Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Actions Are Lifeless Forms out Sincerity [Hikam 10]
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The rules, the way they did, the way they the way they define rule
is that it's a very subtle, intricate substance, which mixes
with the flesh and blood of a human being. And by that the human
being is alive. And when it goes out, the human being is dead. They
give an example, he said that if you've got a moist stick, you know
you've picked, you've just pulled off a stick, broken off a little
twig from a tree, and it's moist.
That moisture in it is what kept it alive now when that moisture
dries out, and that will become a dry stick. Similar kind of idea.
The only reason the tree survives is because it's got the moisture
coming and running through it. They say that that's slightly
like, whereas that moisture you can actually extract, whereas the
rule, we can not extract, the angel can extract it, he's got the
machinery to do that. We don't have to know how to do that.
The rule goes, it goes, then it's a lifeless form. So that's rule.
So essentially, the other way to look at rule is the essence of
anything is the thing which makes something work. Without it, it's
not going to work even though the whole box is there. This is
useless. Now this machine doesn't work anymore. Throw it away. It's
a massive piece of metal. But it's useless now because the motors
gone and you can't change it, for example.
So it's the thing which makes something work. That's why he says
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salatu salam ala sayyidina, Muhammad wa and he or Safi
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Allah, we continue with his book of wisdoms. So we're on page 99.
And wisdom number is number 10. So this is one of his earlier ones.
It's a really, really profound one. And it deals with something
really, really fundamental in our faith. So what it's going to be
about today is this is what he says he says, A man or sewer will
call a mutton Alera MaryLu arrancar. Imagine what our wha hoo
ha, would you do several a philosophy ha.
Actions are just lifeless forms. Any action we do is just the form.
It's a template.
It's an image of some sort.
But then he says, but the presence of an inner reality of sincerity
within them is what does them with LIFE GIVING SPIRIT.
Meaning there has to be a spirit inside that makes them real.
There's no point of having a phone that doesn't work. A laptop that
doesn't function. It's just the form. It's just the empty case.
It's got everything in there, but it has no life. It's broken down
the processes gone.
And with anything else, you've got a car but the engine is blown.
There's no rule inside it. So what's the point of that car. And
when it comes to worship, we don't have museum pieces, at least with
a car even if it doesn't work, you might become a museum piece if
it's an antique but with there's nobody to look at our actions
without form inside. So that's why he really encapsulates the
importance of sincerity and in fact, the importance of worship
because worship is nothing without sincerity. So that's why he says
and Merleau Soran, Karima tune actions, any action that we do, we
pray, we speak, we fast, we go to Hajj, we assist somebody else we
give sadaqa we do an act for somebody else. There's an outer
form to it, people will see it. But with Allah subhanaw taala
where it should matter, and the benefit of it that should matter
in and invest for us in the hereafter. There will only come
from this reality of this sincerity would you delete last?
Or wha hoo ha It's spirit. The thing which gives it life is the
secret of a sincerity which is in it.
So
let's look at this today. Let's understand what Nikolas is what
sincerity is. So I'm going to just explain the words that he uses. So
he uses MaryLu, sewaren, Karima to an l am l is the plural of Amel.
And that just means any kind of bodily movement, any kind of
bodily action or activity that the human being does with their body
or with their heart.
The heart we have several different stages of the heart,
because we have thoughts good and bad thoughts. So you have a fleet
Think thought sometimes the thought comes in your mind, an
idea for good or bad comes into mind and it goes away, doesn't
stay just comes in, I should donate, and then it goes away
without you interacting with it. Then the second stage is the
thought comes in and it lingers.
It lingers, but you don't interact with it, it kind of
comes in your mind, but you're too busy or too negligent to think
about it. So that's called the lingering thought, the fleeting
thought the lingering thoughts. The third level is when a thought
comes into mind, and you actually start interacting with Yes, I
should do that. Oh, but I don't feel like it's, why do you feel
like it's right, whether good or bad, you actually interact with
it, but then you don't incline towards it. And then it goes,
That's the third level. The fourth level is when you
now become inclined that yes, I should do this, or I shouldn't do
this, you make, you're making your inclining towards the decision,
but you've made not made a full resolve yet. And the fifth stage
is when you make a full resolve to do it.
So all of my say that when you've made a full resolve to do
something that is an action of the hearts.
Until then it was just thought first four stages were just
thought. But once you've made a decision that Yes, tomorrow, I'm
going to go and do this, I'm definitely going to donate 100
pounds today,
just going to pull my wallet out, I'm just going to wait for them to
come to me or something like that.
Or I'm going to commit this haram Yes, I've planned it. Let me
purchase the tickets.
So before you purchase the ticket, that's an external action, but
internally is like, I'm going to purchase a ticket, I'm convinced,
and a resolve to do it. That's an action of the heart. There's other
actions of the heart that has not, that don't necessarily have an
outer form, for example, for a person to think that I'm become a
curfew, or I become a believer, of course, then we express it
afterwards. But that much if somebody did like said, I become a
believer, I believe in Allah in their heart only. And they never
managed to say it with their tongue according to and then they
died, majority of scholars will say that go to paradise. Likewise,
the other way around, somebody decided in their heart that and
they don't tell anybody but they don't believe now, that would be
covered. Even if they're praying outside. So you get actions of the
limbs, and you get actions of the heart, the action of the heart is
when you fully resolve to do something, and you take on
something like that. So he that's what he's saying that's actions,
right. So he says Allah Merleau sewaren, Karima surah. Surah turn
essentially means any kind of form that takes place, right, any kind
of out of form, and casing that takes place. What rule is
essentially, rule is the spirit that makes the human alive.
The roof, the way they display, the way they do, the way they
define rule is that it's a very subtle, intricate substance, which
mixes with the flesh and blood of a human being. And by that the
human being is alive. And when it goes out, the human being is dead.
They give an example, he said that if you've got a moist stick, you
know you've picked you've just pulled off a stick, broken off a
little twig from a tree, and it's moist.
That moisture in it is what kept it alive now when that moisture
dries out, and that will become a dry stick. Similar kind of idea.
The only reason the tree survives is because it's got the moisture
coming and running through it. They say that that's slightly
like, whereas that moisture you can actually extract whereas the
rule, we can not extract, the angel can extract it, he's got the
machinery to do that. We don't have to know how to do that.
The rule goes, it goes, then it's a lifeless form. So that's rule.
So essentially, the other way to look at rule is the essence of
anything is the thing which makes something work. Without it is not
going to work even though the whole box is there. This is
useless. Now this machine doesn't work anymore, throw it away. It's
a massive piece of metal. But it's useless now because the motors
gone and you can't change it, for example.
So it's the thing which makes something work. That's why he says
rule. And he says here though, when we're talking about rule, the
rule here refers to anything by which you reach perfection in the
action when the action becomes perfect, and real. That's what ru
refers to here. And a philosophy of course is simple. The way to
describe a class is when you singularly do something pure
The for the sake of Allah and nobody else. Like, I'm only doing
this for Allah.
Now, you know, just like with everything else in the world
biking, there's levels of biking, right? Expertise, there's levels
of mechanics, there's levels of reading, you know, there's
refinement in everything. So even a loss actually has many stages,
which we're going to be looking at today. If loss is not just one
single idea that okay, I'm doing this for the sake of Allah,
there's actually multiple stages here. And if we're on any of those
stages, at least we've got a philosophy we're not on any of
those stages, then we have no class and the action is empty.
That's what we're going to look at today. Another way to look at this
is the secret of the class them Cyril a class simple secret of the
floss, essence of your class, is that truthfulness, absolute
truthfulness in a person's heart.
When the person is doing something for the sake of Allah, knowing it
comes from Allah, that Allah is the One who allowed him to do it.
And they're offering it to Allah. And there's absolutely nobody else
involved in that idea. You don't care about anybody else, you're
doing it purely for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala. Another way
to look at his class is to remove from our heart, the thought that
I'm somebody else is going to notice it. Now they might, they're
going to notice if you do something outward, we're human
beings, you buy a new car just for yourself, your neighbors are going
to notice it.
Whether you like it or not, they're going to notice it is
going to affect somebody or the other. You say why should people
worry about that? Well, look, that's the world you live in, what
are you going to do shut everybody up, stop them thinking. That's the
way we interact with one another. We form opinions by just looking
at somebody.
So you can't help that can you
in class is just when you do something purely for the sake of
Allah, people can say what they want, and if they praise you will
hamdulillah but you're doing it for live and if somebody praises
me, I still did it for Allah that has not bothered me.
So it allows us to remove from the heart Ria, which means
ostentation, which means to show what should kill huffy and
essentially what they call subtle shift, not blatant shift the I'm
believing in another God besides Allah or I'm ascribing partners to
Allah this blatant shake. And subtle shake is when we do actions
that should be reserved for Allah we do it for somebody else, as
well, maybe
to remove any kind of self also, number two, forget anybody else.
There's also another level remember, there's multiple levels
here. So there's also another level is that I don't care about
anybody else. But you know what, I did this.
That's also not a class.
I don't care whether anybody watches or not, I don't really
care about that. But I did it.
That's another sin. That's urgent.
That's self
conceitedness. That's in Arabic, Nicola Rajoub, and Mala hover to
knifes, to think that, oh, I achieved this. No, yeah, Allah,
thank you for letting me do this. I'm grateful to you that you chose
me to do this. So is the same thing. But you're like, No, Allah
is the One who allowed me to do it and do it. I did it obviously. But
Allah allowed me to do it. So you just the focus is Allah. So he's
saying that if you're going to do to show off, that in itself will
mess the action up completely. And if you're doing it, if you're if
you're doing this, to just think I did it, but you're not to show off
to others, but just to satisfy yourself that I did it, it's from
me, you know, then that will at least encroach on the perfection
of the action, the action will be there because you know, you're
doing it for Allah. Clearly, I'm done this tahajjud for Allah, I've
done all my prayers, in the masjid for Allah, I've donated this to
Allah. Not to show anybody else. But then you think I did it?
Can you see how it's still? There's still an aspect there that
you're not fully a servant of Allah because you should just
think
you didn't do it. Allah made you do it.
So you should be thankful to Allah for that.
So in other words, he's saying that at the end of the real AMA,
Luca, Luca ashba, Han watch certain actions are pretty much
all forms
and figures. That's what they are.
And their souls are when you find a sincerity in their sincerity is
not tangible isn't. It's a thought in your mind. So with the body we
perform, we perform an action and we produce a form, but with our
mind and heart, we get the focus right.
Very interesting. We get the focus
Right.
So he says just like with any other form
a book,
you've got a computer or whatever.
Just like they need something to function with. Otherwise they're
going to be just dead. Human beings that dead animals are dead
they got no life and and what's the point of a horse or a car
without an engine doesn't work.
Likewise he says that there is no real existence for any bodily
actions or any heart actions. Unless you've got sincerity in
there. They just forms empty boxes.
That's why Allah subhanaw taala and circle CI in verse five, Allah
says warmer or new rule in the year Buddha law, her meclizine
Allah would be
the only thing they've been commanded to do is that they
worship Allah.
And they singularly focus it for Allah subhanho wa Taala only
meclizine Allah Hadith kunafa and basically cut away from
pure monotheism that's all that wama Amuro Illa the way Allah says
like, that's all they were told to do. That's the only command they
were given. That if you're going to worship Allah do it properly.
Meaning you better worship Allah but do it properly only for him
nobody else. Then Allah subhanho wa Taala in Surah Zoomer booty LA.
Listen la would be fair about the law. Mock lesson law would be
worship Allah devote yourself to Allah
making your deen sincerely and purely for him.
Then after that, there's a hadith Hadith Guzzi actually where Allah
subhanaw taala himself declares he says, an earthen a Shoraka. I am
the most independent of any partners that you may ever put
with anyone. I'm the most independent of partners, which
means I don't need partners. I don't like having partners. I
can't have partners. So if you're going to do something for me, plus
for someone else, you've messed it up because I don't need Athena
from honey. I'm independent. I'm self sufficient. I have everything
I don't need anybody to help me and assist me. That's why then
Allah says, Man Ashoka Murray lady, talk to her Shreeka. So if
anybody does after knowing this, Emily better know this. If anybody
does ascribe a partner to me, doing something for someone else,
along with me, then I'm just gonna abandon him and his partner,
because I don't need any of you.
The Prophet sallallahu Sallam then says A ha ha, ha for Allah
Almighty. A shithole huffy. Wahoo Urrea. Price of one he said that
one of the worst things that I really fear for my ummah, the
thing that I have the greatest fear for in my ummah is not big
shake, you know the major blatant clear,
ascribing others with Allah but it's when you do it subtly meaning
when you don't do it purely for Allah subhanaw taala second you do
it to show the your neighbor or your friend or your father or or
people or whatever, right. Or the masses, whoever it is on, you
know, on social media, whatever. That's what I mostly fear because
that is very, very difficult to get rid of. That is ostentation.
In another version of that rewire it says it Taku ha the shekel
huffy,
be aware of be fearful of this really, really subtle form
of shake, which is Ria, which is ostentatious just to show somebody
else and it's so easy to get misguided in this, it's so easy,
you do something eventually shaytaan tries to stop you but you
eventually do the good deed. And then somebody notices it. That's
why, you know, there's people who call this a brother call from
America cases that here usually it's these big fundraising,
fundraising events that we have for the messages where you buy
tickets, and then you know, there's this massive fundraising
put people put their hand up and you know, names are called out and
celebrated and congratulated, and, and so on. He's saying, This is
how people make money here, you know, to raise money here. So I
said, look, I mean, we can't call it haram at the end of the day,
but the better way to do it is more subtly because here there's
going to be people who will
maybe donate maybe even sincerely but then there's going to be
others we'll find out.
Donated 50,000 30,000 You get some people who just match it all it
says whatever you collect to them going to match it all. So at the
end of the day, somebody because you know you can't stop people
from saying things can you that's that's the thing.
I
And then after that in your heart creeps in like Hamdulillah.
Either, or you donate 20 And somebody donates.
Somebody has donated 10, you do 20 to outbid them.
There's a bit of competition that takes place, isn't it? Very
difficult to keep it right?
In America for our masjid, when I was there, the Imam of the masjid
I was and I tried to keep it as subtle as possible. So we would
say is that we're raising money, everybody would be sitting there.
And then,
you know, we're looking for, you know, 10,000, whatever it is, and
people would just put their hand up and somebody would go there. So
it can be any names called or whatever, just to keep it as
subtle as possible. So you can be creative about how you do it to
try to maintain or maybe give a little warning or little
admonition or exhortation about a class so that people don't lose
what they're giving.
Know, maybe some people have so much disposable income, it's
alright man, I don't get some reward for this. It's alright,
it's not a problem. I don't know what law alum. But I'm scared
about that. Because at the end of the day, you know, we want to try
to maximize, we want to maximize what we can do.
Allah make it easy. So it's easy to see out of all of the problems
of the heart, like jealousy, and hatred, and greed and temptation,
all that stuff, they say that all of that is kind of blatant, you
can see those and you can probably get rid of them, because you can
really see it, when it comes to love of the self and showing off,
that's very, very difficult to get rid of. Because you get a
psychological complex, you become defensive, and just if you justify
your state, so it's so deep rooted, because it's so close to
the heart, it's a love of the self.
And you know, when you have jealousy, then you know that I'm
jealous of that, brother. I'm jealous of that person. But when
it's just showing off, it's a difficult one.
And it's probably even more difficult if you're a person who
likes to vocalize and express things and tell people your
achievements. Now, when you tell somebody achievement that doesn't
have to be real, because you may be telling them to encourage them,
but your mind better be clear, you hear your heart needs to be in the
right place for that. So there's one youngest caller, he says, I
want to do stuff on, you know, social media and what do I do? I
said, Well, look, it's tough because the whole way social media
works is about promoting yourself. And you have to do things in a
certain way to promote yourself to catch people's attention because
there's a lot of competition out there.
There's hundreds and 1000s of channels and accounts and I mean
how do you how do you get noticed? Right initially if they don't know
you then how do you get noticed? So that's why and it's okay you
know, if you've got a product to sell, you can advertise no
problem. There's nothing haram about advertising, business.
Nothing advertise yourself but advertising a product or something
you've got or even advertising you know, a service you're offering.
