Abdullah Oduro – Nightly Reminder 21-04-2024
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The use of the "by" sign in Islam is important for increasing submission to Islam and achieving proof of submission. The importance of the "by" sign is emphasized in deemings of Islam, and testing oneself and allowing worship to be part of one's life is emphasized. The three factors that determine success in worship, desire, anger, and negligence, are the most powerful factors for achieving success in worship.
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We are continuing with the book,
which
is the shower of good utterances or translated
in English as the invocations of God.
And we spoke about,
a couple of days ago about the finding
the middle course between being too excessive in
the licensing and being too obsessive
in, the rulings of Islam. So you're being
too harsh or being too lackadaisical.
And this is from the signs of.
This is a sign of veneration
and making the deen of Allah
great in one's life.
Continues on and he says here,
He says that from the signs of making
Allah
Allah's Allah's deem great, again, he gives another
sign,
is he avoids them by using a method
that does not undermine his submission,
does not use any method that undermines his
submission. And what is his submission? And he
submits to the ummur of Allah,
and its wisdoms by implementing it by implementing
what he or she was ordered or here's
what Allah ordered.
And that's the most important part. He said
that they obey the order and prohibitions of
Allah
whether the
the reason or wisdom
behind the ruling
is apparent to them or not.
It is apparent to them or not. It
doesn't matter. They know that Allah has ordered
it. This is what they're concerned with, and
that is what is the reason before reason
for them doing the action,
that Allah has ordered.
He says, so if the wisdom of the
ruling was shown shown to that person
or made clear or apparent to that person,
that increases them in their.
It increases them in their obedience and their
following and their their,
implementation
income implementation
and submission to Allah
to the order of Allah.
He said, and that does not lead them
to the to to to totally,
be void or not to do the action
at all.
Rather, he said,
He says, just as this has caused a
lot of people that have
attributed themselves to to Sowwuf and the Sufi
methodology,
This is what has happened to a lot
of them. They're they're there's a group called
the and
those have certain,
methodological
differences in regards to how they view the
deen of Islam and how they implement,
these particular rulings of Islam.
When it comes to the orders of Allah
Subha Ta'ala and the prohibitions
In orders and prohibitions,
they're looking for the rulings. And if they
don't excuse me. They're looking for the wisdom
behind the ruling. And if the wisdom is
not apparent to them, that is what can
compromise their compliance
in the action or compliance in the implementation.
Okay? And then he
says,
He said, for verily then now Ibn al
Qaym gives an example. He says, for verily,
Allah has legislated the 5 prayers
to uphold
the remembrance of Allah.
They legislated the 5 prayers,
to remember him.
That's what Allah even told Musa in the
chapter of Taha
when he says,
When
he revealed himself to Musa, he said, worship
me and establish the prayer for my remembrance.
And Abduhl ibn Khayim is gonna go even
deeper here later when he talks about the
prayer in and of itself. The prophet
used to tell Bilal. What did he used
to tell Bilal?
How did he used to tell Bilal to
establish the economy?
What
k. To
do the thing or implement a portion of
the sharia in that which brings us,
which brings us ease,
tranquility.
Right?
Retreats even.
Because the dunya is sijun al mumin.
The prophet said that the dunya of this
world is a jail for the believer.
And it is the heaven for the disbeliever
because it's full of distractions.
Allah says, you have been distracted by gathering
things in abundance. In any case,
the prayer should be a means for you
to escape and detach to find that serenity
and succina. And if it is otherwise,
then it is a satanic influence.
It's a satanic influence when you feel that
the prayer is a bourbon.
Or when you're in the prayer, you start
to think about other things that get your
heart that take your heart away from being
present with
So he's gonna talk about that in-depth
But he says here that the prayer is
a means for you to remember Allah
and using
the heart,
the limbs, and the tongue in a form
of servitude. And that's what's so magnificent and
beautiful about the prayer. When you think of
the salah, everything is being used,
the hearts,
the tongue, and the limbs. And these three
elements are what the scholars say are the
pillars of.
No?
That the heart acknowledges,
and also the limbs are compliant or in
accordance with what the heart believes,
and the tongue acknowledges that.
That is the signs of iman. All of
that is iman with the scholars,
Hassun Wajamaa, when they would mention that there
is iman, that it is.
Right? That is the statement of the heart
or the acceptance
and truthfulness of the heart and of the
limbs
or of the tongue
and,
acknowledging that by the actions of the limbs.
