Abdal Hakim Murad – Patience in Love Ramadan Moments 2
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Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim Al hamdu lillahi rabbil aalameen or
salat wa salam O Allah acromial NBI evil mursaleen Satan Omala Now
have you been a Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi edge mine
we know that
Ramadan is the month of Sobor
we'll see mo this for summer in the Hadith intermeeting
that fasting is half of Sobor
and In another Hadith or soveral. This full Eman sobor. Patient
restraint is half of Eman. So on this calculation I guess. Fasting
is a quarter of Eman and some of the Allah reflecting on this
nicely say well it's one of the four practical pillars that
support the fifth pillar which is the shahada so of course
arithmetically it computes.
But this suburb which teaches us that we can indeed say no to our
Russa passions
is, as it were quite a dry virtue.
What do we mean by this we mean that it's about abstention.
It's not something that you would wish to write an ecstatic poem
about. For instance, it's not something that makes you want to
immediately
raise up your hands to heaven and say, Alhamdulillah unless you're
at a particular level of Wilaya, because it's an austerity. It's
part of Zod, nasaka renunciation.
And, of course, much of the path to God is about renouncing
pleasures.
This is what the modern world least understands about
traditional humanity, that we find happiness, through disciplining
the self, so that the spirit may become active, modern world has no
access to the Spirit.
Occasionally, a kind of remote fragrance or distant memory in
certain times might drift over the poor impoverished concert
consciousnesses of some modern people, but not much. Instead,
those naps, this is the age of the self. So something like Sobor
seems like just getting less of what you fancy. What's good about
that it's austere, kind of gray and dark.
So in our party culture, this suburb emits the wildness of
modern hedonism, which is of course, presiding over, we now
know, the destruction of the biosphere, the resources for our
party turned out to be finite, the booze will run out
is not a very fashionable virtue, and it can be difficult.
But this summer, which has to do with the way in which the negative
aspects within us, which is often personified as the demonic aspect,
in the shaitana, Yejide Fubini ad and that merger a dem they
shaytaan flows in the veins of the descendants of Adam along with the
blood. There's something axiomatically, part of us, that is
about the passions which is coterminous with the body. When we
crave it, all of us that craves, particularly since the Gruesel.
cravings are for physical gratification.
But at the same time,
this sober
lead leads on to a related virtue,
which is a virtue full of joy,
which is the virtue of RIDOT.
Radom means
contentment, satisfaction, happiness with what's going on
your content, I'm happy with the situation. I'm good with it, as we
colloquially say, nowadays, which is shocking, ungrammatical, but we
said I'm good with it.
So to be pleased with the situation
is something that's obviously related to happiness. You're not
at ease with something unless there's some element of happiness
in your situation, but you might be in a state of suburbia and
finding it hard.
So this is a more sweet aspect, one of the virtues of the fasting
month.
The loss of 100 to Allah uses this concept of Ridore quite often
because it's a divine quality
In Radi Allahu Anhu. What are the one?
Allah is pleased with them? He, they are pleased with him.
There's a mutual riddle. The Creator and a creature are at ease
with each other and that's the greatest satisfaction that is
sadder that is salvation.
So elsewhere when Messiah Kena Taiyi Batoon fee Jannetty Arden
watery Duan Amin Allahu Akbar Delica whole 1000 housing
and they shall be rewarded with excellent residences in Gardens of
Eden. And Allah's the red one is greater. That is the mighty
triumph.
So even higher than these amazing gardens and mansions and palaces
and beyond, Mahara B Valley I had minquan What is beyond human
conception?
There is Allah's Ridwan His good pleasure.
In other words, the highest delight that a human being can
aspire to is this knowledge that one is pleased with him and he is
pleased with us that he has accepted us finally he sees his
servants
the peaceful heart Yeah, uh yet or her NIFS or Mahatma Inna? Are you
soul at peace
and that is how we wish to be addressed. Era GA Ihlara Viki
rowdy attend model the year return to your Lord.