But at the end of the day,
you need to be for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala that balance
is kind of difficult. Okay, another rewire says it Taku ha the
shackle coffee Be careful of this really subtle polytheism find who
you are do Buddha me there be been normal. it crawls it moves through
you it's movement is like the movement of ants do you hear and
you might see them if you notice them but you don't hear them
so that's why they're very subtle Schilke is very subtle this coffee
this ostentatious, very subtle kilo machine cool huffy. Somebody
asked What is this, this subtle shift that you're speaking with
Dr. Su, la Cala and Rhea,
Rhea, which is ostentation. And one of the reasons for that they
explain is that it stays in the heart for much longer and you
become used to it so you don't notice it anymore. Even though
it's creeping around. A lot of the time you know what you need
somebody else to tell you. That's what I think I've noticed that you
need somebody else to point it out. Because we just justify too
much. So
we just need somebody else to point it out because they can see
it usually, usually they can, they can only see it, they can have
suspicion about it. You can't accuse somebody of ostentation,
because they might have that don't ever do that.
Just because somebody likes to say things. That doesn't mean they've
got ostentation, because they might have purity or it's
difficult, but they could have a pure sincerity.
But of course, if you've been if you're a good friend of somebody
who say, Look, this is what I think are you you know, then you
can have that conversation and try to help somebody. There's a hadith
there's a hadith which mentions that prophets Allah
Astana was asked about a class right for cada he said wait had
the illegibly Let me ask you read about it. God Salam. When he asked
you believe Ali Salam wa sallam said, wait for the response, I
need to ask ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. I need to ask the Lord of Might.
So he asked him, and Allah subhanho wa Taala says, who are
Cyril? Min Asare
This is one of the secret subtleties. From my secrets. It's
one of the secrets of my secrets meaning it's a quite a complex
idea, right? Who do who called Berman back to mean anybody I
place a class into the hearts of any of my servants that I love.
Whoever I want, I can give I give it to them. So it has to come from
Allah. It's a gift of Allah to have the floss. So that if you
want to how do you get a gift from Allah then
you just ask Allah
one of the beautiful dogs in that regard is Allah Amata had called
him in and NIFA where Emma luminaria
when he suddenly middle Kevin, why in the middle here are you in a
nominal piano? It carries on but main thing is, Oh Allah purify my
heart from hypocrisy.
Allahu Mata here called Women and if agua de Monterrey and my
actions through this ostentation of Allah granting me a class,
grant me sincerity. And if you're looking out for it, then Allah
subhana wa Tada. So that's where he said that I place it into the
hearts of whoever I like for my servants, and liat polypro it he
made a cool five tuba, Willa shaytaan. And for you've seen,
according to this narration, there is no angel that can look at this
and thus Right, right it, no shaytaan can see it and try to
corrupt it.
The shaytaan can't see it to corrupt the budget and try to
corrupt your action.
But once Allah has placed that in there, that's it, then that's the
great thing. So Obama have explained this as what they call
mahkamah lesson, which the province of the loathsome
explained us where you can eventually worship Allah as though
you see him, you don't see Allah but as though you see him so you
know, when you're doing something for someone that can see then your
focus is there because it helps you focus.
So that's that's what it is. Now, as I said to you, that class is
not a single one entity, there's multiple layers of a class and
this will be very useful for us to understand where we are.
And Allah subhanaw taala improve us in this regard, saying that the
first level of class the first one, the stepping, the first step
of this is a colossal, our a class of the common folk, that if they
get a class, this is what they get, which is a gradual hulky
Meanwhile, my little hockey mattala Bill who did do nuvia
While okra we're gonna have real bad and evil man, he was risky.
Well, cosori will roll.
What does that mean? So he's saying that for a common person,
if they get if lost, they if loss means
to remove, it's a bit of a strange statement. But what it means is,
is a little Hakeem in Miami little hack, whenever you're interacting
with Allah, whenever you're doing something for Allah, then you
don't let any creation come into that.
You don't let any other creative beings so you're not doing it for
any other focus besides a focus related to Allah. However, look at
this, this is not pure yet. I'm doing this for the sake of Allah.
I'm not doing it for any creation of Allah, that is dunya. Right?
However,
I do have other motivations in there that are related to Allah.
What do you mean by that? So he says, for example, you're fasting
because one of the benefits of fasting is to protect is to get
health.
So you're doing it for the sake of Allah
and you're doing it to protect your health as well.
