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The transcript describes the book Invocations of God byife byya'll Al Qayran Al Qayim, which describes three stages of Islam's journey, including anger, desire, and desire for destruction. The "will" of the beast is discussed, including its weight and potential power, and how it can be measured. The "will" of Allah and the "will of the beast" are also discussed, with a focus on showing one's authority and authority to avoid destruction. The "will of the beast" is discussed as a result of love and desire, with a focus on showing one's authority and authority to avoid destruction.AI Generated Transcript ©
We're continuing with this book entitled the Invocations
of God by Ibn Qayyim Al Jozia, and
this is a book that speaks about dhikr
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
The virtues of them. We're still,
in the introductory portion of it. As I
mentioned, this book is divided into 3 and
some would say 4 parts. We're still kind
of in the first part of the book.
Well, actually, the first part of the book.
And the last portion that we talked about
was when Ibn Al Qayyim was talking about
that there are 3 things that, Allah may
test the individual with, which was shahua, gholob,
and rafla,
which is desires, anger, and negligence And negligence,
heedlessness.
And then he mentions that the shaitan will
try to come to him in different ways,
and through these pathways. And when he says,
He will come to him in different these
different ways
through these pathways of anger,
following desires, or of negligence.
And, the and the limbs may follow that
when he enters that. So they may do
something based on that desire that was there,
that raw desire or feeling that was there.
And goes on. He says,
and this is the situation of every individual
on earth.
He says here
he says, so the mercy of his lord,
the result of the mercy of his lord,
the mighty
and the merciful one with
him would result in that he would assist
him with a another force.
Okay?
And that he would support him with another
type of support
that should stand against
that,
that
that army that wants his destruction.
Okay? So
is saying here
that
there's the and the desires and stuff that
we have. Okay? And Satan will try to
come through those pathways.
Right?
But then he says here and he says
that's the situation of every human being.
But then he says Allah will assist us.
And it's interesting here. And this is the
fiqh of the the ulama, the scholar,
how he says
so
the mercy of his lord,
what will result from that
and then he uses two names of Allah,
and
bihi.
What does Al Aziz mean?
The strong. The what?
The mighty.
When we say
Allah Islam.
Oh, Allah,
give might to Islam and give might to
the Muslims. Right?
So he says, so the mercy of his
lord, the the the the mighty and majestic
and the one that is merciful with him,
what would result or necessitate from that is
that he would assist him
with another
type of army, Jundi's army. Here, it would
be force.
And he would support him with another type
of support
that would stand against
that army that is trying that is see
seeking his destruction.
That is the army of Satan.
He says, Rahimullah.
So what is well, how does Allah do
this? Now he says he tells us the
process.
He says, so he sends to him a
messenger,
and he's and he reveals to him his
book,
and he assists him with the noble angel
that will face
that enemy, shaitan.
So this is the manifestation
of what? Of what? Of mercy
and of might.
And he goes another he goes deeper. He
says, so if Satan was to order him
to do something,
for example, like the 3 we mentioned, anger,
desires. You're gonna let them say that to
you? You're gonna let them talk to you
like that? You have to show them that
you are the strong one. You have to
show that you have authority. Satan's talking to
What?
The angel, the noble angel, which is the
other force that is sent by
by the merciful, the majestic,
the angel will order him to do the
order of his lord.
So Satan's calling him to do something, but
there there's the angel that's calling him to
do something else and know for a fact
that the angel is calling
him to do what Allah has ordered him
or her to do.
So I say, ibn al Qayim is giving
you the process here. And then he says,
He says, not only that, he says that
the angel comes to him, and he makes
clear to him
what would result
in following
that enemy
in regards to destruction,
Let's say
Let's say someone is speaking to you in
an ill fashion, in an ill way. They're
yelling at you. They're screaming at you, or
they say something that angers you on a
or they're saying it's you in front of
people.
In your mind,
your blood your blood is boiling at the
moment.
And Satan could tell you what? What's the
thing Satan could tell you?
Let's mention some statements of Satan in the
masjid.
And Isra was like, oh, okay. He said
that happened.
Go ahead. What do you have?
Yeah. What's something bad? What's one thing that
not all of you, but maybe some other
Muslims, you know, that some other things have
been said
Cursing. Cursing. Okay. We don't want examples, but
masha'Allah Sheikh Imran is cursing, alhamdulillah.
What's one what's something else?
We want an example. We love Musa, alayhis
salaam. I want something that is let's be
real.
Come on. What's something that we said to
ourselves or someone else has said?
And we've either stopped ourselves or we said
it or we've we we we answered the
call.
Sorry?
We we mentioned that cursing. What else?
Shoving. You mean shoving?
I want something that's said in your mind.
Everybody, brother, we're human. Come on. Stop. Stop
it. We've there's been something that's been said
in our mind before.
Our wife, our son, our daughter, our employer
come on. Let's be real.
Let's stop all the this is you're mad.
Okay. Come on. What's something we've said before?
How are you gonna let her talk to
you like that?
You're the man of the house.
I hate you.
Yeah. Thank you.
Thank you for the hatred.
Right? I hate you. Right? What's something else?
That's oh, I like that one. Yeah. Yeah.
Just.
Right. So that's answering the call of shaytan.
Right? But then there's the Melek that says,
you know if you say I hate you,
it's gonna hurt their feelings. Well, it doesn't
matter. They they hurt my feelings.
Right?
You know if you say this, it most
likely will result to this. You know if
you do this, it most likely will make
that person angry. Well, I wanna prove my
point. That's another one. I wanna prove my
point.
This is what I'm talking about. So that
that's how that's what Abhinav came in saying.
There's
that and we would may call this call
this our what? Conscious. Our conscious.
That is the raw material that Allah has
given you with is a feature of the
fitra.
Consciousness.
But then shaitan can come to it. Whether
we say conscious or the nafs, right, this
is where it can be debatable. It's unseen
forces. But know that there is a conversation
or there is a level of spiritual unseen
influence upon the soul or upon the self,
etcetera. The mind consciousness,
there's this connection which we can't go into
another time. So Ibn 'ukayim is mentioning that.
So
if Satan was to order him with an
order, the the angel will order him with
the order of his lord, and we will
make clear to him what isn't what is
the result of
obeying Satan
from destruction. What is interesting here is that
every single human being has this, whether they
are
what?
Whether they're
a
whether they are
nafs, I said the word earlier.
The nafs, but the
the motherboard, the fitra.
The fitra. You can like, it's the motherboard
of the human being. It's the raw material
that
is is the is the mark of the
center.
Says here,
So he's saying sometimes he'll answer
this call. He answered that to that one,
and he'll sometimes he'll answer to that one.
We're human beings because if we answered the
call of the angel every time, we would
be like what?
Angels and we are not.
No? Then he says here,
The one that is assisted
is the one that Allah
helps and assists him and gives him victory,
and the one that is preserved is the
one that Allah
preserves.
And then he says here, and this is
the last the last paragraph. He says,
And he has made that which is an
opposing
force
to the nafs
that calls you to evil,
nafs
that is tranquil.
And this nafs
can be so which is in the Quran.
There's 3 types that he mentions.
You know, the that the woman the wife
of Al Aziz, the woman that seduced Joseph,
This is what she said when she didn't
acquit herself.
And I do not acquit myself. I admit.
I admit. I did this to him. But
she said the soul constantly calls one to
do evil.
But she says,
which shows it is consistently
calling you to that. Or it could be
understood as it calls you to be do
very, very traumatic intense
type of
disobedience. But then there is the
in the chapter of Fajr, when
Allah says,
Oh, you tranquil souls. So these souls will
constantly fight against each other. And there's a
third kind that's mentioned in the chapter of
where
Allah says
The blame worthy soul, which is between them.
It's you're blank. Why didn't I do that?
Whether the that is a good deed or
a bad deed.
Right? So here, he's saying the
Allah made,
that Allah made this the tranquil soul which
can combat and face the evil
soul. And then he says here,
Now he's about to go a little more
in-depth. Now he's about to talk about the,
the battle of the, the fools. He says,
if the evil portion of the soul or
the evil soul
was to do something,
the good, tranquil soul will prohibit him
from doing
so will prohibit
himself from doing it, and he mentions the
opposite.
