Abdul Rahman Chao – Manners With The Divine

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			Today I want to briefly talk to all of you about a very important characteristic that for that's not
only very close to my heart, but also I think it's the bedrock of how
		

			we as Muslims should behave that I know there's a lot of emphasis these days.
		

			And and rightly so, people saying that we need to teach our children we need to teach the younger
generation and we as adults also need to have good character to have good o'clock, right? And the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he said
		

			in my brief to legal term Mima metab mcherry Malala in them alboreto, Litem Mima, Makati mahalo
processor and says in an authentic narration, verily, I have been sent in order to complement to
perfect, the best of manners, and the wording that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam used here
is to complete to perfect manners. So in other words, there are many good manners, across cultures,
across regions and different people. However, the process of selling is refining those manners. So,
when we talk about having good manners with people, when we talk about having good adapt with
individuals, whether it's with our friends, whether it's with our colleagues or Muslims non Muslim,
		

			we have to remember that the first
		

			the first set of the for the first source that we gather our inspiration from in terms of having
good character is having good with Allah subhanho wa Taala to have good etiquette with Allah
subhanho wa Taala.
		

			And what does this mean when you say that you have good advice with Allah subhanho wa Taala and it
comes to my mind a couple of things that I want to share with you. So having good character with
Allah subhanahu wa taala
		

			can come in three ways. The first way is how we think about Allah subhanho wa Taala and the prophets
lifestyle and tells us in a hadith Pudsey that Allah subhanho wa Taala says, I am the way how my
servant perceives me to be, if he perceives me to be good, then that is for him. And if he perceives
me to be bad, then that is for him. In other words, I was bound to Allah will be how you want Allah
Spano hautala to be, of course, this hadith is not a free pass that for someone who
		

			hasn't been doing their responsibilities, and doing what is there.
		

			In other words, worshiping Allah subhanahu wa Tada, this doesn't mean that a person can just say,
Well, you know, last time I think of a restaurant as being very, very forgiving, therefore, you
know, I can just continue to send my way through No, but it's just simply saying that we should have
hope in Allah subhana wa Tada, we should not think of a restaurant as a tyrant will either below or
that is mean or that Allah subhana wa Taala is malicious or that he's trying to get people back, so
on and so forth. So, this is the first level of the first level of mala hazaragi the first level of
having manners will last from the way how you think, right? That you think of Allah subhanahu wa
		

			taala in the best way possible, okay.
		

			Then there is also
		

			there is also the second aspect and that is by your speech of how you have to deal with a Lost
Planet.
		

			And the prophets and the messengers, they all had amazing adapt in their speech with all of us.
		

			And that is if you look at the lives of all the different prophets and messengers, we find that an
incident occurred during the time of the process alone. And we'll give you some more examples that
during the time of homicide, there was a drought and as you know, it doesn't get any better when
there's when they're living in a desert. So there was a drought and some of the companions of the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
		

			They the center versus lm, yo rasulillah make do it for us, right. Make do it for us that we will
have rain so the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
		

			made, and the rain started coming down. And it kept raining and raining and raining and raining. And
it probably went on for multiple days, if not even a week. Until and this was one man had walked
into the door of the prophets, I sent him a message and he asked for the rain, and the processor may
die. And of course, the processor is immediately accepted.
		

			And then when the rain continued and it started flooding, the companion came into the door and he
said, you know, Hello Kitty mawashi. Right, all the livestock and the field there are ruined, etc.
It's just the waters too much. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. He didn't say Allahumma MC
and el mapa like, Oh Allah, stop the rain rain from us. And even the way how we look at weather
these days, right when the weather gets a little wet, or it's a little windy. You know, we're like,
oh, well, you know, we just wish that the stupid rain would end. But as I said, I've always viewed
rain as Baraka as a beautiful thing. And so when there was a lot of rain, he had a, he had manners
		

			in the way he addressed the last kind of water Island. And so he said, Allah whom house lane, wala
Alena, he said, Oh Allah, Let the rain be around us in the surrounding areas, and not directly upon
us. And he says a lahoma Island cam. What the Rob and what boonville Oh, dear woman happy to
shudder, right. So, here the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he's
		

			saying, Oh Allah around us and not directly on us. Island, a camp. Oh Allah Let the rain be upon the
foothills. Okay. And I come are like foothills. And what Rob? So Rob is sort of like Highlands,
right? They're like, actually, I don't want to say Highlands. They're sort of like medium sized
hills. So I come and Rob are very, very similar in meaning.
		

