and then
you have المجاهدة ضد المحن والكوارث والابتلاءات when
you are struggling against the trials and the
fitna that you go through in this life
so whether the external and internal both of
them are called مجاهدة but for the believer
the biggest مجاهدة over here obviously is when
you try to keep yourself on the path
to Allah SWT so now when you say
two entities over here it's between you and
yourself here your نفس wants to go easy
with شهوات and the desires and so on
but of course obviously you'd like to you're
aspiring to upgrade and ascend above these lowly
desires to that which is more important in
the dunya and in the akhirah that's where
the struggle becomes it so Allah SWT says
over here وَالَّذِينَ جَاهَدُوا فِينَا وَالَّذِينَ جَاهَدُوا فِينَا
وَالَّذِينَ جَاهَدُوا فِينَا and those who put the
effort and strive for our cause physical and
also emotional and spiritual so the moral and
the physical as well, you put all the
effort that is possible to stay on the
path to Allah SWT Allah will reward you
by guiding you to that straight path قَالَ
وَعْبُدْ رَبَّكَ حَتَّىٰ يَأْتِيَكَ الْيَقِينَ قَالَ وَعْبُدْ رَبَّكَ
حَتَّىٰ يَأْتِيَكَ الْيَقِينَ that you worship your Lord
until you meet your certainty, what's the meaning
of certainty over here jemaah?
death, that death is the most certain thing
everybody agrees on even unbelievers, even the atheists,
they agree with you on death so the
most certain thing but people treat it sometimes
as if it's what?
the most uncertain so Allah says وَعْبُدْ رَبَّكَ
حَتَّىٰ يَأْتِيَكَ الْيَقِينَ you worship your Lord until
you meet your certainty, which means you're going
to be living the life of uncertainty until
that moment, so what do I need to
do?
you need to remain steadfast in worshipping Allah
SWT so put your effort and mujahida to
stay worshipping Allah عز و جل وَقَالَ وَذْكُرْ
اسْمَ رَبِّكَ وَتَبَتَّلْ إِلَيْهِ تَبْتِيلًا تَبَتَّلْ إِلَيْهِ تَبْتِيلًا
Allah SWT says here that and you worship
your Lord and remember the name of your
Lord and devote yourself to Him with complete
devotion تَبَتَّلْ إِلَيْهِ تَبْتِيلًا which means you kind
of like seclude yourself completely cut yourself off
everything in this dunya for the sake of
Allah عز و جل, where would you need
that the most, what ibadah in particular you
needed to have the absolute devotion to Allah
SWT almost every ibadah, but one particular one
is what?
As-salah so when you say Allahu Akbar
you need to get, you cut yourself off
completely from the surroundings and dedicate your ibadah
to Allah SWT and that's what Allah SWT
was talking to the Prophet that when you
stand up in tahajjud in salah وَتَبَتَّلْ إِلَيْهِ
تَبْتِيلًا تَبْتِيلًا that you dedicate yourself to complete
devotion to Allah in that moment and that
requires mujahidah you keep bringing yourself into khushu'
every time your mind starts straying away, you
bring yourself back again to salah a lot
of mujahidah is required to keep on that
path for salah وَقَالَ فَمَنْ يَعْمَلْ مِثْ قَالَ
ذَرَّةٍ خَيْرًا يَرَهُ whoever does a good deed
the way of an atom they shall see
the reward for it which means you need
to strive and put the energy and the
effort to do good deeds as little as
this much the weight of an atom dedicate
yourself to good deeds even to that level,
do not belittle any size or any amount
of good deeds قَالَ وَمَا تُقَدِّمُوا لَنفُسِكُمْ مِنْ
خَيْرٍ تَجِدُوهُ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ هُوَ خَيْرًا وَأَعْظَمْ أَجْرًا
as Allah SWT says and whatever good you
send before you for yourself which means in
terms of ibadat and nawafil and good deeds
and so on, qal you will certainly find
with Allah SWT better and greater reward so
meaning not just in the fard, you also
need to put the mujahada in fulfilling the
obligation plus the nawafil, the sunan and everything
else as part of that mujahada and finally
he says qal وَمَا تُنفِقُوا مِنْ خَيْرٍ فَإِنَّ
اللَّهَ بِهِ عَلِيمٌ and part of your mujahada
is that whatever you spend in good surely
Allah knows it well like whatever you spend
for the sake of Allah SWT Allah knows
about it and of course given the money
that you earned fair and square and you
sweated for it, of course and give that
away for the sake of Allah SWT, it
requires a lot of mujahada, a lot of
faith a lot of belief, a lot of
resistance against the desire of the nafs to
keep it in your pocket no it shouldn't
be given away, what about this bill, what
about that bill, what about your kids tons
of excuses but when you dedicate that money
for the sake of Allah SWT, definitely there's
a great level of mujahada over here, may
Allah SWT keep us all on the path
of mujahada for the sake of Rabbil Alameen
and keep us steadfast on this path wallahu
ta'ala alam any questions jama'at jazakumullahu
khair, subhanakallahu wabihamdik ashra'allah, astaghfirullahu wabarakatuhu
assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu