Abdal Hakim Murad – One Ummah
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The importance of abstaining from one's inner spirituality and purifying the whole human body is discussed, including the holy month and the cultural centered around it. G comeback is a common practice among Muslims, but it is difficult to understand. embracing people who have been sitting around in the mosque before marking or bad things is crucial, and not embracing people who have been sitting around in the mosque before Mark or bad things is appropriate. embracing the Laila to God, not pride and pride in Islam, and not overindulging always is also emphasized.
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One of the things that are most stressed by the scholars during
the month of Ramadan is that Ramadan is not just about
abstaining, food, drink, physical desire, smoking and the rest. But
it is also about abstaining from the inner vices to abstain
outwardly. without there being a natural falling away from the
inward passions is to have misunderstood and misapplied the
whole principle of fasting which is to purify the entire human
system, not just the physical metabolism.
So manlam Jada
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are the Allahu wa Sharapova who, whoever does not renounce lying
and bearing false witness, Allah has no need of his renouncing food
and drink.
The Holy Prophet Ali's letters have been constantly emphasized is
that Ramadan is to be a time of real detachment from the fiery
lower self, from the knifes Amara from the false illusory sense,
which is unfortunately that part of us which is most stressed by a
modernity in this endless fool's errand looking for selfhood and
individuality. It's a kind of missed a cobweb. It's not really
there, but it's full of fire and passion and it's dangerous.
So Ramadan is a spiritual school. It is a month long retreat. It is
a time when we engage in this inward jihad. It butthole how're
Bisou Fillmore Jaya Hedda. slaughter your desires with the
swords of war Tjahaja inward jihad, ride the stallion of your
will into the battlefield of desire until bloodstains it up to
the fetlocks all of this language, we find because this energy has
this Jihad Akbar is fundamental to what this particular form of our
Iboga is about it is a spiritual school.
So we find
the famous Hadith in which was bingeable or de la who
is writing behind the Holy Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and he
says uracil Allah, Allahu Akbar, there'll be manner all
the calendrical omocha Yom was, well Helya kupuna Sophie Nari Ala
Moana theory him ill Hassan Ido LC naughty him.
So Murad says, Are we going to be taken to account just for the
words that we say?
And he says
you misbegotten one or more hours it's a strong reproach are people
thrown down upon their for locks in * for anything other than
what their tongues have reaped?
The tongue is
Collie lon Jurmala its weight is little but its potential for
spreading harm is immense. And we are told in Ramadan particularly
to watch out for it. One of the early Muslims used to say the Sani
Sabol on in RSL Tuhoe akal
my
tongue is like a wild beast if I let it go it goes and eat
somebody.
And the teeth are to the the tongues the bars of the tongues
cage and at this time of Ramadan, Morocco Baba and watching what the
ego does with the tongue is particularly important.
In another Hadith
one of the Sahaba asked the Holy Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam
the Rasul Allah, Allah barony Anil Islami be Amarin Le s Allahu Ahad
and Bartok tell me about something in Islam that will be enough for
me so I don't need ever to ask anybody else about it again call
call and then to be learned from a stalking. So it's a general
questions it gives them the general totalizing answer that you
pellon say I believe in Allah and then go straight be an upright
Muslim.
Called the What's more, firmer at 30? What should I be aware of?
For Oh,
might be God He eagerly Sunny.
So he said his bit is not going to speak again but he points with his
hand to his tongue. What should I be aware of the Holy Prophet has
the tongue Watch out?
And
honorable hottub radula, who and once passed by Abu Bakr, Siddiq
radula, who was sitting there kind of holding his tongue, strange,
literally holding his tongue. And he said, What are you doing? I'm
your minion. And he said her that I would rather kneel my worried.
It is this that has gotten into difficult places.
And this is abundant and evident and all human experience shows
that if there is suffering, it's probably because of what somebody
has done. Somebody's reveal somebody's secret. Somebody has
engaged in slander about somebody, somebody has engaged in gossip or
loose talk, backbiting, libel, slander, the thing that our
culture Hello magazine, the tabloids is just full of the we're
all eating the flesh of our dead brothers.
This is an age in which so much money is made out of gossip,
celebrity gossip, poor to gossip, we exchange amongst ourselves and
this is in Islam, a very grave thing that we defend the honor of
other Muslims. And we retain the principle of hospitals and we give
them the benefit of the doubt. If an adverse Radi Allahu Ana says,
even if you smell alcohol on your brother's beard, you should assume
that somebody has spilt it though. Don't assume that that person is
guilty of a sin. Always find some excuse. ATMs will order the Africa
and Muslim find an excuse for your brother Muslim.
Now, one of the most grave consequences of this
loose talk is when people start to engage in religious criticism of
each other. And this we should definitely avoid during this
fasting month. Because after all, what do we know? We ordinary
Muslims who are not scholars, what do we know?
The Hadith? There's about a million of them.
They're difficult to understand, how are we going to know for sure
who's right and who's wrong. Even though all of that have never
agreed on many things as to what is right and what is wrong when
they have their different interpretations. Particularly in
the early period of Islam, we find such an enormous breadth of
interpretations.
That becomes a little bit narrower as the years go by, but ours is a
religion of FTF and therefore, a religion in which we acknowledge
that these things are difficult to understand. And who are we to say
Imam Malik is right Imam Shafi is wrong. This is haram bedarra All
of this stop this neerabup
Imam Malik used to say in the hair they'll mera la semana de NiFi
shake. This ego based argumentativeness about religion
has nothing to do with religion.