			I would say like, No, okay. No, K and O. ll right. No. So
		

			these foothills and and small Knowles, Allah upon the valleys, and the gullies etc. So, so upon
these valleys and the wadis. And as you know what, why these are valleys, and it's also an Arabic
word
		

			that English has used, okay. Women happy to share sugar and the forest woodlands. So here the
process seller is not saying all are suffering, I don't want it anymore. It's just too much. He had
it with Allah subhanaw taala. He instead wanted the rain to go to these distant lands because that's
where rain is stored best when it goes into the rivers, the valleys, the canyons, that's where
rivers collect and farmers and shepherds they can benefit from it. So just by looking at this
phrase, the prophet SAW Selim had such a dip with Allah azza wa jal, and that is he.
		

			Even when the rain was becoming difficult for them, he didn't say, oh, LA, stop this rain. This is
just too much. He said all around us and not directly upon us. We also find other examples. For
example, when Ibrahim alayhi salatu salam was describing a Lhasa agenda to his people, he says what
either metaphor for who he is, and if I am sick, then Allah
		

			cures me. Now, of course, we know in Islamic theology that Allah, Allah has created good, and he has
created the opposite of good and that is evil. But unless like we said, Allah creates everything in
pairs. So when there's good, there's going to be evil. Now, part of the Adam, that Ibrahim alayhi
salatu salam part of the matters that he said he had towards Allah is that he didn't attribute evil
to Allah subhanaw taala even though we know Allah, Allah is a creator of good as well as its
opposite and evil. So he says what either mareel fufa Jolla screen and if I get sick he didn't say
you know if you make me sick then I'm then you're the one who cures me. Right But in all the other
		

			verses before that if you look closely, the verses all
		

			talk about what Allah is doing. Okay? What are the other you know, what are the optimal and you're
fairly clear to me, Dean right? I am the one who I want Alicante Allah to forgive. He is the one and
then of the verse before that, right? He is the one who feeds me right but here when he is
		

			referring to
		

			sickness, he doesn't say, if you make me sick then you cure me. So this is having manners with Allah
subhanho wa Taala
		

			So that is in terms of speech and one more thing I want to add on to is when it comes to the way how
we speak about Allah subhanho wa Taala and how we speak. It also includes the DA and
		

			the prophet SAW Selim tells us in an authentic narration on the authority of God alone, he says that
there is nothing more honorable Okay, there is nothing more honorable or more beloved to Allah
subhanho wa Taala than to in other words when we make when we go around and we ask people for things
people get annoyed people get really really fed up right you keep asking me like why you keep asking
me but when it comes to almost kind of hotel a lot of likes that you ask him Allah loves that guy's
from Allah doesn't get annoyed when you ask him right? In fact, the LS hotel it tells us through the
words of madness, I said, that when you ask Allah subhanaw taala we hope to do in other words, be
		

			forceful, be yearning and forceful and extremely strong willed in the way how you ask? Allah so
you're not saying Oh Allah insha Allah if you wish, then Forgive me. But you say Allah forgive me
Allah if fiddly right Allah directly friggin right. You don't say Allah if you like, then you
forgive him. Because there's a there's a there's a tone of arrogance, right? Or luck if you want to
be merciful to me, no, but you should directly as and that's the speech, this edit that we have
towards our parents that when we ask Allah, we asked him directly, we don't associate partners with
him. And we ask sincerely, and we don't mince our words with all his content and electron Carla
		

			likes that. And all those problems Allah doesn't like when you assign partners with him, and you go
through an intermediary and idol, something else between between you and Allah subhanaw taala and
you say, you know, Oh Allah, you know, because of blah, blah, blah, this you know, because of this
idol, you know, they're gracious to do that. They used to ask Allah through an idol, right? And they
used to say, we don't, we don't worship these idols except to get us closer to Allah right now, but
to whom Allah you are reborn, right? That we don't worship except to get closer to us. rocktown. And
those words that they used to utter, were very offensive because Allah subhanaw taala wants you to
		