And there are many different statements, but they're
all and all similar
Then he says,
he
says,
He says, in giving everything its due right
and portion
of servitude
for in that which is the purpose for
the creation of the human being.
The creation of the human being, the purpose
of creation
is
servitude
to Allah
which is shown
through the tongue, the heart, and the limbs.
And
then
he
says,
so the prayer has been placed and legislated
upon the most complete and comprehensive
forms
of servitude.
So when we pray, we know that there
are many
forms of wisdom behind it, many wisdoms. But
generic generally generically speaking, we say the prayer
is a form of remembrance. If you speak
to a non Muslim and they say, why
do you do this? Put your hands here
or your child or even sometimes ourselves. Why
do we put our hands here? Why do
we go in this way? Why is it
5 times a day? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
I don't know. I don't know why,
but I submit to it.
Well, it has to be a reason that
that there's 5 times a day. Yes. There
is a reason. How can you worship God
and you don't know the reason?
You see,
this is where this this question is problematic
because
your worship is contingent upon knowledge of the
reason why it was legislated. And that's what
Ibn al Qaym is saying. From signs
of veneration of the religion and making the
deen of Allah great is that you are
not concerned with understanding the reason for legislation.
That is not the reason why you worship
Allah. In other words, you don't say, well,
until I find out,
I'll do it. Or
or or
until I find out,
I will not be totally all in
with that worship.
That's important.
I'll do it because I have to.
Right? But I'm not going to feel that
I find a sense of liberation.
I find a sense of serenity.
I find a sense of of of of
of of
of feeling saved
when doing this action. And more importantly, I
find a sense of security
from Satan
and the and punishment of Allah if I
don't do it.
And that is at a very important distinction,
especially in a place where there are many,
many distractions.
Ibn al Qayyim continues on. He says, he
says,
It
makes the heart the center portion and treasures
of his or her faith.
He's talking about these different actions of worship
that it is from the and the the
sincerity
and love and shyness and greatness and watching
monitoring themselves.
And they make the Tawab, either
And he makes the Tawab. It is upon
the best form,
of Tawab and the most virtuous.
And all of that is
the seeing Allah
seeing the face of Allah
and the success
with his pleasure, being that his pleasure is
the true success.
And allowing him to get into Jannah. This
is what he's most concerned with. And then
says here in his last portion, he says,
And with that,
he has tested him, the servant, with following
their desires,
anger, and negligence.
And he has tested him, all of us,
with his enemy
being Iblis.
So Satan
enters or influences
all of us with one of these 3.
What were the 3? Shahwa. What is shahwa?
Desires. What is?
Anger.
And what is,
Helelessness, negligence. Right? Satan will come to you
from one of these 3. This is what
he's saying. And then he says,
that it is from our
nature that we have these 3, that this
will take place. But Satan will try to
intensify, magnify,
influence you to be affected by one of
these 3.
So it's it's it's it's natural
self leans towards that.
Because Satan will come to you with something
that you love.
So that thing
or Satan,
agrees with his soul and his desires,
of the slave.
These three things are that which can take
authority and overpower him.
So the limbs will be compliant with that.
If you are angry and Satan influenced you,
how are you going to let someone say
that to you? You have to prove yourself
online, offline. You have to say something. You
know it's out of character, but Satan is
is whispering to you. Right? Because you love
respect.
You love to be honored,
and you will obtain that honor even if
it is getting out of what?
Character.
Getting out of character.
And with life, the one of the strongest
examples is divorce.
The man has to prove himself,
right, or the woman has to prove herself,
and that anger takes you to a to
a degree to where you know what you're
saying. If you just stop and think about
it, you will probably regret it 5 minutes
later.
But you have to prove your point.
Satan is taking over at that time. He's
influencing you because you love
respect.
You have to be respected
at any cost.
That's where the submission in their
has to come in. So Satan comes to
him with that, and he says,
and the the limbs are the tools or
the instruments or the weapons that are used.
And there is no possible way except that
they are summoned.
So this is the situation of these three
things being,
desires and anger and negligence.
And then he says that these are the
three things that they are,
will always be in obedience to the desires
whichever way that they will be used. So
in conclusion, ibn al Qayyim was talking about
that the individual from the sign of the
greatness of Allah, if we want to make
the deen of Allah great in our lives,
we don't directly or indirectly
can make a condition on our obedience being
that we have to know the reason why
it was legislated or why it was legislated
in that way. Rather, it is just us
following it.
We follow, we hear, and we obey as
long as we know that it is from
Allah
or the authentic sunnah of the
May Allah
make us of those that are obedient