Abdal Hakim Murad – Learning to Love Ramadan Moments 4
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa
Salatu was Salam ala acromial NBR even more serene Sayidina Muhammad
in what other early he was softcopy age nine.
In this month at this time of year, certain things become
clearer. The human heart usually as a muddy, malfunctioning,
neglected, withered organism, even though it's, as the Hadith says
the key to the well being of all other parts of us, in the field,
Jessa de la mandala, either solo hat sallahu Jessa dokolo. What is
Fs at that festival just had to call low Allah, wa he'll call but
truly in the body there is a piece of flesh which when it's sound,
rest of us is sound. And when it's corrupt, the rest is corrupt. And
it is the heart.
This heart which has to do with consciousness, the eye the
selfhood
isn't necessarily an enigma.
It's easier to see outside than to see within their divine horizons
outside but within
and because we are outward looking, and our jewelry, her
limbs and our senses are for experiencing the outside world.
What is within is usually beyond our Ken
that applies even to our physical organs. There is the liver, I have
a spleen, kidneys, stomach, they're doing their job. I usually
don't give thanks for them, but they're there. Miracles of divine
technology, doing their job year after year, decade after decade
and only start grumbling. When usually, through my own abuse,
they start to malfunction but I can't see them.
They're within.
But that's just the superficial within the real within is that is
the consciousness to what I am the neffs the self and that is an
enigma, Neff spear more a murder. The self is a riddle.
But Allah subhanaw taala has created the self and the heart
which is somehow the place where the self is centered.
To be an organ of perception,
we perceive things, we learn things by heart, the heart
experiences, emotions and turbulences, intuition as the
heart can even see, through dreams aspects of another world.
The heart is clearly essential to what makes us many Adam, not
creatures of mud and clay, and dirt but angelic creatures to whom
the very angels can bow down. It's because of this eyeness This self
this transcendence within that we are worth anything at all.
So we'd like to know what's going on there.
And
the Companions asked the Holy Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasallam
about the roar
and he has to say, Allah tells him
Holy Roman, Amory, Robbie, Momo Tito minute I met de la kalila.
The spirit is of the divine command or the divine affair,
God's business and of knowledge you've been given that little so
this most important part of us the thing that we really are is the
thing we understand least. And most of our mistakes, if not all
of them as human beings is because we're not really focused and not
really spiritually active, other bits of us impulses, half digested
memories, the longing for status, those other things pull us this
way and this is Kadare mud, that, that pollutes the surface of what
should be a pure lake, a mirror that reflects the light of heaven.
And that's our state
that we have been in this month given the opportunity to calm down
a bit. This as a retreat we are self isolating, even in normal
times. There's a little bit of RT curve in every Ramadan, we
withhold our hands and therefore the heart is withheld from some
dunya pleasures and distractions.
Sophie that is Shayateen The devils are chained
in the shaytani Yejide Fubini. Adam a major dem for the Yoko
Mejuri he Bill jewel, the Holy Prophet says the shaytaan flows in
the son of Adam, along with a blood so narrow these arteries
with hunger
that tends to break us. Arrogance is less. We have less energy for
stupid playing around, we become more serious
is slightly broken, therefore more realistic and real human beings
and at this time the heart can start to function.
Now Allah subhanaw taala has said that he has enabled the
descendants of man of Adam Kolomna Benny Adam
and also has said that at the higher degree of what we are, he
loves us.
This is in the Hadith and the word
Allah is Allah Abdullah yet ACARA boo Allah been the Westphalia
Hatha or Heba
my slave to sound, Hadith, Hadith, Godsey
draws nearer to me, with optional acts until I love him.
God can love us for all of the mess that we represent. All of the
missed opportunities, all of the inattentive moments, all of the
waste, like a machine that's never really used for the right purpose
or properly tuned or properly lubricated. It's kind of abused.
What a waste
is like having a Formula One car and using it to pull a plow or
something. That's not what we're for. We abuse ourselves.
And, but Allah subhanaw taala has said that there is this love, and
he has said
that
the name of the Holy Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is
Habibollah
now this has to be a particular quality of the armor of Islam.
