Abdal Hakim Murad – The Adab of the Moment
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The speakers stress the importance of pride and human satisfaction in modern societies, particularly in regards to the implementation of Islam. They discuss the significance of pride in modern societies, including the implementation of Islam. The speaker emphasizes the need for individual independence and loyalty to employer and parent, as it is linked to the holy month of July. The importance of learning the art of the Sun for achieving a healthy balance between on and off, and the need for reliance on Islam's teachings to avoid anxiety and fearfulness.
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Bismillah Alhamdulillah wa salatu salam ala Rasulillah. Early he was
a happy woman while
moving further into the extraordinary profound sea of
Ramadan.
We consider another aspect of our neediness or if Tikar
Allah subhanaw taala says, and Tamil for Colorado Illa Allah, you
are the needy of Allah. And he is oh honey al Hamid, the wealthy,
which means the independent, the need, in this needless one, the
praiseworthy one.
And to the extent that we recognize the truth of that
inequality, that most radical inequality of our complete,
beholden this to him, and of his complete independence of us, we
will start to realize the depths of the meaning of the word Islam
itself, which has been brought to the surface for us through the
divine patience and the divine wisdom and the beauty of the
Sunnah in this most holy month.
What does it mean to be ABD?
What does it mean to be truly a servant in this state of OBO de
servitude, to the one who alone is not aboard, the one who alone is
do our obedience and our servitude and our fealty.
In this world, we come across so many hierarchies,
I owe a duty of obedience to my employer,
I owe a duty of obedience to my ruler, I owe a duty of obedience
to parents.
This is the way in which society in complex worlds complex
civilizations necessarily is structured.
And in that complicated web of relationships, and duties and
regulations. Sometimes the underlying reality which is in
reality, that it is a law, a law, the law you're about will be happy
and see where only God is truly and justly, to be the object of
Cambodia to be marked bored, some of that can be lost. To the extent
that we have all of these subsidiary relations in this
world.
A complex network of duties made ever more complex by the endless
proliferating of new legislation, and the very large claims which
the modern nation state makes upon us. To that extent, sometimes we
can be veiled by these lesser obligations from the ultimate and
immutable obligation, which we have towards the one who in
reality, gave us everything, and to Whom therefore, is an absolute
duty of respect and honoring and love.
In our all encompassing final Muhammad in Revelation, this
principle of human servitude and emptiness is particularly
emphasized. We are not a community of mediators, we are not a
community of intermediate hierarchies. We are a community
where the individual
engage engages with the motherboard to truly worship one
in an absolute way.
And this is one reason why the Sajida is kind of a symbol of the
religion of Islam. In other religions, sometimes there are
forms of bodily worship. Occasionally there is prostration.
But in this religion, which is the religion that is to be for the
ummah of the Hitomi, yet, there is a particular emphasis on this, the
absoluteness the starkness of human dependency, our naked
reliance upon the one from whom all blessings flow and in whose
hands is life and death, and the disposition of every breath that
we take.
This is said by the Allamah to represent the nature of the age of
distraction and complexity, for which the Mohammed and Wei is
designed.
Although there are features of primordial ality, in our religion,
and that is part of the Hitomi as well. It is also a religion which
is designed designed to provide us with a kind of lifeboat
in the increasingly stormy tempestuous seas that humanity has
brewed up for itself as a result of greed and the shocking
claim that we can be independent of the one who gave us everything.
In Al Insana layout of our Ira was stubborn there. One of the
earliest things with which the Qureshi were challenged was human
beings go beyond the boundaries become tyrants, because they see
themselves as independent.
We've declared UTI union unilateral declaration of
independence from the time of the Enlightenment onwards, and the
consequences of this, for human happiness, for human safety, for
the environment, for our peace of mind are ever more evident. We are
designed to recognize our status as matboard. And to the extent
that we reject that we become dysfunctional, and the soul
suffers relationships suffer, humanity suffers. Happiness is in
Obadiah.
So in the month of Ramadan, we are particularly reminded of this,
reminded of how much we depend on the divine risk, something that we
normally take for granted.