Well pleased with him. And he is pleased with you.
So this radar
turns out to be a subtle thing. And it does not just mean Roddy to
biller here, Robin will bill Islami dienen will be Mohammed in
Serbia and that riddle which we express, according to the
tradition, as we enter the grave.
This riddle, the best of lords, the best of profits, the best of
religions, that that joy,
but also relates to what the divine beloved, the one in whom we
are well pleased, has determined to be
the pattern and the shape of our lives.
So when we speak of the Islamic virtue of radar, we are dealing
with something that relates to cyber doing without certain
things, because I lost decree has determined that we might have
COVID, we might lose a leg in a traffic accident, we might lose a
parent, we have to have sober in those circumstances. But the
higher degree is without negating the summer is this riddle, being
satisfied with the Divine Decree, which comes close to being the
meaning of the name of the religion itself, Islam, just
recognizing the soundness of everything, including everything
that God has made and determined, which is everything.
When we say we are happy with him as Lord, Lord of what Lord of
Creation, we're saying, we are happy with that over which he has
expressed his lordship, which is everything that happens in
creation, and in our lives, that's part of the highest aspect of
riddle.
So the Holy Prophet alayhi salatu, Salam displays as well as suburb
in his many moments of affliction
RIDOT as well.
And this is as a whole genre of literature in Arabic, about
Hosanna Nebby, the prophetic sorrows, and there have been some
translations into English recently of a few examples of that the Holy
Prophet had a lot of empty, lat a lot of sorrow in his life. And the
Hadith says, a shed, Danesi, Bella and lnbf for millennia Luna Han,
those who are tried most painfully are the Prophet and then those who
followed, follow them. You see how many of his almost all of his
children died during his lifetime. His sorrow over Khadija his sorrow
over the rejection of his message by his own people so much sorrow
this year is a story with a lot of
sort of shadows that cast the light into greater relief. It's so
it's the human experience that we have this and
but at the same time is having this summer there is this riddle
and the radar is the state that you're in when you are in love.
In other words, if you love somebody really, then whatever
they do is a part of their love ability. And you don't see the
things that others
might find to be difficult in this person you're in love. Love is
blind, whatever it might be. But in this case, it's perception,
because you're seeing
the beauty of the one who has decreed everything to be
beautiful, even though that beauty is sometimes necessarily given the
weakness of our perception and our minds, thoroughly veiled from us.
So
it is said that
a doctor
was once extremely sick, really ill,
but continued to treat his patients maybe had a heart
complaint or something but continued to work. And he was
asked me or her that
Why are you still doing that? healing people when you're so sick
yourself? And he said, Yeah, those
dorable Habeeb lie you Jeff. The beloved blows cause no pain.
In other words, he saw these afflictions maybe he had hot
learners or had had his first heart attack or whatever it might
be, as the blows of Al Habib, the divine beloved, and because of his
love for the divine beloved,
didn't feel the pain because comes from the Habib comes from the
beloved.
That's a high degree Sobor and ridurre. It is a high degrees. But
you could imagine how much easier our lives would be if we had not
just suburb but RIDOT as well. Radi Allahu Anhu what are the one?
Really we're satisfied with everything that he has done? And
we say you're a rodina Oh our Lord, we are satisfied.
One of the great early Alia of this almost Bishal haffi Bishop of
barefoot of Baghdad.
And he says that he wants went to the city of Baghdad which is now
over the border in Iran, but at the time was a great center for XO
head and people on the path of the actor as well as a major Hadith
center.
And then he saw his morale to be rolling out on the edge them God
saw that.
He saw a man who had leprosy who was blind and who had had a
stroke, maybe some beggar lying in the corner. And he saw that the
stray dogs were all around him kind of sniffing at him
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I went to him and I put his head in my lap and I started speaking
to him.
This is the way of the only app that they look for the needy.
And then
the man says
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So this terribly
disabled person speaks and says who's this unnecessary, hopeless,
useless person who's just come between me and my Lord?
Well look, where Allah to cut me up in slices.
It would only increase me in love for him.
What is that? And of course, Bishop relates this as an
indication that the man was one of the earlier
in this apparently hopeless situation on his own being nibbled
by stray dogs, leprosy, hopeless, but he was in such a state of mana
jet communication with his Lord, feeling so close and so grateful
to his Lord, that He didn't want anybody to distract him from this
beautiful spiritual state that he was in.
So this story is included when the automat talk about the virtue of
Riddle of satisfaction with God's decree that he can bring people up
to a very high state.
Now in our COVID times, and the pandemic has been with us for well
over a year now, we've all had to learn suburbs, where the knock
downs and the tears and all of the stuff that the government in it's
sort of hapless hopelessness is imposed upon us. And it has been
difficult. We've learned a bit of sober
but I hope also that we
of recognize the necessity of this virtue of riddle.
Satisfaction with God's decree,
perhaps a loved one has died unexpectedly. Perhaps we're
feeling sick, perhaps our business has collapsed. Perhaps the
restaurant is not going to open again, perhaps the taxi has to be
who knows. A lot of people, small businesses
have really suffered some money now in receivership Some haven't
been able to get into the furlough, all of this stuff is
hard for small businesses in particular, the banks will
survive.
And in the midst of this summer, it seems to me that there has to
be this riddle.
Now, radar is not just the thing that will keep us out of the
depression and anxiety that much of the country seems to be in at
the moment. If we see Allah always as the beloved, and these
tribulations as blows, but they're his blows. Just as if your beloved
wife, the most beautiful woman in history
hits you.
If there's real love you catch, that's wonderful.
If it indicates that she doesn't love you, I suppose conceivably it
might there might be something else. But yeah, they say that.
In the time of Sydney, Yusuf Alayhi Salam.
People would go, people with sicknesses will go just to look,
but said no use of Hazzard Yusuf alayhi salam, because just the
look of this beautiful, beloved, lovable person, would take them
into a different world of happiness, and would take away the
sense of pain and anxiety that they had just seeing this beauty
takes them into a different space.
So an important COVID message, certainly, that Ramadan is not
just about not eating, not drinking, not smoking, and so
forth are the basic rules. But it's about sober. Fasting is half
of sober.
But also that there is this radar and the radar expresses itself in
subtle ways in this month.
It expresses itself at the Farhat, the joyful time of breaking the
fast.
When we can say Alhamdulillah and we are pleased with our Lord, also
on the aid and also with a general sense of joy that we are part of
this Alma. When we say Alhamdulillah, Allah Nia unbutton
Islam, or kapha, behind Yama Alhamdulillah, for the blessing of
Islam, and sufficient is it as a blessing.
So,
let this be a Ramadan, not just of do's and don'ts, blocked us out
when things but of inward states of Sabah suddenly, but something
that is sweeter and lovelier than summer which is riddle, let us be
satisfied with Allah's decree, in the Sharia, and his decree in the
world, and his decrees regarding us and our families and our
businesses and our Ummah, and whatever, whatever else might be
going on. Let's see if we can recapture this because the world
is in a sad and disturbed state.
And the OMA insha Allah should be the one that should be the ALMA
that is not in a state of Norfolk, constantly anxious, but his state
of riddle.
Not saying that everything is the way we would like it to be, but at
the deep level, not protesting against the blows of the Beloved.
So may we insha Allah reached something of that beautiful and
sweet state during this month of Ramadan. May Allah accept our fast
and make it an inward as well as an outward fast in sha Allah and
bring us safely to the aid with our loved ones and our communities
and our neighbors Insha Allah, and God has many aides to come back
Alfie Kohn. Assalamu aleikum wa rahmatullah.