And if the evil evil soul was to
prohibit him from doing good,
the tranquil soul
will order him to do the
opposite will order him to do the opposite.
He said, for
who
And
now he's saying, sometimes he'll answer to the
the evil soul and sometimes answer to the
tranquil soul. And then he says here,
and this is Fiqh. Now this is our
understanding. Now that we understand this happens to
all of us,
He said,
He said, and the most important thing is
the one that is predominant.
Which one has more? Which one weighs more?
You know, there's scales in the day of
judgment. Why is there scales?
A scale of good deeds. Your deeds will
be weighed. Right?
Right? In Mizan. Right? There would be your
deeds will be weighed. What does that mean?
There's a way in between the good and
the
evil.
Right? So here, he
said It is the one that is dominant.
That is the one that is the the
most important and will have, the most influence.
And then he mentions
that maybe one of them will have total
authority and power to where the other one
cannot even come back.
Right? So here,
the reality that is embraced is that we
as human beings
will be tested
by, he mentions,
anger, desires,
and,
negligence.
Satan can come from these three ways because
we naturally have the raw material. But then
he mentions that the mercy
of Allah and the might of Allah
would necessitate
that he gives you the equipment.
He gives you the army.
So he he's gonna talk about this later.
He gives a nice analogy of an army
and a and a castle and equipment and
artillery. But he's saying he's starting you right
now with the inner battle
that there will be influences
influences that will try to come to you,
and you will answer to that call.
But what's beautiful here and which this is
why I really, really,
he mentioned those two names, and we'll end
with it. The name Aziz
and the name Rahim.
How does that tie into what we talked
about tonight?
Because Allah gives you an army to a
army of good,
which is he mentions here is the angel
that fights the Satan.
Right?
The army of evil. And that's the angel.
So when the Satan speaks to you,
the angel will tell you the opposite,
and he will tell you the results of
that. Like and that's the conscious which you
may argue. But what's beautiful here is the
next paragraph. You know, he talks about Satan
and he talks about the angel. Right?
But in the next paragraph, he talks about
what?
He said,
The soul, the nafs. You see how he
made the distinction?
He talked about the the first thing was
the army of Satan, the army of the
angels. But then the next one
was the nafs itself.
So what it says, though,
is saying that the Satan
can speak to the
and the angel speaks to the or
Satan influences
one to where the becomes
a and the angel
influences you to have more of the
And the most important factor is the one
that is dominant.
And that is why the the term sharia
is so beautiful
because it nourishes
the nafs,
and it supplies it with that which it
needs to be enriched
and more on
the side
rather than the side. Is everyone with me?
And that is so beautiful because is
is literally going step by step when talking
about the inner battle. You know, when I
was non Muslim, you know, we used to
you see on these TV shows, you have
the red the red devil
and then the angel on one side. You
ever seen I know none of you have
watched TV here, but other the kids are
like, yeah. He's no. We don't wanna do
this, but we just wanna say, yes. I
know.
It's just
and no. They'll have the red devil with
the the in which you don't believe that
it's red or whatever the case may be.
And then the angel looked this way, you
know, and it one's calling you. So there's
always something that's calling you to evil and
calling you to good. The exact manifestation of
that is not that important as as opposed
to knowing that it's there.
And that's what the beauty of this portion
is. When is touching on this and acknowledging
the fact that we as human beings will
follow 1 and will follow the other, but
the most important thing is that we try
our best to stay
with the tranquil soul, and that's why this
book of vikr
is one of the strongest ways to
to establish and maintain
that tranquil
soul.
Allah says, is it not with the remembrance
of Allah
that the souls find ease? The same word
he used here,
is that which brings tranquility. May Allah make
us of those that continually call on him
in secret and in open. May Allah
allow the names and attributes and knowledge and
names and attributes to bring us tranquility.
May Allah
allow us to make us of those to
make us of those that turn to the
angels when they call on us to do
the good, to fight against the evil and
mankind.
mankind.