Abdal Hakim Murad – Straight Ramadan Moments 1

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Rasulillah were early he was off by the woman who Allah Allahumma

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well known Quranic term which needs careful definition,

which is indicated in a number of ayat and our Hadith famous Hadith

in Sahih Muslim

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So it's a hadith in Sahih Muslim in which one of the Sahaba says to

the Rasul sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in his asking for something

very short and sweet.

told me something

in Islam, which if I say it and follow it, I will not need to ask

further. And he says, say

I believe in God, and then go straight. Call me into biller for

my stuffing.

That's it. This is Minji Huami. I'll kill him one of the words one

of the phrases that kind of include all phrases everything we

need to know and very often we find that that a hadith of the

chosen ones on Allahu alayhi wa sallam are amazingly comprehensive

in telling us everything in a few words.

So in this phrase, The Holy Prophet is indicating to things.

profess your belief in the creator, the one, the source of

the place of return, and mugdock When I add, without that you are

kind of floating in a void without a beginning without an end without

knowing your orientation without a Nibbler you're kind of nothing,

nihilist.

And then it's stuck in

follow is Tacoma, go straight.

So it's a matter of statement, Allah, and how you are Hala.

You can't have one without the other. Going straight is difficult

unless you know where you're going to.

saying Allah is not really very meaningful unless you act in

accordance with the fact that the world has a direction.

So this includes everything. It's like the two Shahad Hustla ilaha

illallah, Muhammad Rasul Allah, no god but God.

What should I do about that? The Sunnah follow the Holy Prophet

salallahu alayhi, WA early he was a lump.

So this is Tacoma. This going straight, which is what we pray

for 27 times a day or more in our Serato, no stop aim.

Guide us to the straight path, upright path, the path of

rectitude the path, that is the shortest line between two points.

is, of course where we go straight. We go on other roads, we

follow the soul.

Maybe in English, the word crook refers to the fact that somebody's

gone crooked, we're not straight. We're not upright.

as the Americans say you're not a stand up guy.

So we are created in absentia Talquin. In the best of forms,

Adam is an upright creature, unlike any other creature.

He is Havenwood in his direction.

But at the same time, we look this way, and we look that way. And

it's tempting. The scenery of dunya is pretty appealing.

In this time in this month, that tap of temptations is turned off

or turned down. It's just a trickle. Maybe we look at things

that we shouldn't look at maybe we think about things we shouldn't

think about and maybe we maybe we are not right? Not right with God.

We're not more studying. But the benefit of this month is that it

is easier for us to see the straight path in front of us

because the distractions The scenery is kind of monochrome, the

temptations the possibilities are constrained, especially at this

time when so many of us are in our homes.

Is to karma is easier by God's grace than it is when we're just

kind of enjoying

the pasture without thinking about where we might be going.

So this is to comment is important, but we get distracted.

That's our nature. It said that the reason why man is called insan

Is that he is full of Nicotiana, forgetfulness. It's one

interpretation, poetic, perhaps of what the name of man means we, we

forget. We remember we forget. And we remember and we forget that

alone his grace gives us lots of times and opportunities and days

and months to go back to him. And at a time when many are thinking

about, perhaps, a near return to Him, this becomes easier. And this

Inaba, this turning back becomes more real and more necessary and

more yearned for.

But it's still difficult. The Holy Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa

sallam was asked by Abu Bakr, Siddiq,

aerosol, Allah, I see that you're turning gray.

All che your beds near who don't want to have.

And he said, I've been turned gray by the surah of hood, and sisters,

the other songs that begin with the same letters.

And it is said one of the meanings of this is that it contains the

phrase for stuck in cannot omit.

Go straight, be a person of rectitude, as you have been

commanded. This is directed to him salAllahu alayhi wasallam. And so

or inspiring is this command, by the only one who has the right to

give commands, and so catastrophic, the possibility of

just following impulse that turns him gray. He who was muscle

divinely secured from straying, nonetheless, feels this fear and

the believer is between fear and hope. Could you know how your

thought your fear and hope are like the two wings of the bird is

a stone, stone tire Arnall, if they're balanced, the bird travels

goes right, if you like, in a balanced way. So you have to have

fear, as well as hope. Life is not just about enjoying the pasture.

Life is all about having a direction.

And you're always going to be in this field where you're monitoring

the grass, happily, you came in through a gate, you're going out

through another gate. That's the iron rule of life. For many Adam

and for every living thing. You came in through a gate, you're

getting out through another gate. So don't spend too much time and

just thinking this pasture and this joyful munching is going to

go on forever.