			be direct in your glass. So that's the second point. So the first thing we said is in the way how
you think about Allah subhanho wa Taala you think of Allah in good in a good way that you don't sit
there and think of a law in a negative way as this evil god that's going to come after you right to
have good personal one about a restaurant and the second thing we said is how you speak. And we gave
example of the adept that we have towards Allah subhanaw taala in the way how the prophets did it as
well as the DA and the third important thing in regards to having adept with Allah subhanho wa Taala
is our action. Right? And the greatest, most beloved thing to Allah subhanho wa Taala in our in our
		

			manners towards Allah subhanaw taala is to not associate partners with him right in the sugar level
Muna when verily should is a great transgression, it's a great transgression. So the greatest form
of Edom that you could have with I was contacted is by and abou de la. Harley finally wedgie. Suhana
hotel that you worship Allah subhanho wa Taala sincerely for his, for his sake, right? Sincerely for
all those kind of hotel. The restaurant guy tells us and they had you could see Anna Agnes shorter
carry on a shirt, I am the I am the most I am not in need, I'm the most free, right? I'm
		

			most free to ever need an associate a partner. Right? So whoever associates me with another false
god as a lighthouse and how you would see turn up to who was eurocode and I leave him and his and
his ship and his sin up associated partners with a loss find out what's out. So that's the greatest
adept in action that we worship. Allah Subhana. Allah sincerely, to please allow us to look at
another aspect of, of editing that you have good manners with Allah subhanho wa Taala is that
		

			the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he tells us in a narration, I don't have the narration in
front of me, but I remember the wording of it. That the process Selim says on the Day of Judgment,
there will be people that will come and they will have so many mountains of good deeds, mountains of
good deeds of asset. And unfortunately, a lot of data will make those deeds blow away into the wind
for about an hour right that is going to blow them away into dust and they won't count at all. Why
is it that they're good deeds that they didn't realize?
		

			Don't count anymore. And the prophets of Salaam tells us the reason being is that when they were
private, alone by themselves, right, they would engage in sin, they would engage in harm acts. And
that's why it's very disrespectful to Asante either in public that you would behave in a certain
way, but in private, you would behave in another way. Right? And that's sort of the meaning the gist
of what hypocrisy is right.
		

			Obviously, this is the Falco and Emily This is a hypocrisy of actually not hypocrisy of faith,
right, because the hypocrisy of faith will is
		

			completely unacceptable one throws you out of the fold of Islam. But hypocrisy of of action is, you
know, that you behave in a certain way, in front of people in public, but you behave in a certain
way complete different you approach and you do those sins in private, right? So we ask Allah
subhanaw taala to protect us, and that let's remember that the best source to start with in learning
good manners is our dealings with Allah subhanaw taala at Adorama, Allah azza wa jal to have good
manners with Allah, Allah. And if you think about all these categories that we have said, number
one, having good character, thinking good about Allah, Allah, this is what Muhammad wa sallam
		

			expects us when it comes to dealing with people as well. Right? So not only do you think good about
our county, but you are also required to think good about individuals, the creation of Allah
subhanho wa Taala. When it comes to the way how we speak, we don't hurt people, right? The person
Selim says the Muslim is the one who doesn't harm other Muslims with his actions, or with his
speech. Okay. So in the same way the processor is teaching us that the editor that we have with
other people, is in line with how he teaches us to have a dialogue with Allah subhanho wa Taala. As
for the case of a DA and asking people for help, that's the exception to it because we don't want to
		

			bother people. But of course the process that I'm always teaches us that if someone does come and
ask you for help, that you go and help them because you will bring happiness to them. Right. And
also when it comes to
		

			you know, having manners, adobo manners, with people, how do we benefit from our manners with those
phone counting action, that we are that we do our best that we don't hurt people that we do what is
good for them, you know, now you know i Dooku hotter you have very sad he may have been upset right?
That you love for that you know, if you truly believe until you love for your brother, what you love
for yourself. So, all the matters, that the process and teaches us regarding having good manners
with all this data, it is all echoed in as a as a foundation in the way how we behave with other
people with exception to our because guys only for the last five hotels. So we conclude here is that
		

			we ask Allah, Allah to make us among those who have good, good manners with Allah subhanho wa Taala
and that he counters among the righteous. So Hanukkah, lahoma diction or Laila elantas. Africa where
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