You're doing it
I'm giving zakat because Allah has Allah said that you purify
yourself with that
you know when you hold hold me and while he was sada cotton Tata Hiro
home what was the key him be her take sadaqa and the cat from them
that you purify them with so you get purification so I want that
purification
see what's wrong with that? Nothing wrong with that it's just
not the higher level
or for example you know the man aka the professor awesome said man
NACA sama Lu min sadaqa. You give sadaqa your wealth will not become
deficient because you're literally getting rid of that from your
wealth by doing this so then your your wealth becomes pure Allah
gives you more. So you've got a Haven't you got to focus there
that if I give this other colors gonna give me 70 times more. You
gotta focus right. Is there anything wrong with that? No, it's
a good business deal, to be honest.
There's nothing wrong with that.
But it's not there yet. We want an even more perfect this is good
enough but it's not perfect yet is which means that you want
expansion in your risk by giving Allah promises you to give back
that guy gives a lot he gets back I'm gonna get back as well.
Nothing wrong with that it's related to Allah while cosori will
hold and then if it's about the hereafter you want dimensions of
paradise. Palaces of paradise. Anybody not want that? Right? And
the whole at least for the guys they wonder who, right? The the
maidens of paradise. So is there anything wrong with this? No, this
is still a class but it's still at the first level we need to upgrade
this is the beta version of a class or 1.0
What is a class now there's the second level which is a class will
house this is
the last of the specially selected ones. How does that change?
tolerable? How do they grow? We are doing doing a dunya area
they've got no worldly
objective in this at all. They don't care about an increase of
risk or anything like that of the dunya Yeah, but they are focused
on Paradise and a whole persona and everything like that the
palaces and all that they worried about that.
So they've just they don't care about the world they've moved out
okay, this I don't really care I'm gonna die anyway, that's the real
life can you see it's an upgrade. It's an update of your idea that
at the end of the day, it's in the arciero matters. So the focus is
in the era and the focus about paradise.
What can be greater than that then what can be the higher level than
that he says if lasso house Hill House. This is the class and
sincerity of
the specialty SELECT FROM THE especially selected one. So this
is the cream of the crop.
If Roger, Roger Hulu, the bill Kalia
they have no other desire in there at all. It's just I'm doing this
for Allah because I'm a servant of Allah. I don't expect anything, I
don't want anything. I'm just doing my job.
Just purely, that's the only time you've actually realized the pure
Oneness of Allah that there's only one Allah in the absoluteness of
that I don't care about I don't even care about paradise. That's a
side idea. If I do want to go to Paradise, it's only because I want
to see Allah because that's where you see Allah once a week you see
a lion paradise. That's why they want to go to paradise. Otherwise
they don't care about anything else.
Then he says for a burger to whom that equal Obadiah their worship
them is just to verify proper servitude. I'm just trying to
express that I'm a servant of Allah that's why I'm just a pure
servant. I don't care I don't want anything. I'm not looking for
anything. Well clear will be water if you're Rubia they just trying
to fulfill the responsibilities of the Lord. He's my Lord. That's
what I have to do. I can't ask for anything. I mean slave Oh, my hub
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I just want to see Allah that's what I want to go to paradise. So
it's purely Allah Allah Allah, there's nothing besides a line
that case. Can you see that? I mean, do you guys get that out the
three levels of this. And of course within those levels,
there'll be ranges in there as well.
Allah allow us to ascend beyond the first level Allah allows to
get on the ladder and be upgraded. You know?
There's no more stages beyond this. It's already done deal.
That's it. This is what it is. That's why look at look at how the
only and the lovers of Allah subhanaw taala express this. Why
do we look at their poems and things as we understand where they
were with this, how they attained this so YBNL Pharrell, he's a
great
poet, Sufi poet, he says, ley says certainly Meenal Gina and in our
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my purpose for my my asking for Paradise is not for it to be a
bounty that I'm looking for. Except the fact that I would just
love to see you there. Because paradise is the place you see
Allah. He knows what he wants. He knows when he goes to paradise I'm
waiting for that Friday.
Because then I can go and see Allah subhanaw taala that's all
I'm worried about.
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he says, all of these guys, they worship Allah because of their
fear of hellfire.
It's not a bad idea, not a bad place to start.
To be fearful of Hellfire is a big thing. But he's saying that's not
my have gone beyond that he's not doing it to show off is telling
people what to do. He says that all of them they worship Allah
because of their fear of hellfire. And they see that safety and
delivery from it. They see that as a major achievement. Or their
objective is that they live in these gardens, meaning the gardens
of Paradise, and thus they are in these beautiful orchards and they
drinking from the cell Sabine.