Currently, in places in Eastern Europe now, people find themselves
besieged and they can't find anything to eat or to drink. In
the modern world. This is an unusual panic inducing scenario.
It is said that the practice of fasting can be a kind of
preparation for this, and metabolic as well as the
psychological preparation for that. But otherwise, human beings
in today's world are like sleepy babies endlessly sucking upon the
milk of momentary satisfaction and gratification. And we just cry
when we're taken away from our pleasures, and our snacks and our
indulgences, and our treats for a few minutes. We've become very
childlike in our dependence.
One of the virtues that this month, inculcates in us, if we
approach it with an open heart and a humble spirit, is this
paradigmatically Islamic virtue of Tawakkol.
The story that is really at the essence of all of the prophetic
stories in the Quran.
It's the basis of the courage of the NBA app, and of those who
support the NBA.
Look at the courage of the mother of Moses.
Look at the courage of the mother of Asa, and of so many others. And
it's interesting that the women of the Quran are very often
characterized as being courageous women
that look at this a hobby yet, and the wives that the Holy Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam who was the one who, to whom the Holy
Prophet came after he had had the first enormous ripping of the veil
between himself and the tremendous Jellal of the angelic presence. To
whom did he say, was then Maloney who covered him while it was
Khadija and his household? Radi Allahu Anhu.
So we're not talking here about some kind of wanting male heroism,
we're talking about something that is deeper, and that transcends
such distinctions.
But there's that you, which has an inner strength comes not through
ego, the ego of the false warrior, the ego of the booster, the ego of
the one who cares about taking a selfie of himself standing on a
tank, but is instead the courage that comes from reliance.
On then yet what can Allah Allah for Hua hospital, whoever has to
work on reliance on Allah, He is enough for him.
And we know this mentally, but if we know it with our hearts, then
we will experience this extraordinary protection and the
extraordinary heroism and courage that can come from that.
We will overcome the lower self and we will embark upon the
journey to real humanity.
The humanity of those of whom it is said law often or lay him, will
love them yes or no unknown. There is no fear upon them. Neither do
they grieve. They're not afraid of the future. They don't grieve over
the past because they know they attain is that all is from the
Lord.
Whether it be the bitterness of his decree, or the sweetness of
his decree, it is all from him.
So this Tawakkol comes from a transformed mode of consciousness.
It comes from a kind of more shahada and ability to witness
that Allah is Allah coalition work ILA, the trustee, The Guardian,
the protector of all things, that whatever may come is by his
decree. That our responsibility through the adverb of the Sunnah
is to make sure
Now that we are in the right relationship to his decree,
whether or not victory comes at the end of it, whether or not
whatever might come, that the adverb of the moment is all of
Islam.
The past, con unreachable, unreal, the future, who knows,
the present is real, the moment the what. And it is our duty in
every moment to be attentive to what the real terracotta Allah is
doing for us to us Kula Yeoman, who if he shut in every day, which
the ultimate says in every moment, he is doing something.
And we need to see what he is doing with this inner eye, this is
an old boss era,
this is of inner sight. So that we do not become preoccupied by
apparent networks of cause and effect, which is so complex that
we'll become really anxious and miserable if we even try to think
about what caused what, although there are certain external are
that certain normal says that enable us to function, but the
reality is him doing everything in every moment.
And this is not easy to perceive. Some people only have a glimpse of
it once or twice in their lives, that they see that behind the
outward show of things that opera of human existence, how there is a
script and there is a reality and there is a settled truth. That is
actually all beauty and mercy, and correctness and absolute peace.
So this Tawakkol is the state which we seek to acquire. While
we're fasting.
We depend on Allah even though in our beginner stage, we're thinking
about trusting on him to provide something that if thar, but that
is still a lesson, to have the sober to have this patience to say
no I can manage for the next few hours. Without this sleepy,
sucking upon the teats of distracted. life support system
but I can go without for a while, is a very important lesson. It's
one of the first lessons in spiritual growth that we say we
can depend without indulgence.