And a hadith says never was a people destroyed Isla Otto Jeddah.
Whenever people have destroyed it's because they're given this
egotistic argumentativeness Finding pleasure in poking holes
in other people's argument to scholars this scholar is that all
of this nonsense because who are we? To point accusing fingers at
the great ones of the past who've memorized hundreds of 1000s of
Hadith and performed more a better in a year than will perform in our
lifetime? What does it mean? It's just ego? We feel less
insecure about our own weaknesses when we think I'm better than him.
I'm 100 Alas, baloney. I'm better than Imam Al Ghazali. I know I
know. I know. I am cheerful Islam, the self, the sovereign will. The
ego prevails and becomes Cadell Co dot and the Grand Mufti.
This is obviously the destruction of religion. And in the month of
Ramadan, in particular, when we are feeling a little bit broken,
and when there's less energy for all of these ego things, we should
be seeing those vices for what they are and be disgusted by them.
What do we know? How strong are we? How long will we live? What's
the point of spending so much of our time pointing out the faults
of others. If it's something extreme and outrageous and
destructive to the Ummah, then of course, the OMA is agreed that
those things are outrageous, but most of the FTF issues in
religion, these are issues on which the Allamah have a mutual
respect and one of the signs of the decadence of the almost that
mutual respect is going
the divergence between the brothers and the deobandis for
instance, to the great good
Leave so many Hindu nationalists and others who wish ill to this
ummah, is based on issues that the great honor of the past would have
regarded as legitimate areas of equity laugh, but you can see on
all sides, the the fiery egos and the sense of self righteousness,
and the passionate desire to defend a school tradition and an
inherited narrative blinds people to the reality of what is going on
in Ramadan in particular, let's leave that aside. Let's leave that
disputatious SNESs with our shoes outside the masjid. And when we
come in, to worship, and when we begin the fast, and when we say no
way to CRM and the fast begins, that really means that we fast
from these sins of the tongue. Erfurt listen
so that at the end of the month, we benefit from the end of the
month, the last 10 days.
And the ease with which the fast presents itself in those 10 days,
a very extraordinary transformation, almost a metabolic
change almost a different species. So that when the month is over, we
miss so much of it and we feel that the lights have been turned
out we're in a kind of gray, neutral, meaningless space. The
believer is nostalgic for Ramadan. Everybody feels this, that as we
move up to the Laila to God.
As we ponder, wrote util, Hillel and the joy of the aid, and
experience that is for families and friends and for the
reconciling of the Ummah, that togetherness should not be a
hypocritical togetherness. We should not be embracing people who
would have been sitting around in the mosque before mark or bad
mouthing because we don't agree with that we'll we think there
shakes upon Delilah, or something like that this is not a good thing
to do in the month of Ramadan.
arguments about right and wrong in Islam are further all of that in a
particular context. But they're not for us to gossip about when we
know nothing at all. Only the ego only the shaytaan takes pleasure
in that. And Ramadan is not the appropriate time.
So in this fasting month, let's try and keep that wild beast
locked up where it belongs. Let us consider before we say anything at
all, what we are saying why we are saying it? Is it to impress
somebody, is it to impress ourselves, is it because we wish
to feel superior to somebody? Is it because we wish to feel that we
are better than a whole bunch of Muslim scholars. What is the
reason? When we look at it honestly,
we will see that it is an ugly thing and unworthy of this great
and dignified and holy month, when we should be hearing the angels
and our voices should be like the angels and we should be listening
only to Quran and only to good things, and shutting out all of
the pollution that comes out of the minds of the mouths of human
beings, there should be a time of purity, and a time of turning and
a time of repentance, not a time of pride and superiority.
So at this time in these blessed days, as the month winds down, and
as the sand moves out of the hourglass, and we face the aid and
we face a return to what we take to be normality, let it be a time
of contrition a time of Tober time in which we recognize that we need
less. We need less talk. We need less food, we need less drink, we
need less sleep. We overindulge always and this is spiritually as
well as physically bad for us. And also the armor is terribly torn
and divided. The OMO which is the pride of the resourceful Allahu
alayhi wa sallam and for all of which he will intercede is wounded
and besmirched by these divisions that are now tearing Muslims apart
in so many places. Ramadan should be the time when we fix that it
should be the laboratory of the soul it should be a psychology
clinic where we try and look within ourselves to see what we do
that contributes either to the unity or the disunity of the OMA
either to the joy or the rage of Islamic enemies because I disunity
always pleases our enemies it doesn't please Allah subhanaw
taala doesn't please the angels doesn't please the Allah mat and
the ALI app. So let this be a time where embraces on the eighth our
sincere
and were the singularity of the OMA in the AI badda on the day of
aid is an inner as well as an outward reality. Because these are
difficult times we are weak. We should not be adding to that
weakness by unnecessarily an ugly and egotistic faction of fashion,
running each other down to May Allah subhanaw taala return to
this ummah, the US
A tea, which is what the Holy Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasallam
prayed for me will be reunited Amma shahada, alumnus witnesses to
and for and against mankind so that we may insha Allah be worthy
of the intercession of the Holy Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasallam
truly, inwardly, as well as just formally and outwardly members of
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attack Burana, we're at the nakina in sha Allah, where are they? Who
are they now on an old material Muhammadiyah will say it will only
will fit he will Baraka t what to Haiti will water insha Allah may
Allah accept this and accept your aid and accept your fasting and
insha Allah make this a time of spiritual breakthrough in sha
Allah for you and for all of us and for our friends, neighbors
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salam o aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.
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