I don't have an option. I don't have an idea. I don't have an
opinion with regards to paradise or *. I don't have an opinion,
meaning I don't have an objective with regards to it, except that
I'm not going to.
I'm not going to take an alternative to my beloved.
Like he's so focused that I want Allah and all of this doesn't
really matter. Of course Allah will give it to them.
But they're not focused on it.
A Sheikh Abu Talib Rahim Allah says, a philosopher in the macula
Sina, ecological hulking mean more analytical Huck
will will help you enough's that if last according to the Holocene
is to basically remove any kind of creative being, when we're dealing
with Allah subhanaw taala. And the first of those creative beings is
the knifes itself is the ego to overcome that.
And then he another person says that if Alas, according to the
lovers of Allah, is that
they don't do any action, because they feel like doing it.
Right. Otherwise, the purpose of that would be that I want to
reward for it, I'm going to do this I'm going to get reward for
it.
So for example, if I go into a store, into a shopping market, or
whatever, and I start reading the dua for a million reward, which is
promised that Ilaha illa Allah the hula should equal alone, we'll
call him the yo yo you meet or how you lay motivated the sidewalk
other coalition, but you got a million rewards for him. That
shouldn't be the initial
the initial action just to get used to it, but eventually this
will be Allah wants me to do it. So I'm doing it. Because I want to
remember the because the purpose why? Why do you think Allah said
that I'm going to give you a million rewards when you read this
die in a markets in a shopping place, why?
So you can give you a million rewards, that's just an incentive,
the real reason is that you can get so easily distracted by
everything around you. So I want you to remember me, but to
incentivize it, I'm giving you a million rewards. So initially, you
do it for the million rewards, but eventually is like I'm doing it
because Allah wants me to do it.
Just to remember Allah so I don't forget Allah, I don't get involved
with all the shaytaan that's here.
See the upgrade there? Right. So start off with the million
rewards, it's very, very big incentive notice, but then
eventually, it's like, I'm doing it because I have to remember
Allah, that's my job. Then he says, If last according to the
Mujahideen, according to the pure monotheists, who really have got
to Allah is
they just don't even think about people anymore. When they're doing
anything, their focuses Allah, of course, they're living among
people.
One of the Meshech said that sorry, I'm gonna look a bit of
loss, correct your action through loss, and then correct your loss.
By exonerating yourself by freeing yourself from thinking that
there's anything else or anyone else that can help you in doing
your action, except Allah subhanaw taala.
That's how you get pure Eclass I didn't even do this from myself, I
could not have done this. We could not have been sitting here today
on this Sunday afternoon. And listening to this, unless Allah
wanted us to do it.
That's a beautiful way of thanking Allah rather than thanking
yourself, rather than patting yourself on the back.
And again, if that's too complicated, pat yourself on the
back, no problem.
Start from there. Don't let this confuse you.
Right, if it's going to stop you, because shaytan is going to try to
mess it up. So it can be staged by state, but at least know that
there's a higher realm that we need to get to where it needs to
be this purity Allah subhanaw taala.
That's why some of the shields they said that, you know, as long
as a person keeps worrying about what people are gonna say,
and react and so on, he can't have a class. This one has to be
understood. I mean, of course, you have to worry about what people
say if you're gonna do something wrong, people are gonna say right,
but when you do good deeds, you should never worry about what
people say. That's for sure. Or if you're abstaining from bad deeds,
You shouldn't care what you're doing that purely for the sake of
Allah subhanaw taala
you're saying that it's impossible for you to focus on Allah and
people at the same time, it just is a clash, it's just not the best
place to be just focus on Allah subhanaw taala.
And if not a Jeeva he he just concludes here he says that the
conclusion of all of this is that it's not possible to get away from
this knifes of ours encroaching on this and corrupting it. Right? And
there's no way to, to get rid of the more hidden subtle
aspects of RIA, the big aspects, I show off too much I know it,
that's understandable, but the smaller aspects of it are in your
own mind. The only way you can do that is through somebody who
understands this stuff and you ask them to help you like a chef.
