Abdullah Oduro – Invocations of God #21 Reality of Mercy
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The speakers discuss the importance of understanding the mercy of Islam and the natural hesitation of the beast, as well as the importance of backbiting and the potential consequences of doing so. They also emphasize the importance of the Nuffs and their influence on the human body, as well as the importance of environment in people's behavior. The Nuffs are the ones who cause the most people to do evil, and the ability to obey the influence of the devil is a result of their anger management.
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Now after Ibn Uthayin mentions,
Shaitan, the devil, and
which ways he gets through, and then meaning
the 3 showing the 3 ways they are
manifested,
he goes on to talk about the mercy
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And it's beautiful
here because the way that he breaks it
down, you realize the manifestation of mercy, how
the mercy is shown from Allah, or one
of the ways in regards to guidance. And
this is so beautiful because
when you start to read it, you say
to yourself, okay. This is interesting.
This is how, you know,
God gives us the opportunity to battle shaitan.
But then he says,
woman Rahmati Rabi. So this is a manifestation
of the name of Rahman. He says, Rahmulahu
ta'ala,
So the mercy of his lord, the the
mighty, the merciful,
is that he assists him with another force.
Okay?
What Ahmed al Akar and gives him another
types of that type of support.
He says he strengthens him against that army
or force that wants his destruction, meaning shaitan.
And then he says here,
so he sends to him a messenger
and sends down his book and he assists
him with the angel, the noble angels that
will fight against his enemy,
He says so if Shaytan was to order
him to do something then the angel will
order him to do something else. So Shaitan
says, look. You need to you know, he
let's go through the process again. So Shaitan,
the devil, will call to his his ego,
and then he'll say, yo, he's messing with
my ego. And from that, he will say,
oh, no. You have to blast on him.
You have to shoot him. You have to
hit him. You have to make grieve of
him. You have to respond online. It's something
that you know you probably will regret. The
medic comes and says, is that pleasing to
Allah?
That's probably considered backbiting. You really need to
consider that. This is how Allah helps him.
So this is really,
some could say, the conscious of the individual
responding to that conscious that some would argue,
being that the angel comes to him via
that.
How is he responding to it?
Because when talking about consciousness, a very general
word, the conscious could be
where it is the or
the container or the place where all of
this jihad takes place,
the conscious being, and the heart as well.
When we tie in the issue of the
fitra, the fitra is the natural inclination to
the recognition
of god along with
certain characteristics
that the human has from them, ego,
from them, desires.
This is the process. This is how it
all
generally works out. Allahu
Now he says
here,
And the angel makes clear to him and
he's showing how the angel,
the order from the angel,
differs with Shaitan. And how does he do
it? He says and he he he makes
clear
what is in the obedience of the enemy.
What will happen?
When you obey this and you slap this
guy, you do this to this individual,
they're gonna come back and they're gonna retaliate.
Or you say something bad about this individual,
it's riba. You still in your mind, What's
the retaliation?
Most importantly,
Allah is not pleased with you. This is
why knowledge of the religion is important. Meaning,
knowledge of the kitab and the sunnah, knowledge
of what Allah says about backbiting, for example,
and knowledge what the prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, says about it as well. So for
Allah
for backbiting, Allah
asks a question.
Would you like to eat the the the
dead the flesh of his dead brother? You
would dislike it. So when one wants to
backbite, they think, wow, this is compared to
eating the flesh of my dead brother.
They
think about that. Or to be honest, they
may think about the repercussions in this dunya,
which is at least a lesser much lesser
degree and motivation behind the abstaining from it,
but at least that he or she abstains
from it. And then later, they start to
think about how this is displeasing to Allah
This is what he's meaning here.
And this is beautiful. He says, so sometimes
shaitan will win,
that will encompass him and influence him, and
that
maybe the the Malik will influence him at
times. So he's saying
that each one will will win at different
times.
And the one that is assisted, the one
that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala assists, and the
one that is preserved, the one that Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala preserves. Then he says
And then now he's going to he speaks
about Shaitan and the angels. Now he's going
to the nafs, the self. Right? He says,
and he's made,
and that which is
what is,
against,
the the
the the desires of the self that cause
one to do evil is the tranquil soul,
the tranquil self.
So if the
the blame worthy soul or not the blame
worthy soul, excuse me, the soul that is
calling him to do evil,
calls him to do something or orders him
to do something,
the tranquil soul will will prohibit him from
that.
So if the evil soul, the evil aspect
of the soul, calls him to abandon a
good deed, leave off the prayer. The
the tranquil soul will call him. The prayer
is your only and strongest means to tranquility.
Now he's saying it again. And he he
obeys this one one time and this the
other time. You notice how Ibn Khayim is
mentioning the process of the inner battle. Like,
all of this is Jihad enoughs, but he's
breaking it down.
Because in the beginning, he's talking about the
angel
and then Shaitan.
And then now he's been
because in the beginning, he's talking about the
angel and Shaitan.
Now he's mentioning
the nafs.
Like, after the angel and Shaytan, what do
they directly influence in the human being?
Because the human being is not an angel
nor is it Shaytan,
But what are the GPS
systems,
you know, that's attached to the motherboard that
Shaytan and the mother motherboard being the 5thra
that's attached to it that they influence.
What's the conversation that the individual has with
themselves in this regard?
So that's what he's going through here.
He
says at this time, you know, this wins
and this time he obeys this one.
And that's the filk.
Congratulations.
You have just come upon the answer.
He says it is the one, and it
is for the one that is the predominant
one.
Which one does the Nuffs
obey the majority of the time?
That is the winner.
This is important. He says,
He says, maybe there is one of them
that
in kaharat,
it could be orin eherat,
inohirat,
anyi dahuma.
So one of them, it could be that
one of them has total control over it,
and that's the problem. And that's where he
ends at,
that one of them may have total control
over. So
the nafs
is
totally obedient
to the
influences of the devil.
Because he or she always
lets their emotions and their desires take over
via anger.
So we talk about anger management,
it can be the obedience of Shaytan,
which could be translated
and turned into something that one would say
is psychological.
And that goes into the issue of the
unseen. Even the word psychology means study of
the soul. So when looking at this, is
it an obedience?
The question arises, could it be a form
of obedience to the soul or obedience to,
the ego
or obedience to the devil that influenced the
ego to carry it out and, carry out
that anger with their hands or limbs or
tongue. And due to the fact that it's
consistent,
it becomes normalized,
therefore,
being
totally,
enveloped with this,
satanic influence.
And that's why he says, this is whatever
the,
you know, it is for the.
That's why it's important, in conclusion,
to know
your environment.
What influences you? People, places, and things. People,
friends,
family members, right, that may not be Muslim
and they call you back to your old
violent self or your old
vulnerable self.
Right? Or it could be places, certain places
that you go to to where you see
a lot of people
and things, concepts, nihilism, heathenism,
atheism, feminism, all of these, you know, that
call you away from,
the angelic portion of yourself or the angelic
influence.
That is why the environment is important. But
Sheikh, he even though claim Rahim Allah breaks
down the inner battle here. And may Allah
bless him for breaking that down to us.
May Allah make us of those that always
obey the angelic elements and influences of ourselves.