And then at the deeper level, of course, the Sabra comes to an end
when the sun goes down and a period of chakra begins suburban
chakra always, almost identical twins.
And the Shaka gives this for her, as the Hadith says, Farhat on
either FITARA endophytic. The believer has a joy at his breaking
of the fast. But the lesson should have been learned that the heart
should have been weaned away just as the baby is weaned away from
the milk weaned away and grows into a greater maturity. To the
extent that we're dependent on immediate sensory pleasures. We're
like very small children and we're not really fully human in the
adult, mature sense. Maturity consists in self discipline, self
control, excellent character and sovereign.
So Ramadan is the time when we start to perceive the Creator as
work healer.
He will provide woman yet a worker Allah Allah He for her husband,
whoever relies on him, he is enough for him.
And even the very daunting sahih Hadith where he says sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam no to tell to him, Allah Allah He had that our
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were you to rely upon Allah with the true Tawakkol he would provide
for you risk as he provides for the birds, which go out in the
morning, hungry and returned seated.
That's challenging, but it is part of Islam.
Of course, Islam also means you earn a living. It also means you
cook your dinner you serve your family, all of those obvious
things. And part of the Sunnah is to remind us of how to achieve
this subtle balance between on the one hand following the ASVAB cause
and effect in the world,
taking precautions and on the other hand, maintaining complete
tobacco and reliance on knowledge that Allah subhanaw taala is the
money is independent, and we are absolutely dependent upon him.
That is, if you like the subtle art of the Sunnah,
to live in the world and Islam does show you how to live in the
world. It's not a monastic tradition,
but at the same time to remember his absolute control and power in
all things. That's difficult to hate and Tawakkol have to be
combined and imambargah
ally in the hair on Ramadan has a whole book on Kitab Tohei do a
telecoil which is really all about how we can adorn ourselves with
this art of the Sunnah in order to maintain this balance that so many
of us get wrong.
So in this month of Ramadan, we should learn the principle of
reliance. It's kind of forced upon us in a sense during the day we
get into the habit it's habituation so that it does not
just evaporate again, when we're having our biryani in the evening
and our sweets on aid, but it becomes something that has had a
permanent transformative effect on the heart that we remember our
neediness that we are for caught up that we recognize that
everything comes from Him He alone is the Razak that we are people of
sugar as well as the sober that we are people who are loud or be him
yet our cologne as in the famous hadith of acacia, those who rely
on their Lord which is the quality one of the qualities of those
70,000 who enter paradise without recognizing.
Yet hold on agenda the lady who served in the sound Hadith in
Bukhari of acacia, and Acacia. Of course hearing this hadith says
Yara solo not only and Hakuna min hum Rasul Allah, he can't contain
himself, pray to Allah that I might be one of those 70,000 and
she prays
and somebody else says, Well, I know Yara Salah me too, obviously
everybody's going to say, please make this answered prayer for us.
And he says subaqua can be hard or cash or cash or beat you to it.
But it's up to Wakil. And it's about reliance, because Reliance
to Wakil is the essence of Islam. And in this crazy age, where so
much seems to be threatening us within and without an age of
tempestuous and misery inducing an anxiety causing desires. When
humanity is really suffering probably more than ever before in
history. Outwardly comfortable, if you're in a rich country, inwardly
shaky, that we need this principle of Tawakkol
we need to be in this shore ship of salvation, which is the Sunnah
of the chosen one sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and really put
Ramadan to work, really make use of it, so that we can be still
inside so that we can be calm inside and so that Ramadan offers
us a kind of vaccination, against the virus of materialism and
fearfulness that is going around in the world and insha Allah
vaccination that will last not just until next Ramadan, but will
make a permanent difference to us in sha Allah. So we ask Allah
subhanaw taala to make us have the motto alkylene and that we should
be benefited from the diet of the chosen one sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam who prayed for the people of Tawakkol and said that they
would be the people enter paradise without reckoning. A couple Allahu
minimum income was salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.