Each armor has a particular fragrance a particular wavelength,
a particular modality of being alive in the Spirit.
And this is indicated a number of Hadith were the founders of those
almost are named.
Sinha, Ibrahim alayhis. Salam is Holly Lulu Sedna Musa is Kaleem
Allah say Nisa is ro Hola, Sedna North is Najee, Allah, etc. Center
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is named in the Hadith as
Habibollah God's beloved
and there is a particular dimension to the inner life of
Islam, the heart life of Islam that is that pertains to love. And
in the month of Ramadan, we start to taste this. At least we taste
the love of the forms.
The Divine Love for the forms of Islam which are prophetically
gifted and which are beautiful. The fast is a beautiful thing. The
prayer is a beautiful thing. There's a cat the Hajj, majestic
and also beautiful. Allah loves those actions.
And we learn to love them as well.
And the Holy Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam were joined at
Quora to I NiFi Salette the delight of my eyes has been set in
prayer, to the extent that we progress and the ego stuff dies
down, put back in its box kicked away, and we become real and
ourselves
in this prophetic way.
We really start to love the forms of Islam. And we love the prayer
to alert Audra to it for solat that's a measure of our iman used
to say sallallahu alayhi wa sallam retina yo Bilal, give us rest with
it. Oh, Bilal inviting him to give the Athan. It is the prayer that
allows us to relax, to detox to be at ease, to be in a state of
equilibrium, the inward reality of what the outward form of the
prayer enact.
So this quality of merhaba of love is fundamental to our religion.
And it is evinced by the Holy Quran its insistence again and
again that we look at the wonders of the Earth around us. This
difficulty in the Wii hockey summer where it will all work
dilla Filoli won the heartland, yet in the old Al Bab way the
heavens and the earth have created a succession of night and day
signs for people of understanding of lobe, Insight heart.
And this seeing them as signs means love. You see the Divine
Creator and His genius. He is workmanship in everything you
can't help but love it. Who doesn't love beauty? Love is the
recognition of beauty and perfection. So we have to love
creation. We have to love the FT level LC nautical L one e COMM The
diversity of your tongues and of your colors. The FT left the
diversity of creation is beloved. So we're to be lovers of God's
world.
lovers of others, in whom are not just the outward FSOC sonori him
Tina Phil FLP Rafi unfussy him Pattaya Debian Allah home and the
whole Huck we shall show them are signs on the horizon and in
themselves until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth
within themselves in our inner eFax seeing the miraculous,
unique, irreplaceable love ability of others,
to see others with the idol Marhaba. That's, that's the
miracle. And that is the gift of Eman not just seeing other people
as fellow citizens with rights and responsibilities in a kind of
dull, cold liberal social contract, but loving them
as showerhead witnesses to the Divine creative power revering
them, not because they are meat computers that will come to an
end, and will malfunction sooner or later. But because they
continue to draw the CALB because it is to them, the ancestor that
the angels bowed, so this is the religion preeminently of muhabba
and the Quran is endlessly inviting us to remember God but
also to think about the beauty in the world. And in the month of
Ramadan. As we look out of the window and we see the clouds go by
and as we hear the birdsong we see the beauty of everything. We
remember that he is indeed Habib Ullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
who Shetty has been brought in this form, which is a form of
love.
Well, Edina m&r I shed dog by Leila Quran says those who have a
man have more, greater, stronger, more magnificent love for Allah.
So we ask Allah subhanaw taala to purify our hearts in this fasting
month, to give us the inner as well as the outward bodily reality
of the fast to purify the hearts so that we start to see the light
that is in God's creation, to love, the beauty that is in God's
creation and in each other, to make us people have terraeum of
mutual mercy, or people who are a light for the world to follow the
one who is also to Allah Santa's an excellent example. And to be an
example, for all nations as a true or mutton What are taught, so that
we may be shahada Island this witnesses to mankind in a time of
fear and division, and darkness and confusion and pestilence. An
armor that is a witness to something better. The armor of
love of marhaba the armor of Habibollah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam Baraka law of equal width Acaba, Lhasa, Macomb well as other
if Tara comb was salam o aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.