That's what he says that that's that's essentially what you need
to do if you really want to get get it done. Sheikh Abdullah gonna
go here, this is the way he just summarizes it. He says that the
righteous deeds of the servant, that are devoid of sincerity are
like dead bodies without a soul. However, if action is accompanied
with sincerity, then the body will have LIFE.
insincere actions a lifeless or lifeless and will bring no benefit
in the hereafter though in the world they might look like
something but they don't look like anything in the Hereafter. May
Allah subhanho wa Taala grant Asif Lawson sincerity and allow us to
ascend the stages get on to the letter of sincerity and go to the
highest level before we die. May Allah make that easy for us
welcome to Dawa and in hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen Allahu men
to Santa Monica salaam to bark the other jewelry Quran Allah homie or
medical study I love my handy dandy I'm and let you know he
learned Subhanak at NACA nominally mean Allah your mercy yeah Allah
your your mercy your forgiveness your attention, your blessings.
Yeah Allah we can't survive without them of Allah we are
grateful to you for us even being here today. For us even listening
to these words and learning about these things. Oh Allah enhanced us
Oh Allah forgive us, O Allah purify us, O Allah bring us close
to you. Oh Allah grant us your love and the love of those whose
love will benefit us in your court of Allah forgive us our
wrongdoings, our excesses, our negligence is our delays or
procrastinations Oh Allah, all of our transgressions and our sins,
and especially those sins that have removed the blessings from
our life and remove the sukoon and remove the tranquility and comfort
from our homes and turn people against one another and given us
dissatisfaction and created greed and avarice and oh Allah created
hatred of Allah We asked you forgiveness for those sins that we
don't even remember anymore. Oh Allah forgive us. We don't want to
see them rear their ugly heads in the Hereafter. And oh Allah we ask
that you don't allow us to be haunted in the Hereafter with our
sins. Will Allah purify us and allow us to be cleansed so that we
die in the best of states? Oh Allah make our final days the best
of our days in this world. or Allah make our final actions the
best of our actions. Give us the Tofik to do this. Oh Allah make us
better people as each day moves along. Oh Allah, Oh Allah we fall
our Allah we become weak. Oh Allah, we get distracted. Oh Allah
assist us and grant us steadfastness. And our love
forgive us, especially those sins that have now become part of our
life and we no longer consider them sins anymore. Oh Allah,
Allah. We don't want to die in this state that you grant us the
Karim, Allah Allah Allah Allah. Allah Allah we ask that you in all
the abundance that you have given us in all the with all the
resources you have given us do not make them a source of burden and
challenge for us or Allah rather make it instrumental for us to
come closer to you and to be beneficial to others and to be
accepted for the service of your deen of Allah We ask that you
grant respite and delivery for our brothers and sisters around the
world who are suffering in oppression in the many different
places and countries in the world. And Allah we ask that you accept
us and you allow us to fulfill our permissible projects and you bless
our diseased one diseased ones and you cure our ILL ones. And Oh
Allah, you bless us all here and allow us to turn away from here
while being forgiven. And while being inspired and while being
enhanced and while being advanced in our faith and grant us
sincerity and class in everything that we do and remove the
ostentation, removed especially the hidden ostentation allow us to
have pure efflorescence, sincerity, pure class and
sincerity and protect us from all the forms of corruptions and
adulteration that may take place. Oh Allah, we ask that you send you
abundant blessings and our messenger Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam and grant us his company in the hereafter. So
Hello, Rebecca Rob belies that you mIRC Fonasa when you're sitting on
hamdulillah
the point of a lecture is to encourage people to act to get
further an inspiration, and encouragement, persuasion. The
next step is to actually start learning seriously, to read books
to take on a subject of Islam and to understand all the subjects of
Islam at least at the basic level, so that we can become more aware
of what our deen wants from us. And that's why we started Rayyan
courses so that you can actually take organize lectures on demand
whenever you have free time, especially for example, the
Islamic essentials course that we have on there, the Islamic
essentials certificate which you take 20 Short modules and at the
end of that inshallah you will have gotten the basics of most of
the most important topics in Islam and you'll feel a lot more
confident. You don't have to leave lectures behind you can continue
to live, you know, to listen to lectures, but you need to have
this more sustained study as well. JazakAllah Heron salaam aleikum wa
rahmatullah wa barakato.