Abdal Hakim Murad – Being Attentive to Others
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The importance of being aware of one's own weaknesses and weaknesses in order to be bonded with others is emphasized. The need for empathy and forgiveness in Islam is emphasized, along with the importance of mutual bond between individuals to avoid confusion and loss of friendships. The phrase "ENT bye," which is used to describe a woman seeking forgiveness, is also discussed. The importance of forgiveness in the context of law is emphasized, along with the need for people to be aware of their obligations.
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thinkers Bismillah Alhamdulillah wa salatu salam ala Rasulillah.
We're early he was so happy. We're Manuela.
So we've now plunged into the limpid waters of the fasting month
and our customary attachments are suddenly broken. That's like
diving into the sea, suddenly, there's no more breathing and you
are no longer quite at ease with your immediate environment, as
brings many benefits, some of them obvious, even medical others,
harder to discern more spiritual somehow when we are detached from
the immediate need for grazing and snacking. And thinking about the
next indulgence we are more in the moment to be more mindful, we are
more present with nature we are more present with other people
with the moment with God insha Allah it's a time of attentiveness
and of seriousness. We know this is the time when Sophie dirty
Shayateen the demons are
are chained up. When Adam winard in and a herald cries out Yeah,
bar real Hey, hello, are you about here shall Oxford
and the Herald cries out you who seeks what is good, rise up, and
you who seeks what is not good? Hold back.
This is a an angelic voice, which is speaking to us. And somehow we
do detect that voice at this time. So if we do use this opportunity,
let's remember that the fast is not just the nil by mouth, obvious
regulations, but it's an inward thing.
That is to say if we are more in the moment, and more attentive to
others, we need to be more watchful of what comes out of the
mouth as it were in terms of speech. The effort to listen the
drawbacks of the tongue. This is particularly important in Ramadan
and some of the self
Sofian authority for instance, used to c'est la vie Bertozzi
docm, backbiting briksdal fast, he was a great jurist, and that's
what he meant.
The Wrath of Allah and the wisdom of the Ummah is not made that the
conceptual view it would be difficult, but it is a warning.
Holy Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam manlam Yaga real kedi Baba
Khalid zoar, whoever does not abandon telling lies and bearing
false witness, Allah has no need of his leaving off his food and
his drink. What's what's the point? What comes out of us is
more significant morally spiritually than what goes in.
So it's a time when we're attentive to others and also a
time of mercy, of course, the month of Mercy beginning with
mercy and a month of
being forgiving of others, because we're aware of our own frailty and
our own weakness holder called Insano. The IFA Man is created
weak, we become more aware of the weakness of others ever Islamic
charity will tell you you know now what it is to be hungry, so give
money to famine relief. And of course, that is one of the
benefits of cm but empathy with other people what philosophers
have called inter subjectivity somehow being them imaginatively
is the basis of all ethics and Ramadan really does help us with
this. So when you are aware of others, you are aware of their
weakness, and perhaps you can find reasons why they do the things
that you don't approve of. It's easy to say, I dislike what such
and such a person is saying, or the person who is married, or the
way he earns a living or his opinions on religion or the way he
rules his country. It said, most of our most of our color, most of
our conversation nowadays is about that. When you are able to
empathize and try and put yourself in that person's shoes and
understand the reasons why that person has become like that, then
you become more human.
This idea of insan to be human, is to do with one's intimacy, which
means that we really uniquely among the species can try to
imagine really what it is like to be somebody else. My cat can't
imagine what it's like to be me. But I have some capacity even to
imagine what my cat must be feeling when he's hungry or hasn't
been letting all night and we are empathetic creatures as a part of
Being in San Ramadan heightens that sensibility and should be an
ethical time.
We should find ourselves watchful, we should guard the tongue, use
the teeth as a cage, as the scholars say, imprisoning that
wild beast.
So one of the
verses that comes to mind here that religion really is all about,
all about forgiveness, is how the law for what more will off will
our read on Yuja healing
which is, hold fast to forgiveness.
Take what is customary and enjoin others to what is customary and
good and turn aside from the ignorant.
Now this is one of the verses of the virtue called Hilma mildness
which is a Ramadan virtue has to be
it the the awful here means Allah is saying Hold fast to
forgiveness. In other words,
overcome your lower desire to find fault with somebody else, or to
gratify your sense of being superior, better, richer, smarter,
more pious, whatever it might be.
Forgive them through this empathy and also make things easy for
them. If Andrew say in his Tafseer says that one of the meanings of
awful here is the test healer.
And this is from the important prophetic principle. Yes, Cyril
want to ask you best you want to natural. Make things easy for
people. Don't make them harder. Give them good news. Tell them
nice things. Don't repel them. It's in the sea of little Umrah.
It's in the imperative. It's a prophetic commandment we are
commanded to make things easier for others and this is true for
the jurists with his fatwas as it is true for the ruler as it is
true for the banker as it is true for the parent as it is true for
everybody make things easy for others, and this should be part of
the understanding the mutual Rachmat. durafirm of the Muslims
in Ramadan, we know what people are going through. We all have the
same metabolisms. We know what it must be like but then they haven't
eaten for 12 hours tempers perhaps a short
be forgiving, but also make things easy for them.
isn't just a list a number of other meanings which are
interesting here. He says one of the meanings was before the cat
was made obligatory. Take only a moderate amount of, of wealth from
them. In other words, take what is surplus to their requirements
never take from anybody, anything that person absolutely needs. And
then the verse ends were outed anugerah healing. In other words,
somebody thinks ignorant and stupid. It just smack his head.
Turn aside. Murder Al Quran, were either not at all be in love we
Maruka Rama This is the sign of the ibid the rock man in the
Quran, when they pass by stupid activities, people wasting their
time they pass by with dignity as people of honor. And this is a
better way of calling people to something that is better than just
getting in there and insulting them and then telling them that no
good wastewater is part of the hikma of Dawa just to show dignity
rather than to condemn and to attack people and it's very
effective.
And lead to anarchy, the NASA a sofa hat, the sofa him. In other
words, it wanders. It says what this means is when people are
behaving stupidly, you don't take them to task for their stupidity.
Whether it be something that they've said, or something that
they've done, they're fit I work with them and show them help them,
show them gentleness, show them generosity show them mildness and
this is the obligation that is imposed because this verse is in
the imperative at all times we had to be mailed to people in the
month of Ramadan we must cultivate this even more severe loss upon
Allah Tala as we embark upon this month because people have
awareness of understanding of mildness in sha Allah and be here
except all of our fasts, medical or fecal coliform income. Assalamu
aleikum wa rahmatullah.
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