So this is to karma

is in a sense what makes us human beings, and is the greatest

miracle given the nature of our impulses. And in this month, the

shayateen are Sophie that

as the Holy Prophet says in the famous Hadith, duckula Shadow

Ramadan, when the month of Ramadan comes in,

the doors of good opened and the chains

of the devils are fastened, the devils are fastened and we are

invited. We're nerd they're more nerdy than your above. He'll hate

her long way above his sharp books or an angelic voice calls out and

in this month, we can kind of all hear that voice saying, Are you

who looks for good, arise, get on with it. And you who looks for

evil desist. Shayateen are chained and it's a little bit easier for

us to get back on the straight path to find our true direction.

But this is the nature of many Adam, that we have these two

enormous impulses. Just as we have these two enormous spiritual

principles within us. There's the knifes which is gravitational.

Animalistic wants to go down, subject to the laws of gravity,

and is interested in every possible way that the endorphin

circuits of the brain might be tickled any pleasure. It'll be

really interested in like a dog that looks excitedly in the

direction of anything that smells good, that's us.

But there's also this roar,

the spirit, which is from the Divine breathing in insufflation,

one a Faulkner he he made Rafina the clay of Adam had the Divine

Spirit breathed into it and that has a divine home.

And that's the stick armor. The lower self the knifes doesn't

really have a direction it goes this way and that just like any

instinctual creature

goes whoever the pleasure seems to be greater. The goat goes whatever

looks tastiest, that's us.

But that is the karma. The uprightness which is directed and

oriented and secured by this vertical dimension, which is from

the Faulkner V Hema Rafina. Ha is to go straight, straight to the

exit of the field beyond which there is true delight, nine

morpheme ongoing blessing and and delight

So, we have these two dimensions within us, the one which is going

this way and that. And Sedna, Amara Eben hottub radula one on

the minbar wants was talking about is to karma that's going straight.

And he said it means not weaving like a fox caramba Varney Taleb,

you probably haven't been fox hunting, but the fox moves this

way that it doesn't run straight, it goes this way and that and

because it's a fearful creature that wants to avoid the pursuing

dogs, or the Huntsman's gun or that it's a foxy creature. The ego

is like that. Slimy, wants to get out of difficulties wants to tell

fibs in order to extricate itself it twists and turns, it's devious,

but the Spirit, what we truly are the raw, which remembers the day

of Alice to be robbed, become just wants to go straight back straight

for the light if the light is there and seen and felt, why go

this way or that straight back. And this is Tacoma.

So in this Blissett month, as we travel from the first day of the

fast, to the day of the aid, moving like all human beings,

always and forever in one direction. That's a journey that

is my core, something that is absolutely constraining us and we

can do nothing about it, even though we wish Oh, if only it was

this time yesterday, and I hadn't said this to him. And we often

make these futile, hindsight limitations that we had in one

direction only. And we don't revisit a single moment, a single

virtue a single life.

Fault vise of our lives straight,

straight for the grave, straight for the entrance to the unknown,

straight back to the Lord.

Elahi to zero or more, back to God, all things return. I let that

return for us be not trying to escape it, but rather to welcome

that return. And to find in putting our faltering and frail

feet directly in the footsteps of the chosen once on Allahu alayhi

wa sallam whose march to his Lord was absolutely straight and

beautiful. Shining, those footprints still shine for us.

Flowers grow where he stepped to go exactly in that way to follow

the sunnah to avoid all reprehensible innovations and

deviations and the artwork, the temptations of the ego. That's a

great thing. So let this Ramadan be for us and for this OMA and for

a fearful penitent world, in sha Allah a time of return my god,

that is going straight,

not resisting.

What is beautiful, not following what is dark within ourselves. But

let us be a people who hear this command in solitude. First acclaim

cannot omit go straight as you have been commanded a commandment

directed to all of Benny Adam, let us remember the monstrousness of

stepping off that path because we think we know a better way. And

let us remember the great Grandia and dignity and beauty of those

who stay on the straight path and go as quickly as they can towards

the acceptance of their Lord's decree. Whatever it might be. So

may Allah subhanaw taala make us people who receive forgiveness and

blessings, and uprightness and going straight and in sha Allah

discerning with the eye of the heart, the luminous SNESs of our

final destination, so that there is no temptation to step off the

path to the left or to the right in sha Allah BarakAllahu fecal

with a couple of em Nico was salam o aleikum wa